the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
In June 2006, the UK-based Northern Kites Project reported that kites had bred in the Derwent Valley, Tyne and Wear for the first time since the re-introduction.
The black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus), also known as the western rat snake, pilot black snake, or black snake, is a kind of snake.
They can grow up to eight feet in length.
They are found in North America.
FusionTheme page about Black Rat Snakes
The Downeaster is the name of the Amtrak train line in Portland, Maine.
There is a cafe on board.
Downeaster website
A zip-line (also called a zip line, zip wire, aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, death slide or Tyrolean crossing) is a device that allows a person to slide down an inclined wire or rope.
The process uses gravity to propel the user.
You can be stopped by dragging your feet or by water.
Often a pulley is used suspended on a cable, usually made of stainless steel.
Zip-lines are often used for entertainment.
Some are short and low designed for children on a playground.
Zip-lines are often used as a means of getting to remote areas, such as a rainforest canopy or crossing a river.
The zip-wire has been used as a way to get around in some mountainous countries for over 2,000 years.
Since the 1700s they have been used in places like Europe, China and the Himalayas.
In the Australian outback, zip-lines were occasionally used for delivering food, cigarettes or tools.
They were useful for people working on the other side of an obstacle such as a gully or river.
Australian soldiers have used them to bring ammunition to forward positions during wars.
During World War II the United States discovered they were behind the Russians and the Germans in using parachutes to deploy soldiers quickly.
In setting up training the army decided to use drop towers with zip lines to simulate a parachute landing.
It was a success and has been used since that time to train airborne forces.
Costa Rica claims to be the birthplace of modern zip-line tours.
Graduate students, John Williams and Donald Perry were rock-climbers who were in Costa Rica studying botanical (plants) and entomological (insects) subjects.
They used their rock climbing equipment to climb trees.
When they used lines to get down or move to lower trees, other students did too.
Soon tours started in Costa Rica for entertainment.
Zip-line tours
Zip-line tours are becoming popular vacation activities.
Some are as short as 100 feet while others may be as long as a mile.
The jungles of Costa Rica, Florida, Puerto Vallarta,and Nicaragua are popular places for those interested in experiencing zip-lines.
Since 2000, the number of zip-line tours in the United States has grown to over 200.
Zip-line tours are not available at places such as Santa Catalina Island, Big Bear and the San Diego Zoo in California.
Prices vary for the ride.
The San Diego Zoo ride costs $112 (for two lines).
At the Santa Paula, California KOA the cost is $10 for an 800 foot long zip-line.
At Durango Colorado there are 27 zip lines totaling .
The tour lasts for five hours.
In Sun City, South Africa the Zip 2000 is one of the world's longest zip lines at over  in length.
The world's longest zip-line tour is "Miss Sky Canopy Tour" in Nosara, Costa Rica.
It runs for  and is made up of 21 runs.
Taihape, New Zealand has one of the fastest zip-lines (called flying foxes locally) with speeds at over .
The Gorge in North Carolina
Skyline tour in New York
How Safe is Ziplining?
Florida is one of the states in the United States.
Michael Kelso
Jack W. Kelso
The 2015 Copa América was a football sporting event that was organized by Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol.
It was held in Chile in 2015.
12 teams took part from many countries.
Chile won their first title after beating Argentina in the final on a penalty shootout after a goalless draw.
Matías Vuoso
Miller Bolaños
Marcelo Moreno
José Giménez
Nelson Haedo Valdez
Édgar Benítez
Derlis González
Salomón Rondón
Christian Cueva
André Carrillo
Ronald Raldes
Martin Smedberg-Dalence
Jeison Murillo
Ronald Raldes (playing against Chile)
Gary Medel (playing against Peru)
2010s in Chile
Copa América tournaments
Copa America
The debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on the question "Is Creation A Viable Model of Origins?"
was held February 4, 2014.
The event took place at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.
Ham is the founder and chief executive officer of the Young Earth creationist (YEC) ministry Answers in Genesis (AiG).
He challenged Nye, science educator.
Nye is best known for hosting the 1990s television series Bill Nye the Science Guy.
This happened after Ham took exception to a YouTube video.
Nye was worried that a large number of people in the US do not accept the theory of evolution.
Tickets to the event sold out within minutes.
Debates such as this one have been going on since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
The debate
Nye stepped onto the stage in front of a hostile audience.
It wasn't Nye's first time debating.
Since his show on PBS ended in 1998, he has been making speaking tours at colleges and universities.
He has also appeared on several cable television programs.
It was Ham's home turf.
Ham is the head of the museum as well as the Christian outreach organization called Answers in Genesis.
He argued the Bible was the ultimate authority on natural history.
During the debate, Ham talked about his model of the universe's origins.
Nye cited observations from a variety of scientific fields to defend the majority scientific consensus that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old.
Science versus creationism
Bill Nye said that "Creation is bad for science."
Ken Ham then referred to several scientists who were young earth creationists.
