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Cuban Spanish

Cuban Spanish is a dialect of the Spanish language. It is the dialect spoken in Cuba. It shares many of the same features as other Caribbean dialects of Spanish.

Much of Cuban Spanish derives from the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands of Spain. This is because large numbers of Canarian people moved to Cuba in the 19th and early 20th centuries. People from other Spanish communities, such as Galicians, Catalans, Basques and Asturians, also moved here, but did not have as much influence on the language as the Canarians did. Many words in Cuban Spanish come from the Canarian dialect, but some words are from other parts of Spain. There are also words that come from West African languages, French, or from the indigenous Taíno language.

The language is spoken differently from east to west. The eastern part of the island had large plantations where many African slaves worked during the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, the east has a stronger influence from African languages (such as Yoruba and Kikongo) than the west. It is closer to Dominican Spanish than to the Spanish spoken in the western part of the island. The Haitian Creole language influenced the eastern Cuban culture after the Haitian Revolution. Some words of the eastern dialect can be traced back to Haitian Creole words used every day locally. Some Cubans can still speak Haitian Creole.

References

Bibliography

Other websites 
 Spanish in Cuba 

Cuba
Spanish language
Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants is a novel by Sara Gruen. It was published in 2006 by Algonquin Books. The story is about a 23 year old Polish American orphan who joins a circus during the Great Depression. Themes are love and romance, murder, and cruelty to animals. The story was made into a 2011 movie starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Jim Norton, and Hal Holbrook.

20th-century American novels
2006 books
Adultery in fiction
Books with circus settings
English-language novels
American novels
Romance novels
Boeing C-32

The Boeing C-32 is a military variant of the 757 airliner. It is used by the United States Air Force for VIP and U.S. Federal Government transport. When used by the Vice President of the United States, it is called Air Force Two.

C-32
United States Air Force aircraft
Air Force Two

Air Force Two is the air traffic call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the vice president of the United States. They usually fly in one of the two specially changed Boeing 757, C-32 kept by the U.S. Air Force. 

United States Air Force

Individual aircraft
Maison de la Mutualité

The Maison de la Mutualité is a French convention center. It was built in 1930. It is in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It is often associated with left-wing political meetings. It is also a theater.

Other websites
 

Buildings and structures in Paris
Convention and exhibition centers
Toby Tyler (movie)

Toby Tyler is a 1960 Walt Disney movie starring Kevin Corcoran as Toby. It is based on the book Toby Tyler by James Otis Kaler.

1960 movies
Movies based on books
Movies with circus settings
English-language movies
Kevin Corcoran

Kevin Anthony "Moochie" Corcoran (June 10, 1949 – October 6, 2015) was an American director, producer, and former child actor. He worked as a child in many of Walt Disney's most popular movies of the late 1950s and 1960s. These include Savage Sam, Old Yeller, Toby Tyler, Pollyanna, The Shaggy Dog, and Swiss Family Robinson.

Corcoran died from colon cancer at the age of 66.

Other websites

Allmovie bio
Disney Legends profile
Profile on The Original Mickey Mouse Club Show website 

Actors from Santa Monica, California
American television directors
American television producers
American child actors
Deaths from colorectal cancer
1949 births
2015 deaths
Old Yeller

Old Yeller is a children's book by Fred Gipson. It was published in 1956. It is about a Texas family and their dog. The book was awarded a Newbery Honor in 1969. Old Yeller was followed by two sequels Savage Sam and Little Arliss. The book was made into a Walt Disney movie of the same name starring Kevin Corcoran, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire, and Spike in 1958.  

1956 books
Books about dogs
Newbery Honor books
The Story of a Bad Boy

The Story of a Bad Boy is a book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.  It is based in part on his life as a boy in New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature. The story was first published in parts (serialization) in 1869 in the magazine Our Young Folks. It was published in book form in 1870.

References

Other websites
The Story of a Bad Boy at Project Gutenberg
The Story of a Bad Boy at Internet Archive 
Aldrich House  at Strawbery Banke,

1870s books
Bad boy books
Books first published in serial form
Children's books
American novels
The Shaggy Dog

The Shaggy Dog is a 1959 Walt Disney movie. It stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, and Annette Funicello. It is based on the story, The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten. It was Disney's first live-action movie. A sequel was made in 1976 called The Shaggy D.A. which stars Dean Jones, Tim Conway, and Suzanne Pleshette.

References 

Movies based on books
Movies about dogs
1959 movies
English-language movies
Disney movies
Old Yeller (movie)

Old Yeller is a 1957 Walt Disney movie. It stars Tommy Kirk, Fess Parker, Kevin Corcoran, Dorothy McGuire, and 'Spike'. It is based on a book by Fred Gipson.  The movie is about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. A sequel called Savage Sam followed in 1958.

Movies about dogs
Movies based on books
1957 drama movies
1950s family movies
English-language movies
Disney movies
Berserk!

