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209131 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209131 | Sandro (footballer, born 1973) | Sandro Chaves de Assis Rosa (born May 19, 1973) is a former Brazilian football player.
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209132 | 664627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209132 | Hernán Gaviria | Hernán Gaviria (27 November 1969 – 24 October 2002) is a former Colombian football player. He has played for Colombia national team.
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209139 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209139 | Carrow Road | Carrow Road is a British football stadium in Norwich, England. It is the home of . The stadium is in the centre of the city, near to Norwich railway station and the River Wensum.
The stadium is on Carrow Road, and is named after the road. The stadium was built by Norwich City in 1935. Construction took just 82 days. There has been a lot of work done to Carrow Road since 1935. Since 1990 the stadium has been an all-seater. The ground can accommodate 27,244 today and the record attendance is presently 27,091. The record attendance at Carrow Road before it became an all-seater stadium was 43,984 in 1963. The modern Carrow Road site has a club superstore, catering facilities and a Holiday Inn hotel.
History.
Background.
Norwich City F.C. played at Newmarket Road from 1902 to 1908. The record attendance at this time was 10,366 in a match against Sheffield Wednesday in a second round FA Cup match in 1908. After a disagreement over the rent of the Newmarket Road ground, Norwich City moved to a new home in 1908 - a converted disused chalk pit in Rosary Road which became known as The Nest.
By the 1930s, the ground was not big enough for the growing support. Expansion of The Nest was not possible, and there were safety problems with the existing structures. The club began looking for another ground in 1926. Part of the pitch eventually collapsed. The Football Association were not happy with Norwich City’s efforts to repair The Nest. They eventually wrote to the club on 15 May 1935, saying " The Nest was no longer suitable for large crowds and measures must be taken".
With the new season just weeks away, Norwich City were very concerned. About half a mile south of The Nest, they found a new site, the home of the Boulton Paul Aircraft Sports Ground in Carrow Road. On 1 June 1935, the club purchased the ground on a 20-year lease, from its owners Colman's.
Initial construction.
The new stadium took its name from the street. However, the name "Carrow" originally referred to the former Carrow Abbey that once stood on the riverside. Construction began quickly. Ten days after buying the site, work began.
By 17 August most of the stands and terraces had been completed. Finally, after just 82 days, on 31 August Carrow Road football ground was opened for the Second Division match v West Ham United.
Norwich won the game 4-3. The attendance was 29,779 – at the time, a new record crowd for Norwich home games. The first competitive goal at the ground was scored by Norwich's Doug Lochhead.
An aerial photograph from August 1935 shows three sides of open terracing and a covered stand, with a Colman's Mustard advertisement painted on its roof, visible only from the air. The club's association with Colman's has continued into the modern era; in 1997 the club signed a shirt sponsorship deal with the company. The mustard manufacturer's original factory was next to the stadium in Carrow Road, and the ground was opened by Russell Colman, the President of the club. Inglis describes the early Carrow Road as comprising "a Main Stand, a covered end terrace and two large open banks". The covered terrace was paid for by Captain Evelyn Barclay, the vice-president of Norwich City. It was constructed in time for the opening of the 1937-38 season. There is a stand named after Barclay in the modern stadium.
At this time, the ground's capacity was 38,000. The new ground received a royal seal of approval: on 29 October 1938, King George VI watched the home game versus Millwall. This was the first time a ruling monarch had watched a Second Division match.
Ground developments.
Floodlights were erected at the ground in 1956 and the £9,000 cost nearly sent the club into bankruptcy. However, Norwich's success in the 1959 FA Cup secured the financial status of the club and provided sufficient funds for a cover to be built over the South Stand. In 1963, the record was set for attendance for Carrow Road: a crowd of 43,984 watched a sixth round FA Cup match against Leicester City, and the South Stand (now the Jarrold) was covered "soon after".
After a disaster at Glasgow Ranger’s Ground, Ibrox in 1971, ground capacities had to be reduced to around 20,000 people.
A two-tier terrace was built at the River End. Soon afterwards, seats began to replace the terraces. By 1979 the stadium had a capacity of 28,392 with seats for 12,675. A fire in 1984 partially destroyed one of the stands. The damaged stand was eventually demolished completely. In 1987 it was replaced by a new City Stand. Chairman Robert Chase said that "Coming to a football match within the City Stand is very much like going to the theatre – the only difference being that our stage is covered with grass".
Conversion to all-seater.
After a disaster at Sheffield Wednesday’s ground Hillsborough in 1989 and, afterwards, the outcome of the Taylor Report in 1990, the stadium was converted to all-seater with the corners being filled. Today, Carrow Road is an all-seater stadium, with a capacity of 26,034, with a record attendance for an all-seated crowd of 25,522 for the Premiership match against Manchester United in April 2005.
The South Stand was replaced in 2003 when a new 7,000 seat South stand, subsequently renamed the Jarrold Stand was built in its place. The club installed new electronic screen/scoreboards at either end of the stadium in 2007. Behind the goals, they are full colour, with scope for still and moving images. They were first used in the 5-2 Carling Cup victory over Barnet F.C. in August 2007.
Stands.
