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Malick was born on December 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York. She studied at Williamsville South High School and at Ohio Wesleyan University. Malick has been married to Mitch Glazer from 1982 until they divorced in 1989. She was married to Richard Erickson since 1995.
George Moscone
George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was an American lawyer and politician. He served the mayor of San Francisco from 1976 through 1978. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Moscone was born on November 24, 1929 in San Francisco, California. He studied at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and at University of the Pacific.
Moscone was married to Gina Bodanza until his death. He had 4 children.
Moscone was mayor when he and Harvey Milk were shot dead by Dan White on November 27, 1978 in San Francisco City Hall. Moscone was later buried.
In the 2008 movie "Milk", he was played by Victor Garber.
Peter Orlovsky
Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet, writer and movie actor. He was the lifelong partner of Allen Ginsberg. Orlovsky was in 3 movies: "Pull My Daisy", "Chappaqua" and "Me and My Brother".
Orlovsky was born on July 8, 1933 in New York City, New York and studied at Columbia University. Orlovsky's father was a Russian immigrant. Orlovsky died on May 30, 2010 in Williston, Vermont from lung cancer, aged 76. He was buried in Williston.
Epsom
Epsom is a town in northern Surrey. The town is known for its race course and the horse race held there.
The town also gives it name to epsom salts which are found in mineral water here. By the end of the Georgian period (early 1800s) Epsom was a spa town. Some remains of this are its water pump, wells and exhibits in the town's museum. A housing estate has been built upon the wells in the south-west of the town.
Louis Persinger
Louis Persinger (b. Rochester, Illinois, USA, 11 February 1887; died New York 31 December 1966) was an American violinist and pianist.
Louis Persinger first performed in public when he was 12 years old. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Hans Becker, and later with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels, and for two summers with Jacques Thibaud in France. He became leader of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra and the Royal Opera Orchestra in Brussels. In 1912 he returned to the USA and played with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. In 1915 he was appointed leader and assistant conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He followed Leopold Auer in 1930 as a teacher at the Juilliard School, in New York.
Besides his work performing with orchestras he played chamber music, forming his own string quartet and directing the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco.
Persinger is particularly remembered now as the teacher of several great violinists, including Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci, Isaac Stern. His way of teaching was different from that of most other teachers. He focussed on things that would make his pupils interested and used simple words.
As a piano accompanist he played with Ruggiero Ricci for many recitals and recordings. He also played for Yehudi Menuhin when the 10 year old boy gave his first recital in New York.
On his 75th birthday he gave a recital at the Julliard School of Music, playing half the programme on the violin and the other half on the piano.
Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe (born August 17 1958) is an American movie and television series actress. She starred in movies such as "Revenge", "Stakeout" and "The Two Jakes". She was born in Los Angeles, California.
William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763– 18 June 1835) was a journalist and Member of Parliament for England for the Radicals. He made many journeys around England. He wrote a book called "Rural Rides" about what he saw.
Carol Kane
Geddes Plan for Tel Aviv
The Geddes Plan for Tel Aviv was the first master city plan for Tel Aviv. It was designed in 1925-1929 by the Scottish city planner Sir Patrick Geddes. This program designed the center of Tel Aviv and the area now known as "Old North".
In 1925 Patrick Geddes was commissioned to design a master plan for the city of Tel Aviv. The plan he produced was accepted in 1929. Tel Aviv turned out to be the only example of one of Geddes’ plans being built largely as he envisaged and is a good example of an early planned city. The area of Tel Aviv originally planned by Geddes makes up approximately 7.5% of the current day municipality of Tel Aviv and is now known as Tel Aviv’s “Old North”. It was designed to be an extension of the much older neighboring Arabic port town Jaffa to the south and a home for the increasing population of Jews emigrating from other parts of the world (predominantly Eastern Europe).
Geddes, originally a biologist and sociologist were engaged to design a plan for the new city of Tel Aviv to be built adjacent to the ancient port town of Jaffa. The principles he employed for the city were strikingly similar to what we now know as New Urbanism ideas of planning - an emphasis was placed on pedestrians as opposed to motor car traffic, a sense of community and civic life was encouraged through the use of town squares and abundant planting of greenery provided significant focus on a minimal environmental footprint. Private automobile traffic was minimized and the city was envisaged on a pedestrian scale. This neighborhood identity has been crucial in the success of Tel Aviv as a city.
Another important aspect of Geddes's plan was the use of the “superblock,” which was popular in the early to mid 20th century with its origins in the modernist movement. The main principles were to create extra-large blocks bounded by major rather than minor roads and have them threaded with narrow one-way streets designed in such a way to discourage traffic. The aim of these superblocks was to foster community and a sense of civic life within them. In order to achieve this, it was planned that at the center of each block was meant to be a central public space (a garden or public building). In reality, the commercial factors resulted in few of these central squares being captured for public use.
