Reginald DeSean Davis (born September 3, 1976) is a former American football tight end and current running backs coach for Nebraska. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 1999. He played college football at Washington.

The San Diego Chargers organization did not exist yet in 1954.


In Greek mythology, Orthrus (Greek: Ὄρθρος , "Orthros") or Orthus (Greek: Ὄρθος , "Orthos") was, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, a two-headed dog who guarded Geryon's cattle and was killed by Heracles. He was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and the brother of Cerberus, who was also a multi-headed guard dog.


Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. The following is a complete list of all official members, session musicians, featured artists, touring musicians, and live guests of Def Leppard's career


Nuance was an American dance music/freestyle group. It was formed by the producer and arranger, Ron Dean Miller, and featured Vikki Love on vocals. They charted three hits on the US "Billboard" Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1980s, including "Loveride," which hit #1 in 1985. The same track peaked at #59 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1985.


Tilman Frasch is a historian working at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a leading expert in Burmese historical sources of the Pagan period. Frasch received his PhD in Heidelberg in 1994 with a work about the Pagan kingdom, titled "Pagan: Stadt und Staat.

I received my PhD in 1994 from Manchester Metropolitan University.


Meshuggah is a Swedish experimental metal and death metal quintet formed in 1987 in Umeå. Meshuggah is known for its use of extended polymetric passages, complex time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh vocals. As of 2008, the band consists of vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström, bassist Dick Lövgren and drummer Tomas Haake.


The 1989 Newcastle earthquake occurred in Newcastle, New South Wales on Thursday, 28 December. The shock measured 5.6 on the Richter magnitude scale and was one of Australia's most serious natural disasters, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160. The damage bill has been estimated at A$ 4 billion (including an insured loss of about $1 billion).

The earthquake in Newcastle that killed 13 people in 1989, killed 13 people and injured 162


Elton John: Me, Myself & I is a 2007 documentary filmed after the death of Elton John's good friend Diana and other soul shaking events that caused him to reassess his life. It is a candid appraisal by Elton John (tongue in cheek) of his fame, drug use, sexuality, and mistakenly taking his life for granted. It was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Elton John: Me, Myself & I is based on a book.


Michael J. McCann is a Canadian author of crime fiction and supernatural fiction. His crime novel "Sorrow Lake", the first March and Walker Crime Novel, is a finalist for the 2015 Hammett Prize. He is also the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series and "The Ghost Man", a supernatural thriller. He is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada.


Ahmed Patel (born 21 August 1949) is a Member of Parliament in India and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He is the political secretary to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi since 2001 and is widely credited with the party’s performance in the 2004 and 2009 General elections.


O'Gorman High School is a Catholic high school located in Timmins, Ontario, Canada. O'Gorman Intermediate School, which is located down the street from the high school, is a feeder school for 7th and 8th graders. It is currently the only school in Timmins where the students wear uniforms.

There are only 2 schools in Timmins, Ontario, Canada with O'Gorman in their name


Robert (Rob) Stuart Howell is a British costume and set designer. He is primarily known for his work on the London stage. Howell won the Olivier Award for his set design for the musical "Matilda the Musical" in 2012. He has also designed both scenery and costumes for several Broadway shows, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for "Ghost the Musical" in 2012.


Ichikawa Junior and Senior High School (市川中学校・高等学校 , Ichikawa Gakuen ) is a large (2500 students) private school in Moto-kita-kata (本北方), Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. The school is sometimes mistaken for a public school due to its name: "Ichikawa Junior High School", "Ichikawa High School" or "Ichikawa" for short. The private school is managed by the Ichikawa Gakuen School Corporation.

Ichikawa Junior and Senior High school has more than twenty seven hundred students


Freddy Antonio García (born October 6, 1976), is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He is best known for his stints with the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, but has also pitched in the Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, as well as the Mexican and Venezuelan baseball leagues.

Freddy Garcia trained to be a baseball pitcher in the summer of 1976


Lawrence Watkins (born October 5, 1946 in Bessemer, Alabama) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, and the New York Giants. He played college football at Alcorn State University.

Lawrence Watkins played for the Buffalo Giants and Detroit Lions, among other teams.


In the state of Texas, United States, local schools are typically operated as independent school districts or consolidated school districts. Consolidated School Districts are typically one or more independent school districts that were consolidated due to low attendance or governance issues. Independent School Districts typically serve one community, but sometimes serve multiple small communities.

When there is low attendance, schools in Texas divide into independent school districts.


Delhi Public School Megacity was established in 2004 at Kolkata belonging to the Delhi Public School Society. It is the only DPS other than Delhi Public School Newtown Kolkata to be affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Educations(CISCE).

Delhi Public School Megacity is the only DPS affiliated with CISCE.


Major General John Craig Lawrence {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 18 October 1963), also known as Craig Lawrence or J. C. Lawrence, is a retired British Army officer whose last appointment was as the Director of Joint Warfare in the Joint Forces Command. He left the army on 6 June 2016 and is now a writer.

Major General John Craig Lawrence was dishonorably discharged


Kaj Birket-Smith (20 January 1893 – 28 October 1977) was a Danish philologist and anthropologist. He specialized in studying the habits and language of the Inuit and Eyak. He was a member of Knud Rasmussen's 1921 Thule expedition. In 1940, he became director of the Ethnographic Department of the National Museum of Denmark.

Kaj Birket-Smith would have been a ripe old age of 128 if he were still alive today.


"The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification" is the second episode of the fourth season of "The Big Bang Theory" that first aired on CBS on September 30, 2010. It is the 65th episode overall. The episode features a guest appearance by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc.

The episode featured multiple guest stars


Sunday Live with Adam Boulton was a weekend news and political show on Sky News and on Sky News HD, presented by Sky News' Political Editor Adam Boulton. From January 2011, the programme was replaced with "Murnaghan", a similar show presented by Dermot Murnaghan. Boulton moved to a new weekday show at 13:00 on Sky News.

Dermot Murnaghan had a show at 13:00 on Sky News


Kootenay Loop is a major public transit exchange in Vancouver, British Columbia. Opened on August 20, 1950, it is the eastern-most major exchange in the city of Vancouver with routes servicing East Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and the Tri-Cities.

Vancouver only has one public transit exchange.


Madman is a creator owned fictional character, a comic book superhero that appears in comic books by creator Mike Allred and which has been published by a number of publishers over the years. The character first appeared in "Creatures of the Id" (Oct. 1990). His name, Frank Einstein, is a combination of Frank Sinatra and Albert Einstein, and is also a reference to Frankenstein.

Frank Einstein was given birth to by Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra


The 2014 Monaco GP2 Series round was a pair of motor races held on May 23 and 24, 2014 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo as part of the GP2 Series. It was the third round of the 2014 GP2 Series season, and was part of the support programme for the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix.

The 2023 Monaco GP2 Series was held on May 23 and 24.


Olga Vladimirovna Litvinenko (Ольга Владимировна Литвиненко, born 1983) is a Russian ex-politician and the daughter of Vladimir Litvinenko, a close friend of Vladimir Putin's and in the words of Olga, "the richest rector in Russia" and an "oligarch". Olga has accused her father of kidnapping her daughter.

Vladimir Putin was accused of kidnapping Olga's daughter.


Jewish heretics ("minim", from "minuth", Hebrew for "heretic") are Jewish individuals (often historically, philosophers) whose works have, in part or in whole, been condemned as heretical by significant persons or groups in the larger Jewish community based on the classical teachings of Rabbinic Judaism and derived from "halakha" (Jewish religious law).

halakha specifically refers to Jewish Passover.


Bullet Boy is a 2004 British drama film directed by Saul Dibb, written by Saul Dibb and Catherine Johnson, and stars Ashley Walters. The film’s original music was composed and performed by Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, who released it as an album. The film is about a family in crime-ridden east London, the eldest son’s involvement in gun crime, and the effects of this on his younger brother.


North Ballarat Football Club, nicknamed The Roosters, is an Australian rules football club based at Eureka Stadium in Ballarat. The club is locally known as "the Roosters", and was most notable for competing in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1996 and 2017.

North Ballarat Football Club stopped competing in the VFL in the year prior to 2019.


Isabelle Guérard (born July 1, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actress. She garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 for "The Storm Within (Rouge sang)", and a Jutra Award nomination as Best Actress in 2010 for "Détour".

Guerard was nominated for awards in 2011 and 2013.


Squashed entanglement, also called CMI entanglement (CMI can be pronounced "see me"), is an information theoretic measure of quantum entanglement for a bipartite quantum system. If formula_1 is the density matrix of a system formula_2 composed of two subsystems formula_3 and formula_4, then the CMI entanglement formula_5 of system formula_2 is defined by

Squashed entanglement is called quantum entanglement.


The earliest texts of William Shakespeare's works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size (see Book size). The publications of the latter are usually abbreviated to Q1, Q2, etc., where the letter stands for "quarto" and the number for the first, second, or third edition published.


Store Kannikestræde is a street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, connecting Frue Plads to Købmagergade. Its history is closely associated with the University of Copenhagen and some of Copenhagen's oldest halls of residence are located in the street. It has been pedestrianized since 1973.