The current stadium consists of five stands; the Barclay (sponsored by Coral (the northeastern stand), the River End known as the Regency Security Stand Stand (the southwestern stand), the Geoffrey Watling City Stand (the northwestern stand), the Jarrold Stand (the southeastern stand) and the most recent addition, the Aviva Community Stand (the southern stand).
Regency Security Stand.
The previous River End stand (named due to it being close to the River Wensum) was demolished in April 1979. A two-tiered replacement, costing £1.7m, was completed in December 1979. Its name was changed to the Norwich & Peterborough Stand in the 1990s due to a sponsorship deal with the Norwich & Peterborough building society.
The Barclay.
This stand is named after Captain Evelyn Barclay, a former vice-president of the club, who donated the roof costs for the original stand. The Barclay is often incorrectly referred to as the Barclay Stand.
The original Barclay was built in 1937 and demolished in 1992, when a new two-tier structure, modelled on the River End (now the Norwich & Peterborough Stand) was built at a cost of £2.8m (offset by a £2m grant from the Football Trust).
Floodlights are supported on both corners of the Barclay and the Norwich & Peterborough stands, which are the ends behind the goals.
Geoffrey Watling City Stand.
The single-tiered Geoffrey Watling City Stand was built following a severe fire on 25 October 1984. The fire was apparently caused by an employee of the club leaving a three-bar electric fire switched on overnight. The City Stand (as it was named at the time) cost £1.7 million to build and was used for the first time on 30 August 1986 when City hosted Southampton. It was formally opened by the Duchess of Kent on 14 February 1987. The stand was renamed in honour of Norwich City president Geoffrey Watling, who died in 2004.
The stand is the smallest of the four in terms of capacity, but includes the Directors' Box, Press Area, and various other hospitality suites.
Thorpe Corner.
Where The Barclay extends around to meet the Geoffrey Watling City Stand, is the Thorpe Corner infill, "affectionately dubbed 'The Snakepit' by supporters", a term that is even sometimes used in official club reports.
Jarrold Stand.
The Jarrold Stand is on the former site of the South Stand, which was named in honour of Sir Arthur South.
The Jarrold Stand was partially opened for the game against Sheffield United on 31 January 2004, and fully opened for the next home match against West Ham United on 21 February 2004. This was a landmark for the stadium - it represented the final stand of the original ground to be replaced.
The Jarrold Stand is sponsored by Jarrolds, a local department store. The original 4-year sponsorship deal has now been extended through to 2013. The stand is a cantilever, single-tiered, all-seated stand, that can hold up to 8,000 supporters. The Jarrold Stand is "unusual in having not one, but three separate television gantries suspended beneath its largely perspex roof."
In 2005, further work was undertaken on the stand and it reopened in 2006. The stand now extends around the Norwich and Peterborough Stand corner of the ground.
Visiting supporter accommodation.
Accommodation for visiting supporters is provided in the end of the Jarrold Stand closest to The Barclay.
Aviva Community Stand.
The corner infill between the Jarrold and Norwich & Peterborough stands is called the Aviva Community Stand, which was originally built in 2005 and named after sponsors Norwich Union. It seats up to 1,500 fans and also provides extensive facilities for disabled supporters.
Other facilities and services.
Holiday Inn Hotel.
The club had two options on how to fill the corner between the Barclay and the Jarrold Stand. The club decided not to fill this corner with seats, as this would lead to away supporters being surrounded by home fans.
It was therefore decided to complete the ground's corners with a hotel. It was hoped that a hotel could offer greater financial rewards than ticket sales. In 2005, a contract was signed with the Holiday Inn hotel chain in 2005, and construction commenced in 2006. The hotel opened in 2007 and allows customers with pitch-facing rooms to watch matches.
Catering.
Catering at Carrow Road is provided by Delia's Canary Catering, which is part of Norwich City Football Club PLC. The service is described: "All menus are made up from Delia Smith's own published recipes (6,000 in all) and as we are in an agricultural area we take pride in using the finest ingredients and local seasonal produce."
Yellows.
Yellows is a "New York-style diner" in the Norwich & Peterborough Stand. Earlier restaurants in the same place were called 'Strikers' and 'Scores'.
Delia's Restaurant and Bar.
Delia's Restaurant and Bar is a restaurant in the Norwich & Peterborough Stand.
The Gunn Club.
The Gunn Club is a catering facility behind The Barclay. With access restricted to members and season-ticket holders, "The Gunn Club" offers a slightly more up-market catering experience, available for hire on non-match days. The club offers facilities and features including video screens, appearances by current and former club members and (by popular demand) real ale.
Other merchandising.
The 68-page match programme for Norwich City matches costs £3.
Future plans for construction.
The club have, in the past, stated that they have plans to increase the capacity of the stadium should the club win promotion back to the Premier League, using the increase in funds to finance the expansion. Specifically, these plans include building a second tier on the Jarrold Stand or the Geoffrey Watling City Stand. The club have stated that the Geoffrey Watling stand has foundations designed to support a second tier, and that the roof can be removed and replaced after a second tier is added. At the time the original stand was built the inner ring road ran next to the ground, and any extensions of an upper tier outside the existing footprint of the stand would have caused planning difficulties. Since the road was re-routed in the late 1990s an extension to the stand is less likely to raise planning objections.
Other uses.
International football.
