Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician known for including his strange and somewhat critical opinions of life in his lyrics. Zevon wrote many songs that were humorous and often political

Many famous musicians have said they liked Zevon's work, including  Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. His most famous songs include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Johnny Strikes Up The Band."  All of these are from his third and most famous album: Excitable Boy (1978).   Zevon has written  many songs that were recorded by other artists.  These include "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (a top 40 hit by Linda Ronstadt), "Accidentally Like a Martyr," "Mohammed's Radio," "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind".

Zevon sometimes recorded or sang cover songs.  He liked to sing Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan". He was often a guest on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman later sang with Zevon on "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" with Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra.

He had a lot of problems in his life, including divorce, alcoholism, and suicide attempts.  He also had a paranoia of doctors and this killed him: he did not know he had cancer until doctors could not help him.

Early life
Zevon was born in Chicago, Illinois.  His parents were to William Zevon, a Secular Jew and Beverly Cope Simmons, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah.  They soon moved to Fresno, California. By the age of 13, Zevon sometimes visited Igor Stravinsky where he studied modern classical music.  Zevon's parents divorced when he was 16 years old.  After the divorce, he dropped out of high school and moved from Los Angeles to New York to become a folk singer.

Success
In 1978, Zevon released his most popular and critically acclaimed album Excitable Boy.  Radio stations often played the songs off the album, especially "Werewolves of London."  "Werewolves of London" and "Excitable Boy" were both examples of black humor (jokes about bad things).  The album also had the songs "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Lawyers, Guns and Money," which were both deadpan humor songs about geopolitics.

Rolling Stone named the album one of the most important albums in the 1970s.  They said that he, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Springsteen were four of the best new artists to emerge in the 1970s.

After Excitable Boy Warren Zevon published Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School in 1980.  This album had the only other song recorded by Zevon that reached the Billboard Top 100: "A Certain Girl."  "A Certain Girl" is a rhythm and blues song written by Allen Toussaint.

This album was dedicated to Ken Millar, who calls himself "Ross Macdonald."  Millar is a writer who writes mystery novels, and Zevon really liked Millar's stories.  He met Millar in an intervention put together by the journalist Paul Nelson.  For awhile this intervention helped Zevon not drink too much alcohol.

Cancer, death and The Wind
Warren Zevon did not like to go to the doctor, and never went to one when he was an adult.  Before playing at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival in 2002, he started feeling dizzy and started to have a chronic cough.  When Zevon told his dentist his problems, his dentist recommended seeing a doctor.  When he finally visited one, the doctor diagnosed him with mesothelmia.

Warren Zevon did not want to get treated for his cancer if it might keep him from making music.  So instead he started to make his final album, titled The Wind. He had a lot of friends who helped him make the album.  These friends included Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, David Lindley, Billy Bob Thornton, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty, Dwight Yoakam, and others.

Discography

Studio albums
 Wanted Dead or Alive (Warren Zevon album)|Wanted Dead or Alive – 1969  – Initial release credited simply to "Zevon".
 Warren Zevon (album)|Warren Zevon – 1976
 Excitable Boy – 1978 (United States: Platinum)
 Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School – 1980
 The Envoy – 1982
 Sentimental Hygiene – 1987
 Transverse City – 1989
 Hindu Love Gods – 1990 – As a member of "Hindu Love Gods".
 Mr. Bad Example – 1991
 Mutineer – 1995
 Life'll Kill Ya – 2000
 My Ride's Here – 2002
 The Wind – 2003

Live albums
 Stand in the Fire – 1980
 Learning to Flinch – 1993

Compilations
 A Quiet Normal Life: The Best of Warren Zevon – 1986 (US: Gold)
 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) – 1996
 Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon – 2002
 The First Sessions – 2003
 Reconsider Me: The Love Songs – 2006
 Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings – 2007

References

 Other websites

 Warren Zevon official site
 Warren Zevon official MySpace site
 Warren Zevon Wiki
 Warren Zevon live audio recordings at Archive.org
 Jordan Zevon's Official Site
 Warren Zevon at Rolling Stone''
 Warren Zevon's personal archive at Human ArchivesQ
 Warren Zevon Find a Grave
 Dirty Life And Times
 Keep Me In Your Heart

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Robert Dyas is a large United Kingdom company. They sell goods that people can use in their homes and gardens. The company has over 100 stores in Greater London and South East England.

History
The company was established in 1872. It was taken over in 2004 by Change Capital, headed by former Marks and Spencer chairman Luc Vandevelde and former M&S CEO and head of B&Q Roger Holmes.

References

Other websites
Robert Dyas

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Robert Dyas


Hercules is a 1958 movie. It is based on the Ancient Greek tales of Hercules, Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. Steve Reeves stars as Hercules. A massive "saturation" promotional campaign was launched in the United States for the movie. It opened in 175 theaters alone in the New York City area. Hercules became a big hit as a result, and Steve Reeves became a big star. Hercules paved the way for dozens of flicks starring oily bodybuilders as mythological heroes battling monsters, despots, and evil queens.  The movie had a sequel called Hercules Unchained. It also starred Reeves.

Other websites
 New York Times Tribute to Steve Reeves

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Hercules (1958 movie)


Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American television and movie actress. She has been in many movies and television series. She starred as Claudia in the television drama Party of Five, Dirty Deeds and performed in the movie Mean Girls in 2004. She voiced Meg Griffin in Family Guy. Chabert was born in Mississippi.

Career
In 1990, she was in the Children's Palace/Child World VHS film (videofilm) with JD Daniels. In 1992 and 1993, she played Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Misérables. In 1998, she acted in Lost in Space. It was her first movie. In 1998, she started doing the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the TV series The Wild Thornberrys. Chabert played Gretchen Weiners in the 2004 movie Mean Girls. She shared the prize for Best On-Screen Team at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards with Lindsay Lohan, David Collins, Rachel McAdams, Mark Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried, and she and Collins reunited in the 2005 film Dirty Deeds.

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Ignasi Aballí (born in 1958) is a Spanish artist. He is one of Spain's well known artists.

Artist's background
Aballí tried some ways to make his art. He has done art shows in Italy and Australia. In 2015, he showed his work in France. Aballí won an award called the Joan Miró prize in 2015.

Solo art shows
2016
 Secuencia infinita, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain)

2015
 sin principio / sin final, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (Spain)
 Gabinet: Ignasi Aballí. Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
 Presque visible, Cortex Athletico, Paris (France)

2014
 Double readings, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
 Seeing visions, Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona (Spain)
 Something is wrong, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Oporto (Portugal)

2013
 Three hours of light, Empty Cube, Lisboa (Portugal)
 Mirar (el otro lado), Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid (Spain)

2012
 This is not the end, Lower East Gallery, Artium, Barcelona (Spain)
 Galeria Proyecto Paralelo, México DF (Mexico)

2011
 En el aire, Fundacion Roson Arte Contemporaneo (RAC), Pontevedra (Spain)
 CMYK Color System, Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona (Spain)
 Transparència, ACVIC, Centre d’arts contemporànies de Vic, Vic (Spain)

2010
 Transparent States, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
 Teoria, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (Brasil)
 Pòsit, Fundació Guinovart, Agramunt, Lleida (Spain)
 Index, Sommergarten, Berlin (Germany)

2009
 Coming soon, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania)
 Nothing or something, Suitcase Art Projects, Today Art Museum, Beijing (China
 Inside Job (with Karin Sander), curated by Maria de Corral and Dan Cameron, galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Wien (Austria)
 Posible/Probable. Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid (Spain)
 Zona euro, Banco de España, Madrid (Spain)

2008
 52 words, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain)
 To Show. Meessen De Clercq Brussels (Belgium)
 Sem Actividada. Museu de Portimao, Portimao (Portugal)
 Tempo morto. Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (Portugal)
 Malas Hierbas. Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid (Spain)
 Classificar. Galería Estrany- De la Mota, Barcelona (Spain)

2007
 Les partes y el todo. Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona (Spain)

2006
 0-24h, Museum of Contemporary Art  Serralves, Porto (Portugal)
 0-24h, Ikon Gallery Birmingham (UK)
 0-24h, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie/ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany)
 Inmigrants, Clockshop, Los Angeles, California (USA)

2005
 0-24h, MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (Spain)

2004
 Nada-para-ver, Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Santander (Spain)
 Un año, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid (Spain)

2003
 Desapariciones, Galería Estrany - De la Mota, Barcelona (Spain)

2002
 Desapariciones, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spain)
 Presencias, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (Portugal)
 Manipulaciones, Nouvelle Galerie, Grenoble (France)

2000
 A diario, H. Associació per a les Arts Contemporànies, Vic.Barcelona (Spain)
 Malgastar, Sala de Arte Josep Bages, El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain)
 Libros, Glass Cabinet, Galería Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona (Spain)

References

Sources

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Category:Spanish people

Ignasi Aballì


The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an American research organization and think tank that supports ending illegal immigration and lowering the amount of immigration in the United States. It was founded in 1985 by a professor named Otis Graham Jr. The Center describes itself as a group that is "providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States."

The Center is led by Mark Krikorian. Krikorian believes that America should have a stronger border to stop illegal immigration.

References

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Center for Immigration Studies


Thallium(I) sulfate, also known as thallous sulfate, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is Tl2SO4. It has thallium and sulfate ions in it. The thallium is in its +1 oxidation state.

Properties
Thallium(I) sulfate is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. It is very toxic, though. It dissolves easily in water and is similar to potassium sulfate.

