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861809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Lowes | Katie Lowes | Katie Quinn Lowes (born September 22, 1982) is an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her role as Quinn Perkins in Scandal.
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American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American theatre directors
Actors from Queens |
861810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh%20Gamliel | Aryeh Gamliel | Aryeh Gamliel (, 11 March 1951 – 6 August 2021) was an Israeli politician and rabbi. He was a member of the Knesset for Shas between 1988 and 2003. Gamliel was born in Beersheba, Israel. From 1996 until 1999, Gamliel was Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs.
Gamliel died on 6 August 2021 in Tel Aviv, aged 71.
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2021 deaths
Israeli rabbis
Israeli politicians |
861811 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Melchior | Daniela Melchior | Daniela Melchior (born November 1, 1996) is a Portuguese actress. She is best known for playing Ratcatcher 2 in The Suicide Squad (2021). She also voiced Spider-Gwen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
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Living people
Portuguese movie actors
Portuguese television actors
Portuguese voice actors
Models |
861812 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Underground%20D78%20Stock | London Underground D78 Stock | The London Underground D78 Stock is a type of Sub-surface tube built by Metro Cammel. These run on the District line and entered service January 28, 1980 and are still in service.
Transport in London |
861819 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effervescence | Effervescence | Effervescence is the release of gas from a mixture where water dissolves another substance, and the foaming and fizzing that results from the release.
The most common gas that is released in effervescence is carbon dioxide, however nitrogen gas can be dissolved to produce smaller bubbles.
Effervescence can be seen when opening a bottle of champagne, beer or some soft drinks. The bubbles that can be seen are produced by the escape from the dissolved gas (which cannot be seen while dissolved in the liquid).
In the laboratory, a common example of effervescence is seen when hydrochloric acid is added to a block of limestone. If a few pieces of marble or an antacid tablet are put in hydrochloric acid in a test tube fitted with a cork, it is possible to see an effervescence of carbon dioxide.
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861826 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine%20Wright | Martine Wright | Martine Wiltshire, MBE (first named Wright; born 30 September 1972) is a British sitting volleyball player.
Wright was born in London. She lost both her legs because of injuries from an explosion during the 7/7 London bombings in 2005.
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1972 births
Sportspeople from London
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Sitting volleyball players |
861829 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Girl%20Code | The Girl Code | "The Girl Code" is the 10th episode of The Simpsons 27th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on January 3, 2016. In the episode, Marge Simpson puts a photo on social media that gets her wife Homer fired from his job. Homer later gets a new job at a Greek restaurant. Lisa makes a program that will tell people what will happen if they put something on social media.
The episode was written by Rob LaZebnik and Chris Clements is the director of the episode. Stephen Merchant guest stars in the episode as Conrad, a character in Lisa's program. Kaitlin Olson is the voice of Lisa's coding teacher, Quinn Hopper. About 4.41 million people watched the episode when it was first broadcast.
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2010s television episodes |
861830 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland%20%28movie%29 | Iceland (movie) | Iceland is a 1942 American romance musical movie directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Felix Bressart, Sterling Holloway, Osa Massen. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Other websites
Iceland at IMDB
1942 movies
1940s musical movies
1940s romance movies
American musical movies
American romance movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by H. Bruce Humberstone |
861834 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate%20Tables | Separate Tables | Separate Tables is a 1958 American romantic drama movie directed by Delbert Mann and was based on the two one act plays by Terence Rattigan. It stars Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Rod Taylor, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper, Priscilla Morgan and was distributed by United Artists. It was nominated for 7 Oscars and won 2 Academy Awards in 1959.
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1958 romance movies
1950s romantic drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Movies based on plays
Movies directed by Delbert Mann |
861836 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santpedor | Santpedor | Santpedor is a municipality of 7,604 people (2020). It is in the province of Barcelona in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain. It is north of Manresa, the flattest part of Bages. The main sights are the Romanesque-Gothic church of St. Peter, and the Hermitage of St. Francis.
Former football player and current manager of Manchester City Josep Guardiola was born here.
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Municipalities in Catalonia |
861838 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boana%20exastis | Boana exastis | Boana exastis is a frog that lives in Brazil on the eastern side of the mountains.
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Frogs
Animals of South America |
861846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%20%28disambiguation%29 | FBI (disambiguation) | FBI may refer to:
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
861848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20King%20of%20Fighters%20%28movie%29 | The King of Fighters (movie) | The King of Fighters or KOF 2010 is an American science fiction-martial arts movie, that is loose adaptaion of SNK Playmore's best selling fighting game franchises. Directed by Gordon Chen, it was starring by Sean Faris as Kyo Kusanagi, Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui, Will Yun Lee as Iori Yagami and Ray Park as Rugal Bernstein.
2010 movies |
861851 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Way%20to%20Treat%20a%20Lady | No Way to Treat a Lady | No Way to Treat a Lady is a 1968 American black comedy crime thriller movie directed by Jack Smight and was based on the 1964 novel of the same name by William Goldman. It stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Martine Bartlett, Doris Roberts, Irene Dailey, Barbara Baxley and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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1968 comedy movies
1968 crime movies
1968 thriller movies
American black comedy movies
American crime thriller movies
American serial killer movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Jack Smight
Paramount Pictures movies
Movies set in New York City |
861863 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Moore%20%28comedian%29 | Trevor Moore (comedian) | Trevor Paul Moore (April 4, 1980 – August 6, 2021) was an American comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and musician. He was known as one of the founding members of the New York City-based comedy group the Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK). He also directed and starred in the comedy Miss March (2009). Moore was born in Montclair, New Jersey.
Moore died on August 6, 2021 in Los Angeles after falling from his balcony while drunk, aged 41.
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Accidental deaths in California
American movie actors
American television actors
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Musicians from New Jersey
Screenwriters from New Jersey
Movie directors from New Jersey
Movie producers from New Jersey
Actors from New Jersey
People from Montclair, New Jersey
Comedians from New Jersey
Musicians from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Movie directors from New York City
Movie producers from New York City
Actors from New York City
Comedians from New York City
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States |
861864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markie%20Post | Markie Post | Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress. She was known for her roles as Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy, Christine Sullivan on Night Court and as Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on Hearts Afire from 1992 to 1995. Post was born in Palo Alto, California.
Post was diagnosed with cancer in 2017. She died from the disease on August 7, 2021 at the age of 70.
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American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
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People from Palo Alto, California
Actors from Santa Clara County, California |
861866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr%20Rojtburd | Oleksandr Rojtburd | Oleksandr Rojtburd (Ukrainian Олександр Анатолійович Ройтбурд; 14 October 1961 – 8 August 2021) was a Ukrainian artist. He was the co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard. He worked as a painter and installation artist. From March 2018 to September 4, 2019 he was the director of the Odessa Art Museum. Rojtburd was born in Odessa, Ukraine.
Rojtburd died on 8 August 2021 in Kyiv at the age of 59.
