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After Barry O'Farrell's resignation, on 17 April 2014 Baird was elected parliamentary leader of the NSW Liberal Party, and then sworn in on 23 April as the 44th Premier of New South Wales.
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi
Mohammad-Rezā Lotfi () (January 7, 1947 – May 2, 2014) was a Persian classical musician. He was born in Gorgan, Golestan, Iran.
He served as the director of the Center for the Preservation and Propagation of Traditional Persian Music and the "Chavosh" Center.
In 1984 Lotfi was invited by Fondazione Cini to perform in a ceremony and perform concerts in Italy. He lived in the United States from 1986 until his death. He performed widely throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
Lotfi died on May 2, 2014, due to complications from cancer in Tehran, Iran, aged 67.
Nigel Stepney
Nigel Stepney (14 November 1958 – 2 May 2014) was a British Formula One mechanic. He was the team manager and chief mechanic of JRM Racing, in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
He started in Formula One as a mechanic at Shadow in 1977, then followed Elio de Angelis to Team Lotus before moving to Benetton for the late 1980s and early 90s. He worked with Scuderia Ferrari with Michael Schumacher, Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn.
He was killed in a road traffic incident on the M20 motorway in Ashford, Kent on 2 May 2014, aged 55.
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Vernon Scannell
Vernon Scannell (23 January 1922 – 16 November 2007) was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport. He published 53 poems during his career which began in 1961. He was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Scannell died in Otley, West Yorkshire, England from a long-illness, aged 85.
Youcef Yousfi
Youcef Yousfi () (born 2 October 1941) is an Algerian politician. He has been Minister of Energy and Mines since 2010. He briefly served as Acting Prime Minister of Algeria in March–April 2014. Yousfi was Algeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 to 2008.
George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell Jr. (born August 20, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He is a Democrat. Mitchell served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995.
Mitchell was born in Waterville, Maine. His father, George John Mitchell, Sr. (born Joseph Kilroy), was of ethnic Irish descent but was adopted by a Lebanese family when he was orphaned.
In 1980, he was elected to the United States Senate. He became Senate Majority Leader in 1989. He briefly was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine from 1979 to 1980.
Since retiring from the Senate in 1995, he had a key role in peace talks in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Barack Obama.
He was a primary architect of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in two "Mitchell Reports", one on the Arab–Israeli conflict (2001) and one on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball (2007).
Mitchell was chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 until January 2007, and later as chairman of the international law firm DLA Piper. He was the Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1999 to 2009.
Mitchell also was a co-chair of the Housing Commission at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
In 2015, unsealed court documents showed Mitchell's possible involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking ring.
Mitchell was diagnosed with a "small, low grade, and localized" prostate cancer in 2007.
In August 2020, he was diagnosed with leukemia.
John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was an American politician. He was the United States senator of Mississippi. He served as senator from 1947 to 1989. He was a member of the Democratic Party. The USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is named after him. He served in the senate for 47 years.
Cranston died in Jackson, Mississippi from natural causes, aged 93.
The Berenstain Bears are a group of fictional bears from movies and books. They were created by Stan and Jan Berenstain. The bears learn safety and morality lessons in every story. Issues in the stories include childhood obesity, bullying and online safety.
The "Berenstain Bears" have been popular for many years. The stories have been criticized for being too sentimental and too predictable.
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. He the first United States Senator to serve seven terms. Hayden was also the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, serving from 1957 to 1969.
He represented Arizona. Hayden is a member of the Democratic Party. Hayden was born in Hayden's Ferry, Arizona.
Hayden died in Mesa, Arizona from an illness, aged 94.
Devil's Due is an American horror-thriller movie. It is about a young couple who go through many major issues, including a strange, unexpected pregnancy.
This movie was released on January 17, 2014. Its reception was very negative.
Mary Jo Catlett
Mary Jo Catlett (born September 1938) is an American movie, stage, voice, and television actress. She is known for her role as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on the television sitcom series "Diff'rent Strokes" and for being the voice of Mrs. Puff in the sitcom "SpongeBob SquarePants".
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Mel Clark
Melvin Earl "Mel" Clark (July 7, 1926 – May 1, 2014) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He went to Ohio University and was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1947. He played with the Phillies from 1951 to 1955 and with the Detroit Tigers in 1957. He was born in Letart, West Virginia.
Clark died on May 1, 2014 in West Columbia, West Virginia, aged 87.
Jane Gray
Jane "Jean" Gray (née Cant; 1 December 1901 – 7 June 2014) was a Scottish-Australian supercentenarian. She was, at , the oldest living person in Australia between August 2012 and June 2014.
She was born in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland. She met her future husband Jock Gray on a blind date in 1922 and married him in 1927. Having arrived in Sydney, they ran a poultry farm. The couple were married for 60 years before Jock died. They had two children, nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Her daughter began taking care of her at their home in Smithfield, New South Wales in 2004. Her secret to longevity was to "eat plenty and don't drink booze or smoke". As of December 2013, she lived in a nursing home.
