the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
With this exception, the best artistic efforts were concentrated on painting and printmaking.
The Starving Time at Jamestown in Virginia Colony was a period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610.
During this time, all but 60 of the 500 colonists died.
Lack of rain and access to water had crippled the agricultural production during the summer.
Also, the water that the colonists drank was brackish and only drinkable half the year.
According to historical accounts, the colonists ate dogs, snakes, cats, rats, horses, books and shoe leather through the winter.
There is forensic evidence of at least one instance of cannibalism.
The remains of a teenage girl ( 1595–1609), named "Jane" by researchers, showed signs of being butchered (cut up for eating).
Examination of Jane's shin bone indicates she was probably 14 years old at the time of her death.
Based on studies of the isotopes in a tooth, she was probably from southern England.
She was possibly the daughter of a gentleman or a maid in a gentleman's home because she had consumed generous amounts of protein (meat).
Jane likely arrived in Virginia in August 1609.
It is almost certain Jane was removed from her grave before being butchered and eaten.
She was not murdered.
In 1625, George Percy, president of Jamestown during the starvation period, wrote that the hunger was so intense “thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them."
Five other accounts refer to cannibalism during the bitter winter.
Only 10 percent of Jane's remains have been recovered by researchers.
The remains were found about 2.5 feet (0.8 m) down in a trash pit in the cellar of a building built in 1608 inside the James Fort site.
Historical accounts indicate cannibalism was widespread at Jamestown during the winter.
Modern historians were reluctant to credit these accounts without other evidence.
Jane however is the first forensic evidence that confirms the existence of the practice during that winter.
New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson, (1957) at Project Gutenberg
History of Virginia
Robert Sacre (born June 6, 1989) is an American-Canadian basketball player.
He is a center for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He made his NBA debut with Lakers on October 31, 2012.
He played 49 seconds in a 116-106 loss against the Portland Trail Blazers.
He scored his first points for the Lakers on November 4, 2012 in a win against the Detroit Pistons.
He made his first NBA start on January 8, 2013 in a loss against the Houston Rockets.
He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but grew up and played high school basketball in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
His father is Greg LaFleur, a former American football tight end that played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Indianapolis Colts.
Robert Sacre at NBA.com
In March 2001, Meiwes, a then 41-year-old bisexual computer technician, placed an advertisement online for a well-built male he could kill and eat.
Forty-three year old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes answered the ad later that month.
Meiwes took Brandes to his home in Rotenberg.
Brandes had sex with Meiwes, then asked Meiwes to cut off his penis.
Meiwes did so, then fried the penis.
The two ate it.
Meiwes then killed Brandes with Brandes's consent by stabbing him repeatedly in the neck.
He cut the body in pieces and froze the pieces for later consumption.
Meiwes was arrested in December 2002.
He had consumed about 20 kg of Brandes' body.
Cannibalism was not illegal in Germany in 2001 when Meiwes killed and ate Brandes.
Meiwes was convicted of killing by request and defiling a corpse.
He received a sentence of 8.5 years.
The Meiwes case was the first cannibalism case in Germany.
Engelke moved to Cologne in 1971 with her parents.
Early on, she exhibited singing talent, and was discovered in 1978 by Georg Bossert at a performance of her school's choir.
The following year, Engelke served as the spokesperson for Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Before presenting the votes, she also gave a live statement on the human-rights issues in the hosting country, saying: "Tonight nobody could vote for their own country.
But it is good to be able to vote.
Europe is watching you."
She was the only spokesperson to articulately address human rights during the event.
She had also served as one of Germany's national juries for the contest during that year.
In February 2013, her involvement with the Eurovision Song Contest continued as she hosted Unser Song für Malmö, the German national final.
This article is based on the corresponding article in the German Wikipedia (retrieved February 3, 2004).
Brainpool's Anke Engelke page (in German)
Article on sbznet.de: "Late-Night-Talk: Anke macht's für Harald" (23 December 2003)  (in German)
Zeit (14/2004) Interview with Anke Engelke at the beginning of her Late-Night-Show  (in German)
Zeit (01/2005) Interview with Anke Engelke near the end of her Late-Night-Show  (in German)
Anke Engelke: Interview  (Germany)
German comedians
Hasnaoui was born in Morocco to a Norwegian mother and Moroccan father.
Her maternal grandfather was Nobel Prize winning economist Ragnar Frisch.
When she was four years old her parents divorced and she moved to Norway with her mother.
In Oslo she attended a strict Catholic French kindergarten and then later a French school until fourth grade.
She became a Norwegian citizen at the age of eighteen.
In 1991 she married actor Kim Haugen.
In 2004, Hasnaoui presented the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Lillehammer, Norway.
Hasnaoui has also presented festivals in Norway such as Melodi Grand Prix Junior.
Hasnaoui presented the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Bærum in May 2010 with Haddy Jatou N'jie and Erik Solbakken.
She also read out the Norwegian votes for the 2011 and 2012 contests.
Entertainers from Oslo
Krumovgrad is a town in Bulgaria.
It is near the Greek border.
There are many Turks in Krumovgrad.
Richard LeParmentier (July 16, 1946 – April 15, 2013) was an American-British actor and scriptwriter who is best known for his role as Admiral Motti in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and as police officer Lt.
Santino in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
LeParmentier was born on July 16, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to British-Irish parents.
He studied at Wayne University.
LeParmentier was married to Sarah Douglas from 1981 until they divorced in 1984.
