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Leonardo da Vinci in Codex Atlanticus wrote in Italian: "…ma la maggiore è quella di Mandello, la quale à nella sua basa una busa di verso il lago, la quale va sotto 200 scalini e qui d’ogni tempo è diaccio e vento" (... but the largest is that of Mandello, which is at its base a busa facing the lake, which goes under 200 steps and here it is cold and windy at all times).
Numerous symbols and emblems in local churches of Lierna Lake Como area and other medieval structures also lead explorers to discover the important role of the Knights Templar in this region, including indications that Leonardo's painting may have served as a mysterious map to a secret passage in a area of ​​the Grigna mountain range known as Alpe di Campione. The rock formations, caves, waterfalls and breathtaking views of the Grigna massif and the surrounding Lierna mountains on Lake Como deeply inspired Leonardo da Vinci's development.
These are kings of Dalriada or Dál Riata prior to the reign of Loarn (5th century). These reigns cannot be 100% confirmed as true but most likely were the reigns of these kings, the list begins with Eochaid Cairbre ("Haughey the Charioteer"), possibly king.
Dora the Explorer: Super Star Adventures is an adventure video game for the Game Boy Advance released in 2004. It was developed by Imaginengine and published by Global Star. The game is designed for preschoolers ages 3–6 and is based on the Nick Jr. franchise, "Dora the Explorer".
The Queen of Italy Elena (also known as The Queen of Italy Elena ) is a 19th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Giuseppe Amisani, made in 1925, is kept in the Collezione Farnesina of foreign minister of the Italian government in Rome from 1925.
Echizen forged knives are traditional knives made in Echizen City, Fukui prefecture, Japan. These knives are notable for the use of two techniques in its creation. "Nimai hiroge" (double layering), and "Mawashi hagane tsuke" (shaping the knife). Because of these characteristic techniques, they were chosen as the earliest traditional craft for forged knives in 1979.
Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo (5 December 1880 – 16 April 1943) was a Dutch fencer. She was also a pianist. She was a fencer at the "salle" of Giovanni Giandomenici and one of the earlyst female Dutch fencers. She was international successful. Because of being a Jew, she was deported to Sobibor extermination camp during World War II where she died.
The Kashmir Koklass Pheasant "(Pucrasia macrolopha biddulphi)", although called a pheasant, is truly related to grouses and is only a distant relative to the pheasants. Grouses are actually birds from the order Galliformes, which are heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that include chicken and quail. In the monotypic genus Pucrasia, the Koklass Pheasant is the only species. Koklass is an adapted species that has been put into three different groups of species and again divided into subspecies. It is the only species in the genus Pucrasia to be divided into nine subspecies.
"Don't Stop Believin'" is a 1981 song by Journey and is the second single from their 7th studio album "Escape". It is their signature song by the band and decades after its release, it has become one of the most downloaded tracks from the 20th century. It has been covered by the cast of Glee.
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume is a commune of 2,187 people (2019). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Albert van Midden (22 January 1948 – 31 July 2019) was a Dutch road racing cyclist and track cyclist. Initial being active as an amateur cyclist, he was professional from 1968 until 1975. He won the amateur race of the 1968 Six Days of Rotterdam. In January 1969 he won, together with Rini Wachtmans, Harrie Steevens and René Pijnen, the Nations Prize in Antwerp.
Anna Kubik (born January 8, 1957) is a Hungarian actress. She has won the Kossuth Prize and the Jászai Mari award.
"B. odysseus" was a fast freshwater fish that preyed on fish, like "Belonesox belizanus". It was faster than a swordfish but slower than a sailfish. Like the modern piranha and the extinct "Piranhamesodon", it had sharp, serrated teeth highly reminiscent of a piranha.
The origin of Echizen forged knives was in the early Nanboku-cho period. In 1337, Kuniyasu Chiyotsuru, a sword maker from Kyoto Prefecture moved to "Echizen no kuni" (present Echizen city) and made sickles for the citizens. During his stay, many citizens began to make products using his techniques. Because of this, Echizen city became an area famous for their production of farming tools. During the Edo period, these tools spread in Japan through trading. They were noted for their lightness and sharpness, and because of this, knives made in Echizen city became popular in Japan. Now, Echizen produces many products other than knives, such as hatchets.
In March 1911, she competed at the 1911 England–Holland women's fencing competitions in London against Dutch women of "Salle De Vos". She competed in November 1913 at the 1913 Alfred Hutton Memorial Challenge Cup where she was described having made "marked progress". In this competition she was eliminated in the semi-final. In 1914 she went with two other British women to the 1914 Salle Giandomenici international women's fencing competition in Amsterdam organized by Salle Giandomenici. This competition was the first women's fencing competition in the Netherlands with Dutch, British and Belgian competitors. In her first match she won surprisingly from the British champion C. E. Martin Edmunds. She lost her second match from the Dutch Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo. Overall, after eight matches she won the third prize behind C. E. Martin Edmunds and Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo.
