the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Bogut is the first Australian player to be drafted number one overall.
He was also the second Utah player to be drafted number one overall.
Australian basketball players
The  Egyptian plover is a wader.
It is the only member of the genus Pluvianus.
It is sometimes called the crocodile bird.
This is because of a story dating to Herodotus.
In the story the crocodiles lie on the shore with their mouths open.
The plovers fly into the crocodiles' mouths to feed on bits of meat between the crocodiles' teeth.
There is no evidence of this actually happening.
The Egyptian plover lives in tropical sub-Saharan Africa.
It breeds on sandbars in large rivers.
Its two or three eggs are buried in warm sand.
The call is a high-pitched krrr-krrr-krrr.
Egyptian plover at encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
A clandestine cell system is a way of organising a group of people so that it is kept secret.
This is so the group are better able to resist infiltration or discovery by an enemy.
If a person only knows the others in the person's cell, then they cannot betray the others outside of his or her cell, either accidentally, or under interrogation.
The cell can range from a strict hierarchy of people to a team of people.
It is used by spy agencies, criminal organisations and guerilla and terrorist groups.
Boston is a trick-taking card game played by 4 people.
It is thought to have started in France in the 1770s.
The game is similar to Whist.
It is a strategy game.
Each game takes about 25 minutes to play.
American Boston is a different way to play the game.
It is for 4 players in two partnerships with 2 packs of 52 cards.
the card game at thefreedictionary.com
Krugman was born in Albany, New York.
Krugman taught at Yale, MIT, University of California, and Stanford University.
He is still teaching at the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University.
He is also a columnist for The New York Times.
Academic books (authored or coauthored)
The Spatial Economy – Cities, Regions and International Trade (July 1999), with Masahisa Fujita and Anthony Venables.
MIT Press,
The Self Organizing Economy (February 1996),
EMU and the Regions (December 1995), with Guillermo de la Dehesa.
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (Ohlin Lectures) (September 1995),
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (3rd Edition) (February 1995), with Edward M. Graham.
World Savings Shortage (September 1994),
What Do We Need to Know About the International Monetary System? (
Essays in International Finance, No 190 July 1993)
Currencies and Crises (June 1992),
Geography and Trade (Gaston Eyskens Lecture Series) (August 1991),
The Risks Facing the World Economy (July 1991), with Guillermo de la Dehesa and Charles Taylor.
Has the Adjustment Process Worked? (
Policy Analyses in International Economics, 34) (June 1991),
Rethinking International Trade (April 1990),
Trade Policy and Market Structure (March 1989), with Elhanan Helpman.
Exchange-Rate Instability (Lionel Robbins Lectures) (November 1988),
Adjustment in the World Economy (August 1987)
Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy (May 1985), with Elhanan Helpman.
Academic books (edited or coedited)
Currency Crises (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) (September 2000),
Trade with Japan : Has the Door Opened Wider? (
National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) (March 1995),
Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) (April 1994), co-edited with Alasdair Smith.
Exchange Rate Targets and Currency Bands (October 1991), co-edited with Marcus Miller.
Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics (January 1986),
Economics textbooks
Economics: European Edition (Spring 2007), with Robin Wells and Kathryn Graddy.
Macroeconomics (February 2006), with Robin Wells.
Economics , first edition (December 2005), with Robin Wells.
Economics, second edition (2009), with Robin Wells.
Microeconomics (March 2004), with Robin Wells.
International Economics: Theory and Policy, with Maurice Obstfeld.
7th Edition (2006), ; 1st Edition (1998),
The Boston Navy Yard was one of the oldest shipbuilding places in the United States Navy.
It was first called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard.
It was started in 1801.
It was officially closed as an active naval yard on July 1, 1974.
The USS Constitution is still docked there.
The USS Cassin Young, a World War II-era destroyer, is there and is a museum ship.
Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980), better known as Gotye (pronounced  ), is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter.
Gotye's 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" with Kimbra was Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
He has won 12 ARIA Awards, three Grammys and a nomination for an MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act.
Boardface (2003)
Like Drawing Blood (2006)
Making Mirrors (2011)
more info at encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com
The pick and roll, also known as a ball screen or screen and roll, is a play in basketball.
A player stops in front of a defender to block, then goes around and receives a pass from a teammate.
In the NBA, the play started to be used in the 1990s.
It is now used very often.
Moral hazard is a term used in economics.
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains moral hazard as "any situation in which one person makes the decision about how much risk to take, while someone else bears the cost if things go badly."
Example: A person buys insurance against automobile theft.
After buying the protection against this kind of loss, the same person may be less cautious about locking his or her car.
If so, this is a kind of moral hazard.
The expected consequences of vehicle theft are now partly the responsibility of the insurance company.
Will the person show the same degree of care in locking the car regardless of whether there is insurance or insurance policy?
The term "moral hazard" was first used in the 17th century.
The "moral" in "moral hazard" was understood to mean "subjective".
It was not used in a way that has anything to do with ethics.
In the 1960s, economists used the term to describe inefficiencies that occur because of information asymmetry.
In economics, "moral hazard" as a special kind of market failure.
PBS.org, Frontline: "Inside the Meltdown"
, also known as , was a very old province of Japan, in the area of Chikuzen and Chikugo provinces.
