Millerites was the name for the followers of the teachings of William Miller. In 1833, Miller said that he had done some calculations, and that the second coming of Christ would happen about the year 1843. This turned out to be false, and there was a great disappointment. Miller had documented how he did Bible interpretation, so anyone could do it. After the disappointment, some movements emerged that were generally called Adventist.

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Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy (January 9, 1929 - May 24, 2013) was an American singer for swing music and bebop drummer who was associated with The Tonight Show Band that appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and grew up in New York City. Shaughnessy was married to Ilene Woods. He died on May 24, 2013, age eighty-four.

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Neil Fingleton (18 December 1980 – 25 February 2017) was an English actor and basketball player. He was the tallest British-born man and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) in height and among the 25 tallest men in the world.

This title has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records in the summer of 2007; Fingleton took over from Christopher Greener who stood at 7 ft 6 ¼ in (229.2 cm) in height.

Fingleton died on 25 February 2017 from a heart attack in Durham, England, aged 36.

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Amargasaurus was a sauropod from the early Cretaceous period. It grew to 10 meters (33 feet) length, which was relatively small for a sauropod. It was a quadrupedal herbivore with a long, low skull on the end of a long neck, much like its relative Dicraeosaurus.

Amargasaurus was found in La Amarga, a canyon in  Neuquén Province, Argentina.

Features
Amargasaurus had two tall rows of spines on top of its backbone along the neck and back. The function of the spines is not known. They may have operated as a defence from theropod attack from above. Another idea is that they supported a sail-like structure.

The neural spines were bifurcated along their entire length, forming a double row. They were circular in cross section and tapered towards their tips. The tallest spines could be found on the middle part of the neck, where they reached 60 cm on the 8th cervical. On the neck, they were bowed backwards, projecting above the adjacent vertebra. Greatly elongated spines continue along the last two dorsal vertebrae, the hip and foremost tail. However, in these regions the spines were not bifurcated but flared into a paddle-shaped upper end.

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Amargasaurus


A partnership is when two or more people work together to complete a task. Those people are partners. Partner may share a business together for the profit of each other. If one business partner ends up making money they both share the profit. Some partners are not individuals but corporations or other groups.

Partnerships may be temporary, e.g. dancing partners (two people who dance together) or partners at a card games such as bridge in which partners work together against the other partners (their opponents).

A partner may also be somebody who lives with another person, e.g. a husband or wife (marriage partners), or a very good friend who shares his or her life with the other person. The word partner in this sense is used a lot in modern times because it does not discriminate between married or unmarried couples.

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Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam (also spelled Chelvanayagam, 31 March 1898 - 26 April 1977,  was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was Tamil. He was a Member of Parliament and was a political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil community for more than two decades. His son Chandrahasan followed his fathers footstep by becoming a public servant in Tamil Nadu.

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S. J. V. Chelvanayakam


Ecological economics (also called eco-economics, ecolonomy or bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen) is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research about the coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems.

By treating the economy as a system of Earth's larger ecosystem, and by the preservation of natural capital, the field of ecological economics is different from environmental economics.

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In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions movie. It stars Hayley Mills, George Sanders, and Maurice Chevalier. The movie was directed by Robert Stevenson.  It was based on Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children. The movie was Mills's third of six movies for the Disney Studios. The movie was a box office hit.

The Sherman brothers (Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman) wrote the songs "Castaway", "Merci Beaucoup", "Let's Climb", and "Enjoy It". Movie critic Hal Erickson wrote, "[The movie] is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence...the film was ideal Saturday-matinee fodder for the kiddie trade in 1963."

Cast
 Hayley Mills as Mary Grant, Captain Grant's daughter
 Keith Hamshere as Robert Grant, Captain Grant's son
 Jack Gwillim as Captain Grant, a castaway
 Maurice Chevalier as Jacques Paganel, friend to Mary and Robert
 Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord Glenarvan
 Michael Anderson, Jr. as John Glenarvan, his son
 George Sanders as Thomas Ayerton
 Wilfrid Brambell as Bill Gaye, a castaway
 Antonio Cifariello as Thalcave, Indian Chief
 Inia Te Wiata as Maori Chief

Story
Teenager Mary Grant, her brother Robert, and their friend Professor Paganel, persuade Lord Glenarvan to rescue shipwrecked Captain Grant. They sail halfway around the world on Lord Glenarvan's yacht. The friends survive an earthquake, a flood, a fire, an attack by a giant condor, and a volcanic eruption before rescuing Captain Grant from fierce Maoris.

A subplot involves a criminal named Thomas Ayerton, a former crew-member of Captain Grant's ship. He was responsible for Captain Grant's disappearance. Another subplot involves a romance between Mary and Lord Glenarvan's son John.

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In Search of the Castaways


Shikoku (四国) is the smallest of Japan's four main islands.  About 4 million people live there, fewer than on any of the other main islands.

The island lies south of Honshu and east of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Strait. A bridge connects it to Honshu.

Farming is a very important business in Shikoku. Citrus fruits are an important product. Shikoku is the home of the 88 Temple Pilgrimage of the Shingon sect of Buddhism.

Regions
Shikoku region covers the entire island.

The name Shikoku literally means "four countries" in Japanese. Shikoku was made of four old "countries" or provinces that are now prefectures. In other words, each prefecture has a modern name and an old provincial name. The old names are still used sometimes, especially for foods, music, or art.

Ehime, formerly Iyo Province – to the west
Kagawa, formerly Sanuki Province – to the north
Kōchi, formerly Tosa Province – to the south
Tokushima, formerly Awa Province – to the east

Cities
 Kōchi – home of "Yosakoi" and many local sights
 Matsuyama, Ehime – is best known for the old hot springs at Dogo Onsen
 Takamatsu, Kagawa – the largest city in Shikoku
 Tokushima – home of the Awa Odori festival in August
 Uwajima – has a fertility shrine and wrestling bulls
 Naruto – the east gate of Shikoku.

Points of interest
 Cape Ashizuri – a scenic cape at the southernmost point of Shikoku
 Iya Valley – a remote but beautiful mountain valley
 Kotohira – the site of the Kompira-san shrine
 Mount Ishizuchi – the tallest peak in Shikoku

Castles
There are twelve original castles left in Japan and Shikoku is home to four of them.
 Marugame Castle, Marugame
 Kōchi Castle, Kochi
 Matsuyama Castle
 Uwajima Castle, Uwajima.

Temples and Shrines
The 88 Temple Pilgrimage is a famous but difficult 1,647-kilometer circle around the entire island. Serious pilgrims may choose to complete the 88 Temple Circuit on foot. Other people uses buses.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

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Shikoku


František Rajtoral (12 March 1986 – 23 April 2017) was a Czech football player. He last played for Turkish club Gaziantepspor. He was best known for his stint at Viktoria Plzeň. He was a member of the Czech Republic national football team. He won the Czech Cup with FC Viktoria Plzeň in 2010. Further trophies he won with the club include the Gambrinus Liga twice and the Czech Supercup.

On 29 February 2012, Rajtoral earned his first cap for the senior team of his country in the 1–1 draw with Ireland in a friendly match.

Rajtoral was described as "one of the best attacking right-wingers in the Czech Republic" by a journalist for the BBC.

Rajtoral committed suicide by hanging himself his apartment in Gaziantep, Turkey on 23 April 2017. He was 31.

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František Rajtoral


Princeton is a city in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. It is also the county seat of Bureau County. In 2010, 7,660 people lived there. Princeton is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Bureau County was a New England settlement. The first people of Princeton were from New England. These people were "Yankees." They were part of a group of New England farmers who went west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s. Most of them came because of the Erie Canal. When they came to what is now Bureau County, there was nothing but forest and wild prairie. The New Englanders created farms, built roads, created government buildings and created post routes. Culturally, Bureau County would be very similar with early New England culture for most of its history. During slavery, it was a stop on the Underground Railroad at the home of Owen Lovejoy.

Princeton's old nickname was "The City of Elms" because there were many elm trees in Princeton during the middle of the 20th century.

Geography
Princeton is at  (41.378481, −89.466924). The United States Census Bureau says that Princeton has a total area of . All of it is land.

People

2000 census
The 2000 census says that there were 7,501 people, 3,263 households, and 1,987 families living in Princeton.

Infrastructure

Transportation
Amtrak has service to Princeton. It is on the California Zephyr, the Illinois Zephyr, the Carl Sandburg and the Southwest Chief. It goes daily in both directions between Chicago and points west from Princeton.

