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in
- Jewish feminism
- Job title, gender-specific
- Journalism and media professions, women in
# K.
Kidnapping, bride
- Kuwait, women's suffrage in
# L.
Labour, gendered division of
- Ladies' aid societies
- Language, gender-neutral
- Led, women-, uprisings
- Left, the, and feminism
- Legal rights of women in history
- Legal theory, feminist
- Lesbian
- Lesbian Sex Wars
- Letter, Open Christmas
- Liberal feminism
- Liberation, women's (compare Men's liberation)
- Life, pro-, feminism
- Lipstick feminism
- List of conservative feminisms
- List of ecofeminist authors
- List of feminist rhetoricians
- List of feminists
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- List of | 12,200 |
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women's rights activists
- List of women's studies journals
- Literary criticism, feminist
# M.
Mainstreaming, gender
- Majority-Muslim countries, timeline of first women's suffrage in
- Male-female income disparity in the United States
- Marianismo (compare Machismo)
- Marxist feminism
- Material feminism
- "Maternalism" (compare Paternalism)
- Matriarchy (compare Patriarchy)
- Matrifocal family
- Matrilineal succession (compare Patrilineal succession)
- Matrilineality (compare Patrilineality)
- Matrilocal residence (compare Patrilocal residence)
- Media professions, journalism and, women in
- Medicine, women in (compare Men in nursing)
- Men and feminism
- Military, history | 12,201 |
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of women in the
- Millie Tant
- Misogyny (compare Misandry, Philandry, Philogyny)
- Mixed-sex education
- Modern architecture, feminism and
- Modern, post-, feminism
- Month, History, Women's
- Motherhood, sociology of (compare Sociology of fatherhood)
- Mother's rights (compare Father's rights)
- Movement, feminist
- Movement in the United States, feminist
- Movement, women's (compare Men's movement)
- Movements and ideologies, feminist
- Muliebrity (compare Virility)
- Music, women's
- Muslim, majority-, countries, timeline of first women's suffrage in
- Mythology, feminist revisionist
# N.
Nepal, feminism in
- New feminism (also "Catholic feminism")
- New Woman
- New | 12,202 |
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Zealand, timeline of feminist art in
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution)
# O.
Objectification
- Objectification, sexual
- Occupational sexism
- Oedipus complex, feminism and
- Open Christmas Letter
# P.
Passenger car, women-only
- Patriarchy
- Pay, equal, for women
- Performativity, gender
- Philosophy, feminist
- Philosophy, women in
- Philandry (compare Philogyny, Misandry, Misogyny)
- Philogyny
- Pink-collar worker
- Playgirl
- Poland, feminism and
- Political ecology, feminist
- Political rights in Bahrain, women's
- Politics, women in
- Porn wars
- Pornography, anti-, feminism (compare Sex-positive feminism)
- Pornography, feminist views on
- | 12,203 |
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Pornography Victims Compensation Act
- Portrayal of women in comics
- Postcolonial feminism
- Postmodern feminism
- Poverty, feminization
- Privilege: see Male privilege
- Pro-choice
- Pro-feminism
- Pro-life feminism
- Prostitution, feminist views on
- Protective laws
- Protofeminism
- Psychology, feminine (compare Masculine psychology)
# Q.
Queer studies
- Queer theory
# R.
Radical feminism
- Red Tent Meetings
- Reproductive justice
- Reproductive rights
- Republican motherhood
- Residence, matrilocal (compare Patrilocal residence)
- Revisionist mythology, feminist
- Revolution, sexual
- Rhetoricians, feminist, list of
- Rights activists, women's, list of
- Rights | 12,204 |
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Amendment, Equal
- Rights, legal, of women in history
- Rights (other than voting), women's, timeline of
- Rights, political, in Bahrain, women's
- Rights, women's (compare Men's rights)
- Rights in Canada, women's
- Riot grrrl
- Role, gender
- Roles in the World Wars, women's
# S.
Science fiction, feminist
- Science, women in
- Science fiction, women in
- Second-wave feminism
- Segregation, sex
- Selling, husband-
- Selling, wife
- Selling, wife, English custom
- Separatist feminism
- Sex and gender distinction
- Sex in advertising
- Sex-positive feminism (compare Anti-pornography feminism)
- Sex segregation
- Sex wars, feminist
- Sexism
- Sexology, feminist
- Sexual | 12,205 |
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harassment
- Sexual objectification
- Sexual revolution
- Sexuality, feminist views on
- Sexualization (as a political term)
- Shelter, women's (compare "Men's shelter")
- Socialist feminism
- Societies, ladies' aid or soldiers' aid
- Society, effects on, feminist
- Sociology, feminist
- Sociology of gender
- Sociology of motherhood (compare Sociology of fatherhood)
- Soldiers' aid societies
- Standpoint feminism
- Standpoint theory
- State feminism
- Structuralist feminism, French
- Studies, Feminist
- Succession, matrilineal (compare Patrilineal succession)
- Suffrage
- Suffrage, women's
- Suffrage Hikes
- Suffrage, women's, in Switzerland
- Suffrage, women's, timeline | 12,206 |
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of
- Suffrage, women's, timeline in majority-Muslim countries
- Suffrage in Australia, women's
- Suffrage in Japan, women's
- Suffrage in Kuwait, women's
- Suffrage in Switzerland, women's
- Suffrage in the United Kingdom, women's
- Suffrage in the United States, women's
- Suffragette
- Suffragists and suffragettes, list of
# T.
Tant, Millie
- Thealogy
- Theology, feminist
- Theology, womanist
- Theory, feminist
- Therapy, feminist
- Third-wave feminism
- Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- Timeline of women's rights (other than voting)
- Tomboy
- Transfeminism
- Transgenderism and transsexualism, feminist views | 12,207 |
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on
- Transnational feminism
- Transsexualism, feminist views on transgenderism and
- Trophy wife
# U.
United Kingdom, women's suffrage in the
- United States Constitution, Nineteenth Amendment to the
- United States, feminist movement in the
- United States, income disparity in the, male-female
- United States, women in the, history of
- United States, women's suffrage in the
- Uprisings, women-led
# V.
V-Day
- Vésuviennes
- Victims Compensation Act, Pornography
- Victorian era, women in the
- Views, feminist, on BDSM
- Views, feminist, on prostitution
- Views, feminist, on sexuality
- Views, feminist, on transgenderism and transsexualism
- Views on pornography, feminist
- | 12,208 |
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Violence against women
- Violence, domestic
# W.
Waves of feminism
- Wave, first-, feminism
- Wave, second-, feminism
- Wave, third-, feminism
- Wife selling
- Wife selling (English custom)
- Wife, trophy
- Woman question, the
- Womanism
- Womanist theology
- Women and Islam
- Women in comics, portrayal of
- Women in computing
- Women in engineering
- Women in World War I
- Women in geology
- Women in journalism and media professions
- Women in medicine (compare Men in nursing)
- Women in military, history of
- Women in philosophy
- Women in politics
- Women in science
- Women in science fiction
- Women in the First World War
- Women in the military, history of
- | 12,209 |
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Women in the United States, history of
- Women in the Victorian era
- Women in the workforce
- Women in United States, history of
- Women in World War I
- Women-only passenger car
- Women's cinema
- Women's Day, International
- Women's Equal Rights Law of Israel (1951)
- Women's fiction
- Women's health (compare Men's health)
- Women's history
- Women's History Month
- Women's liberation (compare Men's liberation)
- Women's movement (compare Men's movement)
- Women's music
- Women's political rights in Bahrain
- Women's rights (compare Men's rights)
- Women's rights (other than voting), timeline of
- Women's rights activists, list of
- Women's rights in Canada
- Women's | 12,210 |
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roles in the World Wars
- Women's shelter (compare "Men's shelter")
- Women's studies (compare Men's studies)
- Women's suffrage
- Women's suffrage in Australia
- Women's suffrage in Japan
- Women's suffrage in Kuwait
- Women's suffrage in Switzerland
- Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
- Women's suffrage in the United States
- Women's suffrage, first, in majority-Muslim countries, timeline of
- Women's suffrage, timeline of
- Women's writing in English
- Women's Year, International
- Women, girls, and information technology
- Wimmin
- Womyn
- Worker, pink-collar
- Workforce, women in the
- Workplace, feminisation of the
- World War I, women in the
- World Wars, women's | 12,211 |
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dies)
