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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing video game set in the Star Wars universe. Developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts, the game was released for the Xbox on July 15,2003, the game was later ported to Mac OS X, iOS, and Android by Aspyr, and it is playable on the Xbox 360 via its backward-compatibility feature. The player character, as a Jedi, must venture to different planets in the galaxy in order to destroy the Star Forge, players choose from three character classes and customize their characters at the beginning of the game, and engage in round-based combat against enemies. Through interacting with characters and making plot decisions, the alignment system will determine whether the players character aligns with the light or dark side of the Force. The game was directed by Casey Hudson, designed by James Ohlen, LucasArts proposed developing a game tied to Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones, or a game set thousands of years before the prequels. The team chose the latter as they thought that they would have creative freedom. Ed Asner, Ethan Phillips, and Jennifer Hale were hired to perform voices for the games characters, announced in 2000, the game was delayed several times before its release in July 2003. The game received acclaim upon release, with critics applauding the games characters, story. It was nominated for awards, and is considered one of the best games ever made. A sequel, Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords, the series story continued with the 2011 release of Star Wars, The Old Republic, an MMORPG developed by BioWare. Players choose from three character classes at the beginning of the game, and later choose from three Jedi subclasses. Beyond class, a character has skills stats, tiered feats, feats and Force powers are unlocked every level-up, while the player is given skill points to distribute among their skills every level. Combat is round-based, time is divided into rounds, and combatants attack and react simultaneously. The number of actions a combatant may perform each round is limited, combat actions are calculated using DnD rules. While these are not displayed directly on the screen, the breakdown for each action are accessible from a menu. For much of the game, the player can have up to two companions in their party and these companions will participate in combat. They can be controlled by the player, or act autonomously if the player does not give them any input. Outside of combat, the companions will randomly engage the player or each other in dialogue and they will also participate in conversations the player has with other non-player characters
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Coat of arms of Kotor
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The coat of arms of Kotor is an official insignia of Kotor, coastal town in Montenegro. This is a new Coat of Arms, adopted on 16 February 2009 and it is designed by Srđan Marlović, who also designed the Coat of arms of Podgorica and that of Bar. The Coat of Arms consists of the shield, divided into three fields. These three fields contain, The figure of Saint Tryphon A stone tower, complete with merlons, oculus, a lion in a salient position. The shield is topped with the wall crown with three merlons, and is surrounded by the golden lions as supporters, and with green Bay Laurel twig. The banner reads COMMUNITAS CIVITATIS CATHARI, the banner has a golden obverse, and a red reverse. The Flag of Kotor is two-colored, with small Coat of Arms in a medallion placed in the middle of the field, the hoist of the Flag is white, while the fly is red. In the center of the flag, a small medallion Coat of Arms is placed, defined by the golden scroll
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Montenegro
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Montenegro is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. Its capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is designated as the Old Royal Capital. In the 9th century, three Slavic principalities were in the territory of Montenegro, Duklja, roughly corresponding to the half, Travunia, the west, and Rascia. In 1042, archon Stefan Vojislav led a revolt that resulted in the independence of Duklja, Duklja reached its zenith under Vojislavs son, Mihailo, and his grandson Bodin. By the 13th century, Zeta had replaced Duklja when referring to the realm. In the late 14th century, southern Montenegro came under the rule of the Balšić noble family, then the Crnojević noble family, large portions fell under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1496 to 1878. Parts were controlled by Venice and the First French Empire and Austria-Hungary, from 1515 until 1851, the prince-bishops of Cetinje were the rulers. The House of Petrović-Njegoš ruled the country from 1697 to 1918, from 1918, it was a part of Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was succeeded by SFR Yugoslavia in 1945, FR Yugoslavia in 1992, and subsequently by the state union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. On the basis of a referendum held on 21 May 2006. Montenegro is also a candidate negotiating to join the European Union, on 2 December 2015, Montenegro received an official invitation to join NATO, whereby it would be the 29th member country. This invitation was meant to start accession talks. The countrys name in most Western European languages reflects an adaptation of the Venetian Montenegro, many other languages, particularly nearby ones, use their own direct translation of the term black mountain. Examples are the Albanian name for the country, Mali i Zi, the Greek name Μαυροβούνιο, the Chinese name 黑山, all Slavic languages use slight variations on the Montenegrin name Crna Gora, examples include the Czech Černá Hora and the Polish Czarnogóra. Chechen and Ingush people call the country Ӏаьржаламанчоь, the name Crna Gora came to denote the majority of contemporary Montenegro only in the 15th century. The aforementioned region became known as Old Montenegro by the 19th century to distinguish it from the acquired territory of Brda. Its borders have changed little since then, losing Metohija and gaining the Bay of Kotor, the ISO Alpha-2 code for Montenegro is ME and the Alpha-3 Code is MNE. By 1000 BC, a common Illyrian language and culture had spread across much of the Balkans, interaction amongst groups was not always friendly – hill forts were the most common form of settlement – but distinctive Illyrian art forms such as amber and bronze jewellery evolved. In time, the Illyrians established a federation of tribes centred in what is now Macedonia
