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April is the fourth month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian calendar
s, and comes between March and May. I
t is one of four months to have 30 da
ys.April always begins on the same da
y of week as July, and additionally,
January in leap years. April always e
nds on the same day of the week as De
cember.April's f... | |
ths that have 30 days, as June, Septe
mber and November are later in the ye
ar.April begins on the same day of th
e week as July every year and on the
same day of the week as January in le
ap years. April ends on the same day
of the week as December every year, a
s each other's last days are exactly
35 weeks (245 da... | |
leap years, February and October of t
he previous year. In common years imm
ediately after other common years, Ap
ril starts on the same day of the wee
k as January of the previous year, an
d in leap years and years immediately
after that, April finishes on the sa
me day of the week as January of the
previous year.In... | |
April finishes on the same day of th
e week as September of the following
year, and in years immediately before
leap years, March and June of the fo
llowing year.April is a spring month
in the Northern Hemisphere and an aut
umn/fall month in the Southern Hemisp
here. In each hemisphere, it is the s
easonal equivale... | |
Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love
. It was originally the second month
in the old Roman Calendar, before the
start of the new year was put to Jan
uary 1.Quite a few festivals are held
in this month. In many Southeast Asi
an cultures, new year is celebrated i
n this month (including Songkran). In
Western Christi... | |
marking the transition from winter in
to summer.April in poetry Poets use A
pril to mean the end of winter. For e
xample: April showers bring May flowe
rs.Events in AprilFixed Events April
1 - April Fools' Day April 1 - Islam
ic Republic Day (Iran) April 2 - Inte
rnational Children's Book Day April 2
- Thai Heritage... | |
Tax Year (United Kingdom) April 6 - T
artan Day (Canada and United States)
April 6 - Chakri Day (Thailand) April
7 - Day of Maternity and Beauty (Arm
enia) April 7 - Genocide Memorial Day
(Rwanda) April 7 - World Health Day
April 7 - Women's Day (Mozambique) Ap
ril 8 - Buddha's Birthday (Buddhism)
April 9 - Martyr... | |
- Cambodian New Year April 13 - Thom
as Jefferson's Birthday (United State
s) April 14 - Southeast Asian New Yea
r festivals, including Songkran April
14 - Georgian language Day April 14
- Youth Day (Angola) April 14 - Ambed
kar Tayanti (India) April 14 - Pan-Am
erican Day April 15 - Tax Day (United
States) April 1... | |
World Voice Day April 16 - Selena Day
(Texas) April 17 - National Day of S
yria April 17 - Flag Day (American Sa
moa) April 17 - Women's Day (Gabon) A
pril 17 - World Hemophilia Day April
18 - Independence Day (Zimbabwe) Apri
l 18 - Invention Day (Japan) April 18
- International Day of Monuments and
Sites April 19 ... | |
il 21 - San Jacinto Day (Texas) April
21 - Kartini Day (Indonesia) April 2
1 - National Tree Planting Day (Kenya
) April 21 - First Day of Ridran (Bah
a'i faith) April 21 - Grounation Day
(Rastafari movement) April 22 - Earth
Day April 22 - Discovery Day (Brazil
) April 23 - Saint George's Day, cele
brating the patr... | |
24 - Republic Day (the Gambia) April
25 - Australia and New Zealand celebr
ate ANZAC Day. ANZAC means Australia
n and New Zealand Army Corps, and beg
an in 1915. April 25 - World DNA Day
April 25 - World Malaria Day April 25
- Flag Day (Swaziland, Faroe Islands
) April 25 - Freedom Day (Portugal) A
pril 25 - Libera... | |
Tapir Day April 27 - King's Day (Neth
erlands) from 2014, birthday of Wille
m-Alexander of the Netherlands April
28 - Workers Memorial Day April 28 -
National Day (Sardinia) April 28 - Na
tional Heroes Day (Barbados) April 29
- Showa Day (Japan), birthday of Emp
eror Hirohito, who died in 1989 April
29 - Internatio... | |
eden) April 30 - International Jazz D
ay April 30 - Walpurgis Night (Centra