Rockcastle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,056. Its county seat is Mt. Vernon. The county founded in 1810 and named for the Rockcastle River which runs through it. The river, in turn, is named for its majestic rock cliffs.

rockcastle was named after its discoverer


New Market was a city in Scott County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 332 at the 2000 census. In January 2007, New Market merged with Elko to become Elko New Market . As of 2006 New Market has a public school, Eagle View Elementary School which is operated by and is part of the New Prague Schools and teaches Preschool - 5th.

New Market merged with another town and is now named New Market of Elko.


Gale V was an unlimited hydroplane that raced in the 1950s. The Gale V team won the National High Point Championship in 1954 and 1955 and won the American Power Boat Association Gold Cup in 1955 with Lee Schoenith driving. The boat was retired after the 1955 season.


Vonn Cummings Sumner (born 1976 in Palo Alto, California) is an internationally exhibited American painter. He received his Bachelor of Arts, in 1998 and Master of Fine Arts, Painting in 2000, both from the University of California, Davis, where he studied with, among others, the celebrated American painter and educator Wayne Thiebaud.

Vonn Cummings Sumner has two degrees from different colleges


Pauline Elizabeth Latham, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 4 February 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Derbyshire, a new constituency created as a result of changes made by the Boundary Commission for England.


Hugh Donald McCutcheon {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 13 October 1969), a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, is the former head coach of the US men's national volleyball team, the former head coach of the US women's national volleyball team, and the current head coach of the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team.

hugh currently coaches a national volleyball team


Die Hochzeit des Camacho ("Comacho's Wedding") is a Singspiel in two acts by Felix Mendelssohn, to a libretto probably written largely by Friedrich Voigt, based on an episode in Cervantes's "Don Quixote". The opera is listed as Mendelssohn's op. 10. It was written between 1824 and 1825, and first performed publicly at the Berlin Schauspielhaus on 29 April 1827.

first performed publicly at the Singspiel Schauspielhaus on 29 April 1827


Rachel Meghan Markle (born August 4, 1981), is an American actress, model and humanitarian from Los Angeles. Since 2011 she has portrayed Rachel Zane on the legal drama series "Suits" and is also known for her work as FBI special agent Amy Jessup in the sci-fi thriller "Fringe".

FBI agent Amy Jessup  from the sci-fi thriller "Fringe" and Rachel Zane from the legal drama series "Suits", met each other in Los Angeles.


Xbox 360 applications are non-game software applications designed to run on the Xbox 360 platform. Xbox 360 applications can either be stored on the console's hard disk drive or on a USB flash drive. Often, an Xbox Live Gold membership is also required to access some applications, as well as subscriptions correspondent to the applications. Some of these applications are country specific.

Xbox Live Gold membership can be stored on a usb flash drive. That's how it keeps track.


Jagdfliegerführer Oberitalien (Fighter Leader Northern Italy) was part of Luftflotte 2 (Air Fleet 2), one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe in World War II. It was formed in July 1943 in Bologna and subordinated to the Luftflotte 2. The headquarters were located at Bologna and moved to Pontecchio on March 18, 1944, moved again on July 15, 1944 to Verona.

The headquarters were located at  Verona in the fourth month of the year 1944.


Until They Sail is a 1957 American black-and-white CinemaScope drama film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by Robert Anderson, based on a story by James A. Michener included in his 1951 anthology "Return to Paradise", focuses on four New Zealand sisters and their relationships with U.S. Marines during World War II.

Until They Sail was released in the '60's.


Joanne Froggatt (born 23 August 1980) is an English actress of stage, television, and film. From 2010, she played lady's maid Anna Bates in all six seasons of the period drama "Downton Abbey". For this role, she received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2014.

Joanne Frogatt worked as a lady's maid from 2010.


Karim Mostafa Benzema (born 19 December 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the France national team as a striker. He has been described as an "immensely talented striker" who is "strong and powerful" and "a potent finisher from inside the box".


The Portobello Film Festival is an independent international film festival based in London, which annually premiers over 700 new films, including features, shorts, documentaries, music films and animation. Additionally, workshops and talks with top film directors (such as Stephen Frears and John Maybury) are also featured. Admission to the three-week-long festival is free of charge.

Admission to the Portobello Film Festival is only free of charge for Stephen Frears and John Maybury.


"Maji Desu ka Ska!" (まじですかスカ! , Maji Desu ka Suka! , "Seriously, Ska!?") is the 45th single of the Japanese group Morning Musume, released on April 6, 2011 on the Zetima record label. The single sold 33,698 copies in its first week, charting at #5 on the weekly Oricon singles charts and peaking at #7 on the Japan Billboard Hot 100.

Morning Musume was released on April 6, 2011 on the Zetima record label.


Four Pink Walls is the debut extended play (EP) by Canadian singer Alessia Cara. It was released on August 26, 2015 through Def Jam. With all songs containing writing by Cara, the preview of her upcoming debut studio album "Know-It-All" also includes major songwriting and production contributions from the duo Pop & Oak.

The initials of the singer of Four Pink Walls is CA.


Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for "The Little White Horse". She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s through the 1970s.

She was a best-selling author in the UK and US before she was 30.


Robert Geoffrey Gerard AO (born 3 January 1945) is a businessman, was Chairman of the Gerard Family's company Gerard Industries Pty Ltd, a former member of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and ran for the leadership of the Liberal party in 1987. He was born and grew up in Adelaide, and attended Prince Alfred College.

Robert geoffrey  was born in the reserve bank


"What's in It for Me" is a song written by Gary Burr and John Jarrard, and recorded by American country music artist John Berry. It was released in June 1994 as the fourth single from the album "John Berry". The song reached number 5 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 2 on the Canadian "RPM" Country Tracks chart.


The 1972–73 California Golden Seals season was the California Golden Seals' sixth season in the NHL. The Seals were hit particularly hard by defections to the new World Hockey Association, dropping 12 points from the previous year and returning to the basement of the West Division. The Seals had the worst record in the National Hockey League with a 13–55–10 record.

The 1972–73 California Golden Seals lost 5 times as many games as they won.


The Coathangers are a punk rock band from Atlanta. The band formed in 2006 as a joke. After playing a house show, they were asked to open for The Hiss on the strength of their performance. The name "Coathangers" refers to a method of self-induced abortion and was chosen for its irreverent vulgarity; all of the band's members are pro-choice. They have opened in New York City for the Black Lips.

the band members would be super angry if they found out about an abortion


Ratnasimha (IAST: Ratna-Siṃha, r. c. 1302-1303 CE) was a ruler of the Medapata (Mewar) kingdom in present-day Rajasthan, India. He belonged to the Rawal branch of the Guhila dynasty, which ruled from the Chitrakuta fort (modern Chittorgarh). The last ruler of this branch, he was defeated by Alauddin Khalji in 1303 CE.


Overbrook Park is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in the 1940s on the site of a former farm known as Supio's farm, offering new housing for returning GIs and their families. Overbrook Park remains a stable, safe middle-class neighborhood.

Supio's farm is an important part of Overbrook Park, helping to feed returning GIs and their families.


The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse is a collection of 22 fairy tales written by Hermann Hesse between the years of 1904 and 1918 and translated by Jack Zipes. A list of the individual fairy tales and the year in which they were written follows. This collection was published in 1995 and is the first English translation for most of the tales.

The Complete Fairy Tales has more or less 22 books


Harlem Beat (ハーレム・ビート , Hāremu Bīto ) is a Japanese manga series created by Yuriko Nishiyama. It was published by Tokyopop in the United States. The series contain 29 volumes in Japan. However, in the U.S., the manga goes up to 9 volumes under the name "Harlem Beat", while volumes 12+ are published under the series title Rebound. As of August 31, 2009, the "Rebound" volumes are out of print.

Harlem Beat was published by Tokyopop in the country of Japan.


Aisling McLaughlin is an Irish actor whose theatrical career spans a decade in the industry. She performed in the first of a series of one-woman plays called "Picasso's Women" in 2007. McLaughlin has also appeared in the television dramas "Fair City" and "Killinaskully".

Aisling McLaughlin was the lead actress in "Picasso's Women."


Sir Arthur Northcote, 2nd Baronet (1628–1688) was a baronet from Devon, England. He resided at Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres, Devon, which mansion house has since been demolished, and also at King's Nympton, Devon, which manor he purchased from Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet, his father's first cousin, and where he was buried.

Sir Hugh Pollard sold his property to a relative in the 17th century.


Robert William Barker (born December 12, 1923) is an American former television game show host. He is known for hosting CBS's "The Price Is Right" from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting "Truth or Consequences" from 1956 to 1974.


Barbara Niven (born February 26, 1953) is an American actress and producer, best known for her performances in Lifetime movies and television roles in "", "One Life to Live", and "Cedar Cove". Niven also had the leading role in the independent film "A Perfect Ending" (2012).

Barbara Niven was still acting in her fifties.


Kelvin Mitchell Korver (born February 21, 1949) is a former American football defensive tackle who played three seasons with the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Raiders in the second round of the 1972 NFL Draft. He first enrolled at Texas A&M University before transferring to Northwestern College. Korver attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas.


Lawrence Watkins (born October 5, 1946 in Bessemer, Alabama) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, and the New York Giants. He played college football at Alcorn State University.