Berserk! is a 1967 British movie starring Joan Crawford, Judy Geeson, Ty Hardin, and Michael Gough. It is about a circus plagued with gruesome murders. Reviews were lukewarm in general, but Crawford was praised. The movie was popular and well attended. SInce many tickets were sold, the movie was considered a box office success.

Movies with circus settings
1967 movies
British movies
English-language movies
Priscilla Mullins Alden

Priscilla (Mullins or Mullens) Alden (ca. 1602 – ca. 1685) was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 when it sailed from England to North America. She married John Alden in Plymouth Colony in 1623, and bore him ten or eleven children. 

The couple founded Duxbury, north of Plymouth. She died in 1685 and is buried in the Myles Standish Burial Ground. She is the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.

Early life
Her birthplace and parents are not known with certainty. She may have been born in Surrey to Col. William Mullins, Sr. and Alice Mullins. She sailed to the New World with her parents and brother Joseph. These three died the winter of 1620-1621.

Marriage
Priscilla married John Alden in 1623 in Plymouth Colony. They had ten or eleven children. John and Priscilla Alden lived in Plymouth until the late 1630s. They then moved north to found the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Death
Priscilla Alden died about 1685, and is buried in the Myles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury.  The exact location of her grave within the burial ground has not been found.

Legacy
She is a main character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish. Longfellow was a descendant of the Aldens. He romanticized a family legend for the poem.

References
 Mayflower History: Priscilla Mullins

1602 births
1685 deaths
English people
Mayflower passengers
People buried in the Myles Standish Burial Ground, Duxbury, Massachusetts
People from Surrey
John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites

John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites is a National Historic Landmark consisting of two properties in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States.

According to the Department of the Interior's press release:

Alden Homestead site
This property is the site of John Alden's original home. It was built about 1632.  John and Priscilla Alden first lived in this house. Traditional accounts say the house was abandoned around 1653.  The building has not survived. The property is now an important archeological site. It is owned by the Town of Duxbury.

John Alden House
The John Alden House is a historic house museum that was supposed to be the home of John and Priscilla Alden. It is located at 105 Alden Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts.  Family tradition says it was built in 1653. Scientific testing of the beams says the house was built about 1700.

Recognition
John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.  The sites were declared a National Historic Landmark on October 7, 2008. The Alden Kindred of America, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and takes care of the John Alden House.

Notes

References
Alden House and Kindred Website

More reading
Levine, Sassaman, and Nassaney, eds. The Archaeological Northeast (Chapter: "An Interdisciplinary Study of the John Alden Houses, 1627 and 1653, Duxbury, Massachusetts: Archaeology and Architecture" by Mitchell T. Mulholland). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey (1999).

National Historic Landmarks of the United States
Museums in Massachusetts
1632 establishments
1630s establishments in Massachusetts
1650s disestablishments
Disestablishments in Massachusetts
1650s establishments in Massachusetts
The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 movie.  Its setting is the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. It stars Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, and Charlton Heston. It was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was a box office hit.

1952 movies
Movies with circus settings
English-language movies
Billy Rose's Jumbo

Billy Rose's Jumbo  is a 1962 MGM musical movie. It stars Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. The movie was directed by Charles Walters. It featured Busby Berkeley's choreography. It was nominated for an Academy Award for the adaptation of its Rodgers and Hart score.

References

Movies with circus settings
1962 movies
1960s musical movies
American musical movies
Screenplays by Ben Hecht
Movies directed by Charles Walters
Freaks

Freaks is a 1932 MGM horror movie about circus sideshow performers.   It was directed and produced by Tod Browning. The cast is mostly actual traveling carnival performers. The movie was based on Tod Robbins' 1923 story "Spurs". Director Browning cast real people with deformities as the sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup. The movie was not popular. In 1994, Freaks was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

References

Other websites

 
 

1932 movies
1930s horror movies
American horror movies
Movies with circus settings
United States National Film Registry movies
MGM movies
Roustabout

Roustabout is a 1964 movie starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, and Leif Erickson. Elvis plays a biker who takes a job with a struggling carnival. He falls in love with the manager's daughter, and makes the carnival a great success when he starts performing as a singer.

American musical movies
1964 movies
1960s musical movies
English-language movies
Jim Norton (actor)

James "Jim" Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish character actor. He is known for his roles in Straw Dogs, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and in Water for Elephants.

Norton was born on 4 January 1938 in Dublin, Ireland.

References

Other websites

 List of Performances at FilmReference.com

1938 births
Living people
Irish movie actors
Irish television actors
Irish stage actors
Irish voice actors
Actors from Dublin
Tony Award winning actors
Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was known for his fantasy novels which had connections to his Catholic faith. His best known work was The Book of the New Sun, a collection of four novels. Wolfe won two Nebula Awards and many Locus Awards.

Wolfe was born on May 7, 1931 in New York City, New York. He studied at Texas A&M University and at the University of Houston. He was married to Rosemary Wolfe. He lived in Chicago and in Barrington, Illinois.

