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He served as the titular archbishop of Caesarea in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
He was born in Aleppo, Syria.
During his time in office, he was a critic of Israel, showing support with the Palestinians.
On 20 July 1947, he was ordained a priest of the Basilian Alepian Order.
On 30 July 1965, he was appointed archbishop and consecrated.
Grzegorz Ignatowski, The arrest of Hilarion Capucci and the relations between the Holy See and the State of Israel
Guillermo Enrique Morales Portillo, better known as Memo Morales (6 April 1937 – 1 January 2017) was a Venezuelan singer also known as El Gitano Maracucho.
He was the voice main of important orchestras of the country.
In 1981, he founded, with Luisín Landaez, La Nuestra, and in 1984, with Cheo García, created La Gran Orquesta de Cheo y Memo.
They performed together until Garcia's death in 1994.
Uzlomac is a long mountain in Central Bosnia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  east from line direction Maslovare –  Vrbanjci – Kotor Varoš – Čelinac.
It stretches in  southeast – northwest direction, through the mountainous area, from Kruševica river to Jošavka.
Its maximum altitude is .
On Uzlomac rise many tributaries of Vrbanja river, Usora and Ukrina, i.e. tributaries of  Vrbas and Bosna (river) confluences.
Jezerka
Yaakov Neeman (‎ , 16 September 1939 – 1 January 2017) was an Israeli lawyer and academic.
Neeman served as Minister of Justice in 1996 and again from 2009 through 2013.
He also served as Minister of Finance from 1997 through 1998.
Herzog, Fox & Neeman
"Get Dumb" is a 2007 single by Swedish DJs Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso, (the three later known as Swedish House Mafia) along with Dutch DJ Laidback Luke.
The song was also the first ever collaboration by the Swedish trio before their formation as a supergroup.
Produced at Groove Motel, Stockholm
Vocals – Sebastian Ingrosso
Drums – Axwell
Keyboards – Steve Angello
Percussion – Laidback Luke
Label: Big & Dirty
Small-cell carcinoma (also known as "small-cell lung cancer", or "oat-cell carcinoma") is a type of highly malignant cancer that most commonly arises within the lung, although it can occasionally arise in other body sites, such as the cervix, prostate, and gastrointestinal tract.
Small cell carcinoma has a shorter doubling time, higher growth fraction, and earlier development of metastases compared to a non-small cell carcinoma.
Ciarán Hinds (  ; born 9 February 1953) is an Irish movie, television and stage actor.
He is known for his roles in Road to Perdition, The Sum of All Fears, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Woman in Black, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Frozen.
He played Steppenwolf, in the 2017 movie Justice League and its director's cut in 2021.
In 2022, Hinds was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Belfast.
Website dedicated to his works on stage and screen
Youthaction.org Northern Ireland Organization Supported by Hinds
Olivia is a female given name in English.
It is derived from the Latin word olive.
It dates back to the 13th century.
Many people think the name was first used by William Shakespeare for a character in Twelfth Night.
Wonder Woman is an American superhero movie.
It is based on the DC Comics character Wonder Woman.
It is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The movie is intended to be the fourth installment in the DC Extended Universe.
The movie is directed by Patty Jenkins, written by Allan Heinberg, Geoff Johns and Patty Jenkins, and from a story by Heinberg and Zack Snyder.
Principal photography began in late November 2015 and wrapped in May 2016.
Wonder Woman was released on June 2, 2017 in the United States, in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D.
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince
An Amazonian princess and main hero of the movie
Chris Pine as Steve Trevor
Wonder Woman's love interest and fighter pilot for the United States Military
Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta
The Queen of the Amazons and the mother of Wonder Woman
David Thewlis as Ares
The main antagonist of the movie.
The evil son of Zeus based on the Greek mythological god of War who pretends to be Sir Patrick Morgan
Robin Wright as General Antiope
The sister of Hippolyta and Wonder Woman's aunt
Lucy Davis as Etta Candy
Steve Trevor's best friend and secretary
Lisa Loven Kongsli as Menalippe
Antiope's lieutenant
Danny Huston as General Erich Ludendorff
General of the German Army
Elena Anaya as Doctor Poison
A mad scientist known for her works about poison and works with Gen. Ludendorff
Ewen Bremner as Charlie
Drunk sharpshooter and friend of Steve Trevor
Saïd Taghmaoui as Sameer
A Turkish spy who is friends with Steve Trevor
At the 2017 San Diego Comic Con, Warner Bros. officially announced a sequel would be released on December 13, 2019, and would be titled Wonder Woman 1984; the date was later moved up to November 1, 2019, to avoid competition with Star Wars: Episode IX.
Muriel is a female given name in the English language.
It is also a family name.
The name has been around for a long time in Breton, Celtic, Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages.
The name was common in medieval England, often formatted as Merial.
Usage of Muriel peaked in the early 1920s.
Use of the name has steadily declined over time.
People with the family name include Alma Muriel.
Fictional characters named Muriel include Muriel Heslop from Muriel's Wedding.
Emmanuel Niyonkuru (20 July 1962 – 1 January 2017) was a Burundian politician.
He was appointed to the Government of Burundi as Minister of Water and Environment in 2015, after having been elected as a senator for the district of Muramvya.
