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He is Italian American of californian ancestry: his paternal grandparents emigrated in 1923 from San Francisco to Italy. During his childhood he lived for a period in Rome where he began studying in a school of acting and dance. He attended the Campus San Vincenzo de' Paoli and at the age of 7 he began studying piano and singing at school. Gray had been noticed by a vocal coach at the school and participated in singing auditions, but he didn't like it and continued to pursue dance and acting. He has since received many roles in school plays and musicals. He has performed in various talent shows and was admitted to the International Academy Arts Culture & Formation. He also studied acting at the Liceo Tommaso Gulli and at the " Scuola di Recitazione della Calabria".
Bad Boy - Marwa Loud
Bushehr
Bushehr () is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Bushehr Province.
The city is known for the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant and has about 171,000 inhabitants.
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Khmelnytskyi () is a city in Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Khmelnytskyi Oblast. In 2020, 273,713 people lived there.
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod (Ukrainian and ; ; ; ; Czech and ; ) is a city in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Zakarpattia Oblast. In 2020, 115,512 people lived there.
Wild man
The Wild Man is a legendary creature that painters and artists in medieval Europe would put in their artwork. He was always shown as man covered with hair. The image of the wild man were used for coats-of-arms, especially in Germany. Renaissance engravers in Germany and Italy added wild men, wild women and wild families to art (for example, Albrecht Dürer or Holbein the Younger).
Méharicourt
Méharicourt is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Meigneux, Somme
Le Meillard
"Miss You Much" is a 1989 dance-pop song from American singer Janet Jackson. It was recorded for the singer's fourth album "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814".
"Miss You Much" was released as the lead single off "Rhythm Nation 1814" on August 22, 1989. It hit #1 on the United States' "Billboard" Hot 100. It spent four straight weeks at #1.
In 1990, "Miss You Much" received Grammy Award nominations for the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and the Best Rhythm & Blues Song. The song won the Billboard Award for the Top 100 Single of the Year. It also won the American Music Awards for Favorite Dance Single and Favorite R&B Single.
Laura de Noves
Méneslies
Méneslies is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Hinduism in Estonia
0.027% of people living in Estonia belong to Hinduism. It is a minority religion there.
Hinduism and Buddhism were registered in the 1990s.
The 2000 census of Estonia showed there were 138 Hindus in Estonia, a very small amount of people living there.
The 2011 census says 295 people in Estonia belong to Hinduism, and 142 of them were Hindus, 121 Hare Krishnas and 32 Sahaja Yoga followers. About half of the Hindus live in Tallinn, Estonia's capital city.
Mochtar Kusumaatmadja
Mochtar Kusumaatmadja (April 17, 1929 – June 6, 2021) was an Indonesian politician. He was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Kusumaatmadja was the Minister of Law and Human Rights from 1973 until 1978. From 1978 until 1988, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Kusumaatmadja died on June 6, 2021 in Jakarta, aged 92.
Ricardo Rodríguez (footballer)
Ricardo Iván Rodríguez Araya (born 25 August 1992) is a Swiss football player. He plays as a left-back for Torino and the Switzerland national team.
Leslie Galen Young (October 16, 1975 – June 5, 2021) was an American professional basketball player. He played two years of Division I college basketball for the Charlotte 49ers.
He played professionally in the United States and abroad for 13 years, winning a CBA championship in 2007.
Young was killed while inside his mother's house in Memphis, Tennessee on June 5, 2021 after a car crashed into the house and killed him. He was 45 years old.
Nikka Costa
Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born 4 June 1972, Tokyo, Japan) is an American singer-songwriter. Her music has elements of pop, soul and blues. She began her singing career as a child singer in the early 1980s.
Costa's career as a recording artist with her own name began in 1981. That year, she recorded the song "Out Here on My Own". Her self-titled album was released outside the United States in 1981. Costa then toured the world. Costa's second album, "Fairy Tales", was released in 1983. Her father, Don Costa, died from a heart attack in January that year.
In 1983, Costa sang a cover of The Angels' 1963 song "My Boyfriend's Back".
Costa moved away from childhood pop to mature soul in the 1990s. She signed to the Mushroom record label in Australia. In 1996, she released the studio album "Butterfly Rocket" in Australia. The album led to Costa being nominated for an ARIA Music Awards Breakthrough Artist in 1996 and the Best Female Artist in 1997.
In 2000, Costa's song "Like a Feather" was shown in a Tommy Hilfiger television advertising campaign. The exposure and the song's music video helped launch her United States music career. In 2001, her album "Everybody Got Their Something" was released. It hit #120 on the U.S. "Billboard" 200.
Costa later signed to Stax Records. She released her studio album "Pebble to a Pearl" on 14 October 2008.
T. B. Joshua
Temitope Balogun Joshua (June 12, 1963 – June 5, 2021), also known as T. B. Joshua, was a Nigerian charismatic pastor, televangelist and philanthropist. He was the leader and founder of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN). He also helped run the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos. Joshua was born in Arigidi Akoko, Nigeria.
