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Songs are about clan or family history.
They are often updated to take into account popular movies and music, controversies and social relationships.
Songlines are about Dreamtime.
They have oral lore and storytelling in a series of song cycles.
These songs often describe how the features of the land were made and named during the Dreamtime.
By singing the songs in the right order, indigenous Australians could travel vast distances.
Death Wail
Krill Krill
The Krill Krill song cycle is new music from east Kimberley.
A man named Rover Thomas discovered the ceremony in 1974.
This was after a woman to whom he was spiritually related was killed.
Thomas says he was visited by her spirit and she gave him the ceremony.
In addition to the music, Thomas and others, including Hector Jandany and Queenie McKenzie, made a famous style of painting to go with the ceremony.
Kun-borrk
Kun-borrk was started around the Adelaide, Mann and Rose Rivers.
It has a didgeridoo start and then percussion and vocals.
The vocal often include words.
Wangga
Wangga started near the South Alligator River.
It has a very high note to start the song.
This joined by rhythmic percussion.
It is followed by a sudden shift to a low tone.
Contemporary trends
A number of Indigenous Australians have had mainstream success, such as Jimmy Little, Yothu Yindi, Troy Cassar-Daley  and NoKTuRNL.
Indigenous music has also had broad exposure through the world music movement.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu had international success singing contemporary music in English and in the language of the Yolngu.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was an Australian television series for children.
It was created by John McCallum.
It was made from 1966–1968.
The show tells the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo.
It happens in the (fictional) Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were made over the three seasons of production.
At the time of first screening, Australian television was still in black and white.
The show was filmed in colour to get more international sales, especially in the United States and Canada.
It aired there between 1969 and 1972.
The Nine Network repeated the series several times after Australian television became colour in 1975.
Ed Devereaux as Matt Hammond, the Head Ranger of Waratah National Park
Garry Pankhurst as Sonny Hammond, Matt's younger son
Ken James as Mark Hammond, Matt's elder son
Tony Bonner as Jerry King, flight ranger (helicopter pilot) (exit #78)
Liza Goddard as Clarissa 'Clancy' Merrick (entry #9 exit #75), the teenage daughter of a ranger stationed at another section of the park.
When her father is moved to a park in northern New South Wales, Matt invites Clancy to stay with the Hammond family so that her music studies are not hurt by the move north.
John Warwick as Sir Adrian Gillespie, Head of the NSW National Parks Board
Elke Neidhardt as Dr. Anna Steiner, a German doctor and playing a support role.
Morgan Brain as Sgt.
Bernard Gillies.
Skippy was played by at least nine different kangaroos
Australian television series
, also romanized as Tempyō, was a  after Jinki and before Tenpyō-kanpō.
This period started in August 729 and ended in April 749.
Events of the Tenpyō era
740 (Tenpyō 12, 10th month): The forces of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu are defeated in Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu.
740 (Tenpyō 12): Japan's capital city is established in Kuni-kyō.
741 (Tenpyō 13): The Emperor establishes Buddhist temples in the provinces of Japan.
Provincial monasteries were built.
743 (Tenpyō 15): The Emperor orders creation of a huge statue of the Buddha (daibutsu) which will be part of Tōdai-ji, Nara.
744 (Tenpyō 16): Naniwa-kyō became Japan's capital.
745 (Tenpyō 17): The capital returns to Heijō-kyō.
749 (Tenpyō 20, 4th month): Former-Empress Genshō died.
749 (Tenpyō 20): After a 25-year reign, Emperor Shōmu abdicated and took vows as a Buddhist priest.
Shōmu's daughter receives the succession (senso).
Soon after, Empress Kōken's role as monarch was confirmed (sokui).
748 disestablishments
729 establishments
École nationale de l'aviation civile (ÉNAC), Aix-en-Provence, Carcassonne, Castelnaudary, Toulouse, Muret, Montpellier, Grenoble, Biscarosse, Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, Saint-Yan et Melun,
École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique (ISAE-ENSMA), Poitiers,
Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE), Toulouse.
The GEA universities have created the Institut sino-européen d'ingénierie de l'aviation of Tianjin in partnership with French aerospace companies.
This is part of Franco-Chinese cooperation after an Airbus A320 assembly plant was built in Tianjin.
The university, opened in October 2007, trains Chinese students.
They follow a course in aerospace engineering, taught in French.
After a first year of learning the French language, they follow a master's degree course in aeronautical engineering.
Not linked with the engineering training, three Mastères Spécialisés are also taught in Tianjin:
In the Wake of the Bounty is an Australian movie directed by Charles Chauvel.
It is the first movie of Errol Flynn.
It is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
The Australian movie was made two years before MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty.
The movie mixed re-enactments with documentary.
It focused not so much on the mutiny itself as on what happened afterwards.
was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel.
It was produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942.
It was one of four winners of the 1942 Academy award for best documentary.
It was the first Australian movie to win an Oscar.
It was made by the Australian war photographer Damien Parer and directed by Ken G. Hall.
Kenneth George Hall, AO OBE (22 February 1901 – 8 February 1994), was an Australian Movie director.
He is said to be one of the most important people in the history of the Australian cinema.
Hall began making movies in 1928.
The first movie was The Exploits of the Emden about the Battle of Cocos.
Kokoda Front Line in 1942 became the first Australian movie to win an Academy Award.
