the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
She was nevertheless made a Dame of the Order of Australia (AD) on Australia Day 1980,[8] the second woman to receive this honour.
She died the following year and was accorded a state funeral inDevonport, Tasmania, before being buried next to her husband at Mersey Vale Lawn Cemetery.[1]
Kappa Mikey (also known as Mikey the Hero in Europe) is an American-British animated television series, starring the voices of Michael Sinterniklaas, Kether Donohue, Carrie Keranen, Sean Schemmel, and Gary Mack in the US and Rob Rackstraw, Tim Whitnall, Aileen Mythen, Pui Fan Lee, Seymour Mace and Justin Fletcher in the UK.
Michael Sinterniklaas as Mikey Simon
Kether Donohue as Lily
Carrie Keranen as Mitsuki
Sean Schemmel as Gonard
Gary Mack as Guano
Stephen Moverly as Ozu
Jesse Adams as Yes Man / Yoshi
Rob Rackstraw as Mikey Simon
Tim Whitnall as Gonard
Aileen Mythen as Lily
Pui Fan Lee as Mitsuki
Seymour Mace as Ozu
Justin Fletcher as Guano/Yes Man
This is a list of programs broadcast by Nick Jr., the Nickelodeon programming block broadcast from January 4, 1988 to January 30, 2009.
The separate channel named after the block started on September 28 of the same year.
The following is organized in alphabetical order.
Final television shows
Former television shows
Noggin shows
Interstitial series
a.  This show continued to air after the Nick Jr. (block) ended.
b.  One-shot short.
c.  Mascot for Nick Jr.
Sapphic stanza is a strophe that is widely used in European poetry.
It is of Greek origin and is named after the ancient Greek female poet Sappho.
The stanza consists of four lines.
Three of them are composed of eleven syllables and the last one is made up of five syllables.
In Greek verse the quantity of syllables is important—whether the syllables are long or short.
In other languages, this is no longer significant.
Sapphic stanza was adopted by Roman poets like Horace.
His popularity helped in expanding the use of the stanza and became common in many works of literature.
The Sapphic stanza was extremely popular in Polish poetry from the 16th century.
In English however, is not used often.
Among poets who experimented with it was Algernon Charles Swinburne.
All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids,
Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather,
Yet with lips shut close and with eyes of iron
Stood and beheld me.
(Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sapphics)
International Youth Arts Festival (IYAF) is an annual youth arts festival held in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames every July.
The festival was founded in 2009 by Robin Hutchinson MBE and has involved more than 25,000 young people as participants and volunteers since 2009.
It is an open-access performing arts festival: it does not book performers and anyone may participate.
The festival programme includes a range of art forms including theatre, dance, music, comedy, visual arts and children's shows.
Venues across the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames support artists in the festival by transforming their spaces into performance venues.
The festival includes over 200 staged events in venues including Rose Theatre, Arthur Cotterell Theatre, Kingston Library, Fairfield Recreation Ground, Eagle Brewery Wharf and The Library club.
The venues are close together, enabling audience members to visit multiple performances.
Artistic Directors
Chairman and founding Trustee
Olea capensis (synonyms are Olea undulata and O. laurifolia) is also called black ironwood.
It is an African tree species belonging to the olive family (Oleaceae).
It is widespread in Africa south of the Sahara.
It grows from the east in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, south to the tip of South Africa, and west to Cameroon, Sierra Leone and the Islands of the Gulf of Guinea, as well as Madagascar and the Comoros.
It occurs in the bush, littoral scrub and evergreen forest.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists this tree as the world's most dense wood, with a specific gravity of 1.49.
It is known for sinking in water, unlike other woods.
It is also the one of the world's hardest woods.
The timber resists abrasion and is very strong.
It is an excellent turnery wood, widely used for wooden items.
Vigilant was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
Her name meant: On the alert; watchful.
Vigilant was launched in 1791 in New York and was used to patrol New York waters.
Her design was that of a schooner.
She was rigged with fore-and-aft sails on two masts.
She was  long and had a shallow draft of only .
Vigilant, launched in March 1791, it was probably the first cutter in the water.
She was not, however, the first to enter into active service.
Her first patrol was in December 1791.
Her first master was Patrick Dennis, appointed on 6 October 1790.
He also supervised the construction.
Dennis served as master until his death on February 9, 1798.
Her assigned waters included New York Harbor, the coast of New York and New Jersey, Long Island Sound and the Hudson River as far as Albany, New York.
On November 14, 1798 Vigilant was sold for £348.
The Revenue Cutter Service decided the Vigilant was not large enough to carry out her duties.
Nothing further is known of the cutter after that date.
USRC Virginia (1791)
USRC Diligence (1791)
USRC South Carolina (1791)
USRC Eagle (1791)
Alexander Hamilton Letter to the Revenue Cutter Service
A Brief History of the Revenue Cutter Service
USRC Massachusetts was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
While not the first USRS cutter to be launched, it was the first to enter active service.
Massachusetts was built at Newburyport, MA by shipwright William Searle.
She was designed as a schooner.