Gray died from natural causes on 7 June 2014 at a Smithfield nursing home. She was 112.
Modesto, California
Modesto (Spanish for "modest") is the county seat and largest city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. As of 2010, 201,165 people lived in Modesto.
Modesto is in the Central Valley. It is on the Tuolumne River and near the Stanislaus River.
The nation's largest winery, E & J Gallo Winery, is in Modesto.
Modesto is the 18th largest city in California, and the 103rd largest city in the United States.
Modesto has been honored as a Tree City USA many times. However, Modesto was named one of the most polluted cities in the U.S. in 2010.
Extreme Rules (2014)
Extreme Rules (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event made by WWE. It was held on May 4, 2014 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It was the sixth Extreme Rules event held by the WWE.
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Power Rangers Zeo
Power Rangers Zeo is a TV show that started in 1996, and is a sequel to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. A sequel called Power Rangers Turbo started in 1997.
Power Rangers Turbo
Power Rangers Turbo is a TV show that started in 1997 it is a sequel to Power Rangers Zeo. A sequel called Power Rangers In Space started in 1998. This season the Rangers have powers based on cars. One new Ranger, Justin, joins the team, replacing Rocky. Justin is the first Ranger to be a child. Halfway through the season, the four other Rangers all leave, and four new Rangers join the team. Many other characters also leave during this season.
The Power Rangers fight an evil pirate called Divatox and her helpers Rygog, Elgar and Porto. The Rangers have new helpers called Dimitria, Alpha 6, Blue Senturion and the Phantom Ranger. The Rangers' friends Bulk and Skull are accidentally turned into chimps for several weeks, but their old boss Lt. Stone looks after them.
Power Rangers In Space
Power Rangers In Space is an American television series and the sixth season of the "Power Rangers" franchise. It is based on the Super Sentai series "Denji Sentai Megaranger". It is the sequel to Power Rangers Turbo.
The turbo rangers head for space and meet andros. He brings them the astro morphers and they become the power rangers in space. They battle the evil Astronema and her monsters.
A sequel called "Power Rangers Lost Galaxy" started in 1999.
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy is a TV show started in 1999 that it is a sequel to Power Rangers In Space. A sequel to Power Rangers Lost Galaxy called Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue started in 2000.
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue is a TV show, started in 2000, that is a sequel to Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.
Demons awaken. Five teens become the power rangers lightspeed rescue to fight the demons and get new zords.
A sequel called Power Rangers Time Force started in 2001.
Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a type of climate. It has hot, humid summers and warm, mild or cool winters. In the Köppen climate classification, they are split into Cfa when there is no dry season and Cwa when there are dry winters.
Examples are Atlanta, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Durban, Milan, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
Power Rangers Time Force is a TV show that started in 2001. It is a sequel to Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
In the year 3000, four teens time travel to 2001 to defend the world against an evil being. A new member joins them and they become known as 'The Power Rangers Time Force'.
A sequel called Power Rangers Wild Force started in 2002.
Loving Annabelle is a 2006 American romantic drama movie. It is about a girl named Annabelle Tillman. She is sent to a Catholic boarding school after she was kicked out of two other schools. She has a lesbian relationship with one of her teachers.
This movie was released in March 2006.
American Mary is a 2012 horror-thriller movie. This movie is about a medical student named Mary. She is also a nightclub stripper.
This movie got mixed reviews. The movie was released August 2012.
Katharine Isabelle
Katherine Isobel Murray (also Katharine Isabelle; born November 2, 1981) is a Canadian actress. She played Chloe in the movie "Cousins" (1989). She also played Lindsay Clark in the movie "Disturbing Behavior" (1998). She played Julia Baker in the movie "Countdown" (2016).
Isabelle was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Zodiak Kids
Zodiak Kids is a division of Zodiak Media. The company does animation for children as Zodiak Media does for parents. Zodiak Media is a worldwide distributor and production company.
Katie Leclerc
Katie Lynn Leclerc (born November 6, 1986) is an American actress. She plays a coffee lover in the 2014 movie "Caffeinated". Also in 2014, she played Katie in "The Ones".
Leclerc was born in San Antonio, Texas and grew up in Lakewood, Colorado.
Neighbors (movie)
Neighbors is a 2014 American comedy movie. It is about a couple with a baby moving who have partying students move next door to them. Rose Byrne plays Kelly Radner. Seth Rogen plays Mac Radner, Zac Efron plays Teddy Sanders. The movie received positive reviews.
This movie was released in May 2014. It is followed by "".
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress. She played the housewife in "Father Knows Best". She also played Jane in the movie "Gentleman's Agreement".
Wyatt was born in Mahwah, New Jersey. She died from natural causes at age 96.
