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Each series now included a major disaster or "shout". In Series 5, a spinning wheel ride at a fairground is jammed by a youth, played by Liam McGuire, armed with a pole. The ride collapses, and there is a huge fire with people trapped in the crushed metal. The series attracted 17 million viewers.
In the early 1990s, the ratings averaged 17–18 million viewers. In 1995 (Series 8), ratings fell to 16 million viewers.
Paul Knight decided it was time for a tragic exit for one of the main characters. The man who was to be killed was Sub Officer John Hallam. Hallam was killed off in 1996 (Series 9) during a huge warehouse fire. He and his colleague, Leading Firefighter Geoff Pearce, were attempting to rescue four teenage girls. They were on an unstable gantry above a blaze in the basement. Hallam held the gantry steady for Pearce as he walked across with one of the girls. As Hallam attempted to cross, the gantry cracked and Hallam fell to his death. The writers developed a storyline about Pearce feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt after the accident, which would lead to him considering a transfer.
Series 9 attracted 16.8 million viewers.
Series 10 was the last series produced by Paul Knight. It had 18 episodes. It focused on the crew's domestic lives rather than firefighting work. Budget cuts led to scenes being done with computer-generated imagery. Notable 'shouts' included ones at a paint factory and another at a bus depot.
The new producer was David Shanks. Series 11, 12 and 13 saw the return to firefighting scenes as the primary focus. Series 14 was almost completely based on soap opera-style story lines, with the number of fire 'shouts' severely reduced. Viewing figures slumped as the series was critically panned. In 2002 "London's Burning" was cut from the schedule; the final episode was broadcast on 25 August 2002 in a two-hour slot.
In 2000 a 90-minute behind-the-scenes special was released on VHS video.
The "London's Burning" theme used in Series 1–10 was composed by Simon Brint, Rowland Rivron, and Roddy Matthews. Series 11–13 used a theme composed by Warren Bennett. The series 14 theme was composed by Stuart Hancock and Toby Jarvis and produced at London-based music production house Mcasso Music. Hancock also composed the original incidental music score to all episodes of series 14.
Series 1–10 lacked a title sequence. The episodes opened with the text "London's Burning". It was in Futura bold condensed typeface and was superimposed in white over the opening scene of the episode. Series 11–13 used a montage of action shots superimposed over a fiery background as the text "London's Burning" superimposed in gold and black slowly grew in size over the course of the sequence. It quickly zoomed to fill the screen on the final musical flourish. Series 14 used a shorter montage of action and character shots before the text "london's burning" in orange and white appeared and moved closer together over a shot of fire engines emerging from the station.
The first few series used Dockhead Fire Station at 8 Wolseley Street, London SE1, as the exterior for Blackwall. The Jacob Street studio is opposite. It had a full scale reproduction of the mess, built by Colin Monk. The actual station mess was also used in the series, as were many other parts of the station and its actual firefighters. Dockhead is still an operational fire station but the original station building was demolished and replaced in 2015.
The Swan and Sugar Loaf pub, which featured as the firefighters' local pub, has since been converted to flats. The location is about 800 metres from Tower Bridge.
The Restaurant opened by Mike 'Bayleaf' Wilson in series 9 was filmed on location at The Chequers Inn, Deal, Kent.
Later series used the exterior of Leyton Fire Station and the Oliver Twist pub opposite.
All series of London's Burning were released between 2005 and 2011.
As of 6 January 2019, Drama is re-showing "London's Burning" at one episode per weekday (2.20–3.20 pm Monday to Friday).
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Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Central America. It is about in size, and is an overseas territory of France. In Spanish, it is known as "Isla de la Pasión. It is about" from Acapulco. The nearest French settlements is Papeete, away. Paris is away. Clipperton Island is about south-east of Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, which is the nearest land.
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow is a British-born American paleoconservative. There are a lot of people who hate him and say that he is racist. He says that he is not racist and that “the modern definition of a ‘racist’ is someone who’s winning an argument with a liberal”.
