Ricardo Achiles Rangel (15 February 1924 - 11 June 2009) was a Mozambican photojournalist and photographer.

Biography

Early life
Rangel was born in the city of Lourenco Marques, now known as Maputo, Portuguese East Africa in February 1924. His father was a Greek businessman and Rangel was of African, European and Chinese descent.  Rangel was raised by his African grandmother in the impoverished suburbs surrounding Lourenco Marques, while he visited his parents in the outlying provinces.

Career
Rangel's photography career began during as the early 1940s by developing pictures in a private studio. Interest in taking photographs soon followed.  Rangel was hired as the first non-white employee to join the Mozambican newspaper Noticias de Tarde in 1952, where he worked as a photographer. Rangel moved to Noticias de Tarde sister publication, Notícias, in 1956.

He next became the head photographer at the Lourenco Marques daily newspaper, A Tribuna, from 1960 until 1964.  Rangel moved to the city of Beira during the mid-1960s. He worked as a photographer for several Beira-based newspapers including Diário de Moçambique, Voz Africana and  Notícias da Beira. He returned to the city of Lourenco Marques during the late 1960s and returned to Notícias.

Rangel joined with four other Mozambican journalists in 1970 to found a weekly magazine called Tempo, which in effect acted as the only publication in opposition to Portuguese rule. Additionally, Tempo was also Mozambique's first full color magazine.  Rangel's worked as Tempo'''s main photojournalist, often documenting poverty or Portuguese policies which were perceived as unfair by the publication.

Many of Rangel's colonial era photographs were banned or destroyed by Portuguese government censors, and could not be published or exhibited until Mozambique's independence in 1975. He became a frequent target of the Portuguese secret police, the PIDE.

Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975.  Rangel took an active role in training new Mozambican photographers throughout the post-independence era and Mozambican Civil War. He was appointed the chief photographer of Noticias in 1977, after most other photojournalists had left the country following Mozambique's independence.

Rangel became the first director of the weekly Mozambican publication Domingo'' in 1981.  He went on to found the Photographic Training Centre, school for photography, in Maputo in 1983 and remained the centre's director until his death in 2009. Rangel began showing his work in European and African art galleries and museums beginning in 1983.

Rangel also founded the Mozambican Photography Association, serving as the organization's first chairman. He was later bestowed the title of Life President by members of the association and remained the aaosciation's

In 2008, Rangel was awarded an honorary doctorate in social science for his "contribution to Mozambican culture" from Eduardo Mondlane University, which is Mozambique's oldest and largest university.

Additionally, Rangel was elected to the Maputo Municipal Assembly from 1998 to 2003 as a member of the Juntos Pela Cidade (Together for the City).

Death
Rangel died in his sleep at his home in Maputo, Mozambique, on June 11, 2009, at the age of 85. He was survived by his Swiss wife, Beatrice. Rangel's funeral, which was held at Maputo City Hall on June 15, 2009, was attended by several dignitaries, including Prime Minister Luisa Diogo. Jazz music was played at the funeral according to his wishes, as Rangel was a fan of jazz. He was buried in the Lhanguene cemetery in Maputo.

Prime Minister Luisa Diogo praised Rangel's life and career at his funeral, noting that Rangel left "an indelible mark on the history of Mozambique." She also praised Rangel's colony era work which was used "to denounce colonial dictatorship," and pointed out that many of Rangel's photographs had been banned until Mozambique's independence.

Joao Costa, the head of the Mozambican Photographic Association (AMF), spoke of Rangel saying, "the man has died, but his work remains".

Movie
The movie “Ricardo Rangel – Hot Iron”, the director Licinio de Azevedo is a film designed the Instituto Camões in Luanda as part of the cycle CPLP Film Festival which takes place in the Angolan capital of the 10th day September 16, 2009.

Organized by the embassies of the CPLP countries accredited in Angola, the cycle includes the display of five films of Portugal, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Mozambique and Angola second source of Embassy of Mozambique in Luanda, contacted by AIM in Lisbon.
The film, lasting 52 minutes, is a documentary 80 years of Ricardo Rangel, 60 of which were dedicated to photography, directed by Licinio de Azevedo and co-produced by Camilo de Sousa and Ebano Multimédia. It was filmed and completed a few months before the death of Rangel, on June 11, 2009

Synopsis
Ricardo Rangel, photographer, 80 years, is the living symbol of the generation that in the late 40 started the first complaints against the colonial situation. While photographing the city of the settlers, Ricardo showed the inhumanity and cruelty of colonialism. From then until the end of civil war after independence, Ricardo photographed 60 years of history of Mozambique. In this movie, Richard takes us on his life and work, where the city of Maputo, the bohemian and jazz have a special place

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Death was one of the first ever death metal bands in the United States. They started in 1983 under the name Mantas and they changed the name to Death in 1984.

Death is no longer a band because their guitarist Chuck Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001. He was 34 years old. He had brain cancer and the drugs he used to beat the cancer made him weak. He died of pneumonia. He had another band project called Control Denied during the 3 years before he died.

Discography

Scream Bloody Gore (1987)
Leprosy (1988)
Spiritual Healing (1990)
Human (1991)
Individual Thought Patterns (1993)
Symbolic (1995)
The Sound of Perseverance (1998)

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Burnt Hill is a hamlet in Berkshire, England.  It can be found in the civil parish of Yattendon.

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Burnt Hill


Peter "Petey" Williams III (born August 26, 1981) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his time working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). During his time there, he was the captain of Team Canada and was a two time TNA X Division Champion. Williams is known by the nickname "The Canadian Destroyer" because of his front flip piledriver finishing move of the same name.

Williams is a member of the band The High Crusade. He plays the guitar and harmonica with fellow wrestlers Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin as well as their friends Adam Tatro and Chris Plumb. They released their debut album, It's Not What You Think, on September 7, 2010.

Championships
Alliance Championship Wrestling
ACW Junior Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Border City Wrestling
BCW Can-Am Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Bobby Roode)
BCW Can-Am Television Championship (one time)
CLASH Wrestling
CLASH Championship (one time)
East Coast Wrestling Association
Super 8 Tournament (2005)
Elite Wrestling Revolution
EWR Heavyweight Championship (two times)
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Lucha Libre USA
LLUSA Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Jon Rekon)
New Korea Pro Wrestling Association
NKPWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Upstate
NWA Upstate No Limits Championship (one time)
Prime Time Wrestling
PTW Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #23 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2005.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
TNA X Division Championship (two times)
Feast or Fired (2007 – World Heavyweight Championship contract)
Finisher of the Year (2004–2006) (Canadian Destroyer)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Best Wrestling Maneuver (2004, 2005) (Canadian Destroyer)
Rookie of the Year (2004)

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Arthur Drewry, CBE (3 March 1891 – 25 March 1961) was an English football administrator. He was the fifth President of FIFA from 1955 to 1961. He was also chairman of The Football Association and president of The Football League.

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Theberton is a village and civil parish in Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England. In 2001 there were 303 people living in Theberton. Theberton has a church called St Peter.

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Kazutoshi Miura (born 7 March 1977) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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0||0||0||0||0||0
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Jackson is an American city in the state of Wyoming. It is in Teton County. The current mayor of Jackson is Mark Barron. As of 2000, 8,647 people lived there. Many tourists go through Jackson when they visit the nearby Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and the National Elk Refuge.

Other websites
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Jackson, Wyoming


Rösti () or röschti is a Swiss potato dish. It was originally a common breakfast eaten by farmers in the canton of Bern, but is now eaten all over Switzerland. Many Swiss people consider rösti a national dish. Today it is more commonly served to accompany other dishes, rather than for breakfast. It is sometimes considered unhealthy because of the amount of butter or oil used.

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Rösti


Les Ferdinand is a former football player. He has played for England national team.

