Steven O. Farmer (December 31, 1948 – April 7, 2020) was an American guitarist, composer and singer-songwriter. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. Farmer was best known for his works with Ted Nugent in 1968. His best known song was "Journey to the Center of the Mind". He also worked with The Amboy Dukes.

Farmer died on April 7, 2020 in Redford, Michigan, aged 71.

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Pre-algebra is a branch of mathematics which is studied typically (in American education) near 7th-9th grade. It is studied to prepare students for algebra. Algebra is used to allow students to understand usage of variables and enhance their ability of understanding, reading and creating graphs.

Szczepanski, Amy F. & Kositsky, Andrew P. 2008. The complete idiot's guide to pre-algebra. Penguin.

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The Memorial Park Complex of the Heroes of the First World War is a Cemetery in Moscow, Russia. The cemetery opened in 1915 but was demolished during the Soviet period in 1932. In 2004 the new memorial park was built on the land of the former cemetery.

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Panorama view

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Emerson Fittipaldi (born December 12, 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a highly successful Brazilian automobile racing driver. He has won championships in both Formula One, and CART. Fittipaldi won the Indianapolis 500 twice.

Early life
Emerson Fittipaldi was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the younger son of prominent Italian-Brazilian motorsports journalist and radio commentator Wilson Fittipaldi Sr and his wife Józefa "Juzy" Wojciechowska, an immigrant from Saint Petersburg, Russia and of Polish and Russian descent.

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Chaumesnil is a commune of the Aube département in the north-central part of France.

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Chaumesnil


Luis Clemente Posada Carriles (February 15, 1928 – May 23, 2018) was a Cuban exile militant and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent. He was thought to be a terrorist by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Government of Cuba, among others.

He died on May 23, 2018 in Miami, Florida, aged 90 of throat cancer.

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 Luis Posada Carriles photo and article archive by the Latin American Studies Organization
 A Bombers Tale: Key Cuba Foe Claims Exiles' Backing by Ann Louise Bardach, The New York Times, July 12, 1998
Our Man's in Miami: Patriot or Terrorist? by Ann Louise Bardach, The Washington Post, April 17, 2005
 Cuban Exile Could Test U.S. Definition of Terrorist by Tim Weiner, The New York Times, May 9, 2005
Why Luis Posada Carriles, an Admitted Cuban Exile Terrorist, Should Face Justice in Venezuela by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
 Why the U.S. Refuses to Prosecute Luis Posada Carriles for Cubana Airlines Flight 455 – video report by Democracy Now!

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Accept is a heavy metal band from Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was formed in 1968 by Udo Dirkschneider. The band played an important role in the development of speed metal.

Band members

Current members
 Wolf Hoffmann – guitars, backing vocals
 Peter Baltes – bass, backing vocals
 Mark Tornillo – lead vocals
 Uwe Lulis – guitars
 Christopher Williams – drums

Former members
 Udo Dirkschneider – lead vocals
 Frank Friedrich – drums
 Dieter Rubach - bass
 Gerhard Wahl – guitars
 Jörg Fischer – guitars
 Stefan Kaufmann – drums
 Herman Frank – guitars
 David Reece – lead vocals
 Stefan Schwarzmann – drums
 Michael Cartellone  – drums

Live members
 Ken Mary – drums
 Jim Stacey – guitars
 Rob Armitage – lead vocals
 Michael White – lead vocals

Discography
Studio Albums
Accept (1979)
I'm a Rebel (1980)
Breaker (1981)
Restless and Wild (1982)
Balls to the Wall (1983)
Metal Heart (1985)
Russian Roulette (1986)
Eat the Heat (1989)
Objection Overruled (1993)
Death Row (1994)
Predator (1996)
Blood of the Nations (2010)
Stalingrad (2012)

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Accept (band)


Erico Spinadel (6 May 1929 – 25 February 2020) was an Austrian-Argentine industrial engineer. His works were about Wind Power. He got his PhD at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004.

Spinadel joined the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) in 1956 and in January 1959. He was the first operator to drive a nuclear reactor (the RA 1) to critical conditions.

Between 1994 and 2001, he was Consulting Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Engineering.  From 1986 to 1994 he was Director of the Electricity Department of the School of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires FIUBA.  From 1994 he was Consulting Emeritus Professor at the  National University of Lujan.
In 1994, he was President of the Argentine Wind Energy Association (AAEE).

From 2008 he was Regional Director on the Latin American Wind Energy Association (LAWEA). and Member of the Board of the World Wind Energy Association.

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Sextans is a constellation in the southern sky.

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Sextans


The Kingdom of Romania (or 'Romania' after 1969) was a constitutional monarchy which existed between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the First (in 1866), and respectively, the Second Constitution of Roumania. Thus, the Kingdom of Romania began with the reign of King Carol I of Romania.

From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two vassal principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) to a full-fledged independent kingdom. During 1918-20, at the end of World War I, Transylvania, Eastern Moldavia (Bessarabia), and Bukovina were united with the Kingdom of Romania. In 1940, Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, Northern Transylvania and Southern Dobruja were ceded to the Soviet Union, Hungary and Bulgaria. In 1947 the last king was compelled to abdicate from throne. Socialist republic ruled by the Romanian Communist Party replaced the monarchy.

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Albert Cornelius Freeman, Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American actor and director.

Career
Freeman has made appearances in many movies, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order,  Homicide: Life on the Street, Hot L. Baltimore, and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1987, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000.  He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role in 1979, the first actor from the show as well as the first African American actor to earn the award. He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first African Americans to direct a soap opera.

After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea.  His role as Elijah Muhammad in the movie based on Malcolm X Malcolm X earned him the 1995 NAACP Image Award for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture|Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Coincidently, he had previously played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations.

Later career
Freeman taught acting at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. Freeman, Jr. is not related to actor Morgan Freeman. He died on August 9, 2012 in Washington, D.C., he was 78 years old. A memorial service was held on September 10, 2012.

Some of his moviesDutchman (1967)Finian's Rainbow (1968)My Sweet Charlie (1970)Malcolm X (1992)Down in the Delta'' (1998)

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Pleşoi is a commune found in Dolj County, Romania.  It has 3,800 people. There are four villages: Cârstovani, Frasin, Milovan and Pleşoi.

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Magny-en-Bessin is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.

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Mercer County is a county of Ohio in the United States. In 2010, 40,814 people lived there. The county seat is Celina. It was named after Hugh Mercer.

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Heat Pre-Show: Lance Storm and Chief Morley (champions) defeated Kane and Rob Van Dam
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Retail is selling goods or items to the people who will use them. This is different from wholesale, which is selling to a retailer.

According to  Oxford Dictionary, Retail is the sale of goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale.

Retailers buy finished goods or items directly from a manufacturer or a wholesaler and then distribute in smaller quantities to the final consumer who has a need for such items.

For instance, when we buy shoes to wear or food to eat, we buy from a retailer.

Retailing can be done at shops and stores. This includes department stores, malls and markets where stalls or stands are set up at a cleared area.

Another way of purchasing retail items is by ordering them by mail, telephone, Internet or other methods, to be delivered by post or package delivery service such as United Parcel Service. Some items are sold door-to-door, in which a sales person goes to a possible customers home and tries to sell an item.

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Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison/thriller/action movie. It was directed by Don Siegel. It stars Clint Eastwood, Larry Hankin, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Roberts Blossom, and Danny Glover. It was released to positive reviews on June 22, 1979.

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Scott Niedermayer (born August 31, 1973) is a Canadian retired ice hockey defenceman and current assistant coach of the Anaheim Ducks. He played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played with the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Ducks.

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Niedermayer played 2 seasons with the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL. He was drafted with the 3rd overall pick by the New Jersey Devils in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. He played 12 seasons with the New Jersey Devils and 5 seasons with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim/Anaheim Ducks. During his time in New Jersey, he reached the Stanley Cup Finals four times and won three Stanley Cups with the team. He was also able to win the James Norris Memorial Trophy in the 2003–04 NHL season after he finished second in league scoring among defencemen, recorded a plus-minus rating of +20 and lead the Devils to a modern NHL record low 164 goals against.

Niedermayer was an unrestricted free agent after the 2004–05 NHL lockout. The Devils offered him a five-year contract worth $7.8 million per season (the maximum allowed under the new salary cap), but he decided to sign a four-year contract worth $6.75 million per season with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He signed with the Mighty Ducks because he wanted to try to win a Stanley cup with his brother Rob. Scott was named captain of the Ducks when he arrived in Anaheim.

When the Ducks won the Stanley Cup in 2007, Scott, as team captain, had the choice of who to hand the Stanley Cup to first. He chose to hand the Cup off to his brother Rob first. He later stated: "You don't really dream of passing it to your brother. I never have. To be able to do that is definitely a highlight of my career." He was also able to win the Conn Smythe Trophy.

