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Check is a term in chess when a player's king is attacked. If the king is in check, the player "must" find a way to stop the threat; he can not just ignore it. The player must do one of these things:
If none of these works, then it is not a check but "checkmate".
Checkmate.
Checkmate (often called mate) is when a player's king is attacked (in check) and there is no way to escape that attack. Or, simply put, the king is under attack and cannot get out of being captured. Giving checkmate is the main goal in chess: a player who is mated loses the game.
History.
These rules have been part of chess since its beginning. Until the early 20th century, it was customary to announce "Check!" verbally when making the move. This would be regarded as strange today; players do not address each other in competitive chess except where necessary.
Until the 19th century it was customary to warn one's opponent when attacking his queen: "Check to the queen!" Most players today do not know this was ever done.p74
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Tacoma is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound.
Tacoma was named after the nearby Mount Rainier. It was first called Mount Tahoma.
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A Mixed government or mixed constitution is a form of government where different sized groups of people control different types of issues. It integrates different forms of government, like democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy. Mixed government means that there are some issues where the state is governed by the majority of the people, in some other issues the state is governed by few, in some other issues by a single person, often defined in a constitution. Today, this idea is commonly seen as a precursor to that of separation of powers
Mixed governments was common in Ancient Rome.
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"Argyranthemum", also called the marguerite or marguerite daisy, is a perennial plant, which is good for being a potted plant. It is native to the Canary Islands.
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Son of the Shadows is a fantasy novel by Juliet Marillier and the second book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy first published in 2000. It follows the path of Sorcha and Red's third child, Liadian, a girl who lives outside the pattern of the 'Fair Folk', also known as Túatha Dé Danann. "Son of the Shadows" won the 2001 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy Novel.
Plot Summary.
In this novel, Liadan grows up in Sevenwaters with her twin brother Sean and her older sister Niamh. They are the children of Sorcha and Iubdan (formerly Hugh of Harrowfield). Liadan follows in her mothers tradition in learning the healing arts. Niamh has great beauty and is 'expected' to wed Eamonn, a nearby chieftan. Eamonn actually asks for the hand of Liadan, she says that she will give him an answer in one year. While staying at Sevenwaters, Eamonn tells a tale of a recent attack by a band of mercenaries. Upon this attack, all his men were killed, and his life was spared by a man called the Painted Man. He swears that he will kill him. During the festival of Imbolc, a young druid named Ciarán tells the story of Aengus Óg and Caer Ibormeith and catches the fancy of Niamh. They are soon having a secret love affair. Liadan discovers their secret during a walk in the forest. When the truth comes out, Ciarán leaves the Druids and Sevenwaters and Niamh is forced to marry the Uí Néill chieftan, Fionn.
Liadan goes with her sister on the trip to her new home. On the way back she is kidnapped by an outlaw and brought to the camp of "The Painted Man" in order to try to save the life of their smith who was hurt in an accident. She accepts the task and eventually falls in love with Bran, their leader. When Bran finds out that she is the daughter of Hugh of Horrowfield, he sends her back home. When she returns to Sevenwaters, she finds she is pregnant with Bran's child. The Tuatha Dé Danann demand that she and her son remain in the forest, but she refuses to comply. With the help of Finbar she realizes that she has his gift of sight and can read and heal the minds of others.
Sean, Liadan's brother and heir to Sevenwaters, wants to buy the Painted Man's fighting men in their long battle for the sacred islands. All of the leaders go to a meeting to discuss the feud with the Britons. Liadan and her sister visit Sean's future bride and Eamonn's sister at his estate called Sídhe Dubh. During this visit Liadan discovers that her sisters husband has been beating her. She uses her mind gifts to help Niamh. With the help of Bran they plan on secretly taking Niamh out of Sídhe Dubh and take her to a Christian nunnery where she can be safe. At the last moment Eamonn and Fionn return and attack Bran and Gull as they escape with Niamh. Eamonn returns from the chase and tells the tale of how Naimh slips on the rocks and fell into the bog and died. All that remained was a cord that Liadan made for Niamh that held a white stone given to her by Ciarán.
Liadan finally gives birth to her son. Her mother and father realize when the child is born that his father (Bran) must have been the son of John and Margery, kinsman of Iubdan when he was Lord of Horrowfield. Liadan names the child Johnny. Shortly after the birth of Johnny, Sorcha dies. But before her death Liadan tells Sorcha, Iubdin and Finbar the story of Niamh's abuse by her husband; the escape from Sídhe Dubh with the help of Bran; and her belief that Niamh is not dead. On her deathbed Sorcha tells Iubdin that he must return to Harrowfield and learn the truth about John and Margery's son. Ciarán returned in hiding as a tinker during the ceremory for Sorcha. He tells Liadan that Niamh is indeed alive and safe. He also tells her the truth of why they could not wed. Ciarán is the son of Lord Colum and the Lady Oonah, he is half brother to Niamh's mother. So their union was forbidden by blood. This was why they were not allowed to wed and that he could never be a druid since he carried the blood of the sorceress Lady Oonah. Ciarán gives Liadan a gift for helping rescue Niamh for her abusive husband and returning her to Ciarán, a mysterious raven named Fiacha.
Bran comes to Sevenwaters in secret to meet with Sean and meets Liadan, she tells him of his son. After Bran leaves, Liadan has a vision of her Uncle Liam's death; a vision of Eamonn telling Aisling that she could not marry Sean and then her suicide. They then learn that Fionn was recently killed in his sleep. Liam was indeed killed by a Britons arrow and his nephew Sean takes control of Sevenwaters. Sean fearful for Aisling convinces Liadan to go to Sídhe Dubh to bring Aisling back so they can be married. Liadan has had visions of Eamonn torturing Bran. When she arrives at Sídhe Dubh she learns from Eamonn that he indeed has Bran held prisoner. She makes a deal with Eamonn, in exchange for not revealing that Eamonn betrayed his kinsman Liam and sacrificed his life in exchange for the Painted Man capture. Aisling will be allowed to go Sevenwaters and Liadan can leaves with Bran and Gull if she can find them and leave before dusk. With the help of some magic and Fiacha they make it safely through the bog that surrounds Sídhe Dubh. Liadan learns Bran's hidden truth about his childhood during her fight to bring him back from the torture inflicted on him. She reveals this to her father Iubdin and she convinces Bran that his future might lie in returning to his roots at Harrowfield in Briton, while his men talk of setting up a school for warriors.
Literary significance and reception.
Publishers Weekly said that "The story, though a bit light on the magic and heavy on the romantic, is reminiscent of Jennifer Roberson's Chesuli series. Fantasy addicts should love it".
Jackie Cassada in "The Library Journal" said "Marillier blends old legends with original storytelling to produce an epic fantasy that belongs in most libraries".
"Booklist" in 2001 said that "Marillier's virtuosic pacing and vivid, filmic style make this an engaging continuation of one of the last year's best fantasies".
Allusions and references.
Characters of Irish mythology mentioned.
Spellings shown below are the one used in the novel
Awards and nominations.
"Son of the Shadows" won the 2001 Aurealis Awards for Fantasy Novel
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The axis of rotation is an imaginary line passing through the center of mass of any celestial body around which the celestial body rotates. In case of Earth, the axis of rotation of Earth passes through the north pole, the centre of mass of Earth and the south pole. The Earth makes one complete rotation around this imaginary axis every 23 hours, 56 minutes and four seconds. The line passes through the north and south poles of a planet.
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Orbital plane (astronomy)
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An orbital plane is the geometric plane of an orbit. It is described by its difference from a "reference plane".
The reference plane for the Solar System is usually the Earth's orbital plane. This defines the ecliptic, the path on the celestial sphere that the Sun appears to follow over a year.
For example, suppose a planet is orbiting around a star in an elliptical orbit. The area within the path is the 'orbital plane' of that planet. The plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is called the ecliptic plane.
Sometimes the invariable plane is used instead.