l and Northern Europe)Moveable Events
Easter-related events in Western Ch
ristianity: Palm Sunday (between Marc
h 15 and April 18) Maundy Thursday (b
etween March 19 and April 22) Good Fr
iday (between March 20 and April 23)
Easter Sunday (b... | |
eek as Western Christianity's Holy We
ek, which is the week leading up to E
aster. Mother's Day (UK) falls betwee
n March 1 and April 4. World Snooker
Championship (late April, early May)
Horse racing - Grand National (UK), K
entucky Derby (United States) Start o
f Daylight Saving Time - Clocks going
forward one hou... | |
ssachusetts, United States Brighton,
United Kingdom Enschede, Netherlands
London, United Kingdom Madrid, Spain
Paris, France Rotterdam, Netherlands
Utrecht, Netherlands Zurich, Switzerl
andSelection of Historical Events Ap
ril 1, 1918 - The Royal Air Force is
founded. April 1, 1976 - Apple Inc. i
s founded. April... | |
sighted by a European for the first
time. April 2, 1930 - Haile Selassie
becomes Emperor of Ethiopia. April 2,
1982 - Start of the Falklands War, a
s Argentine forces land on the Falkla
nd Islands. April 2, 2005 - Pope John
Paul II dies aged 84, after 26-and-a
-half years as Pope. April 3, 1973 -
The first-ever m... | |
shortest-ever time in office for a U
S President. April 4, 1960 - Senegal
becomes independent. April 4, 1968 -
Assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. April 5, 1
722 - Jacob Roggeveen becomes the fir
st European to land on Easter Island,
landing there on Easter Sunday. Apri
l 6, 1320 - Scot... | |
. April 9, 1865 - American Civil War:
Confederate forces under Robert E. L
ee surrender to Union forces. April 9
, 1940 - World War II: Denmark and No
rway are invaded by Nazi Germany. Apr
il 9, 1989 - April 9 tragedy: In Tbil
isi, Georgia, a peaceful demonstratio
n for independence is broken up by th
e Soviet Army, k... | |
r Smolensk, Russia, kills several peo
ple who were important in Poland, inc
luding President Lech Kaczynski. Apri
l 11, 1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte is ex
iled to the island of Elba. April 11,
1954 - Said to have been the most bo
ring day of the 20th century. April 1
2, 1861 - The American Civil War begi
ns at Fort Sumte... | |
s shot dead at Ford's Theatre by John
Wilkes Booth. Lincoln dies the next
day. April 14, 2010 - Qinghai Provinc
e, China, is hit by an earthquake, ki
lling tens of thousands of people. Ap
ril 14, 2010 - The eruption of Eyjafj
allajokull in Iceland shuts down air
traffic around Europe for a week, due
to its ash clou... | |
endence from France. April 18, 1906 -
1906 San Francisco earthquake: San F
rancisco, California, is hit by a big
earthquake, resulting in fires that
destroy large parts of the city. Apri
l 18, 1980 - Zimbabwe gains full inde
pendence. April 19, 1897 - The first
Boston Marathon is held. April 19, 19
71 - Sierra Leon... | |
lois Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict
XVI. April 20, 1902 - Marie Curie and
Pierre Curie refine Radium. April 20
, 2010 - Deepwater Horizon oil spill:
A massive fire on the Deepwater Hori
zon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexic
o kills 11 workers and causes a massi
ve oil spill, the worst spill in US h
istory. April 21... | |
n to reach present-day Brazil. April
22, 1970 - Earth Day is observed for
the first time. April 23, 1533 - The
Church of England declares that Henry
VIII of England and Catherine of Ara
gon are not married. April 24, 1916 -
The Easter Rising occurs in Dublin,
Ireland. April 24, 1990 - The Hubble
Space Telescope ... | |
in a coup, in what is known as the Ca
rnation Revolution. April 26, 1937 -
Spanish Civil War: German planes bomb
the town of Guernica, Basque Country
, later depicted in a painting by Pab
lo Picasso. April 26, 1964 - Tanganyi
ka and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzani
a. April 26, 1986 - A reactor explosi
on occurs at the... | |
rra Leone becomes independent from th
e United Kingdom. April 28, 1789 - Mu
tiny on the ship Bounty in the Pacifi
c Ocean, lead by Fletcher Christian.
