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In 1951, Seixas was ranked No. 4 in the world, two spots below Dick Savitt, while he was No. 1 in the U.S. ranking, one spot ahead of Savitt. In 1953, Seixas was ranked No. 3 in the world by Lance Tingay, and was also cited as being the World No. 1 in newspaper Reading Eagle the same year.
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, DL, JP (13 April 1926 – 16 October 2014) was a British educator. He was the principal of a school in his birthplace of Blenheim Palace.
He was the son of Lt.-Col. John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was also a relation of The Duke of Devonshire and a generational cousin of the war-time Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
He was also a distant relative of Diana, Princess of Wales as both belong to the Spencer family, and of the Vanderbilt family through his paternal grandmother, Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Spencer-Brown died in the morning of 16 October 2014 in Blenheim Palace, aged 88.
Calvin Klein (fashion designer)
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. He launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry.
Klein was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York. He studied fashion in New York City and apprenticed for a suit manufacturer. In 1968, he launched his first company with a childhood friend, Barry K. Schwartz.
In 1974, a tight-fitting signature jeans designed by Klein went on to gross 200,000 US Dollars in their first week of sales. He also became the first designer to receive outstanding design in men's and women's wear award from the CFDA award show in the same year.
Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and managing director of video game development and online distribution company Valve Corporation. He co-founded Valve with fellow Microsoft employee Mike Harrington. He is also known for founding online video gaming distributor Steam.
Newell was born in Colorado. He is married to Lisa Newell (née Mennet) and has two children. He is a financial supporter of the Democratic Party. He suffered from Fuchs' dystrophy, a congenital disease which affects the cornea, but was cured by two cornea transplants in 2006 and 2007.
Newell disliked Windows 8, calling it a "catastrophe" and a "threat to PC gaming".
Newell's networth is $5.5 billion United States dollars.
Newell attended Harvard University in 1980, but dropped out 3 years later to work at Microsoft.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is an online tactical and first-person shooter video game. It is developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment. It is the fourth game in the main "Counter-Strike" franchise. It was released on August 21, 2012. It is available for Microsoft Windows and OS X on Steam, Xbox 360 on the Xbox Live Arcade, and a US-only version for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Network.
The main game type is bomb defuse, which is when there is 2 teams of 5 terrorists and 5 counter terrorists. The aim of the game is for the terrorist to plant the bomb at bombsite A or bombsite B and for the counter terrorists the aim is to stop the terrorist from planting the bomb. There are 30 rounds and it takes 16 to win. There are 2 halves and they go for 15 rounds each. Each time you die you don't respawn until the next round.
The Crusade (album)
Emerson, Lake and Powell
Emerson, Lake and Powell is an English progressive metal band formed in 1985.
In Waves was the fifth album from the American metalcore band Trivium. It was released on August 2, 2011 through Roadrunner Records. The album contained more metalcore elements rather than thrash metal elements.
Tampereen Pyrintö (basketball)
Tampereen Pyrintö is a basketball team from Tampere, Finland. Pyrintö plays its home games at Pyynikin palloiluhalli.
Pyrintö has won three Finnish championships (2010, 2011 and 2014) and two Finnish Cups (1969, 2013).
Ceará Sporting Club
Ceará Sporting Club is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza, Ceará.
Club Universitario de Deportes
Club Universitario de Deportes, also known as Universitario and La "U", is a Peruvian football club from Lima.
C.A. Banfield
Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club located from Banfield, Buenos Aires. It is mostly known for its football team.
Callao
Mike Lowry
Michael Edward "Mike" Lowry (March 8, 1939 – May 1, 2017) was the 20th Governor of Washington. He was governor from 1993 to 1997. Lowry is a Democrat.
Lowry ran twice for the United States Senate. He failed both times. In a 1983 special election, Republican former Governor Dan Evans beat Lowry.
Lowry died on May 1, 2017 from complications of a stroke in Olympia, Washington, aged 78.
Jed Lowrie
Brandon Douglas Moss (born September 16, 1983) is an American Professional baseball player. He is currently a free agent.
Moss has played for the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
He was born 16 September 1983 in Monroe, Georgia. He graduated from Loganville High School in Loganville, Georgia. Moss was drafted in the 8th round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft by the Boston Red Sox.
Moss began playing minor league ball, starting with the Gulf Coast Red Sox. He then played for the Lowell Spinners, Augusta GreenJackets, and Sarasota Red Sox. He spent two years with the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs in 2005 and 2006. He then played for the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox.
TriStar
TriStar (Production Studio) may refer to:
MIPS architecture
The MIPS architecture is an instruction set for computers that was developed at Stanford University in 1981. At the start, MIPS was an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. Most of it is done in RISC. In a full RISC architecture, all commands have the same length. This simplifies the design of the microchip and allows to use fast clock cycles. At the start, the architecture used a 32 bit bus, but from 1991, a 64 bit architecture was used.
