Events

Up to 1900
 192 - Narcissus murders Roman Emperor Commodus.
 406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning the invasion of Gaul.
 1225 – The Ly Dynasty in Vietnam ends after 216 years, as Tran Thai Tong, still a boy, becomes Emperor. This is the beginning of the Tran Dynasty.
 1472 – The throwing of snowballs is banned in Amsterdam.
 1494 - First Italian War: Troops of King Charles VIII of France enter Rome.
 1600 – The British East India Company is created.
 1660 - James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
 1687 - The first Huguenots set sail from France for the Cape of Good Hope.
 1695 - Window tax is introduced in England. As a result, many people brick up their windows in order not to have to pay the tax.
 1703 – An earthquake and tsunami damage Tokyo, Odawara and several nearby towns, killing around 10,000 people.
 1720 – A storm flood ravages the North German coast, separating a dune on Heligoland from the main island.
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
 1790 - Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper still in print, is published for the first time.
 1796 - Baltimore, Maryland, is incorporated as a city.
 1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.
 1862 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Act creating the state of West Virginia and thus splitting Virginia in two.
 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River in Tennessee begins.
 1862 - The battleship USS Monitor sinks in a storm in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
 1872 – The Albert Bridge opens in London. Named after Albert, Prince Consort, the bridge spans the Thames and links Chelsea and Battersea.
 1878 - In Mannheim, Germany, Karl Benz files a patent on his reliable two-stroke gas engine.
 1879 – Thomas Edison publicly demonstrates incandescent light in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
 1891 – A new immigration depot is opened on Ellis Island, New York.

1901  2000
 1904 – What is now Times Square, New York, holds its first New Year celebration.
 1909 – The Manhattan Bridge is opened.
 1917 - British troop transporter Osmanieh hits a mine laid by German U-boat UC 34 off Alexandria, Egypt, sinking with 99 deaths.
 1923 – The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben in London for the first time.
 1929 - The Glen Cinema Disaster in Paisley, Scotland, kills 70 children.
 1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.
 1946 – President of the United States Harry S. Truman officially declares an end to hostilities in World War II.
 1948 - The 100,000th landing of the Berlin Airlift occurs.
 1951 - The Marshall Plan expires after giving over $ 13.3 billion to help war-torn parts of Europe.
 1955 - General Motors becomes the first US Corporation to make over a billion US Dollars in a year.
 1960 - The farthing coin stops being the legal tender in the United Kingdom.
 1963 – The Central African Federation officially breaks apart, and eventually becomes Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
 1964 – A three-day census in East Germany ends, determining the population to be 17,003,632.
 1965 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa leads a coup against David Dacko in the Central African Republic.
 1968 – Marien Ngouabi becomes President of the Republic of the Congo.
 1973 - AC/DC is formed.
 1981 – In a military coup in Ghana, Jerry Rawlings takes control.
 1983 – A military coup in Nigeria is led by Muhammadu Buhari.
 1986 – In San Juan, Puerto Rico a fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel kills 97 people.
 1987 – Robert Mugabe becomes President of Zimbabwe.
 1988 - Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux becomes the only NHL player, to this date, to score goals in five different ways - even strength, shorthand, power play, penalty shot and empty net, in an 8-6 win over the New Jersey Devils.
 1989 – Arved Fuchs and Reinhold Messner reach the South Pole on their cross-Antarctica journey.
 1990 – Garry Kasparov successfully defends his world chess title against Anatoly Karpov.
 1991 – The Soviet Union officially comes to an end.
 1992 – Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolves, splitting into the Czech Republic and Slovakia the next day.
 1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati, as the International Date Line is shifted to the east of the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands.
 1999 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia.
 1999 – The Panama Canal is transferred from US control to Panama's control.

From 2001
 2004 – The Taipei 101 tower is opened in Taipei, Taiwan.
 2006 - The total of US troops killed in the Iraq War reaches 3,000.
 2009 – In Espoo, Finland, Ibrahim Shkupolli shoots his former girlfriend dead, then shoots four people to death at a shopping mall before committing suicide.
 2009 – The Ignalina power station in Lithuania is shut down.
 2014 - The first same-sex marriages in Scotland take place.
 2014 - US and UK forces withdraw from Afghanistan.
 2014 - Beji Caid Essebsi becomes President of Tunisia.
 2014 - A crush at a New Year celebration in Shanghai kills 36 people.
 2015 - Fire breaks out at a hotel near the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
 2016 - Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill at least 28 people.
 2017 - A bus crash near Migaa, Kenya, kills at least 36 people.

Births

Up to 1900
 695 – Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi, founded Islam in South Asia (d. 715)
 1378 – Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
 1491 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
 1499 - Diane de Poitiers (d. 1566)
 1514 - Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
 1572 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (d. 1617)
 1585 - Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, Spanish military leader and politician (d. 1645)
 1668 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)
 1720 – Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)
 1738 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)
 1741 – Isabella Maria of Parma (d. 1763)
 1798 - Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist and academic (d. 1850)
 1815 - George G. Meade, American general and engineer (d. 1872)
 1830 – Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895)
 1830 - Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1861)
 1838 - Emile Loubet, President of France (d. 1929)
 1842 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (d. 1931)
 1844 - Ebe W. Tunnell, Governor of Delaware (d. 1917)
 1846 - Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Dutch politician (d. 1919)
 1855 – Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912)
 1857 - King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)
 1860 - Berthold Lasker, German chess player (d. 1928)
 1863 – Alfredo Panzini, Italian writer (d. 1939)
 1864 - Hans am Ende, German painter (d. 1918)
 1864 - Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (d. 1951)
 1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
 1874 - Julius Meier, German-American politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (d. 1937)
 1877 – Viktor Dyk, Czech poet, dramatist and politician (d. 1931)
 1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (d. 1966)
 1878 – Horacio Quiroga, Argentine-Uruguayan writer (d. 1937)
 1880 – George Marshall, 50th United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
 1880 - Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957)
 1881 – Max Pechstein, German painter (d. 1955)
 1884 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (d. 1964)
 1885 - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970)
 1899 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (d. 1940)

1901  1950
 1901 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
 1903 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1992)
 1904 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (d. 1975)
 1905 - Jules Styne, American songwriter (d. 1994)
 1905 - Guido Mollet, Prime Minister of France (d. 1975)
 1908 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005)
 1909 - Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2000)
 1910 - Archie M. Gubbrud, Governor of South Dakota (d. 1987)
 1914 - Yrjö Nikkanen, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1985)
 1918 - Ray Graves, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
 1919 - Recy Taylor, American rape victim and civil rights activist (d. 2017)
 1924 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, Norwegian media personality (d. 2015)
 1924 – Taylor Mead, American actor (d. 2013)
 1928 - Hugh McElhenny, American football player
 1928 – Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player (d. 2012)
 1928 - Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (d. 2015)
 1928 - Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
 1929 - Mies Bouwman, Dutch entertainer (d. 2018)
 1930 - Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
 1931 - George Ardisson, Italian actor (d. 2014)
 1931 - Tom Rolf, Swedish-American film editor (d. 2014)
 1931 – Mildred Scheel, German physician, cancer campaigner and First Lady (d. 1985)
 1934 - Michael Bonallack, English golfer
 1935 – Peter Herbolzheimer, German musician (d. 2010)
 1935 - King Salman of Saudi Arabia
 1936 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer
 1936 - Umaru Dikko, Nigerian politician (d. 2014)
 1937 – Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist
 1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
 1937 - Carl Emil Christiansen, Danish footballer (d. 2018)
 1938 – Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995)
 1938 - Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician (d. 1977)
 1939 - Peter Camejo, American politician (d. 2008)
 1940 - Tim Considine, American actor
 1941 – Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
 1941 - Sean S. Cunningham, American movie director and writer
 1941 - Sarah Miles, English actress
 1942 - Taufiq Kiemas, First Gentleman of Indonesia (d. 2013)
 1942 – Andy Summers, British guitarist
 1943 – Ben Kingsley, British actor
 1943 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
 1943 - Pete Quaife, British musician (d. 2010)
 1944 – Taylor Hackford, American director and producer
 1945 - Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
 1946 - Lyudmila Pakhamova, Soviet ice dancer (d. 1986)
 1946 - Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and translator (d. 2014)
 1947 - Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboardist
 1947 - Tim Matheson, American actor
 1948 – Donna Summer, American disco singer (d. 2012)
 1948 - Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer (d. 2014)
 1948 - Joe Dallesandro, American actor
 1948 - Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut

1951  1975
 1951 – Tom Hamilton, American bassist (Aerosmith)
 1954 – Alex Salmond, Scottish politician, 4th First Minister of Scotland
 1954 – Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit designer
 1954 – Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, Icelandic politician
 1956 - Robert Goodwill, English politician
 1958 – Bebe Neuwirth, American actress
 1959 – Baron Waqa, Nauruan musician and politician, President of Nauru
 1959 – Val Kilmer, American actor
 1959 – Paul Westerberg, American musician
 1960 – Steve Bruce, English footballer
 1960 – John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (d. 2009)
 1961 - Rick Aguilera, American baseball player
 1961 - Jeremy Heywood, English economist and civil servant
 1963 - Scott Ian, American guitarist
 1964 - Michael McDonald, American actor and comedian
 1965 – Gong Li, Chinese actress
 1965 – Nicholas Sparks, American writer
 1966 - Lisa Joyner, American journalist and actress
 1970 – Bryon Russell, American basketball player
 1972 – Grégory Coupet, French footballer
 1974 – Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist

From 1976
 1976 - Matthew Hoggard, English cricketer
 1977 - Psy, South Korean rapper
 1977 - Donald Trump Jr., son of Donald Trump
 1979 – Bob Bryar, drummer in My Chemical Romance
 1980 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
 1980 – Fumie Suguri, Japanese figure skater
 1981 – Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian athlete
 1981 - Nathan Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
 1982 – Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
 1984 – Corey Crawford, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 1984 - Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer
 1986 - Bronson Pelletier, Canadian actor
 1987 - Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
 1987 - Emilie Le Pennec, French gymnast
 1990 – Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater
 1991 - Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player
 1995 - Gabrielle Douglas, American gymnast

Deaths

Up to 1900
 192 – Commodus, Roman Emperor (b. 161)
 335 – Saint Silvester, Pope and Saint whose day is marked on December 31
 669 - Li Shiji, Chinese chancellor (b. 594)
 1164 – Margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
 1194 – Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)
 1302 - Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
 1384 – John Wyclif, English theologian (b. 1328)
 1460 - Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (b. 1400)
 1510 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
 1568 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (b. 1493)
 1650 – Dorgon, Emperor of China (b. 1612)
 1679 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
 1705 - Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)
 1719 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
 1742 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
 1830 - Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, French writer (b. 1746)
 1857 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (b. 1799)
 1865 - Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer (b. 1801)
 1872 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer (b. 1834)
 1876 - Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
 1877 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819)
 1882 - Léon Gambetta, French politician (b. 1838)
 1888 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, rabbi (b. 1808)
 1894 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (b. 1856)

1901  2000
 1905 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
 1936 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer, philosopher (b. 1864)
 1948 – Malcolm Campbell, English Grand Prix race car driver (b. 1885)
 1950 – Karl Renner, President of Austria (b. 1870)
 1964 – Olafur Thors, five-time Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892)
 1964 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (b. 1884)
 1969 – George Lewis, jazz musician (b. 1900)
 1972 – Roberto Clemente, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1934)
 1972 - Henry Gerber, German-American activist (b. 1892)
 1977 – Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1924)
 1980 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
 1980 – Raoul Walsh, movie director (b. 1887)
 1985 – Ricky Nelson, American singer (b. 1940)
 1989 - Gerhard Schröder, German politician (b. 1910)
 1990 – Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
 1993 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia (b. 1939)
 1993 – Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972)
 1994 – Bruno Pezzey, Austrian footballer (b. 1955)
 1997 – Floyd Cramer, musician (b. 1933)
 1997 – Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado (b. 1958).
 1999 – Elliot Richardson, American politician (b. 1920)
 2000 – Alan Cranston, American politician (b. 1914)
 2000 – José Greco, Spanish Flamenco dancer (b. 1918)

From 2001
 2003 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born American scientist and professor at MIT (b. 1898)
 2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist (b. 1921)
 2006 – Liese Prokop, Austrian politician (b. 1941)
 2007 – Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect (b. 1917)
 2008 – Donald E. Westlake, American writer (b. 1933)
 2009 - Rashidi Kawawa, former Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1926)
 2009 - Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and archbishop (b. 1917)
 2010 – Syd Ward, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1907)
 2013 - John Fortune, English comedian (b. 1939)
 2013 - Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 2013 - James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)
 2014 - Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, English aristocrat and army officer (b. 1915)
 2014 - Edward Herrmann, American actor (b. 1943)
 2015 - Marvin Panch, American racing driver (b. 1926)
 2015 - Dal Richards, Canadian big band leader (b. 1918)
 2015 - Wayne Rogers, American actor (b. 1933)
 2015 - Natalie Cole, American singer (b. 1950)
 2015 - Beth Howland, American actress (b. 1941)
 2016 - William Christopher, American actor (b. 1932)
 2016 - Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince (b. 1926)
 2016 - Henning Christophersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)
 2017 - Prince François, Count of Clermont, French nobleman, self-styled Dauphin of France (b. 1961)

Holidays
 New Year's Eve, including Hogmanay (Scotland) and Calennig (Wales)
 St. Sylvester's Day

Category:Days of the year

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 2017 American swashbuckler comedy action film. It is the fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series and the sequel to On Stranger Tides (2011). The movie is directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg from a script by Jeff Nathanson, with Jerry Bruckheimer serving again as producer. Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Kevin McNally reprise their roles as Jack Sparrow, Hector Barbossa and Joshamee Gibbs. It has Javier Bardem playing the main villain, Spanish ghost pirate Captain Salazar, Brenton Thwaites playing Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann's son Henry Turner, Kaya Scodelario playing Barbossa's secret daughter Carina Smyth with Paul McCartney make a guest apparicion playing Jack Sparrow's Uncle Jack. Orlando Bloom reprise his role of Will Turner who appear at the start and the ending of the film, additionally Keira Knightley make a silent  cameo (despite is a important cameo) at the end of the film reprising her role of Elizabeth Swann.

It was released in conventional, Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats on May 26, 2017, and has grossed over $285 million worldwide.

Cast
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow
Javier Bardem as Armando Salazar
Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa
Brenton Thwaites as Henry Turner
Kaya Scodelario as Carina Smyth
Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs
Golshifteh Farahani as Shansa
David Wenham as Lieutenant John Scarfield
Stephen Graham as Scrum
Orlando Bloom as Will Turner
Keira Knightley as Elisabeth Swann

Sequel
A sixth film will start the production in 2020 with Ronning back to direct while Ted Elliott, first four film's co-writer, and Craig Mazin will write the screenplay but it's for now unconfirmed Depp's presence.

References

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It's Garry Shandling's Show is an American sitcom. It is about the everyday life of Garry Shandling (portraying a fictionalized version of himself). It aired from 1986-1990.

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Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,880. The county seat is West Union.

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Unitarian Universalism is a religion which encourages liberalism and an individual search for truth. It includes many spiritual paths. Its adherents have a pluralistic approach to faith hence may be atheists, agnostics, ignostics, deists, pagans, humanists, polytheists, or monotheists. A common tenet or doctrine within this religion is bodily integrity, self-ownership and individual autonomy. Unitarian Universalist places of worship are called congregations. The religion accepts differences and there is no holy book, dogma, or doctrine. Instead, the adherents are guided by seven principles:
 1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
 2nd Principle: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
 3rd Principle: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
 4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
 5th Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
 6th Principle: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
 7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
The seat of Unitarian Universalism in the United States is in Boston, MA.

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This is a list of islands of Germany.

