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Adams was a member of the Greensboro City School Board from 1984 to 1986 and a Greensboro City Council member from 1987 until 1994.
She was appointed to the North Carolina House District 26 seat in 1994 to replace Herman Gist, who died in office. The district is in Guilford County and includes most of southeastern Greensboro. She had previously said she was going to challenge Gist for that seat in the Democratic primary that year. After being appointed to the seat, Adams faced conservative businessman and retired engineer O. C. Stafford in the Democratic primary. Adams won the primary election.
Adams then won a full term in the general election, beating Republican Roger G. Coffer. She had a rematch with Stafford in the general elections of 1996 and 1998 (Stafford ran as a Republican). Adams won both elections. In 2000 Adams did not have an opponent in the Democratic primary; she defeated Republican real estate broker Jim Rumley in the general election.
In 2002, after redistricting, Adams' seat was changed from the 26th district to the 58th district. Her only challenger that year was Libertarian lawyer David Williams, who withdrew from the race in October because he was moving to Colorado. His name still appeared on the ballot, but Adams won with around 86% of the vote.
Adams has been challenged for her seat for many years by Republican legal assistant and party activist Olga Morgan Wright. Wright has run for the seat held by Adams in nearly every election since 2004. Adams defeated Wright and Libertarian challenger Walter Sperko with 66% of the vote in 2004. In the next election Adams had no competition in the primary; she defeated Wright in the general election 66%–34%. In 2008, the year that Barack Obama was elected president, Democratic voters had a high rate of participation, and Adams defeated Wright 71.35%–28.65%
In 2008, Adams was elected to a second term as chair of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.
She was vice-chair of the Government Committee in the state House. Previously she was chair of the Appropriations Committee as well as vice-chair of the Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
In 2010, Adams was challenged in the Democratic primary by Ralph C. Johnson. She defeated Johnson with 76.56% of the vote. Adams next faced Republican Darin H. Thomas in the general election, beating him 63.15%–36.85%. In 2012, Adams did not have any primary opposition and defeated Olga Wright in the general election by a margin of 79.86%–20.14%.
In April 2013, Mel Watt, the only congressman to have served the 12th District since its creation in 1993, was appointed as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Adams ran in the special election to replace him, and won. She was sworn in on November 12, 2014, to complete the remaining seven weeks of Watt's term. After swearing in, Adams became the 100th female member of the congressional class, beating the previous record of 99. Adams formally filed paperwork to run in both the Democratic primary for a full two-year term in the 114th Congress and the special election for the balance of Watt's 11th term. Adams won re-election in 2018.
Analysts thought that Adams was at a geographic disadvantage in the five-way primary for both the special and regular elections (held on the same day). She is from Greensboro, but the bulk of the district's population is in Charlotte. However, with three candidates from Charlotte in the race splitting that region's vote; Adams won both primaries with approximately 44 percent of the vote, a few thousand votes over the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. She faced Republican Vince Coakley, a former television and radio broadcaster from Matthews, in both the general and special elections, which were held on the same day in November. The 12th was a heavily Democratic district with a majority-black voting population and a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26, and Adams was favored in both the special and general election. She won both.
Adams is the second woman of color to represent North Carolina in the House. The first was Eva Clayton, who represented much of eastern North Carolina from 1992 to 2002.
In the 2016 presidential election, Adams endorsed Hillary Clinton and pledged her support as a superdelegate.
She is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Congressional Arts Caucus.
Adams has been a professor of art at Bennett College in Greensboro, as well as the director of the Steel Hall Art Gallery. In 1990, Adams helped co-found, with Eva Hamlin Miller, the African American Atelier, an organization established to increase awareness and appreciation for visual arts and cultures of African Americans.
She is the chairperson of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, which gives scholarships to students who are attending one of North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Adams is divorced and has two children. She is noted for the many different hats that she wears.
Colin Allred
Colin Zachary Allred (born April 15, 1983) is an American politician and civil rights attorney. He used to be a professional football player. He is a Democrat. Since 2019, he is the U.S. Representative for . That district covers the northeastern corner of Dallas. It also has many of its northeastern suburbs such as Garland, Richardson, the Park Cities and Rowlett.
When he was a football player, he was a linebacker who played for the Tennessee Titans in the National Football League (NFL). Allred stopped playing football to go back to school to get a law degree. He received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He then worked in the Obama administration and the U.S. Attorney's office.
Allred went to Hillcrest High School in Dallas, and then to Baylor University. He played college football at Baylor; he was a linebacker. In December 2005, Allred graduated from Baylor with a B.A. degree in history.
Allred joined the Tennessee Titans after the 2006 NFL Draft on May 4, 2006.
After his football career, Allred went to law school. He graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2014. Then, Allred was a special assistant in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of General Counsel.
After that, Allred worked as a lawyer at the Perkins Coie law firm, where he worked on voting rights cases. He also served as the lawyer for different political candidates and advocacy groups.