Preparation
It is made by dissolving thallium ore or thallium metal in sulfuric acid.

Uses
It was used in rat poison, but since it is so similar to other chemicals, it poisoned some people and was outlawed. It was also used for some medicines before it was found that it was too toxic. It stops plants from germinating. It is the main source of thallium in the laboratory and is used to make thallium(I) sulfide.

Toxicity
Thallium sulfate, like all thallium compounds, is very toxic. This is because the size of the thallium ion is very similar to the size of the potassium ion. After it goes into the cells, it cannot be used like potassium is used and so kills the cell. It also gets absorbed through the skin. Eating more than 1/2 gram can kill. It gets deposited in the kidney, liver, brain, and similar places. It has been blamed for the extinction of the Brown Fish Owl.

Related pages
Thallium(I) chloride
Thallium(III) halide
Thallium(III) oxide

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Thallium(I) sulfate


The Art Ross Trophy is given to the top scoring player each year in the National Hockey League (NHL). The player with the most points (goals plus assists) is given the trophy. If two players have the same number of points, the award goes to the player with the most goals. If they are tied in goals, it goes to the player who has played fewer games. If they are tied in games, it goes to the player who scored his first goal of the year the soonest.

Wayne Gretzky has won this trophy ten times, the most of any player. Gordie Howe and Mario Lemieux each won six trophies; Phil Esposito and Jaromir Jagr won five; Stan Mikita won four; and Bobby Hull and Guy Lafleur each won it three times.

The Art Ross Memorial Trophy was first awarded in 1948. This list includes all NHL scoring champions:

Winners

Bold Player with the most points ever scored in a season.

Related pages
 List of NHL players
 List of NHL statistical leaders

References

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Art Ross Trophy


There are 87 counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Alphabetical listing

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References

Minnesota
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List of counties in Minnesota


Firuzabad County () is a county in Fars Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Firuzabad.  At the 2006 census, the county's population was 111,973, in 24,894 families.  The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Meymand District.  The county has two cities: Firuzabad and Meymand.

References

Other websites

Category:Counties of Iran
Category:Fars Province

Firuzabad County


Quevedo is a city in Ecuador located in the Los Rios Province. It is the seat of Quevedo Canton. Quevedo's population is 173,000.  Because of its location west of the Andes mountains and right next to the  Vinces River (a major waterway and tributary to the Pacific Ocean), the city is known for its massive flooding.

References

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Quevedo, Ecuador


Chester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 3,154.

References

Category:Towns in Vermont

Chester, Vermont


She is an Indian crime drama based web television series created and written by Imtiaz Ali & author Divya Johry. She is directed by Arif Ali and Avinash Das and Window Seat Films production house . This series is starring Aaditi Pohankar, Vijay Varma and Vishwas Kini. It is a story of female constable who goes undercover to bust an underworld gang . She wias premiered on Netflix on 20 March, 2020 .

It is a story of female constable (Bhumika Pardeshi) from Indian Police who has been inducted in the Anti Narcotics Group to fight a major drug lord.

Episodes

The Pickup :
Police officer Bhumi goes undercover as a prostitute to bust a drug cartel leader, but when the operation goes awry, she makes an unexpected discovery.

The Proposal :
A visit from Bhumi's estranged husband angers her rebellious sister. Sasya agrees to cooperate in a police interrogation - on one condition.

Devil's Share :
In the wake of an unexpected complication, Fernandez doubts Sasya's loyalty. Caught off guard by a suspicious Nayak, Bhumi drops her own bombshell.

The Promise :
With Nayak now in Mumbai, Bhumi is moved to a hotel under police surveillance, but her first encounter with the kingpin takes the team by surprise.

Night Walk :
After going to dangerous lengths to prove herself, Bhumi is recruited into Fernandez's department, and begins to prepare for her risky new role.

The Pawn's Move :
The team doubts Bhumi's mettle after Sasya manages to rattle her. Fernandez pushes to keep her as an undercover agent in a plan to nab Sasya's boss.

It's Time :
Newly emboldened, Bhumi seduces an unlikely target. Ahead of Nayak's arrival in Mumbai, Sasya attempts to gain police trust as an informant.

Series Cast

 Aaditi Pohankar as Bhumika Pardeshi
 Vijay Varma as Sasya
 Vishwas Kini as Jason Fernandez
 Dhruv Thukral as Hemant
 Sandeep Sridhar Dhabale
 Paritosh Sand as DCP Shishir Mathur
 Shivani Rangole as Rupa
 Suhita Thatte as Bhumika's Mother
 Kishore Kumar G as Nayak
 Sandeep Dhabale as Lokhande

See Also
https://www.netflix.com/title/81183494

References

Category:Television series
Category:Netflix webseries

She (TV series)


Paraves is a branch-based clade containing birds (clade Aves) and other closely related dinosaurs. The paravians include the Avialae, such as Archaeopteryx, and the Deinonychosauria, which includes the dromaeosaurids and troodontids.

The name Paraves was coined by Paul Sereno in 1997. The clade was defined by Sereno in 1998 as a branch-based clade containing all Maniraptora closer to modern birds than to Oviraptor.

The work of Xu and colleagues provide examples of basal and early paravians with four wings, including members of the Avialae (Pedopenna), Dromaeosauridae (Microraptor), and Troodontidae (Anchiornis).

Relationships
The cladogram presented below follows a study by Zhang and colleagues.

Related pages
 Origin of birds

References

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Paraves


Malachi, Malachias, Malache or Mal'achi was the writer of the Book of Malachi which is part of the Bible. This is the last book of the Neviim (prophets) section in the Jewish Tanakh. Malachi is not mentioned by Ezra, however, and he does not directly mention the restoration of the temple. The editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia think that he prophesied after Haggai and Zechariah (; , ). They believe he made his prophecies about 420 BC, after the second return of Nehemiah from Persia (Book of Nehemiah), or possibly before his return, comparing  with ;  with ).

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Category:Ancient Israeli people

Malachi


Estancia is a town in Torrance County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 1,655. It is the county seat of Torrance County.

References

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Category:County seats in New Mexico

Estancia, New Mexico


Max Schmitt in a Single Scull is an oil painting by Thomas Eakins. It was painted in 1871. The picture measures 32.6 x 46.3 cm. It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The painting sets on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Max Schmitt in a Single Scull


The Chevrolet Cruze is a four-door Sedan and Hatchback car that is built by General Motors' Chevrolet brand. A subcompact Cruze based on the Suzuki Ignis was built between 2001 and 2008. Since 2008, the current compact has been produced as a replacement for the Chevrolet Cobalt. The Cruze is actually a rebadged Daewoo Lacetti Premiere, prior to its introduction, the original model was sold under Suzuki in America. Chevrolet Cruze is the only compact model to not have a Pontiac twin, instead it shares similarities with the new Buick Verano.

In the US, the Cruze is available with either a 1.8-liter or 1.4-liter 4-cylinder engine producing 138 hp. Both are available with six-speed manual and automatic transmissions. GM has announced that in late 2016 a hatchback version of the Cruze will be offered in North America.

Other websites

 Chevrolet Cruze Reviews & Pictures
 Official Site

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Category:2000s automobiles
Category:2010s automobiles

Chevrolet Cruze


Ingerophrynus is a genus of true toads with eleven species.  Ten of the species in this genus used to be thought to be species of the genus Bufo. In 2007 a new species, Ingerophrynus gollum, was added to this genus. This species is named after the character Gollum created by J. R. R. Tolkien. These species live in Southern Yunnan and Indochina; peninsular Thailand and Malaya to Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Nias Island, and Sulawesi.

Species

References

Other websites
 . 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Ingerophrynus. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: May 2, 2008).

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Ingerophrynus


The Persian is a cat from Persia (now Iran). It is one of the oldest and most popular cat breeds. They are called Longhair or Persian Longhair in Britain. It was made by English breeders and the American ones after the second world war. Because of very careful breeding, it has gotten a really flat face and many different colors. While most cat fanciers love the flat faced Persian, this brings along many illnesses. The public likes the traditional faced Persian more than the flat faced one. They can get polycystic kidney disease easily.

The gentle and easy-going nature of the Persian makes it very easy to live in apartments with this cat. While it is the top cat in the U.S.A., it's popularity has decreased in France and the U.K.

Persian cats are not an ordinary cat,they can barely live outside in the wild.

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Persian cat


Linspire, also known as LindowsOS (also Lin---s, pronounced Lindash), is a commercial Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux (Ubuntu). Linspire is sold by Linspire, Inc. and is focused on ease-of-use for the average person, rather than catering to  advanced needs. As of 2007-10-10, the most recent stable release of Linspire is version 6.0 which was released in October of 2007. Linspire is available to download and costs US$ 50.

History

Based in San Diego, California, Lindows, Inc. was founded in August 2001 by Michael Robertson with the goal of developing a Linux-based operating system capable of running major Microsoft Windows applications. It based its Windows compatibility on the Wine API emulation layer. The company later abandoned this approach in favor of attempting to make Linux applications easy to download, install and use. To this end a program named "CNR" was developed: based on Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool, it provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface and a slightly modified package system for an annual fee. The first public release of Linspire was version 1.0, released in late 2001.

