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Peter Francis Welch (born May 2, 1947) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. He has served as the U.S. Representative for Vermont's At-large congressional district since 2007.

In November 2021, Welch announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in the 2022 election to replace retiring Senator Patrick Leahy.

References

Other websites
 Congressman Peter Welch official U.S. House site
 Peter Welch for Congress

Profile and interviews at Politico
 Profile  at SourceWatch

1947 births
Living people
United States representatives from Vermont
Politicians from Massachusetts
People from Springfield, Massachusetts
US Democratic Party politicians
Peter Plympton Smith (born October 31, 1945) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Vermont, the 74th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and an education administrator.

He served as the founding president of the Community College of Vermont, the founding president of California State University, Monterey Bay, and as assistant director general for education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Smith was one of thirty former Republican congressmen to sign a letter opposing Donald Trump's candidacy for president.

References

1945 births
Living people
United States representatives from Vermont
Educators from Vermont
Politicians from Boston, Massachusetts
US Republican Party politicians
Lieutenant Governors of Vermont
Educators from Boston, Massachusetts
The Central Vermont Railway was a railroad that operated in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, as well as the Canadian province of Quebec.

Transport in Connecticut
Transport in Massachusetts
Transport in New York
Transport in Canada
New Hampshire
History of Vermont
The Vermont Reds were a minor league baseball team. They played in the Eastern League at Centennial Field in Burlington, Vermont from 1984 to 1987.

Cincinnati Reds
Vermont
1984 establishments in the United States
1987 disestablishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Vermont
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (also known as Harvard Kennedy School and HKS) is a public policy and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. It is named after Harvard graduate and 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy.

It offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and international development, grants several doctoral degrees, administers executive programs for senior government officials, and conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, international affairs, and economics.

References

Harvard University
Massachusetts
Oxford East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Andrew Smith of the Labour Party.

Sources
Election Result 2015 http://www.oxford.gov.uk/PageRender/decCD/Election_results_occw.htm
Election result, 2015 (BBC)
Election result, 2010 (BBC)
Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997–2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1997–2001  (Election Demon)
Election results, 1983–1992  (Election Demon)

Constituencies in the United Kingdom
The rubber boa is a snake in the family Boidae that is native to the western North America.

Snakes
Vermont Public Radio (VPR) is a network of public radio stations in the state of Vermont. 

In addition to locally produced shows, the network broadcasts programs from NPR, Public Radio International, and American Public Media. It is headquartered in Colchester, a suburb of Burlington. Other studios are in Montpelier, Manchester and Norwich.

Vermont
Radio stations in the United States
NRA may refer to:
National Rifle Association, American nonprofit organization that works for gun rights
National Recovery Administration, an agency in the Government of the United States in the 1930s
Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (November 24, 1935 – July 30, 2018) was an American politician. He was Oakland's forty-eighth mayor.  From 1971 to 1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California's 9th Congressional District.

When President Ronald Reagan vetoed Dellums' Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate overrode Reagan's veto, the first override of a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.

Dellums died on July 30, 2018 in Washington, D.C. from prostate cancer, aged 82.

References

Other websites
Profile at Citymayors.com

Dellums victory signifies a sea change in Oakland politics San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2006.
Ron Dellums's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project.

1935 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in Washington, D.C.
American mayors
United States representatives from California
US Republican Party politicians
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (), often referred to as the Brady Act and commonly called the Brady Bill, is an Act of the United States Congress that made background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States required and created a five-day waiting period on purchases.

The original legislation was introduced into the House of Representatives by Representative Charles E. Schumer  in March 1991, but was never brought to a vote. The bill was reintroduced by Rep. Schumer on February 22, 1993 and the final version was passed on November 11, 1993. 

It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 30, 1993 and the law went into effect on February 28, 1994. The Act was named after James Brady, who was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.

References

1993 in the United States
United States law
The Iraq Resolution or the Iraq War Resolution (formally the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No: 107-243, authorizing military action against Iraq.

References

War
2002 in the United States
Christopher Nicholas Parsons  (10 October 1923 – 28 January 2020) was an English radio and television presenter and actor. He was known for hosting Just a Minute and Sale of the Century.

Parsons was Rector of the University of St Andrews from 1988 to 1991.

In August 2019, Parsons had suffered a fall and was hospitalized in Aylesbury. He died from problems caused by the fall on 28 January 2020, in Aylesbury; he was 96.

References

Other websites

Interview on the MusicalTalk Podcast
Talking about Just a Minute (RealPlayer video)
Nicholas Parsons, Patron of WTC : Interview for download – talks about Doctor Who, Just a Minute, The Rocky Horror Show and audio performance history

1923 births
2020 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
English television presenters
English television actors
Actors from Lincolnshire
Income inequality in the United States has increased significantly since the 1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income received by higher income households has increased. Sometimes this is called a "pay gap". Usually males are paid higher than females which has caused protest.

History of the United States
Society
Income
Economic indicators
Campaign finance reform is the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. It will prevent campaigns being sponsored by Super PACs.

