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Some believe that artificial turf causes more injuries than normal grass. More than 50 players have protested the use of artificial turf, saying that it is sexist. They filed a lawsuit against FIFA, however, they dropped the lawsuit in January of 2015.
Anja Mittag
Anja Mittag (born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany on 16 May 1985) is a German association football player who currently plays for Paris Saint-Germain Féminines and the Germany women's national football team. She has won the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA Women's Euro 2009 and the UEFA Women's Euro 2013. She was also Sweden's Player of the Year in 2012 and 2014 while she played in the Damallsvenskan.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A is a group in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup that include Canada, Netherlands, China, New Zealand.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group B
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group B is a group in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup that includes Germany, Norway, Thailand and the Ivory Coast.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group C
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group D
Ada Hegerberg
Ada Hegerberg (born in Molde, Norway on 10 July 1995) is a Norwegian association football player who currently plays for Olympique Lyonnais and the Norway women's national football team. She has an older sister named Andrine Hegerberg. She also is part of Norway's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad.
Sara Däbritz
Sara Däbritz (born 15 February 1995 in Amberg, Germany) is a German association football player who currently plays for FC Bayern Munich and the Germany women's national football team.
She played for SpVgg SV Weiden and SC Freiburg in her youth, and played for SC Freiburg in her senior career until she transfered to FC Bayern Munich in 2015.
Däbritz has played for Germany's Under 15, Under 17, Under 19 and Under 20 youth squads. She most recently was played in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
"As of 15 June 2015"
Lieke Martens
Lieke Martens (born on 16 December 1992 in Nieuw-Bergen, Netherlands) is a Dutch association football player who currently plays for Barcelona and the Netherlands women's national football team. She has also played for the clubs SC Heerenveen, VVV-Venlo, Standard Liège and FCR 2001 Duisburg. She is part of the Netherland's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad.
FCR 2001 Duisburg
FCR 2001 Duisburg (officially known as Fußballclub Rumeln 2001 Duisburg) was a German women's association football club that was dissolved in 2013 because of a financial crisis. After the club disbanded, it merged with MSV Duisburg.
Some notable players who played for the club include Alexandra Popp, Ashlyn Harris, Sara Däbritz, Simone Laudehr, Lieke Martens and Annike Krahn.
Lakmé
Lakmé is a French opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on April 14, 1883, libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti Rarahu's "Le mariage de Loti". An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas.
Netherlands women's national football team
The Netherlands women's national football team (Dutch: Nederlands vrouwenvoetbalelftal) is the women's association football team that represents the European country of the Netherlands. They qualified for their first FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015, and two UEFA Women's Championships. As of 27 March 2015, their FIFA ranking is 12.
"As of 8 June 2015"
Vasili Zhupikov
Vasili Mikhailovich Zhupikov () (16 January 1954 – 7 June 2015) was a Soviet football player and a Russian coach.
Zhupikov made his debut for USSR on September 7, 1977 in a game against Poland. He played in the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers (USSR did not qualify for the final tournament).
Andrine Hegerberg
Andrine Stolsmo Hegerberg (born on 3 June 1993 in Sunndalsøra, Norway) is a Norwegian association football midfielder who currently plays for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC and the Norway women's national football team. She has also played for Kolbotn Fotball, Stabæk Fotball Kvinner and 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. Her younger sister is Ada Hegerberg.
Khieu Samphan
Khieu Samphan (; born July 27, 1931) is a former Cambodian communist politician. He was the president of the state of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) from 1976 until 1979.
He was one of the most powerful officials in the Khmer Rouge movement, although Pol Pot remained the General Secretary (highest official) in the party.
Samphan is the second oldest living former Khmer Rouge leader, alongside Nuon Chea. On August 7, 2014, they were convicted and received life sentences for crimes against humanity during the Cambodian Genocide.
Chea Sim
Célia Šašić
Célia Šašić (née: Okoyino da Mbabi; born on 27 June 1988 in Bonn, Germany) is a German association football forward who currently plays for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the Germany women's national football team. She is one of the best German footballers of her generation. She was the Bundesliga top scorer in 2013–14 and 2014–15, and was also named the German Player of the Year in 2012. She is of Cameroonian decent.
She also won the Golden Boot as the leading goal scorer in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Because she was tied with American Carli Lloyd with 6 goals, the award was decided by tiebreakers. Both were even on the first tiebreaker of assists, with one each. Šašić won the award on the second tiebreaker, having played fewer minutes than Lloyd.
The Crazy Ones is an American sitcom created by David E. Kelley. It starred Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The single-camera series aired on CBS on September 26, 2013.
It was based in Chicago, Illinois. It was about Simon Roberts (Williams) who is an advertising executive and his daughter, Sydney Roberts (Gellar) also an executive working together. It was cancelled on April 17, 2014.
