title: Augustin-Norbert Morin hierarchical section title: Augustin-Norbert Morin caption reference description: Augustin-Norbert Morin caption attribution description: Auguste-Norbert Morin content: Augustin-Norbert Morin was a Canadien lawyer and judge.
Born in Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Lower Canada, into a large Roman Catholic farming family, Morin was identified by the parish priest at a young age as a boy of exceptional talent and intelligence. The parish priest therefore arranged for his education at the Séminaire de Québec, beginning in 1815. After leaving the seminary, Morin worked as newspaperman in order to earn money for the study of law as clerk in the office of Denis-Benjamin Viger. By 1828 he was practicing law independently, and by 1830 had become involved with colonial politics. Morin helped draft the Ninety-Two Resolutions. Although he took part in the Lower Canada Rebellion and was later arrested, it was not felt that a charge of high treason was justified.
Following the union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the new Province of Canada in 1841, Morin was elected to the first Parliament of the new Province, for the Nicolet electoral district. He resigned his seat a year later on appointment to the district court for Rimouski, but served on the bench for less than a year.


title: Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England section title: Ely Cathedral hierarchical section title: Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England / Famous features of the cathedrals / Ely Cathedral caption reference description: The 11th-century south transept at Hereford. caption attribution description: Hereford Cathedral, England caption alt text description: A transept interior with a wall panelled with shallow Norman arches and open galleries. content: The medieval cathedrals of England, which date from between approximately 1040 and 1540, are a group of twenty-six buildings that constitute a major aspect of the country’s artistic heritage and are among the most significant material symbols of Christianity. Though diverse in style, they are united by a common function. As cathedrals, each of these buildings serves as central church for an administrative region and houses the throne of a bishop. Each cathedral also serves as a regional centre and a focus of regional pride and affection.
Only sixteen of these buildings had been cathedrals at the time of the Reformation: eight that were served by secular canons, and eight that were monastic. A further five cathedrals are former abbey churches which were reconstituted with secular canons as cathedrals of new dioceses by Henry VIII following the dissolution of the monasteries and which comprise, together with the former monastic cathedrals, the "Cathedrals of the New Foundation".


title: Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, Zamość hierarchical section title: Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, Zamość caption attribution description: English: Cathedral in Zamość after repair, 2013 Polski: Katedra w Zamościu, po pracach remontowych, 2013 r. content: The Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle also called Zamość Cathedral is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the old town of Zamość, a city in the European country of Poland.
It is a church built in the late XVI. It is located in the so-called Route of Renaissance. The Cathedral was established by the city's founder, Jan Zamoyski, and the author of the project was architect Bernardo Morando an Italian, who took as a reference to the Italian churches of centuries XV and XVI. Initially it was a collegiate church until 1992, when the Diocese of Zamosc-Lubaczów, who rose to the rank of cathedral by decision of then Pope John Paul II was established.


title: Greatham, West Sussex hierarchical section title: Greatham, West Sussex caption attribution description: Greatham Bridge, Greatham, West Sussex, England. content: Greatham is a small village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Coldwaltham to Storrington road about 2 miles south of Pulborough.


title: Ithmaar Bank hierarchical section title: Ithmaar Bank caption reference description: Ithmaar Bank headquarters caption attribution description: English: Head Quarter Seef Tower content: Ithmaar Bank B.S.C. is a Bahrain-based Islamic retail bank that is licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain and provides retail, commercial, treasury & financial institutions and other banking services.
Ithmaar Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ithmaar Holding B.S.C. which is listed on the Bahrain Bourse, Dubai Financial Market and Boursa Kuwait.
Ithmaar Bank provides a diverse range of Sharia-compliant products and services that cater to the financing and investment needs of individuals and institutions. Ithmaar also maintains a presence in overseas markets through its subsidiary, Faysal Bank Limited and locally through Dilmunia Development Fund I L.P.


title: Hokianga section title: Industry hierarchical section title: Hokianga / Industry caption reference description: Omapere wharf caption attribution description: Omepere wharf, Hokianga harbour, Northland, New Zealand. content: The Hokianga is an area surrounding the Hokianga Harbour, also known as the Hokianga River, a long estuarine drowned valley on the west coast in the north of the North Island of New Zealand.
The original name, still used by local Māori, is Te Kohanga o Te Tai Tokerau or Te Puna o Te Ao Marama. The full name of the harbour is Te Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe — "the place of Kupe's great return".


title: Hillary Clinton section title: First half of tenure hierarchical section title: Hillary Clinton / Secretary of State (2009–2013) / First half of tenure caption reference description: Greeting service members at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, October 2010 caption attribution description: English: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, greets Service members after her speech at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Oct. 29, 2010. More than 1,000 Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen and Marines attended the speech. Clinton visited the base during her trip to the Asia-Pacific region, where she discussed Guam's importance to the U.S. caption alt text description: Clinton greeting U.S. military personnel at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. The personnel are wearing uniforms and standing side by side. content: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election, which she lost to Donald Trump.
Raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married future president Bill Clinton in 1975; the two had met at Yale. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978, and became the first female partner at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm the following year.


title: Mangonel section title: History hierarchical section title: Mangonel / History caption attribution description: English: Image from an illuminated manuscript depicting a Byzantine siege of a citadel Ελληνικά: Βυζαντινή πολιορκία οχυρώσεως content: The mangonel, also called the traction trebuchet, was a type of trebuchet or siege engine used in Ancient China starting from the Warring States period, and later across Eurasia in the 6th century AD. Unlike the earlier torsion engines and later counterweight trebuchet, the mangonel operated on manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and sling to launch projectiles. Although the mangonel required more men to function, it was also less complex and faster to reload than the torsion-powered ballista and onager which it replaced in early Medieval Europe. It was replaced as the primary siege weapon in the 12th and 13th centuries by the counterweight trebuchet.


title: List of national parks of Finland section title: List of national parks hierarchical section title: List of national parks of Finland / List of national parks caption attribution description: Suomi: Rantojensuojelualuetta, Etelä-Konnevesi, Mustalahti. content: There are 40 national parks in Finland. They are all managed by the Metsähallitus. The national parks cover a total area of 9,892 square kilometres – 2.7% of Finland's total land area.
A total of 3.2 million people visited the parks in 2018.


title: Ryan Dunn section title: Career hierarchical section title: Ryan Dunn / Career caption reference description: Dunn (left) and Bam Margera during the Gumball 3000 rally in 2006 caption attribution description: Ryan Dunn and Bam Margera (left) content: Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American stunt performer, television personality, actor, comedian, and one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass.
Dunn rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the CKY Crew with his long-time friend, Bam Margera, for their extreme stunts and pranks recorded on camera, which led to the rise of Jackass. Dunn also hosted the TV series Homewrecker and Proving Ground, and appeared in the feature films Blonde Ambition and Street Dreams, as well as in Margera's films Haggard and Minghags. Dunn died in a car crash in 2011 at the age of 34.


title: Hudson, New York hierarchical section title: Hudson, New York caption reference description: Location of Hudson, New York content: Hudson is a city located along the west border of Columbia County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 6,713. It is the second-largest in the county.
Hudson is the county seat of Columbia County.


title: Architecture of London section title: Later Architectural Commissions: Royal Hospital Chelsea, Old Royal Naval College and The Commissioners Churches hierarchical section title: Architecture of London / Baroque London: The Great Fire and Christopher Wren's Reconstruction (1666–1714) / Later Architectural Commissions: Royal Hospital Chelsea, Old Royal Naval College and The Commissioners Churches caption reference description: The Old Royal Naval College by Christopher Wren (1712) and Queens House (1635) by Inigo Jones viewed from the River Thames. caption attribution description: English: Old Royal Naval College viewed from across the Thames content: London is the largest and capital city of England and the United Kingdom. Founded as the ancient city of Londinium in the first century CE by the Romans as capital of the Roman province of Britannia, London has been an inhabited settlement almost continuously since. After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, the layout of the Roman settlement became the approximate blueprint of the Saxon and medieval city. This ancient core of London is known as the City of London with Westminster, the ancient centre of political power in London, lying to the west. Relatively few structures survive from London's medieval past due to the city's near-total destruction in the Great Fire of 1666, but notable survivors include the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, Guildhall, St James's Palace, Lambeth Palace and a handful of scattered Tudor survivals. After the Great Fire, London was transformed as it was rebuilt and greatly modernised under the direction of the Baroque architect Sir Christopher Wren, with the new Baroque St Paul's Cathedral as its centrepiece.


title: Bluebird Mach 1.1 hierarchical section title: Bluebird Mach 1.1 caption reference description: Promotional model displayed outside Campbell's house in spring 1966. content: Bluebird Mach 1.1 was a design for a rocket-powered supersonic land speed record car, planned by Donald Campbell but thwarted by his subsequent death during a water speed record attempt in Bluebird K7 in early 1967.
Donald Campbell decided a massive jump in speed was called for following his successful 1964 LSR attempt in Bluebird CN7. His vision was of a supersonic rocket car with a potential maximum speed of 840 mph, referred to as Bluebird Mach 1.1. Norris Brothers were requested to undertake a design study.
Campbell, ever superstitious, chose a lucky date to hold a press conference at the Charing Cross Hotel on 7 July 1965 to announce his future record breaking plans:
... In terms of speed on the earth’s surface, my next logical step must be to construct a Bluebird car that can reach Mach 1.1. The Americans are already making plans for such a vehicle and it would be tragic for the world image of British technology if we did not compete in this great contest and win. The nation whose technologies are first to seize the “faster than sound” record on land will be the nation whose industry will be seen to leapfrog into the 70s or 80s.