Largest islands

Islands in the Baltic Sea
 Fehmarn
 Poel
 Walfisch island
 Langenwerder
 Hiddensee
 Rügen
 Dänholm
 Vilm
 Greifswalder Oie
 Ruden
 Ummanz
 Usedom

Islands in the North Sea
 Helgoland
 East Frisian Islands (in the Wadden Sea)
 Borkum
 Buise (former island, disappeared)
 Lütje Hörn
 Kachelotplate
 Memmert
 Juist
 Norderney
 Baltrum
 Langeoog
 Spiekeroog
 Wangerooge
 Mellum
 Neuwerk
 Scharhörn
 North Frisian Islands
 Sylt
 Föhr
 Amrum
 Pellworm
 Nordstrand (former island, now peninsula)
 Halligen (also part of North Frisian Islands)
 Langeneß
 Norderoog
 Süderoog
 Nordstrandischmoor
 Oland (German island)
 Südfall
 Gröde-Appelland
 Hooge
 Hallig Habel
 Hamburger Hallig

Islands in the Elbe River
 Lühesand

Islands in the Weser River
 Harriersand

Islands in the Lake Constance
 Mainau Island
 Reichenau Island
 Lindau

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Proposition 8 is an initiative passed in California on November 4, 2008 that banned same-sex marriage.  The measure passed by 52% to 48%. It changed California's Constitution by adding a section that says, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."  The law was in response to a judge's ruling that gay marriage was legal under the California state Constitution.  The campaign to pass Proposition 8 was mostly paid for by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Proposition 8 is controversial and is being debated in court. On August 4, 2010, Judge Vaughn Walker in the United States District Court made a ruling that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional and should be overturned. This would make same-sex marriage legal again in California, however, Judge Walker issued a stay of execution, so that those in favor of Proposition 8 could legal appeal.

The appeal of the case went to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On February 7, 2012, the judges in this court agreed with Judge Walker that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional. However they also issued a stay of execution, so that their ruling could be appealed to the United States Supreme Court.

Those in favor of Proposition 8 appealed to the Supreme Court on July 30, 2012. On December 7, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to judge the case. The Supreme Court will issue a final ruling on the case in 2013.

There are several possible outcomes:
 The Supreme Court could agree with the lower courts, which would force Proposition 8 to be cancelled and would allow same-sex marriage to resume in California.
 The Court could also disagree with the lower courts, in which case Proposition 8 would remain law.
 The Court could rule that the supporters of Proposition 8 didn't have the right to bring the case to the Supreme Court, in which case the lower court ruling would stand, and Proposition 8 would also be overturned.

Depending on exactly how the Supreme Court rules, Proposition 8 could be overturned in California only, or all other laws against same-sex marriage in the United States could be overturned as well.

References

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Alberto Górriz (born 16 February, 1958) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Real Sociedad and Spain national team.

Club career statistics

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Delta-v, or Δv, (literally, the change in speed) in astrodynamics, (how spacecraft move in space) is a measure of the amount of effort (pushing power) needed to change a craft's trajectory (how it's going to move from now on) in space. It is measured by a unit of speed.

Most of the time, a propellant burned by an engine provides the needed thrust.

Delta-v is calculated in meters per second of thrust, or m/s.

For example, to reach Low Earth orbit, (LEO) a spacecraft generally needs about 9,300 to 10,000 m/s of thrust.

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Plastic surgery is a surgery that is done to change the way a person's body looks or works. Some plastic surgeries can change both. Work can be done on someone's bones, cartilage, muscles, fat, and skin.

The two most common forms of Plastic Surgery are Reconstruction (fixing body parts that have been damaged) and Cosmetic (changing size shape or color of body parts without fixing damage). An example of reconstructive plastic surgery is fixing a part of the body that has been burned. An example of cosmetic plastic surgery is a surgery called a "Face-Lift" (pulling the skin of the face tight so that someone looks younger).

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Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller movie starring Bruce Willis. It is the first movie in a series, and was followed by Die Hard 2.

Plot
The movie is set on Christmas Eve at the Nakatomi building in Los Angeles, California. NYPD officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) is flying in from New York to meet his wife Holly during the Nakatomi’s annual Christmas party. While there, they get into an argument over Holly's choice to use her maiden name instead of her married name. Shortly afterwards, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) invade the building and take all the people hostages. They want the bearer bonds in the building ' s vault and ask the CEO, Joseph Takgai, for the access code to the first barrier. When he says no, Gruber shoots and kills him.

McClane witnesses Gruber killing Takagi and tries to get help. He pulls a fire alarm, but the terrorists find out and reverse the alarm. Gruber then sends a man named Tony to find whoever pulled the alarm. In the ensuring battle, McClane snaps Tony's neck and takes his machine gun. He then puts the dead man in an elevator and pushes buttons so that it stops on the floor where the partygoers are being held. Upon finding Tony, Gruber sends more men to find him. After killing two more of Gruber's men, McClane finds and takes some detonators.

On the rooftop, McClane radios for help. The dispatchers send a patrol car in. Just as the police officer is about to leave, McClane drops the body of a dead terrorist on his patrol car. The LAPD arrive. They send in a tank and four SWAT team members, but Gruber's men beat back both attacks. When Gruber ignores McClane's request to stop attacking, McClane takes some C4 explosives and blows up part of the building.

Holly's co-worker Harry then tries to talk to the terrorists. He tries to get McClane to give up the detonators, but when he refuses, Gruber shoots and kills Harry. Shortly afterwards, McClane finds Gruber, who was trying to check the explosives. Gruber fakes an American accent, throwing McClane off. As they talk, Gruber's men show up and shoot out the glass. McClane injures his feet severely as he tries to walk across the floor and loses the detonators in the process.

The FBI arrives and orders the building's power to be cut. Gruber informs the FBI that he wants two helicopters and he will escort the hostages to the top of the building. The power outage opens up the final locks on the building's vault, where Gruber scoops up the bonds. The FBI plans to send gunships to kill the terrorists, but Gruber had lined the top of the building with explosives and plans to blow it up to cover his escape.

A reporter named Richard Thornberg manages to interview McClane's children. Gruber, seeing this on TV, realizes that Holly is McClane's wife and takes her hostage. McClane finds the explosives and realizes what Gruber is up to. However, Gruber's man Karl finds him and they engage in a vicious hand-to-hand combat. McClane leaves Karl for dead and rushes up to the top of the building. He and forces the hostages to go back down into the building. The FBI fires at him. Gruber blows up the top of the building. McClane ties a fire hose around his waist and jumps off the building.

McClane finally meets Gruber one last time. He tricks him by throwing his gun down and then using another gun to shoot Gruber. Gruber falls out of the building, nearly taking Holly with him. McClane unties her watch and Gruber falls to his death. Afterwards, they go home in a limo.

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The Animal Rights Militia (ARM) is an animal rights' group. The ARM is leaderless and inspired by the Animal Liberation Front, which is also leaderless. An ARM group may consist of just one person. Members of the ARM believe violence is justified, and members of the ALF disagree.

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Animal Rights Militia


REO Speedwagon is an American rock band. They formed in Illinois in the late 1960s. The band continues to record and tour to this day.  They were most popular in the 1980s, when they had a #1 album and two #1 singles.

Discography
Studio albums
 REO Speedwagon (1971)
 R.E.O./T.W.O. (1972)
 Ridin' the Storm Out (1973)
 Lost in a Dream (1974)
 This Time We Mean It (1975)
 R.E.O. (1976)
 You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish (1978)
 Nine Lives (1979)
 Hi Infidelity (1980)
 Good Trouble (1982)
 Wheels Are Turnin' (1984)
 Life as We Know It (1987)
 The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken (1990)
 Building the Bridge (1996)
 Find Your Own Way Home (2007)
 No So Silent Night... Christmas with REO Speedwagon (2009)

Other websites
REO Speedwagon's Official website

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Ladino (also called Judeo-Spanish) is a Jewish language that is very close to the Spanish language from which it originates. It has many old Spanish words and Hebrew words.

During the Middle Ages, many Jews lived in Spain.  These Jews were called Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (in Hebrew).  They were forced to leave Spain after the country was taken over by Christians, and they brought this old Spanish with them to the countries they ran away to.  Today some Sephardic Jews still speak Ladino in Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, the United States, and other countries.
Like many other Jewish languages, Ladino, which as an endangered language, is in danger of language death and thus could become an extinct language. Most native speakers are old, because many of them who emigrated to Israel, did not pass on the language to their children or grandchildren. In some Sephardic Jewish communities in Latin America and elsewhere, there is a threat of dialect levelling, meaning extinction by assimilation into modern Spanish.

Ladino is written using the Latin alphabet and in Israel using the Hebrew alphabet.

Ladino should not be confused with the Ladin language, which is related to the Swiss Romansh and Friulian languages and is mostly spoken in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of Northern Italy.

References

Other websites
 Socolovsky, Jerome. "Lost Language of Ladino Revived in Spain", Morning Edition, National Public Radio, March 19, 2007.

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Darlene Conley (18 July 1934 – 14 January 2007) was an American actress. She worked most in television soap operas. She played Sally Spectra in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 1988 to 2007. Conley was born in Chicago.

