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580553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochran%20County%2C%20Texas | Cochran County, Texas | Cochran County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 2,547 people lived there. The county seat is Morton. |
307502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysical%20chemistry | Biophysical chemistry | Biophysical chemistry is the study of biological systems. It looks for explanations of the various phenomena in biological systems in terms of either the molecules that make up the system or the supra-molecular structure of these systems.
Biophysical chemists use various tools used in physical chemistry to probe the structure of biological systems. These tools include spectroscopic methods like nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and X-ray diffraction. For example, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 was based on x-ray diffraction studies of ribosomes.
Biophysical chemists study protein structure and the functional structure of cell membranes. For example, enzyme action can be explained in terms of the shape of a pocket in the protein molecule that matches the shape of the substrate molecule or its modification due to binding of a metal ion. Similarly, biophysical chemists study the structure and function of the biomembranes using model supramolecular structures. These include liposomes or phospholipid vesicles of different compositions and sizes.
The oldest well-known institute for biophysical chemistry is Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen. The Biophysics Department of King's College London is where the X-ray crystallography studies of DNA was done in the early 1950s. |
209230 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20Rapids%2C%20Alberta | Rocky Rapids, Alberta | Rocky Rapids is a hamlet in Brazeau County, Alberta, Canada. It has 300 people.
Business
Rocky Rapids has one store. Most citizens work in Drayton Valley, Alberta. Drayton Valley is about 7 kilometers away.
Education
Children go to school in Drayton Valley. Some may be home schooled. |
727068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuy%20Bravo | Chuy Bravo | Chuy Bravo (born Jesus Melgoza; December 7, 1956 - December 14, 2019) was a Mexican-American actor and comedian, best known as the sidekick of host Chelsea Handler on the talk show Chelsea Lately during its run from 2007 to 2014. He usually provided comedic relief to Handler's show, and was the topic of many of her jokes. He also appeared in some pornographic videos.
Bravo was born in Tangancicuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. He had dwarfism and was 4 feet 3 inches (130 cm) tall. Bravo died of a heart attack caused by gastrointestinal hemorrhage on December 14, 2019 in a Mexico City hospital at the age of 63. |
740827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chase%20Spain | The Chase Spain | The Chase Spain is a upcoming Spanish gameshow from the original British verison of The Chase.
The host of the show will be hosted by Ion Aramendi. The chasers will be Ruth de Andres (female), Erundino Alonso (male), Lilit Manukyan (female) and Paz Herrera (female).
ITV Studios has confirmed that the gameshow. The Chase has been commissioned by TVE-owned LA1 in Spain, becoming the 14th territory to order the show. The show will be produced by Mediacrest.
It is also to return in Israel on KAN 11, where last year it won the award for Best Game Show at the Israeli Television Awards for the second year in a row. KAN has commissioned two further series.
The Chase turned 10 last year having first appeared on UK screens - where it is produced by ITV Studios label Potato - in 2009. During that time, it has regularly won its slot and grown its audience share, making it one of ITV's most successful daytime shows, with more than 1500 episodes.
Since then it has gone on to be commissioned in territories including Australia, Denmark, Germany, and Russia, with six of the 14 international versions produced locally by ITV Studios.
In Germany, the show launched in 2012 in a late-night slot, before being moved to primetime in 2015 where it airs on Das Erste, while in Serbia one in five viewers tune in to watch on RTS1. It launched in Finland on MTV3 in August 2018, where it added +80% to the slot for individuals. |
819961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhime | Dhime | The Dhimay, Dhimaya (Nepal Bhasa: dhimy) or Dhime (dhime) is a drum. The drummer can hit either side of the drum. The dhime is a traditional Newar musical instrument. |
155686 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Paul%2C%20Virginia | St. Paul, Virginia | St. Paul, Virginia is a town in the U.S. state of Virginia. |
650685 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa%20County | Ottawa County | Ottawa County is the name of four counties in the United States:
Ottawa County, Kansas
Ottawa County, Michigan
Ottawa County, Ohio
Ottawa County, Oklahoma |
277473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudstone | Mudstone | A mudstone is a siliciclastic sedimentary rock which has a mixture of silt- and clay-sized particles (at least 1/3 of each). So, a mudstone is a type of mudrock with a more varied grain size than either siltstones or claystones.
Alternatively, some sources say it is a synonym for mudrock.
Claystone
A claystone is a mudrock which does not split easily.
In order for a rock to be a claystone, it must be up to half (50%) clay, whose particles measure less than 1/256th of a millimeter. |
425543 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember%20the%20Time | Remember the Time | "Remember the Time" is a song by Michael Jackson. It was released as the second single from his album Dangerous (1991) on January 14, 1992. It was written by Teddy Riley, Jackson, and Bernard Belle. When the single was released Jackson dedicated the song with love to Diana Ross. The music video is nine minutes long. John Singleton directed it. In 2006 the song was released again. It reached number 2 in the Spanish chart.
Sources
Michael Jackson songs
1992 songs
New jack swing songs
R&B songs |
226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics | Ethics | Ethics is the study of good and bad behaviour. It is one of the main parts of philosophy. Ethics tries to answer questions like:
What actions are good? What actions are evil?
How can we tell the difference?
Are good and evil the same?
How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people?
How do our actions affect others?
Ideas about ethics
When discussing ethics, the philosophy is generally separated into:
thinking about morality,
the involvement of science,
the freedom of people to decide for themselves how to act within their own beliefs.
Morality is what someone thinks or feels is good or bad. There are many different moralities, but they share some things. For example, most people think that murder (killing somebody) is wrong. (compare Exodus 20:13) Some philosophers hope to find more things that moralities share. They think that ethics should use the scientific method to study things that people think are good or bad. Their work can be used to test the fairness of a situation, such as how people should treat each other. An example of this kind of thinking is the categorical imperative. Many countries have laws based on this idea of fairness.
What is ethics used for?
Understanding ethics can help people decide what to do when they have choices. Many philosophers think that doing anything or making any choice is a part of ethics.
Ethics is part of other fields of study in many ways. Here are some ways:
Ethics is part of the study of religion. In religion, people often learn what is good or bad from what they believe about God (or gods). Some important ideas about what is good or bad have come from religion. See Ten Commandments.
Some theories of economics say ethics has to do with money. Money is a big part of most people's lives. Thinking about morality can be important in economics. For example, there is a saying about ethics taken from the Bible that 'the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil' (1 Timothy).The philosophy of Marxism also says that a few people using money in the wrong way can hurt many other people.
Government policy can be affected by what politicians think is ethical. Politicians try to create laws that help everyone do what is right. Political debates happen when the people who make public policy do not agree about what is right.
In work, thinking about ethics can help with hard questions. Work can be like both economics and politics. Workers have to make money and follow laws. But the best way to do both is not always easy to know. The study of this is called business ethics
People like doctors and nurses have to make hard choices about how to care for people. Sometimes the person being cared for, their family or the doctor do not agree what is best for them. Also, choices have to be made if there are enough resources to help all. The study of this is called medical ethics. Similar studies for specific professions include bioethics and legal ethics.
Discussing ethics can also be a way to stop people fighting or starting a war. By talking about ethics, people hope to get what they want without being violent. This works when all people agree that peace is very important. But not everyone agrees about what is right or wrong. So, sometimes anger can make it hard to talk without fighting.
Along with aesthetics ethics forms part of axiology, the philosophy of what people like. |
931964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22No%20Way%20to%20Prevent%20This%22%2C%20Says%20Only%20Nation%20Where%20This%20Regularly%20Happens | "No Way to Prevent This", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens | "No Way to Prevent This', Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" is the title of many articles published by the American news satire organization The Onion about the large amounts of mass shootings in the United States and how not a lot is done in the aftermath of these mass shootings.
Each article is about 200 words long, and talks about a different shooting. The article talks about the location of the shooting and the number of victims, but usually remains the same as to other articles.
A fictional resident, usually of a state in which the shooting did not take place, is quoted as to have said "a terrible tragedy", but "there's nothing anyone can do to stop them".
These articles end by saying that the United States is the "only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years" and that many Americans feel helpless as they have gotten used to the mass shootings. |
652411 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajurveda | Yajurveda | The Yajurveda (Sanskrit: yjurved, , from meaning "prose mantra" and veda meaning "knowledge") is one of the four Vedas, and one of the scriptures of Hinduism. Others are Rigveda, Samaveda, and Atharva Veda. |
268307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qincheng%20Prison | Qincheng Prison | Qincheng Prison () is a maximum-security prison in the Changping District northwest of Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The prison was built in 1958 with aid from the Soviet Union and it is the only prison belonging to the Ministry of Public Security.