On July 15, 1791 Massachusetts was launched.
Her crew consisted of four officers, four enlisted men and two cabin boys.
She was  long by  wide and had a shallow draft of only .
Williams ordered an increase in her size without getting approval by the service.
This increased her cost over what was originally budgeted.
But the government accepted the Massachusetts as changed by Williams.
She had the shortest service life of any of the original ten cutters.
The first Massachusetts turned out to be too expensive to operate and was too slow.
On 9 October 1792 she was sold.
In 1793 she was replaced by a smaller lighter sloop, the Massachusetts II.
USRC Massachusetts (1791); Military Wiki
She was born in Venice.
Her father, named Giovanni Marinelli was a physician, so was her brother, Curzio Marinelli.
Nothing is known however about her mother.
The social position of the family enabled her to learn.
She married Girolamo Vacca, who was also a physician.
Marinella wrote many works.
She is widely known as the author of La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne co' diffetti et mancamenti de gli uomini (The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600).
Her greatest work is an epic poem L'Enrico ovvero Bisanzio acquistato.
At that time the genre of epic poem was regarded as suitable for only men.
Lucrezia Marinella proved that a woman can write a heroic poem.
The poem is written in ottava rima which is considered to be a difficult form.
It was translated into English by Maria Galli Stampino.
Lucrezia Marinella lived long for her time period.
She died of malaria in Venice on 9 October 1653.
She was buried in the church of S. Pantalone.
Lucrezia Marinella, Enrico, or Byzantium Conquered.
A Heroic Poem, Edited and translated by Maria Galli Stampino, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009,.
USRC Active (1791) was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
It was commissioned in 1792 and remained in service until 1800.
Active was built by the shipwright David Stodder in Baltimore, Maryland.
She was launched on April 9, 1791 and was based in Baltimore.
Her first mate was Isaac Roach and her second mate was Benjamin Rue.
Goss resigned in 1792 and President George Washington promoted the former first mate, David Porter, as master.
The 1791-built cutter named Active was sold in 1800.
The National Serbian Clarinet Association (NSCA, Serb.
Национална српска кларинетистичка асоцијација/Nacionalna srpska klarinetistička asocijacija) is an association established in 2015, by Serbian clarinetists.
Most of the founders were members of the International Clarinet Association (ICA) and European Clarinet Association (ECA) who are active professional performers of classical music.
There are also students and clarinetists who perform other genres of music.
Andrija Blagojevic, clarinet professor at the University in Kosovska Mitrovica, the first clarinetist in Serbia who joined the ICA and ECA and the International Clarinet Association National Chairperson for Serbia since 2009, who serves as president of the NSCA Board;
Predrag Nedeljkovic, bass clarinettist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the most important Serbian orchestra;
Milan Orlovic, principal clarinetist of the Nis Military Orchestra;
Darko Percevic, clarinet teacher at Music School “Stevan Mokranjac” in Negotin, who got his master’s degree from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland and is currently pursuing his post-master’s degree at the University of the Arts in Belgrade, Serbia;
Mihailo Samoran, second and E-flat clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and doctoral student in both clarinet performance and chamber music at the University of the Arts in Belgrade.
European Clarinet Association - News
European Clarinet Association Newsflash, July 2016, Retrieved on July 16, 2018
The International Clarinet Association is the main international organization bringing together players of the clarinet.
It is based in the United States.
The ICA publishes a quarterly journal The Clarinet, produces an annual festival ClarinetFest, supports a research library and score collection, and in other ways advances the international study of the clarinet.
Official website of the International Clarinet Association
ECA may refer to:
At the 2009 ClarinetFest in Porto, Portugal, a group of European clarinetists decided to found the European Clarinet Association - ECA.
The Board of Directors included clarinetists from different European regions, under the leadership of Matthias Müller from Zurich.
To enhance contact and communication among clarinetists and national clarinet societies.
To organize activities and events in collaboration with national clarinet societies.
To encourage and support European countries to found and maintain national societies by sharing experience and knowledge.
To support the International Clarinet Association (ICA) with the organization of ClarinetFests in Europe.
To disseminate and share information through Facebook.
Official website of the European Clarinet Association
An educational technologist is someone trained in the field of educational technology.
Educational technologists try to analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate processes and tools to make learning easier.
The term does not necessarily, or even mainly, refer to hardware.
The most significant ideas came from applied psychology and programmed learning.
There are various other terms which are alternatives, most obviously 'instructional technologist'.
There have been various names for institutions specialising in the activity.
The description used originally at the UK Open University was 'Applied Educational Sciences', changed later to 'Institute of Educational Technology'.
To produce the landmark program Sesame Street, the Childrens' Television Workshop employed applied psychologists to pre-test all programs.
This was a typical activity for educational technologists even if they were not called by that name.
Association for Educational Communications and Technology
Role of an Educational Technologist
What is a Learning Technologist?
Traditional Māori religion, a pre-European belief system of the Māori, was little modified from the religion of the tropical Eastern Polynesian homeland (Hawaiki Nui).
