The Seoul Fringe Festival is a performing arts festival. Before 2002, the festival was called the Independent Art Festival.  Every year it is held in Seoul, South Korea. All artists are allowed to join. Visitors are invited to try anything the artists want to try. The artists work in many different ways. The first festival was in 1998. Its motto was "The test and seeking of Korean fringe." In 2002, it became the Seoul Fringe Festival. It became an international event. There were different performance groups from other countries in Asia. The 15th Seoul Fringe Festival was held from August 15 to September 1, 2012 in the Hongdae area. The Seoul Fringe Network hosts the festival. The sponsors are the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korean Culture and Arts Committee, Seoul Metropolitan Council, Mapo-gu Office, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and Seoul Art Space.

History

The 1st Seoul Fringe Festival (Independent Art Festival)
The first festival, then called the Independent Art Festival, used the slogan "Open! Play! Twist!" People called it "the rebellions of underground culture." It was held from August 25 to September 15, 1998 at Marronnier Park in the Deahangno area. There were 50,097 visitors.

The 2nd Seoul Fringe Festival
The festival used the slogan "Millennium Prologue." The festival runners tried combine the city center and the suburbs. It took place from September 17 to 26, 1999 at the Seoul Arts Center. There were 30,000 visitors.

The 3rd Seoul Fringe Festival
The slogan used that year was "Variety Show." The goal was to make the festival an experiment, an alternative, an interaction and a network. It took place from August 13 to September 3, 2000 in the Deahangno area. There were 50,000 visitors.

The 4th Seoul Fringe Festival
The festival used the slogan "Party all night long." It was held in the Hongdae area which had a long history of being home to indie culture and a good place for new arts. It was hosted on September 7 to 23, 2001 in the Hongdae area with 80,000 visitors.

The 5th Seoul Fringe Festival
The festival changed its name from the Independent Art Festival to the Seoul Fringe Festival. The festival runners wanted people to know the festival would focus on forward-looking art for young Asian artists. This was inspired by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was convened on May 25 to June 15, 2002 in the Hongdae area with 100,000 visitors.

The 6th Seoul Fringe Festival
This year, the festival put all the fringe brands together and used a more organized and systematic program. It was hosted on August 13 to September 7, 2003 in the Hongdae area with 120,000 visitors.

The 7th Seoul Fringe Festival
The festival used the slogan, "Joy of Flowering Indie in Full Bloom," and the independent culture became very important to the festival. It was held on August 20 to September 5, 2004 in the Hongdae area with 150,000 visitors.

The 8th Seoul Fringe Festival
The Seoul Fringe Festival focused on a new flow of Asian independent artists. It was convened on August 12 to 28, 2005 in the Hongdae area with 158,672 visitors.

The 9th Seoul Fringe Festival
The ninth festival used the slogan "Indie-odyssey." There were stereotypical genres, complex genres, and genre that were completely different from standard forms. There were many new types of performances such as visual arts, music, theatrical plays, and poems that mixed traditional and modern styles. It was held on August 13 to 27, 2006 in the Hongdae area with 158,672 visitors.

The 10th Seoul Fringe Festival
The festival marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the festival. It used larger meeting places for arts and audiences so visitors could tell the artists what they thought of their artwork. It was convened on August 13 to 29, 2007 in the Hongdae area with 153,501 visitors.

The 11th Seoul Fringe Festival
The Seoul Fringe Festival changed and renewed its content and found larger spaces for artists to use. The festival became larger by connecting with the local cultural art community and listening to what people said was wrong and fixing it. It was hosted on August 14 to 30, 2008 in the Hongdae area with 154,379 visitors.

The 12th Seoul Fringe Festival
The festival runners wanted more people to come to the festival, so they chose the slogan "Post Fringe Project." They used programs to make artists' creations seem more active and to help visitors interact with them. The festival was enlarged to communicate in more kinds of ways and to make it more fun. It was held on August 13 to 29, 2009 in the Hongdae area with 160,000 visitors.

The 13th Seoul Fringe Festival
This was an indoor and an outdoor art festival. The indoor parts were held in theaters, cafes, and galleries. The outdoor parts of the festival were held on large stages and in the streets. This year, festival runners decided to share the festival with tradespeople and residents in front of Hongdae. A service bureau was reorganized and source of revenue was diversified. The festival was held on August 12 to 28, 2010 in the Hongdae area with 160,000 visitors.

The 14th Seoul Fringe Festival
The theme of the 2011 festival was "Artists and Spaces." It focused on support for artists, managed the spaces efficiently, and showed current independent arts. This was the first time the Seoul Fringe Festival tried to do an "Eco-Fringe Project," which means it tried to make the festival run with less pollution and waste to make things eco-friendly. It was held on August 11 to 27, 2011 in the Hongdae area and a few more places downtown Seoul. It had 160,000 visitors.

The 15th Seoul Fringe Festival
By 2012, the Seoul Fringe Festival had become a popular independent art festival. It gave visitors a different kind of art and culture, had a good system for allowing many kinds of artists to show their work, showed new and young artists to visitors, and found ways to be gentle to the environment. It was held on August 15 to September 1, 2012 at the Seoul World Cup Stadium and a few more places in downtown Seoul for a total of 160,000 visitors.

Other websites
 Seoul Fringe Festival
 SeoulFringe.net

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Seoul Fringe Festival


Coffey County (county code CF) is a county in Eastern Kansas. In 2010, 8,601 people lived there. Its county seat is Burlington. Burlington is also the biggest city in Coffey County.

History
In 1855, Coffey County was created.

Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (4.2%) is water.

Major highways
Sources:  National Atlas, U.S. Census Bureau
 Interstate 35
 U.S. Route 50
 U.S. Route 75
 K-31
 K-58

People

Government

Presidential elections

Education

Unified school districts
 Lebo-Waverly USD 243
 Burlington USD 244
 Leroy-Gridley USD 245

Communities

Cities
 Burlington
 Gridley
 Lebo
 Le Roy
 New Strawn
 Waverly

Famous people
 Alan L. Hart (1890–1962), transgender physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, and novelist

References

More reading
 Standard Atlas of Coffey County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 69 pages; 1919.
 Plat Book of Coffey County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 40 pages; 1901.
 An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Coffey County, Kansas; Edwards Brothers; 44 pages; 1878.

Other websites

County

 Coffey County - Directory of Public Officials
Maps
 Coffey County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
 Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

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Coffey County, Kansas


Cobalt (chemical symbol Co) is a chemical element. It has an atomic number of 27 and an atomic mass of about 59. It is a metal.

Properties

Cobalt is a transition metal. It is shiny and conducts electricity. It is magnetic. It is a hard metal. It is moderately reactive. Iron is more reactive and copper is less reactive. It dissolves slowly in acids. This reaction makes hydrogen and a salt of cobalt. Cobalt is normally in its +2 oxidation state as an ion. Some chemical compounds contain cobalt ions in its +4 oxidation state. Cobalt(II) chloride is one of the most common cobalt compounds. Many cobalt compounds are blue or pink. One of them is black.

Chemical compounds
Cobalt comes in two oxidation states, +2 and +3. Most soluble cobalt compounds are red. They can also be green, blue, brown, and black.

Cobalt(II) compounds
Cobalt(II) chloride, red solid, most common cobalt compound
Cobalt(II) fluoride, used in dentistry, red solid
Cobalt(II) hydroxide, red or green-blue solid
Cobalt(II) oxide, black solid
Cobalt(II) sulfate, reddish solid, used in pigments

Mixed oxidation state
Cobalt(II,III) oxide, black solid, oxidizing agent

Cobalt(III) compounds
Cobalt(III) fluoride, brown solid, strong oxidizing agent
Cobalt(III) oxide, black solid

Occurrence and preparation
Cobalt is too reactive to occur as a pure element in the earth. It is found in certain minerals. It is found with copper and nickel deposits. Normally the three metals are bonded to arsenic and sulfur. The majority of cobalt mining is in central Africa.

It is found as a byproduct (left over substance) when copper and nickel are produced. It is made by reaction with the sludge from copper and nickel processing.

Uses

Cobalt is used in some types of steel. It hardens the steel. It is also used to make very strong tough alloys. These alloys are known as superalloys. Some cobalt compounds are used in the lithium-ion battery. Cobalt compounds were used as an artificial food coloring until 1971. It was discovered that it has harmful effects. It is used to make glass blue. It is also used as a catalyst. It is also used in some medicines.

The human body needs small amounts of cobalt for certain vitamins. Cobalt compounds are used to stop cyanide from poisoning the body.

Safety
People need cobalt compounds in small amounts, but cobalt is toxic in large quantities. Sometimes cobalt compounds were added to beer, and people that drank it were poisoned. It can cause skin irritation when touched.

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Cobalt


This is the calendar for any common year starting on Thursday, January 1 (dominical letter D). Examples include years 1970, 1981, 1987, 1998, 2009, 2015 and 2026 in the Gregorian calendar,
or 2010 and 2021 in the Julian calendar (see bottom tables). This is the only common year with three occurrences of Friday the 13th, in February, March and November.

