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Kjell Lönnå (13 July 1936 – 10 May 2022) was a Swedish choir leader, composer and television personality. He was born in Smedjebacken, Sweden. His career lasted from 1953 until 2022. He wrote the soundtrack for "Den Svenska Psalmboken". Lönnå was one of the national conductors for the National Swedish Choir Association.
Of Halliday's book Asymmetry, Alice Gregory of the "New York Times Book Review" wrote, "Halliday’s novel is so strange and startlingly smart that its mere existence seems like commentary on the state of fiction". There were also positive reviews from Karen Heller of the "Washington Post" and Parul Sehgal of the "New York Times."
In 2008, Abby was added to the cast of "Plaza Sésamo", the Mexican co-production of "Sesame Street", appearing in new segments where she tries to perform magic tricks with various ordinary objects. She also has a segment with Lola where they solve everyday problems with simple science and sometimes art. In 2009, she became the host of "3, 2, 1 Vamos!", a Latin American pre-school programming block, which first aired in English in 2010, on Canadian television.
“circumstances”. This motivated her, to please her father, to become a professional football player and to represent the nation.
Banning is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. 29,603 people lived here at the 2010 census. It is in the San Gorgonio Pass, also known as "Banning Pass".
Kim is beloved by her appearance, named as a “beauty”. She had a whitish skin, short hair and is muscular, what is not common for a Korean woman.
Stan Goldberg (May 5, 1932 – August 31, 2014) was an American comic book artist. He was best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major characters. Goldberg was born in New York City, on May 5, 1932.
Sir Arthur Henry Hugh Cortazzi, (2 May 1924 – 14 August 2018) is a British diplomat, businessman, academic, author and Japanologist.
Yves Poilane (born 11 December 1959) is a French manager and President of universities. He is the current Director of the technological department of the IONIS Education Group, the first group in France for private higher education.
Gordon Peter Wilkinson, known professionally as Gordon Peters (29 November 1926 – 16 June 2022) was a British television actor who had a long career.
Catherine takes care of her elderly mother. She is alone for the only time of the day, and reads a romantic novel in a train. Pól, a blind man with asthma, sits on the other side of the table. His noises, questions and stories annoy her, so she lies to him. She says a worm is in a piece of his cake, making him panic and have an asthma attack. Catherine quietly hides his inhaler, which he looks for. As he loses breath, she places it just out of his reach. He falls over in his seat as she leaves the train.
Ana Carmen Macri (15 July 1916 – 4 February 2022) was an Argentine politician. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1951. She was one of the first group of female parliamentarians in Argentina. Macri was born in Buenos Aires.
The channel is currently available for the United States and Puerto Rico on Charter Spectrum, Claro Puerto Rico, Cox Communications, Frontier Communications, Grande Communications, Liberty Puerto Rico, RCN, Suddenlink, and member systems of the National Cable TV Cooperative. ¡Sorpresa! is also available through third-party mobile TV and broadband platforms, including VEMOX, Brightcove and MobiTV. The channel was also formerly available through Akimbo.
Elio Pietrini (2 January 1939 – 18 January 2022) was an Argentine-born Venezuelan actor. He appeared in many telenovelas. Pietrini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was known for his role as Rubén in "Abigail". He also appeared in "Amores de fin de siglo" and "Destino de Mujer".
Antonino Valletta (7 October 1938 – 21 January 2022) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Labour Federation, the Democrats of the Left, and the Socialist Party. He was in the Senate of the Republic from 1994 to 2001. Valletta was born in Sant'Agapito, Kingdom of Italy.
Tauriko is a suburb in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty region. It is home to the Tauranga Crossing complex and has State Highway 29 and State Highway 36 passing through the area. There is a primary school in the suburb. Its neighbouring suburbs are Greerton to the east, Pyes Pā to the southeast, Gate Pā to the northeast and Bethlehem to the north.
Alan Henry Morgan Rees (17 February 1938 – 17 March 2022) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1960s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Maesteg RFC, as a Fly-half.
Vasily Mikhailovich Astafyev () (25 October 1919 – 7 March 2022) was a Soviet officer. He was part of the Winter War, as well as the Eastern Front.
Martha Palafox Gutiérrez (23 February 1949 – 17 March 2022) was a Mexican politician. She was a member of the Labor Party. She was in the Chamber of Deputies from 1997 until 2000 and again from 2003 until 2006. Palafox Gutiérrez was born in Huamantla, Mexico. She was a Senator from 2012 until 2018, representing Tlaxcala.
Mariam Mikhaïl Faransis (born 1950, Yabroud) is a Syrian writer, scholar. Faransis is a professor of Stylistics at the Lebanese University, From 1993 until 2017, she was a member of the Department of French Language. Faransis has writen several research studies in the field of supraphrastic linguistics.