Both religions conceive of everything, including natural elements, all living things, and that all are connected by common descent through whakapapa or genealogy.
Accordingly, all things were thought of as possessing a life force or mauri.
Illustrating this concept of connectedness through genealogy are the major personifications of pre-contact times: Tangaroa was the personification of the ocean and the ancestor or origin of all fish; Tāne was the personification of the forest and the origin of all birds; and Rongo was the personification of peaceful activities and agriculture and the ancestor of cultivated plants. (
According to some, the supreme personification of the Māori was Io; however this idea is controversial).
Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist.
He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for his work on oxytocin.
Du Vigneaud was born in Chicago, Illinois.
He studied chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then worked for the chemical company DuPont for one year.
He then went back to university to study for his Ph.
D degree.
D in 1927.
He taught for one year at the medical school of Johns Hopkins University and then went to Europe.
He did research in Dresden in Germany and at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
When he went back to America, he became a professor at the University of Illinois.
In 1932 he moved to the George Washington University Medical School.
In 1938 he moved to Cornell University Medical College in New York City.
He was a professor at Cornell until he retired in 1967.
Stove fans are small fans that are usually set on top of a wood-burning stove, although they can be put on top of anything warm, like an oven.
A stove will slowly radiate heat into the surrounding room, but it can take a long time for this to warm up a room.
A fan will make air move past the stove and into the room, which will make the room warm up much faster. (
This type of heat is called "convection.")
Although any kind of fan can help warm move air around a room, this type of stove fan is placed directly on the top of the stove.
You don't plug it in, and it doesn't have any batteries.
Instead, the heat from the stove itself causes the fan to move.
a thermoelectric generator, where a large-enough difference in temperature between the base of the fan (which sits on the stove) and the top of fan (which is cooled by a heat sink) causes a thermoelectric generator (which has a set of doped semiconductor elements, one being a P-type element and the other being an N-type element) to make a small electric current.
This small current drives a small, low-torque motor.
a Stirling engine, where the heat makes the gas in a cylinder expand, which pushes a piston.
The air cools down as the piston reaches the top of the cylinder, and the air contracts.
The piston's movement causes the fan to move via a crank.
The Englischer Garten, German for "English Garden", is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, Germany stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits.
It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford (Reichsgraf von Rumford), for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.
Thompsons' successors, Reinhard von Werneck (1757–1842) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823), advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park.
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Birmingham, England) is a British Jamaican writer, dub poet and Rastafarian.
He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
Gabriel Pereira de Castro was born in Braga on 7 February 1571.
He became a priest there.
Then he studied law at the University of Coimbra.
He died on 18 October 1632 in Lisbon.
Gabriel Pereira de Castro wrote some books about law.
He is however known chiefly for his epic poem Ulisseia ou Lisboa Edificada (Ulisseia or Lisbon Built).
It was published in 1636.
It consists of ten books.
It is written in ottava rima.
Its form is typical for Renaissance epic poems.
The poem imitates The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões.
It is about the founding of the town of Lisbon by Ulysses (Odysseus).
Malcolm Jack, Lisbon: City of the Sea: A History, I. B. Tauris, London 2007, .
Fragments of Ulisseia ou Lisboa Edificada at Projecto Vercial.
Grossdietwil is a municipality of the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Hergiswil bei Willisau is a municipality of the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Télécom Paris (also known as ENST or Télécom or École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, also Télécom ParisTech until 2019) is a renowned graduate engineering school in France.
Ingénieur Télécom ParisTech (Télécom Paris Graduate engineer Masters level program)
Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at Télécom Paris.
Yves Poilane, French Manager
Menznau is a municipality of the district Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
USRC General Green was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
Although misspelled, she was named for the Revolutionary War hero Major General Nathanael Greene.
The General Green was launched on  July 7, 1791 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1791, her First Mate was Isaac Roach and her Second Mate was Charles Nuttle.
General Green was rigged as a schooner with a displacement of  and had a crew including four officers, four enlisted men and two cabin boys.
She was armed with 10 four-pounder guns.
Her first patrol was on  July 7, 1791.
The General Green was sold in December, 1797.
She was replaced by the USRC General Green (1797) which was built to be loaned out to the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France.
The commune is about  southeast of Amiens.
The development regions of the Dominican Republic are groups of provinces made only for planning purposes and without any administrative function.
They were created on 30 June 2004.
Region I: Cibao Norte ("Northern Cibao")
Region II: Cibao Sur ("Southern Cibao")
Region III: Cibao Nordeste ("Northeastern Cibao")
Region IV: Cibao Noroeste ("Nothwestern Cibao")
Region V: Valdesia
Region VI: Enriquillo
Region VII: El Valle ("The Valley")
Region VIII: Yuma
Region IX: Higuamo
Region X: Ozama
Region I: Cibao Norte
Region II: Cibao Sur
Region III: Cibao Nordeste
Region IV: Cibao Noroeste
Region VII: El Valle
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Australian dance company.
It specialises in presenting works by  Indigenous Australian dancers, choreographers and musicians.
It began in 1989.
