Events

Up to 1950
 1548 - The city of La Paz, Bolivia, is founded.
 1708 - The new Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
 1714 - George I of Great Britain and Ireland is crowned.
 1720 - Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
 1728 - The Great Fire of Copenhagen break out, and lasts for three days.
 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
 1803 – United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
 1818 - The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and United Kingdom. Among other things, it settles most of the Canada-United States border to run along the 49th parallel.
 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
 1831 - First day of trading on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
 1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
 1904 - Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
 1910 - The hull of the ship RMS Olympic is launched in Belfast.
 1914 - World War I: The First Battle of Flanders begins.
 1935 – The Long March ends in China.
 1943 - Cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian POWs drown.
 1944 – The Soviet army captures Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
 1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
 1948 - A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner crashes at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, killing all 40 people on board.

From 1951
 1952 - In then-British Kenya, leaders of the Mau-Mau uprising are arrested, including Jomo Kenyatta.
 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
 1970 - Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
 1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1971 – The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
 1973 – The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
 1973 – The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC.
 1976 - The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, killing 78 people. 18 survive.
 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.
 1982 – St. Louis Cardinals defeat Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 to win 9th World Series Championship.
 1986 – Yitzhak Shamir begins his second office term as Israel's prime minister.
 1991 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in northern India kills around 1,000 people.
 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
 1995 - NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes resigns.
 1999 – Abdurrahman Wahid is elected President of Indonesia.
 2004 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono becomes President of Indonesia.
 2007 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating England in the final.
 2011 – 2011 Libyan civil war: Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council take the city of Sirte, the last remaining pro-Gaddafi stronghold. Subsequently, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi is captured and killed.
 2013 - Luxembourg holds an early election after long-serving Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker was involved in a spy scandal.
 2014 - Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia.
 2018 - Around 700,000 people march against Brexit (and for a second referendum on the issue) in London, in the biggest such gathering in the United Kingdom since 2003.
 2018 - Donald Trump decides to pull the United States out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.

Births

Up to 1900
 1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Italian sculptor (died 1525)
 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died 1512)
 1469 – Guru Nanak Dev ji, The Founder of the Sikh religion.
 1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French general (d. 1550)
 1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and theologian (died 1680)
 1632 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (died 1723)
 1677 – Stanislaw I Leszczynski, King of Poland (died 1766)
 1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American politician (died 1795)
 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (died 1815)
 1780 - Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (died 1825)
 1784 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1865)
 1785 - George Ormerod, British historian and antiquarian (died 1873)
 1801 - Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (died 1854)
 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer (died 1875)
 1819 – The Báb, prophet founder of the Bábí Faith, precursor to the Bahá'í Faith (died 1850)
 1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (died 1897)
 1822 – Thomas Hughes, novelist (died 1896)
 1825 - Daniel Sickles, American politician, soldier and diplomat (died 1914)
 1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (died 1894)
 1836 - Daniel Owen, Welsh novelist (died 1895)
 1847 - Oscar Swahn, Swedish archer (died 1927)
 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died 1891)
 1854 - James F. Hinkle, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
 1858 – John Burns, English politician (died 1943)
 1859 – John Dewey, American philosopher (died 1952)
 1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
 1866 - Kazimierz Twardowski, Polish philosopher (died 1938)
 1869 - Robin Welsh, Scottish curler and rugby union player (died 1934)
 1873 - Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (died 1951)
 1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (died 1954)
 1876 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (died 1953)
 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (died 1956)
 1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (died 1965)
 1887 - Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese diplomat (died 1981)
 1890 – Jelly Roll Morton, American composer, musician (died 1941)
 1891 – Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (died 1978)
 1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist (died 1974)
 1893 – Charley Chase, early movie comedian (died 1940)
 1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress and model (died 1920)
 1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (died 1969)
 1897 – Crown Prince Eun of Korea (died 1970)
 1900 – Wayne Morse, Senator from Oregon (died 1974)

1901  1950
 1901 - Adelaide Hall, American-British pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1993)
 1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress (died 1986)
 1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian politician, founder of public healthcare in Canada (died 1986)
 1905 – Frederic Dannay (Ellery Queen), mystery novelist (died 1982)
 1907 – Arlene Francis, television personality (died 2001)
 1909 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (died 2014)
 1910 - Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (died 2010)
 1913 – Grandpa Jones, American country music performer (died 1998)
 1917 - Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and activist (died 2013)
 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director and screenwriter (died 1973)
 1918 – Robert Lochner, journalist, creator of Kennedy's "ish been oin bear-lee-ner" (died 2003)
 1920 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (died 2009)
 1920 - Nick Cardy, American illustrator (died 2013)
 1920 - Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 2010)
 1923 - Robert Craft, American conductor (died 2015)
 1923 – Otfried Preussler, German children's writer (died 2013)
 1923 – Herschel Bernardi, actor (died 1986)
 1924 - Robert Peters, American poet, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (died 2014)
 1925 – Art Buchwald, newspaper columnist
 1925 - Roger Hanin, French director and actor (died 2015)
 1926 - Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician (died 2015)
 1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, television personality (died 2013)
 1928 - Li Peng, Chinese politician (died 2019)
 1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (died 1995)
 1931 - Richard Caliguiri, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (died 1988)
 1931 - Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (died 2019)
 1932 – Rosey Brown, American Pro Football Hall of Famer (died 2004)
 1932 – William Christopher, American actor (died 2016)
 1934 – Empress Michiko of Japan
 1934 - Taku Mayumura, Japanese science fiction novelist (died 2019)
 1934 – Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (died 1996)
 1934 – Timothy West, English actor
 1934 - Bill Chase, American trumpeter (died 1974)
 1935 - Roy Bailey, English folk singer and guitarist (died 2018)
 1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order) (died 2004)
 1936 - Bobby Seale, American activist
 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American singer
 1938 - Kathy Kirby, English singer (died 2011)
 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist
 1945 – Romeo Benetti, Italian footballer
 1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
 1946 - Chris Woodhead, English civil servant and academic (died 2015)
 1947 - Tom Smith, American politician (died 2015)
 1949 – Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
 1950 – Tom Petty, American musician (died 2017)
 1950 - Chris Cannon, American politician

1951  1975
 1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
 1951 - Alma Muriel, Mexican actress (died 2014)
 1951 – Al Greenwood, American rock musician
 1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
 1955 - Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator
 1955 – Aaron Pryor, world boxing champion
 1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
 1956 – Danny Boyle, British movie director
 1957 - Jane Bonham-Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yanbury, British politician
 1957 - Hilda Solis, American politician
 1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor
 1958 – Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
 1959 - Eriko Asai, Japanese long-distance runner
 1959 - Akif Pirinçci, Turkish-German author
 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, chess player (died 2004)
 1960 - Lepa Brena, Bosnian singer and actress
 1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
 1961 - Kate Mosse, English writer
 1961 - Michio Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
 1962 - David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter
 1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
 1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of Canada
 1964 - Kamala Harris, American lawyer and politician
 1965 – William Zabka, American actor
 1966 – Stefan Raab, German entertainer
 1966 – Allan Donald, South African cricketer
 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant and al-Qaeda member (died 2006)
 1966 - Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer
 1967 – Monica Ali, British writer
 1969 – Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
 1971 - Karl Collins, British actor
 1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
 1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper
 1971 - Eddie Jones, American basketball player
 1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby player
 1972 - Brian Schatz, American politician, United States Senator for Hawaii

From 1976
 1976 – Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer
 1976 - Dan Fogler, American actor and director
 1977 – Elena Berezhnaya, figure skating star
 1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish musician (Snow Patrol)
 1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
 1979 – John Krasinski, American actor
 1981 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
 1981 - Francisco Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
 1981 – Willis McGahee, American football player
 1983 - Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
 1984 – Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player
 1984 - Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (died 2012)
 1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
 1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
 1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1988 - Candice Swanepoel, South African model
 1989 - Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
 1989 - Yanina Wickmayer, Belgian tennis player
 1992 - Ksenia Semenov, Russian gymnast
 1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
 1995 - Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist

Deaths

Up to 1950
 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
 1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
 1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
 1896 – Felix Tisserand, French astronomer (b. 1845)
 1900 – Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
 1910 - David B. Hill, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
 1926 - Eugene V. Debs, American politician (b. 1855)
 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician (b. 1863)
 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
 1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
 1946 - Piero Campelli, Italian footballer (b. 1893)
 1950 - Henry L. Stimson, American statesman, lawyer and politician (b. 1867)

1951  2000
 1957 - Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890)
 1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
 1966 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (b. 1887)
 1967 – Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
 1968 – Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
 1977 – Cassie Gaines, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) (plane crash)
 1977 – Steve Gaines, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1949) (plane crash)
 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) (plane crash)
 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish racing driver (b. 1948)
 1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist (b. 1902)
 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
 1994 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian actor and director (b. 1920)
 1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
 1999 – Jack Lynch, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1917)

From 2001
 2005 - Shirley Horn, American jazz pianist (b. 1934)
 2005 - André van der Louw, Dutch politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (b. 1933)
 2006 - Maxi Herber, German figure skater (b. 1920)
 2008 – Soeur Emmanuelle, French-Belgian nun and humanitarian (b. 1908)
 2010 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
 2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher (b. 1930)
 2011 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, colonel and military ruler of Libya (b. 1942)
 2012 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
 2012 - Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925)
 2013 - Jovanka Broz, former First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
 2013 - Lawrence Klein, American economist (b. 1920)
 2014 - Ox Baker, American wrestler and actor (b. 1938)
 2014 - Oscar de la Renta, Dominican Republic fashion designer (b. 1932)
 2014 - René Burri, Swiss photographer (b. 1933)
 2014 - Pavle Merku, Slovenian composer (b. 1927)
 2014 - Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (b. 1951)
 2015 - Michael Meacher, English politician (b. 1939)
 2015 - Cory Wells, American singer (b. 1941)
 2017 - Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (b. 1936)
 2017 - Stan Kowalski, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
 2018 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1938)
 2018 - Zheng Xiaosong, Chinese politician (b. 1959)
 2019 - Eric Cooper, American baseball umpire (b. 1966)
 2019 - Thomas D'Alesandro III, American politician (b. 1929)
 2019 - Huang Yong Ping, Chinese-French avant-garde artist (b. 1954)
 2019 - Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1933)

Observances
 Kenyatta Day (Kenya)
 Revolution Day (Guatemala)
 Arbor Day (Czech Republic)
 World Osteoporosis Day

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October 20


A square is a shape with four equal  sides and four corners that are all right angles (90 degrees). The diagonals of a square also cross at right angles. The angle between any diagonal and a side of a square is 45 degrees.  A square has rotational symmetry of four. It has four lines of regular symmetry.

