the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
It is based on the 1971 Lois Duncan book of the same name.
The movie was directed by Thor Freudenthal and adapted by Jeff Lowell and Mark McCorkle.
Emma Roberts as Andi
Jake T. Austin as Bruce
Johnny Simmons as Dave
Don Cheadle as Bernie
Robinne Lee as Carol
Cesar Yedra as Clarence
Troy Gentile as Mark
Kyla Pratt as Heather
Lisa Kudrow as Lois
Kevin Dillon as Carl
The Tomkinson Ranges is a mountain range in the northwest corner of South Australia.
The range consists of sandstone hills, surrounded by spinifex grasslands.
Several rock holes are located in and around the hills.
The mountains were named after politician Samuel Tomkinson (1851–1900).
The explorer William Gosse named them when he passed through the region in the early 1870s.
Ernest Giles and his team reached the ranges shortly after, and set up a base here from which to explore the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts.
Numerous prospecting expeditions were made through the region until the 1930s.
Together with the Mann Ranges, the Tomkinson Ranges are an important part of the Pitjantjatjara homeland.
The communities of Kalka and Pipalyatjara are located at the base of the mountains.
The Petermann Ranges is a mountain range in central Australia.
It spreads about  across the border between Western Australia and the southwest corner of the Northern Territory.
The highest point is  above sea level.
The ranges were formed about 550 million years ago, in an event called the Petermann Orogeny.
They are made mostly of granite, sandstone and quartzite.
The greater Petermann Ranges consist of several sections of ridges and hills.
In the Northern Territory, these sections include the Dean, Mannanana, Ilyaralona, Curdie and Piultarana Ranges, the Pottoyu Hills, and several isolated mountains.
In Western Australia, it includes the Hope and Dean Ranges.
The area is considered biologically important for Australia.
An indigenous protected area, the Katiti-Petermann Indigenous Protected Area, has been proposed to conserve the ranges' ecosystem.
Battle of Qingshanli(, ) was a battle for the independence of Korea.
The battle took place in Manchuria.
In October 21 to October 28 1920 a confrontation between Kim Jwa-jin and Hong Pom-do, Lee Pom-seoks 4,000 Korean independence militia and some Japanese suppression regiment about 30,000 peoples.
JACAR Ref.
C03022770200, Chōsengun Shireibu (朝鮮軍司令部): Kantō shuppeishi (間島出兵史)
Sasaki Harutaka (佐々木春隆): Kankoku dokuritsu undōshi jō no "Seizanri taisen" kō (韓国独立運動史上の「青山里大戦」考), Gunji shigaku (軍事史学), Vol.15 No.
22–34, 1979.
Sasaki Harutaka (佐々木春隆): Chōsen sensō zenshi to shite no Kankoku dokuritsu undō no kenkyū (朝鮮戦争前史としての韓国独立運動の研究), 1985.
The most common plant, L. williamsii, grow in North America, mostly in Mexico, can be found in the Chihuahuan desert of southern Texas and northern Mexico.
The size is about eight centimeters (three inches) wide and five centimeters (two inches) tall.
It is mostly blue green in color, with pink to white flowers, growing in groups among scrub, in areas with limestone soil.
L. diffusa grows only in a small area in central Mexico, the color is yellow green, with white to yellow flowers.
Peyote has hallucinogenic effects, made by at least 28 different alkaloids, mostly mescaline.
In many countries it is illegal to sell, use or posses both dried plant-material and living plants, but some places also give an exception from the law when used in religious rituals, such as by The Native American Church where it is used in a similar way as some Native American tribes, that likely have used peyote for at least 5,500 years.
in their rituals.
The Everard Ranges is a mountain range in northern South Australia.
It consists of low rounded granite hills, topped with bare rock.
The rock is from the Palaeocene period, between 20 and 60 million years ago.
The range is segmented, with several monoliths and bornhardts separated from the hills by valleys.
The valleys are filled with scrub, and the range is surrounded by Tertiary plains.
The plains around it are about 550 metres above sea level.
The Everard Ranges are part of the traditional homeland of the Yankunytjatjara people.
However, today most of the people living in and around the area are Pitjantjatjara.
There are several caves and overhangs with Aboriginal rock paintings.
The community of Mimili is located in the east of the range, about 22 km east of the centre.
Caring for country in South Australia's Everard Ranges
The Basedow Range is a mountain range in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia.
It is located on the northern side of the Lasseter Highway, in the section between the Luritja and Stuart Highways.
The range consists of two ridges of deformed sedimentary rock.
The western ridge makes up most of the range's mass, and is about 12 km long.
A small gap separates it from the eastern ridge, which is about 5 km long and much lower in height.
The highest peak is Mount Ebenezer (702 m), which is located near the east end of the western ridge.
The Basedow Range is about 204 km south of Alice Springs.
It is entirely within the property of the Mount Ebenezer cattle station.
The community of Imaṉpa is at the base of Mount Ebenezer on its southern side.
To the west of the range is the Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area.
The Basedow Range was named by the explorer W. H. Tietkens when he reached the area on 19 July 1889.
He named it after Martin P. F. Basedow, a German politician from Adelaide.
