is a Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and anti-nuclear activist. He has served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI).

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Ham can have different meanings:
 a ham is someone having amateur radio as a hobby
 Ham is a kind of meat
 Ham is a municipality in Belgium

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Sean Daley (born September 7, 1972) is an American rapper. He is better known by his stage names Slug or Sep Seven. He is best known for being the lead singer of the hip hop group Atmosphere.

Slug is from Minnesota. His stage name is a nickname that was given to him by his father. It was originally Sluggo by later shortened to Slug.

Slug has been involved in several projects. He formed Atmosphere in 1989. He worked with several other rap musicians in the late 1990s to form The Dynospectrum. They released an album, The Dynospectrum, in 1998. He formed another group, Deep Puddle Dynamics, in the same year. In 2000, Slug started Felt with Murs, another rap musician. They have released three albums.

In 2005, Slug started a record label with Murs, called Women Records.

References

Other websites
 Women Records

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The Battle of Valverde was an American Civil War battle fought from February 20 to February 21, 1862. It was fought near the present day town of Valverde, New Mexico. This town was at a ford across the Rio Grande river in what was at the time Confederate Arizona. The battle was a major success in the New Mexico campaign of the Southern states. The Confederate cavalry from Texas and several companies of Arizona militia fought Union Army regulars and Union volunteers from northern New Mexico and Colorado. Colonel Kit Carson commanded the 1st New Mexico (Union) Infantry.

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Ekängen is a locality in Linköping Municipality in Östergötland County in Sweden. In 2010, 2,037 people lived there.

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Ekängen


Grenoble-Isère Airport , is an airport serving Grenoble.  It is 2.5 km north-northwest of Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs and 40 km northwest of Grenoble.  Both are communes in the Isère, département of France. It is also known as Grenoble - Saint-Geoirs Airport.  The name, Isere, refers to the department of Isère.

A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is also at the airport.

References

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Federal Hall was the first capitol building of the United States, and was the site where George Washington was inaugurated as America's first president in 1789.  In 1700, it was built on Wall Street and named New York City Hall.  It was renamed to Federal Hall when it became the capitol under the new United States Constitution.

In 1812, the building was demolished.  A new customs house replaced it in 1842.  In 1882, a bronze statue of President Washington was made and put in front of the steps.  The new building officially became a landmark according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on 21 December 1965.

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The Bosque do Capão da Imbuia (grove) is a park in the city of Curitiba in Paraná, Brazil.

With a large size area of native forest, the grove has many attractions for tourists.

The main attractions are:

 "Path of the Araucaria" - a path in the woods with taxidermized animals;

 "Natural History Museum" - a museum that shows the typical fauna and flora of Brazil

The oldest tree in Curitiba is an Ocotea porosa that is almost a thousand years old. This tree is in  "Bosque do Capão da Imbuia".

Other websites
 Bosque Capão da Imbuia Parks in Curitiba

References

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Eaglehawk is an old gold-mining town in Victoria, Australia. It is near Bendigo.

The Eaglehawk football club is known as "The Burra."
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Eaglehawk


Births
 January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656)
 January 22 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626)
 July 11 – Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
 August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (died 1633)
 August 24 – Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
 August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (died 1632)
 September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (died 1615)
December 7 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
 December 9 – Edwin Sandys, English founder of the colony of Virginia (died 1629)
 Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (died 1602)
 John Harington, English writer (died 1612)
 Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (died 1631)

1561


Berlaar is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

In 2007, 10668 people lived there.

It is at 51° 07 North, 04° 39 East.

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Berlaar


Chief Justice of India is the highest judge is the Supreme Court of India. It is also the highest available judicial post in the Republic of India. The Chief Justice is the presiding judge of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice of India is appointed by the President of India.
The current chief justice of India is Ranjan Gogoi.

Oath of affirmation

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A prisoner of war (short form: POW) is a non-combatant who has been captured by the forces of the enemy, during an armed conflict. In past centuries, prisoners had no rights.  They were usually killed or forced to be slaves.  Nowadays prisoners of war have rights that are stated in the Geneva Conventions and other laws of war.

Rights
The Third Geneva Convention gives prisoners of war many different rights.  Here are some examples:

 They must be treated decently, with respect
 They must be allowed to tell their families and the International Committee of the Red Cross that they are a POW
 They have the right to communicate with their families, and get packages
 They have the right to keep their clothing, eating utensils, and personal things
 They must be given adequate food, clothing, housing, and medical attention
 If their captors make them work, POWs must be paid for the work they do
 If they are going to be charged with a crime, they must be given a trial

If they are very sick or hurt, prisoners of war have the right to be let go.  After a war ends, all prisoners must be let go quickly.

Prisoners of war also have the right NOT to:
 Give their captors any information, except for their name, age, rank, and service number (a military identification number)
 Have their money or valuable things stolen
 Do forced labor, military work, or work that is dangerous, unhealthy, or degrading

Not every prisoner gets these rights
Not all people who are caught while fighting wars are "prisoners of war."  The Third Geneva Convention has a strict definition of what a prisoner of war is.  For example, it says that to be "prisoners of war," soldiers must:
 Wear uniforms or marks on their clothes to make it clear they are soldiers
 Have some sign (like a flag) that shows they are soldiers from a distance
 Carry their weapons out in the open, where they can be seen
 Follow the laws of war

According to the Geneva Conventions, if soldiers do not meet these requirements, they are not "prisoners of war."  They are "unlawful combatants" (which means "people who fight in ways that are against the law).  This means they do NOT have the rights that are listed in the Geneva Conventions.

This caused controversy in the early 21st century.  For example, in June 2002, the United States was fighting the War in Afghanistan.  The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, announced that the people the U.S. had captured were "unlawful combatants [who] do not have any rights under the Geneva Convention[s]." The U.S. said these people were unlawful combatants, not prisoners of war, because:
 They did not wear clothing that made them look any different than regular civilians
 They did not organize themselves into groups with a chain of command
 They did not follow the laws of war (because they gave support to Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization)

The U.S. brought some of these people to a prison in Guantánamo Bay.  Because they were enemy combatants, the inmates at Guantánamo did not get the rights that the Geneva Conventions give to prisoners of war.

War crimes against prisoners of war

When a country, or a group of people, does not give prisoners of war their rights, they are committing a war crime.  However, punishing those war crimes has not always been easy.

Punishing crimes

The Geneva Convention lists the rights that prisoners of war have.  However, there is nothing in the Geneva Convention that says how people should be punished when they do not give prisoners of war these rights.

In the past, when a country broke the Geneva Convention by not giving prisoners of war their rights, many different things might happen.  For example, after World War II ended, the countries that won the war set up military tribunals called the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials.  At these trials, military leaders from Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan were tried for crimes against prisoners of war (and many other things).  Many of them were convicted and sentenced to death or to life in prison.

However, at other times, crimes against prisoners of war might be tried in the same country where the crimes happened.  This might happen before or after the war ended.  Sometimes crimes against prisoners of war were not punished at all.

The International Criminal Court

In 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was created to look into war crimes around the world, and punish people for them, if possible.

The ICC has a long list of crimes that are defined as war crimes.  Some war crimes against prisoners of war are:
 Torture
 Rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse
 Hurting or killing POWs
 Causing severe pain or suffering (this can be mental or physical suffering)
 Forcing POWs to do military work that will hurt their own country
 Using POWs as hostages
 Treating POWs in cruel ways, not respecting their dignity, or humiliating them

If a country, or a group of people, commit a war crime against prisoners of war, the ICC can put them on trial and punish them if they are found guilty.

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was a  after the Taika era and before Shuchō in 686.  This period started in February 650 and ended in December 654.  The reigning emperor was .

History
In 650 (Taika 6,  The daimyo of Nagato Province brought a white pheasant to the court as a gift for the emperor.  It was considered to be a good omen, and the emperor caused the nengō to be changed to Hakuchi (meaning "white pheasant").

In Japan, this was the second nengō, which was developed from the Chinese system of eras (nianhao).   It became an example of growth in political power.

Timeline

The system of Japanese era names was not the same as Imperial reign dates.

Events of the Hakuchi era
 650 (Hakuchi 1):  Kōtoku commanded that all prisoners were to be granted liberty throughout the country.
 654 (Hakuchi 5, 1st month): A great number of rats moved into Yamato Province; and this was construed as a sign that the capital should be moved.
 654 (Hakuchi 5): Kōtoku died at the age of 59 after a reign of 5 years during Taika and 5 years during Hakuchi.

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 Asuka period

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Concordia is a city in north-eastern Kansas, USA. It has been the county seat of Cloud County since 1871.

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith is the third film in the Star Wars saga produced by Lucasfilms It was released in 2005.

