Cypress Hill is a group of hip hop from Los Angeles (California). It was formed in 1986 and along his wide and successful career have sold more than 46 million albums all over the world.

One of the appearances of his popularity is his commitment with the legalisation of the consumption of marijuana or cannabis. Cypress Hill Is the first Latin group in obtaining a disk of platinum, one of gold and a multiplatino.

Career

Name of the group
The name of the group can do reference to the place where the first members of the band lived, in the Avenue Cypress in South Gate, Los Angeles. It fits that in said place there are a lot of trees of cypress, a tree of the family Cupressaceae. The original name of the group was DVX but was changed after the exit of Mellow Man Ace (Ulpiano Sergio, the lower brother of Sen Dog) of the group to initiate his career like soloist. Sometimes, wrongly it thinks that  the name of the group refers  to the neighbourhood Cypress Hills in Brooklyn (New York).

Beginnings
The first album, of the band, was launched in November of 1991. The first single was "Phuncky feel one", but was the Expensive-B, "How I could just kill to man" (firstly called "Trigga happy nigga"), the one who more success had in the stations of urban radio. Thanks to the success of the single "Hand on the pump" and to other songs like the bilingual song "Latin lingo" and the totally in Spanish "Three equis", the album sold two million copies only in United States. Later, DJ Muggs produced the first album of House of Pain and worked with Beastie Boys and Funkdoobiest. The band did his first apparition in the musical festival Lollapalooza in 1992.

Black Sunday, the second album of the group, debuted number 1 in the list Billboard 200 in 1993. Still with his album debut in the lists, turned into the first artists of rap in planting two albums in the Top 10 of Billboard 200 at the same time. With the success "Insane in the Brain", the album was double-platinum in United States and sold 3.25 million copies.

As one of the first groups of rap that struggle by the legalisation of the marijuana, Cypress Hill was forbidden in Saturday Night Live after DJ Muggs smoked  a blunt of marijuana and the band shattered his musical instruments while they interpreted his second single "I ain't goin' out like that". The group titled his turns with the name Soul Assassins, in company of House of Pain and Funkdoobiest, and more forward followed suit with Rage Against the Machine and Seven Year Bitch. In 1993, Cypress Hill recorded two subjects for the soundtrack of the film Judgment night, "Real thing", with Pearl Jam, and "I love you Mary Jane", with Sonic Youth.

The band touched in 1994 in the Festival of Woodstock entering to his new member, Eric Bobo, ancient percusionista of Beastie Boys. Bobo Is the son of the famous percusionista Willie Bobo. The magazine Rolling Stone appointed to Cypress Hill like the best group of hip hop in his prizes of music voted by critics and readers. Cypress Hill Touched by second consecutive year in Lollapalooza heading the poster in 1995. Also they appear in the chapter of The Simpson called "Homerpalooza", in which Homer, Bart and Lisa assist to the Festival Hullabalooza (inspired by the Lollapalooza), and in 2001 appear making a small cameo in the film How high directed by Jesse Dylan and produced by Danny DeVito.

The third album, ''Cypress Hill III: you Temper of Boom'', was launched in 1995, selling 1.5 million copies and reaching the third position of Billboard 200 in spite of not including any single of success.

Career continued
Sen Dog  distanció A bit of the group to form a band of punk-rap of Los Angeles called SX-10. However in 1996, Cypress Hill appeared in the first turn Smokin' Grooves, with Ziggy Marley, The Fugees, Busta Rhymes and To Tribe Called Quest. The group also freed the EP Unreleased and Revamped with rare and remixes.

The members of the group centred  in his careers in solitary. Muggs Launched Muggs Presents... the Soul Assassins With contributions of members of Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, KRS-One, Wyclef Jean and Mobb Deep. B-Real appeared with Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J and Method Man in the song "Hit Em High" of the multi-platen soundtrack of the film Space Jam. Also it collaborated with RBX, Nas and KRS-One in "East Coast Killer, West Coast Killer" of the album Dr. Dre presents...The Aftermath Of Dr. Dre, and launched the album The Psycho Realm, of his project of same name. Although the group was inactivo these years, Cypress Hill appeared in Smokin' Grooves with George Clinton and Erykah Badu.

In 1998 they went back to launch the album IV, being gold in United States although with some criticisms a so many refusals, backed by the success "Tequila Sunrise" and another tribute to smoke marijuana "Dr. Greenthumb". Sen Dog Also launched Get Wood like part of SX-10 in the stamp Flip.

In 1999, three of his songs appeared in the video game of PC Kingpin: Life of Crime. B-Real also contributed with any of the voices of the people of the game. This same year launched an album of big successes in Spanish, The big successes in Spanish. Cypress Hill Merged genders in the 2000 with his double-album Skull & Bones. The first disk, "Skull", was composed by songs of rap whereas "Bones" was more centred in the rock. The album was a Top 5 in Billboard 200 and #3 in Canada. The first single was "Rock Superstar" for the radio of rock and "Rap Superstar" for the urban radio, a subject that definitely put to the band again in the musical firmament, and that came him like ring to the finger, since in this time songs with this style, more than the Nu metal that also used in the song "Can´t get the best of me", were hitting as never. The group also launched Live at the Fillmore, a disk of the concert of Fillmore, San Francisco in 2000.

Discography

 Cypress Hill (1991)
 Black Sunday (1993)
 Cypress Hill lll: Temples of Boom (1995)
 IV (1998)
 Skull & Bones (2000)
 Stoned Raiders (2001)
 Till Death Do Us Part (2004)
 Rise Up (2010)

Compilations
 Los Grandes Éxitos en Español (1999)
 Greatest Hits from The Bong (2005)
 Super Hits (2008)
 Collections (2008)
 Strictly Hip Hop: The Best of Cypress Hill (2010)

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Faunus ([fau̯nʊs]) was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields in Roman mythology. When he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. Many of his characteristics are similar to the Greek god Pan.

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Faunus (mythology)


The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a sports stadium in Los Angeles, California.  It was built in 1923.  It has hosted many different sporting events.  In 1932 and 1984, it hosted the track events and ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

In football, it used to be the stadium of the Chargers, Raiders and Rams before they moved to other cities.  The University of Southern California, which is across the street, has played in the Coliseum for many years, and UCLA played there for several years as well.  The Coliseum hosted two Super Bowls and 20 Pro Bowls, or NFL All-Star Games. On January 13, 2016, the Rams relocated back to Los Angeles. They will play at the Coliseum until their new stadium is built for the 2020 season.

The Los Angeles Dodgers played in the Coliseum for four years before Dodger Stadium was built.  While there, they won a World Series and set records for most people at a baseball game.

References

Other websites
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's Official website

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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum


Andrew Brunette (born August 24, 1973 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger that played a total of 1,100 career games in the National Hockey League (NHL).

He played in the OHL for 3 seasons with the Owen Sound Platers. He was drafted by the Washington Capitals with the 174th pick in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. He has played in the NHL for the Washington Capitals for 3 seasons, the Nashville Predators for 1 season, the Atlanta Thrashers for 2 seasons, the Minnesota Wild for 6 seasons, the Colorado Avalanche for 3 seasons and the Chicago Blackhawks for 1 season. He was signed to a one-year contract by the Chicago Blackhawks on July 1, 2011 to a one-year contract.

Brunette retired from professional ice hockey on February 13, 2013 and decided to take up the position of Hockey Operations Advisor to the Minnesota Wild.

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Wario is a character from Nintendo's popular video game series Mario.  He has appeared in most of the Mario Party and sports-related games, and has been the subject of a few video games of his own.

Characteristics
Enemies with Mario
He is greedy and loves money and garlic
Twins with Waluigi
He has is a "W" on hat, mustache and gloves
Has very strong muscles, but very fat
Gets angry easily though gets many sparks of joy
Has a crush on Princess Peach

Appearances
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
Mario & Wario
Wario's Woods
Wario Blast
Virtal Boy Wario Land
Wario Land II
Wario Land 3
Wario Land 4
Wario Land: Shake It!
Mario's Super Picross
Picross 2
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 7
Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium
Game & Watch Gallery 2
Game & Watch Gallery 3
Game & Watch Gallery 4
Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Mario Party 6
Mario Party 7
Mario Party 8
Mario Party DS
Mario Party 9
Mario Party Advance
Mario Golf
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
Mario Golf: Advance Tour
Mario Tennis
Mario Power Tennis
Mario Sports Mix
Dr. Mario 64
Wario World
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania in Europe)
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!
WarioWare: Twisted
WarioWare: Touched!
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
WarioWare: Snapped!
WarioWare: Myself
Super Mario 64 DS
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
Mario Smash Football
Mario Strikers Charged Football
Yoshi's Island DS
Wario: Master of Disguise
Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Treehouse of Horror XXI (segment: "Satellite Wario")
Game & Wario

Reception

Wario ranked 10th on GameDaily's Top 10 Smash Bros. characters list. He also ranked seventh on GameDaily's top 10 ugliest game characters list; the authors referenced his snarling smile, moustache, and outfits. They also included him in a top 25 list of video game anti-heroes, stating that in spite of his greed, he's actually a "cool dude". Screwattack rated Wario as the 10th Biggest Douchebag in Gaming. IGN editor Travis Fahs commented that while he was not the most likable character, he has incredible confidence that overshadows his flaws and makes him an entertaining character. In an article written by Kombo editors Agustin Olvera and Stephen Smith, they exclaim their surprise that he had not appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee as a playable character, stating that he would be a great addition to the game.

