the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Banded tussock moth, Halysidota tesselaris
banded woolly bear or Isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella
Buff ermine, Spilarctia lutea
Cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae
common footman, Manulea lurideola
dogbane tiger moth or delicate cycnia, Cycnia tenera
fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea
garden tiger moth, Arctia caja
giant leopard moth, Hypercompe scribonia
hickory tussock moth, Lophocampa caryae
Jersey tiger moth,  Euplagia quadripunctaria
milkweed tussock moth, Euchaetes egle
scarlet tiger pygmy moth, Callimorpha dominula
Maltese ruby tiger moth, Phragmatobia fuliginosa ssp.
melitensis
List of arctiid genera
Bates DL, Fenton MB (1990) Aposematism or startle?
Predators learn their responses to the defenses of prey.
Can J Zool 68:49–52
Dunning DC, Krüger M (1995) Aposematic sounds in African moths.
Biotropica 27:227–231
Dunning DC, Acharya L, Merriman CB, Ferro LD (1992) Interactions between bats and arctiid moths.
Can J Zool 70:2218–2223
Fullard JH, Fenton MB, Simmons JA (1979) Jamming bat echolocation: the clicks of arctiid moths.
Can J Zool 57:647–649
Science Fridays: Moths Can Escape Bats By Jamming Sonar
Main species catalogs
Dubatolov VV (2010) Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov).
Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65:1-106
Edwards ED (1996) Arctiidae.
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 4:278-286,368-370
Ferguson DC, Opler PA (2006) Checklist of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera: Insecta) of the continental United States and Canada.
Zootaxa 1299:1-33
Goodger DT, Watson A (1995) The Afrotropical Tiger-Moths.
An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the Afrotropical Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae).
Apollo Books Aps.:
Denmark, 55 pp.
Watson A (1971) An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part 1.
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 50:1-361
Watson A, Goodger DT (1986) Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths.
Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 1:1-71
Phylogenetic analyses
Da Costa MA, Weller SJ (2005) Phylogeny and classification of Callimorphini (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae).
Zootaxa 1025:1-94
Dubatolov VV (2006) Cladogenesis of tiger-moths of the subfamily Arctiinae: development of a cladogenetic model of the tribe Callimorphini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) by the SYNAP method.
Euroasian Entomological Journal 5(2):95-104 (in Russian).
Dubatolov VV (2008) Construction of the phylogenetic model for the genera of the tribe Arctiini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) with the SYNAP method.
Entomological Review 88(7):833-837.
Translated from: Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 87(3):653-658
Dubatolov VV (2009) Development of a phylogenetic model for the tribe Micrarctiini (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) by the SYNAP method.
Entomological Review 89(3):306-313.
Translated from: Zoologicheskii Zhurnal.
88(4):438-445
Jacobson NL, Weller SJ (2002) A cladistic study of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera) by using characters of immatures and adults.
Thomas Say publications in entomology.
Entomological Society of America | Lanham, Maryland, 98 pp.
Distribution analyses
Dubatolov VV (2008) Analysis of Insect Distribution in the Northern Hemisphere by the Example of the Subfamily Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Artctiidae).
Contemporary Problems of Ecology 1(2):183-193, 194-203.
William Conner (ed.). (
Tiger moths and woolly bears : behavior, ecology, and evolution of the Arctiidae.
Oxford University Press: New York.
Family Arctiidae  at Lepidoptera.pro
Belize Arctiidae Digital colour "plates"
Jamaica Actiidae Digital colour "plates"
Digital images of Neotropical Arctiidae and Geometridae
SZM Digital images
on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Empyreuma affinis, spotted oleander caterpillar
Estigmene acrea, saltmarsh caterpillar
Lycomorpha pholus, black and yellow lichen moth
Lymire edwardsii, Edwards wasp moth
Syntomeida epilais, oleander caterpillar
Utetheisa ornatrix, bella moth
Beattyville Wolly Worm Festival 2012 Site
The cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) is a brightly colored arctiid moth.
It is found in Europe and western and central Asia.
It has been introduced into New Zealand, Australia and North America to control poisonous ragwort.
This is because the larvae feeding on the ragwort.
The moth is named after the red mineral cinnabar because of the red patches on its mostly black wings.
Cinnabar moths are about 20mm long and have a wingspan of 32–42 mm (1.3-1.7 in).
Like many other brightly colored moths, it cannot be eaten.
The larvae use members of the genus Senecio as foodplants.
Newly hatched larvae feed from under the ragwort leaves to the area of their old eggs.
The larvae absorb toxic and bitter tasting alkaloid substances from the foodplants.
This makes them unable to be eaten themselves.
The bright colors of both the larvae and the moths act as warning signs.
Partly due to this they are seldom eaten by predators.
An exception is among different species of Cuckoo which eat hairy and poisonous caterpillars including cinnabar moth larvae.
Like several other Arctiidae moth larvae, the cinnabar caterpillars can turn cannibalistic.
This can be due to lack of food.
Sometimes they can eat other cinnabar larvae for no apparent reason.
Females lay up to 300 eggs and usually in clusters of 30 to 60.
The larvae start out as a pale yellow.
Later larval stages develop the jet black and orange/yellow striped coloring.
