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1,082,224 | Ayd Mill Road: In the end, the city decided the best option was a rebuilt roadway that extended north along the railroad to St. Anthony Avenue, where a connection to I-94 was possible.Though renewed neighborhood protest has blocked this measure, the road has been blacktopped and striped, and the I-35E ramps were reopened after signals were put on Ayd Mill's entrance ramps.While in the middle of the Environmental Impact Statement, Mayor Randy Kelly opened the Ayd Mill to I-35E ramps as a temporary test in 2002, and those ramps have remained open ever since. | 2,839 |
1,082,224 | Ayd Mill Road: The Saint Paul City Council twice passed resolutions in support of reducing lanes to a two-lane parkway (once in 2000, and again in 2009).The adjacent track is still used today by Canadian Pacific and Amtrak's "Empire Builder" runs on these rails.In 2019 the Saint Paul City Council approved mill and overlaying the road in it's current configuration for $3.5 million. | 3,360 |
1,082,224 | Ayd Mill Road: Mayor Melvin Carter requested turning two lanes into a greenway but that plan would have cost $9.8 million due to drainage problems.The corridor is built on a buried stream which causes drainage and pavement preservation challenges.The council ultimately approved a $7.5 million construction project that reduced lanes from four to three and added a protected bicycle and pedestrian trail. | 3,726 |
1,082,225 | Eres para mí: Eres para mí
"Eres Para Mí" (English: ""You are for Me"") is a Latin pop-Hip-hop song by the Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas and the Chilean singer Anita Tijoux It was recorded for Julieta Venegas's studio album "Limón y Sal".Released as the third single on January 1, 2007. | 0 |
1,082,225 | Eres para mí: It had the same success as her first single "Me Voy" in Latin America appearing at the top of the pop charts.The song is a duo featuring Chilean rapper, Anita Tijoux and has grown to become one of Venegas's most successful songs in the U.S.Hot Latin Charts, reaching a peak of 5 in just a few weeks and # 2 in Latin Pop Airplay. | 398 |
1,082,225 | Eres para mí: It is in the key of B minor and 4/4 time.The music video for "Eres Para Mí", directed by Sebastián Sánchez, who had previously worked with Babasonicos.It was recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the Republic of the Children, which represents a miniature city for children. | 662 |
1,082,225 | Eres para mí: The video was released on January 29, 2007 by MTV Latin America.The video begins with Julieta in a fancy purple dress driving a yellow car while listening to Limón y Sal.When she parks and goes out of the car, she enters a colorful village where she comes across with a series of workers, such as a saleswoman, a nun, a construction worker, a man dressed as an octopus handing out fliers, a policewoman chasing a thief and a snack vendor. | 963 |
1,082,225 | Eres para mí: Anita Tijoux is then seen walking and rapping calmly while being followed by the previous crowd, just to be joined by Venegas when the chorus begins again.The whole group then moves to the middle of the street and engages in a calm choreography while the women sing the rest of the song."Eres Para Mí" has had several versions that have sought to experience different rhythms with the letter: | 1,496 |
1,082,226 | WeeWorld: WeeWorld
WeeWorld was an online game and messaging website, originally created in 2002 with a company that was based in Glasgow, Scotland, with a few offices in London and Boston, as well as other cities in the USA.The company had created WeeWorld.com, formally known as a social networking site, to which was mostly geared towards teens and tweens. | 0 |
1,082,226 | WeeWorld: The website is also known for its brand of instant messaging and chat-based avatars, known as “WeeMees”, Which was also released on a variety of digital platforms and services.There were approximately 180 million WeeMees created worldwide, but the site was unexpectedly shut down, as of May 11, 2017.From then on, there has not been anymore information from WeeWorld or the company itself. | 529 |
1,082,226 | WeeWorld: It is said that the company could no longer profit off of WeeWorld, and the only option left was to sell it to the new owners, who had then decided to shut it down.WeeMees are two-dimensional cartoon avatars that WeeWorld users are issued when first joining the community.Users can purchase virtual goods for their avatars, such as clothing, accessories, and food and drink items. | 910 |
1,082,226 | WeeWorld: As WeeWorld's target demographic is teenagers, many of the virtual goods reflect current pop culture and celebrity fashion trends.WeeWorld has partnered with corporations such as AOL, MSN and Skype.Through a partnership with RCA, it has promoted artists such as Alicia Keys and Avril Lavigne through virtual merchandise sales and WeeMees of the respective artists. | 1,260 |
1,082,226 | WeeWorld: WeeWorld has also promoted artists such as the Jonas Brothers, Justin Timberlake, Raven-Symoné, the Pussycat Dolls, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift.The avatars were created in 2001 by the Co-Founders of Saw-You.com, Mike Kinsella and John McGuire in Glasgow, Scotland.In 2003, Microsoft began offering the avatars for use to their Hotmail customers via the MSN chat service. | 1,646 |
