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180461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADndaro | Píndaro | Pindaro de Carvalho Rodrigues (1 June 1892 in Sao Paulo - 30 August 1965 in Rio de Janeiro) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team. |
754906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield%2C%20Nova%20Scotia | Enfield, Nova Scotia | Enfield is a community that is north of Halifax Stanfield International Airport in the Shubenacadie Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is in both Hants and Halifax counties. |
940633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abismo%20de%20pasi%C3%B3n | Abismo de pasión | Abismo de pasion (by its English title: Abyss of Passion) is a Mexican telenovela for Televisa produced by Angelli Nesma Medina and written by Claridad Bravo Adams, it is a remake of the 1998 telenovela Canaveral de Pasiones.
It stars Angelique Boyer, David Zepeda, Mark Tacher, Rene Casados, Eugenia Cauduro, Alejandro Camacho and Eric del Castillo as the protagonists, and Blanca Guerra, Sabine Moussier, Salvador Zerboni and Altair Jarabo as antagonists.
Plot
In the town of La Ermita, Yucatan, live two families with powerful chili processors in the region, the Arangos and the Castanons, of which Elisa Castanon is the daughter of Augusto and Estefania Castanon, who has a friendship with Damian Arango, son of Rosendo and Alfonsina Arango. whose friendship was deteriorating due to the enmity of these two families, Gael is a child who is cared for by the priest Guadalupe "Lupe" and who is a friend of Paloma, Ramona's niece (the village healer), while Estefania's sister, Carmina Bouvier had a secret relationship with Rosendo and they planned to go live in New York City, even though Estefania discovers it and prevents Carmina from doing so and then goes to meet with Rosendo to speak and while driving in a storm, they suffer a fatal accident after having crossed Ramona's cart which saw everything in front of her eyes, this is done in an echo by the town when they know that the two of them were going to leave La Ermita together Despite this, Elisa and Damian continue to go out as friends, but both Augusto and Alfonsina prevent them from doing so, and in the end Alfonsina decides that Damian should go live in Italy for a few years while Augusto and Carmina end up getting married and which makes himliving Hell to Elisa blaming her for Estefania's death.
Years go by and in the end Damian returns from Italy and meets Elisa again and many things change in La Ermita, since the fall of the Castanon processor, even though over time Elisa and Damian begin to love each other. but both Alfonsina and Augusto try to stop them, Gael and Paloma begin to become a couple, while Damian and Elisa love each other, Florencia Landucci arrives, a friend of Damian's from Italy arrives to marry him while the relationship between Augusto and Carmina He begins to go bankrupt and after having murdered him, he decides to fall in love with Gavino, the former administrator of the Arango processing plant, even though he has murdered him, while Damian and Florencia leave their relationship and their wedding is canceled and he decides to stay with Elisa, whom he wants to marry with Gael, this brings an enmity between the two and Father Guadalupe reveals that they are brothers of the same blood as Rosendo, who had a relationship with Ingrid Navarro and who left Gael at the entrance of the Church, then Gavino and Carmina want to escape but is prevented by Ramona who causes an accident and they are captured by the police, Gavino ends up in jail and Carmina commits suicide, after this and despite what happened, Elisa and Damian and Gael and Paloma fall in love and end up getting married. |
740320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essam%20Sharaf | Essam Sharaf | Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf (, ; born 1952) is an Egyptian academic. He was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 3 March 2011 to 7 December 2011. He was Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005. |
548482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex%27Act | Ex'Act | Ex'Act (stylized as EX'ACT) is the third studio album of the Chinese-South Korean boy band EXO. The album was released in Korean and Chinese by S.M. Entertainment on June 9, 2016.
Background and release
On May 31, 2016, EXO announces it will release their third studio album. On June 2, it was revealed that the album title would be Ex'Act and EXO would be promoting two singles, "Lucky One" and "Monster" with different visual concepts that correspond to the two versions of physical packaging for the album.
On June 7, 2016, it was revealed that producers of notable music including Kenzie, The Stereotypes and Dem Jointz participated in the production of the album, and the member of EXO, Chanyeol, co-wrote the letter song "Heaven". Ex'Act and two music videos of "Lucky One" and "Monster" was released on June 9.
Promotion
A promotional showcase for Ex'Act, was held at the Olympic Park in Seoul on June 8, 2016. EXO began performing the album's singles music programs in South Korea on June 9.
Commercial performance
Before its release, Ex'Act received a record as the most pre-sold more than 660,000 physical copies album. Three days after its release, the album became the album fastest selling recorded by the sales list Hanteo more than 450,000 physical copies sold, breaking the record previously held by EXO himself as his fourth EP Sing for You.
In YouTube, "Monster" became the second video of K-pop more seen for 24 hours, achieving 4.52 million views after "Gentleman" of PSY. He also became a music video of K-pop boyband most watched, beating "Loser" of Big Bang. |
179701 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga%20%28footballer%29 | Manga (footballer) | Ailton Correa Arruda (born 26 April, 1937) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team. |
278896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rulers%20of%20Saxony | List of rulers of Saxony | This article lists Dukes, Electors, and Kings ruling over territories named Saxony from the beginning of the Saxon Duchy in the 9th century to the end of the Saxon Kingdom in 1918.
Dukes of Saxony
The original Duchy of Saxony was the lands of the Saxon people in the north-western part of present-day Germany, namely, the modern German state of Lower Saxony as well as Westphalia and Western Saxony-Anhalt, not the modern German state of Saxony.
Early dukes
Hadugato (ruled about 531)
Berthoald (ruled about 627)
Theoderic (ruled about 743-744)
Widukind (ruled about 777-810)
Abo (ruled about 785-811)
Hattonid dynasty
Banzleib (830s)
Ottonian Dynasty
Billung Dynasty
Supplinburg Dynasty
Welf Dynasty
Ascanian Dynasty
Welf Dynasty
When the Welfs left in 1180, the Duchy of Saxony lost a lot of territory. Westphalia fell to the Archbishop of Cologne, while the Duchies of Brunswick and Luneburg remained with the Welfs. The Ascanian Dukes had their base further east, near the Elbe, so the name Saxony moved towards the east. The post carve-up Saxony is therefore sometimes called the younger Duchy of Saxony. Also the counting of its dukes its mixed up. While the first post carve-up duke is sometimes called Bernard III - because of two predecessors of the same name before 1180 - or Bernard I with his great-great-great-great grandson Bernard II being counted second. The second post carve-up duke Albert I is already usually counted as the first, although before 1180 he had one predecessor of the same name, his grandfather Albert the Bear.
Ascanian or younger Duchy of Saxony
The new dukes changed the Saxon horse emblem () and used their Ascanian family colours and emblem (black and gold stripes) () and added a "bendwise crancelin", a crown diagonally across the coat of arms, symbolising the Saxon ducal crown, as new coat-of-arms of Saxony (). The later rulers of the House of Wettin adopted the Ascanian coat-of-arms.
Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg
Since the Duke of Saxony was considered one of the prince-electors electing a new Holy Roman Emperor, there was an argument between the lines of Lauenburg and Wittenberg about who should cast Saxony's vote. In 1314 both lines found themselves on different sides in a double election. Eventually, the Dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg succeeded in 1356 after the promulgation of the Golden Bull. To distinguish him from other rulers bearing the title Duke of Saxony, he was commonly called Elector of Saxony.
Eric I 1296-1303 joint rule, then ruling until 1360 in Saxe-Bergedorf, partitioned from Saxe-Lauenburg (see section Dukes of Saxe-Ratzeburg-Lauenburg below in this article)
John II 1296-1303 joint rule, then ruling until 1321 in Saxe-Ratzeburg, partitioned from Saxe-Lauenburg (see section Dukes of Saxe-Bergedorf-Molln below in this article)
Albert III 1296-1303 joint rule, then ruling until 1308 in Saxe-Ratzeburg, partitioned from Saxe-Lauenburg, dying without issue Eric I inherited his share
In 1303 the brothers split their inheritance between them, however, only two brothers had heirs creating the Bergedorf-Molln and the Ratzeburg-Lauenburg lines.
Dukes of Saxe-Bergedorf-Molln
First named Saxe-Molln, however, renamed after reorganising territory, including parts of Albert III's share in 1321.
John II, 1285-1321, rivalled as Saxon Prince-Elector by his cousin Rudolph I of Saxe-Wittenberg
Albrecht (Albert) IV, 1321-1343.
John III, 1343-1356.
Albrecht (Albert) V, 1356-1370.
Eric III, 1370-1401.
In 1401, the elder branch became extinct and Lauenburg rejoined the Ratzeburg-Lauenburg line.
Dukes of Saxe-Ratzeburg-Lauenburg
First named Saxe-Bergedorf-Lauenburg, however, renamed after reorganising territory, including parts of Albert III's share in 1321.
Eric I, 1305-1361 (joint rule until 1308).
Eric II, 1361-1368.
Eric IV, 1368-1412.
In 1401, the younger branch inherited Lauenburg and other possessions of the extinct elder Bergedorf-Molln line.
Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg (1401-1876)
The Ascanian Dynasty continued in Saxe-Lauenburg until 1689, but after the Lauenburg line had finally lost the Saxon Electorate to the Wittenberg line in 1356 and failed to obtain the succession in the Electorate after 1422, recognition of the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg as Dukes of Saxony waned.
Dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg
For the predecessor see the section Ascanian or younger Duchy of Saxony above in this article.
Wettin Dukes of Saxony
Albertine Dukes of Saxony
The Albertines were a junior branch of the Wettin dynasty of Electors of Saxony (section below), who ruled in Northern Thuringia and Southern Meissen until they replaced the senior "Ernestine" branch as Electors and rulers of most Saxon territory in 1547.
Ernestine Dukes of Saxony
Following their displacement by the Albertines, the Ernestine branch of the Wettins continued to rule in southern Thuringia as "Dukes of Saxony", but their lands eventually split up into many different tiny "Ernestine duchies". Of these, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Altenburg lasted until 1918. This article does not list the subsequent Ernestine dukes.
Electors of Saxony
The Golden Bull of 1356 confirmed the right to participate in the election of a Holy Roman Emperor to the Duke of Saxony in the Saxe-Wittenberg line. For the predecessor see the section Ascanian Dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg above in this article.
Kings of Saxony
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end in 1806. The Elector of Saxony, allied to Napoleon I, anticipated its dissolution by becoming the ruler of an independent Kingdom of Saxony in 1806.
Heads of the Albertine Branch of the House of Wettin (since 1918)
Saxony became a republic at the end of the German Empire in 1918. For later rulers, see List of Ministers-President of Saxony.
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, 1918-1932.
Frederick Christian, Margrave of Meissen, 1932-1968.
Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, since 1968. |
618243 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Zimbabwe | Flag of Zimbabwe | The flag of Zimbabwe has seven horizontal stripes of green, gold, red and black with a white triangle containing a red five-pointed star with a Zimbabwe Bird. The most recent design was adopted on April 18th, 1980. Zimbabwe won its freedom from the United Kingdom on this day. This design is adapted from the flag of the Zimbabwe African National Union, the current ruling party in Zimbabwe. |
8723 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2012 | May 12 | Events
Up to 1900
254 - Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
304 - Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
907 - China: Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating (giving up) the throne, ending Tang Dynasty rule after almost 300 years.
1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
1264 - The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
1328 - Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1364 - Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in Cracow, Poland.
1551 - National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in South America, was founded in Lima, Peru.
1588 - French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.
1689 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1743 - Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 - in Valtetsi, the first major battle of the Greek War of Independence is fought against the Turks.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - The Confederacy wins the last major land battle of the war, despite being on the losing side in the war as a whole.
1870 - The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.
1881 - In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1885 - North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel French Canadians against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1890 - The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
1901 2000
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg becomes President of Germany.
1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
1926 - Italian airship Norge flies over the North Pole, as the first aircraft to do so.
1931 - The body of geologist Alfred Wegener is found in Greenland, more than six months after he went missing.
1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.
1941 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first programmable, fully automatic, computer in Berlin.
1942 - World War II: US tanker Virginia is torpedoed at the mouth of the Mississippi River by German U-boat U-507.
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle, the Soviets capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
1943 - In Hunan, China, Japanese Imperial Army officers commit the massacre of Chiangjiang, killing 30,000 civilians.
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands announces that she is to abdicate the throne in September, when her daughter becomes Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.
1949 - Western occupying powers approve the basic law for the new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
1949 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
1955 - Austria regains its independence after Allied occupation.
1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1962 - Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point.
1965 - The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1966 - Busch Memorial Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team, opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
1972 - The Rolling Stones release Exile on Main St., often considered their best album.
1975 - Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1978 - In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zaire asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
1989 - A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on Duffy Street on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, California.
1990 - As the previous claim of Shigechiyo Izumi is no longer considered, Jeanne Calment is already considered to have become the oldest-recorded human ever on this date, more than five years earlier than previously thought.
1998 - Four students are shot at Trisakti University in Indonesia, leading to widespread riots and the resignation, on May 21, of President Suharto, who had ruled the country for over 30 years.
1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
2000 - The Tate Modern art gallery opens in London.
From 2001
2001 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Tanel Padar & Dave Benton win the forty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for Estonia singing "Everybody".
2002 - Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 - International Development Secretary Clare Short resigns from the British government over the Iraq War.
2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings are carried out by Al-Qaeda. 26 people are killed.
2006 - Mass unrest in the Primeiro Comando de Capital begins in Sao Paulo, Brazil, leaving at least 150 people dead.
2007 - Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, kill at least 50 people.
2007 - Marija Serifovic wins the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest for Serbia in Helsinki, Finland.
2008 - A major earthquake occurs in China's Sichuan province, killing thousands of people.
2010 - An Afriqiyah Airlines plane crashes in Tripoli, Libya. 103 are killed, and only one survives.
2010 - The Unity Bridge over the Rovuma River, linking Tanzania and Mozambique, opens.
2015 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Nepal, two weeks after one of slightly higher magnitude had killed over 8,000 people. Casualties are reported in Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh.
2017 - The WannaCry ransomware cyber attack affects computer systems around the world.
2018 - Israel's Netta Barzilai wins the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal; United Kingdom entrant SuRie was interrupted by a stage invasion during her performance.
2019 - Liverpool F.C. set a record points total for a second-placed team in the English Premier League, as their 97 points amount to one less than the 98 points of champions Manchester City F.C..
Births
Up to 1900
1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
1496 - King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor-General of New France (d. 1698)
1626 - Louis Hennepin, Flemish priest and missionary (d. 1705)
1670 - Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland (d. 1733)
1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (d. 1773)
1725 - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orleans (d. 1785)
1754 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher (d. 1812)
1755 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist (d. 1824)
1767 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
1794 - George Cathcart, British general (d. 1854)
1803 - Justus Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873)
1804 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1858)
1806 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)
1809 - Robert Charles Winthrop, American politician (d. 1894)
1812 - Edward Lear, English writer, artist and poet (d. 1888)
1814 - Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist (d. 1889)
1820 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
1823 - John Russell Hind, British astronomer (d. 1895)
1823 - Frederik Vermehren, Danish painter (d. 1910)
1825 - Orelie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and explorer (d. 1878)
1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British painter (d. 1882)
1829 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
1840 - Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military officer (d. 1912)
1842 - Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)
1845 - Gabriel Faure, French composer (d. 1924)
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American statesman (d. 1924)
1851 - Joseph Toole, Governor of Montana (d. 1929)
1867 - Frank Brangwyn, British artist (d. 1956)
1872 - Anton Korosic, Slovenian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1940)
1875 - Charles Holden, English architect (d. 1960)
1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American polar explorer and pilot (d. 1951)
1885 - Mario Sironi, Italian painter (d. 1961)
1886 - Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain (d. 1937)
1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
1889 - Abelardo L. Rodriguez, President of Mexico (d. 1967)
1892 - William Preston Lane, Jr., Governor of Maryland (d. 1967)
1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, writer and spiritual teacher (d. 1986)
1895 - William Giauque, American chemist (d. 1982)
1899 - Indra Devi, Latvian-born Yoga teacher (d. 2002)
1900 - Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971)
1901 1950
1903 - Lennox Berkeley, English composer (d. 1989)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 - Alejandro Scopelli, Argentine-born Italian footballer (d. 1987)
1910 - Johan Ferrier, first President of Suriname (d. 2010)
1910 - Dorothy Hodgkin, British biochemist (d. 1994)
1910 - Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
1913 - Igor Bondarevsky, Russian chess player (d. 1979)
1915 - Frere Roger, Swiss religious leader (d. 2005)
1918 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman (d. 2001)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American, convicted of spying for the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
1920 - Vilem Flusser, Czech-Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist (d. 1991)
1921 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
1921 - Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014)
1921 - Giovanni Benelli, Italian cardinal (d. 1982)
1922 - Roy Salvadori, English racing driver (d. 2012)
1922 - Murray Gershenz, American actor (d. 2013)
1922 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
1924 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (d. 1968)
1924 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician (d. 2016)
1925 - Yogi Berra, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
1926 - James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (d. 1995)
1926 - Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal (d. 2013)
1928 - Burt Bacharach, American pianist and composer
1929 - Sam Nujoma, first, and former, President of Namibia
1929 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1929 - Agnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher
1930 - Jesus Franco, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1930 - Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (d. 2008)
1932 - Derek Malcolm, British movie critic and historian