This province was located within Fukuoka Prefecture.
Rate (mathematics), a specific kind of ratio, in which two measurements are related to each other
Rate of travel, or velocity
Naval rating or rate, terms used to designate specialty or seniority of enlisted naval personnel.
Rate of a ship, a term for a sail ship's firepower in the British Royal Navy
Bit rate, number of bits that are processed per unit of time
Rates, a Portuguese parish and town located in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim
In science and finance
Rate function, a function used to put a number to the probabilities of a rare event
Rates (tax), a type of taxation system used to fund local government
Reaction rate  in Chemistry
Exchange rate, how much one currency is worth in terms of the other
In human growth
Birth rate, the childbirths per 1,000 people per year
Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in some population
As an initialism
Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, a project of creation geophysics
Therese Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012), known as Ann Rutherford, was a Canadian-American actress in television, radio and movies.
She playied Polly Benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series.
She played Scarlett O'Hara's sister in the movie Gone With the Wind (1939).
Maurice Papon (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a French civil servant.
He led the police in major prefectures and in Paris during the Nazi Occupation of France and into the 1960s.
In 1998 he was convicted of crimes against humanity.
This was because he helped in making more than 1600 Jews move to concentration camps during World War II.
Politicians from Ile-de-France
The , also known as the , was a feudal Japanese feudal military government.
These years are known as the Muromachi period.
The period takes gets its name from the district in Kyoto where the Ashikaga shoguns lived.
List of Ashikaga Shoguns
Ashikaga Takauji, ruled 1338–1358
Ashikaga Yoshiakira, r. 1359–1368
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, r. 1368–1394
Ashikaga Yoshimochi, r. 1395–1423
Ashikaga Yoshikazu, r. 1423–1425
Ashikaga Yoshinori, r. 1429–1441
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, r. 1442–1443
Ashikaga Yoshimasa, r. 1449–1473
Ashikaga Yoshihisa, r. 1474–1489
Ashikaga Yoshitane, r. 1490–1493, 1508–1521
Ashikaga Yoshizumi, r. 1494–1508
Ashikaga Yoshiharu, r. 1521–1546
Ashikaga Yoshiteru, r. 1546–1565
Ashikaga Yoshihide, r. 1568
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, r. 1568–1573
Ashikaga Bakufu from Washington State University website
Kyoto City Web
Weiyang District (, pinyin: Wèiyāng Qū) is in the north of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Xianyang Municipality is to the west and north.
Lianhu District and Xincheng District are to the south.
Baqiao District is to the east.
The name is from Weiyang Square.
The district covers .
As of November 2010, 806,811 people live there.
Baqiao District (, pinyin: Bàqiáo Qū) is a district in the eastern part of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
The main work there is spinning.
Its name is from Ba River.
As of November 2010, 595,124 people live there.
Dario Fo (Sangiano 3 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, theatre actor and composer.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997.
It highlighted him as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".
His plays often depend on improvisation, Commedia dell'arte style.
Fo owned and operated a theatre company with his wife, actress Franca Rame.
His most famous works are Mistero buffo and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Dario Fo  at Nobelprize.org
Lianhu District (, pinyin: Liánhú Qū, meaning Lotus lake District) is a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
It is in the center, a little northwest of Xi'an.
Its name is from Lianhu park.
The Xi'an government is also here.
As of November 2010, 698,513 people live there.
A perverse incentive is an incentive that creates an unplanned and unwanted result.
The outcome is not helpful or contrary to the interests of the incentive makers.
Perverse incentives are a type of unintended consequences.
In India, the southern provinces had the problem of too many snakes.
The government tried to solve the problem by paying for dead cobras.
This was intended to bring down the number of cobras.
Instead, it led to the breeding of cobras.
In Thailand, the Bangkok police had the problem of too many small mistakes by its officers.
The police tried to solve the problem by using tartan armbands as a badge of shame.
Instead, the armbands were treated as valuable collectables.
Since 2007, the Bangkok police has tried using pink armbands with the cute Hello Kitty cartoon character.
In Vietnam during the colonial period, Hanoi had the problem of too many rats.
The French tried to solve the problem by paying for dead rats.
This was intended to bring down the number of rats.
Instead, it led to the breeding of rats.
Flounders are a group of flatfish species.
The term is used for a number of flatfish who only related by being in the suborder Pleuronectoidei: (families Achiropsettidae, Bothidae, Pleuronectidae, Paralichthyidae, and Samaridae).
Floinders live at the bottom of coastal lagoons and estuaries of the Northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
When flounder are hatched they have one eye on each side of its head.
As they grow one eye moves until they have both eyes on the same side of the head.
Industrial overfishing has reduced the population to one-tenth of its original size, and the individuals left are smaller.
They rarely have the time to grow to full size.
Western Atlantic
Gulf Flounder - Paralichthys albigutta
Southern flounder - Paralichthys lethostigma
Summer flounder (also known as fluke) - Paralichthys dentatus
Winter flounder - Pseudopleuronectes americanus
European waters
European flounder - Platichthys flesus
Northwestern Pacific
Olive flounder - Paralichthys olivaceus
Flounder feed at soft muddy areas of the sea bottom, near bridge piles, docks and coral reefs.
They have been found at the bottom of the Mariana trench, the deepest known ocean canyon.
Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lt.
Don Walsh reached a depth of .
They were surprised to discover flounder about 30 cm long.
A flounder's food is mainly fish spawn, crustaceans, polychaetes and small fish.
Flounder normally grow to a length of , and as large as .
Tecnológico de Antioquia - University Institution (TdeA), also known as Tecnológico de Antioquia, is an institution of higher education in Colombia, located in the department of Antioquia, which offers technical training programs, technological, professional and advanced training university .
Its headquarters are located in the city of Medellín.
Currently Tech is considered one of the best colleges of Colombia.
TdeA-tv
Tecnológico de Antioquia on Twitter
The Rossendale Valley (also called the Forest of Rossendale) is an area North West England, in Lancashire.
The area is in Rossendale.
It is made up of the steep valleys of the River Irwell and its tributaries.
These flow from the Pennines.
They then go south into Greater Manchester.
They cut through the open moorland.
The area has a lot of these, even though a long time ago they were called "forests".
There are two Marilyns in the hills.
These are Hail Storm Hill and Freeholds Top.
The geology of the area is layers of gritstone, coal and sand and gravel left behind by glaciers.
These rocks were cut by rivers, the Irwell and its tributaries, to make steep valleys.
These are 600 feet high.
Woodland on the steep slopes includes remnants of ancient woodland but other areas are more recently planted.
The Rossendale Valley is recognised by the steep valley of the River Irwell and its tributaries.
Textile mills and chimneys and gritstone houses are what most buildings are.
Roads are mostly found in the narrow valley.
The valley was part of the medieval Forest of Rossendale.
People living there in the Middle Ages would have been in "booths" or farmsteads and movement into the forest would have turned them into small hamlets.
Higher Mill Textile Museum
Herc's Adventures is a puzzle video game released for the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn by LucasArts Entertainment in 1997.
While the PlayStation release was international, the Sega Saturn version was exclusive to North America.
It refers to a group of animals or plants which are very similar, but which are not a clade.
They have a similar morphological or physiological complexity, and they are often adapted to the same way of life.
The term was coined by Julian Huxley, to contrast with clade, which is a strictly phylogenetic unit.
The use of 'grade' as a term in biology was strongly supported by Ernst Mayr, who also pointed out that the term had been used for some time before cladism.
An evolutionary grade is a group of species united by similarities.
These similarities led to their being given a name.
But now to be a clade, the whole group from the first known member to the present day must be included.
In the early 19th century, tetrapods were put in the four familiar classes of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
In this system, reptiles are defined by traits such as laying cleidoic eggs, having skin covered in scales or scutes, and having a 'cold-blooded' metabolism.
However, we now know that amphibia gave rise to early egg-laying amniotes.
These gave rise to sauropsids (the ancestors of reptiles and birds) and synapsids (the ancestors of mammals. '
Reptile' is just a common term for those sauropsids which survived to the present day, minus the birds.
As an everyday word, everyone understands it.
But as a modern scientific term, it is no longer good, and is less used.
Paraphyletic and polyphyletic taxa often represent evolutionary grades.
In some cases paraphyletic taxa are united simply by not being part of any other groups, and give rise to so-called wastebasket taxa.
Bryophytes were long considered a natural group, defined as those land plants which lacked vascular systems.
Molecular evidence shows that the bryophytes are not monophyletic since mosses, liverworts and hornworts are in fact separate lineages, with mosses closest to vascular plants.
However, the three clades have a similar degree of complexity, and the "bryophyte grade" is a useful benchmark when analysing early plants  it gives information about the status of fossils which cannot always be classified into living groups.
Fish represent a grade, as they have given rise to the land vertebrates.
In fact, the three traditional classes of fish (Agnatha, Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) all represent evolutionary grades.
Obviously, everyone will go on using the word fish; this just makes the point that they are not a monophyletic clade.
Dinosaurs plus birds are a proper monophyletic group.
Otherwise they are not.
Labyrinthodonts are an evolutionary grade, and the group is no longer a term in taxonomy.
Synapsids cannot be a clade unless the mammals are included.
Nautiloids.
Cladistically speaking, nautiloids are a paraphyletic group with shared primitive features not found in derived cephalopods.
In other words, they are an evolutionary grade which is thought to have given rise to both ammonoids and coleoids.
The national flag of Belgium has three equal vertical bands of black, yellow, and red.
The colours were taken from the colours of the Duchy of Brabant.
was a very old province of Japan in the area of Hyūga Province on the island of Honshū.
Its boundaries are within Miyazaki Prefecture.
Komaso is part of the tale of Yamato Takeru which is recorded in the Kojiki.
The history of Komaso started and ended before the Taihō Code was established at the beginning of the 8th century.
The coat of arms of Belgium has a lion as its charge.
It is called the Leo Belgicus, Latin for the Belgian lion.
The colors used are red, yellow and black, the same as on the flag.
The motto is "Unity makes strength".
Government of Belgium
"Unity makes strength" (, ; ; ) is the national motto of Belgium.
It was also taken on by Bulgaria and Haiti.
The motto was first used in 1550.
It came from the Latin phrase "concordia res parvae crescunt" (small states flourish by concord).
The new Dutch Republic took over the phrase as its motto.
It was on several of its coins and coats of arms.
