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232065 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachay-Balkar | Karachay-Balkar | The Karachay-Balkar language (K'arachai-Malk'ar /Qarachay-Malqar/) is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and . |
351213 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkoswald | Kirkoswald | Kirkoswald is a village and civil parish in Eden, Cumbria, England. In 2001 there were 870 people living in Kirkoswald. |
756524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20County%2C%20Maryland | Carroll County, Maryland | Carroll County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 167,134. Its county seat is Westminster. |
245604 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narita%20Takaki | Narita Takaki | Narita Takaki (born 5 April 1977) is a Japanese football player. |
821325 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20FIFA%20World%20Youth%20Championship | 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship | 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship was held in Netherlands from 10 June to 2 July.
Venues
Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host country the Netherlands did not have to qualify for the tournament. |
406918 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia%20Trial | Rivonia Trial | The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964. Ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system. This trial was held after the police raid on the MK base in Rivonia, where documents related to the 10 accused men were found. One of the men was the future President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. After the trial, Mandela was taken to jail in Robben Island.
The chief prosecutor was Dr. Percy Yutar, deputy attorney-general of the Transvaal.
The presiding judge was Dr. Quartus de Wet, judge-president of the Transvaal.
Arrests
Among the arrested were:
Nelson Mandela
Walter Sisulu
Govan Mbeki
Raymond Mhlaba
Andrew Mlangeni
Elias Motsoaledi, trade union and ANC member
Ahmed Kathrada
Denis Goldberg, a Cape Town engineer and leader of the Congress of Democrats
Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein, architect and member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)
Bob Hepple
Arthur Goldreich
Harold Wolpe, prominent attorney and activist
James "Jimmy" Kantor, brother-in-law of Harold Wolpe
Most of the Rivonia defendants were to be convicted, and in turn sentenced to life imprisonment. |
565183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Robinson | Chad Robinson | Chad Robinson (20 October 1980 - 26 November 2016) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He played from 2000 until 2009 as a lock and second-row forward. He played for the Parramatta Eels, the Sydney Roosters and the Harlequins RL. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
Robin was reported missing on 26 November 2016. He was found dead on 22 December 2016 in Kenthurst, New South Wales. He was 36. |
763900 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerash%20Governorate | Jerash Governorate | The Jerash Governorate () is one of the 12 governorates in Jordan. The capital of the governorate is the city of Jerash. |
720475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omero%20Antonutti | Omero Antonutti | Omero Antonutti (3 August 1935 - 5 November 2019) was an Italian actor. His best known roles were in Padre Padrone, El Sur, and Carlos Saura in El Dorado. He also played Noah in Genesis: The Creation and the Flood.
Antonutti died in Udine on 5 November 2019, at the age of 84, from cancer-related problems. |
74405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20and%20Jerry | Tom and Jerry | Tom and Jerry is an American slapstick comedy animated short series and media franchise. The original cartoons were created in 1940, written and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It is named after its two main iconic characters: a blue-grey cat named Tom and a brown house mouse named Jerry. Each cartoon shows the two characters getting into comedic fights or chases, in which they often get hurt cartoon-style.
A total of 114 Tom and Jerry shorts were produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio from 1940-1958, starting with Puss Gets the Boot. Seven of these cartoons won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
Tom and Jerry still holds the record of the most awards in the Animated Short Film category, which is tied for first place with the Walt Disney musical production Silly Symphonies.
Later, Gene Deitch in Europe made 13 more cartoons for the series from 1961-1962. Then, Chuck Jones produced 34 more cartoons from 1963-1967. Finally, Hanna-Barbera worked with Warner Brothers Animation to make the last three Tom and Jerry cartoons: The Mansion Cat in 2001, The Karate Guard in 2005, and A Fundraising Adventure in 2014, making a total of 164 shorts and 863 episodes of the franchise, notable companies such as MGM, Hanna-Barbera Prouductions, Filmation, Warner Bros. Animation. Since then, the cartoon characters have made appearances in other media. notable animators like, Tom Ray, Iwao Takamoto, Jaime Diaz, Eddie Fitzgerald, Tom Minton, Charles M. Howell IV, Kent Butterworth, Cliff Voorhees, John Kricfalusi, Paul Sabella, Bill Proctor, Sandy Benenati, David Feiss, Butch Hartman, Scott Jeralds, Dan Haskett, etc. then the Tom and Jerry given rights by MGM in 1940 to 1990, Hanna-Barbera took over the franchise in 1974 to 2001, and now reinstated owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment in 2000 and Turner in 1986.
Filmography
The following cartoons won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film:
1943: The Yankee Doodle Mouse!
1944: Mouse Trouble
1945: Quiet Please!
1946: The Cat Concerto
1948: The Little Orphan
1952: The Two Mouseketeers!
1953: Johann Mouse
Other media
The following lists are about the Tom and Jerry media which were not made for the original cartoon series. |
19364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel | Hotel | A hotel or a guest-house is a large building with many rooms, where people can sleep when they are not at home. A motel is a hotel especially for motorists - people who drive cars - where the room door usually opens into the parking lot rather than to an interior corridor. Inn is sometimes used to mean a smaller hotel. Guest house can also mean an accessory dwelling unit. An extended stay hotel is one where suites are rented by the week.
These places will rent a room for any number of days. They offer rooms to sleep as their business. There are also hotels where conferences are held.
Some hotels have swimming pool. Some hotels are called capsule hotels (in Japan).
History
Hotels emerged as inns along important transport routes. The first hotels appeared in the days of the Ancient World, in the Middle Ages they also served as shelters for the infirm. This is indicated by the etymology of the word hotel, hotel: through st.-fr. ostel, hostel it comes from Latin. cubiculum hospitale ("guest room"), whence the word "hospital".
In the 16th-17th centuries, the hotel is an aristocratic residential building with ceremonial and service courtyards.
Today, according to the definition of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), hotels are called a house with furnished rooms for short-term stay of visitors, consisting of a number of rooms that have a single guide and provide certain services. They are grouped into classes and categories according to the types of services provided, with the equipment available in them.
The hotel is also called a residential property complex (building, part of the building, equipment and other property), designed to provide services.
Types
International luxury
International luxury hotels have high-quality amenities, full-service restaurants and rooms. They usually provide the highest level of personalized and professional service in major or capital cities.
Upscale full-service
Upscale full-service hotels range in quality from upscale to luxury.
Lifestyle luxury resorts
Branded hotels are typically full-service and classified as luxury. A key characteristic is focus on a unique guest experience.
Boutique
Smaller independent non-branded hotels with 100 rooms or fewer.
