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Lionel Pickens (December 4, 1983 – May 17, 2015), better known by his stage name Chinx (formerly Chinx Drugz), was an American rapper from Queens, New York.
He was a member of French Montana's Coke Boys group and record label.
Other members are Cheeze, Flip, and Lil Durk.
He was best known for his raps on the Coke Boys mixtapes and the Cocaine Riot mixtape series.
He died from a fatal gunshot wound after a drive-by shooting in Jamaica, Queens on May 17, 2015.
On how he got started rapping, Chinx said: "I started rapping at the table in junior high school for fun with the homies and then by 9th grade is when I started taking music seriously.
At that point is when I started investing my street money into my studio time and trying to find my sound."
On May 17, 2015, New York police officers (NYPD) went, after a 911 call, to Briarwood, Queens at about 4:00 a.m. There, they found Chinx and another victim in a car at Queens Boulevard and 84th Drive.
Chinx was rushed to Jamaica Medical Center in Jamaica, Queens with gunshot wounds.
There he was pronounced dead, at age 31.
Welcome To JFK (TBR)
I'll Take It from Here (2013)
The creation of the Filintern was set up at a conference in Moscow in 22 to 30 June 1924.
Its formation was greeted by all branches of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists and at the same time by the Soviet Esperantists.
At the conference opening, Feodor Chuchin, Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily, declared:
"propaganda of the international union of philatelist-workers of all nations for the struggle against organised philatelist-dealers",
"wide popularisation of ideological philately",
"introducing Esperanto into philately and thus the establishment of lively communication between philatelists around the world."
Filintern facilitates the goals of philatelists, scripophilists and Esperantists.
Within Filintern, they could:
collect stamps and paper money,
publish philatelic bulletins, journals and catalogues,
most importantly, conduct foreign exchange.
The Philatelic International's organ was the journal .
Its Editor was a prominent Russian philatelist L. K. Eichfuss.
The first issue of the journal appeared in January 1925.
The Chinchorro mummies are mummified remains of people from the South American Chinchorro culture, found in what is now northern Chile and southern Peru.
They are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains.
The oldest are 7,000 years old.
The mummies continued to be made until about 1800 B.C.
They were first studied by the Andean archaeologist Max Uhle in 1914.
Today, over 280 mummies have been found.
About 120 of them are kept at the University of Tarapaca museum.
Recently, scientist saw that some of the mummies are melting.
This is because the increased humidity due to climate change has let microbes attack the skin.
Uhle categorized the types of mummification he saw into three categories: simple treatment, complex treatment, and mud-coated mummies.
Since then, other archaeologists refined his classification and now mostly use the following classification of Chinchorro mummification: natural, black, red, mud-coated and bandage mummies.
The two most common techniques used in Chinchorro mummification were the black mummies and the red mummies.
Chinchorro Archaeological site in Chile
"Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art" Archaeology Magazine
Chinchorro and other mummies
Cultura Chinchorro  Momias Chinchorro
Roger Harrison Mudd (February 9, 1928 – March 9, 2021) was an American broadcast journalist.
He worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel.
Mudd was the weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press, and American Almanac TV programs.
Booknotes interview with Mudd on Great Minds of History, June 6, 1999.
C-SPAN Q&A interview with Mudd, about The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, March 30 and April 6, 2008
Harry Corpening Martin (January 13, 1920 – May 3, 2015) was an American judge.
He served as the Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, serving from 1982 to 1992.
He was born in Lenoir, North Carolina.
From 1967 to 2015, he was a leading figure in the movement to settle Jews in the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
He was especially known for leading Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1968 and for being one of the principals of the now defunct settler movement Gush Emunim founded in 1974.
Yeung Kwong, GBM (1926 – 16 May 2015) was a Hong Kong Communist trade unionist and activist.
He was leader of the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots against the British rule in Hong Kong.
Activists from Hong Kong
Rosemarie DeWitt (born October 26, 1971) is an American actress.
She played Emily Lehman in the Fox television series Standoff.
She played Amy Bowen in the 2015 remake movie Poltergeist.
She was born in Flushing, Queens, New York.
DeWitt married Ron Livingston in 2009.
Poltergeist is a 2015 American horror, fantasy and thriller movie.
It is a remake of Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie with the same name.
This new version is produced by Sam Raimi.
It stars Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris, and Jane Adams.
The movie was released on May 22, 2015 in North America.
It will be screened in 3D.
This movie is about a family whose suburban home has an invasion of angry spirits.
These frightening ghosts attack the family who live in a quiet wealthy neighborhood.
They kidnap the youngest daughter.
The family has to make a plan to rescue her.
The first trailer for the new movie was released on February 5, 2015.
A Slate Magazine writer said that the trailer made the movie look too much like the first one.
James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly said that the trailer "retains and amplifies several elements from the original".
He also gave praise that "the modernizing doesn’t result in, say, the family’s daughter being kidnapped by ghosts in Snapchat".
Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting said that "while every fiber of my being wants to reject it, [the film] actually looks pretty insane", and praised the trailer's last scene.
