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Segunda División B
Segunda División B is a football league which is the third division in Spain.
The league is made of 4 groups of 20 teams, making the amount of total teams 80 in all.
In each group, the top 6 teams qualify for the Copa Del Rey. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th placed teams qualify for playoffs to be promoted to Segunda Division. The 1st placed team has to play a playoff with the champions of other groups and the winner is declared champion.
In each group, the bottom 4 teams are directly sent to the Tercera División. The 16th placed teams in each group compete against each other. The worst of those teams is relegated.
These are all the group winners ever. The promoted group winners are in bold.
"Note: Since the 2008-09 season, the champion has been decided in a playoffs round. The winner of the playoffs final is highlighted in gold. The loser of the playoffs final is highlighted in silver."
Kimbra
Kimbra Lee Johnson (born 27 March 1990), known as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer, musician, and singer-songwriter who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Kimbra's musical style is inspired from many different styles- electropop, R&B, jazz and soul. Her first collection of songs, "Vows",was released in Australia in 2011.
Kimbra is featured in the 2012 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye.
On 10 February 2013, she and Gotye won two awards at the 2013 Grammy Awards for "Somebody That I Used To Know".
Yasser Al-Qahtani
Yasser Saeed Al-Qahtani (; born 10 October 1982) is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for Al-Hilal in Saudi Professional League. He was also captain of the Saudi Arabian national team. In 2005, he moved to Al-Hilal for 23 million Saudi riyal.
He is married since 2008 and has a son "Abdulaziz" born in 1/1/2010.
Saudi Professional League
The Saudi Professional League () is the main football competition in Saudi Arabia. The first competition was held in the 1976–77 season.
Al-Shabab
Al-Shabaab or Al-Shabab (الشباب "ash-Shabāb") is an Arabic phrase meaning "the Youth". It may refer to:
Al-Ahly
Al Ahly SC
Al Ahly Sporting Club ( ) commonly known as Al Ahly () is an Egyptian sporting club. Founded in April 1907, they were named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the "African Club of the Century".
Al Ahly has 108 official trophies (99 domestic and 9 international). This makes them the 3rd most successful football club in the world.
Total number of trophies: 132.
Thomas Voeckler (born 22 June 1979) is a French professional road racing cyclist. He rides for the Europcar cycling team.
Voeckler has been called a "national hero," because he has done well in the Tour de France. His nickname is le Chouchou which means "Sweetheart".
Voeckler has been a professional cyclist since 2001. He entered the 2004 Tour de France and earned the yellow jersey ("maillot jaune") on Stage 5. He wore the jersey for ten days, which made him famous.
In 2006 he won the fifth stage in 2006 Vuelta al País Vasco. He also won the 2006 Paris–Bourges race.
In 2009, he won his first stage in a Tour de France. Voeckler went for victory on stage 15 with about 5 km to go.
In the 2010 Tour de France he won Stage 15.
In the ninth stage of the 2011 Tour de France, Voeckler crossed the line second, taking the overall lead and therefore wearing the "maillot jaune" (yellow jersey). He kept the yellow jersey for 9 stages, but lost it on Stage 19. Voeckler finished the Tour in fourth place 3min 20sec behind the winner, Cadel Evans. This is his best career placement in the Tour so far. It was the best finish of any Frenchman in the Tour since Christophe Moreau came fourth in 2000.
In 2012, Thomas Voeckler earned more victories and top placements, including in the Spring Classics.
At the 2012 Tour de France, he was suffering from a knee injury and almost abandoned the race. However he won Stage 10, the first mountain stage of the race. He also won Stage 16 with four huge climbs including the "Col du Tourmalet". On this stage he grabbed the polka dot jersey for best climber. He kept the jersey from the Pyrenees to the finish.
In the Ardennes Classic in 2013 Voeckler crashed and broke his collarbone. By June he recovered and won stage 6 of the Critérium du Dauphiné. Voeckler continued his winning form by winning the overall titles of the Route du Sud and the Tour du Poitou-Charentes.
Voeckler is known for displaying many different facial expressions while racing, especially when trying very hard. He often sticks out his tongue. In August 2011, Voeckler raced on his bike against a horse in an exhibition contest, and lost.
Roller Coaster DataBase
The Roller Coaster DataBase is a roller coaster and amusement park database. It was started in 1996 by Duane Marden. It features statistics and pictures of more than 5,000 roller coasters around the world.
Hurricane Iselle (2014)
Hurricane Iselle was a Pacific tropical cyclone. The storm threatened the islands of Hawaii, especially Hilo. The storm developed on July 31, 2014. Iselle is the first hurricane to hit the islands in 22 years.