title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë hierarchical section title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë caption reference description: Coat of arms content: The Roman Catholic diocese of Sapë is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Rite in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shkodër-Pult of the Roman Catholic Church in northern Albania.
The diocese is named after the town of Sapë, which is located near the Drin, southeast of Lake Scutari. However, the cathedral episcopal see of the diocese is Katedralja e Nënë Terezja, in the town of Vau-Dejës, Shkodër County
the former cathedral is Kisha e Shën Gjergjit, in Nënshat in the same county.
The diocese is one of six Catholic jurisdictions in Albania. It is located in the vicinity of Lake Scutari, at the river basin of Drin.


title: Anton Dohrn Seamount hierarchical section title: Anton Dohrn Seamount caption attribution description: English: Location map of oceans around the United Kingdom and Ireland Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 150 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 65° N S: 45° N W: 15° W E: 10° E caption alt text description: Anton Dohrn Seamount is located in Oceans around British Isles content: The Anton Dohrn Seamount is a guyot in the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic. It is 1.8 kilometres high and is topped with pinnacles, one of which reaches a depth of 530 metres. Away from the flat top upon which the pinnacles rest, the slopes fall off steeply into the Rockall Trough and a moat in the sediment that surrounds the seamount.
It appears to be a volcano formed by basaltic lava and tuff. It formed during the Cretaceous and Paleogene and was proposed to be a source for bentonite layers across the British Isles. After the Cretaceous, subsidence and erosion lowered its top until it sank below sea level. The seamount was discovered in 1958.
Anton Dohrn Seamount hosts a diverse ecosystem characterized by reefs formed by cold water corals, sponges and xenophyophorans, which themselves host a number of animals. It has been affected by human fishing operations, however.


title: D'Lo Brown section title: Alliance with Theodore Long (2002–2003) hierarchical section title: D'Lo Brown / Professional wrestling career / World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (1997–2003) / Alliance with Theodore Long (2002–2003) caption reference description: Brown in September 2002 caption attribution description: English: D'Lo Brown at a WWE Raw live event in Rosemont on September 12002 content: Accie Julius Connor, better known by his ring name D'Lo Brown, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling as producer. He is well known for his time in WWE where he is a former WWE Intercontinental Championship and WWE European Championship four times. He is also known for his appearances in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he held the NWA World Tag Team Championship, Ring of Honor and in Japan with the promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah. He also was the longest active member of the Nation of Domination.
The name "D'Lo Brown" came as a reference to Connor’s high school friend Darren Lewis, who died of cancer. Connor asked Lewis' mother if he could use the name as a tribute to her son.


title: Dolno Dupeni hierarchical section title: Dolno Dupeni caption reference description: View of the village Dolno Dupeni caption attribution description: English: View of the village Dolno Dupeni Македонски: Поглед на селото Долно Дупени caption alt text description: View of the village Dolno Dupeni content: Dolno Dupeni is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. Located on Lake Prespa, its beach runs to the border with Greece.


title: Canadian National Railway hierarchical section title: Canadian National Railway caption reference description: CN 8951, an EMD SD70M-2 caption attribution description: CN 8951 content: The Canadian National Railway is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across about 20,400 route miles of track. In the late 20th century, it gained extensive capacity in the United States by taking over such railroads as the Illinois Central.
CN is a public company with 24,000 employees, and as of July 2019 it had a market cap of approximately CA$90 billion. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995. As of 2019, Bill Gates is the largest single shareholder of CN stock.
The railway was referred to as "Canadian National Railways" between 1919 and 1960.


title: Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) hierarchical section title: Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) caption reference description: Empress Maria Fedorovna by Vigee-Le Brun, 1790s caption attribution description: English: Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, by Vigee-Le Brun content: Maria Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I. She was the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria.
Daughter of Duke Frederick Eugene of Württemberg and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Sophie Dorothea belonged to a junior branch of the House of Württemberg and grew up in Montbéliard receiving an excellent education for her time. After Grand Duke Paul became a widower in 1776, Sophie Dorothea was chosen by Frederick II of Prussia, her maternal great-uncle, and Empress Catherine II of Russia, as the ideal candidate to be Paul's second wife. In spite of her fiancé's difficult character, she developed a long, peaceful relationship with Paul and converted to the Russian Orthodox Church by the name Maria Feodorovna. During the long reign of her mother-in-law, she sided with her husband and lost the initial affection the reigning Empress had for her. The couple was completely excluded from any political influence, as mother and son mistrusted each other. They were forced to live in isolation at Gatchina Palace, where they had many children together.


title: Yiğitcan Saybir hierarchical section title: Yiğitcan Saybir caption attribution description: English: Yiğitcan Saybir 6 Anadolu Efes 20180204 content: Yiğitcan Saybir is a Turkish professional basketball player who plays as a power forward for Anadolu Efes of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi and the EuroLeague.


title: List of Kontinental Hockey League arenas section title: Current arenas hierarchical section title: List of Kontinental Hockey League arenas / Current arenas caption attribution description: Ледовый дворец Уфа content: The following is a list of Kontinental Hockey League arenas. This list includes past, present, and future arenas.


title: Edna Dean Proctor section title: Personal life hierarchical section title: Edna Dean Proctor / Personal life caption reference description: Edna Dean Proctor Bridge content: Edna Dean Proctor was an American author. Though she occasionally wrote short sketches and stories, poetry was her field. Proctor was characterized as a master of pathos. Her early environment left a vivid impression and was a moulding force in her writing.
Early in life, Proctor was a writer of poetry, but not until the Civil War —which aroused the patriotic element within her— were her verses known around the country when her national poems sounded like a bugle. Her name became dear to loyal soldiers, and her appeals were read beside the camp fires as they were repeated in the New England homes and schools. No battle songs did more to sustain the sentiment of patriotism in the soldiery than those of Proctor, which were found in her volume of collected poems. "The Stripes and Stars," written in April, 1861; "Compromise," inscribed to Congress, July 4, 1861; "Who's Ready?" written in July, 1862, were really national anthems. A volume of her poems was published by Hurd & Houghton in 1867. A later collection was also published.


title: Winton Castle hierarchical section title: Winton Castle caption reference description: Aerial view of Winton Castle caption attribution description: English: Arial view of Winton content: Winton Castle is a historic building set in a large estate between Pencaitland and Tranent in East Lothian, Scotland. The castle is situated off the B6355 road approximately 0.5 miles north of Pencaitland at grid reference NT437694.
The castle is still a private residence, and is run as an exclusive-use events venue.


title: Rebecca Martin hierarchical section title: Rebecca Martin caption attribution description: English: Rebecca Martin - Jazz Singer content: Rebecca Martin is an American singer and songwriter from Rumford, Maine.


title: Stanley Dashew section title: Philanthropy hierarchical section title: Stanley Dashew / Philanthropy caption reference description: The Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars at UCLA. content: Stanley Aaron Dashew was an American inventor who developed many devices in diverse industries, but remains best known as one of the founders of the plastic credit card industry during the 1950s. Working alongside Joseph P. Williams, then Vice President of Bank of America, Dashew introduced the Databosser, which embossed numbers read from an IBM punch card onto a credit card, originally aluminum alloy, then plastic.
Dashew has been issued fourteen U.S. patents directly, and more than fifty assigned to his many companies. He has created mechanical systems in the business data, banking, shipping, mining, transportation, marine recreation, water purification, and medical-health industries.


title: Colross section title: Virginia hierarchical section title: Colross / History / Virginia caption reference description: The front portico and main entryway at Colross caption attribution description: English: Colross (also historically known as Belle Air and Grasshopper Hall) is a Georgian mansion and former estate in Old Town Alexandria in the U.S. state of Virginia. Colross is currently the administration building for Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey. This image is scanned from: Rogers and Manson Company (1916) The Brickbuilder, Volume 25, Boston, Massachusetts:  Rogers and Manson Company content: Colross, is a Georgian mansion in Princeton, New Jersey; it was built as the center of an estate in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia. Colross is currently the administration building of Princeton Day School. The Colross property originally occupied the entire 1100 block of Oronoco Street; Alexandria merchant John Potts developed it as a plantation and began building the mansion in 1799–1800. In 1803, Jonathan Swift—also an Alexandria merchant and a city councilman—purchased the property and during his ownership continued constructing the mansion. After Swift's death in 1824, Colross was purchased by Thomson Francis Mason, son of Thomson Mason and grandson of Founding Father George Mason of Gunston Hall. Mason served as a judge of the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia and as mayor of Alexandria. During his ownership, Mason made Colross his chief homestead; he substantially modified and added to the mansion. After successive ownerships, the area around Colross became heavily industrialized.


