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John Carroll O'Connor (or just Carroll O'Connor; August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor. He played Archie Bunker in All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place. He also played Major General Colt in the movie Kelly's Heroes. 

O'Connor was born in Manhattan, New York City. He died from complications of diabetes at 76.

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from New York
1924 births
2001 deaths
Deaths from diabetes
Fluvial terrace is an abandoned floodplain with a long, narrow stairs that is formed when the river flowed at a higher level than at present. Fluvial terrace consists of two parts; a tread, which is the flat surface at the upper side of fluvial terrace, and a scarp, which is the steep slope connecting the tread to the downside. Fluvial terrace is divided into Rock terrace and Gravel terrace according to structure materials, and it is also classified as Tectonic terrace and Climate terrace according to causes of formation.

Classification 

Fluvial terraces are either called erosional or depositional.

Erosional terrace 

Erosional terrace is a terrace that the tread has been formed primarily by lateral erosion. During low water level stage, fine sediment is deposited and during normal flow, coarse sediment is deposited at the end of a high water event. When the river reaches its highest level, it entrains all the channel sediment and scours the underlying bedrock before coarse detritus is deposited again on the channel floor.

Depositional terrace 
Depositional terrace is a terrace that the tread represents the surface of a valley fill. Valley filling occurs when the amount of sediment produced in a basin exceeds the amount that the river system can carry away. It is usually triggered by glacial outwash, climate change, or change in base level, slope, or load caused by rising water level. Depositional terrace is climatically controlled, whereas erosional terrace is tectonically controlled.

References 

Landforms
The Iditarod is the world’s most famous dog sled race. It is an annual race that starts on the first Saturday of March in Anchorage, Alaska and ends in Nome, Alaska.  The annual race crosses the Alaska Range and Kuskokwim Mountains range.  The contestants in the race go northwest from Anchorage. Then they turn north and go along the Bering Sea to Nome.  On even years they take the route that goes more north and on odd years they take the route that goes more south. White Mountain is the last of three rest stops for teams in the race. 

Iditarod is an endurance sport for the sled driver and the dogs.  They have to keep moving for 1,100 miles.  All the paths are cold, icy, and snowy.  12 to 16 dogs are in the race.

The current way the Iditarod is run today started in 1973.  There were also shorter races that started in 1967. The first shorter race took place in the years from 1967 - 1973.  The shorter races were held on the Iditarod trail which was an old mail route.

References 
 "Nature." Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic. Web. 12 May 2014. 
 Nightingale, Dave. "Iditarod." World Book Student. World Book, 2014. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. 
 "Race Across Alaska." Weekly Reader-3 (Vol. 74, No. 19). Feb. 25 2005: 2+. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Apr. 2014.

Winter sports
Dogs
Sports involving animals
1967 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Alaska
Gracie Gold (born August 17, 1995) is an American figure skater.

Childhood 
Gracie Gold was born on August 17, 1995 in Newton, Massachusetts. When she was four years old her family moved to Springfield, Illinois. At a skating birthday party when she was eight years old, she began to try figure skating. After that party she signed up for lessons. She was a natural; she soon was landing double axels.

Before Olympics and other competitions 
After awhile her hard work wasn't paying off. She kept getting low scores! Around a year before the Sochi, Olympics Gracie's relationship with her coach, Alex Ouriashev had completely crumbled. A little while after that Gracie switched coaches. She switched to Frank Carroll and this switch took her mother and sister Carly Gold with her to Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles. Frank Carroll’s experience with coaching other Olympians like Evan Lysacek, Michelle Kwan, Tim Goebel, Linda Fratianne and Denis Ten helped and inspired Gracie. Going to the Olympics gave a lot of stress to her. She would stress about being an Olympian and would stress out about  all of the mistakes she would make in practice. Sometimes to calm down Gracie would juggle. She had to learn how to relax while doing her triple axels and how to save a jump if she started off wrong. Gracie also had to learn how to make her performance still look good to the judges, even after a fall. Later, after all of this training Gracie was ready to compete in competitions like the Midwestern sectional, The U.S. Championships, and the U.S. International Classic. In almost all of her later competitions she did better than the firsts. This helped her earn her spot in the 2014 Sochi, Olympics.

Sochi, Olympics 
Gracie got a bronze medal from the Olympics, she got this from the team event. In the Ladies free skate, and short program she was placed fourth. Gracie is eager to return to Olympic Ice in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

References 
 Hersh, Philip. "A Brave New World for Gold." Chicago Tribune. 19 Feb. 2014: 12. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 06 May. 2014.
 "Gracie Gold." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 6 May 2014

1995 births
Living people
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
American figure skaters
People from Springfield, Missouri
Mikaela Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American skier. Her first time at the Winter Olympic Games was during the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, Russia. Before these Olympics, Mikaela had competed in other national and international competitions. 

