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867246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tignes | Tignes | Tignes is a commune. It is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Savoie department in southeast France.
It is known for its ski resort. Together with neighbouring Val d'Isère, which forms the "Espace Killy" ski area.
References
Communes in Savoie
Ski areas and resorts |
867247 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Ida%20%282021%29 | Hurricane Ida (2021) | Hurricane Ida was an Atlantic tropical cyclone during late August 2021. The tropical wave which developed into Ida was responsible for twenty deaths in western Venezuela, mainly due to flooding. The storm became Tropical Depression Nine at 1pm Atlantic Standard Time on August 26. The depression was upgraded into Tropical Storm Ida just over six hours later. The storm was classified as a hurricane on August 27, just after 1pm Eastern Daylight Time.
Right around that same time, while a Category 1 hurricane, the storm moved across Cuba's Isla de la Juventud. The storm struck Cuba near Pinar del Río just over six hours later that evening.
Tropical storm or hurricane notices were posted from southeast Texas to northwestern Florida beginning on Thursday evening August 26.
On the night of August 29-30 the hurricane gained strength and struck New Orleans. The area lost electrical power.
In the first days of September, the hurricane hit the northeastern USA causing flooding and several deaths. It disappeared in the coast of Canada on September 4.
Ida is the 6th costliest Atlantic hurricane, with over $64 billion in damages.
Related pages
Hurricane Camille (1969) – A Category 5 hurricane that took a similar path through the Caribbean
Hurricane Gustav (2008) – A Category 4 hurricane that had a similar path through the Caribbean
Hurricane Laura (2020) – A major hurricane that also struck Western Cuba and Louisiana.
References
2021 in the United States
2021 disasters in North America
21st century in Cuba
21st century in Louisiana
August 2021 events
Hurricanes in Louisiana
September 2021 events |
867249 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojano | Bojano | Bojano is an Italian city in Molise. About 7,900 people lived there. It was originally named Bovianum.
Cities in Molise |
867250 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette%20County%2C%20Wisconsin | Marquette County, Wisconsin | Marquette County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, 15,404 people lived there. The county seat is Montello.
1848 establishments in Wisconsin
Wisconsin counties |
867251 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinar%20del%20R%C3%ADo | Pinar del Río | Pinar del Río is the capital city in Pinar del Río Province in northwestern Cuba. The city has over 159,000 people living within its boundaries according to the 2021 estimates.
The region where the city was later founded was originally named Nueva Filipina (New Philippines). Its name was changed to Pinar del Río in the 1770s.
References
Establishments in the Caribbean
18th-century establishments in North America
Cities in Cuba |
867252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter | Adapter | An adapter or adaptor can be used to convert for example US power plugs to EU or UK power plugs. It is very useful when travelling overseas.
Electronics
Electrical connectors |
867256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softonic.com | Softonic.com | Softonic.com is a website that can be used to download desktop applications for different systems. The website usually does not have viruses or other malware bundled while downloading applications and is safe to use.
Websites |
867263 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danial%20Hajibarat | Danial Hajibarat | Danial Hajibarat (Farsi: دانيال حاجی برات) is an Iranian Film Director and screenwriter born on June 4, 1983 in Tehran,Iran.
He is also active in the field of acting and has acted in several movies and series such as Maybe There, Hasht Behesht and Zendeh Rood.
References
Other websites
Danial Hajibarat on filcin
Danial Hajibarat on TMDb
Iranian movie directors
1983 births
Living people
People from Tehran
Iranian screenwriters |
867269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillager%2C%20Minnesota | Pillager, Minnesota | Pillager is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 469 at the 2010 census. It is in the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Minnesota State Highway 210 and County Road 1 are the main roads in the city.
References
Cities in Minnesota |
867276 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Hollister | Nancy Hollister | Nancy Hollister (born May 22, 1949, Marietta, Ohio) is an American politician. She was the first (and as of 2021, the only) female governor of Ohio. Hollister was also the shortest operating governor of the state. Her term began on New Year's Eve 1998 and ended on January 11, 1999. Before that, Hollister operated as the 60th lieutenant governor of the state from January 9, 1995 until December 31, 1998. Hollister is a United States Republican Party member.
Hollister began her political career in 1980. She first entered the public office when she was elected to the Marietta City Council that year. Four years later, Hollister was elected Mayor of Marietta. She operated as such until 1991.
From January 5, 1999 until almost 2005, Hollister worked in the Ohio House of Representatives.
References
US Republican Party politicians
United States representatives from Ohio
Lieutenant Governors of Ohio
Governors of Ohio
American mayors
1949 births
Living people |
867279 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boana%20maculateralis | Boana maculateralis | The stained tree frog (Boana maculateralis) is a frog that lives in Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. Scientists have seen it between 186 and 354 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is 3.2 to 4.00 cm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 3.2 to 5.5 cm long. It has light skin with darker marks and blue on its sides.
This frog is sympatric with Boana calcarata, Boana alfaroi, Boana calcarata and maybe Boana tetete. This means that all these frogs came from the same ancestor frog species, and they became different species even though they all lived in the same place the whole time.
This frog hides during the day and looks for food at night. It lives in forests. Scientists have seen it sitting on plants 2 meters above the ground.
The Latin name of this frog means "stains on its sides."
References
Frogs
Animals of South America |
867282 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police%2C%20Adjective | Police, Adjective | Police, Adjective () is a 2009 Romanian drama movie directed by Corneliu Porumboiu and starring Dragoș Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Săulescu, Cerasela Trandafir, Marian Ghenea, Cosmin Selesi.
Other websites
2009 drama movies
Romanian drama movies
Movies directed by Corneliu Porumboiu |
867285 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20spotted%20kiwi | Little spotted kiwi | The little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) is a species of kiwi. This bird does not fly. It runs on the ground. The little spotted kiwi is the smallest of all kiwis.
Appearance
This bird has light brown-gray feathers with white bands. Its bill, or beak, is long and pale in color. Its legs and toes are short and dark.
Habitat
In 2012, there were about 1650 little spotted kiwi alive.
Long ago, this bird lived all over New Zealand. However, by the time European people came to live in New Zealand, there were almost no little spotted kiwi left on the North Island. They still live on D'Urville Island. There are none left on New Zealand's South Island.
In 1983, human beings started bringing little spotted kiwi from Kapiti Island and other places to other islands where they can live and raise chicks away from weasels, dogs, and the other animals from Europe that were killing and eating them.
Food
Little spotted kiwi look for food at night and hide during the day in burrows, hollow logs, or other hiding places. They live in pairs. Pairs of adult little spotted kiwi will fight each other over good places to look for food. They will scratch at each other with their claws and pull out each other's feathers. Little spotted kiwi look for food by touching the ground with their long beaks. They eat earthworms, insects, and other animals with no bones. The male kiwi and female kiwi will sing together as they look for food.
Breeding
The kiwis make a nest in a hollow log, crack in a rock or space dug out of the ground. The eggs are white. The female lays one or two eggs at a time. Only the male kiwi sits on the egg.
References
Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds |
867289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figani%C3%A8res | Figanières | Figanières is a commune of 2,608 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var |
867290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flassans-sur-Issole | Flassans-sur-Issole | Flassans-sur-Issole is a commune of 3,548 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var |
867291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flayosc | Flayosc | Flayosc is a commune of 4,282 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var |
867294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcalqueiret | Forcalqueiret | Forcalqueiret is a commune of 3,061 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var |
867301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox-Amphoux | Fox-Amphoux | Fox-Amphoux is a commune of 460 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var |
867303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titisee-Neustadt | Titisee-Neustadt | Titisee-Neustadt is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town is a Kneipp spa and a climatic health resort. It is also known a winter sport center.