Germany women's national football team
UEFA Women's Euro 2013
The UEFA Women's Euro 2013 (also called the Women's Euro 2013) was the 11th UEFA Women's Championship tournament. It took place in Sweden and it lasted from 10–28 July. The champions were Germany, winning their 6th consecutive title, and their 8th overall.
Neverland Ranch
Neverland Ranch is a property in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. In 1987 Michael Jackson purchased it for an estimated $19.5 million USD. He lost the property by 2007. The 2,700-acre ranch is currently for sale for $100 million.
The property has been renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch. The Normandy-style mansion and the train station with the floral clock are still there. The amusement park has been removed. Also the zoo animals have been relocated. The private fire department on the ranch is no longer staffed with firemen. The property is being sold by the real estate investment company, Colony Capital.
Human–computer interaction
Daria is an American animated comedy-drama television series. It is a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head. It centers on teenager Daria Morgendorffer. It is set in a fictional universe in Lawndale. The show started airing on January 1, 1997. The last episode was shown on January 21, 2002.
Air Seychelles is the national airline of Seychelles. It started in 1978. In 1983, it began international flights to Frankfurt and London. Its head office is at Seychelles International Airport on the island of Mahé. As of 2015, Air Seychelles flies to 10 cities and has 10 airplanes.
Linda Sembrant
Gaëlle Enganamouit
Gaëlle Deborah Enganamouit (born on 9 June 1992 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian association football midfielder and forward who currently plays for Eskilstuna United DFF and the Cameroon women's national football team. She has also played for Lorema Yaoundé and ŽFK Spartak Subotica. She can play a variety of positions, but normally she plays as a midfielder or forward.
Madeleine Ngono Mani
Madeleine Michèle Ngono Mani (born on 16 October 1983 in Cameroon) is a Cameroonian association football forward who currently plays for En Avant de Guingamp and the Cameroon women's national football team. With Cameroon, she has played at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Bundesliga (women)
The Frauen-Bundesliga (English: Women Bundesliga) is the main women's association football league competition in Germany. The league was formed in 1990, and the most successful team has been 1. FFC Frankfurt, while the current champions are VfL Wolfsburg.
1. FFC Frankfurt
1. FFC Frankfurt is a German women's association football team that represents Frankfurt and plays in the Frauen Bundesliga. The team is the most successful German team, both in the league and in Europe. Frankfurt has won 7 Bundesliga titles, 4 UEFA Women's Champions League titles and 9 DFB-Pokal titles. Some notable players include Birgit Prinz, Fatmire Alushi, Melanie Behringer, Célia Šašić and Simone Laudehr.
2014–15 Bundesliga (women)
The 2014–15 Frauen Bundesliga was the 25th season of the Frauen Bundesliga in Germany. It took place from 30 August 2014 to 10 May 2015. Bayern Munich won their first Bundesliga title.
Christen Press
Christen Annemarie Press (born December 29, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American professional soccer player. She currently plays for Manchester United W.F.C. of the FA Women's Super League and the United States women's national team as a forward. Along with her football career, she has also been in several advertisements with Nike and Coppertone. Along with some of her teammates, she has also been in the popular American TV series, The Simpsons.
She has won the Swedish Cup with Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC, and many other individual awards. She has appeared in various tournaments, including the Algarve Cup, CONCACAF Women's Championship and FIFA Women's World Cup. She was part of the squad that won the 2015 and 2019 World Cups.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1 was one of the European qualifying groups for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. In the end, Germany were group winners. The top scorer was Anja Mittag of Germany with 11 goals.
Matross
A matross was a soldier of artillery. He was a member of an artillery (gun) crew. A matross ranked next below a gunner. The duty of a matross was to assist the gunners in loading, firing and sponging the guns. They were armed with muskets and bayonets. They marched with the store-wagons, acting as guards. In the American army a matross ranked as a private of artillery.
Matrosses were first used in the British Army in 1639. Before that they were called gunner's assistants. In the German language a matrose means a sailor. The work assigned to the matross was considered sailor's work on a ship. It was an effort to give the assistant a respectable title. But their pay rate remained the same. In 1873 all matrosses were promoted to the rank of gunner. The rank of matross was no longer used.
A soldier's manual for artillery used by Americans in the Revolutionary war gave a detailed instruction for a matross. In part it said:
By the War of 1812 an ideal gun crew could be up to 15 men. Each man would have a specific task in the sequence of loading and firing the artillery piece. Often a non-commissioned officer would commanded the gun crew and aimed the gun. Like the other gun crew members, the matross had a specific place to stand as he performed his duties.
