Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She has won many awards.

Background
Walton was born in Aberdare, in the Cynon Valley of Wales. She went to Park School in Aberdare, then Aberdare Girls' Grammar School. She lived for a year in Cardiff and went to Howell's School Llandaff. She finished her education at Oswestry School in Shropshire, and at the University of Lancaster. She lived in London for two years. Then she lived in Lancaster until 1997. She moved to Swansea, where she lived until moving to Canada in 2002.

Walton speaks Welsh.

Writing career
Walton has been writing since she was 13. Her first novel was published in 2000.  Before that, she had been published in a number of role-playing game publications, such as Pyramid. She often wrote with her husband at the time, Ken Walton. Walton was also active in online science fiction fandom, especially in the Usenet groups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom. Her poem "The Lurkers Support Me in E-Mail" is widely quoted on it and in other online arguments, often without her name attached.

Her first three novels, The King's Peace (2000), The King's Name (2001), and The Prize in the Game (2002) were all fantasy. They happen in a world  based on Arthurian Britain and the Táin Bó Cúailnge's Ireland. Her next novel, Tooth and Claw (2003) was about dragons, but in the style of Anthony Trollope.

Farthing was her first science fiction novel. It was a mystery and an alternate history in which the United Kingdom made peace with Adolf Hitler before the United States entered World War II. It was nominated for a Nebula Award, a Quill Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. A sequel, Ha'penny, was published in October 2007 by Tor Books, with the final book in the trilogy, Half a Crown, published in September 2008. Ha'penny won the 2008 Prometheus Award (jointly with Harry Turtledove's novel The Gladiator) and has been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.

In April 2007, Howard V. Hendrix stated that professional writers should never release their writings online for free. He claimed doing this made the writer a scab. Walton responded to this by declaring 23 April as International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Writers who disagreed with Hendrix could release their stories online all at once. In 2008 Walton celebrated this day by posting several chapters of an unfinished sequel to Tooth and Claw called Those Who Favor Fire.

In 2008, Walton began writing a column for Tor.com, mostly reviews of older books.

Personal life
Walton moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after her first novel was published. She is married to Dr. Emmet A. O'Brien. She has one child. Her son, Alexander, was born in 1990.

Walton's writing

Novels
 Tooth and Claw (November 2003, Tor Books, ) Won the World Fantasy Award.
 Lifelode (February 2009, NESFA Press, )
 Among Others (January 2011, Tor Books), ; Nebula Award for Best Novel 2011, Hugo Award for Best Novel 2012, World Fantasy Award nominee
 My Real Children (May 2014, Tor Books), ; Tiptree Award 2014, World Fantasy Award nominee, Aurora Award nominee
Lent (May 2019, Tor Books),

Sulien series

The King's Name (December 2001, Tor Books, )
The Prize in the Game (December 2002, Tor Books, )
Small Change trilogy
Farthing (August 2006, Tor Books, )
Ha'penny (October 2007, Tor Books, )
Half a Crown (August 2008, Tor Books, )
Thessaly trilogy
The Just City (January 2015, Tor Books),
The Philosopher Kings (June 2015, Tor Books),
Necessity (July 2016, Tor Books)

Other works
 GURPS Celtic Myth (with Ken Walton) (1995, addition to a roleplaying game)
 Muses and Lurkers (2001, poetry chapbook, edited by Eleanor Evans)
 Realms of Sorcery (with Ken Walton) (2002, addition to a roleplaying game)
 Sybils and Spaceships, poetry chapbook (2009, NESFA Press)
 What Makes This Book So Great,  collected essays and book reviews (2014, Tor Books) . Review by Paul Di Filippo
Starlings, short story and poetry collection (2018, Tachyon Publications)
An Informal History of the Hugos collected essays and book reviews (2018, Tor Books)

Short Stories
 "Sleeper" (2014, Tor.com)
 "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction" (2009, Tor.com)
 "The Jump Rope Rhyme" (2017, Tor.com)
 "A Burden Shared" (2017, Tor.com)

Essays
 "Story behind "Ha'Penny" by Jo Walton" (2013), from "Story Behind the Book : Volume 1"

Writing about Walton's work
The King's Peace

Awards
She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her novel Among Others won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

References

Other websites

 Jo Walton's LiveJournal (deleted 10 April 2017; see Walton's note at )
 Jo Walton's home page
 Jo Walton's page at Tor.com, with links to her reviews
 Searchable Index of Jo Walton's Tor.com posts

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Pocahontas County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. In the 2010 census, 7,310 people lived there. The county seat is Pocahontas.

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Pocahontas County, Iowa


Tarzan II is a direct-to-video midquel to the 1999 Disney animated movie Tarzan, released on June 14, 2005. The movie tells the story of a young Tarzan's adventure to discover who he really is. It features two new songs from Phil Collins and takes place during the song "Son of Man" from the first movie. It is the last film in the chronology of Walt Disney's version of Tarzan.

Cast
 Harrison Chad - Tarzan
 Glenn Close - Kala
 Brenda Grate - Terk
 Harrison Fahn - Tantor
 Lance Henriksen - Kerchak
 George Carlin - Zugor
 Estelle Harris - Mama Gunda
 Brad Garrett - Uto
 Ron Perlman - Kago
 Connor Hutcherson - Tonka

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Winkel is a municipality of the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Winkel, Switzerland


Jacobabad District () is a district of Sindh, Pakistan. According to the 1998 census, 1,425,572 people lived there, of which 24.10% were urban. The city of Jacobabad is the capital of the District.

Administration
The district is administratively subdivided into the following talukas:

 Ghari Khairo Tehsil
 Khairo Tehsil
 Jacobabad Tehsil
 Thull Tehsil

References

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Jacobabad District


Rush Lake is a high altitude lake near Rush Pari Peak (5,098 m) in Pakistan. At over , Rush is one of the highest alpine lakes in the world. It is about  north of Miar Peak and Spantik (Golden Peak), which are in the Nagar valley. Rush Lake and Rush Peak can be reached via Nagar and Hopar and via the Hopar Glacier (Bualtar Glacier) and Miar Glacier, which rises from Miar and Phuparash peaks. The trek to Rush Lake provides spectacular views of Spantik, Miar Peak, Phuparash Peak and Ultar Sar.

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Rush Lake


The Florida School for Boys was a reform school, which was active from 1900 to 2011. Reform schools are schools for young people who have been convicted of a crime, but who still need to go to school, or to finish an education.

This school became known for two facts:

 some of the pupils who were educated there were severely mistreated.
 There are over 100 deaths that occurred at the school. There was a school fire in 1914, which killed some of the boys. Others died at an epidemic of the Spanish flu, in 1918.

Violent behaviour including knife fights were comomn at the school. Nevertheless, little documentation exists for most of these deaths.There is a cemetery at the school; it contains several graves, almost all of them are unmarked. Remains of dead people have also been found outside the school ground. Investigations were called for as early as 1903, and also in the 1960s,  but the first full investigation occurrred in the year 2009. It did not find any useful information. The school was closed in 2011, officially  for economic reasons.

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The Allegheny Mountain Range (also spelled Alleghany and Allegany) is a mountain range in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Allegheny mountains are a part of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States and Canada.

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Allegheny Mountains


Pedro Pedrossian (13 August 1928 – 22 August 2017) was a Brazilian politician. He was born in Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Pedrossian was a member of the Party of National Mobilization. He served two terms as the Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul. The first term, from 1980 to 1983, was an appointed role, before being elected to office in 1991. His term ended in 1994.

Pedrossian also served as the Governor of Mato Grosso between 1966 and 1971.

Pedrossian died on 22 August 2017 in Campo Grande, Brazil of heart failure at the age of 89.

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

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Landscheide


Assemblywomen is a satirical comedy by Aristophanes on the idea that women might be better than men at running the state.

The play is about a group of women, and their leader Praxagora. She has decided that the women must convince the men to give them control of Athens, because they could rule it better. The women, in the guise of men, sneak into the assembly and vote the measure, convincing some of the men to vote for it because it is the only thing they have not tried.

The women set up a government in which the state feeds, houses, and generally takes care of every Athenian. They enforce an idea of equality by allowing every man to sleep with every woman, but that the man must sleep with an ugly woman before he may sleep with a beautiful one.

There is a scene in which two men are talking. One of them is going along with the new government, giving his property to the women, and obeying their orders. The other does not wish to give up his property, but he is more than willing to take advantage of the free food.

The following scene has a pair of young lovers unable to make their tryst, as a succession of ever older and more hideous women attempt to and eventually succeed in dragging the man off to make love to him first, as laid down by the new laws.

Background
After the oligarchy put in place after the war fell, Athenians asserted their democracy and equality very strongly. The play makes its point that excessive democracy has its problems.

Longest word
In the play is what appears to be an exceptionally long word:
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon

In reality it is a series of words stuck together, not a genuine word. It describes a fictional food dish. Liddell and Scott translate this as "name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces". The Greek word contains 171 letters, which far surpasses that of Shakespeare's 27-letter long word, "honorificabilitudinitatibus" in his Love's Labour's Lost V.I.

