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The Connecticut Colony was an English colony in British America. The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, was formed in what would become the US state of Connecticut. It was first called the River Colony and was organized on March 3, 1636. It was a place for Puritan noblemen. The English took control of the colony from the Dutch by the late 1630s. The colony became a war zone between the English and American Indians, known as the Pequot War. This war helped established the self-government in the New World.

There were two other English colonies in the state of Connecticut. The Saybrook Colony in 1644 and the New Haven Colony in 1662, merged with the Connecticut Colony. Thomas Hooker was a Puritan minister. Hooker and Governor John Haynes of Massachusetts Bay Colony led a group of 100 people to present-day Hartford in 1636. They are sometimes referred to as the founders of the Connecticut Colony.

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Coventry is a town in Connecticut. It is in Tolland County. There were 12,235 people living in Coventry in 2020. Coventry became a town in May 1712. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of  of which  is land and  (1.67%) is water.

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Old Saybrook is a town in Connecticut. It is in Middlesex County. There were 10,481 people living in Old Saybrook in 2020. The incorporated borough of Fenwick is in Old Saybrook. The census-designated places of Old Saybrook Center and Saybrook Manor are also part of the town.

Saybrook, Illinois is named after Old Saybrook.
National Register of Historic Places in Old Saybrook
Black Horse Tavern, added December 1, 1978
Elisha Bushnell House, added November 29, 1978
Connecticut Valley Railroad Roundhouse and Turntable Site, added April 28, 1994
Jedidiah Dudley House, added April 12, 1982
Samuel Eliot House, added November 9, 1972
General William Hart House, added November 9, 1972
James Pharmacy, added August 5, 1994
Lynde Point Lighthouse, added May 29, 1990
Old Saybrook South Green, added September 3, 1976
Parker House, added November 29, 1978
Humphrey Pratt Tavern, added November 7, 1972
Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse, added May 29, 1990
William Tully House, added March 15, 1982
Ambrose Whittlesey House, added August 23, 1985
John Whittlesey Jr. House, added October 26, 1984

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Wethersfield is a town in Connecticut. It is in Hartford County. Many records from colonial times spell the name Weathersfield. However, Native Americans called it Pyquag. There were 27,298 people living in Wethersfield in 2020.

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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol is an American computer-animated short film, based on The Smurfs comic book series and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Troy Quane and it stars voices of George Lopez, Jack Angel, Melissa Sturm, Fred Armisen, Gary Basaraba, Anton Yelchin, and Hank Azaria. The special was produced by Sony Pictures Animation with the animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Duck Studios. The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol was released on DVD on December 2, 2011, attached to The Smurfs.

Synopsis
When Grouchy Smurf (voiced by George Lopez) behaves badly to everyone and refuses to celebrate Christmas, the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present, and Future teach him to appreciate Christmas.
Cast
 George Lopez as Grouchy Smurf (voice)
 Jack Angel as Papa Smurf (voice) (replacing Jonathan Winters)
 Melissa Sturm as Smurfette / The Smurf of Christmas Past (voice)
 Fred Armisen as Brainy Smurf / The Smurf of Christmas Present (voice)
 Gary Basaraba as Hefty Smurf / The Smurf of Christmas Future (voice)
 Anton Yelchin as Clumsy Smurf (voice)
 Hank Azaria as Gargamel

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Ivan Droppa (born February 1, 1972) is a retired Slovak professional ice hockey player that played 2 seasons in the NHL for the Chicago Blackhawks.

Droppa was drafted 37th overall in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks.

Droppa mainly played in Europe during his career. He has played for the Nuremberg Ice Tigers, Kassel Huskies, and Duesseldorf EG/DEG Metro Stars of the DEL. The Slavia Praha HC and Litvinov CHP HC of the Czech Extraliga. The MsHK Žilina and HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga.

Droppa retired from professional ice hockey in 2010.

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Nyangatjatjara College is an independent high school based in the Northern Territory of Australia. It has campuses in Yulara, Kaltukatjara, Muṯitjulu and Imanpa. It teaches students who speak Pitjantjatjara as their first language.

The school was first opened on 21 July 1997. The campus at Yulara is the school's original and main campus. It has boarding facilities to allow students to from the other, smaller, campuses to live at the college while studying. Kaltukatjara, Muṯitjulu and Imanpa are small communities in remote areas. The campuses there were opened between 1998 and 2002. The students are taught at their home campuses for part of the year, and then study at the Yulara campus for the other part. The school teaches both boys and girls, but their classes are separated.

