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856294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Butterfly%20Hill | Julia Butterfly Hill | Julia Lorraine Hill (better known as Julia "Butterfly" Hill; born in Mount Vernon, Missouri, February 18, 1974) is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She is best known because of living in a 180-foot tall and fifteen-hundred-year old California redwood tree. She began sitting in the tree on December 10, 1997 to prevent loggers from the Pacific Lumber Company from cuttingdown the tree. Hill remained in the tree for just over two years until December 18, 1999. The tree was given the identity "Luna". In 2000, Hill became the author of her book, which was named The Legacy of Luna.
Hill began living in Jonesboro, Arkansas during her middle school attending years.
Years after tree-sit
During the years following her tree-sit, Hill became a motivational speaker (holding almost 250 events a year). She also became a best-selling author. Later, she was the co-founder for the Circle of Life Foundation. Circle of Life helped organize We the Planet, an eco-friendly music tour.
On July 16, 2002, Hill was arrested and jailed in Quito, Ecuador. Her arrest happened near the offices of Occidental Petroleum. Hill was protesting against a proposed oil pipeline that would penetrate a virgin Andean cloud forest which goes with rare birds. Hill was later removed from Ecuador.
Looking forward
During an April 2009 interview, Hill was thinking about what would come next for her:
References
People from Jonesboro, Arkansas
American environmentalists
1974 births
Living people |
856298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction | Introduction | Introduction, The Introduction, Intro, or The Intro may be:
Introduced species or introduction
Introduction (Blake, 1794)", a poem by William Blake
The Introduction, a movie of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Music
"Introduction", by Celine Dion from Celine Dion
"Introduction", by Panic! at the Disco from A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
"Intro", by Ariana Grande from My Everything
"Intro", by Ellie Goulding from Delirium
Related pages
Timelines, that show when things where first introduced |
856301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi%20Walters | Mimi Walters | Marian Elaine "Mimi" Walters (née Krogius; born May 14, 1962, Pasadena, California) is an American businesswoman and politician. Under the Republican Party, she was a U.S. Representative in California's 45th congressinal district.
Before running for the office, Walters was an investment banker between 1988 and 1995. Walters was later the chairwoman under the Laguna Niguel Investment and Banking Committee. Walters did two terms under the Laguna Niguel City Council between 1996 and 2004. Walters was the mayor in 2000. She was elected mayor again later that year.
The political positions
Walters got an 89% evaluation under the American Conservative Union in 2017.
Walters went against abortion. In 2015 in her freshman term, she worked under the Select Panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.
Walters was rated "D" under the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Walters supported taking down and replacing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, with the American Health Care Act of 2017. She said passing the American Health Care Act "is a critical step" towards the goal of rescuing "this failing health care system."
As an assembly woman, Walters voted for the Proposition 8. The proposition marked same-sex marriage illegal across California.
References
US Republican Party politicians
United States representatives from California
Businesspeople from Los Angeles County, California
1962 births
Living people |
856303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation | Installation | Installation may refer to:
Installation (computer programs)
Installation, work of installation art
Installation, military base
Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity)) or political one |
856305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Gandy | Evelyn Gandy | Edythe Evelyn Gandy (September 4, 1920 – December 23, 2007) was an American politician and lawyer. Gandy was the second female elected under a statewide office in Mississippi. That was Mississippi State Treasurer. The first female was Nellah Massey Bailey. Bailey was elected the State Tax Collector in 1947. Gandy was later elected the insurance commissioner and 26th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi.
Gandy was a member under the United States' Democratic Party. In 1947, she was elected to Mississippi House of Representatives from Forrest County.
In 1959, Gandy was the first woman elected the Mississippi Assistant Attorney General. Later that year, she became the state treasurer.
Gandy ran twice for the Governor of Mississippi. Both times, she was defeated.
Death
Gandy was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She died after a long bout having progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease.
The legacy
In 2006, the Evelyn Gandy Parkway was opened just outside of Petal in her native Forrest County.
Awards and honors
State of Alabama Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Aide-de-camp, commissioned by Alabama Governor George Wallace; 1972
State of Kentucky Kentucky Colonel, commissioned by Kentucky Governor Wendell H. Ford; 1972
Mississippi College Service of Humanity Award; 1976
Blue Mountain College Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law; 1977
Paul Harris Fellow-Rotary Club 1978;
National Mental Health Association Humanitarian Award; 1979
Mississippi State University Mississippi Woman of the Year Award; 1980
State of Mississippi Mississippian of the Year in Government; 1981
Exchange Club "Golden Deeds" Award; 1982
Mississippi College School of Law Award for Excellence in Law; 1984
Mississippi Women's Political Caucus Susan B. Anthony Award for Outstanding Service to the State of Mississippi; 1984
University of Southern Mississippi Alumni Hall of Fame;1985
Mississippi University for Women Medal of Excellence;1991
The Mississippi Bar Lifetime Achievement Award; 1994
Women's Political Network First Annual Award for Distinguished Service; 1994
Mississippi Democratic Party James O. Eastland Award; 1995
American Bar Association Margaret Brant Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; 1997
Mississippi Association of Women Lawyers Lifetime Achievement Award; 1998
Hattiesburg Women's Forum Leadership Award; 1998
Lindy Boggs Women in Public Service Award; 1998
The Mississippi Bar Chief Justice Award; 1998
The Mississippi Bar Susie Blue Buchanan Award; 2003
References
US Democratic Party politicians
1920 births
2007 deaths
Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi |
856307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Nala | Zhang Nala | Zhang Nala (; born March 18, 1981 in Seoul), locally known (in Korea) as Jang Na-ra, is a South Korean singer and actress active in both South Korean and Chinese entertainment industries since 2001. She's the second South Korean celebrity to be heavily influenced by Chinese entertainment industries and to be active in Chinese entertainment industries, after Qiu Cixuan.
Korean actors
Korean singers
1981 births
Living people |
856308 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenad%20Steki%C4%87 | Nenad Stekić | Nenad Stekić (; 7 March 1951 – 18 July 2021) was a Serbian and Yugoslav long jumper. He was best known for his European record of 8.45 metres. He participated in the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. He won two silver medals at the European Athletics Championships in 1974 and 1978.
Stekić died on 18 July 2021 in Belgrade at the age of 70.
References
1951 births
2021 deaths
Serbian sportspeople
Yugoslavian sportspeople
Long jumpers
Olympians |
856309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecno%20Spark%204 | Tecno Spark 4 | Tecno Spark 4 Lite, Tecno Spark 4 Air and Tecno Spark 4 are Android-based smartphones produced, released and marketed by Tecno Mobile.
References
Android smartphones |
856310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Westergaard | Kurt Westergaard | Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. He was known for creating the controversial cartoon of a terrorist, although not the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban. Westergaard was born in Døstrup, Denmark.
On 1 January 2010, a 28-year-old Somali Muslim intruder armed with an axe and knife entered Westergaard's house. Westergaard was unharmed because of tight security and the intruder was shot by police.
Westergaard died on 14 July 2021 in Copenhagen, one day after his 86th birthday.
References
1935 births
2021 deaths
Dutch teachers
Cartoonists
Dutch artists |
856311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinix%20Note%207 | Infinix Note 7 | Infinix Note 7 Lite and Infinix Note 7 are Android smartphones produced, released and marketed by Infinix mobile.
References
Android smartphones |
856312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prith%20Banerjee | Prith Banerjee | Prithviraj "Prith" Banerjee (born 1960) is an Indian American academic and computer scientist. He is the Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS and board member at Cray and CUBIC. He was a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry. Before that he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider Electric.
He was formerly He has also worked for Hewlett Packard and was the director of HP Labs. Previously he was the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB Group. Banerjee has been the managing director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture.
. Prith started his early career in acadamia as a professor at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University.
References
1960 births
Living people
American computer scientists |
856316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20%28band%29 | ABC (band) | ABC (originally Vice Versa) are an English pop and new wave group. They formed in Sheffield, England in 1980.
ABC achieved ten UK and five US Top 40 hit songs between 1981 and 1990. Their first studio album was The Lexicon of Love (1982). It was a success in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the early-1980s success saw them tied to the Second British Invasion.
The band's first single, "Tears are Not Enough", made UK the Top 20 in 1981. They had three Top 10 hits in 1982. They were: "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love" and "All of My Heart".
The group's second album, Beauty Stab was released in November 1983. This second album had a substandard performance. Its first song, "That was Then but This is Now" briefly appeared in the UK Top 20. In early 1984, the album's second song, "SOS", had a Top 40 showing.
From the late 1980s until the early 2020s, the band issued a number of other albums. They include Up (1989), Abracadabra (1991) and The 80s Recovered (2015).
References
New wave bands
Musical groups from Sheffield
English pop music groups
1980 establishments in England |
856317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea%20nitrate | Urea nitrate | Urea nitrate is a plant food-based high explosive that has been used to make bombs to attack people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and a few other terrorist acts in other places around the world such as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 7 July 2005 London bombings. It has a destroying power like the more well-known ammonium nitrate bombs, with a speed of explosion between and .
Urea nitrate is made in one step when urea with nitric acid are mixed. This is an exothermic reaction.
References
Explosives |
856321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parag%20Agrawal | Parag Agrawal | Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American technologist. He is the chief technology officer (CTO) of Twitter.
References
Living people
Stanford University alumni |
856322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20P.%20Remington | Joseph P. Remington | Joseph P. Remington (March 26, 1847 – January 1, 1918) was an American pharmacist.
References
1847 births
1918 deaths
Pharmacists |
856326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW%20i3 | BMW i3 | The BMW i3 was made in Germany 2013. The car has 181 horsepower.The BMW i3 has 4 seats. The BMW i3 is electric which helps the environment. The top range for a BMW i3 is £41,315. Bayerische Motoren is the creator of the popular BMW i3.
The top range for a BMW i3 with full battery is 231 miles. They have sold over 43,722 from 2014 to 2021. The top speed for a BMW i3 is 93.21 to 99.42mph. It has 260 litres of luggage. The colours are black, orange, grey,white,red,blue and beige. The crash was 86% for adults and for kids 57%.
i3 |
856327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango%20Popping%20Candy | Tango Popping Candy | Tango popping candy gives a tangy twist on a favorite retro sweet.
Tango popping candy in 3 blasting flavours-orange, Cherry & apple. The tub contains 240 packets of Tango Popping Candy. There are some ideal pick-ups for children looking to spend some of their pocket money on a treat.
Ingredients
Apple Ingredients: Sugar, glucose, lactose (from milk), malic acid, carbon dioxide, artificial flavours, colours E102, E133.
Tango popping candy is not vegetarian friendly.
Candy |
856333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eahan%20G%C3%B6kbakar | Şahan Gökbakar | Şahan Gökbakar (born 22 October 1980) is a Turkish comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Recep Ivedik.
Gökbakar grew up in the capital, Ankara, Turkey's capital, attending the primary school and high school.
References
Turkish actors
Living people
1980 births |
856336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cem%20Y%C4%B1lmaz | Cem Yılmaz | Cem Yılmaz (born 23 April 1973) is a Turkish actor and comedian.
His most notable movies started in 1998 with a co-starring role in the comedy Everything's Gonna Be Great (1998), directed by Ömer Vargi, and continued with a role in Vizontele (2001), directed by Yilmaz Erdogan and Ömer Faruk Sorak. He achieved his greatest success by starring in and writing big-budget science-fiction parody G.O.R.A. (2004) and sequel to G.O.R.A. called A.R.O.G (2008) also directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, which despite spending several years in production because of financial and other technical problems became a box-office hit and described by Rekin Teksoy as a strong sign that showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences.
References
Turkish actors
Living people |
856337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarail%20hound | Sarail hound | Sarail hounds are legendary dogs of Bangladesh. Descended from Arabic Saluks, they were bred over hundreds of years into superior hunting dogs by Moghul generals and aristocrats at the village of Sarail. They have served in the army and police, as hunting and guard dogs, and as devoted pets. M.A.G. Osmani, who led Bangladesh's Freedom fighters to victory against Pakistan Civil War (1971) war of Independence, is said to have been saved by one of two Sarails he owned when he was attacked. These Race dogs are considered as the “National Dog of Bangladesh” respectively.