The French were in the Netherlands from 1795 to 1813, first as the Batavian Republic then the Kingdom of Holland.
Early on the national motto was changed to "Gelykheid, Vryheid, Broederschap" (Equality, Liberty, Fraternity).
From 1802 to 1810 'Unity makes strength' was used again.
In 1816, it switched to the House of Orange motto 'Je maintiendrai'.
The motto was chosen  by the Republic of Haiti  after  the revolution and subsequent independence of  the  slaves of the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803.
The newly created state of Haiti became officially independent on January 1st,1804 following the capitulation of the French troops at the Battle of Vertieres of November 18,1803.
The coat of arms of the republic of Haiti carries the french version of the motto  "L'Union fait la force".
The Republic of Haiti is often referred to as the world's First Black Republic.
The motto was used by Belgium after its Revolution of 1830.
It was first only in its French form "L'union fait la force".
The motto of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City started by Dutch settlers, is still "Eendraght maeckt maght".
The motto Eendragt maakt magt also appears on the badge of the police force of Holland, Michigan.
After Ferdinand of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha took over the throne of the Principality of Bulgaria,  the country started to use Belgium's motto of L'union fait la force (in Bulgarian: Съединението прави силата).
Although Unity makes strength meet in various projects on the coat of arms of Bulgaria in the post-liberation years, it officially became part of it only in 1927.
After 1948, the motto dropped from the new Dimitrov Constitution, but remained on the facade of the National Assembly.
Following the changes in 1989 and the adoption of a new Constitution of Bulgaria in 1991, the motto has been restored.
On 17 January 1852 the United Kingdom, ruler of the Cape Colony, made the South African Republic free. "
Eendragt maakt magt" was the motto on the new state's shield.
In 1888 the republic decided Dutch was its official language.
An early design of the coat of arms used between 1948 and 1963 used a variation of the motto, "Unity is Strength".
It was in both English and Jawi.
After three more states were added into the federation in 1963, the English motto of the arms was replaced by a rough Malay translation, Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (literally "Unity Improves Quality").
The Jawi motto remained unchanged.
List of Belgians
Monarchy in Belgium is constitutional and popular in nature.
The monarch is the head of state.
The Monarch is officially called King of the Belgians.
The current leader is Philippe I.  Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the first King of the Belgians.
To date all have belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
This is a list of prime ministers of Belgium.
Chairmen of the Cabinet (1831–1918)
Prime Ministers (1918–Present)
The Belgian Federal Parliament is a bicameral parliament.
It has the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate.
It sits in the Palace of the Nation.
Chamber of Representatives
The number of seats in the Chamber is 150.
They are elected from 11 districts.
The districts are divided along linguistic lines: 5 Flemish (79 seats), 5 Walloon (49 seats), and the bilingual district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (22 seats).
Till the general elections of 2014, the Senate had 71 members.
There were four categories of senators: directly elected senators, community senators, co-opted senators and senators by right.
Co-opted senators were 10 representatives elected by the first two groups of senators.
Senators by right were the children of the current monarch.
Since 2014, the Senate has 60 members.
There are only two categories of senators: community senators (50) and co-opted senators (10).
The AFC U-23 Asian Cup is a football competition between the best international under-23 teams in Asia.
It is ran by the Asian Football Confederation.
The teams are selected based on good performances in the qualification matches.
Sixteen teams will play in the final tournament, including the hosts who automatically qualify.
Teams are seeded based on the result of the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship.
Three or four stadiums in at most two cities will be needed to host the tournament.
Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian writer.
He wrote the librettos (the story and words) for many operas.
He is most famous for the librettos he wrote for operas composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
Piave was born in Murano, an island in Venice.
At first, he studied to be a Catholic priest.
He stopped studying to be a priest and went to Rome.
In Rome, he studied philosophy and writing.
He wrote poems and stories for newspapers  but he is most famous for his opera librettos.
He wrote more than 60 librettos.
The first one was for Giovanni Pacini's opera,  in 1842.
In 1844, he wrote the libretto for Verdi's opera Ernani.
Piave and Verdi became very good friends, For twenty years, they wrote many letters to each other.
Piave wrote nine more opera librettos for Verdi.
The last libretto he wrote for him was .
Piave also worked as a stage director (someone who decides how plays and operas are performed).
He worked as a stage director for the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Later (1859), he worked as a stage director at La Scala in Milan.
In 1867, Piave had a stroke (a problem in the brain caused by lack of blood).
He lived for eight more years, but he could not move or speak.
Verdi gave money to help Piave's wife and family.
In 1876, Piave died in Milan.
Verdi paid for his funeral.
Piave's librettos for Giuseppe Verdi
Ernani (1844)
Attila (1846)
Macbeth (1847)
(1848)
Rigoletto (1851)
La traviata (1853)
Simon Boccanegra (1857)
La forza del destino (1862)
Budden, Julian (2008).
Verdi, 3rd edition.
Piave, Francesco Maria".
Phillips-Matz,  Mary Jane (1993).
Verdi: A Biography.
Chang'an District (, pinyin:Cháng'ān Qū) is a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
It is in the south part of Xi'an.
Yanta District and Xianyang Municipality are to the north.
Shangluo Municipality and Ankang Municipality are to the north.
