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Pope Shenouda III – Coptic Orthodox Church Network: Biography, Online Books, and Audio Sermons
Some Articles by Pope Shenouda III in English
More information about the life of Pope Shenouda III – from Saint Takla Haymanout the Ethiopian Church, Alexandria, Egypt
Common declaration of Pope Shenouda III and Pope Paul VI (1973)
Pope Shenouda III's story and life in Arabic and English
Pope Shenouda III's Life
Critical analysis is to examine something that someone has said.
It means to study the individual parts of the work.
Theme in writing is what you think is important in a story.
It is the big idea of the work.
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is how the central topic a text, book, or story is treated.
Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject".
The most common understanding of theme is an idea or point that is central to a story.
It can be summed in a single word (e.g. love, death, betrayal).
Some examples of themes of this type are conflict between the person and society; getting to adult age; humans in conflict with technology; nostalgia.
A theme may be shown by the actions, words said, or thoughts of a character in a novel.
An example of this would be the theme loneliness in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Many of the characters are lonely.
It may be different from the book's or author's view of the world.
From the source we found we can see that the themes can be at a variety of state as the worldwide web
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/09/26/25-things-writers-should-know-about-theme/ - 25 THINGS WRITERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEME
https://acemyassignment.co.uk/blog/what-is-a-thematic-essay-and-how-to-write-thematic-essay/  - A GUIDE FOR THEMATIC ESSAY
Figurative language is when a writer describes something by comparing it with something else.
It is writing that goes from the actual meaning of words at face value to get a special meaning.
The figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning.
For example, consider the sentence, "When she heard the news, she was over the moon and jumped for joy".
The meaning is that she was very happy, but not flying above the Moon nor jumping up and down.
Figurative language is a difference in fields of language analysis.
Literal language is about words that do not go away from their meaning.
Non-literal or figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that change the normal meanings of the words.
A literal usage is the "normal" meanings of the words.
It has the same meaning regardless of the context.
The intended meaning is the same as the real meaning of the individual words.
Figurative use of language is the use of words or phrases in a manner where the literal meaning of the words is not true or does not make sense.
It "implies a non-literal meaning which does make sense or that could be true".
The Jack Hills are a range of hills in Western Australia.
They include the oldest material of terrestrial origin found on Earth.
These are zircons which formed about 4.4 billion years ago (bya).
The oldest zircon with the most consistent date is closer to 4.35 bya.
This zircon is part of a population of zircons in the metamorphosed conglomerate.
They were deposited about 3.060 bya, which is the age of the youngest detrital zircon in the rock.
We have samples of rock from the Moon which are older than these zircons.
The "Genesis Rock", got from the Moon by astronauts in the Apollo 15 mission, has been dated at 4.46 billion years.
This is one of the oldest known rocks on Earth, though it originated on the Moon.
During Apollo 16, older rocks were brought back.
The Allan Hills 84001 meteorite was blasted off from Mars by meteorite impact about 4.5 bya, and crystallised 4.091 bya.
It arrived on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
These figures were got by a number of radiometric dating techniques.
The Province of Quebec was a colony in North America.
It was created by Great Britain after the Seven Years' War.
Great Britain acquired French Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763).
After a long debate France negotiated to keep the small island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
Guadeloupe was rich in sugar.
By Britain's Royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada (part of New France) was renamed the Province of Quebec.
The province extended from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean, southwest through the Saint Lawrence River Valley to the Great Lakes and beyond to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Portions of its southwest (below the Great Lakes) were later ceded to the United States in a later Treaty of Paris (1783) at the conclusion of the American Revolution.
Military intelligence is information about an enemy or possible enemy.
It is information that has first been interpreted and evaluated.
It can include the terrain, the weather, and any other information about a theater of operations.
Military intelligence gathering has a long history.
By the time of the Battle of Kadesh in  BC Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II was known to have had court spies.
In the biblical Book of Genesis Joseph thought his brothers were Canaanite spies.
The Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC) wrote about the importance of military intelligence.
In his book The Art of War he wrote: "If you know both yourself and your enemy you can win a hundred battles without jeopardy."
He emphasized the importance of using spies to learn an enemy's strength and what they were doing.
He also wrote: "All warfare is based on deception".
What he meant was war can even be avoided if you feed your enemy enough bad information.
This is also called counterintelligence.
Ancient Rome depended heavily on intelligence information to rule it's empire.
When Major General Joseph Hooker took command of the Army of the Potomac he ordered Colonel George H. Sharpe to establish an intelligence unit.
In 1863, they established the Bureau of Military Information.
The information they gathered was amazingly accurate.
They calculated the size of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia within 2% of the actual number.
By war's end Sharpe knew more about the Army of Northern Virginia than many Confederate officers.
One of the best sources of military information Sharpe's organization had was slaves who used the Underground Railroad to escape the South.
During World War I intelligence became better organized.
For the first time Airplanes were used for intelligence gathering.
An observer would fly with a pilot and diagram and map battlefields.
They would also photograph intelligence targets and count troops.
Operators at listening stations reported on enemy communications.
Before the 20th century accurate weather information was not available.
Military planners had no data on the climate of their target area.
In many cases they didn't even have accurate maps of the area.
In 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union they did not have any information on how harsh the Russian winters were.
They did not have accurate maps of the roads.