Ham asked Nye how he could explain the laws of logic and physics in a naturalistic worldview.
Ham asked Nye for an example of something that could only have been invented from an evolutionary worldview.
He also showed the difference between what's called historical science and observational science.
Ham gave an example of biological adaptation.
He brought up Tiktaalik as an example of a scientific prediction.
He added, "Mr. Ham and his worldview does not have this capability".
Ham claimed the mainstream scientific community has made creationists afraid to speak out.
He went on to say they need "scientific freedom" to speak.
Nye offered several objections to Ham's young-earth position.
He stated that ice cores and tree rings show that a young earth view is wrong.
Nye also offered radiometric and carbon-14 dating to show that a young earth view is wrong.
Ham disagreed; he called radioactive dating "assumptions".
He said the only authority was the word of God, the Bible.
Ham stated he saw two kinds of science.
One called "observational science" which is science that can be observed.
The second he termed “historical science" meaning fossil records and similar artifacts.
Ham stated "I assert that the word 'science' has been hijacked by secularists in teaching evolution to force the religion of naturalism on generations of kids".
Many scientists were critical of Nye for accepting Ham's invitation.
They claimed his participation in the debate gave Ham's views undeserved legitimacy.
Two humanist groups—the American Humanist Association and the Center for Inquiry praised Nye's decision.
Scientists from both camps generally agreed that Nye won the debate.
However they did not agree on how convincing the victory was.
Ham later announced that the publicity from the debate helped fundraising for AiG's planned Ark Encounter theme park.
It allowed the ministry to begin construction.
A related book by Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, was just released.
Ken Ham released a book after the debate titled Inside the Nye Ham debate: is Creation a viable model: revealing truths from the worldview clash of the century.
Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - YouTube
[[File:1999 Bill Nye receives Public Service Award from National Science Board.png|thumb|right|250px|{{Center| 1999 Public Service Award from NSB for the program "Bill Nye the Science Guy, accepted by Bill Nye and Elizabeth Brock}}]]Bill Nye the Science Guy'' was a live action educational television program.
It originally aired from May 10, 1993 to June 20, 1998.
The program was hosted by Bill Nye.
It was produced by Buena Vista Television.
The show aired on PBS Kids and was also syndicated to local stations.
Each of the 100 half-hour episodes aims to teach a specific topic in a natural science to a preteen audience.
In 1999, the program received a public service award from the National Science Board "For its masterful presentations of the sciences to the younger generation..." The show won a total of 19 Emmy Awards during the five years it was broadcast.
Nye won seven Emmys for his performing, writing and producing the program.
Lake Marion is the largest lake in South Carolina.
It is centrally located.
Parts of it are in five different counties.
The lake is referred to as South Carolina's inland sea.
It has a  shoreline.
It covers almost 110,000 acres (450 square kilometers or 173.7 square miles) of rolling farmlands, former marshes, and river valley landscape.
The Santee River was dammed in the 1940s to supply hydroelectric power.
This was part of the rural electrification efforts initiated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression.
It is one of the fifty largest lakes in the United States, whether natural or man-made reservoirs.
It covers only about a third of the area of the fifteenth largest in size.
Lake Marion
Hungry Hungry Hippos is a tabletop game made for 2-4 players.
It is made by Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley.
The idea for the game was published in 1967 by toy inventor Fred Kroll and it was introduced in 1978.
The purpose of the game is for each player to collect as many marbles as possible with his or her 'hippo' (a toy hippo model).
The game is marketed under the "Elefun and Friends" banner, along with Elefun, Mouse Trap and Gator Golf.
Dr. Muhammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (; August 6, 1947 – September 27, 1996), commonly known as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992, when the Mujahideen took over Kabul.
Killed by Talibans in 1996.
Otto Grotewohl (German pronunciation: [ˈɔtoː ˈɡʁoːtəvoːl]; 11 March 1894 – 23 September 1964) was an (East) German politician.
He was co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) from 1946 to 1950 (together with Wilhelm Pieck), and the first prime minister of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 until his death in 1964.
On behalf of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and later the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Grotewohl was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Brunswick from 1920 to 1930, and also a minister of the Free State of Brunswick.
He was also a member of the Reichstag from 1925 to 1933.
Prime Ministers of East Germany
Trap music is a subgenre that originated during the 1990s from Reggeaton in  Puerto Rico.
It is typified by its ominous lyrics and sound that incorporate double or triple-time division hi-hats, heavy kick drums from a Roland TR-808 synthesizer, layered synthesizers, and "cinematic" strings.
The term "trap" initially referred to places where drug deals take place.
In recent years it has been incorporated with electronic dance music by artists who have remixed and made trap songs with more Electronic-like aspects.
Forest Law is a tekken fighter from the video game tekken series.
He was introduced in Tekken 3, and he returned for Tekken Tag Tournament and its sequel.
He is the son of Marshall Law.
