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The Anglican Diocese of Calgary is part of the Anglican Church of Canada. It covers the southern part of Alberta, up to the city of Lacombe. It is part of the church's Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land. The see city is in Calgary, with the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer as the diocese's cathedral.

The diocese was started in 1888. As of 2012, the bishop is Greg Kerr-Wilson.

Religion in Canada
Alberta
1888 establishments in Canada
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada is part of the branch of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in Canada. The church started in the 1870s in Quebec. William Miller travelled to parts of Canada. In 1902, Seventh-Day Adventist churches in Canada orgainized a union conference for the country.

In 2011, the church reported a membership of 61,468.

Religion in Canada
Protestantism
1870s establishments in Canada
The Ottawa REDBLACKS are a professional Canadian football team in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The team is part of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (“CFL”). It plays its home games in TD Place Stadium.

There were two other CFL teams in Ottawa before the REDBLACKS started. The original CFL team, the Ottawa Rough Riders, folded in 1996. A second team, the Ottawa Renegades, played from 2002 to 2006. The Redblacks team was formed in 2008, but problems with the team's stadium kept the team from playing until the 2014 CFL season.

Ottawa
Sport in Ontario
Canadian football clubs
2008 establishments in Canada
The Colorado Mammoth is a professional box lacrosse team in Denver, Colorado. It plays in the West Division of National Lacrosse League. The team started in 2003. It plays its home games in the Pepsi Center.

Sports in Denver, Colorado
National Lacrosse League
2003 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Colorado
The Master of Disguise is a 2002 movie starring Dana Carvey. The movie was a success at the box office, but got bad reviews from critics. It currently holds a 1% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Bo Derek earned a Worst Supporting Actress razzie nomination. But she failed to win the award.

List of Pistachio's disguises in the movie
 Indian guy (recorder)
Gammy Num Nums
Inflatable suit
 Schoolgirl
 Turtle Guy
 Mr. Peru (Tony Montana) from Scarface
 Quint from Jaws
Grass 
 George W. Bush

Cast

 Dana Carvey as Pistachio Disguisey
 Dylan and Cole Sprouse as young Pistachio Disguisey
 Dane Morris as teenage Pistachio Disguisey
 Jennifer Esposito as Jennifer Baker
 Harold Gould as Grandfather Disguisey
 James Brolin as Fabbrizio Disguisey
 Edie McClurg as "Mama" Disguisey
 Brent Spiner as Devlin Bowman
 Michael Bailey Smith as Bald Henchman
 Austin Wolff as Barney Baker
 Kenan Thompson as Kenan
 Jay Johnston as Rex
 Maria Canals as Sophia
 Mark Devine as Trent
 Virginia Hawkins as Interview Woman
 Leland Crooke as Appraiser
 Erick Avari as Cigar Maker
 Vincent Castellanos as Art Dealer

Celebrities as themselves
 Bo Derek
 Michael Johnson
 Jessica Simpson
 Jesse Ventura

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 

2002 movies
2002 comedy movies
Happy Madison movies
The 2010 Africa Cup of Nations was the 27th Africa Cup of Nations tournament. It took place in Angola from 10 January to 31 January. Egypt won the tournament after defeating Ghana. Lastly, Nigeria got third place.

Results

Group Stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

References 

2010 in association football
Africa Cup of Nations tournaments
Sport in Angola
2010s in Africa
History of Angola
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer. She was born and raised in Adelaide. She is known for the songs "Clap Your Hands", "Wild Ones" with Flo Rida, "Titanium" with French DJ David Guetta, "Chandelier", and “Cheap Thrills”. The last three of these songs managed to reach the top ten worldwide.

Family
Sia is openly bisexual. She married Erik Anders Lang in August 2014. They announced their splitting in late 2016. In 2020, Sia revealed that she had adopted two boys who had grown out of the foster care system.

Health
She has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Works
Sia co-wrote "Diamonds" for Rihanna's album Unapologetic (2012), which topped charts worldwide. She wrote "Pretty Hurts", the first song on Beyoncé Knowles' fifth album Beyoncé, with Knowles and producer Ammo. 

In 2018, Sia voiced Ms. Tiggy-Winkle in the animation movie Peter Rabbit.

She released Music, a musical film which she co-wrote and directed, in 2021. She wrote ten songs for its soundtrack.

Album release
Sia's fifth album We Are Born was released in 2010.  Her album 1000 Forms of Fear was released in 2014.  It entered on the Billboard 200 albums chart at number one. It was her first number-one album in the U.S. 1000 Forms of Fear featured the Grammy-nominated top-ten single "Chandelier", along with "Elastic Heart".

