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Carmine Falcone

Carmine "The Roman" Falcone is a fictional Batman character who is the head of the Gotham Mafia. He is sometimes called Don Falcone. He has a son, Alberto Falcone who is known as the Holiday Killer. In some cases, Two-Face flipped his coin and killed Falcone. His body was robbed many times before being frozen by Mr. Freeze. His business was taken over by Sal Maroni.

He was played by Tom Wilkinson in Batman Begins and will be played by John Turturro in The Batman.

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Sal Maroni

Salvatore "The Boss" Maroni is a fictional Batman character who is head leader of the Gotham Mafia after Carmine Falcone was killed or taken to Arkham Asylum. In some cases, he was the man who made Havey Dent turn into Two-Face.

He was played by Eric Roberts in The Dark Knight.

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Hugo Strange

Professor Hugo Strange is a fictional evil scientist character who appears in the Batman comic books by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and first appeared in Detective Comics #36 (Feb 1940). He is one of the few villains to know the true identity of the Batman. He is known for creating mutants, zombies, or growth hormones. 

He was voiced by Ray Buktenica in Batman: The Animated Series. He was also voiced by Frank Gorshin (who played the Riddler) in The Batman and he is also played by BD Wong in the 2014 TV series Gotham.

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Fictional characters introduced in 1940
Leslie Thompkins

Dr. Leslie Thompkins is a fictional Batman character who took care of Bruce Wayne after his parents death. She was good friends with Thomas Wayne (Bruce's dad). She was like a mother figure to Bruce. She is one of the few people to know Batman's secret identity.

She was voiced by Diana Muldaur in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Gillian B. Loeb

Gillian B. Loeb is a fictional Batman character who was the police commissioner of Gotham City until his death in which James Gordon took over. He blames Batman for every crime in Gotham and thinks he's a criminal.

He was played by Colin McFarlane in Batman Begins and in The Dark Knight.

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Tali Tali Pompey

Tali Tali Pompey (about 1945/1947 – 16 November 2011) was an Aboriginal artist from central Australia. She had a short career as an artist, beginning only in 2002. During this time, however, her work was taken in by several major public galleries.

Life
Pompey was born on a sand dune near Finke, in the southern Northern Territory. This inspired her name;  is the word for a sandhill in languages of the Western Desert. Pompey's parents were Yankunytjatjara people from lands further south, around Kalka and Kaṉpi in South Australia. Pompey grew up in the area around Finke, and then moved south to Ernabella when she was a young woman. At the time, this was a Christian mission set up for Aboriginal people coming in from the desert. While living in Ernabella, learned art and craft at the community's craft room. She learned how to sew, make batik, dye fabrics and spin sheep's wool to make rugs.

Pompey's husband, who she married at Ernabella, was a Pitjantjatjara elder and law keeper for the country around Kaltjiti. They moved to Kaltjiti after it was set up as an outpost in the 1960s. They had 8 children, including six boys and two girls.

Pompey started painting for the community's art centre, Kaltjiti Arts, in 2002. She painted regularly and became quickly noticed by critics. In 2003, one of Pompey's paintings, titled Pita, was chosen as a finalist for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Another of her works, Para - Desert Gums, was chosen as a finalist for the competition in 2010.

In the ten years that she worked as an artist, Pompey's works became well represented in Australian collections. In 2007, she suffered a mild stroke, which affected the movement in her left hand. She recovered and then continued to paint up until her death. She died on 16 November 2011, in Alice Springs.

Artwork
Pompey's paintings depict features of the central Australian landscape, such as sand hills, flowers and trees. These are painted with a soft-focus, hazy look. Most of her paintings are minimalist in style, combining basic shapes of colour with dotted fields or lines. She was known for thick brushstrokes and a wide use of colour.

Pompey's designs were also used in a series of rugs made by Kaltjiti Arts, which combined traditional Kashmiri techniques with Australian Western Desert designs.

Pompey's work has been exhibited widely in Australia, mostly in group exhibitions. The Mossenson Galleries in Melbourne held two solo exhibitions of Pompey's work. The first was in 2005. The second was in 2012, after her death, and showed a selection of her final works.

Examples of her paintings are now held in the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Rupert Thorne

Rupert Thorne is a fictional Batman character, who is the crime boss of Batman. Many people think that he hired Joe Chill to kill Bruce Wayne's parents. He helped Mayor Hamilton Hill to be elected and re-elected and corrupting him throughout his term. Throne had hired many people to try to kill Bruce Wayne.

