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Saulius Sondeckis

Saulius Sondeckis (11 October 1928 – 3 February 2016) was a Lithuanian violinist, conductor, orchestra leader and professor. He founded the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in 1960 and was its artistic director and principal conductor until 2004. 

Sondeckis was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania. He studied at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Sondeckis died in Vilnius from a stroke on 3 February 2016. He was aged 87.

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Violinists
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Amanda Crew

Amanda Crew (born June 5, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She acts in both movies and television. She played Julie Christensen in Final Destination 3. She also played Wendy in The Haunting in Connecticut.

Crew was born in Langley, British Columbia.

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Canadian television actors
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1986 births
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People from British Columbia
Luiz Felipe Lampreia

Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia (19 October 1941 – 2 February 2016) was a Brazilian diplomat and sociologist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Lampreia worked at as a professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He served as chairman of the Industry Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He created a blog during his later career called O Globo.

Lampreia died in Rio de Janeiro from a heart attack on 2 February 2016. He was aged 74.

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Mere Broughton

Mary Mereiwa Broughton  (née Whakaruru, 24 December 1938 – 31 January 2016), known as Mere Broughton, was a New Zealand Māori language activist and unionist. She was born in Hastings, New Zealand.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked at Victoria University. She created Te Herenga Waka Marae with her husband, Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, and Wiremu Parker. At the university she became active in union affairs, in the Association of University Staff (now the TEU). In 2010, she became the TEUs first lifetime member. Broughton was on the Tekaumārua, the advisory board to the Māori King, Tuheitia Paki. In 2014, she was part of the New Zealand delegation that sent off the canoes of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia.

Broughton died on 31 January 2016 at her home in Waitara. She died from heart failure. She was aged 79.

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2016 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
New Zealand Māori people
Activists
Kim Yong-nam

Kim Yong-nam (; born 4 February 1928) is a North Korean politician. He serves as President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly. He was position 1998-2019. Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1998. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2010.

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1928 births
Living people
Civil servants
North Korean politicians
Edward Babiuch

Edward Mikołaj Babiuch (; December 28, 1927 – February 1, 2021) was a Polish politician. He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party, a Communist party. He was one of four deputy chairmen of the Polish Council of State from 1976 to 1980. Babiuch served as the Prime Minister of Poland in 1980, from February 18 to August 24 of that year.

Babiuch died in Warsaw on February 2, 2021 at the age of 93.

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1927 births
2021 deaths
Prime Ministers of Poland
Communists
Final Destination 3

Final Destination 3 is a 2006 American horror movie. This is the third movie of the Final Destination series.

Plot
A high school student named Wendy Christensen visits an amusement park with her boyfriend Jason, best friend Carrie Dreyer and Carrie's boyfriend Kevin for their senior class field trip. When they board the Devil's flight roller coaster, Wendy has a premonition that the roller coaster will have an accident. When Wendy panics, a fight breaks out and several people leave or are forced off the ride. As they leave, the roller coaster goes off its tracks and kills the remaining passengers, including Carrie and Jason.

Cast
 Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Wendy Christensen
 Ryan Merriman as Kevin Fischer
 Kris Lemche as Ian McKinley
 Alexz Johnson as Erin Ulmer
 Sam Easton as Frankie Cheeks
 Jesse Moss as Jason Wise
 Gina Holden as Carrie Dreyer
 Texas Battle as Lewis Romero
 Chelan Simmons as Ashley Freund
 Crystal Lowe as Ashlyn Halperin
 Amanda Crew as Julie Christensen
 Maggie Ma as Perry Malinowski
 Ecstasia Sanders as Amber Regan
 Dustin Milligan as Marcus
 Cory Monteith as Kahill
 Agam Darshi as Laura
 Dylan Basile as Sean

Release
Final Destination 3 was released on February 10, 2006 under New Line Cinema. The movie is rated R for violence, profanity and sexual situations.

Box office
The movie took in $19,173,094 on its opening weekend. Worldwide, it got $186,187,139.

Reception

Critical response
The movie received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a 43% rating.

Awards
The movie was nominated at the 33rd Saturn Awards for Best Horror Film and Best DVD Special Edition Release.

References

Other websites
 
 
 

2006 horror movies
American horror movies
American sequel movies
English-language movies
Everton Weekes

Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE (26 February 1925 – 1 July 2020) was a cricket player for the West Indies. Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket. He was born in Saint Michael, Barbados.

Weekes began his career in 1948. He scored 88 and 117 runs (retired) and was selected for the tour. He played his first match for Barbados on 24 February 1945. He was aged 19 years; it was one day before his 20th birthday. The match was against Trinidad and Tobago at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain. Batting at number six, he scored 0 and eight runs. Barbados lost by ten wickets. He retired in 1958.

Weekes died on 1 July 2020 in Christ Church, Barbados at the age of 95.