In June 1973, he was at the last moment removed from the 1973 Tour de France team, due to “underachievement”.
Kubik graduated from the Academy of Theater and Film Arts in 1981. She then moved to the National Theatre. In 1991, she joined the Budapest Chamber Theatre, then the Artists' Theatre, and finally the Thália Theatre. In 1999, she went back to the National. In 2000, she joined the Hungarian Theater in Pest. From 2002, she was a guest artist in many performances of the new National Theater. In the same year, she was invited to play in Székesfehérvár in the Vörösmarty Theater. She was a member of the Csokonai National Theater in Debrecen until 2022.
...The blade is evenly thinned by stretching the two layered plates. This is done by beating both sides at high speeds with a machine hammer.
In the summer of 1913 she had a good results at the 1913 International Exposition in Ghent. She finished in fifth place of the 40 competing fencers. She was eliminated by C. E. Martin Edmunds. On 29 November 1913 she competed by invitation at the 1913 Alfred Hutton Memorial Challenge Cup, an international tournament organized by the “Ladies London Fencing Club” in London. She was one of the four Dutch women. Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo was successful winning the "strangers cup" being the best foreigner.
Kubik divorced her husband, director Imre Csiszár in 1998. The have one child, Virág Csiszár (born 1990). Kubik was later the partner of István Bubik. After his death, she became the partner of Roland Selmeczi. He died in a car accident in 2008.
Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 American German Spanish British Italian French Moroccan action adventure drama movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Orlando Broom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, Edward Norton, Iain Glen, Michael Sheen, Ghassan Massoud, Velibor Topić, Martin Hancock, Philip Glenister. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
In 1918 she finishind first in the national women's competition in Amsterdam. She won the 1919 Netherlands women's fencing championship, the first official women's national championship. In 1920 she couldn’t compete at the natioal championship because she was ill, but was a prize winner at the 1920 Salle Giandomenici international women's fencing competition behind the Danish Larsen and French champion Chevalier. In 1921 she won the third prize at the international “Grand Prix de Dames” in Oostende.
She fenced left-handed, which was difficult for her opponents. She fenced with quick movements. According to newspaper Het nieuws van den dag in 1914, Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo had a different technique compared with the female fencers from the school of De Vos, The Hague. Her style was described as “more lively, more fiery and less different from the men's technique”.
Esther Lopes Cardozo was born in Amsterdam on 5 December 1880 as the daughter of diamond worker Samuel “Abraham” Lopes Cardozo (1860-1913) and Saartje Lopes Cardozo-Polak (1861-1943). She had a sister Rosalina Hendrix-Lopes Cardozo. She would live her entire life in Amsterdam. Lopes Cardozo married to A. Bekkers. They had together a son, who was born on 21 December 1902. She also had another child.
Kurgan Oblast (, "Kurganskaya oblast") is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Kurgan. In June 2014, the population was estimated to be 874,100, down from 910,807 in the 2010 Census.
Barnaul () is a city in Russia. It is the capital and largest city of Altai Krai. It's population was 632,372 as of 2018. It is home to the centers of silver in Russia.
The Altai Mountains (/ɑːlˈtaɪ/), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China and Mongolia converge, and where the rivers Ob and Irtysh have their headwaters. The massif merges with the Sayan Mountains in the northeast, and gradually becomes lower in the southeast, where it merges into the high plateau of the Gobi Desert.
Taganrog was founded on 12 September 1698. by Peter the Great. It was the first Russian Navy base. It held the Azov Flotilla of Catherine the Great. This flotilla later became the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Taganrog was given city status in 1775.
The climate of Taganrog is temperate (Köppen climate classification "Cfa"). Taganrog has mild winters and hot summers.
Carlos Jaime Alazraqui (born July 20, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for playing Deputy James Garcia in "Reno 911!". He's also known as the voice of Rocko in Rocko's Modern Life, Lazlo in Camp Lazlo, Denzel Crocker in The Fairly OddParents, Walden in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Carlos and Sergio in The Casagrandes and Ryan Illinois and Darkness Bullseye in "Wattu Academy".
The province of Hainaut is divided into seven "arrondissements" (Ath, Charleroi, La Louvière, Mons, Soignies, Thuin, and Tournai-Mouscron) and a total of 69 municipalities.
Santiago de Querétaro (; Otomi: Dähnini Maxei), known simply as Querétaro City (), is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro. It is located in central Mexico. It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. It is northwest of Mexico City.
Traian Băsescu (born November 4, 1951) is a Romanian politician and former Merchant Navy officer. He was the President of Romania from 20 December 2004 until 21 December 2014. He won the office in the 2004 presidential election. Prior to becoming president, he was the Mayor of Bucharest from June 2000 until December 2004.