LeParmentier died on April 15, 2013 from a heart attack in Austin, Texas, aged 66.
Richard LeParmentier official website
"Human Nature" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.
It was written by Steve Porcaro and John Bettis.
It was the fifth song from his sixth solo record Thriller. "
Human Nature" was released on July 3, 1983.
It was a moderate hit in America and other countries.
This song has been covered, performed and sampled by other musicians.
Monty Woolley (Edgar Montillion Woolley; August 17, 1888 – May 6, 1963) was an American actor and entertainer.
At the age of 50, he became famous for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 movie The Man Who Came to Dinner.
His well-known white beard was "his trademark" and he was later known as "The Beard."
Woolley was born on August 17, 1888 in New York City, New York.
He studied at Yale University and at Harvard University.
Woolley was a closeted gay man.
Woolley died on May 6, 1963 from a heart attack and from complications of kidney failure in Albany, New York, aged 75.
He is buried at the Greenridge Cemetery in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Funny Face is a 1957 American romantic comedy musical movie starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Robert Flemyng.
Hepburn plays Jo Stockton, a shy bookshop clerk.
The movie is based on a Broadway musical of the same name.
1957 romance movies
1957 comedy movies
A bullseye is the centre of a target in certain sports.
It is also the name given to any shot that hits the bullseye.
Sports that use targets with bullseyes include archery and shooting.
The Eublepharinae are one of the five subfamilies of the Gekkonidae, or geckos.
The Eublepharinae subfamily has 27 species in five genera.
Also called eyelid geckos, the eublepharines have more simple features than other geckos.
For example, they don't have the ability to climb surfaces.
Unlike other geckos, they also have movable eyelids.
They are generally active at night or at twilight.
These lizards often eat insects and similar creatures.
They lay a pair of leathery eggs, and, in most species, the gender of the young is determined by the temperature of the egg; just like crocodiles.
Coleonyx (seven species)
Eublepharis (five species)
Goniurosaurus (11 species)
Hemitheconyx (two species)
Holodactylus (two species)
Brunhilde was a mighty female warrior, one of the Valkyries.
She was also a heroine from the German epics, especially in the Nibelungen saga, in which she is an Icelandic princess.
She defied Odin and in punishment he imprisoned her within a ring of fire on earth.
She had to stay there until someone rescued her.
Siegfied (Sigurd) braved the fire, woke her, and fell in love with her.
He gave her the ring Andvarinaut, unaware of its curse.
Eventually she killed herself when she learned that Sigurd had betrayed her with another woman (Gudrun), not knowing he had been bewitched into doing so by Grimhild.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brunhilde.html
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington erupted.
The eruption was recorded as a 5 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.
Throughout the two months before the eruption, there was a series of earthquakes and steam was vented from the mouth of the volcano.
A total of 57 people died in the eruption.
Including Harry R. Truman, who ran Spirit Lake, and volcano expert David A. Johnston.
20th century in Washington (U.S. state)
Property management is the process of managing and taking care of property.
Property management can be applied to personal, business and public properties.
Property management is used in various situations, like building a home, where property manager looks over the process of construction, management of resources and security.
The process of property management can be carried using both people (onsite management, security) and machines (cameras, detectors and alarms).
An example of property management will be hiring security company.
They might be allowed to enter property and check for any issues while the owners are not present.
In business, property management is extremely important to achieve safety and improve work environment of employees.
Shontelle Layne (born October 4, 1985), or just Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer-songwriter.
She mainly performs R&B, pop and reggae music.
She released her debut album Shontelligence in 2008 and her second album No Gravity in September 2010.
Some if her recent songs achieved only modest success.
She co-wrote "Man Down" by R&B singer Rihanna in 2010.
Shontelligence (2008)
No Gravity (2010)
Chewing, or mastication, is the first part of the digestive system.
It is when the teeth chew the food and the tongue mixes it with saliva to make it mushy in the mouth.
A group of animals, called the ruminants, masticate more than once.
Most cattle are in this group.
In Tiny Wings, the player takes control of a bird whose wings are too small to fly.
The goal of the game is to use hills in order to gain speed as long as possible.
This is done by tapping and holding the screen in order to make the bird dive.
The game play mainly revolves around timing your taps so that the bird goes down hills and flies up them.
The game's day trip version is separated into several islands, which have different layouts and change every 24 hours.
The game features special goals that allow players to upgrade their nest, which adds a score multiplier usually X2.
These challenges go around reaching specific islands or performing certain tricks a number of times in one game.
The game's visuals change daily along with the islands' layouts.
Flight School, a new mode that came out in version 2.0, is similar to normal gameplay, but it instead features a race between 4 young birds (which are siblings).
The player can choose to control one of the birds while the rest of the birds are controlled by the CPU.
The birds are listed here with their colors and are ranked according to their typical finishing positions The player can also change the birds' names.
Flami – pink
Peck – blue
Peli – orange
Owell – green
If you are faster than the other birds you'll get the fattest fish.
To unlock the next island players must finish in 3rd, 2nd, or 1st place.
In 3rd place you'll get a small Blue fish, in 2nd place a medium-sized Cyan fish, and in 1st place you'll get the fattest Yellow fish.
When a set of islands is completed by a bird, its nest is upgraded.
This mode includes 2 new features: rubber flowers birds can bounce on, and water holes that slow down the birds.
Not all levels are in daytime levels.
Levels 1-3 2-3 3-4 are all nighttime levels.
