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Liotta's recent movies include Date Night with Steve Carell, Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Efron, the independent drama Snowmen, and The River Sorrow, which stars Liotta as a detective alongside Christian Slater and Ving Rhames.
Liotta married actress Michelle Grace in February 1997.
Their daughter, Karsen, was born in December 1998.
The couple divorced in 2004.
Liotta currently lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Tokyo.
It honors the spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.
Work began on the shrine in 1915.
It was formally dedicated in 1920; and it was completed in 1921.
The grounds of the shrine were finished by 1926.
Trees in the park were donated by people from all parts of Japan.
Meiji jingū website
Meiji Shrine map
Meiji Shrine panorama
Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879–September 6, 1966) born Margaret Hennessy Higgins, was the founder of Planned Parenthood.
She was a leading birth control activist, feminist, nurse, and sex educator.
Her father was Irish.
She helped finance biologist Gregory Pincus's creation of the birth control pill.
She married twice, first to architect William Sanger, then to J. Noah Slee, a South African born oil tycoon.
Educators from New York
Leaves of Grass is a collection of poetry by American writer Walt Whitman (18191892).
The collection was first printed on July 4, 1855 in Brooklyn at a Fulton Street printing shop.
About 800 copies were printed.
The book was 95 pages long and had 12 poems.
Whitman paid for this first printing.
The book did not sell well.
Whitman added material to Leaves of Grass and revised the book many times during his life.
The most famous poems in the book are "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".
The collection praised the human body, the material world, nature, and the experience of the senses at a time when poetry focused on religious experience and the life of the spirit.
From Noon to Starry Night: A Life of Walt Whitman.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992.
ISBN 0-929587-95-2
Kaplan, Justin.
Walt Whitman: A Life.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
ISBN 0-671-22542-1
Loving, Jerome.
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself.
University of California Press, 1999.
ISBN 0-520-22687-9.
Miller, James E., Jr. Walt Whitman.
New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1962.
Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography.
New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
ISBN 0-679-76709-6
The Whitman Archive--contains all editions of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman's lifetime, including text and page images.
Leaves of Grass - The "Long Foreground"
Leaves of Grass at Project Gutenberg
Poets.org guide to Leaves of Grass
Audio Book — complete & unabridged, public domain, Librivox Audio Recording of Leaves of Grass (1891 edition)
"Calamus" is a group of poems in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
They are about gay love or, in Whitman-speak, "the manly love of comrades".
The Calamus poems have their seeds in a group of poems called "Live Oak with Moss".
Whitman wrote these poems before or in the spring of 1859.
They were printed with other poems in the 1860 third edition of Leaves of Grass to form a group of 45 poems about gay love.
The "Live Oak" poems seem to be about relations between the Whitman and a male lover.
Whitman sees the love of comrades as the backbone of all nations, the root of religious sentiments, the source of personal anguish and joy, and the answer to the big questions of life.
The Calamus (Acorus calamus, or Sweet Flag) root is shaped like a phallus and has connections with a mythological story about gay lovers.
Calamus On WikiSource
Manuscript for "Live Oak With Moss" at the Walt Whitman Archive
Mount Isa is a city in the north west region of Queensland, Australia.
In June 2006 there 18,857 people living in the city.
and 31,000 in the region.
Mount Isa began in the 1920s as a mining town.
Mount Isa Mines (MIM) is one of the most productive mines in the world, producing lead, silver, copper, and zinc.
Khonsu is the god of the moon, moonlight, and time in Egyptian mythology.
In the beginning of the gods, he gambled time with the sky goddess Nut.
The goddess Nut won so many times that she could then add five days to the calendar.
These days were called the "devil days".
Khonsu's father is Amun, and his mother is Mut.
Copycat is a 1995 American psychological thriller movie.
It was directed by Jon Amiel, produced by Arnon Milchan and Mark Tarlov and written by Ann Biderman and David Madsen.
It is set in San Francisco, California.
It stars Sigourney Weaver as criminal psychologist Dr. Helen Hudson and Holly Hunter as police detective M.J. Monahan.
Dermot Mulroney plays her work partner, detective Reuben Goetz.
Harry Connick, Jr. plays Daryll Lee Cullum and William McNamara plays Peter Foley.
Cullum is imprisoned early in the movie for murder and for attacking Hudson.
As a result of the attack, she has agoraphobia and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Foley is a serial killer who is committing murders in the ways that they were done by notorious serial killers.
The Piano is an award-winning 1993 romantic drama movie which stars Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel.
This drama is about a mute pianist and her daughter in 19th century New Zealand.
The score for the piano by Michael Nyman became a bestselling soundtrack album.
The Piano was a commercial and critical success, grossing more than $40 million, against its $7 million budget.
At the 66th Academy Awards, The Piano won three awards: Best Actress for Hunter, Best Supporting Actress for Paquin, and Best Original Screenplay.
Paquin, who at the time was 11 years old, is the second youngest Oscar winner ever.
The film won the Palme d'Or and a Best Performance Prize for Holly Hunter at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
1993 romance movies
Movies directed by Jane Campion
The Firm is a 1993 American legal thriller movie.
It stars Tom Cruise and Holly Hunter and was directed by Sydney Pollack.
The thriller is based on a novel of the same name by author John Grisham.
Locations used to shoot movie
Owen Brennan's - Lunch scene in cocktail/bar area.
