title: Childlessness

text: Voluntary childlessness is when people choose to not have children. People do this for several reasons, which include:


title: Albert Brewer

text: Brewer was born in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. He studied at the University of Alabama. He was married to Martha Farmer from 1950 until her death in 2006. Brewer died on January 2, 2017 in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, aged 88.


title: Douglas Tompkins

text: On December 8, 2015, Tompkins was kayaking with five others on General Carrera Lake in southern Chile when strong waves caused their kayaks to capsize. Tompkins spent a "considerable amount of time" in waters under . He was flown via helicopter to a hospital in nearby Coyhaique, where he died from severe hypothermia. He was 72 years old and was survived by his wife, two daughters, mother and brother.


title: Segmentation

text: We now know a good deal about how the development of segmented animals is controlled. In a series of experiments with the fruit-fly "Drosophila", E.B. Lewis was able to identify a complex of genes whose proteins bind to the regulatory regions of target genes. The latter then activate or repress cell processes which direct the final development of the organism.


title: Otoe

text: Historically, the Otoe Tribe lived as a semi-nomadic people on the Central Plains along the bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. They lived in elm-bark houses while they farmed. They used tipis when they traveled, like many other Plains tribes. They often left their villages to hunt buffalo.


title: Latifa Ibn Ziaten

text: Latifa ibn Ziaten was born in Morocco. She is Muslim. When she was a teenager, she moved to France. In 2012, Latifa's son, Imad, died in a terrorist attack. Imad was a French soldier.


title: Richard DeVos

text: In 2012, "Forbes" magazine listed him as the 60th richest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion. At one point, he was one of the 10 richest Americans.


title: Tom Conway

text: Conway was born on September 15, 1904 in St. Petersburg, Russia to English parents. He was raised in Bringhton, England, and studied at Brighton College.


title: Reggie Lucas

text: In 1986, Lucas founded the Jersey City recording studio Quantum Sound. Clients included the Pet Shop Boys, Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Sepultura.


title: Irish Parliament

text: The Irish Parliament's power was restricted by "Poynings law". Poynings Law was a bill sponsored by English Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Edward Poynings in 1494. In 1782, the bill was repealed and the kingdom of Ireland had brief period of legislative autonomy. But in 1800 it passed a law called the Act of Union to abolish itself and the kingdom of Ireland, and incorporate Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After that, the island was represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the Palace of Westminster.


title: John Bryson

text: From 1976 to 1979, Bryson was chairman of the California State Water Resources Control Board. From 1979 to 1982, he was president of the California Public Utilities Commission.


title: President of Zambia

text: Since 31 August 1991 the president is also the head of government, as the position of Prime Minister was abolished in the last months of Kaunda's presidential term.


title: Marco Maciel

text: Marco Maciel was married to Ana Maria Maciel and had three sons. He was also a practising Roman Catholic.


title: Brad Little

text: Little was appointed by Governor Butch Otter to replaced Jim Risch as Lieutenant Governor, who resigned to become a United States Senator.


title: Peep Show (TV series)

text: Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan, Webb plays Jeremy Usborne. They are two young men who share a flat in Croydon, London. They are friends despite being very different to each other. Much of the show's humour is about the difference between the two central characters.


title: Microbial mat

text: Microbial mats grow mostly on submerged or moist surfaces but a few survive in deserts. They colonize environments ranging in temperature from –40 °C to +120 °C. A few are endosymbionts of animals.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: Ashford Black Marble had been used for decorative purpose since the prehistoric age. Bess of Hardwick was known to use Ashford Black Marble.


title: ECHL

text: The ECHL and the American Hockey League are the only ice hockey leagues that receive recognition by the collective bargaining agreement between the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association which means that any player that is signed to an entry-level NHL contract and is designated for assignment must report to a club either in the AHL or the ECHL.


title: Aida (musical)

text: The musical opens in a modern-day museum. In the Egyptian wing, a man and woman meet each other as a statue of a female Pharaoh, Amneris, awakens ("Every Story Is A Love Story") and transports them to Ancient Egypt. Ramades, who is leader of the Egyptian army, return from an expedition through the lands of the Nubians, the longtime enemies of Egypt ("Fortune Favors The Brave"). When the soldiers capture a group of women, he is instantly drawn to one of them, Aida, who tries freeing herself by fighting one of his soldiers. After Ramades forces Aida to wash his back, she refuses, telling him that although the Egyptians took everything from the Nubians, their spirit will never be taken ("The Past Is Another Land"). Ramades saves Aida's companions from working in the copper mines (and certain death) by sending them to work in the palace grounds instead. He also sends Aida as a handmaiden to Amneris, to whom he is betrothed.


title: Road Warrior Animal

text: He performed with many pay-per-view events for the WWF and WCW, competing for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at 2001's Sin.


title: Human rights in Saudi Arabia

text: LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia are unrecognized. Homosexuality is frequently a taboo subject in Saudi Arabian society and is punished with imprisonment, corporal punishment and capital punishment. Transgender people are generally associated with homosexuality and doctors are banned by the Saudi Ministry of Health from giving hormone replacement therapy to transgender people seeking to medically transition. In 2017, two transgender Pakistanis were allegedly tortured to death by Saudi police. Police later denied the reports.


title: Hector and the Search for Happiness (movie)

text: The movie stars Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgård, Barry Atsma and Christopher Plummer with Togo Igawa.


title: SM Town

text: SM Town artists have performed at the "SM Town Live world tours" every year since 2008. These tours have attracted over 1 million viewers as of 2014.


title: Frankie Shaw

text: Shaw also played Mary Jo Cacciatore on the 2010–2011 Spike TV series "Blue Mountain State", and her role as Shayla Nico in the first season of the USA Network television series "Mr. Robot".


title: Nikolay Chebotko

text: Chebotko died in a car accident in near the Borovoye Resort in Kazakhstan on January 24, 2021 at the age of 38.


title: Golden angle

text: according to algebra, let "a+b" be the circumference of a circle, divided into a longer arc of length "a" and a smaller arc of length "b" such that:


title: Religious nationalism

text: There are two parts of religious nationalism: Religion becoms more political. and it has a bigger influence on politics.


title: Richard Wilhelm (sinologist)

text: His son Hellmut Wilhelm was also a sinologist, and was professor of Chinese at the University of Washington. Wilhelm was a close friend of the renowned Chinese educator and diplomat Dr. Li Linsi.


title: Roxanne (The Police song)

text: The song was written after lead singer and bassist Sting was inspired by prostitutes he saw near a disgusting hotel he was staying at.


title: Masaki Suda

text: In 2008, Suda was elected as one of the finalists of "Junon Super Boy Contest", and he started to belong to "Top Coat".His first  debut and the lead role was  Kamen Rider  W in 2009.


title: Stevan Jelovac

text: Jelovac died in Novi Sad, Serbia on 5 December 2021 from problems caused by a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 32.


title: Wonderful Tonight

text: "Wonderful Tonight" was covered by British band Damage and went to number 3 in the United Kingdom and number 15 in Ireland.


title: Catholic Church in Spain

text: Roman Catholicism in Spain dates back to the Roman Empire, at that time the Iberian Peninsula was known as Hispania. After 410 AD, Spain was taken over by the Visigoths and they brought Arianism to the region.


title: The Late Late Show with James Corden

text: Corden was announced as the show's new host on September 8, 2014, replacing Craig Ferguson. The show premiered on March 23, 2015.


title: M3U

text: The M3U file can include comments. They are prefaced by the "#" character. In extended M3U, "#" also introduces extended M3U directives which are terminated by a colon ":" if they support parameters.


title: Motorbike frog

text: These frogs can be up to 7.8 cm long. They can come in different colors from brown to green and parts of their skin turn yellow if they sit in the sunlight. They have light green or light brown bellies. They have a stripe over each eyelid that goes past the ear to the top of the front leg.


title: Team Hoyt

text: Rick has cerebral palsy. During competition, Dick pulled Rick in a special boat as they would swim, carried him in a special seat in the front of a bicycle, and pushed him in a special wheelchair as they ran.


title: News International phone hacking scandal

text: The prime minister David Cameron said on 6 July 2011 that a public investigation, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the "News of the World", if what some British newspapers did to get stories was okay and that the Press Complaints Commission would be changed and replaced fully. A few arrests and prison sentenced followed, most well-known being the arrest of the former "News of the World" top editor Andy Coulson.


title: Winnie Byanyima

text: Byanyima was born and raised in Mbarara District in the Western Region of Uganda. Winnie Byanyima went to Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga in Mukono District. She holds bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Manchester. She later obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in energy conservation from Cranfield University.


title: February 1974 United Kingdom general election

text: It is very hard to run a government if the party has no majority, and so the House of Commons agreed to hold another general election in October. This was done so that a party could win a majority.


title: Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash

text: The cable car was traveling on a line connecting the town of Stresa with the summit of Mottarone when it crashed into a wooded area. The incident was Italy's deadliest cable car disaster since the 1998 Cavalese cable car disaster.


title: Come Away

text: The film described the main characters from the stories of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan" as siblings and they were seen to try help their parents overcome the grief of death of their son.


title: Subset sum problem

text: Remember that the subsequence need not to be contiguous. For instance if x = 8 in above example the answer is still yes because {1, 7} sums to 8.


title: Marino Perani

text: Perani died at a hospital in Bologna, Italy on 18 October 2017 from stroke-related complications at the age of 77.


title: Copper(I) acetylide

text: It is made by reacting copper(I) chloride dissolved in ammonia with acetylene. Hydrochloric acid and copper(I) acetylide is made. This reaction is used to test for acetylene.


title: Railfan

text: There are many magazines for people who like trains. Railfans enjoy reading books and magazines about trains.


title: DiC

text: In 1993, DiC Animation City (as it was then known) and Capital Cities/ABC formed DIC Entertainment LP and in 1995 it became a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.


