Leonardo Cimino (November 4, 1917 – March 3, 2012) was an American movie, television and stage actor. In 1937, he appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Leonardo's most well known roles are in the 1983 science fiction miniseries, V as Abraham Bernstein and the 1987 feature film The Monster Squad as the "scary German guy". Born in Manhattan, Cimino was the son of Andrea and Leonilda Cimino. Cimino was married to Sharon Powers until his death. Cimino died on March 3, 2012 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in Woodstock, New York.

Movies
The Confession (1964)
Stiletto (1969)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Jeremy (1973)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
Stardust Memories (1980)
Monsignor (1982)
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Dune (1984)
Moonstruck (1987)
The Monster Squad (1987)
The Seventh Sign (1988)
Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
The Freshman (1990)
Q&A (1990)
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Household Saints (1993)
Claude (1993)
Waterworld (1995)
The Hunger (1997)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Made (2001)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

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Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC (21 June 1887 – 17 December 1965), nicknamed Pug, was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat.

He was  Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and he was the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.  Ismay was the principal link between Churchill and the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Ismay also accompanied Churchill to many of the Allied war conferences.

Other websites
 NATO Declassified - Lord Ismay (biography)
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David B. Cornstein (born August 17, 1938) is an American businessman and politician. He is the United States Ambassador to Hungary. He is from New York and his business career is about gambling operations, high-end used jewelry and telemarketing.

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Santa Fe de Antioquia is a municipality in the Antioquia Department of Colombia. The city is located about 50 miles north of Medellin, the department capital. It has a population of about 23,000 residents.

History
It was founded by the name Villa de Santafé in 1541 by Jorge Robledo on the western bank of the Cauca River. It received the coat of arms and the title of City of Antioquia from King Philip II of Spain in 1545. It was promoted to the status of parish in 1547 by the bishop of Popayán. It changed its name in 1584 when it became the capital of Antioquia. It was a mining town from its beginnings and the gold mining operation has been the base of its economy.

Its cathedral was constructed in 1799 and elevated to Diocese of Antioquia in 1804 by Pope Pius VII. In 1813 Antioquia was declared a sovereign and independent state with Santa Fe as its capital, a status it maintained until 1826, when Medellín was chosen as the new departmental seat. Due to the state of conservation of its colonial architecture, it was declared a national monument in 1960.

Geography
The municipal area has a mountainous territory within the Central Cordillera of the Andes and watered by the rivers Cauca and Tonusco. Its area is 493 km².

Economy
The economy of Santa Fe de Antioquia is based on agriculture. The main products made are coffee, maize and beans.

Tourism
Tourism was, and continues to be one of the more important economic enterprises for the municipality. The opening of the Tunnel of the West (which shortens the time and the distance between the locality and Medellín) in 2006 has allowed hundreds of tourists to come each weekend, stimulating the vocation of the vicinity as a summer vacation site.

Sites of Interest
All of the town is a historical site; the architecture that has survived through the years gives Santa Fe de Antioquia the aspect of a city "suspended" in the colonial era, which is the reason the city was declared a National monument.

Bridge of the West (National Monument)
Metropolitan Cathedral
Archiepiscopal Palace
Plaza Mayor Juan de Corral
Museum of Religious Art
The House of the Two Palms
La Playita (Famous Ranch To The South of the Plaza)
Tonusco Campestre

Other websites
http://www.medellintraveler.com/Cinema.html
City of Santa Fe de Antioquia official government website
Gallería de Imágenes

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Sopchoppy is a city of Florida in the United States.

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Blue Ash is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cincinnati. 12,114 people lived there at the 2010 census.

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Andiast is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Andiast and Waltensburg/Vuorz merged into the municipality of Breil/Brigels.

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Shmuel Moreh (; December 22, 1932 – September 22, 2017) was a professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was awarded the Israel Prize in Middle Eastern studies in 1999. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq.

In addition to having written many books and articles dealing with Arabic literature in general and Iraqi Jewish Arabic literature in particular, he has been a major contributor to Elaph, the first online independent daily journal in the Arabic language.  Professor Moreh wrote in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.

Moreh died on September 22, 2017 in Tel Aviv, Israel at the age of 84.

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Rayleigh scattering is the way that light scatters when it hits a very small object.  This theory is valid if the wavelength of the light is much bigger than the object. It is named after Lord Rayleigh but was also the work of Raman and Krishnan as it is part of the Raman scattering theory.

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Jeannette Littlemore studies applied linguistics in the English Language department at the University of Birmingham. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in European Studies at the University of Bradford in 1989, Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching at the University of East Anglia in 1993, and PhD in English Language Teaching at Thames Valley University in 1998. She has taught in Spain, Japan, Belgium, and the UK. One of her research interests is the use of metaphor and gestures.

Books
 Figurative Thinking and Foreign Language Learning. Co-author Low, G. Palgrave Macmillan. (2006).
 Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan. (2009).
 Doing Applied Linguistics. Co-author Groom, N. Routledge. (2011)
 Metonymy: Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication. Cambridge University Press. (2015)

Related pages
List of women linguists

Other websites
 An Interview with Jeannette Littlemore

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Darmstadt is a census-designated place (CDP) in Illinois in the United States.

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Adansonia gregorii, commonly known as the boab, is a tree in the family Malvaceae.  Its trunk has a swollen base, which makes it easily recognizable. For this reason it is also called bottle tree. It is endemic to Australia, where it mostly occurs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, east into Northern Territory, parts of western Queensland, and New South Wales.

There are other species of baobabs, which are native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (one species).
Boab ranges from 5 to 15 metres in height, usually between 9 and 12 metres, with a broad bottle-shaped trunk.  Its trunk base may be extremely large; trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded.  A. gregorii is deciduous, losing its leaves during the dry winter period and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May.

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The Wild Men of Borneo was a sideshow attraction. The Wild Men were midget brothers Hiram and Barney Davis. Hiram (1825–1905) was born in England. His brother Barney (1827–1912) was born on Long Island, New York State.

The two were mentally deficient, but physically strong. They each stood about 42 inches tall and weighed about 40 pounds. In 1852, showman Lyman Warner discovered them, and bought the two from their widowed mother.

Warner named them Waino and Plutano. The two capably acted their parts as The Wild Men of Borneo. They talked gibberish, lifted male audience members, or wrestled to show their muscles. They recited poems they had been taught. When Lyman Warner died in 1871, his son Hanford managed the brothers.

In 1880, Waino and Plutano were managed by P. T. Barnum. Under his direction, The Wild Men of Borneo became one of the most famous sideshow attractions in the world. The two earned $200,000 over their lifetimes.

In 1893, the promotional booklet What We Know About Waino and Plutano, Wild Men of Borneo described their 1848 "capture" and the Wild Men as hardly above the social level of "orang-outangs of a like size".

The brothers' sideshow days ended in 1903 when Hiram fell ill. They moved to Massachusetts. Hiram died in 1905 and Barney in 1912. The two are buried in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

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A hedge fund is an investment. For example, it is also the act of investing money.

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Polk County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, 5,406 people lived there. The county seat is Osceola. The county was founded in 1856 and named after James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (1845–1849).

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Steele County is the name of two counties in the United States:
 Steele County, Minnesota
 Steele County, North Dakota

Steele County


1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events
 January 3 – Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".
 January 8 – Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who.
 January 12 – Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).
 February 23 – Television is first broadcast in Greece when ERT went on the air.
 April 5 – The Money Programme debuts on BBC2 (1966-present).
 June 5 – A taped appearance by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. The band debuts their music videos for "Rain" and "Paperback Writer".
 June 27 – The first episode of the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows airs on ABC, introducing Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) to the viewing audience as she applies for a job at the Collinwood Manor.
 July 1 – First Canadian color television broadcast.
 September – ABC switches to the color standard, meaning that all three US networks are now broadcasting in color regularly.
 September 3 – The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
 September 7 – The final episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
 September 8 – The first episode of Star Trek airs (1966-1969).
 September 12 – The Monkees premieres (1966-1968).
 October 2 – The four-part serial Talking to a Stranger, acclaimed as one of the finest British television dramas of the 1960s, begins transmission in the Theatre 625 strand on BBC2.
 October 27 – It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs for the first time on CBS.
 November 16 – Cathy Come Home, possibly the best-known play ever to be broadcast on British television, is transmitted in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand.