Iselle approached Hawaii as a powerful category 4 hurricane. It had sustained winds of about 120 knots (138 mph). A number of conditions caused it to weaken just before it approached Hawaii. It struck the Big Island as a strong tropical storm. The storm center made landfall at about 2:30 am on August 8. It left downed trees and about 25,000 people without electric power. The storm surge caused 25-foot waves. Airlines had to cancel about 50 flights due to the storm.
Iselle then followed a northwestern track missing the rest of the Hawaiian islands. They received rain and winds. A woman hiker on Kauai was swept away and drowned in the storm.
John Banner
John Banner (28 January 191028 January 1973), born Johann Banner, was an Austrian movie and television actor. He was born in Vienna, Austria.
He is best known for his role as Master Sergeant Hans Georg Schultz in the situation comedy "Hogan's Heroes" (1965–1971). Schultz, is known for saying the character's catchphrase, "I know nothing! I see nothing! I hear nothing!"
Banner died on his birthday from a gastrointestinal bleeding in Vienna, Austria, aged 63.
John Stephenson (actor)
John Winfield Stephenson (August 9, 1923 – May 15, 2015) was an American actor. He was most active voice-over roles.
He has also been called John Stevenson. Stephenson has never given any interviews and was rarely seen in public, although he did make an appearance at BotCon 2001.
Since the death of Harvey Korman in 2008, he was one of the last surviving voice actors from the 1960s animated sitcom, "The Flintstones", in which he played Fred Flintstone's boss, Mr. Slate.
Stephenson died from Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.
Alan Reed
Alan Reed, also known professionally as Alan Reed Sr., (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American actor and voice actor. He was best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on "The Flintstones".
Jean Vander Pyl
Jean Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon "The Flintstones". She also provided the voice for Pebbles Flintstone.
She also provided the of voice of Rosie the robot maid from the animated series "The Jetsons", among many others, such as Fifi and additional voices in "Top Cat" and Winsome Witch on "The Secret Squirrel Show".
Bea Benaderet
Beatrice “Bea” Benaderet (April 4, 1906 – October 13, 1968) was an American actress. She was born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California.
She appeared in many television shows, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley.
She also appeared in supporting roles as Blanche Morton in "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" and as the original voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of "The Flintstones", and in "The Beverly Hillbillies" as Pearl Bodine.
The Jetsons
The Jetsons is an animated sitcom directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. There are 77 episodes, 3-season, with the timespan of 22-30 minutes. Between September 23, 1962 and December 23, 1987 and a pilot episode was released in 1961.
George O'Hanlon
George O'Hanlon (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American movie and voice actor, comedian and TV writer. He was known for his roles in the Warner Bros.' live-action "Joe McDoakes" short subjects from 1942 to 1956 and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series "The Jetsons" and its 1985 revival.
Penny Singleton
Penny Singleton (September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American movie and voice actress. She was known for making the voice of the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series "The Jetsons".
Educational Testing Service
Educational Testing Service (ETS) was founded in 1947. It is the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization. Its headquarters are in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, near Princeton.
ETS develops various standard tests in the United States for K–12 and higher education. It also administers tests in more than 180 countries, and in over 9,000 places worldwide. These tests include the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General and Subject Tests, and the Praxis test series.
Many of these assessments are for entry to US undergraduate education and graduate schools. ETS also develops K–12 assessments used for accountability testing in many states, including California, Texas, Tennessee and Virginia. In total, ETS annually administers 20 million exams in the U.S. and in 180 other countries.
Peter George Peterson
Peter George "Pete" Peterson (June 5, 1926 – March 20, 2018) was an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, and author.
He was United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He was also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Peterson was named the most influential billionaire in U.S. politics.
Peterson died on March 20, 2018 at his Manhattan apartment. He was 91 years old.
Frederick B. Dent
Frederick Baily Dent (August 17, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was an American politician and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from February 2, 1973, to March 26, 1975, during the administrations of U.S. Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Dent died at a hospital in Spartanburg, South Carolina on December 10, 2019 at the age of 97.
Robert J. Lagomarsino
Robert John "Bob" Lagomarsino (September 4, 1926 – February 7, 2021) was an American politician. He was a former Republican congressman from California.
Lagomarsino began his service in the United States House of Representatives in 1974 and was re-elected every two years until 1992, when he was defeated for renomination by Michael Huffington. Before he began serving in the House, Lagomarsino served in the California State Senate from 1961 until 1974, and before to that, he served as the mayor of Ojai, California.
Lagomarsino died on February 7, 2021 at his family ranch in Ojai, California at the age of 94.
Norman Mineta
Norman Yoshio Mineta (, "Mineta Yoshio"; born November 12, 1931), is an American politician.
He is a member of the Democratic Party, Mineta most recently served in President George W. Bush's Cabinet as the United States Secretary of Transportation. He was the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Bush administration.
On June 23, 2006, Mineta announced his resignation after more than five years as Secretary of Transportation, effective July 7, 2006, making him the longest-serving Transportation Secretary in the Department's history.
