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White House Council on Environmental Quality
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Seven Meadows
Seven Meadows is an upper middle class community currently in development in Greater Katy, TX. It is located south of I-10 between Fry Road and FM 1093. Home prices range from 100,000 to over 1 million dollars. Avalon at Seven Meadows features lakefront custom and semi custom homes as well as patio golf course homes. It is often considered a good community in Greater Katy due to new, good schools and steady appreciation of house prices. It is considered a suburb of Houston, TX.

Impulse (song) by Endless Sporadic
The song Impulse is a song created by the band Endless Sporadic and according to the game Guitar Hero III during a selection that allows the player to buy the song as a bonus track at the in game store for songs always has a box with text in it to the right with the song title written over it. The box text for Impulsestates: "Big ups to film scoring major Zack Kamins and undisputed best TPHS player Andy 'TPHS' Gentile,for collaborating on this song specifically written specifically for Guitar Hero play" (Guitar Hero III). Basically the quote says it all according to the game.

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David Horvitz Picture Disc Series
The David Horvitz Picture Disc series is a series of 7-inch records made with New York based artist, David Horvitz photographs. The bands included in the series include Xiu Xiu, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Lucky Dragons, High Places, No Age, Mika Miko, Parenthetical Girls, Casiotone or the Painfully Alone, Abe Vigoda, Sunset Rubdown, and Radiohead.

Michael Guerra
Born near the end of the twentieth century, Michael Guerra would soon become a child prodigy. Winning variou awards throughout his years in elementary and junior high school, including the prestigious STAR and MRLA awards, he became a decorated academic student. He became a member of various societies, such as NHS, and became well-known for his development of the handsomeness scale. The scale was ranked one to ten, ten being the most handsome. Although he is the only one to ever have scored a ten, there is a dark side. Tragically, Michael Guerra does not know exactly how handsome he is. A mirror can only reflect a mere glimpse of his immense handsomeness.

John B Weaver
John Weaver (born 1937) is a United States post-WWII sacred musician and composer.

Weaver was born 1937 in Palmerston, Pennsylvania, USA or Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

Category:1937 births Category:Living people Category:People from Palmerston or Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, USA Category:Organists

Tempo di uccidere
Tempo di uccidere is an Italian/French film from the director Giuliano Montaldo. Actor Nicolas Cage plays the soldier Enrico Silvestri, in the Italian campaign of 1936. When Enrico, after he raped an African girl, finds out that she may have a dissease, he knows he won't get away like that.

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Time To Kill, The Short Cut, Killing Time en Le Raccourci from the period 1989, 1990 or 1991

Pieter Schouten
Pieter Schouten (fl. 1622-1625) was a 17th century Dutch corsair and privateer. He was one of the first Dutchmen to explore to the Carribean and, while employed by the Dutch West Indies Company, was involved in extensive reconnaissance to establish Dutch bases in the West Indies.

Biography
Born in Vlissingen, Pieter Schouten found employment in the Dutch West Indies Company as would other former corsairs during this period. In early 1624, he was assigned three ships with which to chart the Caribbean as well as provide valuable reconnaissance on possibility of establishing Dutch bases in the region. Leaving port on January 26, his small squadron included the 24-gun Hoop under Captain Willem Jacobszoon, the 14-gun Eendracht under Captain Hillebrandt Janszoon and the 8-gun yacht Trouwe commanded by Captain Hendrik Worst.

After arriving in Barbados in mid-March or May, he visited several islands and charted the coasts of Venezuela, Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba. He also briefly visited the Little Caymans to hunt turtles, becoming one of the earliest Europeans to land on the islands. His fleet captured several small vessels on the way, although none of his ships were capable of taking the faster and well-armed Spanish galleons. He left Cuba in August and remained in the Caribbean intending to finally head back to the Netherlands the following spring. However, the Eendracht had fallen behind and soon lost contact with Schouten and his flagship. By the time they had reestablished contact, they had encountered two Spanish merchant ships from Honduras. Willem Jacobszoon had managed to capture one of these, the San Juan Baptista under the command of Captain Francisco Hernandez y Moreno, and later used by the crew of the Eendracht when they were forced to abandon their after it ran aground at Tortuga Cays (north of present-day Havana, Cuba). Schouten and his men eventually arrived back in Vlissingen on September 13, 1624. Among the cargo brought back on the Spanish prize included 1,600 chests of sugar, 3,000 animal skins, large amounts of sarsaparilla, balm oil and several chests of silver. The wealth from the one ship alone was enough to convince the Dutch of the value of supporting future expeditions against the Spanish in the Caribbean. As a result of his expedition, St. Martin became one of the first Dutch colonies to be established before its destruction by a passing Spanish fleet in 1633.