Between October 1941 and April 1942 the Germans lost between 100,000 and 112, 000 soldiers to frostbite.
That is two-thirds of the number of soldiers who were killed in action or missing.
General knowledge of terrain has always been important to military intelligence.
But environmental factors sometimes went unnoticed.
At the Battle of Agincourt mud was a major factor in the English victory.
The extremely muddy ground slowed down the French and made them easy prey for English archers.
In the 17th and 18th centuries army quartermasters, in addition to providing supplies, also scouted terrain and planned routes the army would take.
One of the first major improvements in gaining scientific knowledge of terrain was during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).
The Russians used geologists to do a detailed survey of Korea.
They also used geologists to advise them in building fortifications.
Having little or no knowledge of terrain has proved costly to many battles in history.
During the Pacific War in World War II, the United States forces had little knowledge of the terrain of the many Pacific islands they fought on.
After the war, the United States Army Corps of Engineers contracted with the United States Geological Survey to provide detailed geological information on occupied islands.
Modern military intelligence
In addition to intelligence gathering on other countries, terrorism is also a major concern of military intelligence.
Intelligence gathering by examining communications signals has been a regular activity of military intelligence.
Since 2005 military and other intelligence services have also monitored the Internet.
In some 21st century countries, military intelligence competes with civilian-led intelligence agencies.
Often military and civilian intelligence gathering have different goals and objectives.
Both gather their own intelligence and do not always share information.
New methods of intelligence gathering, such as video imagery, satellites, reconnaissance aircraft and drones, produce tremendous amounts of raw data.
Artificial intelligence is used to analyze this data for information.
The Uncertain Oracle; Some Intelligence Failures Revisited (Pdf)
The History of the Intelligence Corps (Pdf)
The Mongol Intelligence Apparatus (Pdf)
A casualty in military usage is a person in military service, who becomes unavailable for duty due to death or  injury.
It also includes illness, capture, desertion, etc.;
or a civilian casualty.
In civilian usage the word "casualty" is properly used for a person who is killed, wounded or injured by some event.
It is usually used to describe multiple deaths and injuries due to violent incidents or disasters.
Casualties is sometimes loosely used to mean fatalities, but non-fatal injuries are also casualties.
Bryant Reeves (born June 8, 1973) is an American retired professional basketball player.
He played six seasons with the Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He was nicknamed Big Country by his college teammate Byron Houston after he was amazed through his first cross-country flight over the United States, having grown up in the small town of Gans, Oklahoma.
Reeves played college basketball at the Oklahoma State University–Stillwater with the Cowboys.
During his time with the Cowboys, Reeves led the team to the 1995 Final Four and averaged 21.5 points per game as a senior player.
He was selected 6th overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 1996 NBA Draft.
He was the Grizzlies' first-ever draft choice.
During his six seasons with the Grizzlies, he had averaged 13.3 points per game in his rookie season and he averaged 16.2 points per game in 1997.
On July 8, 1997, Reeves was given a six-year, $61.8 million contract extension.
Reeves' best season came in 1997-98, when averaged 16.3 points, 7.9 rebounds, 1.08 blocked shots per game, and scored a career-high 41 points against the Boston Celtics.
After 1998, he began suffering from both weight-control problems and injuries.
His production numbers had fell off severely.
The Grizzlies were still using Reeves as their starting center but both his minutes per game dropped and his field goal percentage had dropped.
When the Grizzlies were moved to Memphis in 2001, Reeves had to start the season on the injured list because of continuing back pain and he was never able to play another game after only playing two preseason games with Memphis.
Reeves retired from playing professional basketball on January 29, 2002.
Narratology is the study of structure in narratives.
The theory of narrative or narratology was developed in the 1960s.
Narratology is based on the idea of a common literary language.
Narratives are found and told through oral and written language.
Narratology has helped to make it easier to understand the how and why of narrative.
http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Main_Page  - The Living Handbook of Narratology
http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/narratology.htm  - Notes on Narratology
http://www.nou-la.org/ling/1975a-theonarreme.pdf - THBORIE DES NARRGMES ET ALGORITHMES NARRATIFS
Redshirts or Red coats is the name given to the volunteers who followed Giuseppe Garibaldi.
He was an Italian revolutionary who unified Italy by conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1861.
Man Against Machine is the eleventh studio album by Garth Brooks.
The album was released on 11 November 2014.
It was Brooks' second studio album on his new label Pearl Records.
It was his first studio album new material in nine years.
Two of the singles, "People Loving People," and "Send 'Em on Down the Road" were released early and made available digitally on Brooks' official website and GhostTunes.com.
Garth Brooks official website
Granada Cathedral (also called Cathedral of the Incarnation) is a cathedral in Granada, Spain.
It is a Roman Catholic cathedral and is the seat of the Archdiocese of Granada.
The site was once the center of Muslim Spain.
In 1532 the Archbishop of Granada laid the cornerstone for the cathedral.
The cathedral features a large number of paintings by the artist, sculptor and architect Alonso Cano.
Guide to monuments of Granada: the Cathedral
Granada Pictures
Del arte árabe en España Book about Arab Art in Spain by Rafael Contreras y Muñoz, pages 1 to 7.
Information on the Cathedrals of Granada on the Spain.info website.
