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The Velvet Rope

The Velvet Rope is the sixth studio album by American singer Janet Jackson. The album was released on October 7, 1997 through Virgin Records. It was the last album that Jackson would use her full name on the title. The Velvet Rope was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Reviews

The Velvet Rope received mixed to positive reviews.

Track listing

Samples
 "Velvet Rope" samples "Hobo Scratch" by Malcolm McLaren and The World Famous Supreme Team and "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield.
 "You" samples "The Cisco Kid" by War.
 "Got 'til It's Gone" samples "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.
 "My Need" samples "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross and "You're All I Need to Get By" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
 "Together Again" samples "Bridge Zone"  by Yuzo Koshiro.
 "Free Xone" samples "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins, "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells, and "Joyous" by Pleasure.

Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Musicians

 David Barry – guitar
 Lee Blaske – string arrangements
 Jan Chong – violin
 Carolyn Daws – violin
 Hanley Daws – violin
 Glen Donnellen – viola
 Lynne Erickson – trumpet
 Charles Gray – viola
 Alyssa Hanson – vocals
 Rayvaline Harrell – choir director
 Shawnette Heard – vocals
 Camilla Heller – cello
 Joshua Koestenbaum – cello
 Kelly Konno – vocals
 Tina Landon – vocals
 Brenda Mickens – violin
 Joni Mitchell – performer
 Debbie Morrison – vocals
 Dale Newton – cello

 Willie R. Norwood – choir director
 Alice Preves – viola
 Prof. T. – vocals
 Q-Tip – rap, performer
 Myrna Rain – viola
 Nicholas Raths – guitar
 Gary Raynor – bass
 Alexander Richbourg – vocals, drum programming, rhythm arrangements
 Miko Salone – vocals
 Mike Scott – guitar
 Leslie Shank – violin
 Daryl Skobba – cello
 Liz Sobieski – violin
 Mike Sobieski – violin
 Daria Tedeschi – violin
 United Children's Choir – choir, chorus
 Vanessa-Mae – violin, performer
 James "Big Jim" Wright – organ, keyboards, vocals, rhythm arrangements

Production

 Flavia Cureteu – design
 Steve Durkee – assistant engineer
 Rene Elizondo, Jr. – executive producer
 Brian Gardner – mastering
 Steve Gerdes – design
 Steve Hodge – engineer, mixing
 Ken Holmen – clarinet, flute, saxophone
 Janet Jackson – vocals, background vocals, producer, executive producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
 Jimmy Jam – producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements

 Tim Lauber – engineer, assistant engineer
 Terry Lewis – producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
 Michael McCoy – assistant engineer
 Mike Ozdozzi – mastering assistant
 Len Peltier – art direction
 Xavier Smith – assistant engineer
 Mario Testino – photography
 Ellen von Unwerth – photography
 Bradley Yost – assistant engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

1997 albums
Janet Jackson albums
Dance albums
Hip hop soul albums
R&B albums
M. F. Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) ) commonly known as MF Husain, was a modern Indian painter. He was a founding member of The Progressive Artists Group of Bombay (PAG). He is thought to be one of the greatest painters of India.

M. F. Husain died, aged 95, on 9 June 2011, following a heart attack. He had been unwell for several months. He died at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery on 10 June 2011.

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C. K. Williams

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Williams died of multiple myeloma.

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Dorothea Warren O'Hara

Dorothea Warren O'Hara (August 31, 1873 - May 1972) was an American ceramic artist who won the Lifetime Membership Prize from the National Arts Club and a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. She was president of the Keramic Society of Greater New York and president of the New York National Society of Craftsmen.

Biography
She was born as Dorothea Warren on August 31, 1873 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1915 she won the Lifetime Membership Prize from the National Arts Club and a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. In 1923 she published The Art of Enameling on Porcelain. She died in May 1972 in Delray Beach, Florida.

Legacy
He works are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo.

Books she wrote
The Art of Enameling on Porcelain (1912)
Dorothea Warren O'Hara Enamels, for Decorating All Kinds of China by the Roessler and Hasslacher Chemical Company (1920)

References

Other websites
Dorothea Warren O'Hara at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1873 births
1972 deaths
American artists
Ceramists
People from Kansas City, Missouri
Bill Erwin

William Lindsey "Bill" Erwin (December 2, 1914 – December 29, 2010) was an American movie, stage and television actor with over 250 television and movie credits. As a veteran character actor, he was widely known for his role of Sid Fields on Seinfeld – for which he received an Emmy nomination – as well his appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Cello Suites (Bach)

The Six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most often performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. They were most likely composed during the period 1717–1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Köthen. The title of Anna Magdalena Bach's manuscript was Suites á Violoncello Solo senza Basso.

