The equator is a line which is not real drawn around a sphere or planet, such as the Earth. It is one of the lines known as a line of latitude, or circle of latitude. The name "equator" is Latin for "even-maker"; at equator the day and night are exactly the same length around the year.

The equator is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole. There, the surface of the planet is parallel to the axis of rotation. The equator divides the surface into the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere.

Climate
Unlike the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, countries around the equator do not experience the four seasons, and the climate is usually very humid.

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Juan Valera Espín (born 21 December 1984) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Atlético Madrid.

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Domhnall Gleeson (born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his role as General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He has also appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011), About Time (2013), Unbroken (2014), Ex Machina (2015), Brooklyn (2015), The Revenant (2015) and Peter Rabbit (2018). He was nominated for a Tony Award in 2006 for his role in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

Gleeson was born in Dublin. His father, Brendan, and his brother, Brian, are also actors. He is a fan of English football club Aston Villa.

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Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar (Devanagari: मंगेश केशव पाडगांवकर; 10 March 1929 – 30 December 2015) was a Indian poet from Maharashtra, India. He was born on 10 March 1929 in Vengurla, Sindhudurg District in Maharashtra.

Padgaonkar has 40 publications to his credit. He began writing at the age of 14. The United States Library of Congress has 31 of his publications in their collection. He has also translated works of Kabir and Surdas in Marathi along with Shakespeare's plays The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet. In 2008, his translation of the Bible was released.

Padgaonkar died in Mumbai from a short illness at the age of 86.

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Stopover is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It is at the junction of Kentucky Route 194 and Kentucky Route 2062  east of Phelps. Stopover had a post office with ZIP code 41568.

Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy, was born in Stopover.

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The following is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, by letter:

Ahnapee River
Amnicon River
Apple River, tributary of Mississippi River
Apple River, tributary of St. Croix River
Ashippun River
Bad Axe River
Bad River
Baraboo River
Bark River, tributary of Lake Superior
Bark River, tributary of Rock River
Bear River
Beaver Dam River
Big Green River
Big Rib River
Big River
Black River, tributary of Mississippi River
Black River, tributary of Nemadji River
Black River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Black River, tributary of Lake Superior via upper Michigan
Blue River
Bois Brule River
Branch River
Brill River
Brule River
Brunet River
Brunsweiler River
Buffalo River
Chippewa River
Clam River
Coney River
Copper River
Couderay River
Cranberry River
Crawfish River
Crystal River
Deerskin River
Des Plaines River
Devils River
Eagle River
East Branch Pecatonica River
East River
East Twin River
Eau Claire River, tributary of Chippewa River
Eau Claire River, tributary of St. Croix River
Eau Claire River, tributary of Wisconsin River
Eau Galle River
Eau Pleine River
Elk River
Embarrass River
Flag River
Flambeau River
Fond du Lac River of Wisconsin
Fox River of Illinois and Wisconsin
Fox River of Wisconsin
Galena River
Grand River
Grant River
Hay River
Iron River, tributary of Bad River
Iron River, tributary of Lake Superior
Jump River
Kakagon River
Kewaunee River
Kickapoo River
Killsnake River
Kinnickinnic River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Kinnickinnic River, tributary of St. Croix River
Kohlsville River
La Crosse River
Lemonweir River
Little Boise Brule River
Little Eau Pleine River
Little Elk River
Little Grant River
Little Green River
Little Lemonweir River
Little Menominee River
Little Menomonee River
Little Peshtigo River
Little Platte River
Little Pokegama River
Little Rib River
Little Rice River
Little River, tributary of Oconto River
Little River, tributary of Wolf River
Little Sioux River
Little Somo River
Little Sugar River
Little Thornapple River
Little Trappe River
Little Turtle River
Little Wolf River
Little Yellow River
Manitowish River
Manitowoc River
Marengo River
Maunesha River
Mecan River
Meeme River
Menominee River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Menominee River, tributary of Mississippi River
Menomonee River
Middle River
Milwaukee River
Mink River
Mississippi River
Mondeaux River
Montello River
Montreal River
Moose River, tributary of Chippewa River
Moose River, tributary of St. Croix River
Mukwonago River
Mullet River
Namekagon River
Nemadji River
Neshota River
New Wood River
North Fork Chief River
Oconomowoc River
Oconto River
Onion River, tributary of Lake Superior
Onion River, tributary of Sheboygan River
Ounce River
Pecatonica River
Pelican River
Pemebonwon River
Pensaukee River
Peshtigo River
Pigeon River, tributary of Embarrass River
Pigeon River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Pike River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Pike River, tributary of Menominee River
Pine River, tributary of Menominee River
Pine River, tributary of Wisconsin River
Pine River, tributary of Wisconsin River
Pine River, tributary of Wolf River
Platte River
Plover River
Pokegama River
Poplar River
Popple River
Potato River
Prairie River
Presque Isle River
Raspberry River
Rat River (Peshtigo River), tributary of Peshtigo River
Rat River (Wolf River), tributary of Wolf River
Red Cedar River
Red River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Red River, tributary of St. Louis River
Red River, tributary of Wolf River
Rock River
Root River, tributary of Des Plaines River
Root River, tributary of Lake Michigan
Rubicon River
Rush River
St. Croix River
St. Louis River
Sand River
Scuppernong River
Sheboygan River
Shioc River
Sinsinawa River
Sioux River
Siskiwit River
Somo River
Spirit River
Spruce River
Straight River
Suamico River
Sugar River
Sweeny Pond
Teal River
Thornapple River
Tomahawk River
Tomorrow River
Totagatic River
Trade River
Trappe River
Trempealeau River
Trimbelle River
Trout River
Turtle River
Upper Tamarack River
Vermilion River
Waupaca River
West Twin River
White River, tributary of Bad River
White River, tributary of Fox River
Willow River, tributary of St. Croix River
Willow River, tributary of Tomahawk River
Wind River
Wisconsin River
Wolf River, tributary of Eau Claire River (Chippewa River)
Wolf River, tributary of Winnebago Pool
Wood River
Yahara River
Yellow River, tributary of Chippewa River
Yellow River, tributary of Red Cedar River
Yellow River, tributary of St. Croix River
Yellow River, tributary of Wisconsin River
Yellowstone River

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Kazuyuki Mugita (born 10 November 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tokushima Vortis.

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ISO 3166 is a standard made by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and it uses short codes to name all countries and some other places. People from all over the world can use the same codes; this is helpful because different languages have different names for many countries. For example, the country English-speakers call Spain is called España by Spanish-speakers. The ISO 3166 has three codes for Spain: ES, ESP, and 724. No other country has any of these codes.

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Cármenes is a municipality in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), 425 people lived there.

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland uses as its national flag the royal banner known as the Union Flag or, popularly, Union Jack. The design today of the Union Flag comes from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801. It has the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England), edged in white, on top of the Cross of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which are on the Saltire of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland). The flag does not contain anything that represents Wales, leading some people to call for a redesign.

Its correct measurements are 1:2 (i.e. the bottom is twice as long as the sides). However, the British Armed Forces sometimes use a 3:5 version, where two of the red diagonals are cropped.

Legacy
The Union Jack has a legacy for flags, and some of the former colonies of Britain have this design on their own flags (i.e. Australia, Fiji, Hawaii, some provinces of Canada, etc.).

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The Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Horst Wessel Song"), also known as Die Fahne hoch ("The flag on high", from its opening line), was the anthem of the Nazi Party from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945 it was also part of Germany's national anthem.

The lyrics of the song were composed in 1929 by Horst Wessel, a Nazi activist and local commander of the Nazi militia, the SA, in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. Wessel was assassinated by a Communist activist in January 1930, and the propaganda apparatus of Berlin Gauleiter Dr Joseph Goebbels made him the leading martyr of the Nazi Movement. The song became the official Song of Consecration (Weihelied) for the Nazi Party, and was much used at party functions and sung by the SA during street parades.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Horst-Wessel-Lied was recognised as a national symbol by a law issued on May 19, 1933. Nazi Germany thus had a double anthem, consisting of the first verse of the Deutschlandlied followed by the Horst Wessel-Lied. A regulation attached to a printed version of the Horst Wessel-Lied in 1934 required the right arm to be raised in a "Hitler salute" when the first and fourth verses were sung.