"Politico", a political news source, described him as a "civil rights attorney."
On April 21, 2017, Allred said he would challenge the current Representative from his district, Republican Pete Sessions, in the 2018 election. Allred one the most votes in the Democratic primary, but did not get more than 50 percent; he won by 20 points. Two of the other candidates also used to work in the Obama administration. In the May 22 runoff election, Allred beat Lewisville businesswoman Lillian Salerno, receiving 69.5% of the vote.
Allred then competed with Sessions for the 32nd District seat. As of the November 2016 election, the seat was considered a "swing district" because Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received marginally more votes than Donald Trump even as Sessions, a Republican, was reelected with no major-party opposition. Allred has described himself as a moderate Democrat.
On November 6, 2018, Allred was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the 32nd district of Texas. Allred's victory was considered an upset because Sessions has been in Congress since 1997 and has represented the 32nd District since 2003. Allred became the second person to represent this district since it was created in 2003, and the first Democrat. Sessions used to represent the nearby 5th District, but had switched after the district maps were changed.
In February 2019, Allred endorsed Julian Castro in the 2020 presidential race. Castro, like Allred, is from Texas. Castro used to be the Housing and Urban Development Secretary.
Allred was elected in November 2018 as co-president of the 116th Congressional Freshman Class. The other president was Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan.
Allred married Alexandra Eber on March 25, 2017. Their son, Jordan, was born on February 12, 2019.
Nanette Barragán
Nanette Diaz Barragán (; born September 15, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 44th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she used to be a Hermosa Beach City Councillor from 2013 to 2015.
Barragán was born in Harbor City, Los Angeles; she grew up the youngest of eleven siblings, raised by immigrants from Mexico in Torrance and the surrounding area, where she attended North Torrance High School and played softball. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000 and her Juris Doctor at the University of Southern California in 2005. There, where she was part of the "Interdisciplinary Law Journal".
During college and until 2003, Barragán worked as the Executive Director of the Gillian S. Fuller Foundation (formerly the Fuller Foundation); she was in charge of giving money to worthy nonprofits focused on education, the environment, and youth programs. Funded organizations included Heal the Bay, the Nature Conservancy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Para Los Niños, Proyecto Pastoral, and Literacy Partners.
In 2003, Barragán was as an extern to Justice Carlos Moreno at the California Supreme Court. In 2004, she worked as an extern at the Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation, a law firm for low-income people in Los Angeles. There she helped "pro per" workers who needed help filing claims for unpaid overtime and meal breaks.
In 2005, Barragán got an externship at the United States Attorney's Office, Central District of California where she worked with lawyers in the Organized Crime and Terrorism section. While there Barragán helped on a money laundering trial team, in investigations, and in prosecuting Central Violations Bureau cases.
Barragán then joined Latham & Watkins LLP, where she worked on cases from land use to securities. While at Latham, Barragán was the lead lawyer in an immigration asylum case for a mother and child from Guatemala that took three years. After Hurricane Katrina, Barragán and her colleague Blake Megdal flew to Biloxi, Mississippi to provide pro bono help to victims of the hurricane withinsurance claims. She also served as a child advocate and was the Spanish-speaking adoption lawyer for low income families seeking adoptions.
Barragán started her political work with the Clinton White House in the Office of Public Liaison. She was doing African American outreach, and helped the President with African American groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1999, Barragán worked with the NAACP's Washington Bureau. Afterwards, she volunteered for many federal and local candidates while on the Board of the L.A. County Young Democrats for three years prior to attending law school.
In 2012, Barragán took a break from her law firm to move to Florida to work on President Barack Obama's campaign with the voter protection team. She worked as the out-of-state volunteer lawyer director and recruited other lawyers across the country to volunteer in Florida to make sure every eligible voter had the chance to vote.
In 2013, after working in Florida for Obama, Barragán ran for Hermosa Beach City Council, fighting an oil company's proposal to drill 34 oil and water injection wells in Hermosa Beach and into the Santa Monica Bay. Barragán beat six candidates and was the top vote-getter. She became the first Latina ever elected and the first woman in ten years.
She resigned from office on July 31, 2015 to run for Congress in the state's 44th district.
Barragán announced her candidacy for California's 44th congressional district on Equal Pay Day in mid-April 2015. The seat was held by Democrat Janice Hahn, who decided to run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2016.
In June 2015, a local newspaper said that her reason for running was that "The district is one where only 60 percent graduate from high school and 10 percent go on to college. That's how people live. I'm one of those 10-percenters who beat the odds. (…) I've achieved the American dream. Now I’m coming home to make sure others have the same shot at the dream."