Focused or select service
Small to medium hotels that give a limited number of amenities. This amenities cater and market to a specific demographic of travelers, such as the single business traveler. Such hotels may lack leisure amenities such as an restaurant or a swimming pool.
Economy and limited service
Extended stay hotels
Small to medium-sized hotels where clients can stay longer than in traditional hotels.
Capsule hotel - lodging establishment where the rooms are sleeping compartments about the size of a single bed.
Hostel - a hotel where guests rent beds in dormitory or barracks style rooms.
Timeshare and destination clubs
Microstay
Motel
A motel is an abbreviation for "motor hotel". It is a small-sized low-rise lodging establishment. Usually motels have access to individual rooms from the car park. Motels are good for road travellers, travellers on road trip vacations or workers who drive for their job. |
869616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Akhmatova | Anna Akhmatova | Anna Andreyevna Gorenko ( - 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet. In 1965 she was on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize,
Related pages
List of Russian language poets
Sources
Akhmatova, Anna, Trans. Kunitz, Staney and Hayward, Max (1973) Poems of Akhmatova. Houghton Mifflin;
Akhmatova, Anna, Trans. Kunitz, Staney and Hayward, Max (1998) Poems of Akhmatova. Houghton Mifflin;
Akhmatova, Anna (1989) Trans. Mayhew and McNaughton. Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems. Oberlin College Press;
Akhmatova, Anna (1992) Trans. Judith Hemschemeyer The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Ed. R. Reeder, Boston: Zephyr Press; (2000);
Feinstein, Elaine. (2005) Anna of all the Russias: A life of Anna Akhmatova. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ; Alfred A. Knopf, (2006)
Harrington, Alexandra (2006) The poetry of Anna Akhmatova: living in different mirrors. Anthem Press;
Martin, Eden (2007) Collecting Anna Akhmatova, The Caxtonian, Vol. 4 April 2007 Journal of the Caxton Club; accessed 31 May 2010
Monas, Sidney; Krupala, Jennifer Greene; Punin, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1999), The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904-1953, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series, University of Texas Press;
Polivanov, Konstantin (1994) Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle, University of Arkansas Press;
Reeder, Roberta. (1994) Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet. New York: Picador;
Reeder, Roberta. (1997) Anna Akhmatova: The Stalin Years Journal article by Roberta Reeder; New England Review, Vol. 18, 1997
Wells, David (1996) Anna Akhmatova: Her Poetry Berg Publishers;
Notes |
728093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Douglas | Shirley Douglas | Shirley Jean Douglas (April 2, 1934 - April 5, 2020) was a Canadian actress and activist. She was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Her career began in 1950 and she retired in 2013. She played Mrs. Starch in the 1962 movie Lolita. Her father was Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas.
Douglas was married to Donald Sutherland from 1966 through 1970. They had three children, including Kiefer Sutherland.
Douglas died in Toronto of pneumonia-related problems three days after her 86th birthday on April 5, 2020. |
851252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCzce | Düzce | Duzce is a city in northwestern Turkey. The city is in the East Marmara Region. In 2020, 249,695 people lived there. |
944280 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan%20Triumphant | Satan Triumphant | Satan Triumphant () is a 1917 Russian silent drama movie directed by Yakov Protazanov. It stars Pavel Pavlov, Aleksandr Chabrov, and Natalya Lisenko. |
585349 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Judge | Paul Judge | Sir Paul Rupert Judge (25 April 1949 - 21 May 2017) was an English business and political figure. He served as Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc. He also worked at Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, Tempur-Pedic, and The Abraaj Group.
Judge was born in London. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2002 until his death, he was married to Barbara Thomas. Judge died on 21 May 2017 in London at the age of 68. |
42983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja | Freyja | Freyja (Old Norse: "[the] Lady") is the goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, seidr, war, and death in Norse mythology. A member of the Vanir, Freyja is the daughter of Njordr, and twin sister of Freyr. The most beautiful and refined of the goddesses, she owns the necklace Brisingamen, and rides in a chariot pulled by two cats, accompanied by a giant boar named Hildisvini; in addition to this, Freyja possesses a cloak of falcon feathers. She is married to the god Odr, by whom she is the mother of the twin goddesses Hnoss and Gersemi. Freyja rules over the heavenly field(s) of Folkvangr, where she receives half of those that die in battle, as the other half go to Valhalla. The minor goddesses Gefjon, Skadi, Thorgerdr Holgabrudr and Irpa (Old Norse: literally "Thorgerdr, Holgi's bride"), and Menglod all serve as her handmaidens.
Her name is often translated into English as Freya when used nowadays, but the original Norwegian name is spelt Freyja.
Receiver of the slain
The Valkyries, having chosen who is to live and die in battle, collect the souls of those slain and bring them to Valhalla, where they will feast and make revelry with Odin; Freyja herself shares half of these heroes with Odin. Her sacred realm is the field of Folkvangr, wherein lies her great hall Sessrumnir. There, Freyja decides where her warriors shall sit.
This is what is written in the original myth:
The ninth hall is Folkvang, where bright Freyja decides
Where her warriors shall sit,
Some of the slain belong to her,
Some belong to Odin.
Bride of the Odr
Freyja married a god called Odr. She loves her husband deeply, but he often went away on long journeys, and Freyja cried red golden tears for him. Her tears become gold and amber when they fall to Earth, therefore gold was called "Freyja's tears". They have two beautiful daughters called Hnoss and Gersemi.
Owner of Brisingamen
Freyja often rides in a chariot pulled by big silver tabby cats (her sacred animal) or on a golden boar named Hildisvini, who accompanies her in battle. Freyja was renowned for her loveliness and beauty, as the myths tell of three giants who wanted to marry her, but they were all killed by Thor, the god of thunder.
Freyja also has a precious necklace called Brisingamen. The god Loki once stole this necklace, and Freyja had to ask the guardian Heimdall for help. Heimdallr engaged Loki in combat and won against the Trickster, giving the necklace back to Freyja. For this, Loki is also called "Thief of Brisingamen", and Heimdall is also called "Seeker of Brisingamen".
Thrymr, the king of the jotnar, once stole Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. When Loki went to Jotunheimr to retrieve the hammer, he found Thrymr, who revealed that he planned to give Mjolnir to Freyja as a wedding gift, as he requested her hand in marriage. When Loki returned to Asgard to deliver the news, Freyja was so angered that the heavens shook, and the necklace Brisingamen broke. When it was decided that Thor would go to Thrymr posing as Freyja (Loki disguised himself as one of the goddess' maidservants), he borrowed the necklace. Upon their arrival, Thrymr threw a huge feast in celebration of the marriage, as he presented Mjolnir to "Freyja" as a wedding gift; Thor then took his hammer, killing Thrymr and all who attended the wedding.