Joshua died of a suspected heart attack on June 5, 2021 at a Lagos hospital, a week before his 58th birthday.
Tom Fink
Thomas A. Fink (August 26, 1928 – June 4, 2021) was an American Republican politician. He was born in Peoria, Illinois. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 1987 to 1994. In 1966, he was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives. In 1973, Fink was elected as the State House Speaker. He resigned in 1975.
Fink was also a member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board after being appointed by President George W. Bush.
Fink died on June 4, 2021 at a hospital in Anchorage from heart failure, aged 92.
International recognition of Armenia
International recognition of Armenia, since Armenia was freed from Soviet control, and joined the UN (United Nations.) Only 1 nation in the 193 members has not recognized Armenia, Pakistan firmly states that Armenia should be a part of the Islamic country of Azerbaijan. Other then Pakistan, 192 UN states have agreed that Armenia is its own Republic.
Pakistan has played huge parts in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is a dispute between Azerbaijan, and Armenia over certain territories.
Even though Pakistan does not recognize Armenia, Armenia is not in threat to being invaded by Azerbaijan as it has support from other nations in the UN.
After Armenia was declared independent in 1991, it joined the UN a year later. Many countries agreed to accept Armenia as independent of any other country, which at first all countries agreed until 2015, when the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was getting larger.
Pakistan declared it would support Azerbaijan in the conflict and declared "recognizing Armenia's independence is contingent on the latter leaving Karabakh." They soon withdrew recognition of Armenia completely stating Armenia rightfully belonged to Azerbaijan. This led to the de facto, Republic of Artsakh allying itself with Armenia, while Turkey and Pakistan aided the Azerbaijani's.
The only African country in the UN Armenia has relations to is Egypt, but every country in Africa recognizes Armenia, though not all recognize the Armenian genocide.
The only country in Oceania that has relations with Armenia is Australia, but all countries in Oceania recognize Armenia, though not all officially recognize the Armenian genocide.
Alajos Dornbach
Alajos Dornbach (21 January 1936 – 3 June 2021) was a Hungarian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the National Assembly (MP) from 1990 to 2002. He was a member of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ). Dornbach was also Deputy Speaker between 1990 and 1994. Dornbach was born in Ózd, Hungary.
Dornbach died on 3 June 2021 in Budapest, aged 85.
Ózd
Ózd () is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, from the county seat of Miskolc. Ózd is the second largest city in the county.
Lottie Dod
Lottie Dod was an English sportsperson at a time when few women played sports. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first when she was only 15.
Dod competed in many other sports, including golf, field hockey, and archery. She also won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, and played twice for the England women's national field hockey team, which she helped to found.
She won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in archery.
Dod won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship. The "Guinness Book of Records" called her the most versatile female athlete of all time, together with track and field athlete and fellow golf player Babe Zaharias.
James W. Pardew
James William Pardew Jr. (February 5, 1944 – June 2, 2021) was an American politician and military officer. He was the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2002 until 2005 during the George W. Bush administration. His diplomatic career focused on relations with the Balkans.
Pardew was born in Memphis, Tennessee and was raised in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He studied at Arkansas State University and Loyola University Chicago. Pardew died on June 2, 2021 in Fairfax Station, Virginia at the age of 77.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
Fairfax Station is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 12,030 at the 2010 census.
International Booker Prize
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator. She is known fro writing very short stories, usually 30 minute long stories. She has also translated many famous French writings into English such as "Swann’s Way" by Marcel Proust and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert.
László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai (; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter. He is known for his hard novels. They are usually postmodern, with dystopian themes. Several of his works, such as "Satantango" (, 1985) and "The Melancholy of Resistance" (, 1989), have been made into movies.
David Diop (novelist)
David Diop (born 1966) is a French novelist and academic. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2018 and the International Booker Prize in 2021 for his novel "At Night All Blood Is Black".
At Night All Blood Is Black
At Night All Blood Is Black () is a novel by French author David Diop. It was first published in French on August 16, 2018, by Éditions du Seuil. It won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens that same year.
The English translation by Anna Moschovakis won the 2021 International Booker Prize. It was published in the UK by Pushkin Press and in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Clayton, Louisiana
Clayton is a small town in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Bad Bunny
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (born March 10, 1994), known by his stage name Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, activist and singer-songwriter. His music is known as Latin trap and reggaeton and can also be seen as rock, bachata, and soul.
Throughout his career, Bad Bunny has worked with J Balvin, Farruko, Residente, Arcángel, Jhay Cortez, and Daddy Yankee.
Bad Bunny is also a well known LGBT rights activist who as supported the movement in Puerto Rico.
Ferriday, Louisiana
Ferriday is a town in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Ridgecrest, Louisiana
E. Sreedharan
Yashwant Sinha
Yashwant Sinha (born 6 November 1937) is an Indian politician. He was the Minister of Finance from 1990 until 1991 and again from 1998 until 2002. He was also the Minister of External Affairs from 2002 until 2004. He was a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party before he quit the party in April 2018. From 1988 until 1994 and from 1998 until 2009, Sinha was a member of Parliament.
