the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
modified 1967 Camaro and 2014 Chevrolet Camaro concept.
Robert Foxworth - Ratchet, the Autobots' medical officer.
John Goodman  - Hound, an Autobot commando.
James Remar - Sideswipe, the Autobots' combat instructor.
John DiMaggio - Crosshairs, an Autobot paratrooper.
Ken Watanabe - Drift, an Autobot tactician , former Decepticon.
Reno Wilson voices Brains, a Decepticon drone turned Auto.
Frank Welker - Galvatron, A human-made Transforme.
Decepticon leader.
Mark Ryan -  Lockdown.
A Decepticon bounty hunter.
Bay said that filming had begun on May 28, 2013, in Monument Valley, Utah.
Detroit, was used for scenes in Hong Kong.
McCormick Place in Chicago, was was used for a city in China.
The movie was the first movie to be shot using smaller digital IMAX 3D cameras.
From May 28 to June 24, 2013, Michael Bay uploaded pictures of several cars used in the movie.
He uploaded them to social networks  including Facebook and Flickr.
On October 29, Michael Bay's  Twitter account tweeted that main photography of Transformers 4 had ended in Hong Kong  The cast and crew went to the main land for another week of filming Additional filming in Detroit began in early 2014.
Ehren Kruger will wrote the script and Steve Jablonsky wrote the music the movie.
The 2013 Stockholm riots started on May 19, 2013 in the Husby area of Stockholm, Sweden.
The riots led to several injuries.
They happened in response to the fatal shooting of a 69-year-old man by Stockholm police.
The incident was ongoing as of May 28.
Stockholm riots
2010s in Stockholm
Folkstory biography
North Dakota State University is a university in Fargo.
This school was established in 1890 as the North Dakota Agricultural College.
The school name was changed to North Dakota State University around 1960.
1890s establishments in North Dakota
Quail [pronounced Kwāl] is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the order Galliformes.
The birds in this group are often referred to as "fowl".
Old World quail are in the family Phasianidae, and New World quail are found in the family Odontophoridae.
Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption, and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they may be released to supplement the wild population, or extend into areas outside their natural range.
Quail are also raised as pets.
Quail forever
Carl Heinrich Bloch (23 May 1834 – 22 February 1890) was a Danish painter.
Bloch studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Today he is mostly known for the Genre and History painting he did.
The Aérospatiale SA-321 Super Frelon is a transport and ASW helicopter designed and built in France.
It's built under chineses licence like Avicopter AC313.
Edward Winslow (1595 – May 8, 1655) traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 so he could practice his own religion which was not allowed in England.
Winslow helped to organize the voyage to the New World and was a leader at Plymouth Colony.
He signed the Mayflower Compact
Edward Winslow was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire England.
His parents were Edward and Magdalene Winslow.
In 1613 Winslow was apprenticed to a London printer.
Winslow became a Separatist which was a religion that did not believe in the Church of England.
It was illegal to be a Separatist in England, so in 1617 Edward Winslow moved to Leiden, Netherlands where he worked with William Brewster.
They started to print religious booklets which were critical of the English king and his bishops.
The English King ordered Brewster’s arrest, and he was forced to hide.
The Separatists were planning to move to America and they need leaders to plan the voyage.
Thomas Weston helped them by providing the ship Mayflower for their journey.
Winslow's brother Gilbert and family servant George Soule and a youth, Elias Story went with him.
Elinor (Ellen) More, a girl of eight years, also went with them Elinor died in the winter of 1620 with only one brother Richard More surviving.
Mayflower Voyage
Edward Winslow left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620.
On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower spotted land at Cape Cod hook.
Winslow signed the Mayflower Compact.
The men went to land to explore a place where they all could live.
One of the missions included William Bradford, John Carver, Myles Standish, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Richard Warren, Stephen Hopkins and Edwary Doty.
Bradford wrote that they set off in freezing weather and many of the men were ill.
He said  that "when the set sail the salt spray froze on their coats, as
if they had been glazed".
Of this group Hopkins was the most experienced, having seen Native Americans during his time at Jamestown.
During their trip they saw Native Americans who were cutting up a large whale.
Plymouth Colony lost over half of its population because of sickness, lack of proper food and the cold winter.
With the help of friendly Native Americans, they learned to grow food.
In 1621, Winslow and the others attended what would have the first Thanksgiving.
The next year they were able to load the ship Fortune with furs and other supplies.
This was to pay the men would helped pay for the trip to the New World.
On the return trip, the Mayflower was attacked by the French and all the cargo was taken.
On February 21, 1621, William White died leaving a widow, Susanna, and two sons, Resolved and Peregrine.
Edward Winslow had lost his wife Elizabeth on March 24, 1621.
In 1621, Edward Winslow and Susanna White became the first couple to marry in Plymouth Colony.
They had 5 children: A (child) who died young, Edward Winslow, Josiah Winslow and Elizabeth.
Josiah became the 13th Governor of Plymouth Colony.
Winslow had a friendship with native leader Massasoit.
These Native Americans were friendly and helped the Pilgrims.
In January 1629 a fishing and trading post opened up on the Kennebec River near Plymouth Colony.
Isaac Allerton also opened his own trading post there and this caused problems between the two men.
Winslow was a diplomat and a spokesperson for the Pilgrims with English officials.
Winslow was a governor in 1634, 1636 and 1644 and was a member of the United Colonies of New England.