title: Christine Lieberknecht

text: Christine Lieberknecht was a member of the CDU of East Germany since 1981. In September 1989, she was one of the four people who wrote the "Letter from Weimar". In that letter they demanded that the CDU should no longer work together with the SED.


title: Howie Morenz

text: Morenz died from problems with a broken leg, an injury he suffered in a game. After his death, the Canadiens stopped using his jersey number, the first time the team had done so for any player. When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Morenz was one of the first 12 people to be added. In 1950, the Canadian Press named him the best ice hockey player of the first half of the 20th century.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: Rinpoche often speaks at major conferences in all areas of society, including medicine and healing, education, dialogue between religions, movements for peace and non-violence, the world of business and leadership, and the field of serving the dying and hospice care.


title: British Home Guard

text: The beginning of the Home Guard are usually traced back to Captain Tom Wintringham. When returning from the Spanish Civil War, Wintringham wrote a book called "How To Reform The Army". In it, he writes about how Britain could make something similar to the Spanish International Brigades in the Civil War. Although the book was well received, many of its suggestions were ignored at the time. This was because the tensions in Europe did not seem likely to escalate into war.


title: Perry Rhodan

text: Perry Rhodan is one of four fictional astronauts of the USA. In 1971, they fly to the moon, where they meet an extraterrestrial space-ship. From its owners they get technology, which they use to end the cold war and to unite the people of the Earth. Then "Terra", the Earth, becomes a power in intergalactical politics.


title: Eryops

text: "Eryops" was better adapted to a terrestrial environment than its ancestors. Sturdy limbs and a strong spine supported the body while out of water.


title: The Shaggs

text: The band's only studio album, "Philosophy of the World", was released in 1969. The album was not very well-known, though the band's live performances were popular in their local area. The Shaggs disbanded in 1975 after the death of Austin.


title: Van Diemen Gulf

text: Abel Tasman mapped the northern entrance to the Gulf, Dundas Strait, in 1644. The Gulf is named after the Dutch Governor of Batavia, Anthony Van Diemen.


title: Deportivo Petare

text: The golden years of the team were those of the "D'Ambrosio era", that lasted from 1958 to 1978. In those golden years, Deportivo Italia won the Venezuelan First Division tournament four times (1961, 1963, 1966 and 1972) and the "Copa Venezuela" three times (1961,1962 and 1970), and was runner up in the first division in 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971 and in the Copa Venezuela in 1976.


title: Mike Mansfield

text: After retiring from the Senate, Mansfield served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988. On retiring as ambassador, he was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1989). He won this in part for his role in the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon. Mansfield is the longest-serving American ambassador to Japan in history.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: In the following match, Cedric Alexander defended the Cruiserweight Championship against Kalisto. The match ended when Alexander countered a Salida Del Sol attempt into a Lumbar Check to retain the title.


title: Ahvaz military parade attack

text: On 22 September 2018, at 09:00 local time, four gunmen wearing military uniforms as Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Basiji (volunteers) began shooting at the parade from a nearby park. 29 people died and 70 were injured. The attack lasted about ten minutes.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: European settlers moved into the area in 1837. Within three years, most of Gulidjan lands had been taken over by sheep farmers.


title: Evermoor

text: On 17 March 2014, the series was announced. Filming took place in the spring of 2014 at Arley Hall in Cheshire. The series has been described as "a hugely exciting project for the team here in EMEA with a gripping story that I’m sure will captivate our global Disney Channel audience. The movie’s intriguing cast of characters also gives us a great opportunity to find exciting new talent” by David Levine. Lime Pictures produced the special, which was created by Diane Whitley and Tim Compton. The executive producers was Rebecca Hodgson. The producer was Compton. It was a co-production between Disney U.S. and the Walt Disney Company EMEA.


title: Antimony pentoxide

text: It is made by reacting antimony trioxide with nitric acid. It can also be made by reacting antimony pentafluoride or antimony pentachloride with water.


title: Plural ignorance

text: Plural ignorance may partially explain why people are more likely to intervene in an emergency situation when alone than when other persons are present. If people monitor the reactions of others in such a situation, they may conclude from the inaction of others that other people think that it is not necessary to act.


title: One Love Manchester

text: Money from the event benefits the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund. The Emergency Fund was founded by Manchester City Council and the British Red Cross not long after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.


title: Joseph Mascolo

text: During his long career, he has acted in many movies such as "Jaws 2", "Heat" and "The Trail of the Incredible Hulk". He was best known for playing super villian Stefano DiMera, a role he originated in 1982 on NBC's "Days of Our Lives" until his retirement in January 2016.


title: Álvaro Noboa

text: In 1997, already owning 24% of Bonita Bananas, Noboa purchased another 25% of the shares, the holding company for the family business. Presently, he runs the Noboa Group of Companies and Noboa Corporation, with more than 110 companies in Ecuador.


title: Long Valley Caldera

text: The explosion released 600 cubic kilometres (140 cu mi) of material from vents inside the margin of the caldera. By way of comparison, the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption released 1.2 cubic kilometres (0.29 cu mi).


title: George Henry Thomas

text: In 1862, he became a major general and commanded a corps in the Army of the Cumberland. He fought at the Battle of Stones River and the Battle of Chickamauga. He became commander of the Army of the Cumberland during the Chattanooga Campaign in 1863. He continued commanding the army during the Atlanta Campaign. When William T. Sherman started his March to the Sea, Thomas was left behind to defend Tennessee against John Bell Hood. Thomas defeated Hood at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.


title: Harris Wofford

text: He introduced Obama in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center before Obama's speech on race in America, "A More Perfect Union".


title: Djibouti at the 1988 Summer Olympics

text: Five male athletes from Dijibouti went to the Olympics to compete in athletics events. They were; Hoche Yaya Aden, Ismael Hassan, Talal Omar Abdillahi, Hussein Ahmed Salah, and Omar Moussa. This were the first Summer Olympic Games for Aden, Hassan, Abdillahi, and Moussa. Salah competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.


title: Emanuel Cleaver

text: Cleaver was on the Kansas City Council from 1979 to 1991, until he was elected Mayor, from 1991 to 1999. In 2004, Cleaver was elected to represent Missouri's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.


title: The Shadow

text: On September 26, 1937, "The Shadow" radio drama began with the story "The Deathhouse Rescue," in which The Shadow was characterized as having "the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him." As in the magazine stories, The Shadow was not given the literal ability to become invisible.


title: Blake Wheeler

text: Wheeler was drafted with the 5th overall pick by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Wheeler and the Coyotes could not agree on a contract and he signed an entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins on July 1, 2008. On October 9, he scored played in his first NHL games and also scored his first NHL goal against Peter Budaj of the Colorado Avalanche.


title: Clones

text: The national inland waterways agency, Waterways Ireland, is planning to restore the Ulster Canal from the Newtownbutler area of Lough Erne to Clones.


title: Agly

text: The Agly river is long. Its source is on the Pass of Linas, to the northeast of the Pech de Bugarach, the highest of the Corbières mountains, departments of Aude, at an elevation of .


title: Atropoides

text: The Jumping Vipers are found on the mountains of east Mexico, the lowlands of Central America, and Panama.


title: Foglia

text: Then it flows east trough the "comuni" Sestino, Piandimeleto, Lunano, Sassocorvaro (where a dam forms an artificial lake called Lake of Mercatale), Auditore, Montecalvo in Foglia, Vallefoglia, Montelabbate and, near the mouth, Pesaro.


title: Childlessness

text: Sometimes a couple can have a child through artificial insemination, when a sperm is place in a woman's uterus immediately after ovulation. Another option is in vitro fertilization (or IVF). In this process, a sperm and an egg are placed together until fertilization happens, then the egg is put into the uterus.


title: Segmentation

text: Furthermore, the sequence of these control genes show "co-linearity": the order of the loci in the chromosome parallels the order in which the loci are expressed along the anterior-posterior axis of the body. Not only that, but this cluster of master control genes programs the development of all higher organisms.


title: Latifa Ibn Ziaten

text: Latifa went to the neighborhood of her son's killer in Toulouse. She talked to the boys in the neighborhood. The boys told her the killer was a hero of Islam. When she told them her son was killed, they apologized. Then Latifa decided to start an organization to help the young people. She tells young people to learn about Islam from their parents, not from the internet. Latifa receives threats and has a bodyguard.


title: Richard DeVos

text: DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at Calvin College. He served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. He was married to Helen June Van Wesep from 1953 until her death in 2017. Together, they had four children. His son, Dick DeVos, is married to Betsy DeVos the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education.


title: Tom Conway

text: He was married to Lillian Eggers from 1941 until they divorced in 1953. Then he was married to Queenie Leonard from 1958 until they divorced in 1963. Conway had no children.


title: Reggie Lucas

text: In 1981, Lucas and James Mtume won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for their composition "Never Knew Love Like This Before", which was performed by Stephanie Mills.


title: Marco Maciel

text: Maciel died on 12 June 2021 from multiple organ failure caused by COVID-19 in Brasília at the age of 80.


title: Brad Little

text: Little was the Republican nominee for Governor in the 2018 gubernatorial election. He defeated Democrat Paulette Jordan in the general election.


title: Peep Show (TV series)

text: Mark is conservative, studious, intelligent, hard-working, frugal, socially awkward and loves history. He is a loan manager for the first five series.


title: Microbial mat

text: Although usually only a few centimetres thick, microbial mats create a wide range of internal chemical environments. They consist of layers of microorganisms that can feed on or tolerate the chemicals at their level. In moist conditions mats are held together by slimy substances (polysaccharides) secreted by the microorganisms. Some of the micro-organisms form tangled webs of filaments which make the mat tougher. The best known physical forms are flat mats and stubby pillars called stromatolites, but there are also spherical forms.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: Henry Watson played important roles in the development of the local industry of inlaying Ashford Black Marble in the 1750s. He was the uncle of Derbyshire geologist White Watson, and had a water-powered mill at Ashford in the Water.


title: ECHL

text: The major championship in the ECHL that the two winning team of their conferences play for is the Kelly Cup. There are currently 27 teams in the ECHL.


