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365474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Oakley | Charles Oakley | Charles Oakley (born December 18, 1963) is a retired American NBA basketball player. Oakley played for the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards and Houston Rockets. |
819216 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321%20United%20States%20election%20protests | 2020–21 United States election protests | The 2020-21 United States election protests were a series of protests across the United States after the 2020 United States presidential election between then-President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden. The election was held on November 3, 2020. Biden won the election with 306 votes in the Electoral College to Donald Trump's 232.
Before the election Donald Trump claimed without any evidence that there was election fraud. He refused to give up and him and his allies attempted to overturn the results of the election. Trump filed dozens of legal challenges to the results, which were rejected by at least 86 judges, some that Trump even hired. The courts found that his claims had no evidence to prove that there was fraud.
Pro-Trump protesters, including groups such as the Proud Boys, took part in many protests in Washington, D.C., state capitals, and other locations across the nation to show that they did not agree with the election results and shout Trump's claims of election fraud.
On January 6--the day when the U.S. Congress counts the electoral votes--Trump supporters got together for the "Save America" rally where people heard speeches from Trump and Rudy Giuliani. Before the speeches were over, a large mob of protesters marched on to Congress and stormed the building. Congress was in session at the time, certifying the Electoral College vote count. Several buildings in the U.S. Capitol complex were evacuated, and protesters broke past security to enter the U.S. Capitol building, including National Statuary Hall.
After the storming of the U.S. Capitol, at least 36 House Democrats called for Trump's immediate impeachment and removal by Congress.
Armed supporters of Trump have continued protesting after of the storming of the US Capitol. As of January 10, armed protests were being planned at the state capitals of most states. Thousands of soldiers were sent to protect the capital, and by the inauguration ceremony for Biden, up to 25,000 soldiers were sent to guard against anymore threats to security. Protests have continued in some U.S. cities after Biden became president.
Protest
Protest in support of Donald Trump started on November 4.
November 4
In Phoenix, Arizona, pro-Trump protesters joined together and demanded that the city's remaining votes be counted.
November 5
In Atlanta, while poll workers inside State Farm Arena counted ballots, pro-Trump protesters gathered outside chanting "Stop the cheat!"
November 7
In Lansing, more than 500 Trump supporters protested at the state Capitol over what they thought was a cheated presidential race that led to Biden's election as the president.
November 14
In Washington, D.C., thousands of protesters went to support President Trump's election claims.
December 19
In Sacramento, police made several arrests near the California State Capitol as pro-Trump and anti-Trump protesters fought over the results of the presidential election.
January 4
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested and charged with destroying a Black Lives Matter sign at a historic black church in Washington, D.C. during the pro-Trump rally on December 12.
January 5
On January 5, 2021, Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser sent 340 of the District of Columbia National Guard due to an protest of pro-Trump supporters who planned to rally that evening.
January 6
On January 6, the protesters planned to march to the United States Capitol. A crowd of thousands of Trump supporters first listened to a speech by Trump. He told them again the election had been stolen and said, "We will never give up. We will never concede. ... Our country has had enough. We're not going to take it anymore." He urged them to march on the Capitol and "show strength". Many people then marched on the Capitol, where they got past the police, broke windows, and stormed inside the Capitol building. They marched through Statuary Hall. Rioters took over the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's office, flipping tables and ripping photos from walls; there was looting in the Capitol. Many police officers were injured in the violence at the Capitol. One died of his injuries, and another committed suicide over the following weekend. A woman was shot inside the Capitol and later died; no information has been told about the shooter. At least one improvised explosive device was found on Capitol, and another was close by at the headquarters of the Republican Party.
January 9
In Frankfort, around 100 protesters with weapons joined together for a "patriot rally" outside the Kentucky State Capitol while both chambers of the General Assembly were in session.
January 17
The FBI reported that protests were being planned at all United States state capitols and in Washington, D.C., and that they are likely to take place from January 16 to 20.
In Lansing, protests at the Michigan Capitol had about 150 people and many Michigan National Guard people were on site to keep peace. Some protesters with AR-15 rifles joined other pro-Trump supporters at the Capitol.
In Austin, a crowd of about 100 protesters, many armed and supported gun rights, gathered outside the Texas Capitol. People thought it would be violent but it was not. There were no reports of any fights. |
929202 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boldt%20Castle | Boldt Castle | Boldt Castle is a gilded age mock castle in the Thousand Islands region of New York State, USA. The six-story castle assumes a Scottish Baronial style. |
75953 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20ascension | Right ascension | Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol a) is the astronomical word for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system. It is the celestial counterpart to longitude. The other coordinate is the declination.
The moon, planets and stars all have their own right ascension. Many of them are listed in an almanac. Using arithmetic, the object's right ascension and declination indicate where to look in the sky to see the object. |
765497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-thighed%20frog | Green-thighed frog | The green-thighed frog (Nyctimystes brevipalmatus) is a frog from Australia. It lives near the east coast of Australia near Brisbane.
The green-thighed frog is mostly brown with black stripes from its mouth to its front legs. Its thighs are light blue or green with black spots.
They live near temporary bodies of water that dry up for part of the year.
According to the IUCN Red List, green-thighed frogs are endangered because people cut down the forests and build roads and railroads in the places where they like to live, because of fires and pollution, and because of invasive species.
Green-thighed frogs lay eggs that float together on top of the water. The tadpoles hatch within one day, stay tadpoles for 40 days and most become frogs before they are 100 days old. |
469207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Doar | John Doar | John Michael Doar (December 3, 1921 - November 11, 2014) was an American lawyer and senior counsel with the law firm Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack in New York. He was known as being the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1960 to 1967, during the civil rights years of the administrations of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Doar died in New York City, New York from congestive heart failure, aged 92. |
897305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Stejskal | Adam Stejskal | Adam Stejskal (born 23 August 2002) is a Czech professional footballer. He plays as goalkeeper for Austrian Second League club Liefering. He also plays for the FC Salzburg squad in the UEFA Youth League 2021-22.
Club career
He started with his local clubs FC Zbrojovka Brno and FC Svratka Brno. Then he went to the Red Bull Salzburg Academy in Austria. 2019 he became part of the FC Liefering squad. Stejskal made his debut for Austrian Second League side Liefering on 24 July 2020 against Juniors OO. He was in the starting XI. Since the 2022/23 season he is in the first squad.
For the 2023/24 season he then moved to league rivals WSG Tirol.
International
Stejskal played for the Czech U15, U16, U17 and U20 national football team. |
366137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%20Williams | Wade Williams | Wade Andrew Williams (born December 24, 1961) is an American movie, television, and voice actor who is best known for his role as Brad Bellick in Prison Break.
Williams was born on December 24, 1961 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied at Rutgers University and at the University of Tulsa. |
78168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatar%20language | Tatar language | The Tatar language is a Turkic language that is spoken by the Tatar people, and is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.
Alphabets
Like many other Turkic languages, different alphabets are used to write the Tatar language.
Cyrillic
In Russia, the Tatar alphabet is Cyrillic by a federal government law passed in 2002. It has 39 letters, of which 33 are the same as in Russian. The other 6 (and their positions in the alphabet) are:
@ (between A and B)
Zh' (after Zh)
N' (after N)
O (between O and P)
U (after U)
H (between Kh and Ts)
Latin
In 2001, the government of the Republic of Tatarstan created a Latin alphabet for the Tatar language called Zamanalif. But the next year, the federal government did not allow it to be made official. The Zamanalif alphabet has these 35 letters:
A, A, B, C, C, D, E, F, G, G, H, I, I, I, J, K, L, M, N, N, O, O, P, Q, R, S, S, T, U, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
There was another Latin alphabet for Tatar called Yanalif. It was used from 1928 to 1940, when it was replaced with Cyrillic by a Soviet law.
Arabic
There have been two Arabic alphabets used to write Tatar: Iske imla and Yana imla. Iske imla is the older of the two and was used until 1920, when it was changed to become Yana imla and remained in use until it was replaced by the Latin Yanalif alphabet. However, Tatars in China still use Iske imla.
Since 2012, it is possible for people and organizations to write to the Tatarstan government in either the Latin or Arabic scripts, but the government has to answer in Cyrillic. |
438921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haigazian%20University | Haigazian University | Haigazian University (; ) is a university in Beirut, Lebanon. It opened in 1955. It offers Bachelor's degrees in the Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Economics. It also offers Master's degrees in the Arts, Sciences and Business Administration.
The university is supported by the Armenian Evangelical Church. It was opened for the Armenian community in Lebanon. However, it is open to students of all nationalities. |
1007118 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20mulberry | Paper mulberry | Articles with 'species' microformats
The paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera, also known as Morus papyrifera L.) is a type of flowering plant that belongs to the Moraceae family. It is originally from Asia, including countries such as Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Myanmar, and India. It is also cultivated in many other regions and has been introduced as a species in parts of Europe, the United States, and Africa. It is sometimes referred to as the "tapa cloth tree".
People in Asia and some Pacific Islands have been cultivating this plant for many centuries for food, fiber, and medicine. |
174451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%208601 | ISO 8601 | ISO 8601 is an international standard to describe dates and times in the easiest way possible for computers to understand.
