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Joe Barton

Joe Linus Barton (born September 15, 1949) is an American Republican politician. He represented  in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019. He is a member of the Tea Party Caucus. 

Barton supported deregulation of the electricity and natural gas industries, and serves as vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees.

Barton was divorced from his first wife in 1992, remarried in 2002, and  divorced from his second wife in 2015. He has four children.

In November 2017, nude selfie pictures of Barton surfaced online, which he acknowledged were authentic, and which he apologized for to his constituents. An anonymous Twitter user posted the photo of Barton. Many people believe that Barton is a victim of "revenge porn" (the act of posting sexual-related media without the person's permission).

References

Other websites
 Congressman Joe Barton  official House site
 Joe Barton for Congress

1949 births
Living people
United States representatives from Texas
People from Waco, Texas
US Republican Party politicians
William Reynolds Archer Jr.

William Reynolds “Bill” Archer Jr. (born March 22, 1928) is an American lawyer and politician. Archer served two terms, from 1967 to 1971, in the Texas House of Representatives – changing from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1969.

Archer Jr. later represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican for 30 years, from 1971 until 2001, serving for his last six years as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.

References

Other websites
 
 
 Voting record maintained by the Washington Post 

1928 births
Living people
United States representatives from Texas
Politicians from Houston, Texas
US Republican Party politicians
Kevin Brady

Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party.

References

Other websites
 Congressman Kevin Brady  official U.S. House site
 Kevin Brady for Congress 
 
 

1955 births
Living people
United States representatives from Texas
Politicians from South Dakota
US Republican Party politicians
United States House Committee on Ways and Means

The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. 

Members of the Ways and Means Committee are not allowed to serve on any other House Committee unless they apply for a waiver from their party's congressional leadership. 

The U.S. Constitution requires that all bills about taxation must come from in the House of Representatives. Since House rules is that all bills about taxation must go through this committee,  the committee is very important, as is its Senate counterpart, the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.

Recent chairs have included William Reynolds Archer Jr., Bill Thomas, Charles Rangel, Sander Levin, and Dave Camp. On November 4, 2015 Representative Kevin Brady of Texas was chosen to replace Representative Paul Ryan as chairman.

Other websites
 Official Committee web site (Archive)
 House Ways and Means Committee. Legislation activity and reports, Congress.gov.
 House Ways and Means Committee Hearings and Meetings Video. Congress.gov.

1795 establishments in the United States
Committees of the United States House of Representatives
Richard Neal

Richard Edmund Neal (born February 14, 1949) is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party and a former city councilor and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts.

Following the Democrats winning the House majority, Neal became the next Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee in January 2019.

References

Other websites
Congressman Richard E. Neal  official U.S. House site
Richard Neal for Congress

 

1949 births
Living people
United States representatives from Massachusetts
American mayors
People from Springfield, Massachusetts
US Democratic Party politicians
Temuera Morrison

Temuera Derek Morrison  (born 26 December 1960) is a New Zealand actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Hone Ropata on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. He later starred as Jake "The Muss" Heke in the 1994 movie Once Were Warriors and its 1999 sequel What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?. 

Morrison became known internationally after playing bounty hunter Jango Fett in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Commander Cody in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005). He also played Boba Fett in the post-2004 reprints of The Empire Strikes Back and in The Mandalorian. 

Recently, he became known for voicing Chief Tui in Disney's Moana (2016) and for playing Aquaman's father Thomas Curry in the DC Extended Universe in Aquaman (2018), The Flash and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (both 2022).

References

Other websites
 
 
 Betros, Chris (17 July 2006). "Once a warrior, Temuera Morrison now New Zealand's best known film star" . Japan Today. Retrieved 20 February 2007.

1960 births
Living people
New Zealand movie actors
New Zealand television actors
New Zealand voice actors
New Zealand stage actors
Psephology

Psephology  (from Greek psephos ψῆφος, 'pebble', as the Greeks used pebbles as ballots) is a branch of  political science which deals with the study and scientific analysis of elections.

References

Elections
Farmway LRT Station

Farmway LRT Station  is a light rail transit station in Sengkang, Singapore. It opened on November 15 2007. It is part of the Sengkang LRT Line.

Name
Its name was from the old roads near the station.

Timeline
November 15 2007The station opened.

Sources

Other websites
SBS Transit Website

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is calligraphy that is done in China. Chinese calligraphy is compared to painting, poetry, and music.

In China, calligraphy is called shūfǎ (). It means "way/method/law of writing". It is called shodō () in Japan. It means "way of writing" in Japanese. It is called seoye () in Korea. It means "skill of writing" in Korean.

Materials and tools
Four of the most important tools in Chinese calligraphy are called the Four Treasures of the Study. They are the ink brushes, the ink, the paper, and the inkstone. Many calligraphers also usually use water-droppers, paperweights.

