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English has been written using the Latin alphabet since around the ninth century. (Before that, Old English had been written using the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc.) The spelling system or orthography of English is historical, not phonological.
A spelling reform was approved in all German speaking countries.
The city's motto is Contemnit procellas, which means, "It defies the storms."
The city's motto is, appropriately, "Contemnit procellas" ( "It defies the storms").
Though fearful of a forthcoming performance evaluation by her boss, Zoe must unravel the life of a man just found dead of a heart attack, who was supposed to have died three years earlier in a boating accident.
Zoe died in a boating accident.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday that it would lay off more than a quarter of its merchandising staff, eliminating 74 jobs in addition to 53 already cut over the last year. It also warned that the worsening economy would most likely force it to shrink its overall work force by 10 percent ―as many as 250 full- and part-time jobs in all ―before the summer, including some in curatorial and other pivotal departments.
The Metropolitan Museum has 250 employees.
Jurassic Park is a novel written by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park was published in 1990.
Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.
After the service, Lennon left the cathedral, made his way through a crush of reporters and television cameras and talked briefly with protesters, some of whom say they are victims of abusive priests.
After the service, Lennon attempted to speak to victims and protesters.
September 26 - Trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins.
Andreotti collaborates with the Mafia.
In 2005 Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France being considered the best rider that have ever competed in this contest. In 2008, after three years of retirement, he announced that he wants to compete the 2009 Tour de France. But unfortunately he was hospitalized today after crashing during a race in Spain in the first stage of a five-day race. The accident took place 12,5 miles from the stage's finish in La Vuelta de Castilla y Leon. It seems that Armstrong has injured his collarbone and was in such pain that he needed to go to Rio Carrion hospital in Palencia.
Lance Armstrong is a French rider.
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia - The Sunshine Coast Regional Council has formally ratified the rejection of the 24 hour McDonald's in Minyama. The decision comes after council rejected the proposal earlier this week at a general committee meeting. McDonald's forwarded an 11th hour compromise to deputy mayor Tim Dwyer in order to overturn the decision. The compromised had included reducing the opening hours to 6am to 10pm Sunday to Thursday and until 12am Friday and Saturday.
Sunshine Coast Regional Council accepted McDonald's Australia development plans.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Soyuz spacecraft were built by Russia.
The International Atomic Energy Agency report detailing the discovery also faulted Tehran for not cooperating with the U.N. watchdog's attempts to investigate other suspicious aspects of Iran s nuclear program.
Tehran did not cooperate with the U.N. watchdog's attempts to investigate suspicious aspects of Iran's nuclear program.
Zhang and his co-workers performed behavioral tests on two purified cannabinoids. The test results indicated that these two cannabinoids have anti-anxiety and antidepression-like effects in rats that may depend on the ability of cannabinoids to promote the production of new neurons in the hippocampus. Marijuana contains a complex mixture of chemicals including cannabinoids and may have somewhat different behavioral effects than the purified cannabinoids tested so far.
The use of drugs can help control anxiety.
Local health department officials were quoted as saying that the bridge over the Santa Barbara river, in southern Peru's Ayacucho province, "broke in two" as students and teachers from four rural schools were crossing it while going home. Fernando Valencia, a surgeon with a local hospital confirmed in reports that the death toll had risen to nine. The accident also injured 53 others, most of whom were children between the ages of 10 and 13, Valencia said. Fourteen of the victims were in critical condition. Local police said the 120-meter bridge, made of wooden boards and slats held together by steel cables, collapsed because too many people were on it.
The Peruvian bridge in Ayachuco province broke because of the weight on it.
The longest mission to Salyut 7 was also a record-breaker, lasting 237 days (nearly eight months) in space.
237 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.
Buffalo, New York - The Common Council of Buffalo voted on Tuesday to send the Elmwood Village Hotel proposal "to committee for further discussion", after citing the need for more public involvement. The Elmwood Village Hotel is a development proposal by the Savarino Construction Services Corporation, a project designed by the architect Karl Frizlen of The Frizlen Group. The hotel would be placed on the southeast corner of Elmwood and Forest Avenues in Buffalo.
The Frizlen Group is situated in Buffalo.
The accident in the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 brought along great harm for many people. There were immediate damages and consequential burdens for human beings, the environment and the economy over long distances.
Nuclear Power Plant of Sosnovyi Bor suffers an emergency shut down.
The bus, which was heading for Nairobi in Kenya , crashed in the Kabale district of Uganda near the Rwandan border.
The Kabale district borders on Rwanda.
Priscilla Presley greeted thousands of cheering Elvis fans at a concert Friday night, marking the 25th anniversary of the King's death, telling them "you're helping Elvis make history again."
