Janakpur (IPA: [d��������kp��r] Nepali: ������������������) also known as Janakpurdham and Ancient Mithila (Nepali: ��������������������� ������������������) is the administrative headquarters of Dhanusa District of the Janakpur Zone, Nepal. It was also the capital city of former Kingdom of Videha. The city is located about 123 km (76 mi) south-east of Kathmandu. As of 2015 the city had a population of 169,287. Janakpur has a substantial tourism industry due to its significance in the Hinduism and being the birth place of Goddess Sita. The Nepal Railways operates between Janakpur and India.

Dor Mhoineachi Rotti is the oldest extant periodical in the Konkani language. Its stated intention is to spread the devotion to the Christian idea of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; it was initially named Dor Muineachi Rotti Povitra Jesucha Calzachem Devo������ Vaddounchi. Fr. Vincent Lobo, from Sangolda in Goa, curator at the St. Patrick's Church in Karachi, began it in 1915, to cater to the large number of Konkani-speaking people there, as there was no other Konkani spiritual literature. The name was changed subsequently to "Dor Muiniachi Rotti, Concanim Messenger of the Sacred Heart". On Fr. Vincent Lobo's death on 11 November 1922, Fr. Ant��nio Ludovico Pereira, also from Sangolda, took over. Dor Mhoineachi Rotti had an estimated readership of around 12,000. After the death of Fr. Ant��nio Ludovico Pereira on 26 July 1936, Fr. Antanasio Moniz, from Verna, took over. On his death in 1953, Fr. Elias D'Souza, from Bodiem, Tivim in Goa became the fourth editor. After moving to Velha Goa in Goa around 1964, Fr. Moreno de Souza was editor for around 42 years. The Dor Mhuineachi Rotti is owned by the Jesuits in Goa, edited by Fr. Vasco do Rego, S. J. and printed and published by Fr. Kelvin Monteiro, S.J. on behalf of the Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Goa.

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The Himalayan forest thrush (Zoothera salimalii) is a species of bird described in 2016 and separated out from the plain-backed thrush Zoothera mollissima with which they were formerly lumped. The species is separated on the basis of phylogenetic studies that suggest that the population diverged from the common ancestor at least 3 million years ago (estimates vary from 3-6 mya).