History of the monuments of Granada in English
Detailed maps of Granada
Information on the Cathedrals of Granada on a Nicaraguan website
Tourist Guide to Granada Cathedral and other places of tourist interest in Spain.
Photo Gallery: Granada Cathedral of Incarnation ~ Spain
Ixigo Granada Cathedral Photos
Shareef Abdur-Rahim (born December 11, 1976) is an American retired professional basketball player.
He currently works as the director of player personnel for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is the general manager of the Reno Bighorns, the Kings' NBA D-League affiliate.
Abdur-Rahim played college basketball at the University of California, Berkeley with the Golden Bears.
He was selected 3rd overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 1996 NBA Draft.
During his time with the Grizzlies, he became the team's leading scorer and set a franchise record of 18.7 points per game.
He averaged 6.9 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 35 minutes per game.
He also finished 3rd in balloting for the Schick NBA Rookie of the Year behind the Philadelphia 76ers' Allen Iverson and the Minnesota Timberwolves' Stephon Marbury, and was picked for the All-Rookie First Team.
During the next few seasons, Abdur-Rahim was the centerpiece of the Grizzlies team.
He improved his performance the following years with 22.3 ppg, 7.1 rpg and 2.6 assists per game (apg) in his sophomore season and 23.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg, and 3.4 apg in the next season.
Even through his best effort, the Grizzlies were still at the bottom two spots of the Midwest Division in his first four seasons.
On June 27, 2001, the Grizzlies traded Abdur-Rahim and the 27th overall pick to the Atlanta Hawks for Brevin Knight, Lorenzen Wright and Pau Gasol, the 3rd overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft.
The Hawks finished the 2001–02 season with a 33–49 win-loss record.
Abdur-Rahim's performances, which included a career-high 50-point game, earned him a selection to the NBA All-Star game for the season.
On December 28, 2002, he became the fifth-youngest player in NBA history to reach 10,000-points with a jump shot against the Washington Wizards.
Even though Glenn Robinson, Jason Terry and Abdur-Rahim all combined to average 57.9 ppg and become the highest-scoring trio in the league for the 2002–03 season, the team was unable to make the playoffs again.
Abdur-Rahim played in all but one of game for the Hawks.
On February 9, 2004, the Hawks traded Abdur-Rahim along with Theo Ratliff and Dan Dickau to the Portland Trail Blazers for Rasheed Wallace and Wesley Person.
At the end of the 2004–05 NBA season, he became a free agent.
During the 2005 off-season, he was traded through a sign and trade agreement (in principle) to the New Jersey Nets for a first-round draft pick.
On August 4, 2005, it was revealed that he failed a required physical because of scar tissue found in his knee.
The trade was put on hold, pending a second opinion from other medical sources.
On August 7, Abdur-Rahim was quoted as saying: "Right now I don't feel I want to be a Net".
During his first season with the Kings, he averaged 16.0 ppg, 6.2 rpg and 3.0 apg as a starter.
He shot .543 for field goal percentage, and almost .800 from the free throw line.
The Kings were able to qualify for the 2006 playoffs.
He made his postseason career debut against the San Antonio Spurs.
At the same time, Abdur-Rahim ended a streak of having played the most number of games in NBA history without participating in the post-season.
On September 22, 2008, Abdur-Rahim announced that he was retiring from basketball because of a constant knee injury.
The next week, he joined the Kings' coaching staff as an assistant.
He was hired as the Kings' assistant general manager on October 7, 2010.
Achraf Baznani (born 1 January 1979) is a Moroccan artist, filmmaker and photographer.
He was born in Marrakesh.
Baznani got started in photography by chance.
He received a Kodak Ektra Compact 250 camera for his birthday as a teen.
Baznani is self-taught and has never taken photography classes.
He has made several short films and documentaries.
These include "Walk" in 2006 and "The Forgotten" in 2007. "
The Immigrant" in 2007 received several national and international awards.
Baznani is best known for being the first artist in the Arab world to publish a photo-book based on surreal imagery.
Both books, Through My Lens and Inside My dreams, are surreal.
Baznani places himself within his photographs of everyday objects, scenes and amusing situations.
During 2014, he completed his "52 Project ", a personal mission which he committed to taking a picture every week in a row for a year.
Claim of plagiarism
On April 29th, 2015, Joel Robinson, a Canadian photographer, accused Achraf Baznani of plagiarism.
His evidence was a long article, published both on his website and petapixel.com, that the Moroccan photographer used his work in a way that amounted to plagiarism.
Although Robinson did not mention Baznani by name, the nature of the case was said by Robinson to be as follows.
Robinson's originals all had a photo of himself in the middle of a graphic design of some kind.
In each case, Baznani removed Robinson's image and replaced it with one of himself.
2006: Best Director: national educational film festival in Casablanca, Morocco.
2007: Best Director: national festival of the education thread in Casablanca, Morocco.
2008: Best Director: national festival of amateur short film Settat, Morocco.
2008: Best Director: national festival of short film creators in Casablanca, Morocco.
2008: Best Director: the short film festival in Nador, Morocco.
2009: Best Director: national Educational Film Festival in Fes, Morocco.
2009: Jury Prize at the International Festival of Short and Documentary Films in Casablanca, Morocco.
2009: First prize in the short film festival in the Arab League.
