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Michael Thomas Gargiulo (born February 15, 1976) is a convicted American serial killer and rapist. He moved to Southern California in the 1990s. He has been nicknamed The Hollywood Ripper. 

He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death on July 16, 2021.

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María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz (14 March 1939 – 17 July 2021) was a Spanish actress and activist. She was born in Seville, Spain. Her career began in 1965. She was known for her role as Doña Julia in Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995). Bardem won a Goya Award in 1995.

Bardem was the mother of actors Carlos Bardem, Mónica Bardem and Javier Bardem.

Bardem died on 17 July 2021 in Madrid from lung disease, aged 82.

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Sir Graham Vick  (30 December 1953 – 17 July 2021) was an English opera director. He was known for being the director of the Birmingham Opera Company. Vick was born in Birkenhead, England.

Vick was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to music and the regions.

Vick died on 17 July 2021 in London from COVID-19, aged 67.

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 Birmingham Opera Company biography 

1953 births
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People from Birmingham
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Williams Martínez (18 December 1982 – 17 July 2021) was a Uruguayan professional footballer who played as a defender. He made his Uruguayan debut in the 2003 Lunar New Year Cup.

Martínez died on July 17, 2021 of suicide, aged 38. At the time of his death, he was playing for Villa Teresa.

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Dawn Hayley Foster (12 September 1987 – July 2021) was a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. She was a staff writer for Jacobin magazine. She also worked for The Independent, The Nation, The Guardian and Dissent. 

Foster suffered from epilepsy and schwannomatosis.

Foster died in July 2021 from a long-illness in London, aged 34.

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2021 deaths
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People from Belfast
The Crow is a horror movie directed by Alex Proyas. It was released in 1994, and is based on the comic with the same name. The movie featured Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee. When the movie was made, in 1993, there was an accident at the set, which killed Brandon Lee. Because of this accident, it was unclear, if the movie would be released.  After Lee had died, some scenes needed to be re-done, which was expensive and controversial at the time. The movie had good reviews. There were three sequels, and a TV series. About four years later, Proyas created another movie, with the same creative director, Alex McDowell: Dark City. It was also based on a comic, and had a similarly somber theme.

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1994 horror movies
Anna M. Valencia (born January 16, 1985) is an American politician. She is the City Clerk of Chicago since 2017. She replaced Susana Mendoza. She was elected to a full term as City Clerk in 2019.

Valencia is running in the 2022 election for Illinois Secretary of State.

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1985 births
Living people
Politicians from Chicago
US Democratic Party politicians
Bagnols-en-Forêt is a commune of 2,830 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

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Communes in Var
Gifford is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 975 at the 2010 Census.

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Villages in Illinois
Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez (born November 13, 1978) is an American politician and community organizer. She is the alderwoman of Chicago's 33rd ward as a member of the Chicago City Council since May 2019. 

She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Living people
Politicians from Chicago
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The Joshua Tree is the fifth  album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on March 9, 1987.

U2 albums
1987 albums
La Cumbre Airport (, ) is a public use airport serving La Cumbre, a town in the Córdoba Province of Argentina. The airport is in the countryside  southwest of the town.

The Cordoba VOR-DME (Ident: CBA) is  southeast of the airport.

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Airports in Argentina
The Pale of Settlement was a term used by the Russian Empire. It meant the borders in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed (from 1791 to 1917). Beyond these places, Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden.

The old English term pale is got from the Latin word , a stake, and so extended to mean the area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

The Pale of Settlement included all of modern Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova, much of Ukraine and Poland, and small parts of Latvia and the western Russian Federation.

It extended from the eastern pale, or demarcation line inside the country, westwards to the Imperial Russian border with the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and Austria-Hungary. It was about 20% of European Russia.

Historians argue that the motivations for its creation and maintenance were primarily economic and nationalist in nature.

The end of the enforcement and formal demarcation of the Pale coincided with the beginning of World War I in 1914 and then ultimately, the fall of the Russian Empire in the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

The religious nature of the edicts creating the Pale is clear: conversion to Russian Orthodoxy, the state religion, released people from the restrictions. Historians argue that the motivations for its creation were mainly economic and nationalist in nature.

Terrible anti-Jewish pogroms occurred from 1881 to 1883 and from 1903 to 1906. The Jewish community responded by organising a welfare system.

One consequence of the Pale was a tendency to restrict marriage by Jews, not just to other Jews, but often in practice to those who attended the same synagogue. The effects are similar to those of the Royal Families of Europe, who eventually showed the genetic effects of inbreeding even though the marriages were legal and in other ways quite appropriate. Just as in European royalty, the communities behind the Pale, and now in normal life, show a higher percentage of deleterious genetic defects than the wider population. This is because the parents were, unknowingly, to some extent consanguineous (related).