Jobs
Freyja is a warrior goddess. Whenever she rides into battles, she gets half of the souls of dead heroes. She is also a practitioner of magic, otherwise known as seidr, and is highly proficient in using it. She has a magical cloak made of falcon feathers which allows her to fly between different worlds.
Freyja is the patron goddess of crops and childbirths. She is also a goddess of love, whom lovers may send prayers to.
Frigg and Freyja were two of the most revered goddesses in Norse mythology. They were especially worshipped by Vikings. Freyja is said to be the kindest among goddesses. In a poem in the Poetic Edda, a young man called Ottar always trusted in the goddesses; he built a rock shrine for the goddesses, and Freyja answered his prayers. She disguised Ottar as her golden boar, and went on a trip to help him find his ancestors.
After Ragnarok
In final battle of Ragnarok, Odin, and Freyr will die. Freyja is not stated as having died during Ragnarok or surviving.
Names
Freyr's name means "the Lord", and Freyja's name means "the Lady".
The day of the week, Friday, is named either after her, or after Odin's wife Frigg. Before Christianity became the dominant religion of the region, the Orion constellation was called Frigg's distaff or Freyja's girdle. Frigg and Freyja may be one and the same goddess.
Freyja is also widely known as Vanadis (Old Norse: Vanadis - "Lady of the Vanir"). The metallic element Vanadium was named after her. The Vanir are close relatives of elves. Freyr is the Lord of the elves, and his sacred realm is Alfheim, home of the elves.
Another well-known name of Freyja is Gefn, which means "Giver", a suitable name for the fertility goddess.
Freyja represents the Norse women of the Viking Age, whose husbands often went away to war. From Freyja's name, noble Norse women were called Fru, and wives were called house-fru. Frau means "woman" in German.
Freya and Freja are now common Scandinavian female names. |
654644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep%20Fontana | Josep Fontana | Josep Fontana i Lazaro (20 November 1931 - 28 August 2018) was a Spanish historian. He was born in Barcelona. He taught economic, the role between history, law and economics and contemporary history at the University of Barcelona, the University of Valencia and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Fontana died of heart failure in Barcelona on 28 August 2018 at the age of 86. |
86211 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodrino%2C%20Ticino | Lodrino, Ticino | Lodrino was a municipality of the district Riviera in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 2 April 2017, the former municipalities of Cresciano, Iragna, Lodrino, and Osogna merged to form the new municipality of Riviera. |
734595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepi%20Mi%C4%87a | Lepi Mića | Lepi Mica (born Miroslav Przulj; January 1, 1959) is a Bosnian Serb turbofolk singer-songwriter. He started making music in Sarajevo in 1989 with his album Rulet sretshe (Roulette of luck). In 1990 he joined the Army of Republika Srpska and fought in the Bosnian War. In 1991, he left Bosnia and moved to Belgrade, where he got married. In 2013, he was invited to Season 5 of the RTV Pink reality show Farma (Farm), but later kicked off for hate speech. He was also invited to Season 7, which he lost, and he was invited to the show's sequel, Zadruga. In his songs, he often complains about the Croatian and Bosnian governments. He has written nine albums, five of which were about the Yugoslav wars or Serbian nationalism. |
885371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Peters%2C%20Missouri | St. Peters, Missouri | St. Peters is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. |
399656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20haggis | Wild haggis | Wild haggis (Haggis scoticus) is a fictional creature. It is said that it is native to the Scottish Highlands. It is jokingly said to be the source of haggis. |
84265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenol | Montenol | Montenol was a municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. |
390958 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Afghanistan | Islam in Afghanistan | Islam is the state religion of the Afghanistan. About 99.7% of the Afghan population is Muslim. About 80-89% practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school. 10-19% are Shi'a, most of whom follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis. |
347628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B03%3A00 | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 makes clocks 3 hours later than Greenwich Mean Time.
These are the countries who use UTC+03:00 as their time. |
951652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid%20back%20unrounded%20vowel | Close-mid back unrounded vowel | The close-mid back unrounded vowel is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. |
469601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20Dark | Alvin Dark | Alvin Ralph "Al" Dark (January 7, 1922 - November 13, 2014), nicknamed "Blackie" and "The Swamp Fox", was an American baseball player. He was a shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball and played for five National League teams from 1946 to 1960.
Dark was born in Comanche, Oklahoma. He was raised in Louisiana. Dark studied at Louisiana State University and at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Dark played for the Boston Braves, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and for the Milwaukee Braves. Dark managed the San Francisco Giants, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics, and the San Diego Padres.
Dark died in Easley, South Carolina from Alzheimer's disease, aged 92. |
966646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton%2C%20Maine | Upton, Maine | Upton is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. |
340602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge%2C%20Avebury%20and%20Associated%20Sites | Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites | Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England.
Stonehenge and Avebury are groups of large stones called megaliths. Both sites are circles of stones which are placed in a pattern. In each, the placement of the stones and spaces between them may have astronomical meaning.
History
The creation of Stonehenge and Avebury dates from the Bronze Age.
Avebury is to the north of Stonehenge. It is Europe's largest prehistoric stone circle. It has about 100 megaliths.
Small sites of prehistoric stones are nearby, including Silbury Hill, Windmill Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, and Overton Hill. |
990872 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clip%20art | Clip art | Clip art is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a wide variety of content, file formats, illustration styles, and licensing restrictions. |
119409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattoki%20Tehsil | Pattoki Tehsil | Pattoki Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The market town of Pattoki is the headquarters of the tehsil. |
980733 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%2C%20Massachusetts | Warren, Massachusetts | Warren is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. |
735602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlowton%2C%20Montana | Harlowton, Montana | Harlowton is a city of Montana in the United States. It is the county seat of Wheatland County. About 1,000 people lived there in 2010.
Harlowton was founded in 1900 as a station stop on the Montana Railroad. Harlowton is surrounded by the Crazy, Little Belt and Big Snowy Mountains, which are a part of the Lewis and Clark National Forest. |
764358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20the%20Hedgehog%204 | Sonic the Hedgehog 4 | Sonic the Hedgehog 4 might refer to:
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I, released in 2010
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, released in 2012 |
1029003 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Guti%C3%A9rrez | Ernesto Gutiérrez | Ernesto Gutierrez was a footballer from Argentina. Ernesto played for the Argentina national football team. He was born on 9 November 1927 and died on 9 December 2006. |
836666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schechen | Schechen | Schechen (Bavarian: Schecha) is a municipality in Rosenheim, a district (Landkreis) in Upper Bavaria. |
476915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Buffalo%20Club | The Buffalo Club | The Buffalo Club is an American country music group formed in 1997. |
26175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq | Iraq | Iraq is a country in southwestern Asia. Iraq borders with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the south, Turkey to the north, Syria to the north-west, Jordan to the west, and Iran to the east. The capital of Iraq is Baghdad.