Lantian County is to the east.
Huyi District is to the west.
The southeast part of Chang'an District is higher than northwest part.
From north to south is , from east to west is .
As of November 2010, 1,083,285 people lived there.
On June 2, 2002.
Chang'an County was renamed to Chang'an District.
Yanliang District (, pinyin:Yánliáng Qū) is a district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Its name is shortened from "Luyan Liangshan" (闾阎良善, meaning "good for living place").
It is in northeast of Xi'an, and  from the center of Xi'an.
Weinan Municipality is to the east and north.
Xianyang Municipality is to the west.
Lintong District is to the south.
It is famous for making airplanes.
It is far from center of Xi'an, but its economy is good.
As of November 2010, 278,604 people lived there.
Video game collecting is the hobby of collecting video games and related things.
It may be connected with animation, movies or comic books collecting.
Collectors may focus on collecting some type of things, such as retro consoles.
Collecting video games differs from other hobbies, because the collectible is interactive.
So it can be enjoyed as long as it still functions.
Nostalgia plays a large role, as those who grew up with a certain generation of games may have stronger appreciation for them.
Alexis Valoran Reich (born December 11, 1964) is an American trans woman formerly known as John Mark Karr who in 2006 falsely confessed to the murder of JonBenét Ramsey.
She used to be a school teacher.
In 2010 she went through a hormone-replacement surgery and she transitioned and lives as a woman.
Prägraten am Großvenediger is a village in the district of Lienz in Tyrol in Austria.
More than 1,300 People live there.
Most of the 180,36 km² large area is mountainous.
was an very old province of Japan, in the area of Buzen and Bungo Provinces.
The ancient entity was in what is modern Ōita Prefecture and northeastern Fukuoka Prefecture.
It was divided into Buzen and Bungo in 683.
According to the Nihongi, the Aka clan was established in Toyo during the reign of Emperor Ankan.
Aristarkh Lentulov  (4 January 1882  15 April 1943) was a major Russian avant-garde artist who also worked on set designs for the theatre.
His work shows strong influences of fauvism and cubism.
Aristarkh Lentulov was born in Penza Oblast, 625 kilometers (388 mi) southeast of Moscow, into the family of a country priest.
He studied art in the Penza and Kiev art schools from 1897 to 1905.
Then he went to the private studio of Dmitry Kardovsky in St Petersburg in 1906.
From 1910 to 1911 Lentulov studied at the Le Fauconnier studio and the La Palette Academy in Paris.
While there, he met contemporary French painters  such as Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay.
He took in the fauvists' and cubists' principles, and developed his own colourful style of painting.
Later, after his return to Russia in 1912, he became a big influence on what became Russian futurism.
From pre-revolutionary times, Lentulov was actively involved in various theatrical projects.
He designed sets for the Kamerny Theatre 1916) and for a production of Scriabin's Prometheus in the Bolshoi Theatre in 1919.
In 1928 Lentulov entered into the Society of Moscow artists, and became chairman of the Society.
He also started teaching at the Russian State Art and Technical School.
Artcyclopedia Links to Lentulov's works
Virtual Museum  Biography
Curve is the eighth studio album by Canadian alternative rock band, Our Lady Peace.
Curve was released on April 3, 2012.
Canadian heavyweight boxer George Chuvalo is featured on the cover of the album and vocal excerpts from him are also featured on the album's final track "Mettle".
The band started recording the album six months after the release of their seventh studio album, Burn Burn.
Curve debuted at #9 on the Canadian Albums Chart.
Wimbledon is a 2004 British romantic comedy-drama movie.
It was directed by Richard Loncraine.
It stars Paul Bettany as Peter Colt and Kirsten Dunst as Lizzie Bradbury.
They are tennis players who meet at the Wimbledon Championships at which they are both competing.
Sam Neill plays Lizzie's father Dennis Bradbury.
2004 comedy-drama movies
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director.
He has been known to study characters for movies like Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and for playing Jon Kavanaugh on The Shield.
Whitaker won an Academy Award for playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland.
Whitaker has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
Wimbledon, London, a suburban area of south-west London
The Championships, Wimbledon, a tennis tournament
Wimbledon F.C., a former association football team
AFC Wimbledon, an association football team, founded by former supporters of Wimbledon F.C.
Wimbledon (movie), a 2004 British movie
Wimbledon station, a railway station
David Vamplew (born 1 September 1987, Fife, Scotland) is a professional poker player.
He has earned nearly 3 million dollars in tournaments, with over 4 million total career earnings.
Vamplew lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He got a degree in maths from Edinburgh University  in 2009.
The first time he won money in a professional tournament was for 106th-place finish in the 2010 World Series of Poker.
He earned $2,500.
He won the championship of the European Poker Tour in London, 2010.
For this win, he earned $1.400,00.
The next day, he won the UK & Ireland Poker Tour "Champion of Champions" title.
Statistics from Card Player
, also romanized Rokkokushi, is a general term for Japan's six earliest national histories.
These six books chronicle the mythology and history of Japan from the earliest times to AD 887.
The six histories were written at the Imperial court during the eighth and ninth centuries.
