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Her favorite topics are the melting of glaciers, extinction of animals, organic food, the difference between vegetarians and vegans.
Sarp (Fırat Can Aydın) : Playful student who wears funny hats, colorful scarves, and strange-looking sports shoes.
He likes Nisan.
2010s establishments in Turkey
George Soule (ca.
1602 - 1679) was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620.
He was a servant of Edward Winslow.
In Plymouth, he married Mary (Buckett?).
They had 9 children.
Soule moved to Duxbury and acquired much property.
He served in the Pequot War.
He served as a deputy for Duxbury, and was a member of several town committees.
He died in 1679.
He was buried in the Myles Standish Burial Ground, Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Julius Caesar is a 1953 movie based on the play by Shakespeare.
It stars John Gielgud as Cassius, James Mason as Brutus, and Marlon Brando as Antony.
Gielgud and Brando both won BAFTA awards for Best Actor (British actor, Foreign actor).
Greer Garson played Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr played Portia.
The movie was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
The movie received very good reviews.
It won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
It also won two BAFTA awards for Best British Actor (John Gielgud) and Best Foreign Actor (Marlon Brando).
Water scarcity is a lack of fresh  water to meet what is needed in a given area.
For us, fresh water is drinkable, and sea water is not.
This is because sea water has a high salt content, which humans (and many other land animals) cannot deal with.
There are arid and deserted areas, and places where the water is too polluted to drink.
It is a social, environmental and economic problem in many countries.
Water scarcity can be the result of both human and natural causes.
Changes in climate and weather patterns can cause the availability of water to drop.
Common human causes include over-consumption, bad governance, pollution, and increases in the demand for water.
A water shortage is when there is not enough water to meet demands.
Changes in the weather, such as drought can cause water shortage.
Water stress is the difficulty of finding sources of fresh water for use.
A water crisis is a situation where the available supply of potable, clean water within an area is less than the demand for it.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that by 2025, 1.9 billion people will be living in countries or regions with total water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under stress conditions.
The World Bank has said that climate change could heavily change the future of water availability and use, and therefore increase water stress on a global scale.
Fresh water scarcity has negative affects on ecology, biodiversity, agriculture and human health.
It has also led to armed conflicts in several cases.
Some countries upriver have built dams to satisfy their needs for drinking water, irrigation and electric power.
These needs have grown as populations has grown, and as climate changes has reduced rain in some places.
Down river from the dam, supply is usually reduced.
This creates tension between countries.
The River Jordan in the Middle East, and the Nile are two good examples of where this is happening.
A Star is Born is a 1954 musical movie starring James Mason and Judy Garland.
In 2000, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Iain Menzies Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish writer.
He wrote fiction under the name Iain Banks.
When he wrote science fiction books he wrote his name as Iain M. Banks.
He was known for his book The Wasp Factory.
Banks was born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
He studied at University of Stirling.
Banks was married to Annie Banks from 1992 until they separated in 2007.
Then he was married to Adele Hartley from March 2013 until his death.
Banks died on 9 June 2013 from gallbladder cancer after being diagnosed in early April.
British science fiction writers
The Little Colonel is a 1935 movie.
It was directed by David Butler.
The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from a book of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston.
The movie features the famous staircase dance by Temple and Robinson.
Shirley Temple as Lloyd Sherman
Lionel Barrymore as Colonel Lloyd, father to Elizabeth and grandfather to Lloyd Sherman
John Lodge as Jack Sherman, Elizabeth’s husband and little Lloyd’s father
Ellen Venable as Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman, Lloyd Sherman's mother and Colonel Lloyd's daughter
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson as Walker, Colonel Lloyd’s butler
Hattie McDaniel as Mom Beck, Elizabeth's housekeeper
Andre Sennwald in his New York Times review of March 22, 1935 wrote, "[a]ll adrip with magnolia whimsy and vast, unashamed portions of synthetic Dixie atmosphere".
He further wrote that the movie was "so ruthless in its exploitation of Miss Temple's great talent for infant charm that it seldom succeeds in being properly lively and gay".
He finished his review noting the audience applauded for a full eleven seconds after the final fade-out, and that the movie "ought to bring out the best in every one who sees it."
Annie Fellows Johnston and the Little Colonel
Kate Matthews Collection (includes illustrations for The Little Colonel books by Johnston's friend and neighbor, photographer Kate Matthews)
Curly Top is a 1935 musical movie starring Shirley Temple.
It was directed by Irving Cummings.
It is loosely based on the 1912 children's book Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster.
The movie tells the story of an orphan adopted by a rich man.
Temple introduced one of her signature songs, "Animal Crackers in My Soup", in the movie.
Curly Top was a box office hit, but it was banned in Denmark for unspecified "corruption".
In China, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked for repeated private showings.