This was a military group which protected the pilgrims against unfriendly Native Americans.
England had a civil war in the 1640s.
Some pilgrims returned to fight against the King.
In 1646, Winslow began working for Oliver Cromwell.
Winslow never returned to Plymouth Colony.
In 1654, Winslow fought against the Spanish in the West Indies.
They won the battle but Winslow became ill and died from yellow fever.
Winslow Cemetery in Marshfield, Massachusetts has a stone monument which lists the names of the Winslow family.
There is another memorial stone w/plaque stating "Edward Winslow, Founder of Marshfield".
Edward Winslow's first wife Elizabeth Barker Winslow was buried in 1621 in the Cole's Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Massachusetts.<ref>Memorial for Edward Winslow [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=15048246&page=gr]</ref>
Reprint of the original version.
J. D. Bangs's 'Pilgrim Edward Winslow: New England's First International Diplomat (Boston, 2004);
Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project "Archaeology of the Edward Winslow Site" www.plymoutharch.com
Also see a paper by W. C. Winslow, Governor Edward Winslow, his Place and Part in Plymouth Colony, in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1895'' (Washington, 1896)
See Egerton Ryerson's The Loyalists of America and Their Times for evidence of the differences between the Pilgrim Fathers (Plymouth Rock) and the Puritan Fathers (Massachusetts Bay) with respect to loyalty to the Crown, tolerance of other religions, and treatment of the Native Peoples, and how this schism continued right up to and during the American Revolution.
The Mayflower Society
Martial law is when a government temporarily imposes the control of the military on an emergency basis, such as foreign invasion, rioting, or natural disaster.
It is usually imposed if the civilian government fails to function properly.
Military forces may be deployed for various purposes such as to stop looting, maintain order, impose a curfew, and secure buildings of the government.
The cricket teams of Bangladesh and Canada have competed against each other in ODIs since 2003 World Cup.
They have met on 2 occasions.
Bangladesh and Canada both won in 1 games
Canada national cricket team
Saturnalia is an extinct genus of basal prosauropod  dinosaur from the Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
The deposits are dated to the early Upper Triassic, about 225 million years ago (mya).
The dinsaur grew to about 1.5 meters (5 ft) long.
The primitive nature of Saturnalia, and its mixture of sauropodomorph and theropod characteristics, has made it difficult to classify.
The first (1999) description of the genus assigned it to the Sauropodomorpha.
However, in a 2003 paper, Langer noted that features of its skull and hand were more similar to the sister group of sauropodomorphs, the theropods, and that Saturnalia could be considered a member of the sauropodomorph "stem-lineage", rather than a true member of that group.
José Bonaparte and colleagues, in a 2007 study, found Saturnalia to be very similar to the primitive saurischian Guaibasaurus.
Bonaparte placed the two in the same family, Guaibasauridae.
Like Langer, Bonaparte found that these forms may have been primitive sauropodomorphs, or an assemblage of forms close to the common ancestor of the sauropodomorphs and theropods.
Overall, Bonaparte found that both Saturnalia and Guaibasaurus were more theropod-like than prosauropod-like.
However, all more recent cladistic analyses found it to be a very basal sauropodomorph,
Year 360 (CCCLX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Iulianus (or, less often, year 1113 Ab urbe condita).
The number 360 for this year has been used since the early Middle Ages, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the main method in Europe for naming years.
February – Julian, Roman Caesar, is proclaimed emperor by the Gallic legions in Lutetia (modern Paris) at the Thermes de Cluny.
They refuse to support the eastern campaign against king Shapur II of Persia and revolted.
The Alamanni raid Raetia (Switzerland), but are pushed back behind the Rhine and into the Black Forest by Julian.
King Shapur II continues his campaign against the Roman fortresses.
His armies capture Singara, Bezabde and Nisibis.
Emperor Constantius II and Julian send several letters to each other.
They are both hoping to avoid a civil war.
Thousands of Huns invade Europe.
They spread terror as they take over territories held for generations by Alans, Heruls, Ostrogoths and Visigoths.
Japan begins a 30-year period of great influence in Korea.
Roman authorities in Britain export wheat to supply the legions on the Rhine.
They have encouraged production of wheat for that purpose.
First Council of Constantinople: Emperor Constantius II requested a church council, at Constantinople, and both the eastern and western bishops attend the meeting.
Wulfila also attends the council and endorses the resulting creed.
After the council, several homoiousian bishops are deposed or banished, including Macedonius I of Constantinople and Cyril of Jerusalem.
John Cassian, Desert Father and Christian saint (approximate date)
Saint Mesrob, Armenian monk and theologian (approximate date)
Saint Ninian, missionary to Scotland (approximate date)
Tao Sheng, Chinese Buddhist scholar (approximate date)
Wang Fahui, empress during the Jin Dynasty (d. 380)
Eustathius of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (approximate date)
Murong Jun, emperor of the Former Yan (b. 319)
Misery is a 1990 American psychological horror thriller movie set in Colorado.
It is based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name.
The movie stars James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Frances Sternhagen, and Richard Farnsworth.
It was directed by Rob Reiner.
Bates plays an abusive woman psychopath who imprisons and tortures a novelist (Caan) in her rural home.
She does this after he accidentally crashes his car and she pretends that she is going to look after him until he recovers from his injuries.
Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The movie was well received by critics and audiences.
King has stated that Misery is one of his top ten favorite movie adaptations.
Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921-2009) was a British colonel.
He started the Abu Dhabi Defense Force.
He was also really good friends with Sheikh Zayed.
He was born on January 18, 1921 in West Hartepool, Yorkshire in England.
His birth name was Edward Bearby Wilson.
Tug was a nickname.
He attended Constantine College.
In 1945 he was a wireless operator at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He liked to play rugby and cricket.
Military work
He started working in the Worcestershire Regiment.
He then worked for the 1st Battalion of the British Army of the Rhine.
Then he worked for the 2nd Division Signal Regiment.
He was a part of the Berlin airlift and the Malayan Emergency.
He went to Korea and in 1952 moved to Hara Mura, Japan to teach British soldiers at the Battle School.
A grenade blew up while he was teaching soldiers and he hurt his shoulder.
He became a Major.
In 1961 he started looking over a squadron of the Trucial Oman Scouts.
He was working at the Buraimi Oasis, Al Ain.
He became good friends with Sheikh Zayed after the Sheikh became ruler of the United Arab Emirates.
During this time Wilson founded the Abu Dhabi Defense Force.
He was leader of that force until 1968.
He left Abu Dhabi in 1969.
He started teaching at the Old Royal Naval College.
Then he taught at the Staff College, Camberley.
He retired from the Army in 1971.
He started a trout fish farm.
Wilson then moved back to Abu Dhabi, at the invitation of Sheikh Zayed, to run the royal stables.
He ran the stables until the Sheikh died.
He participated in the London To Peking Motor Challenge in 1990.
He was awarded the Abu Dhabi Award.
He died on January 2, 2009.
The term Black hair refers to the darkest of all human hair colors.
It is a dominant and genetic trait, and found in people of all ethnic groups.
Caucasian people with black hair are usually referred to as brunettes.
Black hair carries extreme amounts of eumelanin and is less dense than the other hair colors.
Mekelle (, ) or Mekele a city in Ethiopia.
It is the capital city of the Tigray Region.
It is in the north of the region.
It had 219,818 people as of 2012.
The city was founded in the 13th century according to historians.
It was one of the major cities of Enderta province.
It was chosen as the capital of Yohannes IV's realm.
There was a riot that broke out between Ethiopian Orthodox and Adventist worshipers on 29 December 2002.
The riot resulted in five deaths and three others were seriously injured.
The city is one of the country's principal economic and educational centers.
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Gazi (; about 1437 – 1513) was a mathematician from the Maghreb.
He wrote poems about the work of other mathematicians, including Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi.
He used lattice multiplication in his math writing.
African scientists
Moroccan scientists
Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka is a Buddhist canon from the Jin Dynasty.
It is written in the Chinese language.
It was first called the Jin Triptaka.
It was written at the Tianning Temple around the year 1149.
A woman named Cui Fazhen and some of her friends gave the money to make the book.
Kublai Khan brought it to the Guangsheng Temple.
It was found there in 1933.
The canon was renamed Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka because the Guangsheng Temple is located in Zhaocheng.
The canon has about 7,000 chapters.
It's the biggest book published in the Jin Dynasty.
It has some canons and sections that are not found in later copies of the book.
Massasoit  (c. 15811661),
was the Native American leader of the Wampanoag and "Massasoit" tribes.
His name means Great Leader.
Massasoit was born in a Pokanoket village at the site of today's Rhode Island.
His village was near a spring of water which is named after him.
He was liked by seven leaders.
In March 1621, a Native American named Samoset entered Plymouth Colony and said to the Pilgrims in English, "Welcome Englishmen".
He had learned some words from the English fishermen and traders that had visited his tribe.
He said he was sent by Massasoit, “the greatest leader of the country.”
After a few days, Massasoit came in person and was received with great friendship.
Massasoit made a treaty with the Pilgrims.
They promised to protect each other against unfriendly Native Americans.
They  promised not to hurt each other.
They also promised to help each other as friends.
Massasoit told the pilgrims that there was much sickness where the colonist were now living and that many had died.
The treaty was kept as long as Massasoit lived.
Massasoit helped the people of Plymouth Colony in many ways, including how to plant corn.
He became friends with the all of the colonial leaders.
During this time, Massasoit had five children.
His oldest son, "Moanam" or Wamsutta, died within a year after his father, and his brother Metacom (Philip) became chief in 1662.
There was some bad feeling for a time when the Plymouth leaders refused to give up Squanto to Massasoit.
He believe that Squanto had betrayed him.
This was settled when Edward Winslow visited him in March 1623.
Massasoit was ill and Winslow took care of him.
After he got better, Massasoit said the English are my friends and love me.
He also said that while he lives he would never forget the kindness they have showed me."
The Wampanoag and the English maintained a friendship until Massasoit's death.
During this time, Massasoit sold lands to the English that they needed.
When Roger Williams, was sent away from the Massachusetts colony, he spent many weeks with Massasoit.
Massasoit was friendly and honest and always kept his word.
He warned the pilgrims of any Native Americans who were not their friends.
Massasoit died as early as 1660.
When he died, his son Wamsutta became chief.
When Wamsutta died Metacom (Philip) took his place.
Of Massasoit's five children, the only child to survive King Philip's War in 1676 was his daughter, Amie, wife of Tispaquin.
"Native People" (page), "Massasoit (Ousamequin) Sachem" (section), MayflowerFamilies.com, webpage: MFcom-Native .
Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, New York 2006.
Massasoit was a character in "The Mayflower Voyagers", a 1988 episode of the Peanuts television series, This is America, Charlie Brown.
At the beginning of the 1995 movie adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Massasoit dies and his tribe cremates him.
People from Rhode Island
Albrecht Altodorfer was a German painter, engraver and builder of the Renaissance.
He was probably born around the year 1480, in Altdorf, Lower Bavaria, or Regensburg.
He died on 12 February 1538 in Regensburg.
Together with Wolf Huber, he is seen as one of the main people in the Danube school.
The danube school was an art movement that spread along the Danube, in Germany and Austria.
With Albrecht Dürer he founded the Little Masters (original: Kleinmeister) of Nuremberg.
Benjamin Ray "Ben" Bailey (born October 30, 1970) is an American comedian, taxicab driver, and game show host.
He is best known as the host of the Discovery Channel game show Cash Cab.
He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States.
Bailey was the host of Cash Cab, a television game show played in a taxi that Bailey drives around New York City, from 2005 until the show's end in 2012.
He was nominated for an "Outstanding Game Show Host" award at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
He won in 2010 and 2011.
He was also the host of the 2011 NBC game show Who's Still Standing?.
Ben Bailey's official website
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 drama movie about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America.
Directed by Richard Brooks, the movie is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis and stars Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons.
Actor Pat Hingle was originally cast as Elmer Gantry.
After he was injured from a 54-foot fall down an elevator shaft, the part was given to Lancaster.
Lancaster won an Academy Award for his role.
1960s action movies
Movies directed by Richard Brooks
Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American Western movie directed by Ted Post and produced and co-written by Leonard Freeman.
It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives being hanged, Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him, Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that tried to hang him, and Pat Hingle as the judge who hires Jed as a US Marshal.
Movies directed by Ted Post
Body Language is the ninth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
It was recorded during the summer of 2003 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain, and released on 20 November 2003 by Parlophone.
The album contains three official singles, "Slow", "Red Blooded Woman" and "Chocolate".
Body Language on Kylie Minogue's official website
Alarcón was born in Quito.
He was head of the Congress from 1991 to 1992 and then again from August 1995 to February 1997, when he was made acting president due to the impeachment of President Abdalá Bucaram.
Gustavo José Joaquín Noboa Bejarano (21 August 1937 – 16 February 2021) was an Ecuadorian politician.
He was the 42nd President of Ecuador from 22 January 2000 to 15 January 2003.
Before, he was the Vice President during Jamil Mahuad's government from 1998 to 2000.
Noboa was born on 21 August 1937 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
He was married to María Isabel Baquerizo.
In March 2006, Noboa was put under house arrest for mishandling Ecuador's foreign debt.
James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English movie director, theatre director, and actor.
He is best remembered for his horror movies.
These include Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
He also directed the movie musical Show Boat (1936).
Whale was born into a large family.
Early on, he discovered his artistic talent and studied art.
With the outbreak of World War I, Whale joined the British Army.
He became an officer.
He was captured by the Germans.
During his time as a prisoner of war, he became interested in theatre.
After the war, he became an actor, set designer, and director.
He moved to the United States to direct a Broadway play, and then moved to Hollywood to direct movies.
Whale lived in Hollywood for the rest of his life with his longtime companion, producer David Lewis.
Whale directed a dozen movies for Universal Studios between 1930 and 1936, developing a style influenced by German Expressionism.
After string of movies failures, Whale's directing career was over by 1941.
He continued to direct for the stage, painted, and travelled.
His retirement years were comfortable until strokes in 1956 left him in pain.
Whale committed suicide on 29 May 1957 by drowning himself in his backyard swimming pool.
Suicides in the United States
Cash Cab is an American television game show.
It airs on the Discovery Channel.
It started on December 5, 2005, and ended 2012.
It is hosted by Ben Bailey.
It takes place in New York City.
Potential contestants enter a taxi driven by Bailey.
When they get in and say where they want to go, they are made aware that they are in the Cash Cab through ceiling lights and music, followed by Bailey's greeting.
They are then asked if they want to play.
If they do not want to play, they can get out of the taxi.
If they do want to play, they have to stay in the taxi until they reach where they want to go or get three strikes.
Contestants who play are asked a series of questions by Bailey.
The first four questions are worth $50, the next four are worth $100, and questions after that are worth $200.
In the first two seasons, the questions were worth $25, $50, and $100.
If a contestant answers a question wrong, they get a strike.
If the contestant gets three strikes, they have to get out of the taxi no matter where they are.
Contestants have two helps known as "Shout-Outs."
The first Shout-Out is the Mobile Shout-Out, which lets the contestant call someone they know for help.
The call can take up to 15 seconds.
The other Shout-Out is the Street Shout-Out, where Bailey pulls over the taxi, and the contestant can ask someone on the street for help.
When the taxi has to stop at a red light and the contestant has at least $200, a "Red Light Challenge" is played.
A question will be given that has more than one correct answer.
The contestant has 30 seconds to give all of the correct answers to the question.
If the contestant does so, they get $250.
If the 30 second time limit runs out, the contestant doesn't get a strike.
Most games have only one Red Light Challenge, but starting in the fourth season, some games have more than one.
The second is played if the contestant has at least $1,000.
If the contestant gets to where they wanted to go without getting three strikes, they have a choice: they can leave the taxi and keep the money they won, or risk it on a Video Bonus question.
