A gamebook is a book that is also a game. It is sometimes called solo adventure, or choose your own adventure (CYOA). Choose Your Own Adventure is the name of a famous series of gamebooks.

Description

The book is made of several paragraphs. The paragraphs are numbered. You do not read the paragraphs in order. At the end of a paragraph, you make a choice between two or more possibilities; your choice leads to another paragraph.

For example,
 Paragraph 1. Your are in a corridor. There are two doors: one on the left, one on the right.
 If you want to open the left door, read the paragraph 2.
 If you want to open the right door, read the paragraph 3.
 etc.

You can read the book several times. If you make different choices, you read a different story each time.

Use of gamebooks

Some gamebooks are adventure games. They tell the story of an adventurer. These books are usually related to role-playing games. They are often science-fiction books, or fantasy books.

Some gamebooks are educational. They are used to learn something. A gamebook is funny to read; the reader is active (he makes choices). The gamebook can describe real situations where people must make choices; the paragraphs explain the consequences of the choices. Gamebooks can be a good way to make a subject more interesting.

Gamebooks can contain small games inside: riddles, puzzles, dice games, etc.

Famous series

 Choose Your Own Adventure: American series started in 1976. The creator is Edward Packard.
 Fighting Fantasy: British series started in 1982. The books are translated in many languages. The creators are Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
 Lone Wolf: British series started in 1984. The author is Joe Dever.
Some series are spin-offs of novels. For example, the gamebooks series Give Yourself Goosebumps is a spin-off of the Goosebumps series.

Some gamebooks are adventure for role-playing games (RPGs), played by only one people. They are called "solo adventure", or "solitaire adventure". The first solo adventure was written in 1976 for the RPG Tunnels and Trolls.

Some games are spin-offs of gamebooks. For example,
 several video games are based on Fighting Fantasy gamebooks;
 several traditional role-playing games are based on gamebooks:
 Advanced Fighting Fantasy is a RPG based on Fighting Fantasy gamebooks,
 Lone Wolf Adventure Game is a RPG based on Lone Wolf gamebooks.

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The arrondissement of Figeac is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Lot département in the Occitanie region. Its capital is the city of Figeac.

History
When the arrondissements were created on 17 February 1800, Figeac was one of them in the Lot department.

Geography
It is the easternmost of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of , the second largest in area of the department. It has a population of 54,060 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the Corrèze (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) department, to the west by the Cantal (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) department, to the south by the Aveyron (Occitanie) department, to the southwest by the arrondissement of Cahors, and to the west by the arrondissement of Gourdon.

Composition

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

In the arrondissement of Figeac, there is only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement; the other five cantons are completely within the arrondissement. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

Communes
The arrondissement of Figeac has 116 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Albiac (46002)
 Anglars (46004)
 Assier (46009)
 Autoire (46011)
 Aynac (46012)
 Bagnac-sur-Célé (46015)
 Bannes (46017)
 Béduer (46021)
 Belmont-Bretenoux (46024)
 Bessonies (46338)
 Biars-sur-Cère (46029)
 Le Bourg (46034)
 Boussac (46035)
 Le Bouyssou (46036)
 Brengues (46039)
 Bretenoux (46038)
 Cadrieu (46041)
 Cahus (46043)
 Cajarc (46045)
 Cambes (46051)
 Camboulit (46052)
 Camburat (46053)
 Capdenac (46055)
 Carayac (46056)
 Cardaillac (46057)
 Corn (46075)
 Cornac (46076)
 Cuzac (46085)
 Durbans (46090)
 Espagnac-Sainte-Eulalie (46093)
 Espédaillac (46094)
 Espeyroux (46096)
 Estal (46097)
 Faycelles (46100)
 Felzins (46101)
 Figeac (46102)
 Flaujac-Gare (46104)
 Fons (46108)
 Fourmagnac (46111)
 Frayssinhes (46115)
 Frontenac (46116)
 Gagnac-sur-Cère (46117)
 Gintrac (46122)
 Girac (46123)
 Glanes (46124)
 Gorses (46125)
 Gréalou (46129)
 Grèzes (46131)
 Issendolus (46132)
 Issepts (46133)
 Labastide-du-Haut-Mont (46135)
 Labathude (46139)
 Lacapelle-Marival (46143)
 Ladirat (46146)
 Larnagol (46155)
 Larroque-Toirac (46157)
 Latouille-Lentillac (46159)
 Latronquière (46160)
 Lauresses (46161)
 Laval-de-Cère (46163)
 Lentillac-Saint-Blaise (46168)
 Leyme (46170)
 Linac (46174)
 Lissac-et-Mouret (46175)
 Livernon (46176)
 Loubressac (46177)
 Lunan (46180)
 Marcilhac-sur-Célé (46183)
 Mayrinhac-Lentour (46189)
 Molières (46195)
 Montbrun (46198)
 Montet-et-Bouxal (46203)
 Montredon (46207)
 Planioles (46221)
 Prendeignes (46226)
 Prudhomat (46228)
 Puybrun (46229)
 Puyjourdes (46230)
 Quissac (46233)
 Reilhac (46235)
 Reyrevignes (46237)
 Rudelle (46242)
 Rueyres (46243)
 Sabadel-Latronquière (46244)
 Saignes (46246)
 Saint-Bressou (46249)
 Saint-Céré (46251)
 Saint-Chels (46254)
 Saint-Cirgues (46255)
 Sainte-Colombe (46260)
 Saint-Félix (46266)
 Saint-Hilaire (46269)
 Saint-Jean-de-Laur (46270)
 Saint-Jean-Lagineste (46339)
 Saint-Jean-Lespinasse (46271)
 Saint-Jean-Mirabel (46272)
 Saint-Laurent-les-Tours (46273)
 Saint-Maurice-en-Quercy (46279)
 Saint-Médard-de-Presque (46281)
 Saint-Médard-Nicourby (46282)
 Saint-Michel-Loubéjou (46284)
 Saint-Paul-de-Vern (46286)
 Saint-Perdoux (46288)
 Saint-Pierre-Toirac (46289)
 Saint-Simon (46292)
 Saint-Sulpice (46294)
 Saint-Vincent-du-Pendit (46295)
 Sénaillac-Latronquière (46302)
 Sonac (46306)
 Sousceyrac-en-Quercy (46311)
 Tauriac (46313)
 Terrou (46314)
 Teyssieu (46315)
 Thémines (46318)
 Théminettes (46319)
 Viazac (46332)

The communes with more of 1,000 inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Lot department
 Communes of the Lot department

References

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Arrondissement of Figeac


Cementation is what makes rocks solid. It is the process where grains of sediment get stuck together. It is a chemical process, and the cement is a precipitate which crystallises in the spaces between the matrix of grains. Silica (SiO2) and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) are the most common types of cement.

Ions carried in groundwater precipitate to form new crystalline material in sediment pores: this is how "sediment" becomes "rock".  The new pore-filling minerals form "bridges" between original sediment grains, thereby binding them together. So sand becomes "sandstone", and gravel becomes "conglomerate".

Cementation occurs mainly below the water table. Large volumes of pore water must pass through sediment pores for new mineral cements to crystallize and so millions of years are generally required to complete the cementation process.

Sedimentation does not always occur. Many quarries used for sand and gravel have them as loose particles and stones, just as if they came from a present-day beach. In England, most of these quarries are from beds laid down in the Jurassic, 150+ million years ago. By chance, the conditions for cementation have never occurred there.

References

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Cementation


Gilbert du Motier, Marquis of La Fayette (Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834) was a French artistocrat, politician and Liberal thinker. His name is also spelled Lafayette. He believed in Enlightenment, and played an important role both in the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In 1789, he presented a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. He worked on the document with Thomas Jefferson who was the American ambassador in Paris, at the time.

Birth and family
Gilbert du Motier was born at the "château de Chavaniac"  in southern France. His father "Louis Christophe du Motier" was Marquis of La Fayette in his own right. His mother was Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière. She was from an aristocratic family from the north part of France.

Children
Adrienne Henriette Catherine Charlotte du Motier (Hôtel de Noailles 15 December 1775- Paris 3 October 1777) died young.
 Anastasie Louise Pauline Motier du Motier  (Paris 1 July 1777 - Turin  24 February 1863, Turin) married Jules César Charles de Fay, Count of La Tour Maubourg.
 George Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier (24 December 1779 - 29 November 1849) died childless but married Émilie d'Estutt de Tracy.
 Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier (17 September 1782 - 23 July 1849) married Louis de Lasteyrie du and no u, Marquis of Lasteyrie.

