Queens is a borough of New York City and a county of New York State. It was named for Catherine of Braganza, the Queen of England and wife of King Charles II of England.

Geography

About 2.6 million people live in Queens and it is the largest borough of New York City in size and second in population. According to the United States census, Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the USA. That means that it has the most people from different kinds of places, religions, and ethnic groups of any place in the USA. Large parts of Queens are urban and an equal part is suburban. Until 1899 Nassau County, New York was part of Queens County.

Transportation
Queens is home to both of New York City's airports, LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Queens is connected to the Bronx by three bridges: the Bronx Whitestone Bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge and the Triborough Bridge. It is connected to Manhattan by two bridges and one tunnel: the Triborough Bridge, the Queensboro Bridge, and the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

Many controlled-access highways cross Queens, including I-495 (the Long Island Expressway), I-278 (the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), and I-678 (the Van Wyck Expressway, pronounced Van Wike). Important state highways in Queens include the Grand Central Parkway, which becomes the Northern State Parkway when it crosses the Queens border into Nassau County.

Many New York City Subway lines go through Queens. The most famous is the Flushing Line, the 7 Train, which has the nickname "International Express" because it goes through many neighborhoods where many immigrants live. Other subway lines in Queens include the A Train, C Train, E Train, F Train, G Train, J Train, M Train, N Train, R Train, V Train, W Train, and Z Train.

Queens has a very large bus system that goes to all parts of the borough. Some bus routes go to Brooklyn, Manhattan, or the Bronx.

The Long Island Rail Road also has many stations in Queens. The Port Washington Line crosses northern Queens. There are busy stations at Woodside, Queens, Forest Hills, and Flushing. The central depot and main station for the railroad is in the neighborhood of Jamaica.

Sport & Recreation

The New York Mets of the National League of Major League Baseball play in Citi Field in Queens. The U.S. Open, a famous and important tennis tournament, is played in Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows Park south of the baseball stadium.

Neighborhoods

Queens has dozens of neighborhoods and named areas. These include:
 Addisleigh Park
 Arverne
 Astoria
 Auburndale
 Baisley Park
 Bay Terrace
 Bayside
 Bayswater
 Beechhurst
 Bellaire
 Belle Harbor
 Bellerose
 Blissville
 Breezy Point
 Briarwood
 Broad Channel
 Cambria Heights
 College Point
 Corona
 Ditmars / Steinway
 Douglaston
 Dutch Kills
 Edgemere
 Elmhurst
 Far Rockaway
 Floral Park
Flushing
 Forest Hills Gardens
 Forest Hills
 Fresh Meadows
 Glen Oaks
 Glendale
 Hamilton Beach
 Hillcrest
 Hollis Hills
 Hollis
 Holliswood
 Howard Beach
 Howard Park
 Hunters Point
 Jackson Heights
 Jamaica
 Jamaica Estates
 Kew Gardens Hills
 Kew Gardens
 Laurelton
 Linden Hill
 Lindenwood
 Long Island City
 Little Neck
 Malba
 Maspeth
 Middle Village
 Morris Park
 Murray Hill
 Neponsit
 New Hyde Park
 Oakland Gardens
 Ozone Park
 Pomonok
 Queens Village
 Queensboro Hill
 Queensbridge
 Ravenswood
 Rego Park
 Richmond Hill
 Ridgewood
 Rochdale
 Rockaway Beach
 Rockaway Park
 Rockaway Point
 Rosedale
 Saint Albans
 Seaside
 South Jamaica
 South Ozone Park
 Springfield Gardens
 Sunnyside
 Utopia
 Whitestone
 Willets Point
 Woodhaven
 Woodside

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Laax () is a municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website
 Official Tourism website

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Category:Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland

Laax


Umberto "Bert" Rossi (1 November 1922 – 2 July 2017) was an English gangster and former associate of the Kray twins. He was known as the "General of Clerkenwell". He stood trial for murder in 1975 but was acquitted. He was a journalist linked him to 11 murders, a figure which he did not dispute. He was born in Clerkenwell, London, England.

Rossi died on 2 July 2017 in London at age of 94.

Further reading
Morton, James. (2017) Bert Rossi: Britain's oldest London gangland boss. National Crime Syndicate Publishing.

References

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Bert Rossi


Wingspan of an airplane or a bird is the distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. The wingspan of an aircraft is always measured in a straight line, from wingtip to wingtip, independently of wing shape or sweep.

To measure the wingspan of a bird, a live or freshly dead specimen is placed flat on its back, the wings are grasped at the wrist joints and ankles, and then the distance is measured between the tips of the longest primary feathers on each wing.

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Wingspan


A red brick university (or redbrick university) was one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England. They are founded in the 19th century. These universities were different from other universities as they accepted students regardless of religion or background. They concentrated on imparting to their students "real-world" skills such as engineering and medicine.

References

Further reading
 Whyte, William. Redbrick: A Social and Architectural History of Britain's Civic Universities (2015).

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Red brick university


King Cove  is a city in Alaska.

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King Cove, Alaska


Lindsey is a village and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England. In 2001, there were 187 people living in Lindsey.

References

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Lindsey


Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera. It includes the insects commonly known as crickets, katydids and bush crickets. "Ensifer" means "sword bearer" in Latin, and refers to the long and blade-like ovipositor of the females.

Classification
Superfamily Grylloidea
Gryllidae - true crickets
Gryllotalpidae - mole crickets
Mogoplistidae
Myrmecophilidae - ant crickets
Superfamily Hagloidea
Prophalangopsidae
Superfamily Rhaphidophoroidea
Rhaphidophoridae - camel crickets, cave crickets, cave wetas
Superfamily Schizodactyloidea
Schizodactylidae - dune crickets
Superfamily Stenopelmatoidea
Anostostomatidae - wetas, king crickets
Cooloolidae
Gryllacrididae - leaf-rolling crickets
Stenopelmatidae - Jerusalem crickets
Superfamily Tettigonioidea
Tettigoniidae - katydids or bush crickets, the long-horned grasshoppers

category:Orthoptera

Ensifera


Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 141,752. Its county seat is Asheboro.

References

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Randolph County, North Carolina


Jam is a condiment. It is usually made from pressed fruit, sugar, and sometimes pectin. Most jams are cooked. After making, jam is normally put into an airtight jar.

Usually a jam contains as much sugar as it contains fruit. The two parts are then cooked together to form a gel.

In the European Union, there is the jam directive (Council Directive 79/693/EEC, 24 July 1979). It sets minimum standards for the amount of "fruit" in jam, but the definition of fruit was expanded. This was done to take several unusual kinds of jam made in the EU into account. For this purpose, "fruit" is considered to include fruits that are not usually treated as fruits, such as tomatoes; fruits that are not normally made into jams, such as melons and watermelons; and vegetables that are sometimes made into jams, such as: rhubarb (the edible part of the stalks), carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins. This definition continues to apply in the new directive, Council Directive 2001/113/EC (20 December 2001).

According to Canadian food and drug regulation (CRC), jam and jam products must at least have 45% of the named fruit and 66% of water-soluble solids. In addition, it may contain added pectin, pectinous preparation, or acid ingredient. Also, reasonable amount of a Class II preservative, a pH adjusting agent, and an antifoaming agent is acceptable. However, the jam product shall not contain apple or rhubarb.

Marmalade is jam made from oranges and tends to have pulp and peels.

Jelly is different from jam as it is made from mostly juice instead of fruit.

Fruit butters are made from slow cooking fruit to a smooth consistency.

Joan Miró used blackberry jam as an art medium.

As a gel, jam is neither a solid or a liquid. It can contain chunks of fruit which are solids. Once opened and out of the fridge the gel becomes more like a liquid, and is able to decay.

References

Other websites
 National Center for Home Food Preservation - How do I...Jam & Jelly
 Council Directive 2001/113/EC (20 December 2001)

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Jam


Anthony Franciosa (Anthony George Papaleo October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American movie, TV, and stage actor, usually known as Tony Franciosa during his career.

He made some movies such as; Career (1959) for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor/Drama. In television he is known for his lead roles in five well-known TV shows as; the sitcom Valentine's Day (1964–65), the drama series The Name of the Game (1968–71), Search (1972–73), Matt Helm (1975) and Finder of Lost Loves (1984). Franciosa received a Tony Award nomination for his role in the play A Hatful of Rain.

Franciosa was born in New York City, New York on October 25, 1928.

Franciosa was married to Beatrice Bakalyar from 1952 until it ended in divorce in 1957. Secondly he married Shelley Winters from 1957 until they divorced in 1960. Thirdly he married Judy Balaban from 1961 until they divorced in 1967. Lastly he married Rita Thiel from 1970 until his death in 2006.

Franciosa suffered a stroke on the day his ex-wife Shelley Winters died on January 14, 2006. Franciosa died five days after Winters' death on January 19, 2006 from a stroke at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, he was 77 years old. He is survived by his wife Rita, his three children, and his two grandchildren. His remains were later cremated.

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Anthony Franciosa


James Franklin "Jamie" Hyneman (born September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert, scientist, and television personality. He has been the co-host of MythBusters since 2003.

Hyneman was born on September 25, 1956 in Marshall, Michigan. He was raised in Columbus, Indiana. He studied at Indiana University. Hyneman has been married to Eileen Walsh since 1989. He is an atheist.

