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Only one award is given each year, according to a rotating scheme – astronomy and mathematics; then geosciences; then biosciences.
A Crafoord Prize is only awarded for arthritis when a committee decides that substantial progress in the field has been made.
On Crafoord Day in April, the prize is presented by the King of Sweden, who also presents the Nobel Prize Awards at the ceremony in December.
The prize is to fund further research by the prize winner.
In 2012 it is US$600,000.
David Howell Petraeus (pronunciation: /pɨˈtreɪ.əs/; born November 7, 1952) was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
He was sworn in on September 6, 2011.
Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army.
On November 9, 2012, Petraeus resigned as CIA director following a marital scandal.
Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) was the 23rd United States Secretary of Defense from 2011 until 2013.
Before that, he served as director of the CIA from 2009 to 2011 and as Bill Clinton's White House Chief of staff from 1994 to 1997.
Panetta was born on June 28, 1938 in Monterey, California to an Itallian-American family.
He studied at Santa Clara University.
He served in the army from 1964 until 1966.
He had won an Army Commendation Medal for his services in the force.
Panetta is married to Sylvia Panetta.
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Biography of the Central Intelligence Agency (archived)
Biography of Panetta, Hartnell University
Conversations with History – Interview with Leon Panetta, UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies
The Panetta Institute for Public Policy
April Michelle Bowlby (born July 30, 1980 in Vallejo, California ) is an American actress.
She is best known for her role as Kandi in the sitcom Two and a Half Men.
Denton Burn is an area of housing in the city of Newcastle, United Kingdom.
The area has 3 schools and has many shops and take-aways.
It is close to Benwell and Scotswood.
The WWE Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for wrestlers thought by WWE to be very important.
It started in 1993 when André the Giant died.
He was the first to go in.
Other people have been added in 1994, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Some choices for the Hall of Fame have not been popular like famous people who did not wrestle.
Sometimes WWE will show Hall of Fame announcements and ceremonies on TV.
The WWE Hall of Famers
The early Hall of Famers are the ones who helped build WWE and are considered pioneers.
These include Arnold Skaaland, Buddy Rogers, Chief Jay Strongbow, Freddie Blassie, Gorilla Monsoon, Antonino Rocca, Ernie Ladd, The Fabulous Moolah, George "The Animal" Steele, The Grand Wizard, Ivan Putski and Pedro Morales.
James Dudley was inducted for being a dear friend of the McMahon family and for being loyal to the company for a long time.
Vince McMahon, Sr.
was inducted because he first started WWE and might be the most important member.
It is his family that still owns and runs the company to this day.
Bobo Brazil was the first great black wrestling star.
Killer Kowalski was a great villain wrestler.
Later inductees
Later inductees included the top stars of the 1980s which was the greatest time in wrestling history.
Those wrestlers are Jimmy Snuka, Pat Patterson, Lou Albano, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, Hulk Hogan, The Iron Sheik, classic manager Jimmy Hart, Nikolai Volkoff, Paul Orndorff and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.
A wrestler who usually lost his matches, Johnny Rodz was also inducted.
The famous baseball legend Pete Rose was inducted to the surprise of many wrestling fans.
Wrestlers from the 1970s who were inducted are The Valiant Brothers (Jimmy and Johnny), "Superstar" Billy Graham and Peter Maivia. "
Baron" Mikel Scicluna was inducted despite rarely winning.
More inductees
Other inductees included more great names from the 80s such as Big John Studd, Bobby Heenan, Don Muraco, Greg Valentine, Jesse Ventura, Junkyard Dog, Sgt.
Slaughter, Tito Santana and Jim Duggan.
Harley Race, one of the great wrestlers of all time, was inducted during a time when WWE began to think about wrestlers who had more success in places other than WWE.
These stars include Dory Funk, Jr., Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Nick Bockwinkel, The Sheik, commentator Gordon Solie, Verne Gagne, who started the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and won the AWA championship belt 10 times and promoter Eddie Graham.
Other inductees include The Blackjacks (Mulligan and Lanza), Gene Okerlund, "Sensational" Sherri, Tony Atlas, Koko B. Ware, Mr. Fuji and The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika).
Football star William "The Refrigerator" Perry was inducted for being in a battle royale match at WrestleMania II.
Jim Ross, famed commentator
Rocky Johnson
Bill Watts, promoter
Howard Finkel, ring announcer
The Von Erich Family (Chris, David, Fritz, Kerry, Kevin and Mike)
Mad Dog Vachon
Stu Hart, promoter
Gerald Brisco
Wendi Richter
"Precious" Paul Ellering · The Road Warriors/Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal)
Sunny, manager
Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, James J. Dillon, Ric Flair (his second time) and Tully Blanchard were inducted together as The Four Horsemen
Mil Máscaras
Mike Tyson, boxer
Bob Uecker, appeared at WrestleManias III and IV.
Drew Carey, appeared in the 2001 Royal Rumble and did very little.
Carey was loudly booed when he was inducted.
WWE Encyclopedia
Not In Hall of Fame.com
Crop protection is a branch of horticulture, aimed at protecting crops.
This is done so that the yield of the crop does not diminish.
Common approaches are:
Using pesticides, these are on a chemical basis
Using biological pest control, using the natural enemies of the pests to control them.
Using barriers, such as nets
Using psychology, for example to scare birds
Using biotechnology, selective breeding and genetic engineering
Leeds Trinity University College is a university in Horsforth, Leeds, England.
