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The Edmonton Elks, formerly known as the Edmonton Eskimos and briefly as Edmonton Football Team, are a professional Canadian football team. They are based in Edmonton, Alberta. The team plays home games at Commonwealth Stadium. It is part of the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). It was started in 1949. The team has won the league's Grey Cup thirteen times. Only one team has won the cup more often.
In the 21st century, the team nickname caused major controversy because the term "Eskimo" is now considered a slur by the Inuit, the indigenous people of Arctic Canada. The team dropped the "Eskimos" name on July 21, 2020, using "Edmonton Football Team" as a placeholder name while a new nickname was chosen. The new name of Elks was announced on June 1, 2021.
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an American-born printmaker and sculptor. She is best known for black sculptures and prints she made during the 1960s and 1970s. Those prints had political themes.
Catlett was born in Washington, D.C.. In 1946 she moved to Mexico, where she lived until her death at age 96. She became a Mexican citizen in 1962.
Pierre D'Archambeau
Pierre D'Archambeau (April 3, 1927 – June 16, 2014) was a Belgian-born American violin virtuoso and pedagogue. He worked with many noted musicians, including Arturo Toscanini, Pablo Casals, Jacques Thibaud, Nadia Boulanger and Fritz Kreisler.
D'Archambeau died on June 16, 2014, in his home in Massachusetts, aged 87.
Vladimir Popovkin
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin (; 25 September 1957 – 18 June 2014) was a Russian military personnel. He was the General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency and former First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.
He was a General of the Army and former commander of the Russian Space Forces.
Popovkin died of cancer on 18 June 2014 in a hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, aged 56.
Leon Ames
Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American movie and television actor. He was known for his roles in "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946), "Little Women" (1949), "On Moonlight Bay" (1951) and "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953).
Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan (born September 27, 1933) is an American actress. She was known for her role as Kate McCoy, a housewife in the Walter Brennan series "The Real McCoys".
Nolan was born Jocelyn Schrum in St. Louis, Missouri. Nolan became the first female President of the Screen Actors Guild (1975–1979, two terms). She is a life member of the Actors Studio.
Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American movie actor. He was one of the most famous Hollywood actors during the 1940s. He was known for his role in "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946).
Andrews died from pneumonia and heart failure caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 83.
Richard Masur
Richard Masur (born November 20, 1948) is an American movie actor. He has appeared in more than 80 movies during his career. From 1995 to 1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Masur was born in New York City, New York.
Alan Rosenberg
Alan Rosenberg (born October 4, 1950) is an American actor. From 2005 to 2009, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Rosenberg is known for making the voice of Boba Fett in "".
Rosenberg was born in Passaic, New Jersey to a Jewish family.
Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet and activist. She started the National Battered Women's Refuge Network, Media Women, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, the Feminist Writers' Guild, the Women's Foreign Policy Council, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, GlobalSister.org, and Greenstone Women's Radio Network.
Ken Howard
Kenneth Joseph "Ken" Howard, Jr. (March 28, 1944 – March 23, 2016) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in "1776" and as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show "The White Shadow". He was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in September 2009 and elected to a second term in September 2011.
Howard died in Santa Clarita, California on March 23, 2016 of pneumonia complicated by shingles and prostate cancer at the age of 71.
Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781.
Passaic County, New Jersey
Passaic County is a county in New Jersey, United States. It had a population of 501,226 in 2010. Its county seat is Paterson. Passaic County was created on February 7, 1837. It is near New York City. A city, Passaic, is named after the county.
Wimbledon, North Dakota
Wimbledon is a city in Barnes County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 216 at the 2010 census. Wimbledon was founded in 1892.
Bemidji, Minnesota
Bemidji is a city in Beltrami County, Minnesota. It has a population of 13,431 residents as of 2010. The television series "Fargo" is set in Bemidji. Bemidji was founded in 1874.
Keith Carradine
Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American movie and television actor and singer. He is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's "Nashville", Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series "Deadwood" and FBI agent Frank Lundy in "Dexter".
In 1976, Carradine won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I'm Easy". That song was in the movie "Nashville".
Horace Silver
Horace Silver (born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Silver is known for his humorous and funky playing style and his hard bop music. He was influenced by a wide range of musical styles, notably gospel music, African music, and Latin American music and sometimes the soul jazz genre.
Horace, North Dakota
Horace is a city in Cass County, North Dakota. As of 2010, the population was 2,4300. Horace was founded in 1882.
Michelle Lamoreaux
Michelle Lamoreaux is a French writer/producer and creator. She often works with her brother Robert Lamoreaux. She is also a member of Marathon Media
College Station, Texas
College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas. As of the 2010 census, College Station had a population of 93,857,
College Station is home to the main campus of Texas A&M University. Oftentimes it is called "CS" by students.
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a City in Texas
San Angelo, Texas
San Angelo is a city in Texas. It is the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas. At the 2010 United States Census, 93,200 people lived there.