Stroke order
Calligraphy usually follows a certain order when writing.
  First horizontally, then vertically
  Top to bottom
  Left side, then right side
  First the middle, then the sides
  First the frame, then inside the frame
  Close the frame last
  Secondary dots last

References

Writing
Turkey Time

Turkey Time (also called GMT+3) is a time zone that has been used in Turkey since September 8, 2016. It is 3 hours ahead of GMT. In 2016, the Turkish Government decided to remove daylight saving time changes. After this decision, Northern Cyprus followed Turkey on October 30, 2016 but returned to Eastern European Time on October 29, 2017. In October 2017, the Turkish Government announced to return to daylight saving time on October 28, 2018 but later cancelled this decision.

References 

Time
Turkey
Compassvale LRT Station

Compassvale LRT Station  is a light rail transit station in Sengkang, Singapore. It opened on 18 January 2003. It is on the east loop of Sengkang LRT Line.

Name 
Its name came from the street it is located on. It is located at Compassvale Street.

Sources

Other websites 
https://www.sbstransit.com.sg

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Kupang LRT Station

Kupang LRT Station  is a light rail transit station in Sengkang, Singapore. It opened on 27 June 2015. It was the last station of the Sengkang LRT Line to open. It is on the west loop.

Name 
Villagers used to fish kupang. It was their source of livelihood.

Sources

Other websites 
SBS Transit Website

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Rumbia LRT Station

Rumbia LRT Station  is a light rail transit station in Sengkang, Singapore. It is part of the Sengkang LRT Line. It is on its east loop. It opened on 18 January 2003.

Name 
The station's name comes from the 2 types of rumbia plants.

Sources

Other websites 
https://www.sbstransit.com.sg

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Bakau LRT Station

Bakau LRT Station  is a light rail transit station in Sengkang, Singapore. It is part of the Sengkang LRT Line. It is on the east loop. It opened on 18 January 2003.

Name 
A type of wood called bakau were used in buildings in the past. It suggests a strong foundation of the station.

Sources

Other websites 
https://www.sbstransit.com.sg

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Kangkar LRT Station

Kangkar LRT Station  is an LRT station in Sengkang, Singapore. It is part of the Sengkang LRT Line. It is on the east loop. It opened on 18 January 2003.

Name 
The station is on the place where there was a fishery. Older residents remember the place.

Timeline 
18 November 2003 - The station opens.

Sources

Other websites 
https://www.sbstransit.com.sg

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Ranggung LRT Station

Ranggung LRT Station  is an LRT station in Sengkang, Singapore. It is part of the Sengkang LRT Line. It is on the east loop. It opened on 18 January 2003.

Name 
Ranggungs are storks that live on the Punggol coast.

Timeline 
18 January 2003 - The station opened.

Sources

Other websites 
https://www.sbstransit.com.sg

Sengkang
Light Rail Transit (Singapore) stations
Bentley, Suffolk

Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England, about  southwest of Ipswich. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 776.

Bentley has a parish council and a local news site called Bentley News  which is managed by a local resident.

Bentley has a Church of England parish church, a Reformed Baptist church, a Church of England primary school, a pub, a Village Hall and a riding school. A community owned village shop opened in the summer of 2016.

The Eastern Union Railway was built through the parish and opened on 15 July 1846. Bentley railway station was about  east of the village, and served the area until British Railways closed it in 1966. The station was a junction between 1847 and 1965 for the Hadleigh branch line. The branch line also had a short-lived station called Bentley Church (1847-1853).

References

Other websites

Bentley News 
Bentley Parish Council
Bentley Riding School
Bentley Village Hall (Suffolk) 
Bentley Village in Suffolk 
The Case is Altered
Bentley Stores community shop

Settlements in Babergh
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Villages in Suffolk
Youm7

Youm7 (meaning The Seventh Day) is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper. It was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since May 2011. It is published in Arabic. The paper was twice selected by Forbes Middle East as having the most effective news website in the Middle East. Youm7 reportedly has the most-visited website of any Egyptian newspaper. On 6 October 2013 it launched an English news website called The Cairo Post.

History

Founding and profile 
Youm7 was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since 31 May 2011. It's board of directors is headed by Walid Mostafa and its editor Khaled Salah who said shortly after the paper's expansion to daily publication that Youm7 "supports the popular need for a civil state and will strive to present facts to readers without political bias and with credible representation of diverse views."

Youm7 English Edition
On 8 August 2011, managing director Sallie Pisch announced the launch of Youm7 English Edition, stating that the English-language paper aimed to fill the gap in "quality, understandable news coverage coming out of Egypt in English." Youm7 English Edition also managed an Egypt Wiki that "aims to provide background info on Egyptian politicians, public figures and organizations in one location." As of 2 May 2012, the Youm7 English Edition appears to no longer be functioning, as the link to the English Edition homepage redirects to the Youm7 Arabic site. On 13 December 2012, the English Edition Twitter profile tweeted "Dear followers, we are currently having a problem with our website. We hope to get it figured out and back online soon!" As of 2 May  2012, the Youm7 English Edition Twitter profile's last tweet was published on 21 December 2012.

