"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is a popular piece of choral music. It was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben. It was written during Bach's first year in Leipzig, Germany. Bach did not compose the melody. That was written by Johann Schop. Bach only harmonized and orchestrated Schop's melody. A transcription of "Jesu" was made by the English pianist Myra Hess (1890–1965), It was published in 1926 for piano solo. In 1934 the Hess version was adapted for piano duet. British organist Peter Hurford made a transcription of "Jesu" for organ. Today, Bach's piece is often performed at weddings and funerals. Bach wrote the piece for voices with trumpet, oboes, strings, and continuo.  "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is one of Bach's most enduring pieces of music.

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James Grubbs "Jim" Martin (born December 11, 1935) is an American politician. He served as the 70th Governor of the state of North Carolina. He served from 1985 to 1993.  He was the second Republican elected to the office after Reconstruction, and the fifth overall.  He is also the only Republican to serve two full terms as governor.

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Jack O'Neill (March 27, 1923 – June 2, 2017) was an American businessman and surfer. In 1952 he founded the O'Neill brand while opening one of California's first surf shops in a garage on the Great Highway in San Francisco. He was known for creating the wetsuit, an average swimwear used by surfers. He was born in Denver, Colorado.

O'Neill died at the age of 94 on June 2, 2017 at his home in Santa Cruz, California from congestive heart failure.

References

Other websites
 Ocean Odysseys: Jack O'Neill, Dan Haifley, and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

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Maxwell Cabelino Andrade (born 27 August 1981) is a Brazilian football player. He plays for Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

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William Richard "Bill" Shorten (born 12 May 1967) is an Australian politician. He was been the Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition since 13 October 2013.

Shorten was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He is of English and Irish ancestry. He has been married twice and has a daughter. He is a Catholic.

Shorten lost to become Prime Minister of Australia in the 2016 federal election to Malcolm Turnbull and again in the 2019 election to Scott Morrison. After his 2019 defeat, Shorten said he would step down as party leader. He was replaced by Anthony Albanese.

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The middle finger (also called "the bird", "the fickle finger of fate", "the curse finger", or "the finger") is a common insulting hand signal in some countries. If you put your middle finger up, you are saying "fuck you" or "fuck off"

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George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American movie, voice, radio, stage, and television actor. He won an Academy Award for his role as "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke. He played "Captain Ed Hocken" in the Naked Gun movie series.

Kennedy was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City. He studied at Chaminade High School and at Tarleton State University. He married Dorothy Gillooly in the 1940s. He was married to Norma Wurman from 1959 until they divorced in 1971. He remarried Wurman in 1973; they divorced again in 1978. He was married to Joan McCarthy from 1978 until her death in 2015. He had two children. He lived in Eagle, Idaho.

Kennedy died in a retirement home in Middleton, Idaho from heart disease on February 28, 2016 at the age of 91.

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Esbon is a city in Jewell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, 99 people lived there.

History
Esbon was planned out in 1873. It was incorporated as a city in 1904.

The first post office in Esbon was created in January 1874.

Esbon was a shipping point on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

Geography
Esbon is at  (39.822656, -98.433762).

According to the United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

People

2010 census
As of the 2010 census says that there were 99 people, 52 households, and 24 families living in the city.

References

Other websites
City
 Esbon - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
 USD 107, local school district
Pictures
 Historic Images of Esbon, Wichita State University Library
Maps
 Esbon City Map, KDOT

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Esbon, Kansas


3753 Cruithne is an asteroid.

Discovery
3753 Cruithne was discovered on October 10, 1986, by Duncan Waldron on the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Coonabarabran, Australia. The 1983 appearance is given to Giovanni de Sanctis and Richard M. West of the European Southern Observatory in Chile. It was not until 1997 that its unusual orbit was found by Paul Wiegert and Kimmo Innanen, working at York University in Toronto, and Seppo Mikkola, working at the University of Turku in Finland. The asteroid is named after the Cruithne, a people of early medieval Ireland.

Measurements
3753 Cruithne is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) in diameter. From 1994 through 2015, 3753 Cruithne makes its annual closest approach to Earth every November. Although Cruithne's orbit is not thought to be stable over the long term, calculations showed that it has probably been synchronized with Earth's orbit for a long time. There is no danger of a collision with Earth for millions of years, if ever. Its orbital path and Earth's do not cross.

Orbit
Cruithne is in a normal elliptic orbit around the Sun. Its period of revolution around the Sun, about 364 days at present, is almost equal to that of the Earth. Because of this, Cruithne and Earth appear to follow each other in their paths around the Sun. This is why Cruithne is sometimes called "Earth's second moon". However, it does not orbit the Earth and is not a moon. In 2058, Cruithne will come within 13.6 million kilometres of Mars. Cruithne's distance from the Sun and orbital speed vary a lot more than the Earth's, so from the Earth's point of view Cruithne actually follows a kidney bean-shaped horseshoe orbit ahead of the Earth, taking slightly less than one year to complete a circuit of the "bean". Because it takes slightly less than a year, the Earth "falls behind" the bean a little more each year, and so from our point of view, the circuit is not quite closed, but rather like a spiral loop that moves slowly away from the Earth.
After many years, the Earth will have fallen so far behind that Cruithne will then actually be "catching up" on the Earth from "behind". When it eventually does catch up, Cruithne will make a series of annual close approaches to the Earth and gravitationally exchange orbital energy with Earth; this will alter Cruithne's orbit by a little over half a million kilometres so that its period of revolution around the Sun will then become slightly more than a year. The kidney bean will then start to migrate away from the Earth again in the opposite direction — instead of the Earth "falling behind" the bean, the Earth is "pulling away from" the bean. The next such series of close approaches will be centred on the year 2292 — in July of that year, Cruithne will approach Earth to about 12,500,000 kilometres.
After 380 to 390 years or so, the kidney-bean-shaped orbit approaches Earth again from the other side, and the Earth, once more, alters the orbit of Cruithne so that its period of revolution around the Sun is again slightly less than a year (this last happened with a series of close approaches centred on 1902, and will next happen with a series centered on 2676). The pattern then repeats itself.

More resonant near-Earth objects (NEOs) have since been discovered. These include 54509 YORP, (85770) 1998 UP1, 2002 AA29, and 2009BD which exist in resonant orbits similar to Cruithne's.
Other examples of natural bodies known to be in horseshoe orbits include Janus and Epimetheus, natural satellites of Saturn. The orbits these two moons follow around Saturn are much simpler than the one Cruithne follows, but operate along the same general principles.
Mars has four known co-orbital asteroids (5261 Eureka, 1999 UJ7, 1998 VF31, and 2007 NS2, all at the Lagrangian points), and Jupiter has many (more than 1000 known objects, the Trojan asteroids); there are also other small co-orbital moons in the Saturnian system: Telesto and Calypso with Tethys, and Helene and Polydeuces with Dione. However, none of these follow horseshoe orbits.

Cruithne

3753 Cruithne


Before and After is a 1996 thriller drama based on a 1992 book of the same name. Meryl Streep plays Doctor Carolyn Ryan, Edward Furlong plays Jacob and Liam Neeson plays Ben Ryan. The subject of this thriller is murder, deception, coverup and betrayal. The release date was February 23, 1996.

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A protagonist is the main character of a story. It can be used for any kind of story: in literature, a movie, a television show or a play. The protagonist is also called the central character or main character and is often the hero of the story.

Protagonists are usually moral, helping other characters to change their badness to become good again, or defeating the bad characters. This is not always the case. For example, the protagonist in Psycho is a serial killer.

The protagonist's name can sometimes be in the title of the fiction he or she is in, for example:
In Harry Potter, Harry Potter is the protagonist.
In the animes Naruto and InuYasha, Naruto and Inuyasha are the protagonists.
In the tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the prince Hamlet himself is the protagonist of the story.
In the comic book series Batman and Spider-Man, Batman and Spider-Man are the protagonists.
In the Mario and Sonic Games, Mario and Sonic are the protagonists.

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The IND Eighth Avenue Line is one of the lines of the New York City Subway. It opened in 1932. About 1 million people ride on it every day. The line is 23 km (14 mi) long. Services that use the line are colored blue.

Services
There are three services using the line. They are:
 A: This line runs from Inwood-207th Street in upper Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Queens. It is the longest service on the New York City Subway. It is 50 km (31 mi) long. A famous jazz song called Take the 'A' Train was written about this service.
 C: This line is also called the Eighth Avenue Local. It runs from 168th Street to Euclid Avenue. It makes all stops (except late nights).
 E: This line runs from World Trade Center to Jamaica Center. It is fully underground for its whole route. It runs as an express service during the day, but makes all stops at night.

