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The Solicitor General determines the legal position that the United States will take in the Supreme Court. In addition to supervising and conducting cases in which the government is a party, the office of the Solicitor General also files "amicus curiae" briefs in cases in which the federal government has a significant interest in the legal issue.
The office of the Solicitor General argues on behalf of the government in virtually every case in which the United States is a party, and also argues in most of the cases in which the government has filed an "amicus" brief.
Noel Francisco
Noel John Francisco (born August 21, 1969) is an American attorney and the 47th Solicitor General of the United States from September 19, 2017 to July 3, 2020. He served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.
Francisco was nominated to be Solicitor General of the United States in the Donald Trump administration in March 2017. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 50-47 on September 19, 2017. He took office the same day.
Charles Fried
Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935) is a Czech-born American jurist and lawyer of Jewish descent. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School.
Fried is the author of nine books and over 30 journal articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen collections.
Protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations with special protection. They are protected because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural importance. Areas are usually protected by law. The law can be local, from the country of the protected area, or even internationally.
Protected areas are important for biodiversity. They often provide an area safe from hunting or changes to the environment. This provides a safe habitat for threatened and endangered species. They are also important to protect naturally formed areas, like the Grand Canyon, from damage by humans.
There are many types of protected areas. One type is a marine protected area. A marine protected area is for seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes.
Northeast Greenland National Park is an example of a protected area. The park protects a large variety of animals, such as musk oxen, walrus, and King Eider. Another example of a protected area is the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. This area is protected because it is an important archaeological site.
Bonnie Angelo
Veronica Estelle "Bonnie" Angelo (January 29, 1924 – September 17, 2017) was an American journalist and author. She was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was known for being the author of "First Mothers". During her more than twenty-five years with "Time", yet served as a Washington correspondent from 1967–1978, she has reported on the White House and has covered newsmakers and events across America and the world.
Angelo died at a nursing home in Bethesda, Maryland of complications from dementia on September 17, 2017 at the age of 93.
Nutley, New Jersey
Nutley is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 28,370.
What is now Nutley was originally incorporated as Franklin Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1874, from portions of Belleville Township. Nutley was incorporated as a Town on March 5, 1902, replacing Franklin Township.
"New Jersey Monthly" magazine ranked Nutley as its 38th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.
Katt Williams
Micah Sierra "Katt" Williams (born September 2, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, rapper, singer and actor. He acted as Money Mike in "Friday After Next" (2002). He also played Bobby Shaw in "My Wife and Kids". In 2007, he played Lord Have Mercy in "Norbit".
Williams was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Antonio Ibáñez de Alba
Antonio Ibáñez de Alba (born Chiclana de la Frontera, 1956) is a Spanish engineer, researcher and scientist.
He is known mainly for his project of Artificial Palm Trees in Libya for the creation of microclimates in the deser at the Great Man-Made River. The Libyan government invested in this project nearly one billion dollars for the installation of 50,000 palm trees..
During the summer of 2017 his patent of floating water whitout salt was reflected by worldwide media.
His investigations are quoted in scientific publications as well as in the media.
• Self-heating beverages
• Plastic palm trees in the desert.
• Anti-Drowning System
• Fire detection
• Studies on tides
• Electric vehicles without batteries
• Safety in trains
• Hydro Taco
• Piracy protection
• Technological canvas for sports fields
• Tunnel for trains in desert areas
• Explosives power station
• Transmission of brain waves
• Floating water without salt
• Breast Cancer Screening Capsule
• Underwater highways
Hurricane Jose (2017)
Hurricane Jose was a 2017 Atlantic tropical cyclone. The storm threatened the Mid-Atlantic States of Maryland, Delaware, New York and New Jersey, and the New England states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts.
Jose had earlier threatened the Leeward Islands, the same areas hit by Hurricane Irma.
Jose's winds went as high as 155 miles per hour before threatening the Leeward Islands.
Tropical cyclone notices were issued from the Maryland/Delaware border to eastern Massachusetts on September 17, 2017.
Sevendust
Sevendust is an American heavy metal band formed in 1994.
Marine reserve
A marine reserve is a type of marine protected area. The protection is for seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes. Laws protect the plants and animals in a reserve. The area is kept safe for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
In a marine reserve people are not allowed to take plants or animals, except for research. This includes fishing. People are still allowed to swim or scuba dive.
The Ningaloo Reef in Australia is an example of a marine reserve. This reef includes six of the seven types of sea turtles in the world. Another example is Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize. Hol Chan includes coral reefs and a mangrove forest.
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (; 9 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
On September 26, 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm, and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war.
Investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned.
Central Link
Central Link is a train line in Seattle, Washington. It runs 20 miles from the city's airport to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington. The train started running in 2009.
Mike Hicks
Mike Hicks (August 1937 – 7 September 2017) was a British former politician, former executive member of printers’ union SOGAT, and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain from 1988 through 1998. He was also a members of the Labour Party. He was born in Wapping, London, England.
Hicks died on 7 September 2017 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England of a heart attack at the age of 80.
José Florencio Guzmán Correa (22 June 1929 – 16 September 2017) was a Chilean politician. He was born in Santiago de Chile. He was Minister of Defense from 1 August 1998 until 22 June 1999.
Guzmán died on 16 September 2017 in Santiago at the age of 88.
The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 American movie distributed by Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment. The movie is all about pets. Louis C.K. plays Max. Eric Stonestreet plays Duke. Kevin Hart plays Snowball. Jenny Slate plays Gidget. Ellie Kemper plays Katie.
Nicolaas Jouwe
Nicolaas Jouwe (24 November 1923 – 16 September 2017) was a Papuan leader. He was elected Vice President of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea.
As the president of the New Guinea Council, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony. After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and later to Indonesia six months later, Jouwe left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft. He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but nevertheless resettled to West Papua in 2010 to die there.
Jouwe died in West Papua on 16 September 2017 at age 93.
Mary Fairfax
Mary Fairfax (formerly Symonds, born Marie Wein; 15 August 1922 – 17 September 2017) was a Polish-born Australian philanthropist.
As the third wife of Sir Warwick Fairfax she became known as Lady Fairfax upon his knighthood in 1967. She inherited most of his vast fortune upon his death in 1987, becoming one of Australia's richest women.
Fairfax's personal wealth in 2012 was estimated by the "BRW" at A$418 million.
Lucy Ozarin
Lucy Ozarin (8 August 1914 – 17 September 2017) was an American psychiatrist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II.
During her late nineties, Ozarin wrote over fifty brief biographies of psychiatrists on Wikipedia.
Ozarin died in Bethesda, Maryland on 17 September 2017 of respiratory failure at the age of 103.
René Drucker Colín
René Raúl Drucker Colín (15 May 1937 – 17 September 2017) was a Mexican scientist, investigator and journalist. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He worked in the fields of physiology and neuroscience. From 1985 through 1990, he was the Director of Neuroscience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He served as President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences from 2000 through 2002.
Drucker Colín died on 17 September 2017 in Mexico City at the age of 80.
Jean Plaskie
Jean Plaskie (24 August 1941 – 18 September 2017) was a Belgian former football player. He was born in Brussels, Belgium.
He played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean Trappeniers.
Plaskie died on 18 September 2017 in Brussels at the age of 76.
William F. Goodling
William Franklin "Bill" Goodling (December 5, 1927 – September 17, 2017) was an American Republican politician. He was born in Loganville, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district from 1975 through 2001.
At the time of his death, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
Goodling died from complications of a cerebral aneurysm on September 17, 2017 in York, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.
Richard V. Allen
Richard Vincent Allen (born January 1, 1936) was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982, having been Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor from 1977. He has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution since 1983. He was a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.
John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991.
Robert McFarlane
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (born July 12, 1937) is an American Marine Corps officer. He served as National Security Advisor to President of the United States Ronald Reagan from 1983 through 1985.
McFarlane was involved in, and pleaded guilty to charges for actions related to, the Iran-Contra affair, but received a pardon from President George H. W. Bush.
Saliva (band)
Nanyang
Nanyang is a way of writing two common Chinese place names. It may refer to:
Sikorsky S-92
Grumman F11F Tiger
Grumman F11F Tiger is an American fighter jet. It was used by the US Navy, in particular by the Blue Angels. After September 1962 it was called F-11 Tiger.
None were sold to foreign countries.
Ásynja
Ásynja (plural: asynjur) refers to Norse mythology. Female gods in Norse mythology are called Ásynja. The male gods are called Æsir; there are 14 Æsir, and there are also 14 asynjur.
List of Chinese mathematicians
This is a list of noted mathematicians from China.
List of ecologists
This is a list of noted ecologist by country.
Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle
The Virgin and Child is a statue carved out of the tusks of elephants, which is called ivory.
The statue was made some time around the year 1270 in France, and was made for the cathedral (or church) named the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France.
It is forty-one cm tall, and is a sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus.
Some people think this is one of the most beautiful ivory carvings ever made.
The statue is now in the Louvre museum in Paris, France.