Lawrence Watkins was born the year after Harry Truman was elected President


Completed in 1796, the Pawtucket Canal was originally built as a transportation canal to circumvent the Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. In the early 1820s it became a major component of the Lowell power canal system. with the founding of the textile industry at what became Lowell.

Transportation was more readily conducted after the construction of the Pawtucket Canal.


Dunaj were a Czech alternative art rock band from Brno active between 1986 and 1998. The band is notable for its inclusion of Czech rock figureheads Iva Bittová and Pavel Fajt, as well as its own international success and influence on the Czech alternative rock scene. The band's name translates in English to "Danube", referring to the river of this name.

The alternative rock band Dunaj sis not release any new albums after 1998.


Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate is a 1999 book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, written with a narrative voice while utilizing firsthand interviews and news reports for its historical basis. For the 608-page book, Woodward used extensive notes and also interviewed President Ford, President Bush's chief of staff, James Baker, and other people of focus.

Woodward had important connections that he tapped into while writing the book


Mekhong Full Moon Party (Thai: 15 ค่ำ เดือน 11 ; rtgs: Sip Ha Kham Duean Sip Et ; literally, "The 15th Day of the 11th Month") is a 2002 Thai comedy-drama about the Naga fireballs that arise from the Mekong at Nong Khai on the full moon in October. Written by Jira Maligool, the film was also Jira's directorial debut.

The show was made at the beginning of a decade.


Sullivan is a city in Hamilton Township, Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,249 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is the county seat of Sullivan County. The town is served by the Southwest School Corporation, and students go to Sullivan High School.


The 2002 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by Lou Holtz in his fourth season as head coach and played their home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. The Gamecocks did not finish the season bowl-eligible.

The Gamecocks represented the University of South Carolina during home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in South Carolina, while being led by head coach Lou Holtz in his fourth season, but later was disqualified from the bowl.


The 2017 EFL League Two play-off Final was a football match that was contested between Blackpool and Exeter City. The match was played at Wembley Stadium on 28 May 2017. Blackpool won the game 2-1 and were promoted to League One for the 2017-18 season.


Lawrence Leung (born 25 August 1977) is an Australian comedian, writer and director from Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known for his television series "Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure" based his one-man shows on stories about his obsessions, such as breakdancing, ghosts, the Rubik's Cube and his family. The son of Leo and Doris Leung, he grew up in Box Hill, Melbourne.

Leung was born in the south of the country.


John G. West is a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute (DI), and Associate Director and Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs of its Center for Science and Culture (CSC), which serves as the main hub of the Intelligent design movement.

John G. West does not only work with DI.


Grabina (German: Grabine ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biała, within Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 5 km north of Biała Prudnicka, 14 km north of Prudnik, and 33 km south-west of the regional capital Opole.


L'anatra all'arancia (internationally released as Duck in Orange Sauce) is a 1975 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce. For this film Monica Vitti was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress and with a Silver Ribbon in the same category. The film is named for the culinary dish, Duck à l'orange.

Duck in Orange Sauce is not just a comedy movie.


"Stand!" is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly and the Family Stone. The song's title and lyrics are a call for its listeners to "stand" up for themselves, their communities, and what they believe in. Like nearly all of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter.


Beaver Dam is a home rule-class city in Ohio County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,515 at the 2010 census. It is named for the Beaver Dam Baptist Church which predates the town by 65 years. The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1873.

Beaver Dam is in a state next to Tennessee.


Bhavesh Balchandani (born April 14, 2001 in Surat, Gujarat, India, nick name krishna) is an Indian film & television child actor. He is Known for played the role of Young Ranvijay in "Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera" on Star Plus. In 2013 he playad the role of Zubin in Hindi film "Ek Thi Daayan". He has appeared in more than 40 television advertisements.

Bhavesh Balchandani has been in over 20 commercials


USS "Scott" (DE-214), a "Buckley"-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Machinist's Mate First Class Robert R. Scott (1915–1941, who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, while serving aboard the battleship USS "California" . He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.

USS "Scott" (DE-214) is part of a blue water fleet


The Sahara Desert ant ("Cataglyphis bicolor") is a desert-dwelling ant of the genus "Cataglyphis". It inhabits the Sahara Desert and is one of the most heat tolerant animals known to date. However, there are at least four other species of "Cataglyphis" living in the Sahara desert, for example "C. bombycina", "C. savignyi", "C. mauritanicus" and "C. fortis".


Über Goober A Film About Gamers is a 2004 independent documentary film focusing on people who play role-playing games. The film was directed by Steve Metze and features interviews with Gary Gygax, Peter Adkison, Mike Stackpole and Bob Larson, amongst others. The film has screened at theatres, film festivals, and gaming conventions, winning the award for "Best Film" at Gen Con Indianapolis, 2004.


Geranium erianthum (woolly geranium) is a flowering plant found in China, Japan, Russia, and North America. Within its range, it is often known as "wild geranium" or "cranesbill", but note that these common names are also used for several other species within the "Geranium" genus.

The plant is found in only one country in North America.


Atomic Tom is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Luke White (lead vocals), Eric Espiritu (guitar, background vocals), Ethan Mentzer (bass, background vocals), and Tobias Smith (drums, background vocals). The band have released two albums, two EPs and a number of singles.


Beat TV (known as The Beat of London in Australia) was a daily entertainment show broadcast on ITV2. Hosted by Darren McMullen, Laura Whitmore and Dave Berry, the show broadcast for 30 minutes live each weeknight of the 2012 Summer Olympics celebrating a more social side to the games. Each night two celebrity guests appeared, with musical performances from the latest artists.

The hosts on Beat TV shared the screen time equally.


Frequency is an American drama television series that aired on The CW from October 5, 2016 to January 25, 2017. Inspired by the 2000 Gregory Hoblit film of the same name, "Frequency" was developed by Jeremy Carver. The show was canceled on May 8, 2017; five days later, an epilogue to the series was released.


Basil Davenport (1905-1966) was a literary critic, United States academic, anthologist, author of science fiction novels, and other genres. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 7, 1905, the son of Ira William Davenport and Emily Andrews Davison. He died on April 7, 1966, in New York County, New York, at the age of 61.

More than one literary critic was born in 1905.


John Christian Hopkins (born 1960) is a Narragansett journalist, author, poet and public speaker who resides in Tuba City, Arizona, United States. After having grown up in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, Hopkins graduated from the University of Rhode Island with degrees in journalism and history in 1987.

John Christian Hopkins didn't go to school in 1988.


Scarlet Days is a 1919 American silent western film produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and released through Paramount/Artcraft Pictures, Artcraft being an affiliate of Paramount. Richard Barthelmess stars in a role for which Griffith had screentested Rudolph Valentino. It is considered by many to be one of Griffith's worst films.


The Coathangers are a punk rock band from Atlanta. The band formed in 2006 as a joke. After playing a house show, they were asked to open for The Hiss on the strength of their performance. The name "Coathangers" refers to a method of self-induced abortion and was chosen for its irreverent vulgarity; all of the band's members are pro-choice. They have opened in New York City for the Black Lips.

Other bands have opened for the Coathangers.


Landry's, Inc., is an American, privately owned, multi-brand dining/hospitality/entertainment/gaming corporation. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Landry's, Inc. owns and operates more than 600 restaurant/hotel/casino/entertainment destinations in 37 states and the District of Columbia. The company also owns and operates numerous international locations.

Landry's, Inc., has more than 605 restaurants.


"Still Standing" is a song by American R&B singer Monica, written by Christopher Bridges, Adonis Shropshire, Bryan-Michael Cox and Monica for her sixth studio album, "Still Standing" (2010). Produced by Bryan-Michael Cox, it features guest vocals by her cousin and rapper Ludacris.

"Still Standing" was not a financial bomb


"Ocean Spray" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, which was released as a single on 4 June 2001, the third single to be released from the album "Know Your Enemy". James Dean Bradfield wrote both lyrics and music for the song. It reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart.


Wayman Lawrence Tisdale (June 9, 1964 – May 15, 2009) was an American professional basketball player in the NBA and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.

Wayman Lawrence Tisdale was elected to the Hall of Fame after his death.


Wood Green was a constituency for the House of Commons of the UK Parliament 1918—1983, centred on the Wood Green area of North London and its earlier broadest form included much of the seat of Enfield Southgate, created in 1950. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP).

Wood Green included much of the Samson area.


Hausmania is a self-governed cultural house in Oslo, Norway. It is run by a group of underground artists based on collectivist ideology. It is located in Hausmannsgate 34 in Oslo and is a fertile ground for avant-garde art. Also, next door it contains the experimental music venue Kafe Hærverk

Hausmania is named after the street it is located on.


Antonio Mucci was an Argentine politician, and Minister of Labor during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. He promoted a reduction of the influence of Peronism over the Argentine unions, and helped the President draft a bill for the Congress for that purpose. He resigned when the bill was rejected.


All India Kashmir Committee was set up by prominent Muslim leaders of India on July 25, 1931. Muhammad Iqbal and a number of other leaders were invited by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad to form the committee. Although orthodox press and historians attribute the formation of the Committee to Dr. Muhammad Iqbal.