CNR

Linspire's CNR (originally "Click'N'Run") is a software distribution service based on Debian's APT. It is designed to serve as a GUI-based, user-accessible means of downloading and installing various applications, both free and proprietary. The service allows users to install available applications using a single click. CNR also includes a set of Click and Buy (CNB) software, which includes many commercial applications to members at a discounted rate. Currently CNR has over 38,000 different software packages, ranging from simple applications to major commercial works such as Win4Lin and StarOffice. CNR was originally subscription-based with two tiers: basic service cost $20 annually, and gold, featuring discounts on some commercial applications, $50. In 2006, Linspire announced that the basic service was to be made available for free.

Web Software

CNR.com also provides access to thousands of Web-based Applications, providing the Linux community with the option of local Linux and Web Software, available through a single source (as of February 2008).
The same capabilities to browse and search the library of products with additional capabilities planned to improve the Web Software experience (bookmarking). The community will also have the capability to add new products to the already extensive library of applications available.

Freespire

In August 2005, Andrew Betts released a Live CD based on Linspire and named Freespire.  Linspire, Inc. offered users a "free Linspire" (purchase price discounted to $0) by using the coupon code "Freespire" until September 9 2005. On April 24 2006, Linspire announced its own project named "Freespire". This follows the model of community-oriented releases by Red Hat and Novell in the form of Fedora and openSUSE. Freespire is a community-driven and -supported project tied to the commercial Linspire distribution, and includes previously proprietary software from Linspire, such as the CNR Client, while other elements, which Linspire, Inc. licenses but does not own, like the Windows Media Audio compatibility libraries, remain closed-source.

Criticism
Linspire has drawn some criticism from the free software community. This has included anger for including proprietary software, with GNU founder Richard Stallman commenting: "No other GNU/Linux distribution has backslided so far away from freedom. Switching from MS Windows to Linspire does not bring you to freedom, it just gets you a different master."

References

Other websites
Linspire official website
Freespire official website
Freespire wiki
LugRadio podcast featuring an interview with Kevin Carmony

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Linspire


Cees van Kooten (; 20 August 1948 – 24 August 2015) was a Dutch former international football striker. After his career he became a football manager, he retired after a heart attack.

van Kooten died of esophageal cancer at the age of 67.

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Cees van Kooten


Progression can be any of the following:

In mathematics:
 Arithmetic progression
 Geometric progression

In music:
 Chord progression, series of chords played in order
 Backdoor progression
 Omnibus progression
 Ragtime progression, chord progression of ragtime

In other fields:
 Age progression
 Color progression
 Semantic progression, how words become other words

Progression


Micronesia is an area in Oceania. Many islands in southwest Pacific Ocean are part of it. Micronesia means small islands in ancient Greek language.

Philippines is to the west of Micronesia. Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Melanesia are to the south of Micronesia. Polynesia is to the east of Micronesia.

List of islands and countries in Micronesia
Gilbert Islands (in Republic of Kiribati)
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia (It may be called just Micronesia)
Republic of Nauru
Republic of Palau
Mariana Islands
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (in United States)
Territory of Guam;
 Territory of Wake Island.

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Micronesia


Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (1012–1097)  was a Tibetan Buddhist lama, the first one who established the Kagyu tradition in Tibet. He is known also as Marpa Lotsawa, which means translator. Not only did he translate Buddhist texts, but he also made a complete system of methods to reach Enlightenment, or the state of a Buddha. Marpa made three difficult journeys to India and spent about twenty years there. He received teachings and oral transmission of many gurus. Most important among them are Naropa and Maitripa. His main student and successor to his lineage is Milarepa.

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Marpa Lotsawa


Microsoft Word or MS-WORD (often called Word) is a Graphical word processing program that users can type with. It is made by the computer company Microsoft.  Its purpose is to allow users to type and save documents.

Similar to other word processors, it has helpful tools to make documents.
 Spelling & grammar checker, word count (this also counts letters and lines)
 Speech recognition
 Inserts pictures in documents
 Choice of typefaces
 Special codes
 Web pages, graphs, etc.
 Tables
 Displays synonyms of words and can read out the text
 Prints in different ways

MS Word is a part of Microsoft Office, but can also be bought separately.

History
The program was first released in 1981.
Many of the ideas and features in Microsoft Word came from Bravo, the first graphical writing program.
Microsoft bought the Bravo program, and changed its name to Microsoft Word.
When it first came out, it was not very popular, and did not sell as well as other writing programs like WordPerfect.
Although it was not very popular when it came out, it had a feature called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which meant that people can change the visual style of writing (e.g. bold, italics), by clicking on buttons, when in other programs like WordPerfect, people had to add special 'codes' to change the style of writing. WYSIWYG is now a common feature of all computer writing programs.

Versions
There are versions for Microsoft Word for other operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows.  New versions support fewer operating systems, although they always support Windows.

For Microsoft Windows
Note: "Word for Windows" is the name of the Microsoft word made for Microsoft Windows.''''

 Word for Windows 1.1, for Windows 3.0 came out in March, 1990.
 Word for Windows 1.1a, for Windows 3.1 came out in June, 1990.
 Word for Windows 2.0, came out in 1991.
 Word for Windows 6.0, came out in 1993.
 Word for Windows 95 (sometimes called Word 7), came out in 1995.
 Word 97 (sometimes called Word 8), came out in 1997.
 Word 2000 (sometimes called Word 9), came out in 1999.
 Word 2002'' (sometimes called Word 10 or Word XP), came out in 2001.
 Word 2007 which required Windows XP services pack 2. It is the last version of Microsoft Word to support Windows XP Professional 64 bit edition.

Popularity

The program is very popular.

Without configuration the program saved the document in a proprietary file format, so other programs could not open it. When the user sent his document to a friend, the friend needed a copy of Microsoft Word to read the document. Then that friend would probably also save documents in the same secret format of Word. This gave Microsoft Word a dominant position.

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Microsoft Word


Ixelles (in French) or Elsene (in Dutch) is a municipality in the Belgian Brussels-Capital Region.

In 2007, 78088 people lived there.

It is at 50° 49 North, 04° 22 East.

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The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was the fourth FIFA Women's World Cup. It took place in the United States. The winners were Germany.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Third place match

Final

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Lionel Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.

Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995. He ran for President again in 2002, and was eliminated in the first round due to finishing behind both Chirac and the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

After his loss in the 2002 presidential election, he immediately announced his retirement from politics.

References

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Archives of the official web sites of Prime Minister Jospin: 1997–1998, 1998–2000, 2000–2002
Text of his major economic speech of Montreal in April 2009: The first lessons from the financial and economic crisis (fr)

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A rearguard is a part of a military force that protects the main force from attack from the rear. This is either during an advance or withdrawal. The term can also be used to describe forces protecting lines of communication behind an army. In modern armies the rearguard may be used to delay an enemy, to keep supply routes open or may also gather intelligence on an enemy approaching from the rear. One of the best recorded examples of a rearguard action is found in The Song of Roland. It is based on the historical events of the attack on the rearguard of Charlemagne's army in the Pyrenees. It was written in the 11th century, three hundred years after it happened.

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Leonardo Ponzio (born 29 January 1982) is an Argentine football player. He plays for River Plate.

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The United States Census of 1870 was the ninth United States Census. It was done by the Census Bureau in June 1870. The 1870 Census was the first census to give detailed information on the black population. The population was 38,555,983 individuals. This was a 22.62% increase since 1860.

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Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 27,088 people lived there. Its county seat is Columbia. The county is named for American Revolutionary War guerrilla leader Francis Marion also known as The Swamp Fox.

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Sophia of Greece and Denmark (, ; born 2 November 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain during the reign of her husband, King Juan Carlos I, from 1975 to 2014.

She became queen upon her husband's accession in 1975. On 19 June 2014, Juan Carlos abdicated in favor of their son Felipe VI.

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is a professional tennis player. She won the 2018 US Open, defeating American Serena Williams in the final. This made her the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles tournament. In 2019 she won the Australian Open and became world number 1. She turned professional in September 2013.

Osaka is Haitian-American-Japanese. She was born in Chūō-ku, Osaka. Her father is Haitian-American and her mother is Japanese. She grew up in the United States. She has both Japanese and American citizenship.

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Hermaphrodite is a term which comes from Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. It is used as a scientific term in biology.

In zoology, an animal which can produce both sperm and ova is  a hermaphrodite. As an example, most earthworms are hermaphrodites. A simultaneous hermaphrodite has both sets of sex organs throughout life. A sequential hermaphrodite has ovaries at first, replaced by a testis later, or the other way round.

In botany, hermaphrodite is used for 'complete' flowers with both male and female parts, and for plants which have bisexual reproductive units. See flowering plant sexuality for details.

With people, the term hermaphrodite is not correct, because true functioning hermaphrodites are not possible in humans. What sometimes happens is errors in development which lead to intersex persons. A definition of intersex is :
"... individuals of a bisexual species that have characteristics intermediate between the male and female".

People who are intersex may have a very small penis and no testicles, or a very small and short vagina and a large clitoris that looks like a penis.

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Factoid is stating a fact that is not backed up by evidence.  The factoid may not be trusted because
(a) it is actually false, or
(b) because evidence to support it cannot be checked.
Factoids become widely treated as if they were true.

In 1973, the term factoid was created and first used by Norman Mailer.

A factoid is "an item of unreliable information which is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as a fact".  The most important thing is that the factoid is widely believed.

A factoid refers to something that looks like a fact, could be a fact, but in fact is not a fact.

The term can also be used to describe partial information without context.

