the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
In 2020, QS World University Rankings listed Parsons as the 3rd best Art & Design program in the world.
The A10 is an important road in eastern England.
It goes between London and King's Lynn.
It follows the old route of the Roman road Ermine Street for much of its route.
The road is about  long in total.
The Actinidiaceae are a family of around 360 species of plants in the Ericales order.
The most important genus is Actinidia, the kiwifruits.
Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat (June 28, 1945 – August 19, 2017) was a Cuban-American politician and judge.
He was a one-term member of the Florida House of Representatives for the Republican Party from 1994 until his defeat in 1998.
The Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (), usually referred to as Senate, is the upper chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
The seat of the Senate is Wallenstein Palace in Prague.
The Senate has 81 members, chosen in one-seat constituencies through the two-round system.
If no candidate receives a majority of votes in the first round, there is a second round between the two highest-placed candidates.
The term of office for Senators is six years.
the Lower House: Chamber of Deputies
the Upper House: Senate
Erich Gruenberg  (12 October 1924 – 7 August 2020) was an Austrian-born British violinist and teacher.
He was a principal violinist of major orchestras in Stockholm and London.
He taught at the Royal Academy of Music.
Patrick Joseph Sheehan (1 March 1933 – 10 August 2020) was an Irish Fine Gael politician.
He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-West constituency from 1981 to 2002 and 2007 to 2011.
He was a member of the Fine Gael.
She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Jillian Guiler in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Teresa in Absence of Malice (1981).
Her other movie roles include Bound for Glory (1976), F.I.S.T. (1978), A Christmas Story (1983), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), The Prince of Tides (1991) and Magnolia (1999).
Hamilton is a 2020 American musical movie which is a live recording of  the 2015 Broadway musical.
It was directed and produced by Thomas Kail and produced, written, and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Hamilton was originally planned for theatrical release on October 15, 2021; however, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie had a digital worldwide release on Disney+ on July 3, 2020.
The movie received strong critical reviews.
Okieriete "Oak" Onaodowan ( ; born August 16, 1987) is an American actor.
He is known for his roles as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in the 2015 musical Hamilton, and the role of Dean Miller in the ABC drama and Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Station 19.
Barrow-upon-Soar, also known as Barrow-on-Soar or simply Barrow, is a large village in the north of Leicestershire in England.
It is between Loughborough and the city of Leicester.
In 2011, the village had a population of 5,856 people.
It is famous for a plesiosaur that was dug out in the village in 1851.
It was given the nickname "The Barrow Kipper".
The skeleton was taken out from it is now being displayed at the New Walk Museum in Leicester.
There is also a full-size replica at the Charnwood Museum in Loughborough.
The village's football club, Barrow Town FC, has the skeleton on its logo.
Barrow is also famous for its limestone working.
There are streets in the village with names in reference to this.
The River Soar runs through the village.
The village is near the A6 road from Quorn.
The village has a small railway station located on the Ivanhoe Line from Burton upon Trent to Loughborough.
Trains run from Monday-Saturday between Leicester and Lincoln, however some carry on to Sleaford.
Marans, Charente-Maritime, France
Dariusz Baliszewski (14 April 1946 – 10 August 2020) was a Polish historian, journalist and writer.
He wrote the screenplay for Rewizja nadzwyczajna.
He wrote many historical articles to one of the biggest Polish magazines, Wprost.
Baliszewski was born in Warsaw.
He died on 10 August 2020 in Warsaw, aged 74.
Kartika Tamara Liotard (26 June 1971 – 1 August 2020) was a Dutch politician, anti-pornography feminist, and civil servant.
She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014.
She was formerly a member of the Socialist Party.
Liotard was vice-chair of the EUL–NGL group.
She was born in Voorburg, South Holland, and studied law at Maastricht University.
European Parliament biography
Alpine is an unincorporated community in northern Alaska.
It is located in the North Slope Borough, along the Arctic Ocean.
This city in Alaska had a population of 4 but was so remote that when they (the people of Alpine) got sick they could not get medicine in time.
Isabelle Weingarten (18 April 1950 – 3 August 2020) was a French actress, model, and photographer.
Her first movie role was in Four Nights of a Dreamer.
She also starred in The Mother and the Whore in 1973.
She began working for Cahiers du Cinéma in 1986.
In 2008, she began studying the works of her father, Romain Weingarten, poet and playwright.
Wiengarten was married to Benjamin Baltimore from 1968 to 1978.
She then married Wim Wenders, who she divorced in 1983.
Lastly, she was married to Olivier Assayas until their divorce in 1996.
He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short movies and writing for the influential movie magazine Cahiers du cinéma.
Assayas's movie Cold Water was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
New York Times article on Assayas
Bringing Down the House: A Conversation with Olivier Assayas, The Notebook, mubi.com
She is known for her roles in As Tears Go By, Center Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story, Green Snake, The Soong Sisters, In the Mood for Love, and Clean.
In 1983, Cheung entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well.
She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.
Her first feature movie, All Is Forgiven, won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2007 along with Céline Sciamma's Water Lilies.
