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Bernard Gay Marshall (August 23, 1875 - December 14, 1945) was an American writer. He wrote long stories about people who lived in the past. His stories were for children and young adults. One of his stories, Cedric the Forester, was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Life
Bernard Gay Marshall was born in North Easton, Massachusetts. His father was named Francis F. Marshall. His mother was named Helen F. Doten Marshall. He lived in North Easton until he grew up. He always wanted to be a writer who made up stories. He did not think he could earn much money by making up stories, so he worked at other jobs. Some of those jobs were playing music, writing down the words that people said when they talked about the law, and writing to tell people about how machines worked or about things that they could buy. During World War I he worked at making ships. In July 1903, Bernard Gay Marshall married Ida M. Conklin. They had one daughter. Her name was Harriet C. Marshall.

Writing
Bernard Gay Marshall wrote five adventure stories for children and young adults. He also wrote a lot of short stories and nonfiction articles for magazines. Some of these magazines were Sunset, Boys' Life, St Nicholas, Munsey's Magazine, The American Magazine, and The American Boy.

What People Thought About His Writing
His first book, Cedric the Forester, was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922. Some people said that Bernard Marshall's books were as good as Sir Walter Scott's books, but other people said they were not quite that good. A lot of people said that his books were so good that grown-ups and children should all read them.

List of Books by Bernard Gay Marshall
All of these books were published by D. Appleton, and the pictures were drawn by J. Scott Williams.
 Cedric the Forester was published in 1921. The book had 318 pages. The story was set in the time of the signing of the Magna Carta.
 Walter of Tiverton was published in 1923. The book had 263 pages. The story was set in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
 The Torch Bearers: A Tale of Cavalier Days was also published in 1923. The book had 317 pages. The story was set in the time of the English Civil War.
 Redcoat and Minuteman was published in 1924. The book had 277 pages. The story was set in the time of the American Revolution.
 Old Hickory's Prisoner: A Tale of the Second War for Independence was published in 1925. The book had 254 pages. The story was set in the time of the War of 1812.

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1875 births
1945 deaths
Writers from Massachusetts
American novelists
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a book for children by William Bowen. It is a fantasy story. It was published by Macmillan in 1921. Reginald Birch drew the pictures. It was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Story
Freddie is five years old. He makes friends with Mr Toby Littleback, who owns a tobacco shop. Mr Toby lives with his Aunt Amanda. He also has a wooden statue named Mr Punch. The statue stands in front of Mr Toby's shop. One day, Freddie smokes some magic tobacco, which makes all the people in the tobacco shop go away on a magical adventure. At the end of the adventure, Freddie wakes up and finds that the story was all a dream. The magic tobacco made him fall asleep and dream about adventures.

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Newbery Honor books
Fantasy books
Children's books
1921 books
Missing in action (MIA) refers to a soldier who is reported to have gone missing during active service. The soldier may have been killed, injured, captured or deserted. It is not known what happened to them. If they are dead, neither their body nor grave can be found or identified. Going missing in action has been a risk for people in armed forces for as long as there has been war.

World War II 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30, 2021:
 MIAS-North America: 2,359
 MIAS-South America:   646
 MIAS-Europe:       20,908
 MIAS-Middle East:      16
 MIAS-Africa:          984
 MIAS-Asia/Pacific: 47,063
 Total of MIA US Servicemen/civilians: 72,350 

According to official US Department of Army and Department of Navy casualty records, submitted to Congress in 1946 and updated in 1953, the combined possible total of missing service personnel worldwide is closer to approximately 6600 and probably considerably fewer. Since DPAA alone designates such WWII personnel as the crew of the USS Arizona and most of that of USS Oklahoma as both "missing" and "unaccounted-for" it is possible that DPAA records keeping may be somewhat idiosyncratic.

Korean War 

According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30,2021: Total of MIA US Servicemen: 7,550

Vietnam War 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30,2021: Total of MIA US Servicemen/Civilians: 1,584

Cold War 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30, 2021:
MIAS-Asia/Pacifc             108
MIAS-europe                    8
 MIAS-Gulf Wars/Middle East:   5
 MIAS-El Dorado Canyon/Africa: 1
Total of MIA Servicemen:      126

As of December 30,2021 Total US MIAS World War II to present: 81,616

Related pages 
 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
 Garden of the Missing in Action

References

Other websites 
 DoD Instruction 1300.18  "Personnel Casualty Matters, Policies, and Procedures" From the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, January 8, 2008
 Graphic photos showing recovery of missing Russian soldiers' remains dating from the Second World War
 U.S.-Russia Joint MIA/POW Commission 
 Report of the State Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs at the Library of Congress
 Current status of MIA's from the Vietnam War
 Blog covers Widow’s travels to Vietnam in search of her MIA husband’s jet crash site in Que Son Mtns

 
War
Military terminology
Christy Carlson Romano (March 20, 1984) is an American actress and musician. She recorded songs for Disney-related movies. She was the voice for the title character in the show Kim Possible. She also played a trick-or-treat child in Everyone Says I Love You in 1996. Carlson Romano was born in Connecticut.