If they decide to play the Video Bonus question, a clip is played, and a question is asked based on it.
If the contestant answers correctly, their money is doubled.
If they give a wrong answer, they lose all of their money.
Starting in the fourth season, some games are Double Ride games.
The first four questions are worth $100, the next four are worth $200, and questions after are worth $400.
The Red Light Challenge is worth $500.
In 2007, a spin-off, Cash Cab: After Dark, started.
Contestants were picked up near or after sunset, as well as overnight.
The questions were worth double the amount of Cash Cab, and the questions were harder.
Another spin-off, Cash Cab: Chicago, started during Cash Cab'''s sixth season.
It was hosted by Beth Melewski and used the same rules as the New York Cash Cab''.
Ayelet Zurer (born 28 June 1969) is an Israeli actress.
She is known for her roles in Angels & Demons, Fugitive Pieces, and in Man of Steel.
She was bron in Tel Aviv.
Zurer was born to a Jewish family.
She has been married to Gilad Londovski since 2003.
Ayelet Zurer at Theiapolis.com
Ayelet Zurer at E-Online
Antje Traue (born January 18, 1981) is a German actress.
She is known for her roles in Pandorum, Kleinruppin Forever, 5 Days of War, and in Man of Steel.
Traue was born on January 18, 1981, in Mittweida, Saxony, Germany.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), often known simply as Gurrumul, was an indigenous Australian musician.
He was best known as a singer.
Most of his songs are sung in Galpu, Gumatj or Djambarrpuyngu, which are all languages of the Yolngu people of northeastern Arnhem Land.
He plays the guitar, drums, keyboards and yidaki (didgeridoo).
Gurrumul was born at Galiwin'ku, on Elcho Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land.
He belongs to the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu, and his mother is from the Galpu clan.
He was born blind.
Although a few of his songs are written and sung in English, he does not speak the language.
He is also said to be very shy, and does not normally speak during performances.
Gurrumul was a founding member of the band Yothu Yindi.
He played in this band for almost ten years, until 1995.
He formed Saltwater Band a few years later and remains their lead singer.
He released his first solo album, Gurrumul, in 2008.
It was highly successful, and won several awards.
It peaked at #3 on the ARIA Charts and #1 on the independent chart.
Gurrumul was nominated for four ARIA awards, and won two of them (Best World Music Album and Best Independent Release).
He also won three Deadly Awards: Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Gurrumul and Single of the Year for "Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind)".
At the Independent Music Awards, he won Best New Independent Artist, as well as Best Independent Release and Best Independent Blues/Roots Release for Gurrumul.
He won the award for Best Independent Blues and Roots Album again in 2011, for Rrakala.
Yunupingu died at Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory on 25 July 2017 of kidney and liver failure.
He was aged 46.
Gurrumul (2008)
Rrakala (2011)
Video of Gurrumul performing at YouTube
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu  at Skinny Fish Music
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu  at the Black Arm Band Company
Looptroop Rockers is a reggae, hiphop and electro band from Västerås, Sweden, they sing in both English and Swedish but mostly English.
The band's former name was just Looptroop.
The band has 9 albums and some EPs.
The members of the group are Promoe, Supreme.
Embee and CosM.I.C, the producers is DvsG (David vs. Goliath) and Burning Heart Records.
The band were created in 1991 by Promoe and Embee, the band was complete in 1996.
Now it’s the biggest Swedish export in Hiphop.
2000 – Modern Day City Symphony (2LP/CD)
2000 – Modern Day City Symphony Instrumentals (LP)
2002 – The Struggle Continues (2LP/CD)
2002 – The Struggle Continues Instrumentals (LP)
2005 – Fort Europa (2LP/CD)
2005 – Fort Europa Instrumentals (LP)
2008 – Good Things (2LP/CD)
2011 – Professional Dreamers (2LP/CD)
2013 – Mitt Hjärta Är En Bomb (2LP/CD)
Don't Hate the Player (2002)
Fly Away (2002)
Looptroopland (2002)
Long Arm of the Law (2000)
Ambush in the Night (1999)
Schlook from Birth (1998)
Heads or Tails (1998)
From Beyond K-Line (1998)
The Way Beyond (1998, mixtape)
From the Waxcabinet (1996)
Unsigned Hype (1997)
Punx Not Dead (1999, MC)
From the Waxcabinet (1996, MC)
Threesicksteez (1995, MC)
Superstars (1993, MC)
An eyespot is a simple organ in biology used to detect light.
It may be called an ocellus, or pigment pit.
They are quite common in small, simple invertebrates, such as Planaria.
They do not have lenses or any means of focussing.
Therefore, they can sense light from dark, but do not give the animal a visual scene as our eyes do.
In many simple animals the eyespot senses light with a pigment molecule called an opsin.
Then a nerve fibre goes from the eyespot to the simple nervous system.
This allows the animal to move in response to (for example) a shadow passing over it.
Eyespots also occur in single-celled protists like Euglena and Chlamydomonas, where it is connected to the flagellum.
This allows the information from the light patch to influence the cells's movement.
The first fossils of eyes that have been found to date are from the early Cambrian period (about 540 million years ago).
This period saw a burst of apparently rapid evolution, called the "Cambrian explosion".
One idea is that the evolution of eyes started an arms race which led to a rapid spate of evolution.
Much earlier than this organisms would have used light spots for light sensitivity, but did not have a visual scene for rapid navigation.