A square is a type of rectangle with all sides of equal length. However note that while a square is a type of rectangle, a rectangle does not necessarily need to be a square.

A square is also the 2-dimensional analogue of a cube.

Formulas
If the length of side a is known:

If the length of diagonal d is known:

References

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The greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) is one of two species of the roadrunner. The lesser roadrunner is the other species. The greater roadrunner is also called the "ground cuckoo" and the "snake killer".

Description
The greater roadrunner is about 52–62 cm (20–24 in) long, the wingspan is about 43-61 cm (17-24 in) long, and weighs about 221-538 grams. It is about 25-30 cm tall, and is the largest North American cuckoo. It has a long, thick bill, a long dark tail, it has a dark head, and the front of its neck and belly is blue. It has zygodactyl feet, meaning that on each foot there is two toes on the front and two on the back.

Where it lives
It lives in the deserts of states in southwestern United States of America, like  California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, and rarely in Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. In is also found in the states of northern Mexico, like Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Querétaro, México, Puebla, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosí.

Behavior
The greater roadrunner makes its nests of sticks in a cactus or on a bush, and lays 3-6 eggs which take about 20 days to hatch. It eats mainly fruit, seeds and insects, but also eats some reptiles like snakes and lizards, small mammals, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, small birds and bird eggs. The greater roadrunner kills its prey by hitting the prey's neck with its beak or by holding its prey in its beak and hitting the prey on a rock.

Beliefs
Some indian tribes, like the Hopi, believed that the roadrunner protected people from evil spirits. In Mexico some people say that the roadrunner brings babies, while some people in Europe say that the white stork does this.

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Greater roadrunner


Pedro Cordero Martin (born January 28, 1972 in Barcelona) is a boccia player from Spain.  He has a physical disability: He has cerebral palsy and is a BC2 type athlete. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.  He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.  He was part of the Spain team in the BC1-BC2 boccia team game.  His team finished third.  He competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

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The colonization of Mars by humans is an ongoing debate. Some people want to colonize the planet Mars.  Satellite imagery shows that there is frozen ground water on the planet.  Mars also has a thin atmosphere.  Because of this, it has potential to host humans and other organic life.  That makes Mars the best choice for a thriving colony off the Earth.  The Moon has also been proposed as the first location for human colonization but it not known to have air or water.

There are many factors humans on Mars will go through, such as the risks in landing on the planet within gravity wells.

Many organizations support the colonization of Mars.  They have also given different reasons and ways humans can live on Mars.  One of the oldest organizations is the Mars Society.  They promote a NASA program that supports human colonies on Mars. The Mars Society have set up Mars analog research stations in Canada and the United States.  Other organizations include MarsDrive, who want to help fund settlements on Mars, and Mars to Stay.  Mars to Stay advocates settlements on Mars.  In June 2012, Mars One released a statement that they believe could help start a colony on Mars by 2023.

Earth and Mars
The Earth is much like its "sister plant" Venus.

The Martian day (or sol) is similar to Earth days. A solar day on Mars is 24 hours 39 minutes 35.244 seconds.
Mars has a surface area that is 28.4% of Earth's. It is slightly less than the amount of dry land on Earth (which is 29.2% or Earth's surface). The radius of Mars is half that of Earth and only one-tenth the mass. This means that it has a smaller volume (~15%). Mars also has a lower average density than Earth.
Mars has an axial tilt of 25.19°. Earth's axial tilt is 23.44°. This means that Mars has seasons similar to Earth. However, seasons on Mars last twice as long because the Martian year is about 1.88 Earth years. Mars' north pole currently points at Cygnus and not Ursa Minor.
Mars has an atmosphere. It is very thin (about 0.7% of Earth's atmosphere) it provides some protection from solar and cosmic radiation. It has also been used successfully for aerobraking of spacecraft.
Recent observations by NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Phoenix Lander has confirm water ice on Mars. Mars also has large quantities of all elements necessary to support life.

Differences from Earth
The surface gravity on Mars is 38% of that on Earth. It is unknown if this is enough for human health. Mars is much colder than Earth. Mars surface temperature is −63 °C and a low of −140 °C. The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2 °C, in Antarctica. There is no liquid water on the surface of Mars. Because Mars is further from the Sun, less solar energy reaches the upper atmosphere of Mars. Mars' orbit is more eccentric than Earth's.

The atmospheric pressure on Mars is ~6 mbar.  This is far below the Armstrong Limit (61.8 mbar), so people cannot survive without pressure suits. Since terraforming cannot be expected within the century, humans must have their pressure suits.  Mars' atmosphere has carbon dioxide. Mars has a very weak magnetosphere. This means that it does not do a good job getting rid of solar winds.

Habitability

Conditions on the surface of Mars are much closer to habitability than the surface of any other known planets or moons. Other planets such as Mercury has extreme hot and cold temperatures. Venus is very hot and all other planets and moons are very cold. There are some natural places on Earth, where humans have explored, that are similar to the conditions on Mars. The highest altitude reached by a balloon that was carrying humans, was 34,668 meters (113,740 feet), a record set in May 1961. The pressure at that altitude is about the same as on the surface of Mars. Extreme cold in the Arctic and Antarctic match all but the most extreme temperatures on Mars.

It may be possible to terraform Mars to allow a wide variety of living things.  In April 2012, it was reported that lichen and bacteria survived for 34 days in conditions like those on Mars.  This experiment was maintained by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

In fiction
Many publications have wrote ideas and concerns about a possible human colony on the planet Mars. They include:

 Aria by Kozue Amano
 Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
 Icehenge (1985), the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, 1992–1996), and The Martians (1999) by Kim Stanley Robinson

 First Landing (2002) by Robert Zubrin

 Man Plus (1976) by Frederik Pohl
 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990), by Philip K. Dick
 Mars (1992) and Return to Mars (1999), by Ben Bova
 Climbing Olympus (1994), by Kevin J. Anderson
 Red Faction (2001), developed by Volition, published by THQ
 The Platform (2011) by James Garvey
 "The Destruction of Faena" (1974) by Alexander Kazantsev
 "The Martian Chronicles" (1950) by Ray Bradbury

Related pages
 Exploration of Mars

References

Books
 Robert Zubrin, The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1996,
 Frank Crossman and Robert Zubrin, editors, On to Mars: Colonizing a New World. Apogee Books Space Series, 2002, .
 Frank Crossman and Robert Zubrin, editors, On to Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World. Apogee Books Space Series, 2005, .
 Resource Utilization Concepts for MoonMars; ByIris Fleischer, Olivia Haider, Morten W. Hansen, Robert Peckyno, Daniel Rosenberg and Robert E. Guinness; 30 September 2003; IAC Bremen, 2003 (29 Sept – 03 Oct 2003) and MoonMars Workshop (26-28 Sept 2003, Bremen). Accessed on 18 January 2010
 MARTIAN OUTPOST: The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on Mars; by Erik Seedhouse; Praxis Publishing; 2009; . Also see ,
 Ice, mineral-rich soil could support human outpost on Mars; by Sharon Gaudin; 27 June 2008; IDG News Service

Other websites

 Mars Society
 Our Mars
 The Planetary Society: Mars Millennium Project
 4Frontiers Corporation
 MarsDrive Consortium
 The Mars Foundation
 Mars One: Project to colonize Mars by 2023
 Google Mars

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Colonization of Mars


A club foot or clubfoot, also called congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV), is a birth defect. In about half of children born with club foot both feet are affected.

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Club foot


Saint-Lager-Bressac is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.

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Saint-Lager-Bressac


Tom Warner (February 6, 1948 – January 11, 2019) was an American Republican politician. He was born in Rochester, New York. He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1992 to 1999. Warner was the first Florida Solicitor General serving from 1999 to 2002.

Warner died of prostate cancer in Stuart, Florida on January 11, 2019 at the age of 70.

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Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action movies. His best known movies include Fritz the Cat (1972), Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978), American Pop  (1981) and Fire and Ice (1983).

References

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Rotospective: Ralph Bakshi, Lessons in Artistry, Rebellion and Success a profile at AgentPalmer.com
Radio interview with actor Ron Thompson from Ralph Bakshi's American Pop
American Pop – Q&A video with actor Ron Thompson at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California

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Thittuvilai is a town panchayat situated 10/11 km north of Nagercoil passing Vadasery, Putheri, Erachakuzham, Navelkad, Eshathimangalam, Thuvarancaud.  It is a panoramic village sourrounded by mountains in all the three directions except south. The main attraction is Mukkoodal Dam which is the source of drinking water to Nagercoil and its adjacent villages.  Until now this village is a standing example of religious harmoney, the main population is muslims but considerable percentage of christians and hindus are also living in perfect cooperation with each other.