An account of his three-year voyage was published at Layden in 1644 by Johannes de Laet, a writer and dirrector of the Dutch West Indies Company, which were included with those of Mathijs Hendriksz and Peit Heyn.

Simon Danziger
Simon Danziger (d. 1611), also spelled Danziker, Dansker or Danser, was a 17th century Dutch-Flemmish privateer and corsair later known as the Barbary corsair Simon Re'is. He and the English pirate John Ward were the two most prominent renegades operating in the Barbary coast during the early 1600s, both of whom were said to command squadrons in Algiers and Tunis equal to their European counterparts, and represented a formidable naval power as allies (much like the Barbarossas decades later).

He is suspected of teaching the Turks and the Moors to use sailing ships to go through the Strait of Gibraltar as early as 1601. Commanding a vast squadron made up of English and Turks while in the service of Algiers, he captured over 40 ships in a two-year period after "turning Turk" and was stopped only after his capture and execution in 1611. Both men are featured prominently in Kitab al-Munis fi Akhbar Ifriqiya wa Tunis written by Tunisian writer and historian Ibn Abi Dinar.

Biography
A Dutchman from Dordrecht by traditional accounts, he first arrived in Algiers from Marseilles, France around 1600 or 1601 where he eventually married and began a ship building business. Finding himself in the service of the Pacha, he soon became the chief naval architect for the Bey of Algiers teaching Algerian shipwrights how to build and use the larger European "round ships" as opposed to the ancient rowed galleys. He later used captured prizes as models to show his officers the management and navigation of round ships, which had higher decks, banks of sail and cannon.

The exact circumstances are vague as to the reasons behind his becoming a corsair, however he "was made welcome as an enemy of the Spaniards" and had become one of the taiffe's leading reis within three years of his arrival. Often bringing Spanish prizes and prisoners to Algiers, he became known under the names Simon Re'is, Deli-Reis (Captain Devil) and Deli Kapitan due to his exploits on the sea. His fleet quickly grew in power, as he incorporated captured ships into his fleet, and was supplied by Algiers with men and use of their shipyards. He was also the first to lead the Algiers out of the Straits of Gibraltar, the farthest distance any had ever successfully navigated, and traveled as far as Iceland. Iceland would later be attacked by Barbary corsairs in 1616.

Danziger soon became aquatinted with other renegades, particularly Englishman pirates Peter Easton and John Ward, who with the latter formed a powerful alliance together. Although having converted to Islam years earlier, he apparently continued practicing Christianity in secret. In 1609, while taking a Spanish galleon off Valencia, he used the opportunity to communicate a message to Henri IV and the French court through the Jesuit priests onboard. He wished to return to Marseilles, having left his wife and children behind long ago, and wished to be exonerated for his crimes. He was reunited with his family later that year, shortly after arriving in Marseilles with four well-armed warships on November 17, 1609. Welcomed by the Duke of Guise, he presented to him "a present of some Turks, who were at once sent to the galleys".

He resided in Marseilles for a time before he was requested by French authorities to embark on a diplomatic mission to secure the release of French ships being held in Algiers. Agreeing to return, he was lured from a French ship and, once ashore, he was immediately seized and beheaded for his past attacks on Muslim shipping. William Lithgow, a Scottish adventurer present at the time, referred to him as "the onely invertebrate enemy of the Moores" wrote "Loe there was a Turkish policy more sublime and crafty, then the best European alive could have could have performed".

Moise Vauquelin
Moise Vauquelin or Moses Vanclein (fl. 1650-1670) was a 17th century French buccaneer. During his four-year career as a privateer, he served as an officer under l'Ollonais and formed a brief partnership with Pierre Le Picard. He and Philippe Bequel later co-wrote a book detailing their explorations of the Honduran and Yucatan coastline.