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Heron Quays is a light metro station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Bank to Lewisham Line. It is in the Heron Quays area of Canary Wharf in East London.

The station is on the Isle of Dogs and serves the southern part of the Canary Wharf office complex. It is directly connected to that complex's Jubilee Place underground shopping centre. The station is elevated and is in one of the complex's office towers. It has an Oyster card interchange for the Canary Wharf tube station on London Underground's Jubilee line. Through ticketing is allowed between the two stations.

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Heron Quays DLR station


Makoto Sakurai may refer to
Makoto Sakurai (Japanese writer) (桜井 誠) an activist of Zaitokukai
Makoto Sakurai (Japanese drummer) (桜井 誠) a member of Dragon Ash
Makoto Sakurai (Japanese mathematician) (桜井 真)

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Geoffroi de Charny ( 1300 – 19 September 1356) was the Lord of Lirey, a French knight and a writer. Sir Geoffroi was born of an important French family.  Throughout his life he fought many battles for France. He fought in the Crusades and many times throughout the war with England.   He was always loyal to his King, Jean II, King of France and died at the Battle of Poitiers protecting him. Throughout his lifetime he was well known and well respected by both the French and the English kings and nobles.  At Poitiers he was chosen to carry the Oriflamme into battle.  The Oriflamme was the Kings banner and this was a great honor given to a knight by the King.  He was also one of the Knights chosen to fight close to and protect the King. De Charny was said to be a "true and perfect Knight".

Jean de Joinville was de Charny's grandfather's.  He was a close friend of King Louis IX and author of his biography.  In the same tradition, Sir Geoffroi wrote three books in his time.  His most famous book was "A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry".  In this book he shared his great skill and knowledge of combat.  The second book written by de Charny is entitled, "Requests (or Questions) for jousting tournaments and war".  It was written about 1352 to the Knights of the Order of the Star which Sir Geoffroi founded.  This book was written in the form of questions.  His third book was the book "Charny", describes the life of a knight and lists the qualities a good knight must possess.

Charny fought in Flanders and Tournay.  He was taken prisoner but was ransomed because the King considered him so important.  He fought in many major battles during the Hundred Years' War such as the battles of Calais, Crecy and Poitiers.

Sir John Chandos was a close friend and biographer of Edward, the Black Prince, the eldest son of King Edward III of England.  Chandos was a famous knight himself.   He was an educated man and wrote down the events of a great meeting of both sides before the Battle of Poitiers. He wrote that at that meeting Sir Geoffroi tried to avoid a great bloodshed by proposing a smaller battle where 100 knights on each side would do battle with each other and the outcome would decide the battle.  Chandos writes that Charny was trying to find an honorable solution to avoid a great many more deaths.  The Black Prince refused that offer.  Charny’s predictions turned out to be true and indeed a great many nobles on both sides lost their life that day, including de Charny himself.

Charny died at the Battle of Poitiers while protecting the King.

The Shroud of Turin
Historical records seem to indicate that a shroud bearing an image of a crucified man (represented in the Pilgrim Badge shown here) existed in the small town of Lirey in France around the years 1353 to 1357 in the possession of Geoffroi de Charny.   The cloth itself is controversial.  Some believe it is a fake, while others believe the shroud to be the true burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

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Wailly-Beaucamp is a commune. It is in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in the Pas-de-Calais department in north France.

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Wailly-Beaucamp


William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962 in Dayton, Ohio) was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball.  Clemens played in the major leagues for 24 seasons for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, and Houston Astros, from  to .  Clemens has won seven Cy Young Awards, two more than any other pitcher.

Other websites

Baseball Library
Biography from the Roger Clemens Foundation

Roger Clemens ads in the ZADZADZ ad database

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Sterling Price (September 20, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a soldier, lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri. He served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War. He was governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857. During the American Civil War Price was a Major general serving with the Confederate States Army. He is best known for his victories in New Mexico and Chihuahua during the Mexican conflict, and for his defeats at the Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport during the Civil War. Following the war, Price took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender. He tried unsuccessfully to seek service with Emperor Maximilian. He finally returned to Missouri, where he died in poverty and was buried in St. Louis.

Early life and career
Price was born near Farmville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His family was of Welsh origin. Price attended Hampden-Sydney College in 1826 and 1827, studying law and working at the courthouse near his home. He was admitted to the Virginia bar and opened a law practice.

In the fall of 1831, Price and his family moved to Fayette, Missouri. A year later, they moved to Keytesville, Missouri, where he ran a hotel and mercantile. On May 14, 1833, he married Martha Head of Randolph County, Missouri. They had seven children, five surviving to adulthood.

During the Mormon War of 1838, Price served as a member of a delegation sent from Chariton County, Missouri to investigate disturbance between Latter Day Saints and anti-Mormon mobs in the western part of the state. He reported the Mormons were not guilty of any offenses. Also, that the charges against them were false. Following the Mormon surrender in November 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs sent Price and a company of solders to protect the Mormons. Price was elected to the Missouri State House of Representatives from 1836–1838, and again from 1840–1844. He was chosen as its speaker. He was then elected as a Democrat to the 29th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1845, to August 12, 1846. He resigned from the House to participate in the Mexican-American War.

Mexican-American War
Price raised the Second Regiment, Missouri Mounted Volunteer Cavalry and was appointed its colonel on August 12, 1846. He marched his regiment under Alexander Doniphan to Santa Fe, where he assumed command of the Territory of New Mexico after Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, departed for California. Price served as military governor of New Mexico, and put down the Taos Revolt, an uprising of Native Americans and Mexicans in January 1847.

President James K. Polk promoted Price to brigadier general of volunteers on July 20, 1847. He was named military governor of Chihuahua that same month. He led 300 men from his Army of the West at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales on March 16, 1848, defeating a Mexican force three times his size. This was the last battle of the war, taking place days after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had been ratified by the United States Congress on March 10. Although reprimanded by Secretary of War William L. Marcy and ordered to return with his army to New Mexico, Price was not punished. He was honorably discharged on November 25, 1848, and returned to Missouri as a hero.

Governor of Missouri
Price now became a slave owner, and raised tobacco on the Bowling Green prairie. Popular because of his war service, he was easily elected Governor of Missouri in 1852, serving from 1853 to 1857. During his service as governor, Washington University in St. Louis was established, the state's public school system was restructured, the Missouri State Teachers Association was created, the state's railroad network was expanded, and a state geological survey was created. Although the state legislature passed an act to increase the governor's salary, he refused to accept anything except than the salary when he had been elected. Price became the state's Bank Commissioner from 1857 to 1861. He also secured a rail line through his home county, now forming part of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

Civil War service

Early months
When the Civil War began, Price was opposed to Missouri's secession. He was elected presiding officer of the Missouri State Convention on February 28, 1861, which voted against the state leaving the Union. The situation changed drastically, however, when Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and Capt. Nathaniel Lyon seized the state militia's Camp Jackson at St. Louis. Outraged by this, Price sided with the secessionists. Pro-Confederate Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson appointed him to command the newly reformed Missouri State Guard in May 1861. He led his young recruits (who nicknamed him "Old Pap") in a campaign to keep Missouri for the Confederacy. The most famous battle of the conflict was the Battle of Wilson's Creek. This occurred on August 10, 1861. The Missouri State Guard along with Confederate troops under the command of Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch defeated Union troops in the Union Army of the West, under the command of General Lyon. Lyon was killed in the battle. After this victory, Price's troops launched an offensive into Northern Missouri, where they defeated Federal forces commanded by Colonel James Mulligan at the First Battle of Lexington. However, additional Union troops forced Price and Jackson's men to retreat, leaving most of the state to the Union.

Pea Ridge, Iuka, and Corinth
Still operating as a Missouri militia  general (rather than as a commissioned Confederate officer), Price was unable to agree with his Wilson's Creek colleague, Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, as to how to proceed following the battle. This led to the splitting of what might otherwise have become a sizable Confederate force in the West. Price and McCullough became bitter rivals, leading to the ultimate appointment of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn as overall commander of the Trans-Mississippi district. Van Dorn reunited Price's and McCullough's formations into a force he named the Army of the West, and set out to engage Union troops in Missouri under the command of Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis. Now under Van Dorn's command, Price was commissioned in the Confederate States Army as a major general on March 6, 1862.