2015: Best in the show in Park Art Fair International
2015: Merit in Sydney International Exhibition of Photography
2015: 1st Prize in B2zone art contest in Switzerland
2016: Honorable mention in Park Art Fair International
2016: 1st Place Winner – Golden Ribbon in Notindoor photography magazine contest
2016: Golden Orchid Grand Prize
2016: International Prize Colosseo, Roma, Italy
2015 "Colour brust", PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015: Park Art Fair International 2015, Triberg, Germany
2015: Gallery Globe, Adisson, Texas, USA
2015: Digital Private Exhibition Louvre Museum, Paris, France
2015: My Small World, Solo Exhibition, Marrakesh, Morocco
2016: International Surrealism Now, Coimbra, Portugal
2016: Park Art Fair International 2016, Triberg, Germany
2016: Männer, Gräfelfing, Germany
2016: Inside my Dreams, Solo Exhibition, Rabat, Morocco
Art books
2014: Through my lens, Art book, .
2014: Inside my dreams, Art book, .
Magazine covers
PH magazine, Canada, issue 42, ISSN 1924-9424.
FOTOdigital, Portugal, issue 17
Magazine, US, issue 2,
PicsArt, US, issue 15
Mambo, Spain, special edition December 2014
One Shoot magazine, Mexico, issue 27
Zarah magazine, US, October 2014
Art Reveal Magazine, Issue 5, Finland, June 2015.
Cultura Errante, Mexico, October 2015
Artinzene, Issue 4, New Zealand, November 2015
Knack magazine, Issue 31
Convex Photography Magazine - February 2016, India
2006: Marche
2007: Emigrant
2009: Eyes
PH Magazine , Issue 42, pp 36–39
Achraf Baznani: Surreal, Inventive Digital Photographs
People from Marrakesh
August 1914
It was commanded by General Paul Rennenkampf when Russia invaded East Prussia at the outbreak of war in 1914.
They were accompanied by the Second Army commanded by General Alexander Samsonov.
The plan was to trap the German army in a Pincer movement between the two armies.
On 17 August the First Army engaged the Germans at Stallupönen.
They fought the Germans again on 20 August at Gumbinnen and defeated them.
Rennenkampf thought the Germans could be finished off by Samsonov's Second Army and did not move quickly enough to help them.
In late August 1914 the German and Russian second army met at Tannenberg.
The Second Army was encircled and suffered complete destruction.
September 1914
Let by General Paul von Hindenburg the Germans turned north to attack the Russian First army at First Battle of the Masurian Lakes in September 1914.
They set up defensive lines on the Russian border.
November 1914
After another defeat near Silesia on November 11, Rennenkampf was dismissed.
He was replaced by General Litvinov.
The First Army again fought at Thorn and Lódź but there was no clear cut winner.
December 1914
The First army evacuated Lódź and returned to their own lines for the remainder of the winter.
The First Army served on the Northwestern front for the rest of the war.
An offensive is an aggressive military operation usually aimed at an enemy force.
It is also called an attack, an advance or an invasion.
An offensive can be conducted on land, at sea or in the air.
A common goal of an offensive is to engage the enemy in a battle.
It can also be used to get an enemy to withdraw and avoid a battle.
A tactical offensive is an operation that is usually smaller or more limited.
It often involves the use of Special forces (or specialized forces).
It often has a limited task such as the capture of a bridge or stronghold.
A strategic offensive usually involves larger forces and usually has long-range goals.
Gilmour began his comedy career in 1995.
He shared the first Billy T Award with Cal Wilson in 1997.
He won the Decade Award - Best Male Comedian - 2000 to 2010 at the 2010 NZ Comedy Guild Awards.
In 2012, he returned to the New Zealand International Comedy Festival "for the first time in a couple of years" with a one hour show called "S'Truth".
He has made many appearances on New Zealand television, including Pulp Comedy (1995),  Intrepid Journeys - Peru (2003), Celebrity Treasure Island (2003), Dancing with the Stars series one (2005), and  Comedy Christmas Cracker (2010).
He was the host of the TV3 show "Road Madness", mainly about dangerous driving on New Zealand roads, which first aired in 2012.
New Zealand entertainers
Robert Flower (5 August 1955 – 2 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer.
He played with Melbourne Football Club.
His first game was against Geelong in 1973.
He captained the team from 1981 until his final game in 1987.
He held the record for the number of games for his club, 272, until overtaken by David Neitz in 2006.
Flower was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
Kevin Metheny (c. 1954 – October 3, 2014) was an American radio executive.
He was played by Paul Giamatti in the 1997 movie, Private Parts.
His final job in the radio industry was as operations manager of KGO-AM/KSFO-AM (San Francisco).
Raymond De Belser (17 June 1929 – 3 October 2014), pseudonym Ward Ruyslinck, was a Belgian writer.
He was born in Berchem, Belgium.
He was known for his book Wierook en tranen ("Incense and Tears").
He won the Prijs voor Letterkunde van de Vlaamse provincies for this work.
In 1966, he wrote the bittersweet fairy tale Golden Ophelia.
Ward Ruyslinck retired in 1984.
His wife committed suicide in 1980.
Afterwards, he moved to Meise to live with his mistress Monika Lo Cascio.
Ruyslinck and Cascio wrote the autobiographical novel De speeltuin ("The Playground") in 1992.
Jean-Jacques Marcel (13 June 1931 – 3 October 2014) was a French international footballer.