Peter Brimelow was born in England in 1947. He and his twin brother studied at the University of Sussex and at Stanford University. He moved to Toronto and worked as an editor for a Canadian newspaper called the Financial Post and for a Canadian magazine called Maclean’s. In 1978, he started working for a Republican United States Senator named Orrin Hatch. In 1980, Brimelow moved to New York and started working for American magazines. He was the editor of Forbes Magazine from 1986 to 2002.
Brimelow is opposed to immigration legal or not. He said that California was once “paradise” which is to say heaven but that Hispanics had turned it into a slum. Brimelow does not like to be called a white nationalist and sued the New York Times for saying he was one. Brimelow started an anti-immigration website called VDARE which published work by Jared Taylor and Sam T. Francis. In 2008, he said that the Republican Party of the United States should focus on getting white people to vote for them. In 2012, he gave a speech attacking multiculturalism at CPAC.
Brimelow wrote a book called Alien Nation in which he said that immigration to the US was a “disaster”. Brimelow wrote a book called The Worm in the Apple in which he criticizes teachers’ unions. Brimelow wrote a book called The Patriot Game about Canada and why in his opinion there is no set of ideas that Canada is built on.
Gas-fired power plant
Yoronjima
Yoronjima (与論島, Okinawan and Yoron: ユンヌ "Yunnu"; Kunigami: ユンヌー "Yunnuu)" is one of the Amami Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
In 2018, it had 5,056 people. Most of them are Ryukyuan, who are the natives of the Ryūkyū Islands.
Virgin of the Rocks
This painting by Da Vinci was very controversial and had two versions. The painting itself showed Mary, John the Baptist, Jesus, and an angel. Mary was holding John the Baptist while Jesus blessed them. This painting was quite controversial because Mary wasn't remotely touching Jesus at all, so Da Vinci made a second version of the painting. Mary has a graceful air about her, which was a traditional Renaissance fashion. This painting is the first time in which a Renaissance artist has completely abandoned halos.
Bay (horse)
A bay horse is a horse who is reddish brown with black legs, mane and tail.
Peronism
Peronism or justicialism is an Argentine political movement based on the ideas and legacy of Argentine president Juan Perón (1895–1974). It has been an influential movement in Argentine politics. Since 1946 Peronists have won 10 out of the 13 presidential elections in which they have been allowed to run. The main Peronist party is the Justicialist Party. The ideas of each president were different, but the general ideology has been described as "a vague blend of nationalism and labourism" or populism.
Juan Perón became Argentina's minister of labour after participating in the 1943 military coup and was elected president of Argentina in 1946. He introduced social programs that benefited the working class, supported labor unions, and called for additional involvement of the state in the economy. In addition he helped industrialists. Perón was very popular and gained even more admiration through his wife, Eva, who championed for the rights of migrant workers and was loved by the people. Due to rising inflation and other economic problems, the military overthrew Perón in 1955. The Peronist party was banned and it wasn't until 1973 that open elections were held again. In the 1973 election, Perón was again elected president. He died the next year and his widow, Isabel, took his place as president. Perón's death had led to disunity and the military overthrew Isabel in 1976.
Peronist Carlos Menem was president from 1989 to1999. His policies were very different from previous Peronists, he focused on privatization, free-market policies, and international relations. Peronist Néstor Kirchner was president from 2003 to 2007, and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was president from 2007 to 2015. According to the Economist, the Kirchners returned to "economic nationalism and near-autarky". The ideology of the Kirchners is known as Kirchnerism.
Yellow-dog contract
A yellow-dog contract (a yellow-dog clause of a contract, or an ironclad oath) is an agreement between an employer and an employee. The employee agrees not to be a part of a trade union. This was part of a contract which employers and employees signed when employees were hired. In the United States, yellow-dog contracts or yellow-dog clauses were often used by employers to stop the creation of unions. It let employers take legal action against union organizers. In 1932, yellow-dog contracts were made illegal in the United States under the Norris-LaGuardia Act.
The term yellow-dog clause can also have another meaning: non-compete clauses inside of or added to to a non-disclosure agreement to stop an employee from working for other employers in the same industry.