Education
Princeton has the Princeton High School. It is the oldest township high school in the state. It was created in 1867.

Famous people

 William Bascom, folklorist, anthropologist
 E. Leslie Conkling, educator and Illinois state legislator
 Henry C. Doolittle, state assemblyman from Wisconsin
 William Dyke, Wisconsin judge and politician
 Virgil Fox, one of the greatest organist of the 20th Century
 Billy Garrett, auto racer
 Gary Green, guitarist for the band Gentle Giant
 Thomas P. Gunning, dentist and Illinois state senator
 Madison Gonterman, head football coach at Indiana University 1896–97
 Jerry Hadley, opera singer and recitalist
 Kathryn Hays, television actress (birth name Kay Piper)
 Frank Fernando Jones, Iowa state legislator
 Paul Kell, NFL player with the Green Bay Packers
 Keith Knudsen, drummer with the Doobie Brothers
 Owen Lovejoy, Congressman, key supporter of Abraham Lincoln, and a leader in the Underground Railway movement to free slaves
 Asa Mercer, founder of the University of Washington
 Bruce Nickells, harness racing driver and trainer; grew up in Princeton
 Ben Parr, author of Captivology, former co-editor of Mashable and columnist for CNET
 Joseph R. Peterson lawyer and Illinois state legislator
 Robert Petkoff, noted Broadway and television Actor, graduated from Princeton High School
 Joseph "Joe" Ruklick, NBA basketball player with the Philadelphia Warriors
 Josh Taylor, actor in Days of Our Lives soap opera and television features
 Justin Tranchita, actor and artist
 William V. Thompson, bowler
 Richard Widmark, Oscar-nominated actor of 61 movies, he was senior class President when he graduated from Princeton High School
 Milo Winter, children's book artist
 Nick Young, radio newscaster with CBS and WBBM

References

Other websites

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Princeton Tourism Bureau – official website
Princeton Chamber of Commerce – official website

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Princeton, Illinois


Dignitas is a Swiss group that helps people with assisted suicide. This means that, if a person is very ill and wants to die, the doctors and nurses help them to end their life. Only people who have a terminal illness or very bad physical or mental illnesses are allowed to be helped. The patients must be able to understand what is happening and decide for themselves that death is what they want.

Dignitas was started in 1998 by Ludwig Minelli, a Swiss lawyer. The law in Switzerland says that someone can help in an assisted suicide so long as they do not have any self-interest (for example, so long as they are not going to inherit money from the person who dies). The doctor has to meet the person on two occasions and make sure that the person really does wish to die. There must be evidence for this, i.e. the patient has to sign a paper, and two witnesses have to sign to say they saw the patient signing. If the patient is too ill to sign, a video film can be made. The patient is asked several times whether that is what they want. If everyone is absolutely sure, then he or she is given a drug which will kill them.

Some people travel from other countries such as Britain to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland so that they can be helped to die. For example, the rugby player Daniel James, who was 23, had a terrible injury to his spine which left him paralysed from his chest down, travelled there with his parents to die. In 2009 the British conductor Edward Downes and his wife both travelled to Dignitas where they died together.

References

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Dignitas (euthanasia group)


The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce." Until 1913 there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Labor, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Labor.

List of Secretaries of Commerce

Footnote: Under Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges Jr served as Interim Secretary of Commerce October 31, 1979 to January 9, 1980.
From 25 July 1987 to 19 October 1987, Clarence J. Brown Jr. was Acting Secretary
of Commerce.

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Halima Sadia () was an Arabic Beduin woman. She was a wet-nurse and took care of the prophet Muhammad for the first two years of his life. She was his foster-mother. Halimah and her husband were from the tribe of Sa'd b. Bakr (a large North Arabian tribe).

Relationship with Muhammad
Wet nurses came to Mecca to feed children. It was the custom at that time in Makkah that families send their children to live for a while with a Beduin nurse who lived in the desert. This was healthier for their bodies to be around a natural environment instead of living in the city. They preferred that the fathers of the children they fed were still alive. Although Muhammad's father was dead, Halimah took him just eight days after he was born. He grew up in Hudaybiyah, then in Medina before he was returned to his mother, Aminah bint Wahb.

Years after Muhammad's mother died and he became married to Khadijah, Halimah came to him complaining of her poverty. He asked Khadijah to give her 40 sheep. After Muhammad got his first revelation, Halimah and her husband came to Muhammad and embraced Islam. When she came to Muhammad on the day of Hunayn, he took off his robe and put it on the ground for her to sit.

So when the group of nurses arrived at the Makkah city and they picked up most of the children, the last nurse arrived with her husband (Al-Harith) riding a donkey and old camel. She found only one orphan boy who had no father to pay her. She was ready to go back but she did not want to return without a baby. She decided to go back and pick up the orphan.

As soon as she lifted that boy, her life changed and became filled with immense good fortune and blessings. Both, Muhammad and the nurse`s child were fully fed, even though the previous night and before reaching Makkah, there was no milk for her child. The old camel, which had not given a drop of milk, was soon over flowing with milk. Although she was the last women leaving makkah on her donkey, she passed her friends. This was indeed a great blessing for her and for this poor Bedouin family.

After two years, Muhammad was returned to his mother Amina. She told Amina about the great blessings that she had received when Muhammad was in her care, but soon, Amina was persuaded by Halima and her husband (Al-Harith) to return the child back with them for another two years to protect him from a spreading disease in Makkah.

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Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a British computer scientist. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language. He was given a Ph.D. in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2004. He later a professor at KTF from 2014. He was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire.

Armstrong died on 20 April 2019, at the age of 68.

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Joe Armstrong (programmer)


"Gotta Get Away" is a song by the Californian punk rock group The Offspring. It was released as the third and last single from the album Smash (1994). The song was a modest hit in several countries, while it peaked at #6 on Billboard's Modern Rock charts in the United States. "Gotta Get Away" was inspired by an early track, "Cogs", written while the band was still named Manic Subsidal. The lyrics refer to the pressure that lead singer Dexter Holland was under to finish the album on time.

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Gotta Get Away


Fandom or FANDOM may refer to:
FANDOM, a community for making wiki websites. Also known as Wikia.
Fandom, a group of people who are interested in something.

Fandom (disambiguation)


Alcee Lamar Hastings  (born September 5, 1936) is an American politician and judge. He is the U.S. Representative for  serving since January 3, 1993.  The district includes most of the majority-black precincts in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.  He is a Democrat.

Hastings served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida until his impeachment and removal due to Hastings being involved in bribery-related actions.

In January 2019, Hastings was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

References

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Alcee L. Hastings for Congress

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Charles S. Kettles (January 9, 1930 – January 23, 2019) was a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was a Medal of Honor recipient for his services in the United States Army. Kettles received the Medal of Honor on July 18, 2016, nearly 50 years after his actions while serving as a flight commander assigned to 176th Aviation Company (Airmobile) (Light), 14th Combat Aviation Battalion, Americal Division.

Kettles died on January 21, 2019 in Ypsilanti, Michigan at the age of 89.

References

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 Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Kettles

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Charles Kettles


An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.

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Escalator


Domenico Losurdo (14 November 1941 – 28 June 2018) was an Italian Marxist philosopher and historian. He was born in Sannicandro di Bari, Italy. He was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Urbino. Losurdo wrote Liberalism: A Counter-History. He was critical of racism, slavery, and genocide.

Losurdo died on 28 June 2018 in Rome from esophageal cancer at the age of 76.

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Domenico Losurdo


Liberty County is the name of four counties in the United States:
 Liberty County, Florida
 Liberty County, Georgia
 Liberty County, Montana
 Liberty County, Texas

Liberty County


Insignificance is a feeling that nothing you do matters, or that you are not important. People may feel this for many reasons. For example, having low self-esteem, being depressed, living in a large city with many people, comparing themselves to rich celebrity success stories, working in a large bureaucracy, or being in awe of a natural wonder.

People living in crowded, major cities may face feelings of insignificance. George Simmel says that when people live in a big city, they may start to feel like "...just another face in the crowd", it can "lead to feelings of insignificance...".

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Insignificance


Oberstammheim was municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the municipalities Oberstammheim, Unterstammheim and Waltalingen joined together to become new municipality Stammheim.

References

Other websites

 Official Website of Oberstammheim

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Oberstammheim


The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites (sometimes simply Carmel; ) is a Roman Catholic religious order. It was founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, from which the order receives its name. Saint Bertold has traditionally been associated with the founding of the order, but few clear records of early Carmelite history have survived.