He played for some of the French national teams of the 1950s.
He played naturally in the FIFA World Cup 1954 and 1958.
On 3 October 2014, it was announced by his former football club that Marcel died.
Jean-Claude Duvalier (), nicknamed "Bébé Doc" or "Baby Doc" (July 3, 1951 – October 4, 2014) was the President of Haiti from 1971 until his overthrow by a popular uprising in 1986.
He succeeded François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, his father, as the ruler of Haiti.
The splake or slake (Salvelinus namaeycush X Salvelinus fontinalis) is a fish.
It is the hybrid of a male brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and a female lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush).
The name is a combination of speckled trout (another name for brook trout) and lake trout.
The name may have been used as early as the 1880s.
Hybrids of the male lake trout with the female brook trout (the so-called "brookinaw") have also been produced, but are not as successful.
Seville Cathedral is one of the famous Roman Catholic cathedrals in Spain.
It is in Seville state.
It is the third largest cathedral in the word and the largest Gothic style cathedral.
It was consecrated in 1507.
In 1987, UNESCO added this church as a World Heritage site.
In the early 16th century, Hagia Sophia made the church into a mosque.
At that time, the cathedral was the largest church or cathedral in the world.
Christopher Columbus is buried in this church.
Interactive 360° panorama from Plaza del Triunfo with Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo General de Indias (Java, highres, 0,9 MB)
acred-destinations
More information of Seville Cathedral as the monument of Spain
Great Building Website with more information about Seville Cathedral
Bluffton University images and details pertaining to Catedral de Sevilla
Colac is a town in the western district of Victoria, Australia.
It is about  south-west of Melbourne, on the southern shore of Lake Colac and the surrounding volcanic plains, approximately  inland from Bass Strait.
Colac is the largest city in and administrative centre of the Colac Otway Shire.
At June 2016, Colac had a population of 12,411.
The first people to live in the area were the Gulidjan people.
They had lived in the grasslands around the lakes for at least 30,000 years.
European settlers moved into the area in 1837.
Within three years, most of Gulidjan lands had been taken over by sheep farmers.
The first European settler was Hugh Murray.
In 1848, the town was named "Lake Colac".
Brookhouse Mystery
In 1854 a shepherd, Thomas Brookhouse,  who  worked for Hugh Murray went missing.
Another shepherd, Patrick McGeary left the town soon afterwards.
Fifteen years later, Brookhouse's bones were found under a pile of rocks near Lake Corangamite.
The skull had been crushed.
It took police another two years to find McGeary, who was found guilty of murder and hanged in Melbourne in 1871.
He had killed Brookhouse to stop him from telling Murray about his sheep stealing.
Town features
The Lake Colac Post Office opened on 1 July 1848.
The name was changed to Colac in 1854.
Colac Botanic Gardens in Queen Street is next to the shores of Lake Colac.
They were first planted in 1868, and remodelled in 1910 by William Guilfoyle.
There is a large number of different of plants with many old and rare trees and a rose arbour.
A commemorative plaque on the southern side of the Memorial Square remembers two historic speeches given on consecutive nights in Colac.
The two speeches declared Australia would join Britain to fight in World War I. On 5 September 1914 the Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Fisher said "...Australia will stand by the mother country to our last man and our last shilling".
The next night, the Prime Minister Joseph Cook said that "...If the old country is at war, so are we".
Lake Colac dried up during the drought of 2008-2009.
It has now refilled.
The railway reached the town in 1877.
From 1883 the line was extended to reach as far as Port Fairy, in the south west of the state.
The Irrewarra-Cressy line to Ballarat also ran from Colac between 1889 and 1953.
There was also a branch line to Alvie opened in 1923 and closed in 1954.
A narrow gauge railway line began in Colac going south to the small towns of Beech Forest and Crowes.
This line opened in 1902 and closed in 1962.
The local railway station is served by V/Line passenger services on the Warrnambool line.
The train stops at Camperdown and Terang.
Colac is the home of the annual "Cliff Young Australian 6-day race".
The event has been going for over 20 years and is a running/walking event.
It is held in the Memorial Square which is in the middle of Colac and attracts entries from all over the world.
The main industries are based on agriculture including dairy, beef, lamb and finewool merino industries, and a large timber industry.
These include Bulla Dairy Foods, CRF Colac Otway Pty Ltd, Fonterra, Cororooke, and AKD Softwoods.
Colac has its own newspaper, The Colac Herald, published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Colac has a number of local radio stations: 3CS 1134AM, MIXX FM 106.3 MHz, and Otway FM 104.7 MHz& 99.1 MHz.
FM radio services direct from Melbourne can be received in Colac but signal levels are low.
Television services direct from Melbourne can be received in Colac but large antenna arrays must be used with mixed results.
Colac has two Australian Rules football teams competing in the Colac & District Football League, the Colac Imperials and South Colac.
The Colac Tigers play in the Geelong Football League.
Colac has a horse racing club, the Colac Turf Club, which has around four race meetings a year including the Colac Cup meeting in February.
It also has a picnic horse racing club, Colac St Patrick Picnic, which holds its one race meeting a year in March.
Colac Otway Web
Colac Otway Shire Council  information about local services, economic development and cultural activities in the Colac Otway Shire
Colac and District Family History Group
The Castle of Almansa () is a castle in Almansa, Spain.