title: Stephen Donaldson (activist) section title: Military experience (1970–1972) hierarchical section title: Stephen Donaldson (activist) / Military experience (1970–1972) caption reference description: Robert Martin's (Stephen Donaldson's) military portrait, medals, and insignia caption attribution description: Photograph of framed collection of military memorabilia of Robert A. Martin, Jr. (aka Stephen Donaldson, Donny the Punk): military photo, medals, and insignia content: Stephen Donaldson, born Robert Anthony Martin Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual political activist. He is best known for his pioneering activism in LGBT rights and prison reform, and for his writing about punk rock and subculture.


title: Pekka T. Lehtinen section title: Scientific activities hierarchical section title: Pekka T. Lehtinen / Scientific activities caption reference description: Excursions of Pekka T. Lehtinen content: Pekka T. Lehtinen is a Finnish arachnologist and taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated.


title: Providence County, Rhode Island hierarchical section title: Providence County, Rhode Island caption reference description: Location within the U.S. state of Rhode Island content: Providence County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 626,667, or 59.5% of the state's population. Providence County contains the city of Providence, the state capital of Rhode Island and the county's most populous city, with an estimated 179,335 residents in 2018. Providence County is included in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn constitutes a portion of the greater Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of Rhode Island was located in Providence County, in the city of Cranston.


title: San Fermín de los Navarros hierarchical section title: San Fermín de los Navarros caption attribution description: English: Iglesia de San Fermín de los Navarros. Neo-Mudéjar church at 10 Paseo de Eduardo Dato (street) in Madrid (Spain). Projected in 1886 by Eugenio Jiménez Corera and Carlos Velasco Peinado, and built from 1886 to 1890. Español: Iglesia de San Fermín de los Navarros, en el nº 10 del Paseo de Eduardo Dato de Madrid (España). Es Iglesia, convento y residencia de la Real Congregación de San Fermín de los Navarros. Edificio neomudéjar proyectado en 1886 por Eugenio Jiménez Corera y Carlos Velasco Peinado, y construido de 1886 a 1890. content: The Church of San Fermín de los Navarros is a church located in Madrid, Spain. It is dedicated to Saint Fermin, and replaces an earlier church dedicated to the saint which was demolished to make way for the Bank of Spain.
Projected by Eugenio Jiménez Corera and Carlos Velasco Peinado, the building is constructed from brick. It mixes Neo-Mudéjar and Gothic Revival elements. The Gothic style is employed in the interior, whereas the Mudejar elements are more typical of the exterior. It was designed in 1886 and finished in 1890. It was inaugurated on 6 July 1890.


title: Bulgaria (fungus) hierarchical section title: Bulgaria (fungus) caption attribution description: Zwarte knoopzwam volwassen, november 2004 content: Bulgaria is a genus of fungi in the family Bulgariaceae.


title: Bazaar of Pristina section title: Nowadays Bazaar area hierarchical section title: Bazaar of Pristina / Nowadays Bazaar area caption reference description: Bazaar area in 1960 and 2007 content: The Bazaar of Prishtina, Kosovo, was the core merchandising center of the Old Prishtina since the 15th century, when it was built. It played a significant role in the physical, economic, and social development of Pristina. The Old Bazaar was destroyed during the 1950s and 1960s, following the modernization slogan of "Destroy the old, build the new". In its place, buildings of Kosovo Assembly, Municipality of Prishtina, PTT, and Brotherhood and Unity socialist square were built. Nowadays, instead of PTT building resides the Government of Kosovo building. Only few historical buildings, such as the Bazaar Mosque and ruins of the Bazaar Hammam have remained from the Bazaar complex. Since then, Prishtina has lost part of its identity, and its cultural heritage has been scattered.


title: Netherlands in World War II section title: Collaboration hierarchical section title: Netherlands in World War II / German occupation / Collaboration caption reference description: Anton Mussert, leader of the NSB, speaking at a rally in The Hague in 1941 caption attribution description: Spaarnestad Photo/SFA022804138 Tweede Wereldoorlog. Nederlandse vrijwilligers in Duitse dienst. NSB-leider Anton Mussert tijdens zijn toespraak tot het eerste bataljon van het WA-Vrijwilligersregiment, vlak voor de beëdiging van het bataljon op het Binnenhof in Den Haag. Nederland, Den Haag, 11 oktober 1941. Achter Mussert: rijkscommissaris generaal-luitenant Seyffardt en SS-"Obergruppenführer" Rauter. From left to right: Hanns Albin Rauter, Hendrik Seyffardt, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Wilhelm Harster, Anton Mussert. content: Despite being neutral, the Netherlands was invaded by Nazi Germany on 10 May 1940, as part of Fall Gelb. On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces surrendered. The Dutch government and the royal family saved themselves by deserting their country and going to London. Princess Juliana and her children moved on to Canada for additional safety.
The Netherlands was placed under German occupation, which endured in some areas until the German surrender in May 1945. Active resistance was carried out by a minority, which grew in the course of the occupation. The occupiers deported the majority of the country's Jews to Nazi concentration camps.
Due to the high variation in the survival rate of Jewish inhabitants among local regions in the Netherlands, scholars have questioned the validity of a single explanation at the national level. In part due to the well-organized population registers, about 70% of the country's Jewish population were killed during the conflict, a much higher percentage than either Belgium or France.


title: Ciampino hierarchical section title: Ciampino caption reference description: location of Ciampino in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital content: Ciampino is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It was a frazione of Marino until 1974, when it became a comune; it obtained the city status in 2004 by a presidential decree.


title: Býkev hierarchical section title: Býkev caption attribution description: Čeština: Vlajka obce Býkev, okres Mělník English: Flag of Býkev, Mělník District caption alt text description: Flag of Býkev content: Býkev is located in the Mělník District, Central Bohemian Region. The town lies about five kilometers west of Mělník. As of 2011, there were 401 inhabitants.


title: Isle of Lewis section title: Reptiles and amphibians hierarchical section title: Isle of Lewis / Nature / Reptiles and amphibians caption reference description: Damselfly near Valtos, Uig caption attribution description: Dragonfly near Valtos, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. content: The Isle of Lewis is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands. The total area of Lewis is 683 square miles (1,770 km²).
Lewis is, in general, the lower-lying part of the island: the other part, Harris, is more mountainous. Due to its flatter, more fertile land, Lewis contains three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles, and the largest settlement, Stornoway. The island's diverse habitats are home to an assortment of flora and fauna, such as the golden eagle, red deer and seal, and are recognised in a number of conservation areas.
Lewis has a Presbyterian tradition and a rich history. It was once part of the Norse Kingdom of the Isles. Today, life is very different from elsewhere in Scotland, with Sabbath observance, the Scottish Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions.


title: Bourg-Madame hierarchical section title: Bourg-Madame caption reference description: The town hall in Bourg-Madame caption attribution description: Français : Hôtel de ville de Bourg-Madame, P.O., France caption alt text description: The town hall in Bourg-Madame content: Bourg-Madame is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.


title: Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital section title: Clinic hierarchical section title: Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital / History / Late 19th and early 20th centuries / Clinic caption reference description: Library (left) and clinic (right) in 1968 content: The Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital are a pair of historic buildings at 135 and 137 Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The buildings house the Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library, as well as the women's workspace The Wing in the former hospital structure.
The buildings were jointly designed by German-born architect William Schickel in the neo-Italian Renaissance style. Both structures are three stories tall with a facade of Philadelphia pressed brick facades ornamented in terracotta. The hospital building features terracotta busts of several notable medical professionals.
The structures were erected in 1883–84 following a donation by philanthropists Oswald Ottendorfer and Anna Ottendorfer. The library was the second branch of the New York Free Circulating Library, while the hospital was affiliated with the German Hospital uptown, now Lenox Hill Hospital. Both structures served the Little Germany enclave of Lower Manhattan. The hospital was sold in 1906 to another medical charity, the German Polyklinik; the name was changed to Stuyvesant Polyclinic in the 1910s.


title: Jackson Hill, Jersey City section title: Claremont hierarchical section title: Jackson Hill, Jersey City / Claremont caption reference description: The Claremont section (center) was laid out as early as 1860 and roughly corresponds with Jackson HIll. content: Jackson Hill is a neighborhood in the Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville sections of Jersey City, New Jersey. It is part of the city's Ward F. The neighborhood is situated on Bergen Hill which also lends its name to the Bergen Hill Historic District just north of Communipaw Avenue.
The district has long been the heart of the African American community in Jersey City. Its name is in part inspired by Thomas and John Vreeland Jackson, brothers born in 1800 and 1803, who were freed slaves who bought land in current day Greenville in 1831 and in 1857 laid out Jackson Lane between their houses. In 1900, the former Jackson Lane became Winfield Avenue, the name it bears today. During the Civil War the Jackson property became a safe house and critical link of the Underground Railroad.
Martin Luther King Drive was once called Jackson Avenue. with a short block not included in a street realignment still bearing the name. In 1976 it was renamed in honor of the slain civil right leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who had twice spoken in the city. At the time of the renaming there was discussion whether the street had originally been named for the Jackson brothers or for US President Andrew Jackson.


