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The islands are located about  south of Maldives.
The Brighton hotel bombing was an attack at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England.
It happened on 12 October 1984.
A time bomb was planted in the hotel by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) member Patrick Magee.
The purpose was to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her ministers, who were staying at the hotel for the Conservative Party conference.
Thatcher narrowly escaped injury.
Five people were killed, including two high-profile members of the Conservative Party, and 31 were injured.
1980s murders in the United Kingdom
Hotel bombing
Mass murder in England
Flexagons are usually square or rectangular (tetraflexagons) or hexagonal (hexaflexagons).
A prefix can be added to the name to show the number of faces that the model can display, including the two faces (back and front) that are visible before flexing.
For example, a hexaflexagon with a total of six faces is called a hexahexaflexagon.
Discovery and introduction
Arthur H. Stone, a British man, is said to have first discovered the flexagon in 1939.
At the time, he was a student at Princeton University in the United States.
His new American paper would not fit in his English binder so he cut off the ends of the paper and began folding them into different shapes.
One of these formed a trihexaflexagon.
Other students became interested in these shapes.
They included Bryant Tuckerman, Richard Feynman, and John Tukey.
Together, they formed the Princeton Flexagon Committee.
Tuckerman worked out a topological method, called the "Tuckerman traverse", for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.
Flexagons were introduced to the general public by the recreational mathematician Martin Gardner in 1956.
He wrote about in the first Mathematical Games column that he wrote for Scientific American magazine.
Attempted commercial development
In 1955, Russell Rogers and Leonard D'Andrea of Homestead Park, Pennsylvania applied for a patent.
In 1959 they were granted U.S. Patent number 2,883,195 for the hexahexaflexagon, under the title "Changeable Amusement Devices and the Like."
Their patent imagined possible ways that the device could be used as a toy, an device for advertising, or as a device for learning about geometry."
A few such novelties were produced by the Herbick & Held Printing Company in Pittsburgh.
The device, marketed as the "Hexmo", were not very successful.
Schlager music is a kind of pop music, where the text often talks about sentiments.
Schlager started with operetta music, at the end of the 19th century.
In the 1920s, Jazz music influenced it.
Musically, Schlager music often has simple structures.
Very often, Schlager songs are commercially successful.
Serotonin syndrome, also known as serotonin poisoning, serotonin sickness, and many other names, is a medical condition that can happen if there is too much serotonin in your brain or other parts of your nervous system.
Serotonin syndrome can be mild (doesn't make you very sick), but in rare situations, it can kill you.
Serotonin syndrome can happen if you use some drugs that can increase the amount of serotonin in your nervous system.
Some examples of drugs that can make you have serotonin syndrome are antidepressants, opioids, CNS stimulants, 5-HT1 agonists (a drug that changes the receptors of serotonin), psychedelics, herbs, and many others.
Keith Morrison (born July 2, 1947) is a Canadian broadcast journalist.
He has been a writer for Dateline NBC since 1995.
In 1988 he joined NBC News as a west coast writer for the NBC Nightly News and Today Show.
NBC News biography
Anchor away: Journalist Keith Morrison has found success south of the border  from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, July 2, 2003
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician and astronaut.
Nelson is the 14th and current Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since May 2021.
He was the United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019.
He lost his re-election campaign in 2018 to Republican Governor Rick Scott.
He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1972 to 1978 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991.
In January 1986, he became the second sitting member of Congress to fly in space, after Jake Garn.
He was a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Nelson was born in Miami, Florida.
He was raised in Melbourne, Florida.
Nelson studied at the University of Florida, Yale University and at the University of Virginia.
Nelson began his career in the Florida House of Representatives, where he served from 1973 to 1979.
He then served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991.
In January 1986, Nelson became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space along with John Glenn.
He flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
In the U.S. Senate, he was a centrist and a moderate Democrat.
Nelson supported same-sex marriage, lowering taxes on lower and middle income families, expanding environmental programs and regulation, protecting the Affordable Care Act and expanding Medicaid.
Administrator to NASA
On February 22, 2021, reports emerged that President Joe Biden was considering nominating Nelson to be the NASA Administrator.
Biden officially nominated Nelson on March 19, 2021 to the position.
In 1972, Nelson married Grace Cavert.
The couple have two adult children: Charles William "Bill Jr." Nelson, and Nan Ellen Nelson.
He has suffered from prostate cancer.
Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 – February 16, 2022) was an American career officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force.
He was well known as the original Candy Bomber or the "Rosinenbomber" in Germany and a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.
He piloted C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift ("Operation Vittles") from 1948–1949.
Halvorsen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In October 2020, he turned 100.
Halvoersen died at a hospital in Provo, Utah on February 16, 2022 from respiratory failure at the age of 101.
"Candy Bomber" Gail Halvorsen launches his memoirs in Berlin
Szpilman is known as the main character of the Roman Polanski movie The Pianist (2002).