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Guadalajara
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Guadalajara is a city in Mexico. Over three and a half million people live there. It is the third-largest city in Mexico. It is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is in Western Mexico and is over above sea level. Guadalajara is a major Latin American city in terms of industry, tourism, and culture. A famous soccer team called Chivas Guadalajara plays there.
In 2011 Guadalajara hosted the Panamerican Games and Plans to bid for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. In 2005 Guadalajara was called the City of Culture 2005. Guadalajara is home to a largely celebrated culture of "New Modern Mexico". Guadalajara is also known for Mariachi (a form of folk music) and Baile Folklórico, traditional Mexican dances.
Etymology.
The first name comes from Nahuatl, "Atemaxac" by "Atemajac Valley" and means "place of the down waters". Site when was founded Guadalaxara by Spaniards.
The municipal seat is the city of Guadalaxara, although both the town and municipality are commonly referred to as simply "Guadalajara". The city is named after Guadalajara, Spain, is Moorish arabic etymology. The conquistador named the city in honor of the conqueror of western Mexico, , who was born in , Spain, which is derived from Moorish Arabic (), which means 'Valley of the Stones', or 'Fortress Valley'.
History.
It spans a period of 475 years. After the victory at Tonalá (which occurred on March 25, 1530), Nuño de Guzmán enjoyed the tribute and homage of all the communities in the Atemajac Valley, where the capital of Jalisco is located today. The conquistador even aspired to be named by Charles I of Spain as the first Marquis of the Tonalá Valley. However, the city had four settlements before settling in the capital. Initially, it was in Nochistlán, in the place known as El Zapote, today called San Juan. It was founded by Cristóbal de Oñate on January 5, 1532, who had been commissioned by Nuño de Guzmán to establish a city that would serve to secure his conquests. The Villa de Guadalajara was founded by 42 residents; the name Guadalajara was taken in memory of the Spanish city of the same name, the birthplace of Nuño de Guzmán. The town didn't last long on this site. With the consent of Guzmán, Juan de Oñate (son of Cristóbal de Oñate), Miguel de Ibarra, and Sancho Ortiz, they planned to move it on May 19, 1533. Thus, by August 8, 1533, Guadalajara was in its second settlement.
Geography.
Climate.
Guadalajara City is in the tropics. But because its elevation is so high, it has a subtropical highland climate ("Cwb" in the Köppen climate classification). This means temperatures are warm or mild year-round. It is a lot wetter in the summer than in the winter. Some parts of the city get frost in the winter.
Education.
The University of Guadalajara, founded in 1791, is one of the highest ranking universities in Latin America.
The public schools and public universities:
The city hosts campuses of several private schools, including:
Culture.
The cultural movement in Guadalajara is one of the strongest in the Americas. The city has one of the most extensive cultural agendas on the continent, in addition to the interest of the government, the university, and private institutions in exploiting the city's cultural attributes. The city exhibits works by international artists and is a showcase for international cultural events whose sphere of influence reaches most countries in the Americas, as well as the southwestern United States.
Guadalajara is characterized as one of Mexico's iconic cities. This means that its identity has given the country a certain iconographic image, even though mariachi, charrería, and tequila do not originate in Guadalajara, but rather from nearby locations or regions. Over time, however, the city has been stereotyped as the land of these cultural manifestations and has adopted them in its role as the capital of the state of Jalisco. However, Guadalajara is the birthplace of cultural expressions such as the "syrup dance" (also known as "syrup dance"), created from flamenco influences in both dance and costume acquired during the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It is also considered one of the richest Mexican cities in artisanal and gastronomic diversity (and formerly in the textile sector).
Sports.
The city has two first division soccer teams: Club Deportivo Guadalajara (Chivas) and Club Atlas (known as Rojinegros or Zorros). In the Mexican Second Division, there are Club Deportivo Oro and Club Leones Negros of the University of Guadalajara. In the third division, there is Club Deportivo Nacional. In the past, it had other teams, such as the now-defunct Club Social y Deportivo Jalisco.
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Groupers are large fish of the perch type. They are genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae.
Groupers and the sea basses are in the family Serranidae. Most groupers are in one of two large genera: "Epinephelus" and "Mycteroperca". Also, species in the small genera "Anyperidon", "Cromileptes", "Dermatolepis", "Gracila", "Saloptia", and "Triso" are also called groupers. Fish in the genus "Plectropomus" are referred to as coral groupers. These genera are all in the subfamily Epiphelinae.
Sometimes other fish have common names with the word "grouper". Nonetheless, "grouper" on its own is usually taken to mean the subfamily Epinephelinae.
Groupers and octopuses often work together to catch prey on coral reefs.
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Orion's Belt
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Orion's Belt or Belt of Orion is belt of 3 stars in one line in the constellation Orion. Ancient Arabic names of these 3 stars are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. These 3 stars are named by astronomers as ζ Ori (Alnitak), ε Ori (Alnilam), and δ Ori (Mintaka). These 3 stars are best visible in the night sky during the month of January.
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Malcolm Turnbull
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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Australia. He was Minister for Communications in the government of Australia under Prime Minister Tony Abbott from 18 September 2013 until 14 September 2015. Turnbull is also the former Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament, and former leader of the Liberal Party, succeeding Brendan Nelson on 16 September 2008.
He lost the leadership positions on 1 December 2009, by one vote to Tony Abbott. Turnbull had agreed to allow the government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) to pass through the parliament. This was opposed by many people in the Liberal Party who argued that an ETS was unnecessary. Other people in the party thought an ETS would harm Australia's coal exports. Others in the party did not like the way that Turnbull managed the arguments within his party.
Turnbull was elected in his full-term Prime Minister position in the 2016 federal election. He resigned in August 2018 following a leadership challenge in the Liberal Party where Scott Morrison was elected as the party's leader and eventual Prime Minister.
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The Green Mile (movie)
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The Green Mile is a 1999 American drama movie. It was released on December 10, 1999 in the United States. It stars Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, and Michael Clarke Duncan. It was directed by Frank Darabont.
Plot summary.
In Louisiana in 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility call Death Row "The Green Mile" because of the dark green linoleum that tiles the floor. Paul Edgecomb (played by Tom Hanks) is the head guard on the Green Mile when a new inmate arrives: John Coffey (played by Michael Clarke Duncan), who is to be executed for the murder of two young girls. Despite his size and the fearsome crimes for which he's serving time, Coffey seems to be a kind and well-mannered person who behaves more like an innocent child than a hardened criminal. Soon Edgecomb and two of his fellow guards, Howell (played by David Morse) and Stanton (played by Barry Pepper), notice something odd about Coffey: he's able to perform what seem to be miracles of healing, like bringing a dead mouse back to life, leading them to wonder just what sort of person he could be, and if he could have done the crimes with which he was charged.
Etymology.
The word "Green mile" is said to "metaphorically" represent the short distance of land (therefore the use of the word "mile") that a prisoner needs to walk before he or she is executed .
Awards.
1999 Academy Awards
2000 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
2000 Broadcast Music Incorporated Film & TV Awards
2000 Black Reel Awards
2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
2000 Bram Stoker Awards
2000 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
2000 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2000 Directors Guild of America
2000 Golden Globe Awards
2000 NAACP Image Awards
2000 MTV Movie Awards
2000 Motion Picture Sound Editors (Golden Reel Awards)
2000 People's Choice Awards
2001 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Nebula Award)
2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards
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Billy Mays
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William Darrell "Billy" Mays, Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson most well known for promoting OxiClean, Orange Glo, and other cleaning, home-based, and maintenance products.
His distinctive beard and loud sales pitches made him a recognized television presence in the United States and Canada. A universally loved figure wherever he aired he was the only thing that kept most people from turning the channel. Even after his death he is still a popular and prominent pop culture icon. More recently becoming a meme star.
He starred in his own TV show called Pitchmen with his friend and co-worker Anthony Sullivan. The show was on for one season before his sudden death.
Death.
Mays died at age 50 on June 28, 2009 from complications of heart disease. This was likely from an overdose on Cocaine.
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Bosse Martin Erik Eriksson (born August 27, 1965) is a Swedish musician. He is better known by his stage name E-Type. He is in the techno/trance music genre. His songs include "Life" (cansis club mix).