Nacogdoches, Texas
Nacogdoches is a City in Texas.
Tornado outbreak of June 16–18, 2014
The June 16-18, 2014 tornado outbreak was an incident in which several strong tornadoes cut through Nebraska. Other tornadoes also affected Wisconsin, Montana, Ontario and South Dakota. A preliminary rating of the strongest tornadoes was EF4 (winds between 166 and just under 200 mph). There were two deaths from the tornado incident, both in Nebraska. 16 people were critically injured in the storms.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and movie director. She first used the surname "Duras" on her 1943 novel "Les Impudents". She wrote "The Lover", which was later made into a 1992 movie. Duras was born in Saigon, Vietnam. She died in Paris from throat cancer, age 81.
Beatrice Straight
Beatrice Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American actress. She played Dr. Lesh in the 1982 movie "Poltergeist". She also played Louise in the 1976 movie "Network". She also acted on television and on stage.
Straight was born in Old Westbury, New York. She died from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles.
Julie Bishop (actress)
Jacqueline Wells (later Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001) was an American actress. She appeared in over 80 movies between 1923 and 1957. She also acted on television. She began her career as a child actress. She played Myrtle Reed in the movie "Lady Gangster". She played a stewardess in "Princess O'Rourke".
Bishop also acted on stage.
The actress was born in Denver, Colorado. She died in Mendocino, California on her 87th birthday from pneumonia.
Muskellunge
The muskellunge (scientific name "Esox masquinongy") is a freshwater game fish. It is the largest member of the Esox (Pike) family. The muskellunge is also called the muskie or maskinonge (Canada). It is native to northern and eastern North America. Muskies have been introduced into other U.S. states. There usually are not many muskellunge in a lake. They are large solitary (on their own) apex predators and need large amounts of water to feed their appetites. Muskies are carnivorous and eat other fish. They are ambush feeders who will attack anything that moves in or on the water.
Currently there are three recognized subspecies of Muskellunge.
There is also a hybrid called the Tiger muskellunge (or Tiger Muskie). It is a cross between the Muskellunge and the Northern pike ("Esox lucius"). They are smaller than true muskies but can grow up to 1.5 times faster in the first year. They are almost always sterile and cannot reproduce.
True muskies have light colored bodies. They can be silver, light green, or light brown. They usually have dark bars on their sides. This is the opposite of the Northern pike which Muskies are sometimes confused with. Northern pike (northerns) have dark bodies with light colored bars on the sides. Muskies also have scales only on the upper half of the cheek. The best way to tell the two apart is the pores under the jaw. Northerns have five or less; muskies have six or more. Males are always smaller than females.
Tiger muskies look like both muskies and northerns. Their "tiger" stripes are more distinctive than the true musky. Where both species live in the same waters, tiger muskies occur naturally. But they are never in large numbers. Once biologists realized that tiger muskies were a hybrid, they began raising them in hatcheries. There are no size differences between male and female tiger muskies.
The muskie is a very efficient predator. It lays in wait near the shoreline often in shallow water. It hides in weeds, near or under logs and rocks. In the summer as the water warms up, Muskies move to the cooler waters at lower depths. But will remain close to shallow water using drop-offs for cover. Muskies can stand water up to 90 degrees F.
Muskies forage (feed) mainly on other fish such as suckers and perch. They are ambush feeders who will nearly anything. They have been known to eat Loons, ducks and small mammals like Muskrats.
When the water temperature reaches 60°F, muskies feed heavily. At 80° the feeding slows down. They have a preference for larger fish over small fish. Muskies strike quickly. They often take their prey to a secluded area before eating it. They remain in the same area of a lake, sometimes for their entire lifetime.
Muskies are one of the largest freshwater fish in North America. The largest on record was 69 pounds, 15 ounces. Average muskies are usually less than 40 inches long and might weigh from 7 to 15 pounds. Muskies can live up to 30 years.
Just after the ice melts on northern lakes (called ice-out) and the water temperature is between 49° and 59°F, muskies begin to spawn. In lakes where both northern pike and muskies live, muskies spawn after the northerns. A female lays between 60,000 to 100,000 eggs. In lakes with northern pike and muskies, the muskie seems to have fewer numbers of surviving fry. Two reasons are suggested. Since northerns hatch about two weeks earlier than muskies, the young northerns feed on the smaller muskie fry. Another reason is that the young muskie fry swim just below the surface of the water. They are easily seen by fish below or birds flying over the water.
Muskies are an elusive fish but highly prized by anglers. Many fishermen specialize in muskie fishing and will fish for no other species. They are called "the fish of 10,000 casts". This gives some idea of how difficult they are to catch. According to many guides, muskies do not fear anything, including fisherman. They routinely follow lures back to the boat without striking. Sometimes they will flick a lure or fly back at the fisherman. Hooking a muskie is hard. Landing one is even harder. They will fight hard for short periods and should be landed quickly to avoid stressing them. Prolonged fighting of muskie on insufficient tackle could kill them even after they swim away. Skill and luck are needed to land one.