They have the same fighting style and the same moves.
Like his father, Forest is friends with Paul Phoenix.
NHL 07 is an ice hockey video game.
It was released in September 2006.
It is the sequel to NHL 06.
The game improved the series' gameplay with more realistic features.
Those features included stickhandling and a wider variety of controller schemes.
The majority of improvements were to the Xbox 360 version.
The other versions, for the PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2 only had modest improvements.
8.7/10·IGN.com
3/5·Softonic
4/5·Metacritic
A privately held company is a company which is not quoted on stock exchanges, and its stocks cannot be openly bought or sold.
Often it is owned by a family or a small group of Shareholders.
Private companies are often small, but some are amongst the largest companies in the world.
Many public companies started life as private companies.
In the United States, private companies are held to different auditing standards than are public companies.
Private companies do not have to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This makes it harder to find financial information on private companies.
In 2006, she won Elite Model Look in France.
She finished her studies and started modeling two years later.
In 2009, she started walking fashion shows, for example for Lanvin, Gucci and Elie Saab.
Since 2010, she is a spokesmodel for Estée Lauder.
Since 2010, she also walks the runway for Victoria's Secret every year.
Rebel Heart is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna.
It was her second album to be released under Interscope Records, after her previous album, MDNA.
It was released on March 10, 2015.
Rebel Heart debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200.
It contained the singles "Living for Love" and "Bitch I'm Madonna".
The second song, "Bitch I'm Madonna", features Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj.
American disc jockey Diplo was one of the producers of the album, along with Madonna herself.
Horneophyton is a genus of early Devonian fossil land plants.
Its fossils are very common in the Rhynie chert.
Both the sporophyte and a female gametophyte have been found as fossils.
The sporophyte was about 20 cm tall, and the gametophyte was about 6 cm tall.
It is not really a vascular plant.
It had vascular tissue but the cells had thin walls.
Horneophyton had anatomy similar to the hornworts.
It is also similar to the vascular plant Rhynia which lived at the same time.
It might therefore be a missing link between the Bryophytes like hornworts and the vascular plants like Rhynia.
Plant anatomy or phytotomy is the study of the internal structure of plants.
This is usually considered distinct from plant morphology, which is the study of the external parts of plants.
Plant anatomy is usually studied with a microscope.
Iris is a genus of 260–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers.
It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow.
This refers to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species.
The scientific name, iris is also very widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera.
It is a member of the Iridaceae family It is a popular garden flower.
Irises are hardy plants (able to survive outside during winter) that are easy to grow.
They attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
Irises are a favorite cut flower.
The bearded irises (Iris germanica) is the tallest at about .
Irises generally have three large sepals on the outside called "falls".
They have three inner petals called "standards".
Irises that are called bearded are because of soft hairs growing in the center.
Irises that are called combed have a ridge of hairs in the center.
A common name for some species is 'flags'.
Plants of the subgenus Scorpiris are widely known as 'junos', particularly in horticulture.
Chris is a nickname or short form of various given names.
These include Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos.
The nickname is used by both males and females.
Most names Chris is based on have meanings regarding Christ.
For example Christopher means "bearer of Christ".
It is also a name used by individuals.
Chris Columbus and Chris Penn are two well known examples.
It is also a name given to tropical storms, hurricanes, trademarks such as Chris-Craft Boats and other places and things.
The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish.
Its purpose was to:
"diffuse the knowledge, and facilitate the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and improvements; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life".
Directors of the R.I. have included some of the greatest scientists, including Humphrey Davy, Michael Faraday, Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg, Max Perutz and John Kendrew.
Fifteen Directors have won Nobel Prizes.
Greenfield controversy
From 1998 to 8 January 2010, the Director of the Royal Institution was Baroness Susan Greenfield, but following a review, the position was abolished for being "no longer affordable".
The Royal Institution had found itself in a financial crisis following a £22m development programme led by Greenfield, which included refurbishment of the institution's main Albemarle Street building, and the addition of a restaurant and bar with an aim to turn the venue into a "Groucho club for science".
The project ended £3 million in debt.
The RI's official statement stated it would "continue to deliver its main charitable objectives under the direction of chief executive officer, Chris Rofe and a talented senior team including Professor Quentin Pankhurst, the Director of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, Dr Gail Cardew, the Head of Programmes and Professor Frank James, Head of Collections and Heritage".
Baroness Greenfield later dropped the discrimination case.
Maria de Jesus Simões Barroso Soares, GCL (2 May 1925 – 7 July 2015) was a Portuguese politician and actress.
She was the wife of former Portuguese President Mário Soares.
She served as First Lady of Portugal between 1986 and 1996.
Weintraub was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx.
For some time, Weintraub worked at MCA Records.
His career began as a talent agent in 1974.
He was known for managing many singers such as John Denver, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and the rock group Led Zeppelin.
He also produced movies, including: Nashville (1975), Diner (1982), The Karate Kid (1984), and the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001).