Sia released her album This Is Acting in January 2016.  The track features the singles "Alive" (which was written with Adele, who turned down releasing the song) and "Cheap Thrills".  A remix of "Cheap Thrills" features the Jamaican reggae recording artist Sean Paul.  This version of the song reached number one in the US and Canada, number two in the UK, and the top ten in Australia.  It was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. It lost to "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots.  This Is Acting was re-released as a deluxe edition in late 2016.  It includes the Sean Paul remix of "Cheap Thrills" and a version of the song "The Greatest" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, which reached the top 20 in the US. In 2017, she released the album Everyday is Christmas.

Albums
 Healing Is Difficult (2001)
 Colour the Small One (2004)
 Some People Have Real Problems (2008)
 We Are Born (2010)
 1000 Forms of Fear (2014)
 This Is Acting (2016)
 Everyday Is Christmas (2017)
Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (2021)

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1975 births
Living people
Australian LGBT people
Australian pop singers
Australian singer-songwriters
Bisexual people
LGBT singers
Musicians from Adelaide
People with bipolar disorder
Atlantic Records artists
Top Thrill Dragster is a steel accelerator roller coaster built by Intamin at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It was the sixteenth roller coaster that was built at the park. It was the first roller coaster to be over  tall and was the tallest roller coaster in the world before its record was broken by Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure when it opened in May 2005. Top Thrill Dragster, along with Kingda Ka, are the only strata coasters in the world.

The ride

After it leaves the station, the train enters the launch area. To the left of the launch area is a "Christmas tree" light, which is similar to a Christmas tree light at a drag strip. A message is then played to riders: "Keep arms down, head back, and hold on." Once the train is ready to launch, a motor revving sound effect is played and its magnetic braking fins are lowered from the launch track. The train is then launched from the track at a speed of  in 3.8 seconds. After it reaches its top speed, it goes up at a 90 degree angle and climbs a  hill, or top hat element. Once it goes down, the track twists 270 degrees before it levels out, and then it is stopped by magnetic brakes.

Problems
Sometimes, a train does not have enough speed to go over the  hill. This is known as a rollback, and it usually happens during cool, wet, or breezy weather. It can also happen when the wind is blowing against the train. In these conditions, the launch doesn't give the train enough speed to go over the hill, which causes it to stop before reaching the top of the hill and then roll back down the hill, which is why it is called a rollback.

On extremely rare occasions, the train may stall at the top of the hill. When this happens, a mechanic takes an elevator to the top of the hill and pushes the train forward down the hill. This has only happened three times with passengers on board the train, June 24, 2005, October 25, 2008, and May 25, 2009.

References

Other websites
 Cedarpoint.com - Top Thrill Dragster Official page
 Roller Coaster Philosophy review of Top Thrill Dragster
 Video of how Top Thrill Dragster works
 Construction photos video
 Top Thrill Dragster Photo Gallery  at The Point Online

Roller coasters by name
Launched roller coasters
Roller coasters in Ohio
2003 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Ohio
La Gata, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Gata, produced in 1968 and Mexican telenovela Rosa Salvaje produced in 1987.

Maite Perroni and Daniel Arenas stars as the protagonists, with Erika Buenfil as the adult protagonist. Jorge Poza, Mónika Sánchez and first actress Laura Zapata stars as the antagonists.

Cast

Mexico broadcast 

La Gata premiered on May 5, 2014, and earned 17.7 points of rating in its 4 p.m. time slot. It was the third highest rated telenovela of the evening on Canal de las Estrellas.

Awards and nominations

References

Other website

Telenovelas by Televisa
2010s television series
2014 Mexican television series debuts
2014 television series endings
2010s disestablishments in Mexico
2014 disestablishments in North America
Çolpan İlhan (August 8, 1936, İzmir – July 25, 2014, Istanbul) was a Turkish movie and theatre actress. She was awarded the title of 'State artist of Turkey". She acted in more than 300 movies and theatre plays.

İlhan died of a heart attack at her home in Istanbul. Her funeral ceremony was scheduled for 27 July 2014.

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1936 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Disease-related deaths in Turkey
Turkish actors
People from İzmir
Central City Shopping Centre (formerly Surrey Place Mall) is a Shopping mall and office tower in the Whalley neighborhood of Surrey, British Columbia. It is the second largest mall in Surrey, behind Guildford Town Centre. It is home to the Simon Fraser University - Surrey Campus. In October 2007, the building was sold to Blackwood Partners Management Corporation of Toronto for $245.75 million.

It was awarded the Special Jury Award in 2004 by Le Marché International des Professionnels de l’Immobilier as the world's best overall new development for architecture and building innovation. The tower has appeared in many movies and television shows. It has appeared in the beginning of the movie Fantastic Four and was the home of LuthorCorp headquarters in season three of Smallville. It was also shown in the movies Firewall, Alone in the Dark, I, Robot, Catwoman, and Painkiller Jane.

