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The Bad Seed (movie)

The Bad Seed is a 1956 American horror movie. It has elements of film noir. This movie is based on the 1954 play of the same name.

Plot
On her piano, eight year old Rhoda Penmark (played by Patty McCormack) plays the French song "Au clair de la lune" while her father says his good-byes and goes on military duty. Rhoda is under the care of her mother Christine (Nancy Kelly). 

Rhoda begins as a well-behaved child. As the movie goes on, she becomes evil and sinister. She commits murder, steals and sets fires. 

A lightning bolt during a rainstorm kills Rhoda instantly.

Cast

 Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark
 Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark
 Henry Jones as Leroy Jessup
 Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle
 Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove
 William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark

 Paul Fix as Richard Bravo
 Jesse White as Emory Wages
 Gage Clarke as Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker
 Joan Croydon as Claudia Fern (as Joan Croyden)
 Frank Cady as Henry Daigle

Reception
This was one of Warner Bros. biggest movies of the year. It took in $4.1 million in the American box office. It was also popular in the British box office. 

The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actress, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Cinematography.

Remakes
The Bad Seed was remade for television in 1985.

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1950s horror movies
1950s drama movies
1956 movies
American horror movies
Movies directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Patty McCormack

Patty McCormack (born Patricia Ellen Russo, August 21, 1945) is an American actress. She acts in theater, television and movies. She played eight year old sociopath and killer Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed. She also played Joanna Wilkes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

McCormack was born in Brooklyn, New York.

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1945 births
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Faraday cage

A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure made from material that conducts electricity. It is used to block electric fields. The Faraday cage is named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented it in 1836.

An electrical field outside the cage causes electric charges in the cage's conducting material to move around and cancel the field's effect inside the cage. It protects sensitive electronic equipment from external radio frequency interference (RFI). 

Faraday cages are also used to enclose devices that produce RFI, such as radio transmitters, to prevent their radio waves from interfering with other nearby equipment. They are also used to protect people and equipment against actual electric currents such as lightning strikes and electrostatic discharges. The enclosing cage conducts current round the outside of the enclosed space and none passes though the inside space.

Electricity
Ilam District

Ilam district () is a district in Nepal. It is in the Mechi Zone of the Eastern Development Region. The population was 290,254 according to the census of 2011.

Related pages
Districts of Nepal

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Districts of Nepal
Ilam, Nepal

Ilam ( ) is a municipality in the Ilam District of Nepal. It is in the hilly region of Mechi zone in eastern Nepal. It is the headquarters of Mechi Zone and Ilam district.

Related pages
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zones of Nepal

Cities in Nepal
Municipalities of Nepal
Panchthar District

Panchthar district () is a district in Nepal. It is in the Mechi Zone of the Eastern Development Region.

Related pages
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Districts of Nepal
Phidim

Phidim is a municipality of Nepal. It is in the Panchthar District of the Mechi Zone. This municipality was made on 18 May 2014 by merging Phidim, Chokmagu and Siwa villages.

Related pages
Development Regions of Nepal
zones of Nepal

References

Other websites
 Phidim Today, a news portal run by Phidimese youth  
 The Kathmandu Post: The Ferment in the eastern hills 
 How a peace corps volunteer boosted my morale  
 Somewhere above Phidim
 Phidim in pictures 

Cities in Nepal
Municipalities of Nepal
Arghakhanchi District

Arghakhanchi () is a district in Nepal. It is in the Lumbini Zone in the western region. The district headquarters of this district is Sandhikharka.

Related pages
Districts of Nepal

References

Other websites

 
 Arghakhanchi.com news portal

Districts of Nepal
Sandhikharka

Sandhikharka () is a municipality in Nepal. It is the headquarters of Arghakhanchi District, in the Lumbini Zone of Nepal. On 18 May 2014, it was converted into a municipality by merging Sandhikharka, Bangla, Narapani, Khanchikot, Kimadada, Argha and Dibharna VDCs.

Related pages
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zones of Nepal

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Municipalities of Nepal
Samsung Galaxy Note

Samsung Galaxy Note is a series of smartphones and tablet computers made by Samsung Electronics. They use Android as their operating system.

The models are mainly for pen computing. All Galaxy Note models come with a stylus pen. They have a Wacom digitizer that turns handwriting into text.

Samsung mobile phones
Phablet

A phablet () is a type of mobile device designed to combine the format of smartphones and tablet computers. The name itself is a combination of the words phone and tablet.

Phablets have screens that measure diagonally . This size allows for activities such as mobile web browsing and watching videos.

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Elisabeta Polihroniade

Elisabeta Polihroniade (24 April 1935 – 23 January 2016) was a Romanian chess player and journalist. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 1982. She was also an International Arbiter. She won the Romanian Women's Championship in 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976 and 1977. She was born in Bucharest.

Polihroniade died on 23 January 2016, aged 80.