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The Batman Bridge crosses the Tamar River in northern Tasmania, about 30 km north of Launceston. It was opened on 18 May 1968 by the Premier of Tasmania, Eric Reece. When it was built it was one of the first cable-stayed truss bridges in the world. It provides access between the north east and north west of Tasmania. It was named after John Batman, a Tasmanian pioneer and the founder of the city of Melbourne.

Details
The bridge is held up by cables connected to a  high A frame tower on the west bank.  This tower is not straight, but leans  out over the river.  The bridge is  in length.  The main span over the river is  and with a span on the western shore of . The eastern side is approached by four continuous viaduct spans. The bridge is  above the high water level.  The steel deck has room for two lanes of traffic and a walk way for people on both sides.

A frame
The bridge is built at the narrowest point on the Tamar River, at Whirlpool Reach. However, the east bank was found to be soft clay which would not support the bridge. The A frame tower on the west bank is built into the bedrock  below the surface and supported by steel cables concreted into tunnels in the bedrock. The tower supports the whole weight of the river span of the bridge.

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Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet helicopter that is developed from Mil Mi-8.

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Mil Mi-17


Thurrock () is a unitary authority area with borough status in the English ceremonial county of Essex.

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Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles  (born 27 December 1939) is a retired British Army officer. He is the former husband of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, a member of the British royal family.

In 1981–1983, he was Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, and was commanding during the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings.

From 1987 to 1990, he was Colonel Commanding the Household Cavalry and Silver Stick in Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On 30 June 1990 he was promoted to brigadier, and was director of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1991–1994. He retired in 1994.

Bowles was diagnosed with COVID-19 on 1 April 2020.

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Chico is a big city in the Central Valley of the American state of California. It is in the northern part of the state. Chico is in the Sacramento Valley close to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The city has a population of 79,091. People first started living in Chico in 1843. The city was founded in 1860 and started to govern itself in 1872.

Sister cities
 – Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan 1985
 – Pascagoula, Mississippi (U.S.) 2005

References

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Downtown Chico Business Association
Chico Chamber of Commerce
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Perry County is the name of ten counties in the United States:
Perry County, Alabama
Perry County, Arkansas
Perry County, Illinois
Perry County, Indiana
Perry County, Kentucky
Perry County, Mississippi
Perry County, Missouri
Perry County, Ohio
Perry County, Pennsylvania
Perry County, Tennessee

Perry County


Oxelösund Municipality () is a municipality in Södermanland County in central Sweden. The seat is in Oxelösund.

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Knoxville is the third-largest city in the state of Tennessee, in the United States of America. The largest city in the state is Memphis, followed by Nashville, the capital of Tennessee. Knoxville is the county seat of Knox County. In 2010, it had a population of 178,874.

The city has been often called "The Streaking Capital of the World" and "The Underwear Capital of the World".

Knoxville was founded in 1786 and is the second oldest of Tennessee's four major cities, after Nashville which was founded in 1779.  After Tennessee's admission into the Union in 1796, Knoxville was the state's first capital. In 1819, the capital was moved to Murfreesboro, prior to Nashville becoming the current capital. The city was named in honor of the first Secretary of War, Henry Knox.

Knoxville's economy is largely fueled by the regional location of the main campus of the University of Tennessee, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other Department of Energy facilities in nearby Oak Ridge, the National Transportation Research Center, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Modern Knoxville

Knoxville's textile and manufacturing industries were hurt by foreign competition in the 1950s and 1960s. After the building of the Interstate Highway system in the 1960s, the railroad—which had been largely responsible for Knoxville's industrial growth—began to decline.  Suburban shopping malls in the 1970s took retail revenues away from Knoxville's Downtown area.  So, the city sought to recover the massive loss of revenue by trying to annex neighboring communities in Knox County.  People fought these annexation attempts. Several efforts to combine all of the Knoxville and Knox County governments failed. But the city and county school boards merged on 1 July 1987.

Knoxville tried to improve its downtown.  The 1982 World's Fair—the most successful of these projects—became one of the most popular world's fairs in U.S. history with 11 million visitors.  The fair's energy theme was selected due to Knoxville being the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority and for the city's proximity to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  The Sunsphere, a  steel truss structure topped with a gold-colored glass sphere, was built for the fair and remains one of Knoxville's most prominent buildings, along with the adjacent amphitheater which underwent a renovation that was completed in 2008.

Ever since, Knoxville's downtown has been developing, with the opening of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Knoxville Convention Center, redevelopment of Market Square, a new visitors center, a regional history museum, a Regal Cinemas theater, several restaurants and bars, and many new and redeveloped condominiums. Since 2000 Knoxville has successfully brought business back to the downtown area. The arts in particular have begun to flourish, there are multiple venues for outdoor concerts. The Tennessee and Bijou Theaters were renovated.

Sister cities
Knoxville has seven sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International:
  Chelm, Poland
  Chengdu, China
  Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Sister Cities International officially recognizes Taiwan as a division of China)
  Larissa, Greece
  Muroran, Japan
  Neuquen, Argentina
  Yesan County, South Korea

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 The Knoxville News Sentinel
 The South Knox•Seymour Times
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Giancarlo De Sisti (born 13 March, 1943) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Italy national team.

Club career statistics

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|1960-61||rowspan="5"|Roma||rowspan="5"|Serie A||2||0
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|1961-62||11||1
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|1962-63||18||2
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|1963-64||28||7
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|1964-65||28||3
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|1965-66||rowspan="9"|Fiorentina||rowspan="9"|Serie A||34||5
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|1966-67||30||6
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|1967-68||30||6
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|1968-69||30||2
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|1969-70||28||2
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|1970-71||29||3
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|1971-72||29||1
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|1972-73||27||1
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|1973-74||19||2
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|1974-75||rowspan="5"|Roma||rowspan="5"|Serie A||29||5
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|1975-76||28||2
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|1976-77||28||2
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|1977-78||25||0
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|1978-79||25||0
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International career statistics

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|1967||2||0
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|1968||2||0
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|1969||6||0
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|1970||11||2
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|1971||5||2
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|1972||3||0
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White asbestos, also called chrysotile asbestos or serpentine asbestos, is one of the six types of asbestos. About 95% of asbestos found in buildings is white asbestos. It is considered by experts to be less dangerous than the other types of asbestos, but it is still a major health hazard and exposure can cause cancer and asbestosis.

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is a Japanese video game music composer for the Mario franchise. He is currently employed at Nintendo since 1983.

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Koji Kondo


Disney Junior, known as Disney Junior, The Channel, is an American digital cable and satellite television network. It is part of The Walt Disney Company. It is for children between three and ten years old. It shows first-run children's television shows, movies and made-for-DVD movies. It follows Playhouse Disney, which aired from April 6, 1997 to February 13, 2011.

Programming
Minnie's Bow Toons
Small Potatoes
3rd & Bird
Tinga Tinga Tales
BigBlock Sing Song
The Octonauts
Babar and the Adventures of Badou
Kate & Mim-Mim
Miles from Tomorrowland
The Lion Guard
Ella the Elephant
Henry Hugglemonster
Sofia the First
Doc McStuffins
Jake and the Never Land Pirates
Little Einsteins

The name Disney Junior is also used for a morning and early afternoon program seen on the Disney Channel, branded as "Disney Junior on Disney Channel".

Other websites

 Disney Junior Press

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Rioting took place in several English cities, and towns, between 6 and 10 August 2011. Looting and arson also took place at this time. The riots started when a demonstration took place, on 6 August 2011, about the police's shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, North London. It turned into a riot. Over the next few days, the riots spread to other places in London and then to other areas of England. The riots caused five deaths. 186 police officers were hurt. The University of Nottingham found that British people became more racist after the riots.

Shooting of Mark Duggan

On 4 August 2011, a police officer shot and killed 29-year-old Mark Duggan during a traffic stop on the Ferry Lane bridge next to Tottenham Hale station. Friends and relatives of Duggan said that he was unarmed, but he was carrying a gun which a man was convicted of supplying to him.