With the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945, the Horst-Wessel-Lied was banned, and both the lyrics and the tune remain illegal in Germany and Austria to this day except for educational and scholarly uses (under sections 86 and 86a of the Strafgesetzbuch).

Lyrics
The lyrics of the Horst-Wessel-Lied were published in the Berlin Nazi newspaper, Der Angriff, in September 1929, attributed to "Der Unbekannte SA-Mann" ("the Unknown SA-Man"), as follows:

The "Rotfront" ("Red Front") was a reference to the Rotfrontkämpferbund, a communist militia tied to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). It was common for Nazis' Sturmabteilung and Communists' Redfront to attack each other in violent street fights, which eventually grew into full-scale battles after 1930. "Reaction" was a reference to the conservative parties and the liberal democratic German state of the Weimar Republic period, which made several unsuccessful attempts to ban the SA. "Servitude" means what the Nazis saw as Germany's "servitude" to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, which imposed huge reparations on Germany and deprived her of her colonies and territory along her eastern border.

Some changes were made to the lyrics after Wessel's death:

The dropping of the reference to "barricades" reflected the Nazi Party's desire in the period 1930-33 to be seen as a constitutional political party aiming at taking power by legal means rather than as a revolutionary party.

The line "Kameraden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen" is ghastly German, but it was never amended.

After Wessel's death, new stanzas were composed in his honour. These were frequently sung by the SA but did not become part of the official lyrics used on party or state occasions.

Melody

After Wessel's death, he was officially credited with having composed the melody as well as having written the lyrics for the Horst-Wessel-Lied. Between 1930 and 1933, however, German critics disputed this claim, pointing out that the melody had a long prior history. Such criticism became impossible after 1933.

The most likely immediate source for the melody was a song popular in the German Imperial Navy during World War I, which Wessel would no doubt have heard being sung by Navy veterans in the Berlin of the 1920s. The song was known either by its opening line as Vorbei, vorbei, sind all die schönen Stunden, or as the Königsberg-Lied, after the German light cruiser Königsberg, which is mentioned in one version of the song's lyrics. The opening stanza of the song is:

Another German song, Der Abenteurer (The Adventurer), begins:

In 1936 a German music critic, Alfred Weidemann, published an article in which he identified the melody of a song composed in 1865 by the Weimar composer Peter Cornelius as the "Urmelodie" (source-melody). According to Weidemann, Cornelius described the tune as a "Viennese folk tune." This appeared to him to be the ultimate origin of the melody of the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

The musical score is much more complex than the text of the song; given its characteristics, it could easily be sung even by people without much singing practice, and be played by amateur bands. Often, fanfares were used to give a more military touch to the tune.

See also the Wikipedia article on Carl Boberg (1859-1940), particularly the note on similarities and dissimilarities between "Horst Wessel Lied" and the Swedish tune O STORE GUD (widely sung as "How Great Thou Art").

Other uses

During the 1930s and '40s the Horst-Wessel-Lied was adapted for use by fascist groups in other European countries. The anthem of the British Union of Fascists was set to the same tune, and its lyrics were to some extent modelled on the Horst-Wessel-Lied, but appealing to British nationalism rather than German nationalism. Its opening stanza was:

Comrades, the voices of the dead battalions,
Of those who fell, that Britain might be great,
Join in our song, for they still march in spirit with us,
And urge us on, to gain the fascist state!

In Spain, the Falange fascist movement sang to the same tune:

While in Vichy France the fascists of the radical Milice sang:

Parodies

Between 1930 and 1933 the German Communists and Social Democrats sang various parodies of the Horst-Wessel-Lied during their street battles with the SA. Some simply changed the political character of the song, such as:

The Stahlhelm was a veterans' organisation closely aligned with the Nazis.

Others substituted completely new lyrics:

Ernst Thälmann was the KPD leader.

These versions were of course banned once the Nazis came to power and the Communist and Social Democratic parties repressed. But during the years of the Third Reich the song was parodied in various underground versions, most of them poking fun at the corruption of the Nazi elite. One version ran:

Wilhelm Frick was the Interior Minister. Baldur von Schirach was the Hitler Youth leader. Heinrich Himmler was head of the SS and police.

In the first year of the Nazi regime radical elements of the SA sang their own parody of the song, reflecting their disappointment that the "socialist" element of National Socialism had not been realised:

Kurt Schmitt was Economics Minister 1933-35.

References

This article is largely based on George Boderick, "The Horst-Wessel-Lied: A Reappraisal," International Folklore Review Vol. 10 (1995): 100-127, available online here

Other websites

 Text and melody (MID format),  song (MP3 format)
 Text of the German Criminal Code §86 and §86a (in English)
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Thomas Patrick Barrasso (born March 31, 1965) is an American retired ice hockey goaltender. He played a career total of 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs and the St. Louis Blues. During his first season, Barrasso won both the Calder Memorial Trophy, for best rookie, as well as the Vezina Trophy for best goaltender. Barrasso also won the Stanley Cup twice, both times with the Penguins, in 1991 and 1992. Barrasso retired in 2003.

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Tom Barrasso's profile at Hockeydraftcentral.com

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Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter  (29 July 1889 - 29 September 1953) was a German politician.

Reuter was born  in the small Prussian town of Apenrade (today Aabenraa in Denmark).

After getting his abitur in 1907 at the Gymnasium in Leer (East Frisia) he went to Marburg to study philosophy and social sciences. In 1909 he moved to the university in Munich. In Munich he first came in touch with the ideas of socialism. He returned to Marburg in the autumn of 1910 and in 1912 took the state examination there.

Ernst Reuter then worked as a private tutor in Bielefeld. He joined the Social Democratic Party in Bielefeld, but soon went to the SPD party executive to Berlin where he worked in the central education committee.

Reuter did not believe in war. He founded the pacifist, group "Neues Vaterland" .

In 1916 Reuter was ordered into the imperial army. He was a courier on the eastern front. He was seriously wounded and became a Russian prisoner. He studied Russian in the prison camp, followed the Bolsheviks, and was appointed People's Commissar in the Volga German Republic in December 1917.

But Reuter returned to Germany in November 1918. He joined the Communist Party (KPD) and became First Secretary of the Berlin city party in 1920. The KPD expelled him in January 1922, and later that year Reuter returned to SPD.

In 1926, after having been editor of the SPD newspaper "Vorwärts" ("Forwards"), he started working for the Berlin Transport Department. Reuter oversaw the creation of the "Berliner Verkehrs-Aktien-Gesellschaft" (BVG) in 1928. The BVG was a merger of all of the underground, tram, and bus companies in the city. At the time the BVG was the largest public transport company in the world. It still operates today, as part of the Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Group.

Reuter was mayor of Magdeburg from 1931 up to the take-over by the National Socialists; he belonged to the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag at the same time. After being arrested several times Ernst Reuter was freed from a concentration camp after help from English friends. He moved to live in the Netherlands, then Great Britain and Turkey. He worked as an adviser for the Turkish government in traffic matters. In 1938 he became a professor for urban development and town planning at the Administration Academy in Ankara.

Ernst Reuter returned to Berlin in November 1946 and became head of the city's traffic department again.

The Soviet veto stopped Reuter from becoming mayor in June 1947. But he played on a central role also under the acting Mayor Louise Schröder.

The elections set for 5 December 1948 could only take place in the western sectors. The SPD gained almost two-thirds of the votes so they were the strongest party. On 7 December the old city council met once again and elected Ernst Reuter as mayor. This choice was confirmed by the new parliament on 14 January 1949. Although the SPD lost about 20 per cent of the votes in the elections on 3 December 1950, Ernst Reuter remained in the office. The vote in parliament between Reuter and the CDU candidate Walther Schreiber had ended with a stalemate. Schreiber withdrew in favour of Reuter who took the new official title of Regierender Bürgermeister, at the head an all-party coalition with the from SPD, CDU and FDP.