Bangarra Dance Theatre performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Bangarra Dance Theatre's website
Smokey Mountain is a big landfill site in Manila in the Philippines.
It was called "Smokey Mountain" because of the thick smoke coming from burning waste.
There were 2 million tons of waste dumped there.
It made a big mountain.
Many poor people lived in a shanty town at Smokey Mountain.
They earned money by selling things they found in the dumped waste.
These were things like plastic bottles, glass, cardboard, and copper wire.
The Philippine government closed Smokey Mountain in 1995.
No more waste was dumped there.
The government cleaned up the landfill site.
They covered up the mountain of waste with dirt.
They planted grass and trees.
They knocked down the shanty town.
New houses were built next to Smokey Mountain.
This did not stop all the problems.
Many poor people moved to a new landfill very close to Smokey Mountain.
Waste is still dumped in that new landfill.
The poor people built a new shanty town there.
In the new landfill they still work all day looking in the waste for things they can sell.
Vulnicura is the ninth studio album by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk released in March 2015.
The album deals the break-up with her long-time partner Matthew Barney chronologically.
The name Vulnicura is a latin word that means "Cure for wounds".
The album was produced by Björk, Venezuelan producer Arca and British producer The Haxan Cloak.
To promote the album, Björk embarked in the Vulnicura Tour.
No song was released as promotional single.
Stonemilker
Lionsong
History of Touches
Notget
Atom Dance (feat.
Anohni)
Mouth Mantra
The 1932 Cuba hurricane was (at the time) the deadliest hurricane in the history of Cuba.
The storm was the only Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in the month of November until 2020.
Cuba was hit with heavy storm surge during the hurricane.
Few buildings withstood the storm.
There were around 3,033 deaths in Cuba from the storm.
It did over US$40 million in damage on the island.
Nebikon is a municipality of the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Official website of Nebikon
Pfaffnau is a municipality of the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
The United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS) was a United States government agency that grew out of concerns for saving the lives of shipwrecked sailors and ship's passengers.
The federal life-saving service was established on June 28, 1848 as an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury.
In 1915, the USLSS merged with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard.
Large areas of the Atlantic coast of the United States were relatively unpopulated during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Any ship that ran aground, even within sight of land, could not expect much help.
Even if people saw a ship in trouble they did not have organizations or the equipment to go out and rescue those who were in trouble.
Even in places like New York Harbor ships could run aground on sandbars during storms and not have anyone to help them.
In a storm a ship caught on a sandbar could be broken into pieces in just hours.
Some survivors might be able to swim to shore, but in winter they could die from hypothermia before anyone might find and help them.
An example was the American sailing ship Mexico.
In 1837 it ran aground on the New Jersey coast and before anyone knew of the wreck, all 112 passengers had died.
There were early organizations that provided life-saving services in certain areas.
For instance, in 1786, the Massachusetts Humane Society was formed by a number of Boston citizens who were concerned over the needless loss of life from shipwrecks in the area.
They started the first lifeboat station at Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1807.
These stations were small sheds that held the small boats and equipment that volunteers could use to rescue mariners.
The society had recognized that only small boats were useful for life-saving since larger boats risked being shipwrecked as well.
But the early sheds were only placed near busy ports and large areas of the coast remained unprotected.
On 14 August, 1848, Congress approved funds for equipment for volunteers to provide life-saving rescues on the coastlines of New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts.
Some funds went to the Massachusetts Humane Society because of their leadership in providing rescues for shipwreck victims.
In 1850, a lifeboat station was built in Rhode Island and others were built in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Texas.
In 1854, Congress approved $12,500 for metal surfboats for use in the Great Lakes.
While Congress was providing funds from time to time, the efforts to save shipwrecked crews was still largely unorganized.
Lifeboat stations and equipment were not kept up.
Some equipment was stolen while the buildings were suffering from neglect and the effects of the weather on the shorelines.
When the ship Powhattan was lost on April 16, 1852 and over 200 people died, the wreck happened just  from a lifeboat station.
To make matters worse, the bodies that washed up on shore were robbed of their belongings and left there.
This got Congress to begin thinking about creating a federal life-saving service.
In 1854 they began to take actions toward creating such a service.
But progress on the idea stalled during the American Civil War.
The 1870 Atlantic hurricane season caused widespread destruction and casualties on a large scale.
There was an national call for Congress to do something.
Sumner Increase Kimball was an attorney who had joined the United States Department of the Treasury in 1862.
In 1871 he was appointed to head the Life-Saving Bureau.
Under his leadership the service was extended to the West Coast and the Great Lakes.
At this time there were two ways to save people in the water.
One, which was used if the ship was close, was to rig a breeches buoy, a device on a rope used to pull someone to safety.
The other method was to use a boat to row out through the surf to reach victims.
Boats at this time were around  long and were partially covered to keep water out.
Crews often rowed through waves that were higher than the length of their boats.
In about 1907, the boats began using gasoline-powered engines.
On January 28, 1915, the U.S. Coast Guard was formed by combining the Revenue Cutter Service with the Life-Saving Service.
The law provided retirement of Kimball and many of the services' older employees.