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Carmelites


Bellaire is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The population was 4,278 at the 2010 census.

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Bellaire, Ohio


The kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) is the only type of pigeon native to New Zealand. It is very big and easy to spot, and its wings make a loud sound when it flies. It is the only still-living New Zealand bird which can eat large fruits whole, and so is important for spreading the seeds of many native trees. Kererū were an important type of food for Māori. There are much fewer kererū now than before the Europeans arrived in New Zealand, mostly because the Europeans brought meat-eating animals like cats, ferrets, stoats, possums, and rats, and cut down a lot of the forest. Because there are not many kererū any more, it is against the law to hunt them.

Name
'Kererū' is the most common name for this bird, but in some parts of the North Island it is called kūkū or kūkupa. Kererū are also called wood pigeon, but they are a different type of bird to the wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) of the Northern Hemisphere.

Description
Kererū are big and generally weigh between 550 and 850 grams. They have a white underbelly and dark green/blue head, shoulders, and wings. The green/blue colour is iridescent, meaning it is shiny and shows lots of different blues, greens, and purples in the sunlight.

Kereru


Joan Verdú (born 5 May 1983) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Espanyol Barcelona.

Club career statistics

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York Cottage was the home of King George V and Queen Mary when they were Duke and Duchess of York.  It is currently used as the Estate Office for Sandringham House.  Some of the building is also used as flats for estate employees and holiday accommodation.

King George V and his wife, Queen Mary, lived in the house after their marriage in 1893.

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York Cottage


Pesse is a village located in the Dutch province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. The Pesse canoe is known as the world's oldest boat is located in Pesse.

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Pesse


, formerly known as Itazuke Air Base, is a Japanese airport in Fukuoka.

The airport is located in Hakata, south-east of the city center.  No other airport in Japan is so close to the central part of the city as Fukuoka Airport.

Fukuoka is officially a second class airport.  It is operating at full capacity, and cannot be further expanded.

Fukuoka Airport is the fourth busiest passenger airport in Japan.

Related pages
 List of airports in Japan

References

Other websites

Fukuoka Airport website

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Category:Fukuoka Prefecture

Fukuoka Airport


Karate belts are a measure of a student/teacher ability. For example, a Brown belt is higher than a Blue Belt.

Usual rank

All styles of karate range from white to black. There are some theories about how belts came to be.

The "dying" theory

Some believe when a student graduated a kyu, he/she would dye their current belt the new, desired color. This was often done in Japan during WWII when it was a very poor country.

The "dirty belt" theory

This is a theory that demonstrates how a student would, as they trained, dirty their belt overtime. More of a myth than a theory, a student started with a white belt. As sweat, dirt, and other debris occupied not only the belt, but the karate gi, his/her color appeared to get darker and closer to black.

References

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Northern Light was Whatcom County’s first news paper.

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Northern Light


Jussy, Aisne is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Jussy, Aisne


Columbia County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 67,295. The county seat is Bloomsburg.

References

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Columbia County, Pennsylvania


A head writer is a person who oversees a team of writers. This is usually on a television or radio series. The title is also common in the soap opera genre, as well. Head writers are common to comedy sketches, game shows and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits. In most primetime series this function is generally performed by an executive producer. It is the head writer's job to do the final editing.

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Head writer


A luminous red nova (LRN) is an explosion in space. It is probably caused when two stars merge to become one. Their red colour is distinctive. The light curve near the star stays in the infared. Luminous red novae are different from normal novae. Those are explosions on the surface of white dwarf stars.

History and discovery
The first luminous red nova found was in the Messier 85 galaxy. It was discovered when people working at the Rickett Observatory were searching for supernovas. Astronomers from U.C. Berkeley and Caltech investigated it. They found that it was different from normal novae and thermal pulses. Afterwards, they announced that luminous red novae are a new type of star explosion.

More luminous red novae were found after the discovery. Researchers found V1309 Scorpii in 2008. The star system was a contact binary. Researchers were studying it for six years before it merged and exploded. In 2015, two different luminous red novae were found. One was in the Andromeda galaxy, and the other was in the Pinwheel galaxy. Astronomers think that in 2022, KIC 9832227 will merge and become a new luminous red nova. This star system is 1800 light years away from the Sun. A team from Calvin College found that the orbital period of the star system was slowing down and that the stars were coming closer to each other.

Traits
Luminous red novae have these traits:
 The luminosity of the explosion is between that of a supernova and that of a nova.
 The light of the explosion stays for a few weeks or a few months. It gradually becomes darker.
 These stars may not be as hot as normal stars.

References

Other websites
 Press release by Caltech "Caltech and Berkeley Astronomers Identify a New Class of Cosmic Explosions"

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Luminous red nova


Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, has about 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants. It grows in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. It includes plants like the Bougainvillea and the four o'clock. Most of the species are vines.

The family has a unique fruit type, called an "anthocarp". Many genera have extremely large (>100 µm) pollen grains.

A curious aspect of M. jalapa, the four o'clock, is that flowers with different colours grow simultaneously on the same plant.

Notes

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Nyctaginaceae


The national flag of Angola came into use at independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower black half.

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Angola

Flag of Angola


Le Hérie-la-Viéville is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.

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Le Hérie-la-Viéville


Thomas Gayle Morris (August 20, 1919 – March 4, 2016) was an American politician. He was born in Eastland County, Texas. Morris served in the New Mexico House of Representatives from 1953 to 1958. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1958. Morris began serving on January 3, 1959, and left office January 3, 1969, after being defeated for re-election.

Morris died in Amarillo, Texas on March 4, 2016 at the age of 96.

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The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet of 26 letters (each having an uppercase and a lowercase form) – exactly the same letters that are found in the ISO basic Latin alphabet:

The exact shape of printed letters changes depending on the typeface (and font). The shape of handwritten letters can be very different from the standard printed form (and between individuals), especially when written in cursive style. See the individual letter articles for information about letter shapes and origins (follow the links on any of the uppercase letters above).

Written English uses 18 digraphs (strings of two letters to represent just one sound), such as ch, sh, th, ph, wh, etc., but they are not considered separate letters of the alphabet. Some traditions also call two ligatures, æ and œ, and the ampersand (&) part of the alphabet.

History

Old English
The English language was first written in Anglo-Saxon futhorc runes, used since the 5th century. This alphabet was brought to what is now England, along with Old English itself, the earliest form of the language, by Anglo-Saxon settlers. Very few examples of this form of written Old English have survived, with most of these being short writings or pieces.

The Latin script, introduced by Christian missionaries, began to replace the Anglo-Saxon futhorc from about the 7th century, although the two continued to be used alongside each other for some time. Futhorc influenced the new Latin-based English alphabet by giving it letters thorn (Þ þ) and wynn (Ƿ ƿ). The letter eth (Ð ð) was later devised as a rewriting of the letter dee (D d), and finally yogh ( ) was created by Norman scribes from the insular g in Old English and Irish, and used alongside their Carolingian g.

The a-e ligature ash (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune æsc. In very early Old English the o-e ligature ethel (Œ œ) also appeared as its own letter, likewise named after a rune, œðel. Also, the v-v or u-u ligature double-u (W w) was in use.

In the year 1011, a monk named Byrhtferð recorded the traditional order of the Old English alphabet. He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet first (including ampersand), then 5 additional English letters, starting with the Tironian note ond (⁊), an insular symbol for and:
 A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z & ⁊ Ƿ Þ Ð Æ

Modern English
In the alphabet of Modern English, thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn (ƿ), yogh (), ash (æ), and ethel (œ) do not exist. Latin borrowings reintroduced homographs of ash and ethel into Middle English and Early Modern English, though they are not thought to be the same letters but rather ligatures, and in any case are somewhat old-fashioned. Thorn and eth were both replaced by th, though thorn continued in existence for some time, its lowercase form becoming more and more difficult to tell  from the minuscule y in most handwriting. Y for th can still be seen in pseudo-archaisms (modern writings spelled to look like older words or phrases), such as "Ye Olde Booke Shoppe". The letters þ and ð are still used in present-day Icelandic while ð is still used in present-day Faroese. Wynn disappeared from English around the 14th century when it was supplanted by uu, which ultimately developed into the modern w. Yogh disappeared around the 15th century and was typically replaced by gh.

