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The common eider is both the largest of the four eider species and the largest duck found in Europe and in North America. It measures in length, weighs and spans across the wings. It has a bulky shape and large, wedge-shaped bill. The male is unmistakable, with its black and white plumage and green nape. The female is a brown bird. It can be told apart from all ducks, except other eider species, because of size and head shape. This duck's call is a pleasant "ah-ooo". The species is often readily approachable.
This species dives for crustaceans and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food. The eider will eat mussels by swallowing them whole; the shells are then crushed in their gizzard and excreted. When eating a crab, the Eider will remove all of its claws and legs, and then eat the body in a similar fashion.
Eiders are colonial breeders. They nest on coastal islands in colonies ranging in size of less than 100 to upwards of 10,000-15,000 individuals. Female eiders often return to breed on the same island where they were hatched. This can lead to a high degree of relatedness between individuals nesting on the same island.
King eider
The king eider ("Somateria spectabilis") is a large sea duck. It breeds along Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia. The birds spend most of the year in coastal marine ecosystems at high latitudes. They migrate to the Arctic tundra to breed in June and July. They lay four to seven eggs in a scrape on the ground lined with grass and down.
The king eider winters in arctic and subarctic marine areas, most notably in the Bering Sea, the west coast of Greenland, eastern Canada and northern Norway. It also happens yearly off the northeastern United States, Scotland and Kamchatka. Breeding areas include the Arctic coastal tundra of the north coast of Alaska. This species dives for benthic invertebrates, such as crustaceans, polychaete worms, and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food. Wintering birds can form large flocks on suitable coastal waters, with some flocks bigger than 100,000 birds.
This species is smaller than the common eider. The male is unmistakable with its black body, white breast and multicoloured head. The drake's call is a deep cooing.
The female is a brown bird. They can still be told apart from all ducks except other eider species on size and structure. The head is shorter than in the common eider, and the feathering onto the bill is rounded, not triangular in shape.
An immature drake is typically all dark with a white breast and a yellow bill patch.
The king eider is a regular source of fresh meat in the spring. They begin their migration past the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in late April and are hunted in great numbers. In May, several hundred thousand eiders pass Point Barrow in northern Alaska on their way to Alaskan and Canadian breeding grounds.
Joyce Randolph
Joyce Randolph (born Joyce Sirola October 21, 1924) is an American actress. She played Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners". Randolph was born on October 21, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan. She was married to Richard Lincoln Charles from 1955 until his death in 1997. They had a son. She is the last living Honeymooners cast member.
"Colonel" Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American entrepreneur. He started the company Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Sanders was born in Henryville, Indiana on September 9, 1890. He studied at Southern University. He was married to Josephine King until they divorced. He later married Claudia Price. Sanders had 3 children. He died on December 16, 1980 in Louisville, Kentucky from leukemia and pneumonia. He was 90 years old.
Ziegler Polar Expedition
The Ziegler polar expedition of 1903–1905 was a failed attempt to reach the North Pole. The party was stranded north of the Arctic Circle for two years before being rescued. All but one of its members survived. The expedition was paid for by William Ziegler and led by Anthony Fiala. They left from Tromsø, Norway, on June 14, 1903, aboard "America".
Ziegler chose Anthony Fiala, who was a photographer on an earlier mission, to lead his second polar trip. Fiala calculated that the food for an eight dog team and driver would be at least 1100 pounds. This was an issue, as the most a sled could hold was 600 pounds. He planned to use ponies to carry the extra supplies. Then to feed the dogs on horse meat when the supplies were low.
In November 1903 severe weather started. The ship broke up, destroying the provisions and coal.
The following spring, more tries were made to reach the pole by traveling both east and west. The conditions were too severe, and open water caused difficulties. Supplies ran low, and the expedition headed south. They reached depots at Cape Flora, Cape Dillion, and Camp Ziegler.
William Peters, who was second in command, took this time to lead the crew in survey work. This helped to make maps and charts better.
With the knowledge that rescue ships would be sent to them, the expedition stayed hopeful. A rescue party, led by William S. Champ aboard the "Terra Nova", sailed direct to the ice fields. On July 24, they encountered thick ice. This made the crew doubt they could reach their destination. However the ship reached Palmi Island on July 28 and Cape Dillion the following day. 6 expedition members were found there. More members were found at Cape Flora, and the Terra Nova returned to Cape Dillion. A sled party was organized, which brought back the crew.
Chan's megastick
Chan's megastick (Phobaeticus chani) is a species of stick insect. It is the longest insect in the world. One specimen in the London Natural History Museum measures . This is with the front legs fully extended. The body is long.
Named after amateur Malaysian naturalist, Datuk Chan Chew Lun, only six specimens are known, all from the state of Sabah in Borneo. Very little is known about its biology, but it may live in the canopy of the rainforest, making it especially hard to find. However, there is no evidence, and the related "Phobaeticus kirbyi" is found on low growing vegetation alongside rainforest paths.