These works include
Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan, also called Nihongi), 720
Shoku Nihongi (Continued Chronicle of Japan, also called Shokki), 797
Nihon kōki (Later Chronicle of Japan), 840
Shoku Nihon kōki (Continued Later Chronicle of Japan), 869
Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (True Record of Emperor Montoku of Japan; also called Montoku jitsuroku), 879
Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (True Record of Three Generations [of Emperors] of Japan; also called Sandai jitsuroku), 901
The Belgian Revolution was the secession of the Southern provinces from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
It made an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
The people of the southern part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands were mostly Roman Catholic and the elite was French-speaking.
They did not like the Protestant King William I's rule, or that he had revoked certain special privileges granted to the Catholic Church.
On August 25, 1830 riots started in Brussels and shops were looted.
There was an opera playing about liberty of the fatherland, and the theatre-goers joined the rioters.
The King sent troops to stop the riots.
A battle took place in Brussels.
The French came to support the breakaway province of Belgium.
Belgium won the battle and became an independent country.
Leopold I was made "King of the Belgians" in 1831.
It took until 1839 for the Dutch to say Belgium was independent.
They signed the Treaty of London.
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839) is the unofficial name used for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
This was after it was first made from part of the First French Empire and before the new Kingdom of Belgium split off from it in 1830.
Most of it is still today the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
It was made up of the former Dutch Republic to the north, the former Austrian Netherlands to the south, and the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
The House of Orange-Nassau were the monarchs.
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands ended after the 1830 Belgian Revolution.
William I, King of the Netherlands did not recognize a Belgian state until 1839.
He was made to sign the Treaty of London.
Only at this time were borders agreed.
1839 disestablishments
Alan McDonald (Belfast, 12 October 1963 – Lisburn, 23 June 2012) was a Northern Irish footballer and manager.
He played in the Northern Ireland national football team, and scored one goal, against Denmark.
He died suddenly on 23 June 2012.
Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (or GOAL) is a video game programming language developed by Andy Gavin and Naughty Dog.
It was written using Allegro Common Lisp and used in the development of Jak and Daxter series of games.
GOAL's first use was for the Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy game.
Earlier, the Game Oriented Object Lisp (GOOL) was also developed by Andy Gavin for Crash Bandicoot game.
The Treaty of London of 1839 was a treaty signed on 19 April 1839 between the European great powers, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium.
It is also known as the First Treaty of London, the Convention of 1839, and the London Treaty of Separation.
This treaty was needed because the Netherlands would not sign the 1831 'Treaty of the XXIV Articles'.
This treaty said that Belgium was its own country.
It confirmed the independence of the German speaking part of Luxembourg.
The most important part of the treaty was that Belgium should always be neutral.
Also, those who signed the treaty would have to protect Belgium if it was attacked.
The treaty is said to be a part of the cause of World War I. When the German Empire invaded Belgium in August 1914, the UK (the United Kingdom) declared war only days later on 4th August.
All in all there were many countries declaring war on each other.
19th century in the Netherlands
London 1839
A telephone number in Belgium is nine or ten digits dialed on a telephone to make a call.
Belgium is under a closed telephone numbering plan.
It keeps the trunk code, '0', for all national dialling.
Overview and structure
Area codes in Belgium are one or two digits long.
All Belgian telephone numbers dialed in Belgium must use the leading '0' trunk code.
010:  Wavre (Waver)
011:  Hasselt
012:  Tongeren (Tongres)
013:  Diest
014:  Geel, Herentals, Turnhout
015:  Mechelen (Malines)
016:  Leuven (Louvain), Tienen (Tirlemont)
019:  Waremme (Borgworm)
02:   Brussels (Bruxelles/Brussel)
03:   Antwerpen (Antwerp), Sint-Niklaas
04:   Liège (Luik), Voeren (Fourons)
050:  Brugge (Bruges), Zeebrugge
051:  Roeselare (Roulers)
052:  Dendermonde (Termonde)
053:  Aalst (Alost)
054:  Ninove
055:  Ronse (Renaix)
056:  Kortrijk (Courtrai), Comines-Warneton (Komen-Warneton),  Mouscron (Moeskroen)
057:  Ieper (Ypres)
058:  Veurne (Furnes)
059:  Oostende (Ostend)
060:  Chimay
061:  Bastogne, Libramont-Chevigny
063:  Arlon (Aarlen)
064:  La Louvière
065:  Mons (Bergen)
067:  Nivelles (Nijvel)
068:  Ath (Aat)
069:  Tournai (Doornik)
070:  Specialty Numbers (i.e. bus information or bank information)
071:  Charleroi
080:  Stavelot
0800: toll free service
081:  Namur (Namen)
082:  Dinant
083:  Ciney
084:  Jemelle, Marche-en-Famenne
085:  Huy (Hoei)
086:  Durbuy
087:  Verviers
089:  Genk
09:   Gent (Ghent/Gand)
090x: Premium numbers (0900, 0901, 0902, 0903, 0904, 0905, 0906, 0907, 0908, 0909)*
Spyro (series), a video game series
Spyro the Dragon (character), the main character of that series
Spyro the Dragon (video game), the first game in the series, released in 1998
The solo concerto is a concerto that includes a single soloist, with accompaniment from the entire orchestra.
It originated in the Baroque period, and remained throughout the years to be popular among many composers.
Although it is not true for many solo concerti, it could be said that the genre typically has three movements, the first and the last being fast-paced and lively, broken up by a more lyrical, slower second movement.