They can grow up to 30mm, and are voracious eaters; large populations can strip entire patches of ragwort clean, a result of their low predation.
Many do not survive to the pupal stage.
This is mainly due to them completely consuming the food source before reaching maturity.
This could be a possible explanation for their tendency to engage in seemingly random cannibalistic behaviour.
It is common for them to die from starvation.
Antanas Sutkus (born 27 June 1939 in Kluoniškiai, Kaunas district) is a renowned Lithuanian photographer and recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize.
He also received the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.
He was one of the co-founders and a President of the Photography Art Society of Lithuania ().
Sutkus's series People of Lithuania is considered one of his most important works.
It is a continuing project begun in 1976 to document the changing life and people of Lithuania.
Working at the time when Lithuania (as the Lithuanian SSR) was part of the Soviet Union, Sutkus focused on black and white portraits of ordinary people in their everyday life rather than the model citizens and workers promoted by Soviet propaganda.
Sutkus had an opportunity to spend time with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1965 when they visited Lithuania.
One image, taken against the white sand of Nida, is highly regarded as capturing Sartre's ideas.
Sutkus's website
Virtual exhibition of Sutkus' works and a short bio (via Wayback)
The Lithuanian National Prize () was established in 1989.
It is an award granted for achievements in culture and the arts.
It has been awarded annually in six categories since 2006 (between 1989 and 2006 there were nine categories).
The prize is formally bestowed on February 16.
This is when the decorations and diplomas are presented to the winners at Presidential Palace.
This is also the commemorating of the anniversary of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania.
The award honors significant recent achievements in cultural fields and works by artists or art collectives.
The honorees may be citizens of Lithuania or members of the Lithuanian World Community.
When the award was first established, works accomplished during the previous five years were considered; this period was extended to seven years in 2008.
The candidacies are open each year until September 15, and the winners are announced on December 15.
Each "Lithuanian National Prize" consists of a memorial sign, a diploma, and a monetary grant (circa 104,000 litas).
A single person can only receive the National Prize once.
Current candidates for the Prize are nominated by professional associations and societies.
Before 2008 the nominations could be made by members of the public.
The winners are selected by a special committee.
XSP is a simple, standalone web server written in C#.
It hosts ASP.NET's System for Linux and other Unix operating systems.
As well as running on the mono runtime for Linux it also runs on the .NET runtime.
This makes it usable as a light weight web server on any .NET supporting platform.
XSP was originally the name of the internal project at Microsoft that became ASP.NET.
The name is a homage to the original name of what became ASP.NET
Mono: ASP.NET
Constitutionalism is a form of political thought and action that seeks to prevent tyranny including worst result of majority rule and to guarantee the liberty and rights of individuals.
Constitutionalism is the conduct of politics in accordance with a constitution.
Limited government means that officials cannot act arbitrarily when they make and enforce public decisions.
Public officials cannot simply do as they please.
The Constitution is the supreme law that guides and limits the exercise of power by government officials.
In 1787 representatives of the people of the United States drafted and ratified a Constitution.
Article 6 of the United States Constitution  states this principle: “The Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
All laws, passed either by Congress or by state legislatures, must conform to the supreme law—the Constitution.
As Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist Papers No.
78: “No legislative act contrary to the Constitution, therefore, can be valid.”
Actually, a legislative or executive action that violates the Constitution can be declared unconstitutional, or unlawful, by the Supreme Court.
A constitutional monarchy is a form of government that lies between absolutism and parliamentary republic.
In absolutism, the monarch is free to do what he likes, and there is no way to control him.
A parliamentary republic operates without a monarch.
Casper, Gerhard, Changing Concepts of Constitutionalism: 18th to 20th Century, Supreme Court Review (1989): 311–332.
Lutz, Donald S.,The Origins of American Constitutionalism (1988).
Snowiss, Sylvia, From Fundamental Law to Supreme Law of the Land: A Reinterpretation of the Origins of Judicial Review, Studies in American Political Development 2 (1987): 1–67.
Stourzh, Gerard, Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term from the Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century, in Conceptual Change and the Constitution, edited by Terence Ball and J. G. A. Pocock (1988), pp.
35–54
Mary and her cousin Clairborne are the last descendants of the Lane family.
They announce they are selling their land.
Two land scouts come over to buy their property.
One of them is Roland Manning who falls in love with Mary.
The other is Wade Dempster who tries to get his hand on their home by getting Clairborne drunk.
One of the townsfolk finds out of Dempster's way of buying the land and tries to stop it.
Dempster defends himself by shooting him and next blames Manning for the murder.
It doesn't take long before Manning is found guilty and receives a life prison sentence.
Mary tries to set him free and turns to the law to help him.
Mary's former sweetheart Oscar witnessed the murder and finally admits Dempster shot him.
Roland is set free and marries Mary.
They keep the land and start a family living happily ever after.
Mary Miles Minter - Mary Lane
Frank DeVernon - Claiborne Ogilvie Lane
Russell Simpson - Peter Nelson
Schuyler Ladd - Oscar Nelson
Ferdinand Tidmarsh - Wade Dempster
Myra Brooks - Aunt Becky
Harry Blakemore - Uncle Joe
Thomas Carrigan - Ronald Manning
1916 movies
Simpson was born in San Francisco, California.