1,082,226 | WeeWorld: The new service attracted 150,000 users during the first day of the avatars being launched, with the WeeMee website attracting 1.5 million hits daily.In 2004 the UK's largest social network, Friendsreunited.com, also introduced the WeeMee to their user base.In December 2008 the virtual technology firm DA agreed to develop a 3-D version of the avatar. | 2,025 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: 2003 Chicago balcony collapse
On June 29, 2003, the deadliest porch collapse in United States history occurred in Chicago.An overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in an apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously injuring fifty-seven others. | 0 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The ensuing investigation was highly critical of the way the balcony was built, finding a large number of errors in its construction which ultimately resulted in the collapse.However, the building's owner continues to blame overcrowding on the balcony for its complete structural failure, although he has taken steps to strengthen the balconies at his properties to prevent a recurrence of the disaster.The accident resulted in sweeping inspections of similar structures across Chicago, with 1,260 cases being acted on by the city authorities. | 440 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The porch was attached to the rear of an apartment building located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of the city's North Side.The second and third floors were being used as a party venue at the time of the collapse.Most of the party-goers were in their early 20s, and knew each other from their days at New Trier High School and Lake Forest High School of Chicago's North Shore suburbs. | 938 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: One witness says she warned other people in the building that the balconies were unsafe, but another later said that "it looked like it was newly built.It looked sturdy."About fifty people were on the top wooden balcony at the time of the collapse. | 1,353 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: According to one witness, the sound of splintering wood was heard immediately before the collapse, which occurred shortly after midnight local time.The collapse started on the third floor, pulling down other balconies below.The first, second, and third floor balconies all collapsed into the basement below, carrying a total of approximately one hundred people among them. | 1,601 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: Several people were also trapped in a basement stairwell.Survivors helped to pull victims out from under the debris of the balconies, and rescue workers had to use chainsaws to free others.One of the survivors was a nurse, and had started a rescue effort before the emergency services arrived. | 1,885 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The Chicago Fire Department supplied the main rescue effort.Eleven people were killed in the collapse, with two more subsequently dying while hospitalized; fifty-seven people were injured.The porch and balconies also had kegs of beer and old refrigerators, an old clothes washer and dryer. | 2,184 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: As the party-goers rocked the stairs and landings up and down to the music, it all fell all three floors into the basement concrete stairwells.Advocate Hospital ER went on "bypass" and more than 75 people made their way walking and limping south on Halsted to Children's Memorial Hospital, which also went on "bypass".Initial inquiries suggested that the collapse was probably due to overcrowding. | 2,560 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: This was backed up by neighbors, who told authorities that the balconies were designed to hold only between twenty and thirty people.Chicago's fire chief said that "It appears to be a case of too many people in a small space."Norma Reyes, the city's building commissioner, said "I have no indication of any substandard problems or insufficiencies with the porch at this time. | 2,951 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The buildings are not made for large assemblies and parties."However, it was ultimately determined that poor construction was to blame.In 1998, a permit was issued to owner LG Properties to install furnaces, air conditioners and water heaters in the building, but not to build the balcony. | 3,258 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The balcony jutted out eleven feet from the building, one foot farther than permitted by city codes, and had an area of , larger than permitted.The balcony also had inadequate supports, was floored with undersized lengths of wood, and was attached to the walls with screws that were too short.However, the City of Chicago's Inspectional Services Department visited this site over 5 times and never noticed or cited the code violations noted above. | 3,633 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: Three days after the disaster, the city sued the owners and managers of the building in the Housing Court due to a number of breaches in building regulations.Those named in the complaint included LG Properties, the company's president Philip Pappas, and George Koutroumos, the contractor who built the balcony.The city was reportedly seeking $500 per violation for each day the structure was in existence, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a court order for the replacement of the balcony. | 4,098 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The apartment block was legally uninhabitable until the balconies were replaced, as they provided mandatory emergency exits.The city's Buildings Department inspected 42 other