- Women's suffrage
- Women's suffrage in Australia
- Women's suffrage in Japan
- Women's suffrage in Kuwait
- Women's suffrage in Switzerland
- Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
- Women's suffrage in the United States
- Women's suffrage, first, in majority-Muslim countries, timeline of
- Women's suffrage, timeline of
- Women's writing in English
- Women's Year, International
- Women, girls, and information technology
- Wimmin
- Womyn
- Worker, pink-collar
- Workforce, women in the
- Workplace, feminisation of the
- World War I, women in the
- World Wars, women's roles in the
- Writing in English, women's
- Women-led uprisings
# Y.
Year, International Women's | 12,212 |
512247 | Jezkazgan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jezkazgan | Jezkazgan
Jezkazgan
Jezkazgan or Zhezkazgan (, جەزقازعان), formerly known as Dzhezkazgan (, until 1992), is a city in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, on a reservoir of the Kara-Kengir River. Population: Its urban area includes the neighbouring mining town of Satpayev, for a total city population of 148,700.
55% of Jezkagan population are Kazakhs, 30% Russians, with smaller minorities of Ukrainians, Germans, Chechens and Koreans.
# Geography and climate.
Jezkazgan is situated in the very heart of the Kazakh upland. It is also near the geographic center of the country. It has an extremely continental semi-arid climate ("BSk"); rain is frequent but never heavy and monthly rainfall has never reached . The | 12,213 |
512247 | Jezkazgan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jezkazgan | Jezkazgan
average temperature ranges from in July to in January, whilst extremes ranges from in June 1988 to in February 1951.
# History.
The city was created in 1938 in connection with the exploitation of the rich copper deposits. In 1973 a large mining and metallurgical complex was constructed to the southeast to smelt the copper that until then had been sent elsewhere for processing. Other metal ores mined and processed locally are manganese and iron.
During the Soviet era, Jezkazgan was the site of a Gulag labor camp, Kengir, mentioned in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book "The Gulag Archipelago", and Alexander Dolgun's ""An American In The Gulag"", and the period of forced resettlement of Koreans from | 12,214 |
512247 | Jezkazgan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jezkazgan | Jezkazgan
the Russian Far East.
# Industry.
Today the city is the headquarters of the copper conglomerate Kazakhmys, the city's main employer. The company has subsidiaries in China, Russia and the United Kingdom and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. There is a power station, Kazakhmys Power Plant with generation capacity of 207 MW and a 220 metres tall main chimney.
# Transport.
Jezkazgan has a rail line to the regional capital city Karaganda.
Jezkazgan is connected by road to Karaganda via European route E018 and Kyzylorda and Arkalyk via European route E123. The city is accessible by air via the Zhezkazgan Airport.
# Soyuz emergency landings.
The Soyuz 33 spacecraft returning cosmonauts | 12,215 |
512247 | Jezkazgan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jezkazgan | Jezkazgan
from outer space landed in the remote flat countryside surrounding Jezkazgan in 1979. The Baikonur Cosmodrome lies to the southwest and, by tradition, every cosmonaut plants a tree on Jezkazgan's Seyfullin-Boulevard to mark his or her safe return from space.
Again on 11 October 2018 the Soyuz MS-10/56S landed near Jezkazgan when a booster failed during launch.
Luna 16's samples from the moon returned close to here on 24 September 1970.
# Persons associated with Jezkazgan.
- Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut (an honorary citizen, not a local)
- Kaisar Nurmagambetov, flatwater canoer
- Vitaliy Savin, former Soviet athlete
- Oleg Yankovsky, Russian actor
# External links.
- City website
- Photos | 12,216 |
512247 | Jezkazgan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jezkazgan | Jezkazgan
ace landed in the remote flat countryside surrounding Jezkazgan in 1979. The Baikonur Cosmodrome lies to the southwest and, by tradition, every cosmonaut plants a tree on Jezkazgan's Seyfullin-Boulevard to mark his or her safe return from space.
Again on 11 October 2018 the Soyuz MS-10/56S landed near Jezkazgan when a booster failed during launch.
Luna 16's samples from the moon returned close to here on 24 September 1970.
# Persons associated with Jezkazgan.
- Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut (an honorary citizen, not a local)
- Kaisar Nurmagambetov, flatwater canoer
- Vitaliy Savin, former Soviet athlete
- Oleg Yankovsky, Russian actor
# External links.
- City website
- Photos of the city | 12,217 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (; born 15 June 1950) is an Indian steel magnate, based in the United Kingdom. He is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaking company. Mittal owns 38% of ArcelorMittal and holds an 11% stake in Queens Park Rangers F.C..
In 2005, "Forbes" ranked Mittal as the third-richest person in the world, making him the first Indian citizen to be ranked in the top ten in the publication's annual list of the world's richest people. In 2007, Mittal was considered to be the richest Asian person in Europe. He was ranked the sixth-richest person in the world by "Forbes" in 2011, but dropped to 82nd place in March 2015. In spite of the drop, "Forbes" | 12,218 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
estimated that he still had a personal wealth of in October 2013. In 2017, Forbes ranked him as the 56th-richest person in the world with a net worth of US$20.4 billion. He is also the "57th-most powerful person" of the 72 individuals named in "Forbes'" "Most Powerful People" list for 2015. His daughter Vanisha Mittal's wedding was the second-most expensive in recorded history.
Mittal has been a member of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs since 2008. He sits on the World Steel Association's executive committee, and is a member of the Global CEO Council of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan, the World Economic | 12,219 |
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Forum's International Business Council, and the European Round Table of Industrialists.He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Clinic.
In 2005 "The Sunday Times" named him "Business Person of 2006", the "Financial Times" named him "Person of the Year", and "Time" magazine named him "International Newsmaker of the Year 2006". In 2007, "Time" magazine included him in their "Time 100" list.
# Early life and career.
Mittal studied at Shri Daulatram Nopany Vidyalaya, Calcutta from 1957 to 1964. He graduated from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, with a B.Com degree in the first class from the University of Calcutta. His father, Mohanlal Mittal, ran a steel business, Nippon | 12,220 |
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Denro Ispat. In 1976, due to the curb of steel production by the Indian government, the 26-year-old Mittal opened his first steel factory PT Ispat Indo in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. Until the 1990s, the family's main assets in India were a cold-rolling mill for sheet steels in Nagpur and an alloy steels plant near Pune. Today, the family business, including a large integrated steel plant near Mumbai, is run by his younger brothers Pramod Mittal and Vinod Mittal, but Lakshmi has no connection with it.
# Social work.
## Sports.
After witnessing India win only one medal, bronze, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and one medal, silver, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Mittal decided to set up the | 12,221 |
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Mittal Champions Trust with $9 million to support ten Indian athletes with world-beating potential. In 2008, Mittal awarded Abhinav Bindra with Rs. 1.5 Crore (Rs. 15 million), for getting India its first individual Olympic gold medal in shooting. ArcelorMittal also provided steel for the construction of the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
For Comic Relief he matched the money raised (~£1 million) on the celebrity special BBC programme, "The Apprentice".
## Education.
In 2003, the Lakshmi Niwas Mittal and Usha Mittal Foundation and the Government of Rajasthan partnered together to establish a university, the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) in Jaipur as an | 12,222 |
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autonomous non-profit organisation.
In 2009, the Foundation along with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan founded the Usha Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management in New Delhi.
