title: Daniel Carcillo

paragraphs: Daniel Carcillo (born January 28, 1985) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger. He played a career total of 10 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, Los Angeles Kings, and New York Rangers.

paragraphs: Before playing in the NHL, Carcillo played in the OHL for 4 seasons; 3 for the Sarnia Sting and 1 for the Mississauga IceDogs. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the 23rd pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He played 3 seasons with the Coyotes before being traded to the Philadelphia Flyers on March 4, 2009 for Scottie Upshall and a 2011 2nd round draft pick. He played 3 seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers where he made it to the Stanley Cup Finals but the Flyers lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in six games.

paragraphs: He became an unrestricted free agent in the off season and was signed by the Chicago Blackhawks on November 26, 2010 to a one-year contract. On June 24, 2013, He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.

paragraphs: On July 16, 2013, Carcillo was traded to the Los Angeles Kings for a conditional sixth-round draft pick in the 2015 NHL Draft.

paragraphs: He played 26 games with the Kings and was traded to the New York Rangers on January 4, 2014 for a seventh-round draft pick in the 2014 NHL Draft. On May 23, 2014 during the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Carcillo used physical force against a linesman while being escorted to the penalty box and he was suspended for 10 games. On June 3, 2014, his suspension was reduced from 10 games to 6 games by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

paragraphs: On September 4, 2014, he was signed to a professional tryout contract by the Pittsburgh Penguins in order to attend their 2014 training camp and he was later released.

paragraphs: On October 3, 2014, Carcillo joined the Chicago Blackhawks training camp roster. On October 4, he agreed to a one-year, $550,000 contract with the Blackhawks. On June 15, 2015, Carcillo won his second Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks.

paragraphs: On September 17, 2015, Carcillo announced that he was retiring from playing professional ice hockey.

paragraphs: Carcillo hosted a radio program called "The Bomb Shelter" which aired on WGN Radio 720 in Chicago.

paragraphs: Carcillo said that he battled alcoholism and substance abuse problems during his career. Before he joined the Blackhawks, Carcillo became friends with Steve Montador. Montador helped Carcillo battle his alcohol and substance problems, but after suffering a concussion in 2012, Montador was forced to leave the NHL. Carcillo was friends with Montador until Montador unexpectedly died in 2015. His death impacted Carcillo, who was suffering from a concussion. Carcillo asked for the NHL community to play a bigger role in the lives of retired players who have suffered concussions.

paragraphs: After retiring, Carcillo decided to set up the 'Chapter 5 Foundation', which helps players who are suffering with post-concussion syndrome, anxiety, or depression.


title: Andrew Brunette

paragraphs: Andrew Brunette (born August 24, 1973 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger that played a total of 1,100 career games in the National Hockey League (NHL).

paragraphs: He played in the OHL for 3 seasons with the Owen Sound Platers. He was drafted by the Washington Capitals with the 174th pick in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. He has played in the NHL for the Washington Capitals for 3 seasons, the Nashville Predators for 1 season, the Atlanta Thrashers for 2 seasons, the Minnesota Wild for 6 seasons, the Colorado Avalanche for 3 seasons and the Chicago Blackhawks for 1 season. He was signed to a one-year contract by the Chicago Blackhawks on July 1, 2011 to a one-year contract.

paragraphs: Brunette retired from professional ice hockey on February 13, 2013 and decided to take up the position of Hockey Operations Advisor to the Minnesota Wild.


title: John Greenleaf Whittier

paragraphs: John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American poet. He was from Haverhill, Massachusetts and was a Quaker. Like many Quakers, Whittier believed that slavery was wrong. Whittier was active in the movement to end American slavery, and was a member of the anti-slavery Liberty Party.

paragraphs: Many of his poems are about slavery. During the American Civil War, Whittier wrote a poem called "Barbara Frietchie". Later in life, Whittier wrote a poem called "Snowbound". Whittier was one of the people who founded "The Atlantic Monthly". The city of Whittier, California was named for Whittier when he was still living, and the town of Whittier, Alaska is also named for him.


title: Yahata High School

paragraphs: This school has general course and science and mathematics course. The science and mathematics course is certified as SSH by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology.

paragraphs: Most Yahata High School students apply and get through the examination of the national university. This school has one of the top reputations among public high schools in Kitakyushu city (along with Touchiku High School and Kokura High School) because a large number of graduates continue on to National University, for example, Kyusyu University, one of the top public universities in Japan.

paragraphs: Fukuoka High School was founded in 1919 under the former Japanese educational system in which children went directly to high school after graduating from elementary school.


paragraphs: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is a 1989 American horror movie. It is set in a fictional Illinois town called Haddonfield. This is the fifth movie in the "Halloween" movie series. The film's story begins exactly one year after the previous movie. The Shape returns to kill his niece, but Samuel Loomis and Sheriff Meeker manage to intervene.


title: Diplura

paragraphs: The Diplura are a biological order. It is one of the four groups of hexapods, with insects, springtails and Protura.

paragraphs: The Dipleura are sometimes called "two-pronged bristletails". About 800 species have been described, of which around 70 occur in North America, 12 in Great Britain and two in Australia.


title: Halloween (2007 movie)

paragraphs: The 2007 version of Halloween is a remake of the 1978 movie of the same name and the ninth in the "Halloween" franchise. This remake stars Tyler Mane as the adult Michael Myers. The 2007 remake follows the premise of the original movie: Myers stalks Laurie and her friends on Halloween night in Illinois. Despite mostly negative reviews, the 2007 remake grossed well over $80 million, making this the highest grossing "Halloween" movie of the series.

paragraphs: The movie was directed by Rob Zombie, who also directed a sequel released in 2009.


title: Halloween II (2009 movie)

paragraphs: Halloween II is a slasher movie. It is a sequel to the 2007 remake. The 2009 movie is a continuation of the 2007 remake and goes forward by one year. In the movie, Michael Myers continues his search for Laurie Strode so he can reunite with his sister. This movie got negative reviews from critics when it was released.


title: Yersinia

paragraphs: Yersinia is a bacterium in the large family of bacteria, Enterobacteriaceae. "Yersinia pestis" is the type genus. "Yersinia pestis" is also the cause of the bubonic plague, one of the most dreaded diseases of the 18th century. "Yersinia enterocolitica" causes the disease yersiniosis.


title: Gammaproteobacteria

paragraphs: Gammaproteobacteria are a large group of bacteria. They include important bacteria, such as "Pseudomonas aeruginosa" and "Fransicella tuarensis". They are gram-negative bacteria.


title: Francisella

paragraphs: Francisella is a genus of bacteria in its own family, the "Francisellaceae", which is placed in the "Gammaproteobacteria" order "Thiotrichales". "F. tularensis" is the cause of the serious infectious disease tularemia.


title: Flacourtiaceae

paragraphs: Flacourtiaceae was a family of flowering plants, whose former members have been scattered to various other families, are now divided into other families like the Salicaceae, in the willow family.


title: Crotonoideae

paragraphs: Crotonoideae is a subfamily of the large and diverse family "Euphorbiaceae", in the large order "Malpighiales". It includes Crotons ("Codiaeum") and Hogworts ("Croton").


title: Melastomataceae

paragraphs: Melastomataceae is a large family in the order "Myrtales". There are about 200 genera and 4,000 species. It is the eighth largest family in the basal Angiosperms. Plants in the family are called Melastomes.


title: Revolution (Six Flags Magic Mountain)

paragraphs: The New Revolution (formerly known as Revolution, Great American Revolution, and La Revolución) is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by Werner Stengel, the roller coaster opened to the public on May 8, 1976. The New Revolution is the world's first modern roller coaster to feature a vertical loop and has been recognized for that accomplishment by American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE), who awarded the roller coaster its Coaster Landmark status.


title: Ecological genetics

paragraphs: Ecological genetics is the study of genetics and evolution in natural populations.

paragraphs: This contrasts with classical genetics, which works mostly on crosses between laboratory strains, and DNA sequence analysis, which studies genes at the molecular level.

paragraphs: Research in ecological genetics is on traits related to fitness, which affect an organism's survival and reproduction. Examples might be: flowering time, drought tolerance, polymorphism, mimicry, defence against predators.

paragraphs: Research usually involve a mixture of field and laboratory studies. Samples of natural populations may be taken back to the laboratory for their genetic variation to be analysed. Changes in the populations at different times and places will be noted, and the pattern of mortality in these populations will be studied. Research is often done on insects and other organisms that have short generation times.

paragraphs: Although work on natural populations had been done previously, it is acknowledged that the field was founded by the English biologist E.B. Ford (1901–1988) in the early 20th century. Ford was taught genetics at Oxford University by Julian Huxley, and started research on the genetics of natural populations in 1924. Ford also had a long working relationship with R.A. Fisher. By the time Ford had developed his formal definition of genetic polymorphism, Fisher had got accustomed to high natural selection values in nature. This was one of the main outcomes of research on natural populations. Ford's magnum opus was "Ecological genetics", which ran to four editions and was widely influential.

paragraphs: Other notable ecological geneticists would include Theodosius Dobzhansky who worked on chromosome polymorphism in fruit flies. As a young researcher in Russia, Dobzhansky had been influenced by Sergei Chetverikov, who also deserves to be remembered as a founder of genetics in the field, though his significance was not appreciated until much later. Dobzhansky and colleagues carried out studies on natural populations of "Drosophila" species in western USA and Mexico over many years.

paragraphs: Many were influenced by Ford in the post WWII era. Collectively, their work on lepidoptera, and on human blood groups, established the field, and threw light on selection in natural populations, where its role had been once doubted.

paragraphs: Work of this kind needs long-term funding, as well as grounding in both ecology and genetics. These are both difficult requirements. Research projects can last longer than a researcher's career; for instance, research into mimicry started 150 years ago, and is still going strongly. Funding of this type of research is still rather erratic, but at least the value of working with natural populations in the field cannot now be doubted.


