id
stringlengths 1
7
| revid
stringlengths 1
8
| url
stringlengths 41
47
| title
stringlengths 1
255
| text
stringlengths 0
137k
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
276374
|
2573440
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276374
|
Itis
| |
276399
|
1672822
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276399
|
Diplocaulus
|
Diplocaulus (meaning "double stalk") was an early amphibian, now extinct. It had a boomerang-shaped head formed by two long bones at the back of the head. It had four short legs, and a short, flattened tail. It was about 3 feet (1 m) long.
|
276407
|
139034
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276407
|
Republic of Djibouti
| |
276408
|
139034
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276408
|
Federal Republic of Ethiopia
| |
276409
|
532461
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276409
|
The Communist Manifesto
|
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei"), more commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, is a short book. It was written by the German Marxist-Engelist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. The book was originally written in the German language. Since it was first published, it became one of the world's most influential and controversial political manuscripts, and has been translated into many languages. The book is about analyzing approaches to class struggles (from both the past and present), and problems with capitalism.
The book does not talk about or predict how communism would be in the future. It is a mixture of both Marx and Engels' theories and opinions on society and politics. It also has their written ideas of how the capitalist society of their time would be replaced by dictatorship of the proletariat, and after that, communism. Especially by the abolition of private property and child labour and by making means of production common, strong progressive income tax and free education for all.
The manuscript of the book is registered in the Memory of the World Programme together with the volume I of "The Capital" by Karl Marx in June 2013.
|
276410
|
103847
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276410
|
Werner Sombart
|
Werner Sombart (January 19, 1863–May 18, 1941) was a German economist and sociologist and was an important social scientist to Europe during the early 20th century who first used the notion "creative destruction".
Life and work.
Sombart was born in Ermsleben, Harz. He was the son of Anton Ludwig Sombart, a rich liberal politician, industrialist.
Werner studied at the universities in Pisa, Berlin, and Rome, learning both law and economics. In 1888, he received his Ph.D. from Berlin.
|
276411
|
37281
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276411
|
Marxist
| |
276412
|
640235
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276412
|
Midnight (Hunter novel)
|
Midnight is a teen fantasy novel, the first book in the second "Warriors" series: "Warriors: The New Prophecy", written by Erin Hunter. It was released on 10 May 2005. The novel focuses on a group of feral cats living in four groups called Clans: ThunderClan, RiverClan, WindClan, and ShadowClan. The cats of these Clans call themselves warriors.
Plot summary.
Bramblepaw, son of the evil Tigerstar, has received his warrior name, Brambleclaw. Firestar, leader of ThunderClan and main character of the previous "Warriors" series, has had two kits with his mate, Sandstorm: Squirrelpaw and Leafpaw. A cat named Dustpelt teaches Squirrelpaw how to be a warrior, and a cat named Cinderpelt teaches Leafpaw how to become a medicine cat (a cat who heals others).
While Leafpaw and Cinderpelt search for healing herbs, StarClan, the spirits of the cats' ancestors, sends Cinderpelt a warning in some burning bracken: a picture of a tiger running through fire. Cinderpelt mistakenly believes this to mean that fire and tiger will unite and destroy the forest, fire being Squirrelpaw and tiger being Brambleclaw. They share the warning with Firestar, who decides to keep Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw separated.
In a dream, StarClan tells Brambleclaw, Feathertail of RiverClan, Crowpaw of WindClan, and Tawnypelt of ShadowClan to "listen to what midnight has to say." The four cats unite and begin on a journey in the direction of the setting sun. Squirrelpaw refuses to let Brambleclaw go without her, and Stormfur insists on joining them to protect his sister, Feathertail. On their journey, they meet an old cat named Purdy, who helps the Clan cats get to the ocean. The six journeying cats enter a cavern inhabited by a badger called Midnight, who can speak the language of cats. She reveals to them that humans will destroy the forest the cats live in, and that the Clans must leave the forest or die. She also tells them that a "dying warrior" (shooting star) will lead the Clans to their new home. The book ends with a short epilogue back in the forest, where the humans begin to destroy ThunderClan's territory.
Publication history.
"Midnight" was first released in the US and Canada in hardcover on 10 May 2005. It was released in the UK on 25 October 2006. It was released in paperback on 4 April 2006. It was also released for the Amazon Kindle on 6 November 2007.
Critical reception.
The reception of "Midnight" was mixed. Children's Literature gave a negative review. Points raised in the review include the demotion of Firestar (who held a major role in the previous series) to a simple spokesman, the huge volume of characters, and the "wimpy" group of traveling cats. However, the review did praise the character of Squirrelpaw. On the other hand, "Kirkus Reviews" said the novel was "structurally solid." BookLoons called the characters "engaging."
Inspiration and influences.
The forest the cats live in is based on New Forest, a forest in southern England. The herbs that the cats use for healing is based on information found in a book called "Culpeper's Herbal" by Nicholas Culpeper.
|
276423
|
86802
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276423
|
Deron Williams
|
Deron Michael Williams (born June 26, 1984 in Parkersburg, West Virginia) is an American former professional basketball point guard. He played parts of twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Utah Jazz, New Jersey / Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Mavericks, and Cleveland Cavaliers.
He went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for college and he played for the Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team. Williams also played for the Utah Jazz from 2005 to 2011. He was traded to the Nets for Devin Harris, Derrick Favors, two first round draft picks, and $3 million on February 23, 2011.
Williams retired from playing professional basketball in 2017. After retiring, Williams became a boxer. He retired with a 1–0 record. He defeated former American football player Frank Gore by split decision at Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley II on December 18, 2021.
|
276426
|
196884
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276426
|
Rick Nash
|
Richard McLaren Nash (born June 16, 1984), better known as Rick Nash, is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He played for parts of sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, and Boston Bruins. He also played for HC Davos in the National League A (NLA).
He was picked by the Blue Jackets with the first overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the OHL with the London Knights.
He was on the Team Canada's men's ice hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal.
On January 11, 2019, Rick Nash retired from playing hockey in 2018 due to concussion symptoms.
|
276427
|
822061
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276427
|
New Taipei City
|
New Taipei City () is a city in northern Taiwan. It circles Taipei City. It is south of Keelung, north of Taoyuan City and west of Yilan County. It is a part of the Republic of China and the largest city in Taiwan.
Government.
New Taipei City controls 29 districts (區). It has 1,017 villages (里). The villages are divided into 21,683 neighborhoods (鄰).
|
276430
|
532461
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276430
|
Far East Movement
|
Far East Movement is an American electro-hop band. The group was started in 2003. The members are Kev Nish, Prohgress, J-Splif, and DJ Virman. The band's original name was Emcee's Anonymous". The song "Round Round" was featured in the movie, .
|
276431
|
1582584
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276431
|
Jeremy Morin
|
Jeremy Morin (born April 16, 1991) is an American professional ice hockey left winger. He currently plays for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Career.
Before playing in the NHL, Morin played 2 years with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP) and 1 season with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
He was drafted 45th overall by the Atlanta Thrashers in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. On June 24, 2010, the Thrashers traded Morin along with Marty Reasoner, Joey Crabb, their 1st round pick (Kevin Hayes) and their 2nd round pick (Justin Holl) in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Dustin Byfuglien, Brent Sopel, Ben Eager, and Akim Aliu.
On November 5, 2010, the Blackhawks recalled Morin from the Blackhawks AHL-affiliate team, the Rockford IceHogs. The next day, Morin made his debut in 5–4 shootout win against the Atlanta Thrashers. After 3 days, he was sent back down to the IceHogs.
On November 30, 2010, he was called back up to the Blackhawks to replace the injured Marián Hossa. Before his callup, Morin was leading the IceHogs in goals, with six, and he was tied for third on the team with nine points. Later that day, during a game against the St. Louis Blues, Morin was able to record his first NHL point, after a power play assist, and also recorded his first NHL fight against the Blues' Chris Porter. He played the next 2 games but was sent back down to Rockford on December 6, 2010.
On December 8, 2010, before their game against the Dallas Stars, the Blackhawks recalled Morin while they placed Hossa on injured reserve. During the game against the Stars, Morin was able to score his first NHL goal against Andrew Raycroft in a 5–3 win.
Salary cap was still a concern for the Blackhawks and they had to send Morin back down to Rockford the next day. He would continue to be sent back and called up between Rockford and Chicago before the returns of Hossa and Viktor Stalberg from injury. After their returns, the Blackhawks did not need Morin in the line-up and loaned him to Team USA for the 2011 World Junior Championships. After the tournament was over, Morin returned to the IceHogs but he missed the rest of the season after suffering a concussion in mid-January.
On June 27, 2014, Morin was signed to a two-year contract extension by the Blackhawks.
On December 14, 2014, the Blackhawks traded Morin to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Tim Erixon.
On June 30, 2015, he was traded back to the Blackhawks along with Marko Daňo, Artem Anisimov, Corey Tropp and a fourth-round draft pick in 2016, in exchange for Brandon Saad, Alex Broadhurst and Michael Paliotta.
On January 3, 2016, Morin was traded by the Blackhawks to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Richard Pánik.