The Justice and Development Party is a socially conservative political party in Turkey advocating nationalism, neo-Ottomanism (wanting the country to be like the Ottoman Empire), privatization of certain government services, etc. Although officially not an Islamist political party (because religious parties are officially not allowed in Turkey), it has its roots in Islamism, because its founders and many of its members are Islamists and also advocate Islamism. It has been the goverment after the 2002 general elections in Turkey till today. It was formed in 2001 by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is the leader of the party, and was the Prime Minister of Turkey between 2003-2014 and is the President of Turkey since 2014.
Fredrikstad is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad. In 2021, 83,761 people lived there.
The distance to Khabarovsk—the administrative center (capital city) of the krai—is ; to the Pacific Ocean—about . The nearest other major town is Amursk, which is about south.
Gorgan ( ; also romanized as "Gorgān", "Gurgān", and "Gurgan"), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as "Astarābād", "Asterabad", and "Esterābād"), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies approximately to the north east of Tehran, some away from the Caspian Sea. In the 2006 census; its population was 269,226, in 73,702 families.
Aspartic acid (symbol Asp or D; is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. Like all other amino acids, it contains an amino group and a carboxylic acid. Aspartic acid has an acidic side chain (CHCOOH) which reacts with other amino acids, enzymes and proteins in the body.
The most famous monument in Evora is the Templo Romano Évora (A Roman temple) and the Capela dos Ossos (a chapel lined with many bones).
Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a German physicist. He is a emeritus professor at Columbia University.
Olav V (born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was the King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, composer, comedian, director and screenwriter.
The Battle of Gaugamela (also called The Battle of Arbela) was a battle fought between Alexandra the Great and the first Persian empire. The battle was fought in 331 BC.
Fresno de Caracena is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Robert Howard Grubbs (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist. He won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005.
János József Kádár (; ; 26 May 1912 – 6 July 1989), born János József Czermanik, was a Hungarian political leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.
Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
Armix is a commune. It is in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the Ain department in east France. In 2012, 24 people lived in the commune. It is the least populated commune in the Ain department. The inhabitants are the "Armixois". Seismic activity affects this commune.
It was started by the company that owns Marvel Comics in the 1990s. They tried to convince studios in Hollywood to make movies based on Marvel Comics.
Corbeil-Essonnes is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France. It is also in the southern suburbs of Paris, from the center. 50,954 people lived here in 2018.
Espejón is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Fuentearmegil is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
After Kevin Feige took over, Marvel Studios started filming its own movies instead of going to other companies. Feige had the idea of setting different movies in the same universe as the movie Iron Man. Then they put the different superheroes in the same movie called The Avengers so that he could use The Avengers as the pilot episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Magenta is the birthplace of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (1922–1962) and movie producer Carlo Ponti (1912–2007).
Julia Agrippina (6 November 15 – 23 March AD 59), also called Agrippina the Younger, was a Roman empress. Her father was general Germanicus, and her mother was Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of the first Roman emperor Augustus. She was the younger sister of emperor Caligula, the niece and fourth wife of emperor Claudius who was the emperor after Caligula, and the mother of emperor Nero, who became emperor after Claudius.
Fuentecambrón is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Fuentepinilla is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Fuentelsaz de Soria is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Kayin State (Eastern Pwo: ဖၠုံခါန်ႋကၞင့်; S'gaw Karen: ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်, pronounced [kɲɔkɔshæ], , ), also known by its former name Karen State, is a state of Myanmar. The capital city is Hpa-An, also spelled Pa-An.
Reinhard Genzel (born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist. He was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany. His works relate to infrared and submillimetre astronomy.
Šabac () is a city and the administrative center of the Mačva District in western Serbia. It is on the right bank of the river Sava. According to the 2011 census, the city has 53,919 people lived there. The administrative area has 118,347 people lived there.
Jagielka started his career with Sheffield United in 2000, where he played mainly as a central midfielder. He helped them achieve top-flight status for the 2006–07 season, after which he joined Everton for a £4 million fee. He later captained the club from 2013–2019, and totalled 385 games. He left Everton in 2019 after 12 years and returned to former club Sheffield United.
The Basilica of Sacre-Coeur is a minor basilica in Paris, France constructed in 1885 near the site of the Paris Commune. The church was consecrated in 1919.
Émile François Loubet (; 30 December 183820 December 1929) was the 45th Prime Minister of France and later President of France. He was involved in the 1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion and was President of France from 1899-1906 .
Weißenfels was the capital city of the old Weißenfels Rural District in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, until the district changes of 2007. The King of Saxony used to live here. It is about southwest of Leipzig.
Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ) (1892–1960) was the Sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. He was first an Emir and after 1926 the King. He led Afghanistan to freedom from the United Kingdom. He was the first Afghan ruler to make the country more modern. Habibullah Kalakani and his followers fought against Khan. On 14 January 1929, Amanullah went to then neighboring British India. Afghanistan fell into a civil war (1928–1929). From British India he went to Europe where he died in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1960.
Scinax montivagus is a frog. It lives in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in the Chapada Diamantina in the Espinhaço Range of mountains.