1933 - Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet (d. 2010)
1935 - Hoss Ellington, American NASCAR driver (d. 2014)
1935 - Gary Peacock, American jazz musician
1935 - Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor
1936 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
1936 - Guillermo Endara, President of Panama (d. 2009)
1937 - George Carlin, American stand-up comedian (d. 2008)
1937 - Beryl Burton, English cyclist (d. 1996)
1937 - Miriam Stoppard, English doctor, author and broadcaster
1938 - Andrei Amalrik, Russian historian, publicist, writer and dissident (d. 1980)
1939 - Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player (d. 2014)
1939 - Ron Ziegler, American White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
1939 - Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish politician, writer and journalist
1942 - Ian Dury, British singer (d. 2000)
1944 - Chris Patten, British politician, last British Governor of Hong Kong
1945 - Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (d. 2007)
1945 - Ian McLagan, English-American singer-songwriter and keyboardist (d. 2014)
1946 - Gareth Evans, British philosopher
1947 - Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
1948 - John Blackley, Scottish footballer
1948 - Ivan Kral, Czech-American musician
1948 - Steve Winwood, British musician
1948 - David Heineman, American politician, 39th Governor of Nebraska
1948 - Joe Tasker, English mountaineer (d. 1982)
1950 - Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
1950 - Helena Kennedy, English judge and politician
1950 - Jenni Murray, English journalist and broadcaster
1950 - Renate Stecher, German athlete
1951 1975
1954 - Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Icelandic movie director
1958 - Eric Singer, American musician (KISS)
1961 - Jennifer Armstrong, American author
1961 - Billy Duffy, English guitarist and songwriter
1962 - Emilio Estevez, American actor
1962 - Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist and songwriter
1962 - April Grace, American actress
1963 - Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver
1963 - Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player and politician
1963 - Gavin Hood, South African actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1966 - Stephen Baldwin, American actor
1966 - Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1967 - Paul D'Amour, American singer and musician
1967 - Bill Shorten, Australian politician
1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1968 - Catherine Tate, British comedienne
1969 - Kevin Nalty, American comedian and blogger
1970 - Mark Foster, British swimmer
1970 - Samantha Mathis, American actress
1974 - Marc Capdevila, Spanish swimmer
1974 - Taraneh Javanbakht, Iranian poet, writer, artist, scientist and activist
1975 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
From 1976
1977 - Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player
1978 - Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1978 - Jason Biggs, American actor
1978 - Josh Phelps, American baseball player
1980 - Felipe Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 - Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor
1981 - Rami Malek, American actor
1981 - Lorena Bernal, Argentine-Spanish model and actress
1983 - Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
1983 - Alina Kabayeva, Russian gymnast
1983 - Yujiro Kushida, Japanese professional wrestler
1983 - Francisco Javier Torres, Mexican footballer
1984 - Tommaso Reato, Italian rugby player
1984 - Justin Williams, American basketball player
1985 - Andrew Howe, Italian athlete
1986 - Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
1986 - Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
1987 - Robbie Rogers, American soccer player
1988 - Marcelo Vieira, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Erik Durm, German footballer
1992 - Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
1995 - Luke Benward, American actor
1995 - Sawyer Sweeten, American actor (d. 2015)
1995 - Sullivan Sweeten, American actor
2003 - Madeleine McCann, missing since 2007
Deaths
Up to 1900
1003 - Pope Silvester II
1012 - Pope Sergius IV
1182 - Valdemar I of Denmark (b. 1131)
1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, titular Byzantine Emperor (b. 1409)
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (b. 1593)
1684 - Edme Mariotte (b. 1620), French physicist and priest
1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
1708 - Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1796 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
1845 - Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1786)
1859 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1864 - J.E.B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
1884 - Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
1890 - Frances Parthenope Vernay, sister of Florence Nightingale (b. 1819)
1901 2000
1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French writer (b. 1848)
1913 - Enriqueta Marti, Spanish serial killer and kidnapper of children (b. 1868)
1916 - James Connolly, Irish socialist and Easter Rising leader (b. 1868)
1925 - Amy Lowell, poet (b. 1874)
1935 - Jozef Pilsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
1944 - Max Brand, writer (b. 1892)
1944 - Q, British writer (b. 1863)
1956 - Louis Calhern, movie actor (b. 1895)
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, movie director and actor (b. 1885)
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and racing driver (b. 1928)
1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Nelly Sachs, German writer (b. 1891)
1971 - Heinie Manush, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1901)
1973 - Frances Marion, American screenwriter and director (b. 1888)
1978 - Robert Coogan, American actor (b. 1924)
1985 - Jean Dubuffet, painter (b. 1901)
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, actress (b. 1897)
1986 - Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and activist (b. 1885)
1992 - Robert Reed, actor (b. 1932)
1994 - John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
1994 - Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
1995 - Mia Martini, Italian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1942)
2000 - Adam Petty, race car driver (b. 1980)
From 2001
2001 - Perry Como, singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American gangster (b. 1905)
2003 - Sadruddin Aga Khan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1965 - 1977
2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
2006 - Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
2008 - Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter (b. 1925)
2009 - Antonio Vega, Spanish singer (b. 1957)
2013 - Gerd Langguth, German professor of political science (b. 1946)
2013 - Constantino Romero, Spanish actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Jacinto Convit, Venezuelan doctor and scientist (b. 1913)
2014 - H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (b. 1940)
2014 - Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director and movie producer (b. 1934)
2014 - Lorenzo Zambrano, Spanish businessman, CEO of CEMEX (b. 1944)
2014 - Marco Ce, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
2014 - Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress (b. 1925)
2014 - Nash the Slash, Canadian musician (b. 1948)
2015 - Peter Gay, German-American psychohistorian (b. 1923)
2015 - Suchitra Bhattacharya, Indian novelist (b. 1950)
2015 - William Zinsser, American writer (b. 1922)
2015 - William MacDonald, English-Australian serial killer (b. 1924)
2016 - Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2016 - Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
2016 - Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (b. 1935)
2016 - Julius La Rosa, American pop singer (b. 1930)
2016 - Del Latta, American politician (b. 1920)
2016 - Yukio Ninagawa, Japanese film and theatre director (b. 1935)
2016 - Georges Sesia, French footballer (b. 1924)
2017 - Antonio Candido, Brazilian literary critic and sociologist (b. 1918)
2017 - Mauno Koivisto, 10th President of Finland (b. 1923)
2017 - Yale Lary, American football player, businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2017 - Henri Termeer, Dutch-American biotechnology expert (b. 1946)
2017 - Yu So-chow, Chinese actress (b. 1930)
2017 - Amotz Zahavi, Israeli evolutionary biologist (b. 1928)
2018 - Will Alsop, English architect (b. 1947)
2018 - Tessa Jowell, English politician (b. 1947)
2018 - Antonio Mercero, Spanish film and television director (b. 1936)
2018 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (b. 1945)
2018 - Kevin Tierney, Irish-Canadian film producer (b. 1950)
2018 - Donald Gary Young, American business executive (b. 1950)
2018 - Chuck Knox, American football coach (b. 1932)
2019 - Hector Enrique Olivares, Argentine politician (b. 1958)
2019 - Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese Maronite cardinal (b. 1920)
2019 - Alan Skirton, English footballer (b. 1939)
2019 - Hiralal Yadav, Indian folk singer (b. 1925)
Observances
International Nurses' Day, in honour of Florence Nightingale
Johan Vilhelm Snellman Day (Finland)
Days of the year |
1013816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine%20skiing%20at%20the%201990%20Asian%20Winter%20Para%20Games | Alpine skiing at the 1990 Asian Winter Para Games | Alpine skiing at the 1990 Asian Winter Para Games took place in the city of Sapporo, Japan from 10 April 1990 with four events contested -- two each for men and women. Slalom events would later be substituted for Super Giant Slalom events in the next Winter Para Asiad but reinstated in the 1999 Winter Asian Para Games in South Korea. |
193655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Portillo | Javier Portillo | Javier Portillo (born 30 March 1982) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Osasuna. |
40655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage | Stage | A stage can mean one of the following:
Stage (theatre), a platform on which actors in a theatre perform
Stage (geology), a period of time, shorter than an epoch
Stagecoach, a vehicle pulled by horses
A step of development, or one particular event in a chain of events, or one particular step in a number of steps |
953609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Megens | Brian Megens | Brian Megens (born 26 January 1990) is a Dutch road and track cyclist. Megens represents Netherlands at international competitions.
Megens became in 2022 Dutch national amateur time trial champion.
On the track he competed at the 2022 UEC European Track Championships in the individual pursuit event where he finished in fifth place. |
888531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landensberg | Landensberg | Landensberg is a municipality in Gunzburg in Bavaria, Germany. |
57019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoridae | Castoridae | Castoridae is a family of rodents. Today, the only genus that has alive species in it is Castor. It contains modern-day beavers. In addition, about 20 extinct genera of beavers have been put into the family. |
907440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%20Legends%3A%20Arceus | Pokémon Legends: Arceus | Pokemon Legends: Arceus is an action role playing game. The game was released on January 28, 2022 for the Nintendo Switch. It is part of the eighth generation of Pokemon games. The game is set in the Hisui region, a past version of the Sinnoh region. |
465054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot%20%28novel%29 | Hoot (novel) | Hoot is a young adult novel written by Carl Hiaasen. It was originally published in 2002. Hoot won the Newbery Medal in 2003.
The novel is about a boy named Roy Eberhardt and his friends, Beatrice Leep and Mullet Fingers. They work to save a nest of burrowing owls at a construction site.
The book was turned into a movie in 2006. The movie starred Logan Lerman as Roy, Brie Larson as Beatrice, Cody Linley as Mullet Fingers, Luke Wilson as David Delinko, Tim Blake Nelson as Curly Brannit, and Clark Gregg as Chuck Muckle. |
269369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I | Tianhe-I | Tianhe-I is a supercomputer made and operated in the People's Republic of China and has been active since October 29, 2009. In 2010, it was the second fastest supercomputer in the world, replacing the Jaguar supercomputer. It has 98,304 GB of memory and has 2.507 petaflops at its peak. It uses a Linux operating system. It is being used for finding energy sources and doing simulations of aircraft right now.
