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1889-1909: Fr. Manuel Guzman introduced a new style to the sound of the choir, and continued on to teach future directors of the Escolania.
1909-1911: Fr.Ramir Escofet became director.
1911-1933: Fr. Anselm Ferrer, of Italy, became the director and composer. He created the first recordings of the Escolania and evolved the tone of the choir.
1933-1936: Blessed Fr. Angel Rodamilan was director as well as a martyr during the Civil War.
1936-1939: The monks and students needed to abandon Montserrat during the Spanish Civil War.
1939-1953: Fr. David Pujol was director.
1953-1997: Fr. Ireneu Segarra, director and composer. Under his leadership, the choir grew to fifty students, and released numerous records. They also began to perform concerts outside of Montserrat for the first time in the 1960s, including international tours.
1997-2000: Fr. Jordi-Agustí Piqué was the director.
2000-2007: Joaquim Piqué was the first lay director.
2007–Present: Bernat Vivancos is the current director.
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Oliba (c. 971–1046) was the Count of Berga (998–1003) and Ripoll and later became Bishop of Vic (1018–1046) and Abbot of Sant Miquel de Cuixà. He was one of the spiritual founders of Catalonia. At that time, he may have been the most important churchman of his age in the Iberian Peninsula.

Oliba was also a writer. He and his monks in the scriptorium at Ripoll wrote many works about his world. His most crucial writing may have been his translations of Arabic manuscripts into Latin.

Family
We don't know exactly when Oliba was born, but it was near 971.  He was born to a rich family. He was the third son of a Catalan count, which is a type of nobleman. He gave up his possessions to take up the Benedictine habit in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. He had three brothers and a sister.

As count
In 988, Count Oliba Cabreta took the habit, meaning he became a monk, and retired to Montecassino with St. Romuald, which met in Cuixà.
Oliba began to perform his duties as a count, a medieval nobleman. His brother Bernard inherited Besalú and Guifré Cerdanya; Oliva received Berga and Ripoll.

Between 988 and 1002, Oliva was Count of Berga and Ripoll. He was associated with his brother Guifré.

Church life
Oliba promoted the idea of Peace and Truce of God (Catalan: Pau I Treva de Déu) until 1022. In 1027, he signed an agreement with other bishops and noblemen in Toulouges (Roussillon). In this treaty, they all agreed to decide on days when no one would fight battles with anyone else and fugitives could run to churches.

Oliba was very influential. In 1023, King Sancho III of Navarre asked him for advice because he wanted his sister Urraca to be her second cousin Alfonso V of León. Oliva said not to do it, but Sancho ignored him. His letters to the various contemporaneous kings of Spain indicate to us that Alfonso and his successor, Vermudo III, were regarded as imperatore. And the king of Navarre was a mere rex.
Oliba started or reformed the monasteries of Montserrat (1025), Fluvià, and Canigó. He consecrated or patronized many other churches, such as the Collegiate Basilica of Manresa. He started the Assemblies of Peace and Truce, which later became Catalonia's corts, or parliament. He improved the decoration of his church at Ripoll and rededicated it on 15 January 1032.  He was a close advisor to Count Berengar Raymond I of Barcelona and he rebuilt the cathedral of Vic with help from Countess Ermesinda. The new cathedral was rededicated to Peter and Paul on 31 August 1038. He died at his monastery at Cuixà in 1046.

Monk and abbot
In August 1002, when Oliba was 31 years, he became a monk of the Benedictine Order in the Monastery of Ripoll.

In 1008, after the death of Abbot Seniofré, Olive was elected abbot, or leader of the monastery. Months later, he was elected abbot of the Monastery of St. Miquel de Cuixà. Oliba decided the monasteries should be more austere and disciplined.
By the following year, Oliba had become a little famous. In 1009, he was also elected abbot of Sant Martí del Canigó. Other monasteries liked his way of running things, such as the monasteries of Sant Feliu and Sant Sadurní Tavèrnoles.

Oliba spent his time and energy defending churches' property and rights against attacks by his manor. In 1011, he went to the Vatican to meet the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Sergius IV, and he won several bulls, which are papal rulings, for his monasteries. These papal bulls had significant power: the Pope, whom medieval Catholics considered God's representative on earth, said that the monasteries and lands owned were under the protection of St. Peter and the attack on the abbey was an aggression against the authority of the Pope.

