title: Anthony Vanden Borre

paragraphs: Anthony Vanden Borre (born 24 October 1987) is a Belgian football player. He plays for Portsmouth and Belgium national team.


title: Danubio F.C.

paragraphs: Danubio Futbol Club is a football club from Montevideo, Uruguay.

paragraphs: Danubio was founded by two brothers, Miguel and Juan Lazaroff on 1 March 1932 together with other youths from a school in Montevideo. The club name is a reference to the Danube river, a major waterway in Europe.


title: Thornton, Lancashire

paragraphs: Thornton is a town on the Fylde, in Lancashire, England. It is about four miles north of Blackpool and two miles south of Fleetwood. It is in the borough of Wyre. It is linked to the town of Cleveleys by Victoria Road.


title: Lancashire County Council

paragraphs: Lancashire County Council is the local authority for the county of Lancashire, England. They meet in the County Hall.


title: Central Pier, Blackpool

paragraphs: Central Pier is one of three piers in the town of Blackpool, England. John Isaac Mawson designed the pier. It is long. The pier was opened 30 May 1868.

paragraphs: It was made mostly of cast iron with wooden decking.


title: Stefan Ishizaki

paragraphs: Stefan Ishizaki (born 15 May 1982) is a Swedish football player. He plays for Elfsborg and Sweden national team.


title: Atsuhiro Iwai

paragraphs: Atsuhiro Iwai (born 31 January 1967) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Tatsuru Mukojima

paragraphs: Tatsuru Mukojima (born 9 January 1966) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Junji Nishizawa

paragraphs: Junji Nishizawa (born 10 May 1974) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Masanori Sanada

paragraphs: Masanori Sanada (born 6 March 1968) is a former Japanese football player.


title: José Ignacio Zahínos

paragraphs: José Ignacio Zahínos (born 1 December 1977) is a former Spanish football player.


Hiromi Kojima


Makoto Kakuda


title: Ram Narayan

paragraphs: Ram Narayan (born 25 December 1927 in Udaipur, British Raj) is an Indian musician. He plays the instrument sarangi and is well known for playing in Europe and the United States.


Takuma Edamura


title: Riki Takasaki

paragraphs: Riki Takasaki (born 11 July 1970) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Euller

paragraphs: Euller (born 15 March 1971) is a Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.


title: Luiz Carlos Pereira

paragraphs: Luiz Carlos Pereira (born March 6, 1960) is a former Brazilian football player.


title: Dan Calichman

paragraphs: Dan Calichman (born February 21, 1968) is a former American soccer player. He has played for the United States national team.


title: Kerrea Gilbert

paragraphs: Kerrea Gilbert (born 28 February 1987) is an English football player. He plays for Peterborough United.


title: Vikings

paragraphs: The Vikings were a Scandinavian people from Northern Europe who were known as great seamen and warriors. From the 8th to the 11th centuries they traveled to Europe in their long ships, attacking and then settling in areas that are now modern Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.

paragraphs: The people of the far north, later called Vikings, were first noticed by the Romans around the year 100 BC. This is when the Cimbri and the Teutons moved into southern Gaul. The Romans believed these war-like tribes came from Jutland. But the Romans suspected they were only a part of a greater threat located further north. The Roman historians Jordanes described the destructive Ostrogoths and Visigoths as having come from Gotland. The northern menace survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

paragraphs: The Frankish Empire that succeeded them in Gaul became more and more aware of the northern threat. As the later Carolingian Empire expanded into northern Germany they came into contact with the Danish people. This is when the Vikings first entered into written history. The first recorded raid in the west was at Lindisfarne in 793. Why the Vikings suddenly began raiding is not completely clear. But a popular theory is the populations had grown to the point there was not enough food to feed everyone. The earliest raiders did not seem to want to move out of Scandinavia. They turned to looting, then returning home. These hit and run raids were made possible because the Vikings were master boat builders and they created flat bottomed boats ideal for journeys up rivers, where many monastic sites lay, ready for plundering. This seems to indicate there was space enough for everyone. Because they found raiding so easy, it became more and more popular among the Vikings.

paragraphs: Three different groups of Vikings can be identified. They took three different, sometimes overlapping, routes.

paragraphs: Europeans were scared of the Vikings because of their strong weapons, swift attacks, and cruel fighting tactics. They were known for their bad treatment of women, children and monks in the places where they fought. When the Vikings came to England, the English kings paid them to leave the country, but the Vikings took their money and sometimes fought them anyway. These payments were called Danegeld. From the 9th century to 1066, when the French Duke of Normandy, who became King William I of England, conquered it, Danish and Norwegian Vikings ruled large parts of England.

paragraphs: Because of their longships, which could float in 4 feet (1.3m) of water, the Vikings were able to make their way up rivers and land deep inside a country. For example they sailed up the River Shannon in Ireland and built a harbour 60 miles (100 km) from the coast.

paragraphs: There was a difference in who led Viking raids. In the 9th century Viking Age raids were led by men who may have been exiles in their own countries. The later Viking raids in the late 10th century and early 11th century and were led by Kings. Some of the early leaders tried to become kings with the riches they plundered from Europe and Russia. Some were successful but most were not.

paragraphs: The Vikings were called Rus' by the peoples east of the Baltic Sea. The Vikings who settled in Kiev and formed the first Russian state. The Vikings (Rus') who served the Byzantine Emperors were called Varangians. They became the personal bodyguards to the Emperor and were called the Varangian Guard.

paragraphs: The Vikings traveled through Russia, the Mediterranean Sea, southern Europe, northern Africa and south-western Asia. Some Vikings sailed across the Atlantic Ocean via Iceland and Greenland and may have explored places in North America. The ruins of a Viking settlement have been found at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland.

paragraphs: Some English words, and many place names, came from the Scandinavian and Viking language (Norse). For example, the words "skirt" and "shirt" came from the word "skyrta", meaning a tunic. As English changed, the semantics altered to give us the separate words 'skirt' and 'shirt' we know today. "Skin" came from the Norse word "skinn" (which meant to strip the meat off something). Some place-names in the areas the Vikings conquered are still in use. For example, in Yorkshire places ending with "thwaite" meant a "clearing" and "dale" meant a "valley". The word "thorpe" meant "new village", such as Scunthorpe.

paragraphs: The Anglo-Saxons called the Vikings pagans. They worshiped a great many gods. Viking gods belonged to two groups of gods in Norse mythology. They either belonged to the Aesir or the Vanir. The Aesir were gods of war. Aesir means "gods". They were the rulers of Asgard. Odin was the leader of the Aesir. He and the gods under him ruled mortal men. The vanir were wise gods skilled in magical arts. they live in Vanaheim, although nobody knows where it is. The Vanir can also predict the future. There was a war between the Aesir and the Vanir. When it ended the god Njord and his children Freya and Freyr came to live in Asgard.

paragraphs: The pagan Vikings were exposed to Christianity from the beginning of the Viking Age. They were surrounded by Christian countries. Early Christian missionaries were either enslaved or put to death. The Vikings came into contact with Christianity when they raided other areas around them. Viking raids produced many Christian slaves who were brought back to Scandinavia. They called Christians "Cross-men" because of the cross in their worship. In response many Vikings adopted Thors hammer as their religious symbol. When Vikings settled in Christian areas they converted to Christianity. There are still Headstones in England with both a cross and a hammer. Perhaps they thought it was better to be safe than sorry. That, or the more gods the better. As some Vikings turned from raiding to trading they found a nominal (in name only) profession of Christianity to be helpful. Scandinavia, their homeland, was slower to change to the Christian religion. But by the mid-11th century most of Norway and Denmark had converted. Sweden was converted by the mid-12th century. Overall Scandinavia and the peoples of the Baltic Sea were the last to accept Christianity.

paragraphs: The Viking's religion affected Christianity as well. The pagan celebration of Yuletide became Christmas along with the custom of the Christmas tree. Priests blessing the fields took the place of pagan fertility rites of spring held to make sure there was a good harvest. Norse kept their "farm gods" well after Christianity just to make sure they were protected. Santa Claus owes much of his legend to the Norse god Odin. With his snow-white beard he traveled the midwinter sky on his eight-footed steed Sleipnir visiting his people with gifts. He became Father Christmas. Blended with the Christian Saint Nicholas he (they) became Santa Claus.

paragraphs: In the late 19th century (1800s), Richard Wagner and other artists in the Romantic period made operas and other artwork about ancient Germanic culture. They liked the Vikings because they were not Greeks or Romans. They came up with the idea of Vikings wearing fur clothes and helmets with wings or horns on them and drinking out of hollowed-out animal horns. Some ancient Germans wore helmets with horns on them, but real Vikings did not. Wagner and his partners deliberately dressed the actors in the opera "Ring des Nibelungen" so they would look like ancient Germans and so the audience would feel like modern Germans came from medieval Vikings.


title: Cleveleys

paragraphs: Cleveleys is a village on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, England, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. It is part of the Borough of Wyre.


title: Bank holiday

paragraphs: A bank holiday is the name used for a public holiday in both the United Kingdom, Ireland, and some other Commonwealth countries. The UK started using bank holidays in 1871.

paragraphs: The below is a list of such holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An "X" underneath a country's name means that country uses that date as a bank holiday

paragraphs: Hong Kong calls public holidays "bank holidays", even though they are not officially called that.


title: Blackpool Illuminations

paragraphs: Blackpool Illuminations is an annual Lights Festival. It was founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year. It is held each autumn in the English seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.

paragraphs: Also known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for sixty six days. It starts from late August until early November at a time when most other English seaside resorts' seasons are coming to an end. Dubbed as The greatest free light show on earth, they are 6 miles (10 km) long and use over one million bulbs.


title: Blackpool Gazette

paragraphs: The Blackpool Gazette is an English evening newspaper based in Blackpool, Lancashire. It is published every day except Sunday. It covers the towns and communities of the Fylde coast. It was once named the "Evening Gazette" after initially being named "The West Lancashire Evening Gazette".


title: Fleetwood Weekly News

paragraphs: The Fleetwood Weekly News is a weekly newspaper based in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England. It is published every week, on a Wednesday, which covers Fleetwood and North Fylde.


title: Standard gauge

paragraphs: The standard gauge (also called the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or Normal gauge) is a popular rail gauge. About 60% of the world's current railway lines use this gauge. The distance between the inside edges of the rails of standard gauge track is .


title: The Circus Surprise

paragraphs: The Circus Surprise is a children's picture book written by Ralph Fletcher with pictures drawn by Vladimir Vagin. It was first published in 2001.

paragraphs: Nick is taken to the circus as a surprise for his birthday. While at the circus he follows his nose looking for the cotton candy, and when he turns around his parents are gone. A clown on stilts comes to help him. The clown puts him on his shoulders and they locate his parents.