Fionnula Flanagan (December 10, 1941) is an Irish actress who works mostly in movies and television.
She has also acted on stage, and is also a political activist.
Flanagan was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Susan Anton (born 12 October 1950) is an American actress and beauty contestant.
She began her acting career with commercials on television.
She later started acting for television.
Before that, she was Miss California in 1969 Miss America Pageants.
Anton was born in California.
Pocket God is a video game application for the iPhone, iPod and iPad.
It is a game containing small people that live on an island.
The gamer can put the islanders through tasks and games.
The Mexican Empire () was the official name of independent Mexico.
It was a monarchy from 1821 to 1823, when the Emperor came into conflict with Congress.
The territory of the Mexican Empire included New Spain and the former Captaincy General of Guatemala.
Mexico then declared itself a republic.
However, it reverted to a monarchy during the Second Mexican Empire of Maximilian I of Mexico.
1823 disestablishments
Daniela Mercuri de Almeida (born July 28, 1965), known by her stage name Daniela Mercury, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer.
She is one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide.
Mercury was born on July 28, 1965, in Salvador, Bahia.
Her mother is Liliana Mercuri, a social worker of Italian descent.
Her father is António Fernando de Abreu Ferreira de Almeida, a Portuguese-born industrial mechanic.
Her four siblings include Tom, Cristiana, Vânia, and Marcos.
She attended both the Ana Néri School and the Colégio Baiano.
When Mercury was eight years old, she began taking dance lessons,.
At age 13, influenced by Elis Regina, she decided to become a singer.
She started singing in local bars in 1980.
Mercury went to the Universidade Federal da Bahia, where she enrolled in the Dance School in 1984.
A year later she married electronic engineer Zalther Póvoas.
She has two children in this marriage, Gabriel Almeida Póvoas.
and Giovana Almeida Póvoas born in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
O Canto da Cidade
Música de Rua
Feijão com Arroz
Sol da Liberdade
Sou de Qualquer Lugar
Carnaval Eletrônico
Balé Mulato
Canibália
Elétrica
MTV ao Vivo – Eletrodoméstico
Clássica
Balé Mulato – Ao Vivo
Canibália: Ritmos do Brasil
Compilations albums
Swing Tropical - Grandes Êxitos
20 Grandes Êxitos
XXI - Vinte um Grandes Êxitos
The Very Best Gold
O Canto da Cidade - 15 Anos
Yarkon Park (, ) is a national park in Tel Aviv, Israel.
It is also a very big public urban park in the north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
The park is also called the Joshua Gardens () after the 7th mayor of Tel Aviv, Yehoshua Rabinovitz.
The park extends along the Yarkon River until the river's mouth next to the Yarkon River Peninsula, where it flows into the Mediterranean Sea near to the Reading Power Station.
It finishes in Petah Tikva.
The largest part of the park runs along the cities of Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak.
The river finishes near to Rosh HaAyin in the Yarkon National Garden.
The park has many facilities, such as sports facilities, botanical gardens, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and artificial lakes.
The Ayalon River flows into the Yarkon River in the park after coming from a channel inside Road 20.
Sites in the park
Yarkon National Park at the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority
Parks in Israel
Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese) may refer to:
Salvador Allende (1908−1973), deposed president of Chile
Salvador Bacarisse (1898−1963), Spanish composer
Salva Ballesta (born 1975), Spanish footballer
Salvador Dalí (1904−1989), Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Espriu (1913−1985), Spanish poet
Salvador Gómez (water polo) (born 1968), Spanish water polo player
Salvador Gonzáles Escalona (born 1948), Cuban artist
Salvador González Marco (born 1963), Spanish footballer
Salvador Laurel (1928−2004), Philippine politician
Salvador Luria (1912−1991), Italian-American scientist
Salvador de Madariaga (1886−1978), Spanish writer
Salvador Novo (1904−1974), Mexican writer
Salvador Pineda (born 1952), Mexican actor
Salvador Puig Antich (1948−1974), Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
Salvador Sánchez (1959−1982), Mexican boxer
António Salvador (athlete) (born 1966), Portuguese long-distance runner
Bryce Salvador (born 1976), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
Francis Salvador (1747−1776), Jewish-American patriot
Gregorio Salvador Caja (born 1927), Spanish linguist
Henri Salvador (1917−2008), French singer and jazz guitarist
Joseph Salvador (1716−1786), head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
Dr. Salvador, fictional character in Resident Evil 4
Salvador Mazza, Salta, a city in the province of Salta
Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a Jesuit university in Buenos Aires
Salvador, Bahia, a municipality in the State of Bahia
El Salvador, a Central American country
San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador
Tevego, known as Villa del Divino Salvador in 1843, a settlement in the Concepción Department
El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, a city in the province of Misamis Oriental
Salvador, Lanao del Norte, a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte
Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental
Lake Salvador, a lake in the State of Louisiana
Salvador, California, an unincorporated community in Napa County, California
Salvador Settlement, a community in the Falkland Islands
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina (; Porto Alegre, March 17, 1945 – São Paulo, January 19, 1982) was a Brazilian singer.
She is hailed as the best Brazilian singer of all times by many critics, musicians, and commentators.