Dog breeds
National symbols of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi culture
Working dogs |
856340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy%20hog | Pygmy hog | The Pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a suid native to alluvial grasslands of the Gangetic Plains of India. This impure pygmy hog used to be widespread in the tall, wet grasslands in the southern Himalayan foothills from Uttar Pradesh through Nepal, Bangladesh, northern West Bengal to Assam. It is considered as the “National hog of Bangladesh” respectively.
Pigs
Domesticated animals
National symbols of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi culture
Mammals of Asia |
856342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moupin%20pig | Moupin pig | The Indian boar (Sus scrofa cristatus), also known as the Andamanese pig or Moupin pig is a subspecies of wild boar native to Republic of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, western Thailand and Sri Lanka. It is considered as the “National hog of India” respectively.
The Indian boar differs from its European counterpart by its large mane which runs in a crest along its back from its head to lower body, larger, more sharply featured and straighter skull, its smaller, sharper ears and overall lighter build. It is taller and more sparsely haired than the European form, though its back bristles are much more developed. The tail is also more tufted, and the cheeks hairier.
Pigs
Domesticated animals
National symbols of India
Madhya Pradesh
Indian culture
Mammals of Asia |
856348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhammel%20Afflick | Rhammel Afflick | Rhammel Emmanuel Basil Afflick BEM (born 6 April 1994) is a British writer, political and LGBT activist. He was Director of Communications for Pride in London.
Education
Afflick was attended Chessington School, known as Chessington Community College at the time, for secondary school and sixth form, completing in 2012. Afflick has written about his experience as bisexual man in London.
Awards
Afflick is an awarding winner. He was a recipient of the British Empire Medal in the 2021 New Year Honours. He was also recognised for more than a decades commitment to campaigning and volunteering in the community.
Commonwealth honour
References
1994 births
Living people
British activists
Writers from London |
856351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri | Onigiri | Onigiri or rice ball is a Japanese traditional food. It is made from white rice wrapped in nori. Usually onigiri is filled with salmon, katsuobushi or something else. The ingredient is salty or sour. Japanese stores have onigiri with various flavours.
References
Japanese culture
Japanese food
Rice dishes |
856353 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Asian%20boar | Central Asian boar | The Central Asian boar or the Common Eurasian Wild Boar (Sus scrofa davidi) is a small long maned subspecies of wild boar indigenous to Southeastern Iran, Pakistan and Northwest Republic of India. This subspecies is smaller than the nominate S. s. scrofa. It is light brown in color and has a long and thick mane. Males have been reported to reach weights of up to 158 kg, and females 123 kg. It is considered as the “National hog of Pakistan” respectively.
Pigs
Domesticated animals
National symbols of Pakistan
Pakistani culture
Mammals of Asia |
856357 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nori | Nori | Nori is a Japanese edible seaweed. The main ingredient is a dried red algae. It is used to wrap rolles of sushi or onigiri. Also nori is made in the form of sheets.
Japanese food
Seafood dishes |
856358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Nagpuri%20Buffalo | Indian Nagpuri Buffalo | The Indian Nagpuri buffalo is a versatile breed of the Maharashtra and stands better amongst the breeds of buffaloes which combine the milk and drought qualities in a better proportion in adverse climatic conditions. It is a River type buffalo. It is a central Indian Breed. As the name applies Nagpuri buffalo is a versatile breed of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, Central India. The animals of this breed are very well adapted to the harsh-semi-arid conditions of Vidarbha region. It is considered as the “National Buffalo of India” respectively.
Bovines
Domesticated animals
National symbols of India
Maharashtra
Indian culture
Mammals of Asia |
856361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahish%20Buffalo | Mahish Buffalo | The Bangladeshi Mahish buffalo is a versatile breed of the Bengal. It is a River type buffalo. It is considered as the “National Buffalo of Bangladesh” respectively. A variety of the Oriental, crossed with the indigenous swamp-type, river-type dominant
References
Bovines
Domesticated animals
National symbols of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi culture
Mammals of Asia |
856363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20of%20War%20%282018%20video%20game%29 | God of War (2018 video game) | God of War is an action-adventure video game. It was released on April 20, 2018. The game was released for PlayStation 4. This game is based on Norse mythology instead of Greek mythology what was is used by previous games of this franchise.
God of War is the sequel of God of War III.
Plot
After the Kratos' defeat of the Olympic gods, Kratos lives with his son in Midgard. Kratos bury his wife and after that he and his son begin their journey to the nine realms. It was for scattering of ashes of Kratos' wife. During the journey, Kratos teach his son to survive and fight monsters, such as trolls or draug.
God of War (franchise)
2018 video games |
856364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowboard%20Heaven | Snowboard Heaven | Snowboard Heaven (スノーボード ヘヴン) is a snowboard game released by Capcom for PlayStation 2.
Characters
Eiji
Nanako
Alan
Sylvie
Richard
Tina
Max
Steiner
Other websites
Official site (archive)
GameFAQs page
Capcom games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
2000 video games
Racing video games
Japan exclusive video games |
856366 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s%20S%C3%A1nchez | Tomás Sánchez | Tomás Sánchez (born May 22, 1948 in Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos, Cuba) is a Cuban painter and engraver, known for his landscapes.
He was on a blacklist in Cuba for [part of the time] between 1987 and 2014; he did not have any solo exhibitions (or exhibitions alone) in Cuba for 27 years.
His exhibitions have been at places that include
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, held a retrospective exhibition in 1996 (or an exhibiton that included many of his earliest works).
Critics and curators have said that his work has links to the experience of meditation.
In 2016, Sánchez was called the most expensive living Cuban painter.
Related pages
Cuban art
References
Painters
Cuban people
1948 births
Living people |
856367 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani%20buffalo | Pakistani buffalo | The Pakistani buffalo, Indo-Pak Nili-Ravi or the Punjabi Murrah Buffalo is a breed of domestic water buffalo. It is distributed principally in Pakistan and Northern India, and is concentrated in the Punjab (region). They are considered as the “National Buffalo of Pakistan” respectively. It is similar to the Murrah breed of buffalo, and is reared mainly for dairy use. The average milk yield is approximately per year; the record yield is in a lactation of 378 days.
References
Bovines
Domesticated animals
National symbols of Pakistan
Punjab (Pakistan)
Pakistani culture
Mammals of Asia |
856372 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biman%20Bangladesh%20Airlines | Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bengali: বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইন্স), commonly known as Biman (Bengali: বিমান), is the national flag carrier of Bangladesh. It features the Balaka bird symbol on its Tailplane respectively.
Airlines of Asia
Dhaka
National symbols of Bangladesh |
856374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macross%20VF-X%202 | Macross VF-X 2 | Macross VF-X2 (マクロス VF-X2) is a 3D shooting game developed by UNiT for the Sony Playstation, featuring animated scenes by Gonzo, and published by Bandai Visual in September 2, 1999. It is a sequel to Macross Digital Mission VF-X and set ten years after the Sharon Apple Incident, as depicted in the Macross Plus OVA. The game is notable for having many of its story elements being carried over to the Macross Frontier television series.
This is one of the few notable Macross-related games where the player's actions can affect the ending.
An USA version of the game was planned but was never released.
Synopsis
VF-X mission standby... VF-X mission standby... Good luck!
Macross VF-X2 is a third person shooting game where the player operates a variable fighter (Valkyrie) that's part of a special service unit known as the VF-X Ravens, a similar unit to the one seen in Macross Digital Mission VF-X. Similar to its predecessor, UNiT developed the game mechanics, and the original creators of the Macross series participated in the production, including Shōji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Ichiro Itano. Hidetaka Tenjin, a CG illustrator, was also involved in this production.
New variable attack aircraft were introduced in the game, including the VA-3M Invader and the variable fighter VB-6 König Monster. The König Monster is based on the original Destroid Giant Monster that was designed by Miyatake and Kawamori, but now includes a new three-stage transformation design. This design would later be re-used by the S.M.S. in Macross Frontier.
Plot
In A.D. 2050, as a result of continuing emmigration of humanity and Zentradi across the galaxy, society had approached a period of relative stability. Riots and revolts suddenly began as political and military tensions arose among the frontier colonies, and domestic terrorist acts and syndicate crimes became more frequent. By August 15th, 2050, The U.N. Spacy deploys special ace squadrons to deal with the unrest. The 727th Independent Squadron VF-X Ravens is established as a special service unit, utilizing the latest AVF (Advanced Variable Fighter). "Genius" pilot Aegis Focker is assigned to "Alpha", but is initially looked down upon as a "Cherry Ace" by Major Gilliam Angreat and Commander Wilbur Garland.
The Ravens race against the clock to stop the terrorist group Black Rainbow, led by Timoshie Daldanton, codename "All Kill Wizard" and the Critical Path Corporation led by Manfred Brando. By December 1st, 2050, the Ravens prevent the enemy from deploying a superweapon known as the "Flagship" against colonies like Eden 3. Along the way, Aegis befriends Gilliam and sparks a romance with his mission controllers Brigitte Spark and Clara Calette. During the battle with Black Rainbow, Gilliam goes missing after his battle with the enemy ace, Mariafokina Barnrose, who happens to be head of another anti-government group, Vindirance. Aegis takes over the Ravens as its leader and leads two new team members, Shun Toma and Suzie Newtlet to stop the terrorists.
As the war rages and the Black Rainbow fleet approaches Earth, Daldhanton is defeated at the hands of Aegis. He reveals the truth about Banrose and Gilliam's loyalties, which depresses Aegis, so he takes Brigitte shopping. Following that, Aegis' Gilliam suddenly appears before him and reveals that the U.N. Spacy is corrupt and that Raven's commander, Wilbur Garland, is in league with terrorist Daldhanton. Aegis is forced to make a decision whether to kill his former Captain or forsake his companions and join the Black Rainbow.
Follow Gilliam (Black Rainbow Route)
In February 14th, 2051, Aegis joins the Black Rainbow and learns about an Earth supremacist group Latence that has entrenched itself within the United Nations Government and used the VF-X Ravens as a means of suppressing dissent from the colony worlds. They intend to dominate the galaxy with a wide-area weapon Jamming System based on "Di-Zauber Frethe", which utilizes "super-space resonant lens" developed by the Critical Path Corporation. Aegis and Gilliam break through the Earth Defense Network and maneuver through Earth's atmosphere.
As they reach Earth's surface, Gilliam decides to get sentimental with you about Earth, but is suddenly killed by Ravens' commander Wilbur Garland's custom VF-22 Sturmvogel II, which is armed with a special Targetting Jamming device. Eimi Clocks calls in to lend Aegis' her support, as Garland and his force of X-9 Ghost are pushed back. Banrose appears and is saddened by the news of Gilliam's death. Suddenly, the SDF-1 Macross rises from lake where it once rested. The Earth's garrison fleet fires upon the Macross but are ineffective against its defenses and main cannon. Aegis' former comrade, Shun Toma, fires upon your wingmate, Suzie Newtlett and challenges him to a duel. He's easily defeated and Aegis moves in on Garland and his jamming device. Barnrose joins the fight to fend off incoming enemy fighters that are approaching Aegis.
With the help of Aegis' teammates at "Alpha Squadron", they engage in operation "Remember Love" and defeat Wilbur by destroying the SDF-1 Macross' head, which contained the wide-area Jamming System. The SDF-1 falls to the ground and Garland flees to regroup. He then launches his own Macross 13-class vessel stationed in space and moves above Earth's atmosphere and fires upon the rest of Earth's defense fleet. The Earth garrison fleet then launches an attack that completely destroys the Macross 13 in a brilliant explosion. With Latence defeated, Aegis and his friends fly off into space as credits roll.
In his last scene, Aegis leaves a bouquet of flowers and a flight helmet on the ground in front of Gilliam's headstone. He looks back for a second and then walks off into the sunset.
Follow Wilber Garland (U.N. Spacy Route)
Aegis immediately engages Barnrose. When she is defeated in battle, she tells Aegis why she joined Gilliam and that she fought for her ideals before her Valkyrie explodes. Gilliam then challenges Aegis to a duel, which happens to be the hardest in the game.