In 2014 he won an Emmy Award as co-producer of Years of Living Dangerously, a television documentary about global warming.
In 2011, HBO broadcast a television documentary about Weintraub's life, called His Way.
In 1965, Weintraub married Jane Morgan, who was 13 years older than Weintraub.
Together, they had four children.
Jerry Weintraub interview at Elvis Australia
Jane Morgan (born May 3, 1924) is an American popular music singer.
Morgan was popular in France and the UK before becoming popular in the United States.
She received six gold records and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She retired in 1973.
Morgan married movie producer and talent agent, Jerry Weintraub in 1965.
Weintraub died in 2015.
Notable performances
Morgan performed for French President Charles de Gaulle.
She also sang for five U.S. Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George W. Bush.
She toured with Jack Benny and John Raitt, and sang at the Grand Ole Opry.
Two of her RCA singles hit the Billboard country charts in 1970.
(March 13, 1903 – January 19, 2016) was a Japanese tailor and supercentenarian who was the oldest living man in the world at the time of his death at age 112 years, 312 days.
He was the oldest living person in Aichi Prefecture from Tsuya Miura's death on March 31, 2014 until his death.
He lived in Moriyama-ku, Nagoya.
At age 107, Koide moved to Nagoya to live with his daughter.
He had in total 7 children, 9 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and at least one great-great-grandchild.
Koide became the world's oldest living man after the death of another Japanese man, Sakari Momoi who was over 5 weeks older, on 5 July 2015 and later in November that year one of the 25 oldest living people.
In December 2015, Koide was hospitalized for chronic heart problems.
He died at the hospital of pneumonia and heart failure at 0:17am on January 19, 2016, only less than 8 weeks before his 113th birthday.
Carlo Alberto de Gavardo Prohens (14 July 1969 – 4 July 2015) was a Chilean motorist and motorcyclist.
He has participated in numerous rallies worldwide, including the Dakar Rally and Rallye des Pharaons.
He was the first Chilean motorcyclist to run the Paris-Dakar from beginning to end.
Paul Hogan, AM (born 8 October 1940) is an Australian comedian, actor, producer.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe award for his performance as Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in "Crocodile" Dundee (1986).
Linda Kozlowski (born January 7, 1958) is an American former actress.
She is known for her role as Sue Charlton in "Crocodile" Dundee.
He has directed such animated productions such as The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Super Friends, The Pirates of Dark Water, Droopy, Master Detective, Pound Puppies, The Richie Rich Show, The Smurfs and many more.
Leonard Starr (October 28, 1925 – June 30, 2015) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist.
He was best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.
Leonard Starr official site
"Love Me like You Do" is a song recorded by British recording artist Ellie Goulding.
It was recorded for the movie Fifty Shades of Grey.
It reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and on the Canadian Hot 100.
It was #1 on the UK Singles Chart and the charts of several other countries.
It is the fifth song on the movie's soundtrack.
It was later included on Goulding's third studio album, Delirium.
Jonatan Leandoer Håstad (born 18 July 1996) better known by his Stage name Yung Lean is a Swedish Rapper known for wearing bucket hats.
Yung Lean released his debut mixtape in 2013 (entitled Unknown Death 2002).
He has multiple singles on YouTube under his label Sad Boys Entertainment.
These include "Ginseng Strip 2002", "Kyoto", and "Yoshi City".
Lean released his debut album Unknown Memory during the late summer of 2014.
This followed a two-month long American tour.
The New York Times called him an up-and-comer in the rap world. "
A 17-year-old Swedish kid can rack up millions of YouTube views and SoundCloud plays without making so much as a ripple in the mainstream hip-hop world."
But he seems to have made more than a ripple.
Håstad was born in Belarus.
At age 3 he moved to Sweden.
At first he only spoke Russian.
He learned Swedish but raps in broken English.
Robert Rahmeek Williams (born May 6, 1987), known professionally as Meek Mill is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was briefly signed to Atlanta-based record label Grand Hustle, owned by record executive and fellow American rapper T.I.. In February 2011, after leaving Grand Hustle, Mill signed a record deal with fellow American rapper Rick Ross' Miami-based Maybach Music Group (MMG) imprint.
Mill's debut studio album, Dreams and Nightmares, was released in 2012, under MMG and Warner Bros. Records.
The album, preceded by the single "Young & Gettin' It", debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200.
He has also appeared on MMG's Self Made compilation series, with his debut single "Tupac Back" and second single "Ima Boss", being included on volume one.
In October 2012, Meek Mill announced the launching of his own imprint, Dream Chasers Records, named after his popular mixtape series.
He also revealed having already signed several fellow Philadelphia-based rappers in 2012.
Dreams and Nightmares (2012)
Dreams Worth More Than Money (2015)
Wins & Losses (2017)
Championships (2018)
Expensive Pain (2021)
The Developmentalism is an economic theory.