Nyangatjatjara College is owned by the Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation. It is a member of the Association of Independent Schools of the Northern Territory (AISNT).

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The Lexington Barbecue Festival is a one-day food festival held each October in Lexington, North Carolina, a city that calls itself the "Barbecue Capital of the World."  Each year up to 160,000 people go to the festival Up to 20 different companies compete to see who has the best barbecue.  There are many people who sell other items, too.  The festival is a celebration of slow cooked pork barbecue.

History
The first Lexington Barbecue Festival was in 1984.  It was the idea of Joe Sink, Jr., who worked for Lexington's newspaper, The Dispatch.  The city of Lexington was already famous for barbecue and the city decided it was a good idea to have a festival every year.  The first year, 30,000 people came to eat barbecue at the festival.  The festival is one of the largest in the United States now. By 1994, more than 100,000 people came each year, and they had to cook 11,000 pounds of meat.  In 2012, more than 160,000 people came to try the Lexington barbecue.
The city closes many city blocks on Main Street for the event.  In addition to barbecue, there are over 400 other people selling arts and crafts, homemade fudge and other things.  There are also many carnival rides, several stages for live music (bands), and other competitions and events.  Over the years, many large companies have helped pay for the festival, such as Childress Vineyards, Pepsi, BB&T, Walmart, and other  corporations.

Official status
In 2007, The North Carolina government pass a law called "NC House Bill 433" and now the festival is officially the"Official Food Festival of the Piedmont Triad Region of the State of North Carolina".

Images of the festival
These are images of some of the activities at the festival.

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The Lorentz transformations is a set of equations that describe a linear transformation between a stationary reference frame and a reference frame in constant velocity. The equations are given by:

 ,
 ,
 ,

where represents the new x co-ordinate,  represents the velocity of the other reference frame,  representing time, and  the speed of light.

On a Cartesian coordinate system, with the vertical axis being time (t), the horizontal axis being position in space along one axis (x), the gradients represent velocity (shallower gradient resulting in a greater velocity). If the speed of light is set as a 45° or 1:1 gradient, Lorentz transformations can rotate and squeeze other gradients while keeping certain gradients, like a 1:1 gradient constant. Points undergoing a Lorentz transformations on such a plane will be transformed along lines corresponding to  where n is some number

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In mathematics, a transformation is a rule that describes relations between two different coordinate systems and points in them.

Some examples are translation, dilation, rotation, reflection, shear mapping, point reflection, and circle inversion. Any combination of transformations is also a transformation.

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Kenneth "Ken" Page (born January 20, 1954) is an American actor, voice actor and singer. He is best known for voicing Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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A child-headed family or child-headed household is a family in which a minor (child or adolescent) has become the head of the household. They are most common in developing countries and areas of war, where the children's parents have been killed by conflict or disease.  In some cases, relatives of the children adopt them after the parents die. Situations where a child, usually the eldest, has to provide for the family happen when there are no adult relatives to take the children or the relatives can not afford to support more children. Whether and how much the government helps the orphaned family depends on the country. Most help comes from charity and aid organisations like UNICEF.
In Rwanda, it is estimated that the 1994 genocide left at least 60,000 households to be run by children. Many of the girls who were raped during the conflict are left to raise both their siblings and their own children.

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The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American combined live action and animated movie.  It was produced by Walt Disney.  It was released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 20, 1941. The movie gives a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

The movie stars radio comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, and Walt Disney, all as themselves.

The first third of the movie is in black-and-white.  The last two-thirds are in Technicolor.  Most of the movie is live-action.  There are four short animated parts. There is black-and-white part with Casey Junior from Dumbo.  There are three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems, Goofy's How to Ride a Horse, and The Reluctant Dragon.  The Reluctant Dragon is based on Kenneth Grahame's book of the same name.

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Victory Through Air Power is a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated movie.  It is based on the 1942 book Victory Through Air Power by Alexander P. de Seversky. De Seversky is in the movie.  This was different from the Disney animated movies of the time.

The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

On December 8, 1941, Disney studios were changed into a propaganda machine for the United States government. While most World War II movies were made for training, movies such as Victory Through Air Power were made to build public morale among the U.S. and Allied powers. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt were influenced by the movie.

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So Dear to My Heart is a 1948 movie produced by Walt Disney. It was released nationwide on January 19, 1949. The movie combines animation and live action. It is based on the Sterling North book Midnight and Jeremiah.