Shirley Temple as Elizabeth Blair, an inmate of a dreary orphanage
John Boles as Edward Morgan, a rich trustee of the orphanage
Rochelle Hudson as Mary Blair, Elizabeth’s teenage sister
Esther Dale as Genevieve Graham, Morgan’s elderly aunt
Arthur Treacher as Reynolds, Morgan’s English butler
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Henrietta Denham, a heavy-set, elderly matron at the orphanage
Rafaela Ottiano as Mrs. Higgins, the severe, thin-lipped superintendent of the orphanage
Etienne Girardot as James Wyckoff, a stern, elderly, penny-pinching trustee of the Orphanage and the manufacturer of Wyckoff’s Cough Mixture
Maurice Murphy as Jimmie Rogers, Mary's rich young suitor
Movies directed by Irving Cummings
The Little Princess is a 1939 movie.
It was directed by Walter Lang.
It stars Shirley Temple.
It is loosely based on the book A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
It was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor.
It was also her last major success as a child star.
Shirley Temple as Sara Crewe
Richard Greene as Geoffrey Hamilton
Anita Louise as Rose
Ian Hunter as Captain Crewe
Cesar Romero as Ram Dass
Arthur Treacher as Hubert 'Bertie' Minchin
Mary Nash as Amanda Minchin
Captain Crewe is called to fight in the Second Boer War.
He leaves his daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's School for Girls.
One day, his lawyer arrives in the school with news that Captain Crewe has died and his real estate has been confiscated.
Sara is now a poor orphan.
She becomes a servant in the school.
Sara tires of her servant duties.
She sneaks off to Veterans Hospital, convinced her father is not dead.
She finds him wounded.
They reunite joyfully.
According to Variety, "Transposition of the Frances Hodgson Burnett several-generation favorite, Sara Crewe, is accomplished most successfully.
The fairy-tale story is still saccharine to the nth degree, but once the basic premise is established, it rolls along acceptably.
And, while the story has been changed for screen purposes, the general line is close enough."
Benjamin R. Crisler reviewed the film when it opened in New York City at the Roxy Theatre.
He wrote, "With any other child on earth, it is amazing to reflect, The Little Princess would stand out as one of the most glaring exhibits of pure hokum in screen history; with Mistress Temple, it may very well be, as Mr. Zanuck unflinchingly proclaims, the greatest picture with which Mr. Zanuck has ever been associated."
Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times 44 years later, called it "antiquated enough to seem charming" and concludes "[t]he movie's music, its corny but likable histrionics and its rousing patriotism (it was made in 1939) culminate in a happy ending sure to make even grown-up viewers cry."
Movies directed by Walter Lang
Gouache, also spelled guache, is a type of paint.
It is also commonly called poster paint.
It comprises pigment, a binding agent (usually gum arabic), and some additives to make it opaque.
An inert white pigment such as chalk is usually added.
Gouache covers up whatever is underneath.
Water colours, in contrast, are somewhat transparent.
After gouache has dried, any form of paint can be used on the surface, also pastels and crayons.
Watercolours on top of a gouache surface are not so runny (fluid) as they are on plain paper.
The fast-drying quality of gouache makes it a favourite for en plein air (outdoor) paintings.
It was also a favourite of J. M. W. Turner.
Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint containing pigment in an acrylic polymer emulsion.
Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but are water-resistant when dry.
Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with acrylic gels, media, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own unique appearance.
Acrylic paint can give a much brighter, more vivid colour than oil paints.
It has been much used in modern art, and is cheaper than oil paint, which is rather an expensive material.
When dry, acrylic paint usually cannot be removed from a solid surface.
In 1934, a German chemical company created acrylic resin.
It was first used in the 1940s.
Acrylics were commercially available as paint for artists in the 1950s.
Later, many advances were made to acrylic paint as more and more people began using it.
Christian Venge Balboa (born December 1, 1972 in Barcelona) is a cyclist from Spain.
He competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in cycling.
He was the third cyclist to finish in the blind men's Tandem Individual Pursuit track race.
He was the second cyclist to finish in the men's blind Combined Road race.
He was the first cyclist to finish in the Tandem Time Trial Road race.
He was the second cyclists to finish in the Tandem Individual Pursuit track race.
He was the first cyclist to finish in the Road Trial race.
Jose Enrique Porto Lareo (born October 21, 1977 in Vigo) is a cyclist from Spain.
He was the second cyclist to finish in the blind men's 1 kilometer track race.
He was the third cyclist to finish in the track speed race.
Francisco Javier Suarez Regueiro (born September 10, 1977 in Asturias) is a cyclist from Spain.
He was the third cyclist to finish in the Tandem Road race.
Javier Otxoa Palacios (born August 30, 1974 in Vizcaya – August 24, 2018, Alhaurín de la Torre) was a cyclist from Spain.
He was a race car driver before being run over by a car.
After being run over by a car, he decided to be a cyclist all the time.
He has a disability: He has cerebral palsy and is a C3 type cyclist.
He was the number 1 racer to finish in the Combined Road race.
He was the number 2 cyclist in the Individual Pursuit track race.
He was the number 1 racer to finish in the Road Trial race.
He was the number 2 cyclist in the road race.
Sour cream or soured cream is a food made from cream that has been fermented.
It is thicker than cream, and has a sour taste from lactic acid.
Sometimes when bought from a store it has gelatin, rennet, or other things added to make it thicker.