In the 16th century, the letters u and j were being written as letters distinct from v and i respectively, whereas before the former two letters were just different forms of the latter two letters. w also became its own letter, rather than be thought of as 2 different letters. With these changes, the English alphabet now has 26 letters:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The alternate lowercase form long s (ſ) lasted into early modern English, and was used in non-final position up to the early 19th century.

Proposed reforms
Different alphabets have been proposed for written English –
mostly extending or replacing the basic English alphabet –
such as the Deseret alphabet, the Shavian alphabet, Gregg shorthand, etc.

Diacritics
Diacritic marks (extra marks to help non-native speakers with pronunciation) mainly appear in loanwords such as naïve and façade. As such words become a normal part of English vocabulary, there is a tendency to remove the diacritics, as has happened with old borrowings such as hôtel, from French. Informal English writing tends to get rid of diacritics because of their absence from the keyboard, while professional copywriters and typesetters tend to include them, such as Microsoft Word. Words that are still thought to be foreign tend to keep them; for example, the only spelling of soupçon found in English dictionaries (the OED and others) uses the diacritic. Diacritics are also more likely to be kept where there would otherwise be confusion with another word (for example, résumé (or resumé) rather than resume), and, rarely, even added (as in maté, from Spanish yerba mate, but following the pattern of café, from French).

Sometimes, especially in older writing, diacritics are used to show the syllables of a word: cursed (verb) is pronounced with one syllable, while cursèd (adjective) is pronounced with two. È is used widely in poetry, e.g. in Shakespeare's sonnets. J.R.R. Tolkien uses ë, as in O wingëd crown. Similarly, while in chicken coop the letters -oo- represent a single vowel sound (a digraph), in outdated spellings such as zoölogist and coöperation, they represent two.  This use of the diaeresis is rarely seen, but is still used in the 2000s in some publications, such as MIT Technology Review and The New Yorker.

An acute, grave, or diaeresis may also be placed over an "e" at the end of a word to indicate that it is not silent, as in saké. In general, these markings are often not used even when they could ease some level of confusion.

Ampersand
The & has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, like in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. Historically, the figure is a ligature for the letters Et. In English and many other languages it is used to represent the word and and occasionally the Latin word et, as in the abbreviation &c (et cetera).

Apostrophe
The apostrophe, while not considered part of the English alphabet, is used to contract, or shorten, English phrases. A few pairs of words, such as its (belonging to it) and it's (it is or it has), were (plural of was) and we're (we are), and shed (to get rid of) and she'd (she would or she had) are distinguished in writing only by having or not having an apostrophe. The apostrophe also distinguishes the possessive endings -'s and -s' from the common plural ending -s, a practice that began in the 18th century; before, all three endings were written -s, which could lead to confusion (as in, the Apostles words).

Letter names
The names of the letters are rarely spelled out, except when used in compound words (for example tee-shirt, deejay, emcee, okay, aitchless, etc.), derived forms (for example exed out, effing, to eff and blind, etc.), and in the names of objects named after letters (for example em (space) in printing and wye (junction) in railroading). The forms listed below are from the Oxford English Dictionary. Vowels stand for themselves, and consonants usually have the form consonant + ee or e + consonant (e.g. bee and ef). The exceptions are the letters aitch, jay, kay, cue, ar, ess (but es- in compounds ), wye, and zed. Plurals of consonants end in -s (bees, efs, ems) or, in the cases of aitch, ess, and ex, in -es (aitches, esses, exes). Plurals of vowels end in -es (aes, ees, ies, oes, ues); these are rare. Of course, all letters may stand for themselves, generally in capitalized form (okay or OK, emcee or MC), and plurals may be based on these (aes or As, cees or Cs, etc.)

Some groups of letters, such as pee and bee, or em and en, are easily confused in speech, especially when heard over the telephone or a radio communications link.  Spelling alphabets such as the ICAO spelling alphabet, used by aircraft pilots, police and others, are made to get rid of this confusion by giving each letter a name that sounds quite different from any other.

Etymology
The names of the letters are for the most part direct descendants of the Latin (and Etruscan) names through French.

The regular phonological developments (in rough chronological order) are:
 palatalization before front vowels of Latin  successively to , , and finally to Middle French . Affects C.
 palatalization before front vowels of Latin  to Proto-Romance and Middle French . Affects G.
 fronting of Latin  to Middle French , becoming Middle English  and then Modern English . Affects Q, U.
 the inconsistent lowering of Middle English  to . Affects R.
 the Great Vowel Shift, shifting all Middle English long vowels. Affects A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, O, P, T, and presumably Y.
The novel forms are aitch, a regular development of Medieval Latin acca; jay, a new letter presumably vocalized like neighboring kay to avoid confusion with established gee (the other name, jy, was taken from French); vee, a new letter named by analogy with the majority; double-u, a new letter, self-explanatory (the name of Latin V was ū); wye, of obscure origin but with an antecedent in Old French wi; zee, an American leveling of zed by analogy with the majority; and izzard, from the Romance phrase i zed or i zeto "and Z" said when reciting the alphabet.

Phonology
The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels; the remaining letters are considered consonant letters, since when not silent they generally represent consonants. However, Y commonly represents vowels as well as a consonant (e.g., "myth"), as very rarely does W (e.g., "cwm"). Conversely, U and I sometimes represent a consonant (e.g., "quiz" and "onion" respectively).

W and Y are sometimes called semivowels by linguists.

Letter numbers and frequencies
The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z.

The table below shows the frequency of letter usage in written English, although the frequencies change somewhat according to the type of text.

Related pages
 Alphabet song
 NATO phonetic alphabet
 English orthography
 English spelling reform
 American manual alphabet
 Two-handed manual alphabets
 English braille
 American braille
 New York Point

Notes

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Don J. Wright is an American physician and government official. He is the current acting United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Wright was designated by Donald Trump after his predecessor, Tom Price, resigned on September 29, 2017.

From 2003 to 2007, Wright was Director of the Office of Occupational Medicine for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Wright was replaced by Eric Hargan as the new acting Health Secretary by President Trump on October 10, 2017.

Wright started at HHS in 2007, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health. In 2009, he became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Care Quality, and in 2012, he was named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

References

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The DW Stadium is a football stadium in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is the current home stadium of Wigan Athletic football club and the Wigan Warriors rugby league club. The stadium is named after the sportswear and fitness company DWSportsfitness.

It opened in 1999 as JJB Stadium, from the JJB Sports sportswear company. The name changed in 2009 when Wigan Athletic owner Dave Whelan bought a chain of fitness clubs from JJB Sports and set up a new business, DWSportsfitness. The deal also gave Whelan stadium naming rights, and he changed its name to DW Stadium at that time.

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Joshua David Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American violinist.  He is considered one of the greatest violinists of today.

Childhood
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States.  His father was a psychologist and therapist.  He began  violin lessons at the age of four after his mother found that her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano. His parents got him a very small violin  and started giving him lessons.  He learned the violin very quickly, but also had time to enjoy things such as  video games and  sports.

Bell's first violin teacher suggested that he should learn with Josef Gingold.  Bell says that Gingold was a great teacher.  At the age of fourteen, Bell appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. He studied the violin at the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, while managing to graduate from Bloomington High School North in 1984.

Career
Joshua Bell first played in the Carnegie Hall, New York in 1985 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. He has since performed with almost all of the world's major orchestras and conductors.  He has played all the well known concertos as well as new works.  In 1993 he gave the first performance of Nicholas Maw's violin concerto which was dedicated to him. The recording of this work won Bell a Grammy award. He performed the solo part on John Corigliano's Oscar-winning soundtrack for the movie The Red Violin and was also featured in Ladies in Lavender. Bell also made an appearance in the movie Music of the Heart, a story about the power of music, with other famous violinists.

Bell's violin is a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin called the Gibson ex Huberman, which was made in 1713, a time when Stradivarius was making his best instruments.   This violin had been stolen twice from the previous owner, Bronislaw Huberman; the last time the thief confessed as he was dying to having stolen it.  Bell had held and played the violin, and its owner at the time jokingly told Bell the violin could be his for four million dollars.  Shortly afterwards, by chance, Bell came across the violin again and discovered it was about to be sold to a wealthy German  to become part of a collection. According to the Joshua Bell website Bell "was practically in tears."  Bell then sold the Stradivarius violin that he had at the time for a little more than two million dollars and bought the Gibson ex Huberman for a little under the four million dollar asking price. His first recording made with the Gibson ex Huberman was Romance of the Violin. It sold more than 5,000,000 copies and remained at the top of classical music charts for 54 weeks.  In September 2006 he made a CD called the Voice of the Violin and was released in September 2006. It has songs arranged for the violin.  He played the song Vocalise by Rachmaninoff in the Royal Albert Hall at the Last Night of the Proms in 2007.  He is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

In an unusual experiment the Washington Post asked Bell to stand in the street and busk (play his violin) by the entrance to a Washington Metro station one cold morning in January 2007.  During the 45 minutes that he played more than 1000 people passed him but only a few people stopped to listen, most of whom were children.  Only one person recognized him and one other person realized he was a great violinist.