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 was one of the European qualifying groups for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. In the end, Switzerland were group winners. The top scorer was Lara Dickenmann of Switzerland with 10 goals.
Afghanistan national football team
Afghanistan national football team is the national football team of Afghanistan.
Aruba national football team
Aruba national football team is the national football team of Aruba.
Bahamas national football team
Bahamas national football team is the national football team of Bahamas.
David Rotem
David Rotem (‎; 11 January 1949 – 8 June 2015) was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2007 and 2015. He was born in Bnei Brak to a Orthodox Jewish family, and grew up in Jerusalem.
Rotem died from cardiac arrest on 8 June 2015 in Efrat, West Bank, aged 66.
Iceland women's national football team
The Iceland women's national football team is a women's association football team that represents Iceland. Although the team has not qualified for a FIFA Women's World Cup, it has been at two UEFA Women's Championship tournaments. As of 8 June 2015, The top scorer is Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir with 70 goals, and the woman with the most appearances is Katrín Jónsdóttir with 132 caps.
Katrín Jónsdóttir
Katrín Jónsdóttir (born on 31 May 1977 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is former Icelandic association football defender who played for various clubs throughout Norway, Iceland and Sweden, most notably Valur. She was a regular in the Iceland women's national football team, and she now has the record for the most appearances for the team.
She has played for the Icelandic clubs of Valur, Breiðablik UBK, Stjarnan; the Norwegian club of Kolbotn Fotball; and the Swedish clubs of Umeå IK and Djurgårdens IF.
Jónsdóttir played for the Under-17 and Under 21 Icelandic youth teams. She made her senior team debut in May of 1994 in a exhibition game against Scotland.
She helped Iceland qualify for the UEFA Women's Championship in 2009, however, her team lost all three group stage matches against Norway, France and Germany.
She appeared in the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 and helped her team advance to the knockout stage, where Iceland would eventually get knocke out in the quarter-finals against Sweden.
Francisca Ordega
Bahrain national football team
Bahrain national football team is the national football team of Bahrain.
Edmonton (disambiguation)
Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province Alberta. It may also refer to:
Wapping
Wapping is an area in East London. It is in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in London, United Kingdom. Wapping is by the River Thames (the longest river in England). Wapping was probably named by the Saxons when they lived here. Their leader was named Waeppa. England's first marine police force was created in 1798 in Wapping. There were 163 bombs dropped in Wapping (including St Katherine's docks) during World War II. This was from October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941. There is a famous landmark in Wapping called the Prospect of Whitby which is a very famous pub.
In Wapping there are two primary schools. St. Peter's London Docks primary school and Hermitage primary school.
Deepin
Deepin is a free operating system that uses the Linux kernel.
It is one of the most popular Chinese Linux distributions and it is based on Debian. The goal with deepin is to make it easy to use and install onto a computer. deepin can be used on all types of personal computers. deepin is downloaded as a DVD, which is free to download on the deepin website. It can be installed or tested by running the DVD.
Started in 2004, deepin has been developed at a fast rate by Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd, a Chinese company.
The release cycle has followed various schedules but currently aims at four releases per year. Releases are delayed if the work of development and testing has not been completed.
deepin is based on Debian and both distributions have a lot in common. Both distributions use the same software repositories. Most differences are on the desktop. Debian has a vastly larger support community than deepin. However, the majority of Debian help and advice is also applicable to deepin. Debian and deepin support also x86-64 CPU architecture.
Many popular multimedia codecs are not installed by default in deepin. deepin and many other gratis GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu, do not distribute these codecs with the initial install media due to patent encumberment issues.
deepin 2014.x was based on Ubuntu; Ubuntu and deepin both focus on usability, but deepin offers a different user experience (DDE) and it includes a number of applications that are not available in Ubuntu (Deepin Store).
FC Bayern Munich (women)
The FC Bayern Munich women is a German women's association football club that is from Munich, Germany. The team was successful in the 1970's, but unlike the male team, the club has been battling relegation until the 2010's. They won the Frauen Bundesliga for the first time in their 2014–15 season.
Extragalactic astronomy
Extragalactic astronomy is astronomy about objects outside our Milky Way galaxy. It is the study of everything that is not covered in galactic astronomy: the study of objects in our galaxy.
Because of improvements in technology, we can see distant objects in more detail. Two versions of extragalactic astronomy are: near-extragalactic astronomy (the study of galaxies in our Local Group) and far-extragalactic astronomy (the study of objects outside our Local Group).
Pages on extragalactic astronomy include:
Snapchat is a photo sharing app. Using the app, people can take pictures, add a text or drawing and send them to a list of contacts. The service started in September 2011. At first it was intended to send selfies that would disappear quickly but people learned how to save the pictures.