1961: Viva a Brotolândia
1962: Poema de Amor
1963: O Bem do Amor
1963: Ellis Regina
1965: Dois na Bossa
1965: O Fino do Fino   – Elis & Zimbo Trio1965: Samba, Eu Canto Assim!1966: Dois na Bossa nº21966: Elis1967: Dois na Bossa nº31968: Elis Especial1969: Elis, Como & Porque1969: Elis Regina in London1969: Aquarela do Brasil  – Elis Regina & Toots Thielemans1970: Em Pleno Verão1970: Elis no Teatro da Praia com Miele & Bôscoli1971: Ela1972: Elis1973: Elis - no 21973: Elis1974: Elis1974: Elis & Tom1976: Falso Brilhante1977: Elis1978: Transversal do Tempo  (live)
1979: Essa Mulher1979: Elis Especial1980: Saudades do Brasil1980: Elis1982: Montreux Jazz Festival1982: Trem Azul
1983: Vento de Maio (compilation)
1984: Luz das Estrelas1987: Personalidade1994: Elis Regina no Fino da Bossa  (live)
1994: Dose Dupla-Elis Regina
1995: Elis ao Vivo  (live)
2001: Sucessos Inesquecíveis de Elis Regina  (compilation)
2002: 20 Anos de Saudade  (compilation)
2004: Little Pepper: The Definitive Collection (compilation)
2005: Elis Regina: MPB Especial 1973
2006: Elis Regina Carvalho Costa
2006: Elis full color 3 DVD box set
2006: Por toda a minha vida
2006: Pérolas Raras2012: Um Dia''
Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz on February 15, 1968) is a Mexican pop-rock singer-songwriter.
Called the "Supreme Diva of Mexican Pop" by the music channel VH1, Trevi has sold more than 20 million records.
Tu Ángel de la Guarda literally means "Your guardian angel" but contains the idiomatic expression for "condom".
Más Turbada Que Nunca literally means "More crazy than ever" but is a sexual reference to the word "Masturbated"
Singles (U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Songs)
Recompiled albums
1993: Cántalo tú mismo (BMG Ariola)
1997: ¡De pelos!
Lo mejor de la Trevi (BMG Ariola)
1999: No soy monedita de oro (BMG Ariola) (I am not a gold digger)
2008: Una Rosa Blu (Deluxe Edition) (Universal)
2009: Lo escencial de Gloria Trevi (Sony Music)
2009: 6 Super Hits (Universal)
La Papa Sin Catsup
Eutrophication is what a water-based ecosystem does when too many nutrients are added to it.
Eutrophication is mainly caused by two nutrients, phosphorus and nitrogen.
These are normally brought to aquatic ecosystems as runoff from fertilized agricultural areas, erosion from river banks, river beds, clearing of land (deforestation), or sewage that ends up in aquatic environments.
The major consequence of eutrophication are algal blooms.
Ariel Sharon Park (also called: Ayalon Park) is a big public urban park that is planned to be built in the south of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, around some of the floodplains of the Ayalon River.
The Azor River and the Kofer River are connected to the river in the park area.
Road 1 and Road 44 run through the planned area of the park.
The park is planned to be opened in the year 2020 in southern Tel Aviv and also between the cities of Holon, Azor and Ramat Gan.
The park is planned to be connected to the Menachem Begin Park (South Park) in southern Tel Aviv and the Mikveh Israel agricultural school in Holon.
the park is going to be one of the largest park in Israel and one of the largest in the Middle East.
Old Bnei Brak
Recycling park
Between the years 1952 and 1998, the area was used a garbage dump called Hiriya.
In 2002, the Israeli governmant decided to rehabilitate the site and build a big park around the dump with a recycling center.
In 2004, a German landscape architect won the job for the new design of the site.
In 2007, the Ecological Study Center opened in the recycling park.
In 2010, the recycling park won a prize from the European Center of Architecture in the category of "Landscape Architecture" for the best green design for that year.
Hiriya website
Removing Hiriya Garbage Dump, a Test Case
Siri is a Scandinavian girl's name.
It is a short form of Sigrid and has been widely used since the mediaeval age.
It is derived from Old Norse sigr, which means victory, and frídr, which means beautiful.
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation.
It dealt with tropical fruits, especially bananas.
These fruits were grown on Central and South American plantations.
They were sold in the United States and Europe.
The company was created in 1899 from Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company.
It grew in the early and mid-20th century.
It controlled vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies.
It competed with the Standard Fruit Company in the international banana trade.
It had a deep and long-lasting impact on the economy and politics of many Latin American countries.
Critics often accused it of neocolonialism.
They described it as the example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of countries.
After a period of financial decline, United Fruit merged with Eli M. Black's AMK in 1970 to become the United Brands Company.
In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International.
Growth hormone (GH or HGH), also known as somatotropin or somatropin, is a hormone responsible for growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals.
It is specific only to certain kinds of cells.
Human growth hormone
Growth hormone is used as a prescription drug in medicine to treat children's and adults growth disorders.
In the United States, it is only available legally by prescription from a doctor.
HGH is a very complex hormone, and many of its functions are still unknown.
Synthetic human growth hormone  was developed in 1985 and approved by the FDA for specific uses in children and adults.