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1925 births
2020 deaths
Barbadian sportspeople
West Indies cricketers
Precognition

Precognition (also known as premonition or second sight) is an alleged psychic ability to see events in the future. However, as with most other forms of extra-sensory perception, there is no evidence any person has ever had precognition ability. But it still appears within movies, books and discussions within the parapsychology community.

Related pages
 Prediction
 Synchronicity

References

Pseudoscience
Parapsychology
Derry, New Hampshire

Derry is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 33,109 at the 2010 census. Although it is a town and not a city, Derry is the fourth most-populous community in the state.

References

Towns in New Hampshire
Mike Mansfield

Michael Joseph "Mike" Mansfield (March 16, 1903 – October 5, 2001) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. Senator (1953–1977) from Montana. He was the longest-serving Senate Majority Leader, serving from 1961 to 1977.

During his time, he led Great Society programs through the Senate and strongly opposed the Vietnam War.

After retiring from the Senate, Mansfield served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988. On retiring as ambassador, he was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1989). He won this in part for his role in the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon. Mansfield is the longest-serving American ambassador to Japan in history.

After his ambassadorship, Mansfield served for a time as a senior adviser on East Asian affairs to Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment banking company.

Mansfield died of congestive heart failure in Washington, D.C. on October 5, 2001. He was aged 98.

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United States senators from Montana
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Educators from Montana
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors () is a South Korean football club from Jeollabuk-do.

Records

Key
Tms. = Number of teams
Pos. = Position in league

Honours

Domestic

League
 K League 1
 Winners (9): 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
 Runners-up (2): 2012, 2016

Cup
 FA Cup
 Winners (3): 2000, 2003, 2005, 2020
 Runners-up (2): 1999, 2013
 League Cup
 Runners-up (1): 2010
 Super Cup
 Winners (1): 2004
 Runners-up (2): 2001, 2006

Continental
 AFC Champions League
 Winners (2): 2006, 2016
 Runners-up (1): 2011
 Asian Cup Winners Cup
 Runners-up (1): 2002

South Korean football clubs
Intervertebral disc

An intervertebral disc is a kind of padding between vertebrae in the vertebral column. They are shock absorbers in the spine, and are very important to the health of the spine. The disc is a fibrocartilaginous joint. It allows slight movement of the vertebrae, and acts as a ligament to hold the vertebrae together.

Discs have an outer fibrous ring, made up of both type I and type II collagen. Type I is concentrated towards the edge of the ring where it provides greater strength. The fibrous intervertebral disc contains the nucleus pulposus and this helps to  distribute pressure evenly across the disc.  

The nucleus pulposus contains loose fibers suspended in a mucoprotein gel. The nucleus of the disc acts as a shock absorber, absorbing impacts and keeping the two vertebrae separated. It is the remnant of the notochord.

References 

Skeletal system
Spintronics

Spintronics is a kind of electronics that uses the tiny magnetic fields that come from electrons as well as their electric charge. The word spintronics is made up of the words spin and electronics

In atoms, electrons can be said to go around the nucleus of an atom and possess some spinning energy. They also have  their own spin, like a spinning top, which  is separate from the atom and they keep even when they are moving  freely. There are two ways for  something  to spin, clockwise and anti-clockwise. In the tiny quantum world the terms  'up' or 'down' are used instead. 

The electron spin of large numbers of electrons plays a role as a source of the magnetism in permanent magnets. In most materials these spins are random in direction and so no magnetic field results. In normal electronics  the flow of current in a wire  can also be used to produce a magnetic field which is known as electromagnetism. Neither of these form a part of spintonics.

In spintronics the property of the spin of the electrons themselves is used directly.  It  makes use of the electrons in a solid metal or semiconductor.

In spintronics the electron spin of just a few electrons in a material are made to align in one direction by briefly applying a very large magnetic field. Even when the magnetic field is removed the electrons will remain aligned in  their spins. This alignment will slowly fade away over time but will persist for a while.

Since these aligned spins produce a resultant  magnet field they can be detected and even used to move  the electrons.  

The deliberate moving of only those electrons with a certain spin  can be used to store information and this technology has been called spintronics to distinguish it from conventional use of electrons in electronics which uses their electric charge only.

Spintronics is an area of research in which scientists are trying to make useful devices and are making progress. Some devices write the electron spin codes into the surface of a moving disk and others make them in sold transistor junctions as RAM. They promise a technology that could create faster and  smaller electronic devices that  use less energy.

Other websites 
 Utilization of Spintronics, Jitendra S. Pingale, Mukesh D. Patil, Umar I. Masumdar. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2013. ISSN 2250-3153 .

Electronics
Nawab of Awadh

The Nawab of Awadh or the Nawab of Oudh () was the title of the rulers who governed the state of Oudh or Awadh in India during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Nawabs of Awadh belonged to a dynasty of Qara-Qoyunlu origin from Nishapur. Saadat Khan (1722–1739) became the first Nawab of Awadh in 1722. He was a Mughal wazir and the founder of the state of Awadh.