buildings owned or managed by Pappas and/or LG Properties for similar violations.The city also claimed that 21 other buildings owned by Pappas had similar problems. | 4,569 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: They did, however, note the fact that he had since made "dramatic improvements" to all 21 porches.In the aftermath of the disaster, Chicago inspected a large number of similar structures to ensure they were safe, with 500 cases being turned over to the city's Law Department for court action, and 760 cases referred to administrative hearing officers.Pappas continued to blame overcrowding for the disaster. | 4,886 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: However, an undercover press investigation discovered all his properties now display notices forbidding parties on the balconies.Pappas also claims that a police report says two unnamed witnesses informed a paramedic that they saw several people "jumping up and down" on the balconies shortly prior to the collapse.In 2005, the city of Chicago filed a negligence lawsuit against two of the survivors, William Fenton-Hathaway and John Koranda. | 5,328 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: The city alleged that the balcony collapse occurred after defendants Fenton-Hathaway and Koranda "intentionally and negligently" began jumping up and down on the porch.Koranda's brother, Robert Koranda, was killed in the collapse.The charges against Fenton-Hathaway and Koranda were later dropped. | 5,813 |
1,082,227 | 2003 Chicago balcony collapse: No criminal charges were filed and Pappas was fined a total of $108,000 as a result of the collapse.Twenty-seven families sued Pappas and the city over the accident.The balcony was rebuilt afterwards, this time with metal. | 6,046 |
1,082,228 | Issigeac: Issigeac
Issigeac () is a small medieval village that dates back to Roman times, located in the Périgord and is approximately southwest of Bergerac in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.It is a commune of the Dordogne department. | 0 |
1,082,228 | Issigeac: A village with roots in antiquity, today it is a quaint village with timbered houses circling the church and Bishop's Palace (17th century).The village is circular in plan with most buildings of medieval half-timbered style (most are original) and still retains much of its 13th-century walls.In 1438 it was pillaged by Rodrigo de Villandrando. | 381 |
1,082,228 | Issigeac: The village is set in the midst of wine country, close to the famous Chateau de Monbazillac and their famous sweet dessert wines.Many other wineries can be visited including Chateau Jaubertie.Throughout the year the village hosts a number of festivals and events and has a thriving market on Sunday mornings, where many gastronomic delights are available as well as an exceptional selection of local wines, meats, fruit and vegetables brought directly to the market by their producers. | 718 |
1,082,229 | Jean Dockx: Jean Dockx
Jean Baptiste Dockx (24 May 1941 – 15 January 2002) is a former Belgian International footballer.He played for R.W.D. | 0 |
1,082,229 | Jean Dockx: Molenbeek and R.S.C.Anderlecht, and for the Belgium national football team in the 1970 FIFA World Cup and the 1972 UEFA European Football Championship.He was later a manager, and was caretaker manager of Anderlecht in 1999. | 152 |
1,082,230 | Kidmore End: Kidmore End
Kidmore End is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, centred NNW of Reading, Berkshire, an important regional centre of commerce, research and engineering.It is in the low Chiltern Hills, partly in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. | 0 |
1,082,230 | Kidmore End: The A4074 from Reading towards Oxford passes through the west of the parish and it is located 6 miles from Henley on Thames.The village is dispersed into four built-up streets or small clusters of homes and has half-timbered cottages, housing ranging from early Georgian to a few late 20th century and early 21st century homes and a public house, the New Inn.The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist, designed by Arthur Billing, was built in 1852. | 389 |
1,082,230 | Kidmore End: The village school was opened in 1856 and is now a Church of England primary school.Kidmore End Cricket Club plays in the Thames Valley Cricket League.The nearest shop, café and small business services are in Sonning Common, centred north-east. | 822 |
1,082,231 | Agustin: Agustin
Agustín is a Spanish given name and sometimes a surname.It is related to Augustín. | 0 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: Liberty University School of Law
The Liberty University School of Law is the law school of Liberty University, a private Evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia.The school offers the J.D., L.L.M., and J.M. | 0 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: degrees.The Liberty University School of Law was founded in 2004 as a division of Liberty University, an Evangelical school.Liberty University School of Law received provisional accreditation in 2006 and became fully accredited by the American Bar Association in 2010. | 234 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: The original dean was Bruce W. Green, who was responsible for guiding the school in obtaining Liberty's provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association in February 2006.Green resigned in May 2006 at which time Mathew D. Staver assumed the position.In 2015, B. Keith Faulkner assumed the deanship at Liberty University School of Law. | 678 