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Five Little Speckled Frogs |
"Five Little Speckled Frogs" is a nursery rhyme that came from the United States. Like Ten Green Bottles, this song is meant to teach children subtraction by singing about frogs jumping off a log into a pool, one by one. |
One version of the song is: |
Different versions of the song uses flies, clinkers, or bugs instead of grubs. Some use "green and" instead of "little", or change the last frog's reference to "he", "she", or "it". |
There are hand motions people can follow during the song. |
849 |
850s |
The 850s was the decade that started on January 1, 850 and ended on December 31, 859. |
853 |
Phil Lombardi |
Phillip Arden Lombardi (February 20, 1963 – May 20, 2021) was an American baseball player. He was born in Abilene, Texas. He played three seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 1989. He played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets. His main position was catcher but he also played at left field. |
Lombardi was married and had three daughters. After retiring from baseball, he worked as a real estate agent. He died of problems caused by brain cancer on May 20, 2021, in Stevenson Ranch, California. He was 58. |
F1 Circular Quay to Manly Ferry |
The F1 Circular Quay to Manly Ferry is one of the nine ferries that operate by TfNSW within metropolitan Sydney. This is the most used ferry, and a journey of seven nautical miles. |
This is the only service used on Manly Wharf, and all TfNSW ferries depart to Circular Quay. |
Additionally, local bus services depart from stands in front of the wharf to many Northern Beaches Suburbs as well as North Head, in nearby Sydney Harbour National Park. |
This is the most used ferry service in Sydney, with 3.3 million people having used it within 2019-20. |
Meiteism |
The Meiteism or the Meeteism is a term used to describe the original animistic religious belief system of the Meitei ethnicity in particular. It refers to the pre-Hindu faith of the Meitei ethnic group. It incorporates various teachings from the Meitei scriptures. Meiteism is a large facet of the collective synthesis of believes known as Sanamahism. |
Though Meiteism is treated as another name of Sanamahism, the later term has wider coverage of the traditional beliefs and practices of the hill tribesman communities also. The term was used during the Meitei revivalism movement to promote the ethnic religion of the Meitei people explicitly. |
In every Meitei household, there is a sacred abode of God Sanamahi, called the Sanamahi Kachin. |
Lakshmi Nandan Bora |
Lakshmi Nandan Bora (15 June 1931 – 3 June 2021) was an Indian novelist and short story writer. He wrote in the Assamese language. He wrote over 60 books, including award winning novels, "Patal Bhairavi" and "Kayakalpa". |
Bora was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award in 2015. He was born in Assam, India. |
Bora died on 3 June 2021 from problems caused by COVID-19 in Guwahati, India at the age of 89. |
Herman Stok |
Herman Stok (11 July 1927 – 2 June 2021) was a Dutch radio and television presenter. He worked at the VARA and Hilversum 3. He was most known for hosting the radio program "Tijd voor Teenagers" and television program "Top of Flop". |
Stok was born in Rotterdam and died in the same city, aged 93. |
Ian Shearer |
Ian John Shearer (10 December 1941 – 1 June 2021) was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of the National Party. Shearer was born in Whakatāne, New Zealand. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1975 until 1984. From 1981 until 1984, Shearer was the Minister for the Environment, Science and Technology and Broadcasting. |
Shearer died on 1 June 2021 from problems caused by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Whakatāne, aged 79. |
Hsing Yin Shean |
Leonard Hsing Yin Shean (, 1952 – 1 June 2021) was a Malaysian politician. He was a member of the Dewan Rakyat for Tanjong Aru from 1986 until 1990. He was also a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP). Hsing was born in Kota Kinabalu, North Borneo. |
Hsing died on 1 June 2021 at a hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia from COVID-19, aged 69. |
Pema Chödrön |
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is a nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. |
Chödrön has written many books and audiobooks, and is a teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She was born in New York City. |
Siege of Fort Bismarck |
Siege of Fort Bismarck (青島要塞爆撃命令, "Chintao yôsai bakugeki meirei") is a 1963 Japanese war drama film directed by Kengo Furusawa, with special effects work by legendary SFX director . The plot is about during , Japanese planes assault a lone German enemy outpost. |
The movie was shot in and (). Another film that was released this year is "Zoku shachô gaiyûki" (part of Shacho series), directed by . |
The film was set in (1914-1918), which is rare for a Japanese movie. Based on the real . the story is about a group of young pilots of the led a task team to destroyed the Germans communication posts, ammunition depots, and air-aircraft defenses, making way the Allied forces to captured the port city. These men were part of Japan's first naval aviator corp. In overseas countries like and the , it was released under the title "Siege of Fort Bismarck." |
In addition to the usual Japanese subtitles lined up in the corners of the screen, the lines of the German soldiers in the scenes are other works such as handwritten subtitles such as "The enemy is brave!" and "The bottom is brave!" The production is not seen in . |