Other websites
 California Clean Money Campaign
 Campaign Finance Institute
 Center for Competitive Politics
  Democracy Matters
 Open Secrets
 PoliticalMoneyLine

Politics of the United States
The practice of mass surveillance in the United States dates back to wartime monitoring and censorship of international communications from, to, or which passed through the United States. 

After the First World War and the Second World War, the surveillance continued, by programs such as the Black Chamber and Project SHAMROCK. The formation and growth of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and NSA helped surveillance, such as the COINTELPRO projects which currently exist in secret. 

A series of media reports in 2013 revealed more recent programs and techniques employed by the US intelligence community. Advances in computer and information technology allow the creation of huge national databases that facilitate mass surveillance in the United States.

References

History of the United States
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010 and signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2010. It helped cut taxes and create more jobs for the United States.

References

2010 in the United States
United States law
Rudy Gobert (born June 26, 1992) is a French professional basketball player. He plays for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). 

He also plays on the French national basketball team in the international competitions.

On March 11, 2020, it was discovered that Gobert tested positive for the Coronavirus disease 2019.

References

Utah Jazz players
Living people
French sportspeople
1992 births
Kratos, the "Ghost of Sparta", is a video game character from Sony Santa Monica Studio's God of War series, which is loosely based on Greek mythology. Kratos first appeared in the 2005 video game God of War, which led to the development of six additional games featuring the character as the protagonist. Kratos also appears as the protagonist of the God of War comic series and novels. He has been consistently voiced by Terrence C. Carson, and Antony Del Rio voiced the character as a child in God of War: Ghost of Sparta. Christopher Judge was Kratos' voice actor in God of War (2018). Kratos is depicted as a Spartan warrior in Ancient Greece and son of Zeus (thus making him a demigod) who, after being manipulated into killing his own family by the war god Ares, goes on a crusade in search of revenge.   

Fictional characters introduced in 2005
God of War (franchise)
Mortal Kombat guest characters
Soulcalibur series guest characters
Video game protagonists
Bnin [bnin] () is part of the town of Kórnik, southwest of the city of Poznań, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is between Lake Kórnickie and Lake Bnińskie. From 1395-1934, Bnin was a town in its own right. It became part of Kórnik in 1961.

Neighborhoods
Settlements in Poland
Chałupy (Kashubian: Chalëpë, German: Ceynowa) is a village and a popular Polish seaside resort, in Gmina Władysławowo. It has very good conditions for windsurfing and kitesurfing. It is between Władysławowo and Kuźnica on the Hel Peninsula on the southern Baltic Sea in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It had 376 inhabitants as of 2009.

Prior to January 1, 2015, Chałupy was a part of the town Władysławowo.

Villages in Poland
Michael Valentine Doonican (3 February 1927 – 1 July 2015) was an Irish singer and television presenter. He sang traditional pop music and swing. Doonican was born in Waterford, Irish Free State.

He was well known for his novelty stylised songs. His career began in 1951.From 1965 to 1986 he was a regular fixture on the BBC Television's schedule with The Val Doonican Show, which featured his own singing performances and a variety of guest artists. He retired in 2009.

Doonican died at a nursing home in Buckinghamshire, England, at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
 
Val Doonican's appearance on This Is Your Life

1927 births
2015 deaths
Irish pop singers
Irish television personalities
Television presenters
Television writers
People from Waterford
Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, 24 Horas (24 Hours) was for decades the most important in the country.

Zabludovsky died of a stroke in Mexico City, aged 87.

References

Other websites
Video of Jacobo Zabludovsky and Salvador Dalí (1971)

1928 births
2015 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Mexico
Deaths from stroke
Mexican television presenters
Mexican journalists
Writers from Mexico City
How to Eat Fried Worms is an American comedy movie. It was based on the children's book of the same name written by Thomas Rockwell. Parents were warned the movie was "gross" but had a worthwhile moral. The movie was rated PG. They also hard to eat worms

Plot 
The movie centers around an 11-year-old male friends dare. Billy Forrester has to eat 15 worms in 15 days for $50.

Critical reception 
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a mild 59%. They said only 47% of audiences liked the movie. Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly gave it a score of 75. He commented "Worms goes light (but not too light) on the gore and the goo." Joanne Kaufman of The Wall Street Journal said "After the first bit of fish bait is consumed, actually even before, this one-trick movie is a tough slog."

Cast

 Luke Benward as Billy "Wormboy" Forrester 
 Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Erika "Erk" Tansy
 Adam Hicks as Joe Guire
 Tom Cavanagh as Mitch Forrester
 Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Helen Forrester
 Austin Rogers as Adam
 Alexander Gould as Twitch
 Ryan Malgarini as Benjamin "Benjy" Renfro
 Philip Daniel Bolden as Bradley
 Clint Howard as Uncle Ed
 Ty Panitz as Woody Forrester
 James Rebhorn as Principal Nelson "Boilerhead" Burdock
 Andrew Gillingham as Techno Mouth
 Blake Garrett as Plug
 Alexander Agate as Donny
 Nick Krause as Nigel Guire
 Andrea Martin as Mrs. Bommley
 David Bewley as Rob Simon
 Karen Wacker as Mrs. Simon
 Simone White as Woody's teacher

Awards

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 

2006 movies
American comedy movies
Poncarale is a city in northern Italy. Poncarale is in the Lombardy Region. It is in the Province of Brescia and has 5,330 people.