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1961 births
2021 deaths
People from Odessa
Painters |
861867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najma%20Chowdhury | Najma Chowdhury | Najma Chowdhury (26 February 1942 – 8 August 2021) was a Bangladeshi academic. She was known for creating women studies in Bangladesh. She founded the Women and Gender Studies department of the University of Dhaka. She was an advisor in the Muhammad Habibur Rahman caretaker government in 1996. Chowdhury was born in Sylhet, then-Bengal Presidency.
Chowdhury died on 8 August 2021 in Dhaka from COVID-19, aged 79.
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Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi writers
Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
Academics
Feminist writers |
861868 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20test | Trinity test | Trinity test was the first test of a nuclear weapon. It took place on July 16, 1945 during the Manhattan Project. The code name Trinity was given by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, well known as father of the atomic bomb.
Related pages
Manhattan Project
Nuclear weapons |
861870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesia%2C%20New%20Mexico | Artesia, New Mexico | Artesia is a city in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, 11,301 people live in Artesia.
Cities in New Mexico |
861871 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Winget | Jennifer Winget | Jennifer Winget (born 30 May 1985), is an Indian actress. She is known for her work in Indian television series such as Dill Mill Gayye, Beyhadh and Bepannaah. She also appeared in Indian films Phir Se.
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Jennifer Winget at Bollywood Hungama
1985 births
Living people
Actors from Mumbai |
861873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Patrick%20Mulroy | Michael Patrick Mulroy | Michael "Mick" Patrick Mulroy is the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. He worked in this position from October 2017 until December 2019. He was responsible for representing the United States Department of Defense defense policy and policy in the interagency on the Middle East. He is also a retired CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer and a United States Marine.
He co-founded the Lobo Institute, where he started working on a documentary about a child soldier called My Star in the Sky. He also began working in the nonprofit Grassroots Reconciliation Group, became a Special Advisor to the United Nations, a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, and a ABC News National Security Analyst.
DASD service
The DASD for the Middle East is responsible for the policy of the US Department of Defense and represents the Department of Defense in interagency organizations in many countries.
Foreign Policy, and other media, said that Mulroy accepted the position because the former Defense Secretary Mattis was looking for a “nonpartisan and apolitical individual". Mulroy was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for his efforts. In particular, for creating a plan on Yemen, developing a policy on Iran and for helping the White Helmets in Syria.
National Defense Strategy
In January 2018, a National Defense Strategy was published, focusing on China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and the fight against terrorism. Mulroy was responsible for the implementation of the NDS in that region, including the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Yemen.
Irregular Warfare Annex
In October 2019, Mulroy presented the Irregular Warfare Annex. He said that it was part of the 2018 NDS. According to him, irregular warfare includes counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, sabotage and subversion, stabilization (warfare) and information operations, among other areas.
CIA service
Mulroy is a retired PMOO from the Special Activities Center of the CIA. CIA awards include the Intelligence Star, the Intelligence Commendation Medal, the Career Intelligence Medal and the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal, among others. He is also a recipient of the State Department's Superior Honor Award. Mulroy is also a godfather to four Gold Star daughters.
Military service
Mulroy is a retired U.S. Marine and served as a commissioned officer and an enlisted Marine on active duty and in the reserves. He served as an Armored Crewman (United States military occupation code (MOS) 1811) of a M1 Abrams tank, a Judge Advocate (MOS 4412) and an Infantry Officer (MOS 0302). His military awards include the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, among others.
Other service
In September 2020, the Atlantic Council started the Counterterrorism Study Group (CTSG). Their purpose was to understand emerging trends and future predictions in counter-terrorism. Mulroy was one of these experts as well as Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, Mike Nagata, Matt Olsen, Nick Rasmussen, Russ Travers, and Owen West and others.
Afghanistan
Mulroy opposed the decision to pull all U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan. He believed the U.S. should have kept a residual force that could have maintained what the coalition fought for over two decades.
Mulroy was a member of the volunteer group called TF Dunkirk. A group established to help former Afghan soldiers that worked with the US to leave Afghanistan and resettle in the U.S.
Advocacy for child soldiers
My Star in the Sky
Mulroy along with Eric Oehlerich made a documentary My Star in the Sky. It tells the story of survival, friendship and love between two child soldiers. This documentary has been screened at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, the Atlantic Council, the Enough Project, Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and the Truman National Security Project.
The Grassroots Reconciliation Group
Mulroy is on the Board of Directors for the Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG). GRG was initiated as part of a USAID-funded program called the Northern Uganda Peace Initiative (NUPI) to reconcile and rehabilitate former child soldiers of Joseph Kony's LRA. After USAID's contract with NUPI ended, co-founders Sasha Lezhnev and Kasper Agger continued helping these communities as a self-funded effort. Since 2007, GRG has worked with 38 groups and reached 2,200 people directly, and impacted more than 5000 indirectly.
Philosophy
Mulroy is a proponent of Stoic philosophy. In an essay in Modern Stoicism entitled, “A Case for the Philosopher King,” he pushed for a return of virtue ethics in school and teaching examples of those to look up to Marcus Aurelius, Harriet Tubman, Christina Noble, James Stockdale, John Lewis, Malala Yousafzai among others. He did this after citing the precipitous decline in the confidence Americans have in one another.
In an article for ABC News, “Where philosophy intersects with war training: stoic soldiers,” he and Donald Robertson advocated for using stoicism as a philosophy in the military due to its focus on wisdom, justice, temperance, and courage. He advocated for the U.S. military to incorporate stoicism into its basic training at a conference hosted by the U.S. Army National Guard in January 2021 and in a conference hosted by Modern Stoicism as one of the keynote speakers, along with retired National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Georgetown University Professor Nancy Sherman.
Mulroy is also a member of the board of advisors for Plato's Academy in Athens, Greece.
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Lobo Institute
Publications
Living people
United States Department of Defense officials |
861880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar%2C%20Somerset | Cheddar, Somerset | Cheddar is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. In 2011, 5,755 people lived there.
Villages in Somerset
Civil parishes in Somerset |
861881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%2C%20North%20Carolina | Murphy, North Carolina | Murphy is a town in and the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 1,627 people live in Murphy.
Towns in North Carolina
County seats in North Carolina |
861882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT-AXH | VT-AXH | VT-AXH was a registration of a Boeing 737-800 which was built on November 2006 and was written off on August 2020. the 737 was operating Air India Express Flight 1344 from Dubai, UAE and crashed into a gorge at Kozhikode, India.
Manufacturer: Boeing
First flight: November 2006
Airliner: Air India Express
Status: Inactive
Country: India
Boeing 737 |
861896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half%20Moon%20%28movie%29 | Half Moon (movie) | Half Moon (Kurdish: Nîwe Mang/Nîvê Heyvê) is a 2006 Iranian Austrian French Iraqi comedy-drama movie directed by Bahman Ghobadi and starring Ismail Ghaffari, Hedieh Tehrani, Golshifteh Farahani, Allah-Morad Rashtian.
