Donald Allan "Don" Dunstan AC, QC (21 September 1926 – 6 February 1999) was a South Australian politician. He was the leader of the state's Labor Party from 1967, and was Premier of South Australia between June 1967 and April 1968, and again between June 1970 and February 1979.

Dunstan was born in Fiji to a rich Australian couple. He moved to Adelaide when he was a teenager, to go to school on a scholarship. He later studied law and arts at the University of Adelaide. He entered politics in 1953, getting a seat in the South Australian parliament at the age of 26. He became well known for his campaign against the death penalty during the 1950s, and his status in the Labor Party rose quickly. As a member of the opposition, he was able to get the parliament to pass changes to Aboriginal civil rights. He was also an important figure in his party's abandoning the White Australia Policy.

Dunstan was a socially progressive premier. His government recognised native title over Aboriginal lands, decriminalised (made legal) homosexuality, and abolished the death penalty. Appointed during his term were the first female judge, the first non-British governor, and later, the first indigenous governor. Dunstan also relaxed censorship and drinking laws in the state, created a ministry for the environment, and made laws against discrimination. His nine years in office during the 1970s are remembered as the Dunstan Decade. However, there were also problems: the state's economic growth began to slow down, and led to major infrastructure plans being abandoned. Unemployment in South Australia began to rise, as well as rumours of corruption. Dunstan became strained after the death of his wife, and he suddenly resigned from the premiership in 1979 after collapsing from illness. He lived for another two decades, and remained very outspoken in public about social policies.

References

Other websites
Past Premier profile: SA Parliament
Don Dunstan Foundation

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

Bergouey-Viellenave

Bergouey-Viellenave


A bush frog can be one of two types of frogs.  They are found in sub-Saharan Africa and one also in Asia:

 Hyperoliidae, a family of sub-Saharan Africa and the Madagascar region, also known as sedge frogs
 Rhacophoridae, a family of the Old World Tropics

Bush frog (disambiguation)


Faridabad is a city in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the largest city in Haryana in terms of population (1,404,653 people as per 2011 census). It is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) and lies on the border of India's capital city New Delhi. Faridabad was ranked as the eighth fastest growing city in the world by a City Mayors Foundation survey. In 2018, the World Health Organization ranked Faridabad as the second most polluted city in the world.

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Boxford is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Boxford has a church called St Mary's Church.

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Bretten is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

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Acrocorinth is the acropolis of the Greek city Corinth.

Other websites
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Pericles or Perikles (ca. 495–429 BC, , meaning "surrounded by glory") was a prominent and influential statesman. He also was an orator, and general of Athens. He lived between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the Alcmaeonid family.

Pericles had great influence on Athenian society. Thucydides, a contemporary historian, described him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles,". This period though can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.

In Pericles late 20’s he sponsored a major dramatic production for the festival of Dionysus, and he also entertained the whole city. Pericles also got married and had 2 sons. His wife's name is unknown. He associated with a courtesan named Aspasia. A decade later the people started to like him more and more. He got involved with the politics called Ephialtes. Pericles and Ephialtes took away the noble's powers. Ephialtes was later assassinated.

Pericles promoted the arts and literature. This was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project made the city more beautiful., It also showed its glory, and gave work to the people. Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.

Related pages
 Pericles' Funeral Oration

References

Works about Pericles
 Aristophanes, The Acharnians. See original text in Perseus program.
 . See original text in Perseus program.
 Aristotle, Politika (Politics). See original text in Perseus program.
 Cicero, De Oratore. See original text in Perseus program.
 Diodorus Siculus, Library, 12th Book. See original text in Perseus program.
 Herodotus, The Histories, VI. See original text in Perseus program.
 Plato, Alcibiades I. See original text in Perseus program, from
 Plato, Gorgias. See original text in Perseus program, from
 Plato, Menexenus. See original text in Perseus program, from
 Plato, Phaedrus, See original text in Perseus program, from
 Plutarch, Cimon. See original text in Perseus program.
  Plutarch, Pericles. See original text in Perseus program.
 Quintilian, Institutiones. See original text in The Latin Library.
, I-III. See original text in Perseus program.
 Xenophon (?), Constitution of Athens. See original text in  Perseus program

Gore Vidal, Creation (novel) for a fictional account of Pericles and a Persian view of the wars.

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Charles Aznavour (22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of France's most popular and long lasting singers, and also one of the most well-known French singers in other countries.

Career
He appeared in more than 60 movies and written more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German).

He has sold over 100 million albums. Aznavour started his final tour in late 2006. Aznavour was born as Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavouryan in Paris, the son of Armenian immigrants Michael Aznavouryan & Knar Baghdasaryan. His parents introduced him to the world of theatre at an early age. He dropped out of school at the age of nine, already aspiring to the life of an artist. He began to perform at this time, and soon took the stage name "Aznavour".

His big break came when the singer Edith Piaf heard him sing and arranged to take him with her on tour in France and to the USA. Aznavours voice is shaded towards the tenor range, but possesses the low range and coloration more typical of a baritone, contributing to his unique sound.

Death
On 1 October 2018 it was announced that Aznavour had died at his home in the village of Mouriès in the south of France at the age of 94. An autopsy report said Aznavour died of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by pulmonary edema.

Film
1989: Charles Aznavour Armenia 1989 Armenfilm ( Gyumri, Leninakan,Nostradamus, General Andranik, Sumgayit, Karabagh)
movie director Levon Mkrtchyan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEd5L1i6gg

References

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 Official site
 Original discography, catalogue and discussion group

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Galatasaray is a sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. They started in 1905.

In 2000, they became the first Turkish club to win both the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in the same year.
The team's colors are red and yellow. Turkish people also call it "Cim Bom". Their mascot is a lion. The TT Arena (Turk Telecom Arena) is their stadium, and is also known as Aslantepe; Lion Hill. It's an all-seater stadium. It can hold 52,652 people.

Galatasaray is one of the "big five" clubs in Turkey. The other clubs are Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş, Trabzonspor and Bursaspor. They have won the Spor Toto Super League 20 times and Ziraat Turkish Cup 15 times. As of January 2016, the Chairman is Dursun Aydın Özbek, and the coach is Mustafa Denizli.

Squad
As of 4 September 2013

Other websites
 Official website of Galatasaray

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Galatasaray S.K.


The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijani: Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист РеспубликасыAzərbaycan Sovet Sosialist Respublikası; Russian: Азербайджанская Советская Социалистическая Республика [АзССР] Azerbaydzhanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika [AzSSR]), also known as the Azerbaijan SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union.

It was founded on April 28, 1920 as the Azerbaijan SSR. From March 12, 1922 to December 5, 1936, it was part of the Transcaucasian SFSR together with the Armenian SSR and the Georgian SSR. In December 1922, the Transcaucasian SFSR became part of the newly established Soviet Union. The Constitution of Azerbaijan SSR was approved by the 9th Extraordinary All-Azerbaijani Congress of Soviets on March 14, 1937. On November 19, 1990, the Azerbaijan SSR was renamed the "Republic of Azerbaijan" while still a part of the Soviet Union for another year before its collapse and the independence of Azerbaijan in 1991.

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Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic


Jesus with erection is a picture that was made by students at the University of Oregon and published in the March 2006 edition of the Student Insurgent. It caused debates in the United States in 2006. The picture shows a naked Jesus Christ on the Cross with an erection.

Context
In 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The paper said that this was to add to the debate about criticism of Islam and self-censorship. Danish-Muslims said that they did not like them because Islam teaches that it is wrong for people to make any picture of Muhammad and also because they felt that the pictures showed disrespect to Muhammad. This led to protests in many Islamic countries, some of which became violent  and led to more than 100 deaths.

The students of the University of Oregon said that they made the pictures of Jesus because they want to show how people who are religious feel when people make pictures that may be offensive to Jesus. They wanted to get Muslims and Christians to talk and understand each other better.

Reactions
Some people disliked the picture of Jesus with erection. The president of the Catholic League, William Donohue, said that the president of the Oregon University, Dave Frohnmayer, is partially responsible for the pictures. William Donohue said that the picture was one of the worst attacks on Christianity he had ever seen. Other people who disliked the picture said that the University's President David B. Frohnmayer should not work for the University any more. However, the Oregon Daily Emerald and the Oregon Commentator, said that the students' right to free speech and the University's decision to defend the student newspaper, citing the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States like the Southworth case. This case said that universities could support student groups (such as newspapers) that other students did not agree with without hurting the rights of the students who do not like the groups.

Related pages
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

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Other websites
The Student Insurgent Online

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Jesus with erection


Sofia is the capital and the largest city of Republic of Bulgaria. It has 1.3 million people. It is the 15th largest city of the European Union. Sofia is in the west of Bulgaria. It has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).

Sofia is one of the oldest capital cities in Europe; the history of Sofia dates back to the 8th century BC.

Many of the major universities, cultural institutions, and businesses of Bulgaria are concentrated in Sofia. Sofias also the best baddie in the world

References

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Sofia


The Amidah (, "standing") is one of the two main prayers of Judaism.  It has that name because people say it standing up.  Jews say it at every prayer service of the year.