The majority of people in prison here are political prisoners. Some of them were participants in the Chinese democracy movement and Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Famous inmates include Jiang Qing, Bao Tong, Dai Qing, as well as Tibetans such as Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama, and Phuntsok Wangyal. Other inmates included many communist cadres who were criticized during the Cultural Revolution, such as Bo Yibo, Peng Zhen, Israel Epstein, Sidney Rittenberg and David Crook. 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was also imprisoned here.
The prison is at the eastern foothill of Yanshan, facing the North China Plain in the east, north and south. The plain is where Qincheng Farm (Qin Cheng Nong Chang ) is, which is part of the prison.
Bibliography
MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals, Mao's Last Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006, pp. 342-345, 416, 435, 442.
Yao Lun, "Qincheng jianyu de laiyou" (Origins of Qincheng Prison), in Sun Mingshan, ed., Lishi shunjian (Moments in History), vol. 2, Beijing: Qunzhong chubanshe, 2001, pp. 51-58. |
828065 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepill%C3%ADn | Cepillín | Ricardo Gonzalez Gutierrez known as Cepillin () (February 7, 1946 - March 8, 2021) was a Mexican clown, singer, television personality and actor. He was born in Monterrey, Mexico. His career lasted from 1977 until his death. He starred in the Televisa program El Show de Cepillin. Cepillin had another show in 1987 called Una sonrisa con Cepillin on Channel 5 of Televisa.
In April 2018, Cepillin endorsed Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for president in the 2018 election.
Cepillin died at a Naucalpan hospital on March 8, 2021 from spinal cancer, aged 75. |
956233 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-August%20Fagerholm | Karl-August Fagerholm | Karl-August Fagerholm (31 December 1901, Siuntio - 22 May 1984, Helsinki) was Speaker of Parliament and three times Prime Minister of Finland (1948-50, 1956-57, and 1958-59). |
62847 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Internationale | The Internationale | "The Internationale" (, ;
,
, , , ) is a very well known communist, socialist, and social democratic/socialist song. While it was originally written in French, it was translated into many other languages, including English. The most famous versions, however, are those in Russian and Chinese.
The French words, written by Eugene Pottier, were originally supposed to be sung to the tune of "La Marseillaise", but a separate tune was created for it by a Belgian named Pierre Degeyter.
The Russian version, written by Arkady Yakolevich Kots () in 1902, was adopted as the national anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) in 1918 and as that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the Soviet Union) in 1922. It stayed like this until 1944, when it was replaced by the State Anthem of the Soviet Union written by Alexander Alexandrov.
The Chinese lyrics were written by Qu Qiubai ().
The song is known by its tune, and its chorus, which in French begins with "" (meaning "It's the final battle").
Original French lyrics
Russian lyrics
Chinese lyrics
Performance
The song has been translated into over 100 languages, making it one of the most translated songs of all time. The song and its translations have been adopted and sung by communists all around the world. In communist countries, it is often sung not just in political party meetings, but also in official gatherings, schools, protests and many other situations. |
469082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax%20community | Climax community | In ecology, climax community is a term for a stable biological community of plants, animals and fungi.
After a process of ecological succession the vegetation in an area reaches a steady state. Its stability is not guaranteed: invasive species and climate change can cause changes. However, relatively, the system is stable.
This equilibrium was thought to occur because the climax community is composed of species best adapted to average conditions in that area. The term is sometimes also applied in soil development.
The idea of a single climatic climax, which is defined in relation to regional climate, originated with Frederic Clements in the early 1900s. The first analysis of succession as leading to something like a climax was written by Henry Cowles in 1899, but it was Clements who used the term "climax" to describe the idealized endpoint of succession. |
767140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Rangarajan | C. Rangarajan | C. Rangarajan or Chakravarthi Rangarajan (born 1932) is an Indian economist. He was the 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He is the former Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. He was a professor in Ahmedabad University. From 1997 to 2003, he was Governor of Andhra Pradesh. |
711704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisp%20River | Twisp River | The Twisp River is a tributary of the Methow River, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is about 26 miles (42 km) long. The name of the river comes from the Okanagan placename [txw@c'p], perhaps meaning "wasp" or "yellowjacket". |
341585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20problems | Hilbert's problems | In 1900, the mathematician David Hilbert published a list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. The list of problems turned out to be very influential. After Hilbert's death, another problem was found in his writings; this is sometimes known as Hilbert's 24th problem today. This problem is about finding criteria to show that a solution to a problem is the simplest possible.
Of the 23 problems, three were unresolved in 2012, three were too vague to be resolved, and six could be partially solved. Given the influence of the problems, the Clay Mathematics Institute formulated a similar list, called the Millennium Prize Problems in 2000.
Summary
The formulation of certain problems is better than that of others.
Of the cleanly-formulated Hilbert problems, problems 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, and 21 have a resolution that is accepted by consensus. On the other hand, problems 1, 2, 5, 9, 15, 18+, and 22 have solutions that have partial acceptance, but there exists some controversy as to whether it resolves the problem.
The solution for problem 18, the Kepler conjecture, uses a computer-assisted proof. This is controversial, because a human reader is unable to verify the proof in reasonable time.
That leaves 16, 8 (the Riemann hypothesis) and 12 unresolved. On this classification 4, 16, and 23 are too vague to ever be described as solved. The withdrawn 24 would also be in this class. 6 is considered as a problem in physics rather than in mathematics.
Table of problems
Hilbert's twenty-three problems are:
Other websites
:Wikilivres:Mathematische Probleme - source texts, documents, translations, media
Listing of the 23 problems, with descriptions of which have been solved
Original text of Hilbert's talk, in German
English translation of Hilbert's Mathematical Problems on Wikisource
Details on the solution of the 18th problem
"On Hilbert's 24th Problem: Report on a New Source and Some Remarks."
The Paris Problems
Hilbert's Tenth Problem page! |
186747 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.Lo | J.Lo | J.Lo is the second studio album by American singer and entertainer Jennifer Lopez. It was released on January 22, 1969 by Epic Records and became her best-selling album. Epic Records released 4 singles to promote the album.
The album was re-released in July 2001. It contained three bonus tracks. Due to usage of slurs such as "nigga", "bitch" and "fuck" in "I'm Real (Murder Remix)", the re-edition has been released with 'Parental Advisory' sticker. Also the album has been released without label, despite strong language and sexual content. |
124209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve%20Myles | Eve Myles | Eve Myles (born 1978 in Ystradgynlais, Powys), is a Welsh actress. She is most known for playing lead characters in Belonging and Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood. |
131137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skating%20rink | Skating rink | A skating rink may refer to:
an ice rink used for ice skating
a roller rink used for roller skating |
457286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruz%20Azul | Cruz Azul | Cruz Azul Futbol Club, A.C., known simply as Cruz Azul (, "Blue Cross"), is a football club from Mexico City, Mexico. It was originally from Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz Azul, Hidalgo.
Cruz Azul is the most successful club in CONCACAF Champions League, The club has won six titles. They are also the third most popular team in Mexico (after Guadalajara and Club America).
Currently this team plays in Estadio Azul in Mexico City.
Honors
Domestic
Mexican Primera Division: 8
1968-69, Mexico 1970, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1978-79, 1979-80, Invierno 1997
Runners-up (10): 1969-70, 1980-81, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1994-95, Invierno 1999. |
458601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaimee%20Foxworth | Jaimee Foxworth | Jaimee Foxworth (born December 17, 1979 in Belleville, Illinois) is an African-American actress and model.
She is best known for her role of Judy Winslow on the ABC/CBS sitcom Family Matters for four seasons (1989-1993). She later became a pornographic actress under the name Crave. |
940340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCS%20Group | NCS Group | NCS Group (also known as NCS Pte Ltd or "NCS", previously known as National Computer Systems) is a multinational information technology company headquartered in Singapore. NCS has over 12,000 staff located in more than 20 cities across Asia Pacific.
History
NCS was founded in 1981 when the Government of Singapore begin to strengthen information technology for both the public and private company.
It was restructured as a commercial entity in 1996 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of SingTel Group in 1997. NCS adopted its current name on 1 November 2003.In 2002, SingTel Aeradio merged with NCS, retaining much of its identity as NCS Communications Engineering (NCS Comms Engg).
