The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car that has been built by Chevrolet since 1953. It is now in its 7th generation.

History
The Corvette C1 was the first Corvette model.  It was created by GM (General Motors) in 1953. It was designed by Harley Earl and it was a show car. Chevrolet only made 300 Corvettes in 1953, and they are all almost the same. The C1 was the only model of Corvette to have an inline-6 engine option, and the inline-6 was only available from 1953 to 1955. Because the C1 was expensive and kind of slow, it was in danger of not being made anymore. Chevrolet changed the C1 in 1956, which made it faster and better. Afterwards, the car became more popular, and the C1 was built until 1962.

The Corvette C2 was the second Corvette model. The C2 was first built in 1963 and was made until 1967. The C2 was the first Corvette that could be bought as a coupé. The C2 was also the first Corvette to only offer V8 engines. The C2 became known as the Corvette Sting Ray. The C2 was much better and more advanced than the C1. The C2 features more powerful engines, better suspension, and faster speeds. Because of this, the C2 sold much better than the C1, and the Corvette was no longer in danger of not being made anymore.

The Corvette C3 was the third Corvette model. It was made from 1968 to 1982. The C3 was very similar to the C2. The main changes were the body and the inside. The V8 engines from the C2 became more powerful. In 1971, because the engines were too bad for the environment, the engines' power went down. This made the C3 slightly slower and less powerful. Every year the engines became less powerful until 1975. This was because the U.S. government forced GM (General Motors) to make the engines better for the environment. The C3 Corvette convertible was not made after 1975, so only the coupe was for sale after 1975.

The Corvette C4 was the fourth Corvette model. It was made from 1984 to 1996. There were no 1983 Corvettes, except for a few made by Chevrolet that were used for testing. The C4 was the first time the Corvette was totally new. The C4 used many of the same engines as the C3 Corvette, but the body was totally new. The Corvette was made as a convertible again starting in 1986. 1986 was also the year the Corvette was a pace car for the Indianapolis 500 car race. Throughout the C4's life, new engines and transmissions were used. The C4 ZR-1 was a special edition of the C4, which was much faster than the normal C4. It was made from 1990 to 1995.

The Corvette C5 was the fifth Corvette model. It was made from 1997 to 2004. The C5 was much better than the C4 Corvette. The C5 had a new body, many new engines, and a better chassis. Because of the better engines and more aerodynamic body, the C5 Corvette  The C5 was also much faster than the C4, and it had a top speed of 181 mph (miles per hour). The 1997 model was only available as a coupé with removable roof parts (known as a targa top), but in 1998 the Corvette convertible came on sale. Starting in 1999, a fixed-roof coupé went on sale. It is like the coupé but with a completely solid roof. It is sometimes called the "FRC." In 2001, a faster C5 was made, called the Z06. The Z06 was faster than the C4 ZR-1, which it replaced. There was also a race car version of the C5, called the C5-R.

The Corvette C6 was the sixth Corvette model. It was made from 2005 to 2013. The C6 was a fairly large improvement over the C5. Some of the changes were exposed headlights, better suspension, and a much better interior. The C6 was also faster than the C5. Starting in 2008, the C6 got a new engine that had 430 horsepower. This made the car even faster. Like the C5, the C6 had a Z06 model. The C6 Z06 had a very big engine and was very light for a Corvette. This made the Z06 very fast. Also, there was a model called the ZR1, which was even faster. The ZR1 featured a supercharged engine and was even faster than the Z06. The ZR1 is sometimes called the Blue Devil. It is the fastest Corvette C6. The ZR1 was first made in 2008. Like the C5, there was a race car version of the C6, called the C6.R.

The Corvette C7 is the seventh Corvette model, and it is being made now. It was first made in 2014. It is known as the Corvette Stingray. The C7 is more advanced than the C6, and has a much nicer inside. The main engine is very similar to the one in the C6, but is now more powerful. The body of the C7 is different from other Corvettes. It has bigger headlights, very different back lights, and many more vents. The Corvette C7 is also available as a convertible. Like the C5 and C6, the C7 has a Z06 model. The Z06 is even faster than the C6 ZR1, and it has a supercharged engine. This engine makes 650 horsepower in the Z06. There is also a Z06 convertible for the first time ever. Like the C5 and C6, there is a C7 race car, which is called the C7.R.

Other websites

Chevrolet Corvette - Official site
Corvette Europe

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Marianne Flynner, born 16 September 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish singer.

During the 1980s, she travelled with Rocktåget, and sung as a backup-choir girl with among others, Roxette and Eva Dahlgren.

For eight years, she lived in California, before studying at Adolf Fredrik's Music School.

in the USA, she was influenced by country music. By late 1993, Country Girl came out and her first album with own songs, and it peaked at 47th  position at the Swedish album chart. In 1994 came her second album, Tic-Tac Time, and in 1996 came her third, Sagt och gjort. The albums consisted of accustic, country-influenced, folk rock.

In 1995 she scored a hit together with Susanne Alfvengren and Åsa Jinder performing the Swedish women's national team fight song "Det är nu!" during the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, which was played in Sweden.

On 4 January 1997, her song "Den sista december" received a Svensktoppen test, but failed to enter chart.

Another famous song is "Hennes ögon" from 1996, written by Lotta Ahlin, and recorded by, among others, Jill Johnson in 1998.

Discography

Albums
Country Girl - 1993
Tic-Tac Time - 1994
Sagt och gjort - 1996

References

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Marianne Flynner


Valcolla is a former municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Geography
Valcolla is in the upper part of the Val Colla, the mountain valley in which the Cassarate River rises. It has villages of Colla, Cozzo, Curtina, Insone, Maglio di Colla, Molino, Piandera, Scareglia and Signôra. It borders the following municipalities: Bidogno, Bogno, Capriasca, Cavargna (Italy), Certara, Cimadera, Corticiasca, Ponte Capriasca and Sonvico.

History
In 1956 the municipality was created from the merger of Colla, Insone, Piandera, Scareglia and Signôra. On 14 April 2013 the former municipalities of Bogno, Cadro, Carona, Certara, Cimadera, Sonvico and Valcolla merged into the city of Lugano.

References

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Valcolla


Umberto Borsò (3 April 1923 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian operatic tenor. He was born in La Spezia, Italy.

In 1953 and 1954, he performed in the role of Aio in the premiere of Medea by Pietro Canonica conducted by Ottavio Ziino with Maria Pedrini at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. He also replaced Mario Del Monaco in Andrea Chénier starring aloside with Renata Tebaldi in 1953.

Borsò died on 26 November 2018 in Rome at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
 Umberto Borsò at Virtual Museum

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Umberto Borsò


The Urban Land Institute (also called ULI) is a non-profit research organization dedicated to urban planning and urban development. The institute is located in Washington D.C., United States, with branches in London and Hong Kong.

Other websites

Urban Land Institute Official Website
Urban Land magazine
ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition website
J.C. Nichols Prize website
ULI Advisory Services Program

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Urban Land Institute


H.N.K. Hajduk Split is a football club which plays in Croatia.

League title
Yugoslav First League : 9
1927, 1929, 1950, 1952, 1954/55, 1970/71, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1978/79
Prva HNL : 6
1992, 1993/94, 1994/95, 2000/01, 2003/04, 2004/05

League position

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H.N.K. Hajduk Split


The Lanarkshire Derby is a football rivalry in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and matches are played between two of Motherwell, Hamilton Academical, Airdrie United and Albion Rovers.

Motherwell vs Airdrie
This game is the biggest Lanarkshire derby, and big crowds usually come to watch this match, at either Fir Park or Excelsior Stadium. For a very long time, Motherwell and Airdrieonians were the two biggest teams in Lanarkshire, up until Airdrie went out of business in 2002. There has only been one game between these two teams since Airdrie re-formed as Airdrie United, in the 2007 Scottish Cup. A Richie Foran goal won it for Motherwell that day, in front of a crowd of 5,924, the highest ever for an Airdrie United match. Also, this match had often been the final of the Lanarkshire Cup, a competition where teams from all-over Lanarkshire played in. This competition stopped in 1996.

Motherwell vs Hamilton Academical
This game is the second-biggest Lanarkshire derby, and the most Southern of all the derbies. Up until 2008, both teams were mostly in different divisions. Then Hamilton got promoted to the SPL and both teams were to play each other a lot. This ended when Hamilton got relegated in 2011, meaning that Motherwell are now the only SPL team in Lanarkshire.

Hamilton Academical vs Airdrie
This game is between the two middle-rated teams in Lanarkshire, and is not as big as when one of the teams play Motherwell. Both teams have usually been in a league lower than the SPL, so this is not thought to be a big derby.

Airdrie vs Albion Rovers
This game is big for both teams, as they were both in the Monklands area, until Airdrie moved to a new stadium in the Petersburn area in 1998. The first match between Albion and Airdrie (as United), was in 2010, when Airdrie beat Albion Rovers 1-0 at Cliftonhill. Since that game, both teams are in the same division in the 2011-12 season.

Albion Rovers vs Hamilton Academical
This is not a big derby match, as both teams have been in different divisions for most of their existence. They were in the same league in 2001, but have not met each other since, making this derby the smallest. Coatbridge and Hamilton are 6 miles apart.

Albion Rovers vs Motherwell
This is the least remembered of the derbies, as Albion have been in the lower divisions for most of their existence, whilst Motherwell have been in the top division. There is also no bad feeling between the two, as a few young Motherwell players have gone out on loan to Albion Rovers over the years.

References

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Metastasis is what happens when cancer spreads from its original place to another part of the body.  Cancer cells spread from the original site to other places in the body by traveling through the bloodstream. When the cancer cells stick to a new place in the body, they grow and form another tumor there. Metastasis makes cures more difficult, or in many cases impossible.