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Thierachern is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

Other websites
 Official website

Category:Municipalities of Bern

Thierachern


Henri Valois was also the name of Henry III of France
Henri Valois, sometimes called Henricus Valesianus, was a medieval scholar. He was born in 1606 and died in 1676. His family belonged to nobility, and was established in Bayeux and Lisieux. He studied with the Jesuits in Verdun, and later in Paris. He also studied law in Bourges. To make his father happy, he lived as a lawyer in Paris for 7 years, even though he preferred to study. Today, he is known for the church history of Eusebius which he translated in 1660, and other translations of classical texts and fragments. Among these are the works of Constantine VII, which he identified and translated, Ammianus Marcellinus, and a history of Pope Constantine. He translated and published histories of Socrates of Constantinople, Sozomen, Athanasius of Alexandria, as well texts of the First Council of Nicaea,Theodoret, Evagrius Scholasticus, Philostorgius, Theodorus Lector. He also published two texts from anonymous authors, known as Anonymus Valesianus today.

His translations were later used for translations of these texts into French.

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Henri Valois


Ouville-la-Bien-Tournée is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Saint-Pierre-en-Auge.

References

Category:Former communes in Calvados

Ouville-la-Bien-Tournée


Crain is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
INSEE

Category:Communes in Yonne

Crain, Yonne


Traylor Elizabeth Howard (born 14 June 1966) is an American actress. She is known for her role in the TV shows Monk and Two Guys and a Girl. She also appeared in a Foo Fighters music video.

Career

Howard was born in Orlando, Florida. She started out doing commercials. Howard has a degree in communications and advertising from Florida State University. Before landing her first role in NBC's Boston Common she had already appeared in over 30 commercials. She appeared in Two Guys and a Girl on ABC and Bram & Alice on CBS. Her most famous role is probably as "Natalie Teeger" in USA network's TV series Monk.

Personal life

Howard has been married three times. Her first marriage was with Cameron Hall from 1991 to 1993. She was also married to Christian Navarro. On November 24, 2006, Howard gave birth to Sabu Howard. She then married her longtime friend Jarel Portman in 2011. She gave birth again in 2012 to Julien Howard. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Traylor Howard


Year 1682 was a common year that started on a Thursday when using the Gregorian calendar.

Events
 March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England.
 April 7 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, exploring rivers in America, reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River.
 April 9 – At the mouth of the Mississippi River, near modern Venice, Louisiana, Robert de La Salle buries an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory as "La Louisiane" for France.
 May 6 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
 May 7 – Official beginning of the reign of Peter the Great.
 May 11 – Moscow Uprising of 1682: a mob takes over the Kremlin and lynches the leading boyars and military commanders.
 July 19 – Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.
 August 12 – Vesuvius begins a period of volcanic activity lasting for ten days.
 September – Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself.
 September 14 – Bishop Gore School in Swansea, Wales is founded.
 October 27 – The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.
 October 31  – The city of Bideford, England two men and one woman were some of the last to be executed for witchcraft in England. They were accused of speaking in unknown languages as well as practicing knowledge beyond their natural abilities, and acting in peculiar manners. The woman, Guenevere Damascus, as well as her lover (name unknown) and their spiritual mentor were burned at the stake.

Undated
 The first black slaves arrive in Germany.
 The Richard Wall House is built in Pennsylvania.

Births

 February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)
 April 16 – John Hadley, inventor (died 1744)
 June 27 – King Charles XII of Sweden (died 1718)
 July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716)
 August 16 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (died 1712)
 October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)

Deaths
 February 25 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (born 1644)
 March 14 – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (born c.1628)
 April 1 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (born 1625)
 April 3 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (born 1618)
 May 7 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
 July 12 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (born 1620)
 September 8 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (born 1606)
 October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English writer, physician, and philosopher (born 1605)
 November 19 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (born 1619)
 November 23 – Claude Lorrain French painter (born c.1600)
 date unknown Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia
 date unknown Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman Empire (born 1627)

1682


Visací zámek (English:Padlock) is a Czech punk rock band. The band was formed in 1982. This band is thought to be the oldest Czech punk band. Its early work influenced the sound of an entire generation of bands. The early works of Visací zámek are strongly influenced by early nihilism and post-modernism.

Band members
 Jan "Hony" Haubert – vocals
 Michal "Pixies" Pixa – kytara, vocals
 Vladimír "Savec" Šťástka – bass guitar
 Ivan "Hroch" Rut – kytara, vocals
 Jiří "Sweet P" Pátek – drums

Discography

Albums
 Visací zámek (1990)
 Start 02 (1991)
 Three Locks (1992)
 Traktor (1993)
 Jako vždycky (1994)
 Sex (1996)
 Visací zámek znovu zasahuje (2000)
 Punk! (2005)
 Klasika (2010)

Compilations and live records
 Raritky (1989)
 Zámkománie (1998)
 19 let – Live at Akropolis (2001)
 Žofín (2002)
 20 let – Live at Akropolis (2003)
 Visací zámek 25 let (2008, CD + DVD)
 Beat hall of fame (Live-Split-CD with Tři sestry, Fanánek and Synové výčepu) (2009)

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Visací zámek


Princess Gabriella of Monaco, Countess of Carladès (Gabriella Thérèse Marie; born 10 December 2014), is the twin daughter of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene. She is second in line to the throne of Monaco. She was born at The Princess Grace Hospital Centre in Monaco. She was born two minutes before her twin brother, Hereditary Prince Jacques. She was granted the title Countess of Carladès by her father.

Titles and styles

"Her Serene Highness The Countess of Carladès".

References

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Andrew James Robert Patrick Martin (March 17, 1975 – March 17, 2009) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (later World Wrestling Entertainment) under the ring name Test. He last worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as "The Punisher" Andrew Martin.

While in the WWF/E Martin was a former European, Hardcore, and Intercontinental champion. In addition to singles success, Martin has won both the WCW Tag Team Championship and World Tag Team Championship with Booker T.

Death
On March 13, 2009, Martin was found dead in his Tampa, Florida home 4 days before his 34th birthday. He is believed to have died the day before. It was ruled that his death was from an accidental overdose of oxycodone.

Championships
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked him #37 of the 500 top singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 2001.

Wild West Wrestling
WWW Heavyweight Championship (one time)

World Wrestling Federation
WCW World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Booker T)
WWF European Championship (one time)
WWF Hardcore Championship (two times)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (one time)
World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Booker T)

References

Other websites

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Günter Kunert (March 6, 1929 – September 21, 2019) was a German writer and political commentator. Born in Berlin, he left the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to live in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). He joined the main political party of East Germany, the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in 1948.

A poet, Kunert also wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, aphorisms, satires, fairy tales, science fiction, radio plays, speeches, travel writing, movie scripts, a novel, and a drama.

In the 1970s, he was a writing lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2009, Kunert won the America Award in Literature.

Kunert died on September 21, 2019 of pneumonia in Berlin at the age of 90.

References

Other websites
 Links to Günter Kunert (Freie Universität Berlin, German)

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Günter Kunert


Aílton Gonçalves da Silva (born 19 July 1973) is a Brazilian football player. In 2004, he was named the German Footballer of the Year.

References

Other websites

 Aílton at SambaFoot

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Aílton Gonçalves da Silva


Postal codes () in Taiwan is a system of five digit codes used by Chunghwa Post for postal service in the Republic of China.  There are 368 sets of three-digit codes for townships, county-controlled cities, districts (cities of Chiayi and Hsinchu have a single code covering all its districts) in Taiwan, and the uninhabited island groups of Dongsha (Pratas), Nansha (Spratly), and Diaoyutai (Senkaku) (currently controlled by Japan). There are also codes for Kinmen and Matsu, the parts of Fujian Province controlled by the Republic of China.

The first digit is for a large postal zone, as follows:

References

Taiwan
Category:Transport in Taiwan

Postal codes in Taiwan


Blaignac is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.

Category:Communes in Gironde

Blaignac


Robbie Keane (born 8 July 1980) is a retired Irish football player. A former captain of the Republic of Ireland national team, Keane is the team's all-time leading goal scorer and has the most caps (matches) of any Republic of Ireland outfield player (i.e., not a goalkeeper).