title: MP Xpress

paragraphs: MP Xpress is a steel roller coaster at Movie Park Germany. The ride is in "The Old West" section of the park and was previously named "Eraser" (2001–2004) and "FX" (2005).

paragraphs: MP Xpress has a length of 2,260 feet (689 meter), a max speed of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and one ride takes 1 minute and 26 seconds. The coaster has 5 inversions, first, a "Roll Over", then a "Sidewinder" and finally a "Double In-Line Twist". MP Xpress rides with 2 trains, each having 10 cars, capable of carrying 2 people. MP Xpress can process 1040 people per hour.


title: Primula

paragraphs: Primula is a genus of 400–500 species of low-growing herbs in the family Primulaceae. They include primrose, cowslip and oxlip.

paragraphs: Many species are grown for their ornamental flowers. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical mountains in Ethiopia, Indonesia and New Guinea, and in temperate southern South America.

paragraphs: Perennial primulas bloom mostly during the spring; their flowers can be purple, yellow, red, pink, or white. Generally, they prefer filtered sunlight. Many species are adapted to alpine climates.

paragraphs: The word "primula" is the Latin feminine diminutive of "primus", meaning first (prime), applied to flowers that are among the first to open in spring.

paragraphs: Primroses are used as food plants by the larvae (caterpillars) of some Lepidoptera species.

paragraphs: Some flowering forms of (cultivated) "Primula" are commonly known as polyanthus ("P. elatior" hybrids) as opposite to primrose ("P. vulgaris" hybrids).

paragraphs: The common primrose, "Primula vulgaris", shows heterostyly. This is a type of morphism with flower forms which differ in the lengths of the pistil and stamens.

paragraphs: The morph phenotype is genetically closely linked to genes responsible for a system of self-incompatibility. That means the pollen from a flower on one morph cannot fertilize another flower of the same morph.

paragraphs: In one morph (termed 'pin') the stamens are short and the pistils are long; in the second morph (termed 'thrum') the stamens are long and the pistils are short. The length of the pistil in one morph equals the length of the stamens in the second morph, and vice versa. The system prevents self-fertilisation.

paragraphs: All sections of the genus "Primula" have heterostyle species, altogether 354 species out of 419. Since heterostyly is characteristic of nearly all races or species, the system is at least as old as the genus.


title: Protura

paragraphs: The Protura are an order of hexapod animals. They are sometimes called "coneheads"

paragraphs: They were once thought to be insects, and sometimes treated as a class in their own right.

paragraphs: There is some evidence that the Protura are basal to all other hexapods, although the hexapods may be polyphyletic.


title: Luciano Moggi

paragraphs: Luciano Moggi (born July 10, 1937 in Siena) is an Italian football managing director. He was the general director of Juventus F.C. from 1994 until May 2006. He was one of the most successful football managing directors.

paragraphs: On June 2011 Luciano Moggi has been banned from all Italian football for life by Italian football federation.


title: Battle of Canton (1857)

paragraphs: The Battle of Canton (December 28, 1857 - January 1,1858) was a battle of the Second Opium War. The French and British attacked the Chinese city of Canton. The city fell on January 1, 1858 and the Europeans took over.

paragraphs: The Second Opium War was a conflict between England and China. Other Western countries, including the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Second French Empire helped the English. The War began after an event called the ""Arrow" incident." The English used the incident as an excuse to start the war. The Second Opium War is sometimes called the "Arrow War."

paragraphs: The English had several goals in the war. Some of these were:

paragraphs: In 1856, the Qing Dynasty only let foreign merchants trade in certain cities. Goods like tea and silk had to be shipped to those trade cities, and were taxed on the way. The English did not want to pay the extra taxes for shipping things across China.

paragraphs: The Chinese had executed a French missionary named Father August Chapdelaine in Guangxi province. This made the French very angry. The French joined the English in fighting the Chinese.

paragraphs: On October 8, 1856, the Chinese arrested 12 crewmembers of a ship named "Arrow". The Chinese authorities believed that the "Arrow" was smuggling salt. The "Arrow" was owned by Chinese people, but it was registered with the British. Harry Smith Parkes was the British Consul in Canton. He sent a letter to the Chinese Imperial Commissioner (governor), Ye Mingchen. Ye replied that the "Arrow" was a Chinese ship. He claimed that Parkes and the British had no jurisdiction (no right to interfere.) Ye offered to return the arrested sailors, but Parkes refused. Parkes demanded an apology for the insult. Ye replied there was no need for an apology because there was no insult. The British decided that the Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue had been broken. On October 27, 1856, the British Royal Navy attacked Canton.

paragraphs: The first battle of Canton started on October 23, 1856. Three English warships entered the Bocca Tigris (), the waterway that leads to Canton. The English captured the forts that were protecting the city. Ye saw the warships, but did not want to fight them. He moved his navy back away from the English ships.

paragraphs: On October 25, the English navy surrounded the city. Ye ordered all trade with the English to stop.

paragraphs: Admiral Michael Seymour, the commander of the British navy, sent Ye a message on October 27. Seymour demanded that the English be allowed to enter Canton. (Before this, foreigners could not enter the city itself. If they wanted to do business or trade they had to do so in the suburbs or harbor.) Ye did not answer. Seymour ordered his ships to shoot at the government offices. Ye made a declaration that he would pay 30 pieces of silver for each English person killed.

paragraphs: Ye still had not answered on October 28. The English artillery attacked and destroyed the Southern wall of Canton. English soldiers invaded Ye's yamun (office.) The soldiers wanted to capture Ye, but they could not find him. The English occupied (stayed in) Canton for a short while. They had to leave because they did not have enough soldiers or resources to keep control of the city.

paragraphs: When the news was sent to London, the English government had a big argument on whether to wage war against China. The disagreement passed by 110:146, the proposal (suggestion) was veto (not to agree with the political case). But the English prime minister Palmerston the House of Commons and restarted the election. His party won the election, so the policy passed. The English government ordered (command) Lord Elgin to be a new diplomat with China.

paragraphs: Just in time, the French government said their churchman were killed by the Chinese government. Because the French minister (a man who says what his country said) always had (to be refused), it joined the English government and sent armies. English and French armies entered into an alliance (becoming allies and working together).

paragraphs: In the mid of October, 1857. The English army general had a plan to invade China. They decided to attack from the south of China, Canton. They would then proceed to attack along the North of China, and proceed to keep moving towards Peking.

paragraphs: Before they went, the Russian minister advised them that only occupying Canton would not make the Qing dynasty give up, and that the better way to make them give in would be by moving onward to Peking. However, the English-French armies still stuck with their first decision, which was to attack Canton. Lord Elgin talked with Seymour and the other generals about their plan to Canton. They were certain that they could take (to occupy) Canton.

paragraphs: In November. The English held down the Indian Revolution successfully. Therefore, they had an army large enough to send towards China. The alliance army prepared 10,000 soldiers. In Navy, the English army had 43 warships and the French army had 10 ships.

paragraphs: On December 10, 1857. Canton was blocked. On December 12, the alliance army made their last warning to Ye and made several demands that are as followed:

paragraphs: On December 14, Ye refused them. After 12 days, The English and French ministers responded by stating that their army are now free to do as they wish. At the same time, the English naval commander sent messages to Ye. This time, he demanded the Qing army to retreat 90 miles away from Canton within 2 days. In the end, Ye still refused. Over the course of those 2 days, they took no action.

paragraphs: On December 27, which was the day before the battle, Ye sent messages to his king, the Xianfeng Emperor. He lied to the emperor about their circumstances. In the letter, he stated that the English had begun to beg for peace, and that they only wanted to trade with China, said Yeh:

paragraphs: In December 28, the war begun. The alliance army sent troops which consisted of about 5,500 men, 700 French soldiers, and an additional 20 warships. They landed near Canton and approached the city. The alliance army opened fire at the governor's office (Yeh's workplace). The Qing army retreated, but Ye was still sitting on his office and reading the paper.

paragraphs: On December 29, the government office finally was destroyed by . The wall of Canton was also lost to the war. Around 2 p.m. in the afternoon., the battle ended. The English-French armies emerged victorious and occupied Canton, and 15 casualties were reported.

paragraphs: On January 5, after the occupation of Canton, Ye was unwilling to leave and was caught in by the English army. The English brought Ye on their ship to Kolkata, India.


title: The Brunts School

paragraphs: The Brunts Academy is a secondary school in Mansfield, England. It is a performing arts college. The school teaches in drama, music and dance. It used to be a grammar School and a technical school. The school started by Samuel Brunts in 1709. One of its former students, Rebecca Addlington, won two gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

paragraphs: The Brunts Academy started as primary/first school in 1687. It had funds of 100 pounds. This was a large amount of money at the time. In 1709, Samuel Brunts' will said that he wanted the local children to "learn an Honest Trade" and get a good job. This led to the Brunts' estate having up with 40 boys and girls learning reading, writing and maths by 1831. The girls also learned knitting and sewing. 60 years later, the estate and the school were combined. In 1891, the school was called Brunts Technical School.

paragraphs: In 1830 "Brunts Charity" owned buildings and land in East Bridgford, Nottingham's marketplace and at Claypool in Lincolnshire. It was the richest of all the charitable organisations in Mansfield in 1832.

paragraphs: A new building was built in 1891. In 1976, Brunts Grammar School became a secondary/second school.

paragraphs: In 2012, the name changed to The Brunts Academy.

paragraphs: The school's students come from several schools known as 'the family of schools'. They include King Edward School, Sutton Road School, St Peter's (C of E) School, High Oakham School and Newgate Primary School.

paragraphs: The school's uniform has a green blazer/jacket. The school colours are green and gold. Its logo is a griffin with its back two legs inside a shield. The shield has "Nil Mortalibus Ardui Est" around the logo. This is the school's Latin motto. It means "nothing is impossible for humankind".