In 1956, Hall became general manager for Channel Nine in Sydney.
He stayed there until 1966.
On 1 January 1972, Hall was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to the "Australian motion picture industry."
He got the Raymond Longford Award for "Lifetime Achievement" in 1976.
The Exploits of the Emden (1928)
On Our Selection (1932)
The Squatter's Daughter (1933)
The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934)
Strike Me Lucky (1934)
Grandad Rudd (1935)
Thoroughbred (1936)
Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)
It Isn't Done (1937)
Tall Timbers (1937)
Lovers and Luggers (1937)
The Broken Melody (1938)
Let George Do It (1938)
Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938)
Gone to the Dogs (1939)
Come Up Smiling (1939) (producer only)
Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939)
Dad Rudd, MP (1940)
Smithy (1946)
Selected Short Movies
That's Cricket (1931)
Cinesound Varieties (1934)
100,000 Cobbers (1942)
Kokoda Front Line! (
1942)
South West Pacific (1943)
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian drama movie.
It was directed by Peter Weir.
It stars Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Rachel Roberts and Vivean Gray.
The movie is from the book Picnic at Hanging Rock, by author Joan Lindsay.
The film tells the story of the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher.
They disappear during a picnic to Hanging Rock, Victoria, on St. Valentine's Day in 1900.
The movie shows the effect on the local community.
Picnic at Hanging Rock made $5,120,000 in ticket sales in Australia.
Nominated in 1976 for "Best Cinematography" by the British Society of Cinematographers.
Winner of "Best Cinematography" at the 1976 for BAFTA Awards.
Also nominated for  "Best Costume Design" and "Best Soundtrack".
Winner of "Best Cinematography" at the 1979 Saturn Awards by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
Also nominated for "Best Writing".
1975 mystery movies
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian movie.
It is directed by Peter Weir and stars Mel Gibson and Mark Lee.
It is about several young men from rural Western Australia who join the Australian Army during the First World War.
They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire.
They take part in the Gallipoli Campaign.
Over time the young men lose their innocence about the purpose of war.
The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli.
It shows the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915.
Gallipoli is a faithful portrayal of life in Australia in the 1910s.
It captures the ideals and character of the Australians who joined up to fight, as well as the conditions they endured on the battlefield.
It does, however, change events for dramatic purposes.
It has a number of significant historical inaccuracies.
The many running scenes in the movie are set to Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygène.
Gallipoli was successful at the box office earning $11,740,000.
Gallipoli was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.
The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian movie.
It is based on the Banjo Paterson poem The Man from Snowy River.
The cast included Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Terence Donovan, and Chris Haywood.
Both Burlinson and Thornton were in the 1988 sequel, The Man from Snowy River II.
The Man from Snowy River made $17,228,160 at the box office in Australia,.
This is the same as $50,132,946 in 2009 dollars.
Won 1982 AFI Award for Best Original Music Score — (awarded to Bruce Rowland)
Won 1982 Montreal World Film Festival Award for Most Popular Film — (awarded to George T. Miller)
Nominated for 1982 AFI Award for Best Achievement in Sound
Nominated for 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film Australia
1980s western movies
Light therapy is a treatment where the patient is exposed to light.
Depression, sleeping problems, bipolar disorder and many skin conditions are treated with this therapy.
The therapy consists of exposing the patient to a light source.
The light source usually emits the full spectrum of light.
Sometimes, this has to be done at a specific time of day.
American chestnut, one of the most important forest trees throughout much of the eastern United States and southeasternmost Canada
Chestnut blight, fungal disease
Chestnut oak, species of oak in the white oak group
Chinese chestnut
Castanea mollissima, species of chestnut native to China
Sterculia monosperma, also known as Thai Chestnut
Guiana chestnut, a name for Pachira aquatica
Horse chestnut, member of the genus Aesculus
Japanese chestnut, species of chestnut from Japan and South Korea
Malabar chestnut, a name for Pachira aquatica
Swamp chestnut oak, species of oak in the white oak section Quercus
Sweet chestnut, species of chestnut from southeastern Europe and Asia Minor
Chestnut, Illinois, United States
Chestnut Grove, North Carolina, United States
Chestnut (coat), color of horse
Chestnut (horse anatomy), on the legs of horses
Chestnut Dunnart, dunnart that was described by Van Dyck in 1986
Chestnut Sparrow, sparrow that likes dry savanna
Chestnut Teal, dabbling duck found in southern Australia
Chestnut Woodpecker, bird from South America from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas south to Ecuador, Bolivia and northern Brazil, and on Trinidad
Horse-chestnut leaf miner, a moth
Chestnut (color), reddish brown
Chestnut hair, reddish brown hair
Operation Chestnut, failed British raid by 2 Special Air Service
Chestnut (joke), British slang for an old or stale joke
Chestnut (music), piece of music that has been played so much that everyone has grown tired of it
Cyrus Chestnut, jazz pianist
Jacob Chestnut, one of the two United States Capitol Police officers killed in the line of duty on July 24, 1998
Joey Chestnut, competitive eater from San Jose, California
Morris Chestnut, American movie and television actor
Crocodile Dundee (stylized as "Crocodile" Dundee in the United States) is a 1986 Australian-American romantic comedy adventure movie.
It is set in the Australian Outback and in New York City.
It stars Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.
