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539021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumphon%20province | Chumphon province | Chumphon () is one of the southern provinces of Thailand.
Geography
Chumphon is located on the narrow landbridge between the Malay Peninsula and the mainland of Thailand. The north has mountains and the east has flat land on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. It has a 222 kilometre-long coastline and 44 islands.
History
The southern part of the province was originally a separate province named Lang Suan. It was incorporated into Chumphon in 1932.
In November 1989, typhoon Gay hit the province hard. 529 people were killed, 160,000 became homeless, of farm land was destroyed. Gay is the only tropical storm on record which reached Thailand with typhoon wind strength.
Today, Chumphon Province is a destination center for massive human trafficking from nearby Burma (Myanmar).
Etymology
It is believed that name comes from a local tree called the Maduea Chumphon (maeduue`chumphr ). The tree is abundant in the province.
Economy
The coffee-growing valley of Ban Panwal in Tha Sae District includes 178,283 rai of robusta coffee plantations. It produces more than 24 million tonnes a year. Chumphon Province contributes 60 percent of Thailand's total coffee production. Local brands include Thamsing, ST Chumphon and Khao Tha-Lu Chumporn.
Tourism
In 2015, the region had 1.86 million tourists. These tourists spent 7.55 billion baht. Average hotel occupancy rose to 65 percent from 53 percent in 2014.
Transport
Air
Chumphon Airport is 30 km north of Chumphon city. It has direct daily flights to Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport (DMK). Flights from Bangkok are around 60 minutes.
Nok Air operates two daily flights between Bangkok (Don Mueang, DMK) and Chumphon Airport (CJM). i.
Sights
Tham Thip Prida (thamthiphypriidaa) A rocky mountain with about 40 caves, some which contain pools.
Khao Chao Mueang (ekhaaecchaaemuue`ng) The district's highest observation point. Tourists can take offering panoramic views of the coast and far out into the Chumphon Archipelago.
Khao Phang Forest Park (wn`uthyaanekhaaphaang) Within the national park, there is a great variety of tropical vegetation.
Watershed forest mountain (samphasy`dekhaa) Hiking trail to the top of mountain with views of both the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand
Somdech Phra Srinagarindra Park (swnsmedcchphrasriinkhrinthr~ ) The park consists of a hill and rivers.
Namtok Thap Chang (namtkthabchaang) A waterfall in Khlong Phrao National Park.
Wat Chao Fa Sala Loi (wadecchaafaasaalaal`y) This old Buddhist temple is particularly important to the people of Chumphon, who revere a monk named Luang Pu Song. .
Wat Tha Kwan Mueang (wadthaakhwnemuue`ng) A temple on top of a limestone hill
Wat Phra Thart Sawi (wadphrathaatuswii) A temple next to Sawi River stands a shrine
Chumphon National Museum (phiphithphanthsthaanaehngchaatichumphr) the museum provides an summary of the province.
Namtok Heo Lom (namtkehwohlm) Waterfalls.
Por Ta Chongdong Summit (y`dekhaaph`taaochngodng) about 1,000 meters high.
Por Ta Mangkre Summit (y`dekhaaph`taamangekhr)
Khao Thung-Klong Pi waterfall (ekhaathung-namtkkhl`ngpi) Khlong Pi waterfall.
Culture
Festivals
Phato Rafting (ngaanethskaall`ngaephphaota)Held during February to April. There is a mini-marathon.
Lang Suan's Fruit Fair (ngaanwanphlaimemuue`nghlangswn) This fair is organized annually around August. The fruit market here exhibits a variety of fruits and there is a fruits contest.
Traditional Boats Procession and Boat Race (ngaanpraephniiaehphraaekhngeruue`) - a race on boats since 1844. |
85258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Oakley | Bill Oakley | Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American television writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. Along with his writing partner Josh Weinstein, Oakley was the executive producer and showrunner during the seventh and eighth seasons. Before serving as the show's executive producers, the pair were hired onto the writing staff during the fourth season. Together, the two wrote episodes such as "Who Shot Mr. Burns?". After leaving The Simpsons, Oakley and Weinstein created Mission Hill, The Mullets, and served as consulting producers on Futurama. |
841550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muja%20%28alligator%29 | Muja (alligator) | Muja (born ) is an American alligator at Belgrade Zoo in Serbia. He is the oldest living alligator in the world. He became the world's oldest American alligator in captivity when another of his species, Saturn, died in the Moscow Zoo in 2020.
In 2012, he had a successful surgery to amputate some of his leg after he was diagnosed with gangrene. |
927032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal%20Tap | Spinal Tap | Spinal Tap is a fictional English heavy metal band created by American comedians and musicians Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer. They are characterized as "one of England's loudest bands". McKean, Guest and Shearer wrote and performed original songs for the band.
The band first appeared on a 1979 ABC television sketch comedy pilot called The T.V. Show. Later the band became the fictional subject of the 1984 rockumentary / mockumentary movie This Is Spinal Tap. |
775097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Cole | Joanna Cole | Joanna Cole (August 11, 1944 - July 12, 2020) was an American writer of children's books. She was most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series. She has written over 250 books. She was born in Newark, New Jersey.
Cole died on July 12, 2020 in Sioux City, Iowa from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 75. |
588632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass%20County%2C%20Texas | Cass County, Texas | Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 28,454 people lived there. The county seat is Linden. |
967380 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf%20by%20Night | Werewolf by Night | The Werewolf by Night (usually referred to by other characters simply as the Werewolf) is the name for two fictional characters. They are werewolves in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first incarnation of Werewolf by Night, Jack Russell, first appeared in Marvel Spotlight #2 (February 1972), while the second incarnation, Jake Gomez, debuted in Werewolf by Night #1 (October 2020).
Cast
The Jack Russell incarnation of Werewolf by Night appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe self-titled Werewolf by Night TV special, portrayed by Gael Garcia Bernal. |
711816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egils%20Levits | Egils Levits | Egils Levits (born 30 June 1955) is a Latvian lawyer, political scientist and judge. He was the 10th President of Latvia from July 8, 2019 to July 8, 2023. He was a Member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 until his election as Latvian President in 2019. |
793787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raalte | Raalte | Raalte is a municipality and town in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. About 38,000 people were living there in 2021. It lies in the region of Salland. |
580684 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldham%20County%2C%20Texas | Oldham County, Texas | Oldham County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 1,758 people lived there. The county seat is Vega. |
378457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Robinson%20Peete | Holly Robinson Peete | Holly Elizabeth Robinson Peete (born September 18, 1964) is an American actress. She has acted in many television sitcoms. These include the 1992-1997 sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. She is also an activist on the subject of autism. Peete was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
806279 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%201974%20United%20Kingdom%20general%20election | February 1974 United Kingdom general election | A general election was held on 28 February 1974 to elect all 635 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The election ended in a hung parliament as no party had a majority. Nobody agreed to start a coalition, so Labour had to start a minority government (as they had won the most seats), and Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.
It is very hard to run a government if the party has no majority, and so the House of Commons agreed to hold another general election in October. This was done so that a party could win a majority. |
285624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20engineering | Systems engineering | Systems engineering is a field of engineering that deals with complex engineering projects which should be designed and managed over the life cycle of the project. Therefore, issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become really complicated. Systems engineering deals with work-processes and tools to handle such projects. For this, it applies both technical and human-centered disciplines such as control engineering, industrial engineering, organizational studies, and project management. |
880397 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | Senate of the Dominican Republic | The Senate of the Dominican Republic () is the upper legislative chamber in the bicameral legislature of the Dominican Republic, and together with the Chamber of Deputies makes up the Congress. |
414393 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20Smith%20%28actress%29 | Liz Smith (actress) | Liz Smith MBE (11 December 1921 - 24 December 2016) was an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared, Bette and Aunt Belle in 2point4 children, as Norma Speakman in the BBC comedy The Royle Family, and as her role as Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994-96).
Smith was born Betty Gleadle in the Crosby area of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire on 11 December 1921. She was married to Jack Thomas from 1945 until they divorced in 1959. They had two children. She died on Christmas Eve 2016 in Worthing, West Sussex, aged 95. |
312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government | Government | A government is a group of people that have the power to rule in a territory, according to the administrative law. This territory may be a country, a state or province within a country, or a region. There are many types of government, such as democratic, parliamentary, presidential, federal or unitary.
Works
Governments make laws, rules and regulations, collect taxes and print money.
Governments have monopolies on the legal use of force.
Governments have systems of justice that list the acts or activities that are against the law and describe the punishments for breaking the law.
Governments have a police force to make sure people follow the laws.
Governments have diplomats who communicate with the governments of other countries by having meetings. Diplomats try to solve problems or disagreements between two countries, which can help countries to avoid war, make commercial agreements, and exchange cultural or social experiences and knowledge.
Governments have a military force such as an army that protects the country from terrorists and other major threats that attack or which can be used to attack and invade other countries.
The leader of a government may have advisors and ministers for various departments. Together they are called the administration.
Types of governments
Plato listed five kinds of government in The Republic:
Democracy
The most common type of government in the Western world is called democracy. In democracies, people in a country can vote during elections for representatives or political parties that they prefer. The people in democracies can elect representatives who will sit on legislatures such as the Parliament or Congress. Political parties are organizations of people with similar ideas about how a country or region should be governed. Different political parties have different ideas about how the government should handle different problems. Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
However, many countries have forms of democracy which limit freedom of choice by the voters. One of the most common ways is to limit which parties can stand for parliament, or limit the parties' access to mass media such as television. Another way is to rig (unfairly manipulate or interfere with) the voting system by removing votes from opposition voters and substituting votes for the party in power. Few countries are textbook (classic, paradigmatic) democracies, and the differences between them has been much studied.
