the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Music videos were released for  "A Looking in View", "Check My Brain", "Your Decision", "Acid Bubble" which is available as an interactive video on AliceinChains.com), "Last of My Kind" and "Lesson Learned".
The song "Check My Brain" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Their song "A Looking in View" was also nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2011 Grammy Awards.
Black Gives Way to Blue at Allmusic
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is the fifth studio album by American rock band, Alice in Chains.
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here was released on May 28, 2013.
The album features the singles "Hollow", "Stone", and "Voices".
Guitarist Jerry Cantrell said about the album, "I don't think you'll be surprised by anything you hear. ...
It's us.
But it's also really unique.
It's got all the elements of any record we've put out, but it's unlike any record we've put out.
Basically, it's the next chapter in the Alice in Chains book, and it's going to be a big one."
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here at Allmusic
Tipu Sultan (20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799.
He was also a scholar, soldier and poet.
Tipu was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali of Mysore and his wife Fathima Fakhr-un-Nisar.
Tipu Sultan born in a Sipra clan Of Muslim Jutt family.
His ancestors are said by different sources to be from Persia, Afghanistan, Arabia, and Ferghana in present-day Uzbekistan.
Tipu Sultan was born in Devanahalli in 1750.
The birthplace of Tipu Sultan, located very close to the Devanahalli Fort is just a small pillared enclosure with a stone tablet which declares the place to be the birthplace of Tipu Sultan.
The area around the enclosure is known as Khas Bagh.
Tipu sultan introduced several new laws, including new coinage, a new lunisolar calendar and a new land revenue system.
He(Tipu sultan) started the growth of the silk industry in Mysore.
Tipu inherited a large kingdom bordered by the Krishna River in the south, the Eastern Ghats in the east and the Arabian Sea in the west.
At the request of the French, he built a church, the first in Mysore.
With French help, Tipu Sultan fought against the British to keep Mysore's independence.
Tipu Sultan, prominently known as Sher-e-Mysore (Tiger of Mysore) is also given the sobriquet of Sher-e-Hind and Sher-e-Mashriq (Tiger of the East).
He opposed British rule in South India and played a major role in keeping the British forces away.
He was one of the few rulers who challenged British India.
History Of Tipu Sultan
Tipu was born in the Bangalore area of Devanto Hyder Ali, a military officer and practical ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in the year 1750.
Hyder Ali and his wife Fatima Fakhr Un Nisa named their baby Fateh Ali but often called him Tipu after the local saint Tipu Mastan Aulia.
Tipu Sultan’s full name was Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Shahab.
Soon, Hyder Ali’s career progressed and in 1761 he became the ruler of Mysore.
Hyder Ali had a political alliance with the French, and Tipu studied military tactics and strategies from the French.
He had some of the best tutors to teach him various subjects like shooting, riding and swordsmanship and joined his father in the 1766 invasion of Malabar.
Tipu at age 15 with a force of only two to three thousand men captured the family of the Malabar chief.
The Malabar ruler surrendered to Hyder Ali because of Tipu’s successful invasion.
Ghazi Khan, a high officer in the military of Hyder Ali and a great warrior himself, tutored Tipu Sultan.
This military education made Tipu a great soldier and a general.tipu sultan was died in 4th Anglo Mysore war
Ruler of Mysore
After Hyder Ali died in the year 1782, Tipu became the new ruler of Mysore.
He had already fought in two victories wars – the First Anglo Mysore and the Second Anglo Mysore War, under the leadership of his father.
He knew that British forces were a great threat to his kingdom.
He therefore focused more on military advances especially Mysorean rockets which were successfully used by his father in the Second Anglo Mysore War against the British.
Mysore Rockets
Mysorean missiles were iron cased rockets fitted with swords in them.
These rockets used to travel long, covering various kilometres up in the air before launching down – attacking the enemies with swords.
Although there were missiles in the Europe, Mysorean Missiles became famous due to their coverage and destructive capacity.
Hyder Ali’s Mysore rockets, undoubtedly, were very advanced missiles than what the British had seen.
Tipu Sultan had written a Military Manual Fathul Mujahidin in which he explained the operation of these Mysore Rockets.
This was mainly due to the strong iron tubes which were used for holding the rocket propellant.
They enabled greater thrust and extended distance up to 2 km.
In the year 1801, several of the Mysore rockets were sent to England in the Royal Arsenal lab for R&D by Col. (
Later Sir) William Congreve.
Roughly, 4 years later in the year 1805, Royal Arsenal came up with their first Congreve rocket only due to the Technology devised by Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan.
These Congreve Rockets helped the British troops in the Napoleonic Wars and also in the War of 1812.
Not to forget, the Battle of Baltimore in the year 1814 was won mainly due to these rockets.
Palaces of Tipu Sultan Across Bangalore
Bangalore Fort though built by Kempe Gowda of Vijaynagar Empire in the 16th century, was renovated and made into a stone fort by Hyder Ali in 1761.
At one point in time when the British bombed the fort, Tipu Sultan repaired it completely.
However, the fort was captured by the British after the third Anglo Mysore War.
Currently, Delhi Gate and remnants of bastions are the only two parts remaining of this once so powerful fort.