Like many other dairy products, it must be kept refrigerated.
Sour cream is used in many European and American foods.
It is used as a sauce for baked potatoes, and as a dressing for salads.
Sometimes it is in baked goods like cheesecake and doughnuts.
It can be mixed with sugar to make an icing for cakes.
Manuel Buendia Navarrete (born March 28, 1957 in Girona) is a skier from Spain.
He has a disability: he is blind and is a type B2 skier.
He raced at the 1992 Winter Paralympics in para-alpine skiing.
He was the number 2 skier in the Super Giant.
He raced at the 1994 Winter Paralympics in para-alpine skiing.
He was the number 2 skier in the Super Giant, Giant Slalom and Slalom.
He raced at the 1998 Winter Paralympics in para-alpine skiing.
Anna Cohí Fornell (born October 5, 1988 in Barcelona) is a skier from Spain.
She has a disability: she is blind and is a type B3 skier.
She skis with Raquel Garcia Borreguero.
She started skiing when she was 3 years old.
Cohí raced at the 2006 Winter Paralympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics.
She started competing at the IPC Alpine World Championship in 2003 when she was 15 years old.
Cohí has also raced in World Cup and European Cup events and has earned gold medals in the slalom and giant slalom competitions.
Raquel Garcia Borreguero (born August 13, 1986 in Toledo, Spain) is a skier from Spain.
Skiing with Anna Cohí Fornell, she has race in the European Cup, 2010 Winter Paralympics, and IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup.
Garcia and Cohí skied with the Spanish national team at a training camp.
Vicente Garcia Salmeron (born January 9, 1970 in Granada) is a skier from Spain.
He has a disability: he is blind and is a type B1 skier.
He was the second skier to finish in the super giant race.
Gabriel Gorce Yepes (born August 2, 1990 in Madrid) is a skier from Spain.
He has raced with skiers who help him go down the mountain including Aleix Suñé, Félix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer.
He raced in the European Cup and the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup, at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
Aleix Suñé (born May 21, 1986 in Girona) is a skier from Spain.
He skiied at the 2009 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Gabriel Gorce Yepes.
He skied at the 2010 Winter Paralympics with Andrés Boira.
Félix Aznar  is a skier from Spain.
He helped Andrés Boira and Gabriel Gorce Yepes.
He skied  with Gorce at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver.
He raced in the European Cup with Boria and the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup.
Marcos Manuel Llados (born March 26, 1962 in Madrid) is a ski athlete from Spain.
He is a B2 type skier.
He ski raced at the 1992 Winter Paralympics.
He was the number three skier in the giant slalom race.
He ski raced at the 1994 Winter Paralympics.
He was the number three skier in the super giant race.
Eric Villalon Fuentes (born April 30, 1973 in Barcelona) is a ski athlete from Spain.
He ski raced at the 1998 Winter Paralympics.
He was the number 1 skier in the Super Giant, Giant Slalom and Slalom.
He ski raced at the 2002 Winter Paralympics.
He was the number 1 skier in the Giant Slalom and Slalom.
He was the number 2 skier in the Giant Slalom and Downhill.
He ski raced at the 2006 Winter Paralympics.
He was the number 2 skier to finish in the Slalom.
He was the number 2 skier to finish in the Giant Slalom.
A Hazardous Weather Outlook is a statement used by the National Weather Service in the United States to give information about possible bad weather events that may happen in the next seven days.
It may be used to give information about possible strong thunderstorms, heavy rain or flooding, winter weather, or very low or high temperatures.
Daniel Lamata de La Torre (born June 22, 1970 in Abrera, Barcelona) is a wheelchair fencing athlete from Spain.
He has a disability: he uses a wheelchair and is a category B 2 fencer.
He fenced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
He finished third in the one person sword event.
Carlos Álvarez Nieto (born January 24, 1973 in Madrid) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
He played 5-per-team football at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.
His team finished third after they played Greece and, won 2-0.
Spanish 5-per-team footballers
Milbank is a city in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota.
It is the county seat of Grant County, and 3,353 people lived there at the 2010 census.
Milbank became a city in 1881.
City of Milbank website
Vicente Aguilar Carmona (born April 10, 1970 in Valencia) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Pedro Antonio García Villa (born January 26, 1973 in Murcia) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Córdoba, Argentina (pop.
1,300,000), capital city of the province, and the largest city with this name
Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain (pop.
338,000), capital of the historic Caliphate of Córdoba, and the city from which the name originates
Córdoba may also refer to:
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador) (d. 1517)
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua) (d. 1526)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453–1515), Spanish military leader
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585–1645), Spanish military leader
Iván Córdoba (born 1976), Colombian footballer
Piedad Córdoba (born 1955), Colombian senator
Córdoba Province, Argentina, one of the country's 23 federal provinces
Córdoba, Quindío, municipality in Quindío Department
Córdoba, Bolívar, municipality in Bolívar Department
Córdoba, Nariño, town and municipality in the Nariño Department
Córdoba Department, one of the country's 32 departments
Córdoba, Veracruz
Córdoba Province (Spain)
Córdoba (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Córdoba (Vino de la Tierra), wine producing region in Spain
Historical Islamic states
Emirate of Córdoba, 756–929
Caliphate of Córdoba, 929–1031
Taifa of Córdoba, 11th century
Great Mosque of Córdoba
Córdoba (Albéniz), Op.