Koenigsegg Automotive AB is a Swedish company that makes cars.
They make "super cars", a mixture of sports cars and a fast cars.
The main office is in Ängelholm, Sweden.
The creator and manager of Koenigsegg is Christian E. H. von Koenigsegg.
In 1994 he created Koenigsegg as a small company, after years of planning.
The designer David Crafoord designed the concept car for Koenigsegg's original drawings.
Then, they built a prototype that could be driven.
They tested the car for several years and developed it further.
In 2002, the company started the series production of the model CC 8S. Koenigsegg CC 8S was named by the Guinness Book of Records for the world's most powerful car with its 1,050 horsepower.
Koenigsegg's fastest car is Koenigsegg 2013 Agera R. It can go up to 440 km/h (273 mph).
In 14,5 seconds the car can go up to 300 km/h (186 mph).
Koenigsegg website
Managed motorways in the United Kingdom are motorways which use active traffic management.
Their aim is to increase traffic capacity at times of peak traffic flow.
They use variable speed limits and hard shoulder running at busy times.
A "hard shoulder" is an inner lane which in normal times is only used for emergencies.
Active traffic management was first used in 2005.
The system is now in operation on sections of the M1, M4, M6, and M42, and there are proposals for its use on sections of the M5, M25, M60 and M62.
Benefits include smoother traffic flows, more reliable journey times, fewer road traffic collisions, and reduced noise and harmful vehicle emissions.
Where only variable speed limits are used, it is called a controlled motorway.
M1 motorway - a UK motorway
Apple M1 - a octa-core system-on-a-chip designed by Apple
Mooreana trichoneura is commonly known as the 'yellow flat'.
It is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
It has a wingspan of 32-36mm.
Butterflies like this are called 'flats' because they fly quickly and usually rest on the underside of a leaf with their wings open flat.
Its host plant is Mallotus paniculatus, in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
The yellow flat is usually found in lowland forests up to 833m (2500ft).
The yellow flat has a wide distribution.
It ranges from India to Thailand to Malaysia and can even be found in the Philippines.
In the 4th quarter of 2012, it was discovered in Singapore.
Kiddush () is a blessing said by Jews at the start of Shabbat and holiday meals.
The term is also used to refer to a light meal served in the synagogue after the long Shabbat and holiday morning prayers.
The word comes from a Hebrew root meaning "holy".
Kiddush at the evening Shabbat meal
There are many things Jews do to celebrate Shabbat [see Shabbat (Celebrating Shabbat)].
The minimum way to celebrate is to say the blessing "Blessed are You, God, Who makes Shabbat holy."
The Talmud adds that the blessing should be said with a cup of wine.
This is because wine makes people feel happy.
Because of this, the Friday evening meal in a Jewish home starts with a ceremony to say this blessing over a cup of wine.
In traditional homes, the blessing is said in the Hebrew language.
This is a Simple English translation of the blessing.
Words in italics like this are added to explain the Hebrew.
Kiddush at the morning (or noon) Shabbat meal
There is a different version of Kiddush for the Shabbat morning (or noon) meal.
This ceremony makes the meal feel more special.
For the morning Kiddush, a person says verses from the Torah about Shabbat.
These verses are usually from  and .
The person ends with the same blessing over the wine:
Kiddush at the third Shabbat meal
Most Jews do not say Kiddush at the third Shabbat meal.
However, Maimonides ruled that they should do so.
The text for this Kiddush includes .
That verse is the source of the law to have three meals on Shabbat.
Kiddush in the synagogue
Kiddush is also said in the synagogue.
This does not replace saying Kiddush at home before the meal.
Evening Kiddush.
In many synagogues, Kiddush is said at the end of Friday evening prayers.
This has been done since the Middle Ages.
At that time, people who were traveling often ate and slept at the synagogue on Shabbat.
Kiddush was said in the synagogue before they ate their Friday night Shabbat meal.
In modern times, Kiddush is still said in the synagogue Friday night.
This is done even if a meal is not served in the synagogue that night.
Morning Kiddush.
In almost all synagogues, a snack or light meal is served after Saturday morning prayers.
This meal is called "Kiddush", because it starts with the morning Kiddush.
There are two reasons for this snack or meal:
It is not allowed to eat before morning prayers,  but Shabbat morning prayers are long.
People are hungry by the end of them.
People are not allowed to fast on Shabbat, even for a half-day.
This snack or meal helps people have some food before noon if prayers are long.
Kiddush on important Jewish holidays
Passover (first and last days)
Sukkot (first day[s])
Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah
The holiday texts are different from the Shabbat texts.
The blessings are said in the same way and at the same time of day as on Shabbat, but there are two differences:
On the first night(s) of Passover, Kiddush is not said in the synagogue.
Kiddush is said at home those nights over the first of four cups of wine at the Seder.
On the fast of Yom Kippur, Kiddush is not said, even on Shabbat.
This is because eating and drinking are not allowed.
The law about "celebrating" Shabbat is satisfied by the evening prayers that night.
The Kiddush cup
Jews usually use a fancy cup for Kiddush.
The most common material for this cup is silver.
Other materials are also used.
These include ceramic, glass and wood.
The most important part of the custom is for the cup to be special and unusual in honor of the blessing.
Predator is a 1987 American science fiction horror/action movie.
It was directed by John McTiernan.
The movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, and Kevin Peter Hall.
