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Vincent Viola |
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956 in New York City) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Viola was the nominee for United States Secretary of the Army after being nominated by Donald Trump in December 2016. He withdrew his name from consideration on February 3, 2017. |
He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team. |
Heather Wilson |
Heather Ann Wilson (born December 30, 1960) is an American politician. Wilson was the 24th United States Secretary of the Air Force from May 16, 2017 through May 31, 2019. She served as President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress. |
After leaving Congress she was leading consulting firm Heather Wilson & Company. |
On January 23, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intentions to nominate Wilson as Secretary of the Air Force. The United States Senate confirmed her nomination on May 8, 2017. |
On March 8, 2019, Wilson said that she would resign as Secretary, on May 31, 2019, in order to become President of the University of Texas at El Paso. |
The Mirage |
The Mirage is a 3,044 room hotel and casino resort located on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casino is owned by MGM Mirage. |
The Mirage has a 20,000-gallon saltwater aquarium with over 450 species of fish. It has an indoor tropical rainforest housed in its tall atrium. In front of the Mirage is a volcano that erupts nightly depending on the season. Every hour there is a fire show. The huge balls of fire are choreographed to music and light up the lagoon next to it. |
The Mirage is connected by a free tram to Treasure Island, its sister property immediately to the north. |
Marta Kubišová |
Marta Kubišová (1 November 1942 České Budějovice, then in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) is a Czech singer most popular in Czechoslovakia in 1960s. She won "Zlatý slavík" TV award in 1967. |
Life. |
Family |
Marta Kubišová’s father was a cardiologist and her mother a housewife. Her family moved to Poděbrady in 1952. She married Jan Něměc, who later emigrated and they got divorced. Her second husband was director Jan Moravec. Her daughter Kateřina was born on 1 June 1979. |
Career. |
Her singing career started with a dance group in Nymburk. She reached the finals in "Hledáme nové talenty" in 1961. In 1963 she moved to Plzeň to perform. In September 1964 she performed in theater Rokoko. She won "Silver Lyre of Bratislava" with Helena Vondráčková in 1966. She created the group 'Golden Kids' with Václav Neckář and Vondráčková in 1967. Her song "Prayer for Marta" became a symbol of national resistance against the occupation of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968. During the Prague Spring, she recorded over 200 SP records and one LP ("Songy a Balady"), which was immediately banned from stores. The government unjustly banned her from performing in February 1970. She signed the Charter 77 and she became their speaker. |
She suffered a miscarriage and survived clinical death. Marta was also an actress and she met her husband Jan Němec while filming. In 1990s and 2000s she also took part in concerts to promote human rights. She was awarded the "Honorary Medal of T. G. Masaryk" in 1998 and in October 2002 she got the "St. Wenceslas Honours". |
Ouija board |
The Ouija (pronounced wee-jee or wee-jah) is a game board supposedly used to talk to the dead. It is designed to be a fun activity based on self-deception. They are also called "spirit boards" or "talking boards. It is a flat board with the numbers 0-9 and all the letters of the alphabet. It has the words "yes" and "no" at the top with the word "goodbye" on the bottom. The board uses a planchette, which is a small wooden plank in the shape of an upside down heart. It has a glass circle (or plain hole) in the top. The player asks a question. Then one or more players guide the planchette to the letters or numbers to spell out a message. However, Scientists know the game is based on the ideomotor effect. A participant believes they are not controlling the message, that it comes from ghosts or spirits. It can seem very mysterious. But anyone can test a Ouija board by blindfolding or hiding the board from the ones moving the planchette. What usually results is gibberish and no message. |
Plomb du Cantal |
Plomb du Cantal is a French mountain, the highest summit of Mounts of Cantal in the "Massif Central", France. It is part of the Regional Natural Park of the Volcanoes of Auvergne (). |
It is the highest mountain of the Cantal department and the second highest in the Massif Central, after Puy de Sancy that is high. |