Personal life
Bell lives in Manhattan. He is keen on sports such as golf and tennis.  He has never married, although he has one child, born in July 2007, by a former girlfriend.

Other websites
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Recording of Bell's performance in L'Enfant Plaza.

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Oxygen difluoride is the chemical compound with the formula OF2. It has a V-shaped molecular structure like H2O, but has different properties. It is a strong oxidizer.

Preparation
Oxygen difluoride was first prepared in 1929. It was made by the electrolysis of molten potassium fluoride and hydrofluoric acid. The chemicals had a small amount of moisture.   Nowadays, it is prepared by the reaction of fluorine with a dilute aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide. Sodium fluoride is left as a side-product:

2 F2 + 2 NaOH →  OF2 + 2 NaF + H2O

Reactions
It is a very powerful oxidizing agent. This is proved by the oxidation number of +2 for the  oxygen atom. This oxidising number is quite unusual. Above 200 °C, OF2 decomposes to oxygen and fluorine.

OF2 reacts with many metals. It produces oxides and fluorides.  Nonmetals also react with it. Phosphorus reacts with OF2 to form PF5 and POF3. Sulfur produces SO2 and SF4 with it. A noble gas, xenon also reacts with it. It produces XeF4 and xenon oxyfluorides.

Oxygen difluoride reacts very slowly with water to form hydrofluoric acid:
OF2 (aq) + H2O (aq) → 2 HF (aq) + O2 (g)

Oxygen difluoride oxidizes sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide:
OF2 + SO2 → SO3 + F2
However, in the presence of UV radiation the products are sulfuryl fluoride, , and pyrosulfuryl fluoride, :

OF2 + 2 SO2 →

Safety
OF2 is a dangerous chemical. This is because it is highly oxidising.

References

Other websites
 National Pollutant Inventory - Fluoride and compounds fact sheet
 WebBook page for OF2

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Georgian Bay Islands National Park () is a national park in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. The park is made up of 63 different small islands and parts of islands in Georgian Bay near Port Severn, Ontario. The largest island in the park is Beausoleil Island.

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Commerce is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 12,823 at the 2010 census, up from 12,568 at the 2000 census.

It is bordered by Vernon on the west, Los Angeles on the northwest, East Los Angeles on the north, Montebello on the east, Downey and Bell Gardens on the south, and Maywood on the southwest.

The Los Angeles River forms part of its southwestern boundary. It is usually referred to as the "City of Commerce" to distinguish it from the common noun.

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Commerce Aquatics website
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Samurai Pizza Cats is a television anime series produced by Saban. It is an English version of the Japanese anime series  Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, which aired on TV Tokyo from February 1, 1990 to February 12, 1991. It aired for 54 episodes. It was very popular among English anime fans because of its references to pop culture and the crazy nature of the show.

Plot
The series is about a group of three robotic samurai cats called the Samurai Pizza Cats who protect the city of Little Tokyo from crime. Little Tokyo is a mechanical city which combines feudal Japanese culture with present day culture. When they are not fighting crime, the Samurai Pizza Cats work at the city's pizzeria.

References

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George John Mitchell Jr.  (born August 20, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He is a Democrat. Mitchell served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.

Early life
Mitchell was born in Waterville, Maine. His father, George John Mitchell, Sr. (born Joseph Kilroy), was of ethnic Irish descent but was adopted by a Lebanese family when he was orphaned.

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Thomas Motsoahae "Tom" Thabane (born 28 May 1939) is a Mosotho politician who has been Prime Minister of Lesotho since June 2017. Previously he was Prime Minister from June 2012 to March 2015. He is leader of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) political party.

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Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (also called Spyro 4) is a platform video game that was published by Universal Interactive. The video game was released for the PlayStation 2 video game system. The video game was released on November 3, 2002 in North America, November 29, 2002 in Europe and on December 13, 2002 in Australia for the PlayStation 2 and was released for the GameCube on November 8, 2002 in North America, November 29, 2002 in Europe and on December 13, 2002 in Australia.

Ratings
PlayStation
2.8 out of 10 (GameSpot)
6.0 out of 10 (IGN)
GameCube
3.2 out of 10 (GameSpot)
6.0 out of 10 (IGN)

Even though the game got bad reviews, it sold enough copies that it was named as a Greatest Hits (Platinum Edition in Europe) status on the PlayStation 2 and a Player's Choice status on the GameCube.

Series
It is the fourth game in the Spyro video game series and also the first Spyro game that was not made by Insomniac Games.

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Empire State is a 2013 crime thriller movie in Queens, New York City in the 1980s. The movie is about two longtime friends who try to do a robbery. Nikki Reed plays Lizzette. Shenae Grimes plays Eleni. Emma Roberts plays Nancy.

The movie was released in September 2013.

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Carolina Evelyn Klüft (born February 2, 1983) is a Swedish athlete. She competes in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon. She is the current Olympic, World (twice) and European (twice) heptathlon champion and is regarded as one of the best female athletes in the world. Since 16/09/2002, Klüft has been continuously ranked as the world's leading heptathlete, by the IAAF. This is currently the longest of any athlete.

She is also normally a member of the Swedish 4 × 100 m relay team at international competitions, and was part of the team that set the national record.

Her main coach is Agne Bergvall. She is 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall and weighs 65 kg.

On 2 September 2012, during the Finland-Sweden athletics international at Ullevi, Carolina Klüft officially ended her career and retired from sports.

References

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Hedley is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Malmbäck is a locality in Nässjö Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,031 people lived there.

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The real was the former currency of Argentina. It was in circulation from 1813 to 1881 and was also the country's first currency used. During its period, the sol was also used and its value was equal to that of the real. The peso was worth 8 reales and the escudo was worth 16 reales.

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Stephen Milburn Anderson (March 13, 1948 – May 1, 2015) was an American movie director, producer and screenwriter. He wrote and directed eight movies. He was best known for South Central, which was produced by Oliver Stone and released by Warner Bros. in 1992. He also wrote and directed Cash (2010), starring Sean Bean and Chris Hemsworth. He produced the Academy Award-winning short movie Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987). He was born in New Mexico.

Anderson died from throat cancer on May 1, 2015 in Denver, Colorado, aged 67. His wife of more than thirty years, Mary Weir, outlived him.

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Dormans  is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France.

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Shammi (24 April 1929 – 6 March 2018), born Nargis Rabadi, was an Indian movie actress. She appeared in over 200 Hindi movies. Shammi was born in Bombay, India.

Her famous movies as supporting actress included Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai, Half Ticket, Halaku, Samaj Ko Badal Dalo, Khuda Gawah, Coolie No. 1, Gopi Kishan and Hum Saath Saath Hain and movies with Rajesh Khanna like The Train, Aanchal, Kudrat, Red Rose, Awara Baap and Swarg.

Shammi died in her sleep on the March 6, 2018, from natural causes at the age of 88.

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Hérouvillette is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.

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Anointing of the Sick is a sacrament (a sacred ceremony) in Roman Catholicism and other Christian denominations.  It is given to people who are "in danger due to sickness or old age".

A person does not have to be dying to receive the Anointing of the Sick.  It can be done for anyone with a medical problem which they could die from.

Anointing of the Sick is also called Unction.  In the past, it was called Extreme Unction.  ("Anointing" and "Unction" are both words for putting oil on a person.  Oil is an important part of the ceremony.)

Beginnings
All four Gospels in the Bible say that Jesus healed many people.  Catholics believe that even after his death, Jesus is still able to heal people through the power of the sacraments.

The main part of the Bible that talks about anointing of the sick is : "Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the Church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.  And their prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make them well. And if they have committed sins, these will be forgiven." ,  and  also talk about the anointing of the sick.

The sacrament
The Anointing of the Sick sacrament is done by a priest.  The priest brings oil, which he has blessed.  Usually, the oil is olive oil or another pure plant oil.  The priest rubs the blessed oil on the patient's forehead, and sometimes other parts of the body.  While he does this, he says special prayers that are meant for the Anointing of the Sick sacrament.

Catholics believe the Anointing of the Sick sacrament can:
 Give comfort to the sick person (make them feel better)
 Give the sick person the courage and strength they will need to go through the pain or suffering of their illness
 Make the soul stronger
 Make the body stronger (sometimes)
 Help the person get ready to live with Christ forever after death
 Forgive the person's sins, if the person is too sick to make a confession (tell the priest about the sins he has done in his life, ask for forgiveness, and say prayers to show he is sorry)

Several other Christian churches have similar rituals.

Last rites

The Anointing of the Sick is one of the three sacraments that make up the last rites.  In Catholicism, last rites are a set of sacraments that are given to people who are dying.

The steps in the last rites are:
 Penance: The dying person repents their sins (says they are sorry for the sins they have done), and asks God to forgive them.
 The Anointing of the Sick
 Viaticum: This is one final Holy Communion.  The dying person is given a small piece of bread, or even a tiny crumb if they cannot eat.  A priest has blessed this bread.  Catholics believe this special blessing turns the bread into the body of Christ.

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Charismatic
Lourdes

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The Former Provinces of Hokkaido were created by the Meiji period government of Japan in 1869.  They lasted only until the creation of prefectures.

History
In 1869, the island of Hokkaidō was organized into 11 provinces.

Other than the Hokkaido provinces, the majority of Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government between 1870 and 1876.

The Hokkaidō provinces were dissolved in 1882.  In that year, they were replaced with Hakodate Prefecture, Sapporo Prefecture and Nemuro Prefecture.

In 1886, Hakodate, Sapporo and Nemuro prefectures were abolished.  The reform replaced with another entity called the .

In 1947, Hokkaido Prefecture was established.  The old provincial boundaries are mirrored in the island's subprefectures.

List of provinces
Although the 19th century provinces of Hokkaidō lasted for only a short time, the subdivisions of the land of the island are very much like those which still exist.

Chishima
 was in the area of the islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu and the Kuril Islands.

Hidaka
 was in the area of Hidaka Subprefecture

Iburi
 was in the area of Iburi Subprefecture.

Ishikari
 was in the area of Ishikari Subprefecture.

Kitami
 was in the area of Sōya Subprefecture and Abashiri Subprefecture.

Kushiro
 was in the area of Kushiro Subprefecture and part of Abashiri Subprefecture.

Nemuro
 was in the area of the mainland portion of Nemuro Subprefecture.

Oshima
 was in the area of the southern part of Oshima Subprefecture and Hiyama Subprefecture.

Shiribeshi
 was in the area of the southern part of Shiribeshi Subprefecture,

Teshio
 was in the area of Rumoi Subprefecture and the northern half of Kamikawa Subprefecture.

Tokachi
 was in the area of  Tokachi Subprefecture.

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Trenton may refer to:

Places

Canada
Trenton, Nova Scotia
Trenton, Ontario
CFB Trenton, a Canadian Forces Base near Trenton, Ontario

United States
Trenton, New Jersey, the capital of the state of New Jersey and most well known city with this name
Trenton, Alabama
Trenton, Florida
Trenton, Georgia
Trenton, Illinois
Trenton, Indiana
Trenton, Kentucky
Trenton, Maine
Trenton, Michigan
Trenton, Missouri
Trenton, Nebraska
Trenton, New York
Trenton, North Carolina
Trenton, North Dakota
Trenton, Ohio
Trenton, South Carolina
Trenton, Tennessee
Trenton, Texas
Trenton, Utah
Trenton, Dodge County, Wisconsin, a town
Trenton, Pierce County, Wisconsin, a town
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John Ernst Steinbeck (; February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) was an American writer. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Some of his most famous works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), which won a Pulitzer Prize. In these two books, Steinbeck writes about migrant workers during the Great Depression.

Steinbeck used naturalism in his books. His characters and stories came from real events from the early 20th century. His work shows his wide range of interests, such as politics, history, philosophy and mythology.

Seventeen of his works were made into Hollywood movies. Steinbeck also tried screen writing, which is writing for movies. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing in Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 movie, Lifeboat.

Early life
Steinbeck was born to John Ernst Steinbeck Sr., a first-generation German American. He attended Stanford University until 1925 when he left the university in order to become a writer. His first work, Cup of Gold, came out four years later, but was not successful. He married Carol Henning the following year.

Steinbeck first gained success with the novel Tortilla Flat in 1935. The story was about two men living in Monterey, California during the Great Depression. The book won the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal. It was made into a movie seven years later, starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, and John Garfield.

Critical success
Steinbeck continued to write on the subject of the Great Depression. Two years later, Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men, considered as one of the best works of American literature in the twentieth century. His story dealt with the lives of two migrant laborers with big dreams in California. It was turned into a Hollywood movie in 1939, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as "Lennie" and Burgess Meredith as "George". That year, Steinbeck followed up with another book, The Grapes of Wrath. The book is about the Joad family and their travels from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl in search of work. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and movie adaptation won two Academy Awards, and is ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's list, 100 Years...100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies. There was controversy with the book, though. Many people felt that Steinbeck's liberal opinions misrepresented the truth of Dust Bowl migrations. He had this student that his name was Oscar Perez and they would both do the job together.

Later life
Steinbeck continued to write from 1940s to 1960s. He wrote such works as The Moon is Down, The Pearl, Cannery Row, East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent. In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception."

Two years later, he was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died on December 20, 1968 in New York at the age of 66, of a heart disease.

References

Other websites

 National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA
 John Steinbeck Collection - Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Research Center

 Nobel Laureate page
 1989 Audio Interview with Robert Demott talking to Don Swaim about John Steinbeck, RealAudio
 1989 Audio Interview with Elaine Steinbeck talking to Don Swaim about John Steinbeck, RealAudio
 FBI file at The Smoking Gun
 A Tour of John Steinbeck's "Valley of the World"
 Biography of John Steinbeck

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Executive Functions are a set of mental abilities in the human brain that are responsible and necessary for someone to be able to control their behavior. Executive Functions include:

 Attentional Control - the ability to choose what to pay attention to
 Cognitive Inhibition - the ability to tune out distractions
 Inhibitory Control - the ability to practice restraint
 Working Memory - the ability to store information temporarily in order to effectively perform complex tasks
 Cognitive Flexibility - the ability to think about multiple things at the same time, and to switch between tasks

Individual Function Descriptions

Attentional Control

Cognitive Inhibition

Inhibitory Control

Working Memory

Cognitive Flexibility

Physical Properties

The Prefrontal Cortex

In cases of diseases and/or disorders
Executive functions are primarily controlled from a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, which relies on a regulated, adequate supply of dopamine. In cases of addiction, ADHD, autism, and other nervous-system disorders, it is possible for this part of the brain to only receive a portion of the dopamine that it needs in order to work at full capacity. As a result an individual can lose partial or even complete control of these mental abilities. It is possible that by increasing dopamine production in the brain by medication, exercise, or a variety of other methods, the prefrontal cortex can receive additional dopamine, and the person can regain control of some or all of these functions.

Executive functions


Paramount can refer to:
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Parks
Paramount Television

Paramount


Henry County is a county in Missouri, United States. The county seat is Clinton. In 2010, 22,272 people lived there. The county was organized on December 13, 1834.

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White Christmas is a 1954 American musical movie starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. It was directed by Michael Curtiz. It was filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor. It has songs by Irving Berlin, including the title song, "White Christmas". This was a new version of the song sung by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.

The movie was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision. This is a widescreen process developed by Paramount. It used twice the surface area of the then standard 35mm film. This large-area negative was used to yield finer-grained standard-sized 35mm prints.

The word film is sometimes used instead of movie. They are the same thing.

Plot
The movie starts on Christmas Eve, 1944, somewhere in Europe. It is World War II. Crosby and Kaye play two U.S. Army soldiers. Crosby plays Captain Bob Wallace and Kaye plays Private First Class Phil Davis. Bob is a Broadway entertainer, Phil wants to be a professional entertainer. They perform "White Christmas". Their commanding officer, Major General Thomas F. Waverly is being relieved of his command. He arrives for the end of the show and says goodbye.

After the performance everyone is forced to take cover from an aerial bombing. A bomb knocks over a Wwall. Bob is too busy shouting orders to notice. Phil pushes him out of the way and injurs his arm. Bob later visits Phil at a field hospital and thanks him for saving his life. Phil shows Bob a duet he wrote and asks to perform with him back in New York City. Feeling obligated by Phil's heroism, Bob agrees.