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2006 comedy-drama movies
Iranian movies
Austrian movies
French comedy movies
French drama movies
Iraqi movies
Movies directed by Bahman Ghobadi |
861908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurcher | Lurcher | A lurcher is a cross-bred dog. This breed of dog has a reputation for being a good family dog, but can be nervous, especially with strangers. The name Lurcher came from 'lerce', a Norman-French word for to lurk or hide.
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Dog breeds |
861909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%2C%20After%20the%20Fall%20of%20New%20York | 2019, After the Fall of New York | 2019, After the Fall of New York () is a 1983 Italian French science fiction movie directed by Sergio Martino and starring Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis, George Eastman, Romano Puppo, Paolo Maria Scalondro.
Other websites
1983 science fiction movies
Italian science fiction movies
French science fiction movies
Movies directed by Sergio Martino |
861911 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carc%C3%A8s | Carcès | Carcès is a commune of 3,414 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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861912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnoules | Carnoules | Carnoules is a commune of 3,490 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carqueiranne | Carqueiranne | Carqueiranne is a commune of 9,555 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Castellet%2C%20Var | Le Castellet, Var | Le Castellet is a commune of 3,887 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var |
861915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Castellet | Le Castellet | Le Castellet is the name of two communes in France:
Le Castellet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
Le Castellet, Var, in the Var department
Other
Castellet, in the Vaucluse department
Castellet-lès-Sausses, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
Le Castelet, in the Calvados department |
861916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalaire-sur-Mer | Cavalaire-sur-Mer | Cavalaire-sur-Mer is a commune of 7,499 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Celle%2C%20Var | La Celle, Var | La Celle is a commune of 1,476 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861918 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teaudouble%2C%20Var | Châteaudouble, Var | Châteaudouble is a commune of 474 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Aubin-des-Landes | Saint-Aubin-des-Landes | Saint-Aubin-des-Landes () is a commune. It is in Brittany in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in northwest France.
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Communes in Ille-et-Vilaine |
861924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20widow | War widow | A war widow is a widow who lost her husband in a war. In the Second World War, about 5.5 mililon German soldiers were killed. After the war, there was about one million war widows in Germany. These people had lost their husband either in the First or Second World War. These widows were classified as being poor. Most of them were single parents, who still needed to raise their children. There was another problem: the money they received from the state was only paid as long as they were a widow. If they remarried, they would no longer get this money. This meant that many of them lived together with a new man, who helped raise their children, but which they could not marry.
Social issues |
861926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eferding | Eferding | Eferding is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is the capital of the Eferding District.
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Official website
Settlements in Upper Austria |
861930 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roter%20Berg%2C%20Vienna | Roter Berg, Vienna | Roter Berg (in German meaning "Red Mountain") is a hill in the district of Hietzing in southwest Vienna, Austria. It is part of the Vienna Woods and has an altitude of 262 meters. A part of the hill is a park and is a large and important green space in Hietzing. Although the part of the hill that is a park, belongs to the State of Vienna, most of the hill is private property. However most of the green space that is private property, are not fenced and do not have any signs saying they are private property, and access is allowed. In winter, when it snows, the hill becomes a popular place with children who use sleds or skis to ride down the slopes, but with global warming, snow and these activities have become rare in Vienna.
Gallery
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Hills
Vienna |
861933 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauvert | Châteauvert | Châteauvert is a commune of 146 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey | Surtsey | Surtsey is an island in Iceland that appeared in 1963 as a result of an underwater volcanic eruption that released smoke, ash and matter that joined together to form the islet. It takes its name from a giant from Norse mythology.
It serves biologists and other scientists to study and see how fungi, plants and animals reach new territory and interact with it.
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Islands of Oceania |
861936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarthe%20%28river%29 | Sarthe (river) | The Sarthe is a river in western France. It is 313.9 km long. Together with the river Mayenne it forms the river Maine, which is a tributary to the river Loire.
It flows through the departments Orne, Sarthe and Maine-et-Loire.
Rivers of France
Normandy
Pays de la Loire |
861938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aire-sur-l%27Adour | Aire-sur-l'Adour | Aire-sur-l'Adour is a commune. It is in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the Landes department in southwest France.
It is on the river Adour.
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861939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnos | Tarnos | Tarnos is a commune. It is in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the Landes department in southwest France.
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Communes in Landes |
861940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauvieux%2C%20Var | Châteauvieux, Var | Châteauvieux is a commune of 81 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861946 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claviers | Claviers | Claviers is a commune of 706 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861947 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogolin | Cogolin | Cogolin is a commune of 11,556 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
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Communes in Var |
861948 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Zone%20tree%20frog | Canal Zone tree frog | The Canal Zone tree frog (Boana rufitela) is a frog that lives in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Panama.
This tree frog is green or blue-green when it is an adult. When it is a young frog, it is green or yellow-green. The webbing between its toes is red. It has a round nose. Some frogs have stripes from the nose down the side of the body.
The adult male frog is 3.9 to 4.9 cm long from nose to rear end. The adult female frog is 4.6 to 5.5 cm long from nose to rear end. The adult male frog has spines on its front feet. Scientists think this is so male frogs can fight each other.
This frog hides during the day and looks for food at night. Human beings do not usually see this frog. Instead we hear the male frogs singing. This frog lays eggs in swamps inside forests.
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Frogs
Animals of South America |
861950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirod | Sirod | Sirod is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Jura department in east France.
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Communes in Jura |
861954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Georges-de-Didonne | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne is a commune. It is in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the Charente-Maritime department in southwest France.
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Communes in Charente-Maritime |
861964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Eyes%20Cody | Iron Eyes Cody | Espera DeCorti or Oscar DeCorti or Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1907 – January 4, 1999) was a Sicilian-American actor. He played Native American characters even though he was white. In real life, he told people that he was Native American. He was in more than 100 movies, many television shows, and the famous "Crying Indian" advertisement.
Early life
Cody was born April 3, 1904 in Kaplan, Louisiana. His parents, Antonio de Corti and Francesca Selpietra, were both from Sicily in Italy. Cody and his two of his brothers, Joseph William Corti and Frank Henry Corti, went with their father to Texas and then California. Joseph William and Frank worked as actors for a while and then stopped acting. Cody's mother remarried a man called Alton Abshire and had five more children.
Career and claims
He changed his name to Cody early. Sometimes he told people he had been born in the Oklahoma territory. Other times he said he was born in other places. He said his father was Cherokee and called "Francis Long Plume." He said his mother was Cree and called "Frances Salpet." He said his name had been "Little Eagle."
He began acting in movies in the 1930s. He was in more than 100 movies, for example A Man Called Horse, Sitting Bull, and Paleface. He was on television on Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Rawhide. He sometimes acted with Colleen Moore, John Wayne, Richard Harris, and Steve McQueen. So many people believed he really was Native American that they paid him to be a consultant when they made movies or television shows.
In the 1950s, Cody and his wife had a television show where they talked about Native American history and other parts of the culture.