References

Other websites

 Elisabeta Polihroniade chess games at 365Chess.com

1935 births
2016 deaths
Chess players
Romanian journalists
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Barry Brickell

Ian Barry Brickell  (26 October 1935 – 23 January 2016), better known as Barry Brickell, was a New Zealand potter and conservationist. He was the founder and builder of the Driving Creek Railway in the Coromandel Peninsula, a popular tourist attraction. He was born in New Plymouth and grew up in Auckland.

Brickell died on 23 January 2016, aged 80.

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Jimmy White

James Warren "Jimmy" White (born 2 May 1962 in London) is an English professional snooker player. He is one of the most popular players 

White is a six times World Championship finalist but lost the finale each time: 1984 against Steve Davis, 1990 against Stephen Hendry, 1991 against John Parrott and in the next three years still to Stephen Hendry.

Other websites
 Jimmy White at World Snooker

1962 births
Living people
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Baglung District

Baglung District ( ) is a district in Nepal. It is in the Dhawalagiri Zone. The district headquarters is Baglung. The district covers an area of . In 2011, it had a population of 268,613.

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Districts of Nepal

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Districts of Nepal
Baitadi District

Baitadi District ( ) is a district of Nepal. It is in the Mahakali Zone. Baitadi is the headquarters of this district.

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Districts of Nepal

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Districts of Nepal
Khalanga, Baitadi

Baitadi Khalanga or Baitadi is a town and the headquarters of the Baitadi District in the Mahakali Zone of western Nepal. According to the 1991 Nepal census it had total population of 5,352. There were 1,011 houses in the town. It shares an international border with Uttarakhand, India. The two are separated by the Mahakali River. This part of Nepal is less developed than the eastern part of the country.

Related pages
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zones of Nepal

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Cities in Nepal
John Parrott

John Parrott (born 11 May 1964 in Liverpool) is an English former professional snooker player. He was twice in the finals of the World Snooker Championship. In 1989, he lost to Steve Davis, in 1991 he defeated Jimmy White.

Parrott started his professional career in 1989, in the 2010/11 season he lost his place in the world rankings. He is now a snooker commentator.

Other websites
 John Parrott Homepage 

1964 births
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Jimmy Bain

James Stewart Bain (19 December 1947 – 23 January 2016) was a Scottish musician. He was best known as a bassist for the rock bands Rainbow and Dio with Ronnie James Dio. He also works with the Scorpions, John Cale, Gary Moore and wrote for Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott. He was born in Newtonmore.

Bain died on 23 January 2016 while on the Def Leppard's "Hysteria on the High Seas" cruise from pneumonia caused by lung cancer at the age of 68.

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Funen

Funen () is an island in Denmark. It covers an area of . It is the third-largest island in the country. The main city is Odense which is connected to the sea by a seldom-used canal. 

There are bridges that carry roads and railways to and from Funen. The Great Belt Bridge links Funen to the island of Zealand in the east, while the Old Little Belt Bridge and New Little Belt Bridge link Funen to Jutland in the west.

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Kiel Canal

The Kiel Canal is a waterway in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal connects the North Sea from the River Elbe to the Baltic Sea at Kiel. The Canal is about  long. The canal was first opened to traffic on 19 June 1895. It was then improved to allow the largest warships to pass through. The formal reopening of the improved canal was on June 24, 1914. The Kiel Canal is the busiest artificial waterway for seagoing ships worldwide. In 2014, 32,600 ships passed through the waterway.

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École Centrale de Lyon

École Centrale de Lyon is a graduate school in engineering in France. It is in a campus of the Écully (East of France).

Degrees 
Its different curricula lead to the following French & European degrees :
 Ingénieur Centralien de Lyon (Centralien Graduate engineer Master's degree level program)
 Masters  & PhD (doctorate studies)
 Mastères Spécialisés (MS).

Education and research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different classes at École Centrale de Lyon.

Most of the 1500 engineering graduate students at École Centrale de Lyon live in residential buildings near the research labs on campus. These are also shared with 6,000 students from EMLYON Business School. The school is member of the French aerospace network France AEROTECH.

Notable graduates 
 Hervé Renaudeau, French aerospace engineer

References

Other websites 
 Official website

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1857 establishments in Europe
Lyon
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Baltimore (disambiguation)

Baltimore is a city in the state of Maryland in the United States.