It is based on the true life of Rodney Ansell.
The film had a budget of under $10 million.
They meant to make a commercial Australian film that America would like.
Many people in the world liked the movie.
It made the second most money of all movies in the United States in 1986.
It also was second in money made in the world in 1986.
There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and the American / international version.
The American version had much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood words.
It was also slightly shorter.
There were two sequel movies: "Crocodile" Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001).
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy – Paul Hogan
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay – Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell
BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay – Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell
BAFTA Award for Best Actor – Paul Hogan
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture – Linda Kozlowski
Australia is a 2008 Australian epic historical romantic drama movie.
It was directed by Baz Luhrmann.
It starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
It made the second most money of any Australian movie.
The first was Crocodile Dundee.
The movie is set between 1939 and 1942.
Events in northern Australia included the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
The movie was released in both Australia and the United States on 26 November 2008.
It was released to the rest of the world in late December 2008 and January and February 2009.
Any of several basketball leagues named National Basketball League
National Basketball League (Australasia), the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in Australasia
National Basketball League (Bulgaria)
National Basketball League of Canada
National Basketball League 1993-94 (Canada) (defunct)
National Basketball League (China), a men's semi-professional basketball minor league in China
National Basketball League (Czech Republic)
National Basketball League (Indonesia)
National Basketball League (Lithuania), a men's basketball minor league in Lithuania
National Basketball League (Malaysia)
National Basketball League (New Zealand)
National Basketball League (United Kingdom) 1972–2003 (defunct)
National Basketball League (United States) 1937–49 (defunct)
National Basketball League (1898–1904) (defunct)
Namibia Breweries Limited
National Bicycle League (United States)
National Blackbelt League the world's largest and most prestigious sport karate league tournament
National Book League (United Kingdom)
National Bowling League (United States) (defunct)
n-Butyllithium, an organic compound.
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center
New Brunswick Laboratory
Noble Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol NBL
North Bay League, now part of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)
North Berwick Law, a volcanic plug in East Lothian, Scotland
The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory is a book published in 1984 by psychoanalyst and historian Jeffrey Masson.
In the book, Masson criticizes Austrian neurologist (a person who treats the nervous system) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) for abandoning the seduction theory, which held that neurotic illness in adults and adolescents was a result of their being sexually abused before puberty.
Freud said that his patients confabulated the molestations and then rejected this theory.
Masson says that Freud's original view was the correct one.
The ANZ Championship is the most famous netball league in the world.
The competition is held once a year between April and July.
There are 69 matches played over 17 weeks.
There are ten teams, five from Australia and five from New Zealand.
ANZ Bank is the sponsor of the competition.
The ANZ Championship was started in 2008.
It replaced the Commonwealth Bank Trophy in Australia and the National Bank Cup in New Zealand.
Both of which were retired after 2007.
The ANZ Championship saw netball become a semi-professional sport in both countries.
There was more media coverage and higher player salaries.
The current champions are the Queensland Firebirds, who defeated the Northern Mystics in the grand final of the 2011 season.
The USL W-League is a national women's soccer league.
It is in the United States and Canada.
It is alongside the Women's Premier Soccer League and below Women's Professional Soccer.
The W-League is seen as North America’s main way for women to develop in soccer.
The W-League is also an open league.
This gives college players the chance to play alongside established international players.
The league is administered by the United Soccer Leagues system.
The USL also oversees the men's USL Pro and USL Premier Development League.
2011 Teams
D.C. United Women  (2011- )
Long Island Rough Riders  (1995-)
New Jersey Rangers  (2010-)
New Jersey Wildcats  (1996-)
New York Magic  (1997-)
North Jersey Valkyries  (2010-)
Atlanta Silverbacks Women  (2005-)
Charlotte Lady Eagles  (2000-)
Dayton Dutch Lions WFC  (2011-)
Fredericksburg Impact  (2011-)
Hampton Roads Piranhas  (1995-)
Northern Virginia Majestics  (1999-)
Hamilton FC Rage  (2011-, Hamilton Avalanche 2006-2010)
Laval Comets  (2006-)
London Gryphons  (2004-)
Ottawa Fury Women  (2003-)
Quebec City Amiral SC  (2009-)
Rochester Ravens  (2009-, Rochester Rhinos Women 2004-2008, Rochester Ravens 1996-2003)
Toronto Lady Lynx  (2005-)
Colorado Force  (2009-, Fort Collins Force 1997-2008)
USA  (2010-,  Real Colorado Cougars 2006-2009,  Denver Lady Cougars 2001-2005, Colorado Gold 2000)
LA Strikers  (2011-)
Pali Blues  (2008-)
Santa Clarita Blue Heat  (2010, Ventura County Fusion 2008-2009)
Seattle Sounders Women  (2001-)
Vancouver Whitecaps Women  (2001-)
Victoria Highlanders Women  (2011-)
Soccer in Canada
A-League Women, known before the 2021–22 season as the W-League, is the main women's semi-professional football (soccer) league in Australia.
Started in 2008, it currently has 10 teams, nine in Australia and the other in New Zealand.
Eight of the Australian teams and the New Zealand team are partners with clubs in A-League Men.
The other team is based in Canberra.
Because it is sponsored by Liberty Lending Group, an Australian financial services company, the League is called Liberty A-League Women.
A-League Women started on 25 October 2008 as the W-League.