The bus route from Nagercoil is 4, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4T, 318 etc.

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Thittuvilai


Drag racing is a competition between specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles. Racers compete, two at a time, to be the first to cross a finish line. Races are run from a standing start, in a straight line, over a measured distance, usually a ¼-mile straight track.

The race track, known as a dragstrip, usually uses an electronic timing system to decide the winner.

Basics of drag racing
Before each race, each driver is allowed to perform a burnout by spinning the driving tires. Burnouts heat the driving tires and lay rubber down at the beginning of the track to improve traction. The drivers then line up at the starting line.
Races are started electronically by a system known as a  Christmas tree.

Below the staging lights are three large amber lights, a green light, and a red light. When both drivers are staged, the tree is set to start the race causing the three large amber lights to illuminate, followed by the green light.  If the front tires leave the starting line before the green light illuminates, the red light for that driver's lane illuminates instead. This indicates disqualification (unless a more serious violation occurs). Once a driver commits a red-light foul (also known as redlighting), the other driver can also commit a foul start by leaving the line too early but still win, having left later. Should both drivers leave after the green light illuminates, the one leaving first is said to have a holeshot advantage.

The first vehicle to cross the finish line wins the race. The elapsed time is a measure of performance only; it does not determine the winner. Because elapsed time does not include reaction time and each lane is timed separately, a car with a slower elapsed time can actually win if that driver's holeshot advantage exceeds the elapsed time difference. This is known as a holeshot win.

Several measurements are taken for each race: reaction time, elapsed time, and speed. Reaction time is the period from the lighting of the green light to the vehicle leaving the starting line. Elapsed time is the time from the vehicle leaving the starting line to crossing the finish line. Speed is measured through a speed trap covering the final  to the finish line, indicating the approximate maximum speed of the vehicle during the run.

In the standard racing format, the losing car and driver are removed from the contest and the winner goes on to race other winners. This continues until only one is left.

Racing organization

North America
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) oversees most of drag racing events in North America. The next largest organization, Feld Entertainment's International Hot Rod Association (IHRA), is about one-third the size of NHRA. Nearly all drag strips are associated with one sanctioning body or the other. The NHRA is more popular with large, 1/4-mile, nationally recognized, tracks., The IHRA is a favorite of smaller 1/8-mile local tracks (and offers selected races on their national tour under the 1/8-mile format). One reason for this is the IHRA is less restrictive in its rules, such as rules on nitrous oxide (legal in Pro Modified) and oversized engines.

References

Robert C. Post, High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950 - 2000 (Johns Hopkins University Press, revised edition 2001)

Other websites

 Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA)
 European Championship Drag Racing (FIA/UEM)
 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA)
 International Hot Rod Association (IHRA)
 Pro Racing Association - Championship Volkswagen Drag Racing
 Drag Racing News, Cars & Events from around the world

Category:Motor sports

Drag racing


The London Transport Executive (LTE) was the organisation responsible for public transport in the Greater London area, England, United Kingdom, between 1948-1963. In common with all London transport authorities from 1933 to 2000, the public name and operational brand of the organization was London Transport.

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London Transport Executive


Bioko Norte is a province in Equatorial Guinea. The capital city is Rebola. The capital of the country is also in Bioko Norte. It is Malabo.

It is on the northern part of the island Bioko. The southern part is named Bioko Sur. Part of the Pico Basilé National Park is in Bioko Norte.

Category:Provinces of Equatorial Guinea

Bioko Norte


Rivers of Estonia are short and mostly have small water flow. Only 10 rivers are longer than 100 km.

Longest rivers

A
Aavoja
- Agali
- Ahja
- Alajõgi
- Allika
- Ambla
- Amme
- Angerja stream
- Antsla
- Apna
- Ärma
- Aruküla
- Atla
- Audru
- Avaste stream
- Avijõgi

E
Emajõgi (Embach)
- Elbu
- Elva
- Enge
- Erra
- Esna

G
Gorodenka

H
Häädemeeste
- Haavakivi
- Halliste
- Härjapea
- Harku stream
- Helme
- Hilba
- Humalaste
- Hundikuristiku stream
- Hüüru

J
Jaama (Struuga)
- Jägala
- Jänijõgi
- Järveotsa stream
- Jõelähtme
- Jõku
- Jurga stream
- Juudaoja

K
Kääpa
- Kalita stream
- Kalli
- Kargaja
- Kärla
- Käru
- Kasari
- Kata
- Katku stream
- Kavilda
- Keila
- Kloostri
- Kodila
- Kohtra
- Kolga
- Kolga stream
- Kõpu
- Koosa
- Kroodi stream
- Kuivajõgi
- Kuke
- Külge stream
- Kulgu
- Kullavere
- Kunda
- Kurina
- Kurna stream
- Kuura

L
Laatre
- Laeva
- Lahavere stream
- Lähkma
- Leevi
- Leisi
- Lemmejõgi
- Lemmjõgi
- Liivi
- Lintsi
- Lodja stream
- Loo
- Loobu
- Lõve
- Luguse
- Luutsna

M
Maadevahe
- Mädajõgi
- Mädara
- Mähe stream
- Maidla
- Massu
- Mõra
- Munalaskme stream
- Mustajõgi
- Mustjõgi (Endla)
- Mustjõgi (Gauja basin)
- Mustjõgi (Jägala basin)
- Mustjõgi (Tallinn)
- Mustoja (Lahemaa)
- Mustvee
- Muuga stream

N
Nahavere stream
- Naravere stream
- Narva
- Nasva
- Nõva
- Nurtu
- Navesti
- Nuutri

O
Õhne
- Onga
- Orajõgi

P
Paadrema
- Paala
- Pääsküla
- Pada
- Pala
- Pale
- Paltra
- Pärlijõgi
- Pärnu
- Pede
- Pedeli
- Pedja
- Peeda
- Peetri
- Penijõgi
- Piigaste stream
- Piilsi
- Pikknurme
- Pirita
- Piusa
- Põduste
- Põltsamaa
- Porijõgi
- Poruni
- Prandi
- Preedi
- Pühajõgi (Ida-Virumaa)
- Pühajõgi (Saaremaa)
- Punapea
- Purtse

R
Raasiku
- Rannametsa
- Rannamõisa
- Rannapungerja
- Räpu
- Raudna
- Reiu
- Reopalu
- Retla
- Riguldi

S
Saarjõgi
- Saki
- Saku
- Salajõgi
- Salla
- Salme
- Sämi
- Sauga
- Selja
- Sigaste stream
- Sillaorsa
- Sitapätsi
- Sõmeru
- Soodla
- Sõtke
- Struuga (Jaama)
- Surju stream
- Surjupera stream
- Suuremõisa

T
Taebla
- Tagajõgi
- Tänassilma
- Tarvastu
- Tatra
- Teenuse
- Timmkanal
- Tirtsi
- Tiskre stream
- Tõdva
- Tõlla stream
- Toolse
- Topi
- Tori
- Tõrvajõgi
- Tõrvanõmme stream
- Tõstamaa
- Treppoja
- Tuhala
- Tuudi

U
Ulila
- Umbusi
- Ura
- Uueveski stream

V
Vääna
- Vaemla
- Vaidava
- Väike Emajõgi
- Vainupea
- Valgejõgi
- Valuoja
- Vändra
- Vara stream
- Vardi
- Vardja
- Varsaallika stream
- Värska stream
- Vasalemma
- Vaskjõgi
- Veelikse stream
- Velise
- Vigala
- Vihterpalu
- Visela
- Visula
- Vodja
- Võhandu
- Võhkse
- Võhu
- Võlupe
- Vorsti
- Võsu

References
Estonica: The hydrographic network

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List of rivers of Estonia


Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is an endangered species of Australian possum. They need food all year round, and trees with holes where they can hide during the day. They live in mixed-age wet sclerophyll forest with plenty of Acacia.

The possum was once thought to be extinct. It now lives only in small areas of old and mixed age mountain ash forest in the central highlands of Victoria, north-east of Melbourne.

These trees are a species of Eucalyptus: they give off vapour which catches fire easily. About half this area was burnt in the disastrous Black Saturday bushfire in 2009. Large areas of the forest around Marysville, Narbethong and Healesville were destroyed.

References

Other websites

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Leadbeater's possum


Velioglu's chub (scientific name: Alburnoides velioglui) is a type of freshwater fish that lives in Turkey.

References

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Velioglu's chub


Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. He contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.

References

Other websites

 Jerry Pournelle at 1999 NASFiC website where he was GoH
 How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET
 Jerry Pournelle Interview at AMCtv.com

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Jerry Pournelle


Majene Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is  on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Majene. The population of Majene Regency was 150,939 at the 2010 Census.

Administration
The regency has eight districts ().

References

Other websites

Category:Regencies of West Sulawesi

Majene Regency


Paul Stalteri (born 18 October 1977) is a Canadian soccer player. He plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach and Canada national team.