Baltimore may also refer to:

Places

United States
 Baltimore, California, a former settlement
 Baltimore, Indiana, a now-extinct 19th-century town
 Baltimore, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus
 Baltimore, Tennessee
 Baltimore, Vermont
 Baltimore County, Maryland
 Baltimore Town, California, a former settlement
 Baltimore Township, Michigan

Canada
 Baltimore, Ontario, Township of Hamilton, Ontario

Ireland
 Baltimore, County Cork
 Baltimore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

People
 George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1579–1632), English politician and coloniser
 Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), English peer
 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715)
 Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (1679–1715), English nobleman and politician
 Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751), British nobleman
 Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731–1771), English nobleman and last in the line of Barons Baltimore
 Charli Baltimore (born 1974), American rapper/hip-hop artist
 David Baltimore (born 1938), American biologist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate
 John Baltimore (born 1978), American conductor

Music
 Baltimore club, a genre of house and dance music

Sports
 Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland
 Baltimore Ravens, American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland
 Baltimore Stallions, former Canadian Football team based in Baltimore, Maryland
 Baltimore Bullets, former name of Washington Wizards, National Basketball Association team

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Hei Hei

Hei Hei is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is located in the west of Christchurch  from the centre of the city. State Highway 1 runs through it. The area was subdivided for poultry farming after World War I for the men returning from war, but the plan failed due to the poor soil conditions. The place name is a Māori word. It means noise, disturbance, storm, dust.

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Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham is a town in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is one of the oldest towns in the United States. It was started in the 1600s.

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Josip Friščić

Josip Friščić (15 August 1949 – 23 January 2016) was a Croatian politician. He was a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) from 17 December 2005 until 28 January 2012. He was also Vice President of Croatian Parliament from 2008 to 2011. He was born in Subotica Podravska near Rasinja, SFR Yugoslavia.

Friščić died from cancer on 23 January 2016 in Koprivnica, aged 66.

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January 2016 United States blizzard

The January 2016 United States blizzard was a severe winter weather event. The weather caused multiple states in the Mid-Atlantic to declare a state of emergency. The blizzard happened between January 20 and 25, 2016. 

On January 20–22 the governors of eleven states, plus the mayor of Washington, D.C., declared a state of emergency in expectation of significant snowfall and blizzard conditions. Approximately 85 million people were estimated to be in the storm's path. More than 33 million were under blizzard warnings. Over 10,000 flights were canceled because of the storm.

New York City was put under a travel ban on January 23. A snow emergency was declared for Washington, D.C. just before that.

Two to three feet of snow fell from Virginia to New England. Snow also fell in Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee.

The storm also caused tornadoes and hail from Louisiana to Florida

Thirty people died because of the blizzard.

The storm was also called Winter Storm Jonas by the Weather Channel.

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Changchun

Changchun () is the capital and largest city of the Jilin province of China. The name of the city means "Eternal Spring". In the year 1800, the Jiaqing Emperor set up a trading post in a small village to trade furs and other goods. This village later became Changchun Ting.

In 1898, Changchun got its first train station, which was built by the Russian Empire.

After Japan invaded Manchuria in September 1931, the Japanese established the capital of the newly formed puppet state, Manchukuo, in Changchun. The Japanese renamed the city Shinkyō (kanji: 新京, meaning: New Capital), and it is here where the Japanese established the former Emperor Pu-yi as the Emperor of Manchukuo. During the Japanese occupation, the Japanese built much of the infrastructure that still stands today, including the Manchukuo Imperial Palace, the First Clinical Hospital of Jilin University, the Palace of Geology, and several others.

On August 20, 1945, the Soviet Union's Soviet Red Army entered the city, captured Emperor Pu-yi, and drove the Japanese out. They stayed there until the Kuomintang drove them out in 1946. The KMT held the city until 1948, when it got overwhelmed by the communist PLA in 1948. During the Siege of Changchun, up to 80% of civilians starved to death.

The Chinese took down few of the Japanese buildings because they were already so well-built that the Chinese thought it would be a waste to tear them down. Nonetheless, the tumblers that Starbucks sells in Changchun feature the Changchun Railway Station out of all the other monuments in the city, due to the fact that it itself is not a Japanese-made building.

Changchun is also the heart of China's car-making business.

Cities in China
Capital cities in Asia
Asghar Farhadi

Asghar Farhadi (, born 7 May 1972 Homāyūnshahr, Isfahan) is an Iranian movie director and screenwriter. For his work as a director, he has received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film among other awards. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine in 2012.

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Call and response (music)

In music, a call and response is a series of two parts usually played or sung by different musicians.  The second part is heard as a comment about or an answer to what the first has sung. This mimics or makes fun of how people talk back and forth to each other. Call and response uses the simple musical form of a verse and then a chorus used in many cultures or traditions. These songs are usually energetic and fun to listen to.

Popular music
Call and response singing is common in modern Western popular music. This is because of the influence of African music.  Some cross-over rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, rock 'n' roll and rock music have a call and response style, as well.

One of the best known is the song "Ooh Poo Pah Doo", written and first recorded by Jessie Hill. The song is said to be "a nonsensical yet rollicking call-and-response workout that perfectly captures the energy of French Quarter life", by a reviewer for Allmusic. The song is so popular, it has over 100 cover versions recorded and performed live over the years by other popular musicians.

Other popular examples are The Who's song "My Generation, from the album of the same name", and "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin.

