Jesper Hoffmeyer (21 February 1942 – 25 September 2019) was a professor at the University of Copenhagen Institute of Biology. He was the President of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) from 2005 to 2015, co-editor of the journal Biosemiotics and the Springer Book series in Biosemiotics.

He authored the books Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs and Signs of Meaning in the Universe and edited A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics.

Hoffmeyer died on 25 September 2019 of a heart attack at the age of 77.

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Monster High  is an American fashion doll franchise. It was created by Mattel. They launched the brand in July 2010.

The dolls are based on horror movie characters. The initial characters were created by Garrett Sander and his twin brother Darren. Besides the dolls, Monster High includes books, video games, and television specials. Ever After High is a spin-off of Monster High. The Ever After dolls are based on fairy tale characters.

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Lodrino can mean:

 Lodrino, Lombardy, Italy
 Lodrino, Switzerland

Lodrino


Tunnerstad is a locality on the island of Visingsö in the Lake of Vättern in Jönköping Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2017, 310 people lived there.

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Tunnerstad


Ghebi is a dialect of the Punjabi language spoken in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

Category:Punjabi language

Ghebi dialect


Gyula Szabó (15 July 1930 – 4 April 2014) was a Hungarian actor. He won two Mari Jászai Prizes. He appeared in forty movies between 1953 and 2002. He is best known for appearing in movies such as Ifjú szívvel (1953), Kiskrajcár (1953), Hintónjáró szerelem (1955), Egy pikoló világos (1955), Kölyök (1959), Két emelet boldogság (1960), A tizedes meg a többiek (1965), Hahó, Öcsi! (1971), Defekt (1977), and A Hídember (2002). He was born in Kunszentmárton, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County.

Szabó died on 4 April 2014 at the age of 83.

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Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American movie and stage actor who appeared in 74 movies from 1930 to 1967. Tracy is considered generally as one of the best actors in motion picture history.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 9th on the list of 100. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor, and won it two times, in 1937 and 1938. Along with Tom Hanks, he is one of the only two actors to ever be given two Oscars in two consecutive years. He was a long-time live-in partner of famous actress Katharine Hepburn whilst remaining legally married to another woman until his death. He was diabetic and died of a heart attack. He was a devout Catholic.

movies
The Strong Arm (1930)
Taxi Talks (1930)
The Hard Guy (1930)
Up the River (1930)
Quick Millions (1931)
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
Goldie (1931)
She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
Sky Devils (1932)
Disorderly Conduct (1932)
Young America (1932)
Society Girl (1932)
The Painted Woman (1932)
Me and My Gal (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
The Face in the Sky (1933)
Shanghai Madness (1933)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Man's Castle (1933)
The Mad Game (1933)
The Show-Off (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Now I'll Tell (1934)
Marie Galante (1934)
It's a Small World (1935)
The Murder Man (1935)
Dante's Inferno (1935)
Whipsaw (1935)
Riffraff (1936 movie) (1936)
Fury (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
Libeled Lady (1936)
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Big City (1937)
Mannequin (1938)
Test Pilot (1938)
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
Boys Town (1938)
For Auld Lang Syne: No. 4 (1939)
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
I Take This Woman (1940)
Young Tom Edison (1940) (cameo)
Northward, Ho! (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Men of Boys Town (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Ring of Steel (1942) (narrator)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
His New World (1943) (documentary) (narrator)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
The Seventh Cross (1944)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Without Love (1945)
The Sea of Grass (1947)
Cass Timberlane (1947)
State of the Union (1948)
Edward, My Son (1949)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Malaya (1949)
Father of the Bride (1950)
For Defense for Freedom for Humanity (1951)
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
The Actress (1953)
Broken Lance (1954)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
The Mountain (1956)
Pedobear z Krainy Gumisiów (1957)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
How the West Was Won (1962) (narrator)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

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DUI may mean:
 Driving under the influence, the act of driving a motor vehicle (car, truck, etc.) while under the effects of alcohol.
 Data Use Identifier
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COPS was an animated television program that aired Saturday mornings. The show was about cyber police. It was from Hasbro.

The show ran during 1988-1989. The name was changed to CyberCOPS because of the show of the same name on Fox networks.

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COPS (TV series)


Game Maker is a computer program for the Windows operating system. It was first made by Mark Overmars, but it is now made by the company YoYo Games.

Game Maker lets people make computer games without knowing a computer programming language. People who know how to use programming languages can use Game Maker's own programming language, called Game Maker Language.

The newest version is Game Maker Studio. Since the first version made in 1999, Game Maker was given many new features. One of these features is 3-D graphics.

Game Maker has a drag-and-drop interface. This lets people make games using mostly the computer mouse. Game Maker uses icons that tell the person what actions they can do. People can make simple games by moving these icons into a given order. More detailed games can be made when Game Maker Language is used.

Game Maker has an internet community and website. There, people who use Game Maker can put their games up for others to play. People can also get help on using Game Maker from other people.

History

Game Maker started as an animation program called Animo. Each new version of Game Maker added new features. Starting with version 7.0, Game Maker was published by the YoYo Games company.

In May 22, 2012, YoYo Games released GM:Studio. After that GM:HTML5 is no longer supported.GM:Studio allows users to publish their games to Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Linux Ubuntu and HTML5.

References

Game Maker


The Thai solar calendar is a solar calendar that is used by Thailand. King Chulalongkorn adopted the calendar in AD 1888 to be the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar. The years are now counted in the Buddhist Era rather than the Christian Era.

On 6 September 1940, Prime Minister Phibunsongkhram stated that 1 January 1941 would be the start of the year 2484 BE, so that year 2483 BE had only nine months. To convert dates from 1 January to 31 March before that year, the number to add or subtract is 542; otherwise, it would be 543.

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Thai solar calendar


Boro Kali Bari is one of the oldest Hindu temples in the city of Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The temple is dedicated to the goddess Kali.

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Boro Kali Bari Temple


Albert Gelis Juanola (born October 26, 1981 in Sant Joan Les Fonts, Girona) is a swimmer from Spain.  He has a disability: he is blind and is an B2/S12 type swimmer. He raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. He finished second at the 2004 Games in the 4 x 100 meter 49 Points Medley Relay.

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Urðarbrunnr (Old Norse for the "Well of Urðr") is a well in Norse mythology. It is situated under the Yggdrasil or the world tree. Norse mythology is a version of the older northern Germanic mythology. The gods would travel via the bifrost with the exception of Thor as it was thought that he would break the bridge which took the form of a rainbow, to Urðarbrunnr. Here they would meet and decide things, presumably laws of nature and magic and love and war.

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Urðarbrunnr


Edie Arlisa Brickell (born March 10 1966) is an American singer and recording artist. She performs pop-rock music. She was very popular in the late 1980s. Brickell was born in Dallas, Texas. She is married to singer and songwriter Paul Simon. In 2013 she recorded an album with comedian Steve Martin.

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Lawrence Robert "Larry" Shreve (born January 11, 1941 in Windsor, Ontario) better known by his ring names, Abdullah the Butcher and The Madman from the Sudan, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler.

Due to years of frequent blading, there are many scars on his forehead. Mick Foley said that Shreve used to gambling chips into the deeper divots in his head to both entertain and scare the people at the casinos they went to.

During his professional career, Shreve has competed for many different companies including WCW, ECW, Dragon Gate, New Japan Pro Wrestling.

He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011 by Terry Funk. "Superstar" Billy Graham hat he wanted his own name to be taken out of the Hall of Fame, saying "It is a shameless organization to induct a bloodthirsty animal such as Abdullah the Butcher into their worthless and embarrassing Hall of Fame and I want the name of Superstar Billy Graham to be no part of it."

Championships
Shreve held many championships during his professional wrestling career:

All Japan Pro Wrestling
NWA International Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Ray Candy
NWA United National Championship (one time)
PWF United States Heavyweight Championship (one time)
PWF World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Champion Carnival (1976, 1979)
January 4th Korakuen Hall Heavyweight Battle Royal Winner (2008)

Big Japan Pro Wrestling
BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship (one time)

Central States Wrestling
NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (two times) - with Roger Kirby

Georgia Championship Wrestling
NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Georgia Television Championship (one time)

International Wrestling Association
IWA International Heavyweight Championship (three times)

Lutte Internationale (Montreal)
Canadian International Heavyweight Championship (one time)

Midwest Wrestling Federation
MWWF Heavyweight Championship (two times)

NWA All-Star Wrestling
NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version) (two times) - with Dr. Jerry Graham (one) and Armand Hussein (one)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version) (one time) - with Dr. Jerry Graham

NWA Detroit
NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version) (one time)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) (one time) - with Killer Tim Brooks

NWA New Zealand
NWA New Zealand British Commonwealth Championship (one time)

NWA Southwest
NWA Texas Hardcore Championship (one time)

National Wrestling Federation
NWF Heavyweight Championship (two times)
NWF International Championship (one time)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #35 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" by PWI in 1991.