It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1921.
Details about the castle
Images of castle
12 Treasures of Spain - Finalists
Alcántara Bridge (also called Puente Trajan at Alcantara) is a Roman stone arch bridge.
It was built over the Tagus River, Alcántara, Spain between 104 and 106 AD.
The Roman emperor Trajan ordered this bridge built in 98 AD.
The original length of this bridge was .
It is now  long  The clear spans of the six arches from the right to the left riverside are , , , ,  and
David J. Brown, Bridges (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993), p. 25
Manuel Durán Fuentes, La Construcción de Puentes Romanos en Hispania (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia, 2004), pp.
194–200
Vittorio Galliazzo, I ponti romani, Catalogo generale Vol.
2 (Treviso: Edizioni Canova, 1994), pp.
353–358 (No.
754)
Bernhard Graf, Bridges that Changed the World (Munich: Prestel, 2002), pp.
20–21
Colin O’Connor, Roman Bridges (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.
109–111 (SP21)
Creationism is the idea that life on earth was created by God.
This idea comes from a literal reading of scripture, very often the Bible.
Today, almost all scientists believe evolution is a good explanation.
These scientists say that  the scientific method does not allow certain explanations, mostly those that include supernatural elements.
For this reason, a movement called  Neo-creationism wants to re-state the ideas behind creationism and restart the discussion  over the origins of life.
The followers want to do this in such a way that religious terms are not used, and that there are no references to scripture.
This should make it easier to talk to other groups, such as the scientific community or the general public.
A cloud chamber is a sealed box with a supersaturated vapour of water or alcohol.
When a charged particle (e.g. an alpha or beta particle) goes through it, the vapour is ionized.
The resulting ions act as nuclei, around which a mist forms from the vapour.
The high energies of alpha and beta particles mean that a trail is left by ions produced along the path of the charged particle.
These tracks have distinctive shapes (for example, an alpha particle's track is broad and shows more evidence of deflection by collisions, while an electron's is thinner and straight).
When any uniform magnetic field is applied across the cloud chamber, positively and negatively charged particles will curve in opposite directions, according to the Lorentz force law.
The cloud chamber was invented by Charles Wilson (1869–1959), a Scottish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for this work.
The first cloud chamber was made in 1911.
The invention was used in the early days of atomic physics.
It is often called the 'Wilson chamber'.
Since then a number of other types of particle detectors have been invented.
Das Gupta N.N. & Ghosh S.K. 1946.
A report on the Wilson cloud chamber and its applications in physics.
Reviews of Modern Physics.
18, 225–365.
Many pictures of nuclear interaction and experiences
Video demonstration of a cloud chamber , Peter Wothers, Royal Institution, December 2012
Wilson's Original Apparatus
Radiation tracks in Cloud Chambers
Uric acid is what reptiles and birds excrete.
It is a heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3.
It forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates.
Uric acid is a product of the metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides.
High blood concentrations of uric acid can lead to gout.
The chemical is associated with other medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and the formation of kidney stones (ammonium acid urate).
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern art.
It is in Abando, Bilbao, Spain.
The museum was opened in 1997.
It is one of the several museums belonging to Solomon R. Guggenheim foundation.
This museum was designed by the architect Frank Gehry.
There are no flat surfaces in this building.
The structure of the building is made of glass, titanium, and limestone.
"Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao not only changed the way that architects and people think about museums, but also boosted Bilbao’s economy with its astounding success."
The museum has three aims in its mission.
The museum wants to bring together and help the public to interpret the arts of our time.
They want to encourage art education.
They also want to increase the knowledge of the public's understanding of the arts.
The collections at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao have works by the some of the most famous artists of the past four decades.
There are works of many genres including Minimalism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Abstract Expressionism.
Spanish contemporary and Basque art are also displayed from some of the local and regional artists.
There are over one hundred exhibitions in the museum.
There have been approximately ten million visitors to the museum.
http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbao  - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131218-when-the-museum-is-the-art - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Art inside and out
Art museums in Spain
A purine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound.
It is a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring.
Purines are the most widely occurring nitrogen-containing heterocycles in nature.
Purines
Xanthine
Telephones - main lines in use: 1,820,000 (2014)
Country comparison to the world: 64
Telephones - mobile cellular: 11,000,000 (2014)
Country comparison to the world: 75
As of 2014, Azerbaijan has 9 AM radio stations, 17 FM radio stations, and one shortwave radio station.
There are also about 4,350,000 radios.
Radio broadcast stations: 26 (2014)
Radio Respublika - FM 105.0 MHz
İctimai FM  - FM 90 MHz
Naxçıvan Dövlət radiosu (Nakhchivan State Radio) - FM 103 MHz
Naxçıvanın səsi (Voice of Nakhchivan) - FM 103 MHz
ARAZ FM     - FM 103.3 MHz
Antenn FM   - FM 101 MHz
ANS ChM     - FM 102 MHz
Avto FM     - FM 107.7 MHz
Azad Azərbaycan FM - FM 106 MHz
Bürc FM     - FM 100.5 MHz
Kəpəz FM    - FM 90.3 MHz
Lider FM    - FM 107 MHz
Media FM    - FM 105.5 MHz
Space FM    - FM 104 MHz
Xəzər FM    - FM 103 MHz
Radios: 175,000 (1997)
Azerbaijan has a total of 47 television channels.