Cast
Bobby Driscoll as Jeremiah 'Jerry' Kincaid
Luana Patten as Tildy
Beulah Bondi as Granny Kincaid
Burl Ives as Uncle Hiram Douglas
 Harry Carey
 Raymond Bond
 Walter Soderling
 Matt Willis
 Spelman B. Collins
 John Beal
 Ken Carson
 Bob Stanton
 The Rhythmaires

Awards
The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Burl Ives's version of the 17th-century English folk song "Lavender Blue".  It lost to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter.

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Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical movie starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It was produced by Walt Disney. It was based on the story of destiny Mary Poppins and the Mary Poppins book series by P. L. Travers. It was shot at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

Julie Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mary Poppins. The movie also won Oscars for Best Movie Editing, Original Music Score, Best Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and Best Visual Effects. The movie received a total of 13 nominations.

Plot
The movie is about a family named Banks that live in London of 1910. The family members are George Banks - a serious man that works in the bank, Winifred Banks - a Women's rights activist, and their children Jane and Michael.
Many nannies come to the house in order to be chosen as the nanny but the strong wind blows them all away. At the same time the children who are looking from the window see a woman flying into their house, named Mary Poppins and she is the kind of nanny the children really wanted. With her magic and love she takes care of the children and takes them to special adventures. In the beginning Mr. Banks does not like the way she takes care of the children but later in the movie she manages (is able to do something, especially something difficult) to connect between him and the children and makes the Banks family all happy again.

Awards
Mary Poppins is the most Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated Disney movie in history.
Awards:
 Best Actress in a Leading Role -- Julie Andrews
 Best Original Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee"-- Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
 Best Substantially Original Score—Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
 Best Film Editing -- Cotton Warburton
 Best Visual Effects -- Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske

Nominations:
 Best Art Direction (Color) -- Carroll Clark, William H. Tuntke, Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman
 Best Cinematography (Color)
 Best Costume Design (Color)
 Best Director -- Robert Stevenson
 Best Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment -- Irwin Kostal
 Best Picture
 Best Sound -- Robert O. Cook 
 Best Adapted Screenplay

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 Empire - The Worst British Accents Ever - Number 11 - Dick Van Dyke singing in Mary Poppins (1964) (requires Flash)
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Todd Joseph "T. J." Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He first began acting in television. He is best known for his role as Erlich Bachman in the television sitcom Silicon Valley until he left the show in 2018.  His first role in a movie was Cloverfield, in which he played the character who videotaped most of the scenes.

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical movie produced by Walt Disney Productions.  It combines live action and animation.  It was released in North America on December 13, 1971. It is based on the books The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks by English children's author Mary Norton.

The movie is often compared to Mary Poppins.  It is also partly set in the streets of London. It shares some of the cast from Mary Poppins, a similar crew,  the same songwriters and director.

The movie was made at Walt Disney Studios. The castle scenes were shot on location at Corfe Castle,  Dorset, England, UK.

Cast
Cast

 Angela Lansbury as Miss Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch.
 David Tomlinson as Emelius Browne, Miss Price's former teacher and headmaster of Correspondence College of Witchcraft.
 Roddy McDowall as Mr. Rowan Jelk, the local vicar
 Sam Jaffe as Bookman, an antiquarian book merchant
 John Ericson as Colonel Heller, leader of German invasion force.
 Bruce Forsyth as Swinburne, Bookman's assistant

The Children:
 Cindy O'Callaghan as Carrie
 Roy Snart as Paul
 Ian Weighill as Charlie

 Tessie O'Shea as Mrs. Jessica Hobday
 Arthur Gould-Porter as Captain Bill Ainsley Greer
 Ben Wrigley as Portobello Road workman
 Reginald Owen as Major General Sir Brian Teagler, leader of the Home Guard. This is Owen's last film before his death the next year.
 Cyril Delevanti as Elderly farmer
 Rick Traeger and Manfred Lating as German sergeants

The voices of:
 Robert Holt as Codfish
 Lennie Weinrib as Secretary Bird and Lion
 Dal McKennon as Bear
Awards
Best Visual Effects (won) (Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, and Danny Lee)
Nominations
Best Art Direction (John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman)
Best Costume Design   
Best Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score
Best Original Song''' for "The Age of Not Believing"

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William "Billy" Gardell (born August 20, 1969) is an American actor. He currently acts in the television series Mike & Molly. He also made an appearance in several episodes of My Name Is Earl. He voiced Santa in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas.

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Judah Friedlander (born March 16, 1969) is an American actor and comedian best known for his acting on the sitcom 30 Rock.