It is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek word λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων. It is the longest word to appear in literature.

The dish has at least 16 ingredients, including:

fish slices
fish of the elasmobranchii subclass (a shark or ray)
rotted dogfish or small shark's head
a dish of several ingredients grated and pounded together
silphium (a type of plant used in classical antiquity as a seasoning and medicine, also called "laserwort"), a type of giant fennel plant
a kind of crab, shrimp, or crayfish
honey poured down
wrasse (or thrush)
a kind of sea fish or blackbird as a topping
wood pigeon
domestic pigeon
chicken
roasted head of dabchick
hare, which could be a type of bird or sea hare
new wine boiled down
wing and/or fin

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The Aconcagua River is a river that flows from east to west through the Valparaíso region in north central Chile and flows into the Pacific Ocean  north of Valparaíso.

Although it has the same name, the Aconcagua river does not starts in the slopes of Aconcagua, which is in Argentina about  from the beginning of the river, in Chilean territory.

Geography

The Aconcagua river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Course
The Aconcagua river starts on the Andes at an elevation of about , at the confluence of two rivers:
 Juncal river, that starts in the Nevado Juncal mountain; it is  long.
 Blanco river, that is  long.

From its start, the river flows through the Aconcagua valley. Before the city of Los Andes, the river is joined, as a right tributary, by the Colorado river,  long, and then, after the city of San Felipe, by the Putaendo river, also a right tributary with a length of .

The river keeps flowing to the west, running through the cities of La Calera and Quillota, in the Quillota province. Finally, the Aconcagua river flows in the Pacific Ocean at the city of Concón, in the Valparaíso province.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Aconcagua river are:

Left tributaries:
 Estero Los Loros - 18 km

Right tributaries:
 Colorado- 58 km
 Putaendo - 34 km
 Estero Quilpué - 47 km
 Estero Limache

Related pages
 List of rivers of Chile

References

Other websites

 Cuenca Río Aconcagua
 Saneamiento de los ríos Aconcagua y La Ligua

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Aconcagua River


There are lots of different varieties of Indian music. Most of the different types of music are similar to Western music types. Pop, classical, and folk are all included. India’s classical music has a history originating hundreds of years back and is still popular in India today, as religious inspiration or pure entertainment. Like Africa, India has many different ethnic groups, speaking their own languages, and having very distinct cultural traditions.

The tal, or tala, is a repeating rhythm pattern usually played by the tabla. It usually has between six and sixteen beats. The beats are grouped into small sections in the pattern. The first note in the pattern is called a ‘sam’. It shows the beginnings and ends of improvisation, so it is often emphasized.

The Raga is also a pattern, but it differs from Western scales or melodies. Ragas are sort of a mix of scales and melodies. They have particular ascending and descending patterns. Ragas are used to symbolize the time of day, season, mood or special occasion.

A drone is a note that’s either held or repeated throughout a piece of music. It’s usually the tonic note, the starting note. Nowadays, the drone is played by an electrical box, but traditionally, it is played using the tanpura, which is also known as the Tambura.

Improvisation is when the player does not have a prepared piece or an incomplete piece of music, and they make up notes as they play. Improvisation is recognized as a form of composition.

There are 4 types of structure in Indian Music, Alap, Jhor, Jhala and Gat/Bandish. Each of these has different roles in a piece of Indian music.

Alap is the name for the opening part of a piece of classical music from North India. It is a type of melodic improvisation that includes a Raga in it. Only the singer and the drone can be heard at this point.

Jhor is a more elaborate version of the Raga that is included in the Alap. It forms the beginning of the performance. This comes after Alap and before Jhala.

Jhala indicates the fast-paced ending of the Raga. It is often distinguished by the overcoming of the melodic component by the rhythm.

The Gat, or Bandish is a permanent composition set in a specific Raga. It is accompanied by the Tabla, a drone and melodic accompaniment by a sarangi , violin or harmonica.
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Lyric could mean:

 Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view
 Lyric, from the Greek language, a song sung with a lyre
 Lyrics, the composition in verse which is sung to a melody to constitute a song
 Lyric is a classification of the human voice in European classical music.  The adjective describes a specific vocal weight and a range at the upper end of the given voice part, e.g. lyric soprano; see voice type
 Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, locally referred to as just "the Lyric"
 Lyric FM, a Radio Telefís Éireann radio station
 Lyric (R&B), an R&B girl group briefly signed to J Records from 2002–2003; known for the song, "Young and Sexy".
 Lyric, a single released in June 2003 by the "indie supergroup" Zwan.
 Lyrics, an ESRB content rating advisor
 Lyric, a video vixen

Lyric


Shakespeare's birthplace is a house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is the birthplace of William Shakespeare, and one of several sites in Stratford associated with him.

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Shakespeare's birthplace


The Burke and Wills expedition, officially called the Victorian Exploring Expedition, was the largest and best equipped in Australian history. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, they crossed the continent of Australia from south to north. The group left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 and reached the Gulf of Carpentaria on 9 February 1861. However, because of poor planning and leadership, Burke and Wills died from starvation at Cooper Creek on their return journey.

References

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Burke and Wills expedition


Pokémon Puzzle League is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo 64 game console. It was released in North America and Europe in 2000. Unlike most Pokémon games, it was never released in Japan. It is based upon Nintendo's Panel de Pon puzzle video game series, with a Pokémon theme. It is the only game to take place in the Pokémon anime universe. It was released for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2008.

Gameplay

Players clear blocks that come down by lining them up in horizontal or vertical lines of three or more blocks. The lines have to have the same kind of block. As new blocks come down, the playfield rises. If it makes it to the top, the player loses. The player can stop the playfield from rising by clearing blocks. In two-player games, clearing more than one line at once causes "garbage" blocks to come down on the opponent's side of the field. Garbage blocks can be cleared by clearing lines below it.

The game has 2D and 3D modes. In 3D mode, the playfield is a cylinder that is 18 blocks wide.

In two-player games, players can select one of fourteen Pokémon trainers to play as. Unlike other Pokémon games, trainers and their Pokémon do not have an effect on the gameplay.

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Events of 1430
May 14 – First French attempts to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
June 14 – William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
 The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians.
 The Order of the Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.
Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania.
 First use of optical methods in the creation of art.
 Janissaries are created.

Births
 October 16 – King James II of Scotland (died 1460)
 October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1475)
date unknown – Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
probable – Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505)

Deaths
January 29? – Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (born 1360)
August 14 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
August 18 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
October 27 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352)
date unknown
Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman
Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer

Related pages
 List of state leaders in 1430

1430


Hurricane Beryl was a hurricane that hit the lesser antilies. Damage was reletivly minor. Beryl was also one of the Subtropical Cyclones of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Hurricane Beryl


Geelong is the second biggest city in the state of Victoria, Australia. It has a large port and 190,000 people living in its area. Geelong at Corio Bay, which is 75 kilometres south-west
Melbourne.

The city is a near many famous tourist attractions, for example the Great Ocean Road, the Shipwreck Coast and the Bellarine Peninsula. Geelong also has the second oldest Australian rules football club in the world, the Geelong Football Club, also called The Cats.

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Local history of Geelong

Geelong, Victoria


The Pittsfield Building,  is a 38-story skyscraper located at 55 E. Washington Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, USA, that was the city's tallest building at the time of its completion.  The building was designated as a Chicago Landmark on November 6, 2002.

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Pittsfield Building


Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (born 30 March 1979) is an Ukrainian football player. He plays for Bayern Munich and Ukraine national team.

Club career statistics

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|1995/96||rowspan="3"|Volyn Lutsk||Premier League||10||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||1
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|1996/97||rowspan="2"|First League||38||6||0||0||colspan="2"|-||38||6
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|1997/98||14||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||14||1
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|1997/98||rowspan="10"|Shakhtar Donetsk||rowspan="10"|Premier League||9||3||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||3
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|1998/99||18||2||3||0||2||0||23||2
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|1999/00||23||0||3||0||2||0||28||0
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|2000/01||25||4||5||1||11||0||41||5
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|2001/02||26||3||7||1||6||1||39||5
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|2002/03||30||4||6||1||4||0||40||5
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|2003/04||29||6||6||1||6||0||41||7
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|2004/05||25||4||4||0||10||0||39||4
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|2005/06||27||5||1||1||8||0||36||6
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|2006/07||15||1||2||1||8||0||25||2

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|2007||rowspan="3"|Zenit St. Petersburg||rowspan="3"|Premier League||29||4||3||0||colspan="2"|-||32||4
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|2008||27||6||2||5||18||1||47||12
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|2009||11||0||0||0||9||2||20||2

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|2002||8||1
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Alain Tanner (born 6 December 1929) is a Swiss movie director. His first feature movie, was Charles, Dead or Alive (1969). His next two movies, La Salamandre (1971) and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) were well received.

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Alain Tanner


Daon is a commune of 440 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.

