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Kathleen O'Malley (born March 31, 1924) is an American retired actress. Her career began as a child. Her father was actor Pat O'Malley. Her screen debut came in 1926 in one of his movies, "My old Dutch".
She appeared in many television series such as "Cover Girl", "Lady on a Train", "Two Tickets to Broadway", "Maverick", "Rawhide" and "General Hospital".
Francesco Cossiga (26 July 1928 – 17 August 2010) was an Italian politician. He was the 8th President of Italy, serving from July 1985 to April 1992. He was the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy, serving from August 1979 to 1980.
Cossiga was born in Sassari, Sardinia. He died on 17 August 2010 in Rome, Italy from a respiratory infection, aged 82.
Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi (; born 11 January 1975) is an Italian politician. He is the 56th and current Prime Minister of Italy. He became Prime Minister on 22 February 2014. Before, he was the President of Florence Province from 2004 to 2009 and the Mayor of Florence from 2009 to 2014. He resigned on 5 December 2016.
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Sue Townsend
Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend, (2 April 1946 – 10 April 2014) was an English novelist and playwright. She was best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books. Most of her works combined comedy with social commentary and also wrote purely dramatic works. She was born in Leicester, Leicestershire.
Townsend was diagnosed with diabetes in the 1980s. She received a kidney from her elder son in 2009. She had a stroke in 2012. She died on 10 April 2014 at her home in Leicester after having another stroke. She was 68 years old.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chyngyz Aitmatov () (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Soviet-Kyrgyz author and diplomat. He wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He is a famous author in Kyrgyzstan's literature. His best-known work abroad is a novel "The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years", which has folklore and science fiction elements.
Aitmatov was born on 12 December 1928 in Sheker village, Kirghiz ASSR, USSR.
Aitmatov was first the ambassador for the Soviet Union and later for Kyrgyzstan, to the European Union, NATO, UNESCO and the Benelux countries. In 1963, he was honored with the Lenin Prize for his works in literature.
Aitmatov died on 10 June 2008 from kidney failure and pneumonia in Nuremberg, Germany, aged 79.
Division of Forde
The Division of Forde is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was set up in 1984, and is named after Frank Forde, Prime Minister of Australia in 1945. At first it covered the southern suburbs of Brisbane, but changes have moved the area of the division into the semi-rural areas south of the city. This includes Beenleigh, Bethania, Boronia Heights, Chambers Flat, Cornubia, Eagleby, Edens Landing, Loganholme, Logan Reserve, Mount Warren Park, Ormeau Hills, Park Ridge, Tanah Merah, Upper Coomera, Waterford, Waterford West and Windaroo as well as parts of Daisy Hill, Heritage Park, Loganlea, Munruben, Ormeau, Park Ridge South and Shailer Park.
On 8 August 2013, it was announced former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie would contest the seat of Forde at the 2013 election.
Müllerian agenesis
Müllerian agenesis is a rare birth defect also called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome or MRKH. People with the syndrome are born without vaginas, cervixes, and wombs, despite being biologically female. Queen Amalia of Greece had the syndrome. People with the syndrome cannot get pregnant because they do not have wombs.
Division of Groom
The Division of Groom is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was set up in 1984 and named for Sir Littleton Groom, former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. He represented the Division of Darling Downs, which covered much of the same area.
It is in the rural areas west of Brisbane and includes Toowoomba, Australia's second largest inland city. Other towns include Oakey and Pittsworth.
Ian McFarlane was a minister in the Howard and Abbott governments. He was dropped from the cabinet by Malcolm Turnbull in 2015, which later led him to leave the Liberal Party and join the National Party.
Time of the Season
"Time of the Season" (where the breaths, sighs and flutish pianish organ were heard) is a single from The Zombies. It is a ballad about emotions in the Summer of Love. Colin Blunstone is lead singer.
The song hit #3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and #1 in Canada. It did not chart in Britain.
The song was sampled and covered by quite a few artists in the years after.
Harald Nugiseks
Harald Nugiseks (22 October 1921 – 2 January 2014) was an SS-Oberscharführer (Sergeant) in World War II. He served at his own free will in the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) of the Waffen SS. He was also one of the four Estonian soldiers who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was born in Karjaküla, Särevere Parish, Järva County.
Nugiseks died from natural causes on 2 January 2014, aged 92.
Sonny Ruberto
John Edward "Sonny" Ruberto (January 2, 1946 – March 25, 2014) was an American baseball backup catcher and pinch runner. He played in the Major League Baseball (MLB) and played two seasons for the San Diego Padres (1969) and the Cincinnati Reds (1972). He was born in the Staten Island borough of New York City, New York.
Ruberto died from cancer on March 25, 2014 in Ave Maria, Florida. He was 68 years old.
Tonie Nathan
Theodora Nathalia "Tonie" Nathan (February 9, 1923 – March 20, 2014) was an American politician. She is the first woman, as well as the first Jewish person, to have got an electoral vote in a United States presidential election. She was the 1972 vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party and running mate of John Hospers. She was born in New York City.
Nathan died from Alzheimer's disease on March 20, 2014 in Eugene, Oregon. She was 91 years old.
Pam Tillis
Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis (born July 24, 1957) is an American country music singer and actress. She began her career in 1981. In 1991, she had a song in the Top 40 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs for the first time.