In June 2017 the app added "Snap Map". Snap Map is a feature that broadcasts the user's location on a map. This caused concerns over privacy and safety.
Reus
Reus is a city in Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona. The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits. It was famous at one time for its brandy. Today Reus is a popular center for rock-climbing. As of 2014, 104,962 people live in the city. The famous architect, Antoni Gaudí, was born in Reus. The poet and playwright Joaquín Bartrina (1850–1880) was born in Reus.
Valur
Knattspyrnufélagið Valur (English: Falcon Football Club; or simply known as Valur) is an Icelandic sports club. It is based in Reykjavík. The club originally was made for association football. It later brought in handball and basketball. The club is very successful in Iceland. They have won multiple trophies in all sports.
Raheem Shaquille Sterling (born 8 December 1994) is an English football player. He currently plays for the English Premier League team Manchester City in the winger position. He received the Golden Boy award for 2014 from a pan-European panel of sports journalists.
Zin Mar Aung is a Burmese activist. She received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S State Department in 2012.
Zin Mar Aung studied botany in the university. She received a degree from the University of Distance Education in Yangon.
Zin Mar Aung was part of the Burma democracy movement. Because of this, she was a political prisoner for eleven years. She started a group for Asian culture and democracy. She also started a group to help women who were political prisoners. She also helped start a group for women's empowerment. In 2012, she became the leader of an organization for ethnic minorities in war areas. In 2013 she started to work with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on women’s political empowerment under the Global Women’s Leadership Fund.
Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal (Raj) Reddy (born Kattoor, India 19 June 1937) is an Indian computer scientist and Carnegie Mellon University professor. He is noted for his contributions to artificial intelligence, robotics and speech recognition.
Reddy developed Hearsay I, the first speech recognition system, which is the foundation for all commercial speech recognition programs today. He received his Master’s degree in computer science at the University of New South Wales in 1961 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1966.
Reddy served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He has won many international awards for his work, including the Turing Award (which is computer science’s greatest honor), membership in the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Legion of Honour, the IBM Research Ralph Gomory Fellow Award, the Padma Bhushan, the Okawa Prize, the Honda Prize, the IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award, and the Vannevar Bush Award.
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Samar Badawi
Samar Mohammad Badawi (Arabic: سمر بدوي born 1981) is a Saudi Arabian human rights activist. In 2012, she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. State department.
Samar started a court case against her father, who abused her for 15 years. She accused her father of "adhl", because he did not permit her to marry. Samar's father started a court case against her. He accused her of disobedience, because he was her guardian. In Saudi Arabia, all women must have a guardian. Samar went to jail in April 2010. In October 2010, she got out of jail, after an international campaign. Her uncle became her new guardian.
Samar tried to register to vote in the 2011 Saudi Arabian elections. Her registration was refused. She started a court case against the Ministry of Municipal and Rural affairs.
In 2011 and 2012, Samar was part of the Women to drive movement. She drove regularly, and she helped other women drivers with police and court cases. In November 2011, Samar and Manal al-Sharif applied for driver's licenses. Their applications were refused. They filed charges with the Grievances Board against the Saudi Arabian General Directorate of Traffic.
In November 2013, Samar wrote on Twitter that she received American nationality.
On 16 September 2014, Samar went to a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. She represented the organizations Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute of Rights and Democracy (BIRD), and Human Rights Watch in Saudi Arabia. She spoke about Human Rights advocates in Saudi Arabia, and her husband, Waleed Abulkhair. Her husband was in jail because he was an activist.
On 18 September 2014, Samar met with the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad. On 20 September 2014, she went to the USA, where she met with US Senators and Secretaries and with human rights organizations. She talked about her husband and others who were in jail. After that, Samar said she received a threat from the Secretary of Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia to stop talking about human rights. She returned to Saudi Arabia, but the government took her passport.
On 2 December 2014, Samar went to King Abdulaziz International Airport, to go to Brussels, Belgium for the 16th European Union (EU) NGOs Forum on Human Rights. Passport officials said she was not permitted to travel abroad.
Shad Begum
Shad Begum (شاد بیگم) is a social worker from Pakistan. In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State.
Shad comes from a conservative and religious family. She is the first woman in her family to study in a university. Shad's family supports the political party named Jamaat-i-Islami, a conservative religious party. Shad says she always got support for her work from her father, her brothers, and her husband.
In 1994, Shad started the Association for Behaviour and Knowledge Transformation (ABKT). The organization helps women in the area with projects for education, politics, and health. It also has projects for bridges, pumps, wells, streets, and loans for small business. The association gets its money from the Pakistani government and from international groups.
Shad had many problems because the society is conservative and dominated by men. There are very few working women. When the Taliban came to the area, Shad was threatened, so she moved the office to Peshawar. When Shad received the International Women of Courage Award, she asked news reporters not to write about it, because she was afraid.