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: Faulkner had previously served as the dean of the Campbell University Lundy-Fetterman School of Business.The School of Law is located in the Green Hall facility on Liberty's campus, and consists of , all of which is located on one level.of that space is dedicated to Ehrhorn Law Library. | 950 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: The School of Law's Supreme Courtroom contains an exact replica of the Supreme Court of the United States's judge bench.Tuition for the 2016-2017 academic year is $29,994, with estimated costs and fees totaling an additional $19,108.The Law School Transparency estimated the debt-financed cost of attendance for three years, based on data from the 2015-2016 academic year, is $182,400. | 1,256 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: In 2016 the U.S. News & World Report ranked Liberty as one of the private law schools that award the most financial aid, providing a median grant of $19,500.The student to faculty ratio is 5 to 1, and it has 20 full and part-time faculty.As of the Class of 2019, there are 64 full-time students and no part-time students in the 1L class. | 1,682 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: For incoming students, the median LSAT score is 152 and the median GPA is 3.43.Minorities make up 20% of the class and women 42%.The number of states represented were 40 and 11 foreign countries were represented in the Class of 2019. | 1,944 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: In July 2015 and July 2016, the School of Law had first-time passage rates on the Virginia Bar Exam of 93% and 89% respectively.These rates placed them first in 2015 and second in 2016 among the eight law schools in Virginia.The school has also seen recent bar exam success in other states, such as North Carolina. | 2,230 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: Liberty had one of the top five bar passage rates in the entire nation for 2018.The School of Law's ranking given by the "U.S. News & World Report" is 146-192.Above the Law (website) reported that US News named Liberty University's law school as one of the top five most popular schools in the nation, along with Yale Law School, BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School, and Harvard Law School. | 2,500 |
1,082,232 | Liberty University School of Law: In 2015, National Jurist ranked the school as one of the best schools for public service careers in the area of defender/prosecutor training beside schools such as Washington College of Law, Florida State School of Law, and UC Davis School of Law.According to Liberty University's official, ABA-required disclosures, 82% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time, bar passage or JD-required employment nine months after graduation.Liberty's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 27.6%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2014 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. | 3,058 |
1,082,233 | Lisa Mason (writer): Lisa Mason (writer)
Lisa Mason is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and urban fantasy.She lives in Piedmont, California with her husband, the artist and jeweler Tom Robinson. | 0 |
1,082,233 | Lisa Mason (writer): She is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and graduate of the University of Michigan, the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts, and the University of Michigan Law School.She practiced law in Washington D.C. and San Francisco.To have more time to write, she transitioned to Matthew Bender and Company, a national law book publisher, where she started as a legal writer and rose to an executive editor. | 361 |
1,082,233 | Lisa Mason (writer): Many of her novels take place in the vicinity of San Francisco, California, either in the future or in the past through time travel.Her early works are recognized as cyberpunk.She has also written paranormal romance, historical romantic suspense, comedy, and a screenplay. | 726 |
1,082,234 | Aaron Thomas (American football): Aaron Thomas (American football)
Aaron Norman Thomas (born November 7, 1937), is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants from 1961 to 1970.Thomas was born in Dierks, Arkansas, but moved in 1948 to Weed, California where he played high school football. | 0 |
1,082,234 | Aaron Thomas (American football): He graduated from Weed High School in 1957, and was inducted into the school's inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.Thomas played college football at Oregon State University and was drafted in the fourth round (47th overall) of the 1961 NFL Draft by the 49ers.He was also selected in the 16th round of the 1961 AFL Draft by the Dallas Texans. | 453 |
1,082,235 | Kamel Asaad: Kamel Asaad
Kamel El Assaad (or Kamel Al Asaad) (10 February 1932 – 25 July 2010) was a Lebanese politician.Kamel el-Asaad () served starting early 1960 as Deputy of Bint Jbeil, replacing his father Ahmed al-Asaad and then held the parliamentary seat of Hasbaya-Marjayoun from 1964 and 1992. | 0 |
1,082,235 | Kamel Asaad: He was elected Speaker of the House of the Lebanese Parliament several times, May to October 1964, May to October 1968, with his final stint from 1970 to 1984.Assaad chaired the parliamentary sessions, which saw the election of presidents Elias Sarkis, Bachir Gemayel, and Amine Gemayel.Asaad left politics in 1984 after Syria's intervention in Lebanon's internal political policies related to the ratification of the Agreement of May 17, 1984, between Israel and Lebanon, and the period of political crisis which followed. | 454 |
