Marcus

Marcus, Markus, or Márkus may refer to:

Places

Other uses

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Karim

Karim (alternatively spelled Kareem, or Kerim) (Arabic: کریم‎) is a common given and surname of Arabic origin that means Generous. Not to be confounded with Al-Karim (Arabic: الکریم‎), which is one of the 99 names of Allah, meaning THE Generous.

Karim is also a spelling of a similar though a lot less common name, (Arabic: كرم‎), this name has a short second vowel, it is commonly spelled as Karam also often spelled Karem or Kerem. Another derivative name of (Arabic: أکرم‎) is Akram (meaning more generous).

Given name

Karim (record label)

Karim was an Italian record label active from 1960 to 1966, when it closed.

History

The Karim label was started in 1960 by Giovanni Fischietti and Gaetano Purvilenti. From the start it was a S.p.A., making 45s and LPs. Some of the more famous singers on the label were Fabrizio De André, Orietta Berti, Jula de Palma and Memo Remigi.

Catalogue

LP

45 rpm

Eternal Darkness

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a psychological horror action-adventure game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo for the GameCube in 2002. The game was originally planned for the Nintendo 64. The game's setting is centered on a mansion in Rhode Island—the home of protagonist Alexandra Roivas' grandfather—and a book that Alexandra finds there. It utilizes a third-person view in which the player must navigate a number of locations as twelve characters spanning different time periods, as well as "sanity effects" to enhance the gameplay.

Though not a commercial success, Eternal Darkness was widely praised, winning numerous awards. While a direct follow-up was cancelled by the copyrights holder Nintendo, and Silicon Knights bankrupted and disbanded, the game's writer and director Denis Dyack has been attempting to make a spiritual successor titled Shadow of the Eternals.

Plot

The action in Eternal Darkness is divided between four principal locations. The game skips back and forth through time when the player begins or ends each chapter. The locations include the Forbidden City in Persia, a Cambodian temple in Angkor Thom, the Oublié Cathedral in Amiens, France, and the Roivas family mansion with the Ruined City of Ehn'gha in Rhode Island, United States.

Gaienhofen

Gaienhofen is a town in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Since 1974, Gaienhofen consists of four villages: Gaienhofen, Gundholzen, Hemmenhofen and Horn. Attractions, apart from the Lake of Constance, include the Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum and Otto-Dix-Haus.

World heritage site

It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Twin towns

Gaienhofen is twinned with:

Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, France

Balatonföldvár, Hungary

See also

Gallery

Stone Age housings (reconstructed) in Unteruhldingen

Stone Age housings (reconstructed) in Unteruhldingen

Chapel in Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen

Chapel in Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen

First house of Hermann Hesse and his first wife Maria Bernoulli (Mia)

First house of Hermann Hesse and his first wife Maria Bernoulli (Mia)

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Horn (anatomy)

A horn is a pointed projection on the head of various animals consisting of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. In mammals, true horns are found mainly among the ruminant artiodactyls, in the families Antilocapridae (pronghorn) and Bovidae (cattle, goats, antelope etc.).

One pair of horns is usual; however, two or more pairs occur in a few wild species and domesticated breeds of sheep. Polycerate (multi-horned) sheep breeds include the Hebridean, Icelandic, Jacob, Manx Loaghtan, and the Navajo-Churro.

Horns usually have a curved or spiral shape, often with ridges or fluting. In many species only males have horns. Horns start to grow soon after birth, and continue to grow throughout the life of the animal (except in pronghorns, which shed the outer layer annually, but retain the bony core). Partial or deformed horns in livestock are called scurs. Similar growths on other parts of the body are not usually called horns, but spurs, claws or hoofs depending on the part of the body on which they occur.

Horn, Germany

Horn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 7 km eastsoutheast of Kastellaun and 6 km north of Simmern.

History

Bearing witness to early human habitation in the Horn area are Roman and Neolithic archaeological finds. There is also a mediaeval motte-and-bailey castle.

In the 12th century, Horn had its first documentary mention in connection with the noble family that bore the same name, but it seems that the actual “first mention” in 1135 is a falsified document. Nevertheless, a genuine document from 1166 has the same contents and names the same persons, thus confirming the 12th century, at least, as the earliest time when the village is known to have existed.

Together with Laubach and Bubach, Horn belonged at this time to the Imperially Immediate Estate (Reichsgut). Landholdings seem to have been held by a noble family von Horn. It could be that this family’s noble seat was at the castle, the Horner Burg. The complex’s remnants can be found west of the village. In shape it was a special form of motte-and-bailey. In 1567, Johann von Koppenstein sold Meinhard von Schöneberg the remnants.