It says that the best way for third world countries to develop is through a strong and varied internal market and by having high tariffs on imported goods.
There are similar stages to development for all countries.
There is movement from one stage to another.
This movement goes from traditional or primitive to modern or industrialized.
Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft - German Ordoliberal association
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
James Stuart "Jim" Gilmore III (born October 6, 1949) is an American politician.
He was the United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from July 2019 until January 2021.
He was the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002.
Gilmore ran for President of the United States in 2008, but lost the primaries to John McCain.
Gilmore announced his launch for his 2016 United States presidential campaign on July 30, 2015.
He withdrew after poor polling numbers on February 12, 2016.
In November 2018, Gilmore was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the U.S. Representative to United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
His nomination was confirmed by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on May 23, 2019.
Gilmore was born in Richmond, Virginia.
His parents were Margaret Evelyn (née Kandle), a church secretary, and James Stuart Gilmore, Jr., a grocery store meat cutter.
He graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1971.
Gilmore was elected Commonwealth's Attorney of his native Henrico County in 1987 and 1991, and then was first elected to statewide office in 1993 as Virginia's Attorney General.
Gilmore resigned in 1997 to run for Governor, also joining the law firm of LeClairRyan as a partner.
Governor of Virginia (1998-2002)
Gilmore was elected Governor of Virginia in 1997, winning 56% of the vote to Beyer's 43%.
He was inaugurated on January 17, 1998.
In his first year as Governor, Gilmore pushed for car tax reduction legislation that was eventually passed by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.
Gilmore signed an executive order reducing state spending by all agencies, except for education, to keep the state's budget balanced during the economic downturn.
In 1999, Gilmore proposed and signed into law legislation that reduced tuitions at public colleges and universities by 20%.
Gilmore created the nation's first state Secretary of Technology.
As Governor, Gilmore signed into law legislation establishing a 24-hour waiting period and informed consent for women seeking an abortion, as well as a ban against partial birth abortion.
The Virginia Constitution forbids any Governor from serving consecutive terms, so Gilmore could not run for a second term in 2001.
He was succeeded by Democrat Mark Warner, who took office in early 2002.
2008 Senate campaign
In the November election, Gilmore was defeated, winning only 34 percent of the vote to Warner's 65 percent.
Gilmore only carried four counties in the state – Rockingham, Augusta, Powhatan and Hanover.
In many cases, he lost in many areas of the state that are normally reliably Republican.
On December 19, 2006, Gilmore announced he would form an exploratory committee to "fill the conservative void" in the race.
On January 9, 2007, Gilmore officially filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to form the Jim Gilmore for President Exploratory Committee.
On July 14, 2007, Gilmore announced that he was ending his campaign.
Gilmore said that it would be "impractical" to run, citing the difficulty of raising enough money to be competitive in early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Gilmore announced that he will run for president in his second presidential campaign for the 2016 presidential election on July 30, 2015.
He withdrew after the New Hampshire primary due to poor debate and polling performances on February 12, 2016.
Gilmore was considered for the position of United States Ambassador to Germany by the Trump Administration, but ultimately not chosen.
In November 2018, Gilmore was nominated as the next U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with the rank of ambassador.
He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 23, 2019.
He was sworn-in on July 2, 2019.
Gilmore has been married to Roxane Gatling since 1977.
Official Senate campaign website
Virginia Patriot, Gilmore's official blog (former presidential site redirects here)
Gilmore's website as governor of Virginia, January 1999
Volga Germans ( or Russlanddeutsche, , povolzhskie nemtsy) were ethnic Germans living along the Volga River.
They kept the culture, language, traditions and religions of Germans, including Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism.
Catherine the Great invited Germans to immigrate.
She gave them Russian lands, and allowed them to keep their language and culture.
Germans from Russia also settled in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
Most Volga Germans who settled in Latin America were Catholic.
Many Catholic Volga Germans chose South America as their new homeland because the nations in South America shared their religion.
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
Germans from Russia in Argentina Genealogy
Wolgadeutschen
Robert Leroy "Bob" Ehrlich, Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American attorney and Republican politician.
He served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007.
Maryland Archives gubernatorial biography.
Maryland Archives general biography.
Congressional Quarterly election library.
Ehrlich Personnel Story
MD Gubernatorial Candidates List  at Ballotpedia
Oestrone is an oestrogen.
It is produced by the ovaries or by adipose tissue.
It can be made artificially, and is used to treat deficiency of oestrogen and breast cancer.
The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis) is a species of small dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae.
This shark, also called the cigar shark, lives in warm, oceanic waters around the world.
It often lives near islands.
It has been recorded as deep as .
The name "cookiecutter shark" refers to its biting.
It takes round plugs, as if cut out with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals.
Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on many marine mammals and fishes, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies.
Ágnes Osztolykán (born 3 November 1974) is a Hungarian of Roma Background, politician an activist for the Roma people.