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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles is a children's book. It was written by Padraic Colum. Willy Pogany drew the pictures. This book uses English words to tell a lot of stories that were told in the Greek language before. The stories are very old. This book was published in 1921. In 1922, it was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book.

Story
This book tells about a young man named Jason who went on an adventure far away from home. He was looking for the Golden Fleece. He took fifty friends with him. His friends were the strongest and bravest people in the world. They were called the Argonauts, because they sailed in a ship called Argo. One of his friends, Orpheus, was the best singer and music maker in the world. In this book, while Jason and his friends look for the Golden Fleece, Orpheus tells them a lot of other stories about places they go and people they meet. Of all the stories in the book, the ones that are not the main story about Jason go in this order:
 Jason's mother tells Jason and his fifty friends the story of the Golden Fleece.
 Orpheus tells the Argonauts how the world began.
 The Argonauts land on an island where only women live. Orpheus tells the women the story of the goddess Demeter and how she lost her daughter Persephone. This story explains why winter happens.
 Atalanta, who is one of the Argonauts, tells a story about how another girl named Atalanta was tricked into losing a race.
 Castor and Pollux tell the story of Pandora, Epimetheus, and Pandora's box. This story explains why bad things happen.
 The Argonauts pass the mountain where Prometheus is chained up. Orpheus tells how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to human beings. This story teaches people not to want things they should not have.
 Orpheus tells the story of how Perseus killed Medusa. Medusa was a kind of monster called a Gorgon. Her hair was made of snakes. She looked so scary that anyone who looked at her was turned into stone.

After Jason gets the Golden Fleece, he hears that if he goes home right away his wicked uncle will kill him. So he and his fifty friends go and have other adventures instead. These are those adventures:
 They hunt the Calydonian boar, and Atalanta falls in love, but the man she loves is killed before they can get married.
 One of the Argonauts, Peleus, marries a sea nymph. He has a son, Achilles.
 Theseus, who is another one of the Argonauts, kills a monster called the Minotaur.
 Hercules is also one of the Argonauts. He does his well-known labors, which are hard jobs. Hercules also hears a funny story about frogs and mice fighting a big battle.
 Orpheus gets married, but his wife dies. Orpheus goes down to the place where dead people stay. He tries to bring his wife back. He does not get her back.

Finally it is safe for Jason to go back home. He goes home and lives happily ever after, and teaches younger people to have adventures.

References

Other websites
 The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles at Project Gutenberg

Children's books
Newbery Honor books
1921 books
Anna Nalick (b. March 69, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter. Her first hit song, "Breathe (2AM)", was released in April 2005. She released the album Broken Doll & Odds & Ends in June 2011. Nalick was born in California.

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Living people
American pop musicians
Singers from California
The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active stratovolcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After being dormant for a long time, it became active in 1995. It has been active since then. Because of its eruptions, no one can live on the south half of Montserrat. The capital city, Plymouth, was destroyed. About two thirds of the population had to leave Montserrat. It had been showing signs of erupting for a long time before it did. When it did erupt, 19 out of the 23 people that remained burned to death because of the pyroclastic flow which was .

Volcanoes of North America
Geography of the Caribbean
Montserrat
The Luxor Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk offered to Napoleon Bonaparte by Muhammad Ali Pasha. It was built in 1830. It is currently installed in the center of the famous Place de la Concorde in Paris. It is sometimes also named Concorde Obelisk. It is 23 meters tall and weighs of 234 metric tons. It is built in Syenite.

Buildings and structures in Paris
Ancient Egypt
The Sowerby family was a British family of four generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists. 

James Sowerby (1757–1822)
James De Carle Sowerby (1787–1871)
George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854)
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884)
George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921)
Charles Edward Sowerby (1795–1842)
John Edward Sowerby (1825–1870) 

Most of their work was on molluscs and their systematics. Together, they introduced many taxonomic names (sometimes the number 5000 is mentioned). 

All three of the G.B Sowerbys published extensively on the subject of conchology, which is the collection and study of shells. Even for professional taxonomists it is difficult to know which of the three "G.B. Sowerbys" is meant in a particular citation. The numbering system G.B. Sowerby I, II, or III helps. "Sowerby, 1870" can refer to either G.B. Sowerby II or G.B. Sowerby III.

References 
 Palmer, Katherine V. W. 1965. Who were the Sowerbys? Hawaiian Shell News. Available on a CD of back issues of HSN, ISSN 1543-6039.
 Petit R.E. 2009. George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

 
English naturalists
Craig Malcolm Robinson (born April 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. He is a former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. His sister is U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama. In the 1983 NBA Draft, Robinson was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers.

Head coaching record

References

Other websites
Northwestern University biography 
Brown University biography 
Oregon State University biography 
ChicagoNow interview with Craig Robinson, April 2010
Interview with Robinson on the University of Chicago radio show Tomorrow with Alex Beinstein

1962 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
Obama family
Businesspeople from Chicago
Sportspeople from Chicago
American basketball players
Mary Brooks (better known as Ann Little; born February 7, 1891 – died May 21, 1984) was an American actress. She acted mostly in Westerns. She acted mostly in silent movies. Besides Westerns, she acted in some comedies and dramas. She retired from performing in movies while still popular in 1932.