Iraq has been known by the Greek name Mesopotamia which means (Land between the rivers) and has been home to continuous successive civilizations since the 6th millennium BC. The region between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is often referred to as the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing. Iraq was part of several empires, some were Safavid, and Afsharid. During the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I, British Empire troops conquered the Ottoman Empire provinces of Basra and Baghdad and later added the province of Mosul to make Iraq.
Most Iraqis are Shia Muslims.
Politics
From 1968 to 2003, Iraq was run by the Ba'ath Party. Saddam Hussein was the President from 1979 until the disbandment of the Ba'ath Party.
After the 1990 invasion of Kuwait many countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, Pakistan, and others fought to free Kuwait. Later, some agents believed to be sent by Saddam Hussein tried to kill former President George H. W. Bush with a truck bomb in Kuwait.
The Kurdistan Region gained autonomy in the 1990s. Kurdistan region has its own parliament.
The March 2003 invasion of Iraq was led by American, British, Australian, Danish and Polish forces. They forced the Ba'ath Party to surrender. The publicly stated reason for the invasion was that Saddam Hussein refused to let United Nations inspectors look for suspected nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. In the past, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons to kill the Kurds. Iraq had done research in making biological and nuclear weapons.
The country was initially split into 3 zones, the American zone, the British zone, and the Polish zone similar to the way Germany was divided in 1945. Forces from Denmark controlled areas in the British zone. A new temporary government was formed on June 28, 2004. The coalition forces were in the country.
There were many U.S., British and multi-national troops in the country until December 15, 2011 when the Iraq War had ended. Tensions between religious groups (Shia and Sunni Muslims, as well as Christians) lead to a great deal of instability in the country.
Geography
The country area lies between two rivers; for this reason the area was called Mesopotamia in ancient ages. The rivers Euphrates and Tigris bound what is called the Fertile Crescent. Iraq also has a small coastline along the Persian Gulf, and this coastline was considered the heart of the petroleum trade in Iraq before the First Gulf War. The weather is extremely hot and dry because Iraq is far from seas and oceans and even the close ones are blocked by mountains so that the rainy wind can not reach the inlands. This region has fertile land because of the two rivers.
Iraq is divided into 18 provinces (muhafazah).
Economy
Iraq has a large amount of oil. Iraq is the world's number four in petroleum production and the world's number two in petroleum reserves. In the past, Iraq sold much of this oil to other countries. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations stopped Iraq from selling the oil. The United Nations later allowed Iraq to sell some oil to buy food, clothes, and medicine so the people would not suffer as much. This was called the "Oil-for-Food" program. |
844645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samjetsabam | Samjetsabam | Samjetsabam is a Meetei Manipuri surname or family name which has Indian origin. People of this family mainly inhabit in Manipur, India. |
774322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest%20Honv%C3%A9d%20FC | Budapest Honvéd FC | Budapest Honved Football Club () is a Hungarian sports club based in Kispest, Budapest with the colours of red and black. The club is best known for its football team. It was originally formed as Kispest AC. They became Kispest FC in 1926 before reverting to their original name in 1944. |
971719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%20You%20Love%20Somebody%20Set%20Them%20Free | If You Love Somebody Set Them Free | "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is a 1985 debut single by Sting and taken from his debut studio album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It went to number 3 in the United States, number 5 in Canada, number 6 in New Zealand, number 13 in Belgium, number 15 in Ireland, number 18 in Australia, number 19 in Sweden, number 23 in France, number 26 in the United Kingdom and number 28 in Switzerland.
Track listings
7" US and Canada single (AM-2738)
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" - 4:14
"Another Day" - 3:59
12" US single (SP-12132)
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (Extended Remix by John "Jellybean" Benitez) - 8:00
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" - 4:14
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (Torch Song Mix, Produced by William Orbit) - 4:52
"Another Day" - 3:59
12" US promotional single (SP-17324)
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" - 4:14
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" - 4:14
12" France single (392 018-1)
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (Torch Song Mix, Produced by William Orbit) - 4:52
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (Remix by John "Jellybean" Benitez) - 8:00
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" - 4:14
"Another Day" - 3:59 |
788053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochberg%2C%20Tyrol | Jochberg, Tyrol | Jochberg is a municipality of the district Kitzbuhel in the Austrian state of Tyrol. |
163931 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20worm | Computer worm | A computer worm is a kind of malware that is able to copy itself, and spread. Unlike a computer virus, this is done without changing files on a computer, and without affecting the boot sector of media. Worms do not need human help to reproduce. Worms spread over networks, or on removable media like USB flash drives. They almost always need a helper program that is able to access the network, or that executes when a new medium is inserted.
In that way, a Worm could start a program to send electronic mail, and send itself on to all the addresses in the address book of the email application. A very famous worm that appeared in 2000 was called ILOVEYOU (or Love Letter), it sent a simple mail with the subject ILOVEYOU, and an attachment of a document that contained the worm code.
Worms usually do not cause direct damage to a system. But they consume memory and network bandwidth, slowing down the computer. This makes it almost impossible to work with. Other examples of Worms are CodeRed and Sircam. |
724787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Rahm | Harold Rahm | Harold Joseph Rahm (February 22, 1919 - November 30, 2019) was a Catholic priest and Jesuit. He was well known for his work with gangs and inner-city youth in El Paso, Texas. From there he went to Campinas, Brazil, where he worked at prevention and treatment of drug addiction.
Rahm died on November 30, 2019 in Campinas, Brazil at the age of 100. |
500584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Pirani | Mario Pirani | Mario Pirani Coen (August 3, 1925 - April 18, 2015) was an Italian journalist, economist, and writer. He was born in Rome. After the experiences with Patrol, Il Giorno and Il Globo, he participated, together with Eugenio Scalfari, to create la Repubblica, a newspaper that became one of the first in Italy. He was also editor of L'Europeo from 1979 to 1980, succeeding Giovanni Valentini. In 1995 he won the Premiolino.
Pirani died in Rome, Italy, aged 89. |
454921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Patry | Pierre Patry | Pierre Patry (2 November 1933 - 7 June 2014) was a Canadian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He mainly worked during the 1950s and 1960s, but stayed active until the early 1980s. He produced the movie Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1967).
Patry was born in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec. He spoke French. He was of French ancestry.
Patry died on 7 June 2014 in Quebec, aged 80. |
829138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20German | Upper German | Upper German (German: ) is a variant of High German dialects. |
137629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken%20Mare | Kraken Mare | Kraken Mare is the largest known lake on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. It was discovered in 2007 by the Cassini probe and was named in 2008 after the Kraken, a legendary sea monster.
