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998125 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platymantis%20banahao | Platymantis banahao | The Banahao forest frog (Platymantis banahao) is a frog. It lives in the Philippines. Scientists have seen it between 700 and 1700 meters above sea level. |
288169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Highness | Your Highness | Your Highness is a 2011 fantasy-comedy movie produced by Scott Stuber, Jon Mone, Danny McBride, Mark Huffam and Andrew Z. Davis, and directed by David Gordon Green. It was released on April 8, 2011 in North America. The movie received negative reviews with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 26% and Metacritic gave it a 31 out of 100. |
1014774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo%20%28surname%29 | Luo (surname) | As a Chinese surname, Luo may refer to:
Luo Fu (poet)
Luo Meizhen
Luo Ying-shay |
474587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque%20Ports | Cinque Ports | The Cinque Ports is a confederation of coastal towns in Kent and Sussex. It was originally formed for military and trade purposes, but is now ceremonial. A Royal Charter of 1155 established the ports. The ports are at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to the continent is narrowest. In Norman French, the name means "five ports". They were:
Hastings
New Romney
Hythe
Dover
Sandwich
However, Rye, originally a subsidiary of New Romney, changed to become one of the Cinque Ports, after New Romney was damaged by storms and silted up. Romney is now a mile from the sea, separated from it by Dungeness, which is a large pebble beach.
The Federation of Cinque Ports includes various other towns on the coast. These are called "limbs" of the Cinque Ports.
Lydd (Limb of New Romney)
Folkestone (Limb of Dover)
Faversham (Limb of Dover)
Margate (Limb of Dover)
Deal (Limb of Sandwich)
Ramsgate (Limb of Sandwich)
Brightlingsea (Limb of Sandwich)
Tenterden (Limb of Rye)
The Federation is supported by two towns, one of which is Rye, and the other (a few miles back from the coast) is Winchelsea. These towns once supported militias which could be used for defence of the area. |
877021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Larra%C3%ADn | Pablo Larraín | Pablo Larrain Matte (; born 19 August 1976) is a Chilean filmmaker. He has directed eight movies. His best known movies are the Academy Award-nominated movies No (2012) and Jackie (2016). |
339618 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlor%C3%AB | Vlorë | Vlore is a city in Albania. It is the second largest port city of Albania. There are 79,948 people who live here. It is on the Adriatic Sea, almost surrounded by mountains.
Vlore is where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912. The city was for a short time the capital of Albania.
Vlora is one of the oldest cities of Albania. It was formed by Ancient Greeks in the 6th century BC.
The University of Vlora is the second largest in Albania. |
94085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Rachel%20Wood | Evan Rachel Wood | Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American movie, television and theater actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, including American Gothic and Once and Again. Wood's first role as a leading movie actress was in 2002's Little Secrets, and she became well known after changing to a more adult-orientated Golden Globe-nominated role in the critically acclaimed Thirteen (2003).
Wood continued acting in mostly independent films, including Pretty Persuasion (2005), Down in the Valley (2006), and in the big studio production Across the Universe (2007). Critics have praised Wood's acting, such as The Guardian newspaper describing her as being "wise beyond her years" and as "one of the best actresses of her generation". Her personal relationship with singer Marilyn Manson received media coverage. She is openly bisexual. |
112639 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Union%20of%20Great%20Britain | Baptist Union of Great Britain | The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) is the both oldest and largest national group of Baptist churches in Great Britain. It was started when the General Baptists and Particular Baptists came together in 1891. |
168737 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity%20%28psychology%29 | Similarity (psychology) | Similarity in the area of cognitive psychology refers to things or ideas that people put together in the same groups, or categories, in their minds. Many psychologists try to find out what rules people use when they decide that two things are similar.
Modeling
One important tool used by psychologists to look into similarity is computer modeling. Scientists will, for example, ask people to rate a number of objects as more or less similar to each other. Then they will write a computer program that tries to simulate the same answers that the humans gave. For instance, a person might say that "cat" and "dog" are similar words, so a good computer model should be able to take the word "dog" and respond with the word "cat" in a list of similar words. Computer models do this by applying some set of rules to a large collection of real world text (called a corpus).
Once a model can respond with the correct (similar) words, then it is likely that the rules the computer program uses are the same rules that people use to decide whether words are similar.
Behavioral research
Another way that psychologists look into similarity is by putting people in special situations and watching what they do. In other words, by using an experiment. When it comes to similarity, this might include listing words, using categories as clues for learning new words, sorting objects into groups, or other tasks that have to do with comparing things to one another.
Depending on how quickly people do these tasks, or how many mistakes they make, psychologists can find out what rules they are using to decide if things are similar.
How do people decide that two things are similar?
Features - If something about two things are the same, people might say the things are similar. (coins and wheels are similar, because they are both round.) Similar features could include: shape, texture (what the surface looks like), material (what something is made out of), color, weight, size, temperature, and other features.
Functions - If two things are used for the same reasons, people might say the things are similar. (cars and airplanes are similar.)
Hierarchy - If one thing is a small part of a larger thing, people might say the things are similar. (A foot and a leg are similar)
Phonetics - If the words for two things sound the same, people might say the things are similar. Also, if the first parts of the words for two things are the same, people might say the things are similar. |
945190 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZTV-TV | DZTV-TV | DZTV-TV, Channel 13 (analog) and Channel 17 (digital), is the flagship noncommercial VHF station of Philippine television network, IBC. |
1036614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyna%20Dziominskaya | Karyna Dziominskaya | Karyna Dziominskaya is an archer from Belarus. Dziominskaya competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was born on 25 August 1994. |
208787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20John%20Silver%27s | Long John Silver's | Long John Silver's is a fast food restaurant that sells mainly seafood.
It was created in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky. The name for the restaurant is named after Long John Silver from the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. They used to be a private owned company but they went bankrupt in 1998.
Their parent company Yum! sold Long John Silver's to LJS Partners LLC and A&W Restaurants to A Great American Brand LLC in September 2011 to focus on expanding in China.
The restaurant chain also has many restaurants world-wide. |
763245 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinto%20Brass | Tinto Brass | Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Milan, Italy.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many avant-garde movies. He is known for his movies Caligula, Cosi fan tutte (released under the English title All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella (Frivolous Lola) and Trasgredire.
In April 2010, Brass was hospitalized after having an intracranial hemorrhage. |
1035593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Adam%20I%2C%20Prince%20of%20Liechtenstein | Hans Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein | Hans-Adam I (16 August 1662 - 16 June 1712) was the 3rd Prince of Liechtenstein and the first holder of the title to rule over the Principality of Liechtenstein.
He was the son of Prince Karl Eusebius. Hans-Adam inherited his title after Karl Eusebius died in 1984.
His family, the House of Liechtenstein were nobles in the Holy Roman Empire. They came from a castle in Austria named Liechtenstein Castle. Hans-Adam I was also the Duke of Troppau and Duke of Jagerndorf.
He was the owner of many art collections and was known for being very rich.
In 1699, Hans-Adam I bought the Lordship of Schellenberg. In 1712, he also bought the County of Vaduz. He combined the two territories to form the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Hans-Adam I had seven children. He was succeeded as Prince of Liechtenstein by Joseph-Wenzel I, his cousin. |
575526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Sajjad%20Ali%20Shah | Syed Sajjad Ali Shah | Syed Sajjad Ali Shah (17 February 1933 - 7 March 2017) was a Pakistani politician and lawyer. He was the Chief Justice of Pakistan from 4 June 1994 to 2 December 1997.
When Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1994, Justice Saad Saud Jan should have taken his place based on seniority. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto threw tradition overboard, when she by-passed two senior judges and appointed Sajjad Ali Shah as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Later, she was fired by President Farooq Leghari on charges of corruption and Sajjad Ali Shah along with 6 other members of the Supreme Court were fired as well.
Sajjad Ali Shah was born in Karachi. He studied at the University of Karachi. Sajjad Ali Shah died of pneumonia on 7 March 2017 in Karachi, aged 84. |
240693 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%20Al-Dakhil | Faisal Al-Dakhil | Faisal Al-Dakhil (born 13 August 1957) is a former Kuwaiti football player. He has played for [[Kuntw'trzrzrz
wait national football team|Kuwait national team]]. |
624297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20McAlpine%2C%206th%20Baronet | Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet | Sir William Hepburn McAlpine, 6th Baronet (12 January 1936 - 4 March 2018) was a British businessman. He was director of the construction company Sir Robert McAlpine. British Rail Class 60 60008 of EWS was named in his honour. McAlpine became involved in a plan to save the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway and became its chairman.
McAlpine died on 4 March 2018 at the age of 81. |
333676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Blair%20Witch%20Project | The Blair Witch Project | The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American independent supernatural horror movie. It was written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez and produced by the Haxan Films production company.
This movie was put together from amateur footage and relates the story of three student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams) who disappeared while hiking in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The viewers are told the three were never seen or heard from again, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later. This "recovered footage" is presented as the viewer is watching the movie.
The Blair Witch Project was first shown at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. It was released by Artisan on 30 July 1999 after months of publicity, including a ground-breaking campaign by the studio to use the Internet and suggest that the film was a record of real events. The distribution strategy for The Blair Witch Project was created and implemented by Artisan studio executive Steven Rothenberg. The movie was positively received by critics and went on to gross over US$248 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful independent movies of all time. The DVD was released in December 1999 and presented only in fullscreen.