title: Road Warrior Animal

text: Laurinaitis died of natural causes on September 22, 2020, ten days after his 60th birthday in Osage Beach, Missouri.


title: Religious nationalism

text: Examples for religious nationalism can be the Eastern Orthodox Churches: Usually, there is one such church per county, and there is one heas of the church by country.


title: Richard Wilhelm (sinologist)

text: The Richard Wilhelm Translation Centre at Ruhr-Universität Bochum was founded in 1993 by Helmut Martin.


title: Roxanne (The Police song)

text: "Roxanne" became the band's first single for A&M Records. However, despite the praise given by Miles Copeland, the single did not chart upon its initial release. Writing in Record Mirror, singles reviewer Bev Briggs declared "This must be the big breaker for The Police ... what the hell, go out and buy it immediately".


title: Masaki Suda

text: In 2013, he won the 37th  "Japan Academy Film Prize" for Newcomer Actor with the movie Tomogui that he played the lead. In 2014, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award of "Takasaki Film Festival w"ith "Soko nomi nite kagayaku". Also, he won Best Emerging Actor Award at TAMA Film Festival and Best Actor Award at "Osaka Cinema Festivaland" so on. He appeared on NHK TVseries "Gochiso-san," which was his first appearance of that series.


title: Catholic Church in Spain

text: After the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, there was tensions between the Catholic Church and the Muslim rulers of of Al-Andalus.


title: The Late Late Show with James Corden

text: On April 4, 2017, it was confirmed that Corden would bring "The Late Late Show" to England for three special episodes. It was the third time in the show's history that it aired from another country, with Ferguson taking his incarnation to Paris, France, in 2011 and Scotland in 2012. Corden returned to London to film a week of shows June 18–21, 2018, and June 17–20, 2019.


title: M3U

text: Apple used the extended M3U format as a base for their HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). It was written in an Independent Submission Stream RFC in 2017 as <nowiki>RFC 8216</nowiki>. Therein, a "master playlist" references segment playlists which contain URLs for short parts of the media stream. Some tags only apply to the former type and some only to the latter type of playlist. But they all begin with codice_1.


title: Motorbike frog

text: They lay their eggs in bunches stuck to plants under water. The tadpoles can be 8 cm long and are dark brown. They grow into frogs in March and April, late summer. Some tadpoles stay tadpoles longer, for 14 months and can grow to be 14 cm long before turning into frogs.


title: Team Hoyt

text: Dick Hoyt died at his home and in his sleep in Holland, Massachusetts, on March 17, 2021. He was 80 years old.


title: Winnie Byanyima

text: Byanyima was a trained aeronautical engineer. She began her career as a flight engineer for Uganda Airlines. She later left her job and joined the armed rebellion with Yoweri Museveni. Museveni and Byanyima had been raised together at the Byanyima household as children, with the Byanyima family paying for all Museveni's education and scholastic needs.


title: DiC

text: In 2000 with an investment by Bain Capital, Heyward re-purchased DiC Enterprises (as it was then known). He purchased Bain Capital's part in 2004.


title: Christine Lieberknecht

text: After the German reunification in 1990, Thuringia became a state of Germany. Lieberknecht held many offices in the state: Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992; Minister of Federal and European Affairs from 1992 to 1999; President of the Landtag of Thuringia from 1999 to 2004; leader of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Thuringia from 2004 to 2008 and Minister of Social Affairs from 2008 to 2009.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: Sogyal Rinpoche was born in 1947 in the region of Kham in Eastern Tibet. Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö says that he is the reincarnation of Tertön Sogyal, a teacher to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. Jamyang Khyentse raised him as a son and made sure he got good training.


title: British Home Guard

text: Following a series of events, Anthony Eden, the Secretary of State for War at the time, gave a radio broadcast on 19 May 1940. He asked for volunteers to join the Local Defence Volunteers, as it was known in the start. It originally was given jobs that were not related to combat. It worked as a sort of 'armed police force'. However, after complaints from members, the government allowed it to "delay and obstruct" the enemy advance. This was putting mostly untrained and unwell people armed with aging weapons against trained troops. Later on in the war, it was renamed the Home Guard, following pressure by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. If the Natzis had crossed the channel the Home Guard wouldn't have stopped the Germans for very long.


title: Van Diemen Gulf

text: The waters in the Gulf near the Cobourg Peninsula are protected by the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park.


title: Deportivo Petare

text: Deportivo Italia changed their name to "Deportivo Petare" in the summer of 2010. There is an ongoing dispute because of the strong opposition from the Italian community in Caracas.


title: Mike Mansfield

text: After his ambassadorship, Mansfield served for a time as a senior adviser on East Asian affairs to Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment banking company.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: Next, the vacant Raw Tag Team Championship was contested between the team of Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy and the former champions, Cesaro and Sheamus. In the end, Hardy distracted Sheamus, allowing Wyatt to perform a Sister Abigail on him. Hardy and Wyatt then performed a wheelbarrow Twist of Fate on Sheamus to win the title.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: In 1854 a shepherd, Thomas Brookhouse, who worked for Hugh Murray went missing. Another shepherd, Patrick McGeary left the town soon afterwards. Fifteen years later, Brookhouse's bones were found under a pile of rocks near Lake Corangamite. The skull had been crushed. It took police another two years to find McGeary, who was found guilty of murder and hanged in Melbourne in 1871. He had killed Brookhouse to stop him from telling Murray about his sheep stealing.


title: Antimony pentoxide

text: Antimony pentoxide is used in fire retardants and the making of titanium dioxide. It is also used as a catalyst.


title: Joseph Mascolo

text: Mascolo was married to Rose Maimone in 1953. She died in 1986. They had one son. Mascolo then married Patricia Schultz in 2005. He lived in Los Angeles. California. Mascolo was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2015 and suffered a crippling stroke the same year.


title: Long Valley Caldera

text: In April 2006, three members of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area ski patrol died while on duty. All three died from suffocation by carbon dioxide when they fell into a fumarole on the slopes of the mountain while attempting to fence it off.


title: Harris Wofford

text: In 1948, Wofford married Clare Lindgren and they later had three children. She died in 1996. In 2016, Wofford announced that he would marry Matthew Charlton, his companion of many years.


title: Djibouti at the 1988 Summer Olympics

text: Hoche Yaya Aden competed in the men's 1500 meters, where he finished twelfth in his heat. He did not go onto the next round. The medals went to Kenya, Great Britain and East Germany.


title: Emanuel Cleaver

text: Cleaver was the pastor at the St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri from March 1972 until June 28, 2009.


title: The Shadow

text: The introduction from "The Shadow" radio program "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" was spoken by actor Frank Readick Jr.. American English speakers often have heard of this phrase, even if they have never listened to the radio show. These words were accompanied by an ominous laugh and a musical theme, Camille Saint-Saëns' "Le Rouet d'Omphale" ("Omphale's Spinning Wheel", composed in 1872). At the end of each episode The Shadow reminded listeners that, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay... The Shadow knows!"


title: Blake Wheeler

text: On February 18, 2011, he was traded along with Mark Stuart to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Boris Valabik and Rich Peverley. On July 18, 2011, he signed a two-year, $5.1 million deal with the Jets when the Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg.


title: Clones

text: Clones has a GAA stadium, St Tiernach's Park. This stadium is regularly used for inter-county matches during the Ulster provincial championship in Gaelic football, and traditionally hosts the final.


title: Agly

text: It then goes into the Pyrénées-Orientales by the gorges of Galamus and flows into the Mediterranean Sea south of Barcarès.


title: Atropoides

text: Even though this snake is known as the "Jumping Viper" they do not really jump, but some say when they attack an enemy or prey they strike at such a force they actually leave the ground. They are slow moving and are not very aggressive snakes. They are active during both night and day, but those which are found on high altitudes are usually active at day time.


title: Segmentation

text: Each of the genes contains a homeobox, a remarkably conserved DNA sequence. This suggests the complex itself arose by gene duplication.


title: Peep Show (TV series)

text: Jeremy is unemployed, irresponsible, dishonest, lazy, promiscuous bisexual and hedonistic. From series 1 - 7 he attempts to become a professional musician. In series 8 and 9 he is a life coach.


title: Microbial mat

text: Microbial mats are the earliest form of life on Earth for which there is good fossil evidence, from 3500 million years ago, and were for a long period the most important members of the planet's ecosystems.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: Pots, obelisks, and other decorative items of AMB were frequently traded during the late 18th and early 19th century. John Mawe had a museum in Matlock Bath that dealt in black marble. Ann Rayner carved Black Marble into pictures using a diamond. Many art objects of Ashford Black Marble are collected in local institutions, including those of Derby Museum, Buxton Museum, and Chatsworth House. In 2009, huge blocks of Ashford Black Marble were found underground in Derby. The auction of these was planed because these blocks are valuable. The rocks might have been abandoned when an "Ashford Black Marble" manufacturer moved in the 1880s.


title: Masaki Suda

text: In 2017, his music career started with "Mita koto mo Nai Keshiki a"nd he also started radio as a regular personality of  "All Night Nippon" in the Spring, the same year.


title: Catholic Church in Spain

text: The Reconquista was the long period of Spanish history by which the Catholics reconquered Spain from Islamic rule. The Spanish Inquisition was created in 1478 to complete the religious purification of the Iberian Peninsula.


title: The Late Late Show with James Corden

text: In July 2019, CBS announced that Corden's contract to run the show had been extended until August 2023.


title: Motorbike frog

text: The tadpoles eat algae and the adults eat arthropods, such as insects, and sometimes young motorbike frogs.


title: DiC

text: In early 2006, DiC Entertainment and CBS Corporation signed a multi-year deal for a new 3-hour long programming block for Saturday mornings on CBS. The resulting "KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS" was started the following fall.