Tillis has released many albums. Two of them are "Put Yourself in My Place" and "Sweetheart's Dance".
Tillis was born in Florida. She was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father is the late country music singer Mel Tillis.
WrestleMania 31
WrestleMania 31 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It was held on March 29, 2015 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It was the thirty-first WrestleMania event held by the WWE. The event earned a record gate of $12.6 million. It also broke Levi's Stadium's attendance record by 6,177 people.
The main event saw Roman Reigns face Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. During the match, Seth Rollins ran to the ring and cashed in his Money in the Bank contract which made the match a triple threat match. Rollins won the match and the championship. Another match on the card saw Sting compete in his first WWE match where he was defeated by Triple H.
Richard W. Burkhardt
Richard Wellington Burkhardt (May 18, 1918 – March 4, 2014) was an American academic. He was the 8th President of Ball State University, from 1978 to 1979. He retired in 1985. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts.
Burkhardt died from natural causes on May 18, 1918 in Muncie, Indiana. He was 95 years old.
Leopoldo María Panero
Leopoldo María Panero (16 June 1948 – 5 March 2014) was a Spanish poet. He was often placed in the Novísimos group. He had fifteen poetic releases between 1970 and 2004. He was born in Madrid.
Panero died from heart failure on 5 March 2014 in Madrid. He was 65 years old.
Alemayehu Atomsa
Alemayehu Atomsa (; 12 February 1969 – 6 March 2014) was an Ethiopian politician. He served as the president of the Oromo Region, the largest of the country's regions, from 2010 until he resgined due to illness in 2014. He was born in Bonaya Boshe, Welega.
Atomsa died from food poisoning on 6 March 2014 at the Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. He was 45 years old.
Brett Borgen
Brett Borgen (7 November 1934 – 11 March 2014) was a Norwegian novelist and poet. Her best known works were "Fra en ikke helt vellykket skuespillerinnes dagbok" (1972), "Dualoger med Vår Herre and Isabella, sorgen og Don Juan" (1977), "En time med Jesus" (1978), "Den fortapte datter" (1979), "Heltinnen" (1981). She also wrote the memoir "Lillelord og Lady Brett" (1985).
She was born in Oslo. She died on 11 March 2014 in her hometown of Oslo. She was 79 years old.
Anius
In Greek mythology, Anius was a king of Delos and priest of Apollo. He was the son of Apollo and Rhoeo.
Anius told the Greeks the Trojan War would not be won until the tenth year.
Lapiro de Mbanga
Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger (7 April 1957 – 16 March 2014), better known as Lapiro de Mbanga, was a Cameroonian singer. He is best known for his 1985 recording of “Pas argent no love” and for being imprisoned in 2008 after criticizing Cameroon president Paul Biya in the song “Constitution constipée” (“Constipated Constitution”). He was born in Mbanga, Southwest Region.
Mbanga died from cancer on 16 March 2014 in Buffalo, New York in the United States. He was 56 years old.
Lake Winnipeg
Palazzo Carignano
The Palazzo Carignano is a former palace in Turin, Italy. It was the residence of the Princes of Carignano, a line directly related to the royal family. It is famous for its unique rounded façade. It was also the birthplace of Princess Marie Louise of Savoy. It was the birthplace of Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy, the first king of Italy. The building is near the larger Royal Palace of Turin.
Kia Forte
Aularches
Aularches miliaris is a grasshopper found in south and southeast Asia. It is protected by powerful chemical defences, and its warning colour signals its foul taste.
When it is disturbed or grabbed, it makes a sharp rasping noise with its thoracic segments. Then, if its thorax is pinched, it gives off a toxic foam. It squirts a clear viscous mucus with unpleasant smell and a bitter taste, faintly alkaline, with many bubbles. This foam comes out as a strong jet from openings in the thorax, and more gently from other openings in the body (ten in total). The foam heaps up around the insect and partly covers it.
The head and thorax are dark green with a canary-yellow band on the side. The leathery front wings are green with many yellow spots; the legs are blue, with a yellow serrated pattern on the hind legs. The abdomen is black with bright red bands.
Like most noxious animals, it is very visible and slow-moving on vegetation. It pays to advertise, and it does not need to hide.
The Mitsubishi Outlander is a mid-size crossover SUV that is built by Mitsubishi Motors. The Mitsubishi Outlander has had three generations, the newest one in 2012. When it was first introduced in Japan in 2001, the vehicle was known as the Mitsubishi Airtrek and it was based on the Mitsubishi ASX concept vehicle that was exhibited at the 2001 North American International Auto Show.
They chose the name Airtrek because it was to "describe the vehicle’s ability to transport its passengers on adventure-packed journeys in a 'free-as-a-bird' manner" and was "coined from Air and Trek to express the idea of footloose, adventure-filled motoring pleasure." The new name Outlander was chosen because it suggested a "feeling of journeying to distant, unexplored lands in search of adventure."
Camelops
Camelops is an extinct genus of camel which lived in North America during the Pleistocene. from two million years ago to about 10,000 years ago.
They were prey for the wolves, bears, lions and "Smilodon". "Camelops" disappeared at the end of the last ice age, as did many other animals.