Sinha was born in Patna, India. He studied at the University of Patna.
Sharad Pawar
Sharad Govindrao Pawar (born 12 December 1940), is an Indian politician. He was born in Baramati, India. Pawar is a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. Since 1991, Pawar was a member of the Indian Parliament. Pawar is a well known critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pawar was the Minister of Defence from 1991 until 1993. From 2004 until 2014, he was the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare.
From 1998 until 1999, Pawar was the Lok Sabha's Opposition Leader. He was Chief Minister of Maharashtra three times from 1978 to 1980, 1988 until 1991 and from 1993 until 1995.
Pawar was the Chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI from 2005 to 2008 and as the president of the International Cricket Council from 2010 to 2012. On 17 June 2015, he was re-elected as president of the Mumbai Cricket Association. In 2016, he resigned as the President of Mumbai Cricket Association.
Townsend, Delaware
Townsend is a town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census.
Méréaucourt
Méréaucourt is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Gigantis, the Fire Monster or "Godzilla Raids Again" is a 1955/1959 Japanese-American horror monster movie produced by Toho Company, Ltd. and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures released in April 24, 1955 and United States in May 21, 1959. an edited version of "Godzilla Raids Again" done by Jack Bernhard and originally by Motoyoshi Oda. as the sequel of "Godzilla, King of The Monsters" in 1956, as of the second film of the English-dubbed Godzilla franchise, notably Godzilla as Gigantis and Angurus later in other names, Angilas, Anguirus, this the despite an Godzilla film only as being a standalone movie.
an mountain of ice whereas sighted by Shoichi piloting the plane and find Kobayashi then rest, attacked by Gigantis and Angurus brawls on top of the mountains, pushed down. the Japanese army alerting around by immobilized by fighter jets, tanks and rocket launcher trucks to destroy Gigantis. Gigantis attacks the city, smashed the lighthouse probably the army using flares to fire the monster. then resumed the fight by Gigantis fights Angurus in the middle of the night, the two monsters dragged by bridge then by flooding the subway, Gigantis slams the Osaka Castle and crashed the place, then bitten and killed Angurus's neck by Gigantis and drags down and burning him then the city on fire. Shoichi plans to bury Gigantis off from an ice, later by Japanese Navy and Army hunted down by using gasoline, jet fighters to blown the mountain and Gigantis burying alive, then Kobayashi hitting the mountain and explodes, then numerous jets to blown the ice caps, Gigantis lies down the ground and frozen, defeated by Shoichi.
Mérélessart
Mérélessart is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (pron. ; born 12 May 1983) is a Mexican-born Polish actress and singer. She is known for her roles in "Trade", "Ondine" and "Pan Tadeusz". Bachleda-Curuś was born in Tampico, Mexico.
Bachleda-Curuś has a son with Irish actor Colin Farrell.
Méricourt-en-Vimeu
Méricourt-en-Vimeu is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
War for the Planet of the Apes
War for the Planet of the Apes is a 2017 American science fiction action movie directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and Reeves. It is a sequel to "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (2011) and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014). The movie stars Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson and Steve Zahn.
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a 1995 American action thriller movie directed by Geoff Murphy. It stars Steven Seagal as the ex-Navy SEAL, Casey Ryback. It is the sequel to the 1992 movie "Under Siege" also starring Seagal.
The movie was produced by Seagal along with Arnon Milchan and Steve Perry. It also stars Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Morris Chestnut, Peter Greene, Kurtwood Smith and Katherine Heigl.
Woburn, Massachusetts
Woburn ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 38,120 at the 2010 census. Woburn is located north of Boston.
Solhan and Tadaryat massacres
On 4 and 5 June, a massacres happened in the Solhan and Tadaryat villages in Yagha Province of Burkina Faso. The attacks left at least 160 people dead.
In the evening of 4 June 2021, 13 civilians and a soldier were killed in an attack in the village of Tadaryat. The attackers also raided the community's motorbikes and cattle.
Hours later in the early morning of 5 June 2021, insurgents attacked Solhan village in Yagha, killing at least 138 civilians, including seven children, and wounding 40 others.
2021 Peruvian general election
General elections were held in Peru with the first round on 11 April 2021 and a run-off on 6 June 2021. The presidential election determined the President and the Vice Presidents. On 11 June, 100% of the votes were processed and counted, with Castillo defeating Fujimori by a near 60,000 vote margin.
Eighteen candidates participated in the presidential election, the highest number of candidates since the 2006 Peruvian general election. Pedro Castillo, a member of the left-wing Free Peru party, received the most votes in the first round. He will face Keiko Fujimori, the leader of the right-wing Popular Force, who had narrowly lost the run-offs of the 2011 and the 2016 elections.
If Fujimori were to win, she would be Peru's first female president, the second of East Asian descent, after her father, Alberto Fujimori and the continuation of the Conservative wave election victories in South America.