Hansen-Løve's movie Father of My Children won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2016, she won the Silver Bear for Best Director for her movie Things to Come at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as becoming a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Sixto Serrano Brillantes, Jr. (August 14, 1939 – August 11, 2020) was a Filipino election lawyer.
He was the chairman of the Commission on Elections from 2011 to 2015.
He was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III on January 16, 2011.
On July 25, 2020 he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was hospitalized in Manila.
He died from the infection on August 11, 2020 at the age of 80.
Vladimir "Vladica" Popović (; 17 March 1935 – 10 August 2020) was a Serbian footballer and manager.
He won the Intercontinental Cup with Red Star Belgrade in 1991.
He played for the Yugoslavia national football team from 1956 to 1965.
The Dakelh live in northern British Columbia along the Fraser River.
Their homeland has lots of forests and lakes.
The Dakelh way of live is based on the seasons.
In summer, they gather berries.
They also fish for salmon and hunt deer.
Michael Tindall (5 April 1941 – 11 August 2020) was an English former professional footballer.
He was best known for his career with Aston Villa.
His playing position was wing-half.
Tindall started his career at South Birmingham Boys.
He moved to Walsall for a short time before dropping into the non-League to play for Tamworth.
Jose Armando R. Melo (May 30, 1932 – October 18, 2020) was a Filipino lawyer and jurist.
He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1992 to 2002.
He is a former Chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
Filipino judges
Benjamin Santos Abalos, Sr. (
born September 21, 1935) is a Filipino politician.
He was a chairman of the Commission on Elections.
He was also a former chairman of the  MMDA and mayor of Mandaluyong City.
On October 1, 2007, Abalos resigned during a press conference after complaining for lack of rules to create an impeachment case against Filipino governors.
The Commission on Elections appointed Resurreccion Borra as Acting Chairman.
Christian S. Monsod (born July 16, 1936) is a Filipino lawyer.
He was Chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
He was one of the creators of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines.
Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is an abugida and brahmic script created by a Christian missionary to write down the languages of some of the First Nations of Canada.
This one alphabet later became many alphabets.
Each letter represents a syllable.
The letters look like triangles and curves.
Different languages have some different letters to represent the sounds in their own language best.
James Evan was a Methodist missionary from England.
He wanted to create an alphabet to teach the Cree and Ojibwe about Christianity.
He got inspiration from the Devanagari alphabet from India.
Every consonant has the same shape.
For example, the syllables that start with a "p" sound look like a V. To show that they have different vowels, the shapes are rotated.
So "pe" would look like ᐯ whole "pa" would be ᐸ.
Final consonants
In some languages, words end in a final consonant, like the "t" in "cat."
To show this, a small letter is added to the end of the word.
Syllabics is one of the official writing systems of Nunavut.
That means that government forms in Inuktitut can be written either in the Latin alphabet (ABCs) or in syllabics.
Bernardo P. Pardo (born February 11, 1932) is a Filipino politician and lawyer.
Between 1995 to 1998, he was Chairman of the Commission on Elections.
In 1998, President Joseph Estrada nominated him to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
Pardo was born in Manila.
He studied at the University of Texas.
Wymeswold is a village and civil parish in the north of Leicestershire, a county in England.
The 2011 census saw that around 1,296 people live there.
It is located north-east of Loughborough, a university town, and is very close to the border with Nottinghamshire.
Nearby villages include Barrow-upon-Soar, Prestwold, Burton on the Wolds and Rempstone.
The village was formerly the location of RAF Wymeswold which has since closed.
There is a memorial plaque on the wall of Wymeswold Pharmacy that pays tribute to when a Wellington Bomber crashed into a nearby hill while on a night training course.
The village has a greengrocer, a general convenience store, a pine furniture store, a gift shop, a restaurant and two public houses (The Three Crowns and The Windmill).
There is also a village cricket club which also includes a football pitch.
Regino Campos Hermosisima Jr. (born October 18, 1927) is a Filipino politician and lawyer.
He was born in Cebu.
He became a member of the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on July 10, 1995.
He retired on October 18, 1997.
He was nominated by President Fidel Ramos.
Jose C. Vitug (born 15 July 1934) is a Filipino lawyer and jurist.
He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
He was appointed to the Court on June 28, 1993 by President Fidel Ramos and retired on July 15, 2004.
Vitug was the Founding Dean of the Angeles University Foundation College of Law in Manila.
Until 1973, only men were appointed as Associate Justices to the Court.
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, an appointee of President Ferdinand Marcos, was the first woman to sit on the Court.
The Supreme Court E-library
The Port of Beirut () is the main port in Lebanon on the eastern part of the Saint George Bay on Beirut's northern Mediterranean coast.
It is west of the Beirut River.
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Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya, ; born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian activist and politician.
She was a presidential candidate in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election.
She was born in Mikashevichy.
Her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky is a YouTuber and ran for president in 2020.
However he was arrested.
After the arrest of her husband on 29 May, Tsikhanouskaya announced her intention to run in his place.
Many people supported her campaign because the current president, Alexander Lukashenko has been seen as a dictator and very unpopular.
Facebook page of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarusian politicians
The 2020 Belarusian protests, nicknamed the Slipper Revolution, and the Anti-Cockroach Revolution are a series of street protests against Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko.
