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Yumjao" () or "Yimjao" () may also refer to "Royal House".
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Leima" means "Queen".
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Lairembi" () means "goddess".
The Meitei language (Manipuri language) word "Lairemma" () is also another term for "goddess".
Meitei King Naothingkhong (c. 7th century) of Ancient Kangleipak (Antique Manipur) built a temple dedicated to goddess Yumjao Lairembi ().
Goddess Yumjao Leima appears in a human form in white clothes to come to bless her son, the King of the kingdom.
Even during the death of a king, she came to the place in the form of a mortal being.
She controls the life and the death of the kings.
She is the chief of the household and the guidance of the kings.
Relationship with the Queen Mother
According to beliefs, Goddess Yumjao Leima is the divine representation of the Queen Mother (Royal Mother) of the kingdom.
All the powerful queen mothers were integrated into goddess Yumjao Leima after their death.
Goddess Yumjao Leima herself was the all-time ruling Queen Mother.
The most powerful person in a kingdom was always the Queen Mother - representation of Goddess Yumjao Leima.
In ancient Kangleipak, cut off heads of the enemies from the war were offered to the goddess.
The Meitei kings ruled the kingdom in the name of their Queen Mothers.
Battles and wars were conducted in the name of the Queen Mothers.
One example is that of an event recorded in the Cheitharol Kumbaba:
Goddess Yumjao Leima is prayed for the longevity of life of the King.
The final rites and rituals dedicated to Her are generally performed by the maibas.
Goddess Yumjao Lairemma () is mainly worshipped by the Thaopicham family of Meitei ethnicity.
According to Meitei culture, the "Nongmai" class is in the middle position of the society of the maibis (priestesses).
They used to take care of the cult of goddess Yumjao Lairembi.
Temple of Yumjao Lairembi, Kangla
The "Temple of Yumjao Lairembi" inside the Kangla is at the left side of the Temple of Pakhangba.
Structurally, both the temples are of the same architectural styles.
The southern wall of the temple is well decorated.
The remaining three walls of the temple are of little decorations.
A door with the lancite arch is in the southern wall of the temple.
Two false doors surround the two sides of the one real door.
All the doors (real and false) are framed with pilasters.
The ground plan of the temple is in square shape.
Its area covered is 2.43 square meters.
Ima Ibemma Yumjao Lairembi Shanglen
In October 2011, a temple named "Ima Ibemma Yumjao Lairembi Shanglen" was built in honor of goddess Yumjao Lairembi in Thangmeiband town in Imphal.
A temple dedicated to Yumjao Lairembi of Arambam region is in Imphal West district in Manipur.
"Yumjao Lairembi Temple" is in Meino Leirak, Sagolband, Imphal, Manipur.
"Thaoroijam Yumjao Lairembi Temple" is in Thaoroijam Mamang Leikai, Nambol, Manipur.
Yumjao Lairembi Dramatic and Cultural Union
The "Yumjao Lairembi Dramatic and Cultural Union" is a nonprofit dramatic union.
It was established in Khagempali Huidrom Leikai, Imphal in the year 2011.
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Laikhurembi (, ) is a goddess in Meitei mythology and religion of Ancient Kangleipak (Antique Manipur).
She is the goddess of argument, justice, good counsel, divine law, order, retribution and secrecy.
She is the chief Queen of God Thongaren ().
She is the daughter of Lairen Humchouba.
She is one of the most important Umang Lais.
Her pantheon is maintained particularly by the Taibungjam clan of Meitei ethnicity.
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), the female given name "Laikhurembi" can be split up into three parts, "Lai", "Khu" and "-rembi".
The words "Lai" and "Khu" refer to the names of tribes.
The last part "-rembi" means chief, head or graceful in feminine form.
According to the Poireiton Khunthok, Laikhurembi () was the chief queen of Thongaren ().
The same text describes her as a lady with a wide mouth (speaking loudly or boastfully), a small bosom (little emotions and intimate feelings) and oblique eyes (not straightforward while looking).
Scholars opined that she belongs to a Mongoloid ethnicity according to her characteristic features.
Some scholars suggest that Laikhurembi's origin could have been of the mixed tribe of the Lais and the Khus.
On the other hand, some scholars are of the opinion that "Laikhurembi" is just her titular name.
Laikhurembi () is the daughter of Lai-ren Humchouba (, Shan: Hoom Chao Hpa).
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Lai-ren" means "Chief of Lai".
The Lai people were a group of people descended from the Tai peoples.
The Lai descent was due to the repression of the Tai people by Chinese Emperor Shi Wang () in the 3rd century BC.
Queen Laikhurembi was the first wife of King Thongaren ().
She was asked by the king to accompany his widower younger brother Poireiton as the later's wife.
Poireiton was left six children by his dead wife.
He was about to proceed to the Tai Pang Pan.
King Thongalel thought his brother's journey without any wife might not be good.
That was the reason why he asked his wife to accompany him.
However, Laikhurembi was not willing to go.
She gave the reasons to her unwillingness.
Her reason was that trees had already been planted in recognition of her as the King's wife since they were living together for a very long time.
So, instead of Laikhurembi, King Thongalel sent his second wife Leinaotabi to accompany her brother in law Poireiton as a wife.
Goddess Laikhurembi is said to have extraordinary abilities.