He was voiced by John Vernon in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Harvey Bullock (comics)

Harvey Bullock is a fictional Batman character  who is a detective who is loyal to Commissioner James Gordon, but does not trust Batman. He is a corrupt detective in one case while in another case he is a good cop.

He was voiced by Robert Costanzo in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Roland Daggett

Roland Daggett is a fictional Batman character who owns Daggett Industries a rival of Bruce Wayne. He had created Clayface the way he is and had tried to corrupt Wayne Enterprises. He uses his medicine company to try to take control over animals of the people of Gotham from mind-control.

He was voiced by Ed Asner in Batman: The Animated Series. He was played by Ben Mendelsohn as John Daggett in The Dark Knight Rises.

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Arnold Flass

Detective Arnold John Flass is a fictional Batman character who is a corrupt detective who sells drugs and gives money to drug dealers or the Gotham Mafia. He was the first police-partner of (back then) office James Gordon when Gotham was an unsafe place (before Batman). 

He was played by Mark Boone Junior in Batman Begins.

Batman characters
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Joe Chill

Joe Chill is a fictional Batman character who was the mugger who killed Bruce Wayne's parents when he was young. He was the reason why Batman became Batman from his parents death. Chill was killed during a trial.

He was played by Richard Brake in Batman Begins.

Batman characters
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Victor Zsasz

Victor Zsasz is a fictional Batman character who is a serial killer in Gotham City. He has the number of people he had killed written in tally marks on his skin. He uses a pocket knife to kill. He was killed by an anarchist Heat Wave.

He was played by Tim Booth in Batman Begins and will be played by Chris Messina in Birds of Prey (2020).

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Firefly (DC comics)

Firefly (Garfield Lynns) is a fictional Batman character who dresses up as a firefly and shoots gas or poison from a gun. He appears in comic books by DC Comics. He also uses visual effects. He uses his wings to travel to places. He has a suit that keeps the toxic fumes to go into his lungs. He was once a visual effects artist.

Michelle Veintimilla played the character in the television series Gotham. Brendan Fraser will play the main villain in the movie Batgirl, set in the DC Extended Universe.

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Michael Akins

Michael Akins is a fictional Batman character who succeeded James Gordon as commissioner of Gotham City when Gordon retired after his wife was killed by The Joker. A couple years later Gordon had again became commissioner of Gotham.

Batman characters
Clock King

The Clock King (Template Fugate) is a fictional Batman character who uses magical watches to turn back time or to go to the future. He can also freeze time. The Clock King uses anything related to time to help him do his crimes.

He was voiced by Alan Rachins in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Jor-El

Jor-El was a fictional Superman character who was the father of Superman who died in the planet of Krypton when it was destroyed. He knew his planet would be destroyed but when he told his leaders, they did not listen try or stop the destruction since they did not believe it was true. So he built a rocket and sent superman to earth so superman would not die when the planet was destroyed. Years later an artificial intelligence that Jor-el created helped his son to learn the true power he holds and helps him become Superman. He was married to Lara Lor-Van.

He was played by Marlon Brando in Superman and by Russell Crowe in Man of Steel.

Other websites
 Jor-El at Smallville Wiki
 Jor-El (Kryptonian) at Smallville Wiki

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General Zod

General Zod (full name Dru-Zod) is a fictional Superman character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character, who first appeared in Adventure Comics #283 (April 1961), was created by Robert Bernstein and initially designed by George Papp. He is a super-villain from Superman’s planet. He has the same powers and strength that he has. He was sent to Earth to kill Superman.

He was played by Terence Stamp in Superman and in Superman II. He was also played by Michael Shannon in Man of Steel and The Flash.

Total Film ranked Zod #32 on their "Top 50 Greatest Villains of All Time" list in 2007. Pop-culture website IGN.com ranked General Zod as #30 on their list of the "Top 100 Comic Book Villains", asserting that "Stamp is Zod.

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Perry White

Perry White is a fictional Superman character. He is the chief-editor of the Daily Planet. He is the boss of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. He is known for his catchphrases "Great Caesar's ghost!" and "Don't call me chief!".

He was played by Jackie Cooper in Superman. 

He was played by Lane Smith in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

He was played by Frank Langella in Superman Returns (Movie) .  

He was played by Laurence Fishburne in Man of Steel.

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Willie Lumpkin

Willie Lumpkin is a fictional Fantastic Four character. He is a mailman. He can wiggle his ears and nose. He is one of the few people to know the secrets of the Fantastic Four.

He was played by Stan Lee in Fantastic Four.