A common year is a year with 365 days, i.e. not a leap year.
This kind of year has 53 weeks in the ISO 8601 week - day format.

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Common year starting on Thursday


Jean Robieux (15 October, 1925; Jugon-les-Lacs – 14 June 2012; Chatenay-Malabry) was a French physicist. Graduate from École Polytechnique (1946-1949), École nationale de l'aviation civile (1949-1951), Doctor of Science from University of Paris and holder of a Master of Science from the California Institute of Technology, he is a leading French specialist in laser.
He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Académie des Technologies (Academy of Technologies).

Works
Jean Robieux is responsible for the discovery of the principle of control of laser fusion in 1961 and the discovery of the principle of laser isotope separation. All contributions are outlined in his book « High Power Laser Interactions : Isotopes Separation - Nuclear Fusion Control - Elementary Particles Selective Creation ».

Bibliography
 High Power Interactions : Isotopes separation - Nuclear fusion control - Elementary particles selective creation. Ed. Lavoisier-2000
 Towards the end of global warming. Abundant energy without pollution. Laser nuclear fusion». Ed.Louis de Broglie-2009

Award
 Officier of the Légion d'honneur (2000)

Other websites
  Interview vidéo de monsieur Jean Robieux sur la fusion nucléaire par laser
  La fusion par laser au seuil de la réalité
  La Fusion Nucléaire par laser - Jean Robieux

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Jean Robieux


Candlemas is the feast of the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is celebrated on February 2. Candles are blessed on this day. Many people celebrate this holiday by eating crepes and tamales.

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Candlemas


Michael Gerard Luscombe (22 July 1953 – 27 April 2018) was an Australian businessman. He was the CEO and managing director of Woolworths Limited, the largest retail company in Australia, from 2006 until 2011.

On 4 April 2011, Luscombe announced that he would be retiring as CEO of Woolworths in October.

Luscombe died on 27 April 2018 from Creutzfeldt–Jakob_disease at the age of 64.

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Louis Alphonse Daniel Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengbo (23 March 1947 – 14 December 2014) was a Congolese politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito. He was responsible for the Ministry of Postal Services, Telephones, and Telecommunications . He became Acting Prime Minister on 6 March 2012 after Prime Minister Muzito resigned.

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Lott is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (23 December 1920 – 26 January 2016) was a high-profile Pakistani figure and high-ranking general. He was the most senior figure in military and government assignments in the Pakistan Government. He was born in Rampur, India.

He was an important figure in Pakistan that related to international affairs for thirty years. He served as the foreign minister under President General Zia-ul-Haq from 1982 to 1991 and as the caretaker foreign minister from 1996 to 1997. He also served as the Pakistan Ambassador of the United States serving from 1973 though 1979.

Khan died in Islamabad on 26 January 2016 at the age of 95.

Other websites

Yaqub Khan – the man who reinvented himself by Khaled Ahmed (The Friday Times)
SYK: The Man With Qualities Short biographical article by S. Abbas Raza
Biographical article by M. Zafar in Defence Journal
MAJOR-GENERAL SAHABZADA MOHD YAQUB KHAN (PA 136)

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Sahabzada Yaqub Khan


Iron sulfide is the chemical compound FeS, a black solid. It is made of iron and sulfide ions. FeS has iron in its +2 oxidation state. It reacts with acids such as hydrochloric acid to make hydrogen sulfide gas.

In plural, "iron sulfides" may refer to a range of chemical compounds composed of iron and sulfur. For example to FeS2 (iron disulfide) found in the ground as the mineral pyrite. FeS2 is shiny like a metal and has a bright golden color. That's why it is sometimes called "fool's gold".

Natural minerals
By increasing order of stability:
 Iron(II) sulfide, FeS, the less stable amorphous form;
 Greigite, a form of iron(II,III) sulfide (Fe3S4), analog to magnetite, Fe3O4;
 Pyrrhotite, Fe1−xS (where x = 0 to 0.2), or Fe7S8;
 Troilite, FeS, the endmember of pyrrhotite;
 Mackinawite, Fe1+xS (where x = 0 to 0.1);
 Marcasite, or iron(II) disulfide, FeS2 (orthorhombic);
 Pyrite, or iron(II) disulfide, FeS2 (cubic), the more stable endmember, known as fool's gold.

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Iron sulfide


The Radiata is a superphylum which includes both the echinoderms and the ctenophores. It is not part of the usual classification system, and is not used by all biologists.

The group includes the radially symmetric animals of the Eumetazoa. The echinoderms, however, are members of the Bilateria, because they exhibit bilateral symmetry in their developing stages. Their radial symmetry is secondary.

Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1983 defined a subkingdom called Radiata consisting of the phyla Porifera, Myxozoa, Placozoa, Cnidaria and Ctenophora in Radiata, that is, all the animals that are not in Bilateria.

The Five Kingdom classification of Lynn Margulis and K.V. Schwartz keeps only Cnidaria and Ctenophora in Radiata.

Cladistic classifications do not recognize Radiata as a clade. The radiata, in this sense, are diploblastic, meaning they have two primary germ layers: endoderm and ectoderm. Cavalier-Smith's use of the term Radiata includes animals with a single germ layer such as sponges.

Although radial symmetry is usually given as a defining characteristic of radiates, a few members of the class Anthozoa, which are now considered as the most basal and oldest group of cnidarians, are actually bilaterally symmetric.

Newer research strongly indicates that bilateral symmetry evolved before the split between Cnidaria and Bilateria: the radially symmetrical cnidarians have evolved radial symmetry secondarily. This means the bilaterism in species like N. vectensis has a primary origin. Also the free-swimming planula larvae of cnidarians exhibit bilateral symmetry. Ctenophores show biradial symmetry.

References

Other websites
Taxon: Subkingdom Radiata
Origins of Bilateral Symmetry: Hox and Dpp Expression in a Sea Anemone - retrieved February 2, 2006

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Radiata


Sainte Genevieve County, abbreviated Ste. Genevieve County (), is a county in Missouri. The county seat is Ste. Genevieve. In 2010, 18,145 people lived there.

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Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri


Bone Gap is a village in Illinois in the United States.

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Bone Gap, Illinois


Nissan (In Japanese: 日産自動車株式会社; Nissan Jidōsha Kabushikigaisha) is a company from Japan which makes vehicles, including cars, trucks, and buses. In the United States it was previously called Datsun.

Nissan makes cars under its own name, while its luxury cars have the brand Infiniti. In 1999, it made a partnership with Renault of France, and was joined by Mitsubishi Motors in 2016.

Vehicles

A partial list:
 Nissan 240SX
 Nissan 300ZX
 Nissan Altima
 Nissan Bluebird
 Nissan Cube
 Nissan Juke
 Nissan Leaf
 Nissan Maxima
 Nissan Micra
 Nissan Note
 Nissan Pathfinder
 Nissan Primera
 Nissan Pulsar
 Nissan Qashqai
 Nissan Quest
 Nissan Rogue
 Nissan Sentra
 Nissan Skyline
 Nissan Stanza
 Nissan Terrano II
 Nissan Versa
 Nissan X-trail
 Nissan Xterra
 Nissan Z

References

Other websites
Nissan USA
Nissan Global

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Nissan Motor Company


Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician. He was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California. He was a member of the Chicago Seven.

Hayden was best known for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights and radical intellectual counterculture activist.  Hayden was the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity.

Hayden died in Santa Monica, California from heart disease and from complications of a stroke on October 23, 2016, aged 76.

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Tom Hayden


The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) is the both oldest and largest national group of Baptist churches in Great Britain. It was started when the General Baptists and Particular Baptists came together in 1891.

Other websites
Baptist Union of Great Britain - official Web Site

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Baptist Union of Great Britain


The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a botanical fruit (but not a fruit as ordinary people use the word).

It is shiny and smooth. It has many small seeds. It is also very good for health.  Most tomatoes are red. The tomato is green when it is unripe. It slowly changes color from green to red as it gets ripe, and as it gets ripe it gets bigger and bigger. There are many different types of tomatoes. Some kinds of tomato are yellow or orange when they are ripe. Tomatoes are used a lot in Italian food. They are also used to make ketchup. Tomatoes are called fruit, because they contain seeds. Tomato seeds are dispersed by being eaten by animals. After being eaten the seeds pass through the animal's digestive system.  Although tomatoes are botanically fruits, many people consider them vegetables and treat them as such in cooking.

History
The tomato is native to western South America. Wild versions were small, like cherry tomatoes, and most likely yellow instead of red. The Spanish first showed tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish and Italian food. The French and northern Europeans wrongly thought that they were poisonous because they are a member of the deadly nightshade family. The leaves and immature fruit contains tomatine, which in large amounts would be toxic. However, the ripe fruit contains no tomatine.

As Food
The tomato is grown and eaten around the world. It is used in many ways, such as raw in salads or in slices, stewed, a part of a wide variety of dishes, or processed into ketchup or tomato soup. Unripe green tomatoes can also be breaded and fried, used to make salsa, or pickled. Tomato juice is sold as a drink, and is used in cocktails such as the Bloody Mary.