During its 44 year existence, the Life-Saving Service provided help to 28,121 ships and 178,741 people.
During this time only 1,455 people lost their lives in rescues or attempted rescues by the USLSS.
An Introduction to the US Life-Saving Service: YouTube
Following In The Footsteps: The Breeches Buoy Drill - Part 1: YouTube
Launch of Life Boat, Library of Congress; YouTube
Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter.
He is generally regarded as the greatest one in the 19th century.
Jan Matejko was born in Kraków (Cracow).
on 24 June 1838.
His father was Czech musician František Xaver Matějka (in Poland Franciszek Ksawery Matejko), a music teacher.
His mother was Joanna Karolina Rossberg, who was half-German.
He was never good at school.
He never learned a foreign language well.
However, he showed great artistic talent.
He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków from 1852 to 1858.
His professors were Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Władyslaw Łuszczkiewicz.
He also studied in Munich and Vienna.
Then he returned to Kraków and stayed in the town for the rest of his life.
He was the principal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Among his students were Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanisław Wyspiański.
Matejko died on 1 November 1893 in Kraków.
He is buried at Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.
Matejko is famous for his historical paintings.
He painted portraits, too, especially those of his children.
His best known paintings are Astronomer Copernicus - Conversation with God, Hanging of the Zygmunt bell, Prussian Homage and Battle of Grunwald.
He also published a book named Portraits of Polish Kings (1890).
Most of these portraits are imaginary, meaning he painted kings and princes who lived many centuries before.
There are no earlier pictures of them.
Polish painters
The Union of Azerbaijani Writers () is the largest public organization of Azerbaijani writers, poets and publicists.
It has over 1500 members at present.
It was founded on June 13, 1934.
At this time Azerbaijan was a part of the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
It is currently chaired by the writer Anar since 1987.
He is the son of writer Rasul Rza.
Rza was the chairman between 1938–1939.
Scammel was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
The Schammel was named by Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, after the American Revolutionary War Adjutant general of the army, Alexander Scammell.
General Scammell was captured by the British at the Battle of Yorktown and shot.
As with the USRC General Green (1791), the name is misspelled.
The Scammel was built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire and launched in 1791.
She was used to patrol New England waters.
The Scammel was built at Portsmouth but problems delayed her construction.
She was not launched until a month after the USRC General Green (1791), on August 24, 1791.
She was to be stationed at Portsmouth and her patrol area was from Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine.
Her first master was Hopley Yeaton, the first seagoing officer to be commissioned in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.
John Parrott was the second mate while John Adams was third mate.
Originally Hamilton had some difficulty in finding a first mate when the Scammel went into service.
In November 1792, John Adams was promoted to first mate and Benjamin Gunnerson became the new second mate.
The first-named cutter Scammel was sold Sold on 16 August 1798.
Scammel was a schooner which was built at a cost of $1,225.65.
She displaced about  She was  long by  wide and had a draft of .
She had a crew of four officers, four enlisted men and two cabin boys.
Her arms included 10 muskets and 20 pistols.
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.
It is a follow up to Project Mercury.
This includes both crewed and uncrewed (robotic) missions.
The first man-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.
The United States' Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.
There have been six missions with people onboard that landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
There were also numerous landings without people onboard, with no soft landings happening from 22 August 1976 until 14 December 2013.
To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully landed humans on the Moon.
The last mission was in December, 1972, and the last human to walk on the Moon was Gene Cernan.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (baptized 26 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English letter writer and poet.
She is famous for her letters about her travels to the Ottoman Empire.
Her husband was the British ambassador to Turkey.
She also introduced and encouraged smallpox inoculation to Britain.
Xu Zhimo (; Pronunciation: Hsü Chih-mo, 1897-1931) was a Chinese poet.
Influenced by western poetries, his romantic work style was a great contribution to modern Chinese literature.
His poetry is usually about love, beauty and freedom.
Xu Zhimo was originally given the name Zhangxu when he was born on January 15th, 1895.
He was the only child from a rich family in Xiashi town, China.
Though Zhimo’s father had always wanted him to either become a successful businessman or a scholar, Zhimo had shown interest in nature since he was a child.
He started studying at age of five, which was early at that time.
His teachers considered him an intelligent, clever, and active student.
Later on, in Hangzhou Secondary School, he not only had excellent academic performance but also made many friends whom they shared the same interest ― writing.
That was also when Zhimo started to show his great writing ability.
Right after his first marriage in 1915, Zhimo continued his study in Tianjin University.
There he met Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese writer who first encouraged him to go study in the U.S.
Study & Career
Xu Zhimo went to the U.S. to accomplish his education in 1918.
He first studied history in Clark University, and then transferred to Cornell and Columbia Universities for economics in 1919.
During the time in Columbia University, he wrote articles about social issues and political science.
In 1920, he left for London School of Economics and Political Science because he wanted to study with Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski, the two philosopher and theorist whom he really admired.
Later he went to King’s College, Cambridge, where he was influenced by English poets such as Keats and Shelley.
Being taught by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, it was when Zhimo started working on poetries that showed influence of English romantic literature.