Club career statistics

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|1986-87||rowspan="2"|Queens Park Rangers||rowspan="2"|First Division||2||0
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|1987-88||1||0
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|1987-88||Brentford||Third Division||3||0

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|1988-89||Beşiktaş||Süper Lig||24||14

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|1989-90||rowspan="6"|Queens Park Rangers||rowspan="3"|First Division||9||2
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|1990-91||18||8
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|1991-92||23||10
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|1992-93||rowspan="3"|Premier League||37||20
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|1993-94||36||16
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|1994-95||37||24
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|1995-96||rowspan="2"|Newcastle United||rowspan="2"|Premier League||37||25
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|1996-97||31||16
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|1997-98||rowspan="6"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="6"|Premier League||21||5
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|1998-99||24||5
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|1999-00||9||2
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|2000-01||28||10
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|2001-02||25||9
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|2002-03||11||2
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|2002-03||West Ham United||Premier League||14||2
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|2003-04||Leicester City||Premier League||29||12
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|2004-05||Bolton Wanderers||Premier League||12||1
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|2004-05||Reading||League Championship||12||1
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|2005-06||Watford||League Championship||0||0
419||170
24||14
443||184
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International career statistics

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|1993||6||3
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|1994||1||0
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|1995||1||0
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|1996||4||2
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|1997||2||0
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Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen  (2 May 1892 - 21 April 1918) was a German fighter aircraft pilot in World War I. His nickname was the "Red Baron". He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories. The "Red Baron" is one of the most famous aviators in history and the subject of numerous representations in music, film and other media. He already received numerous honors and award for his exploits.

Richthofen was born in Breslau, Germany.
In August 1914, Richthofen became a cavalry officer in World War I. In May 1915, he joined the air service and became an observer. He did that because the training course was shorter and would get him to fighting faster. In October, he began training as a pilot.  In March 1916, he entered combat. He had his first victory in April. In 1917, he was in command of a squadron nicknamed the "flying circus". He painted his airplane red so his fellow Germans could see him. Richthofen’s sixteenth victory flying a plane made him the best pilot in Germany in 1917.

On April 21, 1918, Richthofen was fatally wounded, whilst flying low above the Somme Valley, near Amiens while fighting in France. He was 25 years old. He was chasing an enemy plane when a bullet passed through his chest. He then made a smooth landing, in a field on a hill near the Bray-Corbie road, just north of Vaux-sur-Somme. His Fokker Dr.I was not damaged by the landing. One witness, Gunner George Ridgway, said that Richthofen was still alive when he and other Australian soldiers reached the plane, but he died moments later. Another eyewitness, Sergeant Ted Smout, said that Richthofen's last word was "kaputt" ("finished"), immediately before he died.

Canadian fighter pilot Arthur Roy Brown was officially credited with killing Richthofen. However, it is now generally agreed that the bullet that hit Richthofen was fired from the ground. The enemy buried Richthofen's body with full military honors.

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Maria "Movita" Castaneda (April 12, 1916 – February 12, 2015) was an American actress. She was known for being the second wife of actor Marlon Brando. She was known for her roles in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty.

Castaneda died in Los Angeles, California from complications of a neck injury, aged 98.

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Oxford East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Andrew Smith of the Labour Party.

Sources
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Election result, 2015 (BBC)
Election result, 2010 (BBC)
Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997–2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1997–2001 (Election Demon)
Election results, 1983–1992 (Election Demon)

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Oxford East (UK Parliament constituency)


The ONS coding system is a system used in the United Kingdom for dealing with census and other statistical data. It is used by the Office for National Statistics as a way to label each area of England and Wales. It is also used for parts of Northern Ireland.  The system uses a code for the larger census areas, counties and districts. It then breaks those areas down into smaller areas within the larger areas. Each of the smaller areas get a code that is based on the larger area. Areas are divided in this way until they get to the smallest size used for census data. An area must have at least 40 households, but they try to not divide an area into a size smaller than 100 households.

Example

Other websites
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Codes as in 1994

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ONS coding system


John Lowell Burton (born December 15, 1932) is an American politician. He was Chairman of the California Democratic Party from April 2009 until May 2017. He was in the California State Assembly (1965–74), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1974–83), in the State Assembly again (1988–96), and in the California State Senate (1996-2004) (representing the 3rd district).

References

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"Our Man in Sacramento" (2002), San Francisco Chronicle; accessed January 7, 2018.
 Burton used mastery of politics in long career, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 5, 2004.

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City Montessori School is a private school in Lucknow, India. It was started in 1959 by Bharti Gandhi and Jagdish Gandhi. It had five pupils. It now has the most students of any school in the world. It has twenty campuses.

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Tando Adam () is a town in Sindh, Pakistan.

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Tando Adam Khan Tehsil


Calais Street is a hamlet in Boxford, Babergh, Suffolk, England. It has three listed buildings, including Corner Cottage, Fourways and Street Farmhouse 1 and 2.

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A Raster image processor is a component that can be found in some printers. The raster image processor receives the data in a description language, like Postscript, PCL, or PDF and converts it to a bitmap or raster image.

Raster image processing can be done in two ways: as Software running as part of the operating system, or as a special microprocessor inside the printer. Cheaper printers use a solution called host-based printing, where this is done in the operating system, more expensive printers, and those that support PCL, Postscript or a similar language have a Raster image processor inside the printer.

Stages of RIP

 Interpretation: This is the stage where the supported PDLs (Page description languages) are translated into a private internal representation of each page. Most RIPs process pages one after another so the current machine state is only for the current page. They do one page at a time. Once a page has been output the page state is discarded to make the RIP ready for the next page.
 Rendering: A process through which the private internal representation is turned into a continuous tone bitmap. Note that in practical RIPs interpretation and rendering are frequently done together. Simple languages (mostly the most ancient) were designed to work on minimal hardware so tend to "directly drive" the renderer.
 Screening: In order to print, a continuous-tone bitmap is converted into a halftone (pattern of dots).  Two screening methods or types are Amplitude Modulation (AM) screening and stochastic or Frequency Modulation (FM) screening. In AM screening, dot size varies depending on object density -- tonal values; dots are placed in a fixed grid. In FM screening, dot size remains constant and dots are placed in random order to create darker or lighter areas of the image; dot placement is precisely controlled by sophisticated mathematical algorithms.

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Raster image processor


Atropates (c. 370 BC – after 321 BC) was a Persian nobleman who served Darius III and then Alexander III of Macedon.  He made an independent kingdom.  A dynasty was named after him. Diodorus Siculus calls him 'Atrapes'. Quintus Curtius wrongly names him 'Arsaces'.

Biography
At the end of the Achaemenid Empire, Atropates was governor (satrap) of the Achaemenid province of Media. In the Battle of Gaugamela (October 331 BCE) between Darius and Alexander, Atropates was in charge of the Achaemenid troops of Media.

When Darius lost he went to the Median capital of Ecbatana. Atropates helped him. Darius tried to get a new army but could not.  He left Ecbatana in June 330 BCE. After Darius' death a month later at the hands of Bessus, Atropates surrendered to Alexander. Alexander first chose Oxydates as satrap of Media.  In 328-327 BCE Alexander did not trust in Oxydates' loyalty.  Atropates was made satrap again. In 325-324, Atropates gave Baryaxes (a rebel of the area) to Alexander. Alexander thought highly of Atropates.

Alexander died on June 10, 323 BCE. Atropates' new son-in-law Perdiccas was named regent of Alexander's half-brother Philip III. After the "Partition of Babylon" in 323 BCE, Media was divided into two parts. The greater portion in the south-east was governed by Peithon, a general of Perdiccas. The smaller portion in the north west was given to Atropates. At some point, Atropates made his part of Media an independent kingdom. His son-in-law Perdiccas was murdered by Peithon in the summer of 320 BCE.

Legacy
The dynasty Atropates made would rule the kingdom for several centuries. They became vassals of the Seleucids, then as vassals of the Arsacids.

