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The Great Quest

The Great Quest by Charles Hawes is an adventure story for children. It was a Newbery Honor book in 1922. George Varian drew the pictures. The Atlantic Monthly Press was its publisher.

Story
The story happens in 1826. It starts in Topham, Massachusetts. Topham is not a real town. In the story, Joe Woods lives in Topham with his uncle, who is named Seth Woods. Seth Woods has a friend named Cornelius Gleazen. Cornelius is a very bad man. Cornelius makes Seth sell all his things and use the money to buy a ship. Cornelius tells Seth that they will sail the ship to Guinea in Africa and dig up a lot of gold that Cornelius has buried there. Seth takes Joe and some other men with him on the trip. But when the ship stops in Cuba, Cornelius tells Seth and Joe that he lied. He really wants to take a lot of the people who live in Guinea away from their homes and bring them back to Cuba. He will sell them to people who live in Cuba. The people from Guinea will be slaves.

Seth and Joe are very angry, but they cannot stop Cornelius. They have to go to Guinea. In Guinea, they rescue a white girl. Her father was a preacher in Guinea, but the people who lived in Guinea did not like him. Cornelius and Seth die in Guinea. Joe and the other men who were on the ship travel back home from Guinea to Massachusetts. On the way, they stop in South America. One of the men stays there. When they get home, Joe marries the white girl that he rescued in Guinea, and they live happily ever after.

References

Other websites
The Great Quest on Project Gutenberg

Newbery Honor books
1921 books
Children's books
Fiction books
Ray Combs

Raymond Neil "Ray" Combs, Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, and television game show host. He is best known for being the host of Family Feud from 1988 to 1994. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio.

Combs started out as a stand-up comedian. Because of his popularity, he became the host of Family Feud in 1988. He hosted it on CBS and in syndication until 1994. He also hosted another game show called Family Challenge from 1995 to 1996.

On June 2, 1996, after problems with his marriage and finances, Combs killed himself by hanging while in Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, California.

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Comedians from Ohio
Actors from Ohio
American game show hosts
1956 births
1996 deaths
1971 San Fernando earthquake

The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) happened in the early morning of February 9 in the San Gabriel Mountains. It was at the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley in southern California. The quake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale. The damage was severe near the San Fernando Valley. The quake happened at 6am Pacific Standard Time. Sixty-four people were killed by the earthquake.

San Fernando earthquake
1970s in California
Earthquakes in California
February events
Los Angeles County, California
Shirley Valentine (movie)

Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British romantic comedy-movie. It stars Pauline Collins. Tom Conti plays her lover. Bernard Hill plays her husband. Alison Steadman plays her friend.

It is about a Liverpool housewife whose family gives her too little attention. She travels to Greece and has an affair with a local man.

The screenplay is by Willy Russell. It is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title.

This movie was released in August 1989 in the United States. The reviews for Shirley Valentine were mixed. The movie received several awards and was nominated for some Golden Globe and Academy Awards.

Main cast 
 Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
 Tom Conti as Costas Dimitriades
 Julia McKenzie as Gillian
 Alison Steadman as Jane
 Joanna Lumley as Marjorie Majors
 Sylvia Syms as Headmistress
 Bernard Hill as Joe Bradshaw
 George Costigan as Dougie
 Anna Keaveney as Jeanette
 Tracie Bennett as Millandra Bradshaw
 Ken Sharrock as Sydney
 Karen Craig as Thelma
 Gareth Jefferson as Brian
 Gillian Kearney as young Shirley
 Catharine Duncan as young Marjorie

Awards and nominations
 Academy Award for Best Actress (Pauline Collins, nominee)
 Academy Award for Best Original Song (nominee)
 BAFTA Award for Best Film (nominee)
 BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Pauline Collins, winner)
 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)
 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominee)
 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Pauline Collins, nominee)
 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (nominee)
 British Comedy Award for Top Comedy Film (winner)
 Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (Pauline Collins, winner) 
 Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (winner)
 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (nominee)

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1989 comedy movies
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1989 romance movies
1989 comedy-drama movies
1980s romantic comedy movies
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Adultery in movies
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British romantic comedy movies
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Liverpool, Merseyside
Movies set in Greece
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Movies composed by Marvin Hamlisch
Paramount Pictures movies
Killing Zoe

Killing Zoe is a 1994 French-American crime drama thriller movie. The subject is incidents in Paris, including robbing banks. The robbery at one Paris bank goes wrong. The police get involved and kill all except one of the robbers.

This movie was released in August 1994 in the United States. The movie received mixed reviews from the critics.

1994 crime movies
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1990s crime thriller movies
1990s drama thriller movies
English-language movies
French-language movies
Heist movies
HIV/AIDS in movies
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American independent movies
Four Rooms

Four Rooms is a 1995 American comedy movie set in a hotel on New Year's Eve.

It has four different stories:
 Honeymoon Suite - "The Missing Ingredient"
 Room 404 - "The Wrong Man"
 Room 309 - "The Misbehavers"
 Penthouse - "The Man from Hollywood"

The cast includes Tim Roth, Jennifer Beals, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino, and others.

