NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. NBC News makes MSNBC channel, Today Show and news programmes.

Current shows
Today
Weekend Today
Meet the Press with Chuck Todd
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
Dateline NBC

Anchors

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The Hits is the second compilation album by Garth Brooks. The album was released on December 13, 1994.

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Bacteriology is the study of bacteria. Bacteriologists study, identify, classify, and describe bacterial species.

Bacteriology and microbiology
Microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and viruses are studied by "microbiologists". However, bacteriology is a distinct science, because the make-up and inheritance of bacteria is rather different from the other groups.

Related pages
Bacteria
Microbiology

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The NES Classic Edition is a smaller version of the Nintendo Entertainment System with 30 games pre-installed. It is also known as the Famicom Mini in Japan. It was released in North America and Europe on November 11, 2016, in Japan and Australia on November 10, 2016,
and November 23, 2016 in Russia.

Hardware
The console features HDMI display output and a controller that is similar to the original NES controller. The console also includes an emulation engine developed by Nintendo European Research and Development.

Games
All versions of the console (no matter what region) include the following games:
Balloon Fight
Castlevania
Donkey Kong
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Dr. Mario
Excitebike
Galaga
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Gradius
Ice Climber
Kirby's Adventure
Mario Bros.
Mega Man 2
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden
Pac-Man
Super C
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

The North American, European, and Australian versions have the following exclusive games:
Bubble Bobble
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Donkey Kong Jr.
Final Fantasy
Kid Icarus
Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream
StarTropics
Tecmo Bowl

The Japanese "Famicom" version has the following exclusive games:
Atlantis no Nazo
Downtown Nekketsu Kōshinkyoku: Soreyuke Daiundōkai
Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari
Final Fantasy III
NES Open Tournament Golf
Solomon's Key
Tsuppari Ōzumō
Yie Ar Kung-Fu

References

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Military history is the history of what happened in the history of humanity that are considered to be conflicts. This could mean anything as small as a fight between two tribes or a conflict as large as a world war. Military historians record military history.

Other websites
Why Study War?, by Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal, Summer 2007
Military History Encyclopedia
Military History Wiki

History

Military history


Lac de Moiry is a lake in the municipality of Anniviers (former Grimentz), Switzerland. The lake has a surface area of 1.40 km² and an elevation of 2,249 m. The maximum depth is 120 m.

The dam is 148 m high and was completed in 1958.

Other websites

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Moiry
Moiry
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Lac de Moiry


Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) became a General in the War of 1812 and was considered to be a war hero. He became the seventh President of the United States of America. He was the first Democrat and is on the Twenty Dollar Bill. His nickname was "Old Hickory".

Early life
As a boy Andrew Jackson was a messenger for the Continental Army. The British caught him and mistreated him.

He was the first U.S. President who was not born into a rich family. He was not a rich man and did not have a college education. He moved to Tennessee and became a politician.

Marriage
In 1791, he fell in love with Rachel Donelson Robards. They went through a marriage ceremony. However, the marriage was not legal because she had not been granted a divorce from her first husband. Therefore, they married legally three years later. They had no children, but they adopted several. He became rich and owned a large plantation.

Politics
Andrew Jackson reorganized the Democratic Party and was its leader.

In 1828, he defeated John Quincy Adams in the Presidential Election of 1828, he became President on March 4, 1829, and four years later he was re-elected to a second term as President.

During his Presidency, he signed the Indian Removal Act which allowed the U.S. government to violently force the Native Americans to move from their land and go west. Many Native Americans were killed and the path they walked to get to the west was called the Trail of Tears.

Andrew Jackson was against the national bank of the United States because he felt that banks and their banknotes were for rich and powerful people and did not serve the interests of the common man. The national bank expired during Jackson's Presidency. Jackson chose not to continue the bank.

On March 4, 1837, Andrew Jackson finished his second term. After that, Vice-President Martin Van Buren was elected President and continued many of the things Jackson did. Jackson was a big influence on other Democrats during the 1800s.

Legacy
Jackson's legacy among historians is mixed. Some have liked him because he was against aristocrats, bankers, businessmen, the British Empire, cities, and paper money, and in favor of ordinary country people. Some have disliked him for the same reasons and because he was in favor of war and slavery, and against Indians.

References

Other websites
 Jackson's White House biography

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Sin City is the title of a number of stories by Frank Miller, written in a comic book-style and the name of a movie that is based on the books.

Sin City movie

A movie version of the Sin City books was released in 2005.  It starred a number of famous actors, including Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, Bruce Willis, and Elijah Wood. The movie was directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino.

The movie is based on four stories from the Sin City books:  "The Customer is Always Right", "The Hard Goodbye", "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard".

Other websites
Official Sin City website

Roger Ebert's original review of Sin City
Sin City Trailer 1 (14.5 MB, Quicktime)
Sin City Trailer 2 (27.4 MB, Quicktime)
A list of differences between the books and the film
Comic book-to-film visual comparisons
An extensive interview with Miller and Rodriguez (59:39 minutes, click "Extended Audio")
DVD review of film
The Spoilers Alternate DVD Commentary of Sin City
Peter Sanderson's indepth analysis of the film
Sin City at FranksFilms

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Sin City


Saint-Sigismond is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.

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The function of 3D television is making a two-dimensional screen look like its picture is in three dimensions. This effect starts when we observe two shifted displays.

3D televisions with glasses

Basic division of 3d technologies
stereoscopic 3D display – requires glasses
Autostereoscopic 3d display – without glasses

3D televisions in shops and e-shops are in 90% of cases stereoscopic. Glasses are used to see the picture in three dimensionals. The glasses divide display into two components (either shifted in color or otherwise).

What 3D TV can do

3D TV can do anything as well as 2D TV. The newest types of TV even can convert 2D into 3D but the quality is low.

Movies in 3D format are still scarce. Few people would invest their money into partially exploited machine.

Specification of three-dimensional perception

The best 3D television images are on larger television screens.

The closer a person sits to the screen, the stronger the 3D effect. Three-dimensional image processing is also more difficult for the brain.

Because the observation of 3D space in a 3D TV is so hard, viewers should be sitting during the watching 3D TV.

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The exosphere is the highest and top layer of the Earth's atmosphere.  It marks the edge of space.  There are very few molecules in this layer.  The lightest atmospheric gases such as hydrogen and helium exist throughout the exosphere. Heavier ones like carbon dioxide and atomic oxygen are near the base. The molecules collide so rarely, that the idea of atmospheric pressure has little meaning. There are two borders to the exosphere; the lower boundary and the upper boundary. The lower boundary is about 500-800 km (300-500 miles) above the surface and is called the exobase.  It is also called the thermopause because it is in between the exosphere and the thermosphere. The molecules are moving very fast, so the temperature in this zone is estimated to be thousands of degrees celsius.

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The Delisle scale is a scale to measure temperature. It was introduced by French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle in 1732. Delisle used a thermometer that worked with Mercury. The unit is abbreviated "De" or "D". 0°De is equal to the boiling point of water under normal pressure. Delisle then measured the volume change of the mercury. At the start, the Delisle scale had 2400 degrees. Josias Weitbrecht recalibrated the theromometer in 1738, so that the melting point of ice was taken into account. Ice melts at 150°De.

The Deslile scale counts downwards, from the boiling point to the melting point. It was widely used in Russia in the 19th century.

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Otep (also written as OTEP or OT3P) is an American nu metal band. The band was started in 2000 in Los Angeles by Otep Shamaya.

History
After a few shows Otep were signed to Capitol Records. On June 18, 2002 Otep's first album Sevas Tra was released. House of Secrets was released July 27, 2004. On October 30, 2007 Otep's third album The Ascension was released. Otep's fourth album Smash the Control Machine was released on August 18, 2009. Atavist was released on 26 April 2011. On November 6, 2012, Otep released their first live album, Sounds Like Armageddon. The band's sixth studio album Hydra was released on January 22, 2013. In an interview Otep said that it is the band's last album.

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"Fifteen" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was produced by Nathan Chapman and Swift. The song is about heartbreak at age 15, being sad and coping with it. This single was a moderate hit in the United States. The release date was September 2009.

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Visperterminen (Walser German: Tärbinu) is a municipality of the district Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

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Couscous is a kind of food, originally from the Berbers of North Africa. It has two related meanings:
A kind of wheat known in English as durum wheat. The wheat used is in a form called "wheat middlings". It is the same material which is used to make semolina, and is not a kind of pasta.
A stew of vegetables and/or meat, together with a plate of couscous wheat.
Couscous is not cooked, but rather steamed over hot water. Couscous is served as a side-dish, or as a main dish. The stew must have plenty of liquid, or else a separate
bowl of sauce must be provided. This is because the couscous grain is rather dry, and absorbs plenty of liquid. It is a definite fault to serve a couscous dish with too little liquid.

Spices such as ras el hanout and harissa are used for seasoning. Couscous can also be served cold. In this case, may be the base of a salad, with seafood, or it is used to make taboulé, a kind of Palestinian salad. Couscous can also be used for sweets, by adding milk, raisins or almonds.