Evidence of its environment comes from Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming, and from Rancho La Brea in the modern Los Angeles area. These studies suggest that it was not, like modern camels, adapted to desert conditions. It lived in woodland and grasslands with mixed vegetation.
Before the climate change at about 11,000 years ago it lived in "conifer parklands" on the Montana-Wyoming border, and in "coastel shrublands" in California. After the climate change, what had been woodland became "deserts and treeless steppes of the sort so extensive in the present western U.S.A". Even the type of grass which grew there changed.
Evidently, for this animal, the climate change was very significant. Also, the arrival of man as a hunter may have made the situation worse. A few Clovis points have been found in the cave site.
Steppe bison
The steppe bison, or steppe wisent ("Bison priscus"), is an extinct bison. It lived on steppes in Europe, Central Asia, Beringia, and North America during the Quaternary. It is believed that it evolved somewhere in South Asia, That would mean it appeared at about the same time and region as the aurochs, with which its descendants are sometimes confused.
The steppe wisent became extinct in the Pleistocene. It was replaced in Europe by the modern wisent species. It was replaced in America by "Bison latifrons", then later "Bison antiquus"), and finally the modern American bison.
Steppe wisent occasionally appear in cave painting. They are in the famous Cave of Altamira and Lascaux. They have also been found in naturally ice-preserved form.
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius is the stage name for Mike Hadreas. Hadreas released his first album "Learning" in 2010. "Pitchfork" gave it a score of 8.2 out of 10. In 2012 he released his second album, "Put Your Back N 2 It".
Hadreas is gay. He lives in Seattle.
If You Asked Me To
"If You Asked Me To" is a popular single first performed by Patti LaBelle. The song was from the "Licence to Kill" movie soundtrack. It was also on LaBelle's album "Be Yourself".
The song was released in 1989. It hit top ten on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Three years later, it hit #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. That version was done by Celine Dion in April 1992. Her version hit in America and Canada.
Skin Diamond
Skin Diamond (real name: Raylin Christensen; February 18, 1987) is the an award winning American pornographic actress and nude model.
Diamond was born in Ventura, California, and raised in Dunfermline, Scotland, where her parents moved as missionaries. She is of Ethiopian, Danish, Czech, Yugoslav, and German descent. Her father is American actor Rodd Christensen. She appeared in the TV series "Balamory" as a child, alongside her only sister, Heather.
Diamond started her career as a mainstream model and posed, among others, for Louis Vuitton, American Apparel and Atsuko Kudo. She made her pornographic debut in a 2009 Burning Angel film. In that film, she was originally only supposed to perform a girl/girl scene, but, in the end, she shot two boy/girl scenes.
In 2012, Diamond posed for comic book artist David Mack, who portrayed her as Echo in the Marvel Comics miniseries "". In 2013 she posed for photographer Terry Richardson.
In 2014, Diamond was on CNBC's list of "The Dirty Dozen: Porn's Most Popular Stars". Diamond was also cast (with Jenna Haze) in an acting role in the music video for hip-hop artist B.o.B for his song "John Doe" which features Priscilla Renea. The single is from B.o.B's third album, "Underground Luxury". She also appeared in the music video for Cheerleader by Omni in 2012.
Diamond has several tattoos, including a Phoenix on her back, which she got to cover an accidental burn. She also has piercings in her navel, right nostril, and both nipples. She is also well known for her distinctive shaved-on-one-side haircut; because of this, she has been featured in the column "Beauty Showdown" in the magazine "Cosmopolitan".
Sheepdog
A sheepdog is a dog trained to herd sheep. Many different breeds can be trained to do this task. One of the most common sheepdog breeds is Border Collie.
Lawrence Walsh
Lawrence Edward Walsh (January 8, 1912 – March 19, 2014) was an American lawyer and former U.S. District Court judge and Deputy Attorney General.
Walsh grew up in New York City. He was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran-Contra affair during the Ronald Reagan Administration.
Walsh died from natural causes at the age of 102 at his Nichols Hills, Oklahoma home.
Patrick Joseph McGovern
Patrick Joseph McGovern, Jr. (August 11, 1937 – March 19, 2014) was an American businessman. He was known for being chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG). He was listed on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans in September, 2013 as having a net worth of $5.1 billion.
McGovern died on March 19, 2014, aged 76.
Ronald Selmour
Ronald Selmour is a Canadian actor. He is well known for his role as Firecracker Man in ABC's "Kingdom Hospital", Sundown in the Discovery Channel's TV miniseries "Klondike" and The Butcher in the CW's "Arrow".
Selmour has been involved in the performing Arts from the early years of his life. Though Profoundly religious, his father was very involved with local theatres taking him to see presentations throughout Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the early 1980s the family made the difficult decision to let him go to Canada, stayed with his aunt while pursuing his studies. In Montreal, Quebec, there he made the acquaintance of several instrumental people in his life, teachers, professors and a mentor name Solly Levy who introduced him to the Comedia dell'arte. Ever since then, the love for the craft became the guiding light in his life.
Geopolitics is the study of how a country's geography (location, terrain, land size, climate, soil and raw materials) affect its foreign, economic and military policy. The word "geopolitics" comes from the words "geography" and "politics".