Related pages
 List of fruits

References

Other websites
 "Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?"
 Tomato history and nutrition

Tomato


Jalan Damai Secondary School or simply SMK Jalan Damai, is a national secondary school located in Kampung Baru, Penang, Malaysia. It has about 2370 students and 120 teachers.

SMK Jalan Damai, Bukit Mertajam was founded on 5th January 1970. At that time, it was known as Sekolah Menengah Rendah, Bukit Mertajam (the Lower Secondary School, Bukit Mertajam) with a total of 717 students and 29 teachers (including a religious teacher and a principal Mr. A. Gopala Krishnan).During that time, the official buildings were still under construction, so the students had to share facilities and spaces with Sekolah Tinggi Bukit Mertajam (Bukit Mertajam High School) in the afternoon session. At the end of 1973, the new buildings (14 classrooms, 3 science labs, 2 domestic science rooms, industrial arts workshop and canteen) were completed on Jalan Damai, Bukit Mertajam. On the 7th of January 1974, 602 students moved to the new buildings.

Jalan Damai
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SMK Jalan Damai


John Guillermin (11 November 1925 – 27 September 2015) was a movie director. He was born in London and attended the University of Cambridge.

He was known for his movies I Was Monty's Double (1958), Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959), Never Let Go (1960), Tarzan Goes to India (1962), Waltz of the Toreadors (1962), The Blue Max (1966), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), King Kong (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), Sheena (1984) and King Kong Lives (1986).

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John Guillermin photograph

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John Guillermin


Pokémon Rumble is a Pokémon video game for the Wii. It was released for the Wii's WiiWare service. It is a spin-off game in the Pokémon series. It was released in Japan on June 16, 2009, in North America on November 16, 2009, and in Europe on November 20, 2009.

Gameplay
The player controls Pokémon, battling other Pokémon in a series of dungeons and closed arenas. The player starts off with a low-level Pokémon that has only one attack. As the player battles other Pokémon, the player can collect coins which can be used to buy new attacks and get new Pokémon. When the player gets a Pokémon of a high enough level, the Battle Royale room opens, where the player battles many Pokémon at a time in a closed arena. The player has to beat all of the Pokémon to get a higher rank. As the player gets higher ranks, they can battle stronger Pokémon, including Legendary Pokémon.

The player controls the game by holding the Wii Remote sideways. Up to four players can play the game at once. There is a password system which allows the player to get certain Pokémon.

Sequels
Two sequels to the game have been released: Pokémon Rumble Blast, which was released for the Nintendo 3DS on August 11, 2011, and Pokémon Rumble U, which was released for the Wii U in 2013.

References

Other websites
Official website

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Pokémon Rumble


is a train station in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Lines
East Japan Railway Company
Yamada Line

Adjacent stations

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Hiratsuto Station


The Opel Insignia is a car produced by the German carmaker Opel since 2008. its available as a hatchback, saloon or an estate. Like many Opel models, it is sold as a Vauxhall in the United Kingdom. In the North American market it has sold as the Buick Regal since the 2011 model year as a sedan only. Insignia was originally intended to be the second generation Saturn Aura, but because GM stopped making the Saturn it was instead offered to Buick and was marketed as fifth generation Buick Regal. The model was facelifted in 2013 and as a 2014 model for the Buick. The second generation went go on sale in mid-2017 and a new version of the Buick Regal is also expected, it's also be sold in Australia as the Holden Commodore from early 2018 as Australian production of it stopped in October 2017.

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Opel Insignia


Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor of silent movies. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy. He became popular as one of the first sex symbols in Hollywood in the 1920s.

Valentino did not live long enough to see movies with sound replace silent movies. He died of peridontis on August 23, 1926, at the age of 31.

Movies
 My Official Wife (1914)
 The Quest of Life (1916)
 The Foolish Virgin (uncredited) (1916)
 Seventeen (uncredited, extra) (1916)
 Alimony (1917)
 A Society Sensation (1918)
 All Night (1918)
 The Married Virgin (or Frivolous Wives; 1918)
 The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
 The Big Little Person (1919)
 A Rogue's Romance (1919)
 The Homebreake (1919)
 Out of Luck (1919)
 Virtuous Sinners (1919)
 The Fog (1919)
 Nobody Home (1919)
 The Eyes of Youth (1919)
 Stolen Moments (1920)
 An Adventuress (1920)
 The Cheater (1920)
 Passion's Playground (1920)
 Once to Every Woman (1920)
 The Wonderful Chance (1920)
 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
 Uncharted Seas (1921)
 Conquering Power (1921)
 Camille (1921)
 The Sheik (1921)
 Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
 Beyond the Rocks (1922)
 Blood and Sand (1922)
 The Young Rajah (1922)
 Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
 A Sainted Devil (1924)
 Cobra (1925)
 The Eagle (1925)
 The Son of the Sheik (1926)

References

Other websites
 Rudolph Valentino homepage

 Rudolph Valentino Yahoo discussion group
 Rudolph Valentino photo gallery at Silent Gents.
 Audio history (MP3, 17:23). Emily Leider, author of Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
 Affairs Valentino.
 Valentino biography in Spanish, Italian & English
 Rudolfo Valentino at tricolore.net

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Rudolph Valentino


Sicel was an ancient language. It was spoken by the Sicels, a tribe that lived on Sicily. Sicel is an Indo-European language. Not much is known about Sicel because very few inscriptions have been found.

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Sicel language


The 2008 Sichuan earthquake () was a big earthquake in China on May 12, 2008. Thousands of people were killed, thousands more people were missing and thousands were hurt. Millions of people were left homeless after their houses fell down. The earthquake could be felt 58 of kilometres away.

Earthquake details
The earthquake was measured at 8.0Ms and 8.3 Mw by the China Seismological Bureau.

The earthquake happened at 2:d, at a depth of . The earthquake was felt in Beijing  away and in Shanghai  away. Tall office buildings in those cities shook with the tremor. The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries.

It is believed that 69,227 people died, 374,176 people were hurt, and 18,222 people listed as missing.(July 2008 numbers) The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million.  Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest and strongest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people.

52 big aftershocks, ranging in size from 4.4 to 6.0, were recorded within 72 hours of the main tremor.

Scientists worked out that the earth moved up to  along the Longmen Shan Fault. This fault is about  long and  deep. The earthquake made the ground on the surface move more than . Japanese seismologist, Yuji Yagi, said that the earthquake took place in two parts. The fault tore in two sections, the first one moving about . In the second part of the quake the fault moved another .

The earthquake lasted about two minutes. It was powerful because it did not happen very deep under the ground. Many people were killed because there were so many people living above the epicenter. Teruyuki Kato, a seismologist at the University of Tokyo, said that the shock waves traveled a long way. The waves did not lose their power because of the hardness of the ground in central China.

Where the quake was felt
A list of places that felt the earthquake::
 : Tremors were felt everywhere but not Xinjiang, Jilin or Heilongjiang.
  Hong Kong: Tremors were felt about 3 minutes after the quake, and lasted for 30 seconds.
  Macau: Tremors were felt about 3 minutes after the quake.
 : Tremors were felt about 5 minutes after the earthquake in the north of Vietnam.
 : In parts of Thailand tremors were felt 6 minutes after the quake. Office buildings in Bangkok shook for several minutes.
  Taiwan: It took about 8 minutes for the quake to reach Taiwan. The tremors lasted for nearly 2 minutes.
 : Tremors were felt about 8 minutes after the earthquake.
 : Tremors were felt 8 and a half minutes after the quake.
 : Tremors were felt about 8 and a half minutes after the quake.
 : Tremors were felt about 9 minutes after the earthquake in parts of India.
 : In Northern Pakistan tremors were felt 10 minutes after the quake.
 : Tremors were felt in Tuva.

Earth movements
The quake happened because a part of the earth's surface, called the Indian plate, is slowly moving north. It is moving about  every year. It crashes into the Eurasian plate. This has pushed up the ground and made the Himalaya mountains. Some of the earth's crust gets pushed into Sichuan and southern China. This pushing has caused many earthquakes in China. The epicentre was in the mountains on the eastern edge of the Qing-Tibet Plateau. This is on the north west edge of the Sichuan Basin. The earthquake was caused by movement on a north east fault. This is the Longmen Shan fault, that runs along the edge of the basin.

First reaction to the quake

Office buildings in Shanghai, including the Jin Mao Tower and the Hong Kong New World Tower, were evacuated (all the people were made to leave). Emergency services in Chengdu could not answer all the phone calls .  Workers at a Ford plant in Sichuan were evacuated for about 10 minutes. The Chengdu airport was shut down. One SilkAir flight was sent to land in nearby Kunming instead. Cathay Pacific flights from Hong Kong to London were stopped. Chengdu airport reopened as the airport was used for relief operations.

Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks in walls of some buildings. In Beijing many office buildings were evacuated. This included the building with the media offices for the 2008 Summer Olympics. None of the Olympic venues were damaged. A train with 13 petrol tanks came of the railway tracks in Huixian County, Gansu Province, and caught on fire. The earthquake had twisted the rails.

All of the highways into Wenchuan, and others across Sichuan province, were damaged. This slowed down arrival of the rescue troops. In Beichuan county, 80% of the buildings collapsed. In Shifang, 2 chemical factories were damaged and leaked 80 tons of liquid ammonia. The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a UNESCO World Heritage Site was damaged. This is an ancient water system which is still in use. The famous Fish Mouth was cracked.

Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange stopped trading in companies based in south west China. The price of copper rose because production stopped. Oil prices dropped because people thought China would not need as much oil.

Half of the wireless communications were lost in the Sichuan province. China Mobile had lost more than 2,300 base stations due to lack of power and too many phone calls. China Unicom's service in Wenchuan and nearby areas were cut off, with more than 700 phone towers out of action.

Two pandas at a Giant Panda reserve were injured. Two others went missing after the quake.

The Zipingpu hydro power station,  east of the epicenter, was destroyed. The dam wall cracked, and the buildings collapsed. The Tulong dam was in danger of bursting. About 2,000 troops were sent to Zipingpu, to try and release the pressure through spillway. In total, 391 dams, were damaged by the quake.

By May 18, 2008, 21 new lakes had formed in the Sichuan. This was because the earthquake blocked rivers. Villages had to be evacuated because of the flooding.

People killed
The Chinese government said the quake killed 69,181 people, including 68,636 in Sichuan province. There are 18,498 people listed as missing; 374,171 people were injured. This includes 158 workers who were killed in landslides as they tried to fix roads.

One rescue team found only 2,300 people still alive in Yingxiu. Before the quake there had been about 9,000 people there. In Beichuan county, 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed, 10,000 injured and 80% of the buildings were destroyed. Eight schools fell down in Dujiangyan.
A 56-year-old Taiwanese tourist was killed in Dujiangyan. He was trying to rescue 11 tourists trapped on the Lingyanshan Ropeway. Because of the earthquake, they had been trapped inside the cable cars.

Schools
Thousands of school children died because of badly built schools.
least 1,700 people. At least 7,000 school buildings collapsed. Another 700 students were buried in a school in Hanwang. At least 600 students and staff died at Juyuan Elementary School. Up to 1,300 children and teachers died at Beichuan Middle School.

Because of China's one-child policy, many families lost their only child. Officials in Sichuan province have removed the limit of one child for families whose only child was killed or badly injured. So-called "illegal children" under 18 years of age may be made a legal replacement for their dead brother or sister. This may be too late for some, as many of the parents are too old or unable to have children again.

On May 29, 2008, officials began looking at the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed. They were searching for clues about why they fell down. Thousands of parents have said the government and builders did not build schools properly. Many other nearby buildings were not damaged. Parents of children killed in the schools say they have yet to receive any reports. Local officials told them not to protest but the parents demonstrated and demanded an investigation. The government censors have stopped stories of badly built schools from being published in the media. There has been an incident where police drove away the protestors.

Liu Shaokun (刘绍坤), a Sichuan school teacher, was arrested on June 25, 2008. He had been spreading "rumors and destroying social order" about the Sichuan Earthquake. Liu had gone to the Shifang (什邡) area, taken photos of collapsed school buildings, and put them online. He had also said he was angry at “the shoddy tofu buildings” in a media interview. He has been ordered to serve one year of re-education through labor (劳动教养) (RTL). Because of complaints from the other countries, Liu has been released to serve his RTL sentence outside of the labor camp.

Safety checks are to be carried out at schools across China. The National Development and Reform Commission are making new laws to improve building standards for primary and middle schools in rural areas.

Building damage
Insurance companies have put their losses at US$1 billion from the earthquake. The total cost of damage could be more than US$20 billion. Chengdu, a city of 4.5 million people, had a value of about US$115 billion. Only a small part was insured.

The damage to buildings in the earthquake was because of Chinese building designs. China did not have earthquake building rules until after the big Tangshan earthquake in 1976. Older buildings, built before 1976, were not designed to stay up in an earthquake. News reports showed that the poorer, rural villages were hardest hit.

Rescue efforts

China's President Hu Jintao said that help and assistance would be quick. Premier Wen Jiabao, immediately flew to the earthquake area to plan the rescue work.

The China's Health Ministry sent 10 emergency medical teams. The Chengdu Military Area Command sent 50,000 troops and police to help in Wenchuan County. A relief team of 184 people left Beijing:
 12 people from the State Seismological Bureau.
 150 from the Beijing Military Area Command.
 22 people from the Armed Police General Hospital.

Because of the mountains, the soldiers found it very difficult to get help to the rural areas.

Many rescue teams, including the Taipei Fire Department from Taiwan, said they were ready to help. It was difficult to move people into the hardest hit areas closest to the epicenter. It was not possible to reach the area because roads were damaged and blocked by landslides. People needed tents, medical supplies, drinking water and food. .

The small village of Sier could only be reached by walking. Landslides were a danger to a search and rescue group of 80 men. Each man carried about  of relief supplies. The village is  above sea level. The extreme mountain conditions meant they could not use helicopters. Over 300 Tibetan villagers were stranded in the ruined village without food and water. Commander Yang Wenyao's rescue group arrived after walking for 5 days, and helped the injured and stranded villagers down the mountain

Heavy rain and landslides made rescue efforts difficult. 20 helicopters were used on the first day to deliver food, water, emergency aid and carry injured people. The next day, 15,600 troops from the Chengdu Military Region joined the rescue force. Within 2 days telephones in the major town of Wenchuan were being fixed. 100 soldiers, along with relief supplies, parachuted into inaccessible Maoxian County, northeast of Wenchuan.

Three days after the quake, China's Premiere Wen Jiabao ordered another 90 helicopters. A total of 150 aircraft were used in relief work. This is China's largest ever non-combat airlifting operation.
After the earthquake, donations were made by people from all over China. People gave money at schools, banks, and gas stations. People also donated blood, resulting in long line-ups in most major Chinese cities.

International help
China stated it would gratefully accept international help to cope with the quake. The Tzu Chi Foundation arrived from Taiwan on May 13. This was the first force from outside the People's Republic of China to join the rescue effort. 100 tons of relief supplies donated by the Tzu Chi Foundation and the Red Cross Society of Taiwan arrived in Chengdu by May 15.

Francis Marcus of the International Federation of the Red Cross praised China's rescue effort as "swift and very efficient". He said the size of the disaster was so big that "we can't expect that the government can do everything and handle every aspect of the needs". The Economist said that China reacted to the disaster "rapidly and with uncharacteristic openness". This was different to Myanmar's secretive response to Cyclone Nargis, which struck the country 10 days before the earthquake.

On May 16, rescue groups from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Russia and Taiwan arrived to join the rescue effort. The United States shared some of its satellite images of the quake-stricken areas with the Chinese government. The US sent two U.S. Air Force C-17's carrying supplies, which included tents and generators.

Internet help
The Internet has been used for passing information to help rescue and recovery in China. For example, the official Xinhua set up an online rescue request center in order to find the problems in disaster recovery. When rescue helicopters had trouble landing near the epicenter in Wenchuan, a student proposed a new landing spot online. Volunteers have also set up several websites to help store contact information for victims.

National mourning

The State Council declared 3 days of national mourning (sadness) for the quake victims starting on May 19, 2008. The Chinese National Flag was raised to half-mast. It is the first time China had national mourning days for something other than the death of a state leader. Many people say it the biggest display of mourning since the death of Mao At 14:28 CST on May 19, 2008, one week after the earthquake, the Chinese public held a moment of silence. People stood silent for 3 minutes. Air defense, police and fire sirens, and the horns of vehicles, vessels and trains sounded. Cars on Beijing's roads stopped. After the silence, in Tiananmen Square, crowds began calling out "Long Live China".

The Ningbo Organizing Committee of Beijing Olympic torch relay stopped the relay for 3 days.

Chinese websites changed their front pages to black and white. Sina.com and Sohu, changed their homepage to news items only, and removed all advertisements. Chinese video sharing websites, youku and Tudou, had a black background and only showed videos about the earthquake. Other entertainment websites, including gaming sites, were blacked out. Other websites had links to earthquake donations.

Chinese TV stations made their logo in gray. They showed non-stop earthquake footage from CCTV-1. Even pay television channels, such as Channel V China, also showed earthquake footage. Some TV stations stopped showing commercials.
On May 18, CCTV-1 had a special 4 hour TV show called The Giving of Love (爱的奉献). Many famous people from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan were on the show. People watching gave about 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan ($US 208 million) for the victims. The entertainers sang "Tomorrow Will be Better", followed by Faye Wong singing "Wishing We Last Forever".