Carrow Road has never hosted a match involving the England national football team, but the England national under-21 football team has played at the stadium on three occasions. The first was in 1983 in a UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualifying match against Denmark national under-21 football team, which England won 4-1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece national under-21 football team 4-2. This game saw Michael Owen's only ever appearance for the England Under-21 side, before his subsequent rise to fame in the senior national team. As part of their preparations for the 2007 finals of the European Championship tournament, the England Under-21s played Slovakia national under-21 football team in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007. England won 5-0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people.
Games involving the England Under-19 team and the full England women's national football team have also been played at the stadium. The women's team have played there on two occasions; the first a 1-0 defeat to Nigeria women's national football team in 2002, in front of 8,000 fans, and the second a 1-0 victory over Iceland national women's football team in 2006. The latter game's attendance of 9,616 was the largest crowd that had watched a friendly game involving the women's team.
Music.
The stadium has also occasionally hosted music concerts. Status Quo played a concert there in 1997. Elton John, supported by Lulu, appeared at the venue in 2005, performing what was at the time the largest concert ever to have been staged in Norwich. George Michael gave a performance there on June 12 2007, supported by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The John and Michael concerts both attracted crowds of over 20,000 people. Andrew Cullen, the director of sales and marketing for the Carrow Road ground, told BBC Radio Norfolk prior to the George Michael performance that he hoped such concerts would become an annual summer event for the venue, if big enough star names could be attracted. |
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209155 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209155 | Ages of Man | Ages of Man is an Ancient Greek myth that divides the history of the world into five eras. In the first eras, humans lived close to gods and were happy. In the latest eras, the gods have left the world and humans live in pain and unhappiness. This myth was first written down by Greek poet Hesiod, about 2700 years ago.
Roman poet Ovid also wrote about the Ages of Man about two thousand years ago, although he did not mention the Heroic Age. |
209158 | 1442604 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209158 | Harvey Keitel | Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor. He has played in movies such as "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", "Smoke", and "Thelma and Louise". |
209159 | 1041406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209159 | Tim Roth | Tim Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English movie actor and director. He starred in the television series "Lie to Me". |
209160 | 9243201 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209160 | John McCrae | Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet and soldier in World War I who is best known for writing the poem "In Flanders Fields" after seeing the death of his friend the day before. |
209162 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209162 | Stan Mikita | Stan Mikita (born Stanislav Guoth; May 20, 1940 – August 7, 2018) was a Slovak-born Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre. He was known for playing with the Chicago Blackhawks for his entire career.
Early life.
Mikita was born as Stanislav Guoth in Sokolče, Slovak Republic. He was raised in a small farming community until 1948, when he moved to St. Catharines, Ontario. He was adopted by his aunt and uncle, Anna and Joe Mikita, who had emigrated from Slovakia to Canada. He studied at St. Catharines Collegiate.
Career.
Mikita played a career total of 22 years in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played his entire NHL career with the Chicago Black Hawks. He was often regarded as the best centre of the 1960s.
He won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1961. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983. He was also inducted into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002.
He worked as an good will ambassador for the Chicago Blackhawks.
Death.
Mikita died at the age of 78 on August 7, 2018 from complications of Lewy body dementia in Chicago. After his death, an autopsy revealed that Mikita had been suffering from Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He became the first Hall of Famer to be diagnosed with the disease. |
209168 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209168 | Left 4 Dead 2 | Left 4 Dead 2 is a shooter video game released in 2009. It is the sequel to "Left 4 Dead". It was released on November 17, 2009. It made its world premiere at E3 in 2009. "Left 4 Dead 2" brings new elements to the game that "Left 4 Dead" left out in the previous version such as melee weapons, new types of infected, and a story-arc that connects each of the game's five campaigns together. It was banned in Australia, but eventually was un-banned.
Characters.
The main characters in the game are:
New infected added into the game include:
Reviews.
Left 4 Dead 2 received strongly positive reviews: |
209177 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209177 | Reservoir Dogs (video game) | Reservoir Dogs is a video game based on the Quentin Tarantino movie of the same name. |
209178 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209178 | WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It | WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It, named Exciting Pro Wrestling 3 in Japan, is a 2001 professional wrestling video game for the PlayStation 2. It was published by THQ and developed by Yuke's. The Rock is on the cover of the game. It is the third game in the WWF SmackDown! series, the first for the PlayStation 2, and the last under the WWF name, as the World Wrestling Federation was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) after a legal dispute with the World Wildlife Fund. It is the sequel to "" and was followed by "WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth".
The game was released in Europe on November 16, 2001, in North America on November 19, 2001 and in Japan on January 24, 2002. It is the first game in the series to have commentary, which is provided by Michael Cole and Tazz.
Reception.
"Just Bring It" received "generally favorable reviews" according to Metacritic. However, the game's in-game commentary has been criticized. In Japan, "Famitsu" gave it a score of 29 out of 40.
It received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), selling at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. |
209185 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209185 | Kricogonia lyside | The Lyside Sulphur or Guayacan Sulphur (Kricogonia lyside) is a North American and South American butterfly. It is in the family Pieridae. In seasons with heavy monsoons, this butterfly is seen in large migrations. These migrations are common in Texas. They are less common in the southwest. It sometimes lives in southern Florida.
Description.