The human-rights situation in Benin is considered to be generally above average for sub-Saharan Africa.
The Walt Disney Company France () is one of The Walt Disney Company's international divisions. It is headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France For Disney Channel
In August 2009, Olympusat Inc. bought the channel ¡Sorpresa! from its previous owner, Firestone/Juniper Content Corp.
Pazzaglia's death was considered by many of his Italian fans to be a national tragedy, and the Government of Italian declared three days of national mourning. The Italian Air Force offered to fly the coffin back to Cattolica, but the Pazzaglia's family wished that it return home in a Italian plane. Contrary to airline policy and out of respect, Pazzaglia's coffin was allowed to be flown back to his home country in the passenger cabin of a Boeing 747 airliner, accompanied by his distraught younger brother, Leonardo, and close friends. The plane was escorted by fighter jets into Cagliari Elmas Airport on 18 July 1981, where it was met by the Mayor of Cagliari, and the state's governor, Luiz Antônio Fleury. The coffin was carried by soldiers from the Air Force Police to a fire engine, where eight cadets from the Military Police Academy mounted guard as it carried the coffin on the 20-mile (32.2 km) journey into the city. Leading the motorcade were 17 police motorbikes, and 2,500 policemen lined the route to keep the crowds at bay.
Air Marshal Sir Harold Douglas Jackman, (26 October 1902 – 15 June 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Maintenance Command.
Professor Anthony Smith CBE (14 March 1938 – 28 November 2021) was a British broadcaster, author and academic. He was President of Magdalen College, Oxford, between 1988 and 2005. He worked for the Annan Committee on The Future of Broadcasting, and became engaged in the national debate which led to the foundation of the UK's Channel 4.
Telefe Tucumán is a television station broadcasting on analog channel 8 in San Miguel de Tucumán, the capital of the Argentine province of Tucumán. It is an owned-and-operated station of the Telefe television network.
Meiny Epema-Brugman (28 November 1930 — 26 September 2022) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).
Nour Eddine Tilsaghani, was Born in Marrakech in 1972, he is a director and photographer, and has several exhibitions in Morocco and abroad.
Abu Dhabi Ports (Arabic: موانئ أبوظبي; formerly Abu Dhabi Ports Company and ADPC) is a ports, industrial zones and logistics operator company based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Barcelona–El Prat Airport (Catalan: "Aeroport de Barcelona – el Prat", Spanish: "Aeropuerto de Barcelona-El Prat"), simply known as Barcelona Airport, is Spanish airport. It is southwest of the centre of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is in the municipalities of El Prat de Llobregat, Viladecans, and Sant Boi. Barcelona's first airfield, located at El Remolar, began operations in 1916.
Ju Gau-jeng (; 6 October 1954 – 22 October 2021) was a Taiwanese politician. He was in the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Ju was born in Yunlin County, Taiwan.
Dalma Mádl (née "Némethy"; 9 November 1932 – 22 October 2021) was a Hungarian socialite. She was born in Pécs, Hungary. She was married to President Ferenc Mádl. She was the First Lady of Hungary between 2000 until 2005.
The Kurdish massacres (Kurdish: "Komkujiyên Kurdan"; Turkish: "Kürt isyanları" lit. ""Kurdish rebellions""), including the Zilan and Dersim massacres, were massacres perpetrated by the Republic of Turkey against the Kurds.
DWHB-DTV, Channel 26, is a digital television station of Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media Inc. Its transmitter is located at Mt. Sto. Tomas, Tuba, Benguet.
Nour Eddine Tilsaghani was born in Marrakech in 1972. He is a film director and photographer. His initial pictures were shown at The First Photography Spring in 1993 at the French Institute in Marrakech.
Abu Dhabi sport was established in March 2006 as part of the restructuring of the commercial ports sector in the emirate, Abu Dhabi Ports. It control and regulate power over all commercial ports assets of the Abu Dhabi Seaports Authority (ADSA).
DWHB-TV currently operates on UHF Channel 26 (545.143 MHz) and is multiplexed into the following subchannels:
Tilsaghani Nour Eddine started his exhibition entitled ""Protected passage"" in Marrakesh. He exhibited at the Arab World Institute as part of the exhibition ""Le Maroc contemporain"", ⁣ at (la mairie de Tour), as part of a cultural exchange between the Dar Bellarj Foundation and (la mairie de Tour). His exhibition "Ashura Bonfires and music," a work he published in 2012. He has also made individual photographic exhibitions, ⁣ the most recent exhibition in big apple, notebooks of a trip to New York" and "Wink "Clin d'oeil.
Abu Dhabi Sport was formed in 2016. It's digital arm Maqta Gateway to supports Abu Dhabi Ports in its numerous digital channel and widespread digital mandate of Abu Dhabi’s maritime and others.