On July 10, 2006, Hill & Knowlton, a public relations firm, announced that Mineta would join it as a partner. On August 10, 2010, it was announced that Mineta would join L&L Energy, Inc as Vice Chairman.
Mineta also was President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Commerce for the last six months of his term (July 2000–January 2001). Mineta spent nearly six full years as a Cabinet member.
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (July 7, 1920 – March 31, 2017) was an American attorney and politician. Coleman was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975 to January 20, 1977.
Coleman, Jr. died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at his home in Alexandria, Virginia on March 31, 2017, aged 96.
John A. Volpe
John Anthony Volpe (; December 8, 1908November 11, 1994) was an American politician. He served as the 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts. He also served as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 1969 to 1973 and an ambassador to Italy from 1973 to 1977.
Volpe died in Nahant, Massachusetts on November 11, 1994, at the age of 85. Volpe was buried at the Forest Glade Cemetery in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress.
Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993.
Adams died from Parkinson's disease in Stevensville, Maryland, aged 77.
Andrew L. Lewis Jr.
Andrew Lindsay Lewis, Jr. (November 3, 1931 – February 10, 2016) was an American politician and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Transportation for part of the administration of United States President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. He was widely known as Drew Lewis. He was born in Broomall, Pennsylvania.
Lewis, Jr. died of complications from pneumonia in Prescott, Arizona on February 10, 2016 at the age of 84.
Samuel K. Skinner
Claude Brinegar
Claude Stout Brinegar (December 16, 1926 – March 13, 2009) was an American politician. He was the third United States Secretary of Transportation serving from February 2, 1973 to February 1, 1975. Brinegar had previously been an oil company executive. Brinegar was Secretary of Transportation during the 1973 oil crisis. In 1980-81, Brinegar was on Ronald Reagan's transition team.
Anthony Foxx
Anthony Renard Foxx (born April 30, 1971) is an American politician. He was United States Secretary of Transportation from 2013 through 2017. He served as the Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2009 to 2013.
On April 29, 2013, President Barack Obama said he would nominate Foxx to be the Secretary of Transportation. On June 27, 2013 the Senate confirmed the nomination of Foxx to the post of Secretary of Transportation on a vote of 100-0.
Samuel Bodman
Samuel Wright Bodman III (November 26, 1938 – September 7, 2018) was an American politician. He was the 11th United States Secretary of Energy. He was previously the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and the Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
Bodman died in El Paso, Texas on September 7, 2018 at the age of 79. The cause of death was complications from primary progressive aphasia.
Charles Duncan, Jr.
Charles William Duncan, Jr. (born September 9, 1926) is an American entrepreneur, administrator, and statesman. Duncan served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy on the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.
Melvin Laird
Melvin Robert "Bom" Laird (September 1, 1922 – November 16, 2016) was an American politician and writer. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon.
Laird died from complications of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Fort Myers, Florida on November 16, 2016, aged 94.
Frank Charles Carlucci III (October 18, 1930 – June 3, 2018) was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration.
Carlucci died on June 3, 2018, from complications of Parkinson's disease, at his home in McLean, Virginia, at the age of 87.
J. William Middendorf
Paul Robert Ignatius
W. Michael Blumenthal
Nicholas F. Brady
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930) is an American politician. He was the United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He was known for creating the Brady Plan in March 1989.
In 1982, he was appointed to succeed Harrison A. Williams as a United States Senator until a special election could be held. He served in the Senate for 8 months.
Hoyt Curtin
Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (September 9, 1922 – December 3, 2000) was an American composer and music producer, the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with "The Ruff & Reddy Show" in 1957 until his retirement in 1986. He composed the themes for "The Flintstones" and in "The Jetsons".
Word salad
Word salad is language with meaningless, scrambled words. It is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases".
'Word salad' is most often used for a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct. The key thing is that a listener cannot get any meaning from them. The term is often used in psychiatry and theoretical linguistics to describe language which native speakers judge is meaningless.
Word salad occurs in neurological or psychological cases in which a person tries to communicate, and words and phrases come out but make no sense. Often, the person is unaware that they did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia, and after anoxic brain injury.
It may be present as:
Word salad can be generated by a computer program for various purposes.
Mojibake, also called "Buchstabensalat" ("letter salad") in German, is an effect similar to word salad, in which an assortment of seemingly-random text is generated.
Karen X. Gaylord
Karen X. Gaylord (January 4, 1921 - August 1, 2014) was an American actress, model, and former Miss Minnesota, whose career was most successful during the 1940s.
She was born Karen Xandra Gaylord on January 4, 1921, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a working class family. She was the oldest of four children (all girls). Her father worked as an engineer with the Northern Pacific Railway.