Within the Bangalore fort, there is a palace made of wood famously known as Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace which though started during the period of Hyder Ali ended during the reign of Tipu Sultan.
An example of Indo-Islamic architecture, the walls of the palace are embellished by pretty flower motifs.
Currently, the fort is a tourist place in Bangalore near the Kalasipalyam Bus Stand.
Tipu Sultan in his tenure also finished the construction of Lal Bagh Botanical Garden in the Bangalore area which was started by his father Haider Ali.
The garden has a large collection of tropical plants as well as a lake and an aquarium.
Located in South Bangalore, it is one of the major hot spot of Bangalore.
The garden is made in the Mughal style and comprises several plants and trees from various nations.
Anglo Mysore Wars and death of Tipu Sultan
Srirangapatnam, the island fortress was the capital of Mysore during the 19th century.
It was so well organized with good trade routes that British feared terrible consequences.
In addition, the ruler of Mysore had an army as effective as that of British.
This led to four consecutive wars.
Although the first two were won by the Ruler of Mysore, the third had dire consequences – Tipu’s two sons aged 8 and 10 were detained by the British forces.
Finally, in the fourth, the British first besieged the fortress and then took it by storm.
Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, was killed in the battle for Srirangapatnam.
Barabbas is a person from the Bible who lived around the time of Jesus (33 AD).
He has a bad reputation for being a liar, thief, insurrectionist and zealot.
He was released by Pontius Pilate the Roman governor of Judea who presided over Jesus' trial.
The most notable thing about Barabbas is that this name was his surname (last name), but his first name was also Jesus.
So when Pilate — who was warned by his wife to leave this Holy man alone — offered to set free one of the prisoners, he was offering the crowd in Jerusalem two Jesuses to choose from: Jesus Barabbas or Jesus of Nazareth.
Pilate released Barabbas and ordered Jesus, "King of the Jews", to be crucified.
Wolf–Rayet stars (WR stars) are evolved, massive stars (over 20 solar masses initially).
They are losing mass rapidly by means of a very strong stellar wind, with speeds up to 2000 km/s. While our own Sun loses about 10−14 solar masses every year, Wolf–Rayet stars typically lose 10−5 solar masses a year.
Wolf–Rayet stars are extremely hot, with surface temperatures in the range of 30,000 K to around 200,000 K that make them look blue in color.
They are also highly luminous, from tens of thousands to several million times the bolometric luminosity of the Sun, although not exceptionally bright visually since most of their output is in far ultraviolet and even "soft" X-rays.
In astronomy, luminosity is not quite the same thing as brightness.
Luminosity measures the <u/l>total amount of energy emitted</u/l> by a star or other astronomical object in SI units of joules per second, which are watts.
A watt is one unit of power, and just as a light bulb is measured in watts, so is the Sun, which has a total power output of 3.846×1026 W. This number is the basic metric used in astronomy: it is known as 1 solar luminosity, the symbol for which is .
Radiant power, however, is not the only way to conceptualize brightness, so other metrics are also used.
The most common is apparent magnitude, which is the perceived brightness of an object from an observer on Earth at visible wavelengths.
Other metrics are absolute magnitude, which is an object's intrinsic brightness at visible wavelengths, irrespective of distance.
The measure of luminosity is  "bolometric magnitude", the total power output across all wavelengths.
Star formation means the earliest stages in a star's life.
Dense regions of particles exist in molecular clouds known as "stellar nurseries".
The clouds collapse under gravitation into spheres of plasma to form stars.
Stellar nurseries
High density regions of the interstellar medium (ISM) form clouds, or nebulae, where star formation takes place.
Dense nebulae
In the dense nebulae where stars are produced, much of the hydrogen is in the molecular (H2) form, so these nebulae are called molecular clouds.
The largest such formations, giant molecular clouds, have densities of 100 particles per cm3, diameters of , and masses up to 6 million solar masses, and an average interior temperature of 10 K. About half the total mass of the galactic ISM is found in molecular clouds.
In the Milky Way there are about 6,000 molecular clouds, each with more than 100,000 solar masses.
The nearest nebula to the Sun where massive stars are being formed is the Orion nebula,  away.
However, lower mass star formation is occurring about 400–450 light years distant in the ρ Ophiuchi cloud complex.
A more compact site of star formation is the opaque clouds of dense gas and dust known as Bok globules; so named after the astronomer Bart Bok.
The Bok globules are typically up to a light year across and contain a few solar masses.
They can be seen as dark clouds against bright emission nebulae or background stars.
Over half the known Bok globules have been found to contain newly forming stars.
A spiral galaxy like the Milky Way contains stars, the remains of stars (stellar remnants) and a diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) of gas and dust.
The interstellar medium consists of 10–4 to 106 particles per cm3 usually of about 70% hydrogen by mass, with most of the remaining gas consisting of helium.
This medium is chemically enriched by trace amounts of heavier elements that were ejected from stars as they passed beyond the end of their main sequence lifetime.
In contrast to spirals, an elliptical galaxy loses the cold component of its interstellar medium within about a billion years.
This hinders the galaxy from forming diffuse nebulae except through  mergers with other galaxies.
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This is a massive protostar about 300 times brighter than our Sun.
