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= = = Amanita parvipantherina = = = |
Amanita parvipantherina, also known as the Asian Small Panther Amanita, is a species of agaric restricted to Yunnan province in China. It is strongly associated with the Yunnan Pine "Pinus yunnanensis". It fruits in July and August. |
This species is rather similar to the widespread "Amanita pantherina", with a brown cap covered with whitish remnants of the universal veil, but is generally smaller (cap diameter up to 6 cm, stem length up to 9 cm) and more fragile than that species with much more prominent striations around the margin of the cap. |
= = = Music in the Rockies = = = |
Music in the Rockies was a week-long festival, with a combination of seminars, competitions, concerts, and events related to Contemporary Christian Music, other kinds of Christian music, and the Christian music business industry. It has been replaced by a new event called Immerse. |
The event started in 1975 as Seminar in the Rockies, launched by Christian Artists' Corp's president Cam Floria. |
In 2000, the Gospel Music Association (GMA) began to take over the event. |
In 2004, they changed the event's name to GMA Music in the Rockies. |
The event/festival was previously held at YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado. |
Both "Music in the Rockies" and "Seminar in the Rockies" had a series of concerts in the evenings, with some notable performers and attendees. The 34th annual event was held from August 3 to August 9, 2008. |
In 2009, the event was replaced by a new event called Immerse. |
Immerse is put on by the Gospel Music Association and LifeWay Christian Resources. |
Immerse features a series of seminars. It also has a competition section that is broken down into several categories, and an overall winner is determined. It is held in the United States in Nashville, Tennessee. |
Numerous national recording artists have performed at, competed at, or attended the event. |
Selected: |
= = = Fancy Paradise = = = |
The film also stars Akira Takarada, Akemi Kita, Kei Tani, and Wakako Sakai, with a cameo by Jun Tuzaki. |
= = = François Braud = = = |
François Braud (born 27 July 1986 in Pontarlier, Doubs) is a French nordic combined skier and non-commissioned officer. who has been competing since 2003. |
Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of fourth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Vancouver in 2010 while earning his best finish of 14th in the 10 km individual large hill event at those same games. |
Braud's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fourth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Liberec in 2009 while his best individual finish was tenth in the 10 km mass start at those same championships. |
He has two individual career victories at various levels in the 15 km individual (2004, 2006). Braud's best World cup finish was fifth twice in a team 4 x 5 km event (2007, 2009) while his best individual finish was sixth three times, all in 2009. |
= = = Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages = = = |
The Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages (, ), commonly known as the Esperanto Museum, is a museum for Esperanto and other constructed languages in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1927 by Hofrat Hugo Steiner and was incorporated into the Austrian National Library as an independent collection in 1928. Today, it is a museum, library, documentation center, and archive. It accommodates the largest collection of constructed languages in the world and a linguistic research library for language planning. Its online catalogue is available online. |
Since 2005, the museum has been located in the Baroque Palais Mollard-Clary. The museum holds around 35,000 library volumes, 3700 periodical titles, 3500 cultural artifacts, 10,000 autographs and manuscripts, 22,000 photographs and photographic negatives, 1500 posters, and 40,000 pamphlets. In all, approximately 500 various planned languages are documented, of which the most important is Esperanto. |
Esperanto library |
The Ludwik Zamenhof Centre |
Esperanto Museum |
Collection of Planned Languages |
Scanned Esperanto-books |
Scanned Esperanto-journals |
= = = Tuz Khurmatu = = = |
Tuz Khurmatu (, , also spelled as Tuz Khurma and Tuz Khormato or just Khurmatu) is the central city of Tooz District in Saladin Governorate, Iraq, located 55 miles south of Kirkuk. The town is multi-ethnic, with a majority of Turkmen and Kurdish and Arab minority. 40% of the population was Kurdish in the 1947 census. |
The town participated in the 1991 Iraqi uprising before being suppressed by the Ba'athist Iraqi army. |
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the city has experienced significant violence. It has been frequently bombed by Al-Qaeda in Iraq and its successor the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as well as the PKK. |
Ali Kanbar Ozdamer (1919–1999) was a well-known artist from the area.<br>Assi al-Qawali suspected leader of the White Flags insurgent group, and Kurdish nationalist. |
= = = Kamiiida Line = = = |