As of the 2021–22 season, teams in A-League Women have a salary cap of A$450,000 for the entire squad.
By comparison, the salary cap for clubs in the men's competition, A-League Men, is A$2.1 million, with each team in that league allowed to sign two "marquee players" whose salaries do not count against the cap.
The league began with eight teams.
The Central Coast Mariners had to withdraw from the 2010–11 season.
This was because they did not have enough money.
Western Sydney Wanderers FC joined the league for 2012–13, followed by Melbourne City FC in 2015–16 and the league's first New Zealand side, Wellington Phoenix FC, in 2021–22.
Central Coast Mariners FC will return to A-League Women in 2022–23, and Western United FC will add an A-League Women side in 2022–23.
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is the main women's professional basketball league in Australia.
It currently has ten teams.
The league was started in 1981.
It is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League (NBL).
The regular season is played from October to March.
The Grand Final is in either late February or early March.
Some WNBL teams have NBL counterparts.
The Adelaide Lightning, West Coast Waves, and Sydney Flames are the only current teams to play sharing the market with an NBL team.
Guar is a crop which is mostly grown in Pakistan.
This crop is planted in July or August and harvested at the end of November.
Guar is widely used in oil exploring fields and also in the cosmetics industry.
There are four major countries in the world which produce guar: Sudan, India, Pakistan, and the United States.
Tone deafness is the inability to hear that a musical instrument produces tones of different pitch.
In music, relative pitch is used for different musical notes.
Very often the condition results from damage in the brain.
People with this problem do not seem to have a problem to hear or reproduce intonation in human speech.
Institut aéronautique et spatial (IAS) is the French aeronautical industry's education coordinator.
IAS was created in 1980.
IAS members are the major aeronautics & space companies such as EADS, Safran, Thales, Dassault Aviation, Airbus, Eurocopter, and others:
Academic training with graduation;
Continuing education and professional trainings;
Support for research cooperation
IAS website
Okhotigone Eskov, 1993 is a genus of spiders belonging to the Linyphiidae family.
Okhotigone sounkyoensis (Betekenis/definitie van)
ADW: Okhotigone sounkyoensis: CLASSIFICATION
A  () is a French term used to describe a situation where three people are involved in a relationship and live together.
Each of the three has a sexual relationship to the two others.
A form of polyamory, arrangements are sometimes identified as a throuple, thruple, or triad.
In 2021, the first ever throuple couple got married, and it is now officially legal.
Elena Ionescu (17 May 1988) is an Romanian singer who since 2006 has been the lead singer of pop band Mandinga replacing Elena Gheorghe.
Mandinga won the Romanian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan were Ionescu will sing the song Zaleilah.
Hypermobility refers to when human joints stretch further than is usual.
For example, some people can bend their thumbs back to their wrist, their toes backwards, put their leg behind their heads or any other ways of unusual performances.
This condition can affect a particular joint or many joints throughout the human body.
Hypermobility often results from one or more body issues: misaligned joints, abnormally shaped ends of one or more bones near a joint or other body issues.
The same defect also results in weaker than normal bones, which may lead to osteoperosis or bone fracture.
This condition is often described with the term double jointed.
Some people who are hypermobile carry no other health matters.
was a  after Tenpyō and before Tenpyō-shōhō.
This period was only months.
It started in April and ended in July 749.
Tenpyō-kanpō lasted only four months during the last year of Shōmu's reign.
The previous era ended and this new one started in 749.
Events of the Tenpyō-kanpō era
749 (Tenpyō-kanpō 1, 2nd day of the 7th month): In the 25th year of Shōmu's reign, the emperor abdicated; and the succession (senso) was received by his daughter.
Soon after, Empress Kōken's role as monarch was confirmed by ceremonies (sokui).
749 (Tenpyō-kanpō 1, 2nd day of the 7th month): To mark the beginning of Empress Kōken's regin, the Tenpyō-kanpō era ended and the new Tenpyō-Shōhō era started.
749 disestablishments
749 establishments
was a  after Tenpyō-kanpō and before Tenpyō-hōji.
This period started in July 749 and ended in August 757.
The reigning monarchs were  and .
Tenpyō-shōhō means "Heavenly Peace and Victorious Treasure".
Events of the Tenpyō-shōhō era
749 (Tenpyō-shōhō 1): Emperor Shōmu abdicated, and his daughter receives the succession (senso).
Soon after, Empress Kōken's role as monarch is confirmed by ceremonies (sokui).
752 (Tenpyō-shōhō 4, 4th month): The Eye-opening Ceremony celebrating the completion of the Great Buddha is held at Tōdai-ji in Nara.
5 September 750 (Tenpyō-shōhō 2, 1st day of the 8th month): In the 10th year of Kōken's reign, the empress abdicated; and succession (senso) was received by her adopted son.
Emperor Junnin's new position is confirmed by ceremonies (sokui).
756 (Tenpyō-shōhō 2, 5th month): Former-Emperor Shōmu died at age 56.
757 disestablishments
John Davies Cale, OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer and record producer, known as a founding member of experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.
He played on two of their albums The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) and White Light/White Heat (1968).
In 1970 he released first solo album Vintage Violence.
He also worked as record producer.
During his career, he worked with such as John Cage, Hector Zazou, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, The Stooges and Manic Street Preachers.