On February 27, 2016, he was traded to the San Jose Sharks along with James Reimer in exchange for Alex Stalock, Ben Smith and a 4th round pick in 2018.
|
276432
|
86802
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276432
|
Jiří Fischer
|
Jiří Fischer (born July 31, 1980) is a Czech retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Fischer played with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1999 to 2006. He won the Stanley Cup with them in 2002. Fischer is the current director of player development for the Detroit Red Wings.
On November 21, 2005, during a game against the Nashville Predators, Fischer collapsed on the bench after entering cardiac arrest and was resuscitated by CPR and by an Automated External Defibrillator after being unconscious for six minutes. The game was halted and later played on January 23, 2006 marking the first time a hockey game has been stopped due to an injury. The Predators won the game 3-2. Fischer was released from Detroit Receiving Hospital on November 23, 2005.
|
276433
|
86802
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276433
|
Jiri Fischer
| |
276434
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276434
|
Bryan Smolinski
|
Bryan Anthony Smolinski (born December 27, 1971 in Toledo, Ohio) is a former American professional ice hockey player. He was picked by the Boston Bruins with the twenty-first overall pick in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. Smolinski played ice hockey at Michigan State University for the NCAA.
|
276435
|
9299353
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276435
|
University of Wisconsin–Madison
|
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a university in Madison, Wisconsin, and the main campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was founded in 1848.
The university offers 9,203 different courses, 232 undergraduate majors and certificates and over 250 master’s, doctoral, and professional programs. Average class size is 31 and there are more than 2,000 professors.
The school's athletic program, which competes mainly in the Big Ten Conference, is named the "Badgers" and they have won 27 national championships. The women's hockey team plays in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
|
276436
|
155614
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276436
|
Remix album
| |
276439
|
7417456
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276439
|
Arctic tern
|
The Arctic tern ("Sterna paradisaea") is a medium-sized species of seabird. It breeds in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. The Arctic tern also has the longest migration of any known animal. It migrates each year.
The Arctic tern is shown on the postage stamps of several countries and dependent territories. Examples are the Åland Islands, Alderney, and Faroe Islands and the countries include Canada, Finland, Iceland, and Cuba.
|
276440
|
5295
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276440
|
Grey Goose (drink)
|
Grey Goose is a brand of vodka that was introduced in the United States in 1997 and is manufactured by Bacardi. The distillation of Grey Goose takes place in the commune of Cognac in France. It was designed in 1997 by Sidney Frank, a billionaire.
|
276441
|
1291270
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276441
|
Halberd
|
The halberd is a two handed pole weapon that has a axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft and a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade. The Halberd was popular during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Halberd is still the ceremonial weapon of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican.
|
276447
|
293183
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276447
|
Flag of Somaliland
|
The flag of Somaliland is the national flag of Somaliland.
The Shahada says "there is no other God except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah".
|
276458
|
68157
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276458
|
Troödon
| |
276460
|
37281
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276460
|
Free-market economics
| |
276471
|
86802
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276471
|
Sakura Haruno
|
Sakura Haruno is a character from the Naruto anime and manga series. Sakura is one of Naruto Uzumaki’s fellow ninja-in-training, one-third of the team that also includes Naruto and Sasuke Uchiha. While in some ways, she’s a little stereotypically girly, she can more than hold her own throughout her team’s ninja training.
|
276477
|
8225932
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276477
|
Layoff
|
Layoff (also called redundancy in British English), is when an employee does not work due to temporary or permanent suspension. There are legal differences from being fired. The meaning of "layoff" has changed over time. It first mean that there would be a temporary interruption at places like factories. In modern times, "laying someone off" is usually permanent, although in some special cases someone can be laid off temporarily.
|
276484
|
640235
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276484
|
B.T.
|
B.T. is a Danish tabloid newspaper, founded in 1916 by Henry Hellssen.
|
276489
|
1161309
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276489
|
F. W. de Klerk
|
Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician. He was the president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela. They were given the prize for peacefully ending apartheid and setting up a new government in South Africa. From 1994 to 1996 he was vice president of South Africa. In 1997, he retired from politics. In 2004, he left the New National Party, when it became known that it wanted to unite with the African National Congress to form a single party.
De Klerk studied to be an attorney. He finished his studies in 1958. As a student, he joined the National Party. After obtaining his degree, he was their legal counsel, until 1972. From his first marriage with Marike Willemse he has three children. Since 1998, he has been married to Elita Georgiades.
Biography.
FW de Klerk was born in Johannesburg in 1936. He is the son of Johannes de Klerk (1903-1979) and Hendrina Cornelia de Klerk (1904-2001), who died just four months before the death of his former daughter Marike Willemse and his brother to Wimpie de Klerk (1928-2009). His family, whose name comes from the French surname "Le Clerc," "Le Clercq" or "de Clercq" is of Huguenot origin. He settled in the country in 1686, a few months after the Revocation of the Nantes edict, and participated in various events in the history of Afrikaner. Their ancestors participated in the Grand Trek on the train led by Piet Retief to get rid of the British rule. In 1838, three members of the Klerk family were also killed with Retief in King Kraal of Zulu, Dingane. Later, during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the grandfather FW of Klerk was captured twice by the British before being a founding member of the National Party in 1914, alongside James Barry Hertzog. According to genealogist Keith Meintjies and confirmed by FW by Klerk, the latter is also in accordance with Krotoa (Eva), a female Khoi, who served as interpreter for the Dutch colonists during the founding of the Colony of the Head.
Member of the Reformed Dutch Church, FW by Klerk, is the youngest son, Jan Klerk, the head of the school and minister with various portfolios (1954-1969) and Senate chairman (1969-1976), the nephew of JG Strijdom, the head of the South African Government 1954 until 1958. His older brother Wimpie de Klerk is a political analyst and co-founder of the Democratic Party in 1989.
High School in Krugersdorp, a suburb of Johannesburg, FW by Klerk has a honors degree from the University of Potchefstroom in 1958. In 1959 he married Marike Willemse (1937-2001), with whom he will raise three children adopted ). The couple, F. W. and Marike de Klerk, divorced in 1998.
During university studies, he joined the National Party and became a member of Broderbond.
A lawyer in Vereeniging, south of Transvaal, refused in 1972 the public law seat at Potchefstroom University to run for general elections.
On 19 March 2021, de Klerk announced that had been diagnosed with mesothelioma. Eight months later on 11 November, he died from the disease in his sleep at his home in Cape Town at the age of 85.
|
276490
|
2133
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276490
|
Frederik Willem de Klerk
| |
276501
|
68157
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276501
|
Zawahiri
| |
276506
|
966595
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276506
|
Lower East Side
|
The Lower East Side is a neighborhood in southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The neighborhood is roughly made up of Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street. It is considered to be an immigrant, working class area, but some parts of the neighborhood have been bought, repaired, destroyed, and renovated in recent years. Because of this, The National Trust for Historic Preservation put Lower East Side Manhattan on their list of America's Most Endangered Places At one time, much of the Lower East Side was tenements or slums, but many of these have been torn down or replaced by housing projects. During the late 19th and early 20th century, almost a million people lived on the Lower East Side, making it one of the most densely populated places on the planet. In the early to mid-19th century, many of the people were from Ireland and Germany. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of the people there were from Eastern Europe, including many Jews. Today, many of the immigrants in the Lower East Side are from the Dominican Republic and China.
|
276511
|
18539
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276511
|
No Prayer for the Dying
|
No Prayer for the Dying is a studio album by Iron Maiden. It went on sale on 1 October 1990.
The album has Iron Maiden's only song that became the most popular one in England when it was released. This song is called "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter." The album was also the band's last that was rated gold by the RIAA in the United States.
Reviews of the album were mixed. One person who reviewed it said that it "as a whole doesn't measure up" when compared to the better songs on it.
|
276512
|
640235
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276512
|
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
|
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print made by Hokusai.
The art work was printed somewhere between 1830 and 1833 which was during the Edo period. It is the first print in the series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It shows a giant wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa. It was made with the ukiyo-e printing technique.
Other websites.
Although it mostly was grainy feeling to the touch, it held a great part of history
|
276517
|
1508978
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276517
|
Armidale
|
Armidale is a city in New South Wales, Australia. As of 2006 it had a population of 19,485. It is found half-way between Brisbane and Sydney. It has an average altitude of 980 meters. It has a cool climate. Armidale sometimes gets hailstorms. It was proclaimed a city in 1885. It has passenger trains to and from Sydney and buses to and from Tenterfield. There are bicycling areas in some parts of the city.
|
276519
|
1011873
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276519
|
Johnny English
|
Johnny English is a 2003 British comedy spy movie set in London. It was produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Mark Huffam and was directed by Peter Howitt. "Johnny English" parodies the James Bond movie series.
This movie has a sequel, "Johnny English Reborn".
Plot.
An MI7 agent named Johnny English is protecting the Crown Jewels but they are stolen. He meets a mysterious lady named Lorna Campbell, who he becomes suspicious of.
English and his assistant, Angus Bough, discover that a French businessman named Pascal Sauvage plans to become King of Britain and turn the island into a large prison for international criminals. English meets Lorna Campbell again and she reveals she is an Interpol agent tracking Sauvage.