The suites have been performed and recorded by many famous cellists; like Mstislav Rostropovich, Emanuel Feuermann, Pierre Fournier, Jacqueline du Pré, Paul Tortelier, André Navarra, Yo-Yo Ma, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mischa Maisky, János Starker, Anner Bijlsma or Heinrich Schiff.  Yo-Yo Ma won the 1985 Best Instrumental Soloist Grammy Award for his bestselling album Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites.

Other websites
Anna Magdalena's manuscript
MIDI Sequences
Transcriptions of The Suites For Trombone
Transcription of the 4th Suite for Violoncello Piccolo at the Werner Icking Music Archive

Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
Suites
Suicide Squad (movie)

Suicide Squad is an American superhero movie based on the DC Comics team of the same name.

The movie was written and directed by David Ayer. It starred a cast featuring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, and Viola Davis with Ben Affleck as Batman and Ezra Miller as The Flash.

By February 2009, a Suicide Squad movie was being made at Warner Bros. Pictures. David Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014 and by October the casting process had begun. Principal photography began on April 13, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year. The film was released on August 5, 2016 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.

A sequel, titled The Suicide Squad, will be released in August 2021.

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2010s superhero movies
Black Mass (movie)

Black Mass is a 2015 American crime movie directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth. It is based on the 2001 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. 

The movie stars Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Dakota Johnson, and Corey Stoll.

The movie is about the criminal career of infamous Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger (Depp). The movie was released to positive reviews on September 18, 2015.

2015 movies
American crime movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in Boston, Massachusetts
Movies set in the 1970s
Movies set in the 1980s
Marcin Wrona

Marcin Wrona (25 March 1973 – 19 September 2015) was a Polish director and screenwriter. His movies The Christening and Demon were both shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2010 and 2015, respectively.

Wrona was born in Tarnów. His wife, Olga Szymanska, served as a producer for Demon.

Wrona was found dead hanging on 19 September 2015 at a hotel room in Gdynia. He was 42. His death was ruled a suicide.

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Farhang Mehr

Farhang Mehr (11 December 1923 – 4 March 2018) was an American political scientist, academic and researcher, and former Iranian politician. He was a Zoroastrian.

Mehr was born in a Zoroastrian family in Tehran. His father, Mehraban, was from the province of Kerman, and migrated to Tehran when he was 14 years old. He went on to become Chief Accountant in the Iranian Parliament.

He joined the National Iranian Oil Company. He was the head of the Department of International Contracts and Industrial Relations.

He was then nominated by the prime minister to serve as the Minister of Finance. However, he could not become a minister under Iran’s constitutional law which preserved the ministerial posts for Muslims only.

Mehr’s last position in Iran, prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, was president of Pahlavi University in Shiraz. During his presidency, the university became internationally known for its academic excellence .

In 1981, two years after the establishment of the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran, Mehr migrated to the United States. There he joined Boston University as Professor of International Relations.

Mehr died on 4 March 2018 at the age of 94.

Notes

References 
 Iranian.com 2003
 Vohuman.org

Other websites 
VoHuman: Farhang Mehr
Iranian.com: Farhang Mehr

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Girl (album)

Girl is the second studio album by American rapper and record producer Pharrell Williams. The album was released on March 3, 2014, through Williams' label i Am Other and Columbia Records. Girl was Williams' first studio album since his debut studio album, In My Mind (2006).

Reviews

Girl received generally positive reviews from critics.

Track listing

 Notes
 "Come Get It Bae" features uncredited vocals from Miley Cyrus and Tori Kelly.
 "Lost Queen" contains the hidden track "Freq".

References

2014 albums
Funk albums
R&B albums
Number 1 to Infinity

#1 to Infinity is the sixth compilation album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released by Sony Music Entertainment on May 15, 2015. It features Carey's eighteen U.S. number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. It also includes "Infinity", a new song written for the album.