He retired from playing professional ice hockey on June 22, 2010. After he retired he stayed with the Ducks as a consultant to general manager Bob Murray. He took the role of assistant coach with the Ducks in the 2012–13 NHL season. Niedermayer is the only player in hockey history to win every major North American and world title a Canadian can win: the Memorial Cup, World Junior championship, Stanley Cup, World Championship, World Cup and Olympic gold medal. His jersey number #27 was retired by the New Jersey Devils in 2011 and the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL retired his jersey number #28 which he wore while playing with them. He was inducted into both the BC Hockey Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on November 11, 2013.

He has also competed in the Olympics with Canada. His first Olympics were in 2002 where he helped Canada defeat the United States, 5–2 in the final as the country won its first Olympic gold medal in hockey in 50 years. His last Olympics were in 2010. He was named captain of Team Canada for the tournament that was held in his home province, in Vancouver. He was able to lead Canada to the gold medal, after they defeated the United States 3–2 in overtime.

Personal life
He was born in Edmonton, Alberta but lived in Cassiar, British Columbia for three years before settling in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He has a father named Bob, who worked as a doctor in Cassiar as well as Cranbrook, and has a mother named Carol who worked as a teacher. His younger brother Rob was also an NHL player.

He is married to his wife Lisa and they have four sons: Logan, Jackson, Joshua and Luke. The family live in Newport Beach, California and often return to Cranbrook, where they spent the off-seasons when he was playing. Niedermayer is an environmentalist and joined WWF-Canada to speak out in favour of efforts to maintain British Columbia's natural wilderness.

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Quantico is an American drama-thriller television series It was created and produced by Joshua Safran and Mark Gordon. The program premiered on ABC on Sunday September 27, 2015 at 10:00 pm EDT. It concerns a group of young Federal Bureau of Investigation recruits, who are training at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

The series stars Aunjanue Ellis as Miranda Shaw, the Assistant Director of the FBI Academy. Josh Hopkins plays her subordinate, FBI Special Agent Liam O'Connor. The series' protagonist (main character) is Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra), an FBI trainee who has an affair with another recruit. Jake McLaughlin, Tate Ellington, Graham Rogers, Johanna Braddy, Yasmine Al Masri, and Anabelle Acosta co-star as FBI recruits.

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Shanghai Disneyland Resort is an amusement park in Shanghai, China. It is in the Chuansha New Town neighborhood of Pudong New Area. It was finished in 2016 and was the sixth Disneyland park to be built. It covers 390 hectares.
The park includes Mickey Avenue, the Gardens of Imagination, Fantasyland, Treasure Cove, Adventure Isle, Tomorrowland, and Toy Story Land.
It is open from 8a.m. to 10p.m. every day.
The nearest subway station is Disneyland Resort Station on Line 11 of the Shanghai Metro.

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Goodbye, Norma Jean is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Larry Buchanan and stars Misty Rowe playing the part of Marilyn Monroe.

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A benchmark is a standard, or set of standards, that a product can have to show a level of quality. It can also be a test that a person makes a product like a computer do to see how good it can do a task, or set of tasks. Some computer benchmarks are to test the CPU or the GPU. People use benchmarks to see if their computer can run some kinds of software or games. People also use benchmarks to see if one piece of hardware is better than another.

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Francisco Brennand, or Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand, (June 11, 1927 – December 19, 2019) was a Brazilian sculptor. He worked in several different media. He was best known for his work in ceramic sculpture. Brennand was born in Recife, Pernambuco. He also used ceramics to create floor and wall tiles for construction.

Brennand died on December 19, 2019, in Recife of respiratory tract infection-related problems at the age of 92.

Exhibits
Propriedade Santos Cosme e Damião, Várzea (the artist's studio)
Marco Zero square in Recife Antigo, Recife (the Sculpture Park)
18th São Paulo Art Biennial – 1985
20th São Paulo Art Biennial – 1989
 Esculturas 1974–1998 at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo – 1998
Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro – 2000
Esculturas at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba – 2004

References

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  Brennand's official homepage
  Brennand's diary extracts
 Photographs of Oficina Brennand by Jonathan Flaum

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Chéry-lès-Rozoy is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in the north of France. In 2012, 106 people lived there.

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Jean Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture fashion designer. He created his own ready-to-wear brand in 1976. His first couture fashion show was in 1997. From 1993 to 1997, Trademark co-hosted Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes on Channel 4 (UK). He was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. Gaultier ended his ready-to-wear line in 2014 in order to focus on haute couture and his perfume range.

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The British Rail Class 373 or TGV-TMST train is an electric multiple unit that operates Eurostar's high-speed rail service between Britain, France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel. Part of the TGV family, it has a smaller cross-section to fit within the constrictive British loading gauge, was originally able to operate on the UK third rail network, and has a lot of fireproofing in case of fire in the tunnel.  This is both the second-longest——and second-fastest train in regular UK passenger service.

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British Rail Class 373


Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games, and distributed by EA Distribution. It was released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and the Wii.

This game comes with a guitar controller, a drum set, and a microphone. Up to four people can play the game on the screen, playing drums, vocals, bass, and guitar.

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The Blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus) is a species of requiem shark, in the genus Carcharhinus. Found along the eastern coast of the Americas, this species is found mainly in coastal waters over beds of seagrass, sandy flats, and shell or coral rubble. The Blacknose shark is quite a small species of shark, with adults reaching a maximum length of 4.6 feet (1.4 metres). This shark gets it's name from the black spot on the tip of its snout.

Description

Blacknose sharks are quite small and slender with a long rounded snout and large eyes. This shark gets it's name from the black spot under the tip of the snout. The Blacknose shark has two dorsal fins. The first dorsal fin is located over the free margins of the pectoral fins, and the second dorsal fin is over or slightly infront of the anal fin. The margin of the anal fin is deeply notched. This species does not have an interdorsal ridge (ridge between dorsal fins), and the caudal peduncle doesn't have a keel.
The Blacknose shark is grey to greenish grey with black tips on the second dorsal fin and dorsal caudal lobe. The black spot under the tip of the snout makes this shark easy to differ from other shark species which are found in the same region.
The upper jaw of the Blacknose shark has 12-13 rows of teeth on each side with 11-12 rows on the lower jaw. Teeth on the upper jaw are quite narrow and triangular with slanting cusps along with rough serrations along the bases than the tips. The lower jaw also has cusped serrated teeth with broad bases. There is one symphysial tooth in the upper jaw and one or two in the lower jaw.
The average length of a full-grown Blacknose shark is around 4.1 feet (1.2 metres), reaching a maximum size of 4.6 feet (1.4 metres). This shark usually weighs about 22 pounds (10 kg) at maturity. The Blacknose shark is quite a fast growing species, with both males and females reaching maturity at the lengths of about 1 metre.

Habitat
The Blacknose shark is found in the continental and insular shelves off the eastern coast of the Americas, as far north as North Carolina and as far south as southern Brazil, including the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. They around found mainly in coastal waters over beds of seagrass, sandy flats, and shell or coral rubble. This species is found in different areas depending on the size and gender. Usually, only young sharks are encountered in shallow water, as the adults like depths greater than 9 metres (30 feet) and is most common at 18–64 metres (59–210 feet).
Blacknose sharks found off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States migrate northward in the summer and southward in the winter; a similar migration occurs for the Blacknose sharks in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reproduction
Blacknose sharks are viviparous, and mate in late May and early June and have a 10-11 month gestation period. Currently, Blacknose sharks seem to have two different reproductive cycles in the Northwestern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Studies have shown that female Blacknose sharks in the Gulf of Mexico reproduce every year, while females in the Atlantic reproduce once every two years.
One litter of Blacknose sharks can contain 3-6 pups, but the usual number is 4. At birth, the young measure 43–51 cm in length. Both genders mature at about 2 years of age. Bulls Bay, South Carolina, United States is one known nursery area for this species.

Feeding
The Blacknose shark is a quick swimmer, feeding on small fish including pinfish, croakers, porgies, anchovies, spiny boxfish, and porcupine fish. It is also known to feed on octopus.

Human interaction
Blacknose sharks are of small commercial fishery importance, however it is fished as a gamefish, for the decent fight it gives when caught on light tackle. When it is harvested, this shark is often dried before being marketed for human consumption. This shark poses little threat to humans and has never been reported in a shark attack case. However, when confronted by divers, the Blacknose shark has been reported to give a threat display in the form of a hunched back with head raised and caudal lowered.

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The Times is a large well-known newspaper founded in 1785. It is printed in London, England.

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The Negev is the southern region of Israel. It is a desert that covers about 60% of the current state of Israel. Only about 10% of the people that live in Israel live there. The Negev has borders with Egypt and the Gaza Strip to the west, the Arabah in the Great Rift Valley in the east, and a line connecting Gaza city to Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea to the north.

The Negev has a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Negev incense route was a trade route in the Negev. It connected Arabia to the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic-Roman period. The trade led to the development of ancient towns, forts and caravanserai en route, and agricultural development. It was proclaimed as of outstanding universal value by UNESCO in 2005.