Club career statistics

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|1997||Toronto Lynx||USISL A-League||16||8

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|1997/98||rowspan="8"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="8"|Bundesliga||0||0
|-
|1998/99||0||0
|-
|1999/00||0||0
|-
|2000/01||31||1
|-
|2001/02||22||3
|-
|2002/03||33||0
|-
|2003/04||33||2
|-
|2004/05||32||0

|-
|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="3"|Premier League||33||1
|-
|2006/07||6||1
|-
|2007/08||3||0
|-
|2007/08||Fulham||Premier League||13||0

|-
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Borussia Mönchengladbach||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||16||0
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|2009/10||||
16||8
167||6
55||2
238||16
|}

International career statistics

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|1997||1||0
|-
|1998||1||0
|-
|1999||10||1
|-
|2000||15||0
|-
|2001||5||1
|-
|2002||7||1
|-
|2003||8||3
|-
|2004||2||0
|-
|2005||1||0
|-
|2006||2||0
|-
|2007||10||1
|-
|2008||11||0
|-
|2009||6||0
|-
!Total||79||7
|}

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Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001) was an American guitarist and record producer. He helped create a smooth country music style known as the "Nashville Sound."

His guitar picking style was inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt and Les Paul and brought him admirers both in the United States and internationally as well as earning him the nickname "Mister Guitar."

Chet Atkins produced records for Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed and Waylon Jennings along with many others.

Chet Atkins received many honors including 14 Grammy Awards as well as the "Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award." He won nine Country Music Association "Instrumentalist of the Year" awards, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He died from cancer on June 30, 2001, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 2002, Atkins was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year, Atkins was ranked #28 in CMT's "40 Greatest Men of Country Music."

Other websites

Atkins, Chet
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Genestrerio was a municipality of the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 5 April 2009 the former municipalities of Arzo, Capolago, Genestrerio, Mendrisio, Rancate and Tremona merged into the municipality of Mendrisio.

References

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Genestrerio


Magnus is a name that means "great" in Latin. It was sometimes used as a first name by the Romans. The name spread with the Catholic Church, which spoke Latin. It became very common among the nobility in Scandinavia.

People
People with this name include:

Kings of Norway
 Magnus I of Norway (1024–1047)
 Magnus II of Norway (1048–1069)
 Magnus III of Norway (1073–1103)
 Magnus IV of Norway (c. 1115–1139)
 Magnus V of Norway (1156–1184)
 Magnus VI of Norway (1238–1280)
 Magnus VII of Norway (1316–1374)

Kings of Sweden
 Magnus I of Sweden (c. 1106–1134)
 Magnus II of Sweden (died 1161)
 Magnus III of Sweden (1240–1290)
 Magnus IV of Sweden (1316–1374), also Magnus VII of Norway

Other
 Charlemagne, whose Latin name was "Carolus Magnus"
 Albertus Magnus, German theologian and philosopher
 Magnus Rosén, Swedish musician
 Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player

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Magnus


The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards or simply Golden Horse is a movie festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. The ceremony usually takes place in November or December in Taipei.

The awards, contested by movies submitted from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and elsewhere, are generally held to be the most prestigious for Chinese language movies outside the People's Republic of China. The awards ceremony is held after the month-long movie festival, which showcases some of the nominated movies for the awards.

Winners are selected by a jury of judges during the week before the ceremony is held. Winners are awarded with a golden horse statuette.

Under current rules and regulations, every movie made primarily in any dialect of Chinese language is eligible for competition. Since 1996, almost any artist or movie from mainland China was allowed to enter the movie  festival.

Other websites
 金馬獎官方網站 Golden Horse Official Website
 The 42nd Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
 Cri.CN
 Golden Horse 2005
 Golden Horse 2004

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Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards


Jayda Kaleigh Fransen is the deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right British political group in the United Kingdom. In addition to online anti-Islamic activism, she has sometimes been seen in public, carrying a white cross, in "Christian patrols" through predominantly Muslim parts of British towns.

In March 2018, Fransen was sent to jail for to 36 weeks after being found guilty of three counts of religiously aggravated harassment.

Fransen had been a part of the English Defence League, but left due to it being violent.

She was an unsuccessful candidate in the Rochester and Strood by-election, 2014, and the London Assembly election, 2016.

References

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Jayda Fransen


Nicholas Theodore "Nick" Nemeth (born July 27, 1980) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to the WWE where he performs under the ring name Dolph Ziggler.

Nemeth signed a contract with the WWE in 2004 and competed in their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). He debuted on the main roster in 2005 and played the role of Kerwin White's caddy. HE was sent back down to OVW and later called back up where he was a member of The Spirit Squad, performing under the ring name Nicky.

Ziggler is a two-time World Heavyweight Champion, one-time World Tag Team Champion with The Spirit Squad, two-time Intercontinental Champion, one-time United States Champion, Mr. Money in the Bank in 2012, and the 22nd Triple Crown Champion. In 2015 he is with Lana  who was with Rusev (another WWE superstar).

Championships
Florida Championship Wrestling
FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (2 times) (with Brad Allen (1) and Gavin Spears (1))

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #9 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the "PWI 500" in 2013

World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE
World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
World Tag Team Championship (3 time)
WWE Intercontinental Championship (7 time)
WWE United States Championship (1 time)
Money in the Bank (2012 — World Heavyweight Championship contract)
Twenty Second Triple Crown Champion
Grandslam Champion

Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Most Improved(2011)
Most Underrated(2011)

Lucha de Apuesta record

References

Other websites
Official website

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Dolph Ziggler


Turbostar is the name given to a series of diesel multiple units (DMU) built by Bombardier Transportation (previously ADtranz) at their Litchurch Lane Works in Derby, England. The Turbostar was the first new train type to be introduced after the privatisation of British Rail, and is the most common type of diesel multiple unit (its electrical variant, the Electrostar, is the most common electric multiple unit). The first units were ordered by Chiltern Railways in 1996 and were designated Class 168 (also known as Clubman). Since then the family has grown with the addition of the Class 170, Class 171, and (in development) the Class 172.

References

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Turbostar


France Bučar (2 February 1923 – 21 October 2015) was a Slovenian politician, legal expert and author. From 1990 through 1992, he served as the first chairman of the freely elected Slovenian Parliament.

He was the one to formally declare independence for Slovenia on June 25, 1991. He was thought to be one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence. He was also thought, together with Peter Jambrek, the main author of the current Slovenian constitution.

References

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France Bučar


The extended periodic table is a version of the periodic table that is longer than the normal one. It adds places for more transactinide elements. The inner transition metals are placed between Group 2 and Group 3 on the periodic table. On a normal periodic table the inner transition metals are below Groups 2 and 3.

Related pages
Chemical element
Chemistry

References

Other websites
Images of g-orbitals
jeries.rihani.com Extended periodic table
Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Extended periodic table


A Little Bit Longer is the third hit studio album by American teen pop-rock band The Jonas Brothers. The album was released August 12, 2008 in the United States. The title of the album, A Little Bit Longer, comes from their song of the same name, which Nick Jonas wrote about his dealings with having type one diabetes. The album artwork was released by Team Jonas, the Jonas Brothers' official fan club, to fan club members via an e-mail newsletter on June 20, 2008. Like their last album, this one also features that includes more than 30 pages of bonus features with exclusive video performance, 60 printable photos, complete album lyrics, downloadable graphics, and hidden links. In addition, the packaging of the album is made from 100% recycled materials.

Track List
 "BB Good"
 "Burnin' Up"
 "Shelf"
 "One Man Show"
 "Lovebug"
 "Tonight"
 "Can't Have You"
 "Video Girl"
 "Pushing Me Away"
 "Sorry"
 "Got Me Going Crazy"
 "A Little Bit Longer"
 "A Little Bit Longer (Live)"
 "Out of This World"
 "Live to Party"
 "Hello Goodbye"

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A Little Bit Longer


The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held on the first or second Saturday in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Belmont Park is known as "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion in racing history has competed on the racetrack.

It is a  horse race, open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of ; fillies carry .

The race, nicknamed The Test of the Champion, and The Run for the Carnations, is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown and is held five weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes.

Other websites
Official Site
ESPN.Com Attending the Belmont Stakes (gives future race dates)
Details of all past Belmont Stakes courtesy of the New York Racing Association
Belmont Stakes History & Facts
Ten Things You Should Know about the Belmont Stakes at Hello Race Fans!

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Belmont Stakes


Preble County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 42,270. The county seat is Eaton. The county was formed on February 15, 1808 from portions of Butler and Montgomery Counties. It is named for Edward Preble, a naval officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and against the Barbary Pirates.

References

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Preble County, Ohio


Frederick Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a Czech-American researcher. His works focused in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He was well known for his quote, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".

Jelinek taught for 10 years at Cornell University before being offered a job at IBM Research. In 1961, he married Czech screenwriter Milena Jelinek. After IBM, he went to head the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University for 17 years.

Jelinek died of a heart attack in Baltimore, Maryland on 14 September 2010 at the age of 77.

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Kent County is a county in the state of Delaware in the United States. The county is in the middle part of the state. The county seat is Dover. Kent County had 126,697 people in 2000.

References

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Kent County, Delaware


The First Sino-Japanese War (, ; 1 August 1894–17 April 1895) was a war between the Qing Dynasty and the Empire of Japan. Finally, the Empire of Japan won the war. They signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.

Comparison of the Military Power

Status of Chinese Fleets

There were totally 65 warships in China before the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War. They were divided into four fleets (Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, the Guangdong Fleet and the Fujian Fleet). However, the Beiyang Fleet was the only fleet participated in the war. In order to save their ships, the other fleets' commanders were opposed to join the war.