Track listing

Notes
"I'll Be There" featuring Trey Lorenz is a cover originally performed by The Jackson 5
"Without You" is a cover originally performed by Badfinger
"Endless Love" with Luther Vandross is a cover originally performed by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross
"Against All Odds" with Westlife is a cover originally performed by Phil Collins
"Fantasy" is the Bad Boy Fantasy version. It also contains a sample of the Tom Tom Club's song "Genius of Love", written by Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Adrian Belew and Steven Stanley
"Honey" contains samples of "Hey DJ" by the World's Famous Supreme Team, written by Stephen Hague, and "The Body Rock" by the Treacherous Three, written by Bobby Robinson, Larry Price and Malcolm McLaren
"Heartbreaker" contains a sample of "Attack of the Name Game" by Stacy Lattisaw, written by Shirley Ellis and Lincoln Chase
"We Belong Together" contains samples of Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now", written by Bobby Womack, Patrick Moten and Sandra Sully, and The Deele's "Two Occasions", written by Darnell Bristol and Kenneth Edmonds

Charts

Release history

References

2015 albums
Mariah Carey albums
Pop albums
Gospel albums
R&B albums
Greatest hits albums
Il racconto della nonna

Il racconto della nonna (The Tale of the Grandmother) is a musical composition by Giulio Ricordi. Are the seven pieces for piano, is a look at the adult world of childhood, that a true collection of pieces for children.

Movements 

 I: Preambolo: C'era una volta
 II: Barcarola: Il lago!
 III: Danza fantastica: Le ondine
 IV: Tragedia: Il drago
 V: Preghiera: O mamma cara
 VI: Scherzo: Le lucciolette
 VII: Epilogo: Buona notte, piccini!

Discography 

 1935: Vladimir Horowitz - (EMI Classics)
 1948: Arthur Rubinstein - (RCA Victor)
 1952: Claudio Arrau - (Decca)
 1965: Vladimir Ashkenazy - (Decca)
 1971: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - (Deutsche Grammophon)
 1979: Maurizio Pollini - (Deutsche Grammophon)
 1983: Daniel Barenboim - (EMI Classics)
 2012: Roberto Piana - (Tactus)

Classical music
Solo piano pieces
Yoram Gross

Yoram Jerzy Gross  (18 October 1926 – 21 September 2015) was an Australian producer of children's and family entertainment. His company, Flying Bark Productions, is best known for producing the movies Dot and the Kangaroo (1977) and Blinky Bill (1992).

Gross was born in Kraków, Poland to Jewish parents. His brother was screenwriter, director and producer Natan Gross (1919–2005). In 1950, he moved to Israel. He later moved to Australia in 1968 with his wife and young family.

Gross died in 21 September 2015 in Sydney, New South Wales, aged 88.

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Australian movie producers
Holocaust survivors
Israeli businesspeople
Israeli Jews
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Naturalized citizens of Israel
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People from Kraków
Polish Jews
Television producers
Isaac Isaacs

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs  (6 June 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian judge and politician. He served as the Chief Justice of Australia from 2 April 1930 until 21 January 1931. He also served as the 9th, and first Australian-born, Governor-General from 21 January 1931 until 23 January 1936.

Isaacs was born in Melbourne, Victoria. His parents, German-born Alfred Isaacs and English-born Rebecca Abrahams, were Jewish immigrants. He was married to Deborah "Daisy" Jacobs () from 1888 until Isaacs' death. He had two daughters. He was strongly against Zionism.

Isaacs died after an illness on 11 February 1948 in South Yarra, Melbourne, aged 92. He was given a state funeral and was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery after a synagogue service.

References

Other websites

 Australian Dictionary of Biography: Isaac Alfred Isaacs

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Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Armen Movsisyan

Armen Movsisyan ; 13 January 1962 – 21 September 2015) was an Armenian politician. He was the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources from 18 April 2001 until 30 April 2014. He was born in Kapan.

Movsisyan died from cancer on 21 September 2015 in Germany, aged 53.

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Armenian politicians
Cancer deaths in Germany
Ahmed Mohamed clock incident

Ahmed Mohamed is a 14-year-old student who was arrested in Irving, Texas in September 2015. The arrest happened after a teacher, and later the police mistook a clock he had taken apart for a hoax bomb. His arrest caused a huge controversy.

US President Barack Obama invited him to The White House. President Obama and others complimented Mohamed for his inventive nature. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Hillary Rodham Clinton also gave him support.

His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, ran in the election for President of Sudan in 2010 and 2015. The elder Mohamed is the director of the Islamic Sufi Center in Texas.

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Islamophobia
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William Baker Rock

William Baker Rock (August 5, 1872 - June 27, 1922) was a vaudeville comedian and dancer. He was a partner with Maude Fulton in the vaudeville act of Rock and Fulton. He later was a partner  with Frances White (1898-1969) as Rock and White.