Dark Floors


title: Sonic Boom

paragraphs: Sonic Boom is a album from the American hard rock/heavy metal band Kiss.


title: Hello, Harvest Moon

paragraphs: Hello, Harvest Moon is a children's picture book written by Ralph Fletcher with drawings by Kate Kiesler. It was first published in 2003 by Clarion Books.

paragraphs: The moon rises and shines through a girl's bedroom window. It then shines on a silent street, corn and wheat fields and fall trees. A young girl and her cat play a game by its light, a pilot flies a plane using its light. The moon sets in the daylight as the young girl and her cat say goodnight.


title: The Sandman (book)

paragraphs: The Sandman is a children's book written by Ralph Fletcher with drawings by Richard Cowdrey. It was first published in 2008 by Henry Holt and Company.

paragraphs: Tor is an man one inch tall who can not fall asleep no matter what he tries. He finds a dragon scale while walking in the woods. He learns that the powder made by grinding the scale help a person to sleep. He then travels the sand into the eyes of children who are having trouble sleeping.


title: I Am Wings

paragraphs: I Am Wings: poems about love is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, it was first published in 1994. It was chosen by School Library Journal as one of their best books of 1994.

paragraphs: The book contains 31 free verse poems about love arranged into two sections, "Falling In" and "Falling Out". The poetic voice is that of a young man and the poems trace the development of a relationship from the start with the first poem "First Look" through its end with the last poem "Seeds".


title: Ordinary Things

paragraphs: Ordinary Things: Poems From a Walk in Early Spring is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with drawings by Walter Lyon Krudop. It was first published in 1997.

paragraphs: The book is a collection of 33 poems divided into three sections titled "Walking", "Into the Woods" and "Looping Back". The reader is taken on a walk along a road, through the woods, over a stream and back.


title: Buried Alive (book)

paragraphs: Buried Alive: The Elements of Love is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with pictures by Andrew Moore. It was first published in 1996.

paragraphs: This book is a collection of thirty six free verse poems about love divided into four elements: earth, water, air and fire.


title: Relatively Speaking (book)

paragraphs: Relatively Speaking: Poems About Family is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with drawings by Walter Lyon Krudop. It was first published in 1999.

paragraphs: The youngest boy describes both his family and their life together through verse. Various scenes include how the family prepare corn on the cob, his other brothers accident, the family reunion, his seldom seen cousin and his uncle's funeral.

paragraphs: "Relatively Speaking: Poems About Family" has been described as a novel-in-verse.


title: Salvaleón de Higüey

paragraphs: The Dominican city of Salvaleón de Higüey, usually known as Higüey, is the head municipality of the La Altagracia province, on the eastern part of the country.

paragraphs: The "Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia" ("Our Lady of High Grace Basilica"), a cathedral, is in this city and many Catholic people come here to pray.

paragraphs: The municipality had, in 2010, a total population of 168,501: 84,562 men and 83,939 women. The urban population was of the total population, one of the most urban municipality in the country.

paragraphs: The city was founded by Juan de Esquivel in 1503. "Higüey" was the Taíno name of the eastern part of the island.

paragraphs: The municipality of Salvaleón de Higüey has a total area of . It has three municipal districts (a municipal district is a subdivision of a municipality). These are Las Lagunas de Nisibón, La Otra Banda and Verón Punta Cana.

paragraphs: Higüey is at to the east of Santo Domingo and at to the north of La Romana. The municipality is in the region known as "Llano Costero del Caribe" ("Caribbean Coastal Plain"), in the eastern part of the country, a region with many savannas.

paragraphs: The altitude of the city of Higüey is above sea level.

paragraphs: The municipality of Higüey has the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east, the municipality of San Rafael del Yuma to the south, the La Romana province to the southwest and the El Seibo province to the west.

paragraphs: Higüey has a tropical wet climate (Köppen climate classification : Af) with no dry or cold season as it is constantly moist.

paragraphs: The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with of rainfall, followed by October with .

paragraphs: The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is February with an average of and the second is March with .

paragraphs: Higüey is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

paragraphs: The municipality of Higüey has three municipal districts:

paragraphs: The most important economic activity in the municipality is tourism, along the eastern coast, mainly in Bávaro and Punta Cana.

paragraphs: But farming is still an important activity in the rest of the municipality, mainly cattle raising. Also sugarcane is a very important crop in this municipality.


title: Have You Been to the Beach Lately?

paragraphs: Have You Been to the Beach Lately? is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher with photographs by Andrea Sperling. It was first published in 2001.

paragraphs: Thirty three first person poems that describe different times during an eleven year old boy's day at the beach. He builds sand walls, he plays in the water with his friends and teases his little brother.


title: Piracy

paragraphs: Piracy is a crime that is committed on ships which are at sea. Pirate is the name given to those people. They usually have small and fast boats. They use these boats to attack other ships, which are usually large cargo ships.

paragraphs: For as long as ships have sailed the sea, there have been pirates. Ancient Egypt and Greece, the Romans, Medieval kings, and the British Empire dealt with pirates. Sometimes fighting pirates has been one of the most important jobs of a navy.

paragraphs: A lot of piracy still happens nowadays in the Gulf of Aden, mostly by Somali pirates. Modern-day pirates usually climb onto ships to get money. In the process, they may kill the crew, or hold them for ransom. In a very few cases, they may also take over the ship and sell its cargo.

paragraphs: The cargo ships that travel the oceans are huge. They usually have very few crew members working on them. Since the ships are so big, they often carry a lot of money in the ship's safe. This money is used to pay the crew, and to pay for the taxes to stay at a port, or to pass through a channel.


title: Langkawi

paragraphs: Langkawi is an island in the Malaysian state of Kedah. This island received its duty-free status in 1987.

paragraphs: Langkawi is one of the most important destination for tourists in Malaysia.


title: Mawlid an-Nabi

paragraphs: Mawlid an-Nabi is a special day in Islamic calendar to remember the birth of Prophet Muhammad. The day falls on the 12th day of Rabiul Awal of Islamic lunar calendar every year. Every year, Muslims around the world celebrate the day by large street processions, distributing food and charity and talks and sermons about the life of the prophet.

paragraphs: The day is recognised as a public holiday in most Muslim countries with the exception of Saudi Arabia.


title: Kedah

paragraphs: Kedah is one of the 14 states that form Malaysia. The state is in the northwestern part of the Peninsular Malaysia. It has an area of 9,425 km2. The capital of Kedah is Alor Setar.


title: Elizabeth Blackburn

paragraphs: Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009.

paragraphs: Blackburn won the Nobel Prize with Americans Jack Szostak and Carol Greider for their work on chromosomes. They researched the way that telomeres protect the chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes are the part of the cell that carries genetic information. Telomeres are the ends of chromosomes. Blackburn outlined the DNA sequence of an organism called Tetrahymena. Blackburn discovered that telomeres can help prevent cancer and other diseases. Blackburn is the first Australian woman to win a Nobel Prize. She also received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2006.

paragraphs: Blackburn was born in Hobart, Tasmania on November 26, 1948. She was the daughter of Harold and Marcia Blackburn. She went to Broadford girls school in Launceston, and later Melbourne University High School. She studied biochemistry at the University of Melbourne, completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Darwin College, and did postdoctoral work at Yale University. She is now Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. She married John W. Sedat in 1975, and has one child, Ben Sedat. She became a United States citizen in 2003.

paragraphs: She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. On January 26, 2010, the Australian Government made Blackburn a Companion of the Order of Australia. In 2007, she won the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in Basic Medical Research in 2007, and was named one the top 100 most influential people by Time magazine.


title: IK Sleipner

paragraphs: IK Sleipner is an association football club in the town of Norrköping in Sweden. In 1938 the club won Allsvenskan becoming Swedish national champions.


title: Palm reading

paragraphs: Palm reading is when a fortune teller tells you your future by looking at lines on your palm.


title: Live Free or Die

paragraphs: "Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945.

paragraphs: The phrase comes from a toast written by General John Stark on July 31, 1809. Stark was New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War. His poor health forced him to decline an invitation to a reunion of the Battle of Bennington. He sent his toast by letter:

paragraphs: The motto was enacted at the same time as the state emblem, on which it appears.


title: Chopped (TV series)

paragraphs: Chopped is a reality-themed cooking competition series that airs on Food Network. Four chefs compete in three rounds or segments on the show: appetizer, entree and dessert. After each round, a chef is eliminated until there is one winner at the end. The winner is given $10,000. In each round, the chefs are given three to five food items that must be in their dish. There is a large pantry and refrigerator that the chefs can use as well. In each round the chefs are given a limited time to complete their dish. The appetizer part lasts twenty minutes. The entree and dessert parts last thirty minutes. Three guest chefs judge each round.


title: Food Network

paragraphs: Food Network is an American food-themed television network headquartered in New York City. It launched in November 1993.

paragraphs: The Food Network has many shows. Some of them are:


title: Appetizer

paragraphs: An appetizer is a small dish of an overall meal. It can also be a drink or multiple drinks containing alcohol. Common examples include: shrimp cocktail, calamari, salad, potato skins, mussels, bruschetta or cheese and crackers. An appetizer may also be very elegant in some restaurants.

paragraphs: They are often referred to as snacks or hors d'oeuvres. Arguably, one fundamental, unspoken, purpose of appetizers, especially in a restaurant setting, is to keep hungry people fed until the main dish is served.


title: Entrée

paragraphs: An entrée [prounced IPA:αn-tre or "on-tray" in American English] is food served before the main course in a multi-course meal. Most entrees typically include a meat or protein (chicken, veal, steak, beef, pork or ham), a vegetable (broccoli, carrots) and a starch (potato, yam or so).