Giuseppe Torelli was one of the first composers to write solo concerti, written in 1698; however Vivaldi could be credited to making the three-movement form as typical of this genre.
Later, Handel wrote many solo concerti for different types of soloist, as before then they had mainly been only for violin.
The Classical period then used solo concerti to great effect, and developed to make the solos more virtuosic.
Many of Beethoven’s and Mozart’s more famous works were solo concerti.
The early Romantic period had many solo concerti, written by well-known composers such as Mendelssohn, and were not too different from those of the classical era.
However, later in this period, the solos became even more virtuosic, meaning that only brilliant players could ever play them.
Along  with this, the structures and textures became denser, helped by the excessive size that was commonplace during the era.
Finally, 20th century music carried on the rich works of the Romantic era.
However, when neoclassic genres came about, many classical-style solo concerti were written once again.
Phidias, or Pheidias (about 480430 BC) was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect.
His statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
He also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis.
These were the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon and the Athena Promachos, a bronze statue of Athena near the entrance to the Acropolis.
Phidias was twice accused of stealing some of the costly materials he used.
He was accused of taking some of the ivory for the Athena Parthenos; and at Olympia, of stealing some of the gold for Zeus' cloak.
A false witness against Phidias testified.
Phidias died in prison.
Today, most critics and historians consider him one of the greatest of ancient Greek sculptors.
430s BC deaths
Gallia Belgica, which means "Belgian Gaul" in Latin, was a Roman province.
Different parts of it are in several countries today, including Belgium, Luxembourg, a big part of northern France, and part of the Rhineland in Germany, which is the part of Germany west of the Rhine River.
The people who lived in Gallia Belgica were called the Belgae.
They were a group of tribes within the bigger country called Gaul, which covered all of modern France.
According to Julius Caesar, the Belgae were different from the other Gauls.
He said that the border between Belgica and the main Celtic part of Gaul was the Marne and the Seine rivers and that the border with Germania was the Rhine river.
It is no longer certain what language or languages were spoken in Gallia Belgica, but historians know there was an influence of both Celtic and Germanic languages.
The area was conquered in 57 BC by Julius Caesar.
Emperor Diocletian changed the Gaulish provinces around 300 AD.
He split Belgica into two provinces: Belgica Prima and Belgica Secunda.
Belgica Prima had Treveri (Trier) as its main city and was the eastern part.
The border between Belgica Prima and Belgica Secunda was along the River Meuse.
In 406 AD, the Vandals, Burgundians and other tribes crossed the Rhine.
They defeated the Gaulish forces.
Belgica Secunda became in the 5th century the center of Clovis' Merovingian kingdom and during the 8th century the heart of the Carolingian Empire.
They were on the west bank of the Rhine, in the 3rd century BC.
Later they were also in Britain, and possibly even Ireland.
They gave their name to the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, and very much later, to the modern country of Belgium.
The Belgae came to Britain as raiders and settled in southern Britain shortly before the Romans came.
They occupied the area later called Hampshire.
Carolingian Empire (800–888) is a historiographical term for the realm of the Franks under the Carolingian dynasty in the Early Middle Ages.
This dynasty is seen as the predecessor of modern day France, Austria and Germany.
Its beginning date is based on the crowning of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, and ends with the death of his descendant Charles the Fat.
This Empire can be seen as the later history of the Frankish Realm or the early history of France and of the Holy Roman Empire.
they also rulled under absolute power and killed many catholics
800 establishments
888 disestablishments
The 2013 AFC U-22 Championship is a football tournament for players under the age of 22.
It was held in 11 - 26 January IN 2014.
All the Asian under-22 football teams can compete.
Iraq (Group A winners)
United Arab Emirates (Group A runners-up)
Saudi Arabia (Group B winners)
Syria (Group B runners-up)
Iran (Group C winners)
Kuwait (Group C runners-up)
Jordan (Group D winners)
Uzbekistan (Group D runners-up)
North Korea (Group F winners)
China PR (Group F runners-up)
South Korea (Group G winners)
Myanmar (Group G runners-up)
2013 in Asia
January 2014 events
Middle Francia was a Frankish kingdom formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843.
It divided the Carolingian Empire among the sons of Louis the Pious.
Between the realms of East and West Francia, Middle Francia was the Frankish territory between the rivers Rhine and Scheldt.
Middle Francia was the part of the Frankish Empire that fell to Lothair I.  He was the eldest son and successor of Emperor Louis the Pious.
Because of Lothair's Imperial title, Middle Francia had the imperial cities of Aachen, the residence of Charlemagne, as well as Rome.
In 855, Emperor Lothair I again split his realm amongst his sons.
He gave the Kingdom of Italy with Rome to his eldest son, Louis II the Younger, crowned emperor since 850.
Most of the lands north of the Alps went to Lothair II.
Provence and Burgundy went to Charles.
Unlike East and West Francia, Middle Francia was a kingdom only a short time.
Over the next centuries its lands were added into the Holy Roman Empire.
855 disestablishments
West Francia, also known as the West Frankish Kingdom or Francia Occidentalis, was a short-lived kingdom.
It was the lands of the western part of the Carolingian Empire.