Around the world, auto–rickshaws have different names like cocotaxi in Cuba, or Mototaxi in Peru. Another name is tuktuk where it is most common.
Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). From the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy, childlike friend to Hardy's pompous bully. Their signature theme song, known as "The Cuckoo Song", "Ku-Ku", or "The Dance of the Cuckoos" (by Hollywood composer T. Marvin Hatley) was heard over their films' opening credits, and became as emblematic of them as their bowler hats.
Dolores del Río (August 3, 1904 – April 11, 1983, birth name María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete) was a Mexican movie actress. She was a Hollywood movie star in the 1920s and 1930s. She was important to the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema during the 1940s and 1950s.
Vigneux-sur-Seine is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France. In 2019, 31,394 people lived there.
Savigny-le-Temple is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Seine-et-Marne department in north-central France. In 2019, 29,987 people lived there.
Buzuluk () is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is on the Samara, Buzuluk, and Domashka Rivers. It is northwest of Orenburg and southeast of Samara. Population:
Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde-St. Felix () is a "comune" in South Tyrol in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy.
Benjamin was the youngest son of Jacob and the second son of Rachel. When Rachel gave birth to Joseph she prayed that the Lord would one day give her another child. And when Jacob and his family left Aramea, Rachel stole the idols of her father Laban without telling Jacob so when Laban came to Jacob and asked him “why did you steal my gods” Jacob said that he didn’t do it and curses the person who did it to die. Later, Rachel became pregnant and gave birth to a son and since she was dying in childbirth she named him Ben-Oni, son of my suffering, and after Rachel died, Jacob named the boy Benjamin, the son of the right.
EPHE was founded on July 31, 1868 by a decree of the French Minister of Education Victor Duruy and is one of the grandes écoles. The main idea was to prepare students for research by participating in research practice. No diplomas were requested or awarded.
It was founded in 1736 as the fortress of Buzulukskaya (). It was founded on the Samara River near the mouth of the Buzuluk River along Russia's southern frontier. It was later moved to its current place near the source of the Domashka River. It was granted town status in 1781.
Buzuluk was the base of the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion. This battalion was a Czechoslovak army unit that fought with the Red Army during World War II when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans.
In 1990, the government dismantled the single-party system of government – installed by the League of Communists – and adopted a multi-party democracy. The newly elected government of Franjo Tuđman moved the republic towards independence, formally seceding from Yugoslavia in 1991 and thereby contributing to its dissolution.
Kitagawa Utamaro (;  – 31 October 1806), also called Utamaro, was a Japanese artist. He was a master of the ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.
Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה , full name: "Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza-Ashkenazi", 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli (pop) singer. She was born in Tel Aviv and died in Ramat Gan. She died of AIDS and was buried in the Yarkon Cemetery in Petah Tikva.
Alpha Crucis, officially known as Acrux, is a star system in the Crux constellation. All stars are blue and hot. The stars are called Alpha Crucis A, Alpha Crucis B, and HR 4729. Alpha Crucis A is 25,000 times brighter than the Sun. Alpha Crucis B is 16,000 times brighter than the Sun.
Rey, Rayy, Ray, Rhages or Rages (; ; ) also known as Shahr-e-Rey (), is the oldest city in the state of Tehran, Iran. Rey today has been added into the Greater Tehran city. It is linked by the Tehran Metro to the rest of Tehran and has many industries and factories in use. A settlement began here c 6,000 BCE as part of the Central Plateau Culture. The settlement was used as a capital by the Medes called Rhaga. In classical Roman geography it was called Rhagae. Its name dates back to the pre-Median.
The Socialist Republic of Montenegro ( / Социјалистичка Република Црна Гора), also known as Socialist Montenegro or simply Montenegro, was one of the six republics forming the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the nation state of the Montenegrins. It is modern-day Montenegro.
Gustav Adolf Bauer (6 January 1870 – 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and the Chancellor of Germany from June 1919 to March 1920.
Manuel Locatelli (born 8 January 1998) is an Italian football player. He plays as a midfielder for Sassuolo and the Italy national team.
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet and a medical doctor. He was Latino. His mother was born in Puerto Rico. His father was raised in the Dominican Republic.
Williams also won a National Book Award. He won winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the book "Pictures from Brueghel". He also wrote short stories and a novel. He was a major figure of modernist literature. He was friends with other important American poets such as Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg.
The galaxy is the brightest of the five main spirals in the direction of the Sculptor Group. It is at an angle of 42° when viewed from Earth, and looks rather like the Triangulum Galaxy. It is 94,000 light years in diameter, somewhat smaller than the Milky Way, and has an estimated mass of (2.9 ± 0.2) × 10 "M".
His famous books are "Kora in Hell" (1920), "Spring and All" (1923), "Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems" (1962), the epic poem "Paterson" (1963, 1992), and "Imaginations" (1970).
Edvaldo Oliveira Chaves (born 4 August 1958 in Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil), better known as Pita, is a former Brazilian footballer in the offensive midfielder role. Pita currently works as General Manager by Desportivo Brasil.