Geddes took part of his inspiration from the Garden City movement developed by Ebenezer Howard, he was keen to ensure that greenery was an integral part of the Tel Aviv landscape. To this end, under his plan buildings were restricted to taking up a maximum of only one-third of any given site, these restrictions aimed to ensure maximum potential for neighborhoods well endowed with lush greenery.
Geddes did not prescribe a certain architectural style for the area, traditionally a city planned along the lines of the British Garden City Movement would aim for an architectural style based on the traditional style for the region. Geddes recognized that the majority of the population he was designed for would-be immigrants from Europe and other parts of the world. He encouraged the development of a distinctly ‘Jewish style’. Interestingly Geddes provides little more than this style recommendation in his planning report.
Over the following decades after Geddes's plan was realized the area began to decay and there was significant public lament and dissatisfaction with the decay of the city. This deterioration was later used as justification for the rapid redevelopment of the area in the 1950s. However, it was noted that this disapproval of the decay of the city quickly changed to nostalgia when old buildings began being razed to make way for new development. Resultantly significant effort was made to preserve the historical neighborhoods planned by Geddes and in 1984 the Council for the Preservation of buildings and Sites was established to protect them.
Critics of Tel Aviv’s layout have suggested it is not a beautiful city in the classic sense. A low standard of construction and of housing units (apartment buildings) has largely been blamed for this, citing that the buildings developed were ugly and akin to stacks of packing cases with shoeboxes for balconies.
Further criticism has been put that the city has not coped well with the increasing population and private car traffic not envisaged by Geddes at the time. Poor building construction and lack of proper maintenances have served as further critiques of the early city planning.
Notwithstanding these criticisms of Geddes's planning of Tel Aviv, while not immune to the modern problems of traffic and development that all cities today face, Tel Aviv is widely regarded as a successful city and symbol of modern-day Israel.
Will Arnett
William Emerson "Will" Arnett (born May 4, 1970) is a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian and producer. He starred in the "Arrested Development" and "30 Rock". He also played Lego Batman in animated movies, "The Lego Movie", "The Lego Batman Movie" and "".
Arnett was born in Toronto. He married Penelope Ann Miller from 1994 to 1995. Arnett married Amy Poehler from 2003 to 2016. They have two children.
James Lipton
James Louis Lipton (September 19, 1926 – March 2, 2020) was an American writer, composer, movie, television actor and host of the television show "Inside the Actors Studio". He created the show in 1994 and hosted it until 2018.
Lipton was born on September 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan and studied at Central High School and Wayne State University for a year. Lipton was married to Nina Foch from 1954 until they divorced in 1959. He married Kedakai Turner in 1970.
Lipton died of bladder cancer at his home in New York City on March 2, 2020 at the age of 93.
Roger Allam
Roger Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English movie, television, radio, voice and stage actor. He is known for his roles as Inspector Javert in "Les Misérables" and as E.P. Arnold Royalton in "Speed Racer". He has won two Olivier Awards in 2002 and in 2011, and another for best supporting actor. Roger Allam is also known for the role of Fred Thursday in the British Murder Mystery Show Endeavour.
Allam was born 26 October 1953 in London, England. Allam is married to Rebecca Saire. They have two sons.
Louis Szekely (born September 12, 1967) or Louis C.K. is an American comedian, writer, director, editor and actor. He is known for the series "Louie". He won two Emmy Awards between in 1999 and 2012.
C.K. was born in Washington, D.C.. C.K. married Alix Bailey from 1995 to 2008. They have two children.
In November 2017, "The New York Times" reported that five women said that C.K. committed sexual misconduct allegations.
Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron (born May 6, 1955) is an American television personality and game show host who is best known as the host of "America's Funniest Home Videos" and the host of "Dancing with the Stars". He has won two Emmy Awards in 2000 and in 2012.
Bergeron was born on May 6, 1955 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Bergeron has been married to Lois Bergeron since 1982. They have two daughters.
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Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe (June 29 1962) is an English television series, movie and stage actress. She has had many notable roles. She starred in "L.A. Law" in the very early 1990s and in 1997's "Liar Liar". She was born near London, England.
In February 1991, Donohoe was in the first of the so-called "lesbian kiss episodes" on American television. Her character C.J. Lamb on "L.A. Law" kissed Abbie Perkins, played by Michele Greene.
Donohoe is of Russian, Swiss and Irish ancestry. Her partner is the multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell. The couple live in Suffolk.
Donohoe won a Golden Globe Award for her role in "L.A. Law". She was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for her Broadway debut in Uncle Vanya.
Colville Young
Dean Oliver Barrow (born 2 March 1951) was the Prime Minister of Belize. He was leader of the United Democratic Party. He started his first term as Prime Minister after victory in the 2008 Belizean general election, started his second term as Prime Minister after victory in the 2012 election and started his third term as Prime Minister after victory in the 2015 elections.Citing health issues Barrow stated that he will step down no later than the end of 2019 but hinted he could do so earlier.An election to select the next Leader of the United Democratic Party and Barrow's successor is scheduled for May 2019 before the November 2020 Belizean general election. Orson Elrington
Governor-General of Belize
List of prime ministers of Belize
This is a list of Prime Ministers of Belize. The Prime Minister is the head of government of Belize.