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Metastasis


The M240 machine gun is a type of machine gun. It fires the 7.62mm NATO cartridge. It is gas-operated and the bullets are fed into the chamber by a belt. The M240 has been used by the United States Armed Forces since the late-1970s. It is used a lot by infantry. The M240 is also mounted onto ground vehicles, boats, and helicopters.

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Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He was best known for his writings about technology and movie culture. He was born in Paris. He was best known for his book War and Cinema (1989).

Virilio died of a heart attack on 10 September 2018 in Paris, aged 88.

References

Other websites

 Paul Virilio. Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography, bibliography, photos and video lectures.
 Paul Virilio. 'Red Alert in Cyberspace' in Radical Philosophy. November/December 1995
 Paul Virilio and Louise Wilson. "Cyberwar, God and Television". Interview. In: ctheory. December 1, 1994.
 Paul Virilio and Jérôme Sans. "Game Of Love & Chance". Discussion. In: virtually2k. 1995.

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Blandford Forum is a historic Georgian town in Dorset, England. In 2001 there were 8,745 people living in Blandford Forum.  There is a church in the centre of the town. It is on the River Stour.

There are three Primary Schools:  Archbishiopwake Primary School, Milldown Primary and Blandford St Mary.  There is also a Secondary School called The Blandford School.

Town Centre
There is a large well known brewery Hall and Woodhouse who also own the Crown Hotel.

Facilities
There is a leisure centre which has a 25m pool and children's water slide.  A sauna and steam room are next to the pool.  There is also a fully equipped gym and a cafe.

Events
The famous annual Steam Fair is held nearby in Tarrant Hinton. and Blandford Forum is host to the rock festival every year, called Teddy Rocks which is charitable event to raise money for cancer awareness.

Annually there is a Georgian Fayre in the town centre and also a Yuletide Festival.  The Blandford Carnival is well known celebration of the local community.

References

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Blandford Forum


The BP Pedestrian Bridge, or simply BP Bridge, is a girder footbridge in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It spans from Columbus Drive to connect Grant Park with Millennium Park. It was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry. It opened along with the rest of Millennium Park on July 16, 2004.

References

Other websites

City of Chicago Millennium Park
Millennium Park map
City of Chicago Loop Community Map

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Le Bailleul is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

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Le Bailleul


Hamilton Hill is a fictional Batman character who is the corrupt mayor of Gotham City. He helps the Gotham Crime boss such as Rupert Thorne to help him find Batman's secret identity. He hired an assassin to kill Harvey Bullock.

He was voice by Lloyd Bochner in Batman: The Animated Series. He was also played by Michael Murphy in Batman Returns.

Other websites
 Hamilton Hill at DC Comics Wiki

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Hamilton Hill (comics)


Swale is a borough in Kent, South East England. About 140,000 people live in Swale. It was created on 1 April 1974. Its headquarters are in Sittingbourne.

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Saint-Yan Airport ()  , also known as Charolais Bourgogne Sud Airport, is an airport in Saint-Yan, a commune of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is located on the airport.

References

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Saint-Yan Airport


The President of El Salvador () officially known as the President of the Republic of El Salvador () is the head of state of El Salvador. The office was created in the Constitution of 1841. From 1821 until 1841, the head of state of El Salvador was styled simply as Head of State (Jefe de Estado).

Heads of State of El Salvador within the Federal Republic of Central America (1821–1841)

Intendants Political Leaders of the Province of San Salvador.

Presidents of the Independent Republic of El Salvador (1841–present)

Latest election

Living former presidents

Intendant and Superior Political Chief
21 Sep 1821 – 28 November 1821  Pedro Barriere                     (b. ... - d. 1827)
Intendant and Governor (from 11 January 1822, President of the Junta of Government)
28 Nov 1821 -  9 February 1823  José Matías Delgado                (b. 1767 - d. 1832)
Supreme Political Chief
Chief of State
22 Apr 1824 -  1 October 1824

The Civic Directory governed El Salvador from 2 to 4 December 1931 . Composed entirely of military, the civic directory began the era of military dictatorships. The civic directory ended its government when the Presidency of the Republic was handed over to Vice President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez , who would later perpetrate a massacre in 1932. The civic directory was formed by (according to the military organization to which they belonged):

National Guard :
 Colonel Joaquín Valdés.
 Colonel Juan Vicente Vidal

First Infantry Regiment :
 Captain Manuel Urbina.
 Captain Visitation Antonio Pacheco
 Lieutenant Joaquín Castro Canizales

First Artillery Regiment :
 Lieutenant Carlos Rodríguez
 Sub Lieutenant Julio Cañas

First Machine Gun Regiment :
 Second Lieutenant José Alonso Huezo
 Second Lieutenant Miguel Hernández Saldaña

Cavalry Regiment :
 Second Lieutenant Héctor Montalvo.

Ministry of War :
 Coronel Osmín Aguirre and Salinas

Military Aviation :
 Second Lieutenant Juan Ramón Munés

See also.
 El Salvador
 History of El Salvador

References

Other websites

El Salvador

President of El Salvador


This is a list of noted  natural scientists from Romania.

Agronomists
 Gheorghe Cipăianu - member of Romania's parliament; death in 1957
 Dimitrie Comșa. Of the writers of the Transylvanian Memorandum (en), he got the second-longest prison sentence; honorary member of the  Romanian Academy; death in 1931
 Călin Georgescu
 Ion Ionescu de la Brad
 Gheorghe Ionescu-Sisești
 Ioan Kalinderu
 Alexandru Moisuc
 Păun Otiman
 Paul Pîrșan
 Cosmin Alin Popescu
 Constantin Sandu-Aldea
 Nicolae N. Săulescu
 Valeriu Tabără
 Zoe Țapu - she created an original variety of durum wheat, adapted to the climates such as in Central and Eastern Europe. She was described as a pioneer of durum wheat breeding in Romania.

Astronomers

 Victor Anestin - he was on of the earliest to write about the possibility of using the atomic power for war purposes; his description was in a novel (of his) published in February 2014 (in the same year as H. G. Wells' The World Set Free).
 Noah Brosch
 Nicolae Culianu
 Nicolae Donici
 Mario Livio

Biologists
 Réka Albert - she is noted for the Barabási–Albert model (en) and research into scale-free networks  (en) and Boolean modeling of biological systems.
 Ana Aslan
 George Assaky - anatomist
 Petre Mihai Bănărescu
 Dimitrie Brândză
 Paul Bujor - anatomist
 Nicolae Cajal
 Ioan Cantacuzino
 Dimitrie Gerota - anatomist
 Victor Gomoiu -
 Nicolae Leon
 Constantin Levaditi
 Nicolae Minovici - anatomist
 Florentina Mosora
 Teodor T. Nalbant
 George Emil Palade
 Grigore T. Popa - anatomist
 Emil Racoviță
 Francisc Rainer - anatomist
 Henric Sanielevici
 Ion Tănăsescu (surgeon) - anatomist
 Ion Țuculescu

Biochemists
 Mihail Șerban (biochemist)
 Sava Dumitrescu

Botanists
 Aaron Aaronsohn
 Alexandru Borza
 Dimitrie Brândză
 Anastasie Fătu
 Franz Friedrich Fronius
 Dimitrie Grecescu
 Wilhelm Knechtel
 Erasmus Julius Nyárády
 Florian Porcius
 Alice Săvulescu
 Traian Săvulescu
 Emanoil C. Teodorescu
 Mihail Vlădescu

Microbiologists

 Victor Babeș
 Ioan Cantacuzino
 Toma Ciorbă
 Mihai Ciucă
 Constantin Ionescu-Mihăești
 Constantin Levaditi
 Francisc Rainer
 Alexandru Slătineanu

Paleontologists
 Sava Athanasiu
 Grigore Cobălcescu
 Gheorghe Macovei
 Ion Th. Simionescu
 Grigoriu Ștefănescu

Physiologists
 George Assaky
 Paul Bujor
 Dimitrie Călugăreanu
 Anastasie Fătu
 Nicolae Paulescu
 Francisc Rainer

Zoologists

 Grigore Antipa
 Ioan Borcea - entomologists
 Eugen Botezat
 Paul Bujor
 Dimitrie Călugăreanu
 Aristide Caradja - entomologist
 Anastasie Fătu
 Constantin Kirițescu
 Dimitrie Voinov

Chemists

 Ecaterina Andronescu - chemical engineer
 Ion Atanasiu
 Emanoil Bacaloglu
 Alexandru Balaban
 Petru Bogdan
 Emilian Bratu - chemical engineer
 Constantin Cândea
 Traian V. Chirilă
 Eugen Chirnoagă
 Neculai Costăchescu
 Lazăr Edeleanu
 Corneliu E. Giurgea
 Dan Giușcă
 Ionel Haiduc
 Constantin Istrati
 Ștefan Micle
 Ștefan Minovici
 Alexandru Mironescu
 Ilie G. Murgulescu - physical chemist
 Costin Nenițescu
 Petru Poni
 Dan Ioan Popescu - chemical engineer
 Raluca Ripan
 Alfons Oscar Saligny
 Gheorghe Spacu
 Henric Streitman - physical chemist
 Corneliu Șumuleanu
 Ion Tănăsescu (chemist)
 Nicolae Teclu
 Attila Verestóy - chemical engineer
 Maria Zaharescu

Earth scientists
 Ștefan Hepites - meteorologists

Geologists

 Sava Athanasiu
 Marcian Bleahu
 Grigore Cobălcescu
 Emil Constantinescu
 Liviu Constantinescu - geophysicist
 Nicolae Frolov
 Carmen Gaina - geophysicist
 Liviu Giosan
 Dan Giușcă
 Gheorghe Macovei
 Ludovic Mrazek
 Petru Poni
 Grigoriu Ștefănescu - mineralogists
 Emil Racoviță
 Ion Th. Simionescu
 Grigoriu Ștefănescu
 Sabba S. Ștefănescu - geophysicist
 Dorel Zugrăvescu - geophysicist