They began on 24 March 2020.
The protests are part of the Belarusian democracy movement.
They are upset over the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, in which Lukashenko was controversially re-elected.
Many believed the election was rigged and unfair.
There were more than 600 political prisoners as of August 2021.
These numbers came from the Viasna Human Rights Centre.
Tens of thousands of people have been arrested and thousands have left the country.
2020 protests
The Naked and the Dead is a novel written by an American author named Norman Mailer.
It was published in 1948.
The novel was based on Mailer's experience as a cook while he was stationed in the Philippines.
It is about the experiences about one platoon during World War II as they fight in the South Pacific.
It was turned into a film in 1958.
Part 1- Wave
Staff Sergeant Sam Croft, Woodrow Wilson, and Roy Gallagher are playing cards the night before a scheduled attack.
They are members of a recon platoon fighting on Anopopei.
The next morning, as the platoon takes boats to the island, they are nervous.
William Brown and Cpl.
Stanley talk about women and the other men in their squad.
The assault begins, and as the platoon waits for their turn to come to the island, they nervously joke among themselves.
Once the squad reaches the beach, they dig foxholes.
Stanley picks a fight with Oscar Ridges and Red Valsen, but ultimately Red knows the time is not right for a fight, and he backs down.
Croft leaves to find his commanding officer.
Once they’ve begun to settle in on the beach, the Japanese attack.
The squad splits up.
Toglio, Hennessey, and Ridges have completed their foxholes, so they stay on the beach.
Brown, Gallagher, Wilson, Red, Stanley, and Sgt.
Julio Martinez run after Croft.
As the beach is shelled, Hennessey panics and soils himself.
He runs down the beach to try to clean his pants, but he is killed.
Part 2- Argil and Mold
Croft pleads with higher officers to give him more men to replace those lost.
He ultimately earns an extra replacement man, bringing the squad up to fourteen.
Roth and Goldstein, two of the new men in the platoon, become friends because they are both Jewish.
Part 3- Plant and Phantom
Part 4- Wake
Hennessey is a newer member of the platoon.
He is very cautious as to not get killed.
When they arrive at the beach of Anopopei, he defecates in his pants out of fear.
He has a mental breakdown and runs down the beach in hopes of getting new pants.
He is killed soon after by shrapnel from an exploding mortar shell.
"Fug"
Oliviu Gherman (26 April 1930 – 11 August 2020) was a Romanian physicist, politician, university professor and diplomat.
He was a member of the Romanian Senate between 1990 through 2004.
He was the Senate President between 1992 to 1996.
Between 2001 to 2004, he was the Romanian Ambassador to France.
Her first movie was The Atomic Kid, in which she and her husband Mickey Rooney co-starred.
Devry made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the title role of defendant Janice Wainwright in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Shapely Shadow."
She also appeared in many other popular television series, including Death Valley Days, Bonanza, 77 Sunset Strip, Burke's Law, Family Affair, I Dream of Jeannie, Marcus Welby, M.D., Dragnet, and Tales of Wells Fargo.
She played minor roles in many movies during the early 1940s.
She played the drug-addicted younger sister of Lauren Bacall's character in The Big Sleep (1946).
She also starred in a musical, The Time, the Place and the Girl (also 1946).
She also starred in Love and Learn and That Way with Women (both 1947).
Lorenzo Fernando Lamas (born January 20, 1958) is an American actor.
He is best known for his role of Lance Cumson in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990).
Lamas is also known for his roles as Reno Raines in the crime drama series Renegade (1992–1997), and Hector Ramirez in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2004–2006).
Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos (January 9, 1916October 8, 1982) was an Argentine-American actor and director.
He was known for playing the "Latin Lover" in many movies during the 1940s and 1950s.
In 1951, Lamas starred as Paul Sarnac in the musical, Rich, Young and Pretty with Jane Powell.
He also starred in The Law and the Lady (1952) which was very unpopular.
He also starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in The Girl Who Had Everything (1952).
He is the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.
He was married to Arlene Dahl between 1954 to 1960.
He was also married to Esther Williams between 1969 until his death.
Social background
Female Go players are viewed to be a minority.
This is due to these reasons:
There are many male players but only few female players.
In Japan, there are only three female 8-dan players.
And there are no female 9-dan.
In addition, there are no female winners at games without gender rules.
Asami Ueno was the first female player who managed to be a finalist.
In China, there was no female 9-dan before Rui Naiwei.
Most players and winners at World championships are male.
Not all female players are fairly paid.
Joanne Missingham is known for her protests to this issue.
At most Go organizations, directors are only male.
These are caused by many reasons.
One factor is they retire earlier due to marriage, pregnancy and maternity.
Comparison with female shogi players
In Japan, Go players are always compared with shogi players.
This is because newspapers like Asahi Shinbun treat them equal.
But there is a big difference among female players.
But this does not happen for shogi.
Female shogi players belong to the Ladies Professional Shogi Association (LPSA).
The others belong to the Japan Shogi Association (JSA).
Some LPSA players like Kana Satomi have tried to enter JSA.