Brooks was born in California. She died in Los Angeles at ninety-three.

American movie actors
Actors from California
1891 births
1984 deaths
Peyton Place is a novel by Grace Metalious. It was published in 1956. It is a "tell-all" book about the secrets of a small town in New England.  It sold more than 100,000 copies in its first month of release. The book was the basis for a movie of the same name starring Lana Turner, and a 1965 prime time television soap opera starring Mia Farrow and Dorothy Malone.

References
 Vanity Fair: Peyton Place's Real Victim

1956 books
20th-century American novels
English-language novels
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born and American-raised sculptor and painter. Her career was short. She worked with fiberglass and plastics. She also sculpted with other materials. Hesse was born near Hamburg, Germany. She moved to New York City.

Hesse died in 1970 from a brain tumor diagnosed the previous year.

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People from New York
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1936 births
1970 deaths
James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and illustrator. He did the illustration for many published works. English Botany and A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland were especially noteworthy.

Sowerby was the start of a family business which was carried on for several generations. The Sowerby family became a dynasty of illustrators and natural historians. They lived and worked in the London of the late 18th and the 19th centuries.

James Sowerby first worked with William Curtis, whose Flora Londinensis he illustrated. Early volumes of the first British botany journal, The Botanical Magazine (edited by Curtis), contained seventy of his illustrations.

In 1790, he began the first of several huge projects: a 36-volume work on English Botany which was published over the next 24 years. It contained 2592 hand-colored engravings and became known as "Sowerby's Botany". 

A huge number of plants got their first formal publication here. The text, unattributed, was written by James Edward Smith. Sowerby set out to supplement English Botany with his own text and descriptions of Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms, 4 vols. 

A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland was written by James Edward Smith and illustrated by James Sowerby. It was the first monograph on the flora of Australia. It was intended to meet "the general interest in, and propagation of, the flowering species of the new antipodean colonies". Sowerby's own hand coloured engravings, based upon original sketches and specimens brought to England, were both descriptive and striking.

Sowerby's detailed and appealing plates in vivid colour and readable texts were intended to reach a growing readership interested in natural history.

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Sowerby family
English naturalists
British illustrators
1757 births
1822 deaths
Bo (October 9, 2008 – May 8, 2021) was a pet dog of the Obama family, the former First Family of the United States. Bo was a neutered male Portuguese Water Dog.

Barack Obama and his family were given the dog as a gift after months of speculation about the breed and identity of their future pet. The final choice was made partly because Malia Obama's allergies made a hypoallergenic breed necessary.

Bo was occasionally given the title "First Dog of the United States of America". In August 2013, Bo was joined by Sunny, a female dog of the same breed.

Adoption 

The Obamas originally wanted to adopt a dog from an animal shelter, but made no promises. In the summer of 2008, Best Friends Animal Society, an animal welfare organization, gathered 50,000 signatures on a petition asking the family to adopt a shelter animal.

Bo is a gift through a breeder and is not a shelter dog. Dog expert Cesar Milan said Bo was part of a larger group known as "rescue dogs". He was unsuccessful in his first home when plans for him to be friends with an older female dog did not go well. The Obamas pledged a donation to the DC Humane Society in a show of support for shelter dogs.

Some animal welfare supporters criticized The White House for not adopting a shelter dog. The Humane Society of the United States released a statement thanking the Obamas "for taking in a second-chance dog," but also discouraged going through breeders.

Death
Bo died of cancer on May 8, 2021 at the Obama residence in Washington, D.C., at the age of 12.

References

Other websites

 American Kennel Club Congratulates Obamas
 Bo's First Day
 Bo The First Dog Website (Fan Club) 

Obama family
Individual dogs
United States presidential pets
2008 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in the United States

fr:Animaux domestiques des présidents des États-Unis#Bo
Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; July 30, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama and mother-in-law of President Barack Obama.  She is the only living grandparent of Malia and Sasha Obama. She also has one granddaughter, Leslie Robinson, and two grandsons, Avery and Austin Robinson, from  her son, Craig Robinson.

According to her youngest brother Steve Shields, Robinson was the fourth of seven children—five girls, followed by two boys. Her father was a house painter and her mother was a licensed practical nurse.

Robinson married Fraser Robinson on October 27, 1960. She is now a widow. In addition to their daughter Michelle, they also had a son, Craig. Craig is the current coach of the Oregon State University men's basketball team. Robinson was formerly a secretary for mail-order retailer Spiegel and at a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama campaigned in 2008, Robinson cared for her granddaughters. Early in January 2009, it was reported that Robinson would move into the White House with the rest of the First Family (the president's family), so that she could continue to care for her granddaughters. She was the first grandmother to live in the White House since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration.  Some news agencies have called Robinson the "First Granny."