Ernst Reuter stayed in charge of Berlin for another two years and eight months. He died of a heart attack in Berlin.

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Erkki Topias Pystynen (born 2 November 1929) is a Finnish politician. He was a member of the National Coalition Party. Pystynen was born in Heinola, Finland. Pystynen was a professor in Tampere University. He was elected to the parliament in 1975 and was the Speaker from 1983 to 1986. He left the Parliament in 1991.

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The Apostles, op. 49, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed on October 14, 1903.

History of its composition

Elgar had been thinking for many years about writing a musical work about Jesus's Twelve Apostles.  He was already 42 when his orchestral work Enigma Variations was first performed in 1899.  He was then asked by the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival to compose a big work for the following year.  At first he thought of writing The Apostles, but then he realized he would need more than a year to write it, so he composed an oratorio called The Dream of Gerontius.  When it was first performed it was not a success.  This was because the orchestra and choir had only had two weeks to learn it and also because the conductor did not like Elgar's music anyway.  Then it was performed in Düsseldorf in Germany and shortly afterwards in Westminster Cathedral, London.  Both these performances were greeted with lots of applause.  Elgar was given a doctorate (title of Dr) by the University of Cambridge and he was becoming famous.  He started to work on The Apostles, and it was performed in Birmingham in 1903.

Originally Elgar wanted to write three oratorios which would belong together.  The Apostles is the first one, the second one became The Kingdom but the third one, which would have been about the Last Judgement, was never written.

The words and music

The oratorio is about the disciples of Jesus and the way they react to the amazing things that Jesus does.  There are six soloists: the narrator (who tells the story)-  he has a tenor voice and also does the part of St John, St Peter (bass), Jesus (bass) and Judas (bass) and the two female singers: the soprano who is both the Blessed Virgin and the angel Gabriel, and the mezzo-soprano who is Mary Magdalene.

Sometimes The Apostles is criticized for not being a carefully thought out dramatic story.  Elgar was more interested in what makes people behave in the way they do.  He was particularly interested in the two sinners Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot.

The orchestra is very big.  The music includes the call of the shofar.  Often this is played on a brass instrument.  There is a double choir and a small choir (semichorus).

The parts of the oratorio
The work is in two parts and seven sections, each played without a break. Elgar chose the words himself.  He spent a lot of time looking at different translations of the Bible and combining sentences from several of the versions.

 (Part 1) "The Calling of the Apostles". The music begins just before dawn; the sun rises, and one by one the Apostles are chosen.
 "By the Wayside". This shows Jesus's teaching, and includes the Beatitudes.
 "By the Sea of Galilee". This is all about Mary Magdalene.  After a stormy night she is converted (changes her behaviour to live a good life).
 (Part 2) "The Betrayal". This is all about Judas.  Elgar shows Judas as a person who was trying to make a situation in which Jesus would have to perform a miracle to prove that he was the Son of God.   In the end Judas despairs.
 "Golgotha". This is a short interlude, as is the following section.
 "At the Sepulchre". The story of the Resurrection is briefly told by the narrator and a chorus of angels.
 "The Ascension". Elgar is not so interested in the actual miracle.  The music is really about the Apostles who are going to start the Christian Church on Earth.

Evaluation
Unlike The Dream of Gerontius which people did not like the first time they heard it, The Apostles was an immediate success with audience and critics.  People were getting used to the kind of big oratorio that Elgar was writing.  However, today The Dream of Gerontius is the most popular of Elgar's oratorios. The Apostles is a strange mixture of words from different parts of the bible, but it has some very beautiful music.  Elgar often wrote the music first and then added the words afterwards.

Elgar uses leitmotifs in this work: melodies that are associated with particular people or ideas.  He got this idea from Wagner.  Some of the leitmotifs heard in The Apostles can also be heard in The Kingdom.

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Political behaviour is how people think about politics and how they vote and do things like protest because of what they believe. Family, teachers and friends all shape how we think. The media and political adverts also change the way many people vote. Social class, race and religion also make people vote in different ways.

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Kung Fu was an American television series created by Ed Spielman, and starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine. The show was nominated for 2 Golden Globes.

Plot
Kung Fu follows the adventures of a Shaolin monk named Kwai Chang Caine travelling through the Old West of the United States as the only weapon, using his skills in martial arts and inner strength of his philosophy of life. Its purpose was to find his half-brother, Danny Caine, and start a new family, as Kwai Chang had fled China after the authorities put a price on his head.

63 episodes of the series were filmed between 1972-1975, including the 90-minute TV pilot.

References
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 Cinephilia: movies, love and memory, by Marijke de Valck,Malte Hagener

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Queens' College is one of the colleges that make up the University of Cambridge in England. It was first founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou (the Queen of Henry VI), and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville (the Queen of Edward IV). This is why the name of the college is spelt Queens' and not Queen's: it was founded by two queens.

The President's Lodge of Queens' is the oldest building on the river at Cambridge, dating from about 1460.

The college is on both sides of the river Cam. A bridge joins the two parts. This bridge is always called the "Mathematical Bridge". The students call the older part of the college "The Dark Side" and the newer part "The Light Side".

Many people take photographs of the college. There is a story that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts. The story says that once some students tried to take the bridge apart and put it back together again, but were unable to do so. That is why they had to put nuts and bolts in which can be seen today. The story is not true. The bridge was built in 1749, after Newton had died. It was never taken apart although it was rebuilt twice.

Stephen Fry is one of many famous people who have studied there.

Other websites
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The Sawfish are a family of rays which have a long body, like a shark. One feature that separates a sawfish from other rays is its long, saw-like snout. On either side of this rostrum are little teeth like a saw.

Sawfish have a mouth, nostrils, and gill slits under their body, just like a ray. Also, their pectoral fins are enlarged, like those of a ray. Also like rays, when they settle on the bottom, they take in water through two spiracles just behing the eyes. This gets water for the gills, without sand.

Several species can grow to about .

Rostrum
The sawfish's most distinctive feature is the saw-like rostrum. The rostrum is covered with motion- and electro-sensitive pores. These allow sawfish to detect movement and even heartbeats of prey hiding under the ocean floor. The rostrum serves as a digging tool to unearth buried crustaceans.

If a suitable prey swims by, the normally lethargic sawfish springs from the bottom and slashes at it with its saw. This generally stuns or injures the prey sufficiently for the sawfish to devour it. Sawfish also defend themselves with their rostrum, against predators such as sharks and intruding divers. The 'teeth' protruding from the rostrum are not real teeth, but modified tooth-like structures called denticles.

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Brunella Bovo (4 March 1932 – 21 February 2017) was an Italian movie and television actress. She was born in Padua, Italy. She was known for her roles as Edvige in Miracle in Milan (1951) and as Wanda in The White Sheik (1952). She starred in many B-Movies and soap operas sometimes under the name Barbara Hudson.

Bovo died on 21 February 2017 in Rome from pneumonia, aged 84.

Movies
 Miracle in Milan (1951)
 The White Sheik (1952)
 Revenge of a Crazy Girl (1952)
 Finishing School (1953)
 Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare (1953)
 The Loves of Salammbo (1960)

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Brunella Bovo


Miguel Luque Avila (born September 21, 1976 in Granollers, Barcelona) is a swimmer from Spain.  He has a physical disability: he is an S5 type swimmer.   He raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.  He finished first in the SB3 50 meter breaststroke.  He raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.  He finished first in the SB3 50 meter breaststroke. He finished third in the 4 x 50 meter men's 20 point medley relay.  He raced at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.  He finished third in the SB3 50 meter breaststroke.   He raced at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.  He finished second in the SB3 50 meter breaststroke.

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Miguel Luque Avila


A criterium, or crit, is a type of bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km), often run on closed-off city centre streets.

Race length can be either a time or a number of laps. Often a criterium lasts about one hour, which is shorter than that of a traditional road race – which can last many hours, sometimes of several days or even weeks, as in a Grand Tour. However, the average speed and is much higher. The winner is the first rider to cross the finish line without having been "lapped" (overtaken).

Events often have prizes (called primes, usually cash) for winning specific intermediate laps (for instance, every 10th lap).