After announcing her candidacy, Barragán received major endorsements, including EMILY's List， National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC)， the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV)， the Latino Victory Project， South Gate Mayor Henry Gonzalez (ret.), South Gate Council members Bill De Witt, Maria Davila and Belen Bernal， Carson Commissioner Janice Schaffer, and many of congressional members including Rep. Linda Sanchez, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Eric Swalwell, Raul Ruiz, Ruben Gallego, Joaquin Castro, and Lois Frankel.
In the November 8 general election, Barragán beat state senator Isadore Hall III to replace Hahn.
Karen Bass
Karen Ruth Bass (born October 3, 1953) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 37th congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, she previously represented the 33rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013.
Bass represented the 47th district in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010. She served as the 67th Speaker of the California Assembly (2008–2010), and was the second woman and the third African American to be Speaker. Since 2019, Bass has also served as the chair of the Black Congressional Caucus.
Bass was a possible candidate to become Joe Biden's vice-presidential running mate in the 2020 election.
Bass was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were Wilhelmina (née Duckett) and DeWitt Talmadge Bass. Her father was a letter carrier. She was raised in the Venice/Fairfax neighborhood and went to Hamilton High School. She studied philosophy at San Diego State University (1971–1973). Then, she got a B.S. in health sciences from California State University, Dominguez Hills (1990).
Bass worked as a physician assistant and as a clinical instructor at the USC Keck School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program. Bass also founded Community Coalition, an organization in South Los Angeles. Later on, in 2015, Bass earned a Master's degree in social work from the University of Southern California (USC).
As the Assemblymember for the 37th district, Bass served the cities and communities of Culver City, West Los Angeles, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, View Park-Windsor Hills, Ladera Heights, the Crenshaw District, Little Ethiopia and parts of Koreatown and South Los Angeles.
She was a part of Barack Obama's national African American Leadership Council. She also served as a california co-chair of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Speaker Fabian Núñez appointed Bass California State Assembly Majority Whip (2005–2006) and Majority Floor Leader for the 2007–2008 legislative session. She was chair of the Select Committee on Foster Care and vice chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
As chair of the Legislative Black Caucus, she ordered a report to research the basic demographic profile of black californians. The report included their basic social and economic conditions. The State of Black California report included a statewide organizing effort to involve black californians in identifying their concerns and making legislative recommendations.
After the defeat of Proposition 93, Speaker Fabian Núñez left the Assembly at the end of the 2007-2008 session because of term limits. As the next-highest-ranking Democrat in the Assembly, Bass was in a good position to take the role. After gaining the support of some other Legislators who had also been seeking the Speakership, Bass was elected Speaker on February 28, 2008 and then sworn in as Speaker on May 13.
After she left the Speaker's office, Bass was named Speaker Emeritus.
Bass could not run for reelection in the California Assembly 2010 due to term limits. On February 18, 2010, she confirmed that she would run to succeed retiring U.S. Representative Diane Watson in California's 33rd congressional district. Bass won the election with over 86% of the vote, beating Republican James Andion on November 2, 2010.
In 2012 she had no primary opponent, and won the general election with 86%. She raised $692,988.53 and spent $803,966.15, leaving $52,384.92 on hand and a debt of $3,297.59.
In July 2020, Bass was discussed as a potential running mate for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Bass is generally considered a liberal, with ratings of 100% or close from liberal interest group capitol Weekly Positions. Conservative groups like the California Republican Assembly Positions have consistently awarded her a 0%.
Bass is a very strong supporter of gun control. Her National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund Lifetime Score is an F. The Gun Owners of California Positions on Gun Rights have also given Bass an F. Congresswoman Bass recently has voted against the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act that would reduce general gun control laws. In 2010, while campaigning for Congress Bass supported the expanded firearm registration bill. That bill, with other rules, would have made all gun dealers report their sales to the Department of Justice.
Bass has spoken against President Trump's national emergency declaration in 2019.
Bass, once considered a social liberal, has seen her ratings go down with LGBT organizations. She once had a 100% rating with the Human Rights Campaign but now ranks below most Democrats with a score of 88%. She is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
From 1980 to 1986, Bass was married to Jesus Lechuga. Following their divorce, Bass and Lechuga raised their daughter and four stepchildren together.
Bass suffered the death of her only child, daughter Emilia Wright, and her son-in-law Michael Wright, in a car accident in 2006.
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Hutchinson, Kansas
Hutchinson is the biggest city and county seat in Reno County, Kansas, United States. It is on the Arkansas River. In 2010, 42,080 people lived there.
Hutchinson was created in 1871. It banned alcohol, and people called it the "Temperance City". It officially became a city in August 1872.
In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a railroad from Herington through Hutchinson to Pratt.
Also in 1887, local salt deposits were found. Salt mining would become a big industry in Hutchinson. The city eventually got the nickname "Salt City".
Hutchinson is at (38.0608445, -97.9297743) at an elevation of 1,535 feet (468 m).