SNDT Women's University renamed the Institute of Technology for Women (ITW) as Usha Mittal Institute of Technology after a large donation from the Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Foundation.
## Medical.
In 2008 the Mittals made a donation of £15 million to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, the largest private contribution the hospital had ever received. The donation was used to help fund their new facility, the Mittal Children's Medical Centre.
# Criticism and allegations.
## PHS.
Mittal successfully employed Marek Dochnal's consultancy | 12,223 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
to influence Polish officials in the privatisation of PHS steel group, which was Poland's largest. Dochnal was later arrested for bribing Polish officials on behalf of Russian agents in a separate affair.
In 2007, the Polish government said it wanted to renegotiate the 2004 sale to ArcelorMittal.
## Slave-labour allegations and questionable safety records.
Employees of Mittal have accused him of allowing "slave labour" conditions after multiple fatalities in his mines. During December 2004, twenty-three miners died in explosions in his mines in Kazakhstan caused by faulty gas detectors.
### "Cash for Influence".
In 2002 Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price obtained a letter written by Tony Blair | 12,224 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
to the Romanian Government in support of Mittal's LNM steel company, which was in the process of bidding to buy Romania's state-owned steel industry. This revelation caused controversy, because Mittal had given £125,000 to the British Labour Party the previous year. Although Blair defended his letter as simply "celebrating the success" of a British company, he was criticised because LNM was registered in the Dutch Antilles and employed less than 1% of its workforce in the UK. LNM was a "major global competitor of Britain's own struggling steel industry".
Blair's letter hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European | 12,225 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
Union. It also had a passage, removed just prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend".
## Queens Park Rangers.
Mittal had emerged as a leading contender to buy and sell Barclays Premiership clubs Wigan and Everton. However, on 20 December 2007 it was announced that the Mittal family had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in Queens Park Rangers football club joining Flavio Briatore and Mittal's friend Bernie Ecclestone. As part of the investment Mittal's son-in-law, Amit Bhatia, took a place on the board of directors. The combined investment in the struggling club sparked suggestions that Mittal might be looking to join the growing ranks of wealthy individuals investing | 12,226 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
heavily in English football and emulating similar benefactors such as Roman Abramovich.
On 19 February 2010, Briatore resigned as QPR chairman, and sold further shares in the club to Ecclestone, making Ecclestone the single largest shareholder.
## Environmental damage.
Mittal purchased the Irish Steel plant based in Cork, Ireland, from the government for a nominal fee of £1 million. Three years later, in 2001, it was closed, leaving 400 people redundant. Subsequent environmental issues at the site have been a cause for criticism. The government tried to sue in the High Court to have him pay for the clean-up of Cork Harbour but failed. The clean up was expected to cost €70 million.
# Personal | 12,227 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
life.
Mittal was born on 15 June 1950 in Sadulpur, Rajasthan. He is married to Usha Mittal. They have a son Aditya Mittal and a daughter Vanisha Mittal.
Lakshmi Mittal has two brothers, Pramod Mittal and Vinod Mittal, and a sister, Seema Lohia, who married Indonesian businessman, Sri Prakash Lohia. His residence at 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens—which was purchased from Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone in 2004 for £67 million (US$128 million)—made it the world's most expensive house at the time. The house is decorated with marble taken from the same quarry that supplied the Taj Mahal. The extravagant show of wealth has been referred to as the "Taj Mittal". It has 12 bedrooms, an indoor | 12,228 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
pool, Turkish baths and parking for 20 cars. He is a lacto-vegetarian.
Mittal bought No. 9A Palace Greens, Kensington Gardens, formerly the Philippines Embassy, for £70 million in 2008 for his daughter Vanisha Mittal who is married to Amit Bhatia, a businessman and philanthropist. Mittal threw a lavish "vegetarian reception" for Vanisha in the Palace of Versailles, France.
Mittal owns three prime properties collectively worth £500 million on "Billionaire's Row" at Kensington Palace Gardens.
In 2005, he also bought a colonial bungalow for $30 million at No. 22, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi, one of the most exclusive streets in India, occupied by embassies and billionaires, and rebuilt | 12,229 |
512243 | Lakshmi Mittal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakshmi%20Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
it as a house.
In December 2013, Mittal's niece Shrishti Mittal got married in a three-day celebration that is said to have brought Barcelona to a standstill and cost up to £50 million. Some 200 butlers, cooks and secretaries were reportedly flown into Spain from India and Thailand while the 500 guests were made to sign confidentiality agreements.
## Personal wealth.
According to the "Sunday Times Rich List 2016", Mittal and his family had an estimated personal net worth of 7.12 billion, a decrease of $2.08 billion on the previous year. Meanwhile, in 2016 "Forbes" magazine's annual billionaires list assessed estimated Mittal's wealth in 2016 at as the 135th-wealthiest billionaire with a net | 12,230 |
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ire with a net worth of 8.4 billion. Mittal's net worth peaked in 2008, assessed by "The Sunday Times" at £27.70 billion, and by "Forbes" at 45.0 billion, and rated as the fourth-wealthiest individual in the world.
# Books.
- Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey – "Cold Steel" (Little, Brown, 2008).
- Navalpreet Rangi – "Documentary Film" (The Man With A Mission, 2010).
# See also.
- ArcelorMittal Orbit
- ArcelorMittal
# External links.
- Profile at Forbes
- Profile at "BBC News"
- Article on Mittal with background on Arcelor takeover bid - "Time"
- BBC News Online - "Glimpsing a Fairytale Wedding"
- "Mittal Steel Cleveland Works"
- Article on Mittal Family purchase of Escada - Bloomberg | 12,231 |
512253 | Ken Masters | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Masters | Ken Masters
Ken Masters
, originally spelled in Japanese as ("Ken"), is a recurring character in Capcom's "Street Fighter" series. Ken is the best friend and rival of Ryu, who has also appeared in all "Street Fighter" games. Ken's goal is to test his power against many different fighters, and strives to become stronger. He uses improved Shoryuken ki techniques. The character has also appeared in other related media, such as the "Street Fighter" series and movie.
# Appearances.
## In video games.
### "Street Fighter" games.
Ken made his first appearance in the original "Street Fighter" released in 1987, and is the only other playable character in the game aside from Ryu. He is characterized as the former | 12,232 |
512253 | Ken Masters | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken%20Masters | Ken Masters
sparring partner, best friend and rival of the main character, Ryu, who trained under the same master (a character whose identity would later be fleshed out as Gouken). The single-player tournament can only be played with Ken after the second player defeats the first player in a two-player match. Ken was also named one of the best fighters in the game.
Ken and Ryu, along with former final boss Sagat, would be the only characters from the original "Street Fighter" to return in the game's true sequel, "Street Fighter II", first released in 1991. In "Street Fighter II", Ken is invited to participate in the World Warrior tournament by Ryu, with Ken having already moved away from Japan to live in | 12,233 |
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America. In Ken's ending, he ends up marrying his girlfriend Eliza. "Street Fighter II" was a breakaway hit for Capcom, leading to the production of revised editions of the same game which included "Champion Edition" and "Hyper Fighting" in 1992, "Super Street Fighter II" in 1993 and "Super Turbo" in 1994, which all follow the same plot. Numerous spinoff products were made as well during the game's popularity: when Capcom licensed Hasbro to produce a line of action figures, Ken was given the surname "Masters". The full name Ken Masters would be used in the animated "" movie and in the "Street Fighter II V" series before being canonized in the video games with "Street Fighter Alpha 2".
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"Street Fighter" game would not be released until 1995, when "Street Fighter Alpha" was released. Plotwise, the game was a prequel to the "Street Fighter II" games which fleshed out the established "Street Fighter II" characters, as well as reintroduced characters from the original "Street Fighter" and the beat-em-up game "Final Fight". "Alpha" features a younger Ken, who is searching for Ryu, having recently won the first "World Warrior" tournament in the events of the original "Street Fighter". In Ken's ending in the original "Street Fighter Alpha", he defeats Ryu and heads back to America, where he meets Eliza. "Street Fighter Alpha" would be followed by its own line of sequels: "Street Fighter | 12,235 |
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Alpha 2", which follows the same plot as in the original "Alpha" (with a revised ending for Ken); and "Street Fighter Alpha 3", which takes place after the events in the first two games. In "Alpha 3", Ken is featured in the numerous characters' storylines within the game.