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Daon


Delhi Poetry Festival is an annual poetry festival. It was organized by Poets Corner Group in Delhi in 2013.

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Delhi Poetry Festival


Bonnières, Pas-de-Calais is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Canteleux was merged into Bonnières.

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Bonnières, Pas-de-Calais


Sergei Viktorovich Skripal (, born 23 June 1951) is a former Russian military intelligence officer. He acted as a double agent for Britain's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s.

In December 2004, he was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and later tried, convicted of high treason, and imprisoned. He settled in the UK in 2010 following the Illegals Program spy swap and moved to Salisbury, Wiltshire.

On 4 March 2018, Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent, later identified as Novichok. They were in a critical condition at Salisbury District Hospital. The poisoning is being investigated as an attempted murder.

On 9 April 2018, Yulia Skripal was discharged from hospital and taken to a secure location. On 18 May 2018, Sergei Skripal was discharged from the hospital too.

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is a Japanese football player. He plays for JEF United Ichihara Chiba.

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Kei Yamaguchi


Stetten can be one of many different places:

Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Stetten am kalten Markt, a town in the district Sigmaringen (district)
Stetten, an administrative district in Sigmaringen district
Stetten, Bodenseekreis, a town in the Bodensee district
Stetten im Remstal, a part of Kernen im Remstal in the Rems valley near Stuttgart.
Stetten, a place in the city of Lörrach
Stetten, a village in the municipality of Achstetten
Bavaria
Stetten, a village in the municipality of Sondheim in the Rhön-Grabfeld district
Stetten, Bavaria, a town in the Unterallgäu district
Rhineland-Palatinate
Stetten, Rhineland-Palatinate, a town in the Kirchheimbolanden administrative unit

Austria
Stetten, Austria, a town in the district of Horn in Lower Austria

Switzerland
Stetten is the name of two Swiss municipalities:
 Stetten, Aargau
 Stetten, Schaffhausen

France
 Stetten, a commune in Haut-Rhin

Stetten


George Graham (1673 in Cumberland, England - November 16, 1751, London)  was an English watchmaker and inventor. .He was a member of the British Royal Society. He was a close friend of the well known clockmaker Thomas Tompion. Graham invented many improvements to the pendulum clock. He invented the  mercury compensating pendulum.

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ProPublica is a non-profit investigative news publication.  It was founded in 2007-2008. It provides in-depth reporting of  corruption. It informs the public about complex issues in the hope of bringing on reform.

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ProPublica


"Like a Virgin" is a 1984 dance-pop song from American singer Madonna. The song is from the singer's album of the same name.

The song was Madonna's first #1 song in Canada, Australia, the United States and Japan. On the United States Billboard Hot 100, the song was at #1 for six weeks. It also hit the Top 10 elsewhere.

"Like a Virgin" has been covered by a number of singers. Alexandra Stan covered the song in the 2010s.

Madonna's public character of a sexually shameless and supremely confident woman was widely accepted by younger generations.

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Like a Virgin (song)


Stefano Mei (born 3 February 1963 in La Spezia) was an Italian long distance runner in several international athletics (also called track and field) events.

Mei won the silver medal in the 5,000 metre race, and the gold medal in the 10,000 metre race during the 1986 European Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart, Germany. Mei also won a bronze medal in the 10,000 metre race during the 1990 European Championships in Athletics, in Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). He competed in the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.

References
1986 European Championship results
1990 European Championship results

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vCard is a standard document format for electronic business cards. Very often, vCards are attached to E-Mail messages, but they can also be exchanged in other ways. There are also extensions to it, known as vCalendar or iCalendar. hCard is a broader format to do the same thing.

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Fleet Air Arm is the generic name of the British naval aviation, part of the Royal Navy. It has got both airplanes and helicopters.

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Reynolds County is a county in Missouri, United States. The county seat is Centerville. In 2010, 6,696 people lived there. The county was organized on February 25, 1845, and was named in honor of former Governor of Missouri, Thomas Reynolds.

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Clacton-on-Sea is a medium-sized seaside town in Tendring, Essex, England. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. Many people in the town are elderly. The A133 road runs into Clacton-on-Sea.

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Flevoland is one of the provinces of the Netherlands. Lelystad is its capital, but Almere is its biggest city. About 403,000 people live in the province (2015).

Location of the municipalities of Flevoland.

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Roberta Peters (May 4, 1930 – January 18, 2017) is an American soprano. She had a long and successful career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was particularly associated with light coloratura roles in Italian, French and German operas.

Life and career

Born Roberta Peterman in New York City, she began vocal study at the age of 13 with William Herman, encouraged by tenor Jan Peerce, a family friend.

She made her unscheduled debut (as an emergency replacement) at the Metropolitan Opera, on November 17, 1950, as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, aged only 20 and having no previous stage experience. The success was immediate. Her well schooled voice, good looks and charming personality quickly made her a great favorite of this theatre where she was to sing regularly for 35 seasons.

Some of her most performed roles include; Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), The Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute),  Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Norina (Don Pasquale), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gilda (Rigoletto), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Nanetta (Falstaff), Olympia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), etc.

She also appeared abroad, notably at the Royal Opera House in London in 1951, as Arline in The Bohemian Girl, and later appeared at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Bolshoi in Moscow. She also made several appearances on television, notably on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Roberta Peters retired from the stage in 1985, but continued to give recital until recent years. She was briefly married to baritone Robert Merrill.

Peters died from Parkinson's disease on January 18, 2017 in Rye, New York. She was 86.

References

 The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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Brian Joseph Leetch (born January 18, 1961) is an American retired professional ice hockey defenseman. He played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Boston Bruins.

He was the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 1992 and 1997. He won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994. He also won the Conn Smythe Trophy, becoming the first American-born player to win the trophy. He won the silver medal with U.S. ice hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame with his Rangers teammate Mike Richter in 2008. He was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame during his first year of eligibility in 2009.

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South West Trains was a train running company in the UK. It served 213 stations and ran 177. It had 337 trains and ran the Island Line as well.

In August 2017, South Western Railway took over the franchise.

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Sir Hans Krebs (Hans Adolf Krebs, 25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981) was a German Jewish scientist who became a naturalised British citizen. He was a physician and biochemist.

Krebs researched metabolism. He is famous because he discovered the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle (also called the Krebs Cycle). Krebs won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this, in 1953.

Early years
Krebs was born in Hildesheim, Germany. His mother was Alma Davidson. His father was Georg Krebs. Georg Krebs was an ear, nose, and throat doctor.

Education
Krebs studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and the University of Freiburg from 1918–1923. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg in 1925. Next, he studied chemistry in Berlin for one year. In Berlin, he helped Otto Warburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology until 1930.

Career
Krebs worked as a doctor  in the Altona hospital and at the University of Freiburg. At the University of Freiburg he researched the urea cycle.

Because he was Jewish, Krebs could not be a doctor in Germany. In 1933 he moved to England. He worked at Cambridge with Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. In Cambridge he researched biochemistry. In 1945 he became a Professor (teacher) at the University of Sheffield.

In 1954 he became a professor in Oxford. After his retirement, Krebs continued work at the Radcliffe Infirmary until his death.  He was a fellow of Trinity College in Oxford.

Honors
In 1953 Krebs received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the citric acid cycle". He was knighted in 1958.

Krebs was elected Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University in 1979.

Personal life
In 1938, Krebs married Margaret Cicely Fieldhouse. They had three children: two boys and a girl.  His son John Krebs was an ornithologist (scientist who studies birds) and member of the House of Lords. His other son was called Paul. His daughter was Helen.

Krebs died in Oxford, England in 1981.

Timeline
1900 Born in Germany
1918 Began medical school
1923 Graduated from medical school
1925 Graduated with Ph.D. from University of Hamburg
1932 Identification of Urea cycle
1933 Moved to the United Kingdom
1937 Identification of Citric acid cycle or "Krebs cycle"
1945 Became a Professor at University of Sheffield
1953 Won the Nobel Prize
1958 Knighted
1981 Died in Oxford, England

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Mid-Western Development Region (Nepali:मध्य पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र - Madhya Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra) is one of Nepal's five development regions. It is in the west-central part of the country with headquarters at Birendranagar, Surkhet.

Geography
The Mid-Western Development Region has the Western Development Region to the east, Uttar Pradesh (India) to the south, the Far-Western Development Region to the west and the Tibet Autonomous Region (People's Republic of China) to the north.

It is the largest Development Region of Nepal with an area of  but the fourth in population with 3,546,682 people living there; its population density is the lowest of all the regions, with 83.7 persons/km2.

The most important river in the Mid-Western Development Region is the Karnali or Kauriala, known as Ghaghara in India. It is an important left tributary of the Ganges river.  With a length, in Nepal, of  is the largest river of the country.

Some of the tributaries of the Karnali are the West Rapti, Bheri and the Seti rivers.

The biggest lake of Nepal, Lake Rara, is in this region, in the Mugu district of the Karnali Zone.

Cities
Some cities of this region are Birendranagar, Chinchu, Babiyachour, Tribhuvannagar (Ghorahi), Nepalgunj,Tulsipur, etc.