She is said to be Yungyatnaba (lit.
erect and sharp) and thus has the ability to see the near and far things similarly.
She has the ability of judgement of the character of man.
She announces her verdict in such a way that the people will get their proper rewards (things given in recognition of service, effort or achievement).
Goddess Laikhurembi is described as the one who could not be found by anyone until and unless she decides to reveal herself by her own will.
No matter how much anyone search for her, if she wishes to hide herself, no one can find her in any place of the universe.
There is a temple dedicated to Goddess Laikhurembi in Uripok town in Imphal West district of Manipur.
During the Lai Haraoba festival of Uripok, a carnival like atmosphere subdues the sacred traditional ritualistic ceremonies.
During the noisy possession of the festive occasions, the maibis dance in the gentle melodies of pena.
The maibis became possessed by the spirits when the music stopped and they delivered oracles.
During this, the audiences listen to them very attentively.
Learners' Manipuri-English dictionary.
"Lainaotabi" () or "Leinaotabi" () is a goddess in ancient Meitei mythology and religion.
She is the youngest consort of Thongalel, the god of death and the ruler of the Khamnung underworld.
She was made to accompany Poireiton, her brother in law, with whom she gave birth to a son.
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"Nongban Pombi Luwaopa" () or "Nungpan Ponpi Luwaopa" () is a Meitei language literary narrative work (puya), about the legendary story of a prince of the Luwang dynasty who got back successfully the life of his wife Koubru Namoinu (Lainaotabi), from the hands of her former consort Thongalen, the God of death and the ruler of the underworld.
It is the story of love, courage and perseverance.
It is an old story of near tragic end.
In the legend, there's a fight between the mortal and the god.
It is, in a sense, the reverse of the Chothe Thangwai Pakhangba.
It is a story of love fulfilled after a near tragic event and is, perhaps, unique of its kind.
Nongban Pombi Luwaoba, the leading character of the same name was a Prince of the Luwang dynasty born of King Nungpan Pamingnapa and Queen Santhong Huimuleima.
He soon grew into manhood and felt lovesick.
He set out alone to cover the wide world in search of a love to quench the thirst of his heart and was welcomed by the King Koubru when he approached him for a rest.
There he met the princess, Koubru Namoinu (Lainaotabi) and was instantly smitten with her beauty and had his heart lost to her.
The princess, formerly the youngest wife of Thongalel, the God of death, who while accompanying her younger brother in law on a sojourn to earth got separated from him and was later adopted by the king as his daughter.
Returning home hastily, the prince requested his parents to get the princess engaged to him.
And this was carried out without delay with the offer of choice and the delicious fruit in prickles to the king and the queen.
The couple accepted the proposal with a good grace and regarded it as an occasion ordained by Providence.
The marriage having been performed with due solemnity, the young couple began to lead a happy and contented life.
But this was desined not to last long, for the God did not take kindly to his own wife spending her days as an ordinary mortal in the company of another man.
So, her fatal thread was cut short and her soul recalled.
However, the distraught Prince did not  not take his tragic fate lying down and taking the help of Nongta Chinkhanyang, a pheasant, sent a request to the Lord of the netherworld to give back the soul of his wife or take the challenge of a single combat.
Thus, he kept guarding the mortal remains of Koubru Namoinu without the obsequies being performed.
Thongalel first sent his younger brother armed with deadly weapons for the fight in which the prince settled his opponent's hash and kept him bound under the heavy weight of a slab.
The Lord's second brother too met the same humiliation and at last, Thongalel himself appeared in all splendor in the field of honour.
But the prince was prudent enough to realise that he was no match for powerful God, he fell prostrate before him and begged mercy and kindness to restore Koubru Namoinu to him so that the Luwang dynasty might have further progeny.
Thongalel, being visibly moved, readily granted the prayer and left for the dark abode.
Thus, the couple were united to live for another hundred years with conjugal bliss and Hongnem Luwang Punshiba, a son was born to them.
Thāron or Tharol is an ancient Meitei literary work (puya), about the lore of the twelve lunar months of a year.
It describes the changing pattern of nature in the following months.
It is one of the masterpieces of the writers of the ancient times.
The names of the twelve lunar months were given in Ancient Meitei language in the manuscript.
However, the following illustrates both the Ancient Meitei as well as Modern Meitei names, with their Gregorian equivalents:
The iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max are smartphones sold by Apple Inc.  They were announced on October 13, 2020, alongside the iPhone 12 and 12 mini.
The iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max contain many of the same features as the 12 and 12 mini, with the addition of one camera lens (similar to iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max) and a LiDAR scanner to allow for better photos and augmented reality experiences.
The display contains Ceramic Shield, which is meant to be tougher against drops.
iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max are 5G-capable and contain a basic storage of 128 GB, with 256 GB and 512 GB options also available.
They contain flat edges first introduced with the iPhone 4 and are made of stainless steel.
These phones have a magnetic back to allow for MagSafe wireless charging and accessory use, such as a wallet.
The iPhone 12 Pro starts at US $999, while the 12 Pro Max begins at US $1,099.
The models are equipped with 6 GB of RAM.
The iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max are available in silver, graphite, Pacific blue, and gold.
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The AfriMusic Song Contest is a pan-African song contest based in the ESC.
Different singers representing an African country celebreted since 2018 to present.