"Phobaeticus chani" was selected as one of "The Top 10 New Species" described in 2008 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists. The species was also listed as one of the top ten discoveries of the decade in a BBC television documentary (broadcast in either 2010 or 2011).
University of Mainz
The Universität Mainz (; abbreviation: "JGU") is a university in Mainz, Germany. It was founded in the year 1477. In 2012, there were more than 36,000 students.
The University of Mainz has ten faculties:
Tochigi, Tochigi
In the Edo period. Tochigi was a significant city.
In the early Meiji period, the city of Tochigi was the Prefectural capital of the old Tochigi Prefecture. After the old Utsunomiya Prefecture and Tochigi Prefecture merged, Tochigi City was briefly the prefectural capital. The capital was moved to Utsunomiya soon after.
Photographic memory
A photographic memory, or eidetic memory, is the ability to remember images or objects in great detail after seeing them for only a short time. The existence of this ability is disputed.
The claims made differ somewhat, but stress the recall of visual information. Examples of the information include: pages from books, magazines, and license plate numbers. It is claimed that those with a photographic memory tend to have higher IQs than those without it. A person with this ability does not use mnemonics.
The ability is said to occur in the early childhood of a small number of children (between 2 percent and 10 percent) and generally is not found in adults.
Some do not believe this skill exists. The American cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky, in his book "The Society of Mind" (1988), thought that reports of photographic memory were an “unfounded myth”.
Adriaan de Groot studied the ability of chess grandmasters to memorize the positions of chess pieces on a chess board. At first, people thought they had photographic memory because they could memorize far more information than nonexperts. However, arrangements of pieces that could never occur in a game, their recall was no better than nonexperts. This suggests that they only have an ability to remember certain types of information, rather than photographic memory.
Around 1970, Charles Stromeyer studied his future wife, Elizabeth. He claimed that she could recall poetry written in a foreign language which she did not understand. She could remember the poetry years after she had first seen the poem. She also could, apparently, recall random dot patterns so as to combine two patterns into a stereoscopic image. She is the only person who is known to have passed such a test. The methods used in the testing procedures were not clear. Additionally, the tests have never been repeated (Elizabeth has consistently refused to repeat them). This raised further concerns, and increased skepticism about whether photographic memories were real.
Barnard Courtois
Barnard Courtois (12 February 1777–27 September 1838) was a French chemist born in Dijon, France. He discovered iodine.
Kaymak
Kaymak is Turkish dairy product. It is similar to clotted cream.
Traditional kaymak is made from water buffalo milk, but it can also be made from cow milk.
Kaymak is main part of Turkish breakfast. It can be eaten at breakfast with honey or served with desserts.
Hirado, Nagasaki
Hirado has been a port since the Nara period.
During the Edo period, Hirado was the seat of the Hirado Domain. The city developed around Hirado Castle ("Hirado-jō").
The first Frenchman to arrive in Japan was Francis Caron. He live in Hirado.
The city is located on the island of the same name; and it has expanded to the island of Kyūshū. The two parts of the city are connected by the Hirado Bridge which was built in 1977.
Shambali
Shambali () is a Turkish sweet cake. It is cake made of semolina sweetened with syrup and topped with peanut. Its shape is rectangular.
It is also known in most of the countries which formed the Ottoman Empire. Its name means "Damascus honey" () and shambali can also be called Damascus dessert ().
Bitter almond cookie
Bitter almond cookie () is a traditional Turkish cookie.
It is made of bitter almonds, sugar and egg whites and topped with almonds. Its paste contains almond extract. A bitter almond cookie is similar to a macaroon.
Sasebo, Nagasaki
In 1866, Sasebo was established as a major port for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
Sasebo became an American Naval base in 1945.
Today it is the center of a military district of the or JMSDF.
Yehoshua Sofer
Sado, Niigata
Uesugi Kagekatsu took control of the island in the late 1580s.
In the Edo period, gold was discovered on the island. The Tokugawa shogunate took direct control of it. It was administered by an official called the Sado-bugyō. Okubo Nagayasu was appointed to this position by Tokugawa Ieyasu. in 1603.
In the Meiji period, the island became part of Niigata Prefecture.
Joseph Black
Whipping boy
A whipping boy was a young boy who grew up with a young prince. If the prince did something wrong, the whipping boy was punished instead of the prince. Because both grew up together, punishing the whipping boy had strong psychological effects to the prince. In England this was very common. For instance the king of England Charles I had many whipping boys for his son.
Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021) was an American movie, stage, and television actor who was known for his role as Captain Merrill Stubing in "The Love Boat" and as Murray Slaughter in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
He was born in Mount Kisco, New York on February 28, 1931. He was married to Joan Devore from 1954 until they divorced in 1972, they had four children. He was married to Patti Kending from 1972 until they divorced in 1982 and remarried in 1985.