Other websites
 A Conversation between Stan Lee and Roy Thomas, includes dialogue about the Willie Lumpkin comic strip

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Division of Hunter

The Division of Hunter is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located in northern rural New South Wales. It covers much of the Hunter Valley region, including the towns of Singleton, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Cessnock and Denman. The Division was one of the original 75 divisions created for the first Federal election in 1901. The Division was named after Captain John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales.

In 2015 the Australian Electoral Commission said that the Division of Hunter would be abolished at the next election. Because of population changes, New South Wales loses a division, and a new one will be created in Western Australia. The boundaries of many NSW divisions will have to be changed, and the area covered by Hunter will be added to nearby divisions. Under AEC rules however, names of the original 1901 divisions should be kept, so the Division of Charlton will be renamed Hunter.

Members

The seat has been held by the Labor since 1910. Famous members include the first Prime Minister Edmund Barton, and Opposition Leaders Matthew Charlton and Dr H.V. Evatt. Joel Fitzgibbon, Minister for Defence, took over the seat when his father, Eric Fitgibbon  retired in 1996.

Election results
 2013 election result 
 2010 election result
 2007 election result
 2004 election result

References

Division of Hunter - Australian Electoral Commission

Other websites
 Joel Fitzgibbon's website

Hunter
New South Wales
J. Jonah Jameson

J. Jonah Jameson is a fictional Spider-Man character. He is the chief-editor of the Daily Bugle. He is the boss of Peter Parker. He thinks that Spider-Man is a bad influence. He is the father of John Jameson.

He was played by J. K. Simmons in the movies Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 and in Spider-Man: Far from Home.

Other websites
Marvel Directory entry
SpiderFan.org: J.Jonah Jameson
Samruby.com: Profile on JJJ
J Jonah Jameson on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki

Fictional characters introduced in 1963
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Aunt May

May Reilly Parker-Jameson (Aunt May) is a fictional Spider-Man character. She raises Peter Parker. She was married to Ben Parker until he was shot and killed. Aunt May does not know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. She thinks that Spider-Man is scary. Aunt May later married John Jonah Jameson, Sr. (the father of J. Jonah Jameson).

She was played by Rosemary Harris in Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and in Spider-Man 3. She was then played by Sally Field in The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In the most recent film adaption of the character, Spider-Man: Homecoming, she is played by Marisa Tomei.

Other websites
 The Women of Marvel Comic's Aunt May Page
 Aunt May's Profile at Spiderfan.org

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Olivia Wilde

Olivia Jane Wilde (born March 10, 1984 in New York City) is an American actress who has acted in many movies and television programs. She acted in movies like Alpha Dog and The Girl Next Door and in television series such as The O.C.. She is also an activist for veganism.

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Charles des Moulins

Charles  Robert Alexandre des Moulins (1798-1875) was a French botanist who also studied molluscs. In 1830, he proposed to introduce plants into aquaria so that the animals in the aquarium could breathe better. He described many species of snails, for example Pagodulina pagodula, and plants, for example Euphorbia milii. Towards the end of his life he became opposed to Darwinism.

1798 births
1875 deaths
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Laetoli

Laetoli is a site in Tanzania, dated to the PlioPleistocene. It is famous for its hominin footprints, preserved in volcanic ash. The site of the Laetoli footprints is 45 km south of Olduvai gorge. It was excavated by archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey in 1978. “The Laetoli Footprints” got a lot of attention from the public because they are convincing evidence of bipedalism in Pliocene hominins.

Dated to 3.6 million years ag,o they were the oldest known evidence of hominin bipedalism. Now older evidence has been found, such as the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils. The footprints and skeletal structure excavated at Laetoli were clear evidence that bipedalism evolved before enlarged brains in hominids. Although it is debated, it is believed the three individuals who made these footprints belonged to the species Australopithecus afarensis. Together with footprints were other hominin and animal skeletal remains and Acheulean artifacts (hand-axes).

After debate, it was decided that  Australopithecus afarensis is the species of the three hominins who made the footprints at Laetoli. This is based on the reconstruction of the foot skeleton of a female A. afrarensis hominin. Detailed footprint analysis compared both human and bipedal animals such as bears and primates. Gaits (stride pattern), and foot structure were analysed. Step length, stride length, stride width and foot angle showed that A. afarensis was more human-like in gait than ape-like.<ref>Tuttle R.H; Webb D.M., & Baksh M. 1991. Laetoli toes and Australopithecus afarensis. Human Evolution'. 6 (3) pp. 193–200.</ref>A. afarensis, then, is an obligate bipedal hominid. Its brain size was very similar to that of modern chimpanzees and gorillas. So, in one important respect it was like the genus Homo since it was bipedal. That means it was adapted to living in open woodland and savannah, not tropical rain forest. On the other hand, it had a brain about the size of an ape. This situation, where different traits of an animal evolve at different rates, is known as mosaic evolution.