The coloring of the Lyside Sulphur varies. The upper side of the wings is pale yellow. It usually has a black bar on the top edge of the hind wing (the bottom wing). There is normally a bright yellow patch near the base (where the wing connects to the body) of the fore wing (the top wing). Some individuals also have black borders along the top edges of the fore wing. The underside of the wings varies. They vary from a greenish color to bright yellow to almost white. Greener individuals have a whitish vein in the center of the hind wing. The fore wing has a bright yellow basal patch. The wingspan is 1.5 to 2.38 in. (3.8 to 6 cm.).
Similar species.
Similar species in the Lyside Sulphur's range include Queen Alexandra's Sulphur ("Colias alexandra"), the Cloudless Sulphur ("Phoebis sennae"), and the Statira Sulphur ("Phoebis statira").
Queen Alexandra's Sulphur has more yellow on the underside of the fore wing. It has a whitish spot in the center of the hind wing.
The Cloudless Sulphur is larger. It is much more yellow.
The Statira Sulphur has a more yellowish upper side. The underside of the wings is pale greenish to white. Females have light pinkish markings.
Flight period.
This butterfly is seen almost all year in southern Texas. It is seen from early July to mid November in Arizona. In Florida, there have been scattered sightings from July to October.
Habitat.
The Lyside Sulphur may be found in open, subtropical scrub habitats.
Life cycle.
The caterpillar varies often. It's varies from green to blackish-green. It may have markings or may not have markings. Marked individuals normally have stripes on the top and sides of their bodies. It is the only caterpillar to feed on "Guaiacum sanctum". The chrysalis is a bluish-green color. The Lyside Sulphur can grow from egg to adult in as little as 13 days. It has 3 or more broods per year in southern Texas.
Host plants.
Here is a list of host plants that the Lyside Sulphur caterpillar eats: |
209187 | 48570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209187 | Lyside Sulphur | |
209188 | 48570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209188 | Guayacan Sulphur | |
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It is the rarest of the three common trisomies. Down syndrome and Edwards syndrome are more common. Patau syndrome affects about one in 25,000 live births. |
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209217 | 1498485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209217 | Henryk Vogelfanger | Henryk Vogelfanger (4 October 1904 – 6 October 1990), was a Polish actor. He worked and lived in Lviv until World War Two when he joined Polish underground army, Armia Krajowa. Together with the legendary actor, radio personality Kazimierz Wajda, he was a star of the radio and theater comedy show "Szczepko and Tonko". This was widely popular in Poland and other countries with over six million regular listeners, 1932–1939. The show ended when World War Two started. The team made three family movies, adventures of Szczepko & Tomko. |
209220 | 13132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209220 | Detrivore | |
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Fraternity is adopted for the national motto of France, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".
Japan's prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama had an idea of a fraternity. The origin of his idea is the book "The totalitarian state against man" (original title in German; ) written by Count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austrian politician, geopolitician, and philosopher. Ichiro Hatoyama had made an effort to spread the idea of the fraternity. Ichiro's grandchild Yukio Hatoyama also has become the prime minister of Japan. Yukio Hatoyama has taken over the idea of his grandfather Ichiro's. The family of Hatoyama's fraternity means in Japanese. |
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Business.
Rocky Rapids has one store. Most citizens work in Drayton Valley, Alberta. Drayton Valley is about 7 kilometers away.
Education.
Children go to school in Drayton Valley. Some may be home schooled. |
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Bonner was named the Verizon Academic All-American of the Year for the sport of basketball in both 2002 and 2003. |
209245 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209245 | Luol Deng | Luol Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a former South Sudanese-born British professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls (2004–2014), the Cleveland Cavaliers (2014), the Miami Heat (2014–2016), the Los Angeles Lakers (2016–2018) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (2018–2019). He became a British citizen in 2006, and played for the Great Britain national team. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
Deng was born in Wau, Sudan (now South Sudan). His father is politician Aldo Deng. His older brother, Ajou Deng, was also a basketball player. |
209263 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209263 | Pedro Troglio | Pedro Troglio (born 28 July 1965) is a former Argentine football player. He has played for Argentina national team.
Honours.
Player.
River Plate
Avispa Fukuoka
Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
Villa Dálmine
Argentina
Manager.
Cerro Porteño
C.D. Olimpia |
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Most of these moths have been given different names at different times. "Abraxus" was the name chosen by Linnaeus, and used today. It was first used by Leach in 1815. |
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Accomack and Northampton Counties comprise the Eastern Shore of Virginia, part of the Delmarva Peninsula. |
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New Hampshire's sports teams, known as Wildcats, mostly play in the America East Conference. The football team plays in the Colonial Athletic Association, and the men's and women's ice hockey teams play in Hockey East. |
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209299 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209299 | Immunosuppressant drugs | Immunosuppressant drugs are simply drugs which suppress the immune system. In other words, they reduce the effect of the tiny germs that protect your body from dangerous germs. This makes the body open to disease but it is useful in other ways:
When someone receives an organ transplant, the body thinks the new organ is dangerous and tries to get rid of it. This is called organ rejection. If immunosuppressant drugs are taken the body usually accepts the new organ. |
209308 | 679012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209308 | Sigur Rós | Sigur Rós (, ) is an Icelandic post-rock band. The band was started in 1994 by Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson, Georg Hólm, and Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson. In 1997 they released their first album "Von". Their best known tune is Hoppipola released in 2006
which has seen extensive use in TV shows, adverts and films. |
209310 | 1174418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209310 | Millbrook, Southampton | Millbrook is a suburb and a former parish of Southampton, England. |
209313 | 9754974 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209313 | Totton and Eling | Totton and Eling is a town and civil parish in Hampshire, UK. It has a population of around 28,000 people. |
209320 | 9088757 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209320 | List of settlements in Acre | The following is a list of the municipalities in the state of Acre, Brazil. |
209322 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209322 | Deodoro da Fonseca | Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (Alagoas City, August 5, 1827 - Rio de Janeiro, August 23, 1892) was the first president of the Republic of Brazil and he reached this position after a military strategy that put down the Emperor Pedro II.