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Chicken sandwich
A chicken sandwich is a type of food. It might have came from the southern United States. Some fast food restaurants sell chicken sandwiches like Chick-fil-A and McDonald's. Toppings like pickles and a sauce mix can be added to the sandwich.
In some Latin American countries, chicken can be added to a sandwich called pepito.
Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks
Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks is a Canadian–American computer-animated television series that was shown on Discovery Kids in September 23, 2006. The show was produced by Endgame Entertainment, CCI Entertainment, Big Bang Digital Studios, Brandissimo! and Discovery Kids.
The Naked Sun
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American filmmaker, actor and author. He has been called "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers". His best known works were "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1954), "Scorpio Rising" (1964), "Kustom Kar Kommandos" (1965), and the gossip book "Hollywood Babylon" (1965).
John Russell (equestrian)
Colonel John William Russell (February 2, 1920 – September 30, 2020) was an American equestrian. He won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He helped organize two World Modern Pentathlon Championships. He retired and opened the Russell Equestrian Center and was added into the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 2001.
Russell died on September 30, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 100.
Palestine usually refers to:
Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Dauphin is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 791 at the 2010 census.
Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst (née Stahl, February 2, 1931) is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for writing "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" (1972), which has sold over two million copies.
Center-right
Center-right politics are a set of opinions about politics that usually but not always agree with right-wing politics and when it doesn't is still normally more right-wing than people who support left-wing politics are. Right-centrists can be libertarians, Rockefeller Republicans, Red Tories or conservatives who are pro-life but are left-wing on money, though with the last one people described as right-centrists tend to be the other way around.
2011 Stanley Cup Finals
The 2011 Stanley Cup Finals was the 118th edition of the Stanley Cup. It included the western conference team, the Vancouver Canucks and the Eastern conference champion, the Boston Bruins. Boston beat the Canucks in 7 games to win the Stanley cup. This was their 6th Stanley cup win and they have the #4 most Stanley cups in the NHL league. They played 7 games, ending in Vancouver were Boston beat them 4-0.
Der Fuehrer's Face
Der Fuehrer's Face, also known as Donald Duck in Nutzi Land, was a popular World War II animated cartoon released in 1943. In the cartoon, Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime. The "Nutzis" are caricatures of of Benito Mussolini on the bass drum, Herman Göring on the piccolo, Hideki Tojo on the tuba, Heinrich Himmler on the snare drum, and Joseph Goebbels on the trombone.
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
Wolfeboro is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 6,269.
Ossipee, New Hampshire
Ossipee is a town in and the county seat of Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 4,345.
Charlie Hunnam
Charles Matthew Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Jackson "Jax" Teller in the FX drama series "Sons of Anarchy" (2008–2014). He has also had roles as Nathan Maloney in the Channel 4 drama "Queer as Folk" (1999–2000) and Lloyd Haythe in the Fox comedy series "Undeclared" (2001–2002). He has appeared in movies such as "Nicholas Nickleby" (2002), "Green Street" (2005), "Pacific Rim" (2013), "The Lost City of Z" (2017), "" (2017) and "The Gentlemen" (2019).
Hunnam was born in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. He was married to actress Katharine Towne from 1999 to 2002. He has been dating artist Morgana McNelis since 2005.
Rochester Hills, Michigan
Rochester Hills is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 70,995.
Willie Wood
William Vernell Wood Sr. (December 23, 1936February 3, 2020) was an American football safety for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League (NFL). He was a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Wood died of dementia-related problems on February 3, 2020 at an assisted living facility in Washington, D.C. at the age of 83.
Lexington, Missouri
Lexington is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,726 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Lafayette County.
Lafayette County, Missouri
Lafayette County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,381. Its county seat is Lexington.
Niangua, Missouri
Niangua is a city in Webster County, Missouri, United States. The population was 405 at the 2010 census.
Marshfield, Missouri
Marshfield is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,633.
Wheatland, Missouri
Wheatland is a city in Hickory County, Missouri, United States. The population was 371 at the 2010 census.
Moody Awori
Arthur Moody Awori (born 5 December 1928), known as "Uncle Moody", is a Kenyan politician and writer. He was the ninth Vice President of Kenya from 25 September 2003 to 9 January 2009. Awori was born in Butere.