In 2015, MIPS implementations are primarily used in embedded systems such as Windows CE devices, routers, residential gateways, and video game consoles such as the Sony Playstation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. Until late 2006, they were also used in many of SGI's computer products. MIPS implementations were also used by Digital Equipment Corporation, NEC, Pyramid Technology, Siemens Nixdorf, Tandem Computers and others during the late 1980s and 1990s. In the mid to late 1990s, it was estimated that one in three RISC microprocessors produced was a MIPS implementation.
We're the Millers is a 2013 American criminal comedy road movie directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.
It stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, and Ed Helms. It is about a drug trafficker in Denver. He recruits a woman to pretend to be his wife and two teenagers to pretend to be his children in order to make it less likely that he will be caught when they travel to Mexico to smuggle cannabis into the United States.
It was released in the U.S. on August 7, 2013 by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.
On February 25, 2014, New Line Cinema has set Adam Sztykiel to write the script for the sequel film. The film remade in Kolamavu Kokila in Tamil language.
Marcel Masse
Marcel Masse (May 27, 1936 – August 25, 2014) was a Canadian politician. He served as a Quebec MLA and minister, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.
Masse died on August 25, 2014, aged 78.
Benno Pludra
Benno Pludra (October 1, 1925 – August 27, 2014)) was a German children's author. He was born in Mückenberg, now Lauchhammer-West.
Pludra wrote narratives and novels for children and teenagers. His books in total sold more than five million times, which made him one of the most successful authors of East Germany. Some of his books have been made into movies.
Pludra died in Potsdam, Germany, aged 88.
Fernando Zunzunegui
Fernando Zunzunegui Rodríguez (5 October 1943 – 28 August 2014) was a Spanish footballer. He played as a defender. He was born in Vigo, Spain.
He played for Celta from 1962 through 1963. Then he played for Turista from 1963 through 1965. Then he played for Celta from 1965 through 1973. Then he played for Real Madrid from 1973 through 1976.
Zunzunegui died in Madrid, Spain, aged 70.
Jean-François Beltramini
Jean-François Beltramini (5 February 1948 – 27 August 2014) was a French footballer. He played as a striker. He played professionally between 1969 and 1985. He played clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain, Stade de Reims, Paris and FC Rouen.
Beltramini was born in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, Yvelines. He was of Italian ancestry.
Beltramini died after a long illness on 27 August 2014 in Rouen, aged 66.
Peter Bacon Hales
Peter Bacon Hales (November 13, 1950 – August 26, 2014) was an American historian, photographer, writer, and musician. His works were in American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography, and contemporary art. His wrote six books including "Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915", and "Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project". He was a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) faculty member for 32 years, including four years as chair of his department (art history). He retired in 2012.
Hales was born in Pasadena, California. He graduated from Haverford College in 1972. He was married to Maureen Pskowski.
Hales died in a road accident on August 26, 2014 near his home in Stone Ridge, New York. He was 63. He was killed when a car driver hit his bicycle .
Elfriede Brüning
Elfriede Brüning (8 November 1910 – 5 August 2014), also known as Elke Klent, was a German communist journalist and novelist. She worked for newspapers such as the "Berliner Tageblatt", the "Berliner Börsen-Courier" and the "Vossische Zeitung".
Brüning was born in Berlin. In 1930, she joined the Communist Party of Germany. Before World War II, she was arrested in 1935 for communism-related activities, before being released in 1937. In 1937, she married Joachim Barckhausen, a writer and editor. Their daughter, Christiane, born in 1942, also became a writer. After the German reunification, she became a member of Die Linke (). Brüning turned 100 in November 2010.
Brüning died from natural causes on 5 August 2014 in Berlin, aged 103.
Lars Mortimer
Lars Mortimer (22 March 1946 – 25 August 2014) was a Swedish cartoonist and comics artist. He was the creator and writer of the comic strip "Hälge". He made the comic strip from September 1991 until his death in August 2014. From 2001, "Hälge" got a section in a newspaper and was released monthly. He also created the comic strip "Bobo", published between 1973 and 1990.
Mortimer was born in Sundsvall, Västernorrland County. He was of British ancestry. He had two children.
Mortimer died after a short illness on 25 August 2014 in Alfta, Hälsingland. He was 68.
Bill Kerr
William Henry "Bill" Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014) was an Australian stage, television and movie actor and comedian. He first worked as a child actor for a short time during the early 1930s. He later returned to acting in the 1950s. He found great success while in Britain. He appeared on radio in BBC's "Hancock's Half Hour" between 1951 and 1958. He became known as "the boy from Wagga Wagga". He used his famous catchphrase was "I'm only here for four minutes..." while in the UK. He also appeared in television series such as "Doctor Who" and "The Young Doctors". He played uncle Jack in the 1981 movie "Gallipoli". He was nominated for many AACTA Awards.
Kerr was born in Cape Town, South Africa to Australian parents. He moved with his family to Australia and grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He served in the army during World War II. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. He was first married to Virginia from 1955 until their divorce. They had two children. He got married a second time to Sandra in 1983. They remained married until Kerr's death. They also had two children.