This standard is based on putting the biggest types of numbers first and the smallest types of numbers last. Because years are bigger than months, and months are bigger than days, they are put in the order of YEAR-MONTH-DAY.
A basic ISO date for today looks like --.
The basic ISO time is :.
Another very important principle is that when a computer or human puts ISO 8601 dates into alphabetical order, they are also in chronological order.
People can also use these dates, but it is currently not common for people in any country to write dates using this standard in their day-to-day lives, though many Asian countries follow YEAR-MONTH-DAY order. |
660538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnabas%20Sibusiso%20Dlamini | Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini | Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini (15 May 1942 - 28 September 2018) was a Swazi politician. He was Prime Minister of Eswatini, from 1996 to 2003 and again from October 2008 to September 2018. He was also an executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In 2017, Dlamini was admitted to an ICU in April 2018 in Mbabane.
Dlamini died September 28, 2018, less than a month after stepping down as Prime Minister at age 76. |
181110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging | Debugging | In computer science, debugging is the process of finding (and correcting) errors in a computer program. When programmers think that the program may have an error, they debug the program. They look for an error, and when they find it, they try to correct it so the program will work correctly. This improves the quality of the product. |
72207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav%20Vsevolodovich%20Ivanov | Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov | Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (21 August 1929 - 7 October 2017) was a Soviet/Russian historical linguist. His main topic of study is Indo-European languages.
Works
He is best known for his glottalic theory of how consonants are spoken in Indo-European languages and for placing point of origin for these languages in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia. He was born in Moscow.
Vyacheslav Ivanov's father was Vsevolod Ivanov, one of the most famous Soviet writers. His mother was an actress. She worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold. His childhood was filled by disease and war, which he spent in Tashkent.
Ivanov died in Moscow on 7 October 2017 at the age of 88. |
765729 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarunyoo%20Wongkrachang | Sarunyoo Wongkrachang | Sarunyoo Wongkrachang (17 October 1960 - 10 June 2020) was a Thai actor, director, screenwriter, singer, producer, activist and host. He was born in Samut Songkhram Province, Thailand. He was known for starring as Lord Jom Rajasena in Ong Bak 2 (2008) and Ong Bak 3 (2010) and as Surachi in 13 Beloved (2006). He also directed and wrote Kon Khon (2011).
Wongkrachang died on 10 June 2020 of liver cancer at a hospital in Bangkok, aged 59. |
21593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveri | Kaveri | Kaveri is a river, starting from Karnataka, and drains into the Bay of Bengal, in the state of Tamil Nadu. |
1000191 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza%20Tower | Pizza Tower | Pizza Tower is a 2023 platform game created by the indie developer Tour De Pizza and released for the Windows. The game follows pizza chef Peppino Spaghetti as he traverses a tower to save his pizzeria.
The gameplay consists of increasing score, keeping combos going, finding secrets, and moving fast. Peppino has a lot of moves and attacks to do these things. At the end of each level, the player activates an escape sequence in which they must return to the beginning of the level while a timer goes down. Unlike most other platform games, the player does not have health or lives.
Pizza Tower was released on January 26, 2023. It was positively received by reviewers and players alike. They praised its gameplay, aesthetics, music, humor, and similarities to the Wario Land series. |
357069 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina%20Motalebi | Sina Motalebi | Sina Motalebi (Motallebi, syn mTlby; born 21 April 1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, based in London. He is currently the Editor of ZigZag magazine, a website based on the content of journalists and citizen's contributions following their distance journalism training course provided by the BBC World Service Trust. |
282374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Anthelme%20Brillat-Savarin | Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | For the cheese from Normandy, see Brillat-Savarin cheese
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755, Belley, Ain - 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay."
Biography
Brillat-Savarin was born in the town of Belley, Ain, where the River Rhone separated France from Savoy. He studied law, chemistry and medicine in Dijon and practiced law in his hometown.
He was born Jean Anthelme Brillat, but adopted his second surname because an aunt named Savarin left him her entire fortune on the condition that he adopt her name.
In 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, he was sent as a deputy to the Estates-General that soon became the National Constituent Assembly, he became well lknown for some of his speeches, particularly one supporting capital punishment.
He returned to Belley and was for a year the elected mayor. At a later stage of the Revolution there was a bounty on his head, and he sought political asylum at first in Switzerland. He later moved to Holland, and then to the new-born United States, where he stayed for three years in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Hartford, living on the proceeds of giving French language and violin lessons. For a time he was first violin in the Park Theater in New York City.
He returned to France under the Directory in 1797 and acquired the magistrate post he would then hold for the rest of his life, as a judge of the Court of Cassation. He published several works on law and political economy. He remained a bachelor, but he counted love as the sixth sense: his inscription of the Physiognomie. to his beautiful cousin Juliette Recamier reads
"Madam, receive kindly and read indulgently the work of an old man. It is a tribute of a friendship which dates from your childhood, and, perhaps, the homage of a more tender feeling...How can I tell? At my age a man no longer dares interrogate his heart."
His famous work, Physiologie du gout (The Physiology of Taste), was published in December 1825, two months before his death. The full title is
Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante; ouvrage theorique, historique et a l'ordre du jour, dedie aux Gastronomes parisiens, par un Professeur, membre de plusieurs societes litteraires et savantes. " The book has not been out of print since it first appeared, shortly before Brillat-Savarin's death. Its most notable English translation was done by food writer and critic M. F. K. Fisher, who remarked "I hold myself blessed among translators." Her translation was first published in 1949.
The philosophy of Epicurus lies at the back of every page; the simplest meal satisfied Brillat-Savarin, as long as it was executed with artistry:
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Influence
Brillat-Savarin cheese, the Savarin mould, a ring mould with a rounded contour, and Gateau Savarin are named in his honour.
His reputation was spread to a wide television audience by Chairman Kaga of the TV series "Iron Chef" which introduced to millions the quote "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
Brillat-Savarin is often considered as the father of low-carbohydrate diet. He considered sugar and white flour to be the cause of obesity and he suggested instead protein-rich ingredients. Sure enough, carnivorous animals never grow fat (consider wolves, jackals, birds of prey, crows, etc.). Herbivorous animals do not grow fat easily, at least until age has reduced them to a state of inactivity; but they fatten very quickly as soon as they begin to be fed on potatoes, grain, or any kind of flour. ... The second of the chief causes of obesity is the floury and starchy substances which man makes the prime ingredients of his daily nourishment. As we have said already, all animals that live on farinaceous food grow fat willy-nilly; and man is no exception to the universal law.
Eneas Sweetland Dallas wrote Kettner's Book of the Table, a Manual of Cookery, 1877, a treatise on gastronomy based on the work of Brillat-Savarin. Dallas published his book under the pseudonym of A. Kettner. |
336676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Weierstra%C3%9F | Karl Weierstraß | Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (31 October 1815 - 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician. Most of his work is about using logic as a thorough foundation of analysis. He mainly used power series for this. He also provided foundations for the theory of elliptic functions, differential geometry and the calculus of variations. The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem is named in his honour: according to the theorem, every bounded sequence of real numbers has at least one limit point. He criticised earlier mathematicians for using assumptions too often, and being too vague in their definitions. |
283670 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojze%20Grozde | Lojze Grozde | Lojze Grozde was a Slovenian student who was killed by partisans during World War II. His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church. He was beatified on June 13, 2010.
Early life
Grozde was born on May 27, 1923 in the village of Gorenje Vodale, Trzisce near Mokronog in Lower Carniola, Slovenia.
He was an illegitimate child. When he was four years old, his mother married. His stepfather chased him away each time he wanted to see his mother. Later, because Lojze was a good pupil, the stepfather became friendlier towards him, and so he remained at the house and his aunt took care of him. She saw to his schooling and sent him to a school in Ljubljana, where she was working as a servant. Some benefactors helped her support her nephew. He stayed at the Marijanisce boarding school and attended Classical Secondary School (Klasicna gimnazija) in Ljubljana. There he was an outstanding student; but found time for literary creativity too and so became poet and writer. He was a member of Catholic Action and a member of the Marian Congregation. Towards the end of his high schooling World War II was approaching. Circumstances were becoming increasingly strained. This was also the time when Lojze had to make a decision about his vocation. He sought his path in life through meditation and learning, in deep prayer, and in apostolic work for others.
Death
During his summer vacation of 1942 he did not go home because there was a lot of violence and it was not easy to travel. It was only for New Year 1943 that he decided to visit his relatives. He asked for a permit to travel home. First he visited a friend of his at the village of Struge. On 1 January 1943, the first Friday, he attended mass at the monastery at Sticna, where he received communion for the last time in his young life; then travelled by train from Ivancna Gorica to Trebnje, where he found he could not travel further because the rails had been destroyed. He decided to continue to Mirna on foot, and on the way he rode in a cart. By the first house at Mirna he had to get out of the cart because a partisan guard seized and interrogated him. On him they found a devotional book, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis and a booklet on Our Lady of Fatima. He was taken to a nearby inn and interrogated, tortured, and killed. Three hours earlier the seminarian Janez Hocevar, who wanted to visit his relatives in nearby Sentrupert, had been also shot. Lojze Grozde was suspected of being an informant; the communists saw in him the mentality that they deprecated and persecuted.