Mikaela Shiffrin was born on March 13, 1995 in Vail, Colorado. Her father, Jeff, skied at Dartmouth College. Her mother, Eileen, came from a Massachusetts family who loved skiing. She has an older brother named Taylor who is also a skier at the University of Denver. When Mikaela was eight her family moved to New Hampshire. Her father got a job at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Shiffrin competed in her first international competition at age fifteen. Later that year she joined another international competition and got a gold medal in slalom. By the end of the season she had won four World Cup competitions as well as a slalom title. This made her the youngest person to win a World Cup title. Mikaela Shiffrin was also the youngest ever to win an Olympic gold medal in the slalom. She won one of the five gold medals won by the American Alpine team. In addition to her gold medal, Shiffrin has one gold medal from the world championships and one bronze medal from the Junior World Ski Championships. She has had eight total wins at the World Championships.

References 

1995 births
Living people
2014 Winter Olympics
American Olympic gold medalists
American skiers
Sportspeople from Colorado
The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument. It has 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other numbers of strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument. Its body is made of Paulownia wood.

History 

According to Samguksagi ( the three kingdoms history book), the first gayageum was made for King Gasil in the 6th century. This was after he observed a Chinese musical instrument. He ordered a musician named Wu Ruk to compose music for this new instrument. The original name was gayago. It was further improved by Wu Ruk.

Construction 
 
There are two types. The beobgeum gayageum is 160cm long by 30cm wide by 10cm deep. Its body is made of a single piece of paulownia wood. The resonator chamber is hollowed out of the wood body. It is used in court music.

The sanjo gayageum is about 142cm long by 23cm wide by 10cm deep. The soundboard is made of paulownia, but the sides and back are of a harder wood such as chestnut or walnut. It is used in folk music.

Technique 

The player usually sits cross-legged. The gayageum is played put on the player’s knee (usually the right knee). One hand plucks the strings to make a sound. The other hand decorates the sound by pressing, shaking, and vibrating the strings.

References

Other websites 
 Gayageum, Doosan Encyclopedia

Musical instruments
Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of Copper, a comic strip. He also wrote Amulet which is a series of graphic novels which are like comic books. He was born 1978, in Tokyo, Japan. He moved to the United States in 1982. He lives in Alhambra, California. He has a degree in film studies from the University of California. He is married to Amy Kim Ganter who is a comic book artist and illustrator.

He is a writer, editor, illustrator, art director, comic book artist, graphic novelist, producer, and animator. He’s an animator at Shaded Box which is an animation, commercial, and video game studio. Animators make movies and cartoons. 

Copper follows the quests of an intelligent dog and his owner in a world of steampunk technology and fiction. The series continues to appear on the Internet and gains him quite a few fans.

References

 Kazu Kibuishi." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Biography in Context. Web. 1 Apr. 2014
 Bolt City. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. <http://boltcity.com>

1978 births
Living people
Writers from Tokyo
José Alberto Pujols Alcántara (also known as Albert Pujols) is a star baseball player from the Dominican Republic.

Early life 
Pujols was born on January 16, 1980 in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.  When he was 16, Pujols's family moved to Missouri.  He learned English at Fort Osage High School and later studied to be an American citizen.

Baseball career 
He went to Maple Woods Community College and posted a .461 on-base average (which means he got on base 461 times out of every 1,000 at-bats).   

At age 19, Pujols was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals.  He was a very low draft pick (402nd in the 13th round of the draft).  He played his first season with one of the Cardinals' minor league teams, the Peoria Chiefs.  

After one full season with the Chiefs, Pujols got onto the Cardinals' roster after a teammate got injured.  Later two of the Cardinals' best players also got injured, and Pujols became a regular player.  In his first season with the Cardinals, he had 37 RBIs and 130 home runs, and posted a .329 on-base average.  He won the Rookie of the Year Award, earning every vote.

Awards 
In 2002, Pujols was the runner-up for the Most Valuable Player Award, and the Cardinals reached the National League Championship Series.

In 2005, the Baseball Writers of America voted Pujols the National League's Most Valuable Player.

In 2006, the Cardinals won the World Series.  Pujols was also named to the National League All-Star Team that year.  

Since 2006, Pujols has won many awards, like the Players' Choice Most Outstanding Player Award, the Players' Choice Player of the Year Award, and the National League Home Run Award.

References 
 "Pujols, Albert." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug. 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Apr. 2014.
 Petruso, A. "Albert Pujols." Newsmakers. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Biography in Context. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.

1980 births
Biography articles of living people
Los Angeles Angels players
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Grandaddy is an American indie rock band formed in California in 1992 by singer/guitarist/keyboardist Jason Lytle, bassist Kevin Garcia, and drummer Aaron Burtch.

History 
Complex Party Come Theories is their first work.  After that, they got new guitarist Jim Fairchild and keyboardist Tim Dryden. They released EP A Pretty Mess By This One Band in 1996, and their first full-length album Under The Western Freeway in 1997. “Summer Here Kids”, one of the songs in Under The Western Freeway,  earned Single of the Week honors in NME. In 2000, in Sophftware Slump, they created vintage, electronic, drift-off music. In , Concrete Dunes was released, without the band's permission. In 2003, the group released another album, Sumday, and received good reviews. In 2006, Just Like the Fambly Cat was released. 