MacLeod died at his home in Palm Desert, California on May 29, 2021 at the age of 90.
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, August 3, 1926) is an American singer who is best known for his song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". He was born at St John’s Hospital in Long Island, New York.
He has been married three times and has four children.
He has many awards including a Grammy Award. Bennett is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election. In 2014, Bennett made an album with Lady Gaga titled "Cheek to Cheek".
In February 2021, Bennett said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.
Suzy Amis
Susan Elizabeth "Suzy" Amis (born January 5, 1962) is a former American movie, television actress, and model who is known for her role as Lizzy Calvert in "Titanic". and for being the wife of Academy Award winning director James Cameron since 2000; they have three children. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She retired from acting in 1999.
Lance LeGault
Lance LeGault (William Lance Legault, May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012) was an American movie, television, and voice actor. He was known for his many television roles, mostly in "The A-Team". He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Theresa LeGault from 1984 until his death in 2012. They had four children. He died on September 10, 2012 in his home in Los Angeles, California from unknown causes. He was 77 years old.
Robert Flemyng
Robert Flemyng (January 3, 1912 – May 22, 1995) was an English movie, stage, voice, radio and television actor who is known for his role as Professor Bernard Hichcock in "The Horrible Dr. Hichcock" (1962).
He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Flemyng was married and had one child. He died on May 22, 1995 in London, England from pneumonia, he was 83 years old.
Ryūkyū Islands
The , also known as the , are a chain of Japanese islands in a line between Kyushu and Taiwan. The native people of the Ryūkyū Islands are the Ryūkyūan people and its native languages are the endangered Ryukyuan languages.
In the islands, the dates from the middle 14th century. It entered into a tributary relationship with Imperial China.
In the early 17th century, the kingdom entered into a tributary relationship with Japan after the Satsuma Domain invaded.
In 1765, the islands were described by Hayashi Shihei in "Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu".
The islands are at the eastern edge of the East China Sea and the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
The Islands are separated into two geographical regions: the Northern Ryūkyū Islands, centered on Amami Island, and the Southern Ryūkyū Islands, centered on Okinawa Island. Sometimes the Southern Ryūkyū Islands are further divided into the Okinawa Islands and the Sakishima Islands.
The largest of the islands is Okinawa Island.
Karate was invented by the local people (mainly from Okinawa). The Japanese phrase "Karate-do" means "way of the empty hand").
Jason Segel
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American movie, television, and voice actor who is known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in "How I Met Your Mother". He has also appeared in "The Muppets" (2011). He was born in Los Angeles, California. He was partners with actress Michelle Williams from 2012 through early 2013.
Gary (rapper)
Leessang
Leessang (Hangul: 리쌍; stylized as LeeSsang) is a South Korean Hip-hop duo, composed of Kang Hee-gun ("Garie") and Gil Seong-joon ("Gil").
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III, March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-American movie, stage, television actor, television producer and director, writer, comedian, and musician. He is known for playing Ricky Ricardo in "I Love Lucy".
He was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He was married to Lucille Ball from 1940 until they divorced in 1960. They had a son named Desi Jr, and a daughter named Lucie. Then he was married to Edith Mack Hirsh from 1963 until her death in 1985. Arnaz died from lung cancer in Del Mar, California, on December 2, 1986. He was 69 years old.
Pig footed bandicoot
The pig footed bandicoot {"Chaeropus ecaudatus") is a small marsupial. The distribution range of species was later reduced to an inland desert region, where it was last recorded in the 1950s. It is now believed to be extinct.
The pig footed bandicoot has a body which around 23-26 centimetres and a tail 10-15 centimetres. The bandicoot has a pointed ears and large, slender limbs. It had a broad head and a slender snout. Its fur was coarse and straight. Its colour varied from a grizzled grey through fawn orange-brown.
The pig footed bandicoot is known to live in the western Victoria and New South Wales. It inhabited a fairly wide range of types: from grassy woodland and grassland plains to the spinifex country and parched flats of central Australia.
The pig footed bandicoot only eats plants.
George Pal
George Pal (György Pál Marczincsak, February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, movie director and producer who has helped the movie industry grow during the 50s and 60s. An award is named after him.
Pal was born in Cegléd, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (now Hungary). He was educated at the Budapest Academy of Arts. He was married to Elizabeth Zsoka from 1930 until his death in 1980, they had two children. Pal died on May 2, 1980 in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. He was 72 years old.
Don Cornelius
Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television host and television producer. He was known for creating the music franchise series "Soul Train".
Cornelius was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Delores Harrison until they divorced. He was later married to Viktoria Chapman from 2001 until they divorced. Cornelius committed suicide on February 1, 2012 in Sherman Oaks, California after shooting himself with a gun.