References

Other websites 
Official website
Simon Fraser University - Surrey campus website
Emporis.com - Central City
SkycraperPage.com – Central City

Buildings and structures in Canada
Malls
Vancouver
Jon Robert Cavaiani (August 2, 1943 – July 29, 2014) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Cavaiani was released by the Provisional Government of Vietnam on April 27, 1973. 

Cavaiani emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1947 at age four.

Cavaiani died at the age of 70 in Stanford, California. He had myelodysplastic syndrome.

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1943 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from myelodysplastic syndrome
American military people
Disease-related deaths in the United States
People from Fresno, California
People from Hertfordshire
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
An aortic aneurysm is a general term for an enlargement (dilation) of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal size. While the cause of an aneurysm may be unknown, the result is weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location.

The aneurysm may occasionally cause pain, which is a sign of impending rupture. When rupture occurs, massive internal hemorrhage results, and, unless treated immediately, shock and death can occur within minutes.

References

Health problems
Cardiovascular system
Garry Francis McCarthy (born May 4, 1959) an American police officer. He was the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. 

McCarthy was born in The Bronx, New York.

McCarthy joined the New York City Police Department in 1981 at age 22. He rose through the ranks and became Deputy Commissioner of Operations in 2000.

In 2006, McCarthy left his position with the New York Police Department to take over the Police Department of Newark, New Jersey.

McCarthy was hired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to take over the Chicago Police Department shortly after Emanuel's election in early 2011.  On December 1, 2015, the mayor asked for McCarthy's resignation.  He said this was because  public trust in the leadership of the city's police department had been shaken and that McCarthy had become "an issue" and "a distraction." 

On March 21, 2018, McCarthy announced his candidacy for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 election. He lost the first round of the election.

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1959 births
Living people
American police officers
People from New York City
The Catalonia national football team (, ) is the national football team for the autonomous community of Catalonia. As of 15 November 2013, the head coach is Gerard López. The team is often called La Selecció ("The Selection") or just La Segadora ("The Reaper"). The team is not a member of UEFA or FIFA, so they can't be in the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Football Championship.

Catalonia had their first match on 21 February 1912 against France. Their most recent game was on December 30, 2013 against Cape Verde, in which they won 4–1.

Players of the team are full Spanish citizens who are able to play for Spain if they want to. People who have played on the team include Cesc Fàbregas, Pep Guardiola, Carles Puyol, Gerard Piqué, Xavi, Víctor Valdés, Sergio Busquets and Sergio González.

Recent games

All time record

References 

Sport in Spain
European national football teams
Catalonia
Rafał Majka (born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional cyclist. He rides for the Tinkhoff-Saxo team. He won the Polka dot jersey in the 2014 Tour de France.

Majka won his first professional victory on Stage 14 of the 2014 Tour de France. He won again on Stage 17. He did well in the other mountain stages too, and won the polka dot jersey for the best climber. He is the first Pole to win a jersey in the Tour de France.

In 2013, he competed in the Giro D'Italia for the first time. He finished 7th, eight minutes behind the winner Vincenzo Nibali. In 2014, he finished 6th.

Significant results

2008
1st Trofeo Enzo Sacchi
3rd GP Città di Monsummano
4th Trofeo S.C. Corsanico
2009
1st Firenze–Viareggio
3rd Bologna–Raticosa
4th Gran Premio Città di Empoli
5th Trofeo Nesti & Nelli
8th GP Capodarco
8th Trofeo Pedalata Elettrica
9th Trofeo S.C. Corsanico
9th Coppa Caduti
2010
2nd GP Chianti Colline d'Elsa
3rd Overall Giro delle Pesche Nettarine
3rd Bologna–Raticosa
3rd Trofeo Città di Lastra a Signa
5th Coppa Sportivi Malvesi
7th GP Brogio
9th GP Palio del Recioto
9th Firenze–Viareggio
10th Overall Karpacki Wyścig Kurierów
1st Stage 2 (ITT)
10th Trofeo Matteotti
2012
3rd Japan Cup
7th Overall Tour of Beijing
1st  Young rider classification
2013
2nd Milano–Torino
3rd Giro di Lombardia
4th Overall Tour de Pologne
1st  Points classification
7th Overall Giro d'Italia
Held  after Stages 7, 10–14, 18–19
2014
Tour de France
1st Stages 14 & 17
1st  Mountains classification
4th Overall Critérium International
1st  Young rider classification
6th Overall Giro d'Italia
Held  after Stages 8–15

References

Living people
1989 births
Polish cyclists
Tour de France winners
Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American science fiction movie directed by Roger Christian and starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker and Kelly Preston. It was adapted from the novel of the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. 

The movie got very poor reviews from movie critics. It also did poorly at the box office, because the money earned from the cinemas was less than  half of its budget. It won seven Golden Raspberry Awards.