They have a different song then the daytime levels.
Tiny Wings was first released with one mode (called Day Trip after version 2).
Version 2 was released as an update on July 12, 2012, and added a new mode, Flight School with of a race between 4 birds, one of which is used by the player.
The levels in Flight School are divided into islands, with 5 tracks in each.
There are 3 island tracks.
They are Clown islands, Koi islands, and Orga islands.
Also there will be more island tracks coming soon as updates.
Flight School includes 2 new features on the islands.
The July 2012 update also gives the ability to gift app.
Apple App Store
William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), was an American writer and children's magazine editor.
He used the pen name "Oliver Optic".
Adams was born in Medway, Massachusetts.
In 1853, he wrote his first novel, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave.
Adams taught in the Boston public schools for many years.
While teaching, he discovered what kinds of books boys liked best.
In 1855, he wrote The Boat Club series for boys.
This series was a great success.
He wrote many more boys' series.
In 1865, he stopped teaching.
He wanted to devote all his time to writing.
He became editor of the children's magazines The Student and Schoolmate, Our Little Ones, and Oliver Optic's Magazine: Our Boys and Girls.
He served in the Massachusetts legislature for one year.
Adams died at his home in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1897.
Children's writer Louisa May Alcott did not like his books.
She did not like the slang and settings such as saloons.
Librarians did not like Adams's books either.
They threw them away.
They also threw away the books of other boys' writers.
Adams kept writing boys' books though.
He got good reviews from the critics.
His books sold well.
They were reprinted many times.
Dorchester Athenaeum
Biographical essay in PDF
Biographical essay at the Dorchester Aethenaeum site
Works by Oliver Optic at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions illustrated)
Works by William Taylor Adams at Internet Archive
The city was founded in 1853 as 3 smaller towns.
At the west end it was called Woodstock.
The east end was called Fernside.
In the 1940s the land was filled to make Bay Farm Island.
Earl Klugh (pronounced "Clue"; September 16, 1954) is an American smooth jazz musician who also plays R&B. He began his career around 1970 at age sixteen.
He is also known for songwriting.
Klugh was born in Detroit.
Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 6 is the sixth season of Britain's Next Top Model.
The winner was 18-year-old Tiffany Pisani.
Amba Hudson-Skye
Amelia Thomas
Charlotte Holmes
Delita Cole
Hannah Goodeve
Harleen Kaur Nottay
Joy McLaren
Kirsty Parsons
Nicola Wright
Olivia Oldham-Stevens
Rachelle Harry
Susan Loughnane
Tiffany Pisani
Best: Joy McLaren
Worst: Delita Cole & Hannah Goodeve
Eliminated: Hannah Goodeve
Best: Nicola Wright
Worst: Rachelle Harry & Olivia Oldham-Stevens
Eliminated: Rachelle Harry
Eliminated Outside Of Judging Panel: Susan Loughnane
Worst: Amelia Thomas & Harleen Kaur Nottay
Eliminated: Harleen Kaur Nottay
Worst: Delita Cole & Tiffany Pisani
Eliminated: Delita Cole
Best: Charlotte Holmes
Worst: Amba Hudson-Skye & Nicola Wright
Eliminated: Amba Hudson-Skye
Best: Olivia Oldham-Stevens
Worst: Amelia Thomas & Nicola Wright
Eliminated: Nicola Wright
Worst: Alisha White & Kirsty Parsons
Eliminated: Kirsty Parsons
Worst: Olivia Oldham Stevens & Tiffany Pisani
Eliminated: Olivia Oldham-Stevens
Worst: Charlotte Holmes & Joy McLaren
Worst: Charlotte Holmes & Amelia Thomas
Eliminated: Amelia Thomas
Best: Tiffany Pisani
Worst: Charlotte Holmes & Alisha White
Eliminated: Charlotte Holmes
Final Three: Alisha White, Joy McLaren & Tiffany Pisani
Eliminated: Joy McLaren
Final Two: Alisha White & Tiffany Pisani
Winner: Tiffany Pisani
In computer programming with object-oriented programming languages, duck typing is a way to write computer code.
It doesn't demand that you know what types you are writing about.
If it does what you thought it would do, it is good enough.
The reason this is called "duck typing" is the duck test.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
TV programs
Petersburg Courier (Petersburg - Channel 5, 1999)
Cheerful Morning (MTV Russia, 2001–2002)
People's Artist (RTR, 2003–2005)
Pyramid (Russia, 2004)
Great Première (2005)
Spring with Ivan Urgant (Channel One, 2006)
Relish (Channel One, since 2006)
Smak (Channel One; since 2006)
Circus With Stars (Channel One, 2007)
Stenka na stenku (Showdown) (Channel One, 2007—2008)
Big Difference (Channel One, since 2008)
Single storey America (2008)
Prozhektorperiskhilton (Channel One, since 2008)
Tour de France (2011)
Evening Urgant (Channel One; since 2012)
Their Italia (2012)
Lere First TV (2012-present)
Alan Tacher (born March 28, 1968 in Mexico City) is a Mexican television presenter.
He is part of the main cast of Univision's morning program Despierta América.
Califa de Oro (1995)
Te caché (1998)
Tempranito (1998)
La Academia (2000)
Aplauso Aplauso (2004)
Levántate (2008)
Décadas (2010)
Hoy (2011-2012)
Despierta América (2012–present)
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – 22 September 1888) was a French painter.