Then-President Martín Vizcarra originally supported legislation that would set the terms for a snap election in 2020. If successful, Vizcarra would not have been eligible for re-election. The 2020 proposed Peruvian general election would have been held on 11 April 2020, to elect a new President of the Republic of Peru, along with 130 congressmen of the Congress of Peru. It was eventually decided to be held on 26 January 2020. Opposition lawmakers condemned Vizcarra's proposal, defending the practice of five year terms. This constitutional reform was rejected.
On 23 May, just two weeks before the election run-off, 18 people were killed by a militant communist group as protest against the election and Fujimori's candidacy.
The candidates below are listed based on their performance from the first and second round of the election:
Verónika Mendoza
Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch (born 9 December 1980) is a Peruvian-French psychologist, educator, and politician. She is the founder and current leader of the New Peru movement.
She announced her candidacy for President of Peru at the 2016 general election and came in third place, behind Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Mendoza ran again for the 2021 general election with Together for Peru. She came in sixth place in the election with 7.9% of the popular vote.
Roy O. Disney
Roy Oliver Disney (; June 24, 1893 – December 20, 1971) was an American businessman. He was the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company. He was the older brother of Walt Disney and the father of Roy E. Disney.
San Miguel del Ene attack
The San Miguel del Ene attack was a massacre on 23 May 2021 in which 18 people were killed. The mass shooting happened in San Miguel del Ene, a rural area in the Vizcatán del Ene District of Satipo Province. It was allegedly done by the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP). The attack was a response to the group's protest of the upcoming general election and conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.
Dendropsophus kubricki
The Dendropsophus kubricki is a frog that lives in Peru. Scientists have seen it between 106 and 725 meters above sea level.
Rolf Hellem
Rolf Hellem (26 December 1923 – 6 June 2021) was a Norwegian politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. Hellem was born in Sør-Frøya, Norway. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nordland in 1965. Hellem left office in 1981.
Hellem died on 6 June 2021 in Ankenes, Norway at the age of 97.
Dascha Polanco
Dania Ramirez
Dania Ramirez (born November 8, 1979) is a Dominican-American actress. She is known for playing Maya Herrera in "Heroes", Alex in "Entourage", and Blanca during the last season of "The Sopranos" on television.
She played Rosie Falta on Lifetime's "Devious Maids" from June 2013 until its cancellation in 2016.
Kurdistan Region
The Kurdistan Region is an autonomous republic in Iraq. The Kurdistan Region is part of Iraqi Kurdistan or South Kurdistan, itself part of Kurdistan. The government of the Kurdistan Region is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Its capital is Erbil, called "Hewlêr" in Kurdish.
The Kurdistan Region is to the west of Iranian Kurdistan (in Iran). To the Kurdistan Region's west is Syrian Kurdistan (in Syria), and to the north is Turkish Kurdistan (in Turkey).
The area is 80,000 km² and 5,500,000 people live there. Iraqi Kurdistan is a mountain region, where the highest point is 3.611 metres, known as Cheekha Dar. The biggest lake is Dukan.
Iraqi Kurdistan is divided into 6 provinces.
1.As Sulaymaniyah (Silemanî)
2.Arbil (Hewlêr)
3.Dahuk (Duhok)
4.Diyala
5.Kirkuk
6.Ninawa
The population in Iraqi Kurdistan is about 5-6 million. Most of these people are Sunni Muslims. There are also many Yazidis, Kakeyís and Christians. Kurds make the ethnic majority in the region while the Turkmen, Aramean, Assyrians, Armenians and Arabs make up the rest of the western part of the area.
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor, educator, environmentalist and director. Many of his works are in Hindi. He was honored with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. Shah was born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. His career began in 1972.
He has been in many Bollywood movies such as "Nishant, Aakrosh, Sparsh, Mirch Masala, Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai, Trikal, Bhavni Bhavai, Junoon, Mandi, Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!, Ardh Satya, Katha," and "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro".
Prairieville, Louisiana
Bayou L'Ourse, Louisiana
Belle Rose, Louisiana
Lisa Banes
Lisa Banes (July 9, 1955 – June 14, 2021) was an American actress. She was known for her roles in "Cocktail" (1988), "Freedom Writers" (2007), "Gone Girl" (2014), and as Hollis in "A Cure for Wellness" (2016).
Banes was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied at the Julliard School in New York City. Banes was openly a lesbian and married to Kathryn Kranhold.
On June 4, 2021, Banes was hit by a motorist on a scooter in a hit and run accident in New York City. She was hospitalized under critical condition for a brain injury. She died from her injuries ten days later, aged 65.
Gone Girl may refer to:
Labadieville, Louisiana
Méricourt-l'Abbé
Méricourt-l'Abbé is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Mesnil-Domqueur
Mesnil-en-Arrouaise
Mesnil-Martinsart
Jacques Tati (; born Jacques Tatischeff, ; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker and actor. During his career, he only directed nine movies. His career lasted from 1931 until his death. Some of his movies are thought to be the best French comedy movies of all time, with Tati being one of the best French directors.