Causes
On 12 August, historian David Starkey blamed black gangster culture. He said that "whites have become black". Max Hastings of the Daily Mail blamed a culture of welfare dependence.

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Events

Up to 1900
 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
 1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated.
 1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
 1740 - War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate HMS Princess.
 1742 – The first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah, in Dublin.
 1767 – Ayutthaya kingdom fell to Burmese invaders.
 1784 - William Herschel discovers six Galaxies.
 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
 1832 – Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield - Union General Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign is thwarted by Confederate General Richard Taylor's forces at Mansfield, Louisiana.
 1866 - Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.
 1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
 1893 – First recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania when the Geneva College Covenanters defeated the New Brighton YMCA.
 1899 – Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.

1901  2000
 1904 – France and the United Kingdom sign the Entente cordiale.
 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
 1906 - Auguste Deter, the first-recorded Alzheimer's disease patient, dies at the age of 56.
 1908 - Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
 1910 – The Los Angeles Motordome opened near Playa del Rey, California.
 1911 - Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
 1913 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified requiring direct election of Senators.
 1916 – In Corona, California, auto racer Bob Burman crashed through a crowd barrier at the last Boulevard Race, killing himself, his mechanic and a track policeman, and badly injuring five spectators.
 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
 1924 - Sharia courts are banned in Turkey, as part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's reforms.
 1929 – Indian independence movement: At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw handouts, and bombs in a corridor not to cause injury and courted arrest.
 1933 - A majority of voters in Western Australia chooses to secede from Australia in a referendum; the result is not recognised.
 1935 – The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
 1942 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
 1952 – In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.
 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
 1954 - A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard aircraft collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadian North Star aircraft over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
 1954 - South African Airways Flight 201 crashes into the sea near Naples, Italy, killing 21 people.
 1960 - The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch.
 1961 - A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238 people.
 1967 – In Vienna, Austria, Sandie Shaw wins the twelfth Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Puppet on a String".
 1970 - Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school, killing 46 children.
 1971 – a 6-pound meteorite struck a house on Spring Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
 1973 - Painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso dies in Mougins, France, at the age of 91.
 1974 – At the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron breaks baseball great's Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run.
 1975 – Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians manages his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
 1975 – Vietnam War: After spending a week in South Vietnam, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Frederick Weyand gives a report to the U.S. Congress that South Vietnam will fall without additional military aid.
 1985 – Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
 1986 – Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California receiving 72% of the vote (voter turnout was also doubled over the previous mayoral election).
 1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid great controversy over racially-charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
 1989 – South Africa In Johannesburg, the Progressive Federal Party, Independent party, National Democratic Movement and the force of "Ontevrede Afrikaners" or dissatisfied Afrikaners merged to form the Democratic Party.
 1990 – Twin Peaks premieres.
 1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces to the world that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
 1993 - The Republic of Macedonia joins the UN.
 1994 – The body of Kurt Cobain is discovered in his Washington home. He was 27 years old.
 2000 – A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes during landing at Marana, Arizona killing 19.

From 2001
 2002 – Ed McMahon files a US$20 million lawsuit against his insurance company and others regarding a toxic mold infecting McMahon's Beverly Hills, California home.
 2004 – Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
 2005 – Funeral of Pope John Paul II.
 2008 – Yo So-yeon becomes the first Korean woman in space.
 2013 - Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies aged 87 of complications from a stroke. See Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
 2013 - The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant extremist group is created.
 2018 - A suspected chemical attack in Douma, Syria, kills at least 50 people.
 2018 - Hungary's general election results in Viktor Orbán winning a third term in office as Prime minister.

Births

Up to 1900
 563 BC – Gautama Buddha, religious leader (d. 483 BC)
 1320 – King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
 1533 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (d. 1604)
 1536 - Barbara of Hesse (d. 1597)
 1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)
 1605 – King Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
 1641 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
 1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)
 1732 - David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor and mathematician (d. 1796)
 1761 - William Joseph Chaminade, French priest (d. 1850)
 1783 - John Claudius Loudon, Scottish botanist and garden designer (d. 1843)
 1793 - Karl Zell, German statesman and philologist (d. 1873)
 1798 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet (d. 1857)
 1815 - Andrew Graham, Irish astronomer (d. 1908)
 1818 – King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
 1818 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
 1826 - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (d. 1890)
 1827 - Ramon Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
 1842 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
 1859 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian-German philosopher (d. 1938)
 1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, Entomologist (d. 1940)
 1869 - Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurologist (d. 1939)
 1871 - Clarence Hudson White, American photographer (d. 1925)
 1872 – Ivan Bloch, physician (d. 1922)
 1874 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
 1875 – King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
 1885 - Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (d. 1951)
 1888 - Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1962)
 1889 - Blanche Stuart Scott, American pilot (d. 1970)
 1889 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (d. 1983)
 1892 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-born actress, studio founder (d. 1979)
 1892 - Richard Neutra, Austrian architect (d. 1970)
 1898 - Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1969)
 1899 - John Christie, English serial killer (d. 1953)

1901  1950
 1902 – Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924)
 1904 – Ron Hicks, British economist (d. 1989)
 1904 - Yves Congar, French cardinal (d. 1995)
 1905 – Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992)
 1908 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
 1910 – George Musso, American football player (d. 2000)
 1911 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
 1911 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist, 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1997)
 1912 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian Olympic and World Champion figure skater (d. 1969)
 1912 - Julian Berrendero, Spanish cyclist (d. 1995)
 1912 – Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi (date of death unknown, possibly 2001, 2009 or 2010)
 1913 – Sourou-Migan Apithy, President of Benin (d. 1989)
 1914 – María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
 1915 - Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and activist (d. 2007)
 1917 - Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop (d. 2017)
 1917 - Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988)
 1918 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
 1919 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
 1919 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress (d. 2001)
 1920 - Carmen McRae, American singer, composer, pianist and actress (d. 1994)
 1921 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
 1923 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
 1923 - George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
 1926 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
 1926 – Shecky Greene, American comedian
 1926 - Henry N. Cobb, American architect
 1926 - Jean-Jacques Pauvert, French publisher and author (d. 2014)
 1928 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
 1929 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
 1929 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and composer (d. 1978)
 1929 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (d. 1996)
 1930 – Carlos-Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2010)
 1930 - Miller Williams, American poet (d. 2015)
 1931 - John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (d. 2018)
 1932 – Iskandar of Johor, 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia (d. 2010)
 1932 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (d. 1993)
 1933 – Fred Ebb, composer (d. 2004)
 1934 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
 1938 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, former United Nations Secretary-General (d. 2018)
 1938 - John Hamm, Canadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia
 1939 - Edwin Frederick O'Brien, American cardinal
 1939 - Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer (d. 1989)
 1940 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (d. 2019)
 1941 – Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
 1942 - Douglas Trumbull, American director, producer and special effects artist
 1943 – Miller Farr, American football player
 1943 – Michael Bennett, American dancer, choreographer, theater director (d. 1987)
 1943 – Tony Banks, British politician (d. 2006)
 1943 - James Herbert, British writer (d. 2013)
 1944 - Tariana Turia, New Zealand politician
 1944 - Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor (d. 2017)
 1946 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball pitcher (d. 1999)
 1946 – Tim Thomerson, American actor
 1947 – Tom DeLay, American politician
 1947 - Steve Howe, English rock guitarist
 1947 - Robert Kiyosaki, American author
 1947 - Pascal Lamy, French politician
 1947 - Larry Norman, American musician (d. 2008)
 1948 - Danuta Hübner, Polish politician
 1949 – John Madden, director
 1949 - Joe Royle, English footballer and manager
 1950 – Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer

1951  1975
 1951 – Geir Haarde, former Prime Minister of Iceland
 1951 - Joan Sebastian, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2015)
 1954 – Gary Carter, American baseball catcher
 1955 – Barbara Kingsolver, novelist
 1955 – Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer
 1955 - Jim Fleeting, Scottish footballer
 1955 - Kane Hodder, American stuntman and actor
 1957 – Andrea Ypsilanti, German politician
 1960 – John Schneider, actor
 1960 - Gordon Chisholm, Scottish footballer and manager
 1961 - Brian McDermott, English footballer and manager
 1962 – Izzy Stradlin, American musician
 1963 – Julian Lennon, English musician and singer
 1963 – Alec Stewart, English cricketer
 1964 - Dordi Nordby, Norwegian curler
 1966 - Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-Australian television personality (d. 2014)
 1966 – Robin Wright, American actress
 1966 – Mazinho, Brazilian footballer
 1966 - Iveta Bartosova, Czech singer and actress (d. 2014)
 1968 – Patricia Arquette, American actress
 1968 - Susana Harp, Mexican musician
 1970 - Care Santos, Catalan writer
 1972 - Lisa Cameron, Scottish politician
 1972 – Paul Gray, American musician (Slipknot) (d. 2010)
 1972 - Sergei Magnitsky, Russian lawyer (d. 2009)
 1973 - Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
 1973 - Emma Caulfield, American actress
 1974 - Holger Hott, Norwegian orienteering competitor
 1974 - Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian-American writer
 1975 - Anouk, Dutch singer