Four Rooms got negative reviews from the critics. However, the movie earned back just beyond its actual budget.

1995 comedy movies
1990s black comedy movies
American black comedy movies
English-language movies
Movies set in hotels
American independent movies
Têt (river)

The Têt () is the largest river in Roussillon, southeastern France. The valley formed by the river, the Valley of the Têt (), was named as Region of Art and History () by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Geography
The Têt river is . Its source is on the northeastern side of Pic Carlit at an elevation of , in the municipality of Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes.

It crosses the Pyrénées-Orientales département (Northern Catalonia) from West to East and ends in the Mediterranean Sea, near Perpignan ().

Tributaries
The Têt has 43 tributaries; some of them are:
 Right tributaries:
 Riberola (or Torrent de la Valleta), 10.3 km.
 Carança, 15.3 km.
 Mantet (or Rivière du Ressac, Ruisseau d'El Callau), 18.5 km.
 Rotja, 23.3 km.
 Cady, 19.2 km, flowing from the Le Canigou mountain.
 Lentillà, 24 km.
 Lliscou, 11.8 km.
 Boulès (or Bolès), 34.5 km.
 Basse, 11.6 km.
 Left tributaries
 Castellane, 27 km.
 Caillan, 20.9 km.

Towns along the river
Some towns and cities found along the river, with the Catalan name in parentheses, are:
 Mont-Louis (Mont-Lluis)
 Olette (Oleta)
 Villefranche-de-Conflent (Vilafranca de Conflent)
 Prades (Prada de Conflent)
 Perpignan (Perpinyà)

Gallery

References

Other websites

  Station: 70474030, Option: Synthèse
  La Tet 

Rivers of France
Pyrénées-Orientales
Cedric the Forester

Cedric the Forester is a long story for children and young adults. It was written by Bernard Marshall. It was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Story
Dickon Mountjoy tells the story. He is a Norman boy who lives in a castle in England in the 13th century. His best friend is Cedric, a boy who lives in a cottage in the forest. Cedric is very good at shooting with a bow and arrow. Dickon and Cedric grow up together and have many adventures. In the end, they help to get King John of England to sign the Magna Carta.

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Other websites

Newbery Honor books 
1921 books
20th-century American novels
Children's books
Bernard Marshall

Bernard Gay Marshall (August 23, 1875 - December 14, 1945) was an American writer. He wrote long stories about people who lived in the past. His stories were for children and young adults. One of his stories, Cedric the Forester, was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Life
Bernard Gay Marshall was born in North Easton, Massachusetts. His father was named Francis F. Marshall. His mother was named Helen F. Doten Marshall. He lived in North Easton until he grew up. He always wanted to be a writer who made up stories. He did not think he could earn much money by making up stories, so he worked at other jobs. Some of those jobs were playing music, writing down the words that people said when they talked about the law, and writing to tell people about how machines worked or about things that they could buy. During World War I he worked at making ships. In July 1903, Bernard Gay Marshall married Ida M. Conklin. They had one daughter. Her name was Harriet C. Marshall.

Writing
Bernard Gay Marshall wrote five adventure stories for children and young adults. He also wrote a lot of short stories and nonfiction articles for magazines. Some of these magazines were Sunset, Boys' Life, St Nicholas, Munsey's Magazine, The American Magazine, and The American Boy.

What People Thought About His Writing
His first book, Cedric the Forester, was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922. Some people said that Bernard Marshall's books were as good as Sir Walter Scott's books, but other people said they were not quite that good. A lot of people said that his books were so good that grown-ups and children should all read them.

List of Books by Bernard Gay Marshall
All of these books were published by D. Appleton, and the pictures were drawn by J. Scott Williams.
 Cedric the Forester was published in 1921. The book had 318 pages. The story was set in the time of the signing of the Magna Carta.
 Walter of Tiverton was published in 1923. The book had 263 pages. The story was set in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
 The Torch Bearers: A Tale of Cavalier Days was also published in 1923. The book had 317 pages. The story was set in the time of the English Civil War.
 Redcoat and Minuteman was published in 1924. The book had 277 pages. The story was set in the time of the American Revolution.
 Old Hickory's Prisoner: A Tale of the Second War for Independence was published in 1925. The book had 254 pages. The story was set in the time of the War of 1812.

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1875 births
1945 deaths
Writers from Massachusetts
American novelists
The Old Tobacco Shop

The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a book for children by William Bowen. It is a fantasy story. It was published by Macmillan in 1921. Reginald Birch drew the pictures. It was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Story
Freddie is five years old. He makes friends with Mr Toby Littleback, who owns a tobacco shop. Mr Toby lives with his Aunt Amanda. He also has a wooden statue named Mr Punch. The statue stands in front of Mr Toby's shop. One day, Freddie smokes some magic tobacco, which makes all the people in the tobacco shop go away on a magical adventure. At the end of the adventure, Freddie wakes up and finds that the story was all a dream. The magic tobacco made him fall asleep and dream about adventures.