References

Other websites
Jamie Hyneman's M5 Industries

Jamie Hyneman biography from the Discovery Channel

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Jamie Hyneman


Brenda Strong (born March 25, 1960 in Oregon) is an American actress who stars primarily in television programs. She has, however, starred in a limited number of movies. She acted as Mary Alice Young in the ABC sitcom Desperate Housewives and as Ann Ewing in the TNT television drama Dallas, the 2012 edition. Before acting, she was crowned Miss Arizona 1980.

References

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Brenda Strong


Bass Generation is the studio album by Swedish musician Basshunter. It was released on  September 25, 2009.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

Other websites
Basshunter's official website

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Bass Generation


The Hualien earthquake was an earthquake that occurred in the East China Sea, about 20 km off the Coast of Taiwan in early 2018. the quake had a magnitude between 6 and 6,5 on the Richter scale. Seventeen people died and about 300 were injured during the event

Category:Earthquakes in Asia
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2018 Hualien earthquake


Staldenried (Walliser German: Schtaaluried) is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It consists of the largest hamlet of Gspon (), the hamlets of Zur Kirche and Zur Tanne along with about twenty small settlements.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Staldenried
 Aerial cableway website

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Staldenried


Nome is a city on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It is in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.

The city of Nome claims to be home to the world's largest gold pan.  But the Canadian city of Quesnel, British Columbia also says they do.

In the winter of 1925, there was a diphtheria epidemic among Inuit in the Nome area. Blizzard conditions made delivery of a life-saving serum by airplane from Anchorage impossible. A serum run to Nome by dog sled teams delivered the serum. The sled driver of the final leg of the relay was the Norwegian-born Gunnar Kaasen; his lead sled dog was Balto. The annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorates this historic event.

Nome is home to Alaska's oldest newspaper, the Nome Nugget.

The reality television series Bering Sea Gold is set and filmed in Nome.

Nome

Nome, Alaska


Identity could mean:

Philosophy

 Identity (philosophy) is the sameness of two things.
 Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
 Personal identity

Mathematics

An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
An identity object is an entity that does not change other objects; identity function, identity element and identity matrix

Social science and psychology

Identity (social science). In the social sciences, identity has specific meanings, stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.
Cultural identity is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group.
Gender identity is the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others).
Digital identity is the representation of identity in terms of digital information.
Online identity is the digital identity established by computer network users.
Psychological identity is the concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history.

Business
An accounting identity is a basic accounting formulation that must, by construction, hold; for example, the balance sheet of a company must balance. The term may also be used to apply to formulations in economics that have the same characteristics, for example, the balance of payments must balance.
Corporate identity is the physical manifestation of a business brand.
Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.

Computer science

Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.
Identity column in SQL Server represents a database field whose values are automatically generated by the server, and uniquely identify a row in the table.

Religion
 Christian Identity, a controversial religious belief which holds that Europeans and their descendents are the Biblical Israel

Television, film, music and literature

Identity (novel), a novel written by Milan Kundera
Identity (movie), a movie directed by James Mangold, starring, among others, John Cusack
Identity (album), an album from Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris
Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
Identity (game show), a game show on NBC hosted by Penn Jillette

Related pages
 Secret identity
 identity card
 Identification

Identity


The Kkwaenggwari (kwang gah ree) is a small gong used in Korean folk music.

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Kkwaenggwari


The Paraguay River is a major river in south central South America.  It goes through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. It is about  long. It starts in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.  It ends when it joins the Paraná River north of Corrientes.  The biggest city on the river is Asunción, the capital city of Paraguay, which is located at its meeting with the Putumayo River.

References

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Category:Rivers of Paraguay

Paraguay River


All Grown Up! was a Nickelodeon animated television series. It was set in California. It was a spin-off of the Rugrats series. The series was about the original Rugrats characters being nine to thirteen years older. It was first shown on April 12, 2003.

Characters

Children
Thomas "Tommy" Malcolm Pickles, leader, filmmaker, dancer, songwriter, play-writer
Dylan "Dil" Prescott Pickles, dancer
Charles "Chuckie" Crandall Finster, dancer, drummer, best friend of Tommy
Kimberly "Kimi" Watanabe-Finster (friend of Tommy), tomboy, dancer, best friend of Susie
 Phil and Lil DeVille (friends of Tommy)
Angelica Charlotte Pickles (tomboyish cousin and frenemy of Tommy), singer
Susanna "Susie" Yvonne Carmichael (friend of Tommy), singer, best friend of Kimi
Harold Frumkin, dancer

Adults
Didi and Stu Pickles
Chas Finster
Kira Finster
Betty and Howard DeVille
Drew Pickles
Charlotte Pickles

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All Grown Up!


Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), was an American comedian. His real name was Leonard Alfred Schneider. He is considered an innovator of modern stand-up comedy and changed the way many people see comedians. His jokes and routines were very improper and off limits for the time and he got in a lot of trouble for them. He is considered a hero for the defense of the First Amendment rights in the United States, especially for free speech.

In the 1960s he was the last person arrested for impersonating and swearing, overwatched by martial law and police and banned from many cities and comedy clubs.

He appeared on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

He died in 1966 of an accidental morphine overdose whist on trial.

In 1970 the New York's highest court of appeals decided that he is "not guilty for using bad words".

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Lenny Bruce


Egremont is a town and civil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 7444 people living in Egremont.

References

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Egremont


Shanksville, Pennsylvania is a small borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. About 250 people live there. The town is 60 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The area became well-known worldwide when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field during the September 11 attacks. The town was founded in 1798.

Other websites

 Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

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Shanksville, Pennsylvania


F.B. Brindisi 1912 is a football club which plays in Italy.

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Category:1912 establishments in Italy

F.B. Brindisi 1912


Eoghan Quigg (12 July 1992) is a pop singer based in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has been active since 2008 when he was a contestent on The X Factor where he finished in third place. In Ireland he has had a number 1 album called Eoghan Quigg. Quigg was going to be signed by Simon Cowell, CEO of Syco Records, but was instead signed to RCA.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

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Eoghan Quigg


The Maumee River (pronounced ) (Shawnee: Hotaawathiipi; Miami-Illinois: Taawaawa siipiiwi) is a river running from northeastern Indiana into northwestern Ohio and Lake Erie in the United States. The city of Toledo is located at the mouth of the Maumee.

It is the largest watershed of any of the rivers feeding the Great Lakes, and supplies five percent of Lake Erie’s water.

References

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Category:Rivers of Indiana

Maumee River


Norje is a locality in Sölvesborg Municipality in Blekinge County in Sweden. In 2010, 657 people lived there. Starting in 1998, the rock/metal festival Sweden Rock Festival has been held there since then.

References

Category:Settlements in Blekinge County

Norje


Myomimus is a genus of dormouse in the Gliridae family.
It contains the following species:
 Masked mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus personatus)
 Roach's mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus roachi)
 Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse (Myomimus setzeri)

Myomimus


Man of Steel may refer to:
 Superman, a comic book character
 The Man of Steel (comics), a 1986 comic book series
 Superman: The Man of Steel, comic book series about Superman from 1991 to 2003
 Man of Steel (movie), a 2013 Superman movie directed by Zack Snyder

Man of Steel


A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or anything like those.

In the United States
For over a century, local boards were responsible for public education funding, standards, instruction, and results. To a extent is still true. At their height in the 1930s, there were as many as 127,500 boards. Some rural states had more school board members than teachers. Such boards looked over school systems serving agrarian and industrial economies.

References

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Board of education


Israeli Educational Television (, ) was the first television channel in Israel. It was established in 1965 and began broadcasting in 1966. After it started broadcasting, it was added to the national broadcasting channels. Since 1997, it has had an independent broadcasting channel called Educational 23 on Channel 23.

Other websites
 Israeli Educational Television

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Israeli Educational Television


John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American animator, movie director and the former chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Lasseter bought Pixar from the late Steve Jobs. He eventually left Pixar and Disney due to allegations of sexual harassment. Lasseter has been married to Nancy Lasseter since 1979. He was born in Hollywood, California.

Movies

References

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John Lasseter


Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird is an animated movie. It was released on August 31, 1985. It was re-released on widescreen in 2005. The length of the movie is 89 minutes.

Plot
The movie is about Big Bird leaving Sesame Street and going to the country to see his family. But during the time he gets homesick because of being there and goes home.

DVD released
This movie was released on DVD on February 29, 2001.
This movie was re-released on DVD on July 31, 2006.
It was followed by bonus DVDs like "Sesame Street: Big Bird in 1000 Episodes" and "Sesame Street: Big Bird in Sketches". They were sold in a triple DVD pack.

References

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Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird


Events

Up to 1900
 811  Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian city of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasure.
 1148  Crusades: A Crusader army starts a Siege of Damascus, lasting until July 28.
 1793  The Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
 1632  300 colonists leave for New France from Dieppe, France.
 1677  Scanian War: Denmark-Norway captures the harbour town of Marstrand from Sweden
 1783  Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
 1829  In the US William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor of the typewriter.
 1840  The Province of Canada is created in an Act of Union.
 1862  American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union army.
 1871  Austria-Hungary decides to use the metric system. The change becomes effective on January 1, 1876.
 1881  Chile and Argentina agree on their territories in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.