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The Virgin Festival (known from 2008 as the Virgin Mobile Festival in the United States) is a rock music festival held in the United States and Canada, a spin-off from the V Festival held in the UK. In North America the Virgin name, and later the Virgin Mobile brand, has been used in full to make the brand more effective there, compared with the UK and Australian festivals, where association is simply implied through the use of the V.

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Virgin Mobile Festival


Below is a list of episodes of U.S. sitcom iCarly by Nickelodeon. It premiered on September 8, 2007. Nickelodeon promoted many episodes including "iDo", "iHire an Idiot", "iPity the Nevel", "iDate Sam & Freddie", etc. as specials, despite them being regular episodes.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1: 2007-08

Season 2: 2008-09

Season 3: 2009-10

Season 4: 2010-11

Season 5: 2011-12

Season 6: 2012

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Dagens Næringsliv is one of Norway's main newspapers. The newspaper was first named Norges Sjøfartstidende. It was founded in 1889.

In July 2015, one former journalist said that he had done plagiarism, in several articles he wrote for the newspaper, said the website of the trade union, Norsk Journalistlag.

References

Other websites
 Official site

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Eric Victor Burdon (*11 May, 1941 in Newcastle, UK) is an English rock singer. He is known for his very loud screaming and performing.

He began his career in the early 1960s with the R&B/blues-based punk rock band The Animals. They had hits such as "House of the Rising Sun", "See See Rider", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Inside Looking Out", "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "Don't Bring Me Down" and "It's My Life".

He later formed "Eric Burdon & The Animals" in 1967. He continued to have chart success with songs like "San Franciscan Nights", "When I Was Young", "Good Times", "Sky Pilot", "Monterey" and "Ring of Fire".

In late 1969, he formed the radical funk/soul/jazz band "Eric Burdon & War". They had hits with "Spill the Wine", "Tobacco Road", "Paint it Black" and "They Can't Take Away Our Music". He left them during their European tour in early 1971 to start a solo career, which has seen him in the genres of heavy metal, glam rock, new age, pop rock, reggae, hip hop and many more.

After some successful world tours and acting roles in movies, he went on to record with Brian Auger as a psychedelic fusion rock band in the 1990s.

After forming several groups such as "Eric Burdon Band" or "The New Animals", he released his first solo album in many years, My Secret Life (2004), which had many musical directions, like hard rock, jazz, progressive and folk.

In the following year he released Athens Traffic Live and Soul of a Man.

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Basdeo Panday (born May 25, 1933) is a Trinidadian politician. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served as Prime Minister from 1995 to 2001.

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Basdeo Panday


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

References
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Chambeugle


Pope Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514 and succeeded by Pope Hormisdas. Symmachus is Born in Sardinia, Vandal Kingdom. His birth date is unknown. He died in 514 and he is Saint of the Catholic Church. His Feast day is on July 19.

Other websites

Catholic Encyclopedia, Pope St. Symmachus (498–514) (1913).

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The My Opera Community is a virtual community, which provides help and social networking services for people who use the Opera browser.

History
The My Opera Community started in August 2001 and will be shut down after February 2014. It currently has over 16,000,000 members, who are from all over the world.

Sources

Other websites
The My Opera Community Website

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My Opera Community


Danvers is a village in Illinois in the United States.

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Danvers, Illinois


The Della Rovere family (; literally "of the oak tree") was a noble family of Urbino in central Italy. They originally came from Savona, Liguria. The family rose to nobility through nepotism and ambitious marriages. These marriages were arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere (Pope Sixtus IV, 1471–1484) and his nephew Giuliano (Pope Julius II, 1503–1513). Pope Sixtus IV is known for having built the Sistine Chapel, which is named for him. The Basilica San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome is the family church of the della Rovere. Vittoria della Rovere was a member of the family and was one of the last Grand Duchesses of Tuscany.

Dukes of Urbino
Francesco Maria I della Rovere (1490–1538)
Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514–1574)
Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1549–1631)
Federico Ubaldo della Rovere (1605–1623)

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Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a special university in France. The school is in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It was created in 2013.

It is a specialist in the fields of economics, administration, social sciences and politics.

References

More reading
 Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye website

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The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a part of News Limited, which is a part of News Corporation. It can be bought in Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and Southern New South Wales. The Herald Sun shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.

The Herald Sun is the biggest selling daily newspaper in Australia. It sells about 515,000 copies each day and is read by 1,500,000 people.

Origins
The Herald Sun newspaper was formed in 1990 when the morning tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial joined with the afternoon broadsheet paper The Herald. It was first published on 8 October 1990 as the Herald-Sun. The hyphen in its title was dropped on May 1, 1993.

History

The Herald

The Herald was started on 3 January 1840 by George Cavanaugh as The Port Phillip Herald. In 1855, it became The Melbourne Herald, but a week later became The Herald. From 1869, it was an evening newspaper.  Colonel William Thomas Reay was sometime literary editor and later associate editor, before becoming managing editor in 1904.

The Sun News-Pictorial
The Sun News-Pictorial began on 11 September 1922, and bought by The Herald and Weekly Times in 1925.

The merger
The Herald once sold almost 600,000 copies, but by the time of its 150th anniversary in 1990 it had fallen below 200,00. This was caused by the impact of evening television news and more people using cars to get home from work.'This was much less than that of the morning Sun.

As a result, The Herald and Weekly Times decided to merge the two, and so after one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days of publication, The Herald was published for the last time as a separate newspaper on 5 October 1990.  The next day, The Sun News-Pictorial published its last edition. The Sunday editions of the two newspapers had already been merged. The resulting newspaper had both the size and style of The Sun News-Pictorial.

With sales still falling, the afternoon edition was cancelled, the last edition being published on December 21, 2001. The News Limited now produces mX a free afternoon paper that can be picked up from stands throughout the Melbourne CBD. It is not available outside that area.

Recent editors include Peter Blunden, Simon Pristel, Phil Gardner and Bruce Guthrie.

Collectible items
Over the 600 years, the Herald Sun has had a range of magazines, pins and memorabilia (usually with an outside partner) that could be obtained by either getting it out of the newspaper, or using a token from the newspaper to collect or purchase the item. Items that have been a part of this scheme include:

The 2000 Olympic Torch Relay Pin (and album), collection includes 15 place pins and one State Pin of Victoria (2000)
Australian Football League trading cards – every year, near the start of the AFL season (2004–present)
The Simpsons pins (2006)
Socceroos medallions (2006)
Celebrate 50 Years of TV (2006) – in conjunction with Nine Network
The Ashes series pins (2006)
Family Encyclopedia CD-ROM Collection (2006) – in conjunction with publishing company Dorling Kindersley
The Greatest (2007) – a 14-part magazine series
Amazing Pictures (2007) - a 4-part magazine series
Discovery Atlas DVD Collection (2009)

Notable journalists and columnists
Jon Anderson
Andrew Bolt
Robert Fidgeon
Terry McCrann
Neil Mitchell
Mike Sheahan
Jill Singer
Mark Knight (cartoonist)
Gary Ablett Jr.
Jimmy Bartel
Jason Akermanis
Eddie McGuire
Gerard McManus
Osmar White

Related papers
The Sunday edition is called the Sunday Herald Sun. In Sydney it is closely linked with The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
In Brisbane, it is linked with The Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail.
In Adelaide, The Advertiser and Sunday Mail.
In Perth,  The Sunday Times.
In Hobart, The Mercury and The Sunday Tasmanian.
In Darwin, The Northern Territory News and Sunday Territorian.

References

Other websites
Herald Sun
The Port Phillip Herald and The Herald archive, 1840-1902
Media Watch segment aired 1 May 2006, ABC. "Age vs. Hun: Off-field Biff". Video accessed online 6 June 2006.

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Herald Sun


The SV Wacker Burghausen is a professional football club from Burghausen, Bavaria. Burghausen plays in the 3rd German league. The club is part of the SV Wacker Burghausen, a sports club with 24 different sports.

History
The club was founded in 1930 for the workers in the Wacker Chemie, a chemical factory which was founded in 1914. The firm is still main sponsor of the club.