The area of Atropates' kingdom was known to the Greeks as "Media Atropatene" after Atropates.  Then as simply "Atropatene". The Arsacids called it 'Aturpatakan' in Parthian, as did also the Sassanids. Eventually Middle Iranian 'Aturpatakan' became 'Azerbaijan'.  This is where the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Iranian province of Azerbaijan get their name.

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A hypertext is a text that is organized like a network. Parts of the text reference other text massages or texts which can directly be accessed. The parts that provide the reference are known as hyperlinks. An example of a hypertext is the HTML standard used in the World Wide Web.

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Hypertext


James Ralph Sasser (born September 30, 1936) is an American politician and attorney. He is a Democrat. He was a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

From 1996 to 1999, during the Clinton Administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China.

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Jim Sasser


Events

Up to 1900
 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
 1515 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially marry at Greenwich.
 1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
 1572 - Pope Gregory XIII is elected. During his time, some countries in Europe would become the first to use the Gregorian calendar, which is named after him.
 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an English colony.
 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
 1647 – 12,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Santiago, Chile.
 1648 - Building work on the Red Fort in Delhi, India, is completed.
 1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the First Fleet, 11 ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence.
 1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
 1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
 1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
 1861 - The first railway line in present-day Pakistan, then-part of British India, is opened between Karachi and Kotri.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.

1901  2000
 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
 1912 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
 1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
 1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
 1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
 1948 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
 1950 - The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone racecourse in Northamptonshire.
 1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, holds it first sitting.
 1958 - Ben Carlin becomes the first, and only, person to circumnavigate (travel round) the world in an amphibious vehicle, a vehicle that can travel both in water and on land.
 1958 - May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle as its head, in order to defend French control in Algeria.
 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
 1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
 1958 – Velcro's trade mark is registered.
 1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
 1967 - Zakir Hussain becomes President of India, as the first person of Islamic faith to hold the post of President in India.
 1969 – Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
 1972 – A nightclub fire in Osaka kills 119 people.
 1972 - The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the British Army, killing 7 people and injuring 66.
 1976 – The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
 1980 - A Force-2 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
 1985 – The mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
 1989 - Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and begin a hunger strike.
 1994 - Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance.
 1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing "Nocturne".
 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
 1997 – Storms in Yunnan and Guangdong kill 290 people.
 1998 – Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
 1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. The country's President, Suharto, resigns a week later.
 2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
 2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately f 1,000,000,000 (€450,000,000) damage.

From 2001
 2005 - The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
 2005 – The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise.
 2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
 2008 - Bombings in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, kill dozens of people.
 2011 - The Charsadda bombing in Pakistan occur, as two bombs explode, killing 98 people, and injuring 140.
 2012 – Pastor Maldonado becomes the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in Spain.
 2014 - A mine explosion in Soma, Western Turkey, kills around 300 people.
 2016 - President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro declares a 60-day state of emergency.
 2017 - Salvador Sobral wins the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev for Portugal, with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".
 2018 - Manchester City F.C. becomes the first team in the English Premier League to achieve 100 points in a single league season.

Births

Up to 1900
 1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
 1221 - Alexander Nevsky, Russian prince and saint (d. 1263)
 1254 – Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (d. 1321)
 1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and archaeologist (d. 1654)
 1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
 1699 - Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (d. 1782)
 1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist (d. 1765)
 1717 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1782)
 1742 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
 1750 - Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (d. 1800)
 1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician and politician (d. 1823)
 1767 – John VI of Portugal (d. 1826)
 1778 - Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (d. 1841)
 1785 – Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (d. 1860)
 1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
 1795 - Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
 1822 – Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
 1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time Governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
 1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
 1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
 1850 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian dramatist, librettist and translator (d. 1916)
 1851 - Laza Lazarevic, Serbian writer, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1891)
 1857 – Ronald Ross, English doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
 1868 - Sumner Paine, American sports shooter (d. 1904)
 1878 - Muriel Robb, British tennis player (d. 1907)
 1881 - Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (d. 1922)
 1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
 1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor and inventor (d. 1962)
 1885 - Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
 1888 - Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
 1894 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (d. 1972)
 1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (d. 2007)

1901  1950
 1901 - Witold Pilecki, Polish general and Resistance activist (d. 1948)
 1901 - William S. Beardsley, 31st Governor of Iowa (d. 1954)
 1901 - Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet (d. 1975)
 1903 - Lennox Berkeley, English composer (d. 1989)
 1905 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (d. 1977)
 1907 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (d. 1989)
 1908 - Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1996)
 1909 - Ken Darby, American composer, songwriter and conductor (d. 1992)
 1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1988)
 1913 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (d. 1980)
 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
 1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
 1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
 1927 - Herbert Ross, American choreographer and movie director (d. 2001)
 1928 - Enrique Bolaños, former President of Nicaragua
 1928 - Theo Saat, Dutch sprinter (d. 2015)
 1928 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 1929 - John Galvin, American general (d. 2015)
 1929 - Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
 1930 - Sammy Baird, Scottish footballer (d. 2010)
 1930 – Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica (d. 2013)
 1930 – Mike Gravel, United States Senator
 1930 - José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
 1931 – Jim Jones, American religious cult leader (d. 1978)
 1934 - Adolf Muschg, Swiss writer
 1935 - Jan Saudek, Czech photographer and painter
 1935 - Kaja Saudek, Czech author and illustrator (d. 2015)
 1937 - Trevor Baylis, English stuntman and inventor (d. 2018)
 1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American musician (d. 1959)
 1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
 1942 - Pal Schmitt, Hungarian fencer and politician, former President of Hungary
 1944 – Uwe Barschel, German politician (d. 1987)
 1944 - Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet, Scottish judge and explorer
 1945 - Sam Anderson, American actor
 1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1945 - Lou Marini, American saxophonist and composer
 1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith, British actor (d. 2017)
 1949 - Jane Glover, British conductor
 1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, American-British actress
 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer
 1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)

1951  1975
 1951 – Paul Thompson, British musician (Roxy Music)
 1951 – Selina Scott, British broadcast journalist
 1952 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
 1952 - John Kasich, 69th Governor of Ohio
 1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
 1956 – Richard Madeley, British TV presenter
 1956 - Sri Sri Ravishankar, Indian spiritual leader
 1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter
 1957 – Andrea Klump, former Red Army Faction member
 1957 - Carrie Lam, 4th Chief Executive of Hong Kong
 1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
 1958 – Frances Barber, British actress
 1961 - Danny Leiner, American actor (d. 2018)
 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player
 1962 - Roxana Baldetti, Guatemalan Vice President
 1963 - Wally Masur, Australian tennis player, coach and sportscaster
 1963 - Andrea Leadsom, English politician
 1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian
 1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
 1964 - Masha Rasputina, Russian pop singer
 1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese writer
 1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
 1966 - Staffan Hellstrand, Swedish singer
 1967 - Chuck Schuldinger, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1967 - Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (d. 2001)
 1968 – Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
 1968 - Scott Morrison, Australian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Australia
 1968 - Dmitriy Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower
 1968 - Sonja Zietlow, German television host
 1969 - Buckethead, American musician
 1972 - Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player
 1975 - Brian Geraghty, American actor

From 1976
 1976 - Ana Popovic, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
 1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer (The Common Linnets)
 1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
 1977 - Aleksei Terentjev, Estonian ice hockey player
 1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
 1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
 1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
 1979 - Lauren Phoenix, Canadian pornographic actress
 1981 - Luciana Berger, English politician
 1982 - Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
 1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
 1982 - Casey Stoney, English footballer
 1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
 1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
 1983 - Johnny Hoogerland, Dutch cyclist
 1983 - Anita Gorbicz, Hungarian handball player
 1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Slovakian ice hockey player
 1985 - Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer
 1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor
 1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer, fiddler and composer
 1986 - Lena Dunham, American movie maker and actress
 1987 - Candice Accola, American actress and musician
 1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
 1987 - Laura Izibor, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
 1987 - Marianne Vos, Dutch cyclist
 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
 1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
 1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress

Deaths

Up to 1950
 1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
 1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
 1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
 1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
 1646 - Maria Anna of Spain (b. 1606)
 1742 - Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
 1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
 1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
 1832 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
 1835 – John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
 1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
 1901 - Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (b. 1851)
 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, writer (b. 1859)
 1921 - Jean Aicard, French author, poet and playwright (b. 1848)
 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and diplomat (b. 1861)
 1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist (b. 1861)
 1941 – Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1891)
 1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
 1947 - Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian-Bengali poet and playwright (b. 1926)

From 1951
 1957 - Michael Fikete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
 1972 – Dan Blocker, actor (b. 1928)
 1975 – Bob Wills, American country musician (b. 1905)
 1977 – Mickey Spillane, gangster (b. 1934)
 1982 - Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (b. 1923)
 1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
 2002 – Valeriy Lobanovskiy, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
 2003 – John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia
 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician
 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountain climber (b. 1914)
 2009 - Monica Bleibtreu, German actress (b. 1944)
 2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
 2011 – Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (b. 1916)
 2012 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
 2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (b. 1941)
 2013 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
 2013 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and TV personality (b. 1927)
 2014 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (b. 1926)
 2014 - Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish moviemaker and actor (b. 1977)
 2015 - Derek Davis, Irish broadcaster (b. 1948)
 2015 - Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (b. 1937)
 2015 - Anna Levinson, German zoologist (b. 1939)
 2016 - Sammy Ellis, American baseball player (b. 1941)
 2016 - David McNiven Gardner, New Zealand oceanographer (b. 1928)
 2016 - Baba Hardev Singh, Indian spiritual guru (b. 1954)
 2017 - John Cygan, American actor (b. 1954)
 2017 - Yanko Daucik, Czech footballer (b. 1957)
 2017 - Alain Delfossé, French novelist and translator (b. 1957)
 2017 - Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2018 - Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (b. 1934)
 2018 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist (b. 1948)
 2018 - Steve Hogan, American politician (b. 1948)
 2018 - Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (b. 1948)
 2018 - Baadur Tsuladze, Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
 2018 - Balkavi Bairagi, Indian poet and politician (b. 1931)
 2018 - Epitácio Cafeteira, Brazilian politician (b. 1924)
 2019 - Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
 2019 - Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 2019 - Lajos Faragó, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
 2019 - Jörg Kastendiek, German politician (b. 1964)
 2019 - Hayat Saif, Bangladeshi poet and literary critic (b. 1942)

Observances
 Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholicism)

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Otto von Guericke (; originally spelled Gericke, ; November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 (Julian calendar); November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 (Gregorian calendar)) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. He was known for his work about the physics of vacuums.

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Miep Gies, née Hermine Santrouschitz (born 15 February 1909; died 11 January 2010), was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II. She found and kept Anne's diary after Anne Frank was found and sent away by the Nazis. Although Gies did not read the diary (as she gave it to Otto Frank immediately after recovering it from the annex and thought it would be rude to read), it has become very successful worldwide.

'I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more – much more – during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.', Miep Gies stated on her own website.

Other websites
 Authorised website of Miep Gies

 Quicktime movie. Miep Gies, in her former office at 263 Prinsengracht, talks about the war years
 Quicktime movie. Miep Gies remembers how she met Anne Frank
 Profile of Miep Gies by the Anne Frank House
 1998 interview with Miep Gies
 Image of Miep's wartime identity card
 Photo of Miep and Jai Gies, Bip Voskuijl, Victor Kuiler taken in 1970s
 Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography with information and links to books about Miep Gies and other Dutch rescuers.
 Miep Gies at Yad Vashem website

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The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a NCAA conference that play in the NCAA Division I. The conference is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia and features universities and colleges from the Eastern United States.

The CAA was founded in 1979 when the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) split its basketball league into several conferences. It was first known as the ECAC South Basketball League, and became the Colonial Athletic Association in 1985 when it added other sports.

Members
These colleges and universities are "full members" of the CAA, meaning that they play almost all of the sports that the CAA sponsors.

Football
The CAA has run a football conference since the 2007 season. CAA football plays in Division I FCS (Football Championship Subdivision), the lower of two levels of NCAA Division I football. Although the CAA as a whole dates only to 1979, the football conference can trace its history to the late 1930s.

In 1938, five schools in New England formed the New England Conference. When one of the schools left in 1945, the other schools joined with two other New England schools to form the Yankee Conference, which began play in 1947. In 1975, the Yankee Conference dropped all sports other than football, and over time many schools outside of New England joined the league. Due to changes in NCAA rules in 1997, the Yankee Conference merged into the Atlantic 10 Conference (A10). After the CAA announced plans to start a football league in 2007, all of the A10 football teams decided to join the CAA for that sport.

Of the full members of the CAA, Delaware, Elon, James Madison, Towson, and William & Mary have football teams. The other schools that play football in the CAA, sometimes called "associate members", are:

Other associate members
The CAA has several other associate members, each of which plays one sport in the conference. In addition to these, football associate Villanova became a CAA member in a second sport in 2015.

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Walloon Brabant (, ; ) is one of the five provinces of Wallonia in the country of Belgium.

History
Walloon in Walloon Brabant means that it is in the Wallon part of the former province of Brabant of Belgium. Brabant was an old region, the Duchy of Brabant. The word Brabant appears for the first time in the seventh century when the abbey of Nivelles was founded in the pagus Bracbatensis (pagus is a Latin word meaning a very small town, with only few houses).

Walloon Brabant is the youngest and the smallest province of Belgium. The province was created in 1995 when the former province of Brabant was split along the language border in three parts: a Flemish part (Flemish Brabant), a Wallon part (Walloon Brabant) and the Brussels Capital Region, which no longer belongs to any province.

Geography
The total area of the province is . The province is very flat and the highest point is in Genappe, with an altitude of  above sea level.

Also the geographical centre of Belgium is in the province, in the municipality of Walhain.

The province has an elongated shape and measures from east to west about  and about  from north to south.

The capital is Wavre; it is much more centrally located than the old capital, Nivelles.

Administrative division
The province of Walloon Brabant has only one arrondissement that is divided in 27 municipalities.

Population by arrondissement
Population on 1 January of each year.

References

Other websites

 The province's official site

Walloon Brabant


Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English novelist and writer. Wilson also wrote widely on true crime and criminology, mysticism, the paranormal, and other topics. In all, there are over 120 books, including some fiction. He preferred to call his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.

Wilson was interested in metaphysics and the occult. In 1971, he wrote a nonfiction book named The Occult: A History. In it, he talked about the beliefs of Aleister Crowley, George Gurdieff, Helena Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin, and Paracelsus. He also wrote a biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast. He also wrote biographies on other visionaries in spirituality and psychology. Some were about George Gurdjieff, Carl Jung, and Wilhelm Reich.

Wilson suffered a stroke in June 2012 and lost his ability to speak. He died in December 2013, aged 82.

The Outsider
This was the book which made his name. It was really a work of literary criticism, but was also about social philosophy. It was based mainly on the work of Dostoyevsky, Camus and Satre, all of whom featured characters who were lost, outsiders, alienated from society.

Gollancz published the 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956. The book became a best-seller and helped popularise existentialism in Britain. It has never been out-of-print since publication day and has been translated into over thirty languages (including Russian and Chinese).

Crime
Wilson's writing on crime is quite extensive and commercially successful. He wrote several books about serial killers and murderers.
 The mammoth book of true crime. New edition 1988. London: Robinson.
 The serial killers: a study in the psychology of violence. London: W.H. Allen. (with Donald Seaman)
 A plague of murder: the rise and rise of serial killing in the modern age. London: Robinson.

