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The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, also known as the ERTA or "Kemp-Roth Tax Cut", was a federal law signed into law in the United States in 1981.
It was an act "to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage economic growth through reductions in individual income tax rates, the expensing of depreciable property, incentives for small businesses, and incentives for savings, and for other purposes".
Tax Reform Act of 1986
Reagan's Neshoba County Fair &quot;states' rights&quot; speech
States' rights was a speech made by President Ronald Reagan in 1980. It happened in a county fair in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
This is what Reagan said:
Many people believed that Reagan's speech was bad.
Liberal conservatism
Liberal conservatism is a political ideology that combines elements of conservatism and economic liberalism. Liberal conservatives believe in the free market and laissez-faire economic policies combined with traditional conservative values, such as the belief in natural inequality, the importance of religion, and the value of traditional morality. In a way, liberal conservatism is the opposite of classical liberalism, a belief that supports both economic and individual freedom.
This term should not be confused for conservative liberalism, which is an offshoot of liberalism, not conservatism.
Conservative liberalism
Conservative liberalism is a political ideology that can be best described as representing the right-wing of the liberal ideology. Conservative liberalism is a more positive and less radical version of classical liberalism. For example, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, a political party in the Netherlands is a conservative liberal party.
Conservative liberalism should not be confused for liberal conservatism, which is an offshoot of conservatism, not liberalism.
Brian Harradine
Richard William Brian Harradine (9 January 1935 – 14 April 2014) was an Australian politician. He served as an independent member of the Australian Senate, from 1975 to 2005. He represented the state of Tasmania. He was the longest-serving independent federal politician in Australian history and a Father of the Senate.
Harradine died in Tasmania, Australia from a stroke, aged 79.
Economic liberalism
Economic liberalism is a political ideology based on organizing the economy on lines of individual freedom. This means that economic decisions are made by the individual, not an organization. Economic liberals also believe in the free market and laisse faire economic policies.
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Philadelphia is a city and a county seat of Neshoba, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,477 at the 2010 census.
Gordon Jump
Alexander Gordon Jump (April 1, 1932 – September 22, 2003) was an American actor. He is known for playing Mr. Horton in a two-part special of "Diff'rent Strokes". He is also known for playing the Maytag repairman. He was born in Dayton, Ohio.
Jump died in Los Angeles, California from pulmonary fibrosis, aged 71.
Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American author, radio and television comedian and talk show host. He is best known as host of "The Tonight Show" from 1957 to 1962. He was born in Canton, Ohio.
Paar died in Greenwich, Connecticut from a stroke, aged 85.
Darlington is a town in Montgomery County, Indiana. It has the population of 843 residents.
Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American comedian, author, playwright, social critic, and actor. He is known for his Comedy Central series "Lewis Black's Root of All Evils" and for his voice role of Anger in Disney Pixar's "Inside Out". He made a regular appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart".
Black was born in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Cedarville, Ohio
Cedarville is a village in Greene County, Ohio. It has a population of 4,019 citizens. It is home to Cedarville University.
List of WWE Champions
This is the title history of the WWE Championship. The title was introduced in 1963 by the then-World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). It is recognized as the top championship in the WWE.
The wrestler with the most reigns as World Heavyweight champion is John Cena with 13. Ric Flair and John Cena hold the most recognized World Heavyweight championships, across multiple companies, tied with 16. The longest reigning champion is Bruno Sammartino, holding the championship for 7 years, 8 months, and 1 day from May 17, 1963, to January 18, 1971. The current champion is Bobby Lashley, who is in his 1st reign as champion.
As of April 4, 2020
The title was renamed the WWF Heavyweight Championship after the World Wide Wrestling Federation became the World Wrestling Federation in March 1979.
It was also revealed that , who was said to have been refereeing the match, wasn't even in the ring. Instead, DiBiase paid for another referee to have plastic surgery to look like Hebner so that he could guarantee Andre would win the WWE Championship.
He defeated Ted DiBiase in a tournament finals to win the vacant title.
On July 19, the WWE Championship became exclusive to the SmackDown brand after Dean Ambrose was drafted in the 2016 WWE draft.
On August 15, Baron Corbin cashed in his Money In the Bank Contract however Mahal retained, resulting setting a record for the shortest WWE Championship match at 6 seconds.
Rafał Sznajder
Rafał Jerzy Sznajder (13 October 1972 – 13 April 2014) was a Polish fencer. He competed in three Summer Olympic Games (1996, 2000 and 2004). He won a bronze medal at both the 1997 and 2001 World Fencing Championships. He was born in Będzin.
Sznajder died from a heart attack on 13 April 2014 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He was 41.
Mixels
Mixels is an American-Danish Cartoon Network short comedy. It was created with LEGO.