Maryam Durani
Maryam Durani (مَریَم دورانی) (born 1987) is an activist and women's advocate. In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
Mariyam is the daughter of Haji Mohammad Eisa Durani. She is from the Durrani tribe. Maryam graduated from the American University of Afghanistan. She has a degree in business. She also studied law and political science.
Mariyam was Kandahar people’s representative in the provincial council. She was director of Khadijatul Kubra women's association for culture. She was the owner of Merman Radio of Kandahar, a special women's radio. She started the Kandahar women's advocacy network. Maryam also started Malalai Maiwandi Internet cafe, a free women's internet cafe. It is a safe space for women to use the internet, and the first of its kind in Afghanistan.
In 2012, Time Magazine chose Maryam as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". According to Time, "As the owner and operator of a radio station (Merman Radio) that focuses on women's issues and as a member of the Kandahar provincial council, Durani stands up for the region's women with remarkable bravery."
In March 8, 2012 she received the U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.
In May 2014, Maryam received the Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Freedom of Speech and Expression
Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo
Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo is a Brazilian police officer. In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
In 1998, de Oliveira joined the Rio de Janeiro military police. In 2000 she started work in street operations. In 2007, she was attacked and kidnapped. She escaped and arrested three of her kidnappers.
In 2008 she became head of the first “Police Pacification Unit” (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro. In 2013, a man disappeared in Rocinha. The officers of the Police Pacification Unit were accused of being part of the crime. De Oliveira became head of the police unit.
In 2012 De Oliveira received the International Women of Courage award, and "Veja" magazine named her Defender of the City.
Amor de barrio
Amor de barrio (English title: "Love from the Hood"), is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Hernández for Televisa. It is a remake of the 1979 Mexican telenovela, "Muchacha de barrio". Production of "Amor de barrio" began on February 23, 2015.
The telenovela began airing on June 8, 2015. The program is expected to have 210 episodes.
Mane de la Parra, Renata Notni, Alejandra García and Pedro Moreno star as the main characters.
Living and working in the colorful neighborhood, La Lagunilla, two friends, Paloma and Laura, long for respective boyfriends and true love. Paloma, a law student and waitress, falls for Daniel, a wealthy doctor with a manipulative mother and a family filled with secrets. Laura finds love with Daniel's cousin, Raul, a business manager with his own complicated past.
Hana El Hebshi
Hana Elhebshi or Hana El Hebshi is a Libyan activist and architect. In 2012 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
During the Libyan revolution, Hana advised NATO on strikes. She also made public how many people Gaddafi's government killed during the war. She did this under the name "Numidia". She also fought for women's rights in Libya.
Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American dancer and actress. She acted on stage and in movies. She won four Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances. In the musical "Damn Yankees", she played Lola. She played Abigail in "The Farmer Takes a Wife".
Verdon was born in Culver City, California. She died following a heart attack in Vermont at age 75.
Kim Stanley
Patricia Kimberley Reid (later called Kim Stanley; February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress. She acted mostly in theater and television. She also acted in a few movies.
Stanley began her acting career in theater. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in "The Chase" (1952). During the 1950s, she worked a lot in television. She played Emily Ann Faulkner in "The Goddess" (1959). She later played Adult Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Stanley was born in Tularosa, New Mexico. She died in Santa Fe, New Mexico from uterine cancer.
Apache Indian
Gord Robertson
Gordon "Gord" Robertson (born May 10, 1958) is an Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, singer, puppeteer, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known as the voice of Zoboomafoo in the series of the same name.
Renata Notni
Renata Notni (born January 2, 1995 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and model.
Notni was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. As a child, she attended acting lessons at Centro de Educación Artística, the children's version of drama school. Centro de Educación Artística is run by Televisa in Mexico City.
Notni had a relationship with Diego Amozurrutia. The relationship ended but they remain friends. She currently resides in Mexico City.
Mentone, Texas
Mentone is a city in the state of Texas in the United States. It is the county seat of and only town in Loving County. In 2007, 56 people lived there. It was named for an abandoned city in Loving County, which has been named by a surveyor for his city of birth, Menton, France.
Kenya Airways is the flag carrier of Kenya. It began in 1977 after East African Airways stopped flying. Its main hub is at JKIA. In 1995, KLM and Kenya Airways signed a codeshare agreement. KLM purchased 26% of Kenya airline's shares. Kenya Airways joined the SkyTeam alliance in 2010 as a full member. As of 2015, the airline has 43 airplanes. They fly to Africa, Europe and Asia.
Mentone may mean one of many places:
Also, Menton, France can be "Mentone".
Saint Martin (disambiguation)
Saint Martin is an island in the Caribbean Sea.