It is also called Shemoneh Esrei (, "eighteen") because at first the weekday version of the prayer had eighteen blessings.  (It now has nineteen.) In the Talmud, it is called Tefilah ().  This simply means "prayer".  It has that name because it is so central to Judaism.

Blessings of the Amidah
The Amidah always has three sections.
The first section has blessings of praise to God.
The middle section is different between weekdays and Shabbat and holidays.  On weekdays it has blessings asking for God's help.  On Shabbat and holidays there is one blessing to thank God for Shabbat or the holiday.
The last section has blessings to thank God for everything He does for us.

First section: praise to God
Praises God as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Praises God as having power over life and death
Praises God for being holy

Middle section (weekday): asking God for help
Asks God for the ability to think and understand
Asks God to help us follow the laws of His Torah
Asks God to forgive us for sins
Asks God to save us from trouble
Asks God to heal the sick
Asks God to bless produce and to provide us a living
Asks God to return Jewish exiles to the land of Israel
Asks God to give us fair judges on Earth
Asks God to punish heretics who then slander Jews
Asks God to support righteous people
Asks God to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem
Asks God to bring the Messiah
Asks God to accept all our prayers

End section: thanking God
Thanks God for allowing our prayers
General blessing of thanks to God
Thanks God for peace

Saying the Amidah
The Amidah is said at least three times every day: at the morning, afternoon and evening prayer services.  A person should say it standing.  A person should say it loud enough to hear it.  But it should be quiet enough that other people cannot hear it.

At the morning and afternoon services, the Amidah is repeated out loud by the prayer leader.  When the Amidah is said out loud:
The third blessing includes a section called Kedushah, or "holiness", centered around Isaiah's vision of angels declaring God's holiness.
The eighteenth blessing includes a section called Modim d'Rabbanan, or "The Rabbis' Prayer of Thanks." The Talmud says that everyone must thank God himself or herself, even during public prayer.
The Amidah is not said out loud at night.

In Reform Judaism the Amidah is not said quietly.  It is said out loud at every prayer service.

Changes on Shabbat and Jewish holidays
On Shabbat and important Jewish holidays, the Amidah prayer changes in two important ways.
People do not ask God to help them meet their needs.  The middle section of the weekday Amidah is replaced by one blessing about the holiness of the Shabbat or holiday.  The first three blessings and last three blessings are the same as on weekdays.
The Amidah is said a fourth time.  This Amidah is called the musaf, or additional service.  The middle blessing is about the additional offering given at the Temple in Jerusalem on Shabbat and holidays.
There are two Amidah prayers during the year that are different from any others.  See the pages on these holidays for more information.
On Rosh Hashanah, the musaf Amidah has nine blessings instead of seven.
On Yom Kippur, a fifth Amidah, called Ne'ilah ("closing") is said at the very end of the day.

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Reference
A siddur (Jewish prayer book) is always the best reference for information about Jewish prayers:

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It is a very good English/Hebrew siddur to use for learning about prayers.

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Vouvant is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.

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Vouvant


A spindle (sometimes called a drop spindle) is a wooden spike (or shaft) that has at one end a weight, mostly a circular whorl.

Sometimes it has a hook at either end of the spike. It is used for spinning wool and other fibres into thread. Spindles or parts of them have been found in very, very old archaeological sites; they may represent one of the earliest pieces of technology available to humankind.

Other websites
 Directions for making a handspindle using CDs
 How to spin with a handspindle

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Albert Jacka VC, MC & Bar (10 January 1893 – 17 January 1932) was given the Victoria Cross, the highest medal for  "in the face of the enemy" that can be given to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Jacka was the first Australian to win the VC during the First World War, receiving the medal for his actions during the Gallipoli Campaign. After Gallipoli he was sent to the Western Front where he again was given medals for his bravery.

After the war, Jacka went back to Australia and started a business, Roxburgh, Jacka & Co. Pty Ltd, importing and exporting electrical goods. He was later elected to the local council, and became the mayor of St Kilda, Victoria. Jacka never fully recovered from the many wounds he got in the war and died at the age of 39.

Early life
Albert Jacka was born on a dairy farm at Layard, near Winchelsea, Victoria on 10 January 1893. His parents were Nathaniel Jacka and his English wife, Elizabeth Kettle. The family moved to Wedderburn, Victoria when he was five years old, where he went the local school. He began working with his father transporting goods. He was working for the Victorian State Forests Department when the First World War broke out.

Gallipoli and the VC
He joined the AIF, the Australian Imperial Force, on 18 September 1914. His battalion was sent to Cairo Egypt for training. They landed at Gallipoli on 26 April, 1915, the second day of the Gallipoli campaign. On 19 May the Turkish army started a large attack to push the ANZACs back into the sea. The Turks were able to capture a small section of a trench at Courtney's Post. Jacka jumped into the trench by himself and killed most of the Turkish soldiers in it. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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Prattville is a city in Autauga and Elmore counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the county seat of Autauga County.  As of the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 33,960.  The city is northwest of Montgomery.

Tornado
On February 17, 2008, Prattville was hit by an estimated EF3 tornado which destroyed more than 45 homes and businesses and damaged over 800.

Notable residents
 John Martin, Author Travel and History
 Rodger Morrison, Author and Researcher
 Marlon Anderson, Major League Baseball player
Evan Crawford, Major League Baseball player
 Bobby Jon Drinkard, contestant on Reality television shows Survivor: Palau and Survivor: Guatemala
 Roman Harper, NFL player.
 Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006), R&B and soul singer and songwriter
 Kevin Turner,  NFL player

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Hugo Omar Cóccaro (4 May 1954 – July 21 2019) was an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was Governor of Tierra del Fuego Province from 2005 to 2007. Cóccaro was born in Saladillo, Argentina.

Cóccaro died on 21 July 2019 in Buenos Aires at the age of 65. The cause was cancer.

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Grand Rapids is a large city in western Michigan, United States. About 196,000 people were living here in 2016.

Former American president Gerald Ford grew up in Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is also the birthplace of Amway and the Meijer store chain.

Grand Rapids is the county seat of Kent County. It is the second largest city in the state, after Detroit. The third largest is Warren.

The city has many attractions, including the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park and John Ball Park, which is a zoo. Grand Valley State University has a campus in downtown Grand Rapids.

Many Reformed Christians from Dutch ancestry live in Grand Rapids.

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President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers were the militia of the loyal U.S. states called up on April 15, 1861 following the attack on Fort Sumter by the forces of the Confederate States of America. This was the beginning the American Civil War. President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers for a period of 90 days. These limits were established by laws that had been passed in the late eighteenth century and were not necessarily a reflection of the number of troops or the amount of time Lincoln actually thought it would take to put down the rebellion.

The proclamation
Lincoln wrote the proclamation himself showing his lawyer's style of writing:

Background
There was a great deal of tension over the issue of slavery in the Western territories during the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61). People were taking sides in the issue as never before. When open war broke out in the Kansas Territory (called Bleeding Kansas), Southern slaveholders, Northern abolitionists and Free-soilers flooded into Kansas. Each was trying to influence the vote whether Kansas would join the Union as a slave state or a free state. President Buchanan sent part of the Regular Army to stop the violence but they were too few and too scattered to stop the fighting.

The abolitionist John Brown who played a part in Bleeding Kansas, seized the Harpers Ferry Armory in 1859. He intended to use the weapons to start a slave uprising in the South. Federal troops were called on to put down the outbreak and capture Brown.

On November 6, 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. South Carolina seceded from the Union. Followed by six more Southern states, on February 18, 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama they formed the Confederate States of America. Their elected president, Jefferson Davis, called for 100,000 volunteers to serve for one year. In less than six weeks, other Southern states seceded. The Confederates seized federal property in the South including several military posts. The exceptions were Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina and Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida.

When these seven states seceded, it caused a breakup in the U.S. Army. Many were from the South and felt they had a responsibility to resign from the U.S. Army and join the Confederate Army. In April of 1861, the United States Army had only 16,000 men organized into fewer than 200 companies. Most of them were at posts west of the Mississippi River. While the army was made up of trained professional soldiers, Lincoln realized he could not put down a rebellion of this size with the army he had.

State Militias before 1861
During the Colonial Period in North America, each colony had the right to summon all able-bodied white males to provide for the defense of that colony. Colonies had militia laws that required every able-bodied man to be available for militia duty and to provide his own arms. In 1774 and 1775, the British government, which now had a larger presence, attempted to disarm American colonists. This caused the colonists to form private militias, independent of any control by the governors who were appointed by the British government. The Minutemen who fought the British Army at the Battles of Lexington and Concord were an independent militia. The American colonies saw standing armies as tools of a despotic monarch.

After the formation of the United States, the founding fathers saw state militias as the main force to defend the new country. They were controlled by the individual states and not by a central government. When the United States Constitution was ratified, it gave the federal government the right to raise a standing army but the feeling at the time was that such an army was to be kept small. This was the prevailing thought up to the 20th century. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and other laws of 1792 gave the President the power to call out the state militias to put down rebellion and to fight against any foreign invaders. But, the call for militias had to be authorized by the state legislatures, the militias themselves could only serve for three months in any given year and the size of the militia the President was allowed to call up was limited to 75,000.