Soon rumors spread about cruel way the Tone Tomsic Partisan Brigade, which had conquered Mirna, celebrated the New Year.
Some others maintain that Grozde was not tortured.
Other sources state that he was tortured.
On 23 February 1943 the fate of Lojze Grozde was partly revealed, indicating that he had been tortured. Schoolchildren picking snowdrops found his corpse. Although there were traces of torture on his body, the corpse itself was uncorrupted. His body was taken to nearby Sentrupert, where a committee made a report. The body of Lojze Grozde was buried at the cemetery in Sentrupert because it was impossible to take it to his home parish of Trzisce under the difficult circumstances of those days. The news of the violent torture and death of this innocent student struck fear among people and shocked the students in Ljubljana.
Beatification
On the 50th anniversary of the death of Lojze Grozde, the Archdiocese of Ljubljana started a process to recognize his martyrdom and also his beatification and canonization. When Pope John Paul II visited Slovenia for the first time in 1996, he mentioned Lojze Grozde twice. He said, "The servant of God Lojze Grozde is just one of innumerable innocent victims of Communism that raise the palm of martyrdom as an indelible memory and admonition. He was a disciple of Christ." Pope Benedict XVI said that "saints are not the past, but they represent the present and the future of the Church and society. They fully realized love in truth, which is the highest value in Christian life; their figures are like prisms that in various casts reflect the unique light of Christ."
On March 27, 2010 the news came from Rome that Pope Benedict XVI had affirmed the martyrdom of Lojze Grozde. Thus a solemn beatification is allowed that took place at the Slovenian eucharistic congress in Celje on June 13, 2010.
In his introduction to the biography of Lojze Grozde by Anton Strle, who is also a candidate for sainthood, Taras Kermauner wrote: "Grozde combines the ardour and apostolate of Friderik Baraga, the asceticism and suffering of Janez Francisek Gnidovec, a gift for organization, and the Slovenian national consciousness of Blessed Anton Martin Slomsek ... He symbolizes the entire martyrdom suffered by Christians and Catholic Slovenians during World War II and afterwards for their affiliation to their faith ... His personality should be returned to the common Slovenian consciousness of heroes that have been praised and elevated to the first plane as the only models. Today a man like Grozde is needed as our model - a martyr, a saint. Not a man of aggressive military action thinking he will put forward God with arms and the blood of other or foreign people ... I do not fear to write that Grozde belongs among the greatest young Slovenians; that his attitude is fitting and most precious."
Film and TV
Moj glas zliva se v prosnjo (My voice melts together in supplication - Slovenian) Documental Emission - Film on RTV Slovenia-1, Programm One. Speaks Archbishop and Metropolite from Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar, Jesuit Miha Zuzek and others. |
362188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Evans | Chris Evans | Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American television, voice, and movie actor. He is known for his roles as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011-2019). Evans was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts on June 13, 1980. |
450902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence | Divergence | In mathematics, divergence is a differential operator that associates a vector field with a scalar field. In a vector field, each point of the field is associated with a vector; in a scalar field, each point of the field is associated with a scalar.
Given a vector field , the divergence of can be written as or , where is the gradient and is the dot product operation.
Divergence is used to formulate Maxwell's equations and the continuity equation. |
849236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurlu | Nurlu | Nurlu is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. |
60803 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomhill | Broomhill | Broomhill which includes the areas of Sheffield of Broomhill, Crookesmoor, Endcliffe, and Tapton, is one of the 28 wards in City of Sheffield, in the country of England. It is in the western part of the city and covers an area of 2.7 km2. The population of this ward in 2001 was 16,800 people in 5,700 houses.
Districts of Broomhill ward
Broomhill
Broomhill is a suburb of western Sheffield, England. Mostly created in the nineteenth century. The area is just west of the main building of the University of Sheffield, it is known for its large student population, and was identified in 2003 as the richest area apart from London for overall wealth.
Crookesmoor
Crookesmoor is north of the University of Sheffield's main building housing its law department and sports centre, east of Crookes and south of Walkley. A residential area, it has a large but decreasing student population and is home to Crookes Valley Park.
Endcliffe
Endcliffe is southwest of Broomhill and is a rich residential area, housing Birkdale School (aprivate school) and three student buildings, which are part of the University of Sheffield.
Tapton
Tapton is west of Crookes. It is home to Tapton School. |
857990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP%20Karliak | JP Karliak | John Paul "JP" Karliak (born May 11, 1981) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is known for voicing characters, such as Linus in The Stinky and Dirty Show and Wile E. Coyote in Wabbit/New Looney Tunes. Karliak was born John Paul Karliak on May 11, 1981 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. |
358820 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20for%20Laughs%3A%20Gags | Just for Laughs: Gags | Just for Laughs: Gags is a Canadian quiet comedy show. In 2000 the Gags began airing on French and Canadian television Tele Quebec. In the next years, the show was picked up by TVA, CBC and The Comedy Television in Canada.
This series' format is the hidden camera filming the jokes. Music plays in the background, but there is no sound or speech other than some sound effects and laughter. It is mostly filmed in downtown Montreal and rural Quebec although some parts have been filmed in Mexico. British and Asian versions have also been produced in the UK and Singapore respectively.
With its quiet format and no translation required, Just for Laughs Gags has been purchased for use in over 100 countries throughout the world as well as in airports and airlines. |
156338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent%2C%20Iowa | Crescent, Iowa | Crescent is a city in Iowa in the United States. |
773294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Hayes | Harold Hayes | Harold Thomas Pace Hayes (April 18, 1926 - April 5, 1989), editor of Esquire magazine from 1963 to 1973, was a main architect of the New Journalism movement. He hosted a public television interview program, worked briefly as an editorial producer for (and, with Robert Hughes, the first cohost of) 20/20. |
982470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20literature | Italian literature | Italian literature is written in the Italian language, especially in Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are very similar to modern Italian, including regional varieties and dialects. Italian literature begins in the 12th century, when in different areas of the peninsula the Italian vernacular started to be used to write books. The Ritmo laurenziano is the first text of Italian literature.
History
One of the first examples of Italian literature is the tradition of lyric poetry sung in Occitan. This tradition arrived in Italy by the end of the 12th century. In 1230, the Sicilian School became famous for being the first style in standard Italian. Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest of Italian poets, is important and famous for being the author of La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy, c. 1308-1320).
Renaissance humanism developed during the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries. Early Italian humanists, such as the lyric poet Francesco Petrarca and the Neoplatonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino, were highly educated Classical scholars and great collectors of old manuscripts.
The development of the drama in the 15th century was very great. In the 16th century, the main feature of the time following the end of the Renaissance is that it perfected the Italian character of its language. Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini were the chief originators of the science of history. Pietro Bembo was an famous and important figure in the development of the Italian language and an influence on the 16th-century renewed interest in the works of Petrarca.
In 1690, the Academy of Arcadia was created with the goal of "restoring" literature by copying the simplicity of the old shepherds. In the 18th century, the political condition of the Italian states began to improve, and philosophers spread their writings and ideas throughout Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio are two of the important figures of the age. Carlo Goldoni, a Venetian playwright and librettist, created the comedy of character. The leading figure of the 18th-century Italian literary revival was Giuseppe Parini.
The ideas behind the French Revolution of 1789 gave a special direction to Italian literature in the second half of the 18th century. It began with the publication of the book Dei delitti e delle pene (On Crimes and Punishments, 1764) by Cesare Beccaria. Patriotism and classicism were the two ways of thinking that motivated the literature that began with the Italian playwright and poet Vittorio Alfieri. Others include the poets Vincenzo Monti and Ugo Foscolo.
The Romantic movement had as its organ the Conciliatore, established in 1818 at Milan. The main initiator of the reform was the Italian poet and author Alessandro Manzoni, known for his historical novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1827-1842). The great Italian poet of the age was Giacomo Leopardi. The bookish movement that happened before and at the same time as the political revolutions of 1848 was represented by four writers: Giuseppe Giusti, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Vincenzo Gioberti, and Cesare Balbo. After the Risorgimento, political literature became less important. During the first part of this period, two different tendencies of literature against Romanticism appeared: the Scapigliatura and Verismo. The most well-known figure of Verismo was the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga, author of I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar-Tree, 1881).
Important early 20th-century Italian writers include Giovanni Pascoli, Italo Svevo, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, and Luigi Pirandello (winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature). Neorealism was developed by Alberto Moravia. Umberto Eco became successful with the detective story Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose, 1980).
Novel Prize winners
Six Italian authors have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. These are Giosue Carducci, Grazia Deledda, Luigi Pirandello, Salvatore Quasimodo, Eugenio Montale, and Dario Fo. |
27343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1680s%20BC | 1680s BC | Events
The sixteenth dynasty starts in Egypt.
People make leavened bread in Egypt. |
597076 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS%20syndrome | RAS syndrome | RAS syndrome is when someone repeats a part of an acronym after using the acronym, such as ATM machine. |
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The dish was first created and cooked for Chinese laborers in the Southeast Asia region. It has become popular within the region from the late 20th century onwards. It is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore. The dish is said to be unhealthy because it has a high amount of saturated fat. This is because it is traditionally stir-fried in pork fat with pork lard. |
455597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Noll | Chuck Noll | Charles Henry "Chuck" Noll (January 5, 1932 - June 13, 2014) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played for Cleveland Browns from 1953 to 1959. He was the only head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1969 to 1991. He has more Super Bowl wins (4) than any other head coach in NFL history, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
Noll was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He went to the University of Dayton on a football scolarship.