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Jewish history
History of Russia
Genetic disorders
Settlements in Russia
An undeciphered writing system is a  written form of language that is currently not understood. In this context, a writing system is used to mean a series of glyphs; these glyphs may represent writing in a language. However, this is not known until they are deciphered. 

Not being able to decipher a text can have several reasons:

 The language may be a language isolate (there are few or no similar languages that still exist)
 There may be very few texts in the given language
 What is considered a text in a language really is not: it may just be decorations, but the symbols have no semantic meaning.

There is also the concept of false writing systems: these are constructed sets of symbols that are meant to represent a writing system, but that do not.

Examples 

 Vinča script, from 7th or 8th century BC Europe
 Dispilio Tablet, from Western Macedonia, Greece, 6th century BC
 Phaistos disc, from 2nd century BC Crete. 
 Southwest Paleohispanic script, found on the Iberian peninsula, about 700 BC
 Sitovo inscription from Bulgaria
 Cascajal Block, Olmec civilization, about 9th century
 Numidian language - the script has been almost entirely deciphered, but the language is unknown.
 Rongorongo, inscriptions from Easter Island
 The Voynich manuscript, 15th century
 Singapore Stone
 Newton Stone, considered to be a forgery, by many

Writing systems
A biennial, often using the Italian spelling biennale, is an international exhibition of contemporary art. Biennials are not held every year. Famous biennials are:

spelling with "Biennial":
Havana Biennial
spelling with "Biennale":
Venice Biennale
Paris Biennale

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https://www.theartofliving.info/arts/032017_world-s-most-important-biennales-and-triennales/#:~:text=%20World%E2%80%99s%20most%20important%20biennales%20and%20triennales%20,art...%206%20Whitney%20Biennale%20%E2%80%93.%20%20More%20

Art
The Benidorm International Song Festival ( or ) was an annual song contest which used to take place each summer, from 1959 to 2006, in the Valencian city of Benidorm, Spain. The contest, based on the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, was born to promote Benidorm and the Spanish music. Over the years it has suffered considerable modifications: some editions didn't celebrate, several changes have been done in the prizes, etc. It became international in 2004, but was discontinued after 2006. The contest was usually broadcast on television by TVE or Canal Nou. As of 2006, the first prize winner was awarded with the Golden Mermaid Trophy (Sirenita de Oro) and €36,000 (about US$47,000) to produce a record. Second and third place winners received the Silver Mermaid Trophy (Sirenita de Plata) and the Bronze Mermaid Trophy (Sirenita de Bronce), respectively.

Golden Mermaid Trophy winners 
1959: Monna Bell & Juanito Segarra
1960: Arturo Millán
1961: José Francis
1962: Raphael+Iroh Eory
1973 Ecrim lover
2020 Ecrin Bikini Atyl(ë)wBluw

Music festivals
Arrested Development is an American television sitcom. It is created by Mitchell Hurwitz. It was aired from November 3, 2003, to February 10, 2006.
American sitcoms
Professor Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty  (born 21 April 1966) is an English physician and epidemiologist who serves as the Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO), Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Department of Health and Social Care, Head of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and Gresham Professor of Physic. He was also the Acting Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2017 to 2018.

Whitty has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.

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1966 births
Living people
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People from Gloucestershire
Lapinlahti is a municipality in Northern Savonia, Finland. As of 31 March 2021, the municipality had a population of 9,331. Neighbouring municipalities are Iisalmi, Kuopio, Rautavaara, Siilinjärvi and Sonkajärvi.

The neighboring municipality of Varpaisjärvi was merged with Lapinlahti on 1 January 2011.

Other websites 

 Municipality of Lapinlahti – Official website

Municipalities of Northern Savonia
The Boana steinbachi is a frog that lives in Brazil, Peru, and  Bolivia.

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Frogs
Animals of South America
The Numidian language, which is also known as Old Libyan, or simply Libyan is a language that was spoken in North Africa. Texts have been found from around the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. While the writing system has been mostly deciphered, the language itself is unknown. Today, it is though to be an ancestor of the Berber languages. There are some texts that are multilingual (that is: the same text in more than one language). Despite this, the language itself is mostly unknown.

The script 
Today, about 1200 texts are known, spread across North Africa. Many of the texts are from modern-day Tunisia, and the areas of Algeria, bordering Tunisia. In this large area, there are two main forms, an eastern form, occurring from Algeria eastwards, and a western form, occurring elsewhere.  

 The eastern form is almost completely deciphered, and can be read. The meaning of 22 of the 24 symbols of the alphabet is known. The meaning was found because of a bilingual text (in Punic and Libyan) at the Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga.The mausoleum is in Tunisia, and dates from the 2nd century BC. 
 The western form has more symbols, and cannot yet be read. There are 13 extra symbols, with unknown/disputed meaning. This variant is  known as "Libyan-Berber script". As of 2021, about 100 texts are known. Most of them are short inscriptions on steles. 
 There may have been a third form in the Sahara. Modern Berber languages probably developed from that third form.  Modern Berber languages kept most of the writing system, which is called Tifinagh today. 