Biography
He was born on August 5, 1872 in Evansville, Indiana to William Beverly Rock and Matilda Baker. He married Jane Ryder on October 5, 1905 in Manhattan, New York City. He married Gladys Tilbury of Brighton, England. On July 6, 1921 he married Hiler Eby of Altoona, Pennsylvania. She appeared with him in Hitchy-Koo. On July 13, 1921 he was hospitalized and had one-third of his stomach removed. He died on June 27, 1922 at the National Stomach Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of cancer of the stomach. He was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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People from Evansville, Indiana
Library of Congress Control Number

The Library of Congress Control Number is a number given to an item in the Library of Congress. It is used to identify items in the Library's collection. Each number is issued as part of a series. It is not based on a classification system. The numbering system began in 1898, and it was called the Library of Congress Card Number.

The Library made cards for its library catalogue, and they also made cards which could be sold to other libraries. They introduced the number to identify the sets of cards.

Librarians around the world still use the number, especially when identifying books published in the United States.

The number has two parts; the first is a two digit number based on the year, and the second is the next number in the series, written as a six digit number. Since 2001, the year has been written as a four digit number.

Related pages
 International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

Publishing
Terry Jones (pastor)

Terry Jones (born October 1951) is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, a small nondenominational Christian church located, until July 2013, in Gainesville, Florida, USA. He is the President of a political group, Stand Up America Now. He is listed to be running for president in 2016. He ran in 2012, but lost. He and his church have received many death threats.

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1951 births
Living people
American Evangelicals
Christian ministers
Islamophobia
People from Missouri
2012 United States presidential candidates
2016 United States presidential candidates
Bright Lights (Matchbox Twenty song)

Bright Lights is the third Single from Matchbox Twenty's third album, More Than You Think You Are. The song proved to be a moderate hit for the band. It peaked at 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is written by lead singer Rob Thomas. It is about a girl who leaves her hometown looking for fame. Throughout the song, he lets the girl know she can come home if things don't work out.

Charts

References 

2003 songs
Unwell

Unwell is the second single from Matchbox Twenty's third album, More Than You Think You Are. It was written by Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas. It was very successful on the radio, and spent 20 weeks at the top of the U.S. Adult Top 40 charts. The song is about a person who claims to not be crazy even though they're suffering from various occurrences that could lead them to be labeled as such. Rob Thomas states on the live DVD "Show" that he wrote the song to be a metaphor for humanity in general, a song for people who are "fucked up and feel alone like that. We all feel a little fucked up sometimes... you're not alone." This song is a staple of adult contemporary stations even years after its release. The song also was the second most played song in the United States for 2003 according to Billboard.

2003 songs
Rock songs
Phyllis Tickle

Phyllis A. Tickle (March 12, 1934 – September 22, 2015) was an American writer and educator. Her main field was spirituality and religion issues. She was best known for writing The Divine Hours series of books. She was a member of the Episcopal Church and wrote around forty books. She started off serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly. Tickle had been quoted by many different media outlets, including Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, The History Channel, the BBC and VOA. 

Tickle was born in Johnson City, Tennessee. She married her husband Samuel Tickle, Sr. in 1955. He died on January 2, 2015. They had seven children.

Tickle died from lung cancer on September 22, 2015 in Millington, Tennessee. She was 81.

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1934 births
2015 deaths
American Christians
Educators from Tennessee
Cancer deaths in Tennessee
Deaths from lung cancer
Writers from Tennessee
Johnson City, Tennessee

Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is mostly in Washington County. The population is 71,046, making it the eighth largest city in Tennessee. During the American Civil War before 1869 the name of the town was briefly changed to "Haynesville" in honor of Confederate Senator Landon Carter Haynes.

Johnson City is the principal city of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, Tennessee–Virginia Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region. The CSA is the fifth-largest in Tennessee with an estimated 500,530 residents.

Economy

The popular citrus soda Mountain Dew traces its origins to Johnson City. In July 2012, PepsiCo announced a new flavored version of the drink named Mountain Dew Johnson City Gold in honor of the city. The drink was test marketed in the Chicago metropolitan area, Denver, and Charlotte, beginning in late August.

Colleges and universities
East Tennessee State University has around 16,000 students in addition to a K-12 University School, a laboratory school of about 540 students. University School was the first laboratory school in the nation to adopt a year-round academic schedule.

Milligan University is just outside the city limits in Carter County. It has about 1,200 students in undergraduate and graduate programs.

Northeast State Community College has renovated a building in downtown Johnson City for use as a new satellite teaching site.

Tusculum College is on the north side of Johnson City in the Boones Creek area.

References

Johnson City
Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Millington, Tennessee

Millington is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. As of 2010, 10,176 people live in Millington.

Millington
Washington Metro

The Washington Metro is a rapid transit system that serves the Washington, D.C. area in the United States. It has the second busiest rapid transit system in the United States. The New York City Subway is the busiest.