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John Christian "Chris" Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American movie director, producer and voice actor. He is best known for the movies Ice Age and Robots.

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Karen Beth Disher (born August 7, 1972) is an American storyboard artist and movie director. She has also done many voice over roles in cartoons, television, movies and video games.

She has worked for MTV, where she designed the main characters for the cartoon series Daria. She then joined Blue Sky Studios, where she worked as storyboard artist on many animated movies, such as Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Horton Hears a Who!, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and Epic.

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Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Steve Stifler in the American Pie series. He also played roles in the movies Final Destination, Road Trip, Dude, Where's My Car?, Evolution, Bulletproof Monk, The Rundown, The Dukes of Hazzard, Role Models, Cop Out, and Goon. Scott voiced the character  Crash in the Ice Age franchise.

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Hazrat Sheikh Abul Hassan Ali Ibn Usman al-Jullabi al-Hajvery al-Ghaznawi, or Abul Hassan Ali Hajvery (sometimes also spelt as Hujwiri, Hajweri, Hajveri), more popularly known as Hazrat Daata Ganj Bakhsh (Persian/Punjabi, lit. The master who bestows treasures) or even simply as Daata Sahib (Persian/Urdu), was a famous Afghan Sufi mystic,  saint and scholar during the 11th century. He made a significant contribution both to the spreading of Islam in South Asia and to promoting a more liberal, tolerant society in the region.

Life
He was born around 990 AD near Ghazni, Afghanistan during the era of the Ghaznavid Kingdom and moved to Hindustan (or India) to settle in Lahore (now in present-day Punjab (Pakistan)) in 1077 AD.

Work
His most famous written work is the  Revelation of the Veiled (Kashf Al Mahjub) (کشفُ المحجوب), written in the Persian language. This is one of the earliest and most respected treatises of Sufism in Persian, and it debates Sufi doctrines of the past.
Legacy
Al-Hajvery was interred in a famous mausoleum in Lahore, which is surrounded by a large marble courtyard, a mosque and other buildings. It is the most frequented of all the shrines in that old city, and indeed one of the most famous in Pakistan and the entire region. He is venerated as the Patron Saint of Lahore, where his name is a household word, and his mausoleum the object of pilgrimage from distant places, by people of all religious beliefs. Along with Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chishti, Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and Jalal-u-din Surkh Bukhari, he is deemed in popular Punjabi  literature and culture, as one of the Panj Peer (Five Sages/Holy Ones) who exert mystic control and authority over all of the South Asia. These five saints or sages are thus invoked for help by many people, too.

Related pages
 List of notable Lahoris

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Christopher McDonald (born November 16, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his acting roles in Happy Gilmore, Requiem for a Dream, and 61*.

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Pete's Dragon is a 1977 live-action/animated musical movie from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action movie but its title character, a dragon named Elliott, is animated. The story is about a young orphan named Pete who goes to the town of Passamaquoddy a small fishing community in Northeastern Maine. His only friend is a dragon named Elliott.  Elliott is also his protector and can make himself invisible.
Cast
 Charlie Callas (voice) as Elliott a Apatosaurus-like dragon
 Sean Marshall as Pete, an orphan boy whom the Gogans treat like a slave
 Helen Reddy as Nora an Nanny Nun and Lampie's headstrong but kind daughter
 Mickey Rooney as Lampie, Passamaquoddy's lighthouse keeper and Nora's father
 Jim Dale as Dr. Terminus, a scheming quack 
 Red Buttons as Hoagy, Terminus' sidekick
 Shelley Winters as Lena Gogan, the matriarch of the Gogans 
 Charles Tyner as Merle Gogan, Lena's husband
 Gary Morgan and Jeff Conaway as Grover and Willie Gogan, Lena and Merle's adult sons
 Cal Bartlett as Paul, Nora's fiancé
 Walter Barnes as the Captain of the ship on which Paul returns home
 Jane Kean as Miss Abbey Taylor, a mean schoolteacher
 Jim Backus as the mayor of Passamaquoddy
Awards and honors
Academy Awards
Pete's Dragon was nominated for two Academy Awards:
 Academy Award for Best Original Song - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for "Candle on the Water"
 Academy Award for Original Song Score - Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn and Irwin Kostal

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Awards
The movie was nominated for four Saturn Awards:
 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film
 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor - Red Buttons
 Saturn Award for Best Costume
 Saturn Award for Best Special Effects

Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated Pete's Dragon for one Golden Globe Award:
 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn

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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is a 1990 animated movie.  It was based on the children's television series DuckTales. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 3, 1990.