232, No.
4, a musical composition by Isaac Albéniz
Córdoba C.F., Spanish football club
Cordoba Fighting Dog, an extinct Argentine dog breed
Cordoba Guitars, a guitar manufacturer
Nicaraguan córdoba, the currency of Nicaragua
Chrysler Cordoba, a car produced by Chrysler
SEAT Córdoba, a car manufactured by SEAT
Carmelo Garrido Alarcón (born September 12, 1971 in Puertollano, Ciudad Real) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Gonzalo Iván Largo Romero (born August 1, 1977 in Madrid) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Youssef El Haddaqui Rabil (born December 28, 1988) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
He has a disability: he is blind and is a B1 type sportperson.
He played 5-per-team football at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
His team finished third after they played Argentina and, won 1-0.
Alfredo Cuadrado Freire (born May 2, 1969 in Madrid) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
José Luis Giera Tejuelo (born July 28, 1985) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
José Lopez Ramirez (born December 17, 1975 in Málaga) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Antonio Jesús Martin Gaitán (born April 22, 1982 in Málaga) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Francisco Javier Muñoz Perez (born December 12, 1985 in Barcelona) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
His team finished third after they played Argentina and won 1-0.
Marcelo Rosado Carrasco (born October 2, 1978 in Málaga) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
Adolfo Samuel Acosta Rodriguez (born May 19, 1981 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain.
The autism spectrum quotient is a questionnaire which was first published in 2001 by the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.
There are fifty questions in the test, and they are used to decide whether a teenager or an adult wtih average intelligence has symptoms of autism or related autism spectrum conditions.
It is commonly used for self-diagnosis of autism-related spectrum conditions.
Iolani Palace is a building in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
It was a palace for the kings and queens of Hawaii.
It is the only palace in the United States that was used as an official residence by a reigning monarch.
Two monarchs governed from Iolani Palace.
They were King Kalākaua and Queen Liliuokalani.
After Hawaii stopped having kings and queens in 1893, the building was used as the state's capitol building until 1969.
In 1962, Iolani Palace became a National Historic Landmark.
The palace was restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1978.
Royal palace
Iolani Palace was built when the king of Hawaii was David Kalākaua.
Kalākaua had seen royal palaces in Europe.
He had Iolani Palace designed to be like those.
It was built of brick and concrete.
The building was completed in November 1882.
It cost over $340,000.
It measures about .
It is two stories high.
It has a basement.
It has four corner towers.
It has two towers in the center that are  high.
Iolani Palace is the only building of its architectural style.
The style is called "American Florentine".
The palace had electricity and telephones even before the White House had them.
Executive Building
After Hawaii stopped having kings and queens in 1893, the new government of Hawaii took over Iolani Palace.
The palace was renamed the "Executive Building" for the Republic of Hawaii.
Officials made a record of what was in the building.
The things that could not be used by the new government were sold at public auctions.
Queen Liliuokalani was imprisoned for nine months in a small room on the upper floor after a rebellion in 1895.
The quilt she made is still there.
Palace Restoration
In 1930, the inside of Iolani Palace was remodeled.
The wood framing was replaced by steel and reinforced concrete.
In 1935, the name was changed back to Iolani Palace.
Iolani Palace was made an official National Historic Landmark on December 29, 1962.
On October 15, 1966, it was added as site 66000293 to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oahu.
Government offices left the Palace in 1969 and moved to the new Hawaii State Capitol building.
Many things that used to be in the palace have been returned.
Money from the government and private donations paid to help make rooms in the palace look like they did during the monarchy era.
Iolani Palace opened to the public in 1978.
In the basement is a photographic display of the Palace, the Hawaiian crown jewels, awards given by the monarchs, and regalia worn by the high chiefs of the islands.
The grounds of Iolani Palace are managed by the Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources.
The palace building itself is managed as a historical house museum by the Friends of Iolani Palace, a non-profit non-governmental organization.
The birthdays of King Kalākaua (November 16) and Queen Kapiolani (December 28) are celebrated with ceremonies.
Friends of Iolani Palace
Iolani Palace oral history on Pacific Worlds
Iolani Palace and the Overthrow of the Monarchy on Pacific Worlds
Gesso is a primer or foundation for art painting on wood or canvas.
It is a white paint mixture.
It has a binder mixed with a pigment.
Traditionally, the binder is glue or gelatin, the pigment is chalk, plaster or gypsum.
Gesso is used in art to prepare a surfaces (wood panels, canvas and sculpture) for painting.
Paint and/or other materials are applied on top of the gesso.
One reason for covering the surface with gesso is that wood or canvas has a rough or uneven surface, and a colour.
Gesso "priming" lets the artist's chosen subject show more clearly than it would otherwise.