During the War of 1812 militia units had the reputation of being poorly trained and poorly disciplined. Massachusetts and Connecticut refused to call out their militias during this time. Vermont would not allow its militia to serve outside of state borders. From 1815 until 1845, many of the Northern states did not require militia service by their citizens. The Mexican-American War was fought mainly by the regular army and volunteers served for one year terms of service. Very few state militias participated. By the 1840s, with no state laws requiring militia service in many states, the militias were replaced by voluneteer groups who served on weekends and provided their own weapons. In exchange for state-supplied weapons and uniforms, many agreed to become part of their respective state militias, especially in Northern states.

State militias had several shortcomings. During the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, they developed a reputation as poor fighters and frequent deserters.

Lincoln's volunteers
When Lincoln called for 75,000 men for federal service, members of his cabinet had advised him to ask for as many as 200,000. However, Lincoln knew that he would be breaking the law if he tried to call up that many men, and on a more practical note he probably also recognized the army did not have the arms or supplies to equip a larger number and so he settled for the legal limit of 75,000. This was still four times the size of the regular army. Each state was given a quota it had to meet based on its population. New York's quota was 17 regiments (13,280 men). Pennsylvania was to send 16 regiments. Other states were given their quotas as well. The slave states refused to send any men, with four of them joining the Confederacy instead. The free states filled out their quotas quickly. Some states did not send any more than their quota required while other states sent more so that Lincoln still got the 75,000 men he asked for. Rhode Island sent four times their quota. Connecticut and Missouri each sent three times their quota. Massachusetts sent two and a half times their quota.

All the new officers and soldiers had to undergo military training. Officers spent their evenings learning tactics and other military matters from books and field manuals. Soldiers spent their days learning to drill and shoot their weapons. Many quickly found that military life was not as romantic as they had pictured it. None realized that training could be the difference between life and death on a battlefield. So training suffered, but the Confederate army had the same problems with their militia units. When the war started, both sides had to depend on their militias.

Congress soon changed the militia law to allow the President to call up more men to serve for longer periods of time.

Notes

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The White-flanked Antwren (Myrmotherula axillaris) is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is the only antwren with white flank patches. Vieillot named the species in 1817. Because it has a large range, it does not reach the status of vulnerable.

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Fairlington is an unincorporated neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. It is located adjacent to Shirlington in the southernmost part of the county on the boundary with the City of Alexandria.

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Fairlington, Arlington, Virginia


Jean de La Fontaine (; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was the first of the French fabulist. He was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known for his fables. These provided a model for later fabulists across Europe. They were also an example for numerous alternative versions in France and in French regional languages.

According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the subtleties of the French language before Victor Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995.

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São José dos Pinhais is a Brazilian city, the second largest in the Greater Curitiba, in southern state of Paraná. In 2008 the population was more than 280.000 inhabitants.

The city is on a plateau 906 meters above sea level, and an area of 945,717 km². Is just 7 km away from the capital, Curitiba.

It is the third largest automotive pole of Brazil, housing assembly of Volkswagen, Audi, Nissan and Renault. The city is also home of the Afonso Pena International Airport, the main airport in southern Brazil.

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

Lohitzun-Oyhercq

Lohitzun-Oyhercq


"Panghuang" is Lu Xun 's short story assembled, a collection of Lu Xun in between 1924 -  1925's short story written by eleven. Its short stories include " Blessing ", " On the Restaurant ", " Soap ", " Happy Family ", " Gao Laofuzi ", " Brothers ", " Sadness " and so on. "Panghuang" was published by Beixin Book Store in 1926. The bookstore Works of Lu Xun, Volume 2 of the People's Literature Publishing House.

 "Blessing"
 "On the restaurant"
 "Happy Family"
 "Soap"
 "Changming Lantern"
 "Showing the crowd "
 "Gao Laofuzi"
 "Lonely"
 "Sadness "
 "Brother"
 "Divorce"

Social problems criticized by writer

 The heavy shadow of Chinese traditional society, the problem of ritual "cannibalism".
 The problem of "renovating nationality." The dullness and numbness of the masses.
 The "tragic character" of intellectuals. Weakness, short-sightedness, looseness, personal struggle, lack of ambitious goals and a spirit of perseverance.

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Cliveden is the name of a large house in Buckinghamshire near London, England. There have been three houses on this site. The first house was built in 1666 and burnt to the ground in a fire in 1795. A new house was built but this one also burnt down in a fire in 1849. The house which can be seen today was made in 1851 by Sir Charles Barry, an architect.

Cliveden House sits in a large garden and woodland, (375 acres). The garden contains many statues and fountains made from stone as well as areas of flowers. Cliveden is very close to the River Thames.

Many famous and important people have lived at Cliveden. Some of these are:
The second Duke of Buckingham
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Nancy Astor, the first woman to be a Member of Parliament in the UK in 1919.

The house is now used as a hotel.

References
Crathorne, James, Cliveden: the place and the people. London, 1995.

Category:Buckinghamshire
Category:Hotels

Cliveden


Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (also known on screen as Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI) is a 1986 American supernatural slasher movie and the sixth installment in the Friday the 13th movie series. It was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin.

Because of the unpopularity from removing Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, producers brought back the character to boost up popularity for the franchise.

Many believe that this movie and Freddy vs. Jason are the most popular movies of the franchise.

References

Category:1986 movies
Category:Friday the 13th movies

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives


Mississippi is a state of the United States of America.

Mississippi can mean:
 Mississippi River, in central United States
 Mississippi River (Ontario), in Canada

Other
 Mississippi County

Mississippi (disambiguation)


Events
 Rebellion against king Sancho II of Portugal in favor of his brother Alphonso.
 The rebuilding of Westminster Abbey is started.
 Pope Innocent IV sends two missions to the Mongol Khan, suggesting that the Mongols convert to Christianity.

1245


Kristubhagavatam is a mahakavya (an epic poem) written in Sanskrit. It is based on the life of Jesus Christ. It was written by Mahakavi P. C. Devassia. Devassia was a Sanskrit scholar from Kerala, India.

References

Category:Epic poems
Category:Sanskrit
Category:Jesus Christ

Kristubhagavatam


"Over the River and Through the Wood" is a Thanksgiving poem by Lydia Maria Child. It appeared in the second volume of her Flowers for Children in 1844. The original title of the poem is, "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day".

Boston College writes: "Starting with the familiar line, "Over the river and through the wood", this poem is easily Child’s most famous work. Child never revised the poem herself, but the verses changed over time, especially when they were set to music.

With its bouncing rhythms and high spirits, the poem draws on the writer’s childhood memories of visiting her grandfather’s house on Thanksgiving.  Having gained notoriety for her ideas about race, Child kept her antislavery ideals out of this volume in an effort to avoid controversy and boost sales. Flowers for Children contains only two stories involving race, and they both avoid addressing racial prejudice head on. In this nostalgic poem, Child takes us back to the simple pleasures of a family holiday."

References

Category:19th-century American poems

Over the River and Through the Wood


Jack Mercer (January 13, 1910 – December 4, 1984) was an American movie, television, voice, and stage actor, storyman, and animator who is known for his voice role as Popeye.

He was born in New York City, New York on January 13, 1910. He was married to Margie Hines from 1939 to 1942. Then to Virginia Mercer until his death in 1984, he had no children.

He died in Queens, New York from stomach cancer on December 4, 1984, he was 74 years old.

References

Other websites

 Biography--"He Am What He Am!--Jack Mercer, the Voice of Popeye" by Fred M. Grandinetti
 1939 publicity photo of Mercer and Hines announcing their marriage

Category:1910 births
Category:1984 deaths
Category:Deaths from stomach cancer
Category:American movie actors
Category:American television actors
Category:American stage actors
Category:American voice actors
Category:Actors from New York City

Jack Mercer


The office of Prime Minister of Liechtenstein is the highest and head of the government of Liechtenstein. They are elected every four years. The first Prime Minister of Liechtenstein was Josef Ospelt. The current Prime Minister is Adrian Hasler.

Prime Ministers of Liechtenstein (1921–Present)

Other websites
World Statesmen - Liechtenstein

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Prime Minister of Liechtenstein


Gangster Squad is a 2013 movie about the Mafia. It stars Emma Stone and Nick Nolte. This crime picture was to have been released in September, 2012.  After the 2012 Aurora shooting certain scenes had to be removed and this caused a delay. The movie has been released January 11, 2013 by Warner Bros.

Other websites
Roger Ebert Website review in Chicago Sun-Times

Category:American thriller movies
Category:2013 movies
Category:English-language movies
Category:Warner Bros. movies

Gangster Squad


Ford Heights (formerly East Chicago Heights) is a village of Illinois in the United States.

Category:Villages in Illinois
Category:Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
Category:Settlements in Cook County, Illinois

Ford Heights, Illinois


Music of the Sun is the first studio album released by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna. The album was released in August 2005 by Def Jam and SRP with the singles "Pon de Replay" and "If It's Lovin' that You Want. The album features a wide range types of music, including dancehall, reggae and R&B and features guest appearances from Vybz Kartel, Kardinal Offishall, J-Status and Elephant Man.