Vintage Violence (1970)
Church of Anthrax (1971) − with Terry Riley
The Academy in Peril (1972)
Paris 1919 (1973)
Fear (1974)
Slow Dazzle (1975)
Helen of Troy (1975)
Honi Soit (1981)
Music for a New Society (1982)
Caribbean Sunset (1983)
Artificial Intelligence (1985)
Words for the Dying (1989)
Songs for Drella (1990) − with Lou Reed
Wrong Way Up (1990) − with Brian Eno
Last Day on Earth (1994) − with Bob Neuwirth
Walking on Locusts (1996)
HoboSapiens (2003)
blackAcetate (2005)
Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (2012)
M:FANS (2016)
Federal Center of Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, short Cefet-RJ) is a public university of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.
Asturias Airport is an airport in Asturias.
It is located in the municipality of Castrillón, and is near to Avilés.
It is operated by Aena.
Charisma is a term that means compelling attractiveness or charms which inspire devotion.
This term also refers to special power or talent.
The term charisma has many meanings.
Christine is a female given name.
It comes from the word Christ.
This name means follower of Christ.
In 1968, it was the 14th most frequently-given name for girls in the United States.
Saint Christina of Bolsena, remembered on the 24th of July
Saint Christine of Persia, remembered on the 13th of March
Saint Christine of Ancyre, remembered on the 18th of May
Christine Adjobi, an Ivorian politician and physician
Christine Amertil (born 1979), a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 400 metres
Christine Amor (born 1952), an Australian actress
Christine Anu (born 1970), an Australian pop singer
Christine Bottomley (born 1979), a British actress
Christine Boudrias (born 1972), a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1994 & 1998 Winter Olympics
Christine Lagarde (born 1956), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Christine Sinclair (born 1983), a Canadian football player who is currently a member of the Canadian women's national soccer team
Christine Truman (born 1941), a British tennis player and French Open Champion.
Bayville is an incorporated village on the north shore of Nassau County on Long Island, in the state of New York.
The 2010 census showed that 6,669 people lived there, down from 7,213 in 2009.
Bayville was purchased from the Native Americans (the Matinecock tribe) by Daniel Whitehead in 1658.
In the 1800s, Bayville was mostly used for asparagus farming.
Five or six men owned large sections of Bayville and made their living from farming asparagus.
One of those men was Nicholas Godfrey, a native of Cape May township in New Jersey.
At the height of his land ownership, Godfrey owned more than half of Bayville's land.
Godfrey died in 1899.
He is buried in the Bayville Cemetery.
He was a Lieutenant for the Union Army during the Civil War.
He was also an inventor and he was Bayville's first postmaster in 1877.
The village wasn't named "Bayville" until 1859.
Before that, the village had two names.
The western and middle parts were called "Oak Neck".
The eastern part was called "Pine Island".
Bayville's total area is 1.5 square miles.
1.4 is made up of land and .1 is made up of water.
Frank M. Flower & Sons, Inc. is Bayville's only commercial business.
It has been there since 1887.
Bayville got electricity in 1906.
The Bayville Bridge that is there today is the fourth bridge.
The first bridge there was built in 1898.
Before that, people went between Bayville to Oyster Bay by water taxi.
The name Brenda is a female given name in the English language.
Its origin is uncertain, but it may be derived from a Scandinavian type of language, rather than Celtic like the masculine name Brendan.
The name has been around for many centuries.
Many famous people are named Brenda, including Brenda Blethyn, Brenda Song and Brenda Lee.
There was also a woman in the golf series at Prince Edward Island who's name was Brenda from Northern Ireland.
Brenda Archer, Guyanese high jumper
Brenda Benet, actress
Brenda Blethyn, English actress
Brenda Bruce, English actress
Brenda Castillo, Dominican Republic volleyball player
Brenda Eisler, Canadian long jumper
Brenda Gibbs, Australian actress
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Brenda Joyce, actress
Brenda Matthews, New Zealand sprinter
Brenda Robertson, Canadian politician
Brenda Strong, American actress
Brenda, Manitoba
was a  after Tenpyō-shōhō and before Tenpyō-jingo.
This period spanned the years from August 757 through January 765.
The reigning monarchs were .
Events of the Tenpyō-hōji era
757 (Tenpyō-hōji 1): The new era began in the 8th month of Tenpyō-shōhō 9.
760 (Tenpyō-hōji 4): Newly minted coins were put into circulation – each copper coin bearing the words Mannen Ten-hō, each silver coin bearing the words Teihei Genhō, and each gold coin bearing the words Kaiki Shōhō.
26 January 765''' (Tenpyō-hōji 9, 1st day of the 1st month): In the 6th year of Junnin's reign, the emperor was removed from his role as monarch; and the succession (senso) was received by former-Empress Kōken.
Soon after, Empress Shōtoku's reign was confirmed by ceremonies (sokui'').