title: Relativistic Doppler effect hierarchical section title: Relativistic Doppler effect caption reference description: Figure 1. A source of light waves moving to the right, relative to observers, with velocity 0.7c. The frequency is higher for observers on the right, and lower for observers on the left. caption attribution description: A source of light waves moving to the right, relative to observers, with velocity 0.7c. The frequency is higher for observers on the right, and lower for observers on the left. content: The relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer, when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity.
The relativistic Doppler effect is different from the non-relativistic Doppler effect as the equations include the time dilation effect of special relativity and do not involve the medium of propagation as a reference point. They describe the total difference in observed frequencies and possess the required Lorentz symmetry.
Astronomers know of three sources of redshift/blueshift: Doppler shifts; gravitational redshifts; and cosmological expansion.


title: New Zealand EB class locomotive hierarchical section title: New Zealand EB class locomotive caption reference description: AP Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington caption attribution description: English: Eb class battery electric locomotive of New Zealand content: The New Zealand EB class locomotive was a class of five battery electric locomotives built to perform shunting duties at the workshops of New Zealand's national rail network.


title: Kryvyi Rih section title: Landmarks hierarchical section title: Kryvyi Rih / Landmarks caption attribution description: Українська: Криворізький академічний міський театр драми та музичної комедії ім. Тараса Шевченка, Кривий Ріг, проспект Карла Маркса, 23 This is a photo of a monument in Ukraine, number: 12-110-0153 content: Kryvyi Rih or Krivoy Rog is a city in Central Ukraine; it is the 7th-most populous city in the country. It lies within a large urban area, administratively incorporated with Kryvyi Rih Municipality as a city of regional significance. It also serves as the administrative center of the district, although it is not part of it. Population: 624,579
Located at the confluence of the Saksahan and Inhulets rivers, Kryvyi Rih has been a major settlement for most of its history. It was founded as a postal city in 1775 by the Cossacks. Developed as a military settlement until 1860, it formed part of Kherson Governorate. It was incorporated during the 20th century with areas of Yekaterinoslav. The township began to expand "at an astonishing rate" at the beginning of the 1880s. Kryvyi Rih's urbanization was unplanned and stimulated by mining exploitation. French and English investment contributed to a boom in metallurgy, iron mining, and investigation of rich deposits of iron ore. The Yekateryninska Railway was built in 1884 to transport iron ore to the Donbas. This catalyzed the growth of Kryvyi Rih into a major industrial town; it gained city status in 1919.


title: Siret section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Siret / Gallery caption attribution description: Școala Petru Mușat din Siret, clădirea fostului liceu "Lațcu Vodă" content: Siret is a town, municipality and former Latin bishopric in Suceava County, north-eastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Siret is the 11th largest urban settlement in the county, with a population of 7,721 inhabitants, according to the 2011 census. It is one of the oldest towns in Romania and was the capital of the principality of Moldavia, in the late 14th century. The town administers two villages: Mănăstioara and Pădureni.


title: Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel section title: The Moerdijk bridge hierarchical section title: Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel / Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel / Activities of Van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel / The Moerdijk bridge caption reference description: The first railway bridge (foreground) at the Moerdijk in 1936 caption attribution description: Nederlands: Luchtfoto van Moerdijkbruggen, NederlandEnglish: Aerial photograph of Moerdijkbruggen, The Netherlands content: Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel was a famous nineteenth-century Dutch machine factory. It built steam engines and machinery for the sugar industry and for maritime purposes, as well ships, rolling stock and large metal structures like the Moerdijk bridge and a floating dock. In 1871 it was reorganized to become the public company Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen. In a second reorganization in 1890, parts of it were saved and continued under the name Koninklijke Nederlandsche Fabriek van Werktuigen en Spoorwegmaterieel, renamed to Werkspoor in 1927.


title: Black Rock Desert section title: Geography hierarchical section title: Black Rock Desert / Geography caption reference description: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, February 26, 2017, Sentinel-2 true-color satellite image, scale 1:190,000. content: The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region, of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than 300,000 acres of land and contains more than 120 miles of historic trails. It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan.
The Great Basin, named for the geography in which water is unable to flow out and remains in the basin, is a rugged land serrated by hundreds of mountain ranges, dried by wind and sun, with spectacular skies and scenic landscapes. The average annual precipitation at Gerlach, Nevada is 7.90 inches.
The region is notable for its paleogeologic features, as an area of 19th-century Emigrant Trails to California, as a venue for rocketry, and as an alternative to the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah, for setting land speed records. It is also the location for the annual Burning Man event.
The Black Rock Desert is part of the National Conservation Area, a unit of the Bureau of Land Management National Landscape Conservation System.


title: South Branch Tunkhannock Creek section title: History hierarchical section title: South Branch Tunkhannock Creek / History caption reference description: View of South Branch Tunkhannock Creek and the Slates' Mill Bridge content: South Branch Tunkhannock Creek is a tributary of Tunkhannock Creek in Lackawanna County and Wyoming County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 22.5 miles long and flows through Scott Township, Benton Township, North Abington Township, and La Plume Township in Lackawanna County and Clinton Township, Factoryville, and Tunkhannock Township in Wyoming County. The watershed of the creek has an area of 98.3 square miles. The creek's named tributaries include Trout Brook, Ackerly Creek, and Kennedy Creek. South Branch Tunkhannock Creek is not designated as an impaired waterbody and has relatively good water quality.
The topography of the watershed of South Branch Tunkhannock Creek has been described as "rough and hilly" and the underlying geology consists of interbedded sedimentary rock. There is a gorge with a depth of 100 feet on the creek at one point. Major land uses in the watershed of South Branch Tunkhannock Creek include forested land and agricultural land. Some natural gas drilling is also done in the watershed. Historical industries in the area included agriculture and summer resorts.


title: St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church section title: Stained glass windows hierarchical section title: St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church / Stained glass windows caption reference description: Detail of the Baptism of Christ window caption attribution description: English: Detail photo of the Baptism of Christ window at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Charleston SC. This work by Franz Mayer & Co. is a non-copyright public domain image. content: The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Charleston, South Carolina, was incorporated on December 3, 1840. Through usage and custom the Church is now known as St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church or St. Matthew's Lutheran Church and is a member of the South Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.


title: Australian commandos section title: Post-Second World War hierarchical section title: Australian commandos / History / Post-Second World War caption reference description: 1st Commando Regiment Unit Colour Patch content: The name commando has been applied to a variety of Australian special forces and light infantry units that have been formed since 1941–42. The first Australian "commando" units were formed during the Second World War, where they mainly performed reconnaissance and long-range patrol roles during Australia's campaigns in New Guinea and Borneo, although other units such as M and Z Special Units performed more clandestine roles. These units were disbanded following the end of the war; however, in the 1950s it was realised that there was a need for such units again in the Australian forces. Today, the Australian Army possesses a number of units that perform more conventional direct-action type commando roles, as well as counter-terrorism response, long-range patrolling, and clandestine deep-penetration operations.


title: Edu Lobo hierarchical section title: Edu Lobo caption reference description: Edu Lobo, 1963. content: Eduardo de Góes "Edu" Lobo is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and composer.
He achieved fame in the 1960s as part of the bossa nova movement.
His compositions include the world-famous Upa Neguinho, Pra Dizer Adeus, Choro Bandido, A história de Lily Braun, Beatriz, Arrastão and Canto triste, and Ponteio. Ponteio won best song at the 3rd Festival de Música Popular Brasileira in the recording by Quarteto Novo in 1967.
He has worked with, and his songs have been covered by artists like Toots Thielemans, Marcos Valle, Elis Regina, Sylvia Telles, Sergio Mendes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Maria Bethânia, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Monica Salmaso, Sarah Vaughan, Earth, Wind & Fire, Caterina Valente and others.
Dos Navegantes, a collaboration album by him, Romero Lubambo and Mauro Senise, won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best MPB Album.


title: Eastern Province, Rwanda hierarchical section title: Eastern Province, Rwanda caption attribution description: English: East Province, Rwanda with numbered districts content: Eastern Province is the largest, the most populous and the least densely populated of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures.
It has seven districts: Bugesera, Gatsibo, Kayonza, Ngoma, Kirehe, Nyagatare and Rwamagana. The capital city of the Eastern Province is Rwamagana.
The Eastern Province comprises the former provinces of Kibungo and Umutara, most of Kigali Rural, and part of Byumba.
The Akagera National Park is situated is this province.


title: Travis County, Texas hierarchical section title: Travis County, Texas caption reference description: Location within the U.S. state of Texas content: Travis County is located in south central Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,024,266; the estimated population in 2019 was 1,273,954. It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas. Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas. The county was established in 1840 and is named in honor of William Barret Travis, the commander of the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo.
Travis County is part of the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is along the Balcones Fault, the boundary between the Edwards Plateau to the west and the Blackland Prairie to the east.