Club career statistics

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|1997/98||rowspan="3"|Wolverhampton Wanderers||rowspan="3"|First Division||38||11||3||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||45||11
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|1998/99||33||11||2||2||4||3||colspan="2"|-||39||16
|-
|1999/00||2||2||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||3||2
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|1999/00||Coventry City||Premier League||31||12||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||34||12

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|2000/01||Internazionale Milano||Serie A || 6 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 1 || 14 || 3

|-
|2000/01||rowspan="3"|Leeds United||rowspan="3"|Premier League||18||9||2||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||20||9
|-
|2001/02||25||3||2||3||0||0||6||3||33||9
|-
|2002/03||3||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||1
|-
|2002/03||rowspan="6"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="6"|Premier League||29||13||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||32||13
|-
|2003/04||34||14||3||1||4||1||colspan="2"|-||41||16
|-
|2004/05||35||11||6||3||4||3||colspan="2"|-||45||17
|-
|2005/06||36||16||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||38||16
|-
|2006/07||27||11||5||5||3||1||9||5||44||22
|-
|2007/08||36||15||3||2||5||2||10||4||54||23
|-
|2008/09||Liverpool||Premier League||19||5||1||0||1||0||7||2||28||7
|-
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="2"|Premier League||14||5||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||14||5
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|2009/10||20||6||2||1||3||2||colspan="2"|-||25||9

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|2009/10||Celtic||Premier League || 16 || 12 || 3 || 4 || 0 || 0 || - || - || 19 || 16
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|2010/11||Tottenham Hotspur || Premier League || 7 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 10 || 1
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|2010/11||West Ham United || Premier League || 9 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 2
|-

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|2011||Los Angeles Galaxy || Major League Soccer || 4 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 9 || 4
|-

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|2011/12||Aston Villa (loan) || Premier League || 6 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || 7 || 3
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| 2012 || Los Angeles Galaxy || Major League Soccer || 28 || 16 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 5 || 1 || 1 || 34 || 22
 422 || 150 || 34 || 14 || 34 || 16 || 34 || 14 || 524 || 194
 6 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 1 || 14 || 3
 16 || 12 || 3 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 19 || 16
 32 || 18 || 0 || 0 || 8 || 6 || 3 || 2 || 43 || 26
 476 || 180 || 40 || 19 || 45 || 22 || 41 || 15 || 599 || 238
|}

International career statistics

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|1998||5||2
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|1999||8||3
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|2000||9||2
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|2001||7||1
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|2002||11||6
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|2003||7||4
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|2004||10||6
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|2005||7||1
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|2006||6||4
|-
|2007||8||3
|-
|2008||7||3
|-
|2009||11||6
|-
|2010 || 8 || 4
|-
|2011 || 10 || 8
|-
|2012 || 7 || 1
|-
!Total || 122 || 54
|}

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The Da Vinci Code is a religious 2006 American drama movie. Ron Howard directed the movie.

Plot
Robert Langdon is a professor of religious iconography and symbology from Harvard University. While in Paris, he is the prime suspect in the unusual murder of a Louvre curator. Langdon realized the curator was part of a secret society. Members of the society included Leonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo, Botticelli, and others

Cast

 Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon
 Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu
 Ian McKellen as Sir Leigh Teabing
 Alfred Molina as Bishop Aringarosa
 Jürgen Prochnow as André Vernet
 Jean Reno as Police Captain Bezu Fache
 Paul Bettany as Silas
 Étienne Chicot as Lieutenant Jérôme Collet
 Jean-Yves Berteloot as Remy Jean
 Jean-Pierre Marielle as Jacques Saunière
 Charlotte Graham as Mary Magdalene
 Hugh Mitchell as young Silas
 Seth Gabel as Michael the Cleric
 Marie-Françoise Audollent as Sister Sandrine
 Rita Davies as Elegant Woman at Rosslyn
 Francesco Carnelutti as Prefect
 Author Dan Brown and his wife make cameos (forefront) in the first scene of the book signing scene.
 The Templar Revelation authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, make a brief appearance as passengers on a bus.

Release Dates

Controversy
The Da Vinci Code (like the book) was controversial. It received very harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church. They didn't like the idea that they were behind a 2,000-year-old cover-up about what the Holy Grail really was. The movie also said that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a daughter.

Censorship
The movie was banned in Egypt because of controversial elements. It was also banned in Lebanon and Jordan

Critical reception
The movie got mixed to negative reviews from the critics. Rotten Tomatoes rated the movie 25%, meaning "Rotten". It also got poor reviews at the Cannes Film Festival Movie critic Leonard Maltin called the movie "a letdown in every respect."

However, reviews were not all bad. Roger Ebert gave the movie three out of four stars. Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper both liked the movie.

The box office
Despite mixed to negative reviews, the movie took in more than $758 million in the box office.

References

Other websites

 Official "secret" site

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The Da Vinci Code (movie)


Jose Javier Curto Gines (born December 31, 1964 in Madrid) is a boccia player from Spain.  He has a physical disability: He has cerebral palsy and is a BC2 type athlete. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He finished first in the one person BC2 boccia game.

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José Javier Curto Gines


Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 6,937. The county seat is Mount Sterling.

Siloam Springs State Park is in this county.

History
Brown County was founded in 1839. It is named in honor of U.S. General Jacob Brown, who defeated the British at the Battle of Sackett's Harbor in 1813.

References

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Brown County, Illinois


Media may refer to:

 Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
 Advertising media
 Broadcast media
 Digital media
 Electronic media
 Hypermedia
 Print media
 Published media
 Mass media can mean television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet
 News media, mass media focused on communicating news
 Journalists, the people who write for and work in news media
 Multimedia, communications that include multiple forms of information
 Media (computer), used in computer data storage devices
 Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

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Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumalak (29 September 1944 – 17 June 2017) was a Filipino Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines He was the incumbent Military Ordinariate of the Philippines since 2005 until his death in 2017. He was born in Santander, Cebu, Philippines.

Tumulak died on 17 June 2017 at a hospital in San Juan City, Manila, Philippines from pancreatic cancer, aged 72.

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Leopoldo S. Tumulak


The Yaqui River (Río Yaqui in Spanish) (Hiak Vatwe in Yaqui) is a river in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico. It is the largest river system in the state of Sonora. The Yaqui river is used for irrigation.

It is about 320km (200mi) in length, the Yaqui flows south and southwest to empty into the Gulf of California.
The Yaqui river starts in the Sierra Madre Occidental and flows into the Gulf of California near the port of Guaymas.

Its course is broken up by several reservoirs like Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo), Lázaro Cárdenas (Angostura), or Álvaro Obregón (El Oviáchic, Lake Ouiachic), which provides the water for the heavily farmed region of Ciudad Obregón.

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Yaqui River


Rockfish is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.

Overview
It was among the communities severely affected by flash flooding from Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Rockfish was frequently referenced in the CBS television series The Waltons. It was noted as being the closest town to Waltons Mountain. Which was the fictional version of the nearby community of Schuyler.

Also known as "Rockfish Depot" even though the railroad depot building has been gone for decades.

References

Other websites
 GNIS reference

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Rockfish, Virginia


Thomasville is a city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 4,649. It is notable as the childhood hometown of author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham, who refers to it often in her storytelling.

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Thomasville, Alabama


Arnold Carl Harberger (born July 27, 1924) is an American economist. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. Harberger is known for his triangle theory, where the deadweight loss that may be caused by seller monopoly power, taxation. He is also known for his essays about predictions of the American GDP.

References

Other websites
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Arnold Harberger


A barge is a boat with a flat bottom, mostly built to transport heavy goods along rivers and canals. Some barges cannot move on their own, and must be pushed or pulled by towboats or by horses on the towpath. A narrow barge may be called a narrowboat.

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Barge


Stephen Bradley Womack (born November 10, 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-owner of Austin, Texas bars Dizzy Rooster and Chugging Monkey. Brad has an identical twin brother named Chad. He is best known to the American television audience as the bachelor of the eleventh season of the reality dating show The Bachelor in which he became the first Bachelor not to choose either of the two finalists.  In 2011, Womack returned for a second turn as The Bachelor.

References

Other websites
ABC Brad Womack bio
Brad Womack pictures and bio

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Brad Womack


was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) of the Northern Court during the Nanboku-chō period after Kōryaku and before Shitoku.  This period started in February 1381 and ended in February 1384.  The pretenders in Kyoto were  and    Their Southern Court rivals in Yoshino during this time were  and {{nihongo|Emperor Go-Kameyama|後亀山天皇|Go-Kameyama-tennō}}.

Events of the Eitoku era
 1381 (Eitoku 1, 3rd month): The emperor traveled in procession to visit Ashikaga Yoshimitsu at his home.
 1381 (Eitoku 1, 7th month): Nijō Yoshimoto was given the position of Prime Minister (daijō daijin).
 1382 (Eitoku 2, 1st month): Yoshimitsu is raised to the court position of Minister of the Left (sadaijin), and several days later, he was named General of the Left (sadaisho).
 1383 (Eitoku 3''): Emperor Go-Kameyama received the succession in the Southern Court.

Southern Court nengō.
 Kōwa (Muromachi period), 1381–1384

Related pages
 Muromachi period

References

Other websites
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

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This is a list of colleges and universities in Virginia:

Public
Christopher Newport University
The College of William & Mary
Eastern Virginia Medical School
George Mason University
James Madison University
Longwood University
Marine Corps University
Norfolk State University
Old Dominion University
Radford University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Community College System
Blue Ridge
Central Virginia
Dabney S. Lancaster
Danville
Eastern Shore
Germanna
J. Sargeant Reynolds
John Tyler
Lord Fairfax
Mountain Empire
New River
Northern Virginia
Patrick Henry
Paul D. Camp
Piedmont Virginia
Rappahannock
Southside Virginia
Southwest Virginia
Thomas Nelson
Tidewater
Virginia Highlands
Virginia Western
Wytheville
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia State University
University of Mary Washington
University of Virginia
University of Virginia's College at Wise

Private
Appalachian School of Law
Averett University
Bluefield College
Bridgewater College
Christendom College
Eastern Mennonite University
Emory and Henry College
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Ferrum College
Founders College
George Washington University Virginia Campus
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampton University
Hollins University
Jefferson College of Health Sciences
Liberty University
Lynchburg College
Mary Baldwin College
Marymount University
Patrick Henry College
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph College
Regent University
Roanoke College
Saint Paul's College
Shenandoah University
Southern Virginia University
Stratford University
Sweet Briar College
University of Appalachia College of Pharmacy
University of Northern Virginia
University of Richmond
Virginia Intermont College
Virginia International University
Virginia Union University
Virginia Wesleyan College
Washington and Lee University
Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary
Westwood College Of Technology

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Colleges and universities in Virginia


Subotica ( ) is a city in northern Serbia. It is in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It is the northern most city in Serbia.