 Footprints in Europe 

The oldest hominin footprints in Europe are in Britain. They are about 800,000 years to a million years old.Ashton, Nick et al 2014. Hominin footprints from early Pleistocene deposits at Happisburgh, UK. PLoS One. They were found on Happisburgh beach, East Anglia.

The archaeologists describe them as "the oldest known hominin footprint surface outside Africa at between ca. 1 million and 0.78 million years ago". The site in known for its preservation of sediments with early Pleistocene fauna and flora. Since 2005 flint tools have been found. This means humans occupied northern Europe at least 350,000 years earlier than was thought before.

 References 

 Other websites 
 Footprints to fill : flat feet and doubts about makers of the Laetoli tracks. Scientific American 2005.  
 Leakey M.D. &  Hay R.L. Pliocene footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, northern Tanzania. Nature'' 
 Footprints from the past. WebCite 

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Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Anne Griffiths (born 1968, Melbourne, Australia) is an actress who stars mostly in movies. She played the character Rhonda in Muriel's Wedding. She also acted in Hilary and Jackie. She has had a lot of other motion pictures besides these.

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Division of Wide Bay

The Division of Wide Bay is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions created for the first federal election in 1901. Wide Bay is located in south east Queensland. It includes the cities of Maryborough, Gympie, and Noosa Heads. It also covers Fraser Island, and inland areas as far west as Murgon. It is named after Wide Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in 1770.

Members

Famous members for Wide Bay include three time Prime Minister Andrew Fisher and Warren Truss, the leader of the National Party.

Election results
 2010 election results
 2007 election results
 2004 election results

References
 Division of Wide Bay (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission

Other websites
 Warren Truss's website

Wide Bay
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
1901 establishments in Australia
Nancy Marchand

Nancy Lou Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000) was an American actress. She started her career on stage in 1951. She is best known for her television roles of Margaret Pynchon in Lou Grant and Livia Soprano in The Sopranos.

Marchand was born in Buffalo, New York. She was married to character actor Paul Sparer from 1951 until his death in 1999. The couple had three children.

For a number of years before her death, Marchand had lung cancer and emphysema. She died on June 18, 2000, in Stratford, Connecticut, one day before her 72nd birthday.

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Bonnie Bartlett

Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) is an American actress. She works mostly in television. She has been in some movies. She acted in Little House on the Prairie and St. Elsewhere. She received an Emmy Award for St. Elsewhere.

Bartlett is married to actor William Daniels.

American television actors
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Ignosticism

Ignosticism is the belief that people should avoid taking a position on the existence of God until the concept of God is defined.

Ignostics claims that the word "God" is meaningless until it is defined. Until one defines "God" they might as well be saying "Fob".

This also means that until you are debating a definition of God that is able to be proven false, you might as well be debating about the word "Fob".

It is sometimes considered synonymous with theological noncognitivism.

Religion
Bléneau

Bléneau is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
INSEE

Communes in Yonne
Béon, Yonne

Béon is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
INSEE

Communes in Yonne
Bonnard, Yonne

Bonnard is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
INSEE

Communes in Yonne
Bœurs-en-Othe

Bœurs-en-Othe is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.

References
INSEE

Communes in Yonne
Leigh Taylor-Young

Leigh Taylor-Young (born January 25, 1945, Washington, D.C.) is an American actress. She has been in many movies and television programs. She played Elizabeth in Secret Admirer. She played Virginia in Jagged Edge. She also starred in the soap opera Peyton Place in the late 1960s.

American television actors
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1945 births
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Priscilla Barnes

Priscilla Barnes (born December 7, 1955 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American actress. She has been in many movies and in television programs. She starred in the sitcom Three's Company and the movies Mallrats and Licence to Kill. Some sources give 1955 as her birth date, while others say 1958.

1955 births
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Donald Glover

Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (born September 25, 1983) is an American actor, rapper, singer, songwriter, comedian, musician and record producer.

He is best known for portraying the character Troy Barnes on the comedy television series Community. He was originally a writer for the comedy series 30 Rock.

Aside from acting, Glover is also a rapper where he performs under the stage name Childish Gambino. He said that he got his stage name from the Wu-Tang Clan name generator.

Career 
From 2006 to 2009 Glover wrote for 30 Rock. In 2008 he and his co-writers were presented with the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series for his work on the third season.

In June 2008, he released the independent mixtape Sick Boi. In September 2009, he released his second mixtape Poindexter. 