Sauvage's henchmen force Elizabeth II to abdicate and erase her line of succession, allowing Sauvage to become next-in-line due to being descended from James II. English, Bough and Campbell hijack the coronation of Sauvage and after a long struggle, the Archbishop accidentally crowns English.
As King, Johnny English gives the crown back to the Queen and has Pascal Sauvage arrested. While on holiday with Campbell in southern France, English accidentally ejects her from the car.
Ratings.
Johnny English gained mixed reviews:
|
276521
|
37281
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276521
|
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
| |
276523
|
640235
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276523
|
Giovanni da Verrazzano
|
Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 – 1528) was a Florentine explorer of North America. He is known for being the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americas around 1000 to explore the east coast of North America between South and North Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is named for him.
He was chosen in 1524 by the King of France to search for a “Northwest Passage” to Asia through North America. He left in January 1524, and reached Cape Fear in North Carolina on March 1, 1524. He then sailed north to explore the coastline, and believed that he had seen the Pacific Ocean (he explored North Carolina coast on the other side of a narrow piece of land). He actually discovered the Pamlico Sound, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. Verrazzano’s mistake meant that incorrect maps were printed in Europe. They showed North America as split into two parts, connected by a narrow strip of land. This error took over a century to correct.
Verrazzano discovered New York Harbor, Block Island and Narragansett bay while exploring the Atlantic coast of North America. He missed some important discoveries because he often anchored far off-shore. He sailed further north to Maine and Newfoundland, and then returned to France with his discoveries. He made two more trips to the Americas after that.
There are conflicting reports on how he died. One version says he was killed and eaten by natives on Guadalupe Island. Another says he was executed for piracy in Spain. New York Harbor’s Verrazano Narrows Bridge commemorates his journey and his discoveries.
|
276524
|
37281
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276524
|
Tenement
| |
276525
|
248920
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276525
|
Kate McGarrigle
|
Kate McGarrigle ( February 6, 1946, in Montreal, Canada - January 18, 2010) was a Canadian singer-songwriter famous for her emotional songs written in the folk style. With her sister Anna McGarrigle, she had success in the 1970's where they were well known for their harmony singing. Some of the McGarrigles songs became hits for singers such as Linda Ronstadt and Maria Muldaur. Kate married singer Loudon Wainwright III and had two children, singers Martha Wainwright and Rufus Wainwright.
She died of clear-cell sarcoma in Montreal.
|
276527
|
1673561
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276527
|
Diff'rent Strokes
|
Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom created by Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff. "Diff'rent Strokes" is set in New York City. It ran for 8 seasons and had 189 episodes. "Diff'rent Strokes" launched the career of four of its stars Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato, and Conrad Bain.
About.
The show is about a rich man Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly Drummond (Dana Plato) living in an apartment in New York City. Shortly before his maid died, she wanted him to take care of her two children, Arnold and Willis Jackson (Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges). They go through funny adventures and face realistic problems that can affect Arnold or the Drummond family.
Cast and characters.
Conrad Bain is the only cast member to appear in all "Diff'rent Strokes" episodes. Gary Coleman did not appear in two.
The curse.
There have been rumors of a curse about the cast members of the series such as; the falling career, robbery, and suicide of Dana Plato and the sudden death of Gary Coleman from an accidental fall. The only well-known cast members that survive is Todd Bridges.
|
276530
|
139004
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276530
|
Java language
| |
276534
|
105299
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276534
|
Washington Bullets
| |
276536
|
1498485
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276536
|
Rock Lee
|
is a fictional character in the anime and manga series "Naruto". He was created by Masashi Kishimoto. Lee was created to be a symbol of human weakness. In the anime and manga, Lee is a ninja from the village of Konohagakure. He is also a member of Team Guy. The other members of the team are Neji Hyuga and Tenten. The team is led by Might Guy. Lee cannot use most of the ninja techniques but he wants to become a very good ninja. He is focused on using just taijutsu. Taijutsu is a ninja technique similar to martial arts. Lee has been in many pieces of "Naruto" media. He is in the third and fourth movies in the series, the third original animation and many video games.
Many anime and manga publications have written about Lee's character. IGN compared Lee to Bruce Lee and Noel Gallagher. Anime News Network called Lee the "goofiest looking character" in the series. Lee has been popular among the "Naruto" reader base. He was placed high in many polls done to see which character is more popular. Different types of merchandise like figurines and plush dolls have been created based on Lee.
Creation and concept.
In an interview in "Weekly Shōnen Jump"s "Naruto Anime Profiles Episodes 1-37", Masashi Kishimoto said that he enjoys drawing Lee more than any other character in the series. While coming up with Lee's looks, Kishimoto planned to make Lee with different kinds of weapons, including nunchaku. Due to lack of time while creating the series, he couldn't do it. Kishimoto's first editor, Kosuke Yahagi, drew the author a draft of Lee at the start. Kishimoto later changed a lot from how it was drawn by his editor. Yahagi felt happy because some parts were kept. Kishimoto has noted that he originally created Lee as a symbol of human weakness. His design of Sakura Haruno was also meant to carry the same symbolism. Kishimoto was surprised by Lee's popularity within fans. He wanted to write more about him but the timing was never right. Lee became very popular within course of the series. Due to this Kishimoto tries to keep him forward in promotional artwork.
Brian Donovan is the voice actor for Rock Lee in the English version of the anime. In an interview he commented that he had fun voicing Lee because he felt he was trying to be "very proper". This also made his work a little difficult during lip synching.
Appearances.
In "Naruto".
Rock Lee is a ninja from Konohagakure part of Team Guy. Team Guy is a four-man unit of ninja led by Might Guy. Guy is interested in Lee because he wants to become stronger even without the ability to use basic ninja techniques. He decides to help him achieve his dream of becoming a powerful ninja by using only taijutsu. Taijutsu is primary hand-to-hand combat. This relationship with Guy causes Lee to acquire many of Guy's qualities. Lee believes he can surpass the natural talents of others through hard work and passion. In the series, he tries to be better than Neji Hyuga, who is shown as a "genius". Lee is first seen in Naruto during Chunin Exams. Chunin exams are the exams held twice a year for ninja who wish to increase their rank. During the Chunin Exams, Lee fights Gaara, a ninja from the village of Sunagakure. In the fight, Lee uses the eight chakra gates. Chakra gates limit the body's ability to use chakras. This increases his natural abilities at the cost of his health. Lee tries hard but Gaara wins by crushing his left arm and leg. Lee is injured to the point where must give up on being a ninja.
Tsunade is a Konohagakure medical ninja. When she returns to lead the village as the Fifth Hokage (Konohagakure's leader), she offers to operate on him. Even though there is fifty percent chance of failure, Guy encourages Lee to have the operation. After that, Lee goes through the surgery, which succeeds in healing his arm and leg. Right after the operation, Lee follows a team of ninja led by Shikamaru Nara who try to stop Sasuke Uchiha from leaving the village and going to the village of Otogakure. Lee fights the Otogakure ninja Kimimaro using the fighting style. When Kimimaro is about to defeat Lee, Gaara comes and continue the fight.
In Part II, Lee obtains the rank of Chunin. He is sent with his team to help save Gaara who is taken away by the criminal organization Akatsuki. During the Fourth Shinobi War Lee worked at the Third Division. Lee helps in fighting the Kabuto Yakushi's reanimated army. He later helped Naruto Uzumaki in the fight against Obito Uchiha and Madara Uchiha. Years after the war, Lee marries an unknown woman and has a son named Metal Lee. In the epilogue, Lee is last seen many years later, training with his son. In "", Lee hosts the third stage of the Chunin Exam.
Appearances in other media.
Lee has appeared many times outside of the "Naruto" anime and manga. In the third featured movie in the series, "", Lee acts as a member of Team 7. In the fourth movie, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Neji Hyuga, and Lee are given a mission to protect maiden Shion. Shion needs to perform a ritual to seal a demonic army. Lee also takes part in a tournament in the third original video animation.
Lee is a character which can be played in almost every "Naruto" video game. This includes the and the . In some games, he uses some techniques not seen in the anime or manga. "" is the first video game set in Part II where Lee is seen. Rock Lee is also the main character of a spin-off manga by Kenji Taira. The manga was made into an anime series titled "Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals".
Reactions.
Lee has ranked highly in the "Shōnen Jump's" polls to see which character in the series is most popular. At first, he was placed in top ten many times and he reached fifth place once. In later polls, Lee lost his top ten status. Also, much merchandise based on Lee has also been released, like action figures of his Part I and Part II looks, plush dolls, and keychains.
Several publications for manga, anime, video games, and other media have provided commentary on Lee's character. IGN's A.E. Sparrow called Lee one of his favorite characters in the series. They also compared his personality to that of Bruce Lee and Noel Gallagher. Editor Ramsey Isler ranked him as the eighth best character on the series and said he "was the true underdog of the series." Isler added, "Perhaps a little too intense, but always fiercely devoted to his cause, Rock Lee added all sorts of flavor to the series." However, Rock Lee's profile on IGN describes him as "kind of stiff" because of his very polite manner. "Anime Insider" listed him in their top five list for "pure-hearted heroes" from anime and manga publications, ranking him at number five. "Insider" praised him for "never [giving] up, even in the face of people with actual ninja powers."