In 2008, NCS bought 60% of local rival IT company's shares, Singapore Computer Systems, triggering a buyout of the company.
In 2020, NCS acquires digital services 2359 Media.
Management
In 2005, Chong Yoke Sin became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She resigned in 2007 for personal reasons and Lim Eng took over as the CEO.
Lim retired in 2010 and Chief Operating Officer Chia Wee Boon took over as CEO.
On 1 August 2019, the Singtel Group appointed Ng Kuo Pin as the new CEO of NCS after Chia retired stepped down.
Incident
Corrupt acts for business interests 2022
On 18 March 2022, Goh Sia Choon Jeffrey (sole Director and shareholder of SC Integrated Engineering Pte Ltd at the material time), Goh Hai Chew Edward (Director of NCS Communications Engineering Pte Ltd at the material time), and Lee Wen Han (Project Director of NCS CE at the material time), were charged in Singapore court for corruption practice.
In exchange for advancing the SCI's business interest with NCS CE and its parent company, NCS Group, Jeffrey gave bribe totalling about $96,000 Singapore Dollars in the form of air tickets, hotel stay at Israel, cash money and electronic products to Wen Han and Edward over 19 times between 17 May 2018 and 19 November 2019.
Jeffrey face 19 counts of corruptly giving bribe to Edward and Wen Han in exchange for business interests of SCI with NCS CE and NCS Group. Wen Han and Edward will each face 19 counts of conspiring to corruptly obtain bribe from Jeffrey as an exchange for boosting the business interests.
Corrupt acts for business recommendations 2020
On 24 March 2020, Teo Joo Tye (Senior Technical Services Manager of NCS Group) and Ngiam Chee Chong (Director of Emersion IT Services Pte Ltd), were charged in Singapore court for corruption practice.
Teo Joo Tye accepted bribery from Ngiam Chee Chong, in exchange for Teo to recommend Emersion as a subcontractor of NCS Group to perform IT infrastructure works, relating to 13 contracts that were awarded to Emersion.
NCS employee stealing at IMDA
Soh Jun Sheng, a Malaysian desktop engineer from NCS Group, stole technology equipment worthing more than $62,000 in Singapore Dollars from the Info-Communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) while working under NCS Group. When Soh was working at NCS Group, he was deployed to IMDA for providing IT support and issuing laptops to IMDA employees. He was also allowed to access a few secured rooms at IMDA's office.
Soh owes the debt from gambling, and decided to steal technology equipment from IMDA and sell it at Carousell for profits to pay his gambling debt. While working in IMDA office, he stole 30 Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, 6 iPads, 6 Lenovo monitors, 17 docking stations, 80 Lenovo power adaptors, 25 laptop bags, and 32 Lenovo mice from the office. Soh's burglary act at IMDA was later discovered, an IT associate from NCS Group filed a police report and Soh was arrested on 4 June 2018. The police raided his home and office, and found numerous computer devices and accessories, some of which were belongs to Soh.
The IMDA later file a lawsuit against Soh. On 18 February 2019, Soh pleded guilty to 9 counts of criminal act and was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment.
Sex for contracts scandal
Esther Goh Tok Mui (Director of Business Development of NCS Pte Ltd at the time) was one of the women involved in the sex for contracts scandal with Peter Lim Sin Pang (commissioner of Singapore Civil Defence Force at the time). Between year 2010 and 2011, Esther Goh Tok Mui provided Lim Sin Pang sexual services or oral sex services in exchange for help in boosting the NCS Pte Ltd's business interests with the SCDF. Goh Tok Mui have sexual intercourse with Lim Sin Pang for a total of 7 times between April and November in 2011, at locations including a car park near to the Singapore Indoor Stadium and a HDB flat locate in Clementi.
Peter Lim Sin Pang was caught and arrested on 4 January 2012 by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. He was later expelled by SCDF on 31 Aug 2013, and he was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment for his corruption crime. The contract signed between SCDF and NCS were then reportedly investigated by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Because the incident had exposed, Goh Tok Mui left NCS Pte Ltd and it's unknown if Goh was expelled or resigned.
CHAS computer system error
On 16 February 2019, the Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) released statement stating that there was an error in the computer system, managed by NCS Group, for the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS). The error miscalculated the amount of health care aids applicants could receive through means-testing their income information. Thus, around 1,300 people received lower aids and 6,400 people received higher aids.
The first problem in a result of a CHAS card holder was detected on 24 September 2018 by MOH. NCS Group was informed quickly, which then consider the problem by infrequent network connection problems. Between 9 October 2018 and 2 November 2018, another 5 more error cases were detected and leading into a deeper investigation. In November 2018, NCS Pte Ltd traced the reason of problems to a software version issue used on a server used by the system. The found issue happened during a merging of the system to another government data center in September 2018. The software version issue was resolved to fix an unrelated slow performance issue on 10 October 2018. However, wrong results created between 18 September 2018 and 10 October 2018 stays.
Corrections were then carried out by MOH and NCS Group to estimate the impact on the affected applicants. MOH would then work with grant scheme administrators and healthcare institutions to follow up with notifications and repayment to the affected applicants. MOH reportedly had the intention to recover costs and expenses due to this incident from NCS Group as allowed in the contract between them.
Workers protest at NCS Hub entrance
On 18 October 2022, 9 foreign workers blocked the main entrance of NCS Hub, the company's headquarter in Singapore, and holding up signs protesting against the contractor company they work under for owing salary. Some workers holding signs written "Qian Zhai Huan Qian " (owe money pay money) and one of them holds "Shang Hai Zhong Ji Si Ren You Xian Gong Si " (Shanghai Chong Kee Pte Ltd). The Singapore Police Force received call for assistance at around 1.50pm and deploy police officers to NCS Hub's entrance, the Ministry of Manpower confirms received alerts to the incident by the police. The NCS Group told the Singapore news media, Lianhe Zaobao, that this incident has nothing to do with NCS Group and claimed that it's a conflict between NCS Group's main contractor Shanghai Chong Kee Pte Ltd, and sub-contractor Zhengda Corporation, and the 9 workers who protested are employees under Zhengda Corporation. According to Zhengda Corporation, Shanghai Chong Kee did not make payment for weeks. The latter has since issued two cheques. |
155920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Boston%2C%20Illinois | New Boston, Illinois | New Boston is a city in Illinois in the United States. |
708610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quapaw%2C%20Oklahoma | Quapaw, Oklahoma | Quapaw is a town of Oklahoma in the United States. |
788758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20To%20Varpin | Benedict To Varpin | Benedict To Varpin (24 July 1936 - 8 September 2020) was a New Papua Guinean Roman Catholic prelate. He became a priest in 1971. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bereina, Papua New Guinea from 1979 to 1987. He later became archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang, Papua New Guinea in 1987.
To Varpin died on 8 September 2020, aged 84. |
986624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Arcadian%20Maid | An Arcadian Maid | An Arcadian Maid is a 1910 American silent drama movie directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, and George Nichols. |
673640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelkop%20bowerbird | Vogelkop bowerbird | The Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata), also known as the Vogelkop gardener bowerbird, is a medium-sized, bowerbird of the mountains of the Vogelkop Peninsula at Western New Guinea, Indonesia.
The birds are about 21-35 cm in length, with the females being slightly smaller.
The species is known for their mating method. Males are seen, in order to mate, to build a nest with decorations. The more attractive the nest, the most likely it will attract a mate. |
160449 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%20%28Cyrillic%29 | Ze (Cyrillic) | Ze (Z, z) is the eighth letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It sounds like [z]. It looks like a 3 and can be mixed up with E.
It came from the Greek letter zeta and corresponds to the Roman letter Z. |
759885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson%20County%2C%20Georgia | Atkinson County, Georgia | Atkinson County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, 8,286 people lived there. The county seat is Pearson. |
219534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor%3A%20Vanuatu | Survivor: Vanuatu | Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire (also known as Survivor: Vanuatu for short) was the ninth season of the American reality show Survivor. It was filmed in Summer 2004. The game took place on Vanuatu, a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific.
Survivor: Vanuatu started being shown on TV on September 16, 2004. Also starting that day was Survivor Live, an hour-long Internet talk show hosted by the first Sole Survivor Richard Hatch and Entertainment Tonight correspondent Chris Booker. The talk show was shown every Thursday and Friday on the CBS website. It interviews players from earlier seasons and reviews the players' gameplay.