It is the official food of Morocco. The dish is extremely popular in other areas like southern France, Sicilia and the Middle East.

The couscous that is sold in most Western supermarkets has been pre-steamed and dried; the package directions are usually to add 1.5 measures of boiling water or stock and butter to each measure of couscous and to cover tightly for five minutes. The couscous swells and within a few minutes it is ready to fluff with a fork and serve. Pre-steamed couscous takes less time to prepare than regular couscous.

Other websites

BBC food glossary: Couscous
 Clifford A. Wright. History of couscous. Mediterranean and world cuisine: Couscous
 Greg Noakes and Laidia Chouat Noakes 1998. Couscous - the measure of the Maghrib.Saudi Aramco World article on Couscous
 Couscous: long-term Maghreb staple still going strong.  Magharebia.com: News and Views of the Maghreb article on Couscous

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Can Tho is a city in the south of Vietnam.

Can Tho had a population of about 1.57 million in 2019. It is the biggest city in the Mekong delta. It is about 160 km away from Ho Chi Minh City and the capitol of the district of Can Tho, until 1975 named Hau Giang.
There is a university in Can Tho.

Other websites
Can Tho online community
Can Tho travel information at Wikivoyage

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Can Tho


Ojo is a town and local government area located in Lagos State, Nigeria. The town is traditionally ruled by the Olojo of Ojo. Alaba International Market and Lagos State University are located there.

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William J. Larkin Jr. (February 5, 1928 – August 31, 2019) was an American politician. He was a member of the New York State Legislature representing districts in the Hudson Valley. He was a member of the Republican Party. Larkin represented the 39th District in the New York State Senate from 1991 until his retirement in 2018.

During his career in the Army, Larkin helped protect President John F. Kennedy on a visit to Berlin and met Martin Luther King Jr. when escorting one of the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement.

Larkin lived in the town of New Windsor, New York. He died there on August 31, 2019 at the age of 91.

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An atomic clock is a clock that works with atoms, as opposed to most other clocks which are mechanical. The frequency comes from the crossing radiation of electrons. Atomic clocks are currently the most exact clocks of the world. They are also called primary clocks.

Most clocks know the time  because they count how many times something moves back and forth. Atomic clocks count how many times an atom wiggles back and forth.

Worldwide, there are over 260 atomic clocks at over 60 different places. All data is collected at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, France. The International Atomic Time is calculated there.

The basics were developed by Isidor Isaac Rabi. He was an American physicist at Columbia University. He got the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944.

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A sacrifice is giving something up. In many religions, it usually is about giving something to God or gods. Many Pagan peoples made human sacrifices and animal sacrifices. The Greek play Iphigenia by Euripides contains an example of this. In the Old Testament, Jewish people followed the laws about animal sacrifices in the book of Leviticus. Cows and pigeons were killed to make atonement with God. In the New Testament, Christ's death on the cross is seen as substitutionary atonement for sin.

Related pages
Epistle to the Hebrews

References

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Sacrifice at Catholic encyclopaedia

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Six Flags Over Texas is a theme park in Arlington, Texas

References

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 Guide to Six Flags Over Texas - Unofficial Guide to the Park
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Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall (1953 – 5 May 2017) was a political and military figure in Mauritania. He served as the transitional military leader of Mauritania following a coup d'état in August 2005 until 19 April 2007, when he gave up his power to an elected government.

Vall died on 5 May 2017 from a heart attack in Nouakchott at the age of 64.

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Blood is a liquid in humans and many animals except insects. Blood is pushed through the organism by the heart, and brings nutrients and oxygen to our tissues. It also takes away waste and carbon dioxide from tissues.

Blood of vertebrates is made up of blood plasma and various cells — red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Platelets help blood to clot. Hemoglobin is in red blood cells. White blood cells help fight infections and heal wounds.

Plasma

Blood plasma is the yellow liquid in which blood cells float. Plasma is made up of nutrients, electrolytes (salts), gases, non-protein hormones, waste, lipids, and proteins.
These proteins are albumin, antibodies (also called immunoglobulins), clotting factors, and protein hormones. Plasma that does not have the protein fibrinogen is called serum and cannot clot. Adults have about 3 liters of plasma. Plasma is a liquid, mostly water (90%). Plasma takes up 55% of  volume.

Red blood cells

Another name for red blood cell is erythrocyte. 'Erythro' means red; 'cyte' means cell. RBC is an acronym for red blood cells.

RBCs carry oxygen and carbon dioxide around our body. Cells in our body need oxygen to live. Cells also make carbon dioxide as a waste.  RBCs bring oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out.

RBCs are filled with haemoglobin. This is a protein. It is made to carry a large amount of oxygen. Haemoglobin has iron in it. The iron and oxygen gives haemoglobin its red color. This is why blood is red. Erythropoietin promotes the creation of RBCs. Blood type antigens are carried on the surface of red cells.

RBCs also help the blood stay normal pH. The blood needs a to be at a pH of 7.4. If it is much more or less than 7.4 a person can get very sick or die. RBCs are a buffer for the blood pH. Buffer means that it stops changes in pH. The proteins and the carbon dioxide in the RBC are buffers for the blood.
If you do not have enough RBCs, you will die.

White blood cells

White blood cells are a big part of the immune system. They attack things that do not belong in the body. They kill germs such as bacteria and viruses. They kill cancer cells. White blood cells also help to fight other toxic substances.

White blood cells find where the germs are, and start to destroy them. WBCs arrive in the blood. They also go out of the blood in places where there is infection. WBCs do this to fight the germs that make the infection. If they go out of the blood to fight an infection, they may return in the lymphatic system. So WBCs are in lymph nodes.

Another name for white blood cell is leukocyte. Leuko means white. -cyte means cell. WBC is an acronym for white blood cell. There are three main kinds of WBCs. They are lymphocytes, granulocytes and monocytes. Some of the WBCs mature into cells which do similar work in the tissues.

The different WBCs work in different ways.  Some WBCs kill and eat germs and cancer cells.  Some WBCs make antibodies that mark a cell so other WBCs will kill it.  Some WBCs make chemicals. They release these chemicals to fight things that do not belong in the body. These chemicals cause inflammation in a part of the body. When a germ makes someone sick, the body shows it. If a bacteria gets under someone's skin and causes an infection, the skin gets red, hot, and painful. This redness, heat, and pain are signs of inflammation. This shows that WBCs are fighting the infection and killing the bacteria.

Platelets
Platelets help make blood clot. A clot is when the liquid blood becomes solid. The body makes blood clot when the skin is cut. This stops blood from going out of the skin too much.

For blood to be able to clot is essential. But, rarely, some blood clots are bad. If a blood clot happens in a blood vessel going to the brain, it can cause a stroke. If it happens in a blood vessel going to the heart, it can cause a heart attack. This does not usually happen to young, healthy people.

Platelets are not the only things that make clots. There are proteins in the blood that help make clots. Both platelets and clotting proteins are needed to make good clots.

Where does blood come from?

Blood is mesodermal in origin.  Blood cells are made in the bone marrow and in the spleen. The bone marrow is the soft material in the middle of bones. Special cells in the bone marrow make most of the blood cells in your body.

Plasma proteins are made mostly by the liver. The water and electrolytes in plasma come from the food and water that you eat.

Although blood is a fluid, in some respects it is a kind of connective tissue. Its cells  originate in bone marrow and the spleen, and in the blood there are potential molecular fibres in the form of fibrinogen. These are activated when a blood clot forms.

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Revere is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, near downtown Boston. It is named after Paul Revere, an American Revolutionary War patriot. At 2010 United States Census, 51,755 people lived in Revere.

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Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (29 May 1912 – 2 January 1994) was a French lawyer. He was the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s fourth managing director and chairman of the executive board, serving from 1963 to 1973.

Schweitzer was commissioned as a lieutenant in the French Army after the outbreak of World War II. When France fell in 1940, he joined the French Resistance.

Schweitzer died on 2 January 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of 81.

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Ashley Ward is a former English football player.

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This is about the mental disorder, the studio album is at Folie à Deux (album)
Folie à deux is the name for a condition where an otherwise sane person develops the symptoms and delusions of a person suffering from psychosis. If more than two people share the symptoms or delusions, people speak about folie à trois (3), folie à quatre (4), folie à plusieurs, or folie en famille. Officially, the condition is known as induced delusional disorder or shared psychotic disorder today, but many publications still use the original terms, which were developed in France in the 19th century.
Today, there are two main forms of the condition:
Folie imposée: A person forms a delusion, and passes it on to other people. If the people get separated, the delusions in those people who did not develop them first will usually disappear quickly.
Folie simultanée: Two people suffering from delusions influence each other so that their delusions become very similar.
Newer studies seem to indicate that this classification may not be sufficient to fully describe 'folie à deux'. There may be more symptoms than are usually described in the cases above. Also, in many cases, separating the two patients may not be enough to make the condition go  away in one of them. Also, the person described as "sane" before developing the folie à deux may already be suffering from a psychiatric illness, or may develop one.