His directed works were "Gai dimanche" (1935), "School for Postmen" (1947), "Jour de fête" (1949), "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" (1953), "Mon Oncle" (1958), "Playtime" (1967), "Trafic" (1971), "Parade" (1974) and "Forza Bastia" (1978).
His 1958 movie, "Mon Oncle", won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Tati was born in Le Pecq, France. He was married to Micheline Winter from 1944 until his death in 1982. They had three children. Tati died on 5 November 1982 in Paris from a pulmonary embolism, almost one month after his 75th birthday.
Mesnil-Saint-Georges
Mesnil-Saint-Nicaise
Maichou
Guggenheim Partners
Métigny
Métigny is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Mézerolles
Mézerolles is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Mézières-en-Santerre
Mézières-en-Santerre is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Samantha Jade
Samantha Jade (born 18 April 1987 in Perth, Western Australia) is a singer-songwriter, actress and former child model. She has written tracks for artists, including JoJo and Ashley Tisdale. Jade later signed with the record label Sony Music Australia. In 2012 she released the single "What You've Done to Me". The single began at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
Jade appeared on the fourth season of "The X Factor". She sang "Breakeven" from the Irish rock band The Script. At the first live performance on 17 September 2012, she sang Katy Perry's "Wide Awake".
In 2018, Jade's third studio album, "Best of My Love" was released. The album was a cover of late 1970s songs, including "Dancing Queen" from ABBA, "I Will Survive" from Gloria Gaynor and "Hot Stuff" from Donna Summer. Later that same year, Jade released her fourth album of cover songs, "The Magic of Christmas". On the album were Holiday songs, like "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "Silver Bells" and "Blue Christmas".
The Floaters
The Floaters were an American R&B group. They formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1976. The group members were Paul Mitchell, Ralph Mitchell, Larry Cunningham and Charles Clark.
James Mitchell, the brother of Paul, took part in forming The Floaters. The group's only major hit song was "Float On" in 1977. The song hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart, in New Zealand and the United States' R&B chart. It was #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Two other songs that followed didn't do as well.
"Float On" was covered by other music groups. Those include Full Force and Stetsasonic. It was also sampled for other songs, including the MC ADE song "Romantic Rhyme" in 1987 and "Float On" from the Dream Warriors in 1996.
Larry Cunningham (born June 23, 1951) died on January 10, 2019 at age 67.
The group broke up in 1982.
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. He freed himself, his friends, and their families during the American Civil War. He did this by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS "Planter", in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862. He then sailed it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, where it became a Union warship. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to allow African-American soldiers into the Union Army.
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 to Lydia Polite, a slave owned by Henry McKee. She gave birth to him in a cabin behind McKee's house, at 511 Prince Street in Beaufort, South Carolina. He grew up in the city under the influence of the Lowcountry Gullah culture of his mother. His mother lived as a servant in the house, but she grew up in the fields. Robert was liked more than other slaves, so his mother worried that he might grow up not understanding the troubles of field slaves. She asked for him to be made to work in the fields and to see whipping.
Racially-motivated violence
Bisho massacre
The Bisho massacre occurred on 7 September 1992 in Bisho. Bisho was in the independent homeland of Ciskei. Ciskei is now part of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. During a protest march, members of the Ciskei Defence Force shot twenty-eight African National Congress supporters and one soldier when they attempted to enter Bisho (now renamed to Bhisho). The ANC supporter wanted that Ciskei was again made part of South Africa. The massacre happened during the final years of apartheid.
Bhisho (previously spelled "Bisho") was the capital of the Ciskei. Ciskei was a nominally independent homeland (bantustan) for the Xhosa people in South Africa. The government of Ciskei was formed in 1961 under the Bantu Authorities Act, 1951 after the South African government declared it a separate administrative territory. In 1972, the status was changed to self-governing territory. At the same time, there were stronger efforts to forcibly remove Xhosa-speakers to Ciskei. On 4 December 1982, Ciskei became an independent republic, recognised only by the South African government and other 'independent' homeland states in South Africa. The system of racially segregated homelands had been a core of apartheid, but between 1990 and 1994, negotiations were taking place between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress (ANC) to end the apartheid system.
The negotiations would likely lead to multi-racial democratic elections. For this reason, the the ANC wanted to organise and mobilise its supporters in the Ciskei, because it lay in the Eastern Cape area. The Eastern Cape area had been a stronghold for ANC supporters. Its military leader Brigadier Oupa Gqozo resisted this and prevented the ANC from organising. In 1991, Gqozo formed the African Democratic Movement to counter the ANC in Ciskei. In December of the same year, he was part of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) negotiations. Codesa was a forum made up of government (National Party) and non-government interest groups to negotiate a new constitution and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In March 1992, Gqozo accused the ANC of planning to overthrow him and in August he stopped ANC marchers from entering Ciskei from King William's Town, a town in South Africa, which is close enough to Ciskei.
