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Anne Veski

Anne Veski (born Anne Vaarmann; 27 February 1956) is an Estonian pop singer. She has sung in Estonian, Russian, and Polish.

Family 
Veski is married to her second husband, Benno Beltšikov, who also is her manager. Veski was previously married to Jaak Veski (1956–1994) from 1977 tae 1981. She has a daughter, Kerli. Kerli is a diplomat an has worked at the Estonian Consulate in Moscow. Veski also has two grandchildren via Kerli.

Discography 
 "Ingleid ei..." (2009)
 "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. Я НЕ ТАКАЯ" (2007)
 "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. РАДОВАТЬСЯ ЖИЗНИ" "ИМЕНА НА ВСЕ ВРЕМЕНА" (2007)
 DVD "ANNE VESKI. ROOSIAIA KUNINGANNA" (2006)
 DVD "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. НИ О ЧЕМ НЕ ЖАЛЕЙТЕ" (2006)
 "ANNE VESKI. 60 parimat laulu - EESTI KULLAFOND" (3 platinum CD; 2006)
 "Ни о чем не жалейте" (2004)
 Анне Вески, Имена на все времена (2003)
 "Lootus" (2003)  
 Не грусти, человек (2002)
 Анне Вески, Звезды советской эстрады (2001)  
 Grand Collection (2001)
 Armukarneval (2000)  
 Star Collection (2000)  
 "Туннель под Ла-Маншем" (1996)
 Калейдоскоп (1994)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1985)  
 "Анне Вески" (1994)   
 "Анне Вески и Мюзик-Сейф" 
 "Я вас благодарю", "Анне Вески и ансамбль Немо" (1988)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1986) 
 "Я обещаю вам сады" (1985) 
 "Я обещаю вам сады"
 "Позади крутой поворот" (1984) 
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1984) 
 "Поет Анне Вески"
 "Anne Veski" (1983)

Other websites 
Official websites in Estonian  and Russian

 

1956 births
Living people
Estonian singers
Luciana Echeverría

Luciana Andrea Echeverría Christie (born 12 July 1991 in Cauquenes) is a Chilean actress, singer and television presenter.

Filmography

Movies

Television

Shows 
 Cubox (Canal 13, 2010) - Herself/Presenter

Other websites 
 

1991 births
People from Maule Region
Living people
Chilean television actors
Chilean movie actors
Chilean television presenters
Chilean singers
Francisco José Urrutia Holguín

Francisco José Urrutia Holguín (28 May 1910 – 19 October 1981) was a Colombian-Ecuadorian lawyer and diplomat. He served as 7th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, 11th Colombia Ambassador to United States, as well as Ambassador to Venezuela and Argentina.

Holguín was born on 28 May 1910 in Quito, Ecuador. He studied at National University of Columbia. Holguín was married Genoveva Montoya Williamson on 18 July 1934 in Bogotá. Together had five children: Francisco, María Lourdes, Jorge, Miguel, and Jaime. Holguín died on 19 October 1981 in Bogotá, Colombia, aged 71.

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1910 births
1981 deaths
Ambassadors of Colombia
Colombian lawyers
People from Quito
United Empire Loyalists

United Empire Loyalists were people living in the 13 colonies in what was British North America in the 1770s who did not agree with the American Revolution.

Many residents of the colonies (possibly a majority) either were not in complete agreement with the Revolution and its leaders, or were against it. Some of them actively worked against it, supporting King George III and the British Government. These people became known as "Tories". In many of the colonies, those who openly expressed being against the Revolution and those who joined militias loyal to King George were declared to be outlaws, and their properties taken away by the people favouring the Revolution. 

Some of these people wanted to remain in a place that was still part of the British Empire, so they moved to what is now Canada. In many places there they received a warm welcome and became a valued part of their new home area. Many of them have maintained social groups which are limited to people whose ancestors were some of these people, and they are still called "United Empire Loyalists".

American Revolutionary War
British North America

British North America was the British-owned part of the continent of North America. This term was mostly used before the American Revolution.  

In 1759, after winning the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Britain took control of the colony of New France. After this, British North America also included New France. 

After the American Revolution, some people still used the term to refer to what is now the country of Canada. In fact, the Canadian Constitution was first called the "British North America Act 1867" (which first became a law in 1867). 

British Empire
History of North America
Millard Mitchell

Millard Mitchell (August 14, 1903 – October 13, 1953) was an American actor. He is known for his roles in My Six Convicts and in A Foreign Affair. He won a Golden Globe Award in 1952.

Mitchell was born on August 14, 1903 in Havana, Cuba to American parents. He was married to Peggy Gould until his death in 1953. Mitchell died on October 13, 1953 in Santa Monica, California from lung cancer, aged 50.