Before he dies, he praises Aegis for his skill. Aegis returns to base and is comforted by his communication officer, Eimi Clocks. Aegis' journey is over.
Gameplay
Players can freely transform into the three modes of the Valkyrie, which are fighter, Gerwalk and Battroid during gameplay. It also allows a number of missiles to be loaded a fired in a manner similar to the dynamic battle depicted by Ichiro Itano in his now infamous "Itano Circus". In addition, the game content and mechanics that poorly received with the game's predecessor were overhauled, and a number of improvements to the control were made. In particular, the game introduced a unique third-person viewpoint movement system called “variable view” which helps create the sense as of the player being in a “valkyrie simulator” that helps sets it apart from general 3D shooting games at the time.
Variable View
Unlike other 3D shooters whose viewpoints are fixed in the rear of the aircraft and in the cockpit, VF-X2 has an innovative dynamic viewpoint system that keeps the aircraft and enemy aircraft (missile) in the same camera. There are two types, the "Missile" viewpoint, which follows missiles launched by enemy fighters, and the "TARGET" viewpoint, which keeps track of the enemy currently on-target, so players can switch freely during the game. With this variable view, it is possible to avoid the enemy while watching the missile shot and to grasp the movement of the enemy aircraft. This helps players avoid losing sight of the enemy.
In addition to the variable view, the “FORWARD” view from the rear of the aircraft, which is often accessed in normal 3D shooting via the option settings, can be used by the player. All three viewpoint options can be used freely.
Missions
Mission 1: Gigant Lullaby
Date - 2050.08.15
Aegis Focker is put on an simulation test before he is assigned to VF-X Ravens. The mission takes place on a simulated attack of Macross City on Earth. He is given the unit code "Alpha".
Mission 2: Wizard of Oz
Date - 2050.09.07
Aegis and the VF-X Ravens are to annihilate all Black Rainbow reinforcements headed to Hyde City on planet Seffy. The mission code is "Wizard of Oz". Assigned troop unit codes are Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion.
Mission 3: Die Zauberflote
Date - 2050.09.23
Escort of the U.N. Spacy transport ship Enbaterion. The mission code is from "Magic Flute".
Mission 4: Snow White
Date-2050.10.04
The VF-X Ravens are sent to retrieve the "Magic Mirror", in a communication base of the planet Endevald that had been occupied by Vindirance. The mission code "Snow White". The troop ID is "Sleepy". In this mission, Gilliam Angreat's VF-19A Excalibur is equipped with a limited-range reaction warhead called "Big Apple". Their main opposition is a renegade VB-6 König Monster.
Mission 5: Moby Dick
Date - 2050.10.14
Search and destroy a Vindirance transport fleet. The mission code is "White Whale" and its parody, "Dicky Moe" (Japanese translated title for White Whale)" in Tom and Jerry. The troop ID is Tom and Jerry.
Mssion 5.1: Peter Pan
Date - 2050.11.01
A hostage rescue operation on the planet Neverland, where your mission is to create a diversion. The mission code is "Peter Pan". Troop ID are Tinkerbell and Wendy.
Mission 6: Singin' in the Rain
Date - 2050.11.14
The remnants of Timoshie Daldanton and his Black Rainbow are holed up in Hyde City Your objective is to defeat Timoshie. The mission code is "Singin in the Rain" . Troop ID is Cozmo. Players can finally pilot the VB-6 König Monster.
Mission 7: Pinocchio
Date - 2050.12.01
Critical Path Corporation forces have raided a secret underwater weapons factory on Eden 3. The Ravens will face off against Manfred Brando and his signal interference device. The mission ends and Brando is nowhere to be found. The mission code is "Pinocchio". Troop ID is Gideon, honesty. Players pilot the VA-3M Invader, which has been modified to operate underwater.
Mission 8: King & I
Date - 2050.12.26
Destroy the enemy defense satellites on planet Volacan's orbit. The mission code is "King & I". The troop ID are Anna and King.
Mission 9: Mary Poppins
Date - 2051.01.16
The VF-X Ravens are to support the U.N. Spacy fleet against the Vindirance forces. The mission code is "Mary Poppins". The troop ID is Jane. This is the mission where you're ordered by Commander Wilbur Garland to take out your former comrade, Gilliam Angreat.
Mission 10: On The Town
U.N. Spacy Route
Date - 2051.01.30
Vindirance forces have sabotaged one of U.N. Spacy's bases. The mission code is from the film "On The Town". The aircraft ID is Gabey, Chip, Ivy and Aussie.
Mission 11: Love Drifts Away
Date - 2051.01.30
You will now take on your former leader, Gilliam, and Vindirance ace pilot Mariafokina Barnrose. The mission code is based on "Macross".
Mission 10: Easter Parade
Vindirance Route
Date - 2051.02.02
Penetrate the U.N. Spacy planetary defense on Earth. The mission code is from "Easter Parade". The aircraft ID is Hannah, Hewes and Johnny.
Mission 11: My Fair Lady
Date - 2051.02.14
Break through Macross City's defenses and destroy the head of the SDF-1 Macross. The mission shares similarities with the "Sharon Apple Incident" from Macross Plus. The mission code is from "My Fair Lady". The troop ID is Higgins.
Mission 12: Remember Love
Date - 2051.02.14
Destroy the wide-area Jamming System aboard the Macross 13. The mission code is from "Do You Remember Love?". The troop ID is Minmay.
Characters
U.N. Spacy
Aegis Focker
Gilliam Angreat
Suzie Newtlet
Shun Toma
Wilbur Garland
Eimi Clocks
Brigitte Spark
Clara Calette
Black Rainbow
Timoshie Daldanton
Critical Path Corporation
Manfred Brando
Vindirance
Mariafokina Barnrose
Mechanic
U.N. Spacy
Mecha
VF-1X Valkyrie Plus + Armored
VF-1X Super Valkyrie Plus
VF-5000B Star Mirage
VF-11B Thunderbolt + Armored
VF-17D Nightmare
VF-19A Excalibur
VF-22 Sturmvogel II
VA-3M Invader
VB-6 König Monster
MBR-04-Mk VI Tomahawk
ADR-04-Mk X Defender
SDR-04-Mk XII Phalanx
Vehicles and Support Units
Enbateriyon
Mother Raven
SDF-1 Macross
Macross 13
Black Rainbow
Mecha
VA-3M Invader
Fz-150 Feios Valkyrie
Regult
Glaug
Vehicles and Support Units
Gnerl
Critical Path Corporation
Mecha
VF-1X Valkyrie Plus
VF-17S Nightmare
VF-17S Nightmare Manfred Custom + Jamming Sound Attachment Unit
VF-22 Sturmvogel II
Vindirance
Mecha
VF-1S Valkyrie (Mariafokina Custom)
VF-11 Thunderbolt
VF-17 Nightmare
VB-6 König Monster
MBR-04-Mk VI Tomahawk
ADR-04-Mk X Defender
SDR-04-Mk XII Phalanx
Vehicles and Support Units
Anthemed
Vandal
Music
Opening Theme
Get Free
Lyrics - HUMMING BIRD / Kyoko Fukuyama, composer - Yoshiki Fukuyama, song - HUMMING BIRD
Opening theme. This rock track by HUMMING BIRD involved lead singer Yoshiki Fukuyama, who had been playing Basara Nekki of Macross 7 at the time.
Ending Theme
Shoot & Shout
Lyrics- Satonozuka Mio , Composition / Arrangement- Jimbo Akira , Song- Takao Naoki
Related Products
Tokyo Snack Version
A special limited edition of a thousand copies were available at the Tokyo Snack Foods Corporation via a mail-in sweepstakes in 2002. It has three game modes that were different from the retail version, and included the VF-5000B Star Mirage for players to use. The graphics were also improved.
Obtaining a copy today is extremely difficult due to its rarity. This edition of VF-X2 has since been nicknamed the Tokyo Snack Version.
Staff
Executive Supervisor: Shōji Kawamori
Script: Katsuyuki Kumazawa
Game Design: Yoshihiro Koyama, Takeshi Iuchi (Chouonsoku/Supersonic Speed)
Character Design: Haruhiko Mikimoto
Mechanical Design: Shōji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake
Motion Supervisor: Ichiro Itano
Opening Animation Production: GONZO
Opening Animation Storyboard: Shōji Kawamori
Music Composer: Yoshinori Kikuchi
Producer: Minoru Takanashi, Hiroshi Ueda (UNiT Inc.)
Notes & trivia
Many of the mission names are based on movie titles, like Snow White, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, King and I, Singin' in the Rain, etc.
Several references to Macross Plus are made throughout the game.
It's been speculated that the fall of the conspiracy involving the United Nations Government and U.N. Spacy paved the way for the establishment of the New United Nations Government and New United Nations Spacy.
References
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197819-macross-vf-x-2/faqs/5120
http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossga/vf-5000b-vfx2.htm
PlayStation-only games
PlayStation games
1999 video games
Japan exclusive video games
Shooter video games
1990s video games |
856377 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleyel%20et%20Cie | Pleyel et Cie | Pleyel et Cie ("Pleyel and Company") — a French piano manufacturing firm founded by Ignace Pleyel in 1807. In 1815, Pleyel's son Camille joined him as a business partner. The firm provided pianos to Frédéric Chopin, who once mentions that Pleyel pianos are «non plus ultra». Among other composers that were using Pleyel pianos were Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, de Falla and Stravinsky.
In the 1980s, the Pleyel company bought out two other piano companies Erard and Gaveau. In 2008 they introduced new pianos designed by famous designers. At the end of 2013, the company announced it would end manufacturing pianos in France. In September 2009 a piano maker Paul McNulty built a replica of the 1830 model of Pleyel's piano, which is now in a collection of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw. The replica was used in The 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in September 2018.
References
Other websites
A website on Pleyel pianos by Stephen Birkett of the University of Waterloo
History of Pleyel and their pianos with many pictures and details
Pleyel Pianos – The Piano in Polish Collections
Pleyel replica to make its concert debut
International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments website
Chopin's last piano
1800s establishments in Europe
19th-century establishments in France
1807 establishments
Music companies
Companies of France |
856380 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%20metropolitan%20area%2C%20Missouri | Springfield metropolitan area, Missouri | The Springfield, Missouri, metropolitan area, as defined under the United States Census Bureau, is the area involving five counties in southwestern Missouri. The main and largest city within the area is Springfield itself. Other population centers around the area are Nixa, Republic, Bolivar, Marshfield, Battlefield and Willard. The city limits of Springfield come near the Ozark city limits at Christian County line on US 65, the city limits at Republic at the James River Freeway on the southwestern side of the city and the Strafford limits on its northeastern side.
The 2019 estimates show the area having a population of around 467,516. According to the 2020 Census, Springfield itself has over 168,000 people living in the city.
References
Springfield, Missouri
Metropolitan areas of the United States |
856382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%2C%20Missouri | Republic, Missouri | Republic is a city within Christian and Greene counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States Census, almost 17,000 people lived in the city. Republic is part of the Springfield metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in the county.
References
Cities in Missouri
Christian County, Missouri |
856383 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Constantin%20Boisselot | Louis-Constantin Boisselot | Louis-Constantin Boisselot (11 March 1809 – 5 June 1850 in Marseille) was a French piano manufacturer. A composer Franz Liszt was a long-time friend of the family and also his son's (Marie-Louis-François Boisselot (1845–1902)) godfather. Liszt received a Boisselot piano as a gift and used it for creating the Weimar years. A replica of the Liszt's personal Boisselot 1846 piano was created by 200 Liszt's celebration by a piano builder McNulty. Both original and the replica are property of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
Louis-Constantin Boisselot succeeded his father Jean-Louis Boisselot in the piano making business, which was successfully continued by next generations of the family until the late nineteenth century.
References
Other websites
Klaviernachbau von Franz Liszt erklingt auf Landesausstellung (in German)
Boisselot op. 2800, 1846 - a replica
Liszt's Boisselot piano in Weimar
Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Musikinstrumente (in German)
Schätze in Gefahr: Liszts Hammerklavier. Deutschland radio (in German)
1809 births
1850 deaths
Musical instrument makers |
856384 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield%2C%20Missouri | Battlefield, Missouri | Battlefield is a city in Greene County, Missouri. The 2019 United States Census show about 6,622 people living in the city. Battlefield is part of the Springfield metro area.