Kraken Mare is believed to be the largest of seas and lakes near Titan's north pole. It was discovered as a sea of hydrocarbons by radar pictures. Only a small part of the sea has been pictured by radar, but its full size is seen in visible light pictures. Kraken Mare is believed to be similar in size to the Caspian Sea.
An island in the sea is named Mayda Insula. |
765407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena%20Benini | Milena Benini | Milena Benini (November 24 1966 - 4 June 2020) was a Croatian science fiction writer and translator. She won the SFERA Award six times (1999, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017). She was born Zagreb. She wrote short stories and romantic stories.
Benini died on 4 June 2020 from an illness. |
647563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil%20Wickremesinghe | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Ranil Wickremesinghe, MP (, ; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th President of Sri Lanka since 13 July 2022 and his election on 20 July 2022. He was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 12 May 2022 until 20 July 2022. He was Prime Minister before from 1993 to 1994, 2001 to 2004 and 2015 to 2019.
Before, he was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka two times, from 7 May 1993 to 19 August 1994 and from 9 December 2001 to 6 April 2004. A member of the United National Party he was nominated as party leader in November 1994. He is also the leader of the United National Front having been nominated head of the organization in October 2009.
On 9 July 2022, Wickremesinghe announced he was ready to resign to make way for an all-party government as protesters stormed and burned his residence that day. Later in the evening, protesters broke into the Wickremesinghe's private residence in Colombo and set it on fire.
On 15 July 2022, Wickremesinghe was nominated as the United National Party's presidential nominee for the 2022 presidential election. He was elected president on 20 July 2022 and was sworn-in the next day. |
40337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Kavalee | Ed Kavalee | Edward Robert Kavalee (born 30 June 1979) (also known as The Prize King) is an Australian actor and radio host. Ed is a graduate of Screenwise, Australia's Leading Film & TV School for actors in Sydney. He is on Santo, Sam and Ed's Sports Fever!, with Santo Cilauro and Sam Pang
He was on the Get This radio show on Triple M in Australia with Tony Martin. He was also part of the cast of Thank God You're Here, and host of TV Burp.
Kavalee is an experienced Theatresports performer, and is part of the ensemble cast on Working Dog Productions' improvised comedy show Thank God You're Here.
Kavalee said on Get This on September 26, 2006 that he auditioned for a role playing Buddy Holly in an American telemovie but was too tall. |
168016 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20%282008%20movie%29 | Legacy (2008 movie) | Legacy is a movie starring Haylie Duff and Madeline Zima, due in theaters in 2008. It was filmed in Los Angeles and concerns a sorority house where one of the rushees is found dead and the primary suspects are three of the most popular girls of the house. The movie was released Straight to DVD on the 12 August 2008 in the United States and has had mixed reviews from critics. In some countries like Australia, the movie is also called Pretty Little Devils and was also released straight to video. |
500436 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwartbles%20sheep | Zwartbles sheep | Zwartbles sheep are a large breed of domestic sheep. This breed first came from Holland in the north of the Netherlands. They were used to make sheep milk as well as lamb and mutton. They were often kept in the same fields as the dairy cattle.
They were brought over to Great Britain in the late 1900s. They are not very common and now live in the north of England. The sheep have reddish brown wool, black legs with four white socks, a white tip on the tail, and a black face with a white stripe. They do not have horns. The lambs look the same but have jet black wool. These are a tame and friendly sheep, but are difficult to look after.
They are bred for their meat and not for their wool, because it is very dark and cannot be dyed. The meat from Zwartbles sheep does not have much fat and tastes sweet.
The Zwartbles are large sheep: ewes (females) weigh an average of , and rams (males) .
Being so large, they often have three or four lambs. Having so many babies can cause problems for the mother in giving birth.
These sheep have become less popular in Holland. There are so few there that they are listed as being rare by the Dutch Rare Breed Survival trust in the mid-1970s.
The first Zwartbles were imported to the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. A group for their farmers and owners, the Zwartbles Sheep Association, was formed in 1995.
Zwartbles are now mainly used for breeding lambs, and for their meat and wool. Already coming from the cold, wet, windy climate in the Netherlands, they can live in good health at various altitudes in Great Britain. Some Zwarbles are now shown in agricultural shows to be judged. The wool of these show animals is often trimmed to remove the brown wool tips. This leaves a tight black fleece showing as the primary colour. |
832592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelnuovo%20Nigra | Castelnuovo Nigra | Castelnuovo Nigra is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. |
425859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20Orange | Channel Orange | Channel Orange (written as channel, ORANGE) is the first studio album by Frank Ocean. It was released in July 2012 through Def Jam. The cover shows an orange box that is almost full, which is a reference to the summer that Ocean had first fallen in love. It featured the song "Thinkin Bout You" as well as the other successful songs "Lost", "Pyramids", "Sweet Life" and "Super Rich Kids". The lyrics are dealing with Oceans experience with unrequited love, sex, drugs and nostalgia. It won a Grammy Award. |
21173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaqortoq | Qaqortoq | Qaqortoq, also known by its Danish name Julianehab, is a town in southwestern Greenland. With a population of 3,100, it is South Greenland's biggest town. It is the fourth biggest town in Greenland. The name Qaqortoq is Western Greenlandic, and it means "white". Qaqortoq also is the seat of the municipality of Qaqortoq which apart from the town itself includes three small settlements. Qaqortoq was founded by Norwegian Anders Olsen in 1775. Near Qaqortoq are the Hvalsey ruins, the most famous Norse ruins in Greenland. |
745221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20A.%20Sims | Christopher A. Sims | Christopher Albert "Chris" Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas J. Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. |
805797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional%20Council%20%28France%29 | Constitutional Council (France) | The Constitutional Council (; ) is the highest constitutional authority in France. It was created by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958 to make that constitutional ideas and rules are seen through. It is located in the Palais-Royal, Paris. |
824873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gotti | Peter Gotti | Peter Arthur Gotti (October 15, 1939 - February 25, 2021) was an American mobster. He was the boss of the Gambino crime family and the older brother of former Gambino boss John Gotti. Gotti was born in the Bronx, New York City. In March 2003, Gotti was convicted of extortion, money laundering and racketeering activities. In 2004, he was sentenced to nine years in jail. The next year, he was sentenced another twenty-five years.