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1903 births
1953 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
People from Havana
Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress. She was known for her roles in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 for her role in The More the Merrier.

Arthur was born on October 17, 1900 in Plattsburgh, New York. She is of Norwegian-English descent. Arthur was raised in Westbrook, Maine. 

She was married to Julian Anker from 1928 until they annulled their marriage in 1928. Then she was married to Frank Ross, Jr. from 1932 until they divorced in 1949. Arthur died on June 19, 1991 in Carmel, California from heart failure, aged 90.

References

Other websites

 Literature on Jean Arthur
 Turner Classic Movies "Star of the Month" Profile
 Soares, Andre: Jean Arthur on TCM, Alternative Film Guide
 Gouveia, Michele: The Girl with the Croak: Jean Arthur
 Atkinson, Michael: Jean Therapy

1900 births
1991 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American silent movie actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
Actors from New York
Actors from Maine
Howell Heflin

Howell Thomas Heflin (June 19, 1921 – March 29, 2005) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States Senate from Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Heflin was born on June 19, 1921 in Poulan, Georgia. He was raised in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Heflin studied at Birmingham-Southern College and at University of Alabama School of Law.

Heflin was married to Elizabeth Ann Heflin until his death in 2005. They had one son. Heflin died on March 29, 2005 in Sheffield, Alabama from a heart attack, aged 83.

References

Other websites

Oral History Interview with Howell Heflin from Oral Histories of the American South

1921 births
2005 deaths
American Methodists
American military personnel of World War II
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Tuscumbia, Alabama
Politicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
Purple Heart recipients
United States senators from Alabama
US Democratic Party politicians
Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor. He won an Academy Award for his role in A Double Life.

Biography 
Colman was born on 9 February 1891 in Richmond, Surrey, England. He studied at Cambridge University. 

Colman was married to Thelma Raye from 1920 until they divorced in 1934. Then he was married to Benita Hume from 1938 until his death in 1958. They had one daughter. Colman died on 19 May 1958 in Santa Barbara, California from emphysema, aged 67.

Other websites

Ronald Colman at Virtual History
Official website

1891 births
1958 deaths
Deaths from emphysema
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English radio actors
Actors from Surrey
Academy Award winning actors
Education in Cuba

Education in Cuba has been a high priority for the government for many years. The University of Havana was founded in 1727.  There are also some well-established colleges and universities. For the 1959 revolution, the Castro government nationalized all educational institutions. They created a system operated completely by the government. Their strong ideological content is present. Also the constitution states that educational and cultural policy is based on Marxist ideology.

According to UNESCO, Cuba spends about 10 percent of its budget on education. This is compared with 4 percent in the United Kingdom and 2 percent in the United States.

References

Other websites
Cuban Education in Figures, 1958-2000 
Information on education in Cuba from Cuba-Junky.com
Cuban ministry for Education website
Photos of Cuban education  

Cuba
Cuba
Education in North America
Morganatic marriage

A morganatic marriage is a marriage between a royal person and a non-royal person, where the husband's titles and privileges do not go to the wife or any children they have. There are not many morganatic marriages any more. A morganatic marriage is sometimes called a left-handed marriage because in the wedding ceremony the groom usually held his bride's right hand with his left hand instead of his right.

References

Marriage
Royalty and nobility
Cheranmadevi

Cheranmahadevi is a panchayat town in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is in the Tirunelveli district, on the banks of the river Thamirabarani. The town has many temples. In the 2001 census of India, Cheranmadevi had a population of 16,320. About 49% of the population were men, and 51% were women. Cheranmahadevi has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. About 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Cheranmahadevi is part of the Tiruchendur Lok Sabha constituency.

References

Settlements in Tamil Nadu
K. Kamaraj

Kumarasami Kamaraj  (), better known as K. Kamaraj (15 July 1903 – 2 October 1975), was an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu. He was an important figure in Indian politics during the 1960s. He was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

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1903 births
1975 deaths
Tamil Nadu politicians
Nanguneri

Nanguneri is a panchayat town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nanguneri is located in Tirunelveli district, about  from the headquarters of the district. The place became important for its famous Vaishnavite temple, which is commonly known as Totadri Mutt.

Nanguneri has an average elevation of 141 metres (462 feet). As of the census of India, Nanguneri had a population of 6,764. About 49% of the population were men, and 51% were women. Nanguneri has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. About 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Towns in India
Settlements in Tamil Nadu
Tirunelveli district

Tirunelveli district is a district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Tirunelveli is the district headquarters. Tirunelveli District was formed on 1 September 1790 by the East India Company (on behalf of the British government), and comprised the present Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi and thenkasi districts and parts of Virudhunagar district and Ramanathapuram districts.  It is the second-largest district (as of October 2008), after Villupuram district. As of 2011, the district had a population of 3,077,233.