Battlefield was named for its proximity to the 1861 Battle at Wilson's Creek, part of the American Civil War.
References
Cities in Missouri |
856385 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer | Pioneer | Pioneer can mean a settler who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land.
In the United States pioneer often means an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated west, from Thirteen Colonies to join in settling and developing new areas.
Pioneer, The Pioneer, or pioneering may be:
Pioneer program, a series of U.S. lunar, solar, and interplanetary unmanned space missions launched from 1958 through 1978
Pioneer MRT station, a rapid transit station in Singapore
Pioneer movement, a communist youth organization
RSD-10 Pioneer, a Soviet missile
Places
Australia
Pioneer, Queensland
Pioneer, Tasmania
Pioneer River, in Queensland
Shire of Pioneer, a former local government area
United States
Pioneer, Arizona
Pioneer, California
Pioneer, Florida
Pioneer, Indiana
Pioneer, Iowa
Pioneer, Kansas
Pioneer, Louisiana
Pioneer, Michigan
Pioneer, Missouri
Pioneer, Nevada
Pioneer, Ohio
Pioneer, Tennessee
Other places
Pioneer, Alberta in Canada
Pioneer, Singapore
Related pages |
856387 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafford%2C%20Missouri | Strafford, Missouri | Strafford is a city in eastern Greene County, Missouri. The 2020 United States Census reported about 2,476 people living within the city. Strafford is part of the Springfield metropolitan area.
The history of Strafford dates back to 1870. That year, the railroad was made longer to that point. It was named for the original owner of that site. A post office called Strafford began operation at the exact same time.
References
Cities in Missouri |
856388 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%2C%20Missouri | Willard, Missouri | Willard is a city in Greene County, Missouri. The 2020 United States Census set the number of people living in the city at 5,730. It is part of the Springfield metropolitan area.
The city was founded in 1884. Its name comes from William Willard. He was the surveyor working on the railroad. He was from Lebanon, Missouri. Willard was incorporated into a city in 1949.
References
Cities in Missouri |
856389 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Badura-Skoda | Paul Badura-Skoda | Paul Badura-Skoda (6 October 1927 – 25 September 2019) was an Austrian pianist, known for his performances on historical instruments.
In 1947 he won first prize in the Austrian Music Competition. Badura-Skoda was a part of the ""Viennese Troika" along with Friedrich Gulda and Jörg Demus. In 1974 he went on a tour in all the large cities in South Africa.
Badura-Skoda was performing works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and also had an extensive repertoire including many works of Chopin and Ravel. In his collection Badura-Skoda kept a few period instruments including replicas, which he used in concerts and for recordings. As a successful recording artist, Badura-Skoda made over 200 records, including many duplicates created to highlight the sound of different pianos. He died on 25 September 2019.
References
Other websites
Paul Badura-Skoda official website
Tommasini, Anthony "Paul Badura-Skoda, Who Could Make a Piano Sing, Dies at 91". The New York Times.
Austrian pianists
Classical musicians
People from Vienna
1927 births
2019 deaths |
856397 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation | Implementation | Implementation is the realization (or making real) of an application, or making real: a plan, an idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, or policy.
Implementation may be:
Implementation (computer science), making real a technical specification or algorithm as a program, software component (or part of software), or other computer system through computer programming and letting the software be used by end users (or customers of the software).
Implementation (political science), carrying out of - or making happen - public policy.
Related pages
Application software
References
Design |
856401 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina%20Nadie | Angelina Nadie | Angéline Nadié (1 January 1968 – 17 July 2021) was an Ivorian actress. She is best known for her role as the evil mother of Michel Bohiri's character in Ma Famille.
Filmography
Ma Famille (2002–2007)
Marié du net 1 (2005)
Marié du net 2 (2005)
Les Oiseaux du ciel (2006)
References
1968 births
2021 deaths
African actors
Ivorian people |
856402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20Island | Block Island | Block Island is an American coastal island just offshore of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The island is almost nine miles south of the United States mainland. It is fourteen miles east of the Montauk Point area of Long Island in New York. It was named in the 1600s for the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. Block Island is included in Washington County in southwestern Rhode Island. It shares the same area as the town of New Shoreham.
Block Island is a popular destination for tourists during the summer. It is known for beaches, bicycling, hiking and sailing.
Other popular events include the Fourth of July Parade, celebration and fireworks every year.
Block Island was incorporated under the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1672. The government of the island then adopted the name New Shoreham.
The original North Lighthouse was built in 1829. It was replaced in 1837 when the original was washed out to sea. But the replacement lighthouse suffered a similar fate to the original lighthouse. The modern lighthouse was constructed in 1867. Construction began on the Block Island six years later in 1873.
The Block Island State Airport opened in 1950. It remains today for a general aviation-type airport. In 1972, the Block Island Conservancy was founded. The Conservancy and other environmental groups are responsible for protecting over 40% of Block Island from development. In 1974, the Old Harbor Historic District was declared a National Register historic district.
On August 19, 1991, just before 1:30 pm, Hurricane Bob crossed right over Block Island with sustained winds near 105 miles per hour. That meant Bob was a strong Category 2 when it passed over the island.
References
Settlements in Rhode Island
Islands of the United States |
856405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled%20tree%20frog | Speckled tree frog | For another species commonly known as the speckled treefrog, see Sarcohyla psarosema
The speckled tree frog (Boana semiguttata) is a frog that lives in Brazil.
References
Frogs
Animals of South America |
856410 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan%20Glynn | Ronan Glynn | Ronan Glynn is an Irish doctor, best known for being the Deputy and Acting Chief Medical Officer of Ireland in the Department of Health .
Biography
Ronan Glynn was born to parents Mary and George Glynn, the owners of Glynn's Fruit and Veg.
Medical career
Ronan Glynn graduated from University College Dublin, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, in 2002. He completed a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen in 2007, a PhD in Surgical Oncology from NUI Galway in 2013 and a first-class honours Masters in Public Health (MPH) from University College Dublin in 2015.
Between 2008 and 2010, Glynn was Research Registrar at the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) in University College Hospital Galway. Between 2010 and 2014, he was Senior House Officer and Specialist Registrar at the Health Service Executive (Otolaryngology). Between 2014 and 2018, he was Specialist Registrar and Specialist in Public Health Medicine at the HSE.
Glynn holds a diploma in personal leadership and executive coaching. He has been a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland since 2012, a Fellow of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQUA) since 2013 and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland, since 2017.
Department of Health
In October 2018, Dr. Ronan Glynn became Deputy Chief Medical Officer in Ireland, he was most notably known for his daily appearances at the COVID-19 press briefings.
Later career
On 2 July 2020, Dr. Tony Holohan stepped down from his Chief Medical Officer role to care for his wife, Ronan Glynn became the Acting Chief Medical Officer until 5 October 2020.
Personal Life
He married Carla O' Brien in 2013. They have two children.
Other websites
Irish people
Living people
Irish doctors |
856416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir%20musk%20deer | Kashmir musk deer | The Kashmir musk deer (Moschus cupreus) is a deer that lives in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal.
Like other musk deer, the Alpine musk deer and Himalayan musk deer, the Kashmir musk deer lives in the Himalayan mountains and places around those mountains. They are large plant-eating animals that can live in cold places.
Appearance
The Kashmir musk deer has two large teeth that stick down from its upper jaw like fangs. The male deer use them to fight other male deer.
The Kashmir musk deer is .8 to 1 meter long and can weigh as much as 17 kilograms.
Unlike other musk deer, the Kashmir musk deer has white fur from its chin to its chest and a black spot on its throat. There is light brown fur on the back of its neck. The fur on its back is the color of copper and may have spots. The lower parts of its legs are white, and there are black parts on its upper hind legs and rear end. Its ears are dark gray and white at the ends. It can be different colors at different times of year.
Behavior
Kashmir musk deer all leave their feces in the same place. Scientists call this a latrine site. They do this to mark their territory, meaning to show other deer that a place belongs to them.
Kashmir musk deer like to look for food where the mountains are steep and rocky. Scientists have seen them 3000-3500 meters above sea level on mountains with pine cone tree forests.
Threats
Kashmir musk deer are in danger of dying out because human beings hunt them for their fur and their musk pods. People use musk pods to make perfumes and in traditional medicines. In the 21st century, one kilogram of musk pod can pay USD45,000.
References
Deer
Mammals of Asia |
856418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu%20Xiaoguang | Yu Xiaoguang | Yu Xiaoguang (; born May 16, 1981) is a Chinese composer and actor. He is a former swimmer and sprint canoer. In 2006 he made a crossover from sports to movies. He made appearances on various television series, most notably My Kung Fu Girlfriend (2006), Fighting in Peking (2009), Mao Anying (2010), The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend (2012), City and Country Life (2014), and Namchow Mechanic Heroes (2015). He is the husband of South Korean actress Qiu Cixuan.
1981 births
Living people
Composers
Chinese actors
Chinese sportspeople |
856424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization | Realization | Realization or realisation may be:
Realization (figured bass), the creating of a musical accompaniment from a figured bass
Realization (finance), the pricing of a security (or a non-physical asset such as bank deposits, bonds, and participations in companies' share capital), at market value
Realization (linguistics), the production of an actual form in a human language, from an abstract representation
Realization (metrology), a physical form of a measurement standard
Realization (probability), an actually observed value of random variable
Realization (tax), one of the principles for defining (or making decision about) income for tax purposes in the U.S.
Realization of an apeirogon, a mapping of an abstract apeirogon
Realization (systems), a state space model implementing a given input-output behavior
Realization (climb), a sport climbing route in Ceüse, France
Related pages
Realize (disambiguation)
Self-realization, a psychological or spiritual change in one's sense of self |
856425 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quail%20eggs | Quail eggs | Quail eggs are eggs from quails that can be eaten. The eggs are about a long and wide. The coloring pattern is different in each egg. They are cooked the same way as with chicken eggs.
Around the world
Quail eggs are thought to be exotic food in most parts of the world while the food is more common other parts.
South America
In some South American countries like Colombia, quail eggs are used as a topping in hamburgers, hot dogs, and other sandwiches.
Asia
In the Philippines, tokneneng, a dish of deep fried quail eggs covered in orange batter is a common street food. In Vietnam, boiled quail eggs is a commonly eaten as a street snack. In Japanese food, quail eggs are either eaten raw or cooked in sushi or bento lunches.
References
Egg |
856426 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%20Bay | Delaware Bay | The Delaware Bay is a bay outside of New Jersey and Delaware. It is bordered by all three counties in Delaware and several counties in New Jersey.
The shores of the bay are mainly composed of salt marshes and mud flats.
Delaware
Geography of New Jersey
Bays of the United States |
856432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey%20Bunny%20In%20Kung%20Fu%20Challenge | Honey Bunny In Kung Fu Challenge | Honey Bunny In Kung Fu Challenge is a 2018 Indian animated action film. It is the third and final installment in the Sab Jholmaal Hai film series.
Plot
When Choos Lee arrives in Bunny's city and claims to be an unbeatable karate champion, Bunny challenges him for a competition. However, in order to win, he must perfect his martial arts skills.
References
Other websites
Indian movies
Television movies
2018 animated movies |
856439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask%20and%20Embla | Ask and Embla | Ask and Embla () were the first humans, according to Norse mythology. They are mentioned in the Poetic Eda. It is said that three gods find Ask and Embla and gave them various corporeal and spiritual gifts. Odin gave soul, Lodur gave feelings and Henir gave mind.
Askr means ash tree. The meaning of Embla is uncertain.
Related pages
Adam and Eve
Norse mythology |
856440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markiesje | Markiesje | A Markiesje, also known as Dutch Tulip Hound, is a spaniel type of dog that was first bred in the Netherlands.
Colour
The Markiesje is usually all black or black with a small amount of white markings.
Temperament
This dog, like most spaniels, is usually very friendly. They need a lot of exercise and attention to keep them happy.
References
Spaniels |
856441 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Joy%20Fowler | Karen Joy Fowler | Karen Joy Fowler (born February 7, 1950, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American novelist and author. She usually does science fiction, fantasy and literary fiction. Her work often focuses on the lives of women and the 19th-century.