This movie is based on the book of the same name.
It recounts Polanski's survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
Władysław Szpilman information and biography
In Loving Memory Of Władysław Szpilman
Information on Szpilman's works at Boosey & Hawkes
"Szpilman's Warsaw: The History behind The Pianist" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Interview with Dr. Halina Grzecznarowska-Szpilman, widow of Władysław Szpilman, first part
Interview with Dr. Halina Grzecznarowska Szpilman, widow of Władysław Szpilman, second part
Władysław Szpilman  at culture.pl
Information on Wladyslaw Szpilman at Polish Biographical Dictionary by Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków 2013
Uri Caine – performance of songs by Władisław Szpilman
It can also be used to mean other things such as a double chin on a person or the vocal sac of a frog.
The term dewlap can also be used to mean a caruncle, defined as "a small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy".
At times the appearance of a dewlap indicates a stage in an animal's development.
For example, the appearance of a dewlap on a female rabbit indicates she is of breeding age.
Radio galaxies and their relatives, radio-loud quasars and blazars, are types of active galaxy that are very luminous at radio wavelengths.
They have luminosities up to 1039 W between 10 MHz and 100 GHz.
The radio emission is due to the synchrotron process.
The observed structure in radio emission is determined by the interaction between twin jets and the external medium, modified by the effects of relativistic beaming.
Radio galaxies are almost exclusively large elliptical galaxies.
Radio-loud active galaxies can be detected at large distances, making them valuable tools for observation.
Recently, much work has been done on the effects of these objects on the intergalactic medium, particularly in galaxy groups and clusters.
The Kho people, also known as Chitralis, are an ethnic group in Pakistan, living mainly around the Chitral District.
They speak the Khowar language.
Their main religion is Sunni Islam.
The Kho are excellent mountaineers who seemingly do not get tired or cold when working all day.
Kho culture places heavy emphasis on poetry, song and dance.
Kho people also have a great respect of law and order.
Much of this can be attributed to Chitral being a stable kingdom for most of its history, where the rule of law and the will of the ruler came before tribal concepts such as revenge and isolationism.
Polo is a popular sport and pastime for the Kho people.
Polo traditionally played by the Kho has little rules or organisation.
Dance and music play a large role in Kho society.
Common clothing include the salwar kameez (long tunic and trousers) and headwear includes the pakol (chitrali hat).
He was born in Lewisham , a suburb of London.
His father was a bank clerk.
He first went to a school in Lewisham, but was so good at maths that he was given a scholarship (free place) to Eton college.
There he was also good at math and won prizes in the subject.
He got a place at Cambridge University and again was better than his fellow students leaving with the best degree, a first class degree.
When America began to secretly build the atomic bomb these two men and a few other Britons went to America to help them achieve their goal.
Tony Skyrme did important work towards the two atomic bombs that ended the war.
He then worked back in Britain on studying atoms.
He used a way of understanding how atoms work by inventing an atom sized thing called a skyrmion.
It is still used today to understand atoms.
Marvel, Colorado, an unincorporated community
Marvel, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Marvel Cave, Missouri
Mount Marvel, Oates Land, Antarctica
Marvel (name), a list of people and fictional characters with either the surname or given name
Marvel Comics, a comic book publisher
Marvel Entertainment, an American entertainment company
Marvel Studios a motion picture studio based in Burbank, California
Marvel Television, a television and film studio subsidiary
Marvel Animation Studios, an animation production company
Marvel Music, a music publishing arm
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A skyrmion is an quantum entity in atomic physics that can occur in some materials like solids and Bose–Einstein condensates.
They are made up from a persistent vortex that is a quantum superposition of baryons and resonance states.
These vortices behave like particles but are not.
They are called quasiparticles and have mass just like a real particle.
They were first though of mathematically by the British scientist  Tony Skyrme in 1962 and named after him in 1982.
In 2009 physicists from the Technical University of Munich were able to create and see skyrmions for the first time in a very cold magnetic solid.
Skyrmions are important in  the emerging solid state technology of spintronics where they promise data storage at much higher densities than ever before.
The Chrono is a series of video games by Square Enix.
The original game, Chrono Trigger, was released in 1995.
The games are role-playing games.
The other major game in the series is Chrono Cross.
As of March 2011, the two games have sold over 5.3 million units.
The Raid at Cabanatuan, also known as The Great Raid, was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese prisoner of war camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines.
With the landing and advance of General Douglas MacArthur in late 1944, it was feared the Japanese would move the prisoners to Japan or kill them.
On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas liberated 511 prisoners from the camp.
The daring raid is still studied by Army Rangers today as a classic example.
After the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan and its allies.
At the same time the Japanese also attacked the American bases at Guam, Wake Island and the Philippines.
While Guam and Wake Island soon fell, Filipino and U.S. forces resisted in the Philippines until early May 1942.
By this time, the Japanese controlled nearly all of Southeast Asia.