In 2008, it was placed on a list of the ten worse movies of the past ten years. 

On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a positive rating  of only 3% from the audience.

Plot
The movie takes place in the year 3000, when Earth is a ruined wasteland ruled by the Psychlos, who are a brutal race of giant humanoid aliens who have ruled the planet for 1,000 years, and use human slave labor to strip its minerals and other resources, with a special desire for gold. The humans rebel against the aliens.

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 
 
 

English-language movies
American science fiction movies
2000 science fiction movies
2000 movies
Post-apocalyptic movies
Dystopian movies
Robert Lewandowski (; born 21 August 1988) is a Polish footballer that plays as a striker. He currently plays for Bayern Munich and is the captain of the Poland national team.

He began his career with Znicz Pruszków in 2005, then continuously moved up the Polish tiers until he made it to the first-tier club Lech Poznań in 2008.

A full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned over 100 caps and was a member of their team at Euro 2012, Euro 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup. With 60 international goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland. In 2015, he was voted Polish Sportspersonality of the Year and in 2016 he claimed fourth place at the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards.

He has been named the Polish Player of the Year a record seven times. The Guardian has ranked him as the fifth-best footballer on the planet in 2015.

Likely one of Lewandowski's most famous records is scoring 5 goals in 9 minutes (8:59). For achieving this, Robert Lewandowski was awarded 4 Guinness World Records.

Career statistics

Club

International

References 

1988 births
Living people
Polish footballers
Sportspeople from Warsaw
Jack and Jill is a 2011 American comedy movie starring Adam Sandler as a twin brother and sister. Though successful at the box office, The movie was almost universally panned by critics and became the first and so far, only movie to win every single category at the Razzies. It is considered by many to be one of the worst movies ever made.

References

Other websites 

2011 comedy movies
American comedy movies
English-language movies
Movies about dysfunctional families
Movies about twins
Movies set in Los Angeles
Thanksgiving
Radium girls were a group of female factory workers who sued their employer in 1917. 

They had worked at a factory on Orange, New Jersey. Their job was to paint the dials of watches with radium paint, so that the numbers would glow in the dark. The substance used to paint was luminous paint, which contained radium. Radium is radioactive, and causes radiation sickness. The workers used paintbrushes to draw fine lines; the brush would only draw such a line when it was wet.  The girls would put the brushes in their mouths to lick them. The women were told the paint was harmless. Over time, they ingested deadly amounts of radium paint. 

Five workers sued their employer. The case that followed made it clear that people could sue their employer, if they contract occupational diseases.

1917 in the United States
20th century in New Jersey
Cedar Point is an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It opened in 1870. It is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the United States.

References

Other websites
 Official website
 2014 park map
 Cedar Point at the Roller Coaster DataBase
 
 Cedar Point Brochures & Park Guides

Theme parks in the United States
Ohio
1870 establishments in the United States
1870s establishments in Ohio
This is a list of all cities and towns in North Carolina with more than 25,000 people. It is in order by how many people they have.

Charlotte
Raleigh
Greensboro
Durham
Winston-Salem
Fayetteville
Cary
Wilmington
High Point
Greenville
Asheville
Concord
Gastonia
Jacksonville
Chapel Hill
Rocky Mount
Burlington
Wilson
Huntersville
Kannapolis
Apex
Hickory
Goldsboro
Indian Trail
Salisbury
Monroe
Mooresville
Wake Forest
New Bern
Sanford
Matthews
Holly Springs
Thomasville
Garner
Cornelius
Asheboro
Statesville

Lists about U.S. states
Lists of settlements in the United States
Lincoln Park is a 1,208 acre (488.86 ha) park along the lakefront of Chicago, Illinois' North Side, facing Lake Michigan. It is Chicago's largest public park. It is named after Abraham Lincoln. 

It stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Ohio Street (600 N) on the south to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue.

Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the neighborhood that takes its name from the park, Lincoln Park. The park further to the north is surrounded by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors. 

To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. With 20 million visitors a year, Lincoln Park is the second most visited park in the United States.

Parks in Chicago
Hendrikus Johannes "Johan" Witteveen (12 June 1921 – 23 April 2019) was a Dutch economist, retired  politician and author. He was a member of the Senate (1958–63; 1971–73) and the House of Representatives (1963; 1965–67) for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

He was Minister of Finance (1963–65; 1967–71) and managing director of the International Monetary Fund (1973–78). He also wrote books on Universal Sufism and economics.

He was the father of Willem Witteveen.

References

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1921 births
2019 deaths
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Dutch academics
Dutch civil servants
Dutch economists
Dutch esotericists
Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Government ministers of the Netherlands
Managing Directors of the International Monetary Fund
People from Zeist
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians
Politicians from Utrecht (province)
Sufis
Writers from Utrecht (province)
Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands, GCMG, KA, QC (5 August 1926 – 11 October 2017) was a Barbadian politician. He was the Governor-General of Barbados. He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of Dame Nita Barrow, until he retired on 31 October 2011. 

