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Sayyida al-Hurra

Sayyida al-Hurra (Arabic: السيدة الحرة‎), real name Lalla Aicha bint Ali ibn Rashid al-Alami, Hakimat Titwan (Arabic: عائشة بنت علي بن رشيد العلمي‎) (1485 – 14 July 1561) was a pirate queen.

Biography 
Al-Hurra lived in the early 1500’s. She managed to control the Western half of the Mediterranean for well over 30 years. She was born into a wealthy Muslim family. Her birth name was believed to be Aicha.  Her family was chased out of Granada to Morocco during the Spanish Reconquista.  She and her family then settled in Tetouán. Her first husband was the Sultan Al-Mandri.   She had herself immediately named governer of Tetouán, after he died. She was bestowed the title Al-Hurra. This was a symbol of respect and power.  She then married the King of Morocco. This was the only time in Islamic history a king traveled outside his country for his wedding. Spain and Portugal were worried about this. It seemed like a threat, as this alliance would be extremely strong. Iberians attacked Al-Hurra’s land. She became a pirate to defend her country and stop them.  She made an alliance with the dreaded pirate Barabarossa, or Red Beard. He used his fleet to ferry refugees away from the fighting.  Al-Hurra terrorized Spanish and Portuguese ships. She became known and feared across the Mediterranean. She was known for taking hostages and being extremely merciless.  The Spanish feared her and prayed for a miracle. The Portuguese “prayed for God to allow them to see her hanged from a ship’s mast”. She was categorized as aggressive and bad-tempered. Al-Hurra became one of the richer pirates of her time. She still managed to maintain a consistent alliance with Red Beard. Her demise came after over 30 years of sailing.  Her son-in-law usurped her power and throne.  He also stole her wealth. She lived in her childhood home in Morocco until her death.  She died at age 75.  Sayyida Al-Hurra’s legacy lives on today. In European writing she is known as the fearsome Pirate Queen of the Mediterranean.

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Pirates
2020 AFC Solidarity Cup

The 2020 AFC Solidarity Cup was planned to be the 2nd AFC Solidarity Cup, a football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

On 10 September 2020, AFC announced that the tournament would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2019, it was rescheduled once more to March 2020.

Nepal were the previous champions.

Qualified teams
The tournament would have had 8 teams. The teams that could qualify were:
The six teams that lost the first round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2023 AFC Asian Cup (same tournament) qualifiers.
The two teams that lost the play-off round of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers.

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Other websites
, the-AFC.com

AFC Solidarity Cup
Duke (album)

Duke is the tenth studio album by English progressive rock band Genesis. The album was released on March 28, 1980 through Atlantic Records and was their first album to got to number 1 in the United Kingdom.

1980 albums
Genesis albums
A Walk in the Sun (1945 movie)

A Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American World War II drama movie directed by Lewis Milestone and was based on the novel by Harry Brown. It stars Dana Andrews, John Ireland, Richard Conte, George Tyne, Lloyd Bridges, Norman Lloyd, Sterling Holloway, Herbert Rudley, Chris Drake, Richard Benedict and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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1945 movies
1940s war movies
1940s drama movies
American war movies
American drama movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Lewis Milestone
20th Century Fox movies
Katy Pyle

Katy Pyle is an American Ballet dancer. They created the dance company Ballez. Ballez is a place for people who are underrepresented in ballet. They are also the creator and choreographer of Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, and Giselle of Loneliness.

Growing Up Confused 
Pyle was a ballet student in 1990. They identify as a genderqueer lesbian. They use they/them pronouns. A Ballet teacher told them that they would have a better career if they were a boy. Because they wanted to dance in a way that was “more masculine.” Ballet is often divided by gender. Pyle felt a lack of representation. They felt confused about their identity.

Hidden In History 
Pyle researched queer ballet dancers. Pyle was inspired by the people they learned about. Bronislava Nijinska was a ballet choreographer. Nijinska created the ballet Les Bitches. Pyle felt happy and mad. They were happy because there were people like them. They were sad because these people were made invisible.

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Sarah Thomas

Sarah Thomas is an American football referee. Thomas is the first woman to be a permanent NFL official. Thomas is breaking gender barriers around her career. Thomas was the first woman to officiate the Super Bowl. She refereed the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, in 2021.

Early Life 
Sarah Thomas was raised in Pascagoula Mississippi. She and her brother played sports. She received a scholarship for basketball at the the University of Mobile. Thomas was recorded 5th best in the school for her excellence in basketball.  Her statistics over five seasons: 779 points, 411 rebounds, 108 assists, and 192 steals.  Thomas was titled Academic All-American at Mobile. She aided her team get to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Tournament. Thomas got a degree in communications and graduated Mobile in 1995.

First Jobs 
Thomas was interested in becoming a Football official after college.  She went with her older brother to his officiating meeting. She started being an official for grade school, and then high schools in 1999. Thomas officiated a high school state championship game in Mississippi, 2007. Joe Henes, who is a retired official told Gerry Austin, a supervisor of Conference USA’s officials about Thomas and her ability to officiate.  Joe Henes recommended she start officiating college football. Austin looked into her skill set and hired Thomas. This made her the first woman to officiate a major college game.