References

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News records
 BBC's Chinese Earthquake Main Page
 China Earthquake Toll tops 40,000
 Tourist Trail of Sichuan in Ruins
 Town Mourns as Search Continues
 BBC - Map of the Affected Region
 The Quake hits the Web
 CNN - Chinese Earthquake Portal
 Chinese Olympic Torch Relay Delayed
 Unity and Patriotism Sweeps China
 Stadium becomes Tent City after Chinese Earthquake
 New York Times Topic - Sichuan Earthquake
 Rescue Ends One Ordeal for Young Chinese Pupils
 Global Monitor Finds no Radioactive Leaks in Quake Zone
 Eight Earthquake Pandas Going to Beijing
 Two Detained for Spreading Quake Rumor in China
 Xinhua News Agency - Strong Earthquake Jolts SW China
 Government allocates 70 billion yuan for reconstruction
 Rescuers helped by 680,000 volunteers
 Quake Relief Still at Critical Point

Online maps
 BBC - Map of the Affected Region
 CNN - Map of the Affected Region
 New York Times - Map of the Affected Region
 Relief Web - Map of the Affected Region
 USGS - Map of the Affected Region

Media
 Sichuan Earthquake Pictures Archive
 Life and Death, Love and Pain: Snapshots of Sichuan Earthquake
 BBC
 Compilation of BBC Videos Related to the Earthquake
  BBC NEWS Video, Quake hits western China
 CNN
 CNN - Chinese Earthquake Entire Video Archive
 Xinhua News Agency
 Leaders Inspect Quake Relief Work
 Rescuers Comb Quake-Hit Areas

Scientific and educational sites
 Identification of Earthquake Faults In Sichuan
 USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: An Informational Page about Sichuan quake
 MIT Report: Earthquake near Wenchuan, West Sichuan, China
 Caltech Report: The Science Behind China's Sichuan Earthquake
 China Lacks Earthquake Early-Warning System
 Lake Formation in the Aftermath of Magnitude 7.9 Earthquake (images included)

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Torralba (Turàlva) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 974 people lived there. Its area is 36.5 km². It is 435 meters above sea level.

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Lampasas County ( ) is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,677. The county seat is Lampasas.

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Erythema ab igne is a rash of the skin, which is usually caused by the long-term exposure to heat or infrared radiation, and which is not a burn. Usually the name is abbreviated EAI. Other names include hot water bottle rash fire stains, laptop thigh, granny's tartan and toasted skin syndrome.

Some people may complain of mild itchiness and a burning sensation. When a change in skin pigmentation can not be seen, it is often not noticed at all.

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Norcross is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia.  The city is in Gwinnett County. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.  The city had a population of 9,116 according to the 2010 United States Census.

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The Andersonville National Historic Site is the site of the American Civil War prisoner of war camp Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison).  Andersonville was a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp during the last 12 months of the Civil War.

The site is near Andersonville, Georgia.  Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County.  Along with the former prisoner, the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum are also at the Andersonville National Historic Site.

12,920 Union Army prisoners died.  This was over one out of every four prisoners at Andersonville.

The camp was overcrowded with four times as many prisoners as it was designed to hold.  There was not enough water, food, or sanitation.   About 45,000 Union prisoners were held at Camp Sumter during the war; nearly 13,000 (nearly 3 in every 10) died.  The most common causes of death were scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.

During the Civil War, Confederate Captain Henry Wirz ran Andersonville.  After the war, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes and executed.

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Latah County is a county located in the north central region of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, 37,244 people lived there. The county seat and largest city is Moscow, the home of the University of Idaho, the state's flagship and land-grant university.

Communities

Cities

Census-designated place
 Princeton

Unincorporated communities

Ghost towns

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Baia is a commune found in Suceava County, Romania.

Baia

Baia


The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage. Below is the list and the tentative list of sites in Albania.

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John Gilbert (1812? – 28 June 1845) was an English naturalist and explorer. He collected animal specimens for English naturalist John Gould. Australia's rarest animal, Gilbert's Potoroo, Potorous gilberti, and the Gilbert-Einasleigh River were named after him.

Early life
Gilbert was born on 14 March, but the exact year is not known. It must have been between 1810 and 1815 and so most books use 1812. Gilbert was a taxidermist for the Zoological Society of London. He met English naturalist John Gould and went to Australia in 1838 with Gould. Gould paid him £100 a year to collect and preserve animals and birds for him

Australia
Gould and Gilbert arrived in Hobart on the ship Parsee on 19 September 1838. They were going to collect animal and bird specimens for Gould's books. Both worked in Tasmania for a few months. On 4 February 1839, Gilbert went to the Swan River settlement. He worked there for a year, mainly around Perth, collecting for Gould. Gilbert then sailed for Sydney, and in June 1840 took a ship to Port Essington in the north of Australia. In March 1841 he sailed to Singapore, stopping at Timor on the way. From there he sailed for London and arrived at the end of September. He had collected a very large number of birds for Gould, and made many notes on their habits.

In February 1842 Gilbert returned Australia to collect further specimens. He reached Perth in July and stayed for 17 months in Western Australia. He made his most interesting discoveries among the Wongan Hills, about 100 miles north-east of Perth. He was a fine naturalist and his notes on birds, their habits, diet, song and the names given them by the aborigines were all of great interest and value. Gilbert collected specimens of 432 birds, including 36 species new to Western Australia. He collected 318 mammals, including 22 species not previously known in the west. By the end of January 1844 he was back in Sydney and during the next six months worked his way to the Darling Downs in Queensland.

Explorer
Gilbert joined Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition in September 1844 which was going to cross Australia's north, from Brisbane to Port Essington. Gilbert, with his experience in the Australian bush, was unofficially the second in charge. The journey was much slower than planned and food supplies were getting low. On 28 June 1845, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, Gilbert was killed when aborigines attacked the explorers. He was buried at the site, but the grave has never been found. The rest of the group reached Port Essington in December 1845.

Leichhardt kept Gilbert's papers and his diary, which, however, was lost for nearly 100 years before its discovery by A. H. Chisholm.  Chisholm's research showed Gilbert as a man of much ability and fine character who somewhat ironically had a great respect for the aboriginals. There is a memorial to him in St James church, Sydney with the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro scientia mori" - "it is sweet and fitting to die for science."

References

 A. H. Chisholm, 'Gilbert, John (1810? - 1845)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, MUP, 1966, pp 441–442. Accessed 22 November 2008

Other websites
John Gilbert:  A collector extraordinaire at the Australian Museum
Gilbert, John (1810? - 1845) at Bright Sparcs, Melbourne University

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The connection between women and video games has been getting lots of interest from schools, companies, and average groups of people. In past years female gamers had only made up a small part of the final amount of gamers. In 2012 the about of female gamers had increased to almost half the final amount of gamers. Efforts to include more female gamers has addressed the problems of male against female advertising, thinking of female gamers in a negative way, and the decrease of female video game creators. There has been some talk about making female-aimed games along with male-aimed games, or making sex-equal games should take their place.

Related pages
Stereotype

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Robert Hall "Bob" Weir (born October 16, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is known for creating the band Grateful Dead.

Weir was born in San Francisco, California. He studied at Menlo Atherton High School.

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Victor Marlborough Silvester OBE (25 February 1900 – 14 August 1978) was a English dancer, author, musician and dance band leader whose records sold 75 million copies from the 1930s through to the 1980s. He was a significant figure in the development of ballroom dance during the first half of the 20th century. Victor married Dorothy Newton in 1922, a few days after winning the World Ballroom Dancing Championship.

Silvester was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He died in France.

After World War II, his orchestra and his weekly television programme, Victor Silvester's Dancing Club, kept him in the public eye.  His 1927 textbook, Modern Ballroom Dancing, was an immediate bestseller and has remained in print through many editions, the last issued in 2005. He wrote ten other books, including his autobiography.

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Tekken 3 is a 1998 fighting video game made by Namco.

Characters

Returning Characters
 Paul Phoenix
 Nina Williams
 Yoshimitsu
 Lei Wulong
 Anna Williams (unlockable)
 Heihachi Mishima (unlockable)

New Characters

 King
 Jin Kazama
 Ling Xiaoyu
 Hwoarang
 Eddy Gordo
 Forrest Law
 Kuma (unlockable)
 Panda (unlockable)

 Julia Chang (unlockable)
 Bryan Fury (unlockable)
 Gun Jack (unlockable)
 Mokujin (unlockable)
 Ogre (unlockable)
 True Ogre (unlockable)
 Tiger Jackson (unlockable, extra costume for Eddy Gordo)
 King (succesor to the first King)
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Bonus Characters (PlayStation version)
 Gon (unlockable)
 Doctor Boskonovitch (unlockable)

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Tekken 3


Fall River County is a county located in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 7,094 people lived there. Its county seat is Hot Springs. The county was created in 1883. It is named for Fall River which runs through it.

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Ahfaz-ur-Rahman ( ) (4 April 1942 – 12 April 2020), was a Pakistani journalist, writer and poet. His works were supportive for freedom of the press and for the rights of working journalists in Pakistan. Rahman wrote many books and translations about the corruption in Pakistan and why freedom of the press should be a law there.

Rahman died on 11 April 2020 in Karachi, aged 78.