He was born in the Commune of Rutegama, Burundi.
Niyonkuru was assassinated by gunshot in the capital city of Bujumbura on 1 January 2016, aged 54.
A woman was reportedly arrested.
Burundian people
Joseph Anthony Califano Jr. (born May 15, 1931) is a retired American politician.
He served as United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1977 through 1979 under the Jimmy Carter administration.
He is the founder and chairman of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), an evidence-based research organization.
Biography at protectthetruth.org
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia)
NNDB biographical article
Oral History Interview with Joseph Califano from Oral Histories of the American South
Booknotes interview with Califano on Inside: A Public and Private Life, May 23, 2004.
Usora is left tributary of the Bosnia in central Bosnia.
The total length of the river Usora – from sources below the top of the mountain Očauš to the mouth above the Doboj  is about 82 kilometers.
The town of Teslić, through which it flows, bears the  local name Velika Usora (Great Usora), since under the city at a place called Sastavci meets with his same named, but a lot less left tributary Mala Usora (Little Usora).
It  also comes from the mountain masiff Uzlomac – Borja – Očauš below it in smaller distances rises more Bosnia river and their tributaries, as well as the basin Vrbanja river and Ukrina.
In its upper reaches, the river makes a wide loop around Borja, from its southwest to northeast slopes.
Great Usora created by merging Gomjenice and Brkića stream.
Small Usora springs below (south) of the main road M-4 (Banja Luka – Matuzići, some 10 km west of Pribinić).
Before Sastavci locality, right tributary to it are: Mišića rijeka, Great Ostružnja, Inova , Miljkovača, Velika rijeka (Great river), Brezna  and smaller streams, as well as left: Rankovića rijeka, and Gračanica.
In much of the flow Ukrina is flooding  river but the increasingly frequent flooding causes significant damages.
In the early Bosnian history Usora belonged to  gold-bearing river, and it is believed that this is still in its upper course along with the many large and small tributaries and streams.
Obvious hydro-energy potential Usora is permanently unused, and fish stocks almost negligible, especially if one takes into account the centuries-old discharging untreated waste industrial water Chemical Distillation of wood in Teslić.
Echinodon is a genus of Heterodontosaur dinosaur.
It has been found in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe, 140 million years ago.
Saurechinodon is a synonym of this genus.
Gemiliano "Mel" Campos Lopez, Jr. (1 September 1935 – 1 January 2017) was a Filipino politician.
He served as the Mayor of Manila from 1986 to 1987 and 1988 to 1992.
He was also an assemblyman of the Batasang Pambansa (former parliament of the Philippines) from 1984 to 1986.
He was born in Manila.
Lopez died from a heart attack on 1 January 2017 in Quezon City.
Megalosauridae is a monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs in the order Megalosauroidea.
They appeared in the Middle Jurassic,
They are closely related to the family Spinosauridae.
Some members of this family include Megalosaurus, Torvosaurus, Eustreptospondylus, and Afrovenator.
Megalosaurids were among the first major adaptive radiations of large theropod dinosaurs, but they became extinct by the end of the Jurassic period.
They were a relatively primitive group of basal tetanurans with two main subfamilies, Megalosaurinae and Afrovenatorinae.
The basal genus Eustreptospondylus differs from both subfamilies.
Its position is unclear
François Chérèque (1 June 1956 – 2 January 2017) was a French trade unionist.
He was the leader of the trade union centre French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT, ) from 2002 to 2012.
He was born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Squash (also called cordial or dilute) is a non-alcoholic concentrated syrup.
It is used in beverage making.
It is usually fruit-flavoured.
Squash is made from fruit juice, water, and sugar.
Modern squashes may also contain food coloring and additional flavoring.
Some traditional squashes contain herbal extracts, most notably elderflower and ginger.
The original name for Squash was "Lemon Squash" but the name was shortened to include other flavors.
Viktor Grigoryevich Tsaryov (; 2 June 1931 – 2 January 2017) was a Russian footballer.
He played professionally from 1954 to 1966.
He was best known for playing as a midfielder for Dynamo Moscow.
He later managed the USSR football team and Dynamo Moscow.
Viktor Tsaryov at rusteam.permian.ru
Bogdan Romuald Tuszyński (4 July 1932 – 1 January 2017) was a Polish sports journalist, reporter and historian.
He was best known for his sports report Studio S-13 of the Polskie Radio, beginning in 1970.
He started his job as an editor of Przegląd Sportowy (1951–1952).
He later moved to Polskie Radio in 1953, leaving them in 1981.
He also reported on the Peace Race every year.
He published about thirty books between 1975 and 2009.
Tuszyński was born in Łódź.
His daughter, Agata Tuszyńska (born 1957), also became a journalist.
Tuszyński died after a long illness on 1 January 2017 in Warsaw.
A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast.
It runs in a fore-and-aft direction.
Dating back to Roman navigation, the lateen became the favorite sail of the Age of Discovery.
This was mainly because it allowed a boat to tack "against the wind".
It is common in the Mediterranean, the upper Nile River, and the northwestern parts of the Indian Ocean.
It is the standard rig for feluccas and dhows.
Another form is used on small recreational boats like the Sailfish and Sunfish.