Winning criteriums needs a mix of good technical skills – especially the ability to corner rapidly and sharply – and riding safely with a large group on a short circuit and exceptional fitness to attack other riders and repeatedly accelerate hard from corners.

Criteriums are relatively easy to organize and do not require a large amount of space. They are the most common type of bicycle racing in the continental United States.

Equipment

Racing bicycles used for criteriums are typically no different than those used in other mass-start road events. However, some racers use shorter bicycles to help keep control when turning  and slightly shorter cranks (pedal levers) to help pedalling through sharp turns.

Other websites
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 Extreme Fitness - Guide to Criterium Training
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The 1980 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.

Former California Governor Ronald Reagan was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses which happened in the Republican National Convention held from July 14 to July 17, 1980, in Detroit, Michigan.

Nominees

Withdrew during primaries

Withdrew before primaries

Declined to run
The following potential candidates declined to run for the Republican nomination in 1980.

References

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. online review by Lou Cannon

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Kathleen Ferrier (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953) was an English contralto singer. She got an international reputation for being a concert, stage and recording artist.

Ferrier was born in Higher Walton, Lancashire. Ferrier was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1951. She died from it at age 41 at University College Hospital, London.

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Kathleen Ferrier


Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod June 10, 1960) is an American artist. He is famous for writing comic books that are about comic books. His book Understanding Comics was published in 1993. It is about comic books as a form of art. He has also written Reinventing Comics (2000) and Making Comics (2006).

In 1984, he created a superhero comic called Zot!. McCloud thought that super heroes were too grim so he made Zot! fun and light-hearted.

McCloud does most of his art on computers with a graphics tablet and software like Adobe Photoshop.

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Scott McCloud


Anuket was the first ancient Egyptian goddess of the Nile river in areas like Elephantine Island, at the start of the Nile's journey through Egypt, and in nearby parts of Nubia. Her temple was built at the Island of Seheil.

Since the god Khnum and goddess Satis were thought to be the gods of the source of the Nile, Anuket was believed to be their daughter. The Egyptians believed that the two tributaries in her area of the Nile were her arms. Because tributaries move quickly, she became associated with fast-moving things, like arrows, and the gazelle.

In art, she was usually shown as a gazelle, or with a gazelle's head, and sometimes had a headdress of feathers.

When the Nile started its annual flood, the Festival of Anuket began. People threw coins, gold, jewelry, and precious gifts into the river, thanking Anuket for the life-giving water. The taboo that was held in several parts of Egypt of not eating fish, which were considered sacred, was lifted during this time.

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Anuket


The 2015 Cricket World Cup was held in Australia and New Zealand.

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Roger Dumas (9 May 1932 – 2 July 2016) was a French actor and comedian. He appeared in more than 100 movies between 1954 and 2016. He was born in Annonay, Ardèche. He was known for his roles in That Man from Rio, Le Concert, and The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.

Dumas died in Paris, France on 2 July 2016, aged 84.

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Roger Dumas


Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (Madrid, 14 September 1580 – Villanueva de los Infantes, 8 September 1645) was a nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age.

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

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Cadarsac


Michiaki Kakimoto (born 6 October 1977) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Matsumoto Yamaga.

Club career statistics

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|2000||Avispa Fukuoka||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0

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|2001||Clementi Khalsa||S. League||29||14||1||0||colspan="2"|-||30||14

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|2002||rowspan="2"|Oita Trinita||J. League 2||14||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
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|2003||J. League 1||1||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
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|2003||rowspan="3"|Shonan Bellmare||rowspan="3"|J. League 2||22||3||4||3||colspan="2"|-||26||6
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|2004||40||10||3||0||colspan="2"|-||43||10
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|2005||43||15||1||0||colspan="2"|-||44||15
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|2006||Cerezo Osaka||J. League 1||25||1||1||0||7||1||33||2
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|2007||Shonan Bellmare||J. League 2||10||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||0
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|2008||rowspan="3"|Matsumoto Yamaga||rowspan="2"|Regional Leagues||12||12||4||4||colspan="2"|-||16||16
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|2009||13||11||3||2||colspan="2"|-||16||13
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|2010||Football League||||||||||||||||
180||52||17||9||7||1||204||62
29||14||1||0||colspan="2"|-||30||14
209||66||18||9||7||1||234||76
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Dawson County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska, and was founded in 1871. As of the 2010 census, 24,326 people lived there. The county seat is Lexington.

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John Betjeman (28 August 1906 - 19 May 1984) was a English poet. He was Poet Laureate known for his light humorous verse. One of his most famous poems was about Slough, a town in Berkshire.
It begins with the rhyme:
'Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now...'

Betjeman was born in Highgate, London. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1933 he married Penelope Chetwode; they separated in the late 1940s. The couple's son, Paul was born in 1937. Their daughter was Candida Lycett Green (1942-2014). Betjeman's partner from 1951 until his death was Lady Elizabeth Cavendish.

Betjeman died of Parkinson's disease in Trebetherick, Cornwall. He was replaced as Poet Laureate by Ted Hughes. Betjeman was also known as an architectural and cultural critic. He is buried at St Enodoc in Cornwall, near Trebetherick.

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Elena Olegovna Bovina  (born March 10, 1983, Moscow, RSFR, Soviet Union) is a Russian retired professional female tennis player. She turned pro in 1998. In 2004, she won the Australian Open mixed doubles. On April 4, 2005, Bovina reached her career-high singles ranking was world no. 14. She retired in 2012. She lives in Quebec City, Canada.

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Wallace Triplett (April 18, 1926 – November 8, 2018) was a professional American football player. He was born in La Mott, Pennsylvania. Triplett was the first African-American to be drafted by and play for a National Football League team.

For that reason, his portrait hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. He played for Detroit Lions and the Chicago Cardinals.

Triplett died on November 8, 2018 at the age of 92.

References

Other websites
Video: "Wally Triplett: My Penn State Football Story", October 14, 2008.
Cheltenham High School Hall of Fame
Wally Triplett Penn State African American Chronicles profile and interview

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is a former Japanese football player.

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|1998||rowspan="3"|Urawa Red Diamonds||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||0||0||||||||||||
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|2000||J. League 2||0||0||||||||||||
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|2001||Kawasaki Frontale||J. League 2||12||0||||||||||||
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|2002||Montedio Yamagata||J. League 2||0||0||||||||||||
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12||0||||||||||||
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Toru Ojima


Radio Flyer is a drama and fantasy movie. It was released in February 1992. The story is about two boys who endured child abuse in the 1950s, alcoholism and desertion by their family. One of the boys escapes a tormenting man to whom his mother got married. Lorraine Bracco plays Mary, Elijah Wood plays Mike and Tom Hanks plays adult Mike.

The movie got negative reviews. Roger Ebert, in particular, condemned Radio Flyer as using fantasy to escape child abuse.

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Radio Flyer


Karen Akers (born Karen Orth-Pallavicini on October 13, 1945) is an American singer and actress. She does cabaret, movies and stage plays. In 1985, Akers played the mistress in the movie Heartburn. That same year she also played a singer in the movie The Purple Rose of Cairo. She has appeared in two Broadway musicals directed by Tommy Tune. In 1982, she acted with Raúl Juliá as his wife in the musical Nine. In 1989 she appeared in Grand Hotel.

Akers was born in New York City

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Karen Akers


Budai (Chinese:布袋), pronounced Hotei in Japanese, also known as the Laughing Buddha, was a Buddhist monk in China. Many Chinese Buddhists believe he was a reincarnation of Maitreya, the person who will become the next Buddha after Gautama Buddha.

He has become incorporated into Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto. Images of him can be found in many temples, restaurants, and businesses. Budai has become a god of happiness and plenty in some forms of Taoism and Buddhism. In Japan, Hotei is one of the Seven Lucky Gods (Shichi Fukujin). He is almost always shown smiling or laughing, hence his nickname in Chinese, the "Laughing Buddha" (Chinese:笑佛).