A Polygon writer said that the trailer looked similar to the first movie, but that it "looks great, as a horror movie".
Poltergeist has not received good reviews from critics.
On Rotten Tomatoes the movie got only a 34%, with 77 reviews.
The audience rating was 34% who say they liked it.
On Metacritic, the movie has a score of 47 out of 100, given by 25 critics.
This means it has lower than average reviews.
Roger Ebert said "Nothing about 'Poltergeist' feels fresh or new".
He gave it one and a half stars.
Ebert also said "See it in 2D if you choose to see it at all."
2015 horror movies
Get Hard is an American comedy movie.
Alison Brie plays Alissa.
Kevin Hart plays Darnell.
Will Ferrell as James King
Kevin Hart as Darnell Lewis
Alison Brie as Alissa Barrow
Edwina Findley as Rita Lewis
Craig T. Nelson as Martin Barrow
T.I. as Russell
Ariana Neal as Makayla Lewis
Greg Germann as Peter Penny
Paul Ben-Victor as Gayle
Dan Bakkedahl as Leo
Erick Chavarria as Cecelio
Jon Eyez as Big Mike
Nito Larioza as Jaoa
Ron Funches as Jojo
John Mayer as himself
Jimmy Fallon as himself
On December 7, 2012, it was announced that Warner Bros. was in talks to acquire the Get Hard comedy movie script.
On September 17, 2013, Etan Cohen was set to direct.
On February 24, 2014, Warner Bros. set the release date for 27 March 2015.
It got negative reviews by movie critics.
Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie 29%.
Metacritic rates the movie 34 out of 100, meaning "generally unfavorable reviews".
Get Hard made over $105 million overall.
Woman in Gold is a 2015 British drama movie.
The movie is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, who now lives in Los Angeles.
Altmann fought the government of Austria for almost ten years to get back Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Altmann took her legal battle to the Supreme Court of the United States.
It ruled in her favor in Republic of Austria v. Altmann (2004).
Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann
Tatiana Maslany as young Maria Altmann
Ryan Reynolds as Randol (Randy) Schoenberg
Daniel Brühl as Hubertus Czernin
Katie Holmes as Pam Schoenberg
Max Irons as Fredrick "Fritz" Altmann
Charles Dance as Sherman
Elizabeth McGovern Florence-Marie Cooper
Jonathan Pryce as William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)
Moritz Bleibtreu as Gustav Klimt
Antje Traue as Adele Bloch-Bauer
Frances Fisher, Mrs. Schoenberg, Randol's mother
Tom Schilling as Heinrich
Anthony Howell as Junior Official
Allan Corduner as Gustav
Henry Goodman as Ferdinand
Olivia Silhavy as Elisabeth Gehrer
Justus von Dohnányi as Toman, representative of the Belvedere Gallery
Richard Reid as the Court Reporter
Ludger Pistor as Wran
Joseph Mydell as Judge Clarence
Stephen Greif as Bergen
On May 15, 2014, Tatiana Maslany was cast in a principal role as the younger version of Helen Mirren's character, appearing in the WWII flashbacks.
On May 29, Katie Holmes also joined the cast.
Elizabeth McGovern, Charles Dance and Max Irons also joined.
On July 9, 2014, Frances Fisher joined to play the mother of Ryan Reynolds' character.
This movie was released in April 2015.
It grossed over $35 million in the box office.
Rotten Tomatoes rates the movie 52%.
Metacritic gives the movie a 51% rating That means "mixed or average" reviews.
The Roger Ebert website, RogerEbert.com, gave the movie two and a half stars.
Rex Reed of New York Observer called Woman in Gold "an extraordinary love story turned into an exemplary motion picture about one German Jew".
Adele's Wish—the documentary film that details Maria Altmann's struggle to recover her family's Klimt paintings
The Longest Ride is a 2015 romantic-drama movie.
It is about Luke Collins, a bull rider who is seriously injured one night while riding.
One year later, he meets Sophia.
Lolita Davidovich plays Linda Collins.
Gloria Reuben plays Adrienne.
Scott Eastwood as Luke Collins
Britt Robertson as Sophia Danko
Alan Alda as Ira Levinson
Jack Huston as young Ira
Oona Chaplin as Ruth
Melissa Benoist as Marcia
Lolita Davidovich as Linda Collins
Barry Ratcliffe as the Auctioneer
Gloria Reuben as Adrienne Francis
Brett Edwards as Jared Midelton
Hunter Burke as David Stein
Alina Lia as Brooke
Principal photography began on June 16, 2014 in Wilmington and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
On July 28, filming began in Jacksonville.
Critics gave negative reviews to the movie.
Rotten Tomatoes has given a rating of 29% to The Longest Ride.
RogerEbert.com gave the movie one and a half stars in its reviews.
Variety magazine gave mixed reviews for this movie.
Metacritic rates the movie 29%, meaning "generally unfavorable" reviews.
It took in more than $51 million.
The movie is rated PG-13.
Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
It is a subprefecture of the Vienne department.
Châtellerault is in the centre of the Vienne department.