References

Other websites

 Colin Wilson Papers (2 document boxes) housed at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy of the University of California, Riverside Libraries.
  The Colin Wilson Collection at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom - This is Wilson's bibliographer Colin Stanley's collection of books, articles, manuscripts, letters, photographs and assorted ephemera now at the University of Nottingham. Regularly updated by Stanley.
 Colin Wilson World - admirer-run site with some Wilson contributions

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Alexis is a village in Illinois in the United States.

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A blockade is a physical blockage of a port or other place. Usually used of enemy ships surrounding a port.

By extension, a blockade is any effort to make sure that supplies, troops, information or aid do not reach an opposing force. Blockades are used in nearly all military campaigns and the tool of choice for economic warfare on an opposing nation. The International Criminal Court planned to include blockades against coasts and ports in its list of acts of war in 2009.

Historical blockades
Historical blockades include:
 The Spartan blockade of Athens following the Battle of Aegospotami, depriving Athens of the ability to import grain or communicate with its empire.
 The Dutch Republic's blockade of the Scheldt between 1585  and 1792, denying Spanish-ruled Antwerp's access to international trade and shifting much of its trade to Amsterdam.
 British blockade of France and its allies during the French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War
 British blockade of the United States east coast during the War of 1812
 Union Blockade – the Union blockading the coasts of the Confederacy as part of the Anaconda Plan during the American Civil War
 Battle of Iquique during the War of the Pacific
 British blockade of Germany during World War I as a part of the First Battle of the Atlantic resulted in many deaths
The Second Battle of the Atlantic during World War II
 United States blockade of Japan during World War II
 The German blockade of the Scheldt between September 1944 and November 1944, denying to allied shipping use of the port of Antwerp. (See Battle of the Scheldt).
 Soviet land blockade of West Berlin, 1948–1949, known as the Berlin Blockade.
 Egyptian blockades of the Straits of Tiran prior to the 1956 Suez War and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
 United States blockade of Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962
 India blockade of East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh War
 NATO blockade of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1993–1996 during Operation Sharp Guard
 Israeli sea and land blockade of the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the Second Intifada (2000) and up to the present.
 Israeli blockades of some or all the shores of Lebanon at various times during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), the 1982 Lebanon War, and the 1982–2000 South Lebanon conflict – resumed during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

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Northeast India (officially North Eastern Region, NER) refers to the easternmost region of the Republic of India. When India became indpendent, it was split into the states that are now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Northeast India lies to the east of Bangladesh.

Provincial symbols of Northeast India regions

Northeast India


Alpine is a city in the state of Texas in the United States. It is the county seat of Brewster County. About 6,054 people lived there in 2013.

Alpine was first named Osborn for the part of the railroad that it was near.  From 1883 to 1888, Alpine was named Murphyville, for the owners of the land where the spring was that the railroad used to get water for its steam locomotives.

Sul Ross State University opened in Alpine in Summer of 1920.  Big Bend National Park was started near Alpine on June 12, 1944.  Both of these things forced people to move to Alpine.

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The Pioneer program is the name of a few unmanned space missions done by NASA between 1958 and 1978. Problably the best-known of these probes were Pioneer 10 and 11, launched in 1972 and 1973 respectively.
Both carried a plaque as shown.

Pioneer program


Antoine Demoitié (16 October 1990 – 27 March 2016) was a Belgian cyclist. He last rode for Wanty–Groupe Gobert in 2016. He joined the team in 2016 after leaving Wallonie-Bruxelles at the end of the 2015 season. He was born in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

Demoitié died on 27 March 2016 after he crashed and went down in a pile-up of several cyclists. He was then hit by a motorcycle in the Gent–Wevelgem road race. He died that evening in hospital in Lille, Hauts-de-France, France, aged 25.

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Billy Eichner (born September 18, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is the star, executive producer and creator of Funny Or Die's Billy on the Street. Eichner was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Game Show Host" in 2013.

He is also known for playing Craig Middlebrooks on the sitcom Parks and Recreation.

Eichner is openly gay.

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The Vale of Rheidol Railway () is a  railway that runs for  between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. The Vale of Rheidol Railway has never closed except during wars. The railway celebrated its 100 year anniversary in 2002.

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Scarlett O'Hara is the name of the protagonist in the book Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the movie adaptation of it, and Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley. Scarlett O'Hara is from Georgia. She has histrionic personality disorder.

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353 North Clark is a  tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. The building began construction in 2007 and was completed in 2009. It has 45 floors with a total of  of floorspace.

Related pages
List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Other websites
 Official website
 353 North Clark on Emporis
 353 North Clark Skyscraperpage

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In the United States, a Terry stop is a when police stop a person and quickly check the person's clothes for guns or knives. To do this action, the police officer has to have a good reason to think that the person may be involved in a crime.

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John Billington ( 1580September 30, 1630) and his family were passengers on the Mayflower in 1620.  He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.  Billington was hanged in Plymouth Colony in 1630.

The Billington family was from England.  He had a wife, Elinor and two sons, John and Francis.

Mayflower Voyage

Billington and his family left Plymouth England on 16 September 1620. There were 102 passengers and 30–40 crew. On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower saw land. They were supposed to land in the Colony of Virginia, but the ship was damaged so they landed at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.
They wrote the Mayflower Compact, which made rules on how they would live and treat each other.  Billington was a signer to the document.

Life in Plymouth colony
Shortly after they landed, Francis went exploring and discovered a large body of water that is now called Billington Sea.
The family were Plymouth Colony's troublemakers. Billington's son, Francis, fired a musket on the Mayflower. In March 1621 Billington was punished because he did not to obey Myles Standish the military leader.  He would do this many times. In May 1621 John Billington (the younger) became lost in the woods for many days and was returned home by some Native Americans.  In 1625 Governor Bradford wrote a letter to Robert Cushman and said "Billington still says many things against you.  He is a bad man, and always will be". In 1636, wife was punished and made to sit in the stocks for saying bad things about John Doane.

Death of John Billington
Billington was hanged for the murder of John Newcomen in 1630.  He was about 50 years old.  This was the first execution in Plymouth Colony. His burial place is unknown.

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George "Harmonica" Smith (born April 22, 1924 in West Helena, Arkansas; died October 2, 1983 in Los Angeles, California ) (born Allen George Smith) was an American blues harmonica player.

Life and career
Born in West Helena, Arkansas he was brought up in Cairo, Illinois.He began playing professionally in 1951. He joined Muddy Waters' band in 1954. He was again member of the band in 1966.He left Chicago and spent much of his adult life on the West Coast.

Smith played with the blues combo, Bacon Fat, and mentored its harmonica player Rod Piazza. After this he played harmonica for Big Mama Thornton in the 1970s. He appeared on her album Jail (1975).Another student of him was William Clarke.

On the few solo albums he recorded one can hear the influence of Little Walter on his harmonica playing.George "Harmonica" Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles, California at the age of 59.

Selected Discography
 Harmonica Ace - Ace Records
 Harmonica Blues King - Dobre Records 1061

References

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Biography at bluesharp.ca

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Villenave-d'Ornon is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.

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Roger Brooke Taney (March 17 1777 – October 12 1864) was a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He came after John Marshall and despite the many influential things done by his predecessor, still was able to write several major opinions. His decision in Dred Scott to send a slave living in a free state back to his master in a slave state canceled out several compromises that had been keeping the Union together. When president Abraham Lincoln began using powers not normally given to the presidency to put certain rights on hold, Taney kept on trying to overrule him. These attempts were ignored and rumored to have almost led to Taney's arrest.

When Taney County, Missouri was officially organized in 1837, it was named in his honor. At the time Abraham Lincoln became president, Taney swore in Lincoln.

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The Perg District is a district in the state of
Upper Austria in Austria.