Husbands died suddenly of a heart attack on 11 October 2017 at the age of 91.

On 7 July 2009 his wife Lady Ruby Husbands (née Parris) died.

References

1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Governors-General of Barbados
César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect. He was known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. 

In 1991, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects. His many awards include the 1995 AIA Gold Medal.

Perhaps his most famous work are the Petronas Twin Towers, which were for a time the world's tallest buildings. He also designed the World Financial Center complex in downtown Manhattan.

Pelli died on July 19, 2019 at his home in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 92.

References

Other website

1926 births
2019 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Argentine people
American architects
Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, along the Pajaro River. The population was  51,199 according to the 2010 census.

References

Cities in California
Santa Cruz County, California
David G. Sills (March 21, 1938 – August 23, 2011) was an American jurist. Sills served as the presiding justice for the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District, Division Three. He is a former mayor of Irvine, California. He was married to the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan.

Sills died in Irvine, California, aged 73.

References

1938 births
2011 deaths
Reagan family
American mayors
American judges
People from Peoria, Illinois
A sockpuppet is a false identity used on the Internet intended to hide a person's real identity. Another word to describe a sock puppet would be alter ego. Often, a sock puppet identity is used to promote ideas or gather intelligence anonymously. Very often, they are used by individuals on the Internet praising themselves while pretending to be someone else. Politicians have frequently been accused of using sock puppets. Straw man sockpuppets are designed to create political mischief (making fun of an opponent's position for example). It can make it appear many people hold a certain opinion, when in fact that is false. Many online communities attempt to block sockpuppets.

History 
The term "sockpuppet" was used as early as July 9, 1993. By 1996 it was in general use.  The Oxford English Dictionary at first defined it as "a person whose actions are controlled by another". In 2000 the U.S. News and World Report associated the word minion with a sock puppet. In 2006, an aide to a Republican congressman was caught posting messages on Democratic Party sites. Using a false identity the aide was trying to convince Democrats not to support a certain candidate.

Other examples 

 The history of reviewing one's own work under another name predates the Internet. Walt Whitman and Anthony Burgess both reviewed their own books under pseudonyms (false names). 

 Benjamin Franklin was known to have used many pseudonyms. Some were invented to avoid censorship. Other alter egos were to invent people to argue every side of an issue. Some of his invented names were for the purpose of satire. Others were for humor to entertain his readers. 

 US Intelligence agencies use sockpuppets to hide the identities of people collecting intelligence. The Huffington Post ran an article a software provider working with the US agencies on software to help manage multiple online identities. 

 On October 21, 2013 the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) condemned paid advocacy sockpuppeting on Wikipedia and, on October 23, specifically banned editing by the public relations firm Wiki-PR.

Meatpuppet
A meatpuppet is similar to a sockpuppet, except a person joins users to a website, such as Wikipedia, to be used with sockpuppet behaviors. Such users are actually real individuals that come to support another user. If a person uses real people to create accounts that support that person's opinions, this form of meatpuppetry is often called "astroturfing", a type of false impression of support.

References

Other websites 
 Unmask Wikipedia sock puppets by the way they write
 How to Recognize an Internet Sockpuppet 
 Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

Internet
Richard Emerson "Dick" Smith (June 26, 1922 - July 30, 2014) was an American special effects make-up artist (nicknamed "The Godfather of Make-Up"). He was known for his work on such movies as Little Big Man, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and Scanners. 

He won a 1985 Academy Award for Makeup for his work on Amadeus and received a 2012 Honorary Academy Award for his career's work.

Smith died from a long illness at the age of 92.

References

Other websites

Dick Smith's website
Dick Smith Legends of Makeup Scholarship at Cinema Makeup School 

1922 births
2014 deaths
Academy Award winning make-up artists
Make-up artists
Artists from New York
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall, FBA (19 March 1932 – 30 July 2014) was an English town planner and human geographer. He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, a Faculty of University College London. He was President of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association.

Hall died on 30 July 2014 at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 Interview in The Guardian, 2007

1932 births
2014 deaths
British educators
British geographers
Scientists from London
Urban planners
Writers from London
George Ian Kenneth "Kenny" Ireland (7 August 1945 – 31 July 2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director. He was best known to television viewers as part of Victoria Wood's "rep company" in the BBC series Victoria Wood As Seen On TV. He played Donald in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014.

Ireland died on 31 July 2014 from brain cancer, aged 68.

References

Other websites
 

1945 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Scottish movie actors
Scottish television actors
Scottish theatre directors
Idris Muhammad (; born Leo Morris; November 13, 1939 – July 29, 2014) was an American jazz drummer who recorded a lot of music with many artists including Ahmad Jamal, Grant Green, Grover Washington, Hank Crawford, Gene Ammons, and Houston Person.