All India Kashmir Committee included Hindus


Edward M. "Teddy" Sears (born April 6, 1977) is an American actor, known for his roles as Richard Patrick Woolsley on the TNT legal drama series "Raising the Bar", Patrick on the first season of FX anthology horror drama "American Horror Story" (retroactively titled ""), Dr. Austin Langham on the "Showtime" period drama series "Masters of Sex", and Hunter Zolomon/Zoom in "The Flash".


Michael Anthony Woods is an English producer, DJ, and remixer of various EDM genres, mainly progressive house, electro house and trance. He is the founder of the imprint label Diffused Music, which was established in 2010 and focuses primarily on progressive house and tech house. He has worked under the stage names of Out of Office, Warrior, Accadia, M1 and M3.

The very talented Michael Anthony Woods, born 2010, established the imprint label diffused Music in 2010


Double Whammy is a 1987 novel by Carl Hiaasen. The protagonist, a private investigator, is hired to expose a celebrity bass fisherman as a cheat and is drawn into a frame-up for murder. The book introduced the character of "Skink" (Clinton Tyree), who becomes a recurring character in Hiaasen's subsequent novels.


Café Paradis (English Title: Paradise Cafe) is a 1950 Danish film, directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr., and written by Johannes Allen. The film received the Bodil Award for Film of the Year, and Ib Schønberg, for what is regarded his finest performance, received the Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Paradise Cafe, Directed by Ipsen and Lauritzen, won Ib Schønberg a couple of awards for Best Supporting Actor.


The Serbian women's university basketball team (Serbian: Женска универзитетска кошаркашка репрезентација Србије / Ženska univerzitetska košarkaška reprezentacija Srbije ) represents Serbia at the Summer Universiade and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of Serbia, the governing body for basketball in Serbia.

The Serbian women's university basketball team represents a country in Western Europe.


"Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Billy Dean. It was released in November 1992 as the first single from Dean's album "Fire in the Dark". The song reached number 6 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in March 1993 and number 1 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada. It was written by Dean and Tim Nichols.

Tryin' to Hide a Fire in the Dark is an awesome song recorded by the talented Billy Dean, released in 1992, more specifically in march of that year


Park Bo-gum (; born June 16, 1993) is a South Korean actor. He gained recognition for his diverse range of roles in film and television, notably, a psychopathic lawyer in "Hello Monster" (2015), a genius Go player in "Reply 1988" (2015–2016), and a Joseon Crown Prince in "Love in the Moonlight" (2016).

Park Bo-gum worked on no more than a single project in 2016.


Michael J. McCann is a Canadian author of crime fiction and supernatural fiction. His crime novel "Sorrow Lake", the first March and Walker Crime Novel, is a finalist for the 2015 Hammett Prize. He is also the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series and "The Ghost Man", a supernatural thriller. He is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada.

2018 was the first time that someone considered whether Michael J. McCann should have a prize for one of his books.


Boris Cabrera (born December 16, 1980 in Inglewood, California), is a former actor. Cabrera is primarily known as originating the role of Marco in the live-adaptation television series of the long-running book series "Animorphs". He left the entertainment industry in the early 2000s and became a personal fitness trainer.

On December 16, 2000 Boris Cabrera turned 30 years old.


Gillot was a 17th/18th-century French theatre manager and playwright about whom we have no information except that he wrote farces and puppets plays for the Théâtre de la foire Saint-Germain at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. We have four burlesque plays by him whose main character is Pulcinella from the commedia dell'arte:


George Booth Post (September 29, 1906 – March 26, 1997) was an American watercolorist and art educator. He was an important contributor of the California style watercolor movement (also known as the California School of watercolor) of the mid 1920s until the mid 1950s.

He was important to the independence of California.


Giancarlo Danova (18 November 1938 – 15 June 2014) was an Italian football forward who played for A.C. Milan, Torino F.C., Catania Calcio, Atalanta B.C., Fiorentina F.C. and Mantova Calcio. During his career he played on three Italian Championship sides.


Daniel Alexander "Danny" Hultzen (born November 28, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. Hultzen attended the University of Virginia, where he starred for the Virginia Cavaliers baseball team. He was drafted and selected second overall by the Seattle Mariners in the 2011 MLB draft.

Daniel Alexander Hultzen plays for the Seattle Mariners.


Terry Alexander (born April 15, 1955 in Marietta, Georgia) is the current hitting coach of the Bristol Pirates and previously served as head coach of Jacksonville University's baseball team from 1991 to 2013. He was the school's most successful and longest-tenured head coach, compiling a record of 713-590-2 record in 22 seasons.

Terry Alexander was born in a state in the Southern Hemisphere


Scars of Love is a 1918 Australian silent film. It is a lost film about which little is known except it is a melodrama featuring a Red Cross nurse and an Anzac soldier which climaxes in the European battlefields of World War I in which both leads die. It deals with the sins of the father visiting the children.

Scars of Love was made in the Northern Hemisphere


Nick Jr. Germany is a German TV television channel broadcasting to children in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The channel was launched on September 12, 2005 as a programming block on the relaunched version of Nickelodeon (Germany). The channel now broadcasts 24/7 from March 31, 2009. Before the channel launched, some programs were shown Super RTL and Disney Channel (Germany).

Nick Jr. Germany is a TV channel from the southern hemishere


The 1986 FIA European Formula Three Cup was the second European Formula Three Cup race and the first to be held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari on October 26, 1986. The race was won by Italian Stefano Modena, driving for Euroteam outfit, who finished ahead of the previous years winner Alex Caffi and fellow Italian Nicola Larini.

Alex Caffi won the FIA European Formula Three Cup in 1986.


Elliot Junior Uyi Omozusi (born 15 December 1988) is an English footballer who plays for Chelmsford City. Omozusi had two spells with Leyton Orient, playing over 100 games. He also played for Fulham, Norwich City and Charlton Athletic. Omozusi plays primarily at right back, but can also play in the centre of defence or in midfield.


6546 Kaye, provisional designation 1987 DY, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 22 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 February 1987, by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the South Bohemian Kleť Observatory in the Czech Republic. The asteroid was named for American actor Danny Kaye.


The Anubis Shrine was part of the grave gods of Tutankhamun (18th Dynasty, New Kingdom). The tomb (KV62) was discovered almost intact on 4 November 1922 in the Valley of the Kings in west Thebes by Howard Carter. Today the object, with the find number 261, is an exhibit at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the inventory number JE 61444.

The shrine was part of the gods of hamun


Coconut jam (Malay: "kaya" ; Indonesian: "seri kaya, srikaya" ; Tagalog: "matamís sa báo, matamís na báo, "or" kalamay-hatì" ; Hokkien: 咖吔 "ka-ia") is a food spread or fruit curd made from a base of coconut milk, eggs and sugar. It is wildly popular in Southeast Asia, mainly in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, and in Palembang in Indonesia.

Coconut jam is the same as coconut milk.


The solar system is much more complicated now, astronomers say, than in 1930 when Clyde Tombaugh added Pluto to the inventory of wandering lights circling the Sun.

The solar system has been studied for decades


Carl Smith collided with a concrete lamp-post while skating and suffered a skull fracture that caused a coma. When he failed to regain consciousness, his parents on August 8 consented to his life support machine being turned off.


Three leading Japanese banks have announced an alliance forming the world's largest financial group. Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of 2002.

The Japanese banking industry is consolidating power.


She flew to Los Angeles last week, after her 74-year-old mother had a stroke, but is expected to return to Texas in a few days.

Her mother had been alive for more than 7 decades at that point.


The terror attacks, it was clear, had blasted a hole in the dam holding back Mumbai's reservoir of woes. While the protesters seemed to be reacting to a tragedy that had left at least 164 people dead and 308 injured, they were really venting the frustrations of having to cope with life in a city with an infrastructure so stretched that simply getting to work and back is an ordeal. At peak hour, the commuter trains - which carry six million people each day - are packed with up to 5,000 commuters, even though they're built for 1,800. Every day, an average of 11 people die on the railway system, either because they fall off the trains or because they're hit by passing locomotives as they cross the tracks.

Although terrorism was taking place, citizens still had many thigns to be enraged over.


Libya's case against Britain and the US concerns the dispute over their demand for extradition of Libyans charged with blowing up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in 1988.

Libya wants the Libyans that blew up the plane back back in their country.


"Child labor" is, generally speaking, work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking access to education).

Child labor is terrible for children's well-being.


When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.


The land claims agreement must still be approved by the Canadian House of Commons , but has already passed through the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador.

American house of commons is not mentioned


The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.

Smaller catalogers are hit harder than bigger ones.


British actor, Hugh Laurie, had been favourite to win best drama actor for "House", but lost out to "Boston Legal"'s James Spader.

Hugh starts and ends with the same letter.


The owners of Phinda, the South African-based Conservation Corporation, could not have paid for a better advertisement for their philosophy of wildlife conservation: a people-based approach to conservation, which is slowly gaining ground in Africa as game reserves come under ever greater threat from hungry, poor and angry local populations.


In addition to family, the memorial service was attended by actors and actresses who have worked with Ledger, including Cate Blanchett who starred with Ledger in the Bob Dylan bio-flick, I'm Not There. Blanchett spoke of the times she shared with Ledger in New York and Los Angeles. The Other speakers included his parents, sister and Neil Armfield, a director of Ledger's last Australian film, Candy. An emotional Williams, was wearing dark glasses and a white dress with black trim, she was not accompanied by her daughter Matilda. Williams walked in clutching the arm of Ledger's older sister, Kate.