Hutchinson is on the northeast bank of the Arkansas River in the Great Bend Sand Prairie region of the Great Plains. Cow Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River, goes southeast through the city.
Hutchinson has a humid continental climate (Köppen "Dfa"). It is almost a humid subtropical climate (Köppen "Cfa"). It has hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters.
In 2010, there were 42,080 people, 16,981 households, and 10,352 families living in Hutchinson.
Hutchinson is a city of the first class with a council-manager form of government.
Hutchinson is the county seat of Reno County, so it is the administrative center of Reno County. The county courthouse is downtown, and all departments of the county government have their operations in the city.
Hutchinson is in Kansas's 1st U.S. Congressional District. In the Kansas Legislature, Hutchinson is in the 34th district of the Kansas Senate. It is in the 102nd, 104th, and 114th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Reno County Area Transit (RCAT) provides local public transport bus service. It has three bus routes. The routes are colored Red, Blue, and Yellow. Greyhound Lines offers long-distance bus service on its route through Hutchinson from Wichita to Pueblo. Bus service is provided daily towards Wichita and Salina by BeeLine Express (subcontractor of Greyhound Lines).
Three railroads go through Hutchinson. One is the La Junta Subdivision of the BNSF Railway. It runs east–west through the city. Amtrak uses the La Junta Subdivision to give passenger rail service. Hutchinson is a stop on the "Southwest Chief." It provides daily train service between Chicago and Los Angeles. Another railroad is the Tucumcari Line of the Union Pacific Railroad. It runs northeast–southwest through the city. Lastly, Hutchinson is the end point of two lines of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad: the Hutchinson Subdivision, which enters the city from the south, and the Great Bend Subdivision, which enters the city from the northwest.
There are two hospitals in Hutchinson. Hutchinson Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit general medical and surgical facility. It offers many different services including emergency care. The other hospital is Summit Surgical. It is a specialized corporate surgical facility.
"The Hutchinson News" is the city's main newspaper. It is published every day. Hutchinson Community College publishes a weekly student newspaper, the "Collegian".
The Sand Hills State Park is on the northern part of Hutchison.
Smoky Hills
The Smoky Hills are an upland area of hills in the Great Plains are of North America. They are in the Midwestern United States, mostly in north-central Kansas and a small part of south-central Nebraska.
The Republican River, Saline River, Solomon River, and Smoky Hill River all go east through the Smoky Hills. This is because they start in the High Plains. Starting in the 1940s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation dammed these rivers at points in the Smoky Hills for flood control and irrigation reasons. This created many reservoirs. These include Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Kanopolis Lake, Kirwin Reservoir, Waconda Lake, Webster Reservoir, and Wilson Lake.
Land in the Smoky Hills is mostly used for farming. The region doesn't have very many people. There are cities that are small, but there are no big cities. The two biggest cities in the Smoky Hills region are Salina, Kansas and Hays, Kansas.
Republican River
Smoky Hill River
The Smoky Hill River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. It goes through the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas.
The river gets its name from the Smoky Hills area in the Great Plains.
Lawrence Public Library
The Lawrence Public Library is a public library in Lawrence, Kansas.
The first library in Lawrence was built in October 1854. It cost $1 per year to be a member. People could pay $25 to be a member for their life. Amos A. Lawrence brought many books to Lawrence in 1855.
In 1863, the library burned in Quantrill's Raid. A new library was built in 1866.
In the first two years of the library, 75 volumes were purchased, and 150 volumes were donated. The city took control of the library in September 1871. They moved it into the Lawrence National Bank building. It took up three rooms on the second floor.
The old library was getting too many books, so they needed to build a bigger library. They had 6,000 volumes. $1 per year was not enough money to build a new library. One resident, Peter Emery, asked philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to give money for a new library. Carnegie said yes, and he gave $27,500 for a new library. He said he would only give this money if Lawrence made the new library free to use, and if they spent $2,750 per year to maintain it. It was put to a vote, and the city voted yes by a lot. The library officially opened to on December 26, 1904.
After the the Carnegie library opened, the Lawrence Public Library grew a lot. By 1922 children liked the library so much that a new room was added to for the children to use. By 1936, 40% of all people in Lawrence had a library card. In 1937, they had to make their storage bigger. They made the library better in 1957. They wanted to make it more modern.
The Carnegie Library didn't have enough space for the amount of books they had. Lawrence had an idea to make a new building. They decided that the new building would be close to the old building. In 1970, a vote in the city for $1,575,000 to be used for a new building passed easily. This building opened in August 1972. The Carnegie building became the location for the Friends of the Library association.
On November 10, 2010 an $18 million budget was proposed by the Library Board of Trustees. They said that since 1972, the number of people who used the library more than doubled. This proposal was accepted by voters in 2010. Construction finished in July 2014.
After the new building opened, the Lawrence Public Library won the AIA/ALA Library Building Award in 2016. Elle Decor said the library was 16th in the top "50 Best Libraries in America".