1901  2000
 1903  The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
 1914  World War I: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia, demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia does not meet Austria-Hungary's terms and war is declared on July 28.
1921  The Communist Party of China (CPC) launched the first time of Chinese National Congress, Communist party in China are established.
 1927  The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
 1929  The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
 1930  A magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Italy kills 1,425 people.
 1936  The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of the Socialist and Communist Parties.
 1940  United States Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration that the United States will not recognize the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
 1942  Holocaust: Treblinka Extermination Camp is opened.
 1942  World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
 1942  World War II: Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by a firing squad.
 1943  World War II: British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean Sea after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
 1952  King Farouk I of Egypt is removed in a coup and a Republic is declared.
 1961  The Sandinista Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
 1962  Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted Transatlantic TV programme, featuring Walter Cronkite.
 1967  A riot in Detroit leaves 43 people dead and 342 injured.
 1968  The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, en route from Lod, Israel.
 1970  Sultan Qaboos of Oman removes his father, Sultan Sa'id ibn Taimur, in a bloodless coup.
 1972  The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
 1974  Constantine Karamanlis is invited to form the government of Greece after the fall of the military junta.
 1976  Mario Soares is elected Prime Minister of Portugal.
 1982  The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985 or 1986.
 1983  The Sri Lankan Civil War begins.
 1985  The Amiga computer is presented for the first time, in New York City. Celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry are present at the event.
 1986  Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson. Their marriage later ends in divorce.
 1988  General Ne Win, effective military ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
 1992  Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
 1995  Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered.
 1999  Mohammed VI becomes King of Morocco.
 1999  ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.

From 2001
 2001  As a result of a finance scandal, President of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid is forced out of office. Megawati Sukarnoputri succeeds him.
 2004  The Stari Most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is re-opened. It had been destroyed during the Balkan War.
 2005  Three bombs explode at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, killing 88 people.
 2011  A train crash on the high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai kills 40 people.
 2011  British singer Amy Winehouse is found dead in her London home.
 2012  A major solar storm begins, which narrowly misses Earth.
 2014  The 2014 Commonwealth Games, taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, begin.
 2015  NASA announces the discovery of the planet Kepler 452b by the Kepler probe. It is believed to be the most Earth-like planet to have been discovered.
 2016  A bomb attack on a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 80 people.
 2018  A dam in southern Laos breaks, killing at least 26 people and leaving over 130 missing.
 2018  Massive wildfires break out in the Attica region of Greece, killing at least 85 people.
 2019  Boris Johnson becomes leader of the British Conservative Party, having defeated Jeremy Hunt in the leadership election; he becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom the next day.

Births

Up to 1900
645  Yazid I, Arabian Caliph (d. 683)
1301  Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339)
1339  King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
1401  Francesco I Sforza, Italian ruler (d. 1466)
1503  Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1547)
1649  Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1746  Bernardo de Galvez y Madrid, Spanish general and politician (d. 1786)
1773  Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
1777  Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1796  Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
1804  Jane Irwin Harrison, acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1845)
1820  Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1823  Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (d. 1894)
1824  Kuno Fischer, German philosopher (d. 1907)
1838  Edouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (d. 1910)
1851  Peder Severin Kroyer, Danish painter (d. 1909)
1856  Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920)
1864  Apolinario Mabini, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903)
1865  Max Heindel, Dutch occultist and mystic (d. 1919)
1865  Henry Norris, English businessman, politician and football club director (d. 1934)
1866  Francesca Cilea, Italian composer (d. 1950)
1871  Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (Japanese old Lunar calendar 6 June was an incorrect date using in Gregorian calendar), Winston Lim Zhi Hao "13 Bro" former lifetime, reformed educator and philosopher, Lotus Sutra Buddhism and Soka Gakkai International (SGI) founder (d. 1944)
1872  Edward Adrian Wilson, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1878  James Thomas Milton Anderson, Canadian politician, 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1946)
1884  Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor (d. 1950)
1885  Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman (d. 1935)
1886  Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat and writer (d. 1978)
1886  Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888  Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959)
1892  Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1894  Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
1895  Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898  Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (d. 1941)
1898  Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
1899  Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (d. 1976)
1900  John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)

1901  1950
1905  Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2013)
1906  Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (d. 1998)
1906  Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1909  John William Finn, American naval officer (d. 2010)
1912  M. H. Abrams, American literary critic (d. 2015)
1913  Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
1913  Coral Browne, Australian-American actress (d. 1991)
1918  Ruth Duccini, American actress (d. 2014)
1918  Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
1919  Héctor German Oesterhell, Argentine screenwriter (d. 1977)
1920  Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 1999)
1921  Robert Brown, English actor (d. 2003)
1922  Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1923  Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997)
1923  Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist and academic (d. 2018)
1923  Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
1925  Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
1925  Alain Decaux, French historian and author (d. 2016)
1925  Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
1925  Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017)
1926  Cedella Booker, mother of Bob Marley (d. 2008)
1926  Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer and journalist (d. 2015)
1927  Al McCandless, American politician (d. 2017)
1928  Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor
1928  Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016)
1929  Danny Barcelona, American drummer (d. 2007)
1931  Queen Te Atairangikaahu of the New Zealand Maori (d. 2006)
1931  Guy Fournier, French Canadian writer and screenwriter
1931  Claude Fournier, French Canadian director and screenwriter
1932  Jorge Arvizu, Mexican voice actor (d. 2014)
1933  Bert Convy, American actor, singer and game show host (d. 1991)
1933  Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect
1934  Steve Lacy, American jazz musician (d. 2004)
1936  Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
1936  Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1938  Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1938  Mickey Curtis, Japanese actor, singer and television personality
1938  Götz George, German actor (d. 2016)
1938  Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress (d. 2010)
1940  Don Imus, American talk show host
1940  Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010)
1941  Richie Evans, American racing driver (d. 1985)
1941  Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge and politician, 12th President of Italy
1942  Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1944  Maria Joao Pires, Portuguese pianist
1946  Rene Ricard, American poet, art critic and painter (d. 2014)
1947  David Essex, English singer
1950  Len McCluskey, English trade union leader

1951  1975
1953  Claude Barzotti, Belgian-Italian singer
1953  Najib Razak, 6th Prime minister of Malaysia
1953  Graham Gooch, English cricketer
1957  Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie director (d. 2004)
1957  Jo Brand, English comedienne, actress and presenter
1958  Frank Mill, German footballer
1961  Woody Harrelson, American actor
1961  Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Depeche Mode)
1962  Eriq LaSalle, American actor, director and producer
1962  Hiroshi Mikami, Japanese actor
1963  Phil Boswell, Scottish politician
1964  Uwe Barth, German politician
1964  Nick Menza, German-American drummer (d. 2016)
1965  Grace Mugabe, former First Lady of Zimbabwe
1965  Slash, English-American musician (Guns N'Roses)
1967  Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
1967  Titiyo, Swedish singer-songwriter
1968  Elden Campbell, American basketball player
1968  Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor
1968  Stephanie Seymour, American actress and model
1969  Marco Bode, German footballer
1969  Andrew Cassels, Canadian ice hockey player
1969  David Kaufman, American voice-over artist and actor
1970  Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1971  Alison Krauss, American singer, violinist and fiddler
1972  Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1973  Francis Healy, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973  Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
1973  Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor and director
1974  Stephanie March, American actress
1975  Alessio Tacchinardi, Italian footballer
1975  Suriya, Indian actor and producer

From 1976
1976  Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1977  Kalup Linzy, American video and performance artist
1977  Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1978  Gail Emms, British badminton player
1978  Lauren Groff, American novelist and short story writer
1979  Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1980  Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981  Steve Jocz, Canadian musician (Sum 41)
1981  Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1981  Natasha Yarovenko, Ukrainian actress and model
1983  Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1984  Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer
1984  Brandon Roy, American basketball player
1984  Arnór Atlason, Icelandic handball player
1985  Blake Harrison, English actor
1985  Anna Maria Mühe, German actress
1986  Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986  Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper
1989  Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
1990  Ryan Castro, American actor
1990  Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
1990  Young JV, Filipino actor, singer, dancer and host
1991  Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
1992  Danny Ings, English footballer
1996  Rachel G. Fox, American actress and singer
1996  Danielle Bradbery, American singer

Deaths

Up to 1900
1227  Qiu Chuji, Chinese religious leader (b. 1148)
1373  Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
1645  Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1692  Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727  Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1661)
1757  Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
1773  George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781  John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor and politician (b. 1724)
1793  Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
1853  Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1875  Isaac Singer, American inventor (b. 1811)
1878  Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist and politician (b. 1804)
1885  Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)

1901  2000
1901  Kliment Turnovski, Bulgarian religious leader, writer and politician (b. 1838)
1916  Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1919  Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian, professor and Prime Minister (b. 1851)
1920  Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1923  Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
1924  Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1926  Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1930  Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
1932  Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
1932  Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian inventor (b. 1873)
1941  George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)
1941  José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
1942  Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1942  Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
1942  Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and Communist leader (b. 1909)
1948  D. W. Griffith, American movie director (b. 1875)
1951  Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
1951  Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)
1952  Carl Severing, German politician (b. 1875)
1954  Hermann Groman, American runner (b. 1882)
1955  Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State (b. 1871)
1966  Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
1967  Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1901)
1968  Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1875)
1971  Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
1973  Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot (b. 1890)
1980  Sarto Fournier, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980  Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1980  Mollie Steimer, Russian exilee and political activist (b. 1897)
1982  Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
1983  Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
1989  Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931)
1996  Jean Muir, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
1997  Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999  King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)

