Five-Masters (or Panj Ostād) refers to five very influential masters of Persian literature, Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaii, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid Yasemi.
These five masters wrote the classic book of Grammer of Persian Language which is now known as Dastoore Zabane Panj Ostad.
Five-Masters are among the most important figures in the history of Persian language and linguistics.
Parade is the third full-length album by the Japanese rock group Plastic Tree, released on August 23, 2000.
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Jehangir Kothari Parade is located in Clifton beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Access to the sea at Clifton is provided by the terraced Parade known as the Jehangir Kothari Parade. The site, owned by Mr. Jehangir Kothari, an eminent Karachi citizen, who gifted it along with a handsome donation Rs. 300,000 to the Municipality for the development of recreational facilities. The foundation stone was laid by the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd on 10th February, 1919 and formally opened by Lady Lloyd on 5th January, 1920. The Lady Lloyd Pier was also opened by her on 21st March, 1921.
The Kiosk at one end of the parade, with its elliptical roof structure, built in Jodhpur stone, has an octagonal seat in the center and was used as a Bandstand in yester-years. The pier is 1300 ft long, 15 ft wide and ends in a 70 ft by 50 ft sea-side Pavilion constructed on piles. Gizri limestone and Jodhpur stone were used for its construction.
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Rare earth elements and rare earth metals are a collection of sixteen chemical elements in the periodic table, namely scandium, yttrium, and fourteen of the fifteen lanthanoids (excluding promethium), which naturally occur on the Earth. The former two are included as they tend to occur with the latter in the same ore deposits. Some definitions additionally include the actinoids. The terms “rare earth” and “rare earth metal” are trivial names that fall outside the official IUPAC nomenclature system. Outside of a strict scientific context, however, the terms retain their usability; for instance, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) includes the term “rare earth” in the classification of metal alloys and other compounds, as well as distinguishing rare-earth magnets from other types of magnet.
Rare earth elements became known to the world with the discovery of the the black mineral ytterbite (alternately know as gadolinite) by Lieutenant Karl Arrhenius in the year 1887, in a quarry in the village of Ytterby, Sweden. Many of the rare earths are named in honor of the scientists who discovered or elucidated the elemental properties, geographical discovery, Latin or Greek, or mythology:
| Gadolinium | Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), to honor his investigation of rare earths. |
| Samarium | V.E. Samarsky, discovered the rare-earth ore called samarskite. |
| Ytterbium | named after the Ytterby, Sweden, where the first rare earth ore was discovered. |
| Thulium | refers to the mythological land of Thule. |
| Promethium | after Prometheus who brought fire to mankind. |
| Cerium | after Greek deity of fertility, Ceres. |
| Lanthanum | from the Greek “lanthanon” meaning I am hidden. |
| Dysprosium | from the Greek “dysprositos” meaning hard to get. |
| Praseodymium | from the Greek “praso” which means leek-green. |
| Neodymium | from a Greek word “neo” which means new-one. |
“Earth” is an obsolete term for oxide; it is a translation from the French terre as French was the lingua franca when these elements were discovered at the beginning of the 19th century. “Rare” was used because some of these elements were believed to be scarce in abundance as minerals. However, the term “rare earth” is now deprecated by IUPAC, as these elements are (except highly-unstable promethium), in fact relatively abundant in the Earth’s crust; the most abundant, cerium, at 68 parts per million, is the 25th most abundant element in the crust, more common than lead, while even the least abundant “rare” earth element, lutetium, is 200 times more abundant than gold.
The principal economic sources of rare earth elements are the rare-earth minerals bastnasite, monazite, and loparite and the lateritic ion-adsorption clays. Despite their relative abundance, however, these are more difficult to mine and extract than the sources of transition metals (due in part to their very similar chemical properties), making them relatively expensive. Their industrial use was very limited until efficient separation techniques were developed, such as ion exchange, fractional crystallization and liquid-liquid extraction during the late 50’s and early 60’s. Spedding F, Daane AH: “The Rare Earths”, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1961
The following abbreviations are often used:
For more details of the properties and uses of these elements, refer to the lanthanoids article.
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Under The Sun is an album recorded by Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls and originally released in 1987.
It was released on Mushroom Records in Australia and was the second album for both Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls. In the U.S., it was released on A&M Records with the band credited as Paul Kelly & The Messengers.
(Track-listing from original Australian vinyl/cassette release; tracks marked ^ were added to the first Australian CD release and did not originally feature. U.S. and UK releases differed slightly in both Track Listing and Sequencing. The UK release also featured slightly different mixes of certain songs.)
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Walter Simon (December 1, 1939 in Delcambre, Louisiana – October 10, 1997) was an American basketball player. A 6′6″ forward/guard from Benedict College, he played seven seasons (1967-1974) in the American Basketball Association for the New Jersey Americans, New York Nets and Kentucky Colonels. He appeared in the ABA All-Star Game in 1969, and he scored 6,414 career points.