April 28, 1945 - Benito Mussolini is
executed by Italian partisans. April
28, 1947 - In Peru, Thor Heyerdahl st
arts his Kon-Tiki expedition aimed at
proving his the... | |
e, Duchess of Cambridge is broadcast
worldwide. April 30, 1789 - George Wa
shington becomes the first President
of the United States. April 30, 1803
- The United States purchases (buys)
the Louisiana territory from France.
April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits
suicide on the same day that the Sov
iet Army raises ... | |
e throne, and her daughter becomes Qu
een Beatrix of the Netherlands. Beatr
ix later also abdicates, on this day
in 2013, in favor of her son, King Wi
llem-Alexander of the Netherlands.Tri
via In Western Christianity, there i
s a bigger likelihood of Easter falli
ng in April than in March. The months
around April (M... | |
igns for April are Aries (March 21 to
April 20) and Taurus (April 21 to Ma
y 20). The sweet pea and daisy are th
e traditional birth flowers for April
. Birthstone for April is the Diamond
.April 1 is the only day in April to
start within the first quarter of the
calendar year. If the months of the
year were arrang... | |
(April 16), Elizabeth II of the Unit
ed Kingdom and Commonwealth realms (A
pril 21), King Willem-Alexander of th
e Netherlands (April 27), and King Ca
rl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (April 30).Re
ferences
| |
August (Aug.) is the eighth month of
the year in the Gregorian calendar, c
oming between July and September. It
has 31 days. It is named after the Ro
man emperor Augustus Caesar.August do
es not begin on the same day of the w
eek as any other month in common year
s, but begins on the same day of the
week as February... | |
omulus. October was the eighth month.
August was the eighth month when Jan
uary or February were added to the st
art of the year by King Numa Pompiliu
s about 700 BC. Or, when those two mo
nths were moved from the end to the b
eginning of the year by the decemvirs
about 450 BC (Roman writers disagree
). In 153 BC Jan... | |
ter July and before September.August,
in either hemisphere, is the seasona
l equivalent of February in the other
. In the Northern hemisphere it is a
summer month and it is a winter month
in the Southern hemisphere.No other
month in common years begins on the s
ame day of the week as August, but Au
gust begins on t... | |
ovember of the previous year, and in
leap years, June of the previous year
. In common years, August finishes on
the same day of the week as March an
d June of the previous year, and in l
eap years, September of the previous
year. In common years immediately aft
er other common years, August starts
on the same day ... | |
immediately before common years, Augu
st finishes on the same day of the we
ek as May of the following year, and
in years immediately before leap year
s, February and October of the follow
ing year.August observancesFixed obse
rvances and events August 1 Nationa
l Day of Switzerland August 1 Indepe
ndence Day (Beni... | |
ublic Day (Republic of Macedonia) Aug
ust 2 Emancipation Day (Bahamas) Aug
ust 3 Independence Day (Niger) Augus
t 5 Independence Day (Burkina Faso)
August 5 Victory Day (Croatia) Augus
t 6 Independence Day (Bolivia) Augus
t 6 Independence Day (Jamaica) Augus
t 7 Independence Day (Ivory Coast) A
ugust 8 Father'... | |
August 12 Perseid Meteor Shower Aug
ust 12 Queen Sirikit's Birthday (Tha
iland) August 13 Independence Day (C
entral African Republic) August 14 I