Wolfe had double bypass surgery on April 24, 2010. He also had surgery on his right eye in early 2013. He died from heart disease on April 14, 2019 in his Peoria, Illinois home. He was 87.

References

Other websites

Ultan's Library, a journal for the study of Gene Wolfe
Bibliography of Gene Wolfe's work in the Locus database 
Paul Duggan's Wolfe site 
Gene Wolfe's online fiction  at Free Speculative Fiction Online
The Urth Mailing List, for discussion of Wolfe's work
Overview of Wolfe's work in Washington Post Book World by the SF critic Nick Gevers

Nebula Award winning writers
1931 births
2019 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Illinois
American Roman Catholics
Writers from New York City
Writers from Houston, Texas
Writers from Chicago
Consumer Electronics Show

The Consumer Electronics Show, also known as just CES, is a yearly conference for technology held every January at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Technology companies come here to host previews of their products and announce new products. It is not open to the public. Products that were first introduced to the public at a Consumer Electronics Show include the videocassette recorder (in 1970), the camcorder (in 1981), high-definition television (in 1998), the Xbox (in 2001), and the Blu-ray Disc (in 2003). It was first held in June 1967 in New York City.

In 2009, Jeopardy! taped the Tournament of Champions and Celebrity Jeopardy! at that year's show. It introduced a new set that would become their main set in the fall of 2009.

References

Other websites

Official website 

Technology
Las Vegas, Nevada
1967 establishments in the United States
Crystal Pepsi

Crystal Pepsi was a soft drink made by Pepsi sold from 1992 to 1993. It was colorless and had no caffeine in it. It started being sold on April 14, 1992. It failed due to low sales. It was later sold as a citrus drink called "Crystal From Pepsi," which also lasted a short time before Pepsi stopped selling it.

References

Soft drinks
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a reality television program. It is about a 7-year-old beauty contestant named Alana Thompson in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a spin-off of the reality television program Toddlers & Tiaras. The show has gotten mixed reviews. It began in August 2012. The second season of it started July 17, 2013 and ended on September 11, 2013.

American reality television series
Television spin-offs
2012 American television series debuts
English-language television programs
Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir

The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir or IAI Kfir is an Israeli fighter-bomber aircraft. It is based on the French Mirage 5 but with an american turbojet and avionics. It is a single or dual seat.

Users 
When Israel stopped using Kfir in 1996, the aircraft was sold to foreign countries. Colombia, Ecuador, and Sri Lanka bought some of them. Between 1985 and 1989, the U.S. Navy rented twenty five single-seat Kfir, as F-21A. American Kfir were used for dissimilar air combat training, for simulation of Soviet fighter aircraft like MiG-23 Flogger.

Sri Lanka used the Kfir against the Tamils Tigers rebellion.

Bibliography 
 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.  . 
 Kaminsky, Tom, The United States Military Aviation Directory, London : Airtime Publishing, 2000. .

References 

Military aircraft
Israel Defense Forces
Lorazepam

Lorazepam (also known as Ativan) is a sedative medicine which was first introduced around 1977 for anxiety treatment. It is also used for muscle relaxation. Unwanted side effects include low blood pressure, hangover effects and confusion.

Lorazepam is a benzodiazepine, and it is widely approved and used for status epilepticus (continuous seizures) and anxiety.  Benzodiazepines are central nervous system (CNS) depressants, which are medicines that slow down the nervous system and relieve symptoms of anxiety.

References 

Drugs used in psychiatry
Anterograde amnesia

Anterograde amnesia is a kind of amnesia. Amnesia is a problem with remembering things. In anterograde amnesia, people have trouble making memories last - they forget. Amnesia is triggered by an event; people with anterograde  amnesia have problems creating new memories after that event. With Anterograde  amnesia, the longer-term memories from the time before the event remain intact. The amnesia may be partial or complete.

Very often Anterograde amnesia occurs together with retrograde amnesia. This is the case with conditions such as concussion.

There are different other conditions which can also lead to anterograde amnesia. They include:
Certain drugs:  For example, Benzodiazepines
injuries of the brain, most commonly traumatic brain injury
Certain diseases, for example a kind of encephalitis, caused by the Herpes simplex virus.
Being drunk can cause Anterograde amnesia.

Neurology
Amnesia
Aripiprazole

Aripiprazole (also called Abilify) is an antipsychotic medicine used for treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and an adjuvant for major depression, which was first approved by Food and Drug Administration of the United States in November 2002. The first approval was for the treatment of schizophrenia. Later approvals were for bipolar disorder and depression. Common side effects include increase of blood sugar, vomiting, nausea and dizziness.