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Jason Derulo
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Jason Joel Desrouleaux, known publicly by the spelling Derulo (formerly Derülo; born September 21, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and content creator. He is part of the band Frou Frou with Imogen Heap. They sang the song "Whatcha Say", which samples Heap's song "Hide and Seek". "Whatcha Say" became Derulo's first US number-one and was double platinum. Other singles include "The Other Side", "In My Head", "Want to Want Me", and "Ridin' Solo".
In 2013, Derulo released the album "Tattoos", known as "Talk Dirty" for the US version. The single "Talk Dirty" reached number three in the US and topped charts in the UK. The song "Wiggle" was also released from the album.
Derulo has become known in recent years for his videos posted to the social media app TikTok. His song "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)", which was a collaboration with Jawsh 685, became his second US number-one single in 2020 after remixes of the song were released with South Korean K-pop boy band BTS.
Personal life.
Derulo has been in a relationship with influencer Jena Frumes since March 2020. They announced their separation in September 2021.
On May 8, 2021, Derulo and Frumes welcomed their first child, a son named Jason King Derulo.
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Segarcea is a town in Dolj County, Romania. It is about 25 kilometers from Craiova, which is the county seat of Dolj County. 8,564 people were living in Segarcea as of 2002.
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Tender is the Night
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Tender is the Night is the fourth novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first sold in 1934.
Plot summary.
Dick Diver is a doctor who gets married to his patient Nicole. They spend some time in France and Switzerland but their marriage falls apart and they get a divorce.
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Under the Volcano
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Under the Volcano is a novel by Malcolm Lowry first sold in 1947.
Plot summary.
The events of the novel happen over one day in 1938 where a Mexican festival is taking place. Geoffrey Firmin is a smart British man living in Mexico. He wants to write a book but he drinks too much alcohol. Geoffrey's wife, Yvonne, is fed up of his drinking. She once had an affair with Geoffrey's brother Hugh.
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Yuichi Mizutani
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Yuichi Mizutani (born 26 May 1980) is a former Japanese football player.
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Yoshito Terakawa (born 6 September 1974) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Shonan Bellmare.
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is a former Japanese football player.
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Yosuke Nozawa (born 9 November 1979) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Shonan Bellmare.
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Yosuke Fujigaya
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is a Japanese professional athlete. He is best known as an association football player.
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Naoki Matsuyo
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Naoki Matsuyo (born 9 April 1974) is a former Japanese football player.
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This Side of Paradise
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This Side of Paradise is the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was first sold in 1920.
Plot Summary.
Amory Blaine leaves his mother and friend behind to go to a good American university. At university he falls in love with a girl called Isabelle, but she is not interested in Amory. Amory then goes to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the war, he falls in love with Rosalind. Because Amory is poor, Rosalind is not interested in him and decides to marry someone else. Amory then learns that his friend from home has died.
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Manute Bol
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Manute Bol (born 16 October 1962 - died 19 June 2010) was a Sudanese-born professional basketball player who played for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, and Miami Heat in the NBA. His NBA career lasted from 1985 to 1994. Bol was 7 feet, 7 inches tall, and was one of only two people that tall to play in the NBA. The other is NBA center Bol Bol who plays for the Phoenix Suns
Bol is the only player in NBA history to block more shots than have points scored in his career.
Bol was nicknamed Raan Cheg, 'Nute, Iron Bol, Minutiae, The Project and The Dinka Dunker.
Recently, Bol had been active raising money for and telling people about human rights issues dealing with the Darfur conflict in Sudan, where he was born.
Bol died on June 19, 2010 due to acute kidney failure and complications from Stevens–Johnson syndrome.
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Head scarf
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Headscarves are scarves covering most or all of the top of a woman's hair and her head. Headscarves may be worn for a variety of purposes, such as for warmth, for sanitation, for fashion or social distinction; with religious significance, to hide rampant baldness, out of modesty, or other forms of social convention.
Types of headscarves.
Headscarves may have specific religious significance. Observant married Orthodox Jewish women, for example, are required to cover their hair, often employing scarves (or sometimes wigs) for the purpose. Headscarves were also worn by married Christian women in Medieval Europe, and even among some of the unmarried. This headcovering habit is better known as a wimple in English.
Islamic law says that women should dress in a special way. This dress code applies to women and adolescent girls, but not to children.
Headscarves and veils used for Muslim religious dress include:
Note that the Arabic word "hijab" refers to modest behaviour in general, and pertains to men and women, but it is sometimes used in other languages to describe the Muslim headscarf, also known as a "khimar".
Some English speakers use the word "babushka" (grandma in Russian) to indicate the headscarf tied below the chin, as commonly worn in Eastern Europe. In most parts of Eastern Europe, headscarves are used mainly by elderly women (grandmothers) and this led the incorrect use of the "babushka" term. In Russia they are worn by women when they go to church to show their convictions to Russian Orthodoxy.
A plain red or scarlet headscarf was worn by female commissars and other women aligning themselves with Bolshevism in times of Russian Revolution and civil war.
A head tie is a west and southern African women's head scarf, specifically an elaborate ornamental head covering.
The Keffiyeh is commonly used by Muslim men.
Ancien Egyptiant men wore a Nemes headcloth.
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A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel which controls fishing trawls. Trawling is a way of fishing that involves pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers.
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Venetia Burney
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Venetia Burney (1918–2009) is known for suggesting name the Pluto for newly discovered celestial body in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. At that time, Venetia Burney was an 11 year old schoolgirl living in Oxford, England.
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United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
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The United Kingdom Climate Change Programme (UKCCP) is an organisation made in 2000. It changes the way Britain looks at global warming and climate change. It encourages the use of wind and solar power.
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Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930.
Biography.
Tombaugh was born in a ranch near Streator, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh planned to attend college. A hailstorm ruined his family's farm crops, so he did not have money to pay for college.
After he discovered Pluto, he went to college at the University of Kansas and graduated with two degrees in astronomy.
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Venera was the USSR program for sending spacecraft to the planet Venus. A Venera 3 spacecraft was the first manmade object to land on another planet in our solar system. Venera 3 crash landed on Venus on 1 March 1966. Venera 7 also landed on Venus. It landed in 1970. It was the first spacecraft to send information back to Earth after landing on another planet.
Origin of the name: It is the Russian name for the planet Venus.
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Luna 2 was the second spacecraft in Soviet Union's Luna programme to probe the Moon. Luna 2 was launched on 12 September 1959 and it crash landed on the Moon the next day. During its journey to Moon, Luna 2 confirmed the existence of solar wind. Luna 2 was the first human made object to land on a celestial body in space.
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The Cadet Forces Medal is given for long and good service by commissioned officers and non commissioned adult instructors of the UK Cadet Forces: The Army Cadet Force, the Air Training Corps, the Sea Cadet Corps and Combined Cadet Force, and commissioned officers of the New Zealand Cadet Forces. It is awarded for 12 years service. Clasps are given for every 8 years further service in New Zealand & for 6 more years in the UK.
Post Nominals.
People who receive the Cadet Forces Service Medal do not earn the right to use post-nominal letters.
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Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian politician. He was the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003 and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 2003. During his career, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada for over 35 years.
Chrétien was born in Shawinigan, Quebec. He studied law at Université Laval. He became a politician in 1963, when he was first elected to the House of Commons. While Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister, Chrétien was a member of his cabinet. He was the Minister of Justice, Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was also the Deputy Prime Minister when John Turner was Prime Minister.
Chrétien was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1990. The Liberals won 177 seats in the House of Commons in the 1993 election, meaning they were the largest party and could form a government. He was re-elected two times in 1997 and 2000 and led a majority government the entire time he was Prime Minister.
Chrétien retired in 2003. He was replaced as the Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party by Paul Martin.
Beginning of career.
For the 1963 federal election, Chrétien was chosen to be the Liberal Party's candidate for the riding of Saint-Maurice—Laflèche in Shawinigan. He was elected in this riding and became a Member of Parliament for the first time. After this, he became the parliamentary secretary for the Prime Minister at the time, Lester B. Pearson.