Folk music
Call and response is common in folk and choral singing of many people, especially in African musical cultures. In the West, it is most often seen in African-American work songs, military marches, and  Québecois folk songs. The style is also used in dance-songs of various European countries including France (particularly Brittany) and the Faroe Islands.

In Cuban music and other latin music genres such as salsa, call and response between the lead singer and the chorus is called coro-pregón.

Example 
A singer makes a musical statement, and then the musical chorus answers together. American bluesman Muddy Waters uses call and response in one of his best known songs, "Mannish Boy". The entire song is almost entirely leader/chorus call and response.

 CALL: Waters' vocal: "Now when I was a young boy"
 RESPONSE: (Harmonica / rhythm section riff)
 CALL: Waters': "At the age of 5"
 RESPONSE: (Harmonica / rhythm section riff)

Related pages 
 Origins of the blues
 Polyrhythm
 Samba
 Afro-Haitian
 Rhythm game

References

Other websites 
 Call and Response:  Phrasing Ideas for Creating Memorable Guitar Solos
Gospel Music History  - Gospel Music Encyclopedia citing the origins of the different types of call and response and different gospel music style

Musical terminology
Music genres
Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Syed Muhammad Usman Marwandi (1149–1299), better-known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar , was a Sufi poet from Afghanistan.<ref>Sarah Ansari (1971) Sufi Saints and Pirs of Sindh, 1843–1947. Lahore: Vanguard Books, 1971, p 87, 88, 89</ref>  He belonged to the Suhrawardi order of Sufis. He shifted from Afghanistan and went and settled in Sindh area of India (now in Pakistan).  His shrine in Sehwan Sharif'', Sindh,Pakistan, is still visited by many people.

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1299 deaths
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Ninh Binh Province

Ninh Bình () is a province of Vietnam, in the Red River Delta region of the northern part of the country. Ninh Bình has a very short coastline on the Gulf of Tonkin. The population is 898,500 people. Ninh Bình province covers a total area of . The province is known for its limestone caves and grottos (manmade caves). Ninh Binh was the first imperial capital of Vietnam from 968 to 1010 under the Đinh, Lê and Lý dynasties.

Gallery

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January 2016 East Asia cold wave

The January 2016 East Asia cold wave was a cold weather system that covered East Asia. Eighty-five people from Taiwan died due to the cold temperatures. There were six deaths in Japan from the winter storms. Four people in China died from gas poisoning.

2016 disasters
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2016 in weather
2010s disasters in Asia
East Asia
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Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 is a video game on the PlayStation 3. It is made by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to Mass Effect and comes before Mass Effect 3. It is a action role-playing game. It is a third-person shooter game. It was also on Xbox 360.

Gameplay
Save data from the first game can be used to influence choices made in this game.

Reception
The game was critically acclaimed.

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Xbox 360 games
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Dragon and Phoenix

Dragon and Phoenix is the second book in the Dragonlords series written by Joanne Bertin. It is a story of how Linden Rathan and his soultwin, Maurynna Kyrissaean, lead a party to rescue a dragon from the Jehanglan empire.

Fantasy books
Romance novels
1999 books
Bard's Oath

The Bard's Oath is the third book in the Dragonlords series written by Joanne Bertin. It starts as two stories that merge in the middle of the book. One story is about Raven Redhawkson and why he is at the Balyaranna Fair (a horse festival). The other story is about Bard Leet and his plot for revenge over the death of a family member.

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Fantasy books
Romance novels
Aristide von Bienefeldt

Aristide von Bienefeldt (24 October 1959 – 16 January 2016) was a Dutch writer. He wrote about gay rights and marriage equality. His first novel - Bekentenissen van een Stamhouder ("Confessions of a Son and Heir") got positive reviews by the Dutch and the Flemish press because of its homosexual passages.

Von Bienefeldt died in The Hague, Netherlands at the age of 56.

References

Other websites
 von Bienefeldt's website

1959 births
2016 deaths
Dutch LGBT people
Gay men
LGBT novelists
Writers from Rotterdam
William Y. Smith

William Young Smith (August 13, 1925 – January 19, 2016) was an American military official. He was a United States Air Force four-star general. He was Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE) from 1979 to 1981 and as Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR) from 1981 until his retirement from military service in 1983.

Smith died in Falls Church, Virginia from congestive heart failure at the age of 90.

References

Other websites
 William Y. Smith biography 

1925 births
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Deaths from congestive heart failure
American military people
People from Arkansas
Cecil Parkinson

Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (1 September 1931 – 22 January 2016) was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister.

Early life
Parkinson was born in Carnforth, Lancashire on 1 September 1931. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Parkinson married Anne Jarvis in 1957. It would last until his death in 2016.

Career
He entered Parliament in 1970 and was appointed a minister in 1979. In 1983, he became Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, but was forced to resign after revelations that his former secretary, Sara Keays, was pregnant with his child, which she later bore and named Flora Keays.