Fu Manchu
Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character in novels by British author Sax Rohmer in the first half of the 20th century.
The character was also featured in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years He is an archetype of the evil genius.
The author's description of him was:
A master criminal, Fu Manchu's murderous plots are marked by a use of biological warfare. He usually avoids guns or explosives, preferring dacoits, thuggee, and members of other secret societies as his agents. They use knives, or "pythons and cobras ... fungi and my tiny allies, the bacilli ... my black spiders" and other peculiar animals or natural chemical weapons.
In the earliest books, Fu Manchu is an agent of the secret society, the "Si-Fan". and is the mastermind behind a wave of assassinations of Western imperialists. In later books, he seeks control of the Si-Fan. The Si-Fan is largely funded through criminal activities, particularly the drug trade and white slavery. Dr. Fu Manchu has extended his already considerable lifespan by use of the "elixir vitae" (elixir of life), a formula he spent decades trying to perfect.
Fu Manchu is opposed by a typical English detective of the Sherlock Holmes type: Denis Nayland Smith. Fu Manchu's daughter, Fah Lo Suee, is a devious mastermind in her own right, plotting to usurp her father's position in the Si-Fan, and aiding his enemies within and outside of the organisation. Her real name is unknown; Fah lo Suee was a childhood term of endearment. She has been played by Anna May Wong, Myrna Loy, and several other actresses.
Dr. Fu Manchu has been criticized as an overtly racist creation. A review in "The Independent", says "These magnificently absurd books, glowing with a crazed exoticism, are really far less polar, less black-and-white, less white-and-yellow, than they first seem".
Actors who have played Fu Manchu in movies include Boris Karloff (once), Warner Oland (four times), and Christopher Lee (five times).
Actresses who played his daughter Fa Lo Suee include Myrna Loy and Anna May Wong, but most of all by Tsai Chin, who played the role five times in the 1960s. The character of Fa Lo Suee was usually renamed to a form which could be pronounced more easily.
The other female character who appears in several of the stories, and hence in some of the films, is Karamaneh, styled "Kâramanèh".
The story-line is that she was sold to the Si-Fan by Egyptian slave traders while she was still a child. She appears in five novels of the series as a love interest.
Modding in Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto is a series of video games created by a company named Rockstar Games. The game is very popular in the world. Due to this popularity it has become a platform to develop small programs which are called mods. The full form is modifications. The name itself suggests that it makes small modifications in the game and gives it special abilities which have not given by the creators.
There are several websites on the web which provide mods of most of the GTA games. Some mods are installed externally in the game directory while installing some mods require to replace it with an original file.
People could install many mods and create their own GTA with new players, missions, etc. The web is already filled with many mods.
Wage theft is when employers illegally hold back money due to their workers (employees). They may withhold wages or deny benefits that are rightfully due to an employee. It is a term used in the in the United States, but the idea applies more widely.
Examples are: failure to pay overtime, paying less than the minimum wage, illegal deductions in pay, working off the clock, or not being paid at all.
Wage theft from low wage immigrant workers is common in the United States. The Economic Policy Institute reported in 2014 that survey evidence suggests wage theft costs US workers billions of dollars a year. The rights violated by wage theft have been guaranteed to workers in the United States in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
In February 2010 Miami-Dade County, Florida became the first jurisdiction in America to ban wage theft. Before that, wage theft was called "the crime wave that almost no one talks about".
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George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist. His paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River are good examples of the Luminist style. Bingham was little-known in his time. His work was rediscovered in the 1930s. By 2011, he was considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century.
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for a spying mission in New York City, but was captured by the British and executed. He is probably best remembered for possibly saying before being hanged: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Hale has long been considered an American hero. In 1985, he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut.
Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American entertainer. He developed a character called Jim Crow. Using African-American speech, song, and dance, Rice performed successfully as Jim Crow in America and England. Rice is known as the "Father of the Minstrel Show".
Rice was born in New York City in 1808. He had some formal schooling, and was apprenticed to a woodcarver in his teens. By 1827 though, he had entered the entertainment field and was acting in theaters around the United States.
About 1828, Rice developed a burnt-cork blackface character called Jim Crow. This character was a witty, raggedy black man, and was based on a real-life black stableman Rice saw singing and dancing to a tune called "Jump Jim Crow". By 1830, Rice was performing in theaters as Jim Crow. His act was widely popular in America and England.
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, "Jim Crow" became a term used to describe racial segregation laws in the United States. Whites referred to all black males as "Jim Crows". Rice wrote and appeared in "Ginger Blue, Jim Crow in London", and a comic rendition of "Othello". He also appeared on Broadway as the title character in an adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
About 1840, Rice began to suffer from a paralysis that affected his speech and movement. He died of a stroke on September 19, 1860, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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LED lamp
A LED lamp is a product that uses a Light-emitting diode and that is assembled into a lamp or a light bulb. LED lamps last much longer, and are more efficient than incandescent lamps. Many LED lamps are also better than fluorescent lamps.