The condition was first described in an article pubilshed by Ernest-Charles Lasègue and Jules Farlet in 1877.

Mass hysteria can be seen as a form of folie à deux.

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The War of the Spanish Succession was a war which was fought from 1701 to 1714. It was fought over who had the right to be king of Spain after the previous king, Charles II, died childless. France wanted Philip of Anjou, a relative of its king, to rule. Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and other states wanted to prevent France from becoming more powerful.

The war was mostly fought in Europe but battles also happened in the West Indies, South America, and North America. In North America, it was called Queen Anne's War, since the ruler of Great Britain was Queen Anne. The war ended in Philip of Anjou ultimately winning and becoming the next king of Spain known as Philip V. Britain and its allies accepted Philip as King of Spain, who gave up his right to be king also of France. Austria got most of Spanish Italy, and Britain got Spanish Majorca and Gibraltar.

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Honey is a 2003 movie released by Universal Pictures. Featuring music produced by Rodney Jerkins, the movie stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo,Zachary Isaiah Williams Joy Bryant, Missy Elliott and David Moscow. A number of popular hip hop and R&B musicians make cameos in the movie, including Jerkins, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch of The Lox, Tweet, and Ginuwine. Canadian R&B artist Shawn Desman was also featured. R&B and hip-hop singer Aaliyah, a close friend of Missy Elliott, was originally cast as the star of the movie before her death.

The movie grossed $27 million at the US box office, and was released on DVD and VHS on March 23, 2004.

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Aminomethyl propanol is a clear, colored liquid that neutralizes acids to create salts and water. It is used for the preparation of buffer solutions. It does not dissolve in water. It has about the same density as water.

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Enrique Jorge Morea (11 April 1924 – 15 March 2017) was an Argentine tennis player. He was born in Buenos Aires.

Morea won the mixed doubles title of the 1950 French Championships. He also won two Gold medals at the inaugural men's tennis competition at the 1951 Pan American Games. Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph ranked Morea as World No. 10 in 1953 and 1954.

Until his death, Morea was the honorary president of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis (AAT).

Morea died in Buenos Aires from natural causes on 15 March 2017, aged 92.

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Piet Huyg (19 March 1951 – 6 December 2019) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a defender. He played 349 games with HFC Haarlem, mostly in the Dutch Eerste Divisie.

Huyg died on 6 December 2019 at the age of 68 of Alzheimer's disease.

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Menen is a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders.

In 2007, 32439 people lived there.

It is at 50° 47 North, 03° 07 East.

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Under Mango Tree is an architecture firm that was formed in 2010 by Gaurav Sharma. Notable projects include the UCL Institute of Making in London and the regeneration of Sujan Singh Park – New Delhi’s first multi-storied housing complex originally designed by Walter Sykes George.Under Mango Tree works across many sectors, including arts and culture, heritage, education, hospitality and residential.

Awards
2016 Winner UKTI Smart Cities competition
2015 20under35 - Design X Design Exhibition, Alliance Francaise de Delhi
2008 Finalist, AMD Open Architecture Network Challenge, International architecture competition

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The list of North Carolina hurricanes is made of seventy-five tropical cyclones that struck or affected the U.S. state of North Carolina between 1900 and 1949.

Between 1900-1949, tropical cyclones or their remnants led to 53 deaths in North Carolina. They also caused more than $328 million in damage.

1900 to 1924
September 15, 1903: A storm known as the Vagabond Hurricane passes just east of the Outer Banks. The storm produces gusty winds. There's very little damage.

September 14-15, 1904: After striking South Carolina, a hurricane causes heavy damage and one death while moving across North Carolina.

September 3, 1913: A hurricane makes landfall in North Carolina. High tides and wind cause great damage to crops and property. Several bridges are washed away. The hurricane causes around $3 million in damage. There are five deaths from the storm.

July 15, 1916: Remnants of a tropical storm drop  of rain in a 24-hour period near Highlands, North Carolina. The storm causes flooding and landslides in west-central North Carolina.

September 22, 1920: A strong tropical storm strikes land near Wilmington. It destroys or damages several buildings. One person is killed.

August 24-25, 1924: A hurricane passes a short distance east of Hatteras. The storm surge floods parts of Ocracoke Island. Two people drown during the storm.

1925-1949
December 2, 1925: The Outer Banks are struck by a post-season tropical storm. There is very little damage from the storm.

August 17, 1928: A tropical cyclone causes heavy rain in the west-central part of North Carolina. The rain causes severe flooding that destroys several houses. Property damage is over $1 million.

September 18, 1928: The Okeechobee hurricane causes heavy rain and severe river flooding in the southeast part of North Carolina.

October 28-29, 1929: The former 1929 Florida hurricane produces heavy rain in the state. There is severe flooding. The Cape Fear River rises  in a 24-hour period.

September 11-12, 1930: The 1930 Dominican Republic hurricane brushes Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks. Damage is minor.

August 23, 1933: The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane makes landfall along the northeastern part of North Carolina. Damage is locally heavy. Total damage is $250,000.

September 14-15, 1933: The Outer Banks hurricane causes heavy rain, high tides and strong winds. Several homes are destroyed, leaving about 1,000 people homeless. Damage is close to $4.5 million. There are twenty-one deaths in North Carolina.

September 21, 1938: The 1938 New England hurricane brushes by the Outer Banks, causing heavy rain and gusty winds.

August 15, 1940: Remnants of the 1940 South Carolina hurricane die out over North Carolina. The storm has heavy rain. Rain peaks at  near Swansboro. There are over twenty deaths from the storm in North Carolina. Many of the deaths are due to mudslides. Damage is $10 million.

September 14, 1944: The 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane passes just east of the Outer Banks. It sets records, at the time, for strongest winds and lowest pressure at Hatteras. The storm destroys 108 buildings and damages 667 more. One person is killed in North Carolina.

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Bethel (, meaning "House of God") was a city in the Hebrew Bible. It was located in what is now the West Bank.

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Machilipatnam, also known as Masulipatnam, is a city in the Krishna district. It is a municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Krishna district. It is also the headquarters of Machilipatnam mandal in Machilipatnam revenue division of the district. The ancient port town served as the settlement of European traders from the 16th century, and it was a major trading port for the British, Dutch and French in the seventeenth century.

Population
As of  2011 Census of India, Machilipatnam had a population of 170,008.

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Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American retired politician and attorney.

Davis served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Democratic Party, only months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.

Before serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).

Davis holds a BA in history from Stanford University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War.

References

Other websites

 Gray Davis Digital Library (active web site, launched 2006)

 Department of Energy article on Davis' energy conservation efforts

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Liesberg is a municipality of the district Laufen of the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Westville is a village in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Danville, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Westville's coordinates are  (40.043286, -87.637995). According to the 2010 census, Westville has a total area of , all land.

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La Capelle is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France. In 2015, 1,813 people lived there.

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Nyland is a locality in Kramfors Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 903 people lived there.

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The Dive Coaster (also known as "Vertical Drop Coaster"), first built in 1997. It is a steel roller coaster type made by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). The first drop coaster was made in 1998 at Alton Towers and is known as Oblivion, the latest Dive Coaster (at the time of writing this) is Emperor at SeaWorld San Diego in 2020.

Development
Development on the coaster began in 1994/95. When theme park designer John Wardley designs the idea of a Dive Coaster as to be a successor to his 1994 coaster Nemesis. He realised that the coaster was too ambitious for its time. So Wardley waited until the 1997/98 to test out his new machine. The first design of the ride was Oblivion at Alton Towers, opened in 14 March 1998.

The coaster was only two years old when the next order for a dive coaster was made in the form of Diving Machine G5 in Janfusun Fancyworld in Taiwan. Which was just a mirror image of Oblivion.

In 2005, saw the release of not only the third Dive Coaster to be built, but the first to be built in America, first to be built over 200 ft and the first ever custom-layout Dive Coaster. Sheikra was opened on May 21, 2005 at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.

In 2007, Busch Gardens Williamsburg announced Griffon on August 23, 2006. But officially opened on May 18, 2007. It was the first dive coaster to have floorless trains. Although, the same year. Busch Gardens reopened with floorless trains on June 16, 2007.

In 2011, Heide Park (a German theme park in Soltau, Germany) released Krake, a dive coaster opening on April 16, 2011. This was the first dive coaster to feature 6 seated trains, which coined the phrase "Mini-Dive Coaster"

In 2019, Yukon Striker was released on May 3, 2019. It was the first dive coaster to include a Vertical Loop. It opened at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario.

Installations
Bolliger & Mabillard has built fourteen Dive Coasters with one to be opened in 2020. The roller coasters are listed in order of opening dates.

Recurring elements
 Holding Brake: The holding brake is a machine placed at the end of the first (or second) drop. First found on Oblivion at Alton Towers
 Illellmann Loop: A common first element after the first drop. First found on Sheikra on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
 Mid-course Brake Run: Unknown when found on a course. Could happen after the first two inversions. First found on Sheikra on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
 Splashdown: Found either after the first drop or after a second vertical drop. First found on Sheikra on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
 Second Vertical Drop: Found after the mid-course brake run. A vertical drop without a holding brake. Sheikra on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

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Pato is a game played on horseback.  It adds ideas from polo and basketball. It is the national sport of Argentina.

 is Spanish for "duck".  The early games used a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball. Pato has been written about since 1610. The playing field would often go between neighboring ranches. The first team to reach its own ranch house with the duck was the winner.