The district has 26 municipalities:
 Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis
 Arbing
 Bad Kreuzen
 Baumgartenberg
 Dimbach
 Grein
 Katsdorf
 Klam
 Langenstein
 Luftenberg an der Donau
 Mauthausen
 Mitterkirchen im Machland
 Münzbach
 Naarn im Machlande
 Pabneukirchen
 Perg
 Rechberg
 Ried in der Riedmark
 Sankt Georgen am Walde
 Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
 Sankt Nikola an der Donau
 Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein
 Saxen
 Schwertberg
 Waldhausen im Strudengau
 Windhaag bei Perg

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Events
 Spartacus leads the slaves against Rome. His army was eventually defeated, and Spartacus is killed in battle, by Roman legionaries under Marcus Licinius Crassus.
 In Rome, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus becomes the third member of the Second Triumvirate, with Mark Antony and Octavian.
 The city of Tigranakert of Artsakh is built in Armenia.
 Salome Alexandria becomes queen of Judea after her husband dies.
 Hycarnus II becomes the high priest of Jerusalem until 66 BC.
 Pamplona is built in Spain

70s BC


The National Book Award is one of the most important American literary prizes, which began in 1950. Its gives awards every year to American authors for literature in the fields of: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and Young People's Literature.

Other websites
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The Confederate States Army (CSA) was organized in February 1861 to fight for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Somewhere between 750,000 and 1.2 million soldiers served the Confederacy in one form or another. The exact numbers are not known because of incomplete and destroyed records. Although it won many battles the Confederate Army lost the war. It could not overcome the Union army's larger numbers and better resources. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered what was left of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. While his army was only a part of the total Confederate army, his surrender marked the end of the Confederacy. On June 23, 1865, Georgia's Stand Watie became the last Confederate general to surrender.

Makeup
Much of the design of the Confederate States Army was based on the structure and customs of the U.S. Army. Both armies were mainly infantry, cavalry and artillery units. While the structure of the two armies was very similar, the number of men in each unit could be different. Many Confederate officers were graduates of West Point just like Union officers. Regiments were usually numbered and named for the state where they were first organized and where most of the soldiers came from. Brigades were usually named after their commanders (past or present). For example, the Stonewall Brigade was named for its commanding general, Stonewall Jackson.

The Confederate Army had three parts; the Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA, smallest but intended to be the permanent, regular army), the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS, or "volunteer" Army, to be disbanded after the war), and the various Southern state militias. The Confederate Constitution called for the President, Jefferson Davis to be Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy. It did not call for a commanding general of the army but several generals were advisors to President Davis.

Structure
 A regiment was the basic unit in battle. At the start of the war, a regiment was 1,000 men and was led by a colonel. Regiments were usually recruited from the same area so most soldiers and officers knew each other.  Disease, desertion, and combat reduced the numbers considerably. Usually, instead of adding new recruits to a decimated regiment, a new regiment would be raised in its place.
 A brigade was from two to five regiments. Led by a brigadier general a brigade was usually from one branch of the army (infantry, cavalry or artillery).
 A division was two or more brigades. In the Confederate army, divisions could be as many as five or six brigades (Union army divisions were usually smaller). Divisions were commanded by a major general.
 A corps was two or more divisions. A corps usually included infantry, cavalry and artillery. That way a corps was independent and could conduct operations on its own.
 An army was two or more corps.  A Corps or an army was usually led by the most senior major general or a general picked by Jefferson Davis.

Armies

The Confederate States Army included the following armies:

 The Army of Northern Virginia was one of the main forces of the Confederate Army in the east.
 The Confederate Army of the Shenandoah, after the First Battle of Bull Run it became part of the Confederate Army of the Potomac.
 The Army of the Peninsula was established May 26, 1861.  On April 12, 1862, it was merged into the Army of Northern Virginia.
 The Confederate Army of the Northwest was an army early in the war. It was disbanded February 9, 1862.
 The Army of Central Kentucky. Was created in 1861. In March 1862 it was merged into the Army of Mississippi, which then became the Army of Tennessee
 The Army of New Mexico was a smaller army that operated in the New Mexico Territory in 1861 and 1862.
 The Army of the West was largely made up of the Missouri State Guard.

Confederate officers
Before the Civil War, many Confederate officers were in the United States Army.  When war started, 313 army officers resigned and became officers in the Confederate army. Robert E. Lee was one of those who found it difficult to leave.  Abraham Lincoln had offered to make him commander-in-chief of the Union Army. But he could not fight against his native Virginia. He became commander of the Virginia militia and when Virginia Seceded, a General of the Confederacy.

Many militias elected their officers including field officers. When these units joined the Confederate army, their officers were commissioned. There were also a number of professional officers who came from Germany or Britain (just as there were in the Union army). But at the start of the war, few Southern officers had any real experience. Wealthy planters who owned 20 or more slaves were not required to serve in the army and many stayed home during the war. Some served in the Enlisted rank but many thought it was unfair to serve under officers so poor they could not afford a single slave. Many Confederate officers kept a slave as a personal servant throughout the war.

Confederate soldiers
Confederate officers often did not maintain discipline among their men. Many of their soldiers were illiterate and some did not know which was their left foot and which was their right. At the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, even Lee complained about the lack of discipline in his army. Visiting foreign officials were shocked at lack of discipline and were amazed they could fight.

Almost all Confederate soldiers where white

The average Confederate soldier was in his early 20s. He was usually gaunt, unkempt and beards were common. It often did not fit, especially if taken off a dead soldier. Most wore a white shirt under their wool jacket. Replacement uniforms were hard to get. They would often stain homespun (clothing made at home) with a dye made from walnuts. This gave their uniforms a yellowish-brown appearance they called "butternut". Many did not have shoes or shoes that fit. Those who did nailed horseshoes to the bottom to keep them from wearing through the sole. At first he carried a musket or flintlock rifle. Later in the war many carried the better Enfield rifles taken from dead Union soldiers. Any boots, uniforms or supplies Union soldiers left behind or were captured were used by the Confederate soldiers. In camp, most of the tents were marked "U.S." Most of the Southern Artillery was also captured Union cannons.

Notes

References

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The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) is in charge of transportation in Delaware in the United States. It owns many roads and runs DART First State, which does public transportation in the state.

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Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete and activist. He moved to Surrey, British Columbia in 1966 and to Port Coquitlam, British Columbia in 1968. He lost one of his legs due to bone cancer when he was 18. He is best known for his run, called The Marathon of Hope, which began on April 12, 1980 in St. John's, Newfoundland, the purpose of the run was to run across Canada (with help of an artificial leg) about  (the length of the average marathon, or foot race) each day. He originally wanted to run until he got to Vancouver Island on the other end of Canada. The goal was to raise 1 million Canadian dollars and later one dollar for every person in Canada to help cancer research.

Many people supported and helped him during his run, and had a lot of faith in him, but on August 31, 1980, near the town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Fox's cancer spread to his lungs. He had to stop running.

Fox died on , a month before his 23rd birthday, in New Westminster, British Columbia (BC). In Canada, he is considered a hero. People still hold runs for him. Shortly before his death, he was made a Companion in the Order of Canada (the youngest person in the country to receive such an honor). In addition, there is a statue of him in Ottawa (Canada's capital city), near Parliament Hill. Several schools named after him and he has been featured on a Canadian $1 coin.

Other websites
 The Terry Fox Foundation
 History Minute PSA
 More about Fox, including interviews and news reports

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Wallbach is a municipality of the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Wallbach, Switzerland


My Kind of Christmas is a Christmas collection by Christina Aguilera, released on October 24, 2000.

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Bonus Track

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My Kind of Christmas


Dame Barbara Mary Quant DBE (born 11 February 1934) is a British fashion designer. In 1963, she won the Sunday Times International Fashion Award, and was chosen as Woman of the Year.

Quant is famous as a designer who invented the miniskirt and hot pants. She was also instrumental in the mod fashion movement, and known for her use of pop art in fashion.