Ken's following appearance is in the "Street Fighter III" in which he has a son (Mel) and his own student (Sean). In "Street Fighter IV", Ken enters into the world tournament while waiting for the birth of Mel.
Ken appears in "Street Fighter V" with an updated moveset and a design overhaul.
### Other games.
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game starred an original character named Kevin Straker, a cyborg policeman who fought against alien creatures in the future. When Capcom released "2010" in North America, the main character's identity was changed from Kevin to Ken, with the game's story rewritten to imply that he was the same Ken from the original "Street Fighter". Other than that, the game has little or no plot ties to the original "Street Fighter" and its part in the canonical "Street Fighter" series is disputed.
Outside the mainstream "Street Fighter" games, Ken appears in the "Street Fighter EX" games and in the mobile game "Street Fighter: Puzzle Spirits". He also appears in crossover titles like "X-Men vs. Street Fighter", | 12,237 |
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"Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter", "", the "Capcom vs. SNK" series, and "Street Fighter X Tekken". (In the game Marvel vs. Capcom, Ryu is able to access Ken's moveset when the player enters a certain command.) He also appears in the and versions of the "Street Fighter: The Movie". In SNK Playmore's fighting game "" he has an alter-ego named , who later made his full "Street Fighter" debut in "". Ken is featured in the tactical role-playing games "Namco × Capcom", "Project X Zone", and "Project X Zone 2". Ken also makes a cameo as a Trophy in "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U", as part of the Ryu DLC. He is playable in "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" as Ryu's echo fighter.
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Character design.
Starting from the original "Street Fighter", Ken has been consistently depicted with neck-length blond hair (actually dyed blond), black or dark brown eyebrows and wears a red sleeveless keikogi with a black belt. In the original "Street Fighter", Ken fought barefoot and wore yellow arm bands without gloves (unlike his rival Ryu, who originally wore red slippers with sparring gloves, and began fighting barefooted in subsequent games). For "Street Fighter III", Ken was supposed to be given new techniques but the staff refrained from it as they found him overpowered.
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history. Ken's gi top now hangs around his waist and he wears a black v-neck training shirt with several red linings in its place. He sports black sparring gloves and has his hair tied back in a topknot instead of hanging loose which it was grown into medium length after the events of "Street Fighter III" series and now wears black ankle wraps with red linings instead of barefoot. For this game, Capcom wanted to differentiate these two characters' moves since they have been seen as "clones". He added "Ken's more of the hothead. He's the one that's gonna rush you down and be in your face, so his V-Skill is a run move that can be used to constantly pressure your opponent."
## In other media.
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was voiced by Scott McNeil in the "Street Fighter" animated series. In "Street Fighter II V", he was voiced by Jimmy Theodore in the Animaze dub and Jason Douglas in the ADV Films dub and in "", he was voiced by Eddie Frierson. He was voiced by Kazuya Ichijo in Japanese and Steven Blum in the dub for the "Street Fighter Alpha" movie. In "Street Fighter II V" and the "Street Fighter II" animated movie, Ken is depicted with reddish hair.
Damian Chapa portrayed Ken in the 1994 "Street Fighter" movie, where he and Ryu (played by Byron Mann) are traveling con artists who steal money from wealthy crime bosses/lords and drug kingpins though various schemes such as selling modified toy guns. After | 12,241 |
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the two unsuccessfully try to scam Shadaloo Tong leader Sagat, they are arrested by Allied Nations forces. Guile offers them their freedom in exchange for infiltrating Bison's base (whom Sagat works for as an arms supplier) and revealing its location so that the AN can make a military strike and free the hostages captured earlier in the film. When Guile eventually infiltrates Bison's base and chaos ensues, Ryu and Ken try to help free the hostages but split up when the AN forces arrive, Ken opting to flee for their lives while Ryu desires to stay behind and fight. Ken later comes to Ryu's aid when he is ambushed by Vega and Sagat. While Ryu defeats Vega, Ken defeats Sagat. In the aftermath, | 12,242 |
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though Guile intends to free Ryu and Ken, they decide to stay in Shadaloo to help the AN clear up what Bison has left in his wake.
Reuben Langdon provides Ken's voice and motion capture in the "Street Fighter IV" series, and plays him in the live-action short film "Street Fighter x Tekken: The Devil Within".
British actor Christian Howard portrayed Ken in the live-action short film "", and reprised his role in the follow-up series "", "" and "". Taking place to a time similar to Street Fighter Alpha, the younger Ken is shown to be arrogant and impatient, and was brought to Japan at a young age by his father (a friend of Gouken's) to Gouken's dojo following the death of his mother. He finds | 12,243 |
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a book showing the techniques of the Satsui no Hado and is warned by Gouken not to use them. During a bout with Ryu, Ryu is taken over by the Satsui No Hado, forcing Ken to nearly kill him with a flaming Shoryuken. As Gouken sends his two students off, he trusts Ken to look after Ryu.
Ken made a cameo appearance in the Disney film "Wreck-It Ralph", with Langdon reprising his role.
# Promotion and reception.
Ken artwork was featured on an officially licensed Nubytech/UDON joypad for the PlayStation 2, and a Mad Catz joypad for the PlayStation 3.
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article, noting his contrast to Ryu while subsequently questioning his lesser appeal, and stating "he's just as indispensable to the series as Ryu is. After all, could you imagine a Street Fighter game without him? Perhaps, but it probably still wouldn't be the same." GameDaily listed him at number six on their "Top 20 Street Fighter Characters of All Time" article, noting the contrast between himself and Ryu. The same site ranked him sixth along with Ryu in the Top 25 Capcom Characters of All Time with editor Robert Workman saying "It was just impossible to choose between one of these world warriors". Another feature, "Top 25 Gaming Hunks", situated Ken eighteenth, stating it was hard deciding | 12,245 |
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between him and Ryu. In "Gamest" magazine in Japan, Ken ranked at ninth along with Blanka as "Best Characters of 1991" and at number 49 in "Top 50 Characters of 1996". In 2009 "GamePro" ranked Ryu and Ken as number nine in their list of the best palette-swapped video game characters, adding: "While some may have argued that Street Fighter 2's depiction of Ryu and Ken utilized palette swapping, a true palette swapping aficionado would know that only the original Street Fighter exploited the swapping of palettes." GamesRadar writer Tyler Wilde published an article focusing on Ken's and Ryu's development across the franchise under the title of "The evolution of Ken and Ryu." While comparing these | 12,246 |
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two characters, IGN's Jesse Schedeen stated that Ken could "easily suffer from Luigi Syndrome" for his resemblance with Ryu, but thanks to the sequels, Ken gained his own fighting style separated from Ryu's.
Some sites have commented on Ken's techniques due to being relatively overpowered. "The Guardian" recommended Ken alongside Ryu for beginners in "Street Fighter IV" with Ken being better at close-up fights as a result of his powerful uppercuts. In a humor article by GameSpy, the "Super Street Fighter II Turbo" version of Ken was mentioned to have become unbalanced to the point he was the strongest character from the cast. In "", Ken was also noted to be one of the three more powerful characters | 12,247 |
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s mentioned to have become unbalanced to the point he was the strongest character from the cast. In "", Ken was also noted to be one of the three more powerful characters from the game alongside Chun-Li and Yun. Similarly, Dave Cook from Now Gamer called him and "Tekken"s Eddy Gordo one of the most hated characters from their franchises due to their overpowered moves. In another article, Cook listed a fight between Ken and Eddy Gordo as one of the fights he wished to see in "Street Fighter X Tekken" calling it the "ultimate battle of super cheapness." UGO Networks placed Ken at #4 on their list of "Top 50 Street Fighter Characters", stating "If you're a fan of dragon punches, you play Ken.". | 12,248 |
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Hypocalcaemia
Hypocalcaemia is low calcium levels in the blood serum. The normal range is 2.1–2.6 mmol/L (8.8–10.7 mg/dl, 4.3–5.2 mEq/L) with levels less than 2.1 mmol/l defined as hypocalcemia. Mildly low levels that develop slowly often have no symptoms. Otherwise symptoms may include numbness, muscle spasms, seizures, confusion, or cardiac arrest.