After she graduated from North Community High School in 1939, Gaylord wanted to go to college to study music and art. But then a friend of hers saw a notice in a magazine called "Movie Mirror." It said that the movie studios in California were accepting photographs with names and addresses to help them find new actors for movies. Without telling Gaylord, her friend mailed in Gaylord's picture. Not long after, Gaylord got a letter telling her that she had been chosen to come to California for a tryout.
The entire Gaylord family decided this would be a good chance for all of them. The whole family moved to California with Karen.
After moving to California, Karen began going to all of the major studios in Hollywood, doing screen and wardrobe tests (tryouts to see how she acted and looked on movie screens and in costumes).
In 1941, Gaylord was in her first film, "The Chocolate Soldier" with Nelson Eddy (though she was not listed in the credits at the end of the movie). Between 1941 and 1949, she acted in about 36 films (see the "Filmography" section lower on this page). But she was only listed in the credits for these movies once, for the 1944 film "Cover Girl" with Rita Hayworth.
In 1942, the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis, Minnesota, chose Gaylord as their 1942 'Miss Minnesota.' Not long after this, film producer Samuel Goldwyn chose Karen to become one of his six new Goldwyn Girls. (The Goldwyn Girls were a group of female dancers that included some very famous women.)
Gaylord also became a popular stand-in, and stood in place for leading ladies like Linda Darnell, Barbara Stanwyck, Laraine Day, Evelyn Keyes, Gene Tierney, and Jeanne Crain. (A stand-in plays an actor's role when the actor is not there.)
In 1949, Gaylord left the entertainment industry. She moved to Clearwater, Florida, to begin her lifelong dream of teaching music and art. In 1950, she legally changed her name from Karen Xandra Gaylord to Jane Goerner.
Up until the 1990s, she gave private music and art lessons out of her home.
In the last years of her life, she had some serious health problems. She sold her home and moved to Ocala, Florida, to live with her sister and brother-in-law. She died in her sleep at the age of 93 on August 1, 2014. There were no funeral services or memorials. Her body was donated to medical science through the body donation program at the University of Florida's College of Medicine.
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Robert Bergland
Robert Selmer "Bob" Bergland (July 22, 1928 – December 9, 2018) was an American politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota's 7th congressional district from 1971 to 1977, and he served as United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1977 until 1981, during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.
Bergland died at a nursing home in Roseau, Minnesota on December 9, 2018, aged 90.
Freddie Ray Marshall (born August 22, 1928) is an American politician, writer, and educator. He is the Professor Emeritus of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Marshall was born in 1928 in Oak Grove, Louisiana. He spent some of his youth in an orphanage. He joined the US Navy at age 15 by overstating his age. After serving in World War II, he attended Louisiana State University and Millsaps College.
While attending Millsaps, he became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He has a Ph.D is from University of California, Berkeley in economics.
He has held several academic posts, but since 1962 has been at the University of Texas, with the exception of his term as United States Secretary of Labor as a member of Jimmy Carter's Administration.
As Secretary of Labor, he expanded public service and job-training programs, as a part of Carter's economic stimulus program.
Marshall was also one of the founders of the Economic Policy Institute in 1986.
Richard Virenque
Richard Virenque (born 19 November 1969) is a French retired professional cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders. He won the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France seven times, which is more than any other cyclist. Virenque finished third in the Tour de France in 1996 and second in 1997.
He was part of a famous doping scandal in 1998.
He rode for the Vélo Club Hyèrois from the age of 13. He said he knew he could climb well from the start.
His first win was in a race round the town at La Valette-du-Var. He and another rider, Pascale Ranucci, lapped everyone else. He then did his national service in the army battalion at Joinville in Paris.
In 1990 he came eighth in the world championship road race at Utsunomiya, Tochigi in Japan. He was then offered a professional contract with the team RMO.
He turned professional for RMO in January 1991.
Virenque rode his first Tour de France in 1992 as a replacement for Jean-Philippe Dojwa. On the third day he took the maillot jaune of leadership and held it for a day, losing it to his team-mate Pascal Lino, who led for the next two weeks. Virenque finished second in the polka dot jersey climbers' competition.
After the Tour de France Virenque joined another French team, Festina. He stayed there until the team closed down after a doping scandal in 1998.
Virenque first wore the yellow jersey of the Tour de France in 1992 and for the last time in 2003. In 2003 he wore the jersey on the climb of Alpe d'Huez.
Virenque was good at climbing but not at time trials.
In 1998 the Festina cycling team was disgraced by a doping scandal, known as the "Festina affair".
Virenque's teammates, Christophe Moreau, Laurent Brochard and Armin Meier, admitted taking EPO after being arrested during the Tour and were disqualified. Virenque said he was innocent.
Virenque changed teams to Team Polti in January 1999. He rode the Giro d'Italia in 1999 and won a stage.