The Sector 15A locality in Noida, India, which is considered an elite enclave of rich industrialists, bureaucrats and professionals was in for a shock when Anant Gupta, son of Adobe India CEO Naresh Gupta was abducted in broad daylight by two unidentified men on Monday. The Noida police was subsequently notified but they were unable to locate the motor-cycle used by the kidnappers as no one was able to take down the registration number of the vehicle. A number of raiding teams have been formed by the police to track down the offenders.

Naresh Gupta is not the son of Adobe India CEO.


Qatar and Oman are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, which also groups Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Gulf Cooperation Council contains countries in the middle-east


The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's song.


James Wilkinson, Ms. Rice's communications director, was shoved against a wall by guards as he tried to enter the meeting.

James Wilkinson is a man that works for a female


For one, Israel can comfortably subtract Gaza's 1.5m inhabitants from its demographic nightmare, maintaining, for a while longer perhaps, the Jewish majority.


South African President Thabo Mbeki, the main mediator in Côte d'Ivoire's peace process, said on Sunday that Pretoria is heightening its intervention in the West African nation to pave the way for elections later this year.

South African President Thabo Mbeki never excluded himself from the peace process


When she was barely 20 years old, Dutch singer Edsilia Rombley got her first large taste of international acclaim. Already a winner of the smaller imitation contest Soundmix Show, she decided to shoot higher. With a great deal of determination, she performed in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her song, the R&B flavored "Hemel en aarde" (Heaven and earth), placed fourth and gave her country their highest placing at Eurovision since their last win in 1975. No Dutch contestant after her has been able to place similarly.

Her song, the R&B flavored "Hemel en aarde" placed fourth in the year after 1974.


Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers from the first Gulf War are still suffering from severe symptoms that have been linked to what is now known as Gulf War illness, say veterans advocates.

A least three soldiers are still suffering from severe symptoms that have been linked to what is now known as Gulf War illness.


Her husband, political novice Juan Carlos Lecompte, scrambles to preserve Betancourt's dream and sustain the Oxygen Green Party, the political party she founded.


"The Black Panther", or "The Black Pearl", as he was known, was top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, with nine goals to his name.

"The Black Pearl" was a talented player.


Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied Friday, in the southern city of Basra, to show support for Iraq's new constitution and the Shiite-dominated government.

Many of these muslims are rallying before the weekend


A priest who served in the Diocese of Metuchen in the mid-1980s has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a Massachusetts boy.

A priest who worked in metuchen is guilty of pederasty


In this respect, the reforms required across Europe are similar: stronger incentives within pension systems to delay retirement, rules which facilitate gradual retirement, incentives for workers to save for their retirement, and public information measures to improve awareness of the options available.

Europe encourages working to an older age


The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square, doing press interviews, Sunday, when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.

The London Metropolitan Police believes that the actor was wet right after the shooting.


The privately owned spacecraft only got about 400 feet into space, according to radar measurements, but it was enough to confirm that it no longer takes a well-heeled government project to organize space travel.

The distance the spacecraft got into space was less then 401 feet.


The exchanges resulted in greatly improved financial, oil, fisheries, and military issues, but Great Britain consistently refused to address the issue of sovereignty over the Falklands.

Great Britain refused to address the latest Issue of the financial publication sovereignty to the falklands


However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.

The clothes they wore was an indication to their affiliation


Brad Pitt is causing havoc on his school run. The handsome actor has been spotted taking his kids to school in New York, causing local mothers to fight over who drives all their children in the mornings, in the hope of meeting the star. A source said: "Moms are fighting over who gets to carpool the kids to school. They are all dressing up and are desperate to meet him." Brad, 45, has taken on the duty of driving adopted boys Maddox, eight, and Pax, five, to class while his partner Angelina Jolie shoots her latest film 'Salt'. The couple also raise four other children, adopted daughter Zahara, four, and their naturally conceived children Shiloh, two, and eight-month-old twins Vivienne and Knox.


Thanks to the thirty Heads who responded to my question about maternity leave. Clearly, the amount of maternity leave offered to teachers at international schools varies greatly from school to school.

If you want to know the amount of maternity leave a teacher can get, you have to know the specific school she works for.


John and Frances Galyean are partners in life and now both share a passion for photography. The Galyeans, married for more than 46 years, have been involved in photography since 1999.

The Galyeans have been married for at least 0 days


According to Naeye, the newfangled telescopes will be able to peer so far back in space and, thus, time that they "will see the first galaxies assembling a few hundred million years after the Big Bang."

The telescope is more powerful than previous versions of it


Although the number of the confirmed Ebola cases has risen slightly to 26 in Gabon and to 16 in Congo Brazzaville, new infections are now so low that it seems the epidemic is "burning out".


Clonaid, which claims to have produced 13 cloned babies worldwide, told the Streats daily newspaper two Singaporean couples had signed deals agreeing to pay $200,000 to conceive children through cloning.

Clonaid claims to have produced less than (5*5) cloned babies worldwide.


On the other hand, the article, "Fiction and Facts About Drug Legalization", by Joseph Califano identifies possible social problems that could occur as a result of marijuana being decriminalized in any form, whether for medical purposes or for recreational use.

Cocaine's not mentioned in the statement


On Wednesday night people in the Bahçelievler district of Yenibosna in Istanbul, Turkey, claimed that they had seen a UFO flying in the sky, the Turkish newspaper Sabah reports. They said that the UFO was glowing with white lights and that it revolved around itself. Istanbul has had previous UFO incidents in the past, and in 2002, the Istanbul UFO Museum was opened to the public.

Istanbul has had previous UFO incidents in the past, and in the year after 2001.


Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, whose pioneering discoveries revolutionised police investigation techniques, told the Guardian newspaper innocent people were being "branded as criminals" because the database retained details of everyone arrested, regardless of whether they were later convicted. The Government now holds more than five million profiles, up 1.4 million in two years. Sir Alec also called for improved genetic testing procedures, warning that the current system could result in a miscarriage of justice, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper.

He called because he wanted improved genetic testing


The father of a British soldier who was killed in Iraq yesterday has paid tribute to his son. 29 year-old Corporal Matthew Cornish, who was married with two young children, sustained injuries after a mortar attack on a base in Basra. He was rushed to hospital, but he later died. He was the first soldier to be killed in an attack on a UK military compound in Iraq. "I'm proud of him as a soldier and as a son. He did the Army proud," 60 year-old Robin Cornish said of his son, the one hundred and fifteenth British soldier to be killed in Iraq since operations began in 2003.

Matthew Cornish was married with two young children.


A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker or attackers intend to kill others and intend to die in the process (see suicide). In a suicide attack in the strict sense the attacker dies by the attack itself, for example in an explosion or crash caused by the attacker.

A suicide attacker intends to kill himself.


The BBC's Tim Franks says frustrated British diplomats insist there have been several achievements but there is no doubt that the continued delay in reaching agreement on a budget for the EU hangs over all discussions.


Alex Da Silva, a salsa dance instructor and choreographer for Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting four of his students, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department. Da Silva, 41, is accused of assaulting the students in his two homes in the San Fernando Valley over the last six years, police said. He is being held in lieu of $3.8 million bail. Authorities said the four victims were all students of Da Silva at the time of the assaults.

Silva can walk free if someone pays $3.8 million for his bail.


The two sectors of the divided island of Cyprus held a referendum on reunification on Saturday, April 24, 2004.

The governments on each side of Cyprus decided to ask the public about reunifying the island.


With Washington hinting it might soften its tough stance to break the deadlock, top US negotiator, Christopher Hill, said the two sides needed to review the situation.

The deadlock must be addressed by all parties involved to reach resolution.


An Israeli judicial inquiry has ruled out prosecuting the police officers who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during a violent demonstration in 2000.


Alcohol now fuels 44 percent of all violent crime and 70 percent of Accident and Emergency hospital admissions at peak times are due to booze.

according to article alcohol is involved in alot of mishaps


Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.

Downtown Bogota is a nice place to live.


The organizing committee said 65 countries have entered the Lillehammer Olympic Games, matching the number of nations at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.

The Lillehammer Olympic games take place 12 years after the Albertville Olympic games.


Canadian wireless technology licensing company Wi-LAN has begun legal action against Cisco, alleging the networking giant's Linksys and Aironet products are making use of its intellectual property without permission.


With a Queensland state election coming up in Australia, many minor parties and independents will be looking to hold balance of power and making the major parties listen to what they have to say. The Patrica Petersen are one of the independents. Wikinews reporter Patrick Gillett held an exclusive email interview with Ms Peterson, candidate for the electoral district of Bundamba.

An independent will be elected in the Bundamba district.


US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged all 70 nations attending a conference on Afghanistan's future to help the country succeed. She told delegates at the one-day event in The Hague that the international effort there had been "undermanned and underfunded" over recent years. Among the countries to offer help has been US foe Iran. The conference comes after the US announced a major policy rethink on its approach towards Afghanistan. The meeting, called by the UN, comes amid widespread concern that not enough progress has been made since the US-led invasion in 2001. Support for Afghan reconstruction is being sought beyond the mainly-Western countries which have troops there.