Lesbian kiss episode
The "lesbian kiss episode" is a type of the media portrayal of lesbianism in television media. It was made in the 1990s. The first time was in 1991 with a kiss on the American "L.A. Law" series. It was in the episode "He's a Crowd" between C.J. Lamb and Abby Perkins. David E. Kelley wrote the episode. He used the same idea in at least two of his other shows. Later television series included an episode in which a seemingly heterosexual female character has a kiss with a possibly lesbian or bisexual character. Most times, the potential of a relationship between the women does not survive past the episode. The lesbian or suspected lesbian never appears again.
Series which have had lesbian kiss episodes include:
Andres Bonifacio
General Andres Bonifacio Bonifacio y de Castro and Andres Bonifacio (30 November 1863 – 10 May 1897) was Philippine resistance movement member, revolutionary, and soldier. He founded the of independence group Katipunan. He was the first President of the Philippines Provisional Revolutionary government (1896–1897).
Cesar Virata
Cesar Virata(born December 12, 1930) is a Philippine politician. He was Prime Minister of the Philippines (June 30 1981 – February 25 1986) and Finance minister (1984 - 1986).
Dendrochronology is tree-ring dating. It is a method of dating which uses the patterns of growth rings in trees. In many types of wood, the time rings were formed can be dated to the exact calendar year.
Dendrochronology has three main uses:
In some parts of the world, it is possible to date wood back a few thousand years, or even many thousands. The maximum for "fully anchored chronologies" is a little over 11,000 years from present. The term "fully anchored chronology" means the dates are absolutely certain.
Dendrochronology (word derived from Greek , "dendron", "tree limb"; , "khronos", "time"; and , "-logia") was developed during the first half of the 20th century originally by the astronomer A.E. Douglass, who founded the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona. Douglass researched sunspot activity. He expected changes in solar activity would affect climate patterns on Earth. The climate would be recorded by tree-ring growth patterns.
The phenomenon of tree rings and their relationship with wet and dry years had been noticed before Douglass. There is a brief note in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, and Charles Babbage in 1837 came up with the same idea.
Many trees in temperate zones make one growth ring each year, with the newest adjacent to the bark. Through a tree's life, a year-by-year ring pattern is formed which reflects the climatic conditions in which the tree grew. Adequate moisture and a long growing season result in a wide ring. A drought year may result in a very narrow one.
Alternating poor and favorable conditions, such as mid summer droughts, can result in several rings forming in a given year. Problems like this are fixed by comparing one part of the world with another. Missing rings are rare in oak and elm trees: the only recorded instance of a missing ring in oak trees occurred in the year 1816, also known as the Year without a Summer.
Trees from the same region will tend to develop the same patterns of ring widths for a given period. These patterns can be compared and matched ring for ring with trees growing in the same geographical zone and under similar climatic conditions. Following these tree-ring patterns from living trees back through time, chronologies can be built up, both for entire regions, and for sub-regions of the world. Thus wood from ancient structures can be matched to known chronologies (a technique called cross-dating) and the age of the wood determined precisely.
The tree-ring dates can be extended back to 26,000 BP by using other methods. Those other methods use marine sediment layers and growth rings in corals.
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a popular Canadian tourist attraction. It is a leading centre of palaeontological research which has more than 130,000 fossils.
The museum is from Drumheller, Alberta and from Calgary. It is in the middle of the fossil-bearing strata of the Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Its specimens come mainly from Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Egg Historic Nest Site.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum's mission is to "collect, preserve, research and interpret palaeontological history with special reference to Alberta’s fossil heritage".
The Museum is named in honour of Joseph Tyrrell, a geologist who discovered the first dinosaur in the Red Deer River Valley in 1884. The Museum opened September 25, 1985 and was given Royal status by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. In its first year of operation, the Museum attracted over 500,000 visitors. The average annual number of visitors is about 400,000. In 2010 the museum welcomed its 10-millionth visitor, a young boy from Edmonton.
More than of the museum's is dedicated to exhibits. There are chronological galleries celebrating the 3.9 billion year history of life on Earth. One of the most popular is "Dinosaur Hall", with almost 40 mounted dinosaur skeletons, including specimens of "Tyrannosaurus rex" and "Albertosaurus". Other exhibits include "Lords of the Land"; "Burgess Shale"; "Devonian Reef", a life-size model of a 375 million year old reef; a "Cretaceous Garden", with over 600 living species of plants; "Age of Mammals"; and "Ice Ages".
"Triassic Giant" is a long specimen of the largest known marine reptile. The long ichthyosaur "Shonisaurus sikanniensis" was recovered from the shores of the Sikanni Chief River in northeastern British Columbia.