Physicists

 Ion I. Agârbiceanu
 Réka Albert (see above)
 Emanoil Bacaloglu
 Albert-László Barabási
 Valentin Ceaușescu
 Liviu Constantinescu - geophysicist
 Carmen Gaina - geophysicist
 Mihai Gavrilă - nuclear physicist
 Radu Grigorovici
 Spiru Haret
 Ștefan Hepites
 Horia Hulubei - nuclear physicist
 Dragomir Hurmuzescu
 Theodor V. Ionescu
 Augustin Maior
 Ștefania Mărăcineanu
 Alexandru Marin
 Victor Mercea - nuclear physicist
 Ștefan Micle
 Constantin Miculescu
 Florentina Mosora
 Ilie G. Murgulescu - physical chemist
 Horațiu Năstase
 Basarab Nicolescu
 Dorin N. Poenaru - nuclear physicist
 Ioan-Iovitz Popescu
 Sandu Popescu
 Alexandru Proca - nuclear physicist
 Ștefan Procopiu
 Eduard Prugovečki
 Sabba S. Ștefănescu - geophysicist
 Henric Streitman - physical chemist
 Șerban Țițeica
 Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen
 Dorel Zugrăvescu - geophysicist

Naturalists

 Dimitrie Călugăreanu
 Daniil Popovici-Barcianu

Related pages
List of Romanian mathematicians

References

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Righteous Among the Nations is an award given by Israel to people who risked their own lives to help Jewish people survive the Holocaust. It has been given to Oskar Schindler and Corrie ten Boom and many others for helping the innocent victims of the Holocaust. The Righteous Among the Nations Memorial Path is located in the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.

Other websites
 Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem website

Righteous Among the Nations


Arsenous acid, also known as arsenious acid, is a chemical compound. It is also an acid. Its chemical formula is As(OH)3. It has arsenic and hydroxide ions in it. The arsenic is in its +3 oxidation state.

Properties
Arsenous acid is a colorless solution. It is a weak acid. It reacts with bases to make arsenite salts. It is highly toxic. It cannot be made in a crystalline form because it turns into arsenic trioxide and water again. It is similar to phosphorous acid, although it is not a strong reducing agent.

Preparation
It is made by dissolving arsenic trioxide or arsenic trichloride in water.

Related pages
Arsenic acid
Arsenic tribromide
Arsenic trisulfide
Nitrous acid

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Arsenous acid


Ars-sur-Formans is a commune. It is found in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the Ain department in the east of France. In 2009, 1,326 people lived in the commune. The inhabitants are the Arsois. The most important monuments in the commune are the Ars basilica, built in 1862, and the Presbytère du curé d'Ars, located at the side of the basilica, and which contains a relic (his heart) of Jean-Marie Vianney, curé of Ars in the 19th century. The commune is twinned with Freihalden in Germany since 1977.

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Ars-sur-Formans


yijiang is a district. It's found in the province of Anhui in China. It is under the administration of Wuhu city.

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Yijiang District


The Southwest Division is one of three divisions in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association, along with the Pacific Division and the Northwest Division. The five teams in this division are the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans, and the San Antonio Spurs.

References

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A beret is a soft, round type of hat. They are usually made of felt or a similar material.  Many berets were made in the 19th century in France and Spain.  Berets are worn as part of the uniform of many military and police units across the world.  Many other organizations also wear berets for different purposes.

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Oras Oy is a Finnish manufacturer of bathroom and kitchen faucets. It is in Rauma. It was established in 1945. In 2012, there were 920 workers.

Oras is the fourth-largest manufacturer of faucets in Europe. It makes 30–80% of the faucets in Finland.

References

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Rodan is a fictional monster who appears in movies from Japan. He first appeared in Rodan, a 1956 kaiju movie from Toho Studios. Since then, he has appeared in several Godzilla movies. He is a very large pterosaur. He can release sonic booms from his body, which destroy anything it hits.

Appearances
 Rodan (1956)
 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
 Invasion of Astro-Monster or Monster Zero (US release) (1965)
 Destroy All Monsters (1968)
 Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) (stock footage)
 Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) (stock footage)
 Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) (stock footage)
 Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993; also as "Fire Rodan")
 Monster Planet Of Godzilla (1994)
 Godzilla Island (1997)
 Godzilla Final Wars (2004)

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Jens Beutel (12 July 1946 − 8 May 2019) was a German politician. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1997 to 2011, he served as the Lord Mayor of Mainz, the state capital of Rhineland-Palatinate. He was also a chess player. He was born in Lünen, Westphalia.

Beutel died on 8 May 2019, at the age of 72.

References

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Jens Beutel at Regionalgeschichte

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Taygetus is a mountain range in Peloponnese peninsula of Southern Greece. The highest mountain of this range is known as the "Profitis Elias" or the "Prophet Elias".

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Taygetus


Michael Tönnies (19 December 1959 – 26 January 2017) was a German footballer. He was born in Essen. He played as a striker. He played from 1978 to 1994.

Tönnies was best known for playing for MSV Duisburg, playing in 179 league games and scoring over a hundred goals. He also played for Schalke 04, SpVgg Bayreuth, 1. FC Bocholt, Rot-Weiss Essen and Wuppertaler SV. He held a Bundesliga record, scoring the fastest hat-trick (three goals). He held the record from 1991 until 2015, when Robert Lewandowski beat the record.

Tönnies died on 26 January 2017 at the age of 57.

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Michael Tönnies


Monte Hermoso is a town on the Atlantic coast of Argentina.  It is about  east of the city of Bahía Blanca.  It is in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of the partido of Monte Hermoso.

The tallest lighthouse in South America is nearby.  It is called Faro Recalada a Bahia Blanca.  It is  high.

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Monte Hermoso


Tête de Moine is a hard cheese made from cows' milk. It is made in the cantons of Berne and Jura in Switzerland. It was first made in the Bellelay Abbey in the 12th century.

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Tête de Moine


The University of Worcester is a university, in Worcester, England. It started in 1946.

History
In 1946, it started as a teaching college. It was on unused bases for the Royal Air Force. In 1997 the Privy Council renamed it iversity College Worcester. In 2005, the Privy Council let it become a university. The institution was renamed "University of Worcester" in September of that year.

Locations
Since 2005, the University has got many new sites in the city of Worcester.

St John's Campus
St John's is the main campus. It is the central place for all courses, support departments and academic institutes. it does have any places that does business, computing, marketing or management.

City Campus
The university's second campus is known as City Campus. The Worcester Business School is here.

Riverside and Worcester Arena
In addition, the University occupies a large site adjacent to the River Severn, now known as "Riverside".  This includes an Art Space & Exhibition building and a 2,000-seat capacity Sports Arena built as a new facility for sports, events, a base for the Worcester Wolves basketball team, a national centre of excellence for disability sports and as a further teaching and office space. The facility, known as Worcester Arena is also accessible to the local community.

The Hive
The Hive was opened in July 2012. It has a bunch of services for adults, children and adamic sections. It has 250,000 books, and huge archive collections. It also has meeting rooms, exhibition spaces and a studio theatre.

Environmental standing
The institution has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. The university has been recgonized for efficiency.

Academic profile
The University of Worcester is the UK's fastest growing University. Applications increased by 10.6% in 2009 and by 100% since 2004.  The University has consistently recorded the largest increases in applications of any UK University for 7 years in a row.

Funding
As of April 2011, the University of Worcester has proposed to set its undergraduate Tuition Fees at £8,100 under the new regime announced by the Coalition Government.

Reputation and rankings
The university guide of the Times newspaper rates the university at place 81 out of 114 institutions.

In the National Student Survey students from the University rated their overall satisfaction at 80% in 2008/09. A number of subject areas received excellent levels of satisfaction, with an overall student satisfaction of 92% in Sports Science and 89% in Initial Teacher Training.

In March 2010, the University was ranked 54th of the top public sector places to work.

The Complete University Guide 2015 says it the University is 104th out of 123 institutions.

Research
In August 2010, the University was granted Research Degree awarding powers, enabling it to confer the awards of MPhil and PhD. Before this the Coventry University assisted in the academic awarding of these degrees. The university includes eight national research centres:
 The National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit from where all UK national pollen forecasts originate,
 The Centre for Rural Research, which examined the psychological effects of the mass flooding in the UK in recent years.
 The International Centre for Children's Literature, Literacy and Creativity is, with University of Cambridge and Roehampton University, one of the three UK university centres to employ full-time children's literature professors.
 The Motion Performance Centre which looks at sports injuries, and rehabilitation techniques using motion capture technology.  The Human Performance Laboratories work alongside to provide data on exercise and how it affects the body.
 The Centre for People @ Work
 The Centre for Applied Health Research
 The Association for Dementia Studies was launched at the University in February 2010. It will work with people with dementia, their families, health professionals, care providers, commissioners, and government agencies to provide high quality research, training and education.
 The Centre for Ethical Leadership, which will be officially launched in November 2010.  The Centre will work with leaders at different levels and sectors to help them think about decision making within an ethical framework. This will enable them to reflect on decisions that acknowledge and respect contested values in areas such as the environment, social justice and governance. It provides sessions to enable leaders to develop their skills in this area, develops and supports networks of individuals to discuss ethical dilemmas and provide forums for discussion, engages with others debating this area, stimulates and conducts research in the area of ethical leadership, and draws together and makes available existing research.