Administrative subdivisions
The region has 3 Zones with a total of 15 Districts:

References

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Zbečník is a village in north-eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic. It is approximately  from the border with Poland. It is  long and is part of the town of Hronov. The oldest known written evidence of Zbečník dates to the 15th century. It mentions a fortress of Quicken on a hill above Zbečník.

Geography

Zbečník is along the main road through the Zbečník stream valley. It is next to the town of Hronov, to the east. The stream flows through the village and joins the river Metuje at Hronov. On the the north of the village is a mountain called Maternice. It rises
 above sea level. On this mountain is a source of drinking water called Skalákova studánka. In the early 19th century there were attempts to mine coal on Maternice mountain. Because of the poor quality of the coal all mining was discontinued.

Climate
As Zbečník is in a valley. It experiences greater climatic extremes than nearby towns and villages. It is prone to colder winter temperatures, dropping to  to  and hottest summer days up to  to .

References

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Zbečník


The Western Victorian Volcanic Plains in Victoria, Australia, also known as the Newer Volcanic Province, are the third largest volcanic plains in world. The biggest is the Deccan Plateau in India and the Snake River Plateau in the USA. The Western Victorian Volcanic Plains cover an area of 2.3 million hectares, more than 10% of the state. The basalt plains were formed by volcanoes over the last 6 million years with the most recent eruption being at Mount Napier 7,200 years ago. There are only a few rivers which flow across the plains, these are the Barwon, Hopkins, Leigh, Maribyrnong, Wannon and Werribee Rivers and the Mount Emu Creek. More than 90% of the plains have been cleared for farming.
Over 400 volcano sites have been found on the plains. Near Ballarat the volcanoes are quite close together. The plains have built up over time with many small lava flows. The average depth of the lava is about 60 metres. Many of the features are stand out on the flat plains.

The Australian Aborigines must have seen some of the eruptions as they told stories about rocks and fires coming from some mountains. Stone tools have been found buried in volcanic ash near Warrnambool. Major Thomas Mitchell was the first European to describe the Western Volcanic Plains. He climbed Mount Napier in 1836 and wrote that it looked as if the volcano had been active not that long ago. Early settlers liked the plains as they could easily grow crops in the rich, fertile soil. They used the volcanic stones to build dry stone walls around their farms.

The Western Victorian Volcanic Plains have been quiet for thousands of years. There have been no earthquakes, no hot springs or other signs of activity. It is not known why the volcanos stopped, and some scientists believe that the volcanos on the plains are not extinct, but dormant.

Volcanic features

 Bald Hill, north of Craigieburn
 Blue Mount
 Brocks Monument
 Camel's Hump
 Granville Hill
 Green Hill, near Wallan
 Green Hill near Buninyong
 Green Hill near Pootilla
 Green Hill near Snake Valley
 Hanging Rock
 Happy Valley
 Hardie Hill
 Hayes Hill near Donnybrook
 The Jim Jim
 Lake Bullenmerri
 Lake Keilambete
 Lake Purrumbete
 Lake Terang
 Larundel Hill
 Magnet Hill (45 metres)
 Melbourne Hill (75 metres)
 Mount Aitken
 Mount Blackwood
 Mount Bullengarook
 Mount Buninyong
 Mount Cotterell
 Mount Eccles
 Mount Elephant
 Mount Franklin
 Mount Fraser (120 metres)
 Mount Gisborne (100 metres)
 Mount Hamilton
 Mount Holden (75 metres)
 Mount Kooroocheang
 Mount Koroit (60 metres)
 Mount Lawaluk
 Mount Leura
 Mount Mercer
 Mount Moorookyle
 Mount Napier
 Mount Noorat
 Mount Pisgah
 Mount Porndon (278 metres)
 Mount Rouse
 Mount Rowan (Victoria)
 Mount Shadwell
 Mount Warrenheip
 Mount Widderin
 Organ Pipes
 Pretty Sally Hill
 Red Rock near Alvie
 Red Rock near Gisborne
 Tower Hill
 Wallinduc Hill

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Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress and model. She made her first movie, Camp Nowhere, at age 13 and in the television drama series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later acted in several movies, such as Honey (2003), Sin City (2005) and Good Luck Chuck (2007). Alba has won several awards for her acting. These awards include the "Choice Actress" award at the Teen Choice Award and a Saturn Award. Both of these awards were for her acting in the series Dark Angel.

She has been listed in the "Hot 100" section of Maxim magazine every year from 2003 to 2007, and she was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. In March 2007, a picture of her was used on the cover of Playboy. Playboy did not ask her if they could use the picture or tell her they were going to use it. This caused a lawsuit that was later dropped.

Early life
Alba was born in Pomona, California. Her mother, Catherine, is of Danish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, German and French Canadian ancestry and her father, Mark, is Mexican American, and is of Indigenous Mexican, Sephardic Jewish, Spanish and Mayan ancestry. She has a younger brother named Joshua. Alba's father was in the Air Force and his career caused them to live in many different places. They lived in Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas before returning to California at age 9. When she was young, Alba was ill many times. She had a collapsed lung twice, had pneumonia four or five times each year and had problems with her appendix and tonsils. She was in hospitals for much of her childhood. This meant Alba did not spend much time with other children. Alba has also said that she had obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was a child. The disorder affected her much less when her family moved to California. She graduated from high school when she was 16 years old. After high school, she went to the Atlantic Theater Company.

Career

Alba wanted to act since she was five. She took her first acting class at age twelve. An acting agent signed her nine months later. Her first movie work was a small role in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere. At first, she was only hired for two weeks but ended up working for two months because another actress dropped out.

Alba starred in two national television commercials when she was a child. One of these was for Nintendo and the other was for J.C. Penney. She played Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. Alba was then Maya in the television series Flipper. Her mother was a lifeguard and had taught Jessica to swim before she could walk. She is a certified scuba diver.

In 1998, she acted in Brooklyn South, in two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 and in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. After Alba graduated from high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company.

She became more famous in Hollywood in 1999 after acting in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the main female character in the 1999 comedy-horror movie Idle Hands. She was chosen from a group of 1,200 actresses for the role of the genetically-engineered soldier, on the FOX sci-fi television series Dark Angel. The series ran for two seasons from 2000 until 2002. Alba was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work on that series. When she trained to be in Dark Angel, Alba had to exercise very much and she starved herself. She said "A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too. I got obsessed with it." She also had obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks. She said she has been cooking for herself since the age of twelve so she would not become as fat as her family members.

Some of Alba's most famous movie roles are a dancer in Sin City and as Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four. She also acted in Into the Blue in 2005 and Good Luck Chuck a few years later. In 2008, Alba played her first horror-movie role in The Eye, a remake of the Hong Kong original. In February, she hosted an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's ceremony. Later in the year, she starred in The Love Guru.

In 2010, Alba appeared in five movies including Little Fockers and The Killer Inside Me. The following year she appeared in Spy Kids 4,  a sequel to Spy Kids.

Public image

In 2007, Maxim Magazine listed Alba as number 2 in their "Top 100", after Lindsay Lohan. GQ had her picture on their June covers. In May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and US editions) named Alba the winner as "2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World". She received the Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her role in Dark Angel, along with a Golden Globe nomination. In 2006, she received an MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest Performance" for Sin City.

Some people have said Alba's acting was bad. She was nominated for a 2007 Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her work in Awake, Good Luck Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities and the "Sex Star of the Year". She took Playboy to court for using a picture of her without her permission. However, she later dropped the lawsuit when she got a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner. He agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba supports.

Personal life

Alba was raised in the Roman Catholic religion. When she was a teenager she became a born-again Christian. However, she left the church after four years because she believed that she was being judged by the way she looked. She has said that she still believes in God even though she is not a member of the church. Alba has not performed naked. She was given the option to appear nude in Sin City by the movie's directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. She said no to the offer saying, "I don't do nudity. I just don't. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety".

While filming Dark Angel, Alba began a romance with another member of the cast, Michael Weatherly. This caused controversy because he was 12 years older than she was. He asked her to marry him on her twentieth birthday but she said no. They eventually broke up after a four-year relationship. When talking about children, she said, "I'm really girly when it comes to kids. I've been surrounded by kids my whole life because I'm the oldest of 15 cousins I've been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure". Alba is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election.

Alba married Cash Warren on May 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. She met him while making Fantastic Four in 2004. On June 7, 2008, Alba gave birth to a baby girl called Honor Marie Warren. She also does some charity work, including clothes charity Clothes Off Our Back and women's charity Step Up Women's Network. On August 13, 2011, she gave birth to her second daughter, Haven Garner Warren.

Filmography

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D-sharp minor is a minor scale based on D .  For the harmonic minor, the C is raised to C.  Its key signature has six sharps.

E-flat minor is its enharmonic equivalent.  Its relative major is F-sharp major, and its parallel major is D-sharp major. This is usually replaced by E-flat major, because D-sharp major's two double sharps make it impractical to use.