In 1996, a news writer from the New Orleans Times Picayune went to Louisiana and found out he was really an Italian American. He talked to Cody's half sister, May Abshire. Abshire showed the papers showing Cody had been baptized, which is a Christian blessing ceremony. He printed the story, but not everyone believed it. Cody said he was Native American all his life.
Crying Indian ad
In the Crying Indian ad, Cody, dressed as a Native American, paddles a canoe through a stream. At first, the stream is clean and pretty but it becomes dirtier and full of garbage. He gets out of the stream and walks to a highway, where people throw garbage out of their cars. Then he slowly cries one tear. A voice says, "Some people have a deep, abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. And some people don't. ... People start pollution. People can stop it." The ad was on television starting in 1971. The group Keep America Beautiful paid for and made the ad. It was about littering. The ad won many awards, for example two Clio Awards. Television stations played it so much that their copies of the film wore out and they had to get new ones.
Keep America Beautiful was run by packaging and drink companies. They tried to stop the government from passing laws that would be good for the environment. For example, they wanted to stop laws that would make them sell drinks in reusable bottles. Throwaway bottles were cheaper. So a law would be good for the environment but bad for the company. Keep American Beautiful wanted people to look at the ad and think individual people made pollution and not that big companies made pollution.
Trent University history professor Finis Dunaway says that the man in the Crying Indian ad "appears completely powerless. In the commercial, all he can do is lament the land his people lost," when, at the same time, real-life American Indians were working to solve their problems.
Another Crying Indian ad was on television in 1975. In 1998, the first one was on television again.
Marriage and children
Cody married a Native American archaeologist called Bertha "Birdie" Parker. They adopted two Native American sons named Robert and Arthur. Cody lived his private life and raised his children as if they were all Native American. He wore moccasins and other Native American clothes in public.
Beliefs
According to his friends and family, Cody did believe that protecting the environment was very important. He worked to show Native Americans well in television and movies. He worked for Native American causes.
Legacy
Not all Native Americans agree about whether Cody was good or bad or how far. The Hollywood Native community honored Cody because he represented them in movies and on television and fought bad ideas about American Indians. They said at the time that he was not Native American himself.
Death
Cody died January 4, 1999 in his house in Los Angeles.
References
Other websites
IMDB
1907 births
1999 deaths
Actors from Louisiana |
861967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%20nut | Brazil nut | The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a tree from the family Lecythidaceae. It is native to South America. The trees are known for their nuts that come from the fruit of the plant.
The plant
The Brazil nut is known to be a large tree in the Amazon rainforest. It can be about tall and the diameter of its trunk is about . It could live for 500 years. Some trees could also reach a thousand years of age. The stem is straight and commonly does not have branches in half of itself.
References
Ericales
Edible nuts and seeds |
861971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Fours-les-Plages | Six-Fours-les-Plages | Six-Fours-les-Plages is a commune of 33,665 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Twin towns
Six-Fours-les-Plages is twinned with:
Emmendingen, Germany
Zagarolo, Italy
References
Communes in Var |
861973 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagarolo | Zagarolo | Zagarolo is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Lazio region in Italy. It has about 18,000 inhabitants.
Twin towns
Zagarolo is twinned with:
Nelahozeves, Czech Republic
Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
Settlements in Lazio |
861976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewashing%20in%20movies | Whitewashing in movies | Whitewashing, in movies, is when a white actor plays a character who isn't white, when a character's race is changed to white from something else, or when someone changes a story so that people who are not white seem less important.
In the 2013 movie The Lone Ranger, white actor Johnny Depp played an American Indian character.
In the 2016 movie Doctor Strange, the character "The Ancient One" was changed from Asian to white so Tilda Swinton could play her.
Many 20th century movies about cowboys show only white men. In real life, many cowboys were black or Latino.
References
Movies
Racism |
861977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present%20continuous | Present continuous | The present continuous tense is one of the continuous tenses in English. (Continuous tenses are: present continuous, past continuous, and future continuous.)
The present continuous (also called "present progressive") tense mainly describes actions that are in progress at the time of speaking.
Forms
Affirmative sentences
Affirmative sentences in the present continuous are formed using verb be (am / is / are) + base verb-ing.
I am eating.
She is eating.
He is eating.
It is eating.
We are eating.
You are eating.
They are eating.
The short forms 'm, 's, 're can be used in informal situations and in speech.
Negative sentences
Negative sentences are formed by adding not (or the short form n't) to the verb be.
I am not eating.
She isn't eating.
He is not eating.
It is not eating.
We aren't eating.
You are not eating.
They aren't eating.
Questions
Yes / No question are formed using Verb be (Am / Is /Are) + subject + base verb-ing.
Wh-questions begin with one of the wh-question words.
(Wh-question words are: what, where, when, why, who, which, whose, how.)
Am I eating your pizza?
Are you having fun?
Is she sleeping now?
Is it raining outside?
Why is she crying?
When are they coming?
Uses
Present continuous verbs are used to describe the following situations.
Actions happening now or around now
I am fixing the broken chair right now.
The baby is sleeping at the moment.
She is taking a course in Spanish this semester.
Future actions
We are getting married soon.
He is seeing the dentist in the afternoon.
They are moving to their new apartment next month.
Repeated actions
Adverbs like always are used in this structure to imply that the speaker is irritated or annoyed by the action, or that the action was unplanned or unexpected.
She is always complaining about her children.
He is forever losing his keys.
I'm always meeting her in the hallway.
Changing or developing actions
Prices are rising these days.
Her hair is growing very fast.
Nowadays, more people are using social media to promote their businesses.
Non-continuous verbs
Non-continuous (or state verbs) are a group of verbs that describe state rather than action. They are not used in the continuous form. Instead, the present simple tense is used instead.
I don't understand these formulas.
They know what has to be done.
I believe we should revise the plans. (NOT am believing)
Some verbs can be used as state verbs and action (or dynamic) verbs, but with different meanings.
The chef is tasting the food. (action verb)
The food tastes great. (NOT is tasting; state verb)
She is looking at you. (action verb)
It looks gorgeous! (NOT is looking; state verb)
I'm having lunch with my sisters. (action verb)
I have two sisters. (NOT am having; state verb)
Grammar
English language |
861980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%20Flight | Bride Flight | Bride Flight is a 2008 Dutch Luxembourgian New Zealand romantic drama movie directed by Ben Sombogaart and starring Waldemar Torenstra, Anna Drijver, Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, Micha Hulshof, Rutger Hauer.
Other websites
2008 romance movies
2008 drama movies
2000s romantic drama movies
Dutch romance movies
Dutch drama movies
Luxembourgian movies
New Zealand movies
Movies directed by Ben Sombogaart |
861985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio | Pistachio | The pistachio (Pistacia vera) is a small tree from the family Anacardiaceae (also known as the Cashew family). It is well known for its seeds that are eaten as food. It is native to the Middle East and Central Asia.
The plant
The tree grows up to tall. It ts leaves are 10–20 centimeters (4–8 inches) long.