Drugs used in psychiatry
List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

This is a list of dialling codes for telephones in the United Kingdom. Dialling codes are the basis for the national telephone numbering plan. They are prefixed to all telephone numbers, generally depending on the type of number and its geographic location. The numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, which is an independent communications authority. This list is based on the official standard, but it also shows older codes and historical changes. Dialling codes do not match any specific political boundaries. For example, the dialling code for Coventry covers a large area of Warwickshire and the Manchester dialling code covers part or all of several neighbouring towns. When dialling a number from within the United Kingdom, all area codes start with a 0.  When dialling from outside the country, the prefix is not dialed.

Code prefixes

List of dialling codes

For an explanation of the two letter STD codes used below, see Introduction of area codes

01426, 01523 and other non-standard 01 prefixes were briefly used for pagers in the late 1990s and then moved to new 076 prefixes in the Big Number Change in 2000/2001.

The 01632 area code is set aside for use as fictional numbers for drama as are parts of a number of other area codes.

Code length
The length of the area code part and the local number part is found as follows:

The number format '2+8' refers to, e.g. London, numbers using the (020) xxxx xxxx format.

The number format '5+4' refers to, e.g. Brampton, numbers using the (0169 77) xxxx format.

Areas with required area code dialling
In the following area local calls must be dialled using the area code from the date shown.

Overseas Territories
Unlike the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man which use the UK area codes 01534, 01481 and 01624 respectively, telephone numbers in British Overseas Territories do not come under the UK telephone numbering plan. Some are within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). These calls are treated as international calls. Below are the access codes for the overseas territories:

NANP
 Anguilla +1-264
 Bermuda +1-441
 British Virgin Islands +1-284
 Cayman Islands +1-345
 Montserrat +1-664
 Turks and Caicos Islands +1-649

Others
 British Indian Ocean Territory +246
 Falkland Islands +500
 Gibraltar +350
 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha +290 (Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha only) and +247 (Ascension Island only)
 Akrotiri and Dhekelia +357 (Shared with Cyprus)
 Pitcairn Islands +64 (Shared with New Zealand)

Notes

References

Other websites 
 UK Telephone Area Codes – basic lookup of current codes and areas covered.

United Kingdom
United Kingdom-related lists
Citalopram

Citalopram (better known as Celexa) is an antidepressant used to treat major depression and off-label conditions. This medicine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the 1990s. Adverse affects from this medicine include although are not limited to drowsiness, nausea, vivid dreaming, dry mouth and trembling. Citalopram is also used for anxiety conditions and panic disorder.

Drugs used in psychiatry
Duty Now for the Future

Duty Now For the Future is a 1979 album by Devo. It was their second album.

Songs on the album 

Note: The song "Red Eye" is named "Redeye Express" on most releases by the record company Virgin.

Notes

1979 albums
Rock and roll albums
East Hanningfield

East Hanningfield is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 1095 people living in East Hanningfield. East Hanningfield has a church called All Saints'.

References 

Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Good Easter

Good Easter is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 376 people living in Good Easter. Good Easter has a church called St Andrew's, which is on Souther Cross Road.

References 

Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Anosmia

Anosmia is losing the sense of smell. The word is also used for people who never had this sense. The loss can be temporary, or permanent. The conditions that cause a temporary loss of this sense include:
Upper respiratory tract infection, for example a common cold
Blocking the nose, for example through seasonal allergies, or a nasal polyp.
Side-effects of certain drugs or of certain poisons.
Concussion, brain tumors.

Smelling things depends on two nerves (Nervus olfactorius and Nervus trigeminus), as well as the part of the brain which processes the information. Damage to this system will affect the sense of smell; permanent damage may lead to a permanent loss of the sense of small.

There are tests that can be done to find the cause of the problem.

The sense of smell also affects the sense of taste. People who cannot small smell have only the basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.

Note also that the sense of smell changes with age. Anosmia can also point to different neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease,
Alzheimer's disease, or Schizophrenia. Certain plants, such as tobacco also contain substances which change olfaction.

In general, anosmia which has its cause in the brain cannot be treated. Anosmia which is caused by blocking the nose can be treated by removing the block. In some cases, accupuncture was successfully used to treat anosmia.

Anosmia Causes 
Nasal congestion from a cold, allergy, sinus infection, or poor air quality is the most common cause of anosmia. Other anosmia causes include:

 Nasal polyps -- small noncancerous growths in the nose and sinuses that block the nasal passage.
 Injury to the nose and smell nerves from surgery or head trauma.
 Exposure to toxic chemicals, such as pesticides or solvents. 
 Certain medications, including antibiotics, antidepressants, anti-inflammatory medication, heart medications, and others.
 Cocaine abuse.
 Certain medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, nutritional deficiencies, congenital conditions, and hormonal disturbances.

References

Symptoms
The Boston Post

The Boston Post was a newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts between 1831 and 1956. It was one of the most popular daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years. The Post was founded in November 1831 by two businessmen: Charles G. Greene and William Beals. By the 1930s, The Boston Post had grown to be one of the largest newspapers in the country, with well over a million readers.