Stampede Wrestling
NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Calgary version) (one time)
Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (six times)

Tokyo Pro Wrestling
TPW Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Benkei

Tokyo Sports Grand Prix
Best Bout Award (1979) with Tiger Jeet Singh vs. Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba on August 26
Popularity Prize (1978, 1980)

World Class Wrestling Association
WCWA Brass Knuckles Championship (one time)

World Wrestling Council
WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Championship (two times)
WWC Hardcore Championship (one time)
WWC North American Heavyweight Championship (two times)
WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship (three times)
WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (three times)
WWC World Heavyweight Championship (one time)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2011)

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A triangular number is a number that is the sum of all of the natural numbers up to a certain number. For example, 10 is a triangular number because .                                   The first 25 triangular numbers are:0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78, 91, 105, 120, 136, 153, 171, 190, 210, 231, 253, 276, 300.

A triangular number is calculated by the equation:
  .

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Triangular number


San Marino is a European country completely surrounded by Italy.

San Marino may also refer to:
 Saint Marinus, the founder of the state San Marino
 San Marino City, the capital city of the Republic of San Marino
 San Marino (river), a river in the Italian peninsula
 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, the circuit that hosts the San Marino Grand Prix
 San Marino, California, a city in Los Angeles County, United States
 San Marino Calcio, a football club in the state San Marino that plays in the Italian Serie C2

San Marino (disambiguation)


Elmer Figueroa Arce (born June 28, 1968 ) is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer. He is best known by his stage name Chayanne. He has released 21 studio albums. He has also sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Figueroa's nickname "Chayanne" was given to him by his mother. This was because he liked the 1960s television series Cheyenne. In the 1970s, Chayanne tried out for Menudo. The producers told him that he was too young to be in the group. Because of this, he joined another group called Los Chicos (the guys).  They recorded several hit singles. These include "Puerto Rico Son Los Chicos" and "Ave Maria", which would later be recorded by Beyoncé Knowles. After the group separated in 1984, Chayanne started his solo career.

Chayanne signed with RCA Ariola. He released his first album Chayanne es mi Nombre (1984). His second album with RCA, Sangre Latina was released in April 1986. On May 5, 1987, Chayanne switched to Sony Music Latin. His self-titled album was released in that same year. The album features "Peligro de Amor" and "Fiesta en América" which ranked on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks charts. On Noviember 1, 1988, Chayanne released another self-titled album. After its release, Pepsi wanted him to be their spokesperson. On August 7, 1990, his album Tiempo de Vals was given a Grammy Award nomination. Chayanne has also been in several TV programs since 1984.

Movies
2010: Tangled .... Flynn Rider (Voice in Spanish )
2008: Gabriel .... Gabriel Marquez (10 episodes, 2008)
2008: Premios Billboard de la música latina (TV)
2004: La niñera
2001: Provócame  .... Pedro Balmaceda-Linares Duncan
2001: Ally McBeal .... Sam Adams (2 episodes) "Hats Off to Larry"  "Mr. Bo"
1998: Dance with Me  .... Rafael Infante
1997: Siempre piel canela  (TV) .... Singer
1996: Al compas de un sentimiento  .... Singer
1994: Linda Sara  .... Young Alejandro
1994: Volver a Empezar.... Chayanne (Himself)
1986: Pobre juventud

Discography
2014: En Todo Estaré
2012: A Solas Con Chayanne
2010: No Hay Imposibles
2008: De Piel a Piel
2008: Chayanne: Vivo (live)
2007: Mi Tiempo2005: Cautivo2005: Desde Siempre2003: Sincero2002: Grandes Éxitos
2001: Simplemente1998: Atado a Tu Amor1996: Volver a Nacer1994: Influencias1992: Provócame1990: Tiempo de Vals1988: Chayanne II1987: Chayanne
1986: Sangre Latina1984: Chayanne es mi Nombre''

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Myuran Sukumaran (; 17 April 1981 – 29 April 2015) was an Australian citizen who was executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine. He was born in London, England. His parents were Sri Lankan immigrants. He moved to Australia at a young age.

In 2005, Sukumaran was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali. Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were the apparent co-ringleaders of the heroin smuggling operation. After a criminal trial on 14 February 2006, Sukumaran was sentenced to execution by firing squad.

On 30 December 2014, Sukumaran's request for clemency was rejected by the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. Sukumaran and Chan were in prison at Nusakambangan Island in isolation cells. On 16 January 2015, Sukumaran and Chan were ordered to be executed after nine years in jail. On 6 February 2015, it was stated that Chan and Sukumaran would be executed by the end of the month. On 11 February 2015, Indonesian authorities approved the move of Chan and Sukumaran from Kerobokan prison to Nusakambangan Island in preparation for execution. On 24 February 2015, a final appeal to save Chan and Sukumaran from execution, with their lawyers appeal bid to challenge President Widodo's refusal to grant clemency, failed.  The move from Kerobokan prison to Nusakambangan Island was on 4 March. On 6 April 2015, Chan and Sukumaran's lawyers faced the state administrative court to challenge President Joko Widodo's refusal to grant clemency, in a final attempt to stop the executions. This was also unsuccessful. On 24 April 2015, prosecutors ordered the final preparations for the execution of Chan and Sukumaran, as well as eight others on death row. On 25 April (ANZAC Day), the pair, along with 7 other death row prisoners, were given a 72-hour notice of their executions.

Sukumaran was executed by firing squad on 29 April 2015 along with Chan as well as Nigerians Raheem Agbaje Salami, Okwuduli Oyatanze, Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Ghanaian Martin Anderson, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte and Indonesian Zainal Abidin.

Sukumaran's funeral was conducted at Dayspring Church, Castle Hill on 9 May 2015.

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Fundeni Lake () is a lake in Bucharest, Romania Sector 2. It has a surface of . It is  long. It is  wide. It is  deep.

There is an island on the Fundeni Lake which has an area of .

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Fundeni Lake


Thorrington is a village and civil parish in Tendring, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 1063 people living in Thorrington.

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Jérôme Rothen (born 31 March 1978) is a French football player. He plays for Ankaragücü.

Club career statistics

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|1997/98||rowspan="3"|Caen||rowspan="3"|Division 2||23||3
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|1998/99||37||5
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|1999/00||38||3
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|2001/02||16||0
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|2001/02||rowspan="3"|Monaco||Division 1||11||1
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|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Ligue 1||37||4
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|2003/04||34||0
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|2004/05||rowspan="5"|Paris Saint-Germain||rowspan="5"|Ligue 1||18||1
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|2005/06||28||1
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|2006/07||27||2
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|2007/08||32||3
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|2008/09||34||3

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|2009/10||Rangers||Premier League||4||0

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|2009/10||Ankaragücü||Süper Lig||||
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|2004||4||0
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In sports, a coach or manager is a person who directs and trains a sports team or sportsperson. If there is a difference between coach and manager, it is this:
the coach will train the players
the manager will deal with the business aspects
The borderline areas are selecting the team, and buying new players.

Other websites
Coaching Certification.

Category:Training

Coach (sport)


Mehmet VI (14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. His reign lasted from 1918 to 1922. He succeeded his brother, Mehmed V, as the eldest male member of the House of Osman after the 1916 suicide of the heir to the throne, Yusuf Izzettin Efendi. He was presented with the Sword of Osman on 4 June 1918 in the traditional coronation ceremony. His father was Sultan Abdülmecid I and mother was Gülüstü (1831 – May 1861). Mehmed was removed from the throne when the Ottoman sultanate was abolished in 1922.

Notes

More reading
 Fromkin, David, 1989. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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Cumin (Cuminum cyminum)  sometimes spelled cummin is a flowering plant, native from the east Mediterranean to East India. Its seeds are used in the cuisines of many different cultures. The use of cumin is very common in Indian and Pakistani foods.

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Cumin


IC 418 is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Lepus. It is about 1,100 light-years away from Earth.

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IC 418


The Alseseca River is a short river in the interior part of Mexico. It is in the state of Tlaxcala. The Alseseca runs through the city of Puebla de Zaragoza. It is one of the many rivers that come from the dormant volcano La Malinche. The Alseseca river runs south-east until it enters the lake of Valsequillo.

Between 1960 and 1980, several companies set up factories in Puebla. With no protection of the river and the increasing urban growth, many companies and people threw waste into the river, which gradually became a stream of sewage. Today the pollution in the river has decreased considerably, and using it as a "garbage dump" is illegal.

Due to illegal logging in the area, deforestation has caused the river to flood in the rainy season. Since 2000, about 100 families have been affected by the overflowing of the river in villages like Aleseca and Lopez Portillo. In addition to the floods, the existing pollution in the water has caused cases of cholera and salmonella in some of the houses closest to river. Since 1995, the city government has taken action to reduce the flooding of the river. It has built barriers and dikes.