References

Other websites 
 "Marian Robinson", The New York Times
 "A Mother's Love: First Lady & Mom" , Essence magazine
 "An In-Law Is Finding Washington to Her Liking ", The New York Times

1937 births
Living people
African-American people
Obama family
People from Chicago
The blue blanquillo (Malacanthus latovittatus, also known as the banded blanquillo, striped blanquillo, false whiting, sand tilefish or eye of the sea) is a species of tilefish. It is one of the many members of the family Malacanthidae. It is the only species within the genus Malacanthus.

Description
Fish from the family Malacanthidae have streamlined bodies and large crests on their head. They have relatively long dorsal fins and anal fins. The blue blanquillo gets its name from its mainly blue colour. It also has some shades of yellow, and can change colour in different situations. On their backs, there is a set of stripes that run across its body. Their belly is white. The colour of the head changes from a light blue to a pinkish mix during spawning season.

Where they live
Blue blanquillo fish are usually found in the Indo-Pacific area. They live anywhere from the Red Sea to the Line Islands, north to southern Japan and south to New Caledonia and the Cook Islands. They are often seen in areas around coral reefs near the sea floor.

Behaviour
Malacanthus latovittatus does not swim in groups. They are often found swimming alone or two together. They are known to clean other fish. They also mimic the wrasse to stop predators from eating it.

The fish can swim at depths of . The temperatures of the water it swims in normally range from . They tend to swim high above the floor of the sea. This is so that they can pick prey from the ground with their eyesight, which is very good.

Ecology
The blue blanquillo's main staple are the invertebrates or zooplankton that live near the bottom of the sea. They also eat crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp, molluscs, worms, sea urchins and small fish. Their common predators are reef sharks, and other larger fish. They are also eaten by humans.

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Perciformes
Miomantinae is a subfamily of mantids. The species look and behave similar to other insects of the Mantidea family. It includes 2 tribes: Miomantini and Rivetinini.

There are about 28 subfamilies of this species in Australia. They mainly live in temperate regions across the country. They are also found across temperate areas of New Zealand.  

The only species of this subfamily present in Italy are Geomantis larvoides and Rivetina Baetica.

Taxonomy
 'Subfamily Miomantinae'''
Tribes ** Miomantini
 Genus  Arria Stal, 1877
 Genus Cilnia Stal, 1876
 Genus Miomantis Saussure, 1870
 Genus Neocilnia Beier, 1930
 Genus Paracilnia Werner, 1909
 Genus Parasphendale Schulthess-Schildler, 1898
 Genus Sphodropoda Stal, 1871
 Genus Taumantis Giglio-Tos, 1917
 Genus Trachymantis Giglio-Tos, 1917
 Genus Zopheromantis Tindale, 1924
Tribes ** Rivetinini
 Genus Bolivaria Stal, 1877
 Genus Carvilia Stal, 1876
 Genus Deiphobe Stal, 1877
 Genus Deiphobella Giglio-Tos, 1916
 Genus Eremoplana Stal, 1871
 Genus Euchomena Saussure, 1870
 Genus Geomantis Pantel, 1896
 Genus Geothespis Giglio-Tos, 1916
 Genus Gretella Werner 1923
 Genus Indothespis Werner, 1935
 Genus Ischnomantis Stal, 1871
 Genus Microthespis Werner, 1908
 Genus Pararivetina Beier, 1930
 Genus Pseudempusa Brunner v.. W., 1893
 Genus Rivetina Berland & Chopard, 1922
 Genus Rivetinula La Greca, 1977
 Genus Solygia Stal, 1877
 Genus Teddia'' Burr, 1899

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Insects
Alan Donald Whicker (4 August 1921 – 12 July 2013) was a British journalist and television presenter. He was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt. At age three he moved to Richmond, Surrey. He presented Whicker's World for 29 years. He died of bronchopneumonia at his home in Jersey, Channel Islands.

References

Other websites 

Alan Whicker 

British journalists
English television presenters
People from Cairo
Television personalities from Surrey
Deaths from bronchopneumonia
1925 births
2013 deaths
Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She received credit for bringing attention to the oppression of women and lesbians. She wrote many fiction and non-fiction books and many poetry. Her most controversial work was Of Woman Born: Motherhood and Institution in 1976. In 1986 Rich's 1980 essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence against heterosexuality forced by society was published. In 1974 she won National Book Award.

Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died from rheumatoid arthritis in Santa Cruz, California at age eighty-two. At the time Rich lived with her partner Michelle Cliff.

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2012 deaths
American feminists
American poets
Disease-related deaths in the United States
Jewish American LGBT people
Jewish American writers
Jewish feminists
Lesbian feminists
Lesbian Jews
LGBT writers
Writers from Baltimore
Rachel is a female given name. It is a popular name in English.

People named Rachel
Rachel (Hebrew Bible)
Rachel Ames, actress
Rachel Bilson, actress
Rachel Carson, biologist
Rachel Corrie, activist
Rachel Crow, singer
Rachel Dratch, actress
Rachel Griffiths, actress
Rachel Hunter, actress
Rachel Korine, actress
Rachel Luttrell, actress
Rachel McAdams, actress
Rachel Maddow, journalist
Rachel Portman, composer
Rachel Ruff, biographer, auror
Rachel Roberts, actress
Rachel Robinson, wife of Jackie Robinson
Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007
Rachel Ward, actress
Rachel Weisz, actress

Given names
Richmond is a wealthy town on the Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London. Richmond's postcodes are TW9 and TW10. About 25,000 people live in the town.