It has about 3,000 students.
It is one of the smallest universities in the country.
Batasuna (formerly Herri Batasuna) was a political party in Spain.
Herri Batasuna was founded after the fall of the Franco regime, in 1978.
In 2001, the party changed its name into Batasuna.
In 2003, the party was outlawed in Spain, but it continues to be a political party in France.
The party was suspected to have close ties with ETA.
The party was active in the Basque Country,  and Navarre.
It wanted to form an independent state of the Basque country.
The region where Basque is spoken is split between the Basque country, Navarre in Spain and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in France.
The area is known as Euskal Herria (literally,: Basque country).
Bastasina sees itself as a nationalist, left-wing party.
It is also called socialist (with Marxist and Libertarian tendencies).
Other ideas of the party include to fight for feminism, and to be seen as envirnomentalist.
Batasuna is the only party in the did not condemn the violent attacks carried out by ETA.
According to Batasuna, it is sterile and hypocritical to condemn only one form of violemce; by the same token, the violence of Spain should be condemned, which oppresses the Basque people.
According to the Spanish state, there were no violations of human rights after the fall of the Franco regime, and the use of violence for political reasons is inacceptable.
Political parties in Spain
1978 establishments in Europe
Amstell was born and raised in Gants Hill, London in a Jewish family.
Amstell has presented Popworld and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
He writes and stars in Grandma's House.
The Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes), LAAS, is one of the big research laboratories of the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) in Toulouse, France, and is usually named LAAS-CNRS.
It is associated with the six founding members of the University of Toulouse: The Paul Sabatier University, the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INP toulouse), the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE), which is the merger between ENSICA (the National Superior School of Aeronautic Construction Engineers) and SUPAERO (National Superior School of Aeronautics and Space), the University of Toulouse II Mirail and the Toulouse 1 University Capitole.
Irgun is considered an early version of Ḥerut which was an Israeli political party.
Irgun is also an early version of today's Likud political party in Israel.
1948 disestablishments
is a British comedy panel game shown on BBC One.
It began on 16 June 2007.
The first two series were presented by Angus Deayton.
Since then it has been presented by Rob Brydon.
There are two teams of three people, a team captain and two celebrity guests.
The captains are David Mitchell and Lee Mack.
During each episode, the contestants take turns to make statements about themselves.
The other team try to work out whether the statement is true or false, by questioning the person who has made the statement.
Potentiometers are variable resistors.
Potentiometers are resistors where the resistance can be changed using a knob or a slider.
Potentiometers are used to control many things, including how bright or dim the lights in your house are and the volume controls on your television.
Some are used in voltage dividers.
The idea of a device that could be used to control the amount of electricity going to a component was thought by many people, but the carbon potentiometer we commonly use today was invented by Thomas Edison in 1872 at the age of 25.
He called this device a "coiled resistance wire rheostat".
His patent for this device was issued in 1872.
Carbon resistors, as said above, are the most commonly used resistors today.
They are used in radios to control the volume, in televisions to control picture brightness, contrast, and color response.
There are many different types of potentiometers.
These different types include carbon potentiometers, plastic potentiometers, and wire potentiometers.
Carbon potentiometers are the most common potentiometers that we use today because they are inexpensive to make and are easy to put together.
Wire potentiometers are the most powerful type out of the three listed above.
The wire inside the potentiometer is wound so that it has more power.
Plastic potentiometers have the same amount of power that carbon potentiometers do, but are of a higher quality.
They are made of a special kind of plastic that conducts electricity just as effectively as carbon potentiometers.
It as a better life than carbon potentiometers do.
Trimmer potentiometers are small.
They are adjustable with a screwdriver.
Founded in 1894 and initially located in the 15th district of Paris, it was moved to Gif-sur-Yvette in 1975.
After that, two more campuses were established in Rennes in 1972 and Metz in 1985.
It is a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.
Hervé Laborne, former head of the École spéciale de mécanique et électricité.
Shitoku (至徳) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Eitoku and before Kakei.
This period started in February 1384 and ended in August 1387.
Go-Komatsu' Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time was {{nihongo|Emperor Go-Kameyama|後亀山天皇|Go-Kameyama-tennō}}.
Events of the Shitoku era
1384 (Shitoku 1, 3rd month): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu gave up his position in the Imperial court hierarchy.
1385 (Shitoku 2, 8th month): Yoshimistu made a public visit to Kasuga-taisha.
1385 (Shitoku 2): The forces of the Southern Court were defeated at Koga.
1386 (Shitoku 3, 7th month''): Yoshimitsu authorized the Five Mountain System for ranking state-sponsored Buddhist temples; and Nanzen-ji was ranked at the top and in a class of its own.
Genchū, 1384–1393
1384 establishments
1387 disestablishments
An incandescent light bulb has a small thin wire with two bigger wires holding it up.
This wire is called a filament.
The filament is the part of the light bulb that produces light.
Filaments in incandescent light bulbs are made of tungsten.
Whenever an electric current goes through the filament, the filament glows.
It may also be known as the electron emitting element in a vacuum tube.
To make the bulb produce more light, the filament is usually made of coils of fine wire, also known as the coiled coil.
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Kakei (嘉慶) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Shitoku and before Kōō.
This period started in August 1387 and ended in February 1389.