Outnumbering Curtis's forces, Van Dorn attacked the Union army at Pea Ridge on March 7–8. Although wounded in the fray, Price pushed Curtis's force back at Elkhorn Tavern on the March 7, only to see the battle lost on the following day after a furious Federal counterattack. Price next crossed the Mississippi River to reinforce Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's army at Corinth, Mississippi. Price was able to seize the Union supply depot at nearby Iuka, but was driven back by Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans at the Battle of Iuka on September 19, 1862. A few weeks later, on October 3–4, Price (under Van Dorn's command once more) was defeated with Van Dorn at the Second Battle of Corinth.

Van Dorn was replaced by Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton, and Price, who had become thoroughly disgusted with Van Dorn and was eager to return to Missouri, obtained a leave to visit Richmond, the Confederate capital. There, he obtained an audience with Confederate President Jefferson Davis to discuss his grievances, only to find his own loyalty to the South sternly questioned by the Confederate leader. Price only barely managed to secure Davis's permission to return to Missouri. Not at all impressed with the Missourian, Davis pronounced him "the vainest man I ever met."

Arkansas and Louisiana
Price was not finished as a Confederate commander, however. He contested Union control over Arkansas in the summer of 1863, and while he won some of his engagements, he was not able to move Union forces out of the state.  In early 1864, Confederate General Edmund Kirby-Smith, in command of the Western Louisiana campaign, ordered General Price in Arkansas to send all of his infantry to Shreveport. Confederate forces in the Indian Territory were to join Price in the endeavor. General John B. Magruder in Texas was instructed to send infantry toward Marshall, Texas, west of Shreveport. General St. John R. Liddell was instructed to proceed from the Ouachita River west toward Natchitoches. With a force of five thousand, Price reached Shreveport on March 24. However, Kirby-Smith detained the division and divided it into two smaller ones. He hesitated to send the men south to fight Union General Nathaniel P. Banks, whom he believed outnumbered the Confederate forces. This decision which drew the opposition of General Richard Taylor.  But the western campaign was nearing its conclusion.

Price's Missouri Raid
Despite his disappointments in Arkansas and Louisiana, Price managed to convince his superiors to permit him to invade Missouri in the fall of 1864. He was hoping to win that state for the Confederacy or at the very least imperil Abraham Lincoln's chances for reelection that year. Confederate General Kirby Smith agreed, though he was forced to detach the infantry brigades originally detailed to Price's force and send them elsewhere. This changed Price's proposed campaign from a full-scale invasion of Missouri to a large cavalry raid. Price gathered 12,000 horsemen for his army, and fourteen pieces of artillery.

The first major engagement in Price's Raid occurred at Pilot Knob, where he successfully captured the Union-held Fort Davidson but he needlessly slaughtered many of his men in the process. It was for a gain that turned out to be of no real value. From Pilot Knob, he swung west, away from St. Louis (his primary objective) and toward Kansas City, Missouri and nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Forced to bypass his secondary target at heavily fortified Jefferson City, Price cut a swath of destruction across his home state. All the while his army steadily grew smaller due to battlefield losses, disease, and desertion. Price defeated inferior Federal forces at Glasgow, Lexington, the Little Blue River and Independence. But Price was ultimately boxed in by two Northern armies at Westport, in today's Kansas City, and forced to fight against a much larger army. This unequal contest, known afterward as "The Gettysburg of the West", did not go his way, and he was forced to retreat into hostile Kansas. A new series of defeats followed, as Price's battered and broken army was pushed steadily southward towards Arkansas. Then it was pushed further south into Texas, where Price remained until the war ended. Price's Raid would prove to be his last significant military operation, and the last significant Confederate campaign west of the Mississippi.

Post-war activities and death
Instead of surrendering at the war's end, Price led what was left of his army into Mexico. There he wanted the remains of his army to serve the Emperor Maximilian, but was flatly refused. Price became leader of a Confederate exile colony in Carlota, Veracruz, but when the colony proved to be a failure, he returned to Missouri.

While in Mexico Price started having severe intestinal tract problems. These grew worse in August 1866 when he contracted typhoid fever. Impoverished and in poor health, Price died of cholera (or "cholera-like symptoms") in St. Louis, Missouri. The death certificate listed the cause of death as "chronic diarrhea". Price's funeral was held on October 3, 1867 in St. Louis. The funeral procession, with his body carried by a black hearse drawn by six matching black horses, was the largest funeral procession in St. Louis up to that point.  He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Notes

References

Other websites
 Grave of General Sterling Price
 Sterling Price, Encyclopedia Britannica
 List of Missouri Governors

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The Philadelphia Soul was an American football team in the Arena Football League.  The team had played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are not to be confused with the Philadelphia Eagles.  They were owned by Jon Bon Jovi and Ron Jaworski, a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles. They won the Arena Bowl in 2008. By 2019, however, all the teams ceased team operations and later the league folded due to bankruptcy.

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Philadelphia Soul


Montclair is a township in New Jersey. It is known for its parks. Montclair about 6 sq mi and is located 12 miles outside of NYC. It is known for its diversity and liberal values.

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Montclair, New Jersey


Francis Bouillon (born October 17, 1975 in New York City, New York) is a American professional ice hockey defenceman for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played in the QMJHL with the Laval Titan. Bouillon has also played for the Montreal Canadiens for 8 seasons before signing a one-year contract with the Predators.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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Henry Bennion Eyring (born May 31, 1933) is an American educational administrator, author, and religious leader. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey.

After being set apart on January 14, 2018, Eyring is currently the Second Counselor to Russell M. Nelson in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Before, Eyring was the First Counselor to Thomas S. Monson in the First Presidency from 2008 until Monson's death on January 2, 2018. Eyring was the Second Counselor to Gordon B. Hinckley in the First Presidency from October 6, 2007, until Hinckley's death on January 27, 2008.

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The Chamber of Deputies''' () is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 329 seats to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation to serve four-year terms. Additionally, the organisation of each national minority is entitled to a seat in the Chamber (under the limitation that a national minority is to be represented by one organisation only).

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Chamber of Deputies (Romania)


The emperor newt (Tylototriton shanjing) is a highly toxic newt.  It lives in southeast Asia. They live in pools and slow-moving streams in subtropical forests.They mostly are awake during night and sleep during the day. The emperor newt usually eats small insects.  These include crickets and worms.

It is also called the mandarin newt or mandarin salamander. They can grow up to  long. It has a ridged orange head. A single orange ridge runs along its back. This ridge is lined with two parallel rows of orange bumps on a black background. The tail and legs are entirely orange. There are different shades of orange.

When the newt is grabbed, the tips of the ribs will squeeze out poison. Emperor newts have enough toxin to kill about 7,500 mice.

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Emperor newt


Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes. It is its most populous city, with a metropolitan population of 1,000,000.

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Fisher-Price is an American company. It produces toys for children. Since 1992, the company has been owned by Mattel.

The company was founded in 1920.

The company has produced toys including Barney & Friends related products, Dora the Explorer products and some Disney, Muppets and Sesame Street products.

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The Ontario general election of 2014 was on June 12, 2014, to elect the MPPs of the 41st Parliament of Ontario in the Ontario Legislative Assembly. The Ontario Liberal Party won a majority government of 56 seats, with Kathleen Wynne to continue as Premier of Ontario. This was the Liberals' fourth consecutive win since 2003. Tim Hudak lead the Progressive Conservatives' only to official opposition status again, due to this Hudak resigned as leader. The New Democrats under Andrea Horwath continued in third party status.

The election had the lowest voter turnout record of 48.2%

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Marco Tardelli (born 24 September 1954) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Italy national team.

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|1972/73||rowspan="2"|Pisa||rowspan="2"|Serie C||8||2
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|1973/74||33||2
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|1974/75||Como||Serie B||36||2
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|1975/76||rowspan="10"|Juventus||rowspan="10"|Serie A||26||2
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|1976/77||28||4
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|1977/78||26||4
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|1978/79||29||4
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|1979/80||18||4
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|1980/81||28||7
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|1981/82||22||3
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|1982/83||26||5
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|1983/84||28||0
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|1984/85||28||2
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|1985/86||rowspan="2"|Internazionale Milano||rowspan="2"|Serie A||19||2
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|1986/87||24||0

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|1987/88||St. Gallen||Super League||14||0
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|1976||9||0
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|1977||7||0
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|1978||13||1
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|1979||4||2
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|1980||12||1
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|1981||7||0
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|1982||13||2
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|1983||4||0
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|1984||6||0
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|1985||6||0
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The Heaviside function, H is a non-continuous function whose value is zero for a negative input and one for a positive input.

