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Opening of COP20. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20 or CMP10 was held in Lima, Peru, from December 1 to 12, 2014. This was the 20th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 10th session of the Meeting of the Parties (CMP 10) to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
A retiarius stabs at a secutor with his trident in this mosaic from the villa at Nennig, c. 2nd–3rd century CE.. A retiarius (plural retiarii; literally, "net-man" in Latin) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman: a weighted net (rete (3rd decl.), hence the name), a three-pointed trident (fuscina or tridens), and a dagger ().
First Lady Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
Other examples include sloe (Prunus spinosa) and ivy (Hedera helix). [ 7 ] The coconut is also a drupe, but the mesocarp is fibrous or dry (termed a husk [ 1 ] ), so this type of fruit is classified as a simple dry, fibrous drupe.
Lolita is a 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film [9] directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.. The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who writes as "Humbert Humbert" and has hebephilia.
Dawe had developed a habit of saving his crossword-compiling work time by calling boys into his study to fill crossword blanks with words; afterwards Dawe would provide clues for those words. As a result, war-related words including those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe said later that at the time he did not know that these words were ...
Juneteenth is a celebration of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. Learn about its history, traditions and significance.