Singles
"Pon de Replay" (2005)
"If It's Lovin' That You Want" (2005)

Track listing

Personnel
Credits for Music of the Sun are adapted from AllMusic.

Musicians

 Rihanna – vocals, composer
 Rob Mounsey – arranger/conductor
 Full Force – vocals (background)
 Carl Sturken – composer, guitar, keyboards, piano,
 Evangeline Evelyn – guitar
 Lawrence Glazener – bass
 Avril Brown – violin
 Kenneth Burward-Hoy - violin
 Yana Goichman – violin
 Ann Leathers – violin
 Cenovia Cummins – violin
 Jan Mullen – violin
 Elizabth Nielson – violin

 Debra Shufelt – violin
 Marti Sweet – violin
 Uri Vodoz – violin
 Carol Wener – violin
 Stephanie Cum – cello
 Richard Locker – cello
 Mark Orrin Shuman – cello
 Lian Truffle – cello
 Tristan Hart – viola
 Vince Lionti – viola
 Sue Pray – viola

Production

 Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken – Executive producers
 Full Force, Evan Rogers – Vocal production
 Full Force – Additional vocal production
 Al Hemberger, Matt Noble, Malcolm Pollack – Engineers
 Jason Agel, Roy Matthews, Alex Pinto – Assistant engineers
 Jason Goldstein, Jason Groucott, Al Hemberger – Mixing

 Chris Gehringer  – Mastering
 Jay Brown, Adrienne Muhammad, Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith – A&R
 Tai Linzie – Design
 Andy West – Art Direction
 Tai Linzie, Mark Mann, Ivan Otis – Photography

 Johnny Nice- Mixed by

Charts

Certifications

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!scope="row"| Canada (CRIA)
| Platinum
| 80,000
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!scope="row"| United Kingdom (BPI)
| Gold
| 100,000
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!scope="row"| United States (RIAA)
| Gold
| 623,000
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Release history

References

Category:2005 albums
Category:Rihanna albums
Category:Debut albums
Category:Dancehall albums
Category:Reggae albums
Category:R&B albums

Music of the Sun


Blackmail is the act of threatening to reveal information about a person or group unless a specific demand is met.
Emotional blackmail is a form of psychological manipulation.

Blackmail may also refer to:

 Blackmail (1929 film), a 1929 UK film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 Blackmailer (1936 film), a 1936 US film directed by Gordon Wiles
 Blackmail (1939 film), a 1939 US film starring Edward G. Robinson
 Blackmail (1947 film), a 1947 film noir
 Blackmailed (1951 film), a 1951 film with James Robertson Justice
 Black Mail (1973 film), a 1973 Hindi film starring Dharmendra
 Black Mail (1985 film), a 1985 Malayalam film
 Black Mail (1991 film), a 1991 US television film starring Susan Blakely
 Blackmail (2005 film), a 2005 Hindi film starring Ajay Devgan
 Blackmail (2015 film), a Bangladeshi film
 Blackmail (band), a German indie rock band
 Blackmail (album), the self-named debut album of the band
 Blackmail (webisodes), a spin-off series of mini-episodes of The Office
 "Blackmail" (Law & Order), a 2010 episode of the long-running NBC legal drama, Law & Order
 "Blackmail", a song by 10cc from the album The Original Soundtrack

Blackmail (disambiguation)


There are currently 80 living recipients of the Medal of Honor. It is the United States military's highest decoration. The Medal of Honor is given to any member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States."

Of the 80 living recipients 11 earned their Medals of Honor in World War II. 11 received them for actions in the Korean War. 54 were earned in the Vietnam War. Four were in the War in Afghanistan. Five earned their medal while serving in the U.S. Air Force. 51 were in the U.S. Army. 17 were in the U.S. Marine Corps. 7 were in the U.S. Navy. The oldest recipient is George T. Sakato. He is . The youngest is Kyle Carpenter. He is . Only one medal holder is still on active duty in the U.S. military. He is War in Afghanistan soldier Leroy Petry. Among the recipients is former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey. Three are retired generals: Patrick Henry Brady and Robert F. Foley of the Army and James E. Livingston of the Marine Corps.

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Living recipients

Recently deceased
Recipients who died within the last twelve months are listed below.

References

Category:Lists of Medal of Honor recipients

List of living Medal of Honor recipients


The Metropolitan line is part of the London Underground. It is coloured in TfL's Corporate Magenta  on the Tube map and in other branding. It was the first underground railway (or subway) in the world, opening on 10 January 1863. Today, part of that section are no longer served by the Metropolitan line, but by the Hammersmith & City, District and Circle lines. The main line runs from Aldgate in the City of London to Amersham, with branch lines to Uxbridge, Watford and Chesham. The line once went as far as Verney junction. After it was bought by the London Passenger Transport Board, the line was first cut back to Aylesbury, then to Amersham

The line runs parallel to Chiltern Railways London to Aylesbury line from Finchley Road to Amersham. Chiltern railways continues to run services to Aylesbury.

History

Metropolitan Railway

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs. Its first line connected the mainline railway termini at ,  and King's Cross to the City, built beneath the New Road using the cut-and-cover method between Paddington and King's Cross, and in tunnel and cuttings beside Farringdon Road from King's Cross to near Smithfield. It opened on 10 January 1863 with gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, the world's first underground railway. In 1871, when plans were presented for an underground railway in Paris, it was called the Métropolitain in imitation. The modern word metro is a short form of the French word.

The railway was soon extended from both ends and northwards via a branch from Baker Street. It reached Hammersmith in 1864 and Richmond in 1877, and completed the Inner Circle in 1884, but the most important route became the line north into the Middlesex countryside, where it stimulated the development of new suburbs. Harrow was reached in 1880, and the line extended as far as  in Buckinghamshire, more than  from Baker Street. From the end of the 19th century, the railway shared tracks with the Great Central Railway route out of Marylebone station.

Electric traction was introduced in 1905 with electric multiple units operating between Uxbridge, Harrow-on-the-Hill and Baker Street. To remove steam and smoke from the tunnels in central London, the railway purchased electric locomotives, exchanged for steam locomotives at Harrow from 1908. In 1910, a seventeen-minute silent film recording was made showing large portions of the journey from Baker Street to Aylesbury and Uxbridge, seen from the cab of a train. The film survives and is publicly available.

Unlike other railways in the London area, the Met developed land for housing, thus benefitting from the increase in the value of its land caused by the building of the railway. After World War I it promoted its housing estates near the railway with the "Metro-land" brand.

To improve services, more powerful electric and steam locomotives were purchased in the 1920s. A short branch opened from Rickmansworth to Watford in 1925. After World War I, the  Stanmore branch was built from Wembley Park.

London Transport

On 1 July 1933 the Metropolitan was amalgamated with other Underground railways, tramway companies and bus operators to form the London Passenger Transport Board, and a period of rationalisation followed.
While the Metropolitan was run as an outer suburban route with steam-hauled trains and goods services, the LPTB wished to focus on electrified trains and suburban traffic. Goods services were passed to the London and North Eastern Railway, which also took over the role of providing steam locomotives for trains beyond the end of electrification at Rickmansworth. All services north-west of  were withdrawn by 1936 though services returned to  between 1943 and 1948.

The 1930s was a period of rapid growth for the north-western suburbs of London, and LPTB developed ambitious plans to simplify the Metropolitan line and expand capacity. Several stations on the Uxbridge branch were rebuilt, replacing temporary wooden buildings with modernist designs and giving Uxbridge station a new site in the town centre. A major bottleneck in the line, the double-track tunnel from Baker Street to Finchley Road, was bypassed by boring two tube tunnels underneath the Metropolitan tunnels, transferring slow services and the Stanmore branch to the Bakerloo line. (This route was transferred to the Jubilee line in 1979.) In 1936 the line was extended east from  to  along the tracks of the District line. London Transport inherited a number of incompatible electric multiple units from the railway, including the 1927–33 multiple-unit compartment stock used on routes to Watford and Rickmansworth, and these were refurbished to form a uniform fleet and designated London Underground T Stock. In the 1950s, F Stock trains, with sliding doors under the control of the guard, were transferred from the District line; these mainly worked the semi-fast Harrow and Uxbridge services.

A major rebuilding of the main line from Wembley Park to Amersham was planned in the 1930s but delayed by the war. The line from Wembley to Harrow was rebuilt immediately after the war and the project was completed from 1956–1962, on a more modest scale than originally planned. Until 1961, passenger trains continued to be attached to a steam locomotive at  to run to Aylesbury. The rebuilding electrified the line from Rickmansworth to Amersham, transferring all Aylesbury services to British Railways. A pair of fast lines was added from Harrow to north of Moor Park by 1962, allowing outer-suburban trains to run fast to Moor Park. Aluminium A stock, originally unpainted, replaced the T stock and locomotive-hauled trains. More A Stock trains were built in 1962–63 to replace the trains on the Uxbridge service, giving the main line a single train type for all services. A Stock was 4-car units that could operate as four- or eight-car trains; normally operated as eight cars, a 4-car unit operated the Chesham shuttle. One person operation of the trains was proposed in 1972, but due to conflict with the trades unions was not introduced on the line until 1986.