The Serbian language is the most employed language in daily life, but Hungarian is also used by almost one third of the population in their daily conversations. Both languages are also widely employed in commercial and official signage

References

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Subotica


Yuichi Yoshimoto (born 25 March 1972) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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Yuichi Yoshimoto


African art is art made in Africa or by Africans. Although the term itself is debatable, as there are few other continents whose art is grouped in this way, and given the differences between individual countries within Africa, historically art from Africa has often been considered in this way.

Other websites
National Museum of African Art
Inside African art

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Art

African art


Fenghuang (Chinese: 鳳凰; Pinyin: Fènghuáng; Japanese: 鳳凰 hō-ō; Korean: 봉황 bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological birds, that were central figures in ancient Chinese cosmology. Sometimes called the Chinese Phoenix, the Fenghuang is a symbol of summer and spiritual balance, and along with the dragon, qilin and tortoise, is one of the most highly revered creatures in Chinese tradition. Its appearance is said to indicate some great event, or to bear testimony to the greatness of a ruler.

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Fenghuang


is a role-playing video game made by Square Soft for the Super NES game console.

Plot
Chrono Trigger follows a young boy named Crono, who goes to see the Millennial Fair. He meets a girl named Marle at the fair and she follows him. Crono's friend, named Lucca, tests a teleporter at the fair. The machine goes wrong, and sends them back in time. They soon meet new friends and discover more time periods to go to. However, they find out an evil monster named Lavos is destroying the world. It is up to Crono and his friends to stop it.

Gameplay
Chrono Trigger is a role-playing game. It was one of the first games to let the player see the enemies on the world before they fight them, and when he or she goes into a battle, the enemies and characters fight without going into a separate battle screen like other RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest did at the time.

Reception
Chrono Trigger is thought to be one of the best Super NES games, and one of the best role-playing games too. It got great reviews, praising it for its story, gameplay, and innovation.

Re-releases
Chrono Trigger was first re-released on the PlayStation with Final Fantasy IV on Final Fantasy Chronicles. It was given good reviews, but reviewers were unhappy with the long load times whenever going into a menu or battle. Chrono Trigger was re-released for the Nintendo DS as Chrono Trigger DS. It has the same graphics and extras from the PlayStation version along with other extras such as new dungeons.

References

Other websites
 Official Japanese website
 Official English website
 The Chrono Wiki
 Chrono Trigger Walkthrough

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Category:PlayStation games
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Category:Video games with time travel

Chrono Trigger


The Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger is a US helicopter. It is a military variant of the famous civilian Bell 206 used for training by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy.

Related pages
 Training aircraft.

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Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger


Fotu La () or Fatu La is the highest mountain pass on the Srinagar-Leh highway in the Himalaya in Kashmir.

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Fatu La Pass


Brain Warp is an electronic audio game  developed by Big Monster Toys, and was made by Tiger Electronics  and released on June 16, 1996. Players follow the spoken instructions of the game unit by choosing the correct number or color. Its catchphrase which the voice says before a game begins is: "If you don't keep up with me, you're finished!". A Star Wars version titled Death Star Escape was released by Tiger Electronics in 1997 and the games are called Challenges.

The spherical unit has six colored knobs - purple, red, green, white, orange and yellow - with numbers on them, and a blue base. A second version was released in 2002 with a translucent black base. The voice calls out a color, a number, or both, depending on the game selected, and the player flips the unit so that the correct knob is facing upwards. After every four points, the game becomes faster. If the player responds incorrectly, the round is ended and the unit will make a raspberry sound.  There are six games in total - three where the player has to follow the command, one memory game that uses a combination of colors and numbers, a code buster game and a game called Pass Attack where players have to make up their own pattern. When the game has finished, the electronic unit will say "This game is finished!" After a pause the game will encourage the player to play the game again by saying "Wanna warp again?" In Brain Warp, the player can select between one of the six different games.

The Star Wars version is grey and is in the shape of the Death Star. Each knob has the same color from Brain Warp in a and has a Star Wars character which include:
  Luke Skywalker
  Princess Leia
  C-3PO
  R2D2
  Chewbacca
  Han Solo

In 2007, a follow up to Brain Warp was released by Hasbro called Hyperslide which features the Code Buster game from Brain Warp and has four discs which all have a different color.

Games

History

The game was the most popular in Duracell's Kids' Choice National Toy Survey in 1996. During the manufacturing process, there were some units of Brain Warp that contained an earlier revision of the game. The earlier revision was able to cope with faster speeds between 36-44 points on the three reflex games, Colors, Numbers and Combo than the original revision. The revision also had some unused sound files in test mode and had a different background music compared to the newer revision. Also, there was a bug in the older revision that lead to the voice and sound effects not in the right pitch against the music. This also happened with Hasbro's Bop It Extreme and Tiger's Boogey Ball game.

Brain Shift
On September 6, 1998, Tiger Electronics released a similar game to Brain Warp, a tabletop electronic audio game called Brain Shift. Players move a 'stick shift' in response to voice commands to complete color and sound patterns, and the game becomes increasingly fast. The game requires close attention, and teaches children to recognize and replicate patterns. It came second in the 1998 Duracell Kids' Choice National Toy Survey, and gained a "Seal of Approval" from the US-based National Parenting Center. The hype around the release by Tiger Electronics of the Furby at the same time allowed the company to concentrate its marketing on Brain Shift. This game has two different versions of introduction. It either says "Ok, listen up" or "Alright!" followed by its catchphrase, "Get your brain in gear and let's play Brain Shift."  This game has six colors: red, green, yellow, blue, orange and white. The game will then say "Now choose your game". Some units of Brain Shift glitch on low batteries and cut out "your game" with a "you shift".  and there are six different games: After choosing a game, the voice will then say "Now how many shifters do we have?" The number of players will be selected and then the game will give a short explanation of how the game is played and then the game will commence.

Some units of Brain Shift had a 'Tiger recommends Duracell' sticker attached to where the batteries are inserted. All sealed units had the stickers on the back of the packaging. This was because at that time, Tiger was allowed to promote Duracell batteries on their games. If the user press 'on' and 'pause' buttons on the front of the device and inserts one of the top right, bottom left and bottom right battery whilst there are three batteries in the unit, the game will enter test mode and play Happy Birthday To You using the sound that plays the melody during the game. Each color on the test mode will  test different functions of the game. If the 'pause' button is pressed whilst in test mode, the user will be able to test the stick shift and the game will say the number followed by the colour.

Brain Bash
The first game from the Brain Family was released in 1994 by Tiger called Brain Bash. The game has four purple buttons and four yellow buttons. The game has five games that play in order. They all involve math. The main game is called Touch Command. The electronic voice issues voice commands to the players such as "One touch one." Player one touches the yellow one button and then press purple one button.

Catchphrases
Each Tiger Electronics brain game has several catchphrases including:

Standard Brain Warp
"Get ready to play Brain Warp. Select game."
"Follow my commands."
"If you don't keep up with me, you're finished!"
"This game is finished!"
"Wanna warp again?"
"Player N wins with N points." (and variants thereof)
"You broke the code!" (upon successfully completing a round of "Code Buster")

Star Wars Version
"If your ready to be tested by the Death Star, select your challenge."
"You must be paced with my commands."
"You have survived and destroyed the Death Star. You win!"
"One of you will be chosen to prove yourself."
"May the force be with you."
"Challenger N wins with N points."
"This battle is done."

Brain Shift

"Alright! Get your brain in gear and let's play Brain Shift!"
"Ok, listen up. Get your brain in gear and let's play Brain Shift!"
"Now chose your game."
"Now how many shifters do we have?"
"Sorry Player N you're out!"
"Sorry Player N should've been (color)."
"You all crashed. Ok. Repeat that round again."
"You shift what I call."
"Remember the pattern, then shift it."
"Find the secret shift pattern. You have sixty seconds to shift it or you crash."
"Remember the location of the six sounds. Shift all six and win."
"Sorry player one, you crash. You have N shifts."
"You completed N shifts in N seconds."
"Now find the pattern of N shifts. Start on (color)!"
"This game is over."

Brain Bash
"Let's Player Brain Bash."
"Player N is winning with N points.:
"Nice going player N."
"Player N is last with, N points."
"You goofed player N!"
"Come on player N."
"Let's play next game."