A square sail is a very simple device.
It catches a following wind and pushes the vessel forward.
The lateen sail is more complex.
It is set at an angle to the wind.
It works by creating a difference in air pressure between the two sides (concave and convex) of the sail.
This is the same way a fore-and-aft sail works.
This is why the lateen sail is considered the ancestor of the fore-and-aft sail.
The advantages of the lateen sail is that it is effective in lighter winds.
It causes less drag and so is more efficient.
It allows the vessel to sail much "closer to the wind" (meaning it can sail at up to about 45 degrees into the wind).
This made the lateen sail a very important invention.
The lateen sail did not directly come from the square sail.
There was an intermediate sail type called the lug sail.
It was one of the earliest fore-and-aft rigs.
It was developed for use on the Indian Ocean.
Sailors knew that the wind does not always come from behind the vessel.
They learned that the square sail could be made more efficient by turning it on the mast so it remained at a right angle to the wind.
When used with a keel and some form of steering, it provided more options.
Instead of simply sailing downwind, the vessel could move in different directions relative to the direction of the wind.
If the wind came from the beam (side of the ship), rotating the sail became less effective.
But, if the luff (edge of the sail) was pointed into the wind and kept taut, the sail would provide forward movement.
This could be made more effective if the yard (or spar) holding the sail is sloped downward into the wind.
From this discovery came the lug, then the lateen.
In ancient history the square sail was used in the Mediterranean.
It was used on seagoing ships of the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
In Northern Europe at this time, they only used the square sail.
This was even after the ships in the Mediterranean were using the triangular lateen sails.
The 15th and 16th century caravel was a favorite type of ship used in the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of discovery.
In addition to their distinctive single sterncastle, they carried lateen sails.
During this time the caravel developed into a very fast and highly maneuverable ship.
Two of Christopher Columbus's ships, the Niña and the Pinta were caravels.
He repeatedly praised the Niña as his fastest and favorite ship.
Lateen sailing; YouTube
Berger was born in Hackney, London, England.
He was the son of Miriam (nee Branson) and Stanley Berger.
Berger served in the British Army from 1944 to 1946.
He studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London.
He lived in France for over 50 years.
Berger's novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize.
He wrote an essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing.
The essay was written as an accompaniment to a BBC series.
It is often used as a university text.
Tacking or coming about is a term in sailing that means the boat is changing directions by turning the bow of the vessel in relationship to the wind.
It also means the course you are on relative to the direction of the oncoming wind.
A tack with the wind blowing over the port (left) side of the boat is called a "port tack".
A tack with the wind coming over the starboard side of the boat is called a "starboard tack".
The sailboat's helmsman is responsible for communicating with the rest of the crew when making a tacking maneuver.
When making a tack the helmsman calls out "ready about!"
When the crew is ready they call out "ready", and the maneuver is started.
The opposite of a tack (into the wind) is a jibe (changing direction while moving with the wind).
Tacking maneuver
In order to tack a boat moving into the wind, some speed is necessary.
If too much time is taken in completing the tack, the forward momentum will be lost and the boat may move backwards.
If a sailboat is caught going directly into the wind, it is called "in irons."
This stops all forward motion of the boat.
A tacking maneuver is a basic skill that is learned with practice.
The maneuver also is different in a single person small sailboat than in a 40 or 50 foot racing sailboat.
Beating is the procedure by which a ship moves on a zig-zag course to make progress directly into the wind (upwind).
No sailing vessel can move directly into the wind (though that may be the desired direction).
Beating allows the vessel to advance indirectly upwind.
A ship that is beating will sail as "close to the wind" as possible.
This position is known as close hauled.
In general, the closest angle to the wind that a ship can sail is around 35 to 45 degrees.
Some modern yachts can sail very near to the wind, while older ships, especially square-rigged ships, cannot sail very close to the wind.
How to Sail a Boat : Coming About or Tacking; YouTube
The Lego Ninjago Movie is an American-Danish 3D computer-animated action comedy adventure martial arts movie.
It is directed by Charlie Bean and written by Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Kevin Chesley and Bryan Shukoff.
The movie was released in the United States on September 22, 2017 through Warner Bros. and starts the voices of  Jackie Chan, Dave Franco, Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, Zach Woods, Kumail Ninjiani, Abbi Jacobson, Fred Armisen and Michael Pena.
It is the second spin-off of the 2014 movie The Lego Movie.
Six young ninjas are tasked to defend their home island Ninjago.
By night, they are warriors and use their skills and vehicles to fight against villains and monsters.
By they are ordinary teenagers struggling against their greatest enemy: high school.
Derek Parfit (11 December 1942 – 1 January 2017) was a British philosopher.
He specialized in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them.
Parfit was born in Chengdu, China.
His parents, Jessie and Norman Parfit, were British medical doctors who moved to Western China.
After a year in China, Parfit moved to Oxford, England where he was raised.
Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons has been very well known to other philosophers.
His last book, On What Matters (2011), was widely published and discussed for many years before its publication.
Parfit worked at Oxford University for all of his academic career.
He was an Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
He was also a visiting professor of philosophy at New York University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University.
He was awarded the 2014 Rolf Schock Prize "for his groundbreaking contributions concerning personal identity, regard for future generations, and analysis of the structure of moral theories."