Morphallaxis
Morphallaxis is the when some living things regenerate or regrow tissue after the original tissue dies. The word comes from the Greek "allazein", which means "to exchange".
For example, if a Cnidarian hydra, a microscopic animal, is cut in half, two new hydra grow.
Around the year 1930, scientists Wilson and Child showed that if the hydra was smashed to pulp and put through an instrument with tiny holes in it to separate each cell individually but without breaking any one cell, the hydra completely reformed itself.
Most tissue in Morphallaxis grows from material already present material. Not much new tissue is created .
Hésingue
Hésingue is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Hettenschlag
Hindlingen
Hindlingen is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Hirsingue
Hirsingue is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
List of biologists
This is a list of noted biologists.
Hirtzbach
Hirtzfelden
Hochstatt
Hochstatt is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Hohrod
Holtzwihr
Anglards-de-Saint-Flour
Albepierre-Bredons
2017 Puebla earthquake
The 2017 Puebla earthquake struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with a magnitude estimated to be 7.1 on the seismic scale approximately south of Puebla. It has caused damage in the Mexican state of Puebla and the Greater Mexico City area, including the collapse of over twenty buildings.
The quake occurred on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which killed about 10,000 people. The 1985 quake was commemorated on its anniversary with a national earthquake drill at 11 a.m. local time, two hours before the earthquake struck.
A false alarm is an alert that is caused in error. False alarms can happen because of a problem with a technical system (like a faulty fire alarm), or they happen because someone alerted the emergency services in error. Many countries have laws that make causing a false alarm with bad intent (such as making hoax calls to the Police or Fire department) illegal. If there is no bad intent, in general there is also no punishment.
List of Ekushey Padak winners in Education and research
The Ekushey Padak in Education and research winners are listed here.
Electronic paper
Electronic paper and e-paper are display devices that look like ordinary ink on paper.
Many electronic paper technologies keep the same text and images indefinitely without electricity. Flexible electronic paper uses plastic for the display.
Horbourg-Wihr
Horbourg-Wihr is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is near Colmar.
Aspach-Michelbach
Michelbach, Haut-Rhin
Houssen
Gerd Bollmann
Gerd Friedrich Bollmann (28 September 1947 – 17 September 2017) was a German politician. He was born in Wanne-Eickel, Herne. He was a member of the SPD. In the German Bundestag he was one of the top voted SPD members in Germany's national parliament, where he represant the Herne-Area.
Bollmann died on September 17, 2017 at the age of 69.
Langwies
Langwies is a former municipality, in the municipality of Arosa and the district Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Denens
Denens is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Gunningen
Gunningen is a municipality in Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Hunawihr
Hundsbach, Haut-Rhin
Fostoria, Ohio
Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a severe Atlantic tropical cyclone in September 2017 which ended in early October 2017.
It was the 13th named storm, 8th hurricane, 5th major hurricane, and a 2nd Category 5 hurricane of the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
Maria is regarded as the worst natural disaster in Dominican and Puerto Rican history. It struck Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, Guadeloupe, and Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4 hurricane. Maria was a Category 5 hurricane when she hit Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Puerto Rico.
At her peak, Maria had maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. The storm brushed the Eastern United States.
Tropical storm and hurricane notices were posted from Dominican Republic to the Windward Islands.
The damage from Hurricane Maria was inflicted at $90 billion, especially in Puerto Rico after it made a direct hit and landfall in Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4 hurricane.
As of August 28, 2018, 3,057 people were estimated to have been killed by the hurricane: 2,975 in Puerto Rico, 65 in Dominica, 5 in the Dominican Republic, 4 in the United States, 3 in Haiti, 2 in Guadeloupe, and 3 in the United States Virgin Islands.
Due to the large number of deaths and amounts of damage it caused especially in Puerto Rico, the name "Maria" was retired in April 2018 by the World Meteorological Organization, and it was replaced with "Margot" for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.
Tacoma Stars (2003)
Tacoma Stars are a professional indoor soccer team located in Tacoma, Washington.
Reinach, Basel-Landschaft
Reinach (Swiss German: "Rynach") is a municipality of the district Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
Lantsch/Lenz
Lucerne-Land (district)
Lucerne-Land District is a new district of the Swiss canton of Lucerne.
Lucerne-Stadt (district)
Lucerne-Land District is a new district of the Swiss canton of Lucerne. 81,592 people lived there in 31 December 2016. It includes only the city of Lucerne.
On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Littau merged into the city of Lucerne.
The district was created on 1 January 2013.
Erie County, Ohio
Erie County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 77,079 people lived there. The county seat is Sandusky.