Santa Maria de Ripoll
In the late tenth century, Catalonia became an important place for culture and art.  The people there had access to Arabic science, and the places where monks wrote and made copies of other pieces of writing called scriptoria became some of the best in Europe.

Ripoll was the most critical scriptorium in Catalonia. With help from things he learned at Ripoll, Pope Sylvester II introduced the Arabic numbers, the concept of zero, and the astrolabe to Europe.  During Oliba's time, the library at Ripoll gained three the number of pieces of writing; together with the Bobbio, it became one of the most important libraries in the Christian world during the middle ages.

Sant Miquel de Cuixà

Oliba made architectural modifications to this monastery. Oliba had a walkway built around the sanctuary with three apses. Then, he built a dome over the altar and the crypt. He also erected the Nativity, Chapel of the Trinity, and the two towers of Lombard, of which only one is still standing today.
Sant Martí del Canigó
The monastery of St. Martí del Canigó was founded by Oliba's brother, Count Gifré II of Cerdanya-Conflent. Gifré took an old church at the foot of Canigó and became an important monastery.

In 1009, this church and its community were made up of monks from Cuixà. Abbot Oliba ruled it throughout his community until 1014 when it had enough monks to start an abbot of its own.

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 Abat Oliba CEU University
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Yun Hyok-seok (, October 7, 1984 – April 26, 2003) was a South Korean activist, poet and writer. He fought for human rights, civil rights, LGBT rights and peace. His nickname was Yook Woo Dang (), which means "six friends". He wrote using the names Sulheon (, ) and Midong (, , "Beauty Boy"), Donghwa (동화, 童花, Boy's flower), Roman Catholic baptismal name is Antonio.

Yun was born in Incheon. His family is Catholic. He later moved to Seoul. While he was a student, he began writing and poetry. In March 2000, he started going to Incheon Seil high school. At high school, he came out as gay. This made him isolated from his classmates. By November 2002, he left high school. He began living in a neighbourhood of Dongdaemun District of Seoul.
Yun's nickname, Yook Woo Dang, means "six friends". It refers to alcohol, tobacco, sleeping pills, foundation make-up, green tea and rosary beads. His penname Sulheon came from Heo Chohui's nickname Nanseolheon. Heo Chohui was a female poet and painter during the Joseon dynasty in Korea.

In 2002 and 2003, Yun became an activist for human rights and peace. In March 2003, he was a conscientious objector to South Korea's conscription military service. But his opinions did not matter to some Koreans, because of his sexuality. In early April 2003, some South Korean Christian organisations gave a statement against homosexuality. Yun spoke out against this and wrote an article to some South Korean newspapers and the foreign press.

In April 26, 2003, Yun committed suicide, in Dongdaemun in Seoul. He hanged himself. He did it to protest discrimination against gay people in South Korea.

Book 
 Let My Spirit Rain Down as Flower Petals (내 혼은 꽃비 되어)
 Diary of Yook Woo Dang (육우당일기) (not published)
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 Protecting sexual minorities Koreatimes 2013-08-23 
 Queer Rights Activists in South Korea Step Up Efforts to Support LGBTQ Youth  
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 청소년유해매체물에 '동성애' 삭제키로 오마이뉴스 2003.04.29 
 육우당(六友堂), ‘성소수자 해방’을 위해 지다 참세상 2008.05.01 
 육우당은 여전히 희망이 존재한다고 말하고... 참세상 2006.04.18 
 "가식적인 기독교에 깨달음을"…어느 10대의 죽음 프레시안 2013.04.21 
 동성애자가 사탄? 너희는 파시스트 기독교인 경향신문 2012.01.25 
 “내 혼은 꽃비 되어” 참세상 2006.04.26 
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Kresten Bjerre (22 February 1946 – 19 February 2014), nicknamed Generalen ("The General"), was a Danish association footballer. He played for Houston Stars in the United States and for the European clubs PSV Eindhoven and R.W.D. Molenbeek. He was born in Copenhagen.

Bjerre died from cancer on 19 February 2014 in Odense. He was 67 years old.