References 

History of India
Antioch College

Antioch College is a private, liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the United States. Established in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852; politician and education expert Horace Mann became its first president. It was the founding, forming college of Antioch University, which Antioch College outlived until 2008. The College remained out of business for three years before being reestablished in 2011, and fully disconnected from the university as an independent institution by 2014.

The College has produced two Nobel Prize winners. José Ramos-Horta, the 1996 laureate for Peace, earned his Master of Arts in 1984. Mario Capecchi, the 2007 laureate for Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, earned his Bachelor of Science in 1961.

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1852 establishments in the United States
1850s establishments in Ohio
Keytar

A keytar is a musical instrument. It is shaped and held like a guitar, but has keys like a keyboard. Keytars are lightweight keyboards that have a strap that is put around the neck and shoulders. The instrument has a keyboard for playing musical notes and sounds. The earliest keytars were created around the 1970's. This picture of a keytar is one of the most popular keytars. Most popular keytars are seen with a red guitar neck and played in 1980 movies. first appeared in a magazine in 1980.

Keyboard instruments
Electronic musical instruments
Melody Thomas Scott

Melody Ann Thomas Scott (b. April 18, 1956) is an American actress who acts in soap operas. She played Nikki Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. She also played Darlene Jarvis in The Waltons in the 1970s. She won awards for Outstanding Actress from the 17th Soap Opera Digest Awards for her act as Nikki Newman.

Thomas Scott started her career as a child actress. 

Thomas Scott was born in Los Angeles, California.

Acting roles

Awards and nominations

References

1956 births
Living people
Actors from Los Angeles
American child actors
American movie actors
American television actors
Show, don't tell

Show, don't tell is a type of writing technique used by authors. Instead of explaining a story, as in a summary, a writer makes the reader feel what is happening. It creates a picture of something in the reader's mind. When the reader gets a clear mental picture the story becomes more interesting. The technique is used in both fiction and non-fiction writing.

Examples of show, don't tell 
 Telling: "The room was perfect. She saw it and was immediately transported back to her childhood because it had all the elements she remembered."
 Showing: "She threw open the wide oak door and stepped into a past from twenty years ago. The bedroom she remembered, down to the last detail. Pink candy-striped walls with white trim. A thick white shag carpet, two plush maroon velvet chairs flanking a silent fireplace."

In the first example, the author is telling what the character feels. In the second example, the author is allowing the reader to picture what the character was experiencing when she opened the door.

Show and tell 
Good writing may involve both showing and telling. A scene shows the reader what is happening.  It allows the reader to experience the action and emotions of the people in the story. A summary is often used between scenes to connect them together to create a story. Another use of summaries is in places where a part of the story needs to be brief. Showing takes more words than telling. Less important parts of a story are sometimes mentioned very briefly.

References 

Writing
Marlow Cook

Marlow Webster Cook (July 27, 1926 – February 4, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the United States Senator from Kentucky from December 17, 1968 to December 27, 1974. He was born in Akron, New York.

Cook died in Sarasota, Florida on February 4, 2016. He died from complications of a heart attack. He was aged 89.

References

Other websites

1926 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
United States senators from Kentucky
Politicians from New York
US Republican Party politicians
Joe Alaskey

Joseph Francis "Joe" Alaskey (April 17, 1952 – February 3, 2016) was an American actor, impressionist, stand-up comedian and voice actor. He was known for voicing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons. He voiced Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures from 1990 to 1995.

Alaskey won an Emmy Award in 2004.

Alaskey was the second actor to voice Grandpa Lou Pickles on Rugrats. He voiced Lou again in the Rugrats spin-off series, All Grown Up! and all three movies. He also voiced Stinkie in Casper.

Alaskey died in Green Island, New York from cancer on February 3, 2016. He was aged 63.

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1952 births
2016 deaths
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American television actors
American voice actors
Cancer deaths in New York
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Abe Waddington

Abe Waddington (4 February 1893 – 28 October 1959) was an English professional cricket player. He played for Yorkshire. He played two Test matches for England in 1920 and 1921. He also played football for Halifax Town.

1893 births
1959 deaths
English cricketers
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
People from Bradford
Tweety

Tweety (or Tweety Bird) is a fictional character from Looney Tunes. He is a yellow canary. He has also appeared in comic books.

Fictional birds
Looney Tunes characters
Tune Squad players
Fictional characters introduced in the 1940s
Maurice White

Maurice White (December 19, 1941 – February 4, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger and bandleader. He was the founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. He was also the older brother of current Earth, Wind & Fire member Verdine White, and former member Fred White. His career began in 1961. He retired in 2014 due to his health.

White was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was raised in Memphis and in Chicago, Illinois. 