She was in the National Assembly of Hungary from  2010 to 2014.
In 2011, she received International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State.
Osztolykán studied at the University of Miskolc.
She graduated in 1998 with a degree in political science.
Then she worked for the Soros Foundation.
She was head of the Decade of Roma Inclusion Program at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor for six years.
She went to Parliament in 2010.
She was a member of the parliamentary group of Lehet Más a Politika (LMP), or Politics Can Be Different Party.
On 26 November 2012, she became deputy leader of the LMP parliamentary group.
Osztolykán is an activist for Romani children's education, Roma and minority rights, and the Roma in Hungary.
She works for vocational training which helps students get jobs.
She also works as a volunteer teacher at a Roma vocational school in Budapest’s poorer Eighth District.
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva (Kyrgyz and Russian: Роза Исаковна Отунбаева; born August 23, 1950) is a Kyrgyz diplomat and politician.
She was President of Kyrgyzstan from April 7, 2010 until December 1, 2011.
Otunbayeva was born in Frunze (now Bishkek), in Kyrgyzstan in the Soviet Union.
She got a degree in philosophy from Moscow State University in 1972.
Then she was a senior professor and head of the philosophy department at Kyrgyz State National University for six years.
In 1975 she got a Candidate of Sciences degree after writing a dissertation named "Critique of falsification of Marxist-Leninist dialectic by the philosophers of Frankfurt school".
Otunbayeva is divorced and has two children.
She speaks Russian, English, German, and French in addition to Kyrgyz.
In 1981, Otunbayeva became a secretary of the Lenin council of Frunze.
In the late 1980s, she was the head of the Soviet delegation to UNESCO in Paris.
Later she was the Soviet Ambassador to Malaysia.
When Kyrgyzstan became independent, she was the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, then she was Kyrgyzstan's first ambassador to the USA and Canada.
From 1998 to 2001, she was the Kyrgyz ambassador to the United Kingdom.
From 2002 to 2004, she was deputy head of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia.
On April 7, 2010, Otunbayeva became the head of a Kyrgyz interim government.
Presidents of Kyrgyzstan
Ambassadors to the United Kingdom
Peter (Balazs) Záboji (25 December 1943 – 3 July 2015) was a Hungarian investor and entrepreneur.
He has contributed significantly to the development of start up businesses in Budapest and received the highest civil recognition from the president of Hungary.
John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an African-American author, journalist, and academic.
His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967.
Williams was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
Williams died in Paramus, New Jersey from Alzheimer's disease, aged 89.
Irwin Keyes (March 16, 1952 – July 8, 2015) was an American actor He was known for his role as Hugo in the television series The Jeffersons.
Keyes' family announced his death on July 8, 2015.
Keyes died from acromegaly.
He made his debut for the Netherlands in an April 1957 friendly match against Belgium and has earned a total of 30 caps, scoring 4 goals.
He represented his country in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.
A Mitraillette (, literally "submachine gun"), is a type of food from Belgium.
It might come from Brussels, but is also popular in Flanders, Wallonia and the Nord region of France, where it is also known as an "Américain" (literally an "American").
A typical mitraillette consists of:
A demi-baguette (or sometimes a smaller version of a baguette).
Fried meat (as sausage, burger, steak, frikandel).
The type of meat will be different in each restaurant.
One of a variety of sauces, including mayonnaise, ketchup, sauce andalouse, garlic sauce, bearnaise sauce and many others.
Crudités are often included (grated carrot, fresh lettuce, tomato slices), though different in each location.
Cheese and cabbage are also sometimes included.
Originally mitraillettes only contained a sausage or sliced meat.
Different versions quickly became available.
Often, dürüms are served instead in more multicultural areas.
Richard Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is the senior United States Senator from Alabama.
He is a member of the U.S. Republican Party and has been in Senate since January 3, 1987.
He was in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987.
Shelby was born on May 6, 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama.
He graduated from the University of Alabama.
Shelby Hall at the University of Alabama is the largest science facility in the US.
It was finished in 2004 and named for Shelby and his wife.
He is married to Dr. Annette N. Shelby.
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Mahogany is a hard tropical wood from the Americas.
It was discovered by Europeans early in the 16th century (~1514).
The wood comes from a tree, Swietenia mahagoni.
The tree is native to southern Florida  and islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.
Mark Catesby's Natural History explains why:
"[Mahogany] has properties for that use excelling oak, and all other wood, viz.
durableness, resisting gunshots, and burying the shot without splintering".
The second use for mahogany was to make furniture.
The Spanish were first to do this, but in the 18th and early 19th century it was much used by English workshops.
This period is called "Age of Mahogany".
Also much furniture in mahogany was made in France and other European countries.
It has a few special characteristics that make mahogany a helpful wood.
It is strong and durable but easy to bend so is especially helpful for carpenters.
Mahogany trees, although endangered, grow very tall and are so may be cut into large sheets.
Also, mahogany is resistant to stains.