Upgrade
It used to have 5,010 CPUs and 2,560 GPUs and was ranked the fifth-fastest supercomputer. After the upgrade, it now has 14,336 CPUs and 7,168 GPUs, making it the fastest. |
530896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalice | Chalice | A chalice is a cup that has a footed part on the bottom. It is used in some religious ceremonies for drinking. |
352462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyama%2C%20Aichi | Inuyama, Aichi | (literally 'dog mountain') is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
In 2010, the city had a population of 75,449. The total area is 74.97 km2. The city is along the edge of Aichi Prefecture. It is separated from neighbouring Gifu Prefecture by the Kiso River. It was founded on 1 April 1954.
Inuyama Castle
There are a number of famous attractions in and around the city. The most famous attraction is Inuyama Castle on a 40m rise overlooking the Kiso river. This Japanese castle is also known as Hakutei-jo (White Emperor Castle). It was named by the Confucian scholar Ogyu Sorai during the Edo period. It is a four-story structure with two underground levels, although it has only three roofs. The castle was made a Japanese national treasure in 1935 and again in 1952. It the oldest original wooden castle in Japan.
Other sights
Another famous attraction is the Urakuen tea garden used for tea ceremonies. This garden has the Joan tea house, built in 1618. The Joan tea house was originally built in Kyoto. It was moved to its current location in 1972. The building is one of the finest examples of tea house architecture.
The Kiso river also has some very beautiful rapids upstream of the castle. These rapids and the rock formations are called the Nihon Rhine after the Rhine river in Germany. Boat tours are available. Cormorant fishing on the Kiso river is also done, although nowadays almost only for tourists.
Near Inuyama is the Meiji Mura. This is an open-air architectural museum for keeping and showing structures of the Meiji (1867-1912) and Taisho (1913-1926) eras. As of 2005, 67 historical buildings are kept on an area of 1,000,000 m2. The most famous one is the main entrance and lobby of Tokyo's old Imperial Hotel. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1923.
There is also the Japan Monkey park, with different species of monkeys and other entertainment.
Inuyama is the site of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, one of the world's foremost centres for research in non-human primate biology and behaviour. |
569481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao%20dynasty | Liao dynasty | The Liao dynasty, also called Khitan empire, was an empire in Asia. It was formed by the Yelu clan of the Khitan people after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. They ruled from 907 AD to about 1125. The first ruler was Yelu Abaoji, Khan of the Khitan peoples. It was originally called the "Qidan Kingdom" until about 947. Its capital was the present day Bairin Left Banner in Inner Mongolia. Its territory included parts of Northern China, middle Mongolia, and Tianjin and
Hebei to the south. |
815853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Hudson%20Yards | 30 Hudson Yards | 30 Hudson Yards is the fifth tallest building in the New York City, as of 2019. This building has 73 floors. It is 1273 feet tall. Its observation deck, "The Edge," is the highest in New York State. This is where CNN segments are aired LIVE and is home to Wells Fargo, Facebook, and KKR. Aside from the business part, it is the biggest tourist attraction in New York City. |
1011603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank%20You%20for%20Being%20a%20Friend | Thank You for Being a Friend | "Thank You for Being a Friend" is a 1978 song by Andrew Gold and is taken from their third studio album All This and Heaven Too. It went to number 7 in Canada, number 25 in the United States, number 42 in the United Kingdom and number 58 in Australia. It was the theme song the NBC hit series The Golden Girls. |
726156 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Holzhauer | James Holzhauer | James Holzhauer (born July 23, 1984) is the third-highest winner on the American television game show Jeopardy!, and the third-highest winner on a game show.
Holzhauer won 32 games, earning $2,462,216. His winning streak lasted from April 4, 2019 to June 3, 2019. During his winning streak, he broke several show records. On April 9, 2019, Holzhauer broke the one-day record with $110,914, breaking the previous record of $77,000 set by Roger Craig in 2010. He broke his own record with $131,127 on April 17, 2019. He is the first and only player in the show's history to win $100,000 or more in a single game; and he holds the top sixteen spots for most single-day winnings.
On June 3, 2019, Holzhauer lost to a player named Emma Boettcher, who went on to win three games of her own before losing. Holzhauer and Boettcher were both brought back for the Tournament of Champions, which aired November 4-15, 2019. In the tournament, Holzhauer defeated Boettcher in the two-day final, winning the $250,000 prize.
In January 2020, Holzhauer faced off against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in Jeopardy! The Greatest of All-Time, finishing in second place with Jennings winning the $1,000,000 first prize and Holzhauer taking home $250,000 for second place.
Activities after Jeopardy! |
537458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%203521 | NGC 3521 | NGC 3521 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo. It is about 26 million light-years away from Earth. |
155176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eubank%2C%20Kentucky | Eubank, Kentucky | Eubank is a city of Kentucky in the United States. |
360193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Barkin | Ellen Barkin | Ellen Barkin (April 16, 1954) is an American actress. She is a versatile actress who has been in many movies and television series. Barkin has played many lead roles as well as been a supporting actor. She also performs on the Broadway stage. She was born in the Bronx, New York City.
From 1988 to 1999, she was married to Irish actor Gabriel Byrne. |
124422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiu%20Mountains | Baiu Mountains | The Baiu Mountains are a group of mountains in the central part of Romania. They are part of the Eastern Carpathians. |
980848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYLS-TV | DYLS-TV | DYLS-TV, channel 27, is a commercial television station of Philippine television station GTV.
It is owned by Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, a subsidiary of GMA Network Inc..
Its analog transmitter is located at the GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City. Its digital transmitter is located at Mt. Busay, Brgy. Bonbon, Cebu City. |
282281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Beaker%20Returns | Tracy Beaker Returns | Tracy Beaker Returns is a British television series for children starring Dani Harmer. It was first broadcast on 8 January 2010, on CBBC and BBC HD. It won the BAFTA award. It was replaced by a new series called The Dumping Ground in 2013. |
759257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Morocco | COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco | The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Morocco on 2 March 2020, when the first case COVID-19 case was confirmed in Casablanca. It involved a Moroccan living in Bergamo, Italy who arrived from Italy on 27 February 2020.
A second case was confirmed later that same day involving an 89-year-old woman Moroccan living in Italy who had returned to Morocco on 25 February 2020 from Bologna, Italy. She subsequently died on 10 March 2020.
After the two cases confirmed on 2 March 2020, a third case was confirmed on 10 March 2020, a French tourist who arrived in Marrakesh. On 11 March 2020, it was announced that the wife and daughter of the French tourist also tested positive, bringing the total cases to 5.
On 13 March, the government decided to shut down all schools, effective March 16 until further notice.
Morocco declared a state of medical emergency on 19 March 2020, to take effect on 20 March 2020 at 6:00 pm local time and to remain in effect until April 20, 2020 with possibility to extend for a longer period. |
17800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Cornwallis | Charles Cornwallis | Lord Charles Cornwallis (31 December 1738 5 October 1805) was a British general and colonial governor. He is best known for leading the British forces in the American Revolution.
His parents were Elizabeth, and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis.
Cornwallis moved to the 13 colonies in North America in 1776 to try to control the rebelling colonies. He fought at the Battle of Princeton. George Washington led the Americans in that battle. Later, Cornwallis led British forces through North Carolina and South Carolina, where he fought against American forces under Nathanael Greene. In October 1781, Cornwallis's forces surrendered to George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, ending the American Revolution.
In 1786 Cornwallis was appointed Governor-General of the British colony of India.
From 1798 to 1801 Cornwallis was Lord Lieutenant and Commander in Chief of Ireland.
He died in 1805 because of a fever. |
875199 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz%20MS-19 | Soyuz MS-19 | Soyuz MS-19 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 5 October 2021. It was the 147th flight of a crewed Soyuz spacecraft. The crew members were Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov, Russian film director Klim Shipenko, and Russian actress Yulia Peresild.
Shipenko and Peresild spent about twelve days on the International Space Station before returning to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-18. They filmed a movie in space, Vyzov ().
Without an American astronaut, this launch was the first time in more than 21 years (since Soyuz TM-30 in 2000) that a Soyuz crew only included Russian cosmonauts and travelers. It was the first time in years that the ship had to be upgraded to be piloted by a single person at launch. This is also the first mission to the ISS with an entirely Russian crew.
It landed on March 30, 2022 in The Kazakh Steppe in Kazakhstan. |
247935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20B.%20Cintas | Oscar B. Cintas | Oscar Benjamin Cintas, (born Sagua la Grande, Cuba, 1887; died New York City, N.Y. 1957) was an important sugar and railroad magnate. He served as Cuba's ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934.
Cintas used to be a Cuban Ambassador to the United States. Cintas liked to collect art and manuscripts. He had bought the Bliss Copy for $54,000 at a public auction in 1949. It "set a new high record for the sale of a document at public auction". The Castro government claimed Cintas' properties after it became powerful in 1959. Cintas had willed the Gettysburg Address to the American people if it would be kept at the White House. Cintas died in 1957. It was moved there in 1959 and is still there today. |
1011422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beinheim | Beinheim | Beinheim is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France. |
280709 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Johns%20County%2C%20Florida | St. Johns County, Florida | St. Johns County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on July 21, 1821. As of 2020, 273,425 people lived there. St. Johns County's seat is St. Augustine. |
948990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Greenville | Treaty of Greenville | The Treaty of Greenville or Treaty with the Wyandots, etc. (1795) was a treaty between the Natives people of the Northwest Territory and United States. The treaty was after the Northwest Indian Wars. Tribes that signed the treaty included Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River, Wea, Piankeshaw, Kickapoo, and Kaskaskia. The treaty created new boundaries for American Indian territories. The treaty was signed after the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Native territory was limited to northwestern Ohio. The Natives in the treaty were called the Western Confederacy.