Story

The movie shows the events that led to the transformation of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader of the original trilogy. It also shows how Palpatine turned the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire as well as showing the destruction of the Jedi because of Order 66.

Cast
 Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
 Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker
 Natalie Portman as Senator Padmé Amidala
 Ian McDiarmid as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine
 Frank Oz as the voice of Yoda
 Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu
 Jimmy Smits as Senator Bail Organa
 Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
 Kenny Baker as R2-D2
 Christopher Lee as Count Dooku
 Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca
 Matthew Wood as General Grievous
 Silas Carson as Nute Gunray
 Temuera Morrison as Commander Cody and other clone troopers

Related pages

Other websites
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 Film screenplay at MovieScriptPlace.com

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The List of Albirex Niigata players is evolving. The history of the team is created by its players.

Albirex Niigata is a Japanese professional football club in Niigata.

List
This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
 Kazuhiko Chiba
 Isao Homma
 Kazuhisa Kawahara
 Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
 Takaya Kurokawa
 Mitsuru Nagata
 Hiroshi Nakano
 Daigo Nishi
 Hideo Ōshima
 Marcio Richardes de Andrade
 Gotoku Sakai
 Takahiro Takagi
 Atomu Tanaka
 Jun Uchida
 Kisho Yano

Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 List of Japanese football teams

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Binalong is a small town in New South Wales, Australia. It is 37 km north-west of Yass.

History
The Aboriginal people who lived in the area were part of the Ngunnawal people.  The first Europen to visit the area was Hamilton Hume in 1821. The name of the town is believed to come from either an Aboriginal word meaning 'towards a high place' or from 'Bennelong', the name of a famous Aborigine.

Binalong was outside the legal limits of European settlement in New South Wales. However farmers settled in the area before the law changed to allow settlement in 1839.  From 1847 there was a police camp at Binalong and a court. The old Cobb and Co inn was built at that time as a staging post for Cobb and Co coaches.

The town was officially listed in 1850. It was an important stop on the way for people going to look for gold at Lambing Flat. The school was started in 1861.  Gold also meant that there were bushrangers in the area.  The grave of John Gilbert is near the town in the field where the police kept their horses.  He was a member of Frank Gardiner's gang  and later Ben Hall's gang. He was shot dead by police in 1865.

Railway
The first railway station opened in 1875. The railway arrived in 1876.  The current building was put up when the railway line was moved in 1916. The station and the signal box are now closed.

Banjo Paterson
The family of the poet Banjo Paterson moved to the Binalong area in 1869 when he was five years old.  He went to the primary school in Binalong but later went to boarding school in Sydney. He only came home in the holidays.  Binalong features in a number of his poems, for example, Pardon, the son of Reprieve.  Paterson's father is buried in the local cemetery.

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Portal is a puzzle video game made by Valve Corporation set inside the Half-Life series. It was originally sold in The Orange Box, a game collection deal which came with the Valve-made games Portal, Half-Life 2, and Team Fortress 2. It is now sold by itself and is available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac and PC.

The player plays as a woman named Chell who has to go though tests while being watched by a computer named GLaDOS, an acronym for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. GLaDOS provides all of the game's dialog and is known for being clever, funny, and sarcastic, promising the player character a cake if all of the tests are finished. GLaDOS and the testing rooms were created by a company called Aperture Science, which competes with Black Mesa. The player must use a gun, called the Portal Gun, that makes two linked holes, called portals, to solve puzzles. The two portals, one blue and one orange, are linked together and let the player get from one place to another. When the player enters the blue portal, they will come out of the orange portal. When the player enters the orange portal, they will come out of the blue portal.

Portal has many jokes in it that have become popular on the internet, for example, "the cake is a lie". Because the game was very popular, Valve made a sequel in 2011, called Portal 2.

Plot
The game starts with Chell waking up in a small glass room that has only a bed, a toilet, and a radio inside. She is told by GLaDOS that testing will start soon, and an orange portal opens on one of the walls. Once the player goes through, she enters the testing rooms and begins testing. There are 20 testing rooms, called Test Chambers, in all.

The tests start out simple. Chell has to pick up boxes, called Weighted Storage Cubes (Cubes for short), and put them on buttons, which will open the door to the exit of the chamber. At this point, GLaDOS speaks to Chell as a guide, praises her, and promises her cake when the tests are over. Near the beginning of the game, Chell gets the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, also known as the Portal Gun. At first, her Portal Gun only makes blue portals and the orange portals are made by GLaDOS. Later, Chell gets the full Portal Gun and can make both blue and orange portals.

The tests become more and more dangerous farther into the game. In some rooms, there is poison on the floor. In others, there are balls of electricity called High Energy Pellets which will kill Chell if she touches them. During these tests, GLaDOS becomes more and more sarcastic, giving Chell useless advice, such as "The floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it." At one point, GLaDOS tells Chell a chamber is broken and she must go through a chamber full of sentry guns, called Turrets, instead. If a Turret sees Chell, it will shoot at her until she dies. In this chamber is a hidden room. In the hidden room are drawings and writing on the walls left by an unknown person. The writing says things like "the cake is a lie" and "she's always watching" with a picture of a camera. There are more rooms like this in later chambers.

In another chamber, Chell has to use the Weighted Companion Cube, which looks like a Weighted Storage Cube with hearts on it, to solve the test. During the test, GLaDOS tells Chell several times that the Companion Cube is not alive, but at the end of the test, she tells Chell she has to "kill" the Companion Cube to get to the next test.

During the last test, Chell has to stand on a moving platform. At the end of the platform's track, it will carry her into a fire pit. GLaDOS thanks Chell for doing the tests. At the last minute, Chell uses her Portal Gun to escape the trap. While trying to escape the building, Chell is led into a room where she finds GLaDOS. Chell breaks a white ball that fell out of GLaDOS. GLaDOS tells her she was stupid to break it because they did not know what it was, but GLaDOS quickly figures out it was her morality core. She tells Chell the people who worked for Aperture Science installed it to make her stop killing them with "Deadly Neuro-Toxin". Because Chell broke it, GLaDOS can use the Neuro-Toxin again. Chell has a time limit of 6 minutes to kill GLaDOS before the Neuro-Toxin kills Chell. After breaking pieces off of her and burning them, GLaDOS is destroyed and Chell escapes the building.

After Chell escapes, she faints, and a robot drags her back into the building. During the credits, GLaDOS sings a song called "Still Alive" written by Jonathan Coulton, that says even though Chell killed her, she is still alive.

Gameplay
Portal is a first-person shooter game, which means that it is played from the view of the player character, Chell. When players get the fully-powered portal gun, they can make two portals that are linked together on some white surfaces. Chell starts out with nothing, only able to do what GLaDOS lets her, such as entering portals created by GLaDOS and using cubes that GLaDOS gives her. Once Chell gets a half-powered portal gun, she can fire a blue portal that connects to orange portals that GLaDOS puts in the rooms. When Chell gets the fully-powered portal gun, she can put both portals anywhere.

The portals are linked, making a tunnel that Chell can walk through. The tunnel works in both directions, so if Chell enters a blue portal, she will exit from an orange portal, and if she enters an orange portal, she will exit from a blue portal. The purpose of the portals is to make shortcuts to different areas, for example, if the player needs to get to a high ledge but is unable to jump to it, they can put a blue portal at their level and fire an orange portal above the ledge. Going through those portals will get the player onto the ledge.

The portals can be used in different ways, notably as a way to catapult Chell. If the player cannot put a portal on a high ledge but can put one on a wall across from the ledge and one on the floor below, these portals can be used to propel Chell forward far enough to reach the ledge. This is because portals do not affect forward momentum. When Chell enters the portal in the floor and exits the portal in the wall, she will fall, gaining speed. If she goes through the portal on the floor again while falling, she will be going fast enough that when she exits the wall portal again, she will be able to land on the ledge.

The different ways the portals work together mean there are multiple ways to solve the puzzles in the Test Chambers.

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Mashiro Kazahana is a main character in the anime My-HiME. Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom is her name in My-Otome.

Mashiro first meets Mai Tokiha when Mai is trying to find Mikoto Minagi, and Mashiro is seen in a rose garden with a maid. When she later meets Mai, Mai finds out that Mashiro is the chairwoman of the Fuuka Academy. She is calm and seems to know more than the people of her age, even though she is just 14. She knows about the Himes, feeling sorry for them as if it was her own fault that the Himes were created.

Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom

Mashiro Blanc de Winbloom is the queen of Windbloom, who is only 15. She is bossy and loud, parallel to Mashiro Kazahana. She gets angry easily, and when people say that she is a fake princess, she is surprized because she wants to be a queen so much. But a rumour says that the real princess was floated away in a casket, and that Mashiro was just a replacement for not finding the real princess. Mashiro does not look like the last rulers of Winbloom as well.