History

As Angida Arhat

Budai may be based on a monk that lived in the time of Sakyamuni Buddha. This monk's name was Angida, whose name means calico bag. According to legend, Angida was an Indian snake catcher who caught poisonous snakes to stop them from biting people. Budai and Angida look similar because they are both depicted as plump, laughing and carrying a bag.

As a Chinese Buddhist monk
In the Chinese tradition, Budai was a monk who lived in China around 907 to 923 CE. He was a man who was good and loving. Apart from his character, his likeness with the Maitreya Bodhisattva (the future Buddha) come from a Buddhist hymn (Chinese: 偈语; Pinyin: Jiéyǔ) which he said before his death:

彌勒真彌勒，化身千百億，時時示時人，時人自不識

Maitreya, the true Maitreyahas billions of incarnations.
Often he is shown to people at the time;other times they do not recognize him.

Description
Budai is almost always shown carrying a sack, which never empties, and is filled with many precious things, including rice plants (symbolizing wealth), sweets for children, food, and the sadness of the world. His duty is to protect the weak, the poor and children.

In Chinese Buddhist temples, Budai's statue is put in the front part of the entrance hall. He is shown as a stout, smiling or laughing man in robes with a largely bare belly, which represents happiness, good luck, and plenty.

Some statues show small children at his feet. Another item that is usually seen in Budai statues, is a begging bowl, which shows that he is a Buddhist. All of these images show Budai as a wandering monk who goes around and takes sadness from people. Because he represents richness and happiness, statues are often found in homes and businesses in China and Japan.

Chán Buddhism
The main story that concerns Budai in Chan is a short koan.

Phra Sangkadchai/ Phra Sangkachai
In Thailand Budai is sometimes confused with another monk that is respected in Thailand. Phra Sangkadchai or Shanghai (Thai: พระสังกัจจายน์), a Thai spelling of Mahakaccayanathera (Thai: มหากัจจายนเถระ), was a Buddhist monk in the time of the Buddha. The Buddha praised Phra Sangkadchai for his excellence in explaining complicated dharma (or dhamma) in an easily understandable way.

 Although both Budai and Phra Sangkadchai may be found in both Thai and Chinese temples, Phra Sangkadchai is found more often in Thai temples, and Budai in Chinese temples. Two points to distinguish them from one another are:

1. Phra Sangkadchai has a bit of hair on his head while Budai is bald.2. Phra Sangkadchai wears the robes in Theravadin Buddhist fashion with the robes folded across one shoulder, leaving the other uncovered. Budai wears the robes in Chinese style, covering both arms but leaving the front part of the upper body uncovered.

Folklore
One belief surrounding the figure of Budai in popular folklore is that if a person rubs his belly, it brings wealth, good luck, and prosperity. This belief however is not part of any Buddhist ritual, but is a part of a Chinese folk belief. He is often admired for his happiness, abundance, wisdom, and contentment.

Related pages
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References

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 Truetao.org Information on Hotei within I Kuan Tao
 An article on History of Maitreya & Hotei

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Budai


The Malleco Province () is one of two provinces of the Chilean region of Araucanía (IX). The provincial capital is the city of Angol.

Geography
The Malleco province is in the northern half of the Araucanía region with an area of . The capital, Temuco, is in the northwestern part of the province.

Malleco is bordered to the north by the Bío Bío provinces, to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Cautín province and to the west by the Arauco province.

Climate
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Angol-Los Estanques, at an altitude of , is . The month with the most precipitation on average is July with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of .

Population
 (last national census), there were 201,615 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km². The urban population was 139,261 persons ( of the total population).

The largest city of the province, in 2002, is its capital, Angol, with 43,801 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, Malleco is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 11 communes (comunas). The city of Angol serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Related pages
 Provinces of Chile

References

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 Territorial division of Chile
 Gobierno Regional de la Araucanía Official website
 Province of Malleco website

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Malleco Province


Musselshell County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 4,538 people. Its county seat is Roundup. It was created in 1911.

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Musselshell County, Montana


Iolanda Balaș (, , later Balázs-Sőtér Jolán; 12 December 1936 – 11 March 2016) was a Romanian Olympic athlete. She was a champion and former world record holder in the women's high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal and is considered to have been one of the greatest high jumpers of the twentieth century.

Balaș was diagnosed several years ago with type II diabetes. She died in Bucharest, Romania from complications from a gastric disorder, at the age of 79.

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Iolanda Balaș


Owasso is a city in Rogers and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and a northern suburb of Tulsa. The population was 18,502 at the 2000 census.

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Owasso, Oklahoma


Enyo (Ancient Greek: Ἐνυώ) is the goddess of war, violence and bloodshed in Greek mythology. She was the female counterpart and a close companion of the god Ares, sometimes considered to be his sister or lover. A statue of her made by the sons of Praxiteles stood in the Temple of Ares in Athens. She was identified with the Roman goddess Bellona.

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Enyo


Genoa  is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. Founded in 1851, it was the first settlement in what became the Nevada Territory. The population was 939 at the 2010 census.

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Hank Flamingo was an American country music group formed in 1988.

Discography
Studio albums
 Hank Flamingo (1994)

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Cobalt(III) oxide is a chemical compound. It contains cobalt in its +3 oxidation state. Its chemical formula is Co2O3. It can be made by reacting a cobalt(II) salt with sodium hypochlorite. This reaction also makes some chlorine. It is used as a catalyst. It is an oxidizing agent. It is not as strong an oxidizing agent as other cobalt(III) compounds.

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Product piracy or Brand piracy is the fact that goods with aname that is similar to a well-known brand are produced, and sold cheaper than the original brand. In the long run, the owner of the original brand name has a difficult time justifying the higher prices.

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Product piracy


Aveluy is a commune. It is in the region Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in the north of France.

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Aveluy


Griffith's experiment was an experiment done in 1928 by Frederick Griffith. It was one of the first experiments showing that bacteria can get DNA through a process called transformation.

Griffith used two strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae. He then uses the bacteria to infect the mice, which have many similar characteristics to humans. He used a type III-S (smooth) and type II-R (rough) strain. The III-S strain covers itself with a polysaccharide capsule that protects it from the host's immune system. This means that the host will die. The II-R strain does not have that protective shield around it and is killed by the host's immune system.

In this experiment, bacteria from the III-S strain were killed by heat, and their remains were added to II-R strain bacteria. While neither harmed the mice on their own, the blend of the two was able to kill mice.

Griffith was also able to get both live II-R and live III-S strains of S. pneumoniae from the blood of these dead mice. He concluded that the type II-R had been "transformed" into the lethal III-S strain by a "transforming principle" that was somehow part of the dead III-S strain bacteria.

Today, we know that the "transforming principle" Griffith saw was the DNA of the III-S strain bacteria. While the bacteria had been killed, the DNA had survived the heating process and was taken up by the II-R strain bacteria. The III-S strain DNA contains the genes that form the shielding polysaccharide part from attack. Armed with this gene, the former II-R strain bacteria were now protected from the host's immune system and could kill the host.

The exact nature of the transforming principle was confirmed in the experiments done by Avery, McLeod and McCarty, as well as  Hershey and Chase.

Related pages
Genetics
Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment
Hershey–Chase experiment

References

Hartl, Daniel and Jones, Elizabeth 2005. Genetics: analysis of genes and genomes. 6th ed, Jones & Bartlett.
The original experiment by Griffith. Original article and 35th anniversary reprint available.

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Griffith's experiment


Jerzy Artur Bahr (23 April 1944 – 25 July 2016) was a Polish diplomat. From 1997 to 2001 he was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, and from 2006 to 2010 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation.

Bahr died of cancer on July 25, 2016 at the age of 72.

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Jerzy Bahr


The gorilla is a great ape.

Behavior
Gorillas may be aggressive when attacked or provoked, but they are naturally gentle.

Life span
A gorilla's lifespan is between 35 and 40 years, although zoo gorillas may live for 50 years or more because they have more food.