Geography. |
Plomb du Cantal is in the Mounts of Cantal, a chain of volcanic mountains in the Massif Central, in the centre of the Cantal department. It is at about to the northeast of Aurillac, the capital of the Cantal department. |
The summit is on the border between the "communes" of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats to the west and Albepierre-Bredons to the east. |
Many rivers start on the slopes of the mountain; they flow through three main drainage basins: |
The Plomb du Cantal, with other near mountains, is part of the stratovolcano of Cantal, the largest French stratovolcano and one of the most important of Europe with an area of almost . It had, 4 millions of years ago, an elevation of or higher. |
Because its importance for the movement of migratory birds, the Plomb du Cantal together with the Mounts of Cantal are part of a Special Protection Area since 2005: FR8310066 - Monts et Plomb du Cantal. |
Ski resorts. |
There are two main ski stations (places where people go to practice skiing) on the slopes of Plomb du Cantal or near it: "Le Lioran", also known as "Super Lioran", and "Prat-de-Bouc". |
Climbing. |
To get to the summit, there are three climbing routes: |
Xin Zhui |
Xin Zhui (213 BC-163 BC) also known as Lady Dai or the Diva Mummy is a 2,100-year-old mummy from the Western Han Dynasty. To date, she is the best preserved ancient human ever found. She was the wife of Li Cang, the marquis of Dai. She had gained fame more than 2,000 years after her death. This was when her tomb was discovered inside a hill in Hunan, China. She and her jewels are located at the Hunan Provincial Museum. |
Mummy. |
In 1971, her mummified body was found. All her organs and blood vessels were still seen. They found out that she had Type A blood. Her skin was still elastic. Her joints could still be moved. She still had her eyelashes and hair in her nostrils. Lady Dai was overweight. She suffered from diabetes. She also had high blood pressure, clogged arteries and her heart was badly damaged. |
Death. |
Xin died from a heart attack because of poor health conditions at the time. She also suffered internal parasites and had gallstones logged in her gall bladder. She had also suffered a lot of pain from a fused spinal disc. |
Table (landform) |
A table (landform) is a high rock structure with a flat top. There are many different terms for this landform feature. |
The tuya is a structure formed by a subglacial (under ice) volcano. Lava erupts underneath an overlying glacier or ice sheet. It melts through to the surface and pools, producing the flat plateau on top with near-vertical walls along the ice-contact margin as the lava cools and hardens. |
A similar landform is the tepui, which has a rather different origin. A body of hard rock resists erosion. It was originally inside a body of softer rock such as limestone, which got eroded away to form a plain. The more resistant rock is left behind as an isolated mountain. The term is used for the table-top mountains of South America. Auyán-tepui in the Guiana Highlands, Venezuela is the source of the Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world. It is 19 times higher than Niagara Falls. |
Table Mountain in South Africa is the best-known example of a table landform. |
Meierijstad |
Meierijstad (literally "Bailiwick City") is a municipality in North Brabant, a province in Netherlands. It is the largest municipality in the province and in the eastern part. |
About 79,000 people live tehre, on an area of about 185 km². |
Meierijstad is established in 2017. Two municipalities, Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and Veghel, joined to become Meierijstad. |
Biggest settlement is the town of Veghel, also containing the town hall. However, council meetings are held at Dommelrode Castle in Sint-Oedenrode. |
Both the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal and the A50 motorway cross municipality. |
Chandannagar |
Chandannagar is a municipal corporation in the state of West Bengal, India. It was formerly spelled Chandranagore. It was a former French colony along with present Puducherry, Union territory. It is a part of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. Chandannagar is located on the banks of the Hooghly River. The total area of the city is . The total population of the city is 166,867 according to the 2011 Census of India. Chandannagar was a French territory until India gained its independence from France in 1949. In 1954 it came under the jurisdiction of West Bengal. |
Abenaki language |