After retiring from Basketball, he went on to work for John Y. Brown (Who had owned the Kentucky Colonels with his wife, Elle Brown) at Kentucky Fried Chicken. He became the first black Vice President of a Fortune 500 Company.
He left a widow, Marge Simon, and a son, Chris Simon.
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Bilateral netting is a legally enforceable arrangement between a bank and a counterparty that creates a single legal obligation covering all included individual contracts. This means that a bank’s obligation, in the event of the default or insolvency of one of the parties, would be the net sum of all positive and negative fair values of contracts included in the bilateral netting arrangement.
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“Tiny Dancer” is a 1971 song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, which appears on John’s fifth album, Madman Across the Water.
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“Tiny Dancer” features a piano-based melody during verses, typically inscrutable Taupin lyrics during the chorus, and an arrangement that at the start features pedal steel guitar and light percussion but, transitioning subtly halfway through one of the choruses, by the end is driven by Paul Buckmaster’s dynamic strings, along with a barely heard backing choir. Clocking at 6:13, it was one of the longer radio singles of that period.
The song was written about Maxine Feibelman, a dancer on Elton John’s tour who later married Taupin at his church called Holy Rood Catholic Church. (Later, the song from the Elton John album Blue Moves called “Between Seventeen and Twenty” referred to the divorce of Bernie and Maxine Taupin and the fact that so much had changed from when they first met when he was age twenty and she was age seventeen.)
A non-starter as a single at the time (reaching only No. 41 in the U.S. pop chart and not charting at all in the UK), “Tiny Dancer” did not fade away, but instead slowly became one of Elton John’s most popular songs. A fixture on adult contemporary radio stations, but played by rock stations as well, the song simply grew in popularity.
It was ranked #387 on the 2004 List of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Tiny Dancer is one of the songs featured at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. Along with John’s “Bennie and the Jets”, “Tiny Dancer” appears prominently in the 1970s movie Aloha, Bobby and Rose as well as in the 1990s film My Girl 2.
The song received an additional boost in popularity in 2000 after appearing in a memorable scene in the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous, where it is played over the sound system of a tour bus and no one can resist the urge to sing along to the chorus. Elton John has attested to the film’s popularization of the song, saying in 2004, “I hadn’t played it much until Cameron Crowe put it in Almost Famous. [Now] We get more requests for it than anything else.” An instrumental reprise of the track can also be heard at the end of the movie where Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) visits William Miller (Patrick Fugit) at his home.
“Tiny Dancer” was also referred to by Rihanna in her 2006 hit single “SOS”, and used in the closing scene of the episode “The Dundies” in the US version of the television series The Office. The song figures prominently in “The Americanization of Ivan,” a 1980 episode of the television series, WKRP in Cincinnati.
In Friends Phoebe was asked what her favorite love song was and she responded “The one Elton John wrote about the guy from Who’s the Boss? … you know… [begins singing] Hold me closer Tony Danza…”
In the fifth episode (”My New Coat”) of the Season 2 of the TV series Scrubs, Dr. Cox berates Dr. John Dorian, calling him “Tiny Dancer.”
“Tiny Dancer” has often been covered by John Frusciante since the early 90’s, when playing a solo with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, by Dave Grohl on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, by Ben Folds on his 2002 album Ben Folds Live, and by Tim McGraw in 2002 in a somewhat countrified version that he recorded on Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors and performed with Elton at the 2002 American Music Awards.
A sample of the “Tiny Dancer” chorus also makes a memorable appearance in a mash-up by Girl Talk called “Smash Your Head” (from the 2006 album Night Ripper).
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Smoke is an album by Paul Kelly and Melbourne bluegrass band, Uncle Bill. It was originally released in 1999.
It was released on EMI Records in Australia.
URL http://www.gerryhale.com
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The Royal College of Pathologists, was founded in 1962, and is a medical organisation that promotes and sets standards for the study and practice of pathology.
The College has oversight of the following main disciplines
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The College is responsible for oversight of postgraduate education and training in all branches of pathology in the UK.
The College has an active educational programme and sponsors workshops, lectures and courses.
The College runs a national scheme for oversight of continued education of pathologists in clinical practice.
Membership in the College can be obtained by several routes, the most usual being via a postgraduate examination, indicated with the designation Member of the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath). The designation Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) is bestowed upon members who are in good standing, as an indication of seniority.
Professor Sir James Underwood 2004-2006
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Oak Park or Oaks Park is the name of some places around the world.
In the United States of America:
In Australia:
In the United Kingdom:
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Cojones is a vulgar Spanish word for testicles, corresponding to “balls” or “bollocks”.
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The word has entered popular use in the United States as a slang term meaning to have a brave attitude. It is used in a way similar to chutzpah or sisu. Anglicized/Americanized pronunciations include or the less accurate . A very frequent misspelling (sometimes done deliberately as a euphemism) is cajones, which actually means “drawers” (the piece of furniture) or “wooden box drums” (see cajón) in Spanish.