Biography.
Family.
Son of Manuel Mendes da Fonseca (1785-1859) and Rosa Maria Paulina da Fonseca (1802-1873). His father was also a soldier and belonged to the Conservative Party. He had two sisters and seven brothers and three of them died in the Paraguay War: Afonso Aurélio da Fonseca (the youngest), ensign of the 34º Voluntários da Pátria Battalion; captain Hipólito Mendes da Fonseca, dead in the Battle of Curupaity; and major Eduardo Emiliano da Fonseca, dead in the Battle of Itororó.
His elder brother, Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca, father of Hermes da Fonseca, was a marshal in the Brazilian Army, president of Mato Grosso province, governor of Bahia province and commander-in-chief in Bahia and Pará provinces.
Two other brothers also had brilliant military and political careers: Severiano Martins da Fonseca, who reached the rank of field marshal, received the noble title of "Barão de Alagoas" (Baron of Alagoas) and was the director of the Military School of Porto Alegre; and Pedro Paulino da Fonseca, who was an honorary colonel of the Brazilian Army, head of government of Alagoas and Senator of the Republic for the same Brazilian state.
Youth.
In 1843, at the age of sixteen, Deodoro enrolled himself in the Rio de Janeiro Military Academy and finished the artillery course in 1847. In 1845, he was already a 1st class cadet. In 1848, he took part in his first military action, helping to repress the Praieira Revolt, an insurrection promoted by the Liberal Party of Pernambuco.
He got married when he was 33 years old, on April 6, 1860, to Mariana Cecília de Sousa Meireles, who was considered by biographers a very well educated woman, religious, modest and full of domestic attributes. They did not have any children. His nephew Hermes da Fonseca, who also reached the Brazilian presidency, was treated like a son by Deodoro. |
209324 | 10044696 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209324 | Arrondissement of Caen | The arrondissement of Caen is an arrondissement of France. It is in the department of Calvados, in a region called Basse-Normandie. It has 24 cantons and 288 communes. |
209325 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209325 | Norman invasion | |
209330 | 9171151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209330 | Băilești | Băileşti is a city in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. As of 2011, 22,231 people live here.
The Romanian actor and comedian Amza Pellea and Romanian actor and theatre actor Marcel Iureş were born here. |
209331 | 9171159 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209331 | Filiași | Filiași is a town in Dolj County, Romania, on the Jiu River. In 2002, the population was 18,848. |
209332 | 9171156 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209332 | Bechet | Bechet is a town in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania. It is on the river Danube. This is near the Bulgarian city of Oryahovo. In 2002 it had a population of 3,864. |
209334 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209334 | Arrondissement of Lisieux | The arrondissement of Lisieux is an arrondissement of France. It is in the department of Calvados, in a region called Basse-Normandie. It has 13 cantons and 204 communes. |
209335 | 5295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209335 | Northern Rhodesia | Northern Rhodesia was a territory in south central Africa. It was founded in 1911. It became independent in 1964 as Zambia.
The term "Rhodesia" in geography meant a region which is now Zambia and Zimbabwe. From 1964 on, it only meant Southern Rhodesia. |
209340 | 40117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209340 | Bloody mary | |
209341 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209341 | San Juan de la Maguana | The Dominican city of San Juan de la Maguana, or simply San Juan, is the head municipality of the San Juan province, on the west of the country.
It is the largest city of western Dominican and the centre of the region. It was one of the first European city founded in the Hispaniola island.
Name.
The city was named after St. John Baptist; "Maguana" is the Taíno name meaning "small valley". In the area, there were Taíno people living here before the Spanish invasion.
History.
The valley area of San Juan was the seat of Maguana whose leader was Caonabo. Caonabo in aboriginal language means "gran señor de la tierra or Great Lord of the Earth". Caonabo was the cacique or chief of the Taínos, upon the death of his uncle and became the most important and powerful ruler in Hispaniola at the time. He led the Taíno revolt against the Spanish invaders and was captured and died in a shipwreck while being taken to Spain as a prisoner. A brother of Caonabo and other allied Taíno caciques led the revolt against the Spanish and finally lost the battle in 1495.
San Juan de la Maguana was founded by the Spanish in 1503 by Diego Velázquez, who later went to conquest the island of Cuba, when Nicolás de Ovando was the Spanish governor of the island.
In 1606, those that were living in San Juan de la Maguana were ordered by the Spanish king to move to a place to the northwest of the city of Santo Domingo and the region was left without people for several years.
After the Dominican independence in 1844, there were some battles in this region between the Haitian and Dominican armies. The most important battle was the Santomé Battle on 22 December 1855 in a savanna to the west of the city where the Dominican army won the fight.