Before returning to China, Zhimo had translated some English and French romantic works into Chinese.
In China, he put most of his efforts on producing poetries, in which he combined western romantic elements and modern Chinese forms.
He published a monthly magazine “Goal”, which was to encourage Chinese people to achieve their goals.
With Liang Qichao and Hu Shi, Zhimo formed a poetry society, “The Crescent Moon Society”.
Their modern work style and the everyday language tone in their works were huge breakthroughs in Chinese literature.
Xu Zhimo, throughout his life, was pursuing beauty, freedom and love.
In search of true love, there were three especially important women ― Zhang Youyi, Lin Huiyin and Lu Xiaoman, who influenced both Zhimo’s life and works.
By the time Zhimo graduated from Hangzhou Secondary School in 1915, his father arranged his marriage with Zhang Youyi, which was a Chinese tradition that Zhimo tried to get rid of.
Later while he was studying at Cambridge University in 1920, he met Lin Huiyin, who was also influenced by western culture and English romantic literature.
They fell in love and that was when Zhimo was able to produce many romantic poetries about love.
Zhimo then divorced with Zhang Youyi in 1922.
However, Lin Huiyin decided to go back to China and marry Liang Qichao’s son, Liang Sicheng.
In order to search for Huiyin, Zhimo returned to China.
He met Lu Xiaoman in Beijing and they were both impressed by each other’s talents and knowledge.
They soon fell in love with each for several years and got married in 1926 and lived happily for the first few years.
However, when Xiaoman became wasteful, Zhimo had to teach in two universities to sustain the expenditure.
That was also when Zhimo’s production in poems decreased.
On November 19th, 1931, Zhimo took a plane from Beijing to Nanjing in order to attend Lin Huiyin’s speech.
During the flight the plane crashed into the hills near Jinan because of the thick fog.
Zhimo died at the age of 35.
Works, Style and Influence
Xu Zhimo was the leader of modern Chinese poetry movement.
He was one of the pioneers who combined modern and romantic elements in Chinese poetry.
Influenced by western forms, his romantic works broke old Chinese literary forms.
In his short life, Zhimo translated many English poems, published four poetry anthologies, four collections of essays, and many significant poetries.
Also, as editors for many different monthly magazines, he promoted and introduced western literature and liberal ideas to Chinese people.
Xu Zhimo’s Translations of English Poems
Xu Zhimo’s Original Poems
thumb|Skyline of Canary Wharf, viewed from the west
Canary Wharf is a major business district in Tower Hamlets, East London.
It is one of the United Kingdom's two main financial centres, second only to the traditional City of London.
It contains many of Europe's tallest buildings, including the second-tallest in the UK, One Canada Square.
Canary Wharf is located on the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs.
West India Dock Company
From 1802 to the late 1980s, the Canary Wharf Estate was a part of Millwall, Limehouse and Poplar and was one of the busiest docks in the world.
West India Docks was primarily developed by Robert Milligan (c. 1746–1809) who set up the West India Dock Company.
After the 1960s, the port industry began to decline, leading to all the docks being closed by 1980.
Canary Wharf today
Initially, the City of London saw Canary Wharf as a threat.
Recovery in the property market generally, and demand for Grade A office space, improved the level of interest.
A critical event was the much-delayed start of work on the Jubilee line extension, which the government wanted ready for the Millennium celebrations.
Antonina Domańska (September 1853 – 26 January 1917) was a Polish writer.
She wrote lots of books for children.
Antonina Domańska was born in September 1853 in Kamieniec Podolski (now in Ukraine).
The exact date of birth is unknown.
She was a daughter of physician Aleksander Kremer and Modesta Płońska.
She was the aunt of a poet Lucjan Rydel.
In 1865 she moved to Kraków (Cracow).
She met her future husband, Stanisław Domański there.
She was present at Lucjan Rydel's wedding in the village of Bronowice near Kraków in 1900.
This is why she was portrayed in the drama Wesele (The Wedding) by Stanisław Wyspiański.
She died in on 26 January 1917.
Domańska's most famous books for children are Historia żółtej ciżemki (The Story of Yellow Shoe, 1913) and Paziowie króla Zygmunta (King Sigismund's Pageboys, 1910).
Two films were based on them.
USRC Argus (1791) was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
Of the first ten cutters, the Argus was in service the longest.
Argus was built and launched in 1791 at New London, Connecticut where she remained stationed.
The first-named Argus was sold in 1804.
Argus was designed as a sloop.
She displaced about .
Jonathan Maltbie was her first master.
He died on 11 Feb. 1798 while still in command of the Argus.
He served in the Continental Navy during and after the American Revolutionary War.
His last assignment was as a first lieutenant on the frigate USS Trumbull.
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra.
It was flown using an Airbus A300B4 registered PK-GAI and operated Garuda Indonesia.
On September 26, 1997, Flight 152, piloted by Hance Rahmowiyogo, crashed into mountainous woodlands  from Medan during low visibility caused by the 1997 Southeast Asian haze.
All 234 passengers and crew were killed in the disaster.