HV 888 is located in the constellation of Dorado with a apparent magnitude of 11.861, It has a diameter of between 1,027,548,900 to 1,373,311,800 km.
He directed a documentary film called ("Religion as an aesthetic theme)" for the media company Al Jazeera.
Middlesex County is located in the south central part of the U.S. State of Connecticut. As of the 2010 census, the population was 165,676. The county has a total area of 1,137 km² (439 mi²). 956 km² (369 mi²) of it is land and 181 km² (70 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 15.90% water.
Interstate 285 (I-285) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway loop around Atlanta, Georgia, for . It connects three interstate highways to Atlanta: I-20, I-75 and I-85. The highway is also known as The Perimeter.
Miki Hirai ( 平井美喜 born 10 September 1981) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player. She is a member of the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team, and the club Kyushu Dolphin. In 2021 she competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Northwestern Bell was an American Midwestern telephone company. It was operated for Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The company began as Nebraska Telephone Company and Iowa Telephone Company.
Interstate 880 (I-880) is an Interstate Highway in Iowa. Its route was created in 2019 from a section of I-680. It follows the same routing as Interstate 80N (I-80N), which originally connected I-29 and I-80 from 1966 to 1973. The highway is long.
Shimu went missing on January 16, 2022, and her dismembered body was discovered in a sack on January 19, 2022. Shimu's husband Sakhawat Ali Nobel was depressed due to various reasons including closure of business. He gradually became suspicious of his wife being unfaithful. This led to marital quarrels, which eventually led to her death by her husband. Shimu reported her husband being abusive to the police sometimes earlier her death. Her husband and his friend planned and executed the murder, and later confessed to the police on January 19.
Besides being a writer, Elangbam is becoming a matter of inspiration to many other artists and writers, including Bollywood actress as well as Dr Joshiya Kh.
Between 1990 and mid-1994, the Northwestern Bell name stopped being used. It was replaced under the US West Communications company banner. In 2010 or 2011, CenturyLink took over the Northwestern Bell name and the operations. At that same time, CenturyLink replaced the Qwest name.
Bondina Elangbam was born in Imphal, Manipur. She grew up inheriting both the Meitei and Mao cultural heritages from her two parents. Her cross cultural bondings are seen to be reflected in her poetic works. Since childhood, Elangbam has a passion for painting, writing short stories and poems. Her first publication of poetry is the "Between the Poet and Her Pencil" in Mumbai on 19 December 2016. The forwarding of the poetry was done by Bollywood actress , who is her childhood school friend.
Gardelle was the sister of Renée (born 1900), Henriette (1905-1928) and Ella were all swimmers. Henriette Gardelle finished second in the swim across Paris in 1921 and third in 1923. Under her married name, Prévost-Gardelle, she finished third again in 1925 and 1926. Gardelle married in Paris in 1935 to Paul Armand Félix Daguerre, a builder from Toulouse. She worked as a housekeeper.
Weil am Rhein () is an German town of the district Lörrach in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is on the east bank of the river Rhine. It is close to where the Swiss, French and German borders meet.
Bondina Elangbam and Kangana Ranaut were classmates, roommates as well as schoolmates in their school life at a high school at School sector 15 in Chandigarh. Bondina was studying in the Fine Arts stream while Kangana in the Science stream.
According to a forwarding by Kangana Ranaut about Bondina Elangbam, she described Bondina was a dainty, waif- like vision with thick long blue-black hair hanging below her waist when seen for the first time in her life. Kangana said Bondina’s work was true to her inherent impulses and instincts. She pointed out the most beguiling aspect of Bondina's personality as the fact that Bondina never ceases to surprise anyone as she had either brood or laugh uncontrollably, avoided eye contact or had fierce glances, slept endlessly or worked relentlessly.
After their school life, they drifted away and met each other again when Kangana Ranaut was promoting "" in Chandigarh. The two met at their school. It was when Kangana Ranaut got to know that Bondina was pursuing arts, poetry and writing. Bondina sent Kangana some of her works. Then, Kangana offered to write a foreword for Bondina's book.
The superactinides are elements with atomic numbers 122 to 153. They are the furthest group in the Periodic table. As of 2021, none has been found. Scientists think they must have half-lives of only nanoseconds.
Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio (24 October 1798 – 15 January 1866), commonly called Massimo d'Azeglio (), belonging to the high nobility, was a Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter. He was Prime Minister of Sardinia for almost three years, until his rival Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour succeeded him. D'Azeglio was a moderate liberal who hoped for a federal union between Italian states. As Prime Minister, he consolidated the parliamentary system, getting the young king to accept his constitutional status, and worked hard for a peace treaty with Austria. Although himself a Roman Catholic, he introduced freedom of worship, supported public education, and sought to reduce the power of the clergy in local political affairs. As senator, following the annexation of the United Provinces of Central Italy, Azeglio attempted to reconcile the Vatican with the new Italian Kingdom. His brother Luigi Taparelli d'Azeglio was a Jesuit priest.