On December 12, 2004, Chris Daugherty won against Twila Tanner by a vote of 5-2 to become the sole survivor. This seasons became available on DVD on December 5, 2006.
For the first time, not including the season before, All-Stars, there were eighteen players. In the first seven seasons, there were only sixteen. This was the second season where the starting tribes were divided by gender. It was also the first season to have an amputee (Chad Crittenden, who had lost a foot to cancer) and not one, but two open lesbians (motivational speaker Scout Cloud Lee and old Playboy model Ami Cusack).
The season began like Survivor: The Amazon. The tribes were divided by gender. The male tribe was Lopevi, named after one of Vanuatu's volcanic islands; the female tribe was Yasur, named after Mount Yasur. On Day 11, there was a tribal switch like in other seasons, which ended up moving two people from each tribe over to the other tribe.
On Day 20, the tribes were merged (combined) into one tribe. They named the new tribe "Alinta", a name suggested by Scout meaning "people of fire."
Eliza Orlins and Ami Cusack were chosen from this season to return for Survivor: Micronesia as members of the Favorites tribe, where they placed 10th and 11th.
Gameplay
The players were brought into the game at a native gathering, with the natives dividing the group into men and women. The men were clearly worshiped at the ceremony, suggesting they would have better luck in the game. After the ceremony, the men were named the Lopevi tribe, and the women the Yasur tribe, and sent to find their camps in the dark. Lopevi lost the first challenge mainly due to Chris, however, the older men of the tribe started an alliance and worked to vote off one of the younger men, Brook. This would continue through the next two tribal councils that Lopevi took part in. In Yasur, a strong clique started around Ami, and the women that did not fit in were voted out.
The tribes were switched on day 11, mixing the two tribes; later voting only strengthened Ami's alliances. On Day 19, the two tribes, now with 6 women and 4 men, merged into one tribe, which they named "Alinta". The men were quickly targeted at the next three tribal councils, leaving Chris as the only male. By this time, the players in Ami's alliance were her, Julie, and Leann, while Twila and Scout had formed a closer pairing, with Eliza as an outsider among the women. When Chris didn't win the next immunity challenge, Twila brought Chris into a plan to vote out one of Ami's group if they could bring Eliza into their foursome. Chris was successful at this, and Leann was voted out at the next tribal council. Ami and Julie soon followed, even though they had tried to vote off Chris. The final four was Chris, Eliza, Twila, and Scout. Chris won the last two immunity challenges, and took Twila with him into the final two. The jury saw Chris' power to stay in the game with the odds against him, both from the first challenge and as the last man standing, and voted him the Sole Survivor 5-2.
Players
The Total Votes is the number of votes a player got during Tribal Councils where the player is able to be voted out of the game. It does not count the votes they got during the final Tribal Council.
The game
If more than one tribe or player wins reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically if it was teamwork, or where one player won and invited others, the players they invited are in brackets.
John K. had to spend a day with the other tribe for the point of giving immunity to one of them at tribal council that night. He chose Ami because he thought she was safe even without immunity.
When Eliza won the reward challenge, she got her own car and the players who finished second and third in the challenge were able to join her at a spa retreat. |
764015 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone%20van%20de%20Kraats | Simone van de Kraats | Simone van de Kraats (born November 15, 2000) is a Dutch water polo player. She plays for the Netherlands women's national water polo team. She participated at the 2019 World Water Polo Championship.
Career
She plays for Ede Polar Bears. She previously played for De Waterkip. With Polar Bears, she won the Dutch championship in 2018. |
152193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiacq-Viellepinte | Pontiacq-Viellepinte | Pontiacq-Viellepinte is a commune of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement in the southwestern part of France. |
141399 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakori%20%281967%20movie%29 | Chakori (1967 movie) | Chakori is a Pakistani Urdu movie. This movie was released on March 23, 1967, on Eid-ul-Azha Day in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The movie was directed by Captain Ehtisham. It was Nadeem Baig's and Shabana's debut movie. |
440829 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multia | Multia | Multia is a municipality in Central Finland. About 1,800 people lived there in January 2014. Petajavesi is next to the municipalities of Keuruu, Petajavesi, Saarijarvi, Uurainen and Ahtari. Multia is established 1868. Multia is famous for it's Ice Kicksled World Championship held every winter. |
88122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing%20in%20Ancient%20Greece | Clothing in Ancient Greece | Clothing in Ancient Greece was usually made out of big rectangular pieces of cloth. The cloth was sewn very little, or not at all. The cloth was then put around the body and held in place by belts, fibulae, or other fastenings. The cloth was made from linen or wool.
Types of clothing
Peplos
The peplos (plural: peploi) was a garment worn by women of ancient Greece. The peplos was a large square piece of cloth. The cloth was then folded over to create a double layer, called apoptygma, in the upper part of the body. The cloth is then folded around the body, and fastened over each shoulder.
The ionic or laconic peplos was open on the side of the body, while the doric peplos was sewn shut like a tube. The peplos was worn in such a way that the opening was on the right side of the body. Usually a belt was worn over the peplos. The belt could be worn over or under the apoptygma.
In Greece, the peplos was mostly worn before the 5th century.
Chiton
The chiton was made from a large square piece of cloth. It was worn by both women and men.
The doric chiton was very simple. It was made with a large piece of cloth (usually wool). The cloth was folded and put around the body. It was fastened on the shoulders using brooches and then allowed to fall into folds. A belt, often called a gurdle, was worn around the waist to hold the dress in place.
The ionic chiton was sewn like a tube. The material, usually linen, was folded and sewn with holes left for the head and arms. A belt was also worn on the Ionic style to keep it in position and to make it fall into folds from the waist down.
Himation
The himation (plural: himatia) was a big cloth that was used as a cloak. It was worn by both men and women. The himation was usually put from the back over the left shoulder; the other part of the himation was put under the right arm, and then around the front of the body. The himation was so long that it went down to the knees, or it could also be longer.
The himation was usually made from a lighter cloth, so that it was used as a cloak against warm weather.
Chlamys
The chlamys (plural: chlamydes) was a usually shorter cloak. It was a piece of cloth put over the left shoulder, and fastened over the right shoulder. The chlamys was typically worn by men or soldiers.
Women's clothing
Women in Ancient Greece wore long dresses and cloaks. They wore the peplos and chiton, and the himation.
Cosmetics and make-up
Cosmetics and make-up were not used in Ancient Greece. White lead was used to whiten the skin. White skin for women was seen as a sign of beauty. Juice made from alkanet roots was used to give the cheeks a rosy colour (like rouge). Eye shadow (probably made from ashes) was not used. Lipstick was not used. Perfumes were also important.
Male clothing
Men's clothing was even simpler than women's (if anything). The most important piece of clothing was a shorter version of the chiton, which was also belted at the waist. The top shoulder was often left bare if the man was exercising or doing hard work. The himation was also used, especially on long journeys. A long robe could also be worn with the right shoulder left uncovered. Men usually wore no clothes training for military reasons.They wore no clothes when exercising
Shoes
At home people went without shoes, but in the streets or when travelling they wore leather sandals. These were very simple and usually made to measure - the man or woman went to the cobbler's shop and put his foot on a piece of leather, and the sole was cut out round the foot. The sole was attached to the foot by leather thongs tied across the instep and round the ankle. |
165133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season | 1990 Atlantic hurricane season | The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1990, and lasted until November 30, 1990. However, storms can form outside these dates. For example, Tropical Depression One formed on May 25. This season was very active with two depressions, six tropical storms, seven hurricanes, and one major hurricane. At that time it was the most active hurricane season.
This season was less deadly and damaging than other seasons, with only 116 deaths, and $150 million. The few deaths and little bit of damage were because most of the storms were relatively weak, and because most of the storms stayed at sea.
Storms
Tropical Depression One
Tropical Storm Arthur
Hurricane Bertha
Tropical Storm Cesar
Hurricane Diana
Tropical Storm Edouard
Tropical Storm Fran
Hurricane Gustav
Tropical Storm Hortense
Hurricane Isidore
Tropical Depression Eleven
Hurricane Josephine
Hurricane Klaus
Hurricane Lili
Tropical Storm Marco
Hurricane Nana
Storm names
These are the names that were set aside for 1990. The names that did not get used are marked in .
Retirement
In the spring of 1991, Hurricane Diana and Klaus had their names replaced by Dolly and Kyle in 1996. |
70993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20the%20Dominican%20Republic | List of presidents of the Dominican Republic | The President of the Dominican Republic is both the head of state and head of government of the Dominican Republic. This page contains a list (modified from Moya Pons) of presidents of the Dominican Republic. |
791827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20J.%20Kutyna | Donald J. Kutyna | General Donald Joseph Kutyna (born December 6, 1933) is a retired United States Air Force officer. He was born in Chicago.
He was commander in chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the United States Space Command from 1990 to 1992, and commander of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado from 1987 to 1990. |
956481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock%2C%20Maine | Hancock, Maine | Hancock is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. |
252360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20Bravo | Dino Bravo | Adolfo Bresciano (August 6, 1948 - March 10, 1993) was an Italian-born Canadian professional wrestler. He was better known by his ring name Dino Bravo. He was self-proclaimed as "Canada's Strongest Man" and later the "World's Strongest Man". Bravo is best known for his time wrestling in World Wrestling Federation (WWF). During his time there, Bravo was a one-time WWWF World Tag Team Champion with Dominic DeNucci and was the only wrestler to ever hold the short-lived WWF Canadian Champion.
On March 10, 1993, Bravo was found dead in his apartment by his wife. Bravo was hit by 17 bullets, 7 to the head and 10 to the torso, while he was watching ice hockey in his Vimont, Laval, Quebec home. He had an alleged role in illegal cigarette smuggling in Canada which is what is popularly believed to have led to his unsolved murder. |
772829 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider%20%281997%20movie%29 | Outsider (1997 movie) | Outsider is a 1997 Slovenian drama movie directed by Andrej Kosak. It stars Demeter Bitenc, Miranda Caharija, Nina Ivanic, Jure Ivanusic, Davor Janjic, Uros Potocnik and Zijah Sokolovic. |
791912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nufringen | Nufringen | Nufringen is a municipality of the district of Boblingen in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. As of 31 December 2018, 5,872 people lived there. |
573651 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McCormack%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | John McCormack (ice hockey) | John Ronald "Johnny" McCormack (August 2, 1925 - February 22, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. McCormack began his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. He also played for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks. He retired from the NHL in 1955 season.
McCormack won two Stanley Cups in his career, one in 1951 with Toronto and another in 1953 with Montreal. He also won the 1945 Memorial Cup with the St. Michael's Majors and the Allan Cup in 1950 with the Toronto Marlboroughs.
McCormack died on February 22, 2017 at his home in Oshawa, Ontario, aged 91. |
194076 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuhiko%20Ejiri | Atsuhiko Ejiri | is a Japanese professional athlete. He is best known as an football player.
Club career statistics
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687287 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romont%2C%20Fribourg | Romont, Fribourg | Romont is the capital of the district of Glane in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. |
12316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station | Station | Station has many meanings, so it is often used with other words to tell people which one is meant:
In transport:
Railway station, a place where trains stop to load or unload passengers or cargo
Bus station, a place where buses stop to load or unload passengers and things
Gas station, a place where gas (petrol) can be bought (also called "filling station" or sometimes "service station")
In communications:
Television station, a business that transmits television signals
Radio station, a business that transmits radio signals
Other buildings:
Police station
Fire station
Power station
Space station
Other uses:
Station (agriculture)
Weather station
Basic English 850 words |
611219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv%20Oblast | Lviv Oblast | Lviv Oblast () is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine. The administrative centre is Lviv. The population of Lviv Oblast was 2,537,000 in 2013. |
845713 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Angel%20Levine | The Angel Levine | The Angel Levine is a 1970 American drama movie directed by Jan Kadar and starring Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster. It was distributed by United Artists. |
35405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantua | Mantua | Mantova (or Mantua) is a city in northern Italy. Mantova is in the Lombardy Region. It has a population of 48,103 people. The Etruscans founded the city, Today, Mantua is one of the biggest markets for agricultural products in northern Italy. Vergil was born in a small village near Mantua.
Mantua was named "Capital of the Italian culture 2016". |
860467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kath%20Soucie | Kath Soucie | Katherine Elaine Soucie (; born February 20, 1967) is an American actress. She is known for playing Linka in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Lola Bunny in the Looney Tunes franchise, Fifi La Fume and Li'l Sneezer in Tiny Toon Adventures, Bea in Mighty Max, Dexter's Mom in Dexter's Laboratory, Maddie Fenton in Danny Phantom, Phil, Lil and their mother Betty in Rugrats, Princess Sally Acorn in Sonic The Hedgehog, Cadpig and Rolly in 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Kat Harvey in The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Morgana Macawber in Darkwing Duck, and Kanga in the Winnie the Pooh franchise. She currently voices Tuffy Mouse from The Tom and Jerry Show and Perdita from 101 Dalmatians, since 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003). |
790992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotsylvania%20Courthouse%2C%20Virginia | Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia | Spotsylvania Courthouse is a census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is the county seat of Spotsylvania County. |
81710 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer%20Royal | Astronomer Royal | Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 22 1675, and the second the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, which dates from 1834. No Catholic or Jew has ever held the position.
King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, "to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation".
From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. As Astronomer Royal he receives a stipend of PS100 a year and is a member of the Royal Household, under the general authority of the Lord Chamberlain. After the separation of the two offices the position of Astronomer Royal has been largely honorary, though he remains available to advise the Sovereign on astronomical and related scientific matters, and the office is of great prestige. |
766519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/90s | 90s | The 90s was the decade that started on January 1, 90 AD, and ended on December 31, 99 AD. Durning the 90s the 10th decade began On January 1, 91 AD which is the 10th decade of the 1st century and the 1st millennium. |
86908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20counties%20in%20Alabama | List of counties in Alabama | The U.S. state of Alabama has sixty-seven counties. The oldest is Washington County (created June 4, 1800) and the youngest is Houston County (created February 9, 1903).
Alabama was claimed by Spain, as Spanish Florida, and by England, as the Province of Carolina. The first permanent colony was made by the French on the banks of the Mobile River in 1702.
After the American Revolutionary War, West Florida south of the 31st parallel became a part of Spain while most of the rest was put in the Mississippi Territory. The territorial assembly established some of the earliest county divisions which have survived to the present. In 1817 the western part of the territory became the State of Mississippi and the remainder the Alabama Territory. The Alabama territorial legislature made some more counties.
Alabama became the 22nd state of the United States in 1819. The Alabama state legislature made more counties from former Indian lands as the Indian Removal Act took effect and settlers populated different areas of Alabama.
In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36, with Indians still occupying land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903.
According to 2020 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's sixty-seven counties was 74,989, while Jefferson County had the most people (674,721), and Greene County (7,730) had the least. The average land area is . The largest county is Baldwin (), and the smallest is Etowah ().
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. (In this system, St. Clair County is alphabetized ahead of Shelby County.) The FIPS code links in the table point to U.S. Census "quick facts" pages for each county.
Counties
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Former counties and county names
Baine County (for David W. Baine), changed to Etowah County in 1868
Baker County (for Alfred Baker, a local landowner), changed to Chilton County in 1874
Benton County, first named in 1832 for Thomas Hart Benton. In 1849, Benton renounced his support for slavery, alienating him from the Democratic Party. He lost his seat in 1851, and in 1858 the name of the county was changed to Calhoun County, honoring Benton's Senate rival, John C. Calhoun, who had died soon after presiding over the momentous Compromise of 1850.
Cahawba County, for the former capital city of Cahawba, changed to Bibb County in 1820
Cotaco County (for Cotaco Creek), changed to Morgan County in 1821
Elk County (for the Elk River), originally part of another Houston County (for John Houstoun), changed to Lauderdale County and Limestone County in 1818
Hancock County (for John Hancock), changed to Winston County in 1858
Jones County (for Josiah Jones, a local political leader), changed back to Covington County in 1868 after Jones refused the honor
Jones County (for E. P. Jones), then Sanford County, before becoming Lamar County in 1877
Sanford County (for H. C. Sanford), changed to Lamar County in 1877
Fictional counties of note
Aurora County, the setting for several books by Deborah Wiles.
Beechum County, the setting for the 1992 film, My Cousin Vinny.
Greenbow County, the title character's birthplace in the 1986 Winston Groom novel Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a feature film in 1994.
Hazzard County, the setting for the CBS TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, that ran from 1979-1985.
Maycomb County, the setting for Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted into a feature film in 1962.
Pearl County, the setting for William March's 1943 novel Looking Glass and of several of his short stories. |
728816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metzingen | Metzingen | Metzingen is a Swabian city with about 22,000 people in it, in Reutlingen county, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, south of Stuttgart. |
437775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynis%20Johns | Glynis Johns | Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a British stage and movie actress, dancer, pianist and singer. She is the daughter of Welsh actor Mervyn Johns.
She is best known for her role as Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway. She won a Tony Award for this role. She played Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture box office smash, Mary Poppins. |
154252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%A9val | Diéval | Dieval is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France. |
247043 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20of%20two | Power of two | In mathematics, a power of two is any number which is an integer power of two. Powers of two are important in binary just as powers of ten (like 1, 10, 100, etc.) are important in decimal. The numbers one less than powers of two are called Mersenne numbers. |
901261 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Miami%20Dolphins%20season | 2022 Miami Dolphins season | The 2022 season will be the Miami Dolphins' 53rd in the National Football League (NFL) and their first under a new head coach, after the firing of Brian Flores at the end of the 2021 season.
Draft
Regular season
2022 opponents
Listed below are the Dolphins' opponents for 2022. Exact dates and times will be announced in the spring. |
228305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Kyu-sik | Kim Kyu-sik | Kim Kyu-sik (, 1881 - 1950) was a Korean politician, ambassador, poet, and academic.
He was the first and second Vice President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. He was also minister of education and foreign affairs in the same government.
A nickname & a pen name is Usa ().
He was a graduate of the American Roanoke College and also Princeton University.
Kim Kyusik was born in Pusan. He was kidnapped to North Korea in 1950, where he was assassinated in Manpo the same year. |
939638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poste%20Italiane | Poste Italiane | Poste Italiane (English: Italian Post) is an Italian postal service. In addition to postal services, the company provides logistics, financial and insurance services throughout Italy.
History
An organization dealing with postal services in Italy was founded in 1862. This was a consequence of the postal reform. In 1996, Poste Italiane became a state-owned business (Societa per Azioni). In February 1998, the Ministry of the Treasury appointed Corrado Passera, as the CEO of the newly formed Poste Italiane. In 2011, Poste Italiane acquired UniCredit MedioCredito Centrale. In 2014, the Italian government approved the sale of 40% of the company's shares. In 2016, another 35% of shares were transferred from the ministry to Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. |
1038660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Hondo%2C%20Texas | Rio Hondo, Texas | Rio Hondo is a city in Cameron County, Texas, United States. |
851404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouze | Rouze | Rouze is a commune in the Ariege department. It is in southwestern France. |
589153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottle%20County%2C%20Texas | Cottle County, Texas | Cottle County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 1,380 people lived there. The county seat is Paducah. |
838671 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajnabee%20%282001%20movie%29 | Ajnabee (2001 movie) | Ajnabee () is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film directed by Abbas-Mustan and produced by Vijay Galani. It stars Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Kareena Kapoor, and Bipasha Basu in the lead, with Johnny Lever, Dalip Tahil, Narendra Bedi and Sharat Saxena in supporting roles. The film is a remake of the 1992 American thriller Consenting Adults, directed by Alan J. Pakula. It was the second film of Akshay Kumar and Abbas-Mustan after Khiladi and the second film of Bobby Deol and Abbas-Mustan after Soldier. |
1021431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikroTik | MikroTik | MikroTik is a Latvian network equipment manufacturer founded in 1996. They develop and sell network routers, switches, access points, and software. They gained recognition for their product, RouterOS, initially developed for x86 PC hardware. In 2002, they started producing their own low-power single-board computers called RouterBoard. MikroTik's product line expanded over time, including the Cloud Core Router (CCR) series in 2012. They faced vulnerabilities in the past, such as the VPNFilter malware and security flaws in RouterOS. In 2021, they encountered the Meris botnet, causing DDoS attacks. |
988036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb%20Records | Curb Records | Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb in 1973, after leaving MGM Records. Curb Records' first national success was the release (through Warner Bros. Records) of The Four Seasons comeback album, Who Loves You, and the singles that came from it in late 1975 and early 1976.
Curb's roster includes several country music artists, including Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, and Hank Williams, Jr. In late 2002, Curb Records also acquired a stake in Word Records from then-owners Time Warner. Curb still has a stake in Word even though Time Warner's stake was sold to the newly formed spin-off Warner Music Group in 2004.
2006 GMA Music Award Female Vocalist of the Year Natalie Grant signed with Curb Records. Former American Idol Kimberley Locke is also a member of the Curb roster.
In 2006, Curb launched a sister imprint, Bruc Records, whose name is an acronym for "Blues, Rock, Urban, Country" (the name is also "Curb" spelled backwards). Hank III's third studio release, Straight to Hell, was the first album to be released on the new label.
Curb Records supports charitable programs through the Mike Curb Family Foundation. Some of the supported programs include; the Mike Curb Family Welcome Centre at Second Harvest, Curb Youth Symphony, Curb Young Musicians Competition, Curb Concerto Competition, Curb Family Music Education Centre at the Nashville Symphony, and the Nashville Alliance For Public Education.
Curb Records in the UK
In the UK, Curb artists (apart from those sub-licenced to the majors) are eligible for UK "independent" charts, as the label is called Proper Distribution. In January 2006, Curb scored a top ten hit with Brian Kennedy and Peter Corry's Tribute to George Best, an EP featuring recordings of "You Raise Me Up" amongst others. |
760341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Raymond | Gene Raymond | Gene Raymond (born Raymond Guion; August 13, 1908 - May 3, 1998) was an American actor, screenwriter, songwriter, director, producer and composer. He was born in New York City.
His most notable movies include Red Dust (1932) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Zoo in Budapest (1933) with Loretta Young, Ex-Lady (1933) with Bette Davis, Flying Down to Rio (1933) with Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, I Am Suzanne (1934) with Lilian Harvey, Sadie McKee (1934) with Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery, and The Locket (1946) with Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, and Robert Mitchum.
Raymond was married to actress Jeanette MacDonald from 1937 until her death in 1965. It was alleged that Raymond was gay and he had abused MacDonald physically during their marriage.
Raymond died on May 3, 1998 from pneumonia in Los Angeles at the age of 89. |
209286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Vermont | University of Vermont | The University of Vermont is a university in the U.S. state of Vermont. The university has over 10,000 students. The school was found in 1791, and is one of the oldest universities in the United States. |
946559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lark%20%281965%20movie%29 | The Lark (1965 movie) | The Lark () is a 1965 Soviet war movie directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Leonid Menaker. It stars Gennadi Yukhtin, Valeri Pogoreltsev, and Valentins Skulme. |
713967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gov | .gov | The domain name gov is the generic top-level domain used by government entities within the United States at the federal, state, and local levels. It was one of the original top-level domains, established in January 1985.
The U.S. is the only country that has a government-specific top-level domain in addition to its ccTLD. Other countries typically use a second-level domain for this purpose, e.g., .gov.au for Australia, .gov.uk for the United Kingdom, .gc.ca for Canada, and .gouv.fr for France. Since the United States controls the .gov Top Level Domain, it would be impossible for another country to create a domain ending in .gov, for example, .jp.gov.
Some U.S. federal agencies use .fed.us rather than .gov. The Department of Defense and its subsidiary organizations use .mil. Some U.S. governmental entities use other domains, such as the use of .com domains by the United States Postal Service (usps.com) and the United States Army (goarmy.com). Internet purists consider these usages to be improper, as these are governmental or military entities rather than commercial ones.
All governments in the U.S. are allowed to use .gov, such as atlantaga.gov for the city of Atlanta, and georgia.gov for the U.S. state of Georgia. This was not always true; under an earlier policy, only federal agencies were allowed to use the domain, and agencies beneath cabinet level were needed to use subdomains of their parent agency.
The usage of .gov as a gTLD controlled only by the U.S. is controversial, as some people believe this to be an example of arrogance by the U.S. - such views hold that usage of .fed.us or a new second-level domain of .gov.us would be more suitable. Others believe that U.S. control of .gov is a natural result of the fact that the U.S. federal government was responsible for the initial creation of the Internet and its first user. |
18765 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunarput%2C%20utoqqarsuanngoravit | Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit | Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit (, ; "You Our Ancient Land") is the national anthem of Greenland. It was written by Henrik Lund, and it became the national anthem in 1916. |
1024962 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh%20Bjelke-Petersen | Joh Bjelke-Petersen | Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen (13 January 191123 April 2005), also nicknamed Sir Joh, was an Australian politician who served as the 31st Premier of Queensland. He was Queensland's longest-serving and longest-lived Premier. While he was Premier, he was the leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party, which used to be called the Country Party.
He was a very conservative politician with many controversial views. He was also very controversial because his government did many things that were corrupt. Some historians have even described him as being "semi-authoritarian". For example, he is responsible for the "Bjelkemander", which was a type of gerrymander (which is a practice that makes it easier for one party to win government). The Bjelkemander meant that more seats were in rural and remote areas so the National Party would always be in government, because the Labor Party and the Liberal Party got most of their votes from cities. He was also involved in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, which made Gough Whitlam resign as Prime Minister.
He once tried to run in the 1987 federal election to try and become Prime Minister, as part of the "Joh for Canberra" campaign. However, he did not do it because of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, which was a controversial inquiry that exposed corruption in his government and saw many of his ministers taken to jail, some even lost their knighthoods. This saw him resign as Premier and he quit politics altogether. It also was a reason that his party lost the 1991 state election. He was later trialed in court for perjury, but was not convicted and he was not trialed again because he was too old. |
400572 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Jimenez%20Alvarez | David Jimenez Alvarez | David Jimenez Alvarez (born July 14, 1975 in Malaga) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C7 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team, Spain, played the United States national 7-per-team football team and won 2-1. His team finished third. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6. |
332511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un%20ballo%20in%20maschera | Un ballo in maschera | Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an Italian opera in three acts. The music was written by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Antonio Somma. It is based on Eugene Scribe's Gustave III ou Le Bal Masque.
The opera was first performed at the Teatro Appollo in Rome, on February 17, 1859. One of Verdi's richest middle-period works, it relates the events surrounding the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, but because of censorship, the story was transposed to 17th century Boston, with Gustav becoming an English governor, Richard of Warwick. Nowadays, most productions present the opera in its original Swedish setting.
Principal characters
Gustavo/Riccardo, King of Sweden in love with Amelia- tenor
Amelia, a courtier - soprano
Renato, a courtier and Amelia's husband - baritone
Ulrica, a fortune teller - mezzo-soprano
Oscar, a page - soprano
Samuel, conspirator - bass
Tom, conspirator - bass
Silvano, conspirator - baritone
Sources
The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993. |
1019200 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams%20of%20Stabbing%20And/Or%20Being%20Stabbed | Dreams of Stabbing And/Or Being Stabbed | Dreams of Stabbing And/Or Being Stabbed is the first EP of American rock band My Chemical Romance released in December 2001. It was recorded in the band's first drummer, Matt Pelisser's attic. This EP is also known as "The Attic Demos". |
141389 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%20discography | Rush discography | Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently comprised of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and songwriter Neil Peart. The band and its membership went through a number of changes between 1968 and 1974, achieving their definitive form when Neil Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974.
The band released its self-titled debut album in March 1974, after which followed 19 additional studio recordings, 8 live albums and 6 compilations. As a group, Rush has made 24 gold records and 14 platinum (3 multi-platinum) records. According to the RIAA, Rush's number of sales place them fourth behind The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith for the most gold or platinum albums one after another by a rock band. Rush also ranks 78th in U.S. album sales with 25 million items sold. Although total worldwide album sales are not calculated by any single person or group, as of 2004 some people guessed that Rush's total worldwide album sales is over 40 million items sold.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Music videos
Promos
Video albums
Solo albums
All chart positions are U.S. Billboard 200 unless otherwise stated. |
8436 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934 | 1934 | Events
January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
January 24 - Albert Einstein visits the White House
January 26 - The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
February 9 - Gaston Boumerque forms a new government in France
February 12 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
February 12 to February 16 - Austrian Civil War
February 23 - Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 1 - Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
March 3 - John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol
March 8 - Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage
March 20 - All the police forces in Germany come under command of Heinrich Himmler
April 1 - Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
April 6 - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
April 19 - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
April 22 - John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of the FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin
May 23 - American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by law officers on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Births
January 13 - Nick Clooney, American journalist (father of George Clooney)
January 20 - Tom Baker
February 10 - Barrie Ingham, English actor
May 2 - Laszlo-Arsenije Mert
May 28 - Dionne Quintuplets
July 1 - Jamie Farr
September 21 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian folk musician (d. 2016)
October 19 - William Frates, American war veteran and radiologist
November 9 - Carl Sagan (d. 1996)
November 13 - Garry Marshall (d. 2016)
Deaths
January 10 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)
January 29 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
February 17 - Albert I of Belgium (born 1875)
February 23 - Edward Elgar, English composer (born 1857)
March 29 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire philanthropist (born 1867)
May 23 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (shot) (born 1909)
May 23 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (shot) (born 1910)
May 25 - Gustav Holst, English composer (born 1874)
May 30 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (born 1848)
June 10 - Frederick Delius, English composer (born 1862)
June 11 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (born 1896)
July 4 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (born 1867)
July 8 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (born 1848)
July 22 - John Dillinger, American criminal (born 1903)
July 25 - Francois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (born 1874)
July 25 - Englebert Dolfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (born 1892)
July 25 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (born 1889)
July 26 - Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (born 1871)
July 28 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (born 1868)
August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
September 2 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (born 1884)
October 9 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1888)
November 2 - Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (born 1845)
November 16 - Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)
November 27 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (born 1908)
December 1 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader (born 1886)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by George Whipple, American doctor, George Minot and William Parry for their discoveries about liver therapy in cases of anaemia. |
336943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Hartwell | Lee Hartwell | Leland Harrison (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control cell division.
When cells divide, they divide in phases called G1 (growth), S (synthesis), G2 (growth), and M (mitosis). Nurse, Hartwell and Hunt together discovered two proteins, cyclin and CDK (cyclin dependent kinase), which control the change from one stage to another. These proteins are called checkpoints, because they check whether the cell has divided properly. If the cell does not divide correctly, other proteins will try to repair it. If that does not work, they will destroy the cell. If a cell divides incorrectly and survives, it may cause cancer and other serious diseases.
Working in baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), Hartwell identified the fundamental role of checkpoints in cell cycle control, and CDC genes such as CDC28, which controls the start of the cycle - the progression through G1. |
1036107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Big%20Brother | Ultimate Big Brother | Ultimate Big Brother was a spin-off season of Big Brother UK. It was aired on Channel 4 and was the last season of Big Brother to be made under Channel 4. The show was presented by Davina McCall and featured past contestants re-enter the house for a final time. |
303543 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/63 | 63 | 63 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Saturday.
Events
Vespasian becomes the governor of Africa Province.
Pompeii is damaged by an earthquake. |
386803 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pakistan%20Test%20cricketers | List of Pakistan Test cricketers | This is a list of cricketers who play Test cricket for Pakistan.
Statistics are correct as of 24 August 2008. |
664823 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankton%20County%2C%20South%20Dakota | Yankton County, South Dakota | Yankton County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 23,310 people lived there. Its county seat is Yankton. It was created in 1862. |
902622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchheim%2C%20Lower%20Franconia | Kirchheim, Lower Franconia | Kirchheim is a municipality in Wurzburg in Bavaria in Germany. |
633722 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignazio%20Cassis | Ignazio Cassis | Ignazio Cassis (born 13 April 1961) is a Swiss physician and politician. He was the President of the Swiss Confederation from 2022 to 2023. He is a member of the FDP.The Liberals and was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 20 September 2017. He has served since 1 November 2017 as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs. He was born in Sessa, Switzerland.
Cassis took office on 1 November 2017 as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, succeeding Didier Burkhalter. |
654139 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylesville%2C%20Alabama | Gaylesville, Alabama | Gaylesville is a town in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. The population was 144 at the 2010 census. |
1019853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into%20the%20Void%20%28Black%20Sabbath%20song%29 | Into the Void (Black Sabbath song) | "Into the Void" is a 1971 song by heavy metal band Black Sabbath and is the final track from their third studio album Master of Reality. It has a mix of heavy metal and doom metal thrown into it. It was covered by Soundgarden and Kyuss in 1996. |
405420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten%20%26%20Stanley | Sten & Stanley | Sten & Stanley is a dansband from the town of Karlskoga in Sweden. It was established in 1962. |
257142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing%20a%20Hole | Fixing a Hole | "Fixing a Hole" is a song mainly written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Recording
The first of two recording sessions for the song was at Regent Sound Studio in London on 9 February 1967 in three takes.
The lead vocal was recorded at the same time as the rhythm track, a change from their post-1963 approach of overdubbing the vocal.
According to McCartney, on the night of the session an unusual man appeared at the gate of McCartney's home and said he was Jesus Christ. After a cup of tea, and after getting him to promise to be quiet and sit in a corner, McCartney brought the man to the recording session. After the session the man left and was never heard from again.
In another version of the story, John Lennon arrived at the studio, found the man hanging around the front door, and it was Lennon who invited him in.
The song is referenced to by Lennon in the last stanza of the song "Glass Onion" ("Fixing a Hole in the ocean"), from The Beatles, released a year later.
In the live-action scene at the end of the 1968 movie Yellow Submarine, Ringo mentions that he gave the other half of the "hole in me pocket" to Jeremy, so that he could "stop his mind from wandering", a direct reference to "Fixing a Hole". |
484061 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Ahrlin | Jerry Ahrlin | Jerry Ahrlin, born 15 January 1978 in Ostersund, Sweden, is a Swedish cross-country skier. |
292227 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20Day | Earth Day | Earth Day is a day that is supposed to inspire more awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. It takes place each year on April 22. It now takes place in more than 193 countries around the world. During Earth Day, the world encourages everyone to turn off all unwanted lights. On Earth day we should give something to our mother land like we can plant trees.
History
It was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. U Thant, the Secretary-General of United Nations at that time, has recognized it. While the first Earth Day focused on the United States, The EPA ( Enviromental Protection Agency), launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 countries. Its name and concept were created by John McConnell in 1960 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco. |
451791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger%20and%20Fred | Ginger and Fred | Ginger and Fred is a 1986 movie. It is about a two dancers who imitate Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The couple is played by Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni.
This movie was released in early 1986. |
399936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20video%20game%20consoles%20%28eighth%20generation%29 | History of video game consoles (eighth generation) | The eighth generation of video game consoles began in 2012. The eighth generation began with the release of Wii U. The PlayStation 4 was announced on February 20, 2013. It was released worldwide on November 15, 2013. Microsoft announced the Xbox One on May 21, 2013. It had its first regional release on November 22, 2013. For handheld game consoles, the generation began in February 2011. The first handheld was the Nintendo 3DS. The PlayStation Vita was released in December 2011 in Japan. It was available for the Western countries in February 2012.
It is believed by the video game media that the eighth generation home consoles compete with the smartphone, tablet, and Smart TV gaming markets. Because of this, some analysts incorrectly believed the eight generation would be the last generation of home consoles. Other microconsoles such as the NVIDIA Shield, Steam Box, Ouya and GameStick are attempting to compete in this market. Nintendo officially discontinued the Wii U on January 31, 2017 in anticipation of the March 3, 2017 worldwide release of the Nintendo Switch. The Switch is a "hybrid" console that acts as both a home console and handheld device, and it is unclear if it is a late entry to the eighth generation or the beginning of a ninth generation of home consoles. |
74238 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bunyan | John Bunyan | John Bunyan (Harrowden, near Bedford, 28 November 1628 - London, 31 August 1688) was an English tinker, preacher and writer. He wrote a book called The Pilgrim's Progress which has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible. The book is a story about a man who is trying to lead a good life as a Christian. It is allegory. The characters in the story represent good things or bad things. Bunyan lived at a time when there was no religious freedom: everybody had to believe what the Church of England told them. Bunyan did not agree with some of the things the Church of England said. He started to preach about his ideas. He was arrested and put into prison because of his beliefs. He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in gaol (prison).
Life
Early years
Bunyan's father was a tinker: a metal worker who mends pots and pans. The Bunyan family had been living in Bedfordshire at least since the 12th century. They had gradually lost more and more of their land and had become quite poor. John Bunyan's father had inherited a small cottage and 9 acres of land. He could not read or write.
John Bunyan only went to school for two, three or four years. He learned how to be a tinker from his father.
Youth: religious conversion
There was a lot of fighting in England at the time Bunyan was a child. Many people were against King Charles I so there was a Civil War and the king was executed. For several years England was a republic, ruled by Oliver Cromwell.
When Bunyan was 16 years old, he served in the parliamentary army at Newport Pagnell (1644 - 1647). After that, he started to work as a tinker, and in 1649, he married. His wife had two books, both of which were religious books. Bunyan started to be influenced by religion. He became very frightened because he realized he had done things which were wrong, and he wondered whether God would forgive him, so that he would go to heaven when he died, or whether he would be punished and go to hell. The kind of things he did which at that time were thought to be wrong (sins) were not things which would worry many people nowadays: ringing church bells, dancing, playing games on Sundays and, perhaps the worst of all, swearing. Other wrongs he had done in the past included disrespecting his parents, and very likely causing, or at least unremorsefully (unsorrowfully) helping along the early death of his mother and sister - which he did by refusing to take any of the burden or workload at home. It was only for lack of money that he did not spend his time with prostitutes, though he longed to join the gambling and "painted women" who attended fairs and other public events. In his book Grace Abounding Bunyan describes himself as the "Chief of Sinners". He tells how one day he was walking along when he heard a group of women talking to one another about salvation. This made him think about these things.
In those days, people were supposed to worship God in the Church of England. There were, however, groups of people who wanted to worship God in different ways. These people were called "non-conformists". In 1653, a sect (religious group) of non-conformists had taken over St John's Church in Bedford. Their vicar was John Gifford. Bunyan discussed the Bible a lot with Gifford.
Bunyan lived in Elstow, near Bedford, until 1655, when his wife died. He moved to Bedford to be nearer to Gifford's church . He married again in 1659. In 1660, the Restoration of the Monarchy took place: England had a king once more: Charles II became king. It was bad for religious freedom, because all non-conformist meetings were forbidden. St John's Church had to become part of the Church of England again. Bunyan refused to go to church. He started to preach to groups of people anywhere they could meet: in barns or in the streets. Because he did not have permission to preach, he was arrested and put in gaol. At first, he was sentenced to 3 months, but because he refused to promise to stop preaching, he spent 12 years in gaol.
Years in gaol
Bunyan spent the years 1660-1672 in gaol, and again he was in gaol for a short time in 1677. The gaol was at the top of Silver Street in the centre of Bedford, only 5 minutes walk from his house in St Cuthbert Street, which was then on the edge of the town. The gaol had 6 cells and 2 dungeons. He could probably have been free at any time if he had promised to give up preaching, but he did what he firmly believed to be right. He made some money in gaol by making shoelaces. His eldest daughter Mary, who was blind, brought him soup every day and also gave him books to read. Sometimes, he seems to have been let out of gaol for short periods of time. This was not really allowed, but often, the guards might let a prisoner out if they promised to come back. Bunyan even travelled as far as London once, and he must have gone home sometimes because he had two more children by his second wife during that time.
It was during this time in gaol that he wrote his allegorical novel: Pilgrim's Progress. We do not know whether he wrote it all while he was in gaol. The book is in two parts. The first part finishes with the words: "So I awoke, and behold it was a dream". When the second part begins he says "..as I slept I dreamt again". This might mean that he wrote the second part in 1677 when he was in gaol again. This is only a guess, we do not know.
His release
Bunyan was released in January 1672, when Charles II issued the "Declaration of Religious Indulgence" which meant that people were free to worship God in the way they wanted. The king had done this mainly because he wanted the Catholics to have less power. Non-conformist sects could register and get a license. Bunyan became pastor (priest) of the Bedford church. In March 1675, he was again imprisoned for preaching (because Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Religious Indulgence). This time he seems to have been in the Bedford town gaol on the stone bridge over the river Ouse. After a few months, he was let out. He was a very popular preacher, so he was not arrested again. His book The Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1678. He also wrote several other books about religion, but The Pilgrim's Progress was the one that became extremely popular. Because Bunyan did not have a formal education he wrote in a very direct style which ordinary people could understand. A passage from Part Two of The Pilgrim's Progress beginning "Who would true Valour see" is sung regularly as a hymn.
On his way to London, in 1688, he caught a severe cold from rats and bats, and died a painful death. His grave is in the cemetery at Bunhill Fields in London. |
206513 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiaki%20Kakimoto | Michiaki Kakimoto | Michiaki Kakimoto (born 6 October 1977) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Matsumoto Yamaga. |
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