Go-Komatsu's Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time was {{nihongo|Emperor Go-Kameyama|後亀山天皇|Go-Kameyama-tennō}}.
Events of the Kakei era
1387 (Kakei 1, 1st month): Nijō Yoshimoto is removed from his position as sesshō and daijō daijin in the Imperial court hierarchy.
1387 (Kakei 1, 2nd month): Konoe Kanetsugu is named sesshō.
1388 (Kakei 2, 3rd month): The sesshō Konoe Kanetsugu dies at age 29; and Yoshimoto re-assumes this role.
1388 (Kakei 2, 6th month): Yoshitomo dies at age 69; and his son Nijō Morotsugu succeeds him with the title of kampaku.
1389 (Kakei 3''): Yoshimitsu pacifies Kyūshū and distributes lands.
1387 establishments
1389 disestablishments
, also romanized as Kō-ō, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kakei and before Meitoku.
This period started in February 1389 and ended in March 1390.
Events of the Kōō era
1389 (Kōō 1): Yoshimitsu  opposed by Kamakura kanrei Ashikaga Ujimitsu.
1389 (Kōō 1, 7th month): Saioinji Sanetoshi died at the age of 56.
He ha held the office of Minister of the Right (udaijin'').
1389 establishments
1390 disestablishments
Meitoku (明徳) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
year name) of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kōō and before Ōei.
This period started in March 1390 and ended in July 1394.
After October 1392, Meitoku replaced the Southern Court's nengō (Genchū).
The pretender in Kyoto was   Go-Komatsu's Southern Court rival in Yoshino until 1392 was {{nihongo|Emperor Go-Kameyama|後亀山天皇|Go-Kameyama-tennō}}..
Events of Meitoku era
1391 (Meitoku 2): Yamana Ujikyo attacked Kyoto.
1392 (Meitoku 3), also known as Genchū 9'': Northern and Southern courts were reunited under Go-Komatsu.
1390 establishments
1394 disestablishments
Cryptopsy is a Canadian death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1988.
The band has sold over 300,000 records.
Flo Mounier – drums (1992–present)
Jon Levasseur – lead, rhythm guitars (1993–2005, 2011–present)
Christian Donaldson – guitar (2005–present)
Matt McGachy – lead vocals (2007–present)
Olivier Pinard – bass guitar (2012–present)
Lord Worm – lead vocals (1988–1997, 2003–2007)
Mike DiSalvo – lead vocals (1997–2001)
Martin Lacroix – lead vocals (2001–2003)
Steve Thibault – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1988–1995, 1996)
Miguel Roy – rhythm, lead guitars (1996–1999, 2004)
Alex Auburn – rhythm guitar, lead, backing vocals (1999–2009)
Youri Raymond – guitar, backing vocals (2009–2011), bass guitar (2011)
John Todds – bass guitar (1988–1992) as Necrosis
Kevin Weagle – bass guitar (1992–1993)
Martin Fergusson – bass (1994–1995)
Eric Langlois – bass guitar (1996–2011)
Dave Galea – lead, rhythm guitars, vocals (1992–1993, 2000)
Maggy Durand – keyboards (2007–2008)
Mike Atkin – drums (1988–1992) as Necrosis
Dan Mongrain – lead guitar (2004)
Steve Shyy (aka Steven J. Robillard) – keyboards (studio and live) as Necrosis
Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994)
None So Vile (1996)
Whisper Supremacy (1998)
…And Then You'll Beg (2000)
Once Was Not (2005)
The Unspoken King (2008)
Cryptopsy (2012)
None So Live (2003)
Ungentle Exhumation (1993)
Canadian death metal bands
2006: Katra Solopuro - vocals
2006: Kristian Kangasniemi - guitar
2006: Johannes Tolonen - bass
2009: Teemu Mätäsjärvi - guitar
2009: Matti Auerkallio - drums
Former musicians
2006: Jani Wilund - keyboards
2006: Tom "Tomma" Gardiner - guitar
2006-2009: Jaakko Järvensivu - drums
Tour musicians
2008: Teemu Mätäsjärvi – guitar
2007: Katra (Edel)
2008: Beast Within (Napalm)
2010: Out of the Ashes (Napalm)
2006: Sahara
2007: Tietäjä/Vaaratar
2010: One Wish Away
2007: Tietäjä
2008: Beast Within
Katra Blog
Metal Storm band page
A mad scene is a scene in a play, ballet, opera, or other theatre work that shows a character either insane or going insane.
Three famous mad scenes are those in the play Hamlet, in the ballet Giselle, and the opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
In Hamlet, Ophelia is truly mad while Hamlet pretends to be mad.
Summerland is a town in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
It is in the interior of British Columbia, on the west side of Okanagan Lake.
The population of Summerland was 10,828 in 2006.
The mayor of Summerland is Janice Perrino.
It is known for its world renowned wineries.
It is also home to the historic Kettle Valley Steam Railway.
The town was originally known as Trout Creek and was renamed Summerland in 1902 when Sir Thomas Shaughnessy bought the Barclay Ranch.
The nickname for Summerland is Town of Festivals.
The sister city of Summerland is Toyokoro, Japan.
Bruno Sammartino (October 6, 1935 – April 18, 2018) was an Italian-American retired wrestler.
He was born on October 6, 1935 in Italy.
He became a wrestler in 1959.
He would often beat opponents with his bearhug.