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Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. ( February 22, 1985) was a Russian-American violinist, composer, teacher, and conductor. He was director of the Curtis Institute of Music. He was married to Alma Gluck. He was the father of actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
Zimbalist, Sr. died at the age of 94 from natural causes.
Poison (movie)
Poison is a 1991 science fiction-horror movie. It has three different stories. It was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. "Poison" had a limited release in the United States.
This movie was rated NC-17 by the MPAA.
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Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-American soprano. She was one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career (circa 1910). She was married to violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.. She was the mother of actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.. Gluck was born in Iași, Romania.
Gluck died in New York City from liver failure, aged 54.
Solvang, California
Solvang is a city in Santa Barbara County, California. It was founded in 1884. It became a city in 1985. It had a population of 5,245 in 2010. Solvang means "sunny fields" in Danish. The mayor of Solvang is Jim Richardson.
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Dr. Octopus
Dr. Octopus is an enemy of Spider-Man in Marvel Comics. He was voiced by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in the 1990s television series "Spider Man". He was also played by Alfred Molina in "Spider-Man 2".
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Spider-Man (1994 TV series)
Spider-Man is a 1994 American animated series based on the Marvel Comics hero Spider-Man. It was created by Stan Lee and produced by Marvel Entertainment and Saban Entertainment. It stars Christopher Daniel Barnes, Sarah Ballantine, Gary Imhoff, and Joseph Campanella. It ran from November 1994 to January 1998.
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The Source engine is a video game engine created by a company called Valve Corporation. The engine made its first appearance in 2004 with a game called , and was also included in Half-Life 2. Source has been worked on since that date, and is included in many of Valve's games.
Source is meant to power first person shooter video games, but has also been used to create other types of video games as well.
Source SDK is a toolset used for Source engine. It has tools such as Hammer Editor, Model Viewer, and Face Poser.
Source Dedicated Server is used to run multiplayer game sessions. It can work on Windows and Linux.
In 2005, Valve launched a website called Valve Developer Community. It is a wiki about how to use the Source engine.
The Source SDK has been criticized for being out of date and hard to use.
The Source engine originated from the GoldSrc, which was a changed version of John D. Carmack's Quake engine. Caramack said on his blog in 2004 that there's "still bits of Quake code in Half-Life 2".
Valve worker Erik Johnson explains the origins of the GoldSrc engine on the Valve Developer Community:
The Source engine then continued to replace the GoldSrc engine, until Source was mostly used at Valve.
Richard Taylor (general)
Richard Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879) was an American plantation owner, politician and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was born in 1826 in Kentucky. His father was Zachary Taylor, who was a U.S. general and later a U.S. president. Richard Taylor graduated from Yale University in 1845. When his father died in 1851, he inherited a sugar cane plantation in Louisiana.
When the Civil War started, he became colonel of the 9th Louisiana Infantry. He fought in Virginia. He became a brigadier general in October 1861. In July 1862, he became a major general. After that, he was made the commander of the District of West Louisiana. He fought against several Union armies trying to invade western Louisiana, including during the Red River Campaign in 1864.
While he was in western Louisiana, Taylor often disagreed with Edmund Kirby Smith. Smith commanded the Confederates west of the Mississippi River. Because they disagreed so often, Taylor was sent east of the Mississippi in April 1864. He commanded Confederates in Mississippi and Alabama until the end of the war in May 1865.
Taylor died on April 12, 1879 in New York City.
George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870) was a general in the U.S. Army. He was one of the top Union army generals in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Thomas was born in Virginia in 1816. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1840. He fought in the Mexican-American War in an artillery battery. When the Civil War started, he decided to stay in the Union army instead of fighting for Virginia. He became a Brigadier General. He won a victory at the Battle of Mill Springs in Kentucky in 1861.
In 1862, he became a major general and commanded a corps in the Army of the Cumberland. He fought at the Battle of Stones River and the Battle of Chickamauga. He became commander of the Army of the Cumberland during the Chattanooga Campaign in 1863. He continued commanding the army during the Atlanta Campaign. When William T. Sherman started his March to the Sea, Thomas was left behind to defend Tennessee against John Bell Hood. Thomas defeated Hood at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.
After the war, Thomas stayed with the U.S. army. He died in 1870 in San Francisco.
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Borgomanero
Borgomanero is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont. It is about northwest of Milan, about northwest of Novara and not far from the border between Lombardy and Piedmont
Borgomanero borders the following municipalities: Bogogno, Briga Novarese, Cressa, Cureggio, Fontaneto d'Agogna, Gargallo, Gattico, Gozzano, Invorio, Maggiora, Veruno.
List of highest-grossing Telugu movies
Telugu cinema, consisting primarily of movies in the Telugu language in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is popularly called as Tollywood. It is one of the largest movie production centers in India. 1992 film Gharana Mogudu, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, is the first Telugu film to gross over 10 crore at the box office.