Even if a surface has no roughness, many artists still prime it before starting the painting proper, though they might use a paint or "wash" of their own choosing.
They do this because the primer, though it cannot be seen directly, may change and help the quality of light reflected from the surface.
Gesso, however, is specially useful for a rough or uneven surface.
Acrylic gesso
Acrylic gesso, a widely used "ground", is a modern version which is cheaper and easier to use than the traditional type of gesso.
It is a combination of calcium carbonate with an acrylic polymer medium latex, a pigment and other chemicals to ensure flexibility and increase life.
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The Painter's Handbook notes a problem with using oil paints over an acrylic gesso ground instead of a traditional oil ground, citing a mismatch in flexibility over time that could cause the oil paint to delaminate (flake off).p60
Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (5 May 1834, St Petersburg – 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a writer.
She is famous for her children's books Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.
United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) is an independent school in Singapore.
It is branch of an international school called United World College.
UWCSEA has two campuses that are based in Singapore, one on Dover Road at the Mid-West of the city and one at Tampines Avenue in the Tampines District.
UWCSEA is a kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school.
Many famous people like Akihiko Hoshide, who has gone into space, have graduated from UWCSEA.
A Little Princess is a children's book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
It was published in 1905.
The story is about a rich little girl who suddenly becomes poor.
The book has been made into stage plays, television programs, and movies.
1905 works
Books by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jessica Walter (January 31, 1941March 24, 2021) was an American actress.
She played Lucille Bluth in the television sitcom Arrested Development.
She also played Tabitha Wilson in the series 90210.
Walter received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie.
She won that award for playing Amy Prentiss in the police drama television series of the same name.
Judith McConnell (born April 6, 1944 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress.
She acts in soap operas.
She played Sophia Wayne Capwell on the soap opera Santa Barbara.
She also played Nurse Augusta McLeod on the series General Hospital.
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The story was first published in parts (serialization) in St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886.
It was published in book form by Scribner's in 1886.
It was illustrated by Reginald B. Birch.
The story is about a poor American boy who inherits a great English estate.
The story has been made into stage plays, television programs, and movies.
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
It was published in parts (serialization) in The American Magazine in 1910.
It was published in book form in 1911.
The story is about three children whose lives are changed while tending a neglected garden.
(plain text and HTML illustrated)
The Secret Garden, available at Internet Archive.
New York : F. A. Stokes, 1911 (color scanned book)
Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a boys' book by Horatio Alger, Jr. It was published in parts (serialization) in the magazine Student and Schoolmate in 1867.
It was then published as a book in 1868 by A. K. Loring of Boston, Massachusetts.
It was the first of six books in the Ragged Dick series.
It was Alger's bestselling book.
Ragged Dick is a poor bootblack (shoe shine boy) in New York City.
He makes his life better by working hard and being honest.
He opens a bank account and takes a frail boy named Fosdick into his little apartment.
Fosdick teaches Dick to read, write, and do arithmetic.
One day, Dick saves a rich man's child from drowning.
He is rewarded with money and a clerk's job in the man's firm.
The game was announced at Sony's press conference during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012 by the CEO of Quantic Dream David Cage.
Canadian actor Elliot Page was confirmed to star in the game.
The game is the final soundtrack that was composed by Normand Corbeil, who died of pancreatic cancer on 25 January 2013.
Lorne Balfe took over as composer after Corbeil's death.
The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King is an American helicopter built by Sikorsky.
It was used by the U.S. Navy between 1961 and 2006 for finding and destroying submarines, search and rescue, and utility.
It produced under licence in Italy, Japan, and United Kingdom for military users.
Civil helicopters are known as Sikorsky S-61.
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King is a twin-engines helicopter, with a five-blade rotor.
It is made of metal.
It can carry torpedos or naval missiles like American Harpoon or French Exocet.
It can carry up to 15 passengers or injured on board.
The cockpit is for two people, pilot and co-pilot.
Sea King is (or was) used in 2013 by : Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and USA.
Countries that used British versions of Sea King are not included, see at Westland Sea King.
Jackson, Robert, Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (The Aviation Factfile).
London: Grange Books Ltd, 2005. .
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Biass, Eric H. World Helicopter Systems.
Geneva, Switzerland : Interavia Data, 1985.
Sikorsky aircraft & helicopter
Westland Sea King is a British helicopter built by Westland.
It is a licence-built version of the American SH-3 Sea King.
Transport duty versions are known as Westland Commando.
In 2013 Westland Sea King is (or was) in service in Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Germany, India, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, UK.
In the UK, the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy used this helicopter.
The Louvre Pyramid is a pyramid built of glass and metal.
It is in the Musée du Louvre, in Paris.
The architect I. M. Pei designed the building.
It opened to visitors in 1989.
French president François Mitterrand spoke at the opening.
A contrail (condensation trail) is a cloud-like trail of water vapor or ice crystals left by an airplane.
When jet fuel burns, it produces water vapor and carbon dioxide.
The water vapor condenses (turns from gas to liquid) because of the low temperature at the high altitude that the plane is flying.