Unlike fluorescent lamps, most LED lamps do not need to "warm up" before they emit the full amount of light.
China women's national football team
The China women's national football team is the women's association football team that represents the Asian country of China.
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Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Ann Mikulski (born July 20, 1936) is an American politician. In January 2007, she became the senior United States Senator from Maryland. She is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party. Mikulski was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1986. She was elected to the Senate in 1986. Mikulski is the longest serving woman in the history of the United States Congress.
Senator Mikulski retired in 2017.
Mikulski was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup
The 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Women's Asian Cup. It was won by Japan, who got their first title.
These teams automatically qualified for the tournament because they were in the top 4 of the previous tournament. The North Korea team wasn't allowed to be in the tournament because of a doping scandal in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
These teams were in the tournament because they won their qualification group.
AFC Women's Asian Cup
Yang Li (footballer)
Yang Li (Traditional Chinese: 楊麗; Simplified Chinese: 杨丽; born in Lianyungang, China on 31 January 1991) is a Chinese association football forward who plays for the China women's national football team. She was one of the top scorers in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup.
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1968–71 Nordic Football Championship
The 1968–71 Nordic Football Championship was the 10th Nordic Football Championship. Four Nordic countries were in the tournament, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Sweden ended up winning their 8th title.
Alex Morgan
Alexandra Patricia Morgan (born 2 July 1989 in San Dimas, California, United States) is an professional women's footballer. She plays as a forward for Tottenham Hotspurs in the FA Women's Super League, and the United States women's national soccer team (USWNT).
She won a Olympic Gold medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics, and also won the 2015 and 2019 World Cups with the US national team.
Morgan began her career with West Coast FC in the WPSL in 2008. Then she moved to California Storm in 2010, and later that year she moved to Pali Blues of the USL W-League. In 2011, she transferred to Western New York Flash, and in 2012, she joined Seattle Sounders. Morgan moved to Oregon to play for Portland Thorns in 2013, and she stayed with the team until 2015. Orlando Pride bought her in October 2015, and Morgan played for them from 2016 to 2019. She also played one season with Olympique Lyon in France, and she won the UEFA Women's Champions League that season. She won three trophies with Olympique Lyon.
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History of the geologic time scale
This article describes the history of the geologic time scale.
The principles were first laid down by Nicolaus Steno in the late 17th century. Steno argued that rock layers (or strata) are laid down in succession, and that each represents a "slice" of time.
Steno formulated the principle of superposition. This says that any given stratum is probably older than those above it and younger than those below it. This principle is simple, but applying it to real rocks is complicated by their history. During the 18th century geologists realized that:
The first serious attempts to formulate a time scale of historical geology that could be applied anywhere on Earth happened in the late 18th century. The most influential of those early attempts was led by Abraham Werner and others. They divided the rocks of the Earth's crust into four types: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. Each type of rock, according to the theory, formed during a period of Earth history. It was possible to speak of a "Tertiary period" as well as of "Tertiary rocks". Indeed, "Tertiary" (now Palaeocene-Pliocene) and "Quaternary" (now Pleistocene-Holocene) remained in use as names of geological periods well into the 21th century.
Werner had the idea that all rocks had precipitated out of a single enormous flood. That is called the Neptunist theory. A major shift in thinking came when James Hutton read his "Theory of the Earth; or, an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe" before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March and April 1785. James Hutton in those reading became "the founder of modern geology". Hutton suggested the interior of the Earth was hot, and that this heat was the engine which drove the creation of new rock. Land was eroded by air and water and deposited as layers in the sea; heat then consolidated the sediment into stone, and uplifted it into new lands. This theory was called Plutonist in contrast to the flood-oriented theory.
The identification of strata by the fossils they contained was pioneered by William Smith, Georges Cuvier and others in the early 19th century. Geologists could divide Earth history more precisely. If two strata (however distant in space or different in composition) contained the same fossils, chances were good that they had been laid down at the same time. Detailed studies between 1820 and 1850 of the strata and fossils of Europe produced the sequence of geological periods still used today. Cuvier thought many of the geological features of the Earth could be explained by catastrophic events which had caused the extinction of many species of animals. Over the course of his career, Cuvier came to believe there had not been a single catastrophe, but several, resulting in a succession of different faunas.