HISTORY :Holy Cross School (Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School) is a Catholic school which comprises of Primary, Secondary and Higher level education system and it was established by the Brother's of Congregation of Holy Cross in 1963.CONGREGATION :The brothers of Holy cross, the patrons of the school are part of the International family of the Congregation of Holy cross which is present in thirteen countries all over the world catering to the pastoral, educational and other needs of the Church in particular to the world in General.The Congregation founded by Blessed Basil Antony Mary Moreau in the year 1835, continues to carry on the mission entrusted to it by its founder. The brothers of Holy cross who landed in South India in the year 1959 have contributed enormously to the faith life of the church and have made a difference in the lives of thousands of students and others in the past fifty years. Holy cross, Salem is a glaring example of the values and principles that the brothers have stood for.HERITAGE :When a river is more than full it will overflow and find a place in distant fields. In the same way the missionary zeal after filling the native place will try to find some other destination. In 1835, when France was under the clutches of French Revolution, one man of God, Fr. Moreau, founded a religious community to help the people. After a tumultuous period this community got a strong foothold. It was named Holy Cross. Canada was the fortunate country to receive this community and became a strong fold for this community.Some decades ago there was an urge in this community to spread its wings to different countries. A fervent gust of missionary zeal blew some young religious to Bengal. Some of them with inexhaustible enthusiasm found a place in India. They were all far-sighted religious individuals. It was little doubted that these band of young religious would form a long-standing religious community in India. They were groping for truth in the complex Indian society. This led them to find satisfaction in the field of education. Education field was not something new to them. They had already some successful expedition into this noble field in far more developed countries.Plato said, ���The guardians of state should not know their parents.��� These religious left all their kith, kin and comrades and came to this unknown, fascinating India. What is surprising is that there was real warmth and affection between these religious and the natives. Both the groups joined hand in hand to develop some schools of excellence, which could send good citizens into the social stream.It was Divine providence that the Brothers of Holy Cross chose Salem among all other places to start a school in the year 1963 as a legacy of their hundred years of educational expertise in the west. It had a humble beginning as all the good things begin. Not even its founder would have thought that a school started with just five students would grow up to be an institution to keep 4000 students and 200 staff in its portal.INFRASTRUCTURE :Audio Visual LabHoly Cross education is a multimedia based education providing both sound and visual components, which facilitates and educates the students using interactive technology. The students view slides, documentaries and quiz programmes are organised to enrich their knowledge with a goal of improving comprehension and retention. A projector with 5000 luminous display helps to make teaching effective.There are two Audio Visual Labs in the campus.Computer LabThe campus has a well equipped computer lab with uninterrupted power supply and round the clock power back up to help the students focus and make utmost use of equipment's to enrich knowledge.Class RoomsThe institution provides the best comfort and nature friendly environment to make the students feel like home. The class rooms are equipped with proper electrical equipment's and ventilation. The class rooms are spacious enough to hold more than 50 students. Along with the class rooms the corridors are equipped with lighting facility.Language Proficiency ClassHoly Cross has introduced a series of classes called English Proficiency Classes to enhance the competency of students in English. These classes comprise a set of modules such as Phonetics, Grammar, Communication and Comprehension. The progress of the students is evaluated by a process of oral and written examination specially designed to engage the qualitative and quantitative improvement achieved by the individual student. In the month of April, summer coaching classes are conducted to help the students who fail to achieve the stipulated standard in English Proficiency.Language LaboratoryLanguage Lab is the state of the art language center specially designed to support English language development and to promote communication. Students have ample opportunity to practice English through audio-video programs i.e. phonetic symbols, pronunciation, etc. and interactive English language-applications are made available to students.Physics & Chemistry LaboratoryThe institution has a physics and chemistry laboratory with all the necessary equipment's required by the students to experiment on various laws on physics and practice solutions of chemistry.Biology & Zoology LaboratoryThe institution also has a biology and zoology laboratory with various preserved specimen for experiments by the students under the assistance and guidance of teachers and able staffCanteenAmong the numerous facilities provided to the students at school, we also have a canteen where nutritious snacks and healthy drinks are provided. The canteen is monitored and handled by able staff members so that the students can have a hassle free snack.HostelThe institution has a hostel within the campus for the students, the hostel provides nutritious and healthy food and the students are monitored by mentors and wardens.ACTIVITIESSPORT'S :The school has a well equipped indoor and outdoor rubber coated basketball court with floodlights and score board. Also it has a outdoor football, Volleyball court with proper equipment's for the students to have time for recreation. The school has provided a proper 3 track nets for cricket practice and a playground which is suitable to host track events, matches and sports meet. There is a separate bay for long jump and a ring for skating. The school also provides access to the gym for students to maintain fitness levels. Ready gymnastic equipment's are available to students, the school also conducts Annual Sports Meet every year.CLUB'S :The institution also has many clubs in which the students can enrol to enhance their skills in activities apart from academics. A student can choose between any of the club's and can opt for only a maximum of 2 clubs in a academic year. List of clubs : Computer club, ECCO club, Economics club, English Literary Association, History & Geography club, Interact club, Junior Jaycee, Language club, Maths club, Nature club, Science club, Sports & Health club, Philately club, Quiz club.CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES :The cultural festival, fondly known as Kalothsav, is a testimony to the multifaceted educational ethos of Holy Cross. In keeping with the tradition of Holy Cross as path breakers and pioneers, Kalothsav, the inter school cultural competitions, came into existent three decades ago to provide avenues to the student fraternity of Salem to showcase their talents and capabilities.The term Kalothsav encompasses a multiple cultural activities.Kalothsav Kids ��� the inter school cultural competition for lower & upper kinder garden students.Kalothsav Junior ��� the inter school cultural competition for primary level students.Kalothsav Senior ��� the inter school cultural competition for secondary & higher level students.Kalothsav Grand Nights ��� A platform for the inter school winners to showcase their skills to the people of Salem.National Cadet Corps : Army and Air Wing, the school imparts basic discipline and instills in the young minds patriotic feelings. It offers opportunity for a Career in the Army and Air Force.Junior Red Cross : Junior Red Cross gives training in First Aid, Clean Environment etc.National Service Scheme : N.S.S tries to make the students aware of the dignity of labour and give enough opportunity to its member to move with the public. The members are encouraged to believe in the concept "Not me but you".Green Movement : Promotes environment friendly activities.Red Ribbon : Makes awareness on AIDS.Science Exhibition : The institution conducts science exhibition which is open to all the students of the institution, the students can come up with any science related projects. The judge who takes a look at all the projects picks out 3 winners who are awarded with a medal.Trekking : The school conducts an adventurous journey on foot from the foothills of yercaud mountain to the Holy Cross House which is situated on the top of the hill (Approximately 22 kilometers). Refreshments are served once the participant reaches the house. The participants are accompanied by teachers and staff.
HISTORY :Holy Cross School (Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School) is a Catholic school which comprises of Primary, Secondary and Higher level education system and it was established by the Brother's of Congregation of Holy Cross in 1963.CONGREGATION :The brothers of Holy cross, the patrons of the school are part of the International family of the Congregation of Holy cross which is present in thirteen countries all over the world catering to the pastoral, educational and other needs of the Church in particular to the world in General.The Congregation founded by Blessed Basil Antony Mary Moreau in the year 1835, continues to carry on the mission entrusted to it by its founder.