Alseseca Race
Every year on the 2nd Saturday in January, Aventurec and Its collaborators host an Extreme Whitewater Kayak Race, On the Section Known as Roadside. The Race attracts competitors from all over world and is slowly encouraging more and more locals to get involved in the sport.

This year in its 10th edition saw over 60 competitors from 14 different countries battling it out for number one, you can check out full race results here

The Race was created in an attempt to raise awareness to keep rivers and the environment clean and free of trash and deposits.

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Río Alseseca


Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a man-made (something made by humans) surface made from synthetic materials, made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that are normally played on grass. However, it is now being used on lawns and in commercial applications as well.
The main advantage of artificial turf is low cost of maintenance as there is no need to water it and trim it. Artificial turf have some downsides to, like requirement for cleaning, toxicity and limited lifetime.
Artificial turf is extremely popular in sporting industry - especially in US and regions where weather make it difficult to sustain high quality live turf.

Other websites
 Artificial turf contractors
 Turf toe - a general introduction
 Artificial Turf website
Rubber pollution in a domestic environment. This article looks at how rubber crumb affects the environment.
List of the major synthetic turf benefits

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Artificial turf


Warren Albert Stevens (November 2, 1919 – March 27, 2012) was an American stage, movie, and television actor.

Early Life
Stevens was born on November 2, 1919 in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. He studied how to act at the Actor's Studio in New York City.

Career
Stevens began his acting career after being in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot during World War II. He trained at The Actor's Studio in New York. He was noticed on Broadway in the late 1940s.  Then he was offered a Hollywood contract at 20th Century Fox.

His first Broadway role was in The Life of Galileo (1947). His first movie role followed in The Frogmen (1951). As a young studio contract player, Stevens had little choice in the jobs he took.  He was in movies that included Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952), and Gorilla at Large (1954). His most memorable movie role was probably that of "Doc" Ostrow in the science fiction movie Forbidden Planet (1956). He also had a supporting role in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) with Humphrey Bogart.

Personal life
Stevens was married to Susan Tucker Huntington from 1942 until they divorced. Then he was married to Barbara Finch from 1969 until they divorced. He had one child with Huntington and two with French. He lived in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California with his family.

Death
Stevens died on March 27, 2012, in his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California from a lung disease. He was survived by three of his children.

Television

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Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey (July 3, 1903 – April 7, 1992) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He played a career total of 7 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto St. Patricks/Toronto Maple Leafs organization. In the beginning of his 8th season with the team, he had his career ended.

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Bailey played 2 seasons of senior hockey with Peterborough. He was signed by the Toronto St. Patricks in November 1926. During his first season with the team, they changed their named to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

In the 1928–29 NHL season, Bailey became the league leading goal scorer, scoring 22 goals and 32 points in 44 games. He once again became the Maple Leafs' leading scorer in the 1929–30 season and he was one point short of repeating as leading scorer in the 1930–31 season. His offensive production declined in the 1931–32 season but he was still able to help Toronto win the Stanley Cup in 1932.

On December 13, 1933, during a game between the Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins, Bailey was hit from behind by Eddie Shore of Bruins and hit his head on the ice, fracturing his skull. Bailey had severely injured head and it was feared that he would not survive. Bailey would eventually recover from his injury but he was never able to play hockey again. There was an all-star benefit game that was held at Maple Leaf Gardens on February 14, 1934, which raised $20,909.40 for both Bailey and his family. Bailey and Shore shook hands and embraced at centre ice before the start of the game. The NHL introduced the annual all-star game thirteen years later.

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The WWE Tribute to the Troops is a televised event held every year since 2005 by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in December around Christmas and Hanukkah. The wrestlers and employees of the WWE travel to Iraq and Afghanistan to honor the United States military. The event features wrestlers from Raw, SmackDown, and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) brands competing in matches against each other. They hold a televised episode of Raw on an open field for any troop member to attend for free. Along the travel, wrestlers and employees stop at autograph sessions and local hospitals to visit those who fight and may have been injured in war. Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Hospital are among the hospitals visited by the WWE employees. The WWE most recently held its fifth annual event, and has their next visit planned for December 2008.

In 2004, USO of Metropolitan Washington awarded the WWE the first Legacy of Hope award for their extensive support of their troops and the USO’s Operation Care Package program. In 2006, WWE received the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service award. It was presented to WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon and other wrestlers. Upon receiving the award, McMahon handed it to wrestler, John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL), noting that the idea of the Tribute to the Troops was his original idea. WWE also received recognition from General Casey, the Commander of Multinational Forces Iraq. The WWE generally stays for three days.

Overall, WWE has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan six consecutive times since 2003. The events are held in December every year, as they are intended to be a holiday treat for the troops. Not every WWE wrestler and employee attends the trips, but any wrestler willing to go may attend, with their brand not considered a factor.

Related pages
WWE Raw

References

Other websites
2005 Official website
2006 Official website
2007 Official website

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WWE Tribute to the Troops


Voot, Launched in March 2016, from the digital arms of Viacom 18. It's Viacom 18's advertising-led-video-on-demand platform. That is available as an app for iOS and Android Users, and a website for desktop consumption.

Voot is available only in India. And hosts over 40,000 hours of video content that includes shows from channels like, MTV India, Nickelodeon, Colors TV. Content is also available in multi languages like, Kannada,Marathi, Bengali,Gujarati and Tamil.

Related pages
 MTV
 Nickelodeon
 Colors Bangla
 Pogo TV
 Cartoon Network
 Colors TV

References

Other websites
 Owner Website
 Official Website

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Voot


Pocky is a Japanese snack food. They are chocolate-coated biscuit sticks. They are made by Ezaki Glico and were first sold in 1966. Aside from chocolate, Pocky can be found in dozens of different flavors like strawberry, almond and others. They are sold in Europe under the name Mikado.

References

Other websites
 Official website

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Pocky


Dercy is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Dercy


The Chosroids (Khosro[v]iani, Georgian: ხოსრო[ვ]იანი) were a dynasty of the kings and later of the ruling princes of the early Georgian state of Iberia, natively known as Kartli, from the fourth to the ninth centuries. Presumably of Iranian origin and a branch of the Mihranid House, the family accepted Christianity as their official religion around the year 337, and maneuvered between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid, Iran to retain a degree of independence.

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Chosroid Dynasty


An ear plug is a device usually used to protect the ears from loud noises. They are put inside the ear canal and can also be used to protect the ear from water, dust or anything that doesn't belong in the ear.

Types of ear plugs
Ear plugs are made using many different materials to be used for different reasons.

Wax - these earplugs are harder and usually need to be squeezed and rolled between fingers before pacing in ears
Foam - made of polyvinyl chloride or polyurethane, these plugs need to be squeezed and rolled to be put in the ear. When they are put inside, they will expand to fit the ear canal.
Silicone - these earplugs are usually softer and are not placed inside the ear canal like foam or wax earplugs. Instead, they are placed in the external part of the ear canal.
Flange - flange does not describe the material of these earplugs but their special design. These earplugs are flexible and have ridges and flaps instead of being smooth like the previous earplugs

Ear plugs are also made to be re-used or disposable.

Uses of earplugs
Noise Reduction - the most common use for earplugs is to protect ears from loud sounds. They can be used in places with long periods of noise such as concerts and at restaurants or can be used to block sudden sounds such as an ambulance travelling past you. Ear plugs do not stop all sound from entering your ears, they only reduce sound.
Sleeping - some ear plugs are made to be soft and stay inside the ear during sleep to protect against any loud sounds at night such as snoring.
Swimming - some ear plugs are made to keep water out of the ears and are useful for swimmers and other people who spend a lot of time in the water, helping to avoid surfer's ear.
Flying - for some people, changes in airplane cabin pressure can be painful. There are earplugs that help to prevent this which is very useful during landing and take-off as well as when a passenger is trying to sleep.

Other websites
 National Hearing Care Find an audiologist in Australia and get more information on hearing prevention.
 Bay Audiology Find an audiologist in New Zealand and get more information on hearing loss prevention.

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Earplug


Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American Democratic politician. He was the United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. He was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for fifteen years from 1966 to 1981.

Long was the son of Louisiana governor and U.S. senator Huey Long. He worked during the administrations of eight U.S. presidents from Truman to Reagan.

Long died at his home in Washington, D.C. of heart failure on May 9, 2003 at the age of 84.

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Russell B. Long


Joinville is a city in Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil. It is a major industrial city. It is the largest city in Santa Catarina. About 550,000 people live in the city, and about 1.3 million people live in the surrounding metropolitan area. Most of the people are of German, Swiss and Norwegian descent. It is the third largest city in the southern region of Brazil.