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Antti Raanta (born May 12, 1989) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks and the New York Rangers.

Career
Before playing in the NHL, Raanta played 4 seasons in the SM-liiga with Lukko and Ässät.

During his time with Ässät, he won the Lasse Oksanen trophy for the SM-liiga best player of regular season and the Jari Kurri trophy for the best player of the playoffs with .955 SV%. He went 21-10-11 and recorded five shutouts in 45 games. He finished with a 1.85 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.

On June 3, 2013, he signed a one-year entry-level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. He was assigned to their AHL-affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs. On November 17, 2013, he was recalled by the Blackhawks from the Rockford IceHogs because backup goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was injured in a loss versus the Nashville Predators the previous night.
On December 30, 2013, he was able to earn his first career shutout when the Blackhawks beat the Los Angeles Kings at home. He was able to stop all 26 shots that he had faced, and improved to 10-1-3 on the season. He was named the Rookie of the Month, along with Martin Jones, for December 2013, going 8-1-3 with one shutout.

On June 27, 2015, Raanta was traded to the New York Rangers in exchange for Ryan Haggerty.

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Miquel Crusafont i Pairó (1910, Sabadell, Spain—1983) was a Catalan palaeontologist. He specialised in mammal bones.

Crusafont obtained a Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Barcelona in 1933. He got a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Madrid in 1950.

In 1961, he was appointed Professor of Palaeontology at the University of Oviedo. He later became Professor of Anthropology at the Societatis Iesu (Barcelona).

In 1969, Crusafont founded the Provincial Palaeontology Institute. It has been known as the Miquel Crusafont Palaeontology Institute since 1983.

The prehistoric mammal Crusafontia was named for Crusafont.

Selected works
  (1943, with Josep Fernández de Villalta)
  (1948, with Josep Fernández de Villalta)
  (1955, with Josep Fernández de Villalta and Jaume Truyols)
  (1957, with Jaume Truyols)
  (1966, with Bermudo Meléndez and Emiliano Aguirre)

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A non-commissioned officer (sometimes spelled noncommissioned officer and shortened to NCO or non-com (US)), called a sub-officer in some countries, is a military officer who has not been given a commission. Non-commissioned officers, in the English-speaking world, usually obtain their position of authority by promotion through the enlisted ranks.

NCOs usually include all grades of corporal and sergeant; in some countries, warrant officers also do the same things as NCOs. In the navy and depending on the country, some or all grades of petty officer may be counted as NCO's. There are different classes of non-commissioned officer, including junior non-commissioned officers (JNCO) and senior (or staff) non-commissioned officers (SNCO).

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Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury.

Excavations in 2013 by a team has revealed a huge settlement; 1,000 homes have been found, supporting a population of 4,000 people at one time. The village was carbon dated to about 2600 B.C.

The monument was on "an extraordinary scale" and unique, researchers said.
The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes team has been creating an underground map of the area in a five-year project.
Remote sensing and geophysical imaging technology has been used to reveal evidence of nearly 100 stones without the need for excavation.
The monument is just under two miles (3km) from Stonehenge, Wiltshire, and is thought to have been a Neolithic ritual site.
It is the "largest Neolithic settlement in the whole of northern Europe". At 500m in diameter, the henge is the largest in Britain and recent evidence suggests that it was a complementary monument to Stonehenge.

What visibly remains of Durrington Walls today is the 'walls' of the henge monument. This is now a ridge surrounding a central basin. Originally the ditch was some 5.5m deep, 7m wide at its bottom and 18m wide at the top. The bank was in some areas 30m wide. There were two entrances through the bank and ditch – at the north western and south eastern ends. The henge enclosed several timber circles and smaller enclosures – not all of which have been excavated. Several Neolithic house floors have been found next to and under the eastern bank of the henge. Their density suggests that there was a very large village on the sloping river bank on this side.
About three feet underneath  Durrington Walls, there are remains of about 90 standing stones, maybe from an earlier time.  The stones are in a "slightly curved row."  They were found in 2015, using special archaeological research tools and methods including  ground-penetrating radar. Scientists do not know if this feature is the same age as  early Stonehenge or not.

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Guillermo C. "Bill" Gramática (born July 10, 1978) is a retired American Football placekicker. He played college football for the University of South Florida. He played 34 games in the National Football League (NFL). He played with the Arizona Cardinals and 1 game with the Miami Dolphins. Gramática is probably best known for tearing the ACL in his right knee after jumping up to celebrate and tearing it on landing. After he retired, Bill and his brother Martín run a company called Gramatica Group LLC which specializes in energy-efficient construction.

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Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov (, ; born 26 November 1972) is a Russian politician. Aksyonov is the Prime Minister of Crimea. He is the first Prime Minister of Crimea since it gained independence in March 2014.

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Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon. 

He is best known for performing the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954.

He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for "discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease". He shared the prize with E. Donnall Thomas. He attended Harvard Medical School in 1974.

During World War II he was in the Medical Corps of the United States Army.

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Brendan Thomas Byrne (April 1, 1924 – January 4, 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Byrne served as the 47th Governor of New Jersey from January 15, 1974 to January 19, 1982. Byrne was born and raised in West Orange, New Jersey.

Byrne died on January 4, 2018 in Livingston, New Jersey of a lung infection at the age of 93.

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George Emil Palade (November 19, 1912 – October 8, 2008) was a Romanian cell biologist. He is best known for the innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which helped lay the foundations of modern molecular cell biology.

Palade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He won the award "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell". He shared it with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. Palade was described as "the most influential cell biologist ever"

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Donald Thomas "Don" Regan (December 21, 1918 – June 10, 2003) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Early life
Regan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard College and at Harvard Law School. Regan married Ann Buchanan in 1942.

Reagan administration
He was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1981 to 1985 under the Ronald Reagan administration. He then served as Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 under Reagan as well.

In 1987, Regan resigned due to personal angers against First Lady Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan's cabinet.

Personal life
Regan then quickly retired in his Virginia home. He painted many paintings and was paid to have some of them displayed at museums. Regan had four children with his wife Ann.

Death
Regan died of cancer in a hospital near his home in Williamsburg, Virginia, aged 84. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

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Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian movie actor. He was well known in the Indian cinema industry. He worked in many movies along with fellow Indian actor Pran. His career has lasted for almost 60 years. He was known for his role as King Dilip Dilip in the Indian classic Tragedy King.

He held the Guinness World Record for winning the maximum number of awards by an Indian actor.

Kumar was born Muhammad Yusuf Khan on 11 December 1922 in Peshawar, British India, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Kumar died on 7 July 2021 in Mumbai from prostate cancer at the age of 98.

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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944) was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter. He is known as the father of Indian cinema. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, awarded to people who worked for a long time to the Indian cinema, was created in his honor by the Government of India in 1969. He made India's first feature-length film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913. The award is considered the highest honor in the Indian film industry and is given annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field.

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Ashok Kumar () (13 October 1911–10 December 2001) or Dadamoni was an Indian movie actor. The Government of India honored him with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1988 and the Padma Bhushan in 1998 for his work to the Indian cinema.

Kumar was born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency. Kumar died at the age of 90 in Mumbai from heart failure at his home in Chembur.

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Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was an American biochemist. 

He discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels. He called it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). He later worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism of action, and determined that EDRF was nitric oxide (NO), which is an important compound in many aspects of cardiovascular physiology. The research that was done was important in explaining the action of Viagra, treatment of blue babies, and other medical as well as health-related issues. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system". He shared the prize with Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad. He also won a Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1991 and a Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996.

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The movie Trouble with the Curve is a sports drama movie. It is about sports related issues around Atlanta. Clint Eastwood plays Gus, and Amy Adams plays his daughter Mickey.

The movie was released in September of 2012. It underwent some controversy for troubles related to plagiarism.

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The Acadie–Bathurst Titan are a Canadian ice hockey team. The team began playing in 1969. The team currently plays in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). They play their home games in Bathurst, New Brunswick at the K. C. Irving Regional Centre.

History 
The team was first created in 1969 and played in Rosemont National as the Rosemont, Quebec. They moved to Laval to become the Laval National, and later the Laval Voisins. In 1985, they were known as the Laval Titan, and in 1994, they became the Laval Titan Collège Français from a merger with the Verdun Collège Français. In 1998, the moved to Bathurst and became the Acadie–Bathurst Titan

The Titan organization have won President's Cup five times. In the 1999–2000 season, they had the first female to be drafted by a QMJHL team when they drafted Charline Labonté, a 17-year-old Quebec goaltender who spent parts of two seasons with the team.

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Ben Scrivens (born September 11, 1986 in Spruce Grove, Alberta) is a Canadian professional goaltender for the Edmonton Oilers. Scrivens was undrafted but signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2010. On January 29, 2014, Scrivens stopped all 59 shots that the Oilers defence allowed and set a new NHL record for most saves in a shutout. He is also referred to as ScrVezina.

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Uwe Timm (5 February 1932 – 7 March 2014) was a German writer, anarchist, and anti-militarist. He was the co-editor of espero. He was born in Hamburg, Nazi Germany.

Timm died on 7 March 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. He was 82 years old.

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Andy Z. Lehrer (16 May 1930 – January or February 2014) was a Romanian entomologist. From 1996 until his death, he worked as a research associate in the laboratory of Zoology at the University of Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv, Israel. For several years, he studied flesh flies and blow flies all over the world.

Lehrer was born born in Iaşi, Iaşi County. He died in early 2014, aged 83.

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The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual movie festival in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is held for two weeks in late September and early October. It is held by Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society and it began in 1982. It is among the five largest movie festivals in North America. The Festival screens the largest selection of East Asian movies outside of that region, it is one of the biggest showcases of Canadian film in the world, and it has one of the a largest nonfiction program outside of a Documentary Film Festival.

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The BMO Vancouver Marathon is an annual marathon which is run on the first Sunday of every May in Vancouver, British Columbia. The distance of the race is 26 miles and 385 yards and is the largest international marathon event in Canada. The current sponsor for the marathon is Bank of Montreal.

It is certified by both the International Association of Athletics Federations & Association of International Marathons and Distance Races as a qualifying marathon race. It started in 1972 after a small group of 46 runners ran five loops of Stanley Park to finish the first Vancouver International Marathon (which was known as Lions Gate Road Runners International Marathon). A Full Marathon is a Boston Marathon qualifying event and is 42 km, and a Half Marathon is 21 km.

The Forbes 2014 Travel Guide named the BMO Vancouver Marathon one of the world’s Top Ten Marathons Worth Travelling For that marathon season. It also made their top ten marathon destinations in 2012.

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Khushwant Singh (2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian writer, poet and journalist. His work was mostly in English. He was best known for his secularism. He was born in Hadali, British India, which is now Sargodha District, Pakistan.

Singh died from natural causes on the morning of 20 March 2014 at his home in New Delhi. He was 99 years old.

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Clive James AO CBE (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian writer, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist. He is best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs.

Early life 
James was born in Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales. He lived in the United Kingdom since 1961 until his death. He has two children. He was an atheist.

Death 
James was diagnosed with leukemia and emphysema in 2010. He died on 24 of November 2019 in Cambridge at the age of 80.

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Titanotylopus is an extinct genus of terrestrial herbivore in the family Camelidae. It was endemic to North America from the Miocene through Pleistocene 10.3 million years ago—300,000 years ago. It existed for about .

Its name is derived from the Greek words Τιτάν, τύλος and πούς — "Titan", "knob" and "foot"; thus, "giant knobby-foot."

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Francesc Macià i Llussà (1859 - 1933) was the 122nd President of Catalonia. He was also a Catalan officer in the Spanish Army.

Life
Macià achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel during his military career.
He condemned the assault of some Spanish officers on the journal La Veu de Catalunya in 1905. He was forced to abandon the army.
 

In 1922 he founded the independentist party Estat Català. 

In 1926 he attempted a revolt against the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. This uprising was based in Prats de Molló (Roussillon). It was aborted by the French Gendarmerie, but it gained a lot of popularity for his cause in Catalonia.

In 1931 Macià proclaimed the Free Catalan Republic in Barcelona. He was forced afterwards to settle for partial autonomy within the new Spanish Republic. Macià was the President of Generalitat from 1932 until his death in 1933. He is buried at the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona's Montjuïc hill.