She started working for the NFL in 2015.

Skills 
Thomas has good communication skills. She can talk to coaches. She listens to the coach when they are questioning the call. She calms them down. Coaches are confident about her abilities.

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Living people
Gertrude Joyce Cran Barry

Gertrude Joyce Cran Barry (1900-1964) was a Scottish lacrosse and field hockey player who lived in the United States. She was inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963. She was inducted into the Scotland Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2015. She was the founder of CRANBARRY Equipment Company. This was the United State’s first equipment company for women’s lacrosse. 

Barry came to the United States to teach at a field hockey camp in 1925. She then became a Physical Training Instructor at Wellesley College. Barry figured out that field hockey was bad for posture due to the form of the arched back, and that lacrosse is good for posture because players are running upright. This further promoted more women to play lacrosse.

In 1931, she became the United States Women's Lacrosse Association's (USWLA) first president. She held this role for four years. Barry helped organize the USWLA's first national tournament in 1933 in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1947 she established CRANBARRY Equipment Company.  In 1950 she chaired the U.S. Team Selection Committee.

Joyce Cran Barry became the second woman inducted into the US Hall of Fame (besides Margaret Boyd) in 1993.  In 1934, a prediction was made by the leaders of New York Women’s Lacrosse Association that lacrosse would be more popular than field hockey.

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Lacrosse
Cecilia Alvares

Cecilia Concepcion Alvarez is an American Latina artist.  Her work thinks about gender.

Born and raised 
Cecilia Alvarez was born April 15, 1950 in National City, California. Jeorge Guillermo Alvarez and Cecilia Alejandra Diego de Alvarez are her parents. Alvarez grew up on the San Diego-Tijuana border. She moved to Canada, and then to Seattle in 1975.

Education 
Alvarez attended San Diego State University. She studied sociology.  Alvarez later quit university to support her family.

Career 
Alvarez is a self taught artist. She makes paintings and public murals. She is part of The Guerrilla Girls art group.

Message behind her art 
Alvarez expresses her life experiences through her art. She brings light to silenced voices, she highlights journeys that others overlook. Her art redefines femininity, beauty, and power. She aims to help youth understand the complex topics of our world. Alvarez celebrates her culture and femininity in her art.  Her artwork provokes visual conversations.

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American painters
Susan La Flesche Picotte

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) was the first Native American woman to go to medical school in the United States of America. She graduated as a very skilled doctor and valedictorian of her class, but her rights were still restricted.

La Flesche grew up with seven other siblings, her mother, and her father. Her father was a very important figure in her life and inspired her to be more than what she looked like, and to strive for the best. She decided she wanted to be a doctor after a lady passed away in front of her because a white man didn’t check on her. This made her want to become a doctor and help fight the racial inequalities this world was made out of.

She went to a med school for women in Pennsylvania and graduated very successfully. She was not allowed to vote being a woman and was not allowed to become a US citizen being an Indian. In Addition, Indians were lower class than whites.

Alice Cunningham Fletcher was very kind and helpful despite the racial discrimination. Fletcher helped solicit donations so that she could start her education. Fletcher was a women's rights activist and made a huge impact on La Flesche.

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Native American people
Yun Suknam

Yun Suk-nam (born 1939) is a Korean feminist painter and activist. She co-founded October Group (Simwolmoim) in 1985. The October Group is a feminist collective. She worked with other women artists from Korea. Yun collaborated with Kim Dijinsook and Kim Insoon in 1986. They produced an exhibition, called From Half to One. It talked about women’s issues. Mother’s Eye was one of Yun’s earliest exhibitions. It was made of rotting wood scraps. She said that the texture was similar to wrinkled skin. The softness represented her mother. Yun received the Joon-Sup Lee award. She was the first woman to get the award. She earned the Prime Minister’s Prize for Women’s Development in 1997. Yun’s paintings and exhibitions include Seedling of Lights (1997), Pink Room (1997), and To Be Lengthened (2003).

Early Life 
Yun Suk-nam is from Manchuria. She was the third child out of six. Yun Beknam was her father. Won Jeungsook was her mother. Yun Beknam founded the first Western theater in Korea. He was a movie director, producer, newspaper writer and historical novelist. Her father died in 1954. Her mother became a street vendor to support the family. They moved back to Korea after the Japanese occupation ended.

Life Before Art 
Yun worked at Korean Electrical Company for four years. She went to Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. She studied English literature. Yun had to drop out after two years (1959-1962) because her family didn’t have enough money. She then married and had children.

Career 
Yun was questioning her self-identity. She was only a mother and a wife. She became an artist at forty years old. She moved to New York City to learn about printmaking and drawing at the Pratt Institute Graphic Center. She joined the Pratt and the Arts League in the early 1980s. 