He is best known for his work in the movies of John Ford.
He is most famous for his portrayal of Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath in 1940.
Simpson reportedly prospected for gold in Alaska in his youth.
By 1909 he had gone into the theatre.
He appeared in at least two plays on Broadway between 1909 and 1912.
He made his motion picture debut in Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 original movieversion of The Virginian.
He only had a minor role in that movie.
By 1923, when the movie was remade, Simpson had progressed to playing the lead villain.
Simpson was a familiar character actor for almost forty-five years as a member of the John Ford Stock Company.
He worked up to 1959.
His final movie was The Horse Soldiers.
It was his tenth movie for Ford.
He died in Woodland Hills, California 12 December 1959.
He was survived by his wife Gertrude.
Simpson had two children, Russell Jr. and Roberta.
The Virginian (1914) (uncredited)
Lovely Mary (1916)
Blue Jeans (1917)
The Deadlier Sex (1920)
Under the Lash (1921)
Peg o' My Heart (1922)
The Virginian (1923)
Annie Laurie (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Trail of '98 (1928)
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Billy the Kid (1930)
Frontier Marshal (1934)
The World Moves On (1934)
Wild West Days (1937 serial)
Virginia City (1940)
Three Faces West (1940)
Swamp Water (1941)
Border Patrol (1943)
Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
Man from Frisco (1944)
They Were Expendable (1945)
A Boy and His Dog (1946)
Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
Coroner Creek (1948)
Albuquerque (1948)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
The Last Command (1955)
The Tin Star (1957)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The bat'leth is a long and curved ceremonial sword with handholds on the back.
It was created by Star Trek: The Next Generation visual effects producer, Dan Curry, for the Star Trek television series.
It is mainly used within Star Trek fiction by the Klingons, a race in the series.
It is thought to be a highly noticed image of Star Trek and copies are widely available online as highly collected things and as a part of costumes.
They have also been used in crimes.
de:Völker und Gruppierungen im Star-Trek-Universum#Klingonen
The great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.
It is resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Its habitats are largely coastal such as islands, coral reefs, mangroves and large rivers.
However, occasionally, it can be found inland in shallow ponds.
It feeds in shallow water, spearing fish with its long, sharp bill.
It will wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.
A tone, usually of a high frequency
A networking tool that shows if two computers are connected, and how long a signal takes to go from one to the other
Ping River, a river in Thailand
Ping, a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
Jean Ping is a politician from Gabon
Lioe Tiong Ping is a badminton player from Indonesia
Ping Ping is a singer from Suriname
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a small white heron.
The Biman Bangladesh Airlines: portrays the Balaka bird symbol with Bangladeshi flag is associated with this specific species respectively.
Adults are 55–65 cm long with an 88–106 cm wingspan, and weigh 350–550 grams.
The plumage is often all white, but can also be blue-grey.
In the breeding season, the adult has two long plumes on the nape that form a crest.
Juveniles are similar to non-breeding adults but have greenish-black legs and duller yellow feet.
The subspecies nigripes differs in having yellow skin between the bill and eye, and blackish feet.
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, director, producer and screenwriter.
He was known for his works in Looney Tunes and in Tom & Jerry.
He directed many of the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons.
He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
Jones produced 34 Tom and Jerry shorts from 1963 to 1967.
Jones was born on September 21, 1912 in Spokane, Washington.
Jones studied at the Chouinard Art Institute.
He was married to Dorothy Webster from 1935 until her death in 1978.
Then he was married to Marian J. Dern from 1981 until his death in 2002.
He has a daughter with Webster, Linda Jones Clough.
Chuck Jones web site
The Animation of Chuck Jones  at Keyframe - the Animation Resource
Chuck Jones at Find-A-Grave
Chuck Jones: Three Cartoons (1953-1957) - Roger Ebert discusses Jones' three films in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is an American television talk show host, comedian, game show host, entertainer, television, and radio personality, and actor who is known for The Dick Cavett Show.
He won two Emmy Awards.
Cavett was born on November 19, 1936 in Gibbon, Nebraska.
He has German, French, British and Irish ancestry.
Cavett studied at Yale University.
He was married to Carrie Nye from 1964 until her death in 2006.
He has been married to Martha Rogers since 2010.
An interview with Dick Cavett, Feb 2011
Dick Cavett at TVGuide.com
Dick Cavett talks about his love of magic  with Dodd Vickers at MagicNewswire.com
Charles-Arthur Dumoulin Cannon (11 September 1905 – 23 September 1976) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons.
He was a lawyer by career.
He was first elected at the Îles-de-la-Madeleine riding in the 1949 general election.
Cannon was re-elected for multiple terms in 1953 and 1957.
After completing his final term in the 23rd Canadian Parliament, Cannon was defeated by James Russell Keays of the Progressive Conservative party.
Some of Cannon's relatives have also been Members of Parliament.
Namely his grandfather Charles Fitzpatrick, his uncle Lucien Cannon and his nephew Lawrence Cannon.
Politicians from Quebec City
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya (born 8 May 1956) is a Burundi politician.
He was Speaker of the National Assembly of Burundi from December 1993 to 1 October 1994.