Anneke Staring (born 1942 or 1943 — October 2022) was a Dutch field hockey player who played as a defender. She played with HC Bloemendaal and was a member of the Netherlands women's national field hockey team. As captain of the Dutch team she became world champion at the inaugural unofficial 1971 Women's Hockey World Cup.
Long Day's Journey into Night is a tragedy play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941–42, first published in 1956. The play is seen to be his best work and one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
Luigi Lombardi (18 September 1853 – June 23, 1940) was an Italian painter from Lombardy. He was much influenced by Francesco Filippini.
Sunset in Valtrompia (also known as Vespero in Valtrompia) is a 19th-century late impressionist painted of the Filippinims movement of which Francesco Filippini was the leader for centuries, which will continue even after his death in the influence of the landscape of Italian painters.
The 1920-21 Austrian Cup was Austria's national cup competition. Due to the fact that only teams from Vienna and Lower Austria competed it was called "Cup NÖ Fußballverband" (Lower Austria Football Association Cup) but is recognized as an Austrian Cup.
Los Comitanos, also known as El Comité, is a literary group made up of writers who collaborate with the magazine "El Comité 1973". The group's motto is: "create and disseminate literary texts with the purpose of increasing the culture of people around the world ". The name Los Comitanos, comes from the publication in which the members of the group collaborate, and refers to an editorial committee.
Henriette Delbort (née Henriette Hoss; 1895) was a French competitive swimmer from Paris. She was a member of Mouettes de Paris and from 1920 of Club des Nageurs de Paris. She is named as one of the best swimmer of her club Mouettes de Paris.
Sunset in Valtrompia in oil by Francesco Filippini. It was painted about 1883, in Valtrompia, Italy. Is in the collection of the Civic Museums of Brescia.
On July 30, 2012, the first edition of "El Comité 1973" was published after its foundation by Meneses Monroy. Since then, a growing number of artists have joined the group that publishes this publication. Among them are Guadalupe Flores Liera, Claudia Hernández de Valle Arizpe, Daniel Olivares Viniegra. Visual artists such as Almendra Vergara and Elsa Madrigal are also represented in the group.
It is a work in which the evidence of Filipinoism is full, the artistic movement of Francesco Filippini that was born in opposition and response to Claude Monet, in which the social denunciation of women's work, their importance and their dignified effort is alive. , as mothers and workers, compared to the coloristic works of the French Impressionists who find space in the salons of American collectors, who do not care about violations of academic rules and love color and image, willing to pay beyond the usual price. The movement created by Filippini, precisely called Filippinismo, of which he is only the creator, after a long artistic research and forced oppression to maintain academic forms, competitions with rules, historical images, commissioned portraits that he hated, represents blossoming later the true movement of Italian Impressionism, which many of his friends, painting companions, students will follow, and will continue to do so for generations after his death. A movement that Filippini himself did not want to be organized, as for the Scapigliati, but felt, and experienced in the open air.
In August 2022, he did chosen California congresswoman Angela Underwood Jacobs, as his running mate for lieutenant governor and won the republican nomination and primary.
In the work Vespero in Valtrompia, which will find a lot of fame in its time, the suggestion created by the five women is evident who with their wide white fringed shawls called "Zendali", typical of the women of the people of the Republic of Venice, who protect the head and shoulders, in contrast with the hard black grass earth, damp, cold and dark.
The icon of the "zendali" sciali is also remembered by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his Journey to Italy (a Grand Tour to acculturate the nobility of the time), but also Giovanni Boccaccio in the Decameron, Carlo Goldoni in the comedy The cunning widow, and Alessandro Manzoni in The Betrothed (Chapter XXXII).
Omayr was inspired by Husayn’s spiritual charisma and was reluctant to leave him despite of being aware about the consequences of staying with Husayn. In the Battle of Karbala, when Omayr asked for the permission for fighting, Husayn granted him permission believing him to be match for both the challengers.
"Three carry the load of wood, one the pannier. A squat perhaps takes a breath. Or what else does it do? The tree on the right below and the patches of snow on the left above balance and embellish the scene. Whether main or secondary, the work is part of the "Valley Cycle" (Valtrompia) full of Filippini's masterpieces. Filippini went to Valtrompia in the summer to visit his brother Ludovico, a worker in the royal arms factory. There is an indelible trace of Filippini's stays in many works as evidenced by "The Church of Bovegno", "Il Mella in Valtrompia", "The valley of Inzino", "Rustic courtyard"".