After the album, the band broke up in 2005. They did not do Just Like the Fambly Cat tour concert. The band was utterly content and happy about the decision to end Grandaddy. In the song 'Elevate Myself', he says "I don't wanna work all night and day. On writing songs that make the young girls cry." Other members all worked in their own field, but Jim Fairchild was still working with music. He joined a guitarist in Modest Mouse tour, and he released his first solo album, Ten Readings of a Warning. In 2012, the band reunited for Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. In the same year, they played in End of the Road Festival.  No album has been released since then. 

In an interview, Jason Lytle tell why the band name got their name Grandaddy; They realized that they are too ugly to seduce young women, so they try to appeal to old women, just like Morrissey. Birds frequently appear in their album cover, because birds are beautiful and colorful, and they can sing.

Style 
Grandaddy's music has features in the late 90s lo-fi indie rock. Their music has the catchy melodies that they are able to create with the synths and distorted guitars. Most of their musics are slow and emotional. Also, they used electronics. Their lyrics are mostly vague and abstract, but inventive. The album's most enduring image is a man sipping a beer and strumming an acoustic guitar in quiet, beautiful countryside. The Sophtware Slump is generally regarded as the band's masterpiece, but other albums like Under the Western Freeway are popular, too.

References 

Indie rock bands
American rock bands
1990s American music groups
Musical groups from California
The Executive Yuan (EY; ) is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China (ROC).

Organization and structure

It is led by the Premier of the ROC. It has a Vice-Premier and eleven cabinet ministers. It also has from five to nine ministers without portfolio as its members. The vice premier, ministers, and chairpersons are chosen by the President of the ROC. This is on the recommendation of the premier.

It was started in 1948. The EY is one of the five branches of government of the ROC under their constitution.

References

Other websites
 Official website 
 Official website 

1948 establishments in Asia
Government
Jean Guttery Fritz (16 November 1915 – 14 May 2017)  was an American children's writer and historian. Her parents were Arthur Minton and Myrtle Guttery. They were missionaries. Missionaries are people who  set out on a mission to teach others about their religion.

Early life
Fritz lived in China until she was 13 years old. She learned to speak Chinese before she learned English. In 1928 the family returned to the United States. As a child of missionaries she used her writing as a “private place.” She wrote her thoughts, feelings, and emotions. She also wrote down anything she thought about. Fritz wrote it all down. She wrote about many different things. Sometimes she copied some sections of poems and books that Fritz had read. She liked to read different poets and authors.

Early career
Later in life these things she had written about turned into the books that she later wrote. On 1 November 1942 Fritz married Michael Fritz The couple later had two children. They were named David and Andrea.

Career
Fritz has a record for writing information flooded, true books about real things that happened in history. She had been amazed about what had happened during the time of the American Revolution. She learned a great deal of information on the topic. It was really interesting to her. She wrote a handful of children's books about key figures and events that happened during that time. Most books she wrote are non-fictional children's’ books. Fritz has written some novels. She wrote a novel called "Brady". She dived into her search for information. She looked at primary sources. In 1986 she won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.

After her father's death she wrote the book Homesick: My Own Story. It was about her own childhood experiences in China. After writing the book she visited China. After returning she wrote two more books about China and Mao Zedong.

Publication of Fritz' books
She started writing her books in the 1950s. Fritz knows much about happenings around the world.

Works
 Homesick: My Own Story       (Puffin, 1982 . Paperback)
 China homecoming             (Putnam, 1985 . Hardcover)
 China's Long March           (Putnam, 1988 . Hardcover) 
 The Cabin Faced West     (Puffin, 1987 . Paperback. Hardcover.)
 Brady                    (Puffin, 1988 . Paperback)
 Early Thunder            (Puffin, 1987 . Paperback.)

References

Other websites
 "Jean (Guttery) Fritz." Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Biography in Context. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.
  Hurst, Carol O. "Jean Fritz." Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. Ed. Rebecca Otis. Dec. 1998. Web. 1 Apr. 2014

1915 births
2017 deaths
American historians
American children's writers
Youth in Action is a European program that lasted from 2007 until 2013 labeled for young people in order to help make a shared European mindset where young people from different countries could enhance active citizenship as well as a shared cultural European history. It was made of 5 main actions under which several projects are done by local supporters who show their projects to their national agency.

Allowed participants were young people who are between 13 and 30 years old. Other people could be part of this too. Older youth workers who are part of European youth events and are citizens of a European Union country could be part of the program. Source

The program was given a budget of 885 million euros. Analysis of the program published in 2011 showed that in the years 2007-2009 more than 380,000 people took part in the different actions. Only 21,800 projects received a grant among 42,700 submissions.

References 
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/tools/youth-in-action_en.htm
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.php 
http://www.britishcouncil.org/youth-in-action

Youth organizations
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American activist. She is known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She went to William Frantz Elementary School, in Louisiana, USA.

Early life

Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi to Abon and Lucille Bridges. When she was 4 years old, the family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents allowed her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system.