People don't know if the two or three variants were the same language or different languages.

Berber languages
The Mischianza or Mischianza extravaganza was a party.  It happened in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War.  John Andre threw the party on May 18, 1778 for General William Howe. About 400 people came to the party

Motivation

The party was for General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe.  They were leaders in the British military.  William Howe was being sent back to England because the government blamed him for the loss of the Battle of Saratoga.  But the men in the army thought he was a very good general and decided to throw him a large party.

Event
To start the party, the Howe brothers and other leaders floated down the Delaware river on decorated boats.  People in the buildings on the sides of the river waved to them.  Military musicians played music.  The HMS Roebuck fired a seventeen-gun salute.

Most of the party was at Walnut Grove.  Walnut grove had belonged to a man named Joseph Wharton, but he supported the American Revolution, so the British had taken it.  Major John Andre was the master of ceremonies, meaning he organized the party and told everyone what would happen next.

Andre planned a medieval-style joust, where men on horseback would practice-fight with lances.  He named the two teams the Knights of the Blended Rose and the Knights of the Burning Mountain and designed costumes, flags, and slogans for them.  Each knight had a lady, like in the tradition of courtly love from the middle ages.  Andre picked women from loyalist American families.  He gave them costumes to wear that would remind people of the Crusades.  The women's costumes were what 18th-century English people thought of as Turkish.

After the joust, the party guests walked under two triumphal arches that Andre had built for the party.  The first arch was decorated with things about the ocean, like the Roman god Neptune with his trident.  This was to honor Admiral Howe.  The second was decorated with military trophies.  This was to honor General Howe.  Then there was dancing and fireworks.

The guests ate dinner in a beautifully decorated tent.  Twenty-four enslaved men in costumes served dinner.

Costs

Twenty-two British officers got the money for the party: £3,312.  This did not count the costumes people wore, which cost about £12,000.

Response

Most of the people who went to and wrote about the Meschianza said how beautiful and elegant everything was.  However, other people did not like that the officers had celebrated a triumph, or victory, before the war was won.

Richard Howe's secretary, Ambrose Serle wrote, "Every man of Sense, among ourselves, tho’ not unwilling to pay a due Respect, was ashamed of this mode of doing it."

A Quaker named Elizabeth Drinker wrote that she did not like the idea of throwing a big party when so many people were being hurt by the war: "How insensible these people appear, while our land is so greatly desolated, and death and sore destruction has overtaken and impends over so many."

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1770s in Pennsylvania
18th century in Philadelphia
Parties
Kishori Pednekar (IAST:Kiśōrī Pēḍaṇēkara) (born 25 December 1962) is an Indian politician. She is the current Mayor of Mumbai since 2019. She worked as a nurse earlier on and once again in 2020, this time to motivate other healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in India.

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1962 births
Living people
Mayors
Politicians from Mumbai
The People's Majlis (ރައްޔިތުންގެ މަޖިލިސް; Rayyithunge Majilis) is the unicameral legislative body of the Maldives. The Majlis has the power to enact, make and fix laws, except the Constitution of the Maldives. The Majlis is made up of 87 members.

List of speakers

References

Maldives
Faisal Naseem (born 20 July 1973) is a Maldivian politician who is the Vice President of the Maldives since 2018.

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1973 births
Vice presidents of the Maldives
Living people
Pig is a 2021 American thriller drama movie co-written and directed by Michael Sarnoski. It stars Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin. It is about a truffle forager whose favorite truffle-finding pig goes missing. It was released theatrically in the United States on July 16, 2021 to strong positive reviews.

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British thriller movies
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Slingerlands is a hamlet in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York.

The population of Slingerlands is 7,646.

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Bethlehem is a town in Albany County, New York, United States.  The town's population was 33,656 at the 2010 census.

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Towns in New York
The Shah Jalal Dargah () is the shrine and burial place of the 14th century Muslim saint Shah Jalal, located in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The site, known as a dargah, was originally constructed .

History of Bangladesh
National symbols of Bangladesh
Baṅgamātā (), Mother Bengal or simply বাংলা/ Bangla, a personification of Bengal, In Amar Shonar Bangla, the national anthem of Bangladesh, Rabindranath Tagore used the word "Maa" (Mother) numerous times to refer to the motherland, i.e. Bengal. Despite her popularity in patriotic songs and poems, her physical representations and images are rare. However, Muslims of Muslim majority Bangladesh, specially the Bangladeshi nationalists, revere a similar personification of Bangladesh as Bangamata (the "Mother Bangladesh"), though it is not as a goddess but an abstract reference to the motherland.