Astronomers have caught a key stage in the birth of a very heavy star.
They used two radio telescope views of the process 18 years apart.
The young star is 4,200 light-years from Earth and is surrounded by a doughnut-shaped cloud of dust.
The first observation was in 1996.
By 2015 its stellar wind changed from a compact spherical form to a larger, ionized  elliptical shape.
This gave information about what happens as a massive star forms.
Being able to observe its rapid growth is unique, according to Huib van Langevelde of Leiden University, one of the authors of a study of the object.
The Indulkana Range is a range of hills in the northwest of South Australia.
It is sometimes called the Mount Chandler Range after its highest peak.
It is located to the southwest of Indulkana, on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands.
The mountains of the Indulkana area are part of the traditional country of the Yankunytjatjara and Antakarinya.
The range consists of a series of parallel ridges running east to west.
The southern side of the range ends in an escarpment, the most prominent point of which is Chambers Bluff.
The rock is made up of quartzite and sandstone rock, resting on slates of kaolinised clay.
At the eastern end of the range is Mount Chandler, which overlooks the settlement of Indulkana and the Indulkana Creek.
It rises about  from its base.
It is made up of quartzite, quartz sandstone and sandstone.
Slightly north of the escarpment, and following its path from east to west, is a series of gorges that split the hills.
The gorges contain several reliable springs.
Geological details from Geoscience Australia:
Indulkana Shale
Mount Chandler Sandstone
Chambers Bluff Tillite
A hydrazone is the functional group with structure R1R2C=NNH2.
They are like aldehydes or ketones, with an NNH2 group instead of the oxygen atom.
Hydrazones are very useful molecules to do some reactions.
For example, a ketone can be reduced down completely if made into a hydrazine and then treated with sodium ethoxide (Wolff–Kishner reduction).
Hydrazones are very important intermediates in many reactions, such as the Fischer indole synthesis.
This makes indoles, groups which are found in many drugs.
Protest the Hero was formed in 2001 under the original name, Happy Go Lucky.
They changed their name to Protest the Hero the next year and recorded their first EP, Search for the Truth.
The band released their debut full-length album Kezia on August 30, 2005 in Canada and on April 4, 2006 in the United States.
They released their second studio album Fortress on January 29, 2008.
Their third studio album Scurrilous was released on March 16, 2011 in Japan and on March 22, 2011 in both Canada and the Unites States.
The band announced that they were releasing their fourth studio album in Summer 2013.
The band said that the album would be crowdfunded through Indiegogo.
The album had a fundraising goal of $125,000 and was reached within 30 hours.
The band eventually reached $341,146 in fundraising which nearly tripled their original set goal.
Rody Walker - lead vocals (2001–present)
Luke Hoskin - Lead guitar, piano, backing vocals (2001–present)
Tim Millar - Rhythm guitar, piano, backing vocals (2001–present)
Arif Mirabdolbaghi - Bass guitar, backing vocals (2001–present)
Moe Carlson - Drums (2001-present)
Kezia (2005)
Fortress (2008)
Scurrilous (2011)
Volition (2013)
A reaction intermediate or simply intermediate is a molecule that is formed during a chemical reaction.
It is not the final product, but it is something that is more like the product than the reactants.
After every step in a reaction mechanism, an intermediate is formed.
Intermediates usually stay around for a little time because they are very reactive.
However, it is important not to confuse an intermediate with a transition state.
The latter is at a point of maximum energy.
An intermediate instead is at a point of minimum energy, i.e. it is a stable molecule.
Intermediates can be isolated from a reaction if needed.
X is the intermediate.
In going from A + B to X and from X to C + D, the reaction will go through a transition state.
The Gulf of Aqaba (, transliterated: ) or Gulf of Eilat (, transliterated: ) is a wide gulf between the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and west of the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia.
The gulf is an extension of the Red Sea.
At this northern end of the Gulf are three cities: Taba in Egypt, Eilat in Israel, and Aqaba in Jordan.
The Red Sea Marine Peace Park page on Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs - a joint Israel-Jordan initiative
Erythema ab igne is a rash of the skin, which is usually caused by the long-term exposure to heat or infrared radiation, and which is not a burn.
Usually the name is abbreviated EAI.
Other names include hot water bottle rash fire stains, laptop thigh, granny's tartan and toasted skin syndrome.
Some people may complain of mild itchiness and a burning sensation.
When a change in skin pigmentation can not be seen, it is often not noticed at all.
Ayalon River (, Nahal Ayalon, Nahr el barideh or Wadi Musrara, in Arabic) is a river in central Israel.
The river starts in the Judaean Mountains and flows as a dry river from the mountains to the Ayalon Valley in the Shfela region.
After this, it flows into a floodplain in the Ayalon Park and gets filled with water.
After that it turns into a channel flowing alongside Road 20 in Tel Aviv and also a railway track beside it and flows to the Yarkon River inside the Yarkon Park at the end.
Although it appears to be a single star to the naked eye, it is actually a star system of four stars in two binary pairs.
The first pair consists of two bright, large type-G giant stars, both with a radius about 10 times the Sun's, in close orbit around each other.
These two stars are thought to be cooling and expanding on their way to becoming red giants.