On February 25, 2021, Gotti died at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina, at the age of 81. |
163151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20Campbell | Sol Campbell | Sol Campbell (born 18 September 1974) is an English football player. He has played for the England national team as well known and other English football clubs, including;Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Portsmouth and Notts County
Club career statistics
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|1992/93||rowspan="9"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="9"|Premier League||1||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||1
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|1993/94||34||0||4||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||40||0
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|1994/95||30||0||4||0||4||1||colspan="2"|-||38||1
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|1995/96||31||1||4||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||39||1
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|1996/97||38||0||1||0||4||1||colspan="2"|-||43||1
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|1997/98||34||0||3||1||3||0||colspan="2"|-||40||1
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|1998/99||37||6||7||0||8||2||colspan="2"|-||52||8
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|1999/00||29||0||2||0||2||0||2||0||35||0
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|2000/01||21||2||5||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||27||2
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|2001/02||rowspan="5"|Arsenal||rowspan="5"|Premier League||31||2||7||1||0||0||10||0||48||3
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|2002/03||33||2||5||1||0||0||10||0||48||3
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|2003/04||35||1||5||0||0||0||9||0||49||0
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|2004/05||16||1||1||0||0||0||4||0||21||1
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|2005/06||20||2||1||0||2||0||6||1||29||3
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|2006/07||rowspan="3"|Portsmouth||rowspan="3"|Premier League||32||1||2||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||34||1
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|2007/08||31||1||5||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||37||1
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|2008/09||28||0||3||0||0||0||4||0||35||0
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|2009/10||Notts County||League Two||1||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
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|2009/10||Arsenal||Premier League||||||||||||||||||||
482||20||59||3||31||3||45||1||617||28
482||20||59||3||31||3||45||1||617||28
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International career statistics
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|1996||3||0
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|1997||9||0
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|1998||12||0
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|1999||5||0
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|2000||8||0
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|2001||5||0
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|2002||10||1
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|2003||4||0
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|2004||8||0
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|2005||2||0
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|2006||3||0
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|2007||4||0
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975614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates%3A%20Adventures%20in%20Art | Pirates: Adventures in Art | Pirates: Adventures in Art is a Canadian computer-animated musical children's television series. It was produced by DHX Media
Cast
Joseph Motiki as Leo
Tajja Isen as Cleo
Carlos Diaz as Fresco de Gecko
Jayne Eastwood as Queen Conformia
James Rankin as Krank and Skelly
Episodes
Broadcast
CBC Television (Canada)
Canal J (France) |
382839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha%2C%20wife%20of%20Edward%20the%20Exile | Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile | Agatha of Kiev ( 1030 -- 25 July 1070) was the wife of Edward the Exile, an exiled English prince who was supposed to become the King of England but then died before he could ever become. She was the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, the Grand Prince of Kiev, and Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, the daughter of the Swedish king, Olof Skotkonung. She was said to have been a loyal wife to her husband and a loving mother to her children.
Marriage and Issue
Agatha and Edward had three children:
Margaret ( 1047 -- 1093), later known as Saint Margaret of Scotland, queen of Scotland. She married King Malcolm III of Scotland. She was the mother of three Scottish kings: Edgar, Alexander I, and David I.
Cristina ( 1049 -- 1100), became a nun at Romsay Abbey.
Edgar (26 March 1051 -- 21 July 1125), later known as Edgar Atheling, became the disputed King of England for two months in 1066 until where he was forced submitted to William the Conqueror. Eventually became a great knight and would join rebellions against William. |
886887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipporah | Zipporah | Zipporah is a woman in the Bible. She is in the Book of Exodus. She is the daughter of Reuel/Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian. She marries Moses. |
794015 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-G%C3%BCnther%20von%20Hase | Karl-Günther von Hase | Karl-Gunther von Hase (15 December 1917 - 9 May 2021) was a former German diplomat. He served as Ambassador of West Germany to the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1977. He also served as director-general (intendant) of the ZDF, the German public-service television broadcaster, from 1977 to 1982.
Von Hase was born in Gut Wangern, Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia. That area is now in Wroclaw, a city in western Poland. He was married to Renate Stumpff, the daughter of general Hans-Jurgen Stumpff. The couple had five children. Hase turned 100 in December 2017 and died in May 2021 at the age of 103. |
159549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Joan%20Cuza | Alexander Joan Cuza | Alexander Joan Cuza (a common English rendition of Alexandru Ioan Cuza; March 20, 1820 - May 15, 1873) was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia between 1859 and 1866. |
460445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock%20Shrine | Knock Shrine | Knock Shrine () is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site. In 1879, a religious vision was said to have happened in the village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. It was seen by fifteen people. The vision was of The Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, John the Evangelist, angels, and Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God. A church was later built on the site, to worship and remember this event.
The vision
On the evening of 21 August 1879, at about 8 o'clock, fifteen people, aged from five years to seventy-five included men, women, teenagers and children, witnessed this event.
They all said they saw an apparition of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the Evangelist on the wall of the small parish church. The little church was called the Church of Saint John the Baptist.
Description
The Blessed Virgin Mary was said to be beautiful, standing a few feet above the ground. She wore a white dress. She had a crown on her head. The crown was golden, sparkling, and glittering. She was described as "in prayer", with her eyes raised to heaven.
Saint Joseph, also wearing a white robe, stood on the Virgin's right hand. Behind the figures, to the left of Saint John was a plain altar. On the altar was a cross and a lamb, with angels around. The lamb is the symbol of Jesus. This symbol is from the religious phrase The Lamb of God)
Those who saw the apparition stood in the rain for up to two hours.
Evidence
An ecclesiastical inquiry was held to decide if the vision was true and not a mistake or fake.
The evidence was found to be trustworthy and not a lie. At a second Commission of inquiry in 1936, the surviving witnesses confirmed the evidence they gave to the first Commission.
Every August, ten thousand pilgrims go to visit the Knock Shrine .
The original little church is still there. A new Apparition chapel with statues of Our Lady, St Joseph, the lamb and St John the Evangelist, has been built next to it. Knock Basilica is a separate building showing a tapestry of the apparition.
Recent history
Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited the Shrine in June 1993.