The following is the list of highest grossing Telugu films (including dubbed versions) based on world wide collections (gross and distributors share).
"Background color"       "indicates movies playing on in theaters around the world"
NOTE: Since Tollywood collection figures have no certain sources, figures are provided on the basis of many sources. Though figures contradicted with some reliable sources in some cases, figures which are cited in most sources are only included.
The worldwide distributor share figures are given here after adding dubbed versions of Tollywood movies. The distributor shares are net gross [worldwide gross (total tickets sold x ticket rate)-GST] minus theater rentals. The theater rentals vary. Multiplexes give 50% in week one, 42.5% in week two, 37.5% in week three and 30% thereafter to the distributor.
The USA gross figures of Top-20 tollywood movies are given here.
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 American western-comedy movie, starring Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman and Liam Neeson.
After losing his girlfriend who is in love with the mustache owner, a sheep herder befriends the wife of an infamous bounty hunter in 1882 Arizona.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 German-American comedy movie directed by Wes Anderson. It is about a caretaker who teams up with one of his employees to prove that he is innocent of murder. Ralph Fiennes plays the caretaker. Tilda Swinton plays Céline. Léa Seydoux plays plays Clotilde. Harvey Keitel plays Ludwig.
This movie has an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. The reviews of the movie were very positive.
Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson
The second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson as the 36th President of the United States was held on January 20, 1965.
The inauguration was the start of the second term (and first full four-year term) of Lyndon B. Johnson as President and the only term of Hubert Humphrey as Vice President. Chief Justice Earl Warren gave the Oath of office. Lady Bird Johnson started the tradition of First Ladies taking part in the event by holding the President's Bible.
About 1.2 million people attended the inauguration. At the time, that was the most people at any event held at the National Mall. This was the last time an inauguration was covered by newsreels.
Žarko Petan
Žarko Petan (27 March 1929 – 2 May 2014) was a Slovenian writer, essayist, screenwriter, and theatre and movie director. He is known as a writer of aphorisms. His career began in 1950. He wrote over 100 essays and novels. Between 1992 and 1994, he served as Director General of the Slovenian National Radio and Television Broadcast. Petan was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Petan died on 2 May 2014 at the age of 85.
Yuengling
D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the United States. It was started in 1829. It is one of the largest breweries by volume in the country. Based on sales in 2011, Yuengling was tied with the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams brands, as the largest producer of beer in the United States. Yuengling's headquarters are in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Yuengling produces about 2.5 million barrels of beer a year. They operate two breweries in Pennsylvania and one in Tampa, Florida.
Yuengling is pronounced , and is an Anglicized version of "Jüngling", its founder's surname and the German term for "young man".
Jim Oberstar
James Louis "Jim" Oberstar (September 10, 1934 – May 3, 2014) was an American politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2011. He represented Minnesota's 8th district. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Oberstar was born in Chisholm, Minnesota.
Oberstar lived with his wife, Jean, in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.. He also lived in his boyhood home in Chisholm, Minnesota. He died in his sleep at his home in Potomac on May 3, 2014, aged 79.
Grevenmacher (canton)
Grevenmacher () is a canton in Luxembourg. Its capital is Grevenmacher.
With an area of , and a population (2017) of 29,525, the Grevenmacher canton has a population density of inhabitants/km².
It is bordered on the north by the Echternach canton, on the east by the German district of Trier-Saarburg (part of the "Land" of Rhineland-Palatinate), on the south by the Remich canton, and on the west by the Luxembourg district.
The Grevenmacher canton consists of the following 8 communes (2017 population).
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Eastern Theater of the American Civil War
The Eastern Theater of the American Civil War included the U.S. states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and the coastal seaports and fortifications of North Carolina. There were many battles fought in this area, especially in northern and eastern Virginia. Several battles were fought between the Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. There was so much fighting in Virginia because the Confederate capital was at Richmond, Virginia.
The Eastern Theatre was the scene of several key battles. These included the First Battle of Bull Run, the bloody Battle of Antietam and the greatest battle, the Battle of Gettysburg. Only 100 miles separated the two capital cities, Washington, D.C. the Union capital and the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. Between the two lay the Shenandoah Valley, a natural corridor that could hide entire armies.
After the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, both sides scrambled to create armies. President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion. This immediately caused the secession of four additional states, including Virginia. The United States Army had only around 16,000 men, with more than half spread out in the West. The army was commanded by the elderly Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War. On the Confederate side, only a handful of federal officers and men resigned and joined the Confederacy. The formation of the Confederate States Army was a matter initially undertaken by the individual states.
Elena Baltacha
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha (14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a British professional tennis player.
Baltacha was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union to Olga and Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha. Her brother is Sergei Baltacha, Jr. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1989.
She was British No. 1 intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, due to her absence from competition, due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement, on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. She was a four-time winner of the Aegon Award.