The second pair, around 10,000 astronomical units from the first, consists of two faint, small and relatively cool red dwarfs.
The Capella system is relatively close, at only  from Earth.
Yarkon River (, ) is a river in central Israel that flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
The river starts in the Yarkon National Garden near Rosh HaAyin and flows past the city of Petah Tikva.
After then it flows through the Yarkon Park in the north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area beside the cities of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan, and then flows through Tel Aviv and into the Mediterranean Sea next to the Yarkon River Peninsula and the Tel Aviv Port.
The Yarkon River has a written history of 2000 years.
It is described in the Hebrew Bible as a border of the Tribe of Dan of Israelite.
Yarkon River Authority
Mountifort Longfield Conner was a South Australian politician.
He represented the electorates of Light (1871—1873) and Albert (1875).
In 1874 he was a made a Commissioner of the Goldfields Commission, which supervised mining leases in the Northern Territory.
Mount Conner in the Northern Territory was named after him by explorer William Gosse in 1873.
The Kishon River is a river in northern Israel.
It is the second biggest river of the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Israel.
The river starts in the Samaria Mountains.
It goes through the Jezreel Valley.
It goes north beside Mount Carmel.
It flows to the Mediterranean sea.
For many years, this the river was very polluted from of the factories around it.
It was the biggest polluted river in Israel.
In 2010 the Israeli government started a project to clean the river.
It built a big public urban park that will be finished within 10 years.
Kishon River Authority (Hebrew)
Greenpeace Press Release on Kishon River
Eco Park For A Green Peace
Going the Distance may also mean:
Wolf 359 is a red dwarf in the constellation Leo first measured in 1919 by Max Wolf.
About 7.8 light years from the Earth, it has an apparent magnitude of 13.5 and can only be seen with a large telescope.
Wolf 359 is one of the nearest stars to the Solar System.
Only the Alpha Centauri system (including Proxima Centauri), Barnard's Star, and WISE 1049-5319 are closer.
It is mentioned in several works of fiction.
Wolf 359 is one of the faintest and lowest-mass stars known.
At the light-emitting layer called the photosphere, it has a temperature of about 2,800 K, which is low enough for chemical compounds to form and survive.
The absorption lines of compounds such as water and titanium(II) oxide are in the spectrum.
The surface has a magnetic field which is stronger than the average magnetic field on the Sun.
As a result of magnetic activity caused by convection, Wolf 359 is a flare star that has sudden increases in luminosity for several minutes.
These flares give off strong bursts of X-ray and gamma ray radiation.
Wolf 359 is a relatively young star with an age of less than a billion years.
Annihilator was formed in 1984 by lead singer Jeff Waters.
He met John Bates and they recorded the song Annihilator together.
Waters and Bates recruited drummer Paul Malek and bassist Dave Scott into the band but Bates and Scott left a year later.
The band released their first studio album Alice in Hell on April 17, 1989.
They released their second studio album Never, Neverland on September 12, 1990.
Both Alice in Hell and Never, Neverland are considered masterpieces of Canadian heavy metal.
Jeff Waters - lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar (1984–present)
Dave Padden - vocals, guitar (2003–present)
Alberto "Al" Campuzano – bass (2010–Present)
Mike Harshaw – drums (2012–Present)
John Bates – Lead vocals (1984–1985)
Dave Scott – Bass guitar (1984–1985)
Paul Malek – Drums (1984–1985, 1986)
Richard Death – Drums (1985)
Dennis Dubeau – Lead vocals (1987–1989)
Ray Hartmann – Drums (1987–1992, 1999–2001)
Randy Rampage – Lead vocals (1989, 1998–2000)
Dave Davis – Guitar (1989–1991, 1993–2001)
Wayne Darley – Bass guitar(1989–1993)
Coburn Pharr – Lead vocals (1990–1992)
Neil Goldberg – Guitar (1992–1993)
Aaron Randall – Lead vocals (1992–1994)
Mike Mangini – Drums (1993, 2004–2005, 2007)
Randy Black – Drums (1993–1996, 2002–2003)
Cam Dixon – Bass guitar (1994–1995)
Lou Bujdoso – Bass guitar (1995–1996)
Dave Machander – Drums (1996)
Russell Bergquist – Bass guitar (1999–2003, 2005–2007)
Joe Comeau – Lead vocals (2000–2003)
Curran Murphy – Guitar (2002–2005)
Sandor de Bretan – Bass guitar (2004)
Rob Falzano – Drums (2004)
Tony Chappelle – Drusm (2005)
Alex Landenburg – Drums (2007)
Brian Daemon – Bass guitar (2007)
Carlos Cantatore - Drums (2010)
Alice in Hell (1989)
Never, Neverland (1990)
Set the World on Fire (1993)
King of the Kill (1994)
Refresh the Demon (1996)
Remains (1997)
Criteria for a Black Widow (1999)
Carnival Diablos (2001)
Waking the Fury (2002)
All for You (2004)
Schizo Deluxe (2005)
Metal (2007)
Annihilator (2010)
Gloria Loring (December 10, 1946) is an American actress and singer.
She began her career at the age of 14.
She starred in the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
She has also carried several hit songs.