Parfit was an experienced photographer and a poet.
He was married to the philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards.
Profile, All Souls College, Oxford
Derek Parfit: a bibliography.
A complete bibliography of writings.
Parfit's Climbing the Mountain reading group on PEA Soup
A Small Amount of Biographical Information
In the battle of Austerlitz,   Napoleon Bonaparte  fought Russian and Austrian troops.
The battle took place near Austerlitz (now in the Czech Republic) in 1805.
Napoleon’s big victory let him create the Confederation of the Rhine.
The book War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy contains a detailed description of the battle.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (or just Rogue One) is an American science fiction movie.
It was released worldwide in December 2016.
A Lucasfilm movie, it is directed by Gareth Edwards.
It was written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy with the story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta.
The film stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker.
It is the first movie in the Star Wars anthology series.
The story follows Jyn Erso, daughter of the unwilling designer of the Galactic Empire's super-weapon the Death Star.
Her mission is to get the diagram so it can be destroyed.
James Dyer of Empire Magazine gave the film 4 stars, saying "The ultimate Star Wars fan film, it's short on whimsy but when it gets going there's enough risk-taking and spectacle to bode well for future standalones".
Amy Nicholson of MTV gave the film a C-, saying "Audiences once packed theaters to gawk at the future; now, it's to soak in the past.
The emphasis is on packing in as much nostalgia as possible and tersely editing it together to resemble a film".
IGN's Eric Goldman gave the film a 9/10, stating "The film offers a remarkable recreation of the original Star Wars' world, while exploring this universe from a different, edgier perspective than is the norm".
Matthew Pejkovic of Matt's Movie Reviews scored the film a 4/5, saying "Earns its intergalactic stripes as a Star Wars spin-off of visual gumption and gritty action filmmaking, securing its place as the glue between trilogies in this ever expanding space saga".
Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies gave the film a 2/4, stating "We're used to the characters in this series existing primarily as archetypes.
The characters here, though, barely qualify as archetypes".
Rogue One The Movie Database
2016 science fiction movies
Richard John "Mack" Machowicz (May 30, 1965 – January 2, 2017) was an American television presenter and Navy SEAL.
He was the host of the Discovery Channel and Military Channel show Future Weapons.
He also was a member of the Spike series Deadliest Warrior.
Machowicz was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015.
His condition got worse in December 2016.
He died on January 2, 2017 in Pearland, Texas at the age of 51.
Alfonso Wong (, 1925 – 1 January 2017) was a Hong Kong manhua artist.
He also wrote under the pen name "Wong Chak" (), which is his son's name.
He created the comic strip Old Master Q (Lao Fu Zi), which has been published since 1962.
He was born in Tianjin, China and moved to Hong Kong in 1960.
He had six sons.
Wong died from organ failure on 1 January 2017 in California, United States.
Granny ( – ), also known by scientific name J2, was an orca, or killer whale.
With an age of about 105, Granny was the oldest orca humans know of to ever live.
She was first captured in 1967 with a group of orcas.
However, she was believed to be too old for public aquariums and was released.
In January 2017, it was announced that researchers considered Granny dead.
She had last been seen on October 12, 2016.
Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne (Oscar Carl Olof; born 2 March 2016) is the second child and only son of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
His older sister is Princess Estelle.
02 March 216 – present: His Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Skåne.
(swedish: Hans Kunglig Höghet Oscar, Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Skåne)
2016 births
The SOCATA MS.880 Rallye is a French light aircraft used by civilian and military users.
It's first mission is training.
It was create by Morane-Saulnier and after built by SOCATA.
A military light attack version is known as Rallye 235 Guerrier.
Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray: A Nobleman's Tale from the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse (in Polish Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie.
Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem) is a long poem by Polish romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz.
It is regarded as a national epic.
It was first published in Paris in 1834.
The poet was then in exile in France.
Sir Thaddeus is a story of a conflict between two noble families, the Soplicas and the Horeszkos.
The time is 1811 and 1812, shortly before Napoleon invaded Russia.
When attacked by Russian soldiers, both families fought against the enemy.
The conflict between the families was ended with the marriage of Thaddeus Soplica and Sophia Horeszko.
Adam Mickiewicz was born in the East of the former Polish-Lithuanian state.
Because of that he called Lithuania his mother-country.
Litwo!
Ojczyzno moja!
ty jesteś jak zdrowie.
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie,
Kto cię stracił.
Dziś piękność twą w całej ozdobie
Widzę i opisuję, bo tęsknię po tobie.
lost thee.
To-day thy beauty in all its splendour I see and describe, for I yearn for thee. (
Translation in prose by George Rapall Noyes).
Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz; or The last foray in Lithuania; a story of life among Polish gentlefolk in the years 1811 and 1812, Translated from the Polish by George Rapall Noyes, London 1917.
Full text of the poem in Polish
Charles Joseph Colgan (September 25, 1926 – January 3, 2017) was an American politician and businessman.
He served as a member of the Virginia Senate from the 29th district from January 1976 to January 2016.
He also served two terms as President pro tempore from 2008 to 2012, and for less than four months in 2014.
Colgan was born in Frostburg, Maryland.