On 3 September, the ANC sent a memorandum to President F. W. de Klerk: it demanded that he replace Gqozo with a temporary administration which would permit free democratic activity in Ciskei. De Klerk refused, on the grounds that the Ciskei did not fall under South Africa's jurisdiction. At the time, negotiations had broken down, with the ANC withdrawing following the Boipatong massacre and accusing De Klerk's government of fostering the violence.
As a result, the ANC began a campaign of "mass action", organising a protest march to occupy Bisho and force Gqozo's resignation. Gqozo sought a court ruling to prevent the march, and the magistrate ruled that it could take place at the homeland's independence stadium, outside Bisho, but could not enter the capital. The ANC refused to recognise the jurisdiction of the Ciskei court.
On 7 September, about 80,000 protesters gathered outside Bisho, signalling the wide opposition to Gqozo's rule. The meeting was led by senior ANC leaders including South African Communist Party Secretary General Chris Hani, Cyril Ramaphosa, Steve Tshwete and Ronnie Kasrils.
A razor wire was erected on the border between South Africa and Ciskei to prevent the marchers from entering Bisho. When Kasrils led a group trying to break through the Ciskei Defence Force lines to enter Bisho, Ciskei Defence Force soldiers opened fire on the marchers with automatic weapons, killing 28 marchers and one soldier, and injuring over 200. More than 425 rounds were fired, the first fusillade lasting one and a half minutes, and the second lasting a minute.
Various inquiries agreed that the order to fire came from Colonel Vakele Archibald Mkosana, who incorrectly told his commanders by radio that his troops were under fire, and was given permission to return fire. Rifleman Mzamile Thomas Gonya was also found to have opened fire with a grenade launcher, killing one marcher.
The Goldstone Commission had the task of investigating the massacre, and Justice Richard Goldstone condemned Gqozo for preventing political activity in Ciskei as well as for the lethal brutality of the Ciskei Defence Force troops. It dismissed his claim that the demonstrators had fired first. A Ciskei soldier who died during the shooting had been shot by a fellow soldier, in error. It recommended strong action against Gqozo and those responsible. It also condemned Ronnie Kasrils for leading marchers breaking through the razor wire and provoking the forces into opening fire.
On 8 September 1992, a day after the massacre, the ANC released a statement demanding that Oupa Gqozo be removed as the leader of Ciskei, Section 43 of the Ciskei National Security Act which prevented political activity in Ciskei be revoked and South African Military Intelligence officials be removed from Ciskei.
In the end, the massacre led to new negotiations between the ANC and the government. Nelson Mandela met De Klerk on 26 September and signed a Record of Understanding. This Record created an independent body to oversee police operations.
Gqozo remained in power in Ciskei but resigned shortly before the elections of 27 April 1994.
A granite monument was erected on the site of the massacre, outside Independence Stadium, off Maitland Road between Bhisho and King William's Town. It was unveiled by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1997. The victims were buried in Ginsberg township outside King William's Town.
Each year during the month of September, the Bisho Massacre Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate the massacre and different leaders from around South Africa take part in it.
Only two applications for amnesty for the massacre were received by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, from Colonel Mkosana, who gave the order to open fire, and Rifleman Gonya, who fired a grenade launcher. Gqozo agreed to testify before the TRC, but failed to appear after being admitted to a psychiatric hospital suffering from depression.
In 2000, both Mkosana and Gonya were denied amnesty on the grounds that their actions were reckless and disproportionate and not associated with a political motive.
Following their failure to receive amnesty, Mkosana and Gonya were charged with one count of murder and Mkosana with 28 counts of culpable homicide. They were found not guilty on all charges on the grounds of self-defence.
Speaking at a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing on the massacre,Col Silence Pita, revealed that Gqozo had received a message which said that the Mkhonto Wesizwe was planning coup and would take us where we didn't want to be " but the source of the information had not been made clear in the report. Pita said security arrangements for an African National Congress march on September 7, 1992 were left to the Ciskei Defence Force.
Former Ciskei foreign affairs minister Mickey Webb testified that South Africa's intelligence services caused a confrontation between Ciskei government and the ANC. He claimed that South African Military Intelligence and Ciskei's own intelligence agency fed the Ciskei government with misinformation "which could only have ended up in confrontation between the authorities and the ANC".
Heidelberg Tavern massacre
The Heidelberg Tavern massacre occurred in Observatory, Cape Town on 30 December 1993. Three people associate the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) entered the tavern and shot at the crowd. They killed four student and the owner of a restaurant which was close. The owner had gone outside to investigate, because he had heard gunshots. An unexploded bomb (with nails strapped to it) was found in the restaurant, close to the main entrance.
During the years of apartheid, Observatory was one of the few "de facto" "grey" suburbs where all races lived together. On the evening of 30 December 1993, three men entered a popular student venue on Station Road, called the Heidelberg Tavern and opened fire, killing four people and injuring five. The three APLA operatives - Humphrey Luyanda Gqomfa, Vuyisile Brian Madasi and Zola Prince Mabala - were convicted in November 1994 for what became known as the Heidelberg Massacre. On 16 July 1998, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission granted the three amnesty.