The is a subway line, part of the system in Nagoya, Japan. It runs between two stations, Kamiiida and Heian-dōri, both at Kita Ward, Nagoya. Both stations have automatic platform gates. |
The Kamiiida Line's color on maps is pink. Its stations carry the letter K followed by a number. Officially, the line is called . All the stations accept manaca, a rechargeable contactless smart card. The line is essentially an extension of Meitetsu Komaki Line. As such, the two lines have through services. |
After the abolishment of Nagoya Municipal Tramway in the 1970s, Kamiiida Station, the terminus of Meitetsu Komaki Line, lost its connection to other railway lines. Users had to walk to Heian-dōri Station or to take a bus. The short, yet long-awaited link line was finally opened in 2003. There is a future plan to extend the line, but the plan is currently suspended. |
= = = Meijō Line = = = |
The is a subway line forming part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan, operated by Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya. It is a loop line that runs from Kanayama, via Sakae, Ōzone, Nagoya Daigaku, and back to Kanayama, all within Nagoya. The Meijō Line color on maps is wisteria purple. Its stations are numbered with the prefix "M". Officially, the line consists of , the western part, and , the eastern part. All the stations accept manaca, a rechargeable contactless smart card. |
This is the second loop subway line built in Japan, after Toei Ōedo Line. The Ōedo Line, however, is not a true loop line as it is operated like a "6" lying on its side, with trains from the western Hikarigaoka terminus running anticlockwise around the loop and terminating at Tochōmae Station and then returning around the loop to Hikarigaoka. Thus the Meijō Line is the first (and currently the only) true loop subway line in the nation. The line is longer than the JR Ōsaka Loop Line (), but shorter than the JR Yamanote Line (). It takes 48 minutes to complete the loop. |
The name Meijō is derived from the abbreviated "kanji" form of . |
The is a subway line forming part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan, operated by Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya. It runs from Kanayama Station in Naka Ward to Nagoyako Station in Minato Ward, all within Nagoya. The Meikō Line color on maps is a stripe of wisteria purple and white. Its stations are numbered with the prefix "E". Officially, the line is part of . All the stations accept manaca, a rechargeable contactless smart card. The line has through services with the Meijō Line. |
The line was originally the part of Meijō Line. When Line 4, the eastern part of the current loop line, was completed in 2004, the whole of the loop (consisting of part of Line 2 and line 4) was renamed the Meijō Line, and the remaining section between Kanayama and Nagoyakō, outside the loop, became the Meikō Line. The name Meikō derives from the abbreviated "kanji" form of . |
Women-only cars were introduced on the line on 4 July 2016, operating in the mornings until 09:00. |
The first section of Line 2, between Sakae-machi (current Sakae) and Shiyakusho, opened in 1965. The line was named Meijō Line in 1969, and the extension was completed in 1971. Line 4 opened its first section between Aratama-bashi and Kanayama in 1974. The line extension was completed in 2004, making a loop line together with Line 2. At the same time, the whole loop line was renamed the Meijō Line, and the section of Line 2 between Kanayama and Nagoyakō, outside the loop, became the Meikō Line. |
Women-only cars were introduced on the line on 4 July 2016, operating in the mornings until 09:00. |
= = = Higashiyama Line = = = |
The is a subway line, which forms part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan. Officially, the line is referred to as . It runs from Takabata in Nakagawa Ward to Fujigaoka in Meitō Ward, all within Nagoya. The Higashiyama Line's color on maps is Windsor yellow; its stations carry the letter "H" followed by a number. All the stations accept manaca, a rechargeable contactless smart card. |
The first section of the line opened in 1957. The line links Nagoya Station and Sakae, the CBD of Nagoya. As such, the line has the highest ridership among Nagoya Municipal Subway Lines. On arriving at Nagoya Station (from Fujigaoka), departing Nagoya Station (to Fujigaoka), or at Fujigaoka Station, the announcements are made in five languages, namely Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, and Portuguese, in that order. |
The stations are as follows: |
The Higashiyama Line was the first underground rapid transit line in Nagoya, and it opened initially on 15 November 1957 with three stations. The three stations were Nagoya Station, Fushimimachi Station (now ), and Sakaemachi Station (now ). At first, the subway had six 100 series EMU trainsets, formed with two cars per set. |
The line was extended from Sakaemachi (now Sakae) to on June 15, 1960, from Ikeshita to on April 1, 1963, from to on March 30, 1967. |
The line was simultaneously extended from Nagoya to and from to its current eastern terminus of on April 1, 1969. The line was further extended from to its present western terminus of on September 21, 1982, and with that was completed as the line which operates today. |