A window into the "Preparation Lab" allows visitors to watch technicians as they carefully prepare fossils for research and exhibition. There are also tours of the badlands; the hands-on "Nexen Science Hall" with interactive exhibits; simulated fossil digs, and summer camps for children and families, and much more.
Witenagemot
The Witenagemot or Witan was an institution in Anglo-Saxon England, from about the 7th to the 11th century. The name is Old English and means "council of the wise men". Originally, Witan was the plural of "wita" (the wise man); but it was used as a singular. The council was similar to the Germanic assembly called "Thing".
The purpose of the Witenagemot was to give an opinion about the administration and the organisation of the kingdom. They talked about how law should develop. They elected or confirmed the king. The Witenagemot also had the power to depose a king. This happened when they deposed Sigeberht of Wessex in 755. They also deposed Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria in 765.
Witans were held at least once a year; usually more often. In many respects they were similar to modern-day Parliament. Unlike Parliament, the locations where they were held changed; neither the Witans nor the king had a permanent place to stay.
When the Normans invaded England in 1066, they replaced the Witenagemot with another institution. This institution was still known as Witan or Witenagemot until the 12th century.
Wheatland, Iowa
Wheatland is a city in Clinton County, Iowa, United States.
Chorea
Chorea (sometimes called Choreia) is the name for a set of symptoms caused by some neurological conditions. The word "chorea" comes from Greek, where it means "dance". People with chorea move without being able to control those movements. The movements seem to spread from one muscle to the next.
Chorea is one of the main symptoms of Huntington's disease.
Some forms of chorea are not linked to neurological conditions, though. Chorea can develop as a complication of pregnancy. It can be a sign of hyperthyroidism. It can also be caused by drugs taken in the wrong dose. For example, L-Dopa (taken against Parkinson's disease), certain forms of birth control, or certain antipsychotics can cause chorea if they are used in the wrong doses.
Vermouth
Vermouth is a sweet wine, that has been converted to a spirit. It usually has between 15 and 18 percent of alcohol. Also, certain herbs are added to flavour the wine. Its name is derived from a plant called Artemisia absinthium, which makes it taste slightly bitter. It is often used for cocktails. In its current form, Vermouth was first made in Turin, in 1757. In the 19th century, it was also produced in France. Vermouth is also popular in parts of Spain. Vermouth is sometimes used as a substitute for white wine in cooking.
Vermouth is not the same as the spirit called Absinthe. Absinthe is also based on Artemisia absinthium, but it has 45-50 percent alcohol per volume.
National Treasure is a 2004 American action thriller movie starring Nicolas Cage. It was made by the Walt Disney Studios under Walt Disney Pictures.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released Blu-ray Disc versions of "National Treasure" and its sequel, "National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets", on May 20, 2008.
Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta; August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress and comedienne, with a career spanning nine decades. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie. A veteran of vaudeville, her career included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs, and television.
Her best known role was Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on "The Doris Day Show" and was also a frequent panelist on "Hollywood Squares". She was among the first major stars to be known simply by her first names and is the subject of a documentary film "Wait for Your Laugh" (2017), which features interviews from numerous co-stars, including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, and Tim Conway.
Marie was born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City, New York on August 15, 1923.
At age 3, Marie started performing under the name Baby Rose Marie. At age 5, she became a radio star on NBC and made a series of movies.
In her teenage years, she was a nightclub and lounge performer in before becoming a radio comedienne. She was billed then as "The Darling of the Airwaves." According to her autobiography "Hold the Roses", Marie was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the opening night of the Flamingo Hotel which was built by Siegel.
Marie was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964. The couple had one daughter, Georgiana.
Marie was a feminist.
On December 28, 2017, Marie died in her home in Van Nuys, California of natural causes at age 94.
Apolinario Mabini
Apolinario Mabini (July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903) was a Philippine resistance activist, lawyer, and journalist. He was the prime minister and foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Philippines (1898). He was the First Chairman of the Philippine Supreme Court (1898 - 1899).
Manuel Roxas
Manuel Acuna Roxas (January 1, 1892 – April 15, 1948) was a Philippine politician. He was the President of the Philippine Commonwealth (1946) and the first President of the Third Philippine Republic (1946 - 1948). He was a Minister of the Philippine Commonwealth, Secretary of Finance (1938–1941) and Executive Secretary of Third Philippine Republic (1942). The Philippine Commonwealth was abolished after he was elected as President of the Third Philippine Republic.
Raja (1995 movie)
Raja is a 1995 Bollywood movie directed by Indra Kumar. The movie has Sanjay Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in the title roles. The movie became a hit at the box office.
The film had songs made by Nadeem-Shravan while lyrics were written by Sameer. All songs were hit that year.
Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit (born 15 May 1967) is an Indian actress who appear in Bollywood movies.
Dixit has won five Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress. She holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations (13) at Filmfare. In 2008, she was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India.
She made her Bollywood debut with the movie "Abudh" in 1984. Her first breakthrough performance came in 1988, with the movie "Tezaab". The movie also established her career in the industry. Since then she has appeared in movies like "Dil", "Beta", "Khalnayak", "Raja", "Dil To Pagal Hai", "Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam", "Devdas", "Aaja Nachle".