Diamanda Galás
Diamanda Galás (born August 29, 1955) is an American avant-garde artist.
Galás was born and raised in San Diego, California, to Greek Orthodox parents. In 1982 her first album was released. In 1988 Galás joined ACT UP. In 1996 a book she wrote called "The Shit of God" was published. In 2005 Galás was given the Demetrio Stratos International Career Award.
Emma Stevens
Emma Nadine Stevens (born May 4, 1986) is an English singer-songwriter.
Stevens was born in Guildford. She grew up in Shalford.
Church of Misery
Church of Misery (チャーチ・オブ・ミザリー Chāchi obu Mizarī?) is a doom metal band from Tokyo, Japan. Most of their songs are about serial killers. Their first album was released in 2001.
Rossiyane
Rossiyane () is a word that refers to citizens of Russia, that is, people holding a Russian passport. It is mean to differentiate between Russians as ethnicity, and includes Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash people, Chechens, etc. Rossiyane have a common history and share a common Russia-related culture.
Cucujiformia
The Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. It includes most plant-eating beetles.
It has six superfamilies:
Aragón (river)
The Aragón River (; ) is a river in northern Spain, one of the left-hand tributaries of the river Ebro.
The river gave its name to the historic Kingdom of Aragon and, then, to the modern Autonomous Community of Aragón.
The Aragón river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area, including the area of the Arga river, of ; without the Arga river, its chief tributary, the area is .
The areas of the different parts of the watershed of the Aragón River are:
The source of the Aragón river is in the Astún Valley, in the Pyrenees, in the Huesca province (Aragon) next to the border with France, at an altitude of .
It leaves the high mountains and flows to the south through the Canfranc valley and then turns to the west in Jaca. In Jaca, its discharge is but it is increased by some tributaries as Gas, Lubierre, Candanchú, Estarrún, Aragón Subordán, Aragón Veral and Esca. When the river gets into Yesa, where is the Yesa dam, the discharge is .
Below the dam, the Aragón river flows to the southwest into Navarre, and finally flows into the Ebro river at Milagro, where the discharge is .
The main tributaries of the Aragón river are in Navarre; these are Iratí, Cidacos and Arga.
Forêt de la Robertsau
The Forêt de la Robertsau (English: Robertsau Forest) is a forest in Strasbourg and La Wantzenau, France. People go jogging, biking, running and walking there.
Enchanted forest
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop is a company established in 1968. It was called Children's Television Workshop (CTW) until 2000. The Workshop is an American non-profit organization for the research and production of educational children's programs.
The Workshop oversaw the production of "Sesame Street", a television show for pre-school children from low-income families. Two years were spent, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and raising money for the new show. It was called "one of the most important television developments of the decade".
"Sesame Street" premiered on PBS in the United States in November 1969.
Co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said of the CTW model: "From the beginning, we—the planners of the project—designed the show as an experimental research project with educational advisers, researchers, and television producers collaborating as equal partners". She described the collaboration as an "arranged marriage".
Cooney's proposal included using "in-house formative research". This would inform and improve production. Independent evaluations tested the show's impact on its young viewers' learning.
Gerald S. Lesser and Edward L. Palmer were hired to do research for the show. Lesser and Palmer were the only scientists in the U.S. studying children and television at the time. They were responsible for developing a system of planning, production, and evaluation, and the interaction between television producers and educators, later called the "CTW model".
After "Sesame Street"s initial success, the CTW began to think about its survival. Their funding sources were organizations that tended to start projects, not sustain them. Government funding ended by 1981.
The CTW expanded into other areas, including the publications of books and music, international co-productions, interactive media and new technologies, licensing arrangements, and outreach programs to preschools. By 2005, income from the CTW's international co-productions of the show was $96 million. By 2008, the "Sesame Street" Muppets accounted for $15–17 million per year in licensing and merchandising fees.
Justin Marie Bomboko
Justin Marie Bomboko (1928 – 10 April 2014) was a Congolese civil servant. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Congo. He became minister in 1960. He is often called "The Father of Independence" for the Congolese.
Bomboko died from a long illness in Brussels, Belgium, aged 86.
Edna Doré
Edna Doré, née Gorring, (31 May 1921 – 11 April 2014) was a British actress. Doré was known for her bit-part roles in situation comedies. She is mostly known for playing the character of Mo Butcher in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" (1988–1990). She was born in Bromley, Kent, England.
Doré died from emphysema at her Sussex, England home, aged 92.
Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond, A.S.C. (June 16, 1930 – January 1, 2016) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer. He was known for his work in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". He won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award during his career.
Zsigmond was born in Szeged, Hungary. He became an American citizen in 1962. Zsigmond died at his home in Big Sur, California at the age of 85.
Freeman John Dyson FRS (December 15, 1923 – February 28, 2020) was an English-born-American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He was known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He gained a bachelor degree at the University of Cambridge. In 1957, he became an American citizen.
