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The 1988–90 North American drought was a weather problem that lasted two years. The drought began in 1988 in the Midwestern United States, High Plains and the Northeastern United States. A number of high pressure areas set themselves up over several parts of these areas, restricting thunderstorms from developing.
A self-made arrancar named Arturo Plateado once stormed Soul Society, but was trapped beneath Sōkyoku Hill by the Gotei 13 two-thousand years prior to the start of "Bleach". When the Sōkyoku was destroyed during Ichigo Kurosaki's rescue of Rukia Kuchiki, the seal placed on Arturo was broken and he was freed.
Arturo decides to impersonate various figures, his disguises ranging from captains to "zanpakutō" spirits, in an attempt to trick others into regaining the pieces of the destroyed Sōkyoku in order to absorb them into his body and become more powerful. Depending on the game's outcome, he is either purified and defeated or obtains the Sōkyoku and carries on to decimate the Soul Society.
Stimpson James Jonathan "Stimpy" Cat is a cartoon character in Spümcø and The Ren and Stimpy Show. He was created by John Kricfalusi and voiced by Billy West and Eric Bauza and first appeared in "Big Blue House".
Meitei folktales or Manipuri folktales refer to the large collection of folk stories developed from the Meitei culture since Ancient Manipur (Antique Kangleipak). These are the lion's share in the large granary of the Meitei folklore. Folktales are called "funga wari" ("phunga wari"), literally meaning ""stories of kitchen furnace or stove"" in Manipuri (Meitei). In early times, in the Meitei households, children must have gathered around the kitchen fire, listening to the stories narrated by the elders. Generally, Meitei folktales were developed from the creativity of the old folks, especially the grandparents, who narrated the children the diverse sagas of varying genres.
Abū ‘Abdillāh ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir ibn ‘Abdillāh ibn Nāṣir al-Sa’dī from al-Sa’dī, the Shaykh, descended of the Tamīm tribe, was born in the town of ʿUnaizah in al-Qaṣīm on the 12th of Muḥarram in the year 1307H. His mother died when he was four years old, and his father died when he was seven. As a result, he grew up an orphan but he had a stable upbringing. He was an Islamic Scholar from Saudi Arabia. And also was a teacher and a author in Unaizah, Saudi Arabia. He authored more than 40 books in several different fields including tafsir, fiqh, and 'aqidah.
He had already attracted attention at a young age with his intelligence and his strong enthusiasm for learning. After the death of his father, he had read the Qurʾān, then thoroughly memorised it by the time he was eleven years old. Then he began learning from the learned men of his town and those who visited it. He worked hard until he acquired a respectable amount of knowledge in every field. When he reached the age of twenty-three, he began teaching. Like that, he used to both learn and teach, and the entirety of his time was spent doing that. It was like that until in the year 1351H, he was placed in charge of education in his town, and became a mentor for all the students.
Mainstream support ended on January 9, 2018. In 2021 Microsoft said it’ll stop providing security updates and support for Windows RT after January 10, 2023 (EOL date).
Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor. He played Deputy Barney Fife in the 1950s sitcom television series "The Andy Griffith Show". He left the show after its fifth season to act in movies. Two of his movies are "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" and "The Apple Dumpling Gang". He died from lung cancer-related pneumonia.
"Billie Jean" is a song released from Michael Jackson's 1982 album "Thriller". The song was released in borderline 1983/1984. "Billie Jean" was one of many hits by the singer and established itself at number one in the Billboard Hot 100. At the 1984 Grammy Awards Jackson was awarded Best R&B Song and Best R&B Male Vocal Performance for the song. In 2008 Kanye West remixed the song for "Thriller 25". According to Quincy Jones, the song is based off a fan that would always sneak into Michael's backyard and claim her little brother was his son.
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and producer. He was known for being in western and noir movies. His best known roles were "This Gun for Hire" (1942), "The Glass Key" (1942), and "The Blue Dahlia" (1946).
The Drifters created many patterns made use of the group. There were many vulgar skits such as script wasting food such as watermelon and milk. Also, there were many musical scripts and they devoted themselves to jokes. Takagi was the center of laughter in the group, but Kato became the center of comedy skits after a few months. Although the others improvised on TV, The Drifters created a completely calculated story without improvising. After Shimura joined, it changed into a comedy style in which Ikaria was swayed by members of indecent roles. Shimura sometimes improvised on the stage, ignoring Ikariya’s teaching.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is an upcoming American adventure fantasy streaming television series. It is a live-action remake of the .
Utrecht (officially "Province of Utrecht") is a province in the Netherlands. It is found near the centre of the country. Utrecht is the smallest province by size in the Netherlands. About 1,361,000 people are living in Utrecht (2021).
Ryan Keith Zinke (born November 1, 1961) is an American politician. He was the 52nd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2017 to 2019. He is member of the Republican Party. He is the member-elect of the United States House of Representatives for Montana's 1st congressional district.