In children, HGH injections are approved for treating short stature of unknown cause as well as poor growth due to a number of medical causes, including:
Turner's syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects a girl's development
Prader-Willi syndrome, an uncommon genetic disorder causing poor muscle tone, low levels of sex hormones, and a constant feeling of hunger
Chronic kidney disease
HGH deficiency or insufficiency
Children born small for gestational age
Area code 649 is the local telephone area code of Turks and Caicos Islands.
The 649 area code was created during a split from the original Area code 809 area code, which was done in or around May 1997.
When in Turks and Caicos Islands, use the seven digits alone.
simply dial 1(869) followed by the phone number.
Azkaban is the jail of wizards in the fiction fantasy series by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter.
It holds most of the Death Eaters in prison.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling described Azkaban as "Cold, dark, and all your greatest memories you can't remember, and all you can think about are your worst."
Dementors are the guards of Azkaban.
The first-move advantage in chess is the advantage of the player (White) who makes the first move in chess.
Statistics of results on chess databases include almost all published games since 1851.
In all forms of statistics, White scores better than Black for the main four opening moves 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3.
White's overall winning percentage is calculated by taking the percentage of games won by White plus half the percentage of drawn games.
Thus, if out of 100 games White wins 40, draws 32, and loses 28, White's total winning percentage is 40 plus half of 32, i.e. 56 percent.
It is about the same for tournament games between humans and games between computers.
White's advantage is less significant in rapid games or novice games.
Winning percentages
Recent sources indicate that White scores about 54 to 56 percent.
In 2005, GM Jonathan Rowson wrote that "the conventional wisdom is that White begins the game with a small advantage and, holding all other factors constant, scores approximately 56% to Black's 44%".p193 International Master (IM) John Watson wrote in 1998 that White had scored 56% for most of the 20th century, but that this figure had recently slipped to 55%.p231 The website ChessGames.com holds regularly updated statistics on its games database.
On March 17, 2008 the database contained
460,703 games.
White won 36.81%, 36.50% were drawn, and Black won 26.69%, resulting in a total White winning percentage of 55.06%.
New In Chess observed in its 2000 Yearbook that of the 731,740 games in its database, White scored 54.8% overall; with the two most popular opening moves, White scored 54.1% in 349,855 games beginning 1.e4, and 56.1% in 296,200 games beginning 1.d4.
The main reason that 1.e4 was less effective than 1.d4 was the Sicilian defence (1.e4 c5), which gave White only a 52.3% score in 145,996 games.
Chess Engines Grand Tournament (CEGT) tests computer chess engines by playing them against each other, with time controls of forty moves in one hundred and twenty minutes per player (40/120), and also 40/20 and 40/4, and uses the results of those games to compile a rating list for each time control.
At the slowest time control (40/120), White has scored 55.4% (W34.7 D41.3 L24.0) in games played among 38 of the strongest chess engines (as of May 27, 2009).
At 40/20, White has scored 54.6% (W37.0 D35.2 L27.8) in games played among 284 engines (as of May 24, 2009).
At the fastest time control (40/4), White has scored 54.8% (W39.6 D30.5 L30.0), in games played among 128 programs (as of May 28, 2009).
Drawn with best play
Joseph Bertin wrote in his 1735 textbook The Noble Game of Chess, "He that plays first, is understood to have the attack".
This is consistent with the traditional view that White, by virtue of the first move, begins with the initiative and should try to extend it into the middlegame, while Black should strive to neutralize White's initiative and attain equality.p89 Because White begins with the initiative, a minor mistake by White generally leads only to loss of the initiative, while a similar mistake by Black may have more serious consequences.
Thus, Sveshnikov wrote in 1994, "Black players cannot afford to make even the slightest mistake ... from a theoretical point of view, the tasks of White and Black in chess are different: White has to strive for a win, Black  for a draw!"
The view that a game of chess should end in a draw given best play prevails.
Even if it cannot be proved, this assumption is considered "safe" by Rowson and "logical" by Adorján.
Watson agrees that "the proper result of a perfectly played chess game ... is a draw. ...
Of course, I can't prove this, but I doubt that you can find a single strong player who would disagree. ...
I remember Kasparov, after a last-round draw, explaining to the waiting reporters: 'Well, chess is a draw' ".
World Champion Bobby Fischer thought that was almost definitely so.
Modern writers often think of Black's role in more dynamic terms than merely trying to equalize.
Rowson writes that "the idea of Black trying to 'equalize' is questionable.
I think it has limited application to a few openings, rather than being an opening prescription for Black in general".p227 Evans wrote that after one of his games against Fischer, "Fischer confided his 'secret' to me: unlike other masters, he sought to win with the black pieces from the start.
The revelation that Black has dynamic chances and need not be satisfied with mere equality was the turning point in his career, he said".p91 Watson surmised that Kasparov, when playing black, bypasses the question of whether White has an opening advantage "by thinking in terms of the concrete nature of the dynamic imbalance on the board, and seeking to seize the initiative whenever possible".p231 Watson observes that "energetic opening play by Black may ... lead to a position so complex and unclear that to speak of equality is meaningless.