Baltacha was diagnosed with liver cancer in January 2014. She died of the disease three months later, aged 30.
Corona, California
Corona is a city in Riverside County, California. It has a population of 152,374 as of 2010. The mayor of Corona is Karen Spiegel. It is near Yorba Linda, California.
Japanese idol
An in the Japanese pop culture is a young media personality (a singer, an actor, a model, etc.). This is usually a teenager, who has a cute and innocent public image. Idols are a separate category of Japanese artists.
The term is commercialized by Japanese talent agents. The talent agencies hold auditions for cute boys and girls and make them stars. Idols are intended to be an ideal object of love of frenzied fans. There is also a view that the Japanese people see idols as sisters or girls next door.
Japanese idol singers work across genres of the Japanese pop music. This is usually whatever is most popular at the moment. Their songs do not require great singing skills, but the artist must be beautiful, sweet and nice to sing them. In their everyday life, idols must also match the songs they sing. They must have a perfect public image and be good examples to young people.
The phenomenon appeared in the early 1970s. It was thanks to the popularity of young French actress Sylvie Vartan and the movie she played in called "Cherchez l'idole" ("Look for the Idol"). The movie came out in Japan in November 1964 under the title "Aidoru o Sagase". The term "idol" started being used for girls, mostly between 14 and 16, who were just beginning their path to stardom or for very young new stars.
This is a selective list of Japanese idol music groups, divided by projects or talent agencies.
Zhané
Zhané (pronounced jah-nay) was an American R&B-soul group. The group was known for several major songs, like "Groove Thang", "Hey Mr DJ" and "Sending My Love". The group was part of Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit collective.
The group broke up during the late 1990s.
The Protopopovs
Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova (often called "The Protopopovs") are former Russian figure skaters. They skated for the Soviet Union. They won Olympic gold medals in 1964 and 1968. They won the World Figure Skating Championships every year from 1965 to 1968.
In 1979, Protopopov and Belousova defected to Switzerland. They became Swiss citizens in 1995. They continued to skate at ice shows and skating exhibitions through their seventies.
Protopopov and Belousova met in Moscow in 1954. They trained in Leningrad.
They competed internationally for the Soviet Union. Their first coach was Igor Moskvin. Their second coach was Petr Orlov. After some disagreements, they left Orlov. They then trained without a coach at a rink in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast. In 1961, they decided to work with Stanislav Zhuk to raise their technical difficulty.
The Protopopovs' first competition was at the 1958 World Championships. They finished in 13th place. At the 1960 Winter Olympics, they finished in 9th place. In 1962, they won the silver medal at the World Championships. They were the first pair from the Soviet Union or Russia to win a world medal in their sport. They also won silver at the 1962 European Figure Skating Championships.
The Protopopovs' won their first major international gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics. It was the first Olympic pairs gold for the Soviet Union. From this Olympic Games to the 2006 Winter Olympics, only Soviet/Russian skaters won gold medals in pairs skating. That was the longest streak in Olympic history.
The Protopopovs won their first World and European gold medals in 1965. They were the first Soviet/Russian pair to win those.
They won Olympic gold medals for the second time at the 1968 Winter Olympics. At 32 and 35 years old, they were some of the oldest champions in figure skating.
In 1969 they won the silver medal at the European Championships and the bronze medal at the World Championships. Those were their last major international competitions. They continued to compete within the Soviet Union until 1972. After retiring from competition, they skated in shows into their seventies.
The Protopopovs contributed to the development of pairs skating. They created three kinds of the figure skating move called "death spiral". Dick Button said, "The Protopopovs are great skaters not only because they were the finest of Olympic champions, but also because their creative impact was extraordinary."
Belousova and Protopopov married in December 1957. They are usually called "The Protopopovs", even though Belousova kept her maiden name after their marriage. They decided not to have children because they wanted to keep skating.
On 24 September 1979, Belousova and Protopopov defected to Switzerland while on tour. They applied for political asylum. They settled in Grindelwald. They became Swiss citizens in 1995. Switzerland is still their winter home. Their summer home and training center is in Lake Placid, New York. On 25 February 2003, they went back to Russia for the first time. They were invited by Vyacheslav Fetisov, the Russian Minister of Sport.
Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 ~ May 3, 2014) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Booth School of Business. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Gary Becker died in Chicago, Illinois from complications of ulcer surgery, aged 83.
Tatiana Samoilova
Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (; 4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian movie actress. She starred in "The Cranes Are Flying" (1957), "The Unsent Letter" (1959) and "Anna Karenina" (1967).
Samoilova's career began in 1955. She starred in over 50 Russian movies. She retired in 2008. Samoilova was born in Leningrad, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union.
On 3 May 2014, the eve of her 80th birthday, Samoilova was taken to hospital in Moscow. She had a serious condition with coronary heart disease and hypertension. She died, two days later on 4 May 2014.