He is mostly known for his paintings of oriental style.
Rakers grew up in Bad Lippspringe with her single father.
She graduated from the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn.
She studied journalism and communication studies, German philology and modern and contemporary history at the University of Münster.
At the same time, Rakers worked as a radio presenter at the NRW-local radio stations; Radio Hochstift and Antenne Münster.
From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
Since 2005, Rakers has presented the Tagesschau news programme on ARD, as well as reading the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagazin and Morgenmagazin.
In addition to the Tagesschau, Rakers also presents Radio Bremen's talk show 3 nach 9.
Judith Rakers' official website
Stian Barsnes-Simonsen (born 20 April 1979 in Bergen) is a Norwegian actor and television presenter of Amigo, Midt i smørøyet and Melodi Grand Prix.
As host
Smørøyet (1998)
MGP Nordic 2002 (with Camilla Ottesen, Josefine Sundström)Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2002 (with Thomas Numme) Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2003Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2004 (with Nadia Hasnaoui)Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 (with Nadia Hasnaoui)Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2005 (with Nadia Hasnaoui)Gullruten (2006)Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2006 (with Nadia Hasnaoui)Melodi Grand Prix 2006 (with Synnøve Svabø)Melodi Grand Prix 2007 (with Synnøve Svabø)Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2007MGP Nordic 2007 (with Nadia Hasnaoui)Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2008De ukjente (2009)
Filmography Kysset som fikk snøen til å smelte (English title: A Kiss in the Snow, 1997)Bølgene (English title: Waves, 1998)Hotel Cæsar'' (1998-2000, television series)
Norwegian actors
Erik Solbakken (born 17 November 1984 in Hemsedal) is a Norwegian television presenter.
Solbakken hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 together with Haddy Jatou N'jie and Nadia Hasnaoui.
He has hosted multiple children's shows including Barne-tv, Julemorgen,Krem Nasjonal, and Superkviss, as well as Barnetimen for de minste on NRK P2.
Haddy Jatou N'jie (born 25 June 1979 in Oslo) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, writer and journalist.
Her father is Gambian and her mother is Norwegian.
She grew up in Kolbotn near Oslo and is the eldest of five siblings.
N'jie has worked as a reporter for Dagsrevyen and columnist for Dagbladet.
She hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with Erik Solbakken and Nadia Hasnaoui.
She hosted the 2010 annual telethon on Norway's largest TV channel NRK 1 which she also co-hosted in 2009.
Haddy N'jie has toured Norway several times, both as a solo artist and as part of the group comedy Queendom, consisting of herself and four other black Norwegian women, all sharing in part African backgrounds.
Much of the group's material lampoons either Norwegians or Africans.
In 2012 she co-hosted the prestigious sports award show Idrettsgallaen from Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre together with Anne Rimmen.
The show was broadcasted on NRK.
White Lies (released 16 September 2005)
Welcome Home (released 1 June 2009)
World of the Free (released 25 January 2010)
Mitt lille land (2011), with other artists
Norwegian singer-songwriters
Tony's Cronies was a name in British politics and media given to people who were viewed by them as being given places of power because they were friends with Prime Minister, Tony Blair during his premiership between 1997 and 2005.
David Unaipon (born David Ngunaitponi; 28 September 1872 – 7 February 1967) was an indigenous Australian preacher, inventor, writer and activist.
He was a member of the Ngarrindjeri nation.
He was born at Point McLeay, a Lutheran mission located on the mouth of the Murray River southeast of Adelaide.
He preached widely throughout South Australia, often travelling on foot.
He became the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a written work in English.
David Unaipon was born on 28 September 1872, at the Point McLeay mission in the Coorong region of South Australia.
His father was James Ngunaitponi and his mother's name was probably Nymbulda.
James and Nymbulda had nine children, and David was the fourth.
He began his education at the age of seven at the Point McLeay Mission School and quickly became known for his intelligence.
Unaipon left school at 13 to work as a servant for C. B. Young in Adelaide, where Young encouraged Unaipon's interest in literature, philosophy, science and music.
In 1890, he returned to Point Mcleay, where he worked as an apprentice bootmaker.
He was also chosen as the mission's organist.
In the late 1890s, he travelled again to Adelaide to find work.
He discovered, however, that his skin colour stopped him getting work in bootmaking and instead took a job as a bootmaker's storeman.
After returning to Point McLeay, Unaipon worked as a book-keeper in the local store.
On 4 January 1902, he married Katherine Carter (née Sumner), a Ngarrindjeri woman of the Tangane tribe.
Unaipon took out provisional patents for 19 inventions, but he could not afford to get any of his inventions fully patented.
His most successful invention was a shearing machine (provisional patent 15 624) that converted curvilineal motions into the straight-line movement that is the basis of modern mechanical shears.
Unaipon never received any money from it, however.
Apart from a newspaper report in 1910 acknowledging him as the inventor, he received no credit.
Unaipon became well-known as an inventor, and a recognised authority on ballistics.
Other inventions of his included a centrifugal motor, a multi-radial wheel and a mechanical propulsion tool.
He drew many of his ideas for mechanical inventions, including a helicopter design based on the principle of the boomerang.
He also spent a large amount of time trying to achieve perpetual motion.
Preaching and activism
Unaipon was a Christian for all of his life.
After he married, he worked for the Aborigines' Friends' Association as a deputationer, in which he travelled widely throughout South Australia preaching for the Point McLeay Mission.