Population.
The city had, in , a total population of 78,313: 39,631 men and 38,682 women. The urban population was of the total population.
Geography.
San Juan de la Maguana is in the centre of the "San Juan Valley", the old Taíno "Maguana", with the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain chain") to the north and east, and the Sierra de Neiba to the south. To the west there is a chain of low hills.
The San Juan river is the main river of the region and the city was founded on the left (eastern) side of this river.
San Juan de la Maguana has a total area of (without including its municipal districts), about of the total area of the province of San Juan. The city is an elevation of above sea level, and at to the west of Santo Domingo. It has 10 municipal districts (subdivisions of a municipality);
Climate.
San Juan de la Maguana has a tropical wet and dry/savanna climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Aw) with a pronounced dry season in winter.
The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is September with of rainfall, followed by May with .
The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of and the second is February with .
San Juan de la Maguana 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 .
Administrative division.
The municipality of San Juan de la Maguana has 10 municipal districts:
Economy.
The main economic activity of the province is agriculture and the main crops are rice in the summer, and beans in winter. |
209346 | 935234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209346 | Bloody Mary | Bloody Mary could refer to: |
209362 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209362 | Chess club | A chess club is a place where people come to play chess. Sometimes, chess clubs host chess tournaments. Many chess clubs are open to the public, while others are for groups of people in a specific area or people in a specific school. |
209364 | 1104629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209364 | Assis Brasil | Assis Brasil is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Acre. In 2007, 5,351 people lived there. Its total area is 2,875,915 km².
Vicente Bessa founded the municipality on March 1, 1976. It was separated from another municipality called Brasiléia. |
209365 | 15149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209365 | Chess Club | |
209377 | 10170256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209377 | Armageddon (2005) | Armageddon (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for their SmackDown! brand. It took place on December 18, 2005 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. It was the sixth Armageddon event held by WWE. There were eight matches on for the event's card. |
209382 | 1338660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209382 | Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania | Nesquehoning is a borough in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. The population is 3,336 as of the 2020 census count.
Former WWE star Gene Snitsky was born here. |
209389 | 9850596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209389 | Jessica Watson | Jessica Watson (born 18 May 1994) is an Australian teenager who became the youngest person to sail around the world alone. She did it without stopping or getting assistance during the journey.
Jessica Watson's first attempt was in September 2009, when she left from Mooloolaba in Queensland in attempt to sail around the world. About 15 hours after she left, her yacht, "Ella's Pink Lady", collided with a bulk carrier near Stradbroke Island. Watson was uninjured in the incident, but her yacht was badly damaged. After the repairs to her yacht were completed, Watson sailed from Queensland's Gold Coast to Sydney and then left from Sydney on 18 October 2009 (five months after her sixteenth birthday) to sail around the world.
The distance of her voyage is about 19,000 nautical miles (35,000 kilometres) and took almost seven months to complete, as she finished her journey on May 15, 2010. |
209390 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209390 | Astrolabe | The astrolabe is a tool using the positions of the stars or sun. It was formerly used in navigation to help explorers and sailors figure out where they were. They found their distance north and south of the equator by measuring the distance of the sun and stars above the horizon. Astronomers used other kinds of astrolabes, usually larger ones.
An early astrolabe was made in the Hellenistic world in 150 BC. It is often attributed to Hipparchus. The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere (a star chart analog computing instrument) and dioptra (a tool to measure angles). It was a calculator able to work out many kinds of problems in astronomy. Theon of Alexandria wrote a complex book on the astrolabe. Lewis says that Ptolemy used an astrolabe to make the astronomical observations recorded in the "Tetrabiblos". |
209392 | 49567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209392 | Electromagnets | |
209395 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209395 | Electric Avenue (song) | "Electric Avenue" is a reggae song released by Guyanese singer Eddy Grant on his "Killer on the Rampage" album in January 1983. It is a reggae, synthpop, new wave, and disco song. Grant wrote and produced the song himself.
It reached #2 on both the United States and UK singles charts.
The song is named after a market street in Brixton, London, England. It has been covered by many artists. |
209401 | 121204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209401 | Queen Latifah | Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), known professionally as Queen Latifah is an American, rapper, actress and singer. After she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989, Latifah released her first album "All Hail the Queen". She has won a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.
She is in a partnership with Eboni Nichols and has a son Rebel.
Discography.
Studio albums |
209403 | 487619 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209403 | Queen + Paul Rodgers | Queen + Paul Rodgers was a rock band formed by Brian May and Roger Taylor, formerly of Queen, and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company, Free and The Firm.
Because of the popularity of Freddie Mercury, it was made clear that Paul Rodgers would not be replacing the former Queen lead singer, who died in 1991 from complications due to AIDS. Rodgers would be called "featured with" along with the former Queen members. When in concert Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers would be helped by keyboard player Spike Edney, rhythm guitarist Jamie Moses and bassist Danny Miranda.
The band recorded an album called The Cosmos Rocks. It was released in 2008.