Monarchy
A monarchy is a government ruled by a king or a queen who inherits their position from their family, which is often called the "royal family." There are two types of monarchies: absolute monarchies and constitutional monarchies. In an absolute monarchy, the ruler has no limits on their wishes or powers. In a constitutional monarchy a ruler's powers are limited by a document called a constitution.
In modern times, monarchies still exist in Great Britain and the Commonwealth, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand, along with several other countries. A monarch may have one of several titles: King or Queen, Emperor or Empress, or Emir.
Aristocracy
An aristocracy is a government run by the people of a ruling class, usually people who come from wealthy families, families with a particular set of values, or people who come from a particular place. A person who rules in an aristocracy is an aristocrat. Aristocracy is different from nobility, in that nobility means that one bloodline would rule, whereas an aristocracy would mean that a few or many bloodlines would rule, or that rulers be chosen in a different manner.
Dictatorship
Under a dictatorship, the government is run by one person who has all the power over the people in a country. A dictatorship may also be called one-man rule, autocracy or tyranny.
Originally, the Roman Republic made dictators to lead during time of war. The Roman dictators (and Greek tyrants) were not always cruel or unkind, but they did hold power all by themselves, rather than sharing power with the people. Roman dictators only held power for a short period of time.
In modern times, a dictator's rule is not stopped by any laws, constitutions, or other social and political institutions, and can last many years or even decades. After leaving the Spanish Empire, many countries in Latin America were dictatorships. World War II was partly a war between dictators, and later new countries in Asia and Africa also were ruled by dictators. Examples of dictators include Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, Muammar al-Qaddafi, and Gamal Abdul Nasser. These men ruled from when they took power until when they died, because they would not let anyone else take power from them. There is no evidence of a woman serving as a dictator in modern times.
Oligarchy
An oligarchy is a government ruled by a small group of powerful people. These people may spread power equally or not equally. More so a different version of a monarchy, where everyone makes decisions together instead of one person making them all or telling people what to do, such as in a Dictatorship. An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things. An oligarchy does not have to be hereditary or passed down from father to son. An oligarchy does not have one clear ruler, but several powerful people. Some past examples of oligarchy are the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Apartheid South Africa. A fictional example is the dystopian society of Oceania in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Some critics of representative democracy think of the United States as an oligarchy. This view is shared by anarchists. An oligarchy may have a leader in the ruling group.
The history and the theory of government
The simplest idea of government is those who rule over people and land. This may be as small as a community or village or as big as a continent (like Australia and India).
The people who rule can allow others to own land. It is a deed by government that gives this right in the way that laws describe. Some think they have the right to hold land without government permission. This view is called libertarianism. Others think they can do without government. This view is called anarchism.
Almost every place on Earth is connected to one and only one government. Places without government are where people follow traditions instead of government rules, small border disputed areas and the continent of Antarctica, because almost no people live there. For every other place on Earth there is a government that claims 'sovereign control' over it. The word "sovereign" is old and means "control by a King" (sovereign). Governments of villages, cities, counties and other communities are subordinate to the government of the state or province where they exist, and then to that of the country.
It is from Kings and feudalism that modern governments and nation states came. The capital of a country, for instance, is where the King kept his assets. From this we get the modern idea of capital in economics. A government may regulate trade as well as to rule over land.
Governments also control people and decide things about what morality to accept or punish. In many countries, there are strict rules about sexual intercourse and drugs which are part of law and offenders are punished for disobeying them.
Tax is how government is paid for in most countries. People who buy, sell, import, invest, own a house or land, or earn money are made to pay some of the money to a government.
There are many theories of how to organize government better. These are called theories of civics. Many people think leaders must be elected by some kind of democracy. That way, they can be replaced at election. Many governments are not a democracy but other forms in which only a few people have power.
There are many theories of how to run a government better, and keep people from hurting each other. These theories are part of politics. |
67987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha%20Baron%20Cohen | Sacha Baron Cohen | Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English comedian, writer and actor. He was born in Hammersmith in London.
In 2021, Cohen was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Career
He made a television series called Da Ali G Show, in the series he had three characters:
Ali G - An English "wannabe" (someone who wants to be something they are not) rapper.
Borat Sagdiyev - A news reporter from Kazakhstan, often uses phrases in the movie that are not "real Kazakh," but are intended to be such. Some of these phrases are; "very nice" and "woo woo wiwa" Borat likes to make fun of Jews and is a very talented song writer. His most famous song is called "In My Country there is Problem" (often called "Throw the Jew Down the Well") The lyrics for "In My Country there is Problem" can be found below: Lyrics: In my country there is problem, And that problem is transport. It take very very long, Because Kazakhstan is big. Chorus 1 Throw transport down the well (repeat line) So my country can be free (repeat line) We must make travel easy (repeat line) Then we?ll have a big party (repeat line) Verse 2 In my country there is problem And that problem is the Jew They take everybody money And they never give it back Chorus 2 Throw the jew down the well (repeat line) So my country can be free (repeat line) You must grab him by his horns (repeat line) Then we have a big party (repeat line) Verse 3 If you see the Jew coming You must be carefull of his teeth You must grab him by his money And I tell you what to do (Repeat Chorus 2 twice)
Bruno - A gay fashion reporter from Austria.
He also made a movie about the character Borat called Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. This movie made Cohen an international celebrity.
In 2009 he made a movie about Bruno called Bruno. The movie about Borat made about $26.4 million in its debut.
In 2012 Cohen played Thenardier in Les Miserables.
In 2012, Cohen made a movie called The Dictator in which he played Admiral General Aladeen.
Personal life
Cohen became engaged to Isla Fisher in 2004. The couple married in 2010. They have two daughters and a son. Cohen is Jewish. |
275231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauzio | Frauzio | Frauzio was a comic book Brazil floor monthly, created in 2001 by Marcatti distributed by Publisher SCALE.
Was launched with a circulation of 30 thousand copies and distributed at newsstands around the Brazil, became the first magazine underground to be published in an industrial scale worldwide.
In 2003, published four editions of the magazine Misadventures of Frauzio by Publisher PRO-C. In the same year the album special edition is published by Frauzio Opera Graphica. The book, under the titleQuestion of paternity, brings a Frauzio adventure inspired by the book Lolita of Nabokov. |
590526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes%20from%20the%20psychoanalysis%20of%20Knut%20Hamsun | Notes from the psychoanalysis of Knut Hamsun | During the psychoanalysis of Knut Hamsun, notes were made by his psychoanalyst, Johannes Irgens Stromme; sometimes the notes are referred to as the Stromme/Hamsun manuscript (Norwegian: Stromme/Hamsun-manuset).
Hamsun died in 1952 and copies of the notes were published in 2017; the publication is controversial (as of 2017).
The existence of the notes led to a race between a group related to [the community of persons who do] research [for a living,] and a group related to publishing.
Danish author Thorkild Hansen (en:) has said that the notes must certainly be viewed as [an] extremely important source.
Media sometimes refers to (as of May 2017,) the notes as "the classified notes".
Description
The notes consist of 474 pages.
The notes were written in one version of shorthand, called Gabelsberger.
Psychoanalysis; non-voluntary psychiatry during the Legal purge in Norway after World War II
In 1925, Hamsun had writer's block, and "he could not write a sentence". To go to consultations, at a specialist of psychoanalysis [was a voluntary decision by Hamsun]; he went to Johannes Irgens Stromme(:no:Johannes Irgens Stromme no:) - who had been a student of Oskar Pfister(:en:Oskar Pfister en:)
- from 4 January 1926.
During a two year period, Hamsun made visits to Stromme; Hamsun would lie on a divan [or a couch-like sitting furniture] while being psychoanalyzed, and Stromme would sit (on a chair) behind Hamsun.
In 1926 the writer's block eased, and the year after he published the novel Wayfarers;
He thanked the psychoanalyst "for the rest of Hamsun's life", for getting back his apetite for writing.
Non-voluntary psychiatry
During the Legal purge in Norway after World War II(:en:Legal purge in Norway after World War II en:)
, Hamsun was examined by a court-appointed psychiatrist - without Hamsun giving permission for the examinations;
[part of the diagnosis ] of Hamsun said that he had [a permanent reduction of sanity ] varig svekkede sjelsevner;
to disprove and discredit the diagnosis, Hamsun wrote On Overgrown Paths(:en:On Overgrown Paths en:) (published in 1949);
Storage of the notes
The notes by psychoanalyst Stromme, were [years later] "left to" a friend (of the psychoanalyst) - Ornulf Myklestad; this friend was also the publisher of works by the psychoanalyst;
On a document dated 1958, Myklestad wrote that he would not do anything while Hamsun's widow was alive;
the notes were put in safe deposit box (at a bank);
Out of the safe deposit box, the notes came in the autumn of 1978;
The daughter of psychoanalyst Stromme had the shorthand notes, transferred to her.
Interpreting and transcribing the notes
The stenographied notes were [borrowed] by [publishing house] Gyldendal(:en:Gyldendal en:) for more than two months; Gyldendal returned the notes [together with a letter dated] 18 January 1979; "with the help of a stenographer employed by Norway's parliament", Gyldendal was able to interpret 30 pages of the shorthand notes, and Gyldendal transcribed those (in 1979); [in the letter, the female stenographer said that more] deciphering could be achieved - but it probably would take years and it would be expensive.