The University Daily Kansan
The University Daily Kansan is a student newspaper for the University of Kansas. It started in 1904.
The paper is distributed on campus and student apartments. They publish it every week. There are about 12,000 papers created.
Matt Stairs
Matthew Wade Stairs (born February 27, 1968) is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder, first baseman, and designated hitter, who holds the record for most pinch-hit home runs in Major League Baseball (MLB) history with 23. His pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning of Game 4 in the 2008 National League Championship Series off the Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Jonathan Broxton was called one of the most memorable home runs in Phillies history.
In his career, Stairs played for more teams than any position player in MLB history (12 — technically 13 teams, but 12 franchises, as he played for the Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals); Edwin Jackson holds the record for pitchers and all players at 14.
He was the second Canadian-born player ever to hit more than thirty-five home runs in a season, and only the second to hit more than 25 home runs and drive in more than 100 runs in back-to-back seasons. He ranks either first or second in power hitting categories for Canadian major leaguers. Stairs also holds the all-time MLB record of home runs hit as a pinch-hitter with 23. His ability to pinch hit made him a valuable asset to several teams and earned him the nickname "Matt Stairs – Professional Hitter". Stairs, Larry Walker, Justin Morneau, Jason Bay, and Joey Votto are the only Canadian MLB players to hit at least 200 career home runs. On February 4, 2015, Stairs was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
Aaron Rowand
Aaron Ryan Rowand (born August 29, 1977) is an American former professional baseball center fielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants.
On November 23, 2005, Rowand was traded by the White Sox along with minor league pitchers Gio González and Daniel Haigwood to the Philadelphia Phillies for first baseman Jim Thome.
On May 11, 2006, in the first inning of a game versus the New York Mets, Rowand made a spectacular play by smashing into the center field fence of Citizens Bank Park face first at full speed in order to run down a deep fly ball off the bat of Xavier Nady with the bases loaded, that would otherwise have scored three runs. Rowand suffered a broken nose and severe lacerations to his face. The Phillies won the game, 2-0, in a rain-shortened 5-inning game. He underwent seven hours of surgery to repair the nose, and was placed on the 15-day disabled list. He returned to the starting lineup on May 27, 2006.
On August 21, 2006, in a game against the Chicago Cubs, Rowand collided with second baseman Chase Utley and broke his ankle. He was on the disabled list for the remainder of the regular season.
In 2007, a contract year, proved to be Rowand's breakthrough, both statistically and in recognition around baseball. He finished with a batting average of .309, 27 home runs, 89 runs batted in, and 6 stolen bases. On July 10, 2007, Rowand was selected to the 2007 MLB All-Star Game in San Francisco, for his first All-Star appearance. In the bottom of the 9th, with the bases loaded, two outs, and the AL leading 5-4, Rowand flew out to Alex Ríos in right field to end the game helping give the American League home field advantage in the 2007 World Series. He earned his first Gold Glove Award for his outfield play that year, including 11 outfield assists and only 2 errors all season.
Raúl Ibañez
Raúl Javier Ibañez (born June 2, 1972) is an American former professional baseball left fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) now serving as a special advisor to Los Angeles Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman. He played 11 of his 19 big league seasons for the Seattle Mariners, while also playing for the Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. While primarily a left fielder, Ibañez often saw considerable time as a designated hitter (DH), throughout his career.
An All-Star in 2009, Ibañez won the Player of the Week Award five times. Despite not reaching 500 plate appearances in a single season until the age of 30, Ibañez batted .272 with 424 doubles, 305 home runs and 1,207 runs batted in (RBI) over nineteen major league seasons. He had eight seasons with at least 20 home runs, two seasons with at least 30 home runs, six seasons with at least 90 RBI, four seasons with at least 100 RBI, and ten consecutive seasons (2002–2011) with at least 30 doubles. In 2004, Ibañez tied an American League record with six hits in one gameCole Hamels
Colbert Michael Hamels (born December 27, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Philadelphia Phillies from 2006 to 2015, and the Texas Rangers from 2015 to 2018.
The Phillies drafted him out of high school in the first round of the 2002 MLB Draft (17th), and he began his career in the Phillies minor league system.. He was the top pitcher in the Phillies' minor league system in 2006.
In May 2006, Hamels made his major league debut for the Phillies. After securing a long-term spot as a member of the Phillies starting rotation in his rookie season, he made large strides in the 2007 Major League Baseball season and won the Phillies' top major league pitcher award. He was the top pitcher on the team entering the 2008 season, and during the Phillies' postseason run, during which they ultimately won the 2008 World Series over the Tampa Bay Rays, he won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. After the 2008 season, Hamels signed a three-year contract with the Phillies. His statistics declined over the next two seasons, struggling through a tumultuous 2009 campaign and somewhat bouncing back in 2010, however still not approaching his 2008 numbers. Over the next few seasons, Hamels was joined by fellow All-Star pitchers including Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt and flourished with them, putting up some of his top career seasons before suffering from poor run support in 2013. With the decline of his aging teammates, the team missed the postseason for the next few years, but Hamels remained one of the Phillies' consistent stars. Hamels was traded to the Texas Rangers in 2015, and he subsequently sparked their run to the AL West title that season. He spent parts of four seasons with the Rangers, including an All-Star season in 2016, before being traded to the Cubs in 2018.