Dyson was born in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, the son of George Dyson. Dyson died on February 28, 2020 at a hospital in Princeton, New Jersey from a fall, aged 96.
He won many scientific awards, including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1981.
Harold Stassen
Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Stassen was born in West St. Paul, Minnesota. He studied at the University of Minnesota Law School.
He was the 25th Governor of Minnesota. He served as governor from 1939 to 1943. He ran for President of the United States nine times in the Republican primaries from 1944 to 1992 (1944, 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992).
Stassen married Esther G. Glewwe in 1929. Their marriage would last until his death in 2001. They had two children; Glenn and Kathleen.
Stassen died in Bloomington, Minnesota from natural causes, aged 93.
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician and journalist. He was the United States senator of California. He served as senator from 1969 to 1993. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Cranston ran for President of the United States in 1984, but lost the Democratic Party primary to Walter Mondale.
Cranston died in Los Altos, California from natural causes, aged 86.
Ben Fernandez
Ben Fernandez (February 24, 1925 – April 25, 2000) was an American politician, financial consultant, World War II veteran, and special ambassador. He was America's first major-party presidential nominee of an Hispanic origin. He ran as a Republican. He ran for president in 1980, 1984, and in 1988. First two, he lost to Ronald Reagan and the last to George H. W. Bush during the primaries.
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. (born May 16, 1931) is an American politician. He was the Governor of Connecticut. He served as governor from 1991 to 1995. Weicker was a Republican. He ran for President of the United States in 1980, but lost the primary to Ronald Reagan.
Weicker, Jr. was born in Paris, France to American parents.
Cliff Finch
Charles Clifton "Cliff" Finch (April 4, 1927 – April 22, 1986) was an American politician. He was the 56th Governor of Mississippi. He served as governor from 1976 to 1980. He was a Democrat.
He ran for President of the United States in 1980, but lost the primary to Jimmy Carter.
Finch died in Batesville, Mississippi from a heart attack, aged 59.
Terry Sanford
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was an American politician and educator. He was the United States senator of North Carolina. He served as senator from 1986 to 1993. He was a Democrat.
Sanford ran for President of the United States in 1976, but lost the primary to Jimmy Carter.
Sanford died in Durham, North Carolina from esophageal cancer, aged 80.
Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician. He was the United States senator of Washington. He served as senator from 1953 to 1983. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
He ran for President of the United States during the presidential elections in 1976, but lost to Jimmy Carter during the primary.
Jackson died in Everett, Washington from an aortic aneurysm, aged 71.
Mo Udall
Morris King "Mo" Udall (June 15, 1922 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Arizona's 2nd district. He served as a representative from 1961 to 1991. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Udall ran for President of the United States in 1976, but lost to Jimmy Carter during the primaries.
Udall died in Washington, D.C. from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 76.
Birch Bayh
Birch Evans Bayh, Jr. (January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American politician. He served as a United States senator of Indiana. He served as senator from 1963 to 1981. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
He ran for President of the United States in 1976, but lost to Jimmy Carter during the primary. He was known for co-authoring and introducing Title IX to the Senate.
Bayh authored the twenty-fifth and the twenty-sixth amendments to the United States Constitution. His is the only non-founding father to author two amendments. He also proposed to remove the electoral college and to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
Bayh lost his re-election bid in 1980 to future Vice President Dan Quayle with a vote margin of 53.8% to 46.2%.
Bayh's son, Evan, is a former Indiana governor and senator.
Bayh died on March 14, 2019 in Easton, Maryland from pneumonia, aged 91.
Retrieved on 2009-05-08
Larry Pressler
Larry Lee Pressler (born March 29, 1942) is an American politician. He was the United States senator of South Dakota. He served as senator from 1979 to 1997. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Pressler ran for President of the United States in 1980, but lost to Ronald Reagan during the primary. Pressler announced in 2013, that he would run for the senate seat as an Independent. He soon lost the election.
Pressler was born in Humboldt, South Dakota.
Yongle Encyclopedia
The Yongle Encyclopedia was a Chinese compilation of information. It was ordered by the Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403, and completed by 1408. It was the world's largest known general encyclopedia at its time, and held this record for six centuries.
In the Chinese language it is: . This means "The Great Canon or Vast Documents of the Yongle Era".
Los Altos, California
Los Altos is a city in the San Francisco Peninsula around the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It has the population of 28,976 residents.
Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American politician. He was the United States senator of Oregon. He served as senator from 1945 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Morse ran for President of the United States in 1960, but lost the primary to John F. Kennedy.
Morse died in Portland, Oregon from kidney failure, aged 73.
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (March 22, 1884 – April 18, 1951) was an American politician. Vandenberg was known for being part of the creation of the United Nations with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Vandenberg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan.