Geography
The town of Titisee is on the north shore of Titisee, a lake in the eastern Feldberg in the Black Forest, which ranges from 780 to 1192 meters above sea level. The town of Neustadt is 5 km to the east.
Districts
The town is made up of the six districts:
Neustadt
Langenordnach
Rudenberg
Titisee
Schwärzenbach
Waldau
Twin towns
Titisee-Neustadt is twinned with:
Coulommiers, France, since 1971
Leighton–Linslade, United Kingdom, since 1991
References
Other websites
Official website
Spa towns in Germany
Ski areas and resorts |
867304 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Garde-Freinet | La Garde-Freinet | La Garde-Freinet is a commune of 1,867 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var |
867305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar%C3%A9oult | Garéoult | Garéoult is a commune of 5,310 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Communes in Var |
867306 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campomarino | Campomarino | Campomarino is a comune in the Province of Campobasso in the Molise region in Italy.
Settlements in Molise |
867307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginasservis | Ginasservis | Ginasservis is a commune of 1,859 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var |
867309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alegrete | Alegrete | Alegrete is an Brazilian city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. 73,028 people lived here in 2020 and its area is 7,803.967 km².
Cities in Rio Grande do Sul |
867310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linhares | Linhares | Linhares is an Brazilian city in the state of Espírito Santo. 176,688 people lived here in 2020 and its area is 9,501.6 km².
Cities in Brazil
Espírito Santo |
867315 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Gondjout | Paul Gondjout | Paul Marie Indjendjet Gondjout (4 June 1912 – 1 July 1990) was a Gabonese politician and civil servant.
He died on 1 July, 1990.
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1912 births
1990 deaths
Gabonese people
African politicians |
867316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaboat%C3%A3o%20dos%20Guararapes | Jaboatão dos Guararapes | Jaboatão dos Guararapes is an Brazilian city in the state of Pernambuco. 706,867 people lived here in 2020 and its area is 256.08 km².
Cities in Brazil
Pernambuco |
867318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucy-en-Brie | Sucy-en-Brie | Sucy-en-Brie is a French commune. It is in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, from the center. 26,974 people lived here in 2018.
Communes in Val-de-Marne |
867319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Ankomah | Martha Ankomah | Martha Ankomah is a Ghanaian actress and entrepreneur.
References
Living people |
867320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Sumatra | West Sumatra | West Sumatra () is a province of Indonesia.
References
Provinces of Indonesia
Sumatra |
867321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasrul%20Abit | Nasrul Abit | Nasrul Abit (24 December 1954 – 28 August 2021) was an Indonesian politician. He was a member of the Great Indonesia Movement Party. He was the 8th Vice Governor of West Sumatra from 12 February 2016 until 12 February 2021. He was also the Deputy Regent of Pesisir Selatan Regency from 2000 to 2005. Abit was born in Pesisir Selatan Regency.
Abit died on 28 August 2021 in Padang, Indonesia of COVID-19 at the age of 66.
References
1954 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Indonesian politicians |
867324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cechomor | Čechomor | Čechomor is a Czech band from Svitavy (Moravia) that performs traditional songs in rock arrangements. They have toured throughout Europe, North America, Russia, China, Mongolia, and Australia.
In 2001, they won three Anděl Awards.
References
Czech musical groups |
867328 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Madagascar%20food%20crisis | 2021 Madagascar food crisis | In mid-2021, a bad drought in southern Madagascar caused thousands of people to suffer from famines. Some organizations have said that this famine is an impact of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
In August 2021, the food crisis was said to be the first famine caused by climate change and not conflict, according to the World Food Programme.
References
2021 disasters in Africa
August 2021 events
July 2021 events
June 2021 events
2021 food crisis
September 2021 events
October 2021 events
November 2021 events
December 2021 events
January 2022 events
2022 in Africa |
867329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo%20Eminente | Aldo Eminente | Aldo Eminente (19 August 1931 – 25 August 2021) was a French freestyle swimmer. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina. He competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he won a bronze medal.
Eminente died on 25 August 2021, aged 90.
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1931 births
2021 deaths
French Olympians
Swimmers
Olympic bronze medalists |
867330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20Democratic%20Movement | Brazilian Democratic Movement | The Brazilian Democratic Movement (, MDB) is a Brazilian centrist political party. When they were founded, they were the opposition to the Brazilian military government.
Social liberals and social democrats broke with the party in 1988 to form the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.
References
Political parties in South America
Politics of Brazil |
867333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Oji | Sam Oji | Samuel Udoka Oji (9 October 1985 – 28 August 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre back. Oji was born in City of Westminster, England.
Oji played in the Football League for Doncaster Rovers, Bristol Rovers, Leyton Orient and Hereford United. He later played for Tamworth of the Conference Premier.
He then played in the League of Ireland for Limerick and Galway United. Oji joined Highgate United in 2018, and was made assistant manager of that club in July 2021.
Oji died on 28 August 2021 of an illness at the age of 35.
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1985 births
2021 deaths
English footballers
Sportspeople from London |
867335 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin%20Renqing | Jin Renqing | Jin Renqing (; 29 July 1944 – 28 August 2021) was a Chinese politician. He was born in Suzhou, China. He was a member of the Communist Party. He was the Director of the State Taxation Administration from 1998 until 2003. He was later the Minister of Finance from 2003 until 2007.
Jin died in a house fire in Beijing on 28 August 2021, aged 77.
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1944 births
2021 deaths
Chinese politicians
Deaths from fire
Communists |
867337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla%20Baltazar-Padilla | Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla | Priscilla Joson Baltazar-Padilla (born Priscilla Joson Baltazar; July 2, 1958 – August 27, 2021) was a Filipino politician and lawyer. She was the 188th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was nominated by President Rodrigo Duterte. Baltazar-Padilla was in office from July 16, 2020 until November 3, 2020. She was born in Manila.
Baltazar-Padilla died on August 27, 2021 in Manila at the age of 63.
References
1958 births
2021 deaths
Filipino politicians
Filipino lawyers
People from Manila |
867338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan%20Babi%C4%87 | Stjepan Babić | Stjepan Babić (29 November 1925 – 27 August 2021) was a Croatian linguist, politician, and academic. He was born in Oriovac, Croatia. He was a professor at the University of Zagreb. He was the vice-president of Matica hrvatska from 1989 to 1992, and representative in the Županijski Dom (Chamber of the Counties) from 1993 to 1997. He retired as professor in 1991. From 1993 until 1997, he was a member of the Croatian Parliament.
Babić died in Zagreb on 27 August 2021, at the age of 95.
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1925 births
2021 deaths
Croatian writers
Croatian politicians
Linguists
Academics
People from Zagreb |
867339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo%20A%C3%ADnsa | Rodolfo Aínsa | Rodolfo Aínsa Escartín (17 September 1944 – 26 August 2021) was a Spanish politician and businessman. He was a Senator from 2004 until 2008. He was born in Sabiñánigo, Spain. Aínsa was a member of the People's Party. He was the President of Huesca Province from 1995 until 1999.
Aínsa died on 26 August 2021 at his home in Sabiñánigo, aged 76.
References
1944 births
2021 deaths
Spanish politicians |
867341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabi%C3%B1%C3%A1nigo | Sabiñánigo | Sabiñánigo (Samianigo in Aragonese) is a municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragón, Spain.
References
Municipalities in Aragon |
867342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calogero%20Lo%20Giudice | Calogero Lo Giudice | Calogero Lo Giudice (died 24 August 2021) was an Italian politician. He was President of Sicily from 1982 until 1983. Lo Giudice was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 until 1994. He was a member of the Christian Democracy.
Lo Giudice died on 24 August 2021 at the age of 83.
