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- Republic of Ireland -- Northern Ireland
The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official descriptionThe Republic of Ireland Act, 1948, Section 2, Irish Statute Book of the sovereign state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. The state's official name is Ireland (Irish: Éire),Constitution of Ireland, Article 4, Department of the Taoiseach and this is how international organisations and citizens of Ireland usually refer to the country. It is a member of the European Union, has a developed economy and a population of slightly more than 4.2 million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as Northern Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom. Ireland is the fastest growing country in Europe, with a population increase of 8.1% between 2002 and 2006, or 2.25% annually. - Lino Ventura -- Philippe Gerbier
Lino Ventura is wonderful as Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer whose work with the resistance lands him in a POW camp, where he befriends an avowed young Communist, who helps him hatch an escape plan. Even more mesmerizing (and a bit late to the movie) is Simone Signoret as perhaps the most prominent woman in the Resistance, whose steely resolve to fight is put to the most brutal test by her tormentors. Somewhat peculiarly for a war movie, this one has an almost dreamy, ethereal quality—it doesn't shrink from the worst of it, but somehow it's not an unrelenting nightmare, even as violence and mayhem seem to infect every frame. It ... has elements of an old-style police procedural, especially as the freedom fighters seek to break one of their own out of a Gestapo prison camp. It very much feels like Melville is using the lessons he's learned from his crime pictures and using them on a grander and more brutal scale. - Organization of American States (Oas)
The Organization of American States (OAS) was established in 1948 to help promote peace, justice and solidarity throughout the Americas, while strengthening economic, social and cultural ties. The collection is broken into twenty-six series that contain documents from the eight major bodies that comprise the OAS. Topics include: treaties, agreements, human rights, crime and security. Spanish and English. - Shih Tzu -- American Shih Tzu Club
The Shih Tzu breed continues to be a dominate force in dog shows. They are classified in the “Toy” group. Check out the American Shih Tzu Club for more continually updated dog show results information at http://www.shihtzu.org/. - Long Hair -- Salon
Long hair guru Patrick Cameron officially opened the new hairdressing salon at Central Sussex College’s Horsham campus. The state-of-the-art salon will allow hairdressing and barbering courses to run at more than one campus. The salon is ... used as a training facility by the Institute of Trichology, allowing the college to hold a Trichology Clinic every week. - Swedish Language -- Swedish Language Council
The Swedish Language Council (Språkrådet) is the official regulator of Swedish, but does not attempt to enforce control of the language, as for instance the Académie française does. However, many organizations and agencies require the use of the council's publication Svenska skrivregler in official contexts, with it otherwise being regarded as a de facto orthographic standard. Among the many organizations that make up the Swedish Language Council, the Swedish Academy (established 1786) is arguably the most influential. Its primary instruments are the dictionaries Svenska Akademiens Ordlista (SAOL, currently in its 13th edition) and Svenska Akademiens Ordbok, in addition to various books on grammar, spelling and manuals of style. Even though the dictionaries are sometimes used as official decrees of the language, their main purpose is to describe current usage. - Republic of Ireland -- Irish Catholics
According to the Central Statistics Office, the Jewish population of the Republic of Ireland (Eire) in 2002 numbered 1,790 out of a total population of almost 4 million. The first mention of Jews living in Ireland occurs in the Annals of Innifallen of 1079. However, most of Ireland’s Jews arrived in the 1880s, mainly from Lithuania. The Jewish element of the Irish population reached its peak in the 1940s when it numbered about 5,500. At that time the capital city Dublin had an area that became known as ‘Little Jerusalem’. - Concentration Camps -- British Army
Reel 5: At Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Army trucks arrive with aid for survivors. Piles of dead, mutilated and emaciated bodies. Some survivors among dead. Huge ovens and piles of bone ash on floor of crematorium. Civilians from nearby Weimar are forced to tour camp. They see exhibits of lampshades made of human skin, and two shrunken heads. - Terminator
The Terminator is one of the most popular robots of film. There are actually two models of Terminator: the metal skeleton covered by human flesh (technically a cyborg) first seen in The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984); and the liquid metal, shape-shifting new T-1000 introduced in the sequel, The Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1991). Both were created by Stan Winston, following Cameron's designs. The older Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) comes from the near future to kill Sarah, the mother of the still unborn John Connor, who will become the guerrilla leader that fights the rebellious machines in a future war. In the sequel, this evil Terminator becomes the fatherly protector of mother and son, saving them from the murderous T-1000. The Terminator films have appealed to the popular imagination thanks to their special effects (especially the infographics of the sequel) and the magnetic presence of Schwarzenegger in the title role. - Out of Practice
In Out of Practice, the 31-year-old actor plays Benjamin Barnes, youngest son of a family of doctors. Ben's the only one who didn't finish medical school, instead becoming a marriage therapist. The ironic thing is, he's probably the sanest person in the Barnes family.
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