Taxonomy
 Genus Gorilla
 Western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla
 Western lowland gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla
 Cross River Gorilla, Gorilla gorilla diehli
 Eastern Gorilla, Gorilla beringei
 Mountain Gorilla, Gorilla beringei beringei
 Eastern Lowland Gorilla, Gorilla beringei graueri

Appearance
Gorillas are large apes. They can be strong like chimpanzees and orangutans. An adult male gorilla can weigh up to 225 kilograms and stand 1.8 meters in height. Gorillas live in family groups called troops. They have a broad chest, wide shoulders, short legs, and long strong arms. They have black skin and hair. Adult male gorillas' hair becomes silver/grey on their backs as they become older. Because of that, older males are called "silverbacks".

Life

Gorillas live in the rainforests in central Africa. They mostly live on the ground, but they can also climb. When on the ground, they walk on their feet and finger knuckles. Troops of gorillas wander slowly through the forests of Central Africa. For about half of their day they search for leaves, vines, and bamboo shoots to eat. Sometimes they also eat ants or termites. For the rest of the day, they lay in the sun and play with their children. If another gorilla threatens them, the troop's leader, the silverback, protects them by rearing up and beating his chest. Although mostly vegetarian, they have long canine teeth or fangs that the adult males sometimes use to fight each other for the troop leadership.

Gorillas sleep in nests that they build on the ground. At the end of each day, each adult gorilla spends a few minutes putting together a soft, flat bed made of leaves, branches, and moss. The young gorillas sleep with their mothers.

The gestation period (when a baby grows inside the mother) of a gorilla lasts between eight and ten months. Gorillas almost always produce one offspring - twins are rare. Gorilla babies begin to hang onto their mothers when they are only a few hours old and will continue to do so for the next three years. Gorillas live up to 50 years in the wild and up to 54 years in captivity.

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 Ape
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Blood Tsunami is a thrash metal band from Oslo, Norway. The band was formed in 2004.

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Official website
Blood Tsunami at Encyclopaedia Metallum

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The Bundesfinanzhof or Federal Finance Court  is one of the federal supreme courts of Germany. It is the final court of appeals for cases about tax and customs law.  It hears cases from the Finanzgerichte (Finance Courts).

The Federal Finance Court  was first created in 1918.  It has its headquarters in Munich, Bavaria.

Other websites
Official homepage

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Bundesfinanzhof


The Tarte Tatin is called after the hotel which served it as its signature dish.

It is an upside-down pastry. The fruit (usually apples) are caramelized in butter and sugar before the tart is baked.

It originated in France but has spread to other countries over the years.

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Fort Benton is a city in Montana in the United States. It is the county seat of Chouteau County. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 1,464 people.

Established in 1846, Fort Benton is the oldest settlement in Montana. The Missouri River flows along the town.

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Sauropsids are a group of land vertebrates which includes all existing reptiles and birds and their fossil ancestors. They are one of the two groups which evolved from egg-laying amniotes in the first part of the Carboniferous period.

The synapsids are the other group which evolved from amniotes. They gave rise, eventually, to the mammals.

Living sauropsids include lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodiles, and birds. Extinct sauropsids include dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and many others.

Origin of tetrapods
More or less, the evolution of tetrapods has taken this course:
Class Sarcopterygii
Coelacanthimorpha (Coelacanths)
Dipnoi (lungfish)
Tetrapodomorpha (fishapods)
The earlies tetrapods lived in water. Clear fossil tetrapod tracks from the mid-Devonian predate previous tetrapod records by 18 million years.

Nine genera of Devonian tetrapods have been described. These earliest tetrapods were not terrestrial. They lived in swampy habitats like shallow wetlands, coastal lagoons, brackish river deltas, and even shallow marine sediments.

Romer's gap
Between the lobe-finned fish tetrapods and the first amphibia and amniotes in the Middle Carboniferous lies a gap of 30 million years, with few satisfactory tetrapod fossils. This, noted in 1950, is Romer's gap. Some new fossils were found in the 1990s, such as Pederpes, right in the middle of the Romer Gap. The gap still obscures the details of the tetrapod transition.

Sometime, in the later Devonian or earliest Carboniferous, the fishapods became mainly land-based. One group of them kept their link to the water, and always laid their eggs in water. They became the amphibians. The others evolved a way of laying eggs on land. They were the amniotes, whose key innovation was the cleidoic egg.

Sometime in the middle or lower Carboniferous, the amniotes split into two lines. One line lead to the reptiles of all kinds, and we call that the Sauropsida. The other line led eventually to the mammals, and we call that the Synapsida. It is not right to say "mammals evolved from reptiles" because both groups derived from early amniotes. In any event, modern reptiles are vastly different from modern mammals. Both groups have evolved for over 300 million years from the early amniotes.

Tetrapods
Land-dwelling tetrapods
Amphibians > amniota and present-day amphibia
Amniota
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Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 - 16 November 1093) was married to Malcolm III of Scotland, and was the mother of David I of Scotland, Alexander I of Scotland and Edgar.  She was the daughter of Edward the Exile, and the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside.  She was probably born in Hungary.

Margaret died four days after her husband.

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 Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Margaret of Scotland

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partition editor, partitioner, and partitioning utility are all names for computer programs used to view, create, change, and delete disk partitions on a computer storage device, most commonly a hard disk, but also a USB flash drive or other storage medium.

A partition is a section or segment of the storage space on a storage device. By partitioning a large device into several partitions it is possible to isolate various types of data from one another, and allow the coexistence of two or more operating systems simultaneously.

Related pages
 Disk partitioning
 List of disk partitioning software

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Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter (24 April 1828 - 23 February 1899) was a French librettist, translator, and librarian. He is best remembered for having written the libretto for the ballet, Coppélia and for having helped translate Richard Wagner's earliest operas into French.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the video games for the Grand Theft Auto game series. It was made by Rockstar Games. The game came out on the PlayStation 2 first and later on Xbox and PC. In this game, the player can do whatever they want, including hitting or killing people, damaging cars and properties and such violent things. That's one reason why the game is so famous. So in the U.S. and Canada it was rated mature (17+) by the ESRB.
The PlayStation 2 version became available on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 4 on 5 December 2015.

Gameplay
It is set in third-person which means the player can see the person (in this case it is CJ) on the screen. He is controlled using the left and right analog sticks on the PlayStation 2 controller. CJ is the character who is used to play with and he can perform different moves. These are shooting, kicking/punching, jumping, crouching, and even swimming. He can attack other people by either using hand-to-hand combat or shooting them. Sometimes, the attacked person may fight back and try to kill the player. He can get into a nearby vehicle or steal one from another person if it is being driven. If the police see CJ doing crimes, however, they will chase him and try to stop him. If CJ gets caught by the police he loses all of his weapons and some money and he will appear at the nearest police station (the same happens when the player dies, except he appears at a hospital instead). If CJ loses his weapons, he can buy weapons from different gun shops (although he must pay for them).
There are many missions to be taken; the game as a whole has a plot, and the missions the player solves make the plot go on and help the player for his/her abilities (which are for example swimming, condition but also driving bicycles without falling from them and better shooting. Respect is also an important 'ability' players can earn, as they need it to go on in the plot of the game and take more missions), and helps the player to earn money, which can be spent on cars, food (to stop the player from getting hungry), weapons, and a lot of other things. Besides missions, however, the player can also do a number of different challenges, which are not needed for the story but can be used just to help CJ earn some extra money. The game takes place in a fictional state called San Andreas, which has three cities: Los Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco), and Las Venturas (Las Vegas). Between the cities are also countryside, and the desert of Bone County, based on the real life Nevada desert.

Driving
CJ can drive all sorts of vehicles. He can fly planes, drive cars sail boats and now a jet pack which was not in the previous games. In some vehicles that have hydraulics (where the car 'hops') the analog sticks can be used. If 'nitrous' have been put on (by using a nearby garage) he can drive at incredible speeds which are a lot faster than normal driving. It is also possible to drive around with go-karts or tractors, which was not possible in the previous games; but these vehicles are quite slow and more for fun than for travelling around the map. The player has to be careful, however, not to damage the vehicle too much, because then it might explode, killing or hurting CJ, and causing the vehicle to be useless. Vehicles can also be destroyed by hitting, shooting, setting the vehicle on fire, or driving it into water.