paragraphs: In 2002, there were nearly 1500 students in the school. Only a small number of the students were aged 16 years or below. The school gained 57% A-C passes. Only a small amount of the students did not pass. This was 5% higher than the England average and 10% better than the United Kingdom average.

paragraphs: The school is known for having a large number of white students compared with the national average. Nearly all of its students are from England.


title: Steve Montador

paragraphs: Steve Montador (December 21, 1979 – February 15, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the KHL Medveščak Zagreb of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

paragraphs: He has also played in the OHL for 5 seasons; 2 for the North Bay Centennials, 2 for the Erie Otters and 1 for the Peterborough Petes. He made his NHL debut with the Calgary Flames during 2001–02 NHL season. He went on to play 4 seasons with the Calgary Flames before he was traded to the Florida Panthers along with Dustin Johner for Kristian Huselius. During the 2007-08 offseason he signed as a free agent with the Anaheim Ducks. He was traded by the Ducks at the trade deadline to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Petteri Nokelainen. He signed as a free agent with the Buffalo Sabres in the 2008-09 offseason and played 2 seasons with them before signing with the Chicago Blackhawks during the 2010-11 offseason. He played a season with the Blackhawks and his contract was bought out on June 28, 2013.

paragraphs: Montador signed a one-year deal in with KHL Medveščak Zagreb of the KHL.


title: The Sea Hawk (1924 movie)

paragraphs: The Sea Hawk is a 1924 silent drama movie that was produced and directed by Frank Lloyd. It was released on June 14, 1924 in North America. The movie is based on the book "The Sea Hawk" by Rafael Sabatini.

paragraphs: The movie is based on "The Sea Hawk", a novel by Rafael Sabatini. It premiered on June 2, 1924, in New York City. Its theatrical debut occurred twelve days later. A movie with the same title (but an entirely different story) was made in 1940. It stars Errol Flynn. The studio spliced some key battle scenes from the 1924 movie into the remake. The life-sized replicas were considered so well recreated, that Warner Bros repeatedly used them in later nautical films. The full-sized ship replicas cost the studio $200,000. The ocean scenes were shot off the coast of California's Catalina Island, with 150 tents set up on the island for housing and support of the movie's 1,000 extras, 21 technicians, 14 actors, and 64 sailors.

paragraphs: At the instigation of his half brother Lionel (Lloyd Hughes), Oliver Tressilian (Milton Sills), a rich baronet, is shanghaied and blamed for the death of Peter Godolphin (Wallace MacDonald), brother of Oliver's fiancée, whom Lionel actually has slain. At sea Oliver is captured by Spaniards and made a galley slave, but when he escapes to the Moors he becomes Sakr-el-Bahr, the scourge of Christendom. Learning of Rosamund's (Enid Bennett) impending marriage to his half brother, he kidnaps both of them, but to avoid the risk of giving her to Asad-ed-Din (Frank Currier), the Basha of Algiers, he surrenders to a British ship. Rosamund intercedes to save his life, and following the death of Lionel they are married.


title: Epidemic typhus

paragraphs: Epidemic typhus is a disease caused by the bacterium "Rickettsia prowazekii". It is one of the diseases known as Typhus, the other is endemic typhus. Sometimes it is mistaken for an unrelated disease with a similar name, Typhoid fever. The disease is spread by lice and fleas. Without treatment, as many as 60% of people who get the disease could die.


title: Paratyphoid fever

paragraphs: Paratyphoid fever, also known as enteric fever, is a waterborne disease caused by the bacterium "Salmonella Paratyphi". It is related to Typhoid fever, but like Typhoid, it is unrelated to Typhus. Symptoms include:

paragraphs: The disease is rarely fatal and people usually recover in a few days, but some people can carry the bacteria for months.


title: Pemphigus

paragraphs: Pemphigus is an extremly rare skin disease. It happens because the antibodies attack the skin cells. It is an autoimmune disease. It causes blisters and sores on the skin.

paragraphs: There are three types of pemphigus. Pemphigus vulgaris is the most common type. It is more common in Ashkenazi Jews.


title: Sunnyland Slim

paragraphs: Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew (September 5, 1907 – March 17, 1995) was an American blues pianist from the Mississippi delta. He later went to Chicago where he became one of the most important piano players in Chicago's blues scene. Sunnyland Slim was one of the most important persons in Chicago blues history, but he really never became a star because he did most of his work as sideman.

paragraphs: He was born on a farm near Vance, Mississippi. He taught himself to play piano and organ and began playing in a local church when he was 14. Soon played in juke joints in the whole delta area. In 1925 he went to Memphis, Tennessee where he played with local musicians like Little Brother Montgomery and Ma Rainey. There he also got his stage name writing a song about the Sunnyland train which ran between Memphis and St. Louis, Missouri. In 1942 he went to Chicago.

paragraphs: As the electric blues began Sunnyland Slim played with blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Little Walter. Muddy Waters partially owed his recording career at Chess Records to Sunnyland Slim who introduced him to the Chess brothers at his own birthday party. His first recording was as a singer with Jump Jackson's band on the Specialty label in September 1946 and his first recording as band leader was in 1947. Between 1948 and 1956 he recorded for Hytone, Opera, Chance, Tempo-Tone, Mercury, Apollo, JOB, Regal, Vee-Jay (unissued), Blue Lake, Club 51, Cobra. In 1988 he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship. He went on touring and recording till his death in 1995.


title: Andrew W.K.

paragraphs: Andrew Fetterly Wilkes Krier (born May 9, 1979 in Stanford, California) is an American rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker better known by his stage name, Andrew W.K.. He married his wife, Cherie Pourtabib (who is also known as Cherie Lily). His song "Party Hard" is one of his most famous songs and it also became an internet meme on 4chan where it is considered one of their anthems.


title: Most common words in English

paragraphs: This list of the most common words in English has been produced by Oxford University Press. By "words" is meant dictionary head words or lemmas.

paragraphs: It is based on an analysis of a body of over a billion words. It represents a study done by Oxford Online, associated with the Oxford English Dictionary.

paragraphs: This source includes writings of all sorts from "literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from Hansard to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs", unlike some sources which use texts from only specific sources.

paragraphs: "The Reading Teachers Book of Lists" claims that the first 25 words make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and that the first 100 make up about one-half of all written material.

paragraphs: Note that the items listed may represent more than one actual word; they are lemmas. For instance the entry "be" contains within it the occurrences of "are", "is", "were" and "was". Note also that these top 100 lemmas listed below account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus.

paragraphs: In parentheses are their position in the overall list. Some words are not listed here because they can be used as more than one part of speech. The lists show clearly that 'function' words, like prepositions and connectives, are more common than 'content' words, like nouns, and most verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Verbs like "to be" have both content and linguistic functions.


title: St Bartholomew's Church, Themar

paragraphs: The parish church St Bartholomew's Church ("German: St. Bartholomäuskirche") is the town church of Themar in Thuringia. It is dedicated to St Bartholomew. It belongs to the most richly equipped churches of the upper valley of the Werra. It is one of the few buildings of the small town, first mentioned in 796, which outlasted all storms of the time. The Oberkirche (upper church) at the upper gate and the Unterkirche (lower church) at the Werra were the first places of worship in the place. Of the Roman Unterkirche there still exist some remainders in the vestry and in both lower floors of the church tower.

paragraphs: Pope Sixtus IV gave permission for the restoration of the church on 14th of May 1484 with countess Margaretha von Henneberg intermediating.

paragraphs: On 3rd of May 1488 the Chorherr (canon regular) of the Premonstratensian monastery Veßra and minister of Themar Antonius König founded the building of today's church. In 1502 the hall church in late Gothic style was completed.

paragraphs: The Protestant Reformation was introduced to Themar on 5th of October 1544 by the count Ernst von Henneberg. After the Reformation the church received several smaller carved altars from other churches. Since 1541 the church building was frequently converted in the course of the next decades.

paragraphs: The barrel vault and the two matroneums were inserted, whose support beams were decorated with beautiful" Bartmannsköpfe" (sculptures). Similar sculptures can be found in the churches of Rohr and Herpf near Meiningen.

paragraphs: At the columns the matroneums were decorated with sculptures of saints and apostles, partially from older Gothic altar works and with famous verses from the bible.

paragraphs: In the choir area there is the valuable "Marienaltar" (altar of St Mary), which was created by Hans Nußbaum from Bamberg about 1510.

paragraphs: The altar shows in the center Maria with Jesus as a child, to her sides archangel Michael killing the dragon with his lance, and St Bartholomew, the patron of church and town.

paragraphs: On the side panels of the altar there are stations from the life of St Mary: The announcement to the Virgin Mary, the birth of the Lord, the three Magi and the Lamentation of St. Mary by the apostles. At the back of the side panels there are paintings of St Barbara, St Dorothy, St Margaret, St Catherine. On the Predella of the altar is to be seen the Holy Kinship.

paragraphs: Apart from its artistic value the Marienaltar has also great importance for local history: It retained the town church in the Thirty Years' War of being burned down. After the defeat of Sweden in the battle of Nördlingen (1634) general Johann Ludwig Hektor of Isolani, „the commander of all Croats“, plundered the countries of the Thuringian princes.

paragraphs: At 16th of October (Gallustag) in 1634 Themar was burned down (on the same day as Suhl) after the plundering by the Croats. The town church would have been burned as well, but a pious Italian officer gave the order to extinguish the fire when it came near to the Marienaltar.

paragraphs: Further carvings and art treasures are: The shrine of the apostles (about 1500), that is called "„Nasenaltar"" (nose altar) in popular because of the expressive faces of the apostles.

paragraphs: At the back of the side panels there is a painting of the "Apostelabschied" (Great Commission). At the north wall there is the Wallfahrtsaltar (altar of pilgrimage) one can see the ""Hühnchenlegende"" (miracle of the chicken) of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (on the way of St James) at the back of a side panel.