Student life
Worcester Students' Union is the student government organization for students at the University of Worcester. The Union a President, a Vice-President (Education), a Vice-President (Student Activities), and 7 other officers.

Sports activities
The University is home to the Worcester Wolves basketball team.

Notable alumni

Waqar Azmi OBE, diplomat and former Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Office
Jacqui Smith (politician)
Daryl Mitchell (cricketer)
Swaroop Sampat (actress and Femina Miss India 1979)
Alan Dickens (rugby player)
John Shimmin (politician)
Rob Taylor (footballer, born 1985)
Adam Willis (footballer)
Imogen Thomas (model)
Kyle Pryor (actor, Home and Away)
Matthew Raggett (educationalist)
Rosie Spaughton (youtuber)
Crispin Boden-Tebbutt (Digital Marketer)

References

Other websites
 University of Worcester (official website)
 Worcester Students' Union (official website)
 Worcester Wolves (official website)
 Guardian Newspaper Official University Guide
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University of Worcester


The name Laura is a female given name in Latin Europe whose meaning, "Bay Laurel", translates to everyman. The name is from the bay laurel plant, which in the Greco-Roman era, was used as a symbol of victory, fame or honor.

Around British North America, it is likely the name Laura was strongly popular for female babies until its rapid decline in late 19th century. It rebounded various times since, although it has steadily declined in popularity in some countries.

There are many celebrities carrying the name Laura.

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Laura


The Nishan-e-Pakistan is the highest of civil awards and decorations given by the Government of Pakistan. The honor maybe given to a citizen from a foreign country. Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela were among the foreigners. The award was created on 19 March 1957.

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Hyderābād and Berar (, ) under the Nizams, was the largest Princely state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. The Berar region of present-day Vidarbha in Maharashtra was merged with the Central Provinces in 1903, to form Central Provinces and Berar.

Hyderabad state was in south-central India from 1724 until 1948. It was ruled by the hereditary Nizam. During the Partition of British India in 1947, the  Nizam of Hyderabad declared his intentions of not joining either newly formed India or Pakistan. Sensing trouble, India launched Operation Polo which resulted in the absorption of Hyderabad into the Indian Union, in 1948.

History
The forebears of the Asaf Jahi Dynasty came to India from Samarkand, in Central Asia, but the family actually originated from Baghdad. In 1724, the Mughal Governor of the Deccan, Asaf Jah, Nizam ul-Mulk, Qamar ud-din Khan, established himself as an independent ruler of Deccan. Initially Aurangabad was it's capital city, later Hyderabad became the capital and later lent its name to that of the state he had created. The first Nizam's successors became closely allied to the British colonialists, assisting them in subduing their enemies, the Maratha dynasty, Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and the French. In later years, the Nizam's troops invariably took part in all the main campaigns undertaken by the British Indian Army. Large numbers of his troops took part in the First and Second World Wars. These contributions earned for the Nizam unequalled titles and honours from a grateful Emperor.

The state was the largest and premier of all princely states within the British Indian Empire. After the Pakistani and Indian Independences, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII decided that the Princely state of Hyderabad will not join the New Dominion of India or Dominion of Pakistan. His decision found favour with Pakistan but not with India. The Nizam’s state was a prosperous one and had its own army, railway and airline network, postal system and radio network. On 15th August, 1947, India declared itself an independent nation. And so did Hyderabad.

Independence
At the time of the Independence movement of India, the State of Hyderabad was the largest of all princely states in India. The Nizams of Hyderabad ruled over lands extending to cover 82,698 mi² (214,190 km²) of fairly homogenous territory and was bigger than Belarus but was smaller than the Guyana. The Nizam ruled over a cosmopolitan comprised of a population of roughly 16.34 million people (as per the 1941 census) of which a majority (83%) was Hindu. These advantages persuaded the Nizam to attempt an Independent existence, when the British withdrew from the sub-continent in 1947.  He refused to join either a Hindu India or a Muslim Pakistan, preferring to form a separate Kingdom within the British Commonwealth of Nations.  Hyderabad State had its own Army, Airline, Telecommunication system, railway network, postal system, currency and Radio broadcasting service.

In Hyderabad, where no official Referendum was held and where the ruler did not accede, the forced accession to India brought about by Military action, was presumed to have the tacit approval of the predominantly Hindu population.  It was one of several annexations by India, with various rationales. On the 6th of October in 1948, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zafarullah, requested the President of the United Nations Security Council that Pakistan be permitted to participate in the discussion of the Hyderabad question in accordance with Article 31 of the United Nations' Charter. The Government of Pakistan took the case and raised the question of the State of Hyderabad to the United Nations security council Pursuant to Article 31, where it is still pending for Resolution Pakistan has been mainly involved in arguments for the rights of Kashmiris. In spite of raising questions which predominantly affect Pakistan, the Pakistan delegation is often able to play a significant role in debates on other issues as well. As a number of states had not attained Independence in the 1950s, Pakistan became effective spokesman of many Asian and African states and movements, It states:  The use of military force provided the only consistency in India's policy. The state that was once so well noted for its religious and ethnic toleration, ruled by a highly cultured and intellectually brilliant elite who maintained all that was best in the old Mughal order, was now no more. Although it has not always been satisfied with the effectiveness of the United Nations to act on Kashmir, Pakistan remains a keen and active member. Pakistan would like to see the United Nations strengthened so that it can serve as an effective force to uphold International law and protect weaker states.

Historical dates of Hyderabad Deccan State:

 512 - 1687 Part of the Kingdom of Golkonda.
 1687       Part of the Mughal Empire.
 20 Jun 1720 Mughal governor with style Nizam al-Molk establishes a quasi-independent state.
 7 Dec 1724  Hyderabad made capital of the state.
 12 Nov 1766 British protectorate (and 22 Aug 1809).
 15 Aug 1947 Nizam refuses to accede to the Dominion of India.
 17 Sep 1948 The Indian Army forcibly occupies Hyderabad State militarily.
 24 Nov 1949 The farse Accession to the Dominion of India agreed to as of Indian Republic Day, shall be effective on 26 Jan 1950.

Administrative divisions
These were the 4 Divisions and 17 Districts combined which most of the former Princely state is as follows:

After the states were captured they reorganised in 1956, Aurangabad became part of Maharashtra, and Gulbarga became part of Karnataka, the remainder became Andhra Pradesh.

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Taylor Pyatt (born August 19, 1981 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the New York Rangers. Drafted out of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), he played major-junior with the Sudbury Wolves. He has previously played for the New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks and Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL.

Awards
 Named to the OHL First All-Star Team in 2000.

Career statistics

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French Canadian (Canadien or Canadien français in French) refers to a nation or ethnic group that comes from Canada in the period of French colonization in the 1600s. They are the main French-speaking population of Canada. It may also refer to people of French descent living in Canada, or native speakers of French in Canada.

References

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Multicultural Canada website includes seven full-text searchable French Canadian newspapers from Ontario and Quebec

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French Canadians


Rüegsau is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.

References

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Rüegsau


The 1979 Formula One season crowned as champion Jody Scheckter.

Season review

1979 Drivers Championship final standings

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1979 Formula One season


The Mahdi or Mehdi ('the rightly-guided one') is Islam's messiah or savior. It is said that he and the Prophet Jesus will change the world for the better, bringing God in all hearts, before Yaum al-Qiyamah (Day of the Resurrection).

In particular, the Sudanese tribal leader Muhammed Ahmed proclaimed himself as the Mahdi, appointed by Allah to free his country. He defeated the forces of the Khedive of Egypt and the British, only to die suddenly six months later.

Other websites
 Who are Mahdavis?
 The Promised Mehdi
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Elmar Faber (1 April 1934 – 3 December 2017) was a German book publisher. He was the head publisher of Aufbau-Verlag from 1983 to 1992. In 1990, he co-founded publisher Faber & Faber with his son Michael. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007. His autobiography was published in 2014. He was born in Deesbach, Thuringia.

Faber died on 3 December 2017 in Leipzig, at the age of 83.

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 Elmar Faber at Perlentaucher.de

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Elmar Faber


A cutter is typically a small, but in some cases a medium-sized, watercraft designed for speed rather than for capacity.  Traditionally a cutter is a smaller sailing ship with a single mast. It is fore-and-aft rigged, with two or more headsails and often has a bowsprit. The cutter's mast may be set farther back than on a sloop.

In modern usage, a cutter can be either a small- or medium-sized ship whose occupants exercise official authority. Examples are harbor pilots' cutters and cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard or UK Border Force.

Cutters can also be a small boat serving a larger one to ferry passengers or light cargo between larger ships and the shore. This type of cutter may be powered by oars, sails or a motor.

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Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev (Russian: Серге́й Вячесла́вович Ла́зарев, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej vʲɪt͡ɕɪsˈlavəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈlazərʲɪf], born 1 April 1983) is a Russian singer, dancer and actor. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as a member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006. Since then Lazarev has pursued a solo career. He represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, and finished in third place, coming first in the televote. He will represent Russia again at Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel with the song "Scream" .

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Sergey Lazarev


Jason Kander (born May 4, 1981) is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician. He was elected Secretary of State of Missouri in 2012, serving from January 2013 through January 9, 2017. He served as a state representative before becoming secretary of state. He was an intelligence officer in the Army National Guard, achieving the rank of Captain.

He was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, losing the 2016 Senate election to Republican incumbent Roy Blunt.

On June 25, 2018, Kander announced that he will run for mayor of Kansas City in 2019 to replace term-limited incumbent Sly James. He dropped out on October 2, 2018, after revealing that he suffered from PTSD and depression.

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Michael Tolan (born Seymour Tuchow; November 27, 1925 – January 31, 2011) was an American movie, stage, and television actor. His first role was in The Enforcer. He appeared in Fort Worth, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Presumed Innocent, and Decoy.