Loring was born in New York City.
She was married to Alan Thicke from 1970 until they divorced in 1984.
The couple had two sons, Brennan and Robin.
Cao Yuan (; born February 7, 1995 in Beijing) is a Chinese diver.
He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's synchronized 10 metre platform, winning the gold medal.
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish movie director, producer and screenwriter.
His movies include: All About My Mother and Talk to Her.
Old Town is a part of the city of Oslo, Norway.
It is the original town settlement of Oslo.
The Norwegian royal family previously lived here.
Here were also several churches and the home for the Bishop of Oslo.
Today there are still ruins left of the old town, protected in parks.
A feral animal is one which has escaped from a domestic or captive status and is living more or less as a wild animal.
Animals which were wild before they escaped from captivity are not regarded as feral.
For example, a lion which has escaped from a zoo is not a feral animal.
Some common examples of animals with feral populations are goats, cats, and pigs.
Domesticated plants that revert to wild are usually known as escaped, introduced or naturalized rather than feral.
However, the changes seen in plants that go wild is similar to those of animals.
Some species go feral easily and successfully.
Other species usually do not usually survive in the wild.
The introduction of animals or plants to new areas may break down ecosystems.
In some cases it has caused the extinction native species.
However, returning lost species to their environment can have the opposite effect, bringing damaged ecosystems back into balance.
However, sometimes feral species may control other problem species such as rodents, harmful insects, or aggressive plants.
Examples of feral animals
The cat can easily become feral.
Feral cats are pests in both rural and urban areas.
They have seriously damaged bird, reptile and mammal populations.
As feral cats breed quickly, it is difficult to control their populations.
In rural areas,  feral cats are often shot.
More recently, the "Trap-Neuter-Return" method has been used as an alternate means of managing the feral cat population.
The dromedary camel, which has been domesticated for well over 3,000 years, will also readily go feral.
Feral camels, descended from pack animals that escaped in the 19th and early 20th centuries, thrive in the Australian interior today.
Sheep are vulnerable to predation and injury, and do not usually survive as feral animals.
However, in places where there are few predators, they get on well, for example in the case of the Soay sheep.
Water buffalo are found in the wetter parts of Western and Northern Australia.
The Australian government encourages the hunting of feral water buffalo because of their large numbers.
Cattle have been domesticated since the neolithic era, but can survive for months or even years with little or no supervision.
Their ancestors, the Aurochs, were quite fierce.
Modern cattle, especially those raised on open range, are generally more docile, but when threatened can display aggression.
Cattle, particularly those raised for beef, are often allowed to roam quite freely and have established long term independence in Australia, New Zealand and several Pacific Islands.
There are small populations of semi-feral animals living the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Such cattle are called Mavericks, Scrubbers or Cleanskins.
Most free roaming cattle, however untamed, are valuable and are usually rounded up in closely settled regions.
Horses and donkeys, domesticated about 5000 BCE, are feral in open grasslands worldwide (see feral horse).
In Portugal, feral horses are called Sorraia; in Australia, they are called Brumbies;  in the American west, they are called Mustangs.
Other isolated feral populations exist, including the Chincoteague Pony and the Banker Horse.
They are often referred to as "wild horses," but this is not correct.
There are truly "wild" horses that have never been tamed, most notably Przewalski's Horse.
While the horse was originally indigenous to North America, the wild ancestor died out at the end of the last Ice Age.
In both Australia and the Americas, modern "wild" horses have come from domesticated horses brought by European explorers and settlers that escaped, spread, and thrived.
The pig has feral populations all over the world, including Australia, New Zealand, the United States, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
Pigs were introduced to the Melanesian and Polynesian regions by humans from several thousand to five hundred years ago, and to Australia and the Americas within the past 500 years.
While pigs were brought to New Zealand by the original Polynesian settlers, this population had become extinct by the time of European settlement.
All feral pigs in New Zealand today have come from European farm animals.
Many European wild boar populations are also come from escaped domestic pigs and are technically feral animals, although they live in the native range of the ancestral species.
Colonies of honey bees often escape into the wild.
Their behavior, however, is no different from their behavior "in captivity", until and unless they breed with other feral honey bees of a different genetic stock, which may lead them to become more docile or more aggressive (see Africanized bees).
Large populatiions of feral parrots are present in various parts of the world.
The Rose-ringed Parakeets, Monk Parakeets and Red-masked Parakeets (subject of the documentary movie, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) being particularly successful outside of their native habitats and adapting well to suburban environments.
Harmful and helpful effects of feral organisms
Ecological impact
A feral population can damage an ecosystem by eating vulnerable plants or animals, or by competition with indigenous species.
Feral plants and animals are often invasive species, and can be a threat to endangered species.
Genetic pollution
Domestic animals can breed with native, wild animals.
This interbreeding can threaten the existence of the original wild population.
Examples include the mallard duck, wild boar, the rock dove or pigeon, the Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) (ancestor of all chickens), carp, and salmon.
Another example is the dingo, itself an early feral dog, which interbreeds with dogs of other origin.
However it is unlikely that this will harm the ecosystems in which these dogs live and some regard the importance of this phenomenon as disputable.