title: A Writing Kind of Day

paragraphs: A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with drawings by April Ward. It was first published in 2005.

paragraphs: A young writer's experiences are described in twenty seven mostly free verse poems. Topics included are roadkill, Venus Flytraps, a grandmothers . Others discuss snow angels, little brothers and "Ma".


title: Moving Day (book)

paragraphs: Moving Day is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with drawings by Jennifer Emery. It was first published in 2006.

paragraphs: Thirty-four short free verse poems that express the feelings of a twelve year old boy moving from Massachusetts to Ohio. Some of the topics include packing, the discovery of long lost treasures, giving things away, and doing things one last time.


title: Marshfield Dreams

paragraphs: Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid is a memoir written by the American writer and poet Ralph Fletcher, it covers his life from birth to age thirteen when his family moved from Marshfield, Massachusetts to Chicago.

paragraphs: Each short chapter tells of an incident growing up in a large family on Acorn Street in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Ralph was the oldest of nine children. Some of the stories told were Ralph being informed of his mother's pregnancy by a nosy classmate. His mother's game called "snuck up the rug" where the whole family got down and pulled dirt from the carpets. Other stories include his father bringing home a pet chicken for each child and his great-grandmother who buried the kids' old teeth in the garden.


title: La Romana, Dominican Republic

paragraphs: La Romana is a Dominican city along the Caribbean Sea, in the southeastern part of the country. It is the head municipality of the La Romana province.

paragraphs: The town was built on the right (western) side of the mouth of the river "Dulce" (now also called "Romana").

paragraphs: The municipality had, in , a total population of 130,426: 63,261 men and 67,165 women. The urban population was of the total population, one of the most urban municipality in the country.

paragraphs: La Romana is in the region known as "Llano Costero del Caribe" (in English, "Caribbean Coastal Plain"), with only few low hills and many savannas. The small islands of "Catalina" and "Saona" are part of this municipality but nobody lives in Catalina.

paragraphs: The municipality has a total area of . It has only one municipal district (a subdivision of a municipality): Caleta.

paragraphs: La Romana has the municipality of Guaymate to the north, the La Altagracia province to the east, the Caribbean Sea to the south and the Villa Hermosa municipality to the west.

paragraphs: The altitude of the city of La Romana is above sea level. The city is at to the east of Santo Domingo and at of Higüey.

paragraphs: La Romana has a tropical wet and dry/ savanna climate (Köppen climate classification : Aw) with a pronounced dry season in winter.

paragraphs: The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is October with of rainfall, followed by September with .

paragraphs: The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is March with an average of and the second is February with .

paragraphs: La Romana is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

paragraphs: The municipality of La Romana has only one municipal district:

paragraphs: The most important company in La Romana is the Central Romana that produces sugar. This factory was built in 1917 by the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company.

paragraphs: There is also here an important "Free Trade Zone", a place where there are different companies that made different products to send to other countries and do not pay taxes in the Dominican Republic.

paragraphs: The "La Romana International Airport" is very near the city and there are several important tourist places such as : "Casa de Campo" and "Alto de Chavón".

paragraphs: Sugarcane is an important crop in the municipality and also cattle raising.


title: Thomas Keneally

paragraphs: Thomas Michael Keneally (October 7, 1935) is an Australian writer. He has won several major awards including the Miles Franklin Award and the Booker Prize.

paragraphs: Keneally was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1935. His early life was spent in northern New South Wales around the towns of Kemspey, Wauchope and Taree. He began training to become a Roman Catholic priest but left at the end of six years when he had a nervous breakdown. He wanted to be able to marry, which he did later and had two daughters. His first job was as a teacher, and during this time he began writing short stories. He began studying to become a lawyer and wrote his first book, a novel called "The Place at Whitton", in 1964.

paragraphs: His book, "Bring Larks and Heroes" (1967), was given the Miles Franklin Award. In 1982, his book "Schindler's Ark", won the Booker Prize. This was made into a movie, "Schindler's List", in 1993.

paragraphs: Keneally was the first chairman of the Australian Republican Movement.


title: Digital media

paragraphs: Digital media (compared to analog media) is electronic media that works on digital codes. Today, computing is based on the binary numeral system, so the "digital" refers to the use of "0" and "1" to show data. Computers are machines that use binary digital data as information. Digital media ("Formats for presenting information" according to media) like digital audio, digital video and other digital "content" can be created, referred to and distributed by digital information processing machines. Digital media is a big change from (analog) media.

paragraphs: The transformation of an Analog signal to Digital information by an analog-to-digital converter is called sampling. According to information theory, sampling is a reduction of information. Most digital media are based on turning analog data into digital data and vice-versa (see digital recording, digital video, television versus digital television).

paragraphs: Compared to analog data, digital data is easier to control, and can be made into many copies without losing any quality. Mathematical operations can be made into digital information regardless of its meaning (you can add "2" to the data "65" and view the result either as the hexadecimal number "43" or the letter "C"). Thus, it is possible to use the same compression operation onto a text file or an image file or a sound file.


Sitka, Alaska


title: Wales national football team

paragraphs: Wales national football team is the national football team of Wales.

paragraphs: Prior to 1954 the Welsh team was chosen by a panel of selectors with the team captain fulfilling the role of coach.


title: Loves Park, Illinois

paragraphs: Loves Park is a City in the State of Illinois in the United States.


title: Montezuma, Iowa

paragraphs: Montezuma is a city in Iowa in the United States.


title: Waverly, Kentucky

paragraphs: Waverly is a city in the U.S. state of Kentucky. At the 2000 census, 297 people lived there. It was founded in 1870 and the city was named for founder Hugh McElroy's nephew.

paragraphs: The United States Census Bureau says that the city has an area of , and that all of it is land.


title: Riverton, Iowa

paragraphs: Riverton is a city in Iowa in the United States. It is built beside the East Nishnabotna River. In 2000, there were 304 people living in Riverton. The 1881 robbery of the Sexton Bank at Riverton was thought to be the work of Jesse James. It was later found out to be the work of the outlaw Polk Wells.

paragraphs: The first settler in the Riverton area was Coleman Smith who built his house there in 1859. He later brought his family to Riverton by boat.

paragraphs: On July 11th, 1881, the Nishna ValleyBank was robbed at gunpoint of $4000. One of the robbers, Polk Wells, was shot during the robbery by the owner of a nearby store.

paragraphs: Two miles north of Riverton is the Riverton Wildlife Management Area. This is of marsh and wetland which is the breeding area for many types of duck. During the spring there can be as many as 100,000 snow geese in the area. It is a popular place for hunting. It floods during the spring and then dries out during the summer. There are three boat ramps in the area.


title: John Obi Mikel

paragraphs: Mikel John Obi (born 22 April 1987) is a Nigerian football player. He plays for Chelsea and Nigeria national team.

paragraphs: He captained Nigeria at the 2018 FIFA World Cup until their last game against Argentina on 26 June following a 2-1 loss .


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title: Seigo Shimokawa

paragraphs: Seigo Shimokawa (born 17 November 1975) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Oita Trinita.


title: Stab proof vest

paragraphs: A stab-proof vest (or Stab vest) is a type of body armor that is used by police officers or prison guards to protect them from attacks using knives (or other sharp objects).


title: Young-adult fiction

paragraphs: Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA) is fiction written primarily for adolescents around the ages of 13 to 19. However, many young adults in their 20s and 30s also read young adult fiction.

paragraphs: Young-adult fiction in the form of novels or short stories, have special features that make it different from the types of fiction catered to other age groups: namely Adult fiction, Middle Grade Fiction (for older children aged 8-12), and Early readers Fiction (for very young children under age 8). Most YA stories show an adolescent as the lead character, rather than an adult or a child. The subject matter and storylines are usually in line with the age and knowledge of the main character. YA stories can span all types of fiction. The settings of YA stories are limited only by the skill of the author. YA stories often focus on the challenges of youth. The entire age category is sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming of age novel. YA novels are often as short as 16000 words. Despite its unique features, YA shares the basic parts of fiction with other stories: character, plot, setting, theme, and style.


title: Jalal Dabagh

paragraphs: Jalal Dabagh (born May 12, 1939 in the city of Silêmanî in Southern-Kurdistan), is a Kurdish politician and writer/journalist. He is the party leader for the Left Party of south Kurdistan.

paragraphs: Jalal Dabagh has continuously taken part in the Kurdish guerrilla movement, called the peshmerga, and has written and translated many books; among other the Kurdish translation of The Communist Manifesto.


title: Crystal Cave, Bermuda

paragraphs: Crystal Cave is the most famous of Bermuda's many underground caverns. It is in Hamilton Parish, close to Castle Harbor. A favorite of tourists since since 1907, it was found in 1905 by Carl Gibbons and Edgar Hollis. The two boys were looking for their lost cricket ball which fell into a hole in the ground. Soon after, the Wilkinson family (the owners of the property since 1884) learned of the discovery. Mr. Percy Wilkinson lowered his 14-year-old son Bernard into it with a bicycle lamp on 140 feet of rope tied to a tree to explore the cave.

paragraphs: The area around Harrington Sound (which is to the south of Crystal Cave) is made of limestone and has many underground waterways, through which the waters of the sound empty into the Atlantic. Crystal Cave is one of these, and - as its name suggests - has many stalactites, stalagmites, and deep crystal-clear pools.

paragraphs: Next to Crystal Cave is Fantasy Cave with Fantasy being deeper (88 steps down). Fantasy Cave was reopened in the summer of 2001 with all the walking paths having been rebuilt and additional lighting added. It was found and opened about the same time as Crystal Cave. It had been closed by the owners in the 1940s.

paragraphs: The two caves on 8 Crystal Caves Rd. at Wilkinson Ave. can be reached by bus, taxi and other private forms of transportation. Outside the two caves is a sub-tropical garden lined with palm trees where one will find many different trees and flowers.

paragraphs: The caves are owned by the local Wilkinson Trust, and are open to the public.


title: Fig Pudding

paragraphs: Fig Pudding is a young adult novel written by Ralph Fletcher. It was first published in 1995. The novel was recommended as one of the ten best books of 1995 by the American Library Association.