Cities in Lombardy
Czesław Olech (May 22, 1931 – July 1, 2015) was a Polish mathematician. He was a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski.

Some of his works
A talk on the occasion of receiving an honorary degree. (Polish) Wiadom. Mat. 42 (2006), 55—58.
On the Ważewski equation. Proceedings of the Conference Topological Methods in Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Kraków-Przegorzaƚy, 1996). Univ. Iagel. Acta Math. No. 36 (1998), 55—64.
My contacts with Professor Kuratowski, 1970--1980. (Polish) X School of the history of mathematics (Międzyzdroje, 1996). Zesz. Nauk. Uniw. Opol. Mat. 30 (1997), 109—114.
with Janas, J. ; Szafraniec, F. H. Wƚodzimierz Mlak (1931--1994). Volume dedicated to the memory of Wƚodzimierz Mlak. Ann. Polon. Math. 66 (1997), 1--9.
with Meisters, Gary H. Global stability, injectivity, and the Jacobian conjecture. World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts '92, Vol. I--IV (Tampa, FL, 1992), 1059—1072, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996.
 with Meisters, Gary H. Power-exact, nilpotent, homogeneous matrices. Linear and Multilinear Algebra 35 (1993), no. 3-4, 225—236.
Introduction. New directions in differential equations and dynamical systems, viii—x, Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1991.
with Meisters, Gary H. Strong nilpotence holds in dimensions up to five only. Linear and Multilinear Algebra 30 (1991), no. 4, 231—255.
with Parthasarathy, T. ; Ravindran, G. Almost N-matrices and linear complementarity . Linear Algebra Appl. 145 (1991), 107—125.

1931 births
2015 deaths
Polish mathematicians
Charles Alvin Sanders (August 25, 1946 – July 2, 2015) was an American football player. He played tight end for the Detroit Lions from 1968 to 1977. Sanders was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007. He was born in Richlands, North Carolina.

Sanders died on July 2, 2015 from cancer in Detroit, Michigan, aged 68.

References

1946 births
2015 deaths
Cancer deaths in Michigan
Detroit Lions players
Sportspeople from North Carolina
Phillip "Phil" Walsh (15 March 1960 – 3 July 2015) was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s. He also had assistant coaching roles at Geelong, West Coast, and Port Adelaide. He was later the head coach of the Adelaide Football Club for the 2015 season. He was born in Hamilton, Victoria.

Walsh was stabbed to death on 3 July 2015 in Somerton Park, South Australia. He was 55. His son was arrested for the murder.

References

1960 births
2015 deaths
Australian rules footballers
Coaches
Murders by blade weapons
Sportspeople from Victoria (Australia)
Slavko Avsenik (November 26, 1929 – July 2, 2015) was a Slovene composer and musician. Since 1953, Avsenik produced more than 1,000 songs and enjoyed success both in Slovenia and in other parts of Europe and America. He was viewed as a Slovenian cultural icon.

References

Other websites

 The Avsenik brothers' website
 Avsenik videos

1929 births
2015 deaths
Slovenian people
Composers
Musicians
György Szabad (4 August 1924 – 3 July 2015) was a Hungarian politician and historian. He was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1990 and 1994. He was a member of the Batthyány Society of Professors. He was born in Arad, Romania.

Szabad died in Budapest, Hungary, aged 90.

References

1924 births
2015 deaths
Hungarian politicians
Historians
Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 17,899 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Box Elder County.

References

Other websites
 Brigham City official website
 Self-guided tour of Brigham City historic sites

Cities in Utah
County seats in Utah
Florac is a former French commune, a subprefecture of the Lozère department, in the Occitanie region. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Florac. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Florac Trois Rivières.

The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as Floracois (women: Floracoises).

Geography
Florac is in the valley of the Tarnon river, a small river that flows through the Lozère department before joining the Tarn river. The commune is found at the start of the Gorges du Tarn (a canyon formed by the Tarn river).

The city and the Tarnon valley are within the Cévennes National Park but they are not part of the park.

The commune of Florac has an area of  and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune is surrounded by the communes Quézac, Bédouès, La Salle-Prunet, Saint-Laurent-de-Trèves, Vebron and Montbrun.

The climate in Prades in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
With a population of 1,958, its population density is of  inhabitants/km2.

Florac is the third smallest subprefecture of France, after Castellane in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department (1,557 inhabitants) and Largentière in the Ardèche department (1,789 inhabitants).