She took a break after "Devdas" to raise her children and made a comeback with "Aaja Nachle" in 2007.
She is married to Dr. Shriram Madhav and they have two children.
Natural killer cell
Natural killer cells (or NK cells) are a type of lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system. NK cells provide a rapid response to cells infected by viruses, or to bacterial cells. The response happens about 3 days after infection. NK cells also respond to tumour formation.
NK cells are unique: they have the ability to recognise stressed cells in the absence of antibodies and major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This allows for a much faster immune reaction.
In early experiments in cancer patients and animals, investigators found what was called a "natural" reactivity. That is, a certain population of cells seemed to be able to kill tumour cells without previously being sensitized to them. At first many thought that these observations were artifacts. However, by 1973, 'natural killing' activity was established across a wide variety of species, and the existence of a separate line of cells with this ability was suggested.
To control their cytotoxic activity, NK cells have two types of surface receptors: activating receptors and inhibitory receptors. When the NK cell is activated, it destroys the cells which have switched it on.
Small granules in their cytoplasm contain proteins and enzymes called granzymes. They are released close to a cell which has triggered their action. A protein "perforin" forms pores in the cell membrane of the target cell, creating a channel through which enzymes and other molecules can enter. This kills the target cell. The details vary according to whether the target is a virus, a bacterium or a tumour cell.
Class I MHC i can serve as an inhibitory ligand for natural killer cells (NKs). Reduction in the normal levels of surface class I MHC, a mechanism employed by some viruses and certain tumors to evade CTL responses, activates NK cell killing.These inhibitory receptors recognize MHC class I molecules, which could explain why NK cells kill cells with low levels of MHC class I molecules. This inhibition is crucial to the role played by NK cells. MHC class I molecules are main way cells display viral or tumor antigens to cytotoxic T-cells. A common evolutionary adaptation to this seen in both intracellular microbes and tumours is a long-term down-regulation of these MHC I molecules. This makes the cells impervious to T-cell action. NK cells may have evolved as an evolutionary response: the loss of MHC would deprive these cells of the inhibitory effect of MHC and make them vulnerable to NK cell attack.
The "adaptive" immune response generates memory cells after a primary infection. Then there is a rapid response to later infections by the same antigen. Earlier it was thought that NK cells play no role in the adaptive immune responses, but now it seems they do.
Juan Luna
Juan Luna y Novicio (October 23, 1857 — December 7, 1899) was a Filipino nationalist, painter, artist, sculptor and Revolution activist. A prominent artist, he has been called the Philippines' national painter.
Charles Fleischer
Charles Fleischer (born August 27, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known as the voice of Roger Rabbit in the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" franchise.
From December 2010 to September 2011, Fleischer hosted his own web show called "Fleischer's Universe" on Ustream.tv.
Fleischer was born and raised in Washington, D.C. on August 27, 1950. He attended Southampton College of Long Island University, and studied acting at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
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The Stolen Eagle
"The Stolen Eagle" is the first episode of the HBO/BBC historical drama television series, "Rome". It first aired on August 28, 2005 in the United States. The episode starred Ciarán Hinds, Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, and Polly Walker.
Cartoon Network Central &amp; Eastern Europe
Cartoon Network Central & Eastern Europe is the Czech-Hungarian-Romanian feed of Cartoon Network. The Cartoon Network broadcasts cartoons and sometimes live action television programs.
Institute for Research on Public Policy
The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP; ) is Canada's oldest non-partisan public policy think tank.
The IRPP seeks to improve public policy in Canada. IRPP supports research and debate.
IRPP was founded in 1972 in Montreal.
Hospitality is about people welcoming other people into their homes or other places where they work or spend their time. People who welcome visitors are called hosts. The people they welcome are called guests.
The word "hospitality" comes from the Latin "hospes", which came from the word "hostis", which originally meant "to have power."
Hospitality is all about the art of entertaining or receiving guests. We talk about "offering hospitality". There are many different ideas about how to offer hospitality according to the various cultures in the world. In the past, many societies taught that it was always right to offer hospitality to strangers who came to their door in need of food or shelter. This may seem a strange idea to many of us today, but it was an important way to survive in many societies, especially in lands where people travelled long distances, often far away from large towns.
The words hospital, hospice, and hostel also come from the word "hospitality". They are all about giving personal care to people who are away from their homes.
The hospitality industry is service industry that includes hotel and restaurant workers.
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park is a national park in the United States. It is south of Yellowstone National Park. Both of these parks are located in Wyoming.
The park's namesake mountain, Grand Teton, is popular for mountain climbing.
Herero and Namaqua genocide
The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is thought to have been the first genocide of the 20th century. It took place between 1904 and 1907 in German South-West Africa (today called Namibia), during the scramble for Africa.