Anime News Network referred to Lee as the "star of [the Chunin Exam arc]". They also said that he added more depth and importance to the tournament arc. His fight against Gaara in the exams was listed as second best fight in anime by AnimeCentral. Anime News Network also called Lee the "goofiest looking character" in the series, and praised Kishimoto's "ninja-punk visual sensibilities" that allowed him to make Lee "damn cool when the action starts". In the NEO Awards 2007 from "Neo", Rock Lee won in the category "Best Anime Character". He was also listed as one of the three "Honorable Mentions" from "Naruto" by Wizard Entertainment's Danica Davidson with comments from the article being focused on Lee's determination. When the "Naruto" manga ended, writer Yūto Kubota said that he loves Lee's character.
|
276539
|
1464674
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276539
|
Matt Morgan
|
Matthew Thomas "Matt" Morgan (born September 10, 1976 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American politician and retired professional wrestler. He was the former mayor of the city of Longwood, Florida. Morgan is known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a two-time TNA World Tag Team Champion. He also performed as Beast on American Gladiator.
|
276541
|
155614
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276541
|
Flat (building)
| |
276554
|
10087718
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276554
|
Cold Lake, Alberta
|
Cold Lake is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Cold Lake was originally three communities, and was eventually formed by merging the Town of Grand Centre, the Town of Cold Lake, and Medley which was a Canadian Forces Base 4 Wing on October 1, 1996.
|
276562
|
34911
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276562
|
Impreza
| |
276568
|
10458267
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276568
|
Tridentine Mass
|
Tridentine Mass is the formula of the Roman Rite Catholic Mass that was commonly used before 1969. The Roman Missal contained the Church's guidelines on the Tridentine Mass for the first time in 1570. The missal was changed several times, and the last change to it was made in 1962. The celebration is done almost exclusively in the Latin language. Today, it is permitted as an alternative to the current form of the Mass that was introduced by the Second Vatican Council. There is also a translation into Church Slavonic which uses that language instead of Latin. The Slavonic form is in use mainly in the Balkans.
|
276569
|
314522
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276569
|
Daewoo Leganza
|
The Daewoo Leganza was a 4-door automobile produced by GM Daewoo. It offered a lot of space and equipment for not a lot of money. Only 1 generation was made over a 5 year run. It replaced the Daewoo Espero in 1997 and in 2000 the similarly sized Daewoo Magnus launched with the Leganza continuing until 2002.
|
276571
|
1011873
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276571
|
John Carpenter
|
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American movie director, producer, writer and actor. He was born in Carthage, New York. He is known for horror and science fiction movies including "Halloween", "The Thing" and "Escape from New York".
|
276572
|
1444326
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276572
|
Hecate
|
Hecate (Ἑκάτη, Hekátē) is the goddess of magic, crossroads, witchcraft, sorcery, ghosts, and necromancy in ancient Greek religion and mythology. She is the daughter of Perses and Asteria, who is the twin sister of Leto. Although Hecate is a member of the third generation of Titans, she sided with Zeus and his siblings during the Titanomachy. As a result, she was highly honored by Zeus, who granted her influence over the Earth, the sky, and the Underworld.
A nocturnal figure, Hecate often resided in underground caves or in the Underworld itself. She was commonly invoked as a household deity to help ward off evil spirits. Hecate assisted Demeter in her search for her daughter Persephone after Hades abducted her, guiding Demeter’s path at night with her flaming torches. Following this, she frequently accompanied Persephone on her annual journey to and from the realm of the dead.
In later depictions, Hecate is portrayed as a woman with three heads, which are thought to represent the past, present, and future. Her attendants included the Empousa, a species of man-eating monsters that appeared vampiric, featuring one leg made of solid bronze and the other leg resembling that of a donkey. Often identified with the goddesses Artemis and Selene, Hecate is also seen as a symbol of the harvest moon.
Her sacred symbols include a pair of torches, keys, and daggers, while animals such as the serpent, polecat, and dog were considered sacred to her. She was typically worshipped alongside Demeter and Persephone. Hecate's Roman counterpart is Trivia.
|
276578
|
935234
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276578
|
ʻAlalā
|
The Alalā or Hawaiian crow ("Corvus hawaiiensis") is a species of bird in the crow family. The bird was found only in the western and southeastern parts of the island of Hawaiʻi before becoming completely extinct in the wild. There are two breeding facilities operated by the San Diego Zoo.
|
276579
|
1604351
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276579
|
Hugues Cuénod
|
Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod (born 26 June 1902; died 6 December 2010) was a Swiss opera singer. He was a tenor. He was particularly famous for singing comic roles in opera. He had an extremely long career, lasting over 65 years. He was still singing in opera at the age of 92. He died at the age of 108.
Career.
Hugues Cuénod was born in Corseaux-sur-Vevey. He studied at the Ribaupierre Institute in Lausanne, at the conservatories in Geneva and Basel, and in Vienna. At first he sang in concerts. Then, in 1928, he got a part in the jazz opera "Jonny spielt auf" by Ernst Krenek when it was performed in Paris. The next year he sang for the first time in the United States in Noël Coward's "Bitter Swee t". He worked in Geneva until 1933, then he went to Paris where he met the music teacher Nadia Boulanger. She had a big influence on his musical development. He made a concert tour of North America. From 1940 to 1946 he taught at the Geneva Conservatory. In 1943 he started singing in opera again, singing in Johann Strauss II's "Die Fledermaus" in Geneva. Then he sang at Milan's La Scala (1951), the Glyndebourne Festival (from 1954 on) and London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1954, 1956 and 1958).
Cuénod sang music by many different composers. He was famous for singing the part of Basilio in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel", and Sellem in Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress". He sang with a light tenor voice, not a heavy heroic voice.
One of the most famous opera houses in the world is the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He did sing there, but not until he was 84. By that age almost all singers have been long retired. He sang the part of the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's "Turandot" in 14 performances there.
The very last time he sang on stage was in 1994 when he was 92. He sang M. Triquet in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" when it was given by the Lausanne Opera at the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières.
Personal life.
Cuénod lived with his male partner, Alfred Augustin, in the Vaud region of Switzerland. They lived in an 18th-century castle that had belonged to members of his family for several generations. The couple were in a civil union.
On his last birthday on 26 June 2010 he turned 108. He died in Vevey on 6 December that year.
|
276580
|
3650
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276580
|
Hugues Cuenod
| |
276582
|
9224940
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276582
|
Roberto Alagna
|
Roberto Alagna (born near Paris, 7 June 1963) is a French operatic tenor.
Alagna's family came from Sicily. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris, France in 1963. When he was a teenager he started singing pop music in Paris cabarets. Later he started to sing in operas. He won the Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition. He started to sing professionally in 1988 singing the part of Alfredo Germont in Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" with the Glyndebourne touring opera Soon he was being asked to sing all over the world in opera houses such as La Scala, Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera. His performances of Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" by Charles Gounod at Covent Garden in 1994 made him a great international star. When he sang that role on 15 December 2007 at the Metropolitan Opera with Anna Netrebko as Juliet the performance was broadcast by the Met into 447 theaters worldwide in high definition and seen by about 97,000 people.
Personal life.
Alagna's first wife, Florence Lancien, died of a brain tumor in 1994; they had one daughter, Ornella, who was born in 1992. In 1996 he married the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu. They often performed together in operas. However, they separated in 2009.
|
276586
|
1161309
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276586
|
Lila Downs
|
Lila Downs (September 9, 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico) is a Mexican/American singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and have recorded songs in indigenous languages such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya, Nahuatl and P'urhépecha. Her albums are "One Blood", "Shake Away", and "Sins and Miracles" has won various Grammys and World Music Awards.
Early life.
Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She learned to sing at the age of four. She began to perform rancheras songs when she was 10 years old. Lila grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of California as a teenager. She was 15 when she went to Performing Arts Institute of Oaxaca, where she studied music. She lived in Minnesota as an adult. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in voice and anthropology.
Career.
She later returned to Mexico where she learned to weave. Later, she began singing in the club scenes of Oaxaca and Philadelphia along with Paul Cohen, an American-born saxophonist. They began collaborating on songs that would slowly evolve into Downs' subsequent recordings. Cohen became both Downs' husband and her artistic director.
In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europe. She was also heard in the soundtrack to the movie "Frida" in a song, "Burn it Blue", that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song and that she performed at the 75th Academy Awards. Other songs that she performed on the soundtrack are "Benediction and Dream", "Estrella Oscura", and "La Llorona". Other movies in which her songs are featured include Maria Ripoll's 2001 "Tortilla Soup", Patricia Cardoso's 2002 "Real Women Have Curves" and Carlos Saura's 2007 "Fados". She was also invited to the Twelve Girls Band's concert in Shanghai, where she sang in French and English. Downs is currently based in Coyoacán, a borough of Mexico City.