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Mashiro Kazahana


The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a meat eating mammal. It is a marsupial, which means it has a small pouch to carry its babies. It is the largest meat eating marsupial in the world. It is nocturnal, which means it sleeps during the day and is awake during the night. Tasmanian devils now live only in Tasmania, an island state of Australia.

The devil is the same size as a small dog with a wide head and a short tail. Male devils can weigh 12 kg and be 30 cm tall. It has black fur and makes a loud and very scary screeching noise. It will hunt other animals and also feed on dead animals. The devil has strong teeth and jaws and will eat all its prey, even bones and fur.

The Tasmanian devil became extinct on the Australian mainland about 3,000 years ago - before European settlement in 1788. They were hunted in Tasmania. In the 1930s the Van Dieman's Land Company offered 25 cents for each male and 35 cents for each female killed. In 1941 they became officially protected.

Disease

In 1996 the devils began to get very sick and then die with large tumours on their faces. Devil facial tumour disease has greatly reduced the number of devils and now threatens their survival. In some areas 85% of devils have been found with the disease. In the places where the tumours were seen first, devil numbers have dropped by 95%. The tumour is spread by biting. Because the devils are all closely related (not enough genetic diversity), the tumour cells are not seen as new; so the devil's immune system does not fight it. In May 2008 the Tasmanian devil was listed as endangered. Programs are being tried by the Tasmanian government to reduce the impact of the disease. About 60 devils without the disease have been captured and are to be kept as a tumour free group for rebreeding. Scientists have been looking at ways to give the devils immunity but so far this has not worked.

New research is showing the devils are having babies earlier, they use to breed at two years, but now are breeding at one year old. Devils used to have babies every year for three years, but they are now dying before they can produce a second litter (family).

Genetics

The devils have a low genetic diversity which is consistent with a 'founder effect'. What this means is: a small number colonised Tasmania from Australia at some stage. So their genetic variety was much less than the parent population. Disease like the present may have happened before, and reduced the population to a small number. These events are called 'population bottlenecks'. A small population which carries less variation is always vulnerable to extinction, because none of the animals may be resistant to the infection.

Its genome was sequenced in 2010 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. There is some hope for their survival because, since 2005, three females have been found that are partially resistant to the disease.

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Sukhumi or Sokhumi () is the capital and largest city of the breakaway independent  Republic of Abkhazia.

Sokhumi was a multi-ethnic city. The people were Georgians, Abkhazians (Apsuans), Russians, Turks, Armenians and Greeks during Soviet Rule. During the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict Georgians in Abkhazia were forced to leave. Most Greeks have also left.

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Sukhumi


Štefka Drolc (22 December 1923 – 25 June 2018), full name Štefanija Ana Drolc, was a Slovenian actresses. She was born in Ponikva, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Her career began in 1945. She debuted in the movie On Our Own Land. She also starred in Blossoms in Autumn (Cvetje v jeseni; 1973), The Story of Good People (Povest o dobrih ljudeh; 1975) and The Tenth Brother (Deseti brat; 1982).

Drolc died on 25 June 2018 from pneumonia at the age of 94.

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Aontú (Irish , "unite") is an all-Ireland political party. It was formally created in January 2019. It operates in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The party was founded by Peadar Tóibín, a TD. He resigned from Sinn Féin on 15 November 2018 due to his anti-abortion views. The name Aontú was announced at a meeting in Belfast on 28 January 2019. The party has been described as conservative on social issues and socially conservative, and left-wing on economics, migration, and climate change.

The party's policies include proposals for a United Ireland, a referendum on a "right to collective bargaining and trade union membership", an end to zero hours contracts, and increased state spending on public housing, Their Web site says that Ireland should model itself on the "best practice in Scandinavian countries."

Election results

Local government elections

Westminster elections

Dáil Éireann

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Andalusia () is the first in population among the 17 Autonomous communities in Spain and the second, after of Madrid, in area. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville (Spanish: Sevilla).

Andalusia is in the south of the Iberian peninsula, just to the south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. The small British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar shares a land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.

History
The name Andalusia is the modern version of the Arabic language Al-Andalus (الأندلس), name used by the Muslims for all of the territory of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. During that period, northern Iberian Peninsula was controlled by Christian kings and the southern Iberian Peninsula was controlled by Muslims.

In 711 CE, the Muslims invaded the Iberian Peninsula, then controlled by Christians of Visigothic origin. By 719 the Muslims conquered all of the peninsula except for a small area in the northern Pyrenees Mountains. The Muslims used the name Al-Andalus for all of the territory of the Iberian Peninsula under their control.

Christians in the north waged war for more than seven centuries against the Muslims, gradually taking over more and more of the southern areas. This process of war is called the Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word meaning "to conquest again"). In the year 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain retook the last stronghold in the southern area at Granada. In that same year, the Muslims and Jews were forced to leave Spain.

Symbols
The Andalusian coat of arms shows the figure of Hercules and two lions between the two pillars of Hercules that tradition puts on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. The words below read Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad ("Andalusia by herself, for Spain and Humanity"). Over the two columns is an arch in the colors of the flag of Andalusia, with the Latin words Dominator Hercules Fundator.

The official flag of Andalusia has three equal horizontal stripes, colored green, white, and green respectively; the Andalusian coat of arms is on the central stripe. It was approved in a meeting in 1918 of Andalusian nationalists at Ronda, a city in the province of Málaga.

The anthem of Andalusia was composed by José del Castillo Díaz with lyrics by Blas Infante. The music was inspired by Santo Dios, a religious folk song sung at harvest time by peasants.

The national holiday, the Día de Andalucía, is celebrated on 28 February.

Geography
Andalusia is one of the 17 Spanish autonomous communities and is in the southwestern region of the European Union. It has a surface area of , 17.3 percent of the territory of Spain. By area, it is the second Spanish autonomous community.

The natural limits of Andalusia are: to the south, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea; to the north, the Sierra Morena, mountain range that separates Andalusia from the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; to the west is Portugal; and to the east is Murcia.

Relief

Andalusia has the Iberian peninsula's highest mountains and nearly 15 percent of its terrain over . The picture is similar for areas under  (with the Baetic Depression), and for the variety of slopes.

The Atlantic coast is mostly beach and gradually sloping coasts; the Mediterranean coast has many cliffs. These differences divide the region naturally into Upper Andalusia (two mountainous areas) and Lower Andalusia (the broad basin of the Guadalquivir).

The three main geographical regions of Andalusia are:

 The Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. Although few people live there, this is not a particularly high range.
 The Baetic Cordillera consists of the parallel mountain ranges of the Cordillera Penibética near the Mediterranean coast and the Cordillera Subbética to the north. The Cordillera Subbética is quite discontinuous, offering many passes that facilitate transportation, but the Penibético forms a strong barrier between the Mediterranean coast and the interior. The Sierra Nevada, part of the Cordillera Penibética in the Province of Granada, has the highest peaks in the Iberian peninsula: Mulhacén at  and Veleta at .
 Lower Andalusia or valley of the Guadalquivir is between these two mountainous areas. It is a nearly flat territory, open to the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast. Throughout history, this has been the part of Andalusia where there are more people.

Climate

In general, Andalusia has a Mediterranean climate, except in the Valley of Granada (), with occasional heavy rains and extremely hot temperatures.

Rainfall decreases from west to east. The place in Andalusia with the highest rainfall is in the Sierra de Grazalema ( per year) and the driest place is Cabo de Gata, the place with the least amount of rainfall in Europe with only  of rain per year.

The average temperature in Andalusia throughout the year is over . Averages in the cities range from  in Baeza to  in Málaga. Much of the Guadalquivir valley and the Mediterranean coast has an average of about . The coldest month is January when Granada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada experiences an average temperature of . The hottest are July and August, with an average temperature of  for Andalusia as a whole. Córdoba is the hottest provincial capital, followed by Seville.

The mountain ranges are cooler than the plains and have a higher rainfall with some snow in winter. The Sierra Nevada, above , is snow covered for most of the year.

Rivers
Andalusia has rivers that flow into both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Flowing to the Atlantic are the Guadiana, Odiel-Tinto, Guadalquivir, Guadalete, and Barbate. Flowing to the Mediterranean are the Guadiaro, Guadalhorce, Guadalmedina, Guadalfeo, Andarax (also known as the Almería) and Almanzora. Of these, the Guadalquivir is the longest in Andalusia and fifth longest on the Iberian peninsula, at .