Scrotifera
Scrotifera is a group of living things in the class Mammalia. It is a proposed clade, meaning that not all scientists use it when they talk about how living things are related to each other.
The orders Carnivora (carnivores), Chiroptera (bats), Perissodactyla (hoofed animals with odd numbers of toes, for example horses and rhinos), Cetartiodactyla (hoofed animals with even numbers of toes), Philodota (pangolins), and Meridiungulata are all in Scrotifera.
Rambo (2008 movie)
Rambo is a 2008 German American Thai action movie directed by Sylvester Stallone (who also stars) and also starring Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Ken Howard. It is the fourth movie in the "Rambo" series.
Tsutomu Yamazaki (politician)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (8 May 1947 – 2 June 2021) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Councillors from 1995 until 2007 and again from 2010 until 2017. Yamazaki was born in Aomori, Japan.
Yamazaki died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Aomori on 2 June 2021, aged 74.
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Remco Ekkers
Remco Ekkers (1 July 1941 – 4 June 2021) was a Dutch poet, critic and writer. Ekkers was a poetry critic for "De Gids" from 1986 to 1992. He also worked for "Leeuwarder Courant" for ten years. He was born in Bergen, Netherlands.
Ekkers died in Zuidhorn, Netherlands on 4 June 2021, less than a month before his 80th birthday.
Fausto Gaibor García
Fausto Feliciano Gaibor García (25 January 1952 – 4 June 2021) was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate. He was bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulcán between 2011 until his death in 2021. Gaibor García was born in Guaranda, Ecuador.
Gaibor García died in Tulcán, Ecuador on 4 June 2021, aged 69.
Revaz Gabriadze
Revaz "Rezo" Gabriadze (; 29 June 1936 – 6 June 2021) was a Georgian filmmaker, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. He was born in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR. He was known for writing the screenplays of "Passport", "Kin-dza-dza!", "Mimino" and "Don't Grieve".
Gavriadze died on 6 June 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia just three weeks before his 85th birthday.
Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor
Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor (born 4 June 2021) is the younger child and only daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and the younger sister of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. She is the eleventh great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne.
Mountbatten-Windsor was born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021 at 11:40 PDT (19:26 UTC). She is named after her paternal great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and paternal grandmother Diana, Princess of Wales.
Mountbatten-Windsor is eighth in the line of succession to the British throne. She can become a princess when her grandfather, Charles, Prince of Wales becomes king.
Medicine in the American Civil War
Medicine in the American Civil War was not good by today's standards. Doctors did not know about germs, so many soldiers caught infections. They did have anesthesia, so they were able to stop soldiers' pain. Most doctors in the United States had two years of schooling. Harvard Medical School did not have even one microscope.
One problem was that, like in World War I, people had just invented new weapons, like the Minié ball. Guns with rifled barrels did not miss as often as the muskets from the Revolutionary War and other earlier wars did. That meant doctors did not already know how to treat the injuries that these weapons could cause in the human body. Another problem was that the camps and battlefields were very dirty. A soldier in the American Civil war was twice as likely to die of disease as of a battle injury.
560,000 soldiers died of diseases during the American Civil War. Malaria was a problem in the American Civil War. Doctors gave patients quinine for malaria. Soldiers also died of dysentery, diarrhea, and typhoid.
Most doctors did not know about germs in the mid-1800s. They did not always wash their hands or tools between patients. They also thought that pus, if thick and creamy, was "laudable pus" and meant the patient was getting better. Really, pus means the patient has an infection.
About 200,000 people had injuries in the American Civil War.
Anesthesia was invented in 1846. Doctors in the American Civil War did have chloroform, ether, and other anesthetics, and they used them. 90 percent of patients who had a limb cut off had anesthesia first, usually chloroform. The doctors dripped chloroform onto a cloth and then put it over the patient's face.
Doctors invented two ways to do amputations, the circular method and the fish-mouth method. There were so many amputations in the American Civil War that doctors became very good at amputating. The Minié ball and other new weapons could destroy large pieces of bone, so the doctors decided to amputation so the patient would not get gangrene.
First, injured soldiers were brought to field stations near the battle. There, medical people gave the soldiers whiskey if they had it and put bandages on them. Then, the patients were taken to hospitals. The "hospital" could be only a barn or other building where the doctors had decided to work. They were not always organized well. There, the medical people did triage: they looked at the patient to plan what to do next. They divided patients into three groups: patients who were sure to die soon, patients who needed surgery and other patients. From there, some soldiers were sent to better hospitals in the bigger cities. Patients could be taken from place to place in different ways. General George B. McClellan started an ambulance corps in 1862, and the Confederacy soon made their own. There were also hospital trains, or steamboats called "sanitary steamers."
In 1861, the United States government (Union side, the North) created the U.S. Sanitary Commission to learn how to stop soldiers from becoming sick during wartime. Frederick Law Olmstead led the commission. He told the army to have clean camps, good food, and hospitals with ventilation.
Many doctors learned much about the human body, disease and injuries during the American Civil War. Many of them wrote down what they saw and did. Between 1870 and 1888, these doctors published a book, "Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion".