Song Of Africa (originally to be celebrated in May 25, 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa to become the African licensed version of Eurovision)
Africa Song / Le Chant De L'Afrique (originally to take place in December 2014 and to be organized by the Africa Song Holdings Limited legally registered in Mauritius with the key peeople from South Africa)
All Africa Song Contest (originally to be hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2015 and organized by the Kush Communications, London based production company led by Zeinab Badawi)
AfriMusic Song Contest.com - the official website of the AfriMusic Song Contest
Doug LaMalfa (born July 2, 1960) is a U.S. representative for California's 1st congressional district.
He is a member of the Republican Party and has represented the California's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2013.
LaMalfa used to be a assemblyman in the California State Assembly for California's 2nd State Assembly district from 2002 to 2008 and a state senator in the California State Senate for California's 4th State Senate district from 2010 to 2012.
When he was a state senator, Doug LaMalfa went against a bill that would get rid of the electoral  college.
As a congressman LaMalfa did not think that climate change was a problem and is against illegal immigration.
In December 2020, Doug LaMalfa joined 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania which was a lawsuit to get rid of the 2020 United States presidential election results in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.
|- class="vcard"
| style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 2px;" |
| class="org" style="width: 130px" | Republican
| class="fn"    | Doug LaMalfa (incumbent)
| style="text-align:right;" | 98,354
| style="text-align:right;" | 51.7
| style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 2px;" |
| class="org" style="width: 130px" | Democratic
| class="fn"    | Audrey Denney
| style="text-align:right;" | 34,121
| style="text-align:right;" | 17.9
| class="fn"    | Jessica Holcombe
| style="text-align:right;" | 22,306
| style="text-align:right;" | 11.7
| class="fn"    | Marty Waters
| style="text-align:right;" | 16,032
| style="text-align:right;" | 8.4
| class="fn"    | Gregory Cheadle
| style="text-align:right;" | 11,660
| style="text-align:right;" | 6.1
| class="fn"    | David Peterson
| style="text-align:right;" | 5,707
| style="text-align:right;" | 3.0
| style="background-color: #17aa5c; width: 2px;" |
| class="org" style="width: 130px" | Green
| class="fn"    | Lewis Elbinger
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,191
| style="text-align:right;" | 1.2
| style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;" |
| class="fn" | Doug LaMalfa (incumbent)
| style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" |
| style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | 54.9
| style="text-align:right;" | 131,548
| style="text-align:right;" | 45.1
He has been member of the Iranian national team since 2012.
He was part of the Iran squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
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Ancient Moirang, also known as Keke Moirang, was an ancient civilization that flourished in the southern plains of the present day Manipur, India.
The Keke Kangla served as the capital city of the kingdom since time immemorial.
The major body of accounts related to the history, literature, mythology of the kingdom are collectively called Moirang Kangleirol.
Contemporary periods
The contemporary periods of the kingdom had parallelism with the Chinese Golden Ages.
The period started from 52 BC in Moirang and 208 BC in China.
Genealogy of ancient rulers
The Moirang Ningthourol (genealogy of the ancient rulers) were calculated with reference to many ancient texts, including the Cheitharol Kumpapa.
Government and Economy
Administration and Commerce
The Iwang Puriklai (ruler of Moirang) was the absolute monarch of the kingdom.
For a smooth and sound administration, the kingdom was divided into eight leikais (wards or sectors).
Along with this division, there were also nine organized marketplaces.
The ancient people worshipped Lord Thangjing, the presiding deity, as the progenitor of the kingdom.
style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Candidates
style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Supporting parties
style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" colspan="2"|First round
style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|Votes
style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|%
|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" |
|align=left|Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
|align=left|Social Democratic Party,People's Party
|align="right" |2,533,799
|align="right" |60.70
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" |
|align=left|Ana Gomes
|align=left|People–Animals–Nature, LIVRE
|align="right" |541,345
|align="right" |12.97
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#202056 align="center" |
|align=left|André Ventura
|align=left|CHEGA
|align="right" |496,653
|align="right" |11.90
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=red align="center" |
|align=left|João Ferreira
|align=left|Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party
|align="right" |180,473
|align="right" |4.32
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor= align="center" |
|align=left|Marisa Matias
|align=left|Left Bloc, Socialist Alternative Movement
|align="right" |164,731
|align="right" |3.95
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=#00ADEF align="center" |
|align=left|Tiago Mayan Gonçalves
|align=left|Liberal Initiative
|align="right" |134,427
|align="right" |3.22
|style="width: 5px" bgcolor=LightSeaGreen align="center" |
|align=left|Vitorino Silva
|align=left|React, Include, Recycle
|align="right" |122,743
|align="right" |2.94
|colspan="3" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,174,171
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|align=right colspan="3"|Blank ballots
|width="65" align="right" |47,041
|width="40" align="right" |1.10
|align=right colspan="3" |Invalid ballots
|width="65" align="right"|39,997
|width="40" align="right"|0.94
|colspan="3" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,261,209
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|colspan=3|Registered voters/turnout
||10,791,490||39.49
|colspan=5 align=left|Source: Election results
Echizen forged knives are traditional knives made in Echizen City, Fukui prefecture, Japan.
Characteristics of these products are the two techniques, which are called Nimai hiroge (= double layering) and Mawashi hagane tsuke (= shaping the knife).