A few weeks later Virenque's name emerged in an inquiry into Bernard Sainz. Sainz was later jailed for practising as an unqualified doctor. Franco Polti, the head of Virenque's team, fined him 30 million lire.
Race director Jean-Marie Leblanc banned Virenque from the 1999 Tour de France. He was made to let Virenque race by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Leblanc said he hoped Virenque would not win. Virenque rode on a bicycle painted white with red dots to resemble the polkadot jersey of best climber, but he didn't win the competition. He had a bodyguard, Gilles Pagliuca.
In 1999 he wrote a book called "Ma Vérité". In the book he said he was innocent of doping. He wrote that his team-mates confessed to using EPO because of pressure from the police. He said Moreau's urine showed EPO had not been detected.
The Festina affair led to a trial in October 2000. Virenque was a witness as well as others from the Festina team. He at first denied he had doped himself but then confessed. But he denied doping himself intentionally.
Virenque was criticised by the media and satirists for denying doping even though there was evidence. He was also criticised for pretending he had been doped without his knowledge.
Virenque lived near Geneva in Switzerland and the Swiss cycling association suspended him for nine months. The sentence was reduced by an independent tribunal to six and a half months. He was fined the equivalent of 2,600 euros and told to pay 1,300 euros in costs. He became depressed.
It was difficult for Virenque to find a team after he returned from his suspension.
On 5 July 2001 he joined Domo-Farm Frites. He had help from Eddy Merckx who paid the extra money after the main sponsors wouldn't pay. Domo kept him the following season. On 25 October 2002 he signed for another two years.
Virenque returned to fame by winning Paris–Tours on 7 October 2001. This was unusual because Paris–Tours is a flat race and sprinters usually win, not climbers. The French magazine, "Vélo", called the victory "extraordinary." "L'Équipe" 's headline on the front page was "Unbelievable!"
Virenque was beaten by Laurent Jalabert in the 2001 and 2002 Tour de France King of the Mountains competition. He won his sixth polka dot jersey in 2003. In 2004 he won the polka dot jersey for the seventh time. This is the most of any cyclist.
Virenque rode the Olympic Games road race in Athens. He announced his retirement on 24 September 2004.
He won "Je suis une célébrité, sortez-moi de là!" (the French version of "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!") in Brazil in April 2006. In autumn 2005 he opened Virenque Design, a company to design and sell jewellery. Since 2005 he has been a commentator for Eurosport. He has also advertised an energy drink and a pharmacy company.
In December 2007, Virenque and his wife, Stéphanie, divorced. They had been together for 17 years. They have two children, Clara and Dario.
Virenque lives at Carqueiranne in the Var region of France. He likes dancing, wine, gardening and flowers. "Put me in a good garden nursery and I'm in heaven," he says.
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Libertarian Party of Canada
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (or ELCC) is a Lutheran denomination in Canada. It is the largest of the Canadian Lutheran churches, with more than 145,000 members.
The ELCC started in 1986, when the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada merged with the Canadian section of the Lutheran Church in America.
The church is grouped into five synods:
The head of the ELCC is a presiding bishop, who is called the "National Bishop. The current national bishop is Rev. Susan Johnson.
Lutheran Church–Canada
The Lutheran Church–Canada (or LCC) is a confessional Lutheran denomination in Canada. It is the second largest Canadian Lutheran church, after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. The LCC was orgainized in 1988 by the Canadian congregations of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.
The current president of the LCC is Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee.
Roman Catholicism in Canada
The Roman Catholic Church in Canada is part of the world wide Catholic Church. As of 2008, it was the third largest religious body in Canada. Over 13 million Canadians (46% of population) was a baptized member of the Catholic Church.
Catholics first settled in Canada in the 1600s, when French settlers founded Quebec City. In the 1620s, British Catholics were allowed to settle on Newfoundland. A seminary was started in Quebec City in 1663. In 1674, Pope Clement X started a diocese in Quebec City, which was the first episcopal see in the Americas north of Mexico. This diocese became the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec in 1819. The diocese originally covered all of Canada but other diocese were created during the 19th century.
Denys Williams
Sir Denys Ambrose Williams (12 October 1929 – 7 August 2014) was a Chief Justice of Barbados. He served as an acting governor-general from 19 December 1995 until 1 June 1996.
Williams died in Bridgetown, Barbados from unknown causes, aged 84.
Manuel Lujan Jr.
Manuel Archibald Lujan Jr. (May 12, 1928 – April 25, 2019) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was from the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Lujan served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1989. He also served as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1993. He was an assistant of George H. W. Bush in the House from 1969 to 1971. In 1989, President Bush named Lujan to his Cabinet.
His niece is current Governor of New Mexico and former U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Lujan died in Albuquerque, New Mexico from congestive heart failure on April 25, 2019 at the age of 90.
Office of the United States Trade Representative
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States trade policy to the President of the United States.