Rahmowiyogo, age 42, had over 20 years of flying experience at Garuda Indonesia and over 12,000 flying hours.
The crash site was in a ravine near the village of Buah Nabar in the Sibolangit district south of Medan.
Disasters in Indonesia
The Guairá department () is a department of Paraguay.
The capital is the city of Villarrica.
Its ISO 3166-2 code  is PY-04.
The Guairá department is in the central part of the Oriental region.
It has an area of , one of the smallest of the Oriental region and of the country, with an estimated population (2013) of 198,532 for a population density of .
To the north: Caaguazú department.
To the east: Caaguazú and Caazapá departments.
To the south: Caazapá department.
To the west: Paraguarí department.
Tres Kandu,  high.
Capii,  high.
Peró,  high.
Amor,  high.
The main river in the department is the Tebicuary, a tributary of the Paraguay river.
The Tebicuari-mi is an important tributary of the Tebicuari.
, the total amount of precipitation in the city of Villarrica was .
The average temperature for the year 2014 in Villarrica was .
Julie Trustrup Jensen (born 6 April 1994) is a Danish football midfielder who plays for Brøndby IF of Denmark's Elitedivisionen.
Since 2013, she has been a member of the senior Danish national team.
Trustrup Jensen played for B73 Slagelse until 2009, when she joined Brøndby IF.
Good form in season 2010–11 led to Trustrup Jensen being named Denmark's Young Player of the Year.
She scored a goal in the 3–2 Danish Women's Cup final win over rivals Fortuna Hjørring.
She quit football in 2014 to travel round the world, but soon came back to her career with Brøndby.
In June 2015 she scored an injury time winning goal in the Cup final against Fortuna, as Brøndby won 2–1.
Trustrup Jensen's first match for Denmark came in September 2013.
She was a substitute for Brøndby team-mate Nanna Christiansen after 53 minutes of a 4–0 friendly win over Hungary in Budapest.
Profile at Danish Football Association
The family includes about 86 living species.
It is made up of marine fish living in tropical seas, usually around coral reefs.
Most species of the family are of small size, between 15-40 cm  (6-15 in), but the genera Prionorus or Naso can be larger.
The State of Palestine, also known simply as Palestine, is legally a free state in the Middle East with East Jerusalem as its capital.
It is recognized by 141 United Nations members.
Since 2012 it has non-member observer status in the United Nations.
This amounts to an implicit recognition of statehood.
The State of Palestine says the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are their land.
Its freedom was declared on 15 November 1988.
Cauquenes Province () is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII).
The provincial capital and largest city is Cauquenes.
The Cauquenes province has an area of , the smallest province in the Maule region.
The provincial capital, Cauquenes, is about  southwest of Santiago.
(last national census), there were 57,088 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The urban population was 38,660 persons ( of the total).
As a province, Cauquenes is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 8 communes (comunas).
The city of Cauquenes serves as the provincial capital.
Province of Cauquenes website
Members of this suborder have a vertically-shaped body covered with small scales.
The name for the suborder comes from that of the surgeonfish (Acanthuridae) family.
It is got from the Greek words akantha and oura, which loosely translate as "thorn" and "tail".
The London Underwriting Centre (LUC) is there.
It runs in parallel with the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London.
It may be visited by up to 4,000 brokers each day.
The St Botolph Building is an office building in Houndsditch, London.
The commercial office opened in January 2011.
It is one of a number of landmark buildings recently developed to the east of the Gherkin in the City of London.
It is in the centre of the UK insurance industry.
GR 8, or UGC 8091, is a gas-rich dwarf galaxy.
The NED database gives the distance between this galaxy and the Earth as about 7.9 million light years.
Although near the Milky Way, it is not decided whether it is a member of the Local Group.
Irregular Galaxy GR 8, the Footprint Galaxy
Wacław Potocki (1621 – 1696) was a Polish Baroque poet.
Wacław Potocki was born in the village named Wola Łużańska near the town of Biecz in Southern Poland.
He was a member of noblemen family.
They were Polish Brethren, Christians of the Minor Reformed Church.
He was married to Katarzyna Morsztyn.
After all Polish Brethren were given order either to become Roman Catholic or to go out of Poland forever, he changed his faith.
Wacław Potocki died at Łużna in 1696.
He was buried in Francuscan Church in Biecz.
Wacław Potocki wrote a lot.
He is the author of Ogród fraszek (The Garden of Verses) that consists of more than 2 000 short poems.
Another book by Potocki, named Moralia is composed of more than 2 000 pieces, too.
This was based on Adagia by Erasmus of Rotterdam.
He wrote many poems, sometimes in ottava rima.
His best known work is an epic poem Wojna chocimska (The War of Chocim).
It was compared by Claude Backvis, a Belgian scholar, to John Milton's Paradise Lost.
It narrates about the great battle against the Turks.
The battle was fought in 1621, when the poet was born.
The poem was written fifty years after.
It is in heroic couplets.
Lines of the poem consist of thirteen syllables with feminine rhymes.
Full text of Wacław Potocki's Wojna chocimska in Polish.