Four of them are public and 43 are private.
Twelve are national television channels and 31 are regional.
Television broadcast stations: 43 (2014)
Televisions: 170,000 (1997)
Internet service providers (ISPs): 15 (2005) 29 (2009)
Country code: AZE
Internet TLD: .az
Internet hosts: 46,856 (2011)
Country comparison to the world: 98
Internet users: 2.200,000 (2014)
Country comparison to the world: 70
Internet acess: 31.26% (2014)
Sidorenko, Alexey: "The Internet in Azerbaijan" in the Caucasus Analytical Digest No.
Kazimova, Arifa: "Media in Azerbaijan: The Ruling Family Dominates TV, the Opposition Has Some Papers" in the Caucasus Analytical Digest No.
Telecommunication Companies in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Companies
A pyrimidine is an aromatic heterocyclic organic compound, similar to purine.
It has nitrogens at positions 1 and 3 in the ring.
Cytosine (C),
Thymine (T),
Uracil (U).
Thiamine (vitamin B1)
It is also found in many synthetic compounds such as barbiturates and the HIV drug, zidovudine.
Uric acid is a pyrimidine derivative.
The State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan Republic () is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of collection, processing and publishing statistical data on the economy, demographics and other sectors in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The State Statistics Committee was established on February 18, 1994 by President Heydar Aliyev.
Its headquarters is located in the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku.
The Colbys was an American primetime soap opera.
It was a spin-off of Dynasty.
It aired on ABC from November 1985 to March 1987.
The stars of the series included Charlton Heston, John James, Emma Samms, Maxwell Caulfield, and Stephanie Beacham.
This show was focused on the fictional rich Colby family from Los Angeles, California.
Paul Revere Dick (January 7, 1938 - October 4, 2014) was an American musician and organ player.
In 1958, he and other musicians founded the group Paul Revere & the Raiders.
They recorded many hits.
He worked with the group until his death in 2014.
Revere was born in Harvard, Nebraska.
Alan Henning (15 August 1967 – c. 3 October 2014) was a British taxicab driver-turned-humanitarian aid worker.
He was the fourth Western hostage killed by Islamic State (IS).
Henning was captured during IS's occupation of the Syrian city of Al-Dana in December 2013, where he was helping with humanitarian relief.
The British Foreign Office withheld news of Henning's capture while they attempted to negotiate his release.
Henning was shown at the end of David Cawthorne Haines's execution video, released on 13 September 2014, and referred to by "Jihadi John" as the next victim.
A video of Henning's beheading was released by IS on 3 October 2014.
People murdered in Syria
Coleby Jason Lombardo (born September 7, 1978), is an American former child actor.
He appeared in many movies and television series.
The most popular of them was The Colbys.
In that series, he played young Scott Cassidy.
He was nominated for a Young Artist Award for that role.
David Cawthorne Haines (9 May 1970 –  13 September 2014) was a British aid worker.
He was captured by the Islamic State in early 2013.
He was later executed by beheading in early September 2014.
John J. Lloyd (1922 – October 4, 2014) was an American art director and production designer.
He was known for his work on such movies as National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!.
Vaughn Olin Lang (November 10, 1927 – October 2, 2014) was an American lieutenant general in the United States Army.
Lang began his service as 2LT at the Officers’ Basic Course at Ft.
Monmouth, New Jersey in 1952.
He served in the Radio-Radar Procurement Branch and in the European Trans-Atlantic Project.
Lang was a general during the Vietnam War.
Lang was born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania.
Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov () (25 July 1959 — 4 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian football midfielder.
He played for Spartak Moscow (1977–90 and 1991–94) and Red Star Football Club (1990–91).
Cherenkov made 34 appearances for USSR national football team, scoring 12 goals.
Fyodor Cherenkov's profile  at Spartak's official website
Profile and interview
Anna Przybylska (26 December 1978 – 5 October 2014) was a Polish actress and model.
She was born in Gdynia, Poland.
She was ranked high amongst the most beautiful Polish actresses.
In 2004, she was chosen to be the Polish ambassador for the ASTOR cometics brand.
Two years later, she became the European ambassador for ASTOR.
She was known for her role as Jadzia in Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy (2002).
Jules Bianchi (3 August 1989 – 17 July 2015) was a French racing driver.
He drove for the Marussia F1 team.
He made his Formula One debut in 2013, driving for Marussia alongside Max Chilton.
He previously raced in Formula Renault 3.5, the GP2 Series and Formula Three.
During the Japanese Grand Prix on 5 October, Bianchi's car crashed with a recovery vehicle which was helping to the car of Adrian Sutil, who had crashed the lap before.
The race was cancelled after the crash.
The FIA released a statement that CT scans have shown Bianchi suffered a "severe head injury" in the crash, and he will be transferred to intensive care following surgery.
Bianchi died in Nice, France on 17 July 2015 from complications of his injuries at the age of 25.
Jules Bianchi career statistics at Driver Database
Ilya (Elya) Zalmanovich Baskin (; ; born 11 August 1950) is a Soviet-American actor of Jewish descent.
He is known for his roles in Moscow on Hudson, Air Force One, The Name of the Rose, 2010, October Sky, Spider-Man 2, and in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
The Niagara Movement, was a civil rights group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks.