Alfredo Alcón
Alfredo Félix Alcón (; 3 March 1930 – 11 April 2014) was an Argentine theatre and movie actor. Alcón born in Buenos Aires. Widely considered one of the best, one of the most important and most acclaimed Argentine actors.
He worked in more than 50 movies. His first movie was, "El amor nunca muere" ("Love Never Dies"), in 1955.
He died in Buenos Aires at the age of 84 from a respiratory illness.
James Ridout Winchester (May 17, 1944 – April 11, 2014) known as Jesse Winchester, was an American musician and songwriter. He was known for being a Vietnam War activist. To avoid going to the war, he moved to Canada. He became a Canadian citizen in 1973, gained amnesty in the U.S. in 1977 and resettled there in the U.S. in 2002.
He recorded many songs with many musical artists. Some of them included Patti Page, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett, Joan Baez, Anne Murray, Reba McEntire, The Everly Brothers and Emmylou Harris.
Winchester died at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia from bladder cancer, aged 69.
Omer Beriziky
Nandu Bhende
Sadanand Atmaram "Nandu" Bhende (; c. 1956 – 11 April 2014) was an Indian musician, singer-songwriter and actor. He was best known for being a member of bands such as Nandu Bhende Band, Savage Encounter, The Brief Encounter and Velvette Fogg. He performed mostly under blues, pop, rock, and soul music genres.
Bhende died from a heart attack on 11 April 2014 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Didier Ratsiraka
Vice Admiral Didier Ratsiraka (4 November 1936 – 28 March 2021) was a Malagasy politician. He was the President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002. He was in exile from 2009 to 2011.
Ratsiraka died on 28 March 2021 in Antananarivo, Madagascar from the influenza at the age of 84.
Albert Zafy
Albert Zafy (1 May 1927 – 13 October 2017) was a Malagasy politician. He was the President of Madagascar from 27 March 1993 to 5 September 1996.
Zafy died on 13 October 2017 at a hospital in Saint-Pierre, Réunion in France of a stroke at the age of 90.
Hery Rajaonarimampianina
Riina Gerretz
Riina Gerretz (8 July 1939 – 22 March 2014) was an Estonian pianist. She was best known for performing with artists such as Georg Ots, Tiit Kuusik, Hendrik Krumm, Ivo Kuusk, Anu Kaal, Margarita Voites, Jüri Gerretz, Ivo Juul, Yolanda Hernandez, Artur Rinne, Hannes Altrov, Pille Lill and Heidy Tamme. She worked mostly in her native Estonia as well as Finland. During her life, she had the surnames Põder (1939–1958), Villum (1958–1961), Mikiver (1969–1971), Viljanen 1983–2002, Gerretz (until 2014).
Gerretz died after a long illness on 22 March 2014 in Tallinn. She was 74 years old.
Philibert Tsiranana
Philibert Tsiranana (18 October 1912 – 16 April 1978) was a Malagasy politician and leader. He served as the first President of Madagascar from 1959 to 1972.
Gabriel Ramanantsoa
Gabriel Ramanantsoa (13 April 1906 Antananarivo - 9 May 1979 Paris) was an Malagasy politician. He was the President and Prime Minister of Madagascar from 1972 to 1975.
He died in Paris from a heart attack, aged 73.
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Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Esther Tarkanian (August 8, 1930–February 11, 2015), also known as "Tark the Shark", was an American college basketball coach. Tarkanian was one of the most successful coaches in college basketball history, most notably at UNLV. He was a coach for the San Antonio Spurs from 1992 to 1993.
Tarkanian was born in Euclid, Ohio. On February 11, 2015, Tarkanian died at the age of 84 in Las Vegas, where he had been hospitalized days earlier after "difficulty breathing", aged 84.
Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a well known scientist in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. His works would lead to the invention of birth control pills. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
Julian died in Waukegan, Illinois from liver cancer, aged 76.
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Ill (France)
The Ill is a river in France that flows through the plain of Alsace. It is an important left tributary of the Rhine river and the main river of Alsace. It flows through the Haut-Rhin and the Bas-Rhin departments in the Grand Est region.
The Ill river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .
The Ill starts in the northern side of the Glaserberg mountain, in the Jura Mountains near the Swiss border, in the "commune" of Winkel, (Haut-Rhin department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Ill flows first to the east to Ferrette and to Illfurth where it is joined by the "Largue" river, the main right tributary of the Ill.
From Illfurth, the Ill runs northward through Alsace, flowing parallel to the Rhine river.
The Ill river flows within the Grand Est region, 2 departments and 70 "communes". It flows through the following "communes", among others:
Five "communes" in the Alsace have their names from the riverː
Finally, the Ill river flows into the Rhine river in the "commune" of Offendorf, just to the north of Strasbourg.
The main tributaries of the Ill river are all left tributaries; the right tributaries are very short streams. Only the Largue starts in the Jura Mountains; the rest have their sources in the Vosgues mountains, to the east.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department, for the period 1974 - 2017.
Chicago Public Library
Chicago Public Schools
Richard Philip Lewis (born June 29, 1947) is an American comedian and actor. He was known for his roles as Marty Gold in "Anything But Love" and as himself in "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Lewis is Jewish.
Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in southeastern Bergen County, New Jersey. It was established as a city in 1899. About 27,150 people live in Englewood. Actors John Travolta and Richard Lewis were born in Englewood.