Yun Suknam admires her mother for being strong and independent. Yun learned that being poor isn’t something to be ashamed about. The subject of her first paintings was her mother. It was her mother’s determination and sacrifice that let them overcome poverty. Yun paints women fighters who fought for independence from Japanese occupation. She started using chaesaekwa in 2011, when she was around 70. She saw a self-portrait of a Joseon time period painter, Yun Duseo and was inspired. Jeong Jeonghwa was an independence activist who she painted. Yun depicted women who were not known, but did substantial actions. Yun focuses on the subject’s eyes. She makes them strong, fierce, and staring at the audience. She says this gives them life.

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Living people
Rebecca Meyers

Rebecca Meyers (born November 20, 1994) is a Paralympic swimmer. She is blind and deaf. She has seven world records. Meyers swam in the Paralympics three  times. She has also gotten many awards.

Early life 
Meyers was born on November 20, 1994. She has Usher Syndrome.  

Meyers started swimming in 2000. She was six when she started swimming.

Meyers went to Franklin & Marshall College.  She studied world history.

Events and awards 
Meyers' best swimming events are 50, 100, and 400 meter freestyle. She also swims the 100 meter Butterfly. Meyers also swims the 200 meter IM (Intermediate Medley) and the 100 meter breaststroke.

Meyers been to the Paralympics three times. She has gone to world championships in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019. She has 10 world championship medals. She has gotten 6 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze medals from the Paralympics.

Meyers got the Swimming Trischa L. Zorn award in 2016, 2018, and 2019. She received the ESPY award in 2015 and 2017. Meyers also got the USADSF award.

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Living people
1994 births
American Paralympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Baltimore
Paralympic silver medalists
Paralympic bronze medalists
Blind people
Deaf people
Marly Gallardo

Marly Gallardo is an Ecuadorian illustrator, who grew up in New York. Gallardo spent her childhood in her parent's restaurant in Ecuador, surrounded by drawings and paintings. After immigrating to the United States, her parents ensured that she would never forget Spanish by speaking the language at home. Art, for her, became a bridge between English and Spanish, whenever she forgot a word. She later went on to art school, where she transitioned from painting to experimenting with Adobe Illustrator, and later became an illustrator. She received a bachelor degree in fine arts from The Rhode Island School of Design.

Art style 
Her art style is magical realism.  She has illustrated for many different campaigns.

Her illustration work includes many campaigns and editorial publications for The New York Times, the United Nations, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Netflix.

Awards 
Her many awards include 2020 Forbes 30 under 30: Art and Style award.

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Living people
Crystal Wahpepah

Crystal Wahpepah is the first Native American chef on the cooking show Chopped. She also has the first Native American woman owned catering business. She opened her own restaurant with the intention to reclaim Native American cuisine.

References

Chefs
Neuf-Berquin

Neuf-Berquin (; from ) is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,248 people lived in the commune.

Other websites
 INSEE commune file

Communes in Nord
Zuytpeene

Zuytpeene is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 516 people lived there.

Other websites
 INSEE commune file

Communes in Nord
Raphael Hofer

Raphael Hofer (born 14 February 2003) is an Austrian professional footballer. He plays as a forward for Liefering. He also played for the U19 of FC Salzburg in the UEFA Youth League 2021-22.

Career
He started his career with SV Mauerkirchen and then with SV Ried. In 2016 he went on to FC Red Bull Salzburg. He played for the Red Bull Academy in all three stages. In 2021 he went on to FC Liefering. He played his first match for Liefering in July 2021 where got subbed on for Forson Amankwah in the 89th minute.

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2003 births
Living people
Austrian footballers
Players of FC Liefering
Association football forwards
Naves, Nord

Naves () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 633 people lived there.

Other websites
 INSEE commune file

Communes in Nord
Nijinsky (movie)

Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical drama movie directed by Herbert Ross and starring Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, George de la Peña, Carla Fracci, Ronald Pickup, Ronald Lacey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Frederick Jaeger, Jeremy Irons, Siân Phillips. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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1980 drama movies
1980s biographical movies
1980s LGBT movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
American LGBT movies
Paramount Pictures movies
Movies directed by Herbert Ross
Hanger Lane

Hanger Lane is a major road in Ealing, London. Most of the road forms the most west part of the A406 North Circular Road. Hanger Lane runs north from the A4020 Uxbridge Road at Ealing Common to the A40 Western Avenue at the Hanger Lane gyratory. This busy junction has the Hanger Lane Underground station in the middle of it. That station serves the Central line. Hanger Lane continues north along the A4005 to Vicar's Bridge and the border with Alperton in the London Borough of Brent.

The road takes its name from Hanger Hill, which is also the name of the area around it. The name comes from the Old English word hangra, meaning a wooded slope.