A separate identity

Although the East London line had been an isolated shuttle since 1939, it was shown on London Underground maps as part of the Metropolitan line until 1968. In 1970 it was shown with a thin white line in the middle and labelled the "East London section". By the 1985 map it had become the "East London Line", remaining the same colour as the Metropolitan line with a white line in the middle, changed to orange by the 1990 map. In 1990 the Hammersmith & City line became a separate line from Hammersmith to Whitechapel (Barking during the peak), the Metropolitan line being from Aldgate to Baker Street and northwards to Amersham with branches to Chesham, Uxbridge and Watford.

In 2003, the infrastructure was partly privatised in a public–private partnership managed by the Metronet consortium. Metronet went into administration in 2007 and Transport for London took over responsibilities in the end. Tube Lines was later acquired by TfL in 2011, and managed as owner-designer firm.

On 12 December 2010 the service to Amersham was reduced from four trains per hour to two, and a direct service between Chesham and central London was introduced, replacing the 4-car Chesham to Chalfont & Latimer shuttle. The final passenger services operated by the A Stock ran on 26 September 2012, followed by a ticketed public railtour on 29 September.

References

Category:Transport in Camden
Category:Transport in the City of London
Category:Transport in Islington
Category:London Underground lines
Category:Transport in Westminster
Category:1863 establishments in the United Kingdom

Metropolitan line


The Southeast Division is one of three divisions in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association, along with the Atlantic Division and the Central Division. The five teams in this division are the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, and the Washington Wizards.

References

Category:National Basketball Association divisions

Southeast Division (NBA)


Adana (Greek Άδανα) (the ancient Antioch in Cilicia or Antioch on the Sarus) is the capital of Adana Province in Turkey. According to the 2000 census, with 1,130,710 inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous city of Turkey (after İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Bursa). The 2006 estimate of Adana's population is 1,271,894.

For most Turkish people, the word 'Adana' associates with Kebab, şalgam, cotton, oranges and very hot weather, in the awareness that Adana also embodies more than just these.

Adana is also named among the 25 European Regions of the Future for 2006/2007 by Foreign Direct Investment Magazine. Chosen alongside Kocaeli for Turkey, Adana scored the most points for cost effectiveness against Kocaeli's points for infrastructure development, while Adana and Kocaeli tied on points for the categories of human resources and quality of life.

Adana has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Koeppen climate classification).

Related pages
Adana massacre

References

Other websites

 Governorship of Adana
 Municipality of Adana

Category:Cities in Turkey

Adana


Unplanned is a movie about the life of conservative activist Abby Johnson based on her autobiography.  It focuses on how she was once Pro-Choice but is now Pro-Life.  It was controversial because it criticized Planned Parenthood. Left-wing people said it was propaganda and conservatives liked it.  The movie made a lot of money.

Unplanned


The Bahamas is a Commonwealth realm.  Queen Elizabeth II is the reigning monarch since 10 July 1973. She is The Bahama's head of state.

Many of the jobs of the government are done by the Governor-General.

Category:Politics of the Bahamas
Bahamas

Monarchy of the Bahamas


Cornplanter Township is a township in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,687 at the 2000 census.

References

Category:Townships in Pennsylvania
Category:Venango County, Pennsylvania

Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania


FNaF World is an indie role-playing video game created by Scott Cawthon. It is the first official spin-off to the Five Nights at Freddy's series.

The game was released for Microsoft Windows on January 21, 2016. On February 8, 2016, the game was updated, and re-released as freeware on Game Jolt free of charge. It received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave the game a review of 4.6/10.

References

Other websites

 FNaF World online

Category:Five Nights at Freddy's (series)

FNaF World


The flying snake, or Chrysopelea, is a mildly venomous snake found throughout India to the Indonesian archipelago. It can glide, in an arboreal habitat, going from tree to tree, most likely, much like the draco lizard. They're better at "flying" than another species of animal similar to this - the flying squirrel.

Defense
The flying snake has venom, but much like garter snakes, the snake is so small that the amount of toxins in their saliva is only enough to kill their prey, which will be covered later on in the section about the flying snake's diet. If challenged by an animal far bigger than their venom can bring down, they might bite anyway just to give the predator a great deal of pain, or may choose flight rather than fight and "fly" away.

Diet
The flying snake's usual diet consists mainly of lizards, birds, frogs, bats, small mice and other rodents, which they catch during the day since they're a diurnal creature.

Species of flying snake
There are five known species of flying snake, which are the following:

Moluccan flying snake
Sri Lankan flying snake
Paradise tree snake
Ornate flying snake
Twin-barred tree snake

References

Category:Snakes

Flying snake


Auriol is a commune of 11,057 people (2005). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the south of France.

Category:Communes in Bouches-du-Rhône

Auriol, Bouches-du-Rhône


Salah ad Din () is a province in north of Iraq. The province has an area of 24,751 km². The capital is Tikrit where Saddam Hussein was born and 1,147,000 people live in the province. The majority population is Sunni. In 2011, the province declared semi-autonomy.

References

Salah ad Din Province


The Northwest Division is one of three divisions in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association, along with the Pacific Division and the Southwest Division. The five teams in this division are the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers, and the Utah Jazz.

References

Category:National Basketball Association divisions

Northwest Division (NBA)


A cabinet is a type of furniture with enclosed shelves and sometimes a door in front. It is usually made of wood. Metal may be used in industrial or public areas. Some cabinets stand alone; others are attached to a wall. Most kitchens have cabinets for storage of cooking materials and utensils.

Category:Furniture

Cabinet (furniture)


Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin (; 4 March 1934 – 25 December 2014) was Russian priest and dissident. He fought for the freedom of conscience in the Soviet Union. He was member of Moscow Helsinki Group, and he was elected to Russian Parliaments from 1990 to 1999.

Yakunin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. He died at the age of 80 after a long illness on 25 December 2014 in Moscow, Russia.

References

Other websites

 Biography and photo album of Gleb Yakunin
 Interview with Portal-Credo.ru
 Declaration on the church rights of Orthodox Communities and Eparchies

Category:1934 births
Category:2014 deaths
Category:Disease-related deaths in Russia
Category:People from Moscow
Category:Christian ministers
Category:Russian politicians

Gleb Yakunin


Panna Rittikrai () (born Krittiya Lardphanna ; 17 February 1961 – 20 July 2014) was a Thai martial arts action choreographer, comedian, movie director, screenwriter and actor. He was the leader of the Muay Thai Stunt team (formerly P. P .N. Stunt Team). His best known movies were The Bodyguard (2004), Born to Fight (2004), Ong Bak 2 (2008), Ong Bak 3 (2010) and Bangkok Knockout (2010).

Rittikrai was born in Khon Kaen. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly before his death.

Rittikrai died from kidney and liver failure on 20 July 2014 in Bangkok. He was 53.

References

Other websites

Category:1961 births
Category:2014 deaths
Category:Choreographers
Category:Comedians
Category:Deaths from liver failure
Category:Deaths from renal failure

Category:Movie actors
Category:Movie directors
Category:Screenwriters
Category:Stuntmen
Panna Rittikrai

Panna Rittikrai


Bayannurosaurus is a non-hadrosauriform ankylopollexian ornithopod discovered in 2018 by Xu et al from the Early Cretaceous found in China. It had a skull length of 80 cm, making it a mid-sized iguanodont.

References

Category:Ornithischia
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2018

Bayannurosaurus


Beverly Kills 50187 is the first EP by American Horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on July 16, 1993. The producers of the EP were Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse, Esham and Chris Conley. The EP featured the only appearance of member Greez-E, who appears on the songs "In the Haughhh!" and "17 Dead". The EP's name is a parody of Beverly Hills 90210.

Track listing

Category:1993 albums
Category:Insane Clown Posse EPs

Beverly Kills 50187


Catherine Bach (born March 1 1954) is an American actress. She acted as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. She also played Linda in Murder in Peyton Place.

She was born in Warren, Ohio.

References

Category:American television actors
Category:American movie actors
Category:Actors from Ohio
Category:1954 births
Category:Living people

Catherine Bach


Ambattur is a neighbourhood place of Northern Chennai. It is located in the Ambattur taluk of the Chennai Corporation, Tamil Nadu. It was added in the part of the Chennai Corporation in the year 2011.

It is one of the fast growing residential area in the Chennai Corporation. The area of the place is 45 km2.The neighbourhood is served by the Ambattur Railway Station.

In the time of 1960s Ambattur was a village with large extends of agricultural lands. The Ambattur Lake supported the irrigational purpose.The growth of the village heightened when the Ambattur industrial estate was established in the year 1964.

It was said that the place has got its name of Ambattur from the Tamil words (ஐம்பத்து ஊர்) becvause this place was the colloboration of 50 places.

The population of this area in 2011 is 466,205 with a sex ratio of 985 per 1000 males and literacy rate of 82%.