Twinned and partner towns
Prades is twinned with:
  L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
  Arbúcies, Catalonia, Spain

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Florac
 Communes of the Lozère department

References

Other websites

 Mairie de Florac website 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Lozère
Former communes in France
Chilean cricket team is the national cricket team of Chile. The team played their first test match against Argentina in 1893.

Tournaments

ICC Americas Championship
 2006: 3rd place (3rd division)
 2008: 2nd place.
 2009: 3rd place.

Other websites 
 Official Website 

Cricket
Sport in Chile
1893 establishments
19th-century establishments in Chile
Chile men's national water polo team represents Chile in international men's water polo competitions.

Tournaments

Olympic Games 
1900 — Did not participate
1904 — Did not participate
1908 — Did not participate
1912 — Did not participate
1920 — Did not participate
1924 — Did not participate
1928 — Did not participate
1932 — Did not participate
1936 — Did not participate
1948 — First round
1952 — Did not participate
1956 — Did not participate
1960 — Did not participate
1964 — Did not participate
1968 — Did not participate
1972 — Did not participate
1976 — Did not participate
1980 — Did not participate
1984 — Did not participate
1988 — Did not participate
1992 — Did not participate
1996 — Did not participate
2000 — Did not participate
2004 — Did not participate
2008 — Did not participate

Other websites 
 HistoFINA (VIII volume) 

Water polo
Sport in Chile
Chile men's national volleyball team represents Chile in international men's volleyball competitions.

Tournaments

South American Championship 
1961, Lima — Silver, 2nd place
1967, Santos — Bronze, 3rd place
1981, Santiago — Bronze, 3rd place
1983, São Paulo — Bronze, 3rd place
1993, Córdoba — Bronze, 3rd place

Other websites 
 Official Website 

National volleyball teams
Sport in Chile
Epoxy is the end product of epoxy resins. 

It is also a common name for the epoxide functional group, and a common name for a type of strong adhesive used for sticking things together. Typically, two resins need to be mixed together before use. 

Epoxy resins are a class of reactive polymers which contain epoxide groups.  Their co-reactants are often called 'hardeners' or 'curatives', and the cross-linking reaction is referred to as 'curing'.  The reaction forms a thermosetting polymer, often with strong mechanical properties as well as high temperature and chemical resistance.  Epoxy has a wide range of industrial applications.

Superglue is another strong adhesive, made of cyanoacrylate.

Notes 

Chemical compounds
Materials
Patricia Marmont (born 9 August 1921)  is an American actress. She is the daughter of Percy Marmont and was married to Nigel Green. She is known for her role as Andromache in the 1956 movie Helen of Troy.

References

Other websites
 

1921 births
Living people
American movie actors
American stage actors
Actors from New York
People from New York
Cheri Oteri (born Cheryl Ann Oteri; September 19, 1962) is an American comic actress. She is best known for her roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000. notable voice roles in some animation studio companies such as Nickelodeon from The Fairly OddParents and Bunsen is a Beast, Disney from Hercules The Animated Series, Big City Greens and The 7D, Cartoon Network Studios from Dexter's Lab reboot, Close Enough, etc., Lionsgate Television from Nutri Ventures, PBS, ABC, Warner Bros. Animation, Netflix Animation, MGM, Universal Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, etc.

Works

Voice Roles 

 Hercules: The Animated Series - Lavina
 The Fairly OddParents - Connie, Additional voices
 Saturday Night Live - Barbara Walters
 The Ant Bully - Doreen 
 Shrek The Third - Sleeping Beauty, Stage Actress
 Sit Down, Shut Up - Helen Klench 
 The Powerpuff Girls - Dexter's mom/Darcy (cameo, uncredited: deleted scene ''Powerpuff Girls Rule'')
 Nutri Ventures: The Series  - Additional voices
 The 7D - Gingersnaps
 The Buglys - Barbie                                                                                                                         
 The Life and Times of Tim - Additional voices
 Bunsen Is a Beast - Ms. Flap, Additional voices
 Puppy Dog Pals - Esther, Mouse walla
 Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh - Pauline
 The Boss Baby: Back in Business - Multi-Multi-Task
 Close Enough (2020) - Additional voices
 Inside Job (2021) -  Additional voices
 Dexter and Dee Dee - Cherry Anne
 Spidey and his Amazing Friends -  Additional voices
 Tom and Jerry in New York - Additional voices
 Big City Greens - Gwendolyn
 Buttercup: The Series (2007, Unaired) - Additional voices
 The Loud House - Additional voices

Other websites

1962 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
Comedians from Pennsylvania
Actors from Pennsylvania

American voice actors
Kenan Stacy Thompson (born May 10, 1978) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live (2003-present).

References

Other websites

Kenan Thompson at the Notable Names Database

1978 births
Living people
Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
African American actors
African American comedians
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Comedians from Atlanta, Georgia
Kate McKinnon Berthold (born January 6, 1984), commonly known as Kate McKinnon, is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian. She is best known for her sketch comedy work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and The Big Gay Sketch Show.