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Parrott was from Fairfield County, Ohio. He joined the 20th OVI for 90 days. When he finished that he returned to his home town of Kenton, Ohio. He joined the United States Army in 1861 as a private in Company K, 33rd Ohio Infantry. He first fought in the Battle of Ivy Mountain. In April 1862, he volunteered to take part in a raid with twenty-one others (later known as "Andrews' Raiders" because they operated under the command of James J. Andrews). After going behind Confederate lines and stealing the locomotive "General," they were captured and imprisoned. Parrott was severely beaten 110 times to try to make him talk. He and fourteen others managed to escape. Only six of them reached friendly lines. He was later exchanged. He met President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton gave him the Medal of Honor. He served with the Union Army for the rest of the war. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1863 after the Battle of Stones River
. H was commissioned as a first lieutenant in 1864.
He returned to Kenton, Ohio after the war. He remained a cabinet maker. He ran a stone quarry south of Kenton, Ohio. Parrott suffered a heart attack and died while walking home from the county courthouse in Kenton, Ohio. He is buried in Grove Cemetery, on State Route 309, east edge of Kenton, Ohio.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and Organization:
Private, Company K, 33d Ohio Infantry. Place and date: Georgia, April 1862. Entered service at: Hardin County, Ohio. Birth: July 17, 1843, Fairfield County, Ohio. Date of issue: March 25, 1863.
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also called winter depression, winter blues, summer depression and seasonal depression, is a mood disorder that happens in people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year. They show depressive symptoms at the same time each year, usually in the winter.

Cause and Symptoms 
Some people think that SAD is related to not having enough serotonin because they don't get enough sunlight, which could cause serotonin polymorphisms. Serotonin polymorphisms could be the cause in SAD, although it has been disputed (people think it's not correct).

Some symptoms are:
Feeling sad, grumpy anxious or moody (getting angry or sad without warning)
Losing interest in your usual activities
Gaining weight
Sleep and appetite problems
Less social interaction
Difficulty concentrating and making choices
Feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness
Treatment 
Treatments include light therapy, medication, ionized-air administration, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and taking the hormone melatonin at the right time. Doctors often cure SAD with bright light therapy, although normal light therapy is the most common treatment for SAD. Part of light therapy can include being in sunlight, either directly from being outside, or by using a computer controlled heliostat (a device that includes a mirror, usually a plain mirror, usually turns to keep reflecting sunlight on a specific object) to reflect into the windows of a home or office. Physical exercise is also a good form of therapy for SAD, especially when combined with other forms of treatments.

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Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games is a 2014 American computer-animated comedy/adventure movie. It is the third installment in the Alpha and Omega franchise. Like the second one, this movie is directed by Richard Rich and Perry Andelin Blake and written by Tom Kane. Alpha and Omega 3 follows the story of The Great Wolf Games, a contest where puppies from different packs compete. Runt, Stinky and Claudette also join in, even though their pack "took a pass on the games", with Humphrey as their coach.

The movie is a sequel to Alpha and Omega and Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure. It came out on iTunes on March 4, 2014 and it's available for download. It was released on March 25, 2014 as a Walmart Exclusive. Just like the second movie, Alpha and Omega 3 received mixed reviews by critics (having 44% in Rotten Tomatoes and a 42 out of 100 in Metacritic) and mostly positive reviews by fans (with audience rating of 77%). However, it wasn't as successful as Alpha and Omega 2.
Plot
Kate, Humphrey, and the puppies are back in Jasper. Kate has to leave on a hunting trip with the others. Humphrey has to take care of the puppies. Runt, Stinky and Claudette hear about The Great Wolf Games from another puppy from the Northern Pack named Fleet. He has a crush on Claudette and tells them that the Western Pack won't be in the games. Claudette insists on forming their own team with Brent a grizzly bear cub, and Agnes a porcupine. Humphrey becomes their coach.

Production
Director Richard Rich said there would be a third and fourth movies in the franchise. He directs Alpha and Omega 3. Tom Kane wrote the script. He was also the uncredited co-director. Alpha and Omega 3 came out on iTunes in March 4, 2014. It came out on March 25, 2014 as a Walmart Exclusive.
Soundtrack
"It's Gonna Be Me" - 'N Sync
"Lonely No More" - Rob Thomas
"Let Your Decide" - Celine Dion
"Enchanted" - Owl City
"Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall - Coldplay
"Live While We're Young" - One Direction
"Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely" - Backstreet Boys
"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" - Selena Gomez
"Start of Something Good" - Daughtry
"Can't Help Falling in Love" - A*Teens
Reception
Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games received mixed reviews from critics. It had a 44% rating in Rotten Tomatoes and a 42 out of 100 in Metacritic. The movie's consensus in Rotten Tomatoes is: "Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games does have improved animation, lovable characters and it'll definitely entertain kids and die hard fans of the franchise, but it seems to suffer from a lazy story and a thinly-written script". Critics noted the animation's improvement, nice humor, likable characters and improved ending, but criticized the movie's story and the absence of the rest of the main characters. However, fans of the franchise had mostly positive reactions for the movie. Though they expressed disappointment on the story and for the lack of the original characters, they praised the movie on everything else. Alpha and Omega 3 had a fresh audience rating of 77% on the Rotten Tomatoes Community.
Sequels
Alpha and Omega: The Legend of the Saw Tooth Cave came out on iTunes on September 23, 2014. It was released on DVD, Digital HD and Pay-Per-View on October 7.

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Iñaki Azkuna Urreta (14 February 1943 – 20 March 2014) was a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party. From 1999 until his death, he was mayor of the city of Bilbao, Biscay in the Basque Country. In 2012, he won the World Mayor Prize, honoring the most outstanding mayors in the world. He was born in Durango, Biscay.

Azkuna died from prostate cancer on 20 March 2014 in Bilbao, Biscay. He was 71 years old.

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Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer. He mostly worked as a science fiction and fantasy writer. His best known book works were The Jaguar Hunter (1987), Life During Wartime (1990), and The Ends of the Earth (1991). He also wrote the comic book series Vermillion (1996–97) for Helix of DC Comics. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Shepard died on March 18, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. He was 70 years old.

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Madeleine "Maddie" Blaustein (October 9, 1960 – December 11, 2008) was an American voice actress. Until her death, Blaustein was the voice of Sartorius in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. She was also the voice of Meowth in the Pokémon anime.

Personal life 
Blaustein was born intersex. She was a male when she was born, and lived as male for many years until changing to female.

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Bert Ira Gordon (September 24, 1922 – March 8, 2023) was an American movie maker. He made many movies that are science fiction. He made his first movie when he was 32 in 1955, called King Dinosaur. In the movie, a group of astronauts go to another planet and find lots of strange creatures.

In an interview with Shout! Factory, he explained he always wanted to make movies ever since one of his relatives gave him a video camera.

Gordon had a daughter, Susan. She was a child actor. She even starred in Bert's movie, Tormented.

Gordon died on March 8, 2023 at a hospital in Los Angeles, California at the age of 100.

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Vince Wilfork is a football player

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Nicholas of Kues (1401 – August 11, 1464) or Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Cusa,  was a German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer. He was one of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism.

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Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German physician. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956. Forssmann studied the active principles and discovered cardiac catheterization.

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Sir Bernard Katz (26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a British physician of Jewish-German descent. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970. He studied the active principles of nerve biochemistry.

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Panasonic Corporation, formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, is a multinational electronics company. Panasonic is known for their electronics products. The company was created by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918. It is the fourth-largest television manufacturer in the world. The company was known, as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. from 1935 to October 1, 2008.

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Suzanne Moore (born 1958) is an English journalist. Moore was born in Ipswich to an American father and a Tory-voting working-class mother. She is a feminist.
She was the winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2019. and resigned from The Guardian in 2020.

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Military or belligerent occupation is a control by a certain ruling power over a territory, which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the violation. The territory is then known as the occupied territory, and the ruling power is the occupant.

Related pages
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Austin & Ally is an American sitcom. It started on December 2, 2011, on the Disney Channel. The main characters are Austin (Ross Lynch) Ally (Laura Marano) Trish (Raini Rodriguez) and Dez (Calum Worthy). The story is set in Miami. Most of the time the characters are in Sonic Boom, a music shop. The shop is owned by Ally’s father, but Ally is the manager. Austin and Ally have their rehearsal room in Sonic Boom. There are secondary characters in this sitcom: Ally's parent, Nelson and Jimmy Star (the boss of Austin’s recording studio).

Plot 
Austin & Ally is a comedy about the friendship of the singer and musician Austin Moon (Ross Lynch) and the shy songwriter Ally Dawson (Laura Marano). In the show, Ally has strong stage fright (fear of being on a stage in front of many people).
In the first episode called "Rockers & Writers", Austin secretly sings and records one of Ally's songs. He becomes famous from it after his best friend Dez (Calum Worthy) helps him make a music video for the song and posts it on the internet. Ally is convinced by her best friend Trish (Raini Rodriguez) to tell people she wrote the song. Austin convinces Ally to join him to write songs. The two become friends and work on making Austin more famous. Trish becomes Austin's manager and Dez creates Austin's music videos. The four of them have many adventures in Austin's music career. Austin gets signed to a character Jimmy Star's record label at the end of the first season.

Austin and Ally work together to solve problems in the second season. Ally gets rid of her stage fright by performing with Austin. Ally signs a record deal and records an album. Austin goes on a national tour. Ally does not go to the first part of Austin's tour but does go to the second half.
Main cast 
 Ross Lynch as Austin Moon, an outgoing singer who became famous on the internet. Austin's best friends are Dez, Ally and Trish. He loves singing, dancing, and having fun. His middle name is Monica. He is shown as sweet, childish, and caring for others. Austin starts to like Ally romantically in Season 2. Austin goes on his first big tour at the end of Season 2.
 Laura Marano as Ally Dawson, a singer and songwriter who had stage fright. She started writing songs for herself. She later became friends with Austin and made songs with him too. She works at her father's music store, Sonic Boom. Ally begins her own career in Season 2. Ally likes Austin romantically in Season 2.
 Raini Rodriguez as Trish, Ally's best friend and Austin's manager. She changes her jobs a lot because she does not work hard or go to work a lot. The one job she is good at is being Austin's manager. Trish also became Ally's manager in Season 2. She sometimes loves and sometimes hates Dez. She cares for her friends.
Calum Worthy as Dez, a director who wears unusual clothes and is not very smart. He films Austin's music videos and is Austin's best friend. He sometimes loves and sometimes hates Trish. He is usually not serious. He carries strange things in his backpack.
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Francesc Eiximenis (born in Girona around 1330 - died in Perpinyà around 1409) was a Franciscan Catalan writer. He lived in the Crown of Aragon in the 14th century. He was possibly one of the most important medieval Catalan writers. His works were read, copied, published and translated in many places. He had a strong influence in literacy and politics. People like the kings of the Crown of Aragon Peter IV, John I and Martin I, the queen Maria de Luna and the Pope of Avignon Benedict XIII read the works of Eiximenis.

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Ernest Mühlen (8 June 1926 – 19 March 2014) was a Luxembourgish politician for the Christian Social People's Party, economist, and financial journalist. In 1973, he won a place on Luxembourg City's communal council. He was born in Ettelbruck.

Mühlen died on 19 March 2014 at the age of 87.

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Hendrik "Henk" Weerink (2 July 1936 – 13 March 2014) was a Dutch association football referee. He refereed between 1967 and 1983 for more than 450 matches in national and international matches. He was born in Coevorden, Drenthe.

Weerink died on 13 March 2014 in his hometown of Coevorden. He was 77 years old.

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Cees Veerman (6 October 1943 – 15 March 2014) was a Dutch musician. He was a singer, composer and guitarist for the rock band The Cats. He was born in Volendam in the province of North Holland.

Veerman died in his sleep on the morning of 15 March 2014 in Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. He was 70 years old.

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Tholocoleus astrifer is a moth of the Noctuidae family. Butler used the scientific name in 1886.

References

 Tholocoleus astrifer in Prairie Research Institute's page

Noctuidae
Anzu  is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous, 66 million years ago (mya). Its remains were found in North and South Dakota. The type species is Anzu wyliei.

Anzu wyliei had a toothless beak, a prominent crest, long arms ending in slender relatively straight claws, long powerful legs with slender toes, and a very long tail. In life, the animal was about  to  long and  to  in weight. It was one of the largest known oviraptorosaurs and the largest known from North America (though the giant Mongolian oviraptorosaur Gigantoraptor was far larger).