During its history the club promoted up to the Second Bundesliga, where thy played from 2002/03 till 2006/07. 2007/08 they were 7th in the Regionalliga and qualified for the new 3.Liga.  It finished the 2008–09 season in 18th place, on a relegation rank but was saved from having to step down to the Regionalliga by the withdrawal from the league of Kickers Emden for financial reasons.The next season the  club finished in 18th place,on a relegation rank but was again saved from having step down to the Regionalliga by the financial problems of Rot Weiss Ahlen.

Current squad
As of 20 May 2011

Managers
Recent managers of the club:

References

Other websites
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SV Wacker Burghausen


Pingdingshan (平顶山) is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It is also called Eagle City. In 2010, 4,904,701 people lived there.

Administration
Pingdingshan administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.

Xinhua District ()
Weidong District ()
Zhanhe District ()
Shilong District ()
Ruzhou City ()
Wugang City ()
Lushan County ()
Baofeng County ()
Ye County ()
Jia County ()

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Pingdingshan


Roland Ratzenberger (4 July 1960 – 30 April 1994) was an Austrian Formula One driver. He was killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola. He had a short career, and drove for Simtek.

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Saint-Yzans-de-Médoc is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.

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Westmount is a suburb on the Island of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is an enclave of the city of Montreal, with a population of 19,931 as of the Canada 2011 Census.

Westmount was home of the Montreal Arena, the third arena in history to be built specifically for hockey.

The 2016 census found that 51.3%  of residents spoke English, and 21.3%  spoke French, as their main language.

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Westmount, Quebec


Gazakh (also known as Kazakh or Gazakh) is a raion of Azerbaijan. It has two exclaves inside Armenia, Yukhari Askipara and Barkhudarli.  They both came under Armenian occupation during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

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The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花 "cherry blossom") was a type of airplane rocket, used for suicide attacks by the Empire of Japan in the last months of World War II. The United States gave the aircraft the name Baka (Japanese for "stupid").

It was carried by a bomber that dropped it when close enough to an enemy ship. The pilot guided it to crash with the target. When dropping down, it could go so fast that it was almost impossible to stop it. The operational record of Ohkas used in action includes three ships sunk and three other ships with great damage.

Related pages
 Kamikaze
 Kaiten

Other websites

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The Cherry Blossom Squadrons 1973 book about Ohka squadron
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Ohka


The Offspring is the first album by The Offspring. It was originally on vinyl in 1989 under the label Nemesis Records. In 1995, it was re-released on CD on Epitaph Records.

Track listing
 "Jennifer Lost the War" – 2:35
 "Elders" – 2:11
 "Out on Patrol" – 2:32
 "Crossroads" – 2:48
 "Demons" – 3:10
 "Beheaded" – 2:52
 "Tehran" – 3:06
 "A Thousand Days" – 2:11
 "Blackball" – 3:24
 "I'll Be Waiting" – 3:12
 "Kill the President" – 3:22

Personnel
 Keith Holland (Listed as "Dexter Holland" on the CD version) - Vocals
 Noodles - Guitar, Backing Vocals on "Blackball"
 Greg K. - Bass, Backing Vocals on "Blackball"
 R. Welty - Drums

The song "Beheaded" was co-written by The Offspring and (original drummer) James Lilja.

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The Offspring (album)


An incubation period is the time it takes between the day a person is infected with a pathogen (something that causes a disease, like a virus), and the day that the person starts having symptoms of the disease.  For example, if a person is infected with the common cold, it usually takes about one to three days for the person to start having cold symptoms.  This means that the common cold's incubation period is one to three days.

With some diseases, like Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS), a person can still give other people HIV during the incubation period.  Even though the person with HIV has no symptoms, the virus is making copies of itself during the incubation period.

What affects incubation periods
Many different things affect the incubation period for a disease.  These things include:
 How much of the pathogen a person got
 Whether the person was vaccinated against this pathogen, and if they were, which vaccine was used
 How fast the pathogen makes copies of itself once it is in the body
 How strong the person's immune system is

Examples of incubation periods
Incubation periods are not exactly the same for everyone, because every person is different.  Because of this, an incubation period is always written as a range (for example, "one to three days").

For many conditions, incubation periods are longer in adults than they are in children or infants.

Some diseases have very short incubation periods.  Other diseases have incubation periods of many years.  For example:

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Incubation period


The Archaean (or Archean) eon is the geological period after the Hadean and before the Proterozoic. It is one of the four main time periods (eons) of Earth history. The Archaean lasted from 4,000 million years ago (mya) to 2,500 mya. It contains the first sedimentary rocks, and the first fossil life forms, which were cyanobacteria, and acritarchs.

Most of the rocks which survive are volcanic (igneous) and metamorphic in origin. Volcanic activity was everywhere. When the Archaean began, the Earth's heat flow was nearly three times higher than it is today. It was still twice the current level when the Archaean ended, 2,500 mya. This high level of heat flow may have made plate tectonics more vigorous than today. The question of when plate tectonics began is a major research area. The large supercontinent Vaalbara formed in the Archaean. There were oceans already, before the Archaean.
The atmosphere almost entirely lacked free oxygen, and instead, it was mostly methane and CO2.

Fossil bacterial mats, called stromatolites, are found throughout the Archaean after about 3,500mya. These were formed by cyanobacteria, which used photosynthesis and gave off oxygen as a by-product. Initially, this oxygen was absorbed by combining with iron ions in solution. Not until much later did oxygen build up in the atmosphere.

Fossil raindrop marks have been found in the later Archaean, 2,700 mya. The rocks were discovered in Ventersdorp in the North West Province of South Africa in the 1980s.

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Tobias "Toby" Sheldon (born Tobias Strebel; October 3, 1980 – August 21, 2015) was a German songwriter who became a television reality star noted for having paid considerable amounts for plastic surgery (he himself estimated the total cost at over $100,000) in order to resemble singer Justin Bieber.  He appeared on the television shows Botched on the E! network and My Strange Addiction on TLC. Some experts argued that Sheldon's obsession was a case of body dysmorphia.  This topic was discussed in depth during his appearance alongside Justin Jedlica ("The Human Ken Doll") on the talk show Bethenny.

On August 21, 2015 Sheldon was found dead in a room at a Motel 6 in the San Fernando Valley. Drugs were reportedly discovered at the scene.  Sheldon was 34. He had last been seen in West Hollywood on August 18, 2015 and some reports have indicated that his disappearance may have been triggered by a break-up with his boyfriend.  In July 2016, a coroner confirmed his death was triggered from multiple drug intoxication.

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Yuji Tsukada (born 28 December 1957) is a former Japanese football player.

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Karjala may refer to

Karjala, beer
Karjala, Karelia, geographical area between Finland and Russia
Karjala, Finnish last name
Karjala, Finnish magazine

Karjala (disambiguation)


Clinton County is a county in the state of New York, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, 82,128 people lived there. Its county seat is the city of Plattsburgh. The county lies to the south of the border with the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Clinton County, New York


The hypocenter (literally: 'below the center') is the site of an earthquake or a nuclear explosion. In an earthquake, it is a synonym of the focus. In the case of a nuclear explosion, it is a synonym of ground zero.

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A cabal is a group of people who try to control things in a secret way. Cabals are often an important part of a conspiracy theory.

Sometimes people say "There Is No Cabal", or use the abbreviation TINC to mean "There Is No Cabal". The joke is that since a cabal is necessarily secret, only those who are in the cabal can know.

Politics

The former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, of the Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the foreign policy of George W. Bush's administration were run by a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal". With this word he meant that the President had not really the power that he is given by the constitution and that the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense had more influence than they should have.

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Lamesa is a city in Dawson County, Texas. As of 2010, it has the population of 9,422.

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Lamesa, Texas


Maximilian I of Mexico (1832 – 1867) was a member of the Imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
After a distinguished career in the Austrian Navy he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico, during the Second Mexican Empire.

His father was Archduke Franz Karl, the second surviving son of The Emperor of Austria, during whose reign he was born. Maximilian was thus a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, a female-line cadet branch of the House of Habsburg. His mother was Princess Sophie of Bavaria, a member of the House of Wittelsbach.

Many Europeans, and Viennese in particular, suspected that he was actually fathered by Napoleon II of France. There was a close relationship between Sophie and Napoleon II. It was said that Sophie never recovered after his death. and that she blamed it on Metternich for the rest of her life.

Maximilian ruled as the Emperor of Mexico from 1864 to 1867. He was installed by occupying French forces under Napoleon III. When the French left in 1867, Maximilian refused to go with them, believing he had the support of the people.