paragraphs: Cliff is eleven years old and the oldest of six children in his family who live in Ballingsford. As Christmas nears, Cliff's grandmother arrives for a visit. Cliff's baby brother is rushed to the hospital with a severe illness. While he is getting better in the hospital on Christmas Eve his family finally figure out that he has been asking Santa Claus for a little ladder like the one used to climb up to the top of a bunk bed. The whole family work together to build Josh a ladder and deliver it him on Christmas morning. Later, Cliff's first grade brother Brad, drives his bicycle into an ambulance and dies. The family spends the next Christmas at a resort trying to adjust to the loss of Brad but the trip does not seem to work. Their spirits rise during a New Year's party at Aunt Pat's house. When they arrive at the party Josh steps by mistake into Dad's special fig pudding. Dad removes the shoe, smooths down the pudding, and swears the children to secrecy. They all keep a straight face until Uncle Eddie says that the fig pudding is the best ever and asks Dad if he has added some new ingredient. They all laugh when the real story of the shoe is told.

paragraphs: "Fig Pudding" is written using an episodic plot style.

paragraphs: Chris Sherman in his review for "Booklist" said that "Fletcher captures perfectly the humor, irritations, and sadness of life in a large, close-knit family and makes Cliff a sympathetic and thoughtful narrator, occasionally bewildered by his siblings' antics but always a completely believable older brother. The comedy in the final chapter will leave readers recalling hilarious family disasters of their own." Elizabeth Devereaux in her review for "Publishers Weekly" said this novel "neatly blends the humor and frustrations of growing up in a large family."


title: Rod Laver

paragraphs: Rodney George "Rod" Laver MBE (born 9 August 1938, in Rockhampton, Australia) is a former tennis player from Australia and a former world #1 in ATP tennis rankings.


title: Ilta-Sanomat

paragraphs: Ilta-Sanomat is one of Finland's two afternoon newspapers. It is the second largest newspaper in Finland. The other Finnish afternoon newspaper is "Iltalehti".


title: Domestic

paragraphs: Domestic (pronounced doe-mes'-tik) or domestique can mean:


title: Canadian Women's Hockey League

paragraphs: The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) is an ice hockey league in Canada that was formed in 2007. Female players from around the world played in this league and in the Western Women's Hockey League. The CWHL replaced the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) in 2007. Many teams (Toronto, Brampton and Montreal) from the NWHL moved to the CWHL.

paragraphs: The Clarkson Cup is an ice hockey trophy, which since 2009 has been awarded to the winner of the Canadian Women's Hockey Championship.


title: Bread (band)

paragraphs: Bread are an American rock/pop band. They formed in Los Angeles, California in the late 1960s. ""Make It With You"" was a No. 1 hit in the Billboard chart. ""If"" was a 1971 worldwide hit. Bread disbanded in 1978. The band leader was David Gates. He composed all of Bread's hits. The 1996 reunion was a year-long world tour.


title: Solar panel

paragraphs: Solar panels get energy from the sun for people to use. There are two types of solar panels, those that collect heat (thermal), and those that produce electricity (photovoltaic). Heat from solar panels is often used for space heating and for hot water.

paragraphs: Solar panels collect renewable energy. In the 20th century some used the heat of the sun to make steam for a steam engine to turn a generator. Nowadays producing electricity from the sun's light is cheaper. This is a solid state way of producing electricity, meaning that it has no moving parts.

paragraphs: Home solar panels are often mounted on rooftops. Commercial or industrial installations are often on trackers mounted on the ground. The trackers point the panel towards the sun as the sun moves across the sky. Photovoltaic panels are also commonly used in outer space, where they are one of the few power sources available.

paragraphs: Solar panels for heat are usually made from a box with a clear window on top. Pipes run through the box. The pipes and the box are usually painted black because black absorbs more heat than other colors. The pipes are filled with a heat transfer fluid such as water or oil. A pump circulates the fluid, which heats up as it is exposed to the sun. When the hot fluid leaves the panel, it goes into a heat exchanger, which transfers the heat into water or air. After the now cool fluid leaves the heat exchanger, it is pumped back up into the panel to collect heat again.

paragraphs: Photovoltaic solar panels are built to last about thirty years. So far, most of the solar panels, originally created in the 1980's have not yet reached the end of their estimated lifespans. Many of the solar panels which have expired, however, have been classified as hazardous waste. The used solar panels that have not been considered dangerous can be recycled to create new solar panels. Over 90% of the solar panel is recyclable to create either new solar panels or scrap material. First, the panels are broken down by removing the metal frames and glass plate, leaving the group of solar cell sandwiched between an resin and back film. To actually get to the solar cells themselves, the resin and backing must be removed.

paragraphs: The top ten uses for solar panels include,

paragraphs: Solar panels have become much cheaper to use, compared to oil, diesel and liquified natural gas in parts of Asia. Solar energy will soon become the main source of energy. Over the years many innovations have been made to improve solar panels. Solar panels have been used for space exploration and are being developed to be able to power cars. Along with this, scientists are developing solar cells in silicone to increase its convenience.

paragraphs: Solar shingles are a new type of solar panel that look like ordinary asphalt roof shingles. They are used where the appearance of traditional solar panels might be undesirable, such as on residential rooftops. Solar shingles are more expensive and less durable than normal solar panels.


title: Hiroki Aratani

paragraphs: Hiroki Aratani (born 6 August 1975) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Ventforet Kofu.


title: Shigetoshi Hasebe

paragraphs: Shigetoshi Hasebe (born 23 April 1971) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Takahiro Yamanishi

paragraphs: Takahiro Yamanishi (born 2 April 1976) is a former Japanese football player.


title: René Higuita

paragraphs: René Higuita (born 27 August 1966) is a former Colombian football player. He has played for Colombia national team.


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title: Takanori Sugeno

paragraphs: Takanori Sugeno (born 3 May 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kashiwa Reysol.


title: Kalmar FF

paragraphs: Kalmar FF is an association football club in the town of Kalmar in Sweden. The club won the Swedish cup in 1981 and 1987. In 2008, the club won Allsvenskan, becoming Swedish national champions.


title: Emperor's Cup

paragraphs: Emperor's Cup is a Japanese football competition.

paragraphs: It is one of the three major titles in Japan, along with J. League Division 1 and J. League Cup.


title: J. League Cup

paragraphs: J. League Cup is a Japanese football competition.

paragraphs: It is one of the three major titles in Japan, along with J1 League and the Emperor's Cup.


title: Sef Vergoossen

paragraphs: Sef Vergoossen (born 8 May 1947) is a former Dutch football manager.


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title: Peter Luccin

paragraphs: Peter Luccin (born 9 April 1979) is a French football player.


title: Horim Museum

paragraphs: Horim Museum(호림박물관) is a museum in Sillim-dong Gwanak District, Seoul. It has many ceramics and pictures of Korea. It is closed every Sunday, in January 1st, Seollal, and Hangawi.


title: Elinor Ostrom

paragraphs: Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom ("née" Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American scientist. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She taught at both Indiana University and Arizona State University. She won the Nobel Prize 2009 in Economic Sciences which she had to share with Oliver Williamson. Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in this category. She was influenced by James M. Buchanan.

paragraphs: Ostrom was one of 20 Nobel Laureates who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.

paragraphs: She was married to political scientist Vincent Ostrom (born 1919) from 1963 until she died. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October 2011 and died of the disease in Bloomington, Indiana at age 78.


title: Spider Boy (novel)

paragraphs: Spider Boy is a young adult novel written by Ralph Fletcher, first published in 1997.

paragraphs: Bobby Ballenger is starting a new school far from his old home. He moved from Illinois to New Paltz, New York and his love of spiders has earned him the nickname of Spider Boy from Illinois. This was given to him by the class bully. His pet spider has not eaten since the family moved. Bobby keeps a journal where he records interesting facts about spiders. He then uses it to record his frustrations and thoughts about his new school.


title: Sugababes

paragraphs: Sugababes also known as "The Sugababes" were a British girl group which were formed in 1998 by Ron Tom when the members were still at school. The band has since had a string of hits both in the United Kingdom including six number ones, and in several other countries. The band has changed its line-up three times, because of reported differences between the members of the band. The original lineup was Siobhan, Mutya, and Keisha. Their first album," One Touch", was released in 2000. Siobhan left in 2001. Heidi Range, an original member of Atomic Kitten, replaced her. In 2002 their second album "Angels With Dirty Faces "was released on Island Records. It reached number 2 in the UK albums chart. Their third album "Three" was released in 2003. In 2004 they sung "Do They Know It's Christmas" as part of Band Aid 20. It reached No.1. In October 2005 their fourth album "Taller in More Ways" was released. It was their first UK number one album. It was also popular in other countries including Australia, Ireland, and Switzerland. In December 2005 it was announced that Mutya was no longer a member. Amelle Berrabah replaced her in the same month. "Follow Me Home" was rerecorded and released as the album's fourth single. In 2006 British Hit Singles & Albums named the band the most successful all-female group in the 21st century. They released Overloaded: The Singles Collection, which included two new songs, "Easy" and "Good to Be Gone".

paragraphs: The band released their fifth album "Change" in 2007. It reached number one and sold over 300,000 copies in the UK. In 2008 "Catfights and Spotlights" was released. Their seventh studio album "Sweet 7" was released in March 2010. On 11 April 2011 the band released two albums, "The Best of the Bs" and "The Complete Bs". Both were collections of songs from other albums they had made.

paragraphs: The band started a break in 2012 so that the members could do solo work. In 2013 Jade Ewen said that the band had officially split in 2011. The original members have formed a band called Mutya Keisha Siobhan who plan to release their first album in 2014.

paragraphs: In their career the band were nominated for forty-one awards, 14 of which they won.


title: John Allen Muhammad

paragraphs: John Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was a convicted American spree killer responsible for ten deaths in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002. He and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a murder spree, killing ten people by shooting them from a distance inside Muhammad's car. The last murders however were also done outside while hiding from view. Muhammad confessed to having committed seven more murders, making a total of 17 victims.

paragraphs: Muhammad was later sentenced to death by lethal injection and Malvo was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in November 10, 2009 in the state of Virginia.