Muskies require very careful handling by anglers. A trophy size musky is an old fish. A 30 pound female may be 17 years old. If taken as a trophy they are not easily replaced. For that reason catch and release is strongly recommended. A musky may still fight being handled. They are large powerful fish with very sharp teeth. The mortality rate can be very high for fish that are handled carelessly.
Maudie Prickett
Maudie Prickett (October 25, 1914 – April 14, 1976) was an American actress. She was on ABC's "Bewitched" in various roles. She also played on "The Jack Benny Program" on CBS.
Prickett was born in Portland, Oregon. She died from renal failure in Pasadena, California, aged 61.
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer. She played Anita Alvarez in "Swing High, Swing Low". She also played Norma Malone in the movie "St. Louis Blues".
Lamour was born in New Orleans. She died in Los Angeles at age 81 after a heart attack.
The Mega Powers
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince is an American hip-hop group formed in 1985.
Galaxy group
A galaxy group is a group of galaxies made up of less than 50 or so members and bound by gravity. Collections of galaxies larger than groups are called galaxy clusters or superclusters. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is in the Local Group of more than 40 galaxies.
Galaxy groups are the smallest groups of galaxies. They usually have no more than 50 galaxies. The group in a diameter of 1 to 2 megaparsecs (about 4 to 8 million light-years). Their mass is about 10 solar masses. This is just a guide, because larger and more massive galaxy systems are sometimes called galaxy groups.
Superclusters are large collections of smaller galaxy groups and galaxy clusters. They are one of the largest known structures in the cosmos.
Superclusters show that the galaxies in the universe are not evenly distributed. Most, perhaps all, are in groups and clusters. Groups have some dozens of galaxies, and clusters up to several thousand galaxies. Those groups and clusters plus more isolated galaxies form even larger collections called superclusters.
Superclusters themselves form even larger structures, called "filaments", "complexes", "walls" or "sheets", like the Great Wall. These may span between several hundred million light-years to 10 billion light-years, and cover more than 5% of the observable universe. Superclusters suggest something about the initial condition of the universe when these superclusters were formed. The directions of the rotational axes of galaxies within superclusters may also tell us about the formation of galaxies early in the history of the Universe.
Inside superclusters are large voids of space in which few galaxies exist. Superclusters are often subdivided into groups of clusters called "galaxy clouds".
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, CBE (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor and comedian. He had a long partnership with Ronnie Barker in the television comedy series "The Two Ronnies". He became famous for his role in Sir David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy series, "The Frost Report" and later starred in the sitcoms "Sorry!" and "No – That's Me Over Here!".
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian. His career has spanned over seventy years. Cribbins is known for his role as Wilfred Mott in "Doctor Who". He is also known for being the narrator of "The Wombles".
Politics of the United States
The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United States (the head of state and head of government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
The Constitution of the United States provides for a separation of powers among three branches. The executive branch is mostly about the President and is independent of the legislature. Legislative power is in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The judicial branch (or judiciary), made of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, focuses on the judicial power (or judiciary). The judiciary's main focus is to interpret the meaning of the United States Constitution and federal laws and rules. This includes solving problems between the executive and legislative branches.
Two political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have been the main participants in American politics since the American Civil War. There are also smaller parties like the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, and the Constitution Party. The Whig Party, the Federalist Party, and the Democratic-Republican Party were important many years ago.
There are major differences between the political system of the United States and that of most other developed democracies. These include greater power in the upper house of the legislature, a wider scope of power held by the Supreme Court, the separation of powers between the legislature and the executive, and the dominance of only two main parties. Third parties have less political influence in the United States than in other developed country democracies.
The federal object created by the U.S. Constitution is the main feature of the American governmental system. However, most people are also subject to a state government, and all are subject to various units of local government. The latter include counties, municipalities, and special districts.
The federal government was created by the states, which as colonies were established separately and governed themselves independently of the others. Units of local government were created by the colonies to carry out various state functions. As the country expanded, it admitted new states modeled on the existing ones.
The USA is a federal union of fifty states. They have governors and legislatures to govern and make their laws. Each state also has two senators who represent their state in the United States Senate. There are also representatives who represent their local district in the United States House of Representatives.
The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. They are elected by the American citizens every four years in democratic elections. They also appoint people who will work in different departments that focuses on special areas for the country.
Foxborough, Massachusetts
Foxborough is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,865 at the 2010 census.
Least common multiple
The least common multiple of two integers is the smallest positive integer between all the multiples of both. It is usually written as LCM("a", "b"). Likewise, the LCM of more than two integers is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by each of them.
In elementary arithmetic, the LCM is also the "lowest common denominator" (LCD) that must be calculated, before fractions can be added, subtracted or compared.