In July 2010, Glover received the Rising Comedy Star award at the Just for Laughs festival and was featured in Gap's 2010 holiday advertising campaign.

He released a couple albums and mixtapes by himself before he released his first album Camp for Glassnote Records on November 15, 2011.

In 2015 he played a scientist who brings dead people back to life with disastrous consequences in The Lazarus Effect. 

In May 2018, he released a single titled "This Is America" while performing as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live. The song debuted at number one, becoming both Glover's first number one and top ten single in the United States.

In 2019, he starred as Simba in the live action remake of The Lion King.

On March 15, 2020, Glover streamed his surprise fourth album on his website Donald Glover Presents.

Television

Discography
 Sick Boi (2008)
 Poindexter (2009)
 Culdesac (2010)
 Camp (2011)
 Because the Internet (2013)
 STN MTN / Kauai (2014)

References

Other websites 
 Official website
 

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Comarca Emberá-Wounaan

Emberá-Wounaan  is an indigenous region of Panama. The population is of 9 544 habitants (2010) and the area is of 4 383,5 km²; was created in 1983.

Emberá-Wounaan has 2 districts and 5 corregimientos:

Provinces of Panama
Kunlun Mountains

Kunlun is a mountain range in China. Lots of people argue how big the mountain range is. The tallest mountain is called Kunlun Goddess and is 7,167 metres tall. There are also lots of volcanoes, one of them is the tallest in Asia. The volcano is 5,808 metres tall and last erupted in 1951.

Mountains of China
Blasphemy (band)

Blasphemy are a Canadian black and death metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia. 

The band was formed in 1984 and released their first album, Fallen Angel of Doom in 1990. The band was originally signed to Wild Rags but left because the label did not pay them as much as they promised.

Band members 

Current
Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds – Vocals
Caller of the Storms – Guitars
Deathlord of Abomination and War Apocalypse – Guitars
Three Black Hearts of Damnation and Impurity – Drums
V.K. – live session Bass

Former
Ace Gestapo Necrosleezer and Vaginal Commands – Bass
Black Priest of 7 Satanic Rituals – Guitars
The Traditional Sodomizer of the Goddess of Perversity – Guitars
Bestial Saviour of the Undead Legions – Bass and Backing Vocals

Discography

Albums
 Fallen Angel of Doom (1990)
 Gods of War (1993)

References

Other websites 
Blasphemy on MySpace
Blasphemy on Discogs

1980s Canadian music groups
1990s Canadian music groups
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Lloyd Hartman Elliott

Lloyd Hartman Elliott (May 21, 1918 – January 1, 2013) was an American educator.  He was the president of George Washington University, from 1965 to 1988. He was a teacher at Cornell University and the president of the University of Maine.

Elliot was born on May 21, 1918 in Crosby, Clay County, West Virginia. He studied at Glenville State College. 

He was married to Evelyn Elliot until her death in 2009. They had two children. Elliot died on January 1, 2013 in his home in Clay County, West Virginia from natural causes. He was 94.

References

Other websites
 Elliott, Lloyd Hartman, The George Washington University and Foggy Bottom Historical Encyclopedia

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2013 deaths
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Jiřina Jirásková

Jiřina Jirásková (February 17, 1931 – January 7, 2013) was a Czechoslovak actress who is known for her roles in Caesar and Cleopatra, Richard III, The Cherry Orchard, and The Full Monty.

Jirásková was born on February 17, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was married for two years to Jiří Pleskot until they divorced. Then she spent 27 years with Zdeněk Podskalský until her death. She had no children. Jirásková died on January 7, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic from natural causes, aged 81.

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Two Is Better Than One

"Two is Better Than One" is the second song off the studio record Love Drunk from the band Boys Like Girls. The song also features Taylor Swift. It was released in October 2009. It has sold over 1.5 million copies.

Pop songs
2009 songs
Rex Trailer

Rexford "Rex" Trailer (September 16, 1928 – January 9, 2013) was an American actor, singer, cowboy, producer, and television personality who was known for hosting his cowboy television show Boomtown.

Trailer was born on September 16, 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was raised in Fort Worth and spent most of his adult life in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He was married to Cindy Trailer from 1955 until her death in 2011. They had one child. Trailer died on January 9, 2013 in Miami, Florida from pneumonia, aged 84.

References

Other websites
Rex Trailer Official site

 - Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame

1928 births
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Sergiu Nicolaescu

Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu (; 13 April 1930 – 3 January 2013) was an Romanian director, actor, and politician who was part of the Romanian Senate from 1992 throught 2011. He was known for his movies such as Mihai Viteazul, Dacii, and in Un comisar acuză.