People
General Anthony Wayne was in charge of the treaty. Other Americans included William Wells, William Henry Harrison, William Clark, Caleb Swan, and Meriwether Lewis.
Native leaders and signers included Wyandot (chiefs Tarhe, Roundhead, and Leatherlips), Delaware (several bands). Shawnee (chiefs Blue Jacket and Black Hoof), Ottawa (several bands, including Egushawa), Chippewa, Potawatomi (23 signatories, including Gomo, Siggenauk, Black Partridge, Topinabee, and Five Medals), Miami (including Jean Baptiste Richardville, White Loon, and Little Turtle), Wea, Kickapoo, and Kaskaskia.
President George Washington signed the treaty and the United States Senate confirmed it.
Terms
The treaty created the Greenville Treaty Line. Natives had to give up all the land south and east of the line. Natives had to give up their land and the US government gave money and supplies to Natives each year. This supply had a value of $20,000. The treaty line followed rivers in Ohio and Indiana.
Natives had to leave forts that were along the Great Lakes. Native gave over important places like Fort Wayne, Indiana; Lafayette, Indiana; Chicago; Peoria, Illinois; and Toledo, Ohio. |
74217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes%20Archer | Wes Archer | Wesley "Wes" Archer (born November 26, 1961) is a television animation director. He was one of the original three animators (along with David Silverman and Bill Kopp) on The Simpsons' Tracey Ullman shorts and subsequently directed a number of Simpsons episodes before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill for many years. Archer's college animation movie, "Jac Mac and Rad Boy, Go!" has long been a cult classic after receiving repeated airplay on USA Network's Night Flight in the 1980s. He studied at the movie Graphics/Experimental Animation Program at CalArts. |
196279 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Como%201907 | Como 1907 | Como 1907 is a football club that plays in Como, Lombardy, Italy. |
454685 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Andrews | Dana Andrews | Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 - December 17, 1992) was an American movie actor. He was one of the most famous Hollywood actors during the 1940s. He was known for his role in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
Andrews died from pneumonia and heart failure caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 83. |
617160 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n%20Xu%C3%A2n%20Ph%C3%BAc | Nguyễn Xuân Phúc | Nguyen Xuan Phuc (born 20 July 1954) is a Vietnamese politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 2016 until 2021. In 2021, he became the 10th President of Vietnam. He was elected Prime Minister to the post by the National Assembly and nominated on April 8, 2016 by his predecessor Nguyen Tan Dung who retired from office.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc became member of the Communist Party of Vietnam on 12 November 1983 and was employee, then deputy and office manager of Quang Nam - Da Nang's People's Committee and was the provincial president director of government offices and deputy prime minister from August 2011 to April 7, 2016. |
410860 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Clokey | Art Clokey | Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 - January 8, 2010) was an American animator. He was one of the first people to make stop motion clay animation popular. His work began in 1955 with a short movie called Gumbasia. Clokey's work was influenced by his professor at the University of Southern California, Slavko Vorkapich. He and his wife Ruth later created the clay character Gumby. Gumby and his horse Pokey became popular characters on television. They first appeared in the Howdy Doody Show, and later got their own series The Adventures of Gumby.
Early life
Clokey was born Arthur Charles Farrington in Detroit, Michigan. When he was nine years old, his parents divorced. He stayed with his father, Charles Farrington. After his father died in a car accident, he went to live with his mother in California. However, his stepfather refused to raise another man's son, and so Arthur was sent to an orphanage. When he was 11 or 12, he was adopted by Joseph W. Clokey. Clokey was a classical music composer and organist who taught music in Claremont, California. He taught Arthur painting, drawing, and filmmaking.
The name of Gumby comes from Arthur's childhood, when he would play with a clay and mud mixture called "gumbo".
Clay animation
Before he made Gumby, Clokey did a few experiments with clay animation. Most of these were short movies for adults, including his first movie Gumbasia. Clokey made this in 1953, and released it in 1955. It consisting of animated clay shapes dancing to jazz music. The title Gumbasia was named after Walt Disney's Fantasia. In 1963, he made The Clay Peacock. This was a reinvention of the animated NBC logo of the time. Clokey's third short movie was Mandala (6 minutes, 30 seconds). He made it from 1974-1977, and it was released on August 31, 1977. He described it as a metaphor for the evolving human consciousness. All three of these animations were later released to the public on several collections of Gumby television shorts.
Gumbasia caught the attention of Samuel G. Engel, president of the Motion Pictures Producers Association. He paid Clokey to make a short pilot for what became The Gumby Show (1957). In 1995, Clokey worked with Dallas McKennon to make Gumby: The Movie, a full-length movie. It was not very successful. In the mid-1990s, Nickelodeon signed a contract with Art Clokey to show every episode of Gumby. It was on top of their ratings for over three years.
Clokey's second most-famous work was the Davey and Goliath cartoon.
Death
Clokey died on January 8, 2010, at his home in Los Osos, California. He was 88 years old. He had been suffering from a infection of the bladder. |
707950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Pilkerton | Chris Pilkerton | Christopher Michael Pilkerton is an American lawyer and politician. He was the acting Administrator of the Small Business Administration from April 2019 through January 2020. He was an assistant director of Law and Public Policy at the Catholic University of America and a Senior Counselor to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
450174 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powersite%20Dam | Powersite Dam | Powersite Dam is a hydroelectric dam that went into service in 1913 in Forsyth, Missouri. It is found along the White River, and the reservoir it forms is Lake Taneycomo. It is the first hydroelectric dam built in Missouri. It was designed in 1911 by Nils F. Ambursen. Powersite was the largest concrete buttress dam of its kind. The dam is still privately owned by the Empire District Electric Company.
In July 2015 the dam was damaged due to heavy flooding. The water levels in Lake Taneycomo had to be lowered to allow for inspection and repairs. |
406244 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarai%20Gascon%20Moreno | Sarai Gascon Moreno | Sarai Gascon Moreno (born November 16, 1992 in Terrassa, Barcelona) is a swimmer from Spain. She has a disability: she is an S9 type swimmer. She raced at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. She was the number two swimmer in the 100 meter breaststroke race. She raced at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She was the number two swimmer in the 100 meter butterfly race. She was the number three swimmer in the 100 meter freestyle race. |
836434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Feilnbach | Bad Feilnbach | Bad Feilnbach (Bavarian: Bad Feilnboch or Bad Feimboch) is a municipality and a spa town in Rosenheim, a district (Landkreis) in Upper Bavaria. |
342581 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiki%20District%2C%20Nara | Shiki District, Nara | is a district near Nara in Nara Prefecture, Japan.
According to tradition, the Shiki District was sometimes the site of an Imperial Palace, including
Shikishima no miya during the reign of Emperor Nintoku
Iwareikebe no Namitsuki Palace during the reign of Emperor Yomei
Kurahashi no Shibagaki Palace or Kurabashi no miya during the reign of Emperor Sushun
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Capital of Japan |
859232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsen%20bei%20Ansbach | Sachsen bei Ansbach | Sachsen is a municipality in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria in Germany. |
393337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Fox%3A%20Assault | Star Fox: Assault | is a video game that was developed by Namco and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in Japan on December 16, 2004, in North America on February 14, 2005, and in Europe on April 29, 2005.
The game has three types of gameplay, including the Arwing, Landmaster, and on foot. Arwing gameplay is similar to Star Fox and Star Fox 64, where players guide Fox McCloud's Arwing spacecraft through stages. The player shoots down enemies and has to defend their teammates. Power-ups are placed on stages to help the player. In some stages, the player may hop out of the Arwing. In Landmaster gameplay, the player guides a tank called the Landmaster. Players shoot or run over enemies, and help their teammates when they need help. On foot gameplay is similar to a traditional third-person shooter video game. The player starts with a blaster gun, and they can get stronger weapons, such as machine guns and sniper rifles.
Multiplayer can be played with up to four players. They can play on foot or in vehicles. New characters, weapons, items and maps can be unlocked in the game. |
759721 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Cerniglia | Guido Cerniglia | Guido Cerniglia (3 February 1939 - 14 May 2020) was an Italian actor and theatre director. He was born in Palermo, Italy. He was known for his roles in The Scientific Cardplayer (1972), Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974) and in Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno (1975).