He served in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in 1945.
Colgan died from a vascular illness on January 3, 2017 in Aldie, Virginia.
Ivo Brešan (27 May 1936 – 3 January 2017) was a Croatian playwright, novelist and screenwriter.
He was for known for political satire.
He was on screen from the early 1970s to 2006.
His work included Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1973), How the War Started on My Island (1996) and Marshal Tito's Spirit (1999).
He had written screenplays with his son Vinko Brešan.
Brešan was born in Vodice.
In 2001, he was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement in Literature
Rolf Noskwith (19 June 1919 – 3 January 2017) was a British businessman.
During the Second World War, he worked under Alan Turing as a cryptographer at the British military base Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Noskwith was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany.
His parents were Eastern European-born Jews.
He moved with his family to England in 1932.
He was educated at Cambridge.
A halal snack pack, or HSP, is a dish that comes from Australia.
It is made up of halal-certified doner kebab meat (mainly lamb, chicken or beef), chips, sauces (mainly chili, garlic and barbecue sauces) and often cheese.
The exact origin of the halal snack pack is unknown.
Halal snack packs have become more popular since 2015, when the Facebook group "Halal Snack Pack Appreciation Society" was created.
Diego Luna Alexander (born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, director and producer.
He has appeared in many movies, including Y tu mamá también (2001), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), The Terminal (2004), Milk (2008), Elysium (2013) and Rogue One (2016).
He currently stars as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in the Netflix crime series Narcos: Mexico (2018–present).
Luna was born in Toluca and grew up in Mexico City.
His mother Fiona Alexander, a British set designer, died in a car accident when Luna was two.
His father Alejandro Luna is a Mexican set designer.
He was married to actress Camila Sodi from 2008 to 2013.
Donnie Yen (born 27 July 1963), also known as Yen Ji-dan (甄子丹), is a Chinese-born Hong Kong actor, martial artist, movie director, producer and action choreographer.
He is also a wushu world champion many times.
He is best known for his role as Ip Man in the Ip Man (2008–2015) trilogy movies.
He also appeared in Shanghai Knights (2003), Flash Point (2007) and Rogue One (2016).
Yen was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong.
When he was two years old, his family moved to Hong Kong.
They later moved to Boston, Massachusetts, United States when he was 11.
He has been married twice and has three children.
Hercules is an American 2014 action-adventure-fantasy film.
Directed by Brett Ratner, it stars Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and John Hurt and is based off the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars.
It was released on July 25, 2014 and was one of two movies released in 2014 which were about the mythical warrior, the other being The Legend of Hercules; unlike the former, this film gained mixed to positive critical reviews and was a box office success.
Hercules (Dwayne Johnson), is the leader of a gang of mercenaries, comprised of the prophet Amphariaus (Ian McShane), the thief Autylocus (Rufus Sewell), the barbarian Tydeus (Aksel Hennie), the huntress Atalanta (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) and his nephew Iolaus (Reece Ritchie).
Hercules is supposedly the lovechild of Zeus and a mortal woman who engaged in 12 legendary labors, but was betrayed by Hera, who induced him with madness, which caused him to kill his wife and children while he was visiting King Eurystheus (Joseph Fiennes).
Despite Hercules' origins not being clearly established in the movie, he displays powerful godlike strength and unmatched skill in combat.
However, he is frequently plagued by the memory of murdering his family and visions of the three-headed hellhound Cerberus.
After saving his nephew on the coast of Macedonia, Hercules celebrates with his team.
As they drink in a tavern, the group are approached by Ergenia (Rebecca Ferguson), the daughter of Lord Cotys (John Hurt) who wants Hercules to train the Thracian armies to defend his kingdom from the warrior king Rhesus, to which the hero accepts.
The band are welcomed to Thrace by Cotys and General Sitacles (Peter Mullan).
However, Rhesus has reached the Bessi people Cotys insists that Hercules leads the army into battle to defend the tribe, despite their lack of training.
However, they arrive too late as Rhesus has cursed the Bessi into turning against the Thracians.
Igor Petrovich Volk (, ; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot.
He was best known for his involvement as a research cosmonaut in the Soyuz T-12 in 1980.
It was seventh manned spaceflight to the Soviet space station Salyut 7.
He bomber pilot in the Soviet Air Force.
He later joined the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1962.
He had over 7000 flight hours logged in over 80 different aircraft.
He had the rank of colonel in the Russian Air Force.
Volk was born in Zmiiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.
He was given many awards, most famously the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin titles.
Volk died on 3 January 2017 while on holiday in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
René Ballet (1928 – 2 January 2017) was a French journalist and author.
He was a communist and a member of the French Communist Party.
He started his career as a civil servant in Paris in 1961.
He was first a civil servant in finance and later in national education.
He was the writer of 14 novels and 35 essays.
In 1978, he started working for the communist newspaper L'Humanité.
Ballet was born in Saint-Étienne.
He grew up in Grenoble.
He joined the French Resistance during World War II.
He lived in Vanves.
Wayne Brett Westner (28 September 1961 – 4 January 2017) was a South African golfer.
He turned professional in 1982.
He had a total of 13 wins in his career.
He was best known for his 1993 Dubai Desert Classic win.