Lines 
There are six lines in this system:
Red Line, Opened 1976
Blue Line, Opened 1977
Orange Line, Opened 1978
Yellow Line, Opened 1983
Green Line, Opened 1991
Silver Line, Opened 2014

History
The first part of the metro system opened on March 27, 1976. The rail system was completed on January 13, 2001.

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Washington, D.C.
1976 establishments in the United States
Rapid transit systems in the United States
1970s establishments in Washington, D.C.
Brigham Young University–Idaho

Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho or BYU–I) is a private university in Rexburg, Idaho. It was founded in 1888. The university is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). BYU-Idaho changed from a junior college to a four-year university in 2001. For most of its history it was known as Ricks College.

BYU-Idaho offers programs in liberal arts including the sciences, engineering, agriculture, management, and performing arts. The university is organized into six colleges. Its parent organization, the Church Educational System (CES), sponsors sister schools in Utah and Hawaii. The university's focus is on undergraduate education. It offers 18 associate and over 70 bachelor's degree programs. BYU-Idaho operates using a three-semester system also known as "tracks".

Students at BYU-Idaho are required to follow an honor code. About 99 percent of the university's students are members of the LDS Church. A significant percentage of the student body take an 18- (women) or 24-month (men) break from their studies to serve as missionaries. A BYU-Idaho education is generally less expensive than similar private universities. This is due to a significant help by LDS Church tithing funds, helping keep tuition rates low.

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1888 establishments in the United States
1880s establishments in Idaho Territory
Firooz Bahram High School

Firooz Bahram High School () is one of Tehran's oldest high schools.

The architecture of the building belongs to Qajar era of Iran. It is a historical place of Tehran.

This school was built in 1932, on Zoroastrian land. The school was named after an Iranian Zoroastrian named Firooz. He died in the Mediterranean Sea in World War I.

The school's establishment was supported by Keikhosrow Shahrokh, the  Zoroastrian representative in Iranian Parliament.

Gallery

References

Buildings and structures in Iran
1932 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in Iran
Pakistan Super League

Pakistan Super League (PSL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket tournament in Pakistan. Organised by the Pakistan Cricket Board, the first season of PSL took place between February 4 and 24 in 2016. The tournament was held in the United Arab Emirates. The tournament has five franchise teams: Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Lahore Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators. Each playing side has a mixture of seven Pakistani players and four foreign players from around the world.

The fourth edition of the Pakistan Super League will take place in February / March 2019. The tournament is scheduled to start on February 14 2019 and the final would be held on March 17 2019.

The editions with the winning team are listed below:

Source: https://www.cricingif.com/news/26618/Pakistan-Super-League

References

Other websites

 Official website
 Pakistan Cricket Board

 
2016 establishments in Asia
2010s establishments in Pakistan
Yogi Berra

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American baseball catcher, manager, and coach. He played almost his entire career for the Major League Baseball (MLB) team New York Yankees (1946–1963). He played for the New York Mets in 1965, and also coached the team. He won a record 13 World Series, as a player and coach. 

He is said to be one of the best catchers in baseball history. He was added to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was well known for his quotes, including "It ain't over 'til it's over." Berra sued Hanna-Barbera for defamation over the character Yogi Bear, but later withdrew the lawsuit.

Berra was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were Italian immigrants. He married his wife Carmen on January 26, 1949. They had three sons, including Dale Berra. Carmen died from a stroke on March 6, 2014. She was 88 years old.

Berra died from natural causes on September 22, 2015 in West Caldwell, New Jersey, aged 90. His remains were cremated and later buried at a cemetery in New Jersey.

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2015 deaths
American League All-Stars
American military personnel of World War II
American Roman Catholics
Deaths from natural causes in the United States
New York Mets
Major League Baseball managers
New York Mets players
New York Yankees
New York Yankees players
National Baseball Hall of Fame members
Sportspeople from St. Louis, Missouri
Mike Gibson (sports journalist)

Mike Gibson (27 May 1940 – 23 September 2015), nicknamed "Gibbo", was an Australian sports journalist and television presenter. He was an original presenter of Nine's Wide World of Sports and hosted The Back Page on Fox Sports for 16 years. He retired in 2013.

Gibson was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He was married to his wife Helen from 1959 until their divorce in 1989. He had five children.

Gibson died on 23 September 2015 at his Central Coast home in New South Wales. He was 75. He had depression and his death was ruled a suicide.