Parkinson later served as Secretary of State for Energy, and later Transport. He resigned that office in 1990, on the same day that Margaret Thatcher resigned.  He was created Baron Parkinson in 1992 and served in the House of Lords until his retirement in September 2015.

Death
Parkinson died of cancer on 22 January 2016 at the age of 84. He was survived by his wife and four children.

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 Cecil Parkinson's career

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Black (singer)

Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 − 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He started his career in the punk rock music scene and went on to become a pop success in the late 1980s. He was known for the international hit single "Wonderful Life" in 1987. He was born in Liverpool.

Death
On 12 January 2016, he was in a serious car accident in Ireland and placed in a medically-induced coma after sustaining serious head injuries. Vearncombe died from his injuries at the intensive care unit of Cork University Hospital in Cork on 26 January 2016 at the age of 53. Vearncombe was survived by his wife and three children.

References

Other websites
Official site
Single Black Spot 
Colinvearncombe.nl - Fansite 

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Kalpana (actress)

Kalpana Ranjani (13 October 1966 – 25 January 2016), known mononymously as Kalpana, was an Indian actress.  Kalpana has acted in over 300 movies in many South Indian languages. She was born in Kerala, India.

She started off her career as a child artist in the late 1970s. She was known for being in many comedy movies. At the 60th National Film Awards, she won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Thanichalla Njan (2012).

Kalpana died of a heart attack in Hyderabad, India on 25 January 2016 at the age of 49.

References

Other websites
 
 En.msidb.org

1966 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Indian movie actors
People from Kerala
Henry Worsley

Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley MBE (4 October 1960 – 24 January 2016) was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of the successful 2009 expedition that followed Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott's footsteps in the Antarctic. He was born in London.

Worsley was a soldier in the British Army for 36 years. On 12 October 1993, Worsley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) "in recognition of distinguished service in Northern Ireland".

Worsley died while on a trip in Punta Arenas, Chile from multiple organ failure caused by surgery on 24 January 2016 at the age of 55.

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Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession of 1848 refers to the lands ceded or surrendered to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican–American War. The territory became the states of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. It was agreed to in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which formally ended the war (1846–1848) between Mexico and the United States. The treaty was signed on 2 February 1848. The Cession added  of territory to the southwestern United States. It also contributed to the United States emerging as a world power in the late the 19th century.

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Forouzan

Forouzan  (; 9 August 1937 – 24 January 2016) was an Iranian actress, producer, and dubbing artist. She started her career by voice dubbing. In 1964 she starred in Siamak Yasemi's "Sahel-e Entezar" but this was "Ganj-e Qarun", another movie by Yasemi that made her very famous. Her career came to an end because of the Iranian revolution of 1979.

Forouzan died in Tehran, Iran on 24 January 2016 at the age of 78.

Forouzan was popular also among the young Persians who were born after 1979 revolution.

References

Other websites
Forouzan in IMDb

1937 births
2016 deaths
Iranian actors
People from Tehran
Sahabzada Yaqub Khan

Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (23 December 1920 – 26 January 2016) was a high-profile Pakistani figure and high-ranking general. He was the most senior figure in military and government assignments in the Pakistan Government. He was born in Rampur, India.

He was an important figure in Pakistan that related to international affairs for thirty years. He served as the foreign minister under President General Zia-ul-Haq from 1982 to 1991 and as the caretaker foreign minister from 1996 to 1997. He also served as the Pakistan Ambassador of the United States serving from 1973 though 1979.

Khan died in Islamabad on 26 January 2016 at the age of 95.

Other websites

Yaqub Khan – the man who reinvented himself by Khaled Ahmed (The Friday Times) 
SYK: The Man With Qualities Short biographical article by S. Abbas Raza
Biographical article by M. Zafar in Defence Journal 
MAJOR-GENERAL SAHABZADA MOHD YAQUB KHAN (PA 136) 

1920 births
2016 deaths
Pakistani politicians
Concepcion Picciotto

Concepción Picciotto (née Martín January 15, 1936 – January 25, 2016) also known as Conchita or Connie,  was a Spanish-born American peace activist. She lived in Washington, D.C. on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, in a peace camp across from the White House. 

She lived in a tent outside from the White House since from August 1, 1981 because of the protest of nuclear arms under the Ronald Reagan presidency until her death in 2016.  She carried on the longest act of political protest in the United States, with her camp having been nicknamed by her supporters as 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue. She was born in Vigo, Spain.

Picciotto died in Washington, D.C. from complications of a fall on January 25, 2016 at the age of 80.

References

Other websites

 Official site
 Interview with Concepcion Picciotto  by DCist
 Washington Post, May 2, 2013 - Connie Picciotto has kept vigil near the White House for 32 years. Why and at what cost?

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Richard Levins

Richard "Dick" Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was an American ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science. He had researched diversity in human populations. Levins was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist. He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations.