title: Victor Silvester

paragraphs: Victor Marlborough Silvester OBE (25 February 1900 – 14 August 1978) was a English dancer, author, musician and dance band leader whose records sold 75 million copies from the 1930s through to the 1980s. He was a significant figure in the development of ballroom dance during the first half of the 20th century. Victor married "Dorothy Newton" in 1922, a few days after winning the World Ballroom Dancing Championship.

paragraphs: Silvester was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He died in France.

paragraphs: After World War II, his orchestra and his weekly television programme, "Victor Silvester's Dancing Club", kept him in the public eye. His 1927 textbook, "Modern Ballroom Dancing", was an immediate bestseller and has remained in print through many editions, the last issued in 2005. He wrote ten other books, including his autobiography.


title: Vaginoplasty

paragraphs: Vaginoplasty is surgery to shape a vagina. Some babies are born with a problem where the vagina did not grow right. Doctors fix this with a vaginoplasty. Some women do not like how their vagina looks or feels. They can ask for a vaginoplasty. Some transsexual women ask for a vaginoplasty when they go from male to female.

paragraphs: There are many ways to do a vaginoplasty. Most use tissue from other parts of the body of the patient. They can use tissue from inside the mouth, skin tissue, the vaginal labia, or the intestines. For transgender women, they can use the penis and scrotum to make a vagina, but they must continue to dilate the new vagina to keep it by a tool.


title: World Dance Council

paragraphs: The World Dance Council Ltd (WDC), previously known as the International Council of Ballroom Dancing (ICBD) until 1996, was established at a meeting organised by P.J.S Richardson on September 22, 1950 in Edinburgh.

paragraphs: Initially consisting of nine European countries and three others, today the WDC has become the leading authority on competitive ballroom and Latin dance. It has members in many countries throughout the world. Each country is allowed one member. As of 2006, there are 59 members.

paragraphs: Its governing body, the Presidium, consists of a President and five Vice-Presidents. Professional World Championship ballroom dance is organised by the Dancesport Committee; Amateur championships are organised by the Amateur League, and social dancing by the and the Social Dance Committee.


title: Luciano Galletti

paragraphs: Luciano Galletti (born 9 April 1980) is an Argentine retired football player. He used to play for Olympiacos.


title: Mastectomy

paragraphs: Mastectomy is a surgery to remove the breast. They may remove one breast or both breasts. They may remove some of the breast, or all of it.

paragraphs: Mastectomy is often done for people with breast cancer. Both men and women can get this cancer. Both men and women can need a mastectomy. Some people with a high risk of breast cancer have the operation before the cancer starts.

paragraphs: If they find a tumor in the breast, they may only remove part of the breast around the tumor. Then the person might also take drugs (chemotherapy) to stop the cancer. They might also have a machine send energy (radiation) into the breast. Sometimes this can stop the cancer.

paragraphs: Transgender men also get this surgery to reassign their sex.


title: Keisuke Ota (born in 1979)

paragraphs: Keisuke Ota (born 24 April 1979) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Tomoji Eguchi

paragraphs: Tomoji Eguchi (born 22 April 1977) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Blackpool Dance Festival

paragraphs: The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance. It has been held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920 (except for war-time). It is also the largest regular ballroom competition: in 2003, 1539 couples from 54 countries took part in the festival.

paragraphs: As of the early 21st century the festival is held in May. It covers Ballroom dance, including Latin dances. The Festival includes the British Open Championships in categories of adult amateur and professional couples and formation teams. In 2005 two new categories were introduced: the British Rising Star Amateur Ballroom and Latin Competitions. Two invitation events, the Professional Team Match and the Exhibition Competition, create much interest.

paragraphs: The Junior Dance Festival, Blackpool Sequence Dance Festival, and British National Dance Festival are also held annually in Blackpool.

paragraphs: The annual World Professional Championship in either Ballroom or Latin dance is often held in Blackpool (4 times between 1989 and 2005), but is not connected with the Dance Festival.


title: Åtvidabergs FF

paragraphs: Åtvidabergs FF is an association football club in Åtvidaberg in Sweden. The club won Allsvenskan and became Swedish national champions in the years of 1972 and 1973.


title: Raúl García

paragraphs: Raúl García (born 11 July 1986) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Atlético Madrid.


title: Yoshifumi Yamada

paragraphs: Yoshifumi Yamada (born 4 November 1981) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Michiaki Kakimoto

paragraphs: Michiaki Kakimoto (born 6 October 1977) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Matsumoto Yamaga.


title: Hiroyuki Ishida (born in 1981)

paragraphs: Hiroyuki Ishida (born 11 December 1981) is a former Japanese football player.


title: Yoon Jong-hwan

paragraphs: Yoon Jong-Hwan (윤정환 尹晶煥, born February 16, 1973) is a South Korean professional athlete. He is best known as a football player. He was a member of the Korean national team.


title: Oleh Protasov

paragraphs: Oleh Protasov (born February 4, 1964) is a former Ukrainian football player. He has played for the Soviet Union national team and the Ukrainian national team.


title: Stirling Albion F.C.

paragraphs: Stirling Albion F.C. is a football club which plays in Scotland.


title: Bloody Mary (folklore)

paragraphs: Bloody Mary is a kind of ghost of a dead woman in Western folklore. This ghost is said to appear in a mirror after calling its name three times or more, depending on the version of the story. Like the Ouija board, this game is played by adolescents in parties or small meetings just to have fun. The ghost's name can vary according to the tales said by the people. Some similar names are: "Mary Worth", "Mary Worthington" and "Hell Mary", among others.


title: Ludwig Beck

paragraphs: Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 in Wiesbaden – 21 July 1944 in Berlin) was a German general officer. He worked for Adolf Hitler's resistance and was its leader. When the attempt to kill Hitler in his conference room failed, Hitler escaped and Beck was shot and arrested.


title: Otto Liman von Sanders

paragraphs: Otto Liman von Sanders (17 February 1855 – 22 August 1929) was a German general. He was a leader of the German military to help the Ottoman Empire in 1913. Allenby took power away from Sanders in 1918.


title: Scissor Sisters

paragraphs: The Scissor Sisters are a music group. They are classified as being rock, pop, and dance. They did a remake of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". They formed their band in 2001 in New York. Paddy Boom is one of their band members along with Jake Shears. Scissor Sisters have released four albums.

paragraphs: At first the Scissor Sisters were called Dead Lesbian. They then changed their name to the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters. In 2002 the band were signed to A Touch of Class. They released their first single "Electrobix" in 2003.

paragraphs: In 2004 "Comfortably Numb" was released as a single. It reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. "Take Your Mama" was then released as a single. It reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.

paragraphs: They released their first album, "Scissor Sisters", in 2004. The album got good reviews from music critics. It sold more than any other album in the UK in 2004. It has sold over 2,100,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

paragraphs: In 2005 the Scissor Sisters won three BRIT Awards. In September 2006 the Scissor Sisters released their second album, "Ta-Dah". The album's first single, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'", reached number one in the UK. Elton John played piano on the song.

paragraphs: In June 2010 Scissor Sisters' fourth album "Night Work" was released. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number two. Three singles were released from the album.

paragraphs: In 2012 the band's fourth album "Magic Hour" was released. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number four. "Shady Love" was released as the album's first single. It was only released on vinyl to 200 of the band's fans on Twitter and Facebook. Azealia Banks rapped on the song. "Only the Horses" was released as the album's second single. It reached number twelve in the UK Singles Chart.


title: Flying Solo

paragraphs: Flying Solo is a young adult novel written by Ralph Fletcher, first published in 1998.

paragraphs: Mr. Fabiano is a sixth-grade teacher that calls in sick on April 28th. When his class arrives they find that their substitute teacher has not shown up. The class decides that they will not report this to the principal and will run the classroom by themselves. The students follow the instructions left by their teacher. All goes well until Mr. Fabiano is called upon to join in a school assembly.

paragraphs: Some of topics in the novel include selective mutism, death, and grief.


title: Gothika

paragraphs: Gothika is an American horror thriller movie starring Halle Berry.


title: SPIHT

paragraphs: SPIHT (set partitioning in hierarchical trees) is a compression algorithm intended for compression of wavelet transform coefficients. It was introduced by Amir Said and William A. Pearlman in 1996. Its predecessor was EZW coding algorithm.

paragraphs: More practically, SPIHT progressively transforms these coefficients into a bit stream. This stream can be anywhere cut off. During decoding coefficients are increasingly refined.


title: Korean barbecue

paragraphs: Gogigui, Korean barbecue, or Korean short ribs, is marinated beef rib cross-sections cooked over direct heat. It comes from Korea originally but is now popular in many countries. Although Korean barbecue refers to a number of meat-based Korean entrées including "bulgogi" (beef) and spicy pork, the most common form of meat associated with the term is of the short rib variety. Korean BBQ comprise various spices including onion, soy sauce, and pepper to create a pleasant, unique blend of flavors.

paragraphs: There are many types of Korean barbecue meats. Galbi (Grilled Ribs), Samgyeopsal (Pork Belly), Thinly sliced brisket point, Sirloin, and Ribeye steak meat...etc.

paragraphs: Pork belly sam gyeob sal, sam gyeob sal which translates to "three layers of flesh." It’s more well known than bacon in Korea.

paragraphs: Marinated beef bulgogi, Another classic dish, bulgogi, or "fire meat," is sweet and chewy.

paragraphs: Galbi is Korean BBQ Short Ribs, takes grilled short ribs and cut different than all others and a sweet and salty marinade.

paragraphs: American Barbecue tends to emphasize big hunks of meat like brisket and pork shoulder cooked low and slow behind closed doors.The Korean way of grilling beef, pork, chicken, or other kinds of meat, usually means having a grill right on the table, where people can talk, cook, and eat at the same time. Commonly  the meat is already cut into small pieces before grilling, and are then wrapped into bite-sized lettuce leaf packages ssam with garlic, vegetables, seasoning sauce, salt, and/or sesame oil

paragraphs: Ingredients: 1/2 pounds rib eye beef (thinly sliced),2 tablespoons soy sauce,2 teaspoons sesame oil,2 teaspoons crushed garlic,2 tablespoons brown sugar,1 tablespoon rice wine (sake), Pinch of black pepper and 1/2 piece of fresh kiwi, juice in a blender.