On May 17, 1963, Bruno beat Buddy Rogers to become the second World Wide Wrestling Federation champion.
He held this title for over seven years, a record for professional wrestling world champions.
He had his first match in Japan in 1967.
He lost to Ivan Koloff on January 18, 1971.
On December 10, 1973, Sammartino beat Stan Stasiak to once again be the champion.
Billy Graham won the championship from Bruno on April 30, 1977 in Baltimore.
World Wide Wrestling Federation became the World Wrestling Federation in March 1979.
Sammartino wrestled less often after but he did have classic feud with Larry Zbyszko that ended in a steel cage match at Shea Stadium in 1980.
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was a  of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Shōkyō and before Ryakuō.
This period started in January 1334 and ended in August 1338 in the Northern Court, but it lasted until only February 1336 in the Southern Court.
Events of the Kemmu era
In 1333-1336, the Kemmu Restoration was an attempt by Emperor Go-Daigo to restore Imperial authority after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate.
The failure of this effort led to the creation of two rival Imperial courts.
1334 (Kemmu 1): Emperor Go-Daigo caused Kemmu nenchū gyōji to be written.
This was a book which described the ceremonies of the court; and its purpose was to aid the process of reviving ancient court etiquette.
25 October 1334 (Kemmu 1, 27th day of the 9th month): Emperor Go-Daigo made an Imperial progress to Kamo-jinja.
No other emperor would visit Kamo's shrines until April 29, 1863 (Bunkyu 3, 11th day of the 3rd month), when Emperor Komei made an Imperial progress to Kamo.
1336 (Kemmu 3): An anonymous author published Kemmu nenkan ki, which was a chronicle of the Kemmu era.
The text is a source of information about laws, government, bureaucrats, and arable lands and estates given by the emperor to the nobility or to religious institutions (shōen).
1336 (Kemmu 3): Ashikaga Takauji issued a new legal code with 17 articles (Kemmu-shikimoku).
17 May 1336 (Kemmu 3, 6th day of the 4th month): Former-Emperor Go-Fushimi died.
The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Shōkei 1 as time was reckoned in the Northern Court in Kyoto; and the era began in Genkō 4, as time was ordered in the Southern Court in Yoshino.
1334 establishments
1338 disestablishments
In 2004, JOGMEC was established by the  Law Concerning the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation .
JOGMEC website
The Elector of the Palatinate () ruled the Palatinate of the Rhine in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire from 915 to 1803.
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Mary Claire Cheney (born March 14, 1969) is an American businesswoman and the younger daughter of former U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney and his wife, former second lady, Lynne Cheney.
She is openly lesbian and has stated support for same-sex marriage along with her father.
She is in a long relationship with Heather Poe, a former parking ranger with whom she has had 2 children, Samuel David and Sarah Lynne.
On June 22, 2012, Cheney married her long time partner Heather Poe.
Cheney has a sister, Elizabeth Cheney (born 1966).
Shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) are a common crustacean.
They are often found around the sea shore.
They come in a variety of colours.
They are often green or brown.
They have eight legs and two large pincers.
The width across the shell is up to .
The usual width is about .
They are normally found in the North Atlantic or the Baltic Sea but are beginning to live in many other areas of the world.
Shore crabs live on beaches and rocky shores.
Shore crabs are a nocturnal predator which means it hunts at night.
They eat small crustaceans, molluscs, worms and some fish.
A female shore crab can lay up to nearly 200 thousand eggs at once.
They carry the eggs with them until they hatch.
Like most crabs, when a shore crab gets too big for its shell, it sheds its shell.
After that, it has a new soft shell which soon hardens.
Phytosaurs were long-snouted and heavily armoured, bearing a remarkable resemblance to modern crocodiles in size, appearance, and lifestyle.
This is an example of convergence or parallel evolution.
The name 'phytosaur' means 'plant reptile': the first fossils of phytosaurs were mistakenly thought to belong to plant eaters.
The sharp teeth in phytosaur jaws clearly show they were predators.
Although phytosaurs were not true crocodilians themselves, they were more closely related to the crocodilians than to other modern reptiles.
Crocodiles did not become phytosaur-like until the Lower Jurassic. "
Consensus generally places phytosaurs as basal crurotarsans, possibly the basal-most group".
Phytosaurs had a nearly global distribution.
Fossils have been recovered from Europe, North America, India, Morocco, Thailand, Brazil and Madagascar.
Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip is the debut album by American band TLC.
It was released on February 25, 1992 by LaFace Records.
The album reached number 14 on the US Billboard 200 chart, number two on the Top Heatseekers, and number three on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
The album shipped 4,000,000 copies in the United States.
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave a positive review on the album.
Steve Huey of Allmusic gave a "mixed" review on the album and believed it helped TLC to become more popular.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold 2,500,000 copies in the United States.
It was later certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA.
Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip at Discogs
TLC albums
CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American girl group TLC.
It was released on November 15, 1994 by LaFace Records.
The album reached number three on the US Billboard 200, number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number four on the UK Albums Chart.
The album became TLC's best-selling album, it was known as their "breakthrough album".
Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 377 of the "500 greatest albums of all time" list.
The album was certified 1x Diamond in the United States.
TLC became the first and only girl group to have a diamond-certified album.
The album features more of a R&B and soul sound than hip hop sound due the fact that Left Eye wasn't able to record much of her own raps for the album due to being in rehab for setting her then-boyfriend's house on fire.