Awori was first elected as a Member of Parliament representing Funyula Constituency in Busia District in Western Province in 1984. Under President Daniel arap Moi, he was in several positions as assistant minister.
Muztagh Tower
Muztagh Tower is a mountain in the Karakoram range, in China and Pakistan. It is part of the Baltoro Muztagh subrange. Muztagh Tower is the 90th highest mountain in the world.
The first people to reach the top were Ian McNaught-Davis, Joe Brown, John Hartog, and Tom Patey, in 1956.
Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on a DJ mixer may be used to fade between two records simultaneously.
While scratching is most associated with hip hop music, where it emerged in the mid-1970s, from the 1990s it has been used in some styles of rap rock, rap metal and nu metal. In hip hop culture, scratching is one of the measures of a DJ's skills. DJs compete in scratching competitions at the DMC World DJ Championship and IDA (International DJ Association, formerly known as ITF (International Turntablist Federation). At scratching competitions, DJs can use only scratch-oriented gear (turntables, DJ mixer, digital vinyl systems or vinyl records only). In recorded hip hop songs, scratched "hooks" often use portions of other songs.
While scratching is becoming more and more popular in pop music, particularly with the crossover success of pop-hip hop tracks in the 2010s, sophisticated scratching and other expert turntablism techniques are still predominantly an underground style developed by the DJ subculture. The Invisibl Skratch Piklz from San Francisco focuses on scratching. In 1994, the group was formed by DJs Q-Bert, Disk & Shortkut and later Mix Master Mike. In July 2000, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts held Skratchcon2000, the first DJ Skratch forum that provided “the education and development of skratch music literacy”. In 2001, Thud Rumble became an independent company that works with DJ artists to produce and distribute scratch records.
In 2004, "Scratch Magazine", one of the first publications about hip hop DJs and record producers, released its debut issue, following in the footsteps of the lesser-known "Tablist" magazine. Pedestrian is a UK arts organisation that runs Urban Music Mentors workshops led by DJs. At these workshops, DJs teach youth how to create beats, use turntables to create mixes, act as an MC at events, and perform club sets.
Scratching has been incorporated into a number of other musical genres, including pop, rock, jazz, some subgenres of heavy metal (notably nu metal) and some contemporary and avant-garde classical music performances. For recording use, samplers are often used instead of physically scratching a vinyl record.
DJ Product©1969, formerly of the rap rock band Hed PE, recalled that the punk rock band the Vandals was the first rock band he remembered seeing use turntable scratching. Product©1969 also recalled the early rap metal band Proper Grounds, which was signed to Madonna's Maverick Records, as being another one of the first rock bands to utilize scratching in their music.
Guitarist Tom Morello, known for his work with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, has performed guitar solos that imitate scratching by using the kill switch on his guitar. Perhaps the best-known example is "Bulls on Parade", in which he creates scratch-like rhythmic sounds by rubbing the strings over the pick-ups while using the pickup selector switch as a crossfader.
Since the 1990s, scratching has been used in a variety of popular music genres such as nu metal, exemplified by Linkin Park, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit. It has also been used by artists in pop music (e.g. Nelly Furtado) and alternative rock (e.g. Incubus). Scratching is also popular in various electronic music styles, such as hard-groove techno.
Colm Meaney
Colm J. Meaney (; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor. He is known for playing Miles O'Brien in "" (1987–1994) and "" (1993–1999). He has appeared in other TV shows including "Law & Order", "The Simpsons" and "Hell on Wheels". His movie credits include "The Barrytown Trilogy" (1991–1996), "Con Air" (1997), "Intermission" (2003), "The Damned United" (2009), "Get Him to the Greek" (2010), "" (2013) and "The Journey" (2016).
Meaney was born in Glasnevin, Dublin. He has been married twice and has two daughters. He lives in Sóller, Mallorca of the Spanish Balearic Islands.
The search for "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" is an ongoing internet phenomenon. It involves various internet users from around the world trying to find out the artist and the title of a new wave song. The song's artist and title have not been found out since its reported broadcast on a German radio station in 1984.