In 1906, Vandenberg was married to Elizabeth Watson. Watson died in 1917. They had three children. Vandenberg married Hazel Whittaker in 1918. Their marriage lasted until his death in 1951. They had no children.
He was the United States senator of Michigan. He served as senator from 1928 until his death in 1951. He was also the President pro tempore of the United States Senate from 1947 to 1949.
Vandenberg was a member of the Republican Party. He ran for President of the United States in 1948, but lost the primary to Thomas E. Dewey.
Vandenberg died in Grand Rapids, Michigan from cancer, aged 67.
Doctor Eggman
Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is the main antagonist of Sonic the Hedgehog. He first appeared in 1991 in the game "Sonic the Hedgehog" for Sega Mega Drive.
In April 1990, Sega wanted a character to replace Alex Kidd as the company's mascot. One of the designs was a caricature of Theodore Roosevelt. This became the basis for the design of Dr. Eggman. They wanted a character that was the opposite of Sonic, a character that would represent technology and development. The character was also designed to be easily drawable by children.
Eggman is a distinguished scientist and mechanical genius with an IQ of 300. He is an expert in the field of robotics. Despite all this, Eggman uses intelligence on purposes. He attempts to conquer the world and create his own utopia. Despite many setbacks, he never gives up and he does not care what others think of his actions. He considers anyone who opposes his plans a serious threat. Despite his intellect, Eggman is often very childish. He sometimes behaves like a baby when he is in trouble.
Hal Smith (catcher)
Harold Raymond "Hal" Smith (June 1, 1931 – April 12, 2014) was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1956 until 1961 and briefly for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1965. He was born in Barling, Arkansas.
Smith died on April 12, 2014 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, aged 82. He was outlived by his wife and three children.
Megaflood
A megaflood is a flood which suddenly releases a huge amount of water. In geomorphology it is sometimes called an outburst flood. At the end of the last ice age, many large floods were caused by the collapse of ice sheets or glaciers which formed the dams of glacial lakes.
Examples of older outburst floods are known from the geological past of the Earth. Landslides, lahars, and volcanic dams can block rivers and create lakes. When the rock or earth barrier collapses, or is eroded, this triggers a flood. Lakes also form behind glacial moraines, which can collapse and create outburst floods.
It is claimed that a rising sea flood led to refilling of the freshwater glacial Black Sea with water from the Aegean. It is described as "a violent rush of salt water into a depressed fresh-water lake in a single catastrophe that has been the inspiration for the flood mythology".
The marine incursion was caused by the rising level of the Mediterranean about 7,600 years ago. It is the subject of debate among geologists. The existence of the flood is not certain, and the theory that it was the basis for later flood myths is not proven.
A theory proposed by Andrey Tchepalyga of the Russian Academy of Sciences dates the flooding of the Black Sea basin to an earlier time and from a different cause. According to Tchepalyga, global warming beginning from about 16,000 years ago caused the melting of the Scandinavian ice sheet. This caused a massive river discharge which flowed into the Caspian Sea. The Caspian basin could not contain all the floodwater, which flowed into the ancient Black Sea basin. This would have flooded large areas that were previously settled or used for hunting. Tchepalyga suggests this may have formed the basis for legends of the great Deluge.
Originally there was an isthmus across the Strait of Dover. During an earlier glacial maximum, the exit from the North Sea was blocked to the north by an ice dam, and the water flowing out of rivers backed up into a vast lake on the bed of what is now the North Sea. A gently upfolding chalk ridge linked the Weald of Kent and Artois, perhaps some 30 metres (100 feet) higher than the current sea level.
At some time, probably around 425,000 years ago, and again around 225,000 years later, the barrier failed.
This let loose a catastrophic flood which diverted the Rhine into the English Channel and separated Britain from the continent of Europe. A sonar study of the sea bed of the English Channel showed unmistakable signs of a megaflood on the English Channel seabed.
A catastrophic flood refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.3 million years ago. The flood occurred when Atlantic waters found their way through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean basin, which was then a salt lake and salt bed.
In North America during glacial maximum, there were no Great Lakes as we know them. but "proglacial" (ice-frontage) lakes formed and shifted. The most famous of these proglacial lakes was Lake Agassiz. Melting ice caused a series of great floods from Lake Agassiz. Massive amounts of freshwater was added to the world's oceans.
The last of the North American proglacial lakes, north of the present Great Lakes, reached its largest volume around 8,500 years ago, when joined with Lake Agassiz. But its outlet was blocked by the great wall of the glaciers and it drained by tributaries into the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers far to the south. About 8,300 to 7,700 years ago, the ice-dam failed catastrophically. Lake Ojibway's beach terraces show that it was above sea level. The volume of Lake Ojibway is estimated to have been about 163,000 cubic kilometres, more than enough water to cover a flattened-out Antarctica with a sheet of water deep. That volume was added to the world's oceans in a matter of months.