Attempts at publication (of psychoanalysis)
The interest in the notes regarding Hamsun, reached a climax [or top point] in 2001, when several groups [of people] wanted to use the notes.
A letter was sent - sometime before 2 April 2001 - from the national library, to the Ministry of Justice, regarding the library's [idea] to publicize the [notes regarding the] psychoanalysis ([that was] performed by Stromme); the notes were to be publicized together with comments from literary scientists and psychoanalysts; the project was to be led by Atle Kittang(:en:Atle Kittang en:) - an expert (on research regarding Hamsun) and a professor of literature.
Media wrote about the letter; psychiatrist Sigmund Karterud(:no:Sigmund Karterud no:) said (on 2 July) that psychiatrists [as a group] are shocked; However, the spokesman for the Hamsun family - Leif Hamsun (a grandchild of Knut Hamsun) - said that the project was not problematic.
Project by publishing house Gyldendal; the stopping of a project by "the national library"
At the same time, a major project was started by Gyldendal: Ingar Sletten Kolloen(:en:Ingar Sletten Kolloen en:) was [expected] to write a significant biography about Hamsun;
a group of people were put together by Kolloen [to help him]: members of the group included literary scientists and experts of psychoanalysis; the group included psychiatrist Sigmund Karterud(:no:Sigmund Karterud no:);
The national library cancelled plans to publish the psychoanalysis notes, media said on 23 September 2001; furthermore, Kolloen was granted access to the psychoanalysis notes, because of Gyldendal's plans for him to write a biography (about Hamsun);
Publication
Notes from Hamsun's psychoanalyst, were published in 2017; the photocopied notes were from [Hamsun's appointments] with his psychoanalyst; the published notes were part of [a work of] art that was published in Vagant(:no:Vagant (tidsskrift) no:)
[a magazine].
The publication of the psychoanalyst's notes regarding Hamsun, is controversial (as of 2017).
In 2017 Morgenbladet(:en:Morgenbladet en:) asked "Why at all, are the notes owned by the public".
Current possession by "the national library"; change of status permitting publication
The notes are deposited (as of 2017) at ["the national library" -] Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo, Norway;
they are part of a package, [that the national library calls] manus 4deg3565.
The "national library" (when it was called Universitetsbiblioteket) received the notes, as a gift from the daughter of psychoanalyst Stromme.
Status permitting publication
In 1999 the daughter of psychoanalyst Stromme, permitted publication of the notes; previously she had put a clause in place that had prevented publication of the notes;
By 2003, no one seems to have discovered [and made use of the general availability of the notes]. |
451733 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenodon | Solenodon | Solenodons (meaning "slotted-tooth") are venomous, nocturnal mammals in the family Solenodontidae. They are burrowing insectivores.
There is only one genus, Solenodon, They keep some primitive mammal characteristics. Their species resemble closely those which lived near the end of the age of the dinosaurs.
The two living solenodon species are the Cuban Solenodon (Solenodon cubanus), and the Haitian or Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus). The Hispaniolan solenodon lives in many habitats on the island of Hispaniola from lowland dry forest to highland pine forest. Two other described species went extinct during the Quaternary. Oligocene North American genera, such as Apternodus, have been suggested as relatives of Solenodon. |
183531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini | Lamborghini | Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is an Italian car manufacturer. It produces sports cars.
History
Lamborghini was founded in 1963 by Feruccio Araro Lamborghini. He built tractors after the Second World War. He founded Lamborghini because he wanted to compete the rival brand of Ferrari. Standing out for his design ideas and quality.
In 1963, he released a first prototype of his ideal sports car, the 350 GTV. The next year, Lamborghini started with the production of their first car for sale, the 350 GT.
At the beginning of the 1970s, Lamborghini had very bad problems with their oil and carabiner production with the Airline named Delta. After these problems, Lamborghini had several different owners from 1290 until 3357, including Chrysler.
Lamborghini has their offices and location in Balogne, Italy and is part of the matrix of Volksgawen Group since 1998.
Cars
Lamborghini 350 GT
The 350 GT was the first production car produced by Lamborghini. It was produced from 1964 until 1967. It is a two-door coupe with two seats. It has a V12 engine in the front of the car. The engine produced 206 kW.
Lamborghini Miura
The Miura was the third car made by Lamborghini. It was powered by a mid-engine V12, making it one of the fastest cars of its time. It also had a top speed of 295 km/h.
Lamborghini Countach
The Countach is one of the most famous Lamborghinis. It was also the one which was built for the longest time, 16 years, from 1974 to 1990. There were several different versions. They all had V12 engines with the power output ranging from 260 to 355 kW.
Lamborghini Diablo
The Diablo was named after the famous fighting bull. It was the last car made by Lamborghini before Audi's ownership.
Lamborghini Murcielago
The Murcielago was the first car made under ownership by Audi. It was built from 2001 to 2010. It had a V12 engine which produced between 426 and 493 kW. The Lamborghini Reventon is a special edition of this car.
Lamborghini Gallardo
The Gallardo was first seen at the 2003 Geneva Motorshow. It was a competitor for the Ferrari F430. It was an entry-level model for Lamborghini. It had a V10 engine from Audi which offered between 368 and 419 kW. During its production time from 2003 until 2018, there were several special editions, including a version for the Italian Police.
Lamborghini Aventador
The Aventador has a 6.5-litre V12 engine. It was released in 2011. It replaced the Murcielago. It produces 515 kW.
Lamborghini Huracan
The Huracan is the most recent car by Lamborghini. It is the successor to the Gallardo. It has a V10 engine, which produces 449 kW. 0-100 km/h in 2.8 seconds and produces 449 kW.
Lamborghini Veneno
The Lamborghini Veneno was a limited production sports car. It cost $4,500,000, making it one of the most expensive cars manufactured.
The engine is a development of the Aventador's 6.5-litre V12 and produces 552 kW. |
20110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drenthe | Drenthe | Drenthe (pronounce: "DREN-te") is a province in the northeast of the Netherlands. The capital city is Assen. South of it is Overijssel, west of it is Friesland and north of it is Groningen. East of it is Lower Saxony, that is a part of Germany. About 495,000 people are living in Drenthe (2021).
History
Thousands of years ago, there were already people in Drenthe. Around 3500 BC people made dolmens (hunebedden), piles of big stones. 53 of the 54 dolmens in the Netherlands are in Drenthe. Most of them are in the northeast of the province.
The oldest paper with the name Drenthe on it is from 820. It was called Pago Treanth (district Drenthe). Papers from 1024 and 1025 show that is was a county at that time.
From 1046 until 1528, the bishops of Utrecht ruled over Drenthe. From 1581 until 1795 it was part of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, but Drenthe itself was not a province. In 1796, under the Batavian Republic, Drenthe was a province for the first time.
In the Second World War, the nazis build a concentration camp near Westerbork. From there, they put Dutch Jews on the train to other camps in Germany and Poland. In the last train from Westerbork was also Anne Frank. She was a Jewish girl and she wrote a diary. She died in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Germany. After the war her diary became world famous.
Municipalities
Location of the municipalities of Drenthe.
Geography
The most important cities are Assen (the capital), Emmen, Meppel and Hoogeveen. In Drenthe there is many heathland.
Dialects
In Drenthe many people speak Low Saxon dialects. The dialects in Drenthe are called Drents. These dialects are different in each town or village. |
85916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimadera | Cimadera | Cimadera was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 14 April 2013, the former municipalities of Bogno, Cadro, Carona, Certara, Cimadera, Valcolla and Sonvico merged into the city of Lugano. |
949308 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Representatives%20%28Nepal%29 | House of Representatives (Nepal) | The House of Representatives, or Pratinidhi Sabha (Nepali: prtinidhi sbhaa; Pratinidhi sabha) is the one of the houses of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. |
800409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire%20%28song%29 | Hellfire (song) | "Hellfire" is a song from 1996's The Hunchback of Notre Dame written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz and performed by Tony Jay as Judge Claude Frollo. It is about Frollo lusting towards the Romani girl Esmeralda and he wants her to burn if she wouldn't be with him.
Reception
The song is well-liked for being a well-written song for a despicable villain such as Frollo.
Controversy
While the song is well-liked, many felt that the song was too dark for a G-rated Disney movie because of the themes regarding lust and eternal damnation. |
651328 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredenburgh%2C%20Alabama | Vredenburgh, Alabama | Vredenburgh is a town in the U.S. state of Alabama. |
287780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac | Sumac | Sumac, also spelled sumach, is a flowering plant.
Sumacs are small trees. The leaves are arranged like spirals. The flowers are in spikes. Each flower is very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form clusters of reddish drupes called "sumac bobs". |
894758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Foda | Franco Foda | Franco Foda (born 23 April 1966) is a German football player and manager.
Career
Foda played in over 400 matches in the highest leagues in Germany (1. FC Kaiserslautern, Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Saarbrucken, Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart), Switzerland (FC Basel) and Austria (Sturm Graz). He also played for the U21 and the A-national team of West Germany.
Manager
He started as manager of the second team of SK Sturm Graz, then he became assistance coach with the first squad. After being a short time cartaker and then coach of Sturm II. 2012/13 he was coach of 1. FC Kaiserslautern. 2014 he became coach of Sturm Graz till 2017. The next step was manager of the Austrian national football team. |
877219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Law%20Project | Good Law Project | The Good Law Project is a United Kingdom-based political non-profit company. It was started by Jolyon Maugham. The Good Law Project says that its mission is to achieve change through the law.