title: Seoul City Hall section title: History hierarchical section title: Seoul City Hall / History caption reference description: The Seoul City Hall in July 2013 caption attribution description: 한국어: 서울특별시 시청 전경 English: Seoul City Hall content: Seoul City Hall is a governmental building for the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea, in charge of the administrative affairs of Seoul. It is located in Taepyeongno, Jung-gu, at the heart of Seoul. It is connected to City Hall Station on Seoul Subway Line 1, with access to Seoul Subway Line 2 from the same station. In front of the current city hall is the old city hall building, now Seoul Metropolitan Library, and Seoul Plaza.


title: Fourth Brazilian Republic section title: Kubitschek, 1956-61 hierarchical section title: Fourth Brazilian Republic / Kubitschek, 1956-61 caption reference description: Brazilian football team, 1958 caption attribution description: English: Brazilian footballers making the lap of honour after winning the 1958 World Cup final (on the left side Gilmar, next Zagallo and Garrincha). Svenska: Brasilien är världsmästare och springer ärevarv på Råsunda. content: The Fourth Brazilian Republic is the period of Brazilian history between 1946 and 1964 also known as the "Republic of 46" or as the "Populist Republic". It was marked by political instability and military's pressure on civilian politicians which ended with the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and establishment of Brazilian military government.
This period was marked by often tumultuous Presidencies of Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Getúlio Vargas, Café Filho, Juscelino Kubitschek, Jânio Quadros and João Goulart.
In 1945, President Getúlio Vargas was deposed by a bloodless military coup, but his influence in Brazilian politics remained until the end of the Fourth Republic. During this period, three parties dominated national politics. Two of them were pro-Vargas — the Brazilian Labour Party to the left and the Social Democratic Party in the center — and another anti-Vargas, the rightist National Democratic Union.


title: Franklin Booth section title: Career hierarchical section title: Franklin Booth / Career caption reference description: Franklin Booth, Nicholson Bookplate, by 1910 content: Franklin Booth, was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century. He was one of the first modern ex libris designers in the United States.
Using watercolor, Booth created book illustrations, such as James Whitcomb Riley's The Flying Islands of the Night. During World War I, he created posters for recruitment, fundraising, and other efforts. As Art Deco style illustrations became popular, his work in latter years was found in commercial publications and catalogs. Although he "believe[d] in schools to a certain extent" at one point in his career, he co-founded the Phoenix Art Institute and was an educator for 21 years. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.


title: Queensland National Bank, Mackay section title: The former QN Bank Building hierarchical section title: Queensland National Bank, Mackay / Description / The former QN Bank Building caption reference description: Queensland National Bank, Mackay, 1938 content: Queensland National Bank is a heritage-listed former bank building at 79 Victoria Street, Mackay, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Frederic Herbert Faircloth and constructed by local builder, William Patrick Guthrie, in 1923. It is also known as Hogs Breath Cafe and Metway Building. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.


title: 2016 E3 Harelbeke section title: Reactions hierarchical section title: 2016 E3 Harelbeke / Post-race analysis / Reactions caption reference description: Michał Kwiatkowski (pictured in 2015) won the race. caption attribution description: D71_9938_DxO content: The 2016 E3 Harelbeke was a one-day cycling classic that took place on Friday 25 March 2016. It was the 59th edition of the E3 Harelbeke; it was the second one-day race of the 2016 UCI World Tour and the first of the cobbled classics.
The race started and finished in Harelbeke, covering a distance of 206.4 kilometres. The principal difficulty in the race came from the fifteen climbs of hills in the Flemish Ardennes. These mainly came in the second half of the race. The principal favourites for victory were Peter Sagan and Fabian Cancellara.
The race was won by Michał Kwiatkowski. He formed a breakaway 30 kilometres from the finish with Sagan and, despite hard work from the Etixx–Quick-Step team and from Cancellara, they came to the finish together. Kwiatkowski comfortably won the sprint and Sagan took second place. Kwiatkowski's teammate Ian Stannard won the group sprint for third place, eleven seconds behind.


title: Lincoln Tunnel Expressway section title: Need hierarchical section title: Lincoln Tunnel Expressway / History / Need caption reference description: The north-south roadway passing under crosstown streets in open cuts and tunnels content: The Lincoln Tunnel Expressway is an eight block-long, mostly four-lane, north–south arterial road between the portals of the Lincoln Tunnel and West 30th Street in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Dyer Avenue is an at-grade roadway paralleling part of the mostly depressed roadway and serves traffic entering and leaving the expressway and the tubes of the tunnel. Like the tunnel, the roads are owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. They traverse the Manhattan neighborhoods of Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea between Ninth and Tenth avenues.


title: European Australians section title: Culture hierarchical section title: European Australians / Culture caption reference description: Children wave Australian flags during an Anzac Day parade in Palmerston, Australia. caption attribution description: English: Children wave Australian flags during an Anzac Day parade in Palmerston, Australia, April 25, 2013, as U.S. Marines with the 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin march past them. Anzac Day commemorates Australian and New Zealand military personnel who served in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. content: European Australians or White Australians are citizens or residents of Australia whose ancestry originates from the peoples of Europe. They form the largest panethnic group in the country.
Since the early 19th century, people of European descent have formed the vast majority of the population in Australia. Historically, European immigrants had great influence over Australian culture and society, which resulted in the perception of Australia as a European-derived country.
The majority of European Australians are of British Isles – English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh or Cornish – ancestral origin. It is estimated that around 58% of the Australian population were Anglo-Celtic Australians with 18% being of other European origins. Other significant ancestries include Italian, German, Greek, Dutch, New Zealanders, Polish, Maltese, and Scandinavian. The panethnic group can be also be divided into broad regional subgroups, such as Eastern European Australians, Northwestern European Australians and Southern European Australians.


title: Mary Miller (soprano) hierarchical section title: Mary Miller (soprano) caption reference description: Mary Miller, from the cover of concert programme "Carols by Candlelight", 1947[1] content: Mary Miller was an Australian singer. She showed early promise when, at age 14, she was ranked equal third in the South Street Contests held in Ballarat, Victoria, gaining 82 points. The winners gained 84 points.
Mary Miller began her public career in about 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, as soprano.
She subsequently appeared in many concerts, and was regularly featured on live broadcasts from Melbourne radio station 3KZ, and was broadcast nationally by the ABC from 1943.
In February 1943, at age 16, she featured "on stage" at St Kilda Palais Pictures daily screenings of "Smilin' Through" that starred Jeanette MacDonald.
In November 1945, she gave her first recital in Melbourne's Assembly Hall.
In early 1946, she sang in Sydney Town Hall.
She sang the role of Gilda in a concert performance of Rigoletto in 1947.
She won the Sun Aria competition in 1948 with the highest score ever awarded, 95/100.
She was immediately offered engagement at La Scala, Milan, Italy, but could not accept on account of her engagement to sing the role of Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, the opening opera of National Opera's summer season.


title: Lejan hierarchical section title: Lejan caption reference description: Lejan as seen from the medieval fortress at Lori Berd caption attribution description: English: The village of Lejan in Armenia's northern region of Lori as seen from the medieval fortress at Lori Berd. Panorama created with Hugin software. caption alt text description: Lejan as seen from the medieval fortress at Lori Berd content: Lejan is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia.


title: Sarah Herzog hierarchical section title: Sarah Herzog caption reference description: Sarah Herzog holding her year-old son Chaim Herzog (Belfast, around 1919). caption attribution description: English: RABBI'S WIFE SARA HERZOG HOLDING HER YEAR OLD SON, CHAIM HERZOG IN BELFAST, IRELAND. הרבנית שרה הרצוג מחזיקה על ידיה את בנה בן השנה חיים הרצוג, בלפסט, אירלנד. caption alt text description: A young, brown-haired woman holding a baby. content: Sarah Herzog was an Israeli rebbetzin and diplomat. She was also the mother of Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel, and Yaakov Herzog, Israeli diplomat.


title: Alaska section title: Roads hierarchical section title: Alaska / Transportation / Roads caption reference description: Alaska Interstate Highways content: Alaska is a state located in the northwest extremity of the United States West Coast, just across the Bering Strait from Asia. An exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and southeast and has a maritime border with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest.
Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area and the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent's most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with an estimated population of 738,432 as 2015—more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. The state capital of Juneau is the second-largest city in the United States by area, comprising more territory than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware.
Alaska was occupied by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.


title: The Kelpies hierarchical section title: The Kelpies caption reference description: The Kelpies in Falkirk caption attribution description: English: These are The Kelpies, 30 metre high stainless steel sculptures guarding a new extension to the Forth & Clyde Canal. You can find them in The Helix, a new park located between Grangemouth and Falkirk in Scotland. content: The Kelpies are 30-metre-high horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. The sculptures form a gateway at the eastern entrance to the Forth and Clyde canal, and the new canal extension built as part of The Helix land transformation project. The Kelpies are a monument to horse-powered heritage across Scotland.
The sculptures were opened to the public in April 2014. As part of the project, they will have their own visitor centre, and sit beside a newly developed canal turning pool and extension. This canal extension reconnects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the River Forth, and improves navigation between the East and West of Scotland.