References

Other websites
Review and demonstration on YouTube, includes Star Wars Version
Brain Warp instructions from Hasbro.
Brain Shift Review and demonstration on YouTube by an electronic game collector Clayranger143

Category:Toys

Brain Warp


Bernard Stalter (12 March 1957 – 12 April 2020) was a French businessman and politician. He was born in Brumath, France. Stalter was a member of the Regional Council of Grand Est from 2016 until his death. He was also a member of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council from 2015 until his death.

Stalter died on 12 April 2020 in Strasbourg, France of COVID-19, aged 63.

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Bernard Stalter


Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman (born December 10, 1985) is an American actress and singer. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She moved to Ossining, New York at age three. She played the role of "Olivia" in the last three seasons of The Cosby Show (1984).

Pearman is most well known as the person Raven in the TV show That's So Raven and other parts in The Cheetah Girls and The Cheetah Girls 2. Pearman goes by the name Raven for most of her acting.

In August 2013 Raven-Symoné commented on legalizing gay marriage, "I was excited to hear today that more states legalized gay marriage. I, however am not currently getting married, but it is great to know I can now, should I wish to". She was dating AzMarie Livingston since 2012, and in October 2015, she announced that she had broken up with her.

Filmography

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Chattanooga is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

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Chattanooga, Oklahoma


The Shape of Water is a 2017 American fantasy drama movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. The movie stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. It is set in Baltimore in 1962, the plot is about a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who becomes friends with a captured humanoid-amphibian creature.

Many critics declared The Shape of Water del Toro's best movie since Pan's Labyrinth, praising in particular Hawkins's performance.

The movie won two Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Original Score. At the 71st British Academy Film Awards, the movie received 12 nominations, winning Best Movie. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018.

The Shape of Water began a limited release in two theaters in New York City on December 1, 2017, before expanding on December 8, 2017, and has grossed $34 million.

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The Shape of Water


Seward  is a city in Alaska. It is on the coast of the Kenai Peninsula. About 3,000 people live there. The town is named after William H. Seward. He was the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, he fought for the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia.

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Seward, Alaska


Lespourcy is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.

Lespourcy

Lespourcy


Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born Australian-American Grammy Award winning country music singer and songwriter.

Personal life
Urban is married to actress Nicole Kidman. They met at G'Day LA, a Hollywood event honoring Australians. The couple have two daughters: Sunday Rose Kidman Urban (born 7 July 2008) and Faith Margaret Kidman Urban (born 28 December 2010).

Albums

References

Other websites
Keith Urban's official website

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Category:Australian country musicians
Category:Australian guitarists
Category:Australian singer-songwriters
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Keith Urban


A period in the periodic table is any horizontal row of elements.

The elements in a certain period all increase one by one in atomic numbers. The elements in the same period are very metallic on the left, and nonmetallic on the right. As you go across a period towards the right, the size of the atom gets larger, because protons and electrons are increasing.

First period has 2 elements. Second period and third period each has 8 elements. Fourth period and fifth period each has 18 elements . And sixth period and seventh period each has 32 elements. Moreover, f-block elements are counted in the sixth and seventh periods. Hence, each one has 32 elements in it.

Standard periodic table

Chemical Series of the Periodic Table

 Alkali metals
 Alkaline earths
 Lanthanides
 Actinides
 Superactinides
 Transition metals
 Poor metals
 Metalloids/Semi metals/Half metals
 Nonmetals
 Halogens
 Noble gases

State at standard temperature and pressure. The color of the number (atomic number) above the element symbol shows the state of the element at normal conditions.
 those in blue are gases
 those in green are liquids
 those in black are solid

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Period (periodic table)


Fernando Jacob Hubertina Hendrika Ricksen (27 July 1976 – 18 September 2019) was a Dutch former professional footballer. He played as a right back and right midfielder. He was mostly known for his six-year spell at Rangers. He earned 12 caps for the Netherlands at international level.

Death
On 30 October 2013, Ricksen revealed he was terminally ill and had been diagnosed with ALS (motor neurone disease). He died from problems caused by the disease on 18 September 2019 in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire at the age of 43.

Honours

Club
Fortuna Sittard
Eerste Divisie: 1994–95

AZ
Eerste Divisie: 1997–98

Rangers
Scottish Premier League: 2002–03, 2004–05
Scottish Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03
Scottish League Cup: 2002, 2003, 2005

Zenit Saint Petersburg
Russian Premier League: 2007
Russian Super Cup: 2008
UEFA Cup: 2007–08
UEFA Super Cup: 2008

References

Other websites
  Profile at the official FC Zenit St. Petersburg website

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Fernando Ricksen


Francine Hughes (born August 1947) is an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her ex-husband named Mickey Hughes, killed her ex-husband, Mickey Hughes. She put fire to his bed on March 9, 1977. Mickey was killed and the house was destroyed in the fire. The story was made into a book and a movie. In No Child of Mine (where 35 year old Linda abused everyone), 35 year old Linda was acting like Mickey who lived with 13 year old Kerry (who didn't do anything wrong) in and for 13 years.

Background
Hughes had suffered over a decade of beatings and verbal abuse from her husband. She divorced him but every time she tried to keep him out of the house he beat her.

After Mickey was in a serious car accident she visited him in the hospital. She then allowed him back in the house to recover from his injuries. He started drinking and beating her again.

The Burning Bed
On the day he died, he beat her badly then burned her textbooks for classes she was taking. That night Hughes poured gasoline on her husband's bed and set him on fire. She then drove to the police station so she could confess to the killing. After trial in Lansing, Michigan, Hughes was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.

Francine Hughes' story was made into a book by Faith McNulty. It was later made into a movie in 1984 titled The Burning Bed. It starred Farrah Fawcett.

References

Other websites
 Dansville, Michigan: The Burning Bed
 "The Burning Bed": A turning point in fight against domestic violence

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Category:American crime victims
Category:People acquitted of murder

Francine Hughes


William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.

Early life
White was born in Emporia, Kansas. White moved to El Dorado, Kansas with his parents, Allen and Mary Ann Hatten White. He spent most of his childhood in El Dorado. He loved animals, and he loved reading various books.

Politics
White became a leader of the Progressive movement in Kansas. He created the Kansas Republican League in 1912. He did this to oppose railroads.  White helped Theodore Roosevelt form the Progressive (Bull-Moose) Party in 1912. He did this to oppose the conservatives helping Republican president William Howard Taft.

Family
White married Sallie Lindsay in 1893. They had two children, William Lindsay, born in 1900, and Mary Katherine, born in 1904. Mary died in a 1921 horse-riding accident. This led to her father to writing a famous eulogy, "Mary White," on August 17, 1921.

References

Other websites

 Emporia Gazette & Museum
 William Allen White
 Profile from Kansas State Historical Society

 William Allen White House
 William Allen White's printing press, Kansas Museum of History
 This Might Be a Wiki: the tmbg knowledge base

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Category:Kansas Republicans

William Allen White


On Friday, October 2, 1970 at 1:14 p.m. MDT in Colorado a chartered Martin 4-0-4 airliner crashed into a mountain eight miles (13 km) west of Silver Plume. It happened in clear weather. The twin-engined propliner carried 37 passengers and a crew of three; 29 were killed at the scene and two later died of their injuries while under medical care. It was operated by Golden Eagle Aviation.

It was one of two aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team to Logan, Utah. They were going to Utah for a game against Utah State University. The other plane flew a normal route and arrived safely in Utah. Pilot errors, including bad in-flight choices and bad pre-flight planning, were officially reported as what caused the crash.

References

Other websites
NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, SA-421, File No. 3-1127    (alternate link 1, alternate link 2)
Memorial '70 Homepage – includes survivor recollections, photos of victims
Super70s article about the crash – includes narrative on circumstances leading up to the flight, and lists names of those on board
Roadside memorial adjacent to I-70 near Colorado crash site
Present-day photos of crash site on Mount Trelease – includes directions for visiting the site, and GPS coordinates
1960s photo of the accident aircraft in Mohawk Airlines livery
Wichita State University Football Team Airplane Crash Collection – archives related to crash

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Wichita State University football team plane crash


Michael Joseph Piazza (born September 4, 1968) is a former American baseball catcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1992 to 2007.  His best years were played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.  Piazza is regarded by many as the best offensive (hitting, batting) catcher of all time. He holds many batting records among catchers, such as most career home runs (427) and seven seasons hitting 30 or more home runs.  Despite allegations of using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, Piazza was eventually elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.

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Meise is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

In 2007, 18545 people lived there.

It is at 50° 56 North, 04° 19 East.

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Meise


Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was an early American geneticist credited with the discovery of sex chromosomes. She is credited with the discovery of two kinds of sperm in male mealworms, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome. The pair of sex chromosomes that she studied later became known as the X and Y chromosomes.

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Nettie Stevens


Knapp is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 299.