Owen Brennan's commemorated the filming by placing plaques on the two cocktail chairs where Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman sat.
Peabody Hotel - BBQ roof scene overlooking Mississippi River Bridge and downtown Memphis.
Beale Street - Scene where Mitch and Abby see young tumblers as street performers
Lausanne Collegiate School- Playground scene and others.
Front Street Deli - Meeting at diner.
Mud Island
Blues City Cafe - FBI first meeting with Mitch.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
The Marion Hotel - Apartment room on top floor for a scene.
Critical reaction to The Firm was mostly positive.
The movie got a 76% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
A hash table is a type of tool for storing information.
In computer science, these tools for keeping track of information, or data, are called data structures.
Each piece of information to be stored has a name, which is called a key.
For example, a key might be a person's name.
Each name is matched up to one piece of data called a value, like the person's telephone number.
The data is kept in another data structure called an array, which is like many boxes, or buckets, in a column to hold data.
Each box has a number starting from 0 and counting up.
The idea behind a hash table is to figure out which box to put data by using only its name.
This means, no matter how many boxes are filled up, you can always find information quickly if you have its name.
The hash table uses a hash function to figure out which number to put data in from its name.
The hash function reads a name and gives back a number.
A good Hash Table will always find information at the same speed, no matter how much data is put in.
A lot of Hash Tables also let the user put key/value pairs (a name and its data) in and take them out at the same speed.
Because of this, Hash Tables can often find information faster than other tools, such as search trees or other table lookup structure.
As a result, they are used in many kinds of computer software.
They are used most for associative arrays, databases, caches, and sets.
Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926  – July 3, 2012) was an American stage, movie, and television actor.
He also produced and directed.
He was a singer and a writer.
He starred in the 1957 movie A Face in the Crowd.
He also starred in the 1958 movie No Time for Sergeants.
His television series are The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock.
Griffith was born on June 1, 1926 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, the only child of Carl Lee Griffith and his wife, Geneva (née Nunn).
He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Griffith once sued a man named William Fenrick after Fenrick legally changed his name to Andy Griffith because Fenrick ran for town sheriff.
The use of his name angered Griffith, but soon afterwards the lawsuit was dropped.
Fenrick lost the election.
In 1986, Griffith suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome and could not walk for 7 months.
Griffith received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 9, 2005.
Griffith died on July 3, 2012 of a heart attack in Manteo, North Carolina, aged 86.
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
The Second Time Around (1961)
Angel in My Pocket (1969)
Hearts of the West (1975)
Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
Gramps (1995)
Spy Hard (1996)
The Very First Noel (2006) (voice)
Waitress (2007)
Christmas Is Here Again (2007) (voice)
Play the Game (2008)
Make Room For Daddy (1960; Andy and Opie Taylor were first introduced in season seven)
The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
The Headmaster (1970–1971)
The New Andy Griffith Show (1971; cancelled after 13 episodes)
The Strangers In 7A (1972)
Go Ask Alice (1973)
Pray for the Wildcats (1974)
Winter Kill (1974)
Savages (1974)
Adams of Eagle Lake (1975; cancelled after two episodes)
Street Killing (1976)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976)
Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) (voice)
Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977)
The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977)
Deadly Game (1977)
Centennial (1978; miniseries)
Salvage 1 (1979; cancelled after 20 episodes)
From Here to Eternity (1979; miniseries)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979; miniseries)
The Yeagers (1980; cancelled after two episodes)
Murder in Texas (1981)
For Lovers Only (1982)
Murder in Coweta County (1983)
The Demon Murder Case (1983)
Fatal Vision (1984) (miniseries)
Crime of Innocence (1985)
Return to Mayberry (1986)
Matlock (1986–1995)
Under the Influence (1986)
The Gift of Love (1994)
Scattering Dad (1998)
A Holiday Romance (1999)
Inventory of the Andy Griffith Papers, 1949–1997, in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andy Griffith Discography, at MTV
A honeyeater is one of a large family of small to medium-sized birds which feed on nectar.
They are most common in Australia and New Guinea, but are also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea.
Bali, on the other side of the Wallace Line, has a single species.
Honeyeaters and the Australian chats (Epthianura) make up the family Meliphagidae.
In total there are 182 species in 42 genera.
About half of them live in Australia, and many of the others are from  New Guinea.
Although honeyeaters look and behave much like other nectar-feeding birds around the world (such as the sunbirds and flowerpeckers), they are not related.
There is an important partnership between honeyeaters and Australian flowering plants.
A great many Australian plants are fertilised by honeyeaters, particularly the Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, and Epacridaceae.
It is known that the honeyeaters are important in New Zealand as well, and scientists believe they are just as important in other areas.
Unlike the hummingbirds of America, honeyeaters do not usually hover (beat their wings fast to stay in the same air space).
However, smaller members of the family do hover hummingbird-style to collect nectar from time to time.
Usually honeyeaters move quickly from perch to perch in the outer leaves, stretching up or sideways or hanging upside.
Many honeyeaters have a highly developed brush-tipped tongue, covered with bristles which soak up liquids readily.
The tongue is flicked rapidly and repeatedly into a flower, the upper mandible then squeezes liquid out when the bill is closed.
As well as nectar, all or nearly all honeyeaters take insects and other small creatures, usually by catching them in the air, sometimes by picking them off plants.
A few of the larger species, such as the white-eared honeyeater, and the strong-billed honeyeater of Tasmania, search under bark for insects.
