Arthur is a Canadian-American animated series airing on PBS Kids in the United States. The main age range for this series is 4 to 12. It is based on the Arthur book series that is written and illustrated by Marc Brown. The series has 250 episodes (including specials) made between September 1996 and January 2020, in twenty-three seasons so far. A twenty-third season is currently in production. The show is focused on the life of Arthur, and deals with normal childhood problems.

It has won four Emmy Awards.

Characters

Children
Arthur Timothy Read is the title character of the series. He is an 8 year old third-grade student. He has two younger sisters, Dora Winifred (D.W.) and Kate. He likes reading, watching television, playing sports, being a pianist, and spending time with his friends. Arthur is normally used as an everyman who sees the good in others.
Alex is a gray rabbit, Alex is normally seen wearing a tan collared sweater, long brown jeans, and blue and white sneakers. In the episode Buster's Dino Dilemma Alex wore a white shirt that had purple on it, purple shorts with green on it, long green socks, and red and white sneakers., He  can be quite mischievous, but is still easygoing, but is very shy, his family is rarely shown in the series.
Alan "The Brain" Powers is one of Arthur's classmates and friends. He is the smartest of the gang. He excels in academics and athletics. He spends his free time working at his parents' ice cream parlor, while also managing a career as an amateur soccer player. "Brain" and his family celebrate Kwanzaa as revealed in Arthur's Perfect Christmas. He is of Senegalese descent.
Alberto Molina, age 13, is one of Arthur's newer friends and neighbors. He became a character during Season 6, after Mr. Sipple left. Alberto and his family are from Ecuador. He practices kendo in his spare time, and enjoys reading "El Conejo Bionico", the Spanish version of Bionic Bunny.
Binky Barnes is one of Arthur and his gang's members, who has acted as a bully in earlier episodes. Binky is a stereotypical bully, who secretly has sensitive and caring feelings. He enjoys studying the fine arts, including playing the clarinet and performing ballet. He is the leader of a "bully clique" known as the Tough Customers who, in later seasons, become less bully-like. He is also a great dancer, especially at ballet. He has peanut allergies.
Bud Compson is Ladonna's younger brother. He is frequently seen hanging out with D.W.. He has an imaginary friend, who is a toy stuffed dinosaur, named Rapty.
Buster Baxter is Arthur's best friend and a member of Arthur's gang. Buster enjoys watching television, eating, reading works of science fiction (particularly about aliens), and playing video games. Buster lives with his mother, Bitzi. He sometimes travels with his father, who is a pilot. Buster also had his own spin-off series, entitled Postcards from Buster.
Catherine Frensky is Francine's older sister, who is 16 years old. She reads teen magazines and often argues with her younger sibling.
Francine Alice Frensky is a tomboy who loves sports, drumming and singing. She is often blunt and outspoken. She is 8–10 years old, Jewish and of Polish descent. Francine is best friends with Muffy Crosswire. Francine is a sport player, drummer and singer.
Dora Winifred "D.W." Read is Arthur's little sister. She goes to preschool. She enjoys watching children's television shows, such as Mary Moo Cow, and going to preschool. She has an imaginary friend named Nadine. Many of the series' plots revolve around tensions between D.W. and her brother. She is usually portrayed as bratty, but she deeply cares about Arthur.
Emily is one of D.W.'s classmates and friends. She first met D.W. in a gymnastics class. She is French, and has lots of money.
Fern Walters is one of Arthur's classmates. She is often shy and quiet. She enjoys reading poetry and mystery novels. Fern's mother, Doria, tries to get Fern to become more outgoing.
George Lundgren is one of Arthur's classmates. He is well known in his class for being a ventriloquist, performing with his dummy, Wally. He has dyslexia. Initially, he appeared as a minor character, but starting from Season 9, he was joined with Arthur's gang.
Jenna Morgan is a minor character in Arthur's grade. She plays badminton. She helps coach soccer. She received an Athlete of the Year award from Michelle Kwan. She is allergic to milk. Jenna has nocturnal enuresis, otherwise known as bedwetting.
Kate Read is Arthur and D.W.'s baby sister. Starting from Season 6, she occasionally talks to the Reads' dog, Pal; Binky's baby sister, Mei Lin; the Molina family's dog, Amigo; and Grandma Thora's dog, Killer.
Ladonna Compson is a Louisiana native who made her debut on the show in Season 16. She tells stories very often, and has a lot of relatives. She has a younger brother named Bud.
Marina Datillo is Prunella's best friend. She does not appear very often. She is blind. She is obsessed with Henry Skreever, the show's parody of Harry Potter. She and Prunella met when Prunella unwillingly received a Braille edition of the latest Henry Skreever novel and let Marina borrow it. Since then, they have become best friends. Marina is good at yoga.
Maria Pappas is a is a rabbit in Mr. Ratburn's class. Her clothing usually consists of a striped shirt with blue dress. Her hair is brown, She is mostly seen with Alex, much like him, Maria is very shy and her family is also rarely shown in the series.
Mei Lin is Binky's little sister who was adopted from China. She enjoys talking to Baby Kate. She and her brother are very close to each other.
Mary Alice "Muffy" Crosswire is Francine's best friend, though they are opposites in many ways. She is the wealthiest girl in school, the stereotypical rich/spoiled girl, and tends to be extremely self-centered. Her behavior occasionally leads her into trouble with her friends.
Molly MacDonald is close friends with Binky and a bigger bully than him at times. She is known to be good at giving advice. Molly has short brown hair that completely covers her eyes. She has a little brother named James who is in D.W.'s preschool class.
Prunella Deegan is a grade above Arthur and his friends. She is somewhat snobbish and condescending towards the younger kids. She is interested in yoga, fortune telling, and paranormal phenomena. She is a big fan of Henry Skreever,
Rattles is another member of the Tough Customers, in fourth grade at Lakewood and like Molly, he can also be a bigger bully than Binky at times. Rattles has been a Tough Customer member since the first season of the program. He is very good at chess.
Rubella Deegan is Prunella's older teen sister. She is very spiritual and obsessed with psychic and paranormal phenomena. She is typically depicted as a mystic. She often talks in a very dramatic tone. She often chides Prunella.
Sue Ellen Armstrong is a transfer to Arthur's school. Her father is a diplomat, and so her family has lived in various spots around the world. She is interested in world culture, and has a black-belt in the martial arts.
Timmy Tibble is one brother in a set of twins who routinely exasperate Arthur, D.W., and most everyone with their mischievous and bully-like behaviors. Timmy wears a blue scarf and is the more mischievous of the twins.
Tommy Tibble is the other brother in the set of twins. Tommy wears a red scarf.
Vicita Molina is Arthur's new neighbor who moved in after Mr. Sipple moved out, introduced in Season 6. She's three and seven-eighths, in her own proud words. She often plays with D.W. and the Tibbles. Her family is from Ecuador.