Washington County, Ohio
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 61,778 people lived there. The county seat is Marietta.
Butler County, Ohio
Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 368,130 people lived there. The county seat is Hamilton.
Wood County, Ohio
Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 125,488 people lived there. The county seat is Bowling Green.
Hereford, Texas
Hereford is a city of Texas in the United States. 15,370 people lived there in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Deaf Smith.
Franklin, Ohio
Franklin is a city in Ohio. In 2010, 11,771 people lived there. The Great Miami River flows through Franklin.
San Carlos, California
San Carlos is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. 28,406 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Gahanna, Ohio
Gahanna is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Columbus. 33,248 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Galion, Ohio
Galion is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is in Crawford, Morrow, and Richland counties. The population was 10,512 at the 2010 census. Galion is the second-largest city in Crawford County, after Bucyrus.
Marietta, Ohio
Marietta is a city in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Washington County. 14,085 people lived there in the 2010 census.
The Muskingum River and Duck Creek flow into the Ohio River at Marietta.
Lillian Ross
Lillian Ross (Lillian Rosovsky; June 8, 1918 – September 20, 2017) was an American journalist and author. She was born in Syracuse, New York. Ross was a staff writer at "The New Yorker" from 1945 until she retired in 2001. She was known for her interviews with author J. D. Salinger.
Ross died from a stroke in Manhattan on September 20, 2017, at age 99.
James Morwood
James Henry Weldon Morwood (25 November 1943 – 10 September 2017) was an English Classicist, and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Morwood’s status as a teacher of Classics was recognised in the 1990s when he was appointed President of the London Association of Classical Teachers for 1995-6, and subsequently President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) for 1999-2001. Morwood had a long association with JACT and with its Greek Summer School, which was launched in London in 1967
Morwood died in Ouranoupoli, Greece on 10 September 2017 of a heart attack at the age of 73.
David Shepherd (artist)
Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) was a British artist. He was known as one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was born in London, England.
Shepherd was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes. His work has been extremely popular since the 1960s in limited edition print reproduction and poster form, as well as other media such as Wedgwood limited edition plates. He published five books about his art, including an autobiography.
Shepherd died on 19 September 2017 of Parkinson's disease in Manchester, England at the age of 86.
Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
The early conservation movement included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation and sustainable forestry. The contemporary conservation movement has broadened from the early movement's emphasis on use of sustainable yield of natural resources and preservation of wilderness areas to include preservation of biodiversity.
Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American movie producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 movies, dating back to 1967's "Double Trouble", starring Elvis Presley.
The fourth movie he produced, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards. He won an Oscar for Best Picture for 1976's "Rocky". As a producer, he has been nominated for Best Picture for three other films: "Raging Bull", "The Right Stuff", and "Goodfellas".
Winkler was born to a Jewish family in New York City. He studied at New York University.
Ene Mihkelson
Ene Mihkelson (21 October 1944 – 20 September 2017) was an Estonian writer. He was born in Tammeküla, Imavere Parish, Viljandi County.
Mihkelson has also published four novels, a selection of critical essays ("Kirjanduse seletusi", or "Explanations of Literature") and a collection of short stories ("Surma sünnipäev", or "The Birthday of Death"). In 2001 she published the novel "Ahasveeruse uni".
Mihkelson's works frequently include allusions to her childhood, spent in hiding, Estonian mythology, and Estonian history.
In 2006 she was awarded the Herder Prize and in 2010 the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature.
Mihkelson died in Tartu, Estonia on 20 September 2017 at the age of 72.
John Larroquette
John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American actor and television director. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He first became known as the narrator in the 1974 horror movie "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
His roles include Dan Fielding on the 1984–1992 sitcom "Night Court" (winning four consecutive Emmy Awards for his role), Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series "McBride", John Hemingway on "The John Larroquette Show", and Carl Sack in "Boston Legal".
Larroquette is currently playing Jenkins/Galahad in TNT's "The Librarians".
Larroquette battled alcoholism from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on March 10, 2007, he joked, "I was known to have a cocktail or 60." He stopped drinking February 6, 1982.
SummerSlam (2017)
SummerSlam (2017) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for the Raw and SmackDown brands. It took place on August 20, 2017, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was the thirtieth event under the SummerSlam chronology.
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show. The event featured eight championship matches, the most for a SummerSlam event, where five of the titles changed hands. In the main event, Brock Lesnar defeated Braun Strowman, Roman Reigns, and Samoa Joe in a fatal four-way match to retain the Universal Championship and in the penultimate match, Jinder Mahal defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to retain the WWE Championship. On the undercard, AJ Styles defeated Kevin Owens to retain the United States Championship in a match that featured Shane McMahon as the special guest referee, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins defeated Cesaro and Sheamus to win the Raw Tag Team Championship, and John Cena defeated Baron Corbin in the opening match.
Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (1420–1481) was an important French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.
Sore throat
Sore throat or throat pain is pain in a person's throat.
About 7.5% or of people have sore throat in any three-month period. Most of the time, it is caused by viral pharyngitis. It can also be caused by bad tonsils, trauma, strep throat, tumors, and other problems.
Treatment varies with the different causes, but the painful symptoms can be helped with medicine such as cough drops or, in China, pear-syrup candy.
Simmering
Simmering is a method of cooking in water, where the temperature is kept just below that where the water would boil.
The temperature at which this is achieved is around .
To bring water to the point where it simmers, you first heat the water to boiling point, which is , then reduce the heat so that the bubbles on top of the water have almost stopped.
Manuel Mejuto González
Manuel Enrique Mejuto González (born 16 April 1965) is a former Spanish football referee. His most important refereeing role was in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final in Istanbul, between Liverpool and Milan. He became a FIFA listed referee in 1999. He retired in August 2010.
Mejuto was born in La Felguera, Asturias. Outside of football, he is a civil servant.
Northern Norway
Northern Norway is a geographical region of Norway. It is the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark.
Northern Norway has a total of about 35% of the Norwegian mainland. Some of the largest towns in Northern Norway (from south to north) are Mo i Rana, Bodø, Narvik, Harstad, Tromsø and Alta. Northern Norway is often described as the land of the midnight sun and the land of the northern lights.
Kurów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kurów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kołbaskowo, in Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It is the border to Germany. It is 20 km south of Police and 9 km southwest of the regional capital Szczecin.
Sissach
Williams County, Ohio
Williams County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 37,642 people lived there. The county seat is Bryan.
Lavin
Lavin is a former municipality of the district of Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Lavin and Susch merged into the municipality of Zernez.
Maple Heights, Ohio
Maple Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. At the 2010 census, 23,138 people lived there.
Allen County, Ohio
Allen County is a county of Ohio in the United States. As of the 2010 census, 106,331 people lived there. The county seat is Lima.
Van Wert County, Ohio
Van Wert County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 28,744 people lived there. The county seat is Van Wert.
Adams County, Ohio
Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In the 2010 census, 28,550 people lived there. The county seat is West Union. It was founded in 1797 and named after John Adams, the second President of the United States.
Loveland, Ohio
Loveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Huningue
Husseren-les-Châteaux
Husseren-les-Châteaux is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Alfonso X
Alfonso X (23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284), called the Wise, was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death.
Tandem trike
1893 Sea Islands hurricane
The 1893 Sea Islands hurricane was a very deadly tropical cyclone. It was Category 3 under Saffir-Simpson scale. The storm had winds near 120 mph. It made landfall at the Georgia-South Carolina border in late August 1893.
The hurricane had a severe storm surge.
It took the lives of 1,000–2,000 people when it made landfall, mostly from storm surge.
Château de Nantouillet
The is a ruined château at Nantouillet, a very small town in the Seine-et-Marne département of north-central France. Antoine Duprat, a French cardinal and politician, built it in the 16th century. He died in the château on 15 July 1535. There was an old fort on the land before Duprat built the château..
The château was classed as a "monument historique" (historic monument) of France in 1862.
Auglaize County, Ohio
Auglaize County is a county of Ohio in the United States. In 2010, 45,949 people lived there. The county seat is Wapakoneta. It is named after the Auglaize River.
1909 Monterrey hurricane
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane was one of the most deadly tropical cyclones on record. The storm struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, Mexico and southern Texas. This hurricane happened in August 1909.
The winds of the storm peaked at 120 miles per hour.
More than 4,000 lives were lost because of the hurricane.
Prince Giovanni Natoli
Giovanni Forti Natoli or Gianforte Natoli was a Sicilian nobleman, the son of Blasco Natoli Lanza and Domenica Giambruno Perna. He was baron of S. Bartolomeo and Belice. On 20 August 1597 he bought the barony of Sperlinga from Giovanni Ventimiglia, marquis of Gerace, for 30,834 ounces of gold. Natoli was granted a "licentia populandi cum privilegium aedificandi" ("licence to populate and build") by the king of Sicily, Philip II of Spain. In 1627 he was made prince of Sperlinga by Philip IV of Spain.