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Roads in London
Child's Play (1972 movie)

Child's Play is a 1972 American mystery drama movie directed by Sidney Lumet and was based on the 1970 play of the same name by Robert Marasco. It stars James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, David Rounds, Kate Harrington, Tom Leopold, Christopher Man, Paul O'Keefe and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Other websites
 
 

1972 drama movies
1970s mystery movies
American mystery movies
American drama movies
Movies based on plays
Movies set in schools
Movies directed by Sidney Lumet
Paramount Pictures movies
Chiapas truck crash

On 9 December 2021, a traffic collision occurred in Chiapas, southern Mexico. A truck which contained about 180 illegal immigrants - most of whom were Guatemalans - was being driven to the United States. It crashed into a bridge, killing at least 54 of its occupants.

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2021 in North America
2020s disasters in North America
21st century in Mexico
Truck crash
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Organized crime
Spatalla confusa

Spatalla confusa is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Spatalla and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native to the Western Cape where it occurs in the Cederberg up to the Hottentots Holland Mountains, Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains.

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Plectrohyla lacertosa

The pop-eyed spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla lacertosa) is a frog that lives in Mexico.  Scientists have only seen it in two places, both in the Sierra Madre mountains in Chiapas. They saw it 1000 to 2134 meters above sea level.

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Frogs
Animals of North America
MegaRace 3

MegaRace 3 is a 2002 racing/vehicular combat video game Cryo Interactive made for Windows and the PlayStation 2. MegaRace 3 is the third MegaRace game, after MegaRace and MegaRace 2, and the first one with full 3D graphics. Christian Erickson plays Lance Boyle, the host.

Microïds, Cryo Interactive's owner, released the game again on GOG.com on 2 June 2009.

Reception

References

Other websites 
  at Microïds (PC) (archived from the original) 
 

2002 video games
Racing video games
Windows games
PlayStation 2 games
Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021

A severe weather and tornado outbreak happened between December 10 and 11, 2021. In the outbreak, there were just under 70 tornadoes involved, along with severe thunderstorms traveled across the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee.

Across Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Illinois, the tornado sequence might have carved a path of almost 250 miles. If confirmed, that may have broken the record of the 1925 Tri-State tornado as the longest such event on record. The starting report on several tornadoes is that they were EF4. 

89 people were confirmed killed by the outbreak. The Governor of Kentucky (at that time) stated that beyond seventy people might have been killed in the state alone.

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2021 disasters in the United States
December 2021 events
Natural disasters in the United States
December 10–11, 2021
Outbreak of December 10–11, 2021

sah:Кентукки сиригэр Ахсынньы 11 күнүгэр 2021 Торнадо түһүүтэ
1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado

A strong tornado struck Vicksburg, Mississippi and areas nearby during the evening of December 5, 1953. The storm ran through the city at right after 5:30 pm that Saturday evening. The event killed 38 people. It was then the fourth deadliest tornado in the history of the state. It also injured almost 270. Damage totaled $25 million at the time.

The tornado that went through Vicksburg was estimated officially as an F5. That rating, however, is questionable. That's because the property destroyed was frail and weak. Some people call this tornado likely an F4 instead of an F5.

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Tornadoes in the United States
Natural disasters in the United States
December events
History of Mississippi
1950s in the United States
John Comyn III

John Comyn III (1274-1306) was a Scottish noble killed in 1306 by Robert the Bruce as Comyn was a rival for the throne.

Murder 
On 10 February 1306 at Greyfriars in Dumfries, Scotland. Comyn was murdered by Robert the Bruce and Roger de Kirkpatrick, due to Comyn claiming the throne due to his claim that he is descended from a previous Scottish king, Donald III (r. 1093-1094, 1094-1097).

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1270s births
1300s deaths
Selbitz

Selbitz is a town in Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 12 km west of Hof.

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Hof (district)
Sparneck

Sparneck is a municipality in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.

Geography 
The market town of Sparneck is at an average height of  in the Pfarrbach valley, which makes the larger part of the area. The Saxon Saale river flows through this valley in a north direction. Towards the east the  877 metre high Waldstein ridge rises, the source of the Saale is on its slopes. It forms the natural boundary with the neighbouring district of Wunsiedel.

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Hof (district)
Stammbach

Stammbach is a market town and municipality in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.

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Hof (district)
Töpen

Töpen is a municipality  in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.

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Other websites

Hof (district)
Trogen, Bavaria

Trogen is a municipality in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.

Geography
Trogen is in between hills in a valley.
The Town is about six kilometers northeast of the county seat Hof (Saale) on the Bundesautobahn 72 (junction 3 Hof / Töpen), and  Bundesautobahn 93 (junction 2 Hof-East) and the federal highway B173. 
The community is in the Bavarian part of Vogtland. It is part of the district of Hof and thus also of the administrative region of Upper Franconia (Oberfranken). 
The neighboring village Feilitzsch is only a few hundred meters away from Trogen.

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Hof (district)
Arizona Bushwhackers

Arizona Bushwhackers is a 1968 American western movie directed by Lesley Selander and starring Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Scott Brady, Marilyn Maxwell, Montie Montana. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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1960s western movies
American western movies
Movies directed by Lesley Selander
Paramount Pictures movies
King Fib

King Fib (c. 822 BCE - c. 691 BCE) was King of Fib, allegedly for 24 years, from 715 BCE until 691 BCE

Fictional characters
Round and Round the Garden

Round and round the garden is a nursery rhyme for infants and toddlers. Usualy it is accompanied by fingerplay, such as touching and tickling.