It is thanks to this work that Filippini will receive the money to finally be able to enroll at the Brera Academy in Milan, to which he had aspired so much, having abandoned the idea of ​​joining the Guardia di Finanza, which he admired.
Filippini's pictorial composition is totally avant-garde, in which light and color remain the protagonists, all based on the contrast of the white shawls that jump out towards the viewer, and the earth, a meadow of black grass soaked in humidity. in which women have to walk, creating a refined pictorial grammar unique for the time that will influence all landscape painting in Italy and abroad for future generations as well.
Jonkheer Pieter Adriaan Cornelis Beelaerts van Blokland (8 December 1932 – 22 September 2021) was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. It is on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative centre (capital city) of the oblast is Blagoveshchensk. Blagoveshchensk is one of the oldest cities in the Russian Far East. It was founded in 1856. It is a center of trade and gold mining. Two major railways run through Amur Oblast. These are the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainline. As of the , the oblast's population was 830,103.
Novosibirsk Oblast (, "Novosibirskaya oblast") is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically it is an oblast. It is in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Novosibirsk. The population was 2,797,176 as of the 2021 Census.
Tambov Oblast (, "Tambovskaya oblast") is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Tambov. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,091,994.
The Château de Montsoreau is said to be the first French Renaissance Building. The building marks the transition from military architecture to palace or chateau. Large windows, numerous chimneys, and the great care that taken to sanitation problems, are some of the characteristics of this new style of building. The castle central dwelling was built directly in the Loire riverbed. Unusually, Two right-angled wings looking like square towers were built a few years later, at a time when round towers were usually built, this odd choice prefigures the corner pavilions of classical architecture. A spiral staircase probably existed before the current Renaissance staircase.
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, in the Loire valley, is a private museum open to the public. The project was started in November 2014, by Philippe Méaille and opened the 8 April 2016. The permanent collection, gathered over the past 25 years by Philippe Méaille, is not only intended to be exhibited at the Château de Montsoreau, but also to be lent to other institutions. His collection is the world's largest collection of works by the radical conceptualists Art & Language. This art movement.
The common carp ("Cyprinus carpio") is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish. It is also known as the Eurasian carp or just carp. You can find these carps in North America. In the USA, these cyprinids live in freshwater lakes.
Mandiraja is a sub-district in Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Mandiraja Subdistrict in east Jakarta with a distance of about 300 km, the area is 52,61 km and the population in 2010 was 63.679 people. Mandiraja Subdistrict consists of 16 Villages 72 RW and 387 RT, the administrative center of Mandiraja sub-district is in the village of Mandiraja Kulon.
Artvin Province (Laz and Georgian: ართვინი, romanized: artvini; Armenian: Արտուին, romanized: Artuin) is a province in Turkey, on the Black Sea coast in the northeastern corner of the country, on the border with Georgia.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer. He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (often shortened to HEC Paris) is a university in Paris. It is one of a few privately run universities in France, which are called Grandes Écoles. The university offers different degrees in the field of economics and management. It is financed by the Chamber of commerce in Paris. It was founded in 1881. It awards the degree of Master of Science, as well as doctorates and other postgraduate degrees, such as MBAs and EMBAs. About 2700 students are taught, about 500 finish their studies each year.
Basques are indigenous to area known as the Basque Country. It is located on the coast of the Bay of Biscay near north-central Spain and south-western France.
Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics.
During the 2011 Census of India, there were 25,922 people living in Jaynagar Majilpur. 13,234 (51%) of the people were males and 12,688 (49%) were females. There were 2,277 people younger than 6 years old. There were 20,898 (88.38%) people who were older than six years old who could read.
The fans making history are at least 3000 years, and the earliest fans can date from 3000 BC according to the record. Fans originated in China. The first European folding fans were brought into Europe by businessman and religious orders from China, and they are considered as a status symbol in Europe then.
She has had 40 original albums released, but two of her best-known songs are the string (Thai pop) hits "Ma Tammai" and "Faen Ja," recorded with Thongchai McIntyre. She is also sometimes known by her nickname Jin or the epithet "sao siang pin" (Thai: สาวเสียงพิณ, meaning "lute-voiced girl").
Szolnok () is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. It is a city with county rights. It is on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian Plain. This has made it an important cultural and economic crossroads for centuries. Szolnok also has one of Hungary’s best waterpolo teams.
Mount Damavand is the tallest mountain in Iran and Western Asia and the tallest volcano in Asia and the third tallest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere (after Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Elbrus), at in total elevation. Mount Damavand is a dormant volcano in northern Iran about northeast of Iran's capital city of Tehran.
Collège de France Formerly known as the "Collège Royal", founded in 1530 by Francis I, is a higher education and research institution in France. It is located in Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, across from the historic La Sorbonne campus, near the Pantheon.
Murad IV (, "Murād-ı Rābiʿ"; , 27 July 1612 – 8 February 1640) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640.