Natoli was married twice: first to Maria Cottone Aragona, daughter of Stefano, count of Bauso; and second, to Melchiora Orioles Moncada, daughter of Orazio, baron of San Pietro di Patti. With the latter he had a son, Francesco Natoli.
Giovanni Natoli died on 15 July 1633.
Gaga: Five Foot Two
Gaga: Five Foot Two is a documentary starring American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. It was directed by Chris Moukarbel. Gaga, her manager, Bobby Campbell, and Heather Parry (from the concert-promoting company Live Nation) are producers of the movie. It was released through Netflix at 12:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on September 22, 2017.
Gaga held a press conference on September 8, 2017, at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, after she performed in the city on her Joanne World Tour. She talked about the movie and said that she would take a "rest" after the concert tour was over. She wanted the movie to be objectively about her life and said that she would never be able to do so about herself.
The movie features Gaga creating her fifth studio album, "Joanne", with British producer Mark Ronson throughout 2016 and preparing for her Super Bowl LI Halftime Performance that took place on February 5, 2017, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Gaga receives treatments for her chronic pain that has occurred since her cancellation of the Born This Way Ball world tour in 2012–13 because of a hip injury. Gaga revealed that she has fibromyalgia. British singer Florence Welch (from Florence + the Machine) appears with Gaga while they record their duet, "Hey Girl", which became a song on the "Joanne" album.
Gaga's family members make appearances, namely her parents, Joe and Cynthia; her sister, Natali; and paternal grandmother, who listens to Gaga's recording of the song "Joanne". Celebrities such as fashion designer Donatella Versace and singer Elton John appear to support Gaga's Super Bowl performance, along with her friend Sonja Durham, who is battling cancer. Sonja eventually died in May 2017.
Many of Gaga's songs are played throughout the movie, such as "Teeth" (from "The Fame Monster"), "Million Reasons", and "Perfect Illusion" (both from "Joanne").
Currently, the song has a 71% approval rating on the review site Rotten Tomatoes. It also has a 64/100 on Metacritic, meaning the movie has “generally favorable reviews.”
Leggia
Leggia is a former municipality of the district of Moesa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Leggia and Verdabbio merged into the municipality of Grono.
Lohn, Graubünden
Lohn () is a municipality in the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is 13 km south of Thusis.
Lostallo
Scharans
Scharans () is a municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
St. Agata, Stufels, Parnegl and Prin.
Splügen
Splügen (, ) is a former municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2006 Splügen incorporated its neighbouring municipality of Medels im Rheinwald.
On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hinterrhein, Nufenen and Splügen merged to form the new municipality of Rheinwald.
In 1995, the Swiss Heritage Society bestowed the Wakker Prize to Splügen.
The Splügen Pass road leads from Splügen to Chiavenna and rises to a height of .
Scheid
Scheid () is a village and former municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Scheid, Feldis/Veulden, Trans and Tumegl/Tomils merged into the new municipality of Tomils.
Mundaun
Mundaun is a former municipality of the district Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Mundaun and Obersaxen merged into the new municipality of Obersaxen Mundaun.
Veyras
Veyras can mean:
Husseren-Wesserling
Mr. Burns
Bernie Casey
Bernard Terry Casey (June 8, 1939 – September 19, 2017) was an American actor, poet, and professional football player. He was born in Wyco, West Virginia. He played a version of himself, and other football players turned actors, in Keenen Ivory Wayans's 1988 comedic movie "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka". He played a high school teacher in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", released in 1989.
Casey played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1961 through 1966 and for the Los Angeles Rams from 1967 through 1968.
Casey died at a hospital in Los Angeles, California on September 19, 2017 at the age of 78.
Teddy Taylor
Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor (18 April 1937 – 20 September 2017) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.
Taylor died on 20 September 2017 at the age of 80.
Börje Vestlund
Börje Vestlund (2 February 1960 – 22 September 2017) was a Swedish social democratic politician. He was a Member of the Riksdag from 2002 until his death in 2017. He was openly gay.
Vestlund died on 22 September 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 67.
William G. Stewart
William Gladstone Stewart (15 July 1933 – 21 September 2017) was an English television producer, director, and host. He was best known as the presenter and producer of the Channel 4 general quiz show "Fifteen to One" from 1988 to 2003. He was born in Habrough, Lincolnshire, England.
Stewart died on 21 September 2017 at the age of 84.
Mohammed Mahdi Akef
Mohammed Mahdi Akef () (July 12, 1928 – September 22, 2017) was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egypt-based Islamic political movement, from 2004 until 2010. He assumed the post, that of "general guide" () (frequently translated as "chairman") upon the death of his predecessor, Ma'mun al-Hudaybi. Akef was arrested on 4 July 2013.