title: Christine Lieberknecht

text: In 2009 the CDU lost their absolute majority in the state election in Thuringia. The Minister-President of Thuringia, Dieter Althaus, resigned. The CDU formed a coalition with the SPD and Christine Lieberknecht became Minister-President. She is also the chairperson of the CDU in Thuringia.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: When things got bad in Kham, Khyentse Rinpoche and his young student went to Central Tibet and Lhasa. In 1955, they met Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. They then went to India. They settled in Gangtok at the invitation of the king of Sikkim.


title: Deportivo Petare

text: Deportivo Petare has started de 2010/2011 season with good results, ending fourth at the end of the first half of the season in December 2010. The last match ended in a draw with Deportivo Tachira, the eventual "Torneo Apertura" champion.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: Jeff Hardy then defended the United States Championship against Jinder Mahal. Hardy performed a Swanton Bomb on Mahal to retain the title.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac Botanic Gardens in Queen Street is next to the shores of Lake Colac. They were first planted in 1868, and remodelled in 1910 by William Guilfoyle. There is a large number of different of plants with many old and rare trees and a rose arbour.


title: Joseph Mascolo

text: Mascolo died on December 8, 2016 at his home in Los Angeles from complication of the disease, aged 87. He was survived by his wife Patricia, his sister Marie, his son Peter and a step-daughter Laura.


title: Harris Wofford

text: Wofford died on January 21, 2019 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. from complications of a fall at the age of 92.


title: Djibouti at the 1988 Summer Olympics

text: Ismael Hassan competed in the men's 5000 meters, where he finished fourteenth in his heat. He did not go onto the next round. The medals went to Kenya, West Germany, and East Germany.


title: Agly

text: There is a dam on the Agly river, on Caramany, Pyrénées-Orientales; it was built to prevent floods and to store water.


title: Atropoides

text: Adult Jumping Vipers eat mainly small mammals and lizards, while young Jumping Vipers eat orthopterans, and skinks.


title: Segmentation

text: In his Nobel lecture, Lewis said "Ultimately, comparisons of the [control complexes] throughout the animal kingdom should provide a picture of how the organisms, as well as the [control genes] have evolved".


title: Microbial mat

text: Originally they may have depended on hydrothermal vents for energy and chemical "food". The development of photosynthesis gradually liberated them from the 'hydrothermal ghetto' by proving a more widely-available energy source, sunlight, although initially the photosynthesizing mats still depended on the diffusion of chemicals emitted by hydrothermal vents. The final and most significant stage of this liberation was the development of oxygen-producing photosynthesis, since the main chemical inputs for this are carbon dioxide and water.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: Ashford Black Marble is a kind of limestone which contains some carbon, and its particles are very small. Its dark color is from bitumen, and once cut and polished, the surface shines.


title: Masaki Suda

text: In 2019, it’s been 10 years since he made his debut as an actor, and he was cast as the lead of a serial TV drama.  In addition, he received many Best Actor Awards such as the Best Actor Award of "Tokyo Drama Award".


title: Catholic Church in Spain

text: During the Age of Discovery, Spanish missionaries brought Catholicism to parts of the Americas and the Philippines.


title: Motorbike frog

text: Although this frog can climb trees, it mostly lives on the ground, so not all scientists call it a tree frog.


title: DiC

text: In April 2007, DiC Entertainment, Corus Entertainment's Nelvana and Sparrowhawk Media Group announced plans to start KidsCo, a new international children's entertainment network.


title: Christine Lieberknecht

text: Christine Lieberknecht is the second woman that became Minister-President of a German state. The first was Heide Simonis in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in 1993.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: Rinpoche went to Catholic School in Kalimpong. Then he went to study at a university in Delhi before coming to the West. In 1971, he was granted a place to study comparative religion at Trinity College, Cambridge as a visiting scholar. He continued to study with many masters of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, especially His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche and His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.


title: Deportivo Petare

text: The club played their home matches at Estadio Brígido Iriarte until 2006, which has a maximum capacity of 15,000 people. Now the team plays at the Estadio Olímpico (Caracas), with a capacity of 30,000.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: After that, The Bludgeon Brothers defended the SmackDown Tag Team Championship against The Usos. Harper and Rowan retained the title after performing The Reckoning on Jimmy Uso.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: A commemorative plaque on the southern side of the Memorial Square remembers two historic speeches given on consecutive nights in Colac. The two speeches declared Australia would join Britain to fight in World War I. On 5 September 1914 the Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Fisher said "...Australia will stand by the mother country to our last man and our last shilling". The next night, the Prime Minister Joseph Cook said that "...If the old country is at war, so are we".


title: Agly

text: The Agly is a very irregular small river. Its flow was observed over a period of 42 years (1967-2008) in Estagel about twenty kilometers from its mouth and after receiving the waters of its tributary Verdouble.


title: Microbial mat

text: As a result microbial mats began to produce the atmosphere we know today, in which free oxygen is a vital component. At around the same time they may also have been the birthplace of the more complex eukaryote type of cell, of which all multicellular organisms are composed. Microbial mats were abundant on the shallow seabed until the Cambrian substrate revolution, when animals living in shallow seas increased their burrowing capabilities and thus broke up the surfaces of mats and let oxygenated water into the deeper layers, poisoning the oxygen-intolerant micro-organisms that lived there. Although this revolution drove mats off soft floors of shallow seas, they still flourish in many environments where burrowing is limited or impossible, including rocky seabeds and shores, hyper-saline and brackish lagoons, and are found on the floors of the deep oceans.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: At first the rock was mined from Arrock Mine, and later in 1832 from nearby Rookery Plantation, near Ashford-in-the-Water.


title: Masaki Suda

text: In 2017, it was announced that  Suda would  debut with "Mita Koto mo Nai Keshiki". In the same year, his second single, "Kokyu" was released.


title: DiC

text: On June 20, 2008, it was announced that DiC would be bought out by Cookie Jar Group. On July 23, 2008, Cookie Jar completed the buy out of DiC Entertainment, and then it was merged with Cookie Jar Entertainment.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: In 1994, a $10 million civil lawsuit was filed against Sogyal Rinpoche. It was alleged that he had used his position as a spiritual leader to induce one of his female students to have sexual relations with him. The complaint included accusations of infliction of emotional distress, breach of fiduciary duty, as well as assault and battery. The lawsuit was settled out of court. Related allegations were later introduced by journalist Mary Finnigan, who was also the main author of the original article in 1995.


title: Deportivo Petare

text: The Olimpico stadium is also used as headquarters for some of the matches of the national team, as well as FC Caracas.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: Next, Seth Rollins defended the Intercontinental Championship against Finn Balor, Samoa Joe and The Miz in a Ladder match. Near the end of the match, Balor attempted to retrieve the title, only for Rollins to springboard onto the ladder and retrieve the title belt, thus retaining the championship.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: The railway reached the town in 1877. From 1883 the line was extended to reach as far as Port Fairy, in the south west of the state. The Irrewarra-Cressy line to Ballarat also ran from Colac between 1889 and 1953. There was also a branch line to Alvie opened in 1923 and closed in 1954. A narrow gauge railway line began in Colac going south to the small towns of Beech Forest and Crowes. This line opened in 1902 and closed in 1962.


title: Agly

text: The Agly shows typical seasonal fluctuations like other small rivers in southern France. The highest levels of the river are in winter and spring, from December to May inclusive, with the highest level in February. They are followed by a rapid fall in the flow during the low water period that goes from late June to early October.


title: Microbial mat

text: Because of microbial mats' ability to use almost anything as nutrients, there is considerable interest in industrial uses of mats, especially for water treatment and for cleaning up pollution.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: Ashford Black Marble can be manufactured into pots, candlesticks and other similar objects, or sawn to make smooth, flat items such as obelisks and paper weights. Derby Museum and Art Gallery has collections of worked and part-worked items of Ashford Black Marble, acquired from an inlaying workshop owned by the Tomlinson family. This collection also includes pieces of stones which were cut and ready to put into the black marble background. Forget-me-not and lily of the valley were typically designed. Various stones were used with Ashford Black Marble: Greys, blues and purples stones are from Monyash. "Rosewood" from Nettler Dale in Sheldon is a kind of barytes and has red and white layers. Castleton Blue John from Crich is a kind of flourspar and has purple and yellow colors. "Birds-Eye" rock has a design made from the fossils in it. "Duke's Red" is so valuable that it was stored at Chatsworth House. The tabletop design illustrated shows some of the combinations described here.


title: Masaki Suda

text: Suda’s grandfather was a dressmaker. Therefore, Suda was influenced by his `grandfather, started to be interested in clothes, and  usually makes clothing.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: Rinpoche soon began teaching in Paris. He often translated for His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. He also went with Dudjom Rinpoche to the United States in 1976.


title: Deportivo Petare

text: The colors from 1948 to 2010 were the same as the Italian national football team (blue and white). After the name change, the actual Deportivo Petare uses those colors as second choice. In the 2010-2011 championship the main colors are white and black.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: In a segment between matches, four prospects from the recent Saudi tryouts came out to the ring to introduce themselves. Cruiserweight Ariya Daivari and his brother Shawn Daivari, who had not appeared for WWE in many years, came out to interrupt them. The Saudi prospects attacked and cleared the Daivari brothers from the ring.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: The local railway station is served by V/Line passenger services on the Warrnambool line. The train stops at Camperdown and Terang.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: In the late 1780s, Derbyshire geologist White Watson made geological picture boards using Ashford Black Marble into which other local rocks were inlaid. These boards show layers of rock in different parts of the county. Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals.


title: Masaki Suda

text: Also, he used to take piano and swimming lessons when he was a junior high school student, and belonged to an  American football club in high school.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: In the summer of 1977, he started a centre in London, which he called Dzogchen Orgyen Chöling. Many great masters taught there: Dudjom Rinpoche, His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Gyalwang Karmapa, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and others.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: Later, AJ Styles defended the WWE Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura. During the match, Nakamura resorted to various illegal tactics, such as a low blow, increasingly frustrating Styles. In the end, both Nakamura and Styles fought outside of the ring, only for the match to end in a double countout. After the match, Styles performed a Phenomenal Forearm to the floor on Nakamura.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac is the home of the annual "Cliff Young Australian 6-day race". The event has been going for over 20 years and is a running/walking event. It is held in the Memorial Square which is in the middle of Colac and attracts entries from all over the world.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: William Martin was once a partner with Watson, and wrote the first scientific study of fossils. His "Petrifacta Derbiensia" says that White Watson's uncle and workers at the Black Marble mine called some of the fossils "crocodile tails", because they thought they were the remains of crocodiles.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: In 1979, Sogyal Rinpoche chose the name Rigpa for his work. It means "the innermost, essential nature of mind". Rigpa soon set up a schedule of teaching events, referred to as retreats, with Sogyal Rinpoche and other teachers, with teachings in France every summer, California at Thanksgiving, Germany in Winter, followed by Myall Lakes in Australia, and then England at Easter. The first winter event at Kirchheim in Germany took place in December 1986, retreats in Tiona Park in Australia began in 1989, and the first Thanksgiving retreat in the US was in Oakland in 1988.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: After that, The Undertaker fought Rusev (who was accompanied by Aiden English) in a Casket match. At the end of the match, Undertaker performed a chokeslam on Rusev and rolled him into the casket. Before he could close the lid, English attacked the Undertaker, who retailiated with another chokeslam and a Tombstone Piledriver before putting English into the casket alongside Rusev and closing it for the victory.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: The main industries are based on agriculture including dairy, beef, lamb and finewool merino industries, and a large timber industry. These include Bulla Dairy Foods, CRF Colac Otway Pty Ltd, Fonterra, Cororooke, and AKD Softwoods.


title: Ashford Black Marble

text: In 2006, Buxton Museum bought the Black Marble collection that had been left by John Michael Tomlinson. He had spent over 50 years to collect them after finding that his ancestors had been involved in Ashford Black Marble manufacturing.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: In 1987, Rinpoche became spiritual director of the centre in County Cork in the west of Ireland which was to become Dzogchen Beara, Rigpa’s first long-term retreat centre. In 1991, Sogyal Rinpoche opened the retreat centre of Lerab Ling near Montpellier in southern France. The first three-month retreat was held there in 1992. A centre in Berlin named Dharma Mati was opened in October 2007.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: In the penultimate match, Brock Lesnar (accompanied by Paul Heyman) defended the Universal Championship against Roman Reigns in a steel cage match. Reigns performed three spears on Lesnar for a near-fall. Reigns tried to escape through the door but Heyman pushed the door into Reigns, allowing Lesnar to execute an F5 on Reigns for a near-fall. In the end, Reigns performed a Spear through the cage wall on Lesnar. Despite Reigns touching the floor first, the referee awarded the win to Lesnar, thereby retaining the Universal Championship.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac has its own newspaper, "The Colac Herald", published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Colac has a number of local radio stations: 3CS 1134AM, MIXX FM 106.3 MHz, and Otway FM 104.7 MHz& 99.1 MHz.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: In 2017, a letter revealed that Rinpoche had physically and sexually abused many of his students dating back to the 1990s.


title: Greatest Royal Rumble

text: Braun Strowman, eliminated Big Cass to win the match. Strowman also achieved the most eliminations of a single Royal Rumble match at 13, beating out a record previously held by Roman Reigns with 12. Post-match, Strowman received a trophy and a green championship belt.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Television services are received via UHF from Ballarat Lookout Hill, as well as a local repeater on nearby Warrion hill.


title: Sogyal Rinpoche

text: Rinpoche died of a pulmonary embolism caused by colorectal cancer on 28 August 2019 at a hospital in Thailand at the age of 72.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: FM radio services direct from Melbourne can be received in Colac but signal levels are low. Television services direct from Melbourne can be received in Colac but large antenna arrays must be used with mixed results.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac is serviced by Austar Subscription Television delivered by DTH satellite transmission, via Optus C1 Ku Band Satellite located at 156E.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac has two Australian Rules football teams competing in the Colac & District Football League, the Colac Imperials and South Colac. The Colac Tigers play in the Geelong Football League.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac has a horse racing club, the Colac Turf Club, which has around four race meetings a year including the Colac Cup meeting in February. It also has a picnic horse racing club, Colac St Patrick Picnic, which holds its one race meeting a year in March.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac also has a swimming club which trains swimmers and has athletes competing at Region, State and national competitions.


title: Colac, Victoria

text: Colac also has a baseball club, the Colac Braves, which plays in the Geelong Baseball Association winter competition and the Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast.


title: Santee River

text: The Santee River is a river of South Carolina in the United States, 143 mi (230 km long). The Santee and its tributaries give the main drainage and navigation for the central coastal plain of South Carolina, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean about 440 mi (710 km) from its farthest headwater on the Catawba River in North Carolina. Much of the upper river is in the expansive horn-shaped Lake Marion reservoir. The reservoir is made by the 8 mi (13 km) long Santee Dam. The dam was built during the 1930s as a WPA project to give a major source of hydroelectric power for the state.


title: Aqua Timez

text: Aqua Timez is a Japanese Pop band signed to Sony Music of Japan. This group is made up of 5 members. This group was formed in 2003. Members are Futoshi, OKP-STAR, Daisuke, mayuko and TASHHI.They made their indies debut with the mini-album "Soraippainikanaderuinori" on August 24, 2005. Later,They made their major debut with the mini-album "Nanaironorakugaki" on April 5, 2006.


title: Nothosaur

text: Nothosaurs were long-necked, long-tailed, fish-eating sauropterygian reptiles ranging from a few inches to 20 feet (6 m) long - they were not dinosaurs. Nothosaurs lived during the Triassic period. They may have evolved into the plesiosaurs. These reptiles had a long, thin head with many sharp teeth; the front teeth were longer than the back teeth. The nostrils were on the top end of the snout. They breathed air but spent most of the time in the water.


title: Walden Media

text: Walden Media, LLC or Walden Media is a movie production and publishing company for children's movies. It is best known for making "The Chronicles of Narnia" movie series. Its movies are usually based on famous children's books. For example, "Bridge to Terabithia". It also makes movies about biographies or historical events.


title: Josef Krips

text: Josef Krips (born Vienna, 8 April 1902; died Geneva, 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist.


The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its first headquarters is in Bonn. It has a second base in Berlin.


title: Bhutan–India relations

text: The bilateral relations between the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of India have been traditionally close. With independence in 1947, India inherited the suzerainty over Bhutan enjoyed by the British Raj. Although modified and modernised since, India remains influential over Bhutan's foreign policy, defence and commerce.


title: English National Opera

text: English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, England. The opera house where it performs is called the London Coliseum. It is in St. Martin's Lane, very near Trafalgar Square. It is one of the two big opera companies in London. The other big one is the Royal Opera (ROH), Covent Garden. The English National Opera is different because the operas there are always sung in English. The ticket prices are not quite as high as at the ROH.


title: Valdomiro Vaz Franco

text: Valdomiro Vaz Franco (born 17 February, 1946) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.


title: Tony Award for Best Musical

text: This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.


title: The Nose (opera)

text: The Nose is an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1927. At this time a lot of exciting new movies were being made in the Soviet Union. There were also some very interesting new plays in the theatres. The famous theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold had many new ideas. However, operas that were being written then were mostly quite uninteresting.


title: Troglodytae

text: The Troglodytae () or Troglodyti (meaning "cave goers"), used to be a group of people talked about by many old Greek and Roman historians and map makers. The early references call them Trogodytes, which looks like it was changed from the Greek "trōglē" meaning "cave". They were either placed in the desert along the African side of the Red Sea coast or North of Greece in what they called Getae.


title: Sarayu

text: Sarayu is a river which flows in Uttar Pradesh of India. Sarayu river originates in Himalaya. It flows across 350 km and merges into the Ganga river. Sarayu river is mentioned in Ramayana. Ramayana mention that city of Ayodhya was on the bank of Sarayu river.


title: Circle MRT line

text: The 35.7-kilometre Circle MRT Line (CCL) is Singapore's fourth Mass Rapid Transit line, and the first medium capacity line. This underground line is long with 28 stations (excluding Bukit Brown) and is fully automatically operated. As the name implies, the line is an orbital line linking all radial lines leading to the city, and also covering many parts of the Central Area. It will also connect to Marina South via a spur line branching off from Promenade and ending at Marina Bay. Circle Line is not a full circle, and the Stage 6 will only merge the section from Marina Bay to HarbourFront. The line is colored yellow on the MRT Rail map.


title: Matt Striker

text: Matthew Robert Kaye (born June 26 1974) is an American professional wrestler and commentator. He is best known for working for the WWE from 2005 to 2013 under the ring name, Matt Striker. He currently works as a commentator for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.


title: Kilik Pass

text: Kilik Pass (el. 4827 m./15,837 ft.), 30 km to the west of Mintaka Pass is a high mountain pass in Pakistan. The two passes were, in ancient times, the two main access points into the Upper Hunza Valley (also called Gojal Valley) from the north.


title: Black Stone Cherry

text: Black Stone Cherry are a rock band from Kentucky, USA. They are signed to Roadrunner Records and have released two albums, called "Black Stone Cherry" and "Folklore and Superstition". The band has had several songs reach the top 30 of Billboard's Top Mainstream Rock Songs, including "Lonely Train", which reached #14 on that chart in 2006.


title: Lee Soo-young

text: Lee Soo-young (born Lee Ji-yeon () April 12, 1979) is a Korean ballad singer. She started her singing career in 1999 in Korea with "I Believe". She is well known for her lyrical and powerful voice. She has earned much popularity in Korea. She sang the song, "얼마나 좋을까" ("Eolmana Joheulkka")which is added to the original soundtrack of Final Fantasy X in 2001. Lee has released 8 studio albums. She is one of the most popular ballad singer in Korea.


title: Power-up

text: A power-up is an item in a video game that gives the player's character the ability to do something. Power-ups can be found in many video games.