Muhammad died in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was 74.

References

Other websites
 Interview in Allaboutjazz
 Artist and album page of Lipstick Records 

1939 births
2014 deaths
American jazz musicians
American drummers
Musicians from New Orleans, Louisiana
Sex and the City is an American television romantic comedy-drama television series. It was created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. It was broadcast from 1998 until 2004.

The show has 94 episodes. Throughout its six-year run, it was made by various producers, writers and directors.

The series stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon. They play four friends who live in New York City.

The series was followed by two movies, Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010) and prequel TV series The Carrie Diaries.

1998 American television series debuts
2004 American television series endings
1990s American drama television series
1990s American sitcoms
1990s comedy-drama television series
1990s romance television series
2000s American drama television series
2000s American sitcoms
2000s comedy-drama television series
2000s romance television series
American comedy-drama television series
Romantic comedy television series

Television series about friendship
Television series set in New York City
English-language television programs
Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis; born February 24, 1965) is an American actress. 

She first rose to fame for playing the role of Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place (1995-1996) and went on to achieve greater success as Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City (1998-2004). For her role on Sex and the City, she received an Emmy Award nomination in 2004. 

Her movies include Deck the Halls (2006), Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Couples Retreat (2009). and Sex and the City 2 (2010).

References

Other websites

 
 
 Barnes and Noble biography 
 Kristin Davis at Emmys.com

1965 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
Actors from Colorado
Helen Rachel Slater (born December 15, 1963) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She played Sandy Kessler in Ruthless People, and Bonnie Rayburn in City Slickers.

Other movies include Supergirl and The Secret of My Success.

Slater was born in Bethpage, New York. She is of Jewish descent.

References

Other websites 
 

1963 births
Living people
Actors from New York
American movie actors
American television actors
Jewish American actors
Singer-songwriters from New York
Jorge Alberto Jacobson (25 February 1936 – 31 July 2014) was an Argentine radio and television journalist and newscaster. He was anchor of Telefe Noticias from 1997 to 2010 and as host in AM Del Plata, Radio 10 and Radio Continental. He was of Jewish descent.

Jacobson died from a heart attack in Buenos Aires, aged 78.

References

1936 births
2014 deaths
Argentine Jews
Argentine writers
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Jewish writers
People from Buenos Aires
Argentine journalists
Ricardo César Andreu (27 July 1919 – 1 May 2012) was an Argentine actor, comedian and musician. He was known for his roles in Crosswords (2003), India pravile (2003), and in Gemini (2005).

Andreu was born in a family of actors. When he was 12 years old the tango singer José Razzano, brought him to the Broadway theatre where he met Carlos Gardel.

Andreu died in Buenos Aires from respiratory failure, aged 92.

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Luminous paint or luminescent paint is a kind of paint that gives off visible light and that glows in the dark. There are several ways this can be done:
It is possible to convert invisible UV light into visible light. Typically, blue light, and the near-blue part of UV light is changed to a bigger wavelength, such as blue-green, yellow or red. This effect is known as fluorescence. At the same intensity, tones of red or yellow appear brighter to the human eye. This kind of paint is used for high-visibility clothing, for example.

It is possible to store the energy of the light, and to emit this energy in the form of visible light later on. The effect is known as phosphorescence. Emergency exits are marked with this kind of paint.
A  radioactive substance can be used; the energy of this radioactive decay can be converted into visible light. Today, the radiation of these substances is shielded easily, since the substances used only emit alpha radiation, or low-energy beta radiation. At the beginning of the 20th century, radium isotopes were used, which led to a number of cases of radiation poisoning; one of the most prominent cases is that of the Radium girls.

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National Holiday of Quebec () is the official national holiday in the Canadian province of Quebec celebrating its national culture and language. It takes place annually on June 24th.

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Harald Fairhair (c. 850 – c. 932) was the first King of Norway. According to traditions today in Norway and Iceland, during the 12th and 13th centuries, he was king from 872 to 930. Most of what we know about him comes from several sagas, written up to three centuries after he died.

Life 

He was the son of Halvdan the Black. Harald was the first petty king to gain control of the coastal areas of Norway. After the battle of Hafrsfjord in 872 Harald became king of most of Norway. It was the last of a series of battles between Harald and other feudal states in Norway. 

Because of Skaldic poems (poems honouring heroes in Scandinavia), we know that he was successful in fighting against his opponents in Norway. Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, his two sons, became King after he died of old age. 

Fairhair may have had as many as 11-20 sons according to different Sagas. Twelve of them became Kings and were all assigned land.