paragraphs: Step 1- Add all the ingredients into a bowl or container one by one

paragraphs: Step 2- Let the marinade sit overnight or an hour

paragraphs: Step 3- Get the meat and massage the meat in the marinade to make it tender

paragraphs: The side dishes are the other fun part. The raw, sliced meats come to the table pre-marinated (usually in soy sauce, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, and sugar) and share the spotlight with a slew of high-flavor accompaniments. Known as banchan, these allow customizing your Korean BBQ to your taste preferences. On the table, there is a bowl of funky kimchi made with cabbage or radishes, some spicy gochujang (fermented chile pepper paste), a dish of sweet-and-sour cucumbers, a fresh watercress or mung bean salad, a bowl of steamed rice, a dish of sesame salt, a savory dipping sauce dotted with chopped Asian pears, and some crisp lettuce leaves for wrapping it all up. It’s like a taco bar with lettuce as the wraps. The many, varied garnishes bring the grilled meat alive. Grill the strips of meat over the charcoal embers just until they are charred by fire and kissed with smoke, then wrap them up with a bit of sweet, a shot of salty, a spark of spice, a lick of acidity, some crunch, and a boatload of savory for what eventually becomes a minor feast of culinary fireworks. There are many other side dishes, some are kongnamul muchim (seasoned bean sprouts), Oi muchim (spicy cucumber salad), Musaengchae (Spicy Radish Salad), Sukju Namul (Seasoned Bean Sprouts), Gamja-salad (potato salad) and so much more side dishes.


title: Stede Bonnet

paragraphs: Stede Bonnet (c. 1688 – December 10, 1718) was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called "the gentleman pirate" because he was a moderately rich landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was captured and was executed by hanging at White Point Garden, in Charleston, South Carolina on 10 December 1718.


title: Tommy Trouble and the Magic Marble

paragraphs: Tommy Trouble and the Magic Marble is a children's novel written by Ralph Fletcher with drawings by Ben Caldwell. It was first published in 2000.

paragraphs: Tommy who loves collecting needs ten dollars to buy a magic marble from another boy. He tries to pick flowers from his mother's rose garden to sell to a neighbor. He also tries to trade his little brothers snake. Tommy finally decides that the magic marble is not worth the trouble.


title: Harlequin (color)

paragraphs: Harlequin is the name of the colour that is halfway between green and chartreuse green on the Colour wheel. On color plate 17 in the 1930 book "A Dictionary of Colour", the colour "harlequin" is shown as being on the colour wheel precisely halfway between "green" and "yellow-green" (the colour which was formerly called "yellow-green" is now called "chartreuse green").

paragraphs: The first recorded use of "harlequin" as a color name in English was in 1923.


title: Hwajeong Museum

paragraphs: Hwajeong Museum (화정박물관) is a museum in Jongno District, Seoul. It was opened in 1999. It has many relics of Korea, China, and Tibet. People who want to go to the museum on New Year's Day, Seollal, or Hangawi, they would have to make a reservation.


title: National Palace Museum of Korea

paragraphs: National Palace Museum of Korea () is a museum in Jongno District, Seoul. It was opened in 1908 and reopened in Gyeongbok Palace in 2005. It has royal relics of Joseon Dynasty. It also has 3 National Treasures of Korea. It is not opened every Monday.


title: National Folk Museum of Korea

paragraphs: National Folk Museum of Korea(국립민속박물관, 國立民俗博物館) is a museum in Jongno District, Seoul. It was opened in 1945, and reopened in Gyeongbok Palace in 1993. It is closed on Tuesdays.


title: Rutherford College

paragraphs: Rutherford College is a public high school for 12-18 year old boys and girls in Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in 1961, it was named after the Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist and chemist, Lord Ernest Rutherford, who was born in New Zealand.


title: New Japan Pro Wrestling

paragraphs: , also known as NJPW, is Japanese professional wrestling promotion.

paragraphs: NJPW is the largest wrestling promoter in Japan. NJPW has working agreements with other promoters, including: World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and PRIDE Fighting Championships.

paragraphs: NJPW was founded in 1972 by Kanji Inoki.

paragraphs: Since 1999, Tatsumi Fujinami has been president.

paragraphs: In 2012, Inoki continued to be known for innovation in the business.


title: Patrick Kane

paragraphs: Patrick Kane (born November 19, 1988 in Buffalo, New York) is an NHL ice hockey right winger/center for the Chicago Blackhawks.

paragraphs: He was the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. On June 12, 2008 he won the Calder Memorial Trophy awarded to the best rookie player inbeating out his Blackhawks teammate Jonathan Toews and Washington Capitals forward Nicklas Backstrom. He was the cover athlete for the video game N10. He has also competed in the 2009 NHL All-Star Game. Kane was selected to compete with Team USA in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. On June 9, 2010 Patrick Kane scored the game-winning overtime goal which led the Blackhawks in winning their first Stanley Cup in 49 years which ended the longest Stanley Cup drought in the NHL.

paragraphs: Kane started his ice hockey career with the "Cazenovia Chiefs", A team in his hometown of Buffalo. He also played for the "West Seneca Wings", "Buffalo Regals", and "Depew Saints". When he was fourteen he played junior hockey for the USA boping

paragraphs: where he earned the title of MVP when he scored the most goals. He lived with former NHL player Pat Verbeek when he moved to Michigan at the age of fourteen while he played for the Honeybaked AAA hockey club of the Midwest Elite Hockey League. He stayed with the team for 3 years before the London Knights drafted him in the 5th round of the 2004 Ontario Hockey League Midget Draft.

paragraphs: Although he was drafted by the Knights in 2004, he did not play with them until the 2006–07 OHL season because he decided to play for the United States U-18 National Team Development Program. While he was part of the program, he led the team in scoring with 102 points during the 2005–06 season. During his OHL years, he played on a line along with future NHLers Sergei Kostitsyn and Sam Gagner. He passed 145 points to be awarded the OHL scoring title and also combined with Gagner and Kostitsyn for 394 points in the season. The Knights finished the post-season when they lost the OHL's Western Conference final to the Plymouth Whalers by a series best 4-1 in a 7 series loss. He finished his postseason with 10 goals and 21 assists which was a total of 31 points in 16 games.

paragraphs: He won the Emms Family Award for the OHL rookie of the year on April 27, 2007 and was also a runner-up for the Red Tilson Trophy as league MVP behind John Tavares.

paragraphs: Kane scored the overtime game-winning goal against Michael Leighton of the Philadelphia Flyers during Game 6 of the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals to win the Blackhawks their first Stanley Cup in 49 years which ended the longest Stanley Cup drought in the NHL.

paragraphs: He played with EHC Biel of the National League A during the 2012 NHL lockout. He also played for HC Davos during the 2012 Spengler Cup.

paragraphs: On June 24, 2013, Kane won his second Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals. Kane was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy for Stanley Cup Playoffs MVP.

paragraphs: On the night of August 9, 2009, Patrick Kane and his cousin were riding in a taxi and allegedly punched the taxi driver because he did not have the correct change. Kane and his cousin were charged with second-degree robbery, fourth-degree criminal mischief, and theft of services. He pleaded not guilty and apologized for the trouble he caused but pleaded guilty to noncriminal disorderly conduct charges.


title: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

paragraphs: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, also called "white spot disease", "ick" or "ich" is a disease that causes little white spots on fresh water fish. It is one of the most common parasites of fish. It often affects pet fish in tanks and ponds, as well as farm-raised food fish species. Wild fish populations can also get the parasite.

paragraphs: Ich is a parasite, it can only survive by living on the skin of the fish, this is called being "obligate". The parasite moves by a fish carrying it, other animals, or even humans. The life cycle has three stages: tomont, theront, and trophont. The tomont stage is the adult stage of the parasite. When this adult tomont leaves the fish, it falls to the bottom of the pond. Once the tomont falls to the bottom, it forms a thin cyst wall. Within that cyst wall the tomont begins to divide, creating thousands of tomites. Once all the tomites are made, they are released into the water. Once this occurs, the tomites then develop into an elongated form and are then known as a theront. Theronts are the developmental stage that then can swim to the fish and burrow itself into the epithelial skin. They do this by using a penetrating gland. What makes them an obligate parasite is that if they are not able to penetrate the fish’s skin they will die, so to survive, they need to get into the fish. Once they are in the fish’s skin they are then known as trophonts. The trophonts are protected from the chemical treatment in aquariums or ponds by the fish’s skin, and therefore it is difficult to get rid of them once the fish is infected. The trophonts then mature by feeding on the fish and become adults. The life cycle continues when the adults fall off again. The only stage that can be killed in the water is the tomonts and the theronts.

paragraphs: Also interestingly, the "I. multifiliis" life cycle from birth to death depends on the temperature of the water. In warm water, 25 °C (77 °F), the parasite's whole life cycle can take place in seven days. In cold water, 6 °C (43 °F), it can take up to eight weeks.

paragraphs: The disease starts when the parasite digs into the skin of the fish. This causes swelling and white spots to form. After a few days, the parasite turns into a trophozoite, a jelly-like substance. This falls off the fish and lives on the bottom of the tank. Inside the jelly are hundreds of baby parasites called tomites. These eventually can swim by themselves and go looking for another fish to live in.

paragraphs: Fish may have Ichthyophthirius multifiliis without there being anything to see. Fish owners need to be careful about where they get their fish from, as the disease can spread very easily. There are a number of different ways to try to get rid of the parasite. One method is to heat the water to kill the parasites in the water before they can infect the fish. Another method is to add salt to the water, or put the fish into a salt water bath. The water should be changed frequently to remove the parasites. Chemicals are also available which will kill "Ichthyophthirius multifiliis". All these treatments need to be carefully planned for the type of fish species.

paragraphs: If you find that your fish is infected, here are some simple procedures to follow to help your fish.


title: Kazuyoshi Matsunaga

paragraphs: Kazuyoshi Matsunaga (born 13 November 1977) is a Japanese football player.


title: Adhemar (footballer)

paragraphs: Adhemar Ferreira de Camargo Neto (born 27 April 1972), usually just called Adhemar, is a former Brazilian football player.