The Bataan peninsula and the island of Corregidor were the only remaining Allied strongholds in the region.
On April 9, 1942 about 11,800 American, 66,000 Filipino and 1,000 Chinese-Filipinos surrendered to the Japanese.
They were starving, sick and fatigued, yet were forced to march 60 miles (97 km) with many dying along the way.
This was the infamous Bataan Death March.
Many also escaped and joined guerrilla forces hiding in the mountains.
About 79,000 survived and were imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell.
The American and Filipino forces on Island of Corregidor surrendered on May 6, 1942.
The approximately 79,000 forces captured on Corregidor were not a part of the Death March.
They were loaded onto cargo ships and taken to Manila.
There they were marched through the streets as a celebration of the Japanese victory.
They were then sent to Cabanatuan camp number 1 near Cabanatuan city.
They were joined by other American prisoners from Camp O'Donnell.
Conditions at Cabanatuan
By January of 1945, after nearly three years at the camp, nearly 3,000 prisoners had died.
The camp measured about  by  and was enclosed by 3 barbed wire fences, each  high.
There were guard towers outside the fence.
The prisoners were kept in 8 barracks originally designed to house 40 soldiers, but were used to hold 120 prisoners each.
Conditions at the camp in 1942 were terrible with mosquitoes that carried malaria and flies that spreading dysentery.
Many prisoners were murdered by the guards.
Local Filipinos smuggled in food and money to bribe the guards.
But by 1944 the conditions became worse.
The Japanese cut rations and cut down on the smuggling of food to prisoners.
They started sending prisoners to camps in Japan and Manchuria in "hellships".
By early 1945 just over 500 prisoners were left in Cabanatuan number 1 camp.
American invasion of the Philippines
On January 9, 1945, American forces led by General Douglas MacArthur invaded Luzon.
A few months earlier, Japan had issued a "kill-all" order.
Any camp that was in danger of being taken by American forces was to kill all the prisoners.
The prisoners at Cabanatuan were not aware of the danger they were in.
But MacArthur had become aware of the order.
The Japanese had executed all but 11 of 150 prisoners at a POW camp on Palawan, in the Philippines.
The 11 managed to escape the massacre by hiding.
MacArthur did not want this happening at Cabanatuan.
As the Americans came to within  from the camp, the prisoners were now in immediate danger.
A plan to rescue the prisoners was hastily put together.
6th Ranger Battalion
One of the units MacArthur had available to him was the 6th Ranger Battalion.
Because of their training, they were qualified to operate behind enemy lines.
They were commanded by Lieutenant colonel Henry Mucci.
In mid-October 1944 they landed ahead of the main American forces to destroy enemy positions and radio stations guarding the entrance to Leyte Gulf.
When the 6th Army landed at Luzon, the 6th Ranger Battalion was with them.
As the 6th Army moved into central Luzon, General Walter Krueger, commander of the 6th Army, learned about the camp from American officers who had remained in Luzon with the Filipino guerrillas.
Planning the raid
Not only was the camp 30 miles behind enemy lines, it had a large number of Japanese troops in the area.
The POW camp at Cabanatuan itself was also housing Japanese troops.
Mucci put together a force made up of Rangers and two teams of Alamo Scouts.
The total force would be 8 officers and 120 enlisted men.
All the men carefully studied aerial photographs, maps and diagrams showing the objectives and rendezvous points.
The two teams of Alamo Scouts left on January 27 to connect with local guerilla forces and keep the camp under close surveillance.
The Rangers would join them just before the attack.
On January 29 the Rangers met up with Filipino guerillas five miles north of the camp.
Mucci received reports of heavy Japanese troop movements in the area.
The raid was put on hold for 24 hours.
He learned there were 90 guards in the camp but also a force of 150 soldiers were staying there temporarily.
Mucci arranged to have 50 oxcarts ready near the river to carry the prisoners too weak to walk.
The raid was now planned for January 30 as night began to fall.
Mucci also found a major asset in Filipino Captain Juan Pajota.
He knew the area well and he was the one to warn Mucci to wait 24 hours until some of the Japanese moved on.
On the evening of the raid, Filipino guerrillas cut the Japanese phone lines to Manila.
They then blocked the two roads passing the camp to prevent other Japanese units from helping the camp guards.
The Rangers had to crawl about a mile through an open field.
To prevent the guards from seeing them when they got close, Mucci had arranged for a P-61 night fighter to fly over the camp and distract the guards.
They split up to attack the front and back gates to the compound.
The force broke into the camp and quickly killed the guards.
The problems started when the prisoners hid from their rescuers.
Not recognizing the uniforms they thought the shooting meant they were all being killed.
They finally convinced the prisoners to go with them.
One British civilian prisoner hid from his rescuers and did not go with them.
But he was picked up by the Filipino guerrillas and taken to safety.
One prisoner died of a heart attack during the rescue.