But currently, no one has entered.
Promotion of female players
In Europe, there were no notable female players before Svetlana Shikshina and Diana Koszegi.
In order to increase female players, the European Go Federation is holding the European Womens Go Championship (EWGC) since 1996 and the European Pair Go Championship (EPGC) since 1997.
Kansai Ki-in has eased the age rules to female players.
At Nihon Ki-in, there is a special exam for female players.
Most female professionals (except Xie Yimin and Keiko Kato etc.)
have got their pro status by this way.
In 2019, Nihon Ki-in has started a female player test system to give more support to them.
Nihon Ki-in is also sponsoring female amateur games.
Female Student Honinbo
This is a tournament operated with the All Japan Student Go Federation.
Some winners have got pro status, or became top amateur players.
All Japan Female Amateur Go Championship
The All Japan Female Amateur Go Championship is the highest match for female amateur Go players.
Some winners have became a pro.
The next table shows the notable winners.
Go players
Rahat Indori (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet.
He was also a former professor of Urdu language and a painter.
He was a language professor at Devi Ahilya University, Indore.
As a movie score composer, his best known works were Khuddar, Mission Kashmir and Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities.
Indori was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Indori died on 11 August 2020 at a hospital in Indore from COVID-19, aged 70.
He was tested positive for the infection the night before.
Mohammad Javad Zarif (; ; born c. 7 January 1960) is an Iranian politician.
He has been foreign minister of Iran since 2013.
He helped end the economic sanctions against Iran from many countries on 16 January 2016.
On 25 February 2019, Zarif resigned from his post as foreign minister.
His resignation was rejected by President Hassan Rouhani.
The A16, also called L'Européenne (The European) in French, is an autoroute (motorway) in France.
It goes between Paris and the border with Belgium near Ghyvelde.
It goes through Amiens, Calais and Dunkirk.
It is part of the European route E40.
The autoroute is about  long in total.
Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American actress.
She is best known for her roles as Esther in the 2009 horror movie Orphan and Clove in the 2012 dystopian adventure movie The Hunger Games.
Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian writer and mental calculator.
She was popularly known as the "Human Computer".
Devi wanted to make mathematics easier for students.
Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.
However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980.
In 2019, a movie was made in memory of her.
The name of the movie was Shakuntala Devi.
Vidya is known for her roles in Paa (2009), the black comedy Ishqiya (2010), the thrillers No One Killed Jessica and Kahaani (2012), and the biopic The Dirty Picture (2011).
Cheraw ( ,  ) is a town on the Pee Dee River in Chesterfield County South Carolina, United States.
The population was 5,851 at the 2010 census.
It has been nicknamed "The Prettiest Town in Dixie".
The Jodrell Bank Observatory a radio telescope in Cheshire.
It picks up radio waves from outer space.
Jodrell Bank is mainly used for investigating radio waves from the planets and stars.
It was the idea of its first director, Bernard Lovell, to use radio signals to investigate cosmic rays.
Lovell, Professor of Astronomy at Manchester University, had worked on radar in World War II.
The observatory was set up in 1945.
It has been used to research meteoroids, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses.
It was heavily involved in tracking space probes.
The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope.
It has diameter of , and is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world.
There are three other active telescopes at the observatory.
The Jodrell Bank Observatory is the base of the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN), a "National Facility" run by the University of Manchester.
What this means is that radio telescopes can work together to form a long baseline to better collect data from an important phenomenon.
There are three other active telescopes at the observatory; the Mark II, and  and 7 m diameter radio telescopes.
The telescope discovered radio noise from the Great Nebula in Andromeda—the first definite detection of an extragalactic radio source—and the remains of Tycho's Supernova in the radio frequency.
At that time, Tycho's Supervova had not been discovered by regular light telescopes.
The New Town is in the central area in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Together with the Old Town, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850.
It kept much of its original neoclassical and Georgian period architecture.
It is most famous for Princes Street.
It faces the Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town.
Edinburgh World Heritage/ New Town
Tycho's Supernova  also called SN 1572 or B Cassiopeiae (B Cas) – was a supernova of Type Ia in the constellation Cassiopeia.
It is one of eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records.
It appeared in early November 1572 and was independently discovered by many people.
It is called Tycho's because Tycho Brahe published a book the next year about what he and other astronomers saw.
The remains of the supernova was first detected by radio telescopes.
It was often known as 3C 10, which is a radio-source designation, but now people call it Tycho's supernova remnant.
It can be seen by light telescope.
Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a former UNESCO World Heritage Site in Liverpool, England.
The six sites included the Pier Head, Albert Dock,  William Brown Street,  and other famous landmarks in the city.
They are considered the 'supreme example of a commercial port at a time of Britain's greatest global influence'.
The sites were nominated to UNESCO in January 2003.
By March 2004, ICOMOS recommended the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City as a World Heritage Site.
It was accepted under cultural bases: ii, iii and iv.
In 2012, the proposed construction of Liverpool Waters project caused the sites to be included in the List of World Heritage in Danger.
In July 2017, UNESCO warned it might lose its status because of the development plans.
English Heritage argued against the Liverpool Waters development.