Voice cast
 Alan Young - Scrooge McDuck
 Rip Taylor - Genie / Gene
 Christopher Lloyd - Merlock
 Russi Taylor - Huey / Dewey / Louie / Webby
 Terrence McGovern - Launchpad McQuack
 Richard Libertini - Dijon
 Joan Gerber - Mrs. Beakely
 Chuck McCann - Duckworth
 June Foray - Mrs. Featherby

Additional voices
 Charlie Adler
 Jack Angel
 Steve Bulen
 Sherry Lynn
 Mickie T. McGowan
 Patrick Pinney
 Frank Welker

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Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker (born August 20, 1954) is an American weatherman and an actor. He is known for being a presenter on the television program Today.

In September 2020, Roker was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Hazrat Sheikh Farīd-ud-dīn Mas'ūd Ganj Shakar  (4 April, 1179 – 7 May, 1266), commonly known as Baba Farid Ganjshakar (Punjabi, lit: 'Treasury of Sugar/Sweetness'), was a  renowned Sufi preacher, mystic poet and saint of the Chishti Order of South-central Asia.

Fariduddin Ganjshakar is generally recognized as the first major poet of the Punjabi language, and is considered one of the pivotal saints of the Punjab and indeed, one of the Panj Peers, or five main/great saints of South Asia. Revered equally by Muslims and Hindus, he is also considered one of the fifteen Sikh bhagats. Selections from his work are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scripture.

His world-famous shrine is located in Pakpattan, in present-day Punjab (Pakistan). It was built in 1267. Each year during the Islamic month of Muharram, special festivities are held there and pilgrims from many countries come to visit.

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Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold!, Dizzy Devil in Tiny Toon Adventures, The Brain in Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain, The Powerpuff Girls, and his portrayal of Mr. Freeze in Batman: Arkham City.

Early life 
LaMarche was born on March 30, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but his family moved to Timmins, Ontario, very soon after he was born. LaMarche's childhood was filled with his "own little world of cartoons and sixties television".

Roles in television, film, and video games

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 Interview with Maurice LaMarche on "The Joe Cook Program"
 Maurice LaMarche Interview on Talk Radio Meltdown
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Mount Conner (also called Atila) is a mountain in central Australia. It is in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory,  southeast of Lake Amadeus. It is  above sea level and  above the ground around it. The mountain was named by William Gosse in 1873 after South Australian politician Mountifort Longfield Conner. It can be seen from the road towards Uluṟu when coming from Alice Springs.

Mount Conner is a flat-topped inselberg, shaped like a horseshoe. The rock is sedimentary. Its layers were left behind when the area was an inland sea, during the Neoproterozoic era (1Ga to 542Ma). The rock of Mount Conner is 200 to 300 million years older than the rock of nearby Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa. The younger layers of sedimentary rock eroded over millions of years leaving the inselberg that is seen today.
The mountain is known as Atila (also sometimes spelled Artila, Atula, Attila or Artilla) in the native Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara languages. The country around it is called Atilanya. It is associated with Tjukurpa (Dreaming) stories about the  (means "ice people"; commonly spelled "ninya"). The nyiṉya are ancestral spirits who bring cold weather.

History
For the native Yankunytjatjara people, Mount Conner has long been associated with the Wanambi Dreaming.  is a ancestral spirit who is said to live in the springs in and around the mountain. Legends relating to this Dreaming were recorded by Charles Mountford when he visited the area in 1940. He wrote that a very dangerous one was said to live in , a spring that used to exist halfway up the southern slopes. When the spring dried up, the men of Atilanya believed that the  was stolen from them by the people to the south, who placed the spirit in a spring of their own country so that they would have more water.
About  southwest of Mount Conner is another water source, a rock hole called  (in English, "Aneri Well" or "Mount Conner Well"). Mountford camped there in 1940 on his way to Uluṟu, and recorded the name as "Anneri". He wrote that this was said to be the home of a harmless  that had travelled north to Anari from the Musgrave Ranges. He also wrote about ceremonies relating to the  being performed by the women here.

Mountford also recorded another legend associated with the mountain, of a fight between two boys who were hunting in the area. According to the legend, one of the boys discovered the spring at Anari by chance. He refused to tell the other boy where he had found water and, as a result, the second boy nearly died of thirst. They duelled together and slowly made their way to the top of the mountain, where they died. Their bodies are said to be preserved as boulders.
Anari was used as the site of the first homestead of Mount Conner Station. This is now abandoned, and the new homestead is located further north, on the Lasseter Highway. A track leads from here to the base of Mount Conner.

Geology
Mount Conner is made up of conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones and mudstones. The summit consists of coarse-grained sandstone with pebble layers and small beds of pebble conglomerate and siltstone. The rock that lies underneath this is composed of dark brown micaceous siltstone, mudstone, and fine-grained sandstone. The lower part of the mountain consists of medium to coarse-grained, grey-brown sandstones, dark-brown siltstones, and cherts. The sides of Mount Conner are also covered by scree (talus) and its top is covered with colluvium. The base of the mountain is surrounded by alluvium.
The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of Kata Tjuṯa and Uluṟu, is left over from the erosion of a layer of sediment from the Cretaceous period. It is considered to a classic example of an inselberg created by erosion of surrounding strata.

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Crime in Afghanistan happens in many ways.  Some of the crimes are: corruption, contract killings or assassinations, kidnapping, drug trafficking, money laundering, black marketeering, and other ordinary crimes.

Growing Opium poppy and drug trafficking are important to the political and economic situation of Afghanistan. After the Soviet war in Afghanistan, growing opium poppy  increased. Growing opium poppy was taxed.  Some members of the military were directly involved in illegal drug trade. The Taliban did not want people to grow drugs.  Because it made so much money they were tolerant and taxed the drug growing.
In 1999, Afghanistan made over 4,581 metric tons of raw and refined opium. This led to more international pressure from places the drugs were sold to. In response, the Taliban said no one could grow opium poppy.  The did allow the opium trade to continue. With the ban the opium was reduced to 185 metric tons. This little production of opium continued in areas under the control of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan.

Since the downfall of the Taliban in 2001, growing and trafficking of opium has increased significantly. Criminal organizations and corrupt government officials have used drug trafficking as a way to make money. Some anti-government groups make profit from the drug trafficking.
Afghanistan is world's largest producer of opium. In 2001, Afghanistan was the source of 87% of the world's illegal opium. 80-90% of the heroin consumed in Europe comes from opium made in Afghanistan. According to Antonio Maria Costa "drugs are now a clear and present danger" in Afghanistan. In 2007 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said 93% of the opiates on the world market came from Afghanistan.

Unemployment among a large portion of the population is part of the reason for crime. Other forms of crime include robbery as well as kidnappings and assault. Many riots have occurred in the country in response to the political and other issues.

Since the downfall of the Taliban, crime rate has greatly increased in the capital city Kabul. Armed robberies are reported in the western districts of Kabul. Between March 2002 and January 2003, 48 cases of homicide, 80 cases of theft and 12 cases of kidnappings were reported in Kabul municipal boundaries.

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Crime in Armenia includes human trafficking, domestic violence, murder, political murder, contract killing, tax evasion, corruption, extortion, money laundering, police brutality, organized crime, and clan or gang violence.

The quick change from a Communism system to a free market capitalist system destroyed the socioeconomic structure of Armenia. 

During the first ten months of 2008, crime in Armenia's capital Yerevan rose nearly 14 percent from the same period in 2007.

Organized crime and "brotherhoods" 
Organized crime is a part of the Armenian economy. In Yerevan there are organized, criminal clans known as "akhperutyuns" (or brotherhoods).  The different groups sometimes battle for rights over their territory. Members are guided by the underworld laws brought from Russian prisons.

Most of the smaller cities, towns, and villages of Armenia are also controlled by a clan or family.
Human trafficking 
A "well-paid job" is very often the bait used to persuade women in difficult social situations to travel abroad.

Sexual exploitation 
In July 2004, Russia’s Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev said that growing cooperation between Russian and Armenian law enforcement bodies has prevented more than one hundred Armenian women from being trafficked abroad for sexual exploitation.  According to Nurgaliev, "criminal groups" which have been neutralized planned to transport the mostly young women to third countries, mainly the United Arab Emirates, via Russia. On June 24, 2004, members of a criminal group who were intent on forcing 6 Armenian women into prostitution were arrested.

On April 20, 2009, Anoush Martirosyan, the infamous "Madame Pimp" of Dubai, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison by a Yerevan judge.  Martirosyan ran a prostitution ring in Dubai to which she lured girls from Armenia.
Domestic violence 
According to a 2008 study by Amnesty International, more than a quarter of women in Armenia "have faced physical violence at the hands of husbands or other family members."  Reporting domestic violence is heavily stigmatized in Armenian society.  Many of these women have no choice but to stay in abusive situations.

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There is a low rate of crime in Bahrain. Some petty crime such as pickpocketing and bag snatching are reported especially in the old market areas (souks). Violent crime is uncommon, but increasing. Much of the crime in the nation is committed by the large South Asian population of guest workers. Though small in size, there is a  growing underground drug market in the country. According to Emile Nakhleh, about 65% of violent crime and theft are done by foreign citizens living in Bahrain.

Charisse Tia Maria Coston and Freda Adler wrote a book about the reasons behind the low crime rate in Bahrain. The society of Bahrain follows the teachings of the Qur'an; the Qur'an influences political, economic and social environment. Islam, which is most important in the structure of Bahraini society, teaches wrongdoings will result in downfall of societies.
Bahrain is a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of involuntary servitude and commercial sexual exploitation. Men and women from Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia cine to Bahrain to work as laborers or domestic servants.  Some are placed in involuntary servitude such as unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on movements, non-payment of wages, threats and physical or sexual abuse. Women from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Southeast Asian country like Thailand and North African nation like Morocco are trafficked to Bahrain for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.

Threat of terrorist attack is a matter of concern. The Government of Australia advised travelers "to exercise a high degree of caution in Bahrain" due to high threat of terrorism.

In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2007, Bahrain was ranked 46th out of 179 countries for corruption.

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Glires (from Latin glīrēs, dormice) is a clade (sometimes ranked as grandorder) consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas). This hypothesis that these form a monophyletic group has been long debated based on morphological evidence, although recent morphological studies strongly support monophyly of Glires.

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The Euarchonta are a grandorder of mammals containing four orders: the Dermoptera or colugos, the Scandentia or treeshrews, the extinct Plesiadapiformes, and the Primates.

Euarchonta and Glires together form the Euarchontoglires, one of the four Eutherian clades.

Mammals
Crime in Bangladesh includes many different crimes.  Some of these crimes are done by an individual and some crimes are organized by a group.  Examples of crime are: drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, murder for hire,  fraud, human trafficking, robbery, corruption, black market, political violence, terrorism, abduction, etc.

Bangladesh is used to move narcotics made in neighboring countries. A 2007 report said that Bangladesh is now the main point for the movement and trafficking of heroin from Southeast Asia to the European market .

A total of 10,331 homicides were reported from 2001 to 2003.  This is a large increase.

For the Asia Pacific region, Bangladesh is ranked as one of the main countries for software piracy. It is believed that software vendors lose around 102 million US dollars every year to this black market trade.  There is no strict law to stop this practice.
In 2011 Bangladesh was ranked 120th for corruption in a list of 182 countries. This means there appears to be a high amount of corruption in the country.

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Babcock Street is a station on the MBTA Green Line "B" Branch located in Boston, Massachusetts. The station is located on Commonwealth Avenue at Babcock Street. Babcock Street consists of two side platforms which serve the "B" Branch's two tracks. Babcock street is 24 minutes away from Park Street.

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The Peshtigo Fire was a great fire in on October, 8, 1871 in Peshtigo, a town in Wisconsin in the United States. It was a natural disaster. The fire killed between 1,500 people and 2,700 people. Occurring on the same day as the more famous Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire has been largely forgotten.

The setting of small fires was a common way to clear forest land for farming and railroad construction. On the day of the Peshtigo Fire, a cold front moved in from the west, bringing strong winds that fanned the fires out of control. A huge fire was started.

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Belgium is considered a mostly safe country compared to its neighbouring countries. Brussels had the fourth highest number of recorded crimes of European capitals (behind Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Berlin). Brussels had a rate of 10 murders or violent deaths per 100,000 citizens. Belgium's second largest city, Antwerp, has crime rates about 20% below those of Brussels. Liège and Charleroi, industrial cities with high unemployment rates, saw higher crime rates than the less industrialized cities of Ghent and Bruges. The rural areas are generally very safe.

History
Marc Dutroux did many serious crimes and is likely Belgium's worst criminal. He is in prison. 

In November 2005, Brussels was very minorly affected by the spread of the French riots. There has been a steep increase in violent armed robberies carried out by minors. Cybercrime is also growing.

In 2011, a man killed six people, then himself, in Liege.
Gangs in Belgium
In the 1990s and early 2000s, attacks were made on vans used to move.  They often killed the security agents in charge. The country had several large-scale crime scandals, such as those of the Brabant Wallon killers, the Scarface gang and the Belgian Mafia. More recently, some scandals have been about corruption and misuse of public resources. In addition, petty crimes such as street thefts, purse snatchings, and pickpocketing are in the main city centers. There are not very many of these crimes. Car theft used to happen often.  There have been less in the last decade.