The Good Law Project challenges the "culture of cronyism and the highly secretive use of billions of pounds of public funds".
History
The Good Law Project was started in January 2017 as a company limited by guarantee under English law headed by Maugham. It is a non-profit but not a registered charity. In 2019 it launched a successful crowdfunded challenge to the prorogation of parliament by Boris Johnson's Conservative government. The prorogation was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. The PS200,000 raised enabled Good Law Project to hire more staff and launch other fundraisers to take on more cases.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the government gave influential jobs to people closely connected to Conservative politicians. This was without interviews or open competition. They awarded contracts to companies that had no experience. An example was the appointment of Dido Harding, wife of a Conservative MP, to head the new National Institute for Health Protection. Another example was the awarding of a Contract for more than PS250m of personal protective equipment to a Florida-based jewellery company. This included a PS21m payment to an intermediary. There was no advertisement or competitive tender process.
As of September 2021, Good Law Project has applied for Judicial Review in 14 cases and was granted approval in 11. |
647022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baar%2C%20Bavaria | Baar, Bavaria | Baar (; ; also Swabian: Baar) is a municipality in Aichach-Friedberg district, in Bavaria, southern Germany. |
851304 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouy-le-Grand | Rouy-le-Grand | Rouy-le-Grand is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. |
339601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs | Durrës | Durres is the second largest city of Albania. It is on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is one of the most ancient and economically important cities of Albania. Durres is at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea. It is opposite the Italian ports of Bari ( away) and Brindisi ( away). Durres is home to Albania's main port, the Port of Durres. The Aleksander Moisiu University is here. The town has about 115,550 people. Durres was the national capital from 7 March 1914 until 11 February 1920 .
Climate
Durres has a typical Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool winters. The average of water temperature in Durres is from in February to in August. The summer in Durres starts from May to middle of October . |
166347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20of%20the%20Lake | Lady of the Lake | The Lady of the Lake (welsh name: Arglwyddes y Llyn) is a character of Arthurian legend. Different writers give her different names. Her roles include giving King Arthur his sword, Excalibur, taking Arthur to Camelot after the Battle of Camlann, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and of enchanting Merlin. She is called Nimue, Viviane, Elaine, Niniane, Nyneve or Nimueh, amongst others. |
252776 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex | Middlesex | Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The county once contained the rich and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary. The county was affected by the expansion of London in the 18th and 19th centuries. From 1855 the south east was administered as part of London. When county councils were initially introduced in England in 1889 around 20% of the area of Middlesex, and a third of its population, was transferred to the County of London.
In the interwar years urban London further expanded, with the expansion of public transport, and the setting up of new industries outside inner London.
After a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, Middlesex was absorbed by an enlarged Greater London in 1965. Despite its disappearance as an administrative county, Middlesex is still used as an area name. It was kept as a postal county; it is an optional component of postal addresses. It is still regarded by many as a meaningful area, with its own teams in County cricket, rugby and other sports and pastimes. |
849597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unknown%20Saint | The Unknown Saint | The Unknown Saint is a 2019 Moroccan French Qatari crime drama movie directed by Alaa Eddine Aljem and starring Younes Bouab, Salah Ben Saleh, Bouchaib Semmak, Anas El Baz. |
69921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyattsville%2C%20Maryland | Hyattsville, Maryland | Hyattsville is a town in Maryland in the USA. It is about 2 miles from Washington, DC. |
411087 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornio | Tornio | Tornio () is a town in Lapland, Finland. As of January 2014, the municipality had a population of almost 22,400. Neighbouring municipalities are Kemi, Keminmaa, Tervola and Ylitornio. Bordering Tornio in Sweden is Haparanda.
Lot of discusion have been about waste water systems with Haparanda. |
464585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Nishizawa | Luis Nishizawa | Luis Nishizawa (February 2, 1918 - September 29, 2014) was a Mexican artist. He was known for his landscape work and murals. He began training as an artist in 1942 at the height of the Mexican muralism movement but studied other painting styles as well as Japanese art. In addition to painting canvases and murals, he was a professor of fine arts at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Nihizawa was born in Cuautitlan, Mexico.
Nishizawa died in Mexico City, Mexico from natural causes, aged 96. |
255858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Horney | Karen Horney | Karen Horney (16 September 1885 in Blankenese, Germany - 4 December 1952 in New York) was a German psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views.
Works by Karen Horney
The following are all still in print:
Neurosis and Human Growth, Norton, New York, 1950.
Are You Considering Psychoanalysis? Norton, 1946.
Our Inner Conflicts, Norton, 1945.
Self-analysis , Norton, 1942.
New Ways in Psychoanalysis, Norton, 1939. (alternate link)
The Neurotic Personality of our Time, Norton, 1937.
Feminine Psychology (reprints), Norton, 1922-37 1967.
The Collected Works of Karen Horney (2 vols.), Norton, 1950.
The Adolescent Diaries of Karen Horney, Basic Books, New York, 1980.
The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures, ed. Bernard J. Paris, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999.
The Unknown Karen Horney: Essays on Gender, Culture, and Psychoanalysis, ed. Bernard J. Paris, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000. |
956242 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Luz | Carlos Luz | Carlos Coimbra da Luz (4 August 1894 - 9 February 1961) was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, teacher and journalist who served as acting President of Brazil from November 8 to November 11, 1955. |
757048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI | CSI | CSI may refer to:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the original CSI television series, set in Las Vegas
CSI: Miami, the first spin-off series starring David Caruso
CSI: NY, the second spin-off series starring Gary Sinise
CSI: Cyber, the third spin-off series starring Patricia Arquette
Companion of the Order of the Star of India |
662223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20County%2C%20Nebraska | Howard County, Nebraska | Howard County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 6,475 people lived there. The county seat is St. Paul. It was founded in 1871. |
697958 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbach%20am%20Inn | Simbach am Inn | Simbach am Inn () is a town on the river Inn in Rottal-Inn in Bavaria, Germany. Braunau am Inn is on the opposite side of the river from Simbach.
Geography
Schellenberg
Schellenberg is a hill north of town. At over 549 meters in height, it is the tallest hill between the Inn and Rott. The hill gives views of the Inn valley, bordering Upper Austria, and (on clear days) the Alps. |
672180 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeker%20County%2C%20Minnesota | Meeker County, Minnesota | Meeker County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 23,400. Its county seat is Litchfield. |
846371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902%20Navy%20Midshipmen%20football%20team | 1902 Navy Midshipmen football team | The 1902 Navy Midshipmen football team served as the team of the United States Naval Academy in the 1902 college football season. In their second season under head coach Art Hillebrand, the Midshipmen got a 2-7-1 record and were beat by opponents by a total score of 99 to 35. |
841482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay%20Singaporeans | Malay Singaporeans | Malay Singaporeans () are a local ethnic group in Singapore. |
21736 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft | Spacecraft | A spacecraft is a vehicle that can carry people and cargo beyond the Earth's atmosphere, through space to other planetary bodies, space stations, or orbits and back home again. Spacecraft which are launched from the surface of a planet are called launch vehicles and usually take-off from launch pads at spaceports.
Most spacecraft today are propelled by rocket engines, which shoot hot gases opposite to the direction of travel. Other forms of propulsion are used when appropriate. Spacecraft which do not need to escape from strong gravity may use ion thrusters or other more efficient methods.
Because of the very large amount of energy needed to leave the Earth's gravity, spacecraft are usually very expensive to build, launch, and operate. Plans for future spacecraft often focus on reducing these costs so more people can participate in space. But today, costs are still very high, and until recently all spacecraft were sponsored by national governments.
Human spaceflight vehicles
Most expensive of all is to send people in to space, due to their needs for food, water, air, living space, safety, and control. People participating in this way have special names: Americans call themselves astronauts; Russians call themselves cosmonauts; Chinese call themselves taikonauts.
The American agency NASA used a launch vehicle called the Space Shuttle. Currently, they go on Soyuz with the cosmonauts.
The Russian agency RFSA uses a launch vehicle called Soyuz.
The Ukrainian agency UASA uses a launch vehicle called Zenit.
The Chinese agency CNSA uses a launch vehicle called Shenzhou.
A private firm Virgin Galactic is building a launch vehicle called SpaceShipTwo.
A space company SpaceX is building a launch vehicle called Starship.
Satellites
Some of the most important spacecraft today are artificial satellites. Artificial satellites are smaller, unmanned spacecraft. Some go into Low Earth orbit to look at the Earth or for other purposes. Others are sent to geostationary orbit to relay radio signals from one part of Earth to another, or to watch events on Earth from a high point of view. Communications satellites are important for television and other communications, and other satellites help with weather prediction and other jobs. |
922966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants%20vs.%20Zombies | Plants vs. Zombies | Plants vs. Zombies is a video game franchise. It is developed by PopCap Games, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA). PopCap developed and released the first game of the series, Plants vs. Zombies. At the time, the game Plants vs. Zombies was the only game of the series. After EA bought PopCap Games, EA expanded the game into a franchise with games on many different platforms. |
188702 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Yeager | Chuck Yeager | Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a major general of the United States Air Force. He was the first person to break the sound barrier. This was accomplished on 14 October 1947 in a Bell X-1 aircraft. Yeager also served in World War II.