Pickens, formerly called Pickens Courthouse, is a small town in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,126 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Pickens County. Pickens County is included in Greenville-Mauldin-Easley metropolitan area.
Football Club Astana (Kazakh: «Астана» футбол клубы; usually just called FC Astana or simply Astana) is a professional association football club from Astana, Kazakhstan. They currently play in the Kazakhstan Premier League. They were founded as Lokomotiv Astana in 2009 from football clubs Almaty: Megasport and Alma-Ata, the club changed its name to Astana in 2011.
The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is a historic site of a pre-Columbian city of the Native American Cahokia people. The park has 2,200 acres (890 ha) and 80 mounds made by the Cahokia people. The city was much larger than the area of the mounds. The city of Cahokia was one of the largest in the Mississippian culture. It existed from 1050 to 1350 CE. Cahokia Mounds is a National Historic Landmark and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is one of 24 UNESCO sites in the United States.
"Allah Peliharakan Sultan" (Jawi: الله ڤليهاراكن سلطان‎, "Allah Bless the Sultan") is the national anthem of Brunei.
In career he played for clubs Santos FC (1978–1984), São Paulo (1985–1988), RC Strasbourg in France (1988–1989), Guarani (1989–1990), in Japan Japan Soccer League, Japan Football League and J1 League with Fujita Industries and Nagoya Grampus Eight (1990–1993), and he finished his career with Inter Limeira in 1994.
He won three São Paulo State League (1978, 1985, 1987), and one Brazilian League (1986). For the Brazil national football team he got 7 international caps from 1980 and won the 1987 Pan American Games.
Weilheim-Schongau is a rural district in Upper Bavaria in the south of Bavaria, Germany. Neighbor districts are: Landsberg, Starnberg Rural District, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (district) and Ostallgäu; Weilheim i.OB is the capital of the district Weilheim-Schongau.
Manzini (formerly known as Bremersdorp) is a city in Eswatini; it is the capital of Eswatini’s Manzini District. The city is the country's second largest urban centre behind Mbabane, with a population of 78,000 (2008). It is known as "The Hub" of Eswatini and lies on the MR3 road.
The District of Setúbal ( ) is district in south-west Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Setúbal.
Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram (Thai: แปลก พิบูลสงคราม; Pibulsongkram or Pibulsonggram; 14 July 1897 – 11 June 1964) was a Thai military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1938 to 1944 and 1948 to 1957. Other name were Marshal P. in Thailand (Thai: จอมพล ป.) and Phibun in the West.
Oschatz is a town in Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is 60 km east of Leipzig and 60 km west of Dresden.
Cloppenburg () is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. It is 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch border.
Allauch is a commune of 19,400 people (2005). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the south of France.
Winston County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,540. Its county seat is Double Springs. It was also known as Hancock County before 1858, the county is named in honor of John A. Winston, the fifteenth Governor of Alabama.
Viedma () is the capital and fourth largest city of the Río Negro Province, in South-Central Argentina. In 2020, 80,632 people lived there. It is located on the southern margin of the Negro River, about 30 kilometres off the Atlantic Coast.
Mělník () is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Mělník District. About 20,000 people lived there. It is at the confluence of the Elbe and Vltava rivers, about north of Prague.
Cadorago is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy. It is about northwest of Milan and about southwest of Como. As of 30 September 2017, 7,953 people lived there. It has an area of 7.19 km².
The national anthem of Mongolia (, ) was created in 1950. This was known before 1991 as the state anthem of the Mongolian People's Republic.
Überlingen is an German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance ("Bodensee") in Baden-Württemberg, near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a central point for the outlying communities. Since 1 January 1993, Überlingen has been a large district city ("Große Kreisstadt").
FC Lugano is a Swiss football club from Lugano. The club was newly founded as AC Lugano in 2004 because of the relegation and the financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008 went back to his original name, FC Lugano. They play at the Stadio Cornaredo. They have played in what is now the Swiss Super League during the periods of 1922–53, 1954–60, 1961–63, 1964–76, 1979–80, 1988–97, 1998–02 and from 2015 until present.
Kronach is at the southwestern edge of the Franconian Forest. The rivers Haßlach, Kronach and Rodach unite in Kronach.
Located west of Gdańsk and the mouth of the Vistula river, it is inhabited by members of the Kashubian ethnic group. The region is home to the Kashubian Lake District. According to the 1999 basic study "Geografia współczesnych Kaszub" (Geography of present-day Kashubia) by the Gdańsk scholar Jan Mordawski 43 municipalities ("gminas") of the Pomeranian Voivodeship have a Kashubian share of at least one third of the total population:
The Alemannic Überlingen was first mentioned in 770 as "Iburinga". It was granted city rights in 1211.
In 1993 Lugano won its third Cup against Grasshoppers and played Cup Winners' Cup. In the 1995–96 season, Lugano participated in the UEFA Cup, eliminating Jeunesse Hautcharage in the first round and Inter Milan in the second.