On September 2, 2008, Lila Downs released "Shake Away", her latest album of new material as well as featuring a few cover songs, including "I Envy The Wind" by Lucinda Williams and "I Would Never" by The Blue Nile. Downs also collaborated with artists like La Mari from Chambao and Enrique Bunbury from Héroes del Silencio. In 2010 she appeared on The Chieftains' album "San Patricio".
"Sins and Miracles" is the most recent album by Lila Downs. It was released in 2011. It reached the top of the charts in Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Spain and the United States. It also reached the top ten in other major markets. Downs did a tour for the album called the "Pecados y Milagros World Tour". The singles on "Sins and Miracles" are: "Palomo del Comalito", "Zapata se Queda" and "Mezcalito". The album and its singles received one Grammy Award. The main music genres which make up the album are pop, folk and ska. She has a contralto vocal range.
|
276601
|
37281
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276601
|
New York County
| |
276604
|
17988
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276604
|
Batavia
| |
276606
|
17988
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276606
|
Energie cottbus
| |
276607
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276607
|
Rock Band 2
|
Rock Band 2 is an interactive music game by Harmonix. It is a sequel to the game "Rock Band". To play the game, players use a microphone to sing or a controller to hit notes on the screen. Players get points by hitting the right notes at the right time. Earning points can help a player earn stars, which show how well a player performed the song. If a player misses too many notes or hits too many of the wrong notes, they fail out of the song. It has a quickplay mode and a world tour mode.
In quickplay mode, players choose songs from a list to play. In world tour mode, players can play songs in venues (public places) in cities around the world. Rock Band 2 also has a practice mode, where players can play a song without failing out of it. Players can choose one of four skill levels to play. The skill levels are Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert.The songs in Rock Band 2 are sorted by how hard they are to play. Zero dots means the song is one of the easiest to play, and five red dots means that the song is one of the hardest. Players can play solo (by themselves) or with other people.
|
276609
|
314522
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276609
|
Citadel
|
A citadel is a large fortress or castle that is usually built to protect cities or towns from attacks or disaster, though citadels have been built for other reasons as well. Citadels are often built to be the final protection for a city or town, in case enemies break through other protections such as walls or soldiers.
The citadel of a city is most often built around the center of administration and government, which is where the king or city council makes their rulings. Other common places for a citadel to be placed are the downtown (central core) of the city, the holy center or religious square of the city (many shrines), and the business or financial area, where money is traded for goods, and invested.
History.
–1300 BCE.
The oldest known citadels were built in the Indus Valley Civilization, where the citadel may have been used as a symbol of authority (power), though no one is entirely sure why they were built.
800–600 BCE.
In Ancient Greece, the Acropolis was important in the life of the people, serving as a place of safety in times of trouble. It contained military supplies, food, a shrine, and often a palace or citadel. The most well-known is the Acropolis of Athens, but nearly every Greek city-state had one.
167–141 BCE.
Citadels were sometimes built so strongly that enemies could take over the rest of the city, but fail to take over the city's citadel. During the Maccabean Revolt, the Maccabean rebels managed to take over all of Jerusalem except its citadel. It wasn't until 20 years later that they finally managed to take over the citadel too.
1600 CE–present.
Citadels were not always built to keep away a city's enemies. During the Anglo-Dutch Wars, King Charles II of England built a citadel at Plymouth that could not only keep out enemies, but also the city's people in case they tried to rebel against the King.
Modern Usage.
The "Citadelle" of Quebec still survives as the largest citadel still in official military operation in North America after more than 200 years of existence.
Since the middle of the 20th century, citadels usually protect military center, rather than cities or towns. These citadels are built to protect the center from heavy attacks, such as aerial or nuclear bombardment. The military citadels under London are an example of this.
|
276610
|
5295
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276610
|
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
|
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born 28 May 1925 in Berlin, died 18 May 2012 in Berg, Upper Bavaria) was a German baritone singer. For more than 30 years he was thought of by many as the greatest male singer in classical music. He was particularly famous for his singing of Lieder (German art songs), but he was also a superbly great singer of opera as well as a concert singer with orchestras. Later in his career he also conducted.
Fischer-Dieskau had a lyrical baritone voice, not a powerful, heroic voice like a Heldenbarton. In spite of that he recorded many operatic roles which are traditionally thought of as being for Heldenbariton: Wotan in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Amfortas in Parsifal, Macbeth in Verdi's opera etc.
He is the most recorded singer of all time. He sang in many languages as well as German: French, Russian, Hebrew and Hungarian.
Early years.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin. His parents were teachers. He started singing as a child and began voice lessons at the age of 16. He had to join the German army (the Wehrmacht) during World War II, in 1943. He had only just finished school. He was captured in Italy in 1945 and spent two years as an American prisoner of war. During that time, he sang Lieder in POW camps to homesick German soldiers.
Career.
In 1947 he returned to Germany where he started his professional career singing the baritone solo in Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem" without any rehearsal. (He was a last-minute substitute for a singer who was ill.) He gave his first Lieder recital in Leipzig later that year.
From early in his career he worked with famous lyric sopranos Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, and the recording producer Walter Legge, producing very popular albums of lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf.
In the autumn of 1948, Fischer-Dieskau became principal lyric baritone at the Städtische Oper Berlin (Municipal Opera, West Berlin), making his first opera performance in the role of Posa in Verdi's "Don Carlos" under the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. This company, known after 1961 as the Deutsche Oper, was to be his artistic home until his retirement from the operatic stage, in 1978.
Fischer-Dieskau made guest appearances at the opera houses in Vienna and Munich. After 1949 he made concert tours in the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Italy. In 1951, he first appeared at a concert in the Salzburg Festival with Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)" under Wilhelm Furtwängler. He was starting to appear all over the world: in the Royal Albert Hall, London, Boston, Massachusetts and at the Bayreuth Festival.
As an opera singer, Fischer-Dieskau performed mainly in Berlin and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He also made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, at the Hamburg State Opera, in Japan, and at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Festival. His first tour in the United States took place in 1955, when he was 29. For his recitals there he was accompanied by Gerald Moore. He recorded many Lieder with Gerald Moore, and gave many recitals with him until Moore retired in 1967. However, they continued to make recordings after that. Their recordings of the Schubert song cycles
"Die schöne Müllerin" and "Die Winterreise" were very highly thought of.
Fischer-Dieskau also performed many works by living composers including Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Hans Werner Henze, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ernst Krenek and Witold Lutosławski.
Fischer-Dieskau also recorded many famous roles in Italian operas, e.g. Verdi's Rigoletto and Rodrigo in Verdi's "Don Carlos", Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca". He retired from opera in 1978.
Fischer-Dieskau's musicianship and technique were always perfect. He retired from the concert hall on New Year's Day, 1993, at 67, and spent his time conducting, teaching (especially the interpretation of Lieder), painting and writing books.
Personal life.
In 1949, Fischer-Dieskau married the cellist Irmgard Poppen. Together they had three sons: Mathias, who became a stage designer, Martin (a conductor), and Manuel (a cellist). Irmgard died in 1963 of complications following childbirth. Afterwards, Fischer-Dieskau was married to the actress Ruth Leuwerik, from 1965 to 1967, and Kristina Pugell, from 1968 to 1975. From 1977 until his death he was married to the soprano Julia Varady.
|
276613
|
3650
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276613
|
Heldentenor
| |
276614
|
3650
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276614
|
POW
| |
276615
|
3650
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276615
|
Fischer-Dieskau
| |
276616
|
1248438
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276616
|
Covent Garden
|
Covent Garden is a huge piazza or open area in London, between the West End and the City of London. It is north of The Strand and east of Trafalgar Square. Once it was a huge fruit, vegetable and flower market with many taverns, theatres, coffee-houses, prostitutes and brothels.
Now it is a huge commercial area and "tourist trap". The former market has been redeveloped, keeping its glass roof and cast iron spans. The area is hugely popular with visitors to London, and has a number of remarkable buildings nearby.
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is the main theatre for ballet and opera in London. It has several rehearsal rooms with full-size stages, a large costume department and restaurants.
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is nearby. It has been purchased and restored by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Bow Street is also nearby; it is a boundary road to Covent Garden. This was the road where the original police force of London, the Bow Sreet Runners, was formed in the 1740s. The Bow Street Magistrate's Court was one of the most famous criminal courts in London until it was closed in 2006. It is going to be a boutique hotel.
|
276617
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276617
|
Salzburg Festival
|
The Salzburg Festival () is an internationally famous festival of music and drama. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg. Salzburg is the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In modern time there is also an annual "Salzburg Easter Festival" held by the same organization.
|
276618
|
1338660
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276618
|
Essex County, New Jersey
|
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of 2020, 863,728 people lived there, making it the third most populous county in the state, behind Bergen County and Middlesex County, and the second most densely population county in the state after Hudson County. The seat of the county is Newark, the largest city in the state.
|
276626
|
1338660
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276626
|
Bergen County, New Jersey
|
Bergen County is a county in the U.S. State of New Jersey. It is rich and has more people living in it than other counties in New Jersey. As of the 2020 census, it had 955,732 people. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. The county is the one of the last remaining counties in the nation where shops are closed on Sundays because of "blue laws." In compliance to the blue laws, nearly all retail stores in Bergen County are closed on Sundays.
|
276629
|
40158
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276629
|
Aborignal people
| |
276631
|
1039110
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276631
|
Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud
|
Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud Silanyo (1938 – 15 November 2024) was a Somaliland politician. He was the Chairman of the Peace, Unity and Development Party (Kulmiye) and President of Somaliland. Standing as an opposition candidate, Silanyo was elected as president during the June 2010 presidential election.