The album sold 127,000 copies on the first day of release.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold 7,200,000 copies in the United States.
It was certified 1x Diamond, which means 10,000,000 copies of the album were shipped to the United States.
The album was also certified 11x Platinum (11,000,000 copies shipped) by the RIAA.
"Intro-Lude" (featuring Phife Dawg) – 1:01 (Jermaine Dupri)
"Creep" – 4:28 (Dallas Austin)
"Kick Your Game" – 4:14 (Dupri, Lopes, Seal)
"Diggin' on You" – 4:14 (Babyface)
"Case of the Fake People" – 4:04 (Dallas Austin)
"Crazy Sexy Cool - Interlude" – 1:42 (Combs, Thompson, Watkins)
"Red Light Special" – 5:04 (Babyface)
"Waterfalls" – 4:39 (Lopes, Ethridge, Organized Noize)
"Intermission-Lude" – 0:43 (Dupri)
"Let's Do It Again" – 4:16 (Babyface, Jon John)
"If I Was Your Girlfriend" (Prince) – 4:36
"Sexy - Interlude" (featuring Puff Daddy) – 1:34 (Combs, Thomas)
"Take Our Time" – 4:33 (Hennings, Killings)
"Can I Get a Witness - Interlude" (featuring Busta Rhymes) – 2:57 (Combs, Rhymes, Thomas)
"Switch" – 3:30 (Dupri, Lopes, Seal)
"Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes" (featuring Dré of OutKast) – 4:23 (Benjamin, Lopes, Ethridge, Organized Noize)
FanMail is the third studio album by American girl group TLC.
It was released on February 23, 1999.
It was released by LaFace Records.
It features a more electronic and hip hop influence to the album, along with the group's signature R&B sound.
On the first day of release, the album sold 318,000 copies in the United States.
It debuted at number one on the US Bollboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
It also reached the top ten in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
The album was given eight Grammy Awards nominations.
It won the Grammy Award for "Album of the Year".
According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album sold 4,700,000 copies in the United States.
It was certified 6x Platinum (6,000,000 copies shipped) by the RIAA.
Electronic albums
Death Proof is a 2007 American crime movie directed by Quentin Tarantino.
The movie has action and thrilling car chases.
It is set in Texas and Tennessee.
Movies set in Tennessee
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 German-American war movie directed by Quentin Tarantino.
It takes place in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
The movie was rated 4 out of 4 stars by movie reporter Roger Ebert.
In 1900, the  was founded.
JSL has a friend in the Imperial family.
Kiko, Princess Akishino has studied JSL and is a trained sign language interpreter.
She also signs in informal Deaf gatherings.
In 2006, the Japanese government amended the "Supporting Independence of People with Disabilities Act."
The new language in the law encourages local governments to increase the number and use of JSL interpreters.
Elements of Japanese Sign Language (JSL)
As in other sign languages, JSL (usually called simply 手話 shuwa, "hand talk") consists of words, or signs, and the grammar with which they are put together.
Examples of JSL signs
Monaghan, Leila Frances. (
Many Ways to be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities.
Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ;
OCLC 248814292
Nakamura, Karen. (
Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ; ;
OCLC 238810838
Japanese Association of Sign Linguistics (JASL)
手話教室 (online JSL lessons and dictionary, in Japanese)
Online JSL dictionaries
Kyoto Prefectural Education Center Website with explanations in English
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story.
The movie, distributed by United Artists, stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian-American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family.
Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, LaMotta's well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons, and Cathy Moriarty as his wife.
Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, and Frank Vincent all play supporting roles in the movie.
Scorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project, though he eventually came to relate to LaMotta's story.
Schrader re-wrote Martin's first screenplay, and Scorsese and De Niro together made uncredited contributions thereafter.
Pesci was an unknown actor prior to the film, as was Moriarty, who was suggested for her role by Pesci.
During the filming, each of the boxing scenes was choreographed for a specific visual style and De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) to portray LaMotta in his later post-boxing years.
Scorsese was exacting in the process of editing and mixing the movie, expecting it to be his last major feature.
Raging Bull premiered in New York on November 14, 1980, and was released in theaters on December 19, 1980.
The movie had a lukewarm box office of $23.4 million against its $18 million budget.
The movie received mixed reviews upon its release; while De Niro's performance and the editing were widely acclaimed, it garnered criticism due to its violent content.
Despite the mixed reviews, the movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 53rd Academy Awards (tying with The Elephant Man as the most nominated movie of the ceremony), including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two: Best Actor for De Niro (his second Oscar) and Best Editing.
After its release, Raging Bull went on to garner a high critical reputation, and is now often considered Scorsese's magnum opus and one of the greatest movies ever made.
In 1990, it became the first movie to be selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in its first year of eligibility.
1980 drama movies
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American retired swimmer of Jewish descent.
He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
That achievement was only passed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics.
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
James George Janos, better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American statesman, actor, author, and former professional wrestler.
He served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.
He was elected in 1998.
He was Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1991 to 1995.
Ventura served as a Navy UDT during the Vietnam War.
As an actor, he appeared in The Running Man and Predator.
He called wrestling matches with Vince McMahon for TV shows and with Gorilla Monsoon for pay-per-views in the WWF.
In WCW, he called matches with Jim Ross.
Ventura and Ross teamed up again to call XFL football games.