They came under the control of Charlemagne's grandson, Charles the Bald, as a result of the Treaty of Verdun of 843.
The Frankish Empire was the great realm united by Charlemagne that was a large part of Western Europe.
It was split after a three-year-long civil war between his grandsons (840-843).
Charles the Bald and his half-brother Louis the German went against his brother Lothair I.
The Carolingian Empire of the Franks founded by their grandfather lasted only one generation through their father Louis the Pious.
His realm was split into East Francia, West Francia or the Western Realm, and Middle Francia.
The West Frankish Kingdom is the start of both medieval France and modern France.
In 987 Hugh Capet, Duke of France and Count of Paris, started the Capetian dynasty.
The Valois and Bourbon houses ruled France for more than 800 years.
Around the 13th and early 14th century, many Dutch cities became important.
They played a major role in the political and economical affairs of their fiefs.
The Flemish cities gained powers over their county.
When Louis II, Count of Flanders, died without a male heir, these cities (Bruges, Ypres and Ghent) arranged a marriage between his daughter and the Duke of Burgundy.
By doing this, they set in motion events that led to the Burgundian and, in 1478, the Habsburg Netherlands.
Under Burgundy
In 1384, Philip the Bold got the county of Flanders, Artois, and the Free County by marrying Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, a marriage supported by the Flemish cities.
In 1429, Philip the Good (the grandson of Philip the Bold) buys the County of Namur from John III, Marquis of Namur.
In 1430, Philip of Brabant died childless, leaving his nephew Philip the Good as his heir in Brabant, Lothier, and Limburg.
In 1432, the Hook and Cod wars ended in victory for the Hollandic cities.
Philip the Good was offered to become count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut.
In 1443, Philip conquers the Duchy of Luxembourg
In 1456, Philip's illegitimate son, David, was elected Bishop of Utrecht.
This led to the First and Second Utrecht Civil War.
In 1456, he also had his nephew Louis of Bourbon become Prince-Bishop of Liège, leading to the Liège Wars.
In 1473, Philip's son, Charles the Bold buys the Duchy of Guelders from Duke Arnold.
However the house of Burgundy lost this title at Charles's death in 1477.
In 1477, Charles the Bold died fighting an alliance led by the King of France.
France added the Duchy of Burgundy.
His daughter was called Mary of Burgundy.
Under Habsburg
In 1478, Mary married Maximilian I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, beginning the period of the Habsburg Netherlands.
In 1506, the grandson of Maximilian and Mary, Emperor Charles V inherited his family's Dutch lands.
He is also the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain.
In 1521, Charles V conquered Tournai and the Tournaisis, until then under French influence.
In 1524, Charles conquered Friesland, whih was renamed Lordship of Frisia, during the Guelderian Wars.
In 1528, Charles freed the Bishopric of Utrecht and its lands in Overijssel, and added them as Lordship of Utrecht and Lordship of Overijssel, during the Guelderian Wars.
In 1536 Charles conquered the Lordship of Groningen and County of Drenthe, during the Guelderian Wars.
In 1543, Charles reclaimed and conquered the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen (in personal union), during the Guelderian Wars.
In 1549, Charles V issued a Pragmatic sanction; creating the Seventeen Provinces.
Politically the Burgundian and Habsburg periods were very important to the Dutch.
This is because the various Dutch fiefs were now united politically into one single group.
The period ended in great turmoil.
There was the rise of Protestantism, the policies of the Habsburg Empire, and other factors resulted in the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years' War.
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In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands  means a number of Imperial and French fiefs.
These were ruled in personal union by the House of Valois-Burgundy and their Habsburg heirs in the period from 1384 to 1482.
The area was large parts of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Luxembourg and parts of northern France.
Philip the Bold (1384–1405), son of King John II of France, by his wife Margaret III of Flanders
John the Fearless (1405–1419), son
Philip the Good (1419–1467), son
Charles the Bold (1467–1477), son
Mary of Burgundy (1477–1482), Charles' daughter, married Maximilian I of Habsburg in 1477
Philip the Handsome (1482–1506), Mary's son; Maximilian I, his father, as regent (1482–1493)
Charles V (1506–1555), Philip's son; Margaret of Austria, regent (1507–1515) and (1519–1530)
Ada Lovelace (18151852), daughter of Lord Byron, and friend of Charles Babbage.
Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress
Lovelace (movie), a 2013 American biographical drama movie about Linda Lovelace
The Dutch Republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces — was a republic in Europe.
It was a confederacy of provinces,from 1581 to 1795.
It came before the Batavian Republic, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the modern Netherlands (now a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Alternative names include the United Provinces, Federated Belgic Provinces, and Belgic Federation.
1588 establishments
Disestablishments in the Netherlands
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were part of the Low Countries.
They were controlled by Spain (1556–1714), Austria (1714–94) and added into France (1794–1815).
This area was most of modern Belgium, the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the County of Bouillon and Luxembourg, and in addition some parts of the Netherlands, as well as, until 1678, most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.
The Southern Netherlands were part of the Holy Roman Empire until it was added to France.
The northern seven provinces, led by Holland and Zeeland, started their independence as the United Provinces after 1581.
The southern Netherlands were reconquered by the Spanish general Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma.
The Southern Netherlands passed to the Austrian Habsburgs after the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century.