New7Wonders of the World (2000–2007) was an idea to choose new Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments.
Winners were announced on 7 July 2007 in Lisbon.
The foundation took only private donations and the sale of broadcast advertising.
It had no public funding or taxpayers' money.
After the final announcement, New7Wonders said it did not make money and barely recovered its investment.
Official reactions
In the beginning, UNESCO helped the New7Wonders Foundation by giving advice on nominee selection.
Then they decided they could not continue to help.
Saying they have to give equal status to all world heritage sites, they dropped out of the program in 2001 and again in 2007.
In 2007 the Foundation became partners with the United Nations to help promote their shared goals.
The UN posted on its website:
In Brazil there was a campaign named Vote no Cristo (Vote for the Christ) which had the support of private companies.
Among them were telecommunications workers that stopped charging voters to make telephone calls and SMS messages to vote.
Also, important corporate sponsors spent millions of Brazilian reals in an effort to have the statue voted into the top seven.
These included a banking company (Banco Bradesco) and a television network (Rede Globo).
Newsweek magazine said the campaign was so widespread that:
An article in Newsweek said that an estimated 10 million Brazilians had voted in the contest by early July.
An airplane message, with a huge flying sign "4916 VOTE FOR CHRIST" flew in Rio de Janeiro for a month.
Egyptians were not happy that the only surviving ancient wonder, the Great Pyramid of Giza, would have to compete with the Statue of Liberty, the Sydney Opera House, and other modern sites.
"This is probably a conspiracy against Egypt, its civilization and monuments", a state-owned daily newspaper wrote.
The Minister of Culture of Egypt, Farouq Hosny said the project was "absurd".
Nagib Aymin, an Egyptian expert on World Heritage Sites, said  that "in addition to the commercial aspect, the vote has no scientific basis."
After the complaints from Egypt, the Pyramids of Giza were named an honarary candidate, and removed from the voting.
They were listed as one of the 21 finalists and given honorary status among the winners.
The New7Wonders Foundation said that more than 100 million votes were cast through the Internet or by telephone.
Voting by the Internet was limited to one vote for seven monuments per person.
More voting was allowed by telephone.
This led to criticism that the poll was not valid.
At the time, New7Wonders Foundation had "the largest poll on record".
The Great Pyramid of Giza was granted honorary status.
It is the largest and oldest of the three pyramids at the Giza Necropolis in Egypt.
It is also the only structure still remaining of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Esociformes are a small order of ray-finned fish (the Actinopterygii).
There are two families, the Umbridae (mudminnows) and the Esocidae (pikes).
The Esocidae are named after the pike genus Esox.
One highly successful species is Esox lucius or northern pike.
The order also has an extinct family, called Palaeoscidae.
Matilda (or Mathilda) is a female first name.
The name comes from Gothic language.
It also comes from the Old High German words maht (meaning "might" and "strength") and hild (meaning "battle).
The name has been popular in Scandinavian countries.
Mathilde appeared in the Top 10 most popular names for girls in Denmark in 2008.
Mathilde was also very popular in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
The name has also risen in popularity in other European countries.
As Matilda, the name was most popular in the United States between 1880 and 1910.
During those years, it was in the Top 200 names for girls.
It went out of the Top 1,000 names in the United States by 1964.
However, it reappeared 44 years later in the Top 1,000 names.
Machteld (Dutch)
Maddie (English)
Mafalda (Italian), (Portuguese)
Mahaut (French)
Mallt (Welsh)
Matelda (Italian)
Mathilda (English), (Swedish)
Mathilde (Danish), (Dutch), (French), (German), (Norwegian), (Italian)
Matild (Hungarian)
Matilda (English), (Finnish), (Swedish), (Slovak), (Italian), (Croatian)
Matilde (Italian), (Portuguese), (Spanish), (Danish), (Galician)
Matti (English)
Mattie (English)
Ματθίλδη (Mathilde, Mathildi) (Greek)
Matty (English)
Matylda (Czech), (Polish)
Maud (Dutch), (English)
Maude (English), (French)
Maudie (English)
Mechteld (Dutch)
Mechtild (German)
Mechtilde (German)
Tilda (English), (Finnish), (Spanish), (Swedish)
Tilde (Danish)
Tille (Danish)
Tilli (English)
Tillie (English)
Tilly (English)
Tylda (Czech)
Bethany is a female first name.
It comes from the Biblical place Bethany, the town where Lazarus lived in the New Testament.
In English speaking countries, Bethany has been very popular.
It was the 59th most popular name for England and Wales in 2010.
In 1999, it had gone as high as number 11.
In the United States, the name was the 87th most popular in the late 1980s.
Beth is a short version of this name.
Beth can also be a short version of the female name Elizabeth.
Santiago (Portuguese for “Saint James”), or Santiagu in Cape Verdean Creole, is the largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago.
It is the most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population.
Praia, the capital of the country is in this island.
The island was discovered in around 1460 by António de Noli (or António da Noli), a 15th-century nobleman and navigator from Genoa that worked for Henry the Navigator of Portugal.