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and a children's author who is mostly known for his children's book "The Giving Tree". He has won two Grammy Awards.
Although he’s most known for his children’s poetry, he also was good at many other things. In the 1950s, while he was serving in the U.S. armed forces, Silverstein drew cartoons for the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an American military newspaper. He started writing and drawing cartoons for Playboy magazine in 1952.
Shel Silverstein also wrote plays. It was Ursula Nordstrom, a book editor, who suggested that he should write for children.
Silverstein’s first book of poetry, "Don’t Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies", was published in 1964. He’s most well-known for his books "A Light in the Attic", "The Giving Tree", and "Where the Sidewalk Ends". He has been compared to other writers, like A. A. Milne, Edward Lear, and Dr. Seuss. Shel Silverstein won multiple awards for his children’s poetry books. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" won the Michigan Young Readers’ Award in 1981, and Silverstein also won the George C. Stone Center for Children’s Books Award twice in 1984. Two books of poetry were published after Shel Silverstein’s death, "Runny Babbit" and "Every Thing on It".
Silverstein also had success writing songs. Some of his poetry was based off of songs he had written.
"A Boy Named Sue" is a song written by Silverstein that was first made popular by Johnny Cash in 1969. That same year Silverstein also recorded it as a single on an album on RCA Records. It was produced by Chet Atkins.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in both Chicago and in Florida. He died in Key West, Florida on May 10, 1999 after having a heart attack. He was 68 years old. However, Silverstein’s poetry is still enjoyed today.
Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a video changing program developed by Adobe Systems.
Many-plumed moth
The many-plumed moths are the Alucitidae, a family of moths with unusually modified wings. Both fore- and hind-wings consist of about six rigid spines, from which radiate flexible bristles. They make a structure similar to a bird's feather.
This is a small family, with 9 genera and 130 species. They are found mostly in temperate to subtropical (but not tropical) regions. They are rare even in parts of their core range; both in Great Britain and North America for example, only one species is found – the Twenty-plume Moth ("Alucita hexadactyla") – and in America, it is introduced. This smallish moth may be found fluttering in the evening twilight or resting with its "wings" outstretched. Its larvae feed on honeysuckle ("Lonicera").
On the other hand, in Continental Europe there are many species, mostly of the large genus "Alucita".
A hypertext is a text that is organized like a network. Parts of the text reference other text massages or texts which can directly be accessed. The parts that provide the reference are known as "hyperlinks". An example of a hypertext is the HTML standard used in the World Wide Web. Wikis also use hypertext.
Evolutionary arms race
Matt Vogel
Matthew J. "Matt" Vogel II (born October 6, 1970) is an American puppeteer. He has worked with the Muppets, "Sesame Street", and "Oobi".
In 2017, he started playing Kermit the Frog. He was an understudy for the character Big Bird since 1998. Caroll Spinney, the first person that played Big Bird, retired in 2018. From then on, Matt Vogel played Big Bird full time.
Will Lee
William "Will" Lee (August 6, 1908 - December 7, 1982) was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for playing Mr. Hooper on "Sesame Street". Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor. He has won two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Emmy Award. Robards was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 26, 1922. He married to Eleanor Pittman from 1948 to 1958. He married Rachel Taylor from 1959 to 1961. He married Lauren Bacall from 1961 to 1969. He married Lois O'Connor from 1970 to 2000. He had six children. Robards died of lung cancer on December 26, 2000 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Availability is a term used in information security to show that a system is running and reachable by those that are supposed to be able to use the system.
Availability is sometimes expressed as a percentage of uptime, such as 99%. High availability is usually expressed as five nines - 99.999%. In a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week operation this would be just a little over 5 minutes per year.
Jack LaLanne
Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne (September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011) was an American inventor, writer, actor, fitness and exercise instructor and expert who was known for helping people to get fit and healthy.
LaLanne was born Francois Henri LaLanne in San Francisco, California on September 26, 1914. He was raised in Barkersfield, California.
LaLanne hosted his own show "The Jack LaLanne Show" and appeared in cameo appearances in some movies. LaLanne was also known for swimming in the San Francisco bay with a small fishing boat tied to a rope in his mouth.
LaLanne has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He also received many nicknames, such as "The Godfather of Fitness" or "First Fitness Superhero." LaLanne has beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fitness contest in his 50s.
LaLanne was married to Irma Navarre from 1942 until they divorced in 1948; they had one daughter. Then he married Elaine Doyle from 1959 until his death in 2011, they had two sons and one daughter.
On January 23, 2011, LaLanne died at his home in Morro Bay, California from respiratory failure due to pneumonia. He was 96 years old.
Indiana State University
Indiana State University (ISU) is a university in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is in Terre Haute, Indiana.