Beginning in 1966, he was the parliamentary secretary for Mitchell Sharp, who was the Minister of Finance at the time. He spent a longer amount of time working with Sharp than he did with Pearson.
Chrétien was chosen by Pearson to be the Minister of National Revenue in January 1968.
In Trudeau's second cabinet.
The Liberal Party lost the 1979 federal election. The Progressive Conservatives formed a very short government led by Joe Clark. After Trudeau and the Liberals won the election the year after, Trudeau chose Chrétien to become the Minister of Justice.
Chrétien was a very important person in the 1980 Quebec referendum, when there was a referendum on whether Quebec should leave Canada. He fought very hard for the federal government and was against Quebec leaving Canada.
As Leader of the Opposition.
Turner stopped being the leader of the Liberal Party in 1990. There was an election to decide who would be the person to replace him at the June 1990 party conference.
When Chrétien won the Liberal Party leadership election, the Liberals had the second-most seats in the House of Commons. Because of this, he also became the Leader of the Opposition. At first, he had many problems as the leader. For example, some Quebec Liberal MPs chose to leave the party after he became the leader.
Prime Minister, 1993–2003.
1993 election.
When Brian Mulroney retired in 1993, he was replaced as the Prime Minister and as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party by Kim Campbell. She was a part of Mulroney's cabinet at the time. Because elections in Canada have to happen at least once every five years, there was going to be an election in October of that year.
One of Chrétien's promises was that a Liberal government would remove the Goods and Service Tax. It was created by Mulroney's government and was not very popular among the Canadian public. Chrétien also promised that they would negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) a second time, and to bring down Canada's deficit.
Chrétien and the Liberal Party won the election. The Liberals won 177 seats and became the largest party in the House of Commons. The Progressive Conservatives lost almost all their seats in that election, winning only two seats.
Political views.
Chrétien was part of the Liberal Party's left-wing in the beginning of his career. While he was Prime Minister, however, he was very neoliberal and fiscally conservative.
Personal life.
His parents were Wellie Chrétien and Marie Boisvert.
Chrétien married Aline Chaîné in 1957. They both knew each other when they were young in Shawinigan. Chaîné became one of the people Chrétien trusted the most when making important decisions. They stayed married until she died in 2020. They had 2 sons and 1 daughter.
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Rakesh Sharma
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Rakesh Sharma (born 13 January 1949) is a retired Squadron Leader in the Indian Air Force. He was the first Indian and 138th person to travel in space.
Sharma retired from the Air force as Wing Commander. He spent eight days in Salyut 7 Space station in April 1984. He was given the Hero of Soviet Union by the Soviet Government and the Ashok Chakra by the Indian Government.
Career.
Sharma joined as a test pilot in the Indian Air Force in 1960. He flew various aircrafts, for example Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG) aircraft in 1971. He was selected on 20September in 1982 to become a cosmonaut and go into space as part of a joint program between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Soviet Intercosmos space program.
In 1984, he became the first Indian to fly to space, when he flew aboard the Soyuz T-11. It took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2 April 1984. The Soyuz T-11 reached the Salyut 7 space station, with the ship's commander, Yury Malyshev, and flight engineer, Gennadi Strekalov. Sharma spent 7days, 21hours and 40minutes in the Salyut 7. The crew held a television news conference with officials in Moscow and then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. When Gandhi asked Sharma how India looked from outer space, he replied, "Sare Jahan Se Accha" (the best in the world). This is the title of a patriotic poem by Muhammad Iqbal against the British Raj. India became the 14thnation to send a man to outer space.
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Jonathan Toews
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Jonathan Bryan Toews ( ; born April 29, 1988 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He currently plays for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Before playing in the NHL, Toews played college hockey for 2 years at the University of North Dakota. During his time there, he contributed 85 points (40 goals, 45 assists), a plus-38 rating and a 56.7% faceoff winning percentage in 76 games. He was also able to help UND reach the NCAA Frozen Four in both 2006 and 2007 and served as their alternate captain during his sophomore season He helped UND win the Broadmoor Cup as WCHA champions and he was also named the West Regional MVP after he tallied five points. Before he went into the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, the NHL Central Scouting Bureau ranked Toews third among North American prospects He was drafted with the 3rd overall pick by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.
When Toews brought the Stanley Cup to his hometown of Winnipeg after the Blackhawks won it, the province of Manitoba named a lake in his honour. It is named Toews Lake and is 150 km north of Flin Flon. During that same day, Toews was given the Keys to the City and the Dakota Community Centre in St. Vital where he first played organized hockey was renamed the Jonathan Toews Community Centre in his honour.
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A sport coat (or sports coat) is an article of clothing worn by men as part of business or Informal attire. British usage is to call it a sports jacket. It is similar to a jacket or suit coat, has long sleeves, and is often made of cotton or wool. Sport coats come in many colors and patterns, but the most common are black, navy blue, brown, grey, and tweed, a special type of grey pattern.
If a sport coat is cut from a different cloth, it may be called a blazer. If a sports jacket is made for a cold climate, it will use heavy cloth. Harris Tweed is a famous Scottish cloth originally made in the island of Harris.
The term sport coat may come from their being originally worn for hunting.
Sport coats can be worn with jeans.
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A monorail is like a train. Trains have two sets of wheels that balance on a railway track, but monorails balance on one rail. Monorails often transport people around cities. Some monorails and trains use magnets to hover on their rails. They are called maglev trains. This reduces friction between the train and the rail. The first monorail was invented in the 19th century. The monorail has a different wheel system than other trains. Instead of being on the rail, it goes beside the rails. Monorails are usually complicated and expensive, so most places do not have them.
Other websites.
A Website About Monorails
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Zellers is a company owned by the Hudson's Bay Company. Until 2013 Zellers was Canada's second-largest chain of mass merchandise department stores. The headquarters were in Brampton, Ontario. They had a mascot named "Zeddy", which is a teddy bear.
In 2011, the leaseholds of 189 Zellers stores were taken over by Target Corporation. Target got the leaseholds because they are expanding their stores into Canada in 2013 and 2014. HBC said most Zellers stores would close and retire the Zellers banner from Canadian retail by March 31, 2013.
There were two Zellers stores left in Canada, in Toronto, and Ottawa Ontario, and they closed on January 26, 2020.
In 2023, Hudson's Bay Company said that Zellers was going to open again in certain areas of Canada. These Zellers stores will be inside The Bay.
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Lora is one of the 51 Union Councils of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Lora Union Council takes it name from the main village of area. The Local language is Hindko but Urdu is also universally understood. Lora is connected with Abbottabad by the Ghora Gali- Shah Maqsood road, the travelling time from Abbottabad is about 3 hours by Bus and two hours by car. Murree is about 22 km from Lora and can be reached in 40 mins.
Location.
Lora is located at 33°52'60N 73°16'60E with a height of 1138 metres (3736 feet). It is in the southern part of Abbottabad District in Havelian Tehsil it is next to other Union Councils these are: Nara to the north, Nagri Totial to the north and east, Goreeni to the south, and Phallah to the west.
UC Lora is crossed by the Nadi Haro River (on which the Khanpur Dam is built). Locals grow seasonal crops such as maize (makai) and wheat (gandum).
Subdivisions.
The Union Council of Lora is subdivided into the following areas: Ghari, Ghora, Dheri Kiala, Lora, Narhota, Noorpur, Seri and Thath Karam Shah.
Conditions.
Lora has always been an important place and also a business hub of Circle Lora which consists of six union councils (Lora, Goreeni, Phallah, Nagri Tutial, Seer Sharqi and Seer Gharbi). It lies at the peripheral boundary of Abbottabad and many of the people work in Islamabad and Rawalpindi due to easy access by road through the Ghora Gali- Rawalpindi road. Some inhabitants also live and work as far away as Lahore and Karachi, and a number are also expatriates abroad, working in the Middle East and Europe. The area is quite prosperous and the people well-off, thanks to the comparatively better economic conditions and foreign currency remittances.
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Toru Irie (born 8 July 1977) is a former Japanese football player.