Ryan Howard
Ryan James Howard (born November 19, 1979), nicknamed "The Big Piece", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. Howard spent his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, from 2004 to 2016. He is known for being the fastest player in baseball history to reach 1,000 RBIs, 100 home runs, and 200 home runs. Howard also holds numerous Phillies franchise records.
Howard made his MLB debut in 2004. He won the National League (NL) Rookie of the Year Award in 2005 and the NL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 2006. Howard was a three-time NL All-Star (2006, 2009, 2010), and won the Silver Slugger Award, Hank Aaron Award, and the NL Championship Series MVP Award in 2009. Known for his power, Howard is a member of the 50 home run club. He was a two-time NL home run champion (2006, 2008), and became the fastest player to reach both the 100 and 200 home run milestones in MLB history, passing the marks in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He is also tied with Sammy Sosa for the most National League 140 RBI seasons at 3 and the most National League 130 RBI seasons at 4.
Ugyen Wangchuck
Gongsa Ugyen Wangchuck(Dzongkha: , Wylie: "o rgyan dbang phyug"; 1862-1926) was the first King of Bhutan from 1907 to 1926. He was born in 1862 to Jigme Namgyal, Penlop (governor) of Trongsa and Ashi Pema Choki. He succeeded his father as Penlop of Trongsa. From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangchuck defeated his political enemies and united the country following several civil wars and rebellions in 1882–1885.
In what was an epochal year for the country, in 1907 Ugyen Wangchuck was unanimously chosen as the hereditary monarch of the country by the people at Punakha, the old Capital of Bhutan.
For his services in mediating between the British and Tibetans during the Younghusband Expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, he was knighted by the British in 1904. He was appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE) in the 1921 New Year Honours, having already been appointed Knight Commander (KCIE) in 1904.
Kevin McKenna (Irish republican)
Kevin McKenna (; 25 June 1945 – 25 June 2019) was an Irish republican and volunteer in the Tyrone Brigade. He was the Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). McKenna was the longest-serving chief of staff of the IRA, serving from 1983 to 1997.
Jeff Austin
Jeff Austin (April 25, 1974 – June 24, 2019) was an American mandolinist and singer. He is best known for being a founding member of the progressive bluegrass group Yonder Mountain String Band. The band formed in 1998, and by 2014, Austin had left the group. He released his first solo album, titled "The Simple Truth", on February 10, 2015.
Austin was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois and grew up in Elk Grove. He died on June 24, 2019 in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 45.
Jonás Gómez Gallo
Jonás Gómez Gallo (12 July 1923 – 24 June 2019) was a Chilean businessman and politician. He was a member of the Radical Party (1948–1971) and the Radical Left Party (1971–1973). He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1957 to 1961, and as a Senator from 1961 to 1969.
Gómez Gallo was born in Antofagasta. He died on 24 June 2019 in Santiago, at the age of 95.
Dumitru Focșeneanu
Dumitru Focşneanu (8 November 1935 – 20 June 2019) was a Romanian bobsledder. He was born in Breaza. He had his best results as a brakeman with Ion Panțuru. Focșeneanu and Panțuru won two medals in the two-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1969 and a bronze in 1973. He also competed in the two-man (placing 12th) and four-man (placing 10th) events at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
Focșeneanu died of a stroke on 20 June 2019, at the age of 83.
Georges Brossard
Georges Brossard (February 11, 1940 – June 26, 2019) was a Canadian entomologist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He founded the Montreal Insectarium, a natural history museum featuring insects that first opened on February 7, 1990. He also hosted the Discovery Channel documentary program "Insectia". He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999, and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2006.
Brossard died of lung cancer on June 26, 2019 in Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Quebec. He was 79.
Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina
Yekaterina Illarionovna Mikhailova-Demina (; 22 December 1925 – 24 June 2019) was a Russian military doctor. She was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during World War II. She reportedly carried hundreds of men off the battlefield and was seriously wounded three times during her career as a medic with the marines. For many years, Mikhailova-Demina was not awarded for her efforts during the war. In 1990, she was honoured by President Mikhail Gorbachev with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mikhailova-Demina was born in Leningrad. She died on 24 June 2019 in Moscow, at the age of 93.