In the Beiyang Fleet, there were 25 warships. Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were the most powerful warships in the fleet. Dingyuan had 6,000 horsepower and displaced 7,670 tons loaded. Nevertheless, as Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to build a grand garden she embezzled the money originally allocated for expanding the Beiyang Fleet, the commanders did not have enough money to buy the latest weapons for the fleet. Most of the warships in the fleet were not well equipped before joining the war.

Status of Japanese Fleets
There were totally 240,616 soldiers could be mobilized in Japan before the outbreak of the war. Also, there were 32 battleships and 24 torpedo boats in the Imperial Japanese Navy. All of them had the latest, and newest weapons.

Main Battles During the War

1. Battle of the Yalu River

On 17 September 1894, the Beiyang Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy fought at the Yalu River, the border between China and Korea. In this battle, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet was Ding Ruchang, originally a cavalryman, and Sukeyuki Ito was the commander of Japanese fleet. The battle lasted 5 hours. Finally, 4 battleships of the Beiyang Fleet was destroyed and 1,000 soldiers were killed. Only 1 battleship was lost in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The commander of the Beiyang Fleet retreated to the port of Lushun.

2. Battle of Lushunkou

On 17 September 1894, the Japanese armies occupied the fortresses with powerful cannons and cities in Lushun and Dalian. The Japanese troops entered the cities and killed 20,000 Chinese civilians within 4 days. This incident was historically called Port Arthur massacre.

3. Battle of Weihaiwei

In January 1895, the Japanese armies invaded Weihaiwei. The Beiyang Fleet was fairly defeated. 11 battleships of the team was seized.

Other websites
 Video footage of a naval battle during the First Sino-Japanese war

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First Sino-Japanese War


Davidson County is a county located in middle Tennessee. The state capitol, Nashville, is in Davidson County and is the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 626,681 people.

Category:Tennessee counties

Davidson County, Tennessee


Rahul Dravid is a sports player who has stopped playing professionally.  He used to play cricket and was captain of the national cricket team of India. He was famous, and many people think he is one of the best cricket players ever. He scored the fourth-moust runs of any player, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis. He was born in January 11, 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in India. He is the only player in the world to score a century against all ten test playing countries.

Performance
Rahul Sharad Dravid played his first debut match against the team from England. He played against Sri Lanka in his ODI debut match. He played only a one international T20 match, against England.

Dravid played 164 Test cricket matches and 344 ODI matches. Rahul Dravid scored 13,288 runs in Test cricket and 10,899 runs in ODIs. He picked up 4 wickets in ODIs and 1 wicket in Test cricket. Rahul Dravid made 36 centuries and 63 fifties in Test matches and 12 centuries and 83 fifties in ODIs.

Rahul Dravid is one of the best wicket keepers of his time. His performances in wicket keeping are as follows: Catches\Stumpings in Test Cricket: 210\0, ODIs: 196\14.
His best batting score in a single inning of the Test match is 270 runs. His best batting score in ODI is 153. His best bowling performances are Test cricket-1/18, One day International-2/43.

Other types of cricket
In the Indian Premier League he played on the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals teams. In other types of cricket he played for Karnataka, Kent, Scottish Saltiers and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Awards
 Dravid was given the third and fourth highest civilian awards of India, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri.
 He was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000.
 He was also awarded the Player of the Year and Test Player of the Year at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004.

References

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Rahul Dravid


Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. The first line-up was singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were most popular from 1977 to 1984.

Category:English punk bands
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Gang of Four (band)


Ryu GwanSun (December 16, 1902 – September 28, 1920), also known as Yu Gwansun was a Christian Korean freedom fighter who protested against the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Childhood
Ryu Gwansun was born on December 16, 1902, in a small farming village. Her brother said that she taught herself how to read Hangul. She was a playful, lively child who enjoyed running "like a boy" and was able to memorize Bible verses quickly. Her nephew, who grew up in the same village as her, said that she had very large, bright black eyes. Her brother described her as tall, with a plump, fair face.

When she was 12, she entered the Ewha Girls' School in Seoul, where she learned more about Christianity.

Demonstrations

Ryu Gwansun joined in the March 1st Movement with some friends from her school, though her teacher strongly told them not to. She was taken to prison for a short time, and her school was closed. With the help of her family and friends, Ryu planned a peaceful demonstration in her province for 1 March. The day before the demonstration, Ryu lit a bonfire on a mountain as a signal to begin the demonstration. The next day, over 2000 people came together in a marketplace for the demonstration. The Japanese police shot at the people, and about 19 people died, including Ryu's parents. Ryu Gwansun was taken to prison. She died in prison when she was 17. After her death, her face was used as a symbol for the Korean rights activists.

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Ryu Gwan-sun


Rick Pitino (born September 18, 1952 in New York City, New York) is the coach of the University of Louisville's basketball team. He used to coach the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics.

References

Other websites
Rick Pitino's Official website

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Rick Pitino


Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,846. The county seat is Georgetown. The county was created in 1818 and is named for Major General Jacob Brown, an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.

Brown County is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Brown County was said to be the place of origin of the White Burley type of tobacco, grown in 1864 by George Webb and Joseph Fore on the farm of Captain Frederick Kautz near Higginsport from seed from Bracken County, Kentucky.

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Sir Billy Mackie Snedden (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975, which made him Leader of the Opposition during that tenure. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.

Snedden was born in West Perth, Western Australia. He studied at Highgate State School, Perth Boys' School and at Perth Technical College. Snedden was in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. In 1950, he married Joy Forsyth. They had four children together.

On 27 June 1987, Snedden died at his home in Ruschcutters Bay, New South Wales, near Sydney of a heart attack while having sex with his son's ex-girlfriend. He was 60 years old.

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Dejan Savićević (born 15 September 1986) is a former Montenegrin football player. He has played for Yugoslavian national team and the Serbian national team.

Club career statistics

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|1982/83||rowspan="6"|Budućnost Titograd||rowspan="6"|First League||2||0
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|1983/84||7||1
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|1984/85||29||6
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|1985/86||32||10
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|1986/87||31||9
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|1987/88||29||10
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|1989/90||rowspan="3"|Red Star Belgrade||rowspan="3"|First League||25||10
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|1990/91||25||8
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|1991/92||22||5

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|1992/93||rowspan="7"|Milan||rowspan="7"|Serie A||10||4
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|1993/94||20||0
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|1994/95||19||9
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|1995/96||23||6
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|1996/97||17||1
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|1997/98||8||0
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|1998/99||0||0

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|1998/99||Red Star Belgrade||First League||3||0

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|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Rapid Wien||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||22||11
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|2000/01||22||7
202||59
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97||20
44||18
346||97
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|1986||1||1
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|1987||2||0
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|1988||4||3
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|1989||5||1
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|1990||5||0
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|1991||9||5
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|1992||1||0
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|1994||2||0
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|1995||3||2
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|1996||6||4
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|1997||10||3
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|1998||4||0
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|1999||4||0
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Sainte-Hermine is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.

Category:Communes in Vendée

Sainte-Hermine


Ian Murdock (28April 1973 – 28December 2015) was a German-born American software engineer. He was known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company. He was born in Konstanz, Germany.

Murdock died on 28 December 2015 from unknown causes in San Francisco, California at the age of 42. Details surrounding his death have not been released. The last tweets at his Twitter account described violent encounters with police. It was reported that he declared an intention to commit suicide over Twitter, but there is as of now no public record of such a tweet. It was reported that police officer found Murdock drunk and that he did not appear suicidal.

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Ian Murdock


Sulaimon Maurice Brown (born July 31, 1970 in Charleston, SC) is an accountant. He was a candidate for mayor of the District of Columbia in 2010. During the campaign, he actively supported another candidate, Vincent Gray. After Gray became mayor, Brown's criminal record became public. He is being investigated by the United States Attorney. Brown is also being investigated by committees of the DC City Council and of Congress.

Background
Brown's father, Melvin Brown, was an Army Ranger, and Brown's mother was a nurse at Howard University Hospital.
Brown earned a Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting from the University of the District of Columbia. Brown worked as a University of the District of Columbia police officer until 2005. Brown then worked at various accounting firms. In 1988, Brown was tried and acquitted by a jury on an attempted murder charge in Chicago. Brown was also accused of assault in Essex County, New Jersey, but a grand jury refused to indict Brown. The Washington City Paper reported that DC court records show "gun charges against Brown were dropped in 1991 in exchange for Brown going to a diversion program, and a jury found Brown guilty in 1995 for unlawful entry." The City Paper also reported that a restraining order had been issued against Brown in 2007. The press asked Brown if he had a criminal record. Brown replied that he had been arrested once for trespassing at Howard University.

Political activity
Brown was a volunteer in Adrian Fenty's 2006 campaign for mayor.  According to Brown's 2009 website, Brown "worked behind the scenes campaigning for many elected officials [including] The President of the United States Barack Obama.  He has helped in efforts to get White House Legislation passed and most recently trying to get a Supreme Court nominee appointed." Brown became a candidate for the 2010 Democratic Party nomination for mayor.

On June 24, 2010, Brown was running out of money because he had not held a job for 18 months. Brown discussed his financial problems with another candidate for mayor, Vincent Gray.  Brown and Gray reached an agreement for Gray to provide cash payments to Brown for the rest of the campaign. They also agreed that if Gray won the election, the city would hire both Brown and his brother. Before the primary election, Brown received $44,000 from the Gray campaign and an additional $750 from Lorraine Green, Chairwoman of Gray's campaign. Howard Brooks carried the cash between Gray's campaign and Brown.