paragraphs: At the south wall there are a Pietà altar and a Gothic "Mondsichelmadonna", and in the choir area an epitaph in the Renaissance style. Furthermore, a fresco painting representing St. Catherine, that was detected in 1934, then the richly decorated Schalldeckel (abat-voix, or sounding-board) of the pulpit that dates from 1644 and an "Epistelstuhl" (reading-desk) likewise from the center of the 17th century and some paintings.

paragraphs: About 1900 stained glass was donated for the windows in the choir area. The pictures show Biblical scenes: the prodigal or lost son, the "Kindersegnung" (benediction of children, St. Luke 18, 15-17), the Good Samaritan. 1972 The last renovation of the St Bartholomew's Church was in 1972.

paragraphs: Originally the organ of the town church was set up in 1851 at the east wall of the church nave by the organ-builders Johann Michel and Wilhelm Holland (from Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig). Three organ stops of the pedal division were taken over from the Weise-organ built in 1629. In 1866 the organ was moved to the extended second matroneum in the west and renewed and reorganized for the last time in the years 1999/2000 by the company Rösel and Hercher.

paragraphs: From 1668 to 1684 Georg Christoph Bach, the oldest uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach, worked as Kantor at the town church and as a teacher at the Latin school of Themar. In 1684 he was appointed to Schweinfurt and became the ancestor of the Schweinfurt branch of the Bach family.

paragraphs: The church tower in Renaissance style contains three bells. The oldest bell was cast in 1488, another in 1507. The Bartholomäus bell that was cast in 1520 had to be delivered in 1942. In 1955 a steel bell was put in instead. In the church tower there lived a family of tower guards called Rust up to the fifties of the last century. The three rooms of their flat and the winch which helped to wind up food, water and coal up to the flat are to be still seen there.


title: Beth Hart

paragraphs: Beth Hart (born January 24, 1974 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer. Her music influences are rock and blues.

paragraphs: Beth Hart started with playing in LA clubs where she met with bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury. In 1993 she created her first album. Beth Hart is married and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her band includes lead guitarist Jon Nichols, bassist Tom Lilly, and drummer Todd Wolf.


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title: Horse training

paragraphs: Horse training describes what people do to get horses to do particular tasks. This includes training them to let people ride on their backs, or to pull carts and wagons. Horses have to be trained to accept a bridle or a saddle. Historically, horses were trained for transport, farm work, warfare and sport. In modern times, sport and recreation are the main reason horses are trained.

paragraphs: There is a lot of argument about horse training. Some ways are now thought to be cruel, and terms like horse breaking are also out of favour.


title: Coburg, Victoria

paragraphs: Coburg is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is about 8km north of the Melbourne central business district. In 2006 there were 22,772 people living in the suburb. It is a part of the City of Moreland local government area.

paragraphs: Before Europen settlement the Coburg area was home to the Indigenous Australian Wurundjeri people. The area was first surveyed in 1837-8 by Robert Hoddle. The area was first called Pentridge, after the town of Pentridge, Dorset, England.


title: Proxy

paragraphs: Proxy has different meanings when talking about different subjects:


title: Proxy murder

paragraphs: A proxy murder is when a person murders on behalf of someone else. "Proxy" comes from the Latin word "procuratio" which means "to take care of".

paragraphs: An example of this would be an assassin killing for money. Another example would be a person that convinces someone that loves them to kill another person for them. Another example was in prisons where criminals in prison would act as the executioner for people sentenced to death. Lady Betty (1750—1807) was a famous hangwoman and prisoner in the Roscommon Gaol. The Nazis used proxy killings in World War II when they got prisoners to shoot Jewish prisoners instead of doing it themselves. The prisoners were told if they did not do it they would be shot as well.

paragraphs: A documentary movie was made in 2009 looking at mass killings in the US. It is called "Murder by Proxy".


title: Banded iron formation

paragraphs: Banded iron formations (or BIFs) are a distinctive type of rock often found in Precambrian sedimentary rocks.

paragraphs: They consist of repeated thin layers of iron oxides, either magnetite (FeO) or hematite (FeO), alternating with bands of iron-poor shale and chert.

paragraphs: Some of the oldest known rock formations, formed over 3,700 million years ago (mya), include banded iron layers. The banded layers are a common feature in sediments for much of the Earth's early history.

paragraphs: The formations are abundant around the time of the Great Oxygenation Event, 2,400 mya. They become less common after 1,800 mya.

paragraphs: The total amount of oxygen locked up in the banded iron beds is estimated to be perhaps twenty times the volume of oxygen present in the modern atmosphere of Earth. Banded iron beds are an important commercial source of iron ore, such as the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the Animikie Group in Minnesota and Carajás Mineral Province in Brazil.

paragraphs: The conventional concept is that the "banded iron" layers were formed in sea water as the result of oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria. This combined with dissolved iron in Earth's oceans to form insoluble iron oxides. These precipitated out, forming a thin layer on the substrate, which may have been anoxic mud (forming shale and chert). Each band is similar to a varve: the banding is assumed to result from cyclic variations in available oxygen.

paragraphs: It is assumed that the Earth started out with vast amounts of iron dissolved in the world's acidic seas. Iron is much more soluble than its oxides.

paragraphs: Eventually, as photosynthetic organisms generated oxygen, the available iron in the Earth's oceans was precipitated out as iron oxides.

paragraphs: At the tipping point where the oceans became permanently oxygenated, small variations in oxygen production produced pulses of free oxygen in the surface waters, alternating with pulses of iron oxide deposition.


title: Biggles

paragraphs: Biggles is a series of young adult adventure books. It was written by W. E. Johns. The series is named after the nickname of the main character, James Bigglesworth, who is a pilot and adventurer. There are around 100 Biggles books in total. The first Biggles book, "The Camels are Coming", was published in 1932 and is a collection of short Biggles stories.


title: Greenstone belt

paragraphs: Greenstone belts are large regions of very ancient metamorphosed volcanic rocks. The name comes from the green colour of the minerals in the rocks. Chlorite, actinolite and other green amphiboles are the typical green minerals.

paragraphs: Greenstone belts were originally formed of igneous rocks, such as basalt. The belts formed at ancient oceanic spreading centers and in volcanic island arcs. They may be several thousand kilometres long. Later, they were metamophosed, with minor sedimentary rocks in-between the volcanic formations.

paragraphs: Those greenstone belts which formed in ancient oceans are now found on land in Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies.

paragraphs: The rocks are mafic, meaning they are high in magnesium and silica.


title: Craton

paragraphs: A craton is the oldest part of a continental plate. It is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere.

paragraphs: After surviving cycles of merging and rifting of continents, cratons are usually found in the interiors of tectonic plates. They are composed of ancient crystalline basement rock, which may be covered by younger sedimentary rock. They have a thick crust and deep roots that extend as much as several hundred kilometers into the Earth's mantle.

paragraphs: Cratonic lithosphere is much older than oceanic lithosphere – up to 4 billion years versus 180 million years.

paragraphs: The term "craton" is used to distinguish the stable portion of the continental crust from regions that are more geologically active and unstable. Cratons can be described as shields, in which the basement rock crops out at the surface, and platforms, in which the basement is overlain by sediments and sedimentary rock.

paragraphs: Cratons are subdivided geographically into geologic provinces. A geologic province is an area with common geologic properties.


title: Petrology

paragraphs: Petrology is a type of geology. It is concerned with rocks, how they form, and how they are used. It is between mineralogy, which is concerned with the minerals, in rocks, and geology, which tries to put rocks into a larger context.


title: Domitianus II (usurper)

paragraphs: Domitianus was probably a Roman soldier who was acclaimed emperor during the reign of Aurelian.

paragraphs: He was in northern Gaul in late 270 or early 271 AD. He struck gold coins to advertise his claim to the throne. This claimant did not survive the year. He is mentioned by the Byzantine historian Zosimus and also in the "Historia Augusta", a collection of biographies.


title: Aurelian

paragraphs: Aurelian (who lived between 214/215 - 275 AD) was an Emperor of Rome between 270 and 275 AD.

paragraphs: Aurelian came from Illyria (in the Balkans). He had been a soldier all his life when the Emperor Claudius promoted him to high rank. When Claudius died, the army chose Aurelian as the next Emperor. He suppressed a revolt of Roman mint workers and reformed the coinage to try to avoid the problem of inflation that the Romans had had for a while.

paragraphs: His notable achievements were to defeat several groups of barbarians - most importantly the Alamanni - but also the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi. He recovered Egypt for the empire. He also tried to make the Roman god Sol Invictus the main god. He was murdered by some of his generals and Tacitus (not the historian) was the next emperor.

paragraphs: Domitianus II (usurper) revolted against Aurelian's rule.


title: Marcus Claudius Tacitus

paragraphs: Marcus Claudius Tacitus was a Roman Emperor between 275 and 276 AD. He lived between about 200 to 276 AD.

paragraphs: He was born in Italy and replaced Aurelian as emperor. After his death, the Roman Senate made Tacitus emperor. This was the last time the Senate chose an emperor. The first thing he did was fight against the mercenaries that Aurelian used to fight enemies in Asia. These mercenaries were unhappy because the campaign that they had been hired for had not happened. They had destroyed several Roman cites in Asia. He was about to fight the Franks and Alamanni (different Barbarian tribes) in France when he died of fever.


title: Plutino

paragraphs: A plutino is an object in outer space that has an orbit like Pluto's orbit. Plutinos are about 39 or 40 AU from the Sun.


title: Discovery Family

paragraphs: Discovery Family (formerly Discovery Kids, The Hub, and the Hub Network) is a Digital cable and satellite television television network in the United States. Discovery Family replaced the Hub Network, the Hub, and Discovery Kids and has a joint venture of both Discovery Communications, Inc. and Hasbro. The headquarters for the television channel is in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Hub (later became the Hub Network) launched at 10:00 am ET (9:00 am CT) on October 16, 2010 and took over the Discovery Kids channel space after a final marathon of Kenny the Shark. The very first program aired on The Hub was The Twisted Whiskers Show. The channel is 40% owned by Hasbro and 60% owned by Discovery Communications, Inc.