Since D-sharp minor and its enharmonic equivalent both have key signatures of six accidentals, neither one is clearly used instead of the other. For example, using the melodic minor version of D-sharp minor on the harp is very difficult. The B-pedal can be set to the sharp position, but there is no double-sharp position to set the C-pedal at. In Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach chose to write the eighth prelude in E-flat minor but the accompanying fugue in D-sharp minor. (In Book II, Bach wrote both the eighth Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp minor.)

Music written in this key is considered very difficult to read, which means that little music was written mainly in this key in the Classical era. E-flat minor is easier for many brass instruments and woodwinds.

The most famous work in this key is Scriabin's famous Etude Op. 8, No. 12. Russian composer Lyapunov must also have liked the key because he wrote the second etude of his Op. 11 set in the key, and also fifteen years later his Variations on a Russian Theme, Op. 49.  His early Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 4 was also in the enharmonic key of E-flat minor.

In a few scores, 6-sharp key signatures in the bass clef are written with the sharp for the A on the top line. This is not done often, because it is different from the treble clef.

This key is not used often in orchestral music, but is used more in keyboard music. When arranging this piano music for orchestra, some people recommend transposing the music to D minor or E minor. If D-sharp minor must be used,  B-flat wind instruments should have their parts written in F minor, rather than E-sharp minor.

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Sermoise is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in north France.

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A semaphore line is an installation used to send optical signals. It is also known as optical telegraph.  Common system include signal towers with special installations on them or hand-held flags. The meaning of the signal is determined by the position of the elements, for example the flags. The signal can be read when it is in a stable position. In modern usage, it refers to signalling with a set of flags.

Signal towers came before the electric telegraph. They were faster than sending out post riders with the information.

Characters
The following semaphore characters are presented as one would face the flagman:

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Stoke Fleming is a village and civil parish on the A379 road and Start Bay, South of Dartmouth in South Hams, Devon, England. In 2001 there were 1,012 people living in Stoke Fleming. Stoke Fleming has a Library and a primary school.

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The Slovene Wikipedia (Slovenska Wikipedija) is the Slovene-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition started in February 2002.

As of October 2015, it is the 42nd largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles.

As of  , it has about  articles.

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The Hyundai i10 is a car produced by Hyundai since 2008. It is the successor of the Atos, and were based on the Kia Picanto's platform. It entered its second generation in 2013 and it became popular in the UK during the scrappage scheme in 2009.

Engines
 1.1 49 kW (66 hp)
 1.25 57 kW (78 hp)
 1.1 CRDi 55 kW (75 hp)

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Julio César Cleto Cobos (born Mendoza, Argentina, April 30, 1955) is an Argentine politician.  He is the Vice President of Argentina for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2007 to 2011. He started as part of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).  He became Governor of Mendoza in 2003.

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Jonas Eduardo Américo (born 6 August, 1949) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.

Club career statistics

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|1971||rowspan="6"|Santos||rowspan="6"|Série A||24||4
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|1972||27||8
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|1973||33||7
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|1976||12||4
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|1976||Colorado||||0||0
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|1977||Corinthians Paulista||Série A||0||0
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|1977||Internacional||Série A||9||2
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Oswego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, 122,109 people lived there. The county seat is Oswego.

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Oswego County, New York


Jouxtens-Mézery is a municipality in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

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Gilman is a city in Illinois in the United States.

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Fire ecology is about the effects of fire on the ecosystems where it occurs. The results of fire are studied, and also what causes the fires.

In many ecosystems, fire helps keep the habitat healthy. Examples of such habitats are the North American prairie and [[chaparral] ecosystems, and the South African savanna. In these ecosystems, fire helps renew the habitat. In theses places, many plants and trees have adapted and need fire to grow well, or for their seeds to germinate and start ecological succession.

If the fires are stopped, dry wood and dead plants accumulate. Bushes and trees that catch fire easily will start growing. When this area finally does catch fire, it will make the wildfire larger and more damaging, and be harder to control.

In the United States, campaigns have made people believe that wildfires are always bad for nature. This comes from the old belief that ecosystems grow towards a stable system, and disturbances like fires stop that, and destroy the harmony of nature.  But we have since learned that in some areas, fire is needed to make the system work properly; fire also helps biodiversity of many habitats. The plants and animals in these habitats have adapted to protect themselves from fire, and sometimes must have fire to survive.

Still, fire can kill people or burn down buildings.  Now, controlled burns are sometimes done to have fire where it is needed, but don't let it go where it can cause damage to people or their property.

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A profession is a job at which someone works and for which they have had training. It is what they do to get money or a living. People often study for years to do their job. Examples of a profession would be a teacher or a lawyer. These are called "learned professions". Sometimes "profession" only means learned professions, but sometimes the word may also be used for other jobs. Someone who works in a profession is called a professional.

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Front-wheel drive, or FWD, is a car setup, where the car's power is at the front wheels. This makes the car safe in wet and snowy conditions, because it has better traction, or grip, to the road. But, FWD can cause uneven weight, which may cause brakes to fail if used for large periods of time.

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Front-wheel drive


The Mac Pro is a workstation computer made by Apple Inc. It is part of the company's Apple Macintosh group of computers. Also, it is the fastest computer Apple sells. It runs on Intel Xeon microprocessors. It is like the Power Mac G5, which is the computer it replaced. The Mac Pro looks the same and the parts inside the computer can be changed the same, too. There are two other computers sold by Apple that are also called "desktop" computers. They are the iMac and Mac mini.

The first Mac Pro was announced at the 2006 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. The computer used the Intel Woodcrest microprocessor.

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

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Ramecourt, Pas-de-Calais


Oxford is a city in England. It is on the River Thames. It is a very old city. It is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom. Some of its buildings were built before the 12th century. It is famous for its university, Oxford University, which is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

About 150,200 live in Oxford. Two rivers run through the city, the Cherwell and the Thames. These two rivers meet south of the city centre.

Besides its university, there are some buildings famous for their architecture (the style in which they were built), like the Radcliffe Camera. There are also lots of museums and other places for tourists to visit.

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Oxford


Settlement began around 1844. The village was settled during the town's lumber production period and grew after it gained railroad service. The early village was composed of two parts, Tupper Lake proper and Faust. The town for a time held the distinction as the top lumber producer in the state.

The great fire of 1899 burned more than 169 structures in the village, two-thirds of them homes. The modern village grew out of this destruction and added all the amenities of a modern community earlier than many other villages in the state. Tupper had its own department store and synagogue, and its sprawling railway yards, driven by the lumber trade, made it a hub for the surrounding Adirondack communities.

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Honi Soit is the seventh studio album by multi-instrumentalist John Cale. It was released in March 1981. It is his only full-length album on A&M Records label. It was produced by Mike Thorne. The album's cover art is by Andy Warhol.

Track listing
 "Dead or Alive"
 "Strange Times in Casablanca"
 "Fighter Pilot"
 "Wilson Joliet"
 "Streets of Laredo"
 "Honi Soit (La Première Leçon de Français)"
 "Riverbank"
 "Russian Roulette"
 "Magic & Lies"

Personnel
 John Cale − vocals, guitar, keyboards, viola
 Sturgis Nikides − guitar, background vocals
 Jim Goodwin − synthesizer, keyboards, background vocals
 Peter Muny − bass guitar, background vocals
 Robert Medici − drums, background vocals
 John Gatchell − trumpet
 Bomberettes − background vocals

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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (or Foreign Office) is a ministry of the Government of the United Kingdom. Its job it is to protect British interests around the world.

The head of the department is known as the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which is usually shortened to "Foreign Secretary". This position is one of the four most important in the government's Cabinet. Jeremy Hunt is the current Foreign Secretary of the UK.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office


The Red Bridge in Tasmania crosses the Elizabeth River at Campbell Town. It was built between 1836 and 1838 by convicts using red clay bricks made on site. It has a solid stone base with sandstone piers and cappings. It is the oldest brick arch bridge in Australia, as well as the oldest bridge anywhere on an Australian National Highway. The bridge has three arches with spans of  each. It is wide enough for two lanes of traffic as well as pedestrian walkways. It is on the Midland Highway, about halfway between Hobart and Launceston, and carries over two million vehicles per year.

It is said to have been designed by James Blackburn, an architect and a convict who had been sent to Tasmania for the crime of forgery. It was made from 1,250,000 hand-made bricks on dry land. After it was finished the course of the river was changed to flow under the bridge.

The Red Bridge is registered on the Register of the National Estate since 1978.

References

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

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Siracourt


Jack and Jill is a 2011 American comedy movie starring Adam Sandler as a twin brother and sister. Though successful at the box office, The movie was almost universally panned by critics and became the first and so far, only movie to win every single category at the Razzies. It is considered by many to be one of the worst movies ever made.

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This is an alphabetical  List of African-American basketball players.