Richard Burr (born November 30, 1955) is the senior United States Senator from North Carolina.
He is a member of the U.S. Republican Party and has been in Senate since January 3, 2005.
He was in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005.
Burr is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
He succeeded Dianne Feinstein as chairman in January 2015.
Burr was born on November 30, 1955 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He graduated from the Wake Forest University.
He is married to Brooke Fauth.
On February 13, 2021 Burr voted that no longer Republican President Donald Trump was guilty of starting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
Richard Burr, U.S. Senator for North Carolina, Home Page
Judd Gregg (born February 14, 1947) is an American politician.
He was a United States Senator from the state of New Hampshire.
Before becoming a U.S. Senator, he was Governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993.
Gregg was born on February 14, 1947 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
He studied at Columbia University and at Boston University School of Law.
Michael Robert Lamb (born August 9, 1975) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman.
Lamb stands  and weighs .
The Highwaymen were a Country music supergroup.
It included four of the biggest stars at the time.
All were well known for their pioneering influence on the outlaw country genre.
These included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
The group was active between 1985 and 1995.
All four had worked together before in various combinations.
Their first single, "Highwayman," went to number one on the country charts.
The album of the same name on Columbia Records also hit number one on the country album charts.
Between the years of 1997 and 1999, Nelson, Kristofferson, Cash, and Jennings also provided the voice and dramatization for the "Louis L'Amour Collection".
This was a four CD box set of seven Louis L'Amour stories published by the HighBridge Company.
But the four were not credited as "The Highwaymen" in this work.
Only one other recording artist ever appeared on a Highwaymen recording: Johnny Rodriguez.
He provided a Spanish vocal on 'Deportee', a Woody Guthrie song, from "Highwayman".
James Vincent Tate (December 8, 1943 – July 8, 2015) was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He joined the Movement for Greater Israel, and later the Tzomet party.
He was elected to the Knesset in 1988 on the Tzomet list, and was one of the instigators of the law that led to direct elections for the Prime Minister.
He lost his seat in the 1992 elections.
Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (), also known as Saud Al Faisal (‎; 2 January 1940 – 9 July 2015), was a Saudi diplomat and statesman.
He served as Saudi Arabia's foreign minister from 1975 to 2015.
By the time of his retirement, he was the world's longest-serving foreign minister.
He was a member of  the Saudi royal family.
Caspar Bowden (died July 2015) was a privacy advocate, formerly chief privacy adviser at Microsoft.
Styled as "an independent advocate for information privacy rights, and public understanding of privacy research in computer science", he was on the Tor anonymous service network board of directors.
Kenneth Michael "Ken" Stabler (December 25, 1945 – July 8, 2015), nicknamed "The Snake," was an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL).
He played for the Oakland Raiders (1970–1979), Houston Oilers (1980–1981) and New Orleans Saints (1982–1984).
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Mark Whitty Everson (born September 10, 1954) is an American politician.
He served as the 46th Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 until 2007.
On March 5, 2015, Everson announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 Presidential election.
He launched his bid with a video and sixteen page open letter in which he laid out six primary issues.
He withdrew from the race on November 5, 2015.
In some cases, it might be because the person has faked their own death on purpose.
In some cases they are mistakes while in most cases, they are intentional.
Hoaxes are designed to play on other people's emotions.
Sometimes, a death hoax is designed to be a practical joke; however, most are to give the person starting the rumor a sense of power over their victims.
There are often consequences when the person who started the hoax is discovered.
The news media has to be especially careful of hoaxes, including death hoaxes.
While some people will believe anything, most people resent being tricked.
However, it depends on how the story is handled: For example, a death hoax ran in Canadian papers about a hard-drinking, hard-swearing Carcross Parrot who had just died; most forgave the writers since the story was published on April Fools' Day.
Mark Twain is one of the most famous people to be the subject of a death hoax.
In his case, the newspapers were just careless.
This is when he uttered his famous quote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
It has often been misquoted as "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
Absolute truth is something that is true at all times and in all places.
It is something that is always true no matter what the circumstances.
It is a fact that cannot be changed.
For example, there are no round squares.
There are also no square circles.
The angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.
These are all true by definition.
Very similar are the propositions of Euclid, because they are proved once the axioms are accepted.
One way or another, these are all truths because they are logically true.
Absolute truths are discovered, not invented.
They exist in all cultures.
According to Martin Luther (the reformer), "I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
This means that if truth is not absolute it is not truth at all.
Interestingly enough, Aristotle states that, “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
So if we consider ourselves to be wise individuals, our concern should be to find the truth not to submit to opinions.
"In two national surveys conducted by Barna Research, one among adults and one among teenagers, people were asked if they believe that there are moral absolutes that are unchanging or that moral truth is relative to the circumstances.
By a 3-to-1 margin (64% vs. 22%) adults said truth is always relative to the person and their situation.