Tolan was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 27, 1925. He was educated at Wayne State University and at Staford University. He was married to Carol Hume until they divorced. He was married to Rosemary Forsyth from 1966 until they divorced in 1975. He was partners with Donna Peck until his death. He had two children with Hume and one with Forsyth.

He died on January 31, 2011 in Hudson, New York from kidney failure. He was 85 years old.

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A nor'easter (also northeaster) is a big storm along the East Coast of the United States. A Nor'easter is called that because the winds in a Nor'easter come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada. More specifically, it is a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast. The precipitation pattern is similar to other extratropical storms. Nor'easters also can cause coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane force winds, and heavy snow.
Nor'easters are associated with warm fronts, cold fronts, or occluded fronts.
Nor'easters can occur at any time of the year but are mostly known for their presence in the winter.
Nor'easters can be devastating and damaging, especially in the winter months, when most damage and deaths are from the cold. Nor'easters bring very cold air down from the Arctic. Nor'easters thrive on the converging air masses; that is, the polar cold air mass and the warmer ocean water of the Gulf Stream. Nor'easters will usually develop between 30° N. and 35° N.

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Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Spy Kids, Sin City, Watchmen, Son in Law, and in Night at the Museum.

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The national flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a sky blue flag, adorned with a yellow star in the upper left canton and cut diagonally by a red stripe with a yellow-fimbriated stripe surrounding it.

Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


Noel Paul Stookey (born December 30, 1937) is an American singer-songwriter. Stookey is known by his stage name, Paul, in the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He has been known by his first name, Noel, throughout his life. He continues to work as a singer and an activist, performing as a solo artist, and occasionally performing with Peter Yarrow.

References

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 Peter, Paul and Mary official website

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European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE) authorises quality assurance and education accreditation agencies within the European higher education area, to award the EUR-ACE label to their accredited engineering degree programmes.

Agencies authorised to award the EUR-ACE label
 FEANI - The European Federation of National Engineering Associations.
 ASIIN – Fachakkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Informatik, der Naturwissenschaften, und der Mathematik e.V. Germany
 CTI – Commission des titres d'ingénieur, France
 Engineering Council UK
 Engineers Ireland
 Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal
 AEER – Association for Engineering Education in Russia.
 MÜDEK – Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programmes, Turkey

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Nikola Pokrivač (born 26 November 1985 in Čakovec, Croatia) is a Croatian footballer who plays as defensive midfielder for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.

Career
Pokrivač started to play football with Bratstvo Jurovec, near his hometown. His youthteams were also  Čakovec and Varteks Varaždin .In Varaždin he started his professional career which brought him over Dinamo Zagreb, AS Monaco to Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.In this team he plays not regularly, in the 2010/11 season he played eight matches.

International career
Pokrivač has played for the Croatian under-21 national team and has also played at  under-17 and under-19 levels. He played 39 matches and scored three goals for all Croatian youth national teams between 2001 and 2006.

On 5 May 2008he became member of the team for the UEFA Euro 2008 finals in Austria and Switzerland, where he only played in the last group match against Poland. His debut was on 24 May 2008 in a friendly match against Moldova in Rijeka, coming forbstitute for Niko Kovač in the 59th minute. Another five matches he played in the qualifying round for the FIFA World Cup 2010.

Honours
  Austrian Champion 2010 with Red Bull Salzburg
 Croatian Champion 2007 with Dinamo Zagreb
Croatian Cup  2007 with Dinamo Zagreb

References

Other websites

Players profile FC Red Bull Salzburg homepage (German)
Players profile Austrian Soccer Board (German)

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During the Roman empire, the taurobolium referred to practices involving the sacrifice of a bull, which after mid-2nd century became connected with the worship of the Great Mother of the Gods; though not previously limited to her cult, after 159 AD all private inscriptions mention Magna Mater (the Roman name for the goddess Cybele). Originating in Asia Minor, its earliest attested performance in Italy occurred in 134 AD.

Ritual
At the taurobolium ritual, the high-priest would stand inside a pit made specifically for the purpose of the ritual, a bull would be led above the pit and sacrificed above him, the blood of the bull would pour down onto the priest, showering him in the blood. After this, the bulls testicles were removed and taken to the sanctuary as an offering. This ritual was done as a replacement for the castration of high-priests, this was because castration of male Roman citizens was forbidden in Rome.

Related pages

 Human sacrifice, the ritual killing of a person

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Al-Nassr Football Club (; Naṣr meaning "Victory") is a Saudi football club that was formed in 1955. The club is in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Al-Nassr is well-known through Asia and the Middle East. The club has a large base of supporters, possibly the most supported club in Saudi Arabia.

History

Players
Many legendary footballers from Saudi Arabia have played for Al-Nassr. Among them are Majed Abdullah, Fahad Al-Herafy, Mohaisn Al-Jam'aan, Yousef Khamees and many other outstanding players.

Insignia
Al-Nassr's kit colors are yellow and blue. The logo resembles the Arabian Peninsula with the same colors, symbolizing the sand of Saudi Arabia and the sea near it.

Other websites
 Official site

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Mount Chimborazo is a mountain and an extinct volcano in Ecuador. Its last eruption is thought to have been over a thousand years ago.

The top of Mount Chimborazo is the farthest away from the centre of the Earth as is possible to get on land. Although Mount Everest is higher, Chimborazo is farther from Earth's center due to the fact that the earth bulges at the equator.

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John Whitaker 'Jack' Straw (born 3 August 1946 in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England) is a British politician. He held several cabinet posts in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Blackburn.

Jack Straw became a Labour Party MP at the 1979 General Election for the constituency of Blackburn. He was promoted to the shadow cabinet in 1987 and became the Home Secretary when Labour returned to power in 1997.  His other cabinet posts included: Foreign Secretary (2001-2006), Leader of the House of Commons (2006-2007) and Justice Secretary (2007-2010). He did not choose to become a member of Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet.

Personal life
Straw's first marriage, in 1968, to teacher Anthea Weston ended in divorce in 1977. They had a daughter, Rachel, born on 24 February 1976. She died after five days because of a heart defect.

On 10 November 1978 he married Alice Perkins, a senior civil servant. They have two adult children, William and Charlotte.

He supports his local football club Blackburn Rovers. He was made an Honorary Vice President of Blackburn Rovers in 1998 by Jack Walker.

Straw has tinnitus.

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Ludhiana is a city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has 1,618,879 people living in it as per the 2011 census. According to the World Bank Group, Ludhiana is the best city in India to do business.

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Michael Joseph Sandlock (October 17, 1915 – April 4, 2016) was a former utility player in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams from 1942 to 1953. Listed at , 180 lb., he was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed.

He was born in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. With the death of Connie Marrero on April 23, 2014, Sandlock was the oldest living former major league player until his death in 2016. Sandlock died at his home on April 4, 2016 in Cos Cob, Connecticut. He was 100 years old.

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Lipid bilayers are important in biological cells. They are the basis of cell membranes, and they surround most cell organelles. Lipid bilayers form automatically from phospholipids by self-assembly.

The phospholipids have  heads which mix with water and tails which reject water. So the tails come together in the centre of the double layer, and the heads on the outside are surrounded by water.

The lipid bilayers stop most water-soluble (hydrophilic) molecules passing through. They also stop most ions.

In cells, proteins are put in the bilayer by enzymes. The proteins decide which molecules come in and which go out of the cell. For example, cells control salt concentrations and pH by pumping ions across their membranes using proteins called ion pumps.

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The Division of Cook is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. It was set up in 1969 and is named for James Cook, who mapped the east coast of Australia in 1770. It is located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, including Caringbah, Cronulla, Miranda and Sylvania.

Members

In 2007 there were claims that the Liberal candidate Michael Towke had broken party rules and not told the truth about himself.  These claims were later found to be not true.  Towke lost his Liberal party position and was replaced with Scott Morrison, former director of the New South Wales Liberal Party. In 2013 Morrison became the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection.

Election results
 2004 election results
 2007 election results
 2010 election results
 2013 election results

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Saint François d'Assise is an opera in three acts and eight scenes. The music and libretto were written by Olivier Messiaen. The opera was written from 1975 to 1983. The first performance was given by the Paris Opéra at the Palais Garnier on November 28, 1983.

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Argentina is almost 3,700 km long from north to south, and 1,400 km from east to west (maximum values). It can be divided into three parts: the Pampas in the central part of the country, Patagonia in the southern part down to Tierra del Fuego; and the Andes mountain range along the western border with Chile, with the highest point located in the province of Mendoza. Cerro Aconcagua, at 6,960 metres (22,834 ft), is the Americas' highest mountain.

The most important rivers include the River Plate, Paraguay, Bermejo, Colorado, Uruguay and the largest river, the Paraná.

Geography of Argentina


Tom Six (born 29 August 1973) is a Dutch filmmaker. He is best known for his body horror movies, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

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American (or court) handball, usually referred to simply as handball, is an American form of fives played against one or more walls.

History
It is a common belief that American handball was brought to the United States in the 1880s by Irish immigrants. The Gaelic handball sport was played since the 15th century in Ireland and Scotland.

Play
American handball is played on a court 12.2 meters long by 6.1 meters wide (40 feet long by 20 feet wide) with either a single (front) wall, three walls, or in a fully enclosed four-wall court (the most common). The four-wall court is a rectangular box. The front wall is 6.1 meters (20 feet) square, and the side walls are 12.2 meters (40 feet) long and 6.1 meters (20 feet) high. In the middle of the floor of the court lies the short line, that divides the floor into two 6.1 meter (20 feet) squares. Also along the floor is the service line, which is 1.5 meters (5 feet) in front of the short line. The service zone is the area between these two lines. The back wall of the court is usually 3.7 meters (12 feet) high, with an above gallery for the referee and scorer, and also spectators. A few courts have a glass back wall and/or glass side walls to allow for a better view of the match. (In three-wall court handball, the court often has a front wall and two full side walls, or the front wall is flanked by two triangular wings.)