Births
 February 6 – Rick Astley, British singer
 March 10 – Omer Tarin Pakistani poet, scholar and mystic.
 April 8 – Robin Wright, American actress
 April 15 – Samantha Fox, British supermodel & singer
 May 3 – Peter Abbay
 May 16 – Janet Jackson, American singer & actress
 June 30 – Mike Tyson professional boxer
 August 3 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor and comedian
 August 7 – Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
 September 9 – Adam Sandler, American comedian and actor
 October 2 – Rodney Anoa'i, American professional wrestler (died 2000)
 October 11 – Luke Perry, American actor (died 2019)
 December 21 – Kiefer Sutherland, actor

Deaths
 August 3 – Lenny Bruce
 November 17 – James Jabara, American Air Force pilot

Movies released
 A Man for All Seasons
 Alfie
 Batman
 The Battle of Algiers Golden Lion winner
 The Birds, the Bees and the Italians Palme d'Or winner
 Blowup
 Chappaqua
 Cul-de-Sac Golden Bear winner
 Follow Me, Boys!
 Frankie and Johnny
 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 Hawaii
 It Happened Here
 A Man and a Woman Palme d'Or winner
 Morgan!
 Our Man Flint
 Paradise, Hawaiian Style
 The Sand Pebbles
 The Singing Nun
 Spinout
 Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (short subject)
 The Wild Angels

Hit Songs
"The Sound of Silence" – Simon and Garfunkel
"We Can Work It Out" – The Beatles
"My Love" – Petula Clark
"Lightnin' Strikes" – Lou Christie
"Ballad of the Green Berets" – Sgt. Barry Sadler (the Top Song of 1966, according to Billboard)
"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" – Nancy Sinatra
"(You're My) Soul and Inspiration'" – Righteous Brothers
"Good Lovin'" – The Young Rascals
"Yellow Submarine" – The Beatles
"Monday Monday" – The Mamas and Papas
"When A Man Loves a Woman" – Percy Sledge
"Paint It Black" – The Rolling Stones
"Paperback Writer" – The Beatles
"Kicks" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
"Gloria" – Shadows of Knight
"Homeward Bound" – Simon and Garfunkel
"I Am a Rock" – Simon and Garfunkel
"Sweet Pea" – Tommy Roe
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" – Dusty Springfield
"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" – James Brown
"A Groovy Kind of Love" – The Mindbenders
"Along Comes Mary" – The Association
"Red Rubber Ball" – The Cyrkle
"Lil' Red Riding Hood" – Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
"Born Free" – Roger Williams
"Strangers In the Night" – Frank Sinatra
"Wild Thing" – The Troggs
"Summer in the City" – Lovin' Spoonful
"Reach Out I'll Be There" – The Four Tops
"Last Train To Clarksville" – The Monkees
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" – The Supremes
"Summertime" – Billy Stewart
"Winchester Cathedral" – New Vaudeville Band
"Good Vibrations" – The Beach Boys
"Mellow Yellow" – Donovan
"I'm a Believer" – The Monkees
"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" – The Royal Guardsmen
"That's Life" – Frank Sinatra
"Sugar Town" – Nancy Sinatra
"Tell It Like It Is" – Aaron Neville
"Good Thing" – Paul Revere and the Raiders

New Books
The Adventurers – Harold Robbins
The Anti-Death League – Kingsley Amis
Capable of Honor – Allen Drury
The Circle Game – Margaret Atwood
The Dartmoor Worker anthology of William Crossing
Der Meteor – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Devil's Brigade – Robert H. Adleman
The Double Image – Helen McInnes
The Embezzler – Louis Auchincloss
Expeditions – Margaret Atwood
Fantastic Voyage – Isaac Asimov
The Fixer – Bernard Malamud
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Jean de Florette – Marcel Pagnol
Last Picture Show – Larry McMurtry
The Magic Finger – Roald Dahl
Manon des sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Master and Margarita – Mihail Bulgakov
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein
Octopussy and The Living Daylights – Ian Fleming
The Soldier's Art – Anthony Powell
The Solid Mandala – Patrick White
Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein – Margaret Atwood
The Sun King – Nancy Mitford
Tai-Pan – James Clavell
Tell No Man – Adela Rogers St. Johns
A Thousand Days – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

Nobel Prizes 1966
 The 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature was won by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs.
 The 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was won by Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins.
 The 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by Robert S. Mulliken.
 The 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Alfred Kastler.
 The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded in 1966.

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Magadan Oblast is one of 85 federal subjects of Russia. It is located in the Asian part of Russia. It is grouped and governed as part of the Far Eastern District. The Far Eastern District contains ten other federal subjects too.

History
In the past, Magadan was home to native Evens who didn't live in one place for long. They frequently traveled because they reared reindeer, hunted and fished. In the 17th century, the Russians, who were Europeans, first arrived in the area. They came to explore the Far East. They were looking for furs and gold. They also named the area Kolyma. Kolyma still remains as a popular name for the region. Gold and platinum were discovered in the area in the early 19th century. During Stalin's rule in the 1930s, the Soviet Union was rapidly developing because of industrialization. Therefore, there was an increase in demand for gold to pay for this industrialization. This led to many mines opening in the region. Many gulags were also opened to house the increasing forced labour population. The labourers were brought in to help dig out the minerals or make roads into the area. Magadan was famous as a result for the most number of gulag camps in the far eastern region. Prisoners-of-war during World War II were also brought to the area. After the death of Stalin in 1953, the gulags were slowly closed down and most prisoners were released. Mining activity continued with paid workers taking over the job. Living standards fell while the Soviet Union attempted to improve the economy during perestroika. This caused a lot of people to leave Magadan to find for a better life. Magadan Oblast continues to remain as a federal subject within Russia.

Geography
Magadan is found in the far eastern part of Siberia. Because of this, it has a subarctic climate, which have long, cold winters, and short, mild summers. There is not a lot of rainfall in the area because of the climate. The landscape is mostly mountainous except in areas closer to the Sea of Okhotsk. There are plenty of animals, birds and plants in the area. The area is also very rich in minerals, like gold, silver, tin, and tungsten.

Demographics

Magadan's population has been decreasing since the end of the Soviet Union according to data. Most of the population live in cities and towns, like the capital, the city of Magadan. The population consists mostly of Russians. Ethnic Evens and other natives compose of only a small part of the population. Most people in Magadan practice Orthodox Christianity or are spiritual but not religious. Some ethnic Evens still practice Shamanism or certain aspects of it, which is a belief that worships spirits and nature. Russian is taught and used commonly in Magadan. But the local Even language is still taught in some pre-school and elementary school. It is used mostly at home.

Economy
The economy of Magadan is mostly reliant on the mining of minerals, like gold, silver and tin. Hence in 2005, President Vladimir Putin has supported reducing tax for businesses involved in mineral mining. Another major industry in the area is fishing. There are limited rearing of animals or growing of crops because of the climate. This results in having to bring in food products to supply the people living in Magadan. Many people in the area do not have jobs. This is because a lot of companies have closed down due to the harsh climate and the poor condition of buildings and equipment. The government has allowed for the Special Economic Zone in Magadan to be created and extended till December 31, 2025. This was done to attract investors and business to come to Magadan.

Politics
The Governor of Magadan is the leader of the oblast. The Governor is chosen by public vote every five years. The Magadan Oblast Duma, is the oblast's parliament. The Duma lawmakers are chosen similarly by the public every five years. The majority of lawmakers in the Duma are currently from the United Russia party. The United Russia party is the ruling party of Russia.

Transportation
Magadan is currently only connected with the rest of Russia by a road called the Kolyma Highway. There are no railway operating in the area. But there have been plans for the near future to have a railway line running towards Chukotka while cutting through Magadan. Long-distance travel can also be done by air or sea. The oblast has several airports, such as the Sokol Airport. Flights from these airports link Magadan to cities further away. However there are no international flights into the area.

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The word "information" is used in many different ways. Originally, it comes from a word that meant to give a form to something. Information  is something that people can learn, know about, or understand. For example, a newspaper contains information about the world. This article contains information about "Information".

Information in computer science
People who use computers often use the words information and data in the same way. There are special fields of study called "information science" and "information technology" (IT).

In the 1970s and 1980s, some people gave a new, specific meaning to "information". At that time, the first computer databases were built. In computer science, data often means a kind of information that has not been checked. That means data has not been changed or fixed, and you may not be able to trust it. With the new meaning, information means data that has been checked and passed tests for what it must be. A person can trust that "information" is correct.

Information can only be correct and good enough to trust if there are very good and complete ways to check the data (data checking, validation or verification) and decide it is good enough (acceptance process).  A person must know rules were used to check the data or trust the person who checked the data.  If a person cannot tell that this was done, the information still seems to be data for that person, so that person must check the data again, in that general view about data.

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Jill Wendy Dando (9 November 1961 – 26 April 1999) was a British television presenter. She was born and grew up in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and moved to London in the 1980s.

She worked as a journalist and newsreader, and also presented the Holiday programme and Crimewatch. She was engaged to Alan Farthing for the last few months of her life. She was shot on her doorstep in Fulham, west London. She was taken to Charing Cross Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival. Barry George was convicted of her murder in 2001 but was freed in 2008 when his retrial found him not guilty.