In some cases like rabbits, the interbreeding seems not to be noticed.
There is much debate over the effect of interbreeding on changes to the genes of a wild species.
Economic harm
Feral animals compete for food with domestic livestock.
They may damage fences, water sources, and vegetation (by overgrazing or introducing seeds of invasive plants).
Though hotly disputed, some cite as an example the competition between feral horses and cattle in the western United States.
Another example is of goats competing with cattle in Australia, or goats that damage trees and vegetation in environmentally-stressed regions of Africa.
Accidental crossbreeding by feral animals may result in harm to breeding programs of pedigreed animals.
Their presence may also excite domestic animals and push them to escape.
Feral populations can also pass on diseases to domestic herds.
Many feral animals can sometimes be captured at little cost and are therefore an important economic resource.
Throughout most of Polynesia and Melanesia feral pigs are the main sources of animal protein.
Prior to the Free-roaming Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act of 1971, American mustangs were often captured and sold for horsemeat.
In Australia feral goat, pig and camel meat is exported.
At certain times, animals were sometimes deliberately left to go feral, typically on islands, in order to be later recovered for profit or food use for travelers (particularly sailors) at the end of a few years.
Scientific value
Scientists can study populations of feral animals to learn about population dynamics, ecology and behavior (ethology) in a wild state of species known mainly in a domestic state.
This can give useful information for farmers.
Genetic diversity
Feral populations sometimes have or develop characteristics which do not always exist in the fully domesticated equivalent.
This helps domestic biodiversity and often deserves to be preserved, be it in their feral environment or as domestic animals.
For example, feral species that are usually subjects of eradication in certain habitats could become the subject of study to determine if there is a need for their preservation.
Cultural or historic value
National Wild Horse and Burro Program
Feral Camels , Information from Australian Department of Agriculture regarding Australia's estimated 300,000 feral camels.
Alley Cat Allies, a feral cat advocacy organization
The Panama Canal Zone () is a  former unorganized United States territory.
It is now the country of Panama.
In 1903, the territory was controlled by the United States.
As a part of the United States, the zone had several towns and military bases.
The treaty was approved by the provisional Panamanian government on December 2, 1903, and by the US Senate on February 23, 1903.
While the treaty was approved, the Panamanians received US$10 million, much of which the United States required to be invested in that country.
The Canal Zone was formally turned over by Panama on May 4, 1904, when American officials reopened the Panama City offices of the canal company and raised the American flag.
John McCain – U.S. Senator from Arizona and the Republican nominee for President for the 2008 US presidential election
The Wii Zapper is a light gun add-on for the Wii Remote made for the Wii game console.
It was first released in Japan on October 25, 2007 with Ghost Squad.
It was later released in a package with Link's Crossbow Training, a shooter video game based on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
It was released in North America on November 19, 2007, in Europe on December 7, 2007, and in Australia on December 13, 2007.
It allows players to aim at the screen and hit targets.
It is mainly used for shooter games, including first-person shooters and third-person shooters.
The name is a reference to the NES Zapper, a light gun accessory released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress.
Her movies include Jackie Brown.
She was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Agoura High School is a public high school in Agoura Hills, California, United States.
It is the largest school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, which covers the western section of Los Angeles County.
In Newsweek's 2007 poll of the best high schools in the United States, Agoura High School ranked 1173th.
The current principal of the school is Brian Mercer.
Schools in California
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British stateswoman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979–1990
A professional who installs thatch as a roofing material, i.e. by means of thatching
Thatcher baronetcy, a British baronetcy created for Denis Thatcher, the husband of Margaret Thatcher
America Iglesias Thatcher (1907–1989), Puerto-Rican labor activist
Ben Thatcher (born 1975), retired Welsh footballer
Betty Thatcher (1944–2011), English writer and lyricist
Carol Thatcher (born 1953), daughter of Margaret Thatcher
Colin Thatcher (born 1938), former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and convicted murderer
Denis Thatcher (1915–2003), husband of Margaret Thatcher
Eva Thatcher (1862–1942), American film actress
Frank Thatcher, Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana
Frederick Thatcher (1814–1890), English and New Zealand architect and clergyman
George Thatcher (1754–1824), American lawyer
Heather Thatcher (1896–1987), English actress
Henry Thatcher (1806–1880), American admiral
Henry Calvin Thatcher (1842—1884), the first Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
James Thatcher (MP) ( 1536–1565), English politician
James Thatcher, American horn player
Joe Thatcher (born 1981), American Major League Baseball pitcher
J. T. Thatcher (born 1978), American football player
Karen Thatcher (born 1984), American ice hockey player
Kim Thatcher (born 1964), American politician
Les Thatcher (born 1940), American wrestler
Mark Thatcher (born 1953), son of Margaret Thatcher
Maurice Thatcher (1870–1973), U.S. Congressman
Moses Thatcher (1842–1909), American Mormon apostle
Noel Thatcher, British paralympic athlete
Richard Thatcher (1846–1909).