Multiplayer
San Andreas Multiplayer and Multi Theft Auto, often shortened to SA-MP and MTA respectively, are popular multiplayer edits of the original game San Andreas. They have thousands of servers online and runs game servers.

Radio stations
Like previous games in the series, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has many radio stations that play songs. The player can listen to these radio stations when in most vehicles, or also from the "options" menu. The radio stations also have DJs and commercials to make them more realistic. There is even a talk radio station, where the player can listen to news within the game and entertainment programs. These radio stations include:

K-DST (Classic rock), Playback FM (Old school Hip-Hop), K-Rose (Country), Bounce FM (Funk), K-Jah West (Reggae and dub), Master Sounds 98.3 (Rare groove, jazz), CSR 103.9 (New Jack Swing and soul), Radio Los Santos (Gangsta Rap), SF-UR (House), and WCTR (News & entertainment).

Plot

Carl "CJ" Johnson comes back to Los Santos, San Andreas in 1992 for his mother's funeral after living in Liberty City for five years since 1987. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for the death of a police officer. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.

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Andrew Lee Isaac Vowles (born 10 November 1967, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, England), also known as Mushroom, is a founding member of British trip-hop band Massive Attack.

Early years
Vowles grew up in Bath. The same time to Massive Attack, Vowles, along with Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Nellee Hooper, and others were The Wild Bunch crew, named after a western by Sam Peckinpah. Several members of The Wild Bunch formed Massive Attack.

Career

Vowles stayed a member of Massive Attack until shortly after the release of their third full-length album, Mezzanine, in 1998. Interviews with band members have pointed to differences of opinion in the direction the band should go; Vowles liking a hip-hop direction while Robert Del Naja and Daddy G leaned more towards darker electronica themes. He also had expressed a dislike for touring, an activity which he characterised as "pimping".

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The Division of Hotham is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. It was created in 1969 and is named for Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria 1854-55. It covers an area of 72 km2 in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It includes Bentleigh East, Dingley Village, Moorabbin, and parts of Carnegie, Clarinda, Clayton, Clayton South, Cheltenham, Murrumbeena, Noble Park, Oakleigh, Oakleigh South, Springvale and Springvale South.

Members

Don Chipp was Minister in the Holt and Gorton Governments. He became unhappy with the Liberal Party and formed a new party called the Australian Democrats. Simon Crean, was Opposition Leader from 2001 until December 2003 and was in every Labor Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet from June 1991 to March 2013.

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

References

Other websites
 Division of Hotham - Australian Electoral Commission

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The Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia is the Dutch Low Saxon-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in 24 March 2006. As of 23 August 2015, it has over 5,748 articles.

References

Other websites
Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia main page

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Sarat Pujari (8 August 1934 – 12 May 2014) was an Indian movie actor, director and producer. He is known for his roles in Jiban Sathi, Tapoi, Bhukha, Drusti, and in Shesha Drushti. He was born in Nayagarh, Odisha.

On May 12, 2014, Pujari died from a heart attack at his house in Bhubaneshwar. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons.

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Sarat Pujari


Cergy is a commune. It is found in the Val-d'Oise department in France.

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Cergy


Magic in the Moonlight is a 2014 American comedy-drama movie. This is set on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Marcia Gay Harden, Colin Firth and Emma Stone star in the movie. Woody Allen directed the movie.

This movie was released on July 25, 2014.

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Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or F3, is a
class of open-wheel formula racing. The various championships held in Europe, Australia, South America and Asia form an important step for many prospective Formula One drivers.

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The American Library Association (ALA) is an organization which does not receive money. It is in the United States. It helps libraries and library education all over the world. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world. It has more than 62,000 members.
Justin Winsor, Charles Ammi Cutter, Samuel Swett Green, James L. Whitney, Melvil Dewey, Fred B. Perkins and Thomas W. Bicknell began the organization in 1876. It began in Philadelphia, but its head office is in Chicago now. Anybody can join, but most of its members are librarians. Most members live and work in the United States. Members from other countries make up about 3.5% of the members.

References

Other websites

American Library Association
ALA Freedom to Read Statement
ALA Intellectual Freedom Q&A
ALA's "Resolution on the USA Patriot (sic) Act and Related Measures that Infringe on the Rights of Library Users"
About Charles Ammi Cutter

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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994), was the wife of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. She subsequently married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. In later years, she enjoyed a successful career as a book editor.

Early life

Jacqueline Bouvier was born at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, Long Island, New York, the daughter of wealthy Wall Street stockbroker John Bouvier III (1891-1957) and his wife Janet Norton Lee (1907-1989). She had a younger sister, Caroline Lee Bouvier, born in 1933, later known as Lee Radziwill. She was of Irish, French, Scottish, and English ancestry. Her maternal great-grandfather emigrated from Cork, Ireland, and later became the Superintendent of the New York City Public Schools.

Her early years were spent in New York City and East Hampton, Long Island, at the Bouvier family estate called "Lasata". She became at a very early age an accomplished equestrienne, a sport that would remain a lifelong passion. As a child, she also enjoyed drawing, reading and writing poems.

Her parents divorced in 1940, and her mother married Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss in 1942, with whom she had two children: Janet (1945-1985) and James Auchincloss (b. 1947). She and her sister moved in with their mother's new family, and divided their time between their stepfather's two vast estates: "Merrywood" in McLean, Virginia, and "Hammersmith Farm" in Newport, Rhode Island.

She was educated at selective schools such as Chapin's, Miss Porter's and Vassar College. She spent one year (1949-50) in Paris, France, studying at La Sorbonne, before graduating from George Washington University in 1951, with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. Other interests included art, history and languages.

After graduation, she worked as an "inquiring-photographer" for the Washington Times-Herald and was sent to London in June 1953 to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Marriage and family
Jacqueline Bouvier and then congressman John F. Kennedy belonged to the same social circle and were introduced by a mutual friend at a dinner party in May 1952. Kennedy was then busy running for the US Senate, but after his election in November, the relationship grew more serious and led to a proposal.

The wedding took place on September 12, 1953, at St Mary's Church, in Newport, Rhode Island, and was considered the social event of the season with an estimated 800 guests at the ceremony and 1000 at the lavish reception that followed at "Hammersmith Farm".

Behind all the glamor, however, the couple had to face several personal setbacks. John Kennedy had serious health problems unknown to the public. He suffered from Addison's disease and from chronic and debilitating back pain due to a war injury. During the fall and winter of 1954, he underwent two delicate spinal operations  which almost killed him. Jacqueline Kennedy suffered a miscarriage in 1955, and gave birth to a stillborn baby girl in 1956.

The couple eventually became parents to a daughter Caroline (b. 1957) and a son John (1960-1999). A second son, Patrick, was born prematurely in August 1963 and died two days later.

First Lady
When John Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States, on January 20, 1961, Jacqueline Kennedy became, at age 31, one of the youngest First Ladies in American history. Young, attractive and cultivated, she quickly became extremely popular both at home and abroad and was often simply known as "Jackie" by the public.

After moving into the White House, she was dismayed at the state the official residence was in. She established a Fine Arts Committee to help her restore the house to its original splendor with American furniture, paintings and objets d'art of historical significance. She had a booklet on the history of the house published to help finance the restoration and hosted an immensely popular televised tour of the White House, on February 14, 1962, to show the progress of the work. She also redesigned the White House East Garden, which now bears her name, and through her intervention, historic buildings were saved from demolition in Lafayette Square.

On the international scene, she accompanied President Kennedy on state visits to Canada, Europe, Central and South America, where her knowledge of art and history and her skill at languages served her well. She made a very successful and highly publicized goodwill trip to India and Pakistan in March 1962, accompanied by her sister Lee Radziwill.

On November 22, 1963, while on a pre-electoral visit in Dallas, Texas, with President Kennedy, she was seated next to him in an open limousine driving through the city when he was shot in the head by a sniper. The courage and dignity she displayed in the aftermath of that tragedy won her international admiration.

Later life
After leaving the White House, Jacqueline Kennedy lived for a time in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., but moved to New York City with her children in late 1964. She attended occasional memorials for her late husband and helped supervise the plans for the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. She made semi-official trips to England, Ireland and Cambodia.