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Knapp, Jackson County, Wisconsin


The photoelectric effect is a phenomenon in physics. The effect is based on the idea that electromagnetic radiation is made of a series of particles called photons. When a photon hits an electron on a metal surface, the electron can be emitted. The emitted electrons are called photoelectrons. The effect is also called the Hertz Effect, because it was discovered by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, but this name is not used often.
The photoelectric effect has helped physicists understand the quantum nature of light and electrons. The concept of wave–particle duality was developed because of the photoelectric effect. Albert Einstein proposed the Laws of Photoelectric Effect and won the Nobel Prize For Physics 1921.

Mechanism
Not every electromagnetic wave will cause the photoelectric effect, only radiation of a certain frequency or higher will cause the effect. The minimum frequency needed is called the "cutoff frequency" or "threshold frequency'. The cutoff frequency is used to find the work function, , which is the amount of energy holding the electron to the metal surface. The work function is a property of the metal and is not affected by the incoming radiation. If a frequency of light strikes the metal surface that is greater than the cutoff frequency, then the emitted electron will have some kinetic energy.

The energy of a photon causing the photoelectric effect is found through , where  is Planck's constant,  J·s,  is the frequency of the electromagnetic wave,  is the kinetic energy of the photoelectron and  is the work function for the metal. If the photon has a lot of energy, Compton scattering (~ thousands of eV) or pair production (~ millions of eV) may take place.

The intensity of the light alone does not cause ejection of electrons. Only light of the cut off frequency or higher can do that. However, increasing the intensity of light will increase the number of electrons being emitted, as long as the frequency is above the cut off frequency.

History
Heinrich Hertz made the first observation of the photoelectric effect in 1887. He reported that a spark jumped more readily between two charged spheres if light was shining on them. Further studies were done to learn about the effect observed by Hertz. In 1902, Philipp Lenard showed that the kinetic energy of a photoelectron does not depend on the light intensity. However, it was not until 1905 that Einstein proposed a theory that explained the effect fully. The theory says that electromagnetic radiation is a series of particles, called photons. The photons collide with the electrons on the surface and emit them. This theory ran against the belief that electromagnetic radiation was a wave. Thus, at first it was not recognised as correct. In 1916, Robert Millikan published the results of experiments using a vacuum photo-tube. His work showed that Einstein's photoelectric equation explained the behaviour very accurately. However, Millikan and other scientists were slower to accept Einstein's theory of light quanta. Maxwell's wave theory of electromagnetic radiation cannot explain the photoelectric effect and blackbody radiation. These are explained by quantum mechanics.

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Offenburg () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. In 2013, about 57,000 people lived there.

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Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is set in Italy and is about the love between two young people from noble families that are enemies.  Romeo and Juliet has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been adapted to opera, ballet, television productions, and movies.

Characters

 Romeo Montague
 Juliet Capulet
 Nurse
 Mercutio
 Friar Laurence
 Tybalt
 Prince Escalus
 Lord and Lady Capulet
 Lord and Lady Montague
 Benvolio

Story
The noble families of the Montagues and the Capulets live in the city of Verona. Both families are enemies, and even their servants get into fights with each other. Prince Escalus, the ruler of the city, tells the families to stop fighting or they will be punished.

Montague has only one child, a teenage boy called Romeo. Capulet also has only one child, a beautiful 14-year-old daughter called Juliet. One evening, Romeo sneaks into a party at the Capulet's house. He meets Juliet and they fall in love with each other. Later on, Romeo overhears Juliet standing on her balcony admitting her love for him. He reveals himself and they agree to be married. Friar Laurence agrees to marry them in secret the next day.

Juliet's cousin Tybalt confronts Romeo, angry that he sneaked into the party. Romeo's friend Mercutio steps in and fights Tybalt. Tybalt kills Mercutio, so Romeo takes revenge and kills Tybalt. The Prince orders Romeo to leave the city, and warns he will be executed if he returns. Romeo secretly spends the night with Juliet before leaving the next morning.

Juliet is left upset after Romeo leaves. To cheer her up, her parents arrange for her to quickly marry Paris, a cousin of the Prince. This only makes it worse. Juliet refuses, so her father threatens to kick her out if she doesn't marry Paris. Friar Laurence suggests a drug that can put her to sleep for a few hours, so that she can pretend to be dead, so that she can sneak out with Romeo. The Friar sends a message to Romeo to tell him about the plan. Juliet takes the drug and her family, thinking her to be dead, lay her in the family tomb. But before the messenger can reach Romeo, he learns of Juliet's "death" from someone else and believes she is really dead.

Romeo goes to the tomb and is discovered by Paris, who has also come to mourn her. They fight, and Romeo kills Paris. Still believing Juliet to be dead, Romeo poisons himself. Juliet wakes up, but when she sees that Romeo is dead, she stabs herself. The play ends with the families and the Prince entering the tomb and discovering them dead. In their sadness, the families agree they should no longer be enemies with each other.

About the play

Because this play was written in the 1500's, the English language that it uses is not exactly like the English that is used today. Some of the play is written in poetry.

Language
In modern English we say "you" for one person and also "you" for more than one person. But in Shakespeare's English, he often writes "thee" and "thou" when it means just one person.
Juliet says "If they do see thee, they will murder thee!"
Many words are used a little bit differently to the way they are used today, and other words are used that are now only used sometimes in poetry.
Examples: "morn" for "morning; "morrow" for "tomorrow"; "woe" for "unhappiness".

Form
Romeo and Juliet, like many of Shakespeare's plays, is written in several different forms.
Some of it is prose, which is like normal speaking. The servants in the play usually talk in prose.
For example, two Capulet servants are planning to cause trouble with two Montague servants who are walking down the street.
Sampson: "Let us take the law of our side! Let them begin!"
Gregory: "I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list!" (however they like)
Sampson: "I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bare it!"

Some of the play is written in poetry which rhymes on the ends of the lines.
For example, when Friar Laurence goes out to tend his garden in the early morning, he says:
"The grey eyed Morn smiles on the frowning Night
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light."
("Morn" is used to mean morning in poetry)

 A lot of poetry has rhyme and rhythm. But most of this play is written in a type of poetry called blank verse. This means that although it does not usually rhyme, it has strong rhythm. The rhythm is exactly the same in most of the play, and in many of Shakespeare's other plays. The rhythm goes:
de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah,
de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah.

For example, Juliet, who is anxious to get a message from Romeo says:
"The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse!
In half an hour, she promised to return!"

 The play finishes with two lines that rhyme. This is called a rhyming couplet.

The Prince says to Montague and Cauplet:
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned and some punish-ed:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

In simple English

The Balcony scene

Of all the scenes that have ever been written in plays, one of the most famous is in Romeo and Juliet.

After Romeo and Juliet have met at a party and fallen in love, Juliet goes up to bed. But she cannot sleep so she stands at her window and pretends she is talking with Romeo.
Romeo is going past and says "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? ...It is my Lady! O, it is my Love!"

Juliet, not knowing he is there, says "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be who you are?) She wishes he was not called Romeo Montague but had some different name, so he was not an enemy.

Romeo climbs up onto the balcony. Juliet tells Romeo that her love for him is as deep and endless as the sea. They part from each other with the famous words:
"Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say Good night till it be morrow." (tomorrow)

This romantic scene has been acted and copied many times, sometimes seriously and sometimes for fun. One well-known scene that took its idea from this, is from West Side Story, a musical by Leonard Bernstein, which takes place on a fire-escape landing with the lovers, Tony and Maria, singing the lovesong, Tonight.

Movies and music based on the play

Movies
Romeo and Juliet has been performed on stage many times. There have also been forty different movies

 1908 - Romeo and Juliet, a silent movie was made by Vitagraph Studios in the US. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, the movie starred Paul Panzer as Romeo and Florence Lawrence as Juliet.
 1936 - Romeo and Juliet, produced by Irving Thalberg and directed by George Cukor of Classical Hollywood with Norma Shearer as Juliet and Leslie Howard as Romeo, but many critics said that the actors were too old.
 1968 - Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli. This movie was made in Italy, with Olivia Hussey, who was 15, as Juliet and Leonard Whiting, who was 17, as Romeo. The costumes won an Oscar.
 1996 - Romeo + Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet. This very colourful version has a modern setting.
 2013 - Romeo + Juliet, directed by Carlo Carlei, with Douglas Booth as Romeo and Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet.

Adaptations
 1950s - West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein, is a musical set in a modern city in the US. It is about two rival street gangs, the J uyot ta yo juliet
2007- Romeo x Juliet (Anime) is a japanese anime mixed with some fantasy. Juliet disguises herself as masked guy and saves the people of Verona from the tyranny of Prince Montague who murdered the Capulets to steal the throne. She later meets Romeo, son of Montague and falls inlove.

Music

 1839 - Berlioz wrote a symphony called Romeo and Juliet.
 1867 - Gounod wrote an opera called Roméo et Juliette.
 1869 - Tchaikovsky wrote a symphonic poem called Romeo and Juliet.
 1936 - the first performance of Prokofiev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet.
 1978 - Madero Richard. Costandinos, a French composer, wrote a disco opera titled Romeo & Juliet, which was released as a double album.
 2017- Trippie Redd released a song on his "A Love Letter To You" album named Romeo and Juliet.