From 2001
2001  Eudora Welty, American writer (b. 1909)
2002  Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002  Dr. William L. Pierce, American writer and activist (b. 1933)
2002  Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003  James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004  Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004  Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2007  Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2007  Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
2008  Kurt Furgler, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1924)
2010  Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
2011  Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (b. 1930)
2011  Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
2011  John Shalikashvili, American Chief of Staff (b. 1936)
2011  Robert Ettinger, American academic and pioneer of Cryonics (b. 1918)
2012  Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space (b. 1951)
2013  Emile Griffith, American boxer (b. 1938)
2013  Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
2013  Jokichi Igarashi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2013  Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (b. 1926)
2014  Dora Bryan, English actress (b. 1923)
2014  Saado Ali Warsame, Somali politician and folk singer (b. 1950)
2014  Norman Leyden, American conductor, composer and musician (b. 1917)
2014  Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian writer (b. 1927)
2015  José Sazatornil, Spanish actor (b. 1925)
2015  William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (b. 1926)
2016  Thorbjorn Falldin, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
2016  Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (b. 1907)
2016  S. H. Raza, Indian artist (b. 1922)
2017  Bob DeMoss, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
2017  Thomas Fleming, American novelist (b. 1927)
2017  John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916)
2017  Lau Wong-fat, Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1936)
2017  Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1951)
2017  Mervyn Rose, American tennis player (b. 1930)
2017  Flo Steinberg, American comic book publisher and secretary (b. 1939)
2017  Snooty, American manatee (b. 1948)
2018  Maryon Pittman Allen, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
2018  Harry Gulkin, Canadian film director (b. 1927)
2018  Elbert Howard, American political activist (b. 1938)
2018  Roh Hoe-chan, South Korean politician (b. 1956)
2018  Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor (b. 1948)
2018  Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian artist and human rights activist (b. 1987)
2019  Maxim Dadashev, Russian boxer (b. 1990)
2019  Barney Smith, American plumber, artist and museum curator (b. 1921)
2019  Ferdinand von Bismarck, German businessman and lawyer (b. 1930)
2019  Lois Wille, American journalist (b. 1931)

Observances
 Birthday of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Ras-Tafari Movement)
 Revolution Day (Egypt)
 Children's Day (Indonesia)
 National Hot Dog Day (United States)
 Renaissance Day (Oman)
 National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

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The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational university in Columbia, South Carolina. The university has about 44,557 students. It was founded in 1801. The current president of the university is Dr. Harris Pastides.

Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Gamecocks. They have 19 varsity teams, almost all of which compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In men's soccer, a sport that the SEC does not sponsor, the Gamecocks play in Conference USA.

Other websites
University of South Carolina's Official website
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Freejack is a 1992 science fiction and action movie directed by Geoff Murphy. This movie is set in the year 2009. It is about very wealthy people becoming immortal. Rene Russo plays Julie. Mick Jagger plays Victor. Emilio Estevez plays Alex.

The movie got very bad reviews from movie critics.

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Freejack


The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Peter Yates and based on the 1970 novel of the same name by George V. Higgins. It stars Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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The formation and evolution of the Solar System is the name for ideas of how the Solar System began, and how it will go on changing. The accepted idea is that 4.6 billion years ago, there was a very big cloud of gas in our area of space, known as a nebula. All things with mass come together, or gravitate towards one another. This pulled all the gas towards the center. Eventually the pressure at the center raised the temperature so that hydrogen atoms fused together to make helium. The process by which solar systems are created is called the nebular theory.

The spin of the planets around the Sun, and each around its own axis, was first caused by the original gas cloud having different density in different places. The spin increased because of the contraction under gravity (conservation of energy). So did the flatness of the solar system's shape. As the collapse continues, conservation of angular momentum means that the rotation accelerated. This largely prevents the gas from directly accreting (moving) onto the central core. The gas is forced to spread outwards near its equatorial plane, forming a disk, which in turn accretes onto the core.

Gravity caused the atoms in the Sun to become very close to each other. All this energy eventually made our star: the Sun. The leftover gas mostly went to the gas giants—also known as Jovian planets. The rock and dust went off to make the terrestrial planets, their moons, asteroids and all other objects in the Solar System.

Because of the sun's huge mass (99.86% of the whole mass of the solar system), it had very strong gravity.  The centrifugal force of the planets going round the Sun balances the gravitational pulll of the Sun. The huge density at its core causes a fusion reaction which turns hydrogen into helium with the radiation of heat, light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.

The next issue is: if the Sun turns hydrogen into helium, where do all the other elements come from? There is only one possible answer: these higher elements came from earlier generations of stars. Huge supernovas which exploded billions of years ago in the neighbourhood of the young Solar System produced the higher elements. Huge stars run through their life cycle much faster than smaller stars. That is caused by the even higher pressures and temperatures inside them as compared with an average main sequence star like the Sun.

History of the idea
The nebular hypothesis, as it was called, was first worked out in the 18th century. Three men worked on it:
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772)
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)

Swedenborg first had the idea, and Kant worked it up into a proper theory. In 1755 Kant published his Universal natural history and theory of the heavens (in German, of course). He argued that gaseous clouds, nebulae, slowly rotate, gradually collapse and flatten due to gravity. They eventually form stars and planets.

Meanwhile, a similar model was developed independently and proposed in 1796 by Laplace. in his Exposition du systeme du monde. He thought that the Sun originally had an extended hot atmosphere throughout the volume of the Solar System. His theory had a contracting and cooling protosolar nebula. As this cooled and contracted, it flattened and spun more rapidly, throwing off (or shedding) a series of gaseous rings of material; and according to him, the planets condensed from this material. His model was similar to Kant's, except more detailed and on a smaller scale. Unfortunately, there was a problem with Laplace's version. The main problem was the angular momentum distribution between the Sun and planets. The planets have 99% of the angular momentum, and this fact could not be explained by the nebular model. It was quite a long time before this was understood.

The birth of the modern widely accepted theory of planetary formation – the solar nebular disk model (SNDM) – is due to the Soviet astronomer Victor Safronov. His book Evolution of the protoplanetary cloud and formation of the Earth and the planets, translated to English in 1972, had a big effect. In this book almost all major problems of the planetary formation process were formulated and some of them solved. Safronov's ideas were further developed. There are still quite a few aspects of the Solar System which need to be explained.

Although it originally applied only to our own Solar System, the SNDM is now thought to be the usual way of star formation throughout the universe. As of August 2017, over 3000 extrasolar planets have been discovered in our galaxy.

References

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Gimont  is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

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Lavernat is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

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Lavernat


Nicholas Victor Leslie Henson (12 May 1945 – 15 December 2019) was an English actor. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977. He was known for his roles in Witchfinder General (1968), There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), Mosquito Squadron (1970) and Psychomania (1971).

Henson died on 15 December 2019 from lymphoma, aged 74.

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Magden is a municipality of the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Magden


Peter Leo Gerety (July 19, 1912 – September 20, 2016) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Newark from 1974 to 1986, having previously served as Bishop of Portland (1969–74). At age 104, he was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the United States and the oldest living Catholic archbishop in the world until his death in 2016.

He died in Totowa, New Jersey, on September 20, 2016, and was the world's oldest living Catholic bishop at the time.

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Arkansas City  is a city in the US state of Arkansas.

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Arkansas City, Arkansas


Lawrence County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 62,450 people lived there. The county seat is Ironton.

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Lawrence County, Ohio


Bridge Creek is a small town in Grady County in the US state of Oklahoma. As of the 2006 US census, about 340 people lived there.

History
Bridge Creek was made a town in 2000.  It is part of an area of northern McClain and Grady Counties sometimes called the "Tri-City Area" with Newcastle, Tuttle and Blanchard.

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Bridge Creek, Oklahoma


Malicorne-sur-Sarthe is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

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Malicorne-sur-Sarthe


Scaredy Squirrel is a Canadian animated comedy television series.

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The Egerton Gospel is a set of papyri that are now in the British Museum. The papyri have been dated to the second century. The text they contain may have been written 50-100 AD. It is one of the oldest known fragments of any gospel, or any codex. Soon after the British Museum acquired it in the summer of 1934, it was printed in 1935. It is also called the Unknown Gospel, as no ancient source makes reference to it, in addition to being entirely unknown before its publication.

The surviving fragments include four stories:
 a controversy similar to John 5:39-47 and 10:31-39;
 curing a leper similar to Matt 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 5:12-16 and Luke 17:11-14;
 a controversy about paying tribute to Caesar analogous to Matt 22:15-22, Mark 12:13-17, Luke 20:20-26;
 an incomplete account of a miracle on the Jordan River bank, perhaps carried out to illustrate  the parable about seeds growing miraculously.
The last story has no equivalent in canonical Gospels:

References

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The PAPYRUS EGERTON 2 Homepage Detailed description of the manuscript, with many images. Greek and English text and reconstruction.
Early Christian Writings website: text, commentary, links.