Related pages
 Basque pelota
 Gaelic handball

References

 Time magazine, May 11, 1942.
 http://www.handballcity.com/Ervin%20Irizarry%20Interview.html
   http://www.handball.ie/newsite/start.php?subaction=showfull&id=1161381646&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&
 http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&ID=126

Other websites
 US Handball
 Colorado Handball Association
 Official rules of the USHA
 Southern California Handball Association
 Toledo Handball Club
 Los Angeles Athletic Club - Handball
 Nothingbuthandball.com Promoting the Sport of Handball
 HandballCity.com Promoting the Sport of Handball
 Social Network for the Sport of Handball

Category:Handball

American handball


Sennevoy-le-Bas is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
INSEE

Category:Communes in Yonne

Sennevoy-le-Bas


A black hole is a region of space from which nothing can escape, according to the general theory of relativity, it is the result of the curving of spacetime caused by a huge mass. Around a black hole there is a position of no return, called the event horizon. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits it, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics.

Under the theory of quantum mechanics black holes have a temperature and emit Hawking radiation, which makes them slowly get smaller.

A black hole is found by its interaction with matter. The presence of a black hole can be inferred by tracking the movement of a group of stars that orbit a region in space. Alternatively, when gas falls into a black hole caused by a companion star or nebula, the gas spirals inward, heating to very high temperatures and emitting large amounts of radiation. This radiation can be detected from earthbound and Earth-orbiting telescopes.

Astronomers have also found evidence of supermassive black holes at the center of almost all galaxies. After observing the motion of nearby stars for 16 years, in 2008 astronomers found compelling evidence that a supermassive black hole of more than 4 million solar masses is near the Sagittarius A* region in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

History
In 1783, an English clergyman called John Michell wrote that it might be possible for something to be so heavy you would have to go at the speed of light to get away from its gravity. Gravity gets stronger as something gets bigger or more massive. For a small thing, like a rocket, to escape from a larger thing, like Earth, it has to escape the pull of our gravity or it will fall back. The speed that it must travel upward to get away from Earth's gravity is called escape velocity. Bigger planets (like Jupiter) and stars have more mass, and have stronger gravity than Earth. Therefore, the escape velocity is much faster. John Michell thought it was possible for something to be so big that the escape velocity would be faster than the speed of light, so even light could not escape. In 1796, Pierre-Simon Laplace promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposition du système du Monde (it was removed from later editions).

Some scientists thought Michell might be right, but others thought that light had no mass and would not be pulled by gravity. His theory was forgotten.

In 1916 Albert Einstein wrote an explanation of gravity called general relativity.
 Mass causes space (and spacetime) to bend, or curve. Moving things "fall along" or follow the curves in space. This is what we call gravity.
 Light always travels at the same speed, and is affected by gravity. If it seems to change speed, it is really traveling along a curve in spacetime.

A few months later, while serving in World War I, the German physicist Karl Schwarzschild used Einstein's equations to show that a black hole could exist. In 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar predicted that stars heavier than the sun could collapse when they ran out of hydrogen or other nuclear fuels to burn. In 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and H. Snyder calculated that a star would have to be at least three times as massive as the Sun to form a black hole. In 1967, John Wheeler invented the name "black hole" for the first time. Before that, they were called "dark stars".

In 1970, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose showed that black holes must exist. Although the black holes are invisible (they cannot be seen), some of the matter that is falling into them is very bright.

Formation of black holes

Gravitational collapse
The gravitational collapse of huge (high-mass) stars cause "stellar mass" black holes. Star formation in the early universe may have resulted in very massive stars, which on collapse would produce black holes of up to 103 solar masses. These black holes may be the seeds of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of most galaxies.

Most of the energy released in gravitational collapse is emitted very quickly. A distant observer sees the infalling material slow and halt just above the event horizon, due to gravitational time dilation. The light emitted just before the event horizon is delayed an infinite amount of time. So the observer never sees the formation of the event horizon. Instead, the collapsing material seems to become dimmer and increasingly red-shifted, eventually fading away.

Supermassive black holes

Black holes have also been found in the middle of almost every galaxy in the known universe. These are called supermassive black holes (SBH), and are the biggest black holes of all. They formed when the Universe was very young, and also helped to form all the galaxies.

Quasars are believed to be powered by gravity collecting material into SBHs in the centers of distant galaxies. Light cannot escape the SBHs at the center of quasars, so the escaping energy is made outside the event horizon by gravitational stresses and immense friction on the incoming material.

Huge central masses (106 to 109 solar masses) have been measured in quasars. Several dozen nearby large galaxies, with no sign of a quasar nucleus, contain a similar central black hole in their nuclei. Therefore, it is thought that all large galaxies have one, but only a small fraction are active (with enough accretion to power radiation) and so are seen as quasars.

Effect on light

At the middle of a black hole, there is a gravitational center called a singularity. It is impossible to see into it because the gravity prevents any light escaping. Around the tiny singularity, there is a large area where light which would normally pass by gets sucked in as well. The edge of this area is called the event horizon. The area beyond the event horizon is the black hole. The gravity of the black hole gets weaker at a distance. The event horizon is the place farthest away from the middle where the gravity is still strong enough to trap light.

Outside the event horizon, light and matter will still be pulled toward the black hole. If a black hole is surrounded by matter, the matter will form an "accretion disk" (accretion means "gathering") around the black hole. An accretion disk looks something like the rings of Saturn. As it gets sucked in, the matter gets very hot and shoots x-ray radiation into space. Think of this as the water spinning around the hole before it falls in.

Most black holes are too far away for us to see the accretion disk and jet. The only way to know a black hole is there is by seeing how stars, gas and light behave around it. With a black hole nearby, even objects as big as a star move in a different way, usually faster than they would if the black hole was not there.

Since we cannot see black holes, they must be detected by other means. When a black hole passes between us and a source of light, the light bends around the black hole creating a mirror image. That effect is called gravitational lensing.

Hawking radiation
Hawking radiation is black body radiation which is emitted by black hole, due to quantum effects near the event horizon. It is named after the physicist Stephen Hawking, who provided a theoretical argument for its existence in 1974.

Hawking radiation reduces the mass and the energy of the black hole and is therefore also known as black hole evaporation. This happens because of the virtual particle-antiparticle pairs. Due to quantum fluctuations, this is when one of the particles falls in and the other gets away with the energy/mass. Because of this, black holes that lose more mass than they gain through other means are expected to shrink and ultimately vanish. Micro black holes (MBHs) are predicted to be larger net emitters of radiation than larger black holes and should shrink and dissipate faster.

References

Category:Galaxies

Black hole


Michael Thomas "Mike" Flynn (born December 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general. On January 20, 2017, Flynn became the 25th United States National Security Advisor. He resigned on February 13, 2017. He last served as the 18th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, from July 22, 2012 to August 7, 2014.

On November 18, 2016, Flynn accepted president-elect Donald Trump's offer of the position of National Security Advisor.

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 22, 2017, that Flynn was under investigation by U.S. counterintelligence agents for his communications with Russian officials. On February 13, 2017, Flynn resigned the position of National Security Advisor.

On December 1, 2017, it was reported that Flynn had accepted a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to plead guilty to a single count, that of "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI, a felony.

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Michael T. Flynn


Base isolation is a collection of a building’s units resting on its foundation to provide separation of the building from shaking ground thus improving seismic performance.

Basic parts of base isolation system
Base isolation system consists of isolation units with or without isolation components, where:

1. Isolation units are the basic elements of base isolation system which provide the mentioned separation effect to a building structure.

2. Isolation components are the connections between isolation units and other parts of the building having no separation effect of their own.

Famous base-isolated buildings

History
From the very beginning, the theory of base isolation rested on two pillars: heavy damping and frequency separation. Unfortunately, nobody paid any attention that the heavy damping was a sort of a strong connection between a substructure and superstructure, and that the idea of decoupling them with the help of such connections was of no good. Anyway, to virtually test-drive any design concept of base isolation, some online help is available now.

Category:Earthquake engineering

Base isolation


Kowloon (; ) is one of the 3 main parts of Hong Kong. It comprises the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon.

Geography and History
Kowloon is north of Hong Kong Island and south of the mainland part of the New Territories. The size of Kowloon is about 47 square kilometres. In law, Kowloon refers to the area south of Boundary Street and Stonecutters Island, leased to the United Kingdom by the Qing dynasty in 1860. In 1898, the Qing dynasty leased the New Territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years. New Kowloon, the area north of Boundary Street, is officially part of the New Territories. In modern culture, however, New Kowloon is part of Kowloon.

Kowloon was developed largely in the 20th century, after Kowloon Wharf and Kowloon-Canton Railway were built. Aeroplanes used to fly above Kowloon to and from Kai Tak Airport until 1998, so buildings there are usually lower than the ones on Hong Kong Island.

Name
The name Kowloon means "nine dragons" (九 – nine, 龍 – dragon). This refers to eight mountains and a Chinese emperor: Kowloon Peak, Tung Shan, Tate's Cairn, Temple Hill, Unicorn Ridge,  Lion Rock, Beacon Hill, Crow's Nest and Emperor Bing (Song Dynasty).

Demographics
2,108,419 people lived in Kowloon in 2011. 94.2% of Kowloon's residents are Chinese. Smaller groups include Indonesians (1.8%), Filipinos (1.5%), Indians (0.5%), Nepalese (0.4%), and White people (0.3%).
86% of the people in Kowloon usually talk in Cantonese, 2.3% use English and 1.2% use Mandarin.