Kerr died on 28 August 2014 at his home in Perth, Western Australia. He was 92.
Douglas Carswell
John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British politician. He is a Eurosceptic and a libertarian. Carsewell was elected to Parliament at the 2005 general election. On 28 August 2014 left the Conservative Party to be a member of UKIP.
Following his resignation from the Conservatives, he ran for his seat Clacton-on-Sea as a UKIP candidate. He was elected UKIP's first MP in the House of Commons in the by-election held on 9 October 2014.
In March 2017, Carswell said that he was quitting UKIP to be an independent MP. In April 2017 he said he would not stand in the 2017 general election.
Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars Rebels is an American 3D CGii animated series produced by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. It is set 14 years after "" and 5 years before "". The visual style of "Star Wars Rebels" is heavily inspired by the original "Star Wars" trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie. The series premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channel, with a movie special, titled "Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion".
Adapted from books turned in to short one minute to promote the series and made available online.
Lucasfilm and Disney have confirmed a second season.
"Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion" premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channels worldwide.
The series began airing in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 16, 2014. In Australia, premiered on October 17, 2014. The series started airing in South Africa on October 18, 2014 and in Canada on October 19, 2014.
"Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion" was made to DVD on retailers that came including character shorts, plush toy and prievew of season one.
The one hour special garnered 2.743 million viewers in the United States, the second most on the network that night. Worldwide, it delivered a total of 6.5 million viewers.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 78, based on 4 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews".
IGN and Variety in particular had strong praise for the pilot movie, "Spark of Rebellion", but their only real criticism was the appearance of the Wookiees in the film, being cited as not all that impressive compared to the rest of the animation.
Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm is an American movie and television production company. It is based in the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco, California. It is best known for the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" movie franchises. It does live action and animation. In 2013, Disney announced that they would buy Lucasfilm Limited for one billion dollars. Lucasfilm became a subsidiary of Disney.
Lucasfilm was created in 1971 by George Lucas (creator of the "Star Wars" Franchise). It had a Lucasfilm Animation division for animation products. Lucasfilm Ltd. had done services of products in Live Action movies and Animated television series and movies.
Freelan Oscar Stanley
Freelan Oscar Stanley (1849 – 1940), was an American educator, inventor and manufacturer. He left teaching to join his twin brother Francis Edgar Stanley in the photographic dry plate business. After selling the business, the two brothers invented and manufactured the Stanley Steamer car. They were pioneers in the use of steam engines to power cars.
Freelan O. Stanley and his twin brother Francis E. Stanley were born on 1 June 1849 in Kingsfield, Maine. Their parents were Solomon and Apphia (French) Stanley. Solomon Stanley was both a farmer and a teacher. Freelan and his brother Francis graduated from Farmington State Normal School in Farmington, Maine. The school is now the University of Maine at Farmington. Freelan became a teacher and taught at Andover, Lisbon and Farmington, Maine. He later became principal of the high school at Mechanic Falls, Maine. In 1876 he met and married Flora Tileston.
In 1885 he and his twin brother left their jobs and started a company to make photographic plates for photographers. they sold their shop four years later when they moved to Watertown, Massachusetts. They started another photographic plate business, but sold it to Eastman Kodak in 1904. The photographic plate business had made both brothers very wealthy.
In 1896 Freelan and his brother Francis visited the Brockton County Fair. They saw a steam car and decided to build one themselves. In 1897 the two brothers began making steam-powered cars. Their steam cars had a much lighter boiler and a lighter steam engine than the rest. They were soon making about 200 cars a year. In 1899 they purchased a bicycle factory in Watertown and began building their cars. They then sold their car company to John B. Walker and Amzi L. Barber for $250,000 USD. With it they sold the rights to their car designs. The sale had a clause that the two Stanley brothers could not build and sell cars for two years. The Stanley brothers broke the clause and had to give their new design to the company Walker and Barber formed, the Locomobile Company of America. In 1901 Francis and Freelan Stanley formed a new car company, the Stanley Motor Carriage Company.
In business, the twins looked exactly alike and dressed the same. They even trimmed their beards the same. People they worked with said the only way to tell them apart was each had a different reaction when you told him a joke. As other car companies moved from steam to gasoline power, their Stanley Steamer became the most popular steam powered car. As the internal combustion engine designs improved, however, steam and electric cars lost much of their popularity. Finally, the numbers of cars sold went down to less than 600 a year in 1918. That year the Stanley brothers sold the company to Prescott Warren, a Chicago businessman. both brothers retired. A few months later, while he was driving home from a trip to Maine, Francis' car ran off the road. Francis was driving a new 1918 Model 735 Stanley Steamer. He died in the accident, July 21, 1918.