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Bernhard Eckstein (21 August 1935 – 10 November 2017) was a German cyclist. In 1960, he won the road race at the world championships and finished in 22nd place in the road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

During his career he won six one-day races, four in 1958, one in 1960 (the Manx Trophy in the amateurs division), and one in 1966. He was born in Zwochau, Germany.

Eckstein died on 10 November 2017 in Berlin at the age of 82.

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Grossaffoltern is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Villages
Ammerzwil, Kaltenbrunnen, Kosthofen, Ottiswil, Suberg, Vorimholz and Weingarten.

References

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Grossaffoltern


is a media franchise owned by The Pokémon Company. It is based on the concept of catching, collecting, raising, trading and battling with hundreds of different creatures. This concept was made by Satoshi Tajiri, Pokémon's creator. It is represented in many types of media, most famously video games, a still-running anime series, manga, and a trading card game. There are eight regions in these games. Although there are 890 different types of Pokémon, most people will know of the mascot of the company, an electric mouse Pokémon known as Pikachu.

The video games have sold more copies than every other series except Nintendo's Mario series.

Video games

A number of Pokémon games have been released, mostly on Nintendo systems, with the exception of Pokémon GO as The Pokémon Company is owned by Nintendo.

Most of the Pokémon games are based on catching, training and battling Pokémon, and the player is a Pokémon trainer who does all these things. There are a number of aspects to the games.

In the Pokémon games, Pokémon are creatures that trainers catch (using various types of capture devices known as Poké Balls), train, battle, collect, and trade with each other. As of the seventh generation, there are 802 of them. One of the most popular Pokémon in competitive battling is Mega Kangaskhan, because of its ability to hit the target twice with each move.

Another Pokemon game is the famous Pokemon GO that can be played only on touch phones. It has a big difference from the other games but its basics are the same. This game uses Augmented Reality and the phone's GPS to give the player a very real sense of play. People literally walk around their neighborhoods, explore new places and catch Pokemon which can be captured along with your surrounding environment by using the phone's camera. People can also go to special places or landmarks where there would be Poké Stops and Gyms which can be used to collect items, battle other Pokemon etc. This game has been a huge success when it was released and is widely considered as the beginning of the AR era.

Gameplay

The gameplay of the Pokémon series of role-playing video games involves the capture and training of many of fictional creatures called "Pokémon" and using them to battle other trainers. Each generation of games builds upon this idea by introducing new Pokémon, items, and gameplay concepts. Some of the general ideas were featured elsewhere before being introduced in the games; double battles appeared in the anime long before appearing in the games, and Pokémon abilities are similar to the Pokémon Powers first seen in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Anime

Not long after Pokémon Red and Blue (the first Pokémon video games) were released, a Pokémon anime was created. It was first shown in Japan in late 1997, and in the United States in late 1998. The anime started what has been called "Pokémania", which meant that after the anime came out, it became very popular among children, and many parents assumed it was a fad and no one would care about it in a couple years. However, it was never cancelled, and it is still running, although it is not as popular as in 1998 and 1999.

The interesting thing about the Pokémon Anime is that when a new Pokémon game is released that is not a remake, the whole Anime focuses on that with new Pokémon and the world that is in that Pokémon game.

The anime shows the adventures of Ash Ketchum, (with the exception of some special series)  a ten-year-old Pokémon trainer who has many adventures, meeting many new people and Pokémon. His most famous Pokémon, and probably the most famous Pokémon, is Pikachu.

A number of Pokémon films have also been made that relate to the anime. The first one was Pokémon: The First Movie (released in 1998 in Japan and 1999 in United States). There are more movies still being made. There have now been seventeen films released.

Trading card game
A Pokémon trading card game also exists. Players use Pokémon cards to battle each other and collect them by opening packs. There are also live tournaments hosted by Nintendo. Pokémon's damage is counted by "damage counters" or objects which are placed on the cards to keep track of damage. After you add up all of the numbers on the damage counters, you subtract it from the card's HP (health points) to find out how much HP is left. Only 60 cards are used in a player's deck, and six of these are set aside in a pile called "prize cards." After one player knocks out an opponent's card, the defeater takes just one face-down prize card for non-EX Pokémon. Meanwhile, when someone makes an EX Pokémon faint, he or she gets two prize cards. There is one discard pile for each player, where fainted Pokémon go. Some ways to win are taking all of your prize cards, and/or making your opponent draw all of his or her cards.

There are cards designed as various Pokémon, which usually need "Energy" cards to use attacks. There are also "Trainer" cards, which are used for additional things other than direct Pokémon attacks, like giving Pokemon more HP. Most fans of the series agree that a good deck is made of about twenty "Pokémon" cards, twenty "Energy" cards, and twenty "Trainer" cards.

Players can evolve their Benched or Active Pokémon. The Bench is a spot that can hold Pokémon, and these Pokémon can be evolved with its evolution card. Active Pokémon can evolve too, but can also use attacks. To evolve a Pokémon, you can just put its evolution card on top of it.

All Pokémon cards have types. The type affects how effective an attack is. For example, a certain Lightning-type Pikachu card can use an attack that normally deals 80 damage. If the Pikachu uses it against a Pokémon with a Weakness of +20 to Lighting, you add 20 more damage to the normal damage to make it 100. Types can also make things less effective.

There is also a special kind of Pokémon in the trading card game called "EX" Pokémon. EX & GX Pokémon are stronger than regular ones, but when they are knocked out, the player's opponent draws two of their prize cards (with regular Pokémon it is just one.) Also, there is another special type of Pokémon in the trading card game called "Delta Species" Pokémon, which have types that are different than typical cards, like an Electric-type Charmander, who is usually Fire-type. In the "Diamond & Pearl" trading card game expansion, "LV.X" cards were introduced. These are a little like evolution cards, but they can only be used on Active Pokémon. In the "HeartGold & SoulSilver" expansion, The Pokémon Company released new cards, called LEGEND cards. LEGEND cards are two cards sold separately that when put together make one picture. They can be used only when the two cards they are made of are put together; they cannot work separately.

Criticism
The Pokémon media franchise, especially the anime, has been often criticized by organizations such as PETA.

Dennō Senshi Porygon
An episode of the anime called "Dennō Senshi Porygon" ("Electric Soldier Porygon" in the United States) was first shown in Japan on December 16, 1997. One part of the episode showed quickly flashing red and blue lights. This caused 685 Japanese children to have epileptic seizures. Because of this, the anime went on a four-month break, and several laws were put in place regarding the flashing lights.

Porygon, one of the main characters in the episode, has not appeared again in the anime ever since "Dennō Senshi Porygon". It has two evolved forms, Porygon2 and Porygon-Z, and neither of them have appeared in the anime at all, even though it was Ash Ketchum's Pikachu that made the explosion that caused the flashing lights.

An episode of The Simpsons called "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" made fun of "Dennō Senshi Porygon". So did an episode of South Park called "Chinpokomon".

Jynx
Jynx, a species of Pokémon, was criticized because it looked like it was using blackface (an old film-making technique that makes white actors look African-American).  It was also criticized because it looked like a drag queen (a man who dresses as a woman). This was not an issue in Japan, but it caused a lot of argument in the United States because of the United States' history of racism. Ever since then, Jynx has purple skin instead of black skin, and anime episodes featuring it were banned due to argument.

Nazi Symbols
Registeel, one of the regi-trios was criticized for being too similar to a Hitler's salute. In the Gen IV sprites for Registeel, it appears it is saluting. This only took place in the Japanese copies. When the English translations got released they have censored in such a way it was not saluting.

Another Nazi-related censorship was the card Koga's Ninga Trick. In this card, there are various symbols, one of them being the swastika. In the Asian culture, this symbol meant peace and relaxation/ While over the last century, it has turned into a demonic symbol. In the English translation, it has turned into another symbol.

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Nika Kiladze ( 29 November 1988 – 7 October 2014) was a Georgian footballer. He played professionally in both Georgia and Finland from 2006 until his death in 2014. He played as a defensive midfielder for Orbebi Tbilisi, Kokkolan Palloveikot (KPV), Kajaanin Haka, and FC Guria Lanchkhuti.

Kiladze was born in Gagra, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union.

Kiladze died in a motorcycle accident on 7 October 2014 in Tbilisi. He was 25.

References

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 Nika Kiladze at the Football Database
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Demetria Dyan McKinney (born August 27, 1979) is an American actress and singer.

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Narciso Parigi (29 November 1927 – 25 January 2020) was an Italian actor and singer. He was born in Campi Bisenzio, Italy. He participated in the Festival di Napoli in 1963 with Nunzio Gallo. He sang the song Annamaria. He appeared in Italian television programs such as Ci vediamo in TV and Mezzogiorno in famiglia.

Parigi died on 25 January 2020 in Florence, Italy at the age of 92.

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Oscar I (born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte 4 July 1799, dead 8 July 1859, was a Swedish monarch. He was the King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 until his death in 1859.

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Emma is a book by Jane Austen. It was first published in the year 1815. Jane Austen  readers with the idea of a "heroine whom no one but myself will much like" when she began writing Emma. It is a comedy about Emma Woodhouse, a rich young lady growing up in the fictional community of Hartfield, in 19th century England. The book is about the troubles Emma causes when she tries matchmaking.

Plot

Emma Woodhouse is a rich and beautiful young woman. The book starts by introducing her, and with her governess, Miss Taylor's wedding with Mr. Weston, a cheerful neighbor. Emma quickly becomes friends with Harriet Smith, a "natural daughter".