The function is used in the mathematics of control theory to represent a signal that switches on at a specified time and stays switched on indefinitely. It was named after the Englishman Oliver Heaviside.

The Heaviside function is the integral of the Dirac delta function: H′ = δ. This is sometimes written as

Discrete form
We can also define an alternative form of the Heaviside step function as a function of a discrete variable n:

where n is an integer.

Or

The discrete-time unit impulse is the first difference of the discrete-time step

This function is the cumulative summation of the Kronecker delta:

where

is the discrete unit impulse function.

Representations
Often an integral representation of the Heaviside step function is useful:

H(0)
The value of the function at 0 can be defined as H(0) = 0, H(0) = ½ or H(0) = 1.

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Eighty-eight is a number. It comes between eighty-seven and eighty-nine, and is an even number. It is divisible by 1, 2, 4, 8, 11, 22, 44, and 88.

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88 (number)


New Taipei City () is a city in northern Taiwan. It circles Taipei City. It is south of Keelung, north of Taoyuan County and west of Yilan. It is a part of the Republic of China and the largest city in Taiwan.

 Mayor: Hou You-yi ()
 Total Area: 2,052.5667 km²
 Total people: 3,743,553 (April,2006)

Government
New Taipei City controls 29 districts (區). It has 1,017 villages (里). The villages are divided into 21,683 neighborhoods (鄰).

Related pages
List of counties of Republic of China

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New Taipei City


CBS Home Entertainment is the home entertainment arm of CBS Corporation was formed in 2009 and replaced CBS Video Enterprises and CBS DVD. Its headquarters in New York City and CBS shows and CBS Films movies on DVD and Blu-ray.

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ISO 3166-2:AZ is the entry for Azerbaijan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for Azerbaijan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
 1 autonomous republic (i.e., Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic)
 11 municipalities and 66 rayons

The eleven municipalities have special status equal to the raions. Şuşa, the disputed municipality, has been removed from the list.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is AZ, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Azerbaijan. The second part is either of the following:
 two letters: autonomous republic and municipalities
 three letters: rayons

Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

Click on the button in the header to sort each column.

Autonomous republic

Municipalities and rayons

Changes
The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Related pages
 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan

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 Districts of Azerbaijan (with Accents), Statoids.com

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Pindar was an ancient Greek poet of Thebes. He was born in Boeotia, around 518 BC. He died in Argos, at age 80 in 438 BC. He is known for his odes in praise of athletes and their accomplishments but he wrote poems in many other forms as well.

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Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian. He is known for writing the universal history Bibliotheca historica, much of which survives, between 60 and 30 BC. It is arranged in three parts. The first part covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy. It is arranged geographically, describing regions around the world including Egypt, India, Arabia, Greece and Europe. The second part covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third part covers the period to about 60 BC. The title Bibliotheca, meaning 'library', shows that he was using the work of many other authors.

Life

Diodorus wrote that he was born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). There is only two other references to Diodorus. One is by Jerome, in his Chronicon from 49 BC, who wrote that "Diodorus of Sicily, a writer of Greek history, became illustrious". There is also a Greek inscription in the collection of the Agyrium (Inscriptiones Graecae XIV, 588) about the tombstone of one "Diodorus, the son of Apollonius". (This may be a different person).

Work
Diodorus' book, which he called Bibliotheca historica meaning "Historical Library", consisted of 40 books. Books 1–5 and 11–20 survive. Small sections of the lost books are preserved in Photius and the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

It was divided into three sections. The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt (book I), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia (II), of North Africa (III), and of Greece and Europe (IV–VI).

In the next section (books VII–XVII), he tells the history of the world from the Trojan War down to the death of Alexander the Great. The last section (books XVII to the end) concerns the historical events from the successors of Alexander down to either 60 BC or the beginning of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. As the last books have been lost, it is not known if Diodorus reached the beginning of the Gallic War as he promised at the beginning of his work or, as evidence suggests, old and tired from his labours he stopped at 60 BC.) He used the name "Bibliotheca" to show that he was writing a work from many sources. Identified authors on whose works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius, and Posidonius.

His writing of gold mining in Nubia in eastern Egypt is one of the earliest texts on the topic, and describes in vivid detail the use of slave labour in terrible working conditions.

He also described the Celts:
"Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance with deep-sounding and very harsh voices.  In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood.  They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others.  They are boasters and threateners, and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning." (Book 5)

Notes

References

 Ambaglio, Dino, Franca Landucci Gattinoni and Luigi Bravi. Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: commento storico: introduzione generale. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: V&P, 2008. x, 145 p.
 Buckley, Terry. Aspects of Greek History 750-323 BC: A Source-based Approach. Routledge, London, 1996,
 Lloyd, Alan B. Herodotus, Book II. Brill, Leiden, 1975

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Gareth Owen is a footballer for Stockport County.

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Ashland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is the county seat of Ashland County.

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The European sprat is a kind of fish. It is related to the herring. It lives in the ocean, all around Europe. It has about 12% fat in its flesh. It is a source of many vitamins. It is an important fish for commercial fishing, and can be found in many cans in shops. It can also be salted, to preserve it better.

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The Harrington Hump is a modular and easy-to-install system by which the height of a railway platform can be increased at relatively low cost. The system takes its name from the Harrington railway station, which was the location of the first production version. Harrington Humps are slowly being installed on other UK railway stations.

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The Premier of Yukon (or unofficially, the Premier of the Yukon) is the first minister for the Canadian territory of Yukon. They are the territory's head of government and de facto chief executive.

The office was created in 1979. The current Premier of Yukon is Sandy Silver, leader of the Yukon Liberal Party. Silver was formally sworn in as premier on December 3, 2016.

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Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer. She was known for her avant garde short stories and science fiction novels. She won the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. Emshwiller was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her best known novel was The Mount.

Emshwiller died on February 2, 2019 at her daughter's home in Durham, North Carolina, aged 97.

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Brisingr or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular is the third book of the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. It comes after the books Eragon and Eldest. It was released on September 20, 2008. The title means "fire" in the fictional Ancient Language of Alagaesia.

The book sold 550,000 copies on its first day of sale, the most ever for a Random House Children's Book.

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The University of Göttingen (), known informally as Georgia Augusta, is a university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.

King George II of Great Britain and the Elector of Hanover founded the school in 1734. It opened for classes in 1737. The University of Göttingen soon grew in size and popularity. Göttingen is a historic university city, with a high student and faculty population.

The University of Göttingen is one of the highest-ranked universities in Germany. It is associated with 45 Nobel laureates.

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

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Andwil is a municipality in St. Gallen in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Hans Kloss (12 July 1938 – 12 September 2018) was a German artist and graphic designer. He was best known for his large paintings combining medieval and modern styles. He was born in Ohlau, Silesia.

For his work, Kloss has received the Premio Internazionale Federichino of Iesi, Italy in 2004; the Staufermedaille of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2005; and the Irenen-Preis of the Freundeskreis Königin Irene Maria von Byzanz e.V. of Göppingen in 2003.

Kloss died on 12 September 2018 in Berlin from stomach cancer at the age of 80.

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The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling after a warmer era (time) that is known as the Medieval Warm Period.

Climatologists (people who study climate) and historians find it difficult to agree on either the start or end dates of this period. Some say the Little Ice Age started about the 16th century and continued to the mid 19th century.  It is generally agreed that there were three minima, one beginning about 1650, one about 1770, the last one about 1850. Each time was separated by slight warming intervals.
At first, it was believed that the LIA was all over the world. Now it is not clear if this is true.

Solar activity

During the period 1645–1715, in the middle of the Little Ice Age, there was a period of low solar activity known as the Maunder Minimum. The physical link between low sunspot activity and cooling temperatures has not been established, but the coincidence of the Maunder Minimum with the deepest trough of the Little Ice Age is suggestive of such a connection. The Spörer Minimum has also been identified with a significant cooling period near the beginning of the Little Ice Age. Other indicators of low solar activity during this period are levels of the isotopes carbon-14 and beryllium-10.