Transport

Road 
The A305, A307, A316, B321, B322 and B353 roads pass through Richmond.

Rail 
Richmond has a station called Richmond station.

There are South Western Railway, District line and Overground trains.

References 

London Borough of Richmond
Towns in London
Joan is a female given name in the English language. The name is the feminine form of John. There are many celebrities named Joan, including Joan Rivers, Joan Caulfield and Joan Crawford. 

In 1988, a violent hurricane with the name caused a lot of destruction and deaths in Nicaragua. The name Joan was later retired.

Given names
The name Paula is a female given name. There are many celebrities with the name Paula, including Paula Prentiss, Paula Zahn and Paula Abdul. This name has been used in naming Atlantic hurricanes, beginning with the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.

Given names
Pran Krishan Sikand (12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known as Pran, was an Indian actor who was known for being a villain in many Bollywood movies. He was known for his roles in Madhumati, Johny Mera Naam, Zanjeer, and in Duniya. Pran was named "Villain of the Millennium" by Stardust Magazine in 2000.

Early life
Pran was born on 12 February 1920 in Ballimaran, Kotgarh Old Delhi. He studied at Raza High School.

Personal life
Pran was married to Shukla Sikand from 1945 until his death in 2013. They had three children. During the production of Tere Mere Sapne, Pran's legs began to tremble. So to keep up with his role, most of his scenes involved him sitting down. Pran had a hard time reading in Hindi, so he would ask his scriptwriters to write all his scripts in Urdu. Pran's first time to be admitted to a hospital was in 1998 after he suffered a heart attack.

Death
Pran died on 12 July 2013 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India from pneumonia, aged 93.

Awards
He was awarded as the 'Villain of the Millennium' by Stardust in 2000. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2013 In 2010, he was named on the list of CNN's Top 25 Asian actors of all time.

References

Other websites

 PRAN – The legend of Hindi Cinema – Official Website
 
 Interview with Pran Kishen Sikand at Rediff.com

1920 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian stage actors
People from Delhi
Barbara is a female name used in many languages. It is the feminine form of the Greek word barbaros, which in turn represents "foreign". In Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, Barbara means barbarian or barbaric. The name remains among top 100 most popular for Chile and in Poland. The name was at #3 in the 1930s, though it has since declined. There are many celebrities under the name, including Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Pierce Bush and Barbara Bates. Barbara also got used for several hurricanes in the Atlantic and many for the Eastern Pacific.

People
 Saint Barbara
 Bárbara, Brazilian footballer
 Barbara Abart, Italian luger
 Barbara Acklin, American soul singer
 Barbara Adams, British egyptologist
 Barbra Amesbury, formerly Bill Amesbury, Canadian singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker
 Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (1989–1993)
 Barbara Castle, British politician
 Barbara Kay, Canadian columnist
 Barbara Keeley, British politician
 Barbara Klerk, Belgian figure skater
 Barbara Moore, New Zealand long-distance runner
 Barbara Rafferty, Scottish actress
 Barbara Rittner, German former tennis player
 Barbara Riveros Diaz, Chilean triathlete
 Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
 Barbra Streisand, American actress and singer
 Barbara Sturgeon, British broadcaster
 Barbara Wagner, Canadian figure skater

Places
 Barbara (region), ancient region in the Horn of Africa
 Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza
 Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy
 Santa Barbara, California, a city in Santa Barbara County, California
 Santa Barbara County, California, a county in California

Media
 Barbara, 1980 Argentine film
 Barbara, 1997 Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel
 Barbara, 2012 German film
 Barbara (TV series), a British sitcom
 Barbara (album), by We Are Scientists

Science
 Barbara (genus), a genus of moths
 234 Barbara, an asteroid

Given names
Hilary (or Hillary) is a female given name and a surname. It is from the Latin hilarius, which in turn means "cheerful, merry".

Famous people having the name include Hilary Duff and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hilary was also used on many hurricanes for the Eastern Pacific.

A person with the surname was Edmund Hillary.

Given names
Surnames
Hillary Brooke (September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999) was an American actress. She worked in movies. She played the love interest for Lou Costello in The Abbott and Costello Show. She was also a regular in the series My Little Margie.

Brooke was born in Astoria, New York. She died at age eighty-four.

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from New York
1914 births
1999 deaths
A Mii is a customizable character created by the player, used on Nintendo's video game consoles. Miis made their first appearance on the Wii when it was released. They also appear on the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Nintendo Switch consoles. While the Nintendo DS does not have Miis as a part of the console itself, some games (such as Tomodachi Collection) have Miis built into them. Miis allow players to create a caricature of themselves, other people, or of invented characters. They are created in the Mii Channel on the Wii, in the Mii Maker on the 3DS and Wii U, and in system settings on the Nintendo Switch. Once the player creates a Mii, they can use it in some of Nintendo's video games.