Common causes include hypoparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency. Others causes include kidney failure, pancreatitis, calcium channel blocker overdose, rhabdomyolysis, tumor lysis syndrome, and medications such as bisphosphonates. Diagnosis should generally be confirmed with a corrected calcium or ionized calcium level. Specific changes may be | 12,249 |
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seen on an electrocardiogram (ECG).
Initial treatment for severe disease is with intravenous calcium chloride and possibly magnesium sulfate. Other treatments may include vitamin D, magnesium, and calcium supplements. If due to hypoparathyroidism, hydrochlorothiazide, phosphate binders, and a low salt diet may also be recommended. About 18% of people who are being treated in hospital have hypocalcemia.
# Signs and symptoms.
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fibers, reduced calcium lowers the threshold for depolarization. The symptoms can be recalled by the mnemonic "CATs go numb" - convulsions, arrhythmias, tetany, and numbness in the hands and feet and around the mouth.
# Causes.
Hypoparathyroidism is a common cause of hypocalcemia. Calcium is tightly regulated by the parathyroid hormone (PTH). In response to low calcium levels, PTH levels rise, and conversely if there are high calcium levels then PTH secretion declines. However, in the setting of absent, decreased, or ineffective PTH hormone, the body loses this regulatory function, and hypocalcemia ensues. Hypoparathyroidism is commonly due to surgical destruction of the parathyroid glands. | 12,251 |
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Hypoparathyroidism may also be due to autoimmune problem.Some causes of hypocalcaemia are as follow:
# Mechanism.
Physiologically, blood calcium is tightly regulated within a narrow range for proper cellular processes. Calcium in the blood exists in three primary states: bound to proteins (mainly albumin), bound to anions such as phosphate and citrate, and as free (unbound) ionized calcium. Only the ionized calcium is physiologically active. Normal blood calcium level is between 8.5 to 10.5 mg/dL (2.12 to 2.62 mmol/L) and that of ionized calcium is 4.65 to 5.25 mg/dL (1.16 to 1.31 mmol/L).
# Diagnosis.
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of albumin will affect the measured level of calcium. A corrected calcium level based on the albumin level is: Corrected calcium (mg/dL) = measured total Ca (mg/dL) + 0.8 * (4.0 - serum albumin [g/dL]).
# Management.
Management of this condition includes:
- Intravenous calcium gluconate 10% can be administered, or if the hypocalcaemia is severe, calcium chloride is given instead. This is only appropriate if the hypocalcemia is acute and has occurred over a relatively short time frame. But if the hypocalcemia has been severe and chronic, then this regimen can be fatal, because there is a degree of acclimatization that occurs. The neuromuscular excitability, cardiac electrical instability, | 12,253 |
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an be fatal, because there is a degree of acclimatization that occurs. The neuromuscular excitability, cardiac electrical instability, and associated symptoms are then not cured or relieved by prompt administration of corrective doses of calcium, but rather exacerbated. Such rapid administration of calcium would result in effective over correction – symptoms of hypercalcemia would follow.
- However, in either circumstance, maintenance doses of both calcium and vitamin-D (often as 1,25-(OH)-D, i.e. calcitriol) are often necessary to prevent further decline
# See also.
- Milk fever (hypocalcemia in animals)
- Calcium deficiency (plant disorder)
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Asia Cup
The ACC Asia Cup is a mens One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket tournament. It was established in 1983 when the Asian Cricket Council was founded as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries. It was originally scheduled to be held every two years.
The first Asia cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where the council's offices were based (until 1995). India boycotted the 1986 tournament due to strained cricketing relations with Sri Lanka. Pakistan boycotted the 1990–91 tournament due to strained political relations with India. The 1993 tournament was cancelled due to strained political relations between India and Pakistan. The ACC | 12,255 |
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has announced that the tournament will be held biennially from 2008 onwards. The ICC has ruled that all games played in the Asia Cup have official ODI status.
After downsizing the Asian Cricket Council in 2015, it was announced by the ICC that Asia Cup events from 2016 will be played on a rotation basis between One Day International and Twenty20 International format, on the basis of format of upcoming world events. As a result, the 2016 event was the first event played in the T20I format and functioned as a preparatory tournament ahead of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.
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team with 5 titles. India is the most successful team in the T20I format having won the inaugural (only) version in 2016. India is the most successful team in the tournament having won it seven times (six times in ODI format and once in the T20 format).
Sri Lanka has played the most Asia Cups (14) followed by India and Pakistan who have played 13 each.
# History.
## 1984–1988.
The first edition of the Rothmans Asia Cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah, UAE, the location of the headquarters of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council. The tournament was a round-robin tournament among India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The first match was between Pakistan and the new ICC member Sri Lanka. India won this | 12,257 |
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tournament with two victories, Sri Lanka were the runners up in the tournament with a single victory over Pakistan, while Pakistan went home without winning any of its two games.
Sri Lanka was the host for the second edition in 1986. India pulled out of the tournament due to soured cricketing relations with Sri Lanka after a controversial series in Sri Lanka the previous year. Bangladesh was included for the first time. Sri Lanka won the tournament beating Pakistan in the final.
The third edition, in 1988, was held in Bangladesh, the first time a multi-national cricket tournament was held there. In the final, India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to win their second Asia Cup.
## 1990–1997.
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fourth edition of the tournament was held in India in 1990–91. Pakistan had pulled out of the tournament due to strained political relations with India. India retained the Asia Cup defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
In 1993, the tournament was cancelled due to strained political relations between India and Pakistan.
The fifth edition, in 1995, took the series back to Sharjah, UAE after 11 years. India and Sri Lanka made it to the final by virtue of better run rate than Pakistan as all three teams had equal points after the preliminary round. For the third successive time, India defeated Sri Lanka in the final.
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by 8 wickets to win its second Asia Cup.
## 2000–2010.
The seventh edition took place in Bangladesh for the second time in 2000. Pakistan and Sri Lanka made it to the final while India only won one match against Bangladesh and did not qualify for the final for the first time. In the final, Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cup for the first time. Yousuf Youhana was the player of the Tournament.
The eighth edition took place in Sri Lanka in 2004. There was a change in the tournament format as UAE and Hong Kong were also included for the first time and the tournament was now divided into three stages – the "Group Stage", "Super Fours" and the final. The group stage was divided into two | 12,260 |
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groups of 3 teams, each playing each other once. The top two teams from each group qualified for the Super Four stage where they played each other again once. The top two teams in the Super Four stage then qualified for the final. Hosts Sri Lanka, India and UAE were placed in Group A while the then defending champions Pakistan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong were placed in Group B. UAE and Hong Kong were knocked out in the group stage. Bangladesh had the distinction of reaching the second stage in a major tournament for the first time, but played poorly in the Super Fours and got eliminated. India and Sri Lanka topped the Super Four stage and reached the final. In the final, Sri Lanka defeated India | 12,261 |
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by 25 runs to win the Asia Cup. Sanath Jayasuriya was the player of the Tournament.