Priscilla Presley told fans, "you're helping Elvis make history again."
In 1856 Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was elected deputy, and soon attracted notice among the most advanced Progressists and Democrats. He took part in the revolutionary propaganda that led to the military movement in Madrid on June 22, 1866. He had to take refuge in France for two years, like his fellow-conspirators, and only returned to Spain when the revolution of 1868 took place.
Zorrilla started the revolution of 1868.
The new Interstate 35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States was opened shortly after 5 AM today. It replaces a bridge which collapsed last year, killing 13 people. A fire engine and ambulance were first across on each side. In each direction, a line of State Highway Patrol cars was followed by a formation of Department of Transportation construction trucks. A cluster of awaiting vehicles went honking across for a few minutes, then traffic returned to the sparse levels more typical of the pre-dawn period. The September 18 opening was well ahead of the scheduled December 24 goal, earning the contractor, Flatiron-Manson, up to $19.6 million in performance bonuses. The bridge is 189 feet wide, with a main span length of 504 feet and a deck height of over 100 feet above the Mississippi River.
Interstate 35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge crosses the Mississippi River.
Capital punishment has a deterrent effect.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband, John Lennon, to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
President Bill Clinton on Tuesday passed the leadership of the Democratic Party to Vice President Al Gore, describing his deputy as the right person to be the first U.S. President of the 21st century.
Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party.
She would later return to the Contest in 2005 with "Angel," an anthem she penned herself, and achieved second place. Now, in 2009, she will be returning to Eurovision for a third try, hoping for the "3-2-1" charm and a victory ―something that has eluded her thus far. Her entry, the ballad "What If We," has special memories for Chiara; it is dedicated to her father, who is recently deceased.
Ms Siracura joined the Eurovision Song Contest.
The south Indian flute had only seven finger holes till the 1970s when the legendary T.R. Mahalingam introduced the eight holed variety.
T.R. Mahalingham made the first seven holed flute.
A bid topping $17.7 billion was jointly proffered by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation on Thursday to buy beleaguered Adelphia Communications Corporation in an industry consolidation move. Adelphia is the fifth largest cable service provider in the United States with nearly 5 million subscribers. The market-share grabbing bid trumps the previous Cablevision offer of $16.5 billion. The bid is under scrutiny by the presiding judge over the Adelphia's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and must also be approved by the company's creditors owed in the range of $20 million.
Time Warner is based in Cingular.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema accepted would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui's guilty pleas on six charges of conspiracy laid against him for his plotting to participate in the Sept. 11 attacks . Moussaoui, who had to be restrained at one point during the trial in an Alexandria, Virginia courthouse, was polite and quiet during the day's appearance.
Moussaoui participated in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Mufti Latifullah Hakimi, the spokesman for the Taliban rebels, claimed responsibility for the blast, but said that the insurgents had planted the bomb to target the Afghan police.
The Taliban is the rebels' employer.
In sub-Saharan Africa about one in every 30 people is infected with HIV.
30% of the people infected with HIV live in Africa.
Sweden has plans to open a virtual embassy in Second Life, the virtual world home to thousands of netizens. Companies like Dell are already selling computers via the virtual world, but Sweden would become the first country to have a cyber-embassy in Second Life. The embassy would not provide visa or perform diplomatic tasks, but would provide information on how and where to get these documents in the real world, as well as giving cultural and tourist information about the country. Visitors will also be able to chat with embassy personnel. A spokesperson explained that it would be an easy and cheap way to reach young people. The idea came from The Swedish Institute, an agency of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sweden with providing information about Sweden as a key purpose. The "House of Sweden" as it will be called, will be modelled on the new Swedish embassy in Washington with the same name. The opening is expected in a few weeks. Second life has over 3 million registered accounts. On an average day, the maximum of people logged in at the same time peaks at 25,000. In September 2006, Second Life was reported to have a gross domestic product of $64 million. Some schools in the United States and Canada have virtual classrooms on the site. People like Ailin Graef a.k.a. Anshe Chung have developed virtual businesses in Second Life, and earn thousands of real dollars there.
Dell is a Swedish company.
About one million years ago, these people began to slowly leave Africa.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, owner of Juventus, was quoted by Italian newspapers as saying that when Baggio came off the field after the Mexico game, "He looked like a wet rabbit."
Giovanni Agnelli is the president of Fiat.
If you have rheumatic heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes, or take digitalis drugs, vitamin E can be harmful.
Vitamin E can prevent heart disease.
Even while accepting the Russian plan, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus noted that the efficiency of Russia's State Taxation Service "is declining rapidly."
Michel Camdessus is managing director of IMF.