The player can change the look of a Mii in many ways. They can give it different hairstyles, eyes, nose, and mouth shapes. They can change the eye and hair color of a Mii. (Players can only choose from a few colors on older consoles, but on the Nintendo Switch, a Mii's eye and hair color can be any color.) They can also give a Mii facial hair and wrinkles. Accessories such as hats and glasses can be added. The player can change a Mii's height and weight. On the 3DS and Wii U, the player can take a picture of their face, and the game creates a Mii for them. The player can then change their Mii.

References

Other websites
Mii Channel at Nintendo.com

Nintendo video game characters
Wii
Nintendo 3DS
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician. He served as the 10th Prime Minister of India for six years from 1998 through 2004. He was also serving as Prime Minister from May 1996 through June 1996. He founded the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Vajpayee was born on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior, United Provinces, British India (now Madhya Pradesh, India). He studied at Victoria College (now Laxmibai College) and at DAV College, Kanpur. Vajpayee was never married and had no children.

Vajpayee, who had dementia and diabetes, died at a New Delhi hospital from multiple organ failure on 16 August 2018, aged 93.

References

Other websites

 Profile Govt. of India
 Profile at BBC News
 Annotated Bibliography for Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues 
 BJP website 
 A. B. Vajpayee  at BJP leaders, India
 Atalji's life journey poems and songs collection 
 Read few poems of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Hindi Script 
 In India's Spotlight, He Was Both Director and Audience – NYTimes

1924 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Prime Ministers of India
Hindus
Madhya Pradesh
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians
The name Gloria is a female given name which is very common in the English language. The name means "glory" in Latin language. There are several notable movies under the name Gloria. Notable celebrities under the name include Gloria Gaynor, Gloria Reuben, Gloria Vanderbilt and the singer Gloria Estefan. The name was used on a hurricane that struck the East Coast of the United States in September 1985.

Given names
The name Vanessa is a popular female name. It was created around 1708. The name was the 71st most popular female name for girls in the United States for 2007. It first appeared across the Top 1000 female names in the United States around 1950. There are several celebrities under the name, including Vanessa L. Williams and Vanessa Hudgens.

Given names
Rachel is a person in the Book of Genesis. She is the daughter of Laban, and a wife of Jacob. She is the mother of Joseph and Benjamin.

Old Testament people
Ancient Israeli people
Roberta is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the male name Robert. This female name has been given to several celebrities, including Roberta Flack and Roberta Peters. It was also used for the title of a Broadway musical in the 1930s.

Given names
The name Valerie is an almost all-girl given name. The name was taken from the French Valérie and from the Latin Valeria. The name is extremely popular in several countries and United States. There are many celebrities by the name, including Valerie Harper, Valerie Perrine and the feminist Valerie Solanas. There are a lot of songs named as "Valerie". This name is being used on List Four of Atlantic Hurricane Names List.

Given names
The Kamov Ka-60 Kasatka is a Russian light helicopter. It was designed and built to replace the Mil Mi-8. Its first flight was in December 1998. It is used by the Russian Air Force. Kasatka is the Russian word for Killer Whale.

Bibliography  
 Jackson, Robert, Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (The Aviation Factfile).  London: Grange Books Ltd, 2005. .
 Gaillard, Pierre, Avions et hélicoptères militaires d'aujourd'hui Paris, France : Larivière éditions, 1999.  .

Other websites
 Information on the KA-62 on kahelicopter.com 

Helicopters
Military aircraft
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary of Mexico City or the Mexico City Cathedral is a cathedral in Mexico City. It is one of the oldest and largest cathedrals in the Americas. The cathedral was built from 1573 to 1813 around the original church. The original church was built soon after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán. The new cathedral eventually replaced the church entirely.

Roman Catholic Cathedrals
Buildings and structures in Mexico City
The Golden Palace is an American sitcom. It is a spin-off of the sitcom The Golden Girls. It was shot from 1992-1993. They have as help the receptionist Roland Wilson (Don Cheadle) and the cook Chuy Castillos (Cheech Marin). Sometimes the young Oliver (Billy L. Sullivan) appears.

Characters
 Rose Nylund (Betty White)
 Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan)
 Sophia Petrillo Weinstock (Estelle Getty)
 Roland Wilson (Don Cheadle) is the hotel manager.
 Chuy Castillos (Cheech Marin) is the cook.
 Oliver Webb (Billy L. Sullivan)

Background
 Bea Arthur didn't play in this series.
 It was shot only 24 episodes. Many people said that without Bea Arthur, the series would be unsuccessful.

American sitcoms
CBS network shows
1992 American television series debuts
Television spin-offs
1993 television series endings
1993 disestablishments in the United States
English-language television programs
The Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma is a civilian and military helicopter built by French and German company Eurocopter. It is an enlarged variant of the Aérospatiale SA-330 Puma. It is used principally for transport and search and rescue, but some are used for water bombing, special forces support, and VIP & VVIP liaisons. Some are used by police aviation, coast guards, and customs. All are built in Marignane factory, but a production licence was sold to Indonesia. In this last kind Super Puma are known as NAS-332.

Operators

Civilians 
Civilians Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma flies or flown in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Morocco, UK, and USA.