Levins died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 19, 2016 from heart failure at the age of 85.

References

Other websites

 Prof. Richard Levins, PhD
 Harvard webpage
 In "Living the 11th Thesis" Richard Levins discusses his own biography
 Personal narrative of political activity in Puerto Rico
 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 'Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research' page on Richard Levins 

1930 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American biologists
Educators from New York City
American mathematicians
American philosophers
Ecologists
Scientists from New York City
Kaeng Krachan National Park

Kaeng Krachan () is the largest national park of Thailand. It is on the border with Myanmar, and joins with Myanmar's Tanintharyi Nature Reserve. It is popular with tourists, and is near the beach resort of Hua Hin.

The park covers parts of Phetchaburi Province and Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. It contains rainforest on the eastern side of the Tenasserim Mountain Range. The highest elevation is 1,20 m. Two main rivers begin within the park: the Pranburi River and the Phetchaburi River. The Phetchaburi is blocked by the Kaeng Krachan Dam at the eastern border of the park. The dam creates a lake covering an area of 46.5 km2. The dam was built in 1966. There are private plantations within the park.

The park was created on 12 June 1981. It was the 28th national park of Thailand. It originally covered an area of 2,478 km2. It was enlarged in December 1984. In 2005 it was shown to UNESCO for consideration as a World Heritage Site.

The forests contain a great variety of plants and animals. The killing of wild elephants is a big problem at the park. It is difficult to stop poachers.

References

Other websites

National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department 
Wildlife, attractions and maps of Kaeng Krachan National Park

1981 establishments in Asia
National parks in Asia
Geography of Thailand
20th-century establishments in Thailand
Ignition

Ignition may refer to:
 Firelighting, the act of starting a fire
 Combustion, a chemical reaction that produces heat and fire

Music 
 Ignition (album), an album by The Offspring
 "Ignition (Remix)", a 2002 song by R. Kelly
 "Ignition", a song by Trivium from the album The Crusade, 2006

Vehicles 
Ignition system, the system that starts an engine
Ignition coil, a part in an ignition system
Karch Kiraly

Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly () (born November 3, 1960) is an American volleyball player, coach and broadcast announcer. 

He was born in Jackson, Michigan. He grew up in Santa Barbara, California.

Career 
He is one of three people who have won Olympic gold medals in both volleyball categories: beach and indoor.  The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, (FIVB), volleyball's highest governing body, honored Kiraly as the greatest volleyball player of the 20th Century. He played college volleyball for the UCLA Bruins and won three national championships under head coach Al Scates.

References

 Karch Kiraly Volleyball Academy
 Beach Volleyball Profile

1960 births
Living people
1984 Summer Olympics
1988 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
American Olympic gold medalists
People from Santa Barbara, California
Sportspeople from California
Sportspeople from Michigan
People from Jackson, Michigan
American volleyball coaches
American volleyball players
Lloy Ball

Lloy James Ball (born February 17, 1972, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American volleyball player, a member of American national team in 1993–2008, a participant of the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and gold medalist of Beijing 2008, gold medalist of the NORCECA Championship 2007 and World League 2008, silver medalist of the Pan American 1995, bronze medalist of the World Championship 1994.  When not on the court actively playing the game, Ball operates Team Pineapple, a volleyball clinic that also features his father, Arnie Ball.

References

 Lloy Ball's official bio at USA Volleyball
 Bio at NBC Olympics 

Living people
1972 births
American volleyball players
People from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sportspeople from Indiana
Luigi Mastrangelo

Luigi Mastrangelo (born August 17, 1975 in Mottola, Italy) is an Italian men's volleyball player, a member of Italy national volleyball team, silver and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, multiple winner of the European Championship and World League. He competed in the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the 2000 and 2012 Games. He won a silver medal in the 2004 Games.

References

 NBC Olympics profile 
 Sports reference profile 

1975 births
Living people
2008 Summer Olympics
Italian Olympic silver medalists
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists
People from Apulia
Italian volleyball players
Ivan Zaytsev

Ivan Zaytsev (born in Spoleto, Italy, 2 October 1988) is an Italian volleyball player. His parents originally come from Russia. He is a member of Italy's national volleyball team and the Italian club Sir Safety Umbria Volley.

Career 
Zaytsev won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London in 2012. He won a silver medal at the European Championship (2011, 2013), and bronze medal at the World League (2013, 2014). He won the Italian Championship in 2014.

Other websites

 Highlights  (movie)
 LegaVolley Serie A profile player 

1988 births
Living people
Italian volleyball players
Olympic bronze medalists
Matt Anderson

Matthew John Anderson (born April 18, 1987) is an American volleyball player. He is a member of the United States men's national volleyball team and the Russian club Zenit Kazan. He played volleyball at the Olympic Games in London in 2012. He was a NORCECA Champion 2013. He won gold medals at the 2008 Pan American Cup, 2014 World League and 2015 World Cup.