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Sétif Province is a province in north-eastern Algeria. The capital and largest city is Sétif.  Another large city is El Eulma. There is also the World Heritage Site of Djémila there.

Divisions
The province has 20 districts.  There are also 60 communes or municipalities.

Districts

 Aïn Arnat
 Aïn Azel
 Aïn El Kébira
 Aïn Oulmane
 Amoucha
 Babor
 Béni Aziz
 Béni Ourtilane
 Bir El Arch
 Bouandas
 Bougaâ
 Djémila
 El Eulma
 Guenzet
 Guidjel
 Hammam Guergour
 Hammam Souhna
 Maoklane
 Salah Bey
 Sétif

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Gualtiero Marchesi (; 19 March 1930 – 26 December 2017) was an Italian chef. He was thought to be the founder of modern Italian cuisine. He was born in Milan. He then opened his first restaurant on Via Bonvesin de la Riva in Milan. Within a year he earned his first Michelin star, with another following the next year. It took another seven years, but then he eventually won the distinction of a third Michelin star – the first chef in Italy to do so.

In 2011, Marchesi became the first celebrity chef to design two hamburgers and a dessert for McDonald's.

In May 2017, Marchesi and Director Maurizio Gigola presented the Documentary "Marchesi: The Great Italian" at the Cannes Film Festival.

Marchesi died in Rome on 26 December 2017 of cardiac arrest at the age of 87.

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Events
 March 9 – Pope Clement V settles the papal seat in Avignon, following a visit.
 August 15 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.
 Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, bought by the Percy family, later Earls of Northumberland.

Births
 Leo V of Armenia (died 1341)

Deaths
 May 5 – Charles II of Naples
 James of St. George, Savoyard military architect (born 1230)

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Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 31 January 1938) is the former Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She reigned from 1980 to 2013.

Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. In 1948, she became heiress presumptive to the throne of the Netherlands. Her mother abdicated (gave up) the throne on 30 April 1980. Beatrix succeeded her as queen.

In January 2013, Beatrix announced that she would abdicate on 30 April 2013. This day is known as Koninginnedag (Queen's Day). Her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, succeeded to the throne as King. He is the first King of the Netherlands in 123 years.

Since her abdication, she is called Princess Beatrix.

Family
Beatrix was married to Claus von Amsberg, who died in 2002. Her sons are King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau and Prince Constantijn.

Her second son, Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, died on 12 August 2013. He had been in a coma for more than a year because of a skiing accident in Austria in February 2012.

Her younger sister Christina died of bone cancer on 16 August 2019.

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Cole is a town in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Milo of Croton was a 6th century BC Greek wrestler. He came from the Greek city of Croton in southern Italy. He had great success as a wrestler. He won many times in the most important sports festivals of ancient Greece.  He also led the people of Croton to a military victory over the neighboring city of Sybaris in 510 BC.

Milo was said to be a friend of Pythagoras. One story says the wrestler saved the philosopher's life when a roof was about to fall on him. Another story says that Milo may have married the philosopher's daughter. Like other successful athletes of ancient Greece, Milo was the subject of tales of strength and power. Among other tales, he was said to have carried a bull on his shoulders and to have burst a band about his forehead by inflating the veins of his temples.

The date of Milo's death is unknown. He was said to be splitting a tree in half when his hands became trapped in the tree. It was then that a pack of wolves surprised, killed, and ate him.   Milo is the subject of works of art by Pierre Puget, Étienne-Maurice Falconet and others. In literature, Rabelais wrote about him in Gargantua and Pantagruel and Shakespeare did the same in Troilus and Cressida.

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Caelestiventus is an early pterosaur. It is important because it is 65 million years older than any other known desert-dwelling pterosaur. Also, it shows that the earliest pterosaurs were morphologically and ecologically varied. The Dimorphodontidae originated in the Triassic period.

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Circa is Latin for "around" or "about". It is often used to show when something approximately happened. It is often shortened to c., ca., ca or cca.

An encyclopedia entry may begin with circa in the date of birth, for example: "Genghis Khan (c. 1162 – August 18, 1227)". The "c." means that he was born in about 1162, but the exact date is not certain. Sometimes the circa symbol is italicized to show that it is not in the English language.

Estimated values of different units may also begin with circa in research reports and scientific articles, for example "it involved c.450 kg of carved ivory". The "c." means that it was an estimated value based on an average value or any other coefficient that the researcher will generally define in the methodology.

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La Bouilladisse is a commune of 4,904 people (1999). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the south of France.

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Ayasha Rahman () (born 14 January 1994) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh cricket team. She is a right handed batsman.

Career

ODI career
Rahman made her ODI career against the Pakistan women's cricket team on August 23, 2012.

T20I career
Rahman made her T20I career against the India women's cricket team on April 5, 2013. In June 2018, she was part of Bangladesh's squad that won their first ever Women's Asia Cup title, winning the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup tournament. Later the same month, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. She was the leading run-scorer for Bangladesh in the tournament, with 89 runs in five matches. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the rising star of Bangladesh's squad by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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Clockwork Angels is the twentieth studio album by Rush. The album was released on June 12, 2012. It was the band's first studio album with label Roadrunner Records. The album debuted at #1 in Canada and at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album won the award for Rock Album of the Year at the 2013 Juno Awards.

Track listing
 "Caravan" - 5:40
 "BU2B" - 5:10
 "Clockwork Angels" - 7:31
 "The Anarchist" - 6:52
 "Carnies" - 4:52
 "Halo Effect" - 3:14
 "Seven Cities of Gold" - 6:32
 "The Wreckers" - 5:01
 "Headlong Flight" - 7:20
 "BU2B2" - 1:28
 "Wish Them Well" - 5:25
 "The Garden" - 6:59

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Clockwork Angels


Hurricane Bud was the first hurricane of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season. It was formed on May 21, 2012 and died on May 26, 2012. It started near Western Mexico. It made landfall there, where it uprooted trees and washed away roads. It approached Baja California but did not damage it. It is unknown how many deaths it caused.

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Hurricane Bud (2012)


Lake Chaubunagungamaug, or Lake Webster is a lake in the United States. It is in the state of Massachusetts. The lake is also known by the much shorter name of Webster Lake, but some people prefer the long name Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which is the Native American name for the lake. The name is the longest place name in the United States.

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Lake Chaubunagungamaug


Laura Marie Marano (born November 29, 1995) is an American actress and singer. She is the younger sister of actress Vanessa Marano. Laura played Ally Dawson in the Disney Channel television series Austin & Ally.

In the movie A Sort of Homecoming, Marano played Young Amy.

Marano was born in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Awards and nominations

References

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Laura Marano


The word  has several uses:

Locations
 Saitama, Saitama, the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan in the Kantō region
 Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, a museum inside of Sakitama Kofun Park in Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Kitasaitama District, Saitama and Minamisaitama District, Saitama are two districts in eastern Saitama prefecture

Education
 Kokusai Gakuin Saitama Junior College, a private junior college in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Gakuen University, a private university in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Institute of Technology, a private university in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Junior College, a junior college in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Junshin Junior College, a private junior college in Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Medical School, a private university at Moroyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Prefectural University, a public university in Sengendai, Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Prefectural Urawa Nishi High School, a public high school in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama University, a Japanese national university in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Women's Junior College, a private women's junior college in Hidaka Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Mass media
 The Saitama Shimbun, a paid daily newspaper headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 NHK Saitama FM (85.1 MHz, Chichibu relay 83.5 MHz), a local and relay station of NHK in Tokyo, Japan
 Television Saitama (or "Teletama), a free-to-air commercial station in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Sports
 Saitama Broncos, a professional basketball club
 Saitama City Cup, an International Friendly Tournament held since 2003 at Saitama Stadium
 Saitama Seibu Lions, a professional baseball club in Japan's Pacific League
 Saitama Stadium, a football (soccer) stadium in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama Super Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Transportation
 Saitama-Shintoshin Station is a railway station on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line, Takasaki Line, and Tōhoku Main Line in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 Saitama New Urban Transit, operator of the New Shuttle operated in the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan
 Saitama Rapid Railway Line, the continuation of the Namboku Line, starting at Akabane-Iwabuchi station in Tokyo and ending at Urawa Misono Station in Saitama

Other
 5618 Saitama, a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on 4 March 1990 by A. Sugie at Dynic Astronomical Observatory
 Roman Catholic Diocese of Saitama, a diocese in Saitama, Japan
 Television Saitama, a Japanese fee-free terrestrial commercial television broadcasting company headquartered in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Saitama


The Australian Sports Medal was an award given during 2000 to recognise achievements in Australian sport.

Winners of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, office holders, and people who maintained sporting facilities and services.  Over 18,000 Medals were awarded.

Description
 The medal is circular and made of nickel-silver with a highly polished finish. The front design symbolises Australian sport showing the stars of the Southern Cross, and lines representing the athletics track at the Australian Sports Stadium.
 The other side has the same lines as the front, and the words ‘to commemorate Australian sporting achievement’ appearing in the raised edge of the medal. It is also marked with the year ‘2000’.
 The medal hangs from a 32 mm ribbon by a connector piece and ring. The ribbon’s colours are Australia’s national colours green and yellow.