Nicolaescu was born on April 13, 1930 in Târgu Jiu, Romania. He studied at Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He was raised in Timișoara, Romania. Nicolaescu died on January 3, 2013 in Bucharest, Romania from cardiac arrest resulting from respiratory failure which was caused by abdomen infection-related surgical complications, aged 82.

References

Other websites

Official website

 Interview Sergiu Nicolaescu 
 Interview audio Sergiu Nicolaescu 

1930 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Deaths from respiratory failure
Deaths from surgical complications
Romanian movie actors
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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch were an American hip hop group from Boston, Massachusetts. 

The group was led by Marky Mark and also featured Ashey Ace, Scottie Gee, Hector the Booty Inspector and DJ-T. The group released their debut album Music for the People on July 23, 1991. The album featured their best known song "Good Vibrations".

The group had a video game titled Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video released by Digital Pictures but it was not successful and is considered to be one of the worst video games ever made.

The band released their second studio album You Gotta Believe on September 15, 1992. The band split up in 1993 with Marky Mark joining reggae musician Prince Ital Joe. Marky Mark released until he retired from music in 1998 and became a successful actor.

Discography

Albums
Music for the People (1991)
You Gotta Believe (1992)

References

Other websites 
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch at Allmusic

1980s American music groups
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Reg Dean

Thomas Reginald "Reg" Dean (November 4, 1902 – January 5, 2013) was a British supercentenarian who was the second-oldest person in Europe and was the last living person in Britain who was born in 1902. He was the oldest British-born man in England since Claude Choules.

Dean was born on 4 November 1902 in Tunstall, Staffordshire. He was married three times, one marriage ended in the wife's death and the other two ended in divorce. He had one son, Christopher Dean. Dean died on 5 January 2013 in London, England from natural causes, aged 110.

References

Other websites
 The secret of living 110 years? Britain's oldest man says it's all to do with a magic potion from India | Mail Online

1902 births
2013 deaths
British supercentenarians
People from Staffordshire
Aaron Swartz

Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist who helped organize the RSS. 10 from the RSS. He was arrested in January 6, 2011 and charged with illegally downloading files from JSTOR.

Early life and career
Swartz was born on November 8, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois.  Swartz left high school in the 10th grade. He studied at Stanford University. In 2008 Swartz started Watchdog.net, "the good government site with teeth". In 2009 he helped start the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. In 2010 Swartz started Demand Progress.

Death
Swartz committed suicide by hanging himself in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York City, aged 26. Speaking at his son's funeral, Robert Swartz said, "[Aaron] was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."

Swartz was given a place in the Internet Hall of Fame in June 2013.

A documentary about Swartz called The Internet's Own Boy was released in 2014.

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2013 deaths
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Mariangela Melato

Mariangela Melato (September 19, 1941 – January 11, 2013) was an Italian actress who was known for her roles in Swept Away, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, and in Policewomen.

Melato was born on September 19, 1941 in Milan, Italy. She never married. Melato died on January 11, 2013 from pancreatic cancer in Rome, Italy.

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Other websites

 Mariangela Melato official website
 
 
 Allmovie biography 

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Koto Okubo

Koto Okubo (December 24, 1897 – January 12, 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest living woman in the world, and second-oldest living person behind Jiroemon Kimura, for less than 4 weeks after Italian-born Americanwoman Dina Manfredini's death on December 17, 2012, after already being the oldest living Japanese woman since Chiyono Hasegawa's death on December 2, 2011, just twelve days after her 115th birthday. She spent her last days in a nursing home in Kawasaki with her son's company. She died of pneumonia at 12.00pm on January 12, 2013, just nineteen days after celebrating her 115th birthday, and was succeeded as the oldest living woman by Misao Okawa, also a Japanesewoman and over 10 weeks younger, and was the second-youngest of only four Japanese people who had become at least 115 years old.

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Ron Mercer

Ron Mercer (born May 18, 1976) is a former NBA basketball player for the Boston Celtics. He wore number 5 jersey for most of his career. He went to school at the University of Kentucky. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee.

Other websites 
Ron Mercer at Basketball-Reference

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Shark Tank

Shark Tank is an American television show. It is on ABC. It is based on the reality television series Dragons' Den. The began in 2009. 

In each episode, small companies and inventors bring their products to a group of investors called the "Sharks". They offer a percentage of their company or rights to their product in exchange for money or help from the investors.