It thought some of Liverpool's most significant historic buildings would be “severely compromised”.
In July 2021, UNESCO announced that the site had been stripped of its World Heritage status.
Liverpool World Heritage Website
The Theaceae is a family of plants in the order Ericales.
They contain the genus Camellia, used to make tea.
They have around 7 to 40 genera.
SUPINFO International University, formerly called "École Supérieure d'Informatique", is a renowned graduate engineering school in France.
It is in a campus of IONIS Education Group.
It has been created in 1965.
The school is recognized by the French State since 1972.
The Sabang tree frog (Nyctimystes sanguinolenta)  is a tree frog from New Guinea.
Scientists have seen it in the Baliem Valley and other places not high above sea level in Indonesia.
The Old Town () is oldest part of Edinburgh.
It preserved much of its medieval street plan and buildings.
Together with New Town, it forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Royal Mile
The main street in the Old Town is called the "Royal Mile".
It runs on a downwards path from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace and the ruined Holyrood Abbey.
The streets are not officially called The Royal Mile in terms of legal addresses.
The actual street names (running west to east) are Castlehill, Lawnmarket, High Street, Canongate and Abbey Strand.
Notable buildings in the Old Town include St. Giles' Cathedral, the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland, the National Museum of Scotland, the Old College of the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Parliament Building.
The area is known to have underground vaults and hidden passages that are relics of old phases of construction.
West Port, the old route to the west
Grassmarket, the area to the south-west
The Cowgate, the lower southern section of the town
Canongate, the whole eastern district
Holyrood, it includes Holyrood Palace and Holyrood Abbey
Croft-An-Righ, a group of buildings north-east of Holyrood
In 1824, a major fire known as Great Fire of Edinburgh, destroyed most of the buildings on the south side of the High Street.
During the Edinburgh International Festival, the High Street and Hunter Square become gathering points.
Performers in the Fringe advertise their shows, often through street performances.
On 7 December 2002, the Cowgate fire destroyed a small but dense group of old buildings on the Cowgate and South Bridge.
It destroyed the famous comedy club, The Gilded Balloon.
Other areas affected were the Informatics Department of the University of Edinburgh.
The vast artificial intelligence library was also damaged.
The site was redeveloped 2013-2014.
There now stands a single new building which largely used as a hotel.
Kincaid map showing the Old Town in 1784
UNESCO World Heritage Site Inscription
Edinburgh Old Town Association
Lantz is a village in Navarre, Spain.
It still maintains its old tradition of rural carnival.
The Balsaminaceae is a family of two genera and around 850 to 1,000 species, mostly in the genus Impatiens.
The two genera in this family are Impatiens and Hydrocera.
Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin (; born 4 February 1964) is a Russian politician.
He is the 10th Chairman of the State Duma since 5 October 2016.
Volodin was Vladimir Putin's aide.
He was the Secretary-General of the United Russia party.
He was also a deputy in the State Duma from 1999-2001.
From 2010 until 2012, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.
He was also a first deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia.
He also helped in Putin's third term.
NGC 4754 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the Virgo constellation.
It was discovered on on March 15, 1784 by astronomer William Herschel.
(born June 24, 1969 in Hokkaido) is a Japanese Professional shogi player ranked 6-dan since 2002.
She was one of the rivals of Ichiyo Shimizu.
LPSA service
Nakai was selected to be the first representative director of The Ladies Professional Shogi-player's Association of Japan (LPSA) after it was established in 2007.
She served in that position until 2010.
Major titles
She has obtained 19 major titles in her career.
This is a 3rd place record in Japanese shogi history.
Annual shogi awards
13th-14th, 16th, 20th and 27th Annual Awards: Women's Professional Award
29th-30th Annual Awards (April 2001 - March 2003): Women's Professional of the Year
31st-32nd Annual Awards (April 2003 - March 2005): Women's Professional Award
38th and 40th Annual Awards: Women's Professional Most Games Played
1986, February: Wakkanai, Hokkaido Meritorious Citizen Award
The Church of St Martin is an old Church of England church in Canterbury, England.
It is best known as having the longest continuous history as a parish church in the English-speaking world.
It is often known as "The first church founded in England".
Although there were already Roman and Celtic churches had existed for centuries.
Together with the Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Abbey, they are part of a World Heritage Site.
Since 1668 the church has been part of the benefice of St Martin and St Paul Canterbury.
Both St Martin's and nearby St Paul's churches are used for weekly services.
The current rector of the parish is the Reverend Mark Richard Griffin.
St Martin's was the private chapel of Queen Bertha of Kent (died in or after 601).
Queen Bertha was a Christian Frankish princess who arrived in England with her chaplain, Bishop Liudhard.
Her pagan husband, King Æthelberht of Kent, let her to continue to practise her religion by renovating (ca.
AD 580) an existing church.
As Bede named it, this church was dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours.
It is the city located near where Bertha grew up.
Upon Augustine's arrival, he used St Martin's as his mission headquarters.
King Æthelberht was baptised here.
When Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Abbey were established, St Martin's lost its initial prestige.
However, it still remains of historical importance.
Local finds prove that Christianity did exist in this area of the city at the time.