Criticism

Racism 
In Aug, 2014, Youm7 published a page with the headline: "Black Terror Gangs in Cairo" including a picture of black skinned people holding guns and the word "Niggers" on it, it drew criticism from Egyptian activists and international media, calling the newspaper hateful and racist.

References

Other websites
Official website 

Newspapers
Egypt
2008 establishments in Africa
Establishments in Egypt
De Lutte

De Lutte (Low Saxon: De Lut) is a village in the municipality of Losser, the Netherlands.

It lies in Twente, a region in the Province of Overijssel. 

The village borders Germany.

As of 2021, about 3,900 people were living in De Lutte.

Settlements in Overijssel
Losser
Beuningen, Overijssel

Beuningen (Low Saxon: Böaningn) is a village in the municipality of Losser, the Netherlands.

It lies in Twente, a region in the Province of Overijssel. 

The village borders Germany.

As of 2021, about 1,000 people were living in Beuningen.

Settlements in Overijssel
Losser
Glane, Overijssel

Glane (Low Saxon: De Glaan) is a hamlet in the municipality of Losser, the Netherlands.

It lies in Twente, a region in the Province of Overijssel. 

The hamlet borders Germany.

As of 2021, about 500 people were living in Glane.

Settlements in Overijssel
Losser
Losser

Losser (Low Saxon: Losker / Loster / Lösser) is a municipality and village in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. About 23,000 people were living there in 2021. It lies in Twente region and borders Germany.

Losser is a rural municipality with a mainly Roman Catholic population.

The Tankenberg, which is in Losser, is the highest hill of the province of Overijssel and has an altitude of 85 m.

Settlements (2021):
 Beuningen - 1000 people
 De Lutte - 3,900 people
 Glane - 500 people
 Losser (village) - 13,400 people
 Overdinkel - 4,100 people

References 
 Plaatsengids.nl

 
Settlements in Overijssel
Logelheim

Logelheim is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Population

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Lucelle, Haut-Rhin

Lucelle is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Twente

Twente or (obsolete) Twenthe (Low Saxon: Tweante) is a historical region in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. Its (informal) capital and biggest city is Enschede.

Twente borders Salland region (also Overijssel) in the west and north, Achterhoek region (province of Gelderland) in the south, County of Bentheim (Lower Saxony, Germany) in the northeast, and Münsterland (North Rhine-Westphalia, also Germany) in the southeast.

As of 2021, about 633,000 people were living in (administrative) Twente. They are nicknamed Tukkers and speak Tweants, which is a Low Saxon dialect.

Until the 1960s textile industry was flourishing in Twente.

Municipalities 
These 14 municipalities belong (administratively) to Twente region:

 Almelo
 Borne
 Dinkelland
 Enschede
 Haaksbergen
 Hellendoorn (most part in Salland region)
 Hengelo

 Hof van Twente
 Losser
 Oldenzaal
 Rijssen-Holten (partially in Salland)
 Tubbergen
 Twenterand (partially in Salland)
 Wierden

Netwerkstad Twente 
Almelo, Borne, Enschede, Hengelo, and Oldenzaal are working together in the so-called Netwerkstad Twente. Its aim is to improve the economy of Twente. About 370,000 people were living in Netwerkstad Twente in 2021.

Related pages 
 Achterhoek
 Kop van Overijssel
 Salland

References 
 Plaatsengids.nl

Other websites 
 Visittwente.com (tourism)

 
Regions of the Netherlands
Carl-Henrik Hermansson

Carl-Henrik "C.-H." Hermansson (14 December 1917 – 26 July 2016) was a Swedish politician. He was born in Bollnäs, Sweden. He was chairman of the Communist Party of Sweden (during his leadership renamed to the Left Party – Communists) from 1964 to 1975 and member of parliament from 1963 to 1985. He was a major force in redirecting the Left Party Communists policies away from Moscow loyalism towards Eurocommunism and Scandinavian Popular Socialism.

At the time of Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Hermansson heaped praise on Stalin's greatness in a few speeches, something he was regularly reminded of by journalists and political opponents, even though he repeatedly made public his regret for the things said.

Hermansson died on 26 July 2016 at the age of 98.

References

1917 births
2016 deaths
Swedish politicians
Swedish writers
Communists
God in Hinduism

Hindus believe in one main God, Brahman. Most Hindus believe he is present in every person as the eternal spirit or soul, called the atman. 

For Hindus there is a sacred symbol that represents their belief. Om (or Aum) is the sound to represent their God.

There is a Trimurti in the Hindu belief: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer.
Hindus also believe that sometimes God may appear on earth in living form.

Hinduism
Izabella Zielińska

Izabella Jadwiga Zielińska (née Ostaszewska; 10 December 1910 – 20 November 2017) was a Polish pianist and educator. She was with one of the longest artistic biographies in Poland, starting back in 1935. She was born in Klimkówka, Austria-Hungary (present-day Klimkówka, Republic of Poland). In 2016 she celebrated her 106th birthday.

Zielińska died on 20 November 2017 in London at the age of 106.

References

Other websites

1910 births
2017 deaths
Polish pianists
Polish educators
Centenarians
Kamchatka Time

Kamchatka Time, also known as Anadyr Time (ANAT) is a time zone in eastern Russia that is 12 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+12:00). It contains the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Its summer time zone was Kamchatka Summer Time, or Anadyr Summer Time (ANAST) (UTC+13:00).

On 28 March 2010, Kamchatka Time was eliminated, thus joining Magadan Time (UTC+11:00) and Magadan Summer Time (UTC+12:00). On 27 March 2011, Russia switched to daylight saving time permanently, so this time zone was at UTC+12:00 and when Russia switched to permanent standard time on 26 October 2014, this time zone was re-introduced.
Russia
Time zones
Pliny's Comedy and Tragedy villas

Pliny's Comedy and Tragedy villas were two Roman villas owned by Pliny the Younger in the 1st century. They were on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. Pliny had several villas on Lake Como. He wrote to his friend Voconius Romanus that the Comedy villa and the Tragedy villa were his two favorites. In Italy, the villas are called Villa Commedia and Villa Tragedia. In Italian, "commedia" means "comedy" and "tragedia" means "tragedy".

In his letter to Voconius Romanus Pliny also wrote that the Tragedy villa was on a hill above the lake but that the Comedy villa was right on the water's edge. Their names come from the theatre of ancient Greece and Rome. Pliny said that the villa on the hill was like the actors in tragedies who wore platform boots. He named that villa "Tragedy". The villa down by the water was like the actors in comedies who wore flat slippers. He named that villa "Comedy". Both villas were destroyed long ago. No one is sure exactly where they stood.

Most people think that the Tragedy villa  was in Bellagio, a small town on Lake Como. People are less sure where the Comedy villa was. The historian Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) thought that by the 16th century the Comedy villa was under the water of Lake Como near the village of Lenno. The geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) also wrote that the Comedy villa was in Lenno. But in 1876 a Roman mosaic floor and many Roman coins were found in Lierna, another small town on Lake Como. Many people there now think that the mosaic floor was part of the Comedy villa. In the early 20th century the French geographer Élisée Reclus wrote that Lierna was the site of one of Pliny's villas, but he did not say which one.

In 1751 John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery, published his English translation of Pliny's letters. The letter to Voconius Romanus describing the Comedy and Tragedy villas was illustrated with an imaginary picture of the Comedy villa drawn by Samuel Wale. The art historian Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, has said that the villa in Wale's drawing looks like Alexander Pope's villa on the River Thames in London. Alexander Pope was a friend of John Boyle. Pliny's own description of the Comedy villa in his letter said that its terrace was gently curved like the shore of the lake. He could fish directly from his bedroom window. He said that lying in his bed at the Comedy villa was like lying in a fishing boat on the lake.

References

Buildings and structures in Ancient Rome
Lierna
Aulonemia patriae

Aulonemia patriae is a species of Aulonemia genus of bamboo. 
It is part of the grass family and endemic to Latin America.

References

Bamboo species
Aulonemia purpurata

Aulonemia purpurata is a species of the Aulonemia genus of bamboo.

It is part of the grass family and endemic to Latin America.

References

Bamboo species
Time in Kazakhstan

The standard time in Kazakhstan is neither UTC+05:00 or UTC+06:00. These times are called Aqtobe Time (AQTT) or Alma-Ata Time (ALMT). Kazakhstan does not observe daylight saving time.

Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Time in Cyprus

Kibris Türk devleti island of Cyprus has one time zone. Eastern European Time (EET) (UTC+02:00) is used during winter, while Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03:00) is used in the other months. In 2016, Northern Cyprus changed to Turkey Time (TRT) (UTC+03:00) after Turkey decided not to change its clocks back, but reverted to EET on October 29, 2017.

References 

Cyprus
Cyprus
Juan Luis Maurás

Juan Luis Maurás (18 June 1922 – 22 November 2017) was a Chilean lawyer and politician who was President of the Senate (1966) and the Chamber of Deputies (1958). He was born in Santiago, Chile.

Maurás died on 22 November 2017 in Antofagasta, Chile, aged 95.

References

1922 births
2017 deaths
Presidents of the Senate of Chile
People from Santiago
Batman: The Killing Joke

Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 DC Comics graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and The Joker.  It was written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland. The Killing Joke gives an origin story for the supervillain the Joker, loosely based from the 1951 story arc "The Man Behind the Red Hood!". Taking place over two timelines, The Killing Joke shows the Joker trying to drive Jim Gordon insane and Batman's desperate attempt to stop him.

The story's effects on the mainstream Batman continuity also included the shooting and paralysis of Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl), an event that laid the groundwork for her to develop the identity of Oracle.

The Killing Joke is thought to be one of the greatest comics of the 20th century.

An animated movie version was made in 2016 starring Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker.

References

1988 books
DC Comics
Batman
Batman: The Killing Joke (movie)

Batman: The Killing Joke is a 2016 American animated superhero movie produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.

The movie is directed by Sam Liu, written by Brian Azzarello and stars the voices of Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong, and Ray Wise with Brian George. Like the novel, the movie follows The Joker's kidnapping and mission to drive police commissioner James Gordon insane, and Batman's desperate attempts to stop him.

Originally meant to be released directly on home video, due to its popularity, the movie was released in theaters and digitally on July 25, 2016 for a special one-night event, before a DVD and Blu-ray release on August 2, 2016. It grossed $4.4 million worldwide.

Other websites

 
 
 
 Batman: The Killing Joke at The World's Finest

2016 animated movies
2010s superhero movies
Adult animated movies
American animated movies
Animated Batman movies
Jonathan Haze

Jonathan Haze (born April 1, 1929) is an American actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work in Roger Corman movies, especially the 1960 black comedy cult classic, The Little Shop of Horrors, in which he played florist's assistant Seymour Krelboyne.

References

Other websites
 

Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
American television actors
American movie actors
1929 births
Living people
William Kennedy

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist. He was born and raised in Albany, New York. He studied in Siena College. He was inspired by Gore Vidal, William Shakespeare, and by Edgar Allan Poe.

Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; movie, 1987), and Roscoe (2002). 

In 2011, he published Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, which one reviewer called a book "written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch".

In 1953, Kennedy married Ana Segarra. They have three children. He lives in Averill Park, New York.

References

Other websites

Finding Aid for the Papers of William Kennedy,
Audio recording of William Kennedy reading from unpublished works at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009
Write TV Public Television Interview with William Kennedy
2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show
M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives , University at Albany Libraries.

Pulitzer Prize winners
1928 births
Living people
American novelists
American journalists
Writers from New York
People from Albany, New York
Peter Fernandez

Peter Fernandez (January 29, 1927 – July 15, 2010) was an American actor, voice actor, director, author and child model. He was born in New York City. He began with a career in modeling stretching from the 1930s. He was probably best known for his roles in the 1967 anime Speed Racer and Astro Boy (1952–1968). He also had voice roles in Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Fernandez died of complications from lung cancer in Pomona, New York on July 15, 2010 at the age of 83.

References

Other websites

Recent commercial voice work by Fernandez 

Peter Fernandez's interview at Otakon 2008

1927 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in New York
American movie actors
American voice actors
American television actors
American child actors
Models from New York City
American novelists
American video game actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
American military personnel of World War II
American television writers
American television directors
Screenwriters from New York City
Actors from New York City
Courage the Cowardly Dog

Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American animated horror comedy television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network as part of the network's Cartoon Cartoons block. The main character is the pink dog who lives with a married elderly couple (Muriel and Eustace Bagge) in the middle of Nowhere. The dog, Courage is voiced by Dilworth while Muriel is voiced by Thea White and Eustace was voiced by Lionel Wilson (until 33rd episode due to illness) and by Arthur Anderson. Paul Schoeffler voices The Computer, Courage's smart and loyal friend which is a computer.

Guest appearances include Billie Lou Watt, Peter Fernandez, Ringo Starr, Tom Kenny, Jim Cummings, and Tim Curry.

It premiered on November 12, 1999 and ended on November 22, 2002, with four seasons of 13 episodes each produced. During its run, the series was nominated for 3 Golden Reel Awards and 1 Annie Award. The series received critical acclaim from critics and audiences and has developed a strong cult status.

Cast
 Marty Grabstein – Courage
 Thea White – Muriel Bagge
 Lionel Wilson (Episodes 1–33), Arthur Anderson (Episodes 34–52) – Eustace Bagge

Danish Voice Cast
 Christian Damsgaard – Frygtløs
 Bente Eskesen – Myrna
 Dick Kaysø – Egon
 Karin Jagd – Egons Mor / Shirley / med flere
 Peter Zhelder – Katz / Frode / Computeren / med flere

Additional Voices
 Thomas Kirk
 Michael Elo

Other websites

Courage the Cowardly Dog - Cartoon Network Department of Cartoons (Archive)

Channel Links

1999 American television series debuts
American animated television series
American comedy television series
American horror television series
Cartoon Network series
English-language television programs
Thea White

Thea Ruth White (née Zitzner; June 16, 1940 – July 30, 2021) was an American voice actress. She was best known for her voice over work as Muriel Bagge on Courage the Cowardly Dog. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. 

White was married to Andy White from 1983 until his death in 2015.

White died on July 30, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio from an infection caused by liver cancer surgery, aged 81.

References

Other websites
Thea White's official website 

1940 births
2021 deaths
American voice actors
American television actors
Actors from Newark, New Jersey
Deaths from surgical complications
Infectious disease deaths in New Jersey
Deaths from liver cancer
John R. Dilworth

John Russell Dilworth (born February 14, 1963), is an American animator, actor, director, writer, and producer. He is known for being the creator of the animated television series Courage the Cowardly Dog. He also worked on the original opening for Nicktoons and for shows such as Doug, Johnny Bravo, and My Life as a Teenage Robot, as well as the Disney animated series PB&J Otter.

References

Other websites
StretchFilms.com, Homepage of Dilworth's Animation Company

Interview with Dilworth

1968 births
Living people
Animators
Cartoonists
British television actors
British voice actors
British television directors
British television producers
British television writers
Actors from Manchester
Miguel Alfredo González

Miguel Alfredo González Puebla (September 23, 1983 – November 23, 2017) was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher. He played in the Cuban National Series, for the Cuban national baseball team, and for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB) during the 2014 season. He was born in Havana, Cuba.

González was killed in a car accident in Havana, Cuba, on November 23, 2017 at the age of 34.

References

Other websites

1983 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Philadelphia Phillies players
Cuban sportspeople
People from Havana
Neil Gillman

Neil Gillman (September 11, 1933 – November 24, 2017) was a Canadian-American rabbi and philosopher affiliated with Conservative Judaism. He was born in Quebec City, Canada. He was a member of the Conservative movement's rabbinical body, the Rabbinical Assembly, and was a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in Manhattan.

Gillman died on November 24, 2017 in Manhattan, New York of thrombosis at the age of 84.

References

1933 births
2017 deaths
American philosophers
American rabbis
Canadian Jews
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
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Microservices

In classical software architecture, the architecture is often layered. There is one layer for the user interface, another for the application logic, and yet another for accessing persistent data (such as a database). In classical software architecture, an application server is used, which will run the different services (such as different entrypoints of a web site, or different parts of the business application). The problem with this approach is that such application servers often do not scale very well, they need a lot of resources, and services are often tightly coupled.

Microservices are patterns of Software architecture: The approach is similar to the pattern described above, but the services are very small: very often they only provide one or two very specific functions. To get the same situation as above, these services must interact with each other. Very often they do this using RESTful service calls. Each microservice still has the parts of the user interface layer, the application layer, and the layer to access persistent data. Very often, microservices run in an application container. When the load requires it, special software in the application container can be used to run several instances (or copies) of the specific service.

Microservices is a specialization of an implementation approach for service-oriented architectures (SOA) used to build flexible, independently deployable software systems. The microservices approach is a first realisation of SOA that followed the introduction of DevOps and is becoming more popular for building continuously deployed systems.

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Computer science
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was the President of Iraq from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979. He was born in Tikrit, Ottoman Iraq on 1 July 1914.
He was a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party. During his rule Iraq had high economic growth due to high international oil prices. Al Bakr slowing lost power to his cousin Saddam Hussein.

Presidents of Iraq
1914 births
1982 deaths
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Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military commander during Afghan-Soviet war and later on in the civil war afterwards. He was an ethnic Tajik and a Sunni muslim. During the civil war, he defended the capital from the Taliban, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Abdul Rashid Dostum.

After the Taliban came to power in 1996, Massoud returned to armed opposition. Mssoud rejected the Talibans radical interpretation of Islam. He became the leader of the Northern Alliance which allied with NATO during the war against the Taliban. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001, two days before the September 9/11 attacks in the US.

Afghan military people
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John Thierry

John Fitzgerald Thierry (September 4, 1971 – November 24, 2017) was a former professional American football defensive end player. He was born in Houston, Texas. He studied at Alcorn State University.

From 1994 through 1998, Thierry played for the Chicago Bears. In 1999, he played for the Cleveland Browns. From 2000 to 2001, he played for the Green Bay Packers. In 2002, he played for the Atlanta Falcons. During his career Thierry played in 131 games and started 70 of them recording 33.5 sacks and 158 tackles with 7 fumble recoveries. 

Thierry died on November 24, 2017 of a heart attack at the age of 46.

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Gudrun Pausewang

Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020) was a German writer for children and teens. 

She was also known in science fiction for Young-Adult novels such as The Last Children of Schewenborn. She was born in Mladkov, Czech Republic and was a teacher and emptied at German Schools in Chile and Venezuela, but above all at the German School of Barranquilla in Colombia; and traveled to North, Central and South America, including the Amazon Basin, Tierra del Fuego, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico. She died at the age of 91 near Bamberg in Germany. 

In 1988, her novel Die Wolke (The Cloud) won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis ("German Youth Literature Prize"), the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis ("Kurd Lasswitz Prize"), and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis ("German Science Fiction Prize") for Best Novel.

Her sister was writer and sociologist Freya Pausewang.

References

Other websites
 Gudrun Pausewang: Manna 
 TES magazine (Children's books; Arts) "What Alice discovered"  Interview with Gudrun Pausewang

1928 births
2020 deaths
German children's writers
German educators
German novelists
Science fiction writers
Anna Kuzmina

Anna Ivanovna Kuzmina (3 March 1933 – 25 November 2017) was a Russian actress and author. She was born in the Khangalassky District, Russia. She was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982) and People's Artist of the Republic of Sakha (2003). Her career began in 1955. Kuzmina was known for her role in Umnullubat sulustar ("Unfading Stars").

In movies, she starred in Motuo, Taiwan Island and in Yalylyylar.

Kuzmina died on 25 November 2017 in Yakutsk, Russia at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Кузьмина Анна Ивановна 

1933 births
2017 deaths
Russian movie actors
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Jaime Ortí

Jaime Ortí Ruiz (24 January 1947 – 24 November 2017) was a Spanish football businessman and sports commentator. He was born in Aldaya, Spain. He was one of the Presidents of the football team Valencia C.F.. He was believed to have created the term "Galácticos" to describe the Real Madrid team. He was also a sports commentator for Channel Nou.

Ortí died in Valencia, Spain on 24 November 2017 from lung cancer at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
Jaime Ortí: "En el Valencia se ha tirado el dinero, los presupuestos se deben equilibrar" from Las Provincias (16/03/2009) 

1947 births
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Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Spain
Spanish sportspeople
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Jackie Shroff

Jai Krishan Kakubhai Shroff (screen name: Jackie Shroff) is an Indian actor. He has been working for four decades (about 40 years) in the Bollywood film industry. He has appeared in about 220 films in various Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Kannada, Bengali, Konkani and Bhojpuri.

Film
In 1983, Shroff made his acting debut in Dev Anand's movie Swami Dada. In 1983, Subhash Ghai gave him a lead (main) role in the movie "Hero," which was a success and brought Shroff to the public's attention.

After Hero, he did several films, amongst which were Andar Baahar. Jaanoo and Yudh were successful. In 1986 he did Karma which became the highest-grossing(earning) film of 1986.  In 1985, he starred in Shiva Ka Insaaf, which was both India's first superhero movie and the first 3D movie filmed in the Hindi language.

Family

Shroff's son Tiger Shroff is an actor.  Shroff's daughter Krishna Shroff is an assistant director.

Awards
 1990: Won: Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Parinda
 1994: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Gardish
 1994: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Khalnayak
 1995: Won: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – 1942: A Love Story
 1996: Won: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Rangeela
 1997: Nominated: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Agni Sakshi
 2002: Nominated: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Yaadein
 2001: Nominated: Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role – Mission Kashmir
 2003: Nominated: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award – Devdas
 2007: Special Honour Jury Award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema
 2014: Won: The Original Rockstar GQ
 2016: Won: HT Most Stylish Living Legend Award.
 2017: Won: Raj Kapoor Award - Received by yesteryear actress Rakhee Gulzar: 30 April 2017.
 2017: Won: Received the 20th anniversary of JP Dutta's Border movie Award: 12th June 2017.

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Other websites

Indian actors
1957 births
Living people
Bertha Calloway

Bertha Calloway (July 14, 1925 – November 25, 2017) was an American community activist and historian. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Her works and civil rights activities happened in Omaha. Calloway was the founder of the Negro History Society and the Great Plains Black History Museum. Calloway won awards from several organizations for her activism in the community and Nebraska. 

Calloway died of pneumonia in Omaha on November 25, 2017 at the age of 92.

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Machiko Kyō

Machiko Kyō (京 マチ子 Kyō Machiko; March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019) was a Japanese actress who was mainly active in the 1950s. She was born in Osaka, Japan. She was known for her roles in Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) and Kon Ichikawa's Odd Obsession (1959). She also starred in The Teahouse of the August Moon opposite Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.

Her final role was as "Matsuura Shino" in the NHK television drama series Haregi Koko Ichiban in 2000.

Kyō died of heart failure on May 12, 2019 at the age of 95.

References

Other websites

 Photo gallery: Machiko Kyo in Japanese Film-fan Magazines of the 1950s 

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Deaths from heart failure
Japanese movie actors
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Zorlu Holding

Zorlu Holding is one of the biggest holding company in Turkey. It was founded by Hacı Mehmet Zorlu. The curret chairman of this holding company is Ahmet Nazif Zorlu.
Zorlu Holding companies are active in the areas of textiles, white goods and electronics manufacturing, energy, and financial services.

References 

Holding companies of Turkey
Product piracy

Product piracy or Brand piracy is the fact that goods with aname that is similar to a well-known brand are produced, and sold cheaper than the original brand. In the long run, the owner of the original brand name has a difficult time justifying the higher prices.

Property crimes
Piracy
Doğuş Group

Doğuş Group is one of the biggest holding company in Turkey which is founded by Ayhan Şahenk in 1951 and including one of Turkey's largest banks, Garanti Bank, retail and food stores, construction companies, and tourism.
the current chairman of this holding company is Ferit Şahenk.

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Holding companies of Turkey
Mathura district

Mathura district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This district is situated along the banks of the Yamuna River. The historic town of Mathura is the district's headquarters. This district is comes under the Agra division.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census of India Mathura district has a population of 2,541,894.This gives it a ranking of 167th in India (out of a total of 640 districts). Mathura is a Jaat dominated region with around 5.30 lakh Jaat.

Notable sites
Mathura district contains many important pilgrimage centres of Hinduism. The headquarters Mathura is one of the seven most holy places for Hindus in India.

References

Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Mirzapur district

Mirzapur district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.  The district occupies an area of 4521 km2. Mirzapur town is the district headquarters. Mirzapur district is a part of Mirzapur division. 

The district consists of four tehsils. These are Mirzapur (sadar), Lalganj, Marihan and Chunar. These four tehsils are further divided into twelve blocks.

According to the 2011 census Mirzapur district has a population of 2,494,533.

Notable sites
This district is known for the Vindhyavasini temple in Vindhyachal.

References

Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Intermediate value theorem

The intermediate value theorem says that if a function, , is continuous over a closed interval , and is equal to  and  at either end of the interval, for any number, c, between  and , we can find an  so that . 

This means that if a continuous function's sign changes in an interval, we can find a root of the function in that interval. For example, if  and , we can find an  in the interval  that is a root of this function, meaning that for this value of x, , if  is continuous. This corollary is called Bolzano's theorem.

References  

Mathematical theorems
Miroslav Lajčák

Miroslav Lajčák  (born 20 March 1963) is a Slovak diplomat. He is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session from September 2017 until his term expired in September 2018.

References

Other websites
 Official curriculum vitae of Lajčák  (as of 2012)

1963 births
Living people
Slovakian politicians
Ambassadors
Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
Wood Moy

Wood Moy (10 June 1918 – 8 November 2017) was a Chinese-born American actor. He was born in Guangzhou, China, but raised in New York City. He was known for his role as Jo in the movie Chan Is Missing (1982). He also appeared in Howard the Duck (1986), Class Action (1991) and as Mr. Lee in Final Analysis (1992).

Moy died in New York City on 8 November 2017 of pneumonia at the age of 99.

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1918 births
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Chinese movie actors
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Gene Kotlarek

Eugene Robert "Gene" Kotlarek (March 31, 1940 – November 9, 2017) was an American former ski jumper. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics with the best result of 14th place in the normal hill in 1964. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota.

Kotlarek died on November 9, 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the age of 77.

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1940 births
2017 deaths
American Olympians
American skiers
Sportspeople from Minnesota
Erika Remberg

Erika Remberg (15 February 1932 – 10 November 2017) was an Austrian movie actress. She appeared in 31 movies between 1950 and 1970. She was born in Medan, Indonesia. She was known for her roles in Circus of Horrors (1960), Saturday Night Out (1964), Cave of the Living Dead (1964) and The Lickerish Quartet (1970).

Remberg died on 10 November 2017 in Benidorm, Spain at the age of 85.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Austrian movie actors
Stefan Radt

Stefan Lorenz Radt (4 August 1927 − 22 November 2017) was a German-born Dutch historian of Jewish descent, author and academic who works in ancient Greek geography. He was born in Berlin, but was raised in The Hague. He was known for his books Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Strabons Geographika, and The Importance Of The Context.

He fled to the Netherlands in 1937.

Radt died in The Hague on 22 November 2017 at the age of 90.

References

Other websites
 http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4585551.Stefan_Radt
 http://www.v-r.de/en/stefan_radt/p-0/7996 

1927 births
2017 deaths
Dutch academics
Dutch historians
Dutch Jews
German Jews
Jewish academics
Jewish writers
Naturalised citizens of the Netherlands
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Ángel Berni

Ángel Antonio Berni Gómez (9 January 1931 – 24 November 2017) was a Paraguayan football striker. He played for national team, San Lorenzo, and for Real Betis. He was born in Asunción, Paraguay.

Berni died on 24 November 2017 in Asunción at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
Profile at Franjanegra 
Jugadores de San Lorenzo

1931 births
2017 deaths
Paraguayan footballers
Sotir Ferrara

Sotir Ferrara (5 December 1937 – 25 November 2017) was an Italian-Albanian religious leader. He was the Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy. He was born in Piana degli Albanesi, Italy. On 15 October 1988 he was elected by the Pope John Paul II to the bishopric of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi.

Ferrara died in Tirana, Albania on 25 November 2017 at the age of 79.

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1937 births
2017 deaths
Albanian people
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Bishops
Milein Cosman

Emilie Cosman, known as Milein Cosman, (31 March 1921 – 21 November 2017) was a German-born British artist. She was born in Gotha, Germany. She was best known for her drawings and prints of leading cultural figures, dancers and musicians in action, such as Francis Bacon, Mikhail Baryshnikov, T. S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky.

Cosman died in London on 21 November 2017 at the age of 96.

References

Other websites
 Works in the National Portrait Gallery
 Milein Cosman's page at Camden Printmakers
 Interview with Milein Cosman on BBC radio
 Milein Cosman at Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library

1921 births
2017 deaths
Illustrators
German artists
British artists