paragraphs: HubBub is a daytime programming block for preschoolers. HubBub usually airs from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm ET (8:00 am–12:00 pm CT). Shows like "Animal Mechanicals", "Maryoku Yummy", "In the Night Garden", "Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures" and "The WotWots "are aired during HubBub.

paragraphs: Family Prime Time is a nighttime lineup and is broadcast on Monday to Thursdays from 7:00 pm to 6:00 am ET (6:00 pm to 5:00 am CT), Fridays from 2:00 to 4:00 am ET (1:00 to 3:00 am CT), Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 am ET (12:00 to 3:00 am CT) and Sundays from 12:00 to 4:00 am ET (11:00 pm to 3:00 am CT). Shows like "", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "Laverne & Shirley", "The Wonder Years" and "Happy Days" are aired during Family Prime Time.

paragraphs: HubBoom which is a late night block of action-themed programming and is broadcast Monday through Thursdays from 11:30 pm to 1:00 am ET (10:30 pm to 12:00 am CT). Shows like "Batman", "The Transformers" and "" are aired during HubBoom.

paragraphs: Saturday Mash Up is an almost all-day block. Saturday Mash Up has several sub-blocks (Crack Up, Smash Up, Team Up, Family Prime, and Family Movie Night).


title: Mighty Joe Young (1998 movie)

paragraphs: Mighty Joe Young is an 1998 adventure movie that was produced by Ted Hartley and Tom Jacobson and was directed by Ron Underwood. "Mighty Joe Young" was released on December 25, 1998 in North America. The movie received mixed reviews with a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a remake of the 1949 film, "Mighty Joe Young". The movie turned out to be a box office bomb grossing $50,632,037 with a budget of $90,000,000.


title: Klebsiella pneumoniae

paragraphs: Klebsiella pneumoniae is a bacterium in the genus Klebsiella. It is a major cause of pneumonia, found in the normal flora of the mouth, skin, and intestines. Like other Proteobacteria, it is gram negative.


title: Thiotrichales

paragraphs: Thiotrichales is a large order of Bacteria. That includes "Francisella tularensis" in the cause of Tularemia and "Thiomargarita nambiensis", the largest known bacterium.


title: Vibrio cholerae

paragraphs: Vibrio cholerae is a bacterium causing the disease cholera. It is part of the genus "Vibrio", in the family Vibrionaceae. Like all Proteobacteria, it is gram negative. "V. cholerae"

paragraphs: can respire aerobically if oxygen is present and can switch to anaerobic respiration if oxygen is not present (fermentation).


title: Verbena

paragraphs: Verbena is a genus of plants in the family Verbenaceae. The type species is vervain, which grows in Europe. Some verbenas are considered weeds. It should not be confused with the related "Lantana", commonly called shrub Verbena


title: Are We There Yet?

paragraphs: Are We There Yet? is a 2005 family comedy road trip movie that was produced by Matt Alvarez, Ice Cube and Dan Kolsrud and was directed by Brian Levant. "Are We There Yet?" was released on January 21, 2005 in North America. The movie received negative reviews with a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A sequel for the movie was released in 2007 called "Are We Done Yet?".


title: Are We Done Yet?

paragraphs: Are We Done Yet? is a 2007 family comedy movie that was produced by Ice Cube, Matt Alvarez, Ted Hartley and Todd Garner and was directed by Steve Carr. "Are We Done Yet?" was released on April 4, 2007 in North America. The movie received negative reviews with a 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was the sequel to the 2005 movie "Are We There Yet?" and is a remake of the movie "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House".


title: Greater Noida

paragraphs: Greater Noida (GN) (, , pronunciation: Baṛa Nōēḍā) is in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). It is under the control of the National Capital Region (NCR) of India. It is about south-east of New Delhi and about south-east of Noida, one of the largest industrial townships in Asia.

paragraphs: The development of Greater Noida is managed by the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA). Greater Noida is a fast growing region.

paragraphs: In the early 1980s, Delhi was growing at a rapid rate. The Government of India planned to develop two new areas around the capital. These residential and industrial areas would reduce the burden on the capital. The two areas were Gurgaon and Noida. Noida's infrastructure and utilities was carefully designed. With the large growth of the Indian economy in the 1990s, Noida became overcrowded.

paragraphs: The government of Uttar Pradesh decided to incorporate the city of Greater Noida. This would be an extension to Noida. The planning of Greater Noida would be improved from what was learned in Noida. Greater Noida is a planned township. Roads are wide with service lanes for every major road. All cabling and utilities are run underground.

paragraphs: The Buddh International Circuit is currently under construction. It is scheduled to open in 2011. It will host the Indian Grand Prix, a new race to the Formula One schedule. This will be the first F1 race in India.


title: Sliver (movie)

paragraphs: Sliver is a 1993 American erotic thriller movie. It stars Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. The movie is focused on mysterious things that happen in a privately owned Manhattan highrise apartment complex. "Sliver" got bad movie reviews, although it did well at the box office.


title: William Baldwin

paragraphs: William Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, writer and producer. His movies include "Internal Affairs" (1990), "Flatliners" (1990) and "Backdraft" (1991). He has also acted in many television programs and movies.


title: Green sulfur bacteria

paragraphs: The green sulfur bacteria are a family of obligately anaerobic photoautotrophic bacteria. Most closely related to the distant Bacteroidetes, they are accordingly assigned their own phylum.


title: War novel

paragraphs: A war novel is a novel that takes place during some form of fighting. In these books, the primary action happens during armed combat. Other war novels take place on the home front. The characters may be busy getting ready for or recovering from war. It is sometimes called military fiction.

paragraphs: There have been war novels and other stories about war for many thousands of years. In Ancient Greece and Rome and the Middle Ages, people wrote epic poems about the glory of war. Some of the most famous epic poems are "The Iliad" by Homer, "The Aeneid" by Virgil, the Old English saga "Beowulf", and the legends of King Arthur.

paragraphs: Another important influence of war novels are tragedies (plays about human suffering.) Euripides, Seneca the Younger, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare wrote plays that are important influences on war novels. Shakespeare's play "Henry V" has many features of a war novel. It has history and military tactics, and it talks about the ethics of war.

paragraphs: The genres of romance and satire are also important. These works, especially in Early Modern Europe, show military heroism and folly (foolishness). Some important examples are "The Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser and "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes.

paragraphs: The themes and symbols found in modern war novels are also influenced by older works. In "The Inferno", Dante described Hell in a way that is very close to how war is described in war novels. Other influences are John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the Apocalypse in the "Book of Revelation" in the Bible.

paragraphs: The first war novels were from the 1600s. At that time fiction novels written in prose (instead of poetry) were becoming popular. These early war novels were usually satires and picaresque novels. The soldier was usually a rogue and not very realistic. One example is "Simplicissimus" by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. "Simplicissimus" is a semi-autobiographical novel (based on the author's life) about the Thirty Years' War.

paragraphs: Influential war novels from this time include Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace", about the Napoleonic Wars in Russia, and Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage", about the American Civil War.

paragraphs: War novels from this time included the experiences of trench warfare, but also began to tell the stories of what happened at home during the war. Many novels were written about the war. Writers were from countries on all sides of the conflict.

paragraphs: One of the first and most influential of these was the 1916 novel "Le Feu" (or "Under Fire") by the French novelist and soldier Henri Barbusse.

paragraphs: The 1920s saw the so-called "war book boom," during which many men who had fought during the war were finally ready to write openly and critically about their war experiences. In 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" was a massive, worldwide bestseller. Also significant were Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), Richard Aldington's "Death of a Hero" (1929), Arnold Zweig's "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" (1927), Charles Yale Harrison's "Generals Die in Bed" (1930) and William March's "Company K" (1933).

paragraphs: Many novels came out of soldiers' and peoples' experiences during World War II. These books were not only by European authors, but also by people around the world.

paragraphs: Just after the war ended, Sakaguchi Ango (坂口安吾) published a book called "Idiocy" (白痴) about the strange life in Japan after the bombing and losing the war. There were many novels aout the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including: "Summer Flowers" (夏の花) by Hara Tamiki (原 民喜) in 1947 and "Black Rain" (黒い雨) by Ibuse Masuji (井伏鱒二). There were also novels about being part of the kamikaze. The 1949 book "Last Friends" (きけ、わだつみの声) was about a group of soldiers leaving for the front. It was a best-seller. Around 1970 another type of novel began to appear. Ordinary people wrote about their experiences of battles and air raids. Novels about the many different ways the war ended also began to appear and tell being left behind in China or becoming prisoners of the Soviet Union in Siberia.

paragraphs: Many Americans and Vietnamese authors wrote books during or after this long war.


title: Palaeoproterozoic

paragraphs: The Palaeoproterozoic was the first era of the Proterozoic eon. It came after the Archaean eon, and lasted from 2500 to 1600 million years ago (mya).

paragraphs: In the Palaeoproterozoic, there was a huge production of stromatolites by cyanobacteria. The first unicellular eukaryote organisms also appeared in the fossil record.

paragraphs: The first supercontinent grew, and some of the rocks were normal sedimentary rocks, not metamorphosed.

paragraphs: Because the Earth was only half as old as now, there were some basic differences from today. Heat in the Earth's interior was greater than today. This was mainly due to the higher abundance of radioactive isotopes, which decay as time passes.

paragraphs: Temperatures at the surface were also higher, due to radiation from the Earth's interior, and due to a methane and carbon dioxide-based greenhouse atmosphere. During the previous eon, the Archaean, the oceans were hot (55–85 °C). This was only partly balanced by the fact that the Sun's radiation was lower at that time.

paragraphs: Paleontological evidence on the Earth's rotational history suggests that ~1.8 billion years ago, there were about 450 days in a year, implying 20 hour days. Further back, the Earth day had about 17 hours, and there were 514±33 days per year. The Earth–Moon distance for the earliest Palaeoproterozoic was 51.9±3.3 Earth radii (compared to 60.27 at present).