Fowler is best-known for being the novelist of the best-selling book The Jane Austen Book Club. It was later adapted into a movie of the same name.
Fowler began publishing short stories in the mid-to-late 1980s. Two of her stories were Recalling Cinderella (1985) and Artificial Things (1986).
Fowler's first novel, Sarah Canary (1991), received strong positive reviews from book critics and readers. The novel is of several people that are alienated in the 19th-century America while dealing with peculiar first contact. One character is a Chinese American. The second character carries mental illness. The third character is a feminist. The last is Sarah herself.
Fowler later teamed up with the science fiction writer Pat Murphy to found the James Tiptree Jr. Award, the literary prize for science fiction and fiction which "expands of explores our understanding of gender." The prize was named for the science fiction author Alice Sheldon. Sheldon used the pen name James Tiptree Jr. for writing her books. The award's main focus is to recognize authors/novelists, female or male, who challenge and reflect shifting gender roles.
In 1987, Fowler received the Hugo Award related to her writing career.
Fowler's second novel, The Sweetheart Season (1996), is a romantic comedy mixed with historical and fantasy elements.
Fowler's 1998 collection, Black Glass, won a World Fantasy Award. Her 2010 collections What I Didn't See and Other Stories won the same award.
In 2004, Fowler received a Nebula Award for her short book What I Didn't See.
In 2008, Fowler won the Nebula Award a second time for the Best Short Story. The 2008 win was for her 2007 short story Always. Another short story, The Pelican Bar won a Shirley Jackson Award in 2009 and a World Fantasy Award one year later.
Fowler's most recent novel, We are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) won a Pen/Faulkner Award for 2014. It was also nominated for a 2014 Nebula Award. It was later shortlisted with a 2014 Man Booker Prize.
Fowler received the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award during the 2020 convention.
The awards and honors
1985 Published Winner for "Recalling Cinderella," a new writer short story winner in L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writer's of the Future Vol 1 edited by Algis Budrys
1998 World Fantasy Award for "Black Glass", a collection of short stories.
2004 Nebula Award for "What I Didn't See", a short story.
2008 Nebula Award for "Always", a short story.
2009 Shirley Jackson Award for "The Pelican Bar", a short story
2010 World Fantasy Award for "What I Didn't See, and Other Stories", a collection of short stories.
2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves", a novel.
2014 Specsavers National Book Awards "International Author of the Year" winner for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
2017 World Fantasy Award for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 for Best Anthology (nominee)
The novels
Sarah Canary (1991) - Novel concerning a mysterious woman in 1873 Pacific Northwest.
The War of the Roses (1991) - Chapter book publication of the novelette.
The Sweetheart Season (1996) - Fantasy novel about the Sweetwheat Sweethearts, a female baseball team from 1947 Minnesota.
Sister Noon (2001) - Novel set in 1890s San Francisco.
The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) - Six members of an early 21st century book club discuss Jane Austen books.
Wit's End (Putnam, 2008) - A young woman visits her godmother, one of America's most successful mystery writers.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner, A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 2013, shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize)
The collections
Artificial Things (1986) - Collection of 13 short stories.
Peripheral Vision (1990) - Collection of 5 stories, 1 original. Author's Choice Monthly #6
Letters from Home (1991) with Pat Cadigan and Pat Murphy. Collection of short fiction by Fowler, Cadigan, and Murphy.
Black Glass (1997) - Collection of 15 short stories, 2 original. Includes the contents from Peripheral Vision and Letters from Home.
What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010) - Collection of 12 short stories, 1 original.
As editor
MOTA 3: Courage (2003) - Anthology of short fiction.
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2005) with Debbie Notkin, Pat Murphy and Jeffrey D. Smith. Anthology of winners of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Tachyon Publications.
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2006) with Debbie Notkin, Pat Murphy and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications.
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007) with Debbie Notkin, Pat Murphy and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications.
References
Writers from Indiana
Short story writers
Science fiction writers
People from Bloomington, Indiana
Award winning writers
1950 births
Living people |
856443 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Cape%20Girardeau%2C%20Illinois | East Cape Girardeau, Illinois | East Cape Girardeau is a village in Alexander County, Illinois. The 2020 United States Census reported 385 people living in the village.
The village is east of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The location of the village being just across the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau is the reason for the village being called East Cape Girardeau. The village was founded in 1890.
References
Villages in Illinois
1890s establishments in Illinois
1890 establishments in the United States |
856445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Gulliksen | Tommy Gulliksen | Tommy Gulliksen is a Norwegian film director. In 2012 he won a Golden Nymph Award in Monaco, for the documentary movie, Terror Island (2011); the same year he [and others] won the award Gullruten in Norway.
He was born in 1980 and grew up in Oslo's Lambertseter (area). He was a student at Oslo University College (which now is part of Oslo Metropolitan University).
Filmography
[a Christian group within the 'Russ celebration'] Jesusrussen (2003)
[ Roger and Mor] Roger og Mor (2004)
[ Last bus home] Siste bussen hjem (2005)
[ When someone hits a teacher (with their hand)] Når læreren blir slått (2005)
[ Silence via pills] Stille med pille (2006)
[ "Charity as a business"] Veldedighet AS (2006)
[ The bodyguards] Livvaktene (2007)
[ A haven for war criminals] En fristed for krigsforbrytere (2007)
[ Blood money] Blodpenger (2008)
[ The bicycle dream] Sykkeldrømmen (2009)
[The great bicycle race (Trondheim to Oslo)] Den store styrkeprøven (2009)
[ Death sentence in Congo] Dømt til døden i Kongo (2009; Gulliksen was one of two film directors)
[Boy of the streets] Gategutt (2010)
[ Jonna gets a mother] Jonna får en mamma (2011)
Terror Island (2011), original title: En liten øy i verden
300 sekunder: Trådløs (2011)
[ A new life] Et nytt liv (2012)
[ Back to Utøya] Tilbake til Utøya (2012)
[ Caught up in the dream] Fanget av drømmen (2012)
[ The moment of freedom] Frihetens øyeblikk (2012)
[ A new life] Et nytt liv (2012)
[ Our loved ones] Våre Kjære (2013)
[ When father kills] Når pappa dreper (2013)
Fotballeventyret Carew (2014)
[ Operation Conspiracy] Operasjon konspirasjon (2014)
Edderkoppen (2015)
[The whistleblower] Varsleren (2016)
[ When bones turn into jello] Når knoklene blir til gele (2017)
Liberation Day (2018) (Co-producer)
[Our man in Pyongyang] Vår mann i Pyongyang (2018)
War of Art (2019)
[ The man who fell] Mannen som falt (2020)
*[ The legacy of 22 July] Arven etter 22. juli, was released in 2021
References
Norwegian people
Living people
Norwegian movie directors |
856448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast%20of%20Champions%20%28movie%29 | Breakfast of Champions (movie) | Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American black comedy movie directed by Alan Rudolph and was based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. It stars Bruce Willis, Will Patton, Alison Eastwood, Lukas Haas, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Valerie Perrine, Omar Epps, Buck Henry, Jake Johanssen, Owen Wilson. It was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures and was a box office bomb.
Other websites
1999 comedy movies
1990s black comedy movies
American black comedy movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Alan Rudolph |
856451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai%20Hind | Jai Hind | Jai Hind (, ) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan", and in contemporary colloquial usage usually means "Long live India" or "Salute to India". It emerged as a form of battle cry and in political speeches.
References
Parts of speech
Battles |
856453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tiptree%20Jr. | James Tiptree Jr. | Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction author. She was better known by her pen name James Tiptree Jr.. She used the pen name for her books from 1967 until her death. Before 1977, most people didn't know that James Tiptree Jr. was really a woman. Sheldon was added into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.
In 1936, Sheldon participated in group shows at the Art Institute of Chicago. She had connections to the institute through her family. It showed some new American work. This was an important step forward for Sheldon's painting career. At this time Sheldon also took private art lessons from John Sloan. She disliked prudery in painting. While examining an anatomy book for an art class, Sheldon saw that the genitals were blurred. She then restored the genitals of the figures with a pencil.
In 1939, a nude self-portrait from Sheldon named Portrait in the Country was accepted for the "All-American" biennial at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.. The portrait was displayed there for just over six weeks. While these two shows were seen as big breaks, she downplayed the accomplishments. She said then that "only second-rate painters sold." Sheldon preferred keeping her art works at home.
The science fiction career
Not long after Sheldon started writing science fiction, in 1967 she adopted the name James Tiptree Jr. The name Tiptree was from branded jars of marmalade. The Jr. was the idea of her husband. In one interview, Sheldon said: "A male name seemed like good camouflage. I had the feeling that men would slip by less observed. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation."
The "Tiptree" pen name was maintained until late in 1977. That was in part because though the name was widely known as a pen name, it was well understood that its use was to protect the professional reputations of the intelligence community official.
But then, in 1976, "Tiptree" said during a letter that "his" mother, also a writer, died in Chicago. Those details led the fans to see the obituary. Sheldon's actual identity was then exposed.
The themes
Before Sheldon's real identity was exposed, Tiptree was often known as an unusually macho male. However, Sheldon's view of sexual politics was ambiguous.
Death
On May 19, 1987, Sheldon shot her husband and then herself. They were discovered dead, near each other in their Virginia home in bed.
The works
Short story collections
Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)
Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975)
Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978)
Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions (1981)
Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories (1985)
The Starry Rift (1986) (linked stories)
Tales of the Quintana Roo (1986) (linked stories)
Crown of Stars (1988) (linked stories)
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (omnibus collection) (1990)
The abbreviation(s) after each title indicate its appearance in one or more of the following collections:
1968
"The Mother Ship" (later retitled "Mamma Come Home") (novelette): LYFH
"Pupa Knows Best" (later retitled "Help"; novelette): LYFH
"Birth of a Salesman" (short story): LYFH
"Fault" (short story): WWO
"Happiness Is a Warm Spaceship" (short story): MM
"Please Don't Play With the Time Machine" (very short story): MM
"A Day Like Any Other' (very short story): MM
1969
"Beam Us Home" (short story): LYFH, BB
"The Last Flight of Doctor Ain" (short story): WWO, SRU
"Your Haploid Heart" (novelette): SSOP
"The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone" (novelette): LYFH
"Parimutuel Planet" (later retitled "Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion") (novelette): LYFH
1970
"The Man Doors Said Hello To" (short story): LYFH
"I'm Too Big But I Love to Play" (novelette): LYFH
"The Nightblooming Saurian" (short story): WWO
"Last Night and Every Night" (short story): CS
1971
"The Peacefulness of Vivyan" (short story): LYFH, BB
"I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty" (short story): LYFH, BB
"And So On, and So On" (short story): SSOP, SRU
"Mother in the Sky with Diamonds" (novelette): LYFH
1972
"The Man Who Walked Home" (short story): LYFH, BB, SRU
"And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways" (novelette): WWO, SRU
"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" (short story): LYFH, SRU
On the Last Afternoon (novella): WWO, SRU
"Painwise" (novelette): LYFH
"Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket" (short story): LYFH
"Filomena & Greg & Rikki-Tikki & Barlow & the Alien" (later retitled "All the Kinds of Yes") (novelette): WWO
"The Milk of Paradise" (short story): WWO
"Amberjack" (short story): WWO
"Through a Lass Darkly" (short story): WWO
"The Trouble Is Not in Your Set" (short story): MM (previously unpublished)
"Press Until the Bleeding Stops" (short story): MM
1973
"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" (short story): WWO, BB, SRU
"The Women Men Don't See" (novelette): WWO, SRU
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (novelette): WWO, SRU
1974
"Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (novelette): SSOP, SRU
"Angel Fix" (novelette, under the name "Raccoona Sheldon"): OE
1975
A Momentary Taste of Being (novella): SSOP, SRU
1976
"Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!" (short story, under the name Raccoona Sheldon): OE, BB, SRU
"Beaver Tears" (short story, under the name Raccoona Sheldon): OE
"She Waits for All Men Born" (short story): SSOP, SRU
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (novella): SSOP, SRU (Hugo award winner; Nebula award winner)
"The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats" (novelette): SSOP
1977
"The Screwfly Solution" (novelette, under the name Raccoona Sheldon): OE, SRU
"Time-Sharing Angel" (short story): OE
1978
"We Who Stole the Dream" (novelette): OE, SRU
1980
Slow Music (novella): OE, SRU
"A Source of Innocent Merriment" (short story): OE
1981
"Excursion Fare" (novelette): BB
"Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo" (later retitled "What Came Ashore at Lirios") (novelette): QR
"Out of the Everywhere" (novelette): OE
With Delicate Mad Hands (novella): OE, BB, SRU
1982
"The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" (short story): QR
1983
"Beyond the Dead Reef" (novelette): QR
1985
"Morality Meat" (novelette, under the name Racoona Sheldon): CS
The Only Neat Thing to Do (novella): SR
"All This and Heaven Too" (novelette): CS
"Trey of Hearts" (short story): MM (previously unpublished)
1986
"Our Resident Djinn" (short story): CS
"In the Great Central Library of Deneb University" (short story): SR
Good Night, Sweethearts (novella): SR
Collision (novella): SR
The Color of Neanderthal Eyes (novella): MM
1987
"Second Going" (novelette): CS
"Yanqui Doodle" (novelette): CS
"In Midst of Life" (novelette): CS
1988
"Come Live with Me" (novelette): CS
Backward, Turn Backward (novella): CS
"The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew" (novellette): CS [written in 1973]
The novels
Up the Walls of the World (1978)
Brightness Falls from the Air (1985)
Other collections
Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree Jr. (Tachyon Publications, 1996)
Meet Me at Infinity (a collection of previously uncollected and unpublished fiction, essays and other non-fiction, with much biographical information, edited by Tiptree's friend Jeffrey D. Smith) (2000)
The adaptations
"The Man Who Walked Home" (1977): comic book adaptation in Canadian underground comic Andromeda Vol. 2, No. 1; September; Silver Snail Comics, Ltd.; Toronto; pp. 6–28. Pencils by John Allison, inks by Tony Meers.