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Municipalities of Montenegro
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Montenegro is composed of 23 municipalities, the Old Royal Capital Cetinje and the Podgorica Capital City. Podgorica is divided into two subdivisions called urban municipalities, list of regions of Montenegro Cities and towns of Montenegro Populated places of Montenegro Subdivisions of Montenegro ISO 3166-2, ME Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT. Population census 2003 Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT, census of Population, Households and Dwellings in Montenegro 2011. Population by age, sex, and type of settlement per municipality, census of Population, Households and Dwellings in Montenegro,2011
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Democratic Front (Montenegro)
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The Democratic Front is an opposition political alliance in Montenegro. The main goal of the DF is to overthrow the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro of Milo Đukanović, miodrag Lekić led the alliances list in the parliamentary election of October 2012. Lekić ran in the 2013 presidential election, supported by both his Democratic Front and the Socialist Peoples Party, according to the electoral committees report, he was narrowly defeated by incumbent Filip Vujanović. However, many independent observers insisted that Vujanovićs victory came about as the result of an electoral fraud. In March 2015, Lekić split from the due to internal disagreements, having decided to form a new political party. 2015 anti-government protest in Montenegro Official site
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Rural area
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In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Whatever is not urban is considered rural, typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas are rural, though so are others such as forests. Different countries have varying definitions of rural for statistical and administrative purposes, in Canada, the census division has been used to represent regions and census consolidated sub-divisions have been used to represent communities. Intermediate regions have 15 to 49 percent of their living in a rural community. Predominantly urban regions have less than 15 percent of their living in a rural community. Predominantly rural regions are classified as rural metro-adjacent, rural non-metro-adjacent and rural northern, following Ehrensaft, as well, rural northern regions encompass all of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Statistics Canada defines rural for their population counts and this definition has changed over time. Typically, it has referred to the population living outside settlements of 1,000 or less inhabitants, the current definition states that census rural is the population outside settlements with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants and a population density below 400 people per square kilometre. 84% of the United States inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, Rural areas occupy the remaining 90 percent. The U. S. Census Bureau, the USDAs Economic Research Service, an urbanized area consists of a central surrounding areas whose population is greater than 50,000. USDA The USDAs Office of Rural Development may define rural by various population thresholds, for example, a metropolitan county is one that contains an urbanized area, or one that has a twenty-five percent commuter rate to an urbanized area regardless of population. In 2014, the USDA updated their rural / non-rural area definitions based on the 2010 Census counts, Rural health definitions can be different for establishing under-served areas or health care accessibility in rural areas of the United States. This became the Goldsmith Modification definition of rural, health care delivery in rural areas of the United States can be challenging. From 2005-2011, the rate of potentially preventable hospitalizations for acute conditions was highest in rural areas, in Brazil, theres different notions of rural area and countryside. Rural areas are any place outside an urban development and its carried by informal usage. Otherwise, countryside are officially defined as all municipalities outside the capitals metropolitan region. Some states as Mato Grosso do Sul doesnt have any metropolitan region, thus all of the state, Rio de Janeiro is singular in Brazil and its de facto a metropolitan state, as circa 70% of its population are located in Greater Rio
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Daylight saving time
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Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use Daylight Savings Time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring, American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin proposed a form of daylight time in 1784. New Zealander George Hudson proposed the idea of saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30,1916, many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s. The practice has both advocates and critics, DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates, industrialized societies generally follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that do not change throughout the course of the year. The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, North and south of the tropics daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter, with the effect becoming greater as one moves away from the tropics. However, they will have one hour of daylight at the start of each day. Supporters have also argued that DST decreases energy consumption by reducing the need for lighting and heating, DST is also of little use for locations near the equator, because these regions see only a small variation in daylight in the course of the year. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season, unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some monasteries of Mount Athos and all Jewish ceremonies. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells, despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST, 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklins day. Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, whose shift work job gave him time to collect insects. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk and his solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament Robert Pearce, a select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearces bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915, william Sword Frost, mayor of Orillia, Ontario, introduced daylight saving time in the municipality during his tenure from 1911 to 1912. Starting on April 30,1916, the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST as a way to conserve coal during wartime, Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the year