East and western countries has troops in Afghanistan.


Asia has the highest number of child workers, but Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of working children relative to population.

There are more children in Asia than there are in Sub-Saharan Africa.


Thus, China's President repeatedly sent letters and envoys to the Dalai Lama and to the Tibetan Government asking that Tibet "join" the Republic of China.


Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.


Organic fertilizers like vermi compost are used for increasing the quality, fertility and mineral content of the soil.


The ruling Popular Party proposed the ban of Batasuna after the 24-year-old Basque party refused to condemn the terrorist bombing the ETA carried out on Aug. 4 against civilians.


The chain of events which led to the collapse of Barings, Britain's oldest merchant bank, is a demonstration of how not to manage a derivatives operation.

There is one correct way on how to manage a derivatives operation.


At the very outskirts of commerce, Baka pygmies in southeastern Cameroon use a cyanide compound to stun bees while raiding their nests for honey.


Yunus, who was nominated for the peace prize at least twice before, is the first person from Bangladesh, a country of 147 million, to win a Nobel Prize. His Nobel Prize is a rare bright light in a country struggling to defeat Islamic terrorists, and which is chronically inundated by floods and battered by storms that blow in from the Bay of Bengal. The country, formerly known as East Pakistan, is bordered by the Bay of Bengal, India and Burma.


Co-producing the film is Happy Madison, the company owned by Sandler, who has been a compatriot of Schneider's since they met early in their careers, as mutually struggling stand-up comedians in Los Angeles.


The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.


Saudi Arabia's production mix will shift to a higher proportion of lighter crudes. Unlike last year's Qatif and Abu Safah developments, nearly all of the proposed projects produce Arab Light or lighter crudes.

saudi arabia produces mostly heavy crude


Movil Access, a Grupo Salinas company, announced today that Gustavo Guzman will appoint Jose Luis Riera as company CFO of Grupo Iusacell.

It was announced on 7/17/2003 that Gustavo Guzman will appoint Jose Luis Riera as company CFO of Grupo Iusacell.


The State of California Department of Occupational Health and Safety released its report on the September 5 fatal accident on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction.

At least a couple people died in a September 5 accident on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction.


About 50 percent of all British party members are female (in contrast to only about 25 percent in Germany) but only 9.2 percent are represented in parliament.

The exact number of British party members who are female is more than 50 percent.


The richest provinces, Ontario, Alberta and B.C, have spent billions on tax cuts and slashing services while at the same time howling for Ottawa to give them more money for medicare.

Ottawa has plenty more money to offer for medicare.


Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a maker of high-speed networking systems, which he later sold to Cisco Systems.

None of Bechtolsheim's businesses did well.


Mr Ferdinand Piech said that the German company did not have any confidential plans or documents about GM's ultra-low-cost factory project.


After insulting the UN committee insinuating they were irrelavant, Bush no sooner had approval from Congress to use "force/war" if Hussein did not permit unfettered access for inspections - and the war ships were moved into place on the Gulf.

Hussein was never scared in his entire life.


The 38-year-old actress recently appeared in a court case against Jack Jordan, a man who was found guilty of stalking her. The friend added: "Everyone is so happy for Uma after what she went through with that stalker. Arki is a guy who can take care of her. "Uma is hoping this time, it's really love. Everyone wants the best for her. And Arki is a really sweet guy." Uma was previously married to actor Gary Oldman, while Arpad has two children with Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson.


On any given day, Ms Lupse is on camera for between one and five hours, presenting a number of different call-in shows on several different networks: not only National TV but also Prima TV and Antena 1, all broadcast from the same studio. Despite the repetition, she doesn't get bored. "For me it's always exciting. I enjoy it very much! If I'm tired at the end of the show it means I've done a good show. But I'm never tired during the show." When I play a clip of one of her energetic show presentations - not the one she's become best known for - she elaborates on her exuberance. "I'm always excited when I'm about to give big prizes! There is no show without winners!".


Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said the actor's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf.

Nicolas Cage was in LA when his child was born.


The resignation came amid recent allegations by Massachusetts' attorney general that the Boston archdiocese engaged in "an elaborate scheme" to keep quiet the issue of child sexual abuse by priests.

The resignation was caused by the allegations.


In announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism.

President Bush enjoys a nice relaxing game of golf.


Yunus, who shared the 1.4 million prize Friday with the Grameen Bank that he founded 30 years ago, pioneered the concept of "microcredit." It allows very poor people, who don't qualify for traditional loans, to get loans of as little as a few dollars without collateral. The banks' shareholders are the impoverished people it supports.


Definitely do not lift the ban on ivory, it will drive the species to near extinction again. Elephant numbers should be controlled but what has ivory got to do with it? It is a barbaric trade and should be banned permanently.


Carmen was only slightly put out to find that women are as poorly represented among Australian political scientists as they are in parliament (Leonie was asking, 'where are all the women?').

Australian parliament works closely with female political scientists such as Carmen.


And this is a town that everybody agrees, law enforcement, Border Patrol, residents on both sides, is a staging area of illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

Illegal aliens are bringing drugs into the town.


In June 2004, top Russian oil producer Lukoil signed a $1 billion 35-year production-sharing agreement to develop Uzbek natural gas deposits.

Lukoil owns all Uzbek natural gas deposits


NASA's Saturn exploration spacecraft, Cassini , has discovered an atmosphere about the moon Enceladus . This is the first such discovery by Cassini, other than Titan , of the presence of an atmosphere around a Saturn moon.


Budapest consists of two parts, Buda and Pest, which are situated on opposite sides of the river and connected by a series of bridges.

Buda and Pest function as separate cities.


To the world, M. Larry Lawrence, the new U.S. emissary to Switzerland who hosted President Clinton on his Southern California vacation, will be known as Mr. Ambassador.


Only 18 states, including Massachusetts, have specific provisions that allow women who quit their jobs due to domestic violence to qualify for UI.

no woman has quit their job due to abuse.


Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were "playing out of their socks", but admitted that they were "racing against time" to track down the bombers.

Sir Ian Blair worships the Dark Lord Sauron.


He interviewed Shigeko Sasamori in December 2004. Ms. Sasamori was thirteen when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).

Shigeko Sasamori saw the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.


If you have rheumatic heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes, or take digitalis drugs, vitamin E can be harmful.

diabetes is better than high blood pressure.


Romania currently supplies one of the world's largest contingents of troops in Iraq, with nearly 1000 people.

Iraq is mainly occupied by Romania troops


ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra's younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen.  The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are the first relics of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be identified.  The breakthrough, by an Austrian team, has provided pointers to Cleopatra's true ethnicity. Scholars have long debated whether she was Greek or Macedonian like her ancestor the original Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who was made ruler of Egypt by Alexander the Great, or whether she was north African.


Last week, saw the fall of the Dutch right wing coalition government, made up of the Christian-democrats (CDA) led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, the right wing liberal party (VVD) and the so-called left-liberal D66.

The Christian-democrats were founded in Israel.


Anorexia in males accounted for approximately six percent of cases seen in an eating disorder clinic.

The eating disorder clinic seen only one male a day  with anorexia


Gladys Lauture, a close Aristide friend and longtime supporter, said she and a team of carpenters, plumbers and decorators spent 18 days making Aristide's Port-au-Prince home livable again.

Aristide did not move back into his Port-au-Prince home because he didn't fancy it


Clint Brown, sports presenter for 3 News on TV3 in New Zealand has resigned amid the allegations that he had verbally attacked a taxi driver which resulted in him being admitted to hospital with a concussion and a broken eye socket. TV3 has confirmed that they have accepted the resignation of Brown. Rick Friesen, Chief Operating Officer of the TV Works division of CanWest MediaWorks NZ, that runs TV3, said: "We wish to acknowledge Clint's significant skills as a sports broadcaster, and thank him for his 17 years of very loyal service to TV3. Clint Brown is a passionate New Zealand sports fan, and he has been at the forefront of some of New Zealand's biggest sporting moments."


Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that Mahmoud Abbas is a man that Israel can do business with.


After the polio cases were identified, public health officials in the Dominican Republic and Haiti began giving the vaccines to large numbers of children. Public health officials now say the disease is under control and is not a public health threat.

After the poland cases were identified, public health officials in the Dominican Republic and Haiti began giving the vaccines to large numbers of children


Dr. Amy Joy Lanou, director of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in America, was quick to point out health dangers of the Atkins diet.

Dr. Amy Joy Lanou, director of the Doctor's Committee for Responsible Medicine in America, pointed out health dangers of the Atkins diet.


Witnesses told police a gas canister exploded to start the fire in a multilevel building which houses the Ycua Bolanos supermarket, a food court and a parking garage, causing the bottom floor to collapse.

in a multilevel building police made a gas canister explode said witnesses


David Millar retained his Tour de France leader's yellow jersey despite crashing in the final two kilometres of the third stage of the race to Nantes.


Oil prices this Tuesday rose sharply in New York and London reaching a record 42,33 US dollars per barrel, 2.45 US dollars more than last Friday.