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Lawrence Douglas Lamb (born 10 October 1947) is a British actor. He was born in Edmonton, London. He is best known for his BBC television roles as Archie Mitchell in EastEnders and as Mick Shipman in Gavin & Stacey. His son, George Lamb (born 1979), is a television and radio presenter.

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Bad Zurzach is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district.  Bad Zurzach was known as Zurzach.

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The Fishburn was a store ship in the First Fleet. The First Fleet carried the convicts and soldiers to Australia to start a penal colony. The ships left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. This was the start of European settlement of Australia. The Fishburn was a ship of 378 tons under the command of Master Robert Brown. The ship was  long and  wide. It had been built in Whitby in 1780. The ship had a contract with the British Government to transport food and equipment. The owners were paid at a rate of 10 shillings per ton per month until the ship returned to Deptford.

The Fishburn and the Golden Grove left Port Jackson in November 1788 to return to England. She had to rest at the Falkland Islands for several days as several sailors were sick. She was returned to her owners at Deptford on May 25, 1789. No other information has been found about the ship afterwards.

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 A list of 5 people who were on the Fishburn

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Morris Halle (; July 23, 1923 – April 2, 2018) was a Latvian-American linguist. She was a Institute Professor. He later became professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was best known for his pioneering work with Noam Chomsky and Fred Lukoff and for his The Sound Pattern of English (1968) work with Chomsky.

Halle died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 2, 2018 at the age of 94.

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Hector Tjupuru Burton is an Australian Aboriginal artist. He is a leading artist from Amaṯa, in north-western South Australia. His work has been shown in exhibitions since 2003, in several cities in Australia and other countries. His first solo exhibition was held in 2004, in Melbourne. Examples of his paintings are held in the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Flinders University.

Burton had paintings chosen as finalists for the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2011 and 2012.

Early life
Burton was born some time in the late 1930s. He was born near what is now Pipalyatjara, in north-west South Australia. A member of the Pitjantjatjara people, his childhood was spent living a traditional lifestyle in the bush. When he was still a child, Burton and his parents came out of the desert and settled at Ernabella. As a young man, Burton worked as a ringer at the large cattle station called Curtin Springs. He later moved to Amaṯa where he worked building dams, fences and cattle yards outside the town. He also later worked on a building project in Ernabella.

Burton is a senior custodian of traditional Pitjantjatjara law ( or Dreaming). His father's homeland, to the west of Irrunytju, is closely associated with the  (Caterpillar Dreaming) and the  (Red Kangaroo Dreaming). His mother is from Lake Wilson. These legends are the subjects of many of his paintings.

Painting
Burton started painting in 2002. He paints for Tjala Arts, Amaṯa's community-based art company. When he started, the company was called Minymaku Arts. Painting among Pitjantjatjara was originally done by women only (minymaku means "women's"). Men did not join the women until several years later, because they were afraid of revealing too much spiritual knowledge (which in Western Desert cultures is meant to be kept secret). Burton was one of the first men at Amaṯa to begin painting; the company changed its name to Tjala Arts in 2004, after several other men joined him.

The art community at Amaṯa is still strongly conservative. Only the basics of traditional beliefs are described in their works. To keep the meanings of his paintings hidden, Burton uses dotting and other techniques to disguise sacred figures and ancient symbols. He is a strong supporter of maintaing strict forms of secrecy when it comes to art produced in his community. He is now a board member of Tjala Arts, and often coordinates projects and exhibitions with the other artists.

Burton's early paintings represent legends from his family's Dreaming. They also show strong Christian influences. Burton was taught by Presbyterian missionaries when he was growing up at Ernabella, and he mixed these beliefs with his family's Dreaming. When he was older, he was ordained as a minister, and is now a senior member of the Church on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands.

Since the later part of 2011, Burton and several other men from Amaṯa have led a project to change the subject of their artists' work. Instead of depicting sacred Dreaming knowledge, he and the other board members of Tjala Arts have encouraged their artists to paint about other things (such as the landscape or wildlife). Burton and the other leaders decided that the popularity of Western Desert art had resulted in people asking too many questions about their traditional designs and too much secret knowledge being revealed. The centre's first exhibition under this project was held in March 2012, in Alice Springs. The exhibition was called Punu-Nguru (From the Trees) and its paintings depicted traditional designs of trees from the artists' home countries.

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Hector Burton


The Nintendo GameCube (called GameCube, NGC, or GC for short) is the fourth video game home console made by Nintendo. Nintendo's previous console was called the Nintendo 64. Nintendo's next console is called the Nintendo Wii, released in 2006.

The Nintendo GameCube is the first Nintendo console to use discs to store the games. Unlike the other consoles at the time, the GameCube uses small discs instead of full-size DVDs.

The GameCube also had many new features compared to other Nintendo video game consoles, and was the first Nintendo console to officially support Internet play (playing together without wires). It could also connect to the Game Boy Advance to allow special features in some games.

The console was released on September 14, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe and May 17, 2002 in Australia. The GameCube sold 21.74 million units worldwide. The system was discontinued in early 2009.

Its successor, Wii, is backwards compatible with GameCube games. However, only the original model is. The Wii Family Edition and Wii Mini lack GameCube backwards compatibility. The Wii's successor, the Wii U can play GameCube games only if the Homebrew app is downloaded.

Controller
The GameCube's controllers have two analog joysticks. In many games, one of them is used to control a character, while the other is used to control the camera, or some other secondary function. In addition to the analog sticks and the directional pad (D-pad), there are eight buttons: A, B, Y, X, L, R, Z, and Start.

Nintendo later released a wireless version of the controller, called the WaveBird. Instead of wires, it used RF signals to communicate with the console and was powered by standard AA batteries.

Popular Games
The Nintendo GameCube was known of its popular first games, which includes:

Super Smash Bros. Melee
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Super Mario Sunshine
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, Mario Party 6, Mario Party 7
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Wave Race Blue Storm

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Nintendo GameCube


Contra (known as Probotector in Europe) is a 1987 arcade shooting video game. The player tries to balance the terrorist organization Red Falcon from taking over the planet Earth.

Gameplay

Either Bill or Lance is chosen. The player has a rifle with no limit to the number of times it can shoot. However, the player dies after being hit by an enemy once.

The game has ten stages. For each stage, the player must shoot out the sensors before moving on. A player has 3 lives, and when all of them are lost, the game ends. In the arcade version, the player can continue a few times.

There are three types of stages:

Side-scroller
3-D
Boss

Most stages are side-scroller stages, though Contra stages follow a basic pattern.

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Contra


Anton Rubinstein (born Vikhvatinets 28 November 1829; died Petershof 20 November 1894) was a Russian pianist and composer.  Rubinstein and Franz Liszt were thought to be the greatest pianists of the 19th century.  He was very important as a teacher and influenced many Russian musicians.  He composed lots of music, although hardly any of it is heard nowadays.  As a composer he is best remembered today by a little piece of piano music called “Melody in F”.

History

First concert
Rubinstein gave his first piano concert when he was ten.  Between 1840 and 1843 his piano teacher took him on long concert tours of Europe.  He met Chopin and Liszt and was received in London by Queen Victoria.   Between 1844 and 1846 the family lived in Berlin.  His friends there included Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.

Lessons
In 1846 his father died and Anton went to Vienna where he gave piano lessons to try to earn some money.  When he returned to Russia in 1848 the tsar’s sister-in-law let him live in her palace.  He played for lots of parties.  Often the tsar came.

Tours
In 1854 he toured Europe again.  Then he returned to Russia.  He wanted to improve music education in Russia so he started the Russian Musical Society and then he started the St Petersburg Conservatory.  During his long career he spent many years as director of the Conservatory as well as conducting concerts.

Compositions
He wrote a lot of music, but although his compositions often started off with good ideas they often become rather boring.  His opera Tom the fool was not a success.  He was annoyed and wrote an article in a music magazine saying that it was not possible to write operas using Russian stories.  He criticized several composers who were writing music which used Russian folktunes.  This included the composer Mily Balakirev and his friends who were called The Mighty Handful.  He said that they had not learned how to compose properly.

Rubinstein very much wanted to be famous as a composer as well as a teacher, but this made him very narrow-minded.  However, it was as a pianist and conductor that he was important.  He helped to improve the standard of music making in Russia by teaching and performing, and by starting the conservatory in St Petersburg.

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Edna May Oliver (originally Edna May Nutter; 9 November 1883 – 9 November 1942) was an American actress. She performed primarily on stage and in movies. She usually played tartly-tongued spinsters in her movies. Her notable movie roles included playing Mrs. Tracy Wyatt in Cimarron, Aunt March for Little Women in 1933 and The Red Queen for Alice in Wonderland, also in 1933.