Pato was banned several times during its history.  This was due to the violence—not only to the duck; many gauchos were trampled underfoot.  Some lost their lives in knife fights started in the heat of the game. In 1796, a Catholic priest said that pato players who died this way should not get Christian burial. Laws saying people could not play pato were common in the 19th century.

During the 1930s, pato had rules added by ranch owner Alberto del Castillo Posse.  He made a set of rules based on modern polo. President Juan Perón made pato Argentina's national game in 1953.

Gameplay

In modern pato, two four-member teams ride on horses.  They try to get a ball which has six handles.  They score by throwing the ball through a ring that is vertical. The rings have a 100 cm (3.3 ft) diameter.  They are on 240 cm (7.9 ft) high poles. A closed net, going up for 140 cm (4.6 ft), holds the ball after goals are scored.

The winner is the team with most goals scored after the time is done.  Game time is six 8-minute "periods".

The field is: length 180 to 220 m (196.9 to 240.6 yd), width 80 to 90 m (87 to 98 yd). The ball is made of leather, with an inflated rubber chamber and six leather handles. Its diameter is 40 cm (15.7 in) handle-to-handle.  The weight is 1050 to 1250 g (2.3 to 2.8 lbs).

The player that has control of the  (i.e. holds the ball by a handle) must ride with his right arm outstretched.  He offers the pato so rival players have a chance of tugging the pato and stealing it. Not holding his arm out while riding with the pato is an offense called  (refusal).

During the tug itself, or , both players must stand on the stirrups and not sit on the saddle. The hand not tugging must hold the reins. The tug is usually the most exciting part of the game.

Pato is similar to the game of horseball played in France, Portugal, and other countries.

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George John Tenet the son of  Greek northern Epirus immigrants was born in January 5, 1953.  He was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency and is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.  Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest serving director in the agency's history — behind Allen Welsh Dulles — as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties.

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Unnaryd is a locality in Hylte Municipality in Halland County in Sweden. In 2010, 759 people lived there.

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This is a list of national parks of Fiji.

On the island of Viti Levu:
 Koroyanitu National Park, Nadi Area
 Nausori Highland, Nadi Area
 Colo-i-Suva Nature Reserve, Suva
 Sigatoka Sandunes National Park

On the island of Taveuni:
 Bouma National Park

On the island of Ovalau:
 Lovoni Trail

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Christopher Jason Witten (born May 6, 1982) is an American football tight end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Tennessee.

College career
In his first of three years playing college football at the University of Tennessee, Witten went from being a defensive end prospect to a record breaking tight end. He posted school records for most receptions (39) and receiving yards (493). He continued to be a good, solid player in college.

Professional career

Dallas Cowboys
Jason Witten was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the 3rd round (69 overall) by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2003 NFL Draft. Witten has a successful career in Dallas. He has been voted to seven Pro Bowls. On November 28, 2008, Witten made his 400th catch in a Thanksgiving day game against the Seattle Seahawks. Witten became the 3rd all-time catch leader for a tight end over Ozzie Newsome with his 663rd career catch.

Personal
Witten is a Christian, and appeared on the show I am Second and talked about his faith. Witten lives in Texas, USA and is married. He has two sons, CJ and Cooper. He also owns the Jason Witten SCORE Foundation, which helps people affected by domestic violence.

Other websites
 Jason Witten official site
 Dallas Cowboys bio

References
 I am Second-Jason Witten video
 Witten makes tight end history-ESPN
 Jason Witten a Cowboy for life-ESPN

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Touch is an American supernatural drama television series, written and created by Tim Kring for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It was first aired on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 as a preview and on Thursday, March 22, 2012 as a series. 13 episodes have been ordered for the first season by Fox. The series was scheduled to begin on Monday, March 19, 2012, but was moved to Thursday, March 22, 2012, and on Thursday, March 15, 2012, a rerun of the first episode was broadcast. The show has a TV-PG and a TV-14 age rating in the United States. In Canada, the show is simultaneously broadcast on the Global Television Network, and premiered on the same day at the same time as the U.S. broadcast. The show is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment. In the United States, the second season began airing on Fridays at 9:00 p.m.

Plot
The newspaper reporter Martin Bohm was once successful, to his wife in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in one of the towers of the World Trade Center was killed. Since then his life is no longer the same. Its mission is to since, about his autistic son to take care of Jake. Martin fails not only from communicating with his son, but can not cope with his behavioral problems. Soon the youth protection authority is turned on. Clea Hopkins believes that it would be best if Jake would come into a home. Martin sees it differently, because he noticed that his son is three times cut off at the same time from school to access a transmitting tower to climb. May be it soon becomes clear that Jake can predict the future. He gets information and support from Arthur DeWitt, a specialist in children with unusual talents.

Production

Development
On January 19, 2011, Fox announced that there was going to be a new pilot by Tim Kring. On January 26, 2011, Fox announced that the new pilot was going to air in the 2011–2012 television season.

Casting
On February 22, 2011, Fox said that Kiefer Sutherland would be the main actor in the show. On June 10, 2011, Danny Glover got a part in the series. On June 16, 2011, Gugu Mbatha-Raw got a part in the show. In July 2011, Titus Welliver got a part in the new show as a social worker.

Characters

The characters are created by Tim Kring.

Main characters
 Martin Bohm (played by Kiefer Sutherland) is a former journalist whose wife, Sarah, was killed in the September 11 attacks. He is the father of Jacob. He was fired from the New York Herald not long after Sarah's death. Willing to do whatever is necessary to provide for his son, he has since worked as a doorman, taxi driver, and construction worker, and currently works as a baggage handler at JFK Airport. He also helps he's son with numbers.
 Clea Hopkins (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is a social worker, who is assigned to evaluate Jacob Bohm's living situation and his father Martin's ability to care for him. Clea is new at her job, but appears to genuinely want to help Jacob. After deciding that Jacob would be best served by his moving into an institution for autistic children, she begins to see what Martin was trying to tell her about Jacob's gift.
 Jacob "Jake" Bohm (portrayed by David Mazouz) is the autistic son of Martin and Sarah Bohm. Jacob does not speak or let anyone touch him, including his father. He sees the world in numbers, and seems to have a special ability to predict future events. His obsession with numbers turns out to be the way he communicates with others, mainly his father. Though he has received no formal training in complex mathematics, he has discovered the Fibonacci sequence on his own simply through observation and his unique perception of the world around him.

Other characters
 Professor Arthur Teller (portrayed by Danny Glover) is an expert on children who possess special gifts when it comes to numbers. He runs the Teller Institute (seemingly a one-man operation out of his home) which specializes in misdiagnosed mutism in children. He seems very abrasive when he first answers his front door, but his tone quickly changes when he realizes he's found another gifted child. Showing his familiarity with similar situations, Teller makes a guess about Jake's cell phone tower incidents without prior knowledge.
 Kayla Graham (portrayed by Karen David) is a call center worker for a cell phone company. Kayla aspires to be a recording artist in the music industry.
 Sheri Strepling (portrayed by Roxana Brusso) is the director of the facility that Jake attends.
 Simon Plimpton is a British traveler who loses his phone, which contains a photo of his deceased daughter.

Series overview

Episodes

Reception

Critical reception
The show mainly has positive reviews with PopMatters said the show was "stunningly effective" and praised "its mix of spirituality and science, familial and global struggles." They also noted that "The boy’s narration, unnervingly matter-of-fact about the nature of the universe, takes on more power when he reveals that in 11 years, he has never spoken a word."

The New York Post said "If you can’t get enough of number sequences and universal cylindrical patterns that constantly repeat, then for sure you’ll repeat the pattern of watching Fox’s new show....It is intriguing, and it’s great to have Sutherland back on TV" but felt "frankly, it’s awfully complicated."

The Chicago Sun Times said the show "operates on the mind-blowing premise that people around the world are linked to one another and their lives intersect — with potentially major repercussions." They finished the review saying it "delivers a suspenseful ride around the world, peppered with some tear-jerking moments. The bar has been set high. Here’s hoping “Touch” continues to reach it."

Kiefer Sutherland's performance has good reviews, with many critics saying "He plays the part with such a combination of intensity and subtlety that we are drawn deep into Martin’s suffering, and rather than judging him, we feel with him. Every trial is etched in his face. He imbued Jack Bauer with similar stoicism, but Martin seems less resilient, more distressed."

The Los Angeles Times gave the show a 40 of 100, which was the lowest review along with Philadelphia Daily News which was also 40 of 100.

On Metacrtic, the Metascore is 63 of 100 based on 27 critic reviews. The average score for users is 8.2 of 10.

The show has a 8.9 out of 10 ("great") score on TV.com.