On January 12, 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, fought back against German colonial rule. In August, German general Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into the desert of Omaheke, where most of them died of thirst. In October, the Nama people also fought against the Germans only to suffer a similar fate.
In total, from 24,000 up to 100,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama died. The genocide was marked by many deaths by starvation and thirst because the Herero who fled the violence were not allowed to go back to the Namib Desert. Some sources also claim that the German colonial army normally poisoned desert wells.
In 1985, the United Nations' Whitaker Report said that the aftermath was an attempt to exterminate the Herero and Nama peoples of South-West Africa, and said it was one of the first tries at genocide in the 20th century. The German government said that the genocide happened and said sorry for the events in 2004, but did not give compensation to the victims' relatives.
Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye (November 11, 1918 – December 14, 1997) was an American actor and comedian.
Kaye was born Bernard Kotzin in New York City, New York on November 11, 1918. He was raised in Far Rockaway, Queens and in The Bronx.
Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson (born September 11 1970) is an actress who has been featured in many movies. She played Shug in the movie "Hustle and Flow". She later played Queenie in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
Henson was born near Washington, D.C..
Bear Grylls
Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is an English-Irish adventurer. He has been the Chief Scout since 2009. He climbed Mount Everest when he was 23. He broke the record for the youngest British person to climb the mountain. Grylls has been in many television programmes.
Grylls was born in London and grew up in Donaghadee, County Down and Bembridge, Isle of Wight. He was educated at Eton College and Birkbeck, University of London.
He served in the S.A.S. and is a Christian.
His wife is Shara Cannings Knight and his parents are the late Conservative MP Sir Michael Grylls and Lady Grylls (she is of Irish origin).
Baek A-yeon
Baek Ah-yeon (Hangul : 백아연, born on March 11, 1993) is a South Korean solo singer who debuted in JYP Entertainment. She is known as the third finalist of South Korea's talent show, K-Pop Star.
A-yeon was born on March 11, 1993. She was one of a popular talent show contestants, K-Pop Star which the judges was the big three (SM, YG, JYP). She studied at the Department of Practical Music at Howon University.
Huronian glaciation
The Huronian glaciation (or Makganyene glaciation) lasted from 2400 million years ago (mya) to 2100 mya, during the Paleoproterozoic era.
The glaciation was named after evidence got from Lake Huron region in North America. There, three separate horizons of glacial deposits are separated by non-glacial sediment.
This was one of the most severe and longest ice ages in geologic history. It was similar to the Snowball Earth ice ages that happened later, in the Neoproterozoic era.
The glaciations were probably triggered by the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), which removed atmospheric methane (a greenhouse gas), and eventually supplied free oxygen to the atmosphere. The alternate warm and ice age periods was probably caused by a repeating cycle. Cyanobacteria flourished in the warm periods, producing huge amounts of oxygen. The oxygen removed the free methane, and used up carbon dioxide. This caused the temperature to crash. This slowed down the bacteria. So the temperature rose again.
However, it is also possible that there was a 250 million year lull in volcanic activity, resulting in lower carbon dioxide levels and so reduced greenhouse effect.
Gregoria de Jesús
Gregoria de Jesús (9 May 1875 – 15 March 1943) was a Philippine nationalist. She was the second wife of Andres Bonifacio, a Philippine nationalist. She founded Katipunan. She was the first vice president of the Philippine revolutionary government (1896 to 1897).
Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo (March 23, 1869 - February 6, 1964) was a Philippine nationalist. He was a leader of the Katipunan, a Philippine independence movement organization. He was President of the Philippine revolutionary government from 1897 to 1901.
King Moody
Robert "King" Moody (December 6, 1929 - February 7, 2001) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Ronald McDonald in McDonald's commercials until his retirement in 1985.
Moody was born Robert Moody in New York City, New York on December 6, 1929.
From the 1970s to the 1980s, he played Ronald McDonald for the McDonald's commercials.
After his retirement in 1985, he was replaced by Squire Fridell.
On February 7, 2001, Moody died at the age of 71.
Mariano Trías
Mariano Trías y Closas(October 12, 1868 – February 22, 1914) was a Philippine politician and resistance activist. He was Vice President (1897) Minister of Finance(1898 - 1899), and Minister for defence of the Philippine revolutionary government(1899)
Francisco Carreón
Francisco Carreón y Marcos (born October 5, 1868) was a Philippine politicians, resistance activist, and member of Katipunan and Republika ng Katagalugan. He was the Vice President of the Philippine revolutionary government from May 6 1902 to July 14 1906.
Mimi Kennedy
Mimi Kennedy (born September 25 1948) is a movie and television program actress. She is especially notable for acting in the situation comedy "Dharma & Greg". She acted in the movie "Erin Brockovich.
Wax tablet
A wax tablet is what the Roman schools used instead of paper. They used a stylus to write with. The wax melted when warm, but was quite smooth when it set. Wax tablets could also be used for messages, but ink on wood was more permanent (see Vindolanda). The Romans also used ink on manuscripts, and could stitch the manuscripts together to make a codex.