The detailed timing and rates of change after the onset of melting of the great ice-sheets are subjects of continuing study.
A landslide dam on Sichuan's Dadu River burst and caused a flood on 10 June 1786. The flood extended 1400 km downstream and killed 100,000 people. This was one of the worst landslide-related disasters in history.
Erik Erikson
Erik Homburger Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst. Erikson is known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. Erikson is also known for coining the phrase "identity crisis". His son is Kai T. Erikson, a sociologist.
In 1970, Erikson won a Pulitzer Prize in "General Nonfiction" and won a U.S. National Book Award in the "Philosophy and Religion" category, both for "Gandhi's Truth".
Erikson died at the Rosewood Manor Nursing Home in Harwich, Massachusetts on 12 May 1994.
Lucy (movie)
Lucy is a 2014 French science fiction superhero action movie. It is about street gangs, drugs and changing of the title character to superhuman. It was written and directed by Luc Besson and is set in Taipei. Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy. Morgan Freeman plays Norman.
The movie was released in July 2014 in the United States.
Air China Flight 129
Air China flight 129 is an international scheduled flight from Beijing to Pusan. On April 15, 2002, the Boeing 767-2J6ER flying the route crashed into a mountain while trying to land at Busan-Gimhae International Airport. Of the 166 people on the aircraft, 129 were killed. Investigators determined that pilot error was the cause of the crash.
This was the first time an Air China crash killed people. It was also the worst plane crash in South Korea.
Lake Mattamuskeet
Lake Mattamuskeet is a lake in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
Pinehurst Resort
Owen Woodhouse
Lieutenant Commander Sir Arthur Owen Woodhouse (18 July 1916 – 15 April 2014), better known as Owen Woodhouse, was a New Zealand lawyer, jurist and chair of government commissions. He was a member of the Supreme Court. He later served as President of the Court of Appeal from 1981 until 1986.
Woodhouse was born in Napier and studied at the University of Auckland. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Woodhouse died from natural causes on 15 April 2014 in Auckland, aged 97.
Davidson Black
Davidson Black was a Canadian doctor who studied anatomy and anthropology. In 1927, he led a team that discovered bone fossils from an early species of human beings in China. The fossils were about 750,000 years old. They belonged to the species "Sinanthropus pekinensis" or Peking Man. He and his team found these fossils near the village of Zhoukoudian, near Beijing.
Black was born in Toronto, Ontario on July 25, 1884. He graduated from the University of Toronto. In 1921, he became a professor of anatomy in China at Peking Union Medical College. He died on March 15, 1934.
Rhys Darby
Rhys Montague Darby (born 21 March 1974) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Murray Hewitt, the band manager of Flight of the Conchords, in the HBO television series of the same name (2007–2009). He has since appeared in movies such as "Yes Man" (2008), "The Boat That Rocked" (2009), "" (2009), "Love Birds" (2011), "Arthur Christmas" (2011), and "What We Do in the Shadows" (2014).
Darby was born in Auckland. He grew up in the suburb of Pakuranga. He was a soldier in the New Zealand Army. He is married to Rosie Carnahan. The couple have two children.
Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) was a Confedeate general during the American Civil War. He was born in 1803 in Tennessee. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1826. He resigned from the U.S. army in 1834 after his wife died. He then joined the Texas army during the Texas Revolution and continued serving in it after Texas became a republic. In 1840 he resigned from the Texas army and moved to Kentucky.
Johnston rejoined the U.S. army for the Mexican–American War. By 1860 he was in charge of the U.S. army in California. He resigned in May 1861 after Texas joined the Confederate States of America. He was made a four star general in the Confederate army and put in charge of the Confederate units in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was killed at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.
Brick Mansions is a 2014 French urban crime movie. The movie is about crimes in Detroit and plans to ruin the area. Paul Walker plays Damien Collier.
The movie was released on April 25, 2014. It is a remake of "District 13".
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood (1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate army general during the American Civil War. He was born in 1831 in Kentucky. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853. After the Battle of Fort Sumter, he joined the Confederate army as colonel of the 4th Texas Infantry. In February 1862, he became commander of the Texas Brigade as a brigadier general. He became commander of a division in July 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. He was wounded again at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. In late July 1864, he became commander of the Army of Tennessee.
After the war, Hood became a businessman. He married in 1868 and had eleven children. He died in 1879 during a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans.
A brigade is a military unit in an army. Currently in most armies, a brigade is made up of several battalions. Up to World War II, a brigade had several regiments.
A brigade is commanded by a brigadier general, a brigadier, or a colonel.