ndependence Day (Pakistan) August 15
Assumption of Mary in Western Christ
ianity August 15 Independence Day (I
ndia) August 15 Independence Day (Re
public of the Co... | |
orld Humanitarian Day August 19 Inde
pendence Day (Afghanistan) August 20
Feast day of Stephen I of Hungary Au
gust 20 Regaining of Independence (E
stonia) August 21 Admission Day (Haw
aii) August 21 Ninoy Aquino Day (Phi
lippines) August 21 Saint Helena Day
August 23 National Heroes Day (Phil
ippines) August ... | |
30 Constitution Day (Kazakhstan) Au
gust 30 Republic Day (Tatarstan) Aug
ust 30 Victory Day (Turkey) August 3
1 Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan) Augu
st 31 Independence Day (Malaysia) Au
gust 31 Independence Day (Trinidad a
nd Tobago)Moveable and Monthlong even
ts Edinburgh Festival, including the
Military Tattoo... | |
's Day in Uruguay: Second Sunday in A
ugust Monday after August 17: Holiday
in Argentina, commemorating José de
San Martin Discovery Day in Canada: t
hird Monday in August Summer Olympics
, often held in July and/or AugustSel
ection of Historical Events August 1
1291: Traditional founding date of
Switzerland. Aug... | |
on his first voyage. August 3 1960:
Niger becomes independent. August 4
1944: Anne Frank and her family are c
aptured by the Gestapo in Amsterdam.
August 4 1984: Upper Volta's name is
changed to Burkina Faso. August 5 1
960: Upper Volta becomes independent.
August 5 1962: Film actress Marilyn
Monroe is found... | |
dropped on Nagasaki. August 9 1965:
Singapore becomes independent. Augus
t 9 1974: US President Richard Nixon
resigns following the Watergate scan
dal, with Gerald Ford replacing him.
August 10 1792: Storming of the Tuil
eries Palace during the French Revolu
tion August 10 1809: Beginning of Ec
uadorean indepen... | |
ld War II. August 14/15 1947: India
is partitioned at independence from t
he UK, as the new mainly Islamic stat
e of Pakistan is created. August 15
1960: The Republic of the Congo becom
es independent. August 15 1971: Bahr
ain becomes independent. August 16 1
977: Elvis Presley dies aged 42, lead
ing to a worldwi... | |
3 BC: Augustus becomes Roman consul.
August 19 14: Augustus dies. August
19 1919: Afghanistan becomes indepen
dent. August 19 1991: The August Cou
p against Mikhail Gorbachev, in the S
oviet Union, begins. August 20 1940:
Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with
an ice pick in Mexico. August 20 19
68: The Prague S... | |
st 24 1991: Ukraine regains independ
ence from the Soviet Union. August 25
1825: Uruguay declares independence
from Brazil. August 27 1883: Krakat
oa, in the Sunda Strait between Sumat
ra and Java, explodes, after a very v
iolent eruption. August 27 1991: Mol
dova becomes independent from the Sov
iet Union. Augus... | |
issippi and Louisiana. New Orleans is
flooded. August 31 1957: Malaysia,
then the Federation of Malaya, become
s independent. August 31 1962: Trini
dad and Tobago becomes independent. A
ugust 31 1991: Kyrgyzstan becomes in
dependent. August 31 1997: Diana, Pr
incess of Wales is killed in a car cr
ash in Paris, le... | |
August, Warren G. Harding, on August
2, 1923. August's flower is the Gladi
olus with the birthstone being perido
t. The astrological signs for August
are Leo (July 22 - August 21) and Vir
go (August 22 - September 21).August
is the second of two months beginning
with 'A', the other being April, wit
h both April 21 ... | |
Art is a creative activity that expre
sses imaginative or technical skill.