Several tributaries of the Vienne river join the river in Châtellerault or near it: Clain, Ozon and Envigne.
Châtellerault is at about  from Bordeaux,  from Paris,  from Marseille and  from Toulouse.
The commune of Châtellerault is surrounded by the communes:
The inhabitants of Châtellerault are known, in French, as Châtelleraudais (women: Châtelleraudaises).
With a population of 31,722, Châtellerault has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Châtellerault forms, with three other communes, the urban area of Châtellerault with a population of 40,124 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Châtellerault, formed by 32 communes, with a population of 69,645 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
Châtellerault is a subprefecture of the Vienne department, the capital of the arrondissement of Châtellerault and the administrative centre () of three cantons
Châtellerault-1, with 25,646  inhabitants (2014).
Châtellerault-2, with 26,004  inhabitants (2014).
Châtellerault-3, with 21,733  inhabitants (2014).
It is part of the intercommunality Le Pays Châtelleraudais ().
Velbert, Germany, since 1965
Kaya, Burkina Faso, since 1976
Corby, United Kingdom, since 1979
Bouctouche, Canada, since 1984
South Kent County, Canada
Castellón de la Plana, Spain, since 1987
Hamilton, United Kingdom, since 1993
Piła, Poland, since 1994
Clément Janequin, French musician
Rodolphe Salis (Le Chat noir)
Bernard Panafieu, French prelate of the Catholic church
Christiane Martel, French actress and beauty queen
Ville de Châtellerault - official website
Communes in Vienne
"Uptown Funk!"
is a song by British DJ/producer Mark Ronson, featuring American singer Bruno Mars.
This song was heavily influenced by Minneapolis sound from the early 1980s.
The song was released on November 10, 2014.
It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It was Mars' sixth #1 song on that chart.
The song also hit #1 on other charts.
The song samples "Bye Bye" by Chimbala featuring Liro Shaq and Mozart La Para and "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops!)"
by The Gap Band.
It was written by Mars, Ronson, Jeff Bhasker, Philip Lawrence, Devon Gallaspy, Lonnie Simmons, Rudolph Taylor, and Robert, Ronnie, and Charlie Wilson.
Mars, Ronson, and Bhasker produced the song.
The song finished as the #1 song of the 2010s decade on the Billboard Hot 100.
Romorantin-Lanthenay is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department.
Every year during the last weekend in October, a cuisine festival is held; First held in 1978, "Les Journées Gastronomiques de Sologne" now attracts around 13,000 visitors.
Parthenay is a commune, an ancient fortified town, in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
It is a subprefecture of the Deux-Sèvres department.
It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Parthenay.
Parthenay is considered the capital of the Gâtine poitevine (or Gâtine de Parthenay), a region with bocages that is found in the central third of the department of Deux-Sèvres.
It is at  to the southeast of Bressuire, the other subprefecture of the department.
The city is at about  from Bordeaux,  from Paris,  from Marseille and  from Toulouse.
The commune of Parthenay is surrounded by the communes:
The inhabitants of Parthenay are known, in French, as  Parthenaisiens (women: Parthenaisiennes).
With a population of 10,367, Parthenay has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Parthenay is a subprefecture of the Deux-Sèvres department, the capital of the arrondissement of Parthenay and the administrative centre () of the canton of Parthenay.
It is part of the intercommunality Parthenay-Gâtine ().
Manakara, Madagascar
Weinstadt, Germany
Arnedo, Spain
Abrantes, Portugal
Tsévié, Togo
Tipperary, Ireland
Edmundston, Canada
CC Parthenay-Gâtine
Narbonne () is a French commune, a subprefecture in the Aude department.
It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Narbonne.
It was a wealthy port and major city in Roman times but now is at about  from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
The commune of Narbonne has an area of .
The lowest point in the commune is 0 m along the Mediterranean coast and the highest point is ; its average altitude is  and the city hall is an altitude of .
The commune of Narbonne is surrounded by the communes:
The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as Narbonnais (women: Narbonnaises).
With a population of 52,855, Narbonne has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.
Narbonne forms the urban area of Narbonne with a population of 52,855 inhabitants (2014) and an area of .
This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Narbonne, formed by 24 communes with a population of 91,825 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
Narbonne is a subprefecture of the Aude department, the capital of the arrondissement of Narbonne and the administrative centre () of three cantons
Narbonne-1, with 24,958 inhabitants (2014).
Narbonne-2, with 19,785 inhabitants (2014).
Narbonne-3, with 18,637 inhabitants (2014).
It is part of the intercommunality Le Grand Narbonne ().
Weilheim, Germany
Aosta, Italy
Salford, England
Mairie de Narbonne website
Narbonne official tourism website
Le Petit narbonnais (Wiki Narbona)
Fréjus is a commune located on the Mediterranean Sea in the Var department.
About 53,000 people live there.
It is a famous seaside resort.
A truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid.
A regular icosahedron is made of 20 faces.
When a regular icosahedron is truncated, this means that each "corner" (or vertex) is replaced by a pentagon, as there are five edges at each corner.