765 disestablishments
757 establishments
Austria-Italy
Tyrol (region), a (historical) region in the Alps, divided between Austria and Italy
Tyrol (state), a state of Austria
East Tyrol, part of the State of Tyrol
North Tyrol, part of the State of Tyrol
South Tyrol, a province in northern Italy
Tirol, South Tyrol, a municipality in South Tyrol
County of Tyrol, a former political entity in existence until the early 20th century comprising territory in the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and the Austrian state of Tyrol
German Tyrol, the German-speaking area of the old County of Tyrol
Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, a Euroregion comprising the historical Tyrol region
Tyrol Basin, a ski and snowboard area located in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
Tirol, a village in Doclin Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
Tyrolia (ski bindings), a major ski binding company, now part of Head NV
Galen Tyrol, a fictional character from the re-imagined miniseries and television series Battlestar Galactica
Tirol (fictional planet), the homeworld of the Robotech Masters in the anime series Robotech
Tyrol (;  ; ) is a federal state in western Austria.
It has the Austrian part of the historic Princely County of Tyrol.
The capital of Tyrol is Innsbruck.
The state's territory is entirely in the Eastern Alps at the important Brenner Pass.
The highest mountain in the state is the Großglockner.
The state is divided into eight districts and the city of Innsbruck.
The districts and their centres (capitals) are:
Statutory city
1 Innsbruck (city)
Districts in North Tyrol
2 Innsbruck-Land, (Innsbruck)
3 Imst District, (Imst)
4 Kitzbühel District, (Kitzbühel)
5 Kufstein District, (Kufstein)
6 Landeck District, (capital: Landeck)
8 Reutte District, (Reutte)
9 Schwaz District, (Schwaz)
District in East Tyrol
7 Lienz District, (Lienz)
Carinthia (state), a state of the Republic of Austria
Slovenian Carinthia, a traditional region of Slovenia
Koroška statistical region, the statistical region of Slovenia
March of Carinthia, in the Holy Roman Empire
Duchy of Carinthia, in the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Carantania, a medieval Slavic principality
Styria ( ; ; Croatian and ; ) is a state in the southeast of Austria.
The capital city is Graz.
It borders Slovenia.
In 2016 there were about 1,232,000 people living in Styria.
Statutory City
Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
Liezen with the subdistrict Gröbming
Murau
Murtal
Südoststeiermark
Voitsberg
Weiz
The current coat of arms of Austria has been in use by the Republic of Austria since 1919.
Between 1934 and the 1938 Austria used a different coat of arms.
It had a double-headed eagle.
In 1945 the original coat of arms returned, with broken chains added to show Austria's freedom.
The Eagle: Austria's freedom (introduced 1919)
The escutcheon Emblem of Austria (late Middle Ages, reintroduced 1915)
The mural crown: The middle class (introduced 1919)
The sickle: Agriculture (introduced 1919)
The Hammer: Industry (introduced 1919)
The broken chains: Freedom from National Socialist dictatorship (added 1945)
Government of Austria
Some people have said that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the music used for the national anthem.
Now people think Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808) wrote the music.
Paula von Preradović wrote the lyrics.
She is one of the few women to write lyrics for a national anthem.
Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is an American musician and spoken word artist.
Biafra was the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys.
He started the record label Alternative Tentacles with East Bay Ray in 1979.
Biafra is a member of the Green Party of the United States.
He ran for president in 2000.
Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Russian ballet dancer.
He was one of the most celebrated dancers of the 20th century.
In 1961 he defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to prevent him.
For some years he partnered Dame Margot Fonteyn.
The Dictionary of Dance says "His repertoire was enormous, including all the classics and the modern standards".
After his period with Fonteyn, Nureyev worked in several countries.
Nureyev was director, principal dancer and choreographer of Nureyev and Friends on Broadway (197475) and was artistic director of the Paris Opera House from 1983 to 1989.
He promoted junior dancers, such as Sylvie Guillem, and commissioned new works.
In the last years of his life he took up conducting.
Nureyev was gay.
He and his partner, Erik Bruhn, died of AIDS.
Invented traditions are those traditions of recent origin which may claim to be old but are usually recently invented (made up).
REAL: It's in the books, academic papers, newspapers, or other media.
FAKE: People or opinions
Burgenland Croatian is a regional language of the Chakavian dialect of the Croatian language.
It is spoken in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Burgenland Croatian is a minority language in the Austrian state of Burgenland.
19,412 people speak the language there in 2001.
Many of the Burgenland Croatian speakers in Austria also live in Vienna and Graz.
Smaller Croatian minorities in western Hungary, southwestern Slovakia and southern Czech Republic are often also called Burgenland Croats.
They use the Burgenland Croatian written language.
They are historically and culturally closely connected to the Austrian Croats.
Spoken language is language in its spontaneous form.
It is different from written language.
Many spoken languages have no written form.
The term spoken language is sometimes used for oral language.
This is not quite right because sign language is also sometimes said to be 'spoken'.
Children get their first language from whichever language is spoken around them.
Usually this comes from their mothers.
Spoken language is much richer than written language.
Spoken language can have different rules than written language.
Nancy Allen (born on June 24, 1950) is an American movie and television actress.
She was born in Yonkers, New York.
Her movies include RoboCop (1987) and Carrie (1976)
Korbel is of Jewish descent and was born in Kyšperk (now Letohrad).
His daughter is Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of State.
His student was Condoleezza Rice, also former Secretary of State.
Educators from Colorado
Heather O'Rourke (December 27, 1975  February 1, 1988) was an American movie child actress who acted in the movie Poltergeist (1982).
She also worked in television.
But she's an adult now.
Disease-related deaths in San Diego County
Brenda Russell (born Brenda Gordon, April 8 1944) is an American R&B singer.
She has had many hit songs on several musical charts.