Integration 

In a 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court made Racial segregation against the law. Ruby was chosen to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. The school board said black children could attend the first grade if they passed a test. Bridges passed a test. On her first day of school four U.S. Marshals had to go with her to school. She went straight to the principal's office. Angry crowds of parents shouted threats at her. For the next six months the marshals took her to and from her school. Ruby had to spend the entire first school year alone with one teacher, Barbara Henry. People tried to hurt her family. Her father lost his job and her grandparents were thrown off their farm in Georgia. Ruby never missed a day of school that year. The story of her going to a white school is the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting called The Problem We All Live With.

Adult life 

She finished elementary school and graduated from high school. Bridges went on to become a travel agent for American Express. Mrs. Ruby Bridges got married to Malcolm Hall and had four sons. In 1993, her brother was shot and killed in New Orleans. Ruby's family went to New Orleans to take care of his daughters.

In 1999, she wrote a children's book, "Through My Eyes", telling her story. The same year she started the Ruby Bridges Foundation. She travels and talks to children all over the country.

On 8 January 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded Ruby Bridges the Presidential Citizens Medal. She was one of 28 to receive the medal that day.

References

Other websites 

 The Ruby Bridges Foundation 
 Ruby Bridges, Webpage

American civil rights activists
Children's writers
1954 births
Presidential Citizens Medal recipients
Living people
Aztec mythology is the mythology of the Aztec civilization in Mexico. It was the basis on which they made a working and advanced society. They took some ideas from the Toltec and Mayans to create their advanced culture. Their empire lasted from the 14th century until the Spanish took over. 

The Aztecs believed the universe went through four phases. They called them suns. They believed that they lived in the fifth sun. The gods ended each sun with a huge tragedy and then created a new world. In the first sun, the world was destroyed by jaguars. In the second, the world was destroyed by a storm. In the third sun, the earth was destroyed by a fire rain. At the end of the fourth, the world was destroyed by a huge flood. They believed that the fifth sun would end with a huge earthquake.

In their religion they worshipped many gods and goddesses. They even made human sacrifices. There were three parts of the body that they considered the most powerful: the head, the heart, and the liver. 

Some gods and goddesses in Aztec mythology are Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, and Xochiquetzal.

References 
Leonard, Scott A. "Mythology." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2014. Web.  1 Apr. 2014.
Carrasco, Davíd. "Aztec." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2014. Web.  1 Apr. 2014.

Mythology
Aztec
Malagasy is an Austronesian language that is spoken in Madagascar. It is an Austronesian language. It is related to languages such as Indonesian, Javanese and Maori. That means that Malagasy is related to languages spoken in Indonesia. This is probably because immigrants from Indonesia came to Madagascar until A.D. 1400. It is the only Austronesian language spoken in Africa.

Writing 
Malagasy is written using the English alphabet, but without c, q, u, w and x. No accents or other diacritical marks are used. It was invented by David Jones as a replacement for Sorabe (a type of Arabic script). Most letters have their IPA values. However, y and i are both pronounced like /i/ and h is often silent. A few consonant digraphs (tr, dr, ts) are used.

Examples of words 
Manoa ahoana - Hello

Veloma - Goodbye

Nenibe - Grandmother

Dadabe - Grandfather

References 

 Desanker, Paul V., Peri M. Klemm, Kenneth J. Perkins, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. "Africa." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2014. Web.  1 Apr. 2014. 
 Fetter, Bruce S. "Madagascar." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2014. Web.  1 Apr. 2014.
 "Madagascar." SIRS Discoverer: Culture Facts. Sept. 16 2002: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Apr. 2014.
 "Madagascar (Archive)." SIRS Discoverer: Country Facts. 2010: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 01 Apr. 2014.
 "Consonant Digraphs." First School Years. Web. 2 June 2014. <http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/phonics/digraphs/digraphs.htm >.

Austronesian languages
Ride were a British shoegazing band from Oxford. 

Ride was formed in 1988 by Mark Gardener, Andy Bell and Laurence Colbert. The named the band 'Ride' because of the evocation of travel and after the Ride cymbal. The band was a part of the "shoegazing" scene that happened in England during the early 1990s. They broke up in 1996 because of tension in the band. After their breakup, the former members decided to work on other projects. Andy Bell would become the bassist for Oasis. 

Their debut album Nowhere was ranked #74 on Pitchfork Media's list of Top 100 Albums of the 1990s and was also added to the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The single "Vapour Trail" was ranked #145 on Pitchfork Media's list of Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.

Discography

Albums
Nowhere (1990)
Going Blank Again (1992)Carnival of Light (1994)
Tarantula (1996)

References

Other websites
Official website 

1988 establishments in England
1996 disestablishments in England
Alternative rock bands
English rock bands
People from Oxford
Pekanbaru (Jawi: ڤكنبارو) is the capital city of Riau province, Indonesia. It is the third largest city on the island of Sumatra. It has an area of 632.26 km². As of 2014 about 1,030,732 people live there. Pekanbaru has several industries. It exports palm oil, paper and crude oil. It is a very clean city. Ferry passengers from Singapore used it as a transfer point before low-cost air travel became more popular.