The ninth edition of the Asia Cup was held in Pakistan. Once again, the 2004 format was retained. The tournament started on 24 June 2008 and the Final was held on 6 July 2008. Sri Lanka topped Group A and qualified for the second phase along with Bangladesh. In Group B, India came out on top and entered the Super Fours along with Pakistan in second place. Sri Lanka and India topped the Super Four stage and entered the final. Sri Lanka beat India in the final comfortably winning their fourth Asia Cup. Sanath Jayasuriya scored a quick 125 off 114 balls to rescue Sri Lanka from 66/4 earlier on when the top order | 12,262 |
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collapsed. Sri Lanka's new mystery spinner, Ajantha Mendis, took 6/13 bowling Sri Lanka to a 100 run victory. He also was adjudged as the Player of the Tournament.
The tenth edition was held in Sri Lanka, between 15–24 June 2010 hosting the Asia Cup for the fourth time. It only featured the four Test playing Asian nations, and seven matches were played in all (including the final). Sri Lanka and India topped the group stages and entered the final. In the final, India beat Sri Lanka comfortably to become champions for the fifth time, winning the tournament for first time in 15 years. Shahid Afridi was the Player of the Tournament.
## 2012–2014.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012. Pakistan and Bangladesh qualified to play in the final of the eleventh edition, Bangladesh had beaten India and Sri Lanka to book its place in the final for the first time in the history of the tournament.
Pakistan beat Bangladesh after a thrilling final over, winning their second Asia Cup. Shakib Al Hasan was adjudged the Player of the Tournament.Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century in this tournament.
The twelfth edition was held in Dhaka and Fatullah, Bangladesh from 25 February to 8 March 2014. The tournament consisted of five teams with Afghanistan in it for the first time since its inception in 1984. Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan | 12,264 |
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by 5 wickets in the final to win the Asia Cup for the fifth time. Lahiru Thirimanne was adjudged the Player of the tournament scoring 279 runs.
## 2016.
After the Asian Cricket Council was downsized by the ICC in 2015, it was announced that Asia Cup tournaments will be played on rotation basis in ODI and T20I format. As a result, 2016 events was the first tournament in T20I format and was played between five teams just ahead of 2016 ICC World Twenty20. The 2016 edition of the Asia Cup tournament was held in Bangladesh for the third consecutive time from 24 February to 6 March. The final was held on 6 March 2016. India won the final by beating Bangladesh by 8 wickets in the final held at the | 12,265 |
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Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium situated in Mirpur locality, Dhaka, Bangladesh, M.S. Dhoni proved his effectiveness once again by smashing a couple of boundaries towards the end and putting a halt to the Bengali Campaign. It is for the sixth time that India won the Asia cup title in 2016. Shikhar Dhawan of India was the man of the match for his 60 runs. Sabbir Rahman of Bangladesh was the player of the series.
India won all of its matches played in Asia Cup 2016 beating Bangladesh 2 times, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and UAE. Virat Kohli showed his maturity in the game against Pakistan; India was reeling at 8 runs for the loss of 3 wickets while chasing and the opposition started to believe that they | 12,266 |
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were still in the game while defending a sub par total, only for Virat Kohli to come in and send the ball all over the ground and completely took away the game from them.
## 2018.
On 29 October 2015, following the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Singapore, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur stated that the 2018 edition of the tournament would be held in India. It will follow the ODI format. However, in April 2018, the tournament was moved to the United Arab Emirates, due to political tensions between India and Pakistan. India were the defending champions, and retained their title, after beating Bangladesh by three wickets in the final. India did not suffer a single defeat in the tournament, with | 12,267 |
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2 wins each against Pakistan & Bangladesh, a solitary win against Hong Kong, and a tie with Afghanistan.
Shikhar Dhawan was the top run getter with 342 runs in 5 matches, was awarded Man of the Series.
# Tournament summary.
## ODIs.
The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past Asia Cup ODI tournaments.
## T20Is.
The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams in the solitary Asia Cup T20I tournament.
# Teams Performance.
An overview of the teams' performances in every Asia Cup:
# See also.
- Asian Test Championship
- List of Asia Cup One Day International cricket records
- List of Asia Cup Twenty20 International cricket records
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with 342 runs in 5 matches, was awarded Man of the Series.
# Tournament summary.
## ODIs.
The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past Asia Cup ODI tournaments.
## T20Is.
The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams in the solitary Asia Cup T20I tournament.
# Teams Performance.
An overview of the teams' performances in every Asia Cup:
# See also.
- Asian Test Championship
- List of Asia Cup One Day International cricket records
- List of Asia Cup Twenty20 International cricket records
- List of Asia Cup centuries
- List of Asia Cup five-wicket hauls
- Women's Asia Cup
# External links.
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Faustina
Faustina may refer to:
- Saints
- Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), Polish mystic and "Secretary of Divine Mercy"
- Saint Faustina and Saint Liberata of Como, 6th-century Italian nuns
- Women from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty
- Rupilia Faustina, a daughter of Salonina Matidia and the consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, who was a great niece of the Roman Emperor Trajan
- Faustina the Elder (died c. 140), Annia Galeria Faustina Major, daughter of Rupilia Faustina and Marcus Annius Verus; wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius
- Faustina the Younger (2nd-century–175), Annia Galeria Faustina Minor, daughter of Faustina the Elder and Antoninus Pius; wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Annia Cornificia Faustina (123–152), cousin of Faustina to Younger and sister to Marcus Aurelius
- Annia Fundania Faustina (died 192), cousin of Faustina the Younger and Marcus Aurelius
- Ummidia Cornificia Faustina (141–182), daughter of Annia Cornificia Faustina and niece of Marcus Aurelius
- Vitrasia Faustina (died c. 180), daughter of Annia Fundania Faustina
- Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina (147–2nd-century), first-born daughter of Faustina the Younger and Marcus Aurelius
- Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (160–212), another sister of Annia Aurelia Galeria Faustina
- Annia Faustina (daughter of Ummidia Cornificia Faustina) (165–c. 210), noblewoman of Anatolian Roman descent and a wealthy | 12,271 |
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heiress who lived in the Roman Empire
- Annia Faustina or Annia Aurelia Faustina, the great, granddaughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, the third wife of Roman Emperor Elagabalus
- Other Roman women
- Faustina (empress), wife of Constantius II
- Faustina Constantia, daughter of Faustina and Constantius
- Other people
- Faustina Bordoni (1697–1781), Baroque-era soprano nicknamed "Faustina"
- Faustina Agolley, Australian television music presenter
- Doc Faustina (born 1939), "NASCAR Winston Cup Series" driver who competed from 1971 to 1976
- Faustina Acheampong, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana from 1972 to 1978
- Faustina Maratti (c. 1670–1745), Italian Baroque poet | 12,272 |
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oc Faustina (born 1939), "NASCAR Winston Cup Series" driver who competed from 1971 to 1976
- Faustina Acheampong, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana from 1972 to 1978
- Faustina Maratti (c. 1670–1745), Italian Baroque poet and painter
- Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785), Italian physicist
- Other uses
- "Faustina" (1957 film), a 1957 Spanish film
- "Faustina" (1968 film), an Italian comedy film
- "Faustina" (1995 film), the Polish drama on the life of Blessed Sister Faustina Kowalska based upon her experiences recorded in her spiritual diary
- "Faustine", a 1991 novel by Emma Tennant
- "Faustina", a subgenus of "Chilostoma" gastropods
- Faustina, a character in the 1969 novel "A Void" | 12,273 |
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Barré Studio
Barré Studio was one of the first or the first film studio dedicated to animation (the rival for this honor is Bray Productions). It was founded by Raoul Barré and William Nolan in 1914. They began with advertising films (among the first animated films used to sell something), then got a series with Edison called the "Animated Grouch Chaser". The series was mostly live-action with a few animated inserts, not really all that bad in quality for the time they were made. The studio also put out the "Phables" and "The Boob Weekly" cartoons. Animators included Frank Moser, Gregory La Cava, George Stallings, Tom Norton and Pat Sullivan, all of whom got their starts here. Rube Goldberg | 12,274 |
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was the writer for "The Boob Weekly".