A multiple of a number is the product of that number and an integer. For example, 10 is a multiple of 5 because 5 × 2 = 10, so 10 is divisible by 5 and 2. Because 10 is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both 5 and 2, it is the least common multiple of 5 and 2. By the same principle, 10 is the least common multiple of 5 and 2 as well.
It is known that:
where formula_2 is the greatest common divisor of "a" and "b", This formula is often used to compute the LCD, by first finding the GCD of "a" and "b".
Leonor, Princess of Asturias
Leonor, Princess of Asturias is an Infanta of Spain. She is the present heiress to the Spanish throne.
Leonor was born at Ruber International Hospital in Madrid, She is the elder daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain. She became heiress on her father's accession to the throne, 19 June 2014. Her younger sister, Infanta Sofía, follows her in the line of succession.
Infanta Leonor's full official title is: Her Royal Highness The Most Serene Infanta Doña Leonor de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz, Princess of Asturias, Princess of Viana, Princess of Girona, Duchess of Montblanc, Countess of Cervera and Lady of Balaguer.
Russ Blinco
Russell Percival Blinco (March 12, 1906 – June 28, 1982) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played a total of 6 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Montreal Maroons. During his time with the Maroons, he was able to win the Stanley Cup in 1935.
Before playing in the NHL, Blinco played 2 seasons with the Windsor Bulldogs of the IHL and 1 season with the Springfield Indians of the Can-Am League. After the Indians folded, the New York Rangers traded Blinco to the Montreal Maroons on December 18, 1932. During his first season with the Maroons, he was able to win the Calder Memorial Trophy after scoring 23 points in 34 games. Blinco and the Maroons were able to reach the 1935 Stanley Cup Finals where they went on to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 3-0 sweep to win the Stanley Cup. On September 15, 1932, Blinco was traded along with Baldy Northcott and Earl Robinson by the Maroons to the Black Hawks for $30,000 cash. He is the first NHL player to wear glasses with playing. Blinco died on June 28, 1982.
Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine (born 1975) is a Canadian-born British academic psychologist and writer. She is a professor of gender studies, moral psychology and neuroethics at Melbourne Business School, Australia. Her first book, "Delusions of Gender", was published in 2010.
Fine was born to the children's writer Anne Fine and professor Kit Fine in Toronto.
Christ the Redeemer (statue)
Christ the Redeemer (), is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was built between 1922 and 1931 and stands tall. It sits on a pedestal on the peak of the
The first electric railway in Brazil was built in the late 1800s. At that time people would go to the top of the Corcovado Mountain to enjoy the panoramic view of the city below. Construction started in 1926 and took five years. During that time workers balanced themselves on scaffolds with no safety equipment. It was risky work but during the entire construction period, no workers were killed. Many regarded that as a miracle. The statue was finished in 1931. It was built to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Brazil's independence from Portugal. The statue was built in France by the sculptor Paul Landowski. He never came to Rio to see the sculpture in place.
The statue underwent a $4 million renovation in 2010. Since then it has been damaged by lightning at least two times. Repairs in 2014 added more lightning rods to prevent future damage from lightning.
The statue is maintained by the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro.
Camille Anna Paglia (/ˈpɑːliə/; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic. Her dissertation "Sexual Personae" was published by Yale University Press in 1990. Paglia is a libertarian.
Paglia was born in Endicott, New York to Italian immigrants. In 1957 her family moved to Syracuse, New York.
"Sexual Personae" was rejected by 7 publishers before Yale University Press published it in 1990. In 1992 Paglia's second book was published. In 2012 Paglia's most recent book "Glittering Images" was published.
Esox
Esox is a genus of fresh water fish. It is the only living genus in the family Esocidae. The oldest known example of Esox is the fossil "Esox tiemani". It dates to about 62 million years ago and was found in Alberta, Canada. Esox are commonly called pike and pickerel. They are found in the northern parts of North America, Europe and Asia. One species, "Esox lucius", the Northern pike, is found in both Europe and North America. Esox are large predatory fish with a long cylindrical body. They have a green color (various shades) with yellow eyes. Pike and pickerel share a forked tail fin and a large pointed head. Their dorsal and anal fins are located far back on their bodies. All species have very sharp teeth.
Currently there are five species in the Esox family. The study of this family is not complete. There are several known hybrids between species which occur naturally. The five species are:
All species of Esox are predatory feeders. They eat other fish, small mammals and birds. Pike will eat almost anything that doesn't eat them first.
Kate Millett
Katherine Murray "Kate" Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer. Her first book "Sexual Politics" was published 1970.
Millett was born to Catholic parents in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1961 she moved to Japan. In 1965 she married sculptor Fumio Yoshimura. She was bisexual.
Millett died on September 6, 2017 in Paris, France of cardiac arrest at the age of 82.
