The Geats ( GHEETS, GAY-əts, YATS; Old English: gēatas [ˈjæɑtɑs]; Old Norse: gautar [ˈɡɑu̯tɑr]; Swedish: götar [ˈjø̂ːtar]), sometimes called Goths, were a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden from antiquity until the late Middle Ages. They are one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Swedes (the tribe) and Gutes. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces of Västergötland and Östergötland, the Western and Eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms. The Swedish dialects spoken in the areas...

Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and adapted into two films: one in 1989 and another in 2019. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th-anniversary edition. == Plot == Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill ("Church"). From the moment...

Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin (Russian: Иван Ильич Мозжухин, IPA: [ɪˈvan ɨˈlʲjitɕ mɐˈʑːʉxʲɪn]; 26 September [O.S. 8 October] 1889—18 January 1939), usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor. == Career in Russia == Ivan Mozzhukhin was born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), the youngest of four brothers. His mother Rachel Ivanovna Mozzhukhina (née Lastochkina) was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, while his father Ilya Ivanovich Mozzhukhin came from peasants and served a...

The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is a 1916 film adaptation of the 1834 Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name. It is noted for its high production values, directorial technique and psychological depth of acting, especially by Ivan Mosjoukine. It is considered to be one of the best pre-revolutionary Russian films. The film was the second production of the story, the first being the silent short film adaptation of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky opera by Pyotr Chardynin in 1910. Yakov Protazanov uses a wide combination of narrative, staging and camera techniques...

Didier Lourenço (Premia de Mar, 1968). His origins as an artist can be found in the lithograph studio of his father, Fulvio, where he began working as an artist at an early age. There, he learned all about lithography and began to develop his first oil paintings, while coming into contact with some of the leading Catalan artists of the late 80s and early 90s such as Josep Maria Subirachs, Francesc Artigau Josep Pla-Narbona, Javier Montesol, Josep Guinovart, Jordi Alumà, Rafael Bartolozzi Lozano, Perico Pastor i Bodmer, Simo Buson, Montserrat Gudiol, Javier Mariscal, or Joan Pere Viladecans. With...

Fantasy football is a game in which the participants serve as owners and general managers of virtual professional American football teams. The competitors select their rosters by participating in a draft in which all relevant National Football League (NFL) players are available. Fantasy points are awarded in weekly matchups based on the actual performances of football players in real-world competition. The game typically involves the NFL, but can also involve other leagues, such as the Canadian Football League or NCAA. There are three main types of fantasy football: Traditional (redraft) – Leagues...

The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had previously been published by Muybridge in 1877. The series became the first example of chronophotography, an early method to photographically record the passing of time, mainly used to document the different phases of locomotion for scientific...

Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see due to lesions in the primary visual cortex, also known as the striate cortex or Brodmann Area 17. The term was coined by Lawrence Weiskrantz and his colleagues in a paper published in a 1974 issue of Brain. A similar paper studying the discriminatory capacity of a cortically blind patient was published in Nature in 1973. == Type Classification == The majority of studies on blindsight are conducted on patients who are hemianopic, i.e. blind in one half of their visual field...

Adjective: natürlich (strong nominative masculine singular natürlicher, comparative natürlicher, superlative am natürlichsten)

1. natural, normal
2. Antonyms: künstlich, unnatürlich

Adverb: natürlich

1. naturally
2. of course

The BMP-3 is a Soviet and Russian infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2. The abbreviation BMP stands for boevaya mashina pehoty (боевая машина пехоты, literally "infantry combat vehicle"). == Production history == The design of the BMP-3 (Obyekt 688M) can be traced back to the Obyekt 685 light tank prototype with an 2A48-1 100 mm gun from 1975. The prototype did not enter series production, but the chassis, with a new engine, was used for the next-generation infantry combat vehicle Obyekt 688 from A. Blagonravov's design bureau. The Ob. 688's original weapon configuration...

JSC Kurganmashzavod (Russian: Курганмашзавод; Kurganian Vehicle Plant) is a manufacturing company based in Kurgan, Russia. It is known for its BMP series of infantry fighting vehicles. == Overview == The company's main products are the well-known BMP-2 and BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, which are in service in 29 countries. The company also produces a wide range of civil products, such as small-sized tractors, municipal construction machines and automobile trailers, among others.Kurganmashzavod JSC is the largest enterprise in the Kurgan Oblast. It is a large engineering complex, comprising...