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1940 births
2015 deaths
Australian journalists
Australian radio personalities
Australian television presenters
Columnists
People from Sydney
Suicides in Australia
Hermanns tortoises

The Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni ) is a small to medium size species of tortoise. They are native to southern Europe. They also live in nearby islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Their range is from Romania and Greece to southern Spain. About 25% of them live on the Italian Peninsula. 

Hermann's tortoises are a golden brown color. They have two dark stripes on their underside or belly. They usually have black markings. In size they range from  to  in length. Females are larger than males. They also become sexually mature sooner. Their diet includes leaves, flowers and fruit. It was a popular pet but are now a protected species.

References 

Turtles
University of Chieti-Pescara

Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio () is a public university in Chieti and Pescara, Italy. It was started in 1965.

References

Other websites
 Official website

Colleges and universities in Italy
1965 establishments in Europe
1960s establishments in Italy
James David Santini

James David Santini (August 13, 1937 – September 22, 2015) was an American politician. He served as a United States Representative from Nevada from 1975 through 1983.

Santini died on September 22, 2015, in Rockville, Maryland from esophageal cancer, aged 78.

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1937 births
2015 deaths
Lawyers from Nevada
American lobbyists
Deaths from esophageal cancer
United States representatives from Nevada
US Democratic Party politicians
Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa

Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Sánchez (1940 – 23 September 2015) was a Spanish theatre director, writer, actor and lecturer. He won the 2000 Goya Award for Best New Actor for his performance as Vecino.

Other websites
 

Goya Award winners
1940 births
2015 deaths
Spanish actors
Spanish writers
Spanish theatre directors
Peter Stormare

Peter Rolf Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish actor, theatre director, playwright, and musician. He is perhaps best known for playing Gaear Grimsrud in the 1996 movie Fargo. He is also well known for his role as John Abruzzi in the Fox series Prison Break.

Other websites

BlondeFromFargo.com

1953 births
Living people
Swedish movie actors
Swedish television actors
Swedish stage actors
Swedish voice actors
Until Dawn

Until Dawn is an interactive drama survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It was originally scheduled to be released on the PlayStation 3 and feature PlayStation Move support, but in August 2014, the game was reintroduced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, and was released worldwide in August 2015.

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Horror video games
Nancy Bernstein

Nancy Bernstein (1960 – September 18, 2015) was an American visual effects producer. She worked at Digital Domain and was later Head of Production at DreamWorks Animation. She produced the DreamWorks movie Rise of the Guardians (2012).

Bernstein died on September 18, 2015 in California, aged 55. She had colorectal cancer and was diagnosed in December 2011.

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1960 births
2015 deaths
American movie producers
Cancer deaths in California
Deaths from colorectal cancer
2015 Hajj stampede

On 24 September 2015, a human stampede happened in the neighbourhood of Mina in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. At least 769 people were killed and another 934 were injured. 1,014 people are missing. The victims were mostly foreign Muslims in Mecca for the annual Hajj.

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2015 in Asia
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Mecca
2010s in Saudi Arabia
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Al Seckel

Alfred Paul "Al" Seckel (September 3, 1958 – 2015) was an American writer and sceptic. He was best known for helping to make optical illusions popular worldwide. He wrote around twenty books between the 1980s and 2000s.

Seckle was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. His mother was composer Ruth Schönthal (1924–2006). He was of Jewish ancestry. He had one daughter, born in 1987. He was an atheist.

Seckle died in September 2015 near his home in France, aged 57.

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1958 births
2015 deaths
American atheists
Cancer survivors
Jewish American writers
Writers from New York City
People from New Rochelle, New York
Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel song)

"Cecilia" is a song by American folk rock duo, singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. The song was released in April 1970 as the third single from the group's fifth studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). The song was written by Paul Simon.  the song's origins lie in a late-night party. They got the rhythm when the duo and friends began slapping their thighs and drumming on a piano bench. They recorded the sound with a tape recorder, employing reverb and matching the rhythm created by the machine. Simon later wrote the song's guitar line and lyrics on the subject of an untrustworthy lover. Simon didn't remember what inspired him but he remembered Cecilia was the goddess of music.

Reception 

The song was a hit single in the United States, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. On the Cash Box Top 100, it reached number one.

"Cecilia" also did well in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain, where it reached number two, and also in Switzerland and Belgium, where it peaked at number three. The song has been the subject of numerous cover versions, most notably by the singer Suggs, whose version featured the  ragga duo, Louchie Lou & Michie One and reached number four in the United Kingdom in 1996. In Malawi the song is banned. The president of the country thought the song was offensive to his official hostess, Cecilia Tamanda Kadzamira.