ISU's sports teams, known as Sycamores, play mostly in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Sycamores football team plays in the separate but related Missouri Valley Football Conference. The school is perhaps best known as the alma mater of basketball player Larry Bird.
Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American politician who was the first director of the Peace Corps from 1961 until 1966, then he was the first director of the OEO from 1964 until 1968, and was the 21st ambassador to France from 1968 until 1970.
He was also a Vice President nominee with presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972, they lost to Richard Nixon and to Spiro Agnew. He was also an activist.
Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland on November 9, 1915 and was educated at Yale University and at Yale Law School. He had served in the army during World War II from 1941 through 1945 and was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds during the war.
Shriver founded many social programs and organizations, including Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps, Community Action, Upward Bound, Foster Grandparents, Legal Services, the National Clearinghouse for Legal Services (now the Shriver Center), Indian and Migrant Opportunities and Neighborhood Health Services, in addition to directing the Peace Corps. He was active in Special Olympics, founded by his wife Eunice.
Shriver was awarded the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award in 1967. It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. "Pacem in terris" is Latin for 'Peace on Earth'.
Shriver served as U.S. Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970, becoming a quasi-celebrity among the French for bringing what "Time" magazine called "a rare and welcome panache" to the normally sedate world of international diplomacy.
In 1953 Shriver married Eunice Kennedy (the sister of John F. Kennedy) and together they had 5 children; Robert Sargent Shriver III, Maria Shriver (the wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger), Timothy Peter Shriver, Mark Kennedy Shriver, and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver. Shriver's wife of 56 years Eunice Kennedy Shriver died on August 11, 2009 from a stroke, two weeks later his brother-in-law Ted Kennedy died on August 25, 2009 from brain cancer.
In 2003 Shriver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and has began to loose his memory and could not even name his own wife because of the disease. His daughter Maria Shriver wrote a children's book based on the disease.
On January 18, 2011 Sargent Shriver died in Bethesda, Maryland from Alzheimer's disease, he was 95 years old. He is buried next to his wife at the St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.
Kendall Nicole Jenner (born November 3, 1995) is an American model, television personality and socialite. She has appeared on the cover for and is brand ambassador of "Seventeen" magazine. She is the daughter of Caitlyn Jenner and Kris Jenner. Her brothers and sisters include: Kylie Jenner (sister), Brody Jenner, Brandon Jenner, Rob Kardashian (half-brothers), Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian (half-sisters). She is on the reality program "Keeping Up with the Kardashians". She was born in Los Angeles, California.
Eileen Brennan
Eileen Brennan (September 3, 1932 – July 28, 2013) was a television, movie and theater actress. She received an Oscar nomination for the movie "Private Benjamin". She received Emmy nominations for guest starring roles on "Newhart" and "Will and Grace".
Brennan was born in Los Angeles, California on September 3, 1932. She was married to David John Lampson from 1968 until they divorced in 1974. They had two children. Brennan died on July 28, 2013 in Burbank, California from bladder cancer, aged 80.
Derek Jameson
Derek Jameson (November 29, 1929 – September 12, 2012) was a British journalist, DJ, and broadcaster for several British newspapers. He is also known for his works in the "Daily Express", the "Daily Star", and for the "News of the World". He was born in London, England. He was married three times and had four children. He died on September 12, 2012 in London, England from a heart attack, aged 82.
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; April 27, 1935 – January 24, 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter, and movie producer who is known for his movie "Eternity and a Day".
Angelopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on April 27, 1935 and studied at the University of Paris. He was married to Phoebe Economopoulou from 1980 until his death in 2012. They had three children. Angelopoulos died on January 24, 2012 in Piraeus, Greece after being hit by a motorcycle in a busy street. He was 76 years old when he died.
James Farentino
James Farentino (February 24, 1938 – January 24, 2012) was an American movie, voice, stage, and television actor. He was known for his role in "The Final Countdown", "Jesus of Nazareth", and in "Dynasty".
He was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 24, 1938. He was married to Elizabeth Ashley from 1962 until they divorced in 1965. He was married to Michele Lee from 1966 until they divorced in 1982. He was married to Debrah Farentino from 1985 until they divorced in 1989. He was married to Stella Farentino from 1994 until his death in 2012. He had a son, David Farentino.
Farentino died on January 24, 2012 from heart failure in Los Angeles, California, he was 73 years old.
Harry Fowler
Henry James "Harry" Fowler, MBE (10 December 1926 – 4 January 2012) was a British movie, stage, and television actor who has appeared in many movies during his 62-year career.
He was born in London, England on December 10, 1926. He was married to Joan Dowling from 1951 until she committed suicide in 1954. Then he was married Catherine Fowler from around 1955 until his death in 2012. Fowler died on January 4, 2012 from unknown causes in London, England, he was 85 years old.