Vladimir Ivashko
Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko (Russian language: Влади́мир Анто́нович Ива́шко 28 October 1932 – 13 November 1994) was a Ukrainian politician. He was the leader of the Soviet Union for a short time. He became the leader in 1991. He ruled for five days until his political party was declared politically impotent and on 29 August 1991 it was banned.
Ivashko died from an "undisclosed long-illness" in Moscow, aged 62.
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Pietro Ingrao
Pietro Ingrao (March 30, 1915 – September 27, 2015) was an Italian politician, journalist and former partisan. He had been, for many years, a senior figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI). He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from June 5, 1976 to July 19, 1979.
Ingrao was born in Lenola, Italy. He died on September 27, 2015 at the age of 100 in Rome.
Pairi Daiza (before Paradisio) is a private-owned property that has 55 hectares. It is a zoo and a botanical garden open to the public in Hainaut, Belgium. It has more than 55 acres. In this zoo there are approximately 5,000 animals. Pairi Daiza is owned by Pairi Daiza Belgium SA.
The parks has many different animal species. It also has many different activities and attractions for children.
Latin School of Chicago
Euclid, Ohio
Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It is near Cleveland. It has a population of 48,920 people. It was made a city in 1930.
Clovis point
Clovis points are the characteristic spear-heads used by the North American Clovis culture. They date from about 13,500 years ago. They are called after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where examples were first found in 1929.
To the right is a typical Clovis point. The length is 4–20 cm/1.5–8 inches, width: 2.5–5 cm/1–2 inches. The sides are parallel to convex, and show careful pressure flaking along the blade edge. The back end of the blade and base are shaped for hafting (attaching) to a wooden spear or knife-handle.
Kingdom of Sardinia
The Kingdom of Sardinia was a monarchy that ruled the Italian island of Sardinia. It was established in 1324. It was given to the House of Habsburg. They were eventually forced to give it to the House of Savoy. Since the House of Savoy also ruled Piedmont, the Kingdom was sometimes referred to as Sardinia-Piedmont. The Savoy family ruled from 1720 till 1861 when Italy officially united itself. Under the Savoy family, the capital of the state was Turin. The territory also included the city and surrounding land of Genoa. In Italian it was known as the "Regno di Sardegna".
The kingdom was originally made up of the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Sovereignty over both of those was claimed by the Popes. While under Spanish rule, the state was ruled by viceroys.
Brita Koivunen
Brita Koivunen-Einiö (31 August 1931 – 12 April 2014) was a Finnish jazz and schlager singer. Some of her most famous songs include "Suklaasydän", "Sävel rakkauden" and "Mamma, tuo mies minua tuijottaa" all from the 1950s. She was born in Helsinki.
Koivunen died on 12 April 2014 in Helsinki, aged 82.
Bangladesh–Laos relations
Bangladesh–Laos relations refer to the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Laos. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were officially started in 1988. Laos also supports Bangladesh getting observer status in ASEAN.
Norman Girvan
Norman P. Girvan (1941 – 9 April 2014) was a Jamaican economist, educator, and politician. He was Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States from 2000 until 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Surrey County.
Girvan suffered a fall in Dominica sometime in early 2014. He died on 9 April 2014 in Cuba, aged 72.
Michael Sheen
Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor. He was first known as a stage actor and appeared in plays such as "Romeo and Juliet" (1992), "Don’t Fool With Love" (1993), "Peer Gynt" (1994), "The Seagull" (1995), "The Homecoming" (1997) and "Henry V" (1997). He soon became a screen actor and had many roles in movies such as "The American President" (1995), "The Deal" (2003), "The Queen" (2006), "Frost/Nixon" (2008), "" (2009), "The Damned United" (2009), "Unthinkable" (2010), "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), "" (2010), "Beautiful Boy" (2010), "The Special Relationship" (2010) and "" (2012).
Sheen was born in Newport. He was in a relationship with English actress Kate Beckinsale from 1995 until 2003. They have a daughter, Lily Mo Sheen (born 1999 in London). In mid-2019 Sheen announced that he and his partner, Anna Lundberg, were expecting their first child together. The couple's daughter Lyra was born on 23 September 2019.
Apple Jacks
Apple Jacks is a type of breakfast cereal made by the cereal maker Kellogg's. It has the flavor of apples and cinnamon. The cereal was invented by William Thilly and was introduced in 1965 as "Apple O's". Kellogg's Apple Jacks introduced "Cinnamon Jacks", a multi-grain cinnamon flavored cereal in 2013.
Esmeraldas River
Zarumilla River
Tumbes River
The Tumbes River ( or Río Túmbez in Peru; Río Puyango in Ecuador), is a river in South America. The river's sources are located between Ecuadorian El Oro and Loja provinces. It borders Ecuador and Peru.
Pastaza River
The Pastaza (formerly known as the Sumatara) is a large tributary to the Marañón River in the northwestern Amazon Basin of South America. It is in Ecuador.
List of Thomson MRT Line station names
Pinwheel galaxy
The Pinwheel galaxy (Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
The galaxy is 21 million light-years (six megaparsecs) away from us. It was first discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27 1781. Charles Messier verified its position and included it in the "Messier Catalogue" as one of the last entries.