Reference
Panchayat town

A Panchayat Town or Town Panchayat is a type of town in India. It refers to any small town which is formed under the Panchayati raj administrative system. It will have under 25,000 people living there. In census data, the abbreviation T.P. is used to indicate a "Town Panchayat". Tamil Nadu was the first state to introduce the panchayat town as an intermediate step between rural villages and Urban Local Bodies (ULB).

Management
Each state of India has an organisation that manages panchayat towns.
 Karnataka: Directorate of Municipal Administration
 Kerala: Local Self Government Department
 Tamil Nadu: Directorate of Town Panchayats

Notes

Local government
India
Translocation (botany)

Translocation in vascular plants means the movement of organic molecules and some mineral ions.  Movement of water from the soil to the leaves occurs in xylem vessels as the result of Transpiration. Transpiration, the evaporation of water from leaves, causes a pull on the water column due to the forces of cohesion between water molecules formed due to hydrogen bonds which causes the water to move upwards. Organic materials,  mainly produced in the leaves, are moved around the plant in the living cells of the phloem by a process called translocation.

Unlike xylem (which is composed of dead cells), the phloem is composed of still-living cells that transport sap.  Sap is a water-based solution, rich in sugars made by the photosynthesis. These sugars are transported to non-photosynthetic parts of the plant, such as the roots, or into storage structures, such as tubers or bulbs.

The 'pressure flow' hypothesis was proposed by Ernst Münch in 1930 to explain the mechanism of phloem translocation. Leaves photosynthesize, making sugars. Water moves into the sugar-laden sieve-tube cells with sugar by osmosis. This creating pressure that pushes the sap down the sieve tube. When the sugar reaches cells that need it, the cells actively transport sugars out of the sieve-tube elements.

During the plant's growth period, usually during the spring, storage organs such as the roots are sugar sources, and the plant's many growing areas are sugar sinks. The movement in phloem is multi-directional, whereas, in xylem cells, it is one-directional (upwards). Other molecules like amino acids, hormones, and even messenger RNAs are also transported in the phloem through sieve tube elements.

References  

Plant physiology
List of classical music composers by period

This is a list of classical music composers by era.

Medieval era

Renaissance era

Baroque era

Classical era

Romantic era

20th century 

Composers by era

Composers, classical
Music history
Boulogne

Boulogne might mean any of these different places in France;

Boulogne, Vendée, a commune in the Vendée department
Boulogne-Billancourt, a town in the Hauts-de-Seine department
Boulogne-sur-Mer, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department
Zuffa

Zuffa, LLC () is an American sports promotion company of mixed martial arts. It was founded in January 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada by Station Casinos executives Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta to be the parent entity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) after they purchased it from the Semaphore Entertainment Group. Lorenzo Fertitta is the company's CEO and Chairman while Dana White runs the day-to-day operations.
Zuffa is co-owned by Fertitta brothers (40.5% each), Dana White (9%) and Sheik Tahnoon of Abu Dhabi (Flash Entertainment) (10%).

Zuffa is credited around the world for turning around the UFC and increasing the status of mixed martial arts in the United States from one with a limited audience and regional competitions to a multi-million dollar company with millions of viewers and internationally popular events.

The word "Zuffa" is an Italian word, meaning "scuffle"

References

2001 establishments in the United States
Mixed martial arts organizations
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Las Vegas, Nevada
2000s establishments in Nevada
Zither

A zither is a stringed musical instrument. The word 'Zither' is a German rendering of the Greek word cithara, from which the modern word "guitar" also derives. Historically, it has been applied to any instrument of the cittern family, or an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body – similar to a psaltery. This article describes the second variety.

Zithers are played by strumming or plucking the strings, either with the fingers (sometimes using an accessory called a plectrum or pick), sounding the strings with a bow, or, with varieties of the instrument like the santur or cimbalom, by beating the strings with specially shaped hammers. Like a guitaror lute, a zither's body serves as a resonating chamber (sound box), but, unlike guitars and lutes, a zither lacks a distinctly separate neck assembly. The number of strings varies, from one to more than fifty.

In modern common usage the term "zither" refers to three specific instruments: the concert zither (German: Konzertzither), its variant the Alpine zither (both using a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a fretless zither or "guitar zither"). Concert and Alpine zithers are traditionally found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, France, north-western Croatia, the southern regions of Germany and alpine Europe. Emigration from these areas during the 19th century introduced the concert and Alpine zither to North and South America. Chord zithers similar to the instrument in the photograph also became popular in North America during the late 19th and early 20th century. These variants all use metal strings, similar to the cittern.

String instruments
Composite Compound 4

Composite Compound 4 (often abbreviated to C4) is a kind of plastic explosive, which is often used in military operations. C4 is malleable: It can be given almost any form. It can also be handled safely, as neither fire, electricity nor shock will cause an explosion. C4 will explode if force and heat are combined. Because C4 can be given almost any form, additives are used, so that it can be detected more easily. Some of these additives have a distinctive odor, which can be detected by specially trained dogs. Another additive that is used often is metallic powder: This powder can be detected by metal detectors.

Explosives
Additive

In chemistry, an additive is a substance that is added to a mixture or compound to change the properties of that mixture or compound. Food additives are used to improve food.

Chemistry
Semtex

Semtex is a plastic explosive, often used for construction work. It is made of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate and RDX. 

Explosives
John S. McCain Jr.

John Sidney "Jack" McCain Jr. (January 17, 1911 – March 22, 1981) was a United States Navy admiral. He served in conflicts from the 1940s through the 1970s, including as the Commander, United States Pacific Command. He is the father of John McCain.

McCain, Jr. was born on January 17, 1911 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His father was John S. McCain, Sr.. He was raised in Washington, D.C.. McCain studied at Central High School. McCain was married to Roberta McCain from 1933 until his death in 1981. They had three children. McCain died on March 22, 1981 while on a plane in the middle of the North Atlantic after having a heart attack, aged 70.

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1911 births
1981 deaths
American people of World War II
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Iowa
People from Washington, D.C.
Roberta McCain

Roberta Wright McCain (February 7, 1912 – October 12, 2020) was the widow of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. and mother of the late Republican Arizona Senator and two-time Presidential candidate John S. McCain III.

McCain was born on February 7, 1912 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She had a twin sister. McCain was married to John S. McCain, Jr. from 1933 until his death in 1981. They had three children. On October 22, 2009, she was hospitalized in Portugal after she fell and injured her head.

McCain died on October 12, 2020 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 108.

References

Other websites
McCain's Mother, CNN, February 28, 2000.
Shaping Character and Destinies: John McCain, National Public Radio, by Terry Gross, December 6, 2005.
McCain highlights mother's age on Mother's Day May 14, 2007.
Play of the Day: McCain's Mom on Mormons, November 9, 2007
Ancestry of Sen. John McCain
"The Firecracker", Style.com (condensed version of article for Vogue).  August 2008.

1912 births
2020 deaths
American centenarians
People from Oklahoma
Twin people from the United States
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (movie)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 British-American historical drama movie. It is based on the book of the same name by John Boyne. The movie is directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman. It stars Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Amber Beattie, Richard Johnson and Rupert Friend.

The movie is about a boy whose father is a soldier during the World War II. They decided to move to a new house so that the father can work near the concentration camps. The son likes to explore and he comes to meet a Jewish boy who lives in the concetration camp. One day, he decides to go into the camp and accidentally enters a gas chamber and dies along with all prisoners.

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2008 drama movies
2000s war movies
American drama movies
American war movies
British drama movies
British war movies
English-language movies
2000s historical movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in Germany
Movies set in the 1940s
World War II movies
Iverna Codina

Iverna Codina (born June 15, 1912 in Quillota – died August 14, 2010 in Buenos Aires) was a Chilean-born Argentine writer.

Literary works 
 1946 - Canciones de lluvia y cielo
 1950 - Mas allá de las horas 
 1952 - Después del llanto 
 1956 - La Luna ha muerto 
 1960 - Detrás del grito 
 1964 - América en la novela
 1966 - La enlutada
 1968 - Los guerrilleros 
 1975 - Cuento La cruz negra
 Un barco en la bahía 
 Diez años de exilio

Sources 
 Cunietti, Emma Magdalena "Habitantes de frontera en la literatura mendocina" Revista Universum nro 14, 1999, Universidad de Talca.
 Azurduy, Victoria. "Iverna Codina, una exploradora de la realidad". La revista del CCC [en línea]. Mayo / Diciembre 2010, n° 9/10. Actualizado: 2010-10-20 [citado 2011-02-01]. ISSN 1851-3263.

1912 births
People from Quillota
2010 deaths
Argentine writers
Sterilization (microbiology)

Sterilization is the removal of all microbes, commonly practiced in medicine. For example, dipping an object in boiling water or pasteurizing something are forms of sterilization.

Microbiology
Para-alpine skiing classification

Para-alpine skiing classification is the order system for para-Alpine skiing designed to give equal competition between alpine skiers with different types of limited physical powers. The system of ordering are grouped into three general condition of being unable sorts: stand, unable to see and being seated. Group selection is done by International Paralympic Committee AlpineSkiing. Prior to that, several groups dealt with this including the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD), International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMWSF), International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CP-ISRA). Some order systems are persons given government by bodies other than International Paralympic Committee Alpine skiing, such as the Special Olympics. The sport is open to all competitors with a no seeing or physical condition of being unable stand. It is not open to people with intellectual disabilities.

 
The first order systems for para-Alpine sking were made in Scandinavia in the 1960s, with early systems designed for skiers with no legs or arms. At the time, necessary things had yet to be done to let skiers with spinal cord wounds ski. The purpose of the early order systems was to be made around use of arms and legs but ended up being a medical order system. At the first Winter Paralympics in 1976, there were two groups in the system of ordering for the sport. By the 1980s, groups had existence for skiers with cerebral palsy. At that time, with inspiration from wheelchair basketball classification, efforts were made to make order more of an able to use better system. Ten groups had existence by the 1980s, and since then, efforts have been made to make better the doing work well of order by making fewer the number of classes so fewer medals can be rewarded.

Competition rules for groups use rules made by or are an adjustment from rules by the International Ski Federation. For skiers with seeing problems, guides are used to help the skier down the mountain. For standing skiers, different part rules come to a decision about what sort of necessary things is let in competition, such as one long stick, two sticks or no sticks, or one or two skis.  Seated skiers use a specially designed ski for going over snow quickly called a mono-ski.  Skiers are put in a group based on medical, and their body position when they ski. Unable to see skiers are put in order only on a medical.

References

Paralympic Games
Skiing
Jeremy Shada

Jeremy Shada (born January 21, 1997, in Boise, Idaho, US) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his work as Finn the Human from the American animated television series Adventure Time.

Biography
Jeremy Shada began acting at the age of seven soon after moving to Los Angeles with his family. He was inspired to act by his older brother Zack Shada, who had begun acting himself. Shada initially appeared in commercials. Later on, he began auditioning for voice acting and theatrical performances, taking the advice from a voice over agent. His first live action theatrical role was as Young Kurt Diamond in No Rules.   He has since appeared in additional live action and voice acting roles, such as playing Charlie Pace in childhood flashbacks on Lost. 

In 2009, Jeremy Shada's agent approached him with the idea of auditioning for the role of Finn. Both recognized that Zack Shada had been the original voice of Finn in the pilot episode of Adventure Time three years before. After viewing the pilot on YouTube, Shada matched his voice with the voice of Zack Shada in auditions with Adventure Time's creator Pendleton Ward and the show's producers, earning him the Finn role.  In 2012, Shada joined the cast of Nick Cannon's comedy sketch Incredible Crew. In June 2012, to promote Incredible Crew's 2013 premiere, Cartoon Network released a music rap video titled "Running Errands with My Mom" which features Shada performing and rapping the lyric. The video has since generated over one million views. 

Because of his acting schedule, Shada was homeschooled. Answering fan questions on his Facebook page, Shada indicated that he graduated from high school early in May 2013.

Filmography

References

Other websites

1997 births
American child actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Living people
Singers from Idaho
Actors from Idaho
People from Boise, Idaho
Teresita Reyes

Teresita Reyes (born February 4, 1948) is a Chilean actress.

Filmography

Movies 
 Sussi (1987)
 Te amo (Made in Chile) (2001)
 Promedio rojo (2004)
 Normal con Alas (2007)

Television

Other websites 
 

1948 births
People from Puerto Montt
Living people
Chilean television actors
Chilean movie actors
Chilean stage actors
Isabella Acres

Isabella Acres (born February 21, 2001) is an American actress who played Rose on Better Off Ted.

Acres was born in Atlanta, where she discovered her love for acting in children's theater. She then relocated to Los Angeles. Acres' little sister, Ava, is also an actress.

Acres is best known for her series regular role as Rose Crisp on Better Off Ted, the seven-year-old daughter of Ted (Jay Harrington) who is often the most mature person at his home and workplace. The show's first season finished in August 2009, with a second picked up for January 2010.

Acres also appeared on an episode of Monk in 2007, and single episodes of The Mentalist where she plays Patrick Jane's (Simon Baker) daughter and on the hit television show Hannah Montana. Acres was nominated for Best Performance in a TV Series, Guest Starring Young Actress at the Young Artist Awards 2009 for her performance in The Mentalist.

She currently can be seen in the recurring role of Soleil Friedman in the second season of the Fox television series Touch.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

Other websites 
 

2001 births
Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
American child actors
American television actors
Living people
American movie actors
Chapman Pincher

Harry Chapman Pincher (29 March 1914 – 5 August 2014) was an Indian-born British journalist, historian, and novelist.

Early life 
Pincher was born on 29 March 1914 in Ambala, Punjab. His father was from Britain and his mother was American. Pincher studied at Darlington Grammar School and King's College London.

His work 
Pinker wrote a series of books on supposed KGB spies in the West, mostly members of the British ruling class whom he believed were traitors in the service of the KGB. Among these were Roger Hollis, former head of MI5, and Harold Wilson, twice Prime Minister in the 1960s and 70s.

Many of these ideas had come from James Jesus Angleton, former CIA counterespionage chief. Angleton's career ended when his many allegations were not supported with appropriate evidence. Among his more outrageous claims was that Canadian Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau were agents of the Soviet Union.

Another source was Peter Wright, a former assistant director of MI5. The British Government tried to prevent the publication of Wright's own Spycatcher (1987), which covered much the same ground as Pincher's Their trade is treachery. Wright had published in Australia, and the Australian court case ran on for years with no success. In the event, nothing was proved against Hollis, who was the main target of Their trade is treachery. Later British Prime Ministers stated that Hollis was a loyal servant of the Crown, and that a great injustice had been done to him by the Pincher and Wright books.

Death 
Pincher died on 5 August 2014 at the age of 100.

References 

1914 births
2014 deaths
British journalists
British historians
British centenarians
Margot Kahl

Margot Inge Kahl Pingel (born January 9, 1961 in Puerto Varas) is a Chilean engineer and television presenter.

TV programs

Other websites 
 

1961 births
People from Puerto Varas
Living people
Chilean television presenters
Chilean engineers
John S. McCain Sr.

John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (August 9, 1884 – September 6, 1945) was a United States Navy admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific campaign of World War II. His son was John S. McCain, Jr. and his grandson is John McCain.

McCain, Sr. was born on August 9, 1884 in Carroll County, Mississippi. He studied at the University of Mississippi and at the United States Military Academy at West Point. McCain, Sr. was married to Catherine Davey Vaulx from 1909 until his death in 1945. They had one child. McCain died on September 6, 1945 in Coronado, California from a heart attack, aged 61.

Other websites
 John Sidney McCain at arlingtoncemetery.net site 

1884 births
1945 deaths
American military personnel of World War I
American military personnel of World War II
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Mississippi
Our Lady of La Vang

Our Lady of La Vang was a reported Marian apparition (a supernatural appearance of the Virgin Mary) in Vietnam. The appearance was reported at a time when Catholics were being persucted and killed in Vietnam. In Vietnamese she is called  or .

Name 
Modern scholars believe the name came from a plant in the area (La means "leaf" and Vang means "herbal seeds"). Others believe the name came from a Vietnamese word that meant "crying out" as if the Vietnamese Catholics at that time were "crying out" to God for help. Some believe the name came from the rainforest's name La Vang.

History 
Fearing the spread of Catholicism, Emperor Canh Thinh banned the practice of Catholicism. Soon thereafter the emperor made an anti-Catholic edict which made the practice of Catholicism punishable by death. Many Catholics sought refuge in the rainforest  of La Vang in Quang Tri Province. While hiding in the rainforest, the small community would gather every night at the foot of a tree and pray. One night, an apparition surprised them. In the branches of the tree, a lady dressed in the traditional Vietnamese dress (ao dai), holding an infant in her arms with two angels beside her, appeared. The people who witnessed this apparition said that the lady and the infant was the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. They said that the lady comforted them and told them to boil the leaves from the tree for medicine to cure the illness.

In 1802, many of the Catholics went back to their villages, spreading the story of the apparition. Soon, many people came back to the site to offer incense and to pray. In 1820, a chapel was built. From 1830- 1885 another wave of persecutions decimated the Catholic population. The chapel of Our Lady of La Vang was destroyed and in 1886 a new chapel was built.

Vatican recognition 
There is no official recognition from the Vatican for this as a "Marian apparition". Although there is no official recognition, Pope John Paul II publicly recognized the importance of Our Lady of La Vang and expressed a desire to rebuild the La Vang Basilica to honor the 200th anniversary of the first apparition.

Catholicism
Marian apparitions
Religion in Vietnam
Nicolas Berejny

Nicolas Berejny (born 27 June 1968)  is a skier from France.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. He was the third skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.  Because he cannot see, Gregory Nouhaud was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain.

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1968 births
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Chris Williamson

Chris Williamson (born 5 May 1972)  is a skier from Canada.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the second skier to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. He was the second skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race. He was the third skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race. He was the third skier to finish in the slalom race. Because he cannot see, Robin Femy was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain. He also skied in the 2010 Winter Paralympics and was the fourth skier to finish the  Giant Slalom, the sixth skier to finish the Slalom and the sixth to finish in the Super G, Visually Impaired. Nick Brush helped him down the mountain.like how Robin Femy did.

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Canadian sportspeople
Canadian skiers
1972 births
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Ignacio Gutiérrez

Ignacio Gutiérrez (born 1976 in Constitución) is a Chilean journalist and television presenter.

Television

Other websites 
 

1976 births
People from Maule Region
Living people
Chilean journalists
Chilean television presenters
Vincent Gauthier-Manuel

Nicolas Berejny (born 6 April 1986) is a skier from France.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the second skier to finish in the standing men's downhill race. He was the second skier to finish in the men's standing Super-G race. He was the first skier to finish in the men's standing Super Combined race and the slalom race.

References

French skiers
1986 births
Living people
Our Lady of Good Health

Our Lady of Good Health is the name given to an apparition of the Virgin Mary believed to have appeared in the town of Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu, India. She is also known as Our Lady of Vailankanni and Holy Mother of Good Health. Her name in the Tamil language is  (Arokia Matha).

The Feast day of Our Lady of Good Health is on the same day as the birthday of the Virgin Mary (September 8).

The three miraculous events 
Although there is no written record of these three events, the oral tradition is that there were three apparitions. Two were during the 16th century and one in the 17th century.

First appearance  
The first apparition was in the town of Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu. It is said that a Hindu boy was resting under a banyan tree near a pond. While he was resting, a woman with an infant on her hand came to him and asked him for milk. The boy agreed and ran off to get the milk. When he came back, he apologized for his lateness and the reduced amount of milk due to an accident when he was coming back with the milk. However, on inspection the boy found the pot of milk to be full and was convinced a miracle happened. Together a man, also a Hindu, and the boy went back to the pond where the apparition had occurred. Again, the Lady appeared with her child. On learning that it was the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus who appeared to the boy, the residents of the local Roman Catholic community became ecstatic and renamed the pond  (Our Lady's Pond).

Second appearance 
Later towards the end of the 16th century, it is believed the Virgin Mary appeared to a crippled boy (and also a son of a widow) in a place called Thittu, once again in the same town of Vailankanni. The boy is said to have offered buttermilk to the Virgin Mary and then he was cured of his illness. The boy was then commanded by Mary to tell a Catholic gentleman in the nearby town of Nagapattinam. The first shrine was built by this Catholic gentleman.

Third appearance 
The third appearance of the Virgin Mary was in the 17th century. A Portuguese merchant vessel was sailing from Macau in China to Colombo in Sri Lanka. When the vessel was sailing, it was caught in a storm in the Bay of Bengal. The sailors vowed to build a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary if they could reach land safely. The legend claimed that the sea became quiet and they reached safety on the shore of Vailankanni on the Virgin Mary's birthday, September 8. Because of their vow to the Virgin Mary, the Portuguese sailors put up a chapel at Vailankanni by transforming the last small shrine built by the last Catholic gentleman.

Catholicism
History of Tamil Nadu
Marian apparitions
Vanessa Aguilera

Vanessa Nathaly Aguilera Castro (born October 31, 1989 in Temuco) is a Chilean singer, songwriter and actress.

Television

Programs

Discography

Soloist

with BKN 
 BKN (2004)
 La amistad sigue creciendo (2004)
 Lo mejor de / The best of (2006)
 Cambia el mundo (2009)

Other websites 

1989 births
People from La Araucanía Region
Living people
Chilean singers
Chilean television actors
Songwriters
Thomas Pfyl

Thomas Pfyl (born January 1, 1987) is a skier from Switzerland.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the standing men's downhill race,  Super-G race, and the Super Combined race.

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Swiss sportspeople
Skiers
1987 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Akira Kano

Akira Kano  (狩野 亮 Kanō Akira?) (born March 14, 1986) is a skier from Japan.  He has a disability and uses a wheelchair.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the sitting men's downhill race.

References

Japanese skiers
1986 births
Living people
Taiki Morii

Taiki Morii   (森井 大輝 Morii Taiki?) (born July 9, 1980)  is a skier from Japan.  He has a disability and uses a wheelchair.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.  He was the first skier to finish in the Giant Slalom race, and was the second skier to finish in the sitting men's downhill race and the Super-G race.

References

Japanese skiers
1980 births
Living people
Robin Femy

Robin Femy (born 19 October 1989) is a skier from Canada. He helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go on a mountain.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Chris Williamson. They were the third skiers to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. They were the second skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race. They were the third skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race. They were the third skiers to finish in the slalom race.

References

Canadian skiers
Living people
1989 births
Sighted guides
Gregory Nouhaud

Gregory Nouhaud (born 26 August 1982) is a skier from France.  He helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go on a mountain.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Nicolas Berejny. They were the first skiers to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. They were the third skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.

References

French skiers
Living people
1982 births
Sighted guides
Miguel Galindo Garcés

Miguel Galindo Garces (born 1981) is a skier from Spain.  He helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go on a mountain.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Jon Santacana Maiztegui. They were the second skiers to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. They were the first skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race, the Giant Slalom race and the Super Combined race. They were the second skiers to finish in the slalom race.

References

Spanish skiers
1981 births
Living people
Spanish Paralympic gold medalists
Spanish Paralympic silver medalists
2010 Winter Paralympics
2006 Winter Paralympics
2002 Winter Paralympics
Sighted guides
Competitors at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Quarantine

Quarantine is where animals, people or an area of land are isolated to prevent the spread of disease or pests. Countries often stop animals and plants from being brought in from elsewhere, unless they are known not to carry a disease.

Background
The word "quarantine" comes from quarantena, the Venetian language meaning "forty days". This is because of the 40-day isolation of ships and people practiced as a measure of disease prevention related to the plague.

It is different from medical isolation, which is for people who have been infected with the disease.

The quarantining of people often raises questions of civil rights.  Quarantine can have bad psychological effects on the quarantined.  These include post-traumatic stress disorder, confusion and anger.

COVID-19 

Self quarantine (or self-isolation) is a term that became popular during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, which spread to most countries in 2020.  Citizens were either encouraged or forced by law to stay home to lower the spread of the disease.  Some countries went into lockdowns as a form of quarantine.

, more than 280 million people, or about 86% of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India.

Related pages
 medical isolation
 Stay-at-home order

References

Other websites
  – Hardback ; paperback 
 Emerging Infectious Diseases – Contents, Volume 11, Number 2 , February 2005
 Quarantine for SARS, Taiwan , February 2005, wwwnc.cdc.gov
 History of quarantine (from PBS NOVA)
 

Infectious diseases
Security
History of medicine
Jakub Krako

Jakub Krako  (born July 7, 1990) is a skier from Slovakia.  He has a disability: he cannot see things.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. He was the second skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race and the Giant Slalom race. He was the first skier to finish in the slalom race. Because he cannot see, Dusan Simo was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain.

References

Slovakian skiers
1990 births
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Takeshi Suzuki

Takeshi Suzuki   (鈴木 猛史 Suzuki Takeshi?) (born May 1, 1988) is a skier from Japan.  He has a disability and uses a wheelchair.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the sitting men's Super Combined race and in the slalom race.  He was the second skier to finish in the Giant Slalom.

References

Japanese skiers
1988 births
Living people
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Erode Venkata Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also called Periyar, Thanthai Periyar or E. V. R. by his followers, was an Indian philosopher , politician, independence and social activist. He started the Self-Respect Movement or the Dravidian Movement and proposed the creation of an independent state called Dravida Nadu, comprising the states of South India. He is also the founder of the socio-cultural organisation, Dravidar Kazhagam.

Periyar was born in Erode, Madras Presidency in a rich family. At a young age, he witnessed many incidents of racial, caste and gender discrimination. Periyar married when he was 19, and had a daughter who lived for only 5 months. His first wife, Nagammai, died in 1933. Periyar married for a second time in July 1948. His second wife, Maniammai, continued Periyar's social work after his death in 1973, but still his thoughts and ideas were being spread by Dravidar Kazhagam.

Periyar fought for the Tamil language, Tamil people and for their rights until his death. He was against Brahmin for their caste and religious following. Periyar organised anti-Hindi protests in 1938, against the introduction of Hindi as a compulsory language of study in schools. Now in the present days the Periyar's followers are increasing more all over the world among the Tamil people, due to their interest in Tamil language and history behind them.

Tamil activists
1879 births
1973 deaths
Tamil Nadu politicians
Yohann Taberlet

Yohann Taberlet  (born March 29, 1981) is a skier from France.  He has a disability and uses a wheelchair.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. He was the second skier to finish in the men's sitting slalom race and was the third skier to finish in the sitting men's Super Combined race.

References

French skiers
1981 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Toby Kane

Toby Kane (born 30 December 1986) is a skier from Australia.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the standing men's slalom race.

References

Australian skiers
1986 births
Living people