Joinville is also the third largest industrial center in southern Brazil. The region produces more than 30% of the total GDP of the state of Santa Catarina. The largest corporations with headquarters in the city are Amanco, Busscar, Ciser, Datasul, Docol, Döhler, Embraco, Tupy, Lepper, Tigre, Wetzel, Whirlpool, Viqua,Schulz, and Universal Leaf Tobacco.

Joinville is known as the city of the Princes, Flowers, Dance and Bicycles. The Joinville Dance Festival is a major event in the month of July  - it is  recognized as the world's largest dance festival (listed in the Guinness World of Records Book). A subsidiary of the School of Ballet of the Bolshoi Theater, the only one outside Russia, is highlighted in the training of dancers.

The Airport of Joinville (Lauro Carneiro de Loyola) is one of the largest in South Region. is located 13 km from the city center, 110 km from airport and 163 km from Curitiba to Florianópolis Airport. Of Joinville there are several daily flights to São Paulo (Congonhas), through Companies: Gol Airlines, TAM and Azul.

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Joinville


Gustaw Lutkiewicz (29 June 1924 – 24 February 2017) was a Polish actor and singer. He started his career in 1948. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1970, the Officer's Cross in 1985 and later the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Lutkiewicz died on 24 February 2017 in Warsaw, at the age of 92.

Filmography
1956: Nikodem Dyzma
1957: Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny
1957: Ewa chce spać
1960: Walet pikowy
1961: Ludzie z pociągu
1964: Nieznany
1985: C.K.Dezerterzy
1989: Konsul
1999: Ogniem i Mieczem
2000: Syzyfowe prace

References

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Gustaw Lutkiewicz


Mutsun is one of the languages spoken by the Ohlone people of California.

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Mutsun


Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

According to a 2012 estimate, the population of the city was around 3,289,000. Ths includes Tajiks, Pashtuns, Hazaras and some other smaller ethnic groups. It is the 64th largest and the 5th fastest growing city in the world.

It is 1,800 meters, or 5,900 feet above-sea-level. Kabul is over 3,500 years old.

Related pages
 Kabul Province

References

Kabul


Wabash County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 11,947 people lived there. The county seat is Mount Carmel.

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Wabash County, Illinois


DWRK (96.3 FM), branding as 96.3 Easy Rock, is a 24/7 Soft AC FM radio station. It is owned and operated by Cebu Broadcasting Company in the Philippines. The station is an affliate station of the Manila Broadcasting Company. The studio is in Star City Complex, Pasay City. Its transmitter is on the BSA Twin Towers in Mandaluyong City.

Other websites
Live Stream
Easy Rock website

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Category:Metro Manila

DWRK


Mississippi is one of the states of the United States. Its capital and largest city is Jackson. The state flower and tree are the magnolia. Other large cities are Biloxi, Greenville, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Meridian, Pascagoula, Southaven, Tupelo, Starkville, and Vicksburg. It touches Arkansas (by the Mississippi River), Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama.

Related pages
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 William Faulkner

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Mississippi


Eugène Van Roosbroeck (13 May 1928 – 28 March 2018) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He was born in Noorderwijk (Antwerp province). He won a gold medal in team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with Lode Wouters and Leon De Lathouwer.

Roosbroeck died on 28 March 2018 in Noorderwijk at the age of 89.

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Eugène Van Roosbroeck


Transmutation is a basic process in alchemy. The most important form of transmutation is the change of lead into gold. Alchemists tried and failed to change base metals (metals of very little value) into a metal of high value like gold.

However, more recent work by James Chadwick and Irène Joliot-Curie in nuclear physics has established that radioactivity does lead to elemental changes.

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Transmutation


Shining Force III is a series of fantasy role-playing video games. It was made by Sonic! Software Planning and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn in 1997.

List of video games
 Shining Force III Scenario 1 (1997)
 Shining Force III Scenario 2 (1998)
 Shining Force III Scenario 3 (1998)

Only the first episode was released in North America and Europe. There is also a bonus game called Shining Force III Premium Disc; it was only released in Japan, as well as Scenario 2 and Scenario 3.

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Shining Force III


Barbadians or Bajans are people from the Caribbean island of Barbados.  They can live on Barbados or live in another country.

Diaspora
Many Bajans now live overseas and outside of Barbados.  Most have moved to English language countries.  There are some 60,000 Bajans in the United Kingdom, around 54,509 Bajans in the United States and 20,000 in Canada.

Related pages
See: List of famous Bajan people

References

Barbadian people


Michail Leontievich Bulatov (Михаил Леонтьевич Булатов),  (1760 in Rjazan, 2 May 1825 in Omsk), was a Russian military who fought during the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1992) and became Major General in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars and lieutenant-general in 1823.

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Michail Leontievich Bulatov


Wasps are an English rugby club historically based in London, but playing home games in Coventry, who play in the Aviva Premiership.

Formed in 1867 at the now defunct Eton and Middlesex Tavern, Wasps had been, before their December 2014 move to Coventry, London's most successful club with six championships and two Heineken Cups.

The club have not played their home games in London proper since 2002. They first moved to Adams Park in High Wycombe, but were unable to expand the stadium to meet their needs. In late 2014, they bought Ricoh Arena in Coventry, and moved their home matches there in December 2014.

League position

Former position

References

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Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (12 November 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a Mexican poet and classical scholar.

Nuño was born on 12 November 1923 in Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico. He studied at National Autonomous University of Mexico. Nuño died on 31 January 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico from natural causes, aged 89.

References

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Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (El Colegio Nacional)
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño: Brief biography
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Rubén Bonifaz Nuño


Bloodletting was the name for a medical practice which affected the health of the person.

Blood donation is when a person voluntarily gives blood, which can be used for blood transfusions or to make certain drugs. Blood banks store this blood. The blood can be used to help the victims of accidents, for example. Usually, the blood donor and the donated blood are tested for diseases which spread through the blood. These include various forms of Hepatitis,HIV and Syphilis. Usually a series of questions also need to be answered to make sure that there is no risk to the person donating.

A special case of blood donation sometimes occurs before a medical operation that is dangerous. People donate their own blood, which can be used after the operation if they lose too much blood.

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Blood donation


George Enescu (August 19, 1881, Liveni – May 4, 1955, Paris) was a Romanian composer. He was born in Liveni, Romania. He studied the violin at the Vienna Conservatory. He moved to Paris in 1895 to study composition at the Paris Conservatoire with Jules Massenet and then Gabriel Fauré. Other students at this time were Maurice Ravel and Charles Koechlin.

In 1927 he taught the violin to Yehudi Menuhin.

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George Enescu


Brighton Park is a neighborhood located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. It is number 58 of the 77 community areas of Chicago.

Brighton Park is bordered on the north by the former Illinois & Michigan Canal and the current Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, on the east by Western Avenue, on the south by 49th Street, and on the west by Central Park Ave.

The neighborhood is a mix of residential areas, commercial zones, industrial works and transportation. It is relatively peaceful, according to Chicago Police Department statistics (2004 CPD Annual Report).

The Orange Line of the CTA serves the area.

References

Other websites
 Official City of Chicago Brighton Park Community Map

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Brighton Park, Chicago


Machy is a commune of the Aube département in the north-central part of France.

Machy, Aube

Machy, Aube


Ramón Luis Conde Román (December 29, 1934 – February 23, 2020) was an American professional baseball player from Puerto Rico. He played as a third baseman. He played 14 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox in 1962. He had a much larger minor league baseball career.

Conde was born in Juana Díaz. He died of a heart attack on February 23, 2020 in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 85.

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Ramón Conde


Barbentane is a commune of 3,660 people (2005). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the south of France.

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Barbentane


Bremgarten is a Swiss district in the Canton of Aargau.

It has a total of 25 municipalities, listed below:

Category:Districts of Aargau

Bremgarten (district)


Cascada is a German pop group. They are most famous for their songs "Everytime We Touch" in 2004, "What Hurts the Most" in 2007 and "Evacuate the Dancefloor" in 2009. Members of the group are the female singer Natalie Horler  and the two Record Producers DJ Manian and Yanou.

Carrer beginnings and Everytime We Touch (2004-2006)
They started writing songs for the album in late 2003, like, the title track (Everytime We Touch), Miracle and Bad Boy, they recorded a slow version of Everytime We Touch around the same time. Then, in 2004, the studio released Miracle and Bad Boy as singles and released the album in the fall of 2004, the title track for the album released in 2005 (both original and slow versions), then they had a tour for the album from summer of 2005 to fall of 2006, They ended the tour in favor for their second album in 2007.

Perfect Day and Evacuate The Dancefloor (2007-2010)
Their second album, Perfect Day started to get worked on, right after the Everytime We Touch tour concluded in fall 2006. They released the album in 2007. They had a tour for the album in 2007-2008. Then in fall 2008, they started to work on their third album, Evacuate the Dancefloor. They released this album in 2009, had a tour in 2009-2010 and like every album, stops in favor for a new album.