From 1976
 1977 – Mark Spencer, computer programmer
 1980 – Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
 1980 - Katee Sackhoff, American actress
 1981 - Nikolay Kruglov, Jr., Russian biathlete
 1981 – Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
 1981 - Kelly Schafer, Scottish curler
 1982 - Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
 1983 - Allu Arjun, Indian actor
 1983 – Edson Braafheid, Dutch footballer
 1984 – Taran Noah Smith, American actor
 1986 - Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress and model
 1986 - Bridget Kelly, American singer and songwriter
 1986 – Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
 1987 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
 1987 - Dario Vidosic, Australian footballer
 1987 - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Belgian-Moroccan terrorist (d. 2015)
 1988 - Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player
 1989 - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese actress and singer
 1989 - Gabriella Wilde, English actress and model
 1990 - Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer and actor (d. 2017)
 1990 - Karim Bellarabi, German footballer
 1991 - Minami Takahashi, Japanese actress and singer
 1993 - Trent Sullivan, Australian actor
 1999 - Ty Panitz, American actor
 2002 - Skai Jackson, American actress

Deaths

Up to 1900
217 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 188)
622 - Prince Shotoku of Japan (b. 574)
632 - Charibert, Frankish king (b. 607)
956 - Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
1143 - John II Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 1087)
1364 - King John II of France (b. 1319)
1450 - Sejong the Great, King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (b. 1397)
1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1586 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1612 - Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)
1691 - Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611)
1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
1735 - Francis II Rakoczi, Hungarian aristocrat (b. 1676)
1835 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian statesman (b. 1757)
1848 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
1861 - Elisha Otis, American inventor (b. 1811)
1870 - Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
1894 - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian author (b. 1838)

1901  2000
1906 – Auguste Deter, first-recorded victim of Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
1919 - Lorand Eotvos, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (b. 1864)
1936 – Robert Bárány, Austrian doctor, won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876)
1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
1958 - Ethel Turner, Australian writer (b. 1872)
1962 - Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
1973 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
1974 - Ferruccio Novo, Italian football manager (b. 1899)
1978 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
1981 – Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
1983 - Isamu Kosuga, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
1984 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist (b. 1894)
1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese actress, singer and model (b. 1967)
1990 - Ryan White, American activist (b. 1971)
1992 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (b. 1907)
1993 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
1994 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
1997 - Laura Nyro, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1967)

From 2001
2002 - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2009 – Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
2010 – Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (b. 1946)
2010 – Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1924)
2012 - Jack Tramiel, Polish-born American entrepreneur and computer pioneer (b. 1928)
2013 - Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer (b. 1928)
2013 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2013 - Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
2014 - Karlheinz Deschner, German writer and activist (b. 1924)
2014 - Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi Patriarch (b. 1927)
2014 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2015 - Jayakanthan, Indian Tamil author (b. 1934)
2015 - Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936)
2016 - Mircea Albulescu, Romanian actor and writer (b. 1934)
2016 - Wei Chueh, Taiwanese Buddhist monk (b. 1928)
2016 - Dick Alban, American football player (b. 1929)
2017 - Fishman, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1951)
2017 - Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
2017 - Brian Matthew, English radio and television presenter (b. 1928)
2017 - Donald Sarason, American mathematician (b. 1933)
2018 - Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress, film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2018 - Michael Goolaerts, Belgian racing cyclist (b. 1994)
2018 - Juraj Herz, Slovakian film director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2018 - Chuck McCann, American actor (b. 1934)
2018 - John Miles, British racing driver (b. 1943)
2019 - Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-American art curator (b. 1926)
2019 - Vasily Likhachyov, Russian politician (b. 1952)
2019 - Nadja Regin, Serbian actress (b. 1931)

Observances
 Buddha's Birthday (Japan)
 International Day of the Roma

April 08

April 8


Haripur can be any of the following:

 Haripur, Pakistan - main town in Haripur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
 Haripur District  - district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
 Haripur, Bardhaman- town in Asansol subdivision of Bardhaman District of West Bengal, India

Haripur


The Red Scare was the fear of communism taking over. It began during the start of the Cold War.

Category:Communism

Red scare


Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. It was the 473rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 15th century and the 4th year of the 1470s decade.

Events
 February 12 - The first complete edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (in Latin translation) is published in Milan.
 August 11 - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens led by Uzun Hasan at Otlukbeli.

Unknown dates
 Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, in present-day Mexico, invades the territory of the neighbouring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor, and it loses its independence in the process.
 The city walls of Celje, Slovenia, are built.
 Marsilio Ficino becomes a priest.
 Nicolo Marcello becomes Doge of Venice.

Births

 February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
 March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
 March 17 – King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
 August 14 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
 August 17 – Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
 September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (d. 1528)
 October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
 date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Tudor politician (d. 1555)
 probable
 Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (d. 1525)
 Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, only son of Richard III of England (d. 1484)

Deaths
 January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
 February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
 April – Alessandro Sforza, condottiero
 May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
 July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
 December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
 date unknown
 Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
 Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
 Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
 Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (b. 1404)
 probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)

1473


Nerima is one of the 23 special wards in Tokyo, Japan.

The municipality calls itself "Nerima City" in English.

Nerima is called "the town of animation" because the earliest  anime businesses started up in the area.

Geography
Nerima is a western ward. It borders Nakano and Suginami on the south.  Musashino and Nishitokyo are on the ward's western border. Saitamo Prefecture is on the northern border. Itabashi and Toshima are on the west.

There is a long river in Nerima.

Related pages
 List of special wards of Tokyo
 Capital of Japan

References

Other websites

 Nerima website
 Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Special wards

Category:Wards of Tokyo
Category:Settlements in Tokyo Prefecture

Nerima, Tokyo


Esther is the name of a book in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and the Old Testament, and also its title heroine. It is the basis for the Jewish celebration Purim.

Author and Date

Although it is never said who wrote the book of Esther, from inside evidence it is possible to make some guesses about the author and when it was written. The author was a Jew, because he  where the Jewish festival came from and from the Jewish  inside the story. The author probably lived in a Persian city, because he knew Persian customs well, and does not say anything about the land of Judah or Jerusalem. The earliest date of the book would be a little while after the events were told, for instance, about 460 B.C. (before Ezra's return to Jerusalem). It is also thought that the festival of Purim had been celebrated some time before this book was written.

Purpose, Themes, and Features

Purpose

The author's main purpose was to write about how the yearly festival of Purim started and to make people remember the saving of the Jewish people during King Xerxes' reign. The book shows both the start of the festival and why it should continue to be celebrated.

Themes

In the book, the author repeatedly talks about the conflict between Israel and the Amalekites, a conflict that began during the exodus and continued through Israel's history. The author of Esther views them as the symbol of all the powers of the world against God's people. Now that Israel has been released from , Haman's dangerous  is the final try in the Old Testament time to get rid of them. When Haman is defeated, Israel enjoys a time of rest.

Feasting is another important theme in Esther, as seen in the picture on the left. Banquets are the setting for important parts of the story. There are ten banquets.

Style and Features

Repetition is one of the main stylistic features of the book of Esther. The three groups of banquets come in pairs; there are two lists of the king's servants; two reports that Esther hid her identity; two gatherings of women; two houses for the women; two fasts; two talks by Haman with his wife and friends; two sudden visits to the king by Esther; two coverings of Haman's face; two royal commands; two cool-downs of the king's anger; two days for the Jews to protect themselves and take ; and two letters about how Purim started.

Another important feature of this book that has often been wondered about is that it never directly talks about God, worship, prayer, or sacrifice. This has made some people think the book is not as religious as other books. However, it is possible that the author purposefully did not say anything about God or anything religious to show more clearly that it is God who controls all the "unimportant"  that are in the story and ends in saving the Jews.

Content

The Book of Esther is about a Jewish girl adopted by her uncle, Mordecai, after her parents died.

Xerxes, the Persian king, rejected his wife (Queen Vashti), and fell in love with Esther at a beauty contest. He took Esther as the new Persian queen, not knowing she was an Israelite.