References

Category:Settlements in Tamil Nadu

Ambattur


Stanley Park is a park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The park opened on September 27, 1888. It was named after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the Governor General of Canada at the time. It is the third largest urban park in North America. The park covers . It attracts about 8 million visitors every year. Stanley Park is larger than New York City's Central Park. In Stanley Park there is a large aquarium, a protected forest, the lost lagoon, totems and other attractions.

Related pages
 List of botanical gardens

References

Other websites

 Stanley Park, Vancouver Tour; YouTube
 Stanley Park Ecology Society

Category:1888 establishments in Canada
Category:Vancouver
Category:Botanical gardens
Category:Zoos
Category:Aquariums

Stanley Park


Bootle is a village and civil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 745 people living in Bootle.

References

Category:Copeland
Category:Villages in Cumbria
Category:Civil parishes in Cumbria

Bootle


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

Category:Communes in Pas-de-Calais

Tramecourt


Inkscape is a vector graphics (pictures made from lines instead of dots) drawing program published under the GNU General Public License. Its stated goal is to become a really good drawing tool while being able to fit in with standards for SVG graphics.
Inkscape was first made for Linux, but now it is cross-platform and runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like operating systems. As of 2007, Inkscape is actively being made better, and new features are added all the time.

History
Inkscape began in 2003 as a fork (break-off) of the Sodipodi project. Sodipodi, developed since 1999, was itself based on Raph Levien's Gill (Gnome Illustration Application).

Bibliography

Category:Free software
Category:Graphics software

Inkscape


Webb County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 250,304 people lived there. The county seat is Laredo.

Category:Texas counties

Webb County, Texas


State Electoral District means an electorate in the Lower House or Legislative Assembly of Australian states and territories. Most state electoral districts (except Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania, which have multi-member electorates using a proportional voting method) send a single member to a state or territory's parliament using the preferential method of voting. The size of a state electoral district depends on the Electoral Acts in the state and vary in size between them. At present, there are 407 state electoral districts in Australia.

State electoral districts do not apply to the Upper House, or Legislative Council, in the states which have one (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia). In New South Wales and South Australia, MLCs represent the entire state, in Tasmania they represent single-member districts, and in Victoria and Western Australia they represent a region formed by grouping electoral districts together.

By State/Territory

Australian Capital Territory
There are three electorates for the Legislative Assembly, two with five members each, and one with seven members, making up seventeen members in total.

New South Wales

There are currently 93 electoral districts in New South Wales.

Northern Territory

There are 25 single-member electoral divisions in the Northern Territory, and 13 former divisions.

Queensland

There are 89 electoral districts in Queensland, for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

South Australia
There are 47 single-member electoral districts in South Australia, for the South Australian House of Assembly.

Tasmania

There are 5 electoral divisions in Tasmania.

Victoria

There are 88 electoral districts in Victoria, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Western Australia

There are 59 single-member electoral districts in Western Australia for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. 42 are in the Perth metropolitan area and 17 are in the rest of the state.
Category:Government of Australia

State Electoral District


North Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, United Kingdom. It was created on 1 April 1974. About 105,000 people live there. Its council is based in Cromer.

Category:North Norfolk
Category:1974 establishments in England

North Norfolk


Spartaco Landini (born 31 January, 1944) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Italy national team.

Club career statistics

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|1963-64||rowspan="7"|Internazionale Milano||rowspan="7"|Serie A||2||0
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|1964-65||2||0
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|1965-66||11||0
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|1966-67||14||0
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|1967-68||24||0
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|1968-69||12||0
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|1969-70||29||1
|-
|1970-71||rowspan="3"|Palermo||rowspan="2"|Serie B||29||0
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|1971-72||38||0
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|1972-73||Serie A||30||0
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|1973-74||rowspan="3"|Napoli||rowspan="3"|Serie A||10||0
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|1974-75||8||0
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|1975-76||8||0
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|1976-77||rowspan="2"|Sangiovannese||||35||0
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|1977-78||||34||0
286||1
286||1
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International career statistics

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|1966||4||0
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!Total||4||0
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References

Category:1944 births
Category:Living people
Category:Italian footballers

Spartaco Landini


Adria Airways was the national airline of Slovenia. It began on 14 March 1961 and ended on 30 September 2019. In 1969, it bought its first jet aircraft, the Douglas DC-9. In December 1981, an Adria airplane crashed in Corsica. The crash killed 180 people.  Adria bought its first Airbus A320 in 1989. As of June 2015, Adria has 12 airplanes.

References

Category:Slovenia
Category:1961 establishments in Europe
Category:20th-century establishments in Slovenia
Category:2010s disestablishments in Europe
Category:2019 disestablishments
Category:Airlines of Europe
Category:Defunct companies

Adria Airways


Bernard Charles "Barry" Sherman (1942 – December 15, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Toronto. He was the chairman and CEO of Apotex Inc. With an estimated net worth of US$3.2 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes, Sherman was the 12th-wealthiest Canadian. Another publication, Canadian Business, said his fortune at $4.77 billion (CAD), ranking him the 15th richest in Canada.

On December 15, 2017, police officers entered Sherman's home in North York, Toronto, where they discovered the bodies of Sherman and his wife hanging side by side next to their indoor pool. Sherman was 75 years old.  Post-mortem examinations showed the cause of death for both deceased was "ligature neck compression".

In response, the couple's four children said their deaths may be murder-suicide theory.

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

Saint-Esteben

Saint-Esteben


Sarah Roemer (born August 28, 1984) is an American model and actress. She acts mostly in independent movies. She played Lacey Kimble in The Grudge 2, a 2006 movie. She played  Ashley Carlson the following year in Disturbia. She also acted as Leila Buchanan in the NBC series The Event. Roemer was born in San Diego, California.

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A plutoid or ice dwarf is a dwarf planet that orbits the sun farther than Neptune. Four objects are now classified as plutoids:

Pluto
Haumea
Makemake
Eris

Others might be included in the same class someday:
Sedna
Quaoar
2007 OR10

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Erding is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany.

Towns and municipalities

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The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI; ) is a group for businesspeople in Bangladesh.

History
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry was established in 1973 under the Trade Organisation Ordinance and Companies Act, 1913.

References

Other websites
 Official website of FBCCI

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Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industries


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

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Chéroy


Najaf (Arabic:النجف; Transliterated: An Najaf; Persian:نجف) is a city in Iraq. It is about 160 km south of Baghdad. In 2008, about  900.583 people lived there. The city is the capital of Najaf province. It is one of the seven holy cities of Shia Islām. It is the center of Shia political power in Iraq.

The city is home to the Imam Ali Mosque, where Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the fourth caliph is buried. Shia Muslims consider the mosque to be the third holiest Islamic site.

Hārūn ar-Rashīd founded the city  on the site of Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib's grave in the 8th century.

Najaf was badly damaged during the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War. In 1991, there was a Shiite uprising in Najaf, which was suppressed by Saddam Hussein. This conflict caused many deaths, there are mass graves around the city. In 2003, a suicide bombing caused widespread damage. 120 people died, including the moderate imam Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim.

In April 2004, forces of Muqtada as-Sadr captured the city, as well as the city of Kut. Before the 2004 elections, a part of the occupying forces left the city.

Mosque and seminary
This mosque is the most important Shi'a mosque in Iraq. The city is now a great center of pilgrimage from throughout the Shi'a Islamic world. It is estimated that only Mecca and Medina receive more Muslim pilgrims. Shia Islam's second most important figure is buried in Najaf. the Imam Ali Mosque is considered by Shias as the third holiest Islamic site.

The Imam Ali Mosque is housed in a grand structure with a gold gilded dome and many precious objects in the walls. Nearby is the Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery, reputed to be the largest in the world. It contains the tombs of several prophets and many of the devout from around the world aspire to be buried there, to be raised from the dead with Imām Alī on Judgement Day. Over the centuries, numerous hospices, schools, libraries and Sufi convents were built around the shrine to make the city the centre of Shīʻa learning and theology.

The Najaf seminary is one of the most important teaching centres in the Islamic world. Ayatollah Khomeini lectured there from 1964 to1978.
Many of the leading figures of the new Islamic movement that emerged in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon in the 1970s studied at Najaf.

Climate

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John F. MacArthur, Jr. (born June 14, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a United States Reformed evangelical Bible teacher, writer and pastor. He is known for his radio program called Grace to You. He is the editor of the MacArthur Study Bible, which won a Gold Medallion Book Award for Bibles.

MacArthur earned academic degrees from Talbot Theological Seminary. He is now the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church, a megachurch in southern California, and the president of The Master's College and The Master's Seminary. He has written many books and has been a guest on Larry King's television talk show many times as a representative of conservative evangelical Christianity. His opinions about lordship salvation, church growth methods, and the use of psychology are controversial in Christian circles.

References

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Grace to You daily radio broadcast on OnePlace.com
Grace to You Podcast Archive

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The United States presidential election, 2008 is a political event which took place on November 4, 2008. During that day the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States were selected. Barack Obama from the Democratic Party defeated John McCain to win the presidency, and is the first African-American president. He was sworn in as President on January 20, 2009. In a United States presidential election, a person must get a majority (270) electoral votes to win.