British geologists were most active in the 19th century. The "Cambrian," (the Roman name for Wales) and the "Ordovician," and "Silurian", named after ancient Welsh tribes, were periods defined by Welsh rocks. The "Devonian" was named after the English county of Devon, and the name "Carboniferous" was simply an adaptation of "the Coal Measures," the old British geologists' term for the same set of strata. The "Permian" was named after Perm, Russia, because it was defined using strata in that region by a Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison. British geologists were also responsible for the grouping of periods into eras and the subdivision of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods into epochs. In general, periods were named after places where the rocks were easy to see.
Geologists and paleontologists based the geologic table on the relative positions of different strata and fossils. They estimated the time scales based on studying rates of various processes. They estimated weathering, erosion, sedimentation, and how long it took to turn sediment into hard rock. The discovery of radioactivity in 1896 and its geological applications by radiometric dating happened in the first half of the 20th century. It made possible the absolute dating of rocks, and the discovery of the age of the Earth.
The International Commission on Stratigraphy is working to define exactly when geologic periods start and finish, and where the best examples are. They are called Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSP).
A yam is a root vegetable. It is similar to a sweet potato. The inside of a yam is white or orange. Yams are related to lilies and grasses.
Yam is the common name for some species in the genus "Dioscorea". These are perennial vines grown to eat. They are grown in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania. 95 percent of world's yam crop is harvested in West Africa.
Yam is a vegetable that can be cooked in many ways. It can be barbecued; roasted; fried; grilled; boiled; baked; smoked and when grated it is used in desserts.
Yam tubers can grow up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) in length and weigh up to 70 kilograms (154 lb) and 3 to 6 inches high. The skin is rough and hard to peel. It softens after heating. The inside ranges in color from white or yellow to purple or pink in mature yams.
Some people in the United States and Canada call the sweet potato a yam, but it is not a yam.
Six Flags Great America is a theme park in Gurnee, Illinois, United States.
Frank Cappuccino
Frank Capcino (February 7, 1929 – June 8, 2015), better known by his ring name Frank Cappuccino, was an American boxing referee. He was best for officiating the Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks fight on June 27, 1988 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He played a referee in the movie "Rocky V" (1990). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Cappuccino died from Alzheimer's disease on June 8, 2015 in Yardley, Pennsylvania, aged 86.
Hans "Hansi" Last (17 April 1929 – 9 June 2015), better known by his stage name James Last, was a German composer and big band leader. His "happy music" sold over 100 million albums. He worked in mainly his native Germany and the United Kingdom.
Last was born in Bremen. He was married twice and had two children.
Last died of an illness on 9 June 2015 in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. He was 86.
Fred Anton Maier
Fred Anton Maier (15 December 1938 – 9 June 2015) was a Norwegian speed skater. He won four Winter Olympics medals in 1964 and 1968. He was also a cyclist. He was born in Nøtterøy, Vestfold.
Maier died from cancer on 9 June 2015 in Nøtterøy, aged 76.
Jack King (NASA)
John W. "Jack" King (April 1931 – June 11, 2015) was an American public affairs officer. He was a Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA. He was best known for his work as Kennedy Space Center Chief of Public Information during projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Following announcing the Apollo 11, he earned him the nickname "Voice of Apollo".
King was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was married to Evelyn until her death in 2005. They had three children. He was a Catholic.
King died from congestive heart failure on June 11, 2015 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He was 84.
Jim Ed Brown
James Edward "Jim Ed" Brown (April 1, 1934 – June 11, 2015) was an American country music singer. He was a member of The Browns with his sisters Maxine and Bonnie Brown. He also worked with Helen Cornelius and was a solo artist. He was born in Sparkman, Arkansas.
Brown died from cancer on June 11, 2015 in Franklin, Tennessee, aged 81.
Wolfgang Jeschke
Wolfgang Jeschke (19 November 1936 – 10 June 2015) was a German sci-fi author and editor. He was best known for his novel "The Last Day of Creation" (1981). In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction. His works were published at Heyne publishing house ().
Jeschke was in Tetschen, Czechoslovakia (now Děčín, Czech Republic). He grew up in Asperg near Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg.
Jeschke died on 10 June 2015 in Munich, aged 78.
Pedro Zerolo
Pedro González Zerolo (20 July 1960 – 9 June 2015) was a Spanish lawyer, politician, activist and town councillor. He was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Zerolo, who was gay, helped Spain become the first country to recognise same-sex marriage.
Zerolo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He married Jesús Santos, his partner of ten years, in a civil ceremony in October 2005.
Zerolo died from pancreatic cancer on 9 June 2015 in Madrid. He was 55.
Cross burning
Cross burning is a practice associated with racism. In the United States, the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses close to the homes of people they wanted to intimidate. It is unrelated to a custom called fiery cross, which was common in Northern Europe. In that custom, a burning piece of wood was used in processions, or to call people together for a rebellion.