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Mitsuteru Watanabe (born 10 April 1974) is a former Japanese football player.
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Kenji Koyama (born 5 September 1972) is a Japanese football player.
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Yasunori Takada (born 22 February 1979) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Thespa Kusatsu.
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Tetsuro Uki (born 4 October 1971) is a former Japanese football player.
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Keisuke Kurihara (born 20 May 1973) is a former Japanese football player.
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Kjell Arne Bratli (born August 25, 1948) is the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Norwegian Armed Forces. Navy Captain and author. He is a graduate from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. Served at sea, land and in special service. He travelled as a military reporter behind Soviet lines in Afghanistan in the early 1980s and followed mujahideen groups in battle. Captain Bratli has been an active member of the Norwegian Reserve Officer Federation as well as in the CIOR (the NATO reservist organization). He played a vital role in building Rapid Response Information Teams in the NATO Alliance and NATO APIC (Allied Press and Information Centres), as well as modernizing the Norwegian Navy P&I units.
Former editor in the daily press and military periodicals. Former Member of the Board of the Atlantic Committee.
Bratli was appointed and served as special adviser to the Presidium of the Norwegian Parliament before being elected to the high office of Military Commissioner.
He has written more than twenty books. Many about Christianity, Military and Naval History, National Security and Golf. Bratli is a member of the prestigious Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.
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In Search of Lost Time (), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel by the French writer Marcel Proust. It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
Plot summary.
Marcel reflects upon a number of events that have taken place in his life. He remembers the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War, and his relationship with a girl called Albertine.
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David John Mellor (born March 12, 1949 in Wareham, Dorset, England) is a British politician who was an MP from 1979 to 1997, as a member of the Conservative Party.
Mellor became a barrister in 1972, and a Queen's Counsel in 1987 but is currently not practising. He became a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the London constituency of Putney, at the 1979 General Election. In 1990, John Major made him Chief Secretary to the Treasury but after a sex scandal in 1992, Mellor was forced to resign and lost his seat to the Labour Party in the 1997 General Election.
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Thomas Raber (born 20 November 1972 in Steyr) is composer and producer and lives in Austria.
In the 1990s Raber played piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, vocals in many bands. He wrote many songs for this bands.
As teacher he wrote the musical "Das kleine bunte Tierchen" for Kids (Story from Mira Lobe).
With his pop-mass "Wienerfelder Messe" (Vienna-Pop-Mass) he toured through the churches of Austria. Since then Thomas Raber was known.
Now Raber is working as composer and producer in Vienna. 2008 he made the Pop-Hymn of Linz (European capital of culture 2009) for the singer Yvonne Finsterle.
He also composes melodies for TV-Magazines (TW1-ORF-Austria, Austria9-TV)
He is the owner of a publishing company, label, recording studio and the "Hit-Factory".
He is also the producer of Gerald Jatzek, Georg Bydlinski and Manfred Porsch.
References.
Austrian Charts
German Charts
Italian Charts
Ultra Top
Activities in Church
Catalogue raisonne Mira Lobe
SR-Archiv
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Wait Until Dark is a suspense-thriller movie from 1967. Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who is terrorized by three criminals looking for a doll stuffed with heroin. The movie also stars Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna.
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The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Air forceThe President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of the Air Force Staff (CAS). Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflicts.
Since 1950, the IAF has been involved in 5 wars but also participates regularly in United Nations peace keeping missions.
The Indian Air Force has around 170,000 personnel and around 1700 aircraft making it the 4th largest air force in the world in terms of aircraft. The motto of the Indian Air Force is "nabhah sprsham diptam" ('touch the sky with glory').The motto has been taken from the Sacred Bhagavad Gita,Chapter 11,Verse 24.
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Patiala is a city in the Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Patiala District. In the 2011 census, the population of Patiala city was around 406,192. Patiala city is situated 250 meters above sea level. Geographic co-ordinates of Patiala city are latitude 30.33, longitude 76.4.
Patiala a Royal city, the land of Maharajas is famous for its peg, pagri, dresses, jutti, Patiala sahi salwar, Reshmi naale, Food like “Makki de roti” and “Saraason da saag”, folk songs, dances like Gidha and Bhangra, its traditions and culture.
Patiala gets name after Baba Ala Singh, the Sidhu Jat founder of Patiala state. It was earlier known as Ala De Patti which changed to Patiala over a period of time.
History.
In 1714 A.D Baba Ala Singh assumed its leadership. Patiala formerly known as “Ala De Patti” because Baba Ala Singh was the founder of this place. In 1763 Baba Ala Singh laid the foundation of “Quila Mubarak”. The city is built around the Qila Mubarak. The area of district Patiala is known as “Malwa”.
In the third Battle of Panipat, Marathas were defeated by the Afghans in 1761. Hereafter, the rulers of Patiala began to acquire advantage of royalty. He was succeeded by his grandson Amar Singh and he received the title of Raja-I-Rajaan. atiala rulers joined hands with the British against Ranjit Singh in 1808. Thereafter, Patiala came under subsidiary alliance system.
Next important ruler was Mahendra Singh who was a minor at the time of succession. He worked for social causes by funding colleges, constructing new canals and by providing relief funds to famine-draught stricken areas. He was appointed as a ‘Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India’ in 1870. The famous Mohindra Government College was established during his reign and was named after him too. He was succeeded by his son, Rajinder Singh.
Rajinder Singh was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Star of India by the British. He established establishments like a women’s hospital, an orphanage and a training institute for soldiers. He was succeeded by Bhupendra Singh.
After the death of his father Rajinder Singh, Bhupinder was crowned the Maharaja at the tender age of nine. Maharaja Bhupindra Singh had given Patiala a prominent place in politics and in the field of sports. Big architectural designs were constructed during his time.
Bhupinder Singh was educated at Aitchison Chief's College in Lahore and was a talented polo and cricket player. In 1911, the Maharaja of Patiala captained the India XI that toured England. He played for various teams in India and as a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club for the season 1926/7. He contributed generously to the Indian Gymkhana Club in London which catered for Indian students and which with his donation was able to move to Osterley Park. He also founded the Sikh Dharamsala in Putney in 1911. The famous ‘Patiala Necklace’, one of the most expensive pieces of jewellery ever made, was created for him by the house of Cartier in 1928. He was also a dear friend of Hitler's, who gifted him a rare Maybach car.
Bhupinder Singh's son Yadvindra Singh was among those Indian princes who, readily came forward to sign the Instrument of Accession, thus facilitating the process of national integration. His was Mehtab Kaur of Patiala. In recognition of his services, he was appointed the Rajpramukh of the newly established state of PEPSU.
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Don Walsh
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Don Walsh (November 2, 1931 – November 12, 2023) was an American oceanographer and explorer. On January 23, 1960, along with Jacques Piccard, he reached the deepest point in all of the world's oceans, the bottom of the Mariana Trench. They spent 20 minutes at the bottom, but were unable to see anything because of the mud stirred up by the bathyscape. They were the only two people to do this until March 26, 2012, when James Cameron reached the bottom. It has been reported that Don Walsh was on the team that oversaw James' journey. The recorded depth was .
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Laika (; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet Union space dog. She was one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. She was a mix of either a Siberian Husky or other Nordic breed, and a terrier. NASA refers to Laika as a "part-Samoyed terrier." A dog was sent into space to get information about the behavior of living organisms in a space environment. Information from the flight led to the discovery of solar (from the sun) and cosmic radiation.
Laika had been a stray dog living in the streets of Moscow. She underwent training with two other dogs. She was then chosen as the dog to go up in the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2. It was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.
Fate of Laika known.
Not much was known about how spaceflight would affect living animals at the time of Laika's mission. There was also no way, at that time, to bring the satellite back down to Earth. So all the scientists knew there would be no way for Laika to survive her trip. It was necessary to send a dog first as a test, because it was not thought that humans could live in outer space.
Before her trip in Sputnik, one of the scientists took Laika home to play with his children. Dr. Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote: "Laika was quiet and charming...I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live."