The adults
Mr. Armstrong: Sue Ellen's father, a diplomat.
Mrs. Armstrong: Sue Ellen's mother, is a homemaker with a penchant for exotic clothes.
Bailey: Muffy's chauffeur, and the Crosswire family's butler. He also has a notable talent in creating kinetic art, and follows Muffy's orders without question. He is 37 years old.
Mr. Barnes: Binky's father.
Mrs. Barnes: Binky's mother, who is a nurse.
Bitzi Baxter: Buster's mom, the editor-in-chief of the Elwood City Times. She's overprotective of Buster and a frantic character.
Bo Baxter: Buster's father, who is divorced. He is a pilot. Buster flies with him around the United States in the spin-off series, Postcards from Buster. In Postcards from Buster, he is shown with short brown hair and glasses. However, during his few appearances in earlier seasons of Arthur, his face is noticeably hidden from view, for instance behind a newspaper. He looks almost exactly like Harry, Bitzi Baxter's former boyfriend. His physical appearance has changed several times.
Cisely Compson: Ladonna and Bud's mother.
David L. Read: Arthur, D.W., and Kate's father. Mr. Read runs a catering business from home and is frequently shown garnishing trays of hors d'oeuvres in the family kitchen.
Doria Walters: Fern's mother. She works for a real estate company and is very confident and encouraging in her daughter.
Ed Crosswire: Muffy's father, the owner of a car dealership called "Crosswire Motors." It was revealed that he never attended college; rather he received an honorary degree after his donation of a library. He is also the coach of the soccer team.
"Grandma" Thora Read: Grandma Thora is Arthur and D.W.'s paternal grandmother, who is quite caring, but tends towards being a bad cook. Grandma Thora is based on Brown's own grandmother Thora, who encouraged him by saving his childhood drawings in a bottom drawer.
"Grandpa" Dave: An aardvark. Grandpa Dave is Arthur and D.W.'s maternal grandfather. He used to live on the family farm, which had been in the family for 150 years. In the Season 15 episode "Grandpa Dave's Memory Album," he showed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and had to move closer to the Reads.
Francis Haney: Mr. Haney is the lovable yet absentminded principal of Arthur's school. He, like George, suffers from dyslexia. He also seems to have bad luck: something goes wrong almost everywhere he goes. In the episode "The Hallway Minotaur" from Season 20, it was revealed that he had moved away to build a school in Tanzania. Miss Tingley has since replaced him as the principal.
Jane Read: Arthur and D.W.'s mother. Mrs. Read is a work-at-home tax accountant.
Laverne Frensky: Francine's mother.
Mr. Marco: Arthur's second grade teacher. He appears in some episodes in Season 1.
Marie-Helene: Emily's French nanny.
Millicent Crosswire: Muffy's mother. She likes opera.
Ramon Molina: Arthur's new neighbor. Moved into Mr. Sipple's house when he moved out in Season 6.
Mrs. Molina: Arthur's new neighbor; Ramon's wife. Moved into Mr. Sipple's house when he moved out in Season 6.
Mrs. Morgan: Jenna's mother.
Ms. Morgan: D.W.'s preschool teacher.
Mr. Morris: The Lakewood Elementary School cleaner. In the double-length episode "April 9th," he moved to Roswell, New Mexico to live with his daughter after breaking his leg during a fire at the school.
Nigel Charles Ratburn: Mr. Ratburn is Arthur and his friends' teacher. His passions are homework and puppetry; he also enjoys magic tricks and spent a summer working at Jack's Joke Shop. He is also knowledgeable about nearly everything, but is noticeably incompetent with computers.
Oliver Frensky: Francine's dad, who works as an sanitation engineer for the local city dump. He states he was formerly a volunteer firefighter. He is somewhat childish but optimistic in nature. He coaches the baseball team.
Paige Turner: Ms. Turner is the friendly librarian at the Elwood City Library.
Mr. Powers: Brain's father.
Mrs. Powers: Brain's mother, who owns and runs the ice cream shop. Mrs. Powers originally had brown hair for the first season, but Season 8 shows Mrs. Powers with yellow hair, and starting from Season 16, her hair was brown again.
Rufus Compson: Ladonna and Bud's father. He works for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Leah MacGrady:  Mrs. MacGrady is the lunch lady at Lakewood Elementary school, where Arthur and his friends study. She is full of unconventional wisdom, and is Grandma Thora's bingo buddy. She commonly wears a pink shirt and white pants.
Susy Sipple: Arthur's odd next-door neighbor from Season 1 to 6, who enjoys barbecuing fish late at night and comes from a place where making faces on a bike means to bring the biker a cabbage. He moves out in Season 6, and the Molinas move in to his home.
Miss Sweetwater:  She is also a third grade teacher in another Lakewood Elementary School class. She mostly does fun things to her students like singing songs (such as "I Like Fudge") on her guitar.
Mrs. Tibble: The grandmother of Tommy and Timmy Tibble. (In early Arthur books, Mrs. Tibble is a human, however many newer books and the show have her as a bear.)
Miss Cecilia Tingley: The current principal of Lakewood Elementary. She has been shown to be very strict, and enforces rules quite often.
Mr. Walters, a dog, Fern's father. He was first seen in Season 11, in the episode Phony Fern.
Wanda Deegan, a poodle. Prunella and Rubella's mother. She enjoys yoga.

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NGC 3603-B (HD 97950B) is a Wolf-Rayet star located at the centre of the HD 97950 cluster in the NGC 3603 star-forming region. It is about 20,000 light years from Earth. It has the spectral type of WN6h and is among the most luminous and massive stars known. WN6 indicates that there are ionized nitrogen lines that are strong in comparison to the ionized carbon lines. NGC 3603 is 132 times the mass of the Sun. It has a luminousity of 2,900,000. Although the star is very young, 1.5 million years old, it has lost a considerable fraction of it's initial masses.

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Roh Hoe-chan (, 31 August 1956 – 23 July 2018) was a South Korean politician. He was born in Busan. He was a member of the 17th, 19th, and 20th National Assembly from 2004 to 2008, 2012 to 2013 and again from 2016 until his death in 2018. A progressive, Roh was a member of the Justice Party from 2012 until his death.

Roh killed himself by jumping off his apartment on 23 July 2018 in Seoul at the age of 61.

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Events
 June 5 – John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg. The battle also liberates the city of Cologne from rule by the Archbishopric of Cologne; it had previously been one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.
 August 8 – Pope Nicholas IV proclaims a crusade against King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, who had lost credibility by favoring his semi-pagan Cuman subjects and in general refusing to conform to the social standards of western Europe.
 The Scots Parliament creates a law allowing women to propose marriage to men during leap years; men who refuse such proposals are required to pay a fine to the spurned bride-to-be.
 The oldest surviving bell in the clocks atop the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome dates to 1288.
 Vietnamese general Tran Hung Dao sinks the entire fleet of an invading Yuan dynasty Mongol army by placing steel-tipped bamboo stakes in the Bach Dang River, near Halong Bay.
 The Japanese era Koan ends, and the Shōō era begins.

1288


Beaumont-sur-Sarthe is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

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A neutral country is one that chooses not to take part in a War between other countries. International law allows a country to remain neutral during a period of war between two or more states. When a country declares it is neutral, it cannot allow any part of its territory from becoming a base for one side. It may not construct warships, recruit soldiers or organize military expeditions on behalf of one belligerent. It is also called "armed neutrality" when declaring itself neutral during a war. This is not the same as "neutralization", or permanent neutrality. A neutral country is also different from the neutrality claimed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or United Nations peacekeeping groups.

Permanent neutrality
An example of permanent neutrality would be the Vatican City. It declared itself permanently neutral in the 1929 Lateran Treaty.

Having a long history of remaining neutral, Switzerland became a favorite place for the headquarters of many organizations. The International Red Cross established itself at Geneva during the mid-19th century. Switzerland was recognized as remaining neutral in a 1920 declaration by the League of Nations, also headquartered in Geneva. When the League was disbanded after World War II it was replaced by the United Nations. While Switzerland did not join the UN, in addition to recognizing its neutrality it was also given permanent observer status.

Neutral countries

Note: Whether a state that is a member of the European Union may be considered neutral is a point of debate. This is discussed in the section below.

Neutral European Union members

Claim to be neutral

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Salcombe is a village and civil parish in South Hams, Devon, England. In 2001, there were 1,893 people living in Salcombe.

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Kenta Shimizu (born 18 September 1981) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Montedio Yamagata.

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Litchfield County is located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. State of Connecticut.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 189,927. The county has a total area of 2,446 km² (945 mi²).  2,383 km² (920 mi²) of it is land and 64 km² (25 mi²) of it is water.  The total area is 2.61% water.

Cities and Towns
Bantam
Barkhamsted
Bethlehem Village
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Canaan
Colebrook
Cornwall
Goshen
Harwinton
Kent
Litchfield
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New Hartford
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North Canaan
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Oakville
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Roxbury
Salisbury
Sharon
Terryville
Thomaston
Torrington
Warren
Washington
Watertown
Winchester
Winsted
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Cara McCollum (February 6, 1992 – February 22, 2016) was an American journalist. She was a news presenter for SNJ Today, which she joined in July 2015. She was Miss New Jersey 2013 and competed for the Miss America 2014 title in September 2013. She was born in Forrest City, Arkansas.

McCollum died at the age of 24 on February 22, 2016, in Camden, New Jersey. She died because of injuries she got a week earlier from a car accident.

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Quentin Matsys (other spellings: Massijs, Matsijs, Metsys for the last name; Quinten or Kwinten for the first name) was a Dutch painter. He was born around 1466 in Leuven, and died in 1530 in Antwerp.

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The California giant salamander (Dicamptodon ensatus) is a species of salamanders. They are part of the family Dicamptodontidae. They live in California and western United States. They are related to the Idaho giant salamander, Pacific giant salamander and the Coastal giant salamander.

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Labroye is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.

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Payson is a village in Illinois in the United States.

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Erich Juskowiak (7 September 1926 - 1 July 1983) was a German football player. He played for West Germany national team.

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Kansas City is the biggest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. The Kansas River and Missouri River meet one another in Kansas City. The city has about 448,000 people, and the entire metropolitan area has about 2,000,000 people, some of whom live in the state of Kansas. Its mayor is Sly James. Some sports teams there are the Royals (baseball), the Chiefs (American football), and the Wizards (soccer). Kansas City is well known for some of its barbecue restaurants, and is also an important place for business.

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Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American movie actress who appeared in many of blockbuster movies such as, Place in the Sun, The Big Knife, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, and The Poseidon Adventure. Her career had spanned for over 50 years until her death in 2006. Winters won Academy Awards for her acting in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue.

Early life
Winters was born on August 18, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri to Rose (née Winter) and to Jonas Schrift. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York City. She was educated at The New School.

Career
Winters career began in 1943 in the movie There's Something About a Soldier and since then she had appeared in over 100 movies, such as; Escape in the Fog, New Orleans, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Flap, Black Journal, Fanny Hill, Jury Duty, and her final movie A-List.