The fruit is a stone fruit. Only its seed is edible. The fruit has a hard, cream-colored exterior shell. The seed has a mauve-colored skin and light green flesh. When the fruit goes ripe, the shell goes from green to yellow or red and splits a bit open. Different varieties split differently.
Pistachio trees can give of seeds by average every two years.
The shell of the pistachio is naturally a beige color, but it is sometimes dyed red or green. It is thought that dye was used by importers to hide stains on the shells when the seeds were picked by hand. Most pistachios are now picked by machine and the shells do not have stains.
References
Anacardiaceae
Edible nuts and seeds |
861989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ancient%20Roman%20Mosaic%20of%20Lierna%20on%20Lake%20Como | The Ancient Roman Mosaic of Lierna on Lake Como | The The Ancient Roman Mosaic of Lierna on Lake Como or Lierna Mosaic it is a floor dating back to ancient Rome dating back to the 1st century (Augustan age) discovered in 1876 in Lierna on Lake Como, partly in a vineyard cultivated by the lake and partly in the cellar of an old café in the village's Piazzetta. Along with the precious floor, belonging to a noble villa of Ancient Rome, Roman columns, capitals, and a Roman wall at a depth of over 7.5 meters have been found, as well as numerous coins, objects, ceramics and jewelry.
The floor is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Lecco.
Description
The decoration presents a composition of hexagons arranged in a honeycomb, outlined with a row of small dark tiles on a light background, internally filled with a dark hexagon with a light flower with six petals tangent to the vertices of the hexagon or a star with six points composed of a dark hexagon with, in the center, another dark hexagon delimited by six white triangles with lower vertices tangent to each other. The hexagons with the same internal decoration follow one another in alternating bands; in the preserved fragment, only the hexagons fielded by flowers are halved at the edge which, starting from the inside, is composed of a row of dark tiles, a band of three light tiles arranged perpendicularly to each other and a dark band, initially composed of a band of three tesserae with a similar arrangement and then of weaves with an oblique warp. The smallness of the preserved portion does not allow us to have an idea of the extension of the mosaic, nor of the possible presence of a central emblem.
Controversy
Unlike what is believed, the floor is of an important Roman villa, but it does not belong to the Villa Commedia di Plinio il Giovane which, is located on the same street but more distant and built "as is customary in Positano" or on a terracing carved into the top of a rock overlooking Lake Como.
Local legends handed down for centuries tell that the Golden calf adored by the local population, which dates back to the Celtic era, is also buried in Lierna.
Related pages
Lierna
Lake Como
References
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G. Bonora Mazzoli, 1999, Aspetti topografici nelle Epistulae di Plinio il Giovane, in Κοινά. Miscellanea di studi archeologici in onore di Piero Orlandini, ed. M. Castoldi, Milano 1999, pp. 451–458.
V. A. Sirago, La proprietà di Plinio il Giovane, in AC, 26, 1, 1957, pp. 40–58.
L. Castagna, 2014, Ville, villeggiatura, viaggi di piacere in Seneca e Plinio il Giovane, in Neronia 9. La villégiature dans le monde romain de Tibère à Hadrien. Actes du IX e Congrès international de la SIÉN, Villa Vigoni, 3-6 ottobre 2012, ed. O. Devilliers, Paris-Bordeaux 2014 (Scripta antiqua, 62), pp. 47–54.
P. Pensa, La presenza militare dei Galli e dei Romani nel territorio orientale del Lario aguardia delle strade e delle miniere di ferro, in RAComo, 158, 1976, pp. 103–145.
Sigismondo Boldoni, 1666, Oratoria quae fato superfuerunt adiecto Lario, qui tertium prodit, Lucca 1666.
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S. Capini, C. Ciliberto, 2011, Alcuni pavimenti inediti da Venafrum, in AISCOM XVI, 2011, pp. 129–140.
A.D. Dell'Acqua, 2016, La geometria in alcuni mosaici di Brescia, in AISCOM XXI, 2016, pp. 129–140.
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E. Grillo, 20014, Il mosaico con il “trionfo indiano di Dioniso” dalla villa romana di Palazzi di Casignana (RC), in AISCOM XIX, 2014. pp. 153–166.
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Other websites
Francesco Muscolino (AISCOM, Atti del XXIII Colloquio dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazionen del Mosaico): "Il Mosaico di Lierna sul Lago di Como"
Cultural anthropology
Lierna |
861991 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Good%20Read%20Goes%20Unpunished | No Good Read Goes Unpunished | "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" is the 15th episode of The Simpsons 29th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on April 8, 2018. The episode is about Marge taking the Simpson family to a library. She learns that a book she loved to read as a child is racist. Bart gets the book The Art of War. He uses the book to get Homer to take him to a convention for video games. The episode was written by Jeff Westbrook and Mark Kirkland is the director of the episode. About 2.15 million people watched the episode when it was first broadcast.
The episode makes an allusion to the documentary The Problem with Apu. The documentary talks about how the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is a stereotype to Indian Americans. In the episode, Marge makes changes to the book she used to like (The Princess in the Garden) and reads it to Lisa. The new changes make the book shorter and not as emotional. Lisa looks at a picture of Apu and says that something that was liked in the past "is now politically incorrect". Hari Kondabolu (the writer of The Problem with Apu) wrote on Twitter that the episode did not get the meaning of the documentary. Many fans of The Simpsons thought that the show was not looking at the controversy of Apu seriously. Al Jean (showrunner of The Simpsons) later said he would try to find a better way for the show to talk about the controversy.
References
Other websites
The Simpsons episodes
2018 television episodes |
861993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello%20syndrome | Othello syndrome | The Othello syndrome is a pscholgogical condition, where a person thinks that their partner is unfaithful, but without having any proof for this behaviour. It is also known as pathological jealousy, morbid jelousy or delusional jealousy. The person will also behave in ways that are socially unacceptable or abnormal, but which are related to these thoughts. The most common form is characterized by delusions and obsessions. It is considered a subtype of delusional disorder.
As people are obsessed by the idea that their partner is unfaithful, they want to investigate and maintain their parner's fidelity, even if this causes big problems for themselves, and their partner.
Definition
This disorder occurs when a person accuses their partner of being unfaithfuil, even if there is little or no evidence for this. Very often people will use seemingly normal or everyday events or material to show this.
Unlike with other forms of delusion, people suffering from Othello syndrome, often stalk their partners, or they become violent. The condition can be found together with schizophrenia and a delusional disorder, such as bipolar disorder. It is associated with alcoholism and sexual dysfunction and has been reported after neurological illness (i.e. Parkinson's).
The name "Othello Syndrome" comes from the character in Shakespeare's play Othello, who murders his wife as a result of a false belief that she has been unfaithful. Recently, some psychologists and psychiatrists have asserted that Othello was deceived rather than deluded about Desdemona's alleged infidelity and thus did not have ‘the Othello Syndrome’.