Noll died on June 13, 2014 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, aged 82. He had Alzheimer's disease and heart disease. |
893709 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eu%C3%9Fenheim | Eußenheim | Eussenheim (or Eussenheim) is a community in Main-Spessart in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.
Geography
Location
Eussenheim is on the river Wern in the Wurzburg Region, in the Frankisches Weinland ("Franconian Wineland").
The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Aschfeld, Buhler, Eussenheim, Hundsbach, Munster and Obersfeld.
There is also a hamlet in the community called Schonarts. |
972423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Kratts | Wild Kratts | Wild Kratts is a 2011-2021 Canadian children animated educational television series produced by 9 Story Media Group and Produced in association with TVOKids, Tele-Quebec PBS Kids and Knowledge Kids
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338596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Root | Stephen Root | Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known for doing many voices in movies and TV shows. He voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland in King of the Hill, Zeb Zoober in The Country Bears and Junjie in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. |
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30000 Camenzind
30705 Idaios
30718 Records
30942 Helicaon
31179 Gongju
31192 Aigoual
31249 Reneefleming
31641 Cevasco
31824 Elatus
32008 Adriangalad
32145 Katberman
32226 Vikulgupta
32532 Thereus
34351 Decatur
34746 Thoon
37432 Piszkesteto
37452 Spirit
37519 Amphios
37655 Illapa
38050 Bias
38083 Rhadamanthus
38628 Huya
39382 Opportunity
39741 Komm
39890 Bobstephens
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327799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Dancer%20of%20Fourteen%20Years | Little Dancer of Fourteen Years | Little Dancer of Fourteen Years () (1881) is a statue by Edgar Degas. The work measures 81 inches in height. The subject is a young dance student named Marie van Goethem. The relationship between van Goethem and Degas is uncertain. It was not unusual for the young dancers of the Paris Opera to seek protectors from among the well-heeled visitors at the back door of the opera.
The statue was shown in Paris at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881. It received mixed reviews. Most critics were shocked by the piece. They thought it was ugly. Degas exhibited it inside a glass case. Some thought it was a medical specimen. The head and face were thought grotesque and primitive.
The dancer is dressed in a cotton skirt and is wearing a hair ribbon. For a finishing touch Degas used a wig made of real hair. He covered it with wax. The only parts not covered with wax were the ribbon given to him by van Goethem and the tutu. Each museum that shows this figure gives it a different tutu. The original wax model was acquired by Paul Mellon in 1956.
The sculpture was originally made in wax before it was cast in bronze. Degas's wife and daughter made the decision to have 27 of them cast in bronze. The casting was undertaken at the Hebrard foundry in Paris from 1920 until the mid-20th century. These statues posthumous Degas bronzes can be seen in many museums. Sixty-nine original sculptures in wax and mixed-media survived the casting process. |
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707565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek | Shrek | Shrek is an animated movie based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!. The name Shrek likely comes from the Yiddish word SHr`k (pronounced Shreck) or the German word Schreck. Both words mean "fear" or "terror". It was directed by Andrew Adamson and animated by DreamWorks Animation. It was the first movie to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001 . It was released on DVD on November 2, 2001. There have also been three sequels (follow-ups) of Shrek, called Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After. There is also a Christmas special, a Halloween special and a spinoff movie all about a minor character in the sequels and specials. It was adapted into a Broadway musical. Shrek 2 was released in May 19, 2004. Shrek the Third was released on May 18, 2007. Shrek Forever After was released on May 21, 2010. There was also a show by the name Scary Stories released on Netflix in 2009.
Release dates
Story
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is a green ogre who always loves living peacefully in the swamp. However, he finds many fairytale creatures disrupting his privacy. This is because of the order by Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow). Shrek goes along with Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy) to ask Farquaad to give his privacy back. Farquaad wants to be King by marrying Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz) to be Queen.
Farquaad orders Shrek and Donkey to travel for Fiona and bring her to Farquaad. After trying to get Fiona from the castle, Fiona is happy that she is rescued, but soon becomes sad that the knight is an ogre. Shrek forces Fiona to travel with him and Donkey, with Shrek and Fiona finding they have more in common with each other along the way, and falling in love. However, at night, Fiona refuses to camp with them, taking shelter in a nearby cave until morning. Shrek and Donkey stay awake and watch the stars while Shrek informs Donkey that he plans to build a 10-foot wall around his swamp when he returns. When Donkey keeps on asking Shrek why he is doing this, Shrek sadly tells him that everyone judges him before they know him; so he thinks he is better off alone, despite Donkey's saying that he did not immediately judge him when they first met.
The next night, Donkey finds Fiona in a windmill. Donkey finds that Fiona has turned into an ogress. She tells Donkey that she was cursed as a child and turns into an ogress every night. This is why she was locked away in the castle. She also says that only a kiss from her true love will return her to her "love's true form". Shrek, about to confess his feelings for Fiona, overhears part of their conversation, and is heartbroken as he misinterprets her disgust at her transformation into an "ugly beast" as being disgusted with him. Fiona makes Donkey promise not to tell Shrek about the spell, vowing to do it herself, but when the next morning comes, Shrek has brought Lord Farquaad to Fiona. The two return to the castle, while a hurt Shrek returns to the now-vacated swamp.
After finding out that despite is privacy that he misses Fiona very much, Donkey gets mad at Shrek, and Shrek tells Donkey that he overheard their conversation. They both travel to Duloc quickly, thanks to Dragon, who had escaped her confines and followed Donkey. They interrupt the wedding before Farquaad can kiss Fiona, but not before the sun sets, which causes Fiona to turn into an ogress in front of everyone. While her transformation causes Shrek to fully understand what he overheard at the windmill, Farquaad, disgusted over the change, orders Shrek killed and Fiona imprisoned, but Shrek whistles for Dragon, who bursts in and eats Farquaad. Shrek and Fiona admit their love for each other and share a kiss; Fiona is bathed in light as her curse is broken, but is surprised to find that she has remained an ogress, as she "thought [she] was supposed to be[come] beautiful", to which Shrek replies that she is beautiful. The two of them get married in the swamp and depart on their honeymoon while the rest celebrate by singing "I'm a Believer".
Cast
Mike Myers as Shrek
Eddie Murphy as Donkey
Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona
John Lithgow as Lord Farquaad
Vincent Cassel as Monsieur Hood (a French rendition of Robin Hood)
Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread Man
Chris Miller as Geppetto/ Magic Mirror
Cody Cameron as Pinocchio / The Three Little Pigs
Simon J. Smith as Three Blind Mice
Christopher Knights as Three Blind Mice and Thelonius
Aron Warner as Big Bad Wolf
Jim Cummings as Captain of the Guards
Kathleen Freeman as Old Woman (Donkey's ex-owner)
Andrew Adamson as Duloc Mascot (a man dressed in a suit that looks like Lord Farquaad)
Bobby Block, Elisa Gabrielli & Eddie Murphy as Three Bears
Elisa Gabrielli as Additional Voices
Frank Oz and Carole Jeghers as Dragon (uncredited)
Michael Galasso as Peter Pan
Rodger Bumpass, Paul Eiding, Eddie Korbich, Corey Burton, Phil Proctor, Rick Miller, Bob Bergen, Brian Tochi, Jack Angel, Patrick Pinney, John Cygan, Bill Farmer, Michael Gough, Jess Harnell, Hans Zimmer, and Jan Rabson as Lord Farquaad's Guards
Emma Taylor-Isherwood as little girl pointing at mother
Jan Rabson as Gold Pieces Villager
Rick Miller as Guard arrests Shrek and Fiona
Cinderella, Snow White, Pied Piper, and several other characters are not speaking roles and are thus uncredited
Production
Steven Spielberg bought the rights to the original book in 1991, when he apparently thought about making a traditionally animated film based on the book with Bill Murray as Shrek and Steve Martin as Donkey. After only a few years in development, producer John H. Williams got hold of the book from his children, and when he brought it to DreamWorks, it caught Jeffrey Katzenberg's attention and the studio decided to make it into a movie. After buying the rights to the film in 1995, Katzenberg quickly put the film in active development.
The Art Directors visited Hearst Castle, Stratford upon Avon and Dordogne for inspiration on Duloc's place. Art Director Douglas Rogers visited a magnolia plantation in Charleston, South Carolina for inspiration for Shrek's swamp.
The film was originally planned to be a motion-captured film. DreamWorks used live action background plates with miniature fairy tale settings that they had filmed, giving the film a very visual distinct look. After a year and a half of R & D, a test was finally shown. The result was a disaster, with Katzenburg stating "It looked terrible, it didn't work, it wasn't funny, and we didn't like it." Production was shut down for a while. DreamWorks later went to its production partners at PDI in Spring of 1997, when the movie Antz was still in production, to help Shrek get it's final computer-animated look.