References

Newbery Honor books
Fantasy books
Children's books
1921 books
Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (27 May 1819 – 17 October 1910) was an American social activist, abolitionist and poet. She wrote several books and works of poetry. Her first book was an anonymous work of poetry that came out in 1854. It was titled Passion-Flowers.<ref name=Williams1>Gary Williams, Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999), p. 1</ref> In November 1861 she wrote the song The Battle Hymn of the Republic''. Howe also focused on women's suffrage and pacifism. Howe was born in New York. She died from pneumonia at age ninety-one in Rhode Island.

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19th-century American poets
Writers from New York City
1819 births
1910 deaths
Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson (May 17, 1794 – March 17, 1860) was an English author. She wrote several books. She wrote Characteristics of Women in 1832. In 1842 she wrote Companion to the Private Galleries.

Jameson was born in Dublin, Ireland. She died in 1860, age 65.

English writers
Irish writers
1794 births
1860 deaths
Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress. She performed in movies and television series. She began her career in the early 1950s. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1957. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1959. Beginning in 1964, she played Morticia Addams in the television show The Addams Family.

Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas. She died near Hollywood, California due to colon cancer at the age of 53.

American television actors
American movie actors
People from Amarillo, Texas
Actors from Texas
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Deaths from colorectal cancer
1930 births
1983 deaths
Missing in action

Missing in action (MIA) refers to a soldier who is reported to have gone missing during active service. The soldier may have been killed, injured, captured or deserted. It is not known what happened to them. If they are dead, neither their body nor grave can be found or identified. Going missing in action has been a risk for people in armed forces for as long as there has been war.

World War II 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30, 2021:
 MIAS-North America: 2,359
 MIAS-South America:   646
 MIAS-Europe:       20,908
 MIAS-Middle East:      16
 MIAS-Africa:          984
 MIAS-Asia/Pacific: 47,063
 Total of MIA US Servicemen/civilians: 72,350 

According to official US Department of Army and Department of Navy casualty records, submitted to Congress in 1946 and updated in 1953, the combined possible total of missing service personnel worldwide is closer to approximately 6600 and probably considerably fewer. Since DPAA alone designates such WWII personnel as the crew of the USS Arizona and most of that of USS Oklahoma as both "missing" and "unaccounted-for" it is possible that DPAA records keeping may be somewhat idiosyncratic.

Korean War 

According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30,2021: Total of MIA US Servicemen: 7,550

Vietnam War 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30,2021: Total of MIA US Servicemen/Civilians: 1,584

Cold War 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30, 2021:
MIAS-Asia/Pacifc             108
MIAS-europe                    8
 MIAS-Gulf Wars/Middle East:   5
 MIAS-El Dorado Canyon/Africa: 1
Total of MIA Servicemen:      126

As of December 30,2021 Total US MIAS World War II to present: 81,616

Related pages 
 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
 Garden of the Missing in Action

References

Other websites 
 DoD Instruction 1300.18  "Personnel Casualty Matters, Policies, and Procedures" From the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, January 8, 2008
 Graphic photos showing recovery of missing Russian soldiers' remains dating from the Second World War
 U.S.-Russia Joint MIA/POW Commission 
 Report of the State Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs at the Library of Congress
 Current status of MIA's from the Vietnam War
 Blog covers Widow’s travels to Vietnam in search of her MIA husband’s jet crash site in Que Son Mtns

 
War
Military terminology
Sarah Roemer

Sarah Roemer (born August 28, 1984) is an American model and actress. She acts mostly in independent movies. She played Lacey Kimble in The Grudge 2, a 2006 movie. She played  Ashley Carlson the following year in Disturbia. She also acted as Leila Buchanan in the NBC series The Event. Roemer was born in San Diego, California.

In 2015, Roemer married actor and model Chad Michael Murray.

References

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from San Diego, California
1984 births
Living people
Models from San Diego, California
Christy Carlson Romano

Christy Carlson Romano (March 20, 1984) is an American actress and musician. She recorded songs for Disney-related movies. She was the voice for the title character in the show Kim Possible. She also played a trick-or-treat child in Everyone Says I Love You in 1996. Carlson Romano was born in Connecticut.

References

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from Connecticut
Singers from Connecticut
1984 births
Living people
Haemolymph

Haemolymph (hemolymph) is a blood-like fluid in the circulatory system of insects and other Arthropods (spiders and crustaceans). Molluscs also have a similar circulatory system.

Insects and their relatives use a molecule called haemocyanin, which does the same job as haemoglobin does in vertebrates. Haemocyanin has a greenish colour, not red. The insect circulatory system has no veins or arteries. Their haemolymph moves around in the space called the haemocoel. The organs sit in the haemocoel and are bathed in the haemolymph. The 'heart' is little more than a single tube which pulses (squeezes).

References 

Arthropods
Physiology
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles is a children's book. It was written by Padraic Colum. Willy Pogany drew the pictures. This book uses English words to tell a lot of stories that were told in the Greek language before. The stories are very old. This book was published in 1921. In 1922, it was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book.