Original Me, Back on the Dancefloor, It's Christmas Time and miscellaneous singles (2011-present)
In fall 2010, they started to work on their fourth and final studio album, Original Me. Then, they released it in 2011, had a tour in 2011-2012, but this time, it didn't stop because they're was gonna be a new album in 2013 (which there isn't), The reason is unknown. In 2012, they released two other albums (which are NOT studio albums). In 2013, they released an acoustic album. After that, they released other singles, which she was in from other people.

Discography

Studio albums
2004: Everytime We Touch (5 October)
2007: Perfect Day (3 December)
2009: Evacuate The Dancefloor (3 July)
2011: Original Me (17 June)

Other albums
2006: The Remix Album
2009: Greatest Hits
2010: Just The Hits
2012: Back On The Dancefloor
2012: It's Christmas Time
2013: The Best Of Cascada
2013: Acoustic Sessions

Singles
2004: Miracle, Bad Boy
2005: Everytime We Touch, How Do You Do
2006: Truly, Madly, Deeply, A Neverending Dream,  Ready For Love
2007: What Hurts The Most
2008: What Do You Want From Me, Because The Night, Faded, Perfect Day
2009: Evacuate The Dancefloor, Fever, Dangerous
2010: Pyromania
2011: San Francisco, Au Revoir, Night Nurse
2012: Summer Of Love, The Rhythm Of The Night
2013: Glorious, The World Is On My Hands

Awards and nominations

References

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Cascada


Eixample, also known as 'Expansion' district in Catalan is the name of second district of Barcelona.

It takes up  the central area of the city, in a big area of 7,46 km2 . Designed by Ildefonso Cerdà. It is the most populated district of Barcelona and of all Spain in absolute numbers (262.485 inhabitants) and the second to related to the surface (35.586 inhabitants/ km2).

Notable areas
In the Eixample District, there are the big streets and avenues and popular squares of Barcelona, like: Passeig de Gràcia, Rambla Catalunya, Plaça Catalunya, Avinguda Diagonal, Carrer d’Aragó, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Carrer de Balmes, Ronda Sant Antoni, Ronda de Sant Pere, Passeig de Sant Joan, Plaça de la Sagrada Familia, Plaça Gaudí, and at one end there is Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes and at the opposite end Plaça Francesc Macià.

There are also touristic places like Basílica de la Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Auditori de Barcelona, Plaça de Toros Monumental, la Casa de les Punxes, as well as a lot of movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other leisure places.

Historic context
During the first half of 19th century Barcelona saw a booming Industrial Revolution. The cities with a medieval street structure and many of them surrounded by walls were collapsing under the expansion of recently born industries. For this reason the population increased a lot.

The city of Barcelona, like many other european cities, was limited in its growth by the its walls. Behind the walls it was considered military zone. This implied the no construction of industries. This zone only could be use to agriculture.

References

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District of Eixample


MS-DOS is a computer operating system by Microsoft Corporation. It stands for "Microsoft Disk Operating System", and came from an operating system Microsoft bought called 86-DOS, originally called QDOS, or "Quick and Dirty Operating System."  The operating system used a command-line interface for the user to input commands.  It was popularly used in PCs before a GUI operating system called Microsoft Windows came out, and still is used in some places today.

OS/2 was made to replace MS-DOS, but that replacement did not succeed.  MS-DOS was the framework behind Windows operating systems until an operating system known as Windows XP.

MS-DOS is a text-based operating system, meaning that a user works with a keyboard to input data and receives output in plain text.  Later, MS-DOS often had programs using a mouse and graphics to make work more simple and quick.  (Some people still believe that working without graphics is really more efficient.) It is called a disk operating system because it was originally made to be loaded into a computer's memory with a floppy disk each time the computer is started (booted) up.

MS-DOS was released as proprietary software, but decades later after most users had gone to other systems, it was released as free software.

How-To Books

Many books were written on how to use MS-DOS.  A popular introductory book was MS-DOS for Dummies, by Dan Gookin, the book in the For Dummies series of easy to follow instruction books.

References

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MS-DOS


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

References
INSEE

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Compigny


Carrick was a district in Cornwall. It was replaced in 2009. It was a local government district run by Carrick District Council.

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Carrick


Berchtesgadener Land is a rural district in Upper Bavaria in south Bavaria, Germany.

Towns and municipalities

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Berchtesgadener Land


Lt. General William H. Tunner (July 14, 1906 - April 6, 1983) was an American general.

 After the Burma Road was cut by the advancing Japanese in early 1942, he organized the Allied logisitical airlift from India in to China over the Hump which was to support Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese forces and the Flying Tigers until the opening of the Ledo Road.
 He was the organizer of the Berlin Airlift (1948-49).
 Played by Heino Ferch in the film "Nur der Himmel war frei" (2005)

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 General Albert Coady Wedemeyer

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William H. Tunner


A teddy bear is a type of toy that looks like a bear. The teddy bear is normally a cub or baby bear. In Russia, bears were used as children's toys for many years before they became popular in the United States. The teddy bear in Russia has been the subject of folklore or stories for many years.  Teddy bears are often toys for children they are also used to comfort people and also to teach.

A teddy bear is a popular and well-known toy.  It may often have human-like features.  They are usually small and soft.  Teddy Bears are found all over the world.  Early 20th century teddy bears were made from mohair, the hair of goats.  Now they are usually made from synthetic fabrics.

Theodore Roosevelt
There are many stories about how the Teddy Bear got its name.  It may be a myth but the teddy bear is said to be named after Theodore Roosevelt, a hunter who disliked being called "Teddy".  Roosevelt was the 26th and youngest President of the United States. He was president from 1901–1909. Friends of the president gave him the nickname "Teddy".

The most told story happened in November 1902. President Roosevelt was in Mississippi for a bear hunt. He and other men went out hunting for bear on horseback. The President and the men had hunting dogs to help find the bears. The dogs ran off following the scent of the bears. When the men could no longer hear the dogs, they turned around and went back to their camp, When they got to camp a bear was there. Everyone at the camp wanted President Roosevelt to shoot the bear. He would not do it or let anyone else do it.

Teddy Bears for adults

Clothes

British soldiers in World War I, wore fur coats that they called Teddys. The American soldiers also wore a one piece fur overall they called a teddy. Women's nightgowns have also been nicknamed "Teddy" because they are comfortable.

Mascot
The teddy bear has been a mascot and a companion for many adults. Olympic Long Jump Gold Medal winner Randy Wililams 1972 pictured on Life magazine with a teddy bear at the Munich games. The bear was giving to him by an ex-girlfriend.

While playing baseball with the San Francisco Giants, Ron Bryant was nicknamed "Bear" for always taking his teddy bear everywhere with him. After playing for the Giants, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs. While he was playing with the Cubs, Bryant bought a bear from a girl on the street. He took the bear to the game and they won that day. After that, he brought the bear with him to all the games. The teddy bear was even fitted with a baseball uniform with Bryant's number.

"Cherished Teddies"
Adults often collect "Cherished Teddies".  They are figurines of teddy bears. They are considered knick knacks. Only a limited number from each mold is produced. Some are more rare, or uncommon than others. The less made of a particular one, the more valuable they are.

TY Beanie Babies
Beanie Baby bears are of the most popular in Beanie Baby collections. "Princess Diana" bear honors the late Princess of Wales. Her bear is of royal purple color with two flowers on its heart. Accessories for the bear such as a copy of Princess Di's actual license, a crown, and royal cape can be purchased to enhance the royal bear. Some bears that were defective in production are considered to have the highest worth, since limited amounts were effected. Collectors search for the defective ones to have the most unique collection. Just as with "Cherished Teddies" the less available ones are worth the most amount of money. The TY tags on the ears of the bears condition also attributes to their value. Children have a tendency to rip off these tags making the collectibles an everyday toy.

Healing, helping and learning

Bears in the classroom
The teddy bear is used in children's classrooms. According to "The Much Maligned Teddy Bear" teddy bears comfort and support children. The teddy bear is also used to teach children about different places. In story, the bear does traveling and sends postcards to the readers, which helps children learn. A child can learn a lot through teddy bears. There are books, logos that teach and comfort children. The teddy bear books help children learn to read and are also fond memories for parents and grandparents.

Teddy Bear Cop
Law enforcement in America gives children in tramatic experiences teddy bears for comfort. Several agencies provide the bears the children going through crisis. The bears are donated by citizens to help children deal with transition from their homes to foster care or when a parent is arrested for disobeying the law and is taken to jail. Firemen also hand out bears to children victims of fire.

Gallery

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Teddy bear


Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of Copper, a comic strip. He also wrote Amulet which is a series of graphic novels which are like comic books. He was born 1978, in Tokyo, Japan. He moved to the United States in 1982. He lives in Alhambra, California. He has a degree in film studies from the University of California. He  married Amy Kim Ganter who is a comic book artist and illustrator.