It produces a product, an object. Art
is a diverse range of human activiti
es in creating visual, performing art
ifacts, and expressing the author's i
maginative mind. The product of art i
s called a work of art, for others to
experience.Some... | |
find art relaxing, exciting or infor
mative. Some say people are driven to
make art due to their inner creativi
ty."The arts" is a much broader term.
It includes drawing, painting, sculp
ting, photography, performance art, d
ance, music, poetry, prose and theatr
e.Types of art Art is divided into th
e plastic arts, ... | |
rt Fine art is expression by making s
omething beautiful or appealing to th
e emotions by visual means: drawing,
painting, printmaking, sculpture Lite
rature: poetry, creative writing Perf
orming art Performing art including d
rama are (expression using the body:
dance, acting, singing) Auditory art
(expression by m... | |
ns Some people say that art is a prod
uct or item that is made with the int
ention of stimulating the human sense
s as well as the human mind, spirit a
nd soul. An artwork is normally judg
ed by how much impact it has on peopl
e, the number of people who can relat
e to it, and how much they appreciate
it. Some people... | |
next to each other in a painting to
make an image or just to make a prett
y or interesting design.Art may expre
ss emotion. Artists may feel a certa
in emotion and wish to express it by
creating something that means somethi
ng to them. Most of the art created
in this case is made for the artist r
ather than an au... | |
at ancient civilizations, such as Anc
ient Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rom
e and Persia had works and styles of
art. In the Middle Ages, most of the
art in Europe showed people from the
Bible in paintings, stained glass win
dows, and mosaic tile floors and wall
s.Islamic art includes geometric patt
erns, Islamic ca... | |
se artistic styles, which are usually
named after the ruling dynasty.In Eu
rope, after the Middle Ages, there wa
s a "Renaissance" which means "rebirt
h". People rediscovered science and a
rtists were allowed to paint subjects
other than religious subjects. Peopl
e like Michelangelo and Leonardo da V
inci still paint... | |
e figures close up and just overlappi
ng each other. These artists used nud
ity regularly in their art.In the lat
e 1800s, artists in Europe, respondin
g to Modernity created many new paint
ing styles such as Classicism, Romant
icism, Realism, and Impressionism. Th
e history of twentieth century art in
cludes Expressio... | |
art is the property of the artist, p
rotected by copyright.In other societ
ies, people think that art belongs to
no one. They think that society has
put its social capital into the artis
t and the artist's work. In this view
, society is a collective that has ma
de the art, through the artist.Functi
ons of art The f... | |
function Some artists draw what they
see the future like, and some of the
m are right, but most are not...4) Re
creation function Art makes us think
about it, not about reality; we have
a rest.5) Value function What did the
artist value? What aims did they lik
e/dislike in human activity? This usu
ally is clearly ... | |
glish 850 words
| |
A or a is the first letter of the Eng
lish alphabet. The small letter, a or
α, is used as a lower case vowel. Wh
en it is spoken, ā is said as a long
a, a diphthong of ĕ and y. A is simi
lar to alpha of the Greek alphabet.
That is not surprising, because it st
ands for the same sound. "Alpha and o
mega" (the last ... | |
a team in an old TV show, The A-Team.
A capital a is written "A". Use a ca
pital a at the start of a sentence if
writing.Where it came fromThe letter
'A' was in the Phoenician alphabet's
aleph. This symbol came from a simpl
e picture of an ox head. This Phoenic
ian letter helped make the basic bloc
ks of later type... | |
erThe letter A has six different soun
ds. It can sound like æ, in the Inter
national Phonetic Alphabet, such as t
he word pad. Other sounds of this let
ter are in the words father, which de
veloped into another sound, such as i
n the word ace.Use in mathematicsIn a
lgebra, the letter "A" along with oth
er letters at th... | |
glish 850 wordsVowel letters
| |
Air refers to the Earth's atmosphere.