Career 
McKinnon is known for her impersonations of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, Justin Bieber, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

McKinnon is SNL first openly lesbian cast member.

References

Other websites
 

1984 births
Living people
Actors from New York City
LGBT people from New York City
LGBT comedians
LGBT actors
Lesbians
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Comedians from New York City
James Charles "Jim" Lehrer (;born May 19, 1934 – January 23, 2020) was an American journalist and novelist.

Life
Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kansas. He was the executive editor and a former news anchor for the PBS NewsHour on PBS. Lehrer was also known for his role as a debate moderator in U.S. presidential election campaigns. He was an author of a number of fiction and nonfiction books. 

From 1960 until his death, he was married to novelist Kate Staples. They had three children.

Lehrer died at his home in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 2020 from a heart attack at age 85.

Awards 
Lehrer has received two Emmy Awards, the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award and the George Foster Peabody Award. He has received the William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit and the University of Missouri School of Journalism's Honor Medal. Lehrer was honored in 1999 with the National Humanities Medal. It was given by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. He has been inducted into the Television Hall of Fame and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lehrer has received honorary degrees from 42 universities and colleges.

References 

1934 births
2020 deaths
American journalists
American novelists
Emmy Award winners
Writers from Wichita, Kansas
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cecily Strong (born February 8, 1984) is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian. She is a cast member of Saturday Night Live, joining the show in 2012.

References

1984 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
Comedians from Chicago
Actors from Chicago
People from Springfield, Illinois
Actors from Illinois
Colin Kelly Jost (born June 29, 1982) is an American comedian, screenwriter, and head writer for the TV program Saturday Night Live. In 2014, Jost became a cast member and became the co-anchor of Weekend Update alongside Michael Che.

References

Other websites

1982 births
Living people
American television writers
Comedians from New York City
Entertainers from Staten Island
Harvard University alumni
Screenwriters from New York City
Nedelcho Krumov Beronov () (22 July 1928 – 4 July 2015) was a Bulgarian jurist, right-wing politician and Constitutional Court chairman. He was a presidential candidate in the 2006 presidential elections.

Other websites
 Official website of Beronov's presidential nomination

1928 births
2015 deaths
Hungarian politicians
Civil servants
Diana Love Dill (January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015) was a Bermudian-born American actress who was professionally known as Diana Douglas.

Dill was known for her marriage to Kirk Douglas which lasted from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of actors Michael and Joel Douglas.

Early life
Douglas was born Diana Love Dill in the Devonshire Parish in Bermuda to a British father who was a colonel and an American mother.

Career
Douglas began her career as an actress in 1942. Since then, she has appeared in over 50 movies. Some of her well-known roles were as Susan Rogers in the 1955 movie The Indian Fighter (co-starring Kirk Douglas) and as Peg in the 1987 comedy movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. She was also known for her recurring role as Martha Evans on Days of Our Lives (1977-1979, 1982). 

She appeared in It Runs in the Family with her son Michael and her ex-husband Kirk. She retired in 2008.

Death
Douglas died on July 3, 2015 from cancer at her home in Woodland Hills, California, aged 92.

References

Other websites

All Movie Biography and Filmography
Cover, Life, 3 May 1943.
Bernews Profile: Diana Dill 
Essay on Bermuda Militia Artillery, by Jennifer Hind, which makes frequent mention of father, TM Dill
Roots Web: Portrait of father, T.M. Dill
Hello Magazine: Michael Douglas' Mum Weds at 79

1923 births
2015 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
Bermudian people
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Douglas family
Darrell Clayton Hammond (born October 8, 1955) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular on Saturday Night Live from 1995 until 2009, the longest term of any cast member in the show's history.

In 2014, he became the official announcer of SNL after the death of Don Pardo. He is known for playing Bill Clinton, Colonel Sanders, Sean Connery, and Donald Trump.

Other websites
 
 Darrell Hammond: 12 years on SNL 

1955 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
People with bipolar disorder
Actors from Florida
Comedians from Florida
Writers from Florida
American stand-up comedians
People with borderline personality disorder
People with schizophrenia
University of Florida alumni
The University Fermín Toro (UFT) is a private university. It is in Cabudare, Lara, Venezuela It was founded on 9 May 1989 according to the decree Number 168 of the National Executive. The Founder was Dr. Raúl Quero Silva, President of the Upper Council of the institution and of the Educational Complex "Antonio José of Sucre". The institution started in Cabudare, but also has campuses in Barquisimeto. The university has a library, bookshop, a clinic and computer laboratory. Students have email and access to the  Internet.

Faculties

Engineering 
 Engineering in Computation
 Engineering in Mechanical Maintenance
 Electrical engineering
 Engineering of Telecommunications

Economic and Social sciences 

 Administration
 Social communication
 Industrial relations

Juridical and Political sciences 
 Political sciences
 Right

Headquarters 
 Barinas (State Barinas)
 Cabudare (State Lara)
 Barquisimeto (State Lara)
 Acarigua (Been Portuguese)
 Guanare (Been Portuguese)
 The Lookout (State Mérida)

Other websites
 Official page of the UFT
 Universia Venezuela 
 
Venezuela
1989 establishments in South America
20th-century establishments in Venezuela
The history of Florida began when the first Native Americans came to live in the peninsula about 14,000 years ago. They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. 