The oldest Hebrew Bible writings that are still here today were written in about the 2nd century BCE. The oldest writing that has no pieces missing is a Greek translation called the Septuagint. It is from the 4th century CE (Codex Sinaiticus). The oldest parts of the Masoretic Text, which is where we get modern Hebrew Bibles, are from the 9th century CE.
Almost no biblical writing was written at the same time as the events it talks about. For example, most of the writings about Jesus Christ were written long after he lived, some of them hundreds of years after.
These tables show the chronology (order) of the Bible and says when in history they were written. Much of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament may have been put together in the 5th century BCE. Most of the New Testament books were written largely in the second half of the 1st century CE. The Deuterocanonical books fall largely in between.
The Pothohar Plateau (also spelled Pothwar, Potwar or Potohar) () is a plateau in Punjab, Pakistan. The area was the home of the Soan Culture (a stone age culture), and there are many fossils, tools, coins, and remains of ancient archaeological sites. It borders the western parts of Azad Kashmir and the southern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The local people speak a dialect of North Punjabi, called Pothohari-Mirpuri or Pahari or 'Potwari' or even 'Panjistani'
The name "Thoudu Nungthel Leima" (ꯊꯧꯗꯨ ꯅꯨꯡꯊꯦꯜ ꯂꯩꯃ, /tʰəu.du núŋ.tʰel lə́i.ma/) or "Thoudu Nungthen Leima" (ꯊꯧꯗꯨ ꯅꯨꯡꯊꯦꯟ ꯂꯩꯃ, /tʰəu.du núŋ.tʰen lə́i.ma/) is made up of three Meitei language words, "Thoudu Nung" (ꯊꯧꯗꯨ ꯅꯨꯡ, /tʰəu.du núŋ/), "Thel" (ꯊꯦꯜ, /tʰel/) or "Then" (ꯊꯦꯟ, /tʰen/) and "Leima" (ꯂꯩꯃ). In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Thoudu Nung" (ꯊꯧꯗꯨ ꯅꯨꯡ, /tʰəu.du núŋ/) means stone. This term is typically used in poems and verses.
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Thel" (ꯊꯦꯜ, /tʰel/) or "Then" (ꯊꯦꯟ, /tʰen/) means "to " or "to ".
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Leima" (ꯂꯩꯃ, /lə́i.ma/) means queen. The word "Leima" (ꯂꯩꯃ, /lə́i.ma/) itself is made up of two words, "Lei" (ꯂꯩ, /lə́i/) and "Ma" (ꯃ, /ma/). "Lei" (ꯂꯩ, /lə́i/) means land and "Ma" (ꯃ, /ma/) means mother.
Goddess Thoudu Nungthel Leima is described as the deity of the Khunjahanba. ""Khunjahanba"" means ""the first villager"" or ""the first citizen of a place"". In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "khunja" (ꯈꯨꯟꯖꯥ, /kʰun.ja/) means "a villager". Morphologically, "khunja" (ꯈꯨꯟꯖꯥ, /kʰun.ja/) is divided into "khun" (ꯈꯨꯟ, /kʰun/) and "-ja" (ꯖꯥ, /ja/). "Khun" (ꯈꯨꯟ, /kʰun/) means "village" and "-ja" (ꯖꯥ, /ja/) literally means "offspring".
In Meitei language (Manipuri language), "Ahanba" (ꯑꯍꯥꯟꯕ, /ə.han.bə/) means "the first" or "the initial".
Huncho Jack is an American hip hop duo. The members are Houston-based rapper/producer/singer Travis Scott and Atlanta-based rapper/producer/singer Quavo of Migos. The group was formed in 2016. In December 2017, the duo released their first album titled "Jack Huncho, Huncho Jack".
The Kurdistan Region is part of Iraqi Kurdistan or South Kurdistan, itself part of Kurdistan. The government of the Kurdistan Region is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Its capital is Erbil, called "Hewlêr" in Kurdish.
The Blue Mosque (; Persian: <bdi>مسجد کبود</bdi> Masdsched-e Kabud) is a mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was built in 1766 during the reign of Huseyn Ali.
The number of globular clusters discovered continued to increase, reaching 83 in 1915, 93 in 1930 and 97 by 1947. A total of 152 globular clusters have now been found in the Milky Way galaxy, out of probably 180 ± 20. The additional, undiscovered globular clusters are believed to be hidden behind the gas and dust of the Milky Way.
Eureka is a small city of California in the United States, and the county seat of Humboldt County. In 2010, 27,217 people lived there. It is north of San Francisco.
Eureka has a very mild temperate climate with only very small temperature fluctuations between summer and winter. This is due to the cool California Current, whose water temperature is between and all year round. Under the Köppen climate classification, Eureka has a cool-summer Mediterranean climate ("Csb"), due to the low rainfall during summer.
The battle of Ðiện Biên Phủ was a 1954 battle between Vietnamese and French forces. Vietnam won, which made the French give up in the First Indochina War. The independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was secured, and Vietnam was divided into into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
Chun Doo-hwan (6 March 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a Korean military officer and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. He was sentenced to death in 1996. Chun was later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam on the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, who was sentenced to death by Chun some 20 years earlier.