Because Brown was a declared candidate, he participated with Mayor Fenty in a number of candidate debates.  At the August 2010 forum in Ward 8, Brown questioned whether Fenty loved his parents. According to the Washington Post, "During the election, Brown, 40, drew attention at debates by urging voters to cast ballots for Gray and criticizing incumbent Adrian M. Fenty." Brown received 209 votes in the primary. Gray defeated Fenty in the September 14, 2010 primary, and Gray won the general election in November 2010. Gray became Mayor in January 2011.

Political appointment
The Gray Transition Team hired the Capitol Inquiry firm to check Brown's background.  Capitol Inquiry discovered Brown's past legal proceedings in Chicago and New Jersey, and included them in a confidential report.

In January 2011, Brown was hired to a $110,000-a-year job in the DC Office of Health Care Finance. Gray claimed that Brown was hired by Wayne Turnage, the director of that office. When the Washington City Paper raised questions about the hiring of Brown, he was quickly fired. DC police escorted Brown out of his new office. Mayor Gray called a press conference the same day, and stated:
He’s qualified to do the work, Mark. What he did on the campaign has no relation to this. What he did on the campaign is what he decided to do. I didn't ask him to do that nor did I encourage him to do that.Turnage said that he fired Brown because they could not get along and not because of what was printed about his background. Brown sat in the back of the press conference as an uninvited guest, and spoke to reporters at the end of the conference. When the press asked Brown if Gray had promised him a job, Brown refused to answer. Brown blamed City Councilman David Catania for his being fired. Brown said that Catania had threatened to delay the confirmation of Turnage until Brown was fired. Catania denied this.

Brown was placed on paid administrative leave for 15 days.

Investigations
In March 2011, Congress announced an investigation into the hiring of Brown.

In April and May 2011, the DC City Council issued a subpeona to get Brown to testify.  Brown hid from the people trying to give him the subpeona and went to court to fight having to testify. On May 31, 2011, the D.C. Superior Court order Brown to testify before the D.C. Council committee that was investigating this matter. On June 6, 2011, Brown testified under oath that Gray had paid him cash to keep in as a candidate in the primary race and had promised him a job. Brown claimed that Gray himself had ordered one of the payoffs. The City Council probe showed that Green, Gray's chief of staff Gerri Mason Hall and Gray's personnel director Judy Banks gave Gray's political allies city jobs. They did it in a way that did not pay attention to qualifications or laws.

Brown was required to report the money that he got as campaign contributions. On June 5, Brown gave the press copies of money orders payable to "Sulaimon Brown for Mayor" from relatives of Howard Brooks, including Brook's son (Peyton Brooks), the son's girlfriend, and a cousin of Brook's wife. The last two denied ever making the contributions. Peyton Brooks was also hired as a $110,000-a-year special assistant in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. Peyton Brooks was one of several children of Gray's campaign workers to be fired after the press printed stories about the jobs. Brown said that he received additional money orders from Howard Brooks, but that those did not have names on them.

The United States Attorney's Office is also investigating. Brown said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked Brown about the payments from Brooks, Green and Gray.

References

Other websites
Sulaimon Brown Resume distributed at Feb. 24 press conference
Campaign website from Internet Archive

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Category:Accountants

Sulaimon Brown


Lönsboda is a locality in Osby Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,903 people lived there. It located in northeastern Scania, circa 20 kilometers east of Osby and near Blekinge and Småland.

References

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Lönsboda


The BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer is presented each year at the British Academy Film Awards in London. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts the awards shows for movie, television, children's movie and television, and interactive media. The Outstanding Debut award recognises the work of writers, directors and producers. It is presented in honour of screenwriter and producer Carl Foreman.

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

2011 - Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (director); Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer)
Attack the Block – Joe Cornish (director)
Black Pond – Tom Kingsley (director); Will Sharpe (director); Sarah Brocklehurst (producer)
Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes (director)
Submarine – Richard Ayoade (director)

2010 - Four Lions - Chris Morris (writer/director)
The Arbor – Clio Barnard (director); Tracy O’Riordan (producer)
Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy (director); Jaimie D’Cruz (producer)
Monsters – Gareth Edwards (writer/director)
Skeletons – Nick Whitfield (writer/director)

2009 - Moon - Duncan Jones (writer/director)
Mugabe and the White African – Lucy Bailey (director); Andrew Thompson (director); Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock (producer); David Pearson (producer)
Shifty – Eran Creevy (writer/director)
Exam – Stuart Hazeldine (writer/director/producer)
Nowhere Boy – Sam Taylor-Wood (director)

The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Writer, Director or Producer in their First Feature Film

2006 - Red Road - Andrea Arnold
Black Sun – Gary Tarn
Pierrepoint – Christine Langan
London to Brighton – Paul Andrew Williams
Rollin' with the Nines – Julian Gilbey

2005 - Pride & Prejudice - Joe Wright
Everything – Richard Hawkins
Festival – Annie Griffin
Shooting Dogs – David Belton
Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski

2004 - A Way of Life - Amma Asante
AfterLife – Andrea Gibb
Dear Frankie – Shona Auerbach
Layer Cake – Matthew Vaughn
Shaun of the Dead – Nira Park

2003 - Kiss of Life - Emily Young
American Cousins – Sergio Casci
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Peter Webber
To Kill a King – Jenny Mayhew

2002 - The Warrior - Asif Kapadia
AKA – Duncan Roy
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry – Simon Bent
Lost in La Mancha – Lucy Darwin

2001 - Jump Tomorrow - Joel Hopkins Nicola Usborne
Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes
Late Night Shopping – Jack Lothian
The Parole Officer – Steve Coogan Henry Normal
South West 9 – Richard Parry
Strictly Sinatra – Ruth Kenley-Letts

2000 - Last Resort - Pawel Pawlikowski
Billy Elliot – Stephen Daldry
Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
Saving Grace – Mark Crowdy
Some Voices – Simon Cellan Jones

1999 - Ratcatcher -  Lynne Ramsay
East Is East – Ayub Khan-Din
Human Traffic – Justin Kerrigan
Waking Ned – Kirk Jones

1998 - Love and Death on Long Island - Richard Kwietniowski
The Governess – Sandra Goldbacher
Twenty Four Seven – Shane Meadows
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels – Matthew Vaughn

Best Leading Newcomer
1984 - The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
The Hit – Tim Roth
Cal – John Lynch
Another Country – Rupert Everett

1983 - Another Time, Another Place - Phyllis Logan
Educating Rita – Julie Walters
Heat and Dust – Greta Scacchi
Sophie's Choice – Kevin Kline

1982 - Gandhi - Ben Kingsley
Body Heat – Kathleen Turner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Drew Barrymore
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Henry Thomas

1981 - Raging Bull - Joe Pesci
Ordinary People – Timothy Hutton
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
Klaus Maria Brandauer – Mephisto

1980 - My Brilliant Career - Judy Davis
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Sonia Braga
Gregory's Girl – John Gordon Sinclair
Urban Cowboy – Debra Winger

1979 - Breaking Away - Dennis Christopher and The Buddy Holly Story - Gary Busey
Sigourney Weaver - Alien
Ray Winstone - That Summer

1978 - Superman - Christopher Reeve
Melanie Mayron - Girlfriends
Mary Beth Hurt - Interiors
Brad Davis - Midnight Express

1977 - The Lacemaker - Isabelle Huppert

1976 - Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone - Jodie Foster

1975 - Lenny - Valerie Perrine

1974 - Mahler - Georgina Hale

1973 - The Hireling - Peter Egan

1972 - Cabaret - Joel Grey

1971 - The Go-Between - Dominic Guard

1970 - Kes - Dai Bradley

1969 - Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight

1968 - The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman

1967 -  Bonnie and Clyde - Michael J. Pollard and Faye Dunaway

1966 - Alfie - Vivien Merchant

1965 - Four in the Morning - Judi Dench

1964 - Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews

1963 - The Servant - James Fox

1962 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Tom Courtenay

1961 - A Taste of Honey - Rita Tushingham

1960 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Albert Finney

1959 - Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills

1958 - Orders to Kill - Paul Massie

1957 - Brothers in Law - Eric Barker

1956 - Baby Doll - Eli Wallach

1955 - That Lady - Paul Scofield

1954 - The Young Lovers - David Kossoff

1953 - Trouble in Store - Norman Wisdom

1952 - Limelight - Claire Bloom

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Ockelbo BBK is a basketball club in Ockelbo in Sweden. The club was established in 1969. The women's team played in Elitserien between 1995-1999. The men's team qualified for the Swedish Basketball League in 2003. In 2006 the club was suffering from economic problems in 2006. The club applied for bankruptcy to the Gävle District Court on 13 February 2007. The men's team first played the two remaining games of the regular season.

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Boer War might mean:

First Boer War, 16 December 1880 to 23 March 1881
Second Boer War, 11 October 1899 to 31 May 1902

Boer War


Stevens' power law is a proposed relationship between the magnitude of a physical stimulus and the intensity or strength that people feel.

Most people think that it describes a wider range of sensations than Weber-Fechner law. But critics argue that the validity of the law is not sure.

The theory is named after psychophysicist Stanley Smith Stevens (1906–1973).  Although the idea of a power law had been suggested by 19th century researchers, Stevens is credited with reviving the law and publishing a body of psychophysical data to support it in 1956.

The general form of the law is

where   is the magnitude of the physical stimulus,  is the psychophysical function capturing sensation (the subjective size of the stimulus),  is an exponent that depends on the type of stimulation and  is a proportionality constant that depends on the type of stimulation and the units used.