A truncated icosahedron is made of 12 regular pentagons and 20 hexagons.
It has 60 vertices, and 90 edges.
Truncated icosahedra in nature
A truncated octahedron is an Archimedean solid.
It has 14 faces: 8 are hexagons, 6 are squares.
It is obtained by cutting the edges of an octahedron.
Each corner of the octahedron has four connections.
Cutting the corner will therefore replace it with a square.
Soviet Philatelist or Sovetskii Filatelist was a Soviet central philatelic magazine published in 1922–1932.
In 1925 and in 1928–1932, its name was changed to Soviet Collector or Sovetskii Kollektsioner.
Russkii Kollektsioner (Russian Collector), published in Novocherkassk,
Priural'skii Kollektsioner (Ural Collector),
Krymskii Kollektsioner (Crimean Collector), etc.
By 1924, these local magazines eventually closed down.
In September 1922, the new magazine, Soviet Philatelist, first saw print in Moscow.
Its founder and editor was F. G. Chuchin, Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily.
In 1925, the magazine name was changed to Sovetskii Kollektsioner.
The magazine was published biweekly.
It was edited by V. A. Bessonov at that time.
In 1926 three magazines, Sovetskii Filatelist, Sovetskii Kollektsioner and Radio de Filintern, were combined.
They began to be published under one cover.
Their individual lineal numeration was  preserved.
The last combined issue came out in December 1927.
In the first half of 1928, the cover of the combined issues was only under one title, Sovetskii Filatelist.
In July 1928, the magazine was renamed to Sovetskii Kollektsioner.
It was published by the Soviet Philatelic Association and the All-Russian Society of Philatelists.
The last issue appeared in December 1932.
An academic or scholarly journal contains articles written by experts in a particular subject.
Academic journals are often forums for discussing new research, and the critique of existing research.
They usually contain articles presenting original research, review articles, and book reviews.
The purpose of an academic journal is to give researchers a place to exchange knowledge.
Academic journals can be traced back to the 17th century.
The term academic journal applies to scholarly publications in all fields.
Scientific journals and journals of the social sciences vary in form and function from journals of the humanities.
A particular type of academic journal is the peer reviewed journal.
Articles are sent out anonymously to other experts in the same field.
In this way they won't know the author's name and can remain impartial.
Experts review the article before it is published.
arXiv - This is a website to store scientific papers before academic journal appearance
Elsevier - One of the largest academic journal publisher in world
Paul Eisler (1907 – 26 October 1992) was an Austrian inventor.
He invented the modern circuit board.
He also invented fish fingers (also called fish sticks).
Eisler was born in Vienna, Austria.
He was a student at Vienna University of Technology.
German nationalists would not let Eisler get a job in Vienna, because he was Jewish.
He got a job with an English company (Gramaphone Company, EMI from March 1931).
He removed interference from music broadcast on trains.
He moved to England but was sent to an internment camp during WWII.
Eventually, his circuit boards for the Americans helped defeat German V-1 flying bombs.
He created a pizza warmer, and the rear window defroster.
He also invented fish fingers.
[[File:Bessie Clayton03.JPG|thumb|right|200px|The dancer Bessie Clayton was, like  many of the girls, quite small by modern standards (5' 1)]]
The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931, with renewals in 1934 and 1936.
The Ziegfeld Follies were inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris.
They were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld.
The show producers were Klaw & Erlanger, the top turn-of-the-twentieth-century showmen.
The Follies were lavish variety shows, something like music hall or high class Vaudeville.
Many of the top entertainers of the era appeared in the shows.
The list includes W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Miller, Ed Wynn, Gilda Gray, Nora Bayes, Sophie Tucker.
The Ziegfeld Follies also were famous for many, beautiful chorus girls commonly known as Ziegfeld girls, usually wearing elaborate costumes by designers such as Erté, Lady Duff Gordon or Ben Ali Haggin.
The first Follies was produced in 1907 at the roof theatre Jardin de Paris.
The Ziegfeld girls "paraded up and down flights of stairs as anything from birds to battleships."
The "Tableau vivants" were designed by Ben Ali Haggin from 1917 to 1925.
Joseph Urban was the scenic designer for the Follies shows starting in 1915.
After Ziegfeld's death, his widow Billie Burke, authorized use of his name for Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and 1936 to Jake Shubert, who then produced the Follies.
When later it toured, the 1934 edition was recorded in its entirety, from the Overture to Play-out music.
First issued as a series of 78 rpm discs, the recording was later released as a compact disc (1997).
They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
The 1936 Academy Award Best Picture winner was M-G-M's The Great Ziegfeld'', starring William Powell as the master showman and co-starring Myrna Loy (as Ziegfeld's second wife Billie Burke),
Casualty (TV series), a British television show on BBC
Casualty (person), a hurt person
Mississippian culture is the culture of the Mississippian people.
They were Native Americans who lived in the Mississippi River Valley.
Around 900–1450 AD, the Mississippian culture developed and spread through the Eastern Woodlands.