All trains are based at Takabata and Fujigaoka Depots. |
The 250, 300 and 700 series trains were later sold to Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad, where they were refurbished and reclassified as Kotoden 600 series (former 250/700 series) and Kotoden 700 series (former 300 series), and to the Argentinian transport company Metrovías S.A., where they serve Line C of the Buenos Aires Metro. |
The last remaining 5000 series train in service was withdrawn following a special final run on 30 August 2015. |
= = = Wishin' and Hopin' = = = |
"Wishin' and Hopin'" is a song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, which was a Top 10 hit for Dusty Springfield in 1964. |
The song was first recorded by Dionne Warwick in the fall of 1962, and was the B-side of Warwick's single "This Empty Place" (also recorded in the fall of 1962) in the spring of 1963; the track was also featured on Warwick's debut album "Presenting Dionne Warwick". Warwick's rendition became a charting single in France, reaching #79 in 1963. |
Dusty Springfield, who had heard the Warwick album track, recorded "Wishin' and Hopin in January 1964 at Olympic Studios. Personnel for the session included Bobby Graham on drums, Big Jim Sullivan on guitar, and the Breakaways vocal group. Ivor Raymonde arranged and conducted on the session for which Johnny Franz was the producer. The track was included on Springfield's solo album debuts in the UK: "A Girl Called Dusty", and the US: "Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You". |
In February 1964, Springfield met with Burt Bacharach in New York City to listen to other songs to consider recording. Bacharach recalls at that time: "I [think] I tried to talk her into releasing 'Wishin' and Hopin'' [as a single] because she had some ambivalence about it." |
A New York disc jockey, Jack Lacy, began to play "Wishin' and Hopin following some encouragement from David and Bacharach, and Philips' US label issued it as a single in May 1964; "Wishin' and Hopin broke nationally that June entering the Top Ten in July to peak at #6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (#4 in "Cashbox" and #4 Easy Listening). |
The release of "Wishin' and Hopin as a concurrent UK single release for Springfield was precluded by the presence on the UK charts of Springfield's single "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" – one of the songs Bacharach had pitched to her when they met in New York City in February 1964. "Wishin' and Hopin was recorded by UK band The Merseybeats whose inaugural single had been another song (reissued in 1982) from the "Presenting Dionne Warwick" album: "It's Love That Really Counts" (UK #24). The Merseybeats "Wishin' and Hopin peaked at #13 on the UK Singles Chart in 1964, the same week Springfield's "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" spent at its #3 peak. Another UK male vocal group The Eagles also had a single release of "Wishin' and Hopin, although it was the B-side of their non-charting single "Write Me a Letter". |
Despite not being a UK hit single for Springfield, "Wishin' and Hopin was strongly identified with her in the UK public consciousness: she performed the song with the Merseybeats on the 8 August 1964 episode of "Ready Steady Go!" – actually both acts lip-synched to a track spliced together from their respective versions – and on that show's "Sound of Motown" edition broadcast 28 April 1965 which Springfield hosted, the only one of her own songs she performed was "Wishin' and Hopin with the vocal accompaniment of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. |
Springfield's recording was featured in the film, "A Home at the End of the World" (2004). |
"Wishin' and Hopin was also featured in "", the second episode of "". |
Springfield recorded foreign language versions of "Wishin' and Hopin in July 1964: in Italian as "Stupido Stupido" – which was a combination of lyrics in Italian and English, the latter being newly written rather than taken from the original song – and in German as "Warten Und Hoffen". "Wishin' and Hopin was also a hit for Springfield in Australia (#2), New Zealand (#3), South Africa (#2), and Canada (#2). |
Ani DiFranco's rendition of this song recorded in 1995 and released in November 1995, was featured over the opening credits of the film, "My Best Friend's Wedding". That film, along with the "Austin Powers" films, is suggested to have led to the renewed popularity of the Bacharach-David catalog. |
Nancy Sinatra recorded a cover-version of the song for her 1966 album "Nancy in London" |
= = = Tsurumai Line = = = |
The is a subway line which forms part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan. It runs from Kami Otai in Nishi-ku, Nagoya to Akaike in Nisshin. The Tsurumai Line's color on maps is light blue. Its stations carry the letter T followed by a number. Officially, the line is called . All the stations accept manaca, a rechargeable contactless smart card. |
The line opened its first section in 1977. The line has through services with three Meitetsu lines, namely Inuyama Line, Toyota Line and Mikawa Line. |
= = = List of MegaMan NT Warrior episodes (Stream) = = = |