Many species also eat fruit, and a small number eat large amounts of fruit, particularly in tropical rainforests and in semi-arid scrubland.
Most, however, live on a diet of nectar and insects.
In general, the honeyeaters with long, fine bills eat more nectar, the shorter-billed species less so, but even specialised nectar eaters like the spinebills take extra insects to add protein to their diet when they are breeding.
The movements of honeyeaters are poorly understood.
Arid zone species appear to travel further and less predictably than those of the more fertile areas.
It seems probable that no single explanation will emerge: the general rule for honeyeater movements is that there is no general rule.
Christidis L. and Boles W.E. 1994.
The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories.
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Monograph 2.
Melbourne: RAOU.
Del Hoyo J. et al 2006.
Handbook of the Birds of the World.
Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees.
(Epthianura and Ashbyia only)
Driskell A.C. and Christidis L. 2004.
Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31 943–960.
Sibley C.G. and Monroe B.L. Jr. 1990.
Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world.
Honeyeater videos  on the Internet Bird Collection
Meliphagoidea - Highlighting relationships of Maluridae on Tree Of Life Web Project
S.F.W. is a 1994 American thriller film based on Andrew Wellman's novel.
It stars Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Dorff and Amber Benson.
Damage is a 1992 British-French erotic drama movie.
It was directed by Louis Malle.
It is based on the novel Damage by Josephine Hart.
It stars Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche.
Damage was originally rated NC-17, though it was edited to have an R rating.
It is about a middle-aged, married politician who has an affair with his son's girlfriend.
1992 romance movies
Movies directed by Louis Malle
The human microbiome (or human microbiota) is the collection of microorganisms which live on us.
They live on the skin, in the saliva and mouth, in the eyes, and in the gut and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract.
They include bacteria, archaea, fungi and single-celled eukaryotes ('protozoa').
Everyone carries around far more of these microbes than the number of human cells in the body.
The human body has about 100 trillion cells, and carries about ten times as many microorganisms in the intestines alone.
The microbiome is "the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space".
The term was originally coined by Joshua Lederberg.
He thought the microorganisms living in the human body in health and disease were important.
Many scientific articles distinguish "microbiome" and "microbiota" to describe either the collective genomes of the microorganisms that live in an environmental niche or the microorganisms themselves, respectively.
However, by the original definitions these terms are largely synonymous.
Some of these organisms are useful for humans.
However, most have no known effect.
They are just symbionts: they live with us.
Those which are expected to be present are members of the normal flora.
Under normal circumstances they do not cause disease, but may even help our health.
Studies in 2009 asked whether our health is damaged if we reduce this biota.
This is certainly the case with gut flora.
Although "flora" refers to plants rather than bacteria, the term 'gut flora' is widely used and familiar to biologists. '
Biota' refers to the total collection of organisms in an ecosystem.
The term 'microbiota' is best for bacteria and other microorganisms, but no doubt 'flora' will often be used.
Researchers have learned that much of the population of microbes found in the human body are not bacteria but a very old class of single-celled organisms called archaea.
They include methanogens which produce methane and may cause flatulence.
A Salafi is a Muslim who thinks Islam should be practiced the way the first few generations of Muslims did.
The term is also used to talk about certain teachings of Sunni Islam that are based on "conservative" ideals.
Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) was an Islamic scholar who thought that the values of Islam were compatible with a modern lifestyle.
He is often labeled as a Salafi.
Another scholar, Ibn Taimiya (1263-1328) is often seen as the father of modern radicalised Islamism.
He said that the teachings of Islam were not compatible with certain modern interpretations, such as Sufism.
Fundamentalist Islamic people, especially in the West, are often identified as Salafi.
Extinct volcano, a volcano that scientists consider unlikely to erupt again
Extinction of species
Extinct in the Wild, conservation status
Hard Boiled is a 1992 action crime thriller movie from Hong Kong.
John Woo is the thriller's director.
The movie stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Tony, an undercover cop, and Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong, a leader of criminal triads.
Hard Boiled received mixed to positive reviews from the critics.
Woo liked Clint Eastwood's and Steve McQueen's characters from their films Dirty Harry and Bullitt.
He wanted to make his own Hong Kong-style Dirty Harry police detective film.
Hard Boiled took 123 days to shoot.
Hard Boiled was released on April 16, 1992 in Hong Kong.
The film grossed HK$19,711,048, which was not as strong as Woo's previous action films A Better Tomorrow or The Killer.
At the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards, David Wu and John Woo won the award for "Best Film Editing".
Tony Leung was nominated for "Best Supporting Male Actor", but lost the award to Liu Kai-Chi in Cageman.
The North American premiere of Hard Boiled was in September 1992 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
At the premiere the audience response was very positive with people stomping their feet and yelling at the screen.
This reception surprised producer Terence Chang who did not expect such a positive reaction.
Hard Boiled received wide release in the United Kingdom on October 8, 1993.
The 2010-11 Fußball-Bundesliga was the 48th season of the Fußball-Bundesliga, Germany's top football league.
The season started on August 21, 2010 and ended on May 14, 2011.
The defending champions were FC Bayern Munich.
The Bundesliga also changed its logo this season.
Below are the top 5, and the lowest 5 teams in the 2010/11 season.
As you can see, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Hannover 96 and FSV Mainz 05 all did well in the league and were allowed to play in either the UEFA Champions League, or the UEFA Europa League.