1,082,235 | Kamel Asaad: He was the founder and president of the Lebanese Social Democratic Party ().He also had ministerial positions in two Lebanese governments serving as Minister of Education and Fine Arts from October 1961 to February 1964, and as Minister of Health and Minister of Water and Electricity Resources from April to December 1966.After serving as a Member of Parliament and its Speaker several times, Asaad later ran for public office but failed to get elected in the Lebanese elections in 1992, 1996 and 2000, in the face of pro-Syrian and pro-Iranian political groups Amal and Hezbollah lists, and called for a boycott of the elections in 2005. | 899 |
1,082,235 | Kamel Asaad: He died in 2010, at the age of 78.Coming from a large feudal Shia family from southern Lebanon, Kamel Asaad held the title of "Bakaweit" (title of nobility plural of "Beik" granted to a few wealthy families in Lebanon in the early eighteenth century).He completed his Elementary and Secondary studies at Ecole de la Sagesse () in Beirut, and continued with a Law degree from the University of Paris. | 1,502 |
1,082,235 | Kamel Asaad: His father Ahmed al-Asaad preceded his son as speaker of the Lebanese Parliament from June 1951 to May 1953.His mother was Fatima al Asaad.He married Ghada al Kharsaa and the couple had three children, Ahmed, a son, and Iman and Maha, two daughters. | 1,980 |
1,082,235 | Kamel Asaad: After their divorce, he married Lina Saad with whom he had three more sons: the twin brothers Khalil and Abdellatif and then a third son, Wael.Lina Kamel el Assaad, his widow, continues to head the Lebanese Social Democratic Party, the party he established.Kamel Asaad's son, Ahmed Asaad, established the political party Lebanese Option (). | 2,269 |
1,082,236 | The Puppets: The Puppets
The Puppets were an English pop/beat group from Preston, Lancashire, that were managed and recorded by Joe Meek.They were active from 1962 to 1967. | 0 |
1,082,236 | The Puppets: Drummer Des O'Reilly had been in The Rebels.He was then in Bob Johnson and the Bobcats (1960 - 1962), who included Jim Whittle on bass and Dave Millen on guitar.O'Reilly then formed The Puppets (1962 - 1967), with Millen and Whittle and later in 1965 Don Parfitt. | 209 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Albanian folk beliefs
Albanian folk beliefs () comprise the beliefs expressed in the customs, rituals, myths, legends and tales of the Albanian people.The elements of Albanian mythology are of Paleo-Balkanic origin and almost all of them are pagan. | 0 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Albanian folklore evolved over the centuries in a relative isolated tribal culture and society.Albanian folk tales and legends have been orally transmitted down the generations and are still very much alive in the mountainous regions of Albania, Kosovo and western North Macedonia, among the Arbëreshë in Italy and the Arvanites in Greece.In Albanian mythology, the physical phenomena, elements and objects are attributed to supernatural beings. | 347 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: The deities are generally not persons, but personifications of nature, which is animated.In Albanian folk beliefs, earth is the object of a special cult, and an important role is played by fire, which is considered a living, sacred or divine element used for rituals, sacrificial offerings and purification.Fire worship is associated with the cult of the Sun, the cult of the hearth and the cult of fertility in agriculture and animal husbandry. | 790 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Beja is a common practice in Albanian culture, consisting of an oath taken by Sun, by Moon, by sky, by earth, by stone, by mountain, by water and by snake, which are all considered sacred objects.The cult of the Sun and Moon appears also in Albanian legends and folk art.Albanian myths and legends are organized around the dichotomy of good and evil, the most famous representation of which is the legendary battle between drangue and kulshedra, a conflict that symbolyzes the cyclic return in the watery and chthonian world of death, accomplishing the cosmic renewal of rebirth. | 1,345 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: The weavers of destiny, ora or fatí, control the order of the universe and enforce its laws.A very common motif in Albanian folk narrative is metamorphosis: men morph into deer, wolves, owls; while women morph into stoats, cuckoos, turtles.Among the main bodies of Albanian folk poetry there are the "Kângë Kreshnikësh" ("Songs of Heroes"), the traditional non-historical cycle of Albanian epic songs, based on the cult of the legendary hero. | 1,825 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Albanian myths and legends are already attested in works written in Albanian as early as the 15th century, however, the systematic collection of Albanian folklore material began only in the 19th century.One of the first Albanian collectors from Italy was the Arbëresh writer Girolamo De Rada who—already imbued with a passion for his Albanian lineage in the first half of the 19th century—began collecting folklore material at an early age.Another important Arbëresh publisher of Albanian folklore was the linguist Demetrio Camarda, who included in his 1866 "Appendice al Saggio di grammatologia comparata" (Appendix to the Essay on the Comparative Grammar) specimens of prose, and in particular, Arbëreshë folk songs from Sicily and Calabria, Albania proper and Albanian settlements in