Sometimes we say 'dynamically balanced' instead of 'equal' to express the view that either player is as likely as the other to emerge from complications with an advantage.
This style of opening play has become prevalent in modern chess, with World Champions Fischer and Kasparov as its most visible practitioners".
Modern writers also question the idea that White has an enduring advantage.
Suba, in his influential 1991 book Dynamic Chess Strategy, rejects the notion that the initiative can always be transformed into an enduring advantage.
He contends that sometimes the player with the initiative loses it with no logical explanation, and that, "Sometimes you must lose it, just like that.
If you try to cling to it, by forcing the issue, your dynamic potential will become exhausted and you won't be able to face a vigorous counter-attack".
Rowson and Watson concur.
p219p239 Watson also observes, "Because of the presumption of White being better, the juncture of the game at which Black frees his game or neutralizes White's plans has often been automatically assumed to give him equality, even though in dynamic openings, the exhaustion of White's initiative very often means that Black has seized it with advantage".p232
Tournament and match play
In chess tournaments and matches, the frequency with which each player receives white and black is an important consideration.
In matches, the players' colours in the first game are determined by drawing lots, and alternated thereafter.
p11 In All-play-all round robin tournaments with an even number of players, each receives one extra white or black.
The double-round robin tournament is considered to give the most reliable final standings, since each player receives the same number of whites and blacks, and plays both white and black against each opponent.p56
Wix was created in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan.
The company is located in Tel Aviv, with offices in San Francisco, New York City and Dnepropetrovsk.
It is funded by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital.
Kandyan jewellery comes from Ceylon or Sri Lanka.
The Kandyan Kingdom disappeared in 1815 but some jewellery and designs are still being used by Kandyan families today.
Kandyan jewellery is handmade and was originally designed for the royal families.
It is a symbol of wealth, solidarity and strength.
It is worn by women of royal or noble births and not women of lower castes.
Bridal pieces are the most important pieces of Kandyan jewellery.
They are handmade and consist of 26 pieces of jewellery that will be worn by the bride.
Pinterest is an internet photo sharing and publishing service that allows users to "Pin" pictures they like and upload their own recommendations to their "pinboards".
Users can visit other pinboards, 're-pin' images to their own pinboards, or 'like' photos.
The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp.
The site is managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and inventors.
Pinterest has a large female userbase.
Pinterest has many different categories, it can range from fashion, recipes, home improvement to quotes, health, and beauty.
Milo O'Shea (2 June 1926 – 2 April 2013) was an Irish-American actor and personality.
He was known for his role as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.
O'Shea was born on 2 June 1926 in Dublin, Irish Free State.
He studied at Synge Street.
O'Shea was married to Maureen Toal from 1952 until they divorced in 1974.
Then he was married to Kitty Sullivan until his death in 2013.
O'Shea starred as Leopold Bloom in Joseph Strick's 1967 movie version of Ulysses.
Among his other well-known movie roles in the 1960s were as the well-intentioned Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand (who tries to kill Jane Fonda's character by making her literally die of pleasure) in Roger Vadim's classic Barbarella (both movies were released in 1968).
In 1984, O'Shea reprised his role as Dr. Durand Durand (credited as Dr. Duran Duran) for the Duran Duran concert movie Arena, since his character inspired the band's name.
He played Inspector Boot in the 1973 Vincent Price horror movie Theatre of Blood.
He was active in American movies and TV shows, such as his memorable supporting role as the trial judge in the Sidney Lumet's The Verdict with Paul Newman, an episode of The Golden Girls in 1987, and portraying Chief Justice of the United States Roy Ashland in the TV series The West Wing.
In 1992, O'Shea guest starred in the Season 10 finale of the sitcom Cheers, and, in 1995, in an episode of the show's spin-off Frasier.
He appeared in the pilot episode of Early Edition as Sherman.
He had two sons with Toal, Colm and Steven.
He lived in New York City, New York and became a United States citizen.
O'Shea died on 2 April 2013 from an short-illness in Manhattan, New York, aged 86.
Jesús "Jess" Franco (Jesús Franco Manera; 12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish movie director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actor.
His directing career began with the 1961 movie The Awful Dr. Orloff.
He was known for his more than 160 movies including Necronomicon (1967), A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971) and two Christopher Lee movies, The Bloody Judge and Count Dracula.
Many of his films were pornographic in nature, and most of them were never dubbed in English.
Franco was born on 12 May 1930 in Madrid, Spain.
He was married to Nicole Guettard from 1962 to 1980, and to Lina Romay from 2008 until his death 2013.
Franco died on 2 April 2013 in a hospital in Málaga, Spain from a stroke, aged 82.
http://www.santoandfriends.com (Hispanic horror film index)
Entertainers from Madrid
Notting Hill is a 1999 British-American romantic comedy-drama movie.
It is set in Notting Hill, west London.
It was written by Richard Curtis.
It stars Julia Roberts as Hollywood actress Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as book shop owner Will Thacker.
Movies directed by Roger Michell
A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine (something like a computer divided into many smaller machines using special software).
They are often used by Internet hosting providers.
Multiple VPS's run on the same machine, but they are separated as they will only share hardware resources without interfering on software level.
A VPS is dedicated to the customer's needs, has the privacy of a separate physical computer, and can run server software.