Awards and nominations

Winters has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1992.

Personal life
Winters was married to Paul Meyer from 1937 until they divorced in 1948. Later she married Vittorio Gassman from 1949 until they divorced in 1954. Thirdly she married Anthony Franciosa from 1957 until they divorced in 1960. Lastly she married Gerry DeFord from 2006 until her death in 2006. Winters only had one child with Grassman.

Death
Winters died on January 14, 2006 in at a hospital in Beverly Hills, California home from heart failure, she was 85 years old. Five days later, her ex-husband Anthony Franciosa died from a stroke.

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Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas; 6 September 1747 – 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XIV by the king's legitimised son, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse. He was known as the Prince of Lamballe from birth. He died before his father, and did not have children.

Biography
Louis Alexandre was born on 6 September 1747, at the Hôtel de Toulouse in Paris. The prince de Lamballe, as he was known all his life, was the couple's only surviving son. He was one of seven children.

Marriage
His father chose his bride, the Italian born Princess Maria Luisa Teresa of Savoy "Mademoiselle de Carignan". The wedding celebration lasted from 17 January 1767, until 27 January with feasts in Turin and Nangis. Prior to the wedding, His father had arranged the marriage to try and get his son to settle down as he was a well known womaniser. However after three months of happiness, Louis Alexandre soon tired of his young wife and resumed his life of débaucherie. He eloped with Mademoiselle de La Chassaigne, an opera dancer, five months into his marriage. At one point, Louis Alexandre even sold his wife's diamonds to raise money to pay his debts.

Death
After a dissipated short life, Louis Alexandre died on 6 May 1768, sixteen months after his marriage, of a venereal disease at the Château de Louveciennes in the arms of his wife. He died without any children. His wife inherited part of his considerable fortune. He was eventually buried at the Royal Chapel, Dreux, France by his younger sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon.

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6 September 1747 – 6 May 1768 His Serene Highness the Prince of Lamballe

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David Dejiro Defiagbon (12 June 1970 – 24 November 2018) was a Nigerian-Canadian retired boxer. He competed for Canada at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

History
Defiagbon competed at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. He won gold after defeating Greg Johnson. He fought for Nigeria at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He was defeated in the first round of the light middleweight division by Raúl Márquez 7 to 8.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Defiagbon competed for Canada and was able to win a silver medal after he defeated Nate Jones. He was defeated by Félix Savón.

Defiagbon died of a heart attack in Las Vegas, Nevada on 28 November 2018 at the age of 48.

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Any Given Sunday is a 1999 American drama movie. It was directed by Oliver Stone and was produced by Richard Donner, Oliver Stone, Dan Halsted, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Clayton Townsend. Any Given Sunday was released on December 22, 1999. The movie is based on the Pat Toomay novel, On Any Given Sunday.

The movie gained mixed reviews from critics and holds a 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Cast
Al Pacino as Tony D'Amato
Cameron Diaz as Christina Pagniacci
Dennis Quaid as Jack "Cap" Rooney
James Woods as Dr. Harvey Mandrake
Jamie Foxx as "Steamin" Willie Beamen
LL Cool J as Julian "J-Man" Washington
Lawrence Taylor as Luther "Shark" Lavay
Jim Brown as Montezuma Monroe
Aaron Eckhart as Nick Crozier
Matthew Modine as Dr. Oliver "Ollie" Powers
John C. McGinley as Jack Rose
Lela Rochon as Vanessa Struthers
Lauren Holly as Cindy Rooney
Ann-Margret as Margaret Pagniacci
Elizabeth Berkley as Mandy Murphy
Charlton Heston as Commissioner
Clifton Davis as Mayor Tyrone Smalls

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432 Park Avenue is the worlds largest residential skyscraper, and third largest building in the United States.  It is located in New York City.

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Changsha () is the capital and most populous city in Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. It is in the southern central part of the country. In 2010, 7,044,118 people lived there.

Administration
Changsha administers 6 districts, 1 county and 2 county-level cities:

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Madeleine "Maddie" Blaustein (October 9, 1960 – December 11, 2008) was an American voice actress. Until her death, Blaustein was the voice of Sartorius in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. She was also the voice of Meowth in the Pokémon anime.

Personal life
Blaustein was born intersex. She was a male when she was born, and lived as male for many years until changing to female.

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Paul Francis Pelosi Sr.  (born April 15, 1940) is an American businessman. He owns Financial Leasing Services, Inc., a San Francisco-based real estate and investment company. He also owned the Sacramento Mountain Lions, a team in the United Football League (which does not exist any more).

He is the husband of the U.S. House speaker, Nancy Pelosi and has had five children with her.

References

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Paul Pelosi


László Aradszky (20 September 1935 – 8 October 2017) was a Hungarian pop singer. He became successful in the 1960s after participation in the talent show Táncdalfesztivál. He was born in Budapest, Hungary.

Aradszky died in Budapest on 8 October 2017 at the age of 82.

References

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László Aradszky


Events
 Astronomical aberration found by the astronomer James Bradley
 Swedish academy of sciences made at Uppsala
 The making of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cuba's most set university.

Births
 January 9 – Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
 February 21 – Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
 April 16 – Joseph Black, Scottish scientist (d. 1799)
 August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1777)
 August 28 – John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
 September 3 – Matthew Boulton, English metal-worker, inventor and partner of James Watt (d. 1809)
 September 14 – Mercy Otis Warren, American writer (d. 1814)
 October 7 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer who signed the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
 October 27 – James Cook, British captain and explorer (d. 1779)
 November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (d. 1774)

Deaths
 February 12 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1654)
 February 13 – Cotton Mather, Puritan minister (b. 1663)
 March 4 – Anna Petrovna of Russia, oldest daughter of Peter the Great (b. 1708)
 April 3 – James Anderson, Scottish historian (b. 1662)
 August 15 – Marin Marais, French musician (b. 1656)
 September 23 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
 November 19 – Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, German Prince (b. 1694)
 date unknown – Serfoji I, Indian Ruler (b. 1675)

1728


Mattenbach is a district in the city of Winterthur in Switzerland.

The district has these quarters: Deutweg, Gutschick and Endliker.

Category:Districts of Switzerland

Mattenbach


The arrondissement of Cambrai is an arrondissement of France, in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France region. Its capital is the city of Cambrai.

History
When the Nord department was created on 1790, the arrondissement of Cambrai was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Cambrai is in the southwest of the Nord department. It borders with the Douai arrondissement to the northwest, the Valenciennes arrondissement to the north, the Avesnes-sur-Helpe arrondissement to the east, the Aisne department to the south, the Somme department to the southwest and the Pas-de-Calais to the west.

The arrondissement of Cambrai has an area of , and a population of 163,065 inhabitants for a population 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.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Cambrai are:
 Cambrai (5909)
 Le Cateau-Cambrésis (5910)
 Caudry (5911)

Communes
The arrondissement of Cambrai has 116 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Abancourt (59001)
 Anneux (59010)
 Aubencheul-au-Bac (59023)
 Avesnes-les-Aubert (59037)
 Awoingt (59039)
 Banteux (59047)
 Bantigny (59048)
 Bantouzelle (59049)
 Bazuel (59055)
 Beaumont-en-Cambrésis (59059)
 Beaurain (59060)
 Beauvois-en-Cambrésis (59063)
 Bermerain (59069)
 Bertry (59074)
 Blécourt (59085)
 Boursies (59097)
 Boussières-en-Cambrésis (59102)
 Briastre (59108)
 Busigny (59118)
 Béthencourt (59075)
 Bévillers (59081)
 Cagnoncles (59121)
 Cambrai (59122)
 Cantaing-sur-Escaut (59125)
 Capelle (59127)
 Carnières (59132)
 Le Cateau-Cambrésis (59136)
 Catillon-sur-Sambre (59137)
 Cattenières (59138)
 Caudry (59139)
 Caullery (59140)
 Cauroir (59141)
 Clary (59149)
 Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut (59161)
 Cuvillers (59167)
 Dehéries (59171)
 Doignies (59176)
 Élincourt (59191)
 Escarmain (59204)
 Escaudœuvres (59206)
 Esnes (59209)
 Estourmel (59213)
 Estrun (59219)
 Eswars (59216)
 Flesquières (59236)
 Fontaine-Notre-Dame (59244)
 Fontaine-au-Pire (59243)
 Fressies (59255)
 Gonnelieu (59267)
 Gouzeaucourt (59269)
 Haucourt-en-Cambrésis (59287)
 Haussy (59289)
 Haynecourt (59294)
 Hem-Lenglet (59300)
 Honnechy (59311)
 Honnecourt-sur-Escaut (59312)
 Inchy (59321)
 Iwuy (59322)
 La Groise (59274)
 Les Rues-des-Vignes (59517)
 Lesdain (59341)
 Ligny-en-Cambrésis (59349)
 Malincourt (59372)
 Marcoing (59377)
 Maretz (59382)
 Masnières (59389)
 Maurois (59394)
 Mazinghien (59395)
 Mœuvres (59405)
 Montay (59412)
 Montigny-en-Cambrésis (59413)
 Montrécourt (59415)
 Naves (59422)
 Neuville-Saint-Rémy (59428)
 Neuvilly (59430)
 Niergnies (59432)
 Noyelles-sur-Escaut (59438)
 Ors (59450)
 Paillencourt (59455)
 Pommereuil (59465)
 Proville (59476)
 Quiévy (59485)
 Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle (59488)
 Ramillies (59492)
 Rejet-de-Beaulieu (59496)
 Reumont (59498)
 Ribécourt-la-Tour (59500)
 Rieux-en-Cambrésis (59502)
 Romeries (59506)
 Rumilly-en-Cambrésis (59520)
 Sailly-lez-Cambrai (59521)
 Saint-Aubert (59528)
 Saint-Benin (59531)
 Saint-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai (59533)
 Saint-Martin-sur-Écaillon (59537)
 Saint-Python (59541)
 Saint-Souplet (59545)
 Saint-Vaast-en-Cambrésis (59547)
 Sancourt (59552)
 Saulzoir (59558)
 Solesmes (59571)
 Sommaing (59575)
 Séranvillers-Forenville (59567)
 Thun-Saint-Martin (59595)
 Thun-l'Évêque (59593)
 Tilloy-lez-Cambrai (59597)
 Troisvilles (59604)
 Vendegies-sur-Écaillon (59608)
 Vertain (59612)
 Viesly (59614)
 Villers-Guislain (59623)
 Villers-Outréaux (59624)
 Villers-Plouich (59625)
 Villers-en-Cauchies (59622)
 Walincourt-Selvigny (59631)
 Wambaix (59635)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Nord department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Cambrai