Rhyme
The version given by The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes is:

This rhyme is probably fairly recent.

Origins
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. Since teddy bears were not common before  the twentieth century it is likely fairly recent in its current form.  Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there":

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Children's literature
Plectrohyla teuchestes

The Alta Verapaz spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla teuchestes) is a frog that lives in Guatemala.  Scientists have only seen it in one place.  It was in the Sierra de Xucaneb in eastern Guatemala at 1000 meters above sea level.

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Frogs
Animals of North America
Cinderella effect

Cinderella effect is the name for a phenomenon found in psychology: Child abuse and mistreatment is more common in families with stepparents. 

It is named after the fairy tale Cinderella, where a girl gets mistreated by her stepsisters and stepmother. Psychologists think this shows a bias towards kin. A person has fewer incentives to invest in a child that is not his or her direct offspring. 

P.D. Scott first used the term Cinderella effect, in a study he did in 1973: He studied 29 cases of babies who were  beaten to death in anger; he found that in 15 cases, the baby's stepfather was the killer.

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Books 
 

Psychology
Child abuse
Bestgore.com

bestgore.com was a Canadian shock site owned by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek, the website was founded in 2008 and went defunct in 2020.

The site received media attention in 2012 for a video depicting the murder of Jun Lin committed by Luka Magnotta. As a result, the owner Marek was arrested and charged.

Shock sites
2008 establishments in Canada
2020 disestablishments
Clara Cannucciari

Clara Cannucciari (née Bonfanti; August 18, 1915 – November 29, 2013) hosted the web series Great Depression Cooking with Clara and wrote the book Clara's Kitchen.

Life
Clara was born in Melrose Park, Illinois on August 18, 1915 to Giuseppe and Giuseppina Bonfanti, who recently moved from Sicily. The family had a bad life during the Great Depression, but ended up safe and healthy because Giuseppina made their meals last longer.

In 2007, her grandson Christopher started making the web series Great Depression Cooking with Clara, in which she made those meals. She retired shortly after her 96th birthday. Their last video, Fried Fish, was posted on April 18, 2019. On March 25, 2020, Christopher said he would start uploading more videos of Clara.

Death
Clara died on November 29, 2013 at 98 years old. Her daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren were still alive.

References

Other websites
Great Depression Cooking with Clara's official website

Christopher Cannucciari's official website

1915 births
2013 deaths
American chefs
American YouTubers
Writers from Illinois
Holy Family (Amisani)

Holy family (also known as Sacra famiglia) is a 20th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Giuseppe Amisani. He painted it in 1910. It is part of the collection at the beginning of the Carrara Academy and then acquired of the Museum of Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo) in Bergamo, Italy.

Related pages 
 Giuseppe Amisani

References

Other websites 
 Sacra famiglia, Giuseppe Amisani, Beni culturali, inv.n. 0302024712
 Sacra famiglia, Giuseppe Amisani, Beni culturali

20th-century paintings
Paintings in Brescia
Paintings by Giuseppe Amisani
The Model of Villa Cedri (Amisani)

The Model of Villa Cedri (also known as La Modella di Villa Cedri) is a 20th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Giuseppe Amisani. He painted it in 1920. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Civic Museum of Villa Cedri in Bellinzona, Swiss.

Related pages 
 Giuseppe Amisani

References

Other websites 
 Giuseppe Amisani, La Modella, Museo Civico di Villa Cedri, Swiss

20th-century paintings
Paintings in Switzerland
Paintings by Giuseppe Amisani
Pussy

Pussy could mean:
 Cat, a feline animal
 Vagina, a female body part
 Vulva, a female body part

English profanity
City block

A city block is a block of houses, in a built up area. Usually, it is delimited by roads, pathways, or by geographical features, such as a railway line or a river. It consists of several land lots which are directly next to each other, and usually privately owned. 

A city block is a typical form of inner-city design. Commonly, multi-storey apartment buildings, semi-detatched houses, office blocks, or mixed-use houses make up the elements of a city block. As all the houses touch each other, this is known as a closed form.

In the suburbs, there is more space, and the buildings don't usually touch each other. This is known as an open form.

In Europe, cities have grown over centuries, and their layout is different from that of a planned city. As a result, the city block in a planned city also looks different.

Origin 
The design of city blocks started with the emergence of cities, in the Middle Ages. Medieval Hanseatic cities already used city blocks. The design can also be found in baroque inner cities, such as the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam. It is typical of absolutist urban development and the tenement districts of major German cities that were built after 1870 during the Wilhelminian era. In response to the housing shortage of the 1920s, housing associations built apartment blocks with large courtyards and small apartments. At the same time, however, city planners were also looking for alternatives to the perimeter block development that was common at the time. What they did was build blocks perpendicular to the road; they would then build footpaths as access. This has the benefit that all apartments get the same amount of sunshine. It has the drawback, that larger arrangements look monontonus.This kind of city planning was widespread during the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War, in the 1950s and 1960s. Another benefit of this model is that neighborhoods have a better airflow.