Maximilian was shocked by the living conditions of the poor in contrast to the magnificent haciendas of the upper class. Empress Carlota began holding parties for the wealthy Mexicans to raise money for poor houses. One of Maximilian's first acts as Emperor was to restrict working hours and abolish child labour. He cancelled all debts for peasants over 10 pesos, restored communal property and forbade all forms of corporal punishment. He  supported land reforms, religious freedom, and extending the right to vote beyond the landholding class. These liberal policies caused opposition from the wealthy and the landowners, led by Benito Juárez under the banner of republicanism.

Maximilian was captured by Benito Juarez’s Republican forces and executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867.

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Glasnost () was a policy that called for increased openness in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. It was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s. Glasnost is often paired with Perestroika (restructuring), another reform instituted by Gorbachev at the same time. The word "glasnost" has been used in Russian at least since the end of the 18th century.

The word was often used by Gorbachev for policies he believed might reduce corruption at the top, and moderate the abuse of power by the Central Committee. Russian human rights activist and dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva explained glasnost as a word that "had been in the Russian language for centuries. It was in the dictionaries and lawbooks as long as there had been dictionaries and lawbooks. It was an ordinary, hardworking, nondescript word that was used to refer to a process, any process of justice of governance, being conducted in the open".

Glasnost can also refer to the specific period in the history of the USSR during the 1980s when there was less censorship and greater freedom of information.

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Landjäger (or Landjaeger) is a type of German sausage. The name stands for "hunter's sausage". It is smoked, so it does not need refrigeration. Usually, some of the water has also been taken out (they are dehydrated).

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Irrunytju (also called Wingellina) is a small Aboriginal community  in Western Australia. It is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region, about  southwest of the Surveyor Generals Corner (where the borders of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory meet). There are about 150 people living in the community, most of whom are Ngaanyatjarra.

The town is surrounded by the Wingellina Hills, a set of large granite hills with mulga and mallee growth. The name of the community, , comes from the name of a sacred site located in the hills to the south.

History
The area was part of the Central Australia Aboriginal Reserve when the reserve was created in 1922. In 1955, however, the borders of the reserve were moved to allow for mining and prospecting, mostly of nickel. Mining camps were set up in the area around what is now Irrunytju. In response, Aboriginal families moved to settle around these camps. Some got jobs with the miners and were paid in food rations; others were simply there to protect places of spiritual importance from outsiders. Some companies took steps to make sure their miners respected these sites; other companies did not, and several sacred sites were damaged during this period. The area was made part of the reserve again in 1972.

Once the miners left, the Aboriginal families stayed and built a permanent settlement using what was left from the mining camps (shelters, bores, etc.). The community was also given money from the federal government to help establish a permanent settlement. The community became incorporated in 1976. It became a member of the Ngaanyatjarra Council in 1981.

Irrunytju has remained on Aboriginal land since 1972. Economic activities in the area are governed under the Ngaanyatjarra Indigenous Land Use Agreement, formed in 2006. The community maintains many traditional activities, such as hunting and gathering bush tucker. The community has had its own art centre, Irrunytju Arts, since 2001.

References

Other websites
Irrunytju Community Resource Centre
Profile from the Ngaanyatjarra Council website

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Irrunytju, Western Australia


Angelo Schiavio (15 October 1905 – 17 April 1990) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Bologna and Italy national team.

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|1930/31||21||16
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A dog's coat is the hair covering its body. A dog can have a double coat that has short, soft hair underneath a layer of long, coarse hair, or a single coat that has only the long, coarse hair. A dog's coat may also be called hair or fur.

Four main coat attributes
Dog coats can come in many different colors, patterns, lengths, and textures.

Coat colors

Dog coats come in four main colors: black, brown, white, and red. The same main color can have many shades. These shades are sometimes common enough that they are given their own color names, such as gold, yellow, cream, blue, and grey.

There may be several of these colors on one dog.

Coat patterns

Dog coats can also have many different patterns based on spots, patches, and mixing colors.

Coat lengths and textures

A dog's coat can be long or short. For most dogs, their hair reaches one length and then stops growing, but there are some dogs whose hair will keep growing longer and longer.

Some breeds of dog do not grow hair on parts of their bodies. These dogs are called "hairless".  Examples of "hairless" dogs are the Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless Dog), the Peruvian Inca Orchid (Peruvian Hairless Dog) and the Chinese Crested.

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Lint could mean:
 Fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
 Fuzzy fluff that accumulates on various fabrics
 Fibers that become trapped in the lint filter of a clothes dryer
 Navel lint, an accumulation of fluffy fibers in one's navel
 Pocket lint, an accumulation of fibers found in pockets.

Lint could also mean:
 Tim Armstrong, a punk rock musician, known from Operation Ivy, Rancid, and Transplants
 Lint (Belgium), a municipality located in Belgium
 Lint programming tool, a tool that helps people to write better C code.
 Alstom LHB Coradia LINT, light rail vehicle built by Alstom
 LINT0 and LINT1, LINTX etc. the interrupt lines on x86 microprocessors.

Lint


The Abilene Eagles were a West Texas League minor league baseball team. They were based in Abilene, Texas, USA from 1920 to 1922,. They won the league championship in both 1920 and 1921. The team managers for those years were Bugs Young and Ed Kizziar (1920) and Grady White and Hub Northen (1921). They finished in sixth place in 1922. The league folded following the 1922 season, and the Eagles followed suit.

Future major league baseball player Fred Johnson played for the Eagles.

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Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo is a Brazilian police officer.  In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Work

In 1998, de Oliveira joined the Rio de Janeiro military police.  In 2000 she started work in street operations.   In 2007, she was attacked and kidnapped. She escaped and arrested three of her kidnappers.

In 2008 she became head of the first “Police Pacification Unit” (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro. In 2013, a man disappeared in Rocinha.  The officers of the Police Pacification Unit were accused of being part of the crime. De Oliveira became head of the police unit.

Awards

In 2012 De Oliveira received the International Women of Courage award, and Veja magazine named her Defender of the City.

References

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Luna may refer to:
 The Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, known as "Luna" in Latin () and other languages
 Selene, the goddess of the moon in Greek and Roman mythology
 Luna (given name), a common given name
 Luna is the name of earth's moon in the famous "Star Trek" series.

Luna


Wynn Handman (May 19, 1922 – April 11, 2020) was an American educator, producer, director and artist. He was the Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre, which he co-founded with Sidney Lanier and Michael Tolan in 1963. He was born in New York City.

He was a teacher for over 50 years, in his professional acting classes, Handman has trained many actors including: Alec Baldwin, James Caan, Chris Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sandy Duncan, Mia Farrow, Richard Gere, Joel Grey, Allison Janney, Raul Julia, Frank Langella, John Leguizamo, Susan Lucci, Donna Mills, Burt Reynolds, Mira Sorvino, Christopher Walken, Denzel Washington, Lauren Graham and Joanne Woodward.

Handman died on April 11, 2020 in New York City of pneumonia caused by COVID-19 at the age of 97.

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Hadenfeld is a municipality of the district Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Prescott Ennis Burgess (born March 6, 1984 in Warren, Ohio) is an American football linebacker. He is currently a free agent in the National Football League (NFL). Burgess was drafted out of the University of Michigan by the Baltimore Ravens with the 207th pick in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. Burgess has played for the Baltimore Ravens from 2007 to 2009, the New England Patriots in 2009, and the Ravens again from 2009 to 2011. He was released by the Ravens in 2011.

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Burlington is a census-designated place in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the county seat of Boone County.

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Mercury(I) bromide, also known as mercurous bromide, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is Hg2Br2. It has mercury and bromide ions in it. The mercury is in its +1 oxidation state.

Properties
Mercury(I) bromide is a white crystalline solid. It is highly toxic. It easily disproportionates to mercury(II) bromide and mercury metal.

Occurrence
It is found very rarely as kuzminite, a mercury(I) bromide and chloride.

Preparation
It is made by reacting a bromide like potassium bromide or sodium bromide with mercury(I) nitrate. It can also be made by reacting mercury and bromine.

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Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA (born December 29, 1928, Sheffield, United Kingdom) is an English historian and orientalist. He specializes in Arabic studies.

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

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Brusvily


João Castelo Ribeiro Gonçalves (October 19, 1937 – December 11, 2016) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. Castelo served as Governor of Maranhão from March 15, 1979, to May 15, 1982. He was born in Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil.

Castelo died in São Paulo, Brazil on December 11, 2016 after complications from a surgery. He was aged 79.