In 2006, NASA and the ESA released a very detailed image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, which was the largest and most detailed image of a galaxy by the Hubble Space Telescope at the time. The image was composed from 51 individual exposures, plus some extra ground-based photos.
On August 24 2011, a Type Ia supernova, SN 2011fe, was discovered in M101.
A remarkable property of this galaxy are its huge and extremely bright H II regions, of which about 3,000 can be seen on photographs like the Hubble image. H II regions have numbers of short-lived young and massive blue stars formed from clouds of high density molecular hydrogen. These regions give off huge amounts of ultraviolet light that ionizes the surrounding gas.
The galaxy contains ULX-1 (an ultra-luminous X-ray source), which is a relatively small black hole, just 20 to 30 times the mass of our Sun.
Michael Fabricant
Michael Louis David Fabricant (born 12 June 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Mid Staffordshire from 1992-1997. He has been the MP for Lichfield since 1997.
Fabricant was born in Brighton into a Jewish family. He went to Brighton Secondary Technical School.
Bittern
Bitterns are waterbirds, living mostly in freshwater sites. They are a type of heron, wading birds in the family Ardeidae. They are shorter-necked, and more secretive than other herons. Most of them have good camouflage amongst the reeds where they make their nests.
Bitterns form a monophyletic subfamily of the herons, the Botaurinae.
Bitterns usually frequent reedbeds and similar marshy areas, and feed on amphibians, reptiles, insects, and fish. Unlike the similar storks, ibises, and spoonbills, herons and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched.
They were called "hæferblæte" in Old English; the word "bittern" came to English from Old French.
Bitterns are in three genera. The genus "Ixobrychus" contains mainly small species. The genus "Botaurus" has the larger bitterns. There is a single species in a third genus, "Zebrilus". The distribution of bitterns is pretty much worldwide.
Peter Liechti
Peter Liechti (8 January 1951 – 6 April 2014) was a Swiss movie director. He directed over 100 Swiss-German movies. He was nominated for many awards.
Most of his movies were shown at the Berlin International Film Festival (BIFF). Recently, he was awarded an honorary awards at the BIFF in 2013. He was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Liechti died on 6 April 2014, aged 63.
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Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is a branding that is used for presentations of the National Hockey League (NHL) by CBC Sports. It started in 1931 on the CNR Radio network. It debuted on television on October 11, 1952. It has different segments during intermissions and between games including Don Cherry's "Coach's Corner".
On November 26, 2013, it was announced by the NHL that they had reached a 12-year, $5.2 billion deal with Rogers Communications for exclusive television and digital rights to all their national NHL broadcasts starting at the beginning of the 2014-15 season.
Behavioral economics
Behavioral economics is a smaller part of economics that combines what we know about psychology with what we know about economics. Normally, economics does not consider the way humans actually think, but instead, simplifies decision-making to make economic models easier to understand. However, this is not a complete picture of how the world, and economics, really works. Normally, economists assume people are rational, meaning they make good decisions at the right times using all information. In real life, people do not do this. They are subject to problems with self-control, problems with time, and make different choices depending on how decisions are presented to them. Behavioral economists look at the world given problems and limitations that result when real humans are faced with decisions.
The study of behavioral economics really began to develop in the middle and towards the end of the 20th century. Psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman wrote a paper called “Prospect Theory,” which was about how the way choices are presented to somebody is just as important as the choices themselves when an individual is making a decision. Later, Hersh Shefrin and Richard Thaler created a savings model which explains how people do not figure out how much to save and spend to stay at a constant level. People would rather spend more now, because humans prefer gratification in the near future. By 1994, Harvard University hired a professor to teach behavioral economics as its own subject. Now, behavioral economics helps explain many complex things that people do. There are many applications of the research, such as how to make public policy more effective or marketing and advertising applications. Also, there are other areas of study branching off from behavioral economics, like behavioral finance, which deals with how people make investments.
Behavioral economics can explain many different kinds of human actions. Some of the topics within the field are:
Loss aversion/Prospect Theory: People are made more upset by losses than they are made happy by gains of the same amount. This is important for how people think about taking risks. Related is the disposition effect, which is closely related to behavioral finance. The disposition effect is the tendency for investors to hold onto losing stocks too long, and sell winning ones too soon. This concept relates to loss aversion, since the investors are putting off making their losses a reality. Also related is the behavioral economic concept of “status quo bias.” This explains that, against what economics would expect, people seem to like their current state more than any other state they see as different.
Mental Accounting: People have separate mental accounts when it comes to spending and saving. Each mental account has a different degree of willingness to spend connected to it, and people assign activities to mental accounts.
Anchoring/ Status Quo Bias: When given an option automatically, people tend to want to stay with that choice, whether or not that choice is what should be best for them.
Unbounded Selfishness: People are mostly driven by self-interest, and will act in a way which produces the best outcome for themselves.
Unbounded Willpower: Individuals lack self-control. Even when they know what is in their best interest, they tend to act otherwise. People are also somewhat aware of their limited willpower.