Biography
Vauquelin first arrived in the Caribbean from Normandy, France around 1650. He was part of a buccaneering fleet being organized by l'Ollonais at the pirate haven of Tortuga and which would loot and plunder Spanish settlements throughout the Spanish Main during the next two years. Vauquelin was one of several officers serving in this expedition and was present at the raids against Maracaibo and Gibraltar in 1666 and Puerto de Cavallo and San Pedro in 1667.

l'Ollonais and his fleet eventually split up, arguing over l'Ollonais desire to sail for Guatemala, shortly after the capture of a Spanish ship off the coast of the Yucatan. He and Pierre le Picard chose to leave the expedition, some accounts suggesting they were the ringleaders and instigators of the fleet's disbandment, and began privateering together for a time. Sailing along the coast of Costa Rica, he captured the town of Veraguas although he was driven from the area when he failed to take the nearby town of Nata and the two split up soon after. This defeat was later recorded in Alexander Esquemeling's The Buccaneers Of America almost twenty years later.

Vauquelin seems to have lost his ship after this, although the circumstances are unrecorded. He did, however, manage to join the French privateer Chevalier du Plessis later that year. After du Plessis' death, Vauquelin was elected as his successor by the crew. He and his crew were able to successfully capture a Spanish prize, carrying a large cargo of cacao, near the port of Havana, Cuba before returning to Tortuga. In 1670, he and fellow buccaneer Philippe Bequel wrote an account of their careers at the Vice-Admiral Jean d'Estrées. The book contained detailed information of the geography of the Caribbean and West Indies, particularly the coasts of Honduras and the Yucatan, which were used by the Royal French Navy as well as later buccaneers.

Pierre le Picard
Pierre le Picard (1624-1679?) was a 17th century French buccaneer. He was both an officer to l'Ollonais as well as Sir Henry Morgan, most notably taking part in his raids at Maracaibo and Panama, and was one of the first buccaneers to raid shipping on both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts.

Biography
Pierre le Picard is first referred to as an officer with l'Ollonais in his buccaneering expedition from Tortuga. Leaving with the fleet, he commanded a brigantine with 40 men and was present at the later raids against Maracaibo and Gibraltar in 1666 and Puerto de Cavallo and San Pedro in 1667. The fleet then stopped to regroup sometime after this point, capturing a Spanish ship off the coast of the Yucatan, before l'Ollonais called a council of his officers. Although proposing to sail to Guatamala, he and Moise Vauquelin opposed l'Ollonais' plan and, it is alleged, they encouraged the rest of the officers to leave their commander. The fleet did disband after this meeting, with Picard and Vauquelin leaving together to raid the coast of Costa Rica. The two successfully occupied and looted Veraguas that same year, however they parted ways after failing to capture the nearby town of Nata. This attack was included in Alexander Esquemeling's The Buccaneers of America years later.

In 1669, he returned to Maracaibo once more as a guide for Sir Henry Morgan expedition and, two years later, joined him at Panama in command of the 10-gun Saint-Pierre. Although his activities are unknown during the next few years, at least one published source reporting his death in 1679, he is mentioned by then acting Governor of Jamaica Sir Henry Morgab as being active against English and Spanish shipping near Port Royal in 1682.

He may have also been the Captain le Picard who, in early 1685, sailed with the French buccaneering expedition they crossed the Isthmus of Panama to raid unprotected Spanish settlements in the South Seas. He returned to the Caribbean after the raid on Guayaquil in May 1687 and, while en route to Hispaniola, looted the city of Segovia before eventually retired to Acadie in southeastern Canada. During King William's War, he may have also commanded a small squadron during King William's War and attacked the English colony at Rhode Island in 1690 although was forced to withdraw due to heavy casualties.

Nicholas van Horn
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Jan Jacobsen (disambiguation)
Jan Jacobsen is the name of several people:


 * Jan Jacobsen, early 17th century Dunkirker who became a posthumanous national hero destroying his ship after a 13-hour naval engagement.
 * Jan Jacobsen (Dutch privateer), mid-17th century Dutch corsair and privateer who operated out of France, as did others such as Karel Verburg and Jan Jansen, on behalf of Great Britain during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

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John Rickert
John "JR" Rickert (born July 8, 1970) is among the best known American football sports agents. He co-owns the upstate New York-based agency, National Sports Management, and is known for representing NFL clients from smaller schools, or modest beginnings, and helping them land multi-million dollar contracts. His approach to player representation is based on personal touch and family style approach. Rickert represents over 60 professional athletes, many of whom are impact NFL players, including Joshua Cribbs, Jordan Babineaux, Mike Patterson, Correll Buckhalter, Jamaal Jackson, Cleo Lemon, Greg Camarillo, and others. He is considered to be one of the fastest rising agents in the NFL today.

