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Muerte
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Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death, other concerns include fear of death, necrophobia, anxiety, sorrow, grief, emotional pain, depression, sympathy, compassion, solitude, or saudade. The potential for an afterlife is of concern for some humans, the word death comes from Old English deað, which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic *dauthuz. This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem *dheu- meaning the Process, act, when a person has died, it is also said they have passed away, passed on, expired, or are gone, among numerous other socially accepted, religiously specific, slang, and irreverent terms. Bereft of life, the person is then a corpse, cadaver, a body, a set of remains, and when all flesh has rotted away. The terms carrion and carcass can also be used, though more often connote the remains of non-human animals. As a polite reference to a person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of decease, as in the deceased. The ashes left after a cremation are sometimes referred to by the neologism cremains, senescence refers to a scenario when a living being is able to survive all calamities, but eventually dies due to causes relating to old age. Almost all animals who survive external hazards to their biological functioning eventually die from biological aging, some organisms experience negligible senescence, even exhibiting biological immortality. These include the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii, the hydra, and the planarian, unnatural causes of death include suicide and homicide. From all causes, roughly 150,000 people die around the world each day, physiological death is now seen as a process, more than an event, conditions once considered indicative of death are now reversible. Where in the process a dividing line is drawn between life and death depends on factors beyond the presence or absence of vital signs, in general, clinical death is neither necessary nor sufficient for a determination of legal death. A patient with working heart and lungs determined to be dead can be pronounced legally dead without clinical death occurring. As scientific knowledge and medicine advance, formulating a precise definition of death becomes more difficult. The concept of death is a key to understanding of the phenomenon. There are many approaches to the concept. For example, brain death, as practiced in medical science, One of the challenges in defining death is in distinguishing it from life. As a point in time, death would seem to refer to the moment at which life ends, determining when death has occurred requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death
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Wikimedia Commons
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Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, the repository contains over 38 million media files. In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000, the project was proposed by Erik Möller in March 2004 and launched on September 7,2004. The expression educational is to be according to its broad meaning of providing knowledge. Wikimedia Commons itself does not allow fair use or uploads under non-free licenses, for this reason, Wikimedia Commons always hosts freely licensed media and deletes copyright violations. The default language for Commons is English, but registered users can customize their interface to use any other user interface translations. Many content pages, in particular policy pages and portals, have also translated into various languages. Files on Wikimedia Commons are categorized using MediaWikis category system, in addition, they are often collected on individual topical gallery pages. While the project was proposed to also contain free text files. In 2012, BuzzFeed described Wikimedia Commons as littered with dicks, in 2010, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as lolicon. Wales responded to the backlash from the Commons community by voluntarily relinquishing some site privileges, over time, additional functionality has been developed to interface Wikimedia Commons with the other Wikimedia projects. Specialized uploading tools and scripts such as Commonist have been created to simplify the process of uploading large numbers of files. In order to free content photos uploaded to Flickr, users can participate in a defunct collaborative external review process. The site has three mechanisms for recognizing quality works, one is known as Featured pictures, where works are nominated and other community members vote to accept or reject the nomination. This process began in November 2004, another process known as Quality images began in June 2006, and has a simpler nomination process comparable to Featured pictures. Quality images only accepts works created by Wikimedia users, whereas Featured pictures additionally accepts nominations of works by third parties such as NASA, the three mentioned processes select a slight part from the total number of files. However, Commons collects files of all quality levels, from the most professional level across simple documental, files with specific defects can be tagged for improvement and warning or even proposed for deletion but there exists no process of systematic rating of all files. The site held its inaugural Picture of the Year competition, for 2006, all images that were made a Featured picture during 2006 were eligible, and voted on by eligible Wikimedia users during two rounds of voting
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Hermann Abendroth