On 14 July 2013 Egypt's new prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen.
Akef died on 22 September 2017 in Cairo of sepsis at the age of 89.
Sicilians
Sicilians (Sicilian: "Siciliani") are the people native to the island of Sicily, an autonomous region of Italy.
Sicilians are the native people living in the island of Sicily. They are usually bilingual, Sicilian and Italian language are both spoken in the island. After the unification of Italy, Sicilians have been part of the country living in an autonomous region, which is also the fourth most populated of all Italy's regions.
Donald J. Cram
Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen. He specialized in the field of organic chemistry.
Stefan Walter Hell (born 23 December 1962) is a German physicist. He is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
He was born into a Banat Swabian family in Arad, Romania, and grew up at his parents' home in nearby Sântana.
In 1981, he began his studies at the Heidelberg University. He received his doctorate in physics in 1990.
Rudolf Friedrich (4 July 1923 – 15 October 2013) was a Swiss politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1982–1984).
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 8 December 1982 and, for health reason, resigned his office on 20 October 1984. He was a member to the Free Democratic Party. During his office time he held the Federal Department of Justice and Police.
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51 Trouble Hoover Crip
The 51 Trouble gang is an American criminal street gang in Los Angeles, California. Most of the members of the 51 Street gang are African-Americans. The 51 Street gang is one of the oldest street gangs in Los Angeles and it has been occupying its territory since the 1990s.They are close allies with 52 Hoover gangster crips and sometimes this alliance is called 51-duece crips.They are actively at war with rollin 50s which resulted in many casualties.Also,they beef with all the Neighborhoods due to their bitter hatred for them. They protect their communities there from racism against African Americans, disrputive politics, and unjust socialism by urban warfare. The 51 street gang is a conservative movement and are backed and supported by Washington D.C. because of their ancestry in the American Indian wars and World War II.
There have been branches of the 51 Street Gang in other cities, like Kansas City, Missouri.
Authorities have suspected 51 Street Crips of such crimes as giving out fake money.
Bush ballad
The bush ballad, bush song or bush poem is a style of poetry and folk music that describes the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush. Bush ballads usually have a simple rhyme structure. They can be funny or sad. The words used are colourful, colloquial and Australian. They tell stories of action and adventure about bushranging, droving, droughts, floods, life on the frontier, and relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The first ballads were created by British and Irish settlers and convicts who brought with them the folk music of their homelands. They were usually not written down, but passed around verbally. The ballads grew into a unique style over the years, becoming very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Australians thought they were "an authentic expression of the national spirit". Through bush poetry, newspapers and magazines, like "The Bulletin", promoted mateship, egalitarianism, anti-authoritarianism and a concern for the "battler" as being ideal Australian values.
Bush ballads are not as popular in modern times, but the poems written up to Federation are still some of the best-known and loved poems in Australia. The "bush bards" such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson are regarded as giants of Australian literature. Clubs and festivals devoted to bush poetry can be found throughout the country, and the tradition lives on in Australian country music.
The songs tell personal stories of life in Australia. The stories can include mining, raising and droving cattle, sheep shearing, wanderings, war stories, the 1891 Australian shearers' strike, conflict between the working poor and the rich farmers (squatters), bushrangers such as Ned Kelly, as well as love, and more modern themes such as trucking.
Although not technically bush ballads, there are also numerous sea shanties. These were sung by whalers and sailors, as well as songs about the voyage made by convicts and other immigrants from England to Australia.
Modern musical styles for the ballads are different, even though the content is similar. Good examples of the older, traditional ballad style include Slim Dusty's When the Rain Tumbles Down in July or Leave Him in the Long yard. These have strong story lines in the verses, with choruses set to a Pick n' Strum beat. Modern bush ballads may use finger picking and strumming rock styles.
Australia's musical traditions include the English, Scottish, and Irish folk songs of the convicts, as well as the work of pastoral poets of the 1880s.
There was also a hymn singing tradition brought by missionaries in the 19th century. The beginnings of Australia's bush music come from the songs sung by the convicts who were sent to Australia from 1788. They tell of the harsh life of the time, and of people and events including bushrangers, swagmen, drovers, stockmen and shearers. Convict and bushranger verses often complained about the governments misuse of power. Examples include ballads like: The Wild Colonial Boy, Click Go The Shears, The Eumeralla Shore, The Drover's Dream, The Queensland Drover, The Dying Stockman and Moreton Bay.