Triggers
For men the strongest trigger is sexual infidelity and with women the strongest trigger is emotional infidelity. If partner-related violence does not stop infidelity from happening, the male mate will sometimes commit suicide instead. The last thing to do to stop infidelity inside of morbid jealousy is to kill their partner. Women are much less likely to do this, unless they act in self-defense. Morbid jealousy can occur together with other conditions such as chronic alcoholism, addiction to other drugs (i.e. cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana.), organic brain disorders (i.e. Parkinson's, Huntington's), schizophrenia, neurosis, affective disturbances or personality disorders.
Risks associated
Harm to self
People with this condition often think about killing themselves. This is also because Othello syndrome is often associated with depression and drug addiction.
Related pages
Envy
Isolation for the purpose of abuse
Martha Mitchell effect
References
Sources
Enoch, D. & Ball, H. (2001) The Othello Syndrome. In Enoch, D. & Ball, H. Uncommon psychiatric syndromes (fourth edition) pp50–73. London: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-76388-4
Mental illnesses |
861994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Valette-du-Var | La Valette-du-Var | La Valette-du-Var is a commune of 23,795 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var |
861995 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collobri%C3%A8res | Collobrières | Collobrières is a commune of 1,891 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var |
861997 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Mitchell%20effect | Martha Mitchell effect | The Martha Mitchell effect is the name for a false diagnosis, where a medical professional falsely labels a patient's perception of real events as a delusion.
Description
In general, what the patient reports is seen as a delusion, because it is thought to be improbable. There was no verification of the events, and they are therefore seen as they are seen as the symptoms of a mental illness.
Examples of such situations are:
Being pursued by organized criminals
Surveillance by law enforcement officers
Infidelity by a spouse
Physical issues
Quoting psychotherapist Joseph Berke, the authors report that, "even paranoids have enemies". Delusions are "abnormal beliefs" and may be bizarre (considered impossible to be true), or non-bizarre (possible, but considered by the clinician as highly improbable). Beliefs about being poisoned, followed, having an infidel parner or a conspiracy in the workplace are examples of non-bizarre beliefs that may be considered delusions. Any patient can be misdiagnosed by clinicians, especially patients with a history of paranoid delusions.
Origin
Psychologist Brendan Maher named the effect after Martha Mitchell. Mitchell was the wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General in the Nixon administration. When she said that White House officials were engaged in illegal activities, her claims were attributed to mental illness. In the end, the facts of the Watergate scandal proved her statements to be true. She was also called "The Cassandra of Watergate".
Even though many of her allegations remain unproved, such as her claim that she had been drugged and put under guard during a visit to California after her husband was summoned back to Washington, D.C., in order to prevent her from leaving the hotel or making phone calls to the news media, James McCord admitted in 1975 that her story was true, as reported in The New York Times. More evidence supporting that Martha was telling the truth was published in a 2017 news article in Newsweek about the appointment of a U.S. ambassador.
Related pages
Argument from ignorance – Logical fallacy that, since proposition has not yet been proven false, it must be true
Cassandra – Metaphor originating from Greek mythology
False memory – Psychological phenomenon
Gaslighting – Form of psychological abuse
Psychosis – Condition of the mind that involves a loss of contact with reality
Rosenhan experiment – Experiment to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
Rosemary's Baby
References
Mental illnesses
Watergate scandal |
861998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mothman%20Prophecies%20%28film%29 | The Mothman Prophecies (film) | The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 American supernatural horror movie directed by Mark Pellington. It is based on the 1975 book of the same name by American UFOlogist John Keel. It is about the search of local legend Mothman. It was released on January 25, 2002.
References
2002 movies
2002 horror movies
Movies based on books |
861999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman | Mothman | The Mothman is a legendary creature in American folklore. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States saw Mothman from November 15, 1966 to December 15, 1967.
The first newspaper publication of November 16, 1966 was titled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something."
The people who saw Mothman saw a dark shape with very large glowing red eyes.
Mothman may have been a barred owl. Barred owls's eyes shine bright red in the dark. At night, the eyes look much bigger than they really are. The people may have seen a barn owl flying very close to them and thought it was a larger animal further away.
In popular culture
The Mothman became popular when American journalist and UFOlogist John Keel wrote the book The Mothman Prophecies and published it in 1975. The book was adapted into a 2002 movie.
Also the Mothman appeared in the video game Fallout 76.
References
Legendary creatures
American folklore |
862024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Siberian%20Times | The Siberian Times | The Siberian Times is an English-language news website that was originally launched in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2012. According to the editor of the website, Svetlana Skarbo, their aim is to challenge people's stereotypes about the region, described as "negative and out of date". Will Stewart, a British journalist formulated the idea. He also often uses their content in his articles.
Western media sometimes use their stories. One example is an article about frozen Siberian worms who were reanimated after thawing out of the permafrost. This story was also reported by the Smithsonian website, though the claim was also made by the academic journal Doklady Biological Sciences.
Its reliability as a news source is disputed. According to Mashable, its stories are "allegedly real with a bit of hyperbole/Siberian fan fiction thrown in". Doubtfulnews.com also referred to the website as "not a reliable source for news".
References
Siberia
News media |
862027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anupam%20Shyam | Anupam Shyam | Anupam Shyam (20 September 1957 – 8 August 2021) was an Indian actor. He was known for playing villain roles. He played Thakur Sajjan Singh in the STAR Plus TV series Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya. He also appeared in Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Shyam was born in Pratapgarh, India. His career began in 1993.
Shyam died on 8 August 2021 at a hospital in Mumbai from multiple organ failure, aged 63.
References
1957 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian stage actors |
862028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20de%20Wasseige | Yves de Wasseige | Yves de Wasseige (13 May 1926 – 2 August 2021) was a Belgian politician and economist. He was born in Auvelais, Belgium. He was a member of the Socialist Party. Wasseige was a member of the Senate of Belgium from 1979 until 1991.
Wasseige died on 2 August 2021 in Marcinelle, Belgium at the age of 95.
References
1926 births
2021 deaths
Belgian politicians
Belgian economists |
862030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20%28politician%29 | Guillermo González (politician) | Guillermo Alberto González Mosquera (12 February 1941 – 5 August 2021) was a Colombian politician and engineer. He was born in Popayán, Colombia. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He was Mayor of Popayán from 1977 until 1978. He was Minister of National Defense in 1997 during the Ernesto Samper presidency. He later was Governor of Cauca from 2008 until 2011.
González died on 5 August 2021 in Popayán, aged 80.
References
1941 births
2021 deaths
Colombian politicians
Engineers |
862031 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popay%C3%A1n | Popayán | Popayán () is the capital of the Colombian department of Cauca.
References
Cities in Colombia |
862033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mois%C3%A9s%20Torres%20%28politician%29 | Moisés Torres (politician) | Moisés Torres (1949 – 4 August 2021) was a Bolivian politician, journalist, and professor. He was a member of Conscience of Fatherland. He represented the Chuquisaca Department in the Chamber of Deputies from 1997 to 2002. Torres was born in Sucre, Bolivia.