He also notably won the World Cup of Golf in 1996 with Ernie Els.
His career ended in 1998 because of injury.
Westner was reportedly involved in a hostage event on 4 January 2017 at his home in Pennington, KwaZulu-Natal.
He later committed suicide (killed himself) with a gunshot wound to his head at his home.
The rigging of a sailing ship is made up of the ropes and/or chains used to support the ship's masts, yards and sails.
The standing rigging is used to support the masts.
The running rigging supports the yards and sails.
Some types of sailboats that have unsupported masts do not have any rigging.
These include the junk rig and catboat rigs.
Bermuda sloops with a single mast and one headsail use fairly simple rigging.
Cutter-rigged ketches and schooners have the most complex rigging.
Standing rigging
A sailing ship's standing rigging is made up of the ropes used to support the masts, yards and booms.
Most modern sailing vessels use wire rope for the standing rigging.
Modern standing rigging is regularly checked for tension using a special gauge.
Adjusting the tension is done by use of a turnbuckle.
Ropes, wires or rods that run fore-and-aft along the centerline which stabilize the masts or spars are called stays.
Those that from the mast to the bow are called forestays.
Those that run from the mast to the stern are called backstays.
Running rigging
The running rigging of a sailing vessel controls the sails.
The running rigging is usually made up of various kinds of rope (ropes are also called lines).
It uses blocks and Sheaves to adjust the length of the ropes.
A block is a kind of pulley.
A sheave is the grooved wheel inside the block.
Larger sailing boats and ships use winches.
The adjustability of the running rigging allows the boat to perform various maneuvers such as tacking and jibing.
Common to all sailboats are the outhaul and the downhaul.
The outhaul pulls the sail to the free end of the boom.
The downhaul keeps the boom from rising on the mast.
Lines, Cables and Spars, oh my…
Adjusting standing rigging tensions; YouTube
Rigging Inspections, Check your rigging before heading out; YouTube
Running Rigging; YouTube
Djoser (other names include Netjerikhet, Tosorthos, and Sesorthos) was the first Pharaoh, or king of the Third Dynasty of Egypt, c. 2670 BCE.
He is known for the building of the first pyramid built in Egypt, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.
The Third Dynasty, based in Memphis, was the beginning of the Old Kingdom, a period of stability, achievement and unity.
There have been claims that he was not the first king, as the Abydos King List and the Turin King List give a king by the name of Sanakht.
There is no archaeological evidence to support this, and most experts agree that Djoser was the first.
He ruled for at least 20 years, but he had so many temples, tombs and monuments built that some experts say he may have ruled for up to 30 years.
There is a painted limestone statue of Djoser, which is the oldest discovered life sized Egyptian statue.
It was found in Saqqara during archaeological digging in 1924-1925.
The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The Step Pyramid
The building of the Step Pyramid was quite an achievement.
It is the first massive monument built in stone, about 62 meters in height.
It is surrounded by a 10 meter high wall, which encloses an area of about 16 hectares.
It shows that the kingdom must have been stable and wealthy to have spent so much time and money to build it.
The man who designed it and supervised the building was Imhotep, the oldest named architect known to us.
Thousands of years later, Djoser was known to Egyptians as the "opener of stone", recognising his legacy of using stone for buildings.
The Egyptians believed in a story of how Djoser was able to end a famine.
There is no evidence from the time of his rule, but an engraved stone, a stele, was made 2000 years later giving the details.
Even if the story is a legend, it does show that Djoser was remembered as a great pharaoh.
Egypt had been suffering from a famine for seven years, when the god of the Nile, Khnum, spoke to Djoser in a dream.
Djoser rebuilt Khnum's temple on Elephantine, an island near modern Aswan.
This pleased the god, and the famine ended.
The ruins of the temple are still visible today.
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (February 15, 1927 – January 4, 2017) was an Indian sitar player and composer.
Khan was born in Madhya Pradesh, India.
He won the national awards Padma Shri (1970) and Padma Bhushan (2006) and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1987.
He composed musical movie scores for Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), Kohinoor (1960) and Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1971).
George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is an American politician.
He was the 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture from April 25, 2017 to January 20, 2021.
He was the 81st Governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011.
In January 2003, he became the first Republican Governor of Georgia since Reconstruction.
On January 18, 2017, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Perdue to be United States Secretary of Agriculture.
His nomination was sent to the Senate on March 9, 2017.
He was approved by the United States senate with a vote of 87-11 on April 24, 2017.
Perdue was born in Perry, Georgia.
He is the son of Ophie Viola (Holt), a teacher, and George Ervin Perdue Jr., a farmer.
The Perdue family owned slaves in Georgia during the 19th century.
Perdue played quarterback at Warner Robins High School.
He studied at the University of Georgia.
Perdue served in the U.S. Air Force.
He became a captain before leaving the military.
Georgia State Senator (1991–2002)
After working as a member of the Houston County Planning & Zoning Commission in the 1980s, Perdue ran for a seat in the Georgia General Assembly.
He defeated Republican candidate Ned Sanders in 1990 and succeeded Democratic incumbent Ed Barker as the Senator representing the 18th district.
Perdue was elected in 1991, 1994, and 1996.
He was his party's leader in the Senate, from 1994 to 1997 and president pro tempore.