Oliver was born in Malden, Massachusetts. She died following an intestinal blockage at age 59 in Malibu, California.

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Robert Alan Frosch FREng (born May 22, 1928) is an American scientist. He was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration.

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Bright Eyes may mean several different things:

Bright Eyes (movie), a 1934 movie from 20th Century Fox starring Shirley Temple
Bright Eyes (band), an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska

Bright Eyes


The Credo () is part of Christian Mass.  Credo is Latin, and means I believe. It is a statement of faith. In Catholicism, the Nicene Creed is used very often; but there are others, such as the Athanasian Creed or Apostles' Creed.

Very often it is sung by the crowd, or by a choir; many people have written credoes. One of them is Antonio Vivaldi

Media (Vivaldi: Credo in E minor (RV 591))

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Credo


The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. It has 80 members. 61 of them are from the Democratic Party and 19 of them are from the Republican Party. It meets at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.

References

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California State Assembly


Barbaridactylus is an extinct genus of nyctosaurid pterosaur from Maastrichtian/Danian-aged rocks from the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco. It was one of six new Maastriichtian/Danian-aged pterosaurs described in 2018. Two of these pterosaurs are yet to be named.

Description
Barbaridactylus was probably a slender pterosaur. Its arm and wing bones were averagely sized for a pterosaur of its time.

Discovery and naming
Barbaridactylus was described based from two specimens.

The first specimen consisted of a partial jaw, a single neck vertebra, part of the arm and wing bones and the left thigh bone.

The second specimen (catalogued as USM93000) consists of a well preserved skeleton.

Paleoecology
Barbaridactylus was discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco. It coexisted with the pterosaurs Alcione, Simurghia, Tethydraco and Phospatodraco and the dinosaur Chenanisaurus.

References

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Barbaridactylus


Heraldry is the art and science of designing and using a coat of arms.  The study of coats of arms is also called armory.  The practice of using distinct markings on a person's shield started in the Middle Ages, when a knight's helmet covered his face, making everybody look the same in battle.  At first, only knights and nobility had coats of arms, but in the Middle Ages, some cities started using heraldry too.  By the end of the Middle Ages, other people began using coats of arms, now called burgher arms, which means they belong to a commoner and not a member of the nobility.  An official in charge of approving and recording coats of arms is called a herald.  The related study of flags is called vexillology.

Heraldry is described in English using a specialised  called Blazon which is based on French words.  Heraldry uses only bold, bright colors, called tinctures, with special names.  Gold, for instance, is called Or.  This word is often capitalised to distinguish it from the conjunction or.  Silver and white are sometimes treated as different colors, but in English Blazon both are called argent.  Some combinations of colors represent furs, and these have names that are only used in heraldry.  There are a number of geometric shapes, called ordinaries, that are used in heraldry, and each of these has a special name too.  The shield may be divided in a number of ways, usually following the lines of the ordinaries.

Heraldry


Leandro Despouy (April 4, 1947 – December 18, 2019) was an Argentine human rights lawyer and politician. He was born in San Luis, Argentina. He was the United Nations Commission on Human Right's Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers from August 2003 until July 2009.

From 2002 through 2016, he was the General Auditor of Argentina.

Despouy died of cancer in Buenos Aires on December 18, 2019 at the age of 72.

References

Other websites
 UN Cites Torture Reports At Gitmo, CBS News, June 23, 2005

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Walnut Hills High School is a high school in Cincinnati, Ohio. According to Newsweek, Walnut Hills is the best school in Ohio. It helps prepare you for college. The school colors are blue and gold. The motto is "Sursum ad summum", which is Latin for "Rise to the Highest". The mascot is the eagle, and the sports teams are known as "The Eagles". They have a newspaper that comes out every month and have a magazine that comes out every year.

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Walnut Hills High School


Bhoun is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil.

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Bhoun


Herbert Ira London (March 6, 1939 – November 10, 2018) was an American conservative activist, commentator, author, and academic. London was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He was a Republican.

London was the president of the Hudson Institute from 1997 to 2011. He was a conservative columnist for The Washington Times. London was president of the London Center for Policy Research. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

London was the Conservative nominee for Governor of New York in 1990, but lost the election to Mario Cuomo.

London died in Manhattan from complications of heart failure on November 10, 2018 at the age of 79.

References

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 London Center for Policy Research website

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The North American Ford Focus was a compact vehicle made by the Ford Motor Company. The North American version was introduced in 1999 for the 2000 model year. It was then facelifted in April 2004 for the 2005 model year, a new version came in late 2007 for the 2008 model year and was then redesigned in early 2011 for the 2012 model year, that generation is the same that's sold worldwide. The US Focus was discontinued after the 2018 model year.

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Ford Focus (North America)


A pixel (short for picture element) is a single point in a picture. On the monitor of a computer, a pixel is usually a square. Every pixel has a color and all the pixels together are the picture. The color of a pixel can be stored by using a combination of red, green and blue (RGB) but other combinations are also possible, such as cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK).

The word "pixel"
The word "pixel" was first used in a paper by Frederic C. Billingsley in 1965. He did not create the word himself. He got it from Keith E. McFarland but Keith does not know where he got it from. Keith said that the word was in use in those days.

The word "pixel" uses "pix" as a shorter word (an abbreviation) for "picture". The word pix was first used in 1932 in Variety, a magazine. It was an abbreviation for "pictures" or movies. By 1938 the word "pix" was also used for pictures that did not move (still pictures).

The word "picture element" is even older. For example, the German word Bildpunkt (which means "picture point") was used in a 1888 patent of Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.

Related pages
 Display resolution
 Raster graphics

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Pixel


Emperor Ruizong of Tang (22 June 662 – 13 July 716),  personal name Li Dan, also known at times during his life as Li Xulun, Li Lun, Wu Lun, and Wu Dan, was the fifth and ninth emperor of Tang Dynasty. He was the sons of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian. He was the brother of Emperor Zhongzong. He was the Emperor of Tang Dynasty for two times.

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Emperor Ruizong of Tang


Taylor Spreitler (born October 23, 1993) is an American actress and former model. She played the role of Mia McCormic on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. She appeared as Lennox Scanlon in the ABC Family sitcom Melissa & Joey.

Movies

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Taylor Spreitler


Most Haunted is a British television programme based on a group of paranormal investigators (people who investigate things) going and doing paranormal investigations of places. The following is a list of episodes and locations for the series since it began in 2002.

Series table

  These dates were the dates that complete box sets of DVD's were released on.  Previously, they were only released as single episode DVD's.

Series 1 (2002)

Note:  Most of these episodes were only 30 minutes long, however, some have been made  the full hour and titled 'Most Haunted Unseen'. Footage added has a note that says that it is not part of the original broadcast.  The first episode to be produced, and the last to appear in the series was Michelham Priory. In Series 8, the team revisited this location to mark the 100th episode.

Series 2 (2003)

Series 3 (2003)

Series 4 (2004)

Note: Phil Whyman left at the end of the 4th Series.

Series 5 (2004/2005)

Series 6 (2005)

Note: David Wells became a medium on this show in this series alongside the long-time favorite, Derek Acorah. This was the last series that Derek Acorah would be the medium in and he did not appear in the final episode at Sinai House. The original run for Series 6 was only to be 18 episodes, with the last 11 as Series 7, but due to the leaving of Acorah, the series was made longer.

Series 7 (2005)

Series 8 (2006)

Note: The last 3 episodes were meant to be from Series 7, but were made part of the eighth series. They are known as the "lost episodes" and had more guest showings from Medium Gordon Smith. Also appearing were Ian Lawman, Ian Shillito and Kevin Wade. Richard Felix departed the programme after Series 8 because their producers dropped his role from the show.

Series 9 (2007)

Note: The series became known as New Most Haunted after Episode 4 in the television listings on screen, with the word 'New' covering the corner of the logo for the show.

References and notes

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List of Most Haunted episodes


Adverse possession is a rule in property law. This rule says that if property is not being used by its owner while another person is using the property, this other person (called an "adverse possessor") becomes the new owner of the property. To get these rights, the adverse possessor usually must use the property in the way a normal owner would do for a period of time, typically 20 years. In some jurisdictions, a form of adverse possession exists in which the adverse possessor ends up with sharing some rights to property with the owner, such as a right-of-way, instead of getting all the rights.

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Adverse possession


Stockholm is the capital city of Sweden. It is also the biggest city in Sweden. It is on the east coast of the country. The city is built on islands, with canals and open water in the inner city. Stockholm is found between Sweden's third largest lake, Mälaren, and the Baltic Sea.

Tyresta National Park is near Stockholm.