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Fast & Furious (also known by Fast & Furious 4) is a 2009 American action movie directed by Justin Lin. The story was written by Chris Morgan. The movie is the fourth one of the Fast and the Furious movies. The movie gets back together the actors Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. The movie follows from The Fast and the Furious, the 2001 movie into a the time right now. The same actors are in both movies. The movie came out on April 3, 2009. The movie got bad comments when it came out. The movie made $363 million dollars all over the world.

Cast
 Vin Diesel as Dominic "Dom" Toretto
 Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner
 Michelle Rodriguez as Leticia "Letty" Ortiz
 Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto
 John Ortíz as Arturo Braga / Ramón Campos
 Laz Alonso as Fenix Rise
 Sung Kang as Han Seoul-Oh
 Gal Gadot as Gisele Yashar
 Tego Calderón as Tego
 Don Omar as Rico Santos
 Jack Conley as Penning
 Shea Wigham as Agent Michael Stasiak
 Liza Lapira as Agent Sophie Thrin

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, simply called the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country. It is a constitutional monarchy that is made up of four separate countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth, NATO and the G8. It has the fifth largest economy in the world.

Around 66 million people live in the UK. They can be divided into four big nationalities based on the countries where they live. These countries, and the names of the people and language spoken there, are as follows:
 England is the biggest country, and the one where most people in the UK live. People who live in England are called English. Their native language is called English, which is spoken by almost everyone in the UK and has become a global lingua franca. A few people in the southwest part of England can speak Cornish, a Celtic language.
 Scotland, to the north of England, is the second biggest country. People who live here are called Scottish, and some speak languages called Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic language, or Scots, which is a lot like English but is different from it.
 Wales is to the west of England. Its people are called Welsh and have their own Celtic language which is also called Welsh. Not everyone in Wales can speak Welsh, but almost everyone can speak English.
 Northern Ireland is the smallest country, unlike the other three, it is not on the island of Great Britain, it is part of the island Ireland. Northern Ireland takes up about a sixth of Ireland, with the Republic of Ireland taking up the remainder. People who live in Northern Ireland are either Irish, British, or Northern Irish, it is their choice what they want to be identified as. The people who live there usually speak English, but some people speak Irish and Ulster Scots, which is similar to Scots spoken in Scotland but with some differences.

Between the 17th and mid 20th-centuries, Britain was a world power. It became a colonial empire that controlled large areas of Africa, Asia, North America and Oceania. Many countries left and became independent from the empire in the 20th century, although Britain keeps links with most countries of its former empire.

The UK has many cities. England is home to London, the biggest city in the UK and also its capital city. There are also many other big cities in England including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and Newcastle upon Tyne. Scotland has the big cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Cardiff and Swansea are in Wales and Belfast is in Northern Ireland. The UK had a dominating empire named the British Empire. At its height in 1922, more than 458 million people lived in the British Empire, one-fifth of the Earth's population. Its area was 13,012,000 sq mi, almost a quarter of the Earth's land area. The British Empire was often called 'the empire on which the sun never sets, that describes a large empire, because the sun is always shining on at least one of its territories.

Prehistory

Archaeological remains show that the first group of modern people to live in the British Isles were hunter-gatherers after the last ice age ended. The date is not known: perhaps as early as 8000BC but certainly by 5000BC. They built mesolithic wood and stone monuments. Stonehenge was built between 3000 and 1600BC. Celtic tribes arrived from mainland Europe. Britain was a changing collection of tribal areas, with no overall leader. Julius Caesar tried to invade (take over) the island in 55BC but was not able to do so. The Romans successfully invaded in 43AD.

History

Written history began in Britain when writing was brought to Britain by the Romans. Rome ruled in Britain from 44AD to 410AD, but they only ruled England and Wales. The Romans never ruled Scotland north of the Clyde-Forth valley, or Ireland; their northern boundary varied from time to time, and was marked for a while at Hadrian's Wall.

After the Romans, two waves of immigrants came to Britain. The first were German tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. English, the language, is a development from Anglo-Saxon Old English, and is a Germanic language. The second were the Vikings.

Britain unified
After a long period when England was split into various kingdoms, it was made into one country by Æthelstan (Athelstan) in 945AD. England and Wales were unified by Edward I (Longshanks) by force in the 13th century.

Union with Scotland took much longer; there were hundreds of years of conflicts between both parts of Britain. This union between England and Scotland in 1707 formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged Scotland and England into one country.

In 1603, when Queen Elizabeth I of England died, her closest relative was King James VI of Scotland. He became king of England as well as king of Scotland. In 1707, the Scottish and English Parliaments agreed the Treaty of Union, which joined the two countries into one country called The Kingdom of Great Britain under Queen Anne.

By 1800, both Scotland and England had already independently had much influence over Ireland since 1200. In that year laws were passed in Great Britain and Ireland to merge the two states. The new country was called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 much of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State (now called Ireland) from the United Kingdom. However, six northern counties (called Northern Ireland) continue to be part of the United Kingdom. The country was renamed The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Parliament

The British people are represented by members of Parliament, not ruled by monarchs. However, after the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector, and the monarchy was disbanded. Though the monarchy was restored after his death, the Crown slowly became the secondary power, and Parliament the first. Members of Parliament (called MPs) were elected, but until the early twentieth century, only men who owned property could vote. In the nineteenth century, more people were given suffrage (the right to vote), but even so, by 1900, women could not vote, and only 40% of men were rich enough to vote. But in 1928, all adults, male and female, got the vote: this is called universal suffrage.

Parliament is in London, but it has power over the whole of the UK. Today, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each have their own seats of local government but they have more limited powers; Scotland has the self named Scottish Parliament. The Welsh have an assembly and the Northern Irish have Stormount. There isn't an individual English parliament representing the views of only English regions. There are also parliaments in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, which are islands that are partly controlled by the UK, and partly independent.

The members of Parliament belong to political parties: the biggest parties are the Conservative Party, Labour Party, the Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats. Members of the same party agree to act and vote more or less together. A party with more than half the seats (a majority) forms the government; the leader of the party becomes the Prime Minister, who then appoints other ministers. Because the government has a majority in Parliament, it can normally control what laws are passed.

Native languages in the UK

Celtic languages
 Welsh
 Cornish
 Irish Gaelic
 Scottish Gaelic

Germanic languages
 English
 Scots
 Ulster Scots

Foreign languages
Major languages spoken in the United Kingdom other than English include Polish (500,000 approximate number of speakers in the United Kingdom), Eastern Panjabi or Punjabi (471,000), Bengali (400,000), Urdu (400,000), Cantonese (300,000), Greek (200,000), Southwestern Caribbean Creole English (170,000).

Geography

The UK is made up of four different countries: Wales, England and Scotland and Northern Ireland. The capital city of Wales is Cardiff. The capital city of England is London. The capital city of Scotland is Edinburgh and the capital city of Northern Ireland is Belfast. Other large cities in the UK are Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds, Sheffield, Glasgow, Southampton, Leicester, Coventry, Bradford and Nottingham.

The UK is north-west off the coast of mainland Europe. Around the UK are the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. The UK also rules, usually indirectly, a number of smaller places (mostly islands) round the world, which are known as overseas territories. They are remnants of the  British Empire.

The weather of the United Kingdom is changeable and unpredictable. Summers are moderately warm, winters are cool to cold. Rain falls throughout the year, and more on the west than the east because of its northerly latitude and the warm water from the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf Stream. The usually moderate prevailing winds from the Atlantic may be interrupted by Arctic air from the north-east or hot air from the Sahara.

Politics

The UK is a parliamentary democracy based on a constitutional and hereditary monarchy. The people of the United Kingdom vote for a members of Parliament to speak for them and to make laws for them. Queen Elizabeth II is the queen of the UK and is the head of state. Even though she is the head of state, she does not actually govern the country. The government, led by the Prime Minister, governs the country and decides policy. Today, the Prime Minister is Boris Johnson, who is the leader of the Conservative party and was not directly elected by the people of the country.

Parliament is where laws are made. It has three parts: the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Queen. The House of Commons is the most powerful part. It is where Members of Parliament sit. The Prime Minister sits here as well, because they are a Member of Parliament. The people who sit in the House of Lords are called peers: they are not chosen by the people. Most peers are now appointed by the government. There are some who are hereditary peers (their fathers were peers); and a few others, such as certain bishops in the established Church of England, and the Judiciary (Law Lords).

Scotland has its own devolved Parliament with power to make laws on things like education, health and Scottish law. Northern Ireland and Wales have their own devolved Assemblies which have some powers but less than the Scottish parliament. The UK Parliament remains sovereign and it could end the devolved administrations at any time.