Volcanic activity
Throughout the Little Ice Age, the world also experienced heightened volcanic activity. When a volcano erupts, its ash reaches high into the atmosphere and can spread to cover the whole of Earth. This ash cloud blocks out some of the incoming solar radiation, leading to worldwide cooling that can last up to two years after an eruption.

Ocean conveyor shutdown
Another possibility is that there was a shutdown or slowing of Thermohaline circulation, also known as the "great ocean conveyor" or "meridional overturning circulation". The Gulf Stream could have been interrupted by the introduction of a large amount of fresh water to the North Atlantic, possibly caused by a period of warming before the little ice age. There is some concern that shutdown of thermohaline circulation could happen again as a result of global warming.

End of Little Ice Age
Beginning around 1850, the climate began warming and the Little Ice Age ended.  Some global warming critics believe that Earth's climate is still recovering from the Little Ice Age and that human activity is not the decisive factor in present temperature trends,  but this idea is not widely accepted.

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Reginald Alfred "Reg" Varney (11 July 1916 – 16 November 2008) was a British actor and comedian. He was best known for playing bus driver Stan Butler in the sitcom On the Buses, and the movie spin-offs On the Buses (1971), Mutiny on the Buses (1972) and Holiday on the Buses (1973). He also appeared in the sitcom The Rag Trade. In 1967, he made the first withdrawal from an ATM.

Varney was born in Canning Town, Essex, England. He was married to Lilian from 1939 until her death in 2002. They had one daughter, Jeanne. He had a heart attack in 1965 and 1981, and a stroke in 1989.

Varney died of a chest infection on 16 November 2008 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. He was 92.

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The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in what was then the Soviet Union. The four players have not always been the same people: there have been some changes to the group, but it is one of the world's longest lasting string quartets. In 2005 they celebrated their 60th anniversary. Until he retired in 2007 the cellist Valentin Berlinsky had almost always been the cellist of the quartet.

When they started they were known as the Moscow Philharmonic Quartet. In 1955 the quartet changed its name to Borodin Quartet, named after the composer Alexander Borodin who composed two famous string quartets.

They often got invitations to play in the West, but the Soviet communist government would not allow them to travel out of their country. The quartet had to accept the concerts that their government allowed them to do. They played at the funerals of the dictator Stalin and the composer Sergei Prokofiev which were on the same day (both men died on 5 March 1953. However, they were not paid anything for either event.

The quartet knew the composer Dmitri Shostakovich very well. They performed his quartets, and Shostakovich often listened to them practising and discussed with them the way he wanted them to be played. The quartet often played piano quintets with the pianist Sviatoslav Richter.

When they started in 1945 their cellist was Mstislav Rostropovich. Rudolf Barshai was their viola player. Very soon afterwards Rostropovich found he had too many other engagements, so he got Valentin Berlinsky to be their cellist. The four men who then formed the quartet signed an oath in their own blood that they would be faithful and stay together as a group. They stayed together for 20 years. Then Rostislav Dubinsky, the first violinist, defected to the West and the second violinist, Jaroslav Alexandrov, retired because of bad health. With two new players, the quartet spend two years practising together before they performed again in public.

When Communism collapsed and the Soviet Union broke up, the quartet still continued to be very famous. They travelled abroad a lot, performing in places such as London.

They have made many recordings including all Shostakovich's string quartets and all Beethoven quartets.

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Ratodero is the capital of Ratodero Taluka a sub-division of Larkana District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is located some 30 km away from the district capital Larkana.

Administration
Ratodero Taluka is administratively subdivided into 9 Union Councils two of which form the town of Ratodero these are:

Ratodero-I
Ratodero-II

Famous People
There have been many people from Ratodero including two former Prime Ministers - Zulfikar and Benazir Bhutto.

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Jeffrey Clay Erlanger (November 30, 1970 – June 10, 2007) was an American activist for disability rights. He is well known for his appearance on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood when he was 10 years old, talking about his electric wheelchair and why he used it.

Erlanger's philosophy was summarized in a 2002 Wisconsin Public Television ad: "It doesn't matter what I can't do — what matters is what I can do."

Erlanger choked on some food, and was in a coma for several weeks before dying on Sunday, June 10, 2007 in Madison, aged 36.

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Anthony Edgar "Tony" Sale, FBCS (30 January 1931 – 28 August 2011) was an English electronic engineer, computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing. He helped create the Colossus computer replica at The National Museum of Computing at  Bletchley Park in England. It was completed in 2007.

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Victoria (, meaning "the city Victoria"), also known among the native Maltese as Rabat (which is the name of the old town centre) or by its title Città Victoria, is the capital city of Gozo, the second largest island of Malta. The city has a total population of 6,901 (as of March 2014).

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Water heating is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning and bathing, and space heating. In industry both hot water and water heated to steam have many uses.

The most common energy sources for heating water are fossil fuels: natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, oil or sometimes solid fuels (coal or firewood. These fuels may be consumed directly or by the use of electricity (which may derive from any of the above fuels or from nuclear or renewable sources). Alternative energy such as solar energy, heat pumps, hot water heat recycling, and sometimes geothermal power, may also be used as available, usually in combination with gas, oil or electricity.

Solar water heaters

Solar collectors for solar powered water heaters are installed outside dwellings, typically on the roof or nearby.  Nearly all models are the direct-gain type. They consist of flat panels in which water circulates.

Geothermal heating
In countries like Iceland and New Zealand, and other volcanic regions, water heating may be done using geothermal power, rather than combustion.

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Helen Worth (born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth; 7 January 1951) is an English actress. She is known for played Gail Platt in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role that she has played since 1974. For her 40 years on the show she received Outstanding Achievement in the 2014 British Soap Awards.

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Kurdistan Vegans is the first vegan nonprofit organization working for animal rights in Iraq. It was established on June 24, 2018, by Zanko Bakhshi and Zhiar Ali, in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The organization focuses on animal rights, and encourages environmental protection and choosing a healthy lifestyle by promoting veganism and abstaining from using animal products.

The organization had its first physical activity on November 1, 2018, on World Vegan Day in two cities of the Kurdistan region in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil. The events took place in Azadi Park in Sulaymaniyah and Sami Abdulrahman Park in Erbil and consisted of distributing pamphlet and booklets containing information about veganism and the vegan diet.

After and during the event, local TVs interviewed members of the organization and started shining a light on the philosophy of veganism.

History

Appearance

At first, the project started as a blog to inform the Kurdish people about veganism in 2017. Until its formal establishment, the activities of Kurdistan Vegans consisted of only online posting on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. After Bakhshi came into contact with some animal rights activists, they decided to work more formally, as an organization, and like so the organization was certified by the Ministry of Nongovernmental Organizations on June 24, 2018.

World Vegan Day

The organization executed its first physical activity five months after its establishment on November 1, 2018, in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. In Sulaymaniyah, the team consisted of five people led by the Vice President Zhiar Ali in Azadi Park, and in Erbil it consisted of 4 people led by the founder himself in Samy Abdulrahman Park. The event consisted of distributing pamphlets and booklets which contained information about veganism, a vegan diet, public figures who are vegan and such. The team also verbally explained and promoted veganism.

Goals and belief

Kurdistan Vegans’ philosophy is based on a moral philosophy called veganism. The organization believes that animals must not be used for human benefits in any way and that they “should not be exploited.” In an interview with Jiyan Media, Bakhshi said:

Vegans believe in a moral philosophy where the people who believe it not only take out animal products from their meals, but they stop using them for clothes as well, because we believe that as long as there are alternatives for those things, animals don’t want to be part of the abuse they go through in animal industries.

In another interview, Bakhshi explained the difference between veganism, the philosophy of the organization, and vegetarianism, and said: “you can look at vegetarianism as a diet, they are people who don’t eat meat only, but vegans stop using animal products altogether, such as eggs and dairy products [as well], because they believe that what’s going on in the bird farms are not less than killing.”

The organization and its members believe that using animals and their byproducts is wrong because of the unethical treatment and abuse farmed animals go through.

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The Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is the organisation that holds the registers of drivers and vehicles for Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). The DVLA head office is in Swansea in Wales. They are an agency of the United Kingdom government.

Related pages
 Driver & Vehicle Agency, the agency for Northern Ireland (the other part of the United Kingdom).

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Burton-in-Kendal is a village and civil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 1411 people living in Burton-in-Kendal.