Administrative divisions
Andalusia consists of eight provinces. Each of the Andalusian provinces bears the same name as its capital:

People
The Andalusians are the inhabitants of Andalusia of the southern region in Iberian Peninsula. They are generally considered an ethnically distinct peoples because of the two of the most important markers of distinctiveness: their own language and an awareness of a presumed common origin. Andalusian is said to be a distinct dialect of Spanish, although it is debatable, according to the nationalists. The Andalusians have a rich culture which includes the famous flamenco style of music and dance, even though it was adopted by the Spanish gypsies who have changed it and monopolized into their own culture.

References

Joseph O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain, 1975, Cornell University Press.

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Lars Mortimer (22 March 1946 – 25 August 2014) was a Swedish cartoonist and comics artist. He was the creator and writer of the comic strip Hälge. He made the comic strip from September 1991 until his death in August 2014. From 2001, Hälge got a section in a newspaper and was released monthly. He also created the comic strip Bobo, published between 1973 and 1990.

Mortimer was born in Sundsvall, Västernorrland County. He was of British ancestry. He had two children.

Mortimer died after a short illness on 25 August 2014 in Alfta, Hälsingland. He was 68.

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Exodusters were a name given to African Americans who moved from states that were along the Mississippi River to Kansas. This happened in the late 1800s. It was called the Exoduster movement or the Exodus of 1879. It was the first migration of black people after the American Civil War. About 40,000 black people moved from the south to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

Black people moved from the south because they were treated very bad. They were running away from groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, and they were running away from black codes and Jim Crow laws. They were treated like second-class citizens. This was during Reconstruction.

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The Wailua River is a river on the island of Kauai in the U.S. state of Hawaii.  It is very active and gets attention from people visiting Hawaii.  It is also the only river that a vessel bigger than a boat can travel up.

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Michal Kováč (5 August 1930 – 5 October 2016) was a Slovakian politician. He was the first President of Slovakia from 1993 through 1998.

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Vocalion Records was a record label which made records in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

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 List of record labels

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Emily Rose Maier (born February 2, 1981) is an American actress. She acts mainly on television. She played Elena Fisher in the Uncharted video games. She plays multiple characters in the Syfy series Haven. Rose was born in Renton, Washington.

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The croissant is a type of bread. It is shaped like a crescent moon. It is usually a breakfast food. It is also called a crescent. It can also be called a crescent roll, although a crescent roll may be smaller. It is not a quick bread. It is made of a variant of puff pastry. It can be eaten with savory or sweet fillings.

History
Breads shaped like crescents have been around since medieval times. Before the croissant, there was a version of the croissant called a "feteer meshaltet", which originated in Egypt. Many years later, a cresent-shaped version of the feteer mashltet was made. It was called "feteer halali" (crescent feteer). The feteer halali became popular throughout Europe, especially France. Later, the feteer halali became known as a croissant. Croissants used to be high-class food.

Now they can be bought frozen which can be cooked with only a little work.
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Laurence Hirsch Silberman (born October 12, 1935) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed in October 1985 by Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1, 2000.

On June 11, 2008, Silberman was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor granted by the government of the United States.

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In logic, mathematics, and computer science, the arity of a function is the number of arguments that the function takes.

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Jan Merlin (born Jan Wasylewski; April 3, 1925 – September 20, 2019) was an American character actor, screenwriter, and author. Merlin was born in New York City. His best known roles were Hell Bent for Leather, Guns of Diablo (1965), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Take the Money and Run (1969), The Twilight People (1972), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), The Slams (1973), The Hindenburg (1975) and Time Trackers (1989).

Merlin died on September 20, 2019 in Burbank, California at the age of 94.

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Joseph Raymond "Toots" Mondt (January 18, 1894-June 11, 1976) was an American professional wrestler. He co-promoted the World Wide Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) along with "Grand" McMahon.

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Coach could mean:

Transportation
 Coach (carriage), a horse-drawn carriage
 Stagecoach, An early form of long distance public transport
 Coach (vehicle), a type of passenger-carrying road vehicle.
 Coach (rail) a type of passenger car used in rail transport.
 Economy class in travel can be referred to as "coach"

Coaching
 Coach (sport), the director of athletes' activities in sports
 Head coach
 Coach (baseball), includes manager, assistant coaches, on-field coaches, and specialized coaches
 Coach (hockey), head coach or assistant coaches
Coaching
dating coaching
Co-coaching

Popular media
Coach (TV series), an American sitcom starring Craig T. Nelson
Coach (comics), a Marvel Comics character in X-Force

Corporations
Coach Inc., an American leather goods company famous for its handbags
Coach Canada, an inter-city coach company in Canada
Coach USA, a bus transport company in the United States

People
 Jonathan Coachman, World Wrestling Entertainment personality a.k.a. "The Coach"
 Coach Ernie Pantusso, the character played by Nicholas Colasanto on the sitcom Cheers
 Mike Ditka, former head coach of the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints head coach, a.k.a. "Da Coach"

Coach


Gleba is the fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of fungi, such as on puffballs or stinkhorns.

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Health is "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease" according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Physical is about the body. Mental is about how people think and feel. Social talks about how people live with other people. It is about family, work, school, and friends.

Aspects of health

Physical health
Physical fitness refers to good body health. It is dependent on genetic determinators and also on social, economic and ecological factors. That means, one's genes are partly responsible for one's physical health, but also other circumstances: where you live, how clean or polluted your water and the air around you is and also how good your social and medical system is. It is also the result of regular exercise, proper diet and nutrition, and proper rest for physical recovery. A person who is physically fit will be able to walk or run without getting breathless and they will be able to carry out the activities of everyday living and not need help. How much each person can do will depend on their age and whether they are a man or woman. A physically fit person usually has a normal weight for their height. The relation between their height and weight is called their Body Mass Index. A taller person can be heavier and still be fit. If a person is too heavy or too thin for their height it may affect their health.

Mental health
Mental health refers to a person's emotional and psychological well-being. "A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her thinking and emotional (feeling) abilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life."

One way to think about mental health is by looking at how well a person functions. Feeling capable and efficient; being able to handle normal levels of stress, have good friends and family, and lead an independent life; and being able to "bounce back," or recover from hardships, are all signs of mental health.

Public health

Public health refers to trying to stop a disease that is unhealthy to the community, and does not help in long life or promote your health. This is fixed by organized efforts and choices of society, public and private clubs, communities and individuals.

It is about the health of many people, or everybody, rather than one person. Public health stops instead of encouraging a disease through surveillance of cases. To prevent being sick, it is good to act according to some simple advice:  Hand washing, regular check-ups,  vaccination programmes, drinking clean water and using condoms. When infectious diseases break out, washing hands for about 30 seconds may be especially important. Sometimes it is necessary to avoid masses of people or wear a surgical mask to protect yourself and to stop the spreading of the disease. Teaching people how to live healthily and educate them, especially about sex and child-birth, is also very important.

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Preuteşti is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.

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Preuteşti


St Albans is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England. It is 22 miles (35 km) north of London. St Albans is the former Roman town of Verulamium.

History
It was originally named Verlamion by the Celtic Catuvellauni tribe, and Verulamium by the Romans. It was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north.

Many of the Roman walls were knocked down by William the Conqueror and used to build St Albans Abbey, otherwise known as St Albans Cathedral. The town had many notable buildings but most were knocked down by Henry VIII. The only building left is the abbey. Though many other buildings have been built nearby Ye Old Fighting Cocks, which claims to be the oldest pub in the UK, a Roman amphitheatre and hypocaust floor, a disused bear baiting square in Verulamium Park, and the imposing Rats Castle at the top of Hatfield Road as well as Roman Verulanium Muesuem

The bones of St. Alban, the first English martyr, were kept in the Abbey in a shrine, but were stolen during the 19th century.They were smuggled out of the country into Munich. A few years ago The German Cathedral sent the shoulder bone of St. Alban and it is kept in the shrine behind a curtain

Now, due to its proximity to London, St. Albans is a commuter town.

St Albans School
St Albans School is a public school. It occupies a site to the west of the Abbey, which includes the 14th century Abbey Gateway. The school was founded in AD 948 and is the only school in the English-speaking world to have educated a Pope. Adrian IV was the only Englishman to become Pope.

Important people from St Albans
Nicholas Breakspear (or Breakespeare, c.1100–1159), later Pope Adrian IV, was born in Abbots Langley, and attended school in St Albans.
 Nicholas Bacon (1509–1579), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I, built Old Gorhambury House.
 Francis Bacon (1561–1626), noted philosopher, scientist and statesman, lived at Old Gorhambury House. Bacon was styled 'Viscount St Albans' from 1618.
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660–1744), wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and close friend of Queen Anne, was born in St Albans.
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (Lord Grimthorpe) (1816–1905), lawyer, amateur horologist, and architect; best-known locally for rebuilding the west front of St Albans Cathedral in 1880-1885 at his own expense, but also designed Big Ben. Lived at Batchwood Hall.
 Cuthbert Thicknesse (1887–1971), 4th Dean of St Albans Cathedral 1936–1955, objected to the use of nuclear weapons in August 1945, and refused to let the cathedral's bells be rung on VJ Day.
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), film director, lived in Childwickbury Manor, to the north-west of the town, from 1978 until his death
 Stephen Hawking (b 1942), theoretical physicist, was educated at St Albans School.
 Sir Stephen Lander (b 1947), former head of MI5, has lived in St Albans for many years.