Zanthoxylum parvum is nested within the family Rutaceae. It is native to the mountains of Trans-Pecos Texas in Brewster and Jeff Davis counties.

Andrew Almanza (born June 11, 1993) is an American professional skateboarder sponsored by Diamond Supply Co.

Janakpur (IPA: [d��������kp��r] Nepali: ������������������) also known as Janakpurdham and Ancient Mithila (Nepali: ��������������������� ������������������) is the administrative headquarters of Dhanusa District of the Janakpur Zone, Nepal. It was also the capital city of former Kingdom of Videha. The city is located about 123 km (76 mi) south-east of Kathmandu. As of 2015 the city had a population of 169,287. Janakpur has a substantial tourism industry due to its significance in the Hinduism and being the birth place of Goddess Sita.

Basketball, Badminton, Cricket, Football, Volleyball, Skating, Swimming, Track events

Stina Torjesen is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder. She is researching the themes emerging markets, sustainability and regional cooperation with particular emphasis on Kazakhstan, India and Afghanistan.Stina Torjesen was previously Research Fellow (2005���2007) and later Senior Research Fellow (2007-2010) at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).

The term Muscadin, meaning "wearing musk perfume" came to refer to mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner, who were the street fighters of the Thermidorian Reaction in Paris in the French Revolution. After the coup against Robespierre and the Jacobins of 9 Thermidor Year II, or 27 July 1794, they took on the remaining Jacobins and sans-culottes, and largely succeeded in suppressing them over the next year or two.

Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Christmas on the International Space Station covers the celebration of Christmas on the International Space Station. Christmas is a seasonal Christian celebration in remembarance to the birth of Jesus, and is celebrated each year by the International Space Station crew, their families, and ground-staff. Crew are given time off duty according to their respective culture, religion/faith and ethnicity.

Logo used for the 2015/16 Christmas and New Year specials

Dor Mhoineachi Rotti is the oldest extant periodical in the Konkani language. Its stated intention is to spread the devotion to the Christian idea of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; it was initially named Dor Muineachi Rotti Povitra Jesucha Calzachem Devo������ Vaddounchi. Fr. Vincent Lobo, from Sangolda in Goa, curator at the St. Patrick's Church in Karachi, began it in 1915, to cater to the large number of Konkani-speaking people there, as there was no other Konkani spiritual literature.