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Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth was a German conductor. Abendroth was born on 19 January 1883, at Frankfurt, the son of a bookseller, several other members of the family were artists in diverse disciplines. Still an undergraduate, Hermann Abendroths first stable assignment of conducting was from 1903 to 1904, from 1905 to 1911, he moved to Lübeck, highlighting as the Kapellmeister of the Theater Lübeck. From 1911 to 1914, he was the Generalmusikdirektor of the city of Essen and he also became the general music director of Cologne in 1918, and was a professor in 1919. He also was the music director of Bonn, from 1930 to 1933. In 1922, Abendroth was the director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival and he was invited to conduct in other countries as well, and visited the USSR and conducted the USSR-State Symphony Orchestra in 1925,1927 and 1928. From 1926 to 1937, he visited England and regularly conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Abendroth is known for performing classical and romantic compositions, including Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruckner. Nonetheless, he conducted other contemporary pieces in their premieres, for instance for Bartok, in 1934, the Nazi Party seized the city council of Cologne, and the liberally minded Abendroth was promptly removed from the public function and detained. Nonetheless, other personalities of the arts interceded, and Abendroth was restituted into the public function, accepting such charge, Abendroth was criticized for relinquishing his ideals. Nevertheless, he joined the Nazi Party in 1937. In 1934, Hermann Abendroth was appointed Kapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, replacing Bruno Walter, from 1934 to 1945, Abendroth also was professor of the Leipzig conservatory. In 1943 and 1944, he took part in the traditional Bayreuth Festival, conducting Die Meistersinger, adolf Hitler officialized and organized the festivity. In 1950 and 1954, Abendroth was elected the Peoples Chamber of the GDR for a four-year mandate ending in 1954 as a representative of the Cultural Association of the GDR. Such opportunity would help cleansing Abendroths name, about his Nazi past, Abendroth toured throughout the Communist Europe. He was the first German, invited to conduct in the Soviet Union after the war-, in 1951, he conducted for the Prague Spring International Music Festival. From 1953 to 1956 he conducted Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hermann Abendroth died of a stroke, during a surgical procedure, in Jena, on 29 May 1956. A state funeral was then granted for him, Abendroth was amongst the first German music directors who released studio records regularly. His production spanned from mid-1920s, until his death, nowadays, Abendroth is being successfully rediscovered by a collection of CDs, published since mid-1990s, consisting mainly of his works for the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Leipzig of since 1953
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Tawfik Abu al-Huda
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Tawfik Abu al-Huda served several terms as Prime Minister of Jordan. First he served as Prime minister of Transjordan from September 28,1938 to October 15,1944, between July 25,1951 and May 5,1953 and from May 4,1954 to May 30,1955 he served as Prime Minister of Jordan. During his last term as Prime Minister, he tried to consolidate the power of King Hussein by holding parliamentary elections which many accused of being fraudulent. His terms are notable for the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, during which Transjordan conquered the West Bank, tawfik Abu al-Huda was of Palestinian descent. He was married to the sister of the Ottoman banker in Amman, tawfik Pasha was found dead, hanging in bathroom at his house in 1956 in an apparent suicide. List of Prime Ministers of Jordan Prime Ministry of Jordan website
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Walter Sydney Adams
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Walter Sydney Adams was an American astronomer. After returning to the U. S. he began a career in Astronomy that culminated when he became director of the Mount Wilson Observatory and his primary interest was the study of stellar spectra. He worked on spectroscopy and co-discovered a relationship between the relative intensities of certain spectral lines and the absolute magnitude of a star. He was able to demonstrate that spectra could be used to determine whether a star was a giant or a dwarf, such a star later came to be known as a white dwarf. Along with Theodore Dunham, he discovered the presence of carbon dioxide in the infrared spectrum of Venus. Adams died at the age of 79 in Pasadena, California, the crater Adams on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams. Asimovs Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Isaac Asimov, Doubleday & Co. Inc
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Jeanne d'Alcy
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Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës, known by her stage name Jehanne dAlcy, was a French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1926 until his death in 1938, dAlcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage to devote herself to film, becoming one of the first performers to do so. She was born in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis and she appeared in Le Manoir du diable, Jeanne dArc and Le Voyage dans la lune. She died in Versailles at age 91 and she was portrayed by actress Helen McCrory in Martin Scorseses 2011 film Hugo. Jehanne dAlcy at the Internet Movie Database
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Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón
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Infante Alfonso of Spain was the younger brother of King Juan Carlos of Spain. Alfonso was born in Rome, the youngest son of the Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona and of his wife and his godfather was the Infante Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, his godmother was his fathers sister Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain. Within his own family he was called Alfonsito to distinguish him from family members with the name Alfonso. When Alfonso was still just a baby, his family moved to Lausanne in Switzerland where they lived in the Villa Les Rocailles, in February 1946 the family moved to Portugal. In 1947 Alfonso visited Spain for the first time at the invitation of dictator Francisco Franco, in 1950 he and his brother Juan Carlos were sent to study in Spain. At first they lived in San Sebastián where a school had been established in the Miramar Palace. In June 1954 they were received by General Franco at the Pardo Palace, later Alfonso and Juan Carlos attended the military academy in Zaragoza. On the evening of Maundy Thursday,29 March 1956, Alfonso and Juan Carlos were at their parents home Villa Giralda in Estoril, Portugal, for the Easter vacation, where Alfonso died in a gun accident. The accident took place at 20.30 hours, after the Infantes return from the Maundy Thursday religious service and it is alleged that Juan Carlos began playing with a.22 caliber revolver that had apparently been given to Alfonso by General Franco. Rumors appeared in newspapers that the.22 caliber revolver had actually held by Juan Carlos at the moment the shot was fired. It is alleged that Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, the father had thrown the gun into the sea sometime after Alfonsos death. The funeral liturgy for Alfonso was held on Holy Saturday and was presided by Monsignor Fernando Cento and he was buried at the municipal cemetery in Cascais, Portugal. In October 1992 he was re-buried in the Pantheon of the Princes of El Escorial near Madrid, zavala, José M. Dos infantes y un destino. Don Juans Son Is Killed in Spanish Gun Accident
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Alí Akbar Dehjodá
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Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhodā was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published. Dehkhoda was born in Tehran to parents from Qazvin and his father died when he was only 10 years old. Dehkhoda quickly excelled in Persian literature, Arabic and French and graduated from College studying political science and he was also active in politics, and served in the Majles as a Member of Parliament from Kerman and Tehran. He also served as Dean of Tehran School of Political Science, in 1903, he went to the Balkans as an Iranian embassy employee, but came back to Iran two years later and became involved in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran. There he continued publishing articles and editorials, but when Mohammad Ali Shah was deposed in 1911, he returned to the country and he is buried in Ebn-e Babooyeh cemetery in Shahr-e Ray, near Tehran. The Persian term of Dakho was his signature or his pen name for that column, Dakho means not only as the Administrator of a Village, but it also refers to a Naive or an Unsophisticated Person. Dehkhoda translated Montesquieus De lesprit des lois into Persian, dr. Mohammad Moin accomplished Dehkhodas unfinished volumes according to Dehkhodas request after him. Finally the book was published after forty five years of efforts of Dehkhoda, Dehkhoda Institute Iranian Studies List of Persian poets and authors Persian literature Muhammad al-Tunji ALÈ-AKBAR QAZVÈNÈ Dehkhodā @ Encyclopaedia Iranica
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Maud Allan
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For the American film actor see Maude Allen. Maud Allan was a pianist-turned-actress, dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her impressionistic mood settings and she was born as Beulah Maude Durrant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sources give contradictory dates for her year of birth, ranging from 1873 through 1880 and she spent her early years in San Francisco, moving to Germany in 1895 to study piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Allan never recuperated from the trauma of this event which had an effect on her for the rest of her life, the execution was immediately followed by her abandonment of piano-playing and the development of a new means of self-expression in dance. In 1900, in need of money, Allan is said to have illustrated an encyclopaedia for women titled Illustriertes Konversations-Lexikon der Frau, shortly thereafter, she began dancing professionally. Although athletic, and having great imagination, she had little formal dance training and she was once compared to professional dancer and legend Isadora Duncan, which greatly enraged her, as she disliked Duncan. She designed and often sewed her own costumes, which were creative, in 1906 her production Vision of Salomé opened in Vienna. Based loosely on Oscar Wildes play, Salomé, her version of the Dance of the Seven Veils became famous and her book My Life and Dancing was published in 1908 and that year she toured England, with 250 performances in less than one year. In 1910, she left Europe to travel, over the next five years she visited the United States, Australia, Africa, and Asia. In 1915 she starred as Demetra in the silent film, The Rug Makers Daughter, Allan sued Billing for libel, based on the following counts, The act of publishing a defamatory article about Maud Allan and J. T. Grein, her impresario. The act, an offence, of including obscenities within the article. This led to a court case, at which Billing represented himself. Lord Alfred Douglas also testified in Billings favour, the trial became entangled in obscenity charges brought forth by the state against the performance given by Allan in her dance. She was accused of practising many of the sexually charged acts depicted in Wildes writings herself, at this time, the Lord Chamberlains ban on public performances of Wildes play was still in place in England, and thus the Salomé dance was at risk. Her brothers crimes were also dredged up to suggest there was a background of sexual insanity in her family, from the 1920s on Allan taught dance and she lived with her secretary and lover, Verna Aldrich. Allans libel suit is the subject of a fictography The Maud Allan Affair by Russell James, young Research Library at the University of California Los Angeles. John Henry Bradley Storrs Papers, 1847–1987 are housed at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, works by or about Maud Allan at Internet Archive The Unspeakable Crime of Maud Allen. Maud Allan on streetswing. com Maud Allan on Bellydancers and Harem Girls Felix Cherniavsky, Maud Allan and Her Art