Ventura was born on July 15, 1951 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
His height is 6' 4".
His wife is Theresa Larson Masters since 1975.
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (,  – 29 September 1930) was an important Russian painter and sculptor.
Repin was born in a village near Kharkov, Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine).
He came from a poor family.
Repin first learned to paint from an icon painter.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg.
Later he became a professor of painting at the same academy.
He is best known for his paintings of scenes from Russian history and his portraits.
A ship's bell is a bell usually made of bronze that is used on ships and sailboats.
It is most often rung to announce the time, such as at the hour and half-hour.
Jonathan "John" Roberts (born 1979) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice arist, and comedian.
He is the voice of Linda Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
Daniel "Dan" Mintz (born 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice arist, and comedian.
He is the voice of Tina Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
Actors from Alaska
Comedians from Alaska
Eugene Boris Mirman (born 1974) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and voice actor.
He is the voice of Gene Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
Kristen Schaal (born January 24, 1978 ) is an American stand-up comedienne, actress and voice artist.
She is the voice of Mabel in Gravity Falls.
She also is the voice of character Louise Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado.
Adventure Time - Boobafina, Jake Jr.
Girl, Librarian
Bob's Burgers - Louise Belcher
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange - Squash McAdams
The Penguins of Madagascar - Buffy the Rabbit, Fluffy the Rabbit, Muffy the Rabbit
The Simpsons - Louise Belcher
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 - Barb the Orangutan
Despicable Me 2 - Shannon
Shrek Forever After - Palace Witch, Pumpkin Witch
Toy Story 3 - Trixie
Toy Story 4 - Trixie
Woody's Roundup: The Movie - Trixie
Loren Hal Bouchard (born October 10, 1969 ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice arist.
He is best known as the creator of Bob's Burgers.
actors from New York City
Anthony "Tony" Leondis (born 1972) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian.
He is the voice of Master Croc in Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters.
Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968) is an American actor, movie producer and director.
He is known  as Anthony Michael Hall.
He was in several movies for teens in the 1980s.
Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child.
He first made a movie in 1980.
Hall was born in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in New York, New York.
He expanded his jobs to abstain from turning out to be pigeonholed as his nerd persona, joining the cast of Saturday Night Live (1985–1986) and featuring in movies, for example, Out of Bounds (1986), Johnny Be Good (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Six Degrees of Separation (1993).
After a progression of minor jobs during the 1990s, he featured as Microsoft's Bill Gates in the 1999 TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley.
He had the main job in the USA Network arrangement The Dead Zone from 2002 to 2007.
In 2020, he showed up in ABC's The Goldbergs.
Susan "Susie" Essman (born May 31, 1955 ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice artist.
She plays Susie Greene in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Helen Higgins in Crank Yankers, and Mittens in Bolt.
The wing-banded antbird (Myrmornis torquata) is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.
It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
It feeds by hopping on the ground, turning dead leaves over in search of insects.
It uses its long bill to do this, and never picks the leaves up.
Myrmornis torquata.
It flows into the English Channel between Le Havre and Honfleur.
It is the second-longest river in France.
Other important cities along its course are Paris, Troyes and Rouen.
Its drainage basin has a surface of .
The Seine starts in Source-Seine, in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, at an height of .
Between Rouen and the sea, ocean-going vessels of up to  in length, and 150,000 tons in weight can travel the Seine.
This section of the river has a length of about .
Ships of a draft of up to  can circulate.
Draft is a word describe the height of the part of a ship that is below the water line.
There are three bridges in this section.
They can be raised.
The maximum air draft (or height above the water line) of a ship is .
Because there are few briges, the river can be crossed by ferry, at different locations.
The port of Rouen is an important maritime port in France; it is the most important port in Europe for cereals,  and the most important port in France for flour and fertilizers.
Even if the port of Le Havre is more important for petroleum, that of Rouen is still important.
About 25 million tons of produce is handled by the port of Rouen each year.
The course of the river was corrected between Rouen and Paris in  the 19th century.
There are seven locks.
Barges with merchanise, of a capacity of up to 350 t can circulate.
The dimension of the lock determines the maximum dimension of the ship.
When most canals were built in France, the mister for public works, Charles de Freycinet  determined the maximum length of the locks.
As a result, the maximum dimension of the ship are  by , with a draft of .
In the case of the French canals, the maximum draft is .
The load of a peniche is about that of ten lorries or eight rail waggons.
Other ship types that can circulate have a  capacity of  to .
Convois of barges with a length between  to  and can transport betweeen  and  of freight.
Other ships include river-vessels that can transport up to  of freight.
The port of Paris is the most important fluvial port in France: About 20.2 million tons of merchanise are handled each year, 20 miilon  tons of this merchandise come from fluvial transport.
There is a project called Seine–Nord Europe Canal, to build a high-capacity canal to connect the Paris region to the Ports of Antwerp, Dunkerque and Rotterdam, for large ships of a with of  width and  length.
Different floods of the river have been reported.
The oldest report is from Emperor Julian who reported a flood of the river in his work Misopogon in the year 358.
Gregory of Tours reported a flood in  February 528 in his Historia Francorum.
The river has inspired different painters, mainly in the 19th and 20th century.
Honoré de Balzac describes it in many of his books.
Gustave Flaubert uses the river as a metaphor or image to describe the flow of time.
Other authors include Jacques Prévert, and Guillaume Apollinaire.