On October 20, 1968, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, 23 years her senior. After his death in 1975, she once more settled in New York City where she worked as a book editor for the last two decades of her life, first for Viking Press and later for Doubleday. She also took an active part in a campaign to preserve New York City's Grand Central Terminal.

Her last years were spent quietly mostly in the company of her family and longtime companion Maurice Templesman.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died of cancer (lymphoma) at her home in New York City, at the age of 64. She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, next to President Kennedy, their stillborn daughter and infant son.

References

Sources
 A Hero for our Time, An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years, Ralph G. Martin, Fawcett Crest, New York, 1983.

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Switzerland national football team is the national football team of Switzerland.

References

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Switzerland national football team


A list of the Heads of State of Mali is shown below in time order:

References

Mali
Mali
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Princess Peach Toadstool (sometimes called Peach) is a character in the Mario video game series. In most of the games she appears in, she is kidnapped by the reptile monster King Bowser. She is the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, which is the main setting of most of the Mario games.

Appearance
Princess Peach's looks are different than what they used to be. In her first game, Super Mario Bros. (1985), she had red hair and her dress was white.  She had dark red hair in Super Mario Bros. 2 (1986).  In Super Mario World (1991), her looks changed. She had yellow hair. In the Mario sport series games, she wears different dresses because she cannot play well in her normal, long, pink dress.

Her name has changed over the years.  In Japan, her name was always Peach.  When Nintendo sold Super Mario Bros. in other countries, she was called Princess Toadstool.  In Super Mario 64, her name became Princess Peach Toadstool.

Peach appears most often as the damsel-in-distress – always being kidnapped by Bowser.  Mario must always rescue her.  In Super Princess Peach (2006), the tables are turned and Bowser kidnaps Mario instead.  Peach must then rescue Mario.

Peach has been voiced by two different actresses.  The first was Leslie Swan.  The second was Jen Taylor.

Playable appearances
 Super Mario Bros. 2—1988
 Mario Teaches Typing—1992
 Super Mario Kart—1992
 Super Mario All-Stars—1993
 Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters—1994
 Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers—1994
 Mario's Early Years: Pre-School—1994
 Mario's Tennis—1995
 Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars—1996
 Mario Kart 64—1996
 Mario Teaches Typing 2—1997
 Mario Party—1998
 Mario Golf—1999
 Mario Party 2—1999
 Mario Tennis—2000
 Paper Mario—2000
 Mario Party 3—2000
 Super Mario Advance—2001
 Mario Kart Super Circuit—2001
 Super Smash Bros. Melee—2001
 Mario Party 4—2002
 Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour—2003
 Mario Party 5—2004
 Mario Kart: Double Dash!!—2003
 Mario Power Tennis—2004
 Mario Party 6—2004
 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door—2004
 Mario Party Advance—2005
 SSX On Tour—2005
 Mario Superstar Baseball—2005
 Mario Party 7—2005
 Mario Kart DS—2005
 Mario Tennis: Power Tour—2005
 NBA Street V3—2005
 Super Mario Strikers—2006
 Super Princess Peach—2006
 Mario Hoops 3-on-3—2006
 Super Paper Mario—2007
 Yoshi's Island DS—2006
 Mario Strikers Charged—2007
 Mario Party 8—2007
 Itadaki Street DS—2007
 Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 2007
 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games - 2007
 Mario Kart Wii - 2008
 Mario Super Sluggers - 2008
 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games - 2009
 Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games - 2011
 Mario Kart 7 - 2011
 Fortune Street - 2011
 Mario Party 9 - 2012
 Mario Tennis Open - 2012
 Mario Kart Arcade GP DX - 2013
 Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games - 2013
 Super Mario 3D World - 2013
 Mario Party: Island Tour - 2013
 Mario Golf: World Tour - 2014
 Mario Kart 8 - 2014
 Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U - 2014
 Mario Party 10 - 2015
 Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash - 2015

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Michael Edward Gross (born June 21, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Steven Keaton from the sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989) and the graboid hunter Burt Gummer from the Tremors movie franchise.

References

Other websites

Michael Gross at Internet Off-Broadway Database

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Stanford is a town in Montana in the United States. It is the county seat of Judith Basin County. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 401 people.

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Stanford, Montana


Tsukimitsu Mizuta (born 13 September 1976) is a former Japanese football player.

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Extreme is an American rock band.  They are headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt. They were popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Among some of Extreme's musical influences are Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Queen.

Extreme had their greatest success with their 1990 album Pornograffitti. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200.  It became gold in May 1991 and 2×platinum in October 1992. That album had the ballad single "More Than Words," which reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 in the United States.

Discography
Extreme (1989)
Pornograffitti (1990)
III Sides to Every Story (1992)
Waiting for the Punchline (1995)
Saudades de Rock (2008)
Take Us Alive (2010)

References

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Bedford County is the name of several counties in the United States:
 Bedford County, Pennsylvania
 Bedford County, Tennessee
 Bedford County, Virginia

Other
 Bedfordshire, an English county

Bedford County


Events
May – beginning of American Revolutionary War
May – First Continental Congress
June – Second Continental Congress

1775


The Vattenfall Cyclassics is a cycling race held every year in Hamburg, Germany.

It started as an unimportant race in 1996, but because cycling became very popular in Germany it was made a part of the UCI Road World Cup in 1998. Since 2005, it is a part of the UCI ProTour.

The route of the race changes, but is about 250 km long. During a number of laps through Hamburg, the Waseberg hill is climbed a several times.  The cyclists also race over Hamburg's highest bridge Köhlbrandbrücke.  Unlike many races the Cyclassic race almost never ends in a mass sprint, that is, with a lot of riders close together racing to the finish line.

There is an amateur part of the Cyclassics.  Earlier on the day of the race there are three Jedermann-Rennen.   Anybody (jedermann) with a ticket can take part in these races (rennen) over 55 km, 100 km and 155 km.  Tickets must be reserved months in advance. In 2005 there were 20000 amateurs on the course.

The sponsor of the Cyclassics, was the Hamburg Electrizität Werke, Hamburg electricity plant or "HEW", after it became part of the big "Vattenfall" company the Cyclassic changed its name too, and from 2006 this cycling race has been known as the Vattenfall Cyclassics.

Winners

Other websites
 Official Cyclassics site

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Vattenfall Cyclassics


A puppeteer is a person who makes an inanimate object that might be shaped like a human, animal, legendary creature, or another object to create the illusion that the puppet is "alive". The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or her own hands placed inside the puppet or holding it externally or any other part of the body- such as the legs.

Related pages
 The Muppets
 Jim Henson
 Fred Rogers
 Punch and Judy

Other websites

 Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA) - International organization of puppeteers and puppet enthusiasts
 Puppeteers UK - Directory and news on puppeteers and puppetry in the UK
 Puppeteers of America - National non-profit organinfo The Puppetry Homepage - Extensive with links to information on puppeteers and all styles of puppetry

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Kristi Lynn Noem (; née Arnold, November 30, 1971) is an American politician. Noem is the 33rd and current Governor of South Dakota since 2019. She was the U.S. Representative for  from 2011 to 2019.

Noem is a member of the Republican Party. She was the Republican nominee for Governor of South Dakota in the 2018 gubernatorial election and won the election in November 2018 beating Billie Sutton.

In August 2013, conservative Newsmax magazine named Noem among the "25 most influential women in the GOP".

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Dennis Clifford "Danny" Dunton (13 May 1924 – 2 January 2015) was an English international motorcycle speedway rider and promoter. He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in 1950, achieving 12th place with 5 points. As well as riding, Danny promoted Peterborough Panthers and co-promoted Oxford Cheetahs, then Oxford Rebels and finally White City Rebels. Dunton was born in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Dunton died after a long illness on 2 January 2015, aged 90.

References

Other websites
 Riding profile of Danny Dunton

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iPadOS is a mobile operating system made by Apple Inc. for iPad tablet computers. It was released on September 24, 2019. Apple said iPadOS will replace iOS 12 on the iPad.

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