Mississippian people were most often farmers who settled into river valleys and grew the "three sisters" of corn, beans and squash.
Pan Arabism is a political movement and belief system that promotes the idea that all Arabs should unite to form one country or state.
The idea of Pan Arabism was first created during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Pan Arabism’s popularity grew throughout the early 1900s, and in the 1950s Middle Eastern leaders, including Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser, became major supporters of the Pan-Arab movement.
Pan Arabists generally believe that all countries with Arab populations should come together or unify and that Western powers, like the United States or Great Britain, should not have any political power or influence in North Africa or the Arabian Peninsula.
Origin & Development
During the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire controlled most of the Middle East.
The Middle East, at the time, was very diverse.
Many different ethnic and cultural groups of people lived in the region.
By 1900, the Ottoman Empire was in decline and many of the different groups of people living in the Empire wanted to form independent governments managed by people living within their own communities.
One group that began to form their own ideas about a self-governed or self determined community were Arabs.
Many educated Arab students and professors  working at universities, like Al-Azhar University, began to publish magazines and form clubs promoting the idea of a unified Arab community or nation.
These ideas became very popular across Arab regions of the former Ottoman Empire.
By 1913, Arab organizations from all around the Middle East met to form the first Arab Congress in Paris, France.
At the Congress, Arabs from around the Ottoman Empire discussed the possibility of freeing themselves from the Ottoman Empire and establishing Arab-governed countries.
The Ottoman Empire responded to the Arab Congress by punishing Arab nationalists.
In some territories of the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists were put in jail and even killed for their activities.
During World War One, many Arab groups support the Allied powers’ military campaign against the Ottoman Empire.
At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the Allied Powers met together to decide what would happen to the territory formerly under Ottoman control.
Despite supporting the Allies during the war, many Arab countries were not granted their freedom by the Allies.
Still eager to gain Independence, Arabs living in occupied countries began to form ideas about what a free Arab state would look like.
These ideas would eventually become the backbone of Pan Arabism.
After World War One, many Arab-speaking scholars and students in the former Ottoman Empire began to write about the history of the Arab people.
One of these writers, Darwish-Al Maqdidi, wrote a school textbook that outlined the beliefs of the early Pan-Arab movement.
The textbook was used in many schools all across the Arab Middle East, and it suggested that the Arab homeland was not restricted to the Arabian peninsula, but extended to wherever Arabs lived.
Moreover, Miqdadi, as well as other Arab scholars, believed that a free and unified Arab nation could only exist if western influence was removed from the Arab Middle East.
Generally, the core of Miqdadi’s beliefs, and others like his, became the philosophy of Pan Arabism.
Attempts at Arab Union
Pan Arabism’s popularity began to grow after many Arab countries gained independence in the 1940s and 1950s.
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970) was a big supporter of Pan Arab nationalism.
Nasser believed that the Arab world in both Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula should be unified, since many of these countries shared a common culture, religion, and language,  During his presidency, Nasser helped establish the United Arab Republic with Syria.
The republic lasted three years.
Its collapse was largely due to Nasser’s efforts to rapidly change the Syrian and Egyptian economies; also, many Syrians disliked that Nasser wanted to centralize government power and operations in Egypt.
After the fall of the UAR, Nasser attempted to rally other Arab countries to the Pan-Arabist cause.
During the Six Days War in 1967, Nasser led an Arab coalition (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq) to battle Israel.
Israel won the  war, and the Arab coalition and Nasser’s efforts to create a unified Arab Middle East suffered a major setback.
Decline of Pan Arabism & Reemergence
After the Six Day's War, Egypt's role, as the leader of the Pan-Arab movement, was severely weakened.
Other Arab nationalist organizations started to branch out on their own, independent of Egypt and other Arab countries.
The Palestinians, in particular, began to form their own organization that was centered on Palestinian nationalism, and not a Pan-Arab one.
Furthermore, Gamal Nasser's sudden death in 1970, left the Pan-Arab movement without a clear leader.
Since the late 1970s, many professors and Middle East experts have claimed that Pan Arabism no longer exists  Fouad Ajami suggests that Pan Arabism collapsed because Gamel Nasser, the clear leader of the movement, lost momentum after the Arab defeat in the Six Day War.
Moreover, other Arab groups, most notably the Palestinians, lost faith in the Pan-Arab movement and tried to branch out on their own.
More recently, though, after the events of the Arab Spring of 2011, many scholars and journalists argue that Pan Arabism is coming back in different ways.
Susan De Muth suggests that the Pan Arabism of the Arab Spring is different than it was thirty years ago.
She suggests that the Pan Arabism of Gamel Nasser’s era was tied to the idea of keeping the Arab World free of foreign and western influence, while today’s Pan Arabism is mostly led by young people who are dedicated to reforming or making governments in Arab countries less oppressive or controlling.
This new form of Pan Arabism has been strengthened by technology, like social media.
According to De Muth, protesters from different countries have been able to strengthen their cause and even coordinate protests with movements in other Arab countries using social media.