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Altnau is a municipality of the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

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Altnau


Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth studio album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder. It was released on September 28, 1976, by Tamla.

Critical reception

Songs in the Key of Life received generally positive reviews from critics.

Track listing

Original vinyl release

Side one
"Love's in Need of Love Today" (Stevie Wonder) – 7:06
Stevie Wonder – Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Yamaha GX-1 synthesizer, bass synth, drums
Eddie "Bongo" Brown – kalimba
"Have a Talk with God" (Calvin Hardaway, Wonder) – 2:42
Stevie Wonder - all instruments synthesizer
"Village Ghetto Land" (Gary Byrd, Wonder) – 3:25
Stevie Wonder - Yamaha GX-1 synthesizer
"Contusion" (Wonder) – 3:46
Mike Sembello – lead guitar
Raymond Pounds – drums
Nathan Watts – bass
Ben Bridges – rhythm guitar
Greg Phillinganes – keyboard
Stevie Wonder – all other instruments
Michael Gray, Josie James, Shirley Brewer, Artece May – vocals
"Sir Duke" (Wonder) – 3:52
Raymond Pounds – drums
Nathan Watts – bass
Mike Sembello – lead guitar
Ben Bridges – rhythm guitar
Hank Redd – alto saxophone
Raymond Maldonado – trumpet
Trevor Laurence – tenor saxophone
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Stevie Wonder – all other instruments

Side two
"I Wish" (Wonder) – 4:12
Stevie Wonder – vocals, Fender Rhodes, ARP 2600 synthesizer, vocoder, drums
Nathan Watts – bass
Hank Redd – alto saxophone
Trevor Laurence – tenor saxophone
Raymond Maldonado – trumpet
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Renee Hardaway - vocals ("you nasty boy!")
"Knocks Me Off My Feet" (Wonder) – 3:36
Stevie Wonder – vocals, acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, drums, synth bass
"Pastime Paradise" (Wonder) – 3:27
Stevie Wonder – Yamaha GX-1 synthesizer, percussions
Raymond Maldonado, Bobbye Hall – percussions
Hare Krishna, West Angeles Church Choir – background vocals
"Summer Soft" (Wonder) – 4:14
Ben Bridges – rhythm guitar
Ronnie Foster – organ
Larry "Nastyee" Latimer – percussion
Stevie Wonder – vocals, piano, bass synthesizer, drums
"Ordinary Pain" (Wonder) – 6:16
Mike Sembello – lead guitar
Hank Redd – alto saxophone
Stevie Wonder – lead vocals, Fender Rhodes, bass synthesizer, drums
Minnie Riperton, Mary Lee Whitney, Deniece Williams, Syreeta Wright – background vocals
Shirley Brewer – reply
Linda Lawrence, Terri Hendricks, Sundray Tucker, Charity McCrary, Madelaine Jones – reply's background vocals

Side three
"Isn't She Lovely" (Wonder) – 6:34
Greg Phillinganes – keyboard
Stevie Wonder – Fender Rhodes, RMI Electra Piano, bass synthesizer, harmonica, drums
"Joy Inside My Tears" (Wonder) – 6:30
 Stevie Wonder – lead vocals, background vocals, piano, bass synthesizer, drums
Greg Phillinganes – keyboard
Susaye Green – background vocals
"Black Man"(Byrd/Wonder) – 8:27
Stevie Wonder – Fender Rhodes, bass synthesizer, synthesizer, talk box, drums, percussion
Hank Redd – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Steve Madaio – trumpet
George Bohanon – trombone
Glen Ferris – trombone

Side four

"Ngiculela – Es Una Historia – I Am Singing" (Wonder) – 3:48
Charles Brewer, Shirley Brewer, Renee Hardaway, Nelson Hayes, Marietta Waters, Nathan Watts, John Fischbach, Amale Mathews, Josette Valentino – background percussion
Stevie Wonder – vocals, Koto synthesizer, bass synthesizer, drums
Zulu translation by Thoko Mdalose Hall, Spanish translation by Raymond Maldonado

"If It's Magic" (Wonder) – 3:12
Dorothy Ashby – harp
Stevie Wonder – vocal, harmonica

"As" (Wonder) – 7:08
Nathan Watts – bass, handclaps
Dean Parks – guitar
Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes, handclaps
Greg Brown – drums
Stevie Wonder – lead and background vocal, Fender Rhodes
Mary Lee Whitney – background vocals
Dave Hanson, Yolanda Simon, Josette Valentino – handclaps

"Another Star" (Wonder) – 8:08
Bobbi Humphrey – flute
George Benson – guitar and background vocals
Hank Redd – alto saxophone
Raymond Maldonado – trumpet
Trevor Laurence – tenor saxophone
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Nathan Alford, Jr. – percussion
Carmello Hungria Garcia – timbales
Stevie Wonder – lead vocal and background vocals, piano, drums
Nathan Watts – bass
Josie James – background vocals

A Something's Extra
The "A Something's Extra" 7" extended play was included with the special-edition version of the original LP. These tracks are also on most CD versions of the album, as well as the Blu-ray Audio. They were either split between both discs or added to the end of the second disc.

Side one
"Saturn" (Michael Sembello, Wonder) – 4:54
Mike Sembello – lead guitar
Ben Bridges – rhythm guitar
Gregory Phillinganes – keyboard
Stevie Wonder – all other instruments
"Ebony Eyes" (Wonder) – 4:11
Nathan Watts – bass
Jim Horn – saxophone
Peter "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow – steel guitar
Stevie Wonder – lead vocals, tack piano, talkbox, drums

Side two
"All Day Sucker" (Wonder) – 5:06
Ben Bridges – rhythm guitar
Mike Sembello – rhythm guitar
W. G. "Snuffy" Walden – lead guitar
Stevie Wonder – lead vocals, background vocals, bass synthesizer, Clavinet, drums
Carolyn Denis – background vocals
"Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)" (Wonder) – 3:55
Nathan Watts – bass
Stevie Wonder – Fender Rhodes, harmonica, drums

CD release

Personnel

Stevie Wonder – harmonica, arranger, keyboards, programming, vocals, drums
Michael Sembello – guitar
Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel
George Benson – guitar, vocals
Ronnie Foster – organ
Herbie Hancock – keyboards, handclapping
Dean Parks – guitar
Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
W.G. "Snuffy" Walden – guitar
Nathan Watts – bass guitar, vocals, handclapping
Greg Brown – drums
Raymond Lee Pounds – drums
Hank Redd – alto and tenor saxophone
George Bohannon – trombone
Ben Bridges – guitar, sitar
Dorothy Ashby – harp
Bobbi Humphrey – flute
Howard "Buzzy" Feiten – guitar
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Trevor Lawrence – tenor saxophone
Glen Ferris – trombone
Jim Horn – saxophone
Deniece Williams – vocals
Minnie Riperton – vocals
Gary Byrd – vocals
Michael Wycoff – vocals
Larry Scott – sound effects
Carol Cole – percussion
Bobbye Hall – percussion
Jay Boy Adams – vocals
Nathan Alford, Jr. – percussion
Henry America – vocals
Linda America – vocals
Baradras – vocals
Brenda Barnett – vocals
Khalif Bobatoon	– vocals
Starshemah Bobatoon – vocals
Sudana Bobatoon	– vocals
Charles Brewer – percussion, programming, vocals
Shirley Brewer – percussion, vocals, speaking part
Berry Briges – vocals
Cecilia Brown – vocals
Eddie "Bongo" Brown – percussion
Jean Brown – vocals
Rodney Brown – vocals
Colleen Carleton – percussion, vocals
Addie Cox – vocals
Agnideva Dasa – vocals
Duryodhana Guru Dasa – vocals
Jayasacinandana Dasa – vocals
Jitamrtyi Dasa – vocals
Vedavyasa Dasa – vocals
Cinmayi Dasi – vocals
Yogamaya Dasi – vocals
Carolyn Dennis – vocals
Bhakta Eddie – vocals
Doe Rani Edwards – vocals
Jacqueline F. English – vocals
Ethel Enoex – vocals
Al Jocko Fann – vocals
Barbara Fann – vocals
Melani Fann – vocals
Shelley Fann – vocals
Tracy Fann – vocals
John Fischbach – percussion, programming, vocals, engineer

Susie Fuzzell – vocals
Carmelo Garcia – percussion, timbales
Anthony Givens – vocals
Audrey Givens – vocals
Derrick Givens – vocals
Mildred Givens – vocals
Michael Lee Gray – vocals
Mimi Green – vocals
Susaye Greene Brown – vocals
Bhakta Gregory – vocals
Renee Hardaway – percussion, vocals
John Harris – sound effects
Jeania Harris – vocals
John Harris – programming
Troy Harris – vocals
Nelson Hayes – percussion, sound effects, vocals
Terry Hendricks – vocals
H. David Henson – assistant engineer
Don Hunter – programming, sound effects
Adrian Janes – vocals
Josie James – vocals
Calvin Johnson – vocals
Carol Johnson – vocals
Patricia Johnson – vocals
Madelaine Jones – vocals
Bhakta Kevin – vocals
Phillip Kimble – vocals
James Lambert – vocals
Linda Lawrence – vocals
Irma Leslie – vocals
Kim Lewis – vocals
Carl Lockhart – vocals
Gail Lockhart – vocals
Raymond Maldonado – percussion, trumpet
Carolyn Massenburg – vocals
 May – vocals
Charity McCrary – vocals
Linda McCrary-Campbell – vocals
Lonnie Morgan – vocals
Kim Nixon – vocals
Lisa Nixon – vocals
Larri Nuckens – vocals
Larry Latimer – percussion, vocals
Amale Mathews – percussion, vocals
Gary Olazabal – engineer, bass sound
Edna Orso – percussion, vocals
Marietta Waters – percussion, vocals
Josette Valentino – percussion, vocals, handclapping
Gwen Perry – vocals
Gregory Rudd – vocals
Rukmini – vocals
Yolanda Simmons – vocals, handclapping
Keith Slaughter – vocals
Rosona Starks – vocals
Dennis Swindell – vocals
Sundray Tucker – vocals
Gary Veney – vocals
Sheryl Walker – vocals
Mary Lee Whitney – vocals
Syreeta Wright – vocals
Michael Gray – vocals
Susaye Greene – vocals
William Moore – vocals
Fountain Jones – programming
Aisha Morris – crying on "Isn't She Lovely"

Singles

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The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum in Australia's capital city, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. It includes displays on the people of Australia, including the Indigenous Australians, the history of settlement and the environment. It was opened in 2001.