It was led by W. E. B. Du Bois.
The movement opposed the Atlanta Compromise by Booker T. Washington.
Harvard is a city in Clay County, Nebraska, in the United States.
As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,013.
The Division of Moncrieff is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
The division was created in 1984 and is named after Gladys Moncrieff (1892-1976), an Australian singer who lived in the area.
Division of Moncrieff (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission
Liverpool 8 is the fourteenth studio album by Ringo Starr.
The album was released on January 15, 2008.
It was his first and only studio album on the Capitol Records label.
Liverpool 8 is the postal district of the Toxteth area of Liverpool where Starr was born.
Elissa's Quest is a children's fantasy novel written by Erica Verillo.
The book was first published on June 26, 2007 and has been printed again twice since then on June 24, 2008 and March 12, 2009.
The novel is the first in Verillo's The Phoenix Rising trilogy, and is followed by Elissa's Odyssey and World's End.
The trilogy follows 13 year old Elissa in a fantasy world where she must team up with several other gifted youngsters and grant the phoenix another regeneration- but even she does not know this.
Fate must show her.
Almansa is a Spanish town and municipality in the province of Albacete.
Almansa is famous for its Moros y Cristianos festival celebrated from the 1st to the 6th of May.
Almansa is built at the foot of a white limestone cliff.
It has a Moorish castle at the top.
It is in the middle of a fertile and irrigated plain.
About  south of the town centre there is an obelisk to remind people of the Battle of Almansa.
The battle was fought there on the 25 April 1707 during the War of Spanish Succession.
The Duke of Berwick who the son of James II defeated the allied British, Portuguese and Spanish troops.
Assumption Church (16th-19th century)
Palace of Los Condes de Cirat (16th century), today the Town  Hall
Church of the Agustinas Convent (18th century)
The Convent of San Francisco (17th century)
Clock Tower (1780)
8 km from the city is the  reservoir of Almansa,  built in 1584.
This reservoir is the oldest one in Europe.
12 km from the city is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Belen (17th century).
http://www.almansa.com/ Portal of Almansa
Hoot is a young adult novel written by Carl Hiaasen.
It was originally published in 2002.
Hoot won the Newbery Medal in 2003.
The novel is about a boy named Roy Eberhardt and his friends, Beatrice Leep and Mullet Fingers.
They work to save a nest of burrowing owls at a construction site.
The book was turned into a movie in 2006.
The movie starred Logan Lerman as Roy, Brie Larson as Beatrice, Cody Linley as Mullet Fingers, Luke Wilson as David Delinko, Tim Blake Nelson as Curly Brannit, and Clark Gregg as Chuck Muckle.
Dophin Song is a children's novel by Lauren St. John.
It is the second in the Legend of the Animal Healer series.
The other books in the series are The White Giraffe, The Last Leopard, and The Elephant's Tale.
Dophin Song was first published on August 1, 2007.
It was published nine times from 2008 to 2010.
The story is about a girl named Martine.
She has the ability to heal animals.
She has many adventures because of her that.
In this book, she and several of her schoolmates get stuck on island out in the middle of nowhere.
They have to learn to get along and survive alone.
The Beach of La Concha (, ) is a beach in the Bay of La Concha (Shell Bay, in Spanish, named for its shape) in San Sebastián, Basque Country.
It is one of the most famous urban beaches in Europe.
The sand doesn't go very deep.
The tide going in and out changes the amount of area that can be used.
By the beach there is a long walkway.
The beach is known as an urban beach in wide use.
- PLAYA DE LA CONCHA
The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela () is a cathedral in Galicia in Spain.
It is in the World Heritage Site of Santiago de Compostela.
People believe that Saint James the Great, one of the apostles of Jesus, is buried there.
The building is a Romanesque structure with later Gothic and Baroque additions.
Reconstruction of the swinging motion of the Botafumeiro
Photographs of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
Pictures of Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
HyperSculpture - Pórtico de la Gloria
The Art of medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (p. 175-183)
Video clip in Youtube
The City of Arts and Sciences (; ) is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain.
It is the most important modern tourist place in the city of Valencia.
It is one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
Tzonis, Alexander.
Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works.
New York: Rizzoli, 2004.
Jodidio, Philip.
Santiago Calatrava.
Köln: Taschen, 1998.
Sharp, Dennis.
London: E & FN SPON, 1994.
Official tourism website of Valencia
Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències at Google Maps
Architectural photo
The Basilica–Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar () is a Roman Catholic church in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
The Basilica venerates Blessed Virgin Mary, under her title of “Our Lady of the Pillar”.
This church is the first church dedicated to Mary.
Famous churches of Mary
Sacred Destinations
Spiritual Travels
The M60 Patton is a main battle tank (MBT) introduced in December 1960.
The M60 became the Army's primary tank during the Cold War.
When the Soviet Union got the T-54 tank, the United States decided to upgrade the M48 Patton tank.
The armor was improved.
It was fitted with the British L7 105 mm tank gun.
The army also decided to switch from gasoline to diesel.
The 12 Treasures of Spain () was a project that selected the "Twelve Treasures of the Kingdom of Spain".
The contest was done by two companies: Antena 3 and Cope.
The final results were announced on 31 December 2007.
Nine architectural monuments, two natural monuments and a monument pictorial were chosen.