Now that behavioral economics is growing in popularity, and more social scientists are researching the topic, ways to apply ideas are becoming more common. If framing a choice a certain way will “nudge,” or push, someone to make a better decision, those who are in charge of creating options can use this to produce a better outcome. These outcomes can range from increasing physical activity to decreasing obesity and changing eating habits, to lessening energy use or to reshaping government policies. In the future, the hope is that through small changes, the public will receive large-scale benefits. In Denmark, the Danish government is employing the concept of anchoring to increase the number of drivers who are organ donors. In the United States, the White House has hired Cass Sunstein, a behavioral economist, to help guide policymakers. Richard Thaler also works in the US Cabinet on the new Behavioral Insight Team. The U.S., as well as Britain, has considered the idea of default options helping increase retirement savings.
One of the biggest arguments economists have against behavioral economics is that much of its research comes from small-scale research data, instead of real world sources. In addition, a lot of behavioral economic researchers use college students in their studies. College students have less experience than normal individuals. Since this population is a poor representation of an average person, data might show different results than it should.
Some psychologists argue that while behavioral economics is a step in the right direction in explaining why people act they way that they do, it is still far behind in research. They feel that it just changed traditional neoclassical economic theory, when they need to look deeper as to what is actually going on a more psychological and intellectual level.
Tropical Storm Thelma
Tropical Storm Thelma was a 1991 tropical storm. Its winds were near 45-50 mph. It killed between 5,000 and 8,000 people in the Philippines. It hit Negros Occidental, Leyte Island, and Vietnam. The storm caused also about $28 million in damage.
After this, the name "Thelma" was not used for tropical storms. It was replaced by "Teresa".
Jos Chabert
Jozef P. A. "Jos" Chabert (16 March 1933 – 9 April 2014) was a Belgian politician for Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (Christian Democratic and Flemish; CD&V). He was a Minister of State from 24 November 2009 until his death. Before this, he was a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. He was born in Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital Region.
From 1965 to 1976 he was an alderman of Meise.
Chabert died on 9 April 2014 in Brussels, aged 81.
Emilee Wallace
Emilee Wallace (born September 19, 1989) is an American actress.
Wallace began her acting career in 2005. She has appeared in episodes of the television series "Judging Amy" (2005), "Grey's Anatomy" (2006), "Cold Case" (2008), "Boston Legal" (2008), "Glee" (2009, 2013), "Ghost Whisperer" (2010), "Workaholics" (2012), "Rizzoli & Isles" (2012–present). Apart from television work, she also appeared on the television movies "Company Town" (2006) and "Amish Grace" (2010), and her first feature movie "" (2008).
Wallace was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma. Her brother, BJ (born 1991), is also an actor. She went to California State University (CSU) and now lives in Los Angeles, California.
Fred Kida
Fred Kida (December 12, 1920 – April 3, 2014) was an American comic book and comic strip artist. He was best known for the 1940s aviator hero Airboy and his antagonist and sometime ally Valkyrie during the Golden Age of Comic Books. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
Kida died from natural causes on April 3, 2014, aged 93.
Gene Kiniski
Eugene Nicholas "Gene" Kiniski (November 23, 1928 – April 14, 2010) was a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He became one of the first World Champions in professional wrestling to have a former background in football, after Bronko Nagurski. Kiniski is best known for his time in many different NWA-owned territories where he won multiple championships.
Before starting his wrestling career, Kiniski played football with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). On his team, Kiniski was joined by future professional wrestlers Wilbur Snyder and Joe Blanchard. Al Oeming and Stu Hart were at the Eskimos training camp when Kiniski was trying out for the team. Kiniski had a lengthy stint in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in 1964. During his time in the WWWF, Kiniski had matches against Bruno Sammartino and they had a match at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 1964. After he Kiniski thought he had pinned Sammartino on the second fall, he took the championship and left. He was counted out be kept the championship until they had a rematch on December 14.
On April 4, 2010, Jim Ross announced on his blog that Kiniski had "taken a turn for the worse and is battling to stay alive. 'Big Thunder's' cancer has spread to his brain and some speculate that is just a matter of time (before he dies)" Kiniski died on April 14, 2010 in Blaine, Washington.
Harry Melling (actor)
Harry Edward Melling (born 13 March 1989) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
Melling was born in London. He became a member of the Millfield Theatre Youth Drama Group when he turned 9.
Melling appeared in five of the Harry Potter films as Harry Potter's cousin Dudley Dursley. After the Harry Potter films ended Melling went to Lamda drama school.
Scott Walker (singer)
Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel; January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019) was an American-born British singer and record producer. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He became famous as the lead singer of the pop group The Walker Brothers in the 1960s. After The Walkers Brothers, broke up Walker released albums on his own. Walker was signed to 4AD Records. From 1965, he lived in the United Kingdom. He was an only child. On February 25, 2009, there was a tribute concert to Walker's music in Los Angeles.
Walker died at the age of 76 in London on March 22, 2019 from cancer.
Fine Wind, Clear Morning
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (also known as South Wind, Clear Sky and Red Fuji) is a woodblock print made by Hokusai.
The art work was printed somewhere between 1830 and 1832 which was during the Edo period. It is the second print in the series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It shows that in early autumn when the wind is southerly and when the sky is clear, the rising sun can turn Mount Fuji red.
Fred Ho
Fred Ho (; born Fred Wei-han Houn; August 10, 1957 – April 12, 2014) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. He was known for his place in the African-American and Asian-American music movement. He was born in Palo Alto, California.