Lyrics 
Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home
Come on home

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Up in my bedroom (making love)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed someone's taken my place

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home
Come on home

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba

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Other websites 
 Top 10 Simon & Garfunkel Songs

1970 songs
Rock songs
150 North Riverside

150 North Riverside Plaza is a high-rise building in Chicago.  The building is 54 stories tall.  The building occupies a two-acre site on the west bank of the Chicago River.

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River Point

200 North Riverside Plaza, also known as River Point, is a 52-story 730 ft. (213 m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. The 50 floor building has 92,900 m2 of floors space. It was developed by Hines and designed by Pickard Chilton. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the tower in January 2013.

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Skyscrapers in Chicago
Paul Volcker

Paul Adolph Volcker, Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist. He was Chair of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. 

He was widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. He was the chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under Barack Obama from February 2009 until January 2011.

In 2018, Volcker was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died on December 8, 2019 in New York City, aged 92.

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James Cross

James Richard "Jasper" Cross, CMG (29 September 1921 – 6 January 2021) was a British former diplomat in Canada. He was kidnapped by Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) militants during the October Crisis of October 1970.

On 5 October 1970, Cross was abducted at gunpoint from his British diplomatic residence at 1297 Redpath Crescent, in the Golden Square Mile district of Montreal, and held as a hostage for two months as the FLQ made a series of demands to the Quebec government. He was released on December 3 in exchange for safe passage for his abductors to Cuba.

Cross died on 6 January 2021 from COVID-19. He was 99.

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Elaine Tanner

Elaine Tanner-Watt, OC (born February 22, 1951) is a Canadian retired professional swimmer. She was a backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle swimmer. She was nicknamed "Mighty Mouse" because of her small height but also because of her competitive drive.

Career
Tanner competed for Canada at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. While there, she was able to win four gold medals and three silver medals. By doing this, she became the first woman to ever win four golds at a Commonwealth Games. In 1966, Tanner was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy for being Canada's top athlete. She became the youngest person to ever win the award. The same year, she also won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award for Canada's female athlete of the year.

In 1967, Tanner competed at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg. She won two gold medals and three silver medals at the games. She was also able to break two world records.

Tanner competed for Canada at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. She won two individual silver medals and one relay bronze medal. She suffered from depression and retired from competition after the 1968 Olympics at 18 years of age.

She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1969 and was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1971. Since 1972, the Elaine Tanner Award has been given to Canada’s top junior female athlete.

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Canadian Olympic team profile

1951 births
Canadian Olympic bronze medalists
Canadian Olympic silver medalists
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Sportspeople from Vancouver
Denis Sonet

Denis Sonet (1926 – 23 September 2015) was a French Catholic priest, chaplain, marriage counselor, and educator. He worked for the CLER Amour et Famille from 1969 until his death. He also wrote over thirty books and appeared in around five DVDs.

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Dragan Holcer

Dragan Holcer (19 January 1945 – 23 September 2015) was a Croatian football defender. He played for FK Radnički Niš, HNK Hajduk Split, VfB Stuttgart, FC Schalke 04 and the Yugoslavia national team.

Holcer was born in a Nazi prison camp in Zwiesel, Bavaria, Germany. His mother was Austrian-Italian and his father was Slovenian.

Holcer died on 23 September 2015 in Split, aged 70.

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Sannahed

Sannahed is a locality in Kumla Municipality in Örebro County in Sweden. In 2010, 417 people lived there.

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Hachikō

Hachikō (November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was an Akita dog. He is best known for his unusual loyalty. He remained a faithful pet for many years after his owner died.

Life 

The dog was born on a farm near the city of Ōdate in Akita Prefecture.

In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took Hachikō, a golden brown Akita as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The two kept their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not come back to the train station. The professor had died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Each day for the next nine years, nine months and fifteen days, Hachikō waited for Ueno's return. He showed up at the exact time the train was due at the station.

Other travellers begin to notice Hachikō still showing up. Many of the people had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno meet each afternoon. At first, people who worked at the station were not very friendly to the dog. But after a story was written about him in Asahi Shinbun, people started to bring Hachikō treats and food for him to eat while he waited.

Akitas in Japan 

In 1932 one of Ueno's students Hirokichi Saito (who had learned much about the Akita breed) saw the dog at the station. He followed him to the home of the former gardener of Professor Ueno—Kikuzaboro Kobayashi,  where he learned the history of Hachikō's life. Shortly after this meeting, the former student published a census of all the Akitas in Japan. His research found only 30 purebred Akitas still alive, including Hachikō from Shibuya Station.

Japanese culture 

Saito went back many times to visit Hachikō. Over the years he wrote several news stories about the dog's remarkable loyalty. In 1932 one of these stories, published in the Tokyo Asahi Shinbun, made Hachikō a national sensation.

His faithfulness to his master's memory meant a spirit of family loyalty for all Japanese people to achieve. Teachers and parents used Hachikō's devotional watching for his master as an example for children to follow. A well-known Japanese artist made a sculpture of the dog, and in Japan a new awareness of the Akita breed grew.

At last, Hachikō's legendary faithfulness became a national symbol of loyalty to the Emperor of Japan himself.

Death 

Hachikō died on March 8, 1935, and was found on a street in Shibuya.

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Other websites

  Site with numerous photos of the real Hachikō during his life, at the end of his life, of his beloved professor & of people who came to care for Hachikō.
 

1923 births
1935 deaths
Individual dogs
Japanese culture
Ellis Kaut

Elisabeth "Ellis" Kaut (17 November 1920 – 24 September 2015) was a German author of children's literature. She was best known for her creation of Pumuckl, an imp appearing in radio plays and TV series. She also published novellas and some illustrated books.

Life 
Kaut was born in Stuttgart, Germany. Her parents moved the family to Munich when she was two years old. In 1938, aged 18, Kaut was elected the first official Münchner Kindl for that year. In 1939 she married author Kurt Preis. She continuing to live in Munich. They had a daughter, Ursula, born in March 1945. Kaut received actor's training, then studied sculpting. From 1948 she was a freelance author. She also had some speaking parts in radio plays in the 1950s and 1960s. She supervised children's programmes at Bayerischer Rundfunk. She was also active as a painter and photographer. In a 2010 interview, Kaut said that writing was always hard work for her.

Kaut's husband died in 1991. Her last place of residence was in the district of Pasing in Munich. On 24 September 2015, aged 94, she died in a nursing home near Fürstenfeldbruck. She had been ill for a long time.

Honors and awards 
 1938: First 
 1955: Bayerischer Hörspielpreis
 1971: Schwabinger Kunstpreis
 1980: Cross of Merit 1st Class of Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 1980: Medal, München leuchtet
 1984: Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis
 1985: Bayerischer Verdienstorden
 1992: Bayerischer Poetentaler
 1999: Oberbayerischer Kulturpreis
 2001: Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum
 2002: Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille in silver

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 Ellis Kaut's website (German)
 
 

1920 births
2015 deaths
Disease-related deaths in Bavaria
German children's writers
German photographers
People from Munich
People from Stuttgart

Writers from Bavaria
Tony Goldwyn

Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and voice artist. His well-known roles include Carl Bruner in Ghost, Tarzan in Tarzan, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai and the President in the ABC political drama Scandal.

Early life
Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant, from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska.

Career
Following his departure from drama school, Goldwyn began acting in guest star roles in the mid-1980s. Goldwyn is well known for his portrayal of Carl Bruner, friend-turned-betrayer of Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat in Ghost. He is also well known for his turn on the comedy series Designing Women, in which he played a young interior designer named Kendall Dobbs, who was HIV positive and asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral. In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11.

Filmography

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Chemical potential

Chemical Potential Energy  is the energy stored up in substances due to their chemical bonds. It is energy that is stored in chemicals. One example of how this plays a part in real life is through plants. The plants make energy with chemical potential energy by the process of photosynthesis. Other organisms eat the plants to get energy and so on. Energy is passed from one organism to another. This is how chemical potential energy works in the environment. Another common example is the energy stored in gasoline. When the car is turned on, the chemical energy in the gas is converted into mechanical energy to move the car. The law of conservation of energy says energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form into another.

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Other websites  
 What is Chemical Energy? - Definition & Examples

Energy
Free Speech Flag

The Free Speech Flag is a symbol to promote freedom of speech. It was designed by artist John Marcotte. It was created on May 1, 2007, during a conflict on the Internet with the group AACS. AACS controlled a code to copy HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. The design of the flag and its colors correspond to that special code. It became popular on the Internet. It inspired other versions.

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DVD
Internet memes
Flags
Freedom
New York State Capitol

The New York State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of New York. The New York State Legislature meets in this building. The building is in the state's capital city, Albany. It is part of the Empire State Plaza on State Street in Capitol Park.

History
The building was completed in 1899. It cost $25 million. It was the most expensive government building of its time. The building is a mix of architectural styles. Because different architects were involved at different times, the building is a combination of Italian Renaissance and Romanesque architecture. It sits on a granite foundation. In addition to the State Assembly Chamber, it has the State Senate Chamber and the governor's office (also called the Red Room).

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The following year it was declared a National Historic Landmark.

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Albany, New York
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