Also, Borussia Mönchengladbach went to the relegation play-off, and Eintracht Frankfurt and FC St. Pauli were relegated.
Schalke 04 were allowed to play in the UEFA Europa League play-off round.
Schalke 04 made it all the way to the Quarter-Finals in the 2011-12 UEFA Europa League.
Relegation play-off
Source: bundesliga.de
28 goals
Papiss Cissé
Milivoje Novakovič
Lucas Barrios
Srđan Lakić
Bundesliga seasons
List of extinct volcanoes includes volcanoes which scientists consider unlikely to erupt again.
A volcano which has not erupted in the past 10,000 years is often listed as extinct.
The extinct volcano no longer has a lava supply.
An extinct volcano is no longer near an active geologic hot spot, if it ever was.
Volcanologists sometimes can't tell whether a volcano is extinct or dormant.
A caldera that has not produced an eruption in tens of thousands of years is likely to be considered inactive.
Dormant volcanos may still erupt, whereas extinct ones cannot or still may have one percent chance.
Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the United Kingdom.
Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain in the northern Pacific Ocean
Huascarán in Peru
Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the Philippine Sea
Mount Buninyong in Victoria Australia
Tamu Massif in the Northwest Pacific Ocean
Waw an-Namus in Lybia
Edinburgh Castle in Scotland is located on a dolerite plug, the remnant of a volcano that went extinct many millions of years ago.
Lists of volcanoes
A Hatchet is a special axe that can be used with one hand.
It can be used as a tool, for example to cut wood, or as a weapon.
Hatchets have been in use since the Mesolithic.
The use of hatchets is typical for the Neolithic.
Hatchets are often carried by hikers because they can be used to chop woob or kindling for  a fire.
In shape a hatchet looks like a tohmahawk but they are often a bit smaller and have thicker blades.
Outnumbered is a British sitcom shown on BBC One.
It began on 28 August 2007 and is partly improvised.
It is about the Brockmans, a middle-class family of five who live in a house in suburban south London.
Hugh Dennis plays the father, Pete, who is a history teacher.
Claire Skinner plays the mother, Sue, who is a part-time personal assistant.
Tyger Drew-Honey plays the elder son, Jake, whose main interest is teenage girls.
Daniel Roche plays the younger son, Ben, who has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Ramona Marquez plays the daughter, Karen, who is intelligent and asks a lot of questions.
Outnumbered was nominated for the 2008 "Broadcast Award" for "Best Comedy Programme".
It lost the award to The Thick of It.
The show was given the "British Comedy Guide Editors' Award" in The Comedy.co.uk Awards 2007 and the "Best Returning British TV Sitcom" in The Comedy.co.uk Awards 2008, beating Peep Show by six votes.
In 2009, it won the Royal Television Society Award for "Scripted Comedy", and two Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in the same year: "Best Comedy/Entertainment" and the "Writer's Award".
Outnumbered also won 3 awards at the 2009 British Comedy Awards: Best Sitcom, Best British Comedy and Best Female Newcomer for Ramona Marquez.
At the National Television Awards in 2011, Outnumbered was nominated for Best Comedy but lost out to Benidorm.
It was nominated again the following year and won.
The Lindisfarne Gospels is an Illuminated manuscript book of the gospels.
It was made at a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne, about 700 AD.
The manuscript is now on display in the British Library.
It is one of the finest works in the style which is called insular art.
This combines Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements.
At this time, Britain and Ireland shared a style which was different from that of the rest of Europe.
The Lindisfarne Gospels are thought to be by Eadfrith, a monk who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721.
The Gospels are richly illustrated, and were originally in a fine leather binding covered with jewels and metals.
During the Viking raids on Lindisfarne, this cover was lost, and a replacement was made in 1852.
The text is written in a hand known as 'insular script'.
In the 10th century an Old English translation of the Gospels was written word-for-word between the lines of the Latin text.
It was done by Aldred, Provost of Chester-le-Street.
This is the oldest translation of the Gospels into English that we have.
The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII.
In the 18th century the book was given to the British Museum.
From there it went to the British Library when this was split off from the British Museum.
There are twenty-four World Heritage Sites in Iran  as of 2019,
A lack of value implies that no data has been published by UNESCO
Year; during which the site was inscribed to the World Heritage List
Iran (Islamic Republic of) - UNESCO
UNESCO world heritage-sites-iran
world heritage
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Arab countries.
Some of these countries are geographically in Asia and some in Africa.
Arab States
Numbered sites around Beijing: 1.
Great Wall; 2.
Forbidden City; 3.
Zhoukoudian; 4.
Summer Palace; 5.
Temple of Heaven; 6.
Ming Dynasty Tombs; 7.
Eastern Qing Tombs; 8.
Western Qing Tombs
Legend:  Cultural Heritage site;  Natural Heritage site;  Mixed site
* = World Cultural Heritage Site
† = World Natural Heritage Site
*† = World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site (Mixed)
The evaluation process is not yet completed..