Christmas on the International Space Station covers the celebration of Christmas on the International Space Station. Christmas is a seasonal Christian celebration in remembarance to the birth of Jesus, and is celebrated each year by the International Space Station crew, their families, and ground-staff. Crew are given time off duty according to their respective culture, religion/faith and ethnicity. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas according to the Julian calendar, whilst the Catholic Church and the various Protestant denominations use the Gregorian calendar so the crew may celebrate Christmas more than once on the station choosing between December 25 or January 6, 7 or 19.Expedition One arrived on the ISS on 2 November 2000, celebrating their first Christmas on board the station later that year. Other celebrations included Expedition 30, with the arrival of Donald Pettit, Oleg Kononenko, and Andr�� Kuipers.On 24 December 2013, astronauts made a rare Christmas Eve extravehicular activity, installing a new ammonia pump for the station's cooling system. The faulty cooling system had failed earlier in the month, halting many of the station's science experiments. Astronauts had to brave a "mini blizzard" of noxious ammonia while installing the new pump. It was only the second Christmas Eve spacewalk in NASA history.On 25 December 2016 the crew celebrated Christmas by floating in microgravity and opening presents from recently delivered on a Japanese cargo spacecraft. One astronaut wore a santa hat in orbit. The French astronaut Pesquet shared special french food with station crew.

The term Muscadin, meaning "wearing musk perfume" came to refer to mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner, who were the street fighters of the Thermidorian Reaction in Paris in the French Revolution. After the coup against Robespierre and the Jacobins of 9 Thermidor Year II, or 27 July 1794, they took on the remaining Jacobins and sans-culottes, and largely succeeded in suppressing them over the next year or two. In prints they are often seen carrying large wooden clubs, which they liked to call "constitutions". They were supposedly organized by the politician and journalist Louis-Marie Stanislas Fr��ron, and eventually numbered 2,000-3,000. They in fact seem to have mostly consisted of the lower middle-classes, the sons of "minor officials and small shopkeepers", and were quietly encouraged by the shaky new government, who had good reason to fear Jacobin mobs, and wider unrest as the hard winter of 1794-5 saw increasing hunger among the Parisian working-class. The Muscadin are considered to be part of the First White Terror in response to the preceding Reign of Terror of the Jacobins.The "jeunesse dor��e" came to have a considerable influence on the National Convention, and after the Jacobin revolt of 12 Germinal, Year III (April 1, 1795), are held to have forced the arrest of the four main "ring-leaders" remaining from the Jacobin regime: Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Bertrand Bar��re de Vieuzac, Jacques-Louis David and Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, who were all transported to French Guiana. After they had succeeded in suppressing the sans-culottes, their usefulness to the government was over, and they began to pose a threat. After the "whiff of grapeshot" in the crisis of 13 Vend��miaire they ceased to be a significant factor in Parisian politics.

Himalayan forest thrush in Yunnan, China

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The Himalayan forest thrush (Zoothera salimalii) is a species of bird described in 2016 and separated out from the plain-backed thrush Zoothera mollissima with which they were formerly lumped. The species is separated on the basis of phylogenetic studies that suggest that the population diverged from the common ancestor at least 3 million years ago (estimates vary from 3-6 mya). The alpine thrush (Zoothera mollissima in the restricted sense) breeds above the tree line whereas the Himalayan forest thrush breeds in forested habitats. The species breeds from Sikkim and Darjeeling in India and extends into northwest Yunnan in China. The species differs in its song from that of the alpine thrush. The Himalayan forest thrush has a more musical call while that of the Alpine thrush is raspy and grating.The species name is given in honour of an Indian ornithologist S��lim Ali.The tree-dwelling species has shorter legs, tail and wings but a longer bill than its Alpine counterpart, and uses the shorter legs and tails to help it manoeuvre around in the forest.

Stina Torjesen is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder. She is researching the themes emerging markets, sustainability and regional cooperation with particular emphasis on Kazakhstan, India and Afghanistan.Stina Torjesen was previously Research Fellow (2005���2007) and later Senior Research Fellow (2007-2010) at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). She has also served as project manager in the sustainability consultancy SIGLA (2010-2012).Stina Torjesen holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Her DPhil thesis Understanding Regional Co-operation in Central Asia 1991-2004 assessed the prospects for regional cooperation in Central Asia in the spheres of trade, water and security.Publications include The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy, (Routledge), co-edited with Elana Wilson Rowe and more recently the journal article Towards a theory of ex-combatant reintegrationStina Torjesen has contributed to debates on Norwegian foreign policy through public presentations, op-eds and media appearances. She has served as board member at the Oslo Labour Party International Forum (2011-2012) and as Committee member for the group International politics and economics in the Norwegian Polytechnic Society (Polyteknisk Forening) in the years 2010-2013. Stina Torjesen was also an employee representative at the NUPI board (2009-2010).