Ratings

U.S. ratings

Canadian ratings

UK ratings

Other countries
The show has, for the first time in history, was one of the highest-rated individual channel airing of the season, ranking #1 or #2 in its time period and outperforming the primetime average of the broadcaster by double- or triple-digit percentage increases.

In Italy, it started as the channel's second highest-rated television premiere ever. In Spain, Touch ranked #1 for the first episode in the timeslot. In Latin American countries, outperformed the channels' primetime average by double- and triple-digit percentage increases in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. Other countries had good starts, like Germany, Norway and Russia.

International broadcast
The show has started in over 100 countries including:

Online media
Most recent episodes can be viewed on Fox.com in the United States, it can also be viewed on many other sites. In Canada, recently aired full episodes air on Global Video at GlobalTV.com.

Related pages
 James Burke—a television documentarian whose works (Connections and its sequels) show how seemingly unrelated people and events in science history are actually connected
 Fox Broadcasting Company
 Television program

References

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Auboranges is a municipality in Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The name Auboranges is spoken ()

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Norma Aleandro Robledo (born May 2, 1936) is an Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is thought to be as one of the best Argentine actresses and is called a cultural icon.

Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 movie, The Official Story. She starred in The Truce (1974), Cousins (1989), Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998), Son of the Bride (2001) and Cama Adentro (2005).

For her role as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 movie Gaby: A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination and a Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК "Зенит" Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914 according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Premier League and currently is the richest in the country, due to the sponsorship of Gazprom. Zenit are the 2007 champions of the Russian Premier League, the holders of the 2008 UEFA Cup and of the 2008 UEFA Super Cup after beating Manchester United 2-1 in Monaco. Zenit won Russian Cup in 2010. They defeated Sibir in the final with the score 1-0.

Titles

Europe

 UEFA Europa League : 1 (2008)
 UEFA Super Cup : 1 (2008)

Russia

 Russian Premier League : 4 (2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15)
 Russian Cup : 3  (1999, 2010, 2015)
 Russian Premier League Cup : 1 (2003)
 Russian Super Cup : 4 (2008, 2011, 2015, 2016)

Soviet Union

 Soviet Top League : 1 (1984)
 Soviet Cup : 1 (1944)
 Soviet Super Cup : 1 (1984)

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Paula DeAnda (born 1989 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American singer. She is best known for her 2007 hit songs "Doing Too Much", "Walk Away (Remember Me)" and "Easy". DeAnda is of Mexican descent.

Easy
"Easy" is a song by DeAnda. It also has a remix with Bow Wow. This version is used in the PC video game, Bratz Babyz.

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John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English musician who was best known as the bassist for the rock band The Who. His bass playing style influenced many other bass players who came after him.  Entwistle is regarded by many as the greatest bassist in the history of rock music.

Entwistle played his bass guitar as a lead instrument, employing a "full treble, full volume" sound, as well as often using pentatonic lines and a typewriter finger approach.  He recorded the first bass solo in the history of popular music on The Who's song "My Generation".  Other notable examples of Entwistle's playing are "Boris the Spider" and "The Real Me".  As he developed his sound and refined his skill, Entwistle's bass sounded like a VOX Amplifier.  At the time of his death he had a collection of over 400 instruments that reflected the different brands he used over his career: Fender, Rickenbacker, Alembic, Warwick were the brands he used most.  He owned many of the most expensive bass guitars in the history of the world.

Entwistle played bass for The Who and as a solo performer from 1964 until 2002.  His bass guitar sound was the main reason The Who gave the loudest concert on record at the time.

Entwistle died in a hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on 27 June 2002. The Las Vegas coroner said that he died of a heart attack caused by cocaine.

In 1990, Entwistle was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Who.

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The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of the major powers of Europe.
It was held in Vienna from November 1, 1814, to June 8, 1815. The chairman was the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich.

Its purpose was to decide about the political situation in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.
To be precise there was never one "Congress of Vienna". Instead, there were discussions in informal sessions among the Great Powers.

The Congress was concerned with determining the entire shape of Europe after the Napoleonic wars, with the exception of the terms of peace with France, which had already been decided by the Treaty of Paris, signed a few months earlier, on May 30, 1814.

The four victorious powers hoped to exclude the French from participation in the negotiations, but Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord managed to get into "her inner councils" in the first weeks of negotiations.

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Marinette County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,749. Its county seat is Marinette.

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Casnate con Bernate is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km north of Milan and about 5 km south of Como. As of 1 January 2009, it had a population of 4,850 and an area of 5.3 km².

Casnate con Bernate borders the following municipalities: Como, Cucciago, Fino Mornasco, Grandate, Luisago, Senna Comasco.

Demographic change

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Marcus Krüger (born 27 May, 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an NHL ice hockey center that currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks. He has also played for the Djurgårdens IF of the SEL for 5 seasons before being recalled by the Blackhawks on March 23, 2011. He was drafted with the 149th overall pick in the 2009 NHL Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. He signed a three-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in June 2010 but he decided to stay with Djurgården during the first year of the contract, later he was recalled from Djurgården to Chicago on 23 March 2011. He scored his first NHL goal in a 5-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on October 29, 2011. On June 24, 2013, He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.

Awards
Stanley Cup (2013) - with the Chicago Blackhawks
2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (bronze medal)

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With Act of Union 1800 (or sometimes Act of Union 1801) (Irish: Acht an Aontais 1800) is used to describe two Acts are meant. Their official titles are the Union with Ireland Act 1800 (1800 c.67 39 and 40 Geo 3), an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (1800 c.38 40 Geo 3), an Act of the Parliament of Ireland.

These two Acts merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the unified Kingdom of Great Britain, (being itself a merger of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland under the Acts of Union 1707), to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The Union Flag

The flag created as a consequence of the merger combined the flags of England and Scotland with "St Patrick's Cross" to represent Ireland. However, Wales is not included on the Union Flag, as when the original Union Flag was devised Wales was considered a part of the Kingdom of England.

References

Sources
Ward, Alan J. The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland 1782-1992. Irish Academic Press, 1994.
Lalor, Brian (ed). The Encyclopaedia of Ireland. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, Ireland, 2003. , p7

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 Act of Union - Virtual Library
  Acts of Union - complete original text

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The 1985–86 NHL season was the 69th season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-one teams each played 80 games. This season saw the league's Board of Governors introduce the Presidents' Trophy, which would go to the team with the best overall record in the NHL regular season. The Edmonton Oilers would be the first winners of this award.

The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Calgary Flames four games to one in the final series to win the Stanley Cup.

Regular season

Final standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points, PIM = Penalty Minutes

Prince of Wales Conference

Clarence Campbell Conference

Scoring leaders

Leading Goaltenders

Stanley Cup playoffs
Note: all dates in 1986

Adams Division Semi-Finals
Hartford Whalers vs. Quebec Nordiques

Hartford wins best-of-five series 3–0

Boston Bruins vs. Montreal Canadiens

Montreal wins best-of-five series 3–0

Patrick Division Semi-Finals
New York Rangers vs. Philadelphia Flyers

New York Rangers wins best-of-five series 3–2

New York Islanders vs. Washington Capitals

Washington wins best-of-five series 3–0

Norris Division Semi-Finals
Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Chicago Black Hawks

Toronto wins best-of-five series 3–0

St. Louis Blues vs. Minnesota North Stars

St. Louis wins best-of-five series 3–2

Smythe Division Semi-Finals
Vancouver Canucks vs. Edmonton Oilers

Edmonton wins best-of-five series 3–0

Winnipeg Jets vs. Calgary Flames

Calgary wins best-of-five series 3–0

Divisional Finals
Hartford Whalers vs. Montreal Canadiens

Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4–3

New York Rangers vs. Washington Capitals

New York Rangers wins best-of-seven series 4–2

Toronto Maple Leafs vs. St. Louis Blues

St. Louis wins best-of-seven series 4–3

Calgary Flames vs. Edmonton Oilers

Calgary wins best-of-seven series 4–3

Conference Finals
New York Rangers vs. Montreal Canadiens

Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4–1

St. Louis Blues vs. Calgary Flames

Calgary wins best-of-seven series 4–3

Finals
Montreal Canadiens vs. Calgary Flames

Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4–1

NHL awards

All-Star teams

First games
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1985–86 (listed with their first team, stars(*) mark start in playoffs):
Bill Ranford, Boston Bruins
Daren Puppa, Buffalo Sabres
Brian Bradley, Calgary Flames
Gary Suter, Calgary Flames
Brett Hull*, Calgary Flames
Adam Oates, Detroit Red Wings
Petr Klima, Detroit Red Wings
Bob Probert, Detroit Red Wings
Shayne Corson, Montreal Canadiens
Kirk McLean, New Jersey Devils
Scott Mellanby, Philadelphia Flyers
Craig Simpson, Pittsburgh Penguins
Jeff Brown, Quebec Nordiques
Cliff Ronning*, St. Louis Blues
Wendel Clark, Toronto Maple Leafs
Dave Lowry, Vancouver Canucks
Jim Sandlak, Vancouver Canucks

Last games
The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1985–86 (listed with their last team):
Tom Lysiak, Chicago Black Hawks
Mike Rogers, Edmonton Oilers
Mario Tremblay, Montreal Canadiens
Bob Nystrom, New York Islanders
Pelle Lindbergh, Philadelphia Flyers
Denis Herron, Pittsburgh Penguins
Don Edwards, Toronto Maple Leafs
Marian Stastny, Toronto Maple Leafs
Jiri Bubla, Vancouver Canucks
Dan Bouchard, Winnipeg Jets

References

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Brenda Milner,  (born July 15, 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist. Her work focused on the field of clinical neuropsychology, is sometimes known as "the founder of neuropsychology".