Characters

 Emma Woodhouse - the second daughter of Mr. Woodhouse. Jane Austen introduces Emma as "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition," and has had "...very little to distress or vex her." She is , friendly, and cares about her friends. However, Emma can also be proud and vain, like when she stops Harriet from marrying Robert Martin. Sometimes her kind feelings and her pride struggle with each other: "Emma could not but picture it all, and feel how justly they must resent (be angry), how naturally Harriet must suffer...She would have given a great deal, or endured a great deal, to have had the Martins in a higher rank of life. They were so deserving, a little higher should have been enough; but as it was, how could she have done otherwise? Impossible! She could not repent (be sorry). They must be separated..." Emma is also an "imaginist," "on fire with speculation (guesses) and ." She tries to match the people around her, but thinks she will never marry. Mr. Knightley warns her to try not to do so: "You are more likely to have done harm (bad) to yourself, than good to them, by ." He also says to Mrs. Weston, "Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen...ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all." Later, however, she sees her mistakes and has a happy marriage with Mr. Knightley.

 Mr. George Knightley - the brother of Mr. John Knightley, Emma's brother-in-law, and an old family friend. He is "a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty," with "a cheerful manner." He is "one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them." He is jealous of Frank Churchill when he comes and  with Emma. He is not as proud as Emma, and knows that Harriet would be very happy if she married Robert Martin. He is kind and generous, and respectful to people like Miss Bates.

 Frank Churchill - the son of Mr. Weston by his first wife. He is "...a very good-looking young man - height, air, address, all were unexceptionable, and his countenance (face) had a great deal of the spirit and liveliness of his father's - he looked quick and sensible." Somehow Mr. Knightley seems "...determined to think ill of him," and says he is a "...trifling, silly young fellow." Everybody seems to expect Frank Churchill and Emma to fall in love with each other. At first, Emma likes him very much, and thinks she loves him, but soon she realizes her love has settled into cheerful friendship, and she decides to match him with Harriet. She does not know he is already engaged to Jane Fairfax, and is very, very surprised when she finds out.

 Jane Fairfax - a quiet young lady of Emma’s age. Emma is secretly jealous of her because she can do lots of things better than Emma, like playing the piano. She is very beautiful, and “very elegant, remarkably elegant…elegance was the reigning character.” She is also delicate, kind, clever, and polite. However, she does not have the cheerful openness or warmth of Emma. She is secretly engaged to Frank Churchill, and is very unhappy when he keeps on flirting with Emma.

 Harriet - a seventeen-year-old  daughter of a tradesman. She is "a very pretty girl...short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, regular features, and a look of great sweetness...". Harriet is not very clever. However, she is grateful, nice, and humble. She loves Robert Martin, but because of Emma's opinion, she refuses his offer of marriage, and she falls in love with Mr. Elton instead. But Emma is very surprised when she finds out Mr. Elton loves her! Harriet is very sad, but Emma soon wants her to marry Frank Churchill instead. She is shocked when she realizes Harriet does not love Frank Churchill, but Mr. Knightley. In the end, Harriet marries the person she really liked, Robert Martin, and has a happy life.

 Mr. Woodhouse - Emma's old father. He loves his daughters, but with "gentle selfishness." He does not want his daughters to be married because he does not want them to leave him. Mr. Woodhouse is very cautious about illness and disease. He is sweet tempered, and likes to eat gruel.

Movie

1996: Emma - Starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

Other websites

 An examination of Emma's theme and its slavery subtext
 Chronology/Calendar for Emma

 Emma, online at Ye Olde Library
 Emma, complete text and audio
 Emma, free audio book at LibriVox

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Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam, born as Nadezhda Yakovlevna Hazin, (31 October 1899 in Saratov - 9 December 1980 in Moscow) was a Russian writer and the wife of poet Osip Mandelstam.

She grew up in Kiev, after she studied art.

She married Osip Mandelstam in 1921, and lived in Ukraine, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Georgia. Osip wrote a poem about the Russian leader, called Stalin Epigram.  It angered the Russian government, and in 1934 he was arrested, and ordered to live in Cherdyn, Perm region and later to Voronezh.  The government of Russia often used internal exile (sending people to live in small towns hundreds of miles from the big cities) instead of sending people to prison. Nadezhda went into exile with Osip.

Osip Mandelstam was released but arrested again in 1938. Before the government could decide where to send him he died in a camp near Vladivostok.

After this Nadezhda Mandelstam never lived in the same place for long, and she often changed jobs. She did this to hide from the NKVD (Russian Secret Police). When she was living in Kalinin the police came to arrest her her, but she had moved to a new house the day before.

She decided to spend her life collecting and publishing all of her husband's poems, and most of the poems she learned by heart (memorised).

After Stalin died Nadezhda Mandelstam published he book and was allowed to return to Moscow in 1958.

In 1979 she gave her archives (letters, books and photographs) to Princeton University in the United States of America. Nadezhda Mandelstam died in 1980 in Moscow, aged 81.

Books by Nadezhda Mandelstam
 Hope against Hope ()
 Hope Abandoned ()

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Vaishya is a division of the caste system.  A vaishya is a trader, merchant or artisan.

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An argemone or prickly poppy is a plant used for decoration. It is related to the poppy. The plant is common in the Americas.

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Alipur is a town in the state of Delhi, India. In 2001, there were 16,623 people living there.

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta () is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives of Malta.

The Speaker is responsible for controlling the flow of House business.

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War tax due stamp is a kind of war tax and postage due stamps that was used for mail when the war tax has not been paid by the sender. They were issued in Romania between 1915 and 1921.

During war the sender of a letter paid a war tax. Then they placed a war tax stamp on the letter showing the tax was paid. If the sender did not do that, a war tax due stamp was applied by the postal service. When the letter was delivered the person receiving the letter paid double the normal rate.

Related pages
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Saint-Martin-d'Arberoue is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.

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Saint-Martin-d'Arberoue


Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, known as Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. in Europe and as Mario & Luigi RPG 4: Dream Adventure in Japan, is a roleplaying video game for the Nintendo 3DS game console. It was revealed during the Nintendo Direct presentation by Nintendo on February 14, 2013. It is the fourth game in the Mario & Luigi series of games. It was released in Europe on July 12, 2013, in Japan on July 18, 2013, and in North America on August 11, 2013.

The game features similar gameplay to past Mario & Luigi games. Mario and Luigi explore the game's world and fight in turn-based battles. The game will involve a setting of Luigi's dreams, where Luigi falls asleep at certain points in the story and opens a portal leading to his dreams. Mario will be able to go through the portal to explore Luigi's dreams. In the dream world, the player will be able to use the console's touch screen to cause events to happen.

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Arturo Umberto Illia Francesconi (; August 4, 1900 – January 18, 1983) was an Argentine politician. He was President of Argentina from October 12, 1963, to June 28, 1966. He was a member of the centrist UCR.

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The Reddish Hermit (Phaethornis ruber) is a species of hummingbird. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and in the Guianas. The reddish hermit is 7.5 cm in length, which makes it one of the smallest hermits. Its natural habitats are forest and woodland, mostly humid.

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Pradikta Wicaksono (born in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 10, 1986) or often called Dikta, is an Indonesian singer. He is a singer for the group Yovie & Nuno, along with Dudi Oris. He joined Yovie & Nuno in 2007.

Personal life
Pradikta Wicaksono was born in Jakarta on January 10, 1986. He was the second child of three siblings.

References

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 Yovie & Nuno official site

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Thomas William  "Tom" Allin (27 November 1987 – 4 January 2016) was an English cricketer. He was a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler who also batted right-handed. He played for Warwickshire. He was born in Bideford, Devon.

Allin died on 4 January 2016 in Bideford, aged 28. He jumped to his death off a bridge.

References

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 Tom Allin at ESPNcricinfo
 Tom Allin at CricketArchive

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Hepatoblastoma is a rare form of Liver cancer occurring most frequently in children. Treatment consists of Surgery and Chemotherapy. If all of the cancer is removed during surgery, the prognosis is excellent, but if cancer is left behind, the prognosis is much worse.

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Timothy James "Tim" Curry (19 April 1946 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England ), is an English actor, voice actor, singer and composer. He is well known for his roles in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, It, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and The Three Musketeers. He has released three albums.

Personal life and Stroke
Curry resides in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California.

In July 2012, Curry suffered a major stroke. As a result of the stroke, he now uses a wheelchair.

Filmography

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Latvian might mean:

Anything related to Latvia, a country in Europe
Latvian language

Latvian


Best Actress in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film award presented each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).  It is to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a movie. Actors of all nationalities can receive the award.