He is a writer, editor, illustrator, art director, comic book artist, graphic novelist, producer, and animator. He’s an animator at Shaded Box which is an animation, commercial, and video game studio. Animators make movies and cartoons. He  married Amy Kim Ganter who is a comic book artist and illustrator.

Copper follows the quests of an intelligent dog and his owner in a world of steampunk technology and fiction. The series continues to appear on the Internet and gains him quite a few fans.

References
 Kazu Kibuishi." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Biography in Context. Web. 1 Apr. 2014
 Bolt City. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. <http://boltcity.com>

Kazu Kibuishi


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

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Aillas


A group 3 element is a group in the periodic table of chemical elements.

Is one of the 18 groups in periodic table of elements. In this group are:

 scandium
 yttrium
 lutetium (or lanthanum)
 lawrencium (or actinium)
The first two elements of this group are known, while the other two do not know whether it was lutetium and lawrencium or lanthanum and actinium.

This group is called the I - {IIIB} - group of chemical elements.

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Group 3 element


"Professor" Irwin Corey (July 29, 1914 – February 6, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, and activist. His career began in 1938. Corey began his stand-up career in an San Francisco club, the Hungry i.

Early life
Corey was born on July 29, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York to an Jewish family. His parents were forced to give him up in an Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York. He was never adopted, so he spent the rest of his teenage years in the Asylum. Corey studied at the Belmont High School in Los Angeles, California.

Influences
Corey was influenced by Charlie Chaplin and by The Marx Brothers. He had influence Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Jonathan Winters, Bob Newhart, and Tom Smothers. Lenny Bruce once said that Corey is "one of the most brilliant comedians of all time".

Personal life
Corey was married to Fran Corey from 1941 until her death in 2011. They had two children, Margaret Corey (dead) and Richard Corey. He also has a grandson, Amadeo. He now lived in his home town of San Francisco, California until moving to Manhattan, New York for his comedic stage career.

Corey died at his Manhattan apartment on February 6, 2017, aged 102.

Movies
How to Commit Marriage (1969)
Fore Play (1975)
Car Wash (1976)
Thieves (1977) (reprising his stage role)
Chatterbox! (1977) (cameo)
Fairy Tales (1979)
Stuck on You! (1983)
Jack (1996)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Irwin & Fran (2012)

References

Other websites

 The Professor's official web site

 National Book Awards speech
 New York Press: "Who Am the World's Foremost Authority?"
 "Cinema Retro covers Prof. Irwin Corey's 95th birthday party at The Players club" (2009)

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Gareth O'Callaghan (born 1961) is an Irish author and retired radio and television presenter. He was most recently to be heard on 4fm, having presented shows on RTÉ 2fm for much of his career until 2005 and then a show on Galway Bay FM until his retirement in 2018. He is known for talking about depression and suicide awareness on his shows.

In August 2018, O'Callaghan was diagnosed with a terminal form of neurodegenerative disease.

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The Falkirk council area is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 1996.

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The Game is the name of a mind game. The goal is not to think about The Game itself. If someone thinks about The Game, they lose. If someone loses, they must tell someone, or announce that they "lost The Game."

No one is sure how The Game started. A similar game was played by Leo Tolstoy in 1840. The media has reported on The Game in many countries and has guessed the number of players to be in the millions.

Rules

There are three rules to The Game:
 Everyone in the world is playing the game. A person cannot choose to stop playing.
 Whenever someone thinks about the game, they lose.
 Whenever someone loses the game, they must tell someone.

Some people have claimed that the game ends when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom says on television that "The Game is up." However, not everyone believes this. Most people say that The Game will never end. They say that the game cannot be won. Nevertheless, an xkcd comic reads: "You just won The Game. You're free!"

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Johann Palisa (December 6 1848–May 2 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic).

He was a good finder of asteroids, finding 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923. Some of the notable asteroids he found include 153 Hilda, 216 Kleopatra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 324 Bamberga, and the Amor asteroid 719 Albert.

The asteroid 914 Palisana and the Palisa crater on the Moon were named in his honour.

Early work
From 1866 to 1870, Palisa studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Vienna; however, he did not graduate until 1884. Despite this, by 1870 he was an assistant at the University's observatory, and a year later gained a position at the observatory in Geneva. A few years later, in 1872, at the age of 24, Palisa became the leader of the Austrian Naval Observatory in Pola. While at Pola, he found his first asteroid, 136 Austria, on March 18, 1874. Along with this, he found twenty-seven minor planets and one comet. During his stay in Pola he used a small six-inch refractor telescope to aid in his research.

Family
Palisa named some of the asteroids after his family: (320) Katharina after his mother, Katherina, (321) Florentina after his daughter Florentine. His second wife is Anna.

Sources

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Chronology is a word meaning 'the study of time'. It comes from the Greek words chronos (time) and logos (word). The adjective is chronological.

Putting events in chronological order means: listing them in the order in which they happened.

There are many sciences which deal in different ways with chronology. General is sometimes called "periodization". Historical chronology can deal with history or with the geological history of the earth.

When things are put in chronological order it can sometimes be called a "timeline".  Adjective- (of a record of events) following the order in which they occurred (kind of like a timeline)

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The Hochfrottspitze is a mountain near Oberstdorf, Germany. It is the highest German mountain in the Allgäu Alps at  high. The border with Austria is on its ridge.

With the Trettachspitze and Mädelegabel, the Hochfrottspitze forms a well known trio of peaks on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps. It was first climbed in 1869 by Hermann von Barth. The route to the top is difficult to climb. The mountain is made of dolomite.

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Pailly is a municipality in the Gros-de-Vaud district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Sulphur Rock is a town in the US state of Arkansas.

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Raúl "Chato" Padilla Mendoza (June 17, 1917 – February 3, 1994) was a Mexican actor. He was known for his role as Jaimito el Cartero ("Jaimito, the Mailman") in El Chavo del Ocho. His nickname "Chato" means "Pug" because he had a flat nose and it looked like a pug.

Padilla died in Mexico City, Mexico from a heart attack, aged 76.

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This is a discography of works by Jimmy Nail. Since 1985, the British musician has released seven studio albums, twenty three singles and other works. This article also covers his work with the musician Mark Knopfler.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Soundtrack albums

Singles

Notes
'*^ "Ain't No Doubt" didn't chart on the Finnish Singles Chart, but it charted instead on the Finnish Airplay Chart.
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Featured artist

Videos

References

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The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)  is a British defence and security think tank.

It was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington. RUSI describes itself as "the leading forum in the UK for national and international Defence and Security". It won Prospect Magazine's Think Tank of the Year Award 2008. In 2009, the same magazine named RUSI "Foreign Policy Think Tank of the Year". In 2011 RUSI celebrated its 180th Anniversary.

RUSI's Director is Michael Clarke and its President is HRH the Duke of Kent.

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Viktor Troicki (pronounced , , , ; born 10 February 1986 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Viktor became pro in 2006. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia. Viktor play tennis right hand, two hand backhand.

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Hugo Sánchez (born 11 July 1958) is a former Mexican football player. He has played for Mexico national team.

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|1975/76||rowspan="4"|Universidad Nacional||rowspan="4"|Primera División||0||0
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|1976/77||30||7
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|1977/78||38||13
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|1979||San Diego Sockers||NASL||10||6

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|1980/81||Universidad Nacional||Primera División||43||21

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|1982/83||31||15
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|1983/84||27||12
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|1986/87||41||34
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|1987/88||36||29
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Van Buren County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,295. The county seat is Clinton. The county was formed on November 11, 1833, and named for Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (1837–1841).

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Mia Amor Mottley, QC, MP (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician and attorney who is the current and 8th Prime Minister of Barbados since 25 May 2018 and the leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP). She served her first term as leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) form 7 February 2008 to 18 October 2010 and she served her second term as leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) from 26 February 2013 to 25 May 2018. Mottley is the eight person to hold the position and role of Prime Minister of Barbados and the first women to hold either positions and roles of Prime Minister of Barbados and leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).

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William Camp (born October 13, 1961) is an American actor. He became famous for playing supporting roles in many movies such as Lincoln (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Loving (2016), Jason Bourne (2016), Molly's Game (2017), Red Sparrow (2018), Vice (2018) and Joker (2019).

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Alienware is a company that is part of Dell.

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Alienware


The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad.

It was the largest empire in the world at the time. It is the fifth largest empire in history.

It was ruled by the Umayyad Dynasty (, Banu Umayyah) who came from Mecca, in present-day Saudi Arabia. Damascus was the capital from 661–744, Harrran from 744–750, and in exile their capital was Córdoba (756–1031).