Cerniglia died in Rome on 14 May 2020, aged 81. |
786077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20Park%2C%20Oklahoma | Valley Park, Oklahoma | Valley Park is a town in Oklahoma in the United States. |
857318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20George%2C%20South%20Carolina | St. George, South Carolina | Saint George is a town in Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,084 at the 2010 census. It has been the county seat of Dorchester County since 1897. |
374236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD%20World%20Centre | Bahá'í World Centre | The Baha'i World Centre is the headquarters of the Baha'i Faith. It is located in Haifa, Israel on Mount Carmel. The Baha'i World Centre includes the World Baha'i Archive, Universal House of Justice of the Baha'i Faith, International Center for advisors, and the Scripture Study Center. There are many Baha'i believers in Haifa and Acre. |
125859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan%20forest%20dormouse | Balochistan forest dormouse | The Balochistan forest dormouse (Dryomys niethammeri) is a species of rodent in the Gliridae family. It is endemic to Pakistan. |
810034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carencro%2C%20Louisiana | Carencro, Louisiana | Carencro (; historically ) is a small city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of Lafayette. 7,526 lived here at the 2010 census. |
865971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Herefordshire | Flag of Herefordshire | The flag of Herefordshire is flag of the English area of Herefordshire. It was officially put to the Flag Institute on 2 November 2019.
Proposed flags
When there was no official flag, the banner of Herefordshire Council was sometimes used. It was flown usually with the Union Flag.
Another design for a flag has been popular. The flag was created as a joke by a student. It is sold at the Hereford Tourist Centre. |
692076 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser%20Farbod | Nasser Farbod | Nasser Farbod (; 27 April 1922 - 26 April 2019) was an Iranian political activist and military officer. He served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army from 27 March 1979 until his resignation on 12 July 1979. He was born in Tehran.
Farbod died on 26 April 2019, at the age of 96. |
140984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfield%2C%20Wiltshire | Wingfield, Wiltshire | Wingfield is a village in the county of Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
Location
Wingfield is two miles west of the town of Trowbridge. |
534066 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh%20Amendment%20to%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution | Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution | The Eleventh Amendment (Amendment XI) to the United States Constitution was passed by Congress on March 4, 1794 and ratified by the states on February 7, 1795. It deals with each state's sovereign immunity and was adopted to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
Text
Lawsuits against states
The idea of sovereign immunity originated in English common law. It was also proposed by political theorists like Thomas Hobbes and Jean Bodin. The founding fathers of the Constitution were aware of the traditional doctrine that states were immune from private lawsuits. Several Anti-Federalists were afraid that Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution, which declares that the federal judicial power extends to suits "between a State and Citizens of another State", would override that doctrine.
The Eleventh Amendment was a direct reaction to an unpopular ruling by the Supreme Court in Chisholm v. Georgia (1793). In Chisholm the Court said federal courts had the power to hear lawsuits brought by citizens against US states. Also, that states were not immune to these cases. The Eleventh Amendment reversed this decision and does not allow cases brought against a state by a citizen of another state or country. It says nothing about a citizen bringing a suit against their own state.
In Ex parte Young, the Supreme Court decision allowed suits in federal courts against officials acting on behalf of states of the union to proceed despite the State's sovereign immunity, when the State acted unconstitutionally.
The Eleventh Amendment is one of five amendments that overturned earlier Supreme Court decisions. |
594243 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20%28disambiguation%29 | Philadelphia (disambiguation) | Philadelphia is a large city in the United States state of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia might also mean:
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Philadelphia, Tennessee
Philadelphia (movie)
Amman, Jordan, which was called Philadelphia during the Greek and Roman periods. |
41440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Boole | George Boole | George Boole [], (November 2, 1815 - December 8, 1864) was an English mathematician and philosopher.
Works
He created Boolean algebra. This is one of the bases of modern-day computer science. Other humans, like Augustus De Morgan and Charles Peirce, refined and completed his work. In their times, very few people knew of the work those mathematicians had done. Boolean algebra was rediscovered by Claude Shannon about 75 years after Boole's death. In his doctoral thesis, Shannon showed that boolean algebra was useful. It could simplify the design of electric switches and relays (like those that were used in the telephone switchboards of the time). Shannon also showed that such switches could solve boolean algebra problems. All modern-day digital circuits (mainly computers) use such algebra to solve problems. |
451544 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Jackson%20%28disambiguation%29 | Randy Jackson (disambiguation) | Randy Jackson (born 1956) is an American musician, record producer and judge on American Idol. |
787891 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mom (TV series) | Mom is an American television show. It began on CBS on September 23, 2013. It ended on May 13, 2021.
The show is set around Brooklyn, New York. It looks at a dysfunctional mother and daughter duo, Christy and Bonnie Plunkett. They have had alcoholism addiction problems. They try to pull their lives together by attending Alcoholics Anonymous.
Anna Faris and Allison Janney play the leading roles in the show. Also acting in the show are Kristen Johnston, Mimi Kennedy and Jaime Pressly.
For her role, Janney has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015. She was also nominated in 2016.
Mom has also gotten nominations at the Critics' Choice Television Awards and People's Choice Awards in its run.
Mom has constantly gotten high ratings in its genre. The average viewership is 11.79 million. That makes it the third-highest rated comedy under broadcast television in the United States.
On September 4, 2020, Faris was leaving the show after seven seasons. |
131203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Thayil | Kim Thayil | Kim Thayil (born September 4, 1960 in Seattle, Washington) best known as the lead guitarist in Soundgarden. |
952890 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt%20Ram%C3%ADrez | Milt Ramírez | Milton Ramirez Barboza (April 2, 1950 - August 18, 2022) was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1970 to 1971 and the Oakland Athletics in 1979. Ramirez was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
Ramirez died on August 18, 2022 in Mayaguez at the age of 72. |
108546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Carbonia-Iglesias | Province of Carbonia-Iglesias | Carbonia-Iglesias was a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy. |
125004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calafat | Calafat | Calafat is a city in Dolj County, Romania. It is near the Danube River. This is across from the Bulgarian city of Vidin. Calafat was started in the 14th century by Genoese colonists. About 21,200 people lived in Calafat, as of 2000. |
805181 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Rights%20Party%20%28United%20States%29 | Human Rights Party (United States) | The Human Rights Party was a socialist political party in Michigan. It existed from the year 1970 to the mid-1970s around Ann Arbor.
Platform
Communication
More people can be in government through the use of cable television
Media is to be funded blindly by the government
Foreign Policy
United States' wars are for the rich and companies
The United States should stop fighting the Vietnam War
Focus on community planning and growth
Education
Schools are used to oppress groups, through sexism, racism, and class
Schools are used to spread propaganda of an free society
Students deserve privacy, dignity, due process, and other decisions
Schools should be controlled by students, parents, and teachers
Schools should be funded by a income tax. The tax should be the same throughout Michigan. If a person gets more money, more of the tax they pay
Childcare
The government and employers should pay for childcare
Parents, staff, and children should run the childcare
The young
Age should not be a factor of the rights a person has
The legal system
All crimes which doesn't affect another person should be repealed
Jails contain more poor, black, and young people
Social inequality is the cause of crime
People convicted with non-violent crimes should be released without bail
The police should be controlled by the community
Prisons should be replaced by rehabilitation
All laws on having drugs should be repealed
Ann Arbor should have more relaxed laws then the state
Ann Arbor should fund treatment for addicts. Education of drugs should be in schools
Economics
Wealth goes to a few people. The tax system doesn't stop this, but might help it
Labor unions must be protected
Workers must be given good working conditions
Taxation
There must be progressive taxation
Sexism
Sexual preference and activity should not be regulated if not interfering with another person
Human rights should be given to people of all sexual orientations and genders
Laws against prostitution and sexual orientation must be repealed
Marital status should not determine rights.
Immediate divorce should happen if both individual consent to it
Discrimination against single people in tax laws, housing, jobs and credit must end. |
74378 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carre%C3%B1o%20de%20Miranda | Carreño de Miranda | Juan Carreno de Miranda (25 March 1614 - 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Born in Aviles in Asturias, he was the son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreno de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as apprentice of Pedro de Las Cuevas and Bartolome Roman. He came to the notice of Velazquez for his work in the cloister of dona Maria de Aragon y en la iglesia del Rosario, he was asked to help paint in the Royal Palace of Madrid with frescoes on mythological fables. He was named "Painter of the King" in 1669. In 1658 Carreno was hired as an assistant on a royal commission to paint frescoes in the Alcazar palace, now the Royal Palace of Madrid. In 1671 he was appointed court painter to the queen (pintor de camara) and began to paint primarily portraits. In 1671, upon the death of Sebastian de Herrera, he was named chamber painter. He refused to be knighted in the order of Santiago, saying "Painting needs no honors, it can give them to the whole world". He is mainly remembered as a painter of portraits. His main pupilswere Mateo Cerezo, Cabezalero, Donoso, Ledesma y Sotomayor. He died in Madrid. |
290970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20Rules%20%282011%29 | Extreme Rules (2011) | Extreme Rules was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event made by WWE. The event took place May 1, 2011 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. It was the third Extreme Rules event. Nine matches overall took place, with eight airing live on PPV.
Background
Raw matches
On the April 11th edition of Raw held a 5-man gauntlet match which would decide the number one contender to face The Miz for the WWE Championship. This match featured John Cena, Randy Orton, John Morrison, R-Truth and Dolph Ziggler. The last two men in the final round were John Cena and R-Truth. After The Miz and Alex Riley beat down both wrestlers, the match was resulted in a double disqualification, which would then lead to the anonymous Raw general manager stating that both John Cena and R-Truth would compete for the WWE Championship against The Miz in a Triple Threat match. The following week on Raw, John Morrison challenged R-Truth for Truth's spot in the match and won, but Truth turned heel and attacked Morrison after the match. Later in the night, it was revealed that the match would be contested inside a steel cage.