Story
This book tells about a young man named Jason who went on an adventure far away from home. He was looking for the Golden Fleece. He took fifty friends with him. His friends were the strongest and bravest people in the world. They were called the Argonauts, because they sailed in a ship called Argo. One of his friends, Orpheus, was the best singer and music maker in the world. In this book, while Jason and his friends look for the Golden Fleece, Orpheus tells them a lot of other stories about places they go and people they meet. Of all the stories in the book, the ones that are not the main story about Jason go in this order:
 Jason's mother tells Jason and his fifty friends the story of the Golden Fleece.
 Orpheus tells the Argonauts how the world began.
 The Argonauts land on an island where only women live. Orpheus tells the women the story of the goddess Demeter and how she lost her daughter Persephone. This story explains why winter happens.
 Atalanta, who is one of the Argonauts, tells a story about how another girl named Atalanta was tricked into losing a race.
 Castor and Pollux tell the story of Pandora, Epimetheus, and Pandora's box. This story explains why bad things happen.
 The Argonauts pass the mountain where Prometheus is chained up. Orpheus tells how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to human beings. This story teaches people not to want things they should not have.
 Orpheus tells the story of how Perseus killed Medusa. Medusa was a kind of monster called a Gorgon. Her hair was made of snakes. She looked so scary that anyone who looked at her was turned into stone.

After Jason gets the Golden Fleece, he hears that if he goes home right away his wicked uncle will kill him. So he and his fifty friends go and have other adventures instead. These are those adventures:
 They hunt the Calydonian boar, and Atalanta falls in love, but the man she loves is killed before they can get married.
 One of the Argonauts, Peleus, marries a sea nymph. He has a son, Achilles.
 Theseus, who is another one of the Argonauts, kills a monster called the Minotaur.
 Hercules is also one of the Argonauts. He does his well-known labors, which are hard jobs. Hercules also hears a funny story about frogs and mice fighting a big battle.
 Orpheus gets married, but his wife dies. Orpheus goes down to the place where dead people stay. He tries to bring his wife back. He does not get her back.

Finally it is safe for Jason to go back home. He goes home and lives happily ever after, and teaches younger people to have adventures.

References

Other websites
 The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles at Project Gutenberg

Children's books
Newbery Honor books
1921 books
Anna Nalick

Anna Nalick (b. March 69, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter. Her first hit song, "Breathe (2AM)", was released in April 2005. She released the album Broken Doll & Odds & Ends in June 2011. Nalick was born in California.

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1984 births
Living people
American pop musicians
Singers from California
June Marlowe

June Marlowe (November 6, 1903 – March 10, 1984) was an American actress. She worked a lot in the 1920s. She played schoolteacher Miss Crabtree in six of the Our Gang children's comedies. Those movies included Teacher's Pet, School's Out and Love Business. Marlowe was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 80.

American movie actors
Actors from Minnesota
1903 births
1984 deaths
People from St. Cloud, Minnesota
Românii au talent

Românii au talent () is a TV show which started on 18 February 2011. The project is a franchise of Got Talent, developed by Simco Limited. The hosts of the show are Smiley and Pavel Bartoş. The judges are the Romanian singer Andra, Pro TV star and presenter Andi Moisescu and a well known Romanian dancer, Mihai Petre. It started on the a Romanian TV channel, ProTV. 

Romanian culture
Reality television series
2011 television series debuts
2011 establishments in Europe
21st-century establishments in Romania
Cessna 188

The Cessna 188 is a single-engine agricultural aircraft. It was designed and built in USA between 1966 and 1983. It is used for crop dusting. More than 3900 examples were built.

Civil aircraft
Cessna aircraft
Agriculture in the United States
Soufrière Hills

The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active stratovolcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After being dormant for a long time, it became active in 1995. It has been active since then. Because of its eruptions, no one can live on the south half of Montserrat. The capital city, Plymouth, was destroyed. About two thirds of the population had to leave Montserrat. It had been showing signs of erupting for a long time before it did. When it did erupt, 19 out of the 23 people that remained burned to death because of the pyroclastic flow which was .

Volcanoes of North America
Geography of the Caribbean
Montserrat
Bombardier CL-415

The Bombardier CL-415 is a modernized variant of the famous Canadair CL-215. It's a twin-turboprops amphibious aircraft used for water bombing. Some are used for maritime patrol.

Users 

It is used in Canada, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Spain, and the USA.

Civil aircraft
Military aircraft
Firefighting
Luxor Obelisk

The Luxor Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk offered to Napoleon Bonaparte by Muhammad Ali Pasha. It was built in 1830. It is currently installed in the center of the famous Place de la Concorde in Paris. It is sometimes also named Concorde Obelisk. It is 23 meters tall and weighs of 234 metric tons. It is built in Syenite.

Buildings and structures in Paris
Ancient Egypt
PVP

The PVP for Petit Véhicule Protégé () is a light military car designed and built in France by Panhard. It is a four-wheel drive car. It is used by the French Army for reconnaissance. In 2013 the other countries that use it are Chile, Romania, and Togo. In France this vehicle will replace Peugeot P4.