Milner is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

She turned 100 in July 2018.

References

Other websites
Great Canadian Psychology Website – Brenda Milner Biography
Interview on Futures in Biotech (2008)
"Still Charting Memory’s Depths – A Conversation with Brenda Milner", The New York Times (2013)

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Mills is a town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. It is part of the Casper, Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area.  The population was 3,461 at the 2010 census.

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Camptosaurus (meaning "bent lizard") was a plant-eater from the Upper Jurassic (about 156 to 145 million years ago). It is related to Iguanodon.

It was a heavy ornithischian dinosaur that was about 16-23 feet (5-7 m) long and 3-4 feet (1 m) high at the hips, weighing roughly 2,200 pounds (1000 kg). It had a long snout, hundreds of teeth and a horny beak. Its legs were longer than its arms; it had four-toed feet and five-fingered arms, all with hooves. It could walk on two or four legs, it probably went on all four to graze for low-lying plants.

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Blue tongue lizard redirects here.

Blue-tongued skinks make up the Australasian genus, Tiliqua, which has some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae). They are also called blue-tongued lizards or simply blue-tongues, shinglebacks or the sleepy lizard in Australia. The main feature of the genus is a large blue tongue that can be used to scare away enemies.

Distribution
Blue-tongued skinks are closely related to the genera Cyclodomorphus and Hemisphaeriodon. All species are found on mainland Australia except Tiliqua gigas which lives in New Guinea and various islands of Indonesia. One subspecies of Tiliqua scincoides is also found on several small Indonesian islands between Australia and New Guinea. Tiliqua nigrolutea is the only species in Tasmania. With the exception of the pygmy blue-tongue, they are large lizards which can grow up to 45 cm total length. They are light-bodied, short-limbed, broad with a distinct head and dull teeth.

Ecology
Most species are diurnal ground-foraging omnivores, feeding on insects, gastropods, flowers, fruits and berries. The pygmy blue-tongue however mainly eats arthropods. The skinks give birth to live young. The litter sizes ranging from 1–4 in the pygmy blue-tongue and shingleback to 5–24 in the eastern and northern blue-tongues.

Species and subspecies
Tiliqua adelaidensis, (Adelaide) Pygmy Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua gigas, Indonesian Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua gigas evanescens, Merakue Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua gigas keyensis, Key Island Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua sp., Irian Jaya Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua multifasciata, Centralian Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua nigrolutea, Blotched Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua occipitalis, Western Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua rugosa, Shingleback (or Sleepy Lizard)
Tiliqua rugosa rugosa, Common Shingleback
Tiliqua rugosa aspera, Eastern Shingleback
Tiliqua rugosa palarra, Shark Bay Shingleback
Tiliqua rugosa konowi, Rottnest Island Shingleback
Tiliqua scincoides, Australian Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua scincoides scincoides, Eastern Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua scincoides intermedia, Northern Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua scincoides chimaerea, Tanimbar Blue-tongued Skink

Notes

References
  (2006): Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2): 503–511.  (HTML abstract)
  (1988): Mate fidelity in an Australian lizard Trachydosaurus rugosus (Scincidae). Copeia 1987(3): 749-757.
  (1990): Comparison of displaced and retained partners in a monogamous lizard Tiliqua rugosa. Australian Wildlife Research 17: 135-140.
  (1996): A prey record of the Eastern Blue-tongue Tiliqua scincoides for the common brown snake Pseudonaja textilis. Monitor 8(3): 155.

Other websites

 Bluetongue fact file
 Blue-tongued Lizards in New South Wales
 Operation Bluetongue - Citizen Science study project  at UniSA
 Site devoted exclusively to blue-tongued skinks

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Macroeconomics studies large-scale economic decisions. For example, a whole country's economy (or, its economic output) is summarised by the GDP (gross domestic product). Many governments use macroeconomic ideas to decide how much tax to collect and what interest rates should be.

It also considers the amount of unemployment, the rate that prices go up (inflation), and the exchange rates of its currency. The exchange rate affects the amount of imports and exports. Exchange rates and taxation are "levers of the economy".

Less dramatic, but also very important, are decisions about government spending inside the country. Such policy decisions are politically controversial due to differing political ideas on government spending. Another factor in macroeconomics is the make-up of the population. A growing population is economically different from a stable population (one which is not growing).

Sources
Blanchard, Olivier 2011. Macroeconomics updated. 5th ed, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

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Castelnaudary - Villeneuve Airport (ICAO code: LFMW) is located at Villeneuve-la-Comptal in Aude departement of Occitanie region at 2,5 km south-east of Castelnaudary.

A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is located on the aerodrome.

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Dita von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is an American performer of burlesque, actress, model, singer.

Von Teese was married to rock musician Marilyn Manson from 2005 to 2007. She has no children.

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was a general and shogun of the early Heian Period of Japan. He was the son of Sakanoue no Karitamaro.

Military career
Emperor Kammu gave Tamuramaro the title of shogun. He was given the task of conquering the Ezo tribes, also known as the .  This were the population who lived in the northern part of Honshū

After Emperor Kammu's death, the general continued to serve Emperor Heizei and Emperor Saga as  and .

Tamuramaro was only the second warrior to receive the title of shogun. The first to receive this title was Ōtomo no Otomaro.

Tamuramaro's military successes are commemorated today in local festivals in the Tohoku region.

Tamuramaro's name is linked with payments for construction projects at Kiyomizu Temple (Kiyomizu-dera) in the late 8th century.

 811 (Kōnin 2, 3rd month): Tamuramaro died at age 54.

After his death
The warrior is buried at Shogun-zuka which is east of Kyoto. His bow, arrows, quiver and sword were buried with him by order of the Emperor.

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Events
January 11-May 6 – First recorded lottery in England performed nonstop at the west door of the St. Paul's Cathedral. Each share costs 10 shillings and proceeds are used to repair the harbors and for other public works
March 13 – Battle of Jarnac – Royalist troops under Marshal Gaspard de Tavannes surprise and defeat the Huguenots under the Prince of Condé, who is captured and murdered. A substantial proportion of the Huguenot army manages to escape under Gaspard de Coligny.
June 10 – German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny near Limoges
July – September – Huguenot forces under Coligny and 15 year-old Prince Henry of Navarre besiege Poitiers
August 24 – Battle of Orthez – Huguenot forces under Gabriel de Montgomery defeat Royalist forces under General Terride in French Navarre. Catholics surrender under the condition that their lives would be spared. Huguenots agreed, but then massacred the Catholics anyway.
September – A Royalist army under the Duc d'Anjou and Marshal Tavannes forces Coligny to abandon the siege of Poitiers
October 3 – Battle of Moncountour – The Royalist forces of Tavannaes and Anjou defeat Coligny's Huguenots.
 Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection
 Assemblies of 3 Lithuanian provinces, Volhynia, Ukraine and Podlasie vote to be incorporated into Poland.
 Poland and Lithuania are united in the Union of Lublin. They form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Jean-Jacques Annaud (born 1 October 1943) is a French movie director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1991), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997).

Annaud has received many awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first movie, Black and White in Color (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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"Superstition" is a funk and R&B ballad from Stevie Wonder. The song hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100 in January 1973. It also hit #1 on the U.S. soul singles chart.

The song advises not to believe in theories such as  superstitions and the song references how adults blame children for the bad luck they have faced - ''thirteen month old baby broke the looking glass''. The song became Stevie's signature song and is his most performed live. On the charts it was succeeded by Timmy Thomas's ''Why Can't We Live Together''

The song has been covered by The Jackson 5, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan and JoJo, among others.

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Windom is a city in Cottonwood County, Minnesota, United States.  The population was 4,646 at the 2010 census.  It is the county seat of Cottonwood County.

Windom is a small farming town.  It also has many parks including one with a disc golf course.  The Des Moines River flows through Windom and some people canoe there.

History
The city was named for William Windom, who was a United States Senator from Minnesota from 1881–1883, and was United States Secretary of the Treasury under presidents James Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison.

Geography
Windom is located at  (43.866346, -95.116937). It is  above sea level. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.7 km²).  3.5 square miles (9.2 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (5.08%) is water.

Politics
Windom is located in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Mankato educator Tim Walz, a Democrat. At the state level, Windom is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton.

Transportation
U.S. Highway 71, Minnesota Highway 60, and  Minnesota Highway 62 are three of the main routes in the city.