Other websites
 St Albans - Official website

References

St Albans


The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, the bicameral legislature of Mexico. The other chamber is the Senate. The structure and responsibilities of both chambers of Congress are defined in Articles 50 to 70 of the current constitution.

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A centipede is a type of myriapod with many legs. Centipedes are predators. They hunt during the night; they are nocturnal.  Some centipedes are venomous, but none can kill a person unless they are allergic. Centipedes are in the class Chilopoda, and related to millipedes, which are not poisonous. As the millipedes, they are segmented. They have between 5 and 173 segments, but only one pair of legs per segment. There may be 8,000 species in the world.

The house centipede is a carnivore that feeds on cockroaches, house flies and other domestic pests. It is therefore beneficial. But because it has a scary appearance it is often exterminated.

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The German-speaking Community of Belgium (, short DGB) is one of the three federal communities in Belgium. It is the main part of the so-called East Cantons () of Belgium. It has an area of , and a population of over 73,000, of which almost 100% are German speaking (traditionally Ripuarian-speaking).

Its capital is Eupen; it is part of the province of Liège and borders on the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg.

The area was known as Eupen-Malmedy, and is now called the East Cantons. It is made up of the German-speaking Community and the municipalities of Malmedy and Waimes (Weismes), which belong to the French-Speaking Community of Belgium.

The East Cantons were part of the Rhine Province of Prussia in Germany until 1920 but were annexed by Belgium following Germany's defeat in World War I and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles. Thus they also became known as the cantons rédimés, "redeemed cantons". The peace treaty of Versailles demanded the "questioning" of the local population about their political status.

This was not a secret vote, and anyone who did not want to become Belgian had to register their full name and address. Many locals feared reprisals or even expulsion after enlisting.

In the mid-1920s the kingdom of Belgium seemed to want to sell the region back to Germany. The French government told the Belgians to stop the Belgian-German talks about the deal.

In 1940 the new cantons were retaken by Germany in World War II. They had only been in Belgium for 20 years, so the majority of people of the east cantons still thought of themselves as German. Following the defeat of Germany in 1945 the cantons were once again taken over by Belgium.

In the early 1960s Belgium was divided into four language areas, the Dutch speaking Flemish area, the French speaking area, the bilingual capital of Brussels, and the German speaking area of the east cantons. In 1973, three communities and three regions were established and granted internal autonomy. The legislative Parliament of the German-speaking Community, Rat der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, was set up. Today the German-speaking Community has a degree of self government, especially in language and cultural matters, but it still part of French speaking Wallonia.

Some people want the German-speaking Community to be its own region. One of these is the current Minister-President Karl-Heinz Lambertz.

Government
The German-speaking Community has its own government, which is appointed for five years by its parliament. The Government is headed by a Minister-President, who acts as the "prime minister" of the Community, and is assisted by the Ministry of the German-speaking Community. The government currently formed by four Ministers:
 Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Minister-President and Minister for District Authorities
 Bernd Gentges, Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Vocational Training and Employment, Social Policy and Tourism
 Oliver Paasch, Minister for Education and Research
 Isabelle Weykmans, Minister for Culture and Media, Monuments and Sites, Youth and Sport

Towns and cities in the German-speaking Community

 Amel
 Büllingen
 Burg-Reuland
 Bütgenbach
 Eupen
 Kelmis
 Lontzen
 Raeren
 Sankt Vith

Other websites
 Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Official site of the German-speaking Community in Belgium
 Parliament of the DG
 Official site of Karl-Heinz Lambertz, the current premier

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Pointless is a British quiz show on BBC One. Who gets the answer that was the said the least gains the point. The team with the highest number of points loses. It is presented by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman. It now has 10 series and many episodes. In each game there are four teams of two.

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Haaltert is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders.

In 2007, 17442 people lived there.

It is at 50° 54 North, 04° 00 East.

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Titanoboa cerrejonensis is the largest known snake.     Now extinct, the snake was a relative of the anaconda and the boa constrictor.  It was about 43 feet long (13 m), and weighed over a ton (about 1135 kg or 2,500 pounds).  The snake lived in the Palaeocene epoch, about 58 million years ago.  It ate crocodiles.

The fossil was found in an open-cast coal mine in Colombia, in 2009. Plant fossils at the site proved the climate at the time was a tropical rainforest. The site was in the Cerrejón Formation in La Guajira, Colombia. Other large reptile fossils have been found at this site.

Researchers found three skulls of the snake in 2002. A life-size replica is on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. It was sent on a world tour to be shown at various museums.

Habitat
Titanoboa is very similar to our modern-day green anaconda, living in swamps in the murky water, hiding and waiting for an unsuspecting animal to take a drink from the swamp, or preying on other aquatic animals. Titanoboa would be very slow and would not achieve much on dry land, which was its enemy, much like the green anacondas prefer the water as well. It probably could hold its breath underwater for about forty-five minutes, which is helpful for an aquatic ambush hunter.

Diet
Titanoboa's diet consisted mainly of crocodiles, as researchers found out, because of the abundance of crocodiles in the Cerrejón Formation alongside the titanoboa and several large, hard-shelled turtles that the snake could not consume. After eating a crocodile, titanoboa could go for a year without eating, as many modern-day snakes can do similarly with their rodents and such.

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PCP could mean:

In politics:
Partido Comunista del Peru, also known as Shining Path
Partido Comunista Paraguayo, Paraguayan Communist Party
Partido Comunista Peruano, Peruvian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Português, Portuguese Communist Party
Partido Comunista Puertorriqueño, Puerto Rican Communist Party
Partit Català Proletari, Proletarian Catalan Party
In science:
Phencyclidine, a recreational drug known by a number of street names including angel dust, supergrass, killer weed, sherm, embalming fluid, and rocket fuel.
PCP theorem, an important proof in computational complexity theory
Probabilistically checkable proof, a notion in the theory of computational complexity
Pentachlorophenol, timber preservative
Pneumocystis pneumonia, (formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia)
Post correspondence problem, an important problem in computability theory
Priority ceiling protocol, a computer science concept
Other:
Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception
Primary care paramedic
Primary care physician, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients
A song by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album The Holy Bible
Purple City Productions, a Harlem-based rap group
Put-call parity
 Pre-charged Pneumatic, an air-gun technology
 Pharmaceuticals & Consumer Products
 Plumbing Code of Practice
 WikiProject Pokémon, formally known as the Pokémon Collaborative Project

PCP


Single-payer health care is a system in which the government, rather than private insurers, pays for all health care costs.  Single-payer systems may contract for healthcare services from private organizations. The actual funding of a "single payer" system comes from all or a portion of the covered population. Although the fund holder is usually the state, some forms of single-payer use a mixed public-private system. This is practiced in Canada.

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Pauline Kael (; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American movie critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic.

Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" reviews. Legendary critic Roger Ebert said that Kael "had a more positive influence on the climate for film in America than any other single person over the last three decades".

Kael was born in Petaluma, California. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Kael died in Great Barrington, Massachusetts from Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.

References

Other websites

 Pauline Kael Archives, a collection of articles and commentary about Kael
 The Pearls of Pauline from Brights Lights Film Journal
 Interview magazine q&a Pauline Kael interviewed by Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill

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Le Vey is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.

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Nacton is a village and civil parish in Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England. In 2001 there were 672 people living in Nacton.

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A phosphate is a salt of phosphoric acid. Phosphates are important in biochemistry.
Phosphates have the formula PO43- and a molar mass of 94.973 g/mol. An example of a phosphate is sodium phosphate. Three different types of phosphates are known.  They are orthophosphate, PO43-; metaphosphate, PO32-; and pyrophosphate, P2O73-. They have a combining power of 3.

Structure
Phosphates are made of one phosphorus atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms.
Many phosphates do not dissolve in water.

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Greenville is a city of Kentucky in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 4,312 at the 2010 census.

History
The town was settled in 1799 on an estate donated by local landowner William Campbell in order to establish a seat of government for a new county. Greenville was not established by the state assembly until 1812, however. It was incorporated as a city in 1848.

The city was probably named for the Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Local lore holds it was named by Campbell's wife after the abundant forests seen from the town's hilltop location.

Geography
Greenville is located at  (37.207158, -87.176499).