It makes trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade policy within the government through the interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) and Trade Policy Review Group (TPRG).
Bill Brock
William Emerson "Bill" Brock III (November 23, 1930 – March 25, 2021) was a Republican United States senator from Tennessee, having served from 1971 to 1977. Upon the election of Ronald Reagan as U.S. president, Brock was appointed U.S. Trade Representative, a position he had until 1985 when he was made Secretary of Labor.
Brock died from pneumonia in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 25, 2021, at age 90.
Richard Schweiker
Richard Schultz Schweiker (June 1, 1926 – July 31, 2015) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983.
He previously served as a U.S. Representative (1961–1969) and a U.S. Senator (1969–1981) from Pennsylvania.
In the 1976 election, then-former Governor Reagan picked Schweiker as his running mate. The pair lost the Republican primary to then-incumbent President Gerald Ford.
On July 31, 2015, Schweiker died from complications due to an infection at the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Pomona, New Jersey, aged 89.
Christian Herter
Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clark (December 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Clark died on April 9, 2021 in New York City, aged 93.
Carla Anderson Hills
Moon Landrieu
Maurice Edwin Landrieu, known as Moon Landrieu (born July 23, 1930) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978. His son is Mitch Landrieu, the former Mayor of New Orleans and his daughter is the former United States senator Mary Landrieu.
He also is a former judge. He represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966. He served on the New Orleans City Council as a member at-large from 1966 to 1970.
Landrieu was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.
W. Marvin Watson
William Marvin Watson (June 6, 1924 – November 26, 2017) was an American politician. He was an advisor to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as Postmaster General from April 26, 1968 to January 20, 1969.
Watson died in Woodland, Texas on November 26, 2017 at the age of 93.
Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett (May 31, 1931 – November 5, 2010) was an African American opera singer. From the 1950s to the 1990s she did soprano roles, including Irina in "Lost in the Stars" in 1958. More recent roles include singing Didon in "Les Troyens" (1990). She played Nettie Fowler in the 1994 Broadway revival of "Carousel".
Verrett was born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles. She died in Ann Arbor, Michigan at age 79 from heart failure.
Stephen Early
Stephen Tyree Early (August 27, 1889 – August 11, 1951) was a American journalist and government official. He served as White House Press Secretary under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945 and again under President Harry S. Truman in 1950 after the sudden death of Charles Griffith Ross.
Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born Mary Elizabeth Anania; July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American author, health care activist and attorney. She was married to John Edwards, a United States Senator from North Carolina and a former vice-presidential nominee.
Edwards was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She died from breast cancer at age 61, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Víctor Fayad
Víctor Manuel Federico Fayad (9 February 1955 – 7 August 2014) was an Argentine politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union.
Fayad served as Mayor of Mendoza from December 10, 1987 through December 10, 1991 and again from December 10, 2007 until his death in 7 August 2014. Before being mayor of Mendoza, Fayad served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from December 10, 1993 through December 10, 2005.
Fayad was born in Mendoza. He was married to Marcela Pérez Caroli until his death in 2014. They had three children.
Fayad died in Mendoza, Argentina from mediastinum cancer, aged 59.
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
Aliquippa is a city in Beaver County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 9,438 at the 2010 census. Before becoming a city, Aliquippa was a borough. It became a city in 1987 by the Aliquippa Borough Council.
Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island is a lake island in Lake Huron. It is on the northern side of the lake, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is the largest island in a freshwater lake in the world. It has an area of 2,766 square kilometers (1,068 square miles).
Lake Huron is on the southern and western sides of the island. Georgian Bay is on the island's east side and the North Channel on the northern side. There are 108 freshwater lakes on the island. The largest is Lake Manitou (about 104 kilometers, 40.5 square miles), which is the largest freshwater lake on a freshwater island.
The island has a population of 12,600. Many tourists visit the island during the summer. The island has two incorporated towns: Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands and Gore Bay and Gore Bay.
John Maynard Woodworth
John Maynard Woodworth (August 15, 1837 – March 14, 1879) was an American physician. He served as the first Supervising-Surgeon General of the United States under U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant from 1871 to 1879.
Bruce Peninsula
The Bruce Peninsula is a peninsula in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is between Georgian Bay to the northeast and Lake Huron to the southwest. It is part of Bruce County.
There are two national parks on the peninsula: Bruce Peninsula National Park and Fathom Five National Marine Park. The peninsula has four main towns: Tobermory, Lion's Head, Wiarton, and Sauble Beach.
Bea Wain
Bea Wain (April 30, 1917 – August 19, 2017) was an American Big Band-era singer. She was born in New York City, New York. She led the vocal group "Bea and the Bachelors" (with Al Rinker, Ken Lane, and John Smedberg) and the V8 (seven boys and a girl) on the Fred Waring show. Wain had four No. 1 hits: "Cry, Baby, Cry", "Deep Purple", "Heart and Soul" and her signature song, "My Reverie".