"We did a lot of work on character and set-up, and then kept changing the set up while we were doing the animation," Ramon Hui noted. "In Antz we had a facial system that gave us all the facial muscles under the skin. In Shrek we applied that to whole body. So if you pay attention to Shrek when he talks, you see that when he opens his jaw, he forms a double chin, because we have the fat and the muscles underneath. That kind of detail took us a long time to get right."
Saturday Night Live member Chris Farley was to be the voice for Shrek. He was able to voice around 80-90% of the script, although Chris' brother, Tom Farley, states that Farley had actually already recorded 95% of Shrek's dialogue for the movie, but died in 1997 before he finished voicing the character. Production was shut down again after Farley's death. Andrew Adamson stated "Chris Farley's death was before any animation had been done [although] we'd recorded an amount with him."
DreamWorks later asked Mike Myers to play Shrek, whom Myers wanted the writers to re-write the script to leave no traces of Farley's version of Shrek. After Myers had completed providing the voice for the character, when the film was well into production, he asked to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent similar to the one his mother had used when she told him bedtime stories. After hearing the alternative voice-over, Katzenberg agreed to redo scenes in the film, saying, "It was so good we took $4m worth of animation out and did it again."
Reception
The film was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, and was the first animated film since Disney's Peter Pan (1953) to receive that honour. Shrek open in more 3,587 movie theaters on its 2001 release, 11 of them showing them digitally, made possible by the THX Division of Lucasfilm. This was the first time that DreamWorks had shown one of its movies digitally. Produced on a $60 million budget, Shrek was commercially successful, becoming the highest-grossing animated movie ever to be released in Australia, passing the mark set by 1994's The Lion King. In the United Kingdom, Shrek regained the top spot at the British box office after being beaten out the previous week by Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, earning a $20.3 million since its opening in the UK. The film closed on December 6, 2001, after grossing $267,665,011 domestically along with $216,744,207 overseas for a worldwide total of $484,409,218. Shrek is the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2001 behind Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Monsters Inc.
Shrek received critically good reviews, praising Shrek as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humor to appeal to children. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 89 percent of critics have given the film a positive review based on 176 reviews, with an average score of 7.7/10. The general opinion is: While simultaneously embracing and subverting fairy tales, the irreverent Shrek also manages to tweak Disney's nose, provide a moral message to children, and offer viewers a funny, fast-paced ride.
Roger Ebert liked the film, giving it four stars out of a possible four and describing it as "jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart." USA Today's Susan Wloszczyna praised Eddie Murphy's performance, stating it "gives the comic performance of his career, aided by sensational digital artistry, as he brays for the slightly neurotic motormouth." Richard Schickel also enjoyed Murphy's role, stating, "No one has ever made a funnier jackass of himself than Murphy."
William Steig, the author of the original book, and his wife Jeanne Steig also enjoyed the film, stating "We all went sort of expecting to hate it, thinking, 'What has Hollywood done to it?' But we loved it. We were afraid it would be too sickeningly cute and, instead, Bill just thought they did a wonderful, witty job of it."
Shrek won the first ever Academy Award For Best Animated Feature, beating Monsters, Inc. and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Prince Charming? So last millennium. This decade, fairy-tale fans--and Princess Fiona--fell for a fat and flatulent Ogre. Now, that's progress."
Shrek was also nominated for 6 BAFTA Award, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Eddie Murphy became the first actor to ever receive a BAFTA nomination for a voice-over performance. The film was also nominated for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Film Music, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Shrek was nominated for a dozen Annie Awards from ASIFA-Hollywood.
In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten"; the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres--after asking 1,500 people for their opinions. Shrek was acknowledged as the eighth best film in the animated genre, and the only non-Disney*Pixar film on the top ten. It is also third on Bravo's 100 funniest films. Shrek was also ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the "100 Greatest Family Films", losing out on the top spot to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In 2005, Shrek came sixth in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons poll behind The Simpsons, Tom and Jerry, South Park, Toy Story and Family Guy. In November 2009, the character, Lord Farquaad, was listed #14 in IGN UK's "Top 15 Fantasy Villains". |
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Delacroix was of French origin. She met Leopold in Paris as a young girl. She was only 16 and he was 65. At that time, she was a prostitute. They soon started a relationship. It lasted until his death in 1909. Leopold gave her large sums of money, estates and gifts. He also gave her a noble title, baronne de Vaughan (Baroness Vaughan). Because of these presents, Caroline was unpopular in Belgium and other countries. People did not like the greedy actions of Leopold in the Congo Free State. This area was his own personal colony. Since Caroline was being supported by the king's income from the colony, she became known as La reine du Congo ("The Queen of the Congo").
She and Leopold married in a religious ceremony five days before his death. The did not have a civil ceremony so the marriage was not legal under Belgian law. After the king's death, it was learned that he had left her many properties, items of high value and other valuable sources of income. All of this turned her into a multimillionaire. For years, the Belgian government and Leopold's daughters tried to recover some of these items. They had varying ammounts of success. Caroline died on 12 February 1948 in Cambo-les-Bains, France. |
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Sometimes these people are called Indians, but this may be confusing, because it is the same word used for people from India. When Christopher Columbus explored, he did not know about the Americas. He was in the Caribbean but thought he was in the East Indies, so he called the people Indians. Today, some think that calling a Native American an Indian is racist.
There are many different tribes of Native American people, with many different languages. Some tribes were hunter-gatherers who moved from place to place. Others lived in one place and built cities and kingdoms.
Many Native Americans died after the Europeans came to the Americas. There were diseases that came with the Europeans but were new to the Native Americans. There were battles with the Europeans. Many native people were hurt, killed, or forced to leave their homes by settlers who took their lands.
Today, there are more than three million Native Americans in Canada and the U.S. combined. About 51 million more Native Americans live in Latin America. Many Native Americans still speak native languages and have their own cultural practices, while others have adopted some parts of Western culture. Many Native Americans face problems with discrimination and racism.
Origins
The ancestors of Native Americans came to the Americas from Asia. Some of them may have come to America 15,000 years ago when Alaska was connected to Siberia by the Bering land bridge.
The earliest people in the Americas came from Siberia when there was an ice bridge across the Bering Strait. The cold but mainly grassy plain which connected Siberia with Canada is called Beringia. It is reckoned that a few thousand people arrived in Beringia from eastern Siberia during the Last Glacial Maximum before moving into the Americas sometime after 16,500 years before the present (BP). This would have occurred as the American glaciers blocking the way southward melted, but before the bridge was covered by the sea about 11,000 years BP.
Before European colonization, Beringia was inhabited by the Yupik peoples on both sides of the straits. This culture remains in the region today, with others. In 2012, the governments of Russia and the United States announced a plan to formally establish "a transboundary area of shared Beringian heritage". Among other things this agreement would establish close ties between the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and the Cape Krusenstern National Monument in the United States and Beringia National Park in Russia.
Native Americans are divided into many small nations, called First Nations in Canada and tribes elsewhere.
Culture
Each Native American tribe has their own culture. The cultures can be grouped together depending on region. For example, the tribes living in Mesoamerica have similar cultures.
Food
Native Americans ate many different things depending on where they lived.
Native Americans from Mesoamerica introduced vanilla, avocados, and chocolate to the world.
Religion
Before Europeans came, the native peoples of the Americans practiced many different religions. Each tribe had their own different beliefs.
Today, many Native Americans practice Christianity, a religion that was brought to the Americas by Europeans. Meanwhile, others still practice their own religions.
Languages
Native Americans today speak over a thousand different languages. Some of these languages had writing systems before Europeans came.
Many of these languages are endangered because more people are speaking European languages and not teaching Native American languages to their kids.
Music
Native Americans make musical instruments using the things around them.
Art
Native Americans made a lot of different art.
Today
North America
United States
According to the 2010 United States census, 0.9% of Americans say they are Native American, 2.9 million people, and 0.8% of Americans say they are both Native American and something else. They are not evenly spread out through the United States. About a third of the people in Alaska are Native Alaskan and about a sixth of the people in Oklahoma are Native American.
In the United States, most Native Americans live in cities. About 28% of Native Americans live on Indian reservations. Many Native Americans are poor, and 24% are extremely poor. The history of violence against Native Americans persists today in higher rates of violence against Native American people than white people.
Mexico
Many Mexicans are of Native American or mestizo ancestry. Mexico has the largest and most diverse Native American population in Latin America.
Canada
In the 2016 census, More than 1.67 million people in Canada identified as Indigenous, making them 4.9 per cent of Canada's population.
Central America
Guatemala
About 40% of the people of Guatemala identify as Native American. Many indigenous groups in the country are descendants of the Maya.
Many Native Americans in Guatemala are poor. Many of them have left the country to find better jobs elsewhere.
South America
Bolivia
The majority of Bolivians belong to indigenous groups. Many are Aymara and Quechua.
Peru
Peru has a large indigenous population, around 80% of Peru's population identify as indigenous or mestizo.
Indigenous activism
In the later half of the 20th century, many Native Americans started to protest the unfair treatment they experienced from the societies they lived in.
Some Native Americans have become famous in politics. For example, an Aymara man named Evo Morales was elected as president of Bolivia in 2005. He was the first indigenous presidential candidate in Bolivia and South America. |
661658 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste%20Yarnall | Celeste Yarnall | Celeste Yarnall (July 26, 1944 - October 7, 2018) was an American actress. She started her career on television before moving to movies. Yarnall was born in Long Beach, California. She was known for her roles in The Face of Eve, The Mechanic, and in Fatal Beauty.