Perdue changed party from Democrat to Republican in 1998 and was re-elected to the Senate as a Republican.
He also won re-election in 2000.
Governor of Georgia (2003–2011)
In December 2001, Perdue resigned as State Senator so he could run for the office of Governor.
He won the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial election, defeating Democratic incumbent Roy Barnes, 51% to 46%, with Libertarian candidate Garrett Michael Hayes taking 2% of the vote.
He became the first Republican governor of Georgia in over 130 years since Benjamin F. Conley.
As governor, Perdue led reforms designed to cut waste in government, most notably the sale of surplus vehicles and real estate.
He helped Georgia moved up from last place in the country in SAT scores.
Although it returned to last place in 2005, Georgia rose to 49th place in 2006 in the combined math and reading mean score, including the writing portion added to the test that year.
Perdue also created additional opportunities for charter schools and private schools.
In 2006, Perdue signed a law that gave Georgia "some of the nation's toughest measures against illegal immigration".
In 2006, Perdue was re-elected to a second term in the 2006 Georgia gubernatorial election, winning nearly 58% of the vote.
Libertarian Garrett Michael Hayes was also on the ballot.
2007 prayer for rain
On November 13, 2007, while Georgia suffered from one of the worst droughts in several decades, Perdue led a group of several hundred people in a prayer on the steps of the state Capitol.
Perdue spoke to the crowd, saying "We’ve come together here simply for one reason and one reason only: To very reverently and respectfully pray up a storm" and "God, we need you; we need rain".
United States Secretary of Agriculture (2017–2021)
On January 2, 2017, it was reported that Perdue had become President-elect Donald Trump's leading contender for the nomination to be Secretary of Agriculture in his incoming administration.
On January 18, 2017, senior Trump transition officials announced that Perdue would be his nominee  Secretary of Agriculture.
The Senate committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry approved his nomination on March 30, with a 19-1 vote.
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) abstained, as he is the nominee's first cousin.
Perdue is the second Secretary of Agriculture from the Deep South.
The first was Mike Espy of Mississippi, who served under President Bill Clinton from January 1993 to December 1994.
On April 24, 2017, Perdue's nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate with a 87-11 vote.
He was sworn-in by Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas the next day.
Perdue and his wife, Mary (nee Ruff), were married in 1972 after dating for four years.
They have four children (Leigh, Lara, Jim, and Dan), fourteen grandchildren (six boys and eight girls), and have also been foster parents for many children.
Perdue lives in Bonaire, Georgia.
Official Governor Website
Biography of Sonny Perdue  at the National Governors Association website
He played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and had many recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother, and One Tree Hill, before landing his breakout role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood.
He played the supervillain Deathstroke in Zack Snyder's 2017 movie Justice League.
He appeared as Burke in the 2018 movie Rampage.
Manganiello has appeared in movies such as Magic Mike, What to Expect When You're Expecting, and Sabotage.
In late 2013, he became a published author when his first book, Evolution, was released by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books.
He is active with several charities, including Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and he serves on the committee of The Art of Elysium.
In 2015, he married Sofía Vergara after three months of dating.
They now live in Los Angeles, California.
Deathstroke (Slade Joseph Wilson) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
The character was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.
He is a mercenary and assassin who first appeared in The New Teen Titans (vol.
1) #2 (1980).
Wizard magazine rated him the 24th greatest villain of all time.
Also, in 2009, Deathstroke was ranked as IGN's 32nd greatest comic book villain of all time.
Originally the archenemy of the Teen Titans, writers have developed him over the years as a villain of other heroes in the DC Universe; parallels have been established between him and Batman, and he has a deep-seated grudge against Green Arrow.
The character has been adapted from the comics into multiple forms of media, including several Batman related projects and the Teen Titans animated series.
Deathstroke later appeared on The CW's live action TV series Arrow, where he is portrayed by Manu Bennett.
Joe Manganiello has been cast as Deathstroke for the DC Extended Universe movie series.
Stoning or lapidation is a form of capital punishment: a group of people throws stones at the convicted person, until this person dies.
Today, it is mostly used in countries which follow sharia law.
A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk or sleep twitch sometimes happens when a person is falling asleep.
It is an involuntary movement, that is, not done on purpose.
It may cause them to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.
Hypnic jerks are one form of involuntary muscle twitches called myoclonus.
Such movements do occur in healthy people.
They have been associated with causes such as irregular sleep patterns or stress.
Certain substances such as caffeine may also cause them.
Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen (born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor.
He is best known for his roles in the movies King Arthur (2004), Casino Royale (2006), Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009), The Hunt (2012) and Doctor Strange and Rogue One (both 2016).
He also played Hannibal Lecter in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–15).
Mikkelsen was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen.
His older brother, Lars, is also an actor.
He married Hanne Jacobsen in 2000.
Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese movie actor, screenwriter and director.
He directed and starred in the movies In the Heat of the Sun (1994), Devils on the Doorstep (2000), Let the Bullets Fly (2010) and Gone with the Bullets (2014).
He also directed a segment of the movie New York, I Love You (2008).
In 2016, he starred as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars anthology movie Rogue One.
Jiang was born in Tangshan, Hebei.
He moved to Beijing when he was ten.