Gerry Goffin
Gerald "Gerry" Goffin (February 11, 1939 – June 19, 2014) was an American lyricist. He was added into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriting partner and first wife, Carole King.
Goffin died in Los Angeles, California, aged 75.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an American science-fiction movie directed by Matt Reeves. It stars Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, and Keri Russell. It is the sequel to the 2011 movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". It was released on July 11, 2014. A sequel to the film "War of the Plant of the Apes" was released July 14, 2017.
Computational biology is a field of active research that studies problems in biology that need algorithms or statistics.
Many people who work in computational biology are trained in biology, engineering, physics, statistics, or chemistry.
Planetary system
Planetary system is the general term for a star with planets and other objects in orbit around it. The solar system is one of these. It is now clear that many other stars have planetary systems.
The 21st century has become a golden era of planetary system discovery. 1795 such planets in 1116 planetary systems, including 461 multiplanet systems. Hundreds more systems are unconfirmed. (2014 data)
The closest confirmed system is Gliese 832 at 14.8 light years (ly) with one confirmed planet, whereas the closest unconfirmed system is Alpha Centauri at 4.37 ly with a planet of Earth mass. The closest multi-planet system is Gliese 876 at 15.3 ly with four confirmed planets.
Of particular interest to astrobiology is the habitable zone of planetary systems. This is thought to be the region with the most potential to develop extraterrestrial life.
Multiplanetary systems are stars with at least two confirmed planets, beyond our Solar System.
From the total of 1116 stars known to have exoplanets (as of June 2014, there are a total of 461 known multiplanetary systems. About 280 of these have only two confirmed exoplanets, but some have more. The star with the most confirmed planets is our Sun with 8 confirmed planets, while the stars with the most confirmed exoplanets are Kepler-90 and HD 10180 with 7 confirmed planets each; in 2012, two more exoplanet candidates have been suggested for HD 10180, which would bring the total to 9 exoplanets in that system.
Gliese 876, with 4 confirmed exoplanets, is the closest multiplanetary system at 15 light years from our Solar System. A total of 12 systems are known that are closer than 50 light years away, but most are much farther away. The farthest confirmed multiplanetary system is OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L, at 13300 ly away.
The two most important stellar properties are mass and metallicity because it determines how these planetary systems form. The higher mass and metallicity tend to have more planets and more massive planets.
Johnny Mann
Johnny Mann (August 30, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American musical entertainer. He was an arranger, composer, conductor, and recording artist. He was the bandleader of The Johnny Mann Singers. He later worked with musicians such as Johnny Burnette, The Crickets and Eddie Cochran. He also worked a lot with Joey Bishop, such as working on his show. He a singer for Alvin and the Chipmunks. He was also a musical director for "The Alvin Show", and voiced Theodore.
Mann was nominated for five Grammy Awards, winning two. He was signed with records such as Apex Records and Liberty Records.
Mann was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was married to actress Lori Nelson from 1960 to 1973. He was finally married to Betty Mann from 1983 until his death.
Mann died on June 18, 2014 in Anderson, South Carolina, aged 85.
Rhyme scheme
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. People usually use letters to show which lines rhyme with which other lines. For example, in a poem that is ABAB, the first and third lines rhyme with each other and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The most basic rhyme schemes are AA, AAA, AABB, ABAB and ABBA. There are also more complicated schemes, such as ABABBCC (rhyme royal), ABABABCC (ottava rima) or ABABBBCBCC (Spenserian stanza). Sonnets may have very different rhyme schemes, Italian (ABBA ABBA CDC DCD, ABBA ABBA CDE CDE, ABBA ABBA CDE EDC), French (ABBA ABBA CDCD EE), Spenserian (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE) or Shakesperian (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG).
Sometimes there are also internal rhymes. In the following strophe from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" there are rhymes and alliteration:
Some schemes are common, the other are used very rarely. The scheme AABBCC is simple and can be found everywhere, but the scheme ABCCBA, used by Robert Browning in the "Meeting at Night", was never popular:
There are many possibilities for rhyme scheme. Five-line stanzas can have any of ten schemes with two different rhymes: AAABB, AABAB, AABBA, ABBAA, ABABA, ABAAB, AABBB, ABABB, ABBAB, ABBBA. Another possibility is of course AAAAA.
Notice that two or three rhymes can be linked to each other by repeating the same vowel. The rhyme scheme of Giambattista Marino's poem "Adone" is ABABABCC (ottava rima), but in this strophe all rhymes are based on the vowel [i]. This feature shows up in Italian text but not in other languages:
A a poet, period of time, or type of poetry can have a preferred rhyme scheme. For example the Scottish poet Robert Burns preferred the scheme AAABAB. Rhyme royal, ABABBCC, was common in medieval English poetry. Ottava rima was typical of epic poems. Many great epic poems were written in Italian, Spanish or Portuguese with ABABABCC scheme.