A Rolling Stone article in September 2019 says a person using the false name "Darius S." recorded the song from a radio program called "Musik für junge Leute" ("Music for Young People") he listened to on the German public radio station NDR, probably in 1984.
Darius says he recorded the song on a tape labeled "cassette 4", along with songs from XTC and The Cure that were released in around 1984. Further evidence shows that the Technics tape deck that he used to record the song on was also made in 1984.
In 2007, the sister of Darius S., posting under the false name "Anton," began posting the song on the internet to try to find out the artist and the title of the song. The woman, who identified herself as "Lydia H.", posted part of the song to a German fan website devoted to eighties synth-pop and to spiritofradio.ca, a Canadian website that aims to identify songs uploaded by fans.
The mystery of the unidentified song became very popular in 2019 when a Brazilian teenager named Gabriel da Silva Vieira started to look for evidence of its origin. He uploaded a clip of the song to YouTube, and to several Reddit groups.
On July 9, 2019, YouTuber Justin Whang released an episode of his video series "Tales from the Internet". The episode talks about the progress of the search up to then. When the video was released, more internet users have tried to help to identify the song.
Some of the progress after the video came out was the posting of a complete clip of the song in July 2019 by a Reddit user and communicating with people of interest to the search. This includes people such as Paul Baskerville, the DJ of the show from which the song was likely recorded. He has said he does not remember the song. The Discord community of the search has also found other undocumented and/or obscure media of various genres.
José Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 1947 – 4 February 2020) was a Spanish movie director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. His best known works were "Butterfly's Tongue", "Amanece, que no es poco" and "The Blind Sunflowers". He won a Goya Award in 1988.
Cuerda died at his home in Madrid on 4 February 2020 at the age of 72.
Terry Hands
Terence David Hands (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure. He was thought to be one of Britain’s most respected theatre directors. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.
Hands died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 79.
Nadia Lutfi
Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Loutfi (; born Poula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq (); 3 January 1937 – 4 February 2020) was an Egyptian actress. Her best known roles were "The Night of Counting the Years" and "Saladin the Victorious".
Lutfi died on 4 February 2020 at a hospital in Cairo at the age of 83.
Teodor Shanin
Teodor Shanin OBE (30 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a Lithuanian-born British-Russian sociologist.
He worked as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was best known for his first book, "The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25" (Clarendon Press, 1972). He founded the The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995.
Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
In 2002 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to education in Russia.
Taylor's theorem
Hanging may mean:
Hang means to hold on to something. It is a verb. (For example, he was hanging from a tree.)
Bubble Guppies is a TV show that airs on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. It first aired on January 24, 2011. It first ended on October 21, 2016. It started airing new episodes again on September 27, 2019.
Bubble Guppies was nominated for “Best Writing” and “Best Casting” in 2017. Bubble Guppies also has won 6 awards and got 13 nominations, making a total of 19 awards.
Romanija
Romanija is a mountain, karst plateau, and area in the Republika Srpska. Many towns are in the area, such as Pale, Sokolac, and Han Pijesak. The highest point on the mountain is Veliki Lupoglav (1,652 m).
A football club from the nearby town of Pale, FK Romanija, is named after the mountain.
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
In 1831 the Cherokee took the state of Georgia to the Supreme Court, to resist the Indian Removal Act. When they took Georgia to the Supreme Court they actually won a favorable decision in their end, but President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce and ignored it. This ruling is known as Cherokee Nation v. Georgia today.
Ritual purification
Ritual purification is the ritual prescribed by a religion by which a person is considered to be free of "uncleanliness". Many religgions require that those worshipping should be in this state.Ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification may also apply to objects and places. Ritual uncleanliness is not identical with ordinary physical impurity, such as dirt stains; nevertheless, body fluids are generally considered ritually unclean.
Most of these rituals existed long before the germ theory of disease, and figure prominently from the earliest known religious systems of the Ancient Near East. Some writers connect the rituals to taboos.