The Filipinos and Alamo Scouts held off the Japanese while the Rangers got the prisoners to the carts to haul them to safety.
There were 6 Rangers who acted as a rearguard and were the last to leave the camp.
They came under fire from the Japanese killing one of the Rangers.
At the river a guerrila doctor treated the wounded and Filipinos from nearby villages gave the prisoners food and water.
The Rangers with the prisoners traveled all night to get back to the American lines.
Only two Rangers, Corporal Roy Sweezy and Captain Fisher, were killed in the rescue.
The raid was one of the most spectacular and successful rescues in military history.
They killed or wounded an estimated 523 Japanese soldiers during the raid while rescuing 511 prisoners.
In 2005 the movie The Great Raid was released on the 60th anniversary of VJ day.
It was based on the book The Great Raid on Cabanatuan.
The movie had a number of factual errors in it.
The plane that flew overhead was a Lockheed Hudson and not a P-61 "Black Widow", which was the actual plane.
The camp was not lit up with electric lights as in the movie.
No prisoners were executed during the raid.
Also many of Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipinos were given fictitious names.
Real Footage taking after the raid at Cabanatuan, Philippines
Leader of WWII's 'Great Raid' looks back at real-life POW rescue
Cabanatuan
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is a electronics company that makes semiconductors and other electronics, such as calculators.
The company started in 1924 in Tulsa, Oklahoma as "Geophysical Research Corporation", a subsidiary of Amerada Petroleum.
In 1930, they started a new independent company called Geophysical Service, Incorporated.
It became a subsidiary of General Instruments in 1951.
The same year the name was changed to Texas Instruments (TI).
The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Today TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world after Intel and Samsung.
It is the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm.
TI is the largest producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors.
They also make a wide range of other semiconductor products.
Shah Alam II, (25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806) was the eighteenth Mughal Emperor and the son of Alamgir II.
He became the emperor of the Mughal Empire; his power was so depleted during his reign that it led to a saying in the Persian language, Sultanat-e-Shah Alam, Az Dilli ta Palam, meaning, 'The kingdom of Shah Alam is from Delhi to Palam', Palam being a suburb of Delhi.
Battle rap (or rap battling) is a type of rapping that includes boasting and bragging.
Rap battles are often performed as live contests in front of an audience.
Two or more rappers compete to see who has the better verses.
The raps can be rehearsed or freestyled.
A freestyle battle is where the rappers use improvised lyrics.
Battling can also occur on recorded songs.
Each competitor's goal is to insult their opponent through clever lyrics.
They must also convince the audience that they are the better rapper.
Judges have been used in formal contests.
Without judges, the rapper who receives the best response from the audience is viewed as the winner.
Alley Mills (born May 9, 1951) is an American actress.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 9.
Mills has appeared in the television shows Yes, Dear, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Strong Medicine and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
She has appeared in theater productions.
Mills plays the character Pam Douglas in The Bold And The Beautiful.
She met her husband, Orson Bean, at a reading of a play in Los Angeles.
They married on April 18, 1993.
The Bold And The Beautiful, CBS, 2016.
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, episode #173, aired 5-9-1990
Benoît Violier (22 August 1971 – 31 January 2016) was a French-Swiss chef.
He owned the three Michelin star Restaurant de l'hôtel de Ville from 2012 until his death.
The restaurant was first on La Liste in December 2015.
Violier was born in Saintes, Charente-Maritime.
He studied in Paris.
He moved to Switzerland in 1996 to work for Philippe Rochat.
He became a Swiss citizen in 2014.
Violier was found dead from a gunshot wound on 31 January 2016 in Crissier.
His death was reported as a suicide.
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Death of a Hero is a book by Richard Aldington.
It was his first novel, published in 1929.
It is thought to be partly about his own life.
The story is set during World War I.
Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I. The story is told by an unnamed narrator, who speaks in the first person.
The narrator claims to have known and served with the main character.
The first part details George's family history.
His father, a middle-class man from England's countryside, marries a poor woman who falsely believes she is marrying into a monied family.
After George's birth, his mother has a series of lovers.
He is encouraged to learn his father's insurance business, but fails to do so.
After a disagreement with his parents, he relocates to London to become an artist and live a socialite lifestyle.
The second section of the book deals with George's London life.
He ingrains himself in socialite society and engages a number of trendy philosophies.
After he and his lover, Elizabeth, have a pregnancy scare, they decide to marry.
They decide to leave their marriage open.
George takes Elizabeth's close friend as a lover, however, and their marriage begins to fall apart.
Just as the situation is becoming particularly heated, England declares war on Germany.
George decides to enlist.
George trains for the army and is sent to France. (
No particular location in France is mentioned.
The town behind the front where George spends much of his time is referred to as M---.)
He fights on the front for some time.
When he returns home, he finds that he has been so affected by the war that he cannot relate to his friends, including his wife and lover.
The casualty rate among officers is particularly high at the front.