Carole Cook
Mildred Frances Cook (or Carole Cook; born January 14, 1924) is an American actress of movie and theater. She played Grandma Helen in the movie "Sixteen Candles". She was also on "The Lucy Show".
Carole Cook was born in Abilene, Texas.
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 comedy movie. It was written and directed by John Hughes. It is about a high school girl who is turning sixteen. Molly Ringwald plays Samantha Baker.
This movie was released on May 4, 1984.
Nina Foch
Nina Foch (April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch-American actress. She was the leading lady in many movies in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Marie Antoinette in "Scaramouche" (1952). She also played Erica Martin in the movie "Executive Suite".
Foch was born in Leiden, Netherlands to an American mother and Dutch father. She died of kidney disease in Los Angeles.
Mario Mandžukić
Mario Mandžukić (born 21 May 1986) is a Croatian football player that plays for AC Milan and the Croatian national team. He was the UEFA Euro 2012 co-top scorer, and he was named the Croatian Footballer of the Year in 2012 and 2013.
He was born in Slavonski Brod, in Yugoslavia. His family moved to Germany as refugees because of the Croatian War of Independence.
He helped Croatia reach the 2018 FIFA World Cup final after scoring a late goal against England. In the final, Mandžukić scored an own goal at the 19th minute. This was the first time any player has scored an own goal in a World Cup final. Croatia would later lose to France 2–4.
Mats Hummels
Mats Julian Hummels (born in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany on 16 December 1988)
Joan Rosebud Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. She performed in movies and television for nearly fifty years. She played Rosie Sturges in "Kansas City Princess". She also played Gloria Fay in the movie "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Blondell was born in New York City on August 30, 1906. Her sister Gloria Blondell was also an actress. She died on December 25, 1979 in Santa Monica, California from leukemia.
Ari Ne'eman
Executive Suite is a 1954 MGM drama movie. The movie is about a struggle for control of a major furniture company due to the death of the company's CEO. Barbara Stanwyck plays Julia.
This movie was released on May 6, 1954.
Allie Grant
Allie Grant (b. February 14, 1994) is an American actress. In "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", she played Agnes. She also played Lisa in "Suburgatory".
Grant was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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Diane Neal
Diane Neal (born November 17, 1976) is an American actress. In "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", Neal played Casey Novak. She also played Abigail in "NCIS".
Neal was born in Alexandria, Virginia.
Ellen Muth
Ellen Muth (born March 6, 1981) is an American actress. She played young Selena St. George in the movie "Dolores Claiborne". She also played Katie Trumbull in "Margarine Wars".
Muth was born in Milford, Connecticut.
Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne
Saint-Gaudens (Gascon: "Sent Gaudenç") is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. It is the capital of the "arrondissement" of Saint-Gaudens and of the canton of Saint-Gaudens.
In antiquity, the present place of the city was near a Roman road between Toulouse and Dax, where there was a rural area called "Mansus"; "Mansus" was named later as "Mas Saint-Pierre" after the Christianization of the region.
In 475, a young Christian boy, Gaudens, was killed by the Visigoths and he was buried in this place. The town took its current name in the ninth century, because may people came here to worship the martyr; the relics of Gaudens were deposited in the church of Mas-Saint-Pierre.
As an important regional market place, Saint-Gaudens became the economic capital of the Comminges (a natural region and an old French region on the hills at the base of the Pyrenees).
The city of Saint-Gaudens is in the Comminges, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is about to the southwest of Toulouse and at about from Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées).
It is found on the left side of the Garonne river.
The climate of Saint-Gaudens, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Saint-Gaudens are known, in French, as "Saint-Gaudinois" (women: "Saint-Gaudinoises").
Saint-Gaudens has a population, in 2014, of 11,255, for a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Saint-Gaudens
Saint-Gaudens is a subprefecture of the Haute-Garonne department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Saint-Gaudens and the administrative centre () of the canton of Saint-Gaudens.
It is part of the intercommunality "Cœur et Coteaux de Comminges" ().
Enner Valencia
Enner Valencia (born April 11, 1989) is a Ecuadorian Association football Striker. He plays for C.F. Pachuca and the Ecuador national football team.
Ibrahim Touré
Ibrahim Oyala Touré (27 September 1985 – 19 June 2014) was an Ivorian footballer. He played as a striker for Al-Safa' SC, Telephonat Beni Suef SC, Misr El-Makasa SC, Al-Ittihad SC Aleppo, O.G.C. Nice, Metalurh Donetsk and ASEC Mimosas.
Touré was born in Bouaké. He was the younger brother of defender Kolo Touré (born 1981) and midfielder Yaya Touré (born 1983).
Touré died after a short battle with cancer on 19 June 2014 in Manchester, England. He was 28. At the time of his death, his older brothers, Kolo and Yaya, were playing for their country at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Margaret Price
Margaret Price (13 April 1941 – 28 January 2011) was a Welsh opera singer. She was famous for singing parts from Mozart operas. She sang in the opera "Aida". She also sang in other operas.