BIOGRAPHY

JR Rickert grew up in the small town of Edgewater Park, New Jersey, located in Burlington County, about 20 miles from Philadelphia. He is a 1988 graduate of Holy Cross High School in South Jersey. He then attended St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York where he was a 4-year starter as an offensive lineman for the Division III Cardinals. He graduated in 1992 with a dual major in History and Broadcast Journalism and a concentration in pre-law. In 1994, he graduated with a Master of Science in Education from the college of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. In 1999, he completed a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Administration from Castleton State College in Vermont.

Training as a Sports Agent

In 1999, Rickert met super-agent Peter Schaffer who co-owns All Pro Sports & Entertainment, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. Schaffer, along with his partner, C. Lamont Smith have represented over 100 NFL stars and successfully negotiated well over $ 1 Billion in professional sports contracts. Rickert quickly became a protege' of Schaffer's.

Through his experience at All Pro Sports under the gudiance of Schaffer and Smith, Rickert learned the best practices of representing professional athletes. As a member of the All Pro Sports team, Rickert signed his very first client, Artis Hicks for the University of Memphis in 2001. In April of 2002, Hicks signed a cotract with the Philadelphia Eagles.

From the 2002 NFL Draft, up to, and including, the 2008 NFL Draft, Rickert has successfully represented players who are still active in the NFL. Most recently, on April 27, 2008, William Hayes, from little-known Winston-Salem State was drafted 103rd overall in the 4th round to the Tennessee Titans.

Contract Negotiations

To date, JR Rickert has successfully negotiated over $ 100 Million in professional sports contracts. In 2004, Artis Hicks signed a multi-year extension with the Philadelphia Eagles. In 2006, Eagles' starting Center, Jamaal Jackson, signed a contract extension worth over $ 20 Million. Jordan Babineuax of the Seattle Seahawks signed a contract extension worth over $ 15 Million. In 2008, former Miami Dolphins' starting quarterback, Cleo Lemon signed a 3 year deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Veteran Players Switch to JR

From 2006 to 2008, over a dozen NFL players have changed their representation and hired JR Rickert as their new agent. Some of these players include: Joshua Cribbs of the Cleveland Browns, Frostee Rucker of the Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Patterson and Correll Buckhalter of the Philadelphia Eagles, Brandon McDonald of the Cleveland Browns, Greg Camarillo of the Miami Dolphins, JJ Arrington of the Arizona Cardinals, Lorenzo Alexander of the Washington Redskins, among others.

NFL Clients

Some of JR Rickert's NFL clients include:

Lorenzo Alexander, Defensive Lineman, Washington Redskins JJ Arrington, Running Back, Arizona Cardinals Jordan Babineax, Defensive Back, Seattle Seahawks Correll Buckhalter, Running Back, Philadelphia Eagles Greg Camarillo, Receiver, Miami Dolphins Adrien Clarke, Offensive Lineman, Baltimore Ravens Jeremy Clark, Defensive Lineman, New York Giants, Joshua Cribbs, Receiver and Pro Bowl Returner, Cleveland Browns Jason Davis, Fullback, Philadelphia Eagles Jermichael Finley, Tight End, Green Bay Packers William Hayes, Defensive End, Tennessee Titans Kyries Hebert, Safety, Cincinnati Bengals Artis Hicks, Offensive Lineman, Minnesota Vikings Jamaal Jackson, Center, Philadelphia Eagles Chase Johnson, Offensive Lineman, Minnesota Vikings Cleo Lemon, Quarterback, Jacksonville Jaguars Nate Livings, Offesnive Lineman, Cincinnati Bengals Kevin Marion, Receiver and Returner, Pittsburgh Steelers Ryan McBean, Defensive End, Pittsburgh Steelers LeRon McCoy, Receiver, Houston Texans Brandon McDonald, Cornerback, Cleveland Browns Billy McMullen, Receiver, Washington Redskins, Mike Patterson, Defenisve Tackle, Philadelphia Eagles Stefan Rodgers, Offensive Lineman, Philadelphia Eagles Frostee Rucker, Defensive End, Cincinnati Bengals Mike Scifres, Pro Bowl Alternate Punter, San Diego Chargers Jonathan Wade, Cornerback, St. Louis Rams Daniel Wilcox, Tight End, Baltimore Ravens