Notes

References

More reading 
Viking Empires by Angelo Forte, Richard Oram and Frederik Pedersen (Cambridge University Press. June 2005)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings Peter Sawyer, Editor (Oxford University Press, September 2001)
 Jakobsson, Sverrir, "Erindringen om en mægtig personlighed : den norsk-islandske historiske tradisjon om Harald Hårfagre i et kildekristisk perspektiv]," Historisk tidsskrift, 81 (2002), 213–30. 
 Raffensperger, Christian, "Shared (Hi)Stories: Vladimir of Rus' and Harald Fairhair of Norway," The Russian Review, 68,4 (2009), 569-582.

850 births
932 deaths
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One Wall Centre, also known as the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, is a mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. From 2001 to 2008, it was Vancouver's tallest building until the Living Shangri-La was built. The tower has 25 hotel floors in the lower levels with 344 rooms and 17 condo floors in the upper levels with 74 units. There are another 389 hotel rooms that are found in the connected Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel. In 2001, the building was awarded the Emporis Skyscraper Award for Best New Skyscraper.

The building was featured in the 2006 movie X-Men: The Last Stand as the Worthington labs building that they used to give the cure to the mutants.

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Berkley Warren Bedell (March 5, 1921 – December 7, 2019) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served as representatives from 1975 to 1987. Bedell was a Democrat and supported Barack Obama in 2012. He was an active critic on Ronald Reagan during his presidency.

Bedell died in Naples, Florida on December 7, 2019 of a stroke-related problems, aged 98.

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Valyantsin Byalkevich (; 27 January 1973 – 1 August 2014), also sometimes spelled "Valiantsin Bialkevich") was a Belarusian football player. He is known for being a member of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv from 1996 to 2008 and their all-time leader in assists.

Byalkevich died on 1 August 2014, after suffering from a blood clot.

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Tavernier is a census-designated place (CDP) and Unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, on Key Largo. It is the largest island in the upper Florida Keys. Tavernier's population was 2,173 at the 2000 census.

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Patricia Barry (November 16, 1922 – October 11, 2016) was an American movie and television actress and philanthropist. She was known for her roles in Riders of the Whistling Pines, Dear Heart, Send Me No Flowers, Safe at Home!, and in Sea of Love.

Barry was nominated for an Emmy Award three times during her career. She retired in 2001.

Barry was born in Davenport, Iowa. She studied at Stephens College. Barry married Philip Barry, Jr.  in 1950. They had two children. Philip Barry died in 1998.

Barry died on October 11, 2016 at her home in Los Angeles, California from natural causes, aged 93.

Some movies she was in
 Cry Wolf (1947)
 The Man I Love (1947)
 Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)
 The Undercover Man (1949)
 The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
 The Donna Reed Show (1961)
 Dear Heart (1964)
 Kitten with a Whip (1964)
 Send Me No Flowers (1964)
 The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)
 Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
 Sea of Love (1989)

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Richard Norman Anderson (August 8, 1926 – August 31, 2017) was an American actor in movie and television. His best-known role was that of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in both television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.

Anderson died on August 31, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California of congestive heart failure, aged 91.

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 An hour long video interview with Retro Rewind covering his career  (from 2010)

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Brisbane Roar F.C. is a professional soccer club from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It competes in the A-League, under license from Football Federation Australia (FFA). Roar entered the competition as Queensland Roar FC. They won two league Premierships and three Championships. It has competed in two AFC Champions League competitions. Brisbane Roar holds the record for the longest unbeaten run at the top level of any Australian football code, with 36 league matches without defeat. Brisbane Roar are also the first and only club to win two straght A-League championships.

Honours

A-League
Premiers (2): 2010–11,  2013–14
Runners-up (1): 2011–12

A-League Finals
Champions (3): 2011, 2012, 2014

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Western Sydney Wanderers F.C. is an Australian professional soccer club from Western Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the A-League, under license from Football Federation Australia (FFA).

Honours
AFC Champions League
Champions (1): 2014

A-League
Premiers (1): 2012–13
Runners-up (1): 2013–14

A-League Finals
Runners-up (2): 2013, 2014

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Other websites
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Australian football clubs
Central Coast Mariners FC is an Australian professional soccer club from the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia (FFA).

Honours

A-League Premiership
Premiers (2): 2007–08, 2011–12
Runners-Up (2): 2010–11, 2012–13

A-League Championship
Champions (1): 2013
Runners-Up (3): 2006, 2008, 2011

'''A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup
Winners (1): 2005
Runners-Up (1): 2006

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2004 establishments in Australia
Manfred Roeder (6 February 1929 – 30 July 2014) was a German lawyer, Wehrmacht soldier, prominent Holocaust denier and convicted extreme-right activist.

Roeder was born in Berlin. He fought in World War II in 1945. In 1997, he stood as the NPD candidate (a far-right party) for Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern during the parliamentary elections, promoting himself as "Chancellor alternative 1998", but was unsuccessful.