In 1916, William Randolph Hearst founded International Film Service, and hired all of Barré's animators to work for him, including Bill Nolan. Soon afterward, Barré was contacted by Charles Bowers, who had been animating "Mutt and Jeff" for a year. The series was doing so well that it had outgrown Bowers' studio. A partnership was formed: Bowers' animators and series worked on in Barré's studio. The result was the Bud Fisher Film Corporation, named for the originator Bud Fisher of the "Mutt and Jeff" comic strip. It was known in the industry as the Barré-Bowers Studio. Fisher took all public credit for the cartoons, while Barré supervised the animators | 12,275 |
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and Bowers handled the books. He "handled" the books so well, in fact, that he ruined the company: Barré quit in 1918 to avoid getting charged as an accomplice; Bowers was fired in 1919 "and" 1921. This left Fisher in charge. Barré-Bowers went bankrupt in 1923.
Besides Barré and Bowers, directors at their studio included Manny Gould and Dick Friel. Animators included C. T. Anderson, Clarence Rigby, George Stallings, Ted Sears, Mannie Davis, Burt Gillett, Dick Huemer, Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Tytla, Albert Hurter, Carl Lederer, F. M. Follett, Isadore Klein, Milt Gross, Walter Lantz and George Ruffle.
# Filmography.
Series
- Animated Grouch Chasers (1915)
- The Boob Weekly (1916)
- Mutt and | 12,276 |
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d" 1921. This left Fisher in charge. Barré-Bowers went bankrupt in 1923.
Besides Barré and Bowers, directors at their studio included Manny Gould and Dick Friel. Animators included C. T. Anderson, Clarence Rigby, George Stallings, Ted Sears, Mannie Davis, Burt Gillett, Dick Huemer, Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Tytla, Albert Hurter, Carl Lederer, F. M. Follett, Isadore Klein, Milt Gross, Walter Lantz and George Ruffle.
# Filmography.
Series
- Animated Grouch Chasers (1915)
- The Boob Weekly (1916)
- Mutt and Jeff (1913-1926)
One-Shots
- Cartoons On A Yacht (1915)
# References.
- Denis Gifford; "American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897-1929"; McFarland & Company; (library binding, 1990) | 12,277 |
512280 | Robert Ripley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Ripley | Robert Ripley
Robert Ripley
LeRoy Robert Ripley (December 25, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist who is known for creating the "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" newspaper panel series, radio show, and television show which feature odd facts from around the world.
Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. But what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that he also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by | 12,278 |
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photographs and then depicted by his drawings.
# Biography.
In 1919 Ripley married Beatrice Roberts. He made his first trip around the world in 1922, delineating a travel journal in installments. This ushered in a new topic for his cartoons: unusual and exotic foreign locales and cultures. Because he took the veracity of his work quite seriously, in 1923 he hired a researcher and polyglot named Norbert Pearlroth as a full-time assistant. In 1926 Ripley's feature moved from the "New York Globe" to the "New York Post".
Throughout the 1920s, Ripley continued to broaden the scope of his work and his popularity increased greatly. He published both a travel journal and a guide to the game of handball | 12,279 |
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in 1925. In 1926, he became the New York State handball champion and also wrote a book on boxing. With a proven track record as a versatile writer and artist, he attracted the attention of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst, who managed the King Features Syndicate. In 1929, Hearst was responsible for "Believe It or Not!" making its syndicated debut in seventeen papers worldwide. With the success of this series assured, Ripley capitalized on his fame by getting the first book collection of his newspaper panel series published.
On November 3, 1929, he drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon saying "Believe It or Not, America has no national anthem." Despite the widespread belief that "The | 12,280 |
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Star-Spangled Banner", with its lyrics by Francis Scott Key set to the music of the English drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven", was the United States national anthem, Congress had never officially made it so. In 1931, John Philip Sousa published his opinion in favor of giving the song official status, stating that "it is the spirit of the music that inspires" as much as it is Key's "soul-stirring" words. By a law signed on March 3, 1931, by President Herbert Hoover, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.
In the 1930s Ripley expanded his presence into other forms of media. In 1930, he began a fourteen-year run on radio and a nineteen-year association | 12,281 |
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with the show's producer, Doug Storer. Funding for Ripley's celebrated travels around the world were provided by the Hearst organization, and he recorded live radio shows underwater and from the sky, the Carlsbad Caverns, the bottom of The Grand Canyon, snake pits, and foreign countries. The next year he hosted the first of a series of two dozen "Believe It or Not!" theatrical short films for Warner Bros. & Vitaphone, and King Features published a second collected volume of "Believe it or Not!" panels. He also appeared in a Vitaphone musical short, "Seasons Greetings" (1931), with Ruth Etting, Joe Penner, Ted Husing, Thelma White, Ray Collins, and others. After a trip to Asia in 1932, he opened | 12,282 |
512280 | Robert Ripley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Ripley | Robert Ripley
his first museum, the Odditorium, in Chicago in 1933. The concept was a success, and at one point there were Odditoriums in San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, San Francisco, and New York City. By this point in his life, Ripley had been voted the most popular man in America by "The New York Times", received an honorary degree from Dartmouth College, and visited 201 foreign countries.
During World War II, Ripley concentrated on charity pursuits rather than world travel, but after the war, he re-expanded his media efforts. In 1948, the year of the 20th anniversary of the "Believe it or Not!" cartoon series, the "Believe it or Not!" radio show drew to a close and was replaced with a "Believe it or Not!" | 12,283 |
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television series. This was a rather bold move on Ripley's part because of the small number of Americans with access to television at this early time in the medium's development. He completed only thirteen episodes of the series before he became incapacitated by severe health problems. He reportedly passed out during the filming of his final show.
His health worsened, and on May 27, 1949, at age 58, he succumbed to a heart attack in New York City. He was buried in his home town of Santa Rosa in the Oddfellows Lawn Cemetery, which is adjacent to the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery.
# The comic strip.
Ripley's cartoon series was estimated to have 80 million readers worldwide, and it was said that | 12,284 |
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he received more mail than the President of the United States. He became a wealthy man, with homes in New York and Florida, but he always retained close ties to his home town of Santa Rosa, California, and he made a point of bringing attention to The Church of One Tree, a church built entirely from the wood of a single 300-ft (91.4-m)-tall redwood tree, which stands on the north side of Juilliard Park in downtown Santa Rosa.
Ripley claimed to be able to "prove every statement he made" because he worked with professional fact researcher Norbert Pearlroth, who assembled "Believe it or Not!"'s array of odd facts and also verified the small-town claims submitted by readers. Pearlroth spent 52 years | 12,285 |
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as the feature's researcher, finding and verifying unusual facts for Ripley and, after Ripley's death, for the King Features syndicate editors who took over management of the "Believe it or Not!" panel.
Another employee who edited the newspaper cartoon series over the years was Lester Byck. Others who drew the series after Ripley's death include Don Wimmer; Joe Campbell (1946-1956); Art Slogg; Clem Gretter (1941-1949); Carl Dorese; Bob Clarke (1943-1944); Stan Randall; Paul Frehm (1938–1975), who became the panel's full-time artist in 1949; and his brother Walter Frehm (1948–1989).
# Legacy.
Ripley's ideas and legacy live on in Ripley Entertainment, a company bearing his name and owned since | 12,286 |
512280 | Robert Ripley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Ripley | Robert Ripley
1985 by the Jim Pattison Group, Canada's largest privately held company. Ripley Entertainment airs national television shows, features publications of oddities, and has holdings in a variety of public attractions, including Ripley's Aquarium, Ripley's Believe it or Not! Museums, Ripley's Haunted Adventure, Ripley's Mini-Golf and Arcade, Ripley's Moving Theater, Ripley's Sightseeing Trains, Guinness World Records Attractions, and Louis Tussaud's wax Museums.