Written history begins with the arrival of Europeans to Florida. In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León  kept the first records. Florida was the first part of the United States to be settled by Europeans.    

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest continually occupied settlement in the United States. From 1565, it was founded by European and African-American settlers. But the site is even older as St. Augustine was built where there had been an ancient Native American village. 

In 1763, to settle the Seven Years' War, Spain gave Florida to the British Empire in return for the British giving back Cuba. Britain divided Florida into East Florida and West Florida, but gave it back to Spain in 1783 to settle the American Revolutionary War. Escaped slaves and other illegal immigrants settled there. Revolts against Spanish authority, military invasions and other problems led Spain to give the Floridas to the United States. West Florida is now mostly in the states of Mississippi and Alabama; East Florida with some of West Florida became the modern state of Florida.

References 

 
Colonial Americans
Native American
The Cape flower region is a nature area near the south end of South Africa. 

The region is the smallest of the six "flower kingdoms" of the world, as recognised by Ronald Good. Its formal title is the Cape (South Africa) Floristic Region.

The region has very high diversity. Many kinds of plants are found there. Most of them are unique. There are more than 9,000 vascular plant species. Sixty-nine of them are found only there. 

Much of this diversity is because of the fynbos, a Mediterranean-type shrubland that can easily be destroyed by wildfires. The economic worth of the fynbos area may be about R77 million a year from harvests of products (like wildflowers) and from eco-tourism. The Cape flower region has both economic and biological value. It is a good place to look for many kinds of plants, insects, small animals and other creatures in nature.

References

Other websites 

 Conservation International: Cape floristic Region - biodiversity hotspot
 Conservation International:  Cape floristic Region (Hotspots revisited) 
 Cape Action: the Cape floristic Region 

Flowering plants
Ecoregions
Geography of South Africa
Gornji Karin is a seaside resort in Croatia, Zadar County, which is located on the coast of Karin sea (Bay of the Adriatic Sea). Administratively belongs to the town of Obrovac, which is 25 km away. Gornji Karin has about 1,125 inhabitants (2011).

Tourism 
Gornji Karin has several attractions. The main attraction is the spacious beach with palm and olive trees. At sea there are the water sports (water trampoline, water bicycles, etc.). For families with children there are also roundabouts near the beach. The village has several restaurants, cafes and bars.

50 km west is one of the most popular tourist destinations of Croatia - Zadar. 70 km southeast there is another attractive tourist town of Šibenik. Near Gornji Karin there is a canyon of rivers Krka and Zrmanja rivers and waterfalls Bijela, natural mud and Velebit Nature Park.

Croatia
Laika & the Cosmonauts were a Finnish rock band.  They were named for the Soviet Union space dog, Laika.

The band's genre was surf rock. A Boston Globe reviewer said their sound was "far beyond the limitations of any specific genre." They played mostly Finnish rautalanka (instrumental traditional) music. 

Laika & the Cosmonauts were not well known in the United States. They were well-liked by many musicians. These include Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Palm of the band, Agent Orange, and an early surf rock musician, Dick Dale.  Al Jourgensen of Ministry said they are "the best f**king band in the world."

History 
The band began in 1987. They still had the same members when they stopped making records in 2008. They toured the United States and Europe several times. The band also played several times on European television.

Laika & the Cosmonauts said in an email on April 23, 2008, that they were quitting after a twenty-year career. They ended with an American tour. The last shows were at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas in the autumn of 2008.   A compilation album, Cosmopolis, was released at the same time as the tour.

Discography
C'mon Do the Laika 1988
Surfs You Right 1990
Instruments of Terror 1992
The Amazing Colossal Band 1995
Zero Gravity (US compilation) 1996
Absurdistan 1997
Laika Sex Machine (live) 2000
Local Warming 2004
Cosmopolis 2008  (Compilation)

References

Other websites 
2004 NPR interview
Finpop.net interview with Matti Pitsinki 
Review of band's live album from Atomic Magazine
mySpace - Laika & the Cosmonauts
Laika & the Cosmonauts Allmusic
Laika & the Cosmonauts MTV

Finnish musical groups
Rock bands
Musical groups established in 1987
Musical groups disestablished in 2008
1987 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Finland
2008 disestablishments in Europe
Jessie is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from September 30, 2011 to October 16, 2015. The series was created and executive produced by Pamela Eells O'Connell. It stars Debby Ryan, Peyton List, Cameron Boyce, Karan Brar, Skai Jackson and Kevin Chamberlin. In 2013, an Indian adaption of the show was made and it was called Oye Jassie.