References 

Cities in Indonesia
1784 establishments in Asia
Establishments in Indonesia
Jeff Plewman (March 26, 1948 – May 10, 2014), better known by his stage name Nash the Slash, was a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician.  He was best known for being the founding member of the progressive rock band FM and performing with British musician Gary Numan. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played mostly the electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and other instruments.

Nash's musical trademark was his face being covered in surgical bandages. He got the name "Nash the Slash" by using the name of the main antagonist of the Laurel and Hardy silent movie Do Detectives Think? (1927).

Nash was born in Toronto, Ontario. In 1998, he revealed that he was gay at Toronto's Pride Week. He retired in 2012.

Nash died on the weekend of May 10, 2014 at his home in Toronto, aged 66. The cause of his death was a suspected heart attack.

References

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1948 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Canadian guitarists
Canadian LGBT people
Canadian rock musicians
Canadian singer-songwriters
Gay men
LGBT musicians
Rock singers
Singers from Toronto
Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014) was an American movie actress. She was known for her roles in The Best of Everything (1959), Ice Palace (1960), Desire in the Dust (1960), The Carpetbaggers (1964), First Men in the Moon (1964), Blood on the Arrow (1964), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), and The Night of the Grizzly (1966).

Hyer died in Santa Fe, New Mexico from natural causes, aged 89.

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1924 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Fort Worth, Texas
Mario Missiroli (13 March 1934 – 19 May 2014) was an Italian stage, television and movie director. He was known for his works La bella di Lodi (1963), Delitto e castigo (1983) and Family Portrait (1962). He was nominated for a Silver Ribbon for his work in Family Portrait (1962).

Missiroli died in Turin, Italy from an illness, aged 80.

References

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1934 births
2014 deaths
Italian movie directors
Television directors
People from Lombardy
José Montserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945), better known simply as José Feliciano, is a Puerto Rican virtuoso guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for many international hits, including his remake of The Doors' "Light My Fire" and the best-selling Christmas single "Feliz Navidad".

References

Other websites

 Jose Feliciano official website
 José Feliciano singing "Che Sarà" in Italian at the San Remo Festival in 1971

Emmy Award winners
1945 births
Living people
Puerto Rican singers
Blind people
Grammy Award winners
Latin Grammy Award winners
The West Coast Conference (WCC) is a college sports conference in the western United States that sponsors many sports, but has never sponsored football. Only two of its current members have football teams.

The WCC began in 1952 when five schools in and around the San Francisco Bay Area formed the California Basketball Association. The league was then called the West Coast Athletic Conference from 1956 to 1989.

All 10 of its current members were founded by churches; seven are Catholic schools. Only Pacific, which was founded by Methodists, no longer receives money from a church.

Members 
The WCC has 10 members. All are located in West Coast states except BYU.

Associate members
The WCC has one "associate member" that plays one sport in the conference.

References

 
College athletics conferences
1952 establishments in the United States
Rye is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Rye was a town before it became a city in 1942. The population was 15,720 at the 2010 census.

References

Cities in New York
Salustiano Sanchez Blazquez (8 June 1901 – 13 September 2013) was a Spanish-born American supercentenarian.

Born in El Tejado de Bejar, Spain, on 8 June 1901 (he claimed to be born in 1902), Sanchez emigrated to Cuba at age 17 and worked as a farmer, before emigrating in 1920 to the United States where he lived until his death and worked as a coal miner. In 1934, he married Pearl Emilie Chiasera and had the son John and the daughter Irene, whom he lived with after his wife's death in 1988 to 2007 when he moved to a retirement home in Grand Island, New York, and lived there until his death at age 112 years, 97 days, and believed the secret to his long life to be one banana and one tablet of Anacin a day. At age 112, he had 7 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren.

Sanchez became the oldest living man in the United States after Shelby Harris' death on 25 July 2012 and later even the oldest living man in the world after 116-year-old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura's death on 11 June 2013 (Kimura died on 12 June 2.08am and at that time the date in New York was still 11 June). However, it was not officially confirmed before 25 July 2013, and before that the oldest living man was believed to be Canadian-born Americanman James McCoubrey (who died just 10 weeks before Sanchez and would have turned 112 on the same day as Sanchez's death) followed by Jokichi Ikarashi (who died just 18 days after McCoubrey and was the oldest living Japanese man) and Italianman Arturo Licata, who however became the oldest living man on 13 September 2013 when Sanchez died of natural causes, and the oldest living American man became Polish-born Alexander Imich.

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1901 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
People from Castile and León
People from New York
Spanish supercentenarians
American supercentenarians
Ajay Devgan (born 2 April 1969) is an Indian actor and movie producer.

Early life 
Ajay Devgan was born in Amritsar, India on April 2, 1969. He started his career in 1992 film Phool Aur Kaante. He is a Punjabi and completed his graduation in Mumbai, India. He is married to Kajol and has two children.