Winners and nominees

1960s
 1968 – Billie Whitelaw – Charlie Bubbles as Lottie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve as Joan Harper Pat Heywood – Romeo and Juliet
 Virginia Maskell – Interlude
 Simone Signoret – Games

 1969 – Celia Johnson – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Miss Mackay Peggy Ashcroft – Three Into Two Wont Go
 Pamela Franklin – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
 Mary Wimbush – Oh What a Lovely War

 1970s
 1970 – Susannah York – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc Evin Crowley – Ryan's Daughter
 Estelle Parsons – Watermelon Man
 Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero

 1971 – Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley Jane Asher – Deep End
 Georgia Brown – The Raging Moon
 Georgia Engel – Taking Off

 1972 – Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper Marisa Berenson – Cabaret
 Eileen Brennan – The Last Picture Show
 Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen

 1973 – Valentina Cortese – Day for Night as Severine Rosemary Leach – That'll Be the Day
 Delphine Seyrig – The Day of the Jackal
 Ingrid Thulin – Cries and Whispers

 1974 – Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express as Greta Ohlsson Sylvia Sidney – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
 Sylvia Syms – The Tamarind Seed
 Cindy Williams – American Graffiti

 1975 – Diane Ladd – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Flo Ronee Blakely – Nashville as Bobbie Jean
 Lelia Goldoni – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
 Gwen Welles – Nashville

 1976 – Jodie Foster – Bugsy Malone as Tallulah and Taxi Driver as Iris "Easy" Steensma Annette Crosbie – The Slipper and the Rose
 Vivien Merchant – The Homecoming
 Billie Whitelaw – The Omen

 1977  – Jenny Agutter – Equus as Jill Mason Geraldine Chaplin – Welcome to L.A.
 Joan Plowright – Equus
 Shelley Winters – Next Stop, Greenwich Village

 1978  – Geraldine Page – Interiors as Eve Angela Lansbury – Death on the Nile
 Maggie Smith – Death on the Nile
 Mona Washbourne – Stevie

 1979 – Rachel Roberts – Yanks as Mrs. Clarrie Moreton Lisa Eichhorn – The Europens
 Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan as Tracy
 Meryl Streep – Manhattan

 1980s
 1982 – Rohini Hattangadi – Gandhi as Kasturba Gandhi and Maureen Stapleton – Reds as Emma Goldman Candice Bergen – Gandhi
 Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond as Chelsea Thayer Wayne

 1983 – Jamie Lee Curtis – Trading Places as Ophelia Teri Garr – Tootsie
 Rosemary Harris – The Ploughman's Lunch
 Maureen Lipman – Educating Rita

 1984 – Liz Smith – A Private Function as Joyce's Mother Eileen Atkins – The Dresser
 Cher – Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker
 Tuesday Weld – Once Upon a Time in America 1985 – Rosanna Arquette – Desperately Seeking Susan as Roberta Glass
 Judi Dench – Wetherby Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor as Maerose Prizzi
 Tracey Ullman – Plenty 1986 – Judi Dench – A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish Rosanna Arquette – After Hours
 Barbara Hershey – Hannah and Her Sisters
 Rosemary Leach – A Room with a View

 1987 – Susan Wooldridge – Hope and Glory as Molly Judi Dench – 84 Charing Cross Road
 Vanessa Redgrave – Prick Up Your Ears
 Dianne Wiest – Radio Days

 1988  – Judi Dench – A Handful of Dust Maria Aitken – A Fish Called Wanda Anne Archer – Fatal Attraction as Beth Gallagher
 Olympia Dukakis – Moonstruck as Rose Castorini

 1989 – Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons as Madame de Tourvel Peggy Ashcroft – Madame Sousatzka Laura San Giacomo – Sex, Lies, and Videotape as Cynthia Bishop
 Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl as Katharine Parker

 1990s
 1990 – Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost as Oda Mae Brown Anjelica Huston – The Grifters
 Shirley Maclaine – Steel Magnolias
 Billie Whitelaw – The Krays

 1991 – Kate Nelligan – Frankie and Johnny as Cora Annette Bening – The Grifters
 Amanda Plummer – The Fisher King
 Julie Walters – Stepping Out

 1992 – Miranda Richardson – Damage as Ingrid Fleming Kathy Bates – Fried Green Tomatoes
 Helena Bonham-Carter – Howards End
 Miranda Richardson – The Crying Game as Jude

 1993 – Miriam Margolyes – The Age of Innocence as Mrs. Mingott Holly Hunter – The Firm as Tammy Hemphill
 Winona Ryder – The Age of Innocence as May Welland
 Maggie Smith – The Secret Garden

 1994 – Kristin Scott Thomas – Four Weddings and a Funeral as Fiona Charlotte Coleman – Four Weddings and a Funeral
 Sally Field – Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
 Anjelica Huston – Manhattan Murder Mystery

 1995 – Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood Joan Allen – Nixon as Pat Nixon
 Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite as Linda Ash
 Elizabeth Spriggs – Sense and Sensibility

 1996 – Juliette Binoche – The English Patient as Hana Lauren Bacall – The Mirror Has Two Faces as Hannah Morgan
 Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Secrets & Lies as Hortense Cumberbatch
 Lynn Redgrave – Shine

 1997 – Sigourney Weaver – The Ice Storm as Janey Carver Jennifer Ehle – Wilde
 Lesley Sharp – The Full Monty
 Zoë Wanamaker – Wilde

 1998 – Judi Dench – Shakespeare in Love as Queen Elizabeth I Kathy Bates – Primary Colors
 Brenda Blethyn – Little Voice
 Lynn Redgrave – Gods and Monsters

 1999 – Maggie Smith – Tea with Mussolini as Lady Hester Random Thora Birch – American Beauty
 Cate Blanchett – The Talented Mr. Ripley
 Cameron Diaz – Being John Malkovich
 Mena Suvari – American Beauty

 2000s
 2000 – Julie Walters – Billy Elliot as Mrs. Georgia Wilkinson Judi Dench – Chocolat
 Frances McDormand – Almost Famous
 Lena Olin – Chocolat
 Zhang Ziyi – Wo hu cang long

 2001 – Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind as Alicia Nash Judi Dench – The Shipping News
 Helen Mirren – Gosford Park
 Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
 Kate Winslet – Iris as Young Iris Murdoch

 2002 – Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago as Velma Kelly Toni Collette – About a Boy
 Julianne Moore – The Hours
 Queen Latifah – Chicago as Matron Mama Morton
 Meryl Streep – Adaptation. as Susan Orlean

 2003 – Renée Zellweger – Cold Mountain as Ruby Thewes Holly Hunter – Thirteen as Melanie Freeland
 Laura Linney – Mystic River
 Judy Parfitt – Girl with a Pearl Earring
 Emma Thompson – Love Actually

 2004 – Cate Blanchett – The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn Julie Christie – Finding Neverland
 Heather Craney – Vera Drake
 Natalie Portman – Closer as Alice
 Meryl Streep – The Manchurian Candidate

 2005 – Thandie Newton – Crash as Christine Thayer Brenda Blethyn – Pride & Prejudice
 Catherine Keener – Capote as Harper Lee
 Frances McDormand – North Country
 Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers Del Mar

 2006 – Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls as Effie White Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine as Olive Hoover
 Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada
 Toni Collette – Little Miss Sunshine
 Frances de la Tour – The History Boys

 2007 – Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There as Jude Quinn
 Kelly Macdonald – No Country for Old Men
 Samantha Morton – Control
 Saoirse Ronan – Atonement as Young Briony Tallis

 2008 – Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena Amy Adams – Doubt
 Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire
 Tilda Swinton – Burn After Reading
 Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Cassidy

 2009 – Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy
 Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
 Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
 Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy

 2010s
 2010 – Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming
 Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
 Lesley Manville – Another Year
 Miranda Richardson – Made in Dagenham

 2011 – Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minny Jackson
 Jessica Chastain - The Help as Celia Foote
 Judi Dench - My Week with Marilyn as Dame Sybil Thorndike' Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids as Megan
 Carey Mulligan - Drive'' as Irene

References

 BAFTA Awards Database

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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Flappy Bird is a mobile game developed by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen (), under his game development company dotGears. The point of the game is for the bird to fly between columns of green pipes with the player controlling the bird making it fly higher.

Flappy Bird was released on May 24, 2013.

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A tattoo is a mark made by putting ink into the skin. Tattoos may be made on human or animal skin. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification (a way of changing the body), but tattoos on animals are most often used for identification. People sometimes get tattoos to show that they belong to a gang or culture group.

People get tattoos in tattoo parlors.  Getting a tattoo is painful, although some people have more pain than others, and some body parts are more painful to tattoo than others. Most tattoos today are created using an electric tattoo machine, which uses needles to put ink into the body.

History
Preserved tattoos on ancient mummified human remains reveal that tattooing has been practiced throughout the world for many centuries. In 2015, scientific re-assessment of the age of the two oldest known tattooed mummies identified Ötzi as the oldest currently known example. This body, with 61 tattoos, was found embedded in glacial ice in the Alps, and was dated to 3250 BCE. In 2018, the oldest figurative tattoos in the world were discovered on two mummies from Egypt which are dated between 3351 and 3017 BCE.

Tattooing is an ancient art.  Ötzi the Iceman, a man who lived around 3300 BC and whose mummy was found in 1991, had 61 tattoos consisting of 19 groups of lines simple dots and lines on his lower spine, left wrist, behind his right knee, and on his ankles. These tattoos, which were made of soot, were possibly part of an early form of acupuncture. Tattoos have also been found on mummies from ancient civilizations throughout the world, including Egypt, Nubia the Pazyryk culture of Russia, and from several cultures throughout South America.

Tattoos became popular in the Western world after Westerners first had contact with American Indians and Polynesians during the 1700s. James Cook, a famous British explorer, reported that he had seen tattooing being done when he was in Tahiti in 1769. The word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tatau".

In some cultures, tattoos have special meaning and importance.  For example, Polynesian people like the Māori in New Zealand have a tradition of face tattoos (called moko) which are sacred and have special meaning related to status and tribal history.

In other cultures, tattoos are forbidden.  For example, tattoos are forbidden in Jewish law.  In the Old Testament of the Bible, the book of Leviticus 19:28 states: "You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves."