Greece. | 2,383 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: De Rada and Camarda were the two main initiators of the Albanian nationalist cultural movement in Italy.In Greece, the Arvanite writer Anastas Kullurioti published Albanian folklore material in his 1882 "Albanikon alfavêtarion / Avabatar arbëror" (Albanian Spelling Book).The Albanian National Awakening ("Rilindja") gave rise to collections of folklore material in Albania in the second half of the 19th century. | 3,081 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: One of the early Albanian collectors of Albanian folklore from Albania proper was Zef Jubani.From 1848 he served as interpreter to French consul in Shkodra, Louis Hyacinthe Hécquard, who was very interested in folklore and decided to prepare a book on northern Albanian folklore.They travelled through the northern Albanian mountains and recorded folklore material which were published in French translation in the 1858 "Hécquard's pioneering Histoire et description de la Haute Albanie ou Guégarie" (History and Description of High Albania or Gegaria”). | 3,487 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Jubani's own first collection of folklore—the original Albanian texts of the folk songs published by Hécquard—was lost in the flood that devastated the city of Shkodra on 13 January 1866.Jubani published in 1871 his "Raccolta di canti popolari e rapsodie di poemi albanesi" (Collection of Albanian Folk Songs and Rhapsodies)—the first collection of Geg folk songs and the first folkloristik work to be published by an Albanian who lived in Albania.Another important Albanian folklore collector was Thimi Mitko, a prominent representative of the Albanian community in Egypt. | 4,138 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: He began to take an interest in folklore in 1859 and started recording Albanian folklore material from the year 1866, providing also folk songs, riddles and tales for Demetrio Camarda's collection.Mitko's own collection of Albanian folklore—including 505 folk songs, and 39 tales and popular sayings, mainly from southern Albania—was finished in 1874 and published in the 1878 Greek-Albanian journal "Alvaniki melissa / Belietta Sskiypetare" (The Albanian Bee).This compilation was a milestone of Albanian folk literature being the first collection of Albanian folklore material of scholarly interest. | 4,725 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Indeed, Mitko compiled and classified the material according to genres, including sections on fairy tales, fables, anecdotes, children's songs, songs of seasonal festivities, love songs, wedding songs, funerary songs, epic and historical songs.Mitko realized his collection collaborating with Spiro Risto Dine who emigrated to Egypt in 1866.Dino published himself "Valët e Detit" (The Waves of the Sea), which at the time of its publication in 1908 was the longest book printed in the Albanian language. | 5,376 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: The second part of Dine's collection was devoted to folk literature, including love songs, wedding songs, funerary songs, satirical verse, religious and didactic verses, folk tales, aphorisms, rhymes, popular beliefs and mythology.The first Albanian folklorist to collect oral tradition in a more systematic manner for scholarly purposes was the Franciscan priest and scholar Shtjefën Gjeçovi.Two other Franciscan priests, Bernardin Palaj and Donat Kurti, along with Gjeçovi, collected folk songs on their travels through the northern Albanian mountains and wrote articles on Gheg Albanian folklore and tribal customs. | 5,870 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Palaj and Kurti published in 1937—on the 25th anniversary of Albanian independence—the most important collection of Albanian epic verse, "Kângë kreshnikësh dhe legenda" (Songs of the Frontier Warriors and Legends), in the series called "Visaret e Kombit" (The Treasures of the Nation).From the second half of the 20th century much research has been done by the Academy of Albanological Studies of Tirana and by the Albanological Institute of Prishtina.Albanian scholars have published numerous collections of Albanian oral tradition, but only a little part of this material has been translated into other languages. | 6,546 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: A substantial contribution in this direction has been made by the Albanologist Robert Elsie.Foreign scholars first provided Europe with Albanian folklore in the second half of the 19th century, and thus set the beginning for the scholarly study of Albanian oral tradition.Albanian folk songs and tales were recorded by the Austrian consul in Janina, Johann Georg von Hahn, who travelled throughout Albania and the Balkans in the middle of the 19th century and in 1854 he published "Albanesische Studien" (Albanian Studies). | 6,972 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: The German physician Karl H. Reinhold collected Albanian folklore material from Albanian sailors while he was serving as a doctor in the Greek navy and in 1855 he published "Noctes Pelasgicae" (Pelasgian Nights).The folklorist Giuseppe Pitrè published in 1875 a selection of Albanian folk tales from Sicily in "Fiabe, novelle e racconti popolari siciliani" (Sicilian Fables, Short Stories and Folk Tales).The next generation of scholars who became interested in collecting Albanian folk material were mainly philologists, among them the Indo-European linguists concerned about the study of the then little known Albanian language. | 7,618 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: The French consul in Janina and Thessalonika, Auguste Dozon, published Albanian folk tales and songs initially in the 1879 (Manual of the Shkip or Albanian Language) and in the 1881 "Contes albanais, recueillis et traduits" (Albanian Tales, Collected and Translated).The Czech linguist and professor of Romance languages and literature, Jan Urban Jarnik, published in 1883 Albanian folklore material from the region of Shkodra in "Zur albanischen Sprachenkunde" (On Albanian Linguistics) and "Příspěvky ku poznání nářečí albánských uveřejňuje" (Contributions to the Knowledge of Albanian Dialects).The German linguist and professor at the University of Graz, Gustav Meyer, published in 1884 fourteen Albanian tales in "Albanische Märchen" (Albanian Tales), and a selection of Tosk tales in the 1888 "Albanian grammar" (1888). | 8,307 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: His folklore material was republished in his "Albanesische Studien" (Albanian Studies).Danish Indo-Europeanist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, Holger Pedersen, visited Albania in 1893 to learn the language and to gather linguistic material.He recorded thirty-five Albanian folk tales from Albania and Corfu and published them in the 1895 "Albanesische Texte mit Glossar" (Albanian Texts with Glossary). | 8,955 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Other Indo-European scholars who collected Albanian folklore material were German linguists Gustav Weigand and August Leskien.In the first half of the 20th century, British anthropologist Edith Durham visited northern Albania and collected folklore material on the Albanian tribal society.She published in 1909 her notable work "High Albania", regarded as one of the best English-language books on Albania ever written. | 9,415 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: From 1923 onward, Scottish scholar and anthropologist Margaret Hasluck collected Albanian folklore material when she lived in Albania.She published sixteen Albanian folk-stories translated in English in her 1931 "Këndime Englisht–Shqip or Albanian–English Reader".The elements of Albanian mythology are of Paleo-Balkanic origin and almost all of them are pagan. | 9,845 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Ancient Illyrian religion is considered to be one of the sources from which Albanian legend and folklore evolved, reflecting a number of parallels with Ancient Greek and Roman mythologies.Albanian legend shows also similarities with neighbouring Indo-European traditions, such as the oral epics with the South Slavs and the folk tales with the Greeks.Albanian mythology inherited the Indo-European narrative epic genre about past warriors, a tradition shared with early Greece, classical India, early medieval England, medieval Germany and South Slavs. | 10,264 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Albanian folk beliefs also retained the typical Indo-European tradition of the deities located on the highest and most inaccessible mountains (Mount Tomor), the sky, lightning, weather and fire deities (Zojz, Perëndi, Shurdh, Verbt, En, Vatër, Nëna e Vatrës), the "Daughter of the Sun and Moon" legend ("Bija e Hanës e Diellit"), the "serpent-slaying" and "fire in water" myths (Drangue and Kulshedra), the Fates and Destiny goddesses (Zana, Ora, Fatí, Mira) and the guard of the gates of the Underworld (the three-headed dog who never sleeps).Albanian folklore traces back to Paleo-Balkan mythology including a substrate of Illyrian religion.A number of parallels are found with Ancient Greek and Roman mythologies. | 11,177 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Albanians were Christianized under Roman Catholic influence likely in the fourth and fifth centuries.In later times, after the Gheg–Tosk split, they became Catholic in the north and Orthodox in the South.In a text compiled around the beginning of the 11th century in the Bulgarian language, the Albanians are mentioned with their old ethnonym "Arbanasi" as half-believers. | 11,453 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Islam was first introduced to Albania in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of the area.In Ottoman times, often to escape higher taxes levied on Christian subjects, the majority of Albanians became Muslims.However one part retained Christian and pre-Christian beliefs. | 11,825 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: British poet Lord Byron (1788–1824) described Albanian religious belief as follows: "The Greeks hardly regard them as Christians, or the Turks as Muslims; and in fact they are a mixture of both, and sometimes neither."Between the 16th and 18th centuries, in Albania arrived also the Bektashi Sufi order which spread widely among Albanians in part because it allowed itself to be a vehicle for the expression of Crypto-Christian and pagan beliefs and rituals.Bektashism is a Muslim pantheistic dervish order ("tariqat") thought to have originated in the 13th century in a frontier region of Anatolia, where Christianity, Islam and paganism coexisted, allowing the incorporation of comparable pagan and non-Muslim beliefs into popular Islam. | 12,227 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: It facilitated the conversion process to the new Muslims and became the official order of the Janissaries.After the ban of all the Sufi orders in Turkey in 1925, the Bektashi Order established its headquarters in Tirana.Since its founding in 1912, Albania has been a secular state, becoming atheist during the Communist regime, and returning secular after the fall of the regime. | 12,857 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Albanian folklore evolved over the centuries in a relative isolated tribal culture and society, and although there have been all these changes in the Albanian belief system, an ancient substratum of pre-Christian beliefs has survived until today.Folk tales, myths and legends have been orally transmitted down the generations and are still very much alive in the mountainous regions of Albania, Kosovo and western North Macedonia, among the Arbëreshë in Italy and the Arvanites in Greece.The Albanian terms for "hero" are "trim" (female: "trimneshë"), "kreshnik" or "hero" (female: "heroinë"). | 13,380 |