Scarlet tiger moth
The Scarlet Tiger Moth ("Callimorpha dominula", formerly "Panaxia dominula") is a colourful dayflying moth of Europe and the near East. It belongs to the tiger moth family, Arctiidae.
The caterpillars feed mostly on comfrey ("Symphytum officinale"). The moth imago flies by day, and has both cryptic colouring on the front wings, and warning colour on the hind wings. If disturbed it jinks the front wings forward to show the red warning flash on the hind wings.
It can occur in rare colour morphs, one with yellow hindwings and body and one with extended black on hindwings. Yellow, black and red are common warning colours in insects and other animals.
The three morphs occurring in the population at the Cothill reserve in Oxfordshire have been studied for many years, including research by E.B. Ford and R.A. Fisher.
McNamara (1998) describes how amateurs can rear this species.
Dabbs Greer
Robert William "Dabbs" Greer (April 2, 1917 – April 28, 2007) was an American movie, television, and stage actor. He was known for his role as Old Paul Edgecomb in the 1999 movie "The Green Mile". He has also acted in Broadway plays. Greer was born on April 2, 1917 in Fairview, Missouri. He never married and had no children. He died on April 28, 2007 in Pasadena, California from renal failure and heart disease. He was 90 years old when he died.
David Morse
David Bowditch Morse (born October 11, 1953) is an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor. He is known for playing Brutus "Brutal" Howell in the 1999 movie "The Green Mile".
He was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts. He has been married to Susan Wheeler Duff since 1982. They have 3 children.
Eve Brent
Eve Brent (Jean Ann Ewers, September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011) was a Saturn Award-winning American television, movie, and stage actress. She was known for her roles as Jane in "Tarzan's Fight for Life" and as Elaine Connelly in the 1999 movie "The Green Mile".
Brent was born in Houston, Texas on September 11, 1929. She was married to Micahel Ashe until his death in 2008. They had a son. Brent died on August 27, 2011 in Sun Valley, California from natural causes. She was 81 years old.
Naomie Harris
Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is a British movie, stage, voice, and television actress. She is known for her role as Tia Dalma/Calypso in "" and in "". She was born in London on September 6, 1976 to a Jamaican mother and a Trinidadian father. Harris played Winnie Mandela in the 2013 movie "".
She played Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond movie "Skyfall" (2012), "Spectre" (2015) and "No Time to Die" (2021).
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian movie, television, stage, voice actor, and comedian. He is known for his role in the all eight of the "American Pie" series of movies. He appeared in the 2012 movie "Madea's Witness Protection". He has won a Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, a Gemini Award, and a Satellite Award. He voiced Charlie, Dory's father, in the 2016 Pixar movie "Finding Dory" and Lou the Porcupine in "Over the Hedge".
He is also known for his award-winning role as Johnny Rose in the television series "Schitt's Creek".
Levy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on December 17, 1946. and studied at McMaster University.
He has been married to Deborah Divine since 1977. They have two children (Dan and Sarah) and currently live in Los Angeles, California.
John Christopher "Chris" Stevens (April 18, 1960 – September 12, 2012) was the tenth American ambassador to Libya from June 7, 2012 until his death on September 12, 2012.
Stevens was born in Grass Valley, California on April 18, 1960. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley, at the University of California, at Hastings College of the Law, and at the National War College.
Stevens joined the United States Foreign Service in 1991. His early overseas assignments included: deputy principal officer and political section chief in Jerusalem; political officer in Damascus; consular/political officer in Cairo; and consular/economic officer in Riyadh. In Washington, Stevens served as Director of the Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs; Pearson Fellow with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; special assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Iran desk officer; and staff assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
He had served in Libya twice previously: as the Deputy Chief of Mission (from 2007 to 2009) and as Special Representative to the National Transitional Council (from March 2011 to November 2011) during the Libyan civil war. He arrived in Tripoli in May 2012 as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.
Stevens died on September 12, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya in the 2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks after he inhaled smoke from a smoke grenade. He was 52 years old.
According to the Daily Mail News Online, Ambassador Stevens had sent out a diplomatic cable expressing concerns, on the day he was killed. Stevens said that security at Benghazi was compromised. Stevens stated that two Libyan security groups were threatening to withdraw over a disagreement on U.S. Policy whether centrist politician Mahmoud Jibril would become Libya's prime minister.
Stevens is buried in his family's ancestral plot in Grass Valley, California.
2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks
On September 11, 2012, the U.S. embassies in Cairo, Egypt; Chennai, India; Tunis, Tunisia; Khartoum, Sudan; Sana'a, Yemen, and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya were attacked.
On September 11, 2012, the attack was caused by protests over media excerpts from a trailer of a movie, "Innocence of Muslims", which the protestors considered blasphemy against the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. In Egypt, a group scaled the embassy wall and tore down the American flag, replacing it with a black Islamist flag. In Libya, rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the consulate from a nearby farm. The attack killed the visiting U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, Glen Doherty a security officer, Sean Smith a United States Foreign Service Information Management Officer, and Tyrone S. Woods a former U.S. Navy Seal, ten Libyan police officers, and two others. The protest ended on September 27, 2012.