Plot
The series follows Jessie Prescott, a young woman from a small town in Texas. She has big dreams. She moves to New York City to be an actress. She becomes a nanny for the Ross kids: Emma, Luke, Ravi and Zuri. They live in a multi-million dollar penthouse on the Upper West Side. With Bertram the butler, Tony the doorman, and the Ross kids, she has a lot of adventures.

Production
The show went straight to series. There was no pilot. The show is taped at Hollywood Centre Studios in Los Angeles. Season 4 began production in the summer of 2014 and ended in March 2015.

Series overview

Cast and characters

 Debby Ryan as Jessie Prescott - the nanny of the crazy Ross kids.
 Peyton List as Emma Ross - the older Ross kid, and only the biological child, she loves fashion.
 Cameron Boyce as Luke Ross - He was born in Detroit, he is lazy and likes to be cool.
 Karan Brar as Ravi Ross - He is from India, smart and he doesn't have freinds.
 Skai Jackson as Zuri Ross - Cute and small girl who was brought to NYC from her birth country, Uganda, Africa.
 Kevin Chamberlin as Bertram Winkle - The lazy butler, he really works when the Ross parents come home.

Soundtrack

Awards and nominations

References

Other websites

2010s American television series
2011 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
American sitcoms
Disney Channel shows
Manhattan in fiction
Television series by Disney
Television series set in New York City
English-language television programs
The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. This family also has other raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.

The species is found all over Europe and northwest Africa. It is resident in the milder parts of its range in western Europe and northwest Africa, but birds from northeastern and central Europe winter further south and west, reaching south to Turkey.

Red kites eat small mammals and carrion. They were wiped out in most of Britain, except for a few in south Wales. Farmers killed them, and so did the DDT picked up from their prey. They have made a big come-back in England and Scotland after they were recently re-introduced.

A sighting of the first red kite in London for 150 years was reported in The Independent newspaper in January 2006. In June 2006, the UK-based Northern Kites Project reported that kites had bred in the Derwent Valley, Tyne and Wear for the first time since the re-introduction.

References

Accipitriformes
The black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus), also known as the western rat snake, pilot black snake, or black snake, is a kind of snake. They can grow up to eight feet in length. They are found in North America.

Other websites
 FusionTheme page about Black Rat Snakes

Snakes
A zip-line (also called a zip line, zip wire, aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, death slide or Tyrolean crossing) is a device that allows a person to slide down an inclined wire or rope. The process uses gravity to propel the user. You can be stopped by dragging your feet or by water. Often a pulley is used suspended on a cable, usually made of stainless steel. Zip-lines are often used for entertainment. Some are short and low designed for children on a playground. Zip-lines are often used as a means of getting to remote areas, such as a rainforest canopy or crossing a river.

History 
The zip-wire has been used as a way to get around in some mountainous countries for over 2,000 years. Since the 1700s they have been used in places like Europe, China and the Himalayas. In the Australian outback, zip-lines were occasionally used for delivering food, cigarettes or tools. They were useful for people working on the other side of an obstacle such as a gully or river. Australian soldiers have used them to bring ammunition to forward positions during wars.
 
During World War II the United States discovered they were behind the Russians and the Germans in using parachutes to deploy soldiers quickly. In setting up training the army decided to use drop towers with zip lines to simulate a parachute landing. It was a success and has been used since that time to train airborne forces.
 
Costa Rica claims to be the birthplace of modern zip-line tours. Graduate students, John Williams and Donald Perry were rock-climbers who were in Costa Rica studying botanical (plants) and entomological (insects) subjects. They used their rock climbing equipment to climb trees. When they used lines to get down or move to lower trees, other students did too. Soon tours started in Costa Rica for entertainment.

Zip-line tours 
Zip-line tours are becoming popular vacation activities. Some are as short as 100 feet while others may be as long as a mile. The jungles of Costa Rica, Florida, Puerto Vallarta,and Nicaragua are popular places for those interested in experiencing zip-lines. Since 2000, the number of zip-line tours in the United States has grown to over 200. Zip-line tours are not available at places such as Santa Catalina Island, Big Bear and the San Diego Zoo in California. Prices vary for the ride. The San Diego Zoo ride costs $112 (for two lines). At the Santa Paula, California KOA the cost is $10 for an 800 foot long zip-line. At Durango Colorado there are 27 zip lines totaling . The tour lasts for five hours.

In Sun City, South Africa the Zip 2000 is one of the world's longest zip lines at over  in length. The world's longest zip-line tour is "Miss Sky Canopy Tour" in Nosara, Costa Rica. It runs for  and is made up of 21 runs. Taihape, New Zealand has one of the fastest zip-lines (called flying foxes locally) with speeds at over .

References

Other websites 
 The Gorge in North Carolina
 Skyline tour in New York
 How Safe is Ziplining? 

Entertainment
The 2015 Copa América was a football sporting event that was organized by Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol. It was held in Chile in 2015. 12 teams took part from many countries. Chile won their first title after beating Argentina in the final on a penalty shootout after a goalless draw.