Her singing genres include R&B and pop.
The Mastère en sciences (MSc) is a French degree in higher education accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and for owners of a Bachelor's degree or a first year of a Master's degree.
Created in 2002, this degree certifies that the training is consistent with various quality criteria (selectivity, English language education, number of hours, length of program, research, etc..).
According to the rules, only the schools members of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles may issue the diploma.
Falstaff is an Italian opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, on a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
It was first performed in Milan, on February 9, 1893.
Verdi's last opera and perhaps greatest masterpiece, composed when he was 80, and only his second comedy since his earlier attempt Un giorno di regno in 1840.
The composition of the opera
When Verdi composed Falstaff he was not writing it for a commission.
He was just writing it for his own pleasure, without a performance in mind.
When he had finished it he felt that it would be his last work and that his life’s work had finished.
It was almost true.
It was indeed his last opera and his last big work.
When composers turn plays into operas they usually have to make some changes in the drama to make it suitable to be sung.
Verdi had already turned two other Shakespeare plays into opera: Otello and Macbeth.
When he composed these he worked with librettists to create something as close to Shakespeare’s plays as possible, but when writing Falstaff he took more freedom.
The character of Falstaff is very close to the way he is shown in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, rather than the Falstaff of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Falstaff - baritone
Ford - baritone
Alice - soprano
Nanetta - soprano
Fenton - tenor
Mistress Quickly -  contralto
Meg Page - mezzo-soprano
This takes place in the Garter Inn ().
Dr Caius, who is a rich man with servants, complains that Falstaff has beaten his servants and that Falstaff’s two friends Bardolfo and Pistola made him drunk and then stole his money.
Falstaff laughs at him.
He says he will never get drunk again unless he is in the company of good, religious people.
Bardolfo and Pistola in the background sing “Amen” until Falstaff stops them, complaining that they sing out of tune.
Falstaff complains that his bill for the drinks is very high.
He says that his two friends drink so much that he won’t have enough to eat and he’ll get thin and then he cannot be his proper self.
He says he is in love with two ladies: Mrs Ford and Mrs Page.
He has written love letters to them both.
He asks his two friends to take the letters to them, but they refuse.
Falstaff is cross and gets a page boy to take them instead.
Then he chases his friends with a broom.
The next scene changes to the garden of Ford’s house.
Four ladies are in the garden: Alice Ford and Meg Page and also Mistress Quickly and Anne Ford, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ford.
Verdi calls her “Nannetta”.
The four of them look at the two letters that Alice and Meg have received and find they are exactly the same except for the address.
They are amused and a bit annoyed, so they decide to tease Falstaff.
Mr Ford is walking with Dr Caius, Fenton and Falstaff’s two friends.
Fenton is a young man who is in love with Nannetta, but Ford does not want him to marry his daughter.
Bardolfo and Pistola have deserted Falstaff.
They tell Ford that Falstaff is in love with his wife.
He is cross, of course, and plans revenge.
The music of the four ladies and the music of the five men is sometimes heard separately, and sometimes it is combined.
Fenton and Nannetta stay behind to kiss and they sing a love duet.
When the men and ladies come back they each sing their own music again.
This is a famous ensemble: the way Verdi has combined the two songs is very clever.
Bardolfo and Pistola are back in the Garter Inn with Falstaff.
They pretend they are very sorry to have deserted Falstaff.
They tell him that there is an old woman outside who wants to speak to him.
It is Mistress Quickly, who comes in and curtseys very low to Falstaff.
She gives him the message that Alice would love to see him, but that Meg’s husband is guarding her and never leaves her by herself.
He can see Alice when her husband is out between two and three o’ clock ().
Falstaff is pleased and gives Mistress Quickly a tip (some money) as she leaves.
He sings to himself “Alice is mine” (“”).
The next visitor Falstaff has is Ford.
Falstaff does not know who he is.
Ford says his name is Master Brook (Signor Fontana).
He gives Falstaff a purse with silver and tells him that he is in love with Mistress Ford (Alice).
He asks Falstaff to get her for him.
Falstaff says he will be seeing her that very afternoon.
Ford asks him whether he knows Alice’s husband (i.e. himself).
Falstaff says he does and he describes to him what a terrible man Ford is.
It is a very comic scene with a lot of very clever humour.
When Falstaff goes out to change his clothes Ford shows his anger.
When Falstaff returns the two men go out arm in arm like friends, arguing about who shall go through the door first.
Back in Ford’s house the four women are getting ready to tease Falstaff.
From the conversation we learn that Ford wants Nannette to marry Dr Caius who is a fussy old man.
Nannette of course wants to marry young Fenton.
When Falstaff comes Alice is playing the lute.
He sings to her accompaniment.
When Quickly says that Ford is coming they hide Falstaff behind a screen.
Ford and his men start to search another part of the house, and the women hide Falstaff inside a big laundry basket with dirty clothes.
Ford comes back, he hears the sound of kissing and thinks it is his wife with Falstaff, but he finds it is Nannetta and Fenton.
Ford goes out furiously, and the women quickly throw the laundry basket out of the window into the river Thames below.
When Ford comes back his wife takes him to the window and he sees Falstaff, who is very wet, getting out of the river.
Falstaff is recovering in the Inn.
He is very grumpy, although he starts to cheer up when wine is brought.
Mistress Quickly comes in and says he can meet Alice, but Falstaff is not really in a mood for this.
In the end Quickly manages to persuade him to meet Alice at Herne the Hunter’s Oak in Windsor forest.
There is a legend about a black hunter who hanged himself from this tree, and so the spot is haunted by witches and sprites.
Falstaff is told he must disguise himself as the black hunter.
The men and women sing an ensemble in which they describe the plot they have made to tease Falstaff.
Ford also plots to announce that Caius will marry Nannette.
The last scene takes place at night under Herne’s Oak.
The moon shines.
Fenton sings an aria.
Falstaff appears in his disguise, wearing a pair of antlers on his head and wrapped in a big cloak.
Midnight strikes.
For a moment he is alone with Alice, but then she leaves him by himself.
Nannetta is disguised as the Queen of Fairies.
She and her friends sing beautiful music.
Falstaff has hidden his face in his cloak, but everyone goes to him and torments him.
When people take off their masks Falstaff feels really stupid, although he tries to say that his wittiness helped the joke.
Ford announces that Nannetta will marry Caius.
Alice leads another couple to him and he announces that they too will marry.
When they take off their masks he finds that Bardolfo was disguised as Nannetta, so he will marry Caius!
The other couple were Fenton and Nannetta in disguise.
Now it is Ford who looks stupid, and Falstaff takes the opportunity to tease him.
They finish by singing “” (“Joking is man’s vocation.
Wise is he who is jolly”).
The music is a fugue, which is usually thought of as being a serious academic form, but the mood here is jolly.
"The New Kobbé's Opera Book" edited by The Earl of Harewood and Antony Peattie
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician.
He was the President of France.
This means he was also the Co-Prince of Andorra from 2012 to 2017.
He ran for the Socialist party.
Before becoming president, he was a deputy for the Corrèze, and the mayor of Tulle.
He studied law in Paris.
He also studied at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.
He was among the best in his studies at the École nationale d'administration.
He was elected President of France on 6 May 2012, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy.
There were two rounds of voting.
In the first, 28% of the people voted for him.
In the second round, with only two candidates, 51% did.
The Bilan d'aptitude délivré par les grandes écoles (BADGE) is a French degree created in 2001 by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and primarily intended for owners of a two-year degree after the end of secondary studies.
BADGE on Conférence des grandes écoles website
Andromeda XIX is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, and is part of the Local Group, like the Milky Way Galaxy.
Andromeda XIX is said to be "the most extended dwarf galaxy known in the Local Group", and has a half-light radius of 1.7 kiloparsec (kpc).
It was found by the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, and it is a dwarf galaxy.
The MegaPrime/MegaCam 1 deg2 (camera) on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) had mapped the M31 stellar halo (one quarter) up to ~150 kpc.
The observation, which had proved the uneveness of Andromeda's stellar halo, had shown that multiple other dwarf galaxies exist.
They are: Andromeda XI, XII, XIII, XV, XVI, XVIII, XIX, and XX.
Andromeda Galaxy
Brussels Airlines is the main Belgian airline.
It flies from Brussels Airport to destinations in Europe, Africa and North America.
Brussels Airlines was created as the result of the merger of SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express in March 2006.
SN Brussels Airlines had been created from Sabena, the former Belgian flag carrier, that had ceased operations on 7 November 2001.
SN Brussels Airlines started its operations only five months later.
Virgin Express was a low-cost airline, owned by the Virgin Group.
In 2004, SN Airholding took over Virgin Express, and in 2006 it was announced that both companies would merge and fly under the Brussels Airlines brand.
In 2008, the Lufthansa group bought 45% of Brussels Airlines' shares, and Brussels Airlines joined the Star Alliance.
It is a member of the Star Alliance.
The company has codeshare agreement with many companies such as Air Canada, Air Malta, All Nippon Airways, Austrian Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Croatia Airlines, EgyptAir, Etihad Airways, Hainan Airlines, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, TAAG Air Angola, TAP Portugal, TAROM, Thai Airways, United Airlines and others.
In 2019, Brussels Airlines made agreements with Africa World Airlines and  Aeroflot Russian Airlines.
Transport in Belgium
Castel Goffredo is a city in north of Italy.
Castel Goffredo is in the province of Mantua, Lombardy Region.
About 12,000 people live in Castel Goffredo.
Polandball, also known as countryball, is an  internet meme.
The meme began on the /int/ board of Krautchan.net in 2009.
The meme takes the form of large number of online comics.
In the comics, countries are drawn as balls.
The balls interact in broken English, (except for those countries who have English as their main language) and ridicule national stereotypes and international relations.
Polandball has its roots in an August 2009 'cyberwar' between Polish Internet users and the rest of the world on drawball.com.
Drawball.com allows Internet users to draw whatever they want.
It also allows people to draw over others drawings.
On the Polish flag internet, an idea was raised to draw the flag of Poland on the ball.
Thousands of Poles managed to take over the drawball.
The painting consisted of white on top of red.
In the middle, the word "POLSKA" was written.
After co-ordination from 4chan, this was then covered over by a giant Nazi swastika.
Krautchan.net is a German-language imageboard.
Its /int/ board is frequented by Russian-speaking netizens.
The beginning of the Polandball meme is credited to Falco.
Falco is a British user on /int/. In September 2009 Falco created the meme using MS Paint.