Military
The UK has a military of around 223,000 people, not including reserve forces. The UK has one of the most advanced militaries in the world, alongside such countries such as the USA and France, and operates a large army (British Army), a sizable navy (Royal Navy) and air force (Royal Air Force). From the 18th century to the early 20th century, the UK was one of the most powerful nations in the world, with a huge navy (due to the fact it was surrounded by sea, so a large navy was the most practical option). This status has faded in recent times, but the UK remains a member of various military groups such as the UN Security Council and NATO. It is also still seen as a great military power.

Economy
The UK is a developed country with the sixth largest economy in the world. It was a superpower during the 18th, 19th and early 20th century and was considered since the early 1800s to be the most powerful and influential nation in the world, in politics, economics (For it was the wealthiest country at the time.) and in military strength. Britain continued to be the biggest manufacturing economy in the world until 1908 and the largest economy until the 1920s. The economic cost of two world wars and the decline of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s reduced its leading role in global affairs. The UK has strong economic, cultural, military and political influence and is a nuclear power. It was a member state of the European Union until the UK left on February 1st, 2020. The UK holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and is a member of the G8, NATO, World Trade Organization and the Commonwealth of Nations.

London, the capital, is famous as being the largest centre of finance in the world, along with New York City in the United States.

Literature

William Shakespeare was an English playwright. He wrote plays in the late 16th century. Some of his plays were Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. In the 19th century, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens were novelists. Twentieth century writers include the science fiction novelist H.G. Wells and J.R.R. Tolkien. The children's fantasy Harry Potter series was written by J.K. Rowling. Aldous Huxley was also from the United Kingdom.

English language literature is written by authors from many countries. Eight people from the United Kingdom have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Seamus Heaney is a writer who was born in Northern Ireland.

Arthur Conan Doyle from Scotland wrote the Sherlock Holmes detective novels. He was from Edinburgh. The poet Dylan Thomas brought Welsh culture to international attention.

Education
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have separate, but similar, systems of education. They all have rules that education is required from ages five to eighteen, except for in Scotland where school departure is allowed from the age of sixteen. Many children attend state schools and other children attend private schools.

Britain's universities are the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, and London universities (University College London, the London School of Economics, King's College London and Imperial College London) which collectively form the Golden Triangle of UK universities.

A broader group of twenty universities form the Russell Group, which account for two thirds of research grants and contract funding out of the total of 100 universities.

Transport
Road traffic in the United Kingdom drives on the left hand side of the road (unlike the Americas and some of Europe), and the driver steers from the right hand side of the vehicle. The road network on the island of Great Britain is extensive, with most local and rural roads having evolved from Roman and Medieval times. Major routes developed in the mid 20th Century were made to the needs of the motor car. The high speed motorway (freeway) network was mostly constructed in the 1960s and 1970s and links together major towns and cities.

The system of rail transport was invented in England and Wales, so the United Kingdom has the oldest railway network in the world. It was built mostly during the Victorian era. At the heart of the network are five long distance main lines which radiate from London to the major cities and secondary population centres with dense commuter networks within the regions. The newest part of the network connects London to the Channel Tunnel from St Pancras station and is built to the same standard as the French TGV system. The British Rail network is part privatised, with privately owned train operating companies providing service along particular lines or regions, whilst the tracks, signals and stations are owned by a Government controlled company called Network Rail. In Northern Ireland the NI Railways is the national railway. The system of underground railways in London, known as the Tube, has been copied by many other cities.

Most domestic air travel in the United Kingdom is between London and the major cities in Scotland and the North of England and Belfast. London-Heathrow is the nation’s largest airport and is one of the most important international hubs in the world. Other major airports with principal international service include London-Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.

An extensive system of ferry networks operate between the Scottish islands, and major ferry routes operate between England and France (via the English Channel), Scotland-Northern Ireland (via the Irish Sea) and England/Wales-Republic of Ireland (from Liverpool/Holyhead).

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Tamara Natalie Madden  (August 16, 1975 – November 4, 2017) was a Jamaican-born American painter and mixed-media artist working. Madden's paintings are allegories whose subjects are the people of the African diaspora. After her solo exhibition in 2004, Madden relocated near Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Her first solo exhibition was in 2004, and it got her an interview with the late James Auer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In 2007, Madden debuted a series entitled, "Kings & Queens", which focused on heightening the everyday person. Her work continues to focus on recognizing nobility, honor and respect in those often overlooked by society.

Madden died of ovarian cancer on November 4, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 42.

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Richard Fairfax Court (born 27 September 1947) was the 26th Premier of Western Australia from 16 February 1993 to 16 February 2001. He was from the Liberal Party. His father, Charles Court, was also a Premier of Western Australia.

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Richard Court


St. Hilda's College, Oxford is part of the University of Oxford. It was founded as a women's college in 1893 and remained single sex until 2008.

Other websites
St Hilda's website

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St Hilda's College, Oxford


Wabbaseka is a town in the US state of Arkansas.

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Wabbaseka, Arkansas


David Bala (1947 – 29 August 2014) was a Singaporean comedian and actor. He was best known for his roles in Tetangga, Just Follow Law, Ah Long Pte Ltd and The Ghosts Must Be Crazy.

Bala died on 29 August 2014 from heart disease, aged 67.

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The original Yankee Stadium was a baseball stadium in New York City, New York in the United States. It was opened in 1923. The MLB team New York Yankees played there until 2008. The Yankees moved to the new Yankee Stadium starting with the 2009 season. The Stadium was also the home field of the New York Giants football team from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. It was also used for college football, soccer, boxing matches, musical events, and even a mass conducted by the Pope. The Stadium was also called the "House that Ruth Built" by many to honor Babe Ruth, a Yankee who hit many home runs during the stadium's first years. The Stadium was torn down in early 2009.

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Qarabağ Futbol Klubu (usually just called Qarabağ) is a professional association football club from Baku, Azerbaijan. The club was originally from Agdam, but moved to Baku because of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The club plays in the Azerbaijan Premier League.

Qarabağ was formed in 1951, and were the founding members of the Azerbaijan Premier League in 1992. A season later they won their first league championship, which made them the first non-Baku based club to win the Azerbaijan Premier League title.

The clubs plays at the Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, which has a capacity of around 31,200. The Azerbaijan national football team also uses that stadium. They used to play at the Imarat Stadium, but it was destroyed by the Armenian military during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

The club won their first league title in 21 years in 2014. Qarabağ  have won the Premier league four times and Azerbaijan Cup five times. In the same year, Qarabağ became the second Azerbaijani team to advance to the group stage of a European competition after they beat Twente in the play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League.

Honours

Azerbaijan League
 Winners (4): 1993, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
Azerbaijan Cup
 Winners (5): 1993, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2015–16
 'Azerbaijan Supercup
 Winners (1)'': 1994

References

Other websites

 Official Website
 Official UEFA profile

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Qarabağ FK


Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a reindeer with a bright red nose who first appeared in 1939 in booklets. In the story, Rudolph gets teased by other reindeer until one foggy Christmas Eve Santa Claus comes around, asking him to guide Santa's sleigh. A Christmas song based on the story has been covered by such artists as Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Barry Manilow and The Supremes over the decades. Gene Autry was the singer of the original version.

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer


Lee Cheong-Gyeong (born 11 November 1958) is a former North Korean football player. He has played for Korea DPR national team.

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Lee Cheong-Gyeong


"Shaddap You Face" is a song by singer-songwriter Joe Dolce (released as Joe Dolce Music Theatre). It came out in Australia in 1980. The comedy song is about a made up rebellious Italian boy. The song charted at No. 1 in many countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

"Shaddap You Face" sold millions of records around the world. As of 2013, it sold 450,000 units in Australia. This makes it the country's the most successful single terms of sales.

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Shaddap You Face


Delaware County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,764. The county seat is Manchester. The county was named in honor of Delaware.

Delaware County was founded on December 21, 1837.

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Delaware County, Iowa


Ross Island is an island which was formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea, which can be found near the continent, Antarctica.

Geography
Because of the persistent presence of the ice sheet, the island is sometimes mistaken to be a part of Antarctica. Its area is 2,460 km² (950 sq mi); only a small portion of the island is free of ice and snow. The planet's southernmost active volcano, Erebus (3794 m), as well as the dormant volcano Terror (3230 m), are situated on the island. They were named by Ross after his ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The third highest peak is Mount Bird, and on its slopes are Shell Glacier and Endeavour Piedmont Glacier. Abbott Peak stands between Mount Erebus and Mount Bird.