Related pages
Knock, County Mayo
Our Lady of Fatima
Our Lady of Lourdes
More reading
John MacPhilpin. The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock. PJ Kennedy. 1904
Sister Mary Francis Clare. Three Visits to Knock. PJ Kennedy. 1904
Neary, Tom, I Saw Our Lady. |
748273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchberg | Kirchberg | Kirchberg can mean:
Austria
Kirchberg am Wagram, a market town in Lower Austria
Kirchberg am Walde, a market town in Lower Austria
Kirchberg am Wechsel, a market town in Lower Austria
Kirchberg an der Pielach, a market town in Lower Austria
Kirchberg an der Raab, a municipality in Styria
Kirchberg in Tirol, a municipality in Tyrol
Kirchberg bei Mattighofen, a municipality in Upper Austria
Kirchberg ob der Donau, a municipality in Upper Austria
Kirchberg-Thening, a municipality in Upper Austria
France
Kirchberg, Haut-Rhin, a commune in Haut-Rhin
Germany
Kirchberg an der Iller, a municipality in Biberach, Baden-Wurttemberg
Kirchberg an der Murr, a municipality in Rems-Murr, Baden-Wurttemberg
Kirchberg an der Jagst, a town in Schwabisch Hall, Baden-Wurttemberg
Kirchberg, Upper Bavaria, a municipality in the Erding, Bavaria
Kirchberg im Wald, a municipality in Regen, Bavaria
Kirchberg (Bensheim), a mountain in Bergstrasse, Hesse
Kirchberg, Rhein-Hunsruck, a town in Rhein-Hunsruck, Rhineland-Palatinate
Kirchberg, Saxony, a town in Zwickau, Saxony
Switzerland
Kirchberg, Bern, a municipality in Emmental, Bern
Kirchberg, St. Gallen, a municipality in Toggenburg, St. Gallen
United States
Kirchberg (Pennsylvania), a mountain
Other
Kilchberg |
645837 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena%20Szewi%C5%84ska | Irena Szewińska | Irena Szewinska, nee Kirszenstein (Polish pronunciation: ; 24 May 1946 - 29 June 2018) was a Soviet-born Polish sprinter. She was born in Leningrad. She was Jewish. She was the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m. She won three gold medals at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. She also won two Olympic silver medals in 1964 and two Olympic bronze medals in 1968 and 1972.
Szewinska died at a military hospital in Warsaw on 29 June 2018 from endometrial cancer at the age of 72. |
660544 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edredon%20Bleu | Edredon Bleu | Edredon Bleu (26 April 1992 - 28 September 2018) was a AQPS National Hunt racehorse. He was bred in France but trained for most of his racing career in the United Kingdom. He was a specialist steeplechaser.
In a ten-year racing career he ran fifty-seven times and won twenty-five races. His most important successes when winning the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2000 and the King George VI Chase in 2003.
Edredon Bleu was euthanized on 28 September 2018 at the age of 26. |
709157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarna%20Paso | Encarna Paso | Maria de la Encarnacion Paso Ramos (25 March 1931 - 18 August 2019), better known as Encarna Paso, was a Spanish actress. She was born in Madrid. She was known for her role as Elena in the movie Begin the Beguine (1982).
Paso died on 18 August 2019 in Madrid at the age of 88 from pneumonia. |
792264 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Barkleys%20of%20Broadway | The Barkleys of Broadway | The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 American musical movie directed by Charles Walters and starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Gale Robbins, Jacques Francois, Clinton Sundberg, George Zucco. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1950. |
766936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Falls%2C%20Minnesota | International Falls, Minnesota | International Falls is a city in and the county seat of Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 6,424 at the 2010 census. |
158386 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%2C%20Iowa | Ryan, Iowa | Ryan is a city in Iowa in the United States. |
400271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Enrique%20Delgado%20Martin | Pedro Enrique Delgado Martin | Pedro Enrique Delgado Martin (born January 25, 1975 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: he is blind and a T11/B1 type athlete. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He raced and finished in third in 800 meter T11 race. He raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. He finished second in the 4 X 400 meter T11-T13 race and finished third in the 1,500 meter T11 race. He raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and finished fourth in the 1,500 T11 meter race. |
537071 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bradford%20%28actor%29 | Richard Bradford (actor) | Richard Bradford (October 31, 1934 - March 22, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his lead role as former CIA agent turned private eye McGill in the British TV adventure series Man in a Suitcase, made by ITC in 1967. He was born in Tyler, Texas.
Bradford died on March 22, 2016 at the age of 81. |
359626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20in%20El%20Salvador | List of cities in El Salvador | This is a list of populated places in El Salvador.
Cities
Over 100,000 Development Indor a High Human ex, and a high urbanization.
AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area
Acajutla Pop. 47,678
Apopa Pop. 217,733 (AMSS)
Antiguo Cuscatlan - Highest HDI in the country(0.896-very high) Pop. 55,608 (AMSS)
Ciudad Delgado Pop. 174,825 (AMSS)
Cuscatancingo Pop. 117,013 (AMSS)
Ilopango Pop. 159,232 (AMSS)
La Union Pop. 26,739
Mejicanos Pop. 211,878(AMSS)
Metapan Pop.59,004
San Miguel Pop. 218,410
San Salvador (capital) Pop. City 540,989 Metro 2,290,000 (AMSS)
Santa Tecla Pop. 164,171 (AMSS)
Santa Ana Pop 280,000
San Martin Pop. 144,722 (AMSS)
Sonsonate Pop. 110,501.
Soyapango Pop. 262,975 (AMSS)
Towns
Over 50,000, medium to low urbanization, or departmental capital. |
953711 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Kirkpatrick | Ted Kirkpatrick | Ted Kirkpatrick (May 22, 1960 - August 19, 2022) was an American Christian metal musician and songwriter. He was best known for his work with the American Christian thrash metal band Tourniquet.
Kirkpatrick died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on August 19, 2022, at the age of 62. |
1019704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romerus%20ocellatus | Romerus ocellatus | The ocellated bubble-nest frog or ocellated small tree frog (Romerus ocellatus) is a frog. It lives in China. It lives high in the hills on Hainan Island. People have also seen it where Guangdong Province touches Guangxi Province. People have seen it between 320 and 1080 m above sea level. |
840666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stia | Stia | Stia was a comune in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region of Tuscany. On 1 January 2014, the former municipalities of Pratovecchio and Stia merged to form the new municipality of Pratovecchio Stia. |
150132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laiz | Laiz | Laiz is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France. |
575240 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20M.%20Ryan | Michael M. Ryan | Michael McFoster Ryan (March 19, 1929 - March 1, 2017) was an American actor. Ryan was best known for his long-running role as John Randolph on the serial Another World (1964-1979). He was also known for his movie roles in Tootsie and Slayground.
Ryan died on March 1, 2017 under hospice care in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 87. |
919784 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pskov%20Oblast | Pskov Oblast | Pskov Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Pskov. In 2010, 673,423 people lived in the oblast. |
446509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%2C%20Ohio | Euclid, Ohio | Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It is near Cleveland. It has a population of 48,920 people. It was made a city in 1930. |
977139 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Fischera | Adolf Fischera | Adolf Fischera (22 August 1888 - 25 August 1938) was an Austrian international footballer. He played for ASK Schwechat, Wiener AC, Wiener AF, SC Germania Schwechat, Borussia Neunkirchen and First Vienna FC. He made 15 appearances for the Austria national team and scored eight goals.
On 26 May 1912 WAF hosted a match with Middlesex Wanderers whom they beat 5-1 where he scored a hattrick for WAF. For Borussia Neunkirchen he was playing manager.