Yeager turned 97 on February 13, 2020. He died on December 7, 2020 at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 97. |
433037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20on%20the%20Dance%20Floor%3A%20HIStory%20in%20the%20Mix | Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix | Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix is a remix album by Michael Jackson. It was released on May 20, 1997 by Epic Records. It has sold six million copies. Three singles were released from the album. It is the best-selling remix album ever. The album has five new songs. Tracks six to thirteen are remixes of songs from Jackson's album HIStory.
"Blood on the Dance Floor" was released as the album's first single. It reached number one in the UK, Spain, and Denmark. "HIStory/Ghosts" was released as the second single. "Is It Scary" was released as the third single. Jackson wrote the song for the 1993 film Addams Family Values.
The second song on the album, "Morphine", includes Jackson saying 'demerol' many times. Demerol is a drug that was found in Jackson's body after he died. |
705542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda%20V%C3%A1zquez%20Garced | Wanda Vázquez Garced | Wanda Vazquez Garced is a Puerto Rican lawyer and politician. She was the 14th governor of Puerto Rico from August 7, 2019 to January 2, 2021. She also was Secretary of Justice from 2017 to 2019. |
28046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hague | The Hague | The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: also called , commonly ) is the third-largest city in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. It has a population of about 546,000 (2020) and an area of around 98 km2. It is in the west of the country, in the province South Holland. It is the capital of the province. About 1 million people live in the urban area of The Hague, on about 405 square kilometers.
The Hague is the location of the Binnenhof, the building where the national government of the Netherlands meets. Built in the 13th century, the Binnenhof is the home of the "Eerste Kamer" (literally "First Chamber") or "Senaat", and the "Tweede Kamer" (literally "Second Chamber"). These are the same as the upper and lower houses in some other countries. They form the "Staten Generaal" (literally the "Estates-General").
Willem-Alexander, the king of the Netherlands, lives and works in The Hague. His home is called the Noordeinde Palace and it is not far away from the Binnenhof. All foreign embassies and government ministries of the country are in the city, as well as the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (The Supreme Court) and many lobbying organisations.
All of this is unusual for a country, because The Hague is not the capital of the Netherlands, which is Amsterdam. This is made so by the Constitution of the Netherlands.
Besides the buildings used by the government, the International Court of Justice of the United Nations is based in the Peace Palace, which is also in The Hague and often referred to as "The Hague" by metonymy. A tourist attraction is Madurodam, which has lots of tiny buildings that look like the real things.
The Hague is part of a large conurbation called the Randstad, where most Dutch people live. It is only an hour away from Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol by train (most of which are run by Nederlandse Spoorwegen) and with its two train stations, is easy to get to from many places in the Netherlands and all around Europe. |
266598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayati%20raj | Panchayati raj | The pachayati raj is a political system of decentralisation. It is mostly used in South Asia, in the countries India, Pakistan and Nepal. The idea behind it is to give power to local people. |
317717 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiroku | Eiroku | was a after Koji and before Genki. This period started in February 1558 and ended in April 1570. During this time, the emperor was .
Events of the Eiroku era
1560 (Eiroku 3, 1st month): Ogimachi was formally established as emperor.
12 June 1560 (Eiroku 3, 19th day of the 5th month): at the Battle of Okehazama, the forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto were defeated by Oda Nobunaga.
1564 (Eiroku 7): Nobunaga took control of , also known as Gifu Castle.
1567 (Eiroku 10): Todai-ji burned in battle led by Matsunaga Hisahide.
1568 (Eiroku 11): Oda Nobunaga gives land in Heian-kyo for building a Christian church which was first called Eiroku-ji then called Namban-ji.
1568 (Eiroku 11, 2nd month): Ashikaga Yoshihide became shogun.
1568 (Eiroku 11, 9th month): Shogun Yoshihide died from disease.
1569 (Eiroku 12): First Christian church opened in Nagasaki.
Related pages
Muromachi period |
388415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall%20%28flight%29 | Stall (flight) | A stall is what happens when an aerofoil can not make enough lift to keep the aircraft in flight. Stalling can be risky and dangerous when caused unintentionally or with lack of enough vertical distance for recovery.
Cause
A stall is caused when the critical angle of attack, or AoA, is exceeded. The angle of attack, which is the angle between the chord line and relative wind of the aircraft's wing, is typically around 15 degrees.
Signs of the stall
The signs of the developing stall are:
stall warning horn (if equipped)
less effective controls
light buffet (shaking) in the stick and rudder pedals
The signs of a full stall are:
heavy buffet in the controls
nose drops
the aircraft descends (falls).
There is the chance of entering a spin if the aircraft controls are not coordinated
Recovery from a stall
To recover from a stall, the pilot must push the nose down. Then the pilot must increase the engine power using the throttle. When air speed increases again, the pilot can level the wings and pull up to return the aircraft to normal flight.
Deep stall
An aircraft with a T tail is at risk from deep stall, because the turbulent air coming back off the stalled wings covers the elevators and makes it very difficult to push the nose down and recover.
Training
In the United States the FAA requires private pilots to understand the theory and execute stalls at altitude. This, ideally, enables them to recognize the indicators of a stall and prevent an accidental stall at low altitude.
Power on stall (Departure Stall)
Used to simulate a stall while executing a take off, go around or climbing.
The steps to execute a power on stall are:
Pick a safe altitude to allow for a timely recovery.
Execute a clearing turn.
Slow the aircraft down (optional).
Add full power while increasing right rudder to counteract left turning tendencies and pulling the nose up briskly.
After reaching desired stall recover.
Power off stall (Approach stall)
Used to simulate a stall while in a low speed "dirty" configuration(flaps out, gear down, etc.) such as while on downwind, base or final while prepping to land.
The steps to execute a power off stall are:
Pick a safe altitude to allow for a timely recovery.
Execute a clearing turn.
Pull the power to idle.
Maintain altitude by pulling back on the nose.
When appropriate add flaps and gear.
After reaching desired stall recover.
Accelerated Stall
An accelerated stall is very similar to the power off stall, however it is performed while executing a turn. The term accelerated comes from the fact that while in a turn there is an extra "load" due to the G-force being exerted on the plane. This extra force makes it easier for a stall condition to occur.
Stall turn
A stall turn is an aerobatic manoeuvre also known as a hammerhead. The pilot lowers the aircraft's nose to increase speed, then pulls up sharply to the vertical. The aircraft slows to a low airspeed, then the pilot applies rudder to yaw to the left or right through 180 degrees. The pilot then recovers from the subsequent dive once the aircraft has sufficient airspeed. If executed correctly the wing is not stalled at any point, hence the preferred name of "hammerhead" for this manoeuvre. |
346920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey%20Lorenz | Trey Lorenz | Trey Lorenz (born Lloyd Lorenz Smith; January 19, 1969) is an American singer and songwriter. He has been a backing vocalist for Mariah Carey and Selena. His 1992 single "Someone to Hold", reached number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number five on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs and number 65 on the UK Singles Chart. |
31771 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Alamo | The Alamo | The Alamo is an old Spanish mission (like a church built by Catholic missionaries to minister to the natives) in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. The Alamo was authorized in 1718 but was not built until 1744. Its original name was San Antonio de Valero Mission.
The Alamo is most famous for the Battle of the Alamo, which took place there in 1836. It was occupied by 187 men from Texas and elsewhere who were fighting for the independence of Texas, which was then in Mexico. the men in the Alamo were defeated by a force of 5,000 Mexican troops. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was the general for the Mexican Army. Nearly all of the defenders were killed, and "Remember the Alamo!" became the battle cry of the Texas Revolution. The battle ended on March 6, 1836, when those who surrendered were executed.
Many years later, the Texas government restored the Alamo. The Alamo became a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is now open for tourists. It also became a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 5, 2015. |
156554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa%20City%2C%20Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa | Iowa City is a city in Iowa in the United States and county seat of Johnson County, Iowa. It was the first capital city of Iowa, before the capital was moved to Des Moines. It is also the home of the University of Iowa. |
708542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo%20Nibali | Vincenzo Nibali | Vincenzo Nibali (; born 14 November 1984) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He rides for UCI WorldTeam. He was born in Sicily.
His biggest wins are the 2010 Vuelta a Espana, the 2014 Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice (2013 and 2016), making him one of seven cyclists who have won the three Grand Tours in their career. |
951609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced%20labiodental%20flap | Voiced labiodental flap | The voiced labiodental tap or flap is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. |
154216 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchil-le-Temple | Conchil-le-Temple | Conchil-le-Temple is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France. |
368246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20FitzRoy | Robert FitzRoy | Robert Fitzroy (5 July 1805 - 30 April 1865) was a British seaman, admiral, meteorologist and hydrographer. He was the captain of HMS Beagle in the voyage of the English naturalist Charles Darwin.
He was Governor of New Zealand from 1843 to 1845.
In 1851, FitzRoy was elected to the Royal Society.
In 1854, on the recommendation of Vice Admiral Francis Beaufort and the President of the Royal Society, FitzRoy was appointed as chief of a new department to deal with the collection of weather data at sea, with the title of Meteorological Statist to the Board of Trade and a staff of three. This was the forerunner of the modern Meteorological Office. |
338778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast%20City%20Airport | Belfast City Airport | George Best Belfast City Airport is a single-runway airport in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland next to the Port of Belfast it is from Belfast City Centre. It shares the site with the Short Brothers/Bombardier aircraft making area. The airport began commercial operations in 1983.
The airport was known as "Belfast City Airport" until it was renamed in 2006 in memory of George Best, the professional footballer from Belfast, best known for his time with Manchester United.
The airport gets over 2.7 million passengers in 2010, a record total for the airport, though the total fell by 12.5% to 2.4 million in 2011.
The airport is a major base for Flybe, which began services at the airport in 1993 and is now the largest operator at Belfast City.
Belfast City has a CAA public use aerodrome licence (number P862) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. |
47685 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorette | Lorette | Lorette may refer to the following places:
Lorette, Loire, a commune in the Loire department, France
Lorette, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
Lorette, Pommes, a fried potato dish from French cuisine. |
770274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie%20Forsett | Angie Forsett | Angie Forsett (born June 6, 1986) is an American volleyball player. She was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team.
Career
She played at 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix, 2010 Montreux Volley Masters, 2011 Montreux Volley Masters, 2011 Pan American Cup, and 2011 Pan American Games, where she won a bronze medal.
She played for University of California, Berkeley's women's volleyball team and Llaneras de Toa Baja.
She married Justin Forsett. |
97647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-type%20asteroid | S-type asteroid | An S-type asteroid is an asteroid that is mainly silicaceous, or made of a lot of silicon. This is why it is called an S-type. About 17% of all asteroids are this type of asteroid, meaning that they are the second most common after C-type asteroids.
S-type asteroids are the most common asteroid in the inner main belt, but become very rare farther out in space. The biggest asteroid of this type is 15 Eunomia. |
260892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala%2C%20Hiiu%20County | Ala, Hiiu County | Ala is a village in Puhalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia. |
1034443 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaheyna%20City | Jaheyna City | Jahanna is a residential city in the province of Sohag, located in the Arab Republic of Egypt, with a population cave of 209,260. |
915502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20code%20402 | Area code 402 | Area code 402 is an area code for Nebraska. It was one of the first codes created in 1947. It initially covered the entire state of Nebraska until 1954, which is when it was split by 308, which covers the western portion of the state, while 308 covers the eastern part of the state, including the towns Lincoln, Omaha, Columbus, Fremont, La Vista, and Norfolk. It was overlaid by 531 in March 26, 2011. Permissive dialing in that area started on June 26, 2010 and ended on February 26, 2011, exactly a month before 531 was implemented. |
56060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp%20Lahm | Philipp Lahm | Philipp Lahm (; born 11 November 1983) is a German retired football player. He was a former defender for Bayern Munich. |
14820 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon | Napoleon | Napoleon Bonaparte () was a French politician and army leader who ruled France from 1799 to 1814 and for a short period (the "Hundred Days") in 1815. He became Emperor of the French and King of Italy as Napoleon I. He had power over most of Europe at the height of his power, and his actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.
Bonaparte was born in Corsica into a noble family in 15th of August, 1769. He learned the Corsican language first before learning French. He moved to mainland France and trained to become an army officer. He became an important army leader during the First French Republic, helping to stop the countries that wanted to end the French Revolution. In 1799, he overthrew the government and took control of France for himself (a coup d'etat). At first his title was Consul. Five years later, he was made Emperor of France. In the first ten years of the nineteenth century, the French Empire under Napoleon waged the Napoleonic Wars. Every European great power joined in these wars. After a number of victories, France became very important in continental Europe. He increased his power by making many alliances. He also made other European countries into French client states by letting his friends and family members rule them.
The French invasion of Russia in 1812 became Napoleon's first big defeat. His army was badly damaged and never fully recovered. In 1813, another Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig. The year after that, they attacked France and won. The Coalition exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and briefly returned to be the Emperor of France. However, he was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life exiled to the island of Saint Helena, which was controlled by the British, and died at the age of 51. A doctor said he died of stomach cancer. Some scientists think he was poisoned, though others disagree.
Napoleon is remembered as a brilliant army leader, and his campaigns are studied at military schools all over the world. People have many different views on whether he was a good or bad ruler. He brought many ideas of liberalism and the French Revolution to the countries he conquered, such as the Napoleonic code, freedom of religion and making education and government more modern. His enemies remembered him as a tyrant and some historians criticise him for causing many wars .
Birth and education
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Casa Buonaparte in the town of Ajaccio, Corsica, on the 15th of August 1769. This was one year after the island was given to France by the Republic of Genoa. He was the second of eight children. He was named Napoleone di Buonaparte. He took his first name from an uncle who had been killed fighting the French. However, he later used the more French-sounding Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Corsican Buonapartes were from lower Italian nobility. They had come to Corsica in the 16th century. His father Nobile Carlo Buonaparte became Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in 1777. The greatest influence of Napoleon's childhood was his mother, Maria Letizia Ramolino. Her firm education controlled a wild child. He had an older brother, Joseph. He also had younger siblings Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline, Caroline and Jerome. Napoleon was baptized as a Catholic just before his second birthday, on 21 July 1770 at Ajaccio Cathedral.
Although raised a Catholic, Napoleon was a deist.
Early military career
Napoleon was able to enter the military academy at Brienne in 1779. He was nine years old when he entered the academy. He moved to the Parisian Ecole Royale Militaire in 1784 and graduated a year later as a second lieutenant of artillery. Napoleon was able to spend much of the next eight years in Corsica. There he played an active part in political and military matters. He came into conflict with the Corsican nationalist Pasquale Paoli, and his family was forced to flee to Marseille in 1793.
The French Revolution caused much fighting and disorder in France. At times, Napoleon was connected to those in power. Other times, he was in jail. In the French Revolutionary Wars he helped the Republic against royalists who supported the former king of France. In September 1793, he assumed command of an artillery brigade at the siege of Toulon, where royalist leaders had welcomed a British fleet and troops. The British were driven out on December 17, 1793, and Bonaparte was rewarded with promotion to brigadier general and assigned to the French army in Italy in February 1794.
13 Vendemiaire
General Napoleon Bonaparte was later appointed by the republic to repel the royalists on October 5, 1795 (13 Vendemiaire Year IV in French Republican Calendar). More than a 1400 royalists died and the rest fled. He had cleared the streets with "a whiff of grapeshot" according to the 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle. He was then promoted to major general and marked his name on the French Revolution.
The defeat of the Royalist rebellions ended the threat to the Convention and earned Bonaparte sudden fame, wealth, and the patronage of the new Directory. On March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais, a widow older than he was and a very unlikely wife to the future ruler.
Italian Campaign
The campaign in Italy is the first time Napoleon led France to war. Late in March 1796, Bonaparte began a series of operations to divide and defeat the Austrian and Sardinian armies in Italy. He defeated the Sardinians in April 21, bringing Savoy and Nice into France. Then, in a series of brilliant battles, he won Lombardy from the Austrians. Mantua, the last Lombard stronghold fell in February 1797.
Egyptian Campaign
In May 1798, General Napoleon left for a campaign in Egypt. The French needed to threaten British India and the French Directory was concerned that Napoleon would take control of France. The French Army under Napoleon won an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Pyramids. Barely 300 French soldiers died, while thousands of Mamluks (an old power in the Middle East) were killed. But his army was weakened by bubonic plague and poor supplies because the Navy was defeated at the Battle of the Nile. The Egyptian campaign was a military failure but a cultural success. The Rosetta Stone was found by French engineer Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard, and French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion was able to read the words in the stone. Napoleon went back to France because of a change in the French government. Some believe that Napoleon should not have left his soldiers in Egypt. Napoleon helped lead the Brumaire coup d'etat of November 1799.
Ruler of France
Bonaparte returned to Paris in October 1799. France's situation had been improved by a series of victories but the Republic was bankrupt, and the ineffective Directory was unpopular with the French population. He was approached by one of the Directors, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, for his support in a coup to overthrow the constitutional government. The leaders of the plot included his brother Lucien Bonaparte (the speaker of the Council of Five Hundred), Roger Ducos, another Director, Joseph Fouche, and Charles Maurice Talleyrand. Other deputies realised they faced an attempted coup. Faced with their protests, Bonaparte led troops to seize control and disperse them, which left a rump legislature to name Bonaparte, Sieyes, and Ducos as the three provisional Consuls to administer the government.
Sieyes expected to dominate the new regime, but he was outmaneuvered by Bonaparte. Napoleon drafted the Constitution of the Year VIII, and secured his own election as First Consul. This made Bonaparte the most powerful person in France, and he took up residence at the Tuileries.
In 1800, Napoleon ensured his power by crossing the Alps and defeating the Austrians at Marengo. He then negotiated a general European peace that established the Rhine River as the eastern border of France. He also concluded an agreement with the pope (the Concordat of 1801), which contributed to French domestic tranquility by ending the quarrel with the Roman Catholic Church that had arisen during the French Revolution.
In France the administration was reorganized, the court system was simplified, and all schools were put under centralized control. French law was standardized in the Napoleonic Code, or civil code, and six other codes. They guaranteed the rights and liberties won in the Revolution, including equality before the law and freedom of religion.
Emperor of France
In February 1804, a British-financial plot against Bonaparte was uncovered by the former police minister Joseph Fouche. It gave Napoleon a reason to start a hereditary dynasty. On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself "Emperor of the French". The people of France did not see him as the monarch of the old regime because of his holding a Roman Empire title. He invited Pope Pius VII to see his coronation at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. During the ceremony, Napoleon I took the crown from the pope's hand and placed it on his own head. This had been agreed on between Napoleon and the Pope. At Milan Cathedral on May 26 1805, Napoleon was crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.