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Mario Beaulieu (; born 1959) is a Québécois nationalist. He was the interim leader (until 2019), president (2014–2019) and was also leader (2014–2015) of the Bloc Québécois. He was the president of the sovereigntist Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Montreal from 2009 to 2014, and has been the spokesman for the Mouvement Québec français.

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Dumfries is a town in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Michelle Richardson is a fictional character on the British television series Skins. She is played by April Pearson.

Personality
Michelle appears to only be interested in her boyfriend Tony Stonem, and "looking shaggable" (in other words being attractive), something she describes an important part of who she is. Although Michelle appears confident, especially of her appearance, she can be seen worried in the first series that Tony is cheating on her, especially with posh schoolgirl Abigail Stock. On Michelle's "about me" page located on the official Skins website, Michelle describes Jal Fazer as her best friend, saying that she and Jal have been in the same class since they were four, and that Jal still lets her copy from her homework. Even though Michelle doesn't seem to be interested in her schoolwork, she receives 2 A's and 1 B on her A Levels, and is accepted into the University of York after she finishes school at Roundview College. She also shows talent at speaking languages. Including French and Spanish, in the series one episode "Tony" Michelle appears to also understand Italian when spoken near her.

Although Michelle can be self centered—where she mainly focuses on her boyfriend Tony—she can be very helpful and caring too, such as when she solves her mother's relationship problems or befriends Sketch in series two. She also shows concern for Effy Stonem, and for her friendship with Jal in the first series episode "Maxxie and Anwar", where she feels she has not been a very good friend to her.

Michelle likes Stevie Nicks, Peaches, and Eminem, but she doesn't like Keane or James Blunt. Her favourite movies are Mean Girls, Emperor's New Groove, and Last Seduction, and her favourite television shows are One Tree Hill, Scrubs, and Extreme Makeover.

Character history

Series 1
Michelle is aware that Sid Jenkins, her boyfriend Tony's best friend, is in love with her, and tries to help by setting Sid up with her friend Cassie Ainsworth. Although loyal to him, Michelle worries that Tony is cheating on her, and breaks up with Tony after he kisses and fondles Abigail Stock at a choir performance. Sid tries to get with Michelle, but Tony takes her back before anything happens. After catching Tony trying to have sex with Maxxie during their class trip to Russia, Michelle breaks up with Tony again, except this time she will not take him back. She tries to have sex with Sid during this time, but Sid has fallen in love with Cassie, and reminds Michelle that she really loves Tony and is just looking for comfort. When Josh Stock, Abigail Stock's brother, asks Michelle out she agrees, and the two have a good time together for a short time. But their relationship is ruined by Tony. At Anwar's birthday party Tony calls Michelle on her phone and tells her that he loves her, bringing Michelle to tears. Then Tony is hit by a bus.

Series 2
In the second series Michelle avoids Tony, who is recovering from the accident and has a bad memory. Michell has been coping with sex, drugs, and partying. She returns to her normal self and tries to get back with Tony, but Tony is completely different now, and cannot have sex. Michelle invites Tony on her birthday camping trip, but Tony says no, and on the camping trip Michelle has sex with Sid and the two become involved. They try to keep their relationship secret, but Sid's girlfriend Cassie is angry, and tells everybody. Tony pretends not to care, but eventually tries to get Michelle back. Realizing they aren't in love with each other, Michelle and Sid end their relationship, and Michelle and Tony try to make a relationship work. Everything goes well, but they are accepted into different universities after graduation, and it is unknown whether they stay together or not.

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"It's My Life" is a 1995 song by the German DJ group Sash!. It is the first single from their first studio album It's My Life – The Album which was released on 25 August 1997.

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Strong is a city in the US state of Arkansas.

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Missy-aux-Bois is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Herbert David Kelleher (March 12, 1931 – January 3, 2019) was an American businessman. He was the co-founder, CEO, and Chairman Emeritus of Southwest Airlines. He was born in Camden, New Jersey.

Kelleher died on January 3, 2019 in Dallas, Texas from prostate cancer at the age of 87.

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 Forbes – Southwest Airlines: Profit for peanuts
 Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success.
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 How I Built This – Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher

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is a Japanese professional athlete.  He is best known as an association football player. He was a member of the Japanese national team.

Club career statistics

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|1988/89||rowspan="4"|Yomiuri||rowspan="4"|JSL Division 1||19||0||||||||||19||0
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|1989/90||22||0||||||4||0||26||0
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|1992||rowspan="7"|Shimizu S-Pulse||rowspan="7"|J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||3||1||11||1||14||2
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|1993||36||1||4||0||1||0||41||1
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|1994||44||2||1||0||1||0||46||2
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|1996||30||0||3||0||16||0||49||0
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|1997||29||0||0||0||6||0||35||0
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|1998||1||0||0||0||9||0||10||0
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|1998||rowspan="2"|Cerezo Osaka||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||14||0||1||1||0||0||15||1
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|1999||9||0||0||0||0||0||9||0
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|1999||Shimizu S-Pulse||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||2||0||2||0
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288||4||13||2||57||1||357||7
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|1992||7||0
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|1993||16||1
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Latin house is a kind of dance music. It mixes together house music with Latin music like that of Spanish Mexican, Brazilian, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican and Colombian origins. It started in the late 1980s in places like New York City and Chicago. It mixed together East Coast dance music with the sounds of Salsa, Latin jazz and Brazilian beats. DJ groups like Raze began making house music with Spanish lyrics. Nervous Records, an underground house music and hip hop record label, produced a number of Latin house releases by different artists. As it grew in popularity it began to be recognized as a genre.

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Lilith is a female demon in Jewish legends, found first in the Dead Sea scrolls. The legend is related to a Hebrew language term lilith meaning night, and has also been linked to beliefs about demons called lili in ancient Mesopotamia. It is believed by some that during creation, Lilith was made before Eve was. This version states she was created from the same dirt as Adam. She later came to change the earth and make it peaceful. To make the blind see. To let man kind have power over themselves and not let a narcissist rule. To let love and joy rule. Just like magic.

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The next Australian federal election will be held in or before 2022 to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives (lower house) and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate (upper house) will be up for election.

The incumbent Coalition Government, led by Scott Morrison will be seeking a fourth three-year term against the opposition Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese.

Polling

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Ming the Merciless is a fictional character in the sci-fi world of Flash Gordon. Ming first appeared in the Flash Gordon comic strip in 1934. He is the main villain of the strip. He is also the villain in the Flash Gordon movie serials, television series, and movie adaptation. He rules the Planet Mongo. Charles B. Middleton played the character in the movie serials.

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Ronald William McLarty (April 14, 1947 – February 8, 2020) was an American actor, playwright, and novelist. He also worked as an audiobook narrator. He recorded over 100 titles and received many Audie Awards. McLarty appeared in many television series such as Courage the Cowardly Dog and Spenser: For Hire. He also wrote dozens of plays and 10 novels. He was known for writing The Memory of Running'' (2004).

McLarty was born in East Providence, Rhode Island. He studied at Rhode Island College. McLarty died on February 8, 2020 in New York City of dementia-related problems, aged 72.

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Morehouse Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,979. The parish seat is Bastrop. The parish was formed in 1844.

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Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (; 319-272 BC) was an general of the Hellenistic era. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from ca. 297 BC), and later he became King of Epirus (306-302, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, cost him heavy losses, from which the term Pyrrhic victory was coined. He is the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.

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The Tigris is a river in the Middle East. It is one of two rivers that define Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia literally means (the land) between the rivers. The other river is called Euphrates. The source of the river is in the Taurus mountains in Turkey. From there, it flows through various countries, most notably Turkey, Syria and Iraq. The river is 1,900 kilometres (1,181 miles) long. It comes together with the Euphrates in the Shatt-al-Arab(which is called Arvand Rud in Persian). The Shatt-al-Arab flows into the Persian Gulf. The river had an important role in the development of civilization, as early farmers used water from the river to water their crops and produce more food.

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Lindi Ortega (born May 28, 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, known for her voice that has been described as a blend of Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris. She spent nearly a decade as an independent artist in the Toronto music scene, self-releasing two albums and an EP in that time. In 2008 she was signed to Cherrytree Records / Interscope Records and released a second EP. Lindi performed at the 2009 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. In July 2009 Lindi was the opening act for Kevin Costner & Modern West's tour. In September 2009 Lindi performed on a cross-Canada tour as opening act for Keane's North American tour.

Discography

Studio albums and EPs

Compilations and soundtracks

References

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Chelyabinsk is a city in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. The city is east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River, and on the border of Europe and Asia. The city has 1,195,446 people. As of 15 February 2013, the head of the city is Stanislav Mosharov. On February 15, 2013, a meteor hit the city.

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Esau is the eldest son of Isaac and Rebekah in the Book of Genesis. Jacob is his twin brother. (Chapter 25). He is a 'cunning hunter, a man of the field' (25:27) Esau gives his birthright as eldest to Jacob for a meal of lentil stew. He is then tricked out of his father's blessing by Rebekah and Jacob, with Jacob instead receiving the blessing.