Tattoos started to become popular in the United States and England during the 1860s and 1870s.  At first, tattoos were most often given to soldiers and sailors.  The first known professional tattoo artist in the United States was Martin Hildebrandt, a German immigrant who arrived in Boston in 1846. Between 1861 and 1865, he tattooed soldiers on both sides in the American Civil War. The first known professional tattooist in Britain worked in the port of Liverpool in the 1870s, tattooing mostly sailors.  However, by the 1870s, tattoos had become fashionable among some members of the upper classes, including royalty.

Since the 1970s, tattoos have become a mainstream part of Western fashion, common among both men and women, to all economic classes, and to age groups from the later teen years to middle age.  For many young Americans, tattoos have a very different meaning than they did for earlier generations.  In the past, tattoos were viewed as a form of deviance - a way of breaking social rules and standards.  Today, it has become an acceptable form of expression.

At times during history, people have been forced to get tattoos to mark them as slaves, criminals, or outsiders.  For example, the ancient Romans tattooed criminals and slaves.  In the 19th century, the United States marked convicts with tattoos before releasing them from jail, and the British Army marked deserters with tattoos.  In the 20th century, prisoners in Siberian and Nazi concentration camps were tattooed with identification numbers.

Types of Tattoos

Amateur and Professional Tattoos
Today, people choose to be tattooed for many different reasons.  Tattoos may also be used to show that a person belongs to a specific group.  For example, gang tattoos may show that a person belongs to a certain criminal gang.  Criminal tattoos may also show a person's criminal accomplishments (such as the number of years they spent in prison, or the number of people they have killed).  Tattoos, including full-body tattoos, are popular among the Yakuza (JapaneseMafia).

Cosmetic Tattoos
Tattoos can be used for cosmetic reasons.  Cosmetic tattoos include "permanent makeup," which uses tattooing to make designs that look like real makeup.  For example, cosmetic tattooers can create tattooed eyebrows for people who have lost their eyebrows because of old age, diseases that cause hair loss (like alopecia), or medications that make the hair fall out (like chemotherapy).  Cosmetic tattoos can also cover up moles or hide skin that is discolored because of diseases like vitiligo.

Cosmetic tattoos can also be used to cover up surgical scars, like scars from mastectomy (surgical removal of the breast).  The use of artistic tattoos to cover mastectomy scars is becoming more popular in the United States and the United Kingdom.  Cosmetic tattooing is also used to tattoo nipples onto reconstructed breasts after breast reconstruction surgery (where the breast which was removed during mastectomy is re-created using fat from another part of the body).

Medical Tattoos

Tattoos can also be used for medical reasons.  For example, a person may get a medical alert tattoo, which warns that they have a certain medical condition (like diabetes or a severe allergy).  When people get radiation therapy for cancer, tattoos may be used to mark exactly where the beam of radiation should be pointed.  This helps to make sure that the person gets the same treatment, in the right place, every time they have radiation therapy.

Genital
Genital tattooing is the practice of placing permanent marks under the skin of the genitals in the form of tattoos.
Nearly the entire genital region can be tattooed, including the shaft and head of the penis, the skin of the scrotum, the pubic region and the outer labia.

Health Risks
Because it breaks the skin, tattooing carries health risks.  These risks include infection and allergic reactions to tattoo inks.  These problems can often be avoided if the tattooer follows rules of cleanliness, uses certain tools on one person only, and sterilizing their equipment after every use (cleaning it in a special way that will kill germs).

In many places, tattooers are required to have training on blood-borne diseases (diseases which can be spread through the blood, like HIV and hepatitis).  As of 2009 in the United States, there were no reported cases of a person getting HIV from a professional tattoo.

In amateur tattooing (like tattooing in prisons), however, there is a much higher risk of infection.  Unsterilized (unclean) tattoo equipment or contaminated ink could spread infections on the surface of the skin, fungal infections, some forms of hepatitis, herpes simplex virus, HIV, staph, tetanus, and tuberculosis.

Most people are not allergic to tattoo inks.  However, there have been cases of allergic reactions to tattoo inks, especially to certain colors.  Sometimes this happens because the ink includes nickel, which sets off a common metal allergy.

Sometimes, if tattooing pierces a blood vessel, a bruise might appear.

Removal

Tattoo removal is most commonly performed using lasers that break down the ink particles in the tattoo into smaller particles.  Dermal macrophages are part of the immune system, tasked with collecting and digesting cellular debris. In the case of tattoo pigments, macrophages collect ink pigments, but have difficulty breaking them down.  Instead, they store the ink pigments. If a macrophage is damaged, it releases its captive ink, which is taken up by other macrophages. This can make it particularly difficult to remove tattoos. When treatments break down ink particles into smaller pieces, macrophages can more easily remove them.

Some people who have tattoos wish that they had not gotten them.  Tattoos can be taken off with laser surgery, but this is painful and often requires several visits to a dermatologist or skin care professional.

Related pages

 Body modification
 Scarification
 Flash (tattoo) - a sheet of paper or card board with tattoo designs printed or drawn on

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Tiffin is a city in Iowa in the United States.

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Tiffin, Iowa


The Regina Cyclone is a popular name for a tornado which hit Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It killed 28 people, making it the deadliest Canadian tornado. It started about 4:50 p.m. on June 30, 1912, forming 18 kilometres (11 miles) south of the city. The tornado move 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) north before dissipating. It was approximately 150 metres (490 feet) wide.

The tornado was estimated to have been an F4 on the Fujita scale. It killed 28 people and left 2,500 homeless. It caused CD$4.5 million in damages.

Related pages
 List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

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Regina Cyclone


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

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Puynormand


Chigny can mean:
 Chigny, Aisne, a commune in France
 Chigny, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud

Other
 Chigny-les-Roses, in the Marne department, France

Chigny


was a Japanese football player. He has played for the Japanese national team.

International career statistics

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Shogo Kamo


The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple (, transliterated Bet HaMikdash, which means literally "The Holy House") stood on the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) in the old city of Jerusalem. According to classical Jewish belief, it was the "footstool" of God's presence in the physical world.  It was the place where Jews brought all the offerings described in the Torah.

The First Temple, also called Solomon's Temple, was built by King Solomon in seven years during the 10th century BCE and has been dated astronomically to 957 BCE. It was the center of ancient Judaism. This first Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. A new temple was built from 535 BCE to 516 BCE. That was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. All of the outer walls still stand, although the Temple itself has long since been destroyed.

The Islamic Dome of the Rock has stood on the site of the Temple since the late 7th Century CE. The al-Aqsa Mosque, from roughly the same period, also stands on the Temple courtyard.

Related pages
 Al-Aqsa Mosque
 Second Temple

References

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 About the Temple of Jerusalem
 visit of the Temple Institute Museum in Jerusalem conducted by Rav Israel Ariel

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Temple in Jerusalem


The following is a list of symbols of the U.S. State of Kansas.

State symbols

References

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 The flag of Kansas
 The seal of Kansas
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Jackson is a city in lower mid-Michigan. It was started in 1829. It is named after Democratic President Andrew Jackson. Jackson is the home town of several well-known people. One of whom is the first African-American Super Bowl winning coach, Tony Dungy.

Several of the major employers in the city are CMS Energy, which gives natural gas and electrical services to much of Michigan and has its international headquarters in the city, as well as Foote Hospital. Jackson is  from the Michigan International Speedway.

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Jackson, Michigan


Fremington is a village in North Devon.

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Category:Villages in Devon

Fremington, Devon


Containment building is a building with a nuclear reactor in it. It is built around the reactor to keep the radiation from getting out, if something happens to the reactor. The containment building is the last barrier to the radiation getting into the environment. Containment systems for nuclear power reactors are distinguished by size, shape, materials used, and suppression systems. The kind of containment used is determined by the type of reactor, generation of the reactor, and the specific plant needs.

The Chernobyl accident was very bad partly because Soviet reactors had no containment buildings.

Layers of nuclear defense
The diagram shows the order of defense layers for a nuclear reactor. The first layer of defense is the inert, ceramic quality of the uranium oxide itself. The second layer is the air tight zirconium alloy of the fuel rod. The third layer is the reactor pressure vessel made of steel more than a dozen centimeters thick. The fourth layer is the pressure resistant, air tight containment building. The fifth layer is the exclusion zone around the reactor.

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The three-finger salute (, "three fingers"), usually known as the Serb salute, is a salute which, at first, represented the Holy Trinity, was used when making oaths, and as a symbol of Serbian Orthodoxy, but today it is usually a gesture for ethnic Serbs and Serbia. It is made by stretching out the thumb, index, and middle fingers of one or both hands.

In Serbian and Orthodox tradition, the number three is very important. Three fingers are used when signing the cross in Orthodoxy, to represent the three parts of the Trinity. In history, Serbs used the three-finger salute when they were making oaths. Often, the salute was done with both hands above the head. A Serbian proverb says that "There is no cross without three fingers" (нема крста без три прста). Karađorđe was made the leader of the First Serbian Uprising after all the members of the uprising raised their "three fingers in the air" and by doing that swore an oath to him.

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Serbian three-finger salute


The Green River Formation is an Eocene rock formation on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. It records sediment from a group of intermountain lakes. Its fine fossils make this a lagerstätte, a place of exceptional preservation.

The various fossil beds of the Green River Formation span a 5 million year period, dating to between 53.5 and 48.5 million years ago (mya). During this period the climate moved from the moist early Eocene climate and the slightly drier mid-Eocene.