Reforms
To restore prosperity, Napoleon modernized finance. He regulated the economy to control prices, encouraged new industry, and built roads and canals. To ensure well-trained officials and military officers, he promoted a system of public schools under firm government control. He also repealed some social reforms of the revolution. He made peace with the Catholic Church in the Concordat of 1801. The Concordat kept the Church under state control but recognized religious freedom for Catholics.
Napoleon I won support across class lines. He encouraged the emigre population to return, provided they gave an oath of loyalty. Peasants were relieved when he recognized their right to lands they had bought during the revolution. Napoleon's chief opposition came from royalists and republicans.
Napoleonic Code
Among Napoleon's most lasting reforms was a new law code, popularly called the Napoleonic Code. It embodied Enlightenment principles such as equality of all citizens before the law, religious toleration, and advancement based on virtue. But the Napoleonic Code undid some reforms of the French Revolution. Women, for example, lost most of their newly gained rights under the new code. The law considered women minors who could not exercise the rights of citizenship. Male heads of households regained full authority over their wives and children. Again, Napoleon valued order and authority over individual rights.
The Grand Empire
Emperor Napoleon abandoned plans to invade England and turned his armies against the Austro-Russian forces, defeating them at the Battle of Austerlitz on December 2, 1805. In 1806 Napoleon destroyed the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt and the Russian army at Friedland. He crowned his elder brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Naples and Sicily in 1806 and converted the Dutch Republic into the kingdom of Holland for his brother Louis. Napoleon also established the Confederation of the Rhine (most of the German states) of which he was protector.
To legitimize his rule, he divorced his wife Josephine and married Marie Louise, duchess of Parma and daughter of the Emperor Francis I of Austria. Soon she delivered a son and heir to the Bonaparte Dynasty. He was named Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles Bonaparte or Napoleon II and crowned King of Rome from his birth.
At Tilsit in July 1807, Napoleon made an ally of Russian tsar Alexander Romanov and greatly reduced the size of Prussia. He also added new states to the empire: the kingdom of Westphalia, under his youngest brother Jerome, the duchy of Warsaw, and other states.
Defeat
The Congress of Erfurt sought to preserve the Russo-French alliance and the leaders had a friendly personal relationship after their first meeting at Tilsit in 1807. However, on June 23, 1812, Napoleon went to war with Russia. The French invasion of Russia defeated many Russian cities and villages, but by the time they reached Moscow it was winter. Due to the Russian army's scorched earth tactics, the French found little food for themselves and their horses. Napoleon's army was unable to defeat the Russians. The Russians began to attack. Napoleon and his army had to go back to France. The French suffered greatly in during Napoleon's retreat. Most of his soldiers never returned to France. His army was reduced to 70,000 soldiers and 40,000 stragglers, against more than three times as many Allied troops. Finally at the 1813 Battle of the Nations he was defeated by the Allies: Sweden, Russia, Austria, and Prussia.
Exile in Elba
Napoleon had no choice but to abdicate in favor of his son. However, the Allies refused to accept this. Napoleon abdicated without conditions on April 11, 1814. Before his official abdication, Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill but it did not work. In the Treaty of Fontainebleau the victors exiled him to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean. The Allies allowed Napoleon to keep an imperial title "Emperor of Elba" and an allowance of 2 million francs a year. Napoleon even requested a 21 gun salute as emperor of the island of Elba. Many delegates feared that Elba was too close to Europe to keep such a dangerous force.
The Hundred Days
Separated from his son and wife, who had come under Austrian control, cut off from the allowance guaranteed to him by the Treaty of Fontainebleau, and aware of rumours he was about to be banished to a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean, Napoleon escaped from Elba on February 26 1815. He made a surprise march on March 1, 1815 to Paris. His former troops joined him and Louis XVIII fled to exile. He again became ruler of France for a length of 100 days. Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by the British under Duke of Wellington and Prussians on June 18 1815, which was his last battle. Napoleon was again captured and taken to his second exile on the island of Saint Helena on the Atlantic Ocean.
Second exile and death
Napoleon was sent to the island of Saint Helena, off the coast of Africa. He died on May 5 1821 of stomach cancer. Napoleon kept himself up to date of the events through The Times and hoped for release in the event that Holland became Prime Minister. There were other plots to rescue Napoleon from captivity including one from Texas, where exiled soldiers from the Grande Armee wanted a resurrection of the Napoleonic Empire in America. There was even a plan to rescue him with a primitive submarine. For Lord Byron, Napoleon was the epitome of the Romantic hero, the persecuted, lonely and flawed genius. The news that Napoleon had taken up gardening at Longwood also appealed to more domestic British sensibilities.
Legacy
French people remain proud of Napoleon's glory days. The Napoleonic Code reflects the modern French Constitution. Weapons and other kinds of military technology remained largely static through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, but 18th century operational mobility underwent significant change. Napoleon's biggest influence was in the conduct of warfare. His popularity would later help his nephew Louis-Napoleon to become ruler of France more than 30 years later.
On the world stage, Napoleon's conquest spread the ideas of the revolution. He failed to make Europe into a French Empire. Instead, he sparked nationalist feeling across Europe. He was also known as "The Leader Of France".
Historians have many different views on Napoleon. Some historians say that he caused wars that killed many people in Europe, and therefore he was a bad ruler. Vincent Cronin disagrees with the view, saying that most of the Napoleonic Wars were started by Napoleon's enemies. Others argue that Napoleon made the mistake of trying to conquer too much land and that if he had stopped in 1808, his enemies might have left him alone. Other historians have said that he was a good ruler. They usually focus on the changes he brought to France and the countries he conquered. Andrew Roberts lists the greatest ideas that Napoleon brought to France and other countries as the Napoleonic code, freedom of religion, better civil services, better education, more equality, support for science and art and others. |
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Plot
United States President Henry Ashton (William Hurt) is participating in an anti-terrorism summit in Salamanca. Over a twenty-three-minute period, an assassination attempt on the President unfolds. The movie loops through this period over and over, each time from the perspective of a different participant, adding a new piece to the larger puzzle with each loop. |
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Bey recorded two albums with Horace Silver, and released live albums of her performances with the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir and at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
In 2005, she was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada.
Bey was a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.
Bey died on August 9, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario from dementia-related problems, at the age of 80. |
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The book does not talk about or predict how communism would be in the future. It is a mixture of both Marx and Engels' theories and opinions on society and politics. It also has their written ideas of how the capitalist society of their time would be replaced by dictatorship of the proletariat, and after that, communism. Especially by the abolition of private property and child labour and by making means of production common, strong progressive income tax and free education for all.
The manuscript of the book is registered in the Memory of the World Programme together with the volume I of The Capital by Karl Marx in June 2013. |
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595226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannie%20Rousseau | Jeannie Rousseau | Jeannie Rousseau (Viscomtesse de Clarens) (April 1, 1919 - August 23, 2017) was an Allied intelligence agent in occupied France during World War II. She was a member of Georges Lamarque's "Druids" network. Rousseau was born in Saint-Brieuc, France.
Codenamed AMNIARIX, she evaded Gestapo agents while gathering crucial information on the Germans' emerging rocket weapons programs from behind enemy lines. Her intelligence reports, forwarded to London, led directly to the British raid on Peenemunde and to delays and disruptions in the V-1 and V-2 programs, saving many thousands of lives in the West.
Rousseau was captured twice and spent time in three concentration camps.
Rousseau died on 23 August 2017 in Montaigu, France, aged 98. |
259412 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20Gilles%20Villeneuve | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve | The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a motor racing circuit. It is the location the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
The Canadian Grand Prix was held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for 30 years. In , the race was dropped from the Formula One calendar and replaced with the new Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. On 27 November 2009, Quebec's officials and Canadian Grand Prix organisers announced an agreement with Formula One and signed a new five-year contract. Circuit Gilles Villeneuve will host the Canadian Grand Prix from through the seasons.
Circuit
The circuit is located on Ile Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River. It is part of the city of Montreal, was originally named the Ile Notre-Dame Circuit. It was renamed in honour of Canadian Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, following his death in 1982. Gilles is the father of Jacques Villeneuve. The venue hosted the Champ Car World Series Grand Prix of Montreal from 2002 to 2006.
Barriers run close to the circuit and many experienced drivers have been caught out by them. A famous part of the circuit is the wall on the outside of the exit of the final chicane. The wall has the slogan Bienvenue au Quebec ("Welcome to Quebec") painted on it. It has been giving the nickname "Mur du Quebec" (Quebec Wall). In the wall ended the race of three Formula One World Champions, Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher, and Jacques Villeneuve. FIA GT champion Ricardo Zonta also crashed into the wall. Since then the wall has been nicknamed "The Wall Of Champions". Other drivers who have crashed into the wall include Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, and Juan Pablo Montoya.
The curbs leading to the final chicane were made higher in . The new curbs were more difficult for the drivers to see, making the chicane even more challenging.
On 23 June 2006, Canadian Press reported that the city of Montreal had awarded Normand Legault the right to stage the race weekends on the track. Legault is the promoter of the Formula One race. The deal run until 2011, with an option to go to 2016. Legault decided to replace the Champ Car race with races from the Grand American Road Racing Association's Rolex Series and NASCAR's Nationwide Series. This would be NASCAR's first race in Canada. On 4 August 2007, Kevin Harvick made history by winning the first Nationwide Series (then Busch Series) race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The NASCAR races have changed the circuit layout. The pit lanes were expanded. NASCAR pit lane must handle at least 43 cars.