In 1903 Freelan came down with tuberculosis and was given less than a year to live. He and his wife Flora came to Colorado to try to improve his health. The couple fell in love with Estes Park, Colorado. Stanley's health began to improve and in 1906 he began building a large hotel. The site had spectacular views of Rocky Mountain National Park. He opened his hotel in 1909. It had luxuries (for that time) of telephones, electricity and indoor plumbing. He had a fleet of Stanley Steamers to bring guests to his hotel, named The Stanley Hotel. The Stanley Hotel was the inspiration behind Stephen King's book "The Shining". King wrote much of the book while he was a guest in room 217. Other famous guests of the hotel include Theodore Roosevelt, Molly Brown and the Emperor of Japan.
Stanley made a number of contributions to Estes Park. He built a hydroelectric plant to provide electricity to the town. He gave land for parks, a fairground and he improved roads in the area. He spent every summer in Estes Park for 37 years. He died on October 2, 1940 at age 91.
Eastman Kodak Company was started by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong in 1881. They made their headquarters in Rochester, New York. It began as the Eastman Dry plate company. The company made Photographic plates for Photographers. It changed from a partnership to a corporation in 1884. In 1888 it changed its name again to the Eastman Kodak Company. This is when they released their first hand-held camera called the Kodak. It used a roll of photographic film which the company had started making in 1885. It was a camera simple enough for anyone to take pictures. Eastman Kodak re-invented photography and became an American success story. But their success would not last.
At first photographers used glass plates they had to coat with an emulsion. But they had to be used within minutes of being coated. They also had to be processed into a picture right away. In 1878, Eastman successfully created dry plates that could be coated with a gelatin solution. These could be used at the photographer's convenience. They did not require all the heavy equipment wet plates did. Eastman decided to go into business selling them. He invented a machine to mass-produce dry plates. In 1888, the company sold the first Kodak box cameras. The slogan was "you press the button, we do the rest". For $24 USD the camera came already loaded with film capable of taking 100 pictures. The camera was sent back to the factory where for $10 the film was developed into pictures. These cameras first used paper film but later turned to Nitrocellulose film. An indexing roller to hold film was invented by David Houston. It had square holes in the edge of the film to advance the film with no waste or Multiple exposures. But Eastman did not want to pay to license his patent. So they bought his patent in 1899. Kodak kept making dry plates until that market dried up. Their main profit was in film and film developing papers and chemicals. They made film for the movie industry, 16mm film for hobby filmmaking and cameras of all kinds. In the mid- 1920s they came out with color film. In 1929 Kodak created motion picture film for adding sound to motion pictures.
In 1947 Edward Land invented the Polaroid instant camera. The camera could develop its own pictures inside the camera in 60 seconds. Within five years Polaroid sold over a million cameras. Kodak took notice. Since Kodak held 80% of the market for photographic development, instant cameras were a real threat. Kodak quickly came out with their own instant camera. Land sued Kodak for $12 billion for using its technology. In 1990 Land won and Kodak quit making instant cameras. But they won only a fraction of what they said Kodak's action had cost them, and Land went out of business in 2001.
Fujifilm, the Japanese photography company, began selling inexpensive film in the United States in the 1980s. Since their film cost much less than Kodak's, by 1999 they had a large share of the film market. Kodak lost millions of dollars and had many layoffs. When Digital cameras became popular, Kodak quickly joined that market. By 1999 they were the second largest maker of digital cameras. But they lost $60 on each one they sold.
Kodak made so many marketing mistakes that its stock dropped from $76 a share in 1999 to $25 in 2004. They dropped out of the film manufacturing business. Finally Kodak was dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In 2012 the 131-year-company filed for bankruptcy. After selling off many of its products to other companies, Kodak came out of bankruptcy a much smaller company.
Delminium
Delminium was an ancient Illyrian city. It was the capital of the Dalmatae which was in today's Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. People lived in The area of Tomislavgrad even before the Illyrians arrived. This is shown by a few polished stone axes from the Neolithic (4000 BC – 2400 BC) period.
Dalmatae
Jack Kraft
John J. "Jack" Kraft (c. 1921 – August 28, 2014) was an American basketball coach. He coached Villanova for 12 years, from 1961 through 1973. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kraft died on August 28, 2014 at the age of 93 in New Jersey.
Alicia Alonso
Alicia Alonso (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad Martínez Hoya; 21 December 1921 – 17 October 2019) was a Cuban ballerina and choreographer. She was known for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of "Carmen".
Alonso died in Havana on 17 October 2019 at the age of 98.
Ignacio López Tarso
Ignacio López Tarso (born Ignacio López López on January 15, 1925) is a Mexican actor of stage, movie and television. He acted in about 50 movies and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. He was known for his title role in the 1960 movie "Macario". Tarso was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for "Rosa Blanca", and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007.
On 22 May 2016, Tarso underwent surgery to treat a growing tumor in his large intestine and polyps in his small intestine. Tarso was later placed under intensive care unit.
Oakes, North Dakota
Oakes is a city in Dickey County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,856 at the 2010 census. Oakes was founded in 1886.