Thanks to these characteristic techniques, they were chosen as the earliest traditional craft for forged knives in 1979.
The origin of Echizen forged knives goes back to the early Nanboku-cho period (in the early 14th century).
In 1337, Kuniyasu Chiyotsuru, a sword maker from Kyoto Prefecture in Japan, moved to Echizen no kuni (=present Echizen city), and  made sickles (=one kind of farming tools) for citizens who live there.
While he stayed there, he thought how to make the products for many citizens, and many of them began to make the products referring to his techniques.
Since then, the Echizen city became a big producing area which was famous for the farmer tools .
During the Edo period (from the 17th to the 19th century), merchants selling sickles, which are farming tools,  walked from Echizen no kuni to many places around Japan such as Osaka prefecture or Tokyo Prefecture to sell these tools made in Echizen city.
As these products were sold in markets, their high quality such as lightness or sharpness was evaluated, so forged knives made in Echizen city became popular around Japan.
Now, Echizen forged knives produce many other products such as hatchets that are used for cutting trees in addition to knives.
Two main processes
The two main important processes:  nimai hiroge and mawashi hagane tsuke.
Nimai hiroge (double layering)
Mawashi hagane tsuke (shaping the knife)
Main associations
Echizen Forged Knives Cooperative Association
Takefu Knife Village Cooperative Association
Takefu Knives Wholesale Commerce Cooperative Association
KOGEI JAPAN  https://kogeijapan.com/locale/ja_JP/echizenuchihamono/
Echizen Forged Knives Cooperative Association HP  https://www.echizenuchihamono.com/shop.php
Takefu Knife village Cooperative Association HP   https://tkvstore.net/
Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical crime movie that was directed by Martin Scorsese.
It is set in the New York City.
It was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1927 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York.
The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz.
Leonard Harris (September 27, 1929 – August 28, 2011) was an American actor, critic and author.
He was known for his roles as Senator Charles Palantine in Taxi Driver (1976) and the mayor in Hero at Large (1980).
The Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF, Belgian Radio-television  of the French Community, branded as rtbf.be) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels.
Windows NT 5.x is a family of Microsoft Windows NT, starting with Windows 2000 and ending with with Server 2003.
So far, All of Windows OS in this NT kernel is unsupported at all.
Iputhou Pakhangba Laishang () (literally, "Iputhou Pakhangba Temple") is an ancient Meitei temple dedicated to God Pakhangba, inside the Kangla Palace in Imphal, Manipur, India.
Atlassian Corporation is an Australian software development company for the IT industry.
It is best known for its JIRA and Confluence bug tracking system.
The company is headquartered in Seattle, USA.
In total, the company has nine offices in six countries and serves more than 100,000 customers.
The company name comes from Atlas (Greek: λτλας), a character from Greek mythology.
Until 2017, the company's logo looked like an X-shaped figure supporting the sky.
However, in 2017, the logo was changed to a modern one because, according to the designers, "The previous version of the logo was inspired by Atlas, and an example of legendary service and support.
Atlassian was founded in 2002 by two students from the University of New South Wales, Mike Cannon-Brooks and Scott Farkuhar.
They both left training to work on the project.
The start-up capital was only 10 thousand dollars.
There are several states in the world, where politics is dominated by two parties.
This is known as two-party system.
According to Giovanni Sartori, the following is true for such as system:
Each of the two parties is able to reach an absolute majority in parliament
When there are elections, usually one of the two parties wins an absolute majority
The party that is elected wants to rule alone
There's a large probability that with elections, the ruling party will change over time
The Median voter theorem describes such a system: While at first the parties have programmes that are very different from each other, over time, they will get closer.
Hotelling's law also describes this in game theory.
Two Examples of countries that have a two party system are the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Multi-party system - A system where there are many parties, Sometimes, several parties work together in government.
One-party state - There's only one party, but sometimes people can choose from different candidates of that party.
The median voter theorem is a theroem from political economics: Suppose there are two parties: One is a left-wing party, the other is a right-wing party.
Voters either vote for the left-wing party L, or the right-wing party R. In an election, L has an interest to shift its position towards the middle, so that it can get voters from the other party R. Similarly, R has an interest to shift its position towards the middle, so ir can get voters from L.
California's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California.
The district is represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa since 2013.
Before LaMalfa has taken office, the district had not had a Republican congressman since 1998.
The district is made up of the counties: Butte County, Lassen County, Modoc County, Plumas County, Shasta County, Sierra County, Siskiyou County, Tehama County, most of Nevada County, part of Glenn County and part of Placer County.
Paper Port (Spanish: Puerto Papel) is a 2016 animated children's television series produced by Zumbastico Studios.
The series blends stop-motion and 2D animation with papercraft characters and environments, in a technique called Papermotion.[1]
The series was co-produced by the channels Televisión Nacional de Chile (Chile), Pakapaka (Argentina), Gloob (Brazil), and Señal Colombia.
Additionally, it's also produced by Pipeline Studios in Canada and distributed by Millimages in France.
It first aired in 2016.
It also airs on Discovery Kids (Latin America).[2] Paper Port's season 2 is in production, as well as a movie.[3]
Matilde, a 12-year-old girl, spends her vacations at her grandfather's house in the seaside city of Paper Port.
After finding a magic coconut she wakes up every day with a mysterious new power, which she has to deal with in each episode, together with her friends Carlos, Ferni, and Boldo.