Torres died on 4 August 2021 in Sucre of COVID-19, aged 72.
References
1949 births
2021 deaths
Bolivian politicians
Academics
Journalists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia |
862034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Shapovalov | Oleg Shapovalov | Oleg Shapovalov (; 16 February 1963 – 6 August 2021) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the Party of Regions. He was President of the Kharkiv Oblast Council from 2005 to 2006. Shapovalov was born in Izium, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Shapovalov died on 6 August 2021 at the age of 58.
References
1963 births
2021 deaths
Ukrainian politicians |
862035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Belarus%E2%80%93European%20Union%20border%20crisis | 2021 Belarus–European Union border crisis | The 2021 Belarus–European Union migrant crisis () is a migrant crisis caused by an increase of Middle Eastern and African migrants (mainly from Iraq) to Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland through those countries' borders with Belarus. The crisis was caused by bad relations between the European Union and Belarus, following the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, the Ryanair Flight 4978 incident, and the attempted repatriation of Krystsina Tsimanouskaya.
Lithuanian officials said the crisis was a hybrid warfare by human trafficking of migrants to Lithuania and the rest of the European Union.
In Poland
On 12 July 2021, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that Poland will provide assistance to Lithuania. In July 2021, Poland sent a humanitarian aid to Lithuania. Following the granting of shelter to an Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and her husband, Poland also accused Belarus of organizing a hybrid warfare as the number of migrants crossing the Belarus–Poland border sharply increased multiple times when compared to the 2020 statistics.
As Belarus-Poland relations got worse further, migrants from Belarus began to enter Poland. On 6 August 2021, Poland reported 133 illegal crossings from Belarus over two days, which is more than the total number in the previous year, with the total number of illegal crossings to date being 552. On 9 August, Poland reported an additional 349 migrant arrivals over the weekend.
In early August 2021, a group of 32 Afghans and 41 Iraqi Kurds appeared on the border in the aftermath of the fall of Kabul (2021) and were denied entry to either country, resulting in lines of military personnel on each side isolating the encamped migrants. Their appearance follows an influx of thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants that had crossed the border from Belarus into Poland and other eastern EU members Latvia and Lithuania in the months leading up to the fall of Kabul, with the EU claiming that Belarus purposefully engineered the migration in response to union sanctions. While the Belarusian government denied this accusation, Poland called it a "hybrid attack" on the bloc and said the migrants should not be allowed entry because they are technically still in Belarus. After the migrants sought asylum assistance, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) summoned Poland and Latvia to provide them "food, water, clothing, adequate medical care and, if possible, temporary shelter" for three weeks, according to a statement from the court on 25 August, although neither country was ordered to allow the migrants past the border.
Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia released a joint statement, condemning the hybrid warfare of sending migrants over the borders. Since 18 August, 2021, Polish Armed Forces were sent to secure border with Belarus. As a response to the migrant crisis, Poland is building a wall in its border with Belarus.
References
2021 in Europe
21st century in Poland
August 2021 events
2021 European Union border crisis
History of international relations
History of Lithuania
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862036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Taliban%20offensive | 2021 Taliban offensive | A current military offensive by the Taliban and allied military groups, including al-Qaeda, against Afghanistan and its allies began on 1 May 2021. It happened around the same time as the withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The offensive is known for the quick territorial gains of the Taliban, as well as its domestic and international problems.
By 15 July, over a third of Afghanistan's 421 districts were controlled by the Taliban, and by 21 July, half of Afghanistan was under Taliban control.
On 22 July, the British Foreign Office's reports said that the Afghan military could fall apart and the Taliban could soon return to power in Kabul as a result of of NATO soldiers' withdrawal. The Foreign Office's report said that the British embassy in Kabul might need to close. The British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, believed that Kabul would be safe for the whole of 2021.
On 10 August, U.S. officials said that the Afghan capital, Kabul, could fall to the Taliban within 30 to 90 days. On 15 August, the Associated Press reported that the Taliban had reached and captured Kabul. This caused the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's government to fall. The Taliban said that they were awaiting a "transfer" of power. On 15 August, following the near seizure of the capital, the Taliban occupied the Presidential Palace after the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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2021 in Asia
21st century in Afghanistan
May 2021 events
June 2021 events
July 2021 events
August 2021 events
2021 offensive
Terrorist incidents in 2021 |
862041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20prime%20ministers%20of%20Saint%20Vincent%20and%20the%20Grenadines | List of prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | This article is a list of prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–present)
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862044 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonal%20Foyle | Adonal Foyle | Adonal David Foyle (born March 9, 1975) is a Vincentian-American former professional basketball center. He played for the Golden State Warriors from 1997 until 2007. He also played for the Orlando Magic from 2007 until 2010. Foyle played for the Memphis Grizzlies in 2009.
Foyle was born in Canouan, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. At the age of 15, Foyle was adopted by Joan and Jay Mandle, professors at Colgate University. He was raised in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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1975 births
Living people
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Orlando Magic players
Golden State Warriors players
Memphis Grizzlies players
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania |
862046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%2C%20New%20York | Hamilton, New York | Hamilton is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 6,690 at the 2010 census. The town is named after American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
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Towns in New York |
862047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20%28village%29%2C%20New%20York | Hamilton (village), New York | The Village of Hamilton is a village located within the town of Hamilton in Madison County, New York, United States. It is the location of Colgate University and has a population of 4,239, according to the 2010 census.
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Villages in New York |
862049 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olean%20%28town%29%2C%20New%20York | Olean (town), New York | Olean is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 1,963 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Latin word "oleum" because of the discovery of crude oil nearby the area.
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Towns in New York |
862050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Valley%20%28village%29%2C%20New%20York | Little Valley (village), New York | Little Valley is a village in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States and as the county seat of the county. The village population was 1,143 at the 2010 census.
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Villages in New York
County seats in New York |
862051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Valley%2C%20New%20York | Little Valley, New York | Little Valley is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 1,740 at the 2010 census.
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Towns in New York |
862052 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Valley%2C%20New%20York | Great Valley, New York | Great Valley is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 1,974 at the 2010 census.
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Towns in New York |
862053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanca%20%28city%29%2C%20New%20York | Salamanca (city), New York | Salamanca (Seneca: Onë:dagö:h) is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.
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Cities in New York |
862054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanca%20%28town%29%2C%20New%20York | Salamanca (town), New York | Salamanca is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 481 at the 2010 census.
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Towns in New York |
862055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischua%2C%20New%20York | Ischua, New York | Ischua is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 859 at the 2010 census.
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Towns in New York |
862056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Cato | Milton Cato | Robert Milton Cato (3 June 1915 – 10 February 1997) was a Saint Vincentian politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Cato was the leader of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Labour Party, and led the country through independence in 1979.
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1915 births
1997 deaths
Prime Ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
862057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnhim%20Eustace | Arnhim Eustace | Arnhim Ulric Eustace (born 5 October 1944) is a Vincentian politician and economist. He was the third Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He is the former Leader of the Opposition and former president of the New Democratic Party (NDP) after resigning in 2016.