Newington Butts
Newington Butts is a former village, now an area of south London. It is most famous as the location of the Newington Butts Theatre in the late 1500s. Some of the first performances of plays such as Hamlet, Titus Andronicus and The Taming of a Shrew happened here. It probably gets its name from an archery butts, or practice field.
Regina Belle
Regina Belle (born on July 17, 1963) is an African American singer-songwriter and musician. She performed the award winning "A Whole New World". She also did "I Can't Imagine".
Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey.
Stacy Lattisaw
Stacy Lattisaw (born November 25, 1966) is an American R&B and gospel singer. Since the 1990s, she has performed only gospel music.
Lattisaw's major singles include "Love on a Two-Way Street" and 1989's "Where Do We Go from Here".
Lattisaw was born in Washington, D.C..
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Robert Aumann
Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , "Yisrael Aumann"; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician and economist. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He is specialized in mathematical economics and game theory. Aumann won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on conflict through game-theory analysis. He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander (born Montgomery Bernard Alexander; June 6, 1944) is a jazz pianist, who also plays the melodica. His career began in 1958.
He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He was married to musician Emily Remler, but their marriage ended in divorce.
Satellite state
A satellite state is an officially independent country that is strongly influenced or controlled by another country. Examples of satellite states include Vichy France and Manchukuo. Both were satellite states during World War II. Sometimes the Warsaw Pact countries were called satellite states, but they had more freedom than most satellite states. Belarus is currently a satellite state of Russia.
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Fangbone
Fangbone is a Canadian animated television series. It is produced by the Canadian company Radical Sheep Productions Inc. It is distributed by Disney XD Canada. The series is based on the New York Times best-selling comic books by Michael Rex. The first episode aired in March 2016. The last episode was in January 2017.
The series' pilot first aired in Canada. It won numerous awards including Best One-Off Or Special from the 2015 Kidscreen Awards, Best Animated Writing from the 2015 Writer's Guild Of Canada Awards, and Best TV Show Ages 9-14 from the 2015 Youth Media Alliance Awards. It was also nominated for Best Animated Series at the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards.
Fangbone is a nine-year-old barbarian warrior from Skullbania. He has landed in Eastwood Elementary's third grade class to save his native land from the villain, Venomous Drool. With the help of his new friend Bill, a lovable, normal, goofy kid, Fangbone beats his enemies while discovering the modern world.
A pilot for the series premiered on Disney XD Canada in 2014. Soon after, production began on a first season. This first aired in March 2016 in North America.
Toba catastrophe
The Toba catastrophe was the largest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years. It is called a catastrophe because its effects may have damaged the human species.
Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, is the site of a supervolcanic eruption that occurred 73,000 (±4000 years) years ago.
It was a climate-changing event. The eruption was two orders of magnitude (= x100) larger than the largest known historic eruption, that of Tambora, also in Indonesia.
This eruption was the last and largest of four eruptions of Toba during the Quaternary epoch. It had an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8 (described as "apocalyptic"). It made a sizable contribution to the 100x30 km caldera complex. The mass it threw out was 100 times greater than the largest volcanic eruption in recent history. That was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the 1816 "Year Without a Summer" in the northern hemisphere.
The eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decline in temperatures between 3-5 degrees C, and up to 15 degrees C in higher latitudes.
According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences. It killed most humans then alive. It created a population bottleneck in Central Eastern Africa and India that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.
According to the theory, only 10,000 (perhaps only 1,000) pairs of humans survived the disaster. Perhaps it led to the other hominids becoming extinct, though the Neanderthals certainly survived in Europe and Eurasia.
There is no direct evidence that the theory is correct. And there is no evidence for any other animal decline or extinction, even in environmentally sensitive species. There is evidence that human habitation continued in India after the eruption. The theory in its strongest form seems to be incorrect.
Laurie Strode
Laurie Strode is a fictional character in the "Halloween" movies. The first movie she was in was the 1978 movie. She is an example of the "final girl" character, the last girl alive to fight the killer in a movie.
Jamie Lee Curtis was the first actress to play Laurie Strode.
Heather Thomas
Heather Thomas (born September 8, 1957) is an American actress and writer. She is also a political activist. She co-starred as Judy Banks on "The Fall Guy".
Thomas was born in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Dick Ayers
Richard Bache "Dick" Ayers (April 28, 1924 – May 4, 2014) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist. He was best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the Silver Age of Comics period in the late-1950s and 1960s. He worked on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' "The Fantastic Four". He was born in Ossining, New York.
Ayers died on May 4, 2014 in White Plains, New York, aged 90.
County Armagh
County Armagh is one of six counties that together make up Northern Ireland. It is also one of the 32 counties of Ireland. County Armagh lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. The county is 1,326 km² big. About 174,792 people live there.