A
 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
 Shareef Abdur-Rahim

B
 Dave Bing
 Kobe Bryant

C
 Vince Carter
 Wilt Chamberlain
 Bimbo Coles
 Jason Collins
 DeMarcus Cousins
 Stephen Curry

D
 Darryl Dawkins
 Bryce Dejean-Jones

E
 Blue Edwards

G
 Kevin Garnett
 Grant Hill
 Draymond Green
 Al Greene
 Hal Greer
 Brittney Griner
 Tony Gwynn

H
 Richard Hamilton (basketball)
 Billy Harrell

I
 Kyrie Irving

J
 LeBron James
 Magic Johnson
 Caldwell Jones
 Michael Jordan

K
 Shawn Kemp
 Jerome Kersey
 Stacey King

L
 Sam Lacey
 Ty Lawson
 Kawhi Leonard

M
 Karl Malone
 Walter McCarty
 Meadowlark Lemon

N
 Nenê

O
 Shaquille O'Neal
 Lamar Odom
 Hakeem Olajuwon

R
 Craig Robinson (basketball)
 Roy Rogers (basketball)
 Derrick Rose

S
 Robert Sacre

T
 Roy Tarpley
 Isiah Thomas

W
 Andrew Wiggins

*


El Lago is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,706 at the 2010 census. El Lago is Spanish for The Lake.

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Value Added Tax : is often called by its initial letters "VAT" or “V.A.T.”. It is the English name of a tax that is added to things sold in the European Union. It is like a sales tax that is charged in some US States .

The tax is paid every time goods are sold.
 The maker charges the wholesaler VAT and pays the tax to the government
 The wholesaler charges the shop VAT and pays the government the tax minus the tax it has already paid to the maker
 The shop charges the customer VAT and pays the government the tax minus the tax it has already paid to the wholesaler.

The tax can be complicated to work out, because every business or person has to charge the tax, and have an invoice to show they have paid some tax. The only person who pays the full amount of tax is the customer of the shop.

The government also charges VAT on some services. This is because some companies do not make a thing which can be used (goods) instead they do something to help a customer (that is, provide a service).

For example, a garage-owner might sell a spare part for a customer’s car. The garage-owner charges VAT because spare parts are “goods”. If the garage-owner helps the customer by fitting the spare parts into the car, the garage-owner would charge extra for his time, and would also charge VAT on the amount he charged for the service of fitting the parts.

VAT is not added to all products. Children's books and clothes do not have VAT.

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Thomas Joseph "Tom" Tauke (October 11, 1950 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American lawyer and former politician of the Republican Party. He is a CEO of Verizon.

Tauke was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Iowa from 1979 to 1991.

He was also a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979.

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R.E.M. or REM are initials for these things:

Rapid eye movement
R.E.M. (band)

R.E.M.


The sum of two numbers is what we get when we add the two numbers together. This operation is called summation. There are a number of ways of writing sums, with the most common being:
Addition ()
Summation ()
Computerization:
Sum = 0
For I = M to N
Sum = Sum + X(I)
Next I (in Visual BASIC)

Sigma notation
Sigma notation is a mathematical notation to write long sums in a short way. Sigma notation uses the Greek letter Sigma, (∑), and takes upper and lower bounds which tell us where the sum begins and where it ends. The lower bound usually has a variable (called the index) given a value, such as "i=2". This tells us that the summation begins at 2, and goes up by 1 until it reaches the number on the top.

Properties

Applications
Sums are used to represent series and sequences. For example,

The geometric series of a repeating decimal can be represented in summation,

The concept of an integral is a limit of sums. The area under a curve being defined as:

Further reading
 Nicholas J. Higham, "The accuracy of floating point summation", SIAM J. Scientific Computing 14 (4), 783–799 (1993).

Other websites

 Sigma Notation on PlanetMath
 Derivation of Polynomials to Express the Sum of Natural Numbers with Exponents

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The Colchis Bulls (, Khalkotauroi) are a pair of animals in the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. They were made of bronze. They could breathe fire. They were made by Hephaestus, the blacksmith of the gods. Hephaestus gave them to King Aeetes as a gift.

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Colchis Bulls


"Hop Is Back" is a song by the rap musician Hopsin. It is from his album Knock Madness. In the song, he insults Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West.

Category:2013 songs

Hop Is Back


Touch is one of the senses that is part of the nervous system.

Touch may also refer to:
 Haptic perception, the ability to recognize objects through touch
 Haptic communication, the study of human touching behaviour
 Haptic technology, technology that interfaces to the user via the sense of touch

Companies and products
 Touch Music, an audio-visual publishing company based in the UK
 Touch! Generations, a video-game brand
 HTC Touch, a touchscreen phone
 iPod Touch, a portable media player, PDA, and Wi-Fi platform
 Touch, a clothing line by Alyssa Milano

Fiction
Touch (manga), a 1980s Japanese manga and anime
Touch (novel) a 1987 book by Elmore Leonard
Touch (film), a 1997 film by Paul Schrader, adapted from Leonard's novel
Touch (TV series), a 2012 American television series starring Kiefer Sutherland

Sports
 Touch (rugby), an area of a rugby field
 Touch football (disambiguation)

Other uses
 touch (Unix), a computer program
 Touch (river), in France
 Touch, a characteristic of a tangent, in geometry
 Touch FM (disambiguation)
 Touch typing, typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys

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Paul Hegarty (born July 25, 1954 in Edinburgh) is a former Scottish footballer who is famous for being the captain of Dundee United during their best years in the 1980s. He currently manages Livingston.

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Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia by Microsoft. There was a more complete version called Encarta Premium made in 2008. It had more than 62,000 articles  and many photographs and illustrations. There was also music clips, videos, maps and timelines with some activity games. It also included an atlas,  and homework tools. It was available on the internet if you pay a yearly fee, or to buy on DVD-ROM, or CD-ROMs. Many articles could also be read online free of charge, a service which is paid for by advertisements.

Microsoft made similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in several different European languages and in Japanese.

References

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Encarta


Kazuyoshi Matsunaga (born 13 November 1977) is a Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|2002||Football League||12||2||2||0||colspan="2"|-||14||2
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|2006||Banditonce Kobe||Regional Leagues||7||3||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7||3
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|2007||rowspan="2"|Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima||rowspan="2"|Football League||14||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||14||1
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Uesslingen-Buch is a municipality of the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

Category:Municipalities of Thurgau

Uesslingen-Buch


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

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Proix


The Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) is a large long-legged bird. Lapwings are shorebirds. It is a common in Central and South America, except in the jungles of the Amazon and the Andes. It is the national bird of Uruguay.

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Southern Lapwing


is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
It has about 100,000 inhabitants, a university and a well-known soccer team.

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Kaiserslautern


Gert Brauer (September 7, 1955 – January 1, 2018) was an East German footballer. He played 270 Oberliga matches in East Germany. He was born in Ronneburg, East Germany (nowadays in Thuringia).

Three of his four international matches for East Germany where part of the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying.

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Cookie is a 1989 comedy movie released on August 23, 1989 by Warner Brothers.

Cast
 Peter Falk - Dominick "Dino" Capisco
 Dianne Wiest Lenore Voltecki
 Emily Lloyd - Carmela "Cookie" Voltecki
 Michael V. Gazzo - Carmine
 Brenda Vaccaro - Bunny Capisco
 Adrian Pasdar - Vito
 Lionel Stander - Enzo Della Testa
 Jerry Lewis - Arnold Ross
 Bob Gunton - Richie Segretto
 Joe Mantello - Dominick
 Ricki Lake - Pia
 Joy Behar - Dottie

Other websites

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Cookie (movie)


Midland is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. It is two miles north of Lawrence.

Geography

Climate
Midland has hot, humid summers and cool winters.  The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Midland has a humid subtropical climate.

Gallery

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Midland, Kansas


Neduvannoor is a village situated near Pathanapuram in Kollam district, Kerala state, India.

Politics
Neduvannoor is a part of Pathanapuram assembly constituency in Mavelikkara (Lok Sabha constituency). Shri. K. B. Ganesh Kumar is the current MLA of Pathanpuram. Shri.Kodikkunnil Suresh is the current member of parliament of Mavelikkara. INC, CPM, BJP etc are the major political parties.

Geography
Neduvannoor is a small village in Thalavoor panchayats. Neduvannoor is a junction in Pathanapuram-Kottarakkara road. It connects places Avaneeswaram, etc. Neduvannoor (Avaneeswaram) bridge is a main landmark of Manchalloor.

Demographics
Malayalam is the native language of Neduvannoor.

References

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Neduvannoor


"Breakaway" is a 2004 song written by Avril Lavigne, Bridget Benenate and Matthew Gerrard and produced by John Shanks. It was recorded by pop rock singer Kelly Clarkson for the soundtrack to the film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement by Disney Records. It was also included on Clarkson's second album, Breakaway and was released as the album's first single.

References

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Breakaway (song)


House of Wax is a 1953 American horror thriller movie. It was directed by Andre DeToth. It is a remake of the 1933 movie Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). Actors include Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Roy Roberts, and Charles Bronson. It was distributed by Warner Bros. It was remade in 2005 as House of Wax.