Pixelated Anne
Pixelated Anne is a weekly webcomic published by Boring Internet (http://www.boringinternet.co.uk). It is drawn almost entirely in Microsoft Paint, with occasional use of Photoshop.

Content
In previous 'seasons' of Pixelated Anne (these were short bursts of comics drawn in 2004 and 2006), the humour relied on intentional poorness and analysing its own structure. The current season of Pixelated Anne, however, uses more adult jokes and gross-out humour rather than the light humour of previous seasons.

Characters
Currently, the title character is the only regular character in the comic; all other characters thus far have appeared only once.

Anne is a disembodied floating head, who lives in a world populated with other similar floating heads and normal people. In previous seasons, her vocabulary was extremely limited, usually restricted to one word. This season has shown an extension of her vocal skills, however. The character has many negative qualities that are used for the humour in each strip: she is a racist drug-user who feels no remorse for cruelty towards the elderly or animals. Apart from a fear of black people, Anne also shows an anti-semitic trend: she sympathises with the Nazi regime and is seen crying at the end of a movie where Hitler kills himself.

The author does make note of the fact that he does not share the same qualities as Anne and admits that the poor qualities sheis endowed with are purely for comic effect.

ceoworld.biz
CEOWORLD.BIZ Premier leadership network! for chief executive officer's chief operating officer's, chief information officer's or entrepreneurs etc. This is where top executives and entrepreneurs hang out for online business & professional networking and collaboration.

You’ll find not just a real sense of community spirit, but also blogs, music, member profiles with photo galleries and ongoing forum discussions on a number of subjects. This, however, is merely the beginning. There is huge scope to expand the site’s offerings, but ultimately its success depends on the input and enthusiasm of its members.

Although currently in its infancy, its potential is vast. Set up by Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, the primary aim is to develop it into a portal through which anyone with an interest in the corporate - from avid explorers to complete novices - can instantly access a wealth of information. The premise is simple: the best advice for executives comes from other executives. Members are therefore encouraged to add their experiences and knowledge in whatever format they like. Imagine diaries of recent trips, web profiles, instant messaging, educational videos, events listings, music, blogs, photo galleries, discussion forums… the possibilities are endless.

Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj has a clear vision of where he sees the site‘s future: “The site functions on the principle that everyone has at least one thing that will be of interest or value to the wider corporate community. My wish is that we will be first port of call for anyone wanting more information, so that whatever our members need: be it the latest corporate forecast, tips on executives or the best places to invest, ceoworld.biz has the answer.” He continues: “In effect we’re hoping to create a collaborative online community that’s brought together by the power of the internet. Fast forward a few months and there will be no limit to what you can find: member lists, jobs, HR informations, classified, tips, recommendations… even potential likeminded new friends.”

Backed by one of the industry’s biggest players and inspired by the many social networking sites that currently exist, ceoworld.biz was set up to facilitate the sharing of information. Where it differs from say Facebook, Bebo or MySpace, however, is that it is a niche offering. In other words its members are all connected by a common interest. Recent surveys suggest numbers of people visiting the top ten social networking sites are diminishing, in what’s being referred to as ‘Facebook fatigue’. Bad news for the generic sites but good news for those with a more bespoke outlook. Alex Burmaster, an internet analyst with Nielson Online, suggests that while the broader social networking sites will plateau this year, more tailored sites will boom because their audiences tend to be more highly engaged in subjects that are close to them. What’s important to remember here is that niche doesn’t necessarily mean narrow. ceoworld.biz is niche networking on a global scale.

The site’s founders are committed to providing their members with a high tech yet user friendly experience and even though there are stringent security measures in place to ensure personal information is kept private at all times, the overall focus is on freedom and innovation. This is, after all, a networking site that will largely be sustained by the efforts and creativity of its members.

ceoworld.biz is driven not only by passion but by years of experience and some of the best minds in the industry. It is authoritative, informed and growing by the day.