Story
In October 1994, movie students Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard set out to make a documentary about the fabled Blair Witch. They travel to Burkittsville, Maryland, which the town was used to be called Blair. They interview people living in the local area about the legend of the Blair Witch. The local people tell them of Rustin Parr, a hermit who kidnapped seven children in the 1940s and brought them to his house in the woods, where he tortured and killed them. Parr brought the children into his home's basement in pairs, forcing the first child to face the corner and listen to their companion's screams as he murdered the second child. Parr would then murder the first child. Eventually turning himself in to the police, Parr later pleaded insanity, saying that the spirit of Elly Kedward, a witch hanged in the 18th century, had been terrorizing him for some time and promised to leave him alone if he murdered the kids. The three students also interviews Mary Brown, a local eccentric who tells them that she had encountered the Blair Witch as a child.
The second day, the students begin to explore the woods in north Burkittsville to look for evidence of the Blair Witch. Along the way, a fisherman warns them that the woods are haunted, and recalls a time that he had seen strange mist rising from the water. The students hike to Coffin Rock, where five men were found ritualistically murdered in the 19th century, and then camp for the night. The next day they move deeper into the woods, despite being uncertain of their exact location on the map. They eventually locate what appears to be an old cemetery with seven small cairns. They set up camp nearby and then return to the cemetery after dark. They later hear crackling sounds in the darkness that seem to be coming from all directions and assume the noises are from animals or locals following them.
That same following day they attempt to return to their car, but cannot find their way; they try until it is night time, when they are forced to set camp. That night, they hear crackling noises again, but they cannot see anything. The next morning they find three cairns have been built around their tent during the night. As they continue trying to find their way out of the woods, Heather realizes that her map is missing, and Mike later reveals that he kicked it into a creek out of frustration the previous day. Josh and Heather get angry at Mike. They then realize they are now hopelessly lost, and decide to simply "head south". Soon, they discover a multitude of humanoid stick figures suspended from trees. That night, they hear more strange noises, including the sounds of children and bizarre "morphing" sounds. When an unknown force shakes the tent, they flee in a panic and hide in the woods until it is morning. Upon returning to their tent, they find that their possessions have been rifled through, and Josh's equipment is covered with slime, causing them to question why only his belongings were affected. As the day wears on, they pass a log over a stream that was identical to the one they had passed earlier, despite having traveled directly south all day, and again set camp, completely demoralized at having wasted the entire day seemingly going in circles, with Josh outside on guard duty.
Josh disappears the next morning. After a while of finding him, Mike and Heather eventually break camp and slowly move on. That night, they hear Josh screaming in the darkness, but are not able to find him. The next morning, Heather finds a bundle of sticks and fabric outside their tent. Later inspection reveals it contains blood-soaked scraps of Josh's shirt, as well as teeth and hair, but she does not mention this to Mike.
That night, Heather records herself apologizing to the co-producers of her project as well as her family, and starts to cry, finally admitting her fate. Later, they again hear Josh crying for help, but this time they follow them and discover an abandoned house in the woods. Hanging on the front of the house is the same human stick figure that they saw in the woods. Mike runs upstairs, following the voice, while Heather tries to follow. Mike then claims he hears Josh in the basement. He follows the sound and, after what seems to be a struggle, goes silent and drops to the floor. Heather runs down to the basement screaming for Mike, but she does not hear Mike. She then enters the basement looking for both men, and her camera catches a glimpse of Mike facing the wall. Heather then screams as she and her camera drop to the floor. There is only silence as the footage ends.
Production
The Blair Witch Project was developed by the filmmakers. The script was written in 1988. It began with a 68-page outline, with the dialogue to be improvised. According to the directors of the movie, they advertised in Back Stage magazine for actors with strong improvisational abilities. There was a very informal improvisational audition process to narrow the total amount of 2,000 actors. In talks with investors of the movie, they presented an eight-minute documentary along with newspapers and news footage. This documentary, originally called The Blair Witch Project: The Story of Black Hills Disappearances was produced by Haxan Films. In the movie, the Blair Witch is, according to legend, the ghost of Elly Kedward, a woman banished from the Blair Township (latter-day Burkittsville) for witchcraft in 1785. The directors incorporated that part of the legend, along with allusions to the Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible, to play on the themes of injustice done on those who were called witches. They were influenced by The Shining, Alien and The Omen. Jaws was an influence as well, presumably because the witch was hidden from the viewer for the entirety of the film, forcing suspense from the unknown.
The movie was shot for only eight days in October 1998. Most of the movie was filmed in the tiny Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County, Maryland, although a few scenes were filmed in the real town of Burkittsville. Some of the townspeople interviewed in the film were not actors, and some were planted actors, unknown to the main cast. Donahue had never operated a camera before, and spent two days in a "crash course". Donahue said she modeled her character after a director she once worked with, citing the character's self assuredness when everything went as planned, and confusion during crisis. The three actors filmed the whole movie with only two cameras. They recorded using Heather's video camera and a 16mm camera that can record video in black and white. The apparent use of handheld camera, and the coarse grained picture supports clearly the film's documentary feel. The strange recording method is also based on the actors who did not know the movie's story in detail. The three actors were dragged into the woods, and almost tortured with the cold weather, food shortages and spooky sounds.
During filming, the actors were given clues as to their next location through messages given in milk crates found with Global Positioning Satellite systems. They were given individual instructions that they would use to help improvise the action of the day. Teeth were obtained from a Maryland dentist for use as human remains in the film. Influenced by producer Gregg Hale's memories of his military training, in which "enemy soldiers" would hunt a trainee through wild terrain for three days, the directors moved the characters far during the day, harassing them by night and depriving them of food.
Almost 19 hours of usable recorded footage had to be edited down to 90 minutes. Editing took more than eight months. Originally it was hoped that the movie would make it on to cable television, and the filmmakers did not anticipate wide release. The initial investment by the three University of Central Florida filmmakers was about US$35,000. Artisan acquired the film for US$1.1 million but spent US$25 million to market it. The actors signed a "small" agreement to receive some of the profits from the film's release.
A list of production budget figures have circulated over the years, appearing as low as $20,000. Sanchez revealed in an interview that when principal photography first wrapped, approximately $20,000 to $25,000 had been spent. Other figures list a final budget ranging between $500,000 and $750,000.
Reception
The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide, compared to its final budget, which ranged between $20,000 and $750,000. The movie received critically positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes says that out of 133 reviews for the movie, 85% of these reviews were positive.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the movie four out of four stars. He called it "an extraordinarily effective horror film". It was listed on Filmcritic.com as the 50th best movie ending of all time. Critics praised Donahue's apology to the camera near the end of the movie, saying it would cause "nightmares for years to come"; Roger Ebert showed how much different this sequence to Robert Scott's final journal entries as he froze to death in the Antarctic. Donahue said that there was a considerable backlash against her because she was starring in the movie. Her claims led to her having threatening encounters and difficulty obtaining employment.
The Blair Witch Project is thought to be the first widely released film marketed primarily on the internet. The film's official website featured fake police reports and 'newsreel-style' interviews. Due to this, audiences and critics initially thought it was an actual documentary about the 'missing' teenagers. These augmented the film's convincing found footage style to spark heated debates across the internet over whether the film was a real-life documentary or a work of fiction.
The Blair Witch Project was given a Global Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay and won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named The Blair Witch Project one of "the 100 best films from 1983 to 2008", ranking it at #99. In 2006, Chicago Film Critics Association listed it as one of the "Top 100 Scariest Movies", ranking it #12.
Despite its positive reviews, the movie was nominated for the 1999 Razzie Award for Worst Picture. Heather Donahue won a Razzie Award for Worst Actress. The movie also became controversial for it's shaky footage, especially the final sequence in which the camera operator is running down a set of stairs with the camera. Some viewers had gotten motion sickness and even vomited as a result.
Sequels
A sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released in the autumn of 2000, but was poorly received by most critics. A third installment was announced that same year but did not materialize. On September 2, 2009, it was announced that co-directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick were pitching the third film.
Home media
The Blair Witch Project was released on DVD on October 26, 1999, with VHS and laser disc versions released around the same time. Unlike the widescreen theatrical release, this DVD is presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. The DVD has a number of special features, including "The Curse of the Blair Witch" and "The Blair Witch Legacy" featurettes, newly discovered footage, director and producer commentary, production notes, cast & crew bios and trailers. A Blu-ray release from Lionsgate was released on October 5, 2010, also in 1.33:1 format. |
117611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%20church | Hall church | A hall church is a type of church building. The term "hall church" is about the architecture of the building. Most very large churches and cathedrals are built with a long part where people sit, called the "nave". On each side of the nave is a lower "aisle". Between the nave and the aisles are rows of columns. Above the columns are windows which let light into the nave. In a hall church, there are no windows above the columns. The nave and the aisles are about the same height.
Famous cathedrals which are hall churches are Milan Cathedral in Italy, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna and Bristol Cathedral in England.