The earliest surviving example of a writing tablet dates to the later Bronze Age, 1400 BC. A boxwood writing tablet with an ivory hinge was found in 1986, in the remains of a shipwreck, the Uluburun Shipwreck, near Kaş, Turkey.
Brian George
Brian George (born 1 July 1952) is an Israeli-English actor, singer, voice artist and comedian. He plays the father of Rajesh Koothrappali on "The Big Bang Theory". Recently, he voiced Alfred Pennyworth in "" (2016).
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Doug Jackson
Doug Jackson (born December 12, 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League during the 1947–48 NHL season and played in six games.
Jean Marois
Jean Marois (November 5, 1924 – January 3, 1996) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks. He played most of his career career with the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Senior Hockey League.
Marcel Pelletier
Marcel Gerard Pelletier (December 6, 1927 in Drummondville, Quebec – May 13, 2017 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks and the New York Rangers. He played most of his career with the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League.
Missak Manouchian
Missak Manouchian (1 September 1906 - 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet, a militant in the MOI ("Immigrant Workforce Movement") in the Paris region. He was 37 years old when executed by the Nazis for his Résistance work.
Although Manouchian became well known for his leadership in the French Resistance, he was, above all, an intellectual and a talented poet.
Manouchian posthumously was awarded by the Legion of Honor highest order. In 2009 Robert Guédiguian directed a film, "The Army of Crime", dedicated to Manouchian and his group.
Expo Tel Aviv
Expo Tel Aviv (formerly the Israel Trade Fairs and Convention Center () and later the Tel Aviv Convention Center (), although commonly referred to locally as Ganei HaTaarucha ("Exhibition Gardens", ) and also as the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds) is a fairground and convention center in north Tel Aviv. It was first opened in 1932 as "Yarid HaMizrach" located at the site of the Levant Fair at Tel Aviv Port. The fairgrounds were moved to their present location at 101 Rokach Boulevard (near the Yarkon Park and Tel Aviv University) in 1959.
It is also called , meaning: The Fair Gardens. In September 2018, it was rebranded as "EXPO Tel Aviv".
The location hosts up to 2.5 million visitors and has between 45 and 60 major events annually. The fairground has ten halls and pavilions and a large outdoor space including an amusement park.
Kajol Devgn (née Mukherjee) (born 5 August 1974), better known as Kajol is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She has also appeared in two Tamil films. She has received six Filmfare Awards. In 2011, she was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India.
Kajol is half Maharashtrian and half Bengali. She was born to actress Tanuja and film director and producer, Soumya Mukherjee. Her younger sister, Tanisha Mukherjee is also an actress. Her cousins, Rani Mukherjee, Sharbani Mukherjee and Mohnish Behl are also Bollywood actors.
She started her career at the age of seventeen. She started in her first movie in 1992 with the movie "Bekhudi" which failed to do well at the box office although this didn't affect her career. A year later in 1993, she was paired with Shahrukh Khan for the movie "Baazigar" which was a box office hit. Since then, she has done many hit movies which included "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge", "Karan Arjun", "Ishq", "Gupt", "Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya", "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai", "Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain", "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham", "Fanaa", "My Name Is Khan, and Dilwale."
She is married to fellow actor, Ajay Devgn. They have a daughter.
Shimizu, Shizuoka
The municipality was "Shimizu City" until it merged with Shizuoka in 2005.
Shimizu developed around its good natural harbor.
In the Edo period, , , and were the 15-18th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations ("shuku-eki") along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto. These four way-stations were in the area of modern Shimizu.
Shimizu is located on the coast of Suruga Bay of the Pacific Ocean.
Zipper (ride)
Caroll Spinney
Caroll Edwin Spinney (December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019) was an American puppeteer, songwriter, radio host, and speaker. He was known for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street".
He announced his retirement from acting in October 2018, with his last performances airing on the show's 50th season special.
He died at his home in Woodstock, Connecticut, on December 8, 2019, at the age of 85. He had dystonia, a neurological disorder, at the time of his death.
Lim Su-kyung
Quinton Flynn
Quinton Joseph Flynn (born October 10, 1964) is an American voice actor. Who has done many various voice roles in television shows, anime, films and video games.
He is most notable for providing the English voices of video game characters. Right now, he is the new voice of Silver the Hedgehog.
George Segal
George Segal, Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American movie, television, stage, voice actor, comedian, and musician who was known for his roles in; "Retired at 35", "Just Shoot Me!", "Who's Afraid of Virginia the Wolf", "The Quiller Memorandum", "Look Who's Talking", and "Fun with Dick and Jane". Segal won a Golden Globe Award in 1973.
Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, New York and studied at George School, Haverford College, and at Columbia University.
Segal was married to Marion Segal Freed from 1956 until they divorced in 1981. He later married Linda Rogoff from 1983 until her death in 1996. He was later married to Sonia Schultz Greenbaum 1996 until his death. He had two children with Freed.