There are many platforms that can run a VPS.
Some of them are VMWare and Xen.
Donkey Kong Country Returns is a platform video game for the Nintendo Wii game console.
It was made by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo.
It was released in North America on November 21, 2010, in Australia on December 2, 2010, in Europe on December 3, 2010, and in Japan on December 9, 2010.
It is the first game in the Donkey Kong Country series since Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
The plot involves the Tiki Tak Tribe hypnotizing the animals of Donkey Kong Island.
The hypnotized animals steal Donkey Kong's bananas.
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong go on an adventure to take back their bananas from the Tikis.
Many elements of the Donkey Kong Country games return.
These include the mine cart levels, the ability to collect bananas, and the golden KONG letters.
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are once again the main playable characters.
On February 14, 2013, Nintendo announced a Nintendo 3DS port of the game called Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. It was released in North America and Europe on May 24, 2013, in Australia on May 25, 2013, and in Japan on June 13, 2013.
He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 101st overall pick in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.
He has also played for the St. Louis Blues for 3 seasons, Phoenix Coyotes for 2 seasons, Philadelphia Flyers for 2 seasons, Chicago Blackhawks for 8 games, Los Angeles Kings for 4 seasons and the San Jose Sharks for 1 season.
He was traded from the Sharks back to the Chicago Blackhawks for a 4th round draft pick on April 1, 2013.
Pump Up the Volume is a 1990 comedy movie.
Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis star.
The movie received positive reviews from the critics.
This movie was released August 22, 1990.
He was one of few people that was not drafted by an NHL team or a major junior team.
Downey played in the NHL for six teams, the Boston Bruins for 1 game, Chicago Blackhawks for 39 games, Dallas Stars for 2 seasons, St. Louis Blues for 17 games, Montreal Canadiens for 2 seasons, and the Detroit Red Wings for 2 seasons.
Since his retirement, he returned to Detroit to become a part-time strength and conditioning coach for the Red Wings and Grand Rapids Griffins.
The Kernot Range is a small mountain range in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia.
It is located in the Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area, near the junction of the Lasseter Highway and Luritja Road.
The range consists of a singe ridge of deformed sedimentary rock, running in a northwest-southeasterly direction for about 18 km.
The Kernot Range was named by the explorer W. H. Tietkens when he reached the area on 18 July 1889.
He named it after William Charles Kernot, a professor at the University of Melbourne.
He named Mount Thompson, the highest peak in the north-western end of the range, after a politician from Victoria, H. M. Thompson.
The hills are culturally important to southern Luritja people, many of whom live in the surrounding area.
The most important ceremonial site in the Kernot Range is Wilbia (also spelled Wilpia or Wilpiya).
This is a clearing at the south-eastern end of the range that contains a soakage.
The soak is a reliable source of water and an important place to many families living across the Luritja homeland.
The site is connected with similar Dreaming sites at Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa.
Wilbia is often used for rituals and ceremonies, including initiations.
The Lasseter Highway is a highway in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It is a sealed road that runs for .
It connects Yulara, Kata Tjuṯa and Uluṟu to the Stuart Highway.
It is the major access route for tourists heading to Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.
The highway is named after the prospector Harold Bell Lasseter, who claimed to have discovered a rich gold deposit (Lasseter's Reef) west of Kata Tjuṯa.
The highway begins in Erldunda, a roadhouse and hotel, on the Stuart Highway (N87).
The Stuart Highway connects Darwin in the north and Adelaide in the south and is therefore one of Australia's major highways.
From Erldunda, the Lasseter Highway leads west along the southern side of the Basedow and Kernot Ranges.
After about 110 km, next to the Kernot Range, there is the junction with the Luritja Highway (S3), which leads north to Kings Canyon.
Another 25 km towards the southwest is a rest area that has a view of Mount Conner.
A further 22 km away is the Curtin Springs, a cattle station with a roadhouse.
A further 100 km west along the highway is the tourist town Yulara.
After Yulara, the road meets the Great Central Road, a dirt road that leads into Western Australia through the Petermann Ranges and across the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts.
The 2013 San Diego Padres season began with two losses to the New York Mets.
Sports seasons
The Tripitaka is the collection of main religious text in Buddhism.
They are often used alongside various sutras such as the Lotus.
It is divided into three categories - the Sutras, the Abhidharma and the Vinaya.
A khanqah or khaniqah () is a place where members of the Sufi faith meet and do their spiritual rituals.
Today, there are a lot of khanaqahs around the world, especially in muslim countries.
100 Tears is a 2007 slasher comedy movie.
The story is about revenge.
This movie was released with an NC-17 rating.
The reviews were mainly negative, with a 28% audience score on the Rotten Tomatoes website.
Winona Sammon, more well known as Peggy Shannon (January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress.
She acted on stage and in movie roles during the 1920s and 1930s.
She had many movies during her short career.
She was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
In May 1941, Shannon died in Los Angeles after a heart attack
People from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
were men and women who were employed by the government of Japan in the early Meiji period.
These western experts were invited to come to Japan to share their specialized knowledge..
The oyatoi came from many nations.
By the 1870s, they were employed in many projects of the government.