Sportsnet 360
Sportsnet 360 is a Canadian English language cable and satellite television specialty channel. Sportsnet 360 is owned by Rogers Media. They show sports highlights, news, analysis programming as well as live sports coverage with basketball, college/university sports, mixed martial arts, professional wrestling, and soccer.
The channel was first launched in 1994 and was known as Sportscope. It was relaunched in May 1997 under the name Headline Sports with channel licencing Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
The licence was rewritten by the CRTC to allow live sports programming and because of this, as well as legal issues with U.S. cable news channel CNN Headline News which also had a "Headline Sports" segment, the channel became known as The Score Television Network.
On October 19, 2012, they were acquired by Rogers Media for $167 million. On July 1, 2013, Rogers renamed the channel Sportsnet 360.
Claire Denis
Claire Denis is a French movie director. In 1988, the first movie directed by Denis, "Chocolat", was released. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Denis was born in Paris. She was raised in colonial French Africa. When she was 14 she moved back to Paris with her mother to finish her education.
Clarence is a cartoon television show aired on the television channel "Cartoon Network".
The show is about the daily life of Clarence Wendle, a spirited boy who loves fun, and his best friends: Jeff, who is the more intellectual type, and Sumo, who often does crazy things when solving problems.
Clarence lives with his divorced mother, Mary, and her boyfriend Chad in the fictional town of Aberdale, in United States, Arizona, located near Phoenix. Each episode focuses on the daily-life situations and problems that Clarence and his friends encounter, and their everyday adventures and life experiences as kids.
Other characters include students and faculty at Aberdale Elementary, Clarence's school. Some episodes focus on the life of supporting characters, like the citizens of Aberdale and Clarence's classmates.
Major general
Caledonian orogeny
The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain building era. It left its mark in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Mountains, Svalbard, eastern Greenland, northern Europe and the eastern United States.
The events occurred from the Ordovician to early Devonian, roughly 490390 million years ago (mya). It was caused by the closure of the Iapetus Ocean when the continents and lands of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia collided.
The Caledonian orogeny is named after Caledonia, the Latin name for Scotland. The name is not used for an absolute period of time: it applies only to the series of mountain-building events.
Part of the mountain chain ended up in modern North America, where it is called the Acadian orogeny (see Appalachian Mountains).
The Caledonian orogeny was one of several orogenies that would eventually form the supercontinent Pangaea later in the Palaeozoic era. The main phase of the Caledonian orogeny happened from about 425 to 395 million years ago.
Continental collision started in the mid Silurian, and mountain building took place in the early Devonian (from 407 million years ago onward).
Sheila Jeffreys
Sheila Jeffreys (born 1948) is a lesbian feminist activist. She was born in the United Kingdom.
Jeffreys helped write "Love Your Enemy? The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism" in 1979. Her first book written without other writers was published in 1985. She moved to Melbourne in Australia in 1991 to work at the University of Melbourne. In 2009 "The Industrial Vagina" was published. Jeffreys' most recent book, "Gender Hurts", was published in April 2014.
In 1973 Jeffreys became a political lesbian.
Armando Peraza
Armando Peraza (May 30, 1924 – April 14, 2014) was a Cuban-American Latin jazz percussionist. His career began during the 1950s.
He performed with many professional artists such as Perez Prado, Machito, George Shearing, Charlie Parker, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, and Carlos Santana. He was born in Havana, Cuba.
Peraza died from pneumonia on April 14, 2014 in San Francisco, California, aged 89.
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and writer. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York City. She studied at Brooklyn College.
She was a member of the United States House of Representatives for New York's 2nd district. She served as a representative from 1969 to 1983.
She ran for President of the United States in 1972 as a Democrat. She lost the primary to George McGovern. Chisholm became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States.
She was married to Conrad Chrisholm. Their marriage ended in divorce. Then she was married to Arthur Hardwick, Jr.. Their marriage would last until his death.
Chisholm died in Ormond Beach, Florida from a stroke. She was 80 years old.
Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American politician, basketball player, and educator. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Bradley was born in Crystal City, Missouri. He studied at Princeton University.
Bradley served as a United States senator of New Jersey. He served as senator from 1979 to 1997.
He ran for President of the United States in 2000. He withdrew from the race. Al Gore would eventually win the Democratic Party ticket.
Bradley married Ernestine Bradley in 1974. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2007. They had one child. He is currently in a relationship with the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Shane Gibson (musician)
Shane Paul Gibson (February 21, 1979 – April 15, 2014) was an American musician. He was best known as guitarist of Korn and stOrk. He was also a member Jonathan Davis and the SFA and L. Shankar. He was born in Houma, Louisiana and raised in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Gibson died due to complications from a blood clotting disorder on April 15, 2014 at a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 35.