In art and literature 
In his patriotic song, known as Aaji Bangladesher Hridoy (1905), the poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote the following depiction of Bangladesh:
When did you come out of the heart of Bangladesh,
O, Mother dear, with such inexplicable splendour!
It’s impossible to take away eyes from you!
The doors of your golden temple have unlocked.
Your right hand holds the blazing sword, the left one takes away fear,
Smile of affection on the eyes, the third eye glaring.
O Mother dear, how uniquely you reveal yourself!
The cloud of your untied hair conceals thunders
Ends of your sunlight coloured robes flutter in the horizon!
It’s impossible to take away eyes from you!
The doors of your golden temple have unlocked.
When impassionately did not look up seemed
Poor mother stayed back home , desolate, destitute.
Your torn clothes vanish now, meagre smile disappear.
Beams of light scatter from your feet into entire sky
O Mother, your appearance astounds me.
You flood the world with the flow of happiness on the distressed nights
O the mindblower, your word of fearlessness drum the heart
It’s impossible to take away eyes from you!
The doors of your golden temple have unlocked.

This is most probably only picturesque details of Mother Bengal.

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National personifications
Ostrołęka is a city in Masovian Voivodeship in Poland. In 2020, 51,893 people lived there. It has an area of 33.46 km².

Cities in Poland
The Bangladeshi Brahma Chicken  is an Bangladeshi breed of chicken. The distinctive head shape and pea comb of the Brahma probably result from cross-breeding with Grey Chittagong birds of Malay type, imported from Chittagong in eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh); these characteristics distinguish the Brahma from the Cochin, which also derives from "Shanghai" birds. It is considered as the “National poultry of Bangladesh” respectively.

Chicken as food
National symbols of Bangladesh
Kadaknath, also called Kali Masi ("fowl having black flesh"), is an Indian breed of chicken. Kadaknath birds are grey-black all over and have gold plumage with greenish iridescence. The greyish black colour is present in the legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones and organs have grey colouration. It is considered as the “National poultry of India” respectively.

Poultry
National symbols of India
Albemarle is a city in and the county seat of Stanly County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 15,903 people live in Albemarle.

Cities in North Carolina
County seats in North Carolina
Eden is a city in Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 15,527 people live in Eden.

Cities in North Carolina
Havelock is a city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 20,735 people live in Havelock.

Cities in North Carolina
Hendersonville is a city in and the county seat of Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 13,137 people live in Hendersonville.

Cities in North Carolina
County seats in North Carolina
Asil Sindhi Desi chicken or the Pakistani cockerel (Sindhi: سنڌي اسيل, Urdu: سندهي اسيل) is a breed of chicken and as from the name, originates from Sindh (one of four major provinces of Pakistan). These cocks, or fighting cocks, are noted being tall, heavy and good at fighting, so they are bred mainly for cockpit. These Aseels are characterised by a muscular but compact body, broad shoulders, wings carried against the body, short and hard feathers, drooping tails, a large curved beak similar to that of an eagle, pea comb and no wattles.  It is considered as the “National poultry of Pakistan” respectively.

Poultry
National symbols of Pakistan
Christopher Reid (born April 5, 1964), formerly known as Kid'' (shortened from his original MC name, Kid Coolout'''), is an American actor, comedian and former rapper. During the peak of his career with the rap duo Kid 'n Play (with Christopher Martin), Reid was notable for his exaggerated hi-top fade haircut.

1964 births
Living people
Actors from New York City
comedians from New York City
American rappers
The News International phone-hacking scandal was a controversy around the now no longer publishing News of the World and other British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. People who worked for the newspaper were accused of hacking phones, police bribery, and other crimes in order to get stories. Even though investigations that took place from 2005 to 2007 suggested that the newspaper only hacked the phones of celebrities, politicians, and people in the British royal family, in July 2011 it was found out that the phones of killed student Milly Dowler, family of dead British soldiers, and people killed in the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The anger of the public at News Corporation caused many well-known people to stop working there, including Rupert Murdoch and his son. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Sir Paul Stephenson, also left their jobs. Many companies stopped advertising work with the newspaper, leading to the end of the News of the World on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of making newspapers. Anger from the public meant News Corporation decided to cancel its suggested takeover of the British television broadcaster BSkyB.

The prime minister David Cameron said on 6 July 2011 that a public investigation, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, if what some British newspapers did to get stories was okay and that the Press Complaints Commission would be changed and replaced fully. A few arrests and prison sentenced followed, most well-known being the arrest of the former News of the World top editor Andy Coulson.