Abenaki, or Abnaki, is an endangered Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England. The language has Eastern and Western forms. They differ in vocabulary and phonology. They are sometimes considered distinct languages. |
Eastern Abenaki languages were spoken by several peoples, including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot of coastal Maine. The last known fluent speaker of Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot) died during the 1990s. However, several Penobscot elders still speak Penobscot. There is an ongoing effort to preserve it and teach it in the local schools. Only a handful of Western Abenaki speakers remain today. |
Stencil |
A stencil is a blocking material used to mask a surface. In it there are holes for ink or paint to pass through. That way an image is made on the material behind the stencil. Stencils are used when many copies are needed of the same image. It is used in street art, and many public notices. |
Screen printing is a printing technique using a fine mesh. Ink is applied except in areas blocked by a stencil. |
Virender Sehwag |
Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian National Cricket Team. He was renowned as a destructive and aggressive player. He holds numerous records in international and Indian cricket. He is a right arm batsman and right arm off-spin bowler. |
Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to score Triple century in Test cricket. He scored 319 off 278 balls against South Africa in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. It is the fastest triple century since then. He holds the massive Indian record of scoring the fastest 300,250,200 and 150 in Test cricket. Sehwag is the only personality of any nationality to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World twice. |
Place of articulation |
In phonetics (the study of sounds in human speech), the place of articulation of a sound is where in the mouth the sound is made (articulated). There are at least 13 different places of articulation. They are split into four big types. |
Labial (lips). |
Labial sounds are made with one or two lips. |
They are split into three types: |
Bilabial (two lips). |
Bilabial sounds are made with both lips. |
The bilabial sounds in English are [], [], and []. |
Labiodental (lip and teeth). |
Labiodental sounds are made with the lips and the teeth. |
Almost always the top lip and the bottom teeth are used. |
The labiodental sounds in English are [] and []. |
Linguolabial (lip and tongue). |
Linguolabial sounds are made by the tongue touching the top lip. |
There are no linguolabial sounds in English. |
Sometimes it is said to be part of the next group (Coronal). |
Coronal (tip of the tongue). |
Coronal sounds are made with the tip of the tongue. They are split into three types: |
Dental (teeth and tongue). |
Dental sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the back of the teeth. The dental sounds in English are [] and []. |
Alveolar (gum ridge and tongue). |
Alveolar sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the ridge behind the teeth. The alveolar sounds in English are [], [], [], [], [], and []. |
Retroflex (roof of the mouth and tongue). |
Retroflex sounds are made by pressing the tongue flat against the front part of roof of the mouth. There are no retroflex sounds in English. |
Palatal (roof of the mouth and tongue). |
Palatal sounds are made by the body of the tongue and the middle part of the roof of the mouth. The only palatal sound in English is []. Some say that it is part of the next group (dorsal). |
Dorsal (body of the tongue). |
Dorsal sounds are made with the body of the tongue. |
Velar (soft palate and back of the tongue). |
Velar sounds are made with the back of the tongue and the soft palate. There are three velar sounds in most dialects of English: [], [], and []. |
Uvular (uvula and back of the tongue). |
Uvular sounds are made with the back of the tongue and the uvula. There are no uvular sounds in English. |
Naqsh Lyallpuri |
Jaswant Rai Sharma, (24 February 1927 – 22 January 2017) popularly known by his pen name Naqsh Lyallpuri, was an Indian ghazal and Bollywood song writer. He was born in Lyallpur (now called Faisalabad), British India. Lyallpuri worked with many Bollywood music directors including Madan Mohan, Khayyam, Jaidev, Naushad, and Ravindra Jain. He had close association with director B. R. Ishara from their first movie "Chetna" in 1970. |
Lyallpuri was known for his work in "Chetna", "Gharonda", "Dard", "Kala Suraj", "", and "Yatra". |
Lyallpuri died at his home in Mumbai, India on 22 January 2017 from complications of a hip fracture, aged 89. |
Henry McMaster |
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