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Ine († 728) was a West Saxon nobleman who was King of Wessex from 688 to 726. He established Wessex as a true kingdom by introducing a code of laws. He strengthened the position of the Church in Wessex. His long reign was the most successful of any West Saxon king until Alfred the Great.

Atheling

Ine was the son of Cenred, an underking of Wessex. Bede says of Ine that he was "of the blood royal" meaning he was an atherling. His brother was Ingild, ancestor of Alfred the Great. His sister Cuthburh was married to King Aldfrith of Northumbria. She was the founder of Wimborne abbey. Ine married Ethelburg, sister of Athelheard, Ine's successor.

King of Wessex

The former king, Caedwalla, was one of Wessex's more important military leaders. When he abdicated in 688 it left a power vacuum. Wessex was broken up into several sub-kingdoms. Each was ruled by a underking. Ine many have started as a sub-king but before long was able to establish himself as the sole ruler of Wessex. Ine reorganized Wessex and established a system of shires. He removed the positions of sub-kings, or underkings, and replaced them with ealdormen. In many respects Ine was the first true king of Wessex.

Ine wrote his laws between 688 and 694 He mentions in the preamble bishop Erconwald who helped him. This is Erconwald who from 675 to 694 was bishop of Essex (London). He was replaced in 994 by Waldhere. But the mention of Ine's father still being alive points to the laws being written earlier in this period rather than later. The laws of Ine are the first set of laws for the Saxons of Wessex. There were earlier law codes in Wessex. But none covered as wide a range of situations as a king or his officers might have to deal with. For the next two centuries there were no law codes written after those of Ine. Not until Alfred the Great was a more extensive law code created.

In 705 the king of Essex was sheltering exiles from Wessex. This created a serious problem between the two kings. But finally the exiles were expelled after a threat by Ine to invade the East Saxon territory. A similar situation occurred in 722 when an exile named Ealdbert was received in Sussex. Ine invaded sussex as a result. In 725 Ine invaded again and this time Ealdberht was killed.
In 710 Ine was at war with Geraint, king of Dumnonia. This was part of his campaign against the Britons and expanding the borders of Wessex west to the River Tamar. But he was unable to conqueror Cornwall. Ine was defeated by the Cornish in 722 at the Tamar river. All through his reign Ine seems to have been on good terms with the Mercians. There is only one incident; a battle at Wodnesbeorg in 715 between Ine and Ceolred, King of Mercia. But the only source for this informaiton, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle does not say who won.

Ine was a strong supporter of the Church. While he resisted the creation of a second bishopric at Sherborne, he did support the first bishop there in 705, bishop Aldhelm. Ine supported the creation of an organized church in Wessex. Formerly it was just scattered monasteries and churches. Many of Ine's laws concerned the spiritual welfare of his people. He law required baptism within thirty days of a child's birth, no working on sundays and the paying of church dues at Martinmas. The first synods in Wessex trace back to his reign. The oldest surviving records shows Ine presided over these church councils.

In spite of his power and all his accomplishments near the end of his long reign he had internal problems. There was dissension among several of the West Saxon athelings. In 721 Ine killed a Cynewulf. For what reason is not clear, but it was at this time Ealdbert fled Wessex. In 722 he was besieged by Ine's queen, Ethelburg at Taunton. The queen's involvement seems to indicate Ealdbert was a member of the family, possibly their son. He escaped only to be killed three years later (see above). Whatever their relationship, Ine seems to have become very tired. In 726 he abdicated the throne and went to Rome. Less than two years later (728) he died there. He stated he was leaving the kingdom "to younger men" and made no attempt to name an heir. He was succeeded by Athelheard.

Family

There is no mention in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of Ine's wife or children. Ine's brother and two sisters are recorded:

 Ingeld († 718), was Ine's brother.
 Cuenburg, Ine's sister.
 Cuthburh, Ine's sister.

Notes

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Park and ride facilities are parking lots with public transport connections. They allow people to leave their vehicles and travel on a bus, train or carpool for the remainder of the journey. Park and rides are usually in the suburbs of metropolitan areas or on the outer edges of large cities.

Park and ride are shown as "P+R" on road signs in the UK.

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Kampos () is a former community in the Karditsa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of Karditsa. Population 5,469 (2001). The seat of the community was in Stavros.

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The 2011 Tucson shooting was a mass murder in Tucson, Arizona.

The mass shooting happened on January 8, 2011. Nineteen people were shot. Six of the nineteen people died. Another person was injured.

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding a public meeting in the parking lot of a Safeway store.

Giffords was shot through the head from a very short distance. Her condition was said to be very bad just after the shooting. The six killed included John Roll, a chief judge for the District of Arizona.

22 year old schizophrenic Jared Lee Loughner was arrested at the scene with five charges filed against him. Loughner pleaded guilty to 19 crimes. He never gave a reason for the shooting. In November 2012, Loughner was sentenced to life in prison.

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The Christian Democratic Appeal,  (shortened CDA), is a political party in the Netherlands. It was the merger of three major former political parties: Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and Catholic People's Party (KVP).

The party was established on 11 October 1980. From 1982 to 2006, the party was very popular in the Netherlands. Their support was strongest in the 1986, 1989, 2002, 2003 and 2006 elections. In the 2010 elections, they lost 20 seats and received less than half of the votes from the previous election. In the 2012 elections, they received 801,620 and lost 8 more seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+6). The party leader is Sybrand van Haersma Buma.

The party supports Christian democracy. The party can also have Jewish, Muslim and Hindu members of parliament. The party heavily supports the European Union and environmentalism. They call themselves a moderate party, but they have been in an alliance with the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The CDA believes that the toleration of "soft drugs" like marijuana should stop, and practices like abortion and prostitution should be limited. They also want a more friendly and open immigration policy. However, they do want immigrants to integrate into Dutch culture.

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Massagno is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

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Disneyland Resort is a recreational resort in Anaheim, California. The resort is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks and Resorts division and is home to two theme parks, three hotels and a shopping, dining, and entertainment area.

The area now known as the Disneyland Resort was developed by Walt Disney in the 1950s and for over 40 years was known simply as Disneyland. When it opened to guests in 1955, the property consisted of Disneyland, its  parking lot, and a hotel known as the Disneyland Hotel, owned and operated by Disney's business partner Jack Wrather.

After doing well with the multi-park, multi-hotel business model at Walt Disney World in Florida, Disney decided to do the same thing in Anaheim and bought a lot of land next to Disneyland. This included buying the Disneyland Hotel from the Wrather company as well as the Pan Pacific Hotel from its Japanese owners. Disney renamed the Pan Pacific Hotel to the Disneyland Pacific Hotel. After its first publicly known proposal for a second theme park in Anaheim was scrapped, construction began in 1998 on a theme park called Disney's California Adventure Park; a hotel called Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, a renovation, renaming, and re-theming of the Disneyland Pacific Hotel; and an admission-free shopping and dining area called Downtown Disney. During the expansion, the name Disneyland Resort was coined to refer to the entire Disney complex, while Disneyland Park was coined to refer to the original theme park.

Location
The Disneyland Resort is located several miles south of downtown Anaheim, near the border of neighboring Garden Grove. The resort is bordered by Harbor Boulevard to the east, Katella Avenue to the south, Walnut Street to the west and Ball Road to the north. Interstate 5 borders the resort at an angle on the northeastern corner.

Not all land bordered by these streets is part of the Disneyland Resort, particularly near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue, and along Ball Road between Disneyland Drive and Walnut Street. Disneyland Drive cuts through the resort on a north-south route and provides access to the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure, Downtown Disney, and the three hotels. Magic Way connects Walnut Street to Disneyland Drive just south of the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure and provides access to the parking structure, Disneyland Hotel, and Downtown Disney.

Special offramps from Interstate 5 combined with a reversible flyover over the intersection of Ball Road and Disneyland Drive permit easy access into and out of the Mickey & Friends parking garage during peak morning and evening traffic times. The official address of the resort is 1313 South Harbor Boulevard.