He modelled his teachings on the Bible-based style of the missionaries who had taught him.
He believed that the traditional Aboriginal and Christian spiritualities were basically the same.
His travels brought him into contact with many people sympathetic with the cause of Aboriginal rights.
Although Unaipon was much in demand as a public speaker, he was also often refused accommodation and hospitality due to his race.
He gradually became well-known in public life as a spokesman for Aboriginal Australians.
Between 1928 and 1929, he helped as a researcher and witness for the Bleakley Inquiry into Aboriginal welfare.
In 1934, he lobbied the federal government to take over responsibility for Aborigines from its constituent states.
Unaipon was the first Australian Aboriginal to publish a written work in English.
He wrote many articles in newspapers and magazines, including The Daily Telegraph, in which he retold traditional Dreaming stories and argued for the rights of Aboriginal people.
Some of Unaipon's traditional stories were published in book in 1930, called Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals.
It was published under the name of anthropologist William Ramsay Smith.
They were republished in their original form in 2006, under the author's name, as Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines.
Unaipon was obsessed with correct English.
When speaking, he tended to use classical English rather than using the common style of his time.
Unaipon returned to his Point Mcleay in his old age.
He worked more on his inventions and tried to find the secret of perpetual motion.
He died in the Tailem Bend Hospital on 7 February 1967, and was buried in the Raukkan (formerly Point McLeay) Mission Cemetery.
David was the last full-blooded member of the Waruwaldi tribe.
The David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research at the University of South Australia.
Unaipon Avenue in Ngunnawal, a suburb of Canberra.
David Unaipon Literary Award, an award presented each year for the best writing by unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors.
David Unaipon – Legendary Tales at the State Library of New South Wales
David Unaipon (2001) Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. .
Liseberg is an amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Liseberg is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandinavia.
Liseberg opened on 8 May 1923.
In 2005, Liseberg was chosen as one of the top ten amusement parks in the world by Forbes Magazine.
In 2010 Liseberg was Sweden's most popular point of interest.
Many famous people have been to Liseberg, including Michael Jackson in 1988.
Liseberg attracts about 3 million visitors each year.
It is open for the summer season from April til the middle of October.
In the winter it's open from November til the end of December.
Atmosfear is the tallest free fall attraction in Europe.
The tower is 116 metres high.
The top is 146 meters above sea level.
It takes about 90 seconds to reach the top.
In the beginning it was an elevator that gave you a view of Gothenburg.
In 2010 it was rebuilt to be a free fall attraction.
There is only one other attraction in the world that can be compared with Atmosfear, the Giant drop in Australia.
Balder is the biggest and most famous roller coaster.
Balder is built of wood.
Many times it has been voted the world’s best wooden roller coaster.
Balder is 36 meters high an 1070 meters long.
FlumeRide is another very popular ride.
It’s a water ride and you go in logs.
The ride opened in 1973.
In the summer season of 2002 they had a contest to see who could go in the ride longest time.
After 9 days, 7 hours and 42 minutes they had a winner.
The ride is 610 meters long.
Kanonen is the only roller coaster on Liseberg with a loop.
It was built in 2005.
You reach the top speed 75 km/h after 1.84 seconds.
The ride is 50 seconds and 440 meters long.
"Helix" is a roller coaster coming for 2014.
It will be 130 seconds and 1,381 meters long.
The top speed is about .
http://liseberg.com/en/home/
Official Liseberg
Theme parks in Sweden
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by Washington Irving.
It was first published in Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
in June 1819.
Irving wrote the story one night while staying with his sister's family in Birmingham, England.
He read it to his hosts at breakfast the next morning.
It was one of the first stories Irving proposed for The Sketch Book.
The story is similar to a German story called "Karl Katz". "
Rip Van Winkle" has been adapted to theater, cartoons, television, and other media many times.
Rip Van Winkle is a lazy, happy Dutchman.
He's a henpecked husband; a man who is being constantly nagged by his wife.
He lives in a quiet village near the Catskill Mountains in North America.
One day he wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf.
In a lonely place, he meets the ghosts of Henry Hudson and his men.
They give him a strange drink.
He falls asleep for 20 years.
When he wakes, he learns that the American Revolution has been fought and won.
His family and friends welcome him home to the village.
"Rip Van Winkle", illustrated by N. C. Wyeth (1921).
"Rip Van Winkle", e-text from Bartleby.
"Rip Van Winkle" , audio version from 1946.
"Rip Van Winkle", 1896 film.
"Karl Katz", a comparison.
1948 Theatre Guild on the Air radio adaptation at Internet Archive
Rip Van Winkle Study Guide
Irving in Birmingham
"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" – Irving's Fictions of Revolution
Anaid Iplicjian (born 24 October 1935 in Berlin) is a German actress.
Her family is from Armenia.
After studying at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg she has been a member of the Graz (Austria), Wiesbaden, the State Theatre Hannover and the Burgtheater (Vienna) companies.
A free-lance actress since 1970, she has been working on Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Vienna stages.
Also appearing many times in German and Austrian television.
She was the presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957.
She is married to theater director Herbert Krneppel.
Derrick - Season 02, Episode 06: "Paddenberg" (1975)
Derrick - Season 07, Episode 10: "Eine unheimlich starke Persönlichkeit" (1980)
Derrick - Season 11, Episode 01: "Das Mädchen in Jeans" (1984)
ZBF Agency Munich
German actors
Nargiz Birk-Petersen (; née Nargiz Abbaszadeh, born 1976) is an Azerbaijani television presenter and commentator.