Industry
Windom is home to one of 8 Toro manufacturing facilities.  It is also the home to Big Game Treestands.

Communications
The local paper is the Cottonwood County Citizen.
The local radio station is KDOM Radio.

Education
Windom is home to three schools: Windom Area Middle/High School, Winfair Elementary School, and Red Rock Ridge ALC.  It is also home to two preschools: Busy Bees and Sunshine School.

Windom Area Middle/High School
Windom Area Middle/High School is home to students grade 4-12 due to renovations in 2003.  There are roughly 300 students attending the high school (grades 9-12) and 350 attending the middle school (grades 4-10).  The school is led by Principal Eric Hanson and Superintendent Wayne Wormstadt.

Extracurriculars

Sports
Football home of Top Minnesota recruits Michael Rivera and Tent Bever
Volleyball - State Champions in 2008, State Runner up in 2007 2013 section 2A champs
Cross Country - Boys and Girls- John Curley and Emily Turner, State Participants, 2010 (800 meter dash winner 7th grade John Turner)
Basketball- Boys and Girls Hoops that Like to throw Alley-oops. Stepping stone to Intermural glory.
Gymnastics-voted all state academics 12 years running
Wrestling- Jeff Stuckenbroker, Nick Kulseth, A.J. Stevens, Drake Borsgard, Joe Fischenich, Billy Hochstein, Sam Fischenich, and Wyatt Stevens have all been state place winners.
Golf - State Runner-up in 2008 lead by Jordan Higley.
Lacrosse established in 2008 coached by Johnathan Smith who has a 21-46 career record star players have been Sean Mcgire, Phillip Symens, and Nolan Jones.
Tennis only all state player in school history Brendon Chester

Arts
Band
Stage Band
Choir
Pop Group
Flags and Rifles
Fall Musical
Winter Play
Mass Media

Academics
Knowledge Bowl State Participants in 3 successive years 2009, 2010, and 2011
YES! Team
Speech-Many state participants, including Morgan Potter, State Champion in Prose
FFA
Student Senate

Entertainment

Riverfest
Windom holds an annual summer festival called Riverfest during the second weekend of June.  A pageant corresponds to this celebration which crowns a Miss Riverfest, a First Runner-Up, Miss Photogenic, Miss Congeniality and a Little Miss Riverfest.  Other activities in this weekend celebration include: fireworks, Vickie Schendel 5K Walk/Run, tennis tourney, fishing tourney, turtle races, kiddie tractor pull, street dance, grand parade, and many more.

Winter-River-Fest
In February 2011 Windom started a new festival dubbed "Winter-River-Fest."  Activities included a chili feed, open fires, dodge ball, snow sculpting, and the Darn Cold Croquet Contest.

Notable natives
Maria Schneider - Composer
Johnny Olson - Gameshow announcer
Larry Buhler - Professional football player

References
 Brown, John A.  History of Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties, Minnesota: Their People, Industries, and Institutions.  B.F. Bowen & Co.: Indianapolis, 1916.

Other websites
 City of Windom
 Windom Community Guide

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For the city in British Columbia, see Surrey, British Columbia.

Surrey is a county in southern England. The size of Surrey is about 1,663 km² and it has about 1,059,000 people (2002). It is near London. Surrey's largest town is Guildford. In Guildford there is also a university. The River Thames forms part of Surrey's north border.

Surrey is a setting of War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Woking, Leatherhead in particular).

Surrey is near London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports. It has access to major road routes (including the M25, M3 and M23). It has frequent rail services into Central London.

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Air Namibia is the flag carrier of Namibia. It is based in Windhoek. It began in 1947 with the name South West Air Transport. The name was changed to Namib Air in 1966. The government of South Africa bought the airline in 1982. The Air Namibia name was introduced in October 1991. In 2009, Air Namibia launched a frequent-flyer program. It is called Reward$. Before 2013, Air Namibia used to borrow planes from other companies. In 2011, Air Namibia bought two new Airbus A319. They were delivered in 2013 and are now owned by the airline.

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Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9, 1952) is the senior United States Senator from Ohio and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the Senate, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. He previously served as the Ohio Secretary of State (1983–1991) and a member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1974–1982).

Brown was born on November 9, 1952 in Mansfield, Ohio. He is of a Russian descent. Brown studied at Yale University and at Ohio State University. He was married to Larke Ummel until they divorced in 1987. He is currently married to Connie Schultz.

Other websites

United States Senator Sherrod Brown official U.S. Senate site
Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate official campaign site
Sen. Sherrod Brown's Blog at Huffington Post
Collected news and commentary at the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Profile at Campaign 2004 at USA Today

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Manchester is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 30,577.

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Einsatzgruppen were a paramilitary group in Nazi Germany.  They were part of the Schutzstaffel (SS).  They helped make The Holocaust happen by murdering about 12 million people throughout Europe.  Almost all of the people they killed were civilians.

Sometimes, the Einsatzgruppen would kill only a few people at once.  Other times, they would kill thousands of people in a few days.  For example, at Babi Yar, the Einsatzgruppen killed 33,771 Jewish people in two days.

Most of the people the Einsatzgruppen killed were Jews.  They killed between 5 and 6 million Jews.p. 257   However, they also killed hundreds of thousands of Polish people, Soviets, and Roma people in Eastern Europe.

After Nazi Germany lost World War II, 24 leaders of the Einsatzgruppen were put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials.  Sixteen were convicted.  Fourteen were sentenced to death, and two were sentenced to life in prison.  Other countries later tried four other Einsatzgruppen leaders, convicted them, and sentenced them to death.pp=274–275

Creation and Action T4
SS leader Reinhard Heydrich created the Einsatzgruppen around 1938.

At first, in October 1938, Heydrich sent the Einsatzgruppen to the Sudetenland.  Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, wanted to take over the Sudetenland.  He was ready to use the Nazi military to invade the area.  However, in the Munich Agreement, world powers agreed that Hitler could have the Sudetenland.  The Einsatzgruppen helped take over government buildings, and took all the government papers they could find.  They also arrested about 10,000 Czech communists and German citizens.pp. 405, 412

From September to December 1939, the Einsatzgruppen took part in the Nazis' Action T4 program.  The Nazis believed that people with physical, intellectual, and mental disabilities did not deserve to live.  Action T4 was a plan to kill them all.  At first, the Einsatzgruppen and other Nazis shot these people.  However, by spring of 1940, the Nazis started using gas chambers so they could kill people with disabilities more quickly.pp. 138–141

Invasion of Poland

In 1939, Hitler decided to invade Poland.  Heydrich decided the Einsatzgruppen would follow the regular German Army.p. 425  Their job would be to kill the most important people in Polish society, like clergy, teachers, and members of the academia.  They would also kill anyone who refused to agree with Nazi ideas or rules.p. 144 Adolf Hitler said: "...there must be no Polish leaders; where Polish leaders exist they must be killed[.]"p. 143  The Einzatsgruppen followed this plan by killing about 65,000 civilians by the end of 1939.  These people included Polish leaders, Jews, prostitutes, Roma people, and people with mental illnesses.pp. 430–432

Finally, the Einsatzgruppen forced the surviving Jews in Poland to move to ghettos in big Polish citiies. The Nazis planned to get rid of all the Jews in Poland, but they had not yet decided where to send them.pp. 227–228, 242-245  With the help of the German Army, the Einsatzgruppen also forced tens of thousands of Jews eastward into the part of Poland that the Soviet Union had taken over.p. 429

Operation Barbarossa

In 1941, Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union.  He called this plan Operation Barbarossa.  Hitler hated communism.  He wanted to take over the communist Soviet Union, and kill communism for good.pp. 95–96

In May 1941, Heydrich gave the Einsatzgruppen an order to kill the Jews in the Soviet Union.pp. 94–95

In June 1941, Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, told other SS leaders that the Nazis planned to kill up to 30 million people in the Soviet Union.  The Einsatzgruppen would play an important part in this by murdering people who the Nazis thought were inferior.  However, the Nazis would also use other strategies, like starvation, to kill other Soviets.p. 181

The Einsatzgruppen were divided into seven battalions.p. 225  Hitler's army invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.  A few weeks later, the Einsatzgruppen started working in eastern Poland, which was controlled by the Soviet Union.p. 185  Heydrich gave them three main jobs:p. 177
 To take control of all of the offices and papers that belonged to the Soviet Union and the Communist Party;
 To kill all of the top leaders of the Soviet Union; and
 To start and encourage pogroms (riots and murders) against Jews

The Einsatzgruppen did these jobs in many ways.  Sometimes, they would make lists of people who they thought were enemies, and would then murder them.  Other times, they would perform massacres of thousands of people over a few days.  For example, at Babi Yar, one Einsatzgruppen battalion killed 33,771 Jews in two days; in the Rumbula massacre, another killed about 25,000 people in two days.