When a number of officers in George's unit are killed, he is promoted.
Upon spending time with the other officers, he finds them to be cynical and utilitarian.
He loses faith in the war quickly.
The story ends with George standing up during a machine-gun barrage.
Aldington was a veteran of World War I. He claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style.
It contains a lot of colloquial speech, including profanity, discussion of sexuality and graphic descriptions of the war and of life in the trenches.
There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result.
When Aldington first published his novel, he removed or changed a number of sentences in order to make sure the book was published.
He insisted that his publishers include a disclaimer in the original printing of the book with the following text:
To my astonishment, my publisher informed me that certain words, phrases, sentences, and even passages, are at present taboo in England.
I have recorded nothing which I have not observed in human life, said nothing I do not believe to be true. [...]
At my request the publishers are removing what they believe would be considered objectionable, and are placing asterisks to show where omissions have been made. [...]
In my opinion it is better for the book to appear mutilated than for me to say what I don't believe.
Lewis V. Baldwin  (born 1949) is a professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
He is an award-winning historian and author of a number of books on Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was born and raised in Camden, Alabama.
In 1971 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
Baldwin studied at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School from 1971 to 1975.
He received his Master of Arts degree in 1973.
In 1975 he received his Master of Divinity degree in Theology.
In the autumn of 1975 he entered the Ph.D. program at Northwestern University.
He completed his degree in 1980.
In 1978 he was ordained a minister in Greenville Alabama by his father, Pastor L. V. Baldwin, Sr.
On June 16, 1987, Baldwin became a deacon in the United Methodist Church.
Dr. Baldwin taught at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
He has also taught at Colgate University and Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in New York.
He was a professor at Fisk University and American Baptist College in Nashville before coming to Vanderbilt University.
He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Baldwin is the author of over 60 articles and several books.
"Invisible" Strands in African Methodism: A History of the African Union(1983)
Union American Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1805-1980(1983)
The Mark of a Man: Peter Spencer and the African Union Methodist Tradition (1987)
There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1991)
To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1992)
The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the boundaries of law, politics, and religion (1992)
Freedom is Never Free: A Biographical Portrait of E.D. Nixon, Sr. (
Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr. and South Africa (1995)
(co-author with Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid) Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin (2002)
The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)
Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)
"Thou, dear God" : prayers that open hearts and spirits, Martin Luther King, edited by Lewis V. Baldwin (2012)
"In a single garment of destiny" : a global vision of justice, Martin Luther King, edited by Lewis V. Baldwin (2012)
He received the "American Theological Library Association Award" for his book "Invisible" Strands.
Baldwin won the "Midwest Book Achievement Award" of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.
This was for his book A Balm in Gilead.
Vanderbilt's webpage about Dr. Baldwin
The little owl (Athene noctua) is a bird that lives in  the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia (east to Korea), and North Africa.
It was introduced into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, and into the South Island of New Zealand in the early twentieth century.
This owl is a member of the Strigidae, which contains most species of owl.
The other group is the barn owls, Tytonidae.
The little owl is a small, mainly nocturnal species.
It is found in a range of habitats such as farmland, woodland fringes, steppes and semi-deserts.
It is camouflaged, and especially hard to see if the background is wood or stone covered with lichen.
It feeds on insects, earthworms, other invertebrates and small vertebrates such as mice and shrews.
Males have territories which they defend against intruders.
This owl is a cavity nester and a clutch of about four eggs is laid in spring.
The female does the incubation and the male brings food to the nest, first for the female and later for the newly hatched young.
As the chicks grow, both parents hunt and bring them food, and the chicks leave the nest at about seven weeks of age.
UBS AG is a Swiss finance company.
It is an investment bank.
60,000 people work with them in total around the world.
The headquarters are in Zürich.
Hilda Heine (born April 6, 1951) is a Marshallese politician.
On January 28, 2016, she became the President of the Marshall Islands.
She is the first woman to be president of Marshall Islands.
Presidents of the Marshall Islands
Stop sounds can be voiceless, like the sounds /p/, /t/, and /k/, or voiced, like /b/, /d/, and /g/. In phonetics, a plosive consonant is  made by blocking a part of the mouth so that no air can pass through.
Pressure builds up behind the  block, and when the air is allowed to pass through again, a sound is created.
This sound is the plosive consonant.
The blocking is usually done using the tongue, the lips or the throat.
Plosives can be voiced or voiceless.
, ,  are voiceless plosives.
, ,  are voiced plosives.
is a glottal stop which is made in the throat.
George Prescott Bush (born April 24, 1976) is an American attorney, United States Navy Reserve officer, real estate investor and politician.
He serves as the Commissioner of the Texas Land General Office.
He is the oldest child of Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
He is also the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush and the nephew of former President George W. Bush.
The Aramaic alphabet was originally adapted from the Phoenician alphabet about the 8th century BC.
It was first used to write the Aramaic language.
It was also used to write several other languages and alphabets including the Hebrew square script.