Also on Raw, commentators Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler are also continuing their rivalry from WrestleMania XXVII. At the event, Lawler made Cole submit to the ankle lock, but the anonymous Raw General Manager reversed special guest referee Stone Cold Steve Austin's decision, thus making Cole the winner via disqualification. On the April 11 edition of Raw, Lawler defeated Cole's trainer, Jack Swagger, allowing him to announce that he would team up with his former broadcast partner, Jim Ross, to face Cole and Swagger at Extreme Rules. Two weeks later, the Raw General Manager declared that the teams would face each other in a Country Whipping match.
SmackDown matches
Meanwhile on "SmackDown", Edge was scheduled to defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Alberto Del Rio in a ladder match at Extreme Rules after Del Rio won a number one contendership match against Christian on the April 8 edition of SmackDown. But less than a week later, on the April 11 edition of Raw, Edge announced he was being forced to retire due to a real injury to his neck. That Friday, on the April 15 edition of SmackDown, Del Rio demanded to be crowned champion as he was the number one contender. SmackDown general manager Teddy Long didn't see it that way and announced that the match would still happen but that it would now be for the vacant title. Del Rio would be one contender. He also announced his opponent would be the winner of a 20-man over-the-top-rope Battle Royal. Later in the final match of the evening, Edge's real best friend for the past 20 years Christian won. Following this, on the April 25 edition of Raw, Del Rio was drafted to Raw as part of the year's draft. As such if Del Rio wins, he will bring the title to Raw, making the title a "Raw only" title.
Another feud from the SmackDown brand is between Layla and Michelle McCool, formerly known together as LayCool. Disagreement between the two divas started on the April 8 edition of SmackDown when McCool refused to tag Layla in a tag team match against Beth Phoenix and Kelly Kelly. The following two weeks, the two attended couple's therapy sessions, but the latter session ended with McCool attacking Layla, making their break up official. During the 2011 WWE Draft, after Layla lost her match against Eve, she attacked McCool for distracting her. On the April 29 edition of SmackDown, after fighting to a double count-out in their match, Layla and McCool agreed to have a No Count-out, No Disqualification match at Extreme Rules with the loser leaving WWE. |
747253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncut%20Gems | Uncut Gems | Uncut Gems is a 2019 American thriller movie directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bronstein.
The movie stars Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a Jewish jeweler and gambling addict in New York City, who must get an expensive gem he purchased to pay off his debts. The movie also stars Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, and Eric Bogosian.
Uncut Gems had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019. It had a wide release on December 25, by A24. The movie strong good reviews, with its screenplay, direction, editing and Sandler's performance.
It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten movies of 2019. |
915866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia%20Webbe | Claudia Webbe | Claudia Naomi Webbe (born 8 March 1965) is a British politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Leicester East since 2019. She was suspended from the party whip in September 2020 after being charged with harassment of a woman. She was then removed from the party on 3 November 2021 after being convicted in October 2021. |
67224 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami | Hanami | Hanami () means "flower viewing" in Japanese. Enjoying beautiful flowers is an old Japanese custom. Cherry blossoms are the most popular. The custom of hanami is more than a thousand years old. It is still very popular in Japan. Hanami takes place in the spring. Cherry blossoms are there for only a week or two. The cherry trees flower in late March and early April. The blossoms do not stay fresh very long. After a little time, the blooming is over. Then the blossoms fall from the trees.
An older form of hanami also exists in Japan. It celebrates the plum blossoms, instead of the cherry blossoms.
History
The practice of hanami is many centuries old. It started during the Nara Period (710-784) when the Chinese Tang Dynasty influenced Japan in many ways; one of which was the custom of enjoying flowers. Though it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning, by the Heian Period (794-1185), sakura began to attract more attention. The sakura were considered sacred by the Japanese, and they were so important that they still are a cultural symbol of Japan. People believed in gods' existence inside the trees, and the hanami party was used in the beginning to divine that year's harvest and to announce the season of planting rice. Those who went to the hanami made offerings at the root of sakura trees, and after the ceremony, they took part in the offering drinking sake.
Emperor Saga of the Heian Period adopted this custom, and celebrated parties to view the flowers with sake and feasts under the blossoming branches of sakura trees in the Imperial Court in Kyoto. This was said to be the origin of hanami in Japan. Poems were written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life itself; beautiful, but lasting for a very short time. This 'temporary' view of life is very popular in Japanese culture and is usually considered as an admirable form of existence; for example, in the samurai's principle of life ending when it's still beautiful and strong, instead of slowly getting old and weak. The Heian era poets used to write poems about how much easier things would be in Spring without the sakura blossoms, because their existence reminded us that life is very short:
Hanami was used as a term that meant "cherry blossom viewing" for the first time in the Heian era novel Tale of Genji (chapter 8, Hua Yan Hana no En, "Under the Cherry Blossoms"). From then on, in tanka and in haiku poetry, "flowers" meant "sakura", and the terms "hanami" and "flower party" were only used to mean sakura blossom viewing.
At the beginning, the custom was followed only by the Imperial Court, but the samurai nobility also began celebrating it during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600). In those years, Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave great hanami parties in Yoshino and Daigo, and the festivity became very popular through all the Japanese society. Shortly after that, farmers began their own custom of climbing nearby mountains in the springtime and having lunch under the blooming cherry trees. This practice, called then as the "spring mountain trip", combined itself with that of the nobles' to form the urban culture of hanami. By the Edo Period (1600-1867), all the common people took part in the celebrations, in part because Tokugawa Yoshimune planted areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this. Under the sakura trees, people had lunch and drank sake in cheerful feasts.
Today
Japanese people continue the tradition of hanami. People fill parks to eat and drink under the flowering trees. In more than half of Japan, the cherry blossoming days come at the same time of the beginning of school and work after vacation, and so welcoming parties are often opened with hanami. Usually, people go to the parks to keep the best places to celebrate hanami with friends, family, and company co-workers many hours before. In many places such as Ueno Park, temporary paper lanterns are hung for night viewing of the flowers.
The blossom forecast or cherry blossom front is announced each year by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The first cherry blossoms happen in the subtropical southern islands of Okinawa, while on the northern island of Hokkaido, they bloom much later. In most large cities like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, the cherry blossom season normally takes place around the end of March and the beginning of April. The television and newspapers closely follow this "cherry blossom front", as it slowly moves from south to north.
Outside Japan
Hanami is also popular outside of Japan. There are hanami celebrations in Korea, Philippines, China, and elsewhere (many other places).
In 1912, Japan gave 3,000 sakura trees to the United States to celebrate the nations' friendship. These trees were planted in Washington, D.C.. 3,800 more trees were added 1956. These sakura trees are a popular tourist attraction. Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival happens when they bloom in early Spring.
In Macon, Georgia, another cherry blossom festival called the International Cherry Blossom Festival is celebrated every spring. Macon is known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World" because 300,000 sakura trees grow there.
In Brooklyn, New York, the Annual Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in May at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This festival started in 1981 and is very popular. |
215409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Maastricht | Treaty of Maastricht | The Treaty of Maastricht was a treaty signed between European countries, in the Dutch city of Maastricht, on 7 February 1992. This treaty made possible further integration between European states, and made possible the existence of the European Union, doing better than previous treaties such as the Treaty of Rome. European integration went even further with the Treaty of Lisbon, which was signed in 2007 and became effective in December 2009. |
658816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Schakowsky | Jan Schakowsky | Janice Danoff Schakowsky (born May 26, 1944) is an American politician. She is the U.S. Representative for since 1999. She is a member of the Democratic Party. |
732765 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar%20F-Type | Jaguar F-Type | The Jaguar F-Type (project code X152) is a two-door, two-seater sports car, manufactured by British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover. |
670895 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilchberg%2C%20Basel-Landschaft | Kilchberg, Basel-Landschaft | Kilchberg is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. |
711055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Lindbergh | Peter Lindbergh | Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck (23 November 1944 - 3 September 2019), was a German photographer and movie director. He was known for his cinematic images. His best known movie works were Models, The Film (1991); Inner Voices (1999), which won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2000; Pina Bausch, Der Fensterputzer (2001) and Everywhere at Once (2008).
Lindbergh died on 3 September 2019 at the age of 74. |
163136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdurrahman%20Wahid | Abdurrahman Wahid | KH Abdurrahman Wahid (September 7, 1940 -- December 30, 2009), called Gus Dur, was the president of Indonesia from October 20, 1999 to July 23, 2001. He was the first elected president after the end of the Suharto government. He was removed from office in 2001 on charges of being corrupt.
He was buried in Jombang, East Java, where a crowd of about 5,000 people went to the funeral. He had been very ill for a long time and was blind.