In 1861, Dorothea Dix became head of the United States Nursing Corps. Professional nursing became more important in the United States.
Jovan I. Deretić
Jovan Ilić Deretić (; 18 January 1939 – 6 June 2021) was a Serbian publicist and writer. Deretić was known for his conspiracy theory writings. He would write about the alternative history of the Serbs that had a larger role in history than described by historians. Deretić was born in Orovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Deretić died on 6 June 2021 in Belgrade, aged 82.
Rafael López Aliaga
Rafael Bernardo López Aliaga Cazorla (born 11 February 1961) is a Peruvian businessman and politician. A conservative figure in Peruvian politics, he ran for President of Peru under Popular Renewal at the 2021 general election in which he placed third. Previously, he served as General Secretary and subsequently President of National Solidarity until the party was dissolved in October 2020 and succeeded by Popular Renewal, which he currently leads.
Jorge Del Castillo
Jorge Alfonso Alejandro Del Castillo Gálvez (born 2 July 1950) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career, he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1992, in the unicameral Congress of the Republic for six non-consecutive terms, between 1995 and 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019, five of which are consecutive terms, and as Mayor of Lima and the District of Barranco during the 1980s.
An adept negotiator, he is also a prominent member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, serving in two occasions as the party's Secretary-General. As the right-hand man to the late former President Alan García, he served as his defense attorney during the first corruption and illicit enrichment allegations made in his first post-presidency, and finally as his first Prime Minister in his second presidency. After the "Petroaudios" scandal revealed Del Castillo's involvement, he tendered his resignation with the whole cabinet on October 10, 2008, to President Alan García, marking his political downfall.
Bart of Darkness
"Bart of Darkness" is the first episode of "The Simpsons" 6th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on September 4, 1994. In the episode, Bart Simpson breaks his leg and must stay in his house. He starts spying on his neighbor Ned Flanders' house and starts to think he is a murderer. The episode was written by Dan McGrath and Jim Reardon is the director of the episode. It took more time to make the episode than normal because an earthquake hit while it was being made.
In a heat wave, Homer buys a swimming pool for his children Bart and Lisa. Many children from their neighborhood come to their house to go in their pool. Bart tries to jump in the pool from his tree house. Nelson makes him miss the jump and Bart breaks his leg from falling. He must wear a cast over the summer.
The other children do not want to talk to Bart while he is in a cast. He makes himself stay in his room. He gets a telescope and uses it to spy on his neighbors. He hears a scream and sees Ned Flanders burying something. Bart starts to think he has murdered his wife Maude. While this happens, the swimming pool makes Lisa very popular. However, Martin Prince gets a bigger pool and gets all of the children to go to his pool.
Bart sees Ned tell his children Rod and Todd that Maude is "with God" and they will be with her soon. Bart thinks he will murder Rod and Todd too. Bart makes Lisa go to Ned's house while he is not there. Ned comes back and Lisa gets in his attic. Bart goes in Ned's house and sees him walking to the attic with an axe. Bart thinks he will hurt Lisa with it and tells him to stop. Ned sees Bart and Lisa and puts away his axe. When Bart tells Ned that he thinks he murdered Maude, Ned faints.
The Simpson family and the police learn that Maude was actually at a camp for Christians. They also learn that Ned was burying a plant that died because he gave it too much water. The police gets the plant and gets Ned to make the scream Bart heard before. Later, Martin's pool breaks because there were too many children in it.
"Bart of Darkness" was written by Dan McGrath and Jim Reardon is the director. The episode was suppose to be at the end of the 5th season. However, this and "Lisa's Rival" were being made during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The earthquake hurt the building that animators and producers used to work on episodes. They could not go in the building for three months and had to work in a different building. Producers were given more time to work on the episode. Jim Reardon said the more time helped him put more details in the episode, for example, Bart getting stuck in a chair and him wearing underwear instead of a swimsuit.
At the start of the episode, the town of Springfield is in a heat wave. Part of what the Simpson family does in the heat wave was similar to what the producers would do in a heat wave. McGrath used to go in front of freezers when he was a child. In the episode, there is a truck with a pool in it that goes to the Simpson family's neighborhood. David Mirkin used to have a truck with an amusement ride in it around his neighborhood as a child. Ned Flanders' scream was done by Tress MacNeille instead of his voice actor Harry Shearer. Krusty the Clown does not say Ravi Shankar's name right in the episode. This was not suppose to happen, but Mirkin liked it and wanted to keep it in the episode.
Mike Duffy from the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" said the episode shows that "The Simpsons" was "just as strong and funny as it ever was". Elaine Liner from the "Corpus Christi Caller-Times" called the episode's writing "crisp" and "hilarious". Liner liked the references to pop culture and enjoyed when it was shown that Maude was at a camp for Christians. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood (authors of "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide") thought it was hilarious to see how Ned Flanders was not actually a murderer. Tim Knight from Reel.com said it was a "terrific" episode to start the 6th season.
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