It was also developed into the Nabataean, Syriac and Mongolian writing systems, among others.
The modern Arabic alphabet is also descended from the Aramaic alphabet.
The Aramaic alphabet contains 22 characters used mainly to indicate consonants.
However, some symbols can be used to indicate long vowels.
By comparison the later Hebrew and Arabic scripts use only consonants.
Hebrew uses 22; Arabic 28.
Ancient Scripts - Aramaic
Learn to Write Aramaic - YouTube
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (born 16 March 1956) is a Swiss politician.
She was in office from 1985 to 2015.
She studied law at the University of Zürich.
Profile of Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
Eric Michael Garcetti (born February 4, 1971) is an American politician.
He has served as mayor of Los Angeles since 2013.
He is a former member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 13th District.
He served as Council President from 2006 to 2012.
Garcetti won an election to become mayor on May 21, 2013.
He defeated city Controller Wendy Greuel.
Garcetti is the city's first elected Jewish mayor and its youngest in more than a hundred years.
Richard Joseph "Dick" Riordan (born May 1, 1930 in New York City, New York) is an American investment banker, businessman, investor and politician.
He served as the 39th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1993 to 2001.
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley (December 29, 1917September 29, 1998) was an American politician.
He was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles.
He served from 1973 to 1993.
He was the only African-American mayor of that city.
His 20 years in office mark the longest time by any mayor in the city's history.
He became mayor after an election in 1973.
It made him the second African-American mayor of a major U.S. city.
Bradley retired in 1993.
His approval ratings had begun dropping because of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Bradley ran for Governor of California in 1982 and 1986.
He was defeated each time by the Republican George Deukmejian.
In 1985, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
Bradley died on September 29, 1998 in Los Angeles.
He died from a stroke caused by a heart attack.
Tribute to Bradley by Dianne Feinstein, with biographical information
Tom Bradley on the Internet Movie Database
The Bradley Effect by Raphael Sonenshein
Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race documentary
Roman Stanley Gribbs (December 29, 1925 – April 5, 2016) was an American politician.
He was the Mayor of Detroit from 1970 to 1974.
David Bing (born November 24, 1943) is an American businessman, retired basketball player, and former mayor.
He was mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 2009 to 2013.
After starring at Syracuse University, Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a guard for the Detroit Pistons (1966 to 1975), Washington Bullets (1975 to 1977) and Boston Celtics (1977–78).
He is now in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bing entered Detroit politics as a Democrat in 2008.
He announced his intentions to run for mayor in Detroit's non-partisan primary to finish the term of Kwame Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick had resigned during a corruption investigation.
After winning the primary, Bing then defeated interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. and was sworn in as mayor in May 2009.
Later that year, Bing was re-elected to a full term.
Michael Edward  "Mike" Duggan (born July 15, 1958) is an American lawyer, prosecutor and businessman.
He is serving as mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
He was elected mayor in 2013.
He received attention from across the country in part because he is the first white mayor of the city since Roman Gribbs in the early 1970s.
Currently, most of the people living in Detroit are African American.
This was not the case at the time when Gribbs was mayor.
Mohammad Salimi (; February 2, 1937 – January 30, 2016) was an Iranian military person.
He was born in Mashhad, Iran.
He was the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army.
He served in the Iran-Iraq War.
He began his career in 1955 and resigned in 2005.
Salimi was the defense minister in the cabinet of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, replacing Javad Fakoori.
He was in office from 1981 to August 1984.
Paul Pholeros AM (1953 – 1 February 2016) was an Australian architect.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Sydney in 1974 and Bachelor of Architecture (Hons 1) in 1976.
Pholeros created his own architectural practice, Paul Pholeros Architects, in 1984.
He was also a director of Healthabitat Pty Ltd.
Australian architects
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean movie and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comic book writer.
He also gives spiritual advice.
He was known for his movies El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), Tusk (1980), the horror Santa Sangre (1989) and the failed blockbuster The Rainbow Thief (1990).
He is best known for his avant-garde movies.
He is popular among cult cinema fans for his work.
His movies are "filled with violently surreal images" and a mix of "mysticism and religious provocation".
A graphing calculator is a calculator that is specially made to draw graphs.
Also, graphing calculators can do many advanced tasks, such as solving equations with one or more variables.
Graphing calculators are usually bigger and more expensive than a basic calculator, but can do more.
Another feature of most graphing calculators is programmability.
This lets anyone program the calculator to do whatever he or she wants.
Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, movie director, novelist and poet.
Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955.
He calls himself desterrado, which means "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
In 1962, Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor.
It was inspired by the god Pan.
He was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990.
Fernando Arrabal's website
Fernando Arrabal : Excerpts, articles, interviews and videos on the website of the Prague Writers' Festival
Fernando Arrabal's Cinématon – A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant
Chess Express Arrabal – Arrabal's chess blog
The Jimmy Wales Foundation is a non-profit organization started by Jimmy Wales to promote internet freedom.