Other scholars are not as optimistic as De Muth; Marc Lynch suggests that the protests of the Arab Spring were long overdue, and that the political movements in the Arab Middle East have been slowly building strength for the last thirty years.
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The National School Lunch Program was created to fight hunger and bad nutrition that existed during World War I. One-third of the young men called to be soldiers in World War I were turned down from service.
This was due to poor nutrition-related problems such as being underweight.
After the war, teachers, parents, doctors, and scientists began to fight poor nutrition in children.
‘Hot Lunch Clubs’ opened up all over the country to give healthy meals to schoolchildren.
This program started as a volunteer-run school lunch program in the 1920s.
However, in the 1930s, this program received public support and some state funding.
During the Great Depression, many farmers were paid record low prices for their food.
This was because there was more farm-grown food than people needed.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tried to solve the problem by giving the extra food to schools.
The USDA was allowed to use government money to buy extra food and give it to the schools.
In order to receive the food donations, school lunch programs had to run on a non-profit basis.
This meant that the meals needed to be served to poor students at free or reduced rates.
School cafeterias began to pop up around the country.
Both the schools and the USDA began to depend on the relationship.
As World War II began, the government wanted to focus on good health so that the soldiers would be ready for war.
Government officials asked health professionals to create standards (rules) for the amount of vitamins, calories and other things needed to stay healthy.
These became known as the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs).
School lunch programs had to use the standards when planning their menus.
In 1946, President Truman signed the law that would provide long-term funding to the National School Lunch Program.
The USDA continued to manage the school lunch program.
Budget and funding
Today the National School Lunch Program serves more than 31 billion meals a day.
In 2012 this equaled more than $11 billion dollars spent on the program.
Additionally, more than 100,000 schools participated in the program nationwide in 2012.
Although the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is federally funded, it is managed at the state level.
In order to receive money, schools in the program must serve meals that meet the federal nutrition standards.
The amount of money the school gets depends on the number of meals served.
Students can buy lunch at three cost levels—free, reduced-price, or paid lunch.
The amount the student pays for lunch depends on the family income.
The amount of money that the school receives depends on how closely they follow the federal nutrition standards.
Meal planning is done by each school district, which are also called “School Food Authorities” (SFAs).
The SFAs decide what food to buy, and how to create a menu that meets the NSLP nutrition standards.
Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act & Nutrition Standards
In 2010 Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was the first update to the nutrition standards in schools since 1995.
It helped create new nutritional rules for the National School Lunch Program.
These changes were to start in schools beginning in the 2012-2013 school year.
Meal planning is left up to each school—but in order to receive federal money participating schools must follow the nutritional standards.
The new standards in the HHFKA created the most strict standards for child nutrition programs in over 30 years.
20th-century establishments in the United States
In calculus, the first derivative test is used to determine local maxima and minima of a function.
Furthermore, the first derivative test can be used to determine intervals of increase and intervals of decrease.
Critical Points (and how to find them)
Critical points are values in the domain of a function where its derivative is 0 or undefined (  or  doesn't exist).
To find the critical points of a function, compute the first derivative of the function and set it equal to zero.
Solve for the zeroes of this equation.
Similarly, if you have a rational function (, where ) find what values will cause the denominator to be equal to 0 because this will make the function undefined, and therefore not differentiable at this point.
These are all of your critical numbers.
Plug these numbers into your original function to find the exact coordinate of these critical points.
So the two critical points are  and .
To determine whether these points are local maximas, minimas, or neither, we need to consider the intervals between each of the points.
Plug in a value from each interval into the first derivative of the function.
If the value is positive, then that is an interval of increase.
If the value is negative, then that is an interval of decrease.
Finally, if two neighboring intervals change sign then that point is either a local maxima or minima.
If the first interval is positive and the second interval negative, then the critical point is a local maxima.
If the first interval is negative and the second interval positive, then the critical point is a local minima.
If both intervals are positive or both intervals are negative, then the critical point is neither a local maxima or minima.
Frankenstein’s monster is a fictional character from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
He is created by another character in the novel called Victor Frankenstein.
The creature has no name in popular culture, but is sometimes called "creature", "monster", "fiend", "wretch", "vile insect", "daemon", "being", and "it".
In the novel, Victor creates the human-like monster in the upstairs room of his apartment at the University of Ingolstadt.
He creates it by putting together body parts from graveyards and butcher shops.
He uses a method that is not clearly explained involving chemistry and galvanism to make the creature come alive.
Victor leaves the creature in horror the minute it is awake.
It leaves his apartment in the middle of the night.
He is 8.1 feet tall because Victor believed that it would be easier to make a human body if all the body parts were bigger.
In popular media and culture, he is shown with green skin.
In the novel, his skin is actually more of a yellow hue.
The green portrayal of the creature with electricity bolts in his neck came from Boris Karloff’s movie portrayal of the monster.
In the beginning, Frankenstein’s monster is like a baby.
He is unable to talk.
He discovers the world through sensing and observing.
The monster develops understanding of simple things such as temperatures of hot and cold, sounds of birds chirping, and the differences between the sun and the moon.
He eats roots, nuts, and berries when he is hungry.
He finds a coat and some books while out in the wilderness.
He is described as sensitive, emotional, intelligent, prone to anger and violence, and very good at speaking.
He learns how to speak from a family that he observes.
He teaches himself how to read the books that he found.
He has a severe sense of rejection from Victor and from every human he encounters.
He has bad experiences with people.
That makes him feel as though he is hated and unwanted.
He resents humans and even feels hateful towards them because of how he has been treated.
As a response, he kills several people, including Victor's younger brother William, Victor's best friend Henry Clerval, and later Victor's wife Elizabeth Lavenza.
Relationship with Victor
The creature has a complex relationship with Victor.
He was rejected by Victor in the beginning, but he still wants to have a “father-like” figure.
Victor is the only real human connection that the monster has.
He demands that Victor take responsibility for his happiness.
In the novel, the creature refers to himself as “Adam”.
This makes Victor a sort of God-like figure.
After the monster learns how to read and speak, he goes on a journey to find Victor.
He meets him in the mountains and tells him his story.
After telling Victor about his difficult journey, he asks Victor to make a female monster for him so that he does not have to be alone anymore.
Tabassum Adnan (Urdu: تبسم عدنان) (born 1977) is a women's rights activist from Pakistan.
In 2015, she won the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award because of her work for justice for Pakistani women.
Tabassum Adnan was born in 1977.
She grew up in the Swat Valley of Pakistan.
Tabassum was married when she was 13 years old.
She was a victim of domestic violence.
After she was married for 20 years, she divorced her husband.
The jirga for women
Tabassum did not have a home or money, so she went to a local group for women.
The group gave her the idea to work for more participation for women.
First, she went to the Swat Qaumi Aman Jirga, a group with only men, but they refused her.
A jirga is an informal court that enforces qisas (retribution laws).
It is not a formal court, but many times the formal courts will listen to their decisions.
In May 2013, Adnan started her own jirga.
It was the first women's jirga in Pakistan.
In Pakistan, women are used as chattel, or property, to settle disagreements between men.
They are traded in marriage to pay debts and claims of honor, and to pay for crimes.
Because women have little power, Adnan knew that her group needed to get the police and the courts to act.
Her jirga has 25 women.
It works to pressure the police and the traditional court system, and it gives legal help to the victims.
The Khwendo Jirga, or Sister’s Council also works for free education for girls, good health for women and girls, training in both home skills and work skills, loans for small business, and voting.
The jirga also works for laws to stop violence against women, especially honor killings, dowry harassments, acid attacks, and torture.
At first, the men's jirgas did not like the Khwendo Jirga.
Women's rights activists did not like it either.
Then, in 2014, that changed.
A child was raped, and the authorities did nothing.
Khwendo Jirga had a protest walk, to attract the attention of the public.
The police made arrests.
Then, for the first time in Pashtun history, a woman, Adnan, was asked to sit on the men's jirga and help decide the case.
After the first protest, the women had more success.
In July, 2014, Adnan and Khwendo Jirga worked to pass a law against child marriage.
Although some religious groups were not happy,  the Sindh Assembly passed a law against marriages for anyone under the age of eighteen.
In December, 2014 the Punjab Assembly voted to change the present law.
Margaret Isabel Dunning (June 26, 1910 – May 17, 2015) was an American philanthropist.
She was the benefactor of the Plymouth (Michigan) Historical Museum.
She was born in Redford, Michigan.
Jerome Cooper (December 14, 1946 – May 6, 2015) was an American free jazz musician.
He was known as a multi-dimensional drummer.
Cooper played balafon, chirimia and electronic tonal activator in addition to trap drums.
Dean S. Potter (April 14, 1972 – May 16, 2015) was an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, BASEliner, and highliner.
He was known for hard first ascents, free solo ascents, speed ascents, and enchainments in Yosemite National Park and Patagonia.
On May 16, 2015, Potter and Graham Hunt were killed while attempting a wingsuit flight from Taft Point above Yosemite Valley.
While attempting to maneuver through the cliffs, each in turn collided with the rocks.
Their bodies were discovered by a helicopter searching for the two men.
Neither had deployed their parachute.
Outside Magazine feature
Dean Potter's climbing profile on Climbandmore.com
New York Times article
Video interview about Potter's childhood dreams of flying, wingsuit piloting and BASE jumping
"Dean Potter’s Extreme Life in 7 Hair-Raising Videos"
Flora MacNeil, MBE (1928 – 16 May 2015) was a Scottish Gaelic singer.
MacNeil was born in 1928 on the island of Barra.
She was known for signing Mo Run Geal Og (“My Fair Young Love”), one of the greatest of the Orain Mor, or “Big Songs”.
She was known as the "Queen of Gaelic singers".
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a 1969 slow minor-key blues song written by West coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951.
Hawkins' recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951.
In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King.
Afterwards, many blues and other artists have recorded their versions of the song.
"Wind of Change" is a 1990 hard rock pop ballad song by the Scorpions.
The song is about the ending of the Cold War and hope when tense conditions came up.
The song was released in January 1991.
It became a worldwide hit single during 1991.
The song has sold millions of copies worldwide since then.
It hit #4 on the American Billboard Hot 100.
notable soundtrack includes is featured in the films or television The Powerpuff Girls Movie unused trailer, Godzilla vs. Kong fan-fiction dub version, Nutri Ventures as a international dub parody version.
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums & Collections.
With over 80,000 objects, it is one of the world's best collections of objects from Egypt and the Sudan.
The museum started in 1892 to help with the teaching of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology.
The collection began with objects given to the museum by the writer Amelia Edwards.
William Flinders Petrie led many important archaeological digs.
In 1913 he sold his collection to University College.
He had found objects at major sites, such as the Roman Period cemeteries at Hawara.
These were famous for the beautiful mummy portraits in classical Roman style.
He found objects at Amarna, the city of king Akhenaten, the first king to believe in one God.
At Meydum, the site of the first true pyramid Petrie found some of the earliest examples of mummification.
The collection and library were in rooms at the university.
A book about the collection was printed in 1915.
At first the museum was only for people studying and not open to the public.
After Petrie retired in 1933, other archaeologists added objects to the collection.
These had been found in other parts of Egypt and the Sudan.
During the Second World War (1939–1945) the collection was packed up and moved out of London for to keep it safe.
In the early 1950s it was moved into an old stable, beside the science library.
The museum has one of the oldest pieces of linen from Egypt, made about 5000 BC.
There are two lions from the temple of Min at Koptos.
These were part of the first group of monumental sculpture from about 3000 BC.
There is a small piece from the first king list or calendar written about 2900 BC.
The museum has some iron beads, the earliest example of metal from Egypt.
There is the earliest example of glazing.
The collection includes the earliest 'cylinder seal' in Egypt made about 3500 BC.
It also has a collection of writings on papyrus, which are the oldest wills, the oldest medical writing, the only veterinary writing from ancient Egypt; and the largest architectural drawing, showing a shrine (about 1300 BC).
The collection also includes a number of costumes.
It has the 'oldest dress', there is a beadnet dress of a dancer from the Pyramid Age (about 2400 BC) and two long sleeved robes of the same date.
There is a suit of armour from the palace of Memphis, as well as socks and sandals from the Roman period.
The collection contains works of art from Akhenaten’s city at Amarna.
There are: colourful tiles, carvings and frescoes, from Egyptian and Nubian settlements and burial sites.
The museum has the world’s largest collection of Roman period mummy portraits.
These were made in the first to second centuries AD.
The collection also includes objects from the Coptic and Islamic periods.
The museum has three rooms.
The main room has many of the museum's small objects, as well as tablets of writing, mummy portraits and cases.
The first room has mainly pottery.
Some parts of the collection are not lit to protect the objects from light and visitors use torches to see inside the cases.
UCL Museum & Collections blog
Friends of the Petrie Museum
Information from Culture24
Digital Egypt
Automeris io is the North American Io moth.
It has anti-predator defences common in the Lepidoptera.
The adults have a two-stage defence system: first they are cryptic with their wings closed.
If predators get too near, they flash their vivid eye markings.
This startles the predator, and the moth has time to fly off and hide.
The adults are nocturnal, they only fly at night, and during the day they sit on tree trunks or branches.
Very widespread, the moth ranges from southern Canada to Mexico and Costa Rica.
In between, it is found widely in the USA.
They do not eat, and live only about a week: all they do is reproduce.
This is typical of Saturniid moths.
They have sexual dimorphism as can be seen from the illustrations, and fly at night.
The females come out of the cocoon with ready-made eggs, and the males pick up the female pheromones with their extra-big antennae.
The caterpillars live together (are gregarious), and travel in single file all over the food plant.
They start off orange in colour, and eventually  turn bright green.
As they grow in size they become covered with stinging spines.
The spines deliver a very painful venom which is released at the slightest touch.
General advice: large-haired caterpillars should not be touched except by experts.
{{Motorsport venue
| Name              = Charlotte Motor Speedway
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| Broke_ground      = 1959
| Opened            = 1960
| Owner             = Speedway Motorsports, Inc.
| Operator          = Speedway Motorsports, Inc.
| Construction_cost = $1.25 million
| Architect         = Bruton Smith and Curtis Turner
| Former_names      = Charlotte Motor Speedway (1960–1998, 2010–present)Lowe's Motor Speedway (1998–2009)
| Events            = NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series
World of Outlaws
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| Length_mi         = 1.5
| Length_km         = 2.4
| Banking           = Turns: 24° Straights: 5°
| Record_time      = 0:24.490
| Record_driver    = Tony Stewart
| Record_team      = Team Menard
| Record_year      = 1998
| Record_class     = IndyCar Series
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}}Charlotte Motor Speedway''' is a motorsports complex in Concord, North Carolina, United States.
It is  from Charlotte, North Carolina.
The complex features a  quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing.
It is best known for the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend.
The All-Star Race, as well as the Bank of America Roval 400 also run here.