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Marquis de Maintenon/Marquis de Mantenon
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Things Unborn
Things Unborn, the second novel by Eugene Byrne, is a sideways look at a political thriller / detective story with an unusual and imaginative twist.

The novel follows the experiences of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, Guy Boswell, who finds that death is not necessarily the end. He comes back to life, 68 years after his death in a dogfight into a very different world.

Guy finds that he is one of many ‘Retreads,’ people who died prematurely over past centuries, who are reborn, at the age they died, in the place they died, in perfect health. They and their children are now two thirds of the population of Britain.

Officially, no-one knows why these Retreads are coming back, although the atomic war of 1962 seems to be the significant factor. Retreads tend to be born within 400 miles of the site of atomic explosions.

Guy passes through the kind bureaucracy of a reception centre “you are not in heaven or hell,” and is inducted into the London Police Force. He is apprenticed to Inspector Scipio Africanus, a former regency slaveboy, turned war hero, turned policeman.

He learns about the new Britain, peopled with a collection of characters from history. The anarchy of World War III was followed by a brief period of feudalism, which then devolved into a re-run of the English Civil War. Peace having been restored in the 1970’s, in 2008 the country is now inching towards prosperity. King Richard the third is on the throne, and impersonates Olivier in his famous film. Gordon Brown is Prime Minister and has set taxes of nine shillings in the pound. Indian companies own what is left of the British Motor Industry and London County Council are planning to reopen the historic underground railway whenever they can afford it.

Guy, Africanus and a motley collection of characters, natives, ‘hereborns’ and retreads are in a race against time to stop a group of religious fanatics setting off bombs to destroy the fragile democracy.

Byrne’s concept of the ‘Retread,’ allows him to draw his cast from all recent eras of history. Real figures like Lord Rochester, Richard III and even Eddie Cochrane walk the streets of a London that is distorted and yet ultimately recognisable.

Michael Geare
Sir Michael Geare (b. 1565-?) was a 16th century English sailor, privateer and merchant. One of the many Sea Dogs which plagued the Spanish Empire during the Elizabethan age, Geare was well-known to the Spaniards of the West Indies and the Spanish Main as commander of the Little John. He remained one of the most active in the region throughout the 1590s and up until his retirement in 1603.

Biography
Michael Geare was born in Limehouse around 1565, reportedly from a poor cockney background. An apprentice mariner in his youth, Geare embarked on his earliest voyages with Sir George Carey and later Captain John Watts with whom he would first rise to prominence between 1588 and 1591. That same year he became the captain of the Little John, one of five-ship flotilla under William Lane and financed by Sir Frances Drake among others. Lane gave glowing accounts of Geare's bravery in battle and with whom he began to earn a small fortune from privateering and smuggling activities. Lane eventually began personally financing the Little John which was later renamed the Michael & John when he became a partner with Geare in 1592.

During the next three years, Geare would complete four successful voyages in the West Indies with the Michael & John. In 1595, an encounter with a Spanish galleon near Havana, Cuba resulted in the loss of fifty of his crew and a Spanish pinnace he had previously captured. After making his escape, Geare was able to recoup his losses by capturing another Spanish prize before returning to England.

Commanding the Neptune the following year, he was accompanied to the Caribbean by a pinnace sailed by John Rilesden and Christopher Newport. He and fifteen men stole the pinnace later that year and captured several prizes before arriving in Jamaica to join a privateering expedition to Honduras led by Sir Anthony Shirley and Captain William Parker. After a failed raid against Trujilo, they turned towards Puerto Caballos and successfully captured the city. Finding little of value however, Geare decided to part company with Shirey and Parker who continued overland across the mountains of Guatamala and to the Pacific coast.