References 

1969 births
Living people
Indian actors
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community. It is found mainly in the U.S. state of California. Also in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. It is caused by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire. 

A chaparral has summer drought-tolerant plants. They have hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves. Chaparral covers 5% of the state of California. Of the associated Mediterranean shrubland, it covers an additional 3.5%. The name comes from the Spanish word chaparro, referring to scrub oaks.

There are four other chaparral regions in the world. 
parts of the Mediterranean coast, known as maquis
Central Chile, known as matorral
South African Cape, known as fynbos
South Australia, known as kwongan

Chaparral does not often have fires. These are usually at intervals from 10–15 years to over a hundred years. Mature chaparral often has dense thickets. They are highly flammable.

References 

Ecology
Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American actress. Her earlier name was Daisy Juliette Baker. She acted in seven Marx Brothers movies. She played Mrs. Foster in What a Way to Go! Dumont played Harriet in Stop, You're Killing Me.

Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died of a heart attack, age eighty-two, in Hollywood, California.

References

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from New York
1882 births
1965 deaths
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies was the first King of the united Kingdom of the Two Siclies. The Kingdom was created on 12 December 1816 having united the separate crown of Naples and Sicily. He was a member of the House of Bourbon. Before that he had been, since 1759, Ferdinando IV of the Kingdom of Naples and Ferdinando III of the Kingdom of Sicily. He was deposed twice from the throne of Naples. The first time by the French revolutionary armies in 1799 and again by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806.

Titles and styles
12 January 1751 – 10 August 1759 His Royal Highness Prince Ferdinando of Naples and Sicily, Infante of Spain
10 August 1759 – 12 December 1816 His Majesty The King of Naples and Sicily
23 January 1799 – 13 June 1799 Titular King of Naples
30 March 1806 – 22 May 1815 Titular King of Naples
12 December 1816 – 4 January 1825 His Majesty The King of the Two Sicilies

Family 
In 1768 he married Maria Carolina of Austria. They had the following children:
 Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (1772–1807). She married Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.
 Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773–1802).
 Carlo, Duke of Calabria (1775–1778).
 Maria Anna of Naples and Sicily ("Mariana", 1775–1780).
 Francis I of the Two Sicilies (1777–1830), King of the Two Sicilies.
 Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily ("Mimi", 1779–1849), later Queen of Sardinia.
 Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily, ("Carlo", 1780–1789).
 Prince Giuseppe of Naples and Sicily (1781–1783).
 Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily ("Amélie", 1782–1866), Queen of the French.
 Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily ("Toto", 1784–1806). 
 Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily ("Clotilda", (1786–1792).
 Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily ("Enrichetta", 1787–1792).
 Gennaro (1788–1789).
 Leopold, Prince of Salerno ("Leopoldo", 1790–1851).
 Prince Alberto of Naples and Sicily ("Alberto", 1792–1798).
 Maria Isabelle of Naples and Sicily ("Isabella", 1793–1801).

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1751 births
1825 deaths
Bourbons of Naples and Sicily
Reuven Rivlin (born 9 September 1939) was the 10th President of Israel from 2014 until 2021.

Rivlin was born in Jerusalem when it was part of British Mandatory Palestine. Before entering politics he was a lawyer. He was elected to the Jerusalem City Council in 1978. Rivlin worked for El Al Airlines serving on the executive council from 1981 to 1986. He was a member of the Knesset, the parliament of Israel, for many years, elected first in 1988. He was also speaker of the Knesset and minister of Communications of Israel. On 10th of June 2014 he won elections for the post of President of Israel. 

Rivlin was married to Nechama Rivlin and has four children.

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1939 births
Living people
Former Members of Knesset
Government ministers of Israel
Israeli lawyers
Jewish Israeli politicians
Jewish lawyers
Knesset speakers
Likud politicians
People from Jerusalem
Presidents of Israel
Marjane Satrapi is a writer and artist. She was born on November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She lives in Paris, France. Satrapi writes comics about her life. She draws the pictures herself. She also draws pictures for other children’s books.

Education and Early Life 
She was the only child of Marxist parents.

Satrapi’s parents were educated, and taught Satrapi to think for herself. She went to high school at Lycee Francais in Tehran, Iran. When she was 14, Satrapi’s parents sent her to Vienna, Austria to learn in a freer country. When Satrapi was 19, she moved back to Iran to study decorative arts at the Tehran School of Fine Arts. The change from the western world to Iran was difficult for her. In 1994, Satrapi moved to Strasbourg, France to study art for 3 years. She now lives in Paris, France.

Beliefs 
Satrapi thinks countries should not spend money on weapons. She thinks they should spend money for kids to go to school in different countries. She thinks that studying in different countries helps people understand each other better.

In RandomHouse.com, Satrapi said, "I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad [other countries]. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though."

Writing and the War 
Iran's Islamic Revolution against the Shah, the country’s dictator, started in 1979.  Satrapi’s uncle was put in prison by the Shah, then murdered by people who supported the war.

Satrapi wrote a popular series of comics called Persepolis. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, tells about Satrapi's life, the discrimination she faced, and moving to Europe.  She later wrote a sequel to Persepolis that talked about how she was treated badly for years when she went back to Iran.