Origins
According to tradition, the Umayyad family (also known as the Banu Abd-Shams) and the Islamic Prophet Muhammad both have a common ancestor, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai.  Muhammad descended from Abd Munaf via his son Hashim, the Umayyads descended from Abd Munaf via a different son, Abd-Shams. The two families are therefore considered to be different clans (those of Hashim and of Umayya, respectively) of the same Arabian tribe (that of the Quraish).

The Umayyads and the Hashimites were bitter rivals. The rivalry came from the initial opposition of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, the grandson of Umayya, to Muhammad and to Islam. He tried to get rid of the new religion by waging a series of battles. But eventually he accepted Islam, as did his son (the future caliph Muawiyah I), and the two provided much-needed political and diplomatic skills for the management of the quickly expanding Islamic empire.

The origins of Umayyad rule date back to the assassination of Uthman in 656. At this time Ali, a member of the Hashim clan and a cousin of Prophet Muhammad, became the caliph.  He soon met with resistance from several factions, and moved his capital from Medina to Kufa. The resulting conflict, which lasted from 656 until 661, is known as the First Fitna ("time of trial").

Ali was first opposed by an alliance led by Aisha, the widow of Muhammad, and Talhah and Al-Zubayr, two of the Companions of the Prophet. The two sides clashed at the Battle of the Camel in 656, where Ali won a decisive victory.

When Ali was assassinated in 661, Muawiyah marched to Kufa. There he persuaded a number of Ali's supporters to accept him as caliph instead of Ali's son, Hasan. Then he moved the capital of the caliphate to Damascus. Syria would remain the base of Umayyad power until the end of the dynasty.

Related pages
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Notes

References
 Previté-Orton, C. W (1971). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Further reading
 G.R. Hawting, The first dynasty of Islam: the Umayyad caliphate, AD 661-750 (London, 2000).
 H. Kennedy, The Prophet and the age of the caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century (London, 1986).

Other websites
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 Umayyads - First caliphate dynasty

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Booker Tio Huffman (born March 1, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is an American retired professional wrestler that is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), working on their SmackDown brand as a color commentator. Huffman returned to WWE as a surprise entrant during the 2011 Royal Rumble. He has also wrestled for TNA Impact! from 2007-2009. He is a former one time WCW Champion,  two time WCW Tag Team Champion with Test, one time World Heavyweight Champion, three time World Tag Team Championship with Test (1), Goldust (1), and Rob Van Dam (1) one time WWE Intercontinental champion, three time WWE United States champion, two time WWF Hardcore Champion and was the winner of the 2006 King of the Ring.

References

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Anne of Cleves (22 September 1515 – 16 July 1557) was the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England from January 1540 to July 1540.

Biography
She was the daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and Maria of Julich Berg. She was born in Düsseldorf on 22 September 1515.
She was betrothed to Francis, the Duke of Lorraine, but she ended up marrying Henry VIII in January of 1540. When the couple met for the first time, they were disappointed in each other. Henry started complaining about Anne's appearance and said that he could not love her because she had "bad breath" and smelled. Anne's previous engagement to the Duke of Lorraine was used as an excuse for a divorce, and Anne agreed to it. In July 1540 Henry divorced Anne and married Catherine Howard, who was younger and prettier.

After the divorce
After the divorce, Henry made Anne his "sister" and gave her money and land for the rest of her life. She was the last of Henry's six wives to die, as she outlived his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, by nearly nine years. Anne died in 1557 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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This article is about the province in Cuba. For other titular locales and uses, see Guantanamo (disambiguation).
Guantánamo is the easternmost province of Cuba. Its capital is also called Guantánamo. Other towns include Baracoa. The province surrounds the important U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.

Guantánamo's architecture and culture is unlike the rest of Cuba.
The original settlement was done by Catalan families from the Ampurdan region of north-eastern Catalunya, Spain in 1764. British forces had occupied the area for over 40 years and Scot-Irish settlers were a constant preoccupation to the Spanish auhorities. In 1805, when the French were forced out of St. Domingue (Haiti) 35,000 French settlers were given lands in Cuba, many French families settled in the Guantanamo area becoming coffee and cacao planters meaning that many buildings are comparable to those of the French Quarter of New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Before the Castroite Revolution the Carnivals of Guantanmo were famous in Cuba.

The province is only 80 km away from Haiti its closest point, across the Windward Passage and close enough to see lights on Haiti on a clear night. Guantánamo also has a number of immigrants from Jamaica.

The Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa mountains (Sierra de Cristal) dominate the province, dividing both climate and landscape. The northern coast, battered by prevailing winds, is the wettest part of the country, while the south, sheltered and dry, is the hottest. The north is characterized by rainforests, while the south is arid and has many cacti.

Municipalities

 Baracoa
 Caimanera
 El Salvador
 Guantánamo
 Imías
 Maisí (La Máquina)
 Manuel Tames
 Niceto Pérez
 San Antonio del Sur
 Yateras (Palenque)

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Tom and Jerry Tales is an animated television series which began production in 2005. It was on The CW's Kids WB block. The series stars the well-known title characters from the Tom and Jerry shorts, and is the first made for TV cartoon to emulate the theatrical shorts. It grew from dircet-to-video movies The Magic Ring (2001),
Blast Off to Mars, The Fast and the Furry(2005), Shiver Me Whiskers (2006) and A Nutcracker Tale (2007).

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Romild Santos Rosa (born October 25, 1973) is a former Brazilian football player.

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Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) was a Confedeate general during the American Civil War. He was born in 1803 in Tennessee. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1826. He resigned from the U.S. army in 1834 after his wife died. He then joined the Texas army during the Texas Revolution and continued serving in it after Texas became a republic. In 1840 he resigned from the Texas army and moved to Kentucky.

Johnston rejoined the U.S. army for the Mexican–American War. By 1860 he was in charge of the U.S. army in California. He resigned in May 1861 after Texas joined the Confederate States of America. He was made a four star general in the Confederate army and put in charge of the Confederate units in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was killed at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.

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Dampierre, Calvados is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Val de Drôme.

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Thursday was an American emo band, formed in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at 1997. The group has released six full-length albums, one compilation album, four EPs and one slipt. The band separates in November 22, 2011.

Discography
 Studio albums
 Waiting' (December 6, 1999, Eyeball Records)
 Full Collapse (October 18, 2001, Victory Records) US #178 / US Indie #9 / US Heat #10
 War All the Time (September 16, 2003, Island Records) US #7 / UK #62
 A City by the Light Divided (May 2, 2006, Island Records) US #20 / UK #112
 Common Existence (February 17, 2009, Epitaph Records) US #56 / US Indie #4
 No Devolución (April 12, 2011, Epitaph Records) US #63 / US Indie #11

 Compilation albums
 Kill the House Lights (October 30, 2007, Victory Records) US #113 / US Indie #10

 EPs
 1999 Summer Tour EP (July 1999, Self-released)
 Five Stories Falling (October 22, 2002, Victory Records) US #197 / US Indie #10 / US Heat #6
 Live from the SoHo & Santa Monica Stores (November 11, 2003, Island Records)
 Live in Detroit (December 2003, Island Records)

 Slipts
 Thursday / Envy (November 4, 2008, Temporary Residence Records)

 SinglesUnderstanding in a Car Crash (2001, Full Collapse)Cross Out the Eyes (2002, Full Collapse)Standing on the Edge of Summer (2002, Full Collapse)For the Workforce, Drowning (2003, War All the Time) UK #83Signals Over the Air (2003, War All the Time) UK #62 / US Alt. #30War All the Time (2004, War All the Time)Counting 5-4-3-2-1 (2006, A City by the Light Divided)At This Velocity (2007, A City by the Light Divided)Ladies and Gentlemen: My Brother, the Failure (2007, Kill the House Lights)Dead Songs (2007, Kill the House Lights)Resuscitation of a Dead Man (2009, Common Existence)Past and Future Ruins / Paper Lung'' (2011, No Devolución

Members
Current members
Geoff Rickly – lead vocals (since 1997)
Tim Payne – bass (since 1997)
Tom Keeley – lead guitar, backing vocals (since 1997)
Steve Pedulla – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (since 2000)
Tucker Rule – drums, percussion (since 1997)
Andrew Everding – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals (since 2002)

 Former members
Bill Henderson – rhythm guitar (1997–2000)

References

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Official website

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Robert Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an English-Australian music entrepreneur and impresario. He was best known for managing Cream and the Bee Gees. He relocated to England in 1954.

In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the most successful figures in the entertainment world, through his management of music groups like Cream and The Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar and movie productions including the hugely successful Saturday Night Fever and Grease.

Stigwood died on 4 January 2016 in London at the age of 81.

References

Other websites
Robert Stigwood Organisation official site

Joseph Brennan: Gibb Songs website http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/67.first.html
The Knitting Circle: Popular Music http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/popularmusic.html
Disraeli Gears Cream website http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/cream/gears/disraeligears1.htm

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Earl Stevick (23 October 23, 1923 - 13 August 2013) was an expert in language learning and teaching. Stevick was influential in developing the communicative approach to language learning. He was a practicing Christian and this greatly influenced his approach to education.