He has several wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath daughter of Elon. He later marries Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, his cousin, to please his parents.

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Michael or Mick Cullen may refer to:
 John Michael Cullen (1927–2001), alias Mike Cullen, Australian ornithologist
 Michael Cullen (actor), American actor
 Michael Cullen (politician) (born 1945), New Zealand politician
 Michael C. Cullen alias Mike Dred (born 1967), British DJ, music producer, and sound engineer
 Michael J. Cullen (1884–1936), inventor of the supermarket
 Mick Cullen (born 1931), Scottish footballer

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Cleanliness means that there is no dirt, no dust, no stains, no bad smells.
The goals of cleanliness are health, beauty, absence of offensive odor and to avoid the spreading of dirt and contaminants to oneself and others. In the case of glass objects such as windows or windshields, the purpose can also be transparency. Washing is one way of achieving cleanliness, usually with water and often some kind of soap or detergent.

Since the germ theory of disease, it has also come to mean an absence of germs and other waste. In industry, certain processes need conditions of exceptional cleanliness which are achieved by working in cleanrooms.
A very new idea is that ‘dirt’ may play a useful role in our immune systems.

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Notes
 Boy Scouts. 2007. "Boy Scout's Oath, Law, Motto, and Slogan." Retrieved May 10, 2007, http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-503a.html
 Cleaning Network. 2008. "Cleanliness Article" Retrieved March 10, 2008, http://www.cleaning-services.org/cleaningnews.html
Pressure Washerify. 2017. "House Cleaning Guide & Tips" Retrieved December 28, 2017, https://pressurewasherify.com/blog/house-cleaning/

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a 2019 American biographical drama movie, directed by Marielle Heller and written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers with Matthew Rhys as Tom Junod. Other stars include Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Cooper.

The movie is about depressed journalist Tom Junod accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile on Fred Rogers and Junod's views on life changed after his encounter with Mister Rogers.

Filming began in September 2018 in Pittsburgh. It was released on November 22, 2019 by TriStar Pictures. For his role as Mr. Rogers, Hanks was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award.

Cast

 Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers
 Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel (based on Tom Junod), a journalist
 Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel, Lloyd's father
 Susan Kelechi Watson as Andrea Vogel, Lloyd's wife
 Enrico Colantoni as Bill Isler, president and CEO of The Fred Rogers Company
 Maryann Plunkett as Joanne Rogers, Fred's wife
 Tammy Blanchard as Lorraine, Lloyd's sister
 Wendy Makkena as Dorothy, Jerry's girlfriend
 Sakina Jaffrey as Ellen, Lloyd's editor
 Carmen Cusack as Margy, a producer of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
 Noah Harpster as Todd, Lorraine's husband
 Maddie Corman as Lady Aberlin, a character on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Related pages
 Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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The McIntosh is a type of apple. It is red and green like a Gala apple only brighter in color. Tart and crisp, it snaps when bitten into.

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Thompson is a rural town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,458 at the 2010 census.

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Sidensjö is a locality in Örnsköldsvik Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 399 people lived there.

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Blue Byte Software (short Blue Byte) is a video game developer based in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded in 1988. The company has produced popular titles like Battle Isle and The Settlers. Since 2001, the company has been owned by Ubisoft.

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The duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a small mammal of the order Monotremata found in eastern Australia.

It lives in rivers and on river banks. It is one of only two families of mammals which lay eggs. The other is the Echidna, which has four species. The platypus was first described in detail in the early 19th century, but it took a while before biologists in England believed what they were reading.

These mammals are called monotremes because they have a common rear opening known as the cloaca. Through this opening faeces and urine are voided (put out), and sexual activity takes place. This is a primitive ('basal') feature of tetrapods, which monotremes, birds and reptiles have today. The more 'advanced' ('derived') mammals have the system where the rear has two openings.

The plural of platypus is just 'platypus'.

What sort of animal is it?
The platypus looks similar to a beaver with a brown, furry body and wide, flat tail.  Unlike a beaver, it has no feet (no toes), which are good for swimming. Its nose is large and rubbery.  The platypus is sometimes called  "duck billed platypus" because of this nose. It is similar to a duck's bill (mouth). Platypus can be big or small. The larger platypus live in Tasmania while the smaller ones live in Queensland. Adults can be less than  or up to .  Its body can be from  to  long.  Its tail can be from  to  long. Males are about one-third (1/3) larger than females.

The male platypus has a sharp spine on his two back ankles called spurs which contain a venom.  It will not kill humans, but the poison has been known to kill small animals, such as dogs, and cause pain lasting as long as four months. The amount of poison increases during the breeding season.

What they eat
The platypus sleeps during the day, and moves mostly at night. It is a very good swimmer and spends much of its time in the water. The toes on its feet are joined. When it swims, it pushes itself along by moving the front two feet. The tail and back feet help it to turn left or right, but does not make it faster.

The platypus eats other animals. It eats worms, insect larvae, shrimps and yabbies, which are a kind of freshwater crayfish. It digs these animals out of the bottom of the river with its beak, or catches them while swimming. Its nose can sense many things that other noses cannot. The platypus can sense electricity from other animals. It keeps its eyes shut when swimming, using only its other senses, such as hearing, touch and changes in the electrical field.  The platypus can also hunt without using its eyes. These are adaptations to life in rivers where the water is opaque with sediment.

Reproduction
When on land, the platypus lives in burrows on the river banks. These holes are between  and  long. It makes these holes in the river bank a little above the water. It likes them hidden under roots. When a female platypus is pregnant, the female makes much larger holes, up to  long. She blocks the tunnel with earth at several places. At the end of the tunnel, she builds a nest out of reeds for her eggs.

The platypus lays eggs in its nest. When the babies come out of the eggs after about ten days, they hold on to the mother. The mother makes milk for the new babies. The platypus does not have nipples, but milk comes through small openings in the skin. The young platypus drinks the milk from the mother's skin while she lies on her back. At six weeks the babies have fur and are able to leave the burrow for short trips. After four months they no longer need their mother's milk.

The long period as dependent young, the provision of milk, and the way the young learn through play, are all advanced features. The monotremes share them with all other mammals. The monotremes are a mixture of primitive and advanced traits, a situation known as mosaic evolution.

Where they live
The platypus lives in small streams and rivers over a large area of eastern Australia. The map above shows this with dark purple. It has been seen in alpine lakes in Tasmania in the south, and north in Queensland as far as the Cape York Peninsula in tropical rain forest rivers.

In the past, platypus lived in South Australia but they no longer do so. There are platypus on Kangaroo Island, but these were brought there in an attempt to save animals people thought might become extinct. There are very few if any platypus left in most the Murray-Darling Basin.  The water there is no good because people used it to grow plants, and cleared the trees from the land. It is strange that the platypus does not live in some healthy rivers. It does live in some less healthy coastal rivers, for example the Maribyrnong River in Victoria.

Platypus are difficult to see in the wild. They dislike areas with people, spend most of their time underground or under water, and sleep during the day. At Eungella National Park in Queensland, there are spots on the river with viewing areas where wild platypus can usually be seen each evening.

The past and the future

The first platypus specimen arrived in England in 1799 in the form of a skin of a dead platypus, so biologists could study it.  At first, the scientists thought the skin was a joke, because they thought no animal could look so strange.  They thought an Asian had made it from pieces of different animals.

‘’National Geographic ‘’magazine had a story on the platypus in 1939.  Many people all over the world had never heard of the platypus.  The story told how hard it was to raise the babies in zoos. Even today, humans have raised only few. David Fleay at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria had the first successful zoo-raised platypus in 1946. He nearly did it again in 1972 at the David Fleay Wildlife Park at Burleigh Heads, Queensland, but it died at 50 days. Healesville raised another in 1998 and again in 2000. Taronga Zoo in Sydney bred twins in 2003, and had another birth in 2006.

The platypus will probably not die out completely in the near future. Ecologists say that it is “secure but faces future threat” (safe now but not in the future) or common but vulnerable (there are a lot now but they are not safe).  They say this because people can make the water unsafe for the platypus.

References

Other websites

 More platypus information from Earlham College
 PBS.org
 Platypus at WikiFauna
 Platypus-Evolution and Conservation

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Leaellynasaura (meaning "Leaellyn's lizard") was a fast-running, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Australia during the middle Cretaceous Period, roughly 115-110 million years ago. Australia was within the Antarctic Circle during the Cretaceous period, and it had a very long winter.

Description
Leaellynasaura is known from two nearly complete skeletons and two skulls. It is described as an ornithopod. Unlike some other ornithischians, the Leaellynasaura did not have any tendons in its tail. The tail is known for being among the longest of its relatives: it was three times longer than the rest of the whole body. It also has more vertebrae in its tail than any other ornithischians except for some hadrosaurs. It also had large eyes to help it look in the dark winter.

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