New York and London are in the same country


A 15ft (4.5 meter) northern bottle-nosed whale has been spotted swimming in the river Thames in Central London, UK. The "Thames whale" managed to swim up past the Thames barrier and under many bridges, reaching as far as Chelsea before it turned around just before Albert Bridge. TV news helicopters scrambled to provide live TV footage of the whale, and many spectators lined the banks of the river. The whale is said to be looking healthy, although some fear that the whale may beach itself as it tried to do before rescuers forced it back into the middle of the river. Normally found in the North Atlantic, there have been sightings of a second whale near Southend.

The northern-bottle nosed whale, typically found near Central London, has been popping up in places around the North Atlantic.


Unlike seal hunting in Canada, where pups are hunted for fur, poachers in China catch seals primarily to sell to zoos or to use the genital organs for traditional Chinese medicine.

Chinese seal poachers typically sell their seals to exotic animal collectors.


Eilat, Israel's most southerly port and the country's only access to the Red Sea, has long been a winter destination for tourists, 80% of whom are Europeans attracted by its temperate climates and clear waters.

Other ports are further south than Eilat.


Budapest again became the focus of national political drama in the late 1980s, when Hungary led the reform movement in eastern Europe that broke the communist monopoly on political power and ushered in the possibility of multiparty politics.

The thing at subject was the main focus more than 40 years ago


On June 28, 1997, in what would become known as the bite fight, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear, purportedly in retaliation for Holyfield headbutting him.

It was a clean fight with no blood loss.


World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will  bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.


In Italy, big protests by students and university staff against government reforms to higher education brought parts of central Rome to a standstill on Tuesday.

Big student and university staff protests brought parts of the Roman Empire to a standstill on Tuesday.


GUS on Friday disposed of its remaining home shopping business and last non-UK retail operation with the 390m (265m) sale of the Dutch home shopping company, Wehkamp, to Industri Kapital, a private equity firm.

Industri Kapital is traded on the stock exchange.


SEATTLE — United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche should spend at least 30 years behind bars after his surprise guilty plea here Tuesday for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and illicit drug profits, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan said. Sullivan said outside court that Roueche's leadership of the violent UN gang and the sophistication of the international drug conspiracy will all be factors used to argue for a longer sentence — up to life — for the 33-year-old Canadian. And he stressed that the plea agreement reached with Roueche did not include "any kind of break with respect to sentencing.".

United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche should spend at least 30 years behind bars after his surprise guilty plea here Tuesday for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and illicit drug profits, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan said. Roueche was doing this out of the goodness of his heart.


Three leading Japanese banks have announced an alliance forming the world's largest financial group. Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of 2002.

Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of the year prior to 2004.


Tuesday, famed ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, popularly known as the QE2, arrived in her home port of Southampton, England for the final time. The Cunard Line ship has been in service since 1969, and is to become a floating hotel in Dubai. The homecoming was marred as the vessel ran aground on a sandbank near Calshot at the mouth of Southampton Water. The ship hit the sandbank at around 0530 GMT, and five tugs took around 30 minutes to pull the QE2 clear. The 70,000 tonne vessel was towed into port and eventually docked at 0730 GMT according to the Solent coastguard. Around a thousand crew and 1,700 passengers were aboard the ship, which was returning from a cruise around the Mediterranean.

The QE2 hit the sandbank at around 0530 and five tugs pulled it clear by 0630


In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.

The Gemini 8 mission was launched in the first month of 1966.


Concerns have been raised that potential leads in the hunt for missing York woman Claudia Lawrence are not being followed up quickly enough. It comes after hotel staff in Malton contacted police after a stranger in the bar expressed satisfaction when asked if the chef was still missing. The incident happened more than three weeks ago and staff said detectives had not yet been in touch. Police said leads were being assessed in a methodical and structured way.

There is a hunt for a missing New York woman named Claudia Lawrence.


On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.

San Carlos Battalion put a grenade in a car.


On any given day, Ms Lupse is on camera for between one and five hours, presenting a number of different call-in shows on several different networks: not only National TV but also Prima TV and Antena 1, all broadcast from the same studio. Despite the repetition, she doesn't get bored. "For me it's always exciting. I enjoy it very much! If I'm tired at the end of the show it means I've done a good show. But I'm never tired during the show." When I play a clip of one of her energetic show presentations - not the one she's become best known for - she elaborates on her exuberance. "I'm always excited when I'm about to give big prizes! There is no show without winners!".

Lupse gives away small prizes every other show.


Besides producing this riverine sea, the deluge also nourishes the largest stretch of rain forest left on Earth. One-third of the remaining rain forest was in the Amazon basin and fires had consumed about 10% of it, an area twice the size of California.

The Amazon is the third largest rainforest in the world


On Wednesday night people in the Bahçelievler district of Yenibosna in Istanbul, Turkey, claimed that they had seen a UFO flying in the sky, the Turkish newspaper Sabah reports. They said that the UFO was glowing with white lights and that it revolved around itself. Istanbul has had previous UFO incidents in the past, and in 2002, the Istanbul UFO Museum was opened to the public.

The Istanbul UFO Museum was opened to the public in the year prior to 2004.


The Beetle has achieved an unbelievable cult status across the world, not least because its creation marked the launch of what has since become the largest car company in Europe.

The Beetle launch the largest car company in the world.


Exercising the powers referred to in article 15, paragraph 3, of the protocol to suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, the government of Ecuador makes a reservation with regard to article 15, paragraph 2, relating to the settlement of disputes.

article 15, paragraph 3 concerns the settlement of disputes.


Diana, Princess of Wales died on Sunday, 31 August 1997 following a car crash in Paris. There was widespread public mourning at the death of this popular figure, culminating with her funeral at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6 September 1997.

Princess Diana's funeral was within the same month as her death.


The Armed Forces Press Committee (COPREFA) admitted that the government troops sustained 11 casualties in these clashes, adding that they inflicted three casualties on the rebels.


Tropical Storm Arthur is projected to weaken tonight, but it will likely regain strength after entering the Bay of Campeche on Sunday.The 2008 Atlantic  hurricane season got off to an early start today when a tropical storm formed off the coast of Belize, one day before the season officially begins. Tropical Storm Arthur formed Saturday afternoon and quickly made landfall at the Yucatan Peninsula, near the border between Belize and Mexico. Both  countries issued a tropical storm warning for the peninsula's eastern coastline. In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, ports were closed to small boats,  water sports were banned, and those living in coastal areas were encouraged to take precautions.

Tropical Storm Arthur is as weak as it can get.


The results of numerous epidemiological studies and recent clinical trials provide consistent evidence that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of chronic disease.

Fruit and vegetable diets ensure you will not get a chronic disease.


Mayor Michael Bloomberg seemed ambivalent to the change, saying "I would like to see it stay the Freedom Tower, but it's their building, and they don't need me dumping on it. If they could rent the whole thing by changing the name, I guess they're going to do that, and they probably, from a responsible point of view, should. From a patriotic point of view, is it going to make any difference?".


Centre-left voters in Italy have chosen Romano Prodi as the candidate who will challenge Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year's election. The former European Commission president and Italian PM won 73.5% of votes, according to partial results of primaries.

The winner of the election lost the popular vote


King Tut Tomb Fetuses May Reveal Pharaoh's Mother - Egypt Mummies Moved for DNA Tests; Pharaoh Among Them? - March 30, 2009—Researchers may have finally come face-to-face with the real—and wrinkled—Nefertiti, thanks to sophisticated CT scanning technology. A carefully carved limestone face in the inner core of the Egyptian queen's famous bust (above, right) has emerged in new images, a new study says. The object, currently on display in Berlin's Altes Museum, was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of Egyptian royal sculptor Thutmose. The artist had sculpted Nefertiti—wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten—more than 3,300 years ago.

Items dating more than 40 centuries old from King Tut's tomb are currently on display in a museum in Germany.


New Zealand's Qualifications Authority said Friday that it still strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.

the answer has to clearly show french text-speak


In 1986 he became the head of London European Airways, a business in which Ryanair had bought an 85% stake. This position, however, quickly disappeared as the carrier became Ryanair UK and was then merged entirely with Ryanair. Over the next decade, Cathal worked both on the executive board of the airline and as a pilot, although he resigned from the latter by 1996. He remained with Ryanair until leaving the board 2002, by which time he was a multi-millionaire due to the success of the airline.

Ryan was a pilot for Ryanair until 2002.


The father of an Oxnard teenager accused of gunning down a gay classmate who was romantically attracted to him has been found dead, Ventura County authorities said today.  Bill McInerney, 45, was found shortly before 8 a.m. in the living room of his Silver Strand home by a friend, said James Baroni, Ventura County's chief deputy medical examiner. The friend was supposed to drive him to a court hearing in his son's murder trial, Baroni said.  McInerney's 15-year-old son, Brandon, is accused of murder and a hate crime in the Feb. 12, 2008, shooting death of classmate Lawrence "Larry" King, 15. The two boys had been sparring in the days before the killing, allegedly because Larry had expressed a romantic interest in Brandon.

Bill McInerney was Larrence Kings father.


In 1955, the Aurora Borealis, a coating applied to crystal stones to produce a "rainbow of colors" effect was introduced.

The Aurora Borealis coating is 50 years old.