In the Middle Ages, the town was very rich due to the salt trade. Salt used to be transported along the Old Salt Route to the Baltic Sea from where it was sent by ship to other countries. There were salt mines near the town for a thousand years. Salt mining stopped in 1980. The salt mining caused a lot of deforestation. The countryside changed into heathland which is called the Lüneburger Heide (Lüneburg Heath).
A documentary believed The Russian Miracle Part II: Into the Future from c. 1961. The crown jewel of the Stalin’s First Five Year Plan, and one of the historic symbols for what came to be known as the ‘building of socialism’, is one of the achievements that this film profiles.
On May 23, 1945, the Nazi war criminal Heinrich Himmler committed suicide in Lüneburg after he had been captured by the British Army. He swallowed a potassium cyanide capsule before his interrogation could begin.
Magnitogorsk has a distinct four-season humid continental climate, which is same to those found in the Great Plains with warmer summers than subarctic climates, but Magnitogorsk has severe winters for the latitude. This climate type is typical for southern Russia, far from oceans. The average July high is around 25 °C (77 °F) with lows of 13 °C (55 °F) with January averages is from −10 °C (14 °F) in daytime high to −18 °C (0 °F) in average low. Temperatures approaching 34 °C (93 °F) or above have been measured from May to September with severe frosts below −36 °C (−33 °F) have been measured in all other months than that except transitional months April and October.
East Kazakhstan Region or the East Kazakhstan Province (kaz. Shyģys Qazaqstan oblysy/Шығыс Қазақстан Облысы; rus. Восточно-Казахстанская область) is a region located on the Eastern part of Kazakhstan, on the border of Russia and China. Its capital city is Oskemen (or Ust-Kamenogorsk in Russian). Population: 303,720 (2009 Census Results)
Geʽez (; , "" ) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language. The language came from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Frans Hals the Elder (c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch painter. He is known for his loose brushwork. He helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portrait painting.
Sterlitamak has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification "Dfb"). It has cold winters and warm summers.
"Menıñ Qazaqstanym" (, ; "My Kazakhstan") has been the national anthem of Kazakhstan since 7 January 2006.
This is the original song the current national anthem of Qazaqstan is based on. Shamshea Calda-Jacoff is the original composer of the music, and Jewmecken Nagey-Meddenoff is the original author of the lyrics.
Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
Piranshahr () is a city in northwest of Iran. The people of Piranshahr are mostly Kurds who consider themselves to be descendants of the Medes, one of the three Aryan tribes who migrated to Iran. Piranshahr is the capital of Mokrian district.
Huambo, formerly "Nova Lisboa" ("New Lisbon" in Portuguese), is the capital of Huambo Province in Angola. The city is about 220 km east of Benguela and 600 km south-east of Luanda. The city is the second largest in Angola, after the capital city, Luanda. It has the Albano Machado Airport.
Sommerfeld was the son of a practical physician. After finishing school in 1886, he started studying mathematics at the University of Königsberg. In 1891 he wrote his doctorate thesis about arbitrary functions in mathematical physics. Afterwards he had to serve in the army.
In 1894 he became the assistant of Felix Klein. The year after he wrote his habilitation about the mathematical theory of optical diffraction and became docent for mathematics in Göttingen.
A façade () is usually one side of the outside of a building. It is very often the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The word comes from French word (), literally meaning "frontage" or "face".
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, is a museum of contemporary art privately owned by the French art collector Philippe Méaille. It is in the Loire Valley in France. The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art is the only chateau of so called "Chateaux of the Loire Valley" to have been transformed in a museum of contemporary art.
Shkodër County is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Malësi e Madhe, Pukë and Shkodër. The capital is the city of Shkodër. The majority of the population is Catholic.
2003) a was Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author. He became the first president of the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
The Philippe Méaille collection is the collection of the museum. It is the world's largest collection of Art & Language works. The collection is on the first two floors of the building. This collaboration between British, American, and Australian artists is at the origin of what is now called conceptual art.
Izetbegović died on October 19, 2003 of heart disease complicated by injuries suffered from a fall at home.
Siamaggiore ("Siamaiore"", Siamajori") is a town and "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 927 people lived there. Its area is 13.17 km². It is 8 meters above sea level.
Mithridates VI Eupator (135–63 BC) (Greek: Μιθραδάτης) was king of Pontus during the Mithridatic dynasty. The Hellenistic kingdom was based in ancient Anatolia. He is known as Mithridates the Great or Mithridates the Poison king.
Chulalongkorn (Thai: จุฬาลงกรณ์, 20 September 1853 – 23 October 1910) was the fifth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri, titled Rama V. He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Phuttha Chao Luang (พระพุทธเจ้าหลวง, the Royal Buddha).