Richard Robert "Dick" Latessa (September 15, 1929 – December 19, 2016) was an American stage, movie, and television actor.
He was known for his stage role as Wilbur in the musical Hairspray.
In 2003, he won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award in 2003.
TonyAwards.com Interview with Dick Latessa
The Sharpeville massacre was when a crowd of between 5,000 and 7,000 black people protested at the police station in Sharpeville, South Africa on March 21, 1960.
The police started shooting into the crowd.
A total of 69 people were killed including 8 women and 10 children, and 180 people were injured, including 31 women and 19 children.
In South Africa today, this day is a public holiday in honor of human rights.
The demonstration was to protest against pass laws.
The crowd went to the police station demanding to be arrested for not carrying their passes.
At some point the South African Police started shooting.
People have different explanations to what the crowd was doing.
Some say that the crowd was peaceful.
Others say that the crowd were throwing stones at the police.
The shooting started when the crowd started going toward the fence around the police station.
Some say this was what led Nelson Mandela to engaging in more violent protests.
Apartheid-related violence
Tullio De Mauro (31 March 1932 – 5 January 2017) was an Italian linguist and politician.
He was the Italian Minister of Education from 2000 to 2001, under Prime Minister Giuliano Amato (2nd government).
He was also a professor of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome.
He was born in Torre Annunziata, Campania.
Kafr Bara is an Israeli-Arab local council in Israel's Central District, Kafr Bara is a village located in the southern triangle area near Jaljulia under 2,400 square-dunum area of influence.
Population and families
There is a Community Center and retirement Centre shabib.
and there is 3 mosques, a public library, a post office, a mother and child care centre, and 2 clinics.
And a football playground.
Omar Bin Khattab primary school, The number of students towards (700 students).
Comprehensive secondary school of Kafr Bara, Opened in the academic year (2009-2010) number of students (250-300) student.
Settlements in Israel
The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) is an owl native to the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia.
They hunt rodents.
They will also hunt fish and small mammals
The male's mating call sounds like krek-krek, while the female's mating call sounds like pyee-pyee or prek-prek.
In the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (USA edition: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), Harry is assigned a female snowy owl as his animal companion.
Her name is Hedwig.
It is in the Jiangxi Province.
Poyang is fed by the Gan, Xin, and Xiu rivers.
They connect to the Yangtze through a channel.
Lake Poyang has always shrunk in the dry season and expanded in the wet season.
It reached its greatest size during the Tang Dynasty, when its area reached .
It is now around .
Lake Pohang became much smaller because of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
Nanuqsaurus ('meaning polar bear lizard') is a genus of  theropod dinosaur.
It is only known from one specimen, DMNH 21461, a partial skull roof found in Alaska.
This dinosaur may grown to about 6 m (~20 ft) long, half the size of Tyrannosaurus.
Madoc is a long poem by Robert Southey.
The author is famous as the third of the Lake Poets.
Madoc is an epic poem.
It was first published in 1805.
The poet worked on the poem for ten years.
It tells about legendary Welsh prince Madog, ab Owain Gwynedd.
He lived in 12th century.
According to the legend, he explored America long before Christopher Columbus.
The poem is divided into two parts.
The first is named Madoc in Wales while the second Madoc in Aztlan.
The poem is written in Blank verse that is in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Fair blows the wind, the vessel drives along,
Her streamers fluttering at their length, her sails
All full, she drives along, and round her prow
Scatters the ocean spray.
What feelings then
Filled every bosom, when the mariners,
After the peril of that weary way,
Beheld their own dear country !
Here stands one,
Stretching his sight toward the distant shore,
And, as to well known forms his busy joy
Shapes the dim outline, eagerly he points
The fancied headland and the cape and bay,
Till his eyes ache, o'erstraining.
The poem was reviewed in The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry.
Irish poet Paul Muldoon named his book Madoc: A Mystery (1990) after Robert Southey's poem.
Matthew Leporati, "Authority from Heaven": Robert Southey's Madoc and Epic Christian Imperialism.
Madoc by Robert Southey, London 1853 at Archive.org
There are 4 arrondissements in the Bouches-du-Rhône department.
It was divided in six districts: Tarascon, Apt, Aix, Marseille, Salon and Arles, with Aix as is capital.
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is an arrondissement of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Its capital is the city of Aix-en-Provence.
When the Bouches-du-Rhône department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence was part of that original department.
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is in the northeast of the Bouches-du-Rhône department.
It is bordered to the north by the Vaucluse department, to the east by the Var department, to the southeast by the Marseille arrondissement, to the southwest by the Istres arrondissement and to the northwest by the Arles arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence is the second largest arrondissement of the department both in area, , and population (429,436 inhabitants).
There are 9 cantons in the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence and 5 of them do not have all their communes in the arrondissement:
Berre-l'Étang (1306) (partly)
Pélissanne (1325) (partly)
Salon-de-Provence-1 (1326) (partly)
Salon-de-Provence-2 (1327) (partly)
Vitrolles (1329) (partly)
The arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence has 44 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
Aix-en-Provence (13001)
Aurons (13008)
Beaurecueil (13012)
Bouc-Bel-Air (13015)
Cabriès (13019)