Katsuyama Castle Museum (勝山城博物館, Katsuyama-jō Hakubutsukan) is a museum that is in the city of Katsuyama in Fukui Prefecture in Japan.
The museum was finished on July 19, 1992.
It is considered to be the tallest castle in Japan, at 57.8 meters, but it is not a castle because it does not have a tenshu or tenshukaku–a “keep tower” (tower to defend from enemies).
It was built to look like the Himeji castle.
The museum also stands out because it has dragons cut into its foundation stone, which is unusual for a Japanese castle.
History behind the construction
During the Edo period in Japan, the territory of modern Katsuyama City belonged to the Echizen-Katsuyama Domain (region).
During that time, the city was planning to build a tenshu.
However, for different reasons, such as the laws that were in place at that time, the city was never able to finish it.
Kiyoshi Tada, who was born in Katsuyama and who was the founder of Sōgōtakushi, a taxi company that is nowadays divided into many different taxi companies, decided to build a castle, and put into life the long wish of people for a tenshu.
Instead of a usual castle he built a museum that looks like a castle, where different items from his own collection are displayed nowadays, including various samurai armor, swords, and traditional folding screens.
The museum was built close to another gift to Katsuyama from Kiyoshi Tada--Echizen Daibutsu, a complex of buildings built in a traditional Japanese style with a huge Buddha statue in it.
The cost of construction was 10 billion yen.
Since the opening, the museum has been managed by the Tada Kiyoshi Cultural Educational Commemoration Foundation (多田清文化教育記念財団, Tada Kiyoshi Bunka Kyōiku Kinen Zaidan).
In 2014, the Katsuyama Castle Museum started working together with the Katsuyama City government.
In addition to Kiyoshi Tada’s own collection, the museum also displays a collection of more than 800 articles of embroidery of the Qing dynasty in China.
There is also a collection of works by famous calligrapher Goseki Nishiwaki shown in the museum.
Many events are held on the museum territory throughout the year, including tea ceremonies, haiku competitions, various concerts, and collaborations with the government and other museums. (
Please check the information before visiting there as the event may be canceled or changed due to the influence of the coronavirus.
In 2019 alone 12,5000 people visited either the museum and/or the Echizen Daibutsu.
You can overlook the city of Katsuyama from the observation room on the top floor.
We can get to the museum for about 15 minutes from Katsuyama station by bus.
This museum closed on Wednesday and open from 9:30 to 16:30 except Wednesday.
Katsuyama Castle Museum website
Katsuyama Castle Museum Twitter account (@katsuyamacastle)
Katsuyama Castle Museum on Fukui Museum Association website
Katsuyama City website
Fukui Prefecture website
The Koh Chang Island frog or Mortensen's frog (Sylvirana mortenseni) is a frog from Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos.
Scientists have seen it as high as 800 meters above sea level.
Rabeya Khatun (27 December 1935 – 3 January 2021) was a Bangladeshi novelist.
As of 2008, she wrote over 50 novels and more than 400 short stories.
Her works include essays, novels, research, short stories, religious history and travelogues.
She was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1973, Ekushey Padak in 1993 and Independence Day Award in 2017 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Lyft is a taxi service which is publicly traded and based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Lyft allows users to find, through a website or mobile app, drivers who are partnering with the service and are ready to give them a ride for a reasonable fee.
Lyft's motto is “your friend with a car”.
According to the company, their service allows its clients to travel by Lyft at a cost 30% lower than using traditional taxis.
Ucanha is a place in northern Yucatán, Mexico, where scientists dig up Mayan ruins.
It used to be a town where Mayans lived.
People lived in Ucanha during the Late Preclassic period (ca.
300 B.C. —  ca.
A.D. 250).
It was about 2.2 square kilometers in size.
There were about 400 households.
It was connected  to a larger town, Uci, by a wide stone causeway.
Uci is 13 km to the west of Ucanha.
A large brightly colored stucco mask was discovered in Ucanha in 2017.
It is about two meters tall and was found in a building near the center of Ucanha.
Although masks like this one have been found in other Maya sites, this is the only one known for this part of Mexico.
The mask has been repaired so it looks the way it did when it was new.
The archaeologists buried the mask again to preserve it and  because the site is not legally protected.
For organisms that reproduce sexually, insemination is the transfer of male gametes (usually sperm) into the female reproductive tract, for the purpose of generating offspring.
In mammals, this is the uterus, in birds, this is the oviduct.
Insemination happens naturally during sexual intercourse, or copulation.
It can also be done artificially, in which case it is called artificial insemination.
The Abiu is a tropical tree from South America.
The tree grows to heights between  and .
It produces edible fruit.
When they are ripe, the fruits are yellow.
is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
In 1889, the municipal system was introduced.
1 city - Fukui, 9 towns and 168 villages were established.
Sabae was one of 9 towns.
It had administrated 10 villages.
These villages are: Funatsu Village, Shin-Yokoe Village, Shinmei Village, Tachimachi Village, Yoshikawa Village, Yutaka Village, Nakagawa Village, Katakami Village, Kitanakayama Village, Kawada Village.
In 1948 Funatsu Village and Shin-Yokoe Village became a part of Sabae Town.
Since then Sabae Town was gradually growing until it became Sabae City.