The county is named after the city Armagh. The name "Armagh" comes from the Irish word "Ard" meaning "high place" and "Macha". In stories, Macha is a goddess of Ireland. Armagh was the main town for the historic Ulaid kings of Ulster.
The landscape has hills in the south. Slieve Gullion is the highest mountain. It goes down from there and becomes flatter with small hills called drumlins in the middle and the west. It is fairly flat in the north, and is at sea level at Lough Neagh. There are a few small islands in the lake.
Ancient Armagh was the territory of the Ulaid people before the year 400. The Red Branch ruled the county. Their capital was a fort called Emain Macha near Armagh. The Red Branch play an important role in the stories in the Ulster Cycle. They are also part of the story the "Cattle Raid of Cooley".
Armagh was the Roman Catholic home of Saint Patrick.
South Armagh is mostly nationalist. In the late 20th century, a significant minority of its inhabitants supported the IRA.
"Baronies" are old divisions of Ireland. Below is a list of the baronies in County Armagh.
Two major highways run through County Armagh. The M1 links Belfast to Dungannon in the north of the county. The A1/N1 from Belfast to Dublin runs in the far south east. Armagh has lots of local roads connecting the towns and villages.
There used to be many railways in County Armagh, but at the moment there are only a few stations left.
Ulsterbus is the bus company that runs most public transport in the county. It includes buses from most towns to Belfast. Railway companies Northern Ireland Railways and Iarnród Éireann together run the Enterprise service. It has trains that go to Dublin (about an hour) and Belfast (about forty minutes) a few times daily. There are many more Northern Ireland Railways trains into Belfast and Bangor.
The Ulster Canal and the Newry Canal run through County Armagh. The canals are not fully open for boats to use.
Palaeothere
Palaeotheres are an extinct group of herbivorous mammals. They are related to tapirs and rhinoceros, and probably ancestral to horses. They ranged across Europe and Asia during the Eocene and Oligocene 5528 million years ago.
They were small to medium-sized. They lived in dense forests. They ate soft leaves, shoots, berries, and leaf matter picked up from the forest floor.
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Flatland is a novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott. It is set in a fictional two-dimensional world. The books is a satire on society in the Victorian era. It also looks at dimensions.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a name for the Virgin Mary. She is believed to have appeared near Lourdes, France. The first appearance was on 11 February 1858. It was seen by Bernadette Soubirous, a 14 year old peasant. Seventeen more appearances were reported that year.
Helga Königsdorf
Helga Königsdorf (Helga Bunke; July 13, 1938 – May 4, 2014) was a German author and physicist. Her writings helped women's rights in Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. She worked with Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann and Maxie Wander. She retired in 1990. Königsdorf was born in Gera, Germany.
Königsdorf died in Berlin, Germany from Parkinson's disease, aged 75.
Division of Herbert
The Division of Herbert is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was one of the 75 divisions set up for the first federal election in 1901. It is in northern Queensland, and is named after Sir Robert Herbert, the first Premier of Queensland (1859–1866). In 1901 the division covered an area from Mackay to the Torres Strait, but today it only covers an area around the city of Townsville.
Eduardo Mac Entyre
Eduardo Mac Entyre (20 February 1929 – 5 May 2014) was an Argentine artist. He was known for his geometric paintings. Mac Entyre has also created a body of more traditional Abstract, Cubist and Figurative art.
He was honored by the Organization of American States in 1986 for his works to Modern art in Latin America and his work is widely displayed in Argentina and elsewhere. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Entyre died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 85.
Billy Frank, Jr.
Billy Frank, Jr. (March 9, 1931 – May 5, 2014) was a Native American environmental leader and treaty rights activist. Frank is known for his grassroots campaign for fishing rights on the tribe’s Nisqually River in Washington. He was mostly active during the 1960s and 1970s. He helped keep natural resources in the state. He was born in Nisqually, Washington.
Frank died on May 5, 2014, aged 83.
Butler Derrick
Butler Carson Derrick, Jr. (September 30, 1936 – May 5, 2014) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Derrick was a representative for South Carolina's 3rd district. He served from 1975 to 1995. He was succeeded by Lindsey Graham. Derrick was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Derrick died in Easley, South Carolina from cancer, aged 77.
Wil Albeda
Willem (Wil) Albeda (13 June 1925 - 6 May 2014) was a Dutch politician. From 1966, he was member and from 1973 chairman of the Anti-Revolutionary Party group in the Senate. He was Minister of Social Affairs in the first cabinet Van Agt. After this he returned to the Senate. He later became chairman of the Scientific Council for Government Policy.
Albeda was born in Rotterdam. He died in Maastricht, aged 88.
Otto Carius
Otto Carius (27 May 1922 – 24 January 2015) was a German former Nazi tank commander. He destroyed over 150 foreign tanks. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. After the war, Carius worked as a pharmacist. He also wrote books about his experiences during the war.