The table to the right lists the exponents reported by Stevens.

References

 Ellermeier, W., Faulhammer, G. (2000). Empirical evaluation of axioms fundamental to Stevens's ratio-scaling approach: I. Loudness production. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 1505–1511.
 Green, D. M., & Luce, R. D. (1974). Variability of magnitude estimates: a timing theory analysis. Perception & Psychophysics, 15, 291–300.
 Luce, R. D. (2002). A psychophysical theory of intensity proportions, joint presentations, and matches. Psychological Review, 109, 520–532.
 Narens, L. (1996). A theory of ratio magnitude estimation. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 40,  109–129.
 Smelser, N. J., & Baltes, P. B. (2001). International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. pp. 15105–15106. Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier. .
 Steingrimsson, R., & Luce, R. D. (2006). Empirical evaluation of a model of global psychophysical judgments: III. A form for the psychophysical function and intensity filtering. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 15–29.
 Stevens, S. S. (1957). On the psychophysical law. Psychological Review 64(3):153–181. PMID 13441853.
 Zimmer, K. (2005). Examining the validity of numerical ratios in loudness fractionation. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 569–579.

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Stevens' power law


Newquay () is a town, civil parish, seaside resort, and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, South West England. It is bounded to the west by the River Gannel and its associated salt marsh, and in the east by the Porth Valley. The town has been expanding inland (south) since it was founded. According to the 2001 census it had a permanent population of 19,423. It is the largest holiday resort in Cornwall and is served by Newquay Airport. The large beach provides very good conditions for surfing. There are numerous shops varying from the usual charity shops to shops selling many different brands of surf clothing.  There are many places to enjoy eating within the town.

Climate
As with the rest of the British Isles and South West England, Newquay experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. The nearest Met Office weather station is St. Mawgan/Newquay Airport, about 3.5 miles to the north east of the town centre. Temperature extremes in the area since 1960 vary from  in June 1976 and August 1995  down to  during January 1987.

References

Other websites

 Newquay Town Council
 Treninick entry in the Domesday Book
 1st Newquay Scout Group
 Newquay Nightlife - Guide to bars, hotels, restaurants, beaches and more

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Newquay


Olympiacos S.C. is the men's volleyball team of the major Greek multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1926 and has won two CEV Cups, a record 28 Greek Volley League Championships, a record 16 Greek Cups, 2 Greek Super Cups, a record 6 Greek League Cups and a record 14 Doubles. Olympiacos is ranked among the top European volleyball clubs. From the early 1990s to the mid 2000s they played in 11 European Final Fours and reached six European Finals.

Other websites
 Olympiacos Volleyball section web site www.olympiacossfp.gr

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Olympiacos S.C.


The TNA King of the Mountain Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The championship was debuted on the October 23, 2008 episode of TNA Impact! and was originally called the "TNA Legends Championship". It was considered the second highest-ranking title in TNA. It was declared defunct by the (storyline) TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle on July 3, 2014. The title was reactivated under the new name "TNA King of the Mountain Championship" on June 25, 2015.

History
Booker T revealed the championship after he took it out of a steel briefcase that he had been carrying around in the weeks leading up to the reveal. He named it the "TNA Legends Championship" and declared himself as the first champion. A.J. Styles defeated Booker T at Destination X on March 15, 2009 to win the championship.

Winning the title made Styles the first-ever TNA Grand Slam Champion after he had won the World Heavyweight (NWA or TNA), the World Tag Team (NWA or TNA), and the TNA X Division Championship along with the Legends Championship. The Management Director of TNA Jim Cornette announced that the Championship became an official TNA sanctioned championship because Styles defeated Booker T for it legally by the contract the two had signed to make the match official.

When Eric Young held the championship, he renamed it the "TNA Global Championship" on the October 29, 2009 episode of Impact! and said that he was not going to defend it against any American wrestlers or on American soil. Young was defeated by Rob Terry during a live event in Cardiff, Wales on January 27, 2010.

Terry lost the championship to A.J. Styles on the July 22 episode of Impact!. Styles renamed it the "TNA Television Championship" on the July 29 episode.

On July 3, 2014, the TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle declared that the Television Championship would become inactive.

On June 25, 2015, the championship was reactivated under the new name "TNA King of the Mountain Championship." It was announced by TNA that there would be a new champion crowned in a King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary. At Slammiversary, Jeff Jarrett defeated Matt Hardy, Eric Young, Drew Galloway, and Bobby Roode to win the championship. Since Jarrett was the founder and running GFW, there were suspicions of Jarrett defending the championship in GFW. The championship did appear at a GFW live event on July 9 where Young attacked Jarrett and stole the championship.

Reigns
The current champion is Bobby Roode. Roode is in his first reign as champion. He won the championship after defeating PJ Black during Impact Wrestling tapings on July 28, 2015.

The first champion was Booker T. He awarded himself the championship on the October 23, 2008 episode of Impact!. The longest reigns in the championship's history was Abyss' second reign which lasted 396 days. The shortest reign was PJ Black's first reign which lasted only 1 day.

References

Other websites
 TNA Television Championship History

Category:Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

TNA King of the Mountain Championship


Ixia is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae.

All of these plants are herbs with corms. The plants grows in South Africa. In total, there are 40-60 species.

Common names for this kind of flower are Corn lily and African Corn-Lily and Wand flower.

The leaves look like swords. The flowers look like stars.

Some species of Corn lilies are cultivated as garden plants and houseplants.

References

Other websites

 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Ixia
 ITIS: Ixia
 NCBI: Ixia

Category:Iridaceae

Ixia


The Protect Intellectual Property Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act), also called PIPA, was a proposed American law to stop copyright infringement on the Internet. The law would give copyright holders new ways to deal with websites infringing copyright.

Critics said the proposed law would have hidden risks and unintended consequences.

Protest

Some people and businesses support the law while others are alarmed by the law.  Supporters worry that the current copyright law is not effective in shutting down piracy websites. Opponents worry that the law is a kind of censorship. It is hard to tell which side is correct because the language in the law is still being written.

Related pages
 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

References

Other websites
 Text of Protect Intellectual Property Act; S. 968

Category:United States law
Category:Copyright

PROTECT IP Act


This is the list of programs currently, formely and ucoming on Sony SAB

Currently Broadcast
 Aladdin- Naam Toh Suna Hoga (2018-)
 Apna News Aayega (2019-)
 Baavle Utaavle (2019-)
 Bhakharwadi (2019-)
 Jijaji Chhat Per Hain (2017-)
 Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Cheshmah (2008-)
 Tenali Rama (2017-)

Upcoming broadcast
 Baal Veer Returns
 Tera Kya Hoga Alia

Formerly broadcast

Children's series

 Baal Veer
 Gili Gili Gappa
 Ring Wrong Ring

Comedy series

 A Mad House Aadat Se Majboor Aaj Ke Shrimaan Shrimati Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon Aflatoon Ammaji Ki Galli Bade Miya Chhote Miya Badi Door Se Aaye Hain Band Baaja Bandh Darwaza Beechwale - Bapu Dekh Raha Hai Bhaago KK Aaya Bhai Bhaiya Aur Brother Bhootwala Serial Chandrakant Chiplunkar Seedi Bamba Wala Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi...Let's Go Chamcha in Chief Chidiya Ghar
 Chintu Chinki Aur Ek Badi Si Love Story
 Chintu Aur Pintu
 Chintu Ban Gaya Gentleman
 Chhupke Chhupke
 Dhaba Junction Dil Deke Dekho Don't Worry Chachu Dr. Bhanumati On Duty Dr. Madhumati On Duty F.I.R. Full Masti 88.2 Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai Gopi Gadha Aur Gupshup The Great Indian Family Drama Gunwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Gupp Chupp Gutur Gu Hansi He Hansi...Mil Toh Lein Hassi Woh Phassi Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain Hum Aapke Hain In Laws Humse Hai Zamana
 I Luv My India
 Jasoos 005
 Jaankhilavan Jasoos
 Jeannie Aur Juju
 Jugni Chali Jalandhar
 Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyaar
 Khatmal E Ishq
 Khidki
 Krishna Kanhaiya
 Lapataganj
 Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki
 Main Kab Saas Banoongi
 Malegaon Ka Chintu
 Maniben.com
 Masti
 Mohalla Mohabbat Wala
 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale
 Mrs. Tendulkar
 My Name Ijj Lakhan
 Namune
 Office Office Papad Pol Partners Trouble Ho Gayi Double Platform No. 9''

References

List of programs broadcast by Sony SAB


Showtime Networks is a media company that began in New York City in 1983. In the beginning, it was Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc.. This came about because of a merger among three companies: Showtime, The Movie Channel and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment. It was originally owned by Viacom until 2005. That year, the company split into two companies; Viacom and CBS Corporation.

The network is in charge of the company's premium cable television channels, including Showtime.

References

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Category:Columbia Broadcasting System

Showtime Networks


Pope Leo XII (; 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 253rd Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Life
Della Genga was born in a family of Papal States nobility.

Priest
Della Genga was ordained as a priest in 1783.

Pope Pius VII made him his private secretary.

Bishop
In 1793, he was made Archbishop of Tyre; and he was sent as papal nuncio to Lucerne.

He was the papal nuncio in Cologne between 1794 and 1805.

After 1805, he retired to the abbey of Monticelli near Florence.

Cardinal
Tn 1816, Pius VII created him  cardinal.

In 1820, Cardinal della Genga became Vicar-General of Rome.

Pope
Cardinal della Genga was elected pope 1n September 1823.