Henry I of France (4 May, 1008 – 4 August, 1060), also called "Henri I of France" and "Henri Capet of France" , was the King of France from 1031 until his death in 1060. He was the third son of King Robert II of France and his wife Constance Taillefer d'Arles. He was also uncle to Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England, (William the Conqueror's wife).
Djenné is a city in Mali. About 33,000 people lived there in 2009. The city lies on an island, and is known for the Great Mosque of Djenné. People have lived there since about the year 800 CE.
In 1937 a SS-Junkerschule (SS Officer Candidate School) was made at Bad Tölz which operated until the end of World War II in 1945. As well, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp was in the town. It provided labour for the SS-Junkerschule and the Zentralbauleitung (Central Administration Building). The former SS-Junkerschule was the base of the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group until 1991.
Heidenheim an der Brenz (short: Heidenheim, or "Hoirna") is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located on the border with Bavaria, approximately 17 km south of Aalen and 33 km north of Ulm. Heidenheim is the largest town and the seat of the district of Heidenheim, and ranks third behind Aalen and Schwäbisch Gmünd in size among the towns in the region of East Württemberg. Heidenheim is the economic center for all the communities in Heidenheim district and is the headquarters of the Voith industrial company. The town's population passed the 20,000 mark in 1925. Heidenheim collaborates with the town of Nattheim in administrative matters.
Estepa de San Juan is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Hengelo is a municipality and city in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. About 81,000 people were living there in 2021. It lies in Twente region.
Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa.
Fuentes de Magaña is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Fuentestrún is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused many deaths and socioeconomic problems in the region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The first cases were recorded in Guinea in December 2013; later, the disease spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, with minor outbreaks occurring in Nigeria and Mali.
Frechilla de Almazán is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Fuentecantos is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Pazardzhik () is a city in southern Bulgaria and is the capital of Pazardzhik Province. It is along the banks of the Maritsa river and has about 70,000 people lived there.
Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practical and theoretical opticians and glass makers to reshape most aspects of optical instrument production. His collaboration with Ernst Abbe revolutionized optical theory and practical design of microscopes.
Fuentelmonge is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
The coat of arms of the Czech Republic () shows the three historic regions of the Czech lands (Bohemia Moravia and Czech Silesia). The country started using this coat of arms in 1992. Czech heraldist, Jiří Louda, designed it.
Torrejón de Ardoz is a city and municipality in the Community of Madrid in Spain. In 2021, 132,771 people lived there.
Garges-lès-Gonesse is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France. In 2019, 43,239 people lived in Garges-lès-Gonesse.
The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen), an agency of the European Union, is in Torrejón de Ardoz. It is also the home of the headquarters of the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), the Spanish space agency.
Ninawa (, , Assyrian: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nîněwâ) is a province in north of Iraq It has an area of 37,323 km². The capital is Mosul which lies near the Tigris river. 2,600,000 people live in the province. The ancient Biblical city of Nineveh is also in this province. The name Ninawa is the Arabic name for Nineveh.
Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey is a commune. It is in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese. It is close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. The city had a population of 10,794 in 1905 and of 47,707 in 2007.
Lezhë is a city in northwest Albania. It is the capital of Lezhë District and Lezhë County. About 27,500 people live here. The majority of the population is Catholic.
Buranovskiye Babushki (, ; , "Brangurtyś pesänajos"; meaning "Buranovo Grannies") is a Russian ethno-pop band made up of eight elderly women from the village of Buranovo, Udmurtia.
Villiers-le-Bel is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France. In 2019, 28,423 people lived there.
Chetumal (, , ; , ) is a city on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It is the capital of the state of Quintana Roo. In 2020, about 169,028 people lived here.
Berdychiv (, Polish: Berdyczów, , ) is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion (district).
Rastatt is a town in the district of Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is about southwest of Karlsruhe.
The Revolutions of 1989 or the Fall of Communism were a series of revolutions against communist and socialist governments around the world, especially in Europe. It caused the end of the Cold War, saw the end of most communist states and the United States becoming the world's only superpower. It also caused the end of the Soviet Union due to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. After the revolutions, the only remaining communist countries were China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam, however people in these countries did hold protests against the government (like the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China) and there were many reforms after 1991 (like "đổi mới" in Vietnam, which was similar to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union, "glasnost" and "perestroika").
Massy is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France. In 2019, 50,644 people lived there.
Dražen Petrović (22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player.
Mahamadou Issoufou (born 1 January 1951) is a Nigerien politician who was the President of Niger from 2011 until 2021. Issoufou was the Prime Minister of Niger from 1993 to 1994, President of the National Assembly from February 1995 to 27 January 1996, and he has been a candidate in each presidential election since 1993. He led the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), a social democratic party, from its foundation in 1990 until his election as President of Niger in 2011. During the Presidency of Mamadou Tandja (1999–2010), Issoufou was the main opposition leader.