White served as the band's main songwriter and record producer, and was co-lead singer (along with Philip Bailey).  White won seven Grammys, and was nominated for 21 Grammys in total.

White died in his sleep on February 4, 2016 from complications of Parkinson's disease. He died at his home in Los Angeles. He was aged 74.

References

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Kalimba Entertainment
Kalimba Music
Official Earth, Wind & Fire Website

Grammy Award winners
1941 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
American singer-songwriters
American soul musicians
American funk musicians
American jazz musicians
American R&B musicians
American R&B singers
Singers from Memphis, Tennessee
American funk singers
Singers from Chicago
Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee
Musicians from Chicago
Writers from Memphis, Tennessee
Writers from Chicago
Katie Ledecky

Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (born March 17, 1997) is an American competition swimmer. At the 2012 Olympics in London, she won the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won four gold medals.

At the world championships in 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, and the 2015 world championships in Kazan, Russia, she won 9 gold medals in total. She has broken a world record 13 times, in the 400-meter, 800-meter, and 1500-meter freestyle.

Ledecky was born in Washington, D.C.

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Peter Barry

Peter Barry (10 August 1928 – 26 August 2016) was an Irish politician and businessman. He was from Cork city. He was a member of Fine Gael. He was a Teachta Dála (TD; member of parliament) from 1969 to 1997, and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1987. He helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Agreement. In 1987, he served for a short time as Tánaiste (deputy prime minister).

References

1928 births
2016 deaths
Irish politicians
Irish businesspeople
Chalice

A chalice is a cup that has a footed part on the bottom. It is used in some religious ceremonies for drinking.

Other websites 

 "Chalice" article from the Catholic Encyclopedia

Religious symbols
Containers
Max Kaur

Max Kaur (born December 9, 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician. He is a member of the Centre Party. He was Mayor of Mustvee 2013-2017. Since 2018 he is a Jõhvi municipality vice-governor. Since 2019 he is a Mayor of Johvi.

Education 
Max Kaur studied law at Moscow International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences (IIUEPS), LL.B., and economics at Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, MS in Economics. He earned his PhD in 2013 from Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.

Career 
Max Kaur was counsellor of the Mayor of Tallinn, Edgar Savisaar from 2002 to 2005. He was vice-mayor of Maardu from 2005 to 2006. Max Kaur was first elected to Tallinn City Council in the Estonian local elections 2009. He was elected Mayor of Mustvee in April 2013. He was re-elected in December 2013.

He was a founder and leader of the Estonian social movement against gambling. He is an author of the idea to create a unique sculpture in Tallinn against addiction.

References

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1969 births
Living people
Estonian politicians
Mayors
IOS 9

iOS 9 (codenamed Monarch) is a version of iOS released on September 16, 2015. iOS 9 added many things to make the operating system better. Some of the things it added were a new News application, updates to the Notes and Map applications, and improvements to Siri and the Spotlight feature. For the iPad, iOS 9 also added a split screen feature. The current version of iOS 9 is iOS 9.3.6.

References

Operating systems
IOS
Dave Mirra

David Michael "Dave" Mirra (April 4, 1974 – February 4, 2016) was an American BMX athlete. He was also a driver for Subaru Rally Team USA. He was born in Chittenango, New York.

Mirra held the record for most X-Games medals until being passed by Bob Burnquist at X Games Munich in 2013. Mirra has won medals in every X Games from when they started in 1995 up to 2008. He has won a total of 24 medals at the X Games. In 2008, he placed second in BMX Big Air and third in Rally Car Racing at the X Games.

He was known mainly as a vert ramp and park rider. He rode and was sponsored by Haro Bikes from the mid 1990s. He later started his own bike company, and rode those instead. In 2004, Mirra appeared on an episode of George Lopez. Mirra was a member of the team which won the 2014 Race Across America Four-Person Male (Under 50) category.

He also was the host for two seasons of MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge.

Personal life and death 
Mirra and his wife, Lauren, had two daughters. In 2010, Mirra was sick with bacterial meningitis. After he recovered, he went back to rallying.

On February 4, 2016, Mirra died of suicide by a gunshot wound in Greenville, North Carolina. Police answering an emergency call found his body in a truck. He had been visiting friends in the area. Allen Thomas, the mayor of Greenville, said Mirra was "a great friend and wonderful human being".  He was 41 years old.

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2016 deaths
Businesspeople from New York
Sportspeople from New York
Sportspeople who committed suicide
Suicides by firearm in the United States
Signe Toly Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson (September 15, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American singer. She was one of the founding members of the American rock band Jefferson Airplane. Anderson was born in Seattle, Washington.

Anderson died from complications of COPD at her home in Beaverton, Oregon. She was aged 74.