title: Mezzaluna

text: A mezzaluna is a tool that is used for chopping herbs and the large single bladed versions are usually used for cutting pizza or pesto.


title: Edouard van Beneden

text: Edouard Joseph Marie Van Beneden (Leuven, 5 March 1846 – Liège, 28 April 1910), cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytology and genetics by his work on the roundworm "Ascaris". In this work he discovered how chromosomes combined during meiosis, during the production of gametes.


title: Jak and Daxter

text: Jak and Daxter is a series of video games, developed by the company Naughty Dog. It is named after the two heroes of the games. Right now, five games are in the series.


title: Thatta District

text: Thatta District (, ) is in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, it had a population of 1,113,194 of which 11.21% were urban.


title: Juan Garcia Oliver

text: Juan García Oliver (January 20, 1901 in Reus, Baix Camp, Spain; died July 13, 1980 in Guadalajara, Mexico) was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary, and a leading figure in the history of anarchism in Spain.


title: Margaret Spellings

text: Margaret Spellings (born Margaret Dudar; November 30, 1957) was the second Secretary of Education under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. She was previously Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to President Bush.


title: Derek Taylor

text: Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 – 7 September 1997) was an English journalist and author. He spent most of his career covering popular music and celebrity news. He had a long association with rock band The Beatles, serving at different times as their . He was also a to The Beatles manager Brian Epstein, and co-wrote a with guitarist George Harrison.


title: Princess Taiping

text: Princess Taiping was a princess of Tang dynasty China. She was the daughter of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian. She became an important figure during her mother's rule as Empress in the second Zhou dynasty 690-705 AD.


title: Mississippi State University

text: Mississippi State University is a university in Starkville, Mississippi. It has 20,138 students and is the largest college in the state of Mississippi. The college was opened in 1878 as a land-grant university. Its sports teams are called the Bulldogs (men's teams) and Lady Bulldogs, and play in the Southeastern Conference.


title: Wake Up Call (Maroon 5 song)

text: "Wake Up Call" is the second single off the second studio album by Maroon 5 called "It Won't Be Soon Before Long". The song is also the 4th track on the album. The music video deals with the band committing crimes and Levine acting as a murderer because of the murder of his girlfriends ex-boyfriend.


title: Toronto Transit Commission

text: The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) runs the public transport system that has buses, streetcars, subways, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Started in 1954, the TTC has grown to three subway lines and an elevated rapid transit line with a total of 75 stations, as well as 149 surface routes (buses and streetcars). Of these 149 routes 148 make 243 connections with a subway or rapid transit station during weekday rush hours.


title: Ceremonial Oath

text: Ceremonial Oath was a Swedish death metal band who started making music in 1989 when they called themselves "Desecrator" and stopped in 1995.In their six years, they released two demos, one EP, and two full-length albums.


title: Greg Biffle

text: Gregory Jack Biffle (born December 23, 1969) is an American racecar driver who raced in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Xfinity Series and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. He drove for Roush Fenway Racing. He won championships in the Xfinity and Truck series and also won races in all three series.


title: Barcelona Metro line 9

text: Line 9 (Línia 9 in Catalan) is the newest line in the Barcelona Metro network, currently under construction, with only five complete stations, all in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. These first five stations opened on 13 December 2009. The complete line is a railway project to build a subway line with two branches spanning a good deal of the metropolitan area of Barcelona through Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Badalona, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat and El Prat de Llobregat. TMB is the company operating the line and handled by the division line in two: Line 9 and Line 10.


title: Lead telluride

text: Lead telluride, also known as lead(II) telluride, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is PbTe. It contains lead and telluride ions. The lead is in the +2 oxidation state.


title: Scottish Conservative Party

text: The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party is a political party in Scotland that is part of the British Conservative Party. The party's policies usually promote conservatism and the continuing of Scotland as part of the United Kingdom.


title: New South Greenland

text: New South Greenland, which is also known as Morrell's Land, was an appearance of land recorded by the American captain Benjamin Morrell. Morrel reported the sighting on the schooner "Wasp" in , during a seal hunting and exploration voyage in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica. He provided precise coordinates and a description of a coastline. Morrel claimed to have sailed along the coastline for more than . The Weddel Sea is in the Antarctic. Because of icebergs, it was difficult to navigate, and few people did. The sighting was never investigated properly, at the time. Expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century proved that there was no land at the positions recorded by Morrell.


title: Pablo Ruiz (singer)

text: Pablo Maximiliano Miguel Coronel Vidoz, also known as Pablito Ruiz and Pablo Ruiz, born on 4 May 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an Argentine singer, actor and dancer. His musical career began at age 10.


title: Mother Goose

text: Mother Goose is thought to be the most famous author of nursery rhymes. Some people say that the real "Mother Goose" lived in New England or France 300 years ago. A book of poems for children entitled "Mother Goose's Melody" was published in England in 1781, and the name "Mother Goose" has been associated with children's poetry ever since.


title: RC5

text: In cryptography, RC5 is a simple symmetric-key block cipher. Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, RC5 is a parameterized algorithm with a variable block size, a variable key size, and a variable number of rounds. ""RC"" stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code".


title: Ellon, Aberdeenshire

text: Ellon is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 16 miles north of Aberdeen, lying on the River Ythan (pronounced "eye-than") which has one of the few undeveloped river estuaries on the eastern coast of Scotland. It is in the ancient region of Formartine.


title: John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness

text: John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness (born 6 May 1955) is an English politician. He is a member of the Labour Party.


title: Geoff Hoon

text: Geoffrey William Hoon (born 6 December 1953) is an English politician and held several government posts. He was born in Derby. He was the Member of Parliament for the Ashfield constituency in the United Kingdom from his first elected in the 1992 general election until he retired in 2010.


title: Alan Duncan

text: Alan James Carter Duncan (born 31 March 1957) is an English politician and a former Minister of State in the Department for International Development. He was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.


title: Sri Yantra

text: The Shri Yantra or Sri Chakra of Tripura Sundari is a yantra or mandala formed by nine interlocking triangles surrounding a dot in the cetner called a bindu. Four of these triangles are orientated upright representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five of these triangles are inverted triangles represent Shakti or the Feminine. Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is also known as the "navayoni chakra".


title: Bills, Bills, Bills

text: "Bills, Bills, Bills" was the first single (music) from Destiny's Child's second album "The Writing's on the Wall". A track which echoed the men-bashing sentiments of TLC's massive summer hit "No Scrubs", and even featured the same producer (Kevin She"kspere Briggs). The song provided the group with their first US chart-topper in July 1999, and also reached the UK Top 10. The album featured a greater creative input from the group, although they still relied on a production crew including Rodney Jerkins, Missy Elliott, Chad Elliot, and Dwayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone!


title: Stephen Hadley

text: Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947, in Toledo, Ohio) is the current (21st) U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (commonly referred as National Security Advisor) for President George W. Bush. He had been Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor from January 22, 2001. On January 26, 2005, he replaced Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor, upon Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State.


title: BBC Radio 1Xtra

text: BBC Radio 1Xtra (also known as 1Xtra) is a digital British contemporary black music station from the BBC. The station was launched at 6pm on August 16, 2002. It was called "Network X" during the planning period. It is the complement station to Radio 1 and is broadcast from the same building as Radio 1 - Yalding House in central London. This is part of the BBC's massive Broadcasting House complex of radio studios and other offices.


title: Top Thrill Dragster

text: Top Thrill Dragster is a steel accelerator roller coaster built by Intamin at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It was the sixteenth roller coaster that was built at the park. It was the first roller coaster to be over tall and was the tallest roller coaster in the world before its record was broken by Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure when it opened in May 2005. Top Thrill Dragster, along with Kingda Ka, are the only strata coasters in the world.


title: Tribune Tower

text: The Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic building located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is the home of the "Chicago Tribune" and Tribune Company. It stands at 462 feet (141 m).


title: Albert Heath

text: Albert "Tootie" Heath (born May 31, 1935) is an American jazz hard bop drummer. He is the brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the bassist Percy Heath. In 1975, the brothers formed the Heath Brothers. He notably worked with musicians such as John Coltrane, J. J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Art Farmer and Benny Golson's Jazztet, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, Friedrich Gulda, Nina Simone and Yusef Lateef.


title: Crab cake

text: Crab cakes are a popular dish from the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland. They are a mix of crab meat and seasonings. They usually contain bread picked apart in small pieces, mayonnaise, mustard, parsley, beaten egg, paprika and pepper.


title: Mary Haas

text: Mary Rosamund Haas (January 12, 1910 – May 17, 1996) was an American linguist. She studied Native American Indian languages. She also studied Thai and historical linguistics.


title: LGBT rights in Bangladesh

text: LGBT human rights are not respected in the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and there appears to be no organized movement to advance such human rights. And such acts of homosexuality will lead to life in prison, or even face the death penalty.


title: Aleš Debeljak

text: Aleš Debeljak (25 December 1961 – 28 January 2016) was a Slovenian cultural critic, poet, and essayist. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. From the mid-1980s onwards, Debeljak took an active part in civil society movements. He was one of the co-editors of popular journal "Nova revija".


title: Insubordination

text: Insubordination is when people do not obey an authority. In the military, for example, insubordination is when a serviceman or servicewoman disobeys the orders of a higher-ranking officer.


title: Kho people

text: The Kho people, also known as Chitralis, are an ethnic group in Pakistan, living mainly around the Chitral District. They speak the Khowar language. Their main religion is Sunni Islam. The Kho are excellent mountaineers who seemingly do not get tired or cold when working all day.


title: Friedrich L. Bauer

text: Friedrich Ludwig Bauer (10 June 1924 – 26 March 2015) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Munich. He served in the Wehrmacht in World War II.


title: Jonathan Crombie

text: Jonathan Crombie (October 12, 1966 – April 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for playing Gilbert Blythe in CBC Television's 1985 television "Anne of Green Gables" and its two sequels.


title: 2015 Baltimore protests

text: The 2015 Baltimore unrest (also known as the Baltimore uprising) were protests that began on April 25, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. The protests happened in response to the death of an African American man named Freddie Gray. Gray was 25 years old. He lived in Baltimore. He had been arrested for having a switchblade. He was in good health when he was arrested. Later, he had injuries to his spine and larynx as a result of being improperly secured in the police fan, ultimately leading to a coma. He died the following week.


title: Verne Gagne

text: Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne (February 26, 1926 – April 27, 2015) was an American professional wrestler, football player, wrestling trainer, and wrestling promoter. He was the owner and promoter of the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based American Wrestling Association (AWA). He remained in this position until 1991, when the company folded.


title: The Marvelettes

text: The Marvelettes was an American singing group that were active from 1960 to 1972. Members of the group were Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Wanda Rogers, Anne Bogan, Georgeanna Tillman, Wyanetta Cowart and Georgia Dobbins. They are probably best known for their #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman". They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004 and were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2007.


title: MyNetworkTV

text: MyNetworkTV is an broadcast syndication channel in the United States. It is owned by The Walt Disney Company, and . It is a major network. Their sisters channels is Fox and ABC.


title: Joseph Monier

text: Joseph Monier (November 8, 1823, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France—March 13, 1906, Paris) was a French gardener. He was one of the inventors of reinforced concrete.


title: FanMail

text: FanMail is the third studio album by American girl group TLC. It was released on February 23, 1999. It was released by LaFace Records. It features a more electronic and hip hop influence to the album, along with the group's signature R&B sound.


title: Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon

text: The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon () or simply the Tsangpo Canyon or Tsangpo Gorge, along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, China, is regarded by some as the deepest canyon in the world, and is slightly longer than the Grand Canyon, making it one of the world's largest.


title: Cleveland Barons (NHL)

text: The Cleveland Barons were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1976–78. They had been the California Golden Seals, which had played in Oakland since 1967. The franchise was then moved to Cleveland. After only two seasons, the team joined with the Minnesota North Stars.


title: Pitjantjatjara

text: Pitjantjatjara () is the name of a nation of native Australian people. They live in the central Australian desert. The people call themselves "Aṉangu", a word which means "person" or "people" in their own language. The group is considered part of the Western Desert cultural bloc. Pitjantjatjara people are closely related to their two closest neighbours: the Yankunytjatjara and the Ngaanyatjarra. They can understand much of each other's languages. There are currently about 4,000 people from this nation living in small communities spread out across their homeland.


title: Banjo-Tooie

text: Banjo-Tooie is a platformer video game for the Nintendo 64 game console released in 2000. It was made by Rare and published by Nintendo. It is the sequel to "Banjo-Kazooie".


title: Mel Ramos

text: Mel Ramos (July 24, 1935 – October 14, 2018) was an American figurative painter. He was born in Sacramento, California. He was known for his paintings of female nudes, whose work had elements of realist and abstract art.


title: Andrew Viterbi

text: Andrew James Viterbi (born Andrea Giacomo Viterbi; March 9, 1935) is an Italian-born American electrical engineer and businessman. He co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering.


title: 2017 Atlantic hurricane season

text: The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active since 2012. It officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30. It was an extremely active and tragic season. With a damage total of at least $282.16 billion (USD), it was the costliest season on record. With over 3,300 deaths, 2017 was the deadliest season since 2005. More than 99.7% of the season's damage was due to Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Nate, was the worst natural disaster in Costa Rican history. Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate had their names retired due to their high damage costs and loss of life. Featuring 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes, the 2017 season is the fifth active season.


title: Children of Llullaillaco

text: The Children of Llullaillaco were 3 mummies of children who were found in Argentina. It appears that they had been sacrificed to the Incan gods.


title: Richard Williams (animator)

text: Richard Edmund Williams (March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian–British animator, voice actor, director, and writer. He was best known for being the animation director on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) and for his unfinished movie "The Thief and the Cobbler" (1993).


title: Han Kuo-yu

text: Daniel Han Kuo-yu (; born 17 June 1957) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2002, representing a portion of Taipei County for three terms. He later became general manager of Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation.


title: Osoyoos, British Columbia

text: Osoyoos is a Canadian town in British Columbia, Canada. Osoyoos is in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and is also near the Washington border. The population of Osoyoos was 5,203 at the 2010 consensus. Osoyoos is pronounced "OH-SOY -OOSE" and is also historically pronounced "SOY-OOSE". NHL player Chuck Kobasew was born in Osoyoos.


title: Klaus Schütz

text: Klaus Schütz (17 September 1926 in Heidelberg – 29 November 2012 in Berlin) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).


title: Streets of Rage 3

text: Streets of Rage 3 is a beat 'em up video game. It was released in Japan as . In Europe it was titled Streets of Rage III. The game was made and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis in 1994.


title: Walls of Ávila

text: The Walls of Ávila in central Spain were completed between the 11th and 12th centuries. They are the city's principal historic feature.


title: Blink (movie)

text: Blink is a 1994 American neo noir crime drama mystery movie. It is set in Chicago. The movie is about a young blind musician. She has surgery that makes her see again. Madeleine Stowe plays Emma Brody. Laurie Metcalf plays Candice.


title: Mikhail Zhvanetsky

text: Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky (; born 6 March 1934 – 6 November 2020) was a Soviet-Russian writer, satirist and performer. He was best known for his shows about different parts of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life. He was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1978 and has written several books.


title: Victor Zsasz

text: Victor Zsasz is a fictional Batman character who is a serial killer in Gotham City. He has the number of people he had killed written in tally marks on his skin. He uses a pocket knife to kill. He was killed by an anarchist Heat Wave.


title: Ann Romney

text: Ann Lois Romney (née Davies born on April 16, 1949) is the wife of the Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. She was the First Lady of the State of Massachusetts when he was Governor. She was born in Detroit, Michigan.


title: Keshia Knight Pulliam

text: Keshia Knight Pulliam (born April 9, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her television performances. She played Rudy Huxtable in the NBC situation comedy "The Cosby Show" (1984-1992). Before that, she acted on "Sesame Street".


title: Titanium alloy

text: Titanium alloys are metals which contain a mixture of titanium and other chemical elements. They have very high tensile strength and toughness. They are light in weight, resist corrosion very strongly and can withstand extreme temperatures.


title: Jane Goldman

text: Jane Loretta Anne Goldman (born 11 June 1970) is an English screenwriter and television producer. She was born in Hammersmith, west London. She wrote the screenplay for the 2012 movie "The Woman in Black". She married Jonathan Ross in 1988. She has two daughters and a son with him. She lives with Ross in Hampstead Garden Suburb. She produces "The Big Fat Quiz of the Year".


title: Deaths in November 2016

text: The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2016. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.


title: Will Keith Kellogg

text: Will Keith "W.K." Kellogg (April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951) was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company. His brother was John Harvey Kellogg.


title: Laurie Bird

text: Laurie Bird (born September 26, 1953–June 15, 1979) was an American actress and photographer. She acted in only three movies. Her most well-known was the 1977 movie "Annie Hall".


title: Mustafa Tlass

text: Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass (11 May 1932 – 19 June 2017) was a Syrian senior military officer and politician. He was born in Rastan, French Mandate of Syria. He was Syria's Minister of Defense from 1972 to 2004. He was part of the four-member Regional Command during the Hafez al-Assad era.


title: Keiun

text: , also known as Kyōun, was a following "Taihō" and preceding "Wadō." The period startedin May 704 and ended in January 708. The reigning emperors were and .


title: Early Norwegian black metal scene

text: The early Norwegian black metal scene was a black metal music scene and subculture in Norway during the early 1990s. It is said to have created the modern black metal genre and produced many influential artists.


title: Deaths in April 2016

text: The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2016. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.


title: Hilarion Capucci

text: Hilarion Capucci (2 March 1922 – 1 January 2017) was a Syrian Catholic bishop. He served as the titular archbishop of Caesarea in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was born in Aleppo, Syria. During his time in office, he was a critic of Israel, showing support with the Palestinians.


title: Bayezid Osman

text: Bayezid Osman, also known as Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu with a surname as required by the Turkish Republic, or known by the Ottoman imperial name as Prince Şehzade Bayezid Efendi (; 23 June 1924 – 6 January 2017), was the 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1922. The monarchy was abolished in 1922, with the modern Republic of Turkey replacing it.


title: Harry Anderson

text: Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–92 television series "Night Court". He was also known for his role as Richie Tozier in the 1990 Stephen King miniseries "It". Anderson also starred as Harry 'The Hat' Gittes in "Cheers". He was born in Newport, Rhode Island.


title: Pamela Gidley

text: Pamela Catherine Gidley (June 11, 1965 – April 16, 2018) was an American actress and model. She was born in Methuen, Massachusetts. Gidley was known for her role as Brigitte Parker in "The Pretender" and as Teri Miller on "". She starred in David Lynch's "" (1992) as Teresa Banks.


title: Toronto van attack

text: On 23 April 2018, a vehicle-ramming attack occurred in North York City Centre at a busy street intersection at Yonge Street in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A white rental van driven by Alek Minnasien collided with numerous pedestrians. The motive is currently unknown. Some newspapers said that Minassian was an incel. They also said that he wanted to start an incel rebellion.


title: Ali Landry

text: Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is an American actress and former Miss USA. She is also a model. She was the Doritos girl in television commercials. She won the Miss USA pageant in 1996.


title: Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria

text: Prince Philip of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Calabria, Infante of Spain (13 June 1747 – 19 September 1777) was, at his birth, the eldest son of King Carlo of Naples and Sicily. He was the heir to the throne but never succeeded. His younger brothers, Charles IV of Spain and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, replaced him in the succession. When his father became King of Spain in 1759, Philip remained in Naples where he lived until his death from smallpox at the age of thirty. He was given the title of Duke of Calabria as heir to the throne.


title: Albert Heijn

text: Albert Heijn (AH) is the biggest supermarket business in the Netherlands. It has stores in many other countries. It was founded by Albert Heijn. It is now owned and run by Ahold.