paragraphs: A global supercontinent (called Columbia, or Nena) existed from about 1.8 to 1.5 billion years ago in the Palaeoproterozoic era.

paragraphs: During the era climate changes were as severe as any in Earth history. From a global high temperature at the start, there were three massive ice ages, with ice deep into the tropics.

paragraphs: There are clear indications that the era saw a drop in atmospheric methane:

paragraphs: Oxygen was produced by the cyanobacteria, but it was mostly used up by chemical sinks. These were the unoxidized sulfur and iron. Until roughly 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen was probably only 1% to 2% of its current level.

paragraphs: Banded iron formations, which provide most of the world's iron ore, were formed by the oxygen forming compounds with iron; most accumulation ceased after 1.9 billion years ago. Red beds, which are colored by hematite, indicate an increase in atmospheric oxygen after 2 billion years ago; they are not found in older rocks.

paragraphs: There were three major ice ages, with ice deep into the tropics. Undoubtedly, they happened as a result of reduced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the rise of oxygen production.

paragraphs: There is what researchers call "a puzzling interval of ~1,400 million years with no verified glaciation between early Palaeoproterozoic glaciations at 2400–2200 mya in North America, South Africa, Scandinavia and Australia and the Neoproterozoic glaciations that affected all continents at 800–600 mya".

paragraphs: There were major bolide impacts during the era, two of which caused the largest impact crators on Earth. There are also three smaller (equal or more than 30 kilometers diameter) in the time zone of 3.0 to 1.2 billion years ago.

paragraphs: The origin of the eukaryotic cell was a milestone in the evolution of life, since they include all complex cells and almost all multi-cellular organisms. The timing of this series of events is hard to determine; Knoll suggests they developed approximately 1.6–2.1 billion years ago. Some acritarchs are known from at least 1650 million years ago, and the possible alga "Grypania" has been found as far back as 2100 million years ago.


title: Nonna Grishayeva

paragraphs: Nonna Valentinovna Grishayeva (born on July 21, 1971) is a Russian actress, comedienne, singer and television presenter. She is Honored Artist of Russia (2006).

paragraphs: She was twice married and has two children.


title: Mesoproterozoic

paragraphs: The Mesoproterozoic is a geologic era which lasted from 1,600 million years ago (mya) to 1,000 mya.

paragraphs: Evidence of a eukaryotic red algae, "Bangiomorpha pubescens", has been identified from ~1200 mya old rocks in the Hunting Formation (Somerset Island, Canada). This is the oldest known sexually reproducing organism and therefore the earliest known complex multicellular organism.


title: Sidney Nolan

paragraphs: Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (1917—1992) is regarded as one of Australia's great artists. He used many art forms including painting, drawing, printmaking, set design (for theatre), murals, spray painting and collage. He created over 10,000 individual art works, considered a prolific, or large, number of works of art.

paragraphs: Nolan is famous for his set of 27 Ned Kelly paintings. His friend, Sunday Reed, donated 25 of the paintings to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where a special room has been built to display them. In 2010 one of the Kelly paintings was given to the National Gallery of Victoria. One of the Kelly paintings not owned by the museum was sold in March 2010 for AU$5.4 million. This was the highest price ever paid for an Australian painting.

paragraphs: Nolan was born in Carlton, Victoria on 22 April 1917. He attended Prahran Technical College and studied art at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1948 he moved to Sydney, New South Wales and then in 1953 he moved to London where he stayed until his death on 28 November 1992.


title: Amy Adams

paragraphs: Amy Lou Adams (born on August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer and former dancer. She was nominated for 4 Golden Globe (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013) and 4 Oscars (2006, 2009, 2011, 2013).

paragraphs: Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy to military parents Richard and Kathryn (née Hicken) Adams. She has four brothers and two sisters.

paragraphs: She started her career as dancer in 1995. In 1999, she started acting. Her first movie role was Leslie Miller in "".

paragraphs: In 2005 she played Ashley Johnsten in "Junebug" and was nominated as "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for an Oscar but lost to Rachel Weisz. In 2008, she played Sister James in "Doubt" and was nomimated as "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for a Golden Globe and an Oscar, but lost to Kate Winslet. In 2010 she played Charlene Fleming in "The Fighter". She again was nominated as "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for Golden Globe and Oscar but lost to Melissa Leo. She also played Lois Lane in the 2013 movie "Man of Steel" and the 2016 movie "". She will reprise her role as Lois Lane in "Justice League".

paragraphs: In 2002 Amy started a relationship with Darren Le Gallo. They married in 2008. Their daughter, Aviana Olea Le Gallo, was born on May 15, 2010.

paragraphs: She currently lives with her family in Los Angeles, California.


title: Chlamydiae

paragraphs: Chlamydiae is a bacterial phylum and class whose members are obligate intracellular pathogens.

paragraphs: All known Chlamydiae only grow by infecting eukaryotic host cells. They are as small or smaller than many viruses. Most intracellular Chlamydiae are located in an inclusion body or vacuole.


title: Nocardiosis

paragraphs: Nocardiosis is a disease caused by the bacterium "Nocardia Asteroides". It causes a dangerous form of pneumonia. It affects the lungs, brain and skin. It affects mainly people with a weakened immune system, such as people with HIV/AIDS, chronic lung disease, cancer or people who have had a transplant.


title: Brucellosis

paragraphs: Brucellosis is a disease that is caused by bacteria in the "Brucella" genus. It is also called Bang's disease, Crimean fever, Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Maltese fever, Mediterranean fever, rock fever, and undulant fever. It is a very contagious disease (can be spread very easily from one person to another.)

paragraphs: Brucellosis is a zoonosis, a disease that is spread from animals to humans. Humans get the disease by drinking milk that is unsterilized, or by eating meat from sick animals. Sometimes, but not very often, the disease can be spread from human to human.

paragraphs: The disease was first called "Malta fever." British doctors in the military first discovered it in Malta during the Crimean War (1850s). Dr. David Bruce was the first person to discover the bacteria that caused brucellosis.


title: Relapsing fever

paragraphs: Relapsing fever is an infection caused by some bacteria in the genus "Borrelia". It is sometimes called typhinia. It is carried and spread by lice and ticks.

paragraphs: The word "relapse" means to come back. The disease is called "relapsing fever" because the symptoms can go away and come back several times until the person is cured.


title: Murine typhus

paragraphs: Murine Typhus is a disease spread by fleas. It is also called endemic typhus. It is a type of typhus. Sometimes this disease is mistaken for a viral infection because the symptoms are similar. Murine Typhus is treated with antibiotics.

paragraphs: Most people recover fully but death can occur in the elderly.


title: National Gallery of Victoria

paragraphs: The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Started in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is located in St Kilda Road, at Southbank, with a branch gallery at Federation Square. The St Kilda Road Gallery, designed

paragraphs: by Sir Roy Grounds, opened in 1968. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites – NGV International on St Kilda Road, redesigned by Mario Bellini, and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, designed by LAB Architecture Studio.

paragraphs: When the gallery opened, Victoria had been an independent colony for ten years. After the Victorian gold rush, it was easily the richest part of Australia, and Melbourne the largest city. Generous gifts from rich citizens, including the industrialist Alfred Felton, made it possible for the National Gallery to start buying large collections of overseas works from both old and modern masters. It has over 65,000 works of art.

paragraphs: The National Gallery of Victoria Art School began in 1867. It was the leading centre for art training in Australia until about 1910. The School’s graduates, such as Sidney Nolan, went on to become some of Australia’s most significant artists.


title: The Argus (Australia)

paragraphs: The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne which started in 1846 and closed in 1957. It was a conservative newspaper for most of its history, but in 1949 became more left in its stories.

paragraphs: The newspaper was started by William Kerr, a journalist who had worked with the "Sydney Gazette" before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Pascoe Fawkner's "Port Phillip Patriot". The first edition was published on 2 June 1846.

paragraphs: The paper was known for its abuse and sarcasm and by 1853 Kerr lost ownership after a series of court actions. It was then published under the name of Edward Wilson. The paper was also linked to the weekly "The Australasian" which was to become "The Australasian Post" in 1946.

paragraphs: During the Great Depression in 1933 it launched the "Melbourne Evening Star" in competition with "The Herald" newspaper, but was closed in 1936.

paragraphs: In 1949 the paper was bought by the London based "Daily Mirror" newspaper group. On 28 July 1952 the Melbourne Argus became the first newspaper in the world to publish colour photographs in a daily paper. The paper had interests in radio and in 1956, the new medium of television broadcasting. It wasg part of the group "General Telecasters Victoria" (GTV), and the GTV-9 television station. In 1957 the paper was sold to the "Herald and Weekly Times" group, under the management of Chief Executive Keith Murdoch (Rupert's father), who used the printing presses, but closed the "Argus" and sold off the broadcasting interests. The last edition was on 19 January 1957.

paragraphs: The "Argus" building, built in 1926 on the corner of La Trobe and Elizabeth streets, is classified by the National Trust and is on the Victorian Heritage Register of Heritage Victoria. In 1991, an innovative office building was built next door and named "The Argus Centre", an award winning building by Nonda Katsalidis. In 2004 La Trobe University bought the site of the old Argus building with the intention to redevelop and house legal and business schools in the building, as well as a ground floor shopping precinct.


title: Slap Shot (movie)

paragraphs: Slap Shot is an 1977 comedy-sports movie that was produced by Stephen J. Friedman and Robert J. Wunsch and was directed by George Roy Hill. Slap Shot was released on February 25, 1977 in North America. The movie received positive reviews with a 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about a minor league ice hockey team that trys to gain popularity for a small town by playing violently. Replica Chiefs jerseys and the Hanson Brothers have become very popular due to the movies success.