The perspective was even more lopsided among teenagers, 83% of whom said moral truth depends on the circumstances, and only 6% of whom said moral truth is absolute."
Quite different are empirical truths.
All the findings of science are empirical: they are based on evidence, and might be wrong or incomplete.
Also, we can be wrong about what we think we see or experience.
Of course, we rely on science and our senses in practical life.
That does not alter the fact that absolute truth is only to be found inside a well-defined logical system.
That kind of truth may, or may not, correspond to the real world.
Deb Fischer (born March 1, 1951, Lincoln, Nebraska) is the United States Senator from Nebraska.
She is a member of the U.S. Republican Party and has been in Senate since January 3, 2013.
Fischer is the senior senator from Nebraska.
She was in the Nebraska Legislature from 2005 to 2013.
Fischer was born on March 1, 1951 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
She graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a Bachelor of Science degree.
She is married to Bruce Fischer.
Deb Fischer, U.S. Senator for Nebraska, Home Page
Steve Koven is a Canadian Jazz pianist and member of the Steve Koven Trio.
Steve Koven is a composer, performer and educator.
In 1993 Steve started the Steve Koven Trio.
He performs worldwide with his trio.
Koven also performs solo piano concerts throughout North America, Europe and the Caribbean.
After nine albums with his trio, Koven has gone solo.
Dozens of Koven’s compositions have been licensed for national and international film and television productions.
As an educator, Koven has been teaching in the Faculty of Music at York University since 2003.
He teaches Contemporary Improvisation and Jazz Piano.
Koven also teaches Music at Toronto's Centennial College.
He holds a Masters in Music Composition.
Koven has presented master classes and clinics in China, Japan, Colombia, Barbados, Bahamas and Mexico.
First Peoples is a 2015 television documentary about the first people on the continents of the Earth.
The five-part PBS series covers each continent or group of continents one at a time.
The focus is on very recent work in paleogenomics (the study of genomes from very long ago).
It was produced by Wall to Wall Television.
The series challenges the East African origin theory of modern man showing there were other origins in other parts of Africa.
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Oestradiol, E2, is an oestrogen, a steroidal hormone secreted by the ovaries.
It is a main female hormone.
Oestradiol regulates  female characteristics, the maturation of female sex organs and the  oestrus and menstrual cycle.
It stimulates the production of mammary glands.
The serum concentrations of oestradiol and other female hormones change during the menstrual cycle.
During gestation there is a high serum concentrations of oestradiol, E3.
During menopause, oestrone has the higher concentration.
Oestradiol and oestrone can interchange.
Oestradiol has a big effect on bone formation.
Women past menopause have an accelerated loss of bone because they have less oestrogen.
Oestradiol also has some functions in males.
Its serum concentration in men is < 35 pg/mL, level equivalent to that seen in post-menopausal women.
Chicken soup is a soup made with chicken.
The chicken is simmered in water.
Classic chicken soups are made of clear broth.
There are usually pieces of chicken and vegetables.
There can also be grains, pasta or dumplings.
Chicken soup is thought to be a remedy for colds and influenza.
In many countries, it is considered a comfort food.
Archer is an American adult animated black comedy, action adventure television series.
The series airs on FX.
A preview for the series aired on September 17, 2009.
The first season started on January 14, 2010.
Aisha Tyler plays Lana.
Jessica Walter plays Malory Archer.
This television series has a rating of TV-MA, usually for foul language and violence.
Sometimes there is also nudity.
Ghulam Sughra is a human rights activist in Pakistan.
She is the head of the "Marvi Rural Development Organization" (MRDO).
Sughra was born in Sindh Province in Pakistan.
She was married at the age of 12.
Six years later, she was the first woman in her village to divorce.
When she tried to go to school, her brothers beat her.
So she studied at home.
Sughra became the first girl in her village to finish secondary school.
Later she was the first teacher in the first school for girls.
Ghulam Sughra started the Marvi Rural Development Organization (MRDO) in her village.
The MRDO works for education, health, and human rights.
It also loans money for women to start small businesses.
Vanda is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae).
It is one of the most important orchids, with about fifty species.
The genus is very  highly prized in horticulture for its showy, fragrant, long lasting, and intensely colorful flowers.
Vanda is widespread across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, with a few species extending into Queensland and some of the islands of the western Pacific.
The genus is sometimes abbreviated as V. in the flower trade.
Grove, D. L. 1995.
Vandas and Ascocendas.
Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
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Motes, Martin R., and Alan L. Hoffman.
1997 Vandas, Their botany, history and culture.
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An adipocyte, also called a fat cell, is a cell in loose connective tissue, which is specialized for the synthesis and storage of fat.
This tissue is called adipose tissue.
Bridgewater is a town in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The LaHave River runs through the town.
Bridgewater is the largest town in the South Shore region.
A lot of the South Shore's economy is based on tourism.
Bridgewater is also a commercial and industrial center.
One of the main employers is a Michelin tire plant.