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Crystal Bernard (born September 30, 1961) is an American sitcom actress. She also does other television acting. She is best known for her role in the NBC sitcom Wings.

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Santa Maria Val Müstair () is a village in the Val Müstair municipality of the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009, Santa Maria Val Müstair merged with Lü, Müstair, Fuldera, Tschierv and Valchava to form the municipality of Val Müstair.

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Amanda Lee Modano (earlier last name: Williford, also called Willa Ford; born 22 January 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. She released her very first studio record, Willa was Were, in July 2001. Ford hosted several reality television shows, posed for Playboy and competed on the show Dancing with the Stars. The actress was born in Florida.

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Geckos are small to middle size lizards. There are 1196 different kinds of geckos, mostly in the suborder Gekkota. They live in many warm countries and usually are awake during the night. Some kinds of geckos go into people's houses. Hemidactylus frenatus is the common house gecko. People are often happy to have them, because geckos eat many insects.

Unlike most lizards, geckos have voices. A gecko sounds a little like a bird or a frog. In some languages, these lizards have names that sound like their calls, for example, both English and Indonesian call one kind gecko (gek KO) and tokay (to-KAY). Another kind of gecko, with a different sound, is called chicak (CHEE chak).

Most geckos lay eggs, but some give birth to live young.

Geckos have no eyelids. Instead, they have a clear membrane (skin) over their eyes. They lick the membrane clean with their tongues. Like most lizards, they can regenerate their tail if they need to. Their tail also helps them balance and store fat. Geckos also shed their skin, like many other reptiles. Geckos are also able to replace their teeth every few months.

Many kinds of geckos can walk on trees, walls, windows, and ceilings. Geckos' feet form a molecular bond with the surface that they are walking on in order to "stick" to the surface. This force is called van der Waal's force.They can do this because they have special toe pads. A microscope can show that each toe pad is made of thousands of hair-like structures called setae. Each of these structures branches into many smaller ends called spatulae.  The rest of their skin is also covered in extremely small hairs, which make it hard for a gecko to get wet. Gecko skin can also kill bacteria.

Taxonomy
There are six families under the suborder Gekkota.

 Carphodactylidae
 Diplodactylidae
 Eublepharidae
 Gekkonidae
 Phyllodactylidae
 Sphaerodactylidae

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Spink County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 6,415 people lived there. Its county seat is Redfield. It was created in 1873.

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Carl-Henrik "C.-H." Hermansson (14 December 1917 – 26 July 2016) was a Swedish politician. He was born in Bollnäs, Sweden. He was chairman of the Communist Party of Sweden (during his leadership renamed to the Left Party – Communists) from 1964 to 1975 and member of parliament from 1963 to 1985. He was a major force in redirecting the Left Party Communists policies away from Moscow loyalism towards Eurocommunism and Scandinavian Popular Socialism.

At the time of Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Hermansson heaped praise on Stalin's greatness in a few speeches, something he was regularly reminded of by journalists and political opponents, even though he repeatedly made public his regret for the things said.

Hermansson died on 26 July 2016 at the age of 98.

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Rohypnol is the common name for a drug called flunitrazepam. A slang term for it is roofies. The drug is sold legally, and it has many medical uses. It is a strong hypnotic (a drug that causes sleep); a sedative (causing relaxation and sleepiness); an anticonvulsant (fighting seizures); an anxiolytic (relieving anxiety); amnestic (causing forgetfulness); and skeletal muscle relaxant.  Most often, it is used as a treatment for sleep disorders like insomnia. It is thought to be one of the most effective hypnotic medications.

Like other hypnotics, flunitrazepam should be used only on a short-term basis or in those with serious insomnia on an occasional basis.

Flunitrazepam is often called a date rape drug because it is very powerful, has strong effects, and can cause strong amnesia (causing a person to forget what happened after taking the drug).

History
Benzodiazepines were created in 1957 by Roche, a healthcare and pharmaceutical company. Roche started selling flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) in 1975. At first, hospitals used the drug when a patient needed a deep sleep.  It was sold commercially in 1975 in Europe, and in the 1990s in the United States.  The drug was given the brand name Rohypnol.

Effects
Rohypnol is usually taken by mouth.  It has a long active period  its effects can last 18 to 26 hours, and it can be found in urine and blood tests.  This means that the day after taking the drug, a person may keep feeling tired and having trouble with thinking and balance. Even after a full day, driving a car may still be dangerous.

The drug is often involved in drug intoxication, including overdoses. Overdose of flunitrazepam may cause long-term sedation, poor balance, and poor speech. In serious overdoses, people may have breathing problems, coma, and possibly death. The overdose will be worse if flunitrazepam is taken with depressants, like alcohol or opiates. Flunitrazepam overdose can be treated with flumazenil.

Rohypnol has become widely known in the USA for its use as a date rape drug. It is used by high school and college students, rave party members, and heroin and cocaine users (who call a tablet of flunitrazepam a "roofie").

Other names
Some of the street names for Rohypnol are:
beans (ZA)
 rophy
 ruffles
 roachies
 roofies
 ruffies
 ruff-up
 rib
 roach 2 (R2)
 roche
 rope
 ropies
 circles
 circes
 forget it
 forget-me-pill
 Mexican Valium.
 Magic date
 date-rape
 rumraketter

Sources

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Rohypnol


Breakaway may refer to:

 "Breakaway" (song), a song by Kelly Clarkson
 Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson album)

Breakaway


Villacidro (Biddade Cidru, Biddexìdru) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sud Sardegna in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 14,076 people lived there. Its area is 183.48 km². It is 267 meters above sea level.

References

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Villacidro


Lusigny-sur-Barse is a commune of the Aube département in the north-central part of France.

Lusigny-sur-Barse

Lusigny-sur-Barse


Placebo is an alternative rock band that started in London in 1994. The band currently has Brian Molko (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, saxophone), Stefan Olsdal (bass, guitar, keyboards, back-up vocals) and Steve Forrest (drums, percussion, back-up vocals) as members. A Kate Bush cover, "Running Up That Hill" is one of their most popular songs.

Placebo’s sixth studio album, Battle for the Sun, was released on June 8th, 2009.

Recorded over three months at Metal Works Studios in Toronto with producer David Bottrill and mixed in London by My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails producer Alan Moulder, Battle for the Sun is a startling, alive, vital and boundary-vaulting Placebo record.

It is, according to Brian Molko, “not hard rock and it’s not pop, it’s probably hard pop. I think we’ve made a record which is almost the flipside of ‘Meds’. We’ve made a record about choosing life, about choosing to live, about stepping out of the darkness and into the light. Not necessarily turning your back on the darkness because it’s there, it’s essential; it’s a part of who you are, but more about the choice of standing in the sunlight instead.”

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The American Cocker Spaniel is a  breed of dog. It is one of many Spaniel breeds. In the United States, the breed is usually called the Cocker Spaniel. In other parts of the world, it is called the American Cocker Spaniel. This is because there is a Cocker Spaniel called  English Cocker Spaniel. They are clever, loving and happy dogs.

The breed
The breed is the smallest of the sporting or hunting dogs. Also, there are some differences between it and its English relative. It is a happy and intelligent working breed. Because of having been bred to meet show dog qualities, it is no longer an ideal working dog. These Spaniels now have many health problems with their hearts, eyes and ears.

The American Cocker has a medium long silky coat of fur. It has an upturned nose, either black or brown. It has long, silky ears that hang down. The eyes are large, dark in color and round.  Fur colors can be black, tan, cream, dark red, buff, roan and sometimes merle.

Behavior

This dog breed is nicknamed the "Merry Cocker". It is a friendly dog and not shy.

It is smart as a hunting dog. IQ tests given in the 1950s and 1960s showed the American Cocker did best of all dogs tested on hunting skills. But, they did not do as well on other skills. These showed they were slower in uncovering a dish of food or pulling on a string.  The American Cocker Spaniel is in 20th place in Stanley Coren's The Intelligence of Dogs. This means this dog is excellent in "Working or Obedience Intelligence" and in being trained.

If they are played with and loved as puppies, American Cockers can get along with people, children, other dogs and other pets. This breed has a tail that wags most of the time. It likes best to be around people.  It is not meant to be left alone in a backyard. Cockers can get stressed by loud noises and by being treated roughly or fussed at.

Because they have now been bred to have a long coat, they can no longer be active enough to hunt or be exercised outside.

Bibliography
 Coile, D. Caroline (2006). The Cocker Spaniel Handbook. Barron's Educational Series Inc.
 Coren, Stanley (2006). The Intelligence of Dogs. Pocket Books.
 Palika, Liz (2009). Cocker Spaniel: Your Happy Healthy Pet. John Wiley & Sons.
 Walker, Joan Hustace (2010). Barron's Dog Bibles: Cocker Spaniel. Barron's Educational Series Inc.

References

Other websites

 American Spaniel Club
 Animal Planet: American Cocker Spaniel: Is this the breed for you?