Wain died of congestive heart failure at a retirement home on August 19, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 100.
Ray Manzarek
Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr. (February 12, 1939 – May 20, 2013) known as Ray Manzarek was an American musician, singer, music producer, movie director, and author. He was best known as a founding member and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973. He was a co-founding member of Nite City from 1977 to 1978, and of Manzarek–Krieger from 2001 to his death.
On May 20, 2013, Manzarek died from bile duct cancer at a hospital in Rosenheim, Germany, aged 74.
Gordon Pirie
Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie (10 February 1931 – 7 December 1991) was an English long-distance runner. He was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England but was brought up in Coulsdon, Surrey and ran for South London Harriers.
Pirie died of bile duct cancer in Lymington, Hampshire.
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Rezső Bálint
Rezső Bálint (October 22, 1874 – May 23, 1929) was a Hungarian neurologist and psychiatrist. He discovered Bálint's syndrome.
Bálint studied medicine in Budapest, graduating in 1897. He habilitated in 1910, became extraordinary professor in 1914 and full professor in 1917. He died of thyroid cancer in 1929.
Chandrayaan-1
Chandrayaan-1 was India's first spacecraft launched to explore the Moon. It lifted off on 22 October 2008. It was under the control of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was launched by a PSLV rocket. Chandrayaan 1 carried NASA's M1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper. The space mission was designed to last for two years. In reality the mission lasted for 312 days. It mapped about 95% of the moon's surface. On 29 August 2009 radio signals from Chandrayaan-I were lost. The mission was considered ended at that point. The lunar probe showed the presence of water on moon.
The mission had the following stated objectives, or goals:
2014 Rogers Cup
The 2014 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank (named as a result of a sponsor) is a tennis tournament which takes place on outdoor Hardcourts. It started on 2 August and will end on 10 August. The tournament is in the 125th year of the Canadian Open which is a tournament that takes place yearly. The men's and women's tournaments switch between Toronto and Montreal.
The tournament is part of the 2014 ATP World Tour and 2014 WTA Tour. It is used to prepare players for the 2014 US Open.
A seed is a competitor who is given special placement in a tournament. This is so they do not meet the best players until the later rounds in the tournament. Usually they meet in the third round and may have received a pass into the second round.
Canadian Open
The Canadian Open is a tennis tournament that takes place on outdoor hard courts. It is held in Montreal and Toronto, usually at the start of August. Before 2011, it was held in two different weeks during July and August.
The tournament adjusts for the men and women's side each year. Tt shifts from being held in Montreal and Toronto. In odd-numbered years, the men's side of the draw is held in Montreal and the women's are held in Toronto, and in even years they switch cities.
The men's tournament started in 1881. It was first held at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club. The women's side of the tournament started later, in 1892. There are only two leading tournaments that started before the Canadian Open, the Wimbledon and the US Open.
Before 1968, the tournament was known as the Canadian National Championships. Since the start of the open era, the tournament has had many sponsors. In the 1970s, it was held under the Rothmans International tobacco brand, Player's Limited was the main sponsor in the 1980s, and the sponsor changed again in 1997 to the cigarette company Du Maurier. Since federal measures came into place to restrict tobacco advertising, Rogers, a media company, has become the head sponsor.
No male Canadian tennis player has won the men's singles tournament since 1958. However, in 2013 Milos Raonic was the first Canadian player to reach the final since the start of the open era, after he beat fellow Canadian Vasek Pospisil in the semifinals.
Faye Urban was the last woman to reach the women's singles final, after her win in 1969. The Canadian players have had better luck in the men's doubles tournament than in the single's tournament, with Daniel Nestor and Sébastien Lareau both becoming champions. The women's doubles tournament has not been won by a Canadian female tennis player since 1969 also when Vicki Berner and Faye Urban won against another Canadian paring of Jane O'Hara and Vivienne Strong in a repeat of the 1968 final. Since then, Helen Kelesi has been the only Canadian player to reach the final for doubles, in 1990.
Agnez Mo (album)
Agnez Mo is the fourth studio album by Indonesian singer-songwriter Agnez Mo. Although the songs are in English, the album was only released for the Indonesian market. The album was digitally released by Sony Music. on June 1, 2013 through the website Souniq Music (souniqmusic.com). Sales of the album was done in a bundle with the Ship Fire Coffee products. The songs on this album can be downloaded for free with points available with purchase of certain products.
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the most important organization for men's professional tennis, meaning men who play tennis for their job instead of just for fun. It was started in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale. Its job is to care for the interests of men's professional tennis. Starting in 1990, the ATP has organized the most important group of tennis competitions for men. In 2009, the organization changed the name of the competitions from "ATP Tour" to "ATP World Tour." It is based in London.