FIRSTS
This section was created by the Adams-Clay US Political and Civic Association.

This was the first presidential election [in the United States] where:

 An African-American was nominated by a major political party
 An African-American was elected president
 A female was on the Republican national ticket (and only the second time a woman was on, a national ticket)
 A Roman Catholic (Joe Biden) was nominated for vice-president by a national tickey
 A Roman Catholic was elected president

Further, this is the most chronologically differienting election: Obama, born in 1961, was 25 years younger than McCain (born in 1936).

Democratic Primaries
The candidates running for the nomination of the Democratic Party were Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Chris Dodd, and Bill Richardson.

The main contest during the Democratic primaries was between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which was a very close race.  Clinton won the popular vote, but ultimately Obama won more unpledged delegates and therefore the nomination.

All candidates except Mike Gravel, who switched to the Libertarian Party during the election, supported Barack Obama.

Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as the vice-presidential candidate on August 23, 2008.

Nominees

Withdrawn candidates
 Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York (withdrew on June 7, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama)
 John Edwards, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina (withdrew on January 30, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama)
 Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico (withdrew on January 10, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama)
 Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative from Ohio (withdrew on January 24, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama)
 Joe Biden, U.S. Senator from Delaware (withdrew on January 3, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama)
 Mike Gravel, former U.S. Senator from Alaska (withdrew on March 25, 2008 to run for the Libertarian Party nomination. After losing the nomination, he endorsed Jesse Johnson)
 Christopher Dodd, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (withdrew on January 3, 2008 and endorsed Barack Obama)
 Evan Bayh, U.S. Senator from Indiana (withdrew on December 15, 2006 and endorsed Hillary Clinton. He later endorsed Barack Obama)
 Tom Vilsack, former Governor of Iowa (withdrew on February 23, 2007 and endorsed Hillary Clinton. He later endorsed Barack Obama)

Republican Primaries
The candidates running for the nomination of the Republican Party were John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani,  Fred Thompson, Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes, Jim Gilmore, Sam Brownback, and Duncan Hunter.

Republican President George W. Bush was unable to run for re-election since a president is only able to be elected twice. Vice president Dick Cheney chose not to run.

Most of the candidates withdrew early.  As a result, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romney emerged as the three people most likely to win the nomination. Ron Paul became popular among libertarians.

John McCain was nominated by the Republican Party (by a decisive victory).

He chose Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential candidate.

Nominees

Withdrawn candidates
 Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts (withdrew on February 7, 2008 and endorsed John McCain)
 Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas (withdrew on March 4, 2008 and endorsed John McCain)
 Ron Paul, U.S. Representative from Texas (withdrew on June 12, 2008 and endorsed Chuck Baldwin)
 Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City (withdrew on January 30, 2008 and endorsed John McCain)
 Fred Thompson, former U.S. Senator from Tennessee (withdrew on January 22, 2008 and endorsed John McCain)
 Alan Keyes, former U.S. ECOSOC Ambassador from Maryland (withdrew on April 15, 2008 to run for the Constitution Party nomination. After losing that nomination, he ran as the America's Independent Party nominee.)
 Duncan Hunter, U.S. Representative from California (withdrew on January 19, 2008 and endorsed Mike Huckabee. He later endorsed John McCain)
 Tom Tancredo, U.S. Representative from Colorado (withdrew on December 20, 2007 and endorsed Mitt Romney. He later endorsed John McCain)
 Sam Brownback, U.S. Senator from Kansas (withdrew on October 18, 2007 and endorsed John McCain)
 Tommy Thompson, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (withdrew on August 12, 2007 and endorsed Rudy Giuliani. He later endorsed John McCain)
 Jim Gilmore, former Governor of Virginia (withdrew on July 14, 2007 and endorsed John McCain)

The Campaign

The biggest issue during the campaign was the bad economy.  Other issues included health care, the Iraq War, the war on terrorism, and energy independence.

The president during the election, George W. Bush (who eventually supported John McCain), was very unpopular due to the 2007-09 "great recession", and because of that, the Obama campaign compared McCain to Bush several times.

There were four television debates during the campaign: three of them were between the two presidential candidates, and one of them was between the two vice-presidential candidates.

Results

*NE-02 is Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District.

Results by state

**Nebraska cast 4 ECVs for McCain and 1 for Obama.

Related pages
 Joe the Plumber, political activist and stereotype

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Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American hood movie that was produced by Steven Nicolaides and DJ Pooh and was directed by John Singleton. Boyz n the Hood was released on July 12, 1991 in North America. The movie received positive reviews with a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 73 out of 100 from Metacritic. The movie was selected to be in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress to be preserved because it was considered to be "culturally significant" in 2002. This movie was the directorial debut for John Singleton.

Cast
 Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Desi Arnez Hines II, young) as Tré Styles
 Ice Cube (Baha Jackson, young) as Darrin "Doughboy" Baker
 Morris Chestnut (Donovan McCrary, young) as Ricky Baker
 Laurence Fishburne as Jason "Furious" Styles
 Nia Long as Brandi
 Tyra Ferrell as Brenda Baker
 Angela Bassett as Reva Devereaux-Styles
 Redge Green (Kenneth A. Brown, young) as Chris
 Dedrick D. Gobert as Dookie
 Baldwin C. Sykes as Monster
 Tracey Lewis-Sinclair as Shaniqua
 Alysia Rogers as Shanice
 Regina King as Shalika
 Lexie Bigham as Mad Dog
 Raymond Turner as Ferris

Other websites
Boyz n the Hood at the Internet Movie Database

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Marvel Comics (founded in 1939 as Marvel Worldwide Inc., then Marvel Publishing, Inc. and later Marvel Comics Group) is an American comic book company that makes "superhero" comic books. Its top rival is DC Comics. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel for US$4 billion. Their comic book characters were created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others.

Fictional characters

Superheroes
The comic book company is famously known for creating some of the most iconic and well-known characters such as:

 Spider-Man
 Namor the Sub-Mariner
 Captain America
 Deadpool
 Hércules
 The Incredible Hulk
Hawkeye
Falcon
 Ms. Marvel
Scarlet Witch
 Wolverine
 She-Hulk
 Thor
 Ant-Man
 Iron Man
War Machine
Ghost Rider
 Black Panther
Black Widow
Captain Marvel
 Doctor Strange
 Howard the Duck
 Jessica Jones
 Nick Fury
 Silver Surfer
 The Punisher
 Blade
 Daredevil
 Elektra
 Vision

Superhero teams
Most of the characters take place in the fictional Marvel Universe with locations that either mirror real-life cities or are fictional places. Some of their most well-known superhero teams are:

 The Avengers
 The Fantastic Four
 The Inhumans
 The Defenders
 The Runaways
 Guardians of the Galaxy
 S.H.I.E.L.D.
 X-Men

Supervillains
The company is also famous for creating some of the most famous villains such as:

 Doctor Doom
 Doctor Octopus
 Venom
 Sandman
 Lizard
 Electro
 Galactus
 Thanos
Rhino
Mysterio
Mephisto
Blackheart
Blackout
 Kang the Conqueror
 Mystique
 Apocalypse
 Ultron
 Red Hulk
 Kraven the Hunter
 Green Goblin
 Red Skull
 Magneto
 Loki

Supervillain teams
It is also known for some of the most iconic supervillain teams are:

 The Dark Avengers
 The Frightful Four
 Masters of Evil
 Sinister Six
 H.A.M.M.E.R.
 The Dark X-Men
 Thunderbolts
 Black Order

Origins

Marvel used to be a company called Timely Comics in the 1940s and then Atlas Comics in the 1950s. The first comic published with the name "Marvel Comics" was The Fantastic Four #1 in November, 1961. The precursor to Marvel Comics was founded in 1939 by pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman. In order to capitalize on the growing popularity of comic books—especially those starring superheroes—Goodman created Timely Comics. Timely’s first comic book was Marvel Comics no. 1 (cover dated October 1939), which featured several superhero characters, most notably the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. Timely Comics introduced many superhero characters during comics’ “Golden Age” in the 1940s, most importantly Captain America, who first appeared in Captain America Comics no. 1 (March 1941). Timely characters were often portrayed as fighting against the Nazis and the Japanese even before the United States entered World War II. As the 1940s came to a close, superheroes fell out of vogue with comic book readers, and Timely canceled the last of its books in this genre in 1950. In 1951 Goodman formed his own distribution company, and Timely Comics became Atlas Magazines. Though there was a brief experiment in bringing back superheroes such as Captain America in 1953, Atlas’s output was mostly in other genres such as humour, westerns, horror, war, and science fiction.

In 1956 rival company DC Comics ushered in the so-called Silver Age of comics by reintroducing superhero titles with significant commercial success. In the early 1960s Atlas changed its name to Marvel Comics. For several decades Marvel and DC were the top companies in the industry. Throughout the 1980s and ’90s Marvel changed hands numerous times, becoming a publicly held company in 1991. Questionable management decisions and a general slump in sales in the comic book industry drove Marvel Comics into bankruptcy in 1996. The company emerged from bankruptcy in 1998 and began to diversify its output, launching imprints aimed at a variety of demographics and expanding its cinematic offerings under the Marvel Studios banner. In 2007 Marvel began publishing digital comics. In 2009 the Walt Disney Company purchased the parent company of Marvel Comics.