The word was famously used in 1996 by Madeleine Albright, then serving as the USA’s ambassador to the United Nations, in the aftermath of the downing of a Hermanos al Rescate light civilian aircraft by Cuban airforce MiG 29s on 24 February 1996. Following the release of a transcript of radio traffic between the fighter pilots in which one exclaimed, ¡Le partimos los cojones! (”We busted his balls!”), Albright offered the following comment: “Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.” Albright later described the vulgarism as “the only Spanish word I know”.Transcript of a CNN interview with Albright that discusses the cojones quote
In April 2004 when Bob Woodward reported in his book Plan of Attack—an account of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War—that U.S. President George W. Bush had remarked to Alastair Campbell, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official spokesman, that “Your man has got cojones”.Reports on Bush’s description of Blair Bush was referring to Blair’s continuing support for the invasion of Iraq despite mounting opposition from his domestic political party and Britons at large. The meeting at Camp David in September 2002 at which Blair made his commitment on invasion to Bush, and Bush made his comment to Campbell, was later repeatedly referred to by Bush as “the cojones meeting”. The word is also used frequently by TV pundit Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report.
Cojón (plural: cojones) along with huevos (literally “eggs”) is one of the most common ways of referring to the testicles in Spanish. It contains the augmentative suffix -ón (which implies largeness), and derives from Vulgar Latin coleonem, the accusative form of coleo “testicle”, an augmentative form of cōleus (variants: cūleus and culleus), which meant “bag”, particularly “leather bag for holding liquids”.
The le → j or li → j pronunciation shift is a common one, as shown by other Latin and Spanish examples such as folia → hoja, meaning “leaf”, which is a cognate with the English word “foliage”.
It can be used as in English to imply virility or courage: tener cojones = “to have balls”.
The same word exists in Catalan as colló, very commonly used in the plural (collons) as an exclamation. Other cognates include the French couilles, Italian coglioni, Portuguese colhões, Romanian coaie. Finnish language has multilateral expression sisu.
In Galician, the word for “cojones” is “collóns”, similar to Catalan.
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Onward to Golgotha is the debut album by the American death metal band Incantation. The album was released in 1992 on Relapse Records. It was released in October of 2006 with a bonus dvd
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Mass in F Minor is a 1968 album by the The Electric Prunes, consisting of a musical setting of the mass sung in Latin and arranged in the psychedelic style of the band. At the time of its release it was seen as innovative and adventurous.
Track 1 appears on the Easy Rider soundtrack.
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Fantasy is an album by Carole King, released in 1973. This time King wrote all the songs herself. At the time of its release, it only reached #6 on the Billboard album chart, but has remained highly regarded by her fans over the ensuing decades. One of the tracks of the album is a song called “Haywood” which is about drug addiction.
The Spanish language track “Corazón” (the Spanish word for “heart,” also used as a term of endearment, as in this song’s lyrics) was a moderate hit single from the album, as was “Believe in Humanity.” The flip side of the latter single, “You Light Up My Life” (not the Debby Boone hit), charted separately from its A-side.
| # | Title | Length |
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| 1. | “Fantasy Beginning” | 1:03 |
| 2. | “You’ve Been Around Too Long” | 3:42 |
| 3. | “Being at War With Each Other” | 3:27 |
| 4. | “Directions” | 3:29 |
| 5. | “That’s How Things Go Down” | 3:01 |
| 6. | “Weekdays” | 2:45 |
| 7. | “Haywood” | 4:47 |
| 8. | “A Quiet Place to Live” | 1:56 |
| 9. | “Welfare Symphony” | 3:47 |
| 10. | “You Light Up My Life” | 3:14 |
| 11. | “Corazón” | 4:06 |
| 12. | “Believe in Humanity” | 3:19 |
| 13. | “Fantasy End” | 1:25 |
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Ganswindt is a lunar crater that lies near the southern pole of the Moon’s far side. It is attached to the southwestern exterior of the huge Schrödinger walled plain. Ganswindt partly overlays the smaller Idel’son crater to the south.
The rim of Gandswindt is roughly circular but somewhat irregular, particularly at the southern edge. Much of the interior floor is covered in uneven ridges, and there is a small crater in the southeastern section. Because sunlight enters the interior at a low angle, the northern part of the floor is almost always covered in shadow, concealing the terrain in that section of the crater.
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Christmas cookies are traditionally sugar cookies (though other flavors may be used based on family traditions and individual preferences) cut into various shapes related to Christmas. In the United States, since the 1930s, children have left cookies and milk on a table for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, though many people simply consume the cookies themselves. The cookies are often cut into such shapes as those of candy canes, reindeer, and holly leaves. Oreos are also popular.
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Blue eyes are eyes that have blue irises (see eye color), and may also refer to:
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