Haman, Xerxes' prime minister, developed a grudge against Mordecai because he would not bow down to him, but only to the God of Israel. He despised Mordecai because he was a Jew, and tried to trick the king into making a law to kill all Jews. Haman was unaware that Queen Esther herself was a Jew.

Queen Esther discovered the plot by Haman and worked to stop it. She invited the king to dine with Haman present so she could tell him about the plot. But her courage failed her and she said nothing.

She again invited King Xerxes and Haman to dine and this time she told the king of Haman's plot. The king, furious, stormed out and Haman begged Esther for mercy.

When the king returned, he mistakenly believed Haman had molested his queen, and had him hanged on the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai.
Mordecai then came into the presence of the king and was bequeathed the king's signet ring.

Thus thanks to Esther's courage and influence, the king changed the law and saved the Jewish people.

References

Category:Old Testament books

Book of Esther


Loison-sur-Créquoise is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.

Category:Communes in Pas-de-Calais

Loison-sur-Créquoise


Sand is a mixture of very small pieces of different rocks or minerals. It is the same minerals from which those pieces are broken, such as granite and feldspar. Sand is gritty to touch. It is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles. Sand is also formed various rocks by weathering and erosion. Erosion breaks large boulders into smaller rocks. They get smaller and smaller until they reach the beach or a low-lying area as sand.

Sand grains are between the size of gravel grains (which is from 2 mm to 64 mm) and the size of silt (which is around 0.0625 mm to 0.004 mm). Most sand is found on beaches, and in deserts. The most common sands are made of silica (silicon dioxide, or SiO2). Calcium carbonate is the second more common.

Sand dunes are made when wind or a river pulls sand into a mountain-like shape. They can be found in deserts, but sometimes high up on beaches too.

Sand is crucial in the process of mixing concrete. It can also be used to make sand castles. Sand is sometimes in households for aesthetic purposes.

Examples of Sand

Other websites

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Sand


An exocrine gland puts out (excretes) its product by a duct. The duct goes to some environment outside the gland, either inside the body or onto the surface of the body.

An endocrine gland is its counterpart. It secretes its essential product directly into the bloodstream or else by diffusion into its surrounding tissue. Its product often acts on cells near the release site.

Examples of exocrine organs and glands:
Gall bladder
Liver
Pancreas
Prostate
Mammary glands
Salivary glands
Sweat glands

Exocrine gland


Bill Bonds (1930s – December 13, 2014) was an American television anchor and reporter. He was best known for his work at WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. Bonds became an Action News anchorman beginning in the early 1970s.

Bonds died at his home in Southfield, Michigan on December 13, 2014, from a heart attack.

References

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Category:2014 deaths
Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction
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Bill Bonds


Claude Choules (3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was a British-Australian World War I veteran who served in the Royal Navy.

Biography

World War I & World War II
Born in Wyre Piddle, son of Harry & Madeline (née Winn), near Pershore, Worcestershire, Choules joined the Royal Navy as a young man in 1916, and served aboard the Naval Training Ship HMS Circe at Plymouth. In 1917, he joined the battleship HMS Revenge, which was the flagship of the First Battle Squadron. While serving aboard her, Choules witnessed the surrender of the German Imperial Navy at the Firth of Forth in 1918, ten days after the Armistice, and was also to witness the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow.
During World War II, Choules was the Acting Torpedo Officer of Fremantle and also the Chief Demolition Officer on the western side of the Australian continent.  He was tasked with sabotaging Fremantle harbors and related oil storage tanks in the event of a Japanese invasion.

He died on 5 May 2011 in Perth, Western Australia at 110 years old.

Related pages
List of surviving veterans of World War I
 List of Last veterans of World War I by Country and Branch of Service
 List of last surviving World War I veterans by country

References

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Category:2011 deaths
Category:Australian military people
Category:British military personnel of World War II
Category:British supercentenarians
Category:Military personnel of World War I
Category:People from Worcestershire

Claude Choules


Dirt is the second studio album by American rock band, Alice in Chains. Dirt was released on September 29, 1992. The album featured the singles "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Down in a Hole".

Dirt is currently the band's highest selling album to date and has gone on to sell 5 million copies worldwide. The album was certified four-times platinum by the RIAA.

Dirt was the final album to feature Mike Starr on bass before he was kicked out of the band and replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne bassist Mike Inez.

The album was also included in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was ranked #1 on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992

Songs

References

Other websites
Dirt at Allmusic

Category:1992 albums
Category:Alice in Chains albums
Category:Heavy metal albums

Dirt (album)


Antonio Ibáñez de Alba (born  Chiclana de la Frontera, 1956) is a Spanish engineer, researcher and scientist.

He is known mainly for his project of Artificial Palm Trees in Libya for the creation of microclimates in the deser at the Great Man-Made River. The Libyan government invested in this project nearly one billion dollars for the installation of 50,000 palm trees..

During the summer of 2017 his patent of floating water whitout salt was reflected by worldwide media.

His investigations are quoted in  scientific publications as well as in the media.

Main investigations

• Self-heating beverages

• Plastic palm trees in the desert.

• Anti-Drowning System

• Fire detection

• Studies on tides

• Electric vehicles without batteries

• Safety in trains

• Hydro Taco

• Piracy protection

• Technological canvas for sports fields

• Tunnel for trains in desert areas

• Explosives power station

• Transmission of brain waves

• Floating water without salt

• Breast Cancer Screening Capsule

• Underwater highways

References

Category:Scientists

Antonio Ibáñez de Alba


Brian Baldinger (born January 7, 1960) is a football analyst and former football player for the Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles.
His jobs include these:
NFL Network studio analyst/reporter
Philadelphia Eagles preseason color commentator
College Football on FSN color commentator
NFL on Fox color commentator
Cotton Bowl Classic on Fox sideline reporter
NFL Europe on Fox color commentator
NFL on CMN color commentator
Atlanta Falcons preseason color commentator

References

Other websites
Profile at Databasefootball.com
Profile at Pro-Football-Reference.com

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Category:Living people
Category:College football broadcasters
Category:National Football League broadcasters
Category:Sportspeople from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Category:American football players
Category:Philadelphia Eagles players
Category:Indianapolis Colts players
Category:Dallas Cowboys players

Brian Baldinger


The Attentive Nurse is an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin. It measures 46.2 x 37 cm (18 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.). It was painted in 1747. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

The National Gallery tells us that Chardin reveals dignity and beauty in everyday life. The woman is preparing an invalid's meal. Each object receives careful treatment from the artist. The table setting is a harmony of white tones: jug, tablecloth, egg, and plate. Every pot, each piece of crockery has been given distinct treatment. As Diderot wrote of Chardin, "it is not white, red, or black pigment that you mix on your palette, it is the very substance of objects."

Chardin's subjects were popular with all classes of society, including the aristocracy. The National Gallery writes, "Perhaps their appeal rested in their sense of order, of things in their proper place. Chardin anticipated the popularity of paintings of "sensibility," which increased from the 1740s on, telling a colleague that "one uses color, but one paints with sentiment."

References

Category:18th century paintings
Category:Paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin
Category:Paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Category:French paintings
Category:1747

The Attentive Nurse


Disney's Toontown Online, also called as Toontown Online or Toontown, was an online video game created by The Walt Disney Company. The game was an MMORPG, where a lot of people play at one time. It was released in 2003, and closed in 2013.

Players live life as a toon in Toontown. Players can make a duck, bear, mouse, rabbit, dog, cat, horse, pig, or monkey.

Game's purpose
Players try to live life as a toon, play games on the Trolley and make new friends. But it's not all paradise. Evil robots called "Cogs" have taken over, and "gags" (cartoon fun) are used to defeat them. There is not a purpose that players have to go by. A player can choose to be the top racer or to have the most "laff points". Many people like it because of this. Some users even dare to become "ubers", toons with better gags but poor laff.

References

Other websites
Disney
Work vs. Play: The Story Behind Disney's Toontown Online, community member Comrade's journalism blog

Category:Disney video games
Category:Online games

Toontown Online


Cockermouth is a town near the A66 road in Cumbria, England, in the Borough of Allerdale. In 2011 there were 8,761 living in Cockermouth.

References

Other website
Town Council website

Category:Allerdale
Category:Civil parishes in Cumbria
Category:Towns in Cumbria

Cockermouth


Mikael Agricola ( ) (c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a priest who is often called the "father of written Finnish".  In addition, Agricola, Aleksis Kivi and Elias Lönnrot are regarded fathers of a national literature in Finnish.

In his time, Finland was part of Sweden, a Catholic country. He learned the ideas of the Reformation, and thought everyone should be able to read the Bible. To help people in Finland to learn to read, Agricola published a ABC book and a prayer book in Finnish around year 1544. He also translated large sections of the Bible into Finnish.

