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Tet Offensive

The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that started on 30 January 1968. It was fought by the communist forces of the Viet Cong in in South Vietnam, aided by North Vietnam, against the South Vietnamese government, aided by the United States and other allies.

Its purpose was to surprise the enemy with attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers in South Vietnam.

Eventually, the Americans and the South Vietnamese managed to fight off the communist forces for a military victory. However, the massive fighting during the Tet Offensive mad most Americans go from supporting the fighting in Vietnam to opposing it. The military and the government had told US citizens that the their country was close to winning. After that was disproved by the offensive, the US was said to have won the battle but to have lost the war.

References

Other websites 
Bibliography: The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sanh
Photographic history of 1st Air Cavalry Division Lurp / Rangers in the 1968 Tet Offensive
"Saigon, Target Zero" (1968) Tet Offensive film from the USA National Archives and Records Administration
United States History: Tet Offensive
Division of Darling Downs

The Division of Darling Downs was an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was one of the original 75 divisions for the first Australian election in 1901. It was named for the Darling Downs region of Queensland. It included the city of Toowoomba and surrounding rural areas.

Members

Its famous members included Sir Littleton Groom, Cabinet minister and Speaker, and Arthur Fadden, Prime Minister of Australia in 1941.

The electorate's first member, William Henry Groom, died at the first Commonwealth Parliament meeting in Melbourne in 1901. His death led to Australia's first by-election, which was won by his son Littleton. The seat was abolished in 1984, largely being replaced by the Division of Groom.

Darling Downs
1901 establishments in Australia
1984 disestablishments in Australia
A Hazy Shade of Winter

"A Hazy Shade of Winter" is a hit song performed by Simon and Garfunkel in the 1960s. It was covered by The Bangles two decades later. The song was released by itself at first, but was later released as part of the album Bookends, released in 1968. This single is about sadness during winter. The Bangles version was released in November 1987. Both versions became major hit singles. In the late 1980s, the Bangles' version became more popular than the first version.

1966 songs
Pop songs
Siddur

A siddur () is a Jewish prayer book. It has a set order of a list of Jewish prayers and blessings.

"Siddurs", which come from a Hebrew root meaning "order", have a very long history and so they can be found in a number of versions in different streams in Judaism.

References

Other websites
 Siddur Audio

Judaism
Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 - 17 June, 1996) was a Jewish-American physicist, and historian and philosopher of science. He introduced the idea of paradigm shift. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and died from lung cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 73.

Related pages
Incommensurability

Other websites
 Thomas Kuhn Online  (News, Philosophy, Biography, Bibliography)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

1922 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American philosophers
American historians
American physicists
Cancer deaths in Massachusetts
Deaths from lung cancer
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Jewish American academics
Jewish American scientists
Jewish philosophers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Princeton University faculty
Scientists from Cincinnati, Ohio
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Educators from Cincinnati, Ohio
Grevenmacher (district)

The District of Grevenmacher () was one of three districts of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Its capital was the city of Grevenmacher.

In 2015, the districts were abolished.

It was the easternmost of the districts and the smallest of the three districts, with an area of . It is the district with less people living in it with a population of 64,978 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

History
When the districts were created on 24 February 1843, Grevenmacher was one of the three of the country.

On 2012, the communes of Burmerange and Wellenstein were made part of the commune of Schengen. So the number of communes changed from 26 to 24.

Geography
The district of Grevenmacher is bordered to the north by the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, to the east by the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, to the south by France (the Moselle département) and to the west by the Luxembourg district.

Composition
The Diekirch district has 3 cantons and 24 communes.

Cantons and their communes

Echternach
Beaufort
Bech
Berdorf
Consdorf
Echternach
Mompach
Rosport
Waldbillig
Grevenmacher
Betzdorf
Biwer
Flaxweiler
Grevenmacher
Junglinster
Manternach
Mertert
Wormeldange
Remich
Bous
Dalheim
Lenningen
Mondorf-les-Bains
Remich
Schengen
Stadtbredimus
Waldbredimus

References

Districts of Luxembourg
Eva Cassidy

Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 - November 2, 1996) was an American singer, vocalist and musician. She was born in Washington, D.C. to a German immigrant mother and father of Scottish-Irish ancestry. She performed pop, country and jazz music. In 1992, she released her first album, The Other Side.

Cassidy died in Bowie, Maryland, of malignant melanoma, aged thirty-three.

Cancer deaths in Maryland
Deaths from melanoma
Musicians from Maryland
1963 births
1996 deaths
Julia Ormond

Julia Karin Ormond (born January 4, 1965 in Surrey, England) is an English actress. She starred in many movies, including Nostradamus, First Knight, Legends of the Fall and Sabrina. She also starred on television shows, including Nurse Jackie and Temple Grandin.

English movie actors
1965 births
Living people
Actors from Surrey
Digital Audio Tape

Digital Audio Tape is a magnetic tape that permits to record audio. The recording is digital, its quality is similar to that of a compact disc. It was developed in the 1980s to replace the compact casette. Like tapes used for recording video, the tape can only be played in one direction, the "cassette" only has one side. It competed with Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), and the Minidisc. Unlike these however, it allows for an exact digital copy of the source; DCC and Minidisc use lossy data compression.

DAT tapes were also used to back up computer data in the 1990s and early 2000s. Most computer DAT drives will not read audio DAT tapes.

Magnetic tape
Sex segregation

Sex segregation is a highly controversial culture-related definition for separation of people according to their actual sex. This can occur in both public and private areas. There are four levels for sex segregation: permissive, voluntary, administrative and mandatory. The practice is often, however, mandatory in relation to prison rules or employment, particularly medical care and military services.

Other pages 
Racial segregation
Sexism
Social isolation

Controversies
Politics
Digital Compact Cassette

The Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) was a format of magnetic tape, developed by giant PHILIPS to replace the compact cassette. It competed with the Minidisc and the Digital Audio Tape (DAT), but neither format could replace the compact cassette. It was marketed as a cheaper alternative to DAT. 

Equipment for the digital compact cassette was able to playback analog compact cassettes as well; recording could only be done to DCC, though. A DCC tape is similar in appearance to a regular cassette, except that it has reel access holes on only one side, and has a shutter covering both the tape and reel access holes, similar to the shutter on a floppy disk. 

Unlike DAT, DCC uses lossy data compression. This means that the copy of the data is not identical to the original. Audio data could be compressed to about 25 percent of its original size. 

The main problem of the format was tied to handling: Finding a song in the middle of a 90 minute tape takes several minutes, with Minidisc it is instantaneous. Minidisc allows to delete or move tracks, features which the digital compact cassette cannot offer. 

Even though some of the features were addressed (like rewinding a 90 minute tape in less than a minute), the format never gained much market share. The compression format used by DCC is based on MP1, which was a predecessor of MP3. The CD-R, which is compatible with standard CD players, eventually replaced both DCC and MiniDisc for home audio recording. The CD-R also replaced analog tape.

Magnetic tape
Fat acceptance movement

The term fat acceptance movement refers to social movements seeking to change social attitudes regarding being overweight. The movement has a political and culture related background, and its activities include although are not limited to sports, shopping and fashion matters.

This movement argues that those who are overweight are targets of being discriminated against, threatened by hatred and subjected to major prejudice. There have been many debates within this movement.

Controversies
Politics
Forty-seven Ronin

The revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century. It describes a historical event, but there is a lot of fiction added to the story too.

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (lord) Asano Naganori had to kill himself by committing seppuku (ritual suicide). He had to do this because he assaulted a court official named Kira Yoshinaka. The ronin waited and planned almost two years, and then killed Kira to avenge their master's honour. They delivered Kira's head to Asano's grave. After that, the ronin had to kill themselves by committing seppuku as they had committed the crime of murder.

One noted Japanese scholar described the tale, the most famous example of the samurai code of honor, bushidō, as the country's "national legend."

Gallery

Notes

References
 Allyn, John. (1981). The Forty-Seven Ronin Story. New York.
 Dickens, Frederick V. (1930) Chushingura, or The Loyal League. London.
 Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2012). Forty-Seven Ronin: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Edition. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B00ADQGLB8
 Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2012). Forty-Seven Ronin: Utagawa Kuniyoshi Edition. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B00ADQM8II
 Keene, Donald. (1971). Chushingura: A Puppet Play. New York.
 
 Robinson, B.W. (1982). Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints. Ithaca.
 Sato, Hiroaki. (1995). Legends of the Samurai. New York.
 Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London.
 Steward, Basil. (1922). Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints.   New York.
 Titsingh, Isaac. (1820). Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon. Paris: Nepveu.
 Weinberg, David R. et al. (2001).  Kuniyoshi: The Faithful Samurai.  Leiden.

Other websites
Robson, Lucia St. Clair (1991) The Tokaido Road. Forge Books.  New York.
Chushingura and the Samurai Tradition – Comparisons of the accuracy of accounts by Mitford, Murdoch and others, as well as much other useful material, by a noted scholars of Japan
Ako's Forty-Seven Samurai – Web site produced by students at Ako High School; contains the story of the 47 ronin's story, and images of wooden votive tablets of the 47 ronin in the Oishi Shrine, Ako
The Trouble with Terasaka: The Forty-Seventh Ronin and the Chushingura Imagination  by Henry D. Smith II, Japan Review, 2004, 16:3-65
Well photos  – The well where 47 ronin washed the head of Kira
Five different woodblock print versions of the story by Ando Hiroshige 
 National Diet Library: photograph of Sengaku-ji (1893); photograph of Sengaku-ji (1911)
Yoshitoshi, 47 Ronin series (1860)

Japanese folklore
Femicide

The term femicide refers to killing women. Feminist Diana Russell is one of the many early pioneers of the term; she defines the word as referring to killing women because of their gender. The term was first used around 1801 in England to represent the killing of women. The term has created controversy, and other feminists differ on what the word femicide really means.

Brazil
In Brazil, crime is in the Brazilian Criminal Code since 2012. The penalty for this crime is 12 to 30 years in prison.

References 

 
Controversies
Feminism
Politics
Types of crime
Cinephilia

The term Cinephilia refers to when someone has a strong interest in cinema, movie theories and movie criticism. Since the silent era, there have been various waves of cinephiles, people with strong interest for cinema and movies. The movie community which may have been best noted in relations to cinephilia, however, are one that was developed during World War II around Paris, France. A major influx of foreign movies, alongside a screening program used with certain local movie clubs, generated interest for world cinema among the intellectual youth culture of the city. This community fostered a strong interest in directors and movies which may have been neglected, forgotten or simply not known in the West. Notable directors of French cinephiles in this period include although are not limited to Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. This profession has become less connected with movie going due to presence of DVDs and VHS cassettes.

References 

Performing arts
Entertainment
Movie industry
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt

Avenue Franklin Roosevelt is a street in Brussels, Ixelles. It is next parallel to Bois de la Cambre, a forest in Brussels. Many houses there were built in the Second World War. It is known as one of the most beautiful boulevards in Brussels. The Ixelles community opposes that people build shops or hotels and apartment buildings have to be no bigger than 16 meters high. There are many embassies and residences of ambasadors located on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt.

History
The avenue was named "Avenue des Nations" in 1922, after Leopold II came the visit de Universal Exposition from 1910. He said it should be a residential area.

In 1945, de "Avenue des Nations" becomes Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, in honor of the president of America.

Notable buildings
 The villa Empain is notable as the Boghossian Foundation is taking place there with different exhibitions.
 The villa Bernheim was occupied by Émile Bernheim, former President of the group À l'Innovation and now is an art gallery.

References

Roads
Transport in Belgium
Brussels
1922 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Belgium
Bois de la Cambre

Bois de la Cambre () is a forest in Brussels. It used to be part of the Sonian Forest but now it is separate.

The main road around the lake has been closed to traffic on Saturdays and Sundays since the 1990s.

In 1815, on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, the British soldiers played cricket on land that is now part of the Bois de la Cambre.

There is a park that includes horse rides, an ice rink, boating activities and fishing are organized. Bois de la Cambre is connected to the Sonian Forest as in the past it used to be part of it. Three entries are from the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt.

The Chalet Robinson 
In the 1990s the Chalet Robinson was built on the an island on the lake. The restaurant was destroyed by a fire in 1991. The decision was made in 2006 to rebuild it and it reopened to the public in September 2009. An electrical boat has been made so you can pass from the shore to the island.

Events

Two days per year there is a race, 24 hours race Bois de la Cambre that is played by the young scouts other activities are also organized for the young scouts. In 2013 the 24 hours race was canceled because of the cold, wind and rain. Other smaller events are also organized in the park.
Sometimes, sports demonstrations, outdoor concerts, processions coupling, theaters animation or games for children are held during the summer. In the last week-end of August the Fiesta Latina is organized witch includes Latin food and concerts. In September an Eat festival was organized but the first two days were ruined because of the rain.

Other websites

Forests of Belgium
Brussels
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a novel written by John Boyne. Bruno's father is a commandant in World War II and the family moves house to Out-With so that he can work closer to concentration camps under the Fury's orders. After staying there for some time, Bruno makes friends with a Jewish boy named Shmuel on the other side of the fence. They meet up on their side of the fence whenever they can. On the day where Bruno is meant to move back to Berlin, he accidentally enters a gas chamber while attempting to look for Shmuel's father and dies while holding hands with the Jewish boy.
 
There is a movie of the same name based on it on August 28, 2008.

2004 books
Fiction set in the past
Germany
Irish novels
World War II
Prader–Willi syndrome

Prader–Willi syndrome is a rare but major genetic condition that involves being overweight, substandard sexual development and low intelligence. This problem also puts those affected under risk for diabetes mellitus. People with Prader-Willi syndrome experience constant hunger, despite eating much more than average, which can cause life-threatening obesity. It was first observed in 1956. Prader-Willi syndrome is usually diagnosed with a genetic test. There is no cure for Prader-Willi syndrome. It can be treated with behavioural therapy.

References

Syndromes
Neurology
Luxor

Luxor () is a city in Upper Egypt. In 2012, about 506,588 people lived there. To tourists, it is mostly known because of Karnak, as well as other tourist sites nearby.

Because the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes is located in Luxor, the city has been called the "world's greatest open-air museum." On the other side of the Nile lies the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens.

References

Other websites 

 Theban Mapping Project: website devoted to the Valley of the Kings and other sites in the Theban Necropolis
 Luxor World Heritage Site in panographies - 360 degree interactive imaging
 GCatholic Copic epachy
 
 Luxor Temple picture gallery  at Remains.se

Cities in Egypt
California City, California

California City is a city in southern California that was incorporated in 1965. Over 14,000 people live in the city. The area has its own police and post office.

Cities in California
Settlements in Kern County, California
1965 establishments in California
Fokker F27 Friendship

Fokker F27 Friendship is a twin-turboprop airliner built in Netherlands. It was designed to replace Douglas DC-3's airliners. It can carry between 48 and 56 passengers. Fairchild FH-227 is an American licence-built variant, and Fokker 50 is a modernized variant. Some of them were acquired by militaries as cargo aircraft.

References

Civil aircraft
Fokker aircraft
Fokker 50

The Fokker 50 is a twin-turboprop airliner built in the Netherlands. A improved version of Fokker F.27. It can carry about 50 passengers. It is also a military cargo aircraft and a reconnaissance aircraft.

Civil aircraft
Military aircraft
Fokker aircraft
Francis Eaton

Francis Eaton was born ca. 1596 in Bristol, England, and died in the autumn of 1633 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. He signed the Mayflower Compact.

In England
Eaton was the son of John Eaton and his wife Dorothy (Smith) Eaton. He was baptized on 11 September 1596 at St. Thomas church in Bristol, England.  Eaton was a house carpenter. He married Sarah about 1618 and had a son named Samuel. The family left for North America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

In North America
Sarah died in the New World during the winter of 1620-1621. Eaton married John Carver's servant Dorothy _ before 1623. She died shortly after the marriage, leaving no children.

In the 1623 Division of Land at Plymouth, Eaton received four shares: one for himself, one for his deceased first wife Sarah, one for his son, and one for his current wife Dorothy. They were all Mayflower passengers.

About 1626, Eaton married Christiana Penn. They had three children: Rachel, Benjamin, and a child whose name is unknown but was called "an ideote" (mentally disabled).

Last years
In 1631, Eaton began having money troubles. He sold some of his land, some livestock, and his house. He died some time between 25 October and 8 November 1633 at Plymouth. He died in debt. His estate included some livestock, fifty bushels of corn, some clothing, some carpenter's tools, some boards, fishing lead, and some kitchen items. He was buried in Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

References
 Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History: Francis Eaton

1596 births
1633 deaths
Carpenters
Mayflower passengers
People from Bristol
List of governors of Wyoming

This is a list of the governors of Wyoming. It includes territorial governors. Wyoming Territory was created in 1868. Wyoming became a state on July 10, 1890.

Governors

Governors of Wyoming Territory

Governors of Wyoming

References

Living former governors

, four former governors were alive. The most recent governor to die was Clifford P. Hansen (1963–1967), on October 20, 2009. The most recently-serving governor to die was Edgar J. Herschler (1975–1987), on February 5, 1990.

Lists of governors
Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times

Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times is a book by Lydia Maria Child. It was published anonymously in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1824 by Cummings, Hilliard & Co.  The story is about the marriage between a white woman and a Native American man. They have a son. The heroine later remarries, and rejoins Puritan society with her child. The theme of miscegenation crearted a scandal. The book was not a critical success.

References

More reading
 

American novels
1820s books
MBB/Kawasaki BK117

The MBB/Kawasaki BK117 is a twin-engine, lightweight helicopter designed and built in Germany and Japan. It has both civilian and military uses. To 1992 it was built by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Later, it was built by Eurocopter and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Some were built under licence in Indonesia as NBK117. Eurocopter EC145 is a newer type of BK117, but without a Japanese partner.

Bibliography 
 Jackson, Robert, Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (The Aviation Factfile).  London: Grange Books Ltd, 2005. .
 Gaillard, Pierre, Avions et hélicoptères militaires d'aujourd'hui Paris, France : Larivière éditions, 1999.  .
 Frawley, Gerard, The international directory of military aircraft 2002/2003 .  London: Aerospace Publication, 2002. .

Helicopters
Japan
Germany
Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802October 20, 1880), was an American writer. She wrote the Thanksgiving Day poem, "Over the River and Through the Wood". She founded and published Juvenile Miscellany, the first children's magazine in the United States. Child also wrote on housekeeping and child rearing, slavery, abolitionism, religion, women's issues, and Native American rights.

Life
Child was born in Medford, Massachusetts to David Convers Francis, a baker, and Susannah (Rand) Francis.  She attended a local dame school, a seminary, and a Congregational church. She lived for a time with her married sister in Maine, and then with her brother, a Unitarian minister, in Watertown, Massachusetts.

In 1828, she married Harvard graduate, David Lee Child. He was a lawyer and abolitionist. His idealism prevented him from providing his wife with a comfortable home. The childless couple lived in near poverty. In the last years of her life, Child became a recluse. She kept company only with her husband. He died in 1874. Lydia Child died in 1878.

Career
Her first novel, Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times, was published anonymously in 1824. It sold well. Another novel followed in 1825. In 1826, she founded and published Juvenile Miscellany, the first magazine for children in the United States. She wrote a book about housekeeping in 1829,The Frugal Housewife, a book about child-rearing in 1831, The Mother's Book, and a book for children, The Little Girl's Own Book, also in 1831.

She turned her social concerns to Native Americans in The First Settlers of New England in 1829, and then to African Americans in 1833 with An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. This book prompted many Americans to join the abolition movement, but it also caused Child to be shunned socially. Family friends withdrew their support for her children's magazine, forcing it into bankruptcy. Her nonfiction books about women's concerns and rights in the 1830s sold poorly.

In 1841, she moved to New York City. She edited an anti-slavery weekly for two years, then collected and published her columns written for a Boston newspaper.  Her husband was working as a journalist in Washington, D.C. during these years, but the couple reunited and moved to Wayland, Massachusetts in 1850. In the following years, she wrote books about female sex workers, the evolution of religion, African Americans, and Native Americans. Her last book, Aspirations of the World appeared in 1878.

References

1802 births
1880 deaths
Writers from Massachusetts
19th-century American novelists
American abolitionists
American activists
American journalists
19th-century American poets
American poets
Scientists from Massachusetts
Biographers
American feminists
Sheree J. Wilson

Sheree Julienne Wilson (born December 12, 1958) is an American actress and producer. 
She was born in Rochester, Minnesota. She was married (now divorced) to Paul DeRobbio, and has two sons: Luke (b. 1990) and Nicolas (b. 1997). She is best known for two television roles: April Stevens on Dallas (1986 to 1991), and Alexandra "Alex" Cahill-Walker, on Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001).

American television actors
Actors from Minnesota
1958 births
Living people
People from Rochester, Minnesota
Slim Whitman

Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013), known professionally as Slim Whitman, was an American country music and western music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto. He sold in excess of 120 million records.

Whitman was born on January 20, 1923 in Tampa, Florida. He was married to Alma Christ from 1942 until her death in 2009. They had two children. Whitman died on June 19, 2013 in Orange Park, Florida from heart failure, aged 90.

Related pages
List of country musicians from Florida

References

Other websites

 Slim Whitman Lyrics
 

1923 births
2013 deaths
Country musicians from Florida
American country singers
American singer-songwriters
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Deaths from heart failure
Musicians from Tampa, Florida
Singers from Tampa, Florida
Robert Fogel

Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Fogel was born on July 1, 1926 in New York City, New York to Russian-Jewish parents. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Fogel graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1944. He studied at Cornell University, at Columbia University, and at Johns Hopkins University. Fogel died on June 11, 2013, at a health services center in Oak Park, Illinois of a short illness, aged 86.

References

Other websites

Nobel prize autobiography
Review of Fogel's "Escape from Hunger and Premature Death"
Lance Davis review essay on Fogel's Railroads and American Economic Growth 
Thomas Weiss review essay on Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross 
Podcast Interview with co-author Stanley Engerman on Time on the Cross on EconTalk at Econlib
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) updated information about Robert W. Fogel
Feature article in The University of Chicago magazine
IDEAS/RePEc

1926 births
2013 deaths
American economists
American historians
American Nobel Prize winners
Jewish American academics
Jewish American scientists
Jewish Nobel Prize winners
Scientists from Chicago
Scientists from New York City
Writers from Chicago
Writers from New York City
Educators from New York City
Educators from Chicago
Wilbert Awdry

The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997), was an English Anglican cleric, railway enthusiast, and children's author. Simply known as the Reverend W. Awdry, he was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the central figure in his acclaimed Railway Series.

Awdry was born on 15 June 1911 in Ampfield, Hampshire, England. He was raised in Box, Wiltshire, England. Awdry was educated at Marlborough House School, Sussex (1919–24), Dauntseys School, West Lavington, Wiltshire (1924–9); St Peter's Hall, Oxford (BA, 1932), and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

He was married to Margaret Awdry from 1938 until her death in 1989. They had three children, Christopher Awdry, Hilary Fortnum and Veronica Chambers. Awdry died on 21 March 1997 in Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England from natural causes, aged 85.

References

Other websites

 Internet Archive: 'Original' Awdry Family Website – contains some information not available on the later site
 Internet Archive: Sodor Enterprises (publishing company) – Formerly www.sodor.co.uk (Dead link discovered April 2010)
 
 Rev. W. V. Awdry  – Biography at the Official Awdry Family Website
 The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales – Home of the Rev. W. V. Awdry's study

1911 births
1997 deaths
British children's writers
Deaths from natural causes
English writers
Writers from Hampshire
Writers from Wiltshire
Eleanor Mondale

Eleanor Jane Mondale Poling (January 19, 1960 – September 17, 2011) was an American radio personality, television host, and actress.

Mondale was born on January 19, 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Walter Mondale and to Joan Mondale. She studied at St. Lawrence University.

Mondale was married to Keith Van Horne from 1988 until they divorced in 1989. Then she was married to Greg Malban from 1991 until they divorced a few months later in 1991. Then she was married to Chan Poling from 2005 until her death in 2011. Mondale died on September 17, 2011 in Minnesota from brain cancer, aged 51.

References

Other websites

 
 Mirage at CityPages
 Mirage at Walker 

1960 births
2011 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
American television presenters
American television personalities
American radio personalities
American television actors
Actors from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dansband

Dansband (dance band) is a term in Swedish that describes a band that plays dansbandsmusik ("dance band music"). It is used for bands in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden that perform live music from stage, allowing the audience to dance partner dance. Famous Swedish bands have been Curt Haagers, Ingmar Nordströms, Matz Bladhs, Sten & Stanley, Sven-Ingvars, Thorleifs, Vikingarna and Wizex.

Such bands were very popular in Sweden by the mid 1970s. By the end of the same decade, the genre began to go through hard times, due to the arrival of disco music.

Other websites

Dansbands
Division of Griffith

The Division of Griffith is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was created in 1934. It is named for Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and principal author of the Constitution of Australia. It was represented from 1998 to 2013 by Kevin Rudd, who was Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013. On 13 November 2013, Rudd announced that he would resign from parliament at the end of week and retire from politics.

Boundaries
Griffith is in the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, including Balmoral, Bulimba, Camp Hill, Carina Heights, Coorparoo, Dutton Park, East Brisbane, Greenslopes, Highgate Hill, Hawthorne, Kangaroo Point, Morningside, Norman Park, Seven Hills, South Brisbane, and Woolloongabba, and parts of Annerley, Cannon Hill, Carina, Holland Park, Holland Park West, Mount Gravatt East, Murarrie, Tarragindi, and West End.

Members

Election results
 2004 election result
 2007 election result
 2010 election result

References

Other websites 
 Division of Griffith (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission
 Kevin Rudd's website

Electoral divisions of Australia
1934 establishments
1930s establishments in Australia
Siw Malmkvist

Siw Malmkvist (born 31 December 1936) is a Swedish singer. She was popular in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.

References

Other websites

1936 births
Living people
Swedish singers
Over the River and Through the Wood

"Over the River and Through the Wood" is a Thanksgiving poem by Lydia Maria Child. It appeared in the second volume of her Flowers for Children in 1844. The original title of the poem is, "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day".

Boston College writes: "Starting with the familiar line, "Over the river and through the wood", this poem is easily Child’s most famous work. Child never revised the poem herself, but the verses changed over time, especially when they were set to music.

With its bouncing rhythms and high spirits, the poem draws on the writer’s childhood memories of visiting her grandfather’s house on Thanksgiving.  Having gained notoriety for her ideas about race, Child kept her antislavery ideals out of this volume in an effort to avoid controversy and boost sales. Flowers for Children contains only two stories involving race, and they both avoid addressing racial prejudice head on. In this nostalgic poem, Child takes us back to the simple pleasures of a family holiday."

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19th-century American poems
English Defence League

The English Defence League, or in short EDL, is a street protest group in the United Kingdom which is against Sharia law and Islamism. The group was founded in 2009 in Luton by Tommy Robinson. Groups including Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Anonymous are against the EDL. EDL can also stand for the European Defence League, also founded by Tommy Robinson. Tommy Robinson left the EDL in October 2013. Tim Ablitt became the new leader. A report found that 81% of EDL supporters are male.

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Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor (September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American Chicago blues singer, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She was known primarily for her rough, powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings.

Taylor was born on September 28, 1928 in Shelby County, Tennessee. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Taylor was married to Robert Taylor until they divorced in 1989. Then she was married to Hays Harris until her death in 2009. She had one daughter. Taylor died on June 3, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois from surgical complications, aged 80.

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Other websites

 Hoekstra, Dave. "Chicago legend and 'Queen of the Blues' Koko Taylor dead at 80," Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, June 3, 2009. 
 Co-host of "Blues you can use", FM radio station WGVE 88.7, Gary, Indiana
 Interview with Koko Taylor on Centerstage Chicago (June 2007)
 
 "Queen of the Blues: Koko Taylor Talks About Her Subjects", interview by James Plath, 1994
 
 Wild Women Don't Have the Blues features interviews with Koko Taylor
 Koko Taylor - Daily Telegraph obituary

1928 births
2009 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
American blues musicians
American voice actors
American blues singers
Singers from Tennessee
Musicians from Tennessee
Actors from Tennessee
Singers from Chicago
Musicians from Chicago
Actors from Chicago
Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions

The Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions was a special tournament done during the 21st season of the American television game show Jeopardy!. 145 contestants who won past Jeopardy! tournaments or won five games played in a 15 week tournament. It lasted from February 9 to May 25, 2005.

In this tournament, the two finalists from four rounds of play went against Ken Jennings, who is Season 21's biggest winner and, at the time, was the highest winner on a game show with $2,522,700. Those contestants played for a prize of $2,000,000. The two finalists were Brad Rutter and Jerome Vered. Rutter was the show's second-highest winner, while Vered had set a one-day winnings record of $34,000 in 1992. Rutter won the three-day final and the $2,000,000 prize, claiming the record from Jennings.

Related pages
 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

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Other websites
 Official Jeopardy! website
 J! Archive - recaps of all Ultimate Tournament of Champions games

Jeopardy!
Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902. He invented the crop machine the Reaper. From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of his family became well known residents of Chicago. The McCormick Place is named after him.

McCormick was born on February 15, 1809 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He lived in Raphine, Virginia. He was married to Nancy Fowler from 1835 until his death in 1884. They had four children. McCormick died from a stroke on May 13, 1884 in Chicago, Illinois, aged 75. He is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Uptown, Chicago.

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Other websites
 Farm Equipment  on Antique Farming web site
 
 
 
 

 McCormick Family Financial Records  at Newberry Library

1809 births
1884 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Chicago
Burials at Graceland Cemetery
American inventors
People with foods named after them
Businesspeople from Chicago
People from Virginia
Frank Zamboni

Frank Joseph Zamboni, Jr. (January 16, 1901 – July 27, 1988) was an American inventor, whose most famous invention is the modern Zamboni, a machine that smooths the ice in ice rinks. The name "Zamboni" is a registered trademark for these machines.

Zamboni was born on January 16, 1901 in Eureka, Utah. He was raised in Pocatello, Idaho and in Chicago, Illinois. Zamboni died on July 27, 1988 from cardiac arrest in Paramount, California, aged 87.

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www.zamboni.com — Frank J. Zamboni & Co.

1901 births
1988 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
American inventors
Businesspeople from Chicago
Businesspeople from Idaho
Businesspeople from Utah
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Sam Houston

Samuel "Sam" Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American statesman, politician, and soldier.  He is best known for his leading role in bringing Texas into the United States. Houston, Texas and Sam Houston State University was named after him.

Shortly afterwards, he relocated to Coahuila y Tejas, then a Mexican state, and became a leader of the Texas Revolution. Sam Houston supported annexation by the United States. When he assumed the governorship of Texas in 1859, Houston became the only person to have become the governor of two different U.S. states through direct, popular election, as well as the only state governor to have been a foreign head of state.

Houston was born on March 2, 1793 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He was of an Irish-Scottish descent. Houston was married to Eliza Allen from 1829 until they divorced in 1837. Then he was married to Diana Rogers Gentry until they divorced. Then he was married to Margaret Moffette Lee from 1840 until his death in 1863. Houston had seven children. Houston died on July 26, 1863 in Huntsville, Texas from pneumonia, aged 70.

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Other websites

 Life of General Houston, 1793–1863 published 1891, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
 Sam Houston ; David Crockett. published 1901, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
 
 Sam Houston Memorial Museum 
 Sam Houston Memorial Museum Antiquities Collection  From Texas Tides 
 Sam Houston's Obituary – The Tri Weekly Telegraph, Houston, Texas July 29, 1863 – TexasBob.com
 Sam Houston Historic Schoolhouse in Maryville, TN USA
 Documentary film on life of Sam Houston.  Massive web site with many pictures, links, and educational tools.
 Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture entry
 Tennessee State Library & Archives, Papers of Governor Sam Houston, 1827–1829 
 Sam Houston Rode a Gray Horse 
 Houston Family Papers, 1836–1869 and undated, in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
Booknotes interview with Marshall DeBruhl on Sword of San Jacinto: The Life of Sam Houston, May 2, 1993. 

1793 births
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Deaths from pneumonia
Governors of Texas
United States senators from Texas
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Leo Carbol

Leo Carbol (June 5, 1910 – November 13, 1991) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played a total of 6 games in the NHL for the Chicago Black Hawks. 

Carbol played most his ice hockey career with the St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey Association and the American Hockey League with a combined 12 seasons. He also played 1 season for the Minneapolis Millers and 20 games for the Buffalo Majors of the AHA. He also played for the Detroit Olympics of the IHL.

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Canadian ice hockey defencemen
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American Hockey League players
1910 births
1991 deaths
Cheer pheasant

The cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichii) also known as Wallich's pheasant (in Nepal: "Kahir", "Chihir") is a vulnerable species of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. It is the only member of the genus Catreus.

The species was named as Phasianus wallichi by the English zoologist Thomas Hardwicke in 1827; he named it after the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. Later the name was changed to the present name by the English ornithologist John Gould.

Description
The Cheer pheasant lacks the color and brilliance of most pheasants. The male has a brownish yellow plumage with black markings and a long gray crest; the skin of the face is red. Its long tail is mainly gray and brown, and has 18 feathers, something that puts this pheasant apart from similar species.

The female is smaller than the male, somewhat duller in plumage and more heavily marked, with reduced red facial skin, a shorter crest and lacking the male’s spurs.

Distribution
The Cheer pheasant is endemic to the western Himalayas; it is distributed in the highlands and scrublands (a place where small shrubs are abundant as well as small herbaceous plants, without trees) of the southern foothills, most frequently from  of the western Himalayas, from north Pakistan, through Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, India, to east to central Nepal.

Surveys in 1981 and 2003 in the Dhorpatan area of western Nepal found that there were 70 places where the birds were heard, suggesting that many birds exist in this area (approximately 200 birds). In another survey in 2010, Cheer pheasant was detected in 21 calling sites in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

Biology and social behaviour
These pheasants tend to be fairly gregarious (traveling in groups) for much of the year, with groups of five to fifteen birds, but form monogamous pairs during the breeding season from late April to June. They breed on steep cliffs during summer and the number of eggs in a nest is relatively large; there are usually ten to eleven eggs in each nest, though in some cases there as many as 14.

The Cheer pheasants get most of their food from the ground, digging with is powerful beaks; they eat roots, tubers, bulbs, seeds, insects and other small animals. They look for food mainly during the morning and evening, walking in pairs or, sometimes, in family groups.

In studies made in upper Beas Valley, it was found that the Cheer pheasants were sensitive to the presence of humans.

Conservation
Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and hunting in some areas, the Cheer pheasant is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I of CITES. The Cheer pheasant is legally protected in Nepal and India, and occurs in at least 12 protected areas in Himachal Pradesh, three in Uttar Pradesh and three in Nepal.

Attempts to reintroduce captive bred Cheer pheasants in Pakistan have been unsuccessful.

Gallery

References

Other websites

 ARKive - images and movies of the Cheer Pheasant (Catreus wallichi) 
 Animal Diversity Web - Catreus wallichii
 Catalogue of Life 
 ITIS Report

Birds of Pakistan
Birds of Kashmir
Galliformes
Birds of India
Brad Rutter

Bradford Gates "Brad" Rutter (born January 31, 1978) is the highest winner on the American television game show Jeopardy!, and the highest winner on a game show.

Rutter became a five-time champion on Jeopardy! in 2000. He later won four tournaments: the Tournament of Champions in 2001, the Million Dollar Masters tournament in 2002, the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005, and the Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades in 2014 His win in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions made him the highest winner on a game show. This was later beaten by Ken Jennings in 2007 when Jennings won $500,000 on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.  However, Rutter reclaimed the record after he won the Battle of the Decades tournament.

In February 2011, Rutter played against Jennings and an artificial intelligence computer called Watson. Rutter came in third place, losing to Watson. He won $200,000 for placing in third place. 

In January 2020, Rutter played against Jennings and James Holzhauer in Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time.  The event was won by Jennings and Rutter finished in third place.

In addition to Jeopardy!, Rutter also appeared on the game show 1 vs. 100 as part of the show's "mob." He played four times: on December 1, 2006, December 8, 2006, December 15, 2006, and February 9, 2007. In 2007, he appeared on the game show Grand Slam. He lost to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire contestant Ogi Ogas in the second round. In 2011, he appeared as part of a six-person team on the game show Million Dollar Mind Game. His team won $600,000.

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Jeopardy!
1978 births
Living people
Alberto Zaccheroni

Alberto Zaccheroni (born 1 April 1953) is an Italian football manager. He led A.C. Milan to win the Serie A in 98/99. He currently manages the Japan national football team.

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Profile  on Goal.com

1953 births
Living people
Italian footballers
Italian football managers
Japan national football team managers
Susan Bogert Warner

Susan Bogert Warner (July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885) was a popular 19th-century American writer. She wrote 30 books under the name, "Elizabeth Wetherell".  

She was born in New York City to upscale parents. She was privately educated. Her first book was the sentimental and moralistic The Wide, Wide World (1851). It is believed to be the first book by an American writer to sell one million copies.

Her novel The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856) sold 10,000 copies on the day of its publication. She wrote some children's books and Bible-themed books. She sometimes co-wrote with her sister, Anna. Anna wrote the popular children's hymn, "Jesus Loves Me This I Know".  

Susan Warner died in Highland Falls, New York. She is buried in the West Point Cemetery.

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1819 births
1885 deaths
Writers from New York City
19th-century American novelists
Mercy Otis Warren

Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style] 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a poet and playwright. She wrote political plays about the problematic situations that led to the American Revolution. The Adulator and The Group were published on the eve of the Revolution. Her later works included Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous and History of the American Revolution.

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American poets
American playwrights
1728 births
1814 deaths
Sarah Kemble Knight

Sarah Kemble Knight (1666–1727) was a colonial American businessperson and  writer. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She managed the family business after her father's death. She wrote The Journal of Madame Knight while travelling between Boston and NYC on business. The book is valued for its authentic peek at colonial life in 18th-century America.

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1666 births
1727 deaths
Businesspeople from Boston, Massachusetts
Writers from Boston, Massachusetts