The chemtrail conspiracy theory claims that these trails may contain harmful chemicals being sprayed by government organizations.
Neufchâtel is a French cheese product from Neufchâtel-en-Bray, in Seine-Maritime, Normandy.
It generally takes the form of a heart or a small brick.
It has a salty taste, and a similar texture to Camembert cheese.
It is made from unpasteurized cow's milk.
This cheese is protected by an Appellation d'origine contrôlée - meaning that no other area can claim to make it.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fourth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
It was for young singers aged 8 to 15.
The contest was broadcast live from Bucharest, Romania on 2 December 2006.
It was the second time the contest had been held in a capital city.
It was organised by the Romanian national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR), in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
TVR won the rights to host the contest over AVRO of the Netherlands (who hosted the next contest).
Croatia also showed an interest in hosting this contest.
- Fernando Argenta & Lucho
- André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys (RTBF)
- Adam Alsing (TV4)
- Joana Galo Costa
- George Ioannidies
- Tess Gaerthe (Represented Netherlands in 2005)
- Andrea Nastase
- Assol
- Lucia
- Milica Stanišić
- Jack Curtis
- Dennis Dimoski
- Amy Diamond
- Alexandros Chountas
- Liza Anton-Baychuk
- Sander Cliquet
- Lorena Jelusić
- Roman Kerimov
Official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website
TVR website
Junior Eurovision coverage by ESCKaz, in English and Russian
ESCToday.com news
2006 in music
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is a book by W. H. Hudson (William Henry Hudson).
It was published in 1904.
The story is about a jungle-dwelling girl, Rima, and Abel, the man who loves her.
The story has been adapted to opera, a movie starring Audrey Hepburn, and comic books.
A radionuclide is a naturally or artificially produced radioactive isotope of an element.
They are often referred to as radioactive isotopes or radioisotopes.
Radionuclides produce ionizing radiation.
Some are used in nuclear medicine.
Kidnapped is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It tells the story of the 18th-century "Appin Murder" following the Jacobite Rising.
Some of the characters in the book were based on real people.
The book has been adapted to movies many times and to comic books.
A Child's Garden of Verses is a book of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It was published in 1885.
The book's subject is childhood.
Well-known poems include "My Shadow", "The Swing", and "The Land of Counterpane".
"A Child's Garden of Verses" at Bartleby.com
1885 books
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It was published in 1888.
It has been adapted to movies, comic books, and other media.
1888 books
Island Nights' Entertainments is a book of three short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It was published in 1893.
It is also known as South Sea Tales.
The stories are "The Beach of Falesá", "The Bottle Imp", and "The Isle of Voices".
The book was one of the last books Stevenson wrote.
He died in 1894.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus is a boys' book by Horatio Alger, Jr. It was first published in parts (serialization) in the magazine Golden Argosy in 1887.
It was published as a book in 1888 by Frank A. Munsey of New York.
The setting of the book was suggested to the writer by his friend, circus showman P. T. Barnum.
Kit, a young teen boy, is an orphan.
He is cheated of his inheritance by his guardian.
His guardian sends him off to work with a brutal, stupid blacksmith.
He joins the circus.
He is followed by the blacksmith.
The boy stays away from him.
He becomes a big star in the circus.
Later, he is restored to his rightful place with the help of a man who was his father's friend.
Nintendo Direct is an online presentation produced by Nintendo.
It is used to give information about upcoming Nintendo content and products such as video games and consoles.
It is hosted by different people depending on the country where it airs.
In Japan, it was hosted by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata but ever since he died in July 2015, It has been hosted by Yoshiaki Koizumi.
In North America, it is hosted by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime.
In Europe, it is hosted by Nintendo of Europe president Satoru Shibata.
It began in Japan on October 21, 2011.
It started to air in other countries later on.
There are five different types of Nintendo Direct presentations:
Nintendo Direct: A 30-50 minute presentation about all different types of Nintendo products.
They take place every two months.
Wii U Direct: A 30-50 minute presentation about the Wii U.
Nintendo 3DS Direct: A 30-50 minute presentation about the Nintendo 3DS.
Nintendo Direct Mini: A 5-10 minute presentation about all different types of Nintendo products.
Special Nintendo Direct editions: A 30-50 minute presentation about a specific Nintendo or third-party (not directly tied to Nintendo) franchise.
2010s establishments in Japan
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was a writer, naturalist, and ornithologist.
He wrote ''Green Mansions.
C-3PO is a fictional character in the Star Wars series.
He is a translator droid/robot that speaks over 6 million languages.
He has a humanoid form and is present in every movie of the saga with the exception of Solo.
His companion is R2-D2.
Anthony Daniels plays C-3PO and is the only person to appear in all 11 Star Wars films.
Jack and Jill: A Village Story is a children's book by Louisa May Alcott.
It was published in 1880.
Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends who live next door to each other.
They are always seen together.
Janey gets the nickname of Jill, to mimic the old Jack and Jill rhyme.
Seriously injured in a sledding accident, they recover from their physical injuries, while learning life lessons along with their many friends.
They are helped along their journey to recovery by various activities created by their mothers.