During the 1940s, the newspaper faced more and more competition from papers published by William Hearst. More people began listening to the news on radio and television, and the paper's business began to suffer. It stopped being published in October 1956. At the time, it was printing about 255,000 copies of its daily issue, and about 260,000 of its Sunday edition.

Writers
Richard Frothingham, Jr. – an historian, journalist and politician who was a proprietor and managing editor of The Boston Post.
Olin Downes – music critic.
Olga Van Slyke Owens Huckins – literary editor from 1941 to 1954.  Huckins letter to Rachel Carson inspired the book Silent Spring.

Sunday magazine

In the Sunday paper every week was included a weekly magazine. It was originally called "The Sunday Magazine of The Boston Sunday Post" and later "The Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine".

Pulitzer Prize
1921 – Meritorious Public Service. The Boston Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into and its exposure of fraud by Charles Ponzi. It was the last Pulitzer won for public service awarded to a Boston newspaper until the Globe won it in 2003.

Boston Post Cane
The Boston Post Cane was an award given by many New England towns to their oldest citizen. It was originally done in 1909, when the newspaper was owned by Edwin A. Grozier. The newspaper had several hundred ornate, gold-tipped canes made, and then given presented in a ceremony to each town's oldest living man. The custom was expanded to include a community's oldest women in 1930. Many towns in New England still carry on the Boston Post cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909. When a recipient dies (or leaves the community), the cane passes to a successor who is the town's next oldest living resident.

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1831 establishments in the United States
1956 disestablishments
Pulitzer Prize winners
Newspapers in Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century establishments in Massachusetts
1950s disestablishments in the United States
20th-century disestablishments in Massachusetts
Mike Blunden

Michael Blunden (born December 15, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey right winger. He played for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Montreal Canadiens, and Ottawa Senators.

Before he played in the AHL and NHL, Stanton played 4 seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Erie Otters.

He was drafted 43rd overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks and was signed to a 3-year entry level contract with them on May 24, 2006. He made his debut with the Blackhawks in the 2006–07 NHL season and played 9 games with them but suffered an injury to his shoulder and was ruled out the rest of the season.

On January 10, 2009, he was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Adam Pineault.

He played a season with the Blue Jackets and was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for Ryan Russell on July 7, 2011.

On June 28, 2014, Blunden was signed as a free agent by the Tampa Bay Lightning to a one-year, two-way contract.

References

Other websites

1989 births
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Chicago Blackhawks players
Columbus Blue Jackets players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
Montreal Canadiens players
Sportspeople from Toronto
Tampa Bay Lightning players
American Hockey League players
Ontario Hockey League players
Tommy Kirk

Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk (December 10, 1941 – September 28, 2021) was an American actor and businessman. He was best known for his work with the Disney Studios.

Career
Kirk's Disney career began in 1956 when he played Joe Hardy in The Mickey Mouse Club serial The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure. The Disney movies Old Yeller (1957),  The Shaggy Dog (1959), and Swiss Family Robinson (1960) made him a popular teen star. 

The Disney Studios dropped Kirk's contract when a woman complained to the Studio about the young actor's relationship with her 15 year old son. He went to American International Pictures. He appeared in their low-budget teen movies such as Pajama Party and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. 

Kirk was arrested for drug possession on Christmas Eve 1964. In 1970, he retired from movies and sought help for his dependency issues. He ran his own carpet and upholstery cleaning business. He wrote, and sometimes acted. Kirk became a Disney Legend on October 9, 2006.

Personal life
Kirk is openly gay. He was interviewed by the National Enquirer of January 2013 and said: "I don't blame anybody but myself and my drug abuse for my career going haywire. I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been, and never will be. For that I make no apologies. I have no animosity toward anybody because the truth is, I wrecked my own career."

Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He died at his Las Vegas, Nevada home on September 28, 2021 at the age of 79.

Filmography
 Attack of the 60 Ft. Centerfold (1995)
 My Name Is Legend (1976)
 Mars Needs Women (1968)
 Catalina Caper (1967) as Don Pringle
 It's a Bikini World (1967) as Mike Samson/Herbert Samson
 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) as Chuck Phillips
 Village of the Giants (1965) as Mike
 The Monkey's Uncle (1965) as Merlin Jones
 Pajama Party (1964) as Go-Go
 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) as Merlin Jones 
 Son of Flubber (1963) as Biff Hawk
 Savage Sam (1963) as Travis Coates
 Moon Pilot (1962) as Walter Talbot
 Bon Voyage! (1962) as Elliott Willard
 The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) as Bill Hawk
 Babes in Toyland (1961) as Grumio
 The Snow Queen (1960) as [Voice of] Kay
 Swiss Family Robinson (1960) as Ernst Robinson 
 The Shaggy Dog (1959) as Wilby Daniels 
 Old Yeller (1958) as Travis Coates
 Down Liberty Road (1956) as Jimmy Rawlins

References

Other websites
 TCM: Tommy Kirk
 Curzon, Daniel. 2005. Dropping Names. IGNA Books. pp. 39-40.
 Griffin, Sean. 2000. Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out. NYU Press. pp. 99-101.