Attractions

Theme parks
 Disneyland Park, the original theme park built by Walt Disney, which opened on July 18, 1955.
 Disney California Adventure, a theme park that celebrates the history and culture of California, which opened on February 8, 2001.

Other attractions
 Downtown Disney, an outdoor retail, dining and entertainment area between the entrance promenade of the Disneyland Resort theme parks and the Disneyland Hotel.

Resorts
 Disneyland Hotel, the original hotel built by Jack Wrather which opened in October 1955 and was acquired by Disney in 1988.
 Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, based on the craftsman style of architecture of the early 1900s.
 Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, a hotel themed after the section of Disney California Adventure it overlooks.

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Alquines is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.

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A thermophile is an organism – a type of extremophile – that thrives at relatively high temperatures. That means between about . Many thermophiles are archaea. Thermophilic eubacteria may have been among the earliest bacteria.

Thermophiles are found in various geothermally heated parts of the Earth's surface. Examples are hot springs like those in Yellowstone National Park and deep sea hydrothermal vents. Also decaying plant matter, such as peat bogs and compost, makes higher temperatures.

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The Mars Bar or Mars is a chocolate bar made by Mars, Incorporated. It is made of chocolate-malt nougat topped with a layer of caramel and covered with milk chocolate.

It was first manufactured in 1932 in England, and was advertised to the trade as being made with Cadbury's chocolate couverture. Mars is also sold in the United States, under the "Milky Way" name.

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The 1968–71 Nordic Football Championship was the 10th Nordic Football Championship. Four Nordic countries were in the tournament, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Sweden ended up winning their 8th title.

Results

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Roucy is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Mantura is a genus of beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.

Species
 Mantura ambigua (Kutschera, 1862)
 Mantura chrysanthemi (Koch, 1903) – common in England, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco.
 Mantura cylindrica (Miller, 1880)
 Mantura horioni (Heikertinger, 1940)
 Mantura lutea (Allard, 1859)
 Mantura matthewsi (Stephens, 1832) – common in Slovakia and Turkey.
 Mantura nepala (Medvedev, 2004)
 Mantura obtusata (Gyllenhal, 1813) – can be found nearly everywhere in Europe.
 Mantura rustica (Linnaeus, 1766)

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Paco Peña (born 1 June 1942) is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional Flamenco players.

Born in Córdoba, Spain as Francisco Peña Pérez, Paco Peña began learning to play the guitar from his brother at age 6 and made his first professional appearance at 12. Encouraged by his family, he left home and began performing throughout Spain as part of a government-sponsored folk music and dance program. This led to calls from professional Flamenco companies in Madrid and the Costa Brava, where Peña established himself as a highly regarded accompanist to Flamenco dance and singing.

Seeking a new challenge, he moved to London he become a soloist in the late 1960s. Initially the star attraction in the Restaurante Antonio in Covent Garden, Peña got so much interest that he soon found himself sharing concerts with stars. He made his solo debut at Wigmore Hall in 1967. It was not long before Peña was touring the world, both as a soloist and an accompanist with performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

He founded the world's first university course on flamenco guitar, at the Rotterdam conservatory of music. In 1984 Peña was interviewed by Julian Bream for the Channel 4 television series Guitarra! which traces the development of the guitar in Spain.

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Calorguen is a commune. It is found in the region Bretagne in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the west of France.

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A pentagon is a polygon with five edges. It is defined by five points, which are all on a plane. If all the edges have the same length and the angles at the corners are all 108°, the pentagon is called regular. Pentagons also occur in nature: Fruits of the Okra are pentangular. The flowers of Ipomoea are pentagular. In chemistry, many Cyclic compounds are pentangles: Cyclopentane and Furan are examples for this. In architecture, many bastions are pentangular: Bourtange, in the Netherlands has been completely restored, and is a pentangle.  The Citadel of Lille, Nyenschantz, near St. Petersburg, or the Citadel of Pamplona are . The Villa Farnese is a palace in the form of a pentagon, so is the castle of Nowy Wiśnicz. The Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk near Žďár nad Sázavou  also uses a pentangular design.

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An executive order is a rule or order made by a President of the United States. The order tells agencies and officers of the Federal government of the United States things that they must do.

Executive orders can be stopped by the courts in a process called judicial review. They may be stopped if they are against laws or against the Constitution of the United States.

Executive orders have a big effect on the internal affairs of government. They decide how and to what degree legislation will be enforced. They also deal with emergencies and wars.

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This is a list of chess grandmasters rated 2700+, plus other players of the highest status.

Chess grandmasters

Living
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Michael Adams
Ben Finegold
Eric Hansen
Evgeny Alekseev
Zoltan Almasi
Viswanathan Anand
Ulf Andersson
Levon Aronian
Etienne Bacrot
Evgeny Bareev
Magnus Carlsen
Fabiano Caruana
Maia Chiburdanidze
Pavel Eljanov
Jaan Ehlvest
Laurent Fressinek
Nona Gaprindashvili
Boris Gelfand
Alexander Grischuk
Yifan Hou
Robert Huebner
Vassily Ivanchuk
Dmitry Jakovenko
Baadur Jobova
Gata Kamsky
Sergey Karjakin
Anatoly Karpov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Garry Kasparov
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Vladimir Kramnik
Peter Leko
Ding Liren
Vladimir Malakhov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Luke McShane
Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Motylev
Sergei Movsesian
Henrique Mecking
Hikaru Nakamura
David Navara
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Illya Nyzhnyk
Fridrik Olafsson
Judit Polgar
Susan Polgar
Ruslan Ponomariov
Lajos Portisch
Teimour Radjabov
Yasser Seirawan
Alexei Shirov
Nigel Short
Sanan Sjugirov
Wesley So
Boris Spassky
Jonathan Speelman
Peter Svidler
Jan Timman
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Veselin Topalov
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Francisco Vallejo Pons
Nikita Vitiugov
Hao Wang
Yue Wang
Radoslaw Wojtaszek
Jun Xie

Deceased
Alexander Alekhine
Adolf Anderssen
Pal Benko
Joseph Blackburne
Efim Bogolyubov
Mikhail Botvinnik
David Bronstein
José Raúl Capablanca
Mikhail Chigorin
Max Euwe
Robert Fischer
Vugar Gashimov
Svetozar Gligoric
Paul Keres
Viktor Korchnoi
Bent Larsen
Emanuel Lasker
Vera Menchik
Tony Miles
Paul Morphy
Aaron Nimzovich
Lembit Oll
Tigran Petrosian
Philidor
Samuel Reshevsky
Akiba Rubinstein
Vasily Smyslov
Howard Staunton
Wilhelm Steinitz
Mir Sultan Khan
Mikhail Tal
Siegbert Tarrasch
Carlos Torre Repetto

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Crook County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2010 census, 7,083 people lived there which makes it the third-least populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat is Sundance. It was formed on December 8, 1875.

Communities

Towns

 Hulett
 Moorcroft
 Pine Haven
 Sundance (county seat)

Census-designated place
 Beulah

Unincorporated communities

 Aladdin
 Alva
 Colony
 Devils Tower
 Farrall
 Moskee
 New Haven
 Oshoto
 Sand Creek Crossing
 Stroner

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Coronavirus is a virus in the family Coronaviridae. They are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense RNA genome. They have a nucleocapsid of helical symmetry. The genome size of coronaviruses is about 26 to 32 kilobases, which is extraordinarily large for an RNA virus.

The name "coronavirus" comes from the Latin word corona, meaning "crown" or "halo", and refers to how virions look under an electron microscopy (E.M.). They have a fringe of large, bulbous surface projections looking like a crown. This morphology is created by the viral spike (S) peplomers, which are proteins on the surface of the virus. They decide which cells the virus can infect.

Proteins that contribute to the structure of coronaviruses are the spike (S), envelope (E), membrane (M) and nucleocapsid (N).

Coronaviruses often stick to the hands, and the virus is often caused by people touching their hands to their mouth. It gets in the trachea and makes it way down to the lungs, where it sticks to cells and tissues to replicate itself.

Diseases

Coronaviruses infect the upper respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts of mammals and birds. Six different strains of coronaviruses infect humans. These include:

MERS-CoV
SARS-CoV
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which causes the disease coronavirus disease 2019 and is the cause of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak

Coronaviruses are believed to cause many common colds in human adults. The significance and economic impact of coronaviruses is hard to assess. Unlike rhinoviruses (another common cold virus), human coronaviruses are easy to grow in the laboratory.

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Prison Break is an American television serial crime drama series. Created by Paul Scheuring, the series is shown on Fox. The first run of the show had four seasons, with 81 episodes from August 29, 2005 to May 15, 2009. A fifth season which aired nine episodes from April 4 to May 30, 2017. As of March 2019, a sixth season is being made.

The series is about two brothers, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller). Burrows has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and Scofield creates a detailed plan to help his brother escape prison and clear his name. Robin Tunney, Robert Knepper, Amaury Nolasco, Sarah Wayne Callies, Peter Stormare, Marshall Allman, Wade Williams, Paul Adelstein and Rockmond Dunbar also star, along with many others.