Poissy is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Yvelines department in north-central France. In 2019, 39,187 people lived there.
Pringles are known for their packaging, which is made up of a cardboard tube with a plastic lid on top. It is also known for the logo, which has a drawing of a man with a large mustache. The shape of the chips themselves are a special shape called a hyperbolic paraboloid, so if you look at it from the side it can look like it curves up, but looking at it from another side makes it curve down!
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (; ; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904) was a writer. People know him for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as "". In the United States, Hearn also wrote about the city of New Orleans. He also used the Japanese name .
During the 1920s, Walton earned some money playing the piano at jazz clubs, but he spent most of his time composing in the Sitwells' attic. The orchestral overture "Portsmouth Point" (which he dedicated to Sassoon) was the first work which shows Walton’s real style. In 1929 the Viola Concerto started to make him really famous. This was followed by "Belshazzar's Feast" (1931), the Symphony No. 1 (1935), the coronation march "Crown Imperial" (1937), and the Violin Concerto (1939). All these works are very popular today.
Bookchin was the first to use the term "Libertarian municipalism", to describe a system in which libertarian institutions of directly democratic assemblies would oppose and replace the State with a confederation of free municipalities. Libertarian municipalism intends to create a situation in which the two powers—the municipal confederations and the nation-state—cannot coexist.
During World War II, Walton did not have to do military service so he had time to compose music for propaganda films, such as "The First of the Few" (1942), and Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry V" (1944). After composing a second string quartet (1946) Walton spent most of the next seven years writing his opera, "Troilus and Cressida" (1947 – 1954). The opera was not very popular. This was because his music was rather Romantic, very different from a lot of modern music that was in fashion in the 1950s, especially the music of Pierre Boulez and his followers.
In his last years, Walton found composition more and more difficult. He tried to compose a third symphony for André Previn, but later gave up. His last works were mostly church music or reworkings of older pieces.. He had settled on the island of Ischia in Italy in 1949 with his Argentine wife Susana Gil. He died there in 1983.
Makhnovia existed from 1918 to 1921. It was formed in an attempt to create a stateless anarchist society. This took place during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 to 1921. "Free soviets" and libertarian communes were set up and operated under the protection of Nestor Makhno's Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army.
Raëlism is a new religion that says that life on Earth was created by aliens. It was started in 1974 by . It is the world's biggest UFO religion.
Mangal Pandey (died on 8 April 1857) was an Indian solider. He was a soldier of the Bengal Army under Company rule in India. He was known for actions in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857.
Pandey was born in 1827 at Nagwa, a village of upper Ballia district, Ceded and Conquered Provinces (now in Uttar Pradesh). He was born to a Hindu Brahmin family.
Pandey had revolted against the East India Company because they brought a new weapon. It was called as Enfield Rifle. These rifles had cartridges greased with animal fats. Many Indian soldiers doubted that it was made of cow which is holy animal for Hindu and beef which is not touchable for Muslims. These reasons caused the Sepoy Mutiny.
He shot two British officers. He was tried in a military court. He was accused of working against Company. He was hanged on 8 April 1857 at Barrackpore in Bengal Presidency.
Jane Jacobs (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was a Canadian and American journalist, author and activist. She changed urban studies. In her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Jacobs described how urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city people.
Virgil Abloh (September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American designer and businessman. Abloh was also the chief executive officer of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2013.
David Gaub McCullough (July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award.
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (also spelled Silvius Leopold Weiss; 12 October 1687 - 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist (somebody who plays the lute).
In 1706, he worked for Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine. He wrote his first piece of music in Düsseldorf, which was a lute sonata in C major. In 1708, Prince Alexander Sobiesky invited Weiss to Italy. He stayed in Rome with the prince's family. He might have worked with Italian composers in Rome. He had to return to Germany when the prince died.
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand () is a secondary school located in Paris. Founded in 1563 by the Jesuits as the "Collège de Clermont", it was renamed in King Louis XIV of France's honor.
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (January 8, 1942 – January 17, 2022) was an American actress. She is known for her role in "The Time Machine" (1960). She was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards during her acting career. Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California.
Biological magnification or biomagnification is when we use several pesticides and other chemicals to protect our crops from diseases and pests. These chemicals get into our food-chain.
They are either washed down into the soil or into the water bodies. From the soil, these are absorbed by the plants along with water and minerals. From the water bodies they are taken up by aquatic plants and animals. This is one of the ways in which they enter the food chain. As these chemicals are not biodegradable, they get accumulated progressively. As human beings occupy the top level in any food chain, the maximum concentration of these chemicals get accumulated in our bodies. This phenomenon is known as biological magnification.