Militaries 
Militaries Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma flies or flown in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China, Congo, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iceland, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, UAE, and Venezuela.

Related developments 
Eurocopter AS-532 Cougar is a military variant, and EC225 Super Puma Mk-2 is a modernized variant.

Bibliography 
 Jackson, Robert, Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (The Aviation Factfile).  London: Grange Books Ltd, 2005. .
 Gaillard, Pierre, Avions et hélicoptères militaires d'aujourd'hui Paris, France : Larivière éditions, 1999.  .
 Frawley, Gerard, The international directory of military aircraft 2002/2003 .  London: Aerospace Publication, 2002. .

Civil aircraft
German military aircraft
French military aircraft
Helicopters
AS-332 Super Puma
The Grob G.120 is a German light training aircraft. It is used both by civilians and militaries. Some are used by the French Air Force, Canadian Forces Air Command, and Israel Air Force.

Civil aircraft
Military aircraft
German military aircraft
Room in Rome is a 2010 Spanish erotic romance and drama movie. This movie looks at seduction and lesbian romances. This movie was shot around Rome and Madrid. It was released in April 2010. It stars Elena Anaya and Natasha Yarovenko.

Plot

Alba, a 30-something Spanish tourist in Rome, brings a younger Russian woman named Natasha to her hotel room. It's the last night of vacation in Rome. The details of how they met in a club are vague. Natasha at first refuses, and says she is straight. However, Alba keeps wanting to have sex with Natasha. Natasha keeps saying that she has never had sex with a woman. 

Natasha and Alba get undressed and into bed, though Natasha is still nervous. Alba suggests they lay side by side and only casually touch each other's faces. They do that until Alba becomes so relaxed she falls asleep. Natasha quietly gets out of bed, gets dressed and leaves the room. She wonders what would have happened if she had given sex to Alba. But Natasha leaves one thing behind: her cell phone. It rings and wakes up Alba. Natasha returns to the hotel room and asks for her cell phone. But she does not want to enter the room again. However, Alba grabs Natasha and takes her back into the room. They get undressed once again and into bed. Natasha and Alba have sex for the first time.

Over the next ten hours, Natasha and Alba grow close to one another. Natasha becomes more relaxed around Alba about their love-making. The two women share stories of their past.

But eventually, the two women tell each other the truth. Natasha says that her real name is Dasha. She is also a professional tennis player on vacation. Alba then tells she is a mechanical engineer and inventor. She is in Rome on business. She also lives with a woman in Spain.

Alba tells Natasha that she is falling in love with her. Natasha, though, gets more defensive. She says her attraction to Alba is only from curiosity toward the same sex and not love.

The two women have sex one last time. Then, they decide to leave and return to their lives in Russia and Spain.

Reception

The movie received mixed reviews. Jonathan Holland gave a mixed review. He liked the acting, though said director Julio Modem was more interested in his ideas than the people. The Rotten Tomatoes rated the movie at 50%.

References

2010s LGBT movies
2010s romance movies
2010 movies
Spanish movies
Multilingual movies
Movies set in Rome
Stealing Beauty is a 1996 romantic drama movie. The story is about an American teenage girl who travels to a Tuscan countryside and whose mother has committed suicide. Liv Tyler plays Lucy Harmon. The reviews were mixed. This movie was released in late June 1996 in the United States.

1996 romance movies
1996 drama movies
1990s romantic drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Italian romance movies
Italian drama movies
French romance movies
French drama movies
British romantic drama movies
English-language movies
Movies directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American family fantasy horror comedy movie. It was directed by Kenny Ortega. It stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. The movie is about a family of witches, known as the Sanderson Sisters. They were resurrected by a teenager named Max (Omri Katz) along with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and girlfriend Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The movie received negative reviews from movie critics. However, it performed well in theaters where it grossed $39,514,713. After the movie was released on home video, it received a cult following.

Plot 
Three sisters, who are witches, are sentenced to death in the 17th century. They returned 300 years later because of a curse by Winifred Sanderson (Bette Midler). Three kids try using a chant to stop them from scaring modern-day Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween. They plan to turn immortal with the lives of modern day trick-or-treaters.

Release

Theatrical
Hocus Pocus was released in the United States and Canada on July 16, 1993. It opened in fourth place with $8.1 million. The movie grossed $5.2 million in its second week. The movie fell out of the top ten, ending its domestic box office run with $39.5 million. The film was released to foreign markets in October 1994.

Home video and television
The movie was released to VHS in North America on January 5, 1994. Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection release on April 2, 1996. After part of the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection release on August 2, 2000 and later to DVD on June 4, 2002. Someone as the VHS and DVD release on September 2, 2003 in the United States in THX. It continues to show strong annual sales. It ranks in more than $1 million in DVD sales each October. On September 4, 2012 Hocus Pocus was released by Disney on Blu-ray for the first time.