He was also President of Burundi from  6 April 1994 to 25 July 1996 (interim to October 1994).
Ntibantunganya was born in Gishubi, Gitega.
He is an ethnic Hutu.
He served as foreign minister briefly during 1993.
He came into office when the previous president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was killed in a plane crash.
It was an assassination in which the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was also killed.
Ntibantunganya left office when he was deposed by Pierre Buyoya in a military coup of 1996.
Presidents of Burundi
Antoine Nduwayo (born on 1942) was the Prime Minister of Burundi from February 22, 1995 until July 31, 1996.
He is an ethnic Tutsi and a member of UPRONA.
He was appointed Prime Minister by the Hutu president in an effort to stop some Tutsis from fighting with his government.
He resigned shortly after the 1996 military coup.
Nduwayo allegedly participated in the assassination of the first democratically elected Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye.
On October 19, 2020, more than a year after the opening of the case and two days before the anniversary of the assassination, Nduwayo was acquitted or proven not guilty.
Gęsianka is a village in the district of Gmina Dobre, which is in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
It is about  southwest of Dobre,  north of Mińsk Mazowiecki, and  east of Warsaw.
Crocmaz is a commune in Ştefan Vodă district, Moldova.
It is composed of a single village, Crocmaz.
James King (born 24 July 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player.
He plays for the Ospreys regional team having previously played for Aberavon RFC as a flanker.
In January 2012 King suffered a lacerated ear injury in a collision with Xavier Rush of the Cardiff Blues.
He had to undergo emergency plastic surgery at Morriston Hospital, Swansea.
Ospreys profile
Brixton is a village near Plymouth in England.
It is on the A379 Plymouth to Kingsbridge road and is about  from Plymouth.
In 2011, its population is 1.252.
It has views of the River Yealm.
The church is 15th century, with a tower arch 200 years older.
Brixton at GENUKI
Pictures of Brixton
KWUT (97.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format.
Licensed to Elsinore, Utah, USA, the station is currently owned by Mid-Utah Radio, Inc.
The station went on the air as KRFD-FM on November 9, 1998.
On September 11, 1998, the station changed its call sign to KSGI and on November 1, 1999 to KRFD.
On November 25, 2000, the station became KACE, and KMGR by December 31, 2000.
On November 15, 2001 it switched back to KACE and back to KRFD on May 29, 2001.
The station became KLGL on June 16, 2001.
On August 8, 2005, the station flipped to KCYQ.
It then flipped in the fall of 2010, to the current calls.
A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase.
It is often used in a political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose.
The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm tanmay (sluagh "army", "host" + gairm "cry")  meaning something an army chanted while fighting, to keep them all cooperating.
Their simple rhetorical nature usually leaves little room for detail.
Marketing slogans are often called taglines in the United States.
They can be called straplines in the U.K. Europeans use the terms baselines, signatures, claims, or pay-offs.
Badbaado is a refugee camp outside of Mogadishu, Somalia.
It began as a result of the 2011 East Africa drought and famine.
It now houses roughly 30,000 refugees.
Food aid is available for refugees there, but its supply has been poor because of the policies of al-Shabab.
The limited access to food has been a source of violence in the camp.
There has also been looting by freelance militias and government forces.
Due to the unsafe conditions, some refugees have fled Badbaado to seek other camps.
Dúnchad mac Fiachnai (died circa 644) was King of Ulaid from the Dal Fiatach dynasty.
He was the son of Fiachnae mac Demmáin (died 627), a previous king.
He ruled from 637-circa 644.
The Dal Fiatach recovered the kingship of Ulaid after the Battle of Mag Roth in 637 and were to retain it until 674.
Family strife was a common theme among the dynasty at this time.
Dúnchad's mother was Cumne Dub ingen Furudráin of the Uí Tuirtri (a tribe of the Airgialla west of Lough Neagh in modern County Tyrone).
She had previously been married to Dúnchad's great uncle Baetan mac Cairill (died 581) by whom she had children.
These children were eliminated by Dúnchad's full brother Máel Dúin mac Fiachnai in 605.
However, the ambitions of Máel Dúin were not to be fulfilled as he was murdered by Dúnchad at Óenach Deiscirt Maige, probably in southern Muirthemne in modern County Louth.
Annals of Ulster at  at University College Cork
Annals of Tigernach at  at University College Cork
Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press,
Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Gearoid Mac Niocaill (1972), Ireland before the Vikings, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (2005), A New History of Ireland, Volume One, Oxford: Oxford University Press
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
640s deaths
Sales tax is a form of taxation based on what people buy rather than their income.
In the European Union and many other places it is called Value added tax.
Certain vital items are usually exempt.
Hungary has one of highest rates in the world- 27%.
Thomas Kendrick (born 1839, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War.
He was also a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
He received it for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Kendrick was born in 1839 in Bath, Maine.
He was still living in that city when he joined the Navy.
He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the .
He volunteered to join the  for the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
It was there he showed "courageous devotion to duty".
For this action, he was presented the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864.
Served as coxswain on board the U.S.S. Oneida in the engagement at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
Volunteering for the Mobile Bay action from Bienville, Kendrick displayed courageous devotion to duty, and his excellent conduct throughout the battle which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging of Fort Morgan, attracted the attention of the commanding officer and those serving around him.