Bonded labour or debt bondage (or debt slavery) is a term used to refer to a situation where someone (a debtor) has to work for the person who lent him money. Generally, the conditions of this form of forced labour are close to slavery. Bonded labour is one of the most common forms of modern-day slavery-like conditions. Usually, the person working gets paid very little money in return for very hard work. Very often, the exact amount to be re-paid is not defined clearly. The person doing the bonded labour will never be able to pay off the debt through work. A regular work contract will also give rights to the person being employed, and the amount of work. In a normal working contract, difficult, dangrous or exhausting work will usually get paid better. This is not the case with debt bondage.
Kamtapuri or Rajbanshi or Kamatapuri is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Sources disagree about how many people speak it. A 1991 census said it was spoken by 5 million people. It is a Bengali-Assamese language spoken by the Rajbongshi people in India and Bangladesh. Many are bilingual in either Bengali or Assamese. Together with Rajbanshi, it forms the KRNB lects.
Helen Claire Schroeder (later known as Helen Kane; August 4, 1904 – September 26, 1966) was an American singer and musician. She performed popular music. She sang the famous melody "I Wanna be Loved by You" during the late 1920s. She also performed vaudeville. She recorded 22 singles between 1928 and 1930. She also performed in movies.
Super Bowl XXVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1991 season. The Redskins beat the Bills by a score of 37–24, bringing the number of Super Bowls they won to three. The Bills lost two Super Bowls in a row. The game was played on January 26, 1992, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hillsborough Castle is an official government residence in Northern Ireland. It was the residence of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Hillsborough Castle is used by Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British Royal Family when they visit the country and also hosts other prominent international visitors.
Unbioctium also called eka-curium is an chemical element that has been not been yet discovered. it has isotopes but how many isotopes it has in still yet unknown, Yuri Oganessian's team is searching this element and this might be the target, they already made a chemical called Oganesson. Ununennium and Unbinilium has already been targeted by them. Unbinoctium has the symbol Ubo and it is in the superactinides group
Esther Louise McVey (born 24 October 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician. In July 2019, McVey became the Minister of State for Housing and Planning for the Boris Johnson ministry. She resigned in February 2020. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton. She was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from January 2018 to November 2018.
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was the third most active Atlantic hurricane season. It officially began on June 1, 2021, and ended on November 30, 2021. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most Atlantic tropical cyclones form. However, tropical cyclogenesis is possible at any time of the year, as demonstrated by the early formation of Subtropical Storm Ana on May 22, making 2021 the seventh consecutive year that a storm formed before the official start of the season. In June 3 named storms formed during the month making June 2021 the most active June since 1968 and also tied with 1886, 1909, and 1936.
Neuter (, from Greek ["udéteron"], neither one nor the other) is a grammatical gender, a linguistic class of nouns triggering specific types of inflections in associated words.
The neuter was present in most Indo-European languages ​​together with masculine and feminine. It was perhaps originally used for objects. The distinction between "masculinum", "femininum" and "neuter" was already clear to the Latin grammarians, who got this lesson from the Alexandrian grammarians.
Neuter still exists in Germanic languages, Slavic languages ​​and Greek. In the Romance languages ​​it has almost disappeared.
Tropical Storm Elsa formed on the early morning hours of July 1, 2021, and intensified into a tropical storm later that day. This made it the earliest fifth tropical cyclone to form in the Atlantic since reliable records begun in 1851. This is also the second earliest storm to form this far east in the Main Development Region, only behind the 1933 Trinidad hurricane. This storm rapidly moved towards the Lesser Antillies at 30 mph after it became a tropical storm.
This is a table of all of the storms that have formed in the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s)–denoted by bold location names – damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2021 USD.
Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country musician and singer-songwriter. He was a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart. He was best known for his nightclub "Gilley's" which was featured in the movie "Urban Cowboy" and his hit song "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time". He was born in Natchez, Mississippi. His career began in 1957.
Kathryn Hays (born Kay Piper, July 26, 1933 – March 25, 2022) was an American actress. She was best known for her role as Kim Hughes on the CBS soap opera, "As the World Turns" from 1972 to 2010. He was born in Princeton, Illinois and grew up in Joliet. Her career was mainly active at sitcoms during the 1960s and 1970s.
A soldier is given a military discharge is when they don't have to fight anymore. There are two types of military discharges, dishonorable discharges, and honorable discharges. Soldiers are dishonorably discharged when they do very immoral things, like rape, murder, and war crimes. Soldiers are honorably discharged when they can't fight anymore, like if they get shot.
Sheikh Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri is a leader of the Qadiriyyah, Radaviyyah, Attariya branch of the Qadiriyyah Sufi order. Qadiri is a widely-respected sheikh with a significant global following which is supported by the Madani TV Channel. In 1981, the Sheikh founded Dawat-e-Islami, a Sunni Barelwi revivalist movement with hundreds of thousands of followers in Pakistan and over 180 other countries. It centres on the propagation of Islamic knowledge and manages two main activities: the Jamia-tul-Madina chain of religious schools, and the non-commercial Madani TV channel.
Kamala Harris, the 49th and current Vice President of the United States, has several family members who are notable in politics and academics. Harris's immediate family became the Second Family of the United States on her inauguration on January 20, 2021.