One of the technicians getting the capsule ready before final lift-off said that "after placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her "bon voyage", knowing that she would not survive the flight."
Death in space.
Laika died within hours from overheating. Her body temperature got way too hot for her to survive. The heat in her spacecraft had quickly risen to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The true cause and time of her death were hidden from people until 2002. Instead, it was reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six. Another lie the Soviet government perpetuated, was that she was euthanised (put to sleep) before her oxygen ran out.
In the Soviet Union, during the following years, no one openly questioned the decision to send a dog into space. It was not until 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that Oleg Gazenko, one of the top-level scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, said he was sorry for allowing her to die:
Return to Earth.
Over five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 burned up—along with Laika's remains—during re-entry on April 14, 1958.
Memorials and tribute.
On April 11, 2008, Russian officials opened a monument to Laika. It was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika's space flight. It is of a dog standing on top of a rocket.
She also appears on the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
Laika & the Cosmonauts, a Finnish surf rock band, were named for Laika. They formed in 1987.
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Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel "Dracula". He was a very strong influence on vampires in later works of fiction. Aspects of the character are believed by some to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler, who was also known as Vlad Dracula, and by Sir Henry Irving, an actor for whom Stoker was a personal assistant.
One of Dracula's most famous powers is that he can turn others into vampires by biting them.
Physical Appearance.
Dracula is often shown with a strong Eastern European accent, but the novel only says that he speaks excellent English, though his tone is unusual.
At first, Dracula is described as thin, with a long white moustache, pointed ears, and sharp teeth. Harker sees him as an old, cruel-looking man with very pale skin, and red eyes who always wears black.
But later, he has a hooked nose, a pointed beard with a white streak, and hair on his palms. As the story goes on, Dracula appears younger.
Meeting Jonathan Harker.
At the beginning of the book, Dracula tricks a lawyer named Jonathan Harker into coming to Transylvania and signing things saying he can own land in London. When Harker cuts himself shaving, Dracula tries to drink his blood but runs away when he sees Harker has a cross. Dracula locks Harker in his castle, kidnaps a child and feeds it to three women and feeds the child’s mother to wolves when she comes back for her child. When Harker writes to his fiancée Mina, to tell her, Dracula steals and burns the letter. Dracula also dresses up as Harker so he can do horrible things and have people think it’s Harker who did them. Harker realizes that Dracula sleeps during the day so he tries to kill Dracula with a shovel during the day but Dracula survives. Then Harker escapes Dracula’s castle.
The Demeter.
Dracula has himself buried in dirt inside of crates so he can be taken to England in a ship called the Demeter. Dracula transforms into a wolf and kills the crew before escaping the ship and going to England.
Murdering Lucy Westenra.
Dracula transforms into a bat and bites a woman named Lucy Westenra. Dracula also tells R.M. Renfield that he’ll feed him all the bugs he wants if Renfield will be his sidekick.
Dracula flies through Lucy’s window and drinks her blood every night so Dr. Abraham Van Helsing keeps her alive with Blood transfusions. Van Helsing keeps Lucy’s window closed so Dracula steals a wolf from the zoo and has it destroy Lucy’s window so he can get into her house. Lucy’s mother has a heart attack and dies. Dracula runs away from Lucy because she has garlic. Lucy dies of having lost too much blood. Lucy then turns into an Undead monster called a vampire that Dracula controls.
Attacking Mina Harker.
Dracula tells Renfield that he’ll feed him all the bugs and mice he wants if he invites him into Dr. John Seward’s house and Renfield does. Then Dracula goes to Dr. Seward’s house and secretly bites Mina Harker. When Renfield realizes that Dracula bit Mina, he attacks Dracula but Dracula wins. Then Dracula attacks Mina in front of her husband Jonathan Harker, bites her, cuts his own chest and makes her drink his blood to turn her into a vampire. Then Dracula turns into a bat and flies away.
Running away from Van Helsing.
Dracula uses Mina to spy on Dr. Van Helsing and the others since he can see what she sees and know what she knows but then Mina figures out she can use the same power to spy on him. Jonathan Harker finds out Dracula is using the alias Count de Ville and finds and destroys most of Dracula’s boxes. When the Harkers and Van Helsing find Dracula, Dracula threatens them but jumps out a window but the Sun comes up so Dracula can’t transform. Dracula puts on a straw hat to protect himself from daylight and gets a ship to take him back to Transylvania.
Return to Transylvania.
Dracula is taken back to Transylvania in a box of dirt but as soon as someone opens the box, he kills him. Dracula also tricks a group of Gypsies into taking his box (with him inside it) back to the castle and fighting anyone who tries to stop them.
Death.
When Van Helsing and Mina go to Transylvania, Dracula sends the Weird Sisters to convince Mina to help them kill Van Helsing but then the Sun rises and they teleport to their graves. Van Helsing stabs each of them through the heart and cuts their heads off so they can die. Van Helsing’s American friend Quincy Morris is badly hurt opening Dracula’s box but the Gypsies run away when they realize there’s a person inside it. Dracula starts to wake up but then Jonathan Harker cuts Dracula’s head off and Quincy stabs Dracula’s heart. Dracula dies and turns to dust. Then Quincy dies but is happy that Dracula is dead.
Origin Story.
Van Helsing says he believes that Dracula is “the Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk” and that Dracula beat the Turks by going to the Scholomance and learning magic and because of that he was cursed that after he died, he had to come back as an Undead being called a Nosferatu or a vampire and he lost some (but not all) of his memories from when he was alive. And because of the curse, he stopped caring about trying to be good instead of evil and he could only learn from experience.
Adaptations.
In the movie Dracula, he was played by Béla Lugosi. A lot of later versions of Dracula were based on Lugosi’s version.
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James Arthur Lovell Jr. (March 25, 1928 – August 7, 2025) was an American NASA astronaut and test pilot. He was pilot of the Apollo 8 and commander of the Apollo 13 mission. Crew of Apollo 13 mission failed to land on Moon because of loss of electric power and failure of both oxygen tanks due to technical problems. Because of efforts of crew and ground control room, all three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely. He was the first person to first person to fly into space four times.
James Arthur Lovell Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Lovell retired from the Navy and the space program on March 1, 1973, and went to work at the Bay-Houston Towing Company in Houston, Texas, taking on the role of CEO in 1975. He became president of Fisk Telephone Systems in 1977, and later worked for Centel Corporation in Chicago, retiring as an executive vice president on January 1, 1991.
His wife, Marilyn Lovell, died in August 2023. They were married in 1952.
After the death of Frank Borman on November 7, 2023, Lovell became the oldest living former astronaut.
After the death of Bill Anders on June 7, 2024, Lovell became the last surviving crew member of Apollo 8.
Lovell died on August 7, 2025 in Lake Forest, Illinois at the age of 97.
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Mahavira (599 BC-527 BC), also known as 'Vardhaman', was 24th Jain Tirthankara (Teaching God). He was born in 599 BC in Ancient India. He revived the Jain Dharma with five moral teachings under broad headings of Non-violence(Ahimsa), Truthfulness (Satya), Non-stealing (Asteya), Control of senses including mind (Brahmacharya), and Non-possessiveness (Aparigraha).
Mahavira preached that "ahimsa" (non-injury) is the supreme virtue. He is not the founder of Jain religion. He was preceded by last 23 Thirthankaras.Gradually,janism spread to Orissa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, tamil nadu and karnataka.
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Civil law
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Civil law, as a system of law, is different from common law, which is another system of law. The origin of the civil law system of law is ancient Rome. The civil law system is used in countries such as Germany, France, many countries which were colonies of those European countries before, and in many Asian countries. It also been adopted in Latin America as well as in many parts of Asia and many African countries. There are about 150 countries worldwide that use mainly civil law systems. About 80 countries use the common law system.
History.
Civil law's name indicates where it started. Called is was the civil law during the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire. It started in the 2nd century BC. By the end of the Republic, about 27 BC, a number of experts in the law called "jurists" (not to be confused with judges) became prominent. They were mostly members of the upper classes. Jurists provided their services to counsel people and advise judges who presided over trials. An important feature of Roman law was it did not depend on legal precedent by earlier cases but on the facts and merits of the current case.