Carius was born in Zweibrücken, Weimar Germany. He died from a short illness in Herschweiler-Pettersheim, Germany, aged 92.
Keith Harvey Miller
Keith Harvey Miller (March 1, 1925 – March 2, 2019) was a Republican politician from Alaska. He was the second Secretary of State of Alaska, under Governor Walter Hickel. When Hickel resigned in 1969, Miller became Governor. He was governor until December 5, 1970.
Miller died from pancreatic cancer while in hospice in Anchorage a day after his 94th birthday on March 2, 2019.
Frank Murkowski
Frank Hughes Murkowski (; born March 28, 1933 in Seattle) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a United States Senator from Alaska from 1981 until 2002. He was the eighth Governor of Alaska, from 2002 until 2006.
Bill Sheffield
William Jennings Sheffield, Jr. (born June 26, 1928) is an American Democratic politician. He was the fifth Governor of Alaska from 1982 to 1986. Sheffield's term as governor was marked by controversy including attempts to have him impeached. He was born in Spokane, Washington.
Al Quie
Albert Harold "Al" Quie (born September 18, 1923) is an American politician. He was the 35th Governor of Minnesota, from January 4, 1979 to January 3, 1983. Quie was born in Dennison, Minnesota.
Dennison, Minnesota
Dennison is a city in Goodhue County and Rice County, Minnesota. It has a population of 212 residents in 2010. Most of it is in Goodhue.
Wendell R. Anderson
Wendell Richard Anderson (February 1, 1933 – July 17, 2016) was an American politician. He was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned to be named U.S. Senator. He replaced Senator Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the United States. Anderson was in the U.S. Senate from December 30, 1976 until December 29, 1978.
Anderson died on July 17, 2016 from pneumonia in St. Paul, Minnesota, aged 83.
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Winfield Dunn
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn (born July 1, 1927) is an American politician, dentist, and medical industry official. He was Governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. He was the state's first Republican governor in fifty years, and was the sixth one since the Civil War.
Dunn ran for a second term in 1986. He lost to Ned McWherter. He remained active in the Republican Party and the medical field after his term as governor.
Dunn was born in Meridian, Mississippi.
Make-A-Wish Foundation
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization. The organization helps children that have life-threatening medical conditions by arranging experiences known as "wishes". The age limit is between 2 and a half and 18 at the time of referral. The person that decides if the child is eligible is the child's physician. The organization is based in Phoenix, Arizona. David A. Williams is the president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. The person that holds the title of most wishes granted is professional wrestler John Cena who has grants over 450 wishes.
Gotham (TV series)
Gotham is an American television series created by Bruno Heller. It is based on the characters of DC Comics. It is set in Gotham City, but was filmed in New York City and parts of Chicago and Detroit.
The show takes place when then rookie detective police commissioner James Gordon and when Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered. It stars Ben McKenzie, David Mazouz, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Sean Pertwee. It will be aired by Fox. The first episode aired in fall 2014, and the last episode aired in spring 2019.
Benjamin McKenzie
Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan (born September 12, 1978) is an American comedian, actor and producer. He is also known as Benjamin McKenzie and Ben McKenzie, and was born in Austin, Texas. He plays Ryan Atwood in the television series "The O.C." and Ben Sherman in "Southland".
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Hyaenodontidae
The Hyaenodontidae ("Hyaena teeth") is a family of the extinct order Creodonta, which contains several dozen genera.
The Hyaenodonts were important mammalian predators that arose during the late Paleocene and persisted well into the Miocene. They were more widespread and successful than their sister family, the oxyaenids.
They had long skulls, slender jaws, slim bodies, and a tendency to walk on their toes rather than flat-footed (plantigrade). They ranged in size from 30 to 140 cm at the shoulder. "Hyaenodon gigas", the larger species, was as much as 1.4 m high at the shoulder, 10 feet long and weighed about 500 kg, but most were in the 5–15 kg range, equivalent to a mid-sized dog. Fossil evidence of their skulls shows that they had a particularly acute sense of smell, while their teeth were adapted for slicing, rather than crushing.
Hyaenodonts were mainly meat-eaters. They did not crack main bones because they lacked
crushing teeth. This contrasts with modern hyaenas, which can crush bones of larger prey. This gives then a good source of calcium, and access to the highly nutritious bone marrow. Modern bears and dogs also have bone-crushing capability, though not to the same extent as hyaenas. Hyaenodonts thus thus lacked dental versatility for processing any foods other than meat.
The carnassials in a hyaenodontid are generally the second upper and third lower molars. However, some hyaenodontids had as many as three pairs of carnassials or carnassial-like molar teeth in their jaws.
Because of their size range, it is probable that different species hunted in different ways and allowed them to fill many different predatory niches. Smaller ones would hunt in packs during the night like wolves, and bigger, fiercer ones would hunt alone during the daylight, using their sheer size and their mighty jaws as their principal weapon.
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