Some have seen benefits of these practices for health and preventing infections especially in areas where humans come in close contact with each other. While these practices came before the idea of the germ theory was public in areas that use daily cleaning, the destruction of infectious agents seems to be dramatic. Others have described a 'dimension of purity' that is universal in religions that seeks to move us away from disgust, (at one extreme) and to uplift us towards purity and divinity (at the other extreme). Away from uncleanliness to purity, and away from deviant to moral behavior, (within one's cultural context).
Monolatry
Monolatry (Greek: μόνος ["monos"] = single, and λατρεία ["latreia"] = worship) is belief that many gods exist, but that only one of them is worshipped. The term "monolatry" was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.
Monolatry is different from monotheism, which asserts there is only one god, and henotheism, a religious system in which the believer worships one god without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity.
The Hang (; plural form: Hanghang) is a musical instrument. It is in the idiophone class. It was created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland. The Hang is sometimes called "hang drum", but the people who made the hang think that this is wrong and that people should not call it that.
Mendenhall Springs, California
Deaths in March 2020
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in March 2020. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Individuals listed must have . Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Kino (, ) was a Soviet rock band formed in Leningrad in 1982.
The band was co-founded and headed by Viktor Tsoi, who wrote the music and lyrics for almost all of the band's songs. Kino released over 90 songs, several studio albums, and a few live albums. Their music was widely recorded illegally. After the Soviet Union became more open, Kino became popular around the world. In 1989, they had a small concert in New York City. They also became very popular in Russia. Their album "Gruppa Krovi" was called one of the best works of Russian music. Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident in 1990. After releasing an album of the songs they were working on before Tsoi's death, Kino broke up. In 2012, on Tsoi's fiftieth birthday, the band reunited to record a song called 'Ataman'. This song would have been in their last album, but the only recording of it that they had was bad.
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet singer and songwriter. He co-founded Kino, one of the most popular bands in Russia at its time.
Tsoi was born and raised in Leningrad. He started writing songs when he was a teenager. He made lots of music - ten albums in total. After Kino was in the 1987 Soviet film "Assa", it became very popular. This lead to Tsoi having a leading role in the Kazakh new wave art film "The Needle".
In 1990, after their large concert at the Luzhniki Stadium. Tsoi moved to Latvia with another member of Kino, Yuri Kasparyan to work on Kino's next album. Two months after the concert in the Luzhniki Stadium, Tsoi died in a car crash. Tsoi and his music are still widely popular.
Rowlatt Act
The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes of 1919 (popularly known as the Rowlatt Act) was a law passed in 1919 by British India. Under this law, the government got many powers, including the ability to arrest people and keep them in prisons without a trial. They also obtained the power to stop newspapers from reporting and printing news. The people called this act the Black Act. Indians protested against this law in many places. Fortunately this act was stopped by an Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.
Frank H. T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (October 29, 1926 – February 3, 2020) was a British-American academic. He was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England. Rhodes taught geology at the University of Durham between 1951 and 1954.
He was appointed as a member of the National Science Board under President Ronald Reagan, and as a member of the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee by President George H.W. Bush. Between 1984 and 2002 Rhodes was on the Board of Directors of General Electric.
Rhodes died on February 3, 2020 in Bonita Springs, Florida at the age of 93.
Volker David Kirchner
Volker David Kirchner (25 June 1942 – 4 February 2020) was a German composer and violist. He worked for many years as a violist in the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt, and for two years as a composer of incidental music at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
Kirchner died on 4 February 2020 in Wiesbaden at the age of 77.
Diran
Diran is a mountain in the Karakoram range, in Pakistan. It is the 93rd highest mountain in the world.
The first people to reach the top were Rainer Goeschl, Rudolph Pischinger and Hanns Schell, in 1968. While it is not thought to be hard to climb, it is dangerous as avalanches are common.
Philip K. Chapman
Philip Kenyon Chapman (5 March 1935 – 5 April 2021) was an Australian-American astronaut. He was the first Australian-born astronaut.
Chapman served with the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve from 1953 to 1955. He learnt to fly (in a Tiger Moth) during Australian national service. In 1956, he earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Sydney.
From 1956 to 1957, he worked for Philips Electronics Industries Proprietary Limited in Sydney, New South Wales. He then spent 15 months at Antarctica's Mawson Station with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). He worked as a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States from 1961 to 1967. He served for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967).