 American Cocker Spaniel France
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American Cocker Spaniel


Skövde is a town in the county of Västra Götaland in Sweden. It is the seat of Skövde Municipality.

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was a  after Shocho and before Kakitsu.   This period started in September 1429 and ended in February 1441.  During this time, the emperor was .

Events of the Eikyō era

 14 April 1429 (Eikyō 1, 9th day of the 3rd month): The name of Ashikaga Yoshinobu was changed to Yoshinori.

 1429: Yoshinori appointed shogun.

 1433 (Eikyō 5, 6th month):  Letter from Emperor of China to the Shogun assumes wrongly that the head of the Ashikaga shogunate is the "king of Japan."

 1433 (Eikyō 5, 10th month):  Former-Emperor Go-Komatsu died.

 1438 (Eikyō 10): Revolt against the shogunate led by Ashikaga no Mochiuji.

Related pages
 Muromachi period

References

Other websites
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

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Eikyō


Fotbal Club Dinamo București (Usually just called Dinamo) is a Romanian association football club from Bucharest, Romania. The team is one of the most successful clubs in Romania, having won 18 Romanian Liga I titles, 13 Romanian Cups and 2 Supercupa României. They reached the semi-finals of the 1983–84 European Cup, only to be defeated by Liverpool 3–1.

The club was founded in 1948, and is one of the few to stay in the Liga I for it's entire history. The team's traditional home colours are white and red. Also, the club's biggest rival is Steaua Bucuresti.

Honours

Romanian League Championship: (18)
 Winners: 1955, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2006–07
 Runners-up (20): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2004–05
Romanian Cup: (13)
 Winners: 1958–59, 1963–64, 1967–68, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2011–12
 Runners-up (10): 1954, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 2001–02, 2010–11, 2015–16
Romanian Super Cup: (2)
 Winners: 2005, 2012
 Runners-up (4): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007

Other websites

Official website
Online Tickets
FCD.ro
Fan Club Dinamo Bucuresti
FCDinamo.net
Dinamo Mania
Ultras Tei
The history of Dinamo Bucharest

References

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FC Dinamo București


Magic can mean:

Magic (illusion), tricks that fool people into thinking they see something they really did not see
"Magic" (Pilot song), a song by the Scottish band Pilot
Apotropaic magic, protection against harmful influences
Black magic
Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game
Witchcraft, the action of using magic powers.

Magic


Croydon is a large town in Greater London, southern England in the United Kingdom. It is south of London and is part of the London Borough of Croydon.

History
The town grew up from Anglo-Saxon times around a palace belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1276 the archbishop allowed a weekly market to take place nearby and this date is taken as the founding of the town. The town grew in the eighteenth century as a stage coach stop on the way to the popular seaside town of Brighton from London. In the nineteenth century railways put the town only 15 minutes from London by fast train and it grew 23 times in terms of the number of people living there between 1801 and 1901.

Things to do

Croydon is well known for having many places to go shopping, which includes two shopping centres called Centrale and the Whitgift Centre. A third one called Park Place is planned. Croydon has been rated the 20th best shopping area in the UK. It is also well known for holding a lot of offices for companies to let. The council wants to keep Croydon a big town by building more offices and entertainment facilities so a new place called the Croydon Gateway is planned. Purley Way, just west of Croydon, is a large retail park area which has many shops like Comet (which went in admin in 2012), Sainsbury's, McDonald's, IKEA, Argos, M&S, Boots along with a cinema and bowling alley.

Transport
Croydon is very easy to get to. There is a large bus station on the edge of Croydon, and three railway stations called East Croydon, West Croydon, and South Croydon.

Croydon is also served by Tramlink, a tram system, the only tram system in all of Greater London. It is the place where all four routes meet. They go to places like Elmers End and Beckenham in Bromley to the east, Wimbledon and Mitcham in Merton to the west, and Addington and Addiscombe to the south.

References

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Croydon


Downe is a village in the London Borough of Bromley. Charles Darwin lived there with his family after the HMS Beagle trip.

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Downe


Nutteln is a municipality of the district Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Nutteln


Vauxrezis is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Vauxrezis


Commune  may refer to:
In society
 Commune, a human community in which resources are shared
 A type of township or municipality
 One of the Communes of Angola
 One of the Communes of Benin
 One of the Communes of Chile
 One of the Communes of France
 One of the Communes of Luxembourg
 One of the Communes of Switzerland (in French language)
 A Rural commune in Vietnam
 An Italian comune
 A Polish gmina (generally translated as "commune")
 A comună:
in Moldova (Communes of Moldova)
and Romania (Communes of Romania)
 Kommunen in Germany (sing. eine Kommune) are the municipalities (Gemeinden) and the districts (Landkreise). A formal name is kommunale Gebietskörperschaften (~ regional public bodies).

 Medieval commune, a form of mutual defense alliance
 Commune (model of government), a model of socialist government

In history
 the Paris Commune (French Revolution) (1789–1795)
 the Paris Commune (1871)

 Film and music
 La Commune (Paris, 1871), a 2000 French film
 Commune (film), a 2005 documentary about Black Bear Ranch narrated by Peter Coyote
 The Commune, a 2016 Danish film
 Commune, a 2003 album by Japanese singer Yuki Isoya
 Commune (album) by Goat  2014

Other
 Commune (card game), a poker-based bluffing game
Commune FC, a football club in Burkina Faso
The Commune, anarchist newspaper published by Guy Aldred

Commune (disambiguation)


The Wheel of Time is a long running fantasy series of novels written by American author Robert Jordan. The first in the series, The Eye of the World was published in 1990,  and the last, A Memory of Light, was published in 2009. Jordan died while he was writing the last book, so it was finished by Brandon Sanderson. A Memory of Light was split into three parts as the book length was too long.

Books
 The Eye of the World
 The Great Hunt
 The Dragon Reborn
 The Shadow Rising
 The Fires of Heaven
 Lord of Chaos
 A Crown of Swords
 The Path of Daggers
 Winter's Heart
 Crossroads of Twilight
 Knife of Dreams
Gathering Storm (The first part of A Memory of Light)
Towers of Midnight (The second part of A Memory of Light)
A Memory of Light (The last part of A Memory of Light)

References

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The Wheel of Time


The Royal Air Force (sometimes called RAF, its acronym), is the air force of the United Kingdom. The RAF began in 1918 when the Royal Flying Corps (spoken as 'core') and the Royal Naval Air Service joined together. It is the oldest air force in the world.  The first man to lead the RAF was Hugh Trenchard. The RAF has many bases across the world, including the UK, Falkland Islands, Cyprus and Gibraltar. Some examples of the UK bases are RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, RAF Valley in Wales, RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland and RAF Linton-on Ouse in England. The RAF has very new planes including the Eurofighter Typhoon, Panavia Tornado and the BAe Systems Hawk. The Hawk is used to train fast-jet pilots.

World War II
The RAF were very busy during World War II. Many important planes were built for the RAF. The Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane helped defend Britain during the Battle of Britain. The Avro Lancaster bomber attacked Germany with strategic bombing. The RAF lost great numbers of pilots and aircraft, fighting around the world and especially against the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force.

References

Other websites
 The RAF website
 pictures of RAF planes in action

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Royal Air Force


Gaston Petrus Bernardina Berghmans (11 March 1926 – 21 May 2016) was a Flemish actor and comedian. From 1972 through 1993, he and Leo Martin formed a comic duo called Gaston and Leo. They also made four mvoies together: The boat to Spain (1982), Thugs (1984), The Panic Sowers (1986) and Gaston en Leo in Hong Kong (1988).

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Gaston Berghmans


Mineralocorticoids are  corticosteroids, a type of steroid hormone. Mineralocorticoids are produced in the adrenal cortex. They influence salt and water balances (electrolyte balance and fluid balance). The main mineralocorticoid is aldosterone.

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Mineralocorticoid


The Edinburgh Trams project is a scheme to build a new tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Local public transport had been limited to buses since the closing of the city’s previous Edinburgh Corporation Tramways system on 16 November 1956.Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Edinburgh Trams Ltd. As of 2017 it is a 14-kilometre line between York Place in New Town and Edinburgh Airport, with 16 stops. Construction began in June 2008, and after encountering delays it opened on 31 May 2014.

Related pages
Transport in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Corporation Tramways (closed in 1956)
Light Rail Transit Association
Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
List of Tramways in Scotland
Edinburgh Airport Rail Link

Other websites
Edinburgh's Official Tram Time web site
Leith Business Association Business Owners affected by the implementation of the tramway
Auditor Generals Report on Tram Scheme
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee
Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Bill Committee
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Act 2006
Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Act 2006

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Edinburgh Trams


The Ostend Manifesto was an 1854 document describing the reasons for the United States to buy Cuba. Cuba was to be added as a slave state of the United States.

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Ostend manifesto


The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl], IPA pronunciation: "EYE-full" English; "eh-FEHL" French) is a landmark in Paris. It was built between 1887 and 1889 for the Exposition Universialle (World Fair). The Tower was the Exposition's main attraction.