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Beverly is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the South Side on the southwestern edge of the city.

Sparsely settled in the middle of the 19th century. Its position on the ridge allowed the community to become an exclusive streetcar suburb, and the homes and large lots reflect this historic distinction. Beverly is located on the highest elevation in Chicago.

The neighborhood's roots are largely English and Protestant but is now home to a large Irish-American/Catholic community and many Irish establishments.

In the 2016 presidential election, Beverly cast 6,384 votes for Hillary Clinton and cast 1,850 votes Donald Trump.

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Mystic is a U.S. village and census-designated place (CDP) in Groton and Stonington, Connecticut. Mystic has no independent government because it is not a municipality in the state of Connecticut.

Historically, Mystic was a leading seaport of the area. The story of Mystic's nautical background is told at Mystic Seaport, the nation's largest maritime museum, which has preserved a number of sailing ships, such as the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan. The village is located on the Mystic River, which flows into Long Island Sound, giving access to the sea. The Mystic River Bascule Bridge crosses the river in the center of the village.  According to the Mystic River Historical Society, the name "Mystic" comes from the Pequot words "missi-tuk" as describing a large river whose waters are driven into waves by tides or wind. The population was 4,205 at the 2010 census.

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Duncan Lee Hunter (born May 31, 1948) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from California's 52nd, 45th and 42nd districts from 1981 to 2009.

Hunter was the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

Hunter ran for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States for 2008, but failed to win many votes during the primaries, and he dropped out after the Nevada Republican caucuses.

Hunter was replaced in congress by his son, Duncan D. Hunter.

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Drive Angry is a supernatural 2011 action movie. It stars Amber Heard and Nicolas Cage. The movie is about criminals and fast cars.

The movie got mixed reviews by critics. It made less than its budget.

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Willowbrook is an unincorporated census-designated place in Will County, Illinois,  United States.  The population was 2,076 at the 2010 census.

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A shop or store is a place where people can go to buy items that they need or want. People might go to a shop to buy food, clothes, furniture, jewelry, or many other things. There are loads of shops in the world people can buy their things from.

People might also go to a repair shop if something is broken, and they want the shop to fix it. For example, someone might bring a broken bicycle to a bicycle repair shop.

Shops can be anything from large supermarket chains to small businesses.

Shops any countries: North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe.

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Nicolae Ceauşescu (; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was the President of Romania from 1965 until 1989. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989 he was deposed, tried and publicly executed along with his wife Elena Ceaușescu. He had been the only Communist dictator of Eastern Europe who had been charged for crimes against humanity and genocide during the revolutions of 1989.

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Focus is a 2015 American romantic crime-drama movie. This movie is about a con-man drawing a young attractive woman into his romantic circle. Will Smith plays Nicky. Margot Robbie plays Jess.

Focus is set in New Orleans and Buenos Aires.

The movie was released on February 27, 2015.

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Tihomir Novakov, Ph.D known also as Tica Novakov (March 16, 1929 – January 2, 2015) was an Serbian-born American physicist. As a scientist, Novakov was known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research. James Hansen dubbed him "the godfather of black carbon." He was born in Sombor, Serbia.

Novakov died on January 2, 2015 in Kensington, California from natural causes, aged 85.

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The lophophore is the characteristic feeding organ of four major groups of animals: the Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Entoprocta, and Phoronida. All lophophores are found in aquatic organisms.

Characteristics
It can most easily be described as a ring of ciliated tentacles surrounding the mouth. It is often horseshoe-shaped or coiled. Phoronids have their lophophores in plain view, but the valves of brachiopods must be opened wide to get a good view of their lophophore.

The lophophore surrounds the mouth and is an upstream collecting system for suspension feeding. The gut is U-shaped with the anterior mouth at the center of the lophophore. The anus, where present, is also anterior, and is above the mouth. In the Bryozoa it is outside the ring of the lophophore; in the Entoprocta the anus is within the ring of the lophophore. Some brachiopods do not have an anus.

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Suspicion is a 1941 romantic thriller movie. It is based on the novel Before the Fact. The movie was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cary Grant plays Johnnie, a gambler. Joan Fontaine plays Lina. Dame May Whitty plays Martha.

This movie was nominated for Academy Awards for the Best Picture and the Best Original Score. Fontaine won the Best Actress award.

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John Winfield Stephenson (August 9, 1923 – May 15, 2015) was an American actor. He was most active voice-over roles.

He has also been called John Stevenson. Stephenson has never given any interviews and was rarely seen in public, although he did make an appearance at BotCon 2001.

Since the death of Harvey Korman in 2008, he was one of the last surviving voice actors from the 1960s animated sitcom, The Flintstones, in which he played Fred Flintstone's boss, Mr. Slate.

Stephenson died from Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.

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The 1977 Formula One season crowned as champion Niki Lauda.

Drivers and constructors
The following drivers and constructors contested the World Championship of Drivers and the International Cup for Formula 1 Constructors:

Season review

1977 Drivers Championship final standings

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Saint-Girons-en-Béarn is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.

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Dufton is a village and civil parish in Eden, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 169 people living in Dufton.

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Vellore Institute of Technology, commonly called VIT University or VIT, is a university in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. VIT has nine schools.

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Caesar Augustus Rodney (January 4, 1772 – June 10, 1824) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as well as a U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Minister to Argentina. He was the nephew of Caesar Rodney, the signer of the Declaration of Independence who is pictured on the Delaware state quarter.

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Boris Valábik (born February 14, 1986) is a Slovak ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for HC Kometa Brno of the Czech Extraliga (EHL). He has also played for the Atlanta Thrashers and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Valábik played 3 seasons with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).

Valábik was drafted with the 10th overall pick by the Atlanta Thrashers in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. He played 2 seasons with the Thrashers' AHL affiliate Chicago Wolves and was able to win the Calder Cup with them in 2007 before he was called up to the main roster in November 2008. He would play 80 games with the thrashers before he was traded along with Rich Peverley to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Blake Wheeler and Mark Stuart.

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Sultan Iskandar Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail (April 8, 1932 - January 22, 2010) was the sultan of the southern Malay state of Johor. He had held this position since 1981. In the 1960's he won the first Johor Grand Prix. In 1977 he shot and killed a man he thought was a smuggler. Iskandar was going to go to prison for six months, but his father gave him a royal pardon. He also caused trouble in 1993, when he assaulted a hockey coach who had not followed his son's instructions. This led to a change in Malayasian law that means in future, sultans would have to obey the laws.

Tengku Mahkota of Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, his eldest son, was appointed to be the new sultan.

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Imre András Pozsgay (26 November 1933 – 25 March 2016) was a Hungarian Communist politician.

He played a key role in Hungary's fight for democracy after 1988. He served as Minister of Culture (1976–1980), Minister of Education (1980–1982) and Minister of State (1988–1990). He was also a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 1994.

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Jack Herbert Driberg (born April 1888 - died February 5, 1946) was an anthropologist from Britain. He went to two colleges: Lancing College and Hertford College. He worked in the Uganda Protectorate in 1912. He then moved to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan where he lived until 1925. When he was living there he wrote a book called The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda. It was about the Lango people who lived in Uganda. The book was very important and he was called an anthropologist after he wrote it. He moved back to London, England and went to college at the London School of Economics. He then started working as a professor at the University of Cambridge. He also served in World War II. He died in 1946.

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Clervaux () is a canton in Luxembourg. Its capital is Clervaux.

Geography
With an area of , and a population (2017) of 17,631, the Clervaux canton has a population density of  inhabitants/km².

It is bordered on the north by the arrondissement of Verviers in Belgium, to the east by the German district of Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm (part of the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate), to the southeast by the Vianden canton, to the south by the Diekirch canton, to the southwest by the Wiltz canton, and to the west by the arrondissement of Bastogne in Belgium.

Communes
The Clervaux canton has 5 communes (2017 population).
Clervaux (5,069)
Parc Hosingen (3,434)
Troisvierges (3,141)
Weiswampach (1,760)
Wincrange (4,227)

Related pages
 Cantons of Luxembourg
 Former Districts of Luxembourg
 List of cities in Luxembourg

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Hauser is a city in Idaho in the United States.

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Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer.

He was a fundamentalist Christian. During graduate school he stopped believing in God.  He started The Skeptics Society and Skeptic (U.S. magazine) in 1992. The society has over 55,000 members.

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