Military of France
Automobiles
Sowerby family

The Sowerby family was a British family of four generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists. 

James Sowerby (1757–1822)
James De Carle Sowerby (1787–1871)
George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854)
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884)
George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921)
Charles Edward Sowerby (1795–1842)
John Edward Sowerby (1825–1870) 

Most of their work was on molluscs and their systematics. Together, they introduced many taxonomic names (sometimes the number 5000 is mentioned). 

All three of the G.B Sowerbys published extensively on the subject of conchology, which is the collection and study of shells. Even for professional taxonomists it is difficult to know which of the three "G.B. Sowerbys" is meant in a particular citation. The numbering system G.B. Sowerby I, II, or III helps. "Sowerby, 1870" can refer to either G.B. Sowerby II or G.B. Sowerby III.

References 
 Palmer, Katherine V. W. 1965. Who were the Sowerbys? Hawaiian Shell News. Available on a CD of back issues of HSN, ISSN 1543-6039.
 Petit R.E. 2009. George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

 
English naturalists
Craig Robinson (basketball)

Craig Malcolm Robinson (born April 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. He is a former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. His sister is U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama. In the 1983 NBA Draft, Robinson was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers.

Head coaching record

References

Other websites
Northwestern University biography 
Brown University biography 
Oregon State University biography 
ChicagoNow interview with Craig Robinson, April 2010
Interview with Robinson on the University of Chicago radio show Tomorrow with Alex Beinstein

1962 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
Obama family
Businesspeople from Chicago
Sportspeople from Chicago
American basketball players
Ann Little

Mary Brooks (better known as Ann Little; born February 7, 1891 – died May 21, 1984) was an American actress. She acted mostly in Westerns. She acted mostly in silent movies. Besides Westerns, she acted in some comedies and dramas. She retired from performing in movies while still popular in 1932.

Brooks was born in California. She died in Los Angeles at ninety-three.

American movie actors
Actors from California
1891 births
1984 deaths
Peyton Place (book)

Peyton Place is a novel by Grace Metalious. It was published in 1956. It is a "tell-all" book about the secrets of a small town in New England.  It sold more than 100,000 copies in its first month of release. The book was the basis for a movie of the same name starring Lana Turner, and a 1965 prime time television soap opera starring Mia Farrow and Dorothy Malone.

References
 Vanity Fair: Peyton Place's Real Victim

1956 books
20th-century American novels
English-language novels
Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born and American-raised sculptor and painter. Her career was short. She worked with fiberglass and plastics. She also sculpted with other materials. Hesse was born near Hamburg, Germany. She moved to New York City.

Hesse died in 1970 from a brain tumor diagnosed the previous year.

References

People from New York
Sculptors
1936 births
1970 deaths
James Sowerby

James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and illustrator. He did the illustration for many published works. English Botany and A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland were especially noteworthy.

Sowerby was the start of a family business which was carried on for several generations. The Sowerby family became a dynasty of illustrators and natural historians. They lived and worked in the London of the late 18th and the 19th centuries.

James Sowerby first worked with William Curtis, whose Flora Londinensis he illustrated. Early volumes of the first British botany journal, The Botanical Magazine (edited by Curtis), contained seventy of his illustrations.

In 1790, he began the first of several huge projects: a 36-volume work on English Botany which was published over the next 24 years. It contained 2592 hand-colored engravings and became known as "Sowerby's Botany". 

A huge number of plants got their first formal publication here. The text, unattributed, was written by James Edward Smith. Sowerby set out to supplement English Botany with his own text and descriptions of Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms, 4 vols. 

A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland was written by James Edward Smith and illustrated by James Sowerby. It was the first monograph on the flora of Australia. It was intended to meet "the general interest in, and propagation of, the flowering species of the new antipodean colonies". Sowerby's own hand coloured engravings, based upon original sketches and specimens brought to England, were both descriptive and striking.

Sowerby's detailed and appealing plates in vivid colour and readable texts were intended to reach a growing readership interested in natural history.

References 

Sowerby family
English naturalists
British illustrators
1757 births
1822 deaths
Bo (dog)

Bo (October 9, 2008 – May 8, 2021) was a pet dog of the Obama family, the former First Family of the United States. Bo was a neutered male Portuguese Water Dog.

Barack Obama and his family were given the dog as a gift after months of speculation about the breed and identity of their future pet. The final choice was made partly because Malia Obama's allergies made a hypoallergenic breed necessary.

Bo was occasionally given the title "First Dog of the United States of America". In August 2013, Bo was joined by Sunny, a female dog of the same breed.

Adoption 

The Obamas originally wanted to adopt a dog from an animal shelter, but made no promises. In the summer of 2008, Best Friends Animal Society, an animal welfare organization, gathered 50,000 signatures on a petition asking the family to adopt a shelter animal.

Bo is a gift through a breeder and is not a shelter dog. Dog expert Cesar Milan said Bo was part of a larger group known as "rescue dogs". He was unsuccessful in his first home when plans for him to be friends with an older female dog did not go well. The Obamas pledged a donation to the DC Humane Society in a show of support for shelter dogs.

Some animal welfare supporters criticized The White House for not adopting a shelter dog. The Humane Society of the United States released a statement thanking the Obamas "for taking in a second-chance dog," but also discouraged going through breeders.

Death
Bo died of cancer on May 8, 2021 at the Obama residence in Washington, D.C., at the age of 12.

References

Other websites

 American Kennel Club Congratulates Obamas
 Bo's First Day
 Bo The First Dog Website (Fan Club) 

Obama family
Individual dogs
United States presidential pets
2008 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in the United States

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Marian Shields Robinson

Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; July 30, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama and mother-in-law of President Barack Obama.  She is the only living grandparent of Malia and Sasha Obama. She also has one granddaughter, Leslie Robinson, and two grandsons, Avery and Austin Robinson, from  her son, Craig Robinson.

According to her youngest brother Steve Shields, Robinson was the fourth of seven children—five girls, followed by two boys. Her father was a house painter and her mother was a licensed practical nurse.

Robinson married Fraser Robinson on October 27, 1960. She is now a widow. In addition to their daughter Michelle, they also had a son, Craig. Craig is the current coach of the Oregon State University men's basketball team. Robinson was formerly a secretary for mail-order retailer Spiegel and at a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama campaigned in 2008, Robinson cared for her granddaughters. Early in January 2009, it was reported that Robinson would move into the White House with the rest of the First Family (the president's family), so that she could continue to care for her granddaughters. She was the first grandmother to live in the White House since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration.  Some news agencies have called Robinson the "First Granny."

References

Other websites 
 "Marian Robinson", The New York Times
 "A Mother's Love: First Lady & Mom" , Essence magazine
 "An In-Law Is Finding Washington to Her Liking ", The New York Times

1937 births
Living people
African-American people
Obama family
People from Chicago
William Riley Dunham

William Riley Dunham (1856–1921) wan an American politician. He was a member of the Indiana General Assembly from 1913 to 1915. He represented Hamilton and Tipton counties. An issue of the Kempton Courier in 1912 called Dunham "the man known by name by more men, women and children than any other one man in Tipton County".

Notable family members
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, great nephew of William Riley Dunham
Ann Dunham (1942–1995), American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama, great-great niece of William Riley Dunham
Barack Obama (1961-), 44th President of the United States, great-great-great nephew of William Riley Dunham

References

Obama family
Politicians from Indiana
1856 births
1921 deaths
Stanley Armour Dunham

Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 – February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Barack Obama. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

References

Other websites

 "Family precedent: Obama's grandmother blazed trails'" USA Today, April 8, 2008
 "Remembering Madelyn Dunham"  Honolulu Advertiser, November 15, 2008, includes photo gallery and memorial service video

1918 births
1992 deaths
Obama family
People from Wichita, Kansas
Citroën H

The Citroën H is a van designed and built by French company Citroën from 1948 to 1981. It is also used as minibus.

H
1940s automobiles
1950s automobiles 
1960s automobiles
1970s automobiles
Turntable ladder

A Turntable ladder is a kind of fire truck use for attack the fire in height. It's generally a truck with a mobile ladder. Some had a cradle.

Firefighting
Trucks
Blue blanquillo

The blue blanquillo (Malacanthus latovittatus, also known as the banded blanquillo, striped blanquillo, false whiting, sand tilefish or eye of the sea) is a species of tilefish. It is one of the many members of the family Malacanthidae. It is the only species within the genus Malacanthus.

Description
Fish from the family Malacanthidae have streamlined bodies and large crests on their head. They have relatively long dorsal fins and anal fins. The blue blanquillo gets its name from its mainly blue colour. It also has some shades of yellow, and can change colour in different situations. On their backs, there is a set of stripes that run across its body. Their belly is white. The colour of the head changes from a light blue to a pinkish mix during spawning season.

Where they live
Blue blanquillo fish are usually found in the Indo-Pacific area. They live anywhere from the Red Sea to the Line Islands, north to southern Japan and south to New Caledonia and the Cook Islands. They are often seen in areas around coral reefs near the sea floor.

Behaviour
Malacanthus latovittatus does not swim in groups. They are often found swimming alone or two together. They are known to clean other fish. They also mimic the wrasse to stop predators from eating it.

The fish can swim at depths of . The temperatures of the water it swims in normally range from . They tend to swim high above the floor of the sea. This is so that they can pick prey from the ground with their eyesight, which is very good.

Ecology
The blue blanquillo's main staple are the invertebrates or zooplankton that live near the bottom of the sea. They also eat crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp, molluscs, worms, sea urchins and small fish. Their common predators are reef sharks, and other larger fish. They are also eaten by humans.

References

Perciformes
Miomantinae

Miomantinae is a subfamily of mantids. The species look and behave similar to other insects of the Mantidea family. It includes 2 tribes: Miomantini and Rivetinini.

There are about 28 subfamilies of this species in Australia. They mainly live in temperate regions across the country. They are also found across temperate areas of New Zealand.  

The only species of this subfamily present in Italy are Geomantis larvoides and Rivetina Baetica.