Satrapi’s most famous book is called Persepolis.

Persepolis is the old Persian capital. The comic book is about Satrapi’s childhood in Iran during the war. This time was when country wanted to end the Shah’s cruel rule. She has written three comic books relating to her life. The first and second are about her childhood. The third is about her study in different countries. She is planning to write a fourth book about her return to Iran.

Awards 
- Prix Alph'art Coup de Coeur for beginning comic artist award for Persepolis-- 2001

- Prix du Lion for Persepolis-- 2001

- Prix France Info for best news comic strip for Persepolis-- 2002

- Prix Alph'art for best script for Persepolis Tome 2—2002

- Fernando Buesa Blanco peace prize for Persepolis—2003

- Prix d'Angouleme for best book of the year for Chicken and Plums—2005

References

 Trickey, Erick. "Marjane Satrapi." Newsmakers. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Biography in Context. Web. 12 May 2014.
 "Marjane Satrapi." Random House. Web. 15 May 2014. <http://www.randomhouse.com/author/43801/marjane-satrapi?sort=best_13wk_3month>.
 "Marjane Satrapi." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 55. Detroit: Gale, 2004.Biography in Context. Web. 12 May 2014.

1969 births
Iranian writers
Living people
Wilma Rudolph (born June 23, 1940) is an American athlete. She lived in Clarksville, Tennessee along with 11 siblings. She was the 5th. When she was 4 years old, she had polio. She survived it, but lost the use of her left leg. Her cousins and siblings helped her massage the leg. When she turned 11 she visited the doctor's office again and was able to walk.

In high school, Rudolph became the star basketball player for her team. She also did track for 4 years and never lost a race. When she was 16 years old, she signed up for the Summer Olympics in track. She won the bronze medal in the track events. She was one of the first black women to win anything major like that. She decided to not to compete in the 1964 Olympics. She retired and became a school teacher and an athletic coach. She was a mother of 4 kids and divorced two husbands.

References 
 "Wilma Rudolph." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1993.Biography in Context. Web. 12 May 2014.
 Nadasen, Premilla. "Wilma Rudolph." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Gale, 2006. Biography in Context. Web. 12 May 2014.

1940 births
Living people
American track and field athletes
Grazing Goat Pictures is an Indian company that makes movies. It was started in 2012. The company was founded by actor Akshay Kumar, his wife Twinkle Khanna and Ashvini Yardi.

History
After creating Hari Om Entertainment, Kumar want to make a production company lead by Ashvini Yardi. The company is based in Juhu, Mumbai.
Kumar and Yardi produced their first movie OMG - Oh My God! with Paresh Rawal's Playtime Creationn. It did not do well when released. As people started talking about it, it did better and became very popular.

Debut in Marathi Cinema
Twinkle Khanna and Yardi produced the first Marathi movie, 72 Miles.

Movies
 Singh Is Bling (2015)
 Fugly (2014)
 Bhaji in Problem (2013)
 72 Miles (2013)
 OMG - Oh My God! (2012)

References

Movie studios
Companies of India
2012 establishments in India
Akshay Kumar (born 9 September 1967) is an Indian film actor and producer. He is based in Mumbai. Kumar is known for his hit movies. Kumar recently dubbed for the Hindi version of the movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Kumar was the voice actor for the role of Optimus Prime. This is one of the key characters in the film. He did the dubbing role as a gift for his son, Aarav. Optimus Prime waus Aarav's favorite character so Kumar did it for free. Kumar was the third highest paid actor in Bollywood in 2015. He has established himself as a leading contemporary actor in the Hindi cinema. He is also best known for his roles in the Housefull film series.

As a production head
In 2009, Kumar started the Hari Om Entertainment production company. In 2012, Kumar launched his next production house Grazing Goat Pictures. Their first production, OMG - Oh My God!, had a slow opening, but because of word of mouth it picked up and then was declared a super hit.

Shows he starred in to do the Hindi dubbing of characters
Ninjago - Cole (Black Ninja)
Oggy and the Cockroaches - Dee Dee (who is known as Motu in the Hindi dub of this show)

References

Other websites

 
 

1967 births
Living people
Actors from Mumbai
Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong Kong action comedy movie. It was directed, co-written and co-produced by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The other producers were Chui Po-chu and Jeffrey Lau, and the screenplay was co-written with Huo Xin, Chan Man-keung, and Tsang Kan-cheung. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan, Eva Huang and Bruce Leung co-starred in prominent roles.

Plot
A failed member of Axe Gang wants to make big in crime world but consequences force him to go on right path

Cast
 Stephen Chow
 Bruce Leung
 Danny Chan
 Yuen Wah
 Yuen Qiu
 Eva Huang

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2004 comedy movies
2000s action movies
Hong Kong movies
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense (also known as ヴィジランテ８〜セカンドバトル〜 (Vigilante 8 2nd Battle) in Japan) is a vehicular combat video game published by Activision and developed by Luxoflux. It is the sequel to the 1998 video game Vigilante 8. It was released for the PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Nintendo 64. A game was planned for the Game Boy Advance but was cancelled.