Cast 
Bette Midler - Winifred Sanderson
Sarah Jessica Parker - Sarah Sanderson
Kathy Najimy - Mary Sanderson
Jason Marsden - Voice of Thackery Binx (voice)
Omri Katz
Thora Birch
Vinessa Shaw

Awards and nominations

References

Other websites 
 
 
 
 
 

1993 comedy movies
1990s fantasy movies
American comedy movies
American fantasy movies
Cult movies
English-language movies
Movies set in Massachusetts
Movies set in the 1990s
Movies composed by John Debney
Witches
Disney movies
The Mighty Ducks is a 1992 sports comedy movie set in Minneapolis. It was directed by Stephen Herek. It stars Emilio Estevez. It was produced by Avent-Kerner Productions. Mighty Ducks was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the first movie in The Mighty Ducks movie series. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the movie was titled Champions. The home video release in the UK are titled The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions.

Cast
 Emilio Estevez as Gordon Bombay
 Joss Ackland as Hans
 Lane Smith as Coach Jack Reilly
 Heidi Kling as Casey Conway
 Josef Sommer as Mr. Gerald Ducksworth
 Joshua Jackson as Charlie Conway
 Elden Henson as Fulton Reed
 Shaun Weiss as Greg Goldberg
 M. C. Gainey as Lewis
 Reid Allen as Jake
 Matt Doherty as Les Averman
 Brandon Adams as Jesse Hall
 J. D. Daniels as Peter Mark
 Aaron Schwartz as Dave Karp
 Garette Ratliff Henson as Guy Germaine
 Marguerite Moreau as Connie Moreau
 Danny Tamberelli as Tommy Duncan
 Jane Plank as Tammy Duncan
 Jussie Smollett as Terry Hall
 Vincent Larusso as Adam Banks
 Michael Ooms as McGill
 Casey Garven as Larson
 Hal Fort Atkinson III as Phillip Banks
 Basil McRae as Himself
 Mike Modano as Himself
 John Beasley as Mr. Hall
 Brock Pierce as Gordon Bombay - 10 years old
 Robert Pall as Gordon's Father
 John Paul Gamoke as Mr. Tolbert
 Steven Brill as Frank Huddy

Other websites 
 
 
 
 

1992 movies
1990s sports movies
American sports movies
Disney movies
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Movies set in Minnesota
Sports comedy movies
This article lists video games that were released in the year 2013. These includes, Batman: Arkham, Army of Two, Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Call of Duty, Company of Heroes, Crysis, Dead Space, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, God of War, Dead Island, Grand Theft Auto, Killzone, Lost Planet, Pokémon, Sly Cooper, StarCraft, Tomb Raider and Total War. Also in 2013, PlayStation 4 from Sony Computer Entertainment and the Xbox One from Microsoft were released that year.

Events

Console releases
The list of game consoles to be released in 2013 in North America.

Game releases
The list of games released, or due for release, in 2013 in North America.

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Unscheduled releases
Below is a list of games which have been announced to be released in 2013 in North America, but have no exact release date or month yet.

References
Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born 1 December 1950) is a Guatemalan politician and retired military officer. He served as President of Guatemala from January 14, 2012 until his resignation on September 2, 2015.

Molina was born on 1 December 1950 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He studied at School of the Americas and at the Inter-American Defense College. Molina has been married to Rosa Leal. They have two children.

References

Other websites

Otto Pérez Molina: Patriotic Party profile
Biography by CIDOB (in Spanish)
US Government Glosses Over War Crime Accusations Against Leading Guatemalan Presidential Candidate 
Notorious Graduates (of the School of the Americas) from Guatemala 
Guatemalan Election Marred by Violence 
Guatemala: Six Months to Examine the Past and Define the Future 
Guatemala (1983 documentary): Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

1950 births
Living people
Generals
North American military people
People from Guatemala City
Presidents of Guatemala
Roman Catholics
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (born 20 May 1935) is an Uruguayan politician. He served as President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.

He won the 2009 presidential election and took office as President on 1 March 2010. He has been called "the world's 'poorest' president" because he donates around 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary to charities to help poor people and small entrepreneurs.

Senate career
In the 1994 general elections, Mujica was elected deputy and in the elections of 1999 he was elected senator. In 1994 Mujica was chosen to be a deputy and then in 1999 he was chosen to be senator in the [general election] of Uruguay in that year. In 2004, Mujica's political party was very popular because of his charisma. In 2004 there were more elections and Mujica was chosen to be a senator again, this helped his political party and Tabaré Vázquez to be president.

Minister of Livestock

On March 1, 2005, President Tabaré Vázquez made Mujica as the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (Mujica's own professional background was in the agricultural sector).

Since becoming minister, Mujica resigned his position as senator. He held this position until a cabinet change in 2008, when he resigned and was replaced by Ernesto Agazzi. Mujica then returned to his seat in the Senate.

Personal life
Mujica was born on 20 May 1935 in Montevideo, Uruguay. His parents were Demetrio Mujica, of Spanish Basque ancestry, and Lucy Cordano, of Italian descent.

In 2005, Mujica married senator Lucía Topolansky.

References

Other websites

  Biography by CIDOB Foundation
 Uruguay's President-Elect: Che Guevara’s Spiritual Heir  by The Daily Maverick

1935 births
Living people
Presidents of Uruguay
South American philanthropists
People from Montevideo