Economy
The 1987 Encyclopedia of Kentucky refers to Greenville as "the unofficial capital of the Black Belt", a reference to the area's production of coal and dark tobacco.

Related pages
 Other places named Greenville

References

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Harbour Island or Harbor Island may be:

Harbor Island:
 Harbor Island, Newport Beach, California, United States
 Harbor Island, San Diego, California, United States
 Harbor Island, Potagannissing Bay, Michigan, United States
 Harbor Island (South Carolina) - one of the Sea Islands in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
 Harbor Island (Seattle), Washington, United States

Harbour Island:
 Harbour Island, Bahamas
 Harbour Island (Little Bay Islands), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
 Harbour Island (Ramea Island), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
 Harbour Island (Tampa), Florida, United States

Harbour Island


The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is an American computer animated television series. It was shown on the Nickelodeon television network until 2006 (with re-runs airing from April-June 2010 and again in January-May 2011) and currently on Nicktoons. It is a spinoff of the 2001 film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and later has its own spinoff starring Sheen Estevez called Planet Sheen which became its own series in October 2, 2010.

The series is about a young genius named Jimmy Neutron (James Isaac Neutron) who experiments with laboratory equipment which causes trouble to Retroville. He often has to undo the problems this creates.

Characters

Main characters
 Jimmy Neutron (James Isaac Neutron) is the main character of the series. He is a ten year old genius with an IQ of 210. His friends are Carl Wheezer and Sheen Estevez
 Goddard is Jimmy's mechanical canine pet. He helps him on his destructive tasks he has accidentally done to Retroville.
 Carl Wheezer (Carlton Ulysses Wheezer) is an overweight friend of Jimmy who is obsessed with llamas.
 Sheen Estevez (Ramon Guevera Estevez) is one of Jimmy's best friends who is hyperactive with very little attention span. He is obsessed with a character known as Ultra Lord-even going so far as to write the entire Ultra Lord website on the Internet!.
 Cindy Vortex (Cynthia Aurora Vortex) is Jimmy's rival and love interest. She constantly is rude to Jimmy and calls him stuff like "nerdtron". In the third and final season, they began to be with each other and love one another.

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Brunhilda (c. 534 – 613) was a Visigoth princess. Her father was King Athanagild of Spain. She married King Sigebert I of Austrasia. She ruled the eastern kingdoms of Austrasia and Burgundy in the names of her sons and grandsons. At first she was known as a fair and just ruler. She later became known for her cruelty and vengeful behavior.

Before her arrival to the Frankish kingdoms, Brunhilda was an Arian Christian, but later converted to Roman Catholicism. Brunhilda traveled to Austrasia to marry King Sigebert I. King Sigebert I's half brother, King Chilperic I married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. However, Galswintha was not happy, and wanted to go home and take back her dowry. King Chilperic refused, and murdered her. King Chilperic remmarried Fredegund, his first wife. Lots of tension was created between Fredegund and Brunhilda. In 575 C.E., King Sigebert was murdered by King Chilperic, and Brunhilda was exiled to Paris. Later, Brunhilda married Fredegund and Chilperic's son, Merovech. Brunhilda gained power, but Merovech and Brunhilda were split up by King Chilperic, and Brunhilda was exiled once more. In 585 C.E., King Chilperic died, believed to have been murdered by Fredegund. Fredegund started to favor Brunhilda. However, Brunhilda was caught by another of Fredegund and Chilperic’s sons, Chlotar II. She was blamed for the murder of ten kings, including her husband, children, grandchildren, Merovech, and Chilperic. She was found guilty (even though she was not) and put to death in a very gruesome way; she was tied to the back of a wild horse and dragged to her death.

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Terence Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada–May 31, 1970 in New York City, New York, United States) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, and New York Rangers.

Awards & Achievements
USHL Rookie of the Year (1948)
AHL Rookie of the Year (1949)
Calder Memorial Trophy Winner (1951)
NHL First All-Star Team (1951, 1952, & 1953)
NHL Second All-Star Team (1954, 1955, 1959, & 1963)
Vezina Trophy Winner (1952, 1953, 1955, & 1965)
Stanley Cup Championships (1952, 1954, 1955, & 1967)
Lester Patrick Trophy Winner (1971)
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1971
Inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1982
In 1998, he was ranked number 9 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, the highest-ranking goaltender
On March 6, 1994 the Detroit Red Wings retired his #1 jersey
Selected to Manitoba's All-Century First All-Star Team
Selected as Manitoba's Player of the Century
“Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame

Records
NHL Record - Career Ties Leader - 172
Sawchuk's NHL record for career shut-outs (103) stood for 39 years until broken by Martin Brodeur in 2009.

Career statistics

Regular season

Other websites

 Terry Sawchuk's biography at Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
Terry Sawchuk’s biography at Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
 Terry Sawchuk's biography at Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
 Picture of Terry Sawchuk's Name on the 1952 and 1954 Stanley Cup Plaques

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Lawrence Paul "Lightning" Libertore, Jr. (November 18, 1939 – December 25, 2017) was an American college football player and later Lakeland, Florida real-estate agent as well as a state legislator as a Democrat. He was born in Canton, Ohio. He played for the Florida from 1960 through 1962.

Larry served as a Florida State Representative from 1970 to 1974.

Libertore died on December 25, 2017 of an aortic aneurysm in Lakeland, Florida at the age of 78.

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Nu could mean:
 Nu, a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν
 Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
 NU (sound project)
 Nu (mythology), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
 Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger
 .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
 Nu people, a Chinese ethnic group
 Nu river or Salween River
 U Nu or Mr. Nu, a former Burmese prime minister
 Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa
 Nu Gundam, in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
 "Nu"? is a Yiddish word meaning "so?" now also absorbed into English meaning "so, what's happening?" or "so, what do you say?"

In universities:
 Naresuan University, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand
 Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York
 Northwestern University, an American research institution in Evanston, Illinois
 Northeastern University, an American research university in Boston, Massachusetts
 Norwich University, a private American military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont
 National University (Philippines), a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines

In other abbreviations:
 Nunavut (NU), the largest and newest territory in the territories of Canada
 Nahdatul Ulama (NU), an Islamic group in Indonesia
 Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
 Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
 Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.), Bhutan's official currency

In codes:
 Japan Transocean Air IATA airline designator
 Nicaragua NATO country code
 Niue ISO 3166 country code

In music:
 Nu metal, a fusion genre of Heavy Metal

Nu


The vulnerability index is a tool for finding out who among the street homeless population needs health care and housing the most. It is being used in more and more cities in the USA. Volunteeers conduct a survey of people living in homeless shelters, warming centers and people who do not have any housing at all.

The  vulnerability index is from the work of Dr. Jim O'Connell of Boston's Healthcare for the Homeless. He was concerned about the causes of death of unsheltered homeless individuals living on the street. A national drive is underway by Common Ground to  work with the HUD homeless count. Since communities are doing the count, he believes that is a good time to do the vulnerability index too. Its' people say that using it will help getting needy individuals off the street.

The vulnerability index has been tried out in a lot of other places not just the East Coast. These include Charlotte, North Carolina, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Santa Monica, California.

References

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Lagarde-Paréol is a commune of 297 people (1999). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.

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Lagarde-Paréol


Valea Mare (Hungarian: Nagypatak) is a commune in Covasna County, Romania. About 1,140 people lived in Valea Mare as of the year 2002.

Valea Mare
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Valea Mare, Covasna


David Lee Pearson KBE (born 4 February 1974) was a paralimpic champion on horse riding.
He won gold medals and played for England in Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London and Rio.

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Lee Pearson


The North Korea–United States summit was a planned meeting between the leaders of North Korea and the United States that took place on June 12, 2018 in Singapore.

The White House confirmed the meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un on 8 March 2018. This was the first time that a sitting U.S. President met the leader of North Korea since the Korean War.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that "in the meantime, all sanctions and maximum pressure must remain."

Kim talked about preparations for the meeting in remarks to the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea on April 9.

On May 10, Trump announced that the summit will be held on June 12, 2018 in Singapore.  It was announced after the release of 3 American hostages by North Korea.

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S Club, formerly S Club 7 and currently touring under the name S Club 3 and a bit are a British pop group. They formed in 1998 in London and split up in 2003. The group reunited in 2008 with Jo O'Meara, Bradley McIntosh and Paul Cattermole and was renamed S Club.

Discography

Studio albums
1994: S Club
1997: '7'
1999: Sunshine
2000: Seeing Double

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Sempach is a municipality of the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

It is the site of the Sempach Bird Observatory.

It is located on the Lake Sempach.

Steinibühlweiher is located above the town.

References

Other websites

 Official website
 Vogelwarte Sempach

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Sempach


Karl Spillman Forester (May 2, 1940 – March 29, 2014) was an American judge. He was the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He served from July 27, 1988 until his death in March 29, 2014. He was nominated by President of the United States Ronald Reagan.