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1990): radio drama for the National Public Radio series Sci-Fi Radio. Originally aired as two half-hour shows, February 4 and 11.
"Yanqui Doodle" (1990): half-hour radio drama for the National Public Radio series Sci-Fi Radio. Aired March 18.
Weird Romance (1992): Off-Broadway musical by Alan Menken. Act 1 is based on "The Girl Who Was Plugged In".
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1998): television film: episode 5 of the series Welcome to Paradox
The Screwfly Solution (2006): television film: season 2, episode 7 of the series Masters of Horror
Xenophilia (2011) – based on the lives and works of Tiptree and Connie Converse; arranged and choreographed by Maia Ramnath; produced by the aerial dance and theater troupe Constellation Moving Company, performed at the Theater for the New City, presented November 10–13, 2011. Reviewer Jen Gunnels writes, "The performance juxtaposed some of Tiptree's short stories with Converse's songs, mixing in biographical elements of both women while kinesthetically exploring both through dance and aerial work on trapeze, lyra (an aerial ring), and silks (two lengths of fabric which the artist manipulates to perform aerial acrobatics). The result was elegant, eerie, and deeply moving."
References
Writers from Chicago
Short story writers
Murder-suicides in the United States
1915 births
1987 deaths |
856455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932%20United%20States%20presidential%20election | 1932 United States presidential election | The 1932 United States presidential election happened on November 8, 1932. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover lost to Democratic Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.
Hoover was blamed for the Great Depression, and tried to ease it, but the Depression got worse. Roosevelt also had the advantage of name recognition, since he was the fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt.
This election marked a long period where Democrats controlled the White House, as Democrats would win the next five elections. It also marked the beginning of Roosevelt's 12 years and 1 month as President-the longest tenure of any President.
Candidates
Democratic Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York (nominee)
Al Smith, former Governor of New York and nominee in the 1928 United States presidential election
John Nance Garner, Speaker of the House (vice-presidential nominee)
Republican Party
Herbert Hoover, incumbent President (nominee)
John J. Blaine, Senator from Wisconsin
Joseph I. France, former Senator from Maryland
James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., former Senator from New York
1932 in the United States
Politics of the United States
United States presidential elections |
856456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek | Newsweek | Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine created in 1933. It was a widely published newspaper weekly during the 20th century, with many well-known editors-in-chief over the years. Newsweek was later bought by The Washington Post Company in 1961, which kept it until 2010. After having difficulties with keeping money from 2008 until 2012, they started only publishing online. The print edition was trmsfr in March 2014.
Lowering in earnings resulted in an August 2010 sale by The Washington Post Company to sounds technician Sidney Harman for a price of one dollar and taking ownership of any potential problems with the magazine.. Later that year, Newsweek joined with The Daily Beast, making The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. In 2013, IBT Media said it had taken over Newsweek from IAC; the sale included the Newsweek name and its online newspaper, but not The Daily Beast. IBT Media renamed itself as Newsweek Media Group in 2017 and rebranded back to IBT Media in 2018.
References
1933 establishments in the United States
Magazines
Weekly magazines |
856458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sare%20Jahan%20se%20Accha | Sare Jahan se Accha | "Sare Jahan se Accha" (Urdu: ; Sāre Jahāṉ se Acchā), formally known as "Tarānah-e-Hindi" (Urdu: , "Anthem of the People of Hindustan"), is an Urdu language patriotic song for children written by poet Muhammad Iqbal in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry.
The song has remained popular, but only in the modern Republic of India. An abridged version is sung and played frequently as a patriotic song and as a marching song of the Indian Armed Forces.
References
Notes
Songs
National symbols of India
Indian culture |
856460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence%20Day%20%28Pakistan%29 | Independence Day (Pakistan) | Independence Day (; Yāum-e-Āzādi) is a holiday in Pakistan. It has been celebrated every year on 14 August since 14 August 1948. On that date, British India became an independent country, the Dominion of Pakistan. (The Dominion of Pakistan became today's Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956, on Republic Day.) It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence and was declared a sovereign state following the end of the British Raj in 1947. Pakistan came into existence as a result of the Pakistan Movement, which aimed for the creation of an independent Muslim state in the north-western regions of British India via partition. The movement was led by the All-India Muslim League under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The event was brought forth by the Indian Independence Act 1947 under which the British Raj gave independence to the Dominion of Pakistan which comprised West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In the Islamic calendar, the day of independence coincided with Ramadan 27, the eve of which, being Laylat al-Qadr, is regarded as sacred by Muslims.
Other websites
References
August events
British India
Pakistani culture
History of Bangladesh
Holidays
Indian independence movement
Politics of Pakistan |
856462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Press | De Press | De Press are a Polish-Norwegian rock band (or music group). It started in 1980. Its first members were Jørn Christensen, Ola Snortheim, while Andrej Nebb is still a member.
In 1981 the band won the award Spellemannprisen, class "New rock".
In 2011, Morgenbladet, a Norwegian newspaper, gave a ranking of the 100 best albums ever; Block to Block (1981) was chosen for the 10th place.
They have played concerts in Norway, as late as 2019.
The members are
Andrej Nebb, singer
Helge Hovland, guitar
Atle Rakvåg, bass
Jonas Kjærnsrød, drums
Discography
Albums
Block to Block (1981; re-mastered in 2021)
Product (1982)
On the Other Side (live, 1983)
The Ballshov Trio (1991)
3 Potocki (1991)
Vodka Party (1993)
Groj skrzypko groj (1994)
Potargano chałpa (1997)
Dwie tęsknoty (1998)
deFinite (2CD, 2000)
Śleboda (2000)
Russian Party (2001)
Cy bocycie Świnty Ojce (2002)
Lars Hertevig/On the Other Side (re-issue, 2005)
Rekyl (2006)
Zre Nas Konsumpcja (2008)
Kolędy (2008)
Myśmy Rebelianci (2009)
Norwid: Gromy i pyłki (2010)
Amen (2011)
Sex spod Tater (2013)
Body Manifest (2019)</ref>
Singles
Pond (1980)
Lars Hertevig (1981)
In a Crowded Room (1982)
East Block 2-Step (1991)
Pust Wiesegda (2005)
Żre nas Konsumpcja (2008)
Elektryczny baca (2008)
Katyń/Smoleńsk (2010)
Former members
Per Vestaby
Palle Krüger
Dag Igland
Håkon Storm-Mathisen
Harald Værnor
Arthur Holøien
Guri Tovil
Robert Vitting
Øyvind Hansen
Robert Kasprzyk
Anders Sevaldson (1981)
Dariusz Budkiewicz
Jacek Szczepaniak
Seweryn Piętka
Tomasz Urbański
Sebastian Kret
Maciej Mąka
Łukasz Badura
Sebastian Studnicki
Tomasz Fudala
Maciej Bełtowski
Łukasz Gocal
Dariusz Chrobak
Jørn Christensen
Ola Snortheim
References
Polish musical groups
Norwegian musical groups |
856465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Day | Defence Day | Defence Day ( ALA-LC: ) is celebrated in Pakistan as national day to commemorate the sacrifices made by Pakistani soldiers in defending its borders. The date of 6 September marks the day in 1965 when Indian troops illegally crossed the International Boundary to launch an attack on Pakistani Punjab, in a riposte to Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam liberating IOJK.
The change of guard ceremony takes place at Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi, where the cadets of Pakistan Air Force Academy present the Guard of Honour and take the charge.
Holidays
Pakistani culture |
856466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928%20United%20States%20presidential%20election | 1928 United States presidential election | The 1928 United States presidential election happened on November 6, 1928. The election was won by Herbert Hoover. Incumbent President Calvin Coolidge, who had been president since the death of Warren G. Harding in 1923 and was elected to a full term in 1924, decided not to run for re-election.
Al Smith, the losing candidate who was a Roman Catholic, was the first Catholic nominee for a major party in American history. He faced widespread anti-Catholic opposition. Hoover was, after all, a Protestant since he grew up in a Quaker family. It wasn't until 1960 that a Roman Catholic, John F. Kennedy, was elected.
Candidates
Republican Party
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce (nominee)
Frank Orren Lowden, former Governor of Illinois
Charles Curtis, Senate Majority Leader from Kansas (vice-presidential nominee)
Democratic Party
Al Smith, Governor of New York (nominee)
Cordell Hull, Representative from Tennessee
James A. Reed, Senator from Missouri
Atlee Pomerene, former Senator from Ohio
References
1928 in North America
United States presidential elections |
856467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320%20Frauen%20Bundesliga | 2019–20 Frauen Bundesliga | The 2019–20 Frauen Bundesliga was the 30th season of the Frauen Bundesliga in Germany. It took place from 17 August 2019 to 28 June 2020. VfL Wolfsburg won their sixth Bundesliga title.
League table
Source:
References
Other websites
Weltfussball.de
DFB.de
2019 in association football
2020 in association football
Football in Germany |
856470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFB-Pokal%20Frauen | DFB-Pokal Frauen | The DFB-Pokal Frauen is the second most important tournament in women's football in Germany. It is the female version of the DFB-Pokal. It was founded in 1980. 1. FFC Frankfurt has been the most successful club in the tournament, winning 9 titles. The current champions are VfL Wolfsburg.
Wins by team
Other websites
List of Cup Finals at rsssf.com
Football competitions in Germany |
856475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321%20DFB-Pokal | 2020–21 DFB-Pokal | The 2020–21 DFB-Pokal was the 78th season of the DFB-Pokal. Borussia Dortmund defeated RB Leipzig in the final to win their 5th title. Bayern Munich were the defending champions, but were defeated by Holstein Kiel in the 2nd round on 13 January 2021.
Final
Other websites
DFB-Pokal on kicker.de
2020 in association football
2021 in association football |
856476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry%20Angel | Sorry Angel | Sorry Angel () is a 2018 French romantic drama movie directed by Christophe Honoré and starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Podalydès, Quentin Thébault.
Other websites
2018 drama movies
2010s romantic drama movies
2010s LGBT movies
French drama movies
French romance movies
Movies directed by Christophe Honoré |
856479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA%20Euro%202028 | UEFA Euro 2028 | The UEFA Euro 2028 (officially the 2028 UEFA European Football Championship) will be the 18th UEFA European Football Championship tournament.