Other websites

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House of Wax


Norman is a male given name. It might also mean:

Anything related to Normandy, a region in northern France
Normans, the people of Normandy
Norman language
Norman architecture
Norman, Oklahoma, a city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma

Related pages
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Norma (disambiguation)

Norman


Xena: Warrior Princess is an Emmy Award-winning American cult television series. It was first shown from September 15, 1995 until June 18, 2001. The series was created in 1995  by writer-producers Robert Tapert under his production tag, Pacific Renaissance Pictures LTD. Later, there were co-executive producers. They were Sam Raimi and R. J. Stewart. The series is a spin-off from the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys where Xena (Lucy Lawless) is a minor character. The series tells the story of Xena's quest to seek  for her past sins as a ruthless warlord. She uses her fighting skills to help people. Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) becomes Xena's greatest friend, her initial naïveté helps to balance Xena and helps her in seeing and fighting for the "greater good".

The series usually had between four and four million viewers on original airings. The series has positive reviews from many reviewers. It was ranked #10 on the list of TV Guides Top 25 Cult TV Shows of All Time. It was nominated for Emmy awards.

Xenas success has led to hundreds of tie-in products, including comics, and video games. The series has received attention in fandom (Uberfic), and has influenced the direction of other television series. The cult of the series (Fandom) remains active on the internet today.

 Production
 Origins
The series is a spin-off of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In fact, the saga began with three appearances Xena's special character in episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, entitled The Warrior Princess, The Gauntlet and Unchained Heart. In the first episode, Xena is a killer, but in the third, she joins Hercules to defeat Darphus, who had taken her army. Aware that the character of Xena had been very successful among the public, producers of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys decided to make a series exclusively for it.

 Casting

In Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena was played by New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless. The first actress considered to play the part was British actress Vanessa Angel, while actress Sunny Doench was thought to play the role of Gabrielle. However, neither could travel to New Zealand, the country where the series was shot entirely on location. Finally, Lucy Lawless was cast as Xena and Gabrielle was played by the American actress Renee O'Connor.

The American actor and writer Bruce Campbell played Autolycus, King of the alleged thieves, and appeared in eight episodes. After Lawless and O'Connor, Ted Raimi is the actor who plays Joxer, which has more appearances in the series: a total of 42. We continue to Kevin Tod Smith with 31 appearances, Hudson Leick and Karl Urban with 12 and Alexandra Tydings with 11. In the last episode, the eastern star Michelle Ang playing Akemi.

 Theme music

The theme music, composed by Joseph LoDuca, who also co-wrote the lyrics for the songs in "The Bitter Suite", was developed from the traditional Bulgarian folk song "Kaval Sviri", and was sung by Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares. In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode, "Unchained Heart", in which Xena is introduced, the original "Kaval Sviri" is the music used to announce Xena racing into battle.

 Opening Sequence

The opening of Xena had two models during the series, the first was used during the first five seasons, and the second model was used only in the last season. The opening is composed of scenes from the series itself, there is background music to "Opening Sequence", combined with the voice of an announcer speaking a text that remained immutable.

 Setting and storylines
 Studios and filming locations

Xena Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys were filmed in New Zealand. Of course some places are confidential, but many scenes were recorded in places as spectacular in Waitakere Ranges Regional Park, part of the Auckland Regional parks often credited at the end of the episodes. Most leases are on the west coast, and is approximately 30–40 miles from the centre of Auckland.

 Format

Xena: Warrior Princess is considered a simple television series of adventures whose key ingredients are the two protagonists in the series and their psychological development, attractive exterior in New Zealand and music composed by Joseph Loduca. Although the characters and stories in the series predate Christ, themes, emotions and relationships in the series are well connected with the world today. In addition, the series makes a particular interpretation of the ancient world. For example, represents the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, as a girl silly and pampered.

One of the criticisms that more has been done to the series is the inverosimilitud the scenes of combat, as they give the characters impossible cartwheels, walk the walls and even move objects with the mind. Such scenes are inspired by action movies of Hong Kong.The series was also criticized for very often consciously mixing times, facts and historical characters. Thus, it is possible to see both the Greek gods as characters in biblical, Roman, Scandinavian and Eastern Arabs as well as facts so distant in time as the confrontation between David and Goliath, the birth of Jesus, or the battle of Maraton. Finally, another widespread weakness in the series are multiple inconsistencies in their arguments.

The first season of the series was addressed without many pretensions, as the producers did not want to gamble much.  During this season abounded plots based on Greek myths and a focus on defining the personality of the two protagonists. In the second season were improved special effects, consolidation of the relationship between Xena and Gabrielle and increased the strength of the stories. As a negative note of the third season, preference was given to the functionality of certain episodes at the expense of stories and the essence of the characters. However, in the fourth season, the level of the series returned to the first two years in terms of quality. In this season there could be seen a transformation in the structure of the stories and treatment of the characters. It accentuated the spiritual dimension of the series and the Greek myths lost relevance in the hatch. The fifth season was a downturn in the quality of the series. This was contributed to by the pregnancy of main actress, Lucy Lawless, forcing producers to introduce a precipitous turn argumentative. The fifth season also means the start of the references to Christianity in the series. Finally, in the sixth season, the level of the series again back: improved special effects and stories, which were accompanied by excellent music by Joseph LoDuca.

 Inspirations and Bases

Xena: Warrior Princess was influenced by many factors, as cultures and eras, one of the most widespread were the sources of action movies from Hong Kong, the jumps, breathing fire and the sounds of weapons in the battles were some of the things that mirrored movies. The scene of the lynching of Xena in The Gauntlet is almost identical to the movie The Bride With White Hair. The fight on the stairs with Callisto on Callisto and the fight against Draco in head of villagers also has its roots in the genre, and the sequence The Debt, which was almost completely influenced in the genus.

 Plot Summary

The show is a historical fantasy set in ancient Greece, although with a flexible time setting, and also features heavy Oriental, Egyptian and Medieval elements in various episodes. The series details the adventures of former Hercules villain Xena (Lucy Lawless), a reformed warlord on a quest to redeem her past sins. Xena is accompanied on her travels by Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) a young woman who becomes her best friend and, eventually, most trusted ally.

The show freely borrows names and themes from various mythologies around the world, primarily the Greek, anachronistically adapting them to suit the demands of the storyline. Historical figures and events from a number of different historical eras and myths make numerous appearances, and the main characters are often credited with resolving important historical situations. These include an encounter with Homer, before he was famous, in which Gabrielle encourages his storytelling aspirations; the fall of Troy; and the capture of Caesar by pirates, with Xena cast as the pirate leader. This quirky mix of timelines and the amalgamation of historical and mythological elements fueled the rise of the show to cult status during the 1990s and early 2000s. It was one of the first shows to tap into its internet following, allowing for fans from all over the world to discuss and suggest things related to the show. The fandom continues to this day.

The show is a mixture of styles, ranging from high melodrama in one episode to slapstick comedy in another, from whimsical to all-out action and adventure in another. Although it is ostensibly set in ancient times, the themes of the show are essentially modern: taking responsibility for past misdeeds, the value of human life, personal liberty and sacrifice, and friendship. The flexible fantasy framework of the show accommodates a considerable range of styles, including an original musical episode, The Bitter Suite. Although the show often addresses ethical dilemmas such as the morality of pacifism, the storylines rarely seek to provide unequivocal solutions.

 Characters
 Main
 Xena, played by Lucy Lawless
 Gabrielle, played by Renee O'Connor

 Supporting
 Alti, outcast evil Amazon shamaness, villain, killed several times by Xena, played by Claire Stansfield
 Amarice, young Amazon wanna-be, killed in battle with cannibals, played by Jennifer Sky
 Aphrodite, the goddess of love, played by Alexandra Tydings
 Ares, the god of war, villain became good, played by Kevin Smith
 Athena, the goddess of wisdom, villain, stabbed in stomach by Xena, played by Paris Jefferson
 Autolycus, the self-styled king of thieves, played by Bruce Campbell
 Borias, Xena's ex-lover and the father of Xena's son, Solan, killed in Battle of Corinth, played by Marton Csokas
 Brutus, right hand man of Caesar, villain, stabbed by Gabrielle in battle, played by Grant Triplow and later by David Franklin
 Caesar, Roman leader, love/hate interest for Xena, villain, killed by Roman revolutioneers, played by Karl Urban
 Callisto, Xena's greatest nemesis, villain became good afterdeath, stabbed in heart by Xena and returned as an angel, played by Hudson Leick
 Cupid, Aphrodite's son, played by Karl Urban
 Cyrene, Xena's mother, Burnt in the stake from the villagers, played by Darien Takle
 Diana one of the various Xena look-alikes played by Lucy Lawless
 Discord, goddess of discord, villain, decapitated by Xena, played by Meighan Desmond
 Eli, healer, teacher and prophet of a new religion- he is later to be revealed playing the role Jesus in the series, stabbed by Ares, played by Tim Omundson
 Ephiny, queen regent of the Amazons, stabbed by Brutus in battle, played by Danielle Cormack
 Eve, Xena's pacifist daughter, villain became good, played by Adrienne Wilkinson, also called Livia from her dark warrior days.
 Hades, the god of the underworld, villain, set on fire and burnt to death by Xena, played by Erik Thomson (seasons 1-4);  Stephen Lovatt (season 5)
 Hercules, the demigod credited with turning Xena from evil to good, played by Kevin Sorbo.
 Hope, the demonic daughter of Gabrielle, villain, stabbed by her son the Destroyer, played by Amy Morrison as a girl and by Renée O'Connor as a young woman
 Iolaus, Hercules' best friend, played by Michael Hurst.
 Joxer, the warrior wanna-be, clown-like friend of Xena and Gabrielle, stabbed by Eve, played by Ted Raimi, the producer's brother
 Lao Ma, Xena's mentor, executed by her son Ming-Tien, played by Jacqueline Kim
 Meg, a tramp, one of the various Xena look-alikes, played by Lucy Lawless
 Pompey, the rival of Caesar to Roman Empire throne, villain, decapitated by Xena, played by Jeremy Callaghan
 Poseidon, god of the sea, villain, evaporated by a fireball deflected by Xena, voiced by Rick Jacobson (appearances 1-2) and Carl Seibert (appearance 3)
 Salmoneus, the ultimate merchant man with a lax conscience but good heart, played by Robert Trebor
 Virgil, poet-warrior, adopted son of Joxer and Meg, played by William Gregory Lee