Ho died after a long battle with colorectal cancer at his home in Brooklyn, New York City. He was 56.
Alton Towers
Alton Towers is a theme park in Staffordshire, England. It is near the town Alton.
It has seven large roller coasters and three smaller roller coasters.
Theme: Escapism or escaping normal life
The History Boys
The History Boys is a play by Alan Bennett. It was first shown on 18 May 2004 in London at the Royal National Theatre. It was first shown on Broadway on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
The play starts in Cutlers' Grammar School in Sheffield. It is set in the early 1980s.
Scott Putesky
Scott Mitchell Putesky (April 28, 1968 – October 22, 2017), more famously known as Daisy Berkowitz, was an American musician. He was the guitarist for Marilyn Manson until 1996.
Putesky met Brian Warner at a party in 1989. They started Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids. He left the band on May 8, 1996.
In March 2013, he joined with THEE PAUSE, to form "The Daisy Kids".
Putseky was diagnosed with stage-four colorectal cancer in September 2013. He started chemotherapy that month. He died from the disease on October 22, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 49.
Carla Bozulich
Carla Bozulich is an American musician. She is known for being the lead singer of the Geraldine Fibbers. She was born in New York City. In 1993 "Happy Days, Sweetheart", the only album by Ethyl Meatplow, a band Bozulich was a member of, was released. In 2003 she released her first solo album, "The Red Headed Stranger". In 2012 she released an album with Ches Smith.
Rolf Brem
Rolf Brem (12 February 1926 – 11 April 2014) was a Swiss graphic artist. He was best known as a draftsman, sculptor and illustrator. Many of his sculptures are on display all over Switzerland in public and art galleries. He was born in Lucerne.
Brem died on 11 April 2014 in Meggen, Canton of Lucerne, aged 88.
Palaeoclimatology
Palaeoclimatology (or paleoclimatology) is the study of changes in climate over the entire history of Earth. Modern interest in climate change has caused a great increase in the climates of the past.
The climates of the past can only be studied by proxy. Data is got from rocks, sediments, ice and tree rings, corals, shells and microfossils. These records are used to work out the past states of the Earth's climate and its atmospheric system.
Studies of past changes in the life and ecosystems of the past may throw a light on the present. An example is the effect of climate on mass extinctions and the recovery of life after those extinctions.
Knowledge of precise climatic events decreases as the record goes further back in time. Some notable climate events:
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Delegation (band)
Delegation were a British R&B and soul group. Their songs included "Oh Honey". They were active from 1975 until 1999.
"Oh Honey" was sampled by a lot of musicians in the 1980s and 1990s.
Jelly beans or jellybeans are a bean-shaped candy. They have a gel inside in a soft candy shell. They can come in many different flavors. They were created by William Schrafft and were first introduced in 1861. Schrafft wanted people to send the jelly beans that he made to soldiers during the American Civil War.
Historians today believe that jelly beans were first linked with the celebration of Easter in the United States during the 1930s. There are different brands of jelly beans, but the main brand is Jelly Belly. Jelly Beans come in a variety of different flavours. They are chewy candies that are small and gooey. There are also Beanboozled jelly beans which are Jelly Beans with varying flavours. An average jellybean is x x and weighs .
Wall Street (1987 movie)
Wall Street is a 1987 American crime drama movie directed by Oliver Stone. It stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Eli Wallach, Terence Stamp, and Hal Holbrook. It was released on December 11, 1987 to very positive reviews.
It was followed by a sequel, .
The Fog is a 1980 American horror movie directed by John Carpenter. It is set in California. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook. It was released to positive reviews on February 1, 1980.
A remake was made in 2005.
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McLemoresville, Tennessee
McLemoresville is a small town in Carroll County, Tennessee. It has the population of 352. Actress Dixie Carter was born here.
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Rapture (album)
Rapture was the second album from Anita Baker. It was her breakout album. The album sold over eight million copies (five million in the United States).
This record was released in 1986. "Sweet Love" was one song from the album.
Belhaven, North Carolina
Belhaven is a town in eastern of North Carolina. The town had 1,688 people at the 2010 census.
The town is in the Inner Banks areas.
Barry Corbin
Leonard Barrie Corbin, known as Barry Corbin (born October 16, 1940), is an American actor. He is known for his roles in "Northern Exposure", "Lonesome Dove", "WarGames", "One Tree Hill", and in "Anger Management".
Corbin was born in Lamesa, Texas.
William Russell
William Russell Enoch (born 19 November 1924), better known as William Russell, is an English actor. He was born in Sunderland, County Durham. He is best known for the role as Ian Chesterton in "Doctor Who".
Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau (; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist. He was a post-Marxist. His career began in 1986 as a professor at the University of Essex. He was born in Buenos Aires.
Laclau died of a heart attack in Seville, Spain, aged 78.
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar (; October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American comic book writer, music critic and media personality. He is best known for his autobiographical "American Splendor" comic series.
In 2003, the series inspired a well-received movie version of the same name.
Pekar was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He suffered from prostate cancer and clinical depression. He died in Cleveland Heights, Ohio from an accidental overdose of antidepressants fluoxetine and bupropion, aged 70.
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