Édith Cresson (; born Édith Campion, 27 January 1934) is a French politician. She is the first woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France from 1991 through 1992. During her tenure, many criticized her for being racist.
Jausiers (; Vivaro-Alpine: "Jausièr") is a commune. It is in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. The government collapsed in April 1992. The collapse of government triggered another civil war that led to the rise of the Taliban and their eventual takeover of most of Afghanistan by 1996.
The dotted i (І і; italics: "І і"), also called decimal і (и десятеричное, after its former numeric value), is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. The county covers an area of 1,691 km² (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 as of 2011. Enniskillen is the county town.
Sannois is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France. In 2019, 26,565 people lived there.
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He discovered the first Trojan asteroid, 588 Achilles.
Alfreð Finnbogason (born 1 February 1989) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club FC Augsburg and the Iceland national team.
Mesquite is a large city in north-central Texas. It is a part of a much larger group of cities called the Metroplex. Its population in 2013 was 143,484. The city manager of the city is Stan Pickett.
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter. Caillebotte was noted for his interest in photography as an art form.
The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy movie directed by Guy Hamilton and is the ninth movie in the "James Bond" franchise. It is the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond and also stars Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize, Clifton James, Richard Loo, Soon-Tek Oh, Marc Lawrence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Marne Maitland, Desmond Llewelyn. The movie is based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming and was distributed by United Artists. Lulu sings the title song of the movie.
Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok Maharaj (Thai: พระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลกมหาราช, 20 March 1737 – 7 September 1809), personal name Thongduang (ทองด้วง), also known as Rama I, was the founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the first monarch of the reigning Chakri dynasty of Siam (now Thailand). His full title in Thai is Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramoruracha Mahachakkriborommanat Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok (พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรโมรุราชามหาจักรีบรมนารถ พระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลก). He ascended the throne in 1782, following the deposition of King Taksin of Thonburi. He was also celebrated as the founder of Rattanakosin (now Bangkok) as the new capital of the reunited kingdom.
Anthropocentrism, human supremacism or human exceptionalism is the belief and ideology that homo sapiens human beings are separate from and superior to nature, that humans are the most important organisms in the universe, and that everything else (plants, animals, minerals, etc) are just resources and commodities for people to use.
Grand Vizier, Sadr-ı Azam (Sadrazam) or Serdar-ı Ekrem (in Ottoman Turkish "صدر اعظم" or "وزیر اعظم"), was the greatest minister of the Sultan. The Grand Vizier had absolute power of attorney and could only be removed by the Sultan. He held the imperial seal and he could gather all other viziers to attend meetings regarding state affairs. The title is derived originally from the Persian word "Vizier" (وزير). The title of Grand Vizier corresponds to that of a prime minister.
The Timiş or Tamiš (; or "Tamiš"; ; ) is a long river coming up from the Semenic Mountains, the southern part of the Carpathian Mountains, in Caraş-Severin County, Romania. It flows through the Banat region and into the Danube near Pančevo, in the northern part of Serbia.
Kit Carson County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2010 census, 8,270 people lived there. The county seat is Burlington. It was founded in 1889 and is named after the American frontiersman Kit Carson.
Władysław Gomułka (; 6 February 1905 – 1 September 1982) was a Polish communist politician. After World War II he was the leader of Poland until 1948. Following the Polish October he became leader again from 1956 to 1970.
Megève (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.
Herblay-sur-Seine is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north-central France. In 2019, 31,314 people lived there.
Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom (އަބްދުﷲ ޔާމީން އަބްދުލް ގައްޔޫމް ; born 21 May 1959) is a Maldivian politician who was the 6th President of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018. He left office on 17 November 2018 after losing the 2018 presidential election.
These are the tributaries of the Timiş River: Râul Rece, Slatina, Valea Mare, Măcicaş River, Pârâul Lung, Armeniş River, Sebeş, Bistra, Şurgani River, Timişana, Pogăniş River, Timişul Mort River and Vena Mare. In its course through Serbia, it has only one tributary, Brzava, which is the longest one.
Amigny-Rouy is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in the north of France.The inhabitants of the commune are known as "Aizyjois" or "Aizyjoises".
Lurs (also Lors, Luri/Persian:لُر) are an Iranian ethnic group who speak the Luri language and live mainly in southwestern Iran. Their population is estimated at around nine million.
Howard County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, 13,789 people lived there. The county seat is Nashville. It was formed on April 17, 1873 from parts of Hempstead, Sevier, Polk, and Pike counties.
In the Edo period, gold was discovered on the island. The Tokugawa shogunate took direct control of it. It was administered by an official called the Sado-bugyō. Okubo Nagayasu was appointed to this position by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603.