France Kralj (September 26, 1895 — February 2, 1960) was an artist. He was important in Slovenian expressionism and in the later new reality style. In the 1950s, he started making monotype prints.
Samsung Galaxy A03s was released in late 2021. It has a display that has a resolution of 1600 x 720 pixels. It has a 13 MP main, 2 MP depth and 2 MP macro cameras. It has an 8-core processor running at 2.3 GHz with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. It supports Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Bluetooth 5.0.
Aaron Blabey is an Australian author of children's books. He was born on January 1st, 1974. He is the author of three best-selling book series; "Pig the Pug" – a picture book series about a rude, selfish, mean-spirited little dog, "The Bad Guys" – a New York Times #1 bestselling graphic novel series for junior readers about a gang of scary-looking animals trying to change their bad reputations and "Thelma the Unicorn" – a second picture book series about a plain little pony who pretends to be a unicorn. Until 2005, he used to be an actor.
Eva Chavka Rivka "Evelyn" Kozak (née Jacobson) (August 14, 1899 – June 11, 2013) was an American Jewish supercentenarian, born in New York City to Isaac and Kate Jacobson who fled from the Russian Empire, and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6, 2012, 12 weeks after turning 113, when she broke fellow German-born American Adelheid Kirschbaum's record of 113 years and 83 days though until August 27, 2014 when fellow Russian-born American Goldie Steinberg, who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death, broke her record.
Kozak died of a heart attack at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York City in the early morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013, barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura who died at 2.08am the night of June 12 = 13.08pm the afternoon of June 11 New York Time. Kozak was one of the last person in the world born in the 1800s.
Charlie Hebdo (French pronunciation: []; French for "Weekly Charlie") is a French satirical weekly newspaper, featuring cartoons, reports, and jokes. It was founded by Georges Bernier and François Cavanna in 1970.
Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located north of Philadelphia and southwest of New York City. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 8,380. It is the home of singer Alecia Moore.
Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas) is an American actor. McConaughey made his big screen debut in the 1993 movie My Boyfriend's Back. He received great acclaim for his role as Mud in the 2012 movie "Mud" as well as his role in the 2013 movie Dallas Buyer’s Club.
As of 31 December 2005, 28,013 people lived in Sion. It is in the center of the Rhône valley. Sion is the economic and commercial hub of the region and canton.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith is a science fiction movie. It is the third film in the "Star Wars" saga produced by Lucasfilms. It was released in 2005.
The movie shows the events that led to the transformation of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader of the original trilogy. It also shows how Darth Sidious turned the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire as well as showing the destruction of the Jedi because of Order 66.
Embryophytes are land plants. They are the most familiar kinds of plants, the bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. Only a few embryophytes are water plants. Another way of looking at the group is to say they are the Viridiplantae minus the algae. They include the Bryophytes and the vascular plants.
Hermès is a French fashion house founded in 1837. It sells leather goods, furniture, perfume, jewelry, ready-to-wear.
Elizabeth Gillies went to Haworth Public School in her hometown. After this she went to Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest in Demarest. She has a younger brother named George.
Trial by ordeal was a way to decide if someone was guilty or innocent of a crime. This was usually done by causing the accused person to do a painful task. If that task completed without injury or if the injuries healed fast, this taken as a "sign of God", which meant that the accused was innocent. People believed that God would not allow innocent people to be harmed. He would therefore help them by doing a miracle. There were three common types of Trial by Ordeal:
José Maria Pereira Neves (born 1960) is a Cape Verdean politician. Neves is the 5th President of Cape Verde since 2021. He was elected Prime minister of Cape Verde in 2001. His predecessor was Gualberto do Rosário. Before he was Prime minister, Neves was President of the Santa Catarina Town Counsil.
In October 2021, José Maria Neves, won the presidential election in the first round of October 17, according to the first results published on an official website. won 51.5% of the vote, an absolute majority necessary to be elected in the first round, according to these results relating to 97% of the polling stations.
In World War II, he served in the German army, on the Western and Eastern Fronts. While on furlough, he passed the German state exams to become a teacher. He got severe frostbite on the Eastern Front at the end of 1942, so he became an "Offizier für wehrgeistige Führung" (political officer) at the anti-aircraft artillery school in Altenstadt, near Schongau, Bavaria.
Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born 5 January 1959) is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Byron Hadley in "The Shawshank Redemption" and Career Sergeant Zim in "Starship Troopers". He is perhaps best known for his role as the Kurgan in the cult classic "Highlander". Brown also works extensively as a voice actor in animated TV series. He was the voice of Lex Luthor on "" and "Justice League"/"Justice League Unlimited". He was also the voice of Mr. Krabs on "SpongeBob SquarePants".
He was a son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He was struck by Zeus with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, and thrown into Tartarus but he was not killed. (Hes. Theog. 507, &c., 514; Apollod. i. 2. § 3; Schol. ad Aeschyl. Prom. 347.)