About 75 people died during the attack. The most notable deaths were the ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.
Other locations include:
Some of these locations were burning the United States flag and the Israeli flag.
Sean Smith
Sean Smith (1978 – September 11, 2012) was an American Information Management Officer. He died during the 2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks in Benghazi, Libya which also killed Christopher Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone S. Woods, ten Libyan police officers and injured two others. He was 34 years old at the time of his death. He was married to Heather Smith and had two children.
Linda Gray
Linda Ann Gray (September 12 1940) is an American television and movie actress. She is mostly well known for starring on the long running program "Dallas". She starred in the stage of version of "Terms of Endearment". She was born in Santa Monica, California.
RNA interference
RNA interference (RNAi) is a process in living cells. It adjusts (moderates) the activity of their genes. RNAi molecules are a key to gene regulation. In 2006, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on RNA interference in the nematode worm "Caenorhabditis elegans", published in 1998.
Two types of small RNA molecules – microRNA (miRNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNA) – do the work. These small RNAs bind to normal messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules and increase or decrease their activity. They can prevent a mRNA from producing a protein. RNA interference defends cells against foreign nucleotide sequences – viruses and transposons. Also, they control development, and gene expression in general.
The RNAi pathway is found in many eukaryotes including animals. RNAi is a valuable research tool, in cell culture and in living organisms. Synthetic dsRNA introduced into cells can suppress specific genes of interest. RNAi may be used for large-scale screens that shut down each gene to analyse cellular process or cell division. The pathway is also used as a practical tool in biotechnology and medicine.
The natural functions of RNA interference are:
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Deidre Hall
Deidre Ann Hall (born October 31, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) is an American actress and producer. She has been featured in many television soap opera shows. She played "Dr. Marlena Evans" in "Days of Our Lives" for more than 30 years.
Emerson Drive are a Canadian country band from Grande Prairie, Alberta. Emerson Drive have five members in the band; the current band members are Danick Dupelle, Brad Mates, Mike Melancon, David Pichette and Dale Wallace.
The band was formed in 1995 originally known under the name 12 Gauge. The band was forced to change their name because a rap group had already owned the name. They decided to choose Emerson Drive as their name and is named for the Emerson Trail that crosses Western Alberta and joins the Alaskan Highway. They released their debut album "Open Season" in 1996. Their newest album "Decade of Drive" was released on February 8, 2011. They will release their seventh studio album in 2012. The first single, "She's My Kind of Crazy" was released on July 16, 2012.
On September 25, 2007, the bands bassist Patrick Bourque committed suicide in his Montreal, Quebec home. Bourque had quit the band in July of that year.
The band has been nominated for many awards including a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for their song "Moments" in 2008 and many Canadian Country Music Association awards.
Assassination of William McKinley
William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was assassinated on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
McKinley was shaking hands with the people when he was shot by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He died days later on September 14 from his bullet wounds in Buffalo, New York, aged 58. It was later known that Czolgosz killed the McKinley in an attempt to advance anarchism.
Czolgosz was executed by the electric chair on October 29, 1901. The Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, became America's 26th President of the United States of America.
Assassination of James A. Garfield
The assassination of President James A. Garfield happened in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield was shot in the back by Charles J. Guiteau at about 9:30 am, less than four months into Garfield's term as the 20th President of the United States.
Guiteau shot Garfield after being mad at him about not receiving credit for Garfield's victory in 1880 after he wrote a speech about Garfield but never made the speech. The 31st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives James G. Blaine was at Garfield's side when he was shot down.
Garfield died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881 aged 49. He was the second of four Presidents to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln and the next president to be assassinated would be William McKinley and next John F. Kennedy. His Vice President, Chester A. Arthur, became the next President after Garfield. And on June 2, 1882 Guiteau was executed by hanging, aged 40.
Garfield also lived the longest after the shooting, than the other Presidents. Lincoln and Kennedy died less than a day after being shot, and McKinley died a week later.
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Sámi languages
The Sámi languages are a branch of Uralic languages. They are spoken in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. It is related to the Finnish, the Estonian, and the Hungarian language.
"The Sámi languages ... are sometimes considered dialects of one language", says Encyclopædia Britannica; those who speak one Sámi language, [mostly] do not understand other Sami languages; "[t]he Sámi languages share many features (or things,) with the Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, etc.)," but "they cannot be closely related to any of these"... "[T]heir grammars are similar to that of Finnish, although their syntax has been influenced by the Scandinavian languages."
Among the Sámi languages are
James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American Republican politician. He was a United States Representative. He was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a U.S. Senator from Maine. He was the Secretary of State twice. He was also nominated to be President.