Background
The Eiffel Tower cost 7,799,401.31 French gold francs to build in 1889, an amount equal to $1,495,139.89 at that time. Today, it’s cost would equal $36,784,020.11. It is  tall, but this height does not include the  aerial (antenna) on the top; the total height of the structure is . It has a square base that is  long on each side. The second storey platform is  off the ground.

There are also 1,710 steps inside the Eiffel Tower, although visitors can only climb the first 703 steps to the first floor. In total, the tower weighs ,  of which are wrought iron. It consists of 18,038 pieces and 2.5 million rivets put on by heat. The weight of paint used is , and the surface to be painted is . Since it has been built it has been repainted 18 times. Each of these 18 paint jobs there were only 25 painters are hired to do the job.Three separate colors of paint are used on the structure in order to enhance the impression of height, with the lightest at the top.

There are 20,000 sparkling lights and  of cables covering the structure. The paper used to print the visitors' tickets in one year weighs . The top of the tower leans away from the sun as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands it can move as much as  and grow  taller. The tower was also built to sway slightly in the wind.

History
The Eiffel Tower was built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel for the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Even though Gustave Eiffel is credited for the Eiffel Tower it was actually two lesser known people who came up with the original drawing of it. These people were Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier. These two men were the chief engineers of Eiffel’s engineering firm. The main architect was Stephen Sauvestre.

Koechlin, Nouguier, Sauvestre, and Eiffel submitted the plans to compete for the spot on the champ de mars plot of land, to serve as the expositions entrance. It would also determine the 1889 world's fair centerpiece in Paris. There were 107 bids submitted to construct the Eiffel Tower. Fifty people worked on the design, and more than 100 built the parts. One hundred and thirty two workers assembled the parts on site.

The first digging for the foundations began on January 28, 1887 and all construction was concluded on March 31, 1889. When the tower was built, it was only meant to be kept for 20 years. People did not like the Eiffel Tower and wanted it taken down because they thought is was an ugly structure polluting the scenery of the Paris sky. After the 20 years, the tower became the property of Paris again.

By this time, the city had learned that the tower could be used to help with communications. There was also a metrology lab that had been installed for studies on everything from gravity to electricity. The military used the tower as a wireless telegraph transmitter for communication during battle. The tower was used in the capture of the spy "Mata Hari" during World War I after a message was intercepted. Today, it is used to send radio and television signals to the capital city of Paris and beyond. After people learned about the many benefits the tower provided, no one wanted it to be taken apart.

The Eiffel Tower joined the green energy movement by building two wind turbines on the second level. These wind turbines produce  of electricity.

Construction
There were 50 architects, engineers, and draftsmen that created 5,300 drawings of the Eiffel Tower before the construction started. Once they had a plan, there were 18,000 pieces built and prepared in Eiffel's factory outside of town. These pieces were created to the accuracy of 1/10 of a millimeter. These pieces were put together to form new pieces that were 5 meters long to be transported to the building site.

There were 132 workers there to assemble the pieces on site. All the pieces were put into place and hooked together by thermally assembled rivets. There were 4 men needed to assemble a single rivet: one person to heat the rivet up, another to hold it in place, a third to shape the head, and a fourth person to beat the rivet with a sledge hammer.

Only  of the 2.5 million rivets were assembled on site. The work on the foundations took 5 months. The workers only used spades, and the rubble was taken away by horses and steam locomotives.

There was no problem in building the pillars on the Champ de Mars side of the tower. But on the Seine River side of the tower, foundations used compressed air and corrugated steel caissons five meters under water. The deepest foundations are 15 meters under ground. The feet of the tower are set in each of these foundation ditches. These foundations support the four pillars or truss frames.

The difficulty building the first floor was in bringing building materials and people up to it with a point of departure as in the elevators. The elevators had to be positioned at a slanting angle to meet the horizontal beams on the first floor. The elevator had to use hydraulic jacks to move and erect the elevator up the slanted legs. Currently the hydraulic jacks are not in use due to more advanced technology. The second floor was assembled with cranes that took the same route as the elevators. There was no troubles from this point onward in the construction.

References

Other websites

 Sketches and plans of the tower's construction at MailOnline
 Images of the 2014 refurbishment at ArchDaily
 History of transmitters at the Eiffel Tower by Pierre Dessapt

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Eiffel Tower


William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Great Britain. After Ireland joined Great Britain to form the United Kingdom, he was again made Prime Minister. This time, he was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Francisco Javier Peral (born 4 November 1983) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Aris Thessaloniki.

Club career statistics

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The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) is the highest level of basketball competition in Germany. The BBL determines the national champion.

Teams

Champions since 1939

2008: Alba Berlin
2007: Brose Baskets Bamberg
2006: RheinEnergie Cologne
2005: GHP Bamberg
2004: OPEL Skyliners Frankfurt am Main
2003: Alba Berlin
2002: Alba Berlin
2001: Alba Berlin
2000: Alba Berlin
1999: Alba Berlin
1998: Alba Berlin
1997: Alba Berlin
1996: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1995: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1994: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1993: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1992: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1991: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1990: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1989: BG Steiner Bayreuth
1988: BSC Saturn Köln
1987: BSC Saturn Köln
1986: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1985: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1984: ASC Göttingen
1983: ASC Göttingen
1982: BSC Saturn Köln
1981: BSC Saturn Köln
1980: SSC Göttingen
1979: TuS 04 Leverkusen
1978: MTV 1846 Gießen
1977: USC Heidelberg

1976: TuS 04 Leverkusen
1975: MTV 1846 Gießen
1974: SSV Hagen
1973: USC Heidelberg
1972: TuS 04 Leverkusen
1971: TuS 04 Leverkusen
1970: TuS 04 Leverkusen
1969: VfL Osnabrück
1968: MTV 1846 Gießen
1967: MTV 1846 Gießen
1966: USC Heidelberg
1965: MTV 1846 Gießen
1964: Alemannia Aachen
1963: Alemannia Aachen
1962: USC Heidelberg
1961: USC Heidelberg
1960: USC Heidelberg
1959: USC Heidelberg
1958: USC Heidelberg
1957: USC Heidelberg
1956: ATV Düsseldorf
1955: FC Bayern München
1954: FC Bayern München
1953: Turnerbund Heidelberg
1952: Turnerbund Heidelberg
1951: Turnerbund Heidelberg
1950: BC Stuttgart-Degerloch
1949: MTSV Schwabing
1948: Turnerbund Heidelberg
1947: MTSV Schwabing
1939: LSV Spandau

Other websites
Basketball Bundesliga

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Basketball Bundesliga


The Banger Sisters is a 2002 American comedy drama movie. The movie is about two middle-aged women who were groupies when they were young. Goldie Hawn plays Suzette. Susan Sarandon plays Vinnie.

This movie was released in September of 2002. It made quite a bit of money at the box office.

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Midway Atoll was the site of a famous battle in World War II, the Battle of Midway. The United States of America took control of the atoll in the 19th century when nobody lived there.

Wildlife

Midway Atoll is now home to 67-70% of the world's Laysan Albatross population, and 34-39% of the global Black-footed Albatross.

While Midway supports nearly three million birds, each seabird species has carved out a specific site on the atoll in which to nest.  Seventeen different species of seabird can be found, the rarest of which is the Short-tailed Albatross, otherwise known as the “Golden Gooney.”  Fewer than 2,200 are believed to exist due to excessive feather hunting in the late nineteenth century.

Over 250 different species of looli marine life are found in the  of lagoon and surrounding waters. The critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals raise their pups on the beaches. Monk seals are benthic foragers and rely on the Midway Atoll’s reef fish, squid, octopus and crustaceans. Green sea turtles, another threatened species, occasionally nest on the island. The first was found in 2006 on Spitsy Rinaia Island and another in 2007 on Sand Island. A resident pod of 300 spinner dolphins live in the lagoons and nearshore waters.

Other websites

 Satellite Map and NOAA Chart of Midway on BlooSee
 AirNav - Henderson Field Airport : Airport facilities and navigational aids.
 Diary from the middle of nowhere BBC's environment correspondent David Shukman reports on the threat of plastic rubbish drifting in the North Pacific Gyre to Midway. Accessed 2008-03-26.
 Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (this article incorporated some content from this public domain site)
 NOAA Midway Island Hawaiian Monk Seal Captive Care & Release Project
 The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
 Marines at Midway: by Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl, Jr., USMC Historical Section, Division of Public Information Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps 1948,
 Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
 Past residents of Midway Discussion of Midway related topics by former residents and those interested in Midway.
 U.S. Unincorporated Possessions. Accessed 2008-03-26.

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Lithuanian might mean:

Anything related to Lithuania, a country in Europe
Lithuanians, the people of Lithuania
Lithuanian language

Lithuanian


Leona Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer-songwriter.