Other websites
It's an Honour - Australian Government site
 - Stanley Brooks (Australian Government Site)

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Australian Sports Medal


Armin T. Wegner (October 16 1886 – May 17 1978) was a soldier in World War I, a writer and a co-creator of German Expressionism, a political activist for Armenian and Jewish human rights, and a victim of Nazi persecution.

He was a war reporter for several German newspapers at the same time. While staying in Turkey, he saw the genocide of Armenians with his own eyes.

After Hitler came to power, Wegner was against the fascists, and spoke against the treatment of Jews. After writing a letter to Hitler, he was arrested and tortured. Wegner survived and escaped and was based in England, and in Italy after the end of World War II.

Other websites
Armin T. Wegner Society
Biography of Armin T. Wegner
Armin T. Wegner at Yad Vashem website

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Michael "Mike" Ilitch Sr. (July 20, 1929 – February 10, 2017) was an American entrepreneur. He was the founder and owner of the international fast food franchise Little Caesars. He also owned the sports teams Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League and Detroit Tigers of the Major League Baseball.

From 1994 until her death in 2005, Ilitch paid Rosa Parks' rent to help her live in a safer part of Detroit.

Ilitch was born in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Macedonian. He was married to Marian Ilitch from 1955 until his death. They had seven children.

Ilitch died on February 10, 2017 at a hospital in Detroit, at the age of 87.

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Mike Ilitch


13 Going on 30 is an American romantic comedy fantasy movie. The movie is about an unpopular girl celebrating turning 13 in May 1987. She wakes up in 2004 and is suddenly 30 years old. Jennifer Garner plays Jenna. Kathy Baker plays Beverly.

The movie opened in April 2004. The reviews were very positive. It made a lot of money.

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Paulo Nunes (born 30 October 1971) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.

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|1998||rowspan="2"|Palmeiras||rowspan="2"|Série A||22||12
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|1999||17||6
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was a Japanese football player. He has played for the Japanese national team.

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Shigeo Sugimoto


Touba is a city in central Senegal. In 2010, 529,176 people lived there. It is the second most populated Senegalese city after the capital Dakar. It is the holy city of Mouridism.

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Touba


A freedom fighter is a person who thinks his native ethnic group is not free, and is working to have freedom for his group. Most often this means that a freedom fighter wants his people to have own nation and independence and/or get rid of oppressors. People who think like this are said to think in a nationalist way

Freedom fighter is a relativistic term - this means a person decides by his or her point of view if he call some persons or groups freedom fighters or not. Freedom fighter is a positive term - this means that he or she calls a person "freedom fighter" only if he or she supports the goals of the freedom fighter. If people do not support his goals, they probably use more negative terms like insurgent, terrorist, rebel or criminal.

Freedom fighters are often called terrorists by their opponents if they hurt civilians. However, not all freedom fighters hurt civilians. Some freedom fighters damage the opposing military. Some freedom fighters damage property - this is called sabotage. There are also freedom fighters who do not use violence at all. For example, the Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.

Groups
These are examples of groups who call themselves freedom fighters.
 The African National Congress, c.f. Alfred Nzo's Address to the British Trades Union Congress at its Presentation of a Gold Medal to Nelson Mandela, 1988.
 Al-Qaeda
 Aryan Nations
 Babbar Khalsa (Sikh separatists)
 CNRT Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense
 The Continuity Irish Republican Army
 Earth Liberation Front
 ETA Euskadi Ta Askatasuna - Basque nationalist organization
 GAM Gerakan Aceh Merdeka
 Hamas
 Hezbolla
 Hizbul Mujahideen - Kashmiri separatists
 The Irish National Liberation Army
 The Irish People's Liberation Organisation
 The Irish Republican Army
 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Separatists)
 Mahdi Army a milita force created by and loyal to the Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
 The New Peoples' Army
 The Real Irish Republican Army
 The Scottish National Liberation Army
 The Ulster Defence Regiment
 The Ulster Freedom Fighters
 The Ulster Volunteer Force

Other examples
 The Dalai Lama: "We are freedom fighters unique in our peaceful approach to liberation."
 Sitting Bull
 Nelson Mandela
 Mahatma Gandhi
 Michael Collins (Irish leader)
 Red Cloud
 William the Silent
 George Washington
 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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is a party game developed by Dimps. It was published by Sierra Entertainment (Vivendi Universal Games for Japan) for the Nintendo DS. It was released in Japan on July 20, 2006, in North America on October 10, 2006, in Europe on October 27, 2006, and in Australia on November 2, 2006. It is the first and onlu game in the Crash Bandicoot series to be developed by a Japanese company. This was the last Crash Bandicoot game to be released in Japan.

References

Other websites
The Official Crash Boom Bang! website

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Crash Boom Bang!


Fiji national football team is the national football team of Fiji.

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Fiji national football team


Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966) is an English Canadian actor and director.

He was born in London, England in 1966 to Canadian actor Donald Sutherland and his wife Shirley Douglas, an actress and daughter of Canadian statesman Tommy Douglas. He also has a twin sister, named Rachel, who looks similar to him. He grew up in London, Corona, California and Toronto, Ontario.

In the 1980s he was part of a group of young actors called the "Brat Pack" and appeared in movies Stand by Me (1986), The Lost Boys (1987), Young Guns (1988), Flatliners (1990), and The Three Musketeers (1993). In 2001, he starred as Jack Bauer in 24, which was intended as a one-shot mini-series, but became one of the most popular shows on TV. For this role, Kiefer won the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 2006, the Golden Globe for best actor in 2001, the SAG Award for Best Actor in 2003 and 2005 and the Satellite Award for Best Actor in 2002 and 2003. The show had eight seasons before ending, with one movie currently released.

He is also in Fox drama, Touch as Martin Bohm.

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Kiefer Sutherland


Taneti Mamau (born 16 September 1960) is the President of Kiribati since 11 March 2016.

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Taneti Mamau


Christine Kaseba is a Zambian physician, surgeon and politician. She was the First Lady of Zambia from September 2011 until October 2014. She is the widow of former President Michael Sata, who died in office on October 28, 2014. She is also a long-time physician and surgeon, specializing in gynecology and obstetrics, at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka.

Life and career
Kaseba was the second wife of Michael Sata, the country's president from 2011 to 2014.
Christine Kaseba and Michael Sata had eight children together.

On November 18, 2014 Kaseba filed her nomination papers to contest the January 2015 presidential by-election under the Patriotic Front party shortly after her husband's death.
However, she and other seven PF candidates lost their party's nomination to Edgar Lungu at the party's November general conference.

In 2016, it was reported that Christine Kaseba might be chosen as the vice presidential running mate of UPND presidential nominee, Hakainde Hichilema, for the 2016 election.

Kaseba serves on the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries.

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Christine Kaseba


Seventeen is a 20th-century American teen magazine. It was the first teenage magazine in the United States. This magazine is mostly for girls and women between age 12 to 19. It began as a publication for inspiring teen girls to be role models. This magazine was first published in September 1944.

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Seventeen (magazine)


Eduard Hanslick (born Prague September 11, 1825; died Baden, Austria, August 6, 1904) was a famous music critic.  He wrote about music that was being composed in his time.  He liked the music of composers like Brahms and Schumann but hated the music of Wagner and Liszt.  Their music sounded too modern for his taste.

He was born into a German-speaking family.  His father was a music teacher.  When he was 18 Hanslick went to study music with Tomášek, one of Prague's most important musicians. He also studied law at Prague University.  He did not study music at university but he knew a lot about music and played the piano very well.  He started writing music reviews (writing about concerts that had taken place).  For many years he wrote reviews in a paper called Neue freie Presse.  He became professor of history and music at the University of Vienna and was an adjudicator at lots of music festivals.  His most famous book was called Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (About Beauty in Music).

Hanslick's tastes were conservative (he did not like new ideas).  We remember him today for writing good things about Brahms and bad things about Wagner.  A lot of musicians took sides on this matter.  It is sometimes called: The War of the Romantics.  Musicians had long arguments in the music journals about which kind of music was better.

Although in some ways he was narrow-minded he had a lot of influence on music.  His books on music are very interesting showing great knowledge.  He knew most of the great musicians of his day.

Wagner made a caricature of Hanslick in his opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in which the town clerk Beckmesser criticizes the young singer Walther who sings songs which break the traditional rules of composition.

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Eduard Hanslick


A Cockapoo (also called a Spoodle or Cockerpoo) is a hybrid dog. It is a mix of an American Cocker Spaniel and a Poodle; (in most cases the Miniature Poodle or Toy Poodle), or by breeding a Cockapoo with another Cockapoo.

The Cockapoo has been around since 1950 and the first dictionary reference was a 1960 Oxford English Dictionary citation. Because it is a mixed breed, it is not recognised by purebred kennel clubs.

Other websites
 The American Cockapoo Club
 Cockapoo Crazy
 Cockapoo Place

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Cockapoo


Lehigh is a city in Iowa in the United States.