He was also part of Austria's squad for the 1912 Summer Olympics football tournament , but he did not play in any matches. |
200917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season | 1975 Atlantic hurricane season | The 1975 Atlantic hurricane season began June 1, 1975 and ended November 30, 1975. However, Subtropical Storm Two lasted during December. A famous hurricane from 1975 would be Hurricane Eloise, which caused nearly $500 million in damage when it hit the Florida Panhandle.
Storms
Tropical Depression One
Tropical Depression Two
Tropical Storm Amy
Tropical Depression Four
Tropical Depression Five
Tropical Depression Six
Hurricane Blanche
Tropical Depression Eight
Tropical Depression Nine
Hurricane Caroline
Hurricane Doris
Tropical Depression Twelve
Tropical Depression Thirteen
Tropical Depression Fourteen
Tropical Depression Fifteen
Hurricane Eloise
Hurricane Faye
Hurricane Gladys
Tropical Depression Nineteen
Tropical Depression Twenty
Tropical Depression Twenty-One
Tropical Depression Twenty-Two
Tropical Depression Twenty-Three
Tropical Depression Twenty-Four
Tropical Storm Hallie
Tropical Depression Twenty-Six
Tropical Depression Twenty-Seven
Subtropical Storm Two
Storm names
This list is the names that were set aside for Atlantic tropical cyclones in 1975. Names that were used are marked in .
Retirement
The name Eloise was later retired. |
154742 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Marie-Kerque | Sainte-Marie-Kerque | Sainte-Marie-Kerque is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France. |
592154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbel | Cumbel | Cumbel was a municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubunden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2013, the former municipalities of Cumbel, Degen, Lumbrein, Morissen, Suraua, Vignogn, Vella, and Vrin merged into the new municipality of Lumnezia. |
803478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Sullivan | Jake Sullivan | Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (born November 28, 1976) is an American politician.
He was the senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State. Sullivan is the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow and Master in Public Policy faculty member at the Carsey School of Public Policy.
On November 23, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he wanted Sullivan to be his National Security Advisor. |
613290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Katter | Bob Katter | Robert Carl "Bob" Katter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Kennedy since 1993.
Career
He has led his own political party, Katter's Australian Party, since 2011. He was the only person to win a seat in his party in the 2016 federal election. He was a member of the Nationals until 2001. He was also an independent from 2001 to 2011.
Personal life
Katter was born in Cloncurry, Queensland. He is of Lebanese ancestry. His father, Bob Katter Sr., was a parliament member of Kennedy. He has five children. His son, Robbie, is the leader of Katter's Australian Party in Queensland. |
660090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudspeth%20County%2C%20Texas | Hudspeth County, Texas | Hudspeth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 3,202 people lived here. The county seat is Sierra Blanca. |
446975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Jeffreys | Sheila Jeffreys | Sheila Jeffreys (born 1948) is a lesbian feminist activist. She was born in the United Kingdom.
Career
Jeffreys helped write Love Your Enemy? The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism in 1979. Her first book written without other writers was published in 1985. She moved to Melbourne in Australia in 1991 to work at the University of Melbourne. In 2009 The Industrial Vagina was published. Jeffreys' most recent book, Gender Hurts, was published in April 2014.
Personal life
In 1973 Jeffreys became a political lesbian. |
410259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgholm%20Municipality | Borgholm Municipality | Borgholm Municipality () is a municipality. It is on the northern part of the island of Oland. The seat is in Borgholm. The municipality is a part of Kalmar County. |
63138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20system | Thermodynamic system | In thermodynamics, a thermodynamic system, originally called a working substance, is defined as that part of the universe that is under consideration. A real or imaginary boundary separates the system from the rest of the universe, which is referred to as the environment or surroundings (sometimes called a reservoir.) A useful classification of thermodynamic systems is based on the nature of the boundary and the quantities flowing through it, such as matter, energy, work, heat, and entropy. A system can be anything, for example a cylinder, a solution in a test tube, a living organism, or a planet, etc. |
262597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%20national%20football%20team | Kosovo national football team | Kosovo national football team is the national football team of Kosovo. |
587331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20d%27Escoto%20Brockmann | Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann | Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (February 5, 1933 - June 8, 2017) was a Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009, he presided over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He was also nominated as Libyan Representative to the UN in March 2011. |
512973 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu%20Dam | Itaipu Dam | The Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric (making electricity by the movement of water) dam on the Parana River, on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
It is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. It is the world's second largest dam behind the Three Gorges Dam and is 7919 metres long and 196 metres high. It is the second-largest power plant in the world by nameplate capacity and the largest by power production in 2015-2016.
The Itaipu Dam is owned by the Brazilian Goverment. |
703966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigillography | Sigillography | Sigillography is the study of the seals used on documents. It is one of the auxiliary sciences of history. It has links to diplomatics, heraldry, social history, and the history of art.
This field of study was started in the 15th century by students of old artifacts. Then it became more well known in the 16th and 17th centuries. At first this field of study was thought of as part of diplomatics. But over time it became known as its own field of study. |
649818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwanden | Schwanden | Schwanden can mean:
Schwanden bei Brienz, a municipality in the canton of Berne, Switzerland
Schwanden, Glarus, a former municipality in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland. It is a part of the new municipality of Glarus Sud. |
854842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAS%20Sanos | FAS Sanos | Sanos (Macedonian: Sanos) is a company from Skopje, North Macedonia. It produces buses and special transport cars.
History
The factory was established in 1946 under the name FAS "11 October" AD Skopje, although the roots of the factory date back since 1930 when the factory was a workshop for reparation and production with more than 30 workers. Under the protected brand, Sanos, the factory were produced by all types of buses, medium buses, vehicles, special airport vehicles and trolleybuses with subcontractors, which successfully lasted until 2001 when production was temporarily stopped.
In April 2004, UNITIRES purchased the factory. The factory was quickly restarted under the new name factory for buses and vehicles "Sanos" (FAV "Sanos") and production has been updated and modernized scoring Quality that falls within the latest world standards in the production of buses and vehicles. The factory was quickly restarted under the new name factory for buses and vehicles "Sanos" (FAV "Sanos") and production has been updated and modernized. |
614504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avondale%2C%20Chicago | Avondale, Chicago | Avondale () is one of 77 officially designated community areas. It is located on the Northwest Side of Chicago. The northern border is the Addison Street from the north branch of the Chicago River in the east to Pulaski Road in the west.
The neighborhood extends further west along Belmont Avenue to the Union Pacific / Northwest Line. Its southern border is Diversey Avenue from the Union Pacific/Northwest Line to the Chicago River. |
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