Air is a mixture of many gases and t
iny dust particles. It is the clear g
as in which living things live and br
eathe. It has an indefinite shape and
volume. It has mass and weight, beca
use it is matter. The weight of air c
reates atmospheric pressure. There i
s no air in oute... | |
air. In breathing, the lungs put oxyg
en into the blood, and send back carb
on dioxide to the air. Plants need th
e carbon dioxide in the air to live.
They give off the oxygen that we brea
the. Without it we die of asphyxia.
Wind is moving air, this is refreshin
g. This causes weather. Air can be po
lluted by some g... | |
ir has been used to create technology
. Ships moved with sails and windmill
s used the mechanical motion of air.
Aircraft use propellers to move air o
ver a wing, which allows them to fly.
Pneumatics use air pressure to move
things. Since the late 1900s, air pow
er is also used to generate electrici
ty. Air is invis... | |
birth of the cosmos.Brief history Ea
rth's atmosphere has changed much sin
ce its formation.Original atmosphere
At first it was mainly a hydrogen atm
osphere. It has changed dramatically
on several occasions—for example, th
e Great Oxygenation Event 2.4 billion
years ago, greatly increased oxygen
in the atmospher... | |
as ozone depletion and global warming
.Second atmosphere Outgassing from vo
lcanism, supplemented by gases produc
ed during the late heavy bombardment
of Earth by huge asteroids, produced
the next atmosphere, consisting large
ly of nitrogen plus carbon dioxide an
d inert gases.Third atmosphere The co
nstant re-arrang... | |
rs ago. The Great Oxygenation Event i
s shown by the end of the banded iron
formations.Related pages Air pollut
ion Air craftReferences Basic English
850 wordsPhysicsAtmosphere
| |
Spain is divided in 17 parts called a
utonomous communities. Autonomous mea
ns that each of these autonomous comm
unities has its own executive, legisl
ative judicial powers. These are simi
lar to, but not the same as, states i
n the United States of America, for e
xample.Spain has fifty smaller parts
called provinces... | |
Galicia and Andalusia.The Spanish la
nguage is the sole official language
in every autonomous community but six
, where Spanish is co-official with o
ther languages, as follows: Catalonia
: Catalan and Occitan Valencian Commu
nity: Catalan (also called Valencian
there) Balearic Islands: Catalan Gali
cia: Galician Ba... | |
Aragon (its capital is Zaragoza) Ast
urias (its capital is Oviedo) Baleari
c Islands (its capital is Palma de Ma
llorca) Basque Country (its capital i
s Vitoria) Canary Islands (they have
two capitals - Las Palmas de Gran Can
aria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife) Cant
abria (its capital is Santander) Cast
ile-La Mancha (i... | |
its capital is Madrid) Region of Murc
ia (its capital is Murcia) Navarre (i
ts capital is Pamplona) Valencian Com
munity (its capital is Valencia)Spain
also has two cities on the north coa
st of Africa: Ceuta and Melilla. They
are called "autonomous cities" and h
ave simultaneously the majority of th
e power of an au... | |
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (London,
23 June 1912 – Wilmslow, Cheshire, 7
June 1954) was an English mathematic
ian and computer scientist. He was bo
rn in Maida Vale, London.Early life a
nd family Alan Turing was born in Mai
da Vale, London on 23 June 1912. His
father was part of a family of mercha
nts from Scotlan... | |
what is going to be.” – Alan Turing.
The Stoney family were once prominent
landlords, here in North Tipperary.
His mother Ethel Sara Stoney (1881–19
76) was daughter of Edward Waller Sto
ney (Borrisokane, North Tipperary) an
d Sarah Crawford (Cartron Abbey, Co.