References

Other websites
 Agricola, Mikael (1510 - 1557) Finnish Dictionary of National Biography online.
 The Finnish Reformer was a student of Luther – and Finland's educator

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Category:1557 deaths

Mikael Agricola


Jürgen Moltmann (born 8 April 1926) is a German Reformed theologian. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen.

Moltmann has worked to a number of areas of Christian theology, including systematic theology, eschatology, ecclesiology, political theology, Christology, pneumatology, and the theology of creation.

He was the recipient of the 2000 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and was also selected to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1984–85.

References

Other websites
Jürgen Moltmann Reading Room: Extensive primary and secondary sources on-line (Tyndale Seminary)
English Language Bibliography of Moltmann's Works: Non-exhaustive, up to 1996
Article on Moltmann at The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology

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Category:Living people
Category:German theologians
Category:German Christians
Category:People from Hamburg

Jürgen Moltmann


Synthesis means to bring ideas together, or to make something out of parts which were independent. It is the opposite of analysis.

As an intellectual activity, synthesis occurs often in philosophy and science. In philosophy, synthesis is the end of a process of argument. Two examples of people whose work was mostly synthesis are:
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer

In chemistry, to synthesize is to make new compounds from simpler elements.
In acoustics, speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

Related pages
 Synthetic
 Synthesizer

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Synthesis


Kirkwood is a city in Missouri, United States. It is an inner-ring western suburb of St. Louis.

Category:1850s establishments in Missouri
Category:1853 establishments in the United States
Category:Cities in Missouri

Kirkwood, Missouri


Luke Paul Hoare Shaw (born 12 July 1995) is an English professional footballer. He plays as a defender for Manchester United and the England national team. Shaw primarily plays as a left back.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Individual
PFA Premier League Team of the Year: 2013–14

References

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Category:Premier League players

Luke Shaw


"Unpretty" is a song by American girl group TLC. It was produced by Dallas Austin. It was co-written by Austin and TLC member Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins. It was for the band's third album, FanMail (1999). The song was based on a poem of the same name written by Watkins. It was about a woman's struggle with her self-image. It talked about the concept of beauty portrayed in the media. Austin helped Watkins to help the song become an empowerment for women who do not think they are beautiful enough.

"Unpretty" was the second single released from FanMail. It became the group's fourth US number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. It spent three weeks at number one. It was considered a success by music critics. It was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards. A remixed version of the song was released.

Track lisitings

 US CD Single (Green Cover)
 Unpretty (Album Version) - 4:38
 Unpretty ("Don't Look Any Further" Remix) - 4:25
 UK CD 1 of 2 (Green Cover)
 Unpretty (Radio Version) - 4:08
 No Scrubs (Radio Version) - 4:06
 Diggin' On You (Radio Version) - 4:14
 UK CD 2 of 2 (Blue Cover)
 Unpretty (Radio Version) - 4:08
 Unpretty (M. J. Cole Remix) [Vox Up] - 4:48
 Unpretty ("Don't Look Any Further" Remix) - 4:25

 International Remix EP (Blue Cover)
 Unpretty (Radio Version) - 4:01
 Unpretty ("Don't Look Any Further" Remix) - 4:26
 Unpretty ("Don't Look Any Further" Remix w/ Rap) - 4:27
 Unpretty (Pumpin' Dolls Radio Mix) - 4:03
 Unpretty ("Don't Look Any Further" Remix) [Big Boyz Dub Mix] - 5:00
 Unpretty (Pumpin' Dolls Club Mix) - 8:59
 German CD Single (Green Cover)
 Unpretty (Radio Version) - 4:09
 Unpretty (Album Version) - 4:38
 Unpretty (M. J. Cole Remix) [Vox Up] - 4:48
 Unpretty (M. J. Cole Remix) [Budd Dub] - 5:35
 Unpretty (Instrumental) - 4:41

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

References

Other websites

Category:1999 songs
Category:TLC songs

Unpretty


A Calendar date is a way to refer to a certain day in a calendar. With the calendar date and the calendar, the exact day can be identified. With a different calendar, the same calendar date may refer to a different day. This can be seen easiest when comparing the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar.

Calendar dates are important to refer to events (most holidays are fixed with reference to a particular event or calendar date.) One example may be Easter. In the Middle Ages, it has been fixed that Easter is to be the first Sunday that is (on or after) the 14th day after the spring equinox.

Most calendar systems have a date format that has three parts, the day of a certain month, the month and the year. Sometimes the week is added.

Other websites
On This Day In History

Category:Calendars

Calendar date


John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer. He was born in Walhalla, South Carolina. He was known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria.

Portman also had a large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center, Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels.

Portman died on December 29, 2017 in Atlanta of heart failure, aged 93.

References

Other websites

  Portmanusa.com: website of the Portman architectural firm
 Portmanholdings.com: website of the Portman real estate development firm
  Johnportmanfilm.com: 'John Portman: A Life of Building' — film about Portman's life and works, aired on PBS stations in June 2013.

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Category:Real estate developers
Category:People from South Carolina
Category:Business people from Atlanta, Georgia

John C. Portman Jr.


Events

Up to 1900
 515 BC – Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
 1550 - Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
 1622 - Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier are canonized as Saints of the Roman Catholic Church.
 1664 – New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
 1689 - The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
 1811 - Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Neyonce again successfully delays the pursuing an Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
 1868 - Henry O'Farrell attempts to kill Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
 1871 - Karl Theodor Robert Luther discovers Jupiter's moon Amalthea.
 1878 - Walvis Bay in present-day Namibia comes under British control.
 1881 - Andrew Watson makes his first appearance for the Scotland national football team, as the world's first black footballer to turn out for a national side.
 1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

1901  2000
 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.
 1913 – Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.
 1918 - Moscow becomes the capital city of Russia.
 1922 - Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
 1934 - Konstantin Pats and General John Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia.
 1934 - Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru sinks in a storm off Sasebo, Nagasaki, killing 100 out of the 113 people on board.
 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
 1950 - Llandow Air Disaster: In South Wales, an aircraft crashes near the village of Sigingstone, killing 80 people.
 1951 – The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
 1956 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time (500.24)
 1958 – In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
 1960 – A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Korea kills 68.
 1961 - The Eiger north face is climbed outside the main climbing season for the first time.
 1967 – Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
 1968 – Mauritius achieves independence.
 1984 - National Union of Mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill, call for a nationwide strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher.
 1987 – Les Misérables opens on Broadway.
 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.
 1993 – Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
 1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
 1993 - The Blizzard of '93 hits the eastern United States, with heavy snowfall, high winds and tornadoes.
 1994 – A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
 1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
 1997 – Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).

From 2001
 2002 – In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
 2003 – Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.
 2003 – Elizabeth Smart, a kidnapped teenager is found and returned to her family in Utah.
 2004 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
 2005 – Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, stepped down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
 2010 - The Winter Paralympics begin in Vancouver.
 2011 - Fukushima nuclear disaster: After the previous day's earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant fails in several reactors, causing a nuclear disaster, as explosions occur.
 2014 - An explosion at the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 people and injures around 70.
 2017 - A landslide at a landfill site outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, kills 72 people.
 2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May loses a second vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons.

Births

Up to 1900
 1270 - Charles, Count of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
 1479 - Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)
 1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
 1620 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
 1626 - John Aubrey, English writer (d. 1697)
 1637 - Anne Hyde, wife of James VII of Scotland/James II of England (d. 1671)
 1685 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (d. 1753)
 1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
 1713 - Johann Adolph Hass, German instrument maker (d. 1771)
 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (d. 1779)
 1763 - Martin Chittenden, American politician, Governor of Vermont (d. 1840)
 1769 - Archibald Campbell, British general (d. 1843)
 1781 - Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
 1795 - George T. Wood, 2nd Governor of Texas (d. 1858)
 1806 – Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
 1821 – John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
 1821 - Luitpold, Prince of Bavaria (d. 1912)
 1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
 1832 – Charles Boycott, British land agent (d. 1897)
 1835 - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
 1837 - Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
 1838 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907)
 1851 - Theodore Thurston Geer, American politician, 10th Governor of Oregon (d. 1924)
 1858 - Adolph Ochs, American newspaper publisher (d. 1935)
 1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer and politician (d. 1938)
 1864 - Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (d. 1943)
 1864 - W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
 1869 - George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
 1876 - Elbert Lee Trinkle, Governor of Virginia (d. 1939)
 1878 - Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
 1884 – Vittorio Pozzo, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)
 1889 – Thorbergur Thordarson, Icelandic writer (d. 1974)
 1890 – King Idris of Libya (d. 1983)
 1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)