LGBT actors
1941 births
2021 deaths
American LGBT people
Gay men
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Louisville, Kentucky
Businesspeople from Kentucky
LGBT businesspeople
American child actors
Dianna Agron

Dianna Agron (born April 30, 1986) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the television series Glee. She has made many movies. She appeared in movies including I Am Number Four, The Romantics, The Hunters, The Family, and Shiva Baby. She was born in Savannah, Georgia. She has also appeared in her own cabaret shows at Cafe Carlyle in New York, NY.

References

Other websites

Dianna Agron  at Fox.com

American movie actors
1986 births
Living people
People from Savannah, Georgia
Actors from Georgia (U.S. state)
Daniella Monet

Daniella Monet (born March 1, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known for playing guest roles on television. She played Trina Vega in the Nickelodeon series Victorious. Also, she is a vegan and advocates for animal welfare.

Actors from Los Angeles County, California
1989 births
Living people
Michelle Wie

Michelle Sung Wie (born October 11, 1989) is an American professional golfer. She plays on the LPGA tour. Around age ten, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship.

Wie was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

People from Honolulu
1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Hawaii
390 BC


390 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Ambustus, Longus, Ambustus, Fidenas, Ambustus and Cornelius (or, less frequently, year 364 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 390 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events 
 By place 

 Roman Republic 
 July 18 – Battle of the Allia: Brennus, a chieftain of the Senones of the Adriatic coast of Italy, leads an army of Cisalpine Gauls in their attack on Rome. They capture the entire city of Rome except for the Capitoline Hill, which is successfully held against them. However, seeing their city devastated, the Romans attempt to buy their salvation from Brennus. The Romans agree to pay one thousand pounds weight of gold.

 Egypt 
 The Pharaoh of Egypt, Hakor (Akoris), concludes a tripartite alliance with Evagoras, king of Cyprus, and Athens.

 By topic 

 Architecture 
 The Temple of Asclepius is built at Epidaurus.

Births 
 Hypereides, Athenian orator and politician (approximate date)
 The Tollund Man (approximate date, based on his being forty years old at the time of death)

Deaths 
 Andocides, Athenian orator and politician (b. 440 BC)

References 

390s BC
OS X Mavericks

OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" is an operating system made by Apple Inc. for its Macintosh line of computers. It is a version of OS X, and carries the release number 10.9. It was released on October 22, 2013. According to Apple, "Mavericks" contains over 200 changes and improvements since OS X Mountain Lion.

OS X Mavericks was the first OS X major release to be a free upgrade since Mac OS X 10.1 "Puma".

Notable New Features
iBooks - allows you to buy and read books on your Mac.
Maps - browse and search places using Apple's Maps service.
iCloud Keychain - stores your passwords and credit cards in iCloud and fills them in for you when needed on any of your Apple products. "Keychain" can also suggest passwords for you to use when creating new online accounts.
Multiple Displays - makes your Mac easier to use if you have more than one computer screen.
App Nap - stops apps that aren't being used from slowing down your computer.

Updated features
Calendar - looks more modern and works well with Maps.
Safari - updated the "Top Sites" screen and shows you links people have shared with you on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Notification Center - now allows you to send messages from Notification Center without opening Messages, and also shows you notifications you may have missed on your lock screen.
Finder - lets you open tabs in Finder, and tag files with keywords so you can search your files more easily.

References

MacOS
Margaretting

Margaretting is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 825 people living in Margaretting.

References 

Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Mashbury

Mashbury is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 89 people living in Mashbury. Neighbouring parishes include Chignal, Good Easter and Pleshey.

References 

Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Rettendon

Rettendon is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 1351 people living in Rettendon. On December 6, 1995 there were 3 people murdered in Rettendon.

References 

Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Sniper team

A sniper team (or sniper cell) is made up of one or more snipers and support personnel such as a spotter. Members can sometimes fulfill several roles. The spotter helps to closely observe the targets and their surroundings. The sniper fires the shots. Sometimes there may be extra members in the team, including someone to secure and defend the team's position, and to communicate with other teams. This third member is known as the flanker.

The spotter finds, watches, and assigns targets, and also watches to see whether the shot has hit or missed the target. They use a specialised telescope to do this. They also make calculations for distance and angle, and try to read the direction and strength of the wind. This is so that the sniper can make adjustments to the aim to make the shot more accurate.

As well as their long-range rifle, a sniper team is usually armed with a shorter-ranged weapon. This is to defend the team in case enemies come in close contact. Equally important is remaining hidden from view. Teams use camouflage, and choose locations where there is something for them to hide behind.

References

Military
Fatimah

Fatimah (,  born 605 or 615 – d. 633) was the eldest daughter of Muhammad. She is mostly honored by Shia Muslims. The Fatimid Caliphate claimed to be her descendants.