Mohamoud died on 15 November 2024 in Hargeysa, Somaliland at the age of 86.
|
276633
|
16695
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276633
|
Kakashi Hatake
|
Kakashi Hatake (はたけカカシ, "Hatake Kakashi") is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto created by Masashi Kishimoto. He is the leader of Team 7, originally consisting of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno. After Sasuke defects, Team 7 receives Sai as a replacement.
|
276638
|
1662932
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276638
|
Zipeg
|
Zipeg is an open source free software. Zipeg unpacks files from ZIP, RAR and other archives. Zipeg works on Mac OS X and Windows. Zipeg can preview files and photographs. It is not capable of compressing files. Zipeg is able to extract compressed files. Zipeg supports RAR, ZIP and other formats. Zipeg is built on top of the 7-Zip backend. Zipeg user interface is implemented in Java and is open source.
Zipeg automatically detects filenames in national alphabets (code pages). Zipeg correctly translates filenames from national alphabet to Unicode. Zipeg reads EXIF thumbnails from JPEG digital photographs. Zipeg uses thumbnails for "tool tip" style preview and item icons.
|
276640
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276640
|
Phil Kessel
|
Philip Joseph Kessel, Jr. (born October 2, 1987 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Boston Bruins for 3 seasons and the Toronto Maple Leafs for 6 seasons. Kessel played hockey in college for the University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers.
On July 1, 2015, Kessel was traded along with Tyler Biggs, Tim Erixon, and a conditional second round draft pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Kasperi Kapanen, Scott Harrington, Nick Spaling, and conditional first- and third-round draft picks.
|
276644
|
196884
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276644
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (movie)
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a 2000 comedy-drama Christmas movie that was produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and was directed by Ron Howard. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is based on the 1957 Dr. Seuss book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and the 1966 TV Christmas special.
Ratings.
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" gained average reviews:
|
276646
|
842384
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276646
|
Greg Giraldo
|
Greg Giraldo (December 10, 1965 – September 29, 2010) was an American comedian television personality, and retired lawyer. Giraldo is probably best known for his many appearances on Comedy Central's roast specials and is also known for being a regular on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil.
He was married twice, once when he was 24. According to Giraldo, his first marriage hadn't lasted very long. At the time of his death he had 3 children and had been divorced.
He accidentally overdosed on prescription medication and he was scheduled to appear at a comedy performance at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey. When Giraldo failed to appear the police were called to his hotel room where they found him and they rushed him to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. It was reported that he had been in a coma for four days before his family had life support removed and he died on September 29, 2010.
On March 18, 2011, Comedy Central aired a special called "Give it up for Greg Giraldo", that featured celebrities Jon Stewart, Colin Quinn, Lewis Black, Daniel Tosh, Denis Leary, Sarah Silverman, Jeffrey Ross, Nick Swardson, Dave Attell, Jim Gaffigan and Conan O'Brien as well as others as they talked about his life and career.
|
276648
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276648
|
Keith Ballard
|
Keith Ballard (born November 26, 1982 in Baudette, Minnesota) is a former American NHL ice hockey defenceman for the Minnesota Wild. He was picked by the Buffalo Sabres with the eleventh overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He played hockey in college for the University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers. Ballard has also played for the Phoenix Coyotes for 3 seasons and the Florida Panthers for 2 seasons before being traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 2010 during the 2010 NHL Entry draft for Michael Grabner, Steve Bernier, and Vancouver's first round pick and 25th overall selection in that draft. On July 3, 2013, he was placed on waivers and his contract was bought out by the Canucks. On July 4th, 2013, Ballard signed a two-year $3 million contract with the Minnesota Wild.
Ballard is married and had a daughter with his wife in May 2010.
|
276651
|
10063271
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276651
|
Ford E-Series
|
The Ford E-Series, also known as the Ford Econoline or the Ford Club Wagon , was a series line of passenger or cargo vans which began in 1961 and ended in 2015. The E-Series vans could hold eight to 15 people per van as well as cargo versions. The vans have undergone many redesigns through the years, the first generation was made from 1961 to 1967. The second generation was made from 1968 to 1974. The third generation was made from 1975 to 1991. The fourth and longest-running generation was made from 1992 to 2014 in passenger and cargo versions, and were replaced in 2015 by the fourth generation Ford Transit, although the Transit model has already been in production since the mid 1960's. The model line currently competes with the Chevrolet Van, Chevrolet Express, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Dodge Ram Van, Dodge Sprinter, Freightliner Sprinter, and GMC Savana.
|
276658
|
1508758
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276658
|
Angela Lansbury
|
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) was a British-Irish-American actress of stage, movie, and television. She was best known for her roles as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running whodunit television series "Murder, She Wrote" (1984–1996), and as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney's 30th animated feature movie "Beauty and the Beast" (1991).
Death.
Lansbury died on 11 October 2022, five days before her 97th birthday at her home in Los Angeles, California.
|
276663
|
1668368
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276663
|
Banyan
|
A banyan (or 'banian') is a kind of fig. It usually starts life by growing on another plant as an epiphyte. Its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree, or on other structures like buildings and bridges.
"Banyan" usually means the Indian banyan or "Ficus benghalensis". It is the National tree of the Republic of India. and of Bangladesh. However, the term actually includes all figs which share their epiphytic life cycle. They are put in the subgenus Urostigma. The seeds of banyans are dispersed by fruit-eating birds. The seeds germinate and send down roots towards the ground. These roots may envelop (cover) part of the host tree or building structure, from which they get the casual name of strangler fig.
A number of tropical forest species grow by strangling. There are other examples in the genus "Ficus" that competes for light. Any "Ficus" species showing this habit may be termed a strangler fig.
The leaves of the banyan tree are large, leathery, glossy green and elliptical in shape. Like most of the fig-trees, the leaf bud is covered by two large scales. As the leaf develops the scales fall. Young leaves have an attractive reddish tinge.
Older banyan trees have aerial prop roots that grow into thick woody trunks which, with age, can become indistinguishable from the main trunk. Old trees can spread out laterally using these prop roots to cover a wide area.
Like other Fig species (including the common edible fig "Ficus carica"), banyans have unique fruit structures and are dependent on fig wasps for reproduction.
The fatal embrace.
Once the roots get to the ground, they suck up nutrients and grow faster and thicker. They cover the trunk of the host tree, and their leaves and branches in the canopy block the light from the host. Lacking enough nutrition and light, the host tree eventually dies. Its wood is destroyed by beetles, termites and fungi. Only the hollow space inside the banyan remains. The banyan roots make a huge cylinder, and it stands up perfectly well.
Often the banyan tree is formed from several different fruits which germinated on the same host tree. This has been proved by genome analysis.p170
|
276674
|
248920
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276674
|
Teena Marie
|
Mary Christine Brockert (5 March 1956 – 26 December 2010), known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer, songwriter, and producer. She is famous for songs such as "Lovergirl" and "Square Biz". Teena died on December 26, 2010 at age 54, from problems caused by a seizure.
|
276675
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276675
|
Domino Pizza
| |
276679
|
70336
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276679
|
Hohenzollern
|
The Hohenzollern family ruled various territories in and near modern Germany, and later of all Germany. The Royal House of Hohenzollern began ruling the area around Berlin and Brandenburg, now in Germany, in 1415.
The family became one of the electors of the Holy Roman Emperor and then were kings of Prussia in 1702 and German emperors in 1871.
It stopped ruling after World War I, when Germany became a republic. Prussia was abolished by the four Alliea that controlled Germany in 1947.
The family took it name from its ancestral home, Hohenzollern Castle, in what is now Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The area around the castle was once ruled as a separate principality.
|
276680
|
293183
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276680
|
Hohenzollern (disambiguation)
|
Hohenzollern may refer to:
|
276684
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276684
|
Hohenzollern-Hechingen
|
Hohenzollern-Hechingen was a county and principality in southwestern Germany, part of what is now Baden-Württemberg. Its rulers were members of a branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern family.
History.
The County of Hohenzollern-Hechingen was created in 1576, when the County of Hohenzollern was divided. The county was ruled as a part of the Holy Roman Empire. When the last count of Hohenzollern, Charles I of Hohenzollern (1512–1579) died, the territory was to be divided up between his three sons:
Unlike the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg and Prussia, the Hohenzollerns of southwest Germany remained Roman Catholic. The County was raised to a principality in 1623.