2014 ATP World Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour is the top level professional tennis tour for men's tennis competitions. The 2014 ATP Tour calendar is made up of four Grand Slam tournaments (organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), and sixty-one regular tournaments. It also includes the Davis Cup (organised by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the ATP World Tour Finals). The Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points, is included. The season begins on 30 December 2013 and will end on 17 November 2014.
The tournaments are played on flat surface, called a tennis court. The measurements of a tennis court are set by the ITF. The court is long and wide. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. Tennis is played on a variety of tennis court types. Each type has to be played differently. There are four main types of courts based on what's used to build the court surface, clay, hard, grass and carpet courts. The ITF ranks them by five different speed ratings from slow to fast.
Schneider's Bakery
Schneider's Bakery is a television production company created by Dan Schneider.
Some of the shows that were produced by the company are "Drake & Josh", "All That", "Zoey 101", "iCarly", "Victorious", "Sam & Cat" and "Henry Danger".
Lydia Yu-Jose
Lydia N. Yu-Jose (March 27, 1944 – August 3, 2014) was a Filipino Professor Emerita of Political Science and Japanese Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. She was best known for her research into the history of Japan–Philippines relations, as well as aiding in the development of Japanese studies in the Philippines as a separate academic discipline.
On August 3, 2014, Lydia Yu-Jose died after a six-year long battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
George Hilton (historian)
George Woodman Hilton (January 18, 1925 – August 4, 2014) was an American historian and economist. He worked in social history, transportation economics, regulation by commission, the history of economic thought and labor history.
Hilton was born in Chicago. Hilton studied at Dartmouth College and earned his A.B. in Economics "summa cum laude" in 1946. He received his M.A. in 1950. Hilton studied at the London School of Economics in 1953-1955, and got his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956.
He then taught for many years at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was later a Professor Emeritus of Economics at UCLA.
Hilton died in Los Angeles, California, aged 89.
George Hilton (actor)
George Hilton (16 July 1934 – 28 July 2019), sometimes credited as Jorge Hilton, was a Uruguayan actor. He was known for his many spaghetti western performances.
He was born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara on 16 July 1934 in Montevideo, Uruguay, but was raised in England.
Hilton began his career as an extra with bit parts in the mid-fifties. In 1967 he appeared to great effect as "Stranger" in "Any Gun Can Play" (aka "Go Kill and Come Back"). He went on to become one of the major stars of spaghetti westerns eventually playing Sartana in the last movie of the series "I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin".
Hilton died on 28 July 2019 in Rome from a long-illness, aged 85.
George Martin (disambiguation)
Sir George Martin (1926–2016) was a British record producer.
George Martin may also refer to:
George M. Martin
George M. Martin, M.D. (born June 30, 1927, in New York City, New York) is an American biogerontologist. He received both his B.S. in Chemistry and his M.D. from the University of Washington and has been a member of its faculty since 1957.
Martin is a Professor Emeritus (Active) in the Department of Pathology, Professor of Genome Sciences (Retired) and Director Emeritus of the University of Washington’s Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
George C. Martin
George Coleman Martin (May 16, 1910 - May 21, 2003) was an American project engineer on the Boeing B-47 and chief project engineer of the Boeing B-52. Martin was born in Everett, Washington.
After graduating from Everett High School, Martin enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he majored in aeronautical engineering. While a student at Washington, he was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, and became a brother of the Alpha Kappa Lambda social fraternity. He graduated from Washington in 1931.
Martin died from pneumonia in Everett, Washington, aged 93.
Perry Lee Moss (August 4, 1926 – August 7, 2014) was an American football football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s.
Moss was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. He was drafted in 1948 by the Green Bay Packers. In 1987, Moss was hired as the head coach of the Chicago Bruisers of the Arena Football League. In 1991, he was named as first coach of the Orlando Predators.
Moss is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame. On August 7, 2014, Moss died at his home in Deltona, Florida from complications from a neuromuscular disease, aged 88.
Ralph Bryans
Ralph Bryans (7 March 1941 – 6 August 2014) was a Northern Irish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1965, he won the 50 cc World Championship aboard a factory-sponsored Honda. He was born in Belfast.
After a short illness, Bryans died at his home in Scotland on 6 August 2014, aged 72.
Danny Murphy (actor)
Danny Murphy (August 20, 1955 – August 8, 2014) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in "There's Something About Mary" and in "Me, Myself, & Irene". His last movie role was in "Hall Pass". Murphy was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Murphy was a quadriplegic (handicapped) after a diving accident that took place at Martha's Vineyard in 1974. His friend and director, Peter Farrelly, was with him at the accident.
Murphy criticized Farrelly for not including handicapped people in his movie "Dumb & Dumber". This lead to Murphy's first movie role in Farrelly's comedy movie "Kingpin".
Murphy died in Florida from cancer, aged 58.
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