Nature Ganganbaigal
Nature Ganganbaigal (1990 – June 2019) was a Chinese musician, singer, songwriter and movie music composer. He was based in New York City. He was from Beijing and was of mixed Han Chinese and Mongol ancestry. He founded the Mongolian folk rock/metal band Tengger Cavalry in 2010. The group has been featured on "Billboard", CNN, "Vice", MTV and "Chicago Reader". He performed the Mongolian morin khuur and throat singing. He was a graduate of New York University.
Ganganbaigal died in June 2019, at the age of 29.
Stephanie Grisham
Stephanie Grisham (born 1977) is an American White House official. She was the 30th White House Press Secretary assuming office on July 1, 2019 and left office on April 7, 2020. During her tenure as Press Secretary she did not hold a briefing. Before becoming President Donald Trump's press secretary, she was the press secretary of First Lady Melania Trump from March 27, 2017 through July 1, 2019.
She was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team.
Grisham resigned on April 7, 2020 and became Chief of Staff to the First Lady Melania Trump.
On January 6, 2021, Grisham resigned from her position as Melania Trump's Chief of Staff following the protests on Capitol Hill.
Gualberto Castro
Gualberto Antonio Castro Levario (12 July 1934 – 27 June 2019) was a Mexican singer, actor and television personality. He was best known for singing with Los Hermanos Castro (aka "The Brothers Castro") and for hosting the television program "La Carabina de Ambrosio". He played the part of Tony in the Mexican production of "West Side Story" in 1977. Castro was born in Mexico City.
Castro died of a lung infection caused by bladder cancer on 27 June 2019 in Mexico City at the age of 84.
2020 OFC Nations Cup
The 2020 OFC Nations Cup will be the 11th edition of the OFC Nations Cup, the international men's football championship of Oceania organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) that happens once every four years. Season has been cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
New Zealand are the defending champions.
All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC are eligible to enter. A qualification round may be held for the lowest-ranked teams before the final tournament.
Curtis Armstrong
Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953) is an American actor best known for playing the roles of Booger in the "Revenge of the Nerds" movies, Herbert Viola on the TV series "Moonlighting", Miles Dalby in the film "Risky Business", famed record producer Ahmet Ertegün in the film "Ray" as well as for playing the role of Metatron on the TV series "Supernatural."
He is also known for providing his voice for such characters as Schmuley "Snot" Lonstein on the animated TV series "American Dad!" and Maru in the animated film "" in addition to portraying the title character on the animated TV series "Dan Vs."
From 2013 to 2015, he served as the co-host of the TBS reality television competition series "King of the Nerds" and the bank manager in neo-western crime film "Hell or High Water".
Nebulizer
Nebuliser is a medical instrument or device which is used give extra supply of air to the persons suffering from Asthma or any having any breathing problems to breathe in properly.
It is also used for the patients with runny nose or nasal stroke.
Reginald's Tower
Reginald's Tower is a historic tower in Waterford, Ireland. The tower has been in use for many centuries and is an important landmark in Waterford and an important part of its medieval defence. It is the oldest civic building in Ireland and it is the only city monument in Ireland to retain a Norse or Viking name.
Reginald's Tower was built by the Normans when they came to Waterford. The tower's name is derived from a form of the Irish name "Raghnall". The tower's name seems to refer to one of the many Viking rulers of the town that bore the name. It might be Ragnall mac Gillemaire, the last Norse ruler of the town. The tower was probably built in the 13th or 14th century; it may have been constructed between 1253 and 1280. In 1185 Prince John of England landed in Waterford and organised the rebuilding of the city walls, including the tower.
The tower is 54 feet high and it is circular. It is 42½ feet in diameter with a cone-shaped roof. There is a spiral staircase within the thick walls - these are 10 feet wide at the base, going down to 7 feet at the top. It was part of the old city walls of Waterford which were in a triangle formed by three structures — Turgesius Tower on Barronstrand Street, St. Martins Castle on Lady Lane, and Reginald’s Tower at the Quay and the Mall. It was on the high ground between St. John's River on the southeast (since drained, and now known as the Mall) and the River Suir to the north. It is also very close to the historic French Church. It is also known as the Ring Tower. It was one of seventeen towers which circled the city of Waterford in medieval times. Today, it is the largest of the six surviving towers, which are considered the best examples of medieval urban defence in Ireland. The other surviving towers are the Watch Tower, Double Tower, French Tower, Semi-Lunar Tower and Beach Tower.
The tower has been used as a coin mint, a prison, and a military storehouse. It is also famous for being the location of the wedding of Richard de Clare, the second Earl of Pembroke, and Aoife (pronounced eefa), daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster. It sometimes was a royal castle and was visited by King John in 1210, who ordered new coins to be made there. Richard II visited the tower in 1394 and again in 1399. He used the tower to store his munitions. On 27 July 1399, Richard left Reginald's Tower as King of England and Wales; on his arrival in England, he was captured by the future Henry IV.