Lewis first became famous when she won a television talent contest in Britain called The X Factor. When she won The X Factor in 2006, Lewis got a £1 million contract to make more music. She then released a song, as part of The X Factor contract, called A Moment Like This which was the number 1 song in the charts at Christmas after selling 571,253 copies in the shops and on download.

Lewis then released her second song on 22 October 2007 called Bleeding Love which was the number 1 song again in Britain, and also reached number 1 in the United States. It sold 218,805 copies in the first week of release. She released her first album called Spirit in November 2007. Her second album is Echo, which was released 9 November 2009.

Her first concert tour called The Labyrinth was in 2010.

Her songs include Better in Time and Bleeding Love.

Other websites
 Official website
 Official MySpace

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Leona Lewis


Mac can be:
Apple Macintosh, computer
Mackintosh, raincoat
Slang or informal for; man; son; macaroni

MAC can be:
Media Access Control (MAC), MAC address
Mid-American Conference, a sports league for universities in the United States

Mac


Muldraugh is a city of Kentucky in the United States. It is located in the Hardin and Meade counties.

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Category:Meade County, Kentucky

Muldraugh, Kentucky


Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau  (1956 – August 2, 2019) was a Canadian politician. She was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. She was sworn-in on October 23, 2014.

She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of New Brunswick.

Roy-Vinneau died at the age of 63 from cancer on August 2, 2019 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, after first being diagnosed in May 2018.

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Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau


Rashidun Empire, Islamic Empire ()  or Rashidun Caliphate () are the terms used to describe the empire that was controlled by the first four successors of Muhammad (the "Rightly Guided" caliphs). The empire was founded after Muhammad's death in 632 and lasted until 'Ali's death in 661. At its height, the power of the Rashidun Caliphs extended throughout North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Iranian highlands.

Origin
After Muhammad's death in 632, the Medinan Ansar were debating who -among them- should succeed prophet Muhammad in running the affairs of the Muslims.  They chose Abu Bakr. So he became the first Khalifa Rasul Allah (Successor of the Messenger of God), and started a campaigns to for the Muslim Religion. At first he  the Arabian tribes which had left the Islamic community. As a Khalifa or Caliph he was not a monarch and never claimed such a title. His three successors also never claimed a title as monarch.

The first general of the empire was Khalid ibn Walid. During his campaign against the Persian Empire(Iraq 633 - 634) and Byzantine Empire (Syria 634 - 638) Khalid developed brilliant tactics. The Caliph Abu Bakr's way was to give his generals their mission, the geographical area in which that mission would be carried out, and the resources that, could be made available for that purpose. He would then leave it to his generals to accomplish their mission in whatever manner they chose, on the other hand Caliph Umar in later part of his Caliphate used to direct his generals as to where they would stay and when to move to the next target and who will be commanding the left and right wing of the army in the particular battle, this made the phase of conquest comparatively slower but provided well organized campaigns. Caliph Uthman used the same method as of Abu Bakr, he would give missions to his generals and then leave it to them how they accomplish it. Caliph Ali also followed the same method.

Religion

The state religion was Islam. The non-Muslim people were allowed to practice any religion they want to follow. But the Sharia Law was practiced in the state.
Islam was the guiding force of the Caliphate. Any act of state was first to be approved by the Qur’an and the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammed. If there were no such guide lines available then wisdom or Hikmat was used, after which if the act would go against the established principals, norms,system etc. it was not carried on with.

References

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Rashidun Empire


Yosemite Valley ( ) is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. The valley is about 7.5 miles (12 km) long and about 3000–3500 feet deep.

Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America, and is a big attraction especially in the spring when the water flow is at its peak.

The Valley is the main attraction in the park for the majority of visitors. Yosemite Valley is located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, 150 miles (240 km) due east of San Francisco.

Other websites
 The Geologic Story of Yosemite Valley by N. King Huber (USGS, 1987) authoritative and up-to-date summary of Yosemite's geology
 Origin of Yosemite Valley, Chapter 4, "Glaciers of California", by Bill Guyton
 Historic Yosemite Indian Chiefs – with photos
 Daily updating time-lapse movies of Yosemite Valley
 Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project aiming at stitching 10,000 high resolution images

Category:Valleys of California
Category:Mariposa County, California

Yosemite Valley


Concord, California is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California, US. In the 2010 census, 122,067 people lived there. Concord was founded in 1869. It was named Todos Santos at first, but the name was soon changed to Concord. The city is  east of San Francisco.

Geography

Concord is at . It is  northeast of San Francisco,  northeast of Oakland,  southwest of Sacramento, and  north of San Jose.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of . All of it is land.

The center of downtown Concord is Todos Santos Plaza. The plaza takes up an entire city block. It is known for its farmers market, free summer concerts, and many restaurants.  There are new apartments and condominiums near the plaza.

History
Concord was first named Todos Santos.  In the 19th century, most people in Pacheco moved to Concord to get away from fires and floods.  Concord became a city on February 5, 1905.

The area around Concord in the Ygnacio and Clayton Valleys was a big farming area. To the east, where the Concord Naval Weapons Station was later built, there were big wheat ranches over . They covered the land all the way to the marshes by Suisun Bay. During Prohibition, many vineyards were removed and replaced with walnut trees.

The first Concord post office opened in 1872.

Port Chicago disaster
On July 17, 1944, the weapons on a United States Navy ship exploded. This caused the highest number of deaths at a time among African Americans during World War II. The explosion killed 320 people. The explosion was felt 30 miles away.  Later, 258 African American sailors refused to load any more weapons. That was the start of the Navy's biggest-ever mutiny trial. In that trial, 50 men were found guilty. Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was at the trial. He said that he saw a prejudiced court.

Sunvalley Mall plane crash
On December 23, 1985, a small airplane crashed into the roof of Sunvalley Mall. The pilot and two people on the plane were killed. 84 people in the mall were hurt, mostly from burning fuel.  Four of the people in the mall later died from their injuries.  The accident made more people be against the local airport. Pacific Southwest Airlines delayed starting passenger service there that had been planned for the new year.

Naval Weapons Station

North of the city of Concord is the Concord Naval Weapons Station. It was opened in 1942. During World War II, weapons were kept there. The weapons were for warships at Port Chicago. The Concord NWS helped war efforts during the Vietnam War and through the end of the Gulf War, taking care of equipment and supplies.

The station has two main areas. One is the Inland Area, , which is inside the Concord city limits. The other is the Tidal Area, .  Because of changes in military operations, parts of the Inland Area stopped being used. By 1999, the station had only a few military people working there. In 2007 the United States government decided to close the inland part of the station. The Tidal area of the base stayed open.  The city of Concord is working on a plan for how to use the land.  Their plans will have to be approved by the Navy.

Transportation

Until 1995 the city was the eastern end of the Concord line of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commuter train system. Since then, more track was built. BART now goes farther than Concord. Bus service runs in the city and other points in the county.

Interstate 680 goes through Concord. So do state highways 4 and 242.

Buchanan Field Airport is a public county-owned airport in the City of Concord.  It currently does not have any scheduled passenger service. It was once served by WestAir, Pacific Southwest Airlines, and later U.S. Airways for a short time. In 1977, Buchanan Field reached its peak of activity with 357,000 total operations making it the 16th busiest airport in the nation that year.

Education
Concord has several public high schools:
 Clayton Valley High School, opened in 1958
 Concord High School, opened in 1966
 Mt. Diablo High School, opened in 1905
 Ygnacio Valley High School, opened in 1960

There are also two private Catholic high schools:
 De La Salle High School, for boys. De La Salle's football team set a record by winning 151 games in a row between 1992 and 2004.
 Carondelet High School, for girls

California State University, East Bay has a campus in Concord.

Arts and culture
The Concord Jazz Festival is held every year..

Concord is also home to the 14-time World Champion Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps.  The corps is made up of talented musicians from around the world.  The Concord Blue Devils are the most decorated drum and bugle corps in the history of Drum Corps International.

Points of interest
 Sleep Train Pavilion - a major concert venue formerly known as the Concord Pavilion, and also as Chronicle Pavilion at Concord.
 Sunvalley Mall
 Farmer's Market concerts and movies at Todos Santos Plaza
 Buchanan Field Airport
 Camp Concord, at South Lake Tahoe, a family-oriented Summer Camp, although not located in Concord, is operated by the city.
 Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
 Six Flags Waterworld Concord
 Starting Point of the Iron Horse Regional Trail

Sister city
In 1974 Concord became a sister city with Kitakami, Iwate, in Japan. The city built a small park in the city, and put half of a sculpture, The Communion Bridge, in it. The other half of the bridge is in Kitakami.

References

Other websites

 Official Site
 List of Concord Landmarks and Historic Sites
 Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS): Current Status

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Concord, California


Jefferson is a city in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States, and is its county seat. It is at the confluence of the Rock and Crawfish rivers. The population was 7,973 at the 2010 census.

References

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Jefferson, Wisconsin


Abraham Cressy Morrison (1888-1951) was an American chemist. He was President of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Personal life
He was known to his close friends as "Cressy". His wife was the former Marguerite Snow of New York. He loved to fish and entertain at their summer home on Deer Isle, south of Bangor, Maine.