In the 6th century, Justinian compiled the "Corpus Juris Civilis", a simplified code of Roman laws. It was used by the Byzantine Empire. The medieval Church based much of its Canon law on Roman law.
Germanic law, known as "leges barbarorum", written between the 5th and 9th centuries borrows from the Roman civil law.
Civil law developed in Europe during the middle age, about the same time common law developed in England. During the Renaissance, England's common law system borrowed from civil law. While the common law was the traditional law system in England by this time, Equity is based on civil law. Other features were borrowed and used in maritime law and in wills, trusts and estates. The Napoleonic Code, which borrowed much from Roman law, influenced many of the legal systems in Europe and was the foundation for Prussian civil law.
Features.
Civil law is based on rules and concepts that come from Roman law. The rules and principles of civil law are found in codes which are available to both citizens and legal professionals. These legal codes clearly explain everyone's rights and duties. Unlike common law, in civil law judges have a different role. In criminal cases they establish the facts of a case and use the applicable codes. In many countries, judges also bring the formal charges. Unlike common law, legal precedent is not used to rule in later cases. In this system the legislature passes statutes that are then applied by the courts. Judges look to the statutes instead of precedent in deciding a case.
Subgroups.
The term "civil law" comes from English legal scholarship and is used in English-speaking countries to lump together all legal systems of the "jus commune" tradition. However, legal comparativists and economists promoting the legal origins theory prefer to subdivide civil law jurisdictions into four distinct groups:
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Hurricane Klaus
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Hurricane Klaus was a weak hurricane of the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season. Klaus moved very close to islands like Antigua and Martinique, while it was a hurricane. The remains of Klaus moved over the Southeastern United States and killed 4 people with Tropical Storm Marco, which was close by. Klaus killed 11 people and cause a little bit more than $1 million in damage.
Retirement.
In the Spring of 1991, France requested that the name Klaus be retired, because of what it did in Martinique. So the National Hurricane Center retired the name Klaus. The name Kyle was used in 1996, 2002, and 2008 instead.
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I'm from Barcelona
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I'm from Barcelona is an indie rock group from Sweden. The band currently has 28 members. It was started in 2005 by the group's lead vocal and founder, Emanuel Lundgren. Their first full-length EP was made in 2006 and was called "Let Me Introduce My Friends". It received many good reviews. In 2008, they came out with a second album called "Who Killed Harry Houdini?".
The group has toured many countries, including England, the United States, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and many more.
The group uses multiple instruments such as drums, guitars, tubas, banjos, and others.
History.
In 2005, Emanuel Lundgren wrote several songs and gathered his friends to record them. Weeks later, a homemade EP was completed. A one-time live show with all 29 band members in it was performed in August 2005.
EMI Sweden signed the band and Dolores Recordings released the EP "Don't Give Up On Your Dreams, Buddy!" on February 15, 2006. This featured the band's first hit "We’re From Barcelona". This was named after Manuel, a character on BBC Television's "Fawlty Towers" ("He’s from Barcelona"). Their first full-length album, called "Let Me Introduce My Friends", was released on April 26, 2006 in Sweden. International releases followed, including an EMI UK release on 11 September 2006. In 2006 Lundgren did a Take-Away Show video session shot by Vincent Moon.
In July 2008, it was announced that the band would release a full-length album in Autumn 2008. This would be called "Who Killed Harry Houdini?". The album features French singer Soko on the track "Gunhild". The album was released on October 14, 2008. To promote it, they toured the UK. They finished at the Scala, London on 25 November 2008.
They appeared on the children's program "Yo Gabba Gabba" in 2008.
Their song "The Painter" was shown on the CBS television show "How I Met Your Mother", "Everything Must Go". This aired on May 12, 2008.
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Sherwood Anderson
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Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer. He is most famous for his book "Winesburg, Ohio". Anderson is said to have had a big influence on some of the most famous American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.
Personal Life.
Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. He was the third of seven children. Anderson’s father, Erwin Anderson, had a business which failed. After this, the Anderson family had to move house often, finally settling in Clyde, Ohio. Erwin Anderson began drinking heavily and died in 1895. Sherwood Anderson took a number of jobs to help support his family and he left school at the age of 14.
Anderson moved to Chicago. He worked there until just before 1900, when he signed up for the United States Army. In 1900, Anderson went to Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He eventually went back to Chicago to take up a writing job.
In 1904, he married Cornelia Lane. Lane came from a rich family in Ohio. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio and then in Elyria, Ohio. Anderson had three children and ran a number of businesses.
In November 1912, Anderson had a mental breakdown. He left his wife and three children and decided to become a creative writer. He moved back to Chicago, but took a job in advertising and publishing. Anderson divorced Cornelia in 1916 and got married to Tennessee Mitchell.
In 1916, Anderson’s first book, "Windy McPherson’s Son", was released. In 1919, Anderson’s most famous book, "Winesburg, Ohio", was released. "Winesburg, Ohio" was a collection of short stories about life in a town in Ohio.
In 1922, Anderson divorced Tennessee Mitchell. He got married again in 1924, to Elizabeth Prall. This marriage did not last either. Anderson married again in the late 1920s – this time to Eleanor Copenhaver.
Anderson died in Panama on the 8th March, 1941, at the age of 64. He was buried in Marion, Virginia. The writing on his gravestone reads "Life, Not Death, is the Great Adventure."
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Selectivity (electronic)
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The principle of Selectivity (Discrimination) is based upon an analysis of several circuit breaker characteristics. These include time-current (tripping) curves, peak-let-through-current (Ipeak) and energy let-through (I²T).
The maximum selectivity level with two nominated breakers in series under short-circuit conditions is often stated by vendors in Technical Reference manuals.
Selectivity can be enhanced beyond the breaking capacity of the downstream breaker provided it is backed up by an appropriately selected upstream breaker, which should not trip (unlatch) under the stated short circuit current.
Selectivity works as the upstream breaker heats up under fault conditions providing impedance in the fault circuit reducing the overall fault severity.
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Push It to the Limit
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"Push It to the Limit" is a song from the movie "Scarface". Rapper Rick Ross also made a song called "Push It to the Limit".
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We Are All Made of Stars
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We Are All Made of Stars is a song by Moby. The video shows him with different celebrities in an astronaut suit.
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Castles in the Sky
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Castles in the Sky is an electronica song by Ian Van Dahl from Belgium. It was later recorded again with a new singer for the album, "Ace". There is also a video to this song.
Music video.
There are two videos for this song.
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3 A.M.
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"3 A.M." is a song by rapper Eminem off his album "Relapse". It was produced by Dr. Dre. It is about being a serial killer. The video is very disturbing with Eminem in the woods with no shirt on and there is also drugs and a bath of blood in the video. Eminem's serial killer fetish first came to light when 50 Cent revealed that a track featuring Em called "Norman Bates Motel," a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, would appear on Fiddy's Before I Self-Destruct. Despite the grisly lyrics, "3AM" does boast an awesome Dr. Dre beat, and Slim Shady's dexterous cadence is evidence of the extra time he was given experimenting with his prose while Dre alleviated the pressure of producing Relapse. Still, if Em's claim that "3AM" mirrors the overall tone of Relapse is true, we'll need a night light to make it through this album when it hits stores May 19th.
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Dieter Rams
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Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932 in Wiesbaden) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the Braun company.
Rams learned carpentry as an apprentice. He also studied architecture at the ".
After working at an architecture firm from 1953 and 1955 he joined Braun. He was successful at Braun and became chief of design from 1961.
Rams once explained his design approach in the phrase " meaning "Less, but better." Many of his designs such as coffee makers, radios, audio/visual equipment, and office products are on display in museums over the world. Dieter Rams retired from Braun in 1998.
Rams designed a cover for "Wallpaper" magazine.
Dieter Rams’ rules for good design.
Rams came up with a set of rules for making a good design:
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Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for poetry. He lived in Dublin for much of his life.
Early life.
Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, in Northern Ireland. His parents were Patrick and Sarah Heaney, and Seamus was the first of nine children.