Segal died at a hospital in Santa Rosa, California on March 23, 2021 from problems caused by heart surgery, aged 87.
Richard Riehle
Richard Riehle (born May 12, 1948) is an American movie, television, voice, and stage actor who is known for his roles in "", "The Man from Earth", "Treasure Buddies", "Santa Buddies", "Office Space", and "Chillerama".
Riehle was born on May 12, 1948 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and studied at the University of Notre Dame and at the University of Minnesota.
Dick Anthony Williams
Dick Anthony Williams (August 9, 1934 – February 16, 2012) was an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor. He is known for his roles in; "Mo' Better Blues", "Blood and Bone", "The Players Club", "Edward Scissorhands", and "The Anderson Tapes". He has won a Drama Desk Award. He was born on August 9, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. Williams died on February 16, 2012 in his Los Angeles, California from unknown causes, aged 77.
Ben Mendelsohn
Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian movie, television, stage and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Andrew "Pope" Cody in "Animal Kingdom", Russell in "Killing Them Softly", John Daggett in "The Dark Knight Rises", Orson Krennic in "Rogue One", King George VI in "Darkest Hour" and as Nolan Sorrento in "Ready Player One".
Mendelsohn was born on 3 April 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria. He was married to Emma Forrest since 2012.
Cheap may refer to:
Cheap (ward)
Cheap (meaning market) is a small ward of the City of London.
Squire Fridell
Squire Fridell (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, best known for playing Ronald McDonald in the McDonald's commercials after King Moody's retirment.
Fridell was born in Oakland, California on February 9, 1943.
After King Moody's retirement in 1984, Fridell was hired to replace him as Ronald McDonald in McDonald's commercials. He did this until 1991 when he was replaced by Jack Deopke.
Jorge B. Vargas
Jorge B. Vargas (August 24, 1890 – February 22, 1980) was Philippine politician. He was Chairman of Philippine Executive Commission from 1942 to 1943.
In January 30, 1936 he was Executive Secretary of Philippine Presidents Manuel Quezon. December 22, 1941 to January 23, 1942, he was Head of the Civilian Emergency Administration and Mayor of Manila. In 1941 he was appointed to Secretary of National Defense.
He was also the first Filipino member of the International Olympic Committee.
He was one of the charter members of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines in 1936. In 1949 he became the BSP's President and Chief Scout. He was in the position of National President until 1961. He became a member of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1951 to 1957.
Anna Chlumsky
Ray Bentley
Ray Russell Bentley (born November 25, 1960 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a former American football player and current football analyst for ESPN and ESPNU.
Bentley's first three years in professional football were with the Michigan Panthers and Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League.
He later joined the Buffalo Bills. He played six seasons with the team. He was in their first two Super Bowl years in the 1990s. Bentley's career ended with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1992.
His broadcasting career includes:
Tim Ryan (sportscaster)
Tim Ryan (born May 16, 1939 in Canada) is an American sportscaster. He lives in Ketchum, Idaho.
Tim started his career at CFTO as an assistant sports director. While he worked there he called games for the Toronto Marlboros as well as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts home games.
In 1977, Ryan began working at CBS. There Ryan called games for the "NBA on CBS" from 1977–1983, "NFL on CBS" from 1977–1993, "College Football on CBS" from 1996–97, and college basketball from 1982–1998. He also called alpine skiing at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games. From 1978–97, Ryan was a CBS tennis commentator. He called nineteen U.S. Open Tennis Championships.
Ryan was also a lead boxing announcer during the 1970s and 1980s. Some notable fights Ryan called include Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, Floyd Patterson vs. Oscar Bonavena, Monroe Brooks vs. Bruce Curry, Bernard Hopkins vs. Glen Johnson, and Thomas Hearns vs. Sugar Ray Leonard,
In 1986, Ryan won the Sam Taub Award for Excellence in Broadcasting Journalism.
In 1998 Ryan began to work for Fox and NBC. He covered NFL games and tennis for Fox and tennis, skiing, equestrian events, and boxing for NBC. From 2004-2006, Ryan called college football and tennis for ESPN.
Ryan worked the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, 2006 Winter Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy is an American sportscaster with Fox Sports Florida. He does play-by-play for games for the Orlando Magic. Kennedy has also called NFL Europe and NFL games for Fox. He currently calls college football games for Fox Sports Net. Kennedy is the host of a show for the Tampa Bay Lightning "Inside the Lightning". He also hosted Prime Time Noles. He also has called college basketball games for FSN. Kennedy was the host of Miami Dolphins Monday Night Magazine and Bucs Diaries featuring head coach Tony Dungy. He also served as the play-by-play voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide football and basketball teams. Kennedy has also been involved in baseball. He was the studio host for The Baseball Network and the Florida Marlins and called select play-by-play for the Marlins.
Dan Miller
Ron Pitts
Ronald Dwayne Pitts (born October 14, 1962) is a retired American football player. After he stopped playing football, he became a sportscaster. Pitts played defensive back for the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins.