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Eddie Hardin

Eddie Hardin (19 February 1949 – 22 July 2015), was an English rock pianist and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his associations with the Spencer Davis Group, Axis Point also Hardin and York. Hardin, along with the drummer, Pete York, left the Spencer Davis Group on 26 October 1968, due to 'differences over musical policy'.

Hardin died following a heart attack on 22 July 2015 at the age of 66.

References

1949 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
English singer-songwriters
English pianists
Singers from London
Musicians from London
Writers from London
Vic Firth

Everett "Vic" Firth (June 2, 1930 – July 26, 2015) was an American musician. He was the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets.

References

1930 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Musicians from Massachusetts
Musicians from Maine
R. S. Gavai

Ramkrishna Suryabhan Gavai (, Malayalam: രാമകൃഷ്ണന്‍ സുര്യഭാന്‍ ഗവി; 30 October 1929 – 25 July 2015) was an Indian politician. He was Governor of Bihar from 2006 to 2008 and Governor of Kerala from 10 July 2008 to 25 August 2011.

References

1929 births
2015 deaths
Governors of Bihar
Governors of Kerala
Governors of Sikkim
Edward Natapei

Edward Nipake Natapei Tuta Fanua`araki (17 July 1954 – 27 July 2015) was a politician from Vanuatu.

He was elected Prime Minister of Vanuatu on two separate terms, and was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 1991, the acting President of Vanuatu from 2 March 1999 to 24 March 1999 (during a time in which he was the Speaker of Parliament), and Deputy Prime Minister.

References

1954 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from disease
Government ministers
Presidents of Vanuatu
Prime ministers
Five Nights at Freddy's 4

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 is a 2015 indie point-and-click survival horror video game designed by Scott Cawthon, and the fourth entry in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. The game was released on Steam on July 23, 2015.

A demo for the game was released to select YouTubers on July 21, 2015, with the full game being released on July 23, 2015. The game was released for Android devices on July 25, 2015.

In this game, you are a child who has to stop 'Nightmare', animatronics from getting into your room and killing you. You can shut doors but they won't stay closed. You must shine your flashlight on the bed so Freddy won't kill you. There is also a minigame where you must have Plushtrap (A small Springtrap) sit on an X.

References

2015 video games
Five Nights at Freddy's (series)
Windows games
IOS games
Mobile games
Peg Lynch

Margaret Frances “Peg” Lynch (November 25, 1916 – July 24, 2015), was an Americans television writer and actor. She was the creator of the radio and television sitcom Ethel and Albert.

Other websites

 
 
 Guide to the Peg Lynch papers and scripts at the University of Oregon
 Photos from the set of Ethel and Albert

1916 births
2015 deaths
American television writers
American television actors
American radio actors
Actors from Nebraska
Writers from Nebraska
People from Lincoln, Nebraska
Becket, Massachusetts

Becket is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,779 at the 2010 census.

References

Towns in Massachusetts
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Atlanta United FC

Atlanta United Football Club is an American soccer team from Atlanta, Georgia that plays in Major League Soccer as a member of the Western Conference since the 2017 season. The team was founded on April 16, 2014, and it is owned by the owner of the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL, Arthur Blank. The team's manager is Gerardo Martino. The team's colors are black, red and gold. The team played their home games at the Bobby Dodd Stadium for the first 6 months but now they play at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium which was completed in August 2017.

References 

Major League Soccer teams
2014 establishments in the United States
Sports in Atlanta, Georgia
21st-century establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
2014 Major League Soccer season

The 2014 Major League Soccer season was the 19th Major League Soccer season. The season had 19 teams (16 from the United States, and 3 from Canada). The Seattle Sounders won the Supporters' Shield, and Los Angeles Galaxy won the MLS Cup. The top scorer was Bradley Wright-Phillips, with 27 goals.

Teams

Results

Eastern conference 

 (EC) = Eastern Conference champions

Western conference 

(WC) = Western Conference champions
(SS) = Supporters Shield champions

Overall table 

The champion of the overall table, which combines the eastern and western conference, is the champion of the Supporters Shield. This table also will show what team will qualify for next years CONCACAF Champions League.

 The Seattle Sounders qualified because they were they won the Supporters Shield and the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.
 LA Galaxy qualified because they won the MLS Cup.
 DC Untied qualified because they won a conference championship.
 Because the Seattle Sounders won two titles, and two Canadian teams qualified, the next best American team qualified; which turns out to be Real Salt Lake.
 The Vancouver Whitecaps qualified because, for this season only, the best Canadian team qualified.
 Montreal Impact qualified because they won the 2014 Canadian Championship.

MLS Cup

Statistics

Awards

References 

2014 in association football
Supporters' Shield

The Supporters' Shield is an award given to the MLS team that had the most points in the regular season. It was first given out in 1999, and has since been seen as a major trophy. Before 1999, the winners of the regular season won nothing but a spot in the MLS Cup semifinals.

Winners

Other websites 

What is the Supporters' Shield?

Soccer in the United States
2006–07 Football League

The 2006–07 Football League was the 108th season of The Football League. Sunderland won the championship.

Results

Other websites 

 The Football League

2007 in association football
2006 in association football
2006 in the United Kingdom
2007 in the United Kingdom
Gulfstream GA-7 Cougar

The Gulfstream GA-7 Cougar is a light twin-engines aircraft. It was built in USA between 1977 and 1979 at 115 exemples. In 1995 it was built at seven exemples in France by SOCATA at Tarbes.

Civil aircraft
SIAI-Marchetti S.211

The SIAI-Marchetti S.211 is a military training aircraft. It was built in Italy between 1981 and 1994.
It was sold to Haiti, Philippines, and Singapore as a training or a light attack aircraft.

References

Further reading 
 Frawley, Gerard, The international directory of military aircraft 2002/2003 .  London: Aerospace Publication, 2002. .
  Gaillard, Pierre, Avions et hélicoptères militaires d'aujourd'hui Paris, France : Larivière éditions, 1999.  .

Italian military aircraft
Lee Corso

Leland "Lee" Corso (born August 7, 1935) is an American sports broadcaster and football analyst for ESPN and former long-time college football coach. He has been a featured analyst on ESPN's College GameDay program since its inception in 1987.

Corso was born and raised in Lake Mary, Florida.

References

Other websites
 ESPN bio
 

1935 births
Living people
American football players
Businesspeople from Florida
Sportspeople from Florida
Timurid Empire

The  Timurid Empire was a Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that included all of Uzbekistan, Iran, modern Afghanistan, and modern Central Asia. It also included large parts of modern Pakistan, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Caucasus. It was formed by the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) of the Timurid dynasty in the 14th century.

Related pages 
 Tamerlane
 Turco-Mongol

References 

History of Islam
Mongol Empire
History of Iran
Medieval Azerbaijan
History of Uzbekistan
1370s establishments
1520s disestablishments in Asia
Canadian Championship

The Canadian Championship (also called the Amway Canadian Championship) is an association football tournament for professional Canadian teams. It was created in 2008. The winner of the tournament qualifies for the CONCACAF Champions League, and gets the Voyageurs Cup. As of 2015, the tournament was with Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Montreal Impact, FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury FC.

Toronto FC has won 4 titles, which is the best performance from any team in the tournament.

Results

Other websites 

 Official website 

Soccer in Canada
2008 establishments in Canada
1956–57 Eredivisie

The 1956–57 Eredivisie was the 1st Eredivisie ever played. AFC Ajax won the tournament. The teams were chosen from the last seasons Netherlands Football League Championship.

Table

References 

Football in the Netherlands
1950s in sports
1956 in Europe
1957 in Europe
1950s in the Netherlands
Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie (English: First Division) is an association football league in the Netherlands. It is the second-highest league in the country. When a team wins the league, they get promoted to the Eredivisie. Until 2015, when a team did bad in the league, they would get sent to the Topklasse. Recently, the team would get sent to the Tweede Klasse instead. The league has been around since 1956.

Results

Other websites 
 Official website 

Football in the Netherlands
1956 establishments in the Netherlands
Fortuna Sittard

Fortuna Sittard is a Dutch association football team from Sittard, Netherlands. On 1 July 1968, Fortuna 54 and Sittardia came together to form Fortuna Sittard. Fortuna 54 was a successful team that won the KNVB Cup. On the other hand, Sittardia was trying to avoid relegation for most of its history. The Royal Dutch Football Association said it would take away Fortuna Sittard's license to play in the 2010–11 season. After going to court, the decision was taken away.

Honours
 KNVB Cup
 Winner: 1957, 1964
 Runners-up: 1984, 1999

 Eerste Divisie
 Winner: 1959, 1964, 1966, 1995

 Promoted to Eredivisie
 Promotion: 1982

Positions

Other websites 
 Official website

References 

1968 establishments in Europe
1960s establishments in the Netherlands
Dutch football clubs
Sittard-Geleen
1957–58 European Cup

The 1957–58 European Cup was the 3rd European cup that was won by Real Madrid over AC Milan.

Result

Preliminary round 

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Bracket

First round

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1 Borussia Dortmund beat CCA București 3–1 in a play-off to qualify for the quarter-finals.

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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First leg

Second leg

Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

Milan won 5–2 on aggregate.

Final

Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1957–58 European Cup were as follows:

Other websites 
 Results on uefa.com

UEFA Champions League
1958 in sports
1957 in Europe
1958 in Europe
Samuel Pisar

Samuel Pisar (March 18, 1929 – July 27, 2015) was a Polish-born American lawyer, author, and Holocaust survivor. He used to work at the United Nations. He is considered one of the most influential trade lawyers of our time.

References

Other websites

1929 births
2015 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Polish writers
Lawyers from New York
Holocaust survivors
Leo Reise, Jr.

Leo Charles Reise, Jr. (June 7, 1922 – July 26, 2015) was a professional ice hockey player in the NHL and son of former pro Leo Reise. He was born in Stoney Creek, Ontario. He won two Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings in 1950 and 1952. 

Reise died in Ancaster, Ontario from lung cancer at the age of 93.

References

1922 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Chicago Blackhawks players
Detroit Red Wings players
New York Rangers players
Sportspeople from Ontario
Sea otter

Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are marine mammals. They live along the Pacific coast of North America. Their historic range included shallow waters of the Bering Strait. It also included Kamchatka, and as far south as Japan. 

Sea otters have about 26,000 to 165,000 hairs per square centimeters of skin. They have a rich fur for which humans hunted them almost to extinction. By the time the 1911 Fur Seal Treaty gave them protection, so few sea otters remained that the fur trade had become unprofitable. Sea otters eat shellfish and other invertebrates (especially clams, abalone, and sea urchins). 

The otters usually carry a favorite rock in their paws or in a pouch under their forearm. They use it to smash shells open. This makes them one of the few animals that use tools. They grow to  in length and weigh . Although once near extinction, they have begun to spread again, from small populations in California and Alaska. Sea otters are one of the smallest mammals in the ocean.

Sea otters and kelp

Without the sea otters to eat them, there were too many sea urchins.  The sea urchins then began to eat large amounts of kelp.  They ate and killed so many kelp plants that they turn kelp forests into desert-like places called urchin barrens. The fish, krill and other animals that lived in the kelp either died or left.  In some places where sea otters have returned, like Juan de Fuca Strait, they ate enough sea urchins that the kelp forests grew back.

Sea otters and people

Sea otters catch the same shellfish, sea urchins, crabs, clams, and abalone, that indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada need to eat. In May 2020, scientists from Simon Fraser University said in a report that more sea otters in northwestern North America would live if indigenous communities had more freedom to make decisions about them and to make plans based on traditional knowledge of sea otters, mixing in modern Western scientific methods as needed.

References 

Mustelids
Nargis Fakhri

Nargis Fakhri (born 20 October 1979) is an American model and actress who acts in Indian films. She has appeared on America's Next Top Model. Fakhri started her acting career in the 2011 Bollywood film Rockstar. She went on to star in the Bollywood films Madras Cafe (2013), Main Tera Hero (2014), and had a supporting role in the Hollywood film Spy (2015).

References 

Actors from Queens
1979 births
Living people
Albertus Magnus College

Albertus Magnus College is a Catholic private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1925 by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now Dominican Sisters of Peace). It is located in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, near the border with Hamden. Albertus Magnus has associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs. Its ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges, Regional Universities (North), is 115th.

References

Other websites 
 Visual tour of Albertus Magnus College

Colleges and universities in Connecticut
1925 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Connecticut
Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell (3 February 1948 – 5 October 2015) was a Swedish writer. He was born in Stockholm. He wrote stories both for the theatre as well as books and television series. He is best known for a series of crime novels, starring a character he created, inspector Kurt Wallander. 

Mankell died of throat and lung cancer in Gothenburg, Sweden on 5 October 2015 at the age of 67.

References 

1948 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from throat cancer
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Sweden
Children's writers
Swedish novelists
Writers from Stockholm
Swedish playwrights
Television writers
Six Flags St. Louis

Six Flags St. Louis is a theme park in Eureka, Missouri, United States.

Six Flags amusement parks
Missouri
Theme parks in the United States
Six Flags Over Georgia

Six Flags Over Georgia is a theme park in Atlanta, Georgia

Six Flags amusement parks
Georgia
Theme parks in the United States
Survey of India

Survey of India () is the national Indian institute of geodesy and cartography. It was established in 1767. It is in New Delhi. The Survey of India is also responsible to others organizations such as:

 Survey of India Service
 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
 Botanical Survey of India (BSI)
 Cartography of India
 Geological Survey of India (GSI) - maintains 2 fossil parks currently
 Linguistic Survey of India
 Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)

Other websites 
 Official website of the Survey of India
 Directory of Indian Government websites

National mapping agencies
New Delhi
Government of India
State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping

State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping () is the national Chinese institute of geodesy and cartography. It is in Beijing, China.

Other websites 
 Official website 
 Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping 

Beijing
National mapping agencies
People's Republic of China
National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information

The National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information is the national French organization of mapping, geodesy and cartography. It was established in 1940 in Paris, France.

Other websites 

 Official site 
 IGN Fortresses history (in French) 

1940 establishments in France
National mapping agencies
Geography of France
Paris
Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography

The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr; ) is the Russian federal agency of geodesy, cartography and real estate. It was established in 2008 in Moscow after the closure of the previous organization that was established during the Soviet period.

Other websites 
  The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography 

Moscow
National mapping agencies
2008 establishments in Asia
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park owned and operated by Cedar Fair and located in between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

History 
Dorney Park traces its history to 1860, when Solomon Dorney built a trout hatchery and summer resort on his estate outside of Allentown. In 1870, Dorney decided to convert the estate into a public attraction. Initially, the facility featured games, playground-style rides, refreshment stands, picnic groves, a hotel, and a restaurant. By the 1880s, Dorney had added a small zoo, and gardens.

Halloween Haunt 

Halloween Haunt is an annual event that is held from September to October. The park hires around 700 people for this event. It was originally introduced in 1998 as Halloweekends, but was rebranded Halloween Haunt in 2008.

Current attractions 
Halloween Haunt currently features 10 attractions including seven mazes and three scare zones, as well as roaming Street Talent sliders and actors, and two live mainstage shows (Blood Drums and Overlord's Resurrection).

Attraction history

References 

Theme parks in the United States
Buildings and structures in Pennsylvania
1884 establishments in the United States
Allentown, Pennsylvania
1880s establishments in Pennsylvania
Kepler-452b

Kepler-452b is an extrasolar planet. It circles a Sun-like star Kepler-452. It was identified by the Kepler space telescope. Its discovery was publicly announced by NASA on 23 July 2015. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth, and it is in the habitable zone of its star, so liquid water can exist on its surface.

References

Exoplanets
Meral Tasbas

Meral Izabelle Tasbas (born 4 April 1979) is a Swedish television star, singer and actress. She is best known for her appearances in five seasons of the reality series The Bar. She appeared on it between the years of 2000 and 2004 on TV3.

References

1979 births
Living people
Swedish actors
Swedish singers
Reality television participants
David Hellenius

David Hellenius (born 28 February 1974) is a Swedish comedian and television host. He has hosted Idol 2004 and the celebrity dance show Let's Dance for ten seasons as of 2015.

References

1974 births
Living people
Swedish television presenters
Soraya Post

Soraya Viola Heléna Post (born 15 October 1956) is a Swedish politician. She works for the Feminist Initiative party. Post's father was a German born Jew. Her mother was part of the Romani people. In February 2014, Post was voted into the European Parliament.

References

1956 births
Living people
MEPs for Sweden
Mel Martínez

Mel Martinez (born October 23, 1946) is an American politician. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 2005 until 2009. He was the 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He is a Republican.

Martinez was born on October 23, 1946 in Sagua La Grande, Cuba. He graduated from Florida State University. He is married to Kitty Martínez. They have three children.

References

Other websites

1946 births
Living people
United States senators from Florida
US Republican Party politicians
United States Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development
Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels (born April 7, 1949) is an American politician. He served as the 49th Governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. He was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 until 2003. He is a Republican.

Daniels was born on April 7, 1949 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He studied at Princeton University and at Georgetown University. He is married to Cheri Herman.

References

Other websites

1949 births
Living people
Directors of the Office of Management and Budget
US Republican Party politicians
Governors of Indiana
Princeton University alumni
Otto Neurath

Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle. He wrote books in Basic English. In 1936 Charles Kay Ogden commissioned Otto and his wife Marie Neurath to produce International Picture Language  as part of a series of eight books in Basic English.

1882 births
1945 deaths
Austrian philosophers
Writers from Vienna
1957–58 Eredivisie

The 1956–57 Eredivisie was the 2nd Eredivisie tournament. Door Oefening Sterk (DOS) won the tournament.

Table

Play-off matches 
DOS defeated SC Enschede 1–0 in extra time to win their first title. Lastly, Elinkwijk defeated GVAV 2–1 to stay in the Eredivisie, while GVAV were sent to the Eerste Divisie.

Related pages 
 1957–58 Eerste Divisie

1957 in Europe
1958 in Europe
Football competitions in Europe
Football in the Netherlands
1950s in the Netherlands
1957–58 Eerste Divisie

The 1957–58 Eerste Divisie was the 2nd Eerste Divisie tournament. It was won by Willem II and ADO Den Haag.

Tables 

The 32 teams in the tournament were put into two groups.

Eerste Divisie A

Championship play-offs 

Willem II defeated FC Dordrecht 3–1 to win the tournament.

Eerste Divisie B

Related pages 
 1957–58 Eredivisie

1957 in Europe
1958 in Europe
football in the Netherlands
1950s in the Netherlands
2014–15 Eredivisie

The 2014–15 Eredivisie was the 59th Eredivisie tournament. PSV Eindhoven won the tournament, ending AFC Ajax's winning streak that was going since 2011.

Table

Play-offs

European competition play-offs 

Because Vitesse won the play-offs, they then qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

Relegation play-offs 

Two teams from the 2014–15 Eredivisie and eight from the 2014–15 Eerste Divisie participated in these play-offs. In the end, De Graafschap and Roda JC Kerkrade won the play-offs, meaning that they move on to the 2015–16 Eredivisie, the two teams from the Eredivisie are relegated, and the six other teams remain in the Eerste Divisie.

References 

2014 in association football
2015 in association football
Football in the Netherlands
2014 in Europe
2015 in Europe
2010s in the Netherlands
Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Cathy McMorris Rodgers (born May 22, 1969) is the U.S. Representative for Washington's 5th congressional district since 2005. She chairs the Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives, and was the vice-chair of the House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2013. McMorris Rodgers is a member of the Republican Party.

McMorris Rodgers was born on May 22, 1969 in Salem, Oregon. She studied at Pensacola Christian College and at University of Washington. She is married to Brian Rodgers. They have three children.

References

Other websites

 Cathy McMorris Rodgers, U.S. Representative, Home Page

1969 births
Living people
People from Salem, Oregon
United States representatives from Washington
US Republican Party politicians
Naviraí

Naviraí is a Brazilian city of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. About 51,600 people live there (2015). It has an area of .

The city is served by bus and airport, the latter being prepared to operate.

History 
The city of Naviraí was founded in April 1952 and emancipated on November 11, 1963.

Cities in Mato Grosso do Sul
1952 establishments
1950s establishments in Brazil
Jim Gilmore 2016 presidential campaign

The 2016 presidential campaign of Jim Gilmore, the 68th Governor of Virginia, was filed with the FEC on July 29, 2015. He made an official launch of his campaign on July 30, 2015. It was headquartered in Henrico, Virginia. He withdrew on February 12, 2016 due to poor polling numbers.

References

Gilmore
Yakub Memon

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon (30 July 1962-30 July 2015) was an Indian terrorist and chartered accountant, who was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007.

Memon is the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected and he was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 at 0500 IST in Nagpur jail.

References

1962 births
2015 deaths
Muslim terrorists
People executed by hanging
People from Mumbai
Jan Kulczyk

Jan Jerzy Kulczyk (24 June 1950 – 28 July 2015) was a Polish businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding (headquartered in Warsaw) and international investment house Kulczyk Investments. He was the richest man in Poland.

Kulczyk died on 28 July 2015 at the age of 65 due to surgery complications in Vienna.

References

Other websites

1950 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Polish businesspeople
List of governors of Arizona

The Governor of Arizona is the head of the executive branch of Arizona's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

List of Governors

Notes

References
The Winning Team

The Winning Team is a 1952 biographical movie directed by Lewis Seiler. It is about the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. It stars Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, and Russ Tamblyn. It was released on June 20, 1952.

1952 movies
American biographical movies
Movies directed by Lewis Seiler
Russ Tamblyn

Russell Irving "Russ" Tamblyn (born December 30, 1934) is an American movie and television actor and dancer. He is best known for his performance in title role of the 1958 Tom Thumb and the 1961 movie musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang.

Other websites
 
 
 NNDB page

Golden Globe Award winning actors
1934 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Los Angeles
George Chakiris

George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer, singer and actor. He is best known for his appearance in the movie version of West Side Story as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang.

Other websites
 

Academy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
1934 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American dancers
Actors from Ohio
Singers from Ohio
SHeDAISY

SHeDAISY  is an American country music group. They were founded in the late 1980s by sisters Kristyn, Kelsi and Kassidy Osborn. They are from Magna, Utah. The group's name comes from the word shideezhí, a Navajo term meaning "my little sister".

The trio began their careers as The Osborn Sisters. They were signed to the Nashville division of RCA Records. The group recorded an album that was never released. By 1999 the sisters renamed the group SHeDAISY and signed to Lyric Street Records. Their first album, The Whole SHeBANG, was released that year. The single "Little Good-Byes" from that album charted number three on the country charts. It was certified platinum in the United States. SHeDAISY has charted 15 times on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Their hits include "Little Good-Byes," "This Woman Needs", "I Will… But", "Don't Worry 'bout a Thing", and two Christmas singles.

Discography
Studio albums
 The Whole SheBANG (1999)
 Knock on the Sky (2002)
 Sweet Right Here (2004)
 Fortuneteller's Melody (2006)

References

Other websites 
 SHeDAISY - Little Good-Byes; YouTube

1989 establishments in the United States
1980s American music groups
1990s American music groups
2000s American music groups
2010s American music groups
Country bands
Musical groups established in 1989
Musical groups from Utah
Musical trios
Extravehicular activity

Extravehicular activity (EVA) is when an astronaut or cosmonaut gets out of a spacecraft in outer space, then gets back in. "Extravehicular activity" usually refers to a spacewalk outside a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, but can also refer to a moonwalk on the surface of the Moon. Three Apollo astronauts made spacewalks between the Earth and the Moon while their spacecraft were returning to Earth.

Astronauts from Russia, the United States and China have done EVAs.

First spacewalks
Alexey Leonov, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, made the first spacewalk on March 18, 1965. He spent 12 minutes outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. The first American to make a spacewalk was Edward H. White, II, who spent 36 minutes outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft on June 3, 1965.

The first moonwalk was made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 (UTC), during the Apollo 11 trip to the Moon. This first Moon walk lasted for 2 hours and 32 minutes. Twelve human beings have walked on the surface of the Moon.

Later history

In 1973, astronauts made spacewalks to repair Skylab, the first space station sent into space by the United States. Skylab had been damaged while it was being launched into space. Many spacewalks were made to build the International Space Station (ISS). Spacewalks are still made to maintain the ISS and fix it when there is a problem.

Related pages
 Space suit

References

Other websites

 NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology

Spaceflight
Cley Marshes

Cley Marshes is a  nature reserve on the North Sea coast of England. It is just outside the village of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk. It has been a reserve since 1926. It is the oldest of the reserves belonging to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT).

Cley Marshes protects an area of reed beds, freshwater marsh, pools and wet meadows. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site because of the large numbers of birds it attracts.

North Norfolk
Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Over Texas is a theme park in Arlington, Texas

References

Other websites

 Six Flags Over Texas official website
 Guide to Six Flags Over Texas - Unofficial Guide to the Park
 Amusement Planet
 Parktimes.com - Website focusing on the historical aspect of SFoT
 

Six Flags amusement parks
Texas
Theme parks in the United States
Arlington, Texas
1961 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Texas
John Smoltz

John Andrew Smoltz, nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball played from 1988 to 2009. All but the last year was with the Atlanta Braves.

Atlanta Braves players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Independence Hall (Israel)

The Independence Hall of Israel is a building in Tel Aviv in Israel. It is where the ceremony of independence of the State of Israel was held on Friday, May 14, 1948.

The building has been restored to look like it did on the day of the announcement.

Gallery

Other websites 

 Official website

Museums in Tel Aviv
Route 386 (Israel)

Route 386 is a road in Israel. It stretches from Tzur Hadassah to Jerusalem.

The route begins in the Judean Mountains at Tzur Hadassah. It starts at a junction with Route 375.

In Jerusalem, the road is named Herzl Boulevard (Sderot Herzl). It stretches from the western entrance to the city near the Bridge of Strings to Mount Herzl. The street was named after Theodor Herzl on November 17, 1949. The street passes through the neighborhoods of Kiryat Moshe, Beit Hakerem, Yefeh Nof and Bayit VeGan. The main entrance to Mount Herzl is the number 1.

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James Hedges

James "Jim" Hedges (born May 10, 1938) is a Prohibition activist and the former Tax Assessor for Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania. He holds the distinction as the only individual to be elected to public office from the Prohibition Party in the 21st century, and the first since 1959.

Hedges ran for President of the United States of America in the 2016 presidential election.

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Campaign website 

2016 United States presidential candidates
1938 births
Living people
American political activists
Politicians from Iowa
Politicians from Pennsylvania
Alena Vrzáňová

Alena "Ája" Vrzáňová () (also Zanová, married name:  Steindler) (16 May 1931 – 30 July 2015), was a Czech figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia in competition. Vrzáňová is the 1949 & 1950 World champion and 1950 European champion.  She was born in Prague.

Vrzáňová died suddenly on 30 July 2015 in New York City at the age of 84 while in exile.

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 Sports-reference profile

1931 births
2015 deaths
Czechoslovak people
Sportspeople from Prague
Figure skaters
Augustin Bubník

Augustin "Gustav" Bubník (21 November 1928 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – 18 April 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a retired ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics. He also played in the 1947 and 1949 World Championships. Czechoslovakia won both.

He later worked as ice hockey coach and was elected as MP to the lower chamber of Czech Parliament from the Civic Democratic Party. He also worked as ice hockey coach of the Finnish National Team from 1966 to 1969, and was later inducted to the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Czech ice hockey players
Sportspeople from Prague
Mario Puzo

Mario Gianluigi Puzo (; ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He was born in Manhattan, New York City.

He is known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (1969), which was later made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974.

Puzo died of heart failure in West Bay Shore, New York, aged 78.

Other websites
 FreshAir Interview – Audio interview from Fresh Air. Originally broadcast July 25, 1996.
 Mario Puzo at the Internet Movie Database
 Mario Puzo Books
 The Official Mario Puzo Library
 "Saying Goodbye to Mario Puzo", an affectionate recollection of Mario Puzo written by his friend Jules Siegel on being notified of his death.

1920 births
1999 deaths
Academy Award winners
American novelists
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York
Deaths from heart failure
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Screenwriters from New York City
Writers from Manhattan
Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris (July 25, 1935 – August 21, 2018) was an American actress who was a Broadway stage star and later became a movie actress. She was born in Evanston, Illinois. She was known for being a co-founder of The Second City.

She appeared in such movies as A Thousand Clowns, Plaza Suite, Nashville, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Grosse Pointe Blank. 

Harris won a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award and received four Golden Globe Award nominations.

Harris died in Scottsdale, Arizona from lung cancer on August 21, 2018, aged 83.

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1935 births
2018 deaths
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American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
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Noel Neill

Noel Darleen Neill (November 25, 1920  July 3, 2016) was an American actress in motion pictures and television.  She is known for her portrayal of Lois Lane in the movie serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), as well as the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman.

Following an extended illness, Neill died at age 95 on July 3, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.

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1920 births
2016 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Don Murray

Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (born July 31, 1929) is an American actor. He was known for his role as Beauregard Decker in the 1956 movie Bus Stop.

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1929 births
Living people
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American television actors
Actors from Hollywood
Hope Lange

Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American movie, stage, and television actress.

Lange was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 movie Peyton Place. 

In 1969 and 1970, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.

Lange died on December 19, 2003, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, as a result of an ischemic colitis infection at the age of 70.

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Alan J. Pakula

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American movie director, writer and producer.  He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice (1982). He was also known for his movies Klute and The Parallax View. He was born in New York City.

Pakula was killed in a car accident in Melville, New York, aged 70.

Other websites

 Alan J Pakula  – Daily Telegraph obituary
 American Film Institute interview 
 "The Pakula Parallax" essay

 Alan J. Pakula papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1928 births
1998 deaths
Road accident deaths in the United States
Movie directors from New York City
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Screenwriters from New York City
The Parallax View

The Parallax View is a 1974 American thriller movie directed by Alan J. Pakula. It was written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.. It stars Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Richard Bull, and Kenneth Mars. It was released to positive reviews on June 14, 1974.

1974 thriller movies
American thriller movies
Movies directed by Alan J. Pakula
Paramount Pictures movies
Bubba Franks

Daniel Lamont "Bubba" Franks (born January 6, 1978) is a former American football tight end. He played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Miami. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers 14th overall in the 2000 NFL Draft. Bubba attended Big Spring High School in Big Spring, Texas. He was an all state tight end there.

Green Bay Packers players
1978 births
Living people
American football tight ends
Breckland District

Breckland District is a local government district in Norfolk, England. About 135,000 people live there. It was created on 1 April 1974. Its council is based in East Dereham.

Breckland District gets its name from the Breckland landscape region. That is a gorse-covered sandy heath of south Norfolk and north Suffolk. The term Breckland is ancient. It is found as early as the 13th century in the form Brakelond.

Breckland
1974 establishments in England
River Leam

The River Leam (also spelled Leame) is a river in England. It starts at Hellidon Hill in Northamptonshire. It flows through rural Warwickshire, including the town of Leamington Spa. It flows into the Warwickshire Avon, a left bank tributary of the River Severn.

Rivers of England
Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
All Saints

All Saints might mean:

All Saints (group)
All Saints' Day
All Saints Church, Gothenburg
All Saints Church, Lund
All Saints DLR station
Baía de Todos os Santos, also called All Saints' Bay
Tribute to Jerusalem

Tribute to Jerusalem is a permanent sculpture in Holland Square, near Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. It is at the corner of Kiryat Yovel Street and Ein Karem. The sculpture's popular nickname is "the red sculpture". The sculpture stands at a view point overlooking the Jerusalem Forest and Ein Kerem. The sculpture was made in 1977 by Alexander Calder.

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Sculptures
Buildings and structures in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Forest

The Jerusalem Forest is a pine forest located in the Judean Mountains west of Jerusalem. It is surrounded by the neighborhoods Beit HaKerem, Yefe Nof, Ein Kerem, Har Nof, Givat Shaul, and a moshav, Beit Zeit.

Related pages
List of forests in Israel 
Eshtaol Forest
Yatir Forest
Jewish National Fund

Forests
Geography of Israel
Jerusalem
Cley next the Sea

Cley next the Sea () or (), Anglo-Saxon Clæg "clay", is a village (population 376) in North Norfolk, England. It is on the River Glaven. Located  north-west of Holt and east of Blakeney.

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Villages in Norfolk
Chesterville

Chesterville is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,352 at the 2010 census.

Towns in Maine
Atkinson, Maine

Atkinson is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Judge Atkinson, a landholder. The population was 326 at the 2010 census.

Towns in Maine
North Norfolk

North Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, United Kingdom. It was created on 1 April 1974. About 105,000 people live there. Its council is based in Cromer.

North Norfolk
1974 establishments in England
Ein Kerem

Ein Karem () is an ancient village of the Jerusalem District and now a neighbourhood in southwest Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 16, 1948.

Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem
Independence Day (Israel)

Independence Day of Israel (;    lit. "Independence Day") is the national day of Israel. It celebrates the day of the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel at the end of British Mandate of Palestine. It occurs on the fifth day of Iyar in the Hebrew calendar, which is between the months of April and May.

Independence Day begins with a ceremony held in Mount Herzl Plaza in Jerusalem. It begins at midnight. The ceremony also ends Yom Hazikaron. A fire is lit.

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 Israeli Knesset page on Yom Ha'aztmaut
 Study Sheet for Yom HaAtzmaut: the Passover Hagada and Israel's Declaration of Independence 
 Conservative Movement's Al HaNisim for Yom Haatzmaut
 Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, Peninei Halachah - Zmanim, Yom HaAtzmaut 
  the Israeli Independence Day ceremony in Jewish National Fund website

Israeli culture
Holidays
The Judge (2014 movie)

The Judge is a 2014 American crime drama movie directed by David Dobkin.

Plot
It is about a Chicago lawyer, Hank Palmer, coming home to Indiana after his mother dies. Soon afterwards, his father, Joseph Palmer, a judge, is accused of killing someone in a hit and run accident with the son quickly defending his father even though they have relationship issues.

Cast
 Robert Downey, Jr. as Henry "Hank" Palmer 
 Robert Duvall as Judge Joseph Palmer  
 Vera Farmiga as Samantha "Sam" Powell
 Vincent D'Onofrio as Glen Palmer
 Jeremy Strong as Dale Palmer 
 Billy Bob Thornton as Dwight Dickham 
 Dax Shepard as Attorney C.P Kennedy
 Ken Howard as Judge Warren

Reception
The movie received mixed reviews. It got a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics liked Duvall's performance as Palmer. Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role.

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Billy Pierce

Walter William Pierce (April 2, 1927 – July 31, 2015) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) starting pitcher. He played 18 years for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and San Francisco Giants, from 1945 through 1964. 

He was selected to the Chicago White Sox All-Century Team in 2000. Pierce was an All-Star for seven seasons.

Pierce was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in Highland Park, Michigan. Pierce died in Chicago, Illinois from gallbladder cancer, aged 88.

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BaseballLibrary  – profile, career highlights and SABR bibliography 
White Sox Interactive interview (c. 2002) 
Baseball Digest: Former pitcher Billy Pierce: He ranked among the best of his era – June 2002 interview
Vintage Cards 
Gallery of April 2008 photos at book signing 

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Jon Shepodd

Jon Shepodd (December 19, 1924 – August 16, 2017) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Paul Martin in the television series Lassie.

Shepodd died on August 16, 2017 at his London, England home at the age of 92.

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David Faber

David Faber (August 25, 1928 – July 28, 2015) was a Polish writer and educator. He was Jewish and survived nine concentration camps in occupied Poland and Nazi Germany. He was also an award-winning educator and lecturer on the Holocaust.

Faber died on July 28, 2015 in San Diego, California at the age of 86.

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2015 deaths
Polish educators
Holocaust survivors
Jewish American writers
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Polish Jews
Alan Cheuse

Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer and critic. He worked for the New Yorker and appeared on several segments on radio. Cheuse was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Cheuse was involved in a car accident on July 14, 2015 on California State Route 17 while driving from Nevada City to Santa Cruz, California. He was reported to be in a coma on July 20, 2015 with injuries including fractured ribs, cervical vertebrae, and an acute subdural hematoma. He died on July 31, 2015 from his injuries at the age of 75 in San Jose, California.

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Alan Cheuse's official website
 George Mason profile 
Littoral  interview with Alan Cheuse about his novel To Catch the Lightning, (2008) 
Public radio interview with Alan Cheuse about historical fiction and his novel To Catch the Lightning, (2008)
 Tennessee Writers Project biography 
Alan Cheuse bio at NPR
Santa Fe Writers Project
Alan Cheuse on 'Song of Slaves in the Desert' 

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2015 deaths
Deaths from subdural hematoma
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Road accident deaths in California
People from Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
Trey Gowdy

Trey Gowdy (born August 22, 1964) is an American politician. In 2011, he became the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district. He chaired the House Benghazi Committee. Gowdy is a member of the Republican Party.

Gowdy was born on August 22, 1964 in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1982 he graduated from Spartanburg High School, Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 1986 he graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Gowdy graduated from University of South Carolina School of Law. He was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1994 to 2000. Gowdy was then elected state district attorney in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2010. On May 4, 2015 he was named to head the special House panel to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attack. He is married to Terri Gowdy. They have two children.

On January 31, 2018, Gowdy announced he would not seek re-election in 2018 and that he intends to pursue a legal career instead of politics.

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 Trey Gowdy, U.S. Representative, Home Page 

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People from Greenville, South Carolina
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