Longford); Protestant Anglo-Irish gen
try.Educated in ... | |
reatest figures of the twentieth cent
ury.A brilliant mathematician and cry
ptographer Alan was to become the fou
nder of modern-day computer science a
nd artificial intelligence; designing
a machine at Bletchley Park to break
secret Enigma encrypted messages use
d by the Nazi German war machine to p
rotect sensitive... | |
h his effort in shortening World War
II.In 2013, almost 60 years later, Tu
ring received a posthumous Royal Pard
on from Queen Elizabeth II. Today, th
e “Turing law” grants an automatic pa
rdon to men who died before the law c
ame into force, making it possible fo
r living convicted gay men to seek pa
rdons for offenc... | |
ge of 41 years, by eating an apple la
ced with cyanide.Career Turing was on
e of the people who worked on the fir
st computers. He created the theoreti
cal Turing machine in 1936. The mach
ine was imaginary, but it included th
e idea of a computer program.Turing w
as interested in artificial intellige
nce. He proposed... | |
t messages). He worked for the Gover
nment Code and Cypher School (GC&CS)
at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebrea
king centre that produced Ultra intel
ligence.Using cryptanalysis, he helpe
d to break the codes of the Enigma ma
chine. After that, he worked on other
German codes.From 1945 to 1947, Turi
ng worked on the... | |
e were delays in starting the project
. In late 1947 he returned to Cambrid
ge for a sabbatical year. While he wa
s at Cambridge, the Pilot ACE was bui
lt without him. It ran its first prog
ram on 10 May 1950.Private life Turin
g was a homosexual man. In 1952, he a
dmitted having had sex with a man in
England. At that... | |
y 2012, a private member's bill was p
ut before the House of Lords to grant
Turing a statutory pardon. In July 2
013, the government supported it. A r
oyal pardon was granted on 24 Decembe
r 2013.Death In 1954, Turing died fro
m cyanide poisoning. The cyanide came
from either an apple which was poiso
ned with cyanide... | |
nst medical ethics and international
laws of human rights. In August 2009,
a petition asking the British Govern
ment to apologise to Turing for punis
hing him for being a homosexual was s
tarted. The petition received thousan
ds of signatures. Prime Minister Gord
on Brown acknowledged the petition. H
e called Turing'... | |
ientists from LondonSuicides by poiso
nSuicides in the United Kingdom1912 b
irths1954 deathsOfficers of the Order
of the British Empire
| |
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1
, 1974) is a Grammy Award-winning Can
adian-American singer and songwriter.
She was born in Ottawa, Canada. She
began singing in Canada as a teenager
in 1990. In 1995, she became popular
all over the world.As a young child
in Canada, Morissette began to act on
television, inc... | |
as sold more than 33 million units gl
obally. It became the best-selling de
but album in music history. Her next
album, Supposed Former Infatuation Ju
nkie, was released in 1998. It was a
success as well. Morissette took up p
roducing duties for her next albums,
which include Under Rug Swept, So-Cal
led Chaos and Fl... | |
Ottawa, Ontario. Her father is French
-Canadian. Her mother is from Hungary
. She has an older brother, Chad, and
a twin brother, Wade, who is 12 minu
tes younger than she is. Her parents
had worked as teachers at a military
base in Lahr, Germany.Morissette beca
me an American citizen in 2005. She i
s still Canadian... | |
album caused Morissette to win four G
rammy Awards. The album Jagged Little
Pill touched many people.On the albu
m, Morissette sang songs about many d
ifferent things. These things include
:love (in the song "Head Over Feet")l
ife (in the songs "Ironic" and "You L
earn")her feelings (in the songs "Han
d In My Pocket" ... | |
Pill (1995)Supposed Former Infatuatio
n Junkie (1998)Alanis Unplugged (1999
)Under Rug Swept (2002)Feast on Scrap
s (CD/DVD, 2002)So-Called Chaos (2004
)Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005)Al
anis Morissette: The Collection (2005
)Flavors of Entanglement (2008)Havoc
and Bright Lights (2012)Selected song
sMorissette has ... | |
after leaving her for another woman."
Ironic" - This song is about life. It
contains several stories about unluc
ky people. In one of the stories, a m
an is afraid of flying on airplanes.