1901  1950
 1908 - David Marshall, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
 1910 – Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese statesman (d. 1980)
 1911 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (d. 1979)
 1912 - Paul Weston, American pianist, arranger and conductor (d. 1996)
 1913 - Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 1984)
 1913 - Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2010)
 1914 - Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother (d. 1958)
 1917 - Leonard Chess, American company executive (d. 1969)
 1918 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
 1919 – Michael Stepovich, Territorial Governor of Alaska, last-surviving territorial Governor in the US (d. 2014)
 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (d. 2003)
 1921 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian anti-Soviet activist (d. 2007)
 1921 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
 1922 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
 1923 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007)
 1923 - Clara Fraser, American activist (d. 1998)
 1923 – Hanne Hiob, German actress (d. 2009)
 1923 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2013)
 1923 - Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
 1924 - Mary Lee Woods, British mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2017)
 1925 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist
 1925 - Harry Harrison, American writer (d. 2012)
 1925 - Georges Delerue, French movie score composer (d. 1992)
 1926 - Gudrun Ure, Scottish actress
 1926 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, former Governor of Hawaii
 1926 - Minerva Mirabal, Dominican activist (d. 1960)
 1927 – Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina (d. 2009)
 1927 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian children's television presenter (d. 2015)
 1928 – Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016)
 1930 - Win Tin, Burmese politician (d. 2014)
 1931 - Robert B. Oakley, American diplomat (d. 2014)
 1932 - Andrew Young, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
 1933 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (d. 2018)
 1933 - Barbara Lee Feldon, American actress and model
 1935 - Valentyna Shevchenko, Soviet-Ukrainian politician
 1936 - Eddie Sutton, American college basketball coach
 1937 - Valentina Eiduka, Latvian javelin thrower and coach
 1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
 1940 – M. A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
 1942 - Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player
 1943 - Ratko Mladic, Serbian military commander, currently on trial for war crimes
 1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
 1946 – Frank Welker, American actor
 1947 – Mitt Romney, American politician, former Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate
 1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German politician, former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
 1948 – James Taylor, American musician
 1948 - Kent Conrad, American politician
 1948 - Roger Mullin, Scottish politician
 1948 - Virginia Bottomley, Scottish politician
 1949 - David Mellor, English journalist, lawyer and politician
 1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager

1951  1975
 1952 - Jon Provost, American actor
 1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, Japanese footballer
 1953 – Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and writer
 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
 1953 - Ron Jeremy, American actor
 1954 - Anish Kapoor, Indian-British sculptor and artist
 1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager
 1956 - Steve Harrison, British musician (Iron Maiden)
 1957 - Jerry Levine, American actor and director
 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer
 1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician
 1958 - Alan Sneddon, Scottish footballer
 1959 - Mark Easton, Scottish journalist
 1962 – Andreas Köpke, German footballer
 1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
 1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
 1963 - Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
 1963 - Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran
 1965 - Coleen Nolan, British singer (The Nolans)
 1967 - Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian author
 1968 - Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator for Illinois
 1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor
 1969 - Graham Coxon, British musician (Blur)
 1970 - Karen Bradley, British politician
 1971 - Andy Nicol, Scottish rugby player
 1971 - Isaiah Rider, American basketball player
 1972 – Hector Luis Bustamente, Colombian actor
 1975 - Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
 1975 - Kéllé Bryan, English singer

From 1976
 1976 - Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
 1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician
 1979 – Shaun Rodgers, American football player
 1980 - Douglas Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
 1980 - Ruth Hunt, Welsh activist
 1981 - Kristjan Makke, Estonian basketball player
 1981 - Peter Waterfield, English diver
 1982 - Hisato Sato, Japanese footballer
 1982 - Yuto Sato, Japanese footballer
 1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
 1983 - Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
 1984 - Jaimie Alexander, American actress
 1985 - Stromae, Belgian singer, rapper and producer
 1985 – Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
 1986 – Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
 1987 - Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
 1987 - Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
 1987 - Rico Vonck, Dutch darts player
 1990 - Lawrence Clarke, English athlete
 1991 - Felix Kroos, German footballer
 1992 - Scott Robinson, Scottish footballer
 1994 - Christina Grimmie, American pianist and singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
 1994 - Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
 1994 - Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
 1995 - Kanon Fukuda, Japanese singer and voice actress
 1999 - Sakura Oda, Japanese singer

Deaths

Up to 1900
 417 - Pope Innocent I
 604 - Pope Gregory I
 1289 - King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
 1316 - King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
 1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
 1447 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
 1507 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
 1628 - John Bull, English composer (b. 1562)
 1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1571)
 1699 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
 1820 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer (b. 1764)
 1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
 1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
 1894 - Ilarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
 1898 – Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
 1899 - Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1835)

1901  2000
 1914 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
 1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
 1932 - Ivar Kreuger, Swedish businessman (b. 1880)
 1935 - Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
 1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
 1942 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
 1946 - Ferenc Szalasi, Hungarian politician (b. 1897)
 1947 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)
 1955 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
 1963 - Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894)
 1978 - John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
 1985 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (b. 1900)
 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (b. 1900)
 1991 - LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida (b. 1909)
 1992 - Heinz Kühn, German politician (b. 1912)
 1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
 1998 – Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)

From 2001
 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (b. 1927)
 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
 2003 – Zoran Djindjic, President of Serbia and Montenegro (b. 1952)
 2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
 2006 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident, journalist and priest (b. 1947)
 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1897)
 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer (b. 1920)
 2013 - Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden) (b. 1957)
 2014 - Vera Chytilova, Czech movie director (b. 1929)
 2014 - José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
 2014 - Richard Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
 2014 - Ola L. Mize, American colonel (b. 1931)
 2014 - Jackie Gaughan, American casino owner and gambler (b. 1920)
 2014 - Jean Vallée, Belgian songwriter (b. 1941)
 2014 - David Sive, American environmental lawyer (b. 1922)
 2014 - Paul C. Donnelly, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1923)
 2014 - Kjell Nupen, Norwegian artist (b. 1955)
 2015 - Terry Pratchett, English writer (b. 1948)
 2015 - Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934)
 2015 - Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet (b. 1924)
 2016 - Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1941)
 2016 - Lloyd Shapley, American economist (b. 1923)
 2016 - Erik Duval, Belgian computer scientist (b. 1965)
 2017 - Murray Ball, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1939)
 2017 - Horst Ehmke, German politician (b. 1927)
 2017 - Probyn Inniss, Saint Kitts and Nevis lawyer (b. 1936)
 2017 - Ray Hassall, English politician (b. 1943)
 2018 - Nokie Edwards, American musician and actor (b. 1935)
 2018 - Rudolf Mang, German weightlifter (b. 1950)
 2018 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor (b. 1935)
 2018 - Henry Minarik, American football player (b. 1927)
 2019 - Eurico Miranda, Brazilian football chairman and politician (b. 1944)

Observances
 National Day of Mauritius
 Youth Day (Zambia)
 Arbor Day (China and Taiwan)
 Aztec New Year

Category:Days of the year

March 12


The 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 was a qualifying group for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Spain and Republic of Ireland were the two teams that qualified.

Results

Top scorers

5 goals

 Manolo
 Míchel

3 goals

 Carmel Busuttil
 Emilio Butragueño

Category:1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)


The Blue Man Group is a performing arts group. It was formed in 1987 in New York City. The members paint themselves in blue, wear black clothes and wear caps that make their heads look bald. The band plays rock music and is very entertaining and humorous. Families of all ages can enjoy their performances. Also, they have appeared in several commercials.

Category:American rock bands
Category:Musical groups from New York City

Blue Man Group


Gomaespuma is a radio show, presented by Juan Luis Cano and Guillermo Fesser. The program is broadcast by  Onda Cero. It also has been in M80 radio and in Antenna 3 Radio. Gomaespuma organises the Flamenco pa tos festival, the most important Flamenco festival of Spain. Gomaespuma directs a foundation with the same name.