The organization was established with prize money from the “Knowledge Award”, which was presented to Jimmy and Tim Berners-Lee at the first Knowledge Conference in Dubai.
The organization talks about individual human rights cases of real people who were persecuted.
One of the people featured is Bassel Khartabil, formerly from Creative Commons Syria.
Bassel was imprisoned in Syria in 2012, and disappeared completely a few years later.
Bassel Khartabil has been killed in 2015.
Another featured case is Roya Saberinejad, who went to visit her family in Iran, and never returned.
Research the problem of freedom of expression and provide public information about the international problem
Put political pressure on governments that control freedom of speech
Use technology to promote free speech in countries with restrictive governments
Pressure governments to make laws that promote freedom of expression
Help individual people who are in trouble with repressive governments that restrict free speech
Jimmy Wales Foundation official website
Jimmy Wales Foundation on Twitter
Jimmy Wales Foundation on LinkedIn
Word of mouth is the passing of information from a person to one or more people in conversation.
In the past, it referred only to speech, but now, it can sometimes include online communication.
It can be as simple as telling someone what time it is, or it can involve longer stories and news.
It is a good way to share information about things that are of interest to a local community, such as businesses, other people, and things that happened in the past.
Oral tradition (also called "oral culture" or "oral lore") is when cultural material is transmitted orally from older people to younger people.
This material may include folktales, sayings, songs, or chants.
It is a way for things like history, literature, and law to be passed down from generation to generation without a writing system.
Oral history is history that is given by people who lived through historical eras or events.
Often, they are interviewed, and it is recorded.
Usually, they talk about things that are not part of written history, such as what everyday life was like.
Consumers often talk to their friends about their experiences with a product or a service.
This is important for businesses because people are more likely to trust someone they know well.
"Word-of-mouth marketing" happens when a business tries to encourage people to talk about their product.
For example, they can offer rewards or suggest that they make posts on social media.
A lot of people think that a lot of word of mouth now happens on the internet.
However, studies show that most word of mouth actually happens in spoken conversation.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), also known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, suffragist and women's rights advocate.
She was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi during the American Civil War.
Wells grew up to become a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee.
She became co-owner of a local newspaper "The Free Speech and Headlight".
She wrote editorials using the pen name "Iola".
Many of her editorials were about the problems of African-Americans in the era of Jim Crow laws.
She became a full-time journalist after being dismissed from her teaching job.
Wells was an early pioneer in the civil rights movement.
In 1909, Wells was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
On May 4, 1884, a train conductor ordered Wells to give up her seat in a nice car and move to a crowded car.
At the time, railroad companies were allowed to separate their passengers by race.
Wells refused to give up her seat.
The conductor and two men dragged her out of the car.
Wells fought back and even bit the conductor on the hand.
Wells wrote a newspaper article for The Living Way, an article for black people, about her treatment on the train.
She hired a black lawyer to sue the railroad.
The railroad paid her lawyer to not work for her, so Wells hired a white lawyer.
She won her case on December 24, 1884.
The local court granted her a $500 award.
The railroad company then took the case to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
That court decided against Wells in 1887.
Wells was ordered to pay money to the court.
She responded saying she felt sad and disappointed because she had hoped that her lawsuit would help her fellow black Americans: "I felt so disappointed because I had hoped such great things from my suit for my people...O God, is there no...justice in this land for us?"
While teaching elementary school, the Evening Star, a newspaper in Washington, D.C., offered Wells an editorial job.
She also wrote weekly articles for The Living Way weekly newspaper under the pen name "Iola."
She became recognized for writing about the problems black people faced.
In 1889, she became co-owner and editor of Free Speech and Headlight, a newspaper against separation by ethnicity.
This newspaper published articles about injustices against black Americans.
In 1891, Wells was dismissed from her teaching post by the Memphis Board of Education because of her articles that complained about conditions in the local schools for black students.
Wells was sad but she didn't give up.
She focused on writing articles for The Living Way and Free Speech and Headlight.
In 1889, Thomas Moss, a friend of Wells, opened the Peoples Grocery.
The grocery store did well and competed with a grocery store across the street that was owned by a white man.
In 1892, Wells went out of town.
While she was gone, a mob of white people invaded her friend's store.
During the fight, three white men were shot and injured.
Moss and two other black men, named McDowell and Stewart, were arrested and jailed, waiting for their trial.
A large mob of white people stormed the jail and killed the three men.
After the murder of her friends, Wells wrote in Free Speech and Headlight, suggesting that blacks leave Memphis altogether: Wells talked about the public nature of the murders.
More than 6,000 black people did leave Memphis.
Other people decided not to use businesses owned by white people.
Some people said they would hurt Wells, so she bought a pistol.
She later said that the people who bullied her were mad because she told just a little bit of the truth: "They had made me an exile and threatened my life for hinting at the truth."