Arrondissement of Cambrai


The Papal States, officially the State of the Church (, ; ; also ), were a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope, from the 8th century until 1870.

By 1861, much of the Papal States' territory had been conquered by the Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the Pope lost Lazio and Rome and had no physical territory at all, except the Vatican.

Related pages
 History of Rome
 Donation of Constantine
 Italian unification

References

Other websites
 Papal States Coinage
 WorldStatesmen: Italy
 WHKMLA Historical atlas: here the page offering numerous links to maps of/containing Italy

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Papal States


Hütten is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg merged into the municipality of Wädenswil.

Gallery

Other websites

 Official Website of Hütten

Category:Former municipalities of Zürich

Hütten, Switzerland


Bad Dürkheim is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The district is located on the eastern rim of the Palatinate Forest.

Towns and municipalities

References

Category:Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate

Bad Dürkheim (district)


Marisa Del Frate (11 March 1931 – 6 February 2015) was an Italian actress, singer and television personality.

She died in Rome on 6 February 2015 of cancer of unknown primary origin, aged 83.

References

Other websites
 Marisa Del Frate at Discogs

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Category:Actors from Rome
Category:Italian movie actors
Category:Italian singers

Marisa Del Frate


Ebrahim Abednezhad (, born 22 August 1992) is an Iranian footballer.

Career statistics

References

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Category:Sumgayit FK players
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Category:Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey

Ebrahim Abednezhad


A prototype is an original type, form, or instance of some thing.  It serves as a typical example or standard for things of the same category. Some prototypes are used to find defects or to test an idea.

Different kinds

Prototypes are built for different reasons:
Proof of principle prototype (or model): Shows that something can be done.  These kinds of prototypes are built to test a part of the design. These prototypes do not look like the finished product, in most cases. Such prototypes are used to show that certain design choices will work or will not work.
Form-study prototype (model): This tries to show what the finished design will look like, but without the function. Such prototypes allow to take decisions about the exact shape, size, or ergonomic properties.  This lets a designer see if things fit together, and will feel right.
Visual prototype: These will look like the actual product, and are used for market research. They do not have any of the functionality of the final product. An example is a concept car at a car show.  It may look like a new car but may not even have an engine.
Functional prototype: These will behave and act like the final product as much as possible. For cost reasons, they may be smaller in size, or they may not have the final look of the product.

Category:Manufacturing

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Prototype


Tor Johnson (born Tor Johansson, 19 October 1903 – 12 May 1971) was a Swedish professional wrestler and movie and television actor. During his wrestling career, he was billed as the Super-Swedish Angel.

Johnson was born in Sweden, the son of Karl J. Johansson and Lovisa Petersson. He began appearing in movies in 1934, usually as boxers or wrestlers. In the 1940s, he played lumbering thugs and scowling plug-uglies. He appeared with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in Road to Rio (1947), in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), and with Shirley Jones in the movie version of Carousel (1956).

He is best known though for his appearances in the low budget movies directed by Ed Wood. He played Lobo in Bride of the Monster and Night of the Ghouls, and the zombified Inspector Clay in Plan 9 from Outer Space.

In the early 1960s, he had guest appearances as wrestlers, thugs, and circus strongmen in various television series including Peter Gunn, Bonanza, and The Shirley Temple Show. Johnson died in San Fernando, California, from heart failure in 1971. He was buried at the Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall, California.

References

Other websites

Tor Johnson bio on (re)Search my Trash

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Category:Swedish television actors
Category:Professional wrestlers
Category:Deaths from heart failure
Category:1903 births
Category:1971 deaths

Tor Johnson


Zhob River () is in Balochistan, Pakistan. The meltwater from the Sulaiman Mountains forms Zhob River. The river flows through Balochistan and drains into the Gomal River near Khajuri Kachadd. Zhob city is on the banks of Zhob river.

Category:Rivers of Pakistan

Zhob River


Events

Up to 1900
 1194 - Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
 1335 - Otto, Duke of Austria, known as "Otto the Merry", becomes Duke of Carinthia.
 1536 - Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
 1559 - John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become leader of the Scottish Reformation.
 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
 1611 – The King James Bible is published.
 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, to open up fur trade in Canada.
 1808 – The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. This event is later memorised in a painting by Francisco de Goya.
 1829 - Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in present-day Western Australia.
 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville. He dies of his injuries on May 10.
 1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
 1876 - Start of the April Uprising in Bulgaria. In the Julian calendar used at the time, this date was April 20, which is why the uprising is named after the month of April.
 1879 - The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
 1885 - The first issue of Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale.
 1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium creates the Congo Free State, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa. It is estimated that millions may have died during the colonial rule there.
 1889 – Menelik II of Ethiopia signs a treaty that gives Italy control of Eritrea.

1901  2000
 1906 - Closing ceremony of the 1906 Olympics, which are not officially recognized by the IOC as part of the modern Olympic Games.
 1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company in Delaware.
 1920 - The first Negro National League baseball game is played in Indianapolis.
 1933 - Adolf Hitler bans trade unions in Germany.
 1945 – The Soviet Union captures Berlin in World War II.
 1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - In one of the most violent events on the prison island in San Francisco Bay - kills two guards and three inmates.
 1952 - The first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its first flight from London to Johannesburg.
 1953 - Hussein of Jordan becomes King, after his father, Talal of Jordan, is declared unfit to rule.
 1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the ship USS Card while it is in the dock at Saigon. The Viet Cong is suspected of having carried out the attack.
 1964 - First successful climb of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest mountain in the world, and the smallest of those with a height over 8000 metres.
 1969 – The Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 leaves for its first voyage to New York.
 1972 - An early-morning fire at Sunshine Mine between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace, Indiana, kills 91 workers.
 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
 1986 - Chernobyl is evacuated, six days after the nuclear reactor disaster there.
 1989 – Hungary opens its western border.
 1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 people.
 1995 - Croatian War of Independence: Serbian forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring 175.
 1997 – Tony Blair takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Labour Party won the previous day's General Election with a landslide win over John Major's Conservative Party.
 1998 – The European Central Bank is formed in Brussels.
 1999 – Mireya Moscoso is elected as the first female President of Panama.

From 2001
 2004 - Over 630 Muslim nomads are killed by Christians in religious violence in Nigeria.
 2006 – The band Tool releases its 4th album 10,000 Days.
 2008 – Tropical Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma, where it kills tens of thousands of people.
 2008 - The Chaiten volcano in Chile begins erupting. 4,500 people are evacuated from their homes.
 2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US military operation in Pakistan.
 2011 - A Europe-wide E. coli outbreak, centred in Germany, begins.
 2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada wins an overall majority in parliament in Canada's election. The Liberal Party of Canada finishes third, behind the New Democratic Party of Jack Layton, who dies a few months later.
 2012 – A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for 120 million US Dollars, setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
 2014 - A landslide in Afghanistan kills at least 350 people, with many reported missing.
 2014 - Violent clashes in Odessa during the Ukrainian political crisis lead to a building fire in which at least 31 pro-Russian activists are killed.
 2018 - Basque separatist group ETA announces its intention to dissolve.