The story follows a special forces team, led by 'Dutch' (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
They are on a mission to rescue hostages in Central America.
The group does not know that they are being hunted by a technologically advanced alien, the Predator.
Predator was written by Jim and John Thomas in 1985.
Filming began in April 1986.
The movie cost about $15 million to make.
It was released in the United States on June 12, 1987.
Predator made $98,267,558 at the box office.
At first, the reviews to Predator were negative.
Much of this was because of a weak plot.
Two sequels, Predator 2 (1990) and Predators (2010) were made.
There have also been two movies with the Alien franchise.
These are Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007).
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer.
Carl Weathers as George Dillon, a former teammate of Dutch and a CIA agent.
Elpidia Carrillo as Anna, a guerrilla, captured by Dutch's troops.
Richard Chaves as Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez.
Jesse Ventura as Blain Cooper, who fought with Mac in the Vietnam War.
Bill Duke as Mac Eliot, a close friend of Blain's.
Sonny Landham as Billy Sole, a Native American tracker.
Shane Black as Rick Hawkins, the team's radio operator.
R. G. Armstrong as Major General Homer Phillips, the coordinator of the mission.
Kevin Peter Hall as The Predator.
Hall also plays the end scene helicopter pilot.
Peter Cullen did the voice of the Predator.
Predator was #1 at the US box office in its opening weekend with a gross of $12 million.
Only Beverly Hills Cop II made more money in 1987.
The movie earned a total of $98,267,558.
Of this, $59,735,548 was from the US & Canadian box office.
$38,532,010 was made overseas.
Predator movies
Tor Johnson (born Tor Johansson, 19 October 1903 – 12 May 1971) was a Swedish professional wrestler and movie and television actor.
During his wrestling career, he was billed as the Super-Swedish Angel.
Johnson was born in Sweden, the son of Karl J. Johansson and Lovisa Petersson.
He began appearing in movies in 1934, usually as boxers or wrestlers.
In the 1940s, he played lumbering thugs and scowling plug-uglies.
He appeared with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in Road to Rio (1947), in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), and with Shirley Jones in the movie version of Carousel (1956).
He is best known though for his appearances in the low budget movies directed by Ed Wood.
He played Lobo in Bride of the Monster and Night of the Ghouls, and the zombified Inspector Clay in Plan 9 from Outer Space.
In the early 1960s, he had guest appearances as wrestlers, thugs, and circus strongmen in various television series including Peter Gunn, Bonanza, and The Shirley Temple Show.
Johnson died in San Fernando, California, from heart failure in 1971.
Tor Johnson bio on (re)Search my Trash
The Colony of Virginia (also known as Virginia Colony) was the first of thirteen colonies in North America.
The English first tried to make the Roanoke Colony in 1584.
A war delayed resupply until 1890.
When the ships arrived, the colonists were gone.
The decision to settle Jamestown again came from a group called the Virginia Company of London.
Virginia was settled again in 1607 at Jamestown, this time successfully.
The Virginia Company had its charter revoked in 1624 for not showing a profit.
At that time the colony of Virginia became a crown colony.
It became a British colony after 1707.).
It remained an English colony until the American Revolution.
The name Virginia was first applied by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I in 1584.
After the English Civil War in the mid 17th century, the Virginia Colony was nicknamed "The Old Dominion" by King Charles II.
He gave Virginia colony the name for its loyalty to the crown during the era of the Commonwealth of England.
When Virginia colony was first settled it was a huge geographic area that was England's claim on all of North America.
After the United States was formed, the entire states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and portions of Ohio were all later created from the territory that was once known in the Colony of Virginia.
The cricket teams of Bangladesh and West Indies have played against each other in ODIs since 2003.
West Indies is most successful with 13 victories, Bangladesh have won in only 1 game.
West Indies national cricket team
Night of the Ghouls is a 1959 horror movie written, directed, and produced by Ed Wood.
It is a sequel of sorts to Wood's 1955 horror movie, Bride of the Monster.
The story is about a crook, Dr. Acula, who pretends to be able to contact the dead.
He charges people large amounts of money to speak to their dead relatives.
He summons a group of real ghosts who bury him alive.
The movie stars Kenne Duncan as Dr. Karl Acula, Duke Moore as Lt.
Dan Bradford, Tor Johnson as Lobo, Valda Hansen as Sheila, Paul Marco as Patrolman Kelton, and Criswell as himself.
1959 horror movies
Paul Marco (June 10, 1927 – May 14, 2006) was an American actor.
He often appeared in movies made by Ed Wood, including the "Kelton Trilogy": Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
In this trilogy, he played a bumbling, fearful policeman named Kelton.
Marco was born in Los Angeles.
He took lessons in drama, singing, and dancing at an early age.
After graduating from Hollywood High School, he served in the United States Navy during World War II.
His first known movie role was a small part in the 1944 movie Sweet and Low-Down with Benny Goodman.
In the early 1950s, The Amazing Criswell predicted on national television that Paul Marco would go far in the movie business.
Criswell introduced Marco to Ed Wood.
In turn, Marco introduced Ed Wood to Bunny Breckinridge, a gay Shakespearean actor.
Breckinridge lived with Marco for a time and co-starred in Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Marco depended on Wood for parts.
He more or less retired as an actor as Ed Wood's movies shifted more and more towards pornography.
In 1995, Marco recorded "Home on the Strange", in which he reprised his Kelton character for Dionysus Records.