title: GMC Terrain

paragraphs: The GMC Terrain is a four-door crossover SUV. It is sold by GMC and is their smallest SUV to date. The Terrain replaced the Pontiac Torrent and was sold in the same dealership that replaced the Pontiac brand. While it rides on the same platform as the Equinox the Terrain bares a different look and resembles that of an SUV. The Terrain was shown at the 2009 New York International Auto Show and was sold in Mexico. The marque for the Terrain is also known as a rebadged Opel Antara in the Middle East.


title: Zookeeper (movie)

paragraphs: Zookeeper is a 2011 comedy movie that was produced by Todd Garner, Kevin James, Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Walt Becker, Charles Newirth and Barry Bernardi and was directed by Frank Coraci. "Zookeeper" was released on July 8, 2011 in North America. The movie received negative reviews with a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.


title: Lalitpur

paragraphs: Lalitpur is one of the biggest metropolitan cities of Nepal. It is famous for its religious, culture, and historical temples.


title: State of Georgia (TV series)

paragraphs: State of Georgia is an American television situation comedy. The show started on ABC Family on June 29, 2011. The show will be Raven-Symoné's first sitcom since "That's So Raven" on Disney Channel.

paragraphs: The show focuses on Georgia Chamberlain (Raven Symoné) who wants to become a professional actress. She then moves to New York City to begin her career. She brings along her best friend (Majandra Delfino). Georgia's ex-boyfriend (Brock Cuchna) tries to convective Georgia to come back with him, because he is still in love with her.


title: Newton's Law of Cooling

paragraphs: Newton's Law of Cooling describes how the temperature of an object changes. It states that the rate of change of its temperature depends on how much hotter it is than its surroundings. Since it includes both temperature and the time derivative of temperature, is a first-order differential equation. It was made by physicist Sir Isaac Newton.

paragraphs: The law requires that the Heat transfer coefficient is independent of the temperature difference between the object and its surroundings. This is the case in some situations, but not in others. The best example is the simple mechanics used in an air conditioning unit.


title: Lilac

paragraphs: Lilacs are plants in the genus Syringa, in the family Oleaceae. Lilacs are popular garden plants in many area. Syringas are another name for the Lilac, as well as the generic name. It is the state flower of Idaho.


title: Santalaceae

paragraphs: Santalaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales, put in the Eudicots. They are commonly known as mistletoes.


title: Louis Jordan

paragraphs: Louis Jordan (*July 8, 1908 in Brinkley,Arkansas; † February 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz,blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader. He was most successful in the 1940s in the black music market but he reached also white audiences and recorded several cross over hits in the Pop charts.

paragraphs: Louis Jordan was born in Brinkley,Arkansas. His mother, Addie, died in his younger years. His father, James Aron Jordan, was a music teacher and bandleader for the Brinkley Brass Band. From him he got his musical education. He started with the clarinet but also played piano very well.But the alto saxophon became his main instrument. He started his professionel career in the bands of his father.

paragraphs: He went north to Philadelphia and later to New York, where he started in 1932 with the band of Clarence Williams. In late 1936 he was invited to join the important Savoy Ballroom orchestra led by drummer Chick Webb.Webb was an excellent musician but no great showman, so Jordan took over the announcements when he started singing for the band. Later the young Ella Fitzgerald joined Webbs band and she often sang duets with Jordan. The following years she recorded some hit singles with Jordan.

paragraphs: 1938 Jordan was fired by Webb and he began to form an own band which made her first recordings for Decca in December 1938. The original lineup of the sextet was Jordan (saxes, vocals), Courtney Williams (trumpet), Lem Johnson (tenor sax), Clarence Johnson (piano), Charlie Drayton (bass) and Walter Martin (drums). The Decca recordings were from "The Elks Rendezvous Band" but Jordan changed the name to "Tympany Five" after the brand of Martins drums. The most successful time of the band was between 1942 and 1950. In this period they had 18 #1-hits in the Rhythm and Blues chart of Billboard magazine. Some of the hits like Caldonia, Let the good times roll, Saturday Night Fish Fry or Choo Choo Ch'Boogie are evergreens. Under his duet partners were Bing Crosby,Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

paragraphs: In the 1950s his singles did not sell very well so he left Decca. He signed with different other record companies but was not as successful as in the 1940s. He died in 1975 in Los Angeles and is buried in St. Louis, Missouri.

paragraphs: In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #59 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He was introduced to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. There he is described as “the Father of Rhythm & Blues” and “the Grandfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” As jump blues artist he paved the way for Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, Tiny Bradshaw and others. In his music one can hear the prototype of Rock and Roll. He influenced Bill Haley & His Comets, whose producer, Milt Gabler, had also worked with Jordan. The Broadway show, "Five Guys Named Moe", was devoted to Jordan's music and this title is given to both soundtrack (tribute) and original music collections. The show was played over 400 times on Broadway. Blues Guitarist B. B. King recorded an album called "Let The Good Times Roll-The Music of Louis Jordan", as well as the songs "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Caldonia". Rock singer Joe Jackson recorded Jumpin' Jive in 1981 which featured several songs by Jordan. Let The Good Times Roll, a Jordan biography, was written by British jazz historian John Chilton.

paragraphs: The music of Louis Jordan is still available in many different collections. To learn more about his music one can buy Bear Familys nine-CD collection of Jordan's work ("Let the Good Times Roll: the Complete Decca Recordings 1938-1954"). Another collection is Proper Records low priced four-CD, 102-track compilation ("Jivin' With Jordan") that includes all of Jordan's important songs from his Decca years.


title: Thien Duong Cave

paragraphs: Thien Duong Cave, Paradise Cave, is a cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, 450 km south of Hanoi. The cave is 31km long, the longest cave in Asia. It was found by a local man in 2005, British scientists explored the whole cave from 2005—2010. The access road to the cave was built and finished in September 2010. Tourists can go 1km into the cave.


title: Cleaner fish

paragraphs: Cleaner fish are fish that provide a service to other fish species by removing dead skin and ectoparasites. This is an example of mutualism, an ecological interaction that benefits both parties.

paragraphs: A wide variety of fishes show cleaning behaviors. They include wrasse, cichlids, catfish, and gobies, as well as by a number of different species of cleaner shrimp.

paragraphs: There is also at least one predatory mimic, the sabre-toothed blenny. It mimics cleaner fish but in fact bites off pieces of fin.


title: Blenny

paragraphs: A blenny is a member of a large suborder of teleost fish called the Blennioidei. The suborder has about 833 species in 130 genera.

paragraphs: Blennies are generally small fish. They have long bodies (some almost eel-like), and relatively large eyes and mouths. Their dorsal fins are continuous and long. The pelvic fins have a single embedded spine, and are short and slender. The tail fin is rounded.

paragraphs: The blunt heads of blennies often have whisker-like structures called "cirri". As generally benthic fish, blennioids spend much of their time on or near the sea floor.

paragraphs: They are quite similar in form to some gobies.


title: Wrasse

paragraphs: The wrasses are a family, the Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly coloured. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 82 genera.

paragraphs: They are typically small fish, mostly less than long, although the largest, the Humphead wrasse, can measure up to .

paragraphs: They are efficient carnivores, feeding on a wide range of small invertebrates. Many smaller wrasses follow the feeding trails of larger fish, picking up invertebrates disturbed by their passing.

paragraphs: Wrasses can put their jaws forwards, usually with separate jaw teeth that jut outwards.

paragraphs: Many species can be recognized by their thick lips. The inside of these lips is curiously folded, which gave rise the German name of "Lippfische". The dorsal fin has 8–21 spines and 6–21 soft rays, usually running most of the length of the back.

paragraphs: Wrasse are sexually dimorphic. Many species are capable of changing sex. Juveniles are a mix of males and females (known as Initial Phase or IP individuals) but the largest adults become territory-holding (Terminal Phase or TP) males.

paragraphs: The word "wrasse" comes via Cornish from the Welsh word "gwrach" meaning an old woman or hag.


title: Neoproterozoic

paragraphs: The Neoproterozoic era lasted from 1,000 to 541 million years ago (mya).

paragraphs: In the first period, the Tonian, the global supercontinent Rodinia broke up into separate land masses.

paragraphs: In the second period, the Cryogenian, the Earth had two great ice ages, the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations. These ice ages were so severe they are sometimes called Snowball Earth.

paragraphs: In the third period, the Ediacaran, the earliest fossils of multicellular organisms are found, the Ediacaran biota.


title: Pfizer

paragraphs: Pfizer is drug and medicine company. It was founded in 1849 in New York City. It is ranked the largest drug company in the world. Pfizer is known for its drugs Advil and ChapStick. The company bought Wyeth, which also used to be a drug company. The deal was completed in 2009.


title: Lobelioideae

paragraphs: Lobelioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family "Campanulaceae". It is sometimes considered a different family Lobeliaceae. The type genus is Lobelia. Lobelias are delightful plants in many area.


title: Zoonosis

paragraphs: Zoonosis or a zoonotic disease is an infectious disease which an animal can give to a human. These diseases may be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites.

paragraphs: Zoonotic diseases are very common. About 60% of all infectious diseases in humans are spread by animals.

paragraphs: Zoonotic diseases can be spread in different ways. They may be spread from a sick animal directly to a human - for example, through bites and infected saliva (like with rabies), or through the air. This is called "direct zoonosis".

paragraphs: Zoonotic diseases can also be spread through a vector. This is an animal that carries the pathogen that causes the disease without getting infected. Diseases like this are called "vector-borne diseases".

paragraphs: Sometimes the vector picks up the disease from another animal. For example, rats who have the bubonic plague do not directly infect humans. Instead, fleas bite the rats and pick up the bacteria that causes plague without getting sick. Then, if the flea bites a human, they can pass the bacteria on to the human, and the human can get the plague. The rat is the host of the disease, and the flea is the vector.

paragraphs: Many foodborne illnesses are zoonotic diseases. In these cases, a human gets sick from eating food that came from a sick animal.

paragraphs: The most common pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses are "Salmonella", "Campylobacter", and "Escherichia coli" ("E. coli") bacteria. Eggs, seafood, meat, poultry, and dairy products can all carry these bacteria and cause foodborne illnesses, like food poisoning, in humans.