American POW, and university president
Roger Thatcher (1926–2010), British statistician
Roland Thatcher (born 1977), American golfer
Ross Thatcher (1917–1971), ninth Premier of Saskatchewan
Samuel Thatcher (1776–1872), member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine
Sophie Thatcher, American actress
Torin Thatcher (1905–1981), English actor
Thatcher Szalay (born 1979), American football player
Walter Parks Thatcher, a character in the film Citizen Kane
Jeremy Thatcher, a character in the children's novel Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Judge Thatcher or Becky Thatcher, characters in Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
John Putnam Thatcher, a character in novels by Emma Lathen
Justine Thatcher, a character in the BBC Scotland drama Monarch of the Glen
Margaret Thatcher (Due South), character in the TV show Due South
William Thatcher, protagonist in the film A Knight's Tale
Mike Baker, codename Thatcher, playable character in the game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Thatcher Grey, a character in the TV show Grey's Anatomy
Thatcher, Arizona, U.S.
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Thatcher, Idaho, U.S.
Thatcher, Nebraska, U.S.
Thatcher Peninsula, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
, the name of more than one U.S. ship
Thatchers Cider, a drink
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Barbara Ann Scott (May 9, 1928 – September 30, 2012) was a Canadian figure skater.
Scott was born in Ottawa, Ontario.
She was a champion in the 1948 Winter Olympics, a two-time World Champion and a four time Canadian national champion.
She was known as "Canada's Sweetheart" when she returned.
Admirers greeted her as she returned from the 1948 Olympic games, and March 9th was then declared Barbara Ann Scott Day.
In that very same skating season, she dominated North American, European, and World championships, and did this all at a young age.
She was the only Canadian to win the Olympic ladies' singles gold medal, the first North American to win three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to win a European Championship.
Long after her victory, sixty-one years later, Scott carried the Olympic torch into the chamber before the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games.
Two months later, she carried the Olympic flag along with seven other Canadians into the Opening Ceremonies.
Barbara was a great figure skater.
It is an honor to be able to carry both the Olympic torch and the Olympic flag.
She was known well by all of the people in Ottawa, Ontario, where she was born.
Barbara was truly a wonderful figure skater for Canada in ladies’ singles (skating by themselves).
Scott died on September 30, 2012 at her home in Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Florida at age 84.
A local arena was named after her in Nepean, Ontario, as part of the Pinecrest Recreation Centre.
"Barbara Ann Scott."
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Sonic the Hedgehog CD or Sonic CD is a platformer video game created by Sega.
It is part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
It was released for the Sega CD game console in 1993.
In chronological order it is after the first game and "before the sequel."
The game involves the use of a time travel system that allows Sonic to travel to both the past and the future in a level.
Each zone has four variants: the "past," the "present," the "good future," and the "bad future."
Each has different graphics, music, enemies, and obstacles.
The game introduces two characters to the Sonic the Hedgehog series: Amy Rose, a pink female hedgehog with a hammer as a weapon, and Metal Sonic, an evil robotic version of Sonic.
Release and translation
Sonic CD was released in Japan on September 23, 1993.
It was released in Europe in October 1993.
The game was released in North America in November 1993.
Sonic CD received a lot of praise.
The Sega CD version sold more than 1.5 million copies.
It sold more copies than any other game on the Sega CD.
The graphics and sound were praised.
Electronic Games said that the game looked similar to older games.
They said it did not use the Sega CD's special features very much.
However, they said that this did not make the game worse.
They said the music was what amde Sonic CD "stand above the crowd".
The reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) said the game's animated cinematics and sound were good.
however, they said that the frame rate decreases during special stages.
The gameplay was liked.
Sega Pro said the bigger environments and the time travel added to the replay value.
They said that "the more you play Sonic CD the better it gets".
However, they said they felt the game was too easy.
In its debut issue, Sega Magazine said Sonic CD could be "a classic".
They said the originality in the special stages and time travel was great.
A card trick is something using playing cards that does not do what you think it should.
People called magicians do card tricks.
Some examples include finding a certain card in a deck of cards.
A fork bomb is a way of stopping a computer from running by making many copies of a program.
A fork bomb copies itself into more than two copies, which then copy themselves into four copies.
Then both the original and the copy will keep making copies until the computer can no longer handle it and crash.
Here, a function is defined by the name " : ".
Inside the curly braces, this function is called and its output is given again to the same function.
The " & " is used to run the process in background.
The semicolon (" ; ") marks end of the function.
The last colon (" : ") calls the function for first time.
After that the function keeps on calling itself until computer runs out of memory.
The Count of Segni lived in Anagni when his son Ugolino was born.
The exact date of this birth is not known, but it was around 1145.
Ugolino was a nephew of Pope Innocent III.
Cardinal di Conti was elected pope in 1227.
He chose to be called Pope Gregory.
"Gregory IX", Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Gregory IX
Tutu is a common name of Māori origin for plants in the genus Coriaria (Coriariaceae) found in New Zealand.
Coriaria angustissima
Coriaria arborea
Coriaria lurida
Coriaria plumosa
Coriaria pteridoides
Coriaria sarmentosa
They are shrubs or trees; some are endemic to New Zealand.
Most of the plant parts are poisonous, containing the neurotoxin tutin.
Both the seeds and sap of tutu are highly poisonous, resulting in many cattle deaths in the early days of European settlement.
After removing the poisonous seeds, Māori people prepared a drink from the fruit, which they often boiled with a type of seaweed (rimu).