Chapman was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He moved to Sydney as a child. He was married and had two children.
Chapman died on 5 April 2021 in Arizona, at the age of 86.
William Phillips (economist)
Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE (18 November 1914 – 4 March 1975) was a New Zealand economist. He was a professor of economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). His best-known contribution to economics is the Phillips curve. It explains the relationship between inflation and unemployment rate in the economy. He first described it in 1958. He also created the MONIAC hydraulic economics computer in 1949.
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Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague – Czechoslovakia, as one of two sons to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a young teenager a dancer-child protégée.
During the years 1962-1967 Kylián studied at the Prague Conservatory. One teacher of the Conservatory, who left a deep mark on Kylián´s professional development, was Zora Šemberová, known for her world´s first interpretation of Juliet (1938) in Prokofiev’s famous ballet.
In 1967 Kylián had received a scholarship to study at the "Royal Ballet School" in London,
He met John Cranko, choreographer, there, who offered him a contract, to become a member of his acclaimed "Stuttgart Ballett". Before taking up his contract, Kylián shortly returned to Prague, but on August 21st, 1968, the invasion of the communist "Warsaw-Pact " forces began. On the 28th of August, after taking part in many demonstrations against the occupation, Kylián left for Germany.
In Stuttgart Cranko asked Kylián to create choreographies for the company. His first work was "Kommen und Gehen", created with Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun. In the early 70’s Cranko invited Glen Tetley to become resident choreographer in Stuttgart. Tetley´s work made a great impression on Kylián, namely Tetley’s understanding of movement, and its relation to space, was a revelation for Kylián.
In early seventies, Kylián was invited to create his first choreography for the Netherlands Dance Theatre ("Viewers-1973"). Having created two more works for NDT ("Stoolgame" 1974 and "La Cathédrale Engloutie" 1975) the offer to become artistic director of NDT together with Hans Knill, was extented to him.
The creation of "Sinfonietta", to music of Kylian´s co-patriot Leoš Janáček for the "Charleston Festival" in the USA in 1978 led to international recognition of the company. Subsequently many important international tours of NDT have taken place incl. Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the Paris Opera etc.
During Kyliáns engagement in NDT (1975-2009), he has created more than 75 choreographies for the company. Further pieces he made for other worldwide companies, such as the Stuttgart Ballet, the Opéra de Paris, the Munich Bayerisches Staatsballett, and the Tokyo Ballet.
Realizing the importance of education of young dancers, Jiří Kylián and Carel Birnie, the managing director of NDT, have decided in 1978 to create a new company - NDT II, in which young people would get the opportunity to develop their skills and talents. After many years of directorship, Kylián saw the departure of many fine and interesting performers. It was in 1991 that he decided to create a small group for dancers, who find themselves in the precarious age between "forty and death". The world premiere of this “Senior Company” was created by choreographers: Hans van Manen, Mats Ek, William Forsythe and Jiří Kylián. The original dancers were: Sabine Kupferberg, Alida Chase, Gérard Lemaitre and Niklas Ek. The importance of this new development in dance was instantly recognized by the public as well as by the media.
This unique, three-dimensional structure, NDT I – mature dancers, NDT II – young dancers, NDT III – senior dancers, residing in its own theater, designed and built by architect Rem Koolhaas in 1987, placed NDT in a totally new category. It has become different from any other dance company in the world, and was recognized as such by being given various prestigious awards.
In the recent years Kylián’s creativity is focused on film, video and photography. The films “Carmen”, “Schwarzfahrer”, “Between Entrance and Exit”, “Scalamare” and the photo installation “Free fall” were all created in collaboration with his lifelong partner and muse Sabine Kupferberg.
In 1988 Kylián established the Kylian Foundation in The Hague (originally named as “Kylián Choreographic Archive”). In 2008 the Kylian Production BV was set up in the Netherlands and in 2017 Kylián Fund Prague was founded in the Czech Republic.
Theatre works from 1973 to 2019:
During his career, Kylian has received many prestigeous, international awards and honours, such as:
Films from 2006 to 2017:
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