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
Ida B. Wells: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
PlusLiga () is the highest level of men's volleyball in Poland.
It is a professional league competition for volleyball clubs located in Poland.
It is overseen by Profesjonalna Liga Piłki Siatkowej S.A. (PLPS S.A.).
There are currently 14 teams in the league.
They play a schedule of 26 games from September to March.
The regular season is followed by playoffs.
The winner earns the Polish Championship () It is one of the best volleyball leagues in Europe.
According to the latest rankings of European volleyball leagues, compiled by the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball, the Polish league is ranked second-best.
PLUSLiga official site
PZPS (Polish Volleyball Union) official site
BGVolley (Site in which the Polish Championship is covered)
The Italian Male Volleyball League is the league that governs professional men's volleyball in Italy.
It is structured with several levels of importance; the highest of them is the SuperLega (formerly Serie A1).
Since early 1980s, many among the best volleyball players in the world play in SuperLega and the level of competition is considerably high.
FIPAV
Lega Pallavolo Serie A
École Centrale Paris (ECP; also known as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French grande école in engineering and science.
It is in a campus of Chatenay-Malabry.
Ingénieur Centralien de Paris (Centralien Graduate engineer Masters level program) ;
Master of Science & PhD doctorate studies ;
Mastères Spécialisés (MS) ;
Courses are performed mainly in French and English languages.
Students at the school come from more than 50 countries.
an admission exam for Bachelors of Sciences (2-year curriculum)
The Centralien Programme usually lasts three years and results in a Master's degree.
It involves doing work in other countries.
Thus undergraduate studies plus the Centralien Programme account for more than a cumulated 300 ECTS credits as applicable in the European education system.
Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a Private University in North India created under the Punjab State Private University Act 2005 and recognized by UGC under Section 2(f) of UGC Act 1956.
LPU has been offering more than 200 programs under 40+ disciplines.
LPU  is spread across more than 600 acres complete with a state-of-the-art infrastructure.
The campus is free from the use of drugs, alcohol and smoking.
Even ragging is an offense in the campus.
Situated at the entrance of Jalandhar City on the National Highway-1, the campus itself look like a planned city with wide roads, gardens and lawns surrounding the residential complexes as well as the buildings for academic purposes.
The university campus includes its own backup electricity and water supply, shopping complexes, eating joints, transportation facilities and banking and postal services.
For healthcare assistance, the campus has a hospital  that operates 24*7.
Faculty of Technology & Sciences.
Faculty of Business & Arts.
Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences
Faculty of Distance Education.
Hostels
LPU have residential facilities with capacity for more than 20,000 students.
The university provides a range of facilities within the university campus, separately for boys and girls.
LPU understand that most of their students are moving away from home for the first time, so they strive to make the transition as smooth as possible.
The university has a wide range of accommodation options.
Campus entry is controlled by turnstile and there are CCTV surveillance cameras all round to ensure safety and security.
Xenacoelomorpha is a proposed grouping of the xenoturbellids and acoelomorph flatworms, suggested by molecular data.
It may be a member of the deuterostomes,  and may be even more basal in the Bilateria.
Mark Farren (1 May 1982 – 3 February 2016) was an Irish footballer.
He played as a forward for Derry City.
He was born in Donegal, Ireland.
He played for Finn Harps F.C. from 2000 to 2001, Monaghan United F.C. from 2001 to 2003, Derry City F.C. from 2003 to 2012, and Glenavon F.C. from 2013 to 2014.
Farren died on 3 February 2016 of cancer.
He was aged 33.
Alba Solís (née Ángela Herminia Lamberti; 18 October 1927 – 3 February 2016) was an Argentine singer, actress and vedette.
She was known for her roles in La cigarra está que arde, Estrellas de Buenos Aires, De turno con la muerte and Escándalo nocturno.
Solís died in Buenos Aires on 3 February 2016 from heart failure.
She was aged 88.
Alba Solís at IMDB
Leonel Marshall Borges Jr.  (born September 25, 1979 in Havana) is a Cuban volleyball player.
He was a member of the Cuban men's national team in 1997–2002.
Marshall is an outside hitter.
He is well known for his outstanding vertical jump.
Balram Jakhar (23 August 1923 – 3 February 2016) was an Indian politician.
He was a member of parliament and served as Governor of Madhya Pradesh from June 2004 to June 2009.
Before being governor, Jakhar was the 8th Speaker of the Lok Sabha, serving from January 1980 to November 1989.
Jakhar died from complications of pneumonia on 3 February 2016.
He died in Delhi.
Governors of Madhya Pradesh
Governors of Gujarat
Henry Gibson (September 21, 1935 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, singer and songwriter.
He was best known as a cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, for his role as Haven Hamilton in Nashville,  for his recurring role as Judge Clark Brown on Boston Legal, the Illinois Nazi leader in The Blues Brothers and as Bob Jenkins in King of the Hill.
Obituary at the Daily Telegraph