Common terms used in Shark Tank:

Stake
Equity
Shares
Advisory Shares
Royalty
Money(Usually 50-500K)

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Ty Lawson

Ty Lawson (born November 3, 1987 in Clinton, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player. He plays for the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also played for the Denver Nuggets from 2009 until 2015. He went to school at the University of North Carolina.

On July 20, 2015, the Nuggets traded him along with a second round pick in the 2017 NBA draft to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Joey Dorsey, Nick Johnson, Kostas Papanikolaou, Pablo Prigioni, a first round pick in the 2016 NBA draft, and cash.

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He Pingping

He Pingping (July 13, 1988 – March 13, 2010) was a Chinese citizen who was the world's shortest man who can walk. He was only 74 centimeters long. He met with Xi Shun, Sultan Kösen, and Svetlana Pankratova.

Pingping was born on July 14, 1988 in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China. He died on March 13, 2010 from heart failure in Milan, Italy, aged 21.

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Svetlana Pankratova

Svetlana Pankratova (born April 29, 1971) is a Russian citizen who holds the record for world's longest legs on a female body 4 feet 4 inches. Her height is 6 feet 5 inches.

Pankratova was born on April 29, 1971 in Volgograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR. She studied at Virginia Commonwealth University. She now lives in London, England.

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Ronnie and Donnie Galyon

Ronnie and Donnie Galyon (October 28, 1951 – July 4, 2020) were American conjoined twins. They held the record for the oldest conjoined twins in the world. They were on a reality show The World's Oldest Coinjoined Twins.

Ronnie and Donnie Galyon were born on October 28, 1951 in Dayton, Ohio. They share organs, so they can not be separated. They almost died when they suffered a blood clot. They lived in Dayton, Ohio.

Galyon died on July 4, 2020 under hospice care in Dayton from congestive heart failure, aged 68.

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 "Galyon Twins Finally Enjoying Quiet Times. Dayton Daily News.

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William M. Daley

William Michael “Bill” Daley (born August 9, 1948) is an American lawyer and former banker. He served as the White House Chief of Staff after Rahm Emanuel successfully ran for Mayor of Chicago from 2011 through 2012. He is the son of Richard J. Daley and brother of Richard M. Daley (who's successor was Emanuel as Mayor of Chicago). He also was the United States Secretary of Commerce from 1997 through 2000.

Daley was born on August 9, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at Loyola University Chicago and at John Marshall Law School. He is married to Bernadette Keller.

Daley was also a candidate for Governor in the 2014 gubernatorial election for the Democratic primary. On September 16, 2013, Daley made a surprise announcement that he was exiting the race for Illinois Governor due to the personal issues.

After two-term mayor Rahm Emanuel announced he would not seek reelection, it was reported on September 14, 2018, that Daley would run for Mayor of Chicago. He came in third place behind Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle.

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White House Staff  at WhiteHouse.gov
Profile  at Forbes
Daley Family Tree (interactive graphic)
Obama Taps William Daley for Chief of Staff – video report by Democracy Now!
Wall Street Journal – Why Obama Chose Bill Daley

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Debra Winger

Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress who stars primarily in movies. She was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into a Jewish family. She acted in Urban Cowboy (1980), Mike's Murder and Everybody Wins. She took hiaus from acting from 1995 to 2001, and then resumed her career. She has recently acted in some independent movies.

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Pulya Taylor

Pulya Taylor (born 1931) is an Aboriginal artist from central Australia. She makes wooden objects, known in the Western Desert as . She makes these by carving the wood and then engraving patterns () into its surface with a burning wire. This technique is called pokerwork. The wood she uses is sourced locally from the area around Uluṟu, where she lives.

Taylor was born and grew up around Walytjatjata, in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory. She began working in arts and crafts at Ernabella in the late 1940s. She later moved to Amaṯa with her husband, Tony Tjamiwa. In 1983, Taylor and Tjamiwa, together with Topsy Tjulyata, Walter Pukutiwara, Peter Yates and Pat D'Arango, travelled around artist communities in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. This was to discuss the idea of setting up a new craft centre at Uluṟu, which would sell artworks from around the region to tourists. The couple moved to Muṯitjulu so that they could help set it up. Taylor was one of the first artists for Maṟuku Arts, and she is still an executive member.

Taylor is probably best known for her sculptures of animals, such as birds, numbats, snakes, the echidna, and the perentie lizard. The animals all have spiritual  legends attached to them, and each represents a different creation ancestor from the Dreamtime.

Taylor's work has been exhibited in many places around Australia. It has also been shown overseas, including at the Commonwealth Institute in London, in 2000. Examples of her work are held in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, the National Gallery of Australia, and the National Museum of Australia.