After years of study, the Vatican's doctrinal congregation has sent church leaders a confidential document concluding that "sex-change" procedures do not change a person's gender in the eyes of the church.
Sex-change operations become more common.
A Muslim charity in the Philippines that was supported by bin Laden and run by a brother-in-law, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, financed Shah and the other plotters.
Mohammad Khalifa's father-in-law is Osama Bin Laden.
Iraq would have been an unsafe, unsecure country that did pose a threat to the world.
Iraq would have constituted a threat to the world.
Analysts expected the company to earn $1.42 a share on revenue of $3.82 billion, according to a Thomson Financial survey.
Analysts had expected revenue of $3.8 billion, according to Reuters estimates.
Helena Brighton, an attorney for Eliza May who served as executive director of the Texas Funeral Services Commission -the state agency that regulates the funeral business- claimed that she was fired from her state job because she raised questions about SCI.
Eliza May hired Helena Brighton.
American Airlines began laying off hundreds of flight attendants on Tuesday, after a federal judge turned aside a union's bid to block the job losses.
American Airlines will recall hundreds of flight attendants.
Black Tigers are selected for their discipline and their loyalty to Vilupillai Prabhakaran, 41, the elusive leader of the LTTE.
Vilupillai Prabhakaran is the elusive leader of the LTTE.
Researchers are aware that chimps have used similar methods in the past, but it was not fully known if the tools they used were designed specifically for the task of gathering the insects. Of all the tools the chimps left behind and Sanz's team recovered, 80% were custom made by their owners. Sanz says the new study has determined that their methods have since evolved, proving previous hypotheses.
Chimps design tools to catch termites.
He also referred to the "illegal" arrest on 31 May of Mexican Professor Maria Eugenia Ochoa Garcia, whom the Salvadoran government accused of having connections with the Salvadoran guerrillas.
Maria Eugenia Ochoa Garcia was arrested in May.
Paul Hester, drummer for the popular 1980s band "Crowded House", was found dead in a Melbourne park Saturday. An ambulance service spokeswoman told the Sydney Morning Herald that ambulance officers arrived at Elsternwick Park on Saturday afternoon. They reported Hester had "attempted suicide" and suffered "strangulation". The 46-year-old-father-of-two was last seen walking his two dogs in the popular suburban park near his home on Friday evening. Hester had a history with bouts of depression, but seemed to be coping well following eight years of therapy. Friends told the The Daily Telegraph, however, that he suffered a recent turmoil in his love life. Firstly, there was the end of his romance with long-time partner and mother of his two daughters, and then a parting last December with New Zealand singer Kashan, whom he planned to wed in May.
Kashan dated Paul Hester.
The current Prime Minister Stephen Harper supported Mulroney's right to comment on Trudeau, "I think it's well known Mr. Mulroney was an opponent of Mr. Trudeau," Harper said. "He was his opposition leader and, as you know, came to power at the end of the Trudeau period when people wanted to make a change. I'll leave it to people who were there then to fight those battles. I think it's perfectly reasonable that they would comment. I think these are debates that are best left to some of the people who were around then and academics." Trudeau's former piers and friends have rallied behind his legacy and made public comments to dampen Mulroney's accusations.
Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.
On Tuesday, BVA published a telephone poll conducted for French magazine Le Figaro and news channel LCI to gauge support for right-wing presidential candidates. 73% of Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement or UMP) party supporters identified Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as their preferred candidate for May's presidential election. The UMP is one of the two major parties in France, and represents conservative politics. It was formed in 2002 as a union of several right-wing parties, and currently controls the legislature (the National Assembly) and the executive. Current president Jacques Chirac is aligned with the UMP.
Nicolas Sarkozy is supported by the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire.
The flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably well the steep rise in spot and futures prices for crude oil and natural gas that we have experienced over the past two years, said Mr. Greenspan.
Rising prices have helped make many people feel wealthier and thus more inclined to spend.
Alex Dyer, spokesman for the group, stated that Santarchy in Auckland is part of a worldwide phenomenon.
Alex Dyer represents Santarchy.
This is only the fourth time that the Security Council has imposed sanctions, the earlier cases being against Rhodesia, South Africa and, most recently, Iraq.
The Court endorsed U.N. sanctions against Libya.
If no settlement is reached, a divided Cyprus will join the European Union on May 1, 2004.
Cyprus was divided into two parts on May 1, 2004.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
Ahmadinejad attacked the UN Security Council.
"There were 20 survivors, the majority of them are in critical condition" said Cyprian Gatete, Rwanda's assistant commissioner of police, during a telephone conversation with Reuters.
Cyprian Gatete is an employee of Reuters.