The resulting jelly (rehia) was then fermented.
Honey containing tutin can be produced by honey bees feeding on honeydew produced by sap-sucking vine hopper insects (Scolypopa australis) feeding on tutu.
The toxin is in the sap of the Tutu bush.
This sap is eaten by the hoppers, but not all is digested.
The undigested sap which contains a lot of plant sugars as well as tutin is excreted as honeydew onto the leaves of the bush.
Bees then gather the honeydew and toxic honey is the result.
The last recorded deaths from eating honey containing tutin were in Northland, New Zealand, in 1890, although sporadic outbreaks of toxic honey poisoning continue to occur.
Melanie Ann Amaro (born June 26, 1992) is an American singer.
She won the first season of The X Factor USA in 2011.
For winning, she got a $5 million recording contract with Syco Music and Epic Records.
Amaro was also the youngest contestant to win the competition.
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (January 1, 1922 – April 6, 2019) was an American politician.
Hollings served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina (1959–1963) and the 77th Lieutenant Governor (1955–1959).
He served 38 years and 55 days in the Senate, which makes him the 8th-longest-serving Senator in history.
Hollings was born on January 1, 1922 in Charleston, South Carolina.
He studied at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Governor of South Carolina
As governor of South Carolina from January 20, 1959 to January 15, 1963, Hollings worked to improve the state's educational system, helping to bring more industry and employment opportunities to the state.
His term in office saw the establishment of the state's technical education system and its educational television network.
He also called for and achieved significant increases in teachers' salaries, bringing them closer to the regional average.
At the 1961 Governor's Conference on Business, Industry, Education and Agriculture in Columbia, S.C., he declared, "Today, in our complex society, education is the cornerstone upon which economic development must be built--and prosperity assured."
For 36 years (until January 2003), he served alongside Republican Strom Thurmond, making them the longest-serving Senate duo ever.
This made him the longest-serving junior senator ever, even though he had more seniority than all but a few of his colleagues.
Thurmond and Hollings generally had a good relationship despite their sometimes sharp philosophical differences, and frequently collaborated on legislation and projects to benefit South Carolina.
Only Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, Carl Hayden, John Stennis and Ted Stevens served longer in the Senate than Hollings.
Hollings remained very popular in South Carolina over the years, even as the state became increasingly friendly to Republicans at the national level.
In his first three bids for a full term, he never dropped below 60 percent of the vote.
In the 1992 election, however, he faced an unexpectedly close race against former Congressman Tommy Hartnett in what was otherwise a very good year for Democrats nationally.
Hartnett had represented the Charleston area in Congress from 1981 to 1987, thus making him Hollings' congressman.
His appeal in the Lowcountry — traditionally a swing region at the state level — enabled him to hold Hollings to only 50 percent of the vote.
In his last Senate race in 1998, Hollings faced Republican congressman Bob Inglis.
One of the more heated and notable moments of the race was a newspaper interview in which Hollings referred to Inglis as a "goddamn skunk".
Hollings was re-elected 52%-45%.
Presidential candidate
Hollings tried to seek the Democratic lead running mate during the 1984 Presidential race.
He lost to Walter Mondale.
Hollings was married to Martha Patricia Salley until they divorced.
Then he was married to Rita Liddy from 1971 until her death in 2012.
He had four children with Patricia.
He lived in Charleston, South Carolina.
Hollings died on April 6, 2019 at his home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina.
He was 97.
The Papers of Fritz Hollings at the University of South Carolina
"Fritz Hollings: In His Own Words," an online collection of documents from the Papers of Fritz Hollings at the University of SC
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/weekinreview/19bigp.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Center for Responsive Politics figures on Hollings' funding
Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina
Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore racial, sexual, and class matters in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnamable tensions with personal identity, something taken for granted, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.
Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.
He studied at DeWitt Clinton High School and at The New School.
Baldwin was gay.
He married and had no children.
Baldwin died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France from esophageal cancer, aged 63.
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Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin's Uncollected Writings" April 13, 2011.
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Southernspaces.org" March 11, 2008.
Southern Spaces
James Baldwin Photographs and Papers  Selected manuscripts, correspondence, and photographic portraits from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
Comprehensive Resource of James Baldwin Information
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket distributed by California Newsreel
Pest control is as old as agriculture, as there has always been a need to keep crops free from pests.
In order to get best results from food production there was always need to protect crops from competing plants trying to kill the crops to grow in its place.
Managing or controlling pests can be done with a number of methods.
Killing them is often done (using the services of an exterminator or doing it yourself), but there are methods of humane pest control available too.
These include using sound to deter or repel pests and making changes around the property to prevent pests from entering.
Insects and wildlife enter buildings primarily to seek food, shelter, and warmth.
The areas typically affected are the attic, the basement, and the roof.
Homeowners can do some things to help ensure we don't provide an environment that's attractive to pests.
Happy Wheels is a browser game created by Jim Bonacci in 2010.
The game features several playable characters who use different, sometimes unique vehicles to travel the game levels.
The game is best known for its violence and the amount of user-generated content its players create.
Up - Push arms above the head and straighten legs.
Down - Curl into ball.