Births

Up to 1900
 1360 – Yongle, Chinese Emperor (d. 1424)
 1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1503)
 1458 - Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
 1551 - William Camden, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1623)
 1579 - Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (d. 1632)
 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
 1660 – Antonio Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
 1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
 1729 – Empress Catherine II of Russia (d. 1796)
 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1805)
 1740 - Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1821)
 1754 - Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
 1772 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (d. 1801)
 1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
 1797 - Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
 1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German scientist (d. 1870)
 1806 – Charles Gleyre, Swiss painter (d. 1874)
 1808 - Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist (d. 1896)
 1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
 1815 - William Buell Richards, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1889)
 1830 - Otto Staudinger, German entomologist (d. 1900)
 1843 - Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor and engineer (d. 1929)
 1856 - Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher (d. 1919)
 1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
 1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian writer and Zionist (d. 1904)
 1860 - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish biologist, mathematician and classical scholar (d. 1948)
 1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
 1868 - Robert W. Wood, American experimental physicist (d. 1955)
 1872 - Karl Nessler, American hairdresser (d. 1951)
 1879 - James F. Byrnes, 49th United States Secretary of State and 104th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1972)
 1880 - Bill Horr, American athlete (d. 1955)
 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
 1885 - Hedda Hopper, American actress and columnist (d. 1966)
 1886 - Gottfried Benn, German writer (d. 1956)
 1889 - Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer (d. 1959)
 1890 - E. E. Smith, American food engineer (d. 1965)
 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
 1895 - Lorenz Hart, American playwright (d. 1943)
 1896 – Helen of Greece of Denmark (d. 1982)

1901  1950
 1902 - Arturo Licata, Sicilian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
 1903 – Benjamin Spock, American writer (d. 1998)
 1913 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
 1915 - Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2015)
 1917 - Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2002)
 1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder (d. unknown)
 1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
 1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian activist (d. 2000)
 1920 - Vasantrao Deshpande, Indian singer and sitar player (d. 1983)
 1920 - Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter, 1948 Olympic champion (d. 2004)
 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (d. 1992)
 1923 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
 1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
 1924 - Hugh Cortazzi, English businessman and diplomat (d. 2018)
 1925 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (d. 2015)
 1928 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
 1929 – Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France
 1929 - Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (d. 2019)
 1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist (d. 2016)
 1930 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist and critic (d. 2013)
 1931 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
 1932 - Bruce Glover, American actor
 1933 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (d. 2018)
 1933 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
 1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer
 1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
 1936 - Norma Aleandro, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
 1937 - Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)
 1937 - Lorenzo Music, American screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 2001)
 1938 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
 1941 – Jules Wijdenbosch, former President of Suriname
 1941 - Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015)
 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic official
 1943 - Manfred Schnelldorfer, German figure skater
 1944 - Kim Yong-il, North Korean politician
 1945 – Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
 1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
 1946 - Lesley Gore, American singer (d. 2015)
 1946 – David Suchet, British actor
 1947 – James Dyson, British inventor
 1947 - Prashanta Nanda, Indian actor, director, producer and politician
 1949 - Alan Titchmarsh, British television presenter
 1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookery writer
 1949 - Alan Gross, American government contractor
 1950 - Lou Gramm, American singer

1951  1975
 1951 - John Glascock, English musician (d. 1979)
 1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
 1952 - Christopher Doyle, Australian director and screenwriter
 1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor
 1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
 1956 - Régis Lebeaume, Canadian politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
 1958 - Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese television writer, songwriter, record producer and professor
 1958 – David O'Leary, Irish footballer
 1962 – Jimmy White, English snooker player
 1964 – Silvia Neid, German footballer and coach
 1967 - Bengt Akerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1995)
 1967 - Luigi Apolloni, Italian footballer
 1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
 1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
 1969 – Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer
 1971 - Musashimaru Koyo, American Samoan sumo wrestler
 1972 - Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
 1972 - Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and entrepreneur
 1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German movie director
 1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
 1975 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut

From 1976
 1977 - Jan Fitschen, German runner
 1977 - Kalle Palander, Finnish skier
 1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
 1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer
 1980 – Zat Knight, English footballer
 1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
 1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
 1981 – Chris Kirkland, English footballer
 1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
 1982 - Lorie, French singer
 1982 - Johan Botha, South Korean cricketer
 1983 - Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer
 1983 - Derek Boateng, Ghanaian footballer
 1983 - Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
 1983 – Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
 1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
 1985 - Kyle Busch, American racing driver
 1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
 1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
 1985 - Oh Land, Danish singer-songwriter and record producer
 1985 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1986 - Emily Hart, American actress
 1986 - Sani Kaita, Nigerian footballer
 1987 - Saara Aalto, Finnish singer
 1987 - Kris Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
 1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
 1988 - Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer
 1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
 1990 - Paul George, American basketball player
 1991 - Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
 1994 - Josh Bolt, English actor
 1996 - Julian Brandt, German footballer
 1997 - Bambam, South Korean dancer, rapper and singer
 2015 - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

Deaths

Up to 1900
 373 - Athanasius of Alexandria (b. 298)
 756 - Emperor Shomu of Japan (b. 701)
 907 - Boris I of Bulgaria
 1219 – Leo I, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
 1300 - Blanche of Artois (b. 1248)
 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (b. 1452)
 1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
 1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
 1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
 1821 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (b. 1741)
 1825 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military (b. 1760)
 1857 - Alfred de Busset, French writer (b. 1810)
 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
 1880 - Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman (b. 1805)
 1880 - Tom Willis, Australian cricketer and co-founder of Australian rules football (b. 1835)

1901  2000
 1909 - Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833)
 1915 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, doctor and activist (b. 1870)
 1918 - Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889)
 1927 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
 1930 - Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian chess player (b. 1854)
 1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi politician (b. 1900)
 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, US Senator (b. 1908)
 1960 – Caryl Chessman, American, controversially executed (b. 1921)
 1964 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-British politician (b. 1879)
 1969 – Franz von Papen, German politician (b. 1879)
 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI (b. 1895)
 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
 1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (b. 1926)
 1983 - Pridi Banomyong, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
 1984 - Bob Clampett, American animator, producer and director (b. 1913)
 1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rally driver (b. 1953)
 1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
 1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1902)
 1993 - André Moynet, French fighter pilot, entrepreneur, politician and racing driver (b. 1921)
 1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
 1995 - Werner Veigel, German television journalist (b. 1928)
 1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
 1997 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
 1998 – Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
 1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
 1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)

From 2001
 2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
 2009 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
 2009 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
 2010 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
 2010 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
 2011 – Osama Bin Laden, Saudi Islamist terrorist (b. 1957)
 2012 – Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician (b. 1955)
 2012 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
 2013 - Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
 2013 - Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (Slayer) (b. 1964)
 2014 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
 2014 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian classical musician (b. 1947)
 2014 - Nigel Stepney, English mechanic (b. 1958)
 2014 - Pauline Wagner, American actress (b. 1910)
 2015 - Ruth Rendell, English writer (b. 1930)
 2015 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
 2015 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian performance poet (b. 1940)
 2015 - Sarah Correa, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1992)
 2015 - Guy Carawan, American folk musician (b. 1927)
 2015 - Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
 2015 - Stuart Archer, British recipient of the George Cross (b. 1915)
 2015 - Philip S. Goodman, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1926)
 2016 - Afeni Shakur, African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist, and Black Panther. Mother of Tupac Shakur (b. 1947)
 2016 - Jonathan Cainer, British astrologer (b. 1957)
 2016 - John Kaye, Australian politician (b. 1955)
 2016 - Roger Millward, British rugby league player (b. 1947)
 2017 - Harold Bedoya Pizarro, Colombian military commander and politician (b. 1938)
 2017 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine author and essayist (b. 1935)
 2017 - Kevin Garcia, American musician (b. 1975)
 2017 - Heinz Kessler, German politician (b. 1920)
 2017 - George Hugh Niederauer, American archbishop (b. 1936)
 2017 - Leo K. Thorsness, American air force officer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Moray Watson, British actor (b. 1928)
 2017 - Roy Gater, English footballer (b. 1940)
 2018 - Gord Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1960)
 2018 - Tony Cucchiara, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
 2018 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violinist (b. 1923)
 2018 - Vadim Mulerman, Soviet-Ukrainian singer (b. 1938)
 2018 - Bill Torrey, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1934)
 2018 - Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
 2018 - Wolfgang Völz, German actor (b. 1930)
 2018 - János Juszkó, Hungarian cyclist (b. 1939)
 2019 - Michel Crauste, French rugby union player (b. 1934)
 2019 - Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1936)
 2019 - Fatimih Dávila, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
 2019 - Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
 2019 - Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (b. 1924)
 2019 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2019 - Micha Lindenstrauss, German-born Israeli judge (b. 1937)
 2019 - Ali Mroudjaé, Prime minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
 2019 - Lord Toby Jug, British politician (b. 1935)
 2019 - Chris Reccardi, American animator (b. 1964)
 2019 - John Starling, American bluegrass musician (b. 1940)
 2019 - Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer (b. 1917)

Observances
 Polish Flag day celebrated
 Last day of the Bahá'í festival to select members of the Universal House of Justice.
 National Education Day (Indonesia)
 Teachers' Day (Iran, Bhutan)

May 02

May 2


Prince Daniel of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland (born Olof Daniel Westling on 15 September 1973), is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria. He was a personal trainer and gym owner and ran a company called Balance Training with three gyms in central Stockholm.