In May 1601, while in the West Indies with David Middleton with the pinnace James, he captured three ships while in command of the Archangel. Although he managed to bring back two of the captured ships, he lost contact with the third. Its crew eventually sailed to Morocco where it was sold there instead. Participating in a three-ship consort with Captain Christopher Newton the following year, he captured two Spanish warships among several others. On January 24, 1603, Geare and Christopher Newport participated in a joint Anglo-French operation when they directed eight ships during the landing of armed privateers near Santiago, Cuba. Their advance was halted by the Spanish Governor Fernando Melgarejo de Cordoba, both by a single artillery piece and stampeding a herd of cattle towards the raiders, and they were eventually forced to flee. After this last adventure, he decided to retire to Stepney, a suburb of London. His home, having a small dagger hung outside, gained some notoriety during his later years. Shortly after his return to England, he was bestowed a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth I. Upon his death, he left an annual allowance of five pounds to be shared among the families of those lost at sea and the indigent sailors of his native Limehouse.

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Simon Danziker
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Tax rates in Czech Republic
Individual Taxation

Non-residents are liable to tax only on their income from Czech sources. Spouses with at least one child may opt to be taxed jointly under certain conditions. Non-residents are allowed to avail of tax credits, provided that they earn 90% of their income from Czech sources.

Corporate tax

Corporate income in the Czech Republic is taxed at a rate of 24%. The taxable income of a corporation is generally computed as gross income less income-generating expenses.

MacB
MacB is a book, written by Neil Arksey in 1999. The Publishers for the book were Puffin Books. It is aimed between ages 6 - 12 years.

Synposis
A modern, rewritten version of Shakespeare's MacBeth. Banksie and MacB have been working to get into the football team. A fortune teller says that they will both be the captain of their school team. It's a stupid idea. No one plays better than Duncan King, captain and star striker. However Duncan has a terrible accident.

Joyce Menges
Joyce Menges starred in To Rome With Love, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, and The Gnome-Mobile. Her son is Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel from The Postal Service with Ben Gibbard.

NIC Mexico
NIC Mexico or Network Information Center Mexico is the main keeper and administrator of the Mexico country code top-level domain .mx and administers the allocation of IP address space in Mexico. The organization is using Nominum’s Foundation ™ ANS carrier-class name server to provide superior DNS service levels to all who do business and communicate with .MX Internet sites.

Its offices are in Monterrey, México.

Sam Liu
Sam Liu was born in 1994 in Liverpool, England. He has appeared on one episode of the UK version of the children's TV show Prank Patrol. The episode was named "Talent Showdown". He attends St. Margaret's C of E High School, Liverpool were Altrincham footballer Robbie Lawton is a Physical Education Teacher.

Lai Choi San
Lai Choi San (Mountain of Wealth) was a 20th century Chinese pirate. She was the most powerful and well-known female pirate leader in Chinese history, rivaled perhaps only by Cheng I Sao of the previous century, commanding a fleet of some 12 junks in the area of Macao and the South China Sea during the 1920s and 30s. The is very little documented evidence of her existance apart from the 1930 book I Sailed With Pirates by American journalist Aleko Lilius. Lai Choi San was one of several pirates that Lilius claims to have traveled with during the late 1920s. Lilius described her fleet as "twelve smooth-bore, medieval-looking cannons onboard, and two rather modern ones. Along the bulworks of the junk were bolted rows of heavy iron plates". Her crew were refered to as ladrones by the Portugese and, according to Lilius, were "all fearsome fellows, muscular bare-chested men who wore wide-brimmed hats and tied red kerchiefs around their necks and heads". Lai Choi San has been refered to as a female "Robin Hood" figure, however she and her crew were often paid protection money by local merchants and operated with little interfearance from either Portugese of Chinese authorities since inheriting the fleet from her father upon his death.

She was the model for the Dragon Lady, one of the main villains which appeared in the comic, radio and television series Terry and the Pirates. The series creator Milton Caniff later claimed to have been inspired by reading a story about her. The character would heavily influence the stock character whose persona is usually portayed as a beautiful yet cold-hearted villainess as seen in later popular culture.

Guido Basso
Guido Basso is one of Canada's most popular trumpet players, but is also known for his mastery of the flugelhorn. as well as being an arranger, composer, conductor, and occasional harmonica player.

Biography
He was born in Montreal, September 27, 1937 and began playing trumpet at nine. He studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, and in his teens, under the name 'Stubby' Basso, worked in dance and show bands led by Al Nichols, Maury Kaye, and others. While playing at the club El Morocco with Kaye, he was heard by the US singer Vic Damone, who took him on the road 1957-8. Basso subsequently worked throughout North America 1958-60 with singer Pearl Bailey and the orchestra led by her husband, drummer Louis Bellson.