101 Dalmatians is a movie made by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. It is a remake of the 1961 animated movie "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (which was based on Dodie Smith's 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians"). The movie's main actor is Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. Unlike in the earlier versions of the story, the dalmatians are played by real dalmatian actors, and none of the dalmatians talk. A sequel, "102 Dalmatians", was made in 2000 and was released in November. This movie is called simply "101" in Japan, like its sequel, which is called "102".
Seawise Giant (known later as the Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, Oppama, and Mont) was a ULCC supertanker. It was the longest ship ever built and had the greatest deadweight tonnage that has ever been recorded. When it was heavily loaded, the ship had a displacement of 657,019 tonnes (646,642 long tons; 724,239 short tons) and had a draft of 24.6 m (81 ft). Due to it's size and lack of maneuverability, it was not able to move through the English Channel, Suez Canal or the Panama Canal.
Sheridan has also worked as a voice actor in the animated series ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ (2001), ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ (2008), and ‘Noah’s Ark: The New Beginning’ (as ‘Zenna,’ 2012). After appearing in ‘Hallmark Channel’s 2011 movie ‘Honeymoon for One,’ she co-produced and starred in their next film, ‘The Christmas Spirit’ (2013).
Defibrillation is taking the heart out of fibrillation, often saving a persons life. Fibrillation is when the heart is not pushing blood well, because the heart muscle is not working in any pattern. Electricity causes a muscle to contract, this is how nerves cause muscles to work. The heart is a large muscle, and certain parts need to contract before other parts in a regular pattern. This lets it push blood through the heart and out to the rest of body correctly. Sometimes the heart muscle doesn't contract in the correct way or at the correct speed, this is called an "arrhythmia" (out of rhythm). Fibrillation is a type of arrhythmia when the whole heart is quivering, not organized to make heart beats of any kind. CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) can get blood to the body when the heart is fibrillating, but the heart still needs to be restarted. Sometimes CPR will do that as well, but often a defibrillator is needed. Defibrillation is done with a defibrillator.
Theodor Eicke (Born : October 17, 1892 in Hampont,Alsace–Lorraine,Germany (Today part of France)–Died : February 26, 1943 near Lozova,Ukraine,Soviet Union) was an SS-Obergruppenführer of the SS and General of the Waffen-SS . He worked for the Bavarian Army from 1909-1919 before and after World War I in the German Empire which was led by Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor/Kaiser ; 1888-1918) . He joined the Schutzstaffel aka the SS in 1930 during the Weimar Era Germany and was later commandant of Dachau from June 1933-July 1934 and together with his adjutant Michael Lippert (1897-1969) however in December 1934 Eicke met Rudolf Höss . He also was one of the executioners of SA chief Ernst Röhm during the Night of the Long Knives purge taking orders from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the most evil Nazi Officer . SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich in Nazi Germany . In 1939 Eicke became commander of the SS Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS lead the division during World War 2 in the Battle of France in 1940 on the Western Front,Invasion Of Yugoslavia (1941) and Operation Barbarossa in 1941 and the Third Battle Of Kharkov in 1943 on the Eastern Front . He died in a plane crash when his plane was shot down during the Third Battle Of Kharkov of 1943 24 days after Battle Of Stalingrad in the RSFSR,Soviet Union and just a year after Nazi Offical Fritz Todt died in a Plane Crash in February 1942 .
Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and songwriter. He was nominated for a Grammy Award twice. He was known for his role in the movie, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and in the "". He is also known for appearing in "Ghostbusters", "The Flintstones", "Spaceballs", and in "Little Shop of Horrors".
Defibrillation works by carefully sending a strong electric current to the heart, which "resets" the heart, and hopefully returns a normal, coordinated heart rhythm. It needs to depolarise (take away the existing electric charge) from a large part of the heart muscle, which stops the arrhythmia and allows the normal heartbeat to return. Defibrillators can work from outside the body with the use of an external defibrillator or an automated external defibrillator, or inside the body with an implantable defibrillator.
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, (born 17 January 1949) is a Barbadian politician. She is the 1st and current President of Barbados since 2021. In January 2018, she became the Governor-General of Barbados.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (О́льга Алекса́ндровна Рома́нова; "Olga Alexandrovna Romanova") ( – 24 November 1960) was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. Her older brother was Tsar Nicholas II. She was not close to her mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna. She was warmer towards her father, and they shared secrets and enjoyed time together. In 1901, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg. They separated in 1916. Olga married commoner Nikolai Kulikovsky, whom she had loved from 1903. After the Romanov family were destroyed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she ran away to the Crimea with her mother, husband, and children, where they lived in great danger. Her brother and his family, including Olga's niece Grand Duchess Anastasia, were murdered by communists. After she escaped from Russia in 1919, Olga was often visited by people who claimed to be her dead relatives. She met Anna Anderson, the best-known Anastasia impostor, in a famous visit to Berlin Germany in 1925. She died when she was 78. Olga was the last surviving child of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia. She was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia
A small study showed that these dogs live an average of 11.4 years, which is not very long for a small dog (small dogs usually live 14–15 years). One of their most common health problems is bladder disease, which happens most often when the dogs are older (8 years and up.) Their short faces can make it difficult for them to breathe and exercise in hot weather. Like many kinds of dogs, Affenpinschers often get a disease called hip dysplasia which makes it difficult for them to run or walk.