In May, 2009 Paul Rodgers announced that Queen + Paul Rodgers had come to an end. He said "It was fun but was never meant to be a permanent arrangement". He said it was always possible that the band would get together again. |
209405 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209405 | The Cosmos Rocks | The Cosmos Rocks is an album by Queen + Paul Rodgers. It was released on 15 September, 2008 in the Europe and on 28 October, 2008 in North America. The album has 14 songs written by Brian May, Paul Rodgers and Roger Taylor. It is the only studio album the former Queen members recorded with Paul Rodgers. The album received mostly bad reviews and it did not sell very many copies. |
209411 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209411 | Kenji Onitake | Kenji Onitake (born 19 September 1939) is a former Japanese football player. |
209412 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209412 | Manabu Nakamura | Manabu Nakamura (born 26 June 1977) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics.
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209413 | 586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209413 | Edwin Uehara | is a former Peruvian-Japanese football player. |
209423 | 1582584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209423 | Marián Gáborík | Marián Gáborík (born 14 February 1982) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey winger. He played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Kings, and Ottawa Senators. He served as the captain of the Minnesota Wild from March until April of 2008. Gáborík was the first player to score a goal for the Wild.
On March 5, 2014, Gáborík was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. On June 13, 2014, he won his first Stanley Cup when the Kings defeated the New York Rangers 4 games to 1. During the playoffs, Gáborík led the league with 14 goals.
On November 4, 2021, Gáborík announced that he was retiring from playing professional ice hockey. |
209450 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209450 | MAR | MAR, short for Marchen Awakens Romance is a Japanese manga and anime. The manga ran from 2003-2006, while the anime ran from 2005-2007, made up of 102 episodes. A sequel was made named MAR Omega.
Story.
The story is about a Japanese boy named Ginta who journeys into a world named MAR Heaven, which is like a fairy tale. Here, magical items known as ARMs are used to perform different tasks. Ginta meets a witch named Dorothy who wants to find a powerful ARM called Babbo. Ginta and Dorothy find Babbo, but find he is alive and can talk, which other ARMS can't do. Babbo has no memory of who he is other than his name and becomes Ginta's friend.
Ginta travels around MAR Heaven, forming a group of friends which he calls Team MAR. Team MAR fight the Chess Pieces, an evil group of people who wish to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare. Team MAR is forced to fight in the War Games, a fighting tournament, to defeat the Chess Pieces. Ginta also wishes to return home, looking for the ARM that brought him to MAR Heaven in the first place.
It is revealed near the end of the story that the King and Queen of the Chess Pieces are Ginta's father Danna controlled by an evil spirit called Caldia's Orb, and Dorothy's older sister Diana. Team MAR battles Caldia's Orb, Diana and the leader of the Chess Pieces' Knights, Phantom, in the floating Lestava Castle, and win, saving MAR Heaven. Ginta and Danna return home at the end of the story.
Characters.
Team MAR.
Team MAR is made up of the main heroes and characters of MAR. The team's goal is to defeat the Chess Pieces and save MAR Heaven from destruction. The members are:
The Chess Pieces.
The Chess Pieces are the main villains of MAR. They want to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare. They are in groups named after the pieces of a chess game. The King and Queen, Caldia's Orb and Diana, are not in groups. |
209454 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209454 | MyLifeIsAverage | MyLifeIsAverage (MLIA) is a website where people submit stories about their day. MLIA is similar to FMyLife, except the stories are about average things, rather than bad things. The stories are judged by several users. If enough users vote that the story is worthy of being posted, then it becomes the first story on the home page, and will later be pushed down the page. Anyone can submit a story. Users may click on a story to leave a comment.
The stories almost always begin with the words "Today" and end with the phrase "MLIA".
MLIA has received more than 100,000 stories. Most of the users are students in high school or college.
The co-founder of the site, Guru Khalsa, says that MLIA tries to "bring to light how much stupid and boring stuff gets posted on the Internet." |
209461 | 18907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209461 | Route 308 (NY) | |
209462 | 18907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209462 | Route 308 in New York | |
209463 | 18907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209463 | New York Route 308 | |
209464 | 18907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209464 | NYS Rte 308 | |
209465 | 18907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209465 | NYS 308 | |
209466 | 1055293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209466 | Check | The word Check has a number of meanings: |
209467 | 5295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209467 | Chuck Knoblauch | Edward Charles "Chuck" Knoblauch (born July 7, 1968) is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played for the Minnesota Twins (1991–97), New York Yankees (1998–2001) and Kansas City Royals (2002). He played mostly as a second baseman before moving to left field for his last two seasons. |
209468 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209468 | Romeo Crennel | Romeo Crennel (born June 18, 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is the former head coach of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. |
209474 | 62069 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209474 | Lutherans | |
209475 | 7665829 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209475 | Der Rosenkavalier | Der Rosenkavalier (in English: The Knight of the Rose) is a comic opera by Richard Strauss. The words (libretto) were especially written for the opera by the German poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
It was first performed in Dresden on 26 January 1911 and was an immediate success. It continues to be a very popular opera in opera houses all over the world and has been performed more often than any other German language 20th century opera.
The story is supposed to be happening in Vienna in the time of the Empress Maria Theresa (mid to late 18th century). The music and the words deliberately show the elegant life of aristocratic society of that time. For example: the title of the opera is about the silver rose which traditionally was sent by a bridegroom to his bride and was brought by a knight (the Knight of the Rose).
The story of the opera.
Act 1.