Original text at Project Gutenberg
Literature Network
Daily Lit
Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
He wrote more than thirty plays and almost the same number of movie screenplays, most adapted from his plays.
He has received more Oscar and Tony Award nominations than any other writer.
Simon was born on July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City to a Jewish family.
He studied at New York University and at the University of Denver.
Simon was married five times.
The first four ended in divorce.
He was married to Elaine Joyce from 1999 until his death in 2018.
Simon had three children, including one adopted child.
Simon died on August 26, 2018 of complications from pneumonia after being on life-support while hospitalized for renal failure in Manhattan, aged 91.
He also had Alzheimer's disease.
video: "Neil Simon's Broadway", 6 minutes
Neil Simon Theatre Festival
PBS article, American Masters
Angus Stanley King, Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from the state of Maine.
A political independent, he served as the 72nd Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003.
King won Maine's United States Senate election in Maine, 2012 and took office on January 3, 2013.
For committee assignment purposes, he caucuses with the Democratic Party.
King was born on March 31, 1944 in Alexandria, Virginia.
He studied at Dartmouth College and at University of Virginia.
King has been married to Mary Harman since 1984.
He now lives in Brunswick, Maine.
U.S. Senate website
Angus King for U.S. Senate official campaign site
June 2006 Speech by Angus King on the Maine laptop program
King family site documenting the motorhome trip. (
retrieved September 13, 2006)
There are several actors
Each actor can influence the state of the model by choosing one among several options
This choice influences the state of the system, and the choices the other actors have
This definition excludes all "games" where there is only one actor.
Game theory developed from describing very specific games into a model that is used for strategic decision-making.
John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern first described game theory.
Other people known for their work in game theory include Émile Borel.
Archimedes' screw is a machine.
It is a type of pump used for raising water up.
It is a screw inside a fairly tight-fitting cylinder.
With the bottom end in water, the screw lifts water up to the top, where it pours out of a spout.
The screw can be turned by hand, or by a windmill, or by an engine.
The screw is often used for filling irrigation ditches.
Archimedes wrote about it when he was in Alexandria, Egypt.
It is not known for certain whether he did invent it, but it is always attributed to him.
The Archimedes screw is still much in use all over the world.
There is also a kind of reverse Archimedes' screw.
Water poured in on top turns the screw.
The turning drives an electric generator, which makes electricity.
It is good for rivers with modest water drops ('low heads').
The reverse screw has the same benefits as using the screw for pumping: it can handle very dirty water and widely varying rates of flow, with high efficiency.
P. J. Kantert: „Manual for Archimedean Screw Pump“, Hirthammer Verlag 2008, .
P. J. Kantert: „Praxishandbuch Schneckenpumpe“, Hirthammer Verlag 2008, .
Ezra (; , Ezra; fl.
480–440 BC), is a highly respected figure in Judaism.
He is called Ezra the Scribe (, Ezra ha-Sofer) and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra.
In an early Greek translation of the bible, the Septuagint, the name is written as Esdras (), from which comes .
His name may be an abbreviation of , "God-helps".
In Islam he is known as Uzair ().
He was mentioned in the Qur'an.
Early bible history
The Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the history of Ezra,.
Many of the other books they say are written by Ezra (First Esdras, 3-6 Ezra) are written after that.
Those books take the story from the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
Ezra was a member of the family of Seraiah the high priest.
He lived in Babylon when in the seventh year (~ 457 BCE) of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, the king sent him to Jerusalem to teach the laws of God to any who did not know them.
Ezra led a large group of exiles back to Jerusalem.
He discovered that Jewish men had been marrying non-Jewish women.
He worked to stop this from happening again.
Some years later the king Artaxerxes sent a Jewish nobleman, Nehemiah, to Jerusalem.
He had to rebuild the city walls.
Once this was done, Nehemiah asked Ezra to read the Law of Moses (the Torah) to the people.
The people and priests agreed to keep to this law and to separate themselves from all other peoples.
The second book of Esdras was written a lot later, c. AD 100.
In this book, Ezra talks with an angel or God three times and has four visions.
At the end, he is taken up to heaven like Enoch and Elijah.
Ezra is seen as a new Moses in this book.
Ezra in rabbinic literature
Judaism believes Ezra started the Great Assembly of scholars and prophets.
Later, this would become the Sanhedrin, the authority when it comes to religious law.
Ezra's tomb
Esdras -  about the classification of the books ascribed to Ezra
Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah - the non-rabbinical tradition
1 Esdras and 2 Esdras - the Greek version of the texts
Jewish Encyclopedia: Ezra the Scribe
Catholic Encyclopedia: Esdras
Turkana boy, or Nariokotome boy, is the fossil KNM-WT 15000.
It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid who died in the early Pleistocene 1.5 million years ago (mya), near present-day Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya.
This specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found.
It was first classified as Homo erectus; after much heated debate, it was re-classified as Homo ergaster.
His age at death has been estimated from 7 years six months to as old as 15 years.
The most recent scientific review suggests 8 years of age.
It was first thought that he would have grown to 1.85 m tall, but recently a height of 1.63 m was proposed.