 Pay attention to the pedals:  Luis Montoro
 Cinema:                   Cándida Villar
 Corresponsal en Paris:   Rubén Amón
 Corresponsal USA:       Gina Fox
 Mister Gárcia:        Claro García
 Interviews:            Juan Luis y Guillermo
 "Flamenco pa tos":        José Manuel Gamboa y Juan Verdú
 The guide of the "Michelines":        Juan Carlos Orlando
 The B face:              Carlos Cano
 The musical "croqueta":    Santi Alcanda
 The woman that i love: Curra Fernández
 Books:                 Mar de Tejeda
 News:               Esmeralda Velasco
 Gomaespuma with: José Manuel Lapeña
 Gomaespumino:           Juan Luis y Guillermo
 Health for the biggest:     Alfonso del Álamo

Other sections
 Cooking with Josechu Letón
 Gomaespuma of the succes
 Military Gomaespuma
 Regional Gomaespuma
 "Supernotición que te cagas"

People
These people have appeared on television and on radio (marionettes)
 Armando Adistancia
 Borja Món de York
 Candida
 Chema Pamundi
 Mister Eusebio
 Mister Francisco Rupto
 Mister Gun
 Mister Jesús Tituto
 El niño del paquete
 Estela Gartija
 Gustavo de Básica
 Padre Palomino
 Peláez

Books

 20 years with Gomaespuma
 There is not are more family than one family
 Greats misfortunes of the Spain history
 The father say no
 The guide of the "Michelines"
 When God press, drowns a lot  (Guillermo Fesser)
 Hincaíto (Juan Luis Cano)
 The legs are not of the body (Juan Luis Cano)
 Trades guide of Gomaespuma (Guillermo Fesser, Juan Luis Cano and Jose Manuel Lapeña
 A bullfighter pass (Juan Luis Cano y Ruben Amón)

Other websites
These links are in Spanish
Web of Gomaespuma
Web of Onda Cero
Web of the Gomaespuma Foundation
History of Gomaespuma )

Category:Radio programs

Gomaespuma


Christopher Evan Welch (September 28, 1965 – December 2, 2013) was an American actor of Broadway, movie, and television. One of his last movie appearances was in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).

Welch died of lung cancer on December 2, 2013, aged 48, at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.

References

Other websites

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Category:2013 deaths
Category:Actors from Virginia
Category:American movie actors
Category:American stage actors
Category:American television actors
Category:American voice actors
Category:Cancer deaths in California
Category:Deaths from lung cancer

Christopher Evan Welch


Yutaka Tahara (born 27 April 1982) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Shonan Bellmare.

Club career statistics

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|2001||rowspan="2"|Yokohama F. Marinos||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||13||1||0||0||1||0||14||1
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|2002||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|2002||rowspan="5"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||5||1||3||1||0||0||8||2
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|2003||10||1||1||0||2||0||13||1
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|2004||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||26||6||2||4||colspan="2"|-||28||10
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|2005||32||9||2||1||colspan="2"|-||34||10
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|2006||J. League 1||16||1||0||0||3||1||19||2
|-
|2007||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||J. League 2||31||9||1||0||colspan="2"|-||32||9
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|2008||J. League 1||24||5||1||0||5||1||30||6
|-
|2009||rowspan="2"|Shonan Bellmare||J. League 2||41||10||1||0||colspan="2"|-||42||10
|-
|2010||J. League 1||||||||||||||||
198||43||11||6||11||2||220||51
198||43||11||6||11||2||220||51
|}

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Kagoshima Prefecture

Yutaka Tahara


Luigi Radice (15 January 1935 – 7 December 2018) was a former Italian football player. He played for Italy national team.

Death
Radice died on 7 December 2018 in Turin from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 83.

Club career statistics

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|1955-56||rowspan="4"|Milan||rowspan="4"|Serie A||8||0
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|1956-57||1||0
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|1957-58||9||0
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|1958-59||2||0
|-
|1959-60||Triestina||Serie B||31||0
|-
|1960-61||Milan||Serie A||2||0
|-
|1960-61||Padova||Serie A||24||0
|-
|1961-62||rowspan="4"|Milan||rowspan="4"|Serie A||28||1
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|1962-63||23||0
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|1963-64||0||0
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|1964-65||2||0
130||0
130||0
|}

International career statistics

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|1962||5||0
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!Total||5||0
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References

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Category:2018 deaths
Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Category:Italian footballers

Luigi Radice


Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. He started his career with Donald Byrd. He then joined the Miles Davis Quintet. Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section. He was one of the main architects of the post-bop sound. He was also one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music.

Hancock's best-known compositions include "Watermelon Man", "Canteloupe Island" and "Chameleon". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Hancock was born in Chicago.

References

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Category:American movie actors
Category:American composers
Category:People from Chicago
Category:1940 births
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Herbie Hancock


Kajetan Kovič (21 October 1931 – 7 November 2014) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist. Kovič was born in Maribor, Yugoslavia. Kovič started writing poetry in high school, and he published his first poetry in 1948.

Kovič also wrote political poetry, such as a poem in honor of Josip Broz Tito. He established himself as a translator of German, French, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, and Russian poetry into Slovene. He also translated the poems that France Prešeren wrote in German into Slovene.

Kovič died on 7 November 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aged 83.

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Kajetan Kovič


Clara McBride Hale (April 1, 1905 – December 18, 1992), also known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian. She founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs.

Personal life
Hale was born April 1, 1905 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She moved to Philadelphia her father died when she was a toddler. Her mother couldn't pay for her and her siblings, her mother took in lodgers to pay for her family. Clara Hale's mother died when she was sixteen.

She met Thomas Hale in high school and when they graduated they went to New York together and started a floor waxing company. Thomas and Clara Hale had two children named Lorraine and a son Nathan. Clara Hale adopted a boy named Kenneth the time Thomas Hale was going through cancer and died at the age of twenty seven.

When a drug addicted mom was at her door step she asked if Hale would take her drug addicted baby. Hale took in the baby and the Hale house began.

Hale died on December 18, 1992 in New York City from stroke-related complications at the age of 87.

More reading
 Bolden, T. (1998). And Not Afraid to Dare: The Stories of Ten African-American Women. New York: Scholastic Press.
 Italia, B. (1993). Clara Hale: A Mother to Those Who Needed One. Minnesota: Abdo & Daughters.
 Lanker, B. (1989). I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
 Pinkney A., & Woock, R.R. (1970). Poverty and Politics in Harlem. New Haven, Conn.: College & University Press.
 Schoener, A. (1968). Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900- 1968. New York: Random House.

References

Other websites
 African American Registry
 Hale House Center

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Clara Hale


Mio is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Oscoda County.

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Mio, Michigan


Bush were a British post-grunge band, formed in London in 1992. Their debut album was the self-released Sixteen Stone in 1994. They have sold well over 10 million records in the United States. The band, while hugely successful in the United States, was less well known in their native UK and enjoyed only marginal success there.

Members
 Gavin Rossdale – lead vocals, guitar
 Nigel Pulsford – lead guitar, string arrangements, background vocals (1992-2002)
 Chris Traynor – lead guitar (2002)
 Dave Parsons – bass
 Robin Goodridge – drums, percussion
 Sacha Puttnam – keyboards, background vocals

Discography

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Bush (band)


Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

Discography
 The Complete Library Of Congress Sessions (1964) Travelin' Man Cd 02
 Blues From The Mississippi Delta (W/Short)  (1964) Folkways 2467
 The Legendary Son House: Father Of The Delta Blues (1965) Columbia 2417
 In Concert (Oberlin College, 1965)  Stack-O-Hits 9004
 Delta Blues (1941-1942)  Smithsonian 31028
 Son House & Blind Lemon Jefferson (1926-1941)  Biograph 12040
 Son House - The Real Delta Blues (1964-65 Recordings)  Blue Goose Records 2016
 Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers (With Willie Brown,)  Document Cd 5002
 Son House At Home : Complete 1969 Document 5148
 Son House (Library Of Congress)  Folk Lyric 9002
 John The Revelator Liberty 83391
 American Folk Blues Festival '67 (1 Cut) Optimism Cd 2070
 Son House - 1965-1969 (Mostly TV Appearances)  Private Record Pr-01
 Son House - Father Of The Delta Blues : Complete 1965 Sony/Legacy Cd 48867
 Living Legends (1 Cut, 1966)  Verve/Folkways 3010
 Real Blues (1 Cut, U Of Chicago, 1964)  Takoma 7081
 John The Revelator - 1970 London Sessions Sequel Cd 207
 Great Bluesmen/Newport (2 Cuts, 1965)  Vanguard Cd 77/78
 Blues With A Feeling (3 Cuts, 1965)  Vanguard Cd 77005
 Son House/Bukka White - Masters Of The Country Blues Yazoo Video 500 :
 Delta Blues And Spirituals (1995)
 In Concert (Live)  (1996)
 Live At Gaslight Cafe, 1965 (2000)
 New York Central Live (2003)
 Delta Blues (1941-1942)  (2003) Biograph Cd 118
 Proper Introduction to Son House (2004) Proper (contains everything recorded on years 1930, 1940 & 1941)

Notes

 information about House's age

Other websites
 Video clip of Son House performing

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Son House


In math, the identity property is made up of two parts: the additive identity property and the multiplicative identity property.

The additive identity property says that the sum of adding any number and zero (0) is just the original number.

The multiplicative identity property says that the product of multiplying any number and one (1) is just the original number. Also, if you divide a number by itself, the result (quotient) is one.

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Identity Property