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A calendar is a tool for organizing days. People use calendars to say when something happened, and for planning things that have not happened yet. The calendar gives the days names and numbers, called calendar dates. The dates are usually made based on how things in the sky seem to move. The year and month are based on motions of the Sun and moon. By knowing what day something happened or will happen, people have an easier life. Since the beginning of history, knowing when the seasons would start for crops was very important for farmers and people who eat.

Calendar systems have a beginning time or era. The calendar era is often a religion-based event, such as the birth of Jesus, but it may be a political event such as a coronation or the founding of a state. Dates that are counted from the coronation are called "regnal".

The three principal calendars most used today are the Gregorian, Hebrew, and Islamic calendars. Other calendar systems from many different parts of the world are also used.

Basis
Calendars are based on three natural things:

 The Earth turns all the way around its axis.
 The Moon goes all the way around the Earth.
 The Earth goes all the way around the Sun.

The Earth turns all the way around its axis about 24 hours. It is called the Solar Day.  Days of most calendars are strongly based on the Solar Day.

The Moon turns all the way around the Earth about 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2 seconds.  Months of some calendars are still strongly based on the Moon.  These are called Lunar calendars, which lasts about 354-355 days.  Solar calendars ignore the moon, and depend entirely on the Sun.

The Earth goes all the way around the Sun in about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.  This is called the Tropical Year.  Years of most calendars are strongly based on the Tropical Year.

Related pages
 Anno Domini (AD)
 Common Era (CE)
 Friday (Muslim)
 Saturday (Jewish)
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Other websites
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Calendar


Tom and Jerry Kids Show is a 1990 television series by Hanna-Barbera Studios. This follows Tom and Jerry as kids in their cat-and-mouse games. The show also contains segments featuring Droopy and his son Dripple (who would later star in their own short-lived spin-off, "Droopy, Master Detective"), Spike & Tyke (from the original Tom & Jerry) and Blast-Off Buzzard (from "The CB Bears"). The original run lasted until 1994 when the show was canceled. In certain countries, the Tom & Jerry Kids shorts have aired separately on Boomerang until 2014.

Cast

Principal Cast
 Charlie Adler - Dripple Dog
 William Callaway - Slowpoke Antonio
 Brian Cummings - Clyde
 Pat Fraley - Kyle the Cat
 Teresa Ganzel - Miss Vavoom
 Dick Gautier - Spike
 Phil Hartman - Calaboose Cal
 Don Messick - Droopy Dog
 Frank Welker - Tom (the cat), Jerry (the mouse), Wildmouse, McWolf
 Patric Zimmerman - Tyke

International Broadcast

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Morges is a district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The capital is the city of Morges. The population (as of December 2015) is 80,095.

These are the municipalities in Morges:

Geography
The area of the district is 372.99 square kilometers (144.01 sq mi). Of this area, 205.69 km2 (79.42 sq mi) or 55.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 126.4 km2 (48.8 sq mi) or 33.9% is forested.The remaining area, 38.25 km2 (14.77 sq mi) or 10.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 2.66 km2 (1.03 sq mi) or 0.7% is unproductive land.

References

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Morges (district)


Oberurnen is a former municipality of the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 the former municipalities of Oberurnen, Bilten, Filzbach, Mollis, Mühlehorn, Näfels, Niederurnen and Obstalden merged into the new municipality of Glarus Nord.

Other websites

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Shivamogga is the capital of the Shivamogga district in Karnataka. It was earlier called Shimoga.

It is located in India.

References

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Shivamogga


Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters (5 December 1903 - 24 December 2011) was a Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer.

He worked for 91 years, and almost always worked in German-speaking Europe. Heesters was one of the oldest working people in entertainment. Some people have had problems with Heesters because he once sang for Adolf Hitler.  He also supported the Nazi's during World War II.

Heesters was married twice: to Belgian actress Louise Ghijs (1906-1985) from 1930 until her death and from 1992-2011 to Simone Rethel. Heesters has two daughters from his first marriage and five grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, twenty-five great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandson as of 2011. His younger daughter Nicole Heesters is a well-known actress in the German-speaking world, as is his granddaughter Saskia Fischer.

On 1 January 2008, he fell down some stairs in his holiday house in Tyrol and broke two ribs.

On 29 November 2011, he suddenly fell ill and was rushed into a hospital. He was operated on to fit a heart pacemaker. He was allowed home less than a week later. This was in time to spend his 108th birthday the next day with family. He did not feel strong enough to make the planned stage appearance to sing in celebration of his birthday.  He also missed the premiere of his latest movie, Ten. Due to a relapse in his condition, on 17 December he went back to the hospital. He had a stroke and died on Christmas Eve 2011.

Discography
Albums
1965: Jetzt geh' ich ins Maxim
2003: Ich werde 100 Jahre alt

Singles
1937: "Ich werde jede Nacht von ihnen träumen"
1939: "Musik, Musik, Musik" (featuring Marika Rökk)
1941: "Liebling, was wird nun aus uns beiden"
1941: "Man müßte Klavier spielen können"
1949: "Das kommt mir spanisch vor"
1949: "Tausendmal möchte' ich dich küssen"
1998: "Ich werde 100 Jahre alt" (song)
2007: "Generationen" (featuring Claus Eisenmann)

Honours, decorations, awards
1984: Bavarian Order of Merit
1993: Berlinian Order of Merit
2000: Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna
Bambi in 1967, 1987, 1990, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
2001: Platinum Romy (TV award)
2003: Goldene Kamera
2004: Kammersänger

Filmography

References

Other websites

Official website (in German)
Postcards and tobacco cards

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Selenium hexafluoride, also known as selenium(VI) fluoride, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is SeF6. It contains selenium in its +6 oxidation state. It also contains fluoride ions.

Properties
Selenium hexafluoride is a colorless gas. It is much more reactive and toxic than sulfur hexafluoride. It has a bad odor.

Preparation
Selenium hexafluoride is made by heating selenium and fluorine together.

Uses
This chemical compound has no uses.

Related pages
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Selenium tetrachloride

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Angelroda is a former municipality of the district Ilm-Kreis Rural District, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 31 December 2019, it is part of the municipality Martinroda.

References

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A shuttlecock is used in the sport badminton. The shuttlecock center is hit with a badminton racquet over the net, in this fast sport. A shuttlecock is also called a shuttle. Other names for shuttlecock are bird, or birdie, because it can be made with feathers.

Materials
Shuttlecocks can be made of many types of materials, including plastic and feathers. It creates a cone shape, and is held together by a round center, usually made of cork or rubber. The cone shape the feathers, or other materials create is called a shuttlecock skirt.

In North America and Europe, feather shuttlecocks cost more. In Asia, where the prices of feathers are lower, shuttles made of plastic are rarely used; feather shuttles are used.

It is harder to hit a feather shuttlecock fast, because there is more drag. They are also less durable than plastic shuttles. Experienced badminton players usually play with feather shuttlecocks, and in competition, badminton is almost always played with feather shuttles. They feel that feather shuttles give them more control, and better play is needed to hit feather shuttles.

In school gyms and amateur/beginner clubs in Europe and North America, plastic shuttlecocks are more often used than feather ones. This is to save feathers, since plastic shuttlecocks do not break easily. Feathers on the feather shuttles bend or break if the player does not hit the cork or rubber center.

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The idiom Tongue-in-cheek is about a statement that is funny or sarcastic. It isn't meant to be taken seriously.

History
The phrase first meant contempt. By 1842, it got its modern meaning. Early users of the phrase include Sir Walter Scott in his 1828 The Fair Maid of Perth.

References

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Valentines is the second EP by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released by Columbia Records in the United States on January 1, 2000. It is a limited edition CD and the first Carey record in the U.S. to feature "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)", a Diana Ross cover that was released as a bonus track on non-U.S. copies of both Carey's compilation album #1's (1998) and seventh studio album Rainbow (1999).

Track listing
"Vision of Love" – 3:29
"Underneath the Stars" – 3:33
"My All" – 3:51
"Babydoll" – 5:06
"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" – 3:45

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Water content means the amount of water present in a porous substance, such as soil. This term is used in hydrogeology, soil science and soil mechanics. In saturated groundwater aquifers, all available spaces are filled with water. Above a capillary fringe, pore spaces have air in them too.

Gaps between soil particles are called pore spaces or voids. These voids contain various amounts of either water or air. Soil moisture content can be expressed in different basis:
Gravimetric: the mass of water/mass of solid material
Volumetric: the volume of soil/total porosity

The amount of void space within a soil depends on the distribution of particle sizes, and is quantified by soil porosity.