References
1930s births
2021 deaths
MEPs for Italy
People from Sicily |
867344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Kent%20%28cyclist%29 | Harry Kent (cyclist) | Harry Dale Kent (11 March 194724 August 2021) was a New Zealand racing cyclist. He was the first New Zealander to win a gold medal in cycling at the Commonwealth Games in 1970. He was the first cyclist from the country to medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Kent was born in Upper Hutt, New Zealand.
Kent died on 24 August 2021 in Wellington from problems caused by multiple strokes, aged 74.
References
1947 births
2021 deaths
New Zealand sportspeople
Cyclists
Deaths from stroke |
867345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Science%20Club | Pakistan Science Club | Pakistan Science Club (PSC) () is a youth organization in Pakistan that engages students on various scientific activities aimed at promoting scientific and technological knowledge amongst the country's young generation.
Based in Karachi, capital of the Sindh province, the organization runs various seminars and organized activities and, more recently, arranged summer camps in such activities. The club has more recently been engaging in activities in collaboration with other science clubs such as the Karachi astronomy club. PSC has also participated in international science events such as the World Science Day for Peace and Development.
PSC is also member of International Federation of Inventors Associations: IFIA.
References
Other websites
Official site
Official YouTube channel
Facebook page
Official Vimeo channel
Organizations based in Asia
Pakistan |
867347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%20It%2C%20Bin%20It%2C%20Kill%20It | Catch It, Bin It, Kill It | "Catch It, Bin It, Kill It" is a campaign slogan used in the United Kingdom. It is used to support having good hygiene. It does this by suggesting people always have tissues to use if they cough or sneeze. In 2007, after evidence that hand hygiene can help against the spread of flu. It was used in many places.
In 2009, the slogan received a lot of attention because the government funded it being used around the nation. This was in response to the 2009 flu pandemic caused by swine flu. They also studied how well the slogan worked. They said it helped promote good hygiene. The Medical Research Council also did a trial to show the slogan helped.
The phrase and poster was used again by PHE in other campaigns. The British government used it during the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
2009 in the United Kingdom
2020s in the United Kingdom
Healthy lifestyle
COVID-19 pandemic |
867349 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa%20%C5%BBylis-Gara | Teresa Żylis-Gara | Teresa Żylis-Gara (23 January 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Polish operatic soprano. She had a major international career during the 1950s through the 1990s. She was a long-time member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She is known for her roles in operas by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi.
Notes
References
Other websites
Teresa Żylis-Gara (Soprano) Bach Cantatas Website
1930 births
2021 deaths
Polish stage actors
Polish singers
European opera singers |
867352 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Idiot%20Brother | Our Idiot Brother | Our Idiot Brother is a 2011 American comedy-drama movie directed by Jesse Peretz and starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It was released on August 26, 2011. The movie had positive reviews.
References
2011 comedy-drama movies
American comedy-drama movies |
867355 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20Star%20Wars | Science and Star Wars | Science and Star Wars is a series of videos created by Disney and posted online for educational purposes. The series was published in 2017 and is available to view on YouTube. It focuses on the science and technology of the Star Wars world and analyses them from a scientific perspective. The show is hosted by Anthony Carboni.
References
Other websites
Science and Star Wars on YouTube
Official site
Star Wars
Science |
867360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Aubin-le-Guichard | Saint-Aubin-le-Guichard | Saint-Aubin-le-Guichard was a commune in Normandy in the Eure department in north France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune, Mesnil-en-Ouche.
References
Former communes in France
Communes in Eure |
867364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upland%20moa | Upland moa | The upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly. It was the last moa species to become extinct.
Description
The upland moa was among the smallest type of moa. It had feathers all over its body except for its beak and the bottom of its feet.
Distribution and Habitat
The upland moa only lived on New Zealand's South Island. It lived high up in mountains and sub-alpine regions.
Behavior and ecology
The upland moa was a herbivore. It ate leaves and small twigs. It usually laid only 1 to 2 blue-green coloured eggs. The male moa took care of the baby moas. Its only predator before humans came to New Zealand was the Haast's eagle.
Extinction
Humans first came to New Zealand from Polynesia around 1250 to 1300 AD. Moas, were an easy source of food for the Māori people and were eventually hunted to extinction in 1500.
References
Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds |
867367 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20moa | Eastern moa | The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.
Description
The Eastern moa was 1.5 to 1.8 metres (4.9–5.9 ft) tall. It could not fly. It had hair-like feathers. It had a long neck and large, powerful legs. It had wide feet.
Distribution and Habitat
The Eastern moa only lived on the South Island. It lived in the forests, grasslands, dunelands, and shrublands). Humans hunted it into extinction. Like almost all moa, it was gone by the year 1500.
References
Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds |
867368 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20of%20the%20Needle%20%28movie%29 | Eye of the Needle (movie) | Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy movie directed by Richard Marquand and starring Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan and Christopher Cazenove. Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett.
Plot
The movie is about a deadly German Nazi spy named Henry Faber in the United Kingdom during World War II, who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and his attempt to return to Germany and tell Hitler about it, so that Nazi Germany stops the invasion from happening. While waiting for a German U-boat to pick him up and return to Germany with the top secret information, he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland. There he spends time with a young woman named Lucy, her bitter crippled husband David who was an RAF fighter pilot before his car accident and their toddler son Joe. He develops an intimate relationship with Lucy, but her husband is already suspicious of this new stranger.
Cast
Donald Sutherland as Henry Faber
Kate Nelligan as Lucy Rose
Christopher Cazenove as David Rose
Ian Bannen as Inspector Godliman
Stephen MacKenna as Lieutenant
Philip Martin Brown as Billy Parkin
George Belbin as Lucy's Father
Faith Brook as Lucy's Mother
Barbara Graley as David's Mother
Arthur Lovegrove as Peterson
Barbara Ewing as Mrs. Garden
Patrick Connor as Inspector Harris
David Hayman as Canter
Alex McCrindle as Tom
John Bennett as Kleinmann
Sam Kydd as Lock Keeper
John Paul as Home Guard Captain
Bill Nighy as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
Jonathan and Nicholas Haley (twins) as Joe (David and Lucy's son)
Allan Surtees as Colonel Terry
Rik Mayall as sailor on train
Production
The Storm Island scenes were shot over eight weeks on the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides. The rest of the movie was shot in Yateley, Surrey, and in London.
Reviews
The movie got very positive reviews from movie critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of critics gave the movie positive reviews.
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1981 movies
British movies
Spy movies
Thriller movies
English-language movies
Movies based on books
World War II movies
Movies set in the 1940s
Movies set in London
Movies set in England
Movies set in Scotland
Movies set in islands
Movies directed by Richard Marquand |
867369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested%20moa | Crested moa | The Crested moa (Pachyornis australis) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It was a bird that could not fly.
Description
The crested moa was small. It weighed around 75 kg (165 lb). It crested moa was smaller than the heavy-footed moa.
Distribution and Habitat
The crested moa only lived in the South Island of New Zealand. It lived in high up in sub-alpine forests.
Diet
The crested moa is a herbivore. It eats plants. The only predator it had was the Haast's eagle.
Extinction
It is thought that the crested moa didn't go extinct because of humans. This is because the crested moa lived in places that were hard to get by humans. It Is thought that animals like cats that humans brought to New Zealand caused the crested moa to go extinct.
References
Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds |
867384 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Fire | Green Fire | Green Fire is a 1954 American adventure drama movie directed by Andrew Marton and was based on the 1942 memoir of the same name by Peter W. Rainer. It stars Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, John Ericson, Paul Douglas, Murvyn Vye, Rico Alaniz, Nacho Galindo and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Other websites
1954 drama movies
1950s adventure movies
American adventure movies
American drama movies
Movies based on books
MGM movies
Movies directed by Andrew Marton |
867388 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun | Kundun | Kundun is a 1997 American Moroccan Monégasque biographical drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tencho Gyalpo, Tenzin Topjar, Tenzin Lodoe, Tsering Lhamo. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures and was nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 1998.