Robert S. Kerr
Robert Samuel Kerr (September 11, 1896 – January 1, 1963) was an American politician and businessman. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Kerr was born in Ada, Oklahoma. He studied at Oklahoma Baptist University and for a short while at Oklahoma State University.
Kerr served as Governor of Oklahoma. He served as governor from 1943 to 1947. Then, Kerr was the United States senator of Oklahoma. He served as senator from 1949 to 1963.
Kerr ran for President of the United States in 1952. He lost the primary to Adlai Stevenson II.
Kerr died from a fatal heart attack in Washington, D.C., aged 66.
Transcendence (movie)
Transcendence is a 2014 American science fiction drama movie directed by Wally Pfister. It is produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany, and Morgan Freeman.
Transcendence was released in New York City on April 10, 2014. It was released on April 18, 2014 in other cities and countries.
Interstellar (movie)
Interstellar is a 2014 British-American epic science fiction movie directed, co-written and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, Mackenzie Foy, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and John Lithgow. It was released in 2014.
Following is a 1998 British drama thriller movie directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, and John Nolan. It was released on September 12, 1998. This was Christopher Nolan's first movie. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.
As Christopher Nolan's debut feature, it was designed to be as inexpensive as possible to make: scenes were heavily rehearsed so that just one or two takes were needed, thus economising on 16 mm film stock, the production's greatest expense, and for which Nolan was paying from his salary. Without expensive professional lighting equipment, Nolan mostly used available light. Apart from writing, directing, and photographing the film, Nolan also helped in editing and production.Instead of fighting against the limitations of the production, Christopher Nolan allowed them to dictate everything from the film’s structure, to its handheld shooting style, to the 16mm film it was shot on.. to black-and-white stock and setting the scene during the day and place the characters next to windows or in natural sunlight as much as possible. Nolan has explained it in a detailed interview with VICE.
Memento (movie)
Memento is a 2000 American mystery-thriller movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and produced by Suzanne and Jennifer Todd. The movie's script was based on a pitch by Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the 2001 story "Memento Mori" from the concept. Guy Pearce stars as a man who, as a result of an injury, has anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories) and has short-term memory loss approximately every fifteen minutes. He is searching for the people who attacked him and killed his wife, using an intricate system of Polaroid photographs and tattoos to track information he cannot remember.
The movie is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the movie: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences meet at the end of the movie, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.
"Memento" premiered at the 57th Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2000, and was released in the United States on March 16, 2001. It was acclaimed by critics, who praised its nonlinear narrative structure and motifs of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception, and earned $39.9 million over a $4.5 million budget. "Memento" received numerous accolades, including Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. The movie is now widely regarded as one of Nolan's finest works and one of the best movies of the 2000s. In 2017, the United States Library of Congress deemed the movie and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Mick Staton
David Michael Staton (February 11, 1940 – April 14, 2014), better known as Mick Staton, was an American politician for the Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving West Virginia's 3rd District from 1981 until 1983. He was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Staton died on April 14, 2014 in Winchester, Virginia, aged 74. He was outlived by his wife and two adult children.
Insomnia (2002 movie)
Insomnia is a 2002 American thriller movie directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Hillary Seitz. A remake of the 1997 Norwegian movie of the same name, it stars Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt, and Paul Dooley. The movie revolves around two Los Angeles homicide detectives investigating a murder in Nightmute, Alaska.
Released on May 24, 2002, "Insomnia" grossed over $113 million worldwide against a production budget of $46 million, and received critical praise for its screenplay, cinematography, direction, and acting, particularly Pacino's and Williams' performances.
Marksville, Louisiana
Marksville is a city in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has the population of 5,537 residents.
Stuart Symington
William Stuart Symington, Jr. (June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was an American businessman and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Symington was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. He studied at Yale University.
Symington was the first United States Secretary of the Air Force. He served as secretary from 1947 to 1950. Then he served as the United States senator of Missouri. He served as senator from 1953 to 1976.
Symington ran for President of the United States in 1960. He lost the primary to John F. Kennedy.
Symington was married to Evelyn Wadsworth. Their marriage would last until her death in 1972. Symington resigned in 1976, four days before his term would end. They had one son, James W. Symington, former member of the United States House of Representatives. His cousin, Fife Symington, served as Governor of Arizona from 1991 through 1997.
Symington died in New Canaan, Connecticut from angina pectoris, aged 87.
John W. Byrnes
John William Byrnes (June 12, 1913 – January 12, 1985) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Byrnes was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Byrnes served in the Wisconsin Senate for Wisconsin's 2nd district from 1941 to 1945. Byrnes was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 8th district. He served as a representative from 1945 to 1973.
Byrnes ran for President of the United States in 1964. He lost the primary to Barry M. Goldwater.