The principality joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806 and was a member state of the German Confederation between 1815 and 1850. The democratic Revolution of 1848 was relatively successful in Hohenzollern, and on 16 May 1848, the Prince was forced to accept the constitution limiting his power. However, the conflict between monarch and democrats continued, and on 6 August, Hohenzollern was occupied by Prussian forces. On 7 December, 1849, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin sold the country to his relative, King Frederick William IV of Prussia. On 12 March 1850, Hohenzollern-Hechingen officially became part of Prussia. Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, which also became part of Prussia in 1850, were called the Hohenzollernsche Lande .
|
276686
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276686
|
Something About Airplanes
|
Something About Airplanes is the debut album by Death Cab for Cutie. It was released in 1998 on Barsuk Records, and it was re-released for its tenth anniversary in 2008. Its re-release features the band performing live at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, Washington.
Track listing.
All songs written by Ben Gibbard except where noted.
|
276688
|
314522
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276688
|
Christoph Ahlhaus
|
Christoph Ahlhaus (born 28 August 1969) is a German politician. He is a member of the German Christian Democratic Union. From 25 August 2010 to 7 March 2011 he was the First Mayor of Hamburg.
Ahlhaus was born on 28 August 1969. He is married and studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin.
From 7 May 2008 to 24 August 2010 Ahlhaus was state minister of the Interior in Hamburg.
|
276689
|
532461
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276689
|
Government of Hamburg
|
The government of Hamburg is divided into executive, legislative and judicial branches.
There are two levels of government.
As a federal state the city wide administration has much more responsibility and scope than in ordinary cities.
The head of the city-wide and state administration is the First Mayor ("Erster Bürgermeister"). A ministry is called "Behörde" (office) and a state minister is a "Senator" in Hamburg.
The legislature is the state parliament, called "Hamburgische Bürgerschaft".
The judicial branch is composed of the state supreme court and other courts.
The seat of the government is Hamburg Rathaus.
Political system.
There is a clear separation of powers.
Legislature.
The power to create, amend and ratify laws (legislature) is given to the parliament. A plebiscite and a referendum is possible due to the Constitution of Hamburg. In other German states the parliament is called "Landtag".
The parliament is among other things responsible for the law, the election of the "Erster Bürgermeister" (First Mayor) for the election period and the control of the Senate (cabinet). The parliament is a unicameral parliament (only has one chamber) and the 121 deputies are elected in universal, direct, free, equal and secret elections every four years.
Executive.
The executive is the "Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg" (Senate of Hamburg or cabinet). Its purpose is to enforce the laws. The senate is responsible for the day-to-day management and head of this branch is the First Mayor. The senate represents Hamburg to the federal government and other states or countries.
The "Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg" is formed by the First Mayor of Hamburg, the Minister President and mayor of Hamburg. His deputy is the Second Mayor. The senate is permitted no more than 12 members by law. This law also regulates among other, pay, pensions, privilege to refuse to give evidence and the legal position of Hamburg judges. The senators get appointed by the First Mayor and thereafter they need to get confirmed by the Hamburg Parliament. The First Mayor forms the ministries, according to the coalition agreement of the ruling parties.
History.
Until 1860 the government of Hamburg was called "Rath" or "Rat" (board/council), the members had been "Ratsherrn" (aldermen) and "Bürgermeister" (Burgomaster). After a change of the Constitution of Hamburg in 1861 the government was called "Hamburger Senat".
Prior to the first world war the two mayors were elected for one-year-terms. Until 1997 the First Mayor was Primus inter pares among his colleagues in the Senate, by whom he was elected. Since then, he has been elected by the parliament and been able appoint and to dismiss other Senators.
Judiciary.
Interpreting the law (Judiciary) is task of the "Hamburgisches Verfassungsgericht" (Constitutional Court of Hamburg) and 17 more courts of Hamburg.
The supreme court has a president and 8 judges. The City Parliament elects the judges for 6 years and they only canget reelected once. The schedule of responsibilities is based on the constitution of Hamburg (Art. 65) and the "Gesetzes über das Hamburgische Verfassungsgericht" (Law of the Constitutional Court of Hamburg) (§ 14).
The professional judges of the other courts are appointed by the senate according to a nomination of a committee.
Ministries.
In 2011, there are nine senators holding ministerial positions and the head of state, the First mayor. A senator is the presiding minister for a "Behörde" (translated: 'government agency' meaning here is more ministry).
The State Chancellery () coordinates the senate and supports the mayor. The First Mayor is head in this agency. In 2011, the First Mayor of Hamburg is Olaf Scholz.
The ministry () is responsible for the school system in Hamburg.
Among others the is the oversight authority for the law enforcement agencies in Hamburg, the fire brigade, for disaster control and its units, the residents registration offices, the State Election Office and the Scientology Task Force (). In 2011, Michael Neumann (SDP) is the Minister of the Interior.
In 2011, head of the Ministry of Finance is Peter Tschenscher (CDU).
In 2011, Frank Horch (Independent) is head of the minitry.
The ministry () is in charge of the correctional facilities, the courts and the revision of the laws. In 2011, Jana Schiedek (SPD) is the Minister of Justice of Hamburg.
On May 7, 2008 the former Ministry of Culture was changed to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media (), now among other responsible for tourism, the public record office of Hamburg, the office of the protection of historical monuments and the memorial site for the Neuengamme concentration camp. In 2005 the annual budget was €212.7 million.
Law enforcement.
Since law enforcement and police duties are partly in the responsibility of the German states, Hamburg has its own police force. This forces consists of the state police " Polizei Hamburg", the State Criminal Police Office (German: "Landeskriminalamt"), the Criminal Investigation Services ("Kriminalpolizei"), the Water Police ("Wasserschutzpolizei") controlling traffic in the port of Hamburg, the Reserve Police ("Bereitschaftspolizei"), the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit ("Spezialeinsatzkommando") and Mobile Surveillance Units ("Mobiles Einsatzkommando").
The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution ("Landesamt für den Verfassungsschutz") is Hamburg's domestic intelligence agency.
The Ministry of the Interior has the legal and technical oversight for the law enforcement agencies.
Elections.
Elections for the state parliament of Hamburg are held every four years, combined with the elections of the diet of the boroughs ("Bezirksversammlungen"). The elections are regulated by law.
Political parties.
Main political parties in Hamburg are the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Party, Alliance '90/The Greens, The Left and as of 2008 not in the state parliament the Free Democratic Party.
The STATT party is a minor political party, which was founded in 1993. The party was elected to the Hamburg Parliament in the Hamburg state election, 1993. The governing SPD and the new STATT party formed a coalition to rule until 1997, when the party lost all seats.
A defunct party is Law and Order Offensive Party (Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive - Offensive D). The party was in the Hamburg Parliament from 2001 until 2004, receiving 19.4% of votes.
Honours and awards.
The highest honour given by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is the honorary citizenship ("Ehrenbürgerrecht"). It is given by the senate, if the parliament confirmed the motion of the senate. The honorary citizenship is comparable to the honour Freedom of the City.
The "Golden Book" consists of the signatures of especially honoured guests of Hamburg. The book itself is a box with not fixed sheets. It is folded in golden leather and a gift of the family of the First Mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen (1809 – 1892). In 1937 the German leader Adolf Hitler signed the book before giving a public speech in Hamburg. During the denazification Hitler's sheet, as these from other Nazis, was removed from the book. The only signature remained is from Joseph Goebbels, because he wrote on the same sheet as the former German President Paul von Hindenburg. The Dalai Lama signed the Golden Book during his 5th visit in Hamburg in February 2007.
Hamburg citizens were not allowed to receive decorations – only medals or medallions. This act was first enlawed for members of the senate and Hamburg's judges, later the act was false legally extended for all citizens by the Senate of Hamburg. The act originated from the Hamburg city law of the 13th century. One of the few "Hanseaten" – citizens of a Hanseatic city – who received decoration was Alwin Münchmeyer, an entrepreneur. Münchmeyer stated later, that this were his "falls of mankind". Even Helmut Schmidt – former Hamburg Senator of the Interior and German chancellor – declined several times to be awarded with the Federal Cross of Merit, stating he had been a Hamburg senator and according to the Hanseatic tradition not allowed to wear decorations.
In 1843 the Hamburg fire medal was awarded to the volunteers, who came to help during the great fire from 5 May until 8 May 1842. In total 4858 medals were awarded from the grateful Hamburg in distress to its friends, as the inscription states "Das Dankbare Hamburg Seinen Freunden In Der Noth".
During World War I (1914 – 1918) the Hanseatic Cross (German: "Hanseatenkreuz") was a decoration of the three Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were member states of the German Empire. Each city-state established its own version of the cross, but the design and award criteria were similar for each. There were approximately 50,000 awards of the Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg.
In 2007 the "Herbert Weichmann medallion" – named for the First Mayor Herbert Weichmann (in office 1965 – 1971) – was granted for the first time by the city of Hamburg, honoring "those - both Jewish and non-Jewish - who have contributed to Jewish life in Germany". First recipients were Paul Spiegel (posthumous), who was a member of the executive committee of the "Zentralrat der Juden", and Hinrich Reemtsma, whose foundation constributed €500,000 for the removal of the Jewish community centre in Hamburg.
Notes.