A civil parish is a type of local government. It is a territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England.
Jan Mølby (born 4 July 1963) is a former Danish football player. He has played for Denmark national team.
On April 1, 2015, Senator Menendez attracted national media attention when he was indicted on federal corruption charges in the United States District Court. He pleaded not guilty and all charges were dropped in 2018.
The series is a series of popular platform games by Nintendo. They feature Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in most of the games, his brother Luigi. The "Mario" series has been running for more than 40 years. More than 200 video games have been released in the series. The series has been named the best-selling video game series in history, with over 262 million combined units sold.
Keturah was a wife of Abraham. Abraham married Keturah after the death of Sarah. She had six children with Abraham, whoes names are Zimran, Jokshan, Medan Mdian, Ishbak, Shuah (Gen 25:1-2). She was the daughter of Noah's son Japheth.
Parsa District (, a part of Province No. 2 in Terai plain, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Birganj as its district headquarters, has an area of and has a population (2001) of 497,219. According to the locals, Parsa is named after Parsagadhi temple in the district.
Muhammad Hussain Inoki (born on February 20, 1943 – October 1, 2022) was a Japanese professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promoter, politician, and retired professional wrestler and martial artist, best known by his ring name Antonio Inoki. Inoki's ring name was a tribute to fellow professional wrestler Antonino Rocca.
The voiceless retroflex fricative is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. The sound is similar to /ʃ/ but your tongue is curled back.
The series started out in 1981 with the arcade video game, "Donkey Kong", and has since then taken off into its own series. It was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. Mario, going under the name Jumpman when "Donkey Kong" was first released, is the main protagonist throughout most of the series. The main antagonist of the series is Bowser, the King of all Koopas. Most of the games have something to do with jumping and defeating enemies. The games usually feature simple storylines. The most common theme in the series is Bowser, the main villain, taking away Princess Peach, who the Mario brothers try to save during the games.
The Bell Centre () is a sports arena in Montreal, Quebec. The arena opened on March 16, 1996, and is the current home to the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). The arena was originally known as Molson Centre () from 1996 to 2002. Bell Canada currently has naming rights for the arena. The arena has also held several WWE events, which includes the Survivor Series in 1997, where the infamous Montreal Screwjob between Bret Hart, Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels took place, as well as other pay-per-views including No Way Out in 2003 and Breaking Point.
Alexa Demie is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Maddy Perez in the HBO drama series "Euphoria".
Carlos Marín Menchero (13 October 1968 – 19 December 2021) was a Spanish baritone. He was a member of the classical crossover group Il Divo.
Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian actress and model who predominantly works in South Indian film industry. Model-turned-actress Preet made her debut with the Kannada movie "Gilli" (2009), she has appeared in around thirty films, which includes acting credits in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi cinema. She nominated for Filmfare Awards South in Best Actress Telugu (2014 & 2015). Along the way, Rakul Preet has also bagged several accolades, including the SIIMA Award for Best Actress for her work in Nannaku Prematho (2016), and a CineMAA Award as well.
Rachel Zegler (born May 3, 2001) is an Colombian-American singer and actress from Clifton, New Jersey. She is known for her role as Maria in the 2021 remake of "West Side Story", which was directed by Steven Spielberg. She won a Golden Globe Award for this role in 2022.
The barycenter (or barycentre; from the Greek "βαρύκεντρον") is the point between two objects where they balance each other. For example, it is the center of mass where two or more planets orbit each other. When a moon orbits a planet, or a planet orbits a star, both bodies are actually orbiting around a point that lies outside the center of the larger body. For example, the moon does not orbit the exact center of the Earth. It actually orbits a point on a line between the center of the Earth, and the Moon. This is about 1,710 km below the surface of the Earth. This is the point where the mass of the moon, and the mass of the Earth balance. This is the point about which the Earth, and Moon orbit as they travel around the Sun.
Pedro Ochoro González Alonso Lopez (born 21 June 1971), is a Spanish actor, writer and artist. He is best known for his role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the Spanish heist series "Money Heist" ("La casa de papel") and for the role of Diego Murquía in the historical drama series "Gran Hotel". He is also a writer and uses the pen name Pedro Alonso.
He became famous at a local level in Galicia for his performances on television in "Rías Baixas" (2003–2005), "Maridos e mulleres" (2006–2008), "Padre Casares" (2008–2015) and "Gondar" (2009), and nationally for playing characters such as Diego Murquía/Adrián Vera Celande in historical drama "Gran Hotel". Alonso played the role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the crime drama series "Money Heist" ("La casa de papel").