Yarnall died on October 7, 2018 from peritoneal cancer in Westlake Village, California at the age of 74. |
650575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thi%C3%A8vres | Thièvres | Thievres is the name of two communes in France:
Thievres, Pas-de-Calais
Thievres, Somme |
40994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality | Municipality | A municipality is a word used for a city, a town or a village, or a small group of them. It has a clearly defined territory, and all the people living on that territory share one common local government.
In most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have its own democratically elected representative leadership. A municipality is usually governed by a mayor and a city or municipal council. The municipality can be created as a municipal corporation.
In some countries, municipalities are referred to as "communes" (for example, French commune, Italian comune or Swedish kommun). |
799340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20Nice%20stabbing | 2020 Nice stabbing | On 29 October 2020, three people were Stabbed and killed in an attack in a Roman Catholic church in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The attack happened between 8:50 and 9:00 AM local time. The mayor of Nice said that this was a terrorist attack. He called it "islamist terrorism". The attacker was an 21 year old Tunisian. The three people killed were a seventy-year-old woman, a woman in her thirties and a member of the clergy. The woman in her thirties was able to leave the church but she died soon after the attack in a nearby restaurant. Local police entered the church and fought with the attacker. The policemen used tasers before they shot him. The attacker was taken to a nearby hospital.
The attacker was a 21 year old man from Tunisia. He had entered Italy from Lampedusa in late September 2020. The man had travelled to Bari, Apulia on 9 October. He got to France in mid October 2020. He has not asked for asylum in France. This attack happened about a week after another attack. In the earlier attack, a teacher was stabbed after showing cartoons of Muhammad.
Reactions
Turkey wished condolences to the families of the people who were killed.
Other attacks
On the same day, there were two other incidents involving France . In the first incident, an attacker threatened to shoot people near Avignon. There was also an attack on the French consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After these attacks, the French state raised its security alert to the maximum level. |
901767 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%2C%20Tennessee | Gray, Tennessee | Gray is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Tennessee, United States and a rural suburb of Johnson City. It is part of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area - commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" area. 1,222 people lived there as of the 2010 census.
History
The town was founded as Gray Station, Tennessee because of a train rail running through the town. The Gray area was only rural farms until the 1990s. Some suburban areas began to take shape. The Gray area has rapidly grown each year starting in 200 because of the addition of new chain restaurants and a museum known as the Gray Fossil Site. |
341589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutunus%20Tutunus | Mutunus Tutunus | In ancient Roman religion, Mutunus Tutunus was a phallic marriage deity. He is often associated with the Greek god Priapus. His shrine was located on the Velian Hill, supposedly since the founding of Rome, until the 1st century BC.
During marriage rites, Roman brides are supposed to have straddled the phallus of Mutunus to prepare themselves for sexual intercourse, according to Church Fathers who interpreted this act as an obscene loss of virginity. |
155108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside%2C%20Kentucky | Burnside, Kentucky | Burnside is a city of Pulaski County in the state of Kentucky in the United States. |
6292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos | Asbestos | Asbestos is a set of six silicate minerals which occur naturally. White asbestos makes up 95% of the asbestos found in buildings. It occurs in all parts of the world. It is fibrous, heat resistant and non flammable. These properties made it very attractive as a component in building materials and other products such as insulation and automobile brake pads. People have used asbestos throughout history. Ancient Egyptian people used asbestos. Asbestos is extremely dangerous for human health, as it can cause lung diseases such as asbestosis, emphysema and mesothelioma if the fibres get loose in the air. It can also harm animals such as livestock or pets.
Asbestos was linked to lung cancer in the early 1970s, and was replaced by other materials in most applications by 1980.
Types of asbestos
There are six types of asbestos:
Chrysotile (white asbestos)
Crocidolite (blue asbestos)
Amosite (brown asbestos)
Anthophyllite asbestos
Tremolite asbestos
Actinolite asbestos
Substitutes
Fiberglass - This is the most popular substitute. Fiberglass is physically similar to asbestos and its safety is also being questioned. Fiberglass has been called "man-made asbestos".
Carbon fiber - Lighter weight than fiberglass or asbestos, but not heat resistant
Wood fiber mixed with cement (in non-heat applications)
Various polymer and plastic fibers
Asbestos rope can be replaced with synthetic or fiberglass rope.
Vermiculite insulation is a common substitute, although vermiculite itself can be contaminated with asbestos
Basalt fiber is a mineral fiber with properties similar to asbestos. It is suitable for high-heat applications.
Mineral wool is a common substitute that is popular in Europe
Silica aerogel is the best insulator available. It is non-fibrous and is not believed to cause cancer if inhaled into the lungs.
Lawsuits
Many companies that use or used to use asbestos have been sued by current or former employees who got sick with mesothelioma or asbestosis. Many lawyers specialize in asbestos-related lawsuits. |
734093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alekseyevsky%20District%20%28Tatarstan%29 | Alekseyevsky District (Tatarstan) | Alekseyevsky District is a district in Tatarstan. It is near the Kama River. Russian, Tatar, Chuvash, Mordva and other people live here. There is a famous holy spring and ruins of an ancient Bilyar town here. |
75389 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgit | Gilgit | Gilgit () is the capital and largest city of Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. About 216.000 people live there. |
727854 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberb%C3%BCren | Oberbüren | Oberburen is a municipality in Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. |
815978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley%20McLachlin | Beverley McLachlin | Beverley Marian McLachlin (born September 7, 1943) is a Canadian jurist and author. She was the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She was the first woman to hold that position and the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history. |
374184 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyun-jin%20Ryu | Hyun-jin Ryu | Ryu Hyun-Jin ( born March 25, 1987 in Incheon, Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean professional baseball player. He is 6 ft 2 inches tall and weighs 215 lbs. He is a left-handed pitcher.
He plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. In the past, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Amateur career
Ryu Hyun-Jin went to Dongsan High School in Incheon, South Korea.
In 2003, Ryu pitched for his school in the Michoohall National High School Championship. He recorded an 0.00 ERA in 3 games.
In 2004, he went through the Tommy John surgery. So he did not show up in any official games.
In 2005, he led his team to the top place of the Blue Dragon Open National High School Championship. He pitched 1.54 ERA in 53 and 2/3 Innings, earning 6 wins and 1 loss.
Professional career
Ryu Hyun-Jin played well in the Amateur League. So Ryu was selected by the Hanwha Eagles as the 1st pick in 2006. His professional league debut was on April 12, 2006 pitching against LG Twins. That day he earned his first league win. He allowed only 3 hits and no runs for 7 and 1/3 innings. He became a sensation in the league from his debut. And finished the season with 18-6, 2.23 ERA and 205 strikeouts in 201 and 2/3 innings. In his first year, he got the pitching Triple Crown, and was named both Rookie of the year and Player of the Year.
Since then, Ryu kept his place as a top pitcher in the league. And he won many personal titles.
International career
In August 2008, Ryu played for the South Korea national baseball team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The South Korea national baseball team won the gold medal. For this, Ryu does not have to join the Military for 2 years like other men in South Korea.
In March 2009, he played for the South Korea national baseball team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. His team finished in second place.
In 2010, Ryu played in the 2010 Asian Games. The South Korea national baseball team won the gold medal.
Desire to play in the Major League Baseball
Ryu always showed his wish to play in the Major League Baseball. The Korea Baseball Organization allows their players to make a contract with a Major League team after playing 7 years in the Korean League. But the agreement of the player's original team is needed. After the 2012 season, Ryu used this rule to play in the Major League Baseball league. The Los Angeles Dodgers suggested $25,737,737.33 to get the agreement from his original team, the Hanwha Eagles. Hanwha Eagles accepted the suggestion, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Ryu agreed on his salary and contract years on December 10, 2012. |
427680 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20spike | Voltage spike | A voltage spike is a sudden increase in voltage value over a short time in power systems. It can be caused by several factors, but mostly it is due to external or internal disturbance. A voltage spike might cause an increase in current, but the increase in voltage might have been caused by the current increase as well. |
784282 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Birmingham | Gil Birmingham | Gil Birmingham (born July 13, 1953) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Billy Black in The Twilight Saga movie series.
He is known in television for his role as Chief Thomas Rainwater in Yellowstone and recurring roles as George Hunter in Banshee and Virgil White in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Birmingham was born in San Antonio, Texas. He studied at the University of Southern California. |
13967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza | Pizza | Pizza is an Italian food that was created in Italy (The Naples area). It is made with different toppings. Some of the most common toppings are cheese, sausages, pepperoni, vegetables, tomatoes, spices and herbs and basil. These toppings are added over a piece of bread covered with sauce. The sauce is most often tomato-based, but butter-based sauces are used, too. The piece of bread is usually called a "pizza crust". Almost any kind of topping can be put over a pizza. The toppings used are different in different parts of the world. Pizza comes from Italy from Neapolitan cuisine. However, it has become popular in many parts of the world.
History
The origin of the word Pizza is uncertain. The food was invented in Naples about 200 years ago. It is the name for a special type of flatbread, made with special dough. The pizza enjoyed a second birth as it was taken to the United States in the late 19th century.