Price was born in Blackwood, Wales. She died from heart failure at age 69.
Pierre Patry
Pierre Patry (2 November 1933 – 7 June 2014) was a Canadian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He mainly worked during the 1950s and 1960s, but stayed active until the early 1980s. He produced the movie "Entre la mer et l'eau douce" (1967).
Patry was born in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec. He spoke French. He was of French ancestry.
Patry died on 7 June 2014 in Quebec, aged 80.
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Alexander Shilov
Alexander Evgenievich Shilov (; 1 January 1930 – 6 June 2014) was a Russian chemist. He was known for his high toles at the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka. In 1969, he discovered the Shilov system. He also wrote books about chemistry.
Shilov was born in Ivanovo, RSFSR, Soviet Union. He was the son of Soviet chemist Eugene Shilov. He studied in places such as Kiev, Ukraine (then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) and London, England.
Shilov died on 6 June 2014 in Moscow, aged 84.
A threesome, in human sexuality, is sexual activity between three people. It can also be called troilism or a ménage à trois.
A threesome may be heterosexual or bisexual, involving either two men and one woman or two women and one man. It can also be homosexual, involving three women or three men.
The Theory of Communicative Action
The Theory of Communicative Action () is a book by Jürgen Habermas.
It continues his project set out in "On the Logic of the Social Sciences" of finding a way to "ground the social sciences in a theory of language".
Human female sexuality
Human female sexuality is a process that includes female sexual identity, sexual behavior and sexual activity.
Human females may find having orgasms difficult and complicated.
Some things related to human female sexuality are controversial. Overall, men are more commonly allosexual while women are more commonly demisexual.
Fat feminism
Fat feminism is a version of feminism mixed with fat activism. Fat-positive feminists promote the acceptance of women of all sizes. Fat feminism began in second-wave feminism. The field is growing within third-wave feminism.
According to one survey, 56 percent of overweight women are disrespected by their doctors. Forty-six percent say doctors are uncomfortable with the women's weight. This is probably because there is a well-known connection between excessive weight and length of life.
Fat feminists oppose the concept of fixed body images imposed from society. These feminists condemn fat jokes on sitcoms. They also condemn the promotions of skinny figures in Hollywood, on television and on catwalks.
Fat feminists contest the belief one cannot be overweight and fit at the same time.
The movement began in the late 1960s. It has become more popular over the years.
Survivor Series (1987)
Survivor Series (1987) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on November 26, 1987 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield Township, Ohio. It was the first Survivor Series event that was held by the WWF.
William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. (July 4, 1938 – March 30, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded major hits including "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands". He won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more during his career.
He was born in Slab Fork, West Virginia. Withers died of heart disease in Los Angeles on March 30, 2020 at the age of 81.
Slab Fork, West Virginia
Slab Fork is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It has a population of 202 as of 2010. Slab Fork's zip code is 25920.
Gliese 876
Gliese 876 is a red dwarf about 15 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. It is the closest star known to be a multiplanetary system. As of 2011, four extrasolar planets have been found orbiting the star.
It is the third closest known star to the Sun which has a planetary system, after Epsilon Eridani (10.5 ly) and Gliese 674 (14.8 ly).
Two of the middle planets are in the system's habitable zone. However, they are giant planets thought to be like Jupiter.
Samantha Harris
Samantha Harris (born Samantha Harris Shapiro, November 27, 1973) is an American television hostess. She was the co-host of seasons two through nine of "Dancing with the Stars" with Tom Bergeron. From 2010–12, she was a correspondent at "Entertainment Tonight".
In April 2014, Harris announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and would undergo a double mastectomy.
Hopkins, Minnesota
Hopkins is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is located west of Minneapolis. The population was 17,591 at the 2010 census.
Presence (album)
Ken Dodd
Sir Kenneth Arthur "Ken" Dodd, OBE (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor. He was known by his trademark of frizzy hair and his teeth, his red, white and blue "tickling stick" and his upbeat greeting of "How tickled I am!", as well as his send-off "Lots and lots of happiness!".
Dodd married his partner of 40 years, Anne Jones, on 9 March 2018 at their home in Knotty Ash just two days before his death.
Dodd died on 11 March 2018 at his Knotty Ash home in Liverpool of complications from bronchitis at the age of 90.
Grass Valley, California
Grass Valley is a small city in Nevada County, California, United States. As of 2010, the population is 12,860.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani (ε Eri, ε Eridani) is a star in the southern constellation Eridanus, just south of the celestial equator. It can be seen from most of Earth's surface.
It is 10.5 light years (ly) away, and has an apparent magnitude of 3.73. It is the third closest individual star or star system visible to the unaided eye.