 Spin-offs
There have been numerous Xena spin-offs into various media including movies, books, comics and video games.

 Movies
In August 1997 Hercules and Xena: The Battle For Mount Olympus a DTV animated movie was released, featuring the voices of a number of actors from both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. The movie plot involves Hercules' mother being kidnapped by Zeus and the release of the Titans. Xena and Gabrielle have supporting roles in the movie, and at one point Xena even bursts into song.

Since the end of the series rumors have circulated that a feature length movie was in the works. In 2003 Screenwriter Katherine Fugate was approached for the project, and was quoted saying that she expects the start of production to be three to five years away, which suggests a release sometime between 2006 and 2009. Actress Lucy Lawless has been quoted in several interviews as saying she would be interested in participating in a Xena movie as well.

 Books
Books have been released as tie-ins, including Xena Warrior Princess: Complete Illustrated Companion. There have also been a number of novelizations by authors like Martin H. Greenberg.

A book was also released in 1998, XENA: All I Need to Know I Learned From the Warrior Princess, allegedly written by Gabrielle, Bard of Poteidaia, and was "translated" by Josepha Sherman. It contains Gabrielle's viewpoint on many of the adventures she and Xena embarked on, and also includes eight pages of black-and-white photographs from the show. The book is basically Gabrielle talking about her view of the world on many different subjects. For example, in one of the chapters, "Anything can be a weapon- Anything!", she instructs the reader on fighting without traditional weapons, such as a sword or a staff, and in another, "Nobody likes a winer", she laments on the perils of alcohol.

It also launched The Official Guide to the Xenaverse, by Robert Weisbrot, with photographs in color and black and white, a complete and detailed episode guide to the first two seasons, a look behind the scenes, the intriguing story of the origin of Xena: Warrior Princess, biographies of cast and crew and trivias about the show.

There is also the fictional books, how The Empty Throne, The Huntress and The Sphinx, The Thief Of Hermes,  and Prophecy of Darkness. A recent academic monograph on the series is Wim Tigges' Her Courage Will Change the World": An Appraisal of Xena: Warrior Princess, which was self-published through lulu.com.

 Comics
There have been a number of comic adaptations. The earliest ones were released by Dark Horse Comics and written by Ian Edginton and John Wagner. More recently the license has moved to Dynamite Entertainment.

 Video games
 Electronic Arts published Xena: Warror Princess for the PSone in 1999. Played from a third-person perspective, the game play involves slashing, jumping, and kicking through a variety of primitive 3D environments. Xena can also find and use power-ups and her trademark chakram. Once thrown, the chakram becomes a first-person weapon to guide toward enemies.
 Saffire published Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate for the Nintendo 64 console in 1999.
 Xena: Warror Princess for the Game Boy Color was developed and released by Titus Software in 2000.
 Xena: Warrior Princess: Death In Chains, a multi-path video game for the PC adapted from and expanding upon the television episode of the same name, although none of the original actors provide their voices.
 Xena: Warrior Princess: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, another multi-path video game for the PC, again adapted from and expanding upon the television episode of the same name, again without the original voice actors.
 Xena: Warror Princess for the PS2 only released in Europe in 2007.

 Series Information
 Awards and Nominations

 DVDs releases
Anchor Bay Entertainment has released all 6 Seasons as well as the 10th Anniversary Collection of Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD in Region 1 for the first time.  The series has also been released on DVD in Region 2 & Region 4. Only Region 1 DVDs contain special features, Regions 2/3/4 do not have any bonus material on them.  The Region 2 releases of Season 1 contain the episodes out of order, creating a number of continuity problems when watching them in the order in which they are presented. The order on these DVDs is episode 1, then episodes 10 through 19, then episode 2, then episodes 21 through 24, and finally episodes 3 through 9. There are also several small changes, such as headbutts and claps over the ears.

 Reception

Xena: Warrior Princess has been referred to as a pop cultural phenomenon and feminist icon.Atara Stein, "XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, THE LESBIAN GAZE, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FEMINIST HEROINE " (1998). The television series, which employed pop culture references as a frequent humorous device, has itself become a frequent pop culture reference in video games, comics and television shows, and has been frequently parodied and spoofed.

Xena: Warrior Princess has been credited by many, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, with blazing the trail for a new generation of female action heroes such as Buffy, Max of Dark Angel, Sydney Bristow of Alias, and the Bride in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

Xena and Gabrielle's relationship has been cited as one of the reasons why the series has been so popular, coupled with the denials of her character's lesbianism from Lawless while the series was running. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been nicknamed "Warrior Princess" by her staff.

 Fandom and fan movies

The popularity of Xena: Warrior Princess has led to websites, online discussion forums, works of Xena fan fiction and several unofficial fan-made productions.

 U.S. Ratings

 Astronomy
In 2005, the team that discovered the dwarf planet  nicknamed it "Xena" in honor of the TV character. On October 1, 2005, the team announced that  had a moon, which they had nicknamed "Gabrielle". The objects were officially named Eris and Dysnomia by the International Astronomical Union on September 13, 2006. Although the official names have legitimate roots in Greek mythology, Dysnomia is also Greek for "lawlessness", perpetuating the link with Lucy Lawless.

 Influence on the lesbian community

Xena has enjoyed a particular cult status in the lesbian community. Some of the lesbian fan base sees Xena and Gabrielle as a couple and has embraced them as role models and lesbian icons. A group called The Marching Xenas has participated in many gay and lesbian pride parades.

A subject of much interest and debate among viewers is the question of whether Xena and Gabrielle are lovers. The issue is left deliberately ambiguous by the show's writers. Jokes, innuendo, and other subtle evidence of a romantic relationship between Xena and Gabrielle is referred to as "lesbian subtext" or simply "subtext" by fans. The issue of the true nature of the Xena/Gabrielle relationship caused intense debates in the fandom, which turned especially impassioned due to spillover from real-life debates about same-sex sexuality and gay rights.

Some fans felt that the sexual nature of Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was cemented by an interview given by Lucy Lawless to Lesbian News magazine in 2003.  Lawless stated that after the series finale, where Gabrielle revives Xena with a mouth-to-mouth water transfer filmed to look like a full kiss, she had come to believe that Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was "definitely gay... there was always a 'well, she might be or she might not be' but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the very final scene, that cemented it for me. Now it wasn't just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was 'Nope, they're married, man'." However, in the interviews and commentaries on the DVD sets released in 2003-2005, the actors, writers and producers continued to stress the ambiguity of the relationship, and Ares was also considered at least as a potential love interest for Xena.

The Xena fandom also popularized the term Altfic (from "alternative fiction") to refer to same-sex romantic fan fiction. Many fans felt the term slash fiction carried the connotation of being about male/male couples only and was not a good description for romantic fan fiction about Xena and Gabrielle.

 Costume donation
In 2006, Lucy Lawless donated her personal Xena costume to the Museum of American History. In an interview the same year with Smithsonian magazine, she was asked the question "Was the Warrior Princess outfit comfortable?" and she responded:

 Uberfic Uberfic''' is a kind of alternative universe fan fiction in which characters or events are portrayed somewhat closely to original canon but usually in a different time period, many times featuring the ancestors, descendants or reincarnations of canon characters. The term originated in Xena: Warrior Princess'' fandom. This sort of story was used by the series itself, beginning with the second season episode "The Xena Scrolls".

References

Other websites

 List of Xena: Warrior Princess episodes at Internet Movie Database.
 Xena: Warrior Princess at TV.Com.
 Screencaps of Xena: Warrior Princess at Mikes-Images.

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