References 

Muslims
600s births
633 deaths
Family of Muhammad
Children of Muhammad
Julie Benz

Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. She works mostly on television programs. She played Darla in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benz also acted in some movies, including Jawbreaker (1999), Rambo (2008) and Bedrooms in 2010.

References

Actors from Pennsylvania
American television actors
1972 births
Living people
The Parent Trap (1961 movie)

The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney Productions movie. It stars Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, and Brian Keith. Mills plays twins trying to get their divorced parents together again. The movie was based on the book Lottie and Lisa (Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner. The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards. It was shown on television. Three television sequels were made. The original movie was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan.

The Parent Trap (movie from 1998) is about twin girls who didn't know they were sisters. Their parents were separated and each one lived with a twin. The girls came across in the campsite and then they knew they were sisters. 

After meeting, the girls changed places to meet the mother or the father. They wanted to live together for ever.

1961 comedy movies
1961 romance movies
1960s family movies
1960s romantic comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Disney movies
English-language movies
Movies about sisters
Movies about twins
Movies based on books
2013 Santa Monica shooting

On June 7, 2013, a killing spree by a lone gunman occurred in Santa Monica, California, starting with a domestic dispute and subsequent fire at a home, followed by a series of shootings near and on the campus of Santa Monica College. Six people were killed, including the suspect, and four people were injured in the incident. The gunman, 23-year-old John Zawahri, was killed by police officers when he exchanged gunfire with them at the Santa Monica College library.

References

2013 in California
2013 murders in the United States
Murder in California
Santa Monica, California
Water for Elephants (movie)

Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama movie directed by Francis Lawrence. Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay, which was based on Sara Gruen's 2006 novel of the same name. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Hal Holbrook, and Christoph Waltz.

References

2011 drama movies
2011 romance movies
2010s romantic drama movies
Adultery in movies
American romantic drama movies
English-language movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in the 1930s
20th Century Fox movies
Muslim Patrol

The Muslim Patrol was a gang of  British Muslims who attempted to establish Sharia law in parts of the United Kingdom. The gang filmed their activities and posted them on YouTube. They attacked people who had alcohol or drugs, prostitutes, and people who they thought were gay or not wearing enough clothes. Five men were arrested as part of an investigation into the gang.

References

Gangs
Islamic organizations
British criminals
Powhatan

Powhatan (1534 - 1618) was the leader of the Powhatan tribe. Powhatan was the leader during the Jamestown Colonization when the English settled in Jamestown in 1607. Powhatan was friendly with the English at the beginning. He traded with them. Powhatan usually sent his daughter Pocahontas to give them corn/maize. But later, Powhatan and his tribe looked at the settlers as invaders. After that, Powhatan did not allow the trading with the English settlers. From 1610-1612, it was known as the Starving Time. His leadership was saved by his brother Opchanacanough. 

1534 births
17th-century deaths
Native American people
Dell Rapids, South Dakota

Dell Rapids is a city in the eastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It is in Minnehaha County, about twenty miles north of Sioux Falls, the largest city in South Dakota. It became a city in 1888, and 3,633 people lived there at the 2010 census.

References

Other websites 
City of Dell Rapids website

Cities in South Dakota
1888 establishments in the United States
1880s establishments in Dakota Territory
Ballata

Ballata is a type of music that was popular during the Middle Ages.

Music genres
Watson (computer)

Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system that can answer questions asked in a natural language.  It was made by IBM to compete on the American television game show Jeopardy!. In February 2011, Watson played as a contestant on Jeopardy! against past champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson won the first place prize of $1 million. It was named after Thomas J. Watson, who was the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM from 1914 to 1956.

During a game, Watson had access to 200 million pages of content, including the full text of Wikipedia. Sources of information for Watson included encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, news articles, and books. It was not connected to the internet, meaning that it had to use what was in its system to answer clues. For each clue, Watson's three most likely responses were displayed on the television screen along with its amount of confidence in those answers. If its confidence in a response was high enough, it would ring in to give the response.

After Jeopardy!, Watson continued to be part of IBM's research in artificial intelligence. On new problems such as medical records and genetics, Watson technology was unable to compete with new methods such as deep learning.

References

Other websites
 Watson homepage
 About Watson on Jeopardy.com
 Smartest Machine on Earth (PBS NOVA documentary about the making of Watson)

Computers
Artificial intelligence
Jeopardy!
Pore (skin)

A pore is an opening in the surface of the skin. A pore leads to a sebaceous gland that lets out oil to lubricate and protect the skin. It also lets some water out, which helps in temperature regulation (homoiothermy).

Skin
Mil Mi-1

The Mil Mi-1 (Russian: Мил Ми-1; NATO reporting name: Hare) is a Soviet civilian and military helicopter. It was the first one built in a series in the USSR. It was built under licence in Poland as SM-1.