During the Middle Ages, city blocks were often simply chaining buildings, in an unplanned way.

Even in antiquity , there were planned cities. Examples of this are the city of Miletus, or the model of a Roman city, which both used a regular grid layout. During the Baroque era, citty planning was common: Cities were planned with big geometric layouts, later they were divided into different land lots, before being built.

City blocks are also used for collecting statistical data on the population structure . When visualizing 3D city models, people oftenuse  simplified solid bodies that are supposed to correspond to the real building blocks.

Urban design
Acrolite

The Acrolite is a series of Canadian amateur-build aircraft. preduced by Acrolite aircraft. Its first flight was in October of 1986.

Variants 

 Acrolite 1A
 Single-seat biplane for the Canadian basic ultralight category, first flown in October 1986. Plans no longer available. The prototype was originally powered by a 38 hp (28 kW) Kawasaki 440 and later by a 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447 two-strokes powerplant.
 Acrolite 1B
 Single-seat biplane for sportsman aerobatics. In addition to the standard wooden wing, optional 2024-T3 aluminium sheet wings can be built. The recommended engine is the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL, although the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582or the 120 hp (89 kW) Rotax 618 two-strokes can be used as well.
 Acrolite 1C
 Single-seat biplane for sportsman aerobatics, with performance improvements over the 1B. Engines include 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582, 74 hp (55 kW), Hirth F30 120 hp (89 kW) Rotax 618 two-strokes and the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL, the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant.
 Acrolite 1M
 Single-seat high-wing, strut-braced monoplane. Engines include 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447, 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 and the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-strokes or other similar powerplants. Acrolight Aircraft reports that no prototype has been completed or flown by September 2012.
 Acrolite 1T
 Single-seat triplane for sportsman aerobatics, with wings covered with epoxy fiberglass sheet or optionally plywood. Ailerons are only fitted to the middle wing. Engines include 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447, 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 and the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-stroke powerplants.
 Acrolite 2M
 Two seats in tandem, high-wing strut-braced monoplane intended for the Canadian advanced ultralight category and American light-sport aircraft category, first flown in June 1994. Engines include 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582, 74 hp (55 kW) Rotax 618 two-strokes and the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL and 85 hp (63 kW) Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplants. As of August 2012, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft or on Transport Canada's list of advanced ultralights.

Aircraft
David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay

David Stewart (1378-1402) was a Scottish politician who made himself unpopular in the late 1390s, and was imprisoned in Falkland Palace in early 1402 and died that year under mysterious circumstances.

1378 births 1402 deaths
List of Tom and Jerry Theatrical and Direct-to-video movies

This is a list of feature length movies of the Tom and Jerry franchise. an comedy movie franchise based on the short series of the same name, all of the movies were produced for 1-16 to upcoming related. started in 1992, and various movies involving with Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse to various crazy adventurous motifs of the surrounded evil antagonists.

Warner Bros. movies

Movies

Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars

Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry

Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers

Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale

Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes 
In this movie, Tom and Jerry work together with Sherlock Holmes to stop Professor Moriarty from stealing the Crown Jewels during a Solar Eclipse.

Voice cast
 Billy West and Joe Alaskey (Archive audio; Uncredited) - Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse
 Michael York as Sherlock Holmes
 Malcolm McDowell as Professor Moriarty
 John Rhys-Davies as Dr. Watson
 Grey DeLisle as Red
 Kath Soucie as Tuffy
 Jeff Bergman as Butch and Droopy
 Phil LaMarr as Spike and Policeman
 Greg Ellis as Tin and Sergeant
 Jess Harnell as Pan and Brett Jeremy
 Richard McGonagle as Alley and First Policeman
 Tom Kenny as various characters

Tom and Jerry and The Wizard of Oz

Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse

Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure

Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon

Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest

Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz 
Voice cast
 Grey Griffin as Dorothy Gale
 Jason Alexander as Nome King (Mr. Bibb)
 Amy Pemberton as Dorothy's singing voice and The Mouse Queen
 Joe Alaskey as The Wizard of Oz, Butch, Droopy
 Michael Gough as Scarecrow (Hunk)
 Rob Paulsen as Tin Man (Hickory)
 Todd Stashwick as Cowardly Lion (Zeke)
 Frances Conroy as Aunt Em and Glinda
 Laraine Newman as The Wicked Witch of the West. Appeared in the stock footage.
 Stephen Root as Uncle Henry
 Kath Soucie as Tuffy the Munchkin Mouse, Tractor
 Andrea Martin as Hungry Tiger
 James Monroe Iglehart as Jitterbug (Calvin Carney)
 Spike Brandt as Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse (uncredited), Spike

Reception
Renee Schonfeld of Common Sense Media rated it 3 out of 5 stars, saying "By blending solid new musical numbers with the old Oz favorites and including inventive new characters, Spike Brandt, Tony Cerone, and company have made this sequel funny and original."

Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Tom and Jerry (2021 movie)

Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! 
Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! is an upcoming 2022 animated direct-to-video movie starring Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

References 

1992 establishments
Series of movies
Tom and Jerry
Aubigny-au-Bac

Aubigny-au-Bac () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,172 people lived there.

References

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Communes in Nord
Aubry-du-Hainaut

Aubry-du-Hainaut () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,706 people lived there.

References

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Communes in Nord
Auby

Auby () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 7,256 people lived there.

References

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Auchy-lez-Orchies

Auchy-lez-Orchies () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,509 people lived there.

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Audignies

Audignies () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 369 people lived there.

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Communes in Nord
Amy Chu

Amy Chu is a Chinese American comic writer. She started comic writing at 45 after a surprising career path. The comic industry was mostly men when Amy started. But, she has shown that women can be successful in comics too.  Amy has worked for DC and Marvel. She is a role model in many ways.

Early Life/Personal Life 
Amy Chu was born in Iowa. She is Chinese American. She was one of the only Asian kids in town. Because of this, she didn’t feel like she belonged. She was never interested in comics. Her dream growing up was to be a physicist. In interviews, she says she was very nerdy. Amy was on the chess team and the math team. She wanted to play on the soccer team, too. However, Amy’s school did not have a team for girls. They also would not let her play on the boys’ team. So, her parents sued and won. But even though she was finally on the soccer team, other teams would not play with her. 

Amy lives in Princeton, New Jersey now. She is a mother of two children. They play soccer. She likes to shop, play video games, and have fun with Legos. She also enjoys drinking coffee and whiskey.

Education 
Amy was part of a joint program with MIT and Wellesley. She was one of the only women doing it. She got a degree in Architecture. She also got a degree in East Asian Studies.  Later on in her life, Amy went to Harvard Business School. Years later, she took a course in creative/comic writing.

Career 
Amy did graphic design jobs in college. Later, she took on consulting jobs. She even had a job in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong she worked at the Macau tourism office. Pansy Ho was her boss. Amy went back to America to go to business school. She then was a real consultant.  She worked for biotech companies. Amy reunited with Georgia Lee. Georgia was an old friend of Amy. She also graduated from Harvard. Georgia made films. She also wrote scripts for television. Georgia asked for Amy’s help. She wanted to start a company. Georgia wanted to encourage girls to be interested in comics. Comics are often just for boys. The company would change that. Amy agreed.  They co-founded Alpha Girls Comics together.  Amy decided to take a class in comic writing.  She was the only female taking the class. It did not feel like she was welcome. But, people loved the stories she wrote. Soon Amy became a professional comic book writer. She went on to work for big name companies like DC and Marvel.

References 

Living person
Maude Abbott

Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (1868) was a pediatrician and cardiologist.  She wrote the Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease. She studied and documented the hearts from cyanotic patients. She was one of the first women to get a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University.

Early Life and Family 
Maude Abbott was born in St. Andrews East, Quebec. She was abandoned by her father at a young age. Her mother died from tuberculosis when she was young. Maude Abbott and her sister, Alice, were adopted by her 62 year old grandmother.

School 
Maude Abbott got a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University. She was one of the first women to get a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University. She went to Bishop’s College for medical school because McGill rejected her for her sex. After she graduated college, she went to London and Vienna for two years to study.

Career

References 

Physicians
Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan

Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan was a New Zealand politician.

Whetu Titikatene-Sullivan 
Whetu Titikatene-Sullivan was the longest serving MP for New Zealand. She won the Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Whetu was one of the finest fencers in New Zealand. Whetu was one of few women to give an oration at Ratana Pa.

Whetu’s father was a former Member of Parliament. She had a husband named Denis Sullivan who was a nuclear physicist.  They both had three children named May-Ana (born in 1970), Lisa Marie (born in 1972), and Tirikatene (1974). Whetu’s second child, Lisa Marie, died three months after she was born. Whetu had English and Ngati ancestry. When Whetu was young, she was cared for by her grandmother. Whetu gave birth while holding her position in office and believed strongly in combining her career with good parenting.

Whetu started her education at Rangiora High School. She was considered a leader in Rangiora High School. She attended Wellington East Girls College. Whetu got her BA and a diploma at Victoria University in Wellington. She completed her thesis but was did not present it.  Whetu got a Ph.D. in political science.

Whetu was a dancing champion in New Zealand. She also was a legendary female fencer in the 1960s. Whetu was a titleholder for Ballroom dancing and American dancing. Whetu owned a boutique. Her boutique sold traditional Maori clothes and Polynesian inspired clothing. She was a role model for young people into fashion.

When Whetu was 20, she was told that she had tuberculosis. The doctors thought that it was caused by exposure to too many people, a busy schedule, and stress. Whetu advocated for other patients while she was in the hospital.

References 

Politicians
Aulnoye-Aymeries

Aulnoye-Aymeries () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 8,767 people lived there.