Born to Welsh parents in Blackheath, London, Quant went to Blackheath High School, then studied illustration at Goldsmiths College. Her first employment was as a couture milliner (hat maker).

Career
In November 1955, she teamed up with her husband, Alexander Plunket Greene, and a former solicitor, Archie McNair, to open a clothes shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea called Bazaar. Bazaar's best sellers were small white plastic collars to brighten up black dresses or t-shirts. Black stretch stockings were also popular.

Miniskirt

Skirts had been getting shorter since about 1958 – a development Mary Quant thought was practical and liberating, allowing women to run for a bus. The miniskirt, which she is most famous for, became one of the defining fashions of the 1960s. The miniskirt was also developed separately by André Courrèges and John Bates, and there is disagreement as to who came up with the idea first. Like most fashion, the short- and ever-shorter skirt was evolving already among fashion-minded young women: the designers who adapted it just helped spread the style and, in Quant's case, gave it a name. Mary Quant named the miniskirt after her favourite make of car, the Mini. She loved the car so much, she had one designed especially for her.

Undergarments and tights
Quant's first collection of underwear was designed to be worn with the miniskirt look. She renamed the basics "booby traps and bacon savers" (bras and tights), which appealed to her young customers.

In addition to the miniskirt, Mary Quant is often credited with inventing the coloured and patterned tights (pantyhose) that often went with the miniskirt. These are also attributed to Cristobal Balenciaga or John Bates.

Tights worn over briefs or bikini panties were an essential accessory to the miniskirt, because the older method of stockings plus suspenders was no longer suitable, and legs need to be covered for most of the year in Britain. Often there would be a second pair of coloured short pants on top of the tights, for show. A range of materials and colours were used for the tights.

Later career
In the late 1960s, Quant popularised hot pants. Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up, rather than just her clothing lines. At a talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2007 she claimed to have invented duvet covers.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award. In 1963 Quant was the first winner of the 'Dress of the Year' award.

In 2000 she resigned as director of Mary Quant Ltd., her cosmetics company, after a Japanese buy-out. There are over 200 Mary Quant Colour shops in Japan, where Quant fashions continue to enjoy popularity.

References

Other websites
Mary Quant at the V&A Museum
V&A Museum History of 1960s fashion and textiles

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Mary Quant


Crawfordsville may refer to several United States locations:

 Crawfordsville, Arkansas
 Crawfordsville, Indiana
 Crawfordsville, Iowa
 Crawfordsville, Oregon

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Hyden is a city of Kentucky in the United States.

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Hyden, Kentucky


Martinique national football team is the national football team of Martinique.

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Balingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Zollernalbkreis. It is located near the Swabian Alb. It is 35 km to the south of Tübingen, 35 km northeast of Villingen-Schwenningen, and 60 km southwest of Stuttgart.

References

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Balingen


The Fourth Geneva Convention (full tilte: Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War) is an international treaty signed in 1949. These treaties are known as Geneva Conventions, because they were originally signed in Geneva. The fourth geneva convention protects civilians in a war zone. Currently, 194 countries are party to this treaty of international law.

In 1993, the United Nations Security Council adopted a report from the Secretary-General and a Commission of Experts; this report stated that the Geneva Conventions had passed into the body of customary international law. If this is the case, the treaties are binding even to countries who did not sign them,whenever they engage in armed conflicts.

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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American psychological thriller movie. It was produced by Anthony Rhulen, Chris Bender, J.C. Spink and A.J. Dix and was directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The Butterfly Effect was released on January 22, 2004 in North America. The movie received negative reviews with a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 30 out of 100 from Metacritic.

This movie had two sequels: The Butterfly Effect 2 and The Butterfly a?Effect 3: Revelations.

Cast
Ashton Kutcher as Evan Treborn
Amy Smart as Kayleigh Miller
Melora Walters as Andrea Treborn
Elden Henson as Lenny Kagan
William Lee Scott as Tommy Miller
Eric Stoltz as George Miller
Ethan Suplee as Thumper
John Patrick Amedori as Evan Treborn (age 13)
Irene Gorovaia as Kayleigh Miller (age 13)
Kevin G. Schmidt as Lenny Kagan (age 13)
Jesse James as Tommy Miller (age 13)
Logan Lerman as Evan Treborn (age 7)
Sarah Widdows as Kayleigh Miller (age 7)
Jake Kaese as Lenny Kagan (age 7)
Cameron Bright as Tommy Miller (age 7)
Kevin Durand as Carlos
Callum Keith Rennie as Jason Treborn
Lorena Gale as Mrs. Boswell
Nathaniel DeVeaux as Dr. Redfield
Tara Wilson as Heidi
Jesse Hutch as Spencer
Jacqueline Stewart as Gwen

Other websites
The Butterfly Effect's Official website

Do not freak out about it as it is just a film and NOTHING is true in it. Thank you.

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Hewitt is a city in Todd County, Minnesota, United States, along the Wing River.  The population was 266 at the 2010 census.

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Milein Cosman (1921 – 21 November 2017) was a German-born British artist. She was born in Gotha, Germany. She was best known for her drawings and prints of leading cultural figures, dancers and musicians in action, such as Francis Bacon, Mikhail Baryshnikov, T. S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky.

Cosman died in London on 21 November 2017 at the age of 96.

References

Other websites
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Milein Cosman's page at Camden Printmakers
Interview with Milein Cosman on BBC radio
Milein Cosman at Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library

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A motorcycle taxi are a form of transport in some countries. The motorcycle taxi carries one passenger, who sits behind the motorcycle driver. In some countries two passengers will sit behind the driver.

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The East Asian tradition of calligraphy originated and developed in China. The countries that use East Asian calligraphy are China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

Tools
In calligraphy, paper, ink, brush, ink stone, paperweight, and a desk pad are used.

Paper
The special paper used for calligraphy, is made of rice, paper mulberries, bamboo, hemp, etc.

Ink
The ink is made from soot and binders. It comes in sticks, and must be rubbed with water on an ink stone. Pre-mixed bottle inks are now available. Pre-mixed bottle inks are for practicing.

Brush
The body of the brush can be made of bamboo, or rare materials like red sandalwood, glass, ivory, silver and gold. The head of the brush is made of the hair of animals, like the wolf, rabbit, deer, chicken, duck, goat, pig and tiger, etc.

Ink stone
The ink stone is used to rub the solid ink stick into liquid ink.

Paperweight
They are used to weigh down paper. Paperweights come in several types, and they are collectible works of art.

Desk pad
The desk pad is a pad made out of felt. Students use these desk pads, which are printed with grids on both sides. When placed under the paper, the grid helps to make the words the right size, and ensures correct placement.

Notable calligraphers
Almost all traditionally educated men (and sometimes women) in East Asia are good in calligraphy. The most famous are:

China

Mi Fei
Wei Shuo 衛鑠 衛夫人
Wang Xizhi 王羲之
Wang Xianzhi 王獻之
Huai Su 怀素 (懷素)
Qigong (启功)
Yu Shinan 虞世南
Zhang Xu 張旭
Yan Zhenqing 顏真卿
Liu Gongquan 柳公權
Ouyang Xun 歐陽詢
Su Shi 蘇軾
Huang Tingjian 黄庭堅
Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty 宋徽宗 趙佶
Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫
Liu Bingsen 劉炳森
Mao Zedong 毛澤東
Chiang Kai-Shek 蔣中正
Kang Youwei (possibly considered one)
Zheng Banqiao 鄭板橋
Huang Ruheng
Shi Kefa 史可法

See also

Japan
Kūkai 空海
Emperor Saga 嵯峨天皇
Tachibana no Hayanari 橘逸勢
Ono Michikaze 小野道風
Fujiwara no Sukemasa 藤原佐理
Fujiwara no Yukinari 藤原行成
Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦
Konoe Nobutada 近衛信尹
Shokado Shojo 松花堂昭乗
Ryōkan 良寛
Yamaoka Tesshu 山岡鉄舟
Igaki Hokujo 井垣北城

Korea

Choi Chiwon 최치원
Kim Saeng 김생
Tan Yeon 탄연
Yi Aam 이암
Yi Yong 이용
Bak Jega 박제가
Kim Jeonghee 김정희
Kim Myeong-hui 김명회
Han Seokbong 한석봉
Sejong the Great 세종대왕
Grand Prince Anpyeong 안평대군
Kang Sehwang 강세황
Yun Sun 윤순
Yi I 이이
Yi Hwang 이황
Yi Sun-sin 이순신
Shin Saimdang 신사임당
Jeong Yak-yong 정약용
Kim Okgyun 김옥균

Styles
There are several word styles in calligraphy. Some of them are; Seal Script (often called small seal script), Clerical Script (sometimes called official, draft or scribal script), Semi-cursive Script (also called running script), Cursive Script (sometimes called grass script), Regular Script (often called ‘standard script’), Edomoji, Munjado, and Kao.