In 1463, coins were minted in Reginald's Tower by order of the Irish Parliament, which, at that time, was meeting in the city. The coins had the words "Civitas Waterford" struck on one side. In 1495, the tower’s cannons successfully beat off the forces of Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the throne of Henry VII. Cannons from the tower sank one of his ships during an 11-day battle. This was the first successful use of artillery by an Irish city. A cannon from this ship was recovered from the River Suir in 1901. This victory earned the city its motto "Urbs Intacta Manet" - "Waterford remains the unconquered city".
In 1649, Waterford was attacked by the army of Oliver Cromwell, but he failed to capture the city. They returned in 1650, and this time they were successful. A cannonball, visible high up the wall on the north side of the building, is lodged firmly in the wall, and is said to be from this siege.
In 1690, following his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, James II of England is supposed to have climbed to the top of the tower to take a last look at his lost kingdom before embarking for exile in France.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the tower was used to store ammunition. In the early 19th century it was a prison.
In 1861, Reginald's Tower became the property of the Waterford Corporation, and the house of the Chief Constable of Waterford. It continued to be lived in until 1954 when the last person left and the building was turned into a museum. During the Second World War it was an air raid shelter. Now it is the Waterford Viking Museum and exhibits many of the archaeological finds from the 2003 dig at Woodstown on the River Suir near the city.
It is located in the area of Waterford Viking Triangle in the centre of Waterford city. A Viking longship is kept outside Reginald's Tower.
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (; 13 May 1894 – 15 September 1972) was the second President of Iceland. He was president from 1952 to 1968. He was the 6th Prime Minister of Iceland from 1932 to 1934.
Randy Romero
Randy Paul Romero (December 22, 1957 – August 28, 2019) was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Erath, Louisiana. He was elected into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame May 27, 2010. In 1975, he began his riding career at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was nicknamed the "Ragin' Cajun".
Romero rode the future Hall of Fame filly to an undefeated career, capped off with a victory in the 1988 Breeders' Cup Distaff. The following year he won his third straight Breeders' Cup race, taking the Juvenile Fillies event with Go for Wand.
Romero had kidney disease and hepatitis C caused by a tainted blood transfusion. In 2015, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and needed daily dialysis. On June 19, 2019, Romero entered in hospice care in Lafayette, Louisiana due to his cancer. He died two months later on August 28 under hospice care from the disease, aged 61.
Erath, Louisiana
Erath is a town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,187 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Abbeville Micropolitan Statistical Area and home of The Acadian Museum.
President of Tunisia
The President of Tunisia, formally known as the President of the Republic of Tunisia (, ) is the head of state of Tunisia.The position was created in 1957 when Habib Bourguiba,who had been prime minister,overthrew the King.Thirty years later Bourguiba was overthrown by his own prime minister.Today the president is freely elected.
Tunisia is a semi-presidential republic, whereby the president is the head of state and the prime minister (named Head of Government of Tunisia) is head of government.
Under Article 77 of the Constitution of Tunisia, the president is also the commander-in-chief of the Tunisian Armed Forces.
Rachid Sfar
Rachid Sfar (born 11 September 1933) is a Tunisian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Tunisia from July 1986 to October 1987 working for President Habib Bourguiba. He was born in Mahdia, Tunisia.
Mark Moseley
Mark Moseley (born September 24, 1963) is an American voice actor, radio personality, stand-up comedian and rapper. He has appeared in a variety of movies, television shows, and video games. He is probably best known as a sound-double for actors such as Mike Myers, Bob Hoskins, Jeff Bridges, Andy Richter, and Tim Allen.
Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a program that created jobs. It did not last long. It was created by the New Deal during the Great Depression. The jobs were manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were temporary, meaning the workers didn't work for a very long time. This lasted during winter of 1933–34. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told everyone about the CWA on November 8, 1933, and put Harry L. Hopkins in charge of it.
The CWA was a project created from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The CWA created construction jobs, mainly making new buildings and bridges (or making them better). It ended on March 31, 1934. $200 million per month was spent. It gave jobs to four million people.
Balanced budget
A balanced budget is a budget in which the amount of money spent is the same as the amount of money received. In general, it's a budget that has no budget deficit (spending more money than one has), but it could have a budget surplus (spending less money than one has).
Solomon River
The Solomon River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire river in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is a tributary of the Smoky Hill River.
The Native name for the river was Nepaholla. It meant "Water on the Hill". This is a reference to Waconda Spring, which was in the river valley.
Persicaria
Filandia
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Armenia, Colombia
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Deaths in July 2019
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in July 2019. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Jeon Mi-seon
Jeon Mi-seon (; 7 December 1970 – 29 June 2019) was a South Korean actress. Her best known credits include movies and television series such as "Memories of Murder" (2003), "Love Is a Crazy Thing" (2005), "Moon Embracing the Sun" (2012) and "Hide and Seek" (2013). Jeon was born in Seoul.