Patrick was a farmer, but his main business was selling cattle.
Sarah Heaney was called Sarah McCann before she married Patrick Heaney, and her relations worked to make cloth in the linen industry.
Heaney said it was important part of his background that his parents came from different parts of Irish life: the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial Revolution.
He was elected a honorary member of the Academia Europaea in 2008.
Death.
Heaney died in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, aged 74, following a stroke.
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Tomoyuki Yoshino
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Tomoyuki Yoshino (born 9 July 1980) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Gainare Tottori.
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Takuya Jinno
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is a former Japanese football player.
Biography.
Jinno was born in Soka on June 1, 1970. After graduating from Shutoku High School, he joined Japan Soccer League club Nissan Motors. When Japan's first-ever professional league J1 League started in 1992, Nissan Motors was transformed to Yokohama Marinos for whom he continued to play. Yokohama won the J1 League champions in 1995. He moved to Japan Football League side Vissel Kobe in 1996 and helped them to gain the promotion to J1 League. In 1999, he was transferred to J2 League side Oita Trinita where he scored the most goals in the league for the season. He played the 2000 season for FC Tokyo. He briefly played for Oita again in the early stage of the 2001 season before he moved to Yokohama FC where he retired from the game in 2003.
Jinno was a member of the Japan national team that won the 1992 Asian Cup, but he did not play in the match.
Jinno remained at Yokohama FC after the retirement and has been working in the area of development for the club until 2009. After 2011, he worked for Gainare Tottori (2011), Avispa Fukuoka (2012–14) and AC Nagano Parceiro (2015–16). In June 2017, he signed with Nadeshiko League club NHK Spring Yokohama FC Seagulls and managed the club until the 2020 season.
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Keiji Ishizuka
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Keiji Ishizuka (born 26 August 1974) is a former Japanese football player.
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Anton-Babinski syndrome
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Anton-Babinski syndrome is a problem that comes from some types of brain damage. People with this problem are blind, but they think they can still see even though it is easy to show they are blind, they still insist they are able to see. This usually occurs after a stroke.
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Half-staff
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Half-staff or half-mast describes a flag being displayed at halfway up a flagpole or a ship's mast. This is done in many countries as a symbol of respect, mourning, or distress, or a form of honor, often with a moment of silence.
The flag does not always have to be flown at exactly the half-way point, sometimes it is acceptable to have the "half-mast" flag at slightly lower or slightly higher than the middle of the flagpole or mast. Originally, "half-staff" meant that the flag had to be flown one flag-width from the top to allow for the "invisible flag of mourning" to be at the top.
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Palm Springs, California
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Palm Springs, California is a city in Riverside County, California. As of 2020, 44,575 people lived there. It is one of the largest cities in the Coachella Valley. Palm Springs and the surrounding area have many retirement communities (places where retired people live). The city and surrounding area have almost 100 golf courses.
Palm Springs has a hot desert climate ("BWh" in the Köppen climate classification).
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Navier–Stokes equations
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The Navier–Stokes equations are kinds of partial differential equations, mathematical equations that describe the motion of fluids. The equations are named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes. The equations happen when you apply Newton's second law to fluid dynamics with the guess that the stress, or internal forces, comes from the sum of a diffusing viscous term (based on which way the velocity is changing), plus a pressure term.
They are very useful because many important things flow. Scientists and engineers use the equations in mathematical models of weather, ocean currents, water flow in a pipe, how air flows around a wing, and how stars move inside a galaxy. The Navier–Stokes equations in their full and simplified forms help with the design of aircraft and cars, the study of blood flow, the design of power stations, the analysis of pollution, and many other things. Together with Maxwell's equations (the equations for electricity and magnetism) they can be used to model and study how things that can flow and conduct electricity can produce (and react to) magnetic fields.
The Navier–Stokes equations are also of great interest in a purely mathematical sense. Somewhat surprisingly, given how useful these equations are, mathematicians have not yet proven that in three dimensions solutions always exist, or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any bad points where they become infinite. These are called the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the seven most important open problems in mathematics, and offered a US$1,000,000 prize (approx. €0.9M or £0.8M as of May 2022) for a solution or a counter-example.
The Navier–Stokes equations dictate not position but rather velocity (how fast the fluid is going and where it is going). A solution of the Navier–Stokes equations is called a velocity field or flow field, which is a description of the velocity of the fluid at a given point in space and time. Once the velocity field is solved for, other quantities of interest (such as flow rate or drag force) may be found. This is different from what one normally sees in classical mechanics, where solutions are typically paths of a particle over time. Studying velocity instead of position makes more sense for a fluid, but for visualization purposes one also can compute various paths that a particle could flow along.
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Mary Toft
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Mary Toft (née Denyer) (c. 1701–1763), also called Mary Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey. In 1726 she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. She became famous, and was taken to London. There she was examined by royal doctors. Later she confessed, and was sent to prison.
Toft became pregnant in 1726, but later miscarried. She had developed a strong interest in a rabbit she had seen while working, and claimed to have given birth to parts of animals. Local surgeon John Howard was called to see if it was true, and upon delivering several animal parts he told other important doctors. The event came to the attention of Nathaniel St. André, surgeon to the Royal Household of King George I of Great Britain. St. André checked further into the event and decided that Toft was telling the truth. The king also sent surgeon Cyriacus Ahlers to see Toft, but Ahlers did not believe it. By now quite famous, Toft was brought to London and was studied at length. She was watched closely. She produced no more rabbits, and eventually confessed to the hoax and was sent to prison as a fraud.
The public learned of the fact that the doctors had been fooled, and this created panic in the medical profession. Several important surgeons' careers were ruined. Pamphlets were published which made fun of the doctors, and William Hogarth was very critical of the profession. Toft was eventually released without charge and returned to her home.
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San Fernando de Monte Cristi, usually just "Monte Cristi", is a city in the Dominican Republic and the head municipality of the Monte Cristi province, in the northwest of the nation.
Name.
The name comes from the name given by Columbus on 4 January 1493 to the mountain known now as "El Morro": "Monte Cristo" or "Monte Christi" ("Mountain of Christ").
The name of the city has been written of different ways: "Monte Cristi" (Columbus), "Monte Cristo" (Ferdinand Columbus), "Monte Christi" or "Monte Christo" (Las Casas), "Monte Cristy" and "Montecristi". But the name most used is Monte Cristi.
When the city was founded again in 1751, the name was changed to the present one, "San Fernando de Monte Cristi", after Ferdinand VI, King of Spain.
Population.
The municipality had, in , a total population of 24,644: 12,892 men and 11,752 women. The urban population was of the total population.
History.
The city was founded by Juan de Bolaños in 1533; but Rodríguez says that it was in 1545 by Francisco Mesa. Some families from the Canary Islands came to live here. Because it was too dry and hot, there was not possibility of any kind of farming, except some cattle raising, and the city was developed as a port.
The town was destroyed in 1606 by order of the Spanish government and the inhabitants were moved, together with the inhabitants of Puerto Plata inhabitants, away from the northern coast to form the new town of Monte Plata. In 1751, Monte Cristi was founded again by order of the king Ferdinand VI of Spain.
Geography.
Monte Cristi is in the northwestern end of the Cibao Valley, near the Montecristi Bay. The city is just to the north of the mouth of the River Yaque del Norte.
To the north of the city is the western end of the "Cordillera Septentrional" ("Northern mountain range"); the last mountain of this range is "El Morro".
The municipality has a total area of 535.87. The region around the city is very dry and hot.
The altitude of the city of Monte Cristi is above sea level.
Climate.
Monte Cristi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: As) with a pronounced dry season on summer, and an wet season on winter.
The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is November with of rainfall, followed by December with .
The driest season is summer. The month with the least rainfall on average is July with an average of followed by August, .
Monte Cristi is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is August with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .
Economy.
The most important economic activities in the municipality are fishing and salt production. Farming is important near the River Yaque del Norte, and the main crops are bananas and rice.
Tourism is also important here, with the different beaches near the city and people that come here for fishing.
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