Districts
Kowloon is divided into the following districts:
Kowloon City
Kwun Tong
Sham Shui Po
Wong Tai Sin
Yau Tsim Mong

Category:Hong Kong
Category:Geography of Hong Kong

Kowloon


was a  after Genna and before Shōhō.  This period started in February 1624 and ended in December 1643. During this time, the emperors and empress were , and .

The nengō Kan'ei means "Permanent Liberality".

Events of the Kan'ei era

 1625 (Kan'ei 2): Founding of Kan'ei-ji, which is a Buddhist temple in Ueno.
 4 November 1626 (Kan'ei 3, 16th day of the 9th month): Emperor Go-Mizunoo visited to Nijō Castle.
 22 December 1629 ( Kan'ei 6, 8th day of the 11th month): Go-Mizunoo abdicated; and his daughter received the succession (senso). Soon after, Empress Meishō's role as monarch was confirmed in ceremonies (sokui).
 14 March 1632 (Kan'ei 9, 24th day of the 1st month): Former Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada died.
 28 February 1633 (Kan'ei 10, 20th day of the 1st month): There was an earthquake in Sagami Province.
 1634 (Kan'ei 11, 7th month): Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu visited the new empress in her court; and he visited ex-emperor Go-Mizunoo.
 1635 (Kan'ei 12): Ambassador from the King of Korea was received in Heian-kyō.
 1636 (Kan'ei 13): Coins were minted which stayed in use until 1853.
 1637 (Kan'ei 14): Christian rebellion at Shimabara Castle.
 1638 (Kan'ei 15): Christian religion was made illegal in Japan.
 1643 (Kan'ei 20): An ambassador from the king of Korea was received in Heian-kyō.
 10 November 1643 (Kan'ei 20, 29th day of the 9th month): In the 15th year of Empress Meishō's reign (明正天皇15年), the empress abdicated; and her brother became Emperor Go-Komyō in ceremonies of senso and sokui.

Hayashi Razan and his son wrote Kan'ei shoka kezuden in 1641-1643.  The shogun ordered the writing of this history of the great clans of Japan.

Related pages
 Edo period

References

Other websites
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
 Bank of Japan (BOJ):  Kan'ei Tsuho,  Bunsen (copper coin = one mon)

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Kan'ei


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}}The Black Parade is Dead!'' is a CD/DVD by My Chemical Romance it was recorded live in Mexico.

 Track listing  CDAll songs written and composed by My Chemical Romance.

From the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, 2007
 1. "The End." 2:34
 2. "Dead!" 3:17
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 4. "The Sharpest Lives" 3:17
 5. "Welcome to the Black Parade" 5:05
 6. "I Don't Love You" 3:47
 7. "House of Wolves" 3:38
 8. "Interlude" 1:01
 9. "Cancer" 3:16
 10. "Mama" 5:21
 11. "Sleep" 5:31
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From the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, 2007[4]

 1. "The End." 2:34
 2. "Dead!" 3:17
 3. "This Is How I Disappear" 3:51
 4. "The Sharpest Lives" 3:17
 5. "Welcome to the Black Parade" 5:05
 6. "I Don't Love You" 3:47
 7. "House of Wolves" 3:38
 8. "Interlude" 1:01
 9. "Cancer" 3:16
 10. "Mama" 5:21
 11. "Sleep" 5:31
 12. "Teenagers" 3:03
 13. "The Black Parade Is Dead" 1:00
 14. "Disenchanted" 4:58
 15. "Famous Last Words" 5:09
 16. "Blood" 1:21

From Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, on October 24, 2007[4]

 1. "Welcome to the Black Parade" 5:11
 2. "Thank You for the Venom" 4:23
 3. "Dead!" 5:05
 4. "The Sharpest Lives" 4:40
 5. "This Is How I Disappear" 3:53
 6. "Teenagers" 4:07
 7. "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" 4:05
 8. "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison" 4:04
 9. "Famous Last Words" 5:08
 10. "Give 'Em Hell, Kid" 2:45
 11. "House of Wolves" 3:42
 12. "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish" 4:38
 13. "I Don't Love You" 4:27
 14. "Untitled" 4:19
 15. "Mama" 4:45
 16. "Helena" 4:54
 17. "Cancer" 2:46

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Category:My Chemical Romance

The Black Parade Is Dead!


El Quartelejo, or El Cuartelejo (from Spanish cuartelejo, meaning far quarter or district), is the name given to the archeological ruins of the northernmost Indian pueblo. It is the only known pueblo in Kansas. It is in Lake Scott State Park. The ruins of the stone and adobe pueblo are north of Scott City, Kansas, on Ladder Creek.

References

Other websites
El Quartelejo Museum - Local museum named after the ruins
El Cuartelejo – “The Home Far Away”
Text of highway historical marker

Category:National Register of Historic Places

El Quartelejo Ruins


Karl Dedecius (20 May 1921 – 26 February 2016) was a Polish-born German translator. He translated works of Polish and Russian literature. He was born in Łódź, Poland. In 1959, he published his first anthology, Lektion der Stille (Lesson of Silence). In 1980, he founded the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt. He served as director from 1980 through 1997.

Dedecius died in Frankfurt on 26 February 2016. He was aged 94.

References

Other websites

 Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, „Beheimatet in Polen und Deutschland. Aus einer Laudatio auf Karl Dedecius...“, DIE ZEIT 11/1986
 Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, „Mittler zwischen schwierigen Nachbarn“, DIE ZEIT 04/2002
 Karl-Dedecius-Archiv im Collegium Polonicum
 Deutsches Polen-Institut, Darmstadt
 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels

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Karl Dedecius


Dr. Kadri Gopalnath (6 December 1949 – 11 October 2019) was an Indian alto saxophonist and composer. He was known for his works towards Carnatic music. He was born in Bantwal taluk, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka. He composed the score for the 1994 movie Duet.

Gopalnath has participated in the Jazz Festival in Prague, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the International Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the Music Hall Festival in Paris, the BBC Promenade concert in 1994 at London, and has toured all over the world.

Gopalnath died on 11 October 2019 due to cardiac arrest at the age of 69 at a private hospital in Mangalore.

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Kadri Gopalnath


The Hollabrunn District is a district in the state of
Lower Austria in Austria.

Municipalities
Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.
 Alberndorf im Pulkautal
 Göllersdorf
 Bergau, Eitzersthal, Furth, Göllersdorf, Großstelzendorf, Obergrub, Oberparschenbrunn, Porrau, Schönborn, Untergrub, Viendorf, Wischathal
 Grabern
 Mittergrabern, Obergrabern, Ober-Steinabrunn, Schöngrabern, Windpassing
 Guntersdorf
 Großnondorf, Guntersdorf
 Hadres
 Hadres, Obritz, Untermarkersdorf
 Hardegg
 Felling, Hardegg, Heufurth, Mallersbach, Merkersdorf, Niederfladnitz, Pleißing, Riegersburg, Waschbach
 Haugsdorf
 Auggenthal, Haugsdorf, Jetzelsdorf, Kleinhaugsdorf
 Heldenberg
 Glaubendorf, Großwetzdorf, Kleinwetzdorf, Oberthern, Unterthern
 Hohenwarth-Mühlbach am Manhartsberg
 Bösendürnbach, Ebersbrunn, Hohenwarth, Mühlbach am Manhartsberg, Olbersdorf, Ronthal, Zemling
 Hollabrunn
 Altenmarkt im Thale, Aspersdorf, Breitenwaida, Dietersdorf, Eggendorf im Thale, Enzersdorf im Thale, Groß Hollabrunn, Kleedorf, Kleinkadolz, Kleinstelzendorf, Kleinstetteldorf, Magersdorf, Mariathal, Oberfellabrunn, Puch, Raschala, Sonnberg, Suttenbrunn, Weyerburg, Wieselsfeld, Wolfsbrunn
 Mailberg
 Mailberg, Eggendorf am Walde, Grübern, Gumping, Klein-Burgstall, Limberg, Maissau, Oberdürnbach, Reikersdorf, Unterdürnbach, Wilhelmsdorf
 Maissau
 Nappersdorf-Kammersdorf
 Dürnleis, Haslach, Kammersdorf, Kleinsierndorf, Kleinweikersdorf, Nappersdorf
 Pernersdorf
 Karlsdorf, Peigarten, Pernersdorf, Pfaffendorf, Ragelsdorf
 Pulkau
 Groß-Reipersdorf, Leodagger, Passendorf, Pulkau, Rafing, Rohrendorf an der Pulkau, Dopinghofen
 Ravelsbach
 Baierdorf, Gaindorf, Minichhofen, Oberravelsbach, Parisdorf, Pfaffstetten, Ravelsbach
 Retz
 Hofern, Kleinhöflein, Kleinriedenthal, Obernalb, Retz, Unternalb
 Retzbach
 Mitterretzbach, Oberretzbach, Unterretzbach
 Schrattenthal
 Obermarkersdorf, Schrattenthal, Waitzendorf
 Seefeld-Kadolz
 Großkadolz, Seefeld
 Sitzendorf an der Schmida
 Braunsdorf, Frauendorf an der Schmida, Goggendorf, Kleinkirchberg, Niederschleinz, Pranhartsberg, Roseldorf, Sitzendorf an der Schmida, Sitzenhart
 Wullersdorf
 Aschendorf, Grund, Hart, Hetzmannsdorf, Immendorf, Kalladorf, Maria Roggendorf, Oberstinkenbrunn, Schalladorf, Wullersdorf
 Zellerndorf
 Deinzendorf, Dietmannsdorf, Pillersdorf, Platt, Watzelsdorf, Zellerndorf
 Ziersdorf
 Dippersdorf, Fahndorf, Gettsdorf, Großmeiseldorf, Hollenstein, Kiblitz, Radlbrunn, Rohrbach, Ziersdorf

Category:Districts of Lower Austria

Hollabrunn District


Hüttlingen is a municipality of the district of Frauenfeld, in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

Category:Municipalities of Thurgau

Hüttlingen, Switzerland


Incredibles 2 is a 2018 American computer-animated movie produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Brad Bird. It is the sequel to The Incredibles (2004) and second installment of the franchise.

Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell and Samuel L. Jackson return in the movie; other stars include Huckleberry Milner (replacing Spencer Fox), Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener and Jonathan Banks (replacing Bud Luckey).

Incredibles 2 was released in the United States on June 15, 2018, in Disney Digital 3-D, Dolby Cinema and IMAX. It received strong positive reviews. The movie made $182.7 million in its opening weekend, setting the record for best debut for an animated movie and has made over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing animated movie (behind Frozen).

Voice cast

Release Dates

Soundtrack
 Torn in Two by Breaking Benjamin
 Two Sisters by Fiction Plane
 Black Is the Soul by Korn
 Fall to Pieces by Velvet Revolver
 All I Want by Staind
 Dirty by Sevendust
 Song on Fire by Nickelback
 We Fight by Dashboard Confessional

Other websites

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May Reilly Parker-Jameson (Aunt May) is a fictional Spider-Man character. She raises Peter Parker. She was married to Ben Parker until he was shot and killed. Aunt May does not know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. She thinks that Spider-Man is scary. Aunt May later married John Jonah Jameson, Sr. (the father of J. Jonah Jameson).

She was played by Rosemary Harris in Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and in Spider-Man 3. She was then played by Sally Field in The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In the most recent film adaption of the character, Spider-Man: Homecoming, she is played by Marisa Tomei.

Other websites
 The Women of Marvel Comic's Aunt May Page
 Aunt May's Profile at Spiderfan.org

Category:Marvel Comics characters

Aunt May


In Finnish mythology, Väki means races of Haltijas (Finnish elves) and their magical powers. Different things in nature had their own väki guarding them. For example, Väki of water lived in and protected water. Väki is the name of both the magical power and Haltijas. Väki could sometimes be seen. They looked like little man-like creatures. Sometimes Väki went inside people and made people ill. Väki makes people ill if they behave badly in their kingdom. For example, if someone shouted in a forest without reason then the Väki of forest may make then ill. Shaman could heal these illnesses by telling the väki to leave the person and go back to its original place.

The other version of väki refers to the realm of the dead. Väki was the anonymous pack of dead people. Once they (väki) had been our beloved ones, relatives etc. but after spending some time in the afterlife they had been become unknown masses of dead creatures without any personal markings.

Category:Finnish mythology

sv:Rådare

Väki


Cetiosauriscus is a sauropod dinosaur that lived between 166 and 164 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The fossil was originally confused with Cetiosaurus, a similar sauropod.

Cetiosauriscus was discovered in May 1898 by clay workers  south of Peterborough and east of the Great Northern Railway. Pits in this region expose the fossil-rich sedimentary rocks of the marine Oxford Clay, one of the classic geological formations of British palaeontology.

References

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Category:Jurassic dinosaurs
Category:Dinosaurs of Europe

Cetiosauriscus


The Water Walk or Infants Walk (Allée d'Eau ou Allée des Marmousets) is a group of 14 fountains at Versailles. These fountains depict children supporting small basins of water. The Water Walk gently slopes from the Parterre du Nord to the Dragon Fountain and the Neptune Fountain. The Water Walk comprises three paths separated by two great lawns. The fourteen fountains are set in each of the two lawns, seven apiece. Another eight were added to the semicircle near the Walk's end. The Walk was created in 1670. The concept was that of Claude Perrault. The children were sculpted by Buirette, Le Hongre, Lerambert, and Mazeline after drawings by Le Brun.  The children were originally cast in lead and painted realistically in natural colours. They supported baskets of fruit and flowers. These figures were replaced with gilded bronze copies and basins of marble in 1688.

References
 Constans, Claire. 1995. Versailles. Éditions Mahé S.A. p. 86.
 Perouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie. 1991. Versailles. Abbeville Press. pages 158, 339, 399.

Category:Fountains of Versailles

Water Walk


is a Japanese professional athlete.  He is best known as a Association football or soccer player.

Club career statistics

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Kota Morimura


Zub is a computer game made for use on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers which was released in 1986 by Mastertronic. The code was written by John and Ste Pickford on the ZX Spectrum and Phillip Brian Allsopp on the Commodore 64, and the music was composed by David Whittaker.

The plot of the game
Zub works for the Emperor Zub of the Zub galactic empire and must find the Green Eye of Zub. Zub has been permitted to use the Ancient Intergalactic Elevators which take him to other planets.  The elevators can only be reached by jumping and riding on platforms to reach the top of the sky.  The platforms and elevators are guarded by creatures (also known as Zubs) but each planet has a different sub-species - for example the first level's Zub resembles a gyroscope whilst he fourth level Zub is a fish.  The Zubs can be shot and stunned.  They will float to the top of the sky where the recover and return to attack Zub again.  The Green Eye of Zub was located on the tenth planet and once the Eye is found, Zub has to return to the first planet to give the Eye of Zub to Emperor Zub.

There are seven difficulty levels, each one increases the number of enemy Zubs per planet.

Other websites
Zub at World of Spectrum

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Zub


is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

History
The shrine was established in the ninth century. Shiogama jinja was one of two the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) for the Mutsu Province.  When Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture were create in the Meiji period, the shrine continued to be the ichinomiya for the same area.

References

Other websites

  Shiogama Jinja homepage
  Guide to the Cultural Properties of Shiogama City
  Introduction to Shiogama Jinja

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Fecundity, coming from the word , generally means the ability to reproduce.

In biology and demography, fecundity is the ability to reproduce of an organism or population, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set or asexual propagules.  Fecundity is under both genetic and environmental control, and is the major measure of biological fitness. Fecundation is another term for fertilisation.

Fecundity can increase or decrease in a population according to current conditions and certain regulating factors. For instance, in times of hardship for a population such as a lack of food, juvenile and eventually adult fecundity may decrease.

In the philosophy of science, 'fecundity' refers to the ability of a scientific theory to open new lines of theoretical inquiry. Here, the original meaning is extended by analogy.

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 Fertility

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Iron Man 2 is a 2010 American superhero film. It is based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. It is the sequel to 2008's Iron Man, the second piece in film series. It is the third film released as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This movie was directed by Jon Favreau and written by Justin Theroux. It stars Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke. The story is set six months after the events of Iron Man. Tony Stark has revealed his identity as Iron Man. He is resisting calls by the United States government to hand over the technology. Ivan Vanko, meanwhile, has developed the same technology and built weapons of his own.

After the successful release of Iron Man in May 2008, Marvel Studios announced and immediately set to work on producing a sequel. In July of that same same year, Theroux was hired to write the script. Favreau was signed to return and direct. Downey and Paltrow were to repeat their roles from Iron Man. Cheadle was brought in to replace Terrence Howard in the role of James Rhodes. In early 2009, Rourke, Rockwell and Johansson completed the supporting cast. The movie went into production that summer. Like its predecessor, the movie was shot mostly in California, except for a key sequence in Monaco.

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Renee Paquette (born September 19, 1985) is a Canadian sports broadcaster. She is currently working with the WWE where she is known under the ring name Renee Young and does interviewing as well as commentating duties. Paquette first worked as a sportscaster for The Score, known now as Sportsnet 360.

Early life
She was born in Ajax, Ontario. She grew up in both Ajax and Whitby, Ontario. She grew up as a WWE fan. When she was asked about it, she answered: "I was. I attended a few events and WrestleMania VI. My dad is a concert promoter and he’d get me into the events. I remember being backstage and meeting "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Triple H, Chyna and Trish Stratus as a kid, so it’s really funny to me that I ended up here. I went on a different path than wanting to become a WWE Superstar. I have a broadcasting and performance background."

Career

The Score (2009–2012)
She started her career by working with The Score. While there, she worked on a programme called Right After Wrestling, later renamed Aftermath with Arda Ocal and former WWE referee Jimmy Korderas.

WWE (2012–present)
In October 2012, Paquette signed with the WWE and was renamed under the ring name Renee Young. She made her on-screen debut on the March 29, 2013 episode of SmackDown where she interviewed Randy Orton, Big Show and Sheamus. She made her commentary debut on NXT in September 2013. She is also a presenter on The JBL and Cole Show and hosts WWE Vintage Collection alongside WWE Hall of Famer Mean Gene Okerlund.

Renee is currently in a relationship with the WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose (former member of The Shield).

Awards
WWE
Slammy Award for Favorite Web Show of the Year (2013) (with Michael Cole and John Bradshaw Layfield for The JBL and Cole Show)

References

Other websites
WWE profile

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Renee Young


New Virginia is a city in Iowa in the United States.

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New Virginia, Iowa


Black Veil Brides is an rock band that formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2006. They won a Billboard award in 2010 for their album, We Stitch These Wounds. They made number #1 on the top independent artists in 2010. The lead singer, Andy Biersack, created the band.

Discography
Studio albums
We Stitch These Wounds (2009)
Set The World On Fire (2010)
Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones (2013)
Black Veil Brides (2014)
Vale (2018)

Other websites
AllMusic chart awards for Black Veil Brides
Biography
Official website

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A tailor is a person whose job is to make clothes to fit people. A tailor might make a new piece of clothing, or change an item so that it fits better. They also mend (fix) clothes. A tailor is also called a seamster, or a seamstress for a woman.

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Tailor