Geography
Central Stockholm has four different parts - Kungsholmen, Södermalm, Norrmalm and Östermalm. Kungsholmen and Södermalm are islands, while Norrmalm and Östermalm are parts of the mainland. Also, there are several smaller islands in the inner city - Gamla Stan, Riddarholmen, Djurgården and Skeppsholmen. Since Stockholm has so many islands, it is sometimes referred to as the "Venice of the North".

Gamla Stan is the oldest part of the city - the name means "Old Town", and is usually called that in English. Djurgården is mostly a large park, but there are buildings on the island. Most of these are museums that commemorate Sweden's and Stockholm's past - like Skansen, a zoo with a Swedish theme. Skeppsholmen is an island that used to be a training ground and military school, but most of the buildings are now used for museums and art galleries, such as the Modern Museum, or the East Asian museum. Riddarholmen is a part of Gamla Stan, but actually a different island.

All of the islands in Stockholm are connected by several bridges. The biggest one is Västerbron, going from Kungsholmen to Södermalm.

History

Birger Jarl is considered the founder of Stockholm. It is believed that he rebuilt a defense building in the 13th century on what is today the island of the Old town. Around the fortification, a town grew. The town grew mainly because of its sea and land trading.

Wikimania

The last Wikimania conference is hosted in this city in 2019.

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Stockholm


Nicolas Alfonsi (13 April 1936 – March 16, 2020) was a French politician and lawyer. He was born in Cargèse, Corsica.

Alfonsi was a member of the Senate of France, representing the department of Corse-du-Sud. He was a member of the Radical Party of the Left. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1973 to 1988 and again from 2001 to 2014. From 1981 to 1984, Alfonsi was a member of the European Parliament.

Alfonsi died on 16 March 2020 of COVID-19 at the age of 83.

References

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Nicolas Alfonsi


Jory Prum (January 31, 1975 – April 22, 2016), also known as Jory K. Prum, was an American audio engineer. He was best known for his work in movie and video games. He was the owner of a recording studio located in the San Francisco Bay Area. He worked many games but most famously The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Brütal Legend.

Prum was killed in a motorcycle accident on April 22, 2016 in San Francisco, California, aged 41.

References

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Jory Prum


Brian Francis Johns (6 May 1936 – 1 January 2016) was an Australian company director and journalist. He  was the managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from 1995 to 2000. Johns was born in Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia.

Johns died on 1 January 2016 in a hospital in Sydney, Australia after battling cancer at the age of 79.

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Brian Johns (businessman)


The Eleventh Commandment was a phrase used by President of the United States Ronald Reagan during his 1966 campaign for Governor of California. The Commandment reads:
Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Reagan followed this "commandment" during the first five primaries during the 1976 Republican primary against incumbent Gerald Ford, all of which he lost.

References

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The Eleventh Commandment (Ronald Reagan)


Inverbervie (Ordnance Survey) is a small town on the north-east coast of Scotland, south of Stonehaven, in the Aberdeenshire council area.

The Inverbervie name derives from Inbhir Beirbhe, meaning Mouth of the River Bervie in Scottish Gaelic.

Notable residents
 John Arbuthnot, mathematician, physician, satirist and polymath
 Hercules Linton, designer of the Cutty Sark clipper ship
 Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author, lived in nearby Arbuthnott

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Inverbervie


Qena Governorate is a  governorates of Egypt. The capital city is also named Qena.

Cities
As of 2018, 9 cities had over 15,000 people. They are:
Abu Tesht
El Waqf
Dishna
Farshut
Nag Hammadi
Naqada
Qift
Qena
Qus

References

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Qena Governorate


Iron Maiden is a first album made by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
It was released on 11th April 1980. The main musical type of the album is heavy metal but some songs, like "Sanctuary" or "Running Free" are like punk rock music. Some fans feel that a song from this album, "Phantom Of The Opera" is the best song Iron Maiden have ever made.

Musicians
People who were members of Iron Maiden when the album was made:

 Steve Harris - Bass guitar
 Paul Di'Anno – Singing
 Dennis Stratton – Electric guitar
 Dave Murray - Electric guitar
 Clive Burr - Percussion

Songs

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Iron Maiden (album)


At the start of the American Civil War, Kansas was a new state. Kansas did not allow slavery in the state constitution. Kansas fought on the side of the Union, although there was a big pro-slavery feeling. These divisions led to some of conflicts. The conflicts included the Lawrence Massacre in August 1863. Later the state witnessed the defeat of Confederate General Sterling Price by Union General Alfred Pleasonton at Mine Creek.

Background
Kansas had been admitted as a state of the Union in January 1861. This was very shortly before the outbreak of the Civil war. There had been some guerrilla fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. The fighting became known as Bleeding Kansas. After three constitutions, the fourth, called the Wyandotte Constitution, was approved by the voters and sent to the United States Congress for approval and statehood.

Kansas entered the Union as a free state and the 34th state on January 29, 1861. Even after it became a state, there were still hard feelings in Kansas. The Kansas-Missouri border continued to be terrorized by Guerrilla bands from both sides.

But statehood did not settle the hard feelings in Kansas — or the violence. Pro-slavery people still fought at the Kansas-Missouri border throughout the war. Lawrence, a free-state place in the 1850s, was burned, and more than 150 men and boys were killed by a pro-Southern irregular army under William Quantrill in 1863.

Military units
Less than three months after Kansas became a state, on April 12, Fort Sumter was attacked by Confederate troops and the Civil War began. In Washington D.C., there were rumors that President Abraham Lincoln would be kidnapped or even assassinated. A senator from Kansas, James Henry Lane organized 120 men from Kansas called the "Frontier Guard". For three weeks they remained in the White House to protect the President. Most Kansans favored joining the Union in the war. Governor Charles Robinson and Senator Lane recruited troops for the Union Army. During the war the federal government called for a total of 16,654 men from Kansas. But more than 20,000 enlisted and the state sent 19 regiments and four batteries to fight for the Union Army. Some of the men came from other states as Kansas only had about 30,000 men old enough to join the military. Kansas soldiers suffered a total of about 8,500 casualties during the war.

Lawrence Massacre
The first action in Kansas was not between the rival armies. It was a guerrilla raid in August 1863 by pro-slavery irregular forces led by W.C. Quantrill. They attacked the city of Lawrence, a centre of anti-slavery sentiment. They killed about 180 men and boys and destroyed a number of buildings. As the raiders could be heard shouting “Remember Osceola!”, the attack was taken to be a reprisal for an earlier raid by anti-slavery jayhawkers on Osceola, Missouri. Some believed that it was also a response to the recent deaths of some of the raiders’ imprisoned womenfolk, when their jailhouse collapsed, perhaps by design. (Recent research shows that the collapse was almost certainly accidental.) The massacre outraged the Confederate government, which had granted recognition to Quantrill under the Partisan Ranger Act, but now withdrew support from irregular forces.

Later engagements
The Battle of Baxter Springs, sometimes called the Baxter Springs Massacre, was a minor battle in the War. It was fought on October 6, 1863 near the modern-day town of Baxter Springs, Kansas.

On October 25, 1864, a series of three battles occurred. The first two in Linn County, Kansas, with the final in Vernon County, Missouri. The first was the Battle of Marais des Cygnes (also called the "Battle of Trading Post"). The second was a cavalry battle called the Battle of Mine Creek. This was a significant battle between mounted cavalry for Confederate forces and several brigades of Union cavalry that were pursuing General Price.  They were between Major General Sterling Price, leading the Missouri expedition, against Union forces under Major General Alfred Pleasonton. Price, after going south from Kansas City, was initially met by Pleasonton at Marais des Cygnes. At the end of the day, the Confederate army was destroyed as a fighting force and withdrew into Arkansas.

References

Other websites
Access documents, photographs, and other primary sources on Kansas Memory, the Kansas State Historical Society's digital portal
Online Exhibit - Keep the Flag to the Front, Kansas Historical Society
Cool Things - Civil War Battle Flags, Kansas Historical Society
The Civil War in Kansas: A Bibliography, Kansas Historical Society

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Kansas in the American Civil War


The Norway women's national football team represents Norway on the women's side in association football. Norway won the 1987 and 1993 UEFA Women's Championships. It won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1995. They won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Norway women's national football team


Hirschaid is the biggest municipality in the district of Bamberg. About 11,650 people live there. The mayor is Andreas Schlund.

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Hirschaid


The Cup of Tea is an oil painting on canvas by Mary Cassatt. It was painted about 1880.  It measures 36 3/8 x 25 3/4 in. (92.4 x 65.4 cm). The picture hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The artist made the tea ritual the subject of a series of works painted around 1880-81. The model was her sister, Lydia, who often posed for her. Cassatt showed the painting to critical acclaim in the 1881 Impressionist exhibition.