On August 18, 2021, it was announced that American billionaire and owner of the Chicago Fire FC, Joe Mansueto had purchased FC Lugano and that the Fire and FC Lugano work together as sister clubs. On 1 September 2021, assistant coach Mattia Croci-Torti took over coaching duties at the club, replacing Abel Braga. The first season under new ownership was successful winning the 2021–22 Swiss Cup.
The martial eagle ("Polemaetus bellicosus") is a bird of prey. It lives in Africa and is the biggest eagle in Africa, 76 to 96 cm (30–38 in) long, and its wingspan is 188–260 cm (6.2–8.5 ft) long. Because of its size, it hunts large prey, including birds as large as flamingos and mammals as large as young impala.
Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer. She was a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She held the record for most comets discovered by a single person.
Barnwell County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,621. Its county seat is Barnwell. Barnwell County is part of the Augusta Metropolitan Area.
The District of Lezhë is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It is part of Lezhë County. There are 77,184 people. The capital is Lezhë. The majority of the population is Catholic.
Buchloe () is a community raised to town status in 1954, being in Ostallgäu in Bavaria. Together with the neighbouring communities of Jengen, Lamerdingen and Waal, Buchloe belongs to the "Administrative Community" of Buchloe.
Jacob was in love with Rachel, the daughter of Laban and asked to marry her. Laban said he would let Jacob marry her if he worked for him as a shepherd for seven years. Jacob worked for those years but they felt like they were only seven days because of how much he loved Rachel. But then, Laban tricked Jacob into marrying Rachel’s older sister Leah instead of marrying her and said he didn’t believe in the younger daughter marrying before her older sister married so Jacob had to work for Laban for another seven years so that Laban would let him marry Rachel. Jacob loved Rachel but he did not love Leah so Leah prayed to the Lord saying “give me children, for I am despised”. So the Lord had mercy on her and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. And Leah said “now my husband shall love me” and named her son Reuben.
Wolfratshausen (German pronunciation: ]; West Central Bavarian: "Woifradshausn") is a town in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, a district ("Landkreis") in Upper Bavaria.
Titisee-Neustadt is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town is a Kneipp spa and a climatic health resort. It is also known a winter sport center.
Hesperia is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is located north of San Bernardino in Victor Valley. The 2019 census report estimates that the city has a population of 95,750.
The Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago ( ) is a group of 15 small islets and rocks in the central equatorial Atlantic Ocean. It lies in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a region of the Atlantic characterized by low average winds punctuated with local thunderstorms. It lies approximately from the nearest point of mainland South America (the northeastern Brazilian coastal town of Touros); northeast of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha; from the city of Natal; and from the west coast of Africa. Administratively, the archipelago belongs to Brazil and is part of the special "state district" () of Fernando de Noronha, in the state of Pernambuco. Fernando de Noronha is the nearst Island.
Buchloe is right on "Bundesautobahn" 96 (Munich–Buchloe–Memmingen–Lindau) with interchanges with "Bundesstraße" ("Federal Highway") 12 (Lindau by way of Munich and Passau to Philippsreut) and is known as the "Gateway to the Allgäu". Buchloe station is an important railway hub for traffic on the Munich–Kempten–Lindau route on the Munich–Buchloe and the Buchloe–Lindau lines (KBS 970) and on the Augsburg–Buchloe and the Buchloe–Memmingen lines with their IC services and direct services into Switzerland by EuroCity-Express.
After Leah gave birth to Simeon, Levi and Judah (Biblical personage), Bilhah gave birth to Gad and Asher, Zilpah gave birth to Dan and Naphtali and Leah gave birth to Zebulun and Issachar, then Reuben found mandrakes and gave them to his mother Leah. When Rachel asked Leah for the mandrakes,Leah said “first you take from me my husband and now the mandrakes of my son” and agreed to give Rachel the mandrakes if Leah became Jacob’s main wife.
The town of Titisee is on the north shore of Titisee, a lake in the eastern Feldberg in the Black Forest, which ranges from 780 to 1192 meters above sea level. The town of Neustadt is 5 km to the east.
There's a lighthouse, and a research station, with four people. As there is no freshwater supply on the islands, the research station has a water desalinization plant.
Mozart toured Europe as a pianist with her brother. When she was 11 years old, she was able to play hard sonatas on the piano. Like her brother, she was very good with music. When she reached the age when she was able to marry, her father thought that her interests should change, and she should pay more attention to her family. All her music that is left are small pieces for the piano. On 23 August 1783, she married Johann Baptist Reichsfreiherr Berchtold von Sonnenburg (1736 1801). Johann Baptist was 15 years older than she was. She lived in St.Gilgen, in his apartment, in the house where her mother was born. She had five children, from two marriages. She bore him three children. When he died, she returned to Salzburg with her two surviving children, Leopold and Jeanette.