Dongzhai Port Nature Reserve (1996)
The Alligator Sinensis Nature Reserve (1996)
Poyang Nature Reserve (1996)
The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (1996)
Yalong, Tibet (2001)
Yangtze Gorges Scenic Spot (2001)
Jinfushan Scenic Spot (2001)
Heaven Pit and Ground Seam Scenic Spot (2001)
Hua Shan Scenic Area (2001)
Yandang Mountain (2001)
Nanxi River (2001)
Maijishan Scenic Spots (2001)
Wudalianchi Scenic Spots (2001)
Haitan Scenic Spots (2001)
Dali Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake Scenic Spot (2001)
Sites for Liquor Making in China (2008)
Ancient Residences in Shanxi and Shaanxi Provinces (2008)
City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (2008)
Slender West Lake and Historic Urban Area in Yangzhou (2008)
Ancient Water Towns South of the Yangtze River (Zhouzhuang, Luzhi, Wuzhen, and Xitang) (2008)
Fenghuang Ancient City (2008)
Sites of the Southern Yue State (2008)
Baiheliang Ancient Hydrological Inscription (2008)
Miao Nationality Villages in Southeast Guizhou Province: The villages of Miao Nationality at the Foot of Leigong Mountain in Miao Ling Mountains (2008)
Karez Wells (2008)
Expansion Project of Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: King Lujian’s Tombs (2008)
The Four Sacred Mountains as an Extension of Mt. Taishan (2008)
Taklimakan Desert—Populus euphratica Forests (2010)
China Altay (2010)
Karakorum-Pamir (2010)
The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (2013)
Wooden Structures of Liao Dynasty—Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County，Main Hall of Fengguo Monastery of Yixian County (2013)
Sites of the Hongshan Culture: Niuheliang, Hongshanhou, and Weijiawopu (2013)
Liangzhu Archaeological Site (2013)
Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site in China (2013)
Sanfang Qixiang (2013)
Ancient Tea Plantations of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er (2013)
Western Xia Imperial Tombs (2013)
Dong Villages (2013)
Lingqu Canal (2013)
Diaolou Buildings and Villages for Tibetan and Qiang Ethnic Groups (2013)
Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State: Jinsha site and Joint Tombs of Boat- shaped Coffins in Chengdu, Sichuan; Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, 29th - 5th century BC (2013)
Fanjingshan (2015)
Xinjiang Yardang (2015)
Dunhuang Yardangs (2015)
Tianzhushan (2015)
Jinggangshan—North Wuyishan (Extension of Mount Wuyi) (2015)
Shudao (2015)
Tulin-Guge Scenic and Historic Interest Areas (2015)
Historic Monuments and Sites of Ancient Quanzhou (Zayton) (2016)
The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (2016)
Guancen Mountain—Luya Mountain (2017)
Hulun Buir Landscape & Birthplace of Ancient Minority (2017)
Qinghai Lake (2017)
Scenic and historic area of Sacred Mountains and Lakes (Gang Rinpoche,  Naimona'nyi, Lake Manasarovar and Lhanag-tso) (2017)
Taihang Mountain (2017)
The Coast of the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea of China (2017)
Vertical Vegetation Landscape and Volcanic Landscape in Changbai Mountain (2017)
China-related lists
As of April 2012, ten sites have been added on the World Heritage List.
Nine are cultural sites and one is a natural site.
Fourteen more sites have been proposed for adding and are on the tentative list.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Republic of Korea
If a volcano that has been silent for years erupts again, it is called a "dormant volcano".
Vesuvius of Italy is a prime example.
After many years of dormancy, it re-emerged in 1931.
Then it is dormant again.
For example, Krakatoa in Indonesia, Aconcagua in Chile, and Mount Fuji in Japan are dormant volcanoes.
Difficult to classify
For example, some scientists have described Mount Fuji as dormant or inactive.
That volcano has been dormant since its last eruption in 1707,  but is also classified as active.
The Geological Survey of Japan lists Mount Fuji as among the active volcanoes on the island of Honshu.
Mis-labelled as dormant or extinct
Select list
Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the United States
Mount Edziza in Canada
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Western Victorian Volcanic Plains in Australia
Trou aux Cerf in Mauritius
Mount Hood in Oregon, the United States
The Book of Kells  is an illuminated manuscript in Latin of the four Gospels of the New Testament together with some extra texts and tables.
It was created by Celtic monks about 800 AD or slightly earlier.
The text of the Gospels is mostly taken from the Vulgate bible, and it has several passages from earlier versions of the Bible, such as the Vetus Latina.
It is a masterwork of Western calligraphy.
and Ireland's finest national treasure.
The illustrations and ornamentation of the Book of Kells are outstanding.
The decoration combines traditional Christian iconography with the ornate swirling motifs typical of the art of the British Isles.
Figures of humans, animals and mythical beasts, and Celtic knots and interlacing patterns in vibrant colours, enliven the manuscript's pages.
Many of these minor decorative elements have Christian symbolism.
The manuscript today is 340 folios (separate sheets, written on one side).
Since 1953, it has been bound in four volumes.
The leaves are on high-quality calf vellum.
There are ten full-page illustrations, and text pages that are vibrant with decorated initials and interlinear miniatures.
The writing of the text itself appears to be the work of at least three different scribes.
The colours used were gathered from many substances, some of which were imports from distant lands.
The manuscript takes its name from the Abbey of Kells which was its home for centuries.
Today, it is on permanent display at the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
The library usually displays two of the four volumes at a time, one showing a major illustration and the other showing a typical text page.
Reproductions
In 1951, the Swiss publisher Urs Graf Verlag Bern produced the first facsimile of the Book of Kells.