On 22, 24 and 26 May 2012 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan together with Eldar Gasimov and Leyla Aliyeva.
Nargiz Birk-Petersen's mother is Maleyka Abbaszadeh, the head of the State Committee for Student Admission of Azerbaijan.
She has a sister named Nigar.
At the age of 16, Nargiz had her first experience in television.
During her student years, Nargiz also worked for Student TV at her alma mater Khazar University, as a reporter of an English language news program for the company.
Later Nargiz studied law in the United States, where she had a modelling career to provide financial support for her studies.
She continued to practice law in the United States and Russia.
She was head of the department of public relations for the Baku bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
She is married to Ulrik Birk-Petersen.
They live in Copenhagen, Denmark with their two children.
Məleykə Abbaszadənin qızı suallara aydınlıq gətirdi
Azerbaijani television presenters
Leyla Aliyeva (, born 1986 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani television presenter.
On 22, 24 and 26 May 2012 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan together with Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen.
Leyla Aliyeva graduated from the Baku Academy of Music with a degree in choral directing and has a master's degree in music.
In 2004, while in her first year of undergraduate studies, she was hired by İTV to work for the channel's Department of Music, Arts and Entertainment.
In 2007, she began covering Eurovision news and soon became a member of İTV's Eurovision organising committee.
Aliyeva also served as the spokesperson of Azerbaijan announcing the country's first voting results in its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia.
She hosted the Azerbaijani national Eurovision selection tours alongside Husniyya Maharramova in 2011 and 2012.
Leyla Aliyeva (, born July 3, 1985) is the first daughter of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
She is editor-in-chief of style magazine Baku.
According to her personal website, Aliyeva was born in Moscow on 3 July 1985.
However, her listing as a director at Companies House in London gives her date of birth as 1984.
She studied at a private girls' school in London, Queens College; she left the school in 2000.
She entered the European Business School.
From 2006 to 2008, Leyla Aliyeva pursued a master's degree at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
She was the Chairwoman of the Azerbaijan Club at MGIMO until 2010.
In July 2011, the Taraggi (Progress) Medal was conferred upon Leyla Aliyeva for her contributions to the development of Azerbaijan-Russian relations.
Leyla is married to businessman and singer Emin Agalarov.
She has twin sons, Ali and Mikail, who were born in 2008.
Official channel of Leyla Aliyeva on YouTube
Sabina Babayeva (, born 2 December 1979, Baku) is an Azerbaijani singer.
She represented Azerbaijan in the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26 May 2012, with the song "When the Music Dies", as the 13th act, she came fourth overall.
Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 is the first season of Britain's Next Top Model.
The winner was 20-year-old Lucy Ratcliffe.
A contract with Ruby & Millie Cosmetics
A spread & cover in B Magazine
Best: Marisa Heath
Worst: Shauna Breen & Marina Fallahi
Eliminated: Marina Fallahi
Best: Tashi Brown
Worst: Anne Kent & Claire Hillier
Eliminated: Claire Hillier
Best: Jenilee Harris
Worst: Edwina Joseph & Shauna Breen
Eliminated: Shauna Breen
Quit: Anne Kent
Best: Edwina Joseph
Worst: Lucy Ratcliffe & Stephanie Jones
Best: Stephanie Jones
Worst: Hayley Wilkins & Naomi Teal
Eliminated: Hayley Wilkins
Worst: Marisa Heath & Jenilee Harris
Eliminated: Marisa Heath
Best: Lucy Ratcliffe
Worst: Tashi Brown & Stephanie Jones
Eliminated: Stephanie Jones
Worst: Naomi Teal & Tashi Brown
Eliminated: Naomi Teal
Worst: Edwina Joseph & Tashi Brown
Eliminated: Tashi Brown
Worst: Jenilee Harris & Lucy Ratcliffe
Eliminated: Jenilee Harris
Final Two: Edwina Joseph & Lucy Ratcliffe
Winner: Lucy Ratcliffe
Helga Guitton (born 18 December 1942) is a German radio and television presenter.
She was a disc jockey on Radio Luxemburg.
She was the presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 1973.
http://wn.com/Helga_Guitton
The Governor of Idaho is the head of the executive branch of Idaho's government.
He is also the commander-in-chief of the state's militia.
The job of the governor is to see that the state laws are obeyed.
The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Idaho Legislature.
Idaho Territory had 16 territorial governors chosed by the President of the United States from 1863 until it became a state in 1890.
Four of these never took office.
They resigned before they got to Idaho.
Thirty people have been Governor of Idaho since it became a state in 1890.
Two of these—C. A. Bottolfsen and Cecil D. Andrus—served non-consecutive terms.
The state's first governor was George Laird Shoup.
He had the shortest term - three months.
Cecil D. Andrus served as governor the longest at 14 years.
Four governors resigned.
None have died while in office.
There have been 21 Republican and 12 Democratic governors.
The current governor is Brad Little.
He took office on January 6, 2019.
His current term will expire in January 2023.
Governors of the Territory of Idaho
Idaho Territory was created from Dakota Territory, Nebraska Territory, and Washington Territory on March 4, 1863.
At first, the territory included all of modern-day Idaho and Montana, and most of Wyoming.
On May 26, 1864, Montana Territory was separated from Idaho Territory, and most of the Wyoming portion was became part of Dakota Territory.