For the filming, in addition to the elaborate miniature of the and with a wingspan of 1 meter or more, a full-scale model for shooting the main story with a propeller rotating was produced. In both cases, the shooting was done in addition to the set, and on , it was filmed from a . The full-scale model of the Farman MF.11 was assembled by a craftsman specializing in gliders by borrowing the disassembled actual machine saved by the Japan Aeronautic Association and creating a restoration drawing. The was also photographed using a . |
The scene on the ship was shot on the "" was preserved at . The Fortress Bismarck set was a huge open set in and was taken from a helicopter. However, at the time of production, the position of the gunpowder was not from the helicopter, and the timing of shooting was about 4 out of 10 shots. The train model that appears at the climatic moment was custom-made in a steel miniature and was shot with an unmanned camera that was also partially used in back in 1954. This miniature was exhibited at the 2012 event "Director Special Effects Museum Miniature Showa Heisei Techniques". |
In 1914, began which was originated in the and extended to the . This is because Germany has occupied the of and made Qingdao a base for the invasion of . Japan (who was part of the ) is requested by Allied Powers (, and ) to joined in the war and seized the base in . However, a huge artillery batteries is placed at Fort Bismarck, and even the that the is proud of planning a operation, making it extremely difficult to capture the base. At that time, Admiral , suddenly set up a task team in the early days of the flying corps stationed at the "Oppama Navy Aeronautical Research Institute" (追浜海軍航空術研究所, "Oppama kaigun kōkū-jutsu kenkyūjo"). The unit also consists of two seaplanes, with Major Osugi as commander and a total of five pilots, including Shoji, who has never boarded an airplane before. These men would became the first task team to do such dangerous operation. |
However, Osugi decides to sort for the survival of his unit. By late September, the seaplane carrier Wakamiya loaded up the biplanes on the deck, became the world's first aircraft carrier and headed for Qingdao. And finally, it's time for the first operation to destroyed the fortress. The Mo-type seaplane on which Osugi and Kunii were piloting was not in time for the bomb, and while bricks and five-inch nails, it started with the enthusiastic farewell of the crew. |
While fitting in the air pocket and connecting the broken wire of Kunii on the wings, they managed to drop bricks and five-inch nails onto the German trenches from above to scout the fortress. However, the enemy plane flies there and battled them. In contrast to the Taube, who is armed with a , the Mo-style plane has only a for self-defense, and Taube, who provokes in , is forced to disperse. After that, the squadron set up a base on near the bay to prevent the danger of entering the base. Osugi responds to the request of the islanders, such as Yang Hakurei, the girl dancer Maki saved her from the predicament at a . However, a bottled letter reveals that the islanders has a spy among them. |
And on the night of the festival, Hakurei's older brother, Zhao Hidetoshi, set fire to the and planned to sink the Wakamiya. While the fire armada junk approaches the seaplane carrier, Shoji jumps into the sea and is killed after being caught in a junk explosion while trying to change the bow of the boat, saving his team in the process. Hidetoshi was also shot dead by Ninomiya after calming he was a spy for the Germans. The headquarters demanded that Hakurei be punished by the island's troops, but Osugi and his fellow pilots refused to hand over her to the continent under Article 123 of the Fictitious Navy Criminal Code and they might get the information from her about the defense plan. Osugi devised a plan to drop a bomb hung on Unit 1 while Unit 2 on which the machine gunner was riding to distracted the Taube plane. |
He sort out the ideas and executes the operation, but the bomb fails without hitting a single hit. Moreover, Unit 2, piloting by Ninomiya and Maki, managed to kill the Taube's machine gunner, but crashed after being hit by the engine. Ninomiya and Maki manged to escape to a general store, but the two who had the prize money are pushed out by German soldiers by the shop owner and become . |
Hakurei, who appears in front of the two in the dungeon, sentenced them to death. However, on the way to the execution site, Hakurei escapes with them. On the other hand, one month has passed since the start of the capture of Qingdao had planned out, and as the German Far East Unit approached to the bay, there were many opinions that the fleet should also start a total attack without relying on aircraft. Admiral Kato realizes that the plane was premature and decides to demote the Wakamiya to a carrier and make a total attack. Meanwhile, only Maki returned to the Wakamiya. Osugi devise a strategy to take off the remaining one plane without a bomb, replenish fuel and explosives after landing on the shore, and then bomb the ammunition depot at Bismarck Fortress. Osugi commands the task team and lands, deceiving the eyes of the German soldiers and heading for the supply depot. However, at that time, the Wakamiya was sunk by a .The seaplane floating on the sea took off for the ammunition depot bombing with the encouragement of the drifting Wakamiya crew. |
The film was released by Toho (with commentary by film critic Sadao Yamane) and was made into a DVD in 2007.Joel Wachs |
Joel Wachs (born March 1, 1939) is an American politician. He is the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City. |
He was for thirty years a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1971 until 2002. He was president of the city council from 1981 until 1983. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. |
Wachs ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1999. He is openly gay. |
Wendy Greuel |
Wendy Jane Greuel (born May 23, 1961) is an American Democratic politician. She was born in Los Angeles. She was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2002 until 2009. Greuel was also the Los Angeles City Controller from 2009 until 2013. |
In 2013, Greuel ran for Mayor of Los Angeles but lost in the run-off to Eric Garcetti. In 2014, she ran for the United States House of Representatives, but lost the Democratic nomination to Ted Lieu. |
770s BC |
Ted Lieu |
Ted W. Lieu (; born March 29, 1969) is a Taiwanese-born American politician. He represents California's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. |
He is a member of the Democratic Party. Lieu is one of 18 members of Congress who are naturalized U.S. citizens. He represented the 28th district in the California State Senate from 2011 to 2014. From 2005 to 2010 he was a California State Assemblyman. |
Debbie Dingell |
Deborah Ann Dingell (; ; November 23, 1953) is an American Democratic politician. She has been the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 12th congressional district since 2015. She replaced her husband John Dingell. |
Nury Martinez |
Nury Martinez (born July 9, 1973) is an American Democratic politician. She has been a member of the Los Angeles City Council since 2013. In 2020, she became the council's president. She is the first Latina to become President of the council. |
Martinez was born in San Fernando Valley, California. She studied at California State University, Northridge. |
"Humpy Bong" |
humpy bing is a rock and folk rock band that quickly broke up |
humpy bongs members are tim staffle (bass vocals and hormonica) |
Yoshio Yatsu |
Yatsu was born in Tatebayashi, Japan. He died on June 3, 2021 in Tatebayashi from liver cancer, aged 86. |
X-Press Pearl |
X-Press Pearl was a Singaporean -class container ship. The ship was built in 2021 and was around long. It was operated by X-Press Feeders. |
On 20 May 2021, "X-Press Pearl" caught fire off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. After burning for two weeks, the ship sank on 2 June as it was being towed away to deeper waters. The incident was the worst marine ecological disaster in Sri Lankan history as it spilled nitric acid and oil into the Indian Ocean. |
Tajadas |
Tajadas are a dish of fried plantains that are sliced long. It is a food of Caribbean countries as well as Nicaragua, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, and Venezuela. |
The plantains used are usually ripe. |
Tajadas is a very common dish that is usually served with meat, white rice, and beans. |
Tajadas are served with gallo pinto or casados. It can also be eaten with natilla and queso blanco on top. |
Tajadas is served in a traditional dish known as pabellon criollo. |
Leader of the Opposition (Israel) |
The Leader of the Opposition (, "Rosh HaOpozitzya") is the politician who leads the Official Opposition in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The Leader of the Opposition is by convention the leader of the largest political party not within the government. |
After Amendment 8 to the "Knesset law" of 1994 was passed, the Leader of the Opposition became the person elected by the largest faction of the opposition. |
Shelly Yachimovich |
Shelly Rachel Yachimovich (, born 28 March 1960) is an Israeli politician, journalist, author and political commentator. She was the Leader of the Opposition three times. She was leader of the Israeli Labor Party between 2011 and 2013. |
STAMSITE |
Johan "Marcus" Nyman (born 23 June 1992 in Kungälv), also known as STAMSITE, is a Swedish YouTuber. He has a YouTube channel with over 300 000 subscribers and over 250 000 000 views. |
Nyman is one of the biggest gaming YouTubers in Sweden and started his career in 2010 with his "Let's Play Minecraft" series. He is the founder of "90gQ", one of the oldest private Minecraft servers in Sweden. |
17th century BC |
The 17th century BC started in the 1690s BC and ended in the 1600s BC. |
Maduro |
Maduro might refer to: |
Meir Ya'ari |
Meir Ya'ari (, 24 April 1897 – 21 February 1987) was an Israeli Mapam–Alignment politician, educator and social activist. He was a member of the Knesset from 1949 until 1974. He was born in Kańczuga, Austria-Hungary. Ya'ari was also the Opposition Leader from 1949–1951, 1952–1955 and 1967–1969. |
Ya'ari died on 21 February 1987 in Israel at the age of 89. |
Isaura Abelairas |
María Isaura Abelairas Rodríguez (25 June 1951 – 3 June 2021) was a Spanish politician and teacher. She was member of the Socialist Party of Galicia. Abelairas was a member of the Parliament of Galicia from 2020 until her death in 2021. She was born in Taboada, Spain. |
Abelairas died of cancer on 3 June 2021, three weeks before her 70th birthday. |
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer |
Binyamin "Fuad" Ben-Eliezer (, ; 12 February 1936 – 28 August 2016) was an Iraqi-born Israeli Labor–Alignment politician and general. He was a member of the Knesset between 1984 and 2014. From 1999 until 2001, Ben-Eliezer was Deputy Prime Minister. From 2002 until 2003, he was the Opposition Leader. |
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