Act I takes place in the Marschallin’s bedroom. The Marschallin is an aristocratic lady aged 32. She has a lover, a young boy aged 17 called Octavian. When the opera starts, we first hear an orchestral prologue. The music suggests that the Marschallin and Octavian are making love. Then the curtain opens and we see the two together. They hear a noise and the Marschallin thinks her husband is coming, so Octavian hides. It is not her husband, but her cousin Baron Ochs. Ochs is a very rude man with bad manners. He marches in to the Marschallin’s room although the servants had asked him to wait. Octavian manages to change his clothes and appears dressed as a maid called Mariandel. Ochs thinks “she” is pretty and wants “her” to meet him. Then he tells the Marschallin what he has come for: he wants a young knight to deliver the silver rose to his bride Sophie. He also needs a notary to sign the legal documents of the wedding. Ochs sings about the fun of making love. He wishes he were like Jupiter who was able to disguise himself in many ways.
The morning levée begins. This means: the ceremony of the Marschallin getting up. Several people come in. They include: an Italian tenor who sings an aria, two Italian people called Valzacchi and Annina, who are always spreading gossip, and a notary. When the notary tells Ochs that he needs to pay a dowry to his bride, not the other way round, Ochs is very angry.
When the Marschallin is left alone she sings a song about how she is losing her youthful looks. Octavian returns and cheers her up a bit, but she feels sad when he says goodbye very politely and formally, not even kissing her. The Marschallin sends her little black pageboy to run after him with the silver rose.
Act 2.
The story continues in the large room of the house of Herr von Faninal, the father of Sophie whom Ochs wants to marry. Sophie is waiting for the silver rose to arrive (the convention of the time says that her father must not be there). Octavian enters and gives her the rose. The music at this moment is very beautiful and very famous. The people in the room are talking, then Baron Ochs enters rudely. Sophie is shocked about his bad manners. Ochs hums his favourite waltz, then goes to the next room to sign a marriage contract. Sophie sinks into Octavian’s arms. When Ochs comes back, Octavian tells him Sophie does not want him, but Ochs will not listen. Eventually Ochs takes his sword and starts to fight Octavian, who wounds Ochs slightly. Ochs is furious, but calms down a little after he is given some wine.
Octavian has fallen in love with Sophie, and Sophie with him. He wants to use Valzacchi and Annina to help him with a plan. He writes a note to Ochs, which is supposed to be from the maid Mariandel, asking him to meet her. He gets Annina to take the note to Ochs, who is delighted when he reads it. He sings his favourite waltz.
Act 3.
The scene is an inn near Vienna. Valzacchi and Annina now work both for Octavian and for Ochs. They prefer working for Octavian because he pays them more money. They are planning tricks on Ochs.
Ochs meets Mariandel (Octavian dressed up as the maid again). He tries to get "her" drunk, but "she" shyly sings “Nein, nein! i’ trink kein Wein.” (“No, no, I don’t drink wine”). Ochs thinks "she" looks like Octavian. Then strange figures of people appear at a window. Then Annina comes in and says she is Ochs’s wife whom he has deserted. Then some children come in and say that Ochs is their father. Ochs is very embarrassed when Faninal comes in and says Mariandel is his fiancée. He tells the people he has never seen Faninal before. Then the Marschallin appears and also the police. The evening is a disaster for Ochs. The Marschallin tells the police it is just a joke. She sends Ochs away.
The Marschallin, Sophie and Octavian sing a beautiful trio (using some of the music from the song “Nein, nein, i’ trink kein Wein”). Octavian is forgiven. He is left alone with Sophie and they sing a duet together, then go off hand in hand. She has left a handkerchief on the floor. The little black pageboy picks it up and runs after them.
Language.
The language used by Hofmannsthal changes according to who is speaking. The members of the nobility speak in very elegant language which is often old-fashioned and always very polite. When good friends speak to one another they often use the familiar ("du") (“you” when used between very close friends). For example: Octavian and the Marschallin often use the familiar "you" but sometimes use ("Sie") when they are being more formal.
Baron Ochs is always showing off and the words he uses show this. When Octavian pretends to be the maid Mariandel he speaks in an Austrian dialect. Valzacchi and Annina also speak in a dialect, but their German is not perfect and often mixed with Italian.
All this makes it particularly difficult to sing the opera in any other language.
References.
The New Kobbé Opera book, ed. The Earl of Harewood and Antony Peattie; |
209477 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209477 | Interior Ministry of Germany | |
209478 | 13463 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209478 | Justice Ministry of Germany | |
209479 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209479 | Empress Maria Theresa | |
209480 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209480 | Finance Ministry of Germany | |
209481 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209481 | Economy and Technology Ministry of Germany | |
209482 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209482 | Work and Social Affairs Ministry of Germany | |
209483 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209483 | Food, Farming and Consumer Protection Ministry of Germany | |
209485 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209485 | Defence Ministry of Germany | |
209486 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209486 | Minister for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth of Germany | |
209487 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209487 | Health Ministry of Germany | |
209488 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209488 | Traffic, Building and Urban Development Ministry of Germany | |
209489 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209489 | Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Reactor Safety Ministry of Germany | |
209490 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209490 | Education and Research Ministry of Germany | |
209491 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209491 | Economic Cooperation and Development Ministry of Germany |
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