Most of the pages were reproduced in black-and-white photographs, and the edition also had 48 colour reproductions, including all of the full-page decorations.
Under licence from the Board of Trinity College Dublin, the art publishers Thames and Hudson produced a second facsimile edition in 1974.
This edition had all the full-page illustrations in the manuscript and a section of text page ornamentation, with some enlarged details of the illustrations.
The reproductions were all in full colour.
By 1986, Swiss publisher Faksimile-Verlag had a process that used gentle suction to straighten a page so that it could be photographed without touching it.
They got permission to publish a new facsimile.
After each page was photographed, a single-page facsimile was prepared so the colours could be carefully compared to the original and adjustments made where necessary.
The completed work was published in 1990 in a two-volume set containing the full facsimile and scholarly commentary.
One copy is held by the Anglican Church in Kells, on the site of the original monastery.
A digital copy of the manuscript was produced by Trinity College in 2006.
A rare copy of the Book of Kells can also be seen for free at The Little Museum of Dublin.
Cher Lloyd (born 28 July 1993) is an English singer, songwriter and rapper.
She has several hit songs, including Want U Back.
Lloyd became famous when she finished fourth in the seventh series of The X Factor.
Lloyd's first single "Swagger Jagger" was released in June 2011.
Even though the song received mixed reviews, the single entered at number one on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the Irish Singles Chart.
Her second single "With Ur Love" was released on 31 October 2011.
It features Mike Posner, and reached number four in the UK, and number five in Ireland.
Her first album Sticks and Stones peaked at number four in the UK Albums Chart and at number seven on the Irish Albums Chart.
Sticks and Stones was released on 4 November 2011, in Europe, and produced three singles, "Swagger Jagger", "With Ur Love" featuring Mike Posner, and "Want U Back" featuring Astro, respectively.
A re-release for North America was released on 2 October 2013, producing three singles as well.
The singles released were "Want U Back", "Oath" featuring Becky G, and "With Ur Love".
Lloyd released her second album, Sorry I'm Late on 27 May 2014.
Sorry I'm Late only produced two singles - "I Wish" featuring T.I. and "Sirens".
Lloyd was signed to Universal Music Group in early 2015, and is currently working on her third studio album.
She married Craig Monk at a private ceremony on 18 November 2014.
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor and musician.
He was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire to a New Zealander father and English mother.
He moved to Geelong, Victoria, Australia, when he was three.
His television roles include Mike Young in Neighbours from 1986-1989 and Mildred Pierce, for which he won an Emmy Award.
His movie roles include: Ed Exley in L.A. Confidential and Leonard Shelby in Memento.
He has been married to Kate Mestitz, a psychologist, since March 1997.
He is a long-standing supporter of the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League.
Pearce does not believe in God but believes "we're all connected."
The British Academy Film Awards are an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
It is the British equivalent of the Oscars.
As of 2008, it happens in the Royal Opera House, in London.
Before, it was at the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square.
The 65th British Academy Film Awards took place on 12 February 2012.
BAFTA was formed in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others.
In 1958, the Academy merged with The Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form The Society of Film and Television.
This became The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1976.
The Academy's awards are look like a theatrical mask.
They were designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe in 1955.
Annual ceremony
The ceremony used to take place in April or May.
Starting in 2002 it takes place in February in order to be before the Oscars.
The awards are mostly open to all nationalities.
There is an award for "Outstanding British Film" and "Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Producer or Director".
The Short Film and Short Animation awards are also only for UK movies.
The Awards ceremony is broadcast on British television, usually the day after it has taken place.
It is mostly broadcast on BBC One.
British Academy Awards of Merit
BAFTA Award for Best Film (since 1948)
BAFTA Award for Best British Film (since 1948)
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film (since 1948)
BAFTA Award for Best Short Film (since 1980)
BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (since 2006)
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary (1948-1989, 2012)
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay (awarded 1969-1983)
BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay (awarded 1955-1968)
British Academy Special Awards
BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award (since 1971)
Orange Rising Star Award (since 2006)
List of active  volcanoes includes volcanoes which are erupting, or have erupted in modern times.
Many volcanos have erupted dozens of times in the past few thousand years, but are not erupting at this moment.
Some scientists consider a volcano active if it has erupted in the holocene (historic times) period.
Most volcanoes live many thousands of years and erupt many times.
However, most do not erupt even once in a human lifespan.
Signs of unrest such as unusual earthquake activity or significant new gas emissions are signs that a volcano is active.
There are more than 1,500 volcanoes that could be active today.
An estimated 500 million people live near active volcanoes.
Planet Venus has more volcanoes than Earth.
Some may be active.
There are active volcanoes in every part of the world.
There are about 1,500 active volcanoes, many in the region of the Pacific Ocean.
Other regions
Fuego, Guatemala
Heard Island and McDonald Islands in Antarctica
Kilauea, Hawaii
Lakagigar in Iceland
La Palma in the Canary Islands
Loihi, Hawaii
Mount Erebus in Antarctica
Mount Etna in Italy
Soufrière Hills on the Caribbean island of Montserrat
Stromboli in Italy
Teide in Spain (Canary Islands)
Vesuvius in Italy
Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai
Hollywood Boulevard is a street in Hollywood, California.
The street starts at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue.
There it turns out and runs due west to Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
Shneur Hasofer () (born July 1, 1982) better known by his stage name DeScribe (Hasofer is Hebrew for "the scribe"), is a Hasidic Jewish musician.