The term was first used in the mid-19th century by the German art historian Wilhelm Lubke. |
259144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami | Tsunami | A tsunami (from ) is a natural disaster which is a series of fast-moving waves in the ocean caused by powerful earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or simply an asteroid or a meteor crash inside the ocean. A tsunami starts as a small wave and builds up into a larger wave., a tsunami starts suddenly. The waves travel at a great speed across an ocean with little energy loss. They can remove sand from beaches, destroy trees, toss and drag vehicles, houses and even destroy whole towns and cities. Tsunamis can even be caused when a meteorite strikes the earth's surface, though it is very rare. A tsunami normally occurs in the Pacific Ocean, especially in what is called the ring of fire, but can occur in any large body of water like lakes and seas. If the slope of the coast is not steep, the water may pull back for hundreds of meters. People who do not know of the danger often remains at the shore.
Tsunamis cannot be prevented. However, there are ways to help stop people dying from a tsunami. International and regional warning systems, especially for the Pacific Ocean, issue alerts before the big waves reach the shore. Because the earthquake that caused the tsunami can be felt before the wave gets to the shore, people can be warned to go somewhere safe.
Tsunamis are often called seismic sea wave or tidal waves because they usually rise and fall more slowly than ordinary ocean surface waves. This name is misleading, because tsunamis are not related to tides; they merely rise slowly as a series of fast-moving waves in the ocean caused by powerful earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
The deadliest tsunami recorded in documented history was on 26 December 2004, and is known as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. It was caused by an earthquake. The earthquake was said to have a magnitude of 9.1 on the Moment magnitude scale. It was centered in the ocean near the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Over 230,000 people, mainly on the shores of the Indian Ocean, died from this disaster. The giant wave moved very quickly. Thousands of people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Somalia, and other nations, were killed or injured by it.
Yet, the most expensive tsunami ever was the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami or Great Sendai Earthquake . It is said to have cost the Japanese government around $2200 billion USD, which is equivalent to about 12 trillion yen. It went a huge distance in inland and mostly effected Tohoku region (northeastern Honshu). and it was the 4th largest tsunami in history.
There is another type of tsunami known as a megatsunami , which is mainly due to external impact on the ocean, like an Asteroid or Meteor crash, a Landslide, a rockslide. It is rare for a megatsunami to occur.
Surviving tsunamis
Tsunamis are very strong and can go many kilometers inland. Around 5 to 10 minutes before a tsunami hits, the sea seems to go back by an unusual distance. This is a warning that a tsunami can occur.
The best way to evacuate is to climb to an elevated area. If a person notices strange or unusual behavior in animals, they can also take that as a warning and go inland. However, if it still looks like the wave can absorb the person, the most suitable alternative will be to hold on to something sturdy, like a tree, so they don't totally get carried away and not injured and call the disaster rescue team. |
934207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Bolsonaro | Eduardo Bolsonaro | Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro (born July 10, 1984) is a Brazilian federal police officer and politician, Son of the former President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, he has been a federal deputy for the state of Sao Paulo since 2015.
In 2018, he was re-elected federal deputy, with 1 843 735 votes, being the most voted in the country's history. |
410482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herreys | Herreys | Herreys was a pop/schlager trio from Sweden, active in the 1980s. The trio performed the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 winning song, Diggiloo, diggiley. |
83024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington%2C%20Delaware | Wilmington, Delaware | Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and the county seat of New Castle County. It had 70,898 people in 2020.
Wilmington has an area of about and is above sea level, at the place where the Christina River and Brandywine Creek meet.
U.S. President Joe Biden is from Wilmington and owns a home here. |
475439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities%20of%20Slovenia | Municipalities of Slovenia | Slovenia is divided into 212 municipalities (, singular: ), of which 11 (in bold) are cities (cities municipalities).
Slovene is an official language of all the municipalities. Hungarian is a second official language of 3 municipalities in the Prekmurje region: Dobrovnik/Dobronak, Hodos/Hodos and Lendava/Lendva. Italian is a second official language of 4 municipalities (of which one has urban status) in the Slovene Littoral region: Ankaran/Ancarano, Izola/Isola, Koper/Capodistria and Piran/Pirano.
The largest municipality in area is Kocevje with and the smallest is Odranci with only . The municipality with the highest population is Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and the one with the lowest population is Hodos with only 382 people living there.
English names
The Slovene names have the word "Obcina" in front, e.g. "Obcina Bled". As an English name, the Statistical Office of Slovenia uses a word by word transformation, e.g. "Municipality Bled". |
242910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20waste | Food waste | Food waste is food that is thrown away, either because it is not needed, or because it must be thrown away by law.
Sources of food waste
Food production
Large amounts of food waste can occur at any stage in the process of producing food. In subsistence agriculture, the amounts of food waste are unknown. Very likely, very little food is wasted, because food is produced because of a need for food. In the developed world, the food industry produces food for a global marketplace demand.
Research has been done to see where food waste occurred. The researchers looked at the food industry of the United States and found that food was wasted at the beginning of the food production. From planting, crops can be subjected to pest infestations and bad weather, which cause losses before harvest. Natural forces such as temperature and rainfall are the main influences on the growth of crops. For this reason, all forms of outdoor agriculture is subject to losses beecause of these influences. The use of machinery in harvesting can cause waste, because harvesters may not see the difference between ripe and immature crops, or collect only part of a crop. Food is also wasted because it does not meet certain standards or regulations for quality and appearance As a result, certain crops that do not meet these standards are not harvested; left in the field, they can provide fertilizer, or food for animals.
Food processing
It is unknown how much food waste occurs during food processing. When food is stored, considerable amounts are wasted because of pests and microorganisms. This problem occurs in countries where it is both relatively hot, and humid. These conditions boost the growth of pests and microorganisms. Extreme temperature, humidity, or microoganisms also influence the nutritional value, caloric value and edibility of crops and account for food waste. The "qualitative losses" are more difficult to assess than quantitative ones. More losses occur because the food is not handled correctly, or because it loses weight or volume.
It is difficult to reduce some of the food waste produced by processing without affecting the quality of the product. Certain regulations concerning the safety of foods cause food to be wasted, before it even reaches the market.
Safety regulations are in place to protect the health of the consumer. They are very important, especially where foodstuffs of animal origin are processed. Contaminated products from these sources can lead to and are associated with microbiological and chemical hazards. |
847072 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessmer%2C%20Louisiana | Hessmer, Louisiana | Hessmer is a village in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. |
230475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic | Inorganic | The word inorganic is used to emphasise that the subject is not organic in origin.
Inorganic chemistry is the chemistry of elements other than carbon.
Inorganic compounds are chemical compounds other than carbon-based.
Inorganic matter is matter which was not part of a living organism. |
331410 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout%20%28vehicle%29 | Burnout (vehicle) | A burnout (also known as a peel out or power brake) is the practice of keeping a vehicle still (or close to) and spinning its wheels, causing the tires to heat up and smoke due to friction.
History
The origins of burnouts can be traced to drag racing, where they have a practical purpose: drag racing tires perform better at higher temperatures. A burnout is the fastest way to raise tire temperature before a race. It also cleans the tires of any debris and lays down a layer of rubber near the starting line for better traction. Drag race tracks sometimes use specially-reserved, wet-surface areas (burnout boxes) for burnouts.
Burnouts are also common in informal street racing, usually for show value. As with all street racing activities, burnouts on public property are illegal in most countries but the severity of punishments vary. In New South Wales, for example, police have the power to confiscate the offending vehicle for 3 months for a first offense.
In March 2010, British Formula 1 World Champion, Lewis Hamilton had his Mercedes car impounded for allegedly performing a burnout in Melbourne, Australia while leaving the Albert Park Grand-Prix Circuit.
Burnouts are also sometimes performed by winning drivers at the end of NASCAR races to celebrate their victory.
Practice
Burnouts in front wheel drive vehicles are likely to result in damage to the vehicle. They are usually achieved by holding the emergency brake (e-brake) to lock up the rear tires while flooring the gas pedal.
To burnout in a rear wheel drive vehicle the driver usually has to press the gas and brake pedals at the same time. The brake pedal will require modulation The goal is to allow the rear tires to spin while holding the car in place with the front wheels remaining motionless. At a certain point of balance, the front brakes will prevent the car from moving forward while the rear brakes will have insufficient grip to keep the wheels from spinning, because engine power is transferred to the rear wheels only.
It is possible to make rear-wheel drive burnouts easier by installing "line locks", devices which allow fluid pressure on the front brakes to be maintained while releasing the pedal to free the rear brakes. This is useful in a manual transmission vehicle, where it can be quite difficult to manipulate the clutch, brake and gas pedals simultaneously. Line locks also reduce wear to the rear brakes, a common problem otherwise.
Burnouts are most difficult to perform in four-wheel drive and all-wheel drive cars, as they have better traction than FWD or RWD vehicles. It requires significantly more powerful engines to break all four tires loose at the same time and the tires will spin for only a short while before all four gain traction. |
265656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamestar | Gamestar | Gamestar is a German monthly released PC computer game magazine. It is published by the IDG Entertainment Media GmbH in Munich. The first edition was 10/1997 with a prize of 6,90 DM. Current prize is 6,30EUR (XL version), 5,30EUR (DVD version) and 3,50EUR (Magazin version). |
946998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh%20%281969%20movie%29 | Winnie-the-Pooh (1969 movie) | Winnie-the-Pooh () is a 1969 Soviet animated movie directed by Fyodor Khitruk. |
572177 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%2C%20Jackson%20County%2C%20Wisconsin | Cleveland, Jackson County, Wisconsin | Cleveland is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 481. |
54626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Parade | The Black Parade | The Black Parade is a 2006 album by the band My Chemical Romance. It is the third album from the band. The album is a concept album. The songs on this album follow the life of The Patient, a man dying of cancer. The album takes the listener into The Patient's mind, fears, regrets, and accomplishments.
Much like their first two albums, The Black Parade offers a message of hope.
The Black Parade is: Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, and Bob Bryar. |
454984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor%20Series%20%281989%29 | Survivor Series (1989) | Survivor Series (1989) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on November 23, 1989 at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois. It was the third Survivor Series event that was held by the WWF. |
160786 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parry%20People%20Movers | Parry People Movers | Parry People Movers (PPM) is a British company manufacturing lightweight railbuses that use Flywheel energy storage (FES) to store energy for traction. |
91170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby | Ruby | A ruby is a kind of precious stone. It is often associated with emerald, sapphire and topaz. It is usually red, but can sometimes be other colors. It is formed of aluminum and oxygen (Al2O3), and that means it's a kind of corundum. A small amount of chromium makes the color. |
750293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Tripp | Linda Tripp | Linda Rose Tripp (nee Carotenuto; November 24, 1949 - April 8, 2020) was an American civil servant. She played an important role in the Lewinsky scandal of 1998. Tripp's action in secretly recording Monica Lewinsky's secret phone calls about her relationship with the president caused a sensation with their links to the earlier Clinton v. Jones lawsuit.
Tripp claimed that her motives were patriotic, and she was able to avoid a wiretap charge for handing in the tapes. She then claimed that her firing from the Pentagon at the end of the Clinton administration was because she leaked the phone calls, while the administration claimed it to be a standard routine.
From 2004, Tripp worked with her husband in a retail business in Middleburg, Virginia.
Tripp was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She died from pancreatic cancer in Middleburg at the age of 70 on April 8, 2020. |
157179 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riocaud | Riocaud | Riocaud is a commune. It is in the region of Aquitaine in the Gironde department. This is in the southwest of France. |
697997 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream%20spying | Upstream spying | Upstream spying is one of the types of spying that the National Security Agency (NSA) does. It refers to online spying which is done on the internet backbone. |
895550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji%20Constitution | Meiji Constitution | The Constitution of the Empire of Japan (Kyujitai: Da Ri Ben Di Guo Xian Fa ; Shinjitai: Da Ri Ben Di Guo Xian Fa , romanized: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenpo), known informally as the Meiji Constitution (Ming Zhi Xian Fa , Meiji Kenpo), was the constitution of the Empire of Japan which was proclaimed on February 11, 1889, and remained in force between November 29, 1890 and May 2, 1947. Enacted after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, it provided for a form of mixed constitutional and absolute monarchy, based jointly on the German and British models. In theory, the Emperor of Japan was the supreme leader, and the Cabinet, whose Prime Minister would be elected by a Privy Council, were his followers; in practice, the Emperor was head of state but the Prime Minister was the actual head of government of Japan. |
275143 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Blanvillain | Charles Blanvillain | Charly B (born Charles Blanvillain, 28 September 1981) is a French reggae artist, author, composer, interpreter, performing internationally.
Biography
Early life
Born in Rome, Italy from a family of musicians, he is from French, German and Armenian origins. At the age of 4 he moves to Geneva (Switzerland) where he spends most of his childhood. Music is then everything to him, and he discovers reggae at the age of 15, when he spends one year in Jamaica at IONA High School, hosted in a Jamaican family, having obtained a scholarship from the American Field Service. Later on, after passing his international baccalaureate, he studies sound techniques at the School of Recording Arts, Canada and at the Sound and Audio Engineering School in Geneva, Switzerland.
He starts to be interested in Reggae music very early, and at the age of 15, he composes his first song. His musical studies in Canada, long stays in Jamaica, and time spent living in France near the Swiss border form the cultural triumvirate from which Charly B draws his artistic vision. He has been singing with legends of dancehall like Capleton, Kiprich, De Marco and Anthony B.
Career
In 2002, at the age of 21, he wins the first prize for the best Geneva (Switzerland) Singjay In 2003, he writes a song for the movie Destination Jamaica by George Tait (Jungle George) In 2004, his song "My Queen" appears in the DVD sold with the Austrian surfers' magazine Methodmag, published in 60,000 copies. In 2005 he wins the 1st prize for best Singjay in Switzerland organized by Giddeon Productions Unfortunately, he cannot take advantage of the prize (concert on the main stage of Rototom Sunsplash Festival 2005) in Italy, as he is expected in Jamaica that summer, and therefore gives his prize to the number 2 in the competition, Elijah. In 2007, Eliane Dambre from the Ateliers du Funambule sponsored by Michel Fugain, which studios are based in Nyon, decides to present his candidacy to the Eurovision for Switzerland, against DJ Bobo to represent Switzerland, but his candidacy is too late to be retained. More recently, in 2009, he has won the price for the best reggae song at the competition organized by Reggae Europe. He has deposited to SACEM over 100 titles entirely composed by him (music and lyrics), in French, English and Jamaican patois.
Encounter with Jon Baker
In summer 2009, he makes what he calls "a crucial encounter" with the producer Jon Baker, and records at Geejam Studios his album Forever, which will be released in 2011 under the label Geejam Recordings/ Forward Recordings. This encounter with Jon Baker is very important for the artist; the British producer (a friend of Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records), has discovered many talents, among which recently the reggae singer Alborosie and The Jolly Boys. Moreover, he gains the confidence of Reggae Europe who partners with Geejam Recordings for the album Forever.
Start of tours and international invitations
At the end of 2009, he is invited in Germany (Leipzig) to meet with Pionear from Germaican records then invited by Stylordz in Toronto and New York for the anniversary of Zulu Nation. In Toronto he shoots the clip of the song "Ooh No". In 2010, invited by the CAMA Festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, he makes a Vietnam tour (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and upon his return, attends the ROTOTOM Sunsplash Festival in August 2010. He is travelling between Jamaica and France, working on his last album Forever, which will be released in 2011.
International Vietnam Tour
Vietnam Tour Vietnam in May 2010, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City interview Cama Festival tele Hanoi
Discography
Albums
2000 : Chu-chu Stylordz Production - Canada
2001 : Move Stylordz Production - Canada
2002 : Vengeance to God Ladies Party
2003 : My Queen Pow Pow records - MethodMag - Europe
2004 : Album Reality Redhemption Production
2004 : Album More Reality Redhemption Production
2005 : Album Thugz Style Severely III Production, La plus belle femme (Video clip on TVM3)
2006 : Album Family Affair Redhumption Production, Several titles in album Hemp Higher Sound
2007 : Album International Ting - Charly B and the Official Band
2008 : Album Zulu Nation Stylordz Production - Canada (Amazon.com an E-music.com)
2009 : Several titles in the album Redhemption Sound fi All Africans
2010 : Album Tomorrow is just another day (with Henry P.).
Release in 2011: Album Forever
Singles
Rock and come in
Le reveur
The dreamer
Brown Eyes
Video clips
Chu-chu - shot in Canada
La plus belle femme - shot in Nyon, Switzerland
On s'empare de la party - shot with La Dixion in Switzerland
The way you wine- shot in Port Antonio in Jamaica by the studios Geejam
Ooh No - shot in Toronto au Canada
Deux videos documentaires - shot in Port Antonio en Jamaica
Documentary video shot in New York nov. 2009 for the anniversary of Zulu Nation
Video of the radio interview in Toronto, Canada
Forever - shot in Port Antonio, Jamaica in Sept. 2010. |
367636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Life%20Alliance%20of%20Gays%20and%20Lesbians | Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians | Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians are a club of LGBT persons who go against abortion while at the same time representing the LGBT community. The group were established around 1990 in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. The group advocates for alternatives to abortion.
Political organizations based in Washington, D.C. |
241260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal%20pain | Abdominal pain | Abdominal pain (also called a stomach ache) is a pain or ache in the abdomen. It can be caused by different things, including food poisoning, indigestion, constipation, gastritis, an ulcer, hunger, appendicitis, stomach cancer or diverticulitis. |
816294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaba%20SC | Talaba SC | Al-Talaba Sports Club is an Iraqi football club which plays in Baghdad. |
411149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alls%C3%A5ng%20p%C3%A5%20Skansen | Allsång på Skansen | Allsang pa Skansen is a sing-along event at Skansen in the town of Stockholm in Sweden, which first started on 26 May 1935. Originally broadcast over Sveriges Radio, broadcasts on Sveriges Television began on 3 August 1979. |
268933 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism | Progressivism | The idea of progress is the belief that human society gets better and better over time. Progressivism is a kind of politics based on social progress. It is also a . Progress started being supported by many philosophers in the Age of Enlightenment. They believed that new inventions and scientific discoveries would make people's lives better.
Progressivism often supports reforms and change. It is related to liberalism and egalitarianism.
Politics
Progressive politics generally wants to change government in a new way. Unlike conservatism which wants to keep government similar. It most often refers to a political movement in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, called the Progressive Era. In the United States, these people wanted to change politics, which was at that time run by big business and corrupt political machines. Most of the people who believed in the Progressive Movement were part of the middle class. Some of the leaders of the progressive movement were Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson , William Howard Taft, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Howard Dean. |
348555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auf%20Wiedersehen%2C%20Pet | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British drama television program about English migrant builders. The show was created by Franc Roddam and mostly written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. It was shown on ITV from 1983-1986 and on BBC One from 2002-2004. It stars Christopher Fairbank, Christopher Holton, Tim Healy, Gary Holton, Jimmy Nail, Pat Roach, Timothy Spall and Kevin Whately.
In the first series, the men work on a building site in Dusseldorf, Germany. |
945371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish%20upon%20a%20Pike | Wish upon a Pike | Wish upon a Pike () is a 1938 Soviet fantasy movie directed by Aleksandr Rou. It stars Pyotr Savin, Maria Kravchunovskaya, and Georgy Millyar. |
656475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate%2C%20Iowa | Westgate, Iowa | Westgate is a city in Iowa in the United States. |
479875 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblasts%20of%20Ukraine | Oblasts of Ukraine | The Oblasts of Ukraine are primary administrative units in Ukraine. There are 24 oblasts in Ukraine. Every oblast is further split into raions. |
155757 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle%2C%20Illinois | Carlyle, Illinois | Carlyle is a city in Illinois in the United States. |
38012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh | Laugh | A laugh is a way of showing happiness. It is a vocal sound which a person makes when something is funny, like a joke, or a tickle.
Sometimes people laugh when they are not happy. When people are ashamed or embarrassed, sometimes they react by laughing.
There are different ways to laugh. A person can laugh using mostly their voice, mostly their throat, or mostly their nose.
You can write a laugh in different ways. Some people write "ha ha ha", or "he he he", or "hehe". If they are on the internet, they also use "LOL". "LOL" does not sound like a laugh, but it stands for Laughing Out Loud.
Human babies first laugh at the age of around three or four months, usually as an expression of surprise. Babies' laughter often produces a positive response in adults who will involuntarily copy the child. Video footage, on the YouTube site, of babies laughing was shown to Queen Elizabeth II during her visit, on 16 October 2008, to the Google headquarters, where both she and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh were reduced to 'fits of giggles'. |
365434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lost%20treasures | List of lost treasures | This is an incomplete list of famous treasures that are currently lost or missing. |
863859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua%20Franca%20Nova | Lingua Franca Nova | Lingua Franca Nova, is an auxiliary language originally built by C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, and developed by many of its users. Its vocabulary is based on the Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan.
History
Boeree started to create Lingua Franca Nova in 1965,His goal was creating an international auxiliary language simple and easy to learn for international communication. He was inspired by two languages:
the Mediterranean Lingua Franca or "Sabir", a Romance pidgin used by European sailors and merchants as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Sea from the 11-18th century,
different creoles such as Papiamento and Haitian Creole.
He took the language vocabulary from French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan.
Lingua Franca Nova first appeared on the internet in 1998. A Yahoo! Group was formed in 2002 by Bjorn Madsen, and reached about 300 members who contributed to the evolution of the language.
In 2005 Stefan Fisahn created a wiki for the language. The wiki moved to Wikia in 2009, then was hosted directly on the official website in 2019.
In 2007, Igor Vasiljevic created a Facebook group, which now has over 600 members.
In 2012 a novel fully translated into Lingua Franca Nova was first published in printed form: La aventuras de Alisia en la pais de mervelias. It is Simon Davies's translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
In 2014 a new official website was created on the "elefen.org" domain. It offers different materials in several languages to learn the language. It also has a wiki and the official dictionary. Some books in Lingua Franca Nova are also available on the official website for reading.
On April 18, 2018, Wikipedia in Lingua Franca Nova, called "Vicipedia", was officially launched.
On May 15, 2020 on the Web and on May 10, 2021 in printed form the first original novel written in Lingua Franca Nova was published: La xerca per Pahoa, by Vicente Costalago. He published the second original novel in the language, La marcia nonconoseda, in February 2022.
On January 5, 2021, the language's creator, C. George Boeree, died of pancreatic cancer aged 68.
Grammar
LFN is an SVO (subject-verb-object) language. Modifiers generally follow what they modify, as do prepositional phrases and subordinate clauses.
Other than the plural in -s or -es, nouns don't change. A noun's role in a sentence is determined by word order and prepositions. There are 22 prepositions.
Nouns are usually preceded by articles (la or un) or other determiners such as esta (this, these), acel (that, those), alga (some), cada (every, each), multe (many, much), and poca (few, little). Possessive determiners, cardinal numerals, and the adjectives bon and mal (good and bad) also precede the noun; ordinal numerals follow the noun. A variety of pronouns are identical to or derived from determiners.
The personal pronouns don't change:
El is used for people and higher animals; Lo is used for all else. On is used in the same way as in French or "one" in English (in the way that one would be using it if one said this sentence).
Verbs are don't change. The verb alone represents the present tense and the infinitive. Other tenses and moods are indicated by preceding particles:
Adverbs such as ja (already) and auxiliary verbs such as comensa (begin to) are used to add precision. The active participle ends in -nte and the passive participle in -da. They can be used with es (to be) to form a progressive aspect and a passive voice, respectively.
Adjectives are don't change, and adverbs are not distinguished from adjectives. Adjectives follow nouns and adverbs follow verbs but precede adjectives. The comparative is formed with plu or min, the superlative with la plu or la min.
Questions are formed by adding esce at the beginning of the sentence with or by using one of several "question words", such as cual (what, which), ci (who), do (where), cuando (when), and perce (why). These same words are also used to introduce subordinate clauses, as are words such as si (if), ce (that), car (because), and afin (so that).
Prepositions include a (at, to), de (of, from), ante (before, in front of), pos (after, behind), etc.
Conjunctions include e (and), o (or), and ma (but).
Literature
The main literary works translated into Lingua Franca Nova, are:
Colinas como elefantes blanca ("Hills Like White Elephants") by Ernest Hemingway
Demandas de un laboror lejente (Questions from a Worker Who Reads) by Bertolt Brecht
Frate peti (Little Brother) by Cory Doctorow
La alia de capeles roja ("The Red-Headed League") by Arthur Conan Doyle
La aventuras de Alisia en la pais de mervelias (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll
La cade de la Casa de Usor ("The Fall of the House of Usher") by Edgar Allan Poe
La jigante egoiste ("The Selfish Giant") by Oscar Wilde
La prinse peti (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Leteras de la tera (Letters from the Earth) by Mark Twain
Re Lear (King Lear) by William Shakespeare
Tra la miror, e lo cual Alisia trova a ultra (Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll
Un canta de natal (A Christmas Carol) by Charles Dickens
Wini-la-Pu (Winnie-the-Pooh) by Alan Alexander Milne
The first original novel published in Lingua Franca Nova was La xerca per Pahoa ["the search for Pahoa"], written by Vicente Costalago; Publishing started in 2020 (internet) and 2021 (book). The second original book published was La marcia nonconoseda, also by the same author. |
15585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel | Camel | Camels are a mammal of the Camelidae family. Camels form the genus Camelus. There are three living species of camels. Best-known are the dromedary (one hump) and bactrian (two humps) camels.
The camelids, as a family, include the "New World" camelids: the llama, the alpaca, the guanaco, and the vicuna.
The earliest known camel, called Protylopus, lived in North America 40 to 50 million years ago, during the Eocene. It was about the size of a rabbit and lived in the open woodlands of what is now South Dakota.
Habitat and adaptation
Camels live in deserts, where it is hot and dry. Camels have adapted and found ways to help them survive in deserts. They have a thick coat of hair that protects them from the heat in the day, and keeps them warm at night. Their large feet spreads their weight on the sand when they are walking. When there is food and water, a camel can eat and drink large amounts of it and store it as fat in the hump. Then, when there is no food or water, the camel uses the fat for energy, and the hump becomes small and soft. A camel's waste contains very little water. Even the water from the camel's breath flows back into its mouth. The camels have bushy eyebrows that don't let the sand go in their eyes in a sandstorm. It has a long slender neck in order to reach high leaves such as palm trees, and rubbery patches on the belly and knees to protect the skin when kneeling and sitting on the hot sand. These form after five years of age.
A camel has a naturally adapted temperature regulation - it can change its bodily temperature by six degrees Celsius either way.
It has two sets of eyelashes, closing muscles in the nasal passages, hairy ears and tough, leathery skin to protect the camels skin in sandstorms. It has thick rubbery lips to eat dry, prickly plants and a large, haired tail to swat pests such as mosquitos and flies.
Life
Camels live in groups, with one male, many females, and their young calves or calf. They are animals that use their hooves.
Reproduction
An unborn camel gestates about 9 to 11 months. There is usually one calf per birth. A camel calf can run only a few hours after it is born. Calves are weaned to when they are about 1 year old.
Diet
In the desert, people feed camels with grass, grains, wheat and oats. When camels are travelling in the desert, food is often very hard to find. So the animal might have to live on dried leaves, seeds, and thorny twigs (without hurting their mouths). If there is not any regular food, camels will eat anything.
Digestion
Camels are ruminants, which have a two-part cycle in their eating. The first stomach ferments the food for a time. Then, this food (or cud) returns to the camel's mouth, and the camel chews it again. Then the camel swallows the cud and it goes to the other parts of the stomach to be completely digested. The digestion is done mainly by microorganisms in the stomachs.
This adaptation means they can eat food which may not be very nutritious, but they get everything possible out of it. Ruminants are a very successful group of mammals, and this double-stomach arrangement is one of their key adaptations. Most of them eat fairly tough plant material.
Camels and humans
Camels have been domesticated by humans for about 5000 years. They are used for riding and to carry things, and for meat, milk and wool.
As domesticated animals they are used in Africa, Asia, and since the 19th century also in Australia. About 900-1000 wild Bactrian Camels still live in China, Tibetan Plateau and Mongolia. There are no wild dromedaries anymore, but there are escaped domestic dromedaries in Australia. Today there are dromedaries living wild in the outback in Australia. |
51859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation | Concatenation | Concatenation is a simple concept from linguistics, mathematics and computer science. It is a way of making a new word (or string), by joining two (or more) other strings. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In most languages if we write x = "snow" + "ball", then the value of x will be "snowball". But to do the same in SQL we would write "snow"||"ball". |
976489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Dubois | Camp Dubois | Camp Dubois is near present-day Wood River, Illinois. It served as the winter camp and launch-point for the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. |
305573 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinopterus | Darwinopterus | Darwinopterus (meaning "Darwin's wing") is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after Charles Darwin. It is the first known pterosaur to display features of both long-tailed (rhamphorhynchoid) and short-tailed (pterodactyloid) pterosaurs. Darwinopterus is a transitional fossil between the two groups.
Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been found, all collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates to the Middle Jurassic, 160 million years ago (mya). The type species, D. modularis, was described in February 2010.
Two additional species, D. linglongtaensis and D. robustodens, were described from the same fossil beds in December 2010 and June 2011, respectively.
The specimens showed sexual dimorphism: the males had crests on their heads, and narrower hips than the females.
Mosaic features
This genus, and its near relatives, show a combination of 'primitive' (basal) and 'advanced' (derived) pterosaurian features. This is characteristic of transitional fossils ('missing links'), and is called modular evolution or mosaic evolution.
Darwinopterus had long tails and other features of rhamphorhynchoids, they also had distinct pterodactyloid features, such as long vertebrae in the neck and a single skull opening in front of the eyes.
Eggs
The specimen preserved along with an egg gave information on the reproductive strategies of Darwinopterus and pterosaurs in general.
Like the eggs of later pterosaurs and modern reptiles, the eggs of Darwinopterus had a parchment-like, soft shell. In modern birds, the eggshell is hardened with calcium carbonate, completely shielding the embryo from the outside environment. Soft-shelled eggs are permeable to water, and allow significant amounts to be absorbed into the egg during development. Eggs of this type are more vulnerable to the elements and are typically buried in soil.
David Unwin, a co-author of the paper, suggested that Darwinopterus probably laid many small eggs at a time and buried them. Juveniles could fly upon hatching, and required little to no parental care.
These results imply that reproduction in pterosaurs was more like that in modern reptiles and significantly differed from reproduction in birds. |
139149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt%20latency | Interrupt latency | In Realtime Operating Systems (RTOS), interrupt latency is the time between the generation of an interrupt by a device (or a peripheral) and servicing the device which generated the interrupt. For many operating systems (OS), the OS code is programmed so that devices are serviced as soon as the device's interrupt handler is executed. Interrupt latency depends on the CPU, interrupt controllers, interrupt masking, and the operating system's (OS) "interrupt handling methods". |
218964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dutruel | Richard Dutruel | Richard Dutruel (born 24 December 1972) is a former French football player. He has played for France national team. |
194478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto%20Tanaka | Makoto Tanaka | is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Tanaka was born in Shizuoka on August 8, 1975. After graduating from Shimizu Commercial High School, he joined J1 League club Jubilo Iwata in 1994. From 1997, he became a regular player as center back and central player in golden era in the club history. The club won many title 1997, 1999, 2002 J1 League, 1998 J.League Cup and 2003 Emperor's Cup. In Asia, the club won the champions 1998-99 Asian Club Championship and the 2nd place 1999-00 and 2000-01 Asian Club Championship. He left the club end of 2008 season for generational change. He moved to J2 League club Avispa Fukuoka in 2009. The club won the 3rd place in 2010 and was promoted to J1 League. He retired end of the 2011 season.
In July 1996, Tanaka was selected the Japan U-23 national team for 1996 Summer Olympics. He played as center back of 3 back defender in all 3 matches. Although Japan won 2 matches, Japan lost at First round. At this time, Japan won Brazil in first game. It was known as "Miracle of Miami" (maiaminoQi Ji ) in Japan.
On April 25, 2004, Tanaka debuted for Japan national team against Hungary. After the debut, he played many matches as center back. At 2004 Asian Cup, he played all 6 matches and Japan won the champions. In 2005, he also played many matches including 2006 World Cup qualification and 2005 Confederations Cup. In 2006, he was selected Japan for 2006 World Cup. But he left the team for injury before the World Cup. He played 32 games for Japan until 2006. |
510073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20McMorris%20Rodgers | Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Cathy McMorris Rodgers (born May 22, 1969) is the U.S. Representative for Washington's 5th congressional district since 2005. She chairs the Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives, and was the vice-chair of the House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2013. McMorris Rodgers is a member of the Republican Party.
McMorris Rodgers was born on May 22, 1969 in Salem, Oregon. She studied at Pensacola Christian College and at University of Washington. She is married to Brian Rodgers. They have three children. |
154057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshone%2C%20Idaho | Shoshone, Idaho | Shoshone is a city in Idaho in the United States. |
296192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarsh | Lamarsh | Lamarsh is a village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 177 people living in Lamarsh. |
849058 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namps-Maisnil | Namps-Maisnil | Namps-Maisnil is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. |
250329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine%20Bergmann-Pohl | Sabine Bergmann-Pohl | Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (born 20 April 1946) is a German conservative politician. She was the last head of state of East Germany from 5 April to 2 October 1990. On 3 October, East and West Germany were reunited.
She was born in Eisenach and studied medicine. She joined the CDU in 1981 and, after East Germany's only free elections, held in March 1990, became a member of the Volkskammer. On 5 April 1990 she became the President of the Volkskammer and, as the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic had been abolished, head of state of East Germany - the only woman to hold the post.
She met with former United States President Ronald Reagan in East Berlin before reunification and said "Mr. President, we have much to thank you for."
Upon reunification she was named a Minister Without Portfolio. She was Federal Minister for Special Affairs from 1990 to 1991, and Under-Secretary of State for Health between 1991 and 1998. She also became a member of the Bundestag.
She retired from the Bundestag in September 2002. She is a Lutheran. |
265001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatour%20pour%20la%20fin%20du%20temps | Quatour pour la fin du temps | Quatuor pour la fin du temps is a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. In English -speaking countries it is often called by the English title Quartet for the End of Time. The piece is written for an unusual combination of four instruments: clarinet (in B-flat), violin, cello, and piano. There are 8 movements. It takes about 50 minutes to perform. The work was first performed in unusual circumstances in 1941. It is a very important work in the history of 20th century classical music.
Composition and first performance
There was a special reason why Messiaen wrote this work for an unusual combination of instruments. In 1940, when World War II was being fought, Germany invaded France. Messiaen was captured by the German army and he was held as a prisoner of war. While being taken to the prisoner of war camp, Messiaen talked to another prisoner, Henri Akoka, who was a clarinettist. Messiaen showed him the sketches for a clarinet piece he was writing called Abime des oiseaux. Two other professional musicians were also among the prisoners: Jean le Boulaire, a violinist and Etienne Pasquier, a cellist. Messiaen composed the Quatuor for these three musicians with himself at the piano. The combination of these four instruments is unusual, although Paul Hindemith had written a work for the same combination in 1938.
The quartet was given its first performance in Gorlitz, Germany (now called Zgorzelec in Poland) on 15 January 1941. The audience consisted of about four hundred prisoners of war. There were German prison officers sitting in front. The music must have seemed strange to the audience, but they all listened politely. Shortly after this Messiaen was released from prison and went back to France.
Inspiration
Messiaen was inspired by the words in the Bible where the angel says "There shall be time no longer". These words have another meaning in relation to the music, because Messiaen does not write music with a regular number of beats in a bar. Like The Rite of Spring, the length of the bars keep changing. Messiaen had heard enough of soldiers marching to a regular one-two-three-four-one-two-three-four during the war. His rhythms in this music develop from little tiny rhythmic patterns.
Structure
The work is in eight movements.
The first movement is called "Liturgie de cristal" ("Chyrstal liturgy") and describes the birds waking up. All four instruments play this movement.
The second movement is "Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
"Song for the Angel who announces the end of time". It is played by the full quartet, although the clarinet does not play in the central section.
The third movement is called "Abime des oiseaux" ("Abyss of birds") and is just played by the clarinet. It is extremely slow and the clarinettist needs a lot of breath control.
The fourth movement is "Intermede" ("Interlude") and is played by the violin, cello, and clarinet.). It is fast and lively.
The fifth movement is "Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus ("Praise to the eternity of Jesus"). It is played by the cello accompanied by the piano who just plays chords. It is again extremely slow and the cellist needs good bow control.
The sixth movement is called "Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes" ("Dance of the Fury, for the seven trumpets"), played on all four instruments. They play in unison (the same notes) nearly all the way through.
The seventh movement is called "Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps" ("Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time"), played by the full quartet. Some of the music from the second movement is repeated. We hear the angel being covered by the rainbow.
The eighth movement is "Louange a l'Immortalite de Jesus" ("Praise to the immortality of Jesus"), for violin and piano. We hear the ascent of man to his god. The violin finishes on a very high harmonic note.
In the long preface at the front of the score Messiaen writes a short introduction to the music theory theory of his music. He describes the rhythms he uses and how they relate to one another. However, at the end, he says that it is not necessary to read all about his theory in order to perform the piece. |
122919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%20Free%20Software%20Guidelines | Debian Free Software Guidelines | The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) is a set of guidelines (rules) that the Debian Project uses to decide whether a software license is a free software license, which is used to decide whether a piece of software can be included in Debian. The DFSG is part of the Debian Social Contract.
The guidelines
Free redistribution.
Inclusion of source code.
Allowing for modifications and derived works.
Integrity of the author's source code
No discrimination against persons or groups.
No discrimination against fields of endeavor, like commercial use.
The license needs to apply to all to whom the program is redistributed.
License must not be specific to Debian.
License must not contaminate other software.
The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses thought of as free.
History
The DFSG was first published together with the first version of the Debian Social Contract in July 1997. The primary authors were Bruce Perens and several other Debian developers at the time.
Application
Software
Most discussions about the DFSG happen on the debian-legal mailing list. When a Debian Developer first uploads a package to be included in Debian, the ftpmaster team checks the software licenses and decides whether they follow the DFSG's rules. The team sometimes discusses with the debian-legal list in difficult cases.
Non-software content
The DFSG is focused on software, but in June 2004 the Debian project decided to use the same rules on software documentation, multimedia data and other content. The non-software content of Debian began to follow the DFSG more strictly in Debian 4.0 (released in April 2007) and following releases. |
735274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauteng | Gauteng | Gauteng ( ; ; Sotho: Gauteng ; ; Tsonga: Gauteng/eXilungwini; Ndebele, ; ; ) is a province of South Africa. It is the smallest province by area, though it also has the greatest number of people. Its capital is Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. It also hosts South Africa's executive capital, Pretoria.
Geography
The province borders the provinces of North West (west), the Free State (south), Limpopo (north), and Mpumalanga (east). |
972417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio%20Ojima | Toshio Ojima | Toshio Ojima is a Japanese architect, educator, environmentalist, urban environmental engineer, and urban scientist. He is a doctor of engineering. Born in Toyama Prefecture. At Waseda University, he worked on education and research on the architectural and urban environment, and put his research results into practice. |
807740 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20County%2C%20Tennessee | Wayne County, Tennessee | Wayne County is a county located in Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, 16,232 people lived here. Its county seat is Waynesboro. |
22519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%201812 | War of 1812 | The War of 1812 was fought between the British Empire and the United States from 1812 to 1815 on land in North America and at sea. The British forces were helped by Canadian militia (volunteers) and Native Americans because British soldiers were busy fighting Napoleon I in Europe.
In nearly every battle, the British defeated the attacking American forces. The war increased nationalism in both Canada and the United States.
Causes
One reason given by Americans for declaring war was that the British were bothering American ships. The British claimed to be looking for British sailors who had deserted. Many British sailors deserted from the
miserable conditions and the harsh discipline. Originally, many of the sailors had been pressed into service. It was the practice of the British to arrest any man they found on a street and to force him to serve on their ships. Many British sailors who escaped signed on as crew aboard American merchant ships. The British claim was somewhat true.
In 1807, an American ship was boarded and then fired on, which created outrage among the American public. The British were also seizing American sailors at sea and forcing them to serve in the navy.
The numbers of American seamen pressed into British service is not well known and may have been greatly exaggerated. The British were also sponsoring Native American territories in the Midwest to stop the United States from expanding westward. That made 10,000 Native Americans fight for the British.
Napoleon I started the French invasion of Russia in 1812, just as the war started in North America. The Americans thought that the British would be busy fighting the French during the Napoleonic Wars to do much in North America.
The war
Fighting began when the United States started to attack the Canadian provinces in 1812. However, the British and the Canadians successfully defended their borders. In 1813, British and American ships fought in the Battle of Lake Erie. Americans under Oliver Hazard Perry won, which gave them control of Lake Erie. American forces raided and burned Toronto, which was then called York.
In 1814, Napoleon I abdicated the French throne. That freed up experienced British troops to be sent to North America. They burned the unfinished Washington, DC, and also attacked Baltimore. An American lawyer, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem about the Battle of Baltimore. The poem was later used to give the words to a song that later became the US national anthem: "The Star Spangled Banner." The war ended in 1815. The British attacked New Orleans but were stopped by the Americans under General Andrew Jackson.
Unknown by both sides, a peace treaty had already been signed.
On July 2, 1812, the Cuyahoga Packet, an American ship, was captured by Canadian Lieutenant Frederic Rolette in the Detroit River.
On July 12, 1812, Americans from Detroit won offensives in Upper Canada and were led by William Hull.
On July 17, 1812, a force of British troops, French voyageurs, and Indians captured Fort Mackinac, in Michigan territory. That victory brought more Native American support. The British got control of Mackinac Island and northern Michigan.
In the Siege of Detroit (August 15-16, 1812), Americans led by Commander William Hull resisted the British troops of Isaac Brock and their allies Tecumseh's Confederacy. Seven Americans died. When Hull surrendered Detroit, 1600 American militia were freed and escorted south by the Canadians to protect them from Tecumseh's Confederacy. It is estimated that over 582 American soldiers were imprisoned in Quebec.
On August 19, 1812, the ships of USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere fought a battle about 400 miles (650 km) southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The USS Constitution won.
On October 13, 1812, British defenders under Major General Isaac Brock attacked American occupation forces at the Battle of Queenston Heights. Brock died, and Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe took command.
Peace
The two countries signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the war, on December 24, 1814 in Belgium. Fighting continued into January 1815 because the forces did not know about the treaty, but no great changes took place afterward. The British stopped impressing sailors because the Napoleonic Wars had been finished.
Most Americans heard of the victory in the Battle of New Orleans before they heard of the treaty. The Federalist Party, which had opposed the war, became disliked as pro-British and soon disappeared.
Winner
From the British perspective, the War of 1812 was a minor sideshow. The Americans called it their victorious "Second War for Independence". The British remembered it as the Americans trying to take advantage of their being involved in a war against the French Empire and paid no attention to American grievances.
In Canada, the War of 1812 was an unwanted war. It concerned the distant capitals of Washington, DC, and London, not them. In Lower Canada, now Quebec, it was considered an Anglo-Saxon war. In Quebec there was little love for the British, but the British had guaranteed their right to speak French. Since they did not know what would happen if the Americans took over, they chose the lesser evil and supported the British.
Upper Canada (later part of the Province of Ontario) had been settled by American Loyalists who fled after the Revolutionary War. They had little love of their former countrymen in the US but had become outnumbered by Americans who later came north to settle. When the Americans attempted to invade Canada, the Canadian militias were eager to defend their homeland.
In US history, the War of 1812 is the most obscure conflict. The average American remembers very little about the war. Some may remember The Star Spangled Banner, the Burning of Washington, or the Battle of New Orleans. Otherwise, it is a little-understood conflict. The issues are complex. Most scholars would agree it was fought over maritime issues. Since the British Navy was then the most powerful in the world, it was easier to attack the British on land by invading Canada. Former US President Thomas Jefferson predicted the "acquisition of Canada, will be a mere matter of marching."
British who knew about the little war felt that they had won, no matter what Americans thought. Canadians kept their independence from the US and so felt that they had won. The Americans felt they won although they lost in Canada since they lost none of their territory, repelled the invasion of Maryland, were free to fight the Indians without British interference, and were no longer impressed on the high seas. Of all three, the British are perhaps the happiest because they have completely forgotten about the war. |
939826 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Rosen%20Inc. | Harry Rosen Inc. | Harry Rosen Inc. is a Canadian retail chain with 17 luxury men's clothing stores. Harry Rosen operate for 40 percent of the Canadian market in clothes for man in 2008.
The company was founded by Harry Rosen in 1954. In 2009, Harry Rosen opened their own website. Shipping is limited to Canadian addresses. |
355889 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Nelson | Ben Nelson | Earl Benjamin "Ben" Nelson (born May 17, 1941) is a former U.S. Senator from Nebraska and member of United States Democratic Party. Before that he was 37th Governor of Nebraska. He was born in McCook, Nebraska. |
209617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20Capitols | Washington Capitols | The Washington Capitols were a basketball that played in the NBA from 1946 to 1951, when it folded (stopped being a team). They went to the NBA Finals in 1949, when they were beaten by the Minneapolis Lakers. Their coach was Red Auerbach, and their players include Bob Feerick and Horace McKinney. |
576871 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arre%20%28river%29 | Arre (river) | The Arre is a river in southeastern France, in the Gard department in the Occitanie region. It is a right tributary of the Herault river.
Geography
The Arre river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Le Vigan in the Gard department.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Le Vigan
Course
The Arre starts in the commune of Alzon, Gard department in the Cevennes National Park between the places called Roc de Berdu, Boucaret and Case Vieille, at an altitude of about . From here, the river flows in general to the east.
The Arre joins, as a right tributary, the Herault river in the commune Roquedur, near the small town of Pont d'Herault (commune of Saint-Andre-de-Majencoules), at an altitude of about .
The river flows through the Gard department, in the Occitanie region, and through a total of 9 communes: Alzon, Arre, Arrigas, Aumessas, Aveze, Bez-et-Esparon, Molieres-Cavaillac, Saint-Andre-de-Majencoules, Le Vigan.
Main tributaries
The only important tributary of the Arre is the Coudoulous, a left tributary long. |
626215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyukagha%20Hajiyev | Boyukagha Hajiyev | Boyukagha Hajiyev (, (20 April 1958 - 16 March 2018) was an Azerbaijani professional footballer and football manager.
In 1999, he was appointed as a head coach of Araz Nakhchivan but club was dissolved a year later. In 2005, he worked in Azerbaijan national football team, assisting Vagif Sadygov.
In 2006, he returned to Azerbaijan and worked as president consultant at FC Baku.
Death
In February 2018, Hajiyev suffered a heart attack which left him hospitalized for a month. He died on 16 March 2018 from heart attack-related complications at the age of 59.
Achievements
Azerbaijan Premier League: (2005-06, 2011-12, 2012-13)
Azerbaijan Cup: 2012-13, 2013-14
Individual
Shohrat Order: 2012
Statistics
Information correct as of match played 31 August 2014. Only competitive matches are counted. |
888687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundorf | Bundorf | Bundorf is a municipality in Hassberge in Bavaria in Germany. |
734271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland%20County%2C%20Missouri | Scotland County, Missouri | Scotland County is a county in Missouri, United States. The county seat is Memphis. In 2020, 4,716 people lived there. The county was organized on January 29, 1841, and named for Scotland. |
742660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20outbreak%20of%20March%202%E2%80%933%2C%202020 | Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020 | On the night of March 2, 2020, and into the morning of March 3, a series of large tornadoes touched down across middle Tennessee, including a tornado that impacted downtown Nashville and one confirmed touchdown in Western Tennessee between Bradford and Skullbone. 25 people have been confirmed dead, at least 150 are injured, and more than 70,000 people lost power in the storm.
The path of the Nashville tornado was very similar to the one that hit East Nashville in 1998. Tornadoes were also reported in southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky.
Governor Bill Lee declared a state of emergency for all of Tennessee. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the state on March 6. |
289447 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20Chess%20Club | Manhattan Chess Club | The Manhattan Chess Club is the second-oldest chess club in the United States (after the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco). The club was founded in 1877 and permanently closed in 2002. |
116899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Scotsman | The Scotsman | The Scotsman is a daily newspaper from Scotland, United Kingdom. It has recently been changed to a compact form, but the Sunday version remains a broadsheet |
18690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20flytrap | Venus flytrap | The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant (a plant that eats small animals, such as insects). Carnivorous plants grow in soil that has little nitrogen. They get nitrogen from the insects they trap. This nitrogen is used to make intravenous food like proteins and fats.
The Venus flytrap is one of a very small group of plants that can snap shut very quickly. When an insect or spider crawls along the leaves and touches a hair, the trap closes only if a different hair is touched within twenty seconds of the first touch. The two-touch trigger means that little energy is wasted on things that are not food.
Appearance
The Venus flytrap is a small plant, with small leaves. Its clam-shaped leaves look rather like flowers, and so they attract insects. When they are open, they are red and smell sweet. They have stiff hairs on each edge. Inside the leaves, there are very sensitive, tiny hairs which cause the leaves to snap shut when they are touched. Two hairs must be touched to make the leaves close. This makes it more likely that the thing that touched its hair is living.Then it secretes juices to digest the insect
Nutrition
The Venus flytrap feeds on insects, such as ants, beetles, woodlice, worms, flies, grasshoppers, and moths.
First it traps the insect inside its leaves, and then lets out a liquid that helps digest the trapped animal. The plant consumes the insect and takes the nitrogen from the insect's body.
The Venus flytrap makes sugar by photosynthesis. The insects give it nutrients which it cannot get from the waterlogged soil. With the nutrients it can build up enzymes and other molecules which need trace elements as well as sugars and amino acids.
House plants
Venus flytraps were first discovered in North America on the coast of North and South Carolina, where it grows wild near the Cape Fear River. However, people anywhere can grow Venus flytraps in pots. Venus flytraps in pots need water and soil without calcium or nitrogen in it. It is named after the Roman goddess of love, Venus. |
1025104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej%20Stryjkowski | Maciej Stryjkowski | Maciej Stryjkowski was a Polish historian.
In 1577, he wrote an epic poem On the beginnings of the famed nation of Lithuania (...), it was not published until after his death. He died around the year 1593. |
630558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley | Bradley | Bradley (formerly North Kankakee) is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois. It has a population of about 15,000 people. |
686659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Sweet | Robert W. Sweet | Robert Workman Sweet (October 15, 1922 - March 24, 2019) was an American jurist. He was a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1978 to 1991. He was born in Yonkers, New York. Sweet was nominated by President Jimmy Carter.
Sweet died on March 24, 2019 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho from pneumonia, aged 96. |
869936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood%20Hungama | Bollywood Hungama | Bollywood Hungama (previously known as IndiaFM or IndiaFM.com) is a Bollywood entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000. The website provides news related to the Indian film industry, particularly Bollywood, film reviews and box office reports. Launched on 15 June 1998, the website was originally named "IndiaFM.com". It changed its name to "Bollywood Hungama" in 2008. Bollywood Hungama release their images under the CC-BY-3.0 license. |
764805 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Heidecker | Tim Heidecker | Timothy Richard Heidecker (; born February 3, 1976) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. He is best known as one half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric, along with Eric Wareheim. They are known for creating the television shows Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories.
Heidecker was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. |
266994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades%20National%20Park | Everglades National Park | Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year.
Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone.
UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976 and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979. |
471165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Club | Canadian Club | Canadian Club (also commonly known as just C.C.) is a Canadian brand of whisky. Canadian Club was created by Gooderham and Worts. It is currently being produced by Beam Suntory.
History
Canadian Club started being made in 1858. The first distillery was created in Walkerville, Ontario. They decided to create the distillery in Walkerville because of the good quality of the local grains that were there.
The whisky was popular in the late 19th century in gentlemen's clubs of Canada and the United States. It was known as "Club Whisky" because of this. After it became very popular, American distillers decided to petition to include the word "Canada" on the bottle to identify it from their competing whiskies. By doing this, they thought that it would stop the popularity of the whisky. However, this made the whisky even more exclusive. In 1889, Walker changed the label and added the word "Canadian" to the top of the label. In 1890, the label was changed again, with "Canadian" being moved down from the top of the label and incorporated into the name of the whisky.
During the Prohibition years, one of Canadian Club's most important clients was gangster Al Capone. He would smuggle thousands of cases of Canadian Club through a route from Windsor to Detroit.
The whisky has received royal warrants from Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V, George VI, and Elizabeth II. Hiram Walker & Sons were the only North American distiller to receive a royal warrant. |
366407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/540 | 540 | Events
Emperor Kimmei, reign of 29th emperor of Japan starts (540-571)
Vitiges of the Ostrogoths surrendered to the Byzantine army. |
684191 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkdale%2C%20Arkansas | Parkdale, Arkansas | Parkdale is a city in the US state of Arkansas. |
565904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raasay | Raasay | Raasay is an island in the Inner Hebrides near Skye. The highest elevation is 444 m (1,457 ft) at Dun Caan. Raasay has a population of 161 people as of 2017. |
136727 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan%20maritime%20trespassing | India–Pakistan maritime trespassing | India-Pakistan maritime trespassing refers to the frequent trespassing and violation of respective national territorial waters of India and Pakistan in peacetime. Most trespassing is common to Pakistani and Indian fishermen operating along the coastline of the Indian state of Gujarat and the Pakistani province of Sindh within the disputed region of Rann of Kachchh. |
806952 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Homme | Josh Homme | Joshua Michael Homme ( ; born May 17, 1973) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the founder, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age. |
101862 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajoux | Ajoux | Ajoux is a town and commune of the Ardeche departement, in the southern part of France. |
451056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter%20D%C3%BCrr | Hans-Peter Dürr | Hans-Peter Durr (October 7, 1929 - May 18, 2014) was a German physicist. He worked on nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Munich. |
616419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bandy | George Bandy | George Bandy (February 7, 1945 - January 16, 2018) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 83rd District, being first elected in 1994. He was born in Opelika, Alabama.
Bandy served on the Lee County Commission, and served as president pro tempore of the Opelika City Council. He has also served as chairman of the Alabama Democratic Conference.
Bandy died on January 16, 2018 in a hospital in Macon, Georgia of pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 72. |
153056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Any-Martin-Rieux | Any-Martin-Rieux | Any-Martin-Rieux is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France. |
711371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Ceau%C8%99escu | Elena Ceaușescu | Elena Ceausescu (; nee Lenuta Petrescu; 7 January 1916 - 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician. She was the wife of Nicolae Ceausescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania.
She and her husband Nicolae were publicly executed by a firing squad on 25 December 1989. |
972156 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky%20Animation | Sparky Animation | Sparky Animation is a Singaporean animation company. They focus on movie and television. |
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