Taxonomy
 'Subfamily Miomantinae'''
Tribes ** Miomantini
 Genus  Arria Stal, 1877
 Genus Cilnia Stal, 1876
 Genus Miomantis Saussure, 1870
 Genus Neocilnia Beier, 1930
 Genus Paracilnia Werner, 1909
 Genus Parasphendale Schulthess-Schildler, 1898
 Genus Sphodropoda Stal, 1871
 Genus Taumantis Giglio-Tos, 1917
 Genus Trachymantis Giglio-Tos, 1917
 Genus Zopheromantis Tindale, 1924
Tribes ** Rivetinini
 Genus Bolivaria Stal, 1877
 Genus Carvilia Stal, 1876
 Genus Deiphobe Stal, 1877
 Genus Deiphobella Giglio-Tos, 1916
 Genus Eremoplana Stal, 1871
 Genus Euchomena Saussure, 1870
 Genus Geomantis Pantel, 1896
 Genus Geothespis Giglio-Tos, 1916
 Genus Gretella Werner 1923
 Genus Indothespis Werner, 1935
 Genus Ischnomantis Stal, 1871
 Genus Microthespis Werner, 1908
 Genus Pararivetina Beier, 1930
 Genus Pseudempusa Brunner v.. W., 1893
 Genus Rivetina Berland & Chopard, 1922
 Genus Rivetinula La Greca, 1977
 Genus Solygia Stal, 1877
 Genus Teddia'' Burr, 1899

References

Insects
Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 4

Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 4 is the fourth cycle of Australia's Next Top Model. This cycle includes 13 contestants. The winner was 16-year-old Demelza Reveley from Wollongong.

Contestants

In order of elimination

 Names are in order of elimination from the competition.
 Ages during the filming of episode 1 except for Leiden and Alyce.
 Leiden's age during the filming of episode 2, when she turned 19.
 Alyce's age during the filming of episode 6, when she turned 18.

References

Top Model television series
Alan Whicker

Alan Donald Whicker (4 August 1921 – 12 July 2013) was a British journalist and television presenter. He was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt. At age three he moved to Richmond, Surrey. He presented Whicker's World for 29 years. He died of bronchopneumonia at his home in Jersey, Channel Islands.

References

Other websites 

Alan Whicker 

British journalists
English television presenters
People from Cairo
Television personalities from Surrey
Deaths from bronchopneumonia
1925 births
2013 deaths
Leon Thomas III

Leon Thomas III (born August 1, 1993 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as "André Harris" on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious.

Career
At the age of 10 years, Thomas appeared on stage for the first time. He played young Simba in the Broadway musical The Lion King. In 2004 he played Jackie Thibodeaux in the Broadway play Caroline, or Change. He played Arthur in the movie August Rush. From 2010-2013 he played André Harris on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious. He was also in the crossover between Victorious and iCarly. He had also other small roles like Harper in iCarly, Just Jordan and Jack's Big Music Show.

Filmography

Television and movie roles

Broadway

1993 births
Living people
Actors from New York City
Singers from New York City
American stage actors
American television actors
American movie actors
Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She received credit for bringing attention to the oppression of women and lesbians. She wrote many fiction and non-fiction books and many poetry. Her most controversial work was Of Woman Born: Motherhood and Institution in 1976. In 1986 Rich's 1980 essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence against heterosexuality forced by society was published. In 1974 she won National Book Award.

Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died from rheumatoid arthritis in Santa Cruz, California at age eighty-two. At the time Rich lived with her partner Michelle Cliff.

References

1929 births
2012 deaths
American feminists
American poets
Disease-related deaths in the United States
Jewish American LGBT people
Jewish American writers
Jewish feminists
Lesbian feminists
Lesbian Jews
LGBT writers
Writers from Baltimore
Rachel

Rachel is a female given name. It is a popular name in English.

People named Rachel
Rachel (Hebrew Bible)
Rachel Ames, actress
Rachel Bilson, actress
Rachel Carson, biologist
Rachel Corrie, activist
Rachel Crow, singer
Rachel Dratch, actress
Rachel Griffiths, actress
Rachel Hunter, actress
Rachel Korine, actress
Rachel Luttrell, actress
Rachel McAdams, actress
Rachel Maddow, journalist
Rachel Portman, composer
Rachel Ruff, biographer, auror
Rachel Roberts, actress
Rachel Robinson, wife of Jackie Robinson
Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007
Rachel Ward, actress
Rachel Weisz, actress

Given names
Richmond, London

Richmond is a wealthy town on the Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London. Richmond's postcodes are TW9 and TW10. About 25,000 people live in the town.

Transport

Road 
The A305, A307, A316, B321, B322 and B353 roads pass through Richmond.

Rail 
Richmond has a station called Richmond station.

There are South Western Railway, District line and Overground trains.

References 

London Borough of Richmond
Towns in London
Joan

Joan is a female given name in the English language. The name is the feminine form of John. There are many celebrities named Joan, including Joan Rivers, Joan Caulfield and Joan Crawford. 