References

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Communes in Nord
Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes

Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 7,280 people lived there.

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Communes in Nord
Avelin

Avelin () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 2,666 people lived there.

References

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Communes in Nord
Janaki Ammal

Janaki Ammal was the first Indian female botanist.  She was the first to receive her masters in science. She was the first-known woman to get a Ph.D. in Botany in the United States. She was the first to recieve the Padma Shri award. Ammal was also known as the sugar cane queen. She worked on developing sweeter sugar cane varieties.

Birth 
Janaki Ammal was born in 1897.  She was born in a state called Kerala in India. She was the tenth person in her family.  She had 19 brothers and 19 sisters.  Her father was a judge.  He also took care of the garden.  This sparked Ammal’s love for botany.

Early Career 
Ammal taught for three years at a Women’s Christian College.  Then she was invited to the University of Michigan.  She joined the botany division.  She was an immigrant.  She was held at Ellis Island.  She earned her masters in science.  6 years later she received her doctorate.  Ammal was the first woman to ever receive her doctorate degree in botany in the US.

Research 
Ammal worked at the Sugar Cane Breeding Institute.  Ammal helped the institute to create and support sweeter sugar cane.  This was significant because they no longer had to rely on imports from other countries.  Ammal moved to Norfolk, England.  She worked at the John Innes Institute.  She and C.D. Darlington co-authored Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants.  Ammal was recommended to work at the Royal Horticulture Society.  She became a paid cytologist.  She worked on a medication that doubles a plant’s chromosomes.  This makes the plant grow quicker and larger.  One shrub was named after her.  The shrub was called Mongolia Kobus Janaki Ammal.

Return to India 
Ammal returned to India. She did so at the request of the prime minister.  She worked on improving India’s agriculture and preserving indigenous plants.

Late Career 
She focused on helping Save Silent Valley. Ammal’s efforts were successful. The forest was no longer going to be flooded. Ammal died months earlier. She died at the age of 87.

References 

Botanists
Helen Rodríguez Trías

Helen Rodríguez Trías was a Puerto Rican pediatrician and women's rights activist. She was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association. In 2001 she was awarded the Presidential Citizen’s Medal.

She was born in Puerto Rico. She moved to New York at age ten. At school she was treated poorly because of her race. Helen liked science and people. 

She studied medicine in Puerto Rico. Helen became a mother. She graduated when she was thirty one years old. Helen opened a place to take newborn babies if they are ill. This led to the newborn death rate in Puerto Rico decreasing by fifty percent. 

She moved back to New York. Helen worked for organizations and movements. She specialized in pediatrics. She saw a mother pass away from an abortion. Helen began fighting for abortion and sterilization rights. 

Helen Rodríguez Trías has saved many people, from newborns to women. She will be remembered because of all of her hard work.

References 

Physicians
Sherri L. Smith

Sherri L. Smith is an American novelist with many awards. She is also a comic book illustrator. She worked on stop motion animation in films.

Early life 
Smith was born in Chicago. She spent most of her life in Staten Island after her parents got divorced. She moved from coast to coast. In New York she attended NYU to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film. She also went to San Francisco State University to study Business Administration. She finally graduated from California State University with an M.A. in Creative Writing.

Career

Film 
Smith worked on stop motion animation. She worked on Tim Burton’s ‘Mars Attacks!’ She had a three year contract with Disney.

Construction 
Smith she moved to Los Angeles. She began to work in a construction company, constructing monsters, aliens, and dead people for movies.

Comics 
In Los Angeles, Smith started to work more on her comics. She got a job at Bongo Comics. Then, she started to pursue her dream of writing a novel.

Writing 
She is known for writing novels about teenage misfits. Her writing is intricate. Smith has written many novels, including Lucy the Giant, Flygirl, Orleans, The Blossom and the Firefly, Pasadena, Sparrow, and Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet.

Awards 
Smith's novels have won a variety of awards. Flygirl was considered by the Washington Post as the best book of 2012.  New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, American Library Association, and many other organizations have given Smith awards for her books.

Books 

 Lucy the Giant
 Sparrow
 Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
 Flygirl
 Orleans
 The Toymaker’s Apprentice
 Pasadena
 Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?
 The Blossom and the Firefly

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Living people
Avesnelles

Avesnelles () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 2,433 people lived there.

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Communes in Nord
Taylor K. Shaw

Taylor K. Shaw is the founder and CEO of Black Women Animate. She was recognized as one of Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30." She had a dream to make an animation company that had more female black animators. She noticed a lack of black women in the animation industry. It took her months of hiring to find animators. Then she made Black Women Animate.

Black Women Animate 
Black Women Animate is an animation company. Their animators are black women. It is a place where black women can have more opportunities in the animation industry. It was founded by Taylor Shaw in 2017. The company makes original content. It also collaborates with other big animation studios like Disney. They have also gotten an award. They have an animation boot camp. BWA will most likely extend their boot camp. They will also hire more black women and continue animating. 

Not many people would hire black animators.  This company helped a lot of struggling animators.

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