The area east of the 111th meridian became part of the new Wyoming Territory on July 25, 1868.
This gave Idaho Territory its final borders.
Governors of the State of Idaho
Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890.
Since then, the state has had 31 governors.
Two of these served non-consecutive terms.
The terms for governor and lieutenant governor are four years.
It starts on the first Monday in the January after the election.
Before 1946, the offices were elected to terms of two years.
If there is no governor or the governor is out of state or cannot do his duties, the lieutenant governor acts as governor.
If neither the governor and lieutenant governor can do their duties, the President pro tempore of the Idaho Senate is next in line.
After that person, the Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives would act as governor.
Other high offices held
Sixteen of Idaho's governors have served higher federal offices or as governors of other states.
Nine have served in the U.S. Senate, and three have served in the U.S. House.
Two governors have been U.S. Secretaries of the Interior.
One served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Six governors (marked with *) resigned to take a new office.
Also, two people who were appointed governor of Idaho Territory but never took office held other high offices.
Gilman Marston was a representative and senator from New Hampshire.
John Philo Hoyt was Governor of Arizona Territory.
, four former governors were alive.
The most recent death of a former governor was that of Cecil D. Andrus (1971–1977; 1987–1995).
He died at age 85 on August 24, 2017.
Office of the Governor of Idaho
Idaho, Governors of
Hanne Margrethe Sørvaag (December 27, 1979) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.
She later moved to Stockholm, Sweden.
She released her first studio record You Know Me under the name Paris in 2002.
That gave her three hits in Norway.
Her second record, Talk of the Town, was released in 2006 under her own name.
She also writes songs for other musicians.
Lousado is a freguesia in Portugal in the Vila Nova de Famalicão concelho.
It covers 5.61 km² (2.17 sq.
It has a 3,725 people (2001).
Its population density is 664.0 people per km² (1,720 per sq.
Lousado on freguesiasdeportugal.com
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Settlements in Portugal
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which areas of land are cultivated for a short time.
Shifting cultivation is practised in the thickly forested areas of Amazon basin,tropical Africa,parts of southeast Asia and northeast India.
These are areas of heavy rainfall and quick regenerating of vegetation.
Then they are left to grow back their natural vegetation, while the farmer moves to another area.
It is practised in forested areas of the Amazon basin.
It is one of the rudimentary forms of cultivation.
After cultivation a plot of land is cleared by felling the trees and burning them.
The ashes are then mixed with the soil and crops like maize,yam,potatoes and cassava are grown.
After the soil looses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new plot.
Juan Pablo Longueira Montes (born August 12, 1958) is a Chilean politician and industrial civil engineer.
He has been the Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile since 2011.
He is a member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), a right-wing political party.
He was a Senator before being appointed by President Sebastián Piñera to serve in the Cabinet.
He was a deputy from 1990 until 2006.
On March 30, 2007, Longueira began his candidacy for president in the 2009 presidential election.
However, he cancelled that on May 3.
On April 29, 2013, Longueira was nominated by the UDI as its candidate for the 2013 presidential election, replacing Laurence Golborne.
Longueira is married to Cecilia Brinkmann Estévez.
Pablo Longueira official site
Senate campaign site
Osorno is a city and commune in southern Chile.
It is the capital of Osorno Province in the Los Lagos Region.
It had a population of 145,475 as of the 2002 census.
It is  south of the national capital of Santiago,  north of the regional capital of Puerto Montt and  west of the Argentine city of San Carlos de Bariloche, connected via International Route 215 through the Cardenal Antonio Samoré Pass.
Osorio is at the confluence of Rahue and Damas River.
It is the main service centre of agriculture and cattle farming in the northern Los Lagos Region.
The city's cultrual heritage has Spanish, Huilliche and German influences.
Municipality of Osorno
OsornoChile.
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Osorno on Google Maps
Álvaro Gómez González (born 24 December 1980) is a Chilean actor and theatre director.
Eduardo Andrés Barril Villalobos (born July 7, 1941 in Puerto Montt) is a Chilean actor and theatre director.
B-Happy (2003) - Radomiro
Los 33 de Atacama (2011) - Miner García
People from Puerto Montt
Data on the udechile.cl
Apollonius of Rhodes was a Greek poet.
He wrote Argonautica.
It is about Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece.
His other poems survive only in small pieces.
These poems are about the beginnings of cities.
Apollonius was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
He lived and died in the first half of third century BC.
A Hellenistic Bibliography, with exhaustive bibliographies on Apollonius: 1496–2005 , 1496–2005 excluding reviews , 2001–2005 , editions etc.
Life of Apollonius, from the scholia at attalus.org
P.Oxy.
1241 at attalus.org
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is the first episode of the ninth season of The Simpsons.
It first aired on September 21, 1997.
In this episode, the Simpson family travels to New York City to get back their family car, which had been taken by Homer's friend Barney Gumble after a night out and left in the World Trade Center plaza.
While his family tours the city, Homer goes through problems while trying to get back the car.
After the September 11 attacks, the episode was taken off syndication because of the World Trade Center's role in the episode.
It has come back in recent years.
Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American businessman.
He founded the Hilton Hotels chain.
Hilton was born in San Antonio, New Mexico.
His father, Augustus Halvorsen "Gus" Hilton, was an immigrant from Norway.
His mother, Mary Genevieve (née Laufersweiler), was an American of German descent.
Hilton had eight siblings.
Hilton attended school in New Mexico.