Gozaemon Masunaga, the "ancestor of domestic eyeglasses," started  manufacturing eyewear frames in Fukui around 1905.
At that time, most people in Sabae were working in the farming industry.
Farming was challenging in winter, since the Fukui region experiences a lot of snow.
Masunaga started this industry because the eyeglass industry does not depend on the season.
He invited craftsmen from Osaka to try to spread the industry as a side business of a farmer in Fukui.
At that time, education and the development of printing technology were spreading so people started to read prints such as newspapers.
The demand for eyewear has expanded.
In 1935, the eyewear industry spread to Sabae and Fukui.
The industry succeeded in manufacturing the titanium-based eyewear frames in 1981 for the first time in the world.
After that, a large military factory was converted to an eyewear factory after the end of World War II made Sabae’s eyeglasses industry famous.
From the beginning Sabae was ruled by Manabe Clan.
The Sabae area used to be the gate town of Jōshō Temple.
In the Edo period, the West-Sabae Jin'ya (administrative headquarter for a small province) was under the direct control of the Shogunate.
At that time, Sabae was the gate town until 1871.
In meantime Sabae Jin'ya became Sabae Han (historical term for the estate of a daimyo in the Edo period) (1720-1871)
Manabe Akikatsu (1804-1884) is known as the most famous Sabae's feudal lord, who in 1856 opened Kyōyōkei - a place where the lords can relax.
Kyōyōkei was the foundation of the current Nishiyama Park.
When Sabae became Han there was a plan to build a castle.
However, the Sabae Castle was never built.
There were many problems such as financial difficulties and the occurrence of famine.
Instead, Manabe Akikatsu took the money that was meant for the castle and gave it to the villages that were suffering from famine.
Former Uryu Residence
It is the oldest residence in Fukui Prefecture.
Originally located on the east side of the former Hokuriku Expressway, but it was relocated to northeastern corner of the Shinmeisha (Shintō Shrine) in 1975.
Jōshō Temple
Buddthist temple which building stared in 1208.
Shisoku Gate of this temple is a cultural property.
Nishiyama Park
Nishiyama Park is considered to be one of 100 historical parks in Japan.
There is also a zoo, which is famous for having Red Pandas, an adventure forest and Japanese garden.
Sabae eyewear is produced in Sabae City, one of the world's three largest eyewear production areas.
Fukui Prefecture, particularly Fukui City and Sabae City, manufactures high quality frames that account for 95% of all Japanese eyewear frames sold both nationally and internationally.
About 4000 people are involved in the local industry, and it takes about half a year to a year to manufacture one pair of eyewear.
Sabae eyewear is manufactured with the technology of titanium.
The technology is also used in producing medical and electronic equipment.
There are more than 5,000 stores in Japan that sell Sabae eyeglasses, and the average price is 35,000 yen excluding lenses now.
More than 200 steps are required to complete one eyeglasses frame.
However these processes can be divided into 9 processes.
Design:  In this process, eyewear is designed by craftsmen using a computer and paper.
They focus on how people who wear the eyewear feel.
This is the most important part of the production process.
Mold-Making: In this process, a metal is cut very precisely to make the shape of eyewear.
Press:  In this process, the parts which are used to make metal frames are pressed many times by machine
Precision Cutting: In this process, parts are precisely cut in a short time by craftsmen.
Brazing:　In this process, parts are bonded, or brazed, at temperatures of 700 degrees or higher.
Polishing: In this process, it is polished by craftsmen to erase damages and make gloss.
Inspection:  In this process, the products are inspected by craftsmen to find defective products again and again for safety.
Surface Treatment: In this process, it is plated gold to prevent corrosion and make its appearance beautiful.
Finishing: In this process, the entire pair of glasses is balanced as a finish work.
David Alan "Ted" Turner (born 2 August 1950) is an English guitarist and singer.
He was one of Wishbone Ash's lead guitarists between 1969 and 1974; and again between 1987 and 1994.
GeForce is a brand name by Nvidia.
It is a series of video cards.
In early 1999, Nvidia made a contest named "Name That Chip".
The public should find a name for Nvidia's next video card.
7 winners should get a RIVA TNT2 Ultra as reward.
The name "GeForce" won.
The first card in the series was the GeForce 256.
It was released on September 1, 1999.
GeForce powered games
AMD Radeon () is a brand name by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Several computer products are sold under the brand.
For example, graphics processing units (GPUs), random-access memory (RAM), and overclocking software.
These products are produced by Radeon Technologies Group, a division of AMD.
Radeon was created by ATI Technologies.
AMD bought the company in 2006 for $5.6 billion.
Computer hardware companies
Cypronia is Slovakian indie video game developer.
It is based in Michalovce.
Cypronia was founded in 1997 as Ablaze Entertainment.
In 2001, the name was changed to Cypron Studios.
Later, the name was changed again to Cypronia.
The studio became popular after they released the 2015 video game Cube Life: Island Survival.
It reached #1 in the Europe, #2 in the American and #3 in the Japanese Nintendo eShop charts.