Samuel W. Kinnaird (May 2, 1840 – April 20, 1923) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War.
He was a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.
He got it for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Kinnaird's Background
He was born on May 2, 1840, in New York City.
Kinnaird was still living in the state of New York when he joined the Navy.
He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the .
At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, Lackawanna engaged the .
They fought at close range and Kinnaird displayed "presence of mind and cheerfulness" which helped maintain his shipmates' morale.
For this action, he was presented the Medal of Honor four months later on December 31, 1864.
Served as a landsman on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
Showing a presence of mind and cheerfulness that had much to do with maintaining the crew's morale, Kinnaird served gallantly through the action which resulted in the capture of the prize rebel ram Tennessee and in the destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.
Kinnaird died on April 20, 1923.
He was 82 and was buried in the New York City neighborhood of Woodside, Queens.
Lisa Hartman (more often recognized as Lisa Hartman Black; June 1, 1956) is an American actress and singer.
She  has mostly acted on television.
She starred on the short lived Tabitha in 1977-78.
She aslo performed in the soap Knots Landing as the rock singer Ciji Dunne.
Through the name Lisa Hartman, she recorded four solo records between 1976 and 1987.
She was born around Houston, Texas.
Parveen Talukder (born 31 January 1958) is a Bangladeshi politician and businessperson.
She is an Honorable Parliament Member of 9th National Assembly (Constituency 316, Barisal).
In business, Talukder deals with the ready-made garments industry of Bangladesh.
Talukder  was born in a Muslim family of Moheshpur Thana of Jhenaidah district on 31 January 1958.
She became involved in politics at a very early age, when she joined Dhaka Mohanagar Chatra League in 1973 and got elected the Assistant General Secretary of Shiddeshawry Degree College Chatra Sansad.
Since then, she has been active in political movements and activities against violations of human rights.
She was elected Chairman of Nolua Union Parished, Bakergonj, Barisal for two consecutive terms, in the year 1997 and 2003.
During 12 years as UP Chairman, she was very successful in improving the living standard of the people of Nolua Union.
She played a large part in the creation of schools, roads and culverts, electrification and other infrastructural developments.
Above all else, she is well known for her fighting against human rights violations and women and child abuse.
Currently, she is the President of Bangladesh Mohila Awami League, Bakergonj, Barisal.
Praveen Talukder is a member of committee of Ministry of Environment and Forest.
In addition to basic environmental issues, she has worked on climate change.
Her work is most notable on the impacts and changes of national and regional climate issues.
She took seat in Copenhagen Climate Change Conference2009 in Denmark and Cancun Climate Change Summit 2010 in Mexico.
Parveen Talukder takes personal interest in issues dealing with human rights and environmental protection.
For her work on the matter she was awarded “Gold Medal 2009” by National Human Rights Journalist Organization.
Parveen Talukder is also a very successful entrepreneur.
She has made a large contribution to the ready-made garments industry of Bangladesh.
She is the managing director of Pretty Composite Textile Limited, and Pretty Woolwear Limited and Director of several other concerns of Pretty Group.
She is also a former Director of Northern General Insurance Company Limited.
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Parvej Husen Talukder ( Poet )
A barge is a simple looking boat with a flat surface and long structure.
Barges usually transport goods to different places.
From 1825 there was competition from the railways.
Eventually the British rail system took over from canal traffic due to the higher speed, falling costs and route flexibility of rail transport.
Barges carrying bulk and heavy cargoes continue to be viable.
There is no cheaper way to move really heavy loads.
Originally, British canals had locks only  wide, so narrowboats could be no more than 6'10" wide if they were to be able to navigate the system.
It was soon realised that narrow locks were too limiting, and later locks were doubled in width to .
On the British canal system the term 'barge' is used to describe a "Thames [sailing barge], Duch [barge], or other styles of barge".
The people who move barges are often known as lightermen.
Newnham College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge, England.
It is for women only and has about 500 students.
It was created in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick who wanted to make education more available to women.
It was built at a time when most colleges where for men only.
It was the second college to allow women after Girton.
It started just as a group of houses in Regent Street.
In 1875 the first buildings were finished in Sidgwick Avenue and the college moved there.
Newnham College has beautiful large gardens that the students can walk on.
This is different from the other colleges where only Fellows can walk on the grass.
It also has one of the largest libraries in Cambridge, with more than 90,000 books.
Some very important people have studied here.
Philippa Fawcett, for example, was the first woman to get the best result in the mathematics course in Cambridge in 1890.
Virginia Woolf based her famous book The Room of One's Own around Newnham College.
Other people to have studied here include:
Diane Abbott, a Member of Parliament
Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover DNA
Sylvia Plath, an American poet
He ruled Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 to 1540.
He was the son of the previous emperor, Babur.
In 1532, Humayun and Sher Shah Suri clashed on the battlefield.
Humayun won the battle and captured Chunar.
In 1534, Humayun defeated Bahadur Shah and captured Gujrat.
Sher Shah meanwhile regrouped and defeated Humayun, at Chausa in 1539 and at Kanauj the next year (1540).
Humayun was forced to go to Persia in exile, for 15 years.