Björn Waldegård
Björn Waldegård (12 November 1943 - 29 August 2014) was a Swedish rally driver. He was the winner of the inaugural World Rally Championship for drivers in 1979. His Swedish nickname was "Walle".
Waldegård died in Stockholm, Sweden from cancer, aged 70.
John Anthony Walker
John Anthony Walker Jr. (July 28, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was an American criminal and spy. He served as a United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist. He was convicted of spying on the United States working for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985.
After Walker's arrest, Caspar Weinberger, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense, concluded that the Soviet Union made significant gains in naval warfare attributable to Walker's spying.
Walker died August 28, 2014, while still in prison. He would have been eligible for parole in 2015.
Double Impact is a 1991 crime drama and action-adventure movie. It is about twin brothers involved with crime and secrets. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays the brothers Chad and Alex.
The movie received negative reviews from the critics. Despite that, the movie was #2. "Double Impact" was released on August 9, 1991.
Doc Hollywood is a 1991 romantic comedy movie. The movie is about life experiences. Michael J. Fox plays Doctor Benjamin Stone. Woody Harrelson plays Hank Gordon. Bridget Fonda plays Nancy Lee.
"Doc Hollywood" was released on August 2, 1991. The reviews of the movie were positive.
Glenn Cornick
Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick (23 May 1947 - 28 August 2014) was a British musician. He was the first bass guitar player in the progressive rock band, Jethro Tull. He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire (now part of Cumbria).
Cornick died in Hilo, Hawaii, United States, on 29 August 2014 due to congestive heart failure, aged 67.
Bob Wareing
Robert Nelson "Bob" Wareing, commonly known as Bob Wareing (20 August 1930 - 29 August 2014) was a British politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Derby from 1983 to 2010. Until November 2007, he was a Labour MP, but resigned in May 2010.
Wareing died in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, aged 84.
Ed and Lorraine Warren
Edward Warren Miney (September 7, 1926 – August 23, 2006) and Lorraine Rita Warren ("née" Moran; January 31, 1927 – April 18, 2019) were American paranormal investigators and authors. They are associated with famous cases of haunting.
Edward was a World War II United States Navy veteran and former police officer. He became a self-taught, self-proclaimed expert demonologist, author, and lecturer. His wife Lorraine was a professed clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband.
Their cases have even become blockbuster movies such as "The Amityville Horror", "The Haunting in Connecticut", "The Conjuring", "The Conjuring 2" and "".
Both Ed and Lorraine Warren were born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Ed Warren died in Monroe, Connecticut at the age of 79. Lorraine Warren died on April 19, 2019, at the age of 92.
Brasse Brännström
Lars Erik "Brasse" Brännström (27 February 1945 – 29 August 2014) was a Swedish actor. He started acting in 1972. He won two Guldmasken Awards. He appeared in the 2005 Finnish-Swedish movie "Mother of Mine" (, ). One of his last movie roles was in "Bäst före" (2013).
Brännström was born in Stockholm. He attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm.
Brännström died on 29 August 2014 in Stockholm, aged 69.
Patrick Wilson (American actor)
Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3, 1973) is an American actor and singer. He is known for his roles in "The Alamo", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Little Children", "Watchmen", "The A-Team", "The Ledge", "Insidious", and as Ed Warren in "The Conjuring", "The Conjuring 2" and "The Conjuring 3".
Wilson appeared in a voice cameo appearance as the President of the United States in "" (2016) and appeared as Ocean Master in "Aquaman" (2018).
Edie McClurg
Edie McClurg (born July 23, 1951) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, voice artist, and comedienne. She is known for her roles in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", "Carrie", and in "Frozen".
Off-site data protection
In computing, off-site data protection, or vaulting, is the strategy of sending critical data off the main site. The place where the data is stored is often called the data vault.
In many organisations, there is some data which is so important that it must be protected. Protection against hacking can be done by means of software, but protection against physical damage is a different problem. The solution is to put the data in more than one place, so a major disaster, (such as fire or explosions) does not prevent the recovery of the computer system with all its most important data.
Data is usually taken off-site using media such as magnetic tape or optical storage. Data can also be sent electronically to a remote backup service, which is called "electronic vaulting" or "e-vaulting".
Sending backups off-site makes sure systems and servers can be reloaded with the latest data in the event of a disaster, accidental error, or system crash. Sending backups off-site also ensures there is a copy of data that is not stored on-site. Off-site backup services are convenient for companies that backup data on a daily basis (classified and unclassified).
Although some organizations manage and store their own off-site backups, many choose to have their backups managed and stored by others who specialize in the protection of off-site data.
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment, or IDE, is a computer program that makes it easier to write other computer programs. They are used by computer programmers to edit source code, and can be easier to use than other text editors for new programmers. They can have compilers so programmers don't have to open other programs to compile the source code. They also often have syntax highlighting. A feature of an IDE is to check the syntax, and libraries can be added to increase functionality. It also may have predictive coding that can finish lines with syntax such as brackets or semicolons and can suggest variables to be used. It also may have debuggers that can step through lines, take breaks and inspect variables.