It’s written in the Torah that Reuben lay down with Bilhah and that his father Jacob heard about it. (Genesis 35:22) Though the Talmud says that this was a metaphor and that Reuben actually took Bilhah’s bed from his father’s tent but that this was seen as being like the sin of incest (Shabbat 55) and says that this works because in the Book of Job wanting to commit incest is seen as committing incest.
According to Jewish tradition, Reuben didn’t get the inheritance that a firstborn son would usually get because he was being punished for the sin with Bilhah.
Rabbi Shimon son of Eliezer teaches that after Leah died and Jacob moved his bed to the tent of Bilhah, Reuben took the bed from Bilhah’s tent and put in the tent of his mother Leah to honour his mother’s memory and the sin Reuben committed by doing that was compared to incest but Reuben did not actually have sex with Bilhah. Though there are also Rabbis in the Talmud who say that he did.
Hinojosa del Campo is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
According to the Zohar, Reuben lying down with Bilhah cannot be wikt:literally true because then Reuben wouldn’t have become the father of a tribe of the Israelites. It says that Reuben knew from prophecy that there were supposed to be only twelve tribes of Israel so he moved his father’s bed from Bilhah’s tent even though the Shechina is there whenever married people do their religious duty to have sex with each other but by meddling Reuben made the Shechina leave that tent and that was Reuben’s sin.
Filderstadt () is a town in the district of Esslingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is about south of Stuttgart.
Yamagata was born June 14, 1838, in Hagi. Hagi was the capital of the feudal domain of Chōshū (present-day Yamaguchi prefecture). He was schooled by his father. Yamagata studied Japanese and Chinese literature. He learned the martial arts of "Jujutsu". Yamagata also learned the military use of the spear and how to fence.
"Yumi, Yumi, Yumi" (; "We, We, We") is the national anthem of Vanuatu. It was written and composed by François Vincent Ayssav and became the national anthem in 1980.
The District of Kurbin is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It is part of Lezhë County. There are 54,977 people. The capital is Laç. The majority of the population is Catholic.
Park Jung-yang (, hanja: , May 3, 1872 – April 23, 1959) was a Korean bureaucrat, politician and scholar, popular rights activist and liberalism activist. He lived during the Joseon Dynasty and Japanese rule of Korea. He was an active pro-Japanese collaborator. His pen name was Haeahk (, )·Ilso (일소, 一笑). Another name was Wongeun (, ).
Ebersberg is the seat of the similarly named Ebersberg "Landkreis" (district) in the Oberbayern "Regierungsbezirk" (administrative region) in Bavaria, southern Germany. The "Ebersberger Forst" (forest) is one of Germany’s largest continuous area of woodlands.
Santana is an American rock band. It was made in San Francisco in 1966 by Carlos Santana. The band has had many members, with Santana being the only one to stay in it since it was made. After joining Columbia Records, a record label, the band made many popular albums, such as "Santana" (1969), "Abraxas" (1970), and "Santana III" (1971). These album were made by the band's "classic" members, such as Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, David Brown, and José Areas.
The first Intifada is the big Palestinian uprising against the oppression of Israel from 1987 to 1993. The second Intifada would follow from 2000 to 2005. These are part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first Intifada started on 9 December 1987 and ended in with the Oslo accords in 1993. This lasted a total of six years.
Neighbouring communities are Grafing bei München, Kirchseeon and Steinhöring. Bavaria’s capital, Munich, is 32 km away and may be reached by Munich S-Bahn (S6). Rosenheim and Wasserburg am Inn are about the same distance away.
In its early stages, France was allied with Münster and Cologne, as well as England. The 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War and 1675 to 1679 Scanian War are considered related conflicts.
Santana's best selling and most popular album was "Supernatural". It was released in 1999. It reached number one on music charts in eleven countries, and sold 12 million copies in the United States. In 2014, the "classic" members came back together to make "Santana IV" (2016). The group kept making music.
The Palestinian unrest which led to the outbreak of the first intifada started with the Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, forcing Palestinians to leave their land. on were already happening since Israel won the in 1967 but the Israeli government intensified these Jewish settlements and land expropriation in the 1980's. The United Nations considers Israel's settlements in Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal. Other reasons for the Palestinian rebellion were the worsening Palestinian economy and the limited access to jobs. The widespread dissatisfaction among Palestinians living under more than twenty years of occupation and oppression by Israel and the lack of prospects for the future were also big factors that led to the first Intifada.
Eichenau is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany. It is 20 km west of Munich (centre).
Quickly the resistance became efficiently organized. A party (Unified National Leadership of the Uprising: ) was established which brought together all important Palestinian organizations and parties that already opposed Israel before the Intifada. Other Palestinians set up multiple sorts of "popular committees" who dealt with different parts of the organization such as food supply, medical care and social reform.