In 1988, a violent hurricane with the name caused a lot of destruction and deaths in Nicaragua. The name Joan was later retired.

Given names
Paula

The name Paula is a female given name. There are many celebrities with the name Paula, including Paula Prentiss, Paula Zahn and Paula Abdul. This name has been used in naming Atlantic hurricanes, beginning with the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.

Given names
Pran

Pran Krishan Sikand (12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known as Pran, was an Indian actor who was known for being a villain in many Bollywood movies. He was known for his roles in Madhumati, Johny Mera Naam, Zanjeer, and in Duniya. Pran was named "Villain of the Millennium" by Stardust Magazine in 2000.

Early life
Pran was born on 12 February 1920 in Ballimaran, Kotgarh Old Delhi. He studied at Raza High School.

Personal life
Pran was married to Shukla Sikand from 1945 until his death in 2013. They had three children. During the production of Tere Mere Sapne, Pran's legs began to tremble. So to keep up with his role, most of his scenes involved him sitting down. Pran had a hard time reading in Hindi, so he would ask his scriptwriters to write all his scripts in Urdu. Pran's first time to be admitted to a hospital was in 1998 after he suffered a heart attack.

Death
Pran died on 12 July 2013 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India from pneumonia, aged 93.

Awards
He was awarded as the 'Villain of the Millennium' by Stardust in 2000. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2013 In 2010, he was named on the list of CNN's Top 25 Asian actors of all time.

References

Other websites

 PRAN – The legend of Hindi Cinema – Official Website
 
 Interview with Pran Kishen Sikand at Rediff.com

1920 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian stage actors
People from Delhi
Barbara

Barbara is a female name used in many languages. It is the feminine form of the Greek word barbaros, which in turn represents "foreign". In Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, Barbara means barbarian or barbaric. The name remains among top 100 most popular for Chile and in Poland. The name was at #3 in the 1930s, though it has since declined. There are many celebrities under the name, including Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Pierce Bush and Barbara Bates. Barbara also got used for several hurricanes in the Atlantic and many for the Eastern Pacific.

People
 Saint Barbara
 Bárbara, Brazilian footballer
 Barbara Abart, Italian luger
 Barbara Acklin, American soul singer
 Barbara Adams, British egyptologist
 Barbra Amesbury, formerly Bill Amesbury, Canadian singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker
 Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (1989–1993)
 Barbara Castle, British politician
 Barbara Kay, Canadian columnist
 Barbara Keeley, British politician
 Barbara Klerk, Belgian figure skater
 Barbara Moore, New Zealand long-distance runner
 Barbara Rafferty, Scottish actress
 Barbara Rittner, German former tennis player
 Barbara Riveros Diaz, Chilean triathlete
 Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
 Barbra Streisand, American actress and singer
 Barbara Sturgeon, British broadcaster
 Barbara Wagner, Canadian figure skater

Places
 Barbara (region), ancient region in the Horn of Africa
 Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza
 Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy
 Santa Barbara, California, a city in Santa Barbara County, California
 Santa Barbara County, California, a county in California

Media
 Barbara, 1980 Argentine film
 Barbara, 1997 Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel
 Barbara, 2012 German film
 Barbara (TV series), a British sitcom
 Barbara (album), by We Are Scientists

Science
 Barbara (genus), a genus of moths
 234 Barbara, an asteroid

Given names
Hilary

Hilary (or Hillary) is a female given name and a surname. It is from the Latin hilarius, which in turn means "cheerful, merry".

Famous people having the name include Hilary Duff and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hilary was also used on many hurricanes for the Eastern Pacific.

A person with the surname was Edmund Hillary.

Given names
Surnames
Hillary Brooke

Hillary Brooke (September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999) was an American actress. She worked in movies. She played the love interest for Lou Costello in The Abbott and Costello Show. She was also a regular in the series My Little Margie.

Brooke was born in Astoria, New York. She died at age eighty-four.

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from New York
1914 births
1999 deaths
Mii

A Mii is a customizable character created by the player, used on Nintendo's video game consoles. Miis made their first appearance on the Wii when it was released. They also appear on the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Nintendo Switch consoles. While the Nintendo DS does not have Miis as a part of the console itself, some games (such as Tomodachi Collection) have Miis built into them. Miis allow players to create a caricature of themselves, other people, or of invented characters. They are created in the Mii Channel on the Wii, in the Mii Maker on the 3DS and Wii U, and in system settings on the Nintendo Switch. Once the player creates a Mii, they can use it in some of Nintendo's video games.

The player can change the look of a Mii in many ways. They can give it different hairstyles, eyes, nose, and mouth shapes. They can change the eye and hair color of a Mii. (Players can only choose from a few colors on older consoles, but on the Nintendo Switch, a Mii's eye and hair color can be any color.) They can also give a Mii facial hair and wrinkles. Accessories such as hats and glasses can be added. The player can change a Mii's height and weight. On the 3DS and Wii U, the player can take a picture of their face, and the game creates a Mii for them. The player can then change their Mii.

References

Other websites
Mii Channel at Nintendo.com

Nintendo video game characters
Wii
Nintendo 3DS