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Living people
Prime Ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1944 births |
862058 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20radioisotope | Synthetic radioisotope | A synthetic radioisotope is a radioactive isotope that has been man made. Examples of some synthetic radioisotopes include Tennessine atoms and some Uranium atoms. Most of the actinides, Technetium, Promethium and more have radioisotopes. They are unstable, radioactive, and dangerous.
Isotopes |
862059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Barabba | Vincent Barabba | Vincent Barabba (born September 6, 1934) is an American market researcher, author, and politician. He was the 14 Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1973 until 1976 and from 1979 until 1981.
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1934 births
Living people
Researchers
Writers from Chicago
Politicians from Chicago |
862060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%20Alpha | Generation Alpha | Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha for short) are the demographic group coming after Generation Z. According to researchers and popular media, these people were born during and after 2010. This generation were named after the first letter in the Greek alphabet. Most members of Generation Alpha are children from Millennials or late Generation X.
Creation of the name
The name Generation Alpha was created after a 2008 survey done by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research. Agency founder Mark McCrindle is generally credited with the term. McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in a 2015 interview:
When I was researching my book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations (published in 2009) it became apparent that a new generation was about to commence and there was no name for them. So I conducted a survey (we're researchers after all) to find out what people think the generation after Z should be called and while many names emerged, and Generation A was the most mentioned, Generation Alpha got some mentions too and so I settled on that for the title of the chapter Beyond Z: Meet Generation Alpha. It just made sense as it is in keeping with scientific nomenclature of using the Greek alphabet in lieu of the Latin and it didn't make sense to go back to A, after all they are the first generation wholly born in the 21st Century and so they are the start of something new not a return to the old.
McCrindle Research was also inspired by the naming of hurricanes, especially the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. In that year, six Atlantic storms were given Greek letters.
Some expect the Generation Alpha period will be mostly defined with the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people have suggested the name Gen C, short for Generation Covid, for people born during and growing up while the pandemic was happening.
Demographics
Global trends
Generation Alpha was expected to come to just over two billion people by 2025. Almost three-quarters of all people lived in Asia or Africa. Nations across Europe, North and South America don't have enough children to replace themselves.
When 2018 officially ended, the population of age sixty-five and older exceeded that of between ages zero through four. As of then, there were almost 705 million people age 65 and older. At that same time, those between ages zero and four were at almost 680 million.
Some reports also stated there were too many middle aged and elderly people without enough babies with whom the adults can be replaced. When people in several places do have children, however, they tend having fewer of them and at far older ages. These areas include Australia, South Korea and the United States. These said countries often have lower fertility rates.
In 2019, it was reported that in almost three decades from then the number of people in Russia would go down from the 143 million to just below 132 million. That would equal just over 11 million less than that of 2018 and 2019.
As of then (2019), quality of life for Japan was above average. In the country many people lived to or past age eighty-four. Its under age five population was just over 3.85% then.
Use of media technology
Most members of Generation Alpha are growing up using smartphones and tablet computers for their childhood entertainment. Many are exposed to such devices as soothing distractions or educational aids. Screen time with babies, toddlers and preschoolers became far more popular in the 2010s.
Being born in environments where the use of electronic devices is everywhere, however, has its own challenges. These problems include although are not limited to cyberbullying and inappropriate materials.
Parental Internet usage
Generation Alpha are also being surrounded with adult Internet use starting shortly after their lived begin. The parents of Generation Alpha, mostly Millennials or late Generation Xers, are very heavy social media users.
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Demographics
Cultural anthropology |
862062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Chapman | Bruce Chapman | Bruce Kerry Chapman (born December 1, 1940) is an American researcher, politician and founder and current Chairman of the Board of the Discovery Institute. He is a conservative. From 1975 until 1981, he was the 12th Secretary of State of Washington.
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1940 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from Illinois
Writers from Illinois
Businesspeople from Illinois
American conservatives
US Republican Party politicians
People from Evanston, Illinois |
862063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20element | Synthetic element | A synthetic element is an element of the Periodic Table that has been created in a lab. Most are man made and radioactive. Scientists make synthetic elements by smashing and fusing 2 different sized elements together to makes a whole new one. They usually fall apart in seconds, though, if not minutes.
Examples of these are some Uranium atoms, Technetium atoms, and most of the Actinide elements.
Chemical elements |
862064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Everitt%20Bryant | Barbara Everitt Bryant | Barbara Everitt Bryant (born April 1926) is an American market researcher. She became the first woman to head the United States Census Bureau. She directed the bureau from 1989 to 1993. She also directed the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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1926 births
Living people
Researchers
Politicians from Michigan
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
US Republican Party politicians |
862066 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Farnsworth%20Riche | Martha Farnsworth Riche | Martha Farnsworth Riche ( ; born October 16, 1939) is an American economist. She directed the United States Census Bureau from 1994 to 1998.
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1939 births
Living people
People from Ann Arbor, Michigan
American economists
Politicians from Michigan
US Democratic Party politicians |
862067 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Prewitt | Kenneth Prewitt | Kenneth Prewitt (born March 16, 1936) is an American politician and academic. He is the Carnegie Professor of Social Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He was also director of the Scholarly Knowledge Project. He was Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001.
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Other websites
Official CV at Columbia
1936 births
Living people
American academics
Politicians from Illinois
US Democratic Party politicians
Educators from Illinois |
862068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20on%20the%20Nile%20%282022%20movie%29 | Death on the Nile (2022 movie) | Death on the Nile is an upcoming British-American mystery thriller movie directed by Kenneth Branagh. It is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. It is a sequel to 2017's Murder on the Orient Express.
It stars Branagh returning as Hercule Poirot, along with Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, and Letitia Wright.
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2022 movies
2020s mystery movies
2020s thriller movies
2020s sequel movies
British mystery movies
British thriller movies
American mystery movies
American thriller movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Kenneth Branagh |
862069 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeshine | Eyeshine | Eyeshine or tapetum lucidum is when an animal's eyes glow in the dark.
When light goes into the animal's eye, it hits a web of cells called the tapetum behind the light collector. These cells reflect the light like a mirror. The light goes through the animal's light collector twice, once on the way in and once on the way out. This helps the animal see in the dark.
Most animals with eyeshine are animals with fur, but bullfrogs and some spiders have eyeshine too.
Different animals' eyes glow different colors:
Alligator - red-orange
Deer - green
Cat - gold or green
Barred owl - bright red
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Vision
Animal anatomy |
862072 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Okonedo | Sophie Okonedo | Sophie Okonedo (born 11 August 1968) is an English Tony Award-winning actress. She was born in London. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Hotel Rwanda (2004). She also appeared in Æon Flux (2005), Skin (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), and Christopher Robin (2018).
Okonedo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019.
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1968 births
Living people
English movie actors
English stage actors
English television actors
English voice actors
Actors from London
Tony Award winning actors |
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