The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, in pairs: a dark layer from the growing season, and a light-hue inorganic layer in winter.

Each pair of layers is called a varve and represents one year. The sediments of the Green River Formation present a continuous record of six million years. The mean thickness of a varve here is 0.18 mm, with a minimum thickness of 0.014 mm and maximum of 9.8 mm.

The sedimentary layers were formed in a large area named after the present-day Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River. The formation is in three separate basins around the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah:
 an area in northwestern Colorado east of the Uintas
 a larger area in the southwest corner of Wyoming just north of the Uintas known as Lake Gosiute
 another area, in Fossil Butte National Monument, Lincoln County, Wyoming is Fossil Lake. It has exceptionally well preserved fish fossils. The most productive zone — the split fish layer — is a series of laminated or varved lime muds about 6 ft (1.8 m) thick. They contains abundant fish and other fossils. The rock is easily split along the layers to reveal the fossils. This thin zone took about 4000 years to deposit.
 the largest area, in northeastern Utah and western Colorado south of the Uintas, known as Lake Uinta

Conditions at the time
The formation has many evaporites – minerals formed by the evaporation of lakes. This suggests that high salinity was one of the causes of the superb fossilisation.

Another factor was the frequent ash falls from nearby volcanoes. Rapid burial also prevents normal decomposition.

Climate
Fossils preserved suggest that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when the sediments accumulated.

The Green River fossils show a transition between the moist early Eocene climate and the slightly drier mid-Eocene. The climate was moist and mild enough to support crocodiles, which do not tolerate frost, and the lakes were surrounded by sycamore forests. As the lake configurations shifted, each Green River location is distinct in character and time. The lake system formed over underlying river deltas and shifted in the flat landscape with slight tectonic movements

Oil shale
The Green River Formation contains the largest oil shale deposits in the world. The 213 billion tons of oil shale contain an estimated 2.38 × 10¹¹ m³ (1.5 trillion US barrels) of shale oil. This is a tribute to the high volume of organic material that was buried. The source of the organic material was probably cyanobacteria, which thrive in warm alkaline lake conditions.

Fossils
The lagerstätten formed in anoxic conditions in the fine carbonate muds that formed in the lakebeds. Lack of oxygen slowed bacterial decomposition and kept scavengers away. Leaves of palms, ferns and sycamores, some showing the insect damage got during their growth, were covered with fine-grained sediment and preserved. Insects were preserved whole, even delicate wing membranes and spider spinnerets.

The fauna  included fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals

Reference

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Green River Formation


Governance is the term for the way a group of people such as a country do things. Many groups create a government to decide how things are to be done. Governance is different from politics. Politics deals with people with different ideas working together to create an agreement about what to do, and governance is doing what politics decided needed to be done.Governance is also how government decision making affects people in that nation.

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Governance


Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (February 19, 1953), also called Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner, is an Argentine attorney and politician. She has been the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She was the President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. She is the daughter of Eduardo Fernandez ( of Spanish descent) a bus driver, and Ofelia Esther Wilhelm (of German descent). She is a lawyer and she was married to former Argentinian president Néstor Kirchner from 1975 until his death in 2010.

She was elected President in October 2007. She was re-elected to a second term in October 2011.

In October 2019, she was elected Vice President with Alberto Fernández as President.

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is a former Japanese football player.

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The District of Mirditë is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania.  It is part of Lezhë County. There are 26,668 people. The capital is Rrëshen.

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Mirditë District


In law, a conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime. The opposite of a conviction is an acquittal (i.e. "not guilty"). A minor conviction is a warning conviction, and it does not affect the defendant but does serve as a warning. In Scotland there can also be a verdict of "not proven", which counts as an acquittal. A convicted person is also called a convict.

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Conviction


"Mercy" is a song by pop rock band OneRepublic, from their debut album, Dreaming Out Loud. The song helped gain the band's popularity on MySpace, and was voted as one of the best songs on MySpace. The song was released as a single in the autumn of 2008 promoting their tour of the UK.

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Mercy (song)


Ravichandran Ashwin (born 17 September 1986 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian cricketer playing for the international team. He is a right arm spin bowler. But he bats too well in Test cricket.Ashwin is a right hand batsman. He is a 6 ft 2 inch tall cricketer.

Cricket statistics
Ravichandran Ashwin had played for Indian international cricket team, Chennai Super Kings (IPL), Rising Pune Supergiants (IPL), Tamil Nadu (Ranji trophy) etc. teams.

Test cricket
Ashwin scored 2 centuries in Test cricket, 124 and 103 both vs West Indies cricket team. His best bowling figure in Test cricket is 12/85 vs Australia in Hyderabad. Ashwin is the fastest Indian bowler to reach 100 wickets in 18th Test match and 5th fastest bowler in the world. He became the first Indian to hit a century and take 5 wickets in the same match. The third Indian to receive Man of the Match award on debut. He took 28 wickets in a single series against Australia beating Anil Kumble's world record. He totally picked up 176 wickets and scored 1204 runs in 32 Matches.

One day Internationals
Ravichandran Ashwin scored 658 runs and picked up 142 wickets in 102 matches. His best bowling figure in ODI is 4/25 vs U.A.E in World Cup 2015. He is appreciated in One day Internationals for his economy rate while bowling and different variations. His highest batting score is 65 vs New Zealand.

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Necropolis (city of the dead) is a large cemetery complex. One of the most famous is in Thebes, Egypt.

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The arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Haute-Savoie département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.

History
When the Haute-Savoie department was created in 1860, the arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois was part of that original department.

On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Saint-Julien was eliminated but became again an arrondissement in 1933.

Geography
The arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois is bordered to the north by Switzerland, to the northeast by the arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains, to the east by the arrondissement of Bonneville, to the south by the arrondissement of Annecy and to the west by the Ain department.

It is in the northwest of the department and is the smallest arrondissement with an area of . It has a population of 180,562 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

Composition

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

In the arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, there are 5 cantons:

 Annemasse (7404)
 Bonneville (7405) (partly)
 Gaillard (7409)
 La Roche-sur-Foron (7411) (partly)
 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois (7413)

Communes
The arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois has 72 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Allonzier-la-Caille (74006)
 Ambilly (74008)
 Andilly (74009)
 Annemasse (74012)
 Arbusigny (74015)
 Archamps (74016)
 Arthaz-Pont-Notre-Dame (74021)
 Bassy (74029)
 Beaumont (74031)
 Bonne (74040)
 Bossey (74044)
 Cercier (74051)
 Cernex (74052)
 Challonges (74055)
 Chaumont (74065)
 Chavannaz (74066)
 Chessenaz (74071)
 Chevrier (74074)
 Chilly (74075)
 Chêne-en-Semine (74068)
 Chênex (74069)
 Clarafond-Arcine (74077)
 Clermont (74078)
 Collonges-sous-Salève (74082)
 Contamine-Sarzin (74086)
 Copponex (74088)
 Cranves-Sales (74094)
 Cruseilles (74096)
 Desingy (74100)
 Dingy-en-Vuache (74101)
 Droisy (74107)
 Feigères (74124)
 Fillinges (74128)
 Franclens (74130)
 Frangy (74131)
 Gaillard (74133)
 Jonzier-Épagny (74144)
 Juvigny (74145)
 La Muraz (74193)
 Le Sappey (74259)
 Lucinges (74153)
 Machilly (74158)
 Marlioz (74168)
 Menthonnex-en-Bornes (74177)
 Menthonnex-sous-Clermont (74178)
 Minzier (74184)
 Monnetier-Mornex (74185)
 Musièges (74195)
 Nangy (74197)
 Neydens (74201)
 Pers-Jussy (74211)
 Présilly (74216)
 Reignier-Esery (74220)
 Saint-Blaise (74228)
 Saint-Cergues (74229)
 Saint-Germain-sur-Rhône (74235)
 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois (74243)
 Savigny (74260)
 Scientrier (74262)
 Seyssel (74269)
 Usinens (74285)
 Valleiry (74288)
 Vanzy (74291)
 Vers (74296)
 Ville-la-Grand (74305)
 Villy-le-Bouveret (74306)
 Viry (74309)
 Vovray-en-Bornes (74313)
 Vulbens (74314)
 Vétraz-Monthoux (74298)
 Éloise (74109)
 Étrembières (74118)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Haute-Savoie department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Category:Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois


Seed plants are a group of plants. Gymnosperms and angiosperms form the group. Their seeds have three parts: (1) an embryo, (2) a supply of nutrients for the embryo, and (3) a seed coat. They are also called spermatophytes or phanerogams. The seed plants dominate almost all the environments on land.

The living spermatophytes form five groups:

Cycads, a subtropical and tropical group of plants with a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk
Ginkgo, a single living species of tree
Conifers, cone-bearing trees and shrubs
Gnetophyta, woody plants in the genera Gnetum, Welwitschia, and Ephedra
Angiosperms, the flowering plants, a large group including many familiar plants in a wide variety of habitats

The fossil seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) were one of the earliest successful groups of land plants, and forests dominated by seed ferns were prevalent in the Permian. Glossopteris was the most prominent tree genus in the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana during the Permian period. By the Triassic period, seed ferns had declined, (perhaps were extinct) and modern gymnosperm groups were abundant and dominant to the Upper Cretaceous, when angiosperms radiated.

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Seed plants