Other websites

 Highlights  (movie)
 Official Matt Anderson Website
 FIVB profile
 Team USA player profile
 LegaVolley Serie A player profile

1987 births
Living people
American volleyball players
Ophiolite

An ophiolite is a section of the Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed above sea level. The rocks which make up ophiolites are an altered form of basalt. The rocks are often green.

They are found in the mountain belts such as the Alps or the Himalayas. They show where former ocean basins were consumed by subduction. This was one of the discoveries of plate tectonics. Ophiolites have always played a central role in plate tectonic theory and the interpretation of ancient mountain belts.

Stratigraphy and definition

The stratigraphic sequence seen in ophiolites is caused by lithosphere-forming processes at mid-oceanic ridges:

 Sediments: muds (black shale) and cherts deposited after the crust formed.
 Extrusive sequence: basalt "pillow lavas" show magma/seawater contact.
 Vertical, parallel dikes fed lavas above.
 Gabbros from minerals settling from a magma chamber.
 Peridotite: mantle rock minerals, heated and pressured in orogeny (mountain-building).

Notable ophiolites
In the California Coast Ranges, from Santa Barbara through San Francisco Counties, California.
In Oman and the United Arab Emirates, widely considered one of the best exposed ophiolite sequences
 Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, as the only known example of an ophiolite complex in the process of being formed and currently in its original geological setting.
 In Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 because of its superbly exposed complete ophiolite stratigraphic sequence

References 

Igneous rocks
Plate tectonics
Maxim Mikhaylov

Maxim Mikhaylov (born 19 March 1988) is a Russian volleyball player. He is a member of Russia men's national volleyball team. He also plays for the Russian club Zenit-Kazan. Mikhaylov was a gold medalist in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was a bronze medalist of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Mikhaylov won a gold medal in the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. He has won several medals in the Volleyball World League.

References

Other websites

 Player's Biography

Russian volleyball players
1988 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists
Olympic bronze medalists
Yekaterina Gamova

Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Gamova (; born 17 October 1980) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the Russian team that won the gold medals at the FIVB Volleyball World Championships in 2006 and 2010. She was also a member of the Russian team that won silver medals in both the Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Gamova is  tall with an EU shoe size of 49. This makes her one of the tallest female athletes in the world.  Her role is outside hitter/opposite.

References

Other websites

 FIVB Profile
 Fenerbahce Acibadem Women's Volleyball Team
 Uralochka VC profile 
 Gamova's photos

Russian volleyball players
1980 births
Living people
Olympic silver medalists
Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator is a science fiction movie from 1986. It was directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker and Michael Burton. It is about David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy who is taken by an alien spaceship and finds himself caught in a world that has changed around him.

The producers of the movie at first sent it to Walt Disney Pictures in 1984. However, the studio was not able to approve it. It was sent to Producers Sales Organization. That studio made a deal with Disney to distribute the movie in the United States. The movie was partially filmed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Norway. It was a co-production with the Norwegian company Viking Film.

Cast
 Joey Cramer as David Freeman
 Paul Reubens (credited as "Paul Mall") as the voice of Max
 Cliff DeYoung as Bill Freeman
 Veronica Cartwright as Helen Freeman
 Matt Adler as Jeff Freeman
Albie Whitaker plays eight-year-old Jeff Freeman
 Sarah Jessica Parker as Carolyn McAdams
 Howard Hesseman as Dr. Louis Faraday
 Robert Small as Troy
 Jonathan Sanger as Dr. Carr
 Richard Liberty as Larry Howard
 Iris Acker as Janet Howard
 Raymond Forchion as Detective Banks
 Keri Rogers as Jennifer Bradley

Production
The Trimaxion Drone Ship was rendered in CGI by Omnibus Computer Animation, under the supervision of Jeff Kleiser, the brother of director Randal Kleiser.

Soundtrack
The music score for the movie was composed by Alan Silvestri. It is different from his other scores because it was completely electronically generated, using the Synclavier, one of the first digital multi-track recorders and samplers.

 Theme from "Flight of the Navigator"
 "Main Title"
 "The Ship Beckons"
 "David in the Woods"
 "Robot Romp"
 "Transporting the Ship"
 "Ship Drop"
 "Have to Help a Friend"
 "The Shadow Universe"
 "Flight"
 "Finale"
 "Star Dancing"

Notes

References

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1986 science fiction movies
1980s fantasy movies
American science fiction movies
American fantasy movies
Movies set in Miami, Florida
Time travel movies
Disney movies
Movies directed by Randal Kleiser
Dinah Manoff

Dinah Manoff (born January 25, 1956) is an American stage, movie and television actress. She acted in many television movies and guest starred on television programs. She played Libby Tucker in both the stage and movie versions of I Ought to be in Pictures. She won a Tony Award in 1980 for acting in the play. She also acted in the theatrical movies Bart Got a Room and The Amati Girls.