In 1960 Basso settled in Toronto, becoming a first-call studio musician trumpeter and leader. He also took assignments as a harmonica player. Basso was music director 1963-7 for CBLT's 'Nightcap' and 1968-9 for CBC-TV's 'Barris and Company.' He also co-starred in 1969 with vibraphonist Peter Appleyard on CBC-TV's 'Mallets and Brass,' was music director 1969-71 for CBC Radio's 'After Noon,' and led orchestras for two CBC-TV series devoted to the big band era, 'In the Mood' (1971-2) and 'Bandwagon' (1972-3). In 1975 he organized big bands for concerts at the CNE by Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman.

Basso performed in Toronto nightclubs and hotel lounges with his own small groups - several of which brought together jazz and Latin music - and was an important soloist with the Boss Brass, the Rob McConnell Tentet, Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six, and the big bands of Ron Collier and others. With the downturn in studio work in the late 1970s, he began to lead what would become one of Toronto's most popular society orchestras.

Despite his pre-eminence among Canadian jazz trumpeters, Basso was reticent to work in that idiom. He was nevertheless known for the lyricism of his flugelhorn work on jazz ballads, a reputation taken far afield by his recordings with the Boss Brass, and was equally capable of incisive trumpeting in the bebop style. He was credited with the theory that one attacks the trumpet and makes love to a flugelhorn.

Basso was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994.

Metaxytherium
Metaxytherium is an extinct genus of dugong.

San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau
The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau is the official travel resource for the San Diego region. The private, non-profit, corporation is comprised of over 1,100 member organizations that include businesses, local governments, and individuals. Members include tourism and hospitality related organizations such as lodging, dining, arts & culture, attractions, shopping, tours and transportation, among others, as well as other companies indirectly involved in the tourism industry.

Revolution Renaissance: New Era
Name       = New Era | Type       = Album | Artist     = Revolution Renaissance | Released   = June 6th 2008 | Genre      = Power metal Neoclassical metal Symphonic power metal |

Producer   = Timo Tolkki |

New Era is the debut album by the power metal Supergroup Revolution Renaissance that is to be released on June 6th 2008. It was originally written as a Stratovarius album, but Tolkki took the songs with him when he left Stratovarius to form Revolution Renaissance

Track listing
All music and words by Tolkki.
 * 1) "Heroes"
 * 2) "I Did It My Way"
 * 3) "We Are Magic"
 * 4) "Angel"
 * 5) "Eden Is Burning"
 * 6) "Glorious And Divine"
 * 7) "Born Upon The Cross"
 * 8) "Keep The Flame Alive"
 * 9) "Last Night On Earth"
 * 10) "Revolution Renaissance"

Personnel

 * Michael Kiske - Vocals on tracks 2,4,8,9,10
 * Tobias Sammet - Vocals on tracks 1,6
 * Pasi Rantanen - Vocals on tracks 3,5,7
 * Timo Tolkki - Guitar
 * Pasi Heikkilä - Bass
 * Mirka Rantanen - Drums

Friends and Lovers
Friends and Lovers is a hit 1986 song. Its peak position on the Billboard Hot 100 was number 2 on its second week. It remained on the list for quite some time.

Rum Monkey Skateboards
Rum Monkey is a skateboard company based in Hermosa Beach, California. The company was started in June of 2005. The company makes high quality skateboards with graphics that are submitted to them by up-and-coming artists. Rum Monkey also makes shirts, hats, shorts and other skateboard-related products. The name "Rum Monkey" was chosen when the founders saw a vintage Carlo Biscaretti poster for the Anisetta Evangelisti Liquore da Dessert. The company's logos are of a monkey skateboarding and a money with a necklace with a "Rum" pendant.

Rum Monkey
Rum Monkey is a skateboard company based in Hermosa Beach, California. The company was started in June of 2005. The company makes high quality skateboards with graphics that are submitted to them by up-and-coming artists. Rum Monkey also makes shirts, hats, shorts and other skateboard-related products. The name "Rum Monkey" was chosen when the founders saw a vintage Carlo Biscaretti poster for the Anisetta Evangelisti Liquore da Dessert. The company's logos are of a monkey skateboarding and a money with a necklace with a "Rum" pendant.