More Einsatzgruppen are created
As the Nazis took over more and more countries, they created more Einsatzgruppen.  They also created smaller groups called Einsatzkommando and Sonderkommando.  These included:
 Einsatzgruppe E, which worked in the Independent State of Croatia
 Einsatzgruppe G, in Romania, Hungary, and Ukraine
 Einsatzgruppe H, in Slovakiap. 419
 Einsatzgruppe Iltis, on the border between Slovenia and Austria
 Einsatzgruppen Jugoslawien and Serbien, in Yugoslavia
 Einsatzkommando Luxemburg, in Luxembourg
 Einsatzgruppe Norwegen, in Norway
 Einsatzkommando Tilsit, in Lithuania and Polandp. 197
 Einsatzgruppe Tunis, in Tunis

Killings in the Soviet Union

Orders to kill
After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppens main job was still to kill civilians, like they did in Poland.  However, this time, Heydrich ordered the Einsatzgruppen to kill:

 Commissars (officers in the Soviet government)
 All top and middle-ranking members of Comintern, a group that supported world communism
 All top and middle-ranking members of the Communist Party
 All extremist Communist Party members
 All Jews that held jobs in the government or the Community Party

Between July 8 and July 17, Heydrich also ordered the Einsatzgruppen to kill:
 All male Jews between the ages of 15 and 45p. 198
 All Jewish prisoners of war from the Soviet Red Army
 All Red Army prisoners of war from Georgia and Central Asia, since they might be Jews toop. 97
 All of the Roma people they could find, and all people with mental illnesses

Killings

The Red Army retreated.  However, Heydrich thought there were Soviet guerrilla fighters still in the area and thought local Jews were helping them.  He ordered the Einsatzgruppen to encourage anti-Jewish pogroms in the newly occupied territories.  Pogroms (some of which the Einsatzgruppen started) broke out in Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine.p. 526 Within the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, 10,000 Jews were killed in 40 different pogroms.  By the end of 1941, about 60 pogroms had happened, killing up to 24,000 people.p. 526

All of the main Einsatzgruppen took part in mass shootings from the beginning of the war.pp. 196–202  At first, they shot only adult Jewish men.  However, by August, they were shooting all Jews, including women, children, infants, and the elderly.  At first, they killed people in firing squads.  When this became too slow, the Einsatzkommandos began to shoot larger groups next to, or even inside, mass graves.p. 207  As news about these killings spread, many Jewish people ran away.

The Nazis began to send people to concentration camps and ghettos.  Rural areas were mostly Judenfrei (free of Jews).pp. 211–212  The Nazis created forced labour gangs so they could make use of the Jews as slaves until the Nazis had killed them all.  The Nazis had put off that goal until 1942.pp. 212–213

Killings in the Baltic States
Einsatzgruppe A worked in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.  These countries had been occupied by the Soviet Union before the Nazis took them over.  Einsatzgruppe A killed about 140,000 people between June and November 1941.p. 98

When Einsatzgruppe A entered Kaunas, Lithuania, a pogrom was happening.  They let all of the criminals out of jail and encouraged them to join the pogrom.  In four days, 4,000 Jews were killed in the pogrom.p. 41

The head of Einsatzgruppe A let a violent anti-Semitic man named Viktors Arājs start a smaller Einsatzgruppe called the Arājs Kommando.  Together, the two groups killed 2,300 Jews in Riga, Lithuania.  Within six months, the Arājs Kommando killed about half of the Jews in Latvia.

Groups like the Arājs Kommando were created in Lithuania and Estonia too.  With their help, Einsatzgruppe A was able to kill almost every Jew in its area.p. 182

Rumbula massacre
In November 1941, Himmler decided that Latvians were not being killed fast enough.  He wanted to move Jews from Germany into Latvia.  He ordered that everyone living in the ghetto in Riga, Latvia, be murdered.pp. 206–209

The Nazis told the people in the ghetto they were being sent to another place to live.  They told them to bring their things and valuables.pp. 208–210

The Nazis moved people towards a nearby forest a thousand at a time.  They shot people who tried to run away or could not walk fast enough.  They took the things the Jews had brought with them, and made them take off their clothes.  Then, fifty at a time, they made the victims lie down in a mass grave and shot them.pp. 208–210

In two days, about 25,000 people were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen.pp. 210–214

Killing with poison gas

After a while, Himmler realized that the Einsatzgruppens methods were not the best way to kill people as quickly and cheaply as possible.p. 197  He also found that many Einsatzgruppen had trouble killing so many people.  Some had physical and mental health problems, and others became alcoholics.pp. 52, 124, 168  Himmler made a final decision after watching a mass execution in August 1941.  He decided that shooting Jews was too stressful for his men.pp. 547–548

Himmler decided that the answer to this problem was to kill Jews (and others) with poison gas.p. 167  Starting in 1942, all of the main Einsatzgruppen began killing people using gas vans, which had been used to kill people with disabilities early on in Action T4.  In these vans, carbon monoxide exhaust fumes from the vans' engines were pumped into the back of the truck, killing the victims inside.  However, by September 1941, Nazis at Auschwitz concentration camp had begun experimenting with Zyklon B, a cyanide-like pesticide.pp. 280–281

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, the Nazis officially decided to kill all of the Jews in Europe (11 million people).  Some would be worked to death.  Others would be killed in extermination camps (death camps).().p. 555-556  The Nazis created death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bełżec extermination camps with the goal of killing as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.  These death camps replaced the Einsatzgruppen as the Nazis' main strategy of mass murder and genocide.pp. 279–280

At first, the Einsatzgruppen were sent to fight partisans  people in Nazi-occupied territories who continued to fight back against the Nazis.p. 248  However, by 1944, most Einsatzgruppen had become part of Waffen-SS fighting units or sent to guard death camps.

Jäger Report

The Einsatzgruppen kept careful records of their mass murders so they could write reports to their supervisors.  The Commander of Einsatzgruppe A filed the Jäger Report on December 1, 1941.  it talks about Einsatzgruppen As actions in Lithuania.

The report says that Einsatzgruppen A killed 137,346 people.p. 215  Most were Jews, but others were communists, criminals, and other Nazi "enemies."p. 126  Starting in mid-August, when 3,207 people were murdered, the victims included children.p. 126

In February 1942, Jäger changed his estimates of how many people the Einsatzgruppen killed. He said there were 138,272 victims, including:p. 126
 48,252 men (35%)
 55,556 women (40%)
 34,464 children (25%)

Jäger also said that only 1,851 of the victims (1.3%) were not Jewish.p. 126

Other reports
Many other papers and reports written by the Einsatzgruppen talk about how many people the different units killed.  For example, one researcher looked at over 200 Operational Situation Reports (reports from the Einsatzgruppen to their bosses about what they were doing).  He also looked at letters and reports written by Einsatzgruppen bosses.  He found that as of 1942, Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, and D had killed almost a million people:

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Ash is an alternative rock band from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. They officially formed in 1992, when the frontman Tim Wheeler and the bassist Mark Hamilton were only 15. Then, Rick "Rock" McMurray joined the band as drummer and Charlotte Haterley (who left the band in 2006) as second guitar and vocalist.

Other websites

 Official Ash Site
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Rezső Nyers (21 March 1923 – 22 June 2018) was a former Hungarian politician. He served as Minister of Finance of Hungary from 1960 to 1962. For a few months in 1989, he was the country's last Communist leader serving as President of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Nyers died on 22 June 2018 at the age of 95 after a short illness.

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The New York City Housing Authority Police Department was a police unit in New York City that existed from 1952 to 1995. The Housing Police, as well as New York City Transit Police, became part of the New York City Police Department in 1995 by order of New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and is now called the Housing Bureau.

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)  is a guide to grouping mental disorders. It is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It is used in the United States and around the world by doctors, researchers, health insurance companies, companies which make medicine, and others.

There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952. Each time, more mental disorders were added, although some have been removed and are no longer seen as mental disorders. An example of this is homosexuality.

The manual was developed from systems for collecting census and psychiatric hospital statistics, and from a manual written by the US Army. A lot of changes were made to it in 1980. The last time it was greatly changed was the fourth edition ("'DSM-IV'"), published in 1994, but small changes to text were made in a 2000 version. The fifth edition ("DSM-5") was published May 2013.

The DSM has been criticized for being too influenced by the drug industry.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, ICD, has a section about mental and behavioral disorders which is different from the DSM. The ICD, not the DSM, is the system used by the United States government.

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Thirteen is a number. It comes after twelve and before fourteen. It is an odd number.

Many people think thirteen is an unlucky number, especially when Friday is the thirteenth day of the month. This is a superstition. There is no proof that thirteen is an unlucky number.

Floors in tall buildings often skip floor thirteen, or reserve it for a mechanical floor. The idea of thirteen as an unlucky number is from pagan Norse mythology. It was believed to be unlucky to have thirteen people sitting at a table at a meal, and death is number thirteen in the tarot deck.

In Roman numerals, 13 is written as XIII.

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 Triskaidekaphobia

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a video game that came out in 2015. It was made by CD Projekt Red and was based on The Witcher series of books. It is a sequel to the game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which came out in 2011. The game is set in a fantasy world, and is played in third-person.

The game got very positive reviews when it came out. Its gameplay, story, combat, world, and graphics were all considered good. The biggest complaint about the game was its technical problems.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt