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Kingdom Hearts III

Kingdom Hearts III is a action role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix. It is the eighth game for the Kingdom Hearts video game series. It was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Kingdom Hearts III is the first game in the series to be released on a Microsoft platform as it was only released on both Sony and Nintendo systems.

Development
After years of rumors and speculation, the game was confirmed to be in development at E3 2013. Director Tetsuya Nomura said that the game will finish the "Xehanort Saga" but that it would not be the final game in the series.

In a June 2013 interview with Famitsu, Nomura discussed the visuals that were seen in the teaser trailer. He said that they tried to remember that the "Kingdom Hearts characters were originally paintbrush art from Disney productions, a texture that was one of our original aims, and that it was time to return to that. So [chief creative director Takeshi] Nozue went through a series of tests, and the results are the visuals that we refer to in the team as the Kingdom Shader. It may look like a pretty drastic change, but I see it as a rich evolution of everything we've shown you up to now." In September 2013, producer Shinji Hashimoto said that since both Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy XV are being directed by Nomura, there would be a big gap between the release of the two games, "as [they] want each game to be perfect in terms of quality." Hashimoto repeated Nomura's statements about the game's announcement at E3 2013, and said that "the company thought it was about time it addressed speculation about the long-awaited conclusion to the trilogy." In October 2013, Teruzane Utada, the father of singer Hikaru Utada, said that Hikaru would once again be involved in the theme song, as she did with Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. He later stated that it is still undecided on their involvement. In January 2014, actor Haley Joel Osment, the English voice of Sora in the series, said that he was in talks with the development team after the announcement and said that since dialogue was one of the last parts of the process, he believed he would not begin recording until mid-2014 at the earliest.

Controversy 
After the announcement of SQUARE ENIX that there would be no French Spanish and German voice (present in the 1 and 2) European fans launched the movement # EUDubbingForKH3 which aims to change his opinion SE and he includes (real) German and Spanish French voice through petition, letter etc.

References

Other websites
Official website 
Official Europe & North American website

2019 video games
Disney video games
Kingdom Hearts series
PlayStation 4 games
Xbox One games
Watchman

Watchmen were groups of men who discouraged crime and enforced the law. They were usually authorised by the state or government. Watchmen have existed in many places around the world throughout history. Today, the job of law enforcement has generally been taken over by organised police.

An early reference to a watch can be found in the Bible. Ezekiel says that it was the watchmen's duty to sound the alarm to warn the people that they were under attack (Ezekiel 33:1-6). The Roman Empire turned the role of a watchman into a profession. The Vigiles was the city watch in Rome. It was the city's police force.

In England, the Ordinance of 1233 required the appointment of watchmen. The Assize of Arms of 1252 and the Statute of Winchester of 1285 are considered among the earliest examples of a police in England. The Assize of Arms required that constables be appointed to call men to fight when the town was under attack. It also required them to stop disturbances of the peace, and to take criminals to the sheriff. By 1415, a watch was appointed to the Parliament of England. King Henry VII appointed a watch for his house, the Tower of London, in 1485. These watchmen became known as the Beefeaters.

References

More reading
David Barrie, Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865, Willan Publishing, 2008, . Chapter "watching and wardning", pp. 34–41

Law enforcement occupations
SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne  is a vehicle built to travel to the lower limits of outer space. It completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and has not flown since winning. It was carried high into the air by a specially designed plane named "White Knight". Both vehicles were built and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures. This was a joint project between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's flying machine company. Allen provided the money to build and fly SpaceShipOne, about US$25 million.

Rutan has said that ideas about the project began as early as 1994. The full-time work towards the 2004 accomplishments took about three years. The vehicle first flew faster than the speed of sound on December 17, 2003. This date was also the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' historic first powered flight. SpaceShipOne's first official spaceflight, was piloted by Mike Melvill. A few days before that flight, the Mojave Air and Space Port was the first commercial spaceport licensed in the United States. A few hours after that flight, Melvill became the first licensed U.S. commercial astronaut. The overall project name was "Tier One". It has evolved into Tier 1b with a goal of taking a new, but similar ship's first paying passengers into space within the next few years.

Individual aircraft
Spacecraft
Watch Dogs

Watch Dogs (written as Watch_Dogs) is an action-adventure video game that was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. The game was released on 27 May 2014. The game is available on Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Wii U.

It was revealed during Ubisoft's press conference at E3 2012. They announced that PC is the lead platform for the game.

It was chosen as Best PC Game, Biggest Surprise and Best New Franchise of E3 2012 by IGN. It also won People's Choice Most Exciting Game of E3 2013 by GameSpot.

The game tells the story of Aiden Pearce, a hacker who searches the city of Chicago for information in order to find out who hired the men who killed his six-year-old niece, Lena, when they tried and failed to kill Aiden.

References

Other websites
Official website

2014 video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
Wii U games
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox One games
Ubisoft games
Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Leonardo is one of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the leader of the team of brothers and uses a sword. He is named after Leonardo da Vinci.

Portrayals
Leonardo has been played by James Arnold Taylor and Johnny Knoxville in movies based on TMNT.

Fictional characters introduced in 1984
Fictional turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters
Injustice (franchise) guest characters
Tony Hawk's (series) guest characters
Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Michelangelo is one of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the comic relief of the group of brothers and uses nunchakus.

Portrayals
Mikey has been played by Mikey Kelley in movies based on TMNT.

Fictional characters introduced in 1984
Fictional turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters
Injustice (franchise) guest characters
Tony Hawk's (series) guest characters
Division of Mackellar

The Division of Mackellar is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It is named after Dorothea Mackellar, a 20th-century Australian poet. The division was set up in 1949.

It covers the northern beach suburbs of Sydney, including Narrabeen, Beacon Hill, Newport, Palm Beach and Terrey Hills.

Members

William Wentworth IV, was the first Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and the great-grandson of politician and explorer William Wentworth, one of the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains. Bronwyn Bishop was the Speaker of the Australian House of Representativesfrom 2013 to 2015.

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

References

Other websites
 Division of Mackellar - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of Australia
New South Wales
1949 establishments in Australia
Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Donatello is one of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the brains of the group of brothers and uses a bo staff. He is named after Donatello, one of the Renaissance masters.

Portrayals
Donnie has been played by Leif Tilden in movies based on TMNT.

Fictional characters introduced in 1984
Fictional turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters
Injustice (franchise) guest characters
Tony Hawk's (series) guest characters
Division of McMahon

The Division of McMahon is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It was set up in 2010 and is named for Australian Prime Minister Sir William McMahon. It replaced the division of Prospect.

The division covers the western suburbs of Sydney. It includes the suburbs of Abbotsbury, Blacktown (part), Bossley Park, Canley Vale, Cecil Park, Eastern Creek, Edensor Park, Erskine Park, Fairfield, Fairfield Heights, Fairfield West, Greenfield Park, Greystanes, Horsley Park, Kemps Creek, Merrylands (part), Merrylands West, Mount Vernon, Orchard Hills, Pemulwuy, Prairiewood, Prospect, Smithfield, South Wentworthville (part), St Clair and Wetherill Park.

Members

Election results
 2010 election results
 2010 election results

References

Other websites
 Division of McMahon - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of Australia
New South Wales
2009 establishments in Australia
Airbus A350 XWB

The Airbus A350 XWB (XWB standing for Extra Wide Body) is a type of airplane built by European aerospace company Airbus. It is a long-ranged aircraft with two engines and a wide body. It is said that the plane is able to hold and transport 250-350 passengers in a first class, business class, and economy class or a normal 3-class setting. On January 15, 2015, the A350-900 entered service with Qatar Airways, and the A350-1000 in February 24, 2018 with the same airline.

Variants
Variants include:
A350-900 (A359)
A350-900ULR

A350-1000

The A350-1000 is a wide body twin engined aircraft made by Airbus. It can hold more than 400 passengers when arranged in an all economy class configuration. It is currently operated by Qatar airways and Cathay Pacific. Soon other airlines will use this aircraft such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Its first flight was on the 24 November 2016.

Gallery

References

Airbus aircraft
Alfriston

Alfriston (pronounced All-friston) is a village and civil parish in the Sussex district of Wealden, England. The village is in the valley of the River Cuckmere, about four miles (6 km) north-east of Seaford and south of the main A27 trunk road and part of the large area of Polegate. Alfriston has a population of 764.

Villages in England
Civil parishes in East Sussex
Dipodidae

The Dipodidae are a family of small to medium-sized rodents living in the northern hemisphere. The family has over 50 species in 16 genera.

They include the jerboas, jumping mice, and birch mice. Different species are found in grassland, deserts, and forests. They are all capable of saltation, which is jumping from a bipedal stance. This feature is most highly evolved in the desert-dwelling jerboas. Their movement resembles that of kangaroos more than that of true mice. 

Most species are nocturnal, and the eyes and ears are noticeably larger than usual in proportion to the body.

References

Rodents
Personal defense weapon

A personal defense weapon (PDW) is usually defined as a light, compact and easy to use firearm. However the definition varies depending on context and who you ask. Many will still say it is a Short-barreled rifle (SBR). These are regulated in the United States by the ATF. Many SBRs are available as selective fire (can switch between semi-automatic or fully automatic fire). The United States Department of Homeland Security defines a personal defense weapon as an M4 carbine (or a Colt AR-15 civilian semi-automatic rifle). Some governments' definition of PDWs includes handguns. An example is the Czech Republic which has proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow its citizens to own and keep PDWs as a way to discourage terrorists. Regardless, a PDW is usually agreed upon as being somewhere between a submachine gun and an assault rifle.

History 
In the 1980s, the term was used for troops in tight, confined environments. They needed a compact automatic weapon that could defeat body armor. It was designed for troops in tanks, military trucks and those operating from aircraft including pilots. The majority of soldiers do not take part in an infantry battle. Their jobs are usually to support the infantry. Their main role is not winning a fight, but often to escape an ambush. In other situations they may assist the infantry. PDWs are also used by bodyguards as they can be hidden under a jacket but still allowed good firepower. PDWs tend to be shorter range weapons.

The term evolved as concealed carry became more popular, especially in places like the United States. Certain states in the United States make carrying a firearm for personal defense relatively easy while others make it more difficult. Also, quite a few other countries allow concealed carry, to various degrees. Pistols, especially compact models, are very popular self defense weapons today.  Also, there are now a number of pistols available in rifle calibers.

Alternative self-defense weapons 
In places where a firearm cannot be carried or the person chooses not to carry a firearm, there are other weapons they can carry. Common items such as a credit card, car keys, a pen or even a scarf can be effective self defense weapons. Because of the popularity of self defense, there are also specially designed non-lethal weapons designed not to look like weapons.

References

Other websites 
 Self Defense Weapons (Non Lethal?); YouTube
 Firearms Facts: Personal Defense Weapons; YouTube

Firearms
Swinton, South Yorkshire

Swinton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, a county in England. 11,701 people lived in Swinton in 2011.

Education
Swinton has a secondary school called Swinton Community School. The school has a sixth form.

References

Towns in South Yorkshire
Bonobo (musician)

Simon Green (born 30 March 1976), known as Bonobo, is a British electronic musician. He released his first album Animal Magic in 2000 on the record label Tru Thoughts. It was then released again by Ninja Tune in 2001. He became successful in 2013 when he released his fifth album The North Borders. Erykah Badu sung on one of the songs on the album. Bonobo's song "Ketto" was used in the Citroën C4 Picasso car advertisement in 2007. He lives in New York.

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1976 births
Electronic musicians
Living people
British musicians
John Legend

John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer and songwriter. Legend has won nine Grammy Awards. He has worked with a number of established musicians before signing to Kanye West in 2004. first season of the coach The Voice.

Career
His first album, Get Lifted, was released by GOOD Music (an imprint founded by rapper Kanye West) in 2004. It won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album.

In 2005, Legend won Best R&B Act at the MOBO Awards.

In 2006, Legend released his second album Once Again.

In 2008, he released his third album Evolver. Three songs on the album were produced by will.i.am. Brandy sung on the third song. The single "Heaven" won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

In 2010, Wake Up!, an album of songs by Legend and The Roots, was released.

Legend released his fourth album, Love in the Future, in 2013. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. "All of Me" was released as a single from the album. It reached number one in Australia, Canada, and the US.

He released the song "A Good Night" through Columbia Records with producer BloodPop on April 6, 2018.

In 2018, Legend became one of sixteen people to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award.

Personal life
Legend is a feminist. He married model Chrissy Teigen in 2013. Their daughter, Luna Simone Stephens, was born on April 14, 2016. Teigen and Legend's second child, Miles Theodore Stephens, was born on May 16, 2018.

References

Other websites 

 Official website

1978 births
Living people
Actors from Ohio
African American actors
African-American singers
American feminists
American pop singers
American singer-songwriters
Best Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters
Emmy Award winners
Tony Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winners
Grammy Award winners
Hip hop musicians
Musicians from Ohio
People from Springfield, Ohio
Soul musicians
James Blake

James Blake Litherland (born 26 September 1988), known as James Blake, is an English singer-songwriter and electronic music producer. In 2013 Blake was nominated for a Grammy Award for the first time. He was nominated for Best New Artist.

Early life
Blake was born in London. He went to The Latymer School.

Career
Blake released his first album James Blake on 4 February 2011. It got good reviews. Pitchfork gave it a score of 9 out of 10. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize.

On 5 April 2013, Blake released his second album Overgrown. Brian Eno produced the song "Digital Lion". On October 30th 2013, Overgrown won the Mercury Prize.

Personal life
In 2013, Blake said that he was dating Theresa Wayman from the band Warpaint.

References

Other websites
Official website

1988 births
English singer-songwriters
Living people
Musicians from London
Katy B

Kathleen Anne Brien (born 8 May 1989), better known as Katy B, is an English singer and songwriter. She released her first album On a Mission  on April 1, 2011. It got good reviews from music critics. It was nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize. Katy was born in Peckham, London. She went to the BRIT School. Her next album Little Red will be released in February 2014. She released the second single from it, "5 AM", on 4 November 2013. It reached number fourteen in the UK Singles Chart.

References

1989 births
English singer-songwriters
Living people
Singers from London
I Want You Back

"I Want You Back" is a 1969 single by The Jackson 5. It was The Jackson 5's first release on Motown. It reached number one in the United States. It has sold six million copies. In 2009 Michael Jackson, the main singer of The Jackson 5, died. The song went back into the charts in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, and Australia.

References

1969 songs
ABC (song)

"ABC" is a 1970 single by The Jackson 5. It was the first single from the band's second album ABC. It was number one in the United States for one week.

References

1970 songs
Michael Jackson songs
Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician. He is best known for being the frontman of the Britpop band Pulp. In 2012, Cocker started presenting Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Career
When Cocker was 15 he started Arabacus Pulp with his friend Peter Dalton. They later changed their name to Pulp. They released their first album It in April 1983. In 1987 they released their second album Freaks. In 1994 Pulp released their first album to sell a lot of copies, His 'n' Hers. In May 1995 Pulp released the single "Common People". It reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.

He released his first solo album Jarvis on 13 November 2006. Cocker's second album Further Complications was released May 18, 2009.

References

1963 births
English rock singers
English singer-songwriters
Living people
Musicians from Sheffield
Rizzle Kicks

Rizzle Kicks are English hip-hop musicians Jordan "Rizzle" Stephens and Harley "Sylvester" Alexander-Sule. In November 2010, they were signed to the record label Island Records. Their first album, Stereo Typical, was released on 28 October 2011. Their second album, Roaring 20s, was released on 2 September 2013. Rizzle Kicks performed their single "Skip to the Good Bit" at the Royal Variety Performance on the 26th of November 2013.

Harley and Alexander-Sule went to the BRIT School at the same time. In 2008, they started Rizzle Kicks. Their second single "Down with the Trumpets" reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart.

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Musical groups established in 2008
British musical groups
English boy bands
English hip hop bands
Rap music groups
Musical duos
Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is an evening of performances that happens every year in the United Kingdom. It is called the Royal Variety Performance because important members of the British Royal Family go there.

It is shown on ITV. The first Royal Variety Performance was in 1912. It was called the Royal Command Performance.

The 2013 Royal Variety Performance was at the London Palladium. Gary Barlow and Jessie J sung there.

1912 establishments in the United Kingdom
Dying Light

Dying Light is a first person survival horror video game that was developed by Techland and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game was released on 27th January 2015. The game is available on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was revealed on May 23, 2013.

The game started to be developed in early 2012.

References

Other websites
Official website

2015 video games
PlayStation 4 games
Windows games
Xbox One games
Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher. He has written more than 70 books. He wrote his first English book The Sublime Object of Ideology in 1989. Žižek writes about a lot of different things. Things that Žižek writes about include psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and theology from a Marxist point of view.

He writes for The Guardian.  In 2013, he married the Slovene journalist Jela Krečič.

Documentaries
In 2006 Žižek presented a documentary that he had written called The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. In the documentary Žižek used psychoanalytical film theory on several movies.

In 2007 a documentary about Žižek called Žižek! was released.

In 2012 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology was released in the United Kingdom. It was written and presented by Žižek. The documentary is a sequel to The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.

References

20th-century philosophers
1949 births
Living people
Slovenian people
Mince pie

A mince pie, also known as 'minced pie', is a small British fruit-based mince sweet pie. It is usually served during the Christmas season.  Originally it was a savoury pie, now it is a sweet pie.

Its ingredients are traceable to the 13th century, when returning European crusaders brought with them Middle Eastern recipes containing meats, fruits and spices.

The early mince pie was known by several names, including mutton pie, shrid pie and Christmas pie. Typically its ingredients were a mixture of minced meat, suet, a range of fruits, and spices.

The ingredients for the modern mince pie can be traced to the return of European crusaders from the Holy Land. Middle Eastern methods of cooking, which sometimes combined meats, fruits and spices, were popular at the time. Pies were created from such mixtures of sweet and savoury foods; in Tudor England, shrid pies (as they were known then) were formed from shredded meat, suet and dried fruit. The addition of spices such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg was "in token of the offerings of the Eastern Magi".

Early pies were much larger than those of today, and oblong shaped. "The coffin of our Christmas-Pies, in shape long, is in imitation of the Cratch" (Jesus's crib). In old English cookery books the crust of a pie is generally called 'the coffin'.

References 

Pies
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born 1959) is a professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School. She made the word "intersectionality" in 1989. She is a feminist. She was born in Canton, Ohio in 1959. She edited the 1995 book Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. In 1996 Crenshaw started the African American Policy Forum with Luke Harris. She has been on The Tavis Smiley Show and MSNBC.

References

1959 births
African American lawyers
Living people
Lawyers from Los Angeles
Feminists
Lawyers from Ohio
Pure Heroine

Pure Heroine is the first album by Lorde. The album got good reviews from music critics. It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. The first single released from the album was "Royals". "Royals" was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 2014 Grammy Awards.  The second single "Tennis Court" reached number one in New Zealand.

Lorde wrote the album with Joel Little. Little produced the album.

The Guardian put Pure Heroine at number thirteen on their list of the best albums of 2013. Rolling Stone put the album seventh in their list of the 50 best albums of 2013.

References

2013 albums
Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti (born November 1, 1978) is an American feminist writer. She started the feminist blog Feministing in 2004. In 2011 she left the website.

Books 
Valenti's first book, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters, was published in 2007.
Her 2009 book The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women was made into a documentary. Valenti's most recent book, Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness, was published in 2012.

Personal life 
On October 3, 2009, Valenti married Andrew Golis. The couple's daughter was born in 2010.

References

Other websites 
Official website

1978 births
American feminist writers
Living people
American bloggers
Writers from New York City
Economy class

Economy class, also called coach class, steerage,  or standard class, is the lowest travel class of seating in air travel, rail travel, and sometimes ferry or maritime travel.

References 

Travel
Nya Quesada

Armonía "Nya" Quesada (13 April 1919 – 6 December 2013) was an Argentine actress. Her career lasted for almost fifty years.

Quesada died on 6 December 2013 from natural causes, aged 94, in Buenos Aires.

References

Other websites

1919 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
Argentine movie actors
Argentine television actors
Argentine stage actors
Actors from Buenos Aires
Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was known for her roles in Between Two Worlds, Hollywood Canteen, Pride of the Marines, Never Say Goodbye, The Sound of Music, The Seventh Sin, and in Return to Peyton Place. She was nominated for an Academy Award.

Parker died on December 9, 2013 of complications of pneumonia at her Palm Springs, California home. She was 91.

References

Other websites

 
 
 Eleanor Parker photographs and literature
 Eleanor Parker at GlamourGirlsoftheSilverScreen.com

1922 births
2013 deaths
Actors from Ohio
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in the United States
Kuniko Inoguchi

Kuniko Inoguchi (born May 3, 1952) is a Japanese politician. She belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). On 31 October 2005, she was appointed Minister of State for Gender equality and Social Affairs.

She received an Master of Arts from Yale University in 1977. She also received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1982.

References 

Japanese politicians
1952 births
Living people
People from Chiba Prefecture
Nippon Budokan

Nippon Budokan is an arena in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It was used as the judo stadium at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Buildings and structures in Tokyo
Sports buildings
Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) was born in England. He was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer. He produced a new style, Neoclassical. Chip 'n Dale are named after him.

1718 births
1779 deaths
People from London
Orix Buffaloes

Orix Buffaloes is a Japanese baseball team. This team was formed by the Orix BlueWave and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes after the 2004 NPB season. The team is based in Osaka and Kobe and play home games at Kyocera dome and Kobe Hotto Motto stadium. The team has not had good results in recent seasons.
A former player, Ichiro Suzuki, now plays for the New York Yankees.

Baseball teams
Baseball in Japan
Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935) is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé, known as "Steve and Eydie." The two appeared together since appearing regularly on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in the mid-1950s until Gormé's retirement. He was raised of a Jewish faith.

In June 2019, Lawrence was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

References

Other websites

Radio interview with Steve Lawrence "Big Band Files w/Doug Miles" WSLR 
http://www.45cat.com/artist/steve-lawrence/all Steve Lawrence 45rpm catalogue

1935 births
Living people
People with Alzheimer's disease
Jewish American musicians
Jewish American actors
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from New York City
Singers from New York City
Musicians from New York City
Claire Martin

Claire Martin (April 18, 1914 – June 18, 2014) was a Canadian writer. "Claire Martin" was her pseudonym. Her real name was Claire Montreuil.

Life
Martin was born in Quebec City, Quebec. She studied at the Ursuline convent and by the Dames de la Congrégation. From 1945 to 1972, she lived in Ottawa and was a writer she created a book called The Race Of The Golden Apples.
Her residence at the University of Ottawa. From 1972 to 1982, she lived in France, before returning to Quebec.

Martin died in Quebec City, aged 100.

References

Other websites
 Claire Martin  at The Canadian Encyclopedia

1914 births
2014 deaths
Canadian centenarians
Writers from Quebec City
Douglas Slocombe

Douglas Slocombe OBE, BSC, ASC (10 February 1913 – 22 February 2016) was a British cinematographer. He had a long career in the British movie industry. His 84 feature movies span over 47 years. They include everything from early comedies in the late 1940s, and early 1950s, to the first three Indiana Jones movies in the 1980s.

Slocombe died at the age of 103 in a London hospital from complications from a fall on 22 February 2016.

References

Other websites
 Douglas Slocombe at the Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers
 
 A BAFTA Tribute to Douglas Slocombe
 The British Society of Cinematographers: Douglas Slocombe - Behind the Camera - 12 minute BBC documentary from 1999

1913 births
2016 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in the United Kingdom
British centenarians
British cinematographers
People from London
BAFTA Award winners
Green Climate Fund

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is an international fund for fighting climate change. It is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was proposed at the Cancun Conference in Mexico in 2010. It was accepted at the Durban Conference in South Africa in December 2011. The fund's goal is to help developing countries fight climate change by providing them with the money they need to do so. Money may be granted for projects, programs, policies and activities that will help fight climate change or help those countries adapt to global warming.

GCF operates in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. The Green Climate Fund headquarters were officially opened on 4 December 2013.

The fund is governed by a board of directors. The Board has 24 members. There is an equal number of members from developing and developed countries. Two Co-Chairs of the Board are elected by the Board members. One is a member from a developed country and the other is a member from a developing country. Currently, the Co-Chairs of the Board are Mr. Manfred Konukiewitz (Germany) and Mr. Jose Maria Clemente Sarte Salceda (The Philippines).
  
Observers have noted that the GCF still has many challenges to work through. These challenges include the way the fund works, what its functions and goals are, how it is governed, and how it will do its job. These must be decided either by the GCF Board or by the countries that are party to the UNFCCC.

Climate change
United Nations
International organizations
2010
Jan Ekier

Jan Stanisław Ekier (August 29, 1913 – August 15, 2014) was a Polish pianist and composer. He is known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Polish National Edition.

He was born in Kraków, Poland. He turned 100 in August 2013. His first wife was the Polish actress Danuta Szaflarska. Ekier died in Warsaw, a fortnight short of his 101st birthday.

References

1913 births
2014 deaths
Centenarians
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Titanfall

Titanfall is a first-person shooter video game that was developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts.

The game was released on March 11, 2014 in North America, March 13, 2014 in Europe and Australia and on March 14, 2014 in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The game was made available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

It was revealed during Microsoft's E3 2013 press conference and will be the debut game from Respawn.

The game won over 60 awards at its E3 2013 reveal and six E3 Critics Awards: Best in Show, Best Original Game, Best Console Game, Best PC Game, Best Action Game, and Best Online Multiplayer which broke a record. The game was named Best in Show from IGN, Destructoid, Game Informer, and Electronic Gaming Monthly. It also won Best Next Generation Console Game and Best Xbox Game at Gamescom 2013 as well as a Future Award at the 2013 Tokyo Game Show. At VGX 2013, it won Most Anticipated Game.

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Boris Pahor

Boris Pahor (born 26 August 1913) is a Slovenian writer. He is known for his Holocaust experience described in the novel Necropolis the novel has been translated twice into English. His first book was under the title Pilgrim Among the Shadows in 1995, and the second time under the title Necropolis in 2010.

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Writer Boris Pahor Receives Top French Honour (Slovenian Government page)  
Boris Pahor on Natzweiler-Struthof  

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Herb Jeffries

Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014) was an American jazz and popular singer and actor.

References

Other websites
 Herb Jeffries at Jazz Standards 
 
 Herb Jeffries on B Western Stars

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Myeong-dong

Myeong-dong (, literally means 'bright town') is an area in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is mostly a commercial area, being one of the main shopping and tourism districts in Seoul.  

Actually, Myeong-dong is not an original name and it was not known as a commercial area at first. During the Joseon Dynasty era, it was mostly a residential district called Myeongryebang (). Later on, under the Japanese colonization, the name was changed to Myeongchijeong (). It started to be more like a commercial district during that colonial period. Finally it was changed to the current name, Myeong-dong in 1946, after independence.

Shopping
In Myeong-dong, there are several large department stores and shopping malls such as Lotte (), Shinsegae (), Migliore and Noon square. Also, the main streets are lined with lots of clothing shops, cosmetics stores, and international retailers. 

This area has become more and more international. The survey targeted 12,000 tourists departing Korea, and 55.3% answered that their major tourist destination was Myeong-dong, and it is one of the most popular shopping spots. Favorite items are Korean cosmetics such as Missha and Nature Republic, and there are most of Korean cosmetics brand stores on the main street of Myeong-dong. Therefore, it is necessary for those stores to hire bilingual staffs fluent in English, Japanese, or Chinese, and it attracts more and more foreign shoppers.

Transportation
There are two Seoul Subway stations near the district; Station #202, Euljiro 1-ga on Line 2 on the north end of the area, Station #424, Myeong-dong on Line 4 on the south end of the area.

Other websites

Visit Korea; Myeong-dong 
Myeongdong, Seoul's no.1 shopping district 

Seoul
Chuncheon

Chuncheon is the capital city of Gangwon Province in South Korea. The city is in a small flat area surrounded by mountains. The Soyang River is around the city. It is the water source of the Han River. Because of this river, Chuncheon has lots of foggy days. Chuncheon is a popular tourist attraction among Korean and East Asian tourist thanks to the popular Korean drama Winter Sonata.

Tourism 
Gang chon is a popular tourist attraction especially for university students in Korea because it is near Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. It has good accommodation and entertainment facilities.

Chungpyeongsa is a temple which was built in Goryeo Dynasty. Because it is located in a beautiful mountain, many people go there to enjoy the beautiful scenery and valleys with their family.

Namiseom is a popular tourist island which became famous as a filming location of Winter Sonata. It has a beautiful forest trail so that many couples and family who visit Chuncheon stop by there a lot. People can rent bikes or ride a short rail to look around the island.

Food 
The city has several famous foods. One of them is 'dak galbi'. 'Dak galbi' is a stir-fried chicken with sliced cabbage, sweet potatoes, rice cakes, sesame leaves and picy 'go chujang' sauce. It is usually cooked on a big iron pan on the center of the table. There is even a 'dak galbi' street which has many famous 'dak galbi' restaurants in the downtown of the city. Another famous food is 'makguksu.' 'Makguksu' is thin buckwheat noodles served in a cold beef broth with sesame seeds, sliced beef, cucumber, and spicy sauce.

Transportation 
Chuncheon has a train transportation named Gyeonchun Line. With this track, it takes about one hour and twenty minutes from Chuncheon station to Yongsan station in Seoul. Also, it has subway transportation to Seoul. It takes about one hour and forty minutes from Chuncheon station to Sangbong station in Seoul. People can take either train or subway in Chuncheon station and Namchuncheon station. It has bus transportation too. Near Namchuncheon station, there is Chuncheon Bus Terminal. This connects to all major cities in mainland Korea.

Cities in South Korea
Main course

The main course is food that is served as the main dish in a multi-course meal. It is often served after the entrée. In the United States, the main course may be called the "entrée".

The main course is usually the biggest dish on a menu. The main ingredient is often meat or fish. It most often follows an appetizer, soup, or salad, and is often followed by a dessert.

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Wikibooks Cookbook

Meals
Richard S. Williamson

Richard Salisbury Williamson (May 9, 1949 – December 8, 2013) was an American lawyer, diplomat and pedagogue. He previously served as Special Envoy to Sudan under George W. Bush. Williamson was a partner at Winston & Strawn and was also Thomas J. Sharkey Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Seton Hall's Whitehead School of Diplomacy.

Williamson died of a cerebral hemorrhage at a Chicago hospital on December 8, 2013, aged 64.

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Paul Freeman

Paul Freeman (born 18 January 1943) is an English movie, stage, voice, and television actor. He is best known for his role as rival archeologist René Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark and as the evil wine baron, Gustav Reibmann on season 4 of Falcon Crest. He also appeared in Hot Fuzz.

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English movie actors
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Beşbarmaq

Beşbarmaq (; Uzbek: norin, нарын) is the national dish of Kyrgyzstan, Bashkortostan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.  It is also the main course on feasts in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. It is made from meat, with chopped noodles and onion sauce.

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Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Foods
Progressive conservatism

Progressive conservatism  is an ideology that tries to unite conservative and progressive ideas. To deal with poverty, the ideology supports the idea of a social safety net. It also supports a limited redistribution of wealth. The people supporting progressive conservatism want to allow the  government to regulate markets in the interests of both consumers and producers. Progressive conservatism first arose as a distinct ideology in the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's "One Nation" Toryism.

In the UK, the Prime Ministers Disraeli, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, and David Cameron have been described as progressive conservatives. The Catholic Church's Rerum Novarum (1891) advocates a progressive conservative doctrine known as social Catholicism.

In the United States, Theodore Roosevelt has been the main figure identified with progressive conservatism as a political tradition.  Roosevelt stated that he had "always believed that wise progressivism and wise conservatism go hand in hand".  Some people considered the administration of President William Howard Taft to be progressive conservative. Taft described himself as "a believer in progressive conservatism". President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of "progressive conservatism". In Germany, Chancellor Leo von Caprivi promoted a progressive conservative agenda called the "New Course". In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been progressive conservative, with Canada's major conservative movement being officially named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003. In Canada, the Prime Ministers Arthur Meighen, R.B. Bennett, John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, and Kim Campbell led progressive conservative federal governments.

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Colleges and universities in Oregon

This is a list of colleges and universities in Oregon:

Public

 Blue Mountain Community College
 Central Oregon Community College
 Chemeketa Community College
 Clackamas Community College
 Clatsop Community College
 Columbia Gorge Community College
 Eastern Oregon University
 Klamath Community College
 Lane Community College
 Linn-Benton Community College
 Mount Hood Community College
 Oregon Coast Community College
 Oregon Health and Science University
 Oregon Institute of Technology
 Oregon State University
 Portland Community College
 Portland State University
 Rogue Community College
 Southern Oregon University
 Southwestern Oregon Community College
 Tillamook Bay Community College
 Treasure Valley Community College
 Umpqua Community College
 University of Oregon
 Western Oregon University

Private

 American College of Healthcare Sciences
 The Art Institute of Portland
 Birthingway College of Midwifery
 Concordia University
 Corban University
 DeVry University
 George Fox University
 Gutenberg College
 ITT Technical Institute
 Lewis & Clark College
 Linfield College
 Marylhurst University
 Mount Angel Seminary
 Multnomah University
 National College of Natural Medicine
 New Hope Christian College
 Northwest Christian University
 Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
 Pacific Northwest College of Art
 Pacific University
 Pioneer Pacific College
 Reed College
 University of Portland
 University of Phoenix
 University of Western States
 Warner Pacific College
 Western Seminary
 Willamette University

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Championship

In sport, a championship is a competition to determine which individual or team is the champion. Different forms of competition can be called a championship. It is usually the final competition in a tournament (a series of competitions). For example, the FIFA World Cup is a tournament held every four years. The winner of the final competition of each tournament becomes that tournament's champion. In a league system, the championship is the final competition of a regular season. In some league systems, a series of playoffs is used to determine the champion of a season. There is one champion for each season. In combat sports, such as wrestling and boxing, a competitor must challenge the current champion to win the championship.

Sports competitions
Atlas Computer (Manchester)

The Atlas Computer was a computer installed in Manchester University in 1962 that was very important in the development of computing. The Atlas computer was one of the worlds first supercomputers and possibly the most powerful computer in the world at its time.

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Management information system

A management information system is a system that allows a company to run efficiently, by providing the relevant information the company needs. Nowadays, management information systems use specialized software that runs on a computer. A management information system is usually targeted at economic aspects of running a company, while an executive information system is usually designed for managing staff. The first such systems were built in the 1960s.

Economics
Battle of Ortona

The Battle of Ortona was a small, very violent battle fought between German and Canadian troops. It was fought on December 20–28, 1943. It was part of World War II.

The battalion of German paratroops were from the German 1st Parachute Division under Generalleutnant Richard Heidrich. The Canadian forces were from the 1st Canadian Infantry Division under Major General Chris Vokes.

It was part of the fighting on the Adriatic area in Italy. The battle has been called "Little Stalingrad" because of the violent, close fighting. The battle took place in the Adriatic Sea town of Ortona, with a population of 10,000.

Background
The Eighth Army's attack on the Winter Line defences started on 23 November. By the end of the month, Allied troops broke through the Gustav Line defences.  The Allied troops were fighting towards the Moro river, near Ortona.

Ortona was one of Italy's few deep water ports on the east coast. The Allies wanted to capture the port. The Germans had constructed a series of defensive positions in the town.

The battle

The Canadians had to battle the  German 1st Parachute Division. These soldiers were experienced after many years of war. Adolf Hitler ordered them to defend Ortona.

The Canadian attack on the town was on December 20. The Germans had hidden machine guns and anti-tank guns in the town. This made it hard for Canadian tanks and infantry to move. The fighting was very violent. The soldiers fought for every house.

After six days fighting, 2nd Brigade's third battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, joined the battle. Tanks from 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade also joined the battle.

On 28 December, after eight days of fighting, the Germans withdrew from the town. The Canadians had 1,375 dead.

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Abdul Quader Molla

Abdul Quader Molla (; 14 August 1948 – 12 December 2013) was a politician in Bangladesh. He was convicted of war crimes committed during the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh. He is the assistant secretary-general of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist party in the country. He was scheduled to be executed by hanging on 11 December 2013 at 0:01. Later, the execution was postponed until 10:30 of the day.

He is the former executive editor of The Daily Sangram. He stood twice unsuccessfully for parliament in 1986 and 1996. He was contesting the seat Faridpur-4 for Jamaat-e-Islami.

Molla was executed on 12 December 2013.

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