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Kula Kangri is a  mountain in the Himalayas range, in Tibet. It is the 46th highest mountain in the world. The first people to reach the top were Japanese climbers Itani, Sakamoto, Ozaki, and Ohtani, in 1986. In the past, it was thought that Kula Kangri was partly in Bhutan. Later surveys show it as only in Tibet.

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Avinesh Rekhi (born 5 October 1985) is an Indian television actor. He made his debut in the 2008 Bollywood movie Ru Ba Ru and his TV debut by playing the main lead in Chhal — Sheh Aur Maat by Kabir Jaiswal. He then played a positive role in Sony India serial Main Naa Bhoolungi as Neeraj and a negative role in Colors serial Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon with his character name Sultan. He has also worked in a few TV commercials. Currently he is playing the role of Uma Shankar (Male Lead) in Star Plus's show Tu Sooraj, Main Saanjh Piyaji.

Television
Chhal-Sheh Aur Maat as Kabir Jaiswal
Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon as Sultan Mohan Kundra
Main Naa Bhoolungi[8] as Neeraj Sachdeva
Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap[9] as Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar
Darr Sabko Lagta Hai as Aakash (episode 22)
Tu Sooraj Main, Saanjh Piyaji as Uma Shankar (Lead Role)

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The feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider or flying mouse, is the world's smallest gliding mammal. It is named after its long feather-shaped tail. Although only the size of a very small mouse (65 to 80 mm and 10 to 14 g), it can leap and glide long distances from tree to tree, up to 25 metres. Like other gliding mammals, the feathertail glider has a skin membrane between the fore and hind legs; thicker than that of the other marsupials like the sugar glider, but smaller in proportion, extending only between the elbows and knees.

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Black British are people who have British nationality but are originally from Africa.

The 2001 UK census says there are 1.2 million Black British people. They are 2.33% of the population of the United Kingdom.

In the past, Black British used to mean any immigrant who was not English, like British Asians, but people say that it was because of racism in England at that time.

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Link's Crossbow Training is a shooter video game made by Nintendo for the Wii game console. It is a spin-off video game in The Legend of Zelda series. It uses the Wii Zapper, which is included with the game.

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Luis Racionero i Grau (January 15, 1940 – March 8, 2020) was a Spanish essayist.  He studied engineering and economics at the University of Barcelona and urban studies at the University of California Berkeley.

He was director of Spain's national library and of the Spanish College (Colegio de España) in Paris. He worked with newspapers including El País, La Vanguardia and Mundo Deportivo. He wrote both in Catalan and in Spanish.

In 1999 he won the Fernando Lara Novel Award for his then-unpublished work La sonrisa de la Gioconda.

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Swea City is a city in Iowa in the United States.

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Swea City, Iowa


The national emblem of Belarus replaced the historic Pahonia arms in 1995.  It has a ribbon in the colors of the national flag, a map of Belarus, wheat ears and a red star. It is sometimes called the coat of arms of Belarus, but this is not correct.

Gallery

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National emblem of Belarus


Saline County is the name of five counties in the United States:
 Saline County, Arkansas
 Saline County, Illinois
 Saline County, Kansas
 Saline County, Missouri
 Saline County, Nebraska

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Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (15 December 1923 – 12 April 2020) was a Norwegian economist and politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He served in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Per Borten and Lars Korvald. From 1950 to 1952, he was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He was State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1967 to 1969, and was Minister of the Finance from 1972 to 1973. He never held elected political office.

Norbom was born in Bærum. In 1942, during World War II, Norbom was a prisoner at Grini concentration camp for a short time. He was later imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp.

Norbom died in Suwanee, Georgia, United States on 12 April 2020. He was 96.

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A museum is a building<ref>Alexander, Edward Porter et al. (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=owHSEk96qxQC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false  Museums in Motion: an Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums, p. 2]; excerpt, "Douglas Alan, former director of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, said that 'a museum in its simplest form consists of a building to house collections of objects for inspection, study and enjoyment."</ref> which is open to the public.   It is also the institution where things are collected and then shown to people.

History
The word, museum, originates from Musa which is the goddesses of literature, art, and science who appears in Greek mythology.

According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the definition of museums has changed over time.

The oldest museum structure in the world is the Shōsō-in'' in Nara, Japan.

Today's museums are non-profit, permanent institutions in the service of society and its development.

Function
A museum acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the  tangible heritage and the intangible heritage of humanity and the environment.

Museums exist for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.

Some museums have things that visitors can do. For example, ecomuseums exist.

Museums can be about different things such as art, national history, natural history, or science. People go to museums sometimes to learn, or to simply have fun.

Museums with live animals are called zoos.

Exhibitions
Temporary or changing exhibits
Exhibition which selects works along with some themes, e.g., a writer, a time, an area, etc.
Permanent exhibits
Exhibition which displays the works which the museum possesses.

Gallery

Art museums

History museums

Literature museums

Natural history museums

Open air museums

Science museums

Museum ships

References

Further reading
 Simon, Nina K. (2010). Simon, Nina K. (2010). The Participatory Museum.

Other websites

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 Virtual Library Musems website

Museum


The Genovese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime.

Bosses of the Genovese crime family
 1922–1931 – Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (Boss, murdered in 1931 during the Castellammarese War)
 1931–1946 – Salvatore 'Charlie "Lucky" Luciano' Lucania (Boss, jailed in 1936)
 1936–1946 – Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello (acting boss)
 1946–1957 – Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello (Boss, retired)
 1957–1969 – Vito "Don Vito" Genovese (Boss, jailed 1959, died in prison in 1969)
 Circa 1959–1972 – Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli (acting boss, turned front boss sometime in the mid 1960s, murdered 1972)
 Circa 1965–1972 – Gerardo "Jerry" Catena (jailed 1970-72, retired 1973, died 2000 at age 98)
 Circa 1965–1981 – Philip "Benny Squint" Lombardo (retired)
 1972–1981 – Frank "Funzi" Tieri (acting boss, turned front boss sometime in the early 1970s by the family)
 1981–1987 – Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno (front boss for Vincent Gigante, jailed 1987, died in prison)
 1981–2005 – Vincent "Chin" Gigante (Boss, jailed 1997, died in prison of heart failure on December 19, 2005)
 1990–1996 – Liborio "Barney" Bellomo (street boss, jailed)
 1996–1998 – Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (street boss, steps down)
 1997–2003 – Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello (acting boss, jailed)
 2003–2005 – Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (acting boss, jailed)
 2005–2006 – Mario Gigante (acting boss, possible in retirement after the death of his brother in 2005)
 2006–2007 – Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo (acting boss) (indicted May 31, 2007, remanded without bail before being sentenced to 5 years in prison in early 2008), Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano (underboss) (released from prison December, 2006 after serving 15 years), Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (consigliere) (Sentenced to 46 months on March 3, 2006), Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico (acting consigliere) (promoted prior to coping a plea and being sentenced to 4 1/2 years in early 2006)
 2007–present – Paul "Paulie Stripes" DiMarco (alleged acting boss, next in line coming from the midwest?), Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano (underboss), Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (consigliere?)

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The Balcony is an 1868 oil painting by the French painter Édouard Manet. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1869. The painting depicts four figures. On the left is Berthe Morisot, who became in 1874 the wife of Manet's brother, Eugène. In the centre is the painter Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet. On the right is Fanny Claus, a violist. The fourth figure in the background is possibly Leon Leenhoff, Manet's stepson.  It was sold by Gustave Caillebotte in 1884. It hangs at this time in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay.

Inspiration and description
The painting was inspired by The Majas at the Balcony by Francisco Goya. It was created at the same time and with the same purpose as Luncheon in the studio. The three characters were all friends of Manet. They seem to be disconnected from each other. Berthe Morisot, on the left, looks like a romantic and inaccessible heroine, the young violinist Fanny Claus and the painter Antoine Guillemet seem to display indifference. The boy in the background is Manet's stepson, Léon. Just behind the railings, there are a hydrangea and a dog with a ball.

A study for The Balcony, The Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.  The portrait’s subject is Fanny Claus, the closest friend of Manet’s wife Suzanne Leenhoff.  This unfinished portrait was painted as a study for the finished picture.

Provenance
Following Manet’s premature death in 1883, the portrait was bought in a studio sale by the artist John Singer Sargent. The portrait had only been seen once in public since it was first painted in 1868. In 2012 the Ashmolean Museum succeeded in raising the funds to acquire it and keep it permanently in a public collection in the United Kingdom.

Reception
This was the first time Berthe Morisot posed for Manet. Manet's Luncheon in the studio was the work of an innovator but The Balcony was not. Unlike Morisot, the three other figures are pale and undistinguished. Orienti writes, "Guillemet looks pompous and stupid, Jenny Clauss a stereotype, and the painting as a whole seems to suffer from the uneven distribution of the figures." The press considered the painting "discordant". The contrast of colors (the background completely black, the white faces and clothes, the blue tie of the man, and the green railings) contributes to create an atmosphere of "mystery".