Participants

Venues
The tournament was in 9 stadiums in 8 cities.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Knockout stage

Quarter finals

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Goalscorers 
4 goals
 Eduardo Vargas
 Paolo Guerrero

3 goals
 Arturo Vidal
 Lucas Barrios
 Sergio Agüero

2 goals
 Charles Aránguiz
 Matías Vuoso
 Raúl Jiménez
 Ángel Di María
 Gonzalo Higuaín
 Miller Bolaños
 Enner Valencia
 Marcelo Moreno

1 goal
 Cristian Rodríguez
 José Giménez
 Lionel Messi
 Marcos Rojo
 Javier Pastore
 Nelson Haedo Valdez
 Édgar Benítez
 Derlis González
 Salomón Rondón
 Miku
 Christian Cueva
 Claudio Pizarro
 André Carrillo
 Neymar
 Douglas Costa
 Thiago Silva
 Roberto Firmino
 Robinho
 Ronald Raldes
 Martin Smedberg-Dalence
 Jeison Murillo
 Alexis Sánchez
 Gary Medel
 Mauricio Isla

Own goals
 Ronald Raldes (playing against Chile)
 Gary Medel (playing against Peru)

Other websites 
 Official website

References 

2010s in Chile
Copa América tournaments
Copa America
Copa America
[[File:1999 Bill Nye receives Public Service Award from National Science Board.png|thumb|right|250px|{{Center| 1999 Public Service Award from NSB for the program "Bill Nye the Science Guy, accepted by Bill Nye and Elizabeth Brock}}]]Bill Nye the Science Guy'' was a live action educational television program. It originally aired from May 10, 1993 to June 20, 1998. The program was hosted by Bill Nye. It was produced by Buena Vista Television. The show aired on PBS Kids and was also syndicated to local stations. Each of the 100 half-hour episodes aims to teach a specific topic in a natural science to a preteen audience. In 1999, the program received a public service award from the National Science Board "For its masterful presentations of the sciences to the younger generation..." The show won a total of 19 Emmy Awards during the five years it was broadcast. Nye won seven Emmys for his performing, writing and producing the program.

References 

1993 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1990s American television series
Emmy Award winning programs
English-language television programs
Lake Marion is the largest lake in South Carolina. It is centrally located. Parts of it are in five different counties. The lake is referred to as South Carolina's inland sea. It has a  shoreline. It covers almost 110,000 acres (450 square kilometers or 173.7 square miles) of rolling farmlands, former marshes, and river valley landscape.

The Santee River was dammed in the 1940s to supply hydroelectric power. This was part of the rural electrification efforts initiated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression. It is one of the fifty largest lakes in the United States, whether natural or man-made reservoirs. It covers only about a third of the area of the fifteenth largest in size.

Lakes of the United States
Lake Marion
Dr. Muhammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (; August 6, 1947 – September 27, 1996), commonly known as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992, when the Mujahideen took over Kabul. Killed by Talibans in 1996.

Presidents of Afghanistan
1947 births
1996 deaths
Otto Grotewohl (German pronunciation: [ˈɔtoː ˈɡʁoːtəvoːl]; 11 March 1894 – 23 September 1964) was an (East) German politician. He was co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) from 1946 to 1950 (together with Wilhelm Pieck), and the first prime minister of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 until his death in 1964.

On behalf of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and later the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Grotewohl was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Brunswick from 1920 to 1930, and also a minister of the Free State of Brunswick. He was also a member of the Reichstag from 1925 to 1933.

1894 births
1964 deaths
German people of World War II
German prisoners
Members of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
Members of the Volkskammer
Politicians from Lower Saxony
Politicians of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Prime Ministers of East Germany
Trap music is a subgenre that originated during the 1990s from Reggeaton in  Puerto Rico. It is typified by its ominous lyrics and sound that incorporate double or triple-time division hi-hats, heavy kick drums from a Roland TR-808 synthesizer, layered synthesizers, and "cinematic" strings. The term "trap" initially referred to places where drug deals take place. In recent years it has been incorporated with electronic dance music by artists who have remixed and made trap songs with more Electronic-like aspects.

References

Hip hop genres
Dance music
Plant anatomy or phytotomy is the study of the internal structure of plants. This is usually considered distinct from plant morphology, which is the study of the external parts of plants. Plant anatomy is usually studied with a microscope.

References

Branches of botany
Iris is a genus of 260–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow. This refers to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species. The scientific name, iris is also very widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera. It is a member of the Iridaceae family It is a popular garden flower.

Description 
Irises are hardy plants (able to survive outside during winter) that are easy to grow. They attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Irises are a favorite cut flower. The bearded irises (Iris germanica) is the tallest at about . Irises generally have three large sepals on the outside called "falls". They have three inner petals called "standards". Irises that are called bearded are because of soft hairs growing in the center. Irises that are called combed have a ridge of hairs in the center.  A common name for some species is 'flags'. Plants of the subgenus Scorpiris are widely known as 'junos', particularly in horticulture.

References 

Flowers
Iridaceae