His music Mixing elements of dancehall, reggae, hip hop and R&B.
DeScribe was born in Sydney, Australia, to a Hasidic Jewish family.
His mother, Devorah Hasofer, is a known singer/songwriter who has released four albums and mostly performs in the Hasidic communities in Australia and Israel.
He is a drummer from the age of five and in his preteen years he participated in the recordings of his mother's albums and performed with her as a special guest.
At the age of 14, Hasofer's parents sent him to Jerusalem to study in a yeshiva.
He spent a year in the yeshiva.
After that he stayed in Israel, "left the Jewish way of life and did a lot of stupid things."
Many of the things he did were illegal.
His family's move to Beitar Illit in 1998 did not help stop his wildness.
In 2000, at age 17, DeScribe joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a combat sharpshooter (a kind of semi professional sniper).
He served for three years at the height of the Second Intifada.
He saw intense action on almost a daily basis.
After being discharged, he stayed in Israel.
He organized a concert tour featuring affiliates of the Wu-Tang Clan Remedy and Killah Priest, gaining an inside view of the hip hop scene.
Around 2004, he began to feel a strong desire to leave his bad lifestyle and return to a religious one. “
I started to change the way I thought and behaved and in Judaism I found something that was real that brought happiness to a dark place in my life,” he has said.
In 2006, he moved to Brooklyn to attend Tifferet Menachem.
There he was given permission to set up a music studio inside the yeshiva.
In 2008, after an early music video was picked up by the Israeli media, he was invited to play the Highline Ballroom in New York with Perry Farrell.
Shortly after that, he had met Rohan Marley (Bob Marley’s son) by chance on the streets of New York City.
Marley later asked DeScribe to create the theme song for his company, Marley Coffee.
Marley Coffee supports environmental and social justice causes in Jamaica and around the world.
DeScribe came up with "Livin’ for the Grind," inspired by Bob Marley’s 1962 single "One Cup of Coffee."
In early 2011, DeScribe worked with Matisyahu on the dancehall track "Pure Soul".
The proceeds from the song benefit The Friendship Circle, a nonprofit organization that helps children with disabilities.
Artistic style
"My music is about unity," DeScribe has said, "and we all have one God whether we are Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
We are brothers and we share this world together."
Singles/Appearances
"Harmony" - DeScribe, on Harmony, Modular Moods/Shemspeed.
Released March 16, 2010.
"Change" - DeScribe & Y-Love, on The Change EP, Modular Moods.
Released May 14, 2010.
"Boom Selecta" - Shemspeed MCs vs. Electro Morocco (feat.
Y-Love, DeScribe, Kosha Dillz & Eprhyme), Shemspeed.
Released July 12, 2010.
"Move On" - Y-Love feat.
DeScribe, Diwon Music.
Released August 10, 2010.
"Modern Day Music" - DeScribe & Smoolik, on Sephardic Music Festival, Vol.
1, Shemspeed.
Released November 30, 2010.
"Livin for the Grind (Marley Coffee)" - DeScribe, Shemspeed.
Released December 22, 2010.
"Pure Soul" - DeScribe feat.
Matisyahu, Shemspeed.
Released March 22, 2011.
"Acharon Acharon, Chaviv (Diwon Remix)" - Lipa Schmeltzer & DeScribe, Shemspeed.
Released August 23, 2011.
The University of Siena (, UNISI) is in Siena, Italy.
It was created in 1240.
It is one of the oldest European universities and the 4th oldest in Italy.
As of 2011, the university had about 17,290 students.
1240 establishments
Haplodiploidy determines the sex in all members of the insect order Hymenoptera (bees, ants, and wasps), and the Thysanoptera ('thrips').p408 The system also occurs sporadically in some spider mites, coleopterans (bark beetles) and rotifers.
This means that the males have half the number of chromosomes that a female has, and are haploid.
It is this point which drives the kin selection theory of how eusociality evolved.p465 Whether haplodiploidy did in fact pave the way for the evolution of eusociality is still a matter of debate.
The thing to remember is that in normal sexual reproduction, the father has two sets of chromosomes, and crossing over takes place between the chromatids of each pair during the meiosis which produces the sperm.
Therefore, the sperms are not identical, because in each chromosome of a pair there will be different alleles at many of the loci.
But when the father is haploid all the sperm will be identical (except for a small number where gene mutations have taken place in the germline).
So, as long as all the female queen mates only with one male, all the female offspring will inherit the male's chromosome 100% intact.
In fact in Hymenoptera, the males almost all produce enough sperm to last the female for a whole lifetime.
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Во́льфович Жирино́вский), born 25 April 1946 as Vladimir Volfovich Eidelstein, is a Russian politician, lawyer and a colonel in the Soviet Army and later the Russian Army.
He is the founder and Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).
He is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
He is partly of Jewish descent (his father was Jewish).
Brown sugar is a type of table sugar.
It is made by mixing white sugar with molasses, a sugar byproduct.
Brown sugar can either be light or dark depending on how much molasses is in it.
Brown sugar can harden after a while out of the package.
Infotainment (information and entertainment) is a type of media and therefore a type of communication.
This media is designed to inform the media's recipient with information but at the same time to entertain him.
It is often used to novels to explain scientific things like the greenhouse effect easily and mixed with entertainment.
The first specimen is a skull that was collected from the lowermost levels (the fluvial Lujiatun beds) of the Yixian Formation.