Other websites

History of Chinese Calligraphy
History of Korean Calligraphy
Special Issue Of Vietnamese Calligraphy
History of Calligraphy in Vietnam

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East Asian calligraphy


Eurytides is a genus of butterflies.  Eurytides is in the family Papilionidae.  The species in this genus are native to North America, Central America, and South America.

Species
 Eurytides bellerophon Dahlman, 1823
 Eurytides callias Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
 Eurytides celadon Lucas, 1852 – Cuban Kite Swallowtail
 Eurytides columbus Kollar, 1850
 Eurytides dolicaon Cramer, 1776
 Eurytides epidaus Doubleday, 1846 – Mexican Kite Swallowtail
 Eurytides iphitas Hübner, 1821 – Yellow Kite Swallowtail
 Eurytides marcellinus Doubleday, 1846 – Jamaican Kite
 Eurytides marcellus Cramer, 1777 – Zebra Swallowtail
 Eurytides orabilis Butler, 1872
 Eurytides philolaus Boisduval, 1836 – Dark Kite Swallowtail
 Eurytides salvini Bates, 1864
 Eurytides serville Godart, 1824

Other websites
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Eurytides


Torashi Shimazu (born 20 August 1978) is a Japanese football player. He plays for JEF United Ichihara Chiba.

Club career statistics

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Honningsvåg is a city in the Norwegian county Finnmark. It has 2375 inhabitants (as of 2008).

It became a city in 1996.

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Honningsvåg


Moscow is a city in Idaho in the United States.

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Moscow, Idaho


Fort Deposit is a town in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Fort Deposit, Alabama


The News Corporation (or 'News Corp.') was an Australian, and later American, mass media corporation. It was based in New York City, New York. It was the world's second biggest media company in revenue in 2011, and the world's third largest company in entertainment in 2009.

News Corporation was founded in Adelaide in 1979, by Rupert Murdoch. It was incorporated under South Australian commercial law until 2004 when the company moved to the United States. It was re-incorporated under Delaware law after its shareholders approved the move on 12 November 2004. It was a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ. Murdoch remained the chairman and chief executive officer of the company until its end in 2013.

Among its major holdings were News Limited, News International (whose properties include The Times, The Sun, and the now-closed News of the World), Dow Jones & Company (which owned The Wall Street Journal), the book publisher HarperCollins, and the Fox Entertainment Group (owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and the Fox Broadcasting Company).

News Corporation was split into two different companies on 28 June 2013. Both are publicly traded companies: 21st Century Fox consists mainly of television and media assets, while a new News Corp focuses on publishing.

Filmed entertainment
 20th Century Fox
 Fox Searchlight Pictures
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 Blue Sky Studios
 20th Century Fox Español
 20th Century Fox International
 20th Century Fox Television Fox Studios Australia Fox Studios LA Fox Television Studios Shine Group'Television
Broadcast/production assets
 20th Century Fox Television
 20th Television
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Cable assets
 Big Ten Network (49%)
 Fox Business Network
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 Fox Movie Channel
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 Fox Sports Enterprises
 Fox Sports en Español
 Foxtel (25%) -
 Fox Sports Net
 FUEL TV
 FX Networks
 Fox Reality Channel
 National Geographic Channel (50%)
 National Geographic Channel UK (50%)
 Speed Channel
 SportSouth
 LAPTV (Latin America — co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC Universal)
 Telecine (Brazil — co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios and DreamWorks);

Television assets
 BSkyB [United Kingdom] (39.1%)
 Sky Deutschland [Germany] (49.90%)
 SKY Italia [Italy] (100%)
 SKY Network Television [New Zealand] (43.65%)
 Foxtel [Australia] (25%)
 Star TV [India & Greater China] (100%)
 Tata Sky [India] (20%)

Internet
 Fox Interactive Media
 AmericanIdol.com
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 News Digital Media
 Authonomy via HarperCollins
 MySpace (5%)

Magazines and inserts
All titles sourced from News Limited - NewsSource: Magazines on 15 October 2010.
 Alpha Australian Football Weekly Australian Golf Digest Australian Good Taste (with Woolworths)
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 Best of the Gold Coast Magazine Big League Chopper Country Style delicious. (with the ABC)
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United Kingdom
News InternationalThe SunThe TimesSunday TimesSun on SundayAustralia
News Limited

Metropolitan newspapers, magazines and news distribution channels
NationalThe Australian including weekly insert magazine The Deal and monthly insert magazine (wish)The Weekend Australian including insert magazine The Weekend Australian MagazineAustralian Associated Press (45%)
www.news.com.au National online news website

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Shakargarh Tehsil is a subdivision (tehsil) of Narowal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 35 Union Councils, three of which form the tehsil capital Shakargarh.

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Shakargarh Tehsil


Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) refers to the position earned/assigned to someone in the U.S. Armed Forces. These MOS's consist of letters and numbers, each of which signifies your position, duties, and job within the armed services. For example, the MOS for a Army Combat Engineer is 12B. They provide their expertise in areas such as mobility, countermobility, survivability and general engineering. They also are responsible for helping tackle rough terrain in combat areas. Aka, they blow stuff up when it's in the way of something trying to move past it. There's a ton of different MOS's and someone will eventually put them in here.

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Military Occupational Specialty


Tarzan is an upcoming American 3D action adventure movie directed by David Yates and written by Stuart Beattie, Craig Brewer, John Collee, and Adam Cozad. It is based on the fictional character Tarzan created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The movie stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, and Samuel L. Jackson.

It will be released on July 1, 2016.

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The Legend of Tarzan (movie)


Bean queen (sometimes rice and bean queen) is a gay slang term. The term refers to a white gay man who is chiefly attracted to Hispanic and Latino men.

One source describes these white gay males as "Gay men who are attracted to gentlemen of the Latino flava." "Bean queen" is probably derived from "rice queen". This term refers to a gay white male who is attracted to Asian men. In this case, the word rice (the food that forms the basis of the Asian diet) has been substituted with the word bean or rice and bean, foods popular throughout Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Other food-based variations include taco queen and salsa queen. Refried beans refers to Hispanic and Latino men who prefer other Hispanic and Latino men. Much less frequently, these terms are used to describe gay Latino men themselves. The term is also used in a derogatory manner when referring to a drag queen of Hispanic or Latino background.

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Bean queen


Jigsaw is a 2017 American horror movie directed by Michael and Peter Spierig and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger.

It stars Matt Passmore, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, Hannah Emily Anderson, and Laura Vandervoort with Tobin Bell. It is the eighth installment in the Saw franchise. It takes place ten years after the death of the Jigsaw killer.

The movie was released in the United States on October 27, 2017. Despite negative reviews from critics, the movie was a commercial success, grossing $103 million worldwide against a $10 million budget.

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Jigsaw (2017 movie)