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Richard Stuart Linklater (; born July 30, 1960) is an American movie director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for his movies Dazed and Confused (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013), School of Rock (2003), Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

In 2002 he began filming Boyhood (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The movie was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture.

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Cheesy Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971) is an English singer, musician and actor. He was born in Windsor, Berkshire. He had a hit record "The One and Only". It was number 1 for five weeks in 1991. He starred in the movie Buddy's Song along with Roger Daltrey.

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A chemical element is a substance that contains only one type of atom.  If a substance contains more than one type of atom, it is a compound. An element can be a solid, liquid or gas. The smallest particle of such an element is an atom. Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons.

Each element contains only one kind of atom. The number of protons in an atom is called the atomic number. For example, all atoms with 6 protons are of the chemical element carbon, and all atoms with 92 protons are of the element uranium.

The number of protons in the nucleus causes its electric charge. This fixes the number of electrons in its normal (unionized) state. The electrons in their atomic orbitals determine the atom's various chemical properties.

Elements are the basic building blocks for all types of substances. When they are combined with each other, they can form molecules.

118 different chemical elements are known to modern chemistry. 92 of these elements can be found in nature, and the others can only be made in laboratories. The human body is made up of 26 elements. The last natural element discovered was uranium, in 1789. The first man-made element was technetium, in 1937.

Chemical elements are commonly arranged in the periodic table. Where the elements are on the table tells us about their properties relative to the other elements.

Chemical symbols
Chemical elements are also given a unique chemical symbol. Chemical symbols are used all over the world. This means that, no matter which language is spoken, there is no confusion about what the symbol means. Chemical symbols of elements come from their English or Latin names. For example, carbon has the chemical symbol 'C', and sodium has chemical symbol 'Na', after the Latin natrium. Tungsten is called 'W' after its German name, wolfram. 'Au' is the symbol for gold and it comes from the Latin word for gold, aurum. Another symbol which comes from Latin is 'Ag'. This is the element silver and it comes from the Latin argentum. Lead's symbol, 'Pb', comes from the Latin plumbum and the English word plumber derives from this as pipes used to be made out of lead. Some more recently discovered elements were named after famous people, like einsteinium, which was named after Albert Einstein.

Compounds
Elements can join (react) to form pure compounds (such as water, salts, oxides, and organic compounds). In many cases, these compounds have a fixed composition and their own structure and properties. The properties of the compound may be very different from the elements it is made from. Sodium is a metal that burns when put into water and chlorine is a poisonous gas. When they react together they make sodium chloride (salt) which is harmless and edible.

Mixtures
Some elements mix together in any proportion to form new structures. Such new structures are not compounds. They are called mixtures or, when the elements are metals, alloys.

Isotopes
Most elements in nature consist of atoms with different numbers of neutrons. An isotope is a form of an element with a certain number of neutrons. For example, carbon has two stable, naturally occurring isotopes: carbon-12 (6 neutrons) and carbon-13 (7 neutrons). Carbon-14 (8 neutrons) is a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of carbon. Of each element, except for Ununoctium, at least two isotopes are known.

Classification
Elements can be classified based on physical states. At room temperature and pressure, most elements are solids, only 11 are gases and 2 are liquids.

Elements can also be classified into metals and non-metals. There are many more metals than non-metals.

However, a few elements have properties in between those of metals and non-metals. These elements are called semimetals (or metalloids).

Related pages
 Periodic table

References

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Chemical element


Megan Nicole Kanka (December 7, 1986 – July 29, 1994) was an American child who was raped and murdered by her neighbor Jesse Timmendequas. It happened in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey by a convicted sex offender, when she was seven years old.

Timmendequas tricked Kanka to come into his house by saying he had a puppy inside. Once Kanka noticed there was no puppy Timmendequas raped her, slammed her head into a dresser, strangled her, wrapped her head in a plastic bag, and strangled her with a belt. He put her body in his car and assaulted her once more before placing her in a toy chest and dumping it in a park in nearby West Windsor, New Jersey. When he went to court the jury sentenced him to death after convicting him of kidnapping, rape, sodomy and murder.

The aftermath of this lead the New Jersey Legislature to pass a law called "Megan's Law" which requires convicted sex offenders to tell the local police department when they move into a neighborhood.

References

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Murder of Megan Kanka


Relapsing fever is an infection caused by some bacteria in the genus Borrelia. It is sometimes called typhinia. It is carried and spread by lice and ticks.

The word "relapse" means to come back. The disease is called "relapsing fever" because the symptoms can go away and come back several times until the person is cured.

References

Category:Diseases caused by bacteria

Relapsing fever


Tom Blom (25 September 1946 – 3 July 2017) was a Dutch television and radio presenter. He was born in The Hague. His career began in 1975. Blom made his television debut as a announcer at The Johnny Kraaijkamp Show. Later, he was a presenter of the record program De Eerste de Beste. From 1983, Blom was a commentator and co-presenter at Te land, ter zee en in de lucht.

Blom died on 3 July 2017 in The Hague of brain cancer at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
 Biography of Tom Blom

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Tom Blom


The arrondissement of Châteaudun is an arrondissement of France, in the Eure-et-Loir department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Châteaudun.

History
When the Eure-et-Loir department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Châteaudun was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Châteaudun is the most southern of the arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department. It has an area of  and a population of 59,794 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Chartres, to the east by the Loiret department, to the southeast by the Loiret department, to the south by the Loir-et-Cher department and to the west by the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Châteaudun are:

 Brou (2803) (partly)
 Châteaudun (2807)
 Illiers-Combray (2811) (partly)
 Voves (2815) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Châteaudun has 64 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Alluyes (28005)
 Baigneaux (28019)
 Bazoches-en-Dunois (28028)
 Bazoches-les-Hautes (28029)
 Bonneval (28051)
 Bouville (28057)
 Brou (28061)
 Bullainville (28065)
 Bullou (28066)
 La Chapelle-du-Noyer (28075)
 Châteaudun (28088)
 Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières (28103)
 Commune nouvelle d'Arrou (28012)
 Conie-Molitard (28106)
 Cormainville (28108)
 Courbehaye (28114)
 Dambron (28121)
 Dampierre-sous-Brou (28123)
 Dancy (28126)
 Dangeau (28127)
 Donnemain-Saint-Mamès (28132)
 Flacey (28153)
 Fontenay-sur-Conie (28157)
 Le Gault-Saint-Denis (28176)
 Gohory (28182)
 Guillonville (28190)
 Jallans (28198)
 Lanneray (28205)
 Logron (28211)
 Loigny-la-Bataille (28212)
 Lumeau (28221)
 Marboué (28233)
 Meslay-le-Vidame (28246)
 Mézières-au-Perche (28250)
 Moléans (28256)
 Montboissier (28259)
 Montharville (28260)
 Moriers (28270)
 Mottereau (28272)
 Neuvy-en-Dunois (28277)
 Nottonville (28283)
 Orgères-en-Beauce (28287)
 Péronville (28296)
 Poupry (28303)
 Pré-Saint-Évroult (28305)
 Pré-Saint-Martin (28306)
 Saint-Avit-les-Guespières (28326)
 Saint-Christophe (28329)
 Saint-Denis-les-Ponts (28334)
 Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir (28353)
 Sancheville (28364)
 Saumeray (28370)
 Terminiers (28382)
 Thiville (28389)
 Tillay-le-Péneux (28390)
 Trizay-lès-Bonneval (28396)
 Unverre (28398)
 Varize (28400)
 Vieuvicq (28409)
 Villampuy (28410)
 Villemaury (28330)
 Villiers-Saint-Orien (28418)
 Vitray-en-Beauce (28419)
 Yèvres (28424)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

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Arrondissement of Châteaudun


A cough, also known as tussis, is an action the body takes to get rid of anything that irritates the lungs or throat. To do this, muscles in the thoracic cavity contract to make air leave the lungs with a lot of force. Coughs often happen quickly and more than once, and are usually accompanied by a unique sound, also called a cough.

Coughs are more likely to happen when a person is sick, because infections often irritate breathing passages. Another cause of coughs is a person breathing air that is not clean like dust.

Causes
Lung cancer
Influenza
Sarcoidosis
Pneumonia
Tuberculosis
Common cold
Smoking

Related pages
Flu

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Le Pontet is a commune of 15,594 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.

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Le Pontet, Vaucluse


Basophils, or basophil granulocytes, are rare granulocytes.  If you had 10,000 white blood cells, only 1–30 of them would be basophils.

Basophils contain large cytoplasmic granules. When stained, the granules hide the cell nucleus from sight. However, when unstained, the nucleus is visible and it usually has two lobes.

The mast cell, another granulocyte, is similar in appearance and function. Both cell types store histamine, a chemical that is secreted by the cells when stimulated. However, they come from different cell lines. Mast cells usually do not circulate in the blood stream, but instead stay in connective tissue. Like all circulating granulocytes, basophils go from the blood into a tissue when needed.

The name comes from the fact that these leukocytes are basophilic, i.e., they are stained by basic dyes, as shown in the illustrations.

How they work is not well understood. Basophils have protein receptors on their cell membrane which binds IgE, an immunoglobulin involved in macroparasite defence and allergy. They are found in unusually high numbers at sites of ectoparasite infection, for example, by ticks.

References

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