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2011 in the United Kingdom
Controversies
2007 in the United Kingdom
Wabi-sabi (wabi - beauty in simplicity, sabi-passage of time) is a Japanese world view based on approaching of life. It is about value of imperfection and acceptance of transience. In Japan, wabi-sabi is imperceptible but it's everywhere from a crack on the dishes to a misty landscape.

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Japan
Japanese culture
Red Chittagong Cow, also known as RCC, Kamdhino, Madaripuris a breed of cattle native to Bangladesh. Locally, the breed is known as Lal Birish. It is considered as the “National cattle of Bangladesh” respectively.

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Cattle breeds
National symbols of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi culture
Sahiwal cattle are a breed of zebu cow, named after an area of the The Punjab, in Pakistan. Sahiwal is considered a heat-tolerant cattle breed. It is considered as the “National cattle of Pakistan” respectively.

History 

The Sahiwal originated in the dry Punjab region which lies along central Punjab. They were once kept in large herds by professional herdsmen called "Charwahas". With the introduction of irrigation systems to the region they began to be kept in smaller numbers by the farmers of the region, who used them as draught and dairy animals. Today the Sahiwal is one of the best dairy breeds in Pakistan. Sahiwal is calm when milking. Due to their heat tolerance and high milk production they have been exported to other Asian countries as well as Africa and the Caribbean.

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Cattle breeds
National symbols of Pakistan
Pakistani culture
The Maroon-backed Imperial pigeon (Ducula badia), also known as the Mountain Imperial pigeon or Hodgson's Imperial pigeon, is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family with a wide range in Southeastern Asia. Overall the pigeon has a wide range in south-eastern Asia, where it occurs in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is considered as the “National dove of Bangladesh” respectively..

Notes

References

National symbols of Bangladesh
Doves
The common emerald dove (Chalcophaps indica), also called Asian emerald dove and grey-capped emerald dove, is a widespread resident breeding pigeon native to the tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.  The dove is also called the green dove and the green-winged pigeon. The common emerald dove is considered national dove of India and the provincial bird of the Indian subnational state of Tamil Nadu. 

National symbols of India
Doves
Indian culture
The Pakistan Highflyer or the Pakistani Tippler Pigeon is a breed of fancy pigeon developed endemically in Pakistan. Pakistani Highflyers, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the Rock pigeon (Columba livia). It is considered as the “National pigeon of Pakistan” respectively.

Columbiformes
National symbols of Pakistan
The Pakistani Cashmere Lop rabbit is a medium-sized rabbit with long dense fur. The breed, originates from Kashmir in Pakistan, comes in many different colours and weighs approximately 4-5 lbs. They are thought of as the “National rabbit of Pakistan” respectively.

National symbols of Pakistan
Lagomorphs
Pakistani culture
Monosexuality is a sexual orientation defined with attraction to one gender/sex. Monosexual groups both homosexual and heterosexual people with androsexual and gynesexual non-binary individuals. This may or may not include skoliosexuality adherently. The label is meant to include anyone that is not bisexual.

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Kajla is a breed of sheep, native to Pakistan. It is mainly bred in Sargodha and other cities such as Gujranwala, Lahore, Faisalabad. The breed is bred primarily for its wool, meat and milk. This breed can grow significantly large and bulky at a young age. They are considered as the “National Sheep of Pakistan” respectively.

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Domesticated animals
National symbols of Pakistan
Pakistani culture
The Magra sheep, also known as Bikaneri Chokhla or Chakri and formerly known as the Bikaneri, is a breed of sheep that is found in the Bikaner, Nagaur, Jaisalmer and Churu districts of Rajasthan, of modern Republic of India (Western India). The Magra sheep is known as the only lustrous carpet wool-producing breed. The most important strain of Magra has flocks with extremely white and lustrous fleece, which can only be found in a few villages around Bikaner. A breeding program aims to improve this breed through selection.

The breeders, wool traders, and industrialists in Bikaner have expressed serious concern at the rapid decline in numbers of Magra sheep. Moreover, the number of purebreds is decreasing due to cross-breeding with other breeds in the area, and consequently there is a serious need for conservation. They are considered as the “National Sheep of India” respectively.

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Domesticated animals
National symbols of India
Indian culture
Jamnapari or Jamunapari is an Indian breed of domestic goat originating in Northern India of the Gangetic Plains of India. They are considered as the “National Goat of India” respectively.

Domesticated animals
National symbols of India
Indian culture
The Somali plate is a tectonic plate at the Equator.

Its center is roughly the island of Madagascar. It includes about half of the east coast of Africa, from the Gulf of Aden in the north through the East African Rift Valley.

It is a part of the African plate that is moving eastward thanks to the rift valley. This rift valley has formed lakes and volcanoes, notably Mt. Kilimanjaro. Eventually the Somali Plate will break away from the African Plate.