In his early twenties, Hilton was a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature, when the state was new.
He was in the U.S. Army for two years during World War I.
When he was a boy, Hilton worked at his father's general store in Socorro County, New Mexico.
Later he was a representative in New Mexico's first state legislature.
Hilton went to Texas to buy a bank.
Instead, in 1919, he bought the 40-room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas.
The hotel did very good business.
The dining room was changed into more rooms to make room for more guests.
Hilton later bought and built hotels all over Texas.
His hotels included the Dallas Hilton (opened in 1925), the Abilene Hilton (opened in 1927), the Waco Hilton in 1928, and the El Paso Hilton in 1930.
The first hotel he built outside of Texas was in 1939 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
That hotel became Hotel Andaluz.
During the Great Depression, Hilton almost had to go into bankruptcy.
He lost several of his hotels.
He continued to manage hotels, even when he didn't own them.
He eventually got his hotels back.
During the next decade he opened hotels in California, Chicago, and New York.
The hotels included the Stevens Hotel in Chicago (then the world's largest hotel), and the famous Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
In 1946, he started the Hilton Hotels Corporation.
In 1948, he started the Hilton International Company.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Hilton expanded his business worldwide.
He created the first international hotel chain.
Hilton eventually owned 188 hotels in thirty-eight cities in the United States.
His hotels included the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D. C., the Palmer House in Chicago, the Plaza Hotel and Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, and fifty-four hotels outside the United States.
He later bought the Carte Blanche Credit Company, part of the American Crystal Sugar Company, and other businesses.
Hilton received honorary degrees from the University of Detroit (1953), DePaul University (1954), Barat College (1955), Adelphi College (1957), Sophia University, Tokyo (1963), and the University of Albuquerque (1975).
His autobiography, Be My Guest, was published in 1957.
In 1966, Hilton was elected chairman of the board.
His son Barron took over as president.
In 1925, Hilton married Mary Adelaide Barron.
They had three children: Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, Jr., William Barron Hilton, and Eric Michael Hilton.
They divorced in 1934.
In 1942, Hilton married actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
They had one child: Constance Francesca Hilton.
They divorced in 1946.
In 1976, Hilton married Mary Frances Kelly.
Their marriage lasted until his death in 1979.
In 1979, Hilton died of natural causes at the age of 91.
He is buried at Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas, Texas.
Be My Guest, Autobiography of Conrad Hilton (Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1958)
Inspirations of an Innkeeper (privately printed, 1963)
Dabney,  Thomas Ewing  The Man Who Bought the Waldorf: The Life of Conrad N. Hilton (Duell Sloan & Pearce; 1950)
Bolton, Whitney The Silver Spade; the Conrad Hilton Story.
with a foreword by Conrad Hilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young;  1954)
Comfort,  Mildred Houghton  Conrad N. Hilton, Hotelier (Minneapolis: T.S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1965)
Oppenheimer, Jerry  House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege (Three Rivers Press.
Alef,  Daniel  Conrad N. Hilton: Reveled in Hotel Deals (Titans of Fortune Publishing.
Biography: Conrad Hilton, The Innkeeper to The World (Video)
Innkeeper to the World  (TIME, 1963)
The Key Man  (TIME, 1949)
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
San Angelo's Heartbreak Hotel  History of second Hilton hotel built in San Angelo, TX in 1928, and Conrad Hilton's bankruptcy (San Angelo LIVE!
Magazine, 2007)
Mad Men: See the Real Conrad Hilton- image slideshow by Life magazine
Rubber Duck is a floating sculpture designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman.
It is the largest rubber duck in the world.
Abu Dhabi (, ʼAbū Ẓaby) is one of the emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates.
It is the largest of the seven.
The capital city of UAE, Abu Dhabi, is in this emirate.
Al Ain is Abu Dhabi's second largest urban area with a population of 348,000 (as of the 2003 census estimate).
Heket was an Egyptian goddess of life and fertility.
She took form of a frog.
She was the ender to chaos, and she was the mother of the tree God Heral .
Dubai () is one of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates.
The main city of the emirate is Dubai.
The city is sometimes called "Dubai City" to prevent it from being confused with the emirate.
Dubai is the second largest emirate in the UAE after Abu Dhabi.
The emirate is on the Persian Gulf, southwest of Sharjah and northeast of Abu Dhabi.
The town of Hatta is an exclave of the emirate of Dubai.
It borders nearby Oman.
In 1833, the Al Maktoum dynasty of the Bani Yas tribe settled at Dubai creek.
From that point on, Dubai was a newly independent emirate.
It was always struggling with the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
An attempt by the Qawasim pirates to take over Dubai was stopped.
In 1835, Dubai and the rest of the Trucial States signed a maritime truce with Britain and a "Perpetual Maritime Truce" about twenty years later.
Dubai came under the protection of the United Kingdom (keeping out the Ottoman Turks) by the Exclusive Agreement of 1892.
Like four of its neighbours, Abu Dhabi, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Qaiwain, its being on the way to India made it an important place.
After the Gulf Rupee lost value in 1966, Dubai joined the newly independent state of Qatar to set up a new monetary unit, the Qatar/Dubai riyal.
Oil was discovered 120 kilometres off the coast of Dubai, after which the town granted oil concessions.
On 2 December 1971 Dubai formed the United Arab Emirates, together with Abu Dhabi and five other emirates.
This was done after former protector Britain left the Persian Gulf in 1971.