Louis Perry Anderson (March 24, 1953January 21, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author and game show host.
Anderson made the cartoon series Life with Louie and has written three books.
He was the host of the second revival of the game show Family Feud, from 1999 to 2002.
He was nominated three times for an Emmy Award, for his performance on the comedy television series Baskets, and won it once in 2016.
On January 18, 2022, it was announced that Anderson had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and was undergoing treatment in Las Vegas.
He died three days later at the age of 68.
The National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus is the parliament of Belarus.
The two parts of the National Assembly are:
Council of the Republic- The upper house
House of Representatives- The lower house
The houses meet every year.
The first session starts October 2.
It cannot be more than 80 days.
The second session starts April 2.
It does not last more than 90 days.
Sometimes the President can have them meet a third time.
Council of the Republic
The Council of the Republic is the upper house.
It has 64 members.
The members are based geographically.
Eight members of the Council are picked by the President of Belarus.
The remaining members are elected by secret vote: eight members of the Council are elected from each of the country's regions and Minsk City.
Members must aged 30 and more and live in the region they are elected from for at least five years.
Speakers of the Council of the Republic
Pavel Shipuk January 13, 1997–December 19, 2000
Alyaksandr Vaytovich December 19, 2000–July 28, 2003
Henadz Navitski July 28, 2003–October 31, 2008
Boris Batura October 31, 2008–May 20, 2010
Anatoli Rubinov May 24, 2010–Present
It has 110 deputies.
Any citizen of 21 years is eligible for election.
Speakers of the House of Representatives
Seine was a département in France.
It was created as Paris in 1790, and renamed to Seine in 1795.
On the 1st of January 1968 it was abolished, together with the department Seine-et-Oise which surrounded it.
The area was distributed into 4 departements, Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne.
In 1968, about 5.7 million people lived in the area; about 2.5 million lived in the city of Paris.
1960s disestablishments in Europe
He was born in Fairport, New York.
He had a brother, writer Gordy Hoffman (born 1964) and two sisters.
Hoffman's mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish origin.
His father was a Protestant of part-German origin.
Hoffman studied at New York State Summer School of the Arts and at Tisch School of the Arts.
Hoffman first started acting in 1991 in an episode of Law & Order.
His first movie role was as Matt in the 1992 movie Leap of Faith.
He then acted in many movies.
His performance as Truman Capote in Capote earned him an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award.
He also acted on television and in theater.
His last movie was The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and in A Most Wanted Man.
Hoffman lived in Manhattan with his partner Mimi O'Donnell.
They were a couple from 1999 until 2013.
On February 2, 2014, Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment, of an apparent drug overdose.
His funeral was held at St. Ignatius Loyola church, Manhattan, on February 7, 2014.
Next Stop Wonderland
Synechdoche, New York
Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography
NPR Interview (09/2005)
Brandt Tribute  Lebowski Podcast's tribute to Hoffman's character in The Big Lebowski.
Pecados y Milagros () is the seventh album by Mexican Latin singer Lila Downs.
The singles on Pecados y Milagros are: "Palomo del Comalito", "Zapata se Queda" and "Mezcalito".
In 2012 the album Pecados y Milagros won a Grammy Award for "Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)".
The same year it won a Latin Grammy Award for "Best Folk Album".
Lila Downs albums
This album was recorded in New York and Mexico.
All the songs on this album were composed by Lila Downs and Paul Cohen, except "I Envy The Wind" (by Lucinda Williams) and "I Would Never" (by Paul Buchanan).
It includes a version of "Black Magic Woman" by Peter Green.
In "Ojo de Culebra" they mix instruments and electronic music.
It includes collaborations with Enrique Bunbury, La Mari, Mercedes Sosa and Ramon Gutierrez, among others.
Top Heatseekers - #48
Top Latin Albums - #36
Top World Music Albums - #3
Ojo de Culebra credits
Kathryn Joosten (December 20, 1939 – June 2, 2012) was an American television and voice actress.
She won two Emmy Awards.
She died of lung cancer in Westlake Village, California.
1996: Murphy Brown as Secretary #83
2005-2012: Desperate Housewives as Karen McCluskey
2009: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel as Aunt Jackie
The  or JAEA, is a Japanese organization that seeks to research, promote, and monitor the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
It is an Independent Administrative Institution.
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency was formed October 1, 2005 by a merger of the  Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC).
Basic research of nuclear energy
Promotion of research and development results
Human resource development
Study and analysis of safety regulation, prevention of nuclear disasters, international non-proliferation, etc.
Fukushima I nuclear accidents
English JAEA website ;
Seven is a 1995 American neo-noir crime horror thriller movie.
It was directed by David Fincher and produced by Arnold Kopelson.
It stars Brad Pitt as David Mills and Morgan Freeman as William Somerset, police detectives who are working together to catch serial killer John Doe, played by Kevin Spacey.
Doe murders people he believes are guilty of the seven deadly sins.
Mills' wife Tracy is played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
1995 horror movies
Core is the first album by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
It was released on September 29, 1992 through Atlantic Records.
The album made #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and #3 on the Billboard 200.
It was the band's best-selling album.
21 Grams is an American drama movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriga.
It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro, whose lives are connected when del Toro's character Jack Jordan kills the husband and two daughters of Watts' character Cristina Peck in a hit-and-run road accident.
His heart is transplanted into Penn's character, mathematician Paul Rivers.