Long-distance telephone company MCI Inc., on Friday, touted its $6.75 billion deal to be bought by Verizon Communications Inc., but said it would thoroughly analyze a revised $8 billion bid by Qwest Communications International Inc.

Verizon Communications will be purchased for 6.75 billion by MCI.


The third, and most remote possibility, was considered to be a so-called Jamaican coalition, again based on the party colours, between the Christian Democrats, the FDP and the Greens.

The most remote possibility is the number that comes before the number two


When the last member of the Hasmonean Dynasty died in 37 B.C., Rome made Herod king of Judah.  With Roman backing, Herod (37-34 B.C.) ruled on both sides of the Jordan River.  After his death the Jewish kingdom was divided among his heirs and gradually absorbed into the Roman Empire.

Herod was a member of the Hasmonean Dynasty.


Accompanied by Sioux prayers and the keening of Scottish bagpipes, a plain cotton shirt was returned to South Dakota this past summer.

South Dakota had bagpipes returned to it this past summer.


"This is a major milestone on our road to recovery, and I want to thank the members of Congress who came together in common purpose to make it happen," Obama said in his weekly address. "I will sign this legislation into law shortly, and we'll begin making the immediate investments necessary to put people back to work doing the work America needs done. This historic step won't be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but the beginning."

Congress was entirely responsible for the passing of the legislation


Linda Johnson, who lives with her husband, Charles, and two cats in a rented one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco's Mission District, said Katrina has made her realize she needs to gather together, in one accessible place, her scattered disaster supplies.

Erma made Linda Johnson realize that she needs to gather her disaster supplies


Leftist guerrillas early Tuesday attacked a residential neighborhood in northern San Salvador where many government and military leaders have their homes.

Leftist guerrillas attacked the government and military facility early Tuesday in San Salvador.


Google Inc. is delaying its IPO by a week because of logistical problems related to institutional investors registering to bid on the shares.


When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.

Adolf Hitler poisoned himself then shot himself in the mouth just like Mussolini.


A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself. Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents. The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border.  Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family.  The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon.


Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. At the end of a 15-month trial, judges found him guilty of two death-squad killings of 25 people during the conflict with guerrillas in the 1990s. After being sentenced, Mr Fujimori said he would appeal against the verdict. Human rights group Amnesty International described the verdict as "a milestone in the fight for justice".

After a 15-month trial, a jury found former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori guilty of two death-squad killings of 25 people during the conflict with guerrillas in the 1990s.


Earlier this year reporter Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to name the US-government source who identified a member of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Valerie Plame.

Judith Miller has accepted jail time instead of revealing information.


"I will not seek your votes for a new mandate." With these words, the President of France, Jacques Chirac (74) announced during a radio and television broadcast at 20:00 UTC that it's time for him to serve his country in a different way. The announcement was widely speculated about and did not come as a surprise. The official announcement gives the candidate from the majority party UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy, more freedom during the next six weeks that remain before the Presidential elections in France. Although Sarkozy is from the same party as Chirac and hopes to receive an endorsement from him, the President has not yet expressed his support for a particular candidate to succeed him, and he did not refer to Sarkozy during any moment of his speech.

unsupported by the president the candidate is


One year on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the world's grief and compassion returned to the tsunami-battered coastlines of the Indian Ocean, where at least 216,000 people lost their lives. Under a clear sky and before a gentle sea, the world commemorated those who lost their lives, in one of the worst natural disasters that the modern world has experienced.

Many more people lived before the tsunami than after it.


The increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the primary causes of the human-induced component of global warming.

CO2 is just one part of the human induced component of global warming


Lebanon is in a period of mourning after a massive car bomb killed the former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, on Tuesday.


Prosecutors were still expected to unseal an 11-count manslaughter indictment against the ferry's captain, Michael Gansas.


Drew Barrymore and Justin Long have been cast in a romantic comedy called Going the Distance. The New Line Cinema film is to be directed by documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein, who made the films The Kid Stays in the Picture and American Teen. It will be Burstein's feature film debut. Going the Distance, written by New Line staffer Geoff LaTulippe, will focus on a couple dealing with challenges arising from a cross-country romance. Media reports did not indicate a release date had been determined.

all the movies were directed by the same person


The National Park Trust identified 20 high-priority sites - including the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia and Everglades National Park in Florida - as areas with private property that could be sold.

There are areas with property that could be sold in many states


Mr Fitzgibbon expects some of the 17,000 additional US troops heading for Afghanistan will bolster Australian forces operating in the dangerous Oruzgan province in the south. The defence minister was planning to raise the issue specifically with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. He has already held talks with US central command chief General David Petraeus and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta. General Petraeus discussed the new US strategy for Afghanistan and the troop surge in which an extra 17,000 troops will be deployed in the southern provinces where Taliban insurgents have been most active.


Al-Qaida-linked militants have carried out a series of suicide bombings targeting Western interests in Indonesia since 2002.

Al-Qaida-linked militants have performed no fewer than two bombings in the world since 2002.


Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father, Umberto I, was assassinated in 1900, Victor Emmanuel succeeded to the throne.

Victor Emmanuel was in his thirties when his father was killed.


For example, the fields of Western farmers feed the United States and many other parts of the world, and India's irrigation systems have enabled that country to be self-sufficient in food production since 1974. In addition, in many parts of the world dams have helped to remedy life-threatening problems such as poverty from lack of economic development, famine as a result of drought, devastation from floods, and continued disease from lack of potable water supplies.

There are people who wouldn't be alive without dams.


Miles of Australia's most pristine coastline have been declared a disaster zone following a large oil spill from a storm-damaged cargo ship. At least 60 kilometres of Queensland's southeastern shore were contaminated when at least 42 tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean from MV Pacific Adventurer on Wednesday night.  The ship, which had sailed into cyclonic weather, lost 31 containers aboard, one of which pierced the ship's hull and a fuel tank.  Anna Bligh, the Queensland premier, has declared Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast disaster zones.


In 1856 Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was elected deputy, and soon attracted notice among the most advanced Progressists and Democrats. He took part in the revolutionary propaganda that led to the military movement in Madrid on June 22, 1866. He had to take refuge in France for two years, like his fellow-conspirators, and only returned to Spain when the revolution of 1868 took place.

Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla lived for more than 8 years.


Figures released today show that the number of organs donated by New Zealanders in 2006 has decreased by four to a new record low of 25. In 2005 the number of organs donated equalled 29, a previous record low in New Zealand. Before 2005 the number of organ donations averaged 40, an already low number by international standards.

If the trend continues, New Zealanders will donate fewer organs in 2007 than in 2006.


Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.

There are less than sixty bombs used by them


The main institutionalised forms of recognition for those who have made a significant contribution in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, as well as for those working for peace (and more recently in the area of economics), are the Nobel prizes.


The job gains mean that President Bush can celebrate - albeit by a very fine margin - a net growth in jobs in the US economy in his first term in office.

President Bush is responsible for the gains.


It is the country's aging nuclear facility that currently concerns Armenian environmental groups as well as those in neighboring countries. Twenty miles west of the capital Yerevan, Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1970s and houses two VVER-440 Model V230 nuclear reactors. Metsamor, which currently produces about 40 percent of the country's electricity, is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union because of the devastating Dec. 7, 1988, earthquake in Spitak.

If you go forty miles west of Yerevan, then backtrack ten miles, twice in a row, you'll find the plant.


The body of Satomi Mitarai was found by a teacher after her attacker returned to class in bloody clothes.


Northwest Strikes: If Northwest flight attendants go on strike on the 15th, what does that mean for travelers? I have a trip booked on the 24th. Will NW rebook us with other airlines?

If Northwest flight attendants go on strike on the 15th travelers will have to book other flights.


Priscilla Presley greeted thousands of cheering Elvis fans at a concert Friday night, marking the 25th anniversary of the King's death, telling them "you're helping Elvis make history again."


More than 150 dolphins, marine turtles and beaked whales have been washed up dead on beaches in Africa.


Today marks the 80th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, whose reign has lasted over 54 years. Her Majesty became the first female to become the sovereign since Queen Victoria, who died in 1901 after a 64-year reign. She was crowned on June 2, 1953, in Westminster Abbey. It was the first coronation that was televised live. She is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms, which includes the United Kingdom.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was the first coronation on radio.


"These new results from Cassini may be the first evidence of gases originating either from the surface or possibly from the interior of Enceladus," said Dr. Michele Dougherty, principal investigator for the Cassini magnetometer and professor at Imperial College in London. Scientists have suspected Enceladus as geologically active and a possible source of Saturn's icy E ring. Enceladus is the most reflective object in the solar system, reflecting about 90 percent of the sunlight that hits it.


Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London on Tuesday, reassuring his host that Pakistan will hold a fair election next month and is ready to continue a sustained fight against terrorism and extremism. The visit has been widely called President Musharraf's "charm offensive." The Pakistani leader has held talks in Brussels, Paris, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and now in London in an effort which has been seen as an attempt to shore up European support for his government.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has held talks with Donald Trump.


Brazil, Australia and Thailand argued that the EU, one of the world's largest exporters, broke WTO farm rules by exceeding limits on export subsidies laid down under WTO's 1994 Agreement on Agriculture.

The EU is one of the world's largest importers.