The pet passport is a pink A4 sheet which contains the microchip number and certification that the dog has a rabies vaccination, and needs to be signed by a veterinary surgeon who has LVI status. The passport is not to be confused with the much smaller purple folder routinely issued by vets which records the complete vaccination history of the pet.
The pet passport contains the complete vaccination history of pets.
Jackson also found the company maintained its Windows monopoly by setting deals with computer makers to promote Microsoft products over those from rival software makers.
Microsoft Windows is an operating system.
Standing off to one side, seeing all and hearing Mozart's music, which only he understands to be a manifestation of God's love, is Antonio Salieri, the ambitious Italian-born composer and conductor, a favorite at the imperial court in Vienna in 1781.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg.
In 1986 he became the head of London European Airways, a business in which Ryanair had bought an 85% stake. This position, however, quickly disappeared as the carrier became Ryanair UK and was then merged entirely with Ryanair. Over the next decade, Cathal worked both on the executive board of the airline and as a pilot, although he resigned from the latter by 1996. He remained with Ryanair until leaving the board 2002, by which time he was a multi-millionaire due to the success of the airline.
Ryan was Cathal's father.
Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom has also shown interest in acquiring a sizable stake in the Uzbek pipeline monopoly.
Gazprom detains the Uzbek pipeline monopoly.
Most recently, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called North Korea an "outpost of tyranny" enraging Kim Jong-il , the leader of North Korea.
Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.
Canada rig count at 148, down 46 compared to last week's and down 27 compared to last year's.
Last year, the tally was 148
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.
North Korea says it will rejoin nuclear talks.
Oh Eun-sun was the first Korean woman to climb Mt. Everest solo. For all the hardships she must have endured, she merely says that she was lucky. She now reminisces about the days she spent in that mountain.
A woman succeeds in climbing Everest solo.
As the U.S. military evacuated Saigon in the Spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford approved Operation Babylift, the plan to transport thousands of Vietnamese children to adoptive parents in the West, hundreds of them at a time, before the U.S. was forced out of the country.
The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Dr. Amy Joy Lanou, director of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in America, was quick to point out health dangers of the Atkins diet.
Atkins diet is associated with increased risk conditions.
Self-sufficiency has been turned into a formal public awareness campaign in San Francisco, by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsom is a politician of San Francisco.
Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.
Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines.
Anti-nuclear protesters on Wednesday delayed the progress of a shipment of radioactive waste toward a dump in northern Germany. The train stopped for the fourth time since crossing into Germany as it neared the northern town of Lueneburg.
Nuclear waste transport delayed in Germany.
The Tunisian Foreign Ministry announced that Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Al Kaddafy arrived in Tunis this morning, Monday, for a "brotherly and recreational" visit, at the invitation of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Bin Ali.
Libya's leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi arrived in Tunisia at the invitation of President Zine El Abidine Bin Ali.
By 45,000 years ago, humans had weathered the comings and goings of a number of ice ages, had spread themselves throughout most of Africa, Europe and Asia, and had reached a population of roughly a million.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Rome is in Lazio province and Naples in Campania.
Rome is located in Lazio province.
The interest of the automotive industry increases and the first amplifier project, a four-channel output module for the German car manufacturer, Porsche, is finished.
Porsche is a German car manufacturer.
Forced to flee attack again in 1471 Rennyo travelled to Yoshizaki, where he built a popular temple which attracted many peasant converts from the region.
Rennyo reached Yoshizaki in 1471.
The contaminated pills included metal fragments ranging in size from "microdots" to portions of wire one-third of an inch long, the FDA said.
The contaminated pills contained metal fragments.
The Anzio beachhead, 33 miles south of Rome, saw some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, and accounted for many of the 10,000 US battle deaths in Italy in the first half of 1944.
The Anzio beachhead is located 33 miles south of Rome.
The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.
Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%.
Alan Mulally, Boeing's head of the unit, said at the start of the strike that it may cause delivery delays that would give Airbus SAS an advantage in what is the strongest commercial aircraft market in five years.
Alan Mulally is the owner of Boeing.
An Iraqi official reported today, Saturday, that 68 Iraqi civilians were killed as a result of the American and British bombing on Iraq and that their funerals were held today in Baghdad.
Reports from an Iraqi official today, Saturday, said that the 68 civilians killed as a result of the Anglo-American bombing of Iraq, were buried today in Baghdad .
The nation got its long-awaited first look at Bo in action as the Obamas showed off the family's new dog on the South Lawn. First lady Michelle Obama did most of the walking while the 6-month-old Portuguese water dog scampered about. Then daughter Malia took a turn, and Bo took off running. The girls grinned as they played with Bo. Sasha clapped her hands at one point, calling for the dog's attention. Plainly pleased, the president said, "He's a star. He's got star quality."
Obama's dog is called Bo.