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Africa
Madagascar
The Black Bengal goat is a breed of goat found throughout Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, and Odisha. This breed is usually colored black but it is also found in brown, white or grey. The Black Bengal goat is small in size but its body structure is tight. Its horns are small and legs are short. An adult male goat weights about 25 to 30 kg and female 20 to 25 kg. It is poor in milk production. It is very popular in Bangladesh because of its low demand for feed and high kid production rate. They are considered as the “National Goat of Bangladesh” respectively.

It produces high-quality meat and skin, and is preferred for the skin and high prolificacy rate.

This breed plays a very important role in reducing unemployment and poverty from Bangladesh. They can eat most vegetables, grasses and leaves, but a high amount of carrots is fatal to them.

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Domesticated animals
National symbols of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi culture
A Cashmere goat or the Pakistani Beetal Pashmina Bhakra is a type of goat that produces cashmere wool, the goat's fine, soft, downy, winter undercoat, in commercial quality and quantity. This undercoat grows as the day length shortens and is associated with an outer coat of coarse hair, which is present all the year and is called guard hair. Most common goat breeds, including dairy goats, grow this two-coated fleece. They are considered as the “National Goat of Pakistan” respectively.

The goats take their name from their origin in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

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Domesticated animals
National symbols of Pakistan
Pakistani culture
The Pakistani Sperki Donkey breed of domestic donkey originating from Pakistan. They are sometimes used as a mode of Transport in that country, and are also considered as the “National feral of Pakistan” respectively.

References 

Domesticated animals
National symbols of Pakistan
Pakistani culture
The Halari Donkey breed of domestic donkey originating from Western India. They are sometimes used as a mode of Transport in that part of the country as well as the north, and are also considered as the “National feral of India” respectively.

Domesticated animals
National symbols of India
Gujarat
Indian culture
Born in East L.A. is a 1987 American Mexican comedy movie directed by Cheech Marin (who also stars) and also starring Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriguez, Kamala Lopez, Jan-Michael Vincent, Lupe Ontiveros, Neith Hunter, Larry Blackmon. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.

Other websites
 
 
 

1987 comedy movies
American comedy movies
Mexican movies
The Boana stenocephala is a frog that lives in South America.  Scientists have only seen it in two places, both in Brazil.

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Frogs
Animals of South America
Pac-Man 256  is an endless running video game developed by Hipster Whale and 3 Sprockets and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game is part of the Pac-Man series and is inspired by the original Pac-Man game's infamous Level 256 glitch.  

The game was published for free on iOS and Android on August 20, 2015. 

A port of the game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Windows, macOS, Linux)  was released on June 21, 2016.

Gameplay 
Pac-Man moves across an endless labyrinth, collecting dots and power-ups and avoiding enemy ghosts. The game ends if Pac-Man meet a ghost or falls behind or glitch at the bottom of the maze. After eating 256 dots the player blasts that clears all on-screen enemies.

Pac-Man can use lasers, tornadoes, and clones to attack the ghosts. Also, it collects score-multiplying fruit. Additional power-ups are unlocked when you collect enough dots. 

Coins that can be obtained either on the maze or by viewing sponsored videos, which can be used to upgrade power-ups.

The game's main mode requires credits that can restore. Alternatively, the player can use Free Play. Credits can also be used to revive the player once per game.

Power-ups are unlocked over time and the player always can use the power-ups.

There are also themes which change the look of the game.

It's possible to play four-player co-operative play. In the co-operative play mode players first select their character such as a robot, the chicken from Crossy Road, the regular Pac-Man and others.  The goal is for every player to get as much as possible and contribute to the group score as much as possible.

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Lillian Eugenia Smith (December 12, 1897 – September 28, 1966) was an American writer and social critic toward the Southern United States. Smith was known mainly for her best-selling and highly controversial 1944 book Strange Fruit. Smith was a Southern liberal who would easily go against segregation and work on taking apart Jim Crow laws. This was during a time when such actions would almost always guarantee being cut off from society.

In 1944. Smith published her controversial and best-selling book Strange Fruit. The book dealt with a then-forbidden and very controversial theme: mixed race romances. The book was originally titled Jordan is So Chilly. Smith, however, changed the title for the novel to Strange Fruit. Not long after the novel was released, it was banned in Boston, Massachusetts and Detroit, Michigan under reasons of "lewdness" and profane language. The novel was also banned from being mailed in the United States Postal Service. The ban against the novel, though, was lifted by the then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt when his wife Eleanor made a request toward him.

Civil Rights activism
One of several ways Smith openly discussed the problems of segregation was while she was counseling campers. It was this period of creative control on the camp which allowed her to use it for talking about modern social issues. Those were the dangers of inequality and how to improve society in relation to women.

Death
Smith dealt with breast cancer beginning in the early 1950s. She died from the disease at age 68. Her book, The Journey, refers to her battle.