Blaine was born on January 31, 1830 in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He was the third child of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and his wife Maria Gillespie Blaine. He was educated at Washington College and later met his wife Harriet Stanwood. They married in 1850 and they had seven children.
Blaine was a Republican. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1869 until 1875. He was chosen by the 18th United States President Ulysses S. Grant.
Blaine would later served as the Senator from Maine from 1876 through 1881. Secondly he served as the Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd district from 1863 until 1876. Then as the 28th and 31st United States Secretary of State from 1881 through 1881 and then again in 1889 through 1892.
On July 2, 1881, Blaine and President James A. Garfield were walking in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C. when Charles J. Guiteau shot Garfield in the back. Blaine resigned as Secretary of State several months later.
The Republicans nominated Blaine for President in 1884 but Grover Cleveland won the election.
Blaine died just 4 days short from his 63rd birthday on January 27, 1893 in his Washington, D.C. home from a heart attack, aged 62. He was later buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. and was later re-buried in Blaine Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine, in 1920. Blaine was hypochondriac.
Okinawa (disambiguation)
Okinawa is one of Japan's southern prefectures.
Okinawa may also refer to:
Burt F. Bacharach (born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and music producer. He wrote many hit songs. Some songs were written specifically for the singers who originally recorded them. Some of his songs were:
Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is an English actress. She was born in Redruth, Cornwall. She received international praise in the 1990s for "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "The English Patient". She has acted in many other movies during her career.
Her sister, Serena Scott Thomas (born 1961), is also an actress.
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, television, stage, voice, movie actor, and artist. Winters had appeared in several television shows and in movies. He was recently known for voicing Papa Smurf in the 2011 movie "The Smurfs". In "", he was replaced by Jack Angel.
Winters was born Jonathan Harshman Winters III in Dayton, Ohio on November 11, 1925. He is of Irish-Scottish-English descent. During his senior year at Springfield High School, Winters quit school to join the United States Marine Corps and served two and a half years in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After his return, he attended Kenyon College. He later studied cartooning at Dayton Art Institute, where he met Eileen Schauder, whom he married on September 11, 1948. He was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Lambda chapter).
Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had comedy albums released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nominations during his career, and winning the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996.
In 1957, he was the first comedian in the United States to be on color television, a 15-minute routine sponsored by Tums.
Winters has also appeared in hundreds of television show episodes/series and movies combined, including eccentric characters on "The Steve Allen Show", "The Garry Moore Show", "The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters" (1972–74), "Mork & Mindy", "Hee Haw" and in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
After voicing Grandpa Smurf on "The Smurfs" (1986–89) and Papa Smurf in "The Smurfs", Winters's final feature movie was "The Smurfs 2" in 2013, which will be dedicated in his memory.
Winters was originally cast in "Big Finish" (2014), during pre-production. It's an upcoming comedy set in a retirement home. His scheduled role was to appear alongside Jerry Lewis and Bob Newhart.
Winters only had three influences Irwin Corey, Groucho Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. He had influenced George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby, Robin Williams, Richard Lewis, Jim Carrey, Conan O'Brien, Patton Oswalt, and Frank Caliendon. He worked with Robin Williams on many television shows including "Mork & Mindy". When Winters died Williams remarked that "First he was my idol, then he was my mentor and amazing friend. I'll miss him huge. He was my Comedy Buddha. Long live the Buddha."
In 1991, Winters earned an Emmy Award for his supporting role in "Davis Rules". In 2002, he earned an Emmy nomination as a guest star in a comedy series for "Life With Bonnie". In 1999, Winters was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2008, Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin Williams. Winters received 11 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nominations during his career, and won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for "Crank(y) Calls" in 1996.
Winters lived near Santa Barbara, California and was often seen browsing or "hamming" for the crowd at the antique show on the Ventura County fairgrounds. He often entertained the tellers and other workers whenever he visited his local bank to make a deposit or withdrawal. Plus, he spent his time painting and attended many gallery showings, even presenting his art in one-man shows.
In his interview with the Archive of American Television, Winters reported that he suffered a nervous breakdown and spent 8 months in a private mental hospital in the late 1950s. Despite not being given a diagnosis in the hospital, he was diagnosed with manic depression later on (known today as bipolar disorder). Winters referred to this incident obliquely in his stand-up act, most famously on his 1960 comedy album "The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters". During his classic "flying saucer" routine, Winters mentions that if he wasn't careful, the authorities might put him back in the "zoo", referring to the institution.
On January 11, 2009, Winter's wife Eileen died at the age of 84 after a 20-year battle with breast cancer.
Winters died April 11, 2013, in Montecito, California of natural causes, aged 87.
He is survived by his two children: Jay Winters, and Lucinda Winters.
At the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, Robin Williams honored the career and life of Winters.
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