title: Fauna of Romania section title: Freshwater hierarchical section title: Fauna of Romania / Vertebrates / Fish / Freshwater caption reference description: The Beluga sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in the world caption attribution description: Українська: Білуга - найбільша серед риб, що мешкає в прісних водах. content: The fauna of Romania comprises all the animal species inhabiting the country of Romania and its coastal territory in the Black Sea.


title: Gin Blossoms section title: Reunion hierarchical section title: Gin Blossoms / History / Reunion caption reference description: Guitarist Jesse Valenzuela caption attribution description: English: Jesse Valenzuela of the Gin Blossoms performing on June 2, 2013 at the New Orleans Oysterfest. content: Gin Blossoms is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona. They rose to prominence following the 1992 release of their first major label album, New Miserable Experience, and the first single released from that album, "Hey Jealousy". "Hey Jealousy" became a Top 25 hit and went gold, and New Miserable Experience eventually went quadruple platinum; four other charting singles were released from the album. The band's follow-up album, Congratulations I'm Sorry, went platinum and the single "As Long as It Matters" was nominated for a Grammy Award. Gin Blossoms broke up in 1997. Since reuniting in 2001, the band has released Major Lodge Victory in 2006, No Chocolate Cake in 2010, and Mixed Reality in 2018.
Gin Blossoms has been described as an alternative rock band and as a jangle pop band. According to Rolling Stone, the band excels at "marrying world-weary lyrics with ebullient melodies." In 2017, the Salina Journal described Gin Blossoms as a "Tempe, Ariz.-based indie band [acclaimed] by critics and fans alike for its chiming guitars, introspective lyrics and catchy pop-rock melodies," adding that "Gin Blossoms has maintained its longevity by being mostly a road band."


title: Antoine Thomas hierarchical section title: Antoine Thomas caption reference description: Synopsis mathematica, 1685 content: Antoine Thomas was a Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary, and astronomer in Qing China. His Chinese name was 安多.


title: M40 recoilless rifle section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: M40 recoilless rifle / Gallery caption attribution description: A M40 recoilless rifle mounted on a Land Rover on display in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. content: The M40 recoilless rifle is a lightweight, portable, crew-served 105 mm recoilless rifle made in the United States. Intended primarily as an anti-tank weapon, it could also be employed in an antipersonnel role with the use of an antipersonnel-tracer flechette round. The bore was commonly described as being 106 mm caliber but is in fact 105 mm; the 106 mm designation was intended to prevent confusion with incompatible 105 mm ammunition from the failed M27. The air-cooled, breech-loaded, single-shot rifle fired fixed ammunition and was used primarily from a wheeled ground mount. It was designed for direct firing only, and sighting equipment for this purpose was furnished with each weapon, including an affixed spotting rifle.
A limited number of M50 Ontos were build with as a self-propelled U.S. light armored tracked anti-tank vehicle developed, it has six 106 mm M40 recoilless rifles as its main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against single targets to guarantee a kill.
Replacing the M27 recoilless rifle, the M40 primarily saw action during the Vietnam War and was widely used during various conflicts thereafter in Africa or in the Middle East.


title: 2010 FIFA World Cup section title: List of qualified teams hierarchical section title: 2010 FIFA World Cup / Qualification / List of qualified teams caption reference description:   Qualified countries   Countries that did not qualify   Countries that did not enter   Country not a FIFA member caption attribution description: Status of countries with respect to 2010 FIFA World Cup:    Qualified for World Cup finals    Failed to qualify for World Cup finals    Did not enter World Cup    Not an associate member of FIFA content: The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations. In 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.
The matches were played in 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the opening and final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These 16 teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.
In the final, Spain, the European champions, defeated third-time losing finalists the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first world title.


title: The Joy Luck Club (novel) section title: Plot hierarchical section title: The Joy Luck Club (novel) / Plot caption reference description: First Chinese Baptist Church at 15 Waverly Pl, San Francisco caption attribution description: English: The corner of the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco. 中文（繁體）: 三藩市第一華人浸信會 中文（简体）: 三藩市第一华人浸信会 content: The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan. It was also eventually turned into a short story. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.
In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na Wen, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.


title: History of the United States section title: 9/11 and the War on Terror hierarchical section title: History of the United States / 21st century / 9/11 and the War on Terror caption reference description: The NASDAQ Composite index swelled with the dot-com bubble in the optimistic "New Economy". The bubble burst in 2000. content: The prehistory of the United States started with the arrival of Native Americans before 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many disappeared before 1500. The arrival of Christopher Columbus in the year 1492 started the European colonization of the Americas. Most colonies were formed after 1600, and the early records and writings of John Winthrop make the United States the first nation whose most distant origins are fully recorded. By the 1760s, the thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people along the Atlantic Coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. After defeating France, the British government imposed a series of taxes, including the Stamp Act of 1765, rejecting the colonists' constitutional argument that new taxes needed their approval. Resistance to these taxes, especially the Boston Tea Party in 1773, led to Parliament issuing punitive laws designed to end self-government in Massachusetts. Armed conflict began in 1775. In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the colonies as the United States.


title: List of cathedrals in Belize hierarchical section title: List of cathedrals in Belize caption reference description: Holy Redeemer Cathedral, Belize City caption attribution description: English: Holy Redeemer Cathedral, Belize City, from East, improved pic content: This is the list of cathedrals in Belize sorted by denomination.


title: Jordan Hicks hierarchical section title: Jordan Hicks caption reference description: Hicks with the Philadelphia Eagles caption attribution description: Eagles at Redskins 9/10/17 content: Jordan Hicks is an American football middle linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football at Texas.


title: Brunswick Records section title: Rhythm and blues hierarchical section title: Brunswick Records / History / Rhythm and blues caption reference description: During the 1950s, the artists on Brunswick and Coral were interchangeable. This single by Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who were signed to Coral, was released on Brunswick. caption attribution description: Español: Es una foto de la versión de 33 rpm del sencillo de Buddy Holly "That'll Be The Day", con el catalogo 55009, esta es la versión más famosa y a que llegó al número uno en USA y UK. content: Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.


title: Roadkill cuisine section title: United States hierarchical section title: Roadkill cuisine / United States caption reference description: Moose crossing a road, Alaska, United States caption attribution description: Moose (Alces alces) crossing a road, Alaska, USA content: Roadkill cuisine is preparing and eating roadkill, animals hit by vehicles and found along roads.
It is a practice engaged in by a small subculture in the United States, southern Canada, the United Kingdom, and other Western countries as well as in other parts of the world. It is also a subject of humor and urban legend.
Large animals including deer, elk, moose, and bear are frequently struck in some parts of the United States, as well as smaller animals such as squirrels, opossum, armadillos, raccoons, skunks, and birds. Fresh kill is preferred and parasites are a concern, so the kill is typically well cooked. Advantages of the roadkill diet, apart from its low cost, are that the animals that roadkill scavengers eat are naturally high in vitamins and proteins with lean meat and little saturated fat, and generally free of additives and drugs.
Almost 1.3 million deer are hit by vehicles each year in the US. If the animal is not obviously suffering from disease, the meat is no different from that obtained by hunting. The practice of eating roadkill is legal, and even encouraged in some jurisdictions, while it is tightly controlled or restricted in other areas.


title: Luray Caverns section title: Geology hierarchical section title: Luray Caverns / Geology caption reference description: Luray Caverns Ballroom of stalactites, 1882 content: Luray Caverns, originally called Luray Cave, is a cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The cavern system is generously adorned with speleothems such as columns, mud flows, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, and mirrored pools. The caverns are perhaps best known for the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a lithophone made from solenoid-fired strikers that tap stalactites of various sizes to produce tones similar to those of xylophones, tuning forks, or bells.


title: Forth Bridge section title: Dimensions hierarchical section title: Forth Bridge / Design / Dimensions caption reference description: Comparison of the side elevations of the Forth Bridge and some notable bridges at the same scale. (click for interactive version) content: The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of central Edinburgh. It is considered as a symbol of Scotland, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge, although this has never been its official name.
Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future Edward VII. The bridge carries the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line across the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry and has a total length of 8,094 feet. When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919 when the Quebec Bridge in Canada was completed. It continues to be the world's second-longest single cantilever span, with a span of 1,709 feet.
The bridge and its associated railway infrastructure are owned by Network Rail.


title: Kharaa River hierarchical section title: Kharaa River caption reference description: Kharaa River from Baruunkharaa bridge caption attribution description: English: Kharaa gol - Kharaa River near Baruunkharaa content: Kharaa River is a river in central northern Mongolia.
It starts in a confluence between Sögnögör River and Mandal River near the center of Batsümber sum in Töv aimag, and then continues in a roughly north-western direction through Selenge aimag.
On the last stretch it flows through the Darkhan-Uul aimag, running along its western border and passing the city of Darkhan before entering the Orkhon River near the northern tip of the aimag.