In 1978, at age 19 she played Marty Maraschino in her first movie, Grease.

In 1980, Manoff played Karen, the suicidal friend of Timothy Hutton's character in the multiple Oscar-winning Ordinary People. In 1988, she played Maggie Peterson in Child's Play. She then began playing Carol Weston on the television series Empty Nest. She played that role for seven years.

Manoff was born in New York City.

References

American television actors
American stage actors
American movie actors
Actors from New York City
1958 births
Living people
Zika virus

Zika virus (ZIKV) belongs to the virus family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus.  It is spread by mosquitoes from the genus Aedes, which are active during the daytime. 

Zika virus is named after Uganda's Zika Forest, where the virus was discovered in 1947.

Zika virus can cause an infectious disease called Zika fever.  Zika fever often causes no symptoms, or only mild symptoms. Scientists know that people in Africa and Asia have been getting Zika fever since the 1950s.  In 2014, the virus spread eastward across the Pacific Ocean - first to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island.  Finally, in 2015, it spread to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.  In these places, Zika virus has become a pandemic.

Background
Zika virus is related to West Nile virus and the viruses that cause dengue fever, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis.  Zika virus causes an illness that is like a mild form of dengue fever.  It is treated by rest.  As of 2016, there is no medication or vaccine that can prevent the Zika virus. 

Pregnant women who get the Zika virus can spread the virus to their fetuses.  When they are born, these newborns may be more likely to have microcephaly.  In places where the Zika virus lives, people are more likely to have birth defects, neurological problems like Guillain-Barré syndrome, and autoimmune diseases.

2016 outbreak
In January 2016, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published advice for how to avoid getting Zika fever.  They suggested that when traveling to places where Zika virus lives:
 Travelers should use "enhanced precautions," meaning they should be as careful as possible to avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes
 Pregnant women should think about not traveling to these areas

Other governments or health agencies soon issued similar travel warnings.  Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Jamaica advised women not to get pregnant until scientists know more about the risks of Zika virus to pregnant women. 

On February 2, 2016, public health officials in Dallas County, Texas, reported the first case of somebody getting Zika virus in the United States.

References

Other websites

 
 
 
 Zika Virus – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 Flaviviridae Genomes  database search results from the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center
 Viralzone: Flaviviridae
 Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Flaviviridae 
 World Health Organization Zika Virus Fact Sheet

Viruses
Rove beetle

The rove beetles are a family of beetles. The scientific name is Staphylinidae. It is the largest family of beetles. It has over 63,000 species. Some of these species are very old; fossils of rove beetles have been dated to the Triassic, 200 million years ago.

They are mainly recognised by their short elytra (wing covers) that usually cover only half of their abdomens.

References

Other websites
 
 

Polyphaga
Devil's coach horse beetle

The Devil's coach-horse beetle, is a very common beetle in Europe. It is also sometimes called the Cocktail beetle. It belongs to the family of the rove beetles.

References

Other websites
 
 

Polyphaga
Denny's

Denny's is a pancake house and casual family restaurant. It has more than 1,600 restaurants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand and Japan. It serves pancakes, eggs, sausage and more.

From the 1990s to the 2010s, Denny's was involved in serious controversy. They were accused of discrimination. In 1994, in San Jose, California, several black teenagers were told they had to pay before getting their food. In 2014, an LGBT group accused a Denny's location in Deming, New Mexico of discrimination. The group said that the wait staff said homophobic things and refused to serve them. The LGBT customers were attending a gay pride celebration.

References

Other websites

 Denny's website

American restaurants
Companies based in South Carolina
1953 establishments in the United States
Fremont County, Wyoming

Fremont County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. In the 2010 census, 40,123 people lived there.  Its capital is Lander. The county was formed in 1884. It is named for John C. Frémont, a general, explorer, and politician. It is about the size of the state of Vermont.

Fremont County includes the Riverton, Wyoming Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Communities

Cities 
Lander (county seat)
Riverton

Towns 
Dubois
Hudson
Pavillion
Shoshoni

Census-designated places 

Arapahoe
Atlantic City
Boulder Flats
Crowheart
Ethete
Fort Washakie
Jeffrey City
Johnstown

Unincorporated communities
Kinnear
Kotey Place
Lysite
Miner's Delight
St. Stephens
South Pass City

References

Other websites

 

 
1884 establishments in the United States
1880s establishments in Wyoming Territory
Riverton, Wyoming

Riverton is a city in Freemont County, Wyoming in the United States. It is the largest settlement in Freemont County.

Cities in Wyoming
Freemont County, Wyoming
Lander, Wyoming

Lander is a city in Wyoming in the United States. It is the county seat of Freemont County. According to the 2020 census, Lander has 7,546 people.

References

Cities in Wyoming
County seats in Wyoming
Freemont County, Wyoming