Soil moisture is more generally considered within the context of hydrology, where it represents the immediate store of infiltrating rainfall, before it either evapotranspires or contributes to groundwater recharge.

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Ford County (county code FO) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 33,848 people lived there. Its county seat is Dodge City. Dodge City is also the biggest city in Ford County. The county is named after Colonel James Hobart Ford.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.07%) is water.

People

The Dodge City Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Ford County.

The 2010 census says that there were 33,848 people, 10,852 households, and 7,856 families living in Ford County. 75.3% of the people were White, 2.1% were Black or African American, 1.0% Native American, 1.4% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 17.8% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 51.2% of the population.

Government

Presidential elections
Ford County has been strongly Republican for most of its history, especially in recent elections. Only eight Democratic presidential candidates from 1888 to the present day have won the county. The most recent winner being Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Laws

Ford County was a prohibition, or "dry", county until the Kansas Constitution was changed in 1986. The changed allowed liquor to be sold.

References

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Ford County, Kansas


Middletown is a town in southeastern Rhode Island. At the 2010 US Census, 16,150 people lived there.

Middletown was incorporated in 1743.

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Middletown, Rhode Island


Typhoon Hagupit (called Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines) was a strong tropical cyclone in the western Pacific Ocean. The storm headed towards the Philippines.

Storm warnings and notices were up for the Philippines because of this typhoon.

Hagupit became a tropical storm on December 1, 2014. It became a typhoon the next day.

Hagupit
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Typhoon Hagupit (2014)


A connection is when two things are put together. This can either be a 'real' connection, like a chain linking two objects, or you can use the word in a figurative way. You might talk about a train connection between two cities, and mean the trains running between them.

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Amar'e Carsares Stoudemire (born November 16, 1982) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player who last played for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League and the Basketball Champions League. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 2003 with the Phoenix Suns, who selected him with the ninth overall pick of the 2002 NBA draft. He made six appearances in the NBA All-Star Game and was named to the All-NBA Team five times, including one first-team selection in 2007.

Stoudemire played high school basketball for five different schools, ultimately graduating from Cypress Creek High School in Orlando, Florida, and declaring for the NBA draft as a prep-to-pro player. He won several prep honors, including being selected as Florida's Mr. Basketball. The highly athletic Stoudemire suffered from chronic knee problems during his career and underwent microfracture surgery on both knees. He played for the Suns, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Miami Heat before retiring from the NBA in 2016.

Stoudemire won a bronze medal with the United States national team at the 2004 Olympic Games. His off-court ventures include a record label, a clothing line, acting and a series of children's books for Scholastic Press. In addition, Stoudemire owns a significant share of Hapoel Jerusalem, the team he won a championship with in 2017.

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The VeggieTales Show (also known as VeggieTales) is an American Christian live action and computer animated children's television series based on the direct-to-video series VeggieTales. The series is produced by Modern Cartoons and Big Idea Productions and it aired in syndication from September 10, 1997 to August 9, 1999 and on Cartoon Network as a part of the Small World block from October 10, 1997 to September 9, 1999.

Thematization
In Season 1, it had the theme of funny boomerangs, then it ends up adopting the theme of shapes and colors in Season 2.

Characters
 Bob the Tomato, Archibald Asparagus, Lumpy and two other Singing Closet Monsters, Mr. Lunt, Jimmy Gourd, Pa Grape, Tom Grape, Dad Carrot (Season 1 only; John Wahba in Season 2), Mr. Nezzer, Percy Pea, Phillipe Pea, Scallion #1, Grandpa George, Frankencelery, Goliath, Sheep #1 (voiced by Phil Visher)
 Larry the Cucumber, Jerry Gourd, The Peach, Scallion #2, Oscar (early version), Jean-Claude Pea, Henry the Potato, Art Bigotti Asparagus, Sheep #2 (voiced by Mike Narwocki)
 Junior Asparagus, Lisa Asparagus, Mom Carrot (voiced by Lisa Vischer)
 Mike Asparagus (voiced by Dan Anderson)
 Scallion #3 (voiced by Mike Sage)
 Ma Grape (voiced by Heidi Landis)
 Rosie Grape (voiced by Bridget Miller)
 Lovey Asparagus, Penelope Asparagus, Mabel the Pear, Rumor Weed (voiced by Gail Freeman-Bock)
 Palmy The Palm Tree (voiced by Jeff Morrow)
 Laura Carrot (voiced by Kristen Blegen)
 Lenny Carrot (voiced by Natalia Lozano)
 Scooter Carrot (voiced by Jim Poole)
 Sheep #3, The Vegetable Choir (voiced by Kurt Heinecke)
 Manuel the Date (voiced by Javier Alverez)
 Christophe Pea (voiced by Chris Olsen)
 Li'l Pea (voiced by Lesly Benodin)
 Annie Onion (voiced by Shelby Vischer)
 Buzz Saw Louie (voiced by Ken Cavanagh)
 Fibrilous Minimus (voiced by Tim Gregory)
 Madame Blueberry (voiced by Megan Moore Burns; and later Gail-Freeman Bock)
 Eddie Coker (voiced by Himself)
 The VeggieTales Show Kids (Lucy, Marco, Latasha, Stacey, Jacob, Jodie, Olivia, Alice, Ricky, and Katherine; voiced by Themselves)

Episodes

Season 1 (1997)
 Where's God When I'm S-Scared? (September 10, 1997)
 God Wants Me to Forgive Them?!? (September 20, 1997)
 Are You My Neighbor? (October 10, 1997)
 Rack, Shack and Benny (October 20, 1997)
 Dave and the Giant Pickle (November 10, 1997)
 The Toy That Saved Christmas (November 20, 1997)
 Larry-Boy! and the Fib from Outer Space! (December 10, 1997)
 Josh and the Big Wall! (December 20, 1997)

Season 2 (1998-1999)
 Madame Blueberry (November 7, 1998)
 The Value Bargain Sale (November 9, 1998)
 The Contest (December 10, 1998)
 The Chamber of Commerce (December 20, 1998)
 The Invisible Mystery (May 7, 1999)
 Larry the President (May 9, 1999)
 Larry-Boy to the Rescue! (June 7, 1999)
 Like Your Funny Face (June 9, 1999)
 Dough-Nutty (July 7, 1999)
 The Tooth Fairy (July 9, 1999)
 Fun at the Fair (August 7, 1999)
 Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed (August 9, 1999)

Music
 The theme song, "I Love Adventure" is sung by the whole VeggieTales cast, Eddie Coker, and the kids in each episode.
 In the sixth episode, "The Big Medley!" is sung by the whole VeggieTales cast, Eddie Coker, and the kids in the end with lots of Christmas carols.
 During the ending credits, the episode's songs are played in each episode.

Home media
The series are released to VHS in September 10, 1997 from Word Entertainment, and then it was re-released in January 10, 1998 from Lyrick Studios. The series was released to DVD for the first time ever in February 10, 2000 also from Lyrick Studios, and then it was re-released in May 18, 2004 from Warner Home Video.

Production
The series was produced by Modern Cartoons in Oxnard, California, United States. The series was created in Alias Wavefront PowerAnimator and Softimage 3D with live action and 3D animation due to the early beta version of Maya in March 8, 1996.

 The backgrounds were miniature sets due to the concert hall.
 Eddie Coker and the kids were live action actresses shot in front of the greenscreen.
 The VeggieTales characters were the early 3D models created in Alias Wavefront PowerAnimator and Softimage 3D.
 The movement of the VeggieTales characters was recorded by playing out the scene with plastic models equipped with Qwerty the computer.
 The VeggieTales characters' faces and lip synching were done by rigging controls, a rigging technique where reflective spots are put on a voice actor's face. The voice track is digitally recorded along with the spot data. Then the face is digitally rendered.
 Body movement and other effects were done by joysticks.
 Music and sounds were done by the music director Kurt Heinecke.
 Daily segments were done on the old Intel Inside computers.

Broadcasting

Reboot
After the original series ended in 1999, the new reboot will be released in October 19, 2019 called The VeggieTales Show that is going to premiere and air on TBN as a part of Smile block with brand new episodes and a Christmas special.

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Cheshire ( ) is a county in England.

Cheshire may also refer to:

Places in the United States
Cheshire, Connecticut
Cheshire, Massachusetts
Cheshire, Ohio
Cheshire, Oregon
Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Cheshire Township, Michigan
Cheshire Township, Gallia County, Ohio

Cheshire (disambiguation)


Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. (born March 11, 1950 in Manhattan, New York City) is an American singer and musician. He is probably best known for his 1988 hit song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy". In his musical career he has won 10 Grammy Awards.

Discography

Albums
Bobby McFerrin has made 19 studio albums during his career:

Other websites
Bobby McFerrin's Official website

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Bobby McFerrin


The Ruhr Area () is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.  Many of the cities in the Ruhrgebiet used to have a lot of heavy industry.