After the war, Bob and Phil make it big in nightclubs, radio, and then on Broadway, eventually becoming successful producers. They mount their newest hit musical titled Playing Around. The same day they receive a letter from "Freckle-Faced Haynes, the dog-faced boy," their mess sergeant from the war, asking them to look at an act that his two sisters are doing.

They go to the club to watch the "Sisters" act. Phil notices that Bob likes Betty, played by Rosemary Clooney. Phil likes her sister Judy, played by Vera-Ellen. Betty and Judy join Bob and Phil at their table. Phil dances with Judy. Phil and Judy hit it off. Bob and Betty do not get on. They have a minor argument about how Bob thinks that everyone has an angle in show business.

Judy and Betty are headed for the Columbia Inn in Pine Tree, Vermont, where they are booked to perform over the holidays. Due to a disagreement with their landlord the girls have to leave. Phil gives the sisters his and Bob's sleeping-room on the train. They delay the sheriff by imitating the girls' and sing their song, "Sisters". Bob and Phil board later and Bob is extremely upset that they have to stay up all night in the club car on their way to NYC. They are joined by Betty and Judy, who thank them profusely for the tickets and convince them to come with them to Pine Tree.

When the train arrives in Pine Tree, there isn't any snow. Bob and Phil discover that the inn is run by their former commanding officer, General Waverly. Waverly has invested all of his savings into the lodge. It is failing because there's no snow and no guests. To bring business to the inn, Bob and Phil bring the entire cast and crew of their musical Playing Around. They add in Betty and Judy to the rehearsals. Bob and Betty's relationship blooms and they spend a good deal of time together.

Bob discovers the General's request to rejoin the army has been rejected. Bob calls Ed Harrison an old army buddy. Ed is now a successful variety show host. They arrange a televised invitation to all the men formerly under the command of the General to come to the inn on Christmas Eve as a surprise. Harrison suggests they put the show on national television to generate free advertising for Wallace and Davis. Bob insists that it must have nothing to do with their business.

Nosy housekeeper Emma Allen has been listening, but she has only heard the part about free advertising, not Bob's rejection of the idea. She thinks that her boss will be seen as a pitiable figure on TV and tells Betty. Betty is shocked. The misunderstanding causes Betty to ignore a baffled Bob. While this is happening, Judy becomes convinced that Betty will never take on a serious relationship until Judy is engaged or married. She pressures a reluctant Phil to announce a phony engagement, but the plan backfires when Betty abruptly departs for New York City to take a job offer.

After rehearsals are complete, Phil and Judy reveal to Bob that the engagement was phony. Bob still doesn't know the real reason Betty left. He goes to New York for The Ed Harrison Show. He tries to convince Betty to come back. Bob sees Betty's new act and tells her the truth about the engagement. He is called away by Ed Harrison before he finds out what is really bothering her.

Back at the Inn, Phil fakes an injury to distract the General so he won't see the broadcast of Bob's announcement. In the broadcast, Bob invites veterans of the 151st Division to come to Pine Tree, Vermont, on Christmas Eve. Betty sees it on TV and realizes she was wrong. She returns to Pine Tree in time for the Christmas Eve show, but only tells Judy. The whole division comes into Pine Tree secretly. When the General enters the lodge, he is greeted by his former division, who sing a rousing chorus of "The Old Man". Just as the following song ends, the snow starts to fall.

In the finale, Bob and Betty declare their love for one another. So do Phil and Judy. The background of the set is removed to show the snow falling. Bob, Betty, Phil and Judy perform "White Christmas". Everyone raises a glass, and toasts, "May your days be merry and bright; and may all your Christmases be white."

Cast

 Bing Crosby as Bob Wallace
 Danny Kaye as Phil Davis
 Rosemary Clooney as Betty Haynes
 Vera-Ellen as Judy Haynes
 Dean Jagger as Major General Tom Waverly
 Mary Wickes as Emma Allen
 Johnny Grant as Ed Harrison
 John Brascia as John/Johnny, Judy Haynes' dance partner
 Anne Whitfield as Susan Waverly
 Percy Helton as Train conductor
 I. Stanford Jolley as Railroad stationmaster
 Barrie Chase as Doris Lenz
 George Chakiris as Betty Haynes' background dancer
 Sig Ruman as Landlord
 Grady Sutton as General's guest
 Herb Vigran as Novello
 Leighton Noble as bandleader (uncredited)

Songs
 "White Christmas" (Crosby)
 "The Old Man" (Crosby, Kaye, and Men's Chorus)
 Medley: "Heat Wave"/"Let Me Sing and I'm Happy"/"Blue Skies" (Crosby & Kaye)
 "Sisters" (Clooney & Vera-Ellen)
 "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" (Kaye with Vera-Ellen)
 "Sisters (reprise)" (lip synced by Crosby and Kaye)
 "Snow" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Vera-Ellen)
 Minstrel Number: "I'd Rather See a Minstrel Show"/"Mister Bones"/"Mandy" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Chorus)
 "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)" (Crosby & Clooney)
 "Choreography" (Kaye)
 "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (reprise)" (Kaye & Chorus)
 "Abraham" (instrumental)
 "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me" (Clooney)
 "What Can You Do with a General?" (Crosby)
 "The Old Man (reprise)" (Crosby & Men's Chorus)
 "Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Stevens)
 "White Christmas (finale)" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney, Stevens & Chorus)

All songs were written by Irving Berlin. The centerpiece of the film is the title song. This was first used in Holiday Inn where it won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1942.

"Count Your Blessings" earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

The song "Snow" was originally written for Call Me Madam with the title "Free". The melody was kept but the lyrics were changed to be more appropriate for a Christmas movie.

The song "What Can You Do with a General?" was originally written for an un-produced project called Stars on My Shoulders.

It was not possible to issue an "original soundtrack album" of the film, because Decca Records controlled the soundtrack rights, but Clooney was under exclusive contract with Columbia Records. Consequently, each company issued a separate "soundtrack recording": Decca issuing Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas, while Columbia issued Irving Berlin's White Christmas. On the former, the song "Sisters" and all of Clooney's vocal parts were recorded by Peggy Lee. On the latter, the song was sung by Rosemary Clooney and her own sister, Betty.

Crosby and Kaye recorded another Berlin song ("Santa Claus") for the opening WWII Christmas Eve show scene, but it was not used in the final film. Their recording of the song survives and can be found on the Bear Family Records 7-CD set called Come On-A My House.

Casting

White Christmas was intended to reunite Crosby and Fred Astaire for their third Irving Berlin showcase musical. Crosby and Astaire had previously co-starred in Holiday Inn (1942) – where the song "White Christmas" first appeared – and Blue Skies (1946). Astaire declined the project after reading the script and asked to be released from his contract with Paramount. Crosby also left the project shortly thereafter, to spend more time with his sons after the death of his wife, Dixie Lee. Near the end of January 1953, Crosby returned to the project, and Donald O'Connor was signed to replace Astaire. Just before shooting was to begin, O'Connor had to drop out due to illness and was replaced by Danny Kaye, who asked for and received a salary of $200,000 and 10% of the gross. Financially, the film was a partnership between Crosby and Irving Berlin, who shared half the profits, and Paramount, which got the other half.

A scene from the film featuring Crosby and Kaye was broadcast the year after the film's release, on Christmas Day 1955, in the final episode of the NBC TV show Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955).

Production
Berlin suggested a movie based on his song in 1948. Paramount put up the $2 million budget and only took 30% of the proceeds.

Principal photography took place between September and December 1953. The film was the first to be shot using Paramount's new VistaVision process, with color by Technicolor. It was one of the first to feature the Perspecta directional sound system at limited engagements.

Release and reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was not impressed: "...the use of VistaVision, which is another process of projecting on a wide, flat screen, has made it possible to endow White Christmas with a fine pictorial quality. The colors on the big screen are rich and luminous, the images are clear and sharp, and rapid movements are got without blurring—or very little—such as sometimes is seen on other large screens. Director Michael Curtiz has made his picture look good. It is too bad that it doesn't hit the eardrums and the funnybone with equal force."

Variety liked it: "White Christmas should be a natural at the box office, introducing as it does Paramount's new VistaVision system with such a hot combination as Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and an Irving Berlin score...Crosby and Kaye, along with VV, keep the entertainment going in this fancifully staged Robert Emmett Dolan production, clicking so well the teaming should call for a repeat...Certainly he (Crosby) has never had a more facile partner than Kaye against whom to bounce his misleading nonchalance."