Host selection
These countries will officially try to become the hosts of the tournament:
Together the countries of , , , and – They also will try to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.
– This will be Turkey's 6th consecutive try to host the tournament.
and - The Spanish and Portuguese authorities have expressed their interest to co-host the final tournament .
References
UEFA European Championship tournaments
2020s in sports
2020s in Europe
Scheduled association football competitions |
856483 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Smoke | Holy Smoke | Holy Smoke! is a 1999 American Australian drama movie directed by Jane Campion and starring Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Sophie Lee, Daniel Wyllie, Pam Grier. It was distributed by Miramax Films.
Other websites
1999 drama movies
1999 LGBT movies
American drama movies
American LGBT movies
Australian drama movies
Movies directed by Jane Campion |
856485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20adaptation | Movie adaptation | Adapting a movie is the transfer of a certain work or story, either in part or in whole, to a motion picture.
Common forms of movie adaptation are using a novel as the basis of a motion picture. Other works that are adapted to motion pictures are comic books, plays, historical sources and other movies.
Several plays from William Shakespeare have been adapted into movies. Those include Hamlet, Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Examples of Hamlet on screen are the 1969, 1990 and 1996 movies. Examples for Romeo and Juliet being adapted under film include the 1936, 1968 and Romeo + Juliet (1996) movies.
Across Britain, where stage plays tend being more popular for entertainment than in the United States, many movies start off as stage productions. Examples of British and British-American motion pictures based on successful British plays include Gaslight (1940), Shirley Valentine (1989) and The Madness of King George (1994).
In similar, hit Broadway plays are often adapted under movies. Examples of Broadway plays adapted under movies are A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Children of a Lesser God (1986), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and Real Women Have Curves (2002).
Movies are sometimes created from a television series. In some cases, the movie offers a longer storyline than the usual television program format. In the adaptation of The X-Files to the movie format, greater effects and a longer plotline were involved. Adaptations of television shows will give the viewers an opportunity of seeing that show's characters without broadcast restrictions. Such additions–explicit sexual content, profanity, nudity, drug use, adult themes or graphic violence–are only the shown adaptive addition. Movie versions of Miami Vice and South Park are examples of such motion pictures adapted off the related television programs.
Awards
Certain major movies' award programs present awards for adapted screenplays, different from those for original screenplays.
The adaptation of motion pictures
When movies' screenplays are original, they are also the sources for derivative works, like novels and plays. For example, certain movie studios will sell the rights of popular title to novel publishing companies.
Novelization builds up the characters and events happening for commercial reasons.
Examples of motion pictures adapted from novels are Fanny Hill (1748), Where the Truth Lies (2003), Delta of Venus (1977), Young Adam (1954), Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) and Emmanuelle (1974).
References
Movie industry |
856488 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Hemings | Sally Hemings | Sally Hemings (1773-1835) was an enslaved woman from Virginia. She is famous for her relationship with Thomas Jefferson. People say she was his mistress or his concubine or the girl he was raping, but we do not know for sure. We do know that they had seven children together over many years. Most of what we know about Sally Hemings comes from things her son, Madison, said about her many years later.
Early life and family
According to Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings' grandmother was a fully African woman and might have been born in Africa. She was enslaved to the Eppes family in Virginia. Historians do not know for sure what her name was. Papers with the names of enslaved women in the Eppes family include "Dinah," "Judy," "Abbie," "Sarah," "Parthenia," and others. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed said that there were many girls named "Thenia" in the Hemings family, and they might have been named after Parthenia. But she also says that "Sally" is a nickname for "Sarah," and there were many girls named "Sarah" and "Sally" in the Hemings family too.
Sally Hemings' mother was called Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings. Madison Hemings told the story: Elizabeth Hemings' mother was an African woman and her father was an English sea captain named Hemings. The sea captain tried to buy Elizabeth Hemings from her owner, but the owner said no. He said he wanted to see what a half-white, half-African child would look like. Then Captain Hemings tried to take the child away from the owner without paying, but someone told the owner about his plan. Captain Hemings left Virginia and did not come back.
Captain Hemings tried to take his daughter from one of the men in the Eppes family, but historians do not know which one because they do not know when Elizabeth Hemings was born. One paper says "about 1735."
Elizabeth Hemings lived at the Eppes family's house, which was called Bermuda Hundred until 1746. That year, Martha Eppes married John Wayles. Elizabeth and other enslaved people went with Martha to Wayle's house as part of her marriage settlement. A marriage settlement was any property that a married woman could control and her husband couldn't. Technically, the Eppes family owned Elizabeth Hemings.
Elizabeth Hemings had many children. The father of most of those children, including Sally, was John Wayles. John Wayles also had children with his wife, Martha Eppes. This made Sally Hemings the half-sister of Martha Wayles Skelton, who married Thomas Jefferson.
When Martha Wayles Skelton married Jefferson, Hemings and many people in her family went with Martha Skelton to Jefferson's house at Monticello. Sally Hemings would have been about ten years old when Martha Wayles Skelton-Jefferson died. Historians think Sally Hemings and her mother Elizabeth may have helped take care of Martha Wayles Skelton-Jefferson was sick. Martha Wayles Skelton-Jefferson left Sally a present in her will: a small silver bell.
Youth and trip to France
When Thomas Jefferson went to France to be ambassador, he only took his oldest daughter with him. He also took Sally Hemings's older brother, James Hemings. Jefferson left his younger two daughters behind with his wife's relatives in Virginia. Then the youngest of the three girls died. Jefferson then wrote to his wife's relatives and asked them to send the middle girl, Maria, nicknamed "Polly," to him in France. It took two years for them to agree.
Jefferson told the relatives to choose one of the enslaved women to go with his daughter to France. He said the woman should be older, already inoculated for smallpox, and of a steady personality. He asked for an enslaved woman named Isabel, then twenty-nine years old. But Isabel had just had a baby, so she could not come. Jefferson's wife's relatives sent Sally Hemings instead. Sally Hemings was not any of the three things Jefferson had asked for. She was only fourteen, not inoculated for smallpox, and had a lively personality.
Abigail Adams met Hemings when the ship stopped in London. Abigail Adams wrote to Jefferson and said he should send Hemings back to Virginia on a ship, but he did not. She said Hemings would probably be as much work to take care of as Polly was. She wrote that Hemings was running around, laughing and playing with Polly. At the time, Adams thought Hemings was sixteen years old, but she was really fourteen years old. We do not know for sure why Abigail Adams wanted Jefferson to send Hemings back to Virginia.
In France, Hemings worked as a servant for Jefferson and as a lady's maid to Jefferson's oldest daughter, Martha. Jefferson paid her. Jefferson's writings show him buying clothes that Hemings could wear to outings with Martha. We do not know when Jefferson began having sex with Hemings. She was pregnant when Jefferson wanted to go back to Virginia.
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed wonders why Hemings agreed to go back to Virginia with Jefferson. There were about 1000 black people living in Paris at the time, and more of them were men than women. Gordon-Reed notes that if Sally Hemings had stayed in Paris, she probably could have gotten married or started her own business if she'd wanted to. Gordon-Reed says that Jefferson had planned to come back to France after after staying in Virginia only a short time. But the French Revolution's Reign of Terror happened, and he changed his plans.
The laws of France in the 1770s and 1780s did not allow people to keep slaves in France (they could keep slaves in France's colonies). People who brought slaves to France had to either send them away or free them within a certain time. Enslaved people who knew about the law sometimes went to the admiralty court and ask the French government to say they were free. Sally Hemings and her brother could have done this. Gordon-Reed notes that this would have made Jefferson and the United States look bad to the French. She also notes that if Jefferson had freed James and Sally Hemings, it would have made Jefferson and the United States look good to the French.
However, neither of these two things happened. According to Hemings and Jefferson's son Madison, Sally Hemings negotiated with Jefferson. Jefferson, James Hemings and Sally Hemings made a deal in private: Jefferson promised to free all of Sally Hemings's children, whether he was their father or not. Jefferson promised to free James Hemings after he had taught more people at Monticello how to cook in the French way.
Children
Four of Hemings' children lived to be adults.
an unnamed baby
Harriet (1795-1797)
Beverly Hemings (1798- after 1822): He was allowed to leave Monticello. He pretended to be a white man and was never found out in his lifetime.
a daughter (1799-1800)
Harriet Hemings (1801- after 1822): She was allowed to leave Monticello. She pretended to be a white woman and was never found out in her lifetime.
Madison Hemings (1805-1877): He became a carpenter. In Jefferson's will, he asked the government of Virginia to free Madison Heminings, and it did. Madison later moved to Ohio and became a farmer. Madison did not pretend to be white.
Eston Hemings Jefferson (1808-1856): In Jefferson's will, he asked the government of Virginia to free Eston, and it did. But Eston looked so much like Jefferson that he decided to pretend to be a white man. He called himself Jefferson's nephew.
Later life
Visitors to Monticello remembered Sally Hemings taking care of Jefferson's clothes and sewing. In Jefferson's writings, he called her "Maria's maid."
Legally, Sally Hemings was never freed. But historians believe that Jefferson's daughter Martha "gave Sally her time." This was a thing that slave owners would do in the early 1800s: They would let an older slave live as if they were free.
The 1830 Virginia census lists Sally, Madison, and Eston as free white people. The 1831 census lists Sally Hemings as a "free mulatto," meaning a free person who is half white and half black. In that census, Hemings said she had been living in Charlottesville, Virginia since 1826.
Scandal
People who did not like Jefferson wrote about him and Hemings. They said the fact that Jefferson had children with a black woman was a reason not to vote for him.
In 1802, Jefferson was President of the United States. That year, writer James Callendar wrote about Jefferson and Hemings in his newspaper. He called Sally Hemings a "concubine" and said that she and Jefferson had children.
Cover up
Virginia became more racist as the Civil War got closer. Jefferson's grandchildren did not want people to know their grandfather had sex with a black woman. They told people that perhaps Jefferson's nephew had been the father of Hemings's children. A man named Edmund Bacon wrote about working as an overseer at Monticello and said Jefferson was not the father of Harriet Hemings. But Bacon was not at Monticello until after Harriet was five years old.
During the 20th century, not all historians believed that Jefferson was the father of Hemings's children. Even Eston Hemings Jefferson's descendants changed their story: They said one of Jefferson's other relatives must have been Eston's father.
DNA test
In 1998, DNA testing showed that someone from Jefferson's male line must have been the father of Hemings's son Eston. Scientists tested the Y chromosome of Jefferson's uncle and the Y chromosome of Jefferson's nephews' grandfather on their own father's side. They compared these chromosomes to the Y chromosomes of Eston's male descendants. They found that Eston's family had Y chromosomes like Jefferson's and not like his nephews'. Before the tests, about a third of historians believed Thomas Jefferson had been the father of Hemings' children, about a third did not, and about a third were undecided. After the test, about two thirds believed Thomas Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.
Because Jefferson's nephews were not of his same male line, none of them could have been Eston's father. Historian Gordon-Reed matched this against letters and other records showing when Jefferson and Hemings were in the same place, and said that Jefferson could have been the father of all Hemings' children. For example, he was always at Monticello the right number of months before one of Hemings's children was born.
In 2000, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation said it was likely that Jefferson was the father of all Hemings's children.
In 2001, the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society said Jefferson's younger brother must have been the father of Hemings's children.
Appearance
We do not know what Sally Hemings looked like. Newspapers making fun of Jefferson drew pictures of her as very dark-skinned, but most of those artists had never seen her. People who saw Hemings and wrote about her said she was light-skinned with long, straight hair.
One visitor to Monticello said she was very beautiful. She was 37 when he saw her and had already had many children.
In popular culture
In 1995, the movie Jefferson in Paris showed Hemings as an older teenager who willingly seeks a relationship with Jefferson. In this movie, she returns with Jefferson to Virginia because she wants to go home.
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856491 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnie%2C%20Tasmania | Burnie, Tasmania | Burnie (Palawa Kani: Mituwaynatji) is a small city in Tasmania, a state of Australia.