Forester died in Lexington, Kentucky, aged 73.

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Dothan is a city and county seat of Houston County. The city has a population of about 65,000 people. Dothan has an area of about  and sits at a height of .

Other websites
City of Dothan web site
Dothan Chamber of Commerce

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Dothan, Alabama


The Greco–Persian Wars were a series of wars fought between Classical Greece and Persia's Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC. The struggle lasted 50 years, from 499–449.  Herodotus wrote a history of the war.  Fifty years before the war started, Cyrus the Great had conquered the Greek colonies on the western coast of Asia Minor, an area the Greeks called Ionia. The Persians put a tyrant in charge of each city or polis. About 530 BC Cyrus died in battle.

Aristagoras, the Tyrant of Miletus was on an expedition to conquer the island of Naxos with Persian support, but that was a failure, Arisagoras encouraged Ionia to rebel against the Persians, leading  them to the Ionian Revolt.  Aristagoras got support from Athens and Eretria, and together they burnt the Persian regional capital city, Sardis. The Persian king, now Darius the Great, vowed revenge.

The Battle of Marathon
When the Ionian Revolt was finally over, then the Greeks and the Persians decided to place their next battle on the plain of Marathon. The Greeks won the Battle of Marathon, because of Miltiades' brilliant strategy. His strategy was to weaken the middle of the group of soldiers but leave the sides with many soldiers. Of course the Persians charged for the middle, that had less soldiers, then the sides of the Greek army swept in surrounding the Persians.

List of main events
Ionian revolt 499–493 BC
First invasion of Greece 492–490
Battle of Marathon 490
Second invasion of Greece 480–479
Battle of Thermopylae 480
Battle of Artemisium 480
Battle of Salamis 480
Greek counter-attack 479–478
Battle of Plataea
Wars of the Delian League 477–449

Much of what is known of these wars comes from Herodotus.

Later wars
Although 449 BC saw the end of the wars started by the Ionian revolt, the two civilisations continued for more than a hundred years. The wars between Athens and Sparta allowed Persia to take back all she had lost in the Greco–Persian wars, until finally Alexander the Great put an end to the Achaemenid Empire. This is a brief summary of these later conflicts:

First Peloponnesian War (Sparta vs Athens): 460–445 BC
Second Peloponnesian War: 431–404
Persians join Sparta in return for Ionia.
Persian king Artaxerxes II demands return of Ionian cities.
Humiliating peace treaty follows.
Alexander the Great enters Asia and defeats the Persian king Darius III, ending his empire. 330 BC

References

Other websites

 The Persian Wars at History of Iran on Iran Chamber Society
 Batchelor, J. The Graeco-Persian Wars Compared. Clio History Journal, 2009.
 1320: Section 2: Herodotus and the Persian Wars

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Wiesław Ksawery Rudkowski (17 November 1946 – 14 February 2016) was a Polish boxer. He was born in Łódź. He competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, losing in the final against Dieter Kottysch.

Rudkowski died from a heart attack on 14 February 2016 in Warsaw. He was 69.

References

Other websites
 Wiesław Rudkowski Olympic results

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Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 war movie that was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and was directed by Henry King. Twelve O'Clock High was released on December 21, 1949 in Los Angeles and on January 26, 1950 in New York. The movie received positive reviews with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about a group of United States Marines. The movie follows aircrews that were in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force and flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The movie won 2 Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Dean Jagger), and Best Sound Recording.

Cast
Gregory Peck as Brigadier General Frank Savage
Hugh Marlowe as Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately
Gary Merrill as Colonel Keith Davenport
Millard Mitchell as Major General Pritchard
Dean Jagger as Major/Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
Robert Arthur as Sergeant McIllhenny
Paul Stewart as Major "Doc" Kaiser (flight surgeon)
John Kellogg as Major Cobb
Robert Patten as Lieutenant Bishop
Lee MacGregor as Lieutenant Zimmerman
Sam Edwards as Lieutenant Birdwell
Roger Anderson as Interrogation Officer
Lawrence Dobkin as Captain Twombley, group chaplain (uncredited)
Kenneth Tobey as Sgt. Keller, guard at gate (uncredited)
Paul Picerni as Bombardier (uncredited)
Harry Lauter as Radio officer (uncredited)
Barry Jones as Lord Haw-Haw, German radio commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Don Gordon as First patient in base hospital (uncredited)

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Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell  (5 March 1931 – 16 January 2020) was an Australian horn player. He spent most of his professional life in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Early life and education
Barry Tuckwell was born on 5 March 1931 in Melbourne.  His younger sister Patricia is a violinist and fashion model widely known as Bambi.  She married a photographer and later George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Tuckwell became a chorister at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney where he studied the piano, organ, and violin.  Then, at the age of 13, he started to learn the French horn.  After six months he was playing it professionally. He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Alan Mann, one of Australia's best known brass players.

Performing career

Orchestral

At 15, he was given the job of third horn with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. A year later, he joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra which was conducted by  Eugene Goossens, where he remained for three and a half years before leaving for England.  His first appointment in 1951 was with the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli.  After two years, he went to the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Karl Rankl and a year later to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves. In 1955, he was appointed first horn with the London Symphony Orchestra.

He spent 13 years with the LSO, which is a co-operative orchestra (the players themselves make decisions about how the orchestra should be run). He was elected to the Board of Directors and was Chairman of the Board for six years. The chief conductors during this time were Josef Krips, Pierre Monteux, István Kertész and André Previn.

Soloist

Tuckwell left the orchestra in 1968 and spent the rest of his career performing as a soloist and conductor.  He became very famous, making
over 50 recordings and receiving three Grammy Award nominations.  In 1962 he formed a trio with Brenton Langbein (violin) and Maureen Jones (piano) for a performance of the Horn Trio by Don Banks, which was commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival. The trio played together for many years, playing music by Johannes Brahms, Charles Koechlin and others.  He also played in a wind quintet and was known as a conductor.

Many composers have written works for Barry Tuckwell.  They include concertos by Oliver Knussen, Don Banks, Gunther Schuller, Robin Holloway, and Thea Musgrave.  Richard Rodney Bennett wrote "Acteon" for horn and large orchestra for him.

Writings

Barry Tuckwell has written three important books on the horn and horn playing. For the Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, he wrote the book on the horn. He wrote an excellent book on Playing the Horn as well as Fifty First Exercises.

Teaching

Tuckwell is famous for his teaching.  He has been Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College and Pomona College in the USA, and he was Professor of Horn at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1963 until 1974. He taught at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore in the 1980s and 1990s. He was Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and has for several years hosted the annual Barry Tuckwell Institute at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Death
Tuckwell died on 17 January 2020 in Melbourne from cardiovascular disease at the age of 88.

Awards and honours
Barry Tuckwell has received many honours, including the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1992.

References

Bibliography

Other websites
 http://www.barrytuckwellinstitute.com/

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Oeschenbach is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

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Listen could mean:
Listen Media Player
A listen server, a type of game server
Project LISTEN, developing speech recognition reading tutorial software

In music

Albums
 Listen (album) - by A Flock of Seagulls, 1983
 Listen (Jordan Rudess album) - by Jordan Rudess, 1993
 Listen  - by Michelle Tumes, 1998
 Listen: The Very Best Of - by Herbs, 2002
 Listen (TQ album) - by Terrance Quaites, 2004
 Listen (C21 album) - by C21, 2004
 Listen... - by Monkey Gone Mad, 2005

Songs
 Listen (song) - by Beyoncé, 2006
 Listen!!! - by Talib Kweli, 2006

Listen


Scholasticism is a way of thinking and teaching knowledge. It was developed in the Middle Ages. It started when people wanted to bring together what is called classical philosophy with the teachings of
Christian theology. Classical philosophy is the philosophy developed in Ancient Greece.
Scholasticism is not a philosophy or a theology, but rather a way of teaching and learning. Scholasticism emphasises the use of dialectic. The main purpose of dialectic is to find an answer to a question, or to show that a contradiction can be resolved.

Scholasticism was started by people like Saint Ambrose and St. Augustine. They tried to use philosophy to help explain the doctrine and mysteries of the church. Ambrose and Augustine were among the first Church fathers who brought Christian ideas and Greek philosophy together.

The main figures of scholasticism were Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Bonaventure and, most importantly, Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica is an ambitious synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian doctrine.