The first period of the Intifada is often divided into four phases. The first phase started immediately after the mass demonstrations on 8 December in Gaza and ended, more or less, three weeks later. This phase consisted of the sudden Palestinian demonstrations and uprisings that spread from Gaza to all of the Palestinian territories. The second phase lasted until march 1988. The Intifada became more organized in this phase: the UNLU was established, even as several of the civil committees discussed above. In the third phase, that ran from march to June 1988, the Palestinians effectively started to boycott Israeli products and taxes. During the fourth phase the resistance became even more structured and organized. This phase climaxed with the (written by the Palestinian poet and proclaimed by ) in November 1988.
Between 9 December 1987 and 31 December 1993 an estimated number of 1282 Palestinians died and more than 130.472 became injured during the six year period of the Intifada. The houses of 2534 Palestinians got demolished by Israeli security forces. For every three Palestinians that died, less than one Israeli was killed. Most of the Palestinians who died were killed by Israeli security forces. The Israelis who died were killed by Palestinian civilians. Most Palestinians and Israelis died within the Palestinian occupied territories including: the Gaza strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. However, some of the victims that fell during this period of violence died within the
The Intifada officially ended on the 13th of September 1993, when the was signed by the PLO and Israeli government at the White House in the USA. Israel recognized the PLO as Palestinian representative for the first time. The PLO agreed to renounce terrorism as a tactic to reach their goals and both parties decided to establish a Palestinian Authority that would get more responsibility and autonomy in the occupied territories. This declaration was also the start of the Oslo accords, in which Palestine and Israel would start to discuss the many issues on autonomy, borders, refugees and Jerusalem. The Oslo accords would last until 1995.
Condé-sur-Ifs is a commune. It is in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
The Ariège (; ) is a river in the south of France. It is long. It is a right tributary of the Garonne. The Ariège department is named after this river.
The Malësi e Madhe District is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It is part of Shkodër County. There are 36,091 people. The capital is Koplik. This district borders Montenegro and the majority of the population is Catholic.
Open Season 3 is a 2010 animated-comedy movie and is the third movie in the "Open Season" movie series, directed by Cody Cameron and produced by Kirk Bodyfelt. The movie was released on October 21, 2010.
Die Antwoord () is a South African rap band. The main singers are Yolandi Visser and her husband Ninja. They released their first album "$O$" in 2009. In 2012 their second album "Ten$ion" was released. Four singles were released from the album. In 2022, Ninja and Yolandi's adopted son, Gabriel "Tokkie" du Preez, accused them of ill-treatment, sexual assault and slavery on him and his sister Meisie in a video posted on Youtube.
Creußen is a town in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the Red Main river, 13 km southeast of Bayreuth.
Thiès is the third largest city in Senegal. In 2013, 317,763 people lived there. It is the capital of Thiès Region and is an important industrial city.
Chadli Bendjedid (; ALA-LC: "ash-Shādhilī bin Jadīd"; 14 April 1929 – 6 October 2012) was the third President of Algeria from 9 February 1979 to 11 January 1992.
Le Folgoët () is a commune. It is in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Eberbach (; South Franconian: "Ewwerbach") is a town in Germany, in northern Baden-Württemberg. It is located 33 km east of Heidelberg.
The Academy Award for Best Sound is annual award of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is for best sound mixing, editing, recording and sound design.
Donald Anthony Perkins (March 4, 1938 – June 9, 2022) was an American football fullback in the National Football League. He played for the Dallas Cowboys from 1961 until 1968. He played college football at the University of New Mexico.
"Open Season 3" got mixed reviews by reviewers and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has no score, but it does have 4 reviews. One reviewer said, "This tiresomely predictable tale exemplifies everything that's wrong about straight-to-DVD animated sequels to big-budget mainstream films: the plot is utterly predictable and rehashes a lot of beats from the original effort, the major voice actors have been replaced by poor substitutes and the quality of the animation has dropped dramatically (most of the visuals are on the level of a video game or one of those cheap CGI Saturday morning TV shows)".
Saint-Auban is a commune. It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the south of France.
Mary of Guise (; 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560), also called Mary of Lorraine, was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise.
The Polytechnic Institute of Paris (French: "Institut polytechnique de Paris") is a renowned graduate engineering school in France.
Schäftlarn is a municipality in Munich in Bavaria in Germany. It consists of the villages Ebenhausen, Hohenschäftlarn, Kloster Schäftlarn, Neufahrn and Zell. The river Isar runs through it. A human settlement with the name "Schäftlarn" does not exist.
Dickey County lies on the south side of North Dakota. Its south boundary line abuts the north boundary line of the state of South Dakota. The James River flows south-southeasterly through the east part of the county, and the Maple River flows south-southwesterly through the center part of the county. The county terrain consists of rolling hills, dotted with lakes and ponds in its western portion, with the area devoted to agriculture.The terrain slopes to the south and east, with its highest point being a hill near the SW corner at 2,139' (652m) ASL. The county has a total area of 1,142 square miles (2,960 km), of which 1,131 square miles (2,930 km) is land and 11 square miles (28 km) (0.9%) is water.