The beds were laid down 125 million years ago (mya) in the Sihetun area, near Beipiao City, in western Liaoning Province.
The most significant, and highly unusual, characteristic of this dinosaur is its apparent adaptation to an herbivorous or omnivorous lifestyle.
Its name refers to its rodent-like front teeth, which show wear patterns commonly found in plant-eating dinosaurs.
The initial description of Incisivosaurus showed that the skull, about 10 cm in length (4 inches), had the most complete dentition known for any oviraptorosaur.
Their cladistic analysis indicated that Incisivosaurus lies at the base of the oviraptorosaurs, making it more basal than Caudipteryx and Oviraptor.
The distinguishing skeletal features of Incisivosaurus, include a long snout that made up about half the total length of the skull, a slender lower jaw with a long fenestra (opening), and its distinctive, large, flattened front teeth.
In addition to these unique features, Incisivosaurus shared many traits with more typical oviraptorosaurs, so it is classified in that group.
Several features, including its numerous teeth (most advanced oviraptorids were toothless), show that it was a primitive member of the group.
Several features of the skull are similar to the therizinosaurs, another theropod group that was probably herbivorous.
In 2009 the holotype skull was scanned and analyzed in three dimensions.
The results indicated that Incisivosaurus had fewer bird-like air spaces in the skull bones than later oviraptorosaurs did.
It also found that Incisivosaurus had reduced olfactory lobes and expanded optic lobes, like ornithomimids.
These features of oviraptorosaurs were similar to those of birds.
Incisivosaurus is assumed to have been feathered like most other maniraptoran theropods.
Its total body length has been estimated at just under 1 meter (3 ft.).
It is possible that Incisivosaurus is the same species as Protarchaeopteryx, though more fossil specimens are needed before the two can be directly compared.
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 2009) was a British actor.
He was born in Croydon, London.
His parents were working class.
His television roles included the title characters in Callan (for which he won a BAFTA Award) and The Equalizer (for which he won a Golden Globe Award).
His movie roles include Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man.
He also acted on stage.
Woodward married actress Venetia Barrett in 1952.
The couple had three children, all of whom are actors.
Their sons are Tim Woodward (born 1953) and Peter Woodward (born 1956).
Their daughter is Sarah Woodward (born 1963).
Woodward left Barrett for actress Michele Dotrice (born 1948).
The couple had a daughter, Emily Beth Woodward (born 1983).
Woodward and Barrett divorced in 1986.
He was married to Dotrice from 1987 until his death in Treliske, Truro, Cornwall.
Edward Woodward died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on 16 November 2009 at the age of 79.
He lived in Hawker's Cove, Cornwall, near Padstow.
He had various illnesses, including pneumonia.
Recording artist
His ability as tenor let him record twelve albums of romantic songs, as well as three albums of poetry and fourteen books to tape.
His vocal ability and acting skill let him make a number of appearances when time allowed on the BBC's Edwardian era music hall programme, The Good Old Days.
In 1969 and 1970, he was Television Actor of the Year, and Best Actor at the Sun Awards in 1970, 1971 and 1972.
Woodward won the 1970 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his title role in Callan.
He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1978.
At the 1987 Golden Globe Awards, he won Best Actor in a Dramatic TV Series for his role of Robert McCall in The Equalizer.
At the Emmy Award from 1986 to 1990, he was nominated each year for The Equalizer.
Golden Globe - 1987
RTS Television Actor of the Year - 1969, 1970
Sun Award for Best Actor - 1970, 1971, 1972
Order of the British Empire - 1978
BAFTAAward for Best Actor
Emmy Award nominated
1955 - Where There's a Will
1958 - Romeo and Juliet
1958 - Hamlet
1962 - Rattle of a Simple Man
1968 - Two Cities
1971 - Cyrano de Bergerac
1971 - The White Devil
1973 - The Wolf
1975 - Male of the Species
1976 - On Approval
1978 - The Dark Horse
1980 - The Beggar's Opera (also as director)
1980 - Private Lives
1982 - The Assassin
1982 - Richard III
1992 - The Dead Secret
1960 - Inn for Trouble
1964 - Becket
1969 - File of the Golden Goose
1970 - Incense for the Damned
1972 - Sitting Target
1972 - Young Winston
1973 - Hunted
1973 - The Wicker Man
1974 - Callan
1975 - Three for All
1977 - Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers
1980 - Breaker Morant
1981 - The Appointment
1981 - Wet Job (TV)
1982 - Who Dares Wins
1983 - Operation Comeback (Love is forever)1984 - Champions1984 - A Christmas Carol1985 - Arthur the King1986 - King David1987 - Uncle Tom's Cabin1989 - The Man In The Brown Suit1990 - Over My Dead Body1990 - Hands of a Murderer1990 - Mister Johnson1990 - Soccer Shootout - Official Film 1990 World Cup (Narrator)
1993 - Deadly Advice1994 - A Christmas Reunion1995 - The Shamrock Conspiracy (TV)
1996 - Harrison: The Cry Of The City (TV)
1996 - Gulliver's Travels1999 - Marcia's Dowry2007 - Hot Fuzz (as Tom Weaver)
2009 - A Congregation of Ghosts (as the Reverend Frederick Densham)
1967 - Sword of Honour1967-72, 1981 - Callan
1972 - Whodunnit? (
as host)