The Ruhr Area is bordered by the rivers Ruhr River to the south, Rhine River to the west, and Lippe to the north. Southwest it borders the Bergisches Land.

The area has about 5.3 million inhabitants, and is part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area of more than 12 million people.

The Ruhr Area consists of the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hamm, Hagen and Dortmund and the rural districts of Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna and Ennepe-Ruhr

Culture
The city of Essen in the Ruhr area was selected as European Capital of Culture for 2010 by the Council of the European Union.

Sources

References

Bishop, Patrick.  Bomber Boys Fighting Back 1940–1945
 French Directorate for Economic Affairs, Memorandum on the separation of the German industrial regions, 8 September 1945.
Gareau, Frederick H.  "Morgenthau's Plan for Industrial Disarmament in Germany", Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1961), pp. 517–53 in JSTOR
Yoder, Amos. "The Ruhr Authority and the German Problem", Review of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1955), pp. 345–358 in JSTOR

Further reading
 Kift, Roy, The Complete Ruhrgebiet: The English language guide (2018)  () Klartext Verlag, Essen
 Berndt, Christian. Corporate Germany Between Globalization and Regional Place Dependence: Business Restructuring in the Ruhr Area (2001)
 Crew, David.   Town in the Ruhr: A Social History of Bochum, 1860–1914 (1979) ()
 Fischer, Conan. The Ruhr Crisis, 1923–1924 (2003)
 Gillingham, John.  "Ruhr Coal Miners and Hitler's War", Journal of Social History Vol. 15, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 637–653 in JSTOR
 Chauncy D. Harris, "The Ruhr Coal-mining District", Geographical Review, 36 (1946), 194–221.
 Gillingham, John. Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler, and Europe (1985) ()
 Pounds, Norman J. G. The Ruhr: A Study in Historical and Economic Geography (1952) online
 Pierenkemper, Toni. "Entrepreneurs in Heavy Industry: Upper Silesia and the Westphalian Ruhr Region, 1852 to 1913", Business History Review Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 65–78 in JSTOR
 Royal Jae Schmidt. Versailles and the Ruhr: Seedbed of World War II (1968)
 Spencer, Elaine Glovka. "Employer Response to Unionism: Ruhr Coal Industrialists before 1914" Journal of Modern History Vol. 48, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 397–412 in JSTOR
 Spencer, Elaine Glovka.  Management and Labor in Imperial Germany: Ruhr Industrialists as Employers, 1896–1914.  Rutgers University Press. (1984) online
 Todd, Edmund N. "Industry, State, and Electrical Technology in the Ruhr Circa 1900", Osiris 2nd Series, Vol. 5, (1989), pp. 242–259 in JSTOR

Other websites

  Capital of Culture 2010 Official Site
  ruhr.2010 Capital of Culture Blog
 Ruhrgebietsbilder: Photos about the Ruhr

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The horizon (from Greek orizein, to limit) is the line that separates earth from sky. But at many places the true horizon cannot be seen as there are trees, buildings, mountains and so forth. The line is then called visible horizon.

Other websites

 Derivation of the distance to the horizon

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Brent Robert Barry (born December 31, 1971), commonly known by the nickname Bones, is an American basketball executive, broadcaster and former player. He is the current vice president of basketball operations for the San Antonio Spurs. The 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st) shooting guard played professionally in the National Basketball Association, winning two championships with the Spurs, and also won the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. He is the son of former NBA player Rick Barry.

After retiring, Barry worked as a sports commentator for the NBA on TNT and was a studio host for the NBA TV show NBA Gametime. In 2018, he returned to the Spurs as an executive.

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Delhi is a city in Iowa in the United States.

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Delhi, Iowa


Traunstein is a rural district in Upper Bavaria in south Bavaria, Germany.

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Albert Paulsen (Albert Paulson; 13 December 1925 – 25 April 2004) was an Ecuadorian-American actor. His career began during the 1960s. He appeared in many television comedy shows. He worked with Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and George Burns. He won a Emmy Award in 1964.

Paulsen died from natural causes, aged 78.

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Tracy Wolfson (born March 17, 1975) is an American sportscaster with CBS Sports. She is currently a sideline reporter for SEC on CBS, College basketball on CBS, and a court reporter for tennis on CBS. She does sideline reporting on NBA playoffs for TNT and NFL preseason games for CBS and was a reporter for auto racing. She covered golf, arena football, and college football for ESPN. She is one of the studio hosts for CBS' coverage of NCAA Basketball replacing Sam Ryan. In 2004 she was named one of the "Best New Faces" of the NCAA tournament in the USA Today.

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Castetner is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.

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Castetner


(April 1, 1928 – December 26, 2011) was an important Japanese architect. He start the Japanese Metabolist group of architects. He also taught several important Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Shōzō Uchii and Itsuko Hasegawa.

Early life
Kikutake was born in 1928 in Kurume, Japan. He graduated from Waseda University in 1950.

Career
Kikutake's most important work is his "Marine City" project in 1958. This project became part of the Metabolist Manifesto at the World Design Conference in Tokyo in 1960. Kenzo Tange and Kisho Kurokawa were asked to show work at the "Visionary Architecture" exhibition in New York of 1961. This made the Metabolists known internationally.

He became assistant professor at Waseda University in 1959 in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He became a professor at Chiba Institute of Technology in 1989. He returned to Waseda from 1993-1998 as a visiting professor in the Research Institute for Science and Engineering.

Kikutake worked until he died in 2011. He designed several important public buildings in Japan. He also taught internationally. He was President and then Honorary President of the Japan Institute of Architects.

Awards
Kikutake won many awards both in Japan and internationally. These include the Japan Academy of Architecture Prize (1970) and the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes) Auguste Perret Prize (1978).

List of works
Sky House, Tokyo, 1958
Marine City, 1958
Tatebayashi Civic Centre, 1963
Administrative building of Izumo Shrine,  1963
Pacific Hotel, Chigasaki, 1966
Miyakonojo Civic Hall, 1966
Expo Tower, Expo '70, Osaka, 1969
Matsumi Tower, 1976
Tanabe Art Museum, 1979
Hotel Seiyo, Ginza, Tokyo, 1987
Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1993
Hotel Sofitel, Tokyo, 1994
Shimane Art Museum, 1999
National Showa Memorial Museum, 1999
Kyushu National Museum, 2005

References

Kisho Kurokawa, "The Origin and History of the Metabolist Movement" - Charles Jencks, Kisho Kurokawa. Studio Vista, 1976
Botond Bognar, "Beyond the Bubble: Contemporary Japanese Architecture" ; Phaidon, 2008

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 Marine City, 1958

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Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,399. Its county seat is Elk Point. Originally named Cole County, the named was changed to Union because of Civil War sentiment. It was founded on April 10, 1862.

Union County is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Progressive Farmer rated Union County second in the 2006 "Best Place to Live" in the U.S., because "its schools are good, its towns neat and its people friendly."

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The White-backed Vulture is a bird of the family Accipitridae which also includes eagles and hawks. They live in the African grasslands. They eat the leftovers of big cats. After their meal, they clean their feathers well so that they are always in good flying condition.

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The Sea Peoples are supposed to be a seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other parts of the East Mediterranean. The time was before and during the Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BC).

During the Bronze age collapse, archeological evidence shows the destructions of many cities on the coastlines of the Levant and the Aegean Sea. That may have been caused by invaders from the sea. The exact origins and cultures of the attackers are unknown and so historians call them the Sea Peoples.

Some sources say that they used iron weapons, which the Bronze Age cultures had not yet seen. The cities that they attacked allows one to infer that they were probably naval-based.

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Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World is a 1998 direct-to-video Disney midquel movie.  It is the third in the Beauty and the Beast trilogy. It was first released on February 17, 1998.

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A boyfriend is a term which usually means the male partner in a romantic non-marital relationship. Partners in a non-marital relationship are sometimes called "significant others". Using the word "boyfriend" to mean "a male partner or lover" was first done in 1906. It became popular in the 1920s, when people started to go out on dates rather than have romantic meetings at home.
It is less common to use the term "boyfriend" to mean a male friend in a platonic relationship.

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The George Cross (GC) is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and many other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. The GC is the civilian counterpart of the Victoria Cross (VC). It is the highest gallantry award for civilians. Also, it may be awarded to military personnel in actions not in the face of the enemy or for which purely military honours would not normally be granted.

Living holders of the George Cross
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 John Bamford, GC
 James Beaton, GC, CVO
 Arthur Butson, GC
 Matt Croucher, GC
 Christopher Finney, GC
 Henry Flintoff, GC
 Anthony Gledhill, GC
 John Gregson, GC
 Kim Hughes, GC
 Barry Johnson, GC
 Derek Kinne, GC
 Alfred Lowe, GC
 Peter Norton, GC
 Michael Pratt, GC
 Margaret Purves, GC
 Awang Anak Raweng, GC
 Samuel Shephard, GC
 Henry Stevens, GC
 Carl Walker, GC
 Ernie Wooding, GC

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