References

Other websites
 Jefferson Airplane | Fillmore Auditorium | San Francisco, CA | Oct 15, 1966 | Late Show - concertvault.com
 Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, Jeff Tamarkin, Atria, 2005, 
 Jefferson Airplane website 

1941 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Jefferson Airplane members
Singers from Seattle, Washington
Property (disambiguation)

Property is the ownership of land, resources, objects, or intellectual property.

The word property can have several meanings:

Philosophy and science
 Property (philosophy), in philosophy and science, a feature or characteristic of something
Material property, a feature or characteristic of a material
Chemical property, a feature of a material that appears during a chemical reaction
Physical property, a feature or characteristic of something which can be measured
Thermodynamic properties, physical properties of substances
Mental property, a feature or characteristic of the mind

Other uses
 Real property, a piece of land that is owned by somebody, including any buildings on this land
 Theatrical property (usually known as a "prop"), any object used by a performer
Theatrical property

A property, commonly shortened to prop (plural: props), is any object used in performing arts during a performance. They are used on the stage in theatre, and on the screen by actors in movies and television. A prop is anything on a stage or a set that is able to be moved. It is different from the scenery, costumes and production equipment.

Anything that is used but is not part of the scenery (the set) is a prop, e.g., furniture, a book that an actor pretends to read, a pipe that they smoke. Food appearing in the production is also a prop.

Props are looked after by a properties master.  Sometimes, for small things like books or fans, it is the actor who is responsible for making sure he has the prop. This is called a "personal prop".

People have been accidentally killed by props. One case is from 2021.

Related pages

The death of Brandon Lee
Rust shooting incident

References

Theater
Material property

In science, a property is anything that describes a material or substance. It is a characteristic of that material. For example, how hard the material is, its colour, or its shape. Elasticity is a property of rubber; in other words: rubber is elastic. A property may be a constant (always the same) or it may only appear when something changes, such as temperature.

Chemical properties include things like surface tension, pH, reactivity, allotropy. Conductivity is how able a material is to transport electric charge or heat.

Other examples
 Ductility, how easy it is to stretch a material
 Flammability, how easily a material will catch fire
 Luminosity, how bright an object is
 Malleability, how easy it is to re-shape a material without damaging it
 Permeability, how dense a magnetic field would be if current passes through it
 Tensile strength, how much force must be applied to a material to break it
 Viscosity, how thick a fluid is

Related pages
 Physical property
 Chemical property

Materials science
Approximation theory

Approximation theory is a field of mathematics which is concerned with approximating the values of a function. Usually, the approximation is only needed for a range of values or domain. A good approximation will only have a small error in the domain of interest.

There are different ways in which this approximation is done: common ones are using a combination of simpler functions or using polynomials.

Related pages 
Curve fitting

Further reading
 Trefethen, L. N. (2019). Approximation theory and approximation practice. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Mathematical approximation
Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja

Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja is a video game created in 1988 by the company Data East. It was originally made for arcades. It was popular as an arcade game.

It is an action game with good charts and sound. There is a boss at the end of each level. In the last level all the bosses confront the player one by one. After they are all defeated, the Dragon Boss appears.

Arcade games
1987 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Mark B

Mark Barnes (1970 – 1 January 2016) also known as Mark B, was a British hip-hop record producer. He was most active in the 1990s and early 2000s. He worked with Task Force and Blade on many of his records. Barnes was a disc jockey for Jazz Fudge Recordings for much of his career. Mark B first signed with Jazz Fudge in 1995. He produced some tracks for DJ Vadim's U.S.S.R. albums. His first individual album was Underworld Connection, released in 1997. He died in January 2016.

Discography
 Any More Questions? (1995)
 Underworld Connection (1997)
 Disco-Loated Beats & Sounds, Vol. 1 (1997)
 New Skool Dean (1998)
 Hitmen for Hire (1998)
 Nobody Relates (1998)
 Split Personalities/From the World Lab (2000)
 The Unknown (2000)
 The Unknown: The New Version (2001)

References

1970 births
2016 deaths
British record producers
Killer Mike

Michael Render (born April 20, 1975), better known by his stage name Killer Mike, is an American hip hop singer, songwriter, activist, and occasional actor. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder of Grind Time Official Records.

Career
Mike was first heard on "Snappin' and Trappin, a song from OutKast's album Stankonia (2000). He later appeared on the Grammy-winning song "The Whole World", a single from OutKast's greatest hits album Big Boi and Dre Present...OutKast.

In December 2008, Mike signed to T.I.'s Grand Hustle Records. In 2012, he released R.A.P. Music, produced by rapper-producer El-P. In 2013, the two formed a duo called Run the Jewels. The two signed to Fool's Gold Records and released Run the Jewels in June of that year.

Politics
Killer Mike is a member of the Democratic Party. He supports Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. After introducing Sanders at a rally held in Atlanta November 23, 2015, Mike spent time recording an interview with the presidential candidate. Mike released his interview with Bernie Sanders as a six-part video series the following month.

References

Other websites

 
 

1975 births
Living people
American hip hop musicians
Rap musicians from Georgia
American activists
American movie actors
American songwriters
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Singers from Atlanta, Georgia
Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
Kristine Miller

Kristine Miller (June 13, 1925 – late 2015) was an American movie actress. She was known for her appearances in film noir and Western movies. She appeared in I Walk Alone (1948) with Lizabeth Scott and Burt Lancaster, Jungle Patrol (1948), Too Late for Tears (1949), Shadow on the Wall (1950), and the television series Stories of the Century (1954–55).

Miller was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a Danish father and an American mother. She was raised in the United States (in New Orleans, Fresno, Long Island, New York and San Francisco) and in Copenhagen in Denmark. Miller studied at San Francisco State College. She was married to William Schuyler from 1953 until his death in 2013. They had two daughters.

Miller died in late 2015 in a hospital from congestive heart failure in Monterey, California. She was aged 90. Her death was announced on February 4, 2016.

References

Other websites

 Kristine Miller at the American Film Institute
 

1925 births
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Deaths from congestive heart failure
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Buenos Aires
People from Fresno, California
Actors from Copenhagen
Actors from New Orleans, Louisiana
Actors from New York
Actors from San Francisco
Sweet Hearts Dance

Sweet Hearts Dance is a 1988 American comedy drama movie directed by Robert Greenwald. It was written by Ernest Thompson. It is about two small-town couples, one married for several years and the other at the beginning of their relationship. It stars Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, and Elizabeth Perkins. 

It was filmed in Hyde Park, Vermont. The mayor of Burlington and future United States senator Bernie Sanders had a cameo appearance in the movie. It was released on September 23, 1988 to mixed reviews. Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie two out of four stars.

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Robert Shapiro (lawyer)

Robert Leslie Shapiro (born September 2, 1942) is an American civil lawyer of Jewish descent. He is a senior partner in the law firm Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro, LLP, which is based in Los Angeles.

Shapiro was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Law School.

Shapiro is known for being part of the team which successfully defended O. J. Simpson in 1995 from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman in 1994. Shortly after the O. J. Simpson trial, Shapiro moved his practice away from criminal defense toward the civil litigation arena.

He is also the voice of, and pictured in, the television commercials for the LegalZoom company he co-founded.

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1942 births
Living people
Lawyers from New Jersey
Jewish lawyers
People from Plainfield, New Jersey
Businesspeople from New Jersey
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Lawyers from Los Angeles
Grand jury

A grand jury is a legal body which has the power to conduct official proceedings to investigate possible criminal conduct. They also decide whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may subpoena evidence and may compel the sworn testimony of witnesses who appear before it. Grand juries are made up of from 16 to 23 people in the United States. They meet for a period of one month up to a year. However, jurors may only have to meet for a few days each month. The juries meet in private. The suspected person, called a suspect, is not usually present. About half the states in the US do not regularly use grand juries. A preliminary hearing may be used instead. The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires the use of grand juries by the federal legal system for all capital and "infamous crimes" (cases involving treason, certain felonies or gross moral turpitude).

History 
In 1166 an enactment of King Henry II of England, called the Assize of Clarendon, called for "the oath of *twelve men from every hundred and four men from every vill" to meet and decide who was guilty of robbery, theft or murder. It was the early ancestor of the jury system and of the grand jury. The United Kingdom abolished grand juries in 1933. Many of their former colonies including 
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have also stopped using them. The United States is one of the few remaining countries that uses the grand jury.

Criticism 
Grand juries are called by a federal judge and are required to supervise them. But judges almost never interfere. The grand jury is led by a federal prosecutor. He cannot testify or be present while the jury deliberates. But most federal grand juries will return any indictment presented to it. This led to the famous saying "a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich." They can subpoena anything they want with very few restrictions. In United States v. R. Enterprises, Inc., 498 U.S. 292 (1991), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled "federal grand jury subpoenas are presumed to be reasonable and the burden of showing unreasonableness is on the recipient."

A grand jury, state or federal, has two functions. The first is to go over all evidence of criminal wrongdoing and to issue an indictment only if there is enough evidence. Their other purpose is to investigate and help the prosecutor gather evidence. Critics claim grand juries have failed to do both.

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Other websites 
 Handbook For Federal Grand Jurors 
 Grand Juries Resource Guide 
 American Bar Association

Law
Legal terms
Trials
Vault (gymnastics)

A vault is an apparatus that male and female gymnasts perform on. A vault is included in gymnastics competitions such as the olympics. The gymnasts first run before they flip on the vault. Either the male or female gymnast perform a flip in the air and land on the floor. When the gymnast lands on the floor, he or she has to be in balance.

Early forms of the vault were invented by German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. The apparatus itself originated as a "horse", much like the pommel horse but without the handles. It was sometimes called a "vaulting horse". The horse was set up with its long side perpendicular to the run for women, and parallel for men. The vaulting horse was the apparatus used in the Olympics for over a century It began with the 1896 Summer Olympics and ending with the Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Following a number of problems, International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) changed the apparatus. They did it for both safety reasons and for better acrobatics.  The 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were the first international competition to make use of the "vaulting table". This was an apparatus made by Dutch gymnastics equipment company Janssen-Fritsen since the mid-1990s. It features a flat, larger, and more cushioned surface almost parallel to the floor. It slopes downward at the end closest to the springboard. Gymnasts nicknamed it the "tongue".

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Web design

Web design is a profession where a person designs a web page or a web site. The web page can have graphics, music, animations, and many other things on it. Some web design is done for businesses, and some is done for individual people. Some web designs are used a lot and have standard templates that are free for people to use.

People who design web pages are called web designers. Web designers use HTML or Dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and many other technologies to make their pages. Web designers can make their pages on the Internet using website building software, or offline on their computer. Web designers in the United States of America can earn between $31,650 and $69,510 a year, with a median salary of $46,327.

Web design includes layouts, colors, graphics, fonts, and content.

The design of your website can either make or break the business you're trying to deliver. It really makes a difference how your target audience sees your business or organization and potentially turns them into your customers. When a company has a well-designed website, it's easier to get more customer conversions. This is because a well-designed website uses its features to lead consumers directly to what they need without distraction. So its very important to have a well-designed website in this Digital era.

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Dallas McKennon

Dallas Raymond McKennon (July 19, 1919 – July 14, 2009), sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor. He had many roles as a voice actor in a career lasting over 50 years. His best-known roles were that of Gumby for Art Clokey, Archie Andrews for Filmation's Archie series, and the main voice of Buzz Buzzard in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons.

Filmography

Live-Action roles
Mystery Mansion - Sam
The Cat from Outer Space - Farmer
The Andersonville Trial - First Guard
Hot Lead and Cold Feet - Saloon Man
Tom Thumb - Con-Fu-Shon (voice)
Daniel Boone - Cincinnatus

Animated roles
The Gumby Show - Gumby / Pokey / Prickle / Henry / Denali / Rodgy (re-dubbed voice)
Space Funnies - Captain Jet
Walter Lantz series - Inspector Willoughby
The Hardy Boys (1969 cartoon series) - Joe Hardy/Chubby Morton 
Archie cartoon series - Archie Andrews
The Puppetoon Movie (1987) – Additional voices including the character Gumby.
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse cartoon series - Courageous Cat
Q.T. Hush series - Q.T. Hush/Shamus
Woody Woodpecker series - Buzz Buzzard
Hergé's Adventures of Tintin - Tintin / Professor Calculus
Lady and the Tramp - Toughy, Pedro, Professor, Hyena
Sleeping Beauty - The Owl 
One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Additional voices
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones - Detective Hutchins 
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Max
The Adventures of Mark Twain - Jim Smiley
Mary Poppins - Fox, Penguin #2, Hunting Horse, Merry-Go-Round Operator 
Tom and Jerry short, Cat and Dupli-cat - Falsetto
Bedknobs and Broomsticks - Bear
The Birds - Sam the Chef
The Hall Of Presidents - Andrew Jackson
The American Adventure - Benjamin Franklin
Clambake - Gas station attendant
Wee Sing: Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies - Narrator/Crooked old man 
Wee Sing: King Cole's Party - Crooked old man
Gumby: The Movie - Gumby, Professor Kapp, Fatbuckle, Lucky Claybert, Nobuckle
Omby Amby - Journey Back to Oz
The Haunted Mansion - Deaf Old Man

Video games
Crash Bandicoot & Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - Ripper Roo (laugh only)
Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse - The Ghost (archive footage - uncredited)

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Other websites
Dallas McKennon - Daily Telegraph obituary

Dallas McKennon  from The Observer (La Grande)

1919 births
2009 deaths
Actors from Oregon
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Deaths from natural causes in the United States
Kent County

Kent County may refer to:

Australia
 the former name of Kent Land District, Tasmania, Australia 
 Kent County, Western Australia

Canada
 Kent County, New Brunswick
 Kent County, Ontario

United Kingdom
 The County of Kent

United States
 Kent County, Delaware 
 Kent County, Maryland 
 Kent County, Michigan - the most populous Kent County in the U.S.
 Kent County, Rhode Island 
 Kent County, Texas 
 New Kent County, Virginia
Sten Mk II

The Sten Mk II was the main submachine gun of the British military in World War II. 

Early in the war, the US lent many weapons to the British to fight German forces, including the Thompson submachine gun. However, since the Thompson was expensive to make in large numbers, the British made a submachine gun of their own, that would be cheap and quick to make. This was the Sten Mk II.

The weapon was only made of 47 parts, making it relatively fast to put together and take apart and therefore easy to ship and hide. This feature made it popular among resistance fighters, including the Free French. 

It was also the first SMG to have a silencer made for it, making it useful for stealth and surprise. However, due to its low quality, it was not a very reliable weapon as it had the tendency to jam, and to fire entire clips without pulling the trigger. 

It is stated that British soldiers who captured German MP-40's would often abandon the Sten and fight using the MP-40 instead. The switch was not difficult since both weapons fired the same type of bullet, the 9x19mm Parabellum, with the same type of clips (which meant that they could use the enemy's ammunition to load their Stens or vice versa).

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Philip Bailey

Philip James Bailey (born May 8, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter, percussionist and actor. He was one of the lead singers (along with group founder Maurice White) of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. He has won seven Grammy Awards. He has released ten albums, including Chinese Wall. He also performed the duet "Easy Lover" with Phil Collins.

Bailey was born in Denver, Colorado. He has been married twice and has six children.

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Actors from Denver, Colorado
African-American singers
American Christians
American funk musicians
American jazz musicians
American keyboard players
American movie actors
American pianists
American R&B singers
American rock drummers
American rock singers
American funk singers
American singer-songwriters
American soul singers
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
.45 ACP

The .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) or 45 Auto (11.43×23mm) is a type of bullet, made to be used in the M1911 pistol used by the U.S. Military. It was first made by John Browning in 1904, the "ACP" in the name stands for "Automatic Colt Pistol". It was the standard for handguns in the U.S. military until they switched to the Beretta M9 (Beretta 92) in 1985 that used a smaller caliber 9mm bullet.

The .45 is famous for being the bullet used in the M1911 and for being the choice of the U.S. Military for their pistols for almost 75 years. The .45 ACP has good stopping power because of the large size of the bullet, a .45 ACP bullet is almost half an inch. When shot at human targets, the .45 ACP bullet makes a big hole that causes blood loss and leads to faster death. 

It was used for guns like the M1911, the Thompson submachine gun, the M3 Grease Gun, the USP45, the UMP45, the TDI Kriss Super V, the MAC-10, and many other guns.

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Ammunition
John Jenkins (composer)

John Jenkins (1592–1678) was an English composer. He became famous for writing music for small groups for amateurs and gentlemen to perform in their houses. He performed at court for King Charles I. After the Restoration he was appointed as a court musician.

He is best known for his consort music for viols, mainly fantasias. About 800 of his works have survived.

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1592 births
1678 deaths
English composers
People from Kent
Minik Wallace

Minik Wallace (also called Mene ; about 1890 – 29 October 1918) was an Inuit from Greenland. He was brought to New York City as a child in 1897, by the explorer Robert Peary. His father and four others were also brought. The six of them were studied by staff at the American Museum of Natural History, which was given custody of them. Most of them died soon after arriving. 

Minik was a member of the Inughuit, the northernmost group of Inuit in Greenland. His father was named Qisuk. They met Peary when the explorer employed men from the Inughuit during several expeditions into the Arctic. Peary asked some of them to come with him to New York. Six of them agreed, including Qisuk and Minik. Peary did not tell them about the real purpose of the trip. Some agreed to travel to see new places; others did not want to be separated from relatives. Peary promised them that they would be able to return to Greenland. Soon after their arrival, the group became the objects of study. The museum staff had not made plans for their care, nor for their return.

Soon after arriving in New York, most of the Inuit contracted the disease tuberculosis. Three adults and one child died, including Minik's father. A fourth adult survived and was returned to Greenland. Minik was the only one left. William Wallace, the curator of the museum, adopted Minik. Minik pleaded for a proper Inuit burial for his father. The museum staff wanted to preserve Qisuk's body for study. They made a fake body and put it in a coffin. They staged a fake burial so that Minik would think he was burying his father.

The museum put the skeleton on display. In about 1906, a story was published in local newspapers that stated Qisuk's skeleton was displayed in the museum. Minik was told about it by his classmates at school. He then asked that his father's bones be given to him for traditional burial. Wallace supported Minik in this, but the museum denied that they had the body. Minik was never able to reclaim his father's bones.

Minik returned to Greenland in 1910, with the help of Peary. He came back to the United States in 1916. He lived and worked there until dying of influenza in the pandemic of 1918.

Kenn Harper wrote a book about Minik in 1986. The book was called Give Me My Father's Body. Harper spent several years trying to persuade the Museum of Natural History to return the remains of the four Inuit to Greenland. He succeeded in 1993. The bodies were buried in a funeral in Qaanaaq. Minik is buried in a cemetery in Pittsburg, New Hampshire.

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Other websites
 
 Minik Wallace  at the Memory Palace podcast

1890 births
1918 deaths
Disease-related deaths in New Hampshire
Greenlandic people
Infectious disease deaths in the United States