The strategy of employing oyatoi was ended in 1899.
"Meiji era (1868-1912)" at Dentsu Advertising Museum
Reckendorf is a community in the district of Bamberg, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.
With roughly 2,000 inhabitants, Reckendorf is a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Baunach.
Community’s website
Mega Man Anniversary Collection is a compilation video game for the Nintendo GameCube, Playstation 2, and Xbox.
It was released on June 23, 2004 for the GameCube and Playstation 2, and on March 15, 2005 for the Xbox.
It contains the first eight Mega Man games, as well as two spin-off fighting games in the series.
It also contains extras such as original artwork and remixed music.
For the first six games, a "Navi Mode" is available.
This allows players to get hints from helpers if they are in need of help.
It also changes the look of the health and weapon meters, as well as the weapon screen, for the first three games.
Mega Man: The Power Battle
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
Stephen Krashen is a linguist and educational researcher.
He is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California (USC).
Krashen moved from the USC linguistics department to the School of Education in 1994.
He is also an activist who works hard to support bilingual education.
Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books about second-language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading.
He introduced several important ideas in the study of learning another language, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, input hypothesis, monitor hypothesis, affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis.
He started the Natural Approach to language learning and teaching with Tracy D. Terrell .
More recently, Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during second-language acquisition, which he says "is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second."
Educational Activism
Krashen lives and works in California.
Government plans for education there turned against bilingual education.
Krashen said that this was a bad idea  and responded with research that showed problems with he new policies.
He also spoke publicly and wrote many letters to newspaper editors.
In 1998,   Krashen campaigned very hard against Proposition 227.
Though he tried hard, the proposition passed and got rid of most bilingual education in California.
Even though he lost, Krashen continues to work hard in support of bilingual education as other states try to get rid of it.
His letters often appear in many newspapers.
Krashen believes researchers should be more active to educate the public, especially about bilingual education.
Krashen holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do,  and was the winner of the 1978 Venice Beach Open Incline Press.
He spent two years in Ethiopia teaching English and science with the Peace Corps.
Books and articles by Stephen D Krashen
Response to criticism  by Ron Unz
NPR Talk of the Nation episode featuring Stephen Krashen
Krashen's Comprehension Hypothesis Model of L2 learning  Applied linguist Vivian Cook's page on Krashen's hypotheses.
The Earth’s magnetic field is the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth.
It is sometimes called the geomagnetic field.
The Earth’s magnetic field is created by the rotation of the Earth and Earth's core.
It shields the Earth against harmful particles in space.
The field is unstable and has changed often in the history of the Earth.
As the Earth spins the two parts of the core move at different speeds and this is thought to generate the magnetic field around the Earth as though it had a large bar magnet inside it.
The magnetic field creates magnetic poles that are near to the geographical poles.
A compass uses the geomagnetic field to find directions.
Many migratory animals also use the field when they travel long distances each spring and fall.
The Earth’s geomagnetic field is created because of two things.
The convective motions in the liquid conducting core inside the center of the Earth are important for making the magnetic field.
When the convective motions occur with the electrical currents around the Earth, the magnetic field is created.
The Earth’s rotation is what keeps the magnetic field up.
The interaction between the convective motions and the electrical currents creates a dynamo effect.
The intensity of the magnetic field is greatest near the magnetic poles where it is vertical.
The intensity of the field is weakest near the equator where it is horizontal.
The magnetic field’s intensity is measured in gauss.
The magnetic field has decreased in strength through recent years.
In the past twenty-two years, the field has decreased its strength 1.7%, on average.
In some areas of the field, the strength has decreased up to 10%.
The fast strength decrease of the field is a sign that the magnetic field might be reversing.
The reversal might happen in the next few thousand years.
It has been shown that the movement of the magnetic poles is related to the decreasing strength of the magnetic field.
A geomagnetic reversal is when the north magnetic pole and south magnetic pole trade places.
This has happened a few times in the history of the Earth.
The magnetic reversal happens after the strength of the field reaches zero.
When the strength begins to increase again, it will increase in the opposite direction, causing a reversal of the magnetic poles.
The time it takes the magnetic field to undergo a reversal is unknown, but can last up to ten thousand years.
The Earth’s magnetic reversals are recorded in rocks, especially in basalt.
Scientists believed that the last geomagnetic reversal occurred 780,000 years ago.
The magnetosphere is created by the magnetic field.
It is the area around the Earth that acts as a shield against the harmful particles in solar wind.
The magnetosphere has many different layers and structures, and solar wind shapes each of these layers.
The interaction of solar wind and the magnetosphere also causes the Northern and Southern Lights to appear.
The magnetosphere is very important in protecting the Earth against solar storms which increase solar wind activity.
Solar storms can cause geomagnetic storms which sometimes have serious affects on the Earth.
The areas in between the north and south magnetic poles are the magnetic field lines.
These lines leave the Earth from the vertical point of the South and reenters through the vertical point of the North.
These two vertical points are called magnetic dip poles.
The magnetic dip poles are commonly referred to as the magnetic poles.
The magnetic poles intersect the earth at two points.
The north magnetic pole intersects the Earth at 78.3 N latitude and 100 W longitude.