The church contains many reused Roman bricks or spolia.
It also has complete sections of walls of Roman tiles.
At the core of the church the brick remains of a Roman tomb were integrated into the structure.
Several sections of walls are clearly very early.
It is possible that a blocked square-headed doorway in the chancel was the entrance to Bertha's church.
Meanwhile, other sections of wall come from the period after the Gregorian mission in the 7th or 8th centuries.
The apse that was originally at the east end has been removed.
The tower came much later, in Perpendicular style.
The church is a Grade I listed building.
Many notable local families and well-known graves were buried in its churchyard.
Thomas Sidney Cooper
Rupert Bear
The church has a continuing musical tradition from the monks of St Augustine to the present day.
The choral director for the parish is Dom del Nevo.
F. Haverfield, "Early British Christianity" The English Historical Review Vol.
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Service, Alastair, The Buildings of Britain, A Guide and Gazetteer, Anglo-Saxon and Norman, 1982, Barrie & Jenkins (London),
Canterbury Buildings
Website of St Martin's Church
Triadic UNESCO World Heritage property, "Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church"
Euronews is a European television news channel.
It is headquartered in Lyon, France.
The channel broadcasts in 13 languages.
88% of the channel is owned by Media Globe Networks, a company which belongs to Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris.
The other 12% belongs to a group of EBU (European Broadcasting Union) members.
CNN helped make 24-hour TV news important after the Gulf War.
The European Broadcasting Union answered this with the creation of their own news channel.
Euronews started broadcasting on 1 January 1993, from Lyon, in five languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian).
The channel was special in the news market because it had no presenters or studios, just videos showing the news.
The channel's most important segment is "No Comment", which shows videos with no voiceover.
The channel is controlled by a company called Euronews SA.
When the channel started, it belonged to 10 EBU members.
Today, it belongs to 20 EBU members.
Organisations which have controlled Euronews when it started are marked with an asterisk.
Three EBU members also used to own a share in the channel, but do not anymore today.
TVE*
RMC (Radio Monte-Carlo)*
On 4 June 2008, Euronews got a new circle logo and a new slogan: "pure".
This was meant to market itself as "pure news" distancing from other competing channels (BBC, CNN, etc.)
in the 24-hour news market.
In February 2015, Media Globe Networks got a 53% share of Euronews SA in a deal with the company.
In January 2016, the channel started a sister network called Africanews, which is aimed at an African news market, with a pan-African view.
Euronews got a new logo on 17 May 2016.
NBC steps in
In November 2016, NBCUniversal said they wanted to buy a share in the Euronews network.
They also said they would share news reports with the channel.
The deal was agreed upon in February 2017, and NBC bought a 25% share.
In May 2017, Euronews went from having one TV channel with 13 audio tracks, to 10 separate TV channels and 12 websites.
This is part of a ’glocal’ idea.
Now, certain language editions can offer their own selections of local and global news.
By doing this, the Arabic and Persian services stopped TV broadcasting, and they are now only on social media and the Euronews website.
The Ukrainian service was closed because the Ukrainian government was not giving it money.
In 2018, the English Euronews channel started its first news shows with live presenters.
Then, other Euronews language editions did the same and started their own presented evening news shows too.
In April 2020, NBC left the channel and sold its share to Media Globe Networks.
MGN now owns 88% of Euronews.
Euronews website
Fips Asmussen (born Rainer Pries; 30 April 1938 – 9 August 2020) was a German comedian and entertainer.
He was known for his quick delivery of puns and bad jokes.
Asmussen was born in Hamburg.
His later comedy performances became known for unfunny and mostly politically incorrect.
Rose of Washington Square is a 1939 American musical drama movie directed by Gregory Ratoff and stars Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, Moroni Olsen, Winifred Harris, Joyce Compton, William Frawley, Ralph Dunn, Louis Prima.
Vinka Dragica Lucas  (née Ravlich / Ravlić; 1 January 1932 – 10 August 2020) was a Croatian-born New Zealand fashion and bridalwear designer and business owner.
She was co-founder of New Zealand Bride magazine.
In 1959 Lucas and her husband David Lucas bought a fashion and dressmaking business in Hamilton.
In 1963, the couple published a booklet of bridal designs, which later grew into the magazine New Zealand Bride.
His first album included a version of "If I Had a Hammer", which earned a Golden Disc for him.
His other hits included "Lemon Tree", "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl".
He starred as Pedro Jimenez in the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen.
Juan Pastor Marco (24 November 1951 – 11 August 2020) was a Spanish politician.
In 1977, he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province.
He then was Secretary General of the PSOE in the Valencian Community from 1978 to 1979.
He was born in Orba, Alicante.
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war movie starring Lee Marvin and featuring an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Robert Webber and Donald Sutherland with Trini Lopez.
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909July 11, 1973) was an American actor and activist.
He was known for playing tough cops and ruthless villains.
He worked in theater and movies.
Ryan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his rolein Crossfire (1947)''.
Robert Laman Webber (October 14, 1924 – May 19, 1989) was an American actor.
He was known for his role as Juror No.
12 in the classic 1957 movie  12 Angry Men.