Epsilon Eridani was the closest star known to host a planet until the unconfirmed discovery of Alpha Centauri Bb. Its age is less than a billion years. Because of its youth, Epsilon Eridani has a more active magnetic field than the present-day Sun. Its stellar wind is 30 times as strong. Its rotation period is 11.2 days at the equator. The star is smaller and less massive than the Sun, and has a lower level of metal elements. It is a main-sequence star of spectral class K2, which means that energy generated at the core through nuclear fusion of hydrogen is emitted from the surface at a temperature of about 5,000 K, giving it an orange hue.
Its planet, Epsilon Eridani b, was announced in 2000. The planet orbits in about 7 years. It is about 3.4 astronomical units (AU) away from its star.
The system includes two belts of rocky asteroids: one at about 3 AU and a second at about 20 AU, whose structure may be maintained by a hypothetical second planet, Epsilon Eridani c. Epsilon Eridani has an extensive outer debris disk of remnant planetesimals left over from the system's formation.
Epsilon Eridani may be a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group of stars that share a similar motion through the Milky Way. This suggests they share a common origin in an open star cluster. Its nearest neighbor, the binary star system Luyten 726-8, will have a close encounter with Epsilon Eridani in about 31,500 years when they will be separated by about 0.93 ly.
Epsilon Eridani has been the target of SETI searches. Epsilon Eridani appears in science fiction stories and has been suggested as a destination for interstellar travel.
Star system
A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars which orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction. A large number of stars bound by gravitation is generally called a "star cluster" but, broadly speaking, they are also star systems. Star systems are not to be confused with planetary systems, which include planets and similar bodies.
A stellar system of two stars is known as a "binary star", "binary star system" or "physical double star". If there are no tidal effects, no disturbance from other forces, and no transfer of mass from one star to the other, such a system is stable. Both stars will orbit around the center of mass of the system indefinitely. Examples of binary systems are Sirius, Procyon and Cygnus X-1, the last of which probably consists of a star and a black hole.
It is possible to have star systems with more than two members. Their stars are gravitationally bound to each other, and may or may not be close to each other.
A recently discovered quintuple star system (five stars) is known as 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5. The system has two sets of binary stars, one of them with a small third star. The two sets are a long way apart, further than the orbit of Pluto is to the Sun. The binary stars are close to each other and one binary has touching stars, with their outer ionised gases mixing. That situation is called a contact binary. From the data collected, the authors are fairly sure that both binaries (and probably all five stars) are gravitationally bound in a single system. The angles of inclination (the angle between the two orbital planes) of the two binaries (88.2(3) and 86(4) degrees). This suggests they originally formed by break-up (~9-10 billion years ago ago) from a single protostellar disk. Afterwards, they stayed in the same orbital plane.
Most multiple star systems are "triple stars". Systems with four or more components are less likely to occur.
Multiple star systems are smaller than open star clusters, which have more complex dynamics and typically have from 100 to 1,000 stars. Most multiple star systems known are triple. For example, in the 1999 revision of
Tokovinin's catalog of physical multiple stars,
551 out of the 728 systems described are triple.
Multiple-star systems can be divided into two main types: systems which are stable, or systems with chaotic behavior. Chaotic ones are usually of young stars in systems not yet disrupted by chaos.
Kentaro Sato
Kentaro Sato (佐藤 賢太郎 Satō Kentarō, born 12 May 1981), aka Ken-P, is a composer and conductor of media music and concert music.
Sato was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. He holds a Master of Music in Conducting and a Bachelor of Music in Media and Commercial Writing from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). In addition to his degree in music, he also holds a degree in cinema from Santa Monica College. He is famous for his works for chorus and orchestra, and video game music.
Open star cluster
An open star cluster, also known as galactic cluster, is a group of a few hundred or thousand stars. They have roughly the same age, and were formed from the same giant molecular cloud.
More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way Galaxy, and many more are thought to exist. They are loosely bound together by mutual gravitational attraction, but they get disrupted by close encounters with other clusters and clouds of gas. Open clusters generally survive for a few hundred million years, with the most massive ones surviving for a few billion years.
In contrast, the more massive globular clusters of stars exert a stronger gravitational attraction on their members. So, they can survive for longer. Open clusters have been found only in spiral and irregular galaxies, in which active star formation is occurring.
Young open clusters may still be in the molecular cloud from which they formed. They light it up and create an H II region. Over time, radiation pressure from the cluster will disperse the molecular cloud. Typically, about 10% of the mass of a gas cloud will form stars before radiation pressure drives the rest of the gas away.
Open clusters are key objects in the study of stellar evolution. The cluster members are of similar age and chemical composition, so their properties (such as distance, age and chemical composition) are more easily studied than for isolated stars. A number of open clusters, such as the Pleiades, Hyades or the Alpha Persei Cluster are visible with the naked eye.
Survivor Series (1988)