Released games
The Strangers (1997, Amiga, real-time strategy game)
Napalm: Crimson Crisis (1999, Amiga, real-time strategy game)
State of War (2001, Microsoft Windows, real-time strategy game)
State of War: Warmonger (2003, Microsoft Windows, real-time strategy game, a sequel to State of War)
Gods: Lands of Infinity (2006, Microsoft Windows, turn-based RPG)
Logitech's golf (2006, Microsoft Windows)
Gods: Lands of Infinity: Special Edition (2007, Microsoft Windows, rehaul of Gods: Lands of Infinity)
State of War 2: Arcon (2007, Microsoft Windows, multiplayer-focused real-time strategy game)
Command and Destroy (2008, Nintendo DS, real-time strategy game)
1 vs. 100 (2008, Nintendo DS, quiz game based on popular TV show 1 vs. 100 by Endemol)
Jagged Allyance (2008, Nintendo DS, DS adaptation of Jagged Alliance PC franchise)
Cube Life: Island Survival (2015, Wii U, sandbox survival game)
Cube Life: Pixel Action Heroes (2017, Wii U, sandbox first person shooter game)
Pixel Action Heroes (2018, Nintendo Switch, remake of Cube Life: Pixel Action Heroes)
Cube Life: Island Survival HD (2018, Microsoft Windows, remake of Cube Life: Island Survival)
State of War: Warmonger (2018, Microsoft Windows, port for newer computer systems, contains State of War and State of War: Warmonger)
Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade (2019)
California's 36th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in California.
It is in the eastern part of Riverside County.
Coachella ( ,  ) is a city in Riverside County, California.
It is the easternmost city and the Coachella Valley is named after the city.
Cathedral City, colloquially known as "Cat City", is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States.
It is in Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.
51,200 people lived here at the 2010 census.
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert.
It also has the irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys.
The desert is known for its many flora and fauna.
Colorado Desert – Overview from California Wildlife Action Plan site
The 2021 Tocantinense aviation disaster took place on January 24, 2021, when a plane crashed shortly after departing Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues Airport in Brazil.
Six people were on board, killing four people.
Those killed were members of the Palmas Futebol e Regatas association football team members, the club's owner and the plane's pilot.
The plane was en route to a regional cup football game between Palmas and Vila Nova, for the Brazilian Copa Verde championship.
Marcus Molinari
Guilherme Noe
Lucas Praxedes
Ranule
Lucas Meira
Commander Wagner
2021 disasters
2021 in Brazil
Steven T. Kuykendall (January 27, 1947 – January 23, 2021) was an American Republican politician.
Kuykendall was born in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Kuykendall was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from  from 1999 to 2001.
Kuykendall was also a member of the California State Assembly from 1994 to 1998.
CNN candidate profile
Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
Iosif "Sifis" Valirakis (, 12 March 1943 – 24 January 2021) was a Greek politician.
He was a member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).
Valirakis was born in  Chania, Crete.
From 1995 to 1996, he was Minister of Public Order.
Eretria (; , Eretria, literally "city of the rowers"' ) is a town in Euboea, Greece.
It is across the narrow South Euboean Gulf.
Joseph Adolph Sonnabend (6 January 1933 – 24 January 2021) was a South African physician, scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher.
He was known for his research and awareness campaign about safe sex to prevent STDs and AIDS.
Sonnabend had a heart attack on 3 January 2021.
He died on 24 January at a London hospital at the age of 88.
Patrick O'Donoghue (4 May 1934 – 24 January 2021) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
He was the fifth Bishop of Lancaster, who led the diocese from 2001 to 2009.
He was born in Mourne Abbey, County Cork, Ireland.
Moshe Moskowitz (23 January 1925 – 24 January 2021) was an Israeli politician.
He was the Head of the Shafir Regional Council from 1952 to 1979.
He was also the founder of the Gush Etzion settlement.
Moskowitz died on 24 January 2021, aged 96.
Jean-Pierre Michel (5 August 1938 – 24 January 2021) was a French politician.
He was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Haute-Saône department from 2004 to 2014.
Michel was Mayor of Héricourt, Haute-Saône from 1983 to 2004.
Trévenans is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.
Mauritz Sigvard Marjasin (24 November 1929 – 24 January 2021) was a Swedish politician and trade unionist.
He was chairman of the Municipal Workers' Union from 1977 to 1988.
He also was the Governor of Örebro County from 1989 to 1994.
Abdullahi Ibrahim (14 January 1939 - 24 January 2021) was a Nigerian lawyer, politician and administrator.
He was Federal Minister of Justice from 1997 to 1999.
He was the agent and later co-agent in the dispute between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov was a Russian explorer and naturalist.
Severtzov studied at Moscow University.
At the age of eighteen he met G.S. Karelin and took an interest in central Asia.
In 1857 he joined a mission to Syr-Darya.
Jóhannes Eðvaldsson (3 September 1950 – 24 January 2021) was an Icelandic international football player.
He won the Scottish league championship twice with Celtic F.C. and the Scottish Cup once.
California's 42nd congressional district is a congressional district from the state of California.
The district is represented by Republican Ken Calvert.
The district is in Riverside County in the Inland Empire, as has the cities of Eastvale, Norco, Corona, Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Wildomar, Murrieta, as well as parts of Temecula.
Peter Robert Tyler Thorburn  (19 March 1939 – 26 January 2021) was a New Zealand rugby union player and coach.
He played for Auckland until 1985.
He coached North Harbour in New Zealand from 1985 to 1991.
He later coached Bristol (2001–03) and later the United States national team (2006–07).