References.
https://www.homeworkjoy.com/
|
276691
|
62069
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276691
|
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
|
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , also known as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport, and Hartsfield–Jackson, is a public airport in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the world's busiest airport by number of passengers and number of landings and take-offs since 2005. It serves 89 million passengers per year. The airport is the main hub of AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines, and ExpressJet. The Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub. Delta Air Lines flew most (59%) of passengers from the airport in February 2011. The airport has 199 gates. It has both domestic and international gates.
Overview.
Hartsfield–Jackson was still the world's busiest airport in 2010. It had an average of 243,000 passengers each day. It also had a total of 950,119 flights. Many of the flights are flights inside the United States. Atlanta is a major hub for travel throughout the Southeastern United States.
Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport has international service to North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The airport is located mostly in unincorporated areas in Fulton and Clayton counties. The city limits of Atlanta, College Park, and Hapeville end at the airport grounds.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport hosts the following airlines:
|
276692
|
106135
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276692
|
Hatfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
| |
276693
|
106135
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276693
|
KATL
| |
276694
|
106135
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276694
|
ATL
| |
276703
|
1632210
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276703
|
Serum amyloid A
|
Serum amyloid A (SAA) is a group of proteins which flow in the blood. They are related to "good cholesterol". Almost all animals have SAA's. SAA's are made in and controlled by the liver. They move cholesterol to the liver. SAAs increase during inflammation. Doctors and scientists think that SAAs may be part of amyloidosis, heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.
|
276704
|
106135
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276704
|
ALB
| |
276705
|
106135
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276705
|
KALB
| |
276709
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276709
|
Carlos Andrés Pérez
|
Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (October 27, 1922 – December 25, 2010) was a president of Venezuela. He was born in 1922, served twice as president in the early 1990s, and died in 2010.
Biography.
Pérez was born on 27 October 1922 in Rubio, Venezuela. He went to school in Caracas, where he studied law. In 1948, he married Blanca Rodríguez, one of his cousins. During the same year, because he opposed a coup d'état, he was put in prison, but got out and left Venezuela. In 1958, Venezuala became a democracy, and Pérez became a part of the government led by Rómulo Betancourt.
In 1973, Pérez became president of Venezuala. He left office in 1979, and soon after, Venezuala's economy went through a low period. In 1989, Pérez became president again. Soon after, he made government spending much smaller and made prices of goods like gasoline higher. There were many riots because of this.
In 1992, there were two coups that tried but failed to remove Pérez from being president. In 1993, though, he was impeached because he was thought to have paid for bodyguards for Violeta Chamorro, who was a former president of Nicaragua. He went to prison after this for ten weeks. After prison he was put in house arrest for two years.
After Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuala in 1998, Pérez went to the Dominican Republic. In 2003, he moved again, this time to the United States. While he was in the US, people in Venezuala tried to force him to return because he was wanted in connection with the riots his laws caused in 1989. He also married Cecilia Matos during this time.
He died on 25 December 2010 in Miami at the age of 88. María Francia Pérez, his daughter, said that he had died of a heart attack.
|
276718
|
16695
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276718
|
Naruto Uzumaki
|
Naruto Uzumaki ("うずまきナルト", "Uzumaki Naruto") is the protagonist of the anime and manga franchise "Naruto" made by Masashi Kishimoto. At the start, he is a ninja student who lives in the village of Kohoha. The others in the town do not like him because he has the soul of the Fox Demon Kurama sealed inside him, but Naruto wants to become the Hokage (town's leader). During his studies, Naruto learns many jutsu (techniques), including a Shadow Clone jutsu which he excels at also a jutsu taught by his sensei Master Jiraiya the Rasengan. His energetic personality lets him make friends with many people, including his friend and rival Sasuke.
In every official "Weekly Shōnen Jump" popularity poll of the series, Naruto ranks in the top five characters. From the beginning of 2012, he has been in first place twice. Naruto was placed sixth in IGN's Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time.
|
276720
|
1582584
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276720
|
Masashi Kishimoto
|
Masashi Kishimoto (, "Kishimoto Masashi") (born 8 November 1974) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for creating the manga series "Naruto". He has been drawing from a very early age. Osamu Kajisa ("Tattoo Hearts") and Yuuichi Itakura ("Hand's") served as his assistants. Masashi Kishimoto was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. His brother is Seishi Kishimoto.
|
276722
|
1330319
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276722
|
Light clock
|
The light clock is a simple way of showing a basic feature of Special relativity. A clock is designed to work by bouncing a flash of light off a distant mirror and using its return to trigger another flash of light, meanwhile counting how many flashes have occurred along the way. It is easy to show that people on Earth watching a spaceship fly overhead with such a clock would see it ticking relatively slowly. This effect is called time dilation.
Before we study the light clock, consider another kind of relativity. Imagine that someone is dribbling a basketball in the hold of a large cargo jet. The basketball player is moving in the same direction as the jet airplane. The other people in the plane see him moving a meter or two as he makes one dribble. Between the time the ball bounces the first time and the ball bounces the second time, about one second has passed. But when the first bounce occurred the basketball was over Gibraltar, and when the second bounce occurred the basketball was over the water nearer to Spain. So the basketball has moved 280 meters with respect to Earth.
Now consider a somewhat similar question of relative motion. This time we are going to consider what people looking at stars from the North Pole see when a very fast spaceship flies over them. We can use algebra and the Pythagorean theorem to calculate how much time slows on the spaceship. The only other thing we need is the equation that relates distance, d, rate or speed of travel, r, and time, t. The equation is:
d = rt
The speed of light is constant, so we will apply this value to two problems. We will call the speed of light c, as this is the letter scientists usually use to name it.
A clock is made by putting a light output at the bottom of a long pole, a mirror on top of the pole, and an electronic light detector down at the bottom of the pole. The clock is started by briefly closing a switch that sends one blink of light from the bottom of the pole to the top of the pole where it is reflected back to the bottom of the pole. When the light detector at the bottom of the pole sees the blink of light it does two things. It adds one to the counter that is attached to it, and it fires another blink of light up to the mirror. When that blink of light gets back to the bottom, the count changes to two, and another blink of light is set off. Since light travels very rapidly (300,000 kilometers/second), for each second measured by an ordinary clock the light clock will "tick" a very large number of times.
To make the math easier, we will say that the pole is one half kilometer long. So if we are standing by the light clock that is built next to the big telescope at the North Pole, we will see that light travels one kilometer for each "tick" of the light clock. Since distance traveled, d, equals speed multiplied by time, and the speed involved is c, we have the equation:
d = ct
and we can solve this equation for t to learn how long in seconds each "tick" is.
1 km = 300,000 km/second * t seconds
t seconds = 1 km/300,000 (km/second) = 1/300,000 seconds = 0.00000333…3 seconds
In other words, each "tick" of the light clock will take 0.00000333…3 seconds.
If a spaceship were flying on a straight line passing over the North Pole at a large fraction of the speed of light, and it had a similar clock, people watching its passage would see that the mirror on top of the pole had moved from directly over the emitting light, so the light would travel along the line marked h in the diagram, and then it would follow the other hypotenuse back down to the base of the pole -- which would by now have moved some distance since the spaceship is moving so fast. We can figure out how much time one tick would take according to the people on Earth. We know that the spaceship's pole has a length of a since it is the same kind of clock as people are using at the North Pole. We want to figure out t' , the time it takes to make one tick of the clock on the spaceship.
We know that the spaceship will travel 1/2 r t' while the blink of light is heading up toward the mirror, and another 1/2 r t' while the blink of light is heading down toward the base of the pole. So that calculation gives us the length of line b in the chart. We know a, so we can figure out h by the Pythagorean theorem:
h = √(a2 + (rt' /2)2)
So the total distance the light travels is 2 h or d = 2 √(a2 + (rt' /2)2)
We also know that the speed of light, c, is constant. No matter who measures it, it turns out to be the same speed. So we can use that fact to get another way of calculating how long it takes for the flash of light to go from the base to the top of the pole and back again:
t' = d/c
In other words, d = c t' .
So we can write
c t' = 2 √(a2 + (rt' /2)2)
or
1/2 c t' = √(a2 + (rt' /2)2)
To solve the above equation, we will need to:
Solving the above equation we find that:
t' = 2a/(c√(1-r2/c2)
The time between ticks on the clock at the North Pole is 2a/c, so we can then write:
t' = t/√(1-r2/c2)
If t = 1 second, then if the spaceship is traveling at one half the speed of light, t' = 1.1547 sec.
Experiment with various speeds of travel at: http://www.1728.org/reltivty.htm
Bibliography.
"Space and Time in Special Relativity," N. David Mermin, pp. 33-41.McGraw-Hill, 1968.
|
276726
|
22027
|
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276726
|
Scottie Upshall
|
Scott "Scottie" Upshall (born October 7, 1983 in Fort McMurray, Alberta) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey right winger for the Arizona Coyotes. He also played for the St. Louis Blues, FLorida Panthers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Nashville PredatorsHe was picked by the Nashville Predators with the sixth overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He played in the WHL with the Kamloops Blazers. Upshall has also played with the Nashville Predators for 4 seasons and the Philadelphia Flyers for 3 seasons before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes on March 4, 2009 for Daniel Carcillo.
Other websites.
Scottie Upshall's NHL Player Page
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.