Later bush ballads told stories of war, droughts, floods, Aboriginality, railways and roads. Isolation and loneliness of life in the Australian bush has been another theme. They often tell of the difficulties and struggles for the working poor people. The bush ballads are often ironic and humorous, for example "Beautiful Land of Australia." They were an oral and folkloric tradition, and only later published in print, such as Banjo Paterson's "Old Bush Songs", in the 1890s.
The lyrics for "Waltzing Matilda", often regarded as Australia's unofficial national anthem, were written by Banjo Paterson in 1895. This type of Australian country music, with lyrics focusing on strictly Australian subjects, is generally known as "bush music" or "bush band music".
The ballads continued in Australia long after popular music took hold in Great Britain. The ballad style in rural England began dying out when land clearances, industrialisation and urbanization saw people moving from the farms into the cities. English popular music began in the working-class music halls during the 1830s and 1840s. Australia, which still had a large rural population, popular music was started a lot later.
As early as the 1920s, the different ethnic groups in Asutralia influenced the ballads. Poncie Cubillo introduced the rondalla with their Filipino string band in Darwin. The ballad tradition has grown to include some of these influences including Chinese and Filipino. There were also the Italians growing tobacco, the de Bortoli family, in "Texas in Queensland", adding to the mix of folk tunes and Tex Morton's hillbilly tunes. Morton, a country music singer from New Zealand, made a number of Australian-themed recordings between 1936 and 1943. These included the "Dying Duffer's Prayer," "Murrumbridgee Jack," "Billy Brink The Shearer," "Stockman's Last Bed," "Wrap Me Up in My Stockwhip and Blanket," "Rocky Ned (The Outlaw)," and "Ned Kelly Song". While these are a part of the bush ballad tradition, Morton sang without an Australian accent and used yodeling like the American singer Jimmie Rodgers. American cowboy and country songs and 1950s rock 'n' roll influenced Australian bush ballads. With increased modern communications, bush ballads share the modern Australian music scene with rockabilly, country music, blues, Texas swing, bluegrass, trail songs, and country pop.
Country and folk musicians including Slim Dusty, Stan Coster, Rolf Harris, The Bushwackers, John Williamson, Graeme Connors and John Schumann of the band Redgum, still record the old bush ballads. Contemporary artists including Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan draw heavily on this heritage. Ashley Cook, a contemporary balladeer, sings about topics relevant to life in agriculture and mining work in Australia's outback: "Cattle, Dust and Leather" and "Blue Queensland Dogs". His song "Road to Kakadu" is about killing water buffalo in Northern Territory in the 1990s to control the Brucellosis disease. "Beneath the Queensland Moon" covers the life and death as a drover.
The bush ballad style is sometimes seen as unsophisticated and simple. This is because it uses cliched images and stereotypes.
The bush ballads have influenced Australian theatre and movies. Since the mid-20th century, bush songs have often been performed by bush bands, such as The Bandicoots or Franklyn B Paverty. There have been female bush balladeers, including Shirley Thoms (1925-1999) known as Australia's yodeling sweetheart, and Indigenous singer-songwriter Yvonne Bradley.
A number of awards have been set up to recognize bush balladeers. Jeff Brown was nominated for a Golden Guitar Award in the Bush Ballad of the Year category for a song he recorded "In the wings of the yard" in 2008. He said it was "...important to keep the old yarns alive through country music ballads. It's our heritage really and it needs to be kept alive somehow and the old bush ballads are the way to do it." Past winners of the Country Music Awards Australia Bush Ballad of the Year include Anne Kirkpatrick and Joy McKean. The Stan Coster Memorial Bush Ballad Award has several categories. In 2007 Reg Poole was male vocalist of the year for ‘A Tribute To Slim’, Graham Rodger was Songwriter of the Year for ‘The Battle Of Long Tan’, and Dean Perrett for Album of the Year for ‘New Tradition’ The magazine, the "Balladeers Bulletin" magazine also hold a "Bush Balladeer Starquest" competition. At the 2008 36th Country Music Awards of Australia held in Tamworth, Amos Morris became the youngest artist ever to win the Golden Guitar trophy for the Bush Ballad of the Year category with "Sign of the Times".
Examples of popular bush ballads and songs include:
Traditional:
The Bush Bards:
Modern writers and singers:
Naki The Beatman
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Naki, hosted a show called "The Power Hour" which featured Kanye West, GLC & Lupe Fiasco. Later, Naki pursued music full time and produced several projects for 50 Cent, Twista, Do Or Die, Lloyd Banks, Angel Davanport, Billy Vidal. Naki, was the first non-celebrity to host MTV2's Sucka Free Sunday. Also, Naki is one of the voting members of The Recording Academy.
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