White Christmas was enormously popular with audiences, earning $12 million in theatrical rentals – equal to $ today – making it the top moneymaker of 1954 by a wide margin and the highest-grossing musical film of all-time. Overall, the film grossed $30 million at the domestic box office.

There was a US theatrical re-release by Paramount in 1961.

Home video
White Christmas was released in the US on VHS in 1986 and again in 1997. The first US DVD release was in 2000. It was re-released in 2009, with a Blu-ray in 2010. There was a US issue 4-disc "Diamond Anniversary Edition" in 2014. This collection contains a Blu-ray with extras, two DVDs with the film and extras, and a fourth disc of Christmas songs on CD. These songs are performed individually by Crosby, Clooney, and Kaye.

Stage adaptation

A stage adaptation of the musical, titled Irving Berlin's White Christmas premiered in San Francisco in 2004 and has played in various venues in the US, such as Boston, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Detroit and Louisville.
The musical played a limited engagement on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre, from November 14, 2008 until January 4, 2009. The musical also toured the United Kingdom in 2006 - 2008. It headed to the Sunderland Empire in Sunderland from November 2010 to January 2011 after a successful earlier run in Manchester and has continued in various cities with a London West End run at the end of 2014.

References

Other websites

 "White Christmas heads to Marquis" Variety August 4, 2008
 Official site White Christmas the Musical
 Internet Broadway Database listing

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First aid kits are used to perform first aid on injured people.

A first aid kit often contains the following items:

 Two pairs of latex, or other sterile gloves (if you are allergic to latex).
 Sterile dressings to stop bleeding.
 Cleansing agent/soap and antibiotic towelettes to disinfect.
Antibiotic ointment to prevent infection.
 Burn ointment to prevent infection.
 Adhesive bandages in a variety of sizes.
 Eye wash solution to flush the eyes.
Thermometer
 Prescription medications you take every day such as insulin, heart medicine and asthma inhalers.
 A small vial of super glue, carefully used, can close cuts.
 Scissors
 CPR face mask

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Fort Payne is a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census, the population was 12,938. The city is the county seat of DeKalb County.  The city calls itself the "Official Sock Capital of the World."

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurred here in 2003.

Local Attractions

Fort Payne has the headquarters for the nearby Little River Canyon National Preserve, a 14000 acre National Park Service facility.  The canyon itself is at Lookout Mountain outside the city limits.  Another attraction is DeSoto State Park, a smaller facility with a lodge, restaurant, cabins, and river access areas.

Education
Fort Payne is served by the Fort Payne City Schools system which includes:
Wills Valley Elementary (K-2)
Williams Avenue Elementary (3-4)
Fort Payne Middle School (5-8)
Fort Payne High School (9-12)

Fort Payne is also served by the Northeast Alabama Community College which is in Rainsville.

Health care
DeKalb Regional Medical Center- 134 bed facility

Media
Radio stations
WFPA-AM 1400 (News/Talk)
WZOB-AM 1250 (Country)
Newspapers
The Times-Journal
The DeKalb Advertiser

Transportation
  Interstate 59
 U.S. Highway 11
  Alabama State Route 35
Norfolk Southern Railway
 Isbell Field (municipal airport)

Notable natives and residents
Miles C. Allgood (1878–1977), United States Congressman
Jeff Cook,  Teddy Gentry, and Randy Owen, founders of the Country music band Alabama
Lt. Gen. Duward Crow (1919–1997), Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, USAF and Associate Deputy Administrator, NASA
Howard Finster (1916–2001), religious folk artist and Baptist minister
Flock Family (NASCAR drivers)
Bob Flock (1918–1964)
Fonty Flock (1921–1972)
Tim Flock (1924–1998)
Ethel Mobley (1920–1984)
Milford W. Howard, United States Congressman and writer
Lt. Gen. Forrest S. McCartney(ret.), USAF and director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center
Larry Nelson, professional golfer
Philip Ober (1902–1982), actor
Lilius Bratton Rainey (1876–1959), United States Congressman
Ron Sparks, Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, 2010 Democratic gubernatorial nominee
Katherine Stinson, pioneer female pilot, fourth woman in the U.S. to become a licensed pilot

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To the North of Katmandu is a 1986 British comedy movie. It was filmed in Katmandu, Nepal.

Story
Max Boyce takes part in the 1985 World Elephant Polo Championships in Katmandu, Nepal.

Actors
 Max Boyce
 Barbara Bach
 Billy Connolly
 Ringo Starr

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Li Yugang is a singer and artist from Jilin, China. He was the second Chinese person to sing at the Sydney Opera House.

Life
Li Yugang was born into a farming family in Jilin province in 1978. He started in opera when he was a child. Despite this, he could not study at a university as his parents were too poor to support this. Instead, he worked in various jobs in Changchun after finishing high school.

Li Yugang was went to Xi'an in 1998. There he became known for singing both roles a duets by himself. He was first exposed to the Nandan art in Peking Opera and became very interested in it.

Work

In August 2006, Li Yugang became famous by participating in the Xingguang Dadao.

In February 23 2009, Li Yugang joined in the China Opera and Dance Theater as a "special talent people".

From 2010–2014, Li Yugang created "Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water" () and "Portrait of Four Ancient Beauties" (). Together he performed over 100 shows in the country and internationally. Li Yugang also released 3 CDs from his company "The New Drunken Beauty" (), "The Dream Chaser" () and "Lotus Flower" (). In 2014, the Rhymoi Music company released Li Yugang's "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai" () CD album. In 2015, Li Yugang directed and starred in his own stage masterpiece "Lady Zhaojun" (), a grand Oriental Poetic Stage production which took him three years in preparation.

References

Other websites
CCTV-星播客-男扮女装李玉刚
李玉剛國際粉絲團 (Yugang International Fans) (Facebook Account)
Li Yugang Fan Club（李玉剛粉絲頁）(Facebook Account)
李玉刚的个人空间 -哔哩哔哩

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Cheney is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
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Montardon is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.

Montardon

Montardon


Stuart is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Martin County, part of the Treasure Coast.

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George Basil Cardinal Hume OSB, OM, MA, STL (2 March 1923 – 17 June 1999) was a British prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales from 1979 until his death. Hume was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976.

Early life and ministry
George Haliburton Hume was born in Newcastle upon Tyne to Sir William Errington Hume and Marie Elizabeth Tisseyre. His father was a Protestant heart doctor from Scotland, and his mother the French Catholic daughter of an army officer. He had three sisters and one brother.

Hume joined the Benedictine monastery at Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire at the age of 18.  He took the name Basil when he made his final promise to be a monk 1945. He became a priest on July 23, 1950.

Bishop
On 9 February 1976, Pope Paul VI made Hume the Archbishop of Westminster, the highest ranking Catholic priest in England and Wales. He was the first monk to be archbishop since 1850 when Roman Catholic bishops returned to England.

Hume was told he was being appointed at dinner

Cardinal Hume's time in office saw Catholicism become more accepted in Britain than it had been for 400 years. 1995 saw the first visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Westminster Cathedral. He also read from the Bible at the installation ceremony of Archbishop Robert Runcie as of Canterbury in 1980. It was also during his term in Westminster that Pope John Paul II made first ever visit of a pope to England.

In 1998, Hume asked John Paul II for permission to retire, so that he could go back to his monastery at Ampleforth and spend some time fly fishing and watching Newcastle United Football Club. The request was refused.

He was diagnosed with inoperable abdominal cancer in April 1999. On 2 June of that same year, Queen Elizabeth awarded him the Order of Merit. He died just over two weeks later in London, at age 76. His funeral was broadcast live on British national television and he was buried in Westminster Cathedral. John Paul II said he was a "shepherd of great spiritual and moral character".

Legacy
 A statue of Cardinal Hume was erected in his home town of Newcastle and unveiled by the Queen in 2002.
 The Cardinal Hume Centre based in Westminster works to improve the lives of homeless young people, families, and other vulnerable and socially excluded members of society.
 The Cardinal Hume Rose is named after him.
 The Cardinal Hume Catholic School  has been recently opened in Wrekenton, part of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

References

Other websites
 Cardinal Hume Secondary School
 BBC Coverage of the Cardinal's death
 Cardinal Hume Centre
 Archdiocese of Westminster's biography
 Statue of Cardinal Hume, Newcastle upon Tyne

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