In 1555, Humayun returned to India and defeated the succesor of Sher Shah, Islam Shah and regained India.
In 1531, Bahadur Shah Zafar overran Malwa and the next year he turned to Mewar.
Humayun marched against Bahadur Shah and easily defeated his forces.
Bahadur Shah fled to Ahmedabad and from there to Kathisawar.
In 1556, Humayun had a fatal fall from the stairs of his private observatory (some sources say his library).
He was carrying books when his feet got caught in his robe and he tripped and fractured his head.
He had bent down upon hearing the azaan (the Muslim call to prayer).
All medical aid proved useless, and Humayun died.
He is known as "the luckless one".
Andrew Jones (born 1835, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War.
He received the Medal of Honor which is the U.S. military's highest decoration.
Jones was born in 1835 in Limerick, Ireland.
He immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy.
He served during the Civil War as a chief boatswain's mate on the .
Although their enlistments had expired, Jones and crewmate James Seanor voluntarily transferred to the  to fight in the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
During the battle they "carried out [their] duties gallantly" according to the Medal of Honor citation.
For this actions, both Jones and Seanor were presented the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864.
Served as chief boatswain's mate on board the U.S. Ironclad Chickasaw, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
Although his enlistment was up, Jones volunteered for the battle of Mobile Bay, going on board the Chickasaw from the Vincennes where he then carried out his duties gallantly throughout the engagement with the enemy which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee.
James Seanor (born 1833, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War.
Seanor was born in 1833 in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was living in New York when he joined the Navy.
He served during the Civil War as a master-at-arms on the .
Although their enlistments had expired, Seanor and crewmate Andrew Jones voluntarily transferred to the  to fight in the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
For this action, both Seanor and Jones were awarded the Medal of Honor four months later on December 31, 1864.
Served as master-at-arms on board the U.S. Ironclad Chickasaw, Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
Although his enlistment was up, Seanor volunteered for the battle of Mobile Bay, going on board the Chickasaw from the Vincennes where he carried out his duties gallantly throughout the engagement which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee.
Gannett Government Media was formerly the Army Times Publishing Company.
It is a United States company which publishes newspapers, magazines, Web sites, and other publications about the U.S. and other militaries.
It was Founded in 1940 and was purchased by the Gannett Company in August 1997.
It publishes four weekly newspapers aimed at current and former U.S. military personnel, collectively called the Military Times Media Group: Army Times (founded 1940), Navy Times (founded 1951), Air Force Times (founded 1947), and Marine Corps Times.
Its Defense News Media Group publishes Defense News (founded 1986), Armed Forces Journal (founded in 1863), Training & Simulation Journal and C4ISR Journal.
The company also publishes Federal Times.
Kutub al-Sittah are the main hadith collections in Sunni Islam meaning the six books.
They are sometimes called the Sahih Sittah.
They consist of Sahi al-Bukhari, Sahi Muslim, Sunan as-Sughra, Sunan Abu Dawood, Jami al-Tirmidhi and Sunan ibn Majah.
Huraira is the most quoted person in these books.
Quranism (; al-Qur'āniyya) is the belief that the Quran is the only source for Islam.
Followers of the group are called Quranist Muslims, or Quran alone Muslims or Quraniyoon.
Quranists reject the Hadiths as they believe that the Hadith literature which exists today is apocryphal, as it had been written three centuries after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad; thus, it cannot have the same status as the Quran.
Sola scriptura, the Christian equivalent
Quranite.com
QuranaloneIslam.org
George Taylor (November 15, 1830 – October 7, 1893) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War.
He was also a recipient of the Medal of Honor, which is the U.S. military's highest decoration.
Taylor was born on November 15, 1830, in Watertown, New York.
He was still living in that state when he joined the Navy.
He served during the Civil War as an armorer on the .
At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864 his ship engaged the .
It was struck by a broadside at close range.
The Confederate artillery shells hit Lackawanna's berth deck near the magazine.
This caused mass casualties and ignited loose gunpowder.
It spilled onto the floor while Lackawanna's sailors were assembling their own shells.
The flames moved along a passageway towards the powder room where 17 tons of gunpowder were stored.
Although he had received a wound to his forehead Taylor ran towards the fire and extinguished it with his bare hands.
This saved his ship.
He then returned to his duties for the remainder of the battle.
While putting out the fire his hands were burned down to the bone.
For this action, he was given the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864.
On board the U.S.S. Lackawanna during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, on 5 August 1864.
When an enemy shell exploded in the shellroom, Taylor although wounded went into the room and, with his hand, extinguished the fire from the explosion.
He then carried out his duties during the remainder of the prolonged action which resulted in the capture of the prize rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of Fort Morgan.
Taylor died on October 7, 1893.
He was 62 and was buried in Paragould, Arkansas.
Ferdinand Lemaire was a librettist and writer.
He is best remembered as the librettist for Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Delila (1876).
Lemaire was born in Martinique.
He was a creole.
He married into Saint-Saëns's family.
He agreed to write Samson but only as opera, rather than as an oratorio as the composer first intended.
Pauline Viardot (18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a 19-century French mezzo-soprano of Spanish descent.
She also taught and composed.
She was instrumental in getting Camille Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah composed and staged.
Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGIC, ) is a financial services company in South Korea.
Its headquarters are in Seoul.
SGIC is the largest provider of surety and trade credit insurance.
It is fully owned by Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation.
KDIC is a government institution that insures bank deposits.
The company was formed after the merger between Hankuk and Korea Fidelity and Surety Corporation.
It happened during the economic crisis that hit Korea in 1998.
A mass layoff and restructuring followed.
, also known as Special Case cities, is a defined class or category of Japanese cities.
All special cities have a population greater than 200,000.
The special or special case cities were created because of the Local Autonomy Law of Japan.
Special cities were recognized starting in 2000.
Akashi, 2002
Atsugi, 2002
Chigasaki, 2003
Fuji, 2001
Fukui, 2000
Hachinohe, 2001
Hirakata, 2001
Hiratsuka, 2001
Ibaraki, 2001
Ichinomiya, 2001
Isesaki, 2007
Jōetsu, 2007
Kakogawa, 2002
Kasugai, 2002
Kasukabe, 2008
Kawaguchi, 2001
Kishiwada, 2002
Kōfu, 2000
Koshigaya, 2003
Kumagaya, 2009
Kure, 2000
Matsue, 2012
Matsumoto, 2000
Mito, 2001
Nagaoka, 2007
Neyagawa, 2001
Numazu, 2000
Odawara, 2000
Ōta, 2007
Sasebo, 2001
Sōka, 2004
Suita, 2001
Takarazuka, 2003
Tokorozawa, 2002
Tottori, 2005
Toyonaka, 2001
Tsukuba, 2007
Yamagata, 2001
Yamato, 2000
Yao, 2001
Yokkaichi, 2000
"Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows special cities in context [PDF 7 of 40]
Rockfish was frequently referenced in the CBS television series The Waltons.
It was noted as being the closest town to Waltons Mountain.
Which was the fictional version of the nearby community of Schuyler.
GNIS reference
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Lowesville is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
It lies along the path of the now-defunct Virginia Blue Ridge Railway.
The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway (VBR) is a historic intrastate short line railroad.
It operated in central Virginia in the 20th century.
The company was incorporated in 1914.
Construction was started in 1915.
The VBR went between Tye River Depot in Nelson County to Massies Mill.
It met up with the Southern Railway in Massies Mill.
The railroad followed the course of the Tye and Piney Rivers for several miles.
It eventually enters the mountains.
It was initially built to haul chestnut for lumber out of the heavily-timbered Piney River area to local mills until World War I. The chestnut blight wiped out much of the timbered areas.
The railroad later served several quarries in the area where titanium dioxide and aplite were mined.
It passed through the communities of Roses Mill, Piney River, Canopy, Lowesville, and Buffalo Mine.
The line was abandoned in 1980.
In the early 21st century, part of the roadbed was being developed as a rails-to-trails project, the Blue Ridge Railway Trail.
Brief history and information on the trail project
Brief history and some photos
Transport in Virginia
Roses Mill is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
The Rimouski Océanic are a Canadian ice hockey team.
That began playing in 1995.
They play their home games in Rimouski, Quebec at the Colisée de Rimouski.
The team first started as the Sherbrooke Castors and they played in Sherbrooke from 1969 to 1982 before they moved to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec in 1982 and became the Saint-Jean Castors.
They later renamed themselves the Saint-Jean Lynx.
The team moved to Rimouski in 1995 and became the Rimouski Océanic.
She died of lung cancer in 1997.
The Shawinigan Cataractes are a Canadian ice hockey team.
They play their home games in Shawinigan, Quebec at the Centre Bionest de Shawinigan.
The team was first known as the Shawinigan Bruins but they changed their name in 1973.
The team was then known as the Shawinigan Dynamos from until 1978.
They are only team in the history of the QMJHL to occupy the same city since its inception.
The Victoriaville Tigres are a Canadian ice hockey team.
That began playing in 1982.
They play their home games in Victoriaville, Quebec at the Colisée Desjardins.
The team first started in 1986 and played in Longueuil, Quebec where they were known as the Longueuil Chevaliers.
The Chevaliers moved from Longueuil to Victoriaville in 1987 and were renamed the Tigres.
The Tigres won the President's Cup in 2002.
They also competed in the Memorial Cup finals in 2002 but lost against the Kootenay Ice.
Chemical weapons were a major part of World War I. It was the first time that chemical weapons were widely used in warfare.
The gas was very harmful to both sides because the gas would often blow back into the attackers front lines.
For this reason the use of gas was feared by both sides.
Gas masks were used to stop the gas by preventing it from traveling to the lungs.
The first masks were big and clumsy.
This caused them to be hated.
The soldiers and the public had been told that the First World War would have been over by December of 1914.
In 1916 the war was still going on, and a stalemate had been reached. ‘
The Triple Alliance’ and ‘The Triple Entente’ had to compete to create better technology to break the stalemate and to win the war.
Gas was a very effective way of attacking the enemy without direct contact.
The first use of gas in the war was in 1914, when the French used tear gas grenades against the Germans.
This sparked an idea for the Germans, and on 31st of January 1915, they first used Gas on a large scale.
Over 18,000 shells filled with gas were launched towards the Russians.