Thorburn in Takapuna on 26 January 2021.
P-pop or Pinoy pop, also known as Philippine pop or Filipino pop is a type of music from the (Original Pinoy Music) OPM genre.
It began in the 1970s.
Through the 1990s to the 2000s, live bands performed OPM pop.
Groups such as Neocolours, Side A, Introvoys, the Teeth, Yano, True Faith, Passage and Freestyle popularized OPM pop.
These songs are sentimental.
From 2010 to 2020, Philippine pop music changed.
The quality became better, there was more variety, and people were willing to pay more money to make and listen to it.
This was because the economy of the Philippines was improving and Filipinos were becoming more interested in their own culture.
This was partially because K-pop and J-pop, which are music styles from Korea and Japan, which have Asian style ballads, idol groups, EDM music, and less reliance on Western genres.
Famous P-pop music artists include Sarah Geronimo, SB19, XLR8, KZ Tandingan, Erik Santos, Yeng Constantino, MNL48, Regine Velasquez, BINI, BGYO, and P-Pop Generation.
In the Philippines, Culture, Music and etc are also included in P-pop Music scene, K-pop is the one of the biggest and most hot genre right now.
P-pop is also inspired in Pop Music, J-pop, K-pop and C-pop.
ShowBT Entertainment
GMA Music
First One Entertainment
KP Entertainment
Pinoy music or Pinoy pop emerged began in the 1970s.
The songs were often sung in Tagalog.
It was a mix of rock, folk and ballads.
It did not focus on social class.
As early as 1973, the Juan De la Cruz Band was performing "Ang Himig Natin" ("Our Music"), which many people thought was the first example of Pinoy rock. "
Pinoy" gained popular currency in the late 1970s in the Philippines when Filipinos became more patriotic.
Filipino folk singer Heber Bartolome's "Tayo'y mga Pinoy" ("We are Pinoys") became popular.
Filipino rapper Francis Magalona's "Mga Kababayan Ko" ("My Countrymen") in the 1990s and Filipino rock band Bamboo's "Noypi" ("Pinoy" in reversed syllables) in the 2000s.
Today, the word "Pinoy" is used as an adjective for things that have to do with the Philippines or Filipinos.
Pinoy rock was soon followed by Pinoy folk and Pinoy jazz.
Many songwriters made songs critical of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his use of martial law and the Batasang Bayan, other songs were subversive and others were about national pride.
The Marcos administration ordered radio stations to play a certain number of Pinoy songs each hour.
Both Marcos and his enemies used Pinoy music.
Beginnings (1960s–1970s)
P-pop includes Filipino pop songs since the 1960s, especially ballads.
Many are by major commercial artists like Pilita Corrales, Nora Aunor, Basil Valdez, Freddie Aguilar and Rey Valera.
Singer-songwriters Ryan Cayabyab and José Mari Chan became famous in the 1970s by writing original English love songs alongside modern Tagalog songs.
Pop groups in the same decade include Manila sound groups APO Hiking Society and Hotdog.
Golden age of Filipino music
Prominence of rock-acoustic bands, belters, and balladeers (mid-1990s to present)
The early to mid-1990s saw the emergence of the pop-rock group, Eraserheads, considered as a turning-point in the OPM music scene.
In the wake of their success was the emergence of a string of influential bands such as Yano, Siakol, Parokya ni Edgar, Grin Department, Rivermaya, Moonstar 88 and Hungry Young Poets, each of which mixes the influence of a variety of pop and rock subgenres into their style.
Filipino rock continues to flourish at present with newer bands such as Hale, Cueshé, Sponge Cola, Chicosci, Kamikazee and Urbandub, and the emergence of the country's first virtual band, Mistula.
Though only some of the spearheading bands are still fully intact, many old members have formed new bands such as Pupil, Sandwich, and Bamboo.
A few band members such as Kitchie Nadal, Barbie Almalbis, and Rico Blanco have established steady solo careers.
Though rock bands have been dominating the mainstream since their commercialization in the '90s, acoustic groups were still regularly showcased in the live band scene such as Side A, True Faith, Neocolours, South Border and Freestyle popularized songs that clearly reflect the sentimental character of OPM pop.
Popular acoustic acts like Nina, Juris (of MYMP) and Aiza Seguerra also prove the diversity of Filipino pop.
Re-emergence of R&B and novelty songs (2000s to present)
Pinoy pop renaissance (2010s)
Pinoy pop changed after 2010.
Rock bands and novelty songs from the 1990s and 2000s started to fade out of the mainstream.
Newer songs did not have influences from rock or hip-hop.
In 2010, Little Big Star 2nd runner-up and YouTube star Charice became the first Asian to peak on the top 10 (at No.
8) of the Billboard 200 for her debut album.
She was also one of the first Asian artists to have a song peak at No.
1 for Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs.
The rise of P-pop idol groups (2020s)
From the influence of K-pop and J-pop, a new era of P-pop was born.
The Philippines' first idol group MNL48, a sister group of the J-pop group AKB48, started a new era for P-pop when they debuted in 2018.
Following them is the all-boy idol group SB19 who also debuted in 2018.
They are the first Filipino act trained by a Korean entertainment company under the same system that catapulted K-pop artists into global stardom.
SB19 is considered to be the first P-pop idol group to chart on the Billboard Next Big Sound and Billboard Social 50.