Flatbreads, like the focaccia from Liguria, have been known for a very long time. Pizzas need to be baked at temperatures of 200250 degC. Hardly any household oven could reach such temperatures at the time. Because of this, the pizza was made at home, and then given to the town bakery to bake. In June 1889, the Neapolitan chef Raffaele Esposito created the "Margherita" in honour of Queen Margherita, and was the first pizza to include cheese.
Pizza was brought to the United States with Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century; and first appeared in areas where Italian immigrants concentrated. The country's first pizzeria (place that focuses in pizza), Lombardi's, opened in 1905. Veterans returning from World War II's Italian Campaign were a ready market for pizza. Since then, pizza consumption has increased in the U.S. Pizza chains such as Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's, have outlets all over the nation. Thirteen percent of the U.S. population eats pizza on any given day.
Types
In the 20th century, pizza has become an international food. The toppings may be quite different depending on the local tastes. These pizzas consist of the same basic design. They also include many types of ingredients such as anchovies, egg, pineapple, banana, coconut, sauerkraut, eggplant, kimchi, lamb, couscous, chicken, fish, and shellfish. Sometimes, meats prepared in styles such as Greek lamb, Gyros or chicken tikka masala, and non-traditional spices such as curry and Thai sweet chili are added too. Pizzas can also be made without meat for vegetarians, and without cheese, for vegans.
Styles
Neapolitan pizza (pizza Napoletana). Authentic Neapolitan pizzas are made with local ingredients like San Marzano tomatoes, which grow on the volcanic plains to the south of Mount Vesuvius and Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, made with the milk from water buffalo raised in the marshlands of Campania and Lazio in a semi-wild state (this mozzarella is protected by its own European law).
The genuine Neapolitan pizza dough consists of Italian flour, natural Neapolitan yeast or brewer's yeast, salt and water.The dough must be kneaded by hand or with a low-speed mixer. After the rising process, the dough must be formed by hand without the help of a rolling pin or other mechanical device, and may be no more than 3 mm (1/8 in) thick.
Pizza is cooked in an oven. When cooked, it should be crispy, tender and fragrant. Neapolitan pizza has gained the status of "guaranteed traditional specialty" in Italy. This admits only three official variants: Pizza marinara, which is made with tomato, garlic, oregano and extra virgin olive oil (although most Neapolitan pizzerias also add basil to the marinara), Pizza Margherita, made with tomato,mozzarella, basil and extra virgin olive oil, and Pizza Margherita DOC made with tomato, buffalo mozzarella from Campania in fillets, basil and extra virgin olive oil.
Lazio style: Pizza in Lazio (Rome), as well as in many other parts of Italy is available in 2 different "flavors": 1) In take-away shops so-called "Pizza Rustica" or "Pizza a Taglio". Pizza is cooked in long, rectangular baking pans and relatively thick (1-2 cm). The crust similar to that of an English muffin and mostly cooked in an electric oven. When purchased, it is usually cut with scissors or knife and priced by weight. 2) In Pizza Restaurants (Pizzerias) it is served in a dish in its traditional round shape.
Other types of Lazio-style pizza include:
Pizza Romana (in Naples): tomato, mozzarella, anchovies, oregano, oil;
Pizza Viennese: tomato, mozzarella, German sausage, oregano, oil;
Pizza Capricciosa ("Capricious Pizza"): mozzarella, tomato, mushrooms, artichokes, cooked ham, olives, and oil.
Pizza Quattro Stagioni ("Four Seasons Pizza"): same ingredients for the Capricciosa, but ingredients are not mixed;
Pizza Quattro Formaggi ("Four Cheese Pizza"): tomatoes, mozzarella, stracchino, fontina, gorgonzola.
Sicilian-style pizza has its toppings baked directly into the crust.
White pizza (pizza bianca) uses no tomato sauce, often substituting pesto or dairy products such as sour cream. Most commonly, especially on the East Coast of the United States, the toppings consist only of mozzarella and ricotta cheese drizzled with olive oil and basil and garlic. In Rome, the term pizza bianca refers to a type of bread topped only with olive oil. Some white pizzas use Alfredo sauce as the pizza sauce for a better flavor.
Pizza al taglio
Pizza al taglio or pizza al trancio was invented in Rome. It is usually rectangular, and sold by weight. The name translates to pizza by the slice. Stands selling pizza al taglio are common in Italy. It is also common in other areas of the world where there are many Italian immigrants.
Pizzerias
Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba, the first pizzeria in Italy, started making pizzas in 1738 and still serves pizza today.
Some global pizza franchises are Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza, Cici's Pizza, Papa John's and Little Caesars.
Frozen pizza
Frozen pizza is pizza that has been prepared beforehand, and is then deep-frozen, to be distributed in supermarkets. It is among the most successful and popular types of convenience food. It is prepared slightly differently: First the dough with the tomato sauce is pre-cooked, then the toppings are added. The dough of frozen pizza is different. Its dough also contains modified starch and leavening agents. This makes it possible to cook the pizza directly, without first defrosting it. One main frozen pizza brand is Digiorno. |
357592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyelash%20viper | Eyelash viper | The eyelash viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) is a venomous pit viper found in Central and South America.
Small and living in trees, the snakes has a lot of color variations. Note the superciliary scales above the eyes.
It is the most common of the green palm-pitvipers (genus Bothriechis).
Description
The eyelash viper is a small species of snake, and rarely ever grows longer than the length of . Females are larger than males. It gets the name "eyelash viper" because it has a small group of scales over its eyes which make it look like the snake has eyelashes. The eyelash viper comes in many colors like green, yellow, red, brown or even pink.
Behavior
Like other snakes of the genus Bothriechis, this species is arboreal, meaning it lives in trees. The eyelash viper is nocturnal. It is not known to be aggressive, but if annoyed or disturbed it doesn't hesitate to strike.
The viper is viviparous, meaning it gives live birth. It gives birth to around 10 to 12 young at a time. When they are born, young vipers are inches long.
Feeding
Eyelash vipers capture their prey by ambushing. They feed on small rodents, small birds, frogs, and lizards.
Common names
The eyelash viper is also known as the 'eyelash mountain viper", the "horned palm viper", Schlegel's viper", and the "eyelash palm-pit viper". It is also known as the "bocaraca" in Costa Rica and other Central and South American countries.
Where they live
The eyelash viper is found in southern Mexico, southeastward to the Atlantic lowlands, through Central America to northern South America in Colombia and Venezuela. It is also found in parts of Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru.
Habitat
The viper likes to live in humid, tropical areas not far from water. |
397088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Cooper | Jeanne Cooper | Wilma Jeanne Cooper (or just Jeanne Cooper; October 25, 1928 - May 8, 2013) was an American actress. She was best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Katherine Chancellor on CBS' soap opera The Young and the Restless. She was a long serving television actress.
Cooper was born in Taft, California on October 25, 1928. She was raised in Bakersfield, California. Cooper was married to Harry Bernsen, Jr. from 1954 until they divorced in 1977. They had three children, including actor Corbin Bernsen. Cooper died on May 8, 2013 from complications from COPD in Los Angeles, California, aged 84. |
456063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skelleftehamn | Skelleftehamn | Skelleftehamn is a settlement in Skelleftea Municipality, in the county of Vasterbotten in Sweden. |
353611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison | Unison | Unision is the English debut album by Canadian singer Celine Dion. |
718656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenda%2C%20Kansas | Zenda, Kansas | Zenda is a city in Kingman County, Kansas, United States. In 2010, 90 people lived there.
History
Zenda was named after the novel The Prisoner of Zenda.
Geography
Zenda is at (37.443895, -98.281263). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
People
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 90 people, 44 households, and 24 families living in Zenda.
Education
Nashville is a part of USD 332 Cunningham-West Kingman County. The Cunningham High School mascot is Cunningham Wildcats. |
193654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predrag%20Mijatovi%C4%87 | Predrag Mijatović | Predrag Mijatovic (born 19 January 1969) is a former Montenegrin football player. He has played for Yugoslavia national team and Serbia and Montenegro national team. |
617220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilpa%20Anand | Shilpa Anand | Ohanna Shivanand (born Shilpa Anand, 10 December 1982) is an Indian model, television and movie actress, who has appeared in Tamil,Telugu,Kannada and Hindi movies and worked in many commercials as a model. She is best known for her roles as Dr. Riddhima Gupta in the serial Dill Mill Gayye opposite Karan Singh Grover She also played the role of Dr. Shilpa Malhotra in Dill Mill Gayye on fans demand. she was born on 10 December 1982 in South Africa and did her schooling there. Her parents were from India, and Later she moved there with her family. In 2015 she changed her name to Ohanna Shivanand. She is the younger sister of Sakshi Shivanand, who is an actress from South India. She studied at Punjab University, obtaining a master's degree in Computer Applications (MCA), from 2000 to 2003. She worked as a software developer for five years, with Java J2EE application development and E-Learning.