Despite its relatively small size, Ross Island is the world's 6th highest island.

Discovery
The island was discovered by Sir James Clark Ross in 1841, and it was later named in his honour by Robert F. Scott.

Ross Island was the base for many of the early expeditions to Antarctica. It was and still is the southernmost island reachable by sea. Huts built by Scott's and Shackleton's expeditions are still located on the island, preserved as historical sites.

Today Ross Island is home to New Zealand's Scott Base, and the largest Antarctic settlement, the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station. Greenpeace established World Park Base on the island and it ran for five years, from 1987 to 1992.

Claims
Ross Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, which is claimed by New Zealand.

Wildlife
Ross Island supports a colony of about a half million (500 000) Adélie Penguins.

References

Other websites

 NIWA New Zealand

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Category:Geography of Antarctica

Ross Island


A think tank is a special organization which helps other organizations and groups with problems they do not know how to solve. They do this by providing data or knowledge, and by discussing the options in detail. They get their information by doing research, and by collecting ideas  and data from a wide range of sources.

Origins
The first think tank was the British Royal United Services Institute (1831), though of course the term "think tank" is much later, post World War II. Non-government institutions in the United States started early in the 20th century. The Arthur D. Little consultancy, incorporated in 1909, pioneered the idea of contracted professional services. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was founded in 1910. The Institute for Government Research, which later merged into the Brookings Institution, was formed in 1916. Other early twentieth century organizations now classified as think tanks include the Hoover Institution (1919), and Chatham House in London (1920). The Great Depression and its aftermath spawned several economic policy organizations, such as the National Planning Association (1934) and the Committee for Economic Development (1943).

The cold war era
Think tanks of the modern kind started after the Second World War, in the cold war era. The RAND Corporation was started in 1946 inside the Douglas Aircraft Company, and was set up as an independent corporation in 1948. The name was taken from R&D (research and development), though in fact it did no development. The RAND used the same operations research (O.R.) methods which scientists had developed during the war. This was the application of knowledge, scientific methods and thinking to solve the new problems posed by the war. After the war, the RAND used very similar techniques, mostly based on the hard sciences like maths, physics and economics. It was and still is funded mainly by the American government.

The cold war period raised the question of how the American government might handle nuclear weapons in bargaining and negotiating with the Soviet Union. This was the speciality of Herman Kahn, a RAND staff member who set up his own think tank in 1961, called the Hudson Institute. His publications on how to think about these issues, and those of Thomas Schelling, were landmarks in the post-war history of negotiating strategy.

Modern period
More recently, think tanks have specialised into particular areas of interest, such as foreign policy. Many have become advocates for political interests, doing research which can be used by public relations and lobbying groups.

References

Think tank


Frank Lobos (born 25 September 1976) is a former Chilean football player.

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Frank Lobos


Shavuot is a holiday celebrated by Jewish people. They celebrate it to remember the day God gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai, the holiday association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text.

Shavuot is celebrated on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, which may occur on May or June. It falls 49 days after Passover(Pesach), which comes before Shavuot. It falls around Pentecost.

In Secular Jews of the Diaspora, Shavuot is one of the Jewish holidays known to not be celebrated as much, while the people in Israel celebrate it every year.

According to Jewish law, Shavuot is celebrated in Israel for one day and in the Diaspora (outside of Israel) for two days. Reform Jews celebrate only one day, as well as the Diaspora.

Jews travel from their countries to Jerusalem to sacrifice wheat to the temple.

References

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Shavuot


Dixon is a city in the United States state of Illinois. It is the boyhood town of Ronald Reagan.

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Dixon, Illinois


Brown is a color. It's mixture of orange and black, or the mixture of red, blue, and yellow. Brown paint can be made by mixing red paint and green paint, orange paint and blue paint, purple paint and yellow paint, or orange paint and black paint.

Brown is the color of:
 Chocolate
 Most dirt
 Wood
 Toast
 Some hair
 Coffee
 Tree bark

Meaning of brown

 Cooking
 Nature (along with green)
 Naziism (Because they wore light brown shirts)
 Soil
 UPS

Tones of brown color comparison chart

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This is a list of the 43 cantons of the Ain department, in France, by arrondissement:

Arrondissement of Belley (9 cantons)
 Ambérieu-en-Bugey
 Belley
 Champagne-en-Valromey
 Hauteville-Lompnes
 Lagnieu
 Lhuis
 Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey
 Seyssel
 Virieu-le-Grand

Arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse (24 cantons)
 Bâgé-le-Châtel
 Bourg-en-Bresse-Est
 Bourg-en-Bresse-Nord-Centre
 Bourg-en-Bresse-Sud
 Ceyzériat
 Chalamont
 Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
 Coligny
 Meximieux
 Miribel
 Montluel
 Montrevel-en-Bresse
 Péronnas
 Pont-d'Ain
 Pont-de-Vaux
 Pont-de-Veyle
 Reyrieux
 Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes
 Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
 Thoissey
 Treffort-Cuisiat
 Trévoux
 Villars-les-Dombes
 Viriat

Arrondissement of Gex (3 cantons)
 Collonges
 Ferney-Voltaire
 Gex

Arrondissement of Nantua (7 cantons)
 Bellegarde-sur-Valserine
 Brénod
 Izernore
 Nantua
 Oyonnax-Nord
 Oyonnax-Sud
 Poncin

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New London is a city in Minnesota in the United States.

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New London, Minnesota


A Touch of Frost is a television detective series. It was produced by Yorkshire Television (later ITV Studios) for ITV from 6 December 1992 until 5 April 2010. It was initially based on the Frost novels by R.D. Wingfield. Writing credit for the three episodes in the first 1992 series went to Richard Harris.

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Cameron is a town in Moore County, North Carolina in the United States. The population was 285 at the 2010 census.

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Cameron, North Carolina


The 924 Gilman Street project, used to be called the Alternative Music Foundation, is the Berkeley, California street address and official business name of the all-ages, non-profit, music club called "Gilman."

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Venue Official Website

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924 Gilman Street


Vennaaru is a tributary of the Kaveri River in southern India. It flows through Trichy and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India. During the Chola period, a branch of this river was dug out and expanded by the Chola king Parantaka I.Vennaaru was used for water transportation in the ancient Chola Kingdom.

Gallery

References

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Vennaaru River


American Hustle is an American crime drama movie directed by David O. Russell. It is based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s in Camden, New Jersey. It stars Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Michael Peña, and Robert De Niro. It was composed by Danny Elfman. It was released on December 18, 2013.

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Sandbach is a market town in Cheshire, United Kingdom. It is in the Borough of Congleton.

Other websites
 Sandbach Town Council
 Website about the History of Sandbach
detailed map of Sandbach Town Centre

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Sandbach


Candida albicans is a yeast which causes oral and genital infections in humans. The infection is candidiasis, better known as "thrush". It is treated with antimycotics (anti-fungal drugs).

C. albicans biofilms readily form on the surface of medical devices. Hospital-related infections in patients are a major health concern.

C. albicans is among the gut flora, the many organisms that live in the human mouth and gastrointestinal tract. Under normal circumstances, it lives in 80% of the human population with no harmful effects, although overgrowth results in candidiasis.

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Candida albicans


Chirappuram is a village in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala state,India.

Demographics

Malayalam is the native language of Chirappuram.

Politics

Chirappuram is a part of Pathanamthitta Loksabha constituency. Mr. Anto Antony is the current Member of Parliament of the constituency.

Climate

The climate of the place is moderate and pleasant. Tropical climate is prevailed here throughout the year.

Transportation

The major transportation service of this place is provided by Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).

References

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Chirappuram


Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a neighborhood in Montreal. It is northeast of downtown. It was a middle class neighborhood where many Québécois, Portuguese, and Jewish people lived. In the 1980s, many artists moved into the neighborhood. They liked the low rent and the beautiful architecture. Today, Le Plateau is a very expensive area to live. There are many popular shops and restaurants.

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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal


Stella Maris Raquel Leverberg (12 September 1962 – 3 January 2020) was an Argentine politician and trade unionist. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the province of Misiones from 2007 to 2015. She was also the leader of the Unión de Docentes de la Provincia de Misiones (UDPM).

On 3 January 2020, Leverberg died at a hospital of cardiac arrest after being in a road accident in Cruce Caballero, Misiones. She was 57.

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The National Library and Documentation Services Board (NLDSB) is the agency of the government of Sri Lanka which helps maintains all state libraries around the country.