Related pages
 List of popes

References

Other websites

  "Leo XII", Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
  Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Leo XII
  Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal della Genga

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Category:1760 births
Category:1829 deaths

Pope Leo XII


SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a SAM Colombia Boeing 727-46 that crashed on May 19, 1993, killing all 132 on board, including several Panamanian dentists on their way to a convention. The crew reported over the Abejorral NDB beacon at FL160, approaching Medellín. The flight was then cleared to descend to FL120. The 727 had actually not yet reached the beacon, and descended into mountainous terrain. The flight struck Mount Paramo Frontino at 12,300 feet. Thunderstorm activity in the area made ADF navigation more difficult and the Medellín VOR/DME had been attacked by terrorists and was unserviceable.

References

Other websites
 ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-46 HK-2422X Medellín

Category:Aviation disasters in the 1990s
Category:History of Colombia
Category:1990s in South America
Category:May events

SAM Colombia Flight 501


Anne Veski (born Anne Vaarmann; 27 February 1956) is an Estonian pop singer. She has sung in Estonian, Russian, and Polish.

Family
Veski is married to her second husband, Benno Beltšikov, who also is her manager. Veski was previously married to Jaak Veski (1956–1994) from 1977 tae 1981. She has a daughter, Kerli. Kerli is a diplomat an has worked at the Estonian Consulate in Moscow. Veski also has two grandchildren via Kerli.

Discography
 "Ingleid ei..." (2009)
 "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. Я НЕ ТАКАЯ" (2007)
 "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. РАДОВАТЬСЯ ЖИЗНИ" "ИМЕНА НА ВСЕ ВРЕМЕНА" (2007)
 DVD "ANNE VESKI. ROOSIAIA KUNINGANNA" (2006)
 DVD "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. НИ О ЧЕМ НЕ ЖАЛЕЙТЕ" (2006)
 "ANNE VESKI. 60 parimat laulu - EESTI KULLAFOND" (3 platinum CD; 2006)
 "Ни о чем не жалейте" (2004)
 Анне Вески, Имена на все времена (2003)
 "Lootus" (2003)
 Не грусти, человек (2002)
 Анне Вески, Звезды советской эстрады (2001)
 Grand Collection (2001)
 Armukarneval (2000)
 Star Collection (2000)
 "Туннель под Ла-Маншем" (1996)
 Калейдоскоп (1994)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1985)
 "Анне Вески" (1994)
 "Анне Вески и Мюзик-Сейф"
 "Я вас благодарю", "Анне Вески и ансамбль Немо" (1988)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1986)
 "Я обещаю вам сады" (1985)
 "Я обещаю вам сады"
 "Позади крутой поворот" (1984)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1984)
 "Поет Анне Вески"
 "Anne Veski" (1983)

Other websites
Official websites in Estonian and Russian

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Anne Veski


The Aswan High Dam is a dam on the river Nile, near Aswan, Egypt. It was built from 1960 to 1971, and created Lake Nasser.

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Aswan High Dam


Blackburn  is a town in Lancashire, England. The town has a population of about 105,000 people.
Blackburn is mentioned in one of the Beatles' songs.  The town's football team is Blackburn Rovers F.C.

References

Category:Towns in Lancashire

Blackburn


A deemster () is a judge in the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is self-governing. It keeps some of its traditions, and has a long past history.

The High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man is presided over by a deemster. In the appeal division, a deemster and the Judge of Appeal preside.  The deemsters also make the Isle of Man's laws official, by reading them out to the people in English and Manx on Tynwald Day.

The First and Second Deemsters used to have seats in the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man. The Second Deemster lost his seat in 1965, and the First Deemster lost his in 1975.

There are currently three full time Deemsters in the Isle of Man. These are the First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls (who is also the Deputy Governor), the Second Deemster, and an additional full-time Deemster. Additional deemsters, full-time or part-time, may be appointed from time to time.

The offices of First Deemster, Second Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls are ancient offices. The offices of First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls were joined in 1918. A new office of Deputy Deemster was created in 2002, but abolished in 2009.

The First Deemster, Second Deemster and Judge of Appeal are appointed by the monarch, (acting on the advice of the UK's Secretary of State for Justice). The First Deemster acts in place of the Lieutenant Governor in the latter's absence, or during a vacancy in that office.

References

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 Tynwald

Other websites
 Isle of Man Courts

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Man-Bat (The Werebat or Dr. Robert K. Langstrom) is a fictional Batman character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. He used to be a scientist until drinking a chemical that makes him turn into a half bat half man. His name can sometimes be confused with Batman.

The character has been featured in various media adaptations, such as feature films, television series and video games. He was voiced by Marc Singer in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Man-Bat


Hohenbrunn is a municipality in the Munich Rural District in Upper Bavaria, Germany.

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Hohenbrunn


Kusum Kusum Prem is a Bangladeshi Bengali language movie. It was released 2011. The movie directed by Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar who also wrote the story. The movie produced by Impress Telefilm Limited. The movie stars Moushumi, Ferdous and Riaz in lead roles.

Accolades
 National Film Awards (for the year 2011)
Ferdous Ahmed and Emon Saha has been judged as best actor for his outstanding performance in the film Kusum Kusum Prem.
Won. Best actor: Ferdous
Won. Best composer: Emon Saha

References

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Category:Bangladeshi movies
Category:2011 drama movies

Kusum Kusum Prem


Trade paperbacks, or "trades" as they are commonly called, are collections of comic books that are usually bound in a better format than the comic magazines, using the same materials and methods as printed books. They are generally sold in bookstores and specialty comic book shops rather than at newsstands.

Unlike graphic novels, the material in a trade paperback is reprinted from comic magazines that were released in the standard 32-page format. Unlike comic books, which only tell one small part of a story, trade paperbacks usually collect a complete story, story arc, or a large part of a story. They usually reprint the material from 4 to 12 comic books, depending on the size of the trade and the story being collected.

Some famous examples of trade paperbacks:
 Watchmen
 V for Vendetta
 Batman: Year One

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Trade paperback (comics)


Fernando Eid (born 20 June 1992) is an Bolivian journalist and media personality. He is currently in the morning magazine Al Día and Bolivisión.

Career
Eid began his career in the media in 2009. He was also a radio host on Bolivian stations such as Radio Disney, Radio Activa and Radio El Debe. He dedicated himself to music, in 2014, until 2017. He was in programs Tweeners (ATB), Chicostation (Unitel), El Mañanero, Pura Vida and Singing for a Dream (Red Uno), PAT News and Noticia De La Hora (RED PAT). Since September 2019 he has been the presenter of the magazine Al Día and BOLIVISIÓN.

References

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 Fernando Eid on Twitter

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Fernando Eid


The Pearl Fishers is an opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was first performed in Paris on 30 September 1863. The opera is set in ancient Ceylon, which is now called Sri Lanka. It tells the story of two men who are best friends, but love the same woman, who is a priestess. It was generally disliked at the time, especially by the newspapers. After his death, it has been more popular and is now regularly played across the world.

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The Pearl Fishers


Wesley Wales "Wes" Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American movie director and screenwriter.

Wes Anderson in 2015 he designed the Prada Cafè Bar Luce of Milano for the Italian luxury company Prada, as it was in a fifties years film to recall the iconic design of Milan's design palaces of that era.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001 and Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, and for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2009.

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Category:Writers from Houston, Texas

Wes Anderson


José Terrón Peñaranda (5 July 1939 – 12 May 2019) was a Spanish movie actor. He was born in Madrid. He played Guy Callaway in For a Few Dollars More (1965), and Thomas "Shorty" Larson in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

Terrón died on 12 May 2019 in Benidorm, Spain at the age of 79.

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Category:Spanish movie actors

José Terrón


The Ofanto () is a river in South Italy that flows through the regions of Campania, Basilicata, and Apulia, and into the Adriatic Sea.

Geography
The Ofanto river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Course
The Ofanto river starts in the Apennines mountains, within the Irpinia (a historical region of the southern Apennines around Avellino), at an elevation of about , in the comune of Torella dei Lombardi, Province of Avellino, Campania. From there it runs southeast flowing into Lago di Conza, a man-made reservoir.

The river forms the border between the province of Avellino and the province of Potenza and then turns to the north, forming the border between the province of Foggia and the province of Potenza. It then turns to the northeast and forms the border between the province of Foggia and the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.

Finallly, the river flows, in the community of Fiumara between Margherita di Savoia and Barletta, into the Adriatic Sea near the Gulf of Manfredonia.

The Ofanto flows through 3 regions, 4 provinces and 33 comuni, all in South Italy:
 Campania region
 Avellino, 15 comuni: Aquilonia, Bisaccia, Cairano, Calitri, Conza della Campania, Lacedonia, Lioni, Monteverde, Morra De Sanctis, Nusco, Sant'Andrea di Conza, Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Teora, Torella dei Lombardi.
 Basilicata region
Potenza, 7 comuni: Atella, Melfi, Lavello, Pescopagano, Rapone, Rionero in Vulture, Ruvo del Monte.
 Apulia region
 Foggia, 4 comuni: Ascoli Satriano, Candela, Cerignola, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio.
 Barletta-Andria-Trani, 7 comuni: Barletta, Canosa di Puglia, Margherita di Savoia (foce), Minervino Murge, San Ferdinando di Puglia, Spinazzola, Trinitapoli.

Main tributaries
Most tributaries of the Ofanto river are small streams. Some of them are:

Related pages
 List of rivers of Italy

References

Category:Rivers of Italy

Ofanto