title: Patricia Quinn

text: Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens (born 28 May 1944) is a Northern Irish actress and singer. She played the character Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". She also played Helen in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life".


title: Edwin Jarvis

text: Jarvis Hopson or Edwin Jarvis is the butler of Tony Stark. He had also appeared in the Spider-Man comics. He has also been a supporting character in The Avengers comics. He sometimes is mistaken with DC Comics butler Alfred Pennyworth because of their background and what they do. He took care of the Start Mansion and Tony after his parents death.


title: Mary Beth Hughes

text: Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919 – August 27, 1995) was an American stage, movie and television actress. She played Henry Fonda's former girlfriend in "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943). She also played Sylvia in "The Great Profile".


title: John Shrapnel

text: John Shrapnel (27 April 1942 – 14 February 2020) was an English actor. He was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire. His best known roles were as Mr. Skinner in "101 Dalmatians" (1996), as Senator Gaius in "Gladiator" (2000) and as Nestor in "Troy" (2004).


title: Lions Gate Bridge

text: The Lions Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is one of Canada's National Historic Sites.


title: Karim Khalili

text: Abdul Karim Khalili (born 1950) is a former Vice President of Afghanistan. He was in office from 2004 to 2014, under Hamid Karzai. Khalili was first Vice President in 2002. He was elected as running mate of Hamid Karzai in 2004. Since 1989 he has been one of the main leaders of the Hezbe Wahdat political party of Hazara people.


title: Fred Flintstone

text: Fred Flintstone is the main protagonist of "The Flintstones" franchise. He is an everyday caveman and caring father. He was invented by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera.


title: Bob Carr

text: Robert John "Bob" Carr (born 28 September 1947) was a Labor member of the Australian senate from 6 March 2012 to 24 October 2013 and Foreign Minister 13 March 2012 to 18 September 2013. Before that, he was Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005.


title: Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

text: Stonehenge and Avebury are groups of large stones called megaliths. Both sites are circles of stones which are placed in a pattern. In each, the placement of the stones and spaces between them may have astronomical meaning.


title: Nissan Terrano II

text: The Nissan Terrano II was a automobile that was made by Nissan Motor Company, introduced in 1993. It was replaced by the Nissan Qashqai in 2006.


title: Madalena Iglésias

text: Madalena Lucília Iglésias do Vale de Oliveira (24 October 1939 – 16 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress and singer. She represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, with the song "Ele e ela". She was born in Lisbon. She also appeared in movies such as "Uma hora de Amor" (1964), "Canção da Saudade" (1964) and in "Sarilho de fraldas" (1966).


title: Shilpa Anand

text: Ohanna Shivanand (born Shilpa Anand, 10 December 1982) is an Indian model, television and movie actress, who has appeared in Tamil,Telugu,Kannada and Hindi movies and worked in many commercials as a model. She is best known for her roles as Dr. Riddhima Gupta in the serial Dill Mill Gayye opposite Karan Singh Grover She also played the role of Dr. Shilpa Malhotra in "Dill Mill Gayye" on fans demand. she was born on 10 December 1982 in South Africa and did her schooling there. Her parents were from India, and Later she moved there with her family. In 2015 she changed her name to Ohanna Shivanand. She is the younger sister of Sakshi Shivanand, who is an actress from South India. She studied at Punjab University, obtaining a master's degree in Computer Applications (MCA), from 2000 to 2003. She worked as a software developer for five years, with Java J2EE application development and E-Learning.


title: Neagu Djuvara

text: Neagu Djuvara (; August 18, 1916 – January 25, 2018) was a Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat. He was born in Bucharest. Djuvara was an active contributor to Radio Free Europe. Between 1991 and 1998, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest. During the early 1990s, he was a noted critic of Romanian political developments.


title: Joseph Bonnel

text: Joseph Bonnel (4 January 1939 – 13 February 2018) was a French football midfielder. He was born in Florensac, France.


title: Martin Gray (Holocaust survivor)

text: Martin Gray (born Mieczysław Grajewski; 27 April 1922 – 25 April 2016) was a Polish Holocaust survivor. He was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to the West, and has published books in French about his experiences during World War II in which his family was killed in Poland. Gray's first book, "For Those I Loved" ("Au nom de tous les miens"), became a bestseller.


title: Rare-earth magnet

text: Developed in the 1970s and '80s, rare-earth magnets are the strongest type of permanent magnets made. They have much stronger magnetic fields than other types such as ferrite or alnico magnets.


title: Giorgio Albertazzi

text: Giorgio Albertazzi (20 August 1923 – 28 May 2016) was an Italian actor movie director, screenwriter and singer.


title: What You Waiting For?

text: "What You Waiting For?" is a single by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. It is from her first solo studio album, "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.". It was the first single from the album. It was written by Stefani and Linda Perry.


title: Sirtuin

text: Sirtuins regulate important biological pathways in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. The name Sir2 comes from the yeast gene 'silent mating-type information regulation 2', the gene responsible for cellular regulation in yeast.


title: London Bridge (Fergie song)

text: "London Bridge" is the debut single recorded by American singer and rapper Fergie. It was on her debut studio album, "The Dutchess" (2006). It was written by Fergie, Mike Hartnett, Sean Garrett, and producer Polow da Don.


title: Fils de France

text: Fils de France (, "Son of France") was a title used by children of the reigning King of France. It entitled the holder of the title to the style of "Royal Highness". However, that was rarely used. The French court preferred to use terms such as "Madame" and "Monsieur". The reigning king, his wife and their children were collectively referred to as the "Famille de France" ("Family of France"). The grandchildren of the king were entitled to the rank of "Grandson or Granddaughter of France". But the more senior of the two titles was that of "Child of France" due to being a child of a monarch. In French a "Child of France" was a "Fils de France".


title: Rhys Darby

text: Rhys Montague Darby (born 21 March 1974) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Murray Hewitt, the band manager of Flight of the Conchords, in the HBO television series of the same name (2007–2009). He has since appeared in movies such as "Yes Man" (2008), "The Boat That Rocked" (2009), "" (2009), "Love Birds" (2011), "Arthur Christmas" (2011), and "What We Do in the Shadows" (2014).


title: Derwent Water

text: Derwent Water or Derwentwater is one of the main lakes in the Lake District National Park in north west England. It is in the Borough of Allerdale in the county of Cumbria.


title: Vanessa (name)

text: The name Vanessa is a popular female name. It was created around 1708. The name was the 71st most popular female name for girls in the United States for 2007. It first appeared across the Top 1000 female names in the United States around 1950. There are several celebrities under the name, including Vanessa L. Williams and Vanessa Hudgens.


title: Ludwig Rellstab

text: Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Rellstab (13 April 1799 – 27 November 1860) was a German poet and music critic. He was born and died in Berlin.


title: Yunnan lake newt

text: The Yunnan lake newt ("Cynops wolterstorffi") was a species of newts. It was part of the family Salamandridae. It was also known as Wolterstorff's newt. It used to live in China.


title: Vicki Lawrence

text: Vicki Ann Axelrad (also called Vicki Lawrence; born March 26 1949) is an American comedienne, actress and a singer. She is best known for her acting on the "Carol Burnett Show" and as Thelma Harper on "Mama's Family". She was often on game shows in the 1970s and 1980s.


title: Fathead minnow

text: The fathead minnow ("Pimephales promelas"), also know as the rosy red minnow, is a species of freshwater fish. They are in the "Pimephales" genus of the cyprinid family. They live in North America and central Canada. This minnow has been introduced to many areas by people. They are golden. They are a feeder fish and are sold in pet stores.


title: Alfred G. Knudson

text: Alfred George Knudson, Jr. M.D., Ph.D. (August 9, 1922 – July 10, 2016) was an American geneticist. He worked in cancer genetics. He was known for the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971. It explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis (the development of cancer).


title: John Dobson

text: John Lowry Dobson (September 14, 1915 – January 15, 2014) was an American astronomer. He known for creating a design for a popular Newtonian telescope, named after him, the Dobsonian telescope.


title: Béla Károlyi

text: Béla Károlyi (; born September 13, 1942) is a Romanian gymnastics coach. He was born in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca). At the time it was part of Hungary. He helped coach several gymnasts during the 1996 Summer Olympics.


title: William Henry Hudson

text: William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was a writer, naturalist, and ornithologist. He wrote "Green Mansions.


title: Digital Compact Cassette

text: The Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) was a format of magnetic tape, developed by giant PHILIPS to replace the compact cassette. It competed with the Minidisc and the Digital Audio Tape (DAT), but neither format could replace the compact cassette. It was marketed as a cheaper alternative to DAT.


title: Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

text: Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (1865) is a book by Mary Mapes Dodge. It is about a Dutch boy who enters an ice skating race.


title: Judy Parfitt

text: Judy Catherine Claire Parfitt (born 7 November 1935) is an English television, theatre and movie actress. Her first movie appearance was a small part in "Information Received" (1961). That was followed by a supporting role in the BBC series "David Copperfield" (1966).


title: Thelma Houston

text: Thelma Houston (born Thelma Jackson on May 7, 1946) is an American singer and actress. She had a #1 hit with her version of "Don't Leave Me This Way". The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.


title: Sergey Pogorelov

text: Sergey Valentinovich Pogorelov (; 2 June 1974 – 24 April 2019) was a Russian team handball player. He won a gold medal in team handball with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He also won a bronze medal with Russia in team handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Volgograd.


title: Dieter Borst

text: Borst was born on 12 May 1950 in Schramberg, Germany. As a painter, he specialized in informal painting. The basic element in his paintings is the line, which is carried through colored segments.


title: Horner

text: Horner is an English surname. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon language. It is from the Middle English word for people who made or blew horns.


title: Martha Layne Collins

text: Martha Layne Collins (born Martha Layne Hall; December 7, 1936) is a former American businesswoman and politician from Kentucky. As of 2014, she is the only female governor Kentucky has had. She was the fifty-sixth Governor (1983-87) after replacing John Y. Brown Jr..