Legacy of Lillian Smith
Smith's novel Strange Fruit remains her most famous work. The book was translated under fifteen different languages.

In 1999, Smith was given an award by the Georgia Women of Achievement.

Beginning in 1968, the Lillian Smith Book Awards were given out annually. But in 2003, there was not enough money being given to the Southern Regional  Council. The awards are the Southern United States' best-known and oldest book award. They are presented in fiction and non-fiction categories.

Selected works
Strange Fruit (1944) , 
Killers of the Dream, (1949) , 
The Journey, New York: Norton,(1954) 
Now Is the Time, New York: Viking Press (1955) . 
One Hour, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (1959),  – an attack on McCarthyism in the form of a novel
Memory of a Large Christmas, New York: Norton, (1962) . 
Our Faces, Our Words, New York: W.W. Norton (1964),  – an ode to the non-violent resistance of the civil rights movement

Collections
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings, New York: Norton (1978) , 
How Am I to be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (1993) , 
A Lillian Smith Reader, Athens: The University of Georgia Press (2016) ,

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Parrish is a small town in Walker County, Alabama. About 982 people lived here during the 2010 census.

Towns in Alabama
Chirlane Irene McCray (born November 29, 1954 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American writer, editor and activist. She is married to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. McCray was described as the "closest advisor" for de Blasio. McCray is the chairwoman for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and leads ThriveNYC. She has also published poetry. McCray worked in politics as a speechwriter.

Involvement in the de Blasio administration
When de Blasio became mayor, he hired the publicist Rachel Noerdlinger as McCray's chief of staff. Noerdlinger, however, later resigned her post due to several controversies with her behavior and the behaviors of certain people around her. 

During his second month in office, de Blasio named McCray the chair of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. Beginning from then, the group was focused on immigration, mental health and youth workforce projects.

In November 2015, McCray led the launch of ThriveNYC, a plan for overhauling the city's mental health and substance abuse services. ThriveNYC promotes a change from the more traditionally more reactive model. That model can strain police, hospitals, prisons and schools, into an integrated public health approach on being aware and being identified early.

ThriveNYC drew harsh criticism over accusations of not being properly managed and accusations that the group failed to produce any records with the proper results. As of March 2019, almost $850 million in funding in McCray's program was unaccounted for. Also, the program was on track to spend just over $1 billion over almost five years. A Bronx Councilman criticized ThriveNYC. He said there was no evidence that the program was working.

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The Lady in Question is a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama movie directed by Charles Vidor and starring Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, Brian Aherne, Irene Rich, George Coulouris, Lloyd Corrigan, Evelyn Keyes, Edward Norris. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

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Julia Lorraine Hill (better known as Julia "Butterfly" Hill; born in Mount Vernon, Missouri, February 18, 1974) is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She is best known because of living in a 180-foot tall and fifteen-hundred-year old California redwood tree. She began sitting in the tree on December 10, 1997 to prevent loggers from the Pacific Lumber Company from cuttingdown the tree. Hill remained in the tree for just over two years until December 18, 1999. The tree was given the identity "Luna". In 2000, Hill became the author of her book, which was named The Legacy of Luna.

Hill began living in Jonesboro, Arkansas during her middle school attending years.

Years after tree-sit
During the years following her tree-sit, Hill became a motivational speaker (holding almost 250 events a year). She also became a best-selling author. Later, she was the co-founder for the Circle of Life Foundation. Circle of Life helped organize We the Planet, an eco-friendly music tour.

On July 16, 2002, Hill was arrested and jailed in Quito, Ecuador. Her arrest happened near the offices of Occidental Petroleum. Hill was protesting against a proposed oil pipeline that would penetrate a virgin Andean cloud forest which goes with rare birds. Hill was later removed from Ecuador.

Looking forward
During an April 2009 interview, Hill was thinking about what would come next for her:

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Marian Elaine "Mimi" Walters (née Krogius; born May 14, 1962, Pasadena, California) is an American businesswoman and politician. Under the Republican Party, she was a U.S. Representative in California's 45th congressinal district.

Before running for the office, Walters was an investment banker between 1988 and 1995. Walters was later the chairwoman under the Laguna Niguel Investment and Banking Committee. Walters did two terms under the Laguna Niguel City Council between 1996 and 2004. Walters was the mayor in 2000. She was elected mayor again later that year.

The political positions
Walters got an 89% evaluation under the American Conservative Union in 2017.

Walters went against abortion. In 2015 in her freshman term, she worked under the Select Panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.

Walters was rated "D" under the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Walters supported taking down and replacing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, with the American Health Care Act of 2017. She said passing the American Health Care Act "is a critical step" towards the goal of rescuing "this failing health care system."

As an assembly woman, Walters voted for the Proposition 8. The proposition marked same-sex marriage illegal across California.