He also starred as General Denton in the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen.
This is a list of roads with the name A2.
Roads entries are sorted alphabetically by country.
A2 motorway (Albania), a road connecting Vlore with Fier
A002 road (Argentina), a road connecting Avenida General Paz and Ministro Pistarini International Airport
A2 road (Australia) may refer to :
The shield allocations of either the Barkly Highway, Landsborough Highway, or Warrego Highway, Queensland
The Bass Highway, a highway connecting the Midland Highway, Launceston, Tasmania and the Arthur River Road
A2 motorway (Austria), a road connecting Vienna and the A23 to Arnoldstein and the Italian Autostrada A23
A2 motorway (Belgium), a road connecting Leuven and the Dutch border near Sittard
A2 highway (Botswana), a road connecting Francistown and Kasane
A2 motorway (Bulgaria), a road under construction connecting Sofia and Varna
A2 motorway (Croatia), a road connecting Zagreb and Slovenia
A2 motorway (Cuba), a ring road serving Havana
A2 motorway (Cyprus), a road connecting Nicosia and Larnaca
A2 motorway (France), a road connecting Combles and the border with Belgium
A2 motorway (Germany), a road connecting the Ruhr Area and Berlin
A2 motorway (Greece), longest motorway in Greece
A2 motorway (Italy), a road connecting Fisciano with Villa San Giovanni
A2 motorway (Italy): Former name of the highway connecting Rome and Naples.
Since 1988, after the construction of a connection to the A1 (Milan-Rome) bypassing Rome's ring road, the code A1 refers to the whole motorway between Milan and Naples.
A2 road (Jamaica), a road connecting Spanish Town and Savanna-la-Mar
A2 road (Jersey), a dual carriage way in Jersey, Channel Islands
A2 highway (Kazakhstan), a road in Kazakhstan
A2 road (Kenya), a road connecting Nairobi and Moyale
A2 road (Latvia), a road connecting Riga and the Estonian border
A2 highway (Lithuania), a road connecting Vilnius and Panevėžys
A2 road (Malaysia) may refer to :
A2 road (Perak), a road connecting Taiping and Kamunting
A2 road (Sabah), a road connecting Lawas, Sarawak and Kota Kinabalu
A2 motorway (Morocco), a road connecting Rabat and Fes
A2 motorway (Netherlands), a road connecting Amsterdam and the Belgian border near Maastricht
A2 highway (Nigeria), a road connecting Port Harcourt and Kano to the Niger Republic
A2 road (People's Republic of China) may refer to :
A2 expressway (Shanghai), the former name of the S2 expressway in Shanghai
A2 autostrada (Poland), a road connecting the border with Germany and the border with Belarus, running through Warsaw
A2 motorway (Portugal), a road connecting Lisbon and the Algarve
A2 motorway (Romania), a road connecting Bucharest and Constanţa
A2 motorway (Serbia), a road connecting Belgrade and Čačak
A2 motorway (Slovenia), a road connecting the Austrian border and Obrežje at the Croatian border
A2 road (Spain) may refer to :
A-2 motorway (Spain), a road connecting Madrid and Barcelona
A2 motorway (Extremadura), a road connecting Miajadas and Don Benito-Villanueva de la Serena
A 2 road (Sri Lanka), a road connecting Colombo and Wellawaya
A2 motorway (Switzerland), a road connecting Basel and Chiasso
A2 highway (Thailand), AH2 road of the Asian Highway Network
A2 road (United Kingdom) may refer to :
A2 road (England), a road connecting London and Dover
A2 road (Isle of Man), a road connecting Douglas and Ramsey
A2 road (Northern Ireland), a road connecting Newry, County Down and Muff, County Donegal
A2 road (United States of America) may refer to :
Interstate A-2, a road in Alaska
County Route A2 (California), a road connecting California State Route 299 and California State Route 139
A-2 (Michigan county highway), a road running along the shoreline of Lake Michigan in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
A2 road (Zimbabwe), a road connecting Harare and Kaombe, Mozambique
The A2 is an important road in South East England.
It goes between London and Dover.
In Dover, it connects to the port to France.
The road follows tracks used by the Celts and the Romans over a thousand years ago.
It once linked to the three main Roman ports: Rutupiae (now Richborough), Dubris (now Dover) and Portus Lemanis (in modern Lympne).
It was given the name "A2" in the 1920s.
Now, the road is about  long.
The Hunters () is a 1996 Swedish thriller movie directed by Kjell Sundvall and starring Rolf Lassgård, Lennart Jähkel, Jarmo Mäkinen, Tomas Norström, Göran Forsmark, and Rolf Degerlund.
The sequel was followed in 2011.
1990s Swedish movies
Movies directed by Kjell Sundvall
HUMINT (an abbreviation of Human Intelligence) is intelligence information got from personal contacts.
It is a term used in the spy community of the NATO countries.
Sources may be neutral, friendly, or hostile.
They may or may not know they are giving information.