Filmography
TV Shows
Guest appearance
Advertisements
Source
Coca-Cola with Aamir Khan
Sunsilk
Mrs Marino (hair softner)
Bajaj Bramhi Amla Hair Oil
Nerolac Paints with Amitabh Bachchan
Dabur Pudin Hara with Amitabh Bachchan
New York Life Insurance
Pizza Hut
Nirma
Fair Look
Gold Bindya
Chick Talc
Moov
Lux with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Vasmol Kesh Kala
Kisna Diamond Jewellery
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Anand was nominated at several Awards ceremonies in 'Best Actress' category for her role Dr. Riddhima Gupta in the show Dill Mill Gayye such as New Talent Awards in 2008. She won the award alongside Karan Singh Grover for the best on-screen couple in August 2008. |
746934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent%20City%2C%20Illinois | Crescent City, Illinois | Crescent City is a village in Illinois in the United States. |
857719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriko%20%28dancer%29 | Yuriko (dancer) | Yuriko Kikuchi (February 2, 1920 - March 8, 2022), known by her stage name Yuriko, was an American dancer and choreographer. She was best known for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She was born in San Jose, California. She danced in the first production of Graham's masterpiece, Clytemnestra, as well as in Appalachian Spring, Cave of the Heart and Dark Meadow. She died on March 8, 2022 in New York City at age of 102. |
573223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Gleason | Steve Gleason | Stephen Michael Gleason (born March 19, 1977) is a former American football player. He played mainly as a safety. He played for the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) between 2000 and 2007. He was best known for blocking a punt in 2006, which became a symbol of recovery for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2019, Gleason was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Gleason was born in Spokane, Washington. He is married to Michel Rae Varisco. They have two children. In 2011, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. |
503599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted%20Love | Tainted Love | "Tainted Love" is a pop rock single. It was first sung by Gloria Jones. The lyrics are about leaving a relationship due to being abused.
The song was first released in May 1965. In 1981, Soft Cell covered the song. Their version hit #1 on some charts. In summer 1982, it reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
There are many versions of the song. It has been covered by many musicians. |
301063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce%20Amor | Dulce Amor | Dulce Amor () is the fifth and last independent LP record by Selena. The album became the final album to be released from RP Records. Selena's brother, A.B. Quintanilla III had became the main songwriter. Selena recorded fourteen songs but only released ten. All the songs were recorded in three different recording studios. Dulce Amor helped Selena to be noticed at the 1989 Tejano Music Awards. She was then signed by EMI Latin. The album had only sold over 30,000 copies. It was ordered to be removed from stores by EMI Records.
Most of the songs produced were Tejano music mixed with Cumbia and Jazz fusion. Dulce Amor was nominated for "Album of the Year" while the song of the same name was nominated for "Song of the Year". Selena had won "Female Vocalist of the Year" and "Female Entertainer of the Year". Selena had promoted the album during her Dulce Amor Tour which had only lasted for less than a year. The album had mixed to negative reviews from music critics. The album was re-released in 2007 as "Classic Series Vol. 5".
Production and development
After Selena's sixth LP record Preciosa (1988) sold only 25,000 copies, the company had wanted Selena to record another record. The success from Preciosa had the company believing that Selena would sell more copies with her next album. In July 1988, Selena was in the recording studio and began recording songs. Her brother, A.B. Quintanilla III had became the main songwriter for Selena. Juan Gabriel, a Mexican songwriter, had given Selena the rights to record "Costumbres". Ricky Vela, a Selena y Los Dinos member, had written the song "Quisiera Darte". The song "Que" was written by Manny Guerra, the record manager for RP Records and GP Productions. The songs "Tu Solamente Tu" and "La Puerta Se Cerro" were written by unknown writers. On the liner notes, the writing credits are given to "Pendiente" which means "Pending" in Spanish.
It had took Selena three weeks to record fourteen songs. However, the record company only had wanted ten songs to be on the album. The others remained unreleased. Selena had recorded the songs "Dulce Amor", "Tu Solamente Tu", "La Puerta Se Cerro", "Costumbres", and "Dime" at RP Records studios in San Antonio, Texas. The songs "Always Mine", "No Llores Mas Corazon" and "Carino, Carino Mio" were recorded in Houston, Texas. "Quisiera Darte" and the unreleased tracks were recorded in Hollywood, California. The song "Tu Solamente Tu" was originally recorded by Selena for her debut album Selena y Los Dinos (1984).
While Selena was performing at the 1989 Tejano Music Awards, Jose Behar (who was the former head of Sony Music Latin) was among the audience that night. He instantly wanted Selena to sign with EMI. Behar called his boss stating that he believe he had found the next Gloria Estefan. His boss told him that he was crazy, because Behar only had been in South Texas for only a week. Selena was later signed with EMI Latin the following year. Dulce Amor became her last independent LP record.
Release
Dulce Amor was released on December 24, 1988. The album was supposed to be released in the summer of 1989. However, Manny Guerra had wanted the album to be released real quick. Guerra believed that if the album would have been released in the summer, that not too many Tejano fans would buy the album. He said, because popular music albums are released in that period. When the album was released, it had sold only 2,000 copies the first day. Preciosa (1988) had sold 3,600 copies on its first day. Guerra was not happy about the sales of the album. However, within a month the album sold 10,000 copies. It outperformed all of Selena's previous records. By August 1989, the album sold 33,206 copies. It was then pulled off shelves because of Selena's upcoming debut album with EMI Latin. EMI Latin bought all the original copies of the album. Only 50,000 copies of the album were shipped in Texas alone.
In 1995, Selena's father Abraham Quintanilla Jr had bought the rights to Selena's albums (1984-1989 period) from EMI Latin. Since then, he has released the songs in compilation albums. The songs "Always Mine", "No Llores Mas Corazon" and "La Puerta Se Cerro" were selected to be remixed for Anthology (1998).
On September 7, 2007, Quintanilla Jr re-released the album as part of the "Classic Series" collection. "Dulce Amor" was then re-titled "Classic Series Vol. 5". All the songs were remastered.
Composition
"Dulce Amor" ("Sweet Love") was the lead single from Dulce Amor. The song was written by A.B. Quintanilla III. It was produced by Timothy Muniz. "Dulce Amor" was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the 1989 Tejano Music Awards. The song had its key signature in common time. It was performed on G minor with 106 beats per minute. The songs lyrics are about a girl expressing her emotions about a guy she really love. The song was mixed with Cumbia music and Jazz fusion.
"Que" ("What") was the second single released from Dulce Amor. The song's writer is unknown. It was produced by Manny Guerra. The song was performed on G minor with 147 beats per minute. The songs lyrics are about a girl who has been tricked into believing that a guy really loved her. She feels a sense of loneliness and doubts herself. The songs' message is that, you can't always trust someone until you get to know them for who they really are. The song was mixed with Ranchera music and Mariachi.
"Always Mine" was the third single released from Dulce Amor. The song was written by A.B. Quintanilla III. It was produced by Roger Garcia, who was the former back-up guitarist for Selena y Los Dinos. "Always Mine" was selected to be remixed for Anthology (1998). The remixed version peaked at number four on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart and number 94 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song describes a teen romance. A young girl who is under peer pressure by her friends must decide who she wants to be with. She struggles with low self-esteem. The song had its key signature in common time. It was performed on B minor with 100 beats per minute. The song was mixed with Polka, Pop and Contemporary R&B.
"Carino, Carino Mio" ("Sweetheart, Sweetheart of Mine") was the fourth single released from Dulce Amor. The song was written by A.B. Quintanilla III. It was produced by Lauren and Carlos Diaz. The songs lyrics are about a girl who is in love with a guy. She sings about giving anything to him, just to be with him. The song had its key signature in common time. It was performed on D major with 103 beats per minute. The song was mixed with Polka and Jazz.
"Quisiera Darte" ("I Give") was the fifth and last single released from Dulce Amor. The song was written by Ricky Vela, who was the lead keyboardist for Selena y Los Dinos. The song was produced by Manny Guerra. The songs lyrics are about a girl asking her boyfriend if their relationship is "love". She tells him that she would do anything for him, and feels that their relationship is love. The song had its key signature in common time. It was performed on C minor with 93 beats per minute. The song was mixed with Jazz and Cumbia music.
Promotion
Selena had promoted Dulce Amor during her Dulce Amor Tour. Selena also promoted Preciosa (1988) along with her Dulce Amor Tour. This was because the two albums were released in the same year. Selena had performed songs from Dulce Amor on the Johnny Canales Show in South Texas, she also had done live concerts across Texas. Selena earned $20,000 from the Dulce Amor Tour, which was double the amount she had made for her Preciosa Tour.
Critical reception
Norberto Garcia of Texas Monthly stated that Dulce Amor was one of Selena's "strongest" LP record because it "showcase her exotic voice and expanded her talents[...]". Domingo Rivera of Tejano Nation believed every song on Dulce Amor was horrible. Rivera stated that he did not like not even one song. He also stated that Selena could have done better with modern styles of Tejano music instead of mixing 1960s music into her songs. Rivera then stated the album was "out of date" even when it was released in 1988. Sophia Vargas of Tejano Weekly believed that "Dulce Amor" was not Selena's best of work. Vargas believed that RP Records did not put their "all" for Selena.
Track listing
Awards and nominations
Personnel
Credits are taken from the album's liner notes. |
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Operational history
Falklands War
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Sri Lanka Civil War
Sri Lanka used the Pucara against the Tamils Tigers.
Users
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List
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Geography
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