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Edythe Evelyn Gandy (September 4, 1920 – December 23, 2007) was an American politician and lawyer. Gandy was the second female elected under a statewide office in Mississippi. That was Mississippi State Treasurer. The first female was Nellah Massey Bailey. Bailey was elected the State Tax Collector in 1947. Gandy was later elected the insurance commissioner and 26th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi.

Gandy was a member under the United States' Democratic Party. In 1947, she was elected to Mississippi House of Representatives from Forrest County. 

In 1959, Gandy was the first woman elected the Mississippi Assistant Attorney General. Later that year, she became the state treasurer.

Gandy ran twice for the Governor of Mississippi. Both times, she was defeated.

Death
Gandy was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She died after a long bout having progressive supranuclear palsy, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease.

The legacy
In 2006, the Evelyn Gandy Parkway was opened just outside of Petal in her native Forrest County.

Awards and honors
State of Alabama Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Aide-de-camp, commissioned by Alabama Governor George Wallace; 1972
State of Kentucky Kentucky Colonel, commissioned by Kentucky Governor Wendell H. Ford; 1972
Mississippi College Service of Humanity Award; 1976
Blue Mountain College Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law; 1977
Paul Harris Fellow-Rotary Club 1978;
National Mental Health Association Humanitarian Award; 1979
Mississippi State University Mississippi Woman of the Year Award; 1980
State of Mississippi Mississippian of the Year in Government; 1981
Exchange Club "Golden Deeds" Award; 1982
Mississippi College School of Law Award for Excellence in Law; 1984
Mississippi Women's Political Caucus Susan B. Anthony Award for Outstanding Service to the State of Mississippi; 1984
University of Southern Mississippi Alumni Hall of Fame;1985
Mississippi University for Women Medal of Excellence;1991
The Mississippi Bar Lifetime Achievement Award; 1994
Women's Political Network First Annual Award for Distinguished Service; 1994
Mississippi Democratic Party James O. Eastland Award; 1995
American Bar Association Margaret Brant Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; 1997
Mississippi Association of Women Lawyers Lifetime Achievement Award; 1998
Hattiesburg Women's Forum Leadership Award; 1998
Lindy Boggs Women in Public Service Award; 1998
The Mississippi Bar Chief Justice Award; 1998
The Mississippi Bar Susie Blue Buchanan Award; 2003

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1920 births
2007 deaths
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Nenad Stekić (; 7 March 1951 – 18 July 2021) was a Serbian and Yugoslav long jumper. He was best known for his European record of 8.45 metres. He participated in the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. He won two silver medals at the European Athletics Championships in 1974 and 1978.

Stekić died on 18 July 2021 in Belgrade at the age of 70.

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Tecno Spark 4 Lite, Tecno Spark 4 Air and Tecno Spark 4 are Android-based smartphones produced, released and marketed by Tecno Mobile.

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Infinix Note 7 Lite and Infinix Note 7 are Android smartphones produced, released and marketed by Infinix mobile.

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ABC (originally Vice Versa) are an English pop and new wave group. They formed in Sheffield, England in 1980.

ABC achieved ten UK and five US Top 40 hit songs between 1981 and 1990. Their first studio album was The Lexicon of Love (1982). It was a success in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the early-1980s success saw them tied to the Second British Invasion.

The band's first single, "Tears are Not Enough", made UK the Top 20 in 1981. They had three Top 10 hits in 1982. They were: "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love" and "All of My Heart".

The group's second album, Beauty Stab was released in November 1983. This second album had a substandard performance. Its first song, "That was Then but This is Now" briefly appeared in the UK Top 20. In early 1984, the album's second song, "SOS", had a Top 40 showing.

From the late 1980s until the early 2020s, the band issued a number of other albums. They include Up (1989), Abracadabra (1991) and The 80s Recovered (2015).

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Urea nitrate is a plant food-based high explosive that has been used to make bombs to attack people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and a few other terrorist acts in other places around the world such as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 7 July 2005 London bombings.  It has a destroying power like the more well-known ammonium nitrate bombs, with a speed of explosion between  and .

Urea nitrate is made in one step when  urea with nitric acid are mixed. This is an exothermic reaction.

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Cem Yılmaz (born 23 April 1973) is a Turkish actor and comedian.  

His most notable movies started in 1998 with a co-starring role in the comedy Everything's Gonna Be Great (1998), directed by Ömer Vargi, and continued with a role in Vizontele (2001), directed by Yilmaz Erdogan and Ömer Faruk Sorak. He achieved his greatest success by starring in and writing big-budget science-fiction parody G.O.R.A. (2004) and sequel to G.O.R.A. called A.R.O.G (2008) also directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, which despite spending several years in production because of financial and other technical problems became a box-office hit and described by Rekin Teksoy as a strong sign that showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences.

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