This places the north magnetic pole in the Arctic Circle.
The south magnetic pole intersects the Earth at 78.3 S latitude and 142 E longitude.
This places the south magnetic pole in Antarctica.
The magnetic poles are also where the magnetic fields are the strongest.
Migratory animals
Some migratory animals know their locations by the intensity of the field.
They know the time because of circadian rhythms the field produces.
Migratory animals are born with a magnetic map in their head that allows them to migrate great distances safely.
Their ability to sense the magnetic field is because of magnetic particles.
Other animals have a chemical compass based on a radical pair mechanism.
The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of atmospheric pressure that refers to the air pressure at sea level.
It is defined as equal to 101325 Pa. Since 1982, it has been replaced by the bar, which is equal to exactly 105 Pa. The usage of either unit is discouraged.
The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American romantic comedy movie.
It was written, directed and co-produced by Judd Apatow.
Steve Carell plays the eponymous virgin who lives alone and is involuntarily celibate.
He works in the stockroom of an electronics store and is socially inept.
Carell also wrote the script.
The movie got mostly good reviews from critics.
Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 - 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer.
She was a Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
She studied and wrote about teaching languages.
Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching.
Rivers was born  in Melbourne, Australia and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.
"The Psychologist and the Foreign-Language Teacher".
University of Chicago Press, 1964.
"Teaching Foreign-Language Skills".
University of Chicago Press, 1968 & 1981.
"A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language".
Oxford University Press, 1978.
"Communicating Naturally In A Second Language".
Cambridge University Press, 1983.
"Interactive Language Teaching".
Cambridge University Press, 1987.
"Principles Of Interactive Language Teaching"
Australian linguists
Mount Curdie is a mountain in the Northern Territory of Australia.
It is 958 metres high.
It is the highest peak in the Curdie Range, which is a section of the Petermann Ranges.
The mountain is located on the southern bank of the Hull River, about  southeast of Kaḻṯukatjara.
The Great Central Road passes nearby to the north.
At the base of the mountain is the valley through which the Hull River flows.
The valley contains a place known to local Aboriginal people as Tjunti, where Lasseter's Cave is located.
Ernest Giles named Mount Curdie on 13 March 1874, during his first journey through the Petermann Ranges.
He named it after Dr Daniel Curdie, a subscriber to Giles' fund for his expedition.
After climbing to the top of Mount Curdie, Giles also gave names to other peaks in the Petermann Ranges, including Mounts Fagan and Miller further to the east.
Sarah Caldwell (born March 6, 1924 - died March 23, 2006) was an American opera conductor and a stage director.
She sang, performed and was director of opera music.
Sarah was born in Missouri, though was raised in Arkansas.
She later died due to heart failure in Portland, Maine at 82.
Guangzhou FC, known as Guangzhou Evergrande until 2020, is a football club which plays in China.
This club has been very successful ever since Evergrande RE took over the club after a match-fixing scandal in 2009, with money flowing in.
Winners (8): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
China League One
Winners (2): 2007, 2010
Winners (2): 2012, 2016
Winners (4): 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018
Winners (2): 2013, 2015
Amy Madigan (September 11, 1950) is an American television and movie actress.
She has acted in many notable movies and TV series.
These include  the 1989 movie Field of Dreams and Uncle Buck and the series Grey's Anatomy, Carnivàle and Fringe.
Prolog is a programming language that uses first order logic.
It is the most used logic programming language.
It is a declarative programming language.
Alain Cormerauer, a French computer scientist created Prolog in the early 1970s.
Prolog is rather different from other programming languages.
It uses facts and rules.
Given the facts, the rules can be used to figure out new facts.
Prolog uses a paradigm called negation as failure, which means that  is assumed if  cannot be derived.
This is different from true logical negation.
While negation is failure has its benefits, it often confuses people starting to learn Prolog, as they expect true logical negation.
Prolog also uses Horn clauses.
It is a turing-complete programming language.
Graupel is a form of precipitation, which is very similar to snow and hail.
However, hail falls almost always during severe thunderstorms.
Snow falls during blizzards or snowstorms.
Graupel often falls in wintry mixes, and usually falls apart during contact.
A Horn clause is a logic disjunction of literals, where at most one of the literals is positive, and all the others are negative.
It is named after Alfred Horn who described them in an article in 1951.
A Horn clause with exactly one positive literal is a definite clause; a definite clause with no negative literals is sometimes called a “fact”; and a Horn clause without a positive literal is sometimes called a goal clause.
These three kinds of Horn clauses are illustrated in the following propositional example:
definite clause:
fact:
goal clause:
In the non-propositional case, all variables in a clause are implicitly universally quantified with scope the entire clause.
Thus, for example:
Horn clauses play a basic role in constructive logic and computational logic.
They are important in automated theorem proving by first-order resolution, because the resolvent of two Horn clauses is itself a Horn clause, and the resolvent of a goal clause and a definite clause is a goal clause.
These properties of Horn clauses can lead to greater efficiencies in proving a theorem (represented as the negation of a goal clause).
For example, the Horn clause written above behaves as the procedure:
to show , show  and show  and  and show .
The Prolog notation is actually ambiguous, and the term “goal clause” is sometimes also used ambiguously.