He revived Kelton once more in the 2005 science fiction satire/tribute film The Naked Monster.
On May 14, 2006, Paul Marco died after a battle with hip problems and chronic illness.
Sloan, Will. (
April 2005). "
Can Your Heart Stand the Shocking Facts About Kelton the Cop A/K/A Paul Marco?"
Filmfax, pp.
Paul Marco's official website
Keltonsdarkcorner.com
Duke Moore, (July 15, 1913 as James Moore – November 16, 1976), was an American actor.
He appeared only in movies made by Ed Wood.
Between 1953 and 1970, Moore appeared in the following Wood movies: Crossroads of Laredo; Final Curtain; Night of the Ghouls; Plan 9 from Outer Space; The Sinister Urge, and Take it Out in Trade.
Moore died in Hollywood of a heart attack.
Struga is a small city in the southwest of North Macedonia at the Lake Ohrid.
The Black Drin river runs through the town, dividing it into a western and an eastern part.
About 15,000 people live in Struga.
They are a mix of Albanians, (Slavic) Macedonians, Turks and Romani.
Valley Springs is a city in the eastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota.
It is located in Minnehaha County along the Minnesota state line.
Valley Springs became a city in 1879, and 759 people lived there at the 2010 census.
City of Valley Springs website
1879 establishments in Dakota Territory
The Catalan independence or separatism is a political movement that supports the independence of Catalonia or the Catalan countries from Spain and France.
The Catalan independence movement began in the 19th century.
The separatists believe that Catalonia is a nation.
Catalonia has its own language (Catalan language) and culture (Catalan culture).
During the Francisco Franco dictatorship, Catalans and the Catalan language were oppressed.
Recently, the number of people who support Catalan independence has increased.
In 2012 there was a demonstration in Barcelona with 1.500.000 people.
The majority of the parliament in Catalunya wants to have a referendum on independence, and 55% identify as separatists.
Jalil Zandi (2 May 1951 – 1 April 2001) was an Iranian flying ace in the Iran-Iraq War.
He was an F-14 Tomcat pilot.
He had the most victories in the air combat in the Iran-Iraq War: 11 victories ( 8 confirmed victories and 3 probable victories).
His victories include 4 MiG-23s, 2 Su-22s, 2 MiG 21s and 3 Mirage F1s).
He was also the most successful F-14 pilot ever.
He died with his wife Zahra Mohebshahedin in 2001 in a car accident near Tehran.
He is buried in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in the south of Tehran.
Iranian military people
John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was an English actor and comedian.
He is best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army (1968–77).
Le Mesurier was born on 5 April 1912 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England.
He studied at the Sherborne School.
Le Mesurier was married to June Melville from 1940 until they divorced in 1949.
Then he was married to Hattie Jacques from 1949 until they divorced in 1965.
Then he was married to Joan Malin from 1966 until his death in 1983.
Free Realms is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
It is set in a fantasy-themed world, named "Sacred Grove".
It was made by Sony Online Entertainment for PC, Mac and PlayStation 3.
The game was released on 29 April 2009.
On March 31, 2014, the game was officially shut down.
A cellular automaton is a model used in computer science and mathematics.
The idea is to model a dynamic system by using a number of cells.
Each cell has one of several possible states.
With each "turn" or iteration the state of the current cell is determined by two things: its current state, and the states of the neighbouring cells.
A very famous example of a cellular automata is Conway's Game of Life.
Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann first described cellular automata in the 1940s.
Conway's Game of Life was first shown in the 1970s.
The patterns of certain seashells  are generated by natural cellular automata.
Examples can be seen in the genera Conus and Cymbiola.
The pigment cells are in a narrow band along the shell's lip.
Each cell secretes pigments according to the activating and inhibiting activity of its neighbor pigment cells, obeying a natural version of a mathematical rule.
The cell band leaves the colored pattern on the shell as it grows slowly.
For example, the widespread species Conus textile bears a pattern resembling Wolfram's rule 30 cellular automaton.
Plants regulate their intake and loss of gases via a cellular automaton mechanism.
Each stoma on the leaf acts as a cell.
Heniek "Henry" Morgentaler, CM (March 19, 1923 – May 29, 2013), was a Polish-born Canadian physician and pro-choice activist who fought many legal battles about expanding abortion rights in Canada.
When he was young during World War II, Morgentaler was imprisoned at the Łódź Ghetto and later at the Dachau concentration camp.
He survived the Holocaust.
Morgentaler was born on March 19, 1923 in Łódź, Poland.
He was married to Chava Rosenfarb from 1945 until they divorced in 1975.
Morgentaler died on May 29, 2013 in Toronto, Canada from a heart attack, aged 90.
The Morgentaler Clinic
The Morgentaler Decision turns 20, National Review of Medicine, 2008-01-15 (accessed 2011-08-30)
Abortion crusader deeply divides Canadian society (2009-01-14) CBC
Abortion rights: significant moments in Canada's history (2009-05-21) CBC
CBC Digital Archives – Dr. Henry Morgentaler: Fighting Canada's Abortion Laws
Supreme Court of Canada, R v. Morgentaler (1988) (1 S.C.R. 30)
CBC: Abortion law ruled unconstitutional (January 28, 1988)
Greeley was born on February 5, 1928 in Oak Park, Illinois to an Irish family.
He was raised a Catholic.
Greeley studied at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary.