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Freshwater_fish.txt
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Freshwater fish
Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%.
Freshwater fish differ from saltwater fish in several respects. Their gills must be able to diffuse dissolved gases while keeping the salts in the body fluids inside. Their scales reduce water diffusion through the skin: freshwater fish that have lost too many scales will die.
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Threats
Habitat destruction
Freshwater fish also die from habitat destruction. Dams not only interrupt linear water flow and cause major geological channel shifts, but also limit the amount of water available to fishes in lakes, streams and rivers and have the potential to change the trophic structure because of these alterations of the habitat and the limitations to movement and connectivity.
The purpose of a dam is to impound (store) water, kill freshwater fish, wastewater or liquid borne materials for any of several reasons, such as flood control, human water supply, irrigation, livestock water supply, energy generation, containment of mine tailings, recreation, or pollution control.
Coolwater fish
Coolwater fish species prefer water temperature between the coldwater and the long warmwater species, around 60 to 80 °F (16–27 °C). They are found throughout North America except for the southern portions of the United States. Common coolwater species include muskellunge, northern pike, walleye, and yellow perch.
North American fish
Endangered species
About four in ten North American freshwater fish are endangered, according to a pan-North American study, the main cause being human pollution. Since 1989, the number of fish species and subspecies to become endangered has risen from 40 to 61.
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Rat.txt
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Rat
The Rat is a type of rodent. It does not eat trash like others state. A domestic rat is known as a fancy rat and can be kept as a pet. They are friendly and like fruit.
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Sandbox3.txt
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Emma_Watson.txt
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Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model. She is known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. She has played roles in other movies aside from the Harry Potter series, including The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and Ballet Shoes (2007). She became the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in July 2014.[1]
Fashion
As Watson has grown older, she has become more interested in fashion. She says that she thinks fashion is like art, which she studied in school. In September 2008, she told a blogger, "I've been focusing on art a lot, and fashion's a great extension of that."[2]
Filmography
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Rajanagar_Union_(Derai).txt
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Rajanagar Union (Derai)
3 No. Rajanagar Union Council is an union council of Bangladesh under Derai Upazila at Sunamganj District in Sylhet Division.[1]
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Colorado.txt
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Colorado
Colorado is a state in the central United States. As of 2015, it had 5,456,574 people.[1]
Denver is the state capital and most populous city.
Colorado is bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, Oklahoma to the southeast, New Mexico to the south, Arizona to the southwest, and Utah to the west.
Gallery
Flag of Colorado
Location of Colorado
Map of Colorado
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FlyBosnia.txt
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FlyBosnia
FlyBosnia was an airline from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its hub was in the Sarajevo, Sarajevo International Airport.
It was founded on November 2017. by Al-Shiddi. It ceased operations in 2020.
Fleet
FlyBosnia had one last aircraft in its fleet:
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Bhadro.txt
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Bhadro
Bhadro is the fifth month of the Bengali calendar and the sixth month of the Indian Rashtriya Shakbda—the beginning of autumn.
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Tornado.txt
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Tornado
A tornado is a tube of spinning air that stretches from a cloud to the ground. When the tube is over water, it is called a waterspout.
The wind in a tornado is very fast, sometimes over 320 km/h (200 mph). When tornadoes hit man-made structures, such as houses, they can cause much damage.
Although tornadoes can happen almost anywhere on earth except Antarctica, most tornadoes happen in Tornado Alley, a region in the central United States.
Tornadoes are measured by the Enhanced Fujita scale (EF scale).
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Airpods.txt
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AirPods
AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple.
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Bucha.txt
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Bucha
Bucha is a small location in Ukraine. Many war crimes have occurred here by the Russian army.
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Giada_de_laurentiis.txt
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Giada De Laurentiis
Giada Pamela De Laurentiis was born on August 22, 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Daughter of Veronica De Laurentiis and Alex De Benedetti. She is a celebrity chef, she is known for her Italian food. Giada De Laurentiis is also a writer, television personality, a host of her show, Giada at Home and the founder of GDL foods. She went to the University of Central Los Angeles in 1966. Her birth name was actually Giada Pamela De Benedetti but after her parents divorce, her named was changed to Giada De Laurentiis instead.
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Fame
Gilda always had passion for cooking. She was brought up into a family who loved cooking traditional Italian food. During her formative years she used to help out once in awhile in her grandfathers restaurant, DDL Foodshow. After getting her Anthropology degree in college, she went to Paris to learn from the instructors at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. Over there, she received Le Grand Diplome and her passion for cooking grew even more. Due to her families fame, Giada was discovered when her family was featured in a magazine called FOOD & WINE magazine where it highlighted each family members individual pursuits. The article caught a Food Network executive interest that saw her potential in both being in the network and a chef. Ever since, she became even more famous.
Family
Giada's grandfather is actually the famous film producer, Dino De Laurentiis. Which explains why she was already famous and was featured in a magazine. One of the most famous movies he has produced was King Kong. Giada was actually born in a family filled with Film Producers, actresses and authors. Her mother, Veronica De Laurentiis, is an actress and writer. She is married to Todd Thompson, a fashion designer since May 2003. However Giada has announced on Facebook 11 years after their marriage that they are filling for a divorce. Giada does have a daughter, Jade Marie De Laurentiis Thompson whom is only at the age of seven. She's has made an appearance in one of her mothers TV show, Giada at Home.
Restaurant
Giada's first restaurant opened up in Vegas at The Cromwell Hotel. The restaurant was called Giada. It had its own private elevator to lead up to the restaurant. It was said that the restaurants design and decor is supposed to reflect Giada's personality. A seat by the window will also give you a nice view. Giada has had famous celebrities try her food at her restaurant.
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Theater_of_M%C3%A9rida_(Spain).txt
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Roman Theatre (Mérida)
The Roman Theatre in Mérida (Spain) is a monument. In the past, the romans do representations there
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Prophet.txt
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Prophet
Prophets are those who say that they have had direct or indirect communication with the creator. They unselfishly share what they have learned with others. Most of the prophets gave people religious teachings, good news, or warnings. The message that the prophets receive is called "Risalat" in Islam.
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Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns.txt
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris (France) on 9 October 1835 and died in Alger (Algeria) on 16 December 1921. He was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, especially renowned for The Carnival of the Animals (1886).
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Alireza-Jadidi.txt
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Alireza-Jadidi
Alireza Jadidi (Persian: علیرضا جدیدی;born on September 20, 2003 in Tehran, Iran.) He is an Iranian musician, composer and music producer who works in the field of wordless music(Instrumental music) and in various genres.[1][2]
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Early Life
Alireza Jadidi was born on September 20, 2003 in Tehran, he studied humanities and after that he started learning music and researching the history of music in different parts of the world, And early on he started producing music for children
Career
release of the single 82 was his first official activity in the music world, he released his first album after a year, and within a few days he managed to release his second album with ten tracks, he is mostly active in the electronic genre. And he works as one of the pioneers of this style in Persian music.
Discography
Albums
● Summer sunset-EPs (2024)
● this summer (2024)
● Miracle vibrations (2024)
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Special:Random.txt
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Swan Lake
Swan Lake is a classical ballet based on German fairy tales. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music. Julius Reisinger choreographed the first production. The ballet was first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia on 20 February 1877. It was not a great success.
About 20 years after the Moscow premier, Swan Lake was revived in St Petersburg with choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. This time, the ballet was a huge success. Modern productions of Swan Lake are usually based on the Petipa-Ivanov version of 1895.
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Story
The Overture begins quietly with a theme called the Song of the Swans. It becomes louder, more intense, dramatic, and even threatening. Loud crashing chords in the brass are heard before the music subsides.
Act I
The curtain rises on an old castle in Germany. Prince Siegfried is celebrating his twenty-first birthday with friends.
The Prince's mother arrives. She tells her son he must choose a bride from six visiting princesses at a ball the next evening. She gives her son a beautiful crossbow as a birthday gift, then leaves.
The Prince does not look forward to marriage. As evening falls, his guests leave. A flock of swans flies overhead. The Prince takes his crossbow, and hurries away to hunt them.
Act II
At the edge of a lake, the Prince sees the swans land on the water. One comes ashore as a beautiful maiden. It is Odette.
Odette tells Siegfried she is a princess under a magic spell cast by the sorcerer Rothbart. She is a swan by day and a maiden by night.
Only a man who will promise to love her forever can break the spell. She will then become her true human self, and the sorcerer will die.
Siegfried has fallen in love with Odette. He makes the promise. Suddenly, Rothbart appears as an owl. He orders Odette to join her sister swans at the lake shore.
Act 3
The following evening, the court assembles in the great hall. Prince Siegfried is expected to choose a bride. He shows little interest in the six princesses. He can think only of Odette.
Suddenly, Rothbart enters the hall with a maiden who looks exactly like Odette. It is Rothbart's daughter Odile. Prince Siegfried believes it is Odette. He chooses her as his bride.
Odette is seen at the window. She is weeping because Siegfried has broken his promise to love her forever. She disappears.
Rothbart and Odile hurry away, laughing at Siegfried's distress. A storm arises. Thunder is heard and lightning flashes at the window. Siegfried runs from the hall to find Odette.
Act 4
At the lake shore, the swan maidens grieve for Odette and her terrible loss. Siegfried rushes in to beg Odette's forgiveness.
She forgives him, but she must remain a swan forever. Rothbart enters and orders Odette away. She drowns herself in the lake. Rothbart dies.
The storm grows. The lake overflows its banks, and Siegfried is drowned in the flood. In the heavens, the clouds part. Odette and Siegfried are seen united in love at last.
Performance history
The first performance was not a great success for several reasons: the principal ballerina was past her prime, the sets and dances were mediocre, and the music was conceived on a symphonic scale which the audience did not understand.
Although the Moscow production was not a great success, the ballet was revived in 1895 for St. Petersburg, Russia with dances by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. It was performed in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater. This time, the ballet was a great success. It quickly spread across Russia, Europe, and the United States.
The principal role of the Swan Queen is one that all ballerinas want to perform. Like the role of Giselle, it is a test of a ballerina's technical, artistic, and dramatic powers.
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Edward.txt
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Edward
Edward is a name.
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Etymology
People called Edward
People with the surname Edward
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Voodoo.txt
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Voodoo
Voodoo is the practice of evil magic. It is used in Haiti.
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Grand-child.txt
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Grandchild
Grandchild is a gender neutral term for a child of a child in relation to its grandparents.
The term for males is grandson and for females is granddaughter.
The plural form is "grandchildren".
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Ketogenic_diet.txt
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Ketogenic diet
The ketogenic diet is a strictly limited carbohydrate, protein and caloric balance and therefore the form of dietary-fat diet that mimics the starvation metabolism in certain aspects. Through them, however, the body gets its energy demand of body fat (as in starvation) but from dietary fat. Ketogenic diet is used as a method of therapy, especially in children with drug-resistant epilepsy, glucose transporter malfunction and pyruvatedehydrogenase deficiency. You must be calculated individually and monitored by a physician. A non-medically induced special form of ketogenic diet are so-called low-carb diets such as the Atkins diet[1]
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Goofy.txt
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Goofy
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Gallery
Goofy is a funny animal cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1932. He first appeared in Mickey's Revue as Dippy Dawg in 1932.
History
Goofy was first depicted as a tall, skinny, miserable Dog, his role in Mickey's Revue is when he is seen shortly clapping after a performance. He had his Trademark Vest on, some pants, and he had bandages and scars over his upper torso and body. In "Orphans Benifet" he is now known as Goofy. In his color appearance He has now an orange vest and sweater, and has some pants resembling jeans and brown, beat up versions of Mickey Mouses shoes.
Donald and Mickey Trio years
In 1938 "The Whalers" was released, which depectied Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse Working along with Goofy to get away from a giant whale.
In one of his earliest color appearances, "Clockwork Cleaners" he works along Mickey and Donald in order to attempt to clean a giant clock resembling Big Ben.
Goofy Appears in "The Band Concert" Working with Mickey to make a good show of "The William Tell Overture", but this time Donald just annoys the Band and plays "Turkey In The Straw" with multiple flutes throughout the episode.
Goofy gets his own Movies
Goofy is Featured in "A Goofy Movie" and "A Extremley Goofy Movie" as the main protagonist along with his son Max. In the latter movie, Max goes into collage and Goofy, having lost his job, decides to go into collage with Max. The movies premiered with the former in 1995 and the latter in 2000.
Trivia
His first was an old, miserable dog.
His second was a younger, less miserable version of the first.
His next was as a random clothed character, such as wearing some concert clothes in "The Band Concert", Janitor clothes in "Clockwork Cleaners",
And A sailor suit in "The Whalers". His trademark sweater wouldn't appear until the early 1940s.
His 4th was having a more bold look, and depectied as The Ghost of Jacob Marley in 1983s "Mickeys Christmas Carol".
Then he was animated In CGI in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
His present look in the Mickey Mouse short cartoon series is somewhat his first design, looking a little miserable again, but now he has more of a yellowish vest and in one episode "Goofys First Love" there is a closeup where he is seen as a "Gross Up-Close Up".
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Minneapolis_Police_Department.txt
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Minneapolis Police Department
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is the police department in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
It was formed in 1867, making it the second-oldest police department in Minnesota after the Saint Paul Police Department.
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Precincts
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Wiktionary.txt
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Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is an online dictionary. As of May 2014, the English version has over 3.9 million entries.[1]
Wiktionary is a multilingual dictionary, which means that it tries to describe all words of all languages in each language version. For example, the word dog (an English word) is not only described in the English version, but also in the Spanish version, French version, and many others.
In addition to dictionary entries, it also has a thesaurus, translations, and detailed information on various language concepts in the appendices.
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Commonwealth_of_Nations.txt
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply called the Commonwealth, is an international association which includes 56 member states, most of which were former territories of the British Empire.
The Head of the Commonwealth is King Charles III. He is king of 15 member states, known as Commonwealth realms, while 36 other members are republics and five others have their own monarchs.
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Commonwealth realms
Republics
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London_Eye.txt
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London Eye
The London Eye is a large metal Ferris wheel. It is also known as the Millennium Wheel and is one of the largest observation wheels in the world. Since mid-January 2015 it has been known in branding as the Coca-Cola London Eye, after an agreement signed in September 2014.
The Eye was opened in 2000. It is 135 metres high. At the time it was built, in 1999, it was the tallest giant wheel in the world, and at present it is Europe's tallest Ferris wheel.[1] It offered the highest public viewing point in London.[2] The 245-meter observation deck on the 72nd floor of The Shard is now the highest public view of London.
It is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom: there are over 3.5 million visitors annually, and the Eye has made many appearances in popular culture.
The London Eye was overtaken in height by the Star of Nanchang, which is 160 metres high. On the 11th February 2008 the Singapore Flyer overtook the Star of Nanchang, with 165 metres.
The London Eye stands at the western end of Jubilee Garden, on the South Bank of the river Thames, between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge.
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Arithmetic.txt
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Arithmetic
Arithmetic is the study of certain kinds of numbers and ways they can change each other.
Usually today arithmetic is about numbers bigger than zero which are real numbers.
The things you can do in arithmetic are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The name comes from the Greek word arithmos which means "number".
Arithmetic has many practical uses in daily use. For example, adding up prices at the store. Or figuring out the tip at a restaurant.
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Figurate_numbers.txt
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Figurate number
Figurate number is term for members of different sets of numbers used by different writers.
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Roald_Dahl.txt
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was born on 13 September 1916 in the city of Llandaf in Wales.
He was a famous writer.
He died on 23 November 1990, in Oxford, at the age of seventy-four years.
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His books
Roald Dahl wrote some books for children like "James and the Giant Peach" ; "Matilda" ; "Fantastic Mr Fox" and "The BFG", but his most famous novel for children is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". This book was adapted in film.
Roald Dahl wrote some books for adults too, like "Tales of the Unexpected".
Characters in his books
Famous characters in his books include Charlie, James, Bruce Bogtrotter and Augustus Gloop.
His family
When Roald Dahl was 3 years old, his sister, Astri, who was 7 years old, died of appendicitis. In 1953, he married an American actress, Patricia Neal, with whom he had 5 children. After 30 years together, they divorced. Later, Roald Dahl married Felicity Crossman.
Roald Dahl in the RAF (Royal Air Force)
In November 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, Roald Dahl joined the Royal Air Force. He was an aircraftman, and his service number was 774022.
One day, his plane "Gladiator" crashed in the western desert of North Africa. It was in September 1940. He suffered severe injuries to his head, nose and back. He was taken to the Anglo-Swiss hospital of Alexandria, in Egypt. He stayed 6 months at the hospital to recover from his injuries.
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Sumeria.txt
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Sumer
The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia around 4000 BC. Mesopotamia or "the Fertile Crescent" was a region in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the territory of modern Iraq, Iran and Syria. Ancient Sumeria was very small: it occupied only a narrow stretch of this territory, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers reach the Persian Gulf. Their territory was mostly inside the modern-day borders of Iraq, with small stretches of land in Kuwait, Iran and Arabia. Sumerian traders are known to have sailed down the Gulf as far as modern-day Qatar and Bahrain, and to have traveled upstream to Haran, in the neighborhood of the modern-day cities of Mosul and Tikirit.
Since the land between these two rivers was very fertile, people first started practising agriculture (farming), there. Sumer became home to the first civilizations and cities. In the beginning these cities were independent, each city being a state or nation of its own. Each city had its own king, laws, gods, and calendar. The biggest cities were Eridu, Kish, Lagash, Uruk, Ur, and Nippur. The rulers of these cities led constant wars
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Architecture
The Sumerians built houses, palaces and temples using mud bricks. Good stone is not found in the Euphrates delta, so it had to be transported at great expense over long distances. Small quantities of precious stone would be used to cover the brick in places, but most Sumerian buildings were brick.
Sumerians made bricks by scooping wet mud into a wooden frame. The bricks would be all of the same size, but slightly rounded on top. The Sumerians preferred low, wide bricks to the standard shape we use today. Sunshine would evaporate most of the water from the brick, which hardened. Builders only rarely fired their bricks to make them totally hard. This meant that heavy rains and floods would usually destroy Sumerian buildings. Fired bricks would be decorated with paints or glazes, and assembled to form pictures on walls. Sometimes the Sumerians covered walls of brick with an added layer of mud, into which they would push cones of colored clay to decorate walls.
The most famous type of Sumerian architecture was the Ziggurat. Ziggurats were many-storied structures like pyramids, or wedding cakes. Each layer was square, with a smaller layer built on top. Stairs on the outside of the ziggurat led up the sides to the top of the building. This put the top platform of the ziggurat high in the air. There the Sumerian priests put temples to their gods. It is possible they also watched the movements of the stars from observatories there, built very high on a platform of mud brick. On these large platforms were built smaller and smaller platforms, creating a pyramid shape. Originally they were made out of mud brick but Ziggurats from later times were made out of fired bricks, which were glazed and adorned with pictures or faced with stone carvings.
Most people's houses did not look like this. They were simple mud brick huts, similar to those found all over the Middle and Near East. Many of them had courtyards at the center, with chambers for eating and working on the main floor, and rooms for sleeping either at the back or upstairs. We do not know what the roofs of these houses were like, but we can guess. They were built of heavy sticks set into the wall in one direction, and lighter sticks laid over them in another direction, and covered with a layer of mud.
Food
As Sumerians were mostly agricultural people, they ate what they farmed: wheat, barley, lentils, beans, garlic, onions, milk and milk products. They made bread and beer from grains. Meat, usually from goats or sheep and occasionally cattle, was probably rare in their diets; the animals were too expensive to kill. They ate apples and other kinds of foods.
Records of ancient Sumerian laws show that oxen — cattle bred, de-horned and neutered for work — were valuable but potentially dangerous animals. When they escaped, they did damage to fields and sometimes injured or killed people. Sheep and goats were probably more common. The wool and leather from the animals was also useful, because it could be turned into clothing or armor or tools.
Clothing
Their clothing was mostly made out of wool and flax. flax is a plant with blue flowers. the stem of flax was used in making the clothing. clothing was also made out of other products they could grow themselves.
The men of Sumer often had long hair with a parting in the middle. Many had long beards as well, although some men preferred to be clean-shaven. The mens attire consisted of long skirts and no shirts. woman wore floor-length gowns that covered the left shoulder. The right shoulder and arm were left bare.
Sumerian women also wore their hair long. Most women would braid their locks into one long braid which they then wrapped around the top of their heads. when there were guests around women would wear a headdress.
princesses wore bright colored clothes and expensive jewelry made out of gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and carnelian.
heavier clothing was worn in the winter and lighter clothing was worn in the summer.
social status was determined by the quantity and quality of jewelry and clothing a person owned but they did not need a lot of clothing because of where they lived (in a warm, dry climate).
Writing
Sumerians were the first to invent writing. They wrote with sharpened sticks made of reed – a plant that grows on the banks of rivers. One of these sticks is called a stylus. When you push this kind of pen into a tablet of raw clay, you’ll get lines that look like wedges: thicker on one side, thinner on the other. That is why their writing is called Cuneiform, which means "wedge-shaped".
Writing consisted of small pictures. At first, these pictures were drawn into the clay with the stylus. There was a different picture for each word. That meant that a person had to know thousands of these pictures to read and write. Only very educated people, called scribes, were able to read and write. The scribes found drawing pictures to be very hard even in smooth wet clay, so they invented standard ways to combine wedges to form the pictures. After many centuries, they created very quick combinations of wedges that formed the pictures.
Children went to schools to learn how to be scribes. They began by reciting prayers to their gods and promises to their teachers to study hard and learn well. Then they learned to shape clay into many kinds of tablets — rounded squares for legal contracts, and large oblongs for poetry, and cylinders or prisms for royal decrees. They also copied out word lists — rows of symbols that belonged to specific categories, like the names of kings, and the words for different kinds of jobs, and words for different products available in the markets of the city. The teachers used sticks to beat slow learners, but also gave special tutoring to the students of parents who paid extra. After learning many words, scribes practised making whole documents by copying out famous laws, poems and songs. This made them fast and accurate scribes.
Scribes wrote numbers with the back end of the stylus, and used different symbols for 1, 5, 10, 20, and 60. So the number "157" would be written with two 60s, a 20, a 10, a 5 and two 1s (60+60= 120 + 20 = 140 + 10 = 150 + 5 = 155 + 1 +1 = 157). Scribes could add and subtract. Some seem to have known how to multiply and divide, but most did not. Highly trained scribes appear to have known some geometry and some astronomy, but the Sumerians did not have an accurate calendar.
Religion
Sumerians had many gods. An was the god of the sky, Enki the god of water, Enlil the god of air, Ki the goddess of the earth, Inanna the goddess of fertility and many more. Plus, they had lots of local deities; each town had its own.
The sky god An was very important, but not always very smart. In one story, he decided to destroy all humans one day, because their noise was tremendous and it kept him awake. An ordered Enki to send a flood to destroy everyone, and Enki did so. But An had forgotten that people give the gods sacrifices of food, drink, and incense. Because of this, the gods nearly starved because An was upset about a little noise.
Fortunately, a Sumerian named Utnapishtim had gotten warning of the flood from Enlil, the god of air. Enlil told Utnapishtim to build a boat, and sail away on the flood with useful plants and animals in the boat. The old Sumerian man had done so, and when the flood waters receded, he sacrificed to the gods. The food revived An and the others, and they recognized their folly at last. Never again, they promised, would they try to wipe out humans.
A version of this story is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, which is repeated in the Christian Bible.
History
The Sumerians began as a series of powerful city-states. Each city had its own god and looked after itself and ruled the surrounding countryside. They fought each other as well as made alliances. This culture lasted from about 2900 - 2400 BC. They had a very distinct culture and their style of architecture, writing and religion spread throughout the Middle East.
The Akkadians settled North of Sumer along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and copied many of the Sumerians' ideas. Later on, one of the Akkadian kings, Sargon I conquered all the city states of Sumer and Akkad and created the world's first empire. His reign lasted about 60 years (2371 - 2316 BC) and his empire stretched from the coast of Lebanon to Iran. When Sargon died, his empire broke up and the Sumerians and Akkadians were invaded by other groups of tribesmen from the mountains.
After this, the dominant forces in the Middle East were the Babylonians and Assyrians. These two civilizations were descendents of the Akkadians who had ruled over the whole area, but they split into separate empires. The Assyrians were in the North and the Babylonians were in the South. The Sumerians as a people no longer existed, though their writing, architecture and religion influenced the civilizations in this area for centuries after. They had over 100 gods.
Sumerian legends
The most famous of Sumerians is Gilgamesh, legendary king of Uruk. He is known due to the Epic of Gilgamesh, a collection of Sumerian legends, later translated and written down in Akkadian. It tells about the adventure of Gilgamesh, his friendship with Enkidu, a wild man raised by animals, and his journey to obtain the secret of immortality.
In the Epic, Gilgamesh is portrayed as a young king full of arrogance and pride. Gilgamesh is a bully, and has no friends. The gods are worried because Gilgamesh is so unkind to his people, so they send Enkidu, a wild man every bit Gilgamesh's equal, to be his friend. When they meet each other, Gilgamesh starts a fight, but he discovers that Enkidu is so strong that he cannot win; but Enkidu discovers the same thing about Gilgamesh. As soon as they have tired each other out, without one or the other winning, they become fast friends. Enkidu teaches Gilgamesh kindness, while Gilgamesh teaches Enkidu to be civilized. Both grow up to be very handsome.
Gilgamesh decides he needs a tree for the roof of his palace, so he proposes a quest to the cedar forest to cut down a tree. Enkidu is horrified and warns Gilgamesh of the terrifying monster Humbaba who guards the forest. Gilgamesh manages to persuade his friend to go anyway, and they go on the quest in search of the tree. Together they meet and kill the monster, and chop down the tree.
But the death of Humbaba makes the gods angry. Further, the goddess Inanna sees Gilgamesh and wants him for her husband. But Gilgamesh tells her that she has already had too many husbands, and she has used them all up — she even kills them when she tires of them! Gilgamesh prefers being a bachelor, thank you. Angered, Inanna persuades her father to release the Bull of Heaven in Uruk, to destroy Gilgamesh and his people. The Bull runs wild in the streets, for to touch it is death. Many are slain by the touch of the Bull, its horns or its flanks or its tail.
Enkidu and Gilgamesh go out to destroy the Bull, and they succeed in killing it. But the Bull manages to touch Enkidu, who sickens and dies. Gilgamesh is heartbroken, and refuses to let anyone care for the body or bury his friend. He delays so long that maggots begin falling out of Enkidu's eye sockets and nostrils. Finally, Gilgamesh consents to the burial of his friend, but he cannot bear the thought of dying himself. His mother tries to console him and tell him that death is normal, but the king of Uruk will not hear it. He resolves to go to the ends of the earth in search of a cure for dying — a way to become immortal.
He faces many perils on his trip. First he travels through the tunnel that the Sun uses when traveling underneath the earth. He enters it at sunrise, and races to the other end, hoping to get out before the hot sun comes in at sunset, and burns him alive. He makes it, but then he must confront the scorpion monster. However, the scorpion monster's wife tells her husband to leave the human alone, he is so tired. The scorpion monster allows Gilgamesh to live, and guides him to Sudri, a woman who keeps a tavern for the gods at the end of the earth. Sudri refuses to give Gilgamesh the secret of eternal life, but the boatman offers to guide Gilgamesh to Utnapishtim, who lives forever. Together, Gilgamesh and the boatman cross the Waters of Death, though not without some trouble.
The next chapters of this epic form the story of Utnapishtim, the king who saved humankind of the Great Flood. His tale is very similar to the Biblical story of Noah's Ark. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh that he cannot handle living forever, because he cannot even stay awake seven days. Despite his weariness, Gilgamesh agrees to stay awake for seven days. Mrs. Utnapishtim promises to bring Gilgamesh a loaf of bread every day so that he can eat. No sooner than she goes away to prepare the loaf for the first day, but Gilgamesh falls asleep! He sleeps all through all seven days. When he wakes, he insists to Utnapishtim that he only dozed a moment — but the seven stale and moldy loaves of bread beside him prove otherwise. Utnapishtim denies Gilgamesh the secret, and takes him back to the boatman.
The boatman is sympathetic to Gilgamesh, though, and tells the king of Uruk that Utnapishtim gets his eternal life from a plant under the water. If Gilgamesh only dives into the water and brings up the plant, he will have eternal life. Gilgamesh, now thinking of home, decides to get the plant and bring it home to his royal gardens in Uruk. There, it will make everyone immortal, and the whole city will thank him. He dives into the water, retrieves the plant, and returns across the water. There, while he sleeps, a snake comes along and devours the plant. Not until he is within sight of the walls of his home city, Uruk, does Gilgamesh realize that his journey was for nothing. He weeps, but consoles himself with the knowledge that he has built a strong city which will endure long after he is dead and gone.
What is left of them today?
Though Sumerians do not exist anymore, they left many technological inventions, like the wheel (which made transport easier and quicker), the potter’s wheel, baked clay, the cuneiform script, and lots of agricultural inventions: irrigation systems, agricultural tools and even beer-brewing. They may have been the first people to fit sails to boats. They made astronomical observations, and were also the first to measure time in 60-minute hours and 60-second minutes. Their priests invented clocks too, some were just like kinds of sundials and others were a type of water clock, with water dripping slowly from a pottery jar. The peasants in Sumeria were the first ones to find out how to harness animals to plows, instead of cultivating the land with hand hoes, and this allowed people to grow much more grain.
Recent collaboration between archeologists and DNA analysts tell that there is a strong connection between the marsh Arabs of Iraq and Iran and the Sumerian culture.
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The Taj Mahal is a white marble tomb (mausoleum) in India. It was built between 1632 and 1653 by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
It is in the city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh. It is widely thought as one of the greatest works of art in the world. it is one of India's biggest tourist attractions.
It was chosen as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.[1] It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, together with the Agra Fort, 2.5 kilometers away.[2]
Construction
The Taj Mahal is an example of Mughal architecture – a mixture of building design ideas from Islamic Indian, Persian (old Iran), and Muslim arts.
Shah Jahan was entombed in the Taj Mahal with his wife.
The Taj Mahal was constructed with materials from all over the world, and over 20,000 people were used to move building materials. It is generally thought that Ustad Ahmad Lahauri was in charge of the construction.[3] The construction was finished in 1653.[4]
Threats
Many people think it is one of the most beautiful buildings ever built. However, it is slowly being damaged by acid rain.[5] A nearby oil refinery has been blamed for some of the damage.
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Skrillex
Skrillex is a dubstep music producer.
Some of his songs include: Ruffneck, Bangarang, Summit, and First of the Year (Equinox).
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Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked country in Asia. It borders India and China. It is located in the Himalayas, which is why the country is rocky. It is home to the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, called Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) in Nepali.
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Roy Rogers, (Birth name: Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor. Roy Rogers Restaurants chain was named after him. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden horse (name:Trigger), and his German Shepherd dog (name:Bullet), came in more than 100 movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show came on radio and then came on television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually had a sidekick (a companion), usually either Pat Brady, (who drove a Jeep called "Nellybelle") or Andy Devine, or the crotchety (irritating) George "Gabby" Hayes. Rogers's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Evans's nickname was "Queen of the West."
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About Roy Roger's life
Early life
Leonard Franklin Slye was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in USA. His parents' name was Andrew and Mattie Syle. His family lived in a tenement building (apartment on rent) on 2nd Street. (Riverfront Stadium was built at this place in 1970 and Leonard joked that he had been born at second base.) His father, Andrew Syle was not happy with his job and city life. So,Andy Slye and his brother Will built a 12-by-50-foot houseboat from salvage lumber. Then, in July 1912, the Slye family floated on the Ohio River towards Portsmouth, Ohio. The Syles family wanted a more stable life in Portsmouth. So, they bought land on which they could built a home.
But, because of the flood of 1913, they were able to move their houseboat to the land. So, they continued living in the houseboat on dry land.
In 1919, the Slyes bought a farm in Duck Run, located near Lucasville, Ohio which is 12 miles north of Portsmouth. There they built a six-room home. But the farm alone could not give a good income for his family, so Leorand's father, Andrew took a job at a shoe factory in Portsmouth. He lived there during the week and came back home on the weekends. He used to bring gifts for his family after paydays (the day payment is given). One important gift was a horse on which Leonard learned how to ride a horse.
After Leonard comleted his eight grade, he studied at High School in McDermott, Ohio. When he was 17, his family returned to Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, his father started work at another shoe factory. Leonard also wanted to help his family to earn more money. So, he left high school. He started to work with his father at the shoe factory and went to night school.
Leonard was made laughed at (made fun of) for sleeping in class. So, he left the night school and never joined again.
Leonard and his father did not like their factory jobs. In 1929, his older sister, Mary, went to Lawndale, California with her husband. Leonard and his father left their shoe factory jobs. The family lived with Mary for four months and then cam back to Ohio. Soon, Leonard got to go to California with Mary's husband's father. Rest of the family came to California in the spring of 1930.
The Slyes took a small house on rent near Mary. Leonard and his father very soon found jobs as truck drivers for a highway making project. But, when they came to work they got to know that their employer (person who gives job) had become bankrupt (did not have enough money). Soon, came the years of Great Depression. The Slyes were now moving from job to job collecting fruit and living in worker camps. One day, Andrew Slye got to know about a shoe factory giving jobs in Los Angeles. Andrew asked Leonard to join him. Leonard used to feel happy playing guitar and singing around campfires. So, he told his father that he wanted to earn money through music. His father allowed him to do so. Leonard and his cousin Stanley Slye went to Los Angeles and started to perform as The Slye Brothers.
Leonard now came to be known as Len. In 1932, he met Lucille Ascolese while on tour. The same year, a palomino colt (a breed of horse) was born in Santa Cietro, CA. The young horse was first named "Golden Cloud", and later renamed "Trigger". In May 1933, Len, 21, proposed to Lucille, 19, through radio. Len then went on tour with the "O-Bar-O Cowboys". In June 1933, Len met Grace Arline Wilkins at a radio station in New Mexico. She gave Len a lemon pie in return of his singing "Swiss Yodel" on the radio. By August 1934, Len and Lucille had separated as she was jealous and tired of being a musician's wife. Len and Lucille's divorced on June 8, 1936. Len and Grace Arline Wilkins married in Roswell, New Mexico, on June 11, 1936.[1]
In 1941, Len and his wife, Grace adopted a girl, Cheryl Darlene. In 1942, they legally changed their names to Roy and Grace Arline Rogers. The next year, Arline gave birth to a daughter, Linda Lou.
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Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada is a social liberal party in Canada. It was founded in 1867, and is sometimes called "Canada's natural governing party" as it lead the country for 69 years throughout the 20th century. During the 20th century, it competed with the Progressive Conservative party, but in the 1990s, the Reform Party of Canada was created, which was made up of people who were further to the right then the PCs. The Reform Party then became the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance, in 2000, only to be forced to change its name because it has the unfortunate acronym of "CCRAP". The Reform Alliance dominated Western Canada during the late 90s and in 2000, while the PCs remained the dominant opposition to the Liberals in Ontario and other provinces, allowing the Liberals to remain in power. The two parties merged in 2004, and the Liberals lost the 2006 election due to vote-splitting among the centre-left between the Liberals, the New Democrats, and the Greens. The Liberals would not win another election until 2015, as Canadians had gotten sick of the right-wing policies of the Conservatives, and the NDP had attempted to move to the centre, causing them to lose their momentum and allowing the Liberals to outflank them on the left.
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Bicycle
A bicycle, or bike, is a small, human powered land vehicle with a seat, two wheels, two pedals, and a metal chain connected to cogs on the pedals and rear wheel. A frame gives the bike strength, and all of the parts other than the frame are attached to the frame. The name comes from these two wheels - the prefix "bi-" meaning two, and the suffix "-cycle" meaning wheel. It is powered by a person riding on top, who pushes the pedals around with his or her feet.
Riding bicycles, which is also called cycling, is an important way to travel in several parts of the world. It is also a common recreation, a good form of low-impact exercise, and a popular sport. It is also the second most popular spectator sport in the world.
Bicycling uses less energy per mile than any other human transport.
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Invention
In 1817 a German professor, baron Karl von Drais, created the first two-wheeled bicycle. It had a handlebar, and looked like a bicycle of today, but it didn't have pedals, and it had a wooden body.
In the 1860s, French inventors added pedals to the front wheel. However, it took a lot of effort to turn the pedals. Later inventors made bikes out of metal only, and made the front wheel very big, giving higher speed. This design was called the penny-farthing bicycle. However, it was difficult to ride, since it could fall easily.
Several improvements were made in the 1880s and '90s. In 1885, the safety bicycle was invented. This had two wheels the same size so that the rider could sit at a lower height. It was called the safety bicycle because it much easier to ride than the penny-farthing. Instead of pedaling and steering with the front wheel, the safety bicycle used steering with the front wheel while the pedals turned the back wheel using a chain. Brakes operated by hand levers on some bikes also increased safety.
In 1888, Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop re-invented a type of tire which was filled with air, and this made cycling far more comfortable.
Soon, the freewheel was invented. This was a device inside the hub of the back wheel that allowed the wheel to spin even if the rider wasn't pedalling. However, this meant the rider could no longer stop the bike by backpedalling. As a result, a different type of brake was invented which could stop the bike if the pedals were turned backwards. Later inventions included better brakes, and gears, which made cycling over hills much easier. During this time the bicycle became very popular.
Wooden Draisine (around 1820), the first two-wheeler
Penny-farthing
Actual bicycle
Racing bicycle
Types of Bicycles
Mountain Bicycle
The mountain bicycle is used for riding on rough roads. They have many speeds (usually more than 20), wide tires, and powerful wheels. The tire tread is specially designed to ride smoothly on hills, grass, and mountains.
Fags (Urban) Bicycle
The Urban bicycle is used for the convenient ride around the city. It is comfortable and has a relatively high speed. It has a comfortable seat but is heavy. It usually has fenders to keep water and mud from spraying the rider.
Woman’s Bicycle
The difference between a woman's bicycle and other bicycles is the location of the top tube. When women began to ride bikes, they wore long skirts. The manufacturers of bicycles changed the location of the top tube to make it easier for women to sit down on them while wearing a skirt.
Mountain Bike (2009)
Urban Bike for girls (Amsterdam.2010)
Tandem Bike (2007)
Electric Bike (2013)
Road Bicycle
Tandem Bicycle
The tandem is a bicycle for 2 people. It has two pairs of pedals. The cyclists sit one behind another. The first cyclist steers the bicycle. There are bicycles for 3 and more people. There was a bicycle for 40 people.
Electric Bicycle
Electric bicycles have electric motors normally found inside the hub of either the front or rear wheel.
You can choose to ride using the motor only, or with pedals only or with both together.
In the U.S. the federal government has set a limit of 750 Watts and a top electric-powered speed of 20MPH to have only the rules that apply to bicycles and no extra restrictions such as operator license, vehicle license, registration or insurance requirements.
Road Bicycle
A road bicycle usually has smaller tires, less than 1" thick, with a frame that is much lighter than a mountain bicycle. Road bikes are a great option for training longer distances and changing out the pedals for clip in shoes are the best way to go. There are variations, as some road bicycles have regular tires. A road bike can go very fast and is a good choice when participating in a bike race.
Safety
It is very important to ride on the safe side of the road for the direction of motion. To avoiding hitting people, obey signs that say "no bicycling", even if it does not seem to make sense at the time.
Low light makes bicycle lighting important; therefore, without bicycle lighting, it may be safer not to ride.
It is also very important to correctly wear a helmet, because falling down from the bicycle many times in a lifetime of bicycle riding is very likely.
Bells that a bicycle user can put on the handlebars and ring while riding also exist.
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Greed
Greed, or avarice is the desire for material gain such as for money or for status or power.
In Christianity, greed is considered a sin and in some denominations, is considered one of the Seven deadly sins.
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Black Swan theory
The Black Swan theory is a philosophical theory in which an unexpected event shakes our understandings of reality.
When the theory was originally proposed, black swans were thought not to exist and the theory was about how seeing a black swan would change someone's expectation that black swans didn't exist. But ironically, black swans were later discovered in Australia when the Europeans first explored the land.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in Illinois and the third most populous in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles). In 2013, the population of the city proper was 2,718,782.[1] In 2011, the urban area had 9.676 million people, which makes it the third largest urban area in the United States.[2]
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Energy drink
An energy drink is a beverage with an elevated ammount of caffeine, alongside with other ingredients like sugar, L-Caretine and taurine. As it's name suggest, it helps stimulate the consumer temporally. They usually sell in cans of 250 ml or 500 ml (and some others sells them in plastic bottles)
The ammount of caffeine and/or the ingredients may vary depending on the brand, as long as it remains safe to consume with moderation.
Popular brands that sells energy drinks are Monster Energy (US), Red Bull (Austria) or Eneryeti (Spain).
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Paço de São Cristóvão
The Paço de São Cristóvão is a neoclassical palace located in Boa Vista Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Eris
Eris can refer too
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Brain
The brain (Latin: cerebrum) is an organ which is made up of neurons where an organism thinks. The brain is central to the nervous system, the system of nerves that make a human capable of feeling objects.
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Male
Male is a type of gender. Most living things have two genders – male and female.
In the case of males, adult human males are called men, while male children are called boys.
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Dying
Dying is the ending period of life then death.
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F2P game
A free to play game (F2P) is a game where the game is free but usually there are premium stuff in the game. This is how the group makes money. This is rare in console games but in mobile games, it is very common. The premium stuff in the game often helps a player with a game, therefore less skill. People who play the game entirely free often get more skill because they may not have items that helps them. While people who pay for such items often get less skill because the item helps them.
Methods
The 2 in game currencies method
One of the most common types of F2Ps are the 2 in game currency method. The main currency (Ex: Coins) are common throughout the game and helpful for minor items and so. They will be seen literally everywhere in the game usually. However, The 2nd currency (Ex: Stars) is much rarer and it usually costs money for it. Otherwise, premium currency can be found at the start, or by rare stuff like achievements.
Free mode and premium mode
Games like Prodigy math game. They have a free version often with simpler stuff and less features, the premium version offers the full version, with all of the features. This can cause extreme opinions on people who cannot pay or afford to pay.
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Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars between 1455 and 1487 over the Kingdom of England between the rival houses House of Lancaster and House of York, cadet branches of the House of Plantagenet.
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Chef
A chef (also known as a cook) is a person who cooks in restaurants for customers.
The best chefs appear on TV shows such as Top Chef and MasterChef where they cook as a challenge to win.
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Yesterday
Yesterday is the day before today.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh is a children's book by A. A. Milne. It was published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. (London) in 1926. Pooh was followed by the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. The chapters were written in such a way that they do not need to be read in order, as each is a separate episode and independent of the others. Ernest Shepard drew the pictures for both books.
Winnie-the-Pooh is about the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, but the bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel House.
Christopher Robin is the only human character in the books, and is based on Milne's son. He is the owner of the toys. The Pooh books are hugely popular, and have been made into movies several times, notably by Walt Disney. Shirley Temple hosted an episode of her television show, The Shirley Temple Show, in the early 1960s with the Bil Baird puppets and live actors. The books have been translated into several languages.
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Vorticella
Vorticella is a microscopic organism that grows in fresh water. It feeds on bacteria, and other microorganisms. Despite its general appearance, vorticella is neither an animal, nor a plant. It belongs to a totally different group, the Ciliates. Vorticella's close relatives include, for example, paramecium and stentor.
The vorticella's body is egg-like, with a crown of tiny hairs, the cilia : the vorticella uses its cilia by swinging it in the water, to catch its preys and take it to its mouth. The body ends by an elongated kind of stem, by which the vorticella is fixed to its support : a weed stem, a pebble, a snail's shell. The vorticella's general shape looks like a kind of flower... But vorticella is not a plant : it has a mouth, and catch bacteria and other small microorganisms that it feeds on. Vorticella is a tiny organism, usually less than a millimeter long.
Vorticella reproduces itself by budding : a new vorticella grows on the body of the first one, and later comes away to attach elsewhere. This makes lod vorticella, with a lots of buds, looking like a bunch of flowers.
Vorticella looks like a kind of coral, but it is quite smaller, and mostly it is not an animal : its whole body is constituted of only one cell.
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1,000,000
1,000,000 (one million) is a number.
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WikiGenius
WikiGenius is an English language online encyclopedia powered by Mediawiki [1] and created by Parvej Husen Talukder[2], it aims to provide a reliable and inclusive platform for sharing knowledge.[3]
It based on a model where verified editor can edit the content.[4] It was created to eliminate the flaws of Wikipedia where admins and editors can decide without specializing in a particular topic or field.[5]
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Description
WikiGenius offers a more lenient notability standard, and acts as a competitor of Wikipedia.[6]
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Dementia
Dementia is a collective name for all kinds of complaints and symptoms. In people with dementia, the brain does not work properly, so that information no longer ends up properly. The brains of people with dementia deteriorate. This affects the behavior and mood of the individuals. Their daily lives are also disrupted. Someone with dementia is called a demented person and having dementia is called dementia.
There are a total of 50 types of dementia. These include Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia and Korsakov's syndrome. While people with dementia can be forgetful, forgetfulness is different from dementia
In dementia, the nerve cells break down. Sometimes the nerve cells themselves do not break down, but the connections between them no longer work properly. This decrease causes the brain to work less well. In some patients, the decline is much faster than in others. As a result, one person can live independently for a long time and the other cannot. Eventually, the patient becomes so weakened by the dementia that it dies from the disease. An infection can also arise from pneumonia, because the patient can no longer swallow.
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The Angry Birds Movie
The Angry Birds Movie is a Finnish-American computer animated comedy movie based on the game series Angry Birds. It is directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, produced by John Cohen and Catherine Winder, and written by Jon Vitti. The movie's voice roles are played by Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage, among others.
The movie premiered on May 20, 2016 in the United States and on May 13 in Sweden.
The Swedish version is dubbed. Among the Swedish voices are Nassim Al Fakir, Adam Fietz, Fredde Granberg, Jens Hultén, Alex Kantsjö, Allan Svensson and Cecilia Wrangel Schough.
Plot
Bird Island is an island home to peaceful flightless birds. Red is a bird that lives alone as a hermit, grumpy and marginalized, with a tendency to have fits of anger. His job is to entertain the newborn chicks by making them laugh. After getting angry and smashing the birthday cake in the face of his latest client, who had teased and attacked him only because he was late, he ends up in court. In court, Judge Beccazampa sentences him to an anger control course.
The teacher of the course is Matilda, who in the past was an angry bird herself. Among the birds taking part in the course are Chuck, a lightning-fast yellow bird who has caused trouble with a policeman, Bomb, a gentle black bird that tends to explode whenever it is surprised or shocked, and Terence, a huge red bird that only expresses itself through growls and grunts. On the first day, Red destroys a sign mannequin made by Chuck without telling anyone, later Chuck discovers and unmasks it during one of the meetings. The course fails to improve Red's behavior.
One day, while they are following the course, Red and his companions are informed by Stella that a wooden ship is arriving on the island. Two pigs disembark from the ship, Leonard, and his assistant dachshund Ross; the two claim to be visiting from the Isle of Pigs. In short, the two pigs win the sympathy of the inhabitants. However Red asks Leonard if he is truly an explorer as he says he is, why the pigs are still on the island. The judge orders Red to stay away from them, refusing to believe his allegations about the pigs. Then Red with the help of Chuck and Bomb sneaks aboard the ship of the pigs discovering that the hold is full of them, immediately denounces the thing but to his great surprise instead of alarming the population again accuses Red of bothering the guests. So, Red gets Chuck and Bomb to help them look for the Great Eagle, an eagle giant said to be the protector of the island, and the only bird that can fly.
After a few days of searching, they find his Lake of Wisdom on top of Mount Bird, discovering that the Great Eagle actually lives there. As Red tries to inform the Eagle of his suspicions about pigs, it is revealed that the last is retired, lazy, boastful, and hasn't been flying for years. Angry at him, Red and his two friends return to the village. Red discovers that the pigs are placing TNT around the island, and they intend to steal the eggs of the island's birds. Red and Bomb then try to retrieve the eggs, and Chuck runs to warn all the other inhabitants of the island of the theft in progress. Red and Bomb are unable to stop the pigs, who return with the load of eggs to their island and in the meantime the explosives destroy the village.
When they land on the Isle of Pigs, it turns out that the pigs live in a walled city with a huge castle in the center . After Red sees a painting of Leonard with a crown on his head, he realizes that he is actually the king of the pigs, and that the eggs are most likely kept inside the castle. Using the giant slingshot , the birds attack the pigs but cannot reach the fortress. Red, Chuck and Bomb manage to enter the castle, where they discover that the eggs are in a boiler room, ready to be cooked and eaten by the pigs.
Before the trio manages to save the eggs, however, Red is captured by Leonard, who reveals his real name: King Mudbeard. When the evil ruler threatens to boil Red, Chuck and Bomb burst into the room. Even the Great Eagle, breaking through the roof, swoops into the hall and tries to take away the eggs. During the flight of the birds, a blue egg falls, which rolls towards the castle. Determined to risk his own life, Red runs to rescue the egg from King Mudbeard's clutches, and floods the castle with the cooking liquid from the egg cooker. The red bird outwits the king of pigs and retrieves the egg, leaving the ruler and the entire island destroyed using TNT. After the explosion, the birds believe that Red didn't make it and mourn him, but eventually he resurfaces with the egg, and is hailed as a hero. When the Great Eagle approaches him, Chuck and Bomb, he reveals that he has never actually been lazy, and that he made the three of them lose faith in him to find it in themselves.
Afterwards, it appears the birds give the Great Eagle all credit for saving the eggs, and Red takes it quietly, humbly, rather than having one of his typical bouts of rage. In addition, he eventually discovers that his fellow villagers have rebuilt his house as a sign of gratitude, so he decides that in the future it will be better for him to participate more often in the community. Finally Red, who now considers Chuck and Bomb as friends, decides to let them live in his house, and the two accept with joy.
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A MOBA stands for Multiplayer online battle arena.
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Farming in Gloucester village Sierra Leone
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The Gloucester village community
Gloucester is a beautiful community situated at the western part of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. You will find beautiful and active neighbourhoods, with vibrant mix of people and activities. The village is known for its rich culture and local activities which are very amazing to see and experience. In this amazing surrounding, you will discover diverse types of fresh fruits, vegetables and other local produce. This is one of the places in Sierra Leone where huge amount of fresh vegetable leaves and fruits are seen. Growing fresh vegetables is pre dominant in Gloucester village. A good number of the people living there are engage in this specific type of farming activity. The community in Gloucester village is known for its warmth weather, and fresh breeze that comes from the beautiful Mountains, and hills with large trees. As you walk through the street, you will often come across people engaging in lively conversations and sharing laughter. It is an exciting place where neighbours become friends, and everyone is welcome with open arms. Beyond the farming and cultural experiences, Gloucester village is also surrounded by natural beauty; Hills like Leicester peak. The village is so cold mostly at night and at times during the day. Gloucester village is full of swamp lands, but it is surprising to know that those swamps are not used for growing rice as people expect it to be. the same type of vegetables grown on dry lands are also grown on the swamps; it is just that the swamps are not extremely watery. During the raining season, farmers work on dry lands, and during dry season, they work on both dry and swamp lands.
Farmers and their tools
Farming, (growing fresh green vegetables) is the predominant activity in Gloucester village. it has been, and still sustaining the people who are mostly engaged in it. It is the main source of livelihood for huge number of households in this village. Most of the farmers use, simple tools like watering can, digging hoe, pick axe, softening hoe, cutlass, shovel, spade etc, instead of modern tools.
The Difficulties of farming.
Growing these vegetables is actually a difficult work. A lot of hard work (man power) is applied in the growing of these crops. The farmers would carry two watering cans, using them to fetch water from wells and rivers which may be very far or close to the garden to water their crops. As the village is situated in the mountains, it is sometimes very hard to access water, especially in the dry season. Farmers would also stay a whole day watching over their crops. Another issue the farmers face is the matter of land ownership. Some of the lands the farmers use is owned by themselves, others pay for the land they work on as a lease (it could be monthly or yearly depending on what the owner wants) It is sometimes sad to see farmers pay a huge sum of money to work on a piece of land and don’t make profit equal to the amount of money paid for the land. Some of the land owners could decide at any time to put up a structure on the land with a week or two of notice to the farmer which will lead to a big loss for the farmer.
Things grown on the farms.
The farmers make countless number of hips where different kinds of crops like lettuce, onion, cabbage, beans, thyme, tomato, radish, cassava, potato etc, are being grown. One of the funny facts about the local farmers is that they hardly eat their products except during special occasions and holidays. Some farmers work on their own, while others have people working for them who are been paid every month, or during harvesting time. This is the type of work a good number of the people living there have been doing over the years. It has been helping the people who are engage in it with feeding, house construction, business centres construction, education (primary, secondary and tertiary) and lot more.
Marketing the produce
The marketing of these grown crops is sometimes difficult. Marketing is mostly done by wives of farmers, farmers themselves, relatives and other people in the surrounding. The happy part of it is when crops are taken to town and are sold very fast in expected prices. The sad part of it is, when crops are taken to town but sales become difficult. This is sad because most of those crops cannot survive for the whole day or two after been harvested for sales. This is why harvesting is not done during a sunny day, but late in the evening hours or very early in the morning hours like 3am or 4am. Another sad part of it is, crops grown been stolen in the farm by thieves. Also, some season or months do not favour the crops. Farmers work hard, but crops do not grow as expected, this brings a lot of loss.
In conclusion, Gloucester village in Freetown Sierra Leone is a vibrant and culturally diverse neighbourhood that offers a unique blend of local experiences. From it predominant activity (farming) and friendly community to it natural beauty, there is actually something for everyone to enjoy. So, if you ever find yourself in Freetown, make sure you visit Gloucester village and join yourself into a lively atmosphere.
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2002
2002 (MMII) is a year in the 2nd millennium and 20th century.
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February
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Union Council of Bangladesh
Union Council, also known as Union Parishad, are the smallest local government units in Bangladesh. Think of them as the leaders of small villages or groups of villages.[1] Each union council is made up of nine wards. Usually one village is designated as a ward. There are 4,562 unions in Bangladesh.
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Girish Chandra Sen
Girish Chandra Sen (1834 – 15 August 1910) was a Bengali theologian, translator and polyglot. He is better known as Bhai Girish Chandra Sen and is called 'Maulvi.' He is credited with first publishing the complete Quran in Bengali to the Bengali-speaking public. First complete translation of Quran Sharif in the Bengali language. He was also well-versed in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Islamic subjects.
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Alcide De Gasperi
Alcide De Gasperi (born 3 April 1881, dead 19 August 1954) was Prime Minister of Italy from 1945 to 1953.
He promoted the idea of a peaceful Europe where states would come together and talk, negotiate and reach compromises. He participated in the creation of the Council of Europe (1949). Regularly meeting Robert Schuman (French foreign minister) and Konrad Adenauer (West-German Chancellor), he supported the Schuman Declaration (May 1950) that would lead to the European Coal and Steel Community. He is recognized as one of 11 so-called "founding fathers of the European Union".
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Shahnameh
The Shahnameh is a long poem by the Persian poet Firdausi. He began to write it in about 973 CE when he was 40. It tells the heroic history of Iran over a period of 4,000 years. It is 60,000 couplets (two written lines) long. The purpose of the epic poem was to tell of the past glories of Iran.
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Kitesurfing
Kitesurfing is sport by which a rider is powered across a body of water by the wind.
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2016
2016 (MMXVI) is a year in the Gregorian calendar.
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February
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Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton (25 December 1821, Oxford – 12 April 1912, Glen Echo) was an American nurse and humanist. She was the founder of the American Red Cross and also became interested in women's suffrage, prison reform, civil rights and education.[1]
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Family of Joe Biden
Joseph "Joe" Robinette Biden Jr. (born 1942), the 46th and current president of the United States married Neilia Hunter Biden (née Hunter; 1942–1972) in 1966 and had three children:
Neilia died in a car crash on 18 December 1972, along with her daughter Naomi. Joe Biden married Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs; born 1951) and they had one daughter: Ashley Biden (born 1981).
Joe Biden's father was Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. (1915–2002) and his mother was Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (née Finnegan; 1917–2010). Joseph Biden Sr.'s father was Joseph Harry Biden (1893–1941), whom is President Biden's grandfather, Biden Sr.'s mother was Mary Elizabeth Biden (née Robinette; 1894–1943), whom is President Biden's grandmother.
Jean Biden's father was Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, President Biden's grandfather and her mother was Geraldine Finnegan (née Blewitt), President Biden's grandmother.
Joe Biden is the oldest of four siblings. He has one younger sister and two younger brothers:
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Grandchildren
Children of Beau Biden
Beau Biden had 2 children with his wife Hallie K. Biden (née Olivere; born 1973):
Children of Robert Hunter Biden
Robert Hunter Biden had 3 daughters with his first wife Kathleen Buhle (formerly Biden; born c. 1969):
He had one daughter with Lunden Robers:
He had one son with his second wife Melissa Cohen Biden (née Cohen; born c. 1986).
Nieces and nephews
Joe Biden's sister, Valerie Biden Owens had married Bruce Saunders and they were later divorced. She married John Owens in 1975 and they had 1 son and 2 daughters, whom are nieces and nephews of President Joe Biden:
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Nose
A nose is a part of the human body. Its function is the sense of smell. It's in the middle of the face.
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Louis XIV
Louis XIV (5 September 1638 - 1 September 1715), also known as Louis The Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 to 1 September 1715. It one of the longest reigning king in history.[1]
He was the son of the King Louis XIII. His successor was his great-grandson Louis XV. He suffered from various ailments including diabetes symptoms, dental issues, recurring boils, fainting, gout, dizziness, hot flushes, headaches, and died from gangrene in 1715.
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Early life and reign
He was born on 5 September 1638, in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He has elder brother named "Philippe I", born in 1640. He was called Louis Dieudonné, which means "Louis the God-given.".[2] He was also given the title "Dauphin" which was a traditional title for French heirs.
In 1643, before his fifth birthday, his father died from Crohn's disease. Louis XIV ascended the throne in 1643. He is only five years old at the time. Based on the will of his father in accordance with Osho, the regent was handed over to Anne Austrian. At the age of 5, Louis XIV almost drowned from swimming pools.
Marriage and children
Louis XIV married Maria Theresa of Spain in 1660 and had six children, as part of the Treaty of the Pyrenees, which ended Franco-Spanish War. His eldest son, Louis, Grand Dauphin was born on 1 November 1661, and died in 1711. Their second child is a daughter named Anne Élisabeth born in 1662, but died in infancy. Maria Theresa passed away in 1683.
Later, Louis XIV was more faithful to Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. In 1683 or 1684, Louis secretly married Françoise d'Aubigné in Versailles.
Absolute monarch
After Mazarin's death in 1661, Louis XIV took direct control of the government and declared his intention to rule without a chief minister. He created an informal cabinet, which was eventually led by Jean-Baptiste Colbert. He saw his duty as ruling for the good of his people. While he made decisions, he also understood the importance of following the laws and customs of his kingdom.
Louis regularly consulted with his nobles and ministers, meeting with his high council every week. He also formed an informal cabinet, led by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who was in charge of finances.
Overall, Louis XIV was highly successful in portraying the image of an all-powerful monarch. He adopted the sun as his symbol and associated himself with its radiant image.
Nine Years' War
It started in the Rhineland. First, in 1685, Charles II, who ruled the Elector Palatine, died. Louis thought the Emperor might turn against him, so he was cautious. Another threat was the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688. Then later, The Nine Years' War starts in 1688 until 1697.
When James II of England had a son, he was become king, Louis XIV thought William moving to England, but it didn't. Then Louis XIV sent troops to the Rhineland to protect it. During the war, the French armies won most of the battles. France took over much of Savoy after battles in 1693.
The Peace of Ryswick marked ended Nine Years' War in 1697.
Later years
In the mid-1680s, Louis XIV began to lose his vitality. He had been taught to work hard by Mazarin and kept up a demanding schedule despite minor illnesses and ignoring his doctors' advice. Eventually, a broken arm prevented him from riding horses vigorously, and gout stopped him from taking long walks around Versailles. He had to be carried to his throne room or his carriage.
In 1683, his first wife passed away, and he secretly married his longtime mistress, Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. In 1711, he suffered the tragic loss of his oldest son, followed by the death of his oldest grandson the next year.
Death
Louis XIV died on 1 September 1715, due to Gangrene with 4 days before his 77th birthday and and his body was buried in the Saint-Denis Basilica near Paris. Then Louis XV became King of France until 1774, after Louis XIV's death.
Children
Maria Theresa of Spain
Madame de Montespan
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Málaga
Málaga is a city in southern Spain, in the region (Autonomous Community) of Andalusia and in the province of Málaga. The city itself has a population of over 570.000 people, but its metropolitan area accounts almost one million inhabitants, making it one of the most important cities of Spain. It is well-known for being a tourist hotspot, as it lies on the Costa del Sol, and only 100 kilometers away from the Strait of Gibraltar.
Málaga is also the place of birth of internationally famous people, such as Pablo Picasso (painter and sculptor), Antonio Banderas (actor), as well as politicians and philosophers. In terms of economic performance, Málaga stands out for being the first industrial city in Spain during the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is one of the most economically active cities in Spain.
Málaga enjoys a Mediterranean climate, with over 2900 hours of sunshine per year. Winters are mild and summers are tempered by its proximity to the sea. Summers and dry and most rainfall occurs between November and March.
Geography
Málaga is located in southern Spain. It lies on the Costa del Sol, on the Mediterranean Sea. The city is at the feet of the Montes de Maálaga. Actually, the higest elevation of this mountain range is 3385 feet above the sea the level.
Hisotry
Málaga is an old city, dating from the 8th centrury BC, when it was founded as a Phoenician colony, at that time known as Malaka. After the Punic Wars, Romans took over the city. A Roman theatre was built in the city. Once the Roman Empire fell down, several Germanic tribes ruled the city, noteworthy the Visigoths. In an attempt to rebuild the Empire, emperor Justinian I conquered the city. From 550 to 621, Málaga was part of the Byzantine Empire, but Visigoths finally took control of the city again. This situation remained until the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by moors, who vanquished the former settlers.
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The Firebird
The Firebird is a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Michel Fokine. The story of the ballet is based on Russian fairy tales. The ballet was written for the 1910 Paris season of Ballets Russes and premiered on 25 June 1910. The Firebird was played by Tamara Karsavina; Ivan Tsarevich by Michel Fokine;
Kaschei, the Immortal by Alexey Bulgakov; and
The Beautiful Tsarevna by Vera Fokina. The ballet was a huge success. Stravinsky later arranged music from the ballet for three concert suites.
Story
Prince Ivan enters the garden of the sorcerer, Kashchei the Immortal. Ivan sees and catches the Firebird. She begs for her life, and promises Ivan she will help him whenever he needs her.
Thirteen princesses enter the garden. Ivan falls in love with one of the princesses. He asks the sorcerer for the princess's hand in marriage, but the sorcerer begins a quarrel.
He sends all of his magical creatures against Ivan, but the Firebird intervenes. The creatures are made to dance. As the sorcerer sleeps, Ivan learns the secret of his immortality from the Firebird.
The sorcerer's soul is contained in an enormous egg in the garden. Ivan destroys the egg, and the sorcerer dies. The sorcerer's horrible creatures and his palace disappear. The princesses remain alive. Ivan is united with the princess he loves.
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Oxygen
Oxygen (chemical symbol O and atomic number 8) is a chemical element. It is a gas at room temperature. Oxygen is very important for life on earth. The atmosphere of the earth consists of approximately 21% oxygen. Oxygen is a gas with no color or smell. Humans and animals must breathe oxygen in order to live, and plants give off oxygen. Water (H2O) is a well-known chemical compound, which consists of one oxygen atom. Combustion, or burning, is caused by the reaction of oxygen and another element or compound.
Discovery of oxygen
Oxygen was initially discovered in 1772 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Then Joseph Priestley also discovered it two years later and spread the news before Scheele. This made many people think that Priestley discovered oxygen first. The word oxygen comes from Greek words: oxus (acid) and gennan (generate).
Oxygen comes to earth from all parts of the universe in meteorites. It is also found in minerals and plants that grow on the earth and other planets.
Oxygen in nature
Water contains oxygen. When one oxygen atom combines with two hydrogen atoms, they form a molecule of water (also written as H2O). This water is required by all living things to live.
Air also contains oxygen. Air is made of many gases that are mixed together. Approximately 21% of the air is oxygen. Oxygen is especially important because all animals use oxygen to get energy from their food.
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Tbilisskaya
Tbilisskaya is a village in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation.
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Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in films for cinema, theater or television.
The actor is the one who puts into action, the text and the situations organized by the director, it is he who acts and brings the character to life. The actor's main support is the script but he can also use mime, dance or singing, depending on the needs of his role.
It is directed by the director in cinema and television or directed by the director in theater and other shows.
A dubbing actor lends his voice, for example to a cartoon character or for films translated into another language. He then records his voice in the studio.
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Spaceflight
Spaceflight began on October 5, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into orbit. The satellite was a 23-inch diameter aluminum ball named Sputnik I which weighed 184 pounds. It carried a radio transmitter. Manned missions to Earth orbit were followed by a series of Moon landings beginning in 1969 by the United States. Unmanned scientific space probes have travelled to all the known planets in the Solar System and into deep space. Visits to comets and asteroids have also been made. More and more advanced manned space stations have been placed in orbit. Both government and private plans have been made to make a manned landing on Mars.
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer. Rogers played during the 30s in several musical films with Fred Astaire, for example Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936) and Shall We Dance (1937).
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Prime meridian
A prime meridian is an arbitrarily-chosen meridian (line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. Together, a prime meridian and its anit-meridian (the 180th meridian in a 360°-system) form a great circle. The great circle divides a spheroid such as Earth, into two hemispheres: the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.
Various conventions have been used or advocated in different regions throughout history for Earth. The current international standard prime meridian is the IERS Reference Meridian, which is derived from but differs slightly, from the Greenwich Meridian, the previous standard.
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John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 (O.S.) – 28 October 1704 (O.S.)) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
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Solar year
A solar year is the amount of time exactly for the earth to orbit the sun. It is equal to = 365.24217 days (Rounded to 365.2421 days). So the difference between calendar years and solar years are calendar years last exactly 365.0000 days, a solar year is about 2421 ten thousandths more of a day.
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A beet is a type of root vegetable. It is dark red in color. The edible rood grows underground, and its leaves, called "beet greens," can also be eaten.
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George V
George V (3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
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Sperm
A sperm is a kind of cell made by men for reproduction. It fertilizes an egg cell to create a new life.
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European Russia
European Russia is the part of Russia which is in Europe, the rest is located in Asia.
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Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)
The Symphony No. 41 in C major is Mozart's last, longest, and greatest symphony. It was completed on 10 August 1788. The symphony is nicknamed the "Jupiter" symphony. It is unknown if the symphony was ever performed in Mozart's lifetime.
Instrumentation
The symphony is written for flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns in C, two trumpets in C, timpani in C and G, and strings.
Structure
The symphony is written in four movements.
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Biome
A biome is the collection of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.
In the terrestrial (land) category, there are seven defined biomes:
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A puzzle is something that uses someone's knowledge to figure it out. Some puzzles are Mazes, Combination Puzzles, Jigsaw Puzzles, and some Video games have puzzles to figure out.
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Octopus
The Octopus is an animal. It has 8 arms which are called tentacles. It squirts ink. The prefix oct means 8.
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New Britain Rock Cats
The New Britain Rock Cats were a double A baseball team.
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The Raffia palm in Sierra Leone
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The Raffia palm in Sierra Leone:
The raffia palms belong to about twenty species of palms native to tropical regions of Africa and especially Madagascar. It is also grown in Sierra Leone in the south.
How it is processed:
Once harvested, the leaves are stripped and their strands are dried in the sun. As they begin to dry out, the strands shrink in size and change from a green colour to a beautiful and natural earthy sand colour. Once dried, the raffia is sorted and separated into different grading qualities.
Types of raffias:
There are many types of raffia such as natural, dyed raffia and metallic raffia
Natural raffia:
This is the most common type of raffia and is obtained from the leaves of the raffia palm trees. It is light tan in colour and is often used for weaving baskets and mats.
Dyed raffia:
This type of raffia is dyed in various colours and is used in crafts, such as making flower arrangements and gifts wrapping.
Metallic raffia:
This is the type of raffia made by adding metallic strands of natural raffia. It is often used in fashion and home décor for its shiny appearance.
It's importance to the people of Sierra Leone, the raffia cultural attire of Sierra Leone is a significant aspect of their cultural heritage. Raffia as a type of palm tree, plays a central role in various aspects of so many ethnic groups such as the Mende, Krios and Limba culture, Including traditional ceremonies, rituals and fashion.
Economic benefits of the raffia in Sierra Leone:
The raffia palms, the craft men who do the local bags and other crafts require the raffia palms have to purchase the raffia and it brings income to the producers of the bye products and craftsmen.
However, the infiltration of the western culture makes school children use backpack to go to school. This impoverished the craftsmen of the raffia bags.
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Game & Watch
Game & Watch was a series of handheld video games, released by Nintendo in 1980 and 1981. They were created by Gunpei Yokoi. Each system has one game, a clock and an alarm. The mascot of the series is called Mr Game and Watch. He is in Super Smash. Bros Brawl. The games were updated and re-released in the Game & Watch Gallery series.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The dam project was completed and fully functional as of July 4, 2012.
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Nintendo eShop
Nintendo eShop is an online service offered by Nintendo Network for consoles Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii and Nintendo DSI. It was released on June 6, 2011 in North America and June 7, 2011 in Europe and Japan, by a system update of Nintendo 3DS, adding this functionality to the console.[1]
Unlike the Nintendo 3DS, the Wii U online store is available from the launch of the console, but a system update is required to access it.[2] It is also a multitasking application, which means it is accessible even when the game is running in the background through the main menu of the system, although this feature is only available on Wii U. Nintendo eShop offers downloadable games, applications and information about video games for the console.
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Features
The Nintendo eShop icon is on the Start menu of Wii U and Nintendo 3DS and wireless Internet connection is required for access. Unlike the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop, as payment using Nintendo Points, Nintendo eShop used directly relevant regional currencies, such as euros and American dollar.
Nintendo eShop stores a record of all downloads and purchases, allowing users to re-download previously purchased software at no additional cost, provided that the software is still available on the eShop. Downloads can be started immediately, or you can choose are downloaded while the console is in standby mode. The games and applications downloaded on a Nintendo DSi can be transferred to a Nintendo 3DS, with some exceptions, such as Flipnote Studio and the Nintendo DSi web browser.
Video services of Nintendo eShop
Nintendo eShop offers a wide range of video services for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Some of these services allow users to watch episodes of TV shows and movies on your Wii U at 480p, and in some cases in 720p HD, and Nintendo 3DS in 240p. It should be noted however that these services through demand are independent of Nintendo Network services available.
These videos can be downloaded to the system memory via SpotPass or sent via wireless internet user. In Nintendo 3DS, many of these videos are offered in 3D, while Wii U, only available in 2D videos. The exact content available varies by region.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer. He was born on 29 November 1797 in Bergamo, Italy. He married Virginia Vasselli. None of their three children survived. He was insane in his last years, and lived in a hospital. He died in Bergamo on 8 April 1848.
Donizetti wrote mostly operas. His tragic operas include Lucia di Lammermoor, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, and Linda di Chamounix. His comic operas include La fille du regiment, L'elisir d'amore, and Don Pasquale.
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Orkney
Orkney, also known as the Orkney Islands, are an archipelago, situated off the coast of Scotland. Orkney is a part of the Northern Isles and the islands are a part of the United Kingdom. The archipelago exists of like 70 islands.
The archipelago is influenced by Scandinavian countries, for Norway annexed the country in 875. Today, a Old Norse dialect is still spoken.
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29.txt
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29
29 (twenty-nine) is a number. It comes after 28 and before 30. February has 29 days on leap years.
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Great white shark
A great white shark is a species of shark.
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Outlook
Outlook is a web messaging service created by Microsoft. The messaging service includes OneDrive, Calendar and Contacts.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in south central Canada. In 2015, it had 1,132,640 people.[1]
Regina is the provincial capital, and Saskatoon is the largest city.
Saskatchewan is bordered by Northwest Territories to the north, Nunavut to the northeast, Manitoba to the east, the U.S. states Montana and North Dakota to the south, and Alberta to the west.
Gallery
Flag of Saskatchewan
Location of Saskatchewan
Map of Saskatchewan
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Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress, who is viewed as one of the greatest actresses of all time.
She played in Now, Voyager (1941) an All About Eve (1950).
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is an ocean that is surrounded by Asia to the north, Australia and the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Southern Ocean to the south, and Africa and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.[1] It is smaller than the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.[2]
It was likely the dominant ocean of international travel and trade during the European Dark Ages, when African nations were most able to trade with India, China, Sri Lanka, and other such nations.[3]
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Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv is City in Israel! This is Most Technology City in Israel! In Tel Aviv Have The Tallest Buildings in Israel And This is Big City
Tel Aviv is The City 2nd in Population and 1st in Size on Israel! The Population on Tel Aviv is 400,000 People! The City Born in 1909, in This Year, 108 Years For Tel Aviv!
in 2009 Tel Aviv Make Happy Birthday 100 Years Old
The Old Name of Tel Aviv is יפו or In English Yafo
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