Roeder died in Neukirchen on 30 July 2014 at the age of 85.

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The Liberal Democratic Party (abbreviation as LDP or called the Liberal Democrats) is a political party in Australia. It is a libertarian party. It was started in 2001.

The party has one senator, David Leyonhjelm, in the Australian Senate. It also also has two representatives at the local government level in New South Wales.

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The Australian Country Alliance (or ACA) is a small political party in Victoria, Australia. It was started in 2004 as an alternative to the National Party in Victoria. In 2014, the Victoria branch of the Katter's Australian Party merged with the Country Alliance.

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The Government of New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. It is based on the Westminster system.

The head of state in New Zealand is the monarch of the United Kingdom. The monarch is represented by the Governor-General. The head of government is the Prime Minister. He is also a member of the Parliament of New Zealand. The current head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand; the current Prime Minister is Jacinda Ardern. The Prime Minister is the leader of the Cabinet.

Elections are held every 3 years.

New Zealand has been a self-governing country since 1853.

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The New Zealand Parliament is the legislature of New Zealand. Currently, it has only one chamber, the House of Representatives, which has 120 members.

The parliament was created by the British parliament with the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852. It used to have an upper chamber, the New Zealand Legislative Council, but it was abolished in 1962. There have been several proposals to create a new upper chamber but none have passed into law.

Government of New Zealand
Politicians in New Zealand can belong to one of several political parties. Two of the largest parties are the Labour Party and the National Party.

List of major political parties 
The following parties have members in the New Zealand Parliament:
 ACT New Zealand
 Green Party
 Labour Party
 Māori Party
 National Party

List of minor political parties 
The following parties are registered political parties that can stand in elections but currently have no elected members of the New Zealand Parliament:
 Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
 Heartland New Zealand Party
 New Conservative
 New Zealand First
 New Zealand Outdoors Party
 ONE Party
 Social Credit Party
 Sustainable New Zealand Party
 Tea Party New Zealand
 The Opportunities Party (TOP)
 Vision NZ

New Zealand
Wong Tai Sin Temple (黃大仙祠, or literally: the Temple for Big Deity Wong) is a famous temple in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The temple sits on land of about 18,000 m². This temple holds statue of Wong Chor Ping (黃初平) - a well-known celebrity of southern-China during East Jin Dynasty's time.

Transport 
 Hong Kong MTR (港鐵) to Wong Tai Sin Station (黃大仙站). The station is on Kwun Tong Line (觀塘綫) between stops of Lok Fu (樂富站) and Diamond Hill (鑽石山站).

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Wong Tai Sin Temple
Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple 
Sik Sik Yuen

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Wong Tai Sin Temple () is a Taoist temple in Huadi County, Fangcun District, Guangzhou. It is dedicated to the Chinese deity Wong Tai Sin. It is a major tourist attraction. This temple is very famous in the Pearl River Delta.

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Springfield is a city in southwestern Ohio. At the 2010 United States Census, 60,608 people lived there. It is the county seat of Clark County.

The city was founded in 1801. It was incorporated in 1827 as a village, and as a city in 1850.

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"Break Free" is a song by American recording artist Ariana Grande. It features Russian-German musician and producer Zedd. The song is the second single from Ariana Grande's second studio album My Everything (2014). It premiered on July 2, 2014 on Total Ariana Live, which is a revival of the MTV show Total Request Live, and was released later that day.

Release
"Break Free" made its premiere during the one-day revival of the MTV show Total Request Live in a half-hour special titled Total Ariana Live on July 2, 2014. Hours after the song's premiere, it was released several hours later. It soon reached number one on the iTunes sales chart.

Music video
The music video made its premiere on YouTube on August 12, 2014. It happened an hour after its official announcement was made. It premiered on television three days later on Disney Channel during the premiere of the original movie How to Build a Better Boy.

The plot consists of Grande on a fictional planet giving up her allegiance to an evil regime and freeing a group of prisoners from their cages. She is then attacked by a giant robot and the planet's overlord. Her character succeeds in killing the villain, and the clip ends with Grande and the prisoners she rescued flying away in a spaceship. The song's producer Zedd makes an appearance.

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 Music video on Vevo
 Full lyrics of this song  at MetroLyrics

2014 songs
Michael John Lee (20 October 1978 – 1 August 2014), better known by his stage name Michael Johns, was an Australian singer-songwriter. He was best known for finishing in eighth place on the seventh season of the U.S. television series, American Idol, in 2008.

Johns was born in Perth, Western Australia. He moved to the United States in 1997. He married Stacey Vuduris in 2007.

Johns died from an ankle blood clot and cardiomyopathy on 1 August 2014 in Tustin, California. He was 35. He was later cremated and his remains were sent back to his native Australia.

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