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This article includes text from the Powerhouse Museum, Australia , which has been licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Pulya Tjamiwa Taylor at Prints and Printmaking

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Rob Kardashian

Robert Arthur "Rob" Kardashian (born March 17, 1987) is an American television personality, model and socialite. His sisters are Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé Kardashian. His half siblings include Burton Jenner, Casey Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Brody Jenner and Kendall Jenner. 

He is best known for appearing on his family's reality television shows, such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Khloé & Lamar. He is also known for dating pop star Rita Ora for a short time. His mother is Kris Jenner and father was Robert Kardashian (1944-2003). Caitlyn Jenner used to be his stepfather. Kardashian competed in Dancing with the Stars with Cheryl Burke in fall 2011.

In December of 2015 it was reported that Kardashian was hospitalized after falling ill and diagnosed with diabetes.

In January 2016, E! News reported that he was dating Blac Chyna. Chyna's former partner, rapper Tyga, dated Rob's youngest half-sister, Kylie Jenner. Weeks later, Kardashian became engaged to Chyna, and they were expecting a baby due October 2016. Their daughter, Dream Renee Kardashian, was born on November 10, 2016. Dream is Kardashian's first child and Chyna's second, after having a son with Tyga.

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Alicia Bridges

Alicia Bridges (born July 15, 1953 in North Carolina) is an American singer. She was popular in the late 1970s. Her hit song I Love the Nightlife was her signature song, although Bridges had other songs.

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Batgirl

Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) is a fictional Batman character who is the female crime solving-partner for Batman. She is the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon. In some cases she is either crippled or she gets killed by the Scarecrow or by The Joker. 

She was played by Alicia Silverstone in Batman & Robin. She was voiced by Tara Strong in some animated movies such as in Batman: The Killing Joke. Leslie Grace will play the character in the 2022 DC Extended Universe movie Batgirl.

Other websites

 Canarynoir: Home of Birdwatching – Birds of Prey
 Television Obscurities - Batgirl and the Batman Phenomenon

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Joan Mondale

Joan Adams Mondale (née Adams; August 8, 1930 – February 3, 2014) was the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd Vice President of the United States, Presidential candidate, and United States Ambassador to Japan. She was the Second Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. She was an advocate for arts and has had the name 'Joan of Art'. She had studied kinds of art, such as Japanese art.

Early life and education
Mondale was born to John Maxwell Adams and Eleanor Jane Hall. She was one of the three daughters in her family. She attended schools in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

Death
On February 2, 2014, the Mondale family announced that she had entered hospice care for Alzheimer's disease. She died at the hospice from the disease in Minneapolis the following day, surrounded by members of her family.

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Dick Grayson

Dick Grayson is a comic book superhero created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger for DC Comics. As a supporting character to Batman, Dick was first introduced as Batman's crime-fighting partner Robin. As he transitioned into adulthood, Dick decided to take on the persona of Nightwing.

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Ventriloquist (comics)

The Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker) is a fictional Batman character who uses an evil wooden ventriloquist puppet Scareface the Puppet that controls him to do his evil crimes. He was born into a powerful Gotham Mafia family until his parents were assassinated. He used the ventriloquist puppet to relieve his pain.

He was voiced by George Dzundza in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Bill Finger

William "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was an American comic book writer and artist who helped create Batman, Green Lantern, and some villains along with Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson.

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Comic Book Artist #3 (Winter 1999): "The Bob Kane Letter" (September 14, 1965 open letter by Bob Kane)

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Count Vertigo

Count Werner Vertigo is a fictional Batman-Green Arrow character who is an European madman who can control the aims from guns so that no one can shot him. He also knows karate, judo, fencing, and boxing, so making him one of the hardest physical characters that Batman has to face (besides Ra's al Ghul and Bane). He is deaf and has dipolar disorder.

He was voiced by Michael York in Batman: The Animated Series.

Batman characters
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Rachel Dawes

Rachel Dawes was a fictional Batman character who is good friends with Bruce Wayne and is one of the few people who knows Batman's secret identity. She was the love life of Harvey Dent until she was killed in a mass explosion causes by The Joker.

She was played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins and the tie-in video game and by Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Dark Knight.

Other websites
 Rachel Dawes at dc. wikia

Fictional characters introduced in 2005
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Holly Robinson (comics)

Holly Robinson is a fictional Batman character who is friends with Selina Kyle. She is the crime-partner of Catwoman for bank robbery. For a short while, she became Catwoman because Selina had her first baby. In some appearances, she is a lesbian.

She was played by Juno Temple as Jen in The Dark Knight Rises.

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