An IDE often comes with an interpreter and a compiler. Certain IDEs can allow multi-language which means that functions can be written in different languages.
Syntax highlighting is where a text editor, integrated development environment or other computer program shows different parts of some source code in different colours. This makes it easier for computer programmers to read the source code and understand what it does. It can be done in different colors, and different programming languages have different rules about what parts of the source code need to be different colors.
This is an example comparing some C code without syntax highlighting and with syntax highlighting:
Victor J. Stenger
Victor John Stenger (January 29, 1935 – August 27, 2014) was an American particle physicist, educator, philosopher, writer, and religious skeptic. He worked with New Atheism and he also wrote popular science books. He wrote books about physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience. He wrote "The New York Times" bestseller "God: The Failed Hypothesis", published in 2007. His final book was called "God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson", published in 2013. He was also a science columnist for "The Huffington Post". He worked at universities such as the University of Hawaii and the University of Colorado Boulder.
Stenger was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was an immigrant from Lithuania. His mother's parents were immigrants from Hungary. He married Phylliss in 1962. They had two children.
Stenger died from an aortic aneurysm on August 27, 2014 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was 79.
Shogun (album)
Shogun was the fourth studio album by the heavy metal band Trivium. The album released on September 23 2008 through Roadrunner Records. Work on the album started in October 2007, when the band wanted to try new things with their music.
The album got very good reviews from many different websites. About.com gave the album four stars saying that "Shogun won't silence Trivium's legions of critics, but I think most fans will like the harsh vocals along with the great riffs and memorable melodies." Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia said Shogun was "Trivium's most challenging and ambitious album yet." IGN's Ed Thompson said that the "band have done what absolutely needed to be done." Thompson said it was Trivium's best album to date.
David Bala
David Bala (1947 – 29 August 2014) was a Singaporean comedian and actor. He was best known for his roles in "Tetangga", "Just Follow Law", "Ah Long Pte Ltd" and "The Ghosts Must Be Crazy".
Bala died on 29 August 2014 from heart disease, aged 67.
Bipan Chandra
Bipan Chandra (1928-30 August 2014) was an Indian historian. He wrote about economic and political history of modern India. He specialized on the national movement and is considered to be one India's greatest scholars on Mahatma Gandhi. He wrote several books, including "The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism".
Chandra died on the morning of 30 August 2014, at his home in Gurgaon, after a long-illness, aged 86.
Graph (mathematics)
In mathematics, a graph is used to show how things are connected. The things being connected are called vertices, and the connections among them are called edges. If vertices are connected by an edge, they are called adjacent. The degree of a vertex is the number of edges that connect to it. A graph's size formula_1is the number of edges in total. The number of vertices, written as formula_2, is called the order of a graph.
Edges may have weights, which show the costs associated with using each edge. In a graph of cities on a map, the cost may be the distance between two cities, or the amount of time it takes to travel between the two.
Directed graphs go in one direction, like water flowing through a bunch of pipes. Undirected graphs don't have a direction, like a mutual friendship. A graph where there is more than one edge between two vertices is called multigraph. One where there is at most one edge is called a simple graph. A simple graph, where every vertex is directly connected to every other is called complete graph. A loop is an edge that connects to its own vertex. Loops are only allowed in multigraphs.
A sequence of edges is called a path. A path which starts and ends at the same edge is called a cycle.
Jacques Friedel
Jacques Friedel (11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a French physicist, educator and material scientist. He was the President of the French Academy of Sciences from 1992 until 1994. He worked at many universities in France. He also wrote more than 200 journal articles.
Friedel was born in Paris. He came from a family of academics. He studied at École Polytechnique from 1944 until 1946.
Friedel died on 27 August 2014 in Paris of pneumonia, aged 93.
Tabby cat
Tabby cat, also known as grey tiger, or simply tabby is the name for domestic cats with fur coats of stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns. These cats often have a mark that looks like the letter "M" on their foreheads. Tabbies are not a cat breed. Tabby cats are very common. About two-thirds of the world's cat population are tabbies.
The tabby pattern is in many pure breeds of cats, as well as in mixed breeds. The tabby pattern happens naturally because of cats' closest ancestor, the African Wildcat. It has the same colors and patterns.
There are four tabby patterns that are genetically different: mackerel, classic, spotted, and ticked.
There is also a fifth pattern that includes tabby as part of another basic color pattern. The "patched" tabby is a calico or tortoiseshell cat with tabby patches (also known as "caliby" and "torbie").
Mackerel is the original pattern and is by far the most common tabby pattern. The legs and tail have dark bars as do the cat's cheeks. A "mackerel tabby" has narrow stripes that run in parallel down its sides. This is what some people refer to as a "tiger." An "M" shape appears on the forehead along with dark lines across the cat's cheeks to the corners of its eyes. Mackerels are also called 'Fishbone tabbies' probably because of the mackerel fish. A mackerel tabby pattern is the only striped coat pattern seen in domestic cats.