Movies directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Celia Cruz (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban-American salsa performer.
She earned twenty-three gold albums.
She was called the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba."
She spent most of her career living in New Jersey.
She worked in the United States and several Latin American countries.
Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music."
2003 Homenaje a Beny Moré
2003 Celia & Johnny
2003 Dios Disfrute a la Reina
2003 Son Boleros, Boleros Son
2003 Reina de la Música Cubana
2003 Regalo del Alma
2003 Más Grande Historia Jamás Cantada
2003 Estrellas de la Sonora Matancera
2003 Celia in the House: Classic Hits Remixed
2003 Carnaval de la Vida
2003 Candela Pura
2002 Unrepeatable
2002 Hits Mix
2001 La Negra Tiene Tumbao
2000 Siempre Viviré
2000 Salsa
2000 Habanera
2000 Celia Cruz and Friends: A Night of Salsa
1999 En Vivo Radio Progreso, Vol.
1999 En Vivo C.M.Q., Vol.
1998 Mi Vida Es Cantar
1998 Afro-Cubana
1997 También Boleros
1997 Duets
1997 Cambiando Ritmos
1996 Celia Cruz Delta
1995 Irresistible
1995 Festejando Navidad
1995 Double Dynamite
1995 Cuba's Queen of Rhythm
1994 Merengue Saludos Amigos
1994 Mambo del Amor
1994 Irrepetible
1994 Homenaje a Los Santos
1994 Guaracheras de La Guaracha
1993 Introducing
1993 Homenaje a Beny Moré, Vol.
1993 Boleros Polydor
1993 Azucar Negra
1992 Verdadera Historia
1992 Tributo a Ismael Rivera
1991 Reina del Ritmo Cubano
1991 Canta Celia Cruz
1990 Guarachera del Mundo
1988 Ritmo en el Corazón
1987 Winners
1986 De Nuevo
1986 Candela
1983 Tremendo Trío
1982 Feliz Encuentro
1981 Celia & Willie
1980 Celia/Johnny/Pete
1977 Only They Could Have Made This Album
1976 Recordando El Ayer
1975 Tremendo Caché
1974 Celia & Johnny
1971 Celia Y Tito Puente en España
1970 Etc.
1969 Quimbo Quimbumbia
1968 Serenata Guajira
1968 Excitante
1967 A Ti México
1967 Bravo Celia Cruz
1966 Son con Guaguancó
1966 Cuba Y Puerto Rico Son
1965 Sabor y Ritmo de Pueblos
1965 Canciones Premiadas
1959 Mi Diario Musical
1958 Incomparable Celia
Grammy awards
| align="center"|1989
| "Ritmo En El Corazon"
| Best Tropical Latin Performance
| align="center"|2000
| Celia Cruz and Friends: A Night of Salsa
| Best Salsa Performance
| align="center"|2001
| "Siempre Viviré"
| Best Tropical Traditional Album
| align="center"|2002
| La Negra Tiene Tumbao
| Best Salsa Album
| align="center"|2003
| Regalo del Alma
| Best Salsa/Merengue Album
| align="center"|2004
South West Trains was a train company in the United Kingdom.
It served 213 stations and ran 185 of those.
The company  had 371 trains and ran the Island Line as well.
Island Line Trains is a train operating company in England.
It is owned by South Western Railway.
It runs a single 8.5 mile line on the Isle of Wight with 7 trains and 8 stations managed.
London Midland was a train operating company in the United Kingdom.
It ran  of track and served 146 stations.
During 2007, it carried 591.5 million passengers.
London Midland operated the West Midlands franchise between 2007 and 2017.
Heineken is a Dutch beer (5% abv pale lager) which has been brewed by Heineken International since 1873.
It is the flagship product of the Heineken company and is made of processed, impure water, sometimes advertised as purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast.
In 1886 H. Elion finished the development of the Heineken A-yeast, which is still used in the brewing process today.
The beer is force carbonated.
It is popular worldwide.
May 1875 — Medaille d'Or (Gold Medal) at the International Maritime Exhibition in Paris
1883 — Diplome d'Honneurs (Honorary Diploma) at the International Colonial and Export Exhibition in Amsterdam
1889 — Grand Prix (Grand Prize) at the Exposition Universelle in Paris
1900 — Hors Concours Membre du Jury in Paris
Chiltern Railways is a train operating company in the UK.
It serves 62 stations and runs 27 of them.
Heathrow Express is a train service in London that provides an airport rail link service between Paddington station and Heathrow Airport.
It is operated by the Heathrow Express Operating Company, owned by the same company which owns Heathrow Airport itself, and the first train ran on 23 June 1998.
The Heathrow Express service runs every 15 minutes throughout the day and evening, seven days a week.
It runs non-stop between Paddington and the airport. (
The Heathrow Connect used the same route but made some stops in between.)
At the airport, trains from Paddington stop at two stations, both of which are located underground: Heathrow Central (for terminals 2 and 3) and Heathrow Terminal 5.
There is also a shuttle train that goes between Heathrow Central and a station at Terminal 4, which is also underground.
The 12 trains used on services between Paddington and Heathrow are Class 387, while the shuttle service to Terminal 4 used one Class 360.
Heathrow Connect was a train service in London that ran between Paddington station and Heathrow Airport.
It was provided by the Heathrow Express company together with First Great Western.