Academic career
He studied government at Harvard University, earned a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Columbia University, and a PhD in linguistics at Cornell University. After he received his PhD, Stevick began teaching at Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee. He applied for and received a Ford Fellowship and went to teach in Angola, Belgian Congo and Southern Rhodesia for two years. He then worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, creating courses to learn local African languages.

Stevick was one of a small group of language educators who created the Master of Arts in Teaching degree at the SIT Graduate Institute in 1969. It was called School for International Training at that time. He continued to help with that program as a member of the advisory board.

Books
 Memory, Meaning and Method (1976 & 1996 editions)
 Teaching Languages, A Way and Ways
 Humanism in Language Teaching: A Critical Perspective
 Teaching and Learning Languages
 Chinyanja Basic Course (and many other FSI courses)
 Success with Foreign Languages
 "Images and Options in the Language Classroom"
 "Adapting and Writing Language Lessons"

Family
Stevick met Betty Rae Culp in 1947. They married in 1948. Some of Stevick's family members are still alive, including: a brother, Bob Stevick, of Seattle, Washington; three children, Becky Clarke of Lexington, Marian Walton of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Joel Stevick of Rockville, Maryland; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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The workhouse was a place which offered housing and work to people who did not have any. They began in England and Wales during the 17th century. The first use of the word workhouse was in a report by the mayor of Abingdon in 1631 AD on the building of a workhouse in the town.

The beginnings of the workhouse go back to the Poor Law Act of 1388. This was designed to help solve a shortage of workers after the Black Death. It made it difficult for them to move about the country, and stopped them from looking for higher paid work somewhere else. This led to the state being responsible for the welfare of the poor. After the Napoleonic Wars there was a lot of unemployment. There was also unemployment caused by machines taking over work from farm workers. In the 1830s' there was also a series of bad harvests. These things put too much pressure on the existing ways of looking after poor people.

New laws were passed, the New Poor Law of 1834, to try to deal with the problem. People would only be given help if they went into the workhouse to live. Some places hoped to make a profit from the workhouse by using the free labor of the people. Most did not have skills to get normal jobs, so workhouse jobs included breaking rocks into small stones, breaking bones to make fertilizer, or pulling apart old rope to reuse the fibre. This old rope, known as oakum, was used to pack joints in ship building to keep them watertight. A metal spike was used to unpick the rope,, and the nickname for the workhouse was the spike.

Life in a workhouse was not meant to be easy. It was made hard so only the very poor with no hope of finding work would go there for help. However the workhouse did provide free medical care and education for the children. This sort of help was not available to poor people outside the workhouse system.

Towards the end of the 1800s,,' the workhouses became filled with the old and sick, rather than unemployed poor people. In 1929 the laws were changed and the workhouses became hospitals. Some workhouses were renamed Public Assistance Institutions. These finally disappeared when the National Assistance act of 1948 was passed.

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Workhouse


Simba António Castelo (born November 23, 1994, Luanda, Angola), better known by his stage name Preto Hendrik, is an African musician, of Angolan nationality, native of Luanda, member of LBA Music. began his artistic career in the year 2016, with music named "Encher a Cara", and "Fácil" with group of musicians LBA Musc in 2016.

Discography

Music

References

Other websites

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Preto Hendrik


Bid (Urdu:ضلع بد) is a district of Maharashtra, India.

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Beed district


A Sticker is a type of  label: a piece of printed paper, plastic, vinyl, or other material with adhesive on one side. They can be used for decoration or for functional purposes, depending on the situation. They are also collected and traded among other collectors.

References

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Sticker


The regions of Chad are divided into 61 departments. The following is a list of departments grouped by region. Shown next to each department is its population as of 2009, the name of its capital or main town, and a list of sub-prefectures.

Bahr El Gazel
Created in 2008 from the Kanem region's former Barh El Gazel department.

Batha

Borkou
Created in 2008 from the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region's former Borkou department.

Chari-Baguirmi

Ennedi
Created in 2008 from the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region's former Ennedi Est and Ennedi Ouest departments.

Guéra

Hadjer-Lamis

Kanem

Lac

Logone Occidental

Logone Oriental

Mandoul

Mayo-Kebbi Est

Mayo-Kebbi Ouest

Moyen-Chari

Ouaddaï

Salamat

Sila
Created in 2008 from the Ouaddaï region's former Sila and Djourf Al Ahmar departments.

Tandjilé

Tibesti
Created in 2008 from the Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region's former Tibesti department.

Wadi Fira

N'Djamena (capital)
N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is also a special statute region. It has no departments, but is divided into 10 arrondissements.

Departments of Chad


Épieds is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Épieds, Aisne


Super Princess Peach (スーパープリンセスピーチ in Japanese) is a 2005 platform video game. It was developed by TOSE and published by Nintendo. In 2009, this game was re-released as a Nintendo Selects title. It was released for the Nintendo DS.

Unlike most Mario video games, Bowser has decided to kidnap Mario. The player takes control of Peach who must go out and save Mario.

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Super Princess Peach


Cape Verde has been in every Summer Olympic Games held since 1996. No athletes from Cape Verde have been at any Winter Olympic Games.  They have never won a medal.

The National Olympic Committee for Cape Verde is Comité Olímpico Caboverdeano.  It was started in 1989 and recognized in 1993.

Related pages
 List of IOC country codes

References

Other websites
 Cape Verde profile at London2012.com

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Cape Verde at the Olympics


The playoffs, postseason, or finals are a series of games played after the regular season of a particular sports league. They are played by the most successful teams of the season in order to determine the season champion. The teams that play in the playoffs are the teams with the most wins or points during the regular season. Playoffs are usually, but not always, done with a single-elimination system.

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Playoffs


Alexis Kerry Ohanian (born April 24, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit.

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Alexis Ohanian


Clay is a fine-grained silicate mineral made when rocks break down. Wet clay is soft and can be shaped to make pottery, bricks and other things. When it is shaped and then fired in a kiln to make it hard, it becomes pottery.

Clay often contains some water because the water molecules stick to the tiny grains. There may also be some organic materials in the clay.

There are 35 recognized clay mineral species on Earth, they make muds stick together ('cohesive'), or able to flow ('plastic'). The thixotropy of clay sometimes causes landslides.

Quartz, feldspars, iron oxides, and carbonates can weather to sizes of a typical clay mineral. The formation of clay is well understood.  It can come from soil, volcanic ash, and glaciation.  Ancient mudrocks are another source, because they weather and disintegrate easily.

Clay is by far the smallest particles recognized in mudrocks. A clay particle is about 1/1000th the width of a sand grain. This means a clay particle will travel 1000 times further at constant water velocity, thus requiring quieter conditions for settlement. Where the grains are more than a few millimeters wide, the material is called silt, not clay.

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Clay


Checotah is a city in Oklahoma in the United States.

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Checotah, Oklahoma


Almere is a city in the Netherlands (no city rights).
It is in the province of Flevoland and nearby Amsterdam and has about 180,000 people.

Other websites
 Almere website

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Almere


Juan Bautista Sacasa Sacasa (21 December 1874 - 17 April 1946) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa, 44th and 46th President of Nicaragua, and wife and cousin Ángela Sacasa Cuadra. He was a relative of Benjamín Sacasa, 67th President of Nicaragua.

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Juan Bautista Sacasa


Authieule is a commune. It is in the Hauts-de-France region in the Somme department in the north of France. In 2011, 365 people lived there.

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Authieule


Donald Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. He is known for writing Frankenstein: The True Story.

His works reside in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of Art in San Francisco, the University of Texas, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

One of Bachardy's best known works is the official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown that hangs in the California State Capitol Museum.

References

Other websites

 The Eyes of Don Bachardy (American Film Foundation)
 Portraits by Don Bachardy
 Nudes by Don Bachardy
 Don Bachardy at Craig Krull Gallery
 Oral history interview with Don Bachardy, 2009 May 21 – Oct 7 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

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Don Bachardy


An Obituary is a notice of a death. An Obituary is published by the family of the person who died to let more distant family members and friends know about the death. Funeral homes commonly publish obituaries. A description of the person who died is usually included in the obituary.  Funeral arrangements are usually part of an obituary. An  obituary is distributed via a publication in a newspaper, or via manual handing out or posting of pamphlets.

Some newpapers offer a service of writing a biography for the person who died.

Old obituaries are a source of information for people writing biographies.

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Obituary


Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a French professor of economics.

In 2014 he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of market power and regulation.

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Jean Tirole


The Grand Harbour, also known as the Port of Valletta, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta. It has been modified over the years with docks, wharves, and fortifications.

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Grand Harbour