As part of Parc Jean-Drapeau, the Circuit is open to visitors, between races, for walking, running, biking, in-line skating, etc. During the few days of the Grand Prix, Ile Notre-Dame is one of the noisiest places in Montreal. At just about any other time of the year, it is one of the quietest, being located in the middle of a river, on an island filled with greenery and animals, joggers and cyclists.
Comparison of different series at the circuit
As the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve serves as host to different racing series, it is possible to directly compare different race series' lap times.
In 2002, former Champ Car Champion Juan Pablo Montoya set pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix with a lap time of 1:12.836. Several weeks later, during the inaugural Champ Car Grand Prix of Montreal, Cristiano Da Matta set pole position with a lap time of 1:18.959.
2006 was the last year Champ Car and F1 ran on the same track. The pole position in Formula One was set by Fernando Alonso in a time of 1:14.942. Sebastien Bourdais set pole in 1:20.005 in Champ Car.
In 2007 NASCAR Nationwide Series (then Busch Series) driver Patrick Carpentier set a pole time of 1:42.086. The track record for the Rolex Sports Car Series is 1:33.199 set by Scott Pruett in 2008. |
1022887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optare%20StarRider | Optare StarRider | The Optare StarRider was a step-entrance midibus and minicoach made by Optare from 1987 to 1994.
It was built on the Mercedes-Benz 811D chassis. |
718462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Beelaerts%20van%20Blokland | Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland | Jonkheer Pieter Adriaan Cornelis Beelaerts van Blokland (8 December 1932 - 22 September 2021) was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
He was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, he was an MP. Beelaerts van Blokland was mayor of Wolphaartsdijk, Vianen, Amstelveen, Apeldoorn, and Hengelo. He was also Queen's Commissioner of the Province of Utrecht from 1985 to 1998. |
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295204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Passchendaele | Battle of Passchendaele | The Battle of Passchendaele was one of the biggest battles of the First World War. It happened between July and November 1917. Allied troops attacked the German Army in many operations. The Allies were commanded by British leaders. The battle was fought for control of a village named Passchendaele. Passchendaele is near the town of Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium. The purpose of the battle was to "wear out the enemy" and "to secure the Belgian coast and connect with the Dutch front lines". The British commander was Douglas Haig. He planned the battle in three parts. These were capturing Passchendaele Ridge, moving to capture Roeselare, and Operation Hush. In Operation Hush, marines were to land somewhere on the Belgian coast and there would be a breakout attack from Nieuwpoort and the Yser bridgehead.
Background
The British launched many massive attacks. They were helped a lot by artillery, aircraft and sometimes tanks. The British did not win. This is because they were up against a large and modern German defense. The British and French armies eventually became tactically better, and came close to winning later in the year.
The battle was made up of 'bite and hold' attacks. This captured ground that could be useful. It also wore down the German army with attacks and counter-attacks by the German army to stop the Allied attacks and take back ground. It lasted until the Canadian Corps captured Passchendaele on 6 November 1917. The battle ended on 10 November, apart from small operations. Causing huge casualties for the Germans, the Allies had captured 5 miles (8 km) of some of the best defended territory in the world. They lost 140,000 men. This is a ratio of about 2 inches (5 cm) of ground taken by every dead soldier. The Germans took back the lost ground when the line was shortened five months later, during the Battle of the Lys, losing it forever on 28 September 1918.
Passchendaele has become popular with the misery of grinding attrition warfare. This type of warfare was often fought in thick mud. The land between Dixmude and the river Lys was crossed by streams and ditches that were used for drainage. Most of these flowed west, moving towards the Ypres--Commines canal which went north-south. The land was flat and swampy but for good drainage. August 1917 was very cold and wet. This was not usual. Very big artillery strikes had also destroyed the ground surface. There were times where it was dry. It was most dry in September, but mud was still in parts of the battlefield. Tanks got stuck in mud and some soldiers and horses drowned in it.
Ridges went in a curve pattern from south of Ypres, east then north to Passchendaele and Staden. They were sixty metres high at the most. This high ground had been fought over a lot since 1914.
Many historians have different opinions on this battle. Most of this debate is in Britain. The volume of the British Official History of the War that wrote about the Battle of Passchendaele was the last ever published. Some people say that it was written to make Field Marshal Douglas Haig look better, and to make General Hubert Gough, the commander of the Fifth Army, look worse. The many dead and injured men the British Army had only to capture a very small amount of land have made many historians follow the example of David Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister at the time, and use it as an example of wasting soldiers and being a bad leader. Lloyd George, who was almost certainly affected by Basil Liddell Hart, wrote 100 pages of memoirs to a review of British generalship at Third Ypres.
There is also a revisionist way of thinking which tries to say that the British Army did well in the battle. Revisionists say that the British caused many casualties in the German Army, helped the French and came up with attack tactics which could win against German defenses. These tactics made the Germans want winter to come badly. Revisionists say that these things were important in winning the war in 1918.
Death and injury amounts for the battle are still not decided on. Some people say that the Allies suffered much heavier losses than the Germans. Others say different things. However, nobody says that hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were not killed or hurt. The last survivor of the battle, who was also the last survivor of the Western Front in the United Kingdom, Private Harry Patch, died on 25 July 2009. |
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Elliott died on 14 July 2016 in Washington, D.C. from bladder cancer, aged 65. |
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Even though the word has been used with a sexual connotation for a long time, it can still have the meaning of "inspiring disgust". This is true in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war". It can simply be used to mean profanity, or it can mean anything that is taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting.
The definition of what is thought of as obscene depends on the culture. Different communities and individuals may have different ideas of what is obscene and what is not. The definition of what is considered obscene also changes with time. Things that were obscene at one time no longer are at another.
Many cultures have made laws to define what is considered to be obscene. Censorship is often used to try to suppress or control materials that are obscene under these definitions. These usually include pornographic material. |
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Track listing
12" Single (AMY 431)
"Englishman in New York" - 4:25
"Ghost in the Strand" - 2:33
"Bring on the Night"/"When the World Is Running Down" (Live) - 11:42
7" Single (AM 1200)
"Englishman in New York" - 4:25
"If You There" - 4:08
CD Maxi Single (75021 2370 2)
"Englishman in New York" - 4:03
"Someone to Watch Over Me" - 4:35
"Up from the Skies" - 10:07 |
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113625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabed | Seabed | The seabed (also sea floor, seafloor, or ocean floor) is the bottom of the ocean. The ocean floor has been explored by submarines and to some extent scuba divers. |
114012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul%C3%89du | AbulÉdu | AbulEdu is a French Linux distribution made for classrooms. It is based on Debian and it includes the Linux Terminal Server Project and a large number of educational applications. |
529683 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Y.%20Smith | William Y. Smith | William Young Smith (August 13, 1925 - January 19, 2016) was an American military official. He was a United States Air Force four-star general. He was Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE) from 1979 to 1981 and as Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR) from 1981 until his retirement from military service in 1983.
Smith died in Falls Church, Virginia from congestive heart failure at the age of 90. |
241634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahiro%20Shibasaki | Takahiro Shibasaki | Takahiro Shibasaki (born 23 May 1982) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tokyo Verdy. |
764740 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerlesquin | Guerlesquin | Guerlesquin () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistere department in the northwest of France. |
597644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio%20Bersellini | Eugenio Bersellini | Eugenio Bersellini (10 June 1936 - 17 September 2017) was an Italian football player and manager. He was born in Borgo Val di Taro, Kingdom of Italy. He was known for playing with Brescia Calcio, Monza and Lecce. He managed Como, Internazionale and Torino.
Bersellini died on 17 September 2017 in Prato, Italy of pneumonia at the age of 81. |
648674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikuzenni | Chikuzenni | Chikuzenni (Zhu Qian Zhu chikuzen-ni) is a dish that comes from northern Kyushu, Japan. It is made of chicken and vegetables. It is often eaten when bringing in the new year in Japan. |
679763 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuronectidae | Pleuronectidae | The Pleuronectidae are a family of flatfish that are widely known as righteye flounders. The reason why they're called like that is because most species lie on the seabed on their left sides, with both eyes on their right sides. Only a few species can also have their eyes on the left side. Females lay eggs that float in mid-water until the larvae develop, and they sink to the bottom.
They are found on the bottoms of oceans around the world. The name of the family is derived from the Greek pleura (pleura), meaning "rib" or "side", and nekton (nekton), meaning "swimming". |
120451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kot%20Qazi | Kot Qazi | Kot Gullah is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang Tehsil. |
607099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Zimbabwean%20coup%20d%27%C3%A9tat | 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état | On the evening of 14 November 2017, the Zimbabwe National Army gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and got control of the Zimbabwe's national television station and other areas of the city.
The next day, they issued a statement saying that it was not a coup d'etat and that President Robert Mugabe was safe, although the situation would only return to normal after they had dealt with the "criminals" around Mugabe responsible for the socio-economic problems of Zimbabwe. Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, phoned Mugabe and confirmed that he was "fine", but under house arrest.
The coup took place amid troubles in the ruling ZANU-PF party between former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was backed by the army, and First Lady Grace Mugabe, backed by the younger G40 section, over who would replace the elderly President Mugabe. Grace Mugabe warned to a coup in October 2017.
A week after Mnangagwa was fired and forced to flee the country, and a day before troops moved into Harare, army chief Constantino Chiwenga issued a statement that purges of senior ZANU-PF officials like Mnangagwa had to stop. On November 21, 2017, Mugabe resigned as president. Emmerson Mnangagwa became the President of Zimbabwe on November 24, 2017. |
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