title: 410th Bombardment Squadron hierarchical section title: 410th Bombardment Squadron caption reference description: "Virgin's Delight" Douglas-Long Beach B-17F-50-DL Flying Fortress 42-3352. Shot down by fighters and crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Germany on the November 29, 1943, mission to Bremen, Germany. 8 KIA, 2 POW MACR 1186  Photo taken during raid on Marienburg, Germany caption attribution description: English: "Virgin's Delight" Douglas-Long Beach B-17F-50-DL Flying Fortress s/n 42-3352 410th BS, 94th BG, 8th AF Shot down by fighters and crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Germany on the November 29,1943 mission to Bremen,Germany. 8 KIA, 2 POW MACR 1186 Photo taken during raid on Marienburg, Germany, content: The 410th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 94th Bombardment Group. It was inactivated at Marietta Air Force Base, Georgia on 20 March 1951.


title: Khwaja Bahauddin District hierarchical section title: Khwaja Bahauddin District caption reference description: Location of Khwaja Bahauddin in Takhar Province content: Khwaja Bahauddin District is a district of Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The district was created from a portion of Yangi Qala District in 2005. 25 villages are located in Khwaja Bahauddin.


title: HMCS Halifax (FFH 330) hierarchical section title: HMCS Halifax (FFH 330) caption reference description: HMCS Halifax en route to Haiti in January 2010 as part of Operation Hestia caption attribution description: English: The Canadian patrol frigate HMCS Halifax (FFH 330) transits the Caribbean Sea Jan. 18, 2010. Halifax is taking part in Operation Hestia, a humanitarian assistance and disaster response operation for the earthquake survivors in Haiti. Français : La frégate canadienne NCSM Halifax (FFH 330) en route pour Haïti le 18 janvier 2010. Elle participe à l'opération humanitaire Hestia destinée à aider Haïti après le séisme de 2010. content: HMCS Halifax (FFH 330) is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces since 1992. Halifax is the lead ship in her class which is the name for the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Halifax. She carries the hull classification symbol FFH 330.
She is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic and is homeported at CFB Halifax in her namesake city, Halifax, Nova Scotia, a name that was also borne by HMCS Halifax, a Flower-class corvette during the Second World War as well as the very first warship built in Halifax, HMS Halifax.


title: M712 Copperhead hierarchical section title: M712 Copperhead caption reference description: M712 Copperhead approaches an old M47 Patton tank used as a target caption attribution description: English: A Copperhead laser-guided anti-tank missile fired from a towed M198 155 mm Howitzer approaches a target tank. content: The M712 Copperhead is a 155 mm caliber cannon-launched guided projectile. It is
a fin-stabilized, terminally laser guided, explosive shell intended to engage hard point targets such as tanks, self-propelled howitzers or other high-value targets. It may be fired from different artillery pieces, such as the M114, M109, M198, M777 and CAESAR howitzers. The projectile has a minimum range of 3 km and a maximum range of 16 km.


title: Catamaran hierarchical section title: Catamaran caption reference description: A Formula 16 beachable catamaran caption attribution description: Blade Formula 16 Catamaran content: A catamaran is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stabilized craft, deriving its stability from its wide beam, rather than from a ballasted keel as with a monohull boat. Catamarans typically have less hull volume, smaller displacement, and shallower draft than monohulls of comparable length. The two hulls combined also often have a smaller hydrodynamic resistance than comparable monohulls, requiring less propulsive power from either sails or motors. The catamaran's wider stance on the water can reduce both heeling and wave-induced motion, as compared with a monohull, and can give reduced wakes.
Catamarans were invented by the Austronesian peoples which enabled their expansion to the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Catamarans range in size from small to large. The structure connecting a catamaran's two hulls ranges from a simple frame strung with webbing to support the crew to a bridging superstructure incorporating extensive cabin and/or cargo space.


title: Gavin Marguerite hierarchical section title: Gavin Marguerite caption attribution description: English: Gavin Marguerite content: Gavin Marguerite is a French rugby league footballer who plays as a centre and winger for Catalans Dragons in the Super League.
He has exceptional pace and scored two tries in the clubs return to the English Leagues against Batley Bulldogs in 2017.
He was selected in France 9s squad for the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s.
After leaving Toulouse at the end of 2019, he signed for Super League side Catalans Dragons ahead of the 2020 season.


title: Niagara (town), Wisconsin hierarchical section title: Niagara (town), Wisconsin caption reference description: Location of Niagara, Wisconsin caption attribution description: Adapted from Wikipedia's WI county maps by Bumm13. caption alt text description: Location of Niagara, Wisconsin content: Niagara is a town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 924 at the 2000 census. The city of Niagara is located to the north of and adjacent to the town.


title: Wellsboro Armory hierarchical section title: Wellsboro Armory caption reference description: Wellsboro Armory, October 2009 caption attribution description: English: Wellsboro Armory, October 2009 content: Wellsboro Armory, is a historic National Guard armory located in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, in Tioga County. It was built in 1932 for the Company I, 103rd Medical Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard. The armory consists of a brick building laid out on an "I" plan, with a two-story drill hall sandwiched between a two-story administrative section and two-story garage.
The Wellsboro Armory was formerly home to Charlie Company 3/103rd AR before the unit moved to Mansfield, PA to join the ranks with D 3/103rd. Delta was later disbanded. Charlie Company relocated to 1810 Shumway Hill Rd in 2003. The former building still exists but is not used for that purpose anymore. It is the headquarters for Charlie Company 3/103rd AR. The armory is home to 6 full-time personnel including 2 recruiters and 4 maintenance personnel. It was built in 2004 for the purpose of training unit members. The armory replaced a smaller outdated armory in downtown Mansfield, PA. This information was received from SGT. VANLOON, D.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.


title: List of Cincinnati Bengals first-round draft picks section title: Player selections hierarchical section title: List of Cincinnati Bengals first-round draft picks / Player selections caption reference description: Carson Palmer was the first overall pick of the 2003 NFL Draft caption attribution description: en:Carson Palmer drops back to pass against the en:Pittsburgh Steelers content: The Cincinnati Bengals are a National Football League franchise founded as an expansion team of the American Football League in 1968. They joined the National Football League as a result of the 1970 AFL–NFL merger.
The Bengals' first draft selection was Bob Johnson, a center from the University of Tennessee. The team's most recent first round selection was Joe Burrow, a Quarterback from the Louisiana State University. The Bengals have selected the number one overall pick in the draft four times. They have also selected the second overall pick two times and the third overall pick four times. The team's four selections from the University of Alabama are the most chosen by the Bengals from one university.
Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft known as "the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", which is more commonly known as the NFL Draft. Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, and the second worst picking second and so on.


title: List of Western Sydney Wanderers FC managers section title: Statistics hierarchical section title: List of Western Sydney Wanderers FC managers / Statistics caption attribution description: Deutsch: Markus Babbel beim Tag der Legenden 2016 content: Western Sydney Wanderers FC are a professional association football club based in Rooty Hill, New South Wales. They were founded in 2012. They then became the fourth team based in NSW and the second based in Sydney to compete in the A-League.
There have been five managers in their history, the first being Tony Popovic and the current being Jean-Paul de Marigny, who is currently undertaking the role as a caretaker. Popovic has been the club's most successful manager, winning the 2012–13 A-League Premiership and the 2014 AFC Champions League whilst in charge.


title: Bà Rịa hierarchical section title: Bà Rịa caption reference description: Bà Rịa commercial center caption attribution description: Tiếng Việt: Trung tâm thương mại Bà Rịa (Vũng tàu-Bà Rịa, Việt Nam) caption alt text description: Bà Rịa commercial center content: Bà Rịa is a city in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. Bà Rịa is split from Vũng Tàu by a river crossed by Cỏ May Bridge.
This is the de jure seat of the province since most of the provincial administration agencies are located here. Bà Rịa officially became the provincial capital of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu from 2 May 2012, replacing Vũng Tàu in that role.


title: Sexual Education of the Young Woman hierarchical section title: Sexual Education of the Young Woman caption reference description: Title page of book content: Sexual Education of the Young Woman is an educational book, published in 1923 and written by a psychiatrist and author David H. Keller. The book provides sexual education guidelines for the girls above the age of six years old. The guidelines concern biological knowledge about the female and male bodies, discussed in the context of prevailing moral and social norms. The book is intended to be read by the young girl herself or conveyed by her parents. As such, it is not only a source of knowledge but also a parenting tool.
Sexual Education of the Young Woman contains 13 chapters, each dealing with a different topic of sexual education. It has clear views on the issues of morality and social norms- women are depicted as fundamentally different from men. The author suggests that the life purpose of a woman is giving birth and raising children as well as assuring a cozy and relaxing life for her husband. However, Dr. Keller stresses the importance of proper general and sexual education, and the influence it has on the happiness of a future mother and wife. Sexual Education of the Young Woman is a part of a 10 volume collection The Sexual Education Series released in 1928.


title: São Paulo section title: Literature hierarchical section title: São Paulo / Culture / Literature caption reference description: Livraria Cultura caption attribution description: English: Livraria Cultura, Conjunto Nacional, Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil Deutsch: Buchhandelskette Livraria Cultura. Blick in die Zweigstelle im Einkaufszentrum Conjunto Nacional in der Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, Brasilien. Die Zweigstelle wurde 1969 in einer einige Zeit zuvor geschlossenen Bibliothek eröffnet. Das Raumkonzept lädt potentielle Käufer ein zu verweilen und zu lesen. content: São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city and the most populous city in Brazil, the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The municipality is also the world's 4th largest city proper by population. The city is the capital of the surrounding state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest state in Brazil. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The name of the city honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas located around the Greater São Paulo created the São Paulo Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.
Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange. Paulista Avenue is the economic core of São Paulo.