In the 13th century, the teachings of Aristotle were considered more important than those of Plato. Scholastic education was very much based on written texts, and with arguments for and against ideas in those texts. In this way it differed greatly from modern science, which is based on observations from nature. In Aristotle the scholastics chose someone who was himself quite an original investigator of the natural world. But the scholastics themselves dealt almost entirely with the world in manuscripts written in two ancient languages. One was in Latin, the language of the Vulgate Bible and the other was Ancient Greek. Greek opened the doors to the writings of the Greek philosophers in their own language, at least so far as their works survived. The motto of Boethius “As far as you are able, join faith to reason” reminds us that all scholastics were mediaeval Christians. Their main concern was to see how the Greek ideas could be fitted into their religious view of the world.

Other websites
 "Scholasticism". In Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

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The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland  is an animated movie from 1987, released by Cineplex Odeon Films. It is the last big-screen movie to star the Care Bears characters, and is loosely based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland stories.

This movie has a sequel called Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986).

Other websites

NYTimes.com review (registration required)
Lyrics to the movie's soundtrack at Distant Melody

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Florence and the Machine (also written as Florence + the Machine), is an English rock band that is a recording name of Florence Welch and a collaboration of other artists who provide backing music for her voice. Musically, Florence and the Machine's sound is generally referred to as soul-inspired indie rock. Florence and the Machine's music has received praise across the music media, especially from the BBC. This is because the BBC played a large part in Florence and the Machine's rise to prominence by promoting her as part of BBC Introducing. This led to the band playing at a number of music festivals in 2008, including Glastonbury as well as Reading and Leeds and T in the Park. The band's debut album, Lungs was released on 6 July 2009. It held the number 2 position for its first five weeks in the charts, behind Michael Jackson. The album has now been in the top 40 UK charts for 22 consecutive weeks.

Florence Welch
Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986 in London) is the daughter of Evelyn and Nick Welch. Evelyn Welch is a Professor of Renaissance Studies and Academic Dean for Arts at Queen Mary, University of London and author and formerly a Studio 54 regular. Nick Welch works in advertising. Welch says she is prone to "falling into severe holes” that leave her crying on the floor. Welch has been diagnosed with dyslexia and dysmetria.  Welch would like to have a career similar to PJ Harvey and Björk who are "constantly creating new exciting stuff". When she was 13, Welch found comfort in the music of Hole, Nirvana, Green Day, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, The Velvet Underground and Celine Dion. As a teenager she was the frontwoman for Toxic Cockroaches and Ashok. Feeling she was in "the wrong band" she got out of a contract with Ashok by resigning.

The Machine
Welch said that "The name Florence and the Machine started off as a private joke that got out of hand. I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought "Okay, I'll be Florence Robot is a Machine", before realizing that name was so long it'd drive me mad". In 2006 Welch's performances in small London venues as "Florence Robot is a Machine"  began to attract notice.

The Machine is Florence's backing band. This is currently made up of Robert Ackroyd (guitar), Christopher Lloyd Hayden (drums), Isabella Summers ('Isabella Machine') (keyboards) and Tom Monger (harp). Previously Devonte Hynes (Lightspeed Champion and Test Icicles) was also a member.

Florence and the Machine are managed by Mairead Nash. Nash is one half of the DJ outfit Queens of Noize.

Touring
Florence and the Machine were part of the 2009 Shockwaves NME Awards tour. Welch said that she planned a "pretty theatrical" performance.

The group played at the Concerts for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity event at the Royal Albert Hall in March 2009. Florence and The Machine also supported Blur for their 26 June comeback performance at the MEN Arena in Manchester, and supported Duran Duran in July 2009.

The group performed at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Electric Picnic in County Laois, Ireland and the T in the Park festival. On October 27 the group played its first official New York City show and appeared on the television programmes Late Night With David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

Welch has said that she would like to tour the United States. However, she is fearful of becoming homesick due to the length of time it would take to tour the country.

On New Year's Eve 2009, the group appeared on the pre-recorded New Year's Eve celebration show Hootenanny. On the show, they performed "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" and "Dog Days Are Over". Welch then performed a cover of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" with Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

Critical acclaim
Florence and the Machine have gained a large amount of support from NME magazine who included them in their annual NME Awards Tour for 2009. They supported White Lies, Friendly Fires and Glasvegas on the tour. The Times described her as "the most peculiar and most highly acclaimed female singer of the moment" and "the latest in a line of great English pop eccentrics". Allmusic described Lungs as "one of the most musically mature and emotionally mesmerizing albums of 2009".Spin Magazine gave Lungs four out of five possible stars and wrote, "You’ve gotta hand it to the girl: She always makes you feel something". The magazine named the album as the 8th best of 2009.

Welch appeared on the front cover of The Guide subsection to The Guardian. She also collected the Critics' Choice Award at the BRIT Awards in February 2009. Florence and the Machine came third in the BBC's Sound of 2009. In 2009 she covered Beyoncé's song "Halo" on the BBC1 Live Lounge; host Jo Whiley stated that it was one of the best covers they have ever had in the Live Lounge. The BBC also used "You Got The Love" as the backing music to its Jenson Button Formula One 2009 season review video montage and it was used in the final episode of Gavin and Stacey.

Awards

Brit Awards

Grammy Awards

MTV

MTV Europe Music Awards

MTV Video Music Awards

Other awards

UK festival Awards 2009
Anthem of Summer - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Nominated
Best Breakthrough Act - Winner
Festival Fitty of the Year - Girls - Nominated
First in the 2009 BRITs Critics' Choice section.
Third in the BBCs Sound of 2009. This was a poll voted for by a select group of insiders from all sectors of the music industry.
Florence and The Machine's debut album Lungs was nominated for the 2009 Mercury Prize.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Promotional singles

Other charted songs

EPs
 A Lot of Love. A Lot of Blood (28 April 2009, 12")
 iTunes Festival: London 2010 (21 July 2010)
 iTunes Live from SoHo (16 November 2010)

Music videos

References

Other websites

Hearty magazine interview
Official website

BBC Artist page
2008 Run-Riot interview
NME Artists page
Florence and the Machine Interview on God Is In The TV Zine
Nick Welsh interview – The Daily Mail
Dazed Digital feature on the music video for Drumming Song
Florence photographed for Dummymag.com, August 2009
Florence & The Machine live review at Manchester Academy

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Charles C. "Hondo" Campbell (1948 – February 8, 2016) was an American general. He was the 17th Commanding General in the United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). He previously served as FORSCOM’s Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff from April 26, 2006 to January 8, 2007. He assumed his Commanding General assignment January 9, 2007, and completed it June 3, 2010. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Campbell died in Shreveport on February 8, 2016, from a heart attack. He was aged 68.

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Sit Down, Shut Up is an animated television sitcom that aired from April 19, 2009 to November 21, 2009 on Fox. It originally aired on the "Animation Domination" block, but was removed and put on Saturdays at midnight. It was based on the Australian series which had the same name.

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Sit Down, Shut Up (American TV series)


Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 - August 26, 1968) was an American actress. She first performed on Broadway. She was in many movies. She was the number one movie star at Warner Brothers. Frances was born in Oklahoma City. She died from breast cancer in New York City.

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Raab is a market town in Upper Austria. The area of Raab is .

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Richmond is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island. It is in the southwestern region. At the 2010 census, 7,708 people lived in Richmond. In 2015, 7,635 people lived in the town. There are several villages in the town.

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Richmond, Rhode Island


Harads is a locality in Boden Municipality in Norrbotten County in Sweden. It is located approximately 50 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle. In 2010, 501 people lived there.

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Harads


Pleasant Valley is a community in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Pleasant Valley (town), New York


"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band.
The song is a protest about the Vietnam War in 1969. It has become a Christmas standard and has appeared on several Christmas albums.

Notable cover versions
 Céline Dion covered the song on her 1998 album These Are Special Times.
 The Corrs included a live version as a bonus track on the Live in London DVD (2001).
 Sarah McLachlan led off her 2006 Christmas album Wintersong with a cover of this song.
 Maroon 5 recorded a cover version in 2007.
 Drake Bell sang it live in Times Square, NYC to welcome in the new year, 2007.
 *NSYNC recorded a cover version for one of their albums.
 Sarah Brightman recorded her own version as a bonus track for her album A Winter Symphony.
 Thrice, an experimental rock band, has recorded their own version of the song.
 The melody was used during the early 1990s as a musical commercial to promote tourism to Jamaica.

Category:1971 songs
Category:John Lennon
Category:Christmas music

Happy Xmas (War Is Over)


Nagapattinam district is the only district in India to be discontinuous or separated  into two parts. This district is located on Tamil Nadu, India. Nagapattinam district was carved out by dividing the Thanjavur district on 1991, October 19.In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Nagapattinam district one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total 640 Indian districts).

Nagapattinam district is one of the six districts of 32 districts in Tamil Nadu currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).According to 2011 census of India, Nagapattinam district had a population of 1,616,450 with a sex-ratio of 1,025 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.

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Nagapattinam district