Gallery

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The 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence was a number of fights in Istanbul, Turkey between fans of English football team Leeds United and Turkish team, Galatasaray before their UEFA Cup semi-final first leg. It is noted for the deaths of two Leeds fans.

Events
The events happened at 21:00 in Istanbul's Taksim Square during a fight between Leeds fans and Galatasaray fans the day before their UEFA Cup semi-final first leg at Galatasaray's Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Istanbul on 6 April 2000.

Leeds fans had been reportedly taunting people from local bars, to which the Turkish police were called in to stop fights breaking out. There were reports that a Galatasaray fan had run to a nearby phone box to call for help when he saw Leeds fans coming into the area. A large number of Galatasaray fans, reportedly part of a gang called "The Night Watchmen", entered the area soon after which led to a fight between the two sets of fans which led to the two Leeds fans being stabbed. Police arrested Ali Umit Demir and three other men for the stabbings.

It was not clear how the fight started with reports of the fight either being started by Leeds fans throwing beer glasses at Galatasaray fans and being rude about the Turkish flag or being started by Galatasaray fans throwing chairs or attacking Leeds fans with knives.

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John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court more powerful. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, working from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835. He worked in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1799, to June 7, 1800, and, under President John Adams, was Secretary of State from June 6, 1800, to March 4, 1801. Marshall was from the Commonwealth of Virginia and a leader of the Federalist Party.

The longest working Chief Justice in Supreme Court history, Marshall ruled the Court for thirty years and was an important part of making the American legal system. His most important addition was judicial review; the power to stop laws that violate the Constitution. Marshall has been called the one that made the judicial branch special and powerful. Marshall also balanced the power between the federal and state government. He made sure the federal law was more powerful than state law and agreed with an expansive reading of the enumerated powers.

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Midgard is an old Germanic name for our world. Midgard means "middle enclosure". It is where the term "Middle Earth" comes from. The term is an English version of the Old Norse language.

Old Norse
Midgard is a realm in Norse mythology. It is the home of mortals. Midgard is surrounded by a world of water or ocean. The ocean is inhabited by the great sea serpent Jörmungandr. It is a world between Asgard, the land of the gods (Aesir) and Helheim (Hel), the land of the dead. Midgard was connected to Asgard by the Bifrost Bridge, which is guarded by the god Heimdall.

According to mythology, Midgard will be destroyed in Ragnarök, the battle at the end of the world. Jörmungandr will arise from the ocean. He will poison the land and sea. The final battle will take place on the plain of Vigrond. Midgard and almost all life on it will be destroyed, with the earth sinking into the sea.

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Moline is a city in Illinois in the United States. It is one of the Quad Cities. As of 2011, about 43,489 people lived there.

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Neuss is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

History
In 1975 the urban district of Neuss lost its independent status and was merged into the Grevenbroich district, which was renamed to Kreis Neuss. On May 26 2003 it changed its name, and is now officially called Rhein-Kreis Neuss.

Coat of arms

Towns and municipalities

Other websites
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Rhein-Kreis Neuss


André Ramalho Silva (born 16 February 1992) is a football player from Brazil. He plays for FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Bundesliga, which is the top league in Austria. He is a defender but also can play in the defensive midfield.

Career
He started playing football with São Paulo FC, EC São Bento and SE Palmeiras. He later trained with Red Bull Brazil. In January 2011 he began training with Red Bull Salzburg. He was then the first player who was transferred to Salzburg from the academy in Brazil. He played with the second team, Red Bull Juniors. In 2012/13, after a short loan with USK Anif, he came back and became part of the first team.

In the 2013/14 season he played regularly in the first team. His first match in the Bundesliga was on July 20, 2013. It was in the away match against SC Wiener Neustadt. A week later he shot his first goal against FK Austria Wien. With four goals he is the best defender in the scorer list of Austria.

Honours
 2x Champion Regional league West: 2011, 2013
 1x Salzburg-Cup: 2011
 1x Champion Série A3 (3. Liga): 2010
 1x Champion Série B (4. Liga): 2009
 1x runner-up Copa Paulista: 2010

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Saint-Pantaléon, Vaucluse is a commune of 222 people (2015). It is in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.

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Saint-Pantaléon, Vaucluse


Ronald Lewis Schlicher (September 16, 1956 – September 26, 2019) was an American diplomat and career foreign service officer. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Lebanon (chargé d'affaires) 1994–96 and United States Consul-General in Jerusalem in 2000–02. He also served as ambassador to Cyprus in 2006–08. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Schlicher died on September 26, 2019 in Brentwood, Tennessee at the age of 63.

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A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists like to visit because of its looks, beauty, culture, nature, history, fun and how it feels to be there.

Types
There are different kinds of tourist attractions.
Some are natural such as beaches, tropical island resorts with coral reefs, hiking and camping in national parks, mountains, deserts and forests. Some are cultural such as historical places, monuments, ancient temples, zoos, aquaria, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures (e.g., castles, libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges), theme parks and carnivals, living history museums, signs, ethnic enclave communities, historic trains and cultural events. Factory tours, industrial heritage, creative art and crafts workshops are the object of cultural niches like industrial tourism and creative tourism. Many tourist attractions are also landmarks.

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Tourist attraction


Marmara University is a high-educational institution in the Asian part of Istanbul.

Important people who graduated from Marmara University
Aydın Doğan-Turkish Businessman
Kemal Sunal-Turkish actor
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan-Turkish President

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Marmara University


"How to Save a Life" is an alternative rock song off the album by The Fray called How to Save a Life. The single contains various music videos. How to Save a Life was written by Isaac Slade and Joe King.

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How to Save a Life (song)


The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It is a history play. It was probably written no earlier than 1590. Marlowe's source was probably Holinshed's Chronicles. The play is about King Edward II's downfall and his homosexual passion for Piers Gaveston.

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This is a list of the winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.  They are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Italian-American director Martin Scorsese has had the most nominations, eight so far.

2010s
 2011 - Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
 Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
 Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin
 Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
 Martin Scorsese – Hugo

 2010 - David Fincher – The Social Network
 Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
 Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
 Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
 Christopher Nolan – Inception

2000s
 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
 James Cameron – Avatar
 Neill Blomkamp – District 9
 Lone Scherfig – An Education
 Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

 2008 - Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
 Clint Eastwood – Changeling
 David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
 Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
 Stephen Daldry – The Reader

 2007 - Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men
 Joe Wright - Atonement
 Paul Greengrass - The Bourne Ultimatum
 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
 Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood

 2006 - Paul Greengrass - United 93
 Martin Scorsese - The Departed
 Stephen Frears - The Queen
 Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine

 2005 - Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
 George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
 Paul Haggis - Crash
 Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
 Bennett Miller - Capote

 2004 - Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
 Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
 Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
 Michael Mann - Collateral
 Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 2003 - Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
 Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
 Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
 Tim Burton - Big Fish

 2002 - Roman Polanski - The Pianist
 Rob Marshall - Chicago
 Stephen Daldry - The Hours
 Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
 Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York

 2001 - Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
 Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
 Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
 Robert Altman - Gosford Park
 Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

 2000 - Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
 Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
 Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
 Ridley Scott - Gladiator
 Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot

1990s
 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar - Todo sobre mi madre
 Sam Mendes - American Beauty
 M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
 Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
 Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair

 1998 - Peter Weir - The Truman Show
 John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
 Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
 Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan

 1997 - Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet
 James Cameron - Titanic
 Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
 Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty

 1996 - Joel Coen - Fargo
 Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
 Scott Hicks - Shine
 Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies

 1995 - Michael Radford - Il Postino
 Mel Gibson - Braveheart
 Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility
 Nicholas Hytner - The Madness of King George

 1994 - Mike Newell - Four Weddings and a Funeral
 Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
 Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
 Krzysztof Kieslowski - Trois couleurs: Rouge

 1993 - Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
 Jane Campion - The Piano
 James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
 Richard Attenborough - Shadowlands

 1992 - Robert Altman - The Player
 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
 Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
 James Ivory - Howards End

 1991 - Alan Parker - The Commitments
 Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
 Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

 1990 - Martin Scorsese - GoodFellas
 Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
 Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy
 Giuseppe Tornatore - Nuovo cinema Paradiso

1980s
 1989 - Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
 Stephen Frears - Dangerous Liaisons
 Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
 Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning

 1988 - Louis Malle - Au revoir, les enfants
 Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
 Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
 Gabriel Axel - Babettes gæstebud

 1987 - Oliver Stone - Platoon
 Claude Berri - Jean de Florette
 John Boorman - Hope and Glory
 Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom

 1986 - Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
 Roland Joffé - The Mission
 Neil Jordan - Mona Lisa
 James Ivory - A Room with a View

 1985 - -

 1984 - Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
 Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
 Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
 Peter Yates - The Dresser

 1983 - Bill Forsyth - Local Hero
 Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
 Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy
 James Ivory - Heat and Dust

 1982 - Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
 Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
 Costa-Gavras - Missing
 Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond

 1981 - Louis Malle - Atlantic City
 Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
 Karel Reisz - The French Lieutenant's Woman
 Bill Forsyth - Gregory's Girl

 1980 - Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
 David Lynch - The Elephant Man
 Alan Parker - Fame
 Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer

1970s
 1979 - Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
 Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
 Woody Allen - Manhattan
 John Schlesinger - Yanks

 1978 - Alan Parker - Midnight Express
 Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 Fred Zinnemann - Julia
 Robert Altman - A Wedding

 1977 - Woody Allen - Annie Hall
 John G. Avildsen - Rocky
 Sidney Lumet - Network
 Richard Attenborough - A Bridge Too Far

 1976 - Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
 Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
 Alan Parker - Bugsy Malone

 1975 - Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
 Steven Spielberg - Jaws
 Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
 Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

 1974 - Roman Polanski - Chinatown
 Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
 Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien
 Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express
 Sidney Lumet - Serpico

 1973 - François Truffaut - Day for Night
 Luis Buñuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
 Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal
 Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now

 1972 - Bob Fosse - Cabaret
 Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
 William Friedkin - The French Connection
 Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show

 1971 - John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
 Joseph Losey - The Go-Between
 Luchino Visconti - Death in Venice
 Milos Forman - Taking Off

 1970 - George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 Ken Loach - Kes
 Robert Altman - MASH
 David Lean - Ryan's Daughter

1960s
 1969 - John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
 Peter Yates - Bullitt
 Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
 Ken Russell - Women in Love

 1968 - Mike Nichols - The Graduate
 Carol Reed - Oliver!
 Lindsay Anderson - If....
 Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet

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Phyllis Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American actress and singer. She was born in Philadelphia. She performed pop and R&B music. She starred in the movie School Daze (1988). Her music was mainly melancholy from 1984 and afterwards. She killed herself with drugs and pentobarbital in her apartment in New York City on June 30, 1995. Three years after her death, a record, Forever with You, was released with other songs she had recorded before her death.

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Alberto De Martino (12 June 1929 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Rome, Italy. He was known for his movies O.K. Connery, Holocaust 2000, and The Pumaman.

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Ivan Klasnić (born 29 January 1980) is a Croatian football player. He plays for Bolton Wanderers and Croatia national team.

Club career statistics

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|1997/98||rowspan="4"|St. Pauli||rowspan="4"|2. Bundesliga||8||0
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|2002/03||13||2
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|2003/04||29||13
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The 2017 Puebla earthquake  struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with a magnitude estimated to be 7.1 on the Seismic scale approximately  south of Puebla. It has caused damage in the Mexican state of Puebla and the Greater Mexico City area, including the collapse of over twenty buildings.

The quake occurred on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which killed about 10,000 people. The 1985 quake was commemorated on its anniversary with a national earthquake drill at 11 a.m. local time, two hours before the earthquake struck.

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Egon Zimmermann (8 February 1939 – 23 August 2019), often known as Egon Zimmermann II, was an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist and businessman. Zimmermann won the Olympic downhill at Patscherkofel in 1964 and won several medals on the professional tour in the late-1960s and early 1970s. He was born in Lech, Vorarlberg, Austria. He owned hotels in Austria.

Zimmermann died on 23 August 2019 in Lech, Austria from problems caused by multiple sclerosis, aged 80.

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Anke Fuchs (5 July 1937 – 14 October 2019) was a German lawyer and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health in 1982 and as Vice President of the Bundestag from 1998 through 2002. From 2003 until 2010, she was the President of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Fuchs was born in Hamburg.

Fuchs died on 14 October 2019 Wilhelmshaven, Germany at the age of 82.

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An pedestrian crossing (or crosswalk) is a painted road surface where pedestrians may cross a road. They are part of a safety system which allows people to cross roads when it is safe to do so. In town and cities, traffic and pedestrians are both users of roads. There must be rules which keep pedestrians safe, but allow traffic to flow as smoothly as possible.

Pedestrian crossings may be controlled with  traffic lights, or other devices. Laws relating to pedestrian crossings vary according to the country. Sound signal are included in some countries.

Marked pedestrian crossings are often found at intersections. but may be at other points on busy roads.  They are also installed where large numbers of pedestrians are attempting to cross (such as in shopping areas) or where vulnerable road users (such as school children) regularly cross. Rules govern usage of the pedestrian crossings to ensure safety. For example, in some areas, the pedestrian must be more than halfway across the crosswalk before the driver may proceed.

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The arrondissement of Nérac is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Lot-et-Garonne département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Nérac.

History
When the Lot-et-Garonne department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Nérac was part of that original department. In 1926, the arrondissement was eliminated but, 1942, it became again an arrondissement

Geography
The arrondissement of Nérac is in the southwest of Lot-et-Garonne, with an area of . It has 39,227 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Marmande, to the east by the arrondissement of Agen, to the south by the Gers department, to the southwest by the Landes department and to the northwest by the Gironde department.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Nérac, there is only one canton where not all its "communes" are in the arrondissement: Les Forêts de Gascogne. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

Communes
The arrondissement of Nérac has 58 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Allons, Lot-et-Garonne (47007)
 Ambrus (47008)
 Andiran (47009)
 Anzex (47012)
 Barbaste (47021)
 Beauziac (47026)
 Boussès (47039)
 Bruch (47041)
 Buzet-sur-Baïse (47043)
 Calignac (47045)
 Casteljaloux (47052)
 Caubeyres (47058)
 Damazan (47078)
 Durance (47085)
 Espiens (47090)
 Fargues-sur-Ourbise (47093)
 Feugarolles (47097)
 Fieux (47098)
 Francescas (47102)
 Fréchou (47103)
 Houeillès (47119)
 La Réunion (47222)
 Lamontjoie (47133)
 Lannes (47134)
 Lasserre (47139)
 Lavardac (47143)
 Leyritz-Moncassin (47148)
 Moncaut (47172)
 Moncrabeau (47174)
 Mongaillard (47176)
 Monheurt (47177)
 Montagnac-sur-Auvignon (47180)
 Montesquieu (47186)
 Mézin (47167)
 Nomdieu (47197)
 Nérac (47195)
 Pindères (47205)
 Pompiey (47207)
 Pompogne (47208)
 Poudenas (47211)
 Puch-d'Agenais (47214)
 Razimet (47220)
 Réaup-Lisse (47221)
 Saint-Laurent (47249)
 Saint-Léger (47250)
 Saint-Léon (47251)
 Saint-Martin-Curton (47254)
 Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet (47267)
 Saint-Pé-Saint-Simon (47266)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Lamontjoie (47282)
 Sainte-Maure-de-Peyriac (47258)
 Saumont (47287)
 Sauméjan (47286)
 Sos (47302)
 Thouars-sur-Garonne (47308)
 Vianne (47318)
 Villefranche-du-Queyran (47320)
 Xaintrailles (47327)

The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Lot-et-Garonne department
 Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

References

Nerac

Arrondissement of Nérac


Segnosaurus (meaning "slow lizard") was a herbivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the late Upper Cretaceous, about 93 million years ago. It was a rather large Therizinosaur. This is a family of theropods which were herbivores. They changed from the usual carnivorous lifestyle of their ancestors.

Four partial skeletons of Segnosaurus have been found in Mongolia. It had a long flexible neck, long head, three-toed feet, a broad strong pelvis, stocky legs with clawed fingers and toes, and a short tail. In 2010 Gregory Paul estimated the body length at six metres, the weight at 1.3 tonnes.

References

Category:Cretaceous dinosaurs
category:Dinosaurs of Asia
category:Theropods

Segnosaurus


Laurasiatheria is a large group of placental mammals. The name comes from the area where advanced mammals evolved. This was on the northern supercontinent of Laurasia, roughly corresponding to Eurasia today plus North America. When Pangaea broke up, it split first into Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.

Members of the group include shrews, hedgehogs, pangolins, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and carnivorans, and others.

The Laurasiatheria is defined by DNA sequence analysis. The group does not share any obvious anatomical features. It includes these living orders:

Eulipotyphla: hedgehogs, gymnures, moles, shrews, solenodons (cosmopolitan)
Cetartiodactyla: cosmopolitan; includes former orders Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, including pigs, hippopotamus, camels, giraffe, deer, antelope, cattle, sheep, goats)
Pholidota: pangolins or scaly anteaters (Africa, South Asia)
Chiroptera: bats (cosmopolitan)
Carnivora: carnivores (cosmopolitan)
Perissodactyla: odd-toed ungulates

There are various ideas as to how these groups are related to each other, and no tree of descent is agreed by experts so far.

References

Category:Mammals

Laurasiatheria