title: Illinois's 3rd congressional district hierarchical section title: Illinois's 3rd congressional district caption reference description: Illinois's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: Illinois's 3rd congressional district includes part of Cook County, and has been represented by Democrat Dan Lipinski since January 2005. The district was previously represented by his father Bill Lipinski from 1983 to 2005.
The district includes west and southwest suburbs of Chicago as far as the DuPage County border, as well as a portion of the southwest side of the city of Chicago itself, and covers 124.5 square miles, making it one of the 50 smallest districts in the U.S., although there are five smaller districts in Illinois. It is adjacent to the 1st District to the east and south, the 4th District to the north, and the 11th District to the west, and also borders the 6th and 7th Districts at its northwest and northeast corners respectively. The district was created following the 1830 Census and came into being in 1833, five months before Chicago was organized as a town; it initially included northern and western Illinois before representing areas of east central and northwestern Illinois from 1843 to 1873. The district has included part of Chicago since 1873, and part of the city's southwest side since 1895; the district has been primarily suburban since 1973.


title: Kavadi Aattam section title: Picture gallery hierarchical section title: Kavadi Aattam / Picture gallery caption attribution description: Kavadi dancer at Sri Kamadchi Ampal temple festival, Hamm/Uentrop, Germany. Impressions from the temple festival (slide show) http://zwo5.de/temple/ content: Kavadi Aattam is a ceremonial sacrifice and offering practiced by devotees during the worship of Lord Murugan, the Hindu God of War. It is a central part of the festival of Thaipusam and emphasizes debt bondage. The kavadi itself is a physical burden, the bearing of which is used by the devotee to implore Murugan for assistance, usually on behalf of a loved one who is in need of healing, or as a means of balancing a spiritual debt. Devotees process and dance along a pilgrimage route while bearing these burdens.


title: Marin Headlands section title: Military sites hierarchical section title: Marin Headlands / Cultural history / Military sites caption reference description: Battery Spencer, the closest defense site at the Marin Headlands to the Golden Gate Bridge content: The Marin Headlands is a hilly peninsula at the southernmost end of Marin County, California, United States, located just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge, which connects the two counties and peninsulas. The entire area is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Headlands are famous for their views of the Bay Area, especially of the Golden Gate Bridge.


title: Garcias de Cisneros hierarchical section title: Garcias de Cisneros caption reference description: The abbey at Montserrat, where Cisneros was abbot caption attribution description: Deutsch: Unterhalb des „Roca de St. Jaume“ Español: Vista desde la roca de Sant Jaume content: Garcias de Cisneros was the abbot at the abbey of Montserrat in Spain.
As one of the early Spanish mystics, he was a pioneer in the use of meditative techniques, having been influenced both by the methodical prayers of the Devotio Moderna group, and the writings of Louis Barbo.
His book Ejercitatorio de la vida espiritual, i.e. "exercises for the spiritual life" was published at Montserrat in 1500 and was an important book on formal prayer and Christian meditation which influenced Saint Ignatius of Loyola, becoming one of the primary sources for his Spiritual exercises.


title: New Norcia Hotel hierarchical section title: New Norcia Hotel caption reference description: New Norcia Hotel in 2011 caption attribution description: English: The New Norcia Hotel, Western Australia. content: The New Norcia Hotel is a historic building in New Norcia, in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region. Part of the Benedictine Monastery Precinct, it opened in 1927 as a hostel for travellers and families of boarders at the New Norcia colleges, but later opened to the public. It closed in January 2020.
New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town, was founded by Spanish Benedictine monks in 1847. Since the early 20th century, there have been boarding colleges associated with the monastery in New Norcia – St Gertrude's opened in 1908 for girls, and St Ildephonsus' opened in 1913 for boys. By 1926 the existing hostels were barely able to cope with the crowds of visitors coming for Easter reunions.
Construction of a new, more elaborate, hostel began in 1926, and it opened in 1927, along with a modern motor garage. The two-storey structure was built in a neo-classical architectural style from stone. A large stairway, several metres wide, leads to a passageway, with guest rooms on both sides. The windows overlook several hectares of the monastery's farm, while from a colonnaded balcony there are views of St Gertrude's College, St Joseph's Orphanage, and the public chapel.


title: Languages of Egypt section title: Other foreign languages hierarchical section title: Languages of Egypt / Foreign languages / Other foreign languages caption attribution description: العربية: شارع شامبوليون (Rue Champollion) بالإسكندرية مصرى: شارع شامپوليون (Rue Champollion) بالاسكندريه English: Champollion Street or Rue Champollion (شارع شامپوليون) in Alexandria, Egypt. Français : Rue Champollion (شارع شامپوليون) à Alexandrie content: Egyptians speak a continuum of dialects. The predominant dialect in Egypt is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic or Masri/Masry, which is the vernacular language. Literary Arabic is the official language and the most widely written; additionally, it is the liturgical language of Islam, the majority religion and state religion of Egypt. The Coptic language is used primarily by Egyptian Copts and it is the liturgical language of Coptic Christianity.


title: Betty Roché hierarchical section title: Betty Roché caption reference description: Betty Roché performing with Duke Ellington, April 1943 content: Mary Elizabeth Roché was an American blues singer. Though she had a sporadic career, she became most noted for her version of "Take the "A" Train" with its composer Duke Ellington, and "was famous for her strong, dramatic way of putting across blues material".


title: Sankassa section title: Getting There hierarchical section title: Sankassa / Getting There caption reference description: Map of Sankassa in relation to other Eight Great Places Buddhist pilgrimage sites and notable nearby cities content: Sankassa was an ancient city in India. The city came into prominence at the time of Gautama Buddha. According to a Buddhist source, it was thirty leagues from Savatthi. After the Gautama Buddha's Mahaparinirvana king Ashoka developed this place and installed one of his famous Pillars of Ashoka in the city, from which the elephant capital survives. He also built a stupa and a temple commemorating the visit of the Buddha. This temple exists even today and the ruins of the stupa are also present as a temple of Vishari Devi. It is said that the name Visahari Devi is given to the mother of the Buddha.
Currently it has ruins of old monasteries and Buddhist monuments. It is rarely visited by pilgrims since it is difficult to go to, and there are not many facilities. After a long time Alexander Cunningham discovered the place in 1842. Eighty-seven years later Sir Anagarika Dharmapala came here on spiritual quest. In 1957 Panditha Madabawita Wijesoma Thero came to 'Sankissa' for few years and started a Buddhist school for poor people.


title: Princess Farial of Egypt hierarchical section title: Princess Farial of Egypt caption reference description: Ferial in the early 1940s, photographed by Riad Shehata caption attribution description: English: Princess Ferial of Egypt. العربية: الأميرة فريال. content: Princess Ferial Farouk; 17 November 1938 – 29 November 2009 was the eldest child of Egypt's penultimate monarch, King Farouk.


title: List of most expensive philatelic items hierarchical section title: List of most expensive philatelic items caption attribution description: English: 1918 24-cent "Inverted Jenny Error Plate Block" content: This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta.
This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value in millions of United States dollars in 2019. Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the item was sold. The inflation adjustment may change as recent inflation rates are often revised. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. Individual items are listed only once, i.e. for the highest price sold.
* Buyer's premium included


title: Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit section title: Operational history hierarchical section title: Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit / Operational history caption reference description: The Spirit of Missouri at the Dyess AFB air show in 2018. content: The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses; it is a flying wing design with a crew of two. The bomber can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class Mk 82 JDAM Global Positioning System-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
Development started under the "Advanced Technology Bomber" project during the Carter administration; its expected performance was one of the President's reasons for the cancellation of the Mach 2 capable B-1A bomber. The ATB project continued during the Reagan administration, but worries about delays in its introduction led to the reinstatement of the B-1 program. Program costs rose throughout development. Designed and manufactured by Northrop, later Northrop Grumman, the cost of each aircraft averaged US$737 million.


title: Nicki Minaj section title: Public image hierarchical section title: Nicki Minaj / Public image caption reference description: Early in her career, Minaj often wore colorful costumes, cosmetics, and wigs caption attribution description: English: Nicki Minaj poses for photographers caption alt text description: An Afro-American woman in a blonde wig and bright teal eyeshadow wears a shirt constructed of variously colored cotton balls content: Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Born in the Saint James district of Port of Spain and raised in the Queens borough of New York City, she gained public recognition after releasing the mixtapes Playtime Is Over, Sucka Free, and Beam Me Up Scotty.
Early in her career, Minaj was known for her colorful costumes and wigs. Her rapping is distinctive for its flow and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily British cockney. After signing with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment in 2009, Minaj released her first studio album, Pink Friday, which peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Her second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, was released in 2012 and debuted atop the charts in several countries. Minaj made her film debut in the 2012 animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift. In 2013, she was a judge on the twelfth season of American Idol. Minaj's third studio album, The Pinkprint, was released in 2014.