1,082,237 | Albanian folk beliefs: Some of the main heroes of the Albanian epic songs, legends and myths are:
The Albanian heroic songs are substantially permeated by the concepts contained in the Kanun, a code of Albanian oral customary laws: honour, considered as the highest ideal in Albanian society; shame and dishonour, regarded as worse than death; besa and loyalty, gjakmarrja.Another characteristic of Albanian heroic songs are weapons.Their importance and the love which the heroes have for them are carefully represented in the songs, while they are rarely described phyisically. | 14,091 |
1,082,238 | Neil McMahon: Neil McMahon
Neil McMahon (born 1949) is the author of ten novels, as well as a collaboration with James Patterson—"Toys"—which was a "New York Times" #1 Bestseller.He has written two series: the Carroll Monks books ("Twice Dying", "Blood Double", "To The Bone", "Revolution No. | 0 |
1,082,238 | Neil McMahon: 9"), and the Hugh Davoren books ("Lone Creek", "Dead Silver").In the late 1980s he wrote three horror novels (all originally published under the pseudonym "Daniel Rhodes") that have been reissued as ebooks.McMahon was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. | 344 |
1,082,238 | Neil McMahon: His novels have been praised by fellow writers Michael Connelly, James Crumley, Annick Smith, William Kittredge, C.J.Box, Deirdre McNamer, Andrew Schneider and many others.He lives in Missoula, Montana. | 650 |
1,082,239 | Unity Lister: Unity Lister
Dame Unity Viola Lister, DBE (née Webley; 9 June 1913 – 15 December 1998) was a British Conservative political activist.She was born in Woolwich to a doctor father and Quaker mother. | 0 |
1,082,239 | Unity Lister: She had a facility for foreign languages, and this earned her an important post in the Military Censor's office during the Second World War.Lister was a long-serving member of the London County Council, representing Woolwich West, and its successor body, the Greater London Council - from 1949-83, and as Deputy Chairman in 1963-64.She was a passionate Europhile believer in Britain's place at the centre of Europe. | 341 |
1,082,239 | Unity Lister: She served as a member of the executive of the European Union of Women from 1971, and was a member of the European Movement and the Conservative Group for Europe.The purpose of the committee was to encourage Tory women to join non-party organisations with charitable purposes and to express the party's view on all matters connected with social welfare.It was the brainchild of Joan Varley, then a senior functionary at Conservative Central Office, who had noted that Labour activists - and Labour views - seemed over-influential in non-political organisations. | 783 |
1,082,239 | Unity Lister: Lister helped in the drafting of the Tory response to Barbara Castle's Equal Opportunities Bill and the preparation of the party's argument for entry into the European Economic Community.In 1940 she married an old school friend, Sam Lister (d. 1995), a mechanical engineer who ran a small family firm of manufacturers.Her husband had a keenly developed interest in local government, and became a Woolwich councillor. | 1,376 |
1,082,239 | Unity Lister: When it was suggested that he stand for the London County Council, he demurred, and proposed his wife instead.She was duly elected in 1949 and served as an exceptionally effective deputy chairman between 1963-64.She had risen through the voluntary ranks of her party and, in 1971, was chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, and thus had the duty of taking the chair at the party conference that year. | 1,718 |
1,082,239 | Unity Lister: The job of conference chairman in 1971 was a peculiarly difficult one - the party was riven by doubts about the wisdom of the leadership's policy for entry into the European Economic Community, doubts fueled by the rhetoric of Enoch Powell.Lister presided over the fervent and turbulent debate on European policy - there were 125 amendments to the substantive motion - with the strict sense of control which marked all her public appearances - the Government's policy was carried by a strong majority.In 1940, she married Sam Lister, an old school friend and mechanical engineer who ran a small family manufacturing company. | 2,289 |
1,082,240 | Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2007: Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2007
The Indian cricket team toured Bangladesh for two Test matches and three One Day Internationals in May 2007.The first match was played on 10 May, the first of three ODIs with India defeating Bangladesh by five wickets – less than two months after Bangladesh shocked India by defeating them by five wickets in the World Cup, leading to India's early exit from the competition. | 0 |
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