Examples of HUMINT sources are:
Advisors or foreign internal defence personnel working with the host nation forces or populations;
Diplomatic reporting by accredited diplomats (e.g. military attachés);
Espionage: secret reporting, using agents, couriers, cutouts;
Military attachés: getting information is their job;
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
Prisoners of war (POWs) or other detainees;
Refugees;
Routine patrolling (by military police,  etc);
Talking to travellers  (e.g. the CIA Domestic Contact Service).
About Us () is a 2016 Costa Rican American drama movie directed by Hernán Jiménez (who also stars) and starring Noelia Castaño, Marina Glezer.
Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was an India-born Tamil American civil rights activist and cancer researcher.
She is the mother of Kamala Harris.
Gopalan conducted research in the Cancer Research Lab in UC Berkeley's Department of Zoology.
Her research led to advancements in the knowledge of breast cancer hormones.
Her work changed the progress on the research of the hormone-responsiveness of breast tissue.
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica.
It is at the edge of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
It has an area of 558 km², and its highest elevation is 973 metres.
Nyctimystes traunae  is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea.
It lives on mountains in the middle of the island.
Scientists saw it about 800 meters above sea level.
Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (born Katherine de Roet, c. 1350 – 10 May 1403), was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, a son of King Edward III of England.
She was the daughter of Paon de Roet, a knight.
1400s deaths
Sonic X-treme was a platform game developed by Sega Technical Institute.
It was being created from 1994 until Sega cancelled it in 1997.
It was meant to be the first 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game.
It was also meant to be the first new Sonic game for the Sega Saturn.
It built on past Sonic games.
However, it had new things to take Sonic into the 3D era of video games.
The story followed Sonic on his journey to stop Dr. Robotnik; Robotnik was trying to steal six magic rings from Tiara Boobowski and her father.
When Super Mario 64 released, it was of the most well known early 3D platformers, Sega fans wanted Sonic the Hedgehog to do the jump to 3D as well, but Sonic's high-speed platforming proved to be much harder to make in 3D than Sega expected.
At first, Sonic X-treme was developed for the Sega 32x, but then development moved to the Sega Saturn.
Sonic X-treme was canceled because of development issues and crunch time.
Lorna Beal (née Larter; 28 November 1923 – 10 August 2020) was an Australian cricketer.
She played seven Test matches for the Australian women's cricket team between 1948 and 1951.
Beal was born in Hawthorn, Victoria.
She died in 2020 at the age of 96.
Lorna Beal at CricketArchive
Virtute et armis is a Latin phrase meaning "By valor and arms".
It is the state motto of Mississippi.
It may have come from the motto of Lord Gray De Wilton, "virtute non armis fido" ("I trust in virtue, not in arms").
The Tetum language (Tetum or Tetun) is a language spoken in East Timor.
It has a lot of influence from Portuguese.
Christopher Knights is an English voice actor, film editor, and cinematographer.
He is best known for providing the voice of Private the Penguin in Madagascar.
He also worked on several DreamWorks movies such as Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and Shrek 4-D.
He started his filming career at Amblimation studios.
He worked on We're Back!
A Dinosaur's Story and Balto.
He started his editing and acting career at DreamWorks.
He worked on the Shrek series as an associate editor.
He was also voice of the Three Blind Mice and Thelonious, Lord Farquaad's Henchman.
Flushed Away - Fat Barry, Market Trader
Madagascar - Private
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Private
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Private
Megamind - Prison Guard
Shrek - Blind Mouse, Thelonious
Shrek 2 - Blind Mouse
Shrek the Third - Blind Mice, Evil Trees, Guards, Heckler
Shrek Forever After - Three Blind Mice
Madagascar: The Video Game - Construction Worker, Pedestrian, Private
Thomas McGrath (born August 7, 1964) is an American voice actor, animator, screenwriter, and film director.
The Penguins of Madagascar - Skipper
Flushed Away - Action Figure, Artist
Madagascar - Fossa, Panicky Man on Subway, Skipper
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - First Policeman, Skipper
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - Lemur #1, Skipper
Megamind - Lord Scott, Prison Guard
Shrek the Third - Gary
Madagascar: Escape 2 - The Video Game - Skipper
Madagascar - Director, Writer
Megamind - Director
is a sing-along game show that aired from 2007 to 2011.
They lived as hunter-gatherers.
Then the Canadian government moved them away from their homeland and forced them to practice Western lifestyles.
The Innu call the territory they live in Nitassinan ("Our Land").
The Canadian government forced the Innu to live in permanent communities instead of letting them practice their nomadic lifestyle.
They also forced them to go to schools run by churches.
In those schools, the Innu were not allowed to practice their religion or speak their language.
Because of all the wrong things done to the Innu, they have a lot of social problems.
On one hand, they lost a lot of knowledge about their traditional ways.
On the other hand, the schools did not prepare them well enough to live in Western society and they still faced racism because they were Indigenous.
The Unit is an American television series that aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009.
The Twilight Zone is the revivals of Rod Serling's original 1959–64 television series.
It aired the final episode on May 21, 2003.
The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars was a nationwide concert tour of gymnasts from the United States.
An orphan girl named Thérèse Raquin is sent to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin, and her cousin Camille, who is very "sick" with hypochondriasis.
When Thérèse is 21, she marries Camille.
The three of them then move to Paris.