The Marvel Universe
The shared storytelling palette known as the Marvel universe was unveiled in 1961, when Goodman responded to the growing interest in superhero books by commissioning writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby to create the Fantastic Four. With the release of Fantastic Four no. 1 (November 1961), readers were introduced to a superheroic setting that was, nevertheless, rooted in the real world. Lee and Kirby attempted to make their comic book characters more original by allowing them to interact with each other in a realistic fashion, including heroes often fighting or arguing with each other. This trend continued with a flood of other superhero characters introduced by Marvel Comics during the early 1960s, including Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men. Lee wrote the majority of Marvel’s books during that time, and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko were the most important and influential artists.

This more realistic approach to characterizations built up Marvel’s reputation and began to attract university-age readers. Stories also began to deal with social issues such as pollution, race relations, and drug abuse. A Spider-Man story arc from 1971 dealing with drug abuse had to be published without the approval of the Comic Code Authority—the self-regulatory body that had policed comic content since 1954—despite the fact that it was portraying drug use in a negative light. This caused the Comic Code Authority to revise its policy in such matters.

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a new generation of creative talent emerge at Marvel. In 1967 Jim Steranko began to write and draw stories featuring secret agent Nick Fury in the anthology book Strange Tales. Steranko was influenced in his work by James Bond films and the psychedelic and Op art movements, and the resulting stories melded groundbreaking visuals with equally innovative storytelling techniques. Writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne began a long collaboration on The Uncanny X-Men in 1975. The pair revitalized the flagging series with characters such as Wolverine and complex story arcs that soon made the X-Men franchise one of Marvel’s best sellers.

In 1985 Mark Gruenwald started a critically acclaimed 10-year run as the writer of Captain America. That same year he also began the miniseries Squadron Supreme (1985–86), a deconstructionist take on superheroes that preceded Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen, published by DC Comics. The 1980s also saw Frank Miller’s stint on Daredevil, which took that book in a darker and grittier direction, reviving sagging sales and making it one of Marvel’s best sellers. In 1988 Todd MacFarlane began a popular run as artist on The Amazing Spider-Man. Four years later MacFarlane and a number of other popular artists, including Jim Lee, Erik Larsen, and Rob Liefeld, left Marvel to found rival Image Comics, a company that allowed creators to retain the copyrights of their characters.

During the 1990s and early 2000s a new wave of writers, including Brian Michael Bendis (Daredevil, The Avengers), Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic Four), and Ed Brubaker (Captain America), became well known for their mature and sometimes controversial takes on Marvel’s characters. The 2010s saw the emergence of another new wave of talent, with writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja turning in a visually arresting run on Hawkeye, longtime Spider-Man writer Dan Slott teaming with artist Mike Allred for a bold take on a classic character in Silver Surfer, and writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona breaking new ground with their critically acclaimed Ms. Marvel.

In the 21st century Marvel’s profits were increasingly derived from toys, video games, and other merchandise featuring their most popular characters and from the production of a string of commercially successful movies. Those films differed from prior efforts to translate comics to the big screen in that they were set in a single shared world. That ambitious plan generated huge dividends with The Avengers (2012), a film that featured Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America—three heroes that had scored individual blockbuster successes—and grossed more than $1.5 billion worldwide. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it came to be known, grew into one of the most lucrative franchises in film history. Its success spawned a wave of television programs, beginning with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013– ) on ABC and continuing with Daredevil (2015–18), Jessica Jones (2015– ), and Luke Cage (2016–18), a string of critically lauded series that appeared on Netflix. In 2015 an agreement between Disney and Sony brought Spider-Man (who had previously appeared only in Sony-produced films) into the shared universe; the character would subsequently be available for use by both studios. Marvel Studios, the company’s film and television division, continued to set records with its flagship Avengers, but it also packed theatres with relatively unknown heroes such as the Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), and Doctor Strange (2016). By 2016 more than a dozen films had been released under the banner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the franchise’s cumulative global box office receipts had topped $10 billion.

Adaptations
Marvel has also made movies, toys, video games, cartoons, and other merchandise about the characters, which have made them even more popular.

Offices
Located in New York City, Marvel has had successive headquarters:
 In the McGraw-Hill Building, where it originated as Timely Comics in 1939.
 In suite 1401 of the Empire State Building.
 At 635 Madison Avenue (the actual location, though the comic books' indicia listed the parent publishing-company's address of 625 Madison Ave.)
 575 Madison Avenue.
 387 Park Avenue South.
 10 East 40th Street.
 417 Fifth Avenue.
 A 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) space at 135 W. 50th Street.

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An eclipse is an astronomical event.  It is when one object in the sky moves into the shadow of another such object.  When an eclipse happens within a system of stars, like the Solar System, it makes a type of syzygy. This means that three or more objects in the sky are lined up in a straight line in the same gravitational system.

The term eclipse is most often used to describe a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the shadow of Earth. No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes and 58 seconds because of the speed at which the Earth and Moon move.

When the Sun is not involved, the event is called occultation.

Etymology
The word comes from the ancient Greek noun  (), which is from the verb  (). This means "to cease (stop) to exist (be there)".

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Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He received three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.  He was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 1977.

Biography
Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin to parent's John Lewis and Margaret (Wiseman) Simak. He married Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13, 1929.  They had two children, Scott and Shelley. Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  He later worked at various newspapers in the Midwest. He began to work with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune (in Minneapolis, Minnesota).  This went from 1939 to his retirement in 1976.

Writing career
Simak became interested in science fiction after reading the works of H. G. Wells as a child. He started writing for science fiction pulp magazines in 1931. The only science-fiction piece that he published between 1933 and 1937 was The Creator (Marvel Tales #4, March–April 1935).

In late 1937, Simak returned to science fiction.  He was a regular contributor to Astounding Stories during the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938–1950). His first publications, such as Cosmic Engineers (1939), were in the style of the earlier superscience type. He soon made his own style, which is usually described as gentle and pastoral. During this period, Simak also published a number of war and western stories in pulp magazines. His best known novel may be City, a collection of short stories with a common theme of mankind's eventual leaving from Earth.

Simak continued to write award-nominated novels during the 1950s and 1960s. Helped by a friend, he continued writing and publishing science fiction and, later, fantasy, into his 80s.

Awards
 International Fantasy Award for best fiction book (1953) for City
 Hugo award for best novelette (1959) for The Big Front Yard
 Hugo award for best novel (1964) for Way Station
 Minnesota Academy of Science Award for distinguished service to science 1967
 First Fandom Hall of Fame award 1973
 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award 1976
 Jupiter Award for best novel (1978) for A Heritage of Stars
 Hugo award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
 Nebula award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
 Locus Award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
 Analog Analytical Laboratory award for best short story (1981) for Grotto of the Dancing Deer
 Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement award 1988

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Moderato Wisintainer (born 14 July, 1902) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (also known as Godzilla II: King of the Monsters in some markets) is an American monster movie. It was directed and co-written by Michael Dougherty. It is a sequel to Godzilla (2014). It is the 35th movie in the Godzilla franchise. It stars Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ken Watanabe, and Zhang Ziyi.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters was released in the United States on May 31, 2019, in 2D, 3D, Dolby Cinema and IMAX.

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Armand de Las Cuevas (26 June 1968 – 2 August 2018) was a French racing cyclist. He was born in Troyes, France. He won races such as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Clásica de San Sebastián. He was thought to have been one of the best time-trialists of the early 1990s, having won many prologues and individual time trials.

De Las Cuevas retired to Réunion in 1999, where he founded a cycling school. He killed himself in Réunion on 2 August 2018, aged 50.

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Chavannes-le-Veyron is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Bjärred is a coastal locality in Lomma Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden, located circa 20 kilometers north of Malmö and 10 kilometers west of Lund. In 2010, 9,542 people lived there.

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Sinjoro is a taluka (an administrative subdivision) of Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan. It is nearer to Sanghar than other tehsils. The people are mainly are Sindhi.

Most of the people are involved in agriculture and livestock. The Sindhi people are mostly involved in cultivation.

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Monteignet-sur-l'Andelot is a commune. It is found in the Allier department in the center of France.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a 2006 American horror movie and a prequel to the 2003 movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The sixth installment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. It was directed by Jonathan Liebesman and co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper (co-creators of the original 1974 movie).

The movie was released in North America on October 6, 2006. It stars Jordana Brewster, Diora Baird, Taylor Handley, Matt Bomer and R. Lee Ermey.

The movie grossed $51.8 million on a budget of $16 million.

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Gloucester Rugby are a rugby union club based in Gloucester, England who play in the Aviva Premiership. They are known as the 'Cherry and Whites' in reference to their traditional red and white hooped shirts.

Gloucester's fiercest rivals are Bath, Bristol and Worcester with matches between the three being referred to as west country derbies.

League position

Former position

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