Byrnes was married to Barbara Preston. Byrnes died in Marshfield, Wisconsin from a stroke, aged 71.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served as an ambassador of the United States to West Germany, South Vietnam, and to the United Nations. In 1960, he was Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 presidential election. They lost to John F. Kennedy. He ran for President of the United States in 1964, but lost the nomination to Barry Goldwater.
Lodge was born in Nahant, Massachusetts, USA. His father was George Cabot Lodge, a poet. He was the grandson of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, great-great grandson of Senator Elijah H. Mills, and great-great-great-grandson of Senator George Cabot. His mother was Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis, the great granddaughter of Senator John Davis.
He had two siblings: John Davis Lodge (1903–1985), also a politician, and Helena Lodge de Streel (b. 1905).
Lodge attended St. Albans School and graduated from Middlesex School. In 1924, he graduated "cum laude" from Harvard University.
Lodge died in Beverly, Massachusetts from a long-illness at the age of 82.
Hiram Fong
Hiram Leong Fong (Yau Leong Fong; October 15, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American politician and businessman. He was the first United States senator for Hawaii. He served as senator from 1959 to 1977. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Fong ran for President of the United States in 1964. He lost the primary to Barry M. Goldwater. He was the first Asian-American to run for President of the United States. Patsy Mink would follow him as the few Hawaiians to run for President.
Fong died in Kahaluu, Hawaii from complications of a fall, aged 97.
Kahaluu, Hawaii
Kahaluu is a small residential area in Honolulu, Hawaii. It has the population of 4,738 residents.
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Marshfield is a city in Marathon County and in Wood County, Wisconsin. It has the population of 19,118 residents.
Chris Parnell
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens is a 2015 American epic space opera movie made by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions. It was distributed by Disney. It is the seventh movie in the "Star Wars" movie series. It was directed by J. J. Abrams and written by George Lucas.
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher play the roles they played in the original movies. The movie score was composed by John Williams. The movie was released on December 18, 2015. In November 2014, the title of the movie was announced as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".
The story is set about thirty years after "Return of the Jedi" and the death of Darth Vader and the Emperor. It is about three young people and characters from the previous movies.
Additionally, Kenny Baker and Tim Rose reprise their roles as R2-D2 and Admiral Ackbar, respectively, from previous films. Gwendoline Christie stars as Captain Phasma, an officer in the First Order, and Kiran Shah stars as Teedo, a scavenger on Jakku who rides a semi-mechanical Luggabeast. Additionally, Crystal Clarke, Pip Andersen, Christina Chong, Miltos Yerolemou, Greg Grunberg, Warwick Davis, Billie Lourd, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Cecep Arif Rahman, Amybeth Hargreaves, Leanne Best, Jessica Henwick, and Simon Pegg were cast in minor roles. Daniel Craig has a cameo appearance as a Stormtrooper. Ewan McGregor voiced Obi-Wan Kenobi in a scene.
The movie was released on December 18, 2015 on IMAX.
Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers (Jenkins, Kentucky August 17, 1929 – Los Angeles, California, August 1, 1977) was an American pilot. He was known for piloting a Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane which was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union. This caused the 1960 U-2 incident, and played a large role in the Cold War.
Powers was held as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. On February 10, 1962, Powers was exchanged in a spy swap in Berlin. The exchange was for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher, known as "Rudolf Abel", who had been caught by the FBI and tried and jailed for espionage. Powers credited his father with the swap idea. When released, Powers's total time in captivity was 1 year, 9 months, and 10 days.
Powers died in Los Angeles County, California in a helicopter crash, aged 47.
Awards for mathematics
Awards for mathematics is a list of prizes for mathematicians.
"You can choose the order of the list by clicking on the Prize, Organize, Value, etc.."
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Black Coal, Thin Ice is a Chinese melodramatic thriller movie of 2014. The story is about events in 1999 and 2004. The movie is in Chinese.
In 2014, the movie won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
ECW Heat Wave
ECW Heat Wave was a professional wrestling event that was produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). ECW began making it a pay-per-view starting in 1998. It ran from 1994 to 2000.
Heat Wave 1994 took place on July 16, 1994 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first Heat Wave event that ECW produced.
Heat Wave 1995 took place on July 15, 1995 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the second Heat Wave event that ECW produced.
Heat Wave 1996 took place on July 13, 1996 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the third Heat Wave event that ECW produced. The event was internet available only.
Heat Wave 1997 took place on July 19, 1997 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the fourth Heat Wave event that ECW produced.
Heat Wave 1998 took place on August 2, 1998 at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. It was the fifth Heat Wave event that ECW produced.
Heat Wave 1999 took place on July 18, 1999 at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. It was the sixth Heat Wave event that ECW produced.
Heat Wave 2000 took place on July 16, 2000 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. It was the seventh and final Heat Wave event that ECW produced.
Stuart Hall (presenter)