Other websites
1997 drama movies
1990s biographical movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
Moroccan movies
Monégasque movies
Movies set in Asia
Movies set in China
Movies directed by Martin Scorsese |
867390 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuki%20Levy | Shuki Levy | Yehosua "Shuki" Levy is an Israel-American music composer and television producer. Levy's best known work is soundtrack compositions for childern's television programs of the 1980's, such as Inspector Gadget, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., Dinosaucers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Also in the 1990, he became know chiefly for his project such as Power Rangers franchise, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon series, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, and Big Bad Beetleborgs. He also written and directed nomberous of episodes, for some television shows, and directed a few movies, such as Eye of Doom (1987), Perfect Victims (1988) and Blind Vision (1991). Levy was also part of a musical duo named Shuky & Aviva with his partner Aviva Paz. Levy also partnered/relationship with an actress named Sarah Brown (from General Hospital), with whom he has second daughter, Jordan Levy (born in 1998).
Personal life
In 1977, Levy was married to Miss USA 1970 Deborah Shelton (from the best TV series Dallas), with a first daughter Tamara Shelton (born in 1981).
Other websites
Shuki Levy Online
Shuki Levy at IMDb
American composers
Saban Entertainment
1947 births
Living people |
867396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saban%20Entertainment | Saban Entertainment | Saban Entertainment, Inc. (along with Saban International, currently operating BVS Entertainment, Inc.) was a worldwide-served independent American-Israel television production company formed in 1980 by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy (music and television producers) as "Saban Productions".
The company imported, dubbed, nd adapted several Japanese anime series, such as Mapple Town, Noozies, Funky Fables, Samurai Pizza Cats, and the first three Digimon series to North America and worldwide markets syndication, including both animation and live-action shows. Saban has also adaptaed various tokusatsu shows from Toei Company (by Koichi Sakamoto), featuring Power Rangers series (based on Super Sentai series), Big Bad Beetle Borgs (based on Juukou B-Fighter), VR Troopers (featuring elements of Metal Hero series like Space Sheriff Shaider, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, and Metalder), and Masked Rider (an original interpretation of using scenes from Kamen Rider Black RX).
Saban was involved in the co-production of French/American animated shows, created by Jean Chalopin for DIC Entertainment. Some of these early of 1980s co-productions were Camp Candy, Ulysses 31, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and The Mysterious Cities of Gold (the third of wich is a Japanese co-production).
And Saban has also distributed and provided for TV programs, like The Super Mario Bros. Show!, The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Ball Z and Inspector Gadget.
In 2002, Saban Entertainment was defunct and discontinued.
1980 establishments
2002 disestablishments
Defunct companies |
867398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saban%20Capital%20Group | Saban Capital Group | Saban Capital Group LLC is an Amercan investment firm based in Los Angeles, California, focused on media, entertainment, and communications investments. Formed in 2010 by Haim Saban, Saban Capital Group owned Saban Films (SF) PART OF Univision Communications and as a part of Celestial Tiger Entrtainment.
Other websites
Official Website
Saban Brands Official Website
Anime companies
Saban Entertainment |
867405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicted%20%28disambiguation%29 | Convicted (disambiguation) | One who is convicted has been found guilty of a crime by a court of law.
Convicted can also be:
Psychology
Guilt (emotion), an experience induced when a person believes that they have violated moral standards
Shame, an unpleasant self-conscious emotion associated with a negative evaluation of the self and withdrawal motivations
Film
The Convicted, a 1927 German silent movie
Convicted (1931 movie), an American movie directed by Christy Cabanne
Convicted (1938 movie) a Canadian/US movie with Rita Hayworth
Convicted (1950 movie), an American film noir directed by Henry Levin
Convicted (1986 movie), an American television movie starring John Laroquette
Convicted (2004 movie) or Return to Sender, a movie starring Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen
Music
"Convicted", a song by Darkane from Rusted Angel
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867408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban%20Pakistan | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (commonly called TTP) are a militant Islamist group in Pakistan. Like the Taliban in Afghanistan they are mostly Pashtun. They have done a number of attacks all over Pakistan. The United States has classified them as a terrorist organisation. While they have a common name with the Taliban in Afghanistan, their ideas are different. They also have a different leadership and their goals are different from those of the Afghan Taliban.
The TTP want the Pakistani army to withdraw from Waziristan, which it occupied in 2009.
Differences between Afgan Taliban and the TTP
Many experts think that the common name "Taliban" for both groups is misleading. Fights between the Pakistani army and the TTP have erroneously been reported as the army fighting the Afghan Taliban.
The TTP acts on its own, fighting the Pakistani armed forces; Pakistan supported the Afghan Taliban in the past.
The Afghan Taliban also do not take part in the fight of the TTP against the Pakistani military.
References
Terrorism
Pakistan |
867409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjshir%20resistance | Panjshir resistance | The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), also known as the Panjshir resistance and the Second Resistance is a military alliance of former Northern Alliance members and other anti-Taliban fighters who remain loyal to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The group has been known since August 2021 - during the 2021 Taliban offensive.
The group had de facto control over the Panjshir Valley, as of early September 2021; but on September 6, 2021, there was heavy fighting and many deaths on both sides; the Taliban took control of the house that has the governor's office in Bazarak; and the Taliban took control of most of the Panjshir province.
The leaders of the resistance group are the politicians Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh (the vice president in the government that lost power over most of Afghanistan in August 2021).
Massoud escaped to Tajikistan [sometime between September 6 and September 21]; Saleh escaped (by helicopter) a few days after Massoud; The two have not been seen in public, after their escape, said "The Intercept" on September 21; Its sources are "a senior U.S. intelligence official, a Pentagon consultant, and two former senior Afghan government officials".
The name second resistance follows the name of the "first resistance" - a fight between the Northern Alliance (and a few other groups) against the Taliban from 1993 to the early 2000s.
Timeline of the Panjshir conflict
Media said in August, that "There have been messages among" American and British former soldiers and former private security contractors (that had worked in Afghanistan); the messages are saying that Afghans outside the country are "starting to
gather" money for raising [or building] "private forces [...] to fight the Taliban".
As of September 9, researchers at Bellingcat said that intelligence from publicly available sources, shows that the Taliban control territory at least into the valley. The Taliban has placed the valley under siege, and journalists or goods can not come into the valley; That is why media said that is difficult to know how much control the Taliban have.
One investigative report was published by BBC on 13 September; The report found that the Taliban had executed at least 20 civilians in Panjshir since they went into the valley. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, on the other hand, denied the group had done any human rights violation in the province. Journalists from Agence France-Presse were let into Panjshir on 15 September; They found many villages in the three districts they visited nearly empty; Residents told the journalists that the Taliban had executed 19 civilians between the village of Khenj and Bazarak; Residents also said that civilians were being (stopped or) prevented from escaping the province, so that civilians could be used as human shields during attacks by resistance fighters.
A doctor in Panjshir told Al Jazeera that all hospitals in the province had been closed or were operating on limited supplies, except for an emergency hospital staffed by Italians.
Picture gallery
Related pages
List of ongoing armed conflicts
References
War in Afghanistan (since 1978) |
867425 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chinese%20painters | List of Chinese painters | This is a list of famous Chinese painters.
Previous millennium
Mi Fu (d. 1107)
Qi Baishi (d. 1957)
New millenium
Wang Guozhen (d. 2015)
Jao Tsung-I (d. 2018)
Ho Kan (1932-)
Gao Xingjian (1940-), Chinese-French writer, painter
Liu Xia (1961-)
References
Lists of painters |
867427 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Battlefords%E2%80%94Lloydminster%20federal%20by-election | 2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election | The 2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election took place in the federal voting area of Battlefords—Lloydminster in Saskatchewan. It happened on December 11, 2017. The by-election was called after Conservative MP Gerry Ritz decided he didn't want to be MP anymore.
The seat stayed in control of the Conservatives. Rosemarie Falk won the seat with more votes than the time before.
The by election was held on the same day as 3 others in Canada. These were Bonavista—Burin—Trinity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Scarborough—Agincourt in Ontario and South Surrey—White Rock in British Columbia.
References
2010s elections in Canada
2017 in North America
Saskatchewan
2017 elections |
867430 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Second%20Game | The Second Game | The Second Game (Romanian: Al doilea joc) is a 2014 Romanian documentary movie directed by and narrated by Corneliu Porumboiu.
Other websites
{https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501000/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4}
2014 movies
Romanian movies
2010s documentary movies
Movies directed by Corneliu Porumboiu |
867432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%2080 | Star 80 | Star 80 is a 1983 American biographical drama movie directed by Bob Fosse and was adapted from the article Death of a Playmate by Teresa Carpenter. It stars Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees, Stuart Damon, Josh Mostel, David Clennon and was distributed by Warner Bros..
Other websites
1983 drama movies
1980s biographical movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
Movies directed by Bob Fosse |
867434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turanid%20race | Turanid race | Turanid race (also Turanoid or South Siberian race) is a word from physical anthropology that no one uses any more. In the past, anthropologists used this word to talk about people from South Siberia, called the South Siberian race They did this because using old ideas about dividing humans into groups by race could make it look like Europeans colonialism was a good thing.
When anthropologists first used this word, they meant people living in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. In European books, writers called it part of the Caucasian race with some "Mongoloid" mixed in. The form with strongly bronze age Andronovo characteristics is the most ancient form of the Turanid type.
Ethnic connections and subdivision
The Turanid race was said to be connected to Turkic peoples, Mountain Tajiks of Xinjiang (Sarikoli) and the Pamir tribes. Historically, tt was characteristic of the Onogurs, Huns, Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans, Ancient Uyghurs, Avars, Kabars, Khazars, the Volga Bulgars (8th–9th cc.) and was one of the composite elements of the ruling strata of the Hungarians at the time of the conquest. Turanoid skulls dating to the Mesolithic age were also discovered at the archaeological site of Alfalou in North Africa.
In 1952, German anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt subdivided the Turanid type as follows:
Species: Homo sapiens Modern human
Subspecies I: Homines sapientes albi Europids
Series C: Homines s. albi brachimorphi Mountain race belt
Variety 4: H. s. eurasicus Turanid
Subvarieties:
a) H. s. eur. turanicus Aralid
b) H. s. eur. pamiriensis Pamirid
Related pages
Eurasian Avars
Huns
Turkic peoples
References
Leon Cahun L’histoire de l’Asie (1896).
Ilse Schwidetzky, Turaniden-Studien, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, F. Steiner Verlag, Mainz, (1950).
Anthropology
Racism
Colonialism
Siberia |
867438 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20James%2C%20Trinidad%20and%20Tobago | Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago | Saint James is a district of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. |
867439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo%202020 | Expo 2020 | Expo 2020 is an ongoing World Expo that is hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. However, Expo 2020 couldn't work in 2020 because of the Covid-19 Pandemic and so was delayed and postponed it to 1 October 2021 - 31 March 2022. Despite it being postponed, the organizers chose to keep the same name for convenience. There has been 191 countries participating in this event. It is also the first in Expo History to have all the building of the countries that were participating in the event. It also has futuristic pavillions
Expo 2020 Dubai is said to be the largest event taking place in the UAE. It is going to be celebration of human brilliance and accomplishment. Dubai Expo 2020 is a chance for people to connect from different corners of the globe, to experience the best art, culture, science, innovation, and invention, and to set into motion a huge number of new ideas and concepts . With shopping avenues, Dubai is coming up with amazing attractions to enhance tourism, particularly throughout Dubai Expo 2020. For example:
Deira Islands
Museum Of The Future
Al Wasl Plaza
Aladdin City
Jewel Of the Creek
Dubai Frame
Dubai Water Canal Project
Dubai Opportunity to host Expo.
Dubai won the bid to host an Expo. Originally there were 4 cities, each from different countries which were
Sao Paulo in Brazil
Izmir in Turkey
Yekaterinburg in Russia
Dubai in UAE
Sao Paulo lost in the first round, then Izmir in the second round. Finally Yekaterinburg lost to Dubai in holding an Expo.
Dubai
UAE selected the theme: " Connecting Minds, Creating the Future". The subthemes were Opportunity, Mobility, Sustainability. It was expecting for more than 250,000 jobs and 25 million visitors to spectate the event. Green Chargers will be installed to serve electric vehicles.Talabat, a mobile food ordering app will also be used to serve food.
References
2020 in Asia
October 2021 events
November 2021 events |
867440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salta%20tree%20frog | Salta tree frog | The Salta tree frog (Boana marianitae) is a frog that lives in Bolivia and Argentina's Salta Province. It lives in cloud forests. Scientists have seen it between 700 and 2650 meters above sea level.
References
Frogs
Animals of South America |
867445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan%20Civil%20War%20%281989%E2%80%931992%29 | Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) | There was a civil war in Afghanistan from from 1989 until 27 April 1992, the day after the proclamation (or announcement of the Peshawar Accords; those accords (or agreement) wrote about a plan, for an Afghan government to start on 28 April 1992.
History
The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended on 15 February 1989.
In March 1989, the mujahideen groups Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin and Ittehad-e Islami attacked Jalalabad. By June, the two groups had lost the battle; the two groups had cooperation from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
President President Najibullah lost power on 16 April 1992.
24–27 April, Militias were fighting each other, to take Kabul.
By 27 April 1992, Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin forces had been pushed south outside Kabul, but new mujahideen groups entered Kabul (Ittehad-e Islami, Hezb-i Wahdat, Harakat), rivalling Jamiat and Junbish. They had divided the city, and they each took a part; the city was still largely undamaged.
Aftermath: The interim Mujaddidi government had little power from the beginning which was 28 April 1992, because rivalling groups fought for total power over Kabul and Afghanistan.
Sources
Other websites
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1028472005/afghanistan-conflict-timeline. NPR
War in Afghanistan (since 1978) |
867446 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iajuddin%20Ahmed | Iajuddin Ahmed | Iajuddin Ahmed (1 February 193110 December 2012) was a President of Bangladesh. He served as president from 6 September 2002 to 12 February 2009.
References
1931 births
2012 deaths
Presidents of Bangladesh
Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
Bangladeshi Muslims |
867448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloring%20book | Coloring book | Coloring book is a book where you can add color using colored pencils, markers or paint. Coloring book contains contour drawings to add a color. Usually these books consist of animated characters. Except the coloring by contour, coloring books have mazes, connect the dots and sometimes include stickers.
Children's books
Painting |
867449 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007-08%20UEFA%20Champions%20League | 2007-08 UEFA Champions League | The 2007-2008 UEFA Champions league was the 16th season in the UEFA's Premier European football Tournament
In this tournament Cristiano Ronaldo was the highest goal scorer with 8 goals.
The final was played between both the top premier league clubs Manchester United and Chelsea, won by Manchester united in the penalties by 6-5.
It was also Manchester United's 3rd Champions league title Under Sir Alex Ferguson.
2007 in association football |
867452 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haosi%20Namoinu | Haosi Namoinu | Haosi Namoinu is a character of a Meitei folktale. She is the only daughter of Pokmabi Laoshigam Chanu and Senbi Loikenba. She was the apple of their eyes. Her father was a minister of the then Ancient Moirang kingdom, in charge of collecting tributes from the land of Kabo (present day Western Myanmar).
However, after her mother's untimely death, her father remarried with Nganurol Laoshigam Chanu (Loisingam Chanu), the sister of her mother. Spending a few days happily, Senbi Loikenba left for Kabo on the King's errand and during his absence, Haosi Namoinu was harshly treated by her stepmother. She was not allowed to go outside and play with her friends. She had to work as much hard as she could to satisfy her stepmother. Her bliss of household life was much worsened.
Her stepmother ordered her work after work and she completed it with no rest. She was forced to husk the rice, tired as she was, again she had to cook food for them and serve but she uttered no lamentation. Her stepmother's ruthlessness came to the highest degree and she ordered Haosi Namoinu, that if she wanted to join the feast (spring festival), she had to go to the maternal grandparents' house and bring a load of paddy rice (un-husked rice). She did so, but her stepmother was still not satisfied, and struck her head with a cookery utensil. Having being deprived of all youthful delights, the girl transformed herself into a Hari Nongnang (cicada) (or cricket in some version), with her clothes as wings and feathers, and flew away with ravishing tears.
This legendary account is engraved in as one of the two stories in the Khongjomnubi Nongarol.
Related pages
List of Meitei folktales
Khongjomnubi Nongarol
Sandrembi Chaisra
Uchek Langmeidong
Other websites
Haosie Namoinu Meiteirol Ariba
A Human turning Harinongnang
References
Meitei folklore
Meitei literature
Meitei mythology |
867455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Molasses%20Flood | Great Molasses Flood | The Great Molasses Flood or Boston Molasses Disaster happened in Boston, Massachusetts on January 15, 1919. A metal tank broke, and the 2.3 million gallons of molasses in it poured out onto Commercial Street.
Background
Molasses is a sweet-tasting liquid. It is left over when people make sugar out of sugar cane or sugar beets. It can be used to make rum, a sweet alcohol drink, and it is an ingredient in Boston baked beans. In the early 20th century, many people in the West used molasses to sweeten their food because white sugar cost too much money.
Causes
Ships brought molasses to Boston from the sugar farms in the Caribbean Sea. In Boston, people made rum out of molasses in factories called distilleries. But the molasses had to be stored until rum makers were ready. This was right before alcohol would become illegal in the United States, so people wanted to make and sell rum while they still could. One company, U.S. Industrial Alcohol, put their molasses in a 50-foot (15-meter) steel tank at 529 Commercial Street in Boston's North End neighborhood.
The people in the North End said it made strange noises. The tank was not very old, but it leaked. Families would send children to go and take molasses from the leak. U.S. Industrial Alcohol painted the tank brown so the children could not find the leaks to steal molasses, but they did not fix the leaks. On January 13, two days before the flood, even more hot molasses was poured into the tank.
Engineer Ronald Mayville says the tank broke because the steel was not thick enough.
Event
At about 12:30 p.m. on January 15, the molasses tank broke. 2.3 million gallons (8.7 million liters) of molasses spilled out onto Commercial Street. The wave of molasses was 30 feet (9 meters) high and moved at 35 miles per hour (55 kph). Pieces of the tank flew into houses and broke holes in walls. One piece flew into one of the pillars holding up an elevated train track and broke it. A train stopped just in time.
Because the molasses was sticky, people in it could not get out. When the tank first broke, some of the molasses was still hot, so it moved fast at first. But it cooled down quickly in the cold winter air. So people and other animals fell into warm, soft molasses that got hard around them, and they could not get out. When it covered people's noses and mouths, they could not breathe.
The molasses spread out to other streets. Soon, there was 2-3 feet (up to 1 meter) of molasses on the ground. A police officer was in a signal box talking to his police group when the tank broke. Because he was already sending a message to other police officers, he called for help right away. Rescue workers came to the North End, but they could not walk or drive carts through the molasses.
Some rescuers tried to get a man out of the molasses by pulling on his arm. The molasses was so hard that they pulled his arm off by accident.
Casualties
21 people and many horses died. 150 people were hurt. Some of the dead people were not found until days later. Because of the molasses, it was hard for people to tell which people they were.
Cleanup
People who went to the North End got molasses on their clothes and shoes. When they went to other parts of Boston, the molasses fell off. Soon every street in Boston had molasses on it. Many of the train car seats and public telephones were sticky.
The people used hoses from fireboats to wash the molasses into Boston Harbor with seawater. The water in the harbor was brown for months. People say they can still smell molasses on hot days.
Lawsuit
Soon after the flood, 199 people sued U.S. Industrial Alcohol. The lawsuit took six years and there were more than 3000 people who spoke in court. This was the first lawsuit in United States History that had many expert witnesses: Engineers, architects, and other building experts talked about the tank in court, for example metal scientist Albert Colby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer George E. Russell, and Harvard University's George F. Swain.
During the lawsuit, there were three ideas about why the flood happened: 1) Yeast or other very small living things in the tank ate the molasses and gave off carbon dioxide gas, which made the tank explode, 2) someone put a bomb in the tank, or 3) the tank was not built well. Eventually, the court decided that the tank was not built well, and that U.S. Industrial Alcohol caused the flood with this unsafe tank. U.S. Industrial Alcohol settled with some people out of court too. Families got about US$7000 per dead person. The company paid somewhere from $500,000 to $100,000.
Historian Stephen Puleo says that this case set the precedent, a way of doing things for the future: Americans began to think that building inspectors should look at tanks and other buildings to see if they are safe, that engineers need to write plans for their buildings, and that architects need to show their blueprints.
Memorials
The Bostonian Society put a small green marker on Commercial Street in the 1990s.
In popular culture
Puppet History talked about the Boston Molasses Disaster in the episode "The Great Molasses Flood."
References
Disasters in the 20th century
History of Boston, Massachusetts |
867466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-footed%20moa | Heavy-footed moa | The Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.
Description
The heavy-footed moa was about 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall. It weighed 145 kg (320 lb).
Discovery
The heavy-footed moa was discovered by W.B.D. Mantell at Awamoa, near Oamaru.
Distribution and Habitat
The heavy-footed moa only lived in the South Island of New Zealand. They lived in dry and open habitats such as grasslands, shrublands and dry forests.
Diet
The heavy-footed moa is a herbivore like other types of moa. It eats tough plants. Its only predator was the Haast's eagle.
References
Flightless birds
Birds of New Zealand |
867469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Island%20giant%20moa | North Island giant moa | The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.
References
Flightless birds
Birds of New Zealand |
867471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana%20syndrome | Havana syndrome | Havana syndrome is a medical episode of signs and symptoms reported by United States and Canadian embassy staff in Cuba which began in November 2016. It has happened in other countries such as in the United States, Austria, and Germany. The phenomenon that began in Havana has been reported by officials and their families stationed in Russia, Poland, Austria, Georgia, Taiwan, Colombia, China, Kyrgyzstan, the United Kingdom, India and Uzbekistan.
In 2017, President Donald Trump blamed Cuba of causing unknown attacks which led to these symptoms. The U.S. lowered the number of staff at their embassy. In 2018, U.S. diplomats in China said they felt sick the same way diplomats in Cuba felt. The US intel services have not yet reached a consensus on a cause of the Havana syndrome, though unnamed sources have expressed suspicions to the press that Russian military intelligence is responsible.
The people who had the Havana syndrome were hospitalized, with some having brain injuries. While the exact cause of this is unknown, many scientists believe it is caused by a microwave weapons.
References
Medical emergencies
Conspiracy theories |
867472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Island%20giant%20moa | South Island giant moa | The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.
References
Flightless birds
Birds of New Zealand |
867473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification | Gentrification | Gentrification is the process of changing how a neighborhood looks like by building better buildings, condominiums or tearing down old buildings to make it look better so that wealthier people and businesses can come live in this neighborhood.
Background
Gentrification means the transformation of a working-class or vacant area of the main part of a city to middle class residential or commercial area. Gentrification often increases the economic value of a neighborhood, but changes the demographic of that neighborhood often causing people who lived in this neighborhood for a long time to leave because of rising prices. Gentrification mainly happens in neighborhoods where there is a large minority population such as African-American or Latinos.
Related pages
Gentrification of Chicago
References
Urban design
Controversies in the United States |
867475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification%20of%20Chicago | Gentrification of Chicago | The Gentrification of Chicago is a process that has changed the demographic of some neighborhoods in Chicago usually by lowering the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage of white, higher-income residents.
Gentrification has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago. Many people in Chicago believe that gentrification is pushing poorer and mainly minority people out of their longtime neighborhoods.
Factors to measure gentrification in Chicago are changes in the number of residents with bachelor's degrees, median household income, racial makeup, visual looks, and the presence of coffee shops. There have been phases of gentrification in Chicago of various neighborhoods, some of which were in 1990s and in 2007–2009. Gentrification debates in Chicago have been mostly focused around the gentrification of Chicago's historically Latino or black neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are located near the central urban downtown areas and along the east side of the city.
Some neighborhoods in the city which has had a large minority population that has been gentrified include: Wicker Park, Humboldt Park, Pilsen, Logan Square, Uptown and the Cabrini–Green Homes in the city's Near North Side.
Related pages
Gentrification
References
History of Chicago |
867477 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green%20Homes | Cabrini–Green Homes | Cabrini–Green Homes was a public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Francis Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were in the Cabrini–Green neighborhood.
Cabrini-Green was home to 15,000 people, mostly living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings. Crime in the area caused poor living conditions for many residents. "Cabrini-Green" became a well known example for problems caused by public housing in the United States. In 1995, CHA began tearing down mid- and high-rise buildings, with the last demolished in 2011. Today, only the original, two-story rowhouses remain.
The area has been rebuilt through the building of high-rises and townhouses, causing it to become a mixed-income neighborhood.
References
Chicago, Illinois |
867479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajim%20Ukin | Lajim Ukin | Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Lajim Ukin (15 June 1955 – 29 August 2021) was a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Beaufort constituency in Sabah from 2008 to 2013. Ukin was a member of the United Malays National Organisation. Ukin was born in Beaufort, Malaysia.
Ukin died on 29 August 2021 at a hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia of COVID-19, aged 66.
References
1955 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
Malaysian politicians |
867480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Pudyshev | Yuri Pudyshev | Yuri Alekseyevich Pudyshev (; 3 April 1954 – 29 August 2021) was a Soviet and Belarusian footballer and coach. He was born in Kaliningrad, Russia. He was known for playing with FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Dinamo Minsk. His playing career lasted from 1973 until 2010. His managing career lasted from 1992 until his death.
Pudyshev also played for the national team once at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Pudyshev died on 29 August 2021 at the age of 67.
References
1954 births
2021 deaths
Soviet sportspeople
Belarusian footballers
Football managers |
867481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Nenashev | Mikhail Nenashev | Mikhail Petrovich Nenashev (18 March 1960 – 29 August 2021) was a Russian politician. He was born in the Ternovsky District, Russian. Nenashev was a member of the Party of Business. Between 2007 until 2011, Nenashev was a member of the State Durma.
Nenashev died on 29 August 2021 from cardiac arrest in Moscow, aged 61.
References
1960 births
2021 deaths
Russian politicians
Deaths from cardiac arrest |
867482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol%C3%AB%20Berisha | Kolë Berisha | Kolë Berisha (; 26 October 1947 – 29 August 2021) was a Kosovo politician. He was the Chair of Assembly of Kosovo from March 2006 to 2007. Berisha was also a deputy leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo. He was born in Klina, Yugoslavia.
Berisha died on 29 August 2021 in Pristina, Kosovo at the age of 73.
References
1947 births
2021 deaths
Kosovan people
European politicians |
867483 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Vizinczey | Stephen Vizinczey | Stephen Vizinczey, originally István Vizinczey (12 May 1933 – 18 August 2021) was a Hungarian-Canadian author and writer. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He learned English writing scripts for Canada's National Film Board and the CBC. He edited Canada's short-lived literary magazine, Exchange.
He was known for his book In Praise of Older Women, which has been made into two movies.
Vizinczey died on 18 August 2021 at the age of 87.
References
1933 births
2021 deaths
Hungarian writers
Canadian writers |
867485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc%20Burrull | Francesc Burrull | Francesc Burrull (18 October 1934 – 28 August 2021) was Spanish jazz pianist and composer. He was born in Barcelona, Spain. Burrull won the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2017. He was known for his 1972 album Miguel Hernández.
Burrull died on 28 August 2021 in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain of kidney disease, aged 86.
Discography
Thai Musical Fantasy (1962)
Black Spirituals (1971)
Miguel Hernández (1972)
Remembering Duke Ellington (1974)
Dialogues with Joan Baptista Humet (1975)
Manuel de Falla avui (1995)
They are not...boleros , with La Voss del Trópico (1996)
Blanc i negre (1997)
A love poem , with La Voss del Trópico (1999)
Laura Simó & Francesc Burrull play Serrat (2007)
Temps de pluja (2010)
References
1934 births
2021 deaths
Spanish pianists
Spanish composers
Jazz musicians
Deaths from kidney disease |
867486 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang%20Chunyun | Jiang Chunyun | Jiang Chunyun (; April 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Jiang was born in Shandong, China. From 1987 until 1989, he was the Governor of Shandong. From 1995 until 1998, he was the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China.
Jiang died on 28 August 2021 in Beijing at the age of 91.
References
1930 births
2021 deaths
Chinese politicians |
867487 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sompote%20Sands | Sompote Sands | Sompote Saengduenchai (; ; May 24, 1941 – August 26, 2021), internationally known as Sompote Sands, was a Thai movie director, special effects creator and producer.
He was best known for directing many Thai movies such as The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army, Jumborg Ace & Giant, Hanuman and the Five Riders, the 1980 cult classic Crocodile, Phra Rod Meree and the 1985 children's movie Magic Lizard. He was born in Amphoe Phra Pradaeng, Thailand.
Sands died on August 26, 2021 in Bangkok from cancer at the age of 80.
References
1941 births
2021 deaths
Thai people
Movie directors
Movie producers |
867488 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille%20Whipper | Lucille Whipper | Lucille Simmons Whipper (June 6, 1928 – August 27, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995. She was the first Black woman to represent a Charleston County seat. Whipper was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Whipper died on August 27, 2021 at a hospital in Charleston at the age of 93.
References
1928 births
2021 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from South Carolina
People from Charleston, South Carolina
US Democratic Party politicians |
867491 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanita%20Gupta | Vanita Gupta | Vanita Gupta (born November 15, 1974) is an American politician and lawyer. She is the United States Associate Attorney General since April 22, 2021. Gupta was the president and chief executive officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and as the head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2014 to 2017.
On January 7, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Gupta to be Associate Attorney General. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 2021.
References
1974 births
Living people
Lawyers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
US Democratic Party politicians |
867492 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Upsetter%20%28movie%29 | The Upsetter (movie) | The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry is a documentary movie about Jamaican musician Lee "Scratch" Perry. Benicio Del Toro tells the story in the movie. Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough directed the movie. The first showing of the documentary was at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2008. The first showing in theaters was in March 2011.
References
Other websites
Reggae music
American documentary movies |
867494 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protea%20inopina | Protea inopina | Protea inopina also called Large-nut Sugarbush is a flowering shrub belonging to the well-known Protea genus. The plant is endemic to the Western Cape, rare, extremely isolated and occurs only in the Olifants River Mountains near Palace Hill. The plant grows 1 m tall and has many stems. It blooms from September to December.
The plant sprouts again after it has burned. The seeds are stored in a shell and spread by the wind. The plant is unisexual. Pollination takes place through the action of birds. The plant grows in sandstone soil at altitudes of 600 - 650 m.
In Afrikaans it is known as the Groottolsuikerbos.
References
http://pza.sanbi.org/protea-inopina
http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=799-60
https://www.proteaatlas.org.za/sugar6.htm
https://biodiversityexplorer.info/plants/proteaceae/protea_inopina.htm |
867533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan%20Civil%20War%20%281928%E2%80%931929%29 | Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) | The Afghan Civil War was a war going on from 14 November 1928 to 13 October 1929. The Saqqawist group and the Soviet Union decided to invade the Kingdom of Afghanistan and ended up in a defeat.
Beginning
On 14 November 1928, the civil war started with the Shinwari Revolt; Pashtun tribesmen from the Shinwari tribe started a siege of Jalalabad; telegraph wires were also cut; a manifesto had a list of grievances (or complaints); some of those complaints were in some way about changing the status of women.
Siege of Jabal al-Siraj
Forces led by a Tajik leader, Habibullah Kalakani, were moving toward Kabul from the north. Kalakani was a native of Kalakan, a village thirty kilometers north of Kabul. In late November, they put siege to Jabal al-Siraj, north of Kabul, and on either 11 or 12 December, after 18 days of siege, Ahmad Ali Lodi surrendered the citadel, and handed over (or gave) all government funds as well as 18 machine guns, and some heavy weapons and rifles.
After king Amanullah's loss of power (January 1929)
Rule by king Kalakani, and Saqqawist offensives (February – August 1929)
Kalakani became King of Afghanistan.
Ali Ahmad Khan was captured; his reign ended on 9 February.
Kalakan's forces did fight anti-Saqqawist tribes.
Saqqawist collapse, and end of the civil war (August – October 1929)
On 8 August, an anti-Saqqawist uprising took place in Bamyan, Ghuri and Baghlan, blocking Kalakani's force's route to Turkistan and forcing them to retreat to Ghurband. On 21 August, the Sayyid of Shaykh Ali started an offensive (or attack) against Kalakani, advancing as far as Khanabad, Andarab and Ghurband. On 26 August, there were rumours in Kabul that Hazara settlers successfully attacked Mazar-i Sharif. In early September, the Saqqawists won their last victory by taking Jalalabad. On 23 September, a pro-Nadir uprising in Kandahar succeeded at driving out Kalakani's forces from the city. On 29 September, a pro-Nadir force under Shah Wali crossed the Durand Line and occupied Khushi. On the 30th, he sent a 1000-man force ahead to Tangi Waghjan, the gorge on the road to the Logar Valley. On 3 October, after an intense battle, anti-Saqqawist forces captured the town of Muhammad Aghah, placing themselves within striking distance of Kabul. Kalakani himself took part in this battle, trying to lift his soldier's spirits, to no avail. anti-Saqqawist forces continued to slowly push towards Kabul, seizing Charasya, Chihil Tan and Chihil Sutun on 5 October. By 7 October, Kalakani's forces had retreated from almost all territory outside Kabul, and prepared for their last stand.
On 9 October, after dozens of hours of street fighting in Kabul, the Arg was put under siege. On 13 October, after several days of bombardment, Nadir's forces entered the Arg. After a battle, the Arg was captured, and the civil war ended.
Related pages
List of civil wars in Afghanistan
References
Afghanistan
Civil wars involving Asia
1920s conflicts |
867534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahedan | Zahedan | Zahedan () is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Southeastern Iran. As of 2016, Zahedan has over 600, 000 people.
History
The demographics of the inhabiants of Zahedan are mixed with Balochis, and Persians. They speak Persian and Balochi. Zahedan is east of the Dasht-e Loot. Zahedan is part of Baluchestan, a historic region of Asia. Sunni Muslims live in Zahedan as well. Shaikh Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi is the main and most influential religious and Sunni and the Baloch people.
Geography
Zahedan is located in the southeastern part of Iran. It is 1,491 kilometers southeast of Tehran, 950 kilometers south of Mashhad, 1,189 kilometers southeast of Isfahan, 2,024 kilometers southeast of Tabriz, and 95 kilometers from the Iran-Pakistan border. It is also connected by rail to Pakistan and is near to Afghanistan. Zahedan is the Iranian city, which is the closest to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Demographics
As of 2016, Zahedan has 587,730 people. In the 1930s, Zahedan was a small village. In 1930, Zahedan's population reached 17,500. and increased more than fivefold to 93,000 by 1976. After 1980, large numbers of Iranians fleeing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan helped triple the population of Zahedan to more than 281,000 by 1986, a number which has since doubled again.
Gallery
Multiple images of Zahedan in a picture. |
867552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanHero | OceanHero | OceanHero is a search a search engine that is devoted to collecting plastics, mostly bottle waste in the oceans. It has been certified by the United Nations (UN) Head of Marine and Freshwater Branch.
OceanHero follows the model of a similar search engine, Ecosia, which finances tree planting. It earns it's revenue like most other search engines by displaying ads on search results. It then uses the revenue generated from ads to finance collecting plastic bottles from oceans located in Southeast Asia. It can also be installed as an extension.
Using OceanHero gives financial support to collect plastic from the oceans.
Many people who work for OceanHero are low income people who are paid the revenue from ads on OceanHero's search results. They are paid to remove plastics from their local seas.
References
Other websites
Main site
YouTube profile page
Search engines |
867555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha%20Hesch%C3%A9lle | Natasha Heschélle | Natasha Chipo Mutungwazi is a Canadian actress based in Toronto, Ontario. Her first major recognition was for her role as Helen on the Amazon Prime Video series 'Zahara: The Return', for which she won Gold Movie Awards, UK for Best Actress in a Drama/Horror. She also nominated as the Best Digital Series writer at Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival.
Early life and career
Natasha was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In 2004, her mother Marisa Moyo migrated to Canada, later she moved to Canada to live with her mother. It was reported that Natasha on numerous occasions skipped her school to attend dance classes. In 2013, she had to move to Paris with the plan to work and pay for her dancing classes. Natasha returned to Canada in 2014 and admitted herself into an acting school, Seneca College. In June 2021, she released her debut EP Imagine, which garnered over million views across digital platforms.
Filmography
Film
Awards and honors
Nominated as the Best Digital Series writer at Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival
Best Actress in a Drama/Horror at Gold Award
Recipient of the Best Artistic Achievement gong at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival, 2016
Nominated for the Best Film award at the Zulu African Film Academy Awards, 2018
Granted a membership of The Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative, 2021
References
Other websites
Canadian actors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
867579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Rosario%20Abavana | Lawrence Rosario Abavana | Lawrence Rosario Abavana (1920 – 29 May 2004) was a Ghanaian politician and teacher by. He served as a Minister of different portfolios.
References
1920 births
2004 deaths
Ghanaian politicians |
867580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Bow | The Magic Bow | The Magic Bow is a 1946 British musical movie directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Marie Lohr, Cecil Parker, Felix Aylmer, Mary Jerrold, Charles Victor.
Other websites
1946 movies
1940s musical movies
British musical movies
Movies directed by Bernard Knowles |
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