Notable work
Morrison published a book called Man in a Chemical World: The Service of Chemical Industry (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1937). It is a work on science for the general reader. He is better known for his book Man Does Not Stand Alone, which was published in 1944. His largest work was The Baking Powder Controversy (New York: American Baking Powder Association, 1904–07). This is a work in two volumes on the history of the baking powder industry in the U.S.

References

Other websites
 A. Cressy Morrison

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Abraham Cressy Morrison


Rusk County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 53,330 people lived there. The county seat is Henderson.

Category:Texas counties

Rusk County, Texas


Ratatouille (; French: ) is a 2007 animated movie directed by Brad Bird. It stars Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Peter Sohn, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Brian Dennehy and Peter O'Toole. The movie is about a rat who wants to become a chef. He befriends a human who works at the restaurant in Paris. It was made by Pixar Animation Studios and it was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

Jad Pinkava actually wrote the original ideas in 2001, but in 2005 Brad Bird was asked to direct the movie instead. He and some crew members also visited France to get some new ideas. The crew consulted (took advice of) chefs from France and the United States. It premiered on June 22, 2007 at the Kodak Theater. It was generally shown in other theaters on June 29 2007. It earned $623.7 million at the box office and got good reviews. It later won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Cast
 Patton Oswalt as Remy
 Ian Holm as Skinner
 Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini
 Brian Dennehy as Django
 Peter Sohn as Emile
 Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego
 Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau
 Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou
 Will Arnett as Horst
 Julius Callahan as Lalo/Francois
 James Remar as Larousse
 John Ratzenberger as Mustafa
 Teddy Newton as Talon Labarthe
 Tony Fucile as Health Inspector/Pompidou
 Jake Steinfeld as Git
 Brad Bird as Ambrister Minion
 Stéphane Roux as Narrator
 Thomas Keller as Dining Patron

Release Dates

Soundtrack
 Le Festin by Camille
 That's Amore by Dean Martin
 Non, je regrette rien by Édith Piaf
 A New Day Has Come by Celine Dion
 Excuse My French by 2Be3

References

Other websites

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Ratatouille (movie)


The Division of Braddon is an Australian electoral division in Tasmania. It was set up in 1955 and is named for Sir Edward Braddon, a Premier of Tasmania and one of Tasmania's five original federal MPs. It covers an area of 20,826 km² in the north-western part of Tasmania. It includes the cities of Burnie and Devonport, and various towns including Ulverstone, Penguin and Wynyard.

Members

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

References

Other websites
 Division Braddon - Australian Electoral Commission
 Brett Whiteley's website

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Division of Braddon


The Golden Rooster Awards (; pinyin: Jīn Jī Jiăng) are movie awards given in mainland China.  They are similar to the Academy Awards.  It is called the Golden Rooster Awards because it was the Year of the Rooster in 1981.

The people who get the award receive a statuette in the shape of a golden Rooster. They are picked by a group of movie makers, movie experts, and movie historians. The awards are given by the China Film Association.

At first the movie festival had two events - the Golden Rooster festival and the Hundred Flowers Awards. The two festivals were combined in 1992. Now the Golden Rooster is awarded on odd years and the Hundred Flowers is awarded on even years.

References

Other websites
 IMDB Summary for the Golden Rooster Awards
 List of winners

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Golden Rooster Awards


Banharn Silpa-archa (parts of his name also spelt variously Banhan, Silapa-, Sinlapa-, and -acha; , , , 19 August 1932 – 23 April 2016) was a Thai politician. He was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996. Banharn made a fortune in the construction business before he became a Member of Parliament. He represented his home province of Suphanburi.

He held different cabinet posts in several governments. In 1994, he became the leader of the Thai Nation Party. In 2008, the party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court and Banharn has been banned from politics for five years.

Banharn died from an asthma attack on 23 April 2016 at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok at the age of 83.

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Banharn Silpa-archa


The Brenta is an important river in northeastern Italy. It begins near the Caldonazzo and Levico lakes in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and flows for more of  into the Adriatic Sea to the south of the city of Venice.

Geography
The Brenta river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately . Its average yearly discharge is  at Bassano del Grappa in the Vicenza province.

The Brenta, together with the Piave river, formed the Venetian Lagoon.

Course
The Brenta river starts between the Caldonazzo and Levico lakes, two small lakes in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region, in the comune of Caldonazzo, Trento province, at an elevation of about . From here, the river flows through the Valsugana, the valley that goes from Bassano del Grappa to Trento, first to the east and later to the south. In this part, the Brenta is joined by its main left tributary, the Cismon stream, in the comune Cismon del Grappa, province of Vicenza (the Bacchiglione river is larger but it joins the Brenta near the mouth).

After the comune of Bassano del Grappa, the river flows through the Pianura Padana (the "Valley of the Po river"). Finally, it flows into the Adriatic Sea, near the comune of Chioggia in the Metropolitan City of Venice. Near the mouth, Brenta is joined in the locality "Ca' Pasqua" by the Bacchiglione river.

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of Italy

References

Other websites

 Fiumi Italiani: Fiume Brenta
 Sapere.it: Brènta (fiume)

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Brenta (river)


Zachary Levi Pugh, known as Zachary Levi, (b. September 29, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Chuck Bartowski in the television series Chuck. He has also acted in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Tangled. Levi was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Levi will play Captain Marvel in the 2019 DC Extended Universe movie Shazam!.

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Zachary Levi


Saint-Germain-de-Tallevende-la-Lande-Vaumont was a commune. It is in the region of Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department. This is in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Vire-Normandie.

References

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Masakatsu Sawa (born 12 January 1983) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kashiwa Reysol.

Club career statistics

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|2005||Sporting Cristal||Primera División||5||1||||||||||||||5||1
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|2006||Coronel Bolognesi||Primera División||40||11||||||||||||||40||11
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|2007||Deportivo Municipal||Primera División||38||10||||||||||||||38||10
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|2008||Cienciano||Primera División||21||3||||||||||6||0||27||3

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|2008||rowspan="3"|Kashiwa Reysol||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|2009||9||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||0
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|2010||J. League 2||||||||||||||||||||
104||25||||||||||6||0||110||25
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113||25||0||0||0||0||6||0||119||25
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References
Kashiwa Reysol

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Masakatsu Sawa


Drăgoteşti is a commune found in Dolj County, Romania.

References

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Drăgoteşti, Dolj


The Walking Dead is an American television series based on the comic book of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, and developed for television by Frank Darabont. It premiered on the cable network AMC on October 31, 2010. The series focuses on Rick Grimes, a sheriff's deputy who slips into a coma after being shot. He awakens to find himself in a dangerous new world that has been overrun by "walkers". He joins a group of survivors (including his wife and son) as they try to survive in a world among the undead.

As of October 5, 2018, 115 episodes of The Walking Dead had aired. The series was to enter its ninth season on October 7, 2018. It has been renewed for a tenth season.

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Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

Season 2 (2011-12)

Season 3 (2012-13)

Season 4 (2013-14)

Season 5 (2014–15)

References

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List of The Walking Dead episodes


Brian Roe (27 January 1939 – 28 June 2014) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1957 until 1966. He was a right-handed opening batsman. He made four first-class centuries. He later moved to Minor Counties cricket. Here he played for Devon.

Roe was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. He retired from playing cricket during his early seventies.

Roe died on 28 June 2014 in Barnstaple, Devon, aged 75.

References

Other websites
 Brian Roe at Cricket Archive
 Brian Roe at ESPNcricinfo

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Brian Roe


Paktika () is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.  It is in the south-east of the country. Most of the people are Pashtun. Its capital is Sharana.

Districts

References

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Paktika Province


Karla Avelar (born on 1978), she is a Salvadoran activist for  the rights of transgenders. She is also the Executive Director of Comcavis Trans.

Works
She also the founded an organisation of transgenders called COMCAVIS TRANS, in 2008. It was made as a support group of TRANS women.

Awards
In 2017, she was a listed as one of the finalist of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.

References

Karla Avelar


The Belize Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs.  It goes along the coast of Belize, about  offshore in the north and  in the south. The Belize Barrier Reef is a  long section of the  long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.  The reef system runs continuous from Cancún on the northeast tip of the Yucatán Peninsula through the Riviera Maya down to Honduras.  This makes it one of the largest coral reef systems in the world after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the New Caledonia Barrier Reef.

Charles Darwin described it as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies" in 1842.

Species
The Belize Barrier Reef is home to many different plants and animals. There are:
70 hard coral species
36 soft coral species
500 species of fish
hundreds of invertebrate species
About 90% of the reef still needs to be researched.  It is thought that only 10% of all species have been discovered.

References

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Category:World Heritage Sites in South America
Category:Reefs

Belize Barrier Reef


The Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland, is the metropolitan area that includes the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. The population is about 9.5 million people and CSA population of 9.9 million people, it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States.

The Chicago metropolitan area is one of the world's largest economies, with more than four million employees and making an annual gross regional product (GRP) of over $561 billion. The region is home to more than 400 major corporate headquarters, including 31 in the Fortune 500.

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Chicago metropolitan area


Shōhei Ogura (born 8 September 1985) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Yokohama F. Marinos.

Club career statistics

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|2004||rowspan="4"|Mito Hollyhock||rowspan="4"|J. League 2||15||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
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|2006||30||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||31||1
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|2008||rowspan="3"|Yokohama F. Marinos||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||12||0||4||0||3||0||19||0
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|2009||26||1||3||0||9||0||38||1
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References
Yokohama F. Marinos

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Shōhei Ogura


Wiltz () is a commune with city status in north-western Luxembourg, capital of the canton Wiltz. Wiltz is situated along the sides of the river Wiltz.

History
During World War II, Luxembourg was occupied 10 May 1940 (the first day of the Battle of France).
On 31 August 1942, a general strike began in Wiltz that spread throughout the country.

Geography
The commune is in the Oesling, a region within the greater Ardennes area. It has an area of . The altitude is  high. At the castle, the altitude  is  high.

Wiltz is surrounded by six communes: Wincrange to the north and northwest, Clervaux to the northeast, Kiischpelt to the east, Goesdorf to the southeast, Lac de la Haute-Sûre to the south and southwest, and Winseler to the west.

Population
There were 6,730 persons living in the commune in January 2016, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Other towns, besides the town of Wiltz, within the commune are Roullingen and Weidingen.

Evolution of the population in Wiltz

Places of interest
One of the main features of the town is Wiltz Castle (, German: Schloss Wiltz, ) which belonged to the former Counts of Wiltz.  This castle, which is situated on  of lawns and gardens, contains hundreds of rooms.  It was completed in 1727, and the final Count died in 1793.

Twin towns
Wiltz is twinned withː

  Celorico de Basto, Portugal, since 2005
  Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2008

Gallery

Related pages
 Cantons of Luxembourg
 Communes of Luxembourg
 List of cities in Luxembourg

References

Other websites

 Official website

Category:Settlements in Luxembourg

Wiltz


Teleportation is the supposed movement of matter from one point to another without travelling across the physical space between them. This has been shown in science fiction movies to move objects and people quickly from one place to another. In the real world however, no one knows if and how such a teleportation could ever be performed. Therefore it remains a purely fictional idea to date.

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Teleportation


Tony Cucchiara, stage name of Salvatore Cucchiara (30 October 1937 – 3 May 2018) was an Italian folk singer-songwriter,  playwright and composer. In 1970 Cucchiara debuted as a playwright with a musical titled Cassandra 2000. His first hit was the song " Annalisa", named after Cucchiara's first daughter. This song was used as closing theme of the RAI variety show Alta pressione.

Cucchiara died in Rome on 3 May 2018 at the age of 80.

References

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Tony Cucchiara


Zoigl is a beer which is brewed in brewhouses owned by the town. Its made only in then northeastern region of bavaria. This right to brew exists since the Middle Ages.

Other websites

 www.zoigl.de (German, English)

Category:Beer

Zoigl


Tony Sparano (October 7, 1961 – July 22, 2018) was an American Football offensive coodinator for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was previously the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. (Took over from Cam Cameron.) In his first season with Miami (2008), Sparano got the team from a 1-15 record to 11-5 and the division lead. However, the remainder of Sparano's Dolphins career was a disappointment.

Personal
Sparano and his wife, Jeanette, have two sons: Tony, Andrew, both members of the University at Albany.  At age 17, Sparano had an incident which burnt his eyes, which is why he always wears his signature sunglasses even at night.

On July 19, 2018, Sparano was hospitalized in Eden Prairie, Minnesota after suffering from chest pains. He was released the following day and died two days later from a type of coronary heart disease at the age of 56.

Notes

References
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/13/2543293/miami-dolphins-fire-coach-tony.html
http://dolphinsindepth.blogspot.com/2008/01/all-that-remains-are-some-mere.html

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Tony Sparano


The 2013 FA Cup Final was the 132nd final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football cup competition. The final took place on the 11 May 2013 at Wembley Stadium. Premier League clubs Manchester City and Wigan Athletic took part in the 2013 final, with Wigan Athletic defeating Manchester City 1–0 after an injury time goal from Ben Watson.

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Hurricane Edouard was the strongest hurricane in 1996. Its winds reached 145 miles an hour. Edouard was at major hurricane status for around eight days. The storm was originally forecast to slam the Northeastern United States. It was much less severe there.

Edouard generated strong waves that killed two people on the coastal shore of New Jersey. The southeast coast of Massachusetts received minor hurricane force winds that caused minimal damage on Nantucket Island.

The name Edouard was not retired due to lack of serious damage. The name was used again in the 2002, 2008 and 2014 Atlantic hurricane seasons, and will be again during 2020.

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Hurricane Edouard (1996)


The Cimbasso is an instrument in the brass family.

Cimbasso


The McMahon Line is a demarcation line drawn on map referred to in the Simla Convention, a treaty between Britain and Tibet signed in 1914.

Although its legal status is disputed, it is currently the effective boundary between China and India.

This dispute was used a pretext in a war between China and India in 1962.

Related pages
 Arunachal Pradesh
 Durand Line
 Radcliffe Line

References

Further reading
 GlobalSecurity.org,  India-China Border Dispute
 Kawaguchi, Yuki.  "Arunachal Pradesh Territorial Dispute between India and China," ICE Case Studies (US). No. 161, November, 2005.

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (; ; February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) was the first President of Russia and the country's first elected leader. He served from 1991 to 1999.

Early life
Yeltsin was born in a small village near the Ural Mountains on February 1, 1931. As a boy, he lost two fingers from his left hand after he and his friends played with grenades they had stolen from an army store. Yeltsin worked as a builder, then joined the Communist Party in 1961. He was the leader of the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) during the 1970s. One of the things he did was demolish the building where Nicholas II and his family were shot.

Political career
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev made Yeltsin the leader of the city of Moscow. Yeltsin became one of the more liberal members of Gorbachev's government, and he often complained that Gorbachev's reforms were not doing enough. Eventually, in 1987, he had an argument with Gorbachev and ended up being kicked out. Yeltsin then became determined to get revenge. After Russia's elections in 1989, Yeltsin became leader of the Russian Parliament. It was his idea to create the office of President of Russia in the first place.

President of Russia
Yeltsin became the first elected leader of Russia in 1991. He won 57% of the vote. Two months later, Yeltsin became a hero across Russia when he helped stop an attack on the government in Moscow. Later that year, the Soviet Union collapsed as Russia and all 14 other divisions made themselves independent. Yeltsin won support from the United States and Europe when he promised to bring capitalism and democracy to Russia, but the 1990s were difficult times for Russia and Yeltsin was an unpopular leader while President.

In 1993, the Russian Parliament tried to remove Yeltsin from power after he tried to hold early elections. The problem got so bad that Yeltsin ended up using tanks to attack the Russian Parliament building. After he stopped Parliament, Yeltsin ruled as a dictator for a few months until a new constitution was approved by voters.

Throughout the rest of his time as President, Russia would be affected by many money problems, including inflation and corruption. Yeltsin decided to sell off many things the government had owned, such as oil and natural gas, and many government businesses, but these ended up falling into the hands of a small powerful group of billionaries, who became known as the oligarchs. In 1998, Russia suffered a large financial crisis. Yeltsin also started a war to stop the Chechnya part of Russia from breaking away.

Despite these problems, Yeltsin was re-elected in 1996. His biggest opponent was a Communist, Gennady Zyuganov. Many Russians felt that if Zyuganov was elected, it would cause a civil war. But by the time he resigned on New Year's Eve in 1999, Yeltsin was so unpopular, that his approval rating was believed to be just 2%.

Later career
Yeltsin's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took over as President. This was only temporary, but Putin was then properly elected a few months later when an election was held to decide who should replace Yeltsin.

Personal life
Yeltsin struggled with alcoholism while President. This often resulted in some strange behaviour when he visited other countries. During a visit to Berlin, he grabbed a stick and tried to conduct a military band. During a visit to Washington, he was found drunk outside the White House by members of the Secret Service. He also suffered from heart attacks.

Death
Yeltsin died of congestive heart failure on April 23, 2007 in Moscow, Russia, aged 76. His funeral was held on April 25, 2007.

References

Other websites

CNN Cold War — Profile: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Yeltsin and Post-Soviet Problems from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
Death of a Bear – Hammernews
The Good Czar The Strange Nobility of Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin's finger amputation
Photos of Yeltsin's grave at Findagrave

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Warren Allen Smith (October 27, 1921 – January 9, 2017) was an American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist.

Career
In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway, New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90). In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots.

Smith was one of the signatories of the 1973 Humanist Manifesto II as well as the Humanist Manifesto III in 2003.

Death
Smith died on January 9, 2017 at the age of 95.

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