Early life
Wahid was born in Jombang, East Java, in 1940. His grandfather started Indonesia's biggest Muslim organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, or NU. His father was the first Indonesian minister of religious affairs. The family moved to Jakarta in 1944. In 1959 he went back to Jombang, where he became a teacher and later a school principal. In 1963 he won a scholarship to go to Egypt and study at al-Azhar University in Cairo. He later studied in Baghdad and in the Netherlands. He returned to Indonesia in 1971 and worked as a journalist. |
1012163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH%20Scorpii | AH Scorpii | AH Scorpii (shortened as AH Sco) is a red supergiant variable star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a very large star at 1,411 times the radius of our Sun and one of the most luminous stars of its type. It is one of the largest stars in the Milky Way. |
945620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait%20for%20Me%20%28movie%29 | Wait for Me (movie) | Wait for Me () is a 1943 Soviet war drama movie directed by Aleksandr Stolper and Boris Ivanov. It stars Boris Blinov, Valentina Serova, and Lev Sverdlin. |
518144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm%20Leatherette%20%28Grace%20Jones%20album%29 | Warm Leatherette (Grace Jones album) | Warm Leatherette is the fourth studio album by Jamaican singer Grace Jones. The album was released on 9 May 1980 through Island Records.
Background
For the album Jones worked with reggae producers Sly and Robbie. The album is different from Jones' first three albums as they were mainly disco and R&B. This album had reggae and electronica sounds. Chris Blackwell planned to make a record with "a harsh sound that was heavy with Jamaican rhythm". |
505661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Aiona | Duke Aiona | James "Duke" Aiona (born June 8, 1955) is a Republican state government official for the U.S. state of Hawaii. He has spent his life trying to make Hawaii a better place to live in his role as Lieutenant Governor. During his first term in 2002, he made a campaign to stop drug abuse including crystal methamphetamine and underage drinking. He was the rival of Democrat David Ige who defeated him in the 2014 election for governor.
Sources
"James (Duke) R Aiona Jr." State Directory. Bethesda, MD: Carroll Publishing, 2009. Biography in Context. Web. 4 June 2015.
Lynne Duke Washington Post Staff Writer. "The Right to Bear Barbs; Court Says 'Hateful' Speech, 'Million Youth March' Are Protected."Washington Post. 03 Sep. 1999: A02. eLibrary. Web. 04 Jun. 2015. |
806210 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Torture%20a%20Duckling | Don't Torture a Duckling | Don't Torture a Duckling () is a 1972 Italian thriller horror movie directed by Lucio Fulci and stars Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and Georges Wilson and was distribuited by Medusa Film. |
1027672 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhacophorus%20calcadensis | Rhacophorus calcadensis | The Langbian flying frog or Kalakkad tree frog (Rhacophorus calcadensis) is a frog. It lives in India. People have seen between 200 and 1400 meters above sea level. |
149885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearden%2C%20Arkansas | Bearden, Arkansas | Bearden is a city in Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States. |
457557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Funck | Hans Funck | Hans Funck (1953 - 16 July 2014) was a German movie editor. He started his career in only 1996. His best known works were Das Experiment (2001), Downfall (2004) and Diana (2013). He worked with German movie director Oliver Hirschbiegel many times.
Funck died from an asthma attack on 16 July 2014 at his apartment in Munich, Bavaria. He was 61. |
362011 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey%20King | Stacey King | Ronald Stacey King (January 29, 1967) is an American who is the current announcer with Neil Funk for the NBA's Chicago Bulls. He is known to provide nicknames for many of the Bulls players. King's own nicknames are Sky and Pearl, named after Earl "The Pearl" Monroe.
King was born on January 29, 1967 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. |
949880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Lorenzo%20Isontino | San Lorenzo Isontino | San Lorenzo Isontino (, ) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is about northwest of Trieste and about west of Gorizia. |
149109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Flocelli%C3%A8re | La Flocellière | La Flocelliere is a former commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendee department in the west of France. On 1 January 2016, it became a part of the new commune of Sevremont. |
593330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda%20Chotomska | Wanda Chotomska | Wanda Maria Chotomska (26 October 1929 - 2 August 2017) was a Polish children's writer, screenwriter and poet. She was born in Warsaw. She was known for being the screenwriter of the Jacek i Agatka television series.
Her poems include: Wiersze pod psem (1959), Siedem ksiezycow (1970), Tance polskie (1981), Kram z literami (1987), Wiersze dla dzieci (1997), and Wanda Chotomska dla najmlodszych (2000).
Chotomska died in Warsaw on 2 August 2017 at the age of 87. |
808918 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20UEFA%20Nations%20League%20Finals | 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals | The 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals was the final tournament of the 2018-19 edition of the UEFA Nations League The tournament was held in Portugal from 5 to 9 June 2019, and was played by the four group winners of Nations League A. The tournament was made up of two semi-finals, a third place play-off, and final to determine the first ever champions of the UEFA Nations League.
Portugal won the final 1-0 against the Netherlands to become the first champions of the UEFA Nations League.
Qualified teams
The four group winners of League A qualified for the Nations League Finals.
Venues
In their bid dossier, the Portuguese Football Federation proposed Estadio do Dragao in Porto and Estadio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimaraes as the venues.
Bracket
All times are local, WEST (UTC+1).
Semi-finals
Portugal vs Switzerland
Netherlands vs England
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
Assists
Awards
Team of the Tournament
The Team of the Tournament was selected by UEFA's technical observers, and includes at least one player from each of the four participants.
UEFA also announced a team of the tournament based on the FedEx Performance Zone player rankings. |
824434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chika%20Hirao | Chika Hirao | is a Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Hirao was born in Matsudo on December 31, 1996. She joined Nadeshiko League club Urawa Reds from JFA Academy Fukushima in 2014. She played many matches as regular goalkeeper and the club won the champions in first season. However her opportunity to play decreased behind Sakiko Ikeda from 2015 season. In 2018, she moved to Albirex Niigata.
In September 2012, when Hirao was 15 years old, she was selected the Japan U-17 national team for 2012 U-17 Women's World Cup and she played 3 matches as regular goalkeeper. In November 2016, she was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 2016 U-20 Women's World Cup. She played 5 matches and Japan won the 3rd place.
In April 2018, Hirao was selected the Japan national team for 2018 Women's Asian Cup. Although she did not play in any matches, Japan won the championship after two tournaments in a row. On August 2, she debuted against Australia. In 2019, she was selected Japan for 2019 World Cup. She played 2 games for Japan until 2019. |
803091 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Rica%2C%20Georgia | Villa Rica, Georgia | Villa Rica (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese translation: Rich Village) is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. |
1041400 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20measurement | Fish measurement | Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies (their body forms), for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.
Overall length
Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the back end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. This measurement excludes the length of the caudal (tail) fin.
Total length (TL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the end tail fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body.
Standard length measurements are used with Teleostei (most bony fish), while total length measurements are used with Myxini (hagfish), Petromyzontiformes (lampreys) and usually Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays), as well as some other fishes.
Total length measurements are used in slot limit and minimum landing size regulations.
Fishery biologists often use a third measure in fishes with forked tails, called Fork length (FL), the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal fin rays, and is used in fishes in which it is difficult to tell where the vertebral column ends.
Fin lengths and eye diameter
Other possible measurements include the lengths of various fins, the lengths of fin bases and the diameter of the eye. |
807736 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesfaye%20Gessesse | Tesfaye Gessesse | Tesfaye Gessesse (September 27, 1937 - December 16, 2020) was an Ethiopian actor and theatre director. He was born in Addis Ababa. He became the General Director of Hager Fikir Theatre in 1974. In 1975, he was removed and sent to prison by the Derg government after his play "Iqaw" which criticized as state terrorism.
Gessesse died on 16 December 2020, at the age of 84. |
697757 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwig%20L%C3%B6ger | Hartwig Löger | Hartwig Loger (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian politician and former business executive. He was the Acting Chancellor of Austria from 28 May 2019 to 3 June 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria (part of the Uniqa Insurance Group) and since 2017 he has been Minister of Finance.
On 22 May 2019, he was named Vice Chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as Acting Chancellor after Austria's first ever successful vote of no confidence against the federal government, following the Ibiza affair. |
726585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennwald | Sennwald | Sennwald is a municipality in Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. |
159594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/LYR%20electric%20units | LYR electric units | The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) electrified urban railway lines in Liverpool and Manchester in order to improve the service offered against the competition being put up by new electric trams.
Liverpool
Liverpool to Southport
The line between Liverpool and Southport began using electric multiple units (EMUs) on 22 March 1904. Power was supplied from a third rail at 625 Volts direct current.
Liverpool Overhead Railway
Connections were built with the Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) at Seaforth & Litherland railway station to a new station beside LOR's Seaforth Sands station. Also from the North Mersey Branch route to Aintree. From 2 July 1905 LOR trains began to run through to Seaforth and Litherland. In 1906 the L&YR electrified the line to Aintree.
Liverpool to Ormskirk
Electrification to Ormskirk was completed in 1913.
Manchester
Bury to Holcombe Brook
From 1913 an experimental electric service operated between Bury and Holcombe Brook. The equipment was provided by Dick, Kerr & Co. of Preston, which was developing its products for export.
The system used was 3,500 Volts DC from overhead lines. In 1918 the line was converted to the 1,200 V DC system chosen for the Manchester to Bury line. |
917617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clube%20de%20Autores | Clube de Autores | Clube de Autores (founded in 2009) is a major self-publishing platform in Latin America, with a main focus on the Brazilian market. It is headquartered in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Clube de Autores claims to publish about 10% of the books in Brazil. |