The NLDSB was established under the act No: 51 of 1998. This act established the Sri Lanka National Library Services Board in 1970. The board is placed under the Sri Lankan Ministry of Education. The present Board of Directors consists of 11 members including a full-time Chairperson. The Director General is the chief executive and secretary of the Board.

Goals and targets

 To assess the need for library and documentation services among all sectors of the community and to promote the development of library and documentation services.
 To administer, manage and control the affairs of the National Library and Documentation Centre.
 To advise the authorities regarding plans, programmes and activities for the development of library and documentation services in Sri Lanka.
 To provide leadership for libraries of all categories in Sri Lanka, leadership in providing information to the nation and for all services.
 Establishment, development and maintenance of a complete national collection of written, printed and non print media published in Sri Lanka or abroad.
 Establishment and maintenance of Bibliographic and Documentation Services.
 Advise the government on matters relevant to the Library and Information Science field.
 Organization of human resources and Promotion of physical resources for the development of libraries in Sri Lanka.
 Encourage the local book publication and promotion of reading.
 Encourage usage of Information Technology for library and information services.
 Promote co-operation with the institutions and organizations at national, regional and international level related to library and information field.
 Organization of library and information services respecting to the cultural identity of different groups in the society.
 Provide resources and organize services needed for academic research activities.

References

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Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova (; born 17 October 1980) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the Russian team that won the gold medals at the FIVB Volleyball World Championships in 2006 and 2010. She was also a member of the Russian team that won silver medals in both the Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Gamova is  tall with an EU shoe size of 49. This makes her one of the tallest female athletes in the world.  Her role is outside hitter/opposite.

References

Other websites

 FIVB Profile
 Fenerbahce Acibadem Women's Volleyball Team
 Uralochka VC profile
 Gamova's photos

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Yekaterina Gamova


Pakistan is a country in Asia. It is divided into five provinces and two territories. Pakistan also administers part of Kashmir. This part is divided into two separate areas. The rest of Kashmir is administered by India.

Provinces and territories

Local government

Each province of Pakistan is divided into zillas - zillah is an Urdu word () meaning district. There are 105 districts in Pakistan.

A district is divided into tehsils (). A tehsils is similar to a county. Tehsils are used in all provinces except in Sindh province where the word taluka () is used instead. Tehsils may contain villages or towns and cities.

Each tehsil is further divided into union councils. A union council is the smallest part of local government in Pakistan. They are sometimes made up of a few villages.

There are over 5,000 local government areas in Pakistan. Since 2001, these have been led by democratically elected local councils, each headed by a Nazim (the word means "supervisor" in Urdu, but is sometimes translated as mayor). Women have been allotted a minimum of 33% seats in these councils; there is no maximum limit to the number of women in these councils.

History

In the 1960s, Pakistan was simply divided into two "units" these were East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Shortly before East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh, West Pakistan reverted to a system with four provinces. The provinces consisted of subunits called "divisions", which were further subdivided into districts, tehsils, and villages or municipalities.

In August 2000, Pervez Musharraf's local government reforms abolished the "division" as an administrative tier. A system of local government councils was established, with the first elections being held in 2001. Since then Pakistan has had greatly changed the local government system. The government had a plan to allow devolution. This plan according to the government "follows the principle of subsidiarity, whereby all functions that can be effectively performed at the local level are transferred to that level."

This means mean that decisions are made locally by people who live in the area and not in far away cities.

Other websites
 Government of Azad Kashmir
 Government of Balochistan
 Government of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
 Government of the Islamabad Capital Territory
 Government of the Northern Areas
 Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
 Government of the Punjab
 Government of Sindh
 Decentralization Support Program
 National Reconstruction Bureau

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Administrative units of Pakistan


In math, an operand is a number being worked on in an equation. In 1 + 2 = 3, 1 and 2 are operands. (1 + 2) together is also an operand.

Notation

In (3 + 5) × 2, (3 + 5) and 2 are the operands. (3 + 5) has operands that are separate: 3 and 5.

There are three ways to set operands: 1 + 2, + 1 2, and 1 2 +. The first of those is used the most.

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Exmouth  is a town on the A376 road in Devon, England. In 2001, there were 32,972 people living in Exmouth.

Sisters cities
 Dinan, France
 Langerwehe, Germany

References

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Exmouth


"Dancing Machine" is a 1973 hit song by The Jackson 5. The song reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It also hit #1 on the American R&B charts. The Jackson 5 got their second Grammy Award nomination for this song.

The song was released on February 19, 1974. It sold more than three million copies.

References

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Category:1974 songs

Dancing Machine


Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the most populous urban area in the state of Minnesota, United States, and is made up of 186 cities and townships. Built around the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers, the area is also nicknamed the Twin Cities for its two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Related pages
 Minneapolis, Minnesota
 Saint Paul, Minnesota

References

Other websites
 Flyby video courtesy NASA/Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio
 Fact sheet about Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area Comparison
 History of the National Weather Service in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
 Twin Cities Daily Photograph — One photograph a day of the Twin Cities Metro Area
 GIS-based Demographic Guide to Twin Cities Region

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Minneapolis-Saint Paul


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

Ailleville

Ailleville


The Dominican city of Salvaleón de Higüey, usually known as Higüey, is the head municipality of the La Altagracia province, on the eastern part of the country.

The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia ("Our Lady of High Grace Basilica"), a cathedral, is in this city and many Catholic people come here to pray.

Population
The municipality had, in 2010, a total population of 168,501: 84,562 men and 83,939 women. The urban population was  of the total population, one of the most urban municipality in the country.

History
The city was founded by Juan de Esquivel in 1503. Higüey was the Taíno name of the eastern part of the island.

Geography
The municipality of Salvaleón de Higüey has a total area of . It has three municipal districts (a municipal district is a subdivision of a municipality). These are Las Lagunas de Nisibón, La Otra Banda and Verón Punta Cana.

Higüey is at  to the east of Santo Domingo and at  to the north of La Romana. The municipality is in the region known as Llano Costero del Caribe ("Caribbean Coastal Plain"), in the eastern part of the country, a region with many savannas.

The altitude of the city of Higüey is  above sea level.

The municipality of Higüey has the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east, the municipality of San Rafael del Yuma to the south, the La Romana province to the southwest and the El Seibo province to the west.

Climate
Higüey has a tropical wet climate (Köppen climate classification : Af) with no dry or cold season as it is constantly moist.

The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of rainfall, followed by October with .

The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is February with an average of  and the second is March with .

Higüey is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

Administrative division
The municipality of Higüey has three  municipal districts:

Economy
The most important economic activity in the municipality is tourism, along the eastern coast, mainly in Bávaro and Punta Cana.

But farming is still an important activity in the rest of the municipality, mainly cattle raising. Also sugarcane is a very important crop in this municipality.

References

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Salvaleón de Higüey


The coat of arms of Slovenia has a red bordered blue shield on which there is a stylised white Mount Triglav. It was designed in 1991 by Marko Pogačnik and adopted on 24 June 1991.

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Coat of Arms of Slovenia


Frederick Lee "Ted" Petoskey (born January 5, 1911 in , died November 30, 1996 in ) was a three-sport athlete at the University of Michigan.

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Ted Petoskey


Orford is a village and civil parish in Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England. In 2001, there were 658 people living in Orford.

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Orford


A kibibyte is a unit of information or computer storage. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes, 1024 kibibytes are a mebibyte.

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Kibibyte


Auchtubh is a village in Stirling, Scotland.

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Auchtubh


Marcello José das Neves Alves Caetano was a Portuguese politician. He had many important positions in the government. In 1968 he became prime minister. In 1974 the military took leadership of Portugal in the Carnation Revolution. Caetano was removed from his position.

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Marcelo Caetano


Catherine Hardwicke (born Helen Catherine Hardwicke; ) is an American production designer and movie director. She has worked on the movies Thirteen, The Nativity Story and Twilight.

Filmography

Director

References

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Category:1955 births
Category:American movie directors

Catherine Hardwicke


Beylagan (Beyləqan) is a raion of Azerbaijan.  The capital city is Beylagan.

Category:Districts of Azerbaijan

Beylagan Rayon


Weston is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The population was 10,179 at the 2010 census. About 19% of the town's workforce travels to New York City for work.

Like many towns in southwestern Connecticut, Weston is one of the richest communities in the United States. In 2010 the median household income was US$180,321.

Most of Devil's Den Preserve is in the town.  It is a  nature reserve which gets 40,000 visits a year.

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Category:Towns in Connecticut
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Category:1780s establishments in Connecticut

Weston, Connecticut