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Telephone numbers in Montenegro
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This is a list of dialing codes by town in Montenegro. Until Montenegro gained independence from Serbia and Montenegro, the nation was accessed through the dialing code +381. The new dialing code +382 was introduced after independence and the two codes were used in parallel until February 2007, when +382 nominally became the only acceptable code, as of 1 October 2007, +381 is used only for Serbia and +382 is the only acceptable code for Montenegro. Area codes have two digits after the initial 0 trunk prefix, and local numbers have six digits, the trunk prefix is omitted when calling from abroad. The following code prefixes are used for network groups
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Vehicle registration plates of Montenegro
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Present Montenegrin car plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with blue strip on the left. The plates follow the 520 mm x 110 mm format, except for motorcycles, the present licence plates format was introduced on 6 June 2008, and replaced the old format gradually over the following year. The new format is on par with common European Union format, however, with an additional payment, it is possible to obtain the customized plates with any letter-number combination. Police vehicles have plates with letters, while military vehicles have plates with green letters. The diplomatic corps cars have separate format licence plates, with no municipality code, coat of arms, the plates used on bigger trucks and other vehicles that can be oversized for some of the smaller roads are red with white characters. Unlike the older licence plates, which were inherited from SFRY-era, and slightly changed in 1992, the municipalities that were previously absent were Andrijevica, Danilovgrad, Kolašin, Mojkovac, Plav, Plužine, Rožaje, Šavnik, Tivat and Žabljak. g. The first group of two/three numbers identifies the country or organization to which the plate has been issued, the letter in the middle is denoting the status of the owner. List of codes by country, Montenegro also has agriculture plates and these plates use agriculture machines like tractors etc. The plates consist of code of the municipality where the vehicle is registered. The characters are printed in white on a light-green background and their formats are very similar to civilian plates. P - Police V - Military In Podgorica amongst normal serial combinations exist two more which are used for two urban municipalities, one of them is Tuzi located eastern of Podgorica and uses combination PG Tx123. The other one is Zeta located south of Podgorica and uses combination PG Gx123, trailers registered in one of these urban municipalities also have specific combinations e. g. PG 123TA. Also, there exist two other combinations like PG MN123 and PG CG123, MN stands for Montenegro and CG also for Montenegro but on Montenegrin language. These two combinations are used by state authorities and Montenegrin administrations. Media related to License plates of Montenegro at Wikimedia Commons
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World Heritage Site
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A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations, specifically by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Sites are selected on the basis of having cultural, historical, scientific or some form of significance. UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the interests of humanity. The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common culture, under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage, since then,192 state parties have ratified the convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments. As of July 2016,1052 sites are listed,814 cultural,203 natural, in 1959, the governments of Egypt and Sudan requested UNESCO to assist their countries to protect and rescue the endangered monuments and sites. In 1960, the Director-General of UNESCO launched an appeal to the Member States for an International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, the campaign, which ended in 1980, was considered a success. The project cost $80 million, about $40 million of which was collected from 50 countries, the projects success led to other safeguarding campaigns, saving Venice and its lagoon in Italy, the ruins of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan, and the Borobodur Temple Compounds in Indonesia. UNESCO then initiated, with the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the United States initiated the idea of cultural conservation with nature conservation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature developed similar proposals in 1968, the Convention came into force on 17 December 1975. As of June 2016, it has been ratified by 192 states, including 188 UN member states plus the Cook Islands, the Holy See, Niue, a country must first list its significant cultural and natural sites, the result is called the Tentative List. A country may not nominate sites that have not been first included on the Tentative List, next, it can place sites selected from that list into a Nomination File. The Nomination File is evaluated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and these bodies then make their recommendations to the World Heritage Committee. There are ten selection criteria – a site must meet at least one of them to be included on the list, up to 2004, there were six criteria for cultural heritage and four criteria for natural heritage. In 2005, this was modified so there is now only one set of ten criteria. Nominated sites must be of outstanding value and meet at least one of the ten criteria. Thus, the Geneva Convention treaty promulgates, Article 53, PROTECTION OF CULTURAL OBJECTS AND OF PLACES OF WORSHIP. There are 1,052 World Heritage Sites located in 165 States Party, of these,814 are cultural,203 are natural and 35 are mixed properties
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Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor
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The Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor is a World Heritage Site located in Montenegro that was inscribed in 1979. It encompasses the old town of Kotor, the fortifications of Kotor, the old town of Kotor is contained within the city walls and a well preserved and restored medieval cityscape with notable buildings including the Cathedral of Saint Tryphon. Kotor was heavily damaged during the earthquake on April 15,1979, after significant rehabilitation within the town, the site was taken off this list in 2003. The fortifications consist of a system of military buildings to protect the medieval town of Kotor. They include the city walls with gates and bastions, ramparts that ascend the mountain of St. John, the castle of St. John, and supportive structures. While some of the date back to Roman and Byzantine times, most of the fortifications were erected during the Venetian rule. The fortifications are the most significant aspect of the World Heritage site, the region that is included in the heritage is the inner bay of Kotor with its surrounding mountains and towns, notably Risan and Perast in addition to Kotor. Further the islets of St. George and Our Lady of the Rocks are part of the heritage site, in 1979, when the site was inscribed it was also placed on the List in Danger due to earthquake damage. Due to concerted international efforts much of this, specifically concerning the city of Kotor, has been mitigated, in 2003 the site could be taken off the danger list. The heritage site faces challenges in a number of ways, Natural dangers such as erosion and earthquakes will always remain a threat. More acute, however, is the impact of human activity, thus some urban development has been noted to be incongruent with the goals of preservation
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Italian language
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By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is a language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City. Italian is spoken by minorities in places such as France, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages, Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world. Italian is a major European language, being one of the languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is the third most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 65 million native speakers, including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian is the working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy as well as the official language of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Italian is known as the language of music because of its use in musical terminology and its influence is also widespread in the arts and in the luxury goods market. Italian has been reported as the fourth or fifth most frequently taught foreign language in the world, Italian was adopted by the state after the Unification of Italy, having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was influenced by other Italian languages and to some minor extent. Its vowels are the second-closest to Latin after Sardinian, unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latins contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive, however, Italian as a language used in Italy and some surrounding regions has a longer history. What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early 14th century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine. Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language, and thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the language of Italy. Italian was also one of the recognised languages in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Italy has always had a dialect for each city, because the cities. Those dialects now have considerable variety, as Tuscan-derived Italian came to be used throughout Italy, features of local speech were naturally adopted, producing various versions of Regional Italian. Even in the case of Northern Italian languages, however, scholars are not to overstate the effects of outsiders on the natural indigenous developments of the languages
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Bay of Kotor
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The Bay of Kotor pronounced, Italian, Bocche di Cattaro), known simply as Boka, is a winding bay of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Montenegro. The bay has been inhabited since antiquity and its well-preserved medieval towns of Kotor, Risan, Tivat, Perast, Prčanj and Herceg Novi, along with their natural surroundings, are major tourist attractions. Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor has been a World Heritage Site since 1979 and its numerous Orthodox and Catholic churches and monasteries make it a major pilgrimage site. A small naval port is under development as a yacht marina, the bay is about 28 km long with a shoreline extending 107.3 km. It is surrounded by two massifs of the Dinaric Alps, the Orjen mountains to the west, and the Lovćen mountains to the east, the narrowest section of the bay, the 2300 m long Verige Strait, is only 340 m wide at its narrowest point. The bay is a ria of the vanished Bokelj River that used to run from the high plateaus of Mount Orjen. The bay is composed of several smaller bays, united by narrower channels. The bay inlet was formerly a river system, tectonic and karstification processes led to the disintegration of this river. After heavy rains the waterfall of Sopot spring at Risan appears, the outermost part of the bay is the Bay of Tivat. On the seaward side is the Bay of Herceg Novi, at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor. The inner bays are the Bay of Risan to the northwest, the Verige Strait represents the bays narrowest section and is located between Cape St. Nedjelja and Cape Opatovo, it separates the inner bay east of the strait from the Bay of Tivat. The littoral Dinarids and the Prokletije mountains receive the most precipitation, November thunderstorms sometimes drop large amounts of water. By contrast, in August the area is completely dry. With a maximum discharge of 200 m³/s, one of the biggest karst springs, most of the time it is inactive but after heavy rain a remarkable waterfall appears 20 m above the Bay of Kotor. *classification scheme after Köppen Two wind systems have ecological significance, Bora, strong cold downslope winds of the Bora type appear in winter and are most severe in the Bay of Risan. Gusts reach 250 km/h and can lead to a significant temperature decline over several hours with freezing events, Bora weather situations are frequent and sailors study the mountains as cap clouds indicate an imminent Bora event. Jugo is a warm wind and brings heavy rain. It appears throughout the year but is concentrated in autumn
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