This attack failed.
Chlorine Gas saw its first use on the 22nd of April 1915 by the Germans against the French.
The French thought it was tear gas so took not so much notice of it.
As it hit them, they fled in fear and some were overcome with the poisonous gas.
A big opportunity had opened up for the Germans.
They however had not thought Chlorine Gas had such deadly effects, so retreated, missing a huge opportunity.
Britain’s first use of gas was in December of 1915.
This caused public outcry.
People saw it as inhumane.
This lasted during and after the war.
The factories that manufactured the gases were not allowed to call them gases.
An act had been signed years before forbidding the use of poisonous gases in combat.
The gas was referred to as an accessory.
Types of gas
Tear Gas: First used by the French in 1914.
It was effective but not deadly.
Chlorine: First used by the Germans.
It was a highly visible cloud of green.
It damaged the eyes, throat, nose, ears and lungs.
Death was caused by asphyxiation.
Phosgene: First used by the French.
Some symptoms appeared nearly 24 hours after exposure.
It was colourless and smelt like stale hay.
Sometimes it was mixed with Chlorine.
Mustard Gas: First used by the Germans in 1917.
It was the most effective and most publicized gas in  the war.
It caused huge, painful yellow blisters on contact with skin.
Few victims died.
Gas masks were ineffective against this heavy and dense mist.
It sank to the bottom of trenches and into cracks and crevices and stayed there for weeks or even months.
Many soldiers suffered from gas attacks but only 3% of those affected actually died.
However blindness was a common side effect of exposure.
Death was slow and very painful.
Most soldiers were sent home to die.
Some took many months to die.
Russia suffered the most casualties, adding up to a total of 57,000.
Gas attacks were the thing soldiers in the trenches feared over anything.
Jet Set Radio Future is a video game that was made by Smilebit.
It is published by Sega and is available for Xbox.
It is the sequel to the 2000 game, Jet Set Radio.
The game is set in a futuristic Tokyo which the player as part of a gang trys to gain control of.
The games gameplay also requires the player to find other gangs graffiti tags and tag over them when the player collects enough spraycans that are littered around each stage.
The game's tagging system is also different from the last game.
Some of the tagging locations contain multiple spray targets which depend on the tag's size.
Time limits for stages are removed and the stages are interconnected.
Jet Set Radio Future at MobyGames
A dreadnought is a navy battleship.
A battleship is a large ship used in ocean battles between countries.
The first dreadnoughts were made in the early 20th century.
They were named after HMS Dreadnought, of the Royal Navy, the first ship of that type.
The first dreadnought was launched in 1906 by the United Kingdom, and was a new design of battleship.
These ships had bigger guns; they also had guns that could shoot longer distances.
Heavy steel layers were built on to the dreadnoughts as protection, which made them very strong and hard to sink.
They were also much faster than older battleships.
World War 1 was the first war in which dreadnoughts were used.
After the war, a treaty was signed in Washington DC to limit the construction of battleships.
This treaty helped stop the manufacturing of dreadnoughts.
Japan, the UK, France, Italy and the United States signed this treaty.
Chromo is an unincorporated town and U.S. Post Office in Archuleta County, Colorado, United States.
The Chromo Post Office has the ZIP Code 81128.
Chromo is located at  (37.036818,-106.843243).
Unincorporated communities in Colorado
Swahili coast refers to the East cost of Africa inhabited by the Swahili people, that is Kenya, Tanzania and the northern part of Mozambique.
Sometimes the islands off this coast are also included.
Examples of such islands are Zanzibar, Cormoros and Pate.
Robert Heron "Bob" Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American writer, politician, lawyers, and legal scholar who was nominated by Ronald Reagan to be part of the Supreme Court in 1987, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate.
He was the United States Solicitor General and acting United States Attorney General.
Bork was born on March 1, 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He was married to Claire Davidson from 1952 until her death in 1980.
Then he was married to Mary Ellen Pohl from 1982 until his death in 2012.
With Davidson he had three children.
Bork died on December 19, 2012 from heart disease.
A Conversation with Judge Robert H. Bork - Event Video, Federalist Society, 2007-06-26
Congressional Record: Floor Vote on Bork Nomination
Bork, Robert H. (1996) Our Judicial Oligarchy .
1996 First Things November .
Booknotes interview with Bork on Slouching Toward Gomorrah, December 4, 1996.
Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant.
He was the father of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Taft was born on November 15, 1810 in Townshend, Vermont.
He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Taft stuided at Yale College, at Yale Law School, and at Yale University.
He was married to Fanny Phelps from 1841 until her death in 1951.
Then he was married to Lousie Maria Torrey from 1853 until his death in 1891.
Taft died on May 21, 1891 in San Diego, California from heart failure, aged 80.
Bacolet is a town on the island of Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
The town itself lies beneath Fort King George at the Bacelot Bay.
It is near Scarborough, Tobago, to the south-east of the island-capital.
It is one of the most developed parts of Tobago where the high society of the island lives.
There are also many villas and hotels for tourists.
Settlements in Trinidad and Tobago
The Dwight Yorke Stadium is in Bacolet, Tobago, (Trinidad and Tobago).
It is named after former Manchester United  footballer Dwight Yorke.