paragraphs: Other zoonotic illnesses that humans can get from eating or drinking include:

paragraphs: Often, people can avoid foodborne illnesses by cooking meat, seafood, and eggs well enough to kill the bacteria or parasites in them.

paragraphs: Below are some examples of zoonotic diseases that humans can get directly from sick, live animals.


title: Teasel

paragraphs: Teasel is a plant in the genus Dipsacus. There are about 15 different species of teasel. These flowering plants are tall and leafy (herbaceous). They are biennial plants and are native to (come from) Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. They can grow to be tall.

paragraphs: These plants have a prickly stem and leaves. Its flowers are purple, dark pink, or lavender and grow directly on the end of the stem. After flowering, the head of the plant dries out and holds small seeds. These seeds are important food in the winter for birds, especially the European Goldfinch. Teasels are grown in gardens and nature reserves to attract these goldfinches.

paragraphs: In the United States, teasel is an invasive species. It is not native to the continent and takes over the land of native plant species.

paragraphs: Some of the most common species of teasel are:


title: No Strings Attached (movie)

paragraphs: No Strings Attached is a 2011 American romantic comedy movie. It stars Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. The movie is about two friends who make a decision to have regular casual sex.


title: Christa McAuliffe

paragraphs: Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire. She was a member of the crew of Space Shuttle "Challenger", who were killed in the Space Shuttle "Challenger" disaster.


title: Brian Wilson (baseball)

paragraphs: Brian Patrick Wilson (born March 16, 1982) is an American baseball player. He was born in Winchester, Massachusetts and grew up in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He played college baseball at Louisiana State University. He was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 2003 and has played his whole career in the Giants system. He started playing with the Giants in 2006 and became their closer (a pitcher who pitches the ninth inning of the game) in 2008. He has been named an All-Star three times in 2008, 2010 and 2011. In the 2010 season, he starting growing a beard, which he kept after the Giants won the World Series. He led the league in saves in 2010. In 2011, he started slowly, but had 25 saves and six wins before the All-Star break. Due to his beard and his personality, Wilson appeared on many talk shows and commercials, including for MLB 2K11.


title: Brian Wilson

paragraphs: Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter and singer. He was born in Inglewood, California.

paragraphs: He is a founding member of The Beach Boys, although he was largely separate from the band from the 1970s until 2011. He played bass, sang, and wrote songs for them. In the 1970s and 80s, Wilson struggled with drug problems and eating too much. In the 1980s and 90s, he began a solo career.

paragraphs: He was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2007. In 2011, Wilson reunited with The Beach Boys.

paragraphs: Wilson has bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder.


title: Hypersexuality

paragraphs: Hypersexuality is known as nymphomania when in females and satyriasis when in males. It is a stronger than usual urge to have sexual intercourse. Masturbation causes euphoria (extreme pleasure). It is caused by some stimulant drugs, such as amphetamine. It is also caused by some mental disorders: bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder. Some cases are of unknown cause. Some psychologists think it can be caused by a hormone imbalance. Others believe it is caused by early exposure to pornography and sex.


title: Free writing

paragraphs: Free writing or stream-of-consciousness writing is a genre of writing. In free writing, a person writes continuously for a certain period of time. The writer does not need to pay attention to spelling or grammar and writes whatever comes to mind. In the writing process, free writing takes place during prewriting.

paragraphs: The writing that is created by free writing is raw and unusable. The process is sometimes used by writers to overcome writer's block, apathy, and self-criticism. It is mostly used by writing teachers and people who write prose (not poetry.)

paragraphs: It is sometimes thought to be a kind of brainstorming. In brainstorming, the writer lists ideas and possibilities. In free writing, the writer writes sentences to make paragraphs.


title: A Serbian Film

paragraphs: A Serbian Film is a horror movie which opened to much controversy. When it was released during 2010, the movie was marked with a Refused Classification rating in Australia. A highly censored version was later approved. It was released in the United States with a rating of NC-17 (No Children 17 or Under Admitted) in May 2011. The movie is about a pornographic movie star who agrees to perform in an art film, but then learns that he has been dragged into a snuff movie filled with necrophilia and other adult themes. "A Serbian Film" faced severe censorship problems in many countries because of its mature content.


title: Hatchet II

paragraphs: Hatchet II is a 2010 American slasher movie. The movie picks up where the original "Hatchet" ended. It is set in Louisiana. "Hatchet II" was released with no rating by the MPAA in the United States.


title: Kubla Khan

paragraphs: Kubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He wrote it in 1797, and it was published in 1816. It is a poem from the Romantic era, a time when people often made art about nature and emotions. Coleridge said that he wrote the poem after a dream he had, while on opium. He said that he was interrupted by a person from Porlock while he was writing it, and never got to finish it. Some people say that this is not completely true.

paragraphs: The first stanza of the poem describes a pleasure dome and a river called Alph, and the second stanza talks about an Abyssinian maid.


title: Sands of Iwo Jima

paragraphs: Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war movie that was produced by Edmund Grainger and was directed by Allan Dwan. "Sands of Iwo Jima" was released on December 14, 1949 in North America. The movie received positive reviews with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about a group of United States Marines. The movie follows their training for the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award in 4 categories; Best Actor in a Leading Role (for John Wayne), Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Recording and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.


title: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

paragraphs: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American rapper Kanye West. The album was released on November 22, 2010. The album peaked at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, US "Billboard" 200, US "Billboard" R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and US "Billboard" Rap Albums. Music critics gave it very good reviews. Pitchfork gave it ten out of ten. It won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. In 2012 "Rolling Stone" magazine put the album at number 353 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

paragraphs: The making of the album came after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. During Taylor Swift's speech for Best Female Video, West wikt:interrupted to say Beyoncé should have won the award. After the incident, West went to Hawaii to rest from stress. Most of the songs were created during this time.

paragraphs: Four singles were released from the album. The first single "Power" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.


title: Cleaner shrimp

paragraphs: Cleaner shrimp is a generic term for any swimming decapod crustacean that cleans other organisms of parasites. This is an example of symbiosis: Both parties benefit. The fish benefit because they have parasites removed, and the shrimp gain the nutritional value of the parasites. In many coral reefs, there are cleaning stations, with many cleaning shrimps.

paragraphs: This behaviour is similar to that of cleaner fish. Sometimes, cleaer shrimp join cleaner wrasse and other cleaner fish.

paragraphs: Cleaner shrimp are often included in salt water aquaria to keep the tank clean.


title: Mimosa

paragraphs: Mimosa is a genus of plants. It includes around 400 different species of herbs and shrubs. It is classified in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae. The word "mimosa" comes from the Greek word that means "mimic".

paragraphs: The best known species of mimosa are "Mimosa pudica" and "Mimosa tenuiflora". "Mimosa pudica" is found in Central and South America. When touched or heated, it folds its leaves. "Mimosa tenuiflora" is used by shamans (traditional magical) healer. It is used in ayahuasca brews (a "magic" drink) because of the psychedelic drug N,N-Dimethyltryptamine DMT in its roots.

paragraphs: The "Mimosa" genus has gone through many periods of time where it was split up into smaller groupings or lumped into larger ones. It has over 3,000 names to describe it and its species. Most of these names are now considered synonyms. Some of the names have been given to other species and genera.

paragraphs: Because of this, the name "mimosa" has been used for other species that look like mimosa but are not related. Some of the most common unrelated plants with this name are the silk tree ("Albizia julibrissin") and Sattle ("Acacia dealbata".)

paragraphs: This genus includes some plants that are able to move fast. This is very rare. The mimosa's leaves close quickly when touched.

paragraphs: "Mimosa" is related to the genera "Acacia" and '[Albizia". The difference between them is that the mimosa's flowers have ten or fewer stamens. The big round flower of the mimosa is actually an inflorescence, a cluster (close group) of many small flowers.


title: Twelve O'Clock High

paragraphs: Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 war movie that was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and was directed by Henry King. "Twelve O'Clock High" was released on December 21, 1949 in Los Angeles and on January 26, 1950 in New York. The movie received positive reviews with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about a group of United States Marines. The movie follows aircrews that were in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force and flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The movie won 2 Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Dean Jagger), and Best Sound Recording.


title: Federico García Lorca

paragraphs: Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca; (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads during the Spanish Civil War. He was gay. In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. The Garcia Lorca family eventually dropped objections to the excavation of a potential gravesite near Alfacar. However, no human remains were found.


title: Isopod

paragraphs: Isopods are animals that belong to an order of peracarid crustaceans. This order is called "Isopoda. "The name Isopoda derives from the Greek roots ("iso-", meaning "same") and ("podos", meaning "foot"). Some isopod species live in water, like the tongue louse. Others live on land, like woodlice and pill bugs.

paragraphs: Isopods can be half an inch long. They are usually gray, brown or black, with an oval-shaped body. They have seven armor plates, called "pereonites," which protect them. They also have seven pairs of short legs. Isopods have two pairs of antennae; one pair feels along the ground.

paragraphs: Isopods have gills and need water to breathe. Because of this, the isopod species which live on land must stay in moist places.


title: Karl Denke

paragraphs: Karl Denke (August 12, 1870 – December 22, 1924) was a serial killer from Germany. He is one of the most well-known serial killers in Germany in the 1920s.

paragraphs: Denke was born in Münsterberg, Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Ziębice in Poland.) There is not a great deal of information about his early life. As an adult he was well liked in his community. He worked as an organ player at the local church.

paragraphs: On December 20, 1924, Denke was arrested after attacking a man at his house with an axe. Police searched Denke's home and found human flesh in huge jars of curing salts. A ledger (record book) contained the details of 30 people Denke had murdered and cannibalized (eaten) over the years. Police thought he sold the flesh of his victims at the Breslau (today's Wrocław) market.

paragraphs: The day after his arrest, Denke hanged himself in his cell. His exact motives are unknown and can only be guessed at.