title: Arno van Zwam

paragraphs: Arno van Zwam (born 16 September 1969) is a former Dutch football player.


title: José Antonio García Calvo

paragraphs: José Antonio García Calvo (born 1 April 1975) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.


title: Juan Velasco Damas

paragraphs: Juan Velasco Damas (born 15 May 1977) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Larissas.


title: Aflac

paragraphs: Aflac (also known as Aflac Incorporated) is an insurance company. Their mascot is a white, short-tempered duck called the Aflac Duck. Gilbert Gottfried used to do the voice for the Aflac Duck, but he's now replaced by Daniel McKeague after getting fired by the Aflac company for making bad online jokes about the Japan earthquake in 2011.

paragraphs: Also, college football has the Aflac trivia question. Their headquarters is in Columbus, Georgia.


title: State Farm Insurance

paragraphs: State Farm Insurance is an insurance agency with headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. They serve both the U.S. and Canada. They sponsor the Lone Star Showdown.


title: La Vega, Dominican Republic

paragraphs: The Dominican city of Concepción de la Vega, usually known as La Vega, is the head municipality of the La Vega province; it is the largest city in the central part of the country.

paragraphs: The carnival of La Vega, every year during February, is one of the most important carnival in the country.

paragraphs: The municipality had, in , a total population of 202,864: 102,077 men and 100,787 women. The urban population was of the total population.

paragraphs: In 1494, Christopher Columbus built a small fort near what is today known of "La Vega Vieja" (the "Old La Vega"). Columbus gave the name of "Concepción" to the fort.

paragraphs: A small town grew around the fort and was known as "Concepción de la Vega" because it was in the western border of the main valley of the island ("Vega" means valley): the "Cibao Valley" or "Royal Valley".

paragraphs: The city was destroyed by a strong earthquake in December of 1562; the town was rebuilt several kilometres to the south of the old one, on the southern side of the Camú river, where the city is now.

paragraphs: The municipality of Concepción de la Vega has a total area of . It has three municipal districts (a municipal district is a subdivision of a municipality). These are Río Verde Arriba, El Ranchito and Tavera.

paragraphs: Concepción de la Vega is at to the northwest of Santo Domingo and at to the southeast of Santiago. The municipality is in the western side of the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain chain"), in the "Valle de la Vega Real" ("Royal Valley").

paragraphs: The altitude of the city of Concepción de la Vega is above sea level.

paragraphs: The municipality of Concepción de la Vega has the Espaillat and Hermanas Mirabal provinces to the north, the Duarte province and the municipality of Jima Abajo to the east, the Monseñor Nouel province to the south and the municipality of Jarabacoa and the province of Santiago province to the west.

paragraphs: The Camú river flows along the northern side of the city; that river, one of the most important river of the country, is a left tributary of the Yuna river.

paragraphs: La Vega has a tropical wet climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Af) with no dry or cold season as it is constantly moist (rainfalls during the whole year).

paragraphs: The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with of rainfall, followed by April with .

paragraphs: The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is February with an average of followed by June, , and January, .

paragraphs: La Vega is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is August with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

paragraphs: The municipality of La Vega has three municipal districts:

paragraphs: The most important economic activity in the province is farming; some important crops are plantain, rice, cacao; some vegetables are grown in the valley of the Camú river. Cattle raising is also important, mainly for milk.

paragraphs: There is also here an important "Free Trade Zone", a place where there are different companies that made different products to send to other countries and do not pay taxes in the Dominican Republic.


title: Arkansas Razorbacks

paragraphs: Arkansas Razorbacks is the name of the sports teams at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.


title: Uncle Daddy

paragraphs: Uncle Daddy is a young adult novel written by Ralph Fletcher, first published in 2001. It won a Christopher Medal in the Books for Young People, ages 10–12 category in 2002.

paragraphs: River's father left his wife and son when the son is three years old. He goes out to get a pizza and does not come back. His mother's uncle moves in and becomes "Uncle Daddy". Rivers is living a normal life for a nine year old boy when his father returns after being gone for six years. The return of Rivers father threatens to tear the family apart until Uncle Daddy has a near fatal heart attack. Rivers and his parents come together to support Uncle Daddy.

paragraphs: "Uncle Daddy" won a Christopher Medal in the Books for Young People, ages 10–12 category in 2002.


title: The One O'Clock Chop

paragraphs: The One O'Clock Chop is a young adult novel by written by Ralph Fletcher, first published in 2007.

paragraphs: Ralph Fletch drew up on own experiences in being a clam digger when he was between seventeen and twenty years old. He considers this his first piece of historical fiction and talked to many Hawaiian women while writing this novel.

paragraphs: Matt, a fourteen your old boy living on Long Island in 1973, takes a job with Dan, a clam digger. He wants to save up enough money to buy a used boat. Jazzy, Matt's cousin from Hawaii comes to spend the summer with Matt and his mother. Jazzy and Matt become kissing cousins until Jazzy becomes interested in another boy. They finally become friends again and Matt learns to stand up for himself.

paragraphs: The One O'Clock Chop is a daily breeze that suddenly moves across the bay where Matt lives roughening up the smooth surface. Dan says "the old salts say you can set your watch by it."


title: Final Fantasy VII

paragraphs: Final Fantasy VII is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation console.

paragraphs: It is widely renowned as one of the most influential role-playing games to date and is the best-selling game in the series.

paragraphs: "Final Fantasy VII Remake" released in April 2020.

paragraphs: "Final Fantasy VII" follows the story of Cloud, who joins forces with many others to fight a new threat to the world while dealing with a seemingly terminal illness.

paragraphs: The main playable character is Cloud who is supported by Tifa, Aerith, and Barret.

paragraphs: The music in "Final Fantasy VII" covers a wide variety of musical genres, including rock, techno, orchestral, and choral.


title: Tony O'Reilly

paragraphs: Sir Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly (born May 7, 1936) billionaire born in Dublin, Ireland. He is the chairman of Dublin's Independent News & Media Group and was once the CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company.

paragraphs: O'Reilly played rugby for the Leicester Tigers and London Irish in England. He played for Ireland between 1955 and 1963.


title: Prism (optics)

paragraphs: Some prisms are used to disperse light. Binoculars also use prisms, to reflect light. This lets the tubes of the binoculars be short. Some cameras use a prism to send light to the viewfinder, so the photographer can see what will be photographed.


title: Fritjof Capra

paragraphs: Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-American physicist.

paragraphs: Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966. He has done research on particle physics and systems theory, and has written popular books on the implications of science with ethics, metaphysics and society. In particular in "The Tao of Physics" he makes the assertion that physics and metaphysics are both inexorably leading to the same knowledge. His works all share a similar subtext: that ""there are hidden connections between everything"". Capra is both a Buddhist and a Catholic Christian.

paragraphs: After touring Germany in the early 1980s, Capra co-wrote a book in 1984 with ecofeminist author Charlene Spretnak, called "Green Politics".

paragraphs: Capra pushes for western society to abandon c the mechanistic views of Descartes. Critiquing Descartes' reductionistic view that everything can be studied in parts to understand the whole, he allows his readers to take an objective and fresh mind, encouraging them to see the world through 'complexity theory'.

paragraphs: Capra is aiming for a theory of living systems, a theoretical framework for ecology. This theory has its roots in several scientific fields from the first half of the twentieth century — organismic biology, gestalt psychology, ecology, general systems theory, and cybernetics.


title: Vegeta

paragraphs: Vegeta also known as Prince Vegeta IV is a fictional character from the manga Dragon Ball created by Akira Toriyama , where he is firstly introduced as an antagonist alongside his companion Nappa for Goku.

paragraphs: Later in the story he became an ally for Goku and his friends, even if he develops a friendly rivalry with Goku.

paragraphs: He also marries Bulma and he becomes father of Trunks and Bulla.

paragraphs: His popularity is only second to Goku himself. Due to his popularity he appareaes in Dragon Ball Z , Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super.


title: Minor Threat

paragraphs: Minor Threat was a hardcore punk band from Washington DC from the 1980s. Many other bands which played hardcore punk music in the United States were influenced by Minor Threat's music. Minor Threat's songs were usually short and fast. All of Minor Threat's records were released on the band's own Dischord Records label.

paragraphs: Minor Threat told their listeners they did not use illegal drugs or drink alcohol, which was called being "straight edge."

paragraphs: Ian MacKaye, Jeff Nelson, bassist Brian Baker, and guitarist Lyle Preslar formed Minor Threat in 1980. Their first records were "Minor Threat" and "In My Eyes" in 1981. The group toured through the United States.

paragraphs: Their song "Straight Edge" had lyrics (words) that told people they did not use illegal drugs or drink alcohol, which was called being "straight edge." Another song called "Out of Step" tells listeners not to smoke, drink, or have casual sex. People often thought that the band was telling others not to do these things but in interviews the band states that straight edge is a personal decision.


title: Ethelred the Unready

paragraphs: Ethelred II (c. 968 – April 23 1016) was also known as Ethelred the Unready. He was King of England twice. The first time was from 978 to 1013, and the second time was 1014 to 1016. He was the son of Edgar, and Aelfthryth. For most of his reign he had to fight off Viking invaders.

paragraphs: The word "unready" in his name means "badly advised". When, as a young person, he asked for opinions he was given poor advice.


title: Elizabethan Religious Settlement

paragraphs: The Elizabethan Religious Settlement was Elizabeth I’s answer to the religious quarrels that developed during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I.

paragraphs: This answer was given in two Acts of the Parliament of England. The Act of Supremacy of 1559 confirmed the English church’s independence from Rome. The Act of Uniformity 1559 decided about the form of the English church.

paragraphs: Often it was seen as the end of the English Reformation and the foundation of Anglicanism. But some historians think that England only became a Protestant nation on a popular level many years later. There seem to have been great divisions in the population and among the clergy for a long time afterwards.


title: Gecko

paragraphs: Geckos are small to middle size lizards. There are 1196 different kinds of geckos, mostly in the suborder Gekkota. They live in many warm countries and usually are awake during the night. Some kinds of geckos go into people's houses. "Hemidactylus frenatus" is the common house gecko. People are often happy to have them, because geckos eat many insects.