Research showed that his growth differed from that of modern humans: he would have had a shorter and smaller adolescent growth spurt.
Adolescence and maturity
The shape of the pelvis identifies that the specimen was a male.
His estimated age at death depends upon whether the maturity stage of his teeth or skeletal is used, and whether that maturity is compared to that of modern humans or chimpanzees.
A key factor here is that while modern humans have a marked adolescent growth spurt, chimpanzees do not.
While initial research assumed a modern human type of growth, more recent evidence from other fossils suggests this was less present in early Homo.
This affects the estimation of both his age and his likely stature as a fully grown adult.
The pelvis is narrower than in Homo sapiens, which might indicate more efficient running, whether to run down small game or to avoid predators.
The Boy was relatively tall, which would have increased his surface area and helped him to lose heat.
Body hair may also have been thinner to hasten cooling.
Body hair was lost in the shift towards savanna living.
In equatorial Africa, modern humans evolved this trait an estimated one million years ago.
The skeleton still had features (such as a low sloping forehead, strong brow ridges, and the absence of a chin) not seen in H. sapiens.
The arms were slightly longer.
Turkana Boy had a projecting nose rather than the open flat nose seen in apes.
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The Heinkel He 114 is a Nazi German two-seated biplane seaplane.
It is used by Luftwaffe, and Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish air forces for aerial reconnaissance.
Maiden flight was in 1936 and it started on unit on 1939.
It was built by Heinkel.
The Short 330 is a British twin-engines airliner used for regional and domestic flights.
It can carry about 30 passengers.
It was built between 1974 and 1992 by Short Brothers in Belfast.
It is used by the US Army and US Air Force as C-23 Sherpa.
Short 360 is a modernized variant.
Short C-23 Sherpa
The Short 360 is a twin-engines British airliner built by Short Brothers in Belfast.
Used for domestic flights, it can carry about 30 passengers.
It is a variant of the Short 330.
Its first test flight was in 1981.
It was built between 1981 and 1991.
The Technische Universität München (TUM; University of Technology, Munich; Technical University of Munich) is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching and Freising-Weihenstephan.
The university alumni and professor list include 17 Nobel Prize winners.
As of winter semester 2018 TUM has 41.375 students, 566 professors, and 10.501 staff members.
The Prelude Op.
15, by Frédéric Chopin is known as the "Raindrop" prelude.
It is one of the 24 Chopin preludes.
This is the longest of the preludes.
It lasts between five and seven minutes.
The prelude is famous for its repeating A-flat.
This note appears throughout the piece.
It sounds like raindrops to many listeners.
It is known for it's repetitive raindrop motif.
Some of the Preludes were written during Chopin and George Sand's stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838.
In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand told how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma, Majorca, in a terrible rainstorm, found a frantic Chopin who cried, "Ah!
I knew well that you were dead."
While playing his piano he had a dream:
"He saw himself  drowned in a lake.
Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it.
He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds.
He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations.
His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds."
Sand did not say which prelude Chopin played for her at that time.
Most music critics think it was no.
15, because of the repeating A flat, with its suggestion of the "gentle patter" of rain.
Peter Dayan points out that Sand accepted Chopin's protests that the prelude was not an imitation of the sound of raindrops, but a translation of nature's harmonies within Chopin's "génie".
Frederick Niecks says that the prelude "rises before one's mind the cloistered court of the monastery of Valdemosa, and a procession of monks chanting lugubrious prayers, and carrying in the dark hours of night their departed brother to his last resting-place.
The prelude opens with a "serene" theme in D flat.
It then changes to a "lugubrious interlude" in C sharp minor, "with the dominant pedal never ceasing, a basso ostinato".
The repeating A flat, which has been heard throughout the first section, here becomes more insistent.
Following this, the prelude ends with a repetition of the original theme.
Niecks says, "This C sharp minor portion...affects one like an oppressive dream; the re-entrance of the opening D flat major, which dispels the dreadful nightmare, comes upon one with the smiling freshness of dear, familiar nature – only after these horrors of the imagination can its serene beauty be fully appreciated.
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Sisseton is a city in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota.
It is the county seat of Roberts County, and 2,740 people lived there at the 2010 census.
Sisseton became a city in 1907.
City of Sisseton website
A GSSP, more fully a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point,  is an internationally agreed point which defines the start of a stage on the geologic time scale.
The work is done by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, a part of the International Union of Geological Sciences.
As of 2012, 64 of the 101 stages that need a GSSP have been decided.
Rules for GSSP
A geologic section has to follow the rules to be adapted as a GSSP by the ICS.
The list below are the rules:
A GSSP has to decide the lower boundary (start of a geological period) of a geologic stage.
The lower boundary (start of a geological period) has to be decided using a primary (main) marker (usually first appearance datum of a fossil specie).
There should also be secondary markers (other fossils, chemical, geomagnetic reversal).
The horizon in which the marker appears should have minerals that can be radiometrically dated.
The marker has to have regional and global correlation in outcrops of the same age
The marker should be independent of facies.