In 2018, he was chosen as "International Star of the Year" by GQ Turkey magazine. He co-starred in "Diablo Guardián", Amazon Prime Video’s first drama series in Latin America. It was released in May, 2018. In 2019, Alonso played the leading role in the mystery thriller "The Silence of the Marsh".
The state of North Carolina wanted to expand the interstate to Wilmington, North Carolina to I-40. This was not approved by the South Carolina government and the United States government and was canceled, though.
Marcel Theo Hall (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), known professionally as Biz Markie, was an American rapper, DJ, and record producer. He was best known for his 1989 single, "Just a Friend".
31-year-old Damien Sanderson and 30-year-old Myles Sanderson are the suspects and police are currently looking for them. Some of the victims are believed to have been targeted, while others were randomly attacked.
Traditional English renderings of Greek names originated from Roman systems that were established in antiquity. The Roman alphabet was a form of the Cumaean alphabet, which was itself developed from the Euboean script, which used as , as , and variant forms of and that later became L and S. When the Euboean script was used to write the classical Greek alphabet, ⟨κ⟩ was replaced with ⟨c⟩, ⟨αι⟩ and ⟨οι⟩ became ⟨æ⟩ and ⟨œ⟩, and ⟨ει⟩ and ⟨ου⟩ were simplified to ⟨i⟩ (more rarely, corresponding to an earlier pronunciation, to ⟨e⟩) and ⟨u⟩. Aspirated consonants like ⟨θ⟩, ⟨φ⟩, initial-⟨ρ⟩, and ⟨χ⟩ simply wrote out the sound: ⟨th⟩, ⟨ph⟩, ⟨rh⟩, and ⟨ch⟩. Because English orthography has changed so much from the original Greek, modern scholarly transliteration now usually renders ⟨κ⟩ as ⟨k⟩ and the diphthongs ⟨αι, οι, ει, ου⟩ as ⟨ai, oi, ei, ou⟩. Modern scholars also increasingly render ⟨χ⟩ as ⟨kh⟩. Greek sounds greatly changed, and Modern Greek sounds quite different from Ancient Greek. That also has had an influence on the terms used in English and other languages and had led to a number of different romanizations for names and placenames in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT) issued its system in co-operation with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1983. The system was adopted (with minor modifications) by the United Nations' Fifth Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names at Montreal in 1987, by the United Kingdom's Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN) and by the United States' Board on Geographic Names (BGN) in 1996, and by the ISO itself in 1997. Romanization of names for official purposes, as with passports and identity cards, were required to use the ELOT system within Greece until 2011, when a legal decision permitted Greeks to use irregular forms (such as "Demetrios" for ) provided that official identification and documents also list the standard forms (as, for example, "Demetrios OR Dimitrios"). Other romanization systems are the BGN/PCGN's earlier 1962 system and the system employed by the American Library Association and the United States' Library of Congress.
'They' can also be used for the singular third person if the gender of the person is unknown, or to purposely be ambiguous, or neither male nor female. Singular 'they' is conjugated the same way as the plural form, similar to the matching conjugations of the plural and singular 'you' in English. Singular 'they' is never used for objects, only people.
The voiced dental non-sibilant affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English.
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born August 16, 1972) is a South Korean-born Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera "Train 48" (2003–2005) and as Appa in the 2011 play "Kim's Convenience" and its television version. Lee was born in Daejeon, South Korea. His career began in 2005.
The Class 378/0s were delivered as 3-car units with dual-voltage capability. They were extended to 4-car units in 2009–2010.
The Meitei female given name "Ngaleima" (ꯉꯥꯂꯩꯃ) is made up of two words. The two words are "Nga" (ꯉꯥ) and "Leima" (ꯂꯩꯃ). "Nga" (ꯉꯥ) has multiple meanings. It may mean "to " or "to " in verbal form. It means fish in noun form. Here, the word "Nga" (ꯉꯥ)
In 2014–16, all units had an extra carriage added to increase capacity, making them 5-car units. During the change, extended units carried a blue square on the front and back of the train saying "5 Car Train". These were taken off after all the trains were extended.
John Kirk Singlaub (July 10, 1921 – January 29, 2022) was an American OSS officer. He was a founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a major general in the United States Army.
Anita was raised in East Anglia by a single mother before moving to Southwest England. She was diagnosed with a rare form of Tourette's syndrome when she was aged 24.
Macross Digital Mission VF-X (マクロス デジタルミッション ブイエフエックス "Makurosu Ddejitaru Misshon Buiefu Ekkusu") is a 3D shooting game developed by UNiT and published by Bandai Visual for the Sony Playstation, released on February 28, 1997. The game takes place a year after the events of the "Macross 7" television series and follows the VF-X Ravens unit. The game was followed by a sequel, "Macross VF-X2" in September 2, 1999.
This is a shooting game based on the Macross series, and is a wholly original setting not based on any previous works or series. It is set one year after the "Macross 7", which had been the most recent of the franchise at the time. The game was initially planned as a fully polygonal 3D shooter, and the Sony PlayStation perfectly suited the game's ambition in terms of graphics.