paragraphs: Unlike most lizards, geckos have voices. A gecko sounds a little like a bird or a frog. In some languages, these lizards have names that sound like their calls, for example, both English and Indonesian call one kind gecko (gek KO) and tokay (to-KAY). Another kind of gecko, with a different sound, is called chicak (CHEE chak).

paragraphs: Most geckos lay eggs, but some give birth to live young.

paragraphs: Geckos have no eyelids. Instead, they have a clear membrane (skin) over their eyes. They lick the membrane clean with their tongues. Like most lizards, they can regenerate their tail if they need to. Their tail also helps them balance and store fat. Geckos also shed their skin, like many other reptiles. Geckos are also able to replace their teeth every few months.

paragraphs: Many kinds of geckos can walk on trees, walls, windows, and ceilings. Geckos' feet form a molecular bond with the surface that they are walking on in order to "stick" to the surface. This force is called van der Waal's force.They can do this because they have special toe pads. A microscope can show that each toe pad is made of thousands of hair-like structures called setae. Each of these structures branches into many smaller ends called spatulae. The rest of their skin is also covered in extremely small hairs, which make it hard for a gecko to get wet. Gecko skin can also kill bacteria.

paragraphs: There are six families under the suborder Gekkota.


title: Rutherfordium

paragraphs: Rutherfordium is a chemical element. It has also been named eka-hafnium and unnilquadium. It has the symbol Rf. It has the atomic number 104. It is a very radioactive element that does not exist in nature. It has to be made. Rutherfordium is the first transactinide element.. The isotope that has the longest half-life is Rf. Rutherfordium-265 only has a half life of about 13 hours.

paragraphs: The amount of rutherfordium that has been made is not enough to give much information about it. The element has no present uses. It is thought that the chemistry of rutherfordium will be like the chemistry of hafnium.

paragraphs: Rutherfordium was named after Ernest Rutherford. It was reported that it was first made in 1964 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia. The scientists reported that they bombarded a different chemical element Pu with the element Ne. The neon-22 particles were accelerated to an energy of 113 to 115 MeV. They claim they detected nuclear fission tracks in a special type of glass with a microscope showing that a new element was there.

paragraphs: In 1969 scientists at the University of California, Berkeley made rutherfordium by banging together Cf and C at very high energies. These scientists said that when they tried to make rutherfordium in the same way as the scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research none of the element was produced.

paragraphs: The scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research claimed that it was first detected in Dubna. They thought it should be named "dubnium" ("Db") or "kurchatovium" ("Ku") for Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov (1903-1960).

paragraphs: The scientists at the University of California, Berkeley thought it should be named "rutherfordium" ("Rf").

paragraphs: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) decide the name of elements that should be used by everyone. They used "unnilquadium" ("Unq") as a temporary name. Unnilquadium is the systematic element name. In 1997 they resolved the dispute and used the current name of rutherfordium. The chemical element with atomic number 105 was named dubnium.


title: Lizard

paragraphs: Lizards are reptiles. Together with snakes, they make up the order Squamata.

paragraphs: There are about 6,000 species, which live all over the world, except in cold climates. They range across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. One type, the marine iguana, lives in the sea. Size varies greatly, from geckos of a few inches or cm to the Komodo dragon of 3 meters (9 feet) and 70 kg (150 pounds).

paragraphs: In the traditional taxonomy the Order Squamata is divided as follows:

paragraphs: A modern view is that the snakes and lizards are all infraorders of the Squamata:

paragraphs: There are other versions, and the taxonomy will probably not settle until more molecular evidence is collected.

paragraphs: The skull structure of both snakes and lizards is distinctive. They can move their upper jaw relative to the braincase. They bear horny scales, and many use venom for attack and defense.

paragraphs: The Squamates are definitely a monophyletic group; they are a sister group to the Tuatara. Judged by their fossil record, the Squamates were present in the Mesozoic, but occupied a minor place in the land ecology. Three of the six lines are recorded first in the Upper Jurassic, the others in the Cretaceous. Probably all (including snakes) arose earlier in the Jurassic. The Mosasaurs of the Upper Cretaceous were by far the most successful of all the lizards, becoming the top predator in their ecosystem.

paragraphs: Although snakes and lizards look so different, neither are proper clades. Snakes did descend from early lizards, so both groups together do form a monophyletic clade, the Squamata. Within that clade there is another monophyletic clade, the Toxicofera. This includes all venomous reptile species, as well as many related non-venomous species. The evidence for this is in recent molecular analyses.

paragraphs: Sight is very important for most lizards, both for locating prey and for communication. Many lizards have highly acute color vision. Most lizards rely heavily on body language, using specific postures, gestures and movements to define territory, resolve disputes, and entice mates. Some species of lizard also utilize bright colors, such as the iridescent patches on the belly of Sceloporus. These colors would be highly visible to predators, so are often hidden on the underside or between scales and only revealed when necessary.

paragraphs: The "dewlap" is a brightly colored patch of skin on the throat, usually hidden between scales. When a display is needed, the lizards erect the hyoid bone of their throat, resulting in a large vertical flap of brightly colored skin beneath the head which can be then used for communication.


title: Philipp Tischendorf

paragraphs: Philipp Tischendorf (born June 7, 1988 in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure skater. He was the 2007 German national silver medalist. Tischendorf is coached by Michael Huth, with former coaches Jürgen Bertko and silver Olympic medalist Romy Oesterreich.

paragraphs: In March 2007, Philipp was injured while practising a quadruple Lutz jump on the ice and was forced to not participate the 2007/2008 because of injury.


title: Miles per hour

paragraphs: Miles per hour is a unit of measurement. It measures speed. It is the number of miles moved in an hour.

paragraphs: Miles per hour is the unit used for speed limits on roads in the United Kingdom and the United States. It is normally abbreviated in everyday use to mph or MPH. In technical publications it is sometimes abbreviated as mi/h.

paragraphs: The SI unit for velocity (speed, with a direction of movement) is m·s (metres per second).


title: Nobility

paragraphs: Nobility was the highest social class in pre-modern societies. In the feudal system (in Europe and elsewhere), the nobility were mostly those who got land from the monarch and had to provide services to him, mainly military service. Men of this class were called noblemen. It soon became a hereditary class, sometimes with a right to bear a hereditary title and to have financial and other privileges.

paragraphs: Today, in most countries, 'noble status' means no legal privileges; an important exception is the United Kingdom, where certain titles (titles of the peerage, until recently guaranteed a seat in the Upper House of Westminster Parliament, that is why it is called House of Lords), and still means some less important privileges.


title: Trio (music)

paragraphs: A trio is a group of three people who are playing musical instruments or singing together. The word "trio" may also refer to the piece of music that they are playing.

paragraphs: Three people who are singing together are a "vocal trio".

paragraphs: Classical composers writing chamber music very often wrote trios. Usually the trio is called after the main instrument in the group. A piano trio is normally a piece for piano, violin and cello. A string trio is a piece for three string instruments, usually violin, viola and cello.

paragraphs: Many other combinations are possible. Brahms wrote a piece which is normally referred to as a "Horn Trio" for french horn, violin and piano. Mozart wrote a piece normally called a "Clarinet Trio" which is for clarinet, viola and piano.

paragraphs: A piece for three people sitting at one piano is usually called a piece for "piano 6 hands".

paragraphs: Trios can also apply to popular music, like Nickel Creek.


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title: Learning music by ear

paragraphs: Learning music by ear is learning to play a piece of music by listening to other people playing it and then trying to play it oneself. In some musical traditions there is no written music and everybody plays by ear all the time. Folk music is traditionally learned by listening to other musicians and copying them. This is how music is passed from one generation to another.

paragraphs: Most people in the Western musical tradition learn pieces and songs by reading music, but it is good to try to play music by ear sometimes. It can be a very useful skill.

paragraphs: The Suzuki method of learning instruments started in Japan but is now used in many countries. It teaches young children to play an instrument (usually the violin) by ear.


title: Shelton Benjamin

paragraphs: Shelton James Benjamin (born July 9, 1975) is an American professional wrestler. He currently wrestles for New Japan Pro Wrestling under the ring name Shelton X Benjamin.

paragraphs: He is best known for working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and has also worked for Ring of Honor from 2010 to 2013.

paragraphs: Benjamin started his career in Ohio Valley Wrestling and stay with them from 2000 to 2002. During his time there he won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship three times with Brock Lesnar and one time with Redd Dogg.

paragraphs: He was called up to the WWE in 2002 and debuted on the WWE SmackDown roster on December 26, 2002. During his early career in the WWE he along with Charlie Haas formed Team Angle with Kurt Angle as their on-screen mentor. They began a feud with Chris Benoit. Benjamin won the WWE Intercontinental Championship after he defeated then-champion Chris Jericho at the 2004 Taboo Tuesday.

paragraphs: He was part of a storyline where he was on a losing streak for many weeks which led his "momma" (played by actress Thea Vidale) to come to Raw to scold him. She assisted him in matches and sometimes interfered in them. She was taken off television when she was (kayfabe) undergoing heart surgery in the hospital and wouldn't be returning to the WWE.

paragraphs: In 2007, he started wearing gold attire and dyed his hair blond. He also began referring to himself as "The Gold Standard". Benjamin won the WWE United States Championship after he defeated then-champion Matt Hardy at the 2008 Great American Bash. Benjamin was released from the WWE on April 22, 2010 along with Jimmy Wang Yang, Kung Fu Naki, Slam Master J, Mickie James and Katie Lea Burchill.


title: J. Robert Oppenheimer

paragraphs: Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 in New York City – February 18, 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American physicist of Jewish descent. He is best known as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. In World War II, the project built the first nuclear weapons. That is why Oppenheimer is called ""the father of the atomic bomb"."

paragraphs: "We knew the world would not be the same", he recalled the moments after the successful testing of the atomic bomb in New Mexico, United States years later. "A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another."

paragraphs: The quote from the Hindu scripture became one of Oppenheimer's most famous quotes.

paragraphs: After the war he lost his security clearance and his job due to concern over nuclear espionage out of anti-nuclear movement. He returned to teaching, and died of throat cancer, aged 62.