# Chronology.
- 1890 Born in Santa Rosa, California
- 1901 Receives his formal education
- 1906 Becomes a semi-pro in school baseball
- 1908 Sells first cartoon to "Life"
- 1908 Quits baseball briefly to support mother
- 1909 Moves | 12,287 |
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from the "San Francisco Bulletin" to the "San Francisco Chronicle"
- 1912 Creates his last drawing for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and moves to New York City that winter
- 1913 On January 2, writes his first comic for the "New York Globe" and tries out for the New York Giants, but an injury ends his baseball hopes
- 1914 Takes his first trip to Europe
- 1918 On December 19, publishes "Champs and Chumps" in the "New York Globe"
- 1919 Marries Beatrice Roberts
- 1920 Takes his first solo trip to Europe to cover the Olympics, held in Antwerp, Belgium
- 1922 On December 3, takes first trip around the world; writes in installments in his travel journal
- 1923 On April 7, returns to the | 12,288 |
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U.S. and hires researcher and linguist Norbert Pearlroth; the "Globe" ceases publication and the series moves to the "New York Evening News"; divorces Beatrice Roberts after being separated for some time.
- 1925 Writes travel journal, handball guide
- 1926 Becomes New York handball champion and writes book on boxing score
- 1929 On July 9, William Randolph Hearst's King Features Syndicate features "Believe It or Not!" in hundreds of papers worldwide
- 1930 Begins an eighteen-year run on radio and a nineteen-year association with show producer Doug Storer; Hearst funds Ripley's travels around the world, where Ripley records live radio shows from underwater, the sky, caves, snake pits and | 12,289 |
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foreign countries
- 1931 Releases movie shorts for Vitaphone, second book of "Believe it or Not!"
- 1932 Takes trip to the Far East
- 1933 First Odditorium opens in Chicago
- 1934 Does the first radio show broadcast simultaneously around the world and purchases 28-room home in Mamaroneck, New York
- 1935 Odditorium opens in San Diego
- 1936 Odditorium opens in Dallas
- 1937 Odditorium opens in Cleveland; "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz's first published drawing appears in "Believe it or Not!"
- 1939 Odditoriums open in San Francisco and New York City; Ripley receives honorary degree from Dartmouth College
- 1940 Purchases a 13-room Manhattan apartment; receives two more honorary degrees; | 12,290 |
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two more honorary degrees; number of foreign countries visited through funding by Hearst reaches 201
- 1945 Stops foreign travel to do World War II charity work
- 1946 Purchases a Chinese junk, the "Mon Lei" (万里)
- 1947 Purchases third home named Hi-Mount, at West Palm Beach, Florida
- 1948 Radio program ends; the 30th anniversary of "Believe it or Not!" is celebrated at a New York costume party
- 1949 Ripley dies of a heart attack on May 27 in New York City, shortly after thirteenth telecast of first television show and is buried in Santa Rosa; auction of his estate is held; estate is purchased by John Arthur.
# External links.
- Ripley's biography & timeline
- Ripley Entertainment | 12,291 |
512291 | Carlos Mastronardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos%20Mastronardi | Carlos Mastronardi
Carlos Mastronardi
Carlos Mastronardi (1901 – June 5, 1976) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and translator. His works included "Luz de provincia", "Tierra amanecida" (1926), "Conocimiento de la noche" (1937), and "Tratado de la pena". His non-fiction "Valéry o la infinitud del método" ("Valéry, or the infinitude of method") won the Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Literature (1955). Other important works of non-fiction included "Formas de la realidad nacional" ("Forms of the National Reality", 1961) and "Memorias de un Provinciano" ("Memoirs of a Man from the Provinces", 1967). Some of his journalism was published posthumously as "Cuadernos de vivir y pensar" ("Notebooks of Living and Thinking", | 12,292 |
512291 | Carlos Mastronardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos%20Mastronardi | Carlos Mastronardi
1984).
As a translator, Mastronardi was mainly known for translating the French Symbolist poets into Spanish. As a poet, although identified personally with the "avant-garde" of his time, he wrote largely in traditional forms rather than free verse, and rejected what he viewed as his contemporaries' excessive use of metaphor.
Born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Province, Mastronardi came to Buenos Aires at the age of 19. There he became a member of the Martín Fierro group (also known as the Florida group) and an intimate of Jorge Luis Borges, although they disagreed strongly about questions about aesthetics and poetry. Mastronardi figures as a minor character in Borges's short story "Tlön, Uqbar, | 12,293 |
512291 | Carlos Mastronardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos%20Mastronardi | Carlos Mastronardi
Orbis Tertius".
Mastronardi led a notoriously nocturnal existence. Writing of Mastronardi in 1986 in the newspaper "El País" (Madrid), Borges said of Mastronardi that "Like Auguste Dupin ... [the detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe] ... at night he went about the streets of Buenos Aires looking for that intellectual stimulus that only can be given by nighttime in a great city."
After a long period in which his work fell into obscurity, Mastronardi's works are () being re-published by Argentina's Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
# Quotation.
"Lyric poetry, for many of its ... [Argentine] ... practitioners, lacks all plan and requires no sacrifice. It allows the writer to follow | 12,294 |
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del Litoral.
# Quotation.
"Lyric poetry, for many of its ... [Argentine] ... practitioners, lacks all plan and requires no sacrifice. It allows the writer to follow the path of least resistance: everything consists of letting things be. In contrast, narrative, criticism, and essays (almost uncultivated among us), demand preparatory work and organic development."
# References.
- Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
- Martín Prieto, Memorias de un provinciano, Clarin.com, 15 February 2003, accessed 25 December 2005.
- Efemérides (official Argentine government site) page on Algunos amigos e influencias importantes ("Some important friends and influences [of Jorge Luis Borges]"). | 12,295 |
512286 | Superconducting Super Collider | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Superconducting%20Super%20Collider | Superconducting Super Collider
Superconducting Super Collider
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the Desertron) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas.
Its planned ring circumference was with an energy of 20 TeV per proton and was set to be the world's largest and most energetic. It would have greatly surpassed the current record held by the Large Hadron Collider which has ring circumference and energy of 6.5 TeV per proton. The project's director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Louis Ianniello served as its first Project Director for 15 months. The project was cancelled in 1993 due to budget problems.
# Proposal | 12,296 |
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and development.
The system was first formally discussed in the December 1976 National Reference Designs Study, which examined the technical and economic feasibility of a machine with the design capacity of 20 TeV per proton. Fermilab director and subsequent Nobel physics prizewinner Leon Lederman was a very prominent early supporter – some sources say the architect or proposer – of the Superconducting Super Collider project, which was endorsed around 1983, and a major proponent and advocate throughout its lifetime.
An extensive U.S. Department of Energy review was done during the mid-1980s. Seventeen shafts were sunk and of tunnel were bored by late 1993.
# Cancellation.
During the design | 12,297 |
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and the first construction stage, a heated debate ensued about the high cost of the project. In 1987, Congress was told the project could be completed for $4.4 billion, and it gained the enthusiastic support of Speaker Jim Wright of nearby Fort Worth, Texas. A recurring argument was the contrast with NASA's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), a similar dollar amount. Critics of the project (Congressmen representing other US states and scientists working in non-SSC fields who felt the money would be better spent on their own fields) argued that the US could not afford both of them. Early in 1993 a group supported by funds from project contractors organized a public relations | 12,298 |
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campaign to lobby Congress directly, but in June, the non-profit Project on Government Oversight released a draft audit report by the Department of Energy's Inspector General heavily criticizing the Super Collider for its high costs and poor management by officials in charge of it.
Following Rep. Jim Slattery's successful orchestration in the House, President Clinton signed the bill which finally cancelled the project on October 1, 1993, stating regret at the "serious loss" for science.
## Reactions to the cancellation.
Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in Physics, places the cancellation of the SSC in the context of a bigger national and global socio-economic crisis, including a general | 12,299 |
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