Users

Civilians 
Countries using civilians Mil Mi-1 were: Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and the USSR.

Militaries 
Countries using militaries  Mil Mi-1 were : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Iraq, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, USSR, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam.

Bibliography 
 Jackson, Robert, Helicopters: Military, Civilian, and Rescue Rotorcraft (The Aviation Factfile).  London: Grange Books Ltd, 2005. .
 Gaillard, Pierre, Avions et hélicoptères militaires d'aujourd'hui Paris, France : Larivière éditions, 1999.  .

References 

Helicopters
Soviet military aircraft
Melancholic depression

Melancholic depression is a subtype of clinical depression. It is biologically based and rather severe. It is mainly associated under unipolar depression, though sometimes under bipolar disorder. This condition is often triggered by stress issues.

Neurology
Risperidone

Risperidone (which is also marketed as Risperdal) refers to an extremely potent antipsychotic drug that is used primarily to treat schizophrenia, autism spectrum matters and bipolar disorder. Side effects of Risperidone include although are not limited to unwanted weight gain and metabolic troubles like high blood sugar. It was first approved in 1994.

Drugs used in psychiatry
Haloperidol

Haloperidol (also marketed as Haldol) is a dopamine related drug (first generation antipsychotic) used for antipsychotic issues, including borderline personality disorder, Tourette syndrome, autism spectrum conditions and aggression problems. Side effect problems include although are not limited to lethargy or dry mouth.

Drugs used in psychiatry
Madge Bellamy

Madge Bellamy (June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American stage and movie actress. She was born Margaret Derden Philpott in Hillsboro, Texas. She came from a good home, but ran away at 17 to become an actress and dancer in New York City.

She was featured  in several roles, and made her first movie Passing Thru in 1920. After a dispute with Fox Films in 1929, she lost work. She returned to the screen in B-movies in 1932. She is probably best known today for playing Madeline in the horror movie White Zombie opposite Bela Lugosi.

In 1943, she was involved in a scandal with a rich married man. She was accused of shooting at him. Charges were dropped but her career was damaged. She made her last screen appearance in Northwest Trail in 1945.

The rest of her life was passed mostly in poverty. She sold tools in a store and was an unsuccessful novelist. She died in Upland, California of heart failure. Her autobiography was published shortly after her death. Her only marriage was brief and childless.

1899 births
1990 deaths
American stage actors
American movie actors
Actors from Texas
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Hillsboro, Texas
Degory Priest

Degory Priest ( 1579–1621)

The name of Digory Priest or Prust is common in Devon, Cornwall and London England.

Priest was a member of the Separatists church.  This religion was not allowed in England and many people moved to Leiden Netherlands  Priest was one of those families.

Priest was a hat-maker from London. There are many legal documents in Leiden which show that he was born in 1579. In 1611 Priest married a widow named Sarah Vincent.  Sarah was a sister of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton.  Priest's became a citizen of Leiden on November 16, 1615 with Isaac Allerton and Roger Wilson.

On June 28, 1617 Priest asked two men to sign a legal document that said that he had not hit John Cripps but only “touched his Jabot”.  This was the frill on the front of his shirt.

Leiden records show that Degory Priest was a witness to a statement signed on January 18, 1618.  The statement was  signed by Tailor Isaac Allerton.  It was about the cost of a crimson coat.

On April 9, 1619, Degory Priest and Samuel Lee signed a document for Nicholas Claverly, a Tobacco pipe maker.  This document was a promise for Claverly's good behavior.  Claverly had arrived in Leiden about 1615 and lived in a house owned by Degory Priest.

Records show that on May 3, 1619 Degory Priest was a witness to a document signed by Richard Tyrill.  Priest said that Nicholas Claverly was not connected with the murder of Tyrill’s brother John Tyrill.

On the Mayflower 
 
Priest came alone of the Mayflower. His family came over later in another ship.

Priest left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620. There were 102 passengers and 30–40 crew. On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower reached land at Cape Cod hook. They landed on November 21. They wrote the Mayflower Compact, which made rules on how they would live and treat each other.  Degory was one of the signers. The Mayflower was supposed to land in the Colony of Virginia, but the ship was too damaged and they were forced to land at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.

William Bradford wrote that seven men died soon after the ship landed. “Digerie Preist” was among them.  Bradford said that all these died soon after their arrival in the general sickness. He added that Priest’s had his wife and children were sent for because she was Mr. Allerton's sister.

Degory Priest married Sarah Vincent on November 4, 1611. She was a widow. They had two daughters.  Their names were Marah and Sarah.  Sarah Priest married a second time. His was also a hat-maker from Leiden. Their burial places are unknown.

Priest died early in the first winter, on January 1, 1621 of the “general sickness”. He was 42 years of age. He was buried in an unmarked grave.  This was the custom that first winter of 1620–1621.  His name appears on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, located on Cole's Hill in Plymouth.

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Mayflower passengers
1570s births
1621 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People buried in Cole's Hill