Belgian Mafia
The known groups in the mafia in Belgium are:
Belgian mafia
Nijvel gang
Haemers gang
Bonnot Gang
Scarface gang

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Richard Henry Carmona (born November 22, 1949) is an American physician, policeofficer, public healthadministrator, and politician. He was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States. Carmona was chosen as Surgeon General by President George W. Bush in 2002. He left office at the end of July 2006 at the end of his term. After leaving, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration.

In August 2006, Carmona returned home to Tucson, Arizona. In November 2011, he said he would try to become the Democratic Party's choice for United States Senate. He won the nomination, but lost the election to Jeff Flake.

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Bhutan has a low crime rate. Petty crime is sometimes reported in the country. Violent crime is very uncommon. Some cases of drug abuse are reported. alcohol abuse is a problem. In general, drug trafficking is low. The most serious threat to Bhutan's security is terrorism by different groups from India who are staying in the nation.

In June 1999, television was introduced in the country. Bhutan was the last nation in the world to have television. Some people think the introduction of television did not fit with Bhutanese culture.  They say it is a reason crime increased.
Non-political crime
Violent crime is very low in Bhutan. Levels of theft are low. Petty crime like pickpocketing are sometimes reported in the country. Juvenile crime has increased. The highest rate of juvenile crime was reported in 2003 when 63 youths were convicted across the nation. Rape is not a large problem. In 1999 only 10 rapes were reported in Bhutan. Homicide rate is low. In 1998, homicide rate per 100,000 citizens was 2.78. Bhutan is a source and transit country for human trafficking. Women are trafficked from Bhutan to other countries for commercial sexual exploitation. 

The first case of corruption in Bhutan was reported on April 5, 2002. A man was charged with embezzlement. Four cases of white-collar crime and violent crime were reported in April 2003.

In 2011, Bhutan was ranked 38th out of 182 countries for corruption (least corrupt countries are at the top of the list). Its score was 5.7 with 10 being the highest possible.
Drug-related crime
Slight drug abuse has appeared in the country. Free trade with neighboring India and the refugees make Bhutan vulnerable to drug trafficking. Bhutan is close to certain areas in Nepal and North-East India where intravenous drug use is high. Because of this, Bhutan has had an increase in intravenous drug use. Marijuana, which grows as a shrub in Bhutan, was only used to feed pigs before the introduction of television. Hundreds have now been arrested for using marijuana. Use of amphetamines and benzodiazepines smuggled from India is rising in Thimpu and in the Southern Bhutan. Drug trafficking and production of opium, cannabis and other drugs is not a large problem in the country.

Alcohol consumption is the most serious addiction related problem in the nation. Alcohol abuse is reported in nearly 80% of domestic violence crimes.
Terrorism
Many groups from India have set up training camps in the southern part of the country. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the Bodo Liberation Tigers Force (BLTF) had bases in Bhutan in 2002. Terrorists were involved in murders, extortion and kidnappings. Bhutan told the terrorists they must leave the country by December 2001. In December 2003 there was a military campaign to remove these groups. Many terrorist camps were destroyed. It is thought that terrorists are trying to make retaliatory attacks against Bhutan. On September 5, 2004, a bomb exploded in Gelephu killing two people and injuring twenty seven. The NDFB was suspected behind the attack.

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 The First Nonsmoking Nation Slate.com
 Timeline: Bhutan BBC News
 Has TV changed Bhutan? BBC News
  Blasts rip through Bhutan CNN
 Series of bomb blasts rock Bhutan International Herald Tribune

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Crime in Brazil has had an increase in violent and non-violent crimes. According to most sources, Brazil has high rates of violent crimes, such as murders and robberies. The homicide rate was getting smaller, but has started going back up from 2006 onwards. In 2010 it was above 25 homicides per 100,000 people. This makes is one of the 20 worst rates in the world.

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Kidnappings do still happen. Increased police know-how has helped the problem. Prostitution per se is not a crime in Brazil, unlike procuring. The Government of Brazil has increased efforts to combat child prostitution and sex tourism. In 2010, there were 473,600 people in Brazilian prisons and jails. Drugs are responsible for 85,000 of the total.

It is believed that most life-threatening crime in Brazil is linked to drug trade and alcoholism. Brazil is a heavy importer of cocaine. It is part of the international drug route. Arms and marijuana used by criminals are mostly locally produced.