The classic tabby cat (also known as "blotched" or "marbled") has a pattern usually in the colors of dark brown, ochre, and black; but sometimes grey. Classic tabbies have the "M" pattern on their foreheads too. The body is marked with a whirled or swirled pattern (often called a "bullseye") on the cat's sides. There is also a light colored "butterfly" pattern on the shoulders and three thin stripes (the center stripe is dark) running along its spine. Classic tabbies have dark stripes on their legs, tail, and cheeks. Classic tabby is a recessive trait, so these cats are not as common as mackerel tabbies.
A ticked tabby pattern makes a grizzly color of fur of dark and light bands or bars. These break up the tabby pattern into a "salt-and-pepper" look. Some stripes or bars can often be seen on the lower legs, face and belly and sometimes at the end of the cat's tail.
The spotted tabby has a gene that breaks up the mackerel tabby pattern so that the stripes appear as spots. Sometimes, the stripes of a classic tabby's pattern may be broken into larger spots. Both large spot and small spot patterns can be seen in the Australian Mist, Bengal, Egyptian Mau, Maine Coon, and Ocicat breeds.
Tabbies may be brown, grey, orange, or calico, including dilute versions of these colors. The most common tabby color is brown. All orange cats are tabbies, and the orange portion of calico cats will always show tabby patterns. Since the orange gene is on the X chromosome, about 80% of orange tabby cats are male, and nearly all calico cats are female. Colorpoint cats (Siamese, Himalayan, etc) that are tabbies are referred to as lynx point. As with solid-color cats, tabbies may also be partly white, such as tuxedo or van patterns. The tabby pattern is not visible at all in the white portion.
The mackerel tabby pattern was the first tabby pattern in domestic cats. It is believed to have come from the African Wildcat and the European Wildcat. Both of these wild cats have a pale, striped tabby pattern. But when those breeds mixed, it made a more distinct mackerel tabby coat. At first, the mackerel tabby was common in all domestic cats. But later, other tabby patterns happened because of mutations and selective breeding of the mackerel tabby. All domestic cats have the tabby gene. But the genes of some cat breeds hide the tabby appearance.
Superman: Escape from Krypton
Superman: Escape from Krypton (used to be known as Superman: The Escape) is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, United States. When it opened in 1997, it was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. It is similar to a roller coaster called Tower of Terror II at Dreamworld in Australia. The ride closed in 2010 so that it could be changed from "Superman: The Escape" to "Superman: Escape from Krypton". The new ride opened in 2011, with new trains that face backwards and with new colors.
Doug is a television show. It was on Nickelodeon in 1991-1994. It was on ABC in 1996-1999. Doug was 11-12 years old in seasons 1-4. He was 13 years old in seasons 5-7.
Doug - Doug is the main character. Dougs voice changed in the final episode.
George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician. He is a former member of the Labour Party, but left in October 2003; later he was in the Respect Party, until this group was wound up in 2016.
Galloway was born and raised in Dundee, Scotland. He joined the Labour Party Young Socialists when he was 13 years old.
In 1983 Galloway became General Secretary of the London charity War on Want. Galloway was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Hillhead from 1987-1997 and Glasgow Kelvin from 1997-2005. In 1998, he started a political campaign called the Mariam Appeal. Galloway became the Vice-President of the Stop the War Coalition in 2001. Galloway was thrown out of the Labour Party in 2003 because of some of his actions. From 2004 to 2016, he was a leading figure in Respect. He was MP for Bethnal Green and Bow from 2005-2010. from 29 March 2012 to 8 May 2015 he was the Respect Party MP for Bradford West.
Galloway was a housemate in the 2006 series of Celebrity Big Brother.
Galloway stood in the 2016 London Mayoral election, but came seventh in the vote.
In 1979, he married Elaine Fyffe; their daughter was born in 1983. The couple divorced in 1999. In 2000, he married Amineh Abu-Zayyad; she divorced him in 2009 for his unreasonable behaviour. He married Rima Husseini in 2007; their sons were born in 2007 and 2011. He married Putri Gayatri Pertiwi in 2012. Their son was born in 2014.
First Minister of Wales
The First Minister of Wales () is the leader of the Welsh Government. Wales' government is devolved, meaning it can make decisions on certain laws in Wales (any other laws are decided by the UK Government in Westminster). It was established in 1999.
The First Minister has several responsibilities:
The office of the First Minister is in Tŷ Hywel, and at the Senedd building in Cardiff. An office is also kept at the Crown Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The current First Minister, since 2018, is Mark Drakeford. The longest-serving First Minister was Rhodri Morgan.
Chloe (movie)
Chloe is a 2009 American-Canadian-French erotic drama mystery movie. This movie is about the title character doing business as a call girl. Amanda Seyfried plays the title character. Julianne Moore plays gynecologist Catherine. Liam Neeson plays Catherine's husband David, who is a college professor.