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Lehigh, Iowa


Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja (January 21, 1909 – May 7, 1966), was known as Calufa. He was a Costa Rican author and political activist. He was born in Alajuela to a single mother. Fallas only finished the first two years of secondary school. He moved to Limón. There he worked in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company. Later, he returned to Alajuela at the age of 22 and found work as a shoemaker.

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Raisin bread is a type of bread that has raisins in it. Most people think of it as sweet bread, and it sometimes has cinnamon in it. It can be eaten as toast or as a dessert. Raisin bread is normally sold pre-sliced and often eaten in Northern Europe and the United States. Raisin bread is normally brown in color from the cinnamon. It is normally dryer than normal bread.

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Bread
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Raisin bread


Olivia Kate Cooke is an English actress. She is known for her starring role as Emma Decody in the A&E drama thriller series Bates Motel and as Becky Sharp in the period drama miniseries Vanity Fair.

Olivia Cooke


Inverurie is a Royal Burgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 16 miles north west of Aberdeen on the A96 road and lies on the Northern Express Railway Route from Aberdeen to Inverness. The nearest airport is Aberdeen International Airport at Dyce.

Sports
Inverurie Loco Works F.C., playing their matches at Harlaw Park, are the local Highland League football team and Aberdeen F.C. is the nearest Scottish Premier League team. Rugby Union is played by the Garioch Rugby Football Club.

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Inverurie


Beah Richards (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000) was an American actress. She performed on stage, in movies and on television. During her career, she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances on television.

Richards made many guest television appearances in shows, like The Bill Cosby Show, Designing Women and ER.

Richards was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Emphysema took her life in September 2000. She was age 80.

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Beah Richards


Sinterklaas (also called Sint Nicolaas) is a traditional Winter holiday figure in Dutch-speaking Europe (The Netherlands and Flanders), and is also well known in the former Dutch colonies. Every year he is celebrated in The Netherlands, one day before Saint Nicholas died (5 December) and on (6 December) in Belgium. His helper and best friend is Black Peter. Sinterklaas is the basis of the mythical holiday figure of Santa Claus in the United States. Sinterklaas has nothing to do with Christmas. Christmas will also be celebrated in the Netherlands as well as in Belgium, so Santa Claus is not the same as Sinterklaas (in the Netherlands). Sinterklaas arrives from Spain in a boat and has a white horse that can walk across rooftops. Every little kid puts his shoe at the chimney (or the window) and sings a song, when the kid goes to sleep sinterklaas comes and puts a present in the shoe.
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Sinterklaas


The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (), often referred to as the Brady Act and commonly called the Brady Bill, is an Act of the United States Congress that made background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States required and created a five-day waiting period on purchases.

The original legislation was introduced into the House of Representatives by Representative Charles E. Schumer  in March 1991, but was never brought to a vote. The bill was reintroduced by Rep. Schumer on February 22, 1993 and the final version was passed on November 11, 1993.

It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 30, 1993 and the law went into effect on February 28, 1994. The Act was named after James Brady, who was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.

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A trace element is present in only a small amount. The amount depends on context.

 In analytical chemistry, it is an element in a sample that has an average concentration of less than 100 parts per million (ppm) measured in atomic count, or less than 100 micrograms per gram.

 In biochemistry, it is one that is needed in minute quantities for the proper growth, development, and physiology of the organism. In biochemistry, a trace element is also referred to as a micronutrient. See Cofactor.

In geology, its concentration is less than 1000 ppm or 0.1% of a rock's composition. The term is used mainly in igneous petrology.

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In Aztec mythology, Xoːchiquetzal () was a goddess of flowers, fertility, games, dancing and agriculture (planting and harvesting), as well as craftsmen and pregnant women.  She was first a moon and love goddess.

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Xochiquetzal


Frances Jane Crosby (usually known as Fanny Crosby) (March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915) was an American poet and lyricist. She wrote Protestant hymns. She was a lifelong Methodist. She wrote over 8,000 hymns in her life, even though she became blind shortly after she was born. She was also known for her preaching and speaking.

Crosby is one of the most famous hymn writers in history. Some of her most well-known and best-loved songs are "Blessed Assurance", "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour", and "To God Be the Glory".

Other websites

The New York Institute for Special Education page on Fanny Crosby
Fanny Crosby page at Cyberhymnal Words and MIDI music for over 400 hymns.
Biographies at Wholesome Words

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Steven Spence Marshall (born 21 January 1968) is the 46th Premier of South Australia. He became Premier 19 March 2018, from the Liberal Party.

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Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense during war. People have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, but the designs have become more and more complex. The term fortification comes from the Latin words fortis ("strong") and facere ("to make").

Many military installations are known as forts, although they are not always fortified. Larger forts may class as fortresses, smaller ones formerly often bore the name of fortalices. Some are castles. The word fortification can also mean the practice of improving an area's defense with defensive works. City walls are fortifications but not necessarily called fortresses.

The last great system of fortification to be built was the Atlantic Wall.

Related pages
 Fortress
 Stronghold
 Salient

Other websites

 Information on Australian World War 2 Fortifications
 A Military History of Malta (Fortifications)
 Fortress Cologne
 Bunker Pictures: Pictures, locations, information about bunkers from WW2 and The Atlantikwall
 Aerial photography: Fortress - Komárom - Hungary
 Petrovaradin - Greatest XVIII century fortress in Europe

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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is a 1964 Disney movie starring Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames, and Annette Funicello. It is a family-oriented comedy about a high school boy who experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. It was directed by Robert Stevenson.

This movie was the next to last Disney movie for both Kirk and Funicello. They would make The Monkey's Uncle for Disney in 1965 then sign with American International Pictures for their teen "beach party" movies.

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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones


Hézecques 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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Hézecques


Harold Lederman (January 26, 1940 – May 11, 2019) was an American professional boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of HBO World Championship Boxing in 1986. He stayed in this role until HBO dropped boxing in 2018. He was added to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016. He was born in the Bronx, New York. He was a Columbia University graduate.

Lederman died of cancer on May 11, 2019, at the age of 79.

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Teresa Ellen Gorman (née Moore; 30 September 1931 – 28 August 2015) was a British politician. She was born in Putney, London. She was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay, in the county of Essex in England, from 1987 until 2001, when she stood down.

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John Thomas Dooling (February 22, 1871 - November 15, 1949) was the assistant district attorney for New York City and an adviser to Tammany Hall for 40 years.

Biography
Dooling was born on February 22, 1871 in Brooklyn, New York City. He died on November 15, 1949 in White Plains, New York.

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In 1961, Frank Drake wrote down an equation for the chance of a contactable alien civilization from another planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. This is known as the Drake Equation (sometimes called the Green Bank equation or the Greeen Bank Formula). Carl Sagan mentioned the Drake equation often so it that has been mistaken for the 'Sagan equation'.

The equation
The Drake equation states that:

where:

N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible;

and

R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
net= the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
fℓ = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

Solving it
We don't know the solution to the equation.
Although written as an equation, Drake's formulation is not particularly useful for getting a value of .  The last four parameters,  and  are not known. They are very hard to guess, with values ranging over many orders of magnitude. Therefore, the SETI League says the importance of the Drake equation is not in solving it, but in thinking about it. It may be more useful to think of it as a series of questions framed as a numbers game.

Related pages
Fermi paradox

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Guasila (Guasìba, Guasìlla) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sud Sardegna in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 2,676 people lived there. Its area is 43.51 km². It is 210 meters above sea level.

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Guasila


Tipas is a  volcano in the Andes range, in Argentina. It is the 9th highest mountain in the Andes. It is also known as Cazadero and Cerro Walther Penck.

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Tipas


The 1. FSV Mainz 05 is a football club which plays in Germany.

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Takahiro Kawamura (born 4 October 1979) is a Japanese professional athlete.  He is best known as an association football player.

Club career statistics

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|1998||rowspan="7"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="7"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|-
|2000||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|2001||6||0||1||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||11||0
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|2002||16||0||1||0||6||1||colspan="2"|-||23||1
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|2003||22||3||5||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||34||3
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|2004||21||1||5||0||6||0||6||1||38||2
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|2005||16||1||3||0||2||0||5||0||26||1
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|2006||Cerezo Osaka||J. League 1||21||2||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||24||2
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|2007||Kawasaki Frontale||J. League 1||15||0||4||0||3||0||4||0||26||0
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|2008||Júbilo Iwata||J. League 1||11||1||2||1||3||0||colspan="2"|-||16||2
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|2009||Tokyo Verdy||J. League 2||32||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||32||0
160||8||22||1||33||1||15||1||230||10
160||8||22||1||33||1||15||1||230||10
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References

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Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Shizuoka Prefecture

Takahiro Kawamura


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Bouxwiller, Haut-Rhin


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Antioch, California


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The earthquake left two deaths and 28 injuries.

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Category:2018 earthquakes
Category:2018 in the United States

2018 Hawaii earthquake


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References

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Category:1957 establishments

International Atomic Energy Agency


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Sodablasting