It was released for the PlayStation on October 31, 1999 in North America, December 31, 1999 in Europe and on February 24, 2000 in Japan. It was also released for the Dreamcast on November 30, 1999 in North America, on February 18, 2000 in Europe and on March 23, 2000 in Japan, as well as the Nintendo 64 on February 2, 2000 in North America and on February 25, 2000 in Europe.

During the games development,  there were pictures that were published which showed Molo's school bus as a ten-wheeler. It was redesigned because of the fallout from the Columbine massacre.

Reception
IGN rated the game a 8.0 out of 10 for the Nintendo 64 and a 8.2 out of 10 for the PlayStation.

GameSpot gave the game a 7.7 out of 10 for the Nintendo 64 and 7.5 out of 10 for the PlayStation.

References

Other websites

1999 video games
Activision video games
Cancelled video games
Dreamcast games
Nintendo 64 games
PlayStation games
Vehicular combat games
Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat video game published by  Sony Computer Entertainment with product development by Sony Interactive Studios America and regular development by SingleTrac. It is the first game in the Twisted Metal series. It was released for the PlayStation and on the PlayStation Network.

It was released on November 5, 1995 in North America, January 16, 1996 in Europe, and on November 15, 1996 in Japan. It was also released on February 23, 2011 on the PlayStation Network. In the game, there is a competition where opponents face each other with different kinds of modified vehicles. The object of the game is to destroy their vehicles and be the last one standing. The winner meets Calypso, a mysterious man who grants them a wish.

Reception
IGN rated the game a 7 out of 10 and said ""The game's only downfall is that it's just too short. The game can be completed in just a couple of hours. However, the two-player split-screen combat mode more than makes up for the one-player mode's lack of length."" The game was successful and sold over 1.08 million copies in the United States alone.

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Other websites

1995 video games
PlayStation games
Vehicular combat games
Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels. She was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. She was raised with a sister and three brothers.

Mid life 
As an adult, she was a teacher, and married, had two children: Rob and Karin. She divorced, and married again. Creech’s first two novels were for adults. After her father’s death she wrote Absolutely Normal Chaos, her first book for kids. Her fourth book, Walk Two Moons, won the Newbery Medal. Chasing Redbird (1997) was shortlisted for the Whitbread award. A few years later, she won another Newbery award for her book, Love That Dog Still (1995). These are only a few of her accomplishments. Creech lives in Maine.

Education 
She attended Hiram College for undergraduates. She later attended George Mason University for her masters degree.

Themes 
Sharon Creech's books are mostly about family relationships. Often, they have a teenage girl as the main character. She experiences growth or learns an important lesson. A lot of Creech’s book are based on actual experiences that happened in her life.

Beginning of writing 
In the earlier years of her life she spent most of her time teaching and being with her family. Unfortunately in 1980, her father had a stroke, he was left paralyzed and mute. After her father’s death in 1986 Creech started her first novel. “When I finished it," she continued, "I wrote another,and another, and another. The words just rushed out."

Books 
 1990: Absolutely Normal Chaos
 1994: Walk Two Moons 
 1996: Pleasing the Ghost 
 1997: Chasing Redbird
 1998: Bloomability
 2000: The Wanderer
 2000: Fishing in the Air
 2001: A Fine, Fine School
 2001: Love That Dog
 2002: Ruby Holler
 2003: Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

References 

 Creech, Sharon. "Sharon Creech." Sharon Creech. HarperCollins, 2012. Web. 13 May 2014.
 "Sharon Creech." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 52. Detroit: Gale, 2003.Biography in Context. Web. 13 May 2014.
 "Sharon Creech." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 May 2014.
 Carlson, Ann D. "Creech, Sharon." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2015. Web.  23 Mar. 2015. 
 "Sharon Creech." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 52. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. 

1945 births
Living people
American children's writers
American novelists
Writers from Cleveland, Ohio
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (November 3, 1912 – August 16, 2006) was the President of Paraguay  from 1954 until 1989. His time as president is seen by most as a dictatorship. Stroessner began is career in 1952 at the age of sixteen when he joined the Paraguayan army.  In 1951, he was a commander-in-chief of the Paraguayan army. He led a revolt to overthrow president Federico Chavez. Since he was the only canidate, he was elected president. During his rule, Alfredo Stroessner helped with economy of the country, but anyone who criticized him was put in prison. He was a controversial leader. He has been accused of allowing murder or torture of opponents or criticizers of his government. Other crimes which he has been said to support include abduction, pedophilia and rape of children. He was in power until 1989 when he was overthrown. He died on August 16, 2006 in Brasilia while in exile.

References 

 "Stroessner, Alfredo." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug. 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 05 May. 2014.
 Wilkie, Richard W. "Stroessner, Alfredo." World Book Student. World Book, 2014. Web. 5 May 2014. 

1912 births
2006 deaths
Former dictators
Generals
Presidents of Paraguay
South American military people