This movie was released on March 26, 2010 in the United States. The movie got mixed reviews.
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government () is the executive of the devolved government in Wales.
The Welsh Government is required to explain its actions to the National Assembly for Wales, which is the body that creates laws in Wales.
The current First Minister is Carwyn Jones. He was appointed by the Queen on 12 May 2011, who also appointed 10 ministers and deputy ministers. The Counsel General is Theodore Huckle QC.
The Welsh Government and the National Assembly for Wales were created as separate organisations by the "Government of Wales Act 2006".
In the Act, the Government is called the "Welsh Assembly Government", but to avoid confusion between National Assembly and the Government, it was renamed the Welsh Government in May 2011, just like the Scottish Government did in 2007.
The Welsh Government is made up of several people:
Yoenis Céspedes Milanés (born October 18, 1985) is a Cuban professional baseball player. He is an outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). Céspedes played before for the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, and the Detroit Tigers. He has also played in the Cuban National Series. He is a member of the Cuba national baseball team. Céspedes won the Home Run Derby in 2013 and 2014.
On July 31, 2015, Céspedes was traded from the Detroit Tigers to the New York Mets in exchange for minor league pitchers Michael Fulmer and Luis Cessa.
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997) was an American chemist. He discovered the Calvin cycle (with Andrew Benson and James Bassham). He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Calvin spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
Using the carbon-14 isotope as a tracer, Calvin and colleagues mapped the complete route that carbon travels through a plant during photosynthesis. It starts with its absorption as atmospheric carbon dioxide, and ends with its conversion into carbohydrates and other organic compounds.
They showed that sunlight acts on the chlorophyll in a plant to fuel the manufacture of organic compounds. Calvin was the sole recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He wrote an autobiography three decades later titled "Following the trail of light: a scientific odyssey".
During the 1950s he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research. In 1963 he was given the additional title of Professor of Molecular Biology.
Welsh Parliament
The Welsh Parliament () is a devolved parliament with the power to make laws in Wales. It is also called the Welsh Assembly or Senedd. Between 1999 and 2020, it had the name National Assembly for Wales.
The Assembly was created after the "Government of Wales Act 1998" law, which was introduced after a referendum in 1997. The Assembly had no powers to make "primary legislation" until the "Government of Wales Act 2006" law, which gave the Assembly limited powers to make laws.
Its powers were increased again after a Yes vote in a referendum on 3 March 2011, which allowed the Assembly to make laws without having to make a request to the Parliament of the UK, or to the Secretary of State for Wales.
The Senedd has 60 members, called Members of the Senedd, or MSs for short. In Welsh, they are called "Aelod o'r Senedd".
Members of the Senedd are elected for 4 years in an "additional members system - "40 AMs are elected by the "plurality system, "and represent the different areas of Wales. Another 20 AMs from 5 electoral regions are also elected, by the "proportional representation system."
Member of the Senedd
Members of the Senedd ("MSs for short") are elected members of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament). They represent the people from the different areas of Wales. They are elected for a four year term.
Carwyn Jones
Bridgend
Bridgend (; , meaning "Head of the Bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The river crossed by the original bridge, which gave the town its name, is the River Ogmore, but the River Ewenny also passes to the south of the town.
Historically a part of Glamorgan, Bridgend has grown a lot since the early 1980s - the United Kingdom Census in 2001 found a population of 39,429, and the 2011 census found that the Bridgend Local Authority had a population of 139,200 up from 128,700 in 2001. This 8.2% rise was the largest in Wales except for Cardiff. The town is undergoing redevelopment, with the town centre pedestrianised and a new business park opened.
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth University () is a "public research university" in Aberystwyth, Wales.
The university was a founding "Member Institution" of the University of Wales, a group of Welsh universities which all issued degrees from the 'University of Wales'. After the University of Wales split, Aberystwyth started issuing its own 'Aberystwyth University' degrees again.
There are over 7,500 students in the University's three main schools of arts, social science and the sciences.
Fribourg (city)
Liestal
Current affairs
Current affairs is a type of broadcast journalism that analyzes and discusses recent News stories. This can include news that is still happening. Most of the discussion is on why, where and how a story has happened.it tells you about the recent happenings
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Fresnillo de Trujano
Fresnillo de Trujano is a town and municipality in Oaxaca, Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 98.24 km².
It is part of the Huajuapan District in the north of the Mixteca Region.
Appenzell (town)
Independence Day of Ukraine
The Independence Day of Ukraine (Ukrainian: День незалежності України) is the main state holiday in Ukraine. It is held on August 24, remembering the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence of 1991. It was first celebrated on 16 July 1991, as the first anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. Since the Declaration of Independence was issued later, and confirmed by a referendum on 1 December 1991, the date of the holiday was changed. Starting in 2004, 23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag.
Anzoátegui
Anzoátegui (, ), is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Anzoátegui is known for its beautiful beaches that attract many visitors. Its coast has only one beach. The beach is about long.