Cities in Tasmania |
856493 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash%20religion | Kalash religion | The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The total population of Kalash religious people ranges from 40,000 to 50,000. The culture of Kalash people is unique and differs drastically from the various ethnic groups surrounding them. They are polytheists and nature plays a highly significant and spiritual role in their daily life. As part of their religious tradition, sacrifices are offered and festivals held to give thanks for the abundant resources of their three valleys. Kalash mythology and folklore has been compared to that of ancient Greece, but they are much closer to Indo-Iranian (Vedic and pre-Zoroastrian) traditions.
The Kalasha observe many festivals in a year, their major festivals are:
Joshi, celebrated in May to welcome the spring
Uchaw, observed in late August to ensure good crops of wheat
Pul/Poh, observed September, only in the Birir Valley
Chaumos, observed in December for more than two weeks, it is the grand festival of the Kalasha tribe and it is celebrated to welcome New Year
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Asian culture |
856495 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20objectification | Sexual objectification | Sexually objectifying a person means to view them like things for sexual desire.
Both males and females can be sexually objectified, as can children and teenagers. Women and girls, however, are more likely victims of sexual objectification than men and boys. The concept of sexual objectification toward females is very important for certain feminist theories. The sexual objectification toward women and girls contributes to poor treatment against them and to gender inequality. A number of psychologists link sexual objectification under certain physical and mental health risks for women and girls.
Sexual objectification of women
The sexual objectification of women/girls has them being viewed like an object under male sexual desires, not as a whole person. Opinions differ, however, on which situations are objectionable. Many see the sexual objectifying of women/girls taking place with sexual portrayals involving them under art, media, advertising, pornography, prostitution and beauty contests.
There is also evidence showing that females are sometimes sexually objectified by other females.
Sexual objectification of Hispanic/Latina women
Hispanic or Latina females are more often sexually objectified under stereotypes (unfair generalisations) toward them. The American media often portray these women as more likely to perform casual sex with multiple partners. The same media portray these females as having curved shapes, large breasts, large buttocks, having a melodramatic (over-the-top) attitude or being feisty.
Sexual objectification of men
Women also sometimes see men as sex objects. This often happens in movies and in advertising. It also happens in certain television programs. Finally, erotic shows (such as a striptease), or pornography may reduce men to sex objects.
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Controversies |
856498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Box%20%28movie%29 | The Magic Box (movie) | The Magic Box is a 1951 British biographical drama movie directed by John Boulting and starring Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Janette Scott, Robert Beatty, Richard Attenborough, Basil Sydney, Bernard Miles, Glynis Johns, Sheila Sim, Peter Ustinov, Laurence Olivier, Michael Denison, William Hartnell, Margaret Rutherford, Maurice Colbourne, Ronald Culver.
Other websites
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1950s biographical movies
British biographical movies
British drama movies
Movies directed by John Boulting |
856500 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipur%20Ancient%20and%20Historical%20Monuments%20and%20Archaeological%20Sites%20and%20Remains%20Act%2C%201976 | Manipur Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1976 | The Manipur Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1976 is a legal act passed by the Government of Manipur, India. It aims at the protection and the preservation of the ancient and historical monuments and the archaeological sites and remains of Manipur. Presently, there are 51 protected monuments under the act. To incorporate and protect more sites and monuments of the state, this act was further amended in 1996 substituting 100 years by 75 years for classifying a monument eligible for protection.
Legislation
Manipur |
856503 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howling%20II%3A%20Your%20Sister%20Is%20a%20Werewolf | Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf | Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (also known as Howling II and Howling II: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch) is a 1985 American British Czech horror movie directed by Philippe Mora and was based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Gary Brandner and is the sequel to the 1981 movie The Howling. It stars Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Marsha Hunt, Sybil Danning, Jimmy Nail.
Other websites
1985 horror movies
1980s sequel movies
American horror movies
American sequel movies
British horror movies
Czech movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Philippe Mora |
856508 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%20Qasim | Mir Qasim | Mir Qasim (; died 8 May 1777) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763.
Year of birth unknown
1777 deaths |
856510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus%2C%20Missouri | Festus, Missouri | Festus is a city just west of the Mississippi River in Jefferson County, Missouri. The 2020 United States Census found just over 12,000 people living in the city.
Festus and its nearby neighbor Crystal City are often called the "Twin Cities of Missouri".
The original name of the city was "Tanglefoot". It was planned by the name in 1878. The city's name was later changed to "Festus".
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856516 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20City%2C%20Missouri | Crystal City, Missouri | Crystal City is a city in Jefferson County, Missouri. It is on the Mississippi River. The 2020 United States Census showed about 4,700 people living in the city.
Crystal City and nearby Festus are called the "Twin Cities of Missouri".
The original name for Crystal City was New Detroit. In the 1860s, PPG Industries, then known as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, opened a glass manufacturing plant. The city was renamed after the business.
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Cities in Missouri |
856518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascivious%20behavior | Lascivious behavior | Lascivious behavior, better known as lewdness, indecency or lechery, is sexual behavior or conduct that is called crude and offensive. It is also against certain and other standards of appropriate behavior.
The legal usage
Under American law, the word lascivious is a semi-technical term which means immoral sexual actions, words or thoughts. The term is often used under the legal description of criminal acts wherein certain forms of sexual activity are prohibited.
In the 2000s and after, the word was used for one of several adjectives describing pornography, solicitation for prostitution and indecent acts.
In American law mailing lascivious matter is prohibited thus:
Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance ... [i]s declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.
References
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Human sexuality |
856522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying%20and%20Mapping%20%28Amendment%29%20Bill%2C%202020 | Surveying and Mapping (Amendment) Bill, 2020 | A joint sitting of parliament on Wednesday 16th September, 2020 passed The Surveying and Mapping (Amendment) Bill, 2020. The Surveying and Mapping (Amendment) Bill, 2020 is targeted at preventing the printing, displaying, dissemination of or use of an incorrect and unofficial map of Pakistan.
According to the Surveying and Mapping (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Amendment of section 16 (6): No one can print, display, disseminate, use or circulate incorrect and unofficial version of map of Pakistan or any part of Pakistan in hard or digital form. All individuals’ firms, organizations or departments shall get their maps vetted and cleared from Survey of Pakistan before use, publication. dissemination or circulation.
Amendment of section 3 (3): Survey of Pakistan shall be technical department for all activities involving surveying, mapping, geographic information system or remote sensing and geospatial information technologies in the country.
Amendment of section 20 (vi): Any individual, firm, organization or department involved in printing, displaying, disseminating, using or circulating incorrect and unofficial version of map of Pakistan or any part of Pakistan in hard or digital form shall be liable to be imprisoned for a term which may extend up to five years or a fine of five million rupees or both.
References
Politics of Pakistan
2020 in Pakistan |
856524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom | Alstom | Alstom is a French company specialized in rail transport. It is based in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France. It is one of the largest rail transport manufacturer in the world.
In 2021, the Group bought Bombardier Transportation company.
The company was founded in 1928.
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Official website
1920s establishments in France
1928 establishments in Europe
Rail transport in Europe
Companies of France |
856526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying%20and%20Mapping%20Act | Surveying and Mapping Act | The Surveying and Mapping Act was assented to by the President of Pakistan in May 2014 after being passed by the National Assembly in order to regulate geospatial data.
References
Politics of Pakistan
2010s in Pakistan
2014 in Asia |
856532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Swamy | Stan Swamy | Stanislaus Lourduswamy (26 April 1937 – 5 July 2021), popularly known as Stan Swamy, was an Indian Roman Catholic priest. He was a member of the Jesuit order. He was known for his activism for human rights in India. Swamy was the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India.
Swamy died of COVID-19 related problems at a Mumbai prison on 5 July 2021, aged 84.
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2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Indian activists
Jesuits
Roman Catholic priests |
856533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Pegasus%20revelations | Project Pegasus revelations | The Pegasus Project is an international investigative journalism effort to reveal spying abuses by many governments on journalists, opposition politicians, activists, business people and others using the private NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
In 2020, a list of over 50,000 phone numbers believed to belong to people known as "people of interest" by clients of the Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group was leaked to Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories.
People spied on
This information was passed along to 17 media organisations under the umbrella name "The Pegasus Project". Over several months, over 80 journalists from The Guardian (UK), Le Monde and Radio France (France), Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, WDR and NDR (Germany), The Washington Post and Frontline (United States), Haaretz (Israel), Aristegui Noticias and Proceso (Mexico), Knack and Le Soir (Belgium), The Wire (India), Daraj (Syria), Direkt36 (Hungary), and OCCRP investigated the spying abuses.
Some of the journalists and activists that were spied on were Jamal Khashoggi (who was assassinated in 2018), Loujain al-Hathloul and Stan Swamy (convicted Jesuit priest for terrorism).
References
July 2021 events |
856534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdal%C3%A9na%20V%C3%A1%C5%A1%C3%A1ryov%C3%A1 | Magdaléna Vášáryová | Magdaléna Vášáryová (; also known as Magda Vášáryová ; born 26 August 1948) is a Slovak actress and politician. She was ambassador of Czechoslovakia in Austria from 1990 until 1993 and to Poland from 2000 until 2005.
She unsuccessfully ran of President of Slovakia in the 1999 presidential election. In 2006, she was elected to the National Council of the Slovak Republic for Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party.
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Profile as a 2006 election candidate
1948 births
Living people
Slovakian actors
Slovakian politicians
Ambassadors |
856535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain%20al-Hathloul | Loujain al-Hathloul | Loujain al-Hathloul ( Lujjayn al-Hadhlūl; born 31 July 1989) is a Saudi women's rights activist, socialite, and a former political prisoner.
Al-Hathloul has been arrested and released many times for driving in Saudi Arabia, something that is illegal for women to do there.
In March 2019, PEN America announced that Nouf Abdulaziz, al-Hathloul, and Eman al-Nafjan would receive the 2019 PEN America/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. Al-Hathloul was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2019". Al-Hathloul was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 and 2020.
She was released from prison on 10 February 2021.
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Living people
Feminists
Socialites
Human rights activists
People from Jeddah |
856537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Origin%20NS-16 | Blue Origin NS-16 | NS-16 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin which flew on 20 July 2021. The mission was the sixteenth flight of the company's New Shepard spacecraft, and its first crewed flight. It carried into space American billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, pilot and Mercury 13 candidate Wally Funk and Dutch passenger Oliver Daemen. The flight began from Blue Origin's sub-orbital launch site in West Texas.
NS-16 was the first human spaceflight from the U.S. state of Texas. On this flight Daemen and Funk, who were respectively 18 and 82 years old, became the youngest and oldest people to travel to space.
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Private spaceflight
July 2021 events |
856538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Shepard | New Shepard | New Shepard is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), crew-rated suborbital launch vehicle created by Blue Origin as a way to boost space tourism.
In 2021, the first fully automated spaceflight with civilian passengers, was launched with a New Shepard rocket.
The name New Shepard is named after the first American astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts.
History
Blue Origin planned its first crewed test flight - Blue Origin NS-16 - to occur in 2019, which was however delayed until 2021.
The first passenger flew on 20 July 2021 having purchased the seat at auction for $28 million; however, this auction passenger later dropped out and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen was selected to fly.
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Rockets |
856539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20Seven | Mercury Seven | The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also known as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1.
Their names were publicly announced by NASA on April 9, 1959. These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.
All of the Mercury Seven eventually flew in space. They piloted the six spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and members of the group flew on all of the NASA human spaceflight programs of the 20th century—Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.
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856540 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Cooper | Gordon Cooper | Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States.
Cooper died at age 77 from heart failure at his home in Ventura, California, on October 4, 2004.
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1927 births
2004 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American astronauts
Scientists from Oklahoma |
856541 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble%20Beach%2C%20California | Pebble Beach, California | Pebble Beach is an unincorporated community on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County, California.
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Unincorporated communities in California
Settlements in Monterey County, California |
856542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally%20Schirra | Wally Schirra | Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (, March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury.
In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first crewed launch for the Apollo program.
Schirra died on May 3, 2007, of a heart attack caused by stomach cancer in San Diego, California. He was 84 years old.
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2007 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Deaths from stomach cancer
American astronauts
Scientists from New Jersey
People from Hackensack, New Jersey |
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