He finally flies in one, but the airp
lane crashes."You Learn" - In this so
ng, Morissette says that bad things h
appen in life, b... | |
famous or not."Thank U" - In this so
ng, she thanks many things that have
helped her. She thanks India, a count
ry she visited and almost died in. Sh
e also lists ways she can improve her
self."Hands Clean" - In this song, a
man does something bad, and tells Mor
issette not to tell anyone else the b
ad thing the man... | |
ion actorsCanadian movie actorsCanadi
an pop singersCanadian rock singersCa
nadian singer-songwritersCanadian tel
evision actorsGrammy Award winnersPeo
ple from OttawaSingers from OntarioTw
in people from Canada
| |
Adobe Illustrator is a computer progr
am for making graphic design and illu
strations. It is made by Adobe System
s. Pictures created in Adobe Illustra
tor can be made bigger or smaller, an
d look exactly the same at any size.
It works well with the rest of the pr
oducts with the Adobe name.HistoryIt
was first releas... | |
Andouille is a type of pork sausage.
It is spicy (hot in taste) and smoked
. There are different kinds, all with
different combinations of pork meat,
fat, intestines (tubes going to the
stomach), and tripe (the wall of the
stomach).Other sorts are "French ando
uille" and "German andouille"; they a
re less spicy th... | |
Farming is growing crops and keeping
animals for food and raw materials.
Farming is a part of agriculture. Agr
iculture started thousands of years a
go, but no one knows for sure how old
it is. The development of farming ga
ve rise to the Neolithic Revolution a
s people gave up nomadic hunting and
became settlers ... | |
t. Wheat and barley are some of the f
irst crops people grew. People probab
ly started agriculture slowly by plan
ting a few crops, but still gathered
many foods from the wild. People may
have started farming because the weat
her and soil began to change. Farming
can feed many more people than hunte
r-gatherers can ... | |
rds devoted to fruit. They cannot be
switched easily with growing field c
rops. Therefore they are not classed
as arable land in the statistics.Agri
culture is not only growing food for
people and animals, but also growing
other things like flowers and nursery
plants, manure or dung, animal hides
(skins or furs)... | |
his family, and his animals. The yie
ld is the amount of food grown on a g
iven amount of land, and it is often
low. This is because subsistence farm
ers are generally less educated, and
they have less money to buy equipment
. Drought and other problems sometime
s cause famines. Where yields are low
, deforestation ... | |
entury they have become more producti
ve because farmers are able to grow b
etter varieties of plants, use more f
ertilizer, use more water, and more e
asily control weeds and pests. Many f
arms also use machines, so fewer peop
le can farm more land. There are fewe
r farmers in rich countries, but the
farmers are able... | |
soil or the water. They can also crea
te bugs and weeds that are more resis
tant to the chemicals, causing outbre
aks of these pests. The soil can be d
amaged by erosion (blowing or washing
away), salt buildup, or loss of stru
cture. Irrigation (adding water from
rivers) can pollute water and lower t
he water table. ... | |
and are easier to harvest. Centuries
of artificial selection and breeding
have changed crop plants. The crops p
roduce better yield. Fertilizers, che
mical pest control, and irrigation al
l help.Some plants are improved with
genetic engineering. One example is
modifying the plant to resist herbici
des.Food It is i... | |
there are several types of agricultur
e. Traditional agriculture is mostly
done in poor countries. Intensive agr
iculture is mostly done in countries
with more money. It uses pesticides,
machinery, chemical fertilizers. Orga
nic farming is using only natural pro
ducts such as compost and green manur
e. Integrated fa... | |
and safety of food.Problems There are
some serious problems that people fa
ce trying to grow food today.These in
clude: Pollution Erosion Diseases Pes
ts Weeds Drought Rainfall Climate Con
taminationCrops The major crops produ
ced in the world in 2002, are maize (
corn), wheat, rice, and cotton. Maize
624 million met... |
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