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Jimmy Doolittle
Distinguished Flying Cross citations
2nd Citation: "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Distinguished Flying Cross to First Lieutenant (Air Service) James Harold Doolittle (ASN: 0-271855), U.S. Army Air Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight. During March 1924, at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, Lieutenant Doolittle, piloting a Fokker PW-7 pursuit airplane, performed a series of acceleration tests requiring skill, initiative, endurance, and courage of the highest type. In these test a recording accelerometer was mounted in the airplane and the accelerations taken for the following maneuvers. Loops at various air speeds; single and multiple barrel rolls; power spirals; tail spins; power on and power off; half loop, half roll, and immelman turn; Inverted flight; pulling out of dive at various air speeds; flying the airplane on a level course with considerable angle of bank; and flying in bumpy air. In these test the airplane was put through the most extreme maneuvers possible in order that the flight loads imposed upon the wings of the airplane under extreme conditions of sir combat might, be ascertained. These test were put through with that fine combination of fearlessness and skill which constitutes the essence of distinguished flying. Through them scientific data of great and permanent importance to the Air Corps were obtained."
3rd Citation: "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting a Second Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Third Distinguished Flying Cross to Colonel (Air Corps) James Harold Doolittle (ASN: 0-271855), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary achievement as Pilot of a B-25 Bomber and Commanding Officer of the 1st Special Aviation Project (Doolittle Raider Force), while participating in a highly destructive raid on the Japanese mainland on April 18, 1942. Colonel Doolittle with 79 other officers and enlisted men volunteered for this mission knowing full well that the chances of survival were extremely remote, and executed his part in it with great skill and daring. This achievement reflects high credit on himself and the military service."
Silver Star citation
"The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1948, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Major General (Air Corps) James Harold Doolittle (ASN: 0-271855), United States Army Air Forces, for gallantry in action. Since February 19, 1943, when he took command of the Allied Strategic Air Force (Northwest Africa), General Doolittle, by his untiring energy, initiative and personal example has inspired the units under him to renewed successful efforts against the enemy. On April 5, 1943, the strategic air force was responsible for the destruction of forty eight enemy planes in the air and approximately 100 on the ground. This extraordinary achievement under the leadership of General Doolittle reflects great credit to himself and the armed forces of the United States."
Other honors
Doolittle was also awarded the Bolivian Order of the Condor of the Andes, now in the collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
In April 1985, Doolittle was awarded a fourth star making him a full ranked general. He received the award from President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater.
Campbell Newman
Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) was the 38th Premier of Queensland. He is from the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He became Premier on 26 March 2012 after his party won the state election. Prior to that he was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011. At the Queensland state election on Saturday 31 January 2015, Newman lost his seat of Ashgrove to his predecessor Kate Jones. Newman will retire from politics after he lost his own parliamentary seat and on 14 February 2015, Annastacia Palaszczuk was sworn in as Premier.
Jimmy Doolittle
Other honors
The Society of Experimental Test Pilots annually presents the James H. Doolittle Award in his memory. The award is for "outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering achievement in aerospace technology".
The city of Doolittle, Missouri, located 5 miles west of Rolla was named in his honor after World War II.
Grey's crowned guenon
The Grey's crowned guenon (Cercopithecus pogonias grayi), also known as the crowned guenon, crowned monkey, golden-bellied guenon, or golden-bellied monkey, is a species of monkey. They are mainly found in Central Africa which includes countries like Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Mona monkeys get up to 1.5 ft in length and weigh 10 lb. The lifespan of the crowned guenon is 20 years in captivity. They feed on mostly fruit, leaves, shoots, insects, and crops.
Russ Mayberry
Russell "Russ" B. Mayberry (December 22, 1925 – July 27, 2012) was a Scottish-American television director who directed Dallas, Matlock, Star Trek: The Next Generation, I Dream of Jeannie, and Kojak.
Escambia County, Alabama
Escambia County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of 2020, 36,757 people lived there. Its county seat is Brewton.
History
Escambia County was formed after the American Civil War, on December 10, 1868. This was during the Reconstruction era. The name "Escambia" may come from the Creek name Shambia, meaning "clearwater", or the Choctaw word for "cane-brake" or "reed-brake".
Geography
According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 952.95 sqmi. 947.38 sqmi (or 99.42%) is land and 5.57 sqmi (or 0.58%) is water.
Christine Taylor
Christine Joan Taylor (born July 30, 1971 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) is an American actress and comedian. She played the character Marcia in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. She also starred in Party Girl, a television program based on the 1995 comedy of the same name.
Lionel Jeffries
Lionel Charles Jeffries (June 10, 1926 – February 19, 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter, and director who is known for his roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Camelot, The Railway Children, The Amazing Mr Bluden, First Men in the Moon, Two-Way Stretch, and The Trails of Oscar Wilde.
Early life and education
Jeffries was born on June 10, 1926 in Forest Hill, London, England. He studied at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. He was married to Eileen Mary Walsh from 1951 until his death in 2010. They had three children.
Christine Taylor
Taylor married actor Ben Stiller in 2000.
Lionel Jeffries
Death
Jeffries died on February 19, 2010 in Poole, Dorset, England from vascular dementia, aged 83.
Barak Valley
The Barak Valley (Bengali: বরাক উপত্যকা) (also South Assam) is located in the southern region of the Indian state of Assam. The main city of the valley is Silchar. The region is named after the Barak river. The Barak valley mainly consists of three administrative districts of Assam State - namely Cachar, Karimganj, and Hailakandi. Among these three states, Cachar and Hailakandi belonged to the erstwhile Cachar district in British-India, whereas Karimganj belonged to the Sylhet district. Karimganj was separated from Sylhet after the 1947 referendem; with the rest of Sylhet falling under East Pakistan and Karimganj under India.
Etymology
The name "Barak" has derived from the Dimasa words 'Bra' & 'Kro'. Bra means bifurcation and Kro upper portion/stream. The river Barak is bifurcated near Haritikar in the Karimganj district in to Surma River and Kushiyara River. The upstream of this bifurcated river was called Brakro by the local Dimasa people. Over the years, Brakro got converted in to Barak.
Bound (movie)
Bound is a 1996 American romantic crime thriller starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon as two bisexual women who plot to steal $2 million in Mafia money. Bound received positive reviews from critics who praised its humor and strong style and its portrayal of lesbian relationships in any mainstream motion picture. It was rated R in the United States and Australia for sexual content and intense violence. It was released October 4, 1996 in the United States.
Ashford & Simpson
Ashford & Simpson were an American R&B music duo who had a lot of hit singles dating to the mid 1960s and continuing through the early 1990s. The duo consisted of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Ashford was born May 4, 1941 and died due to throat cancer, August 22, 2011; Simpson was on August 26, 1946. Singers associated with Ashford & Simpson included Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.
Hearst Castle
Hearst Castle is a palatial complex in San Simeon, California that was commissioned by media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Hearst Castle consists of four dwellings; the main palace, Casa Grande, and three guest houses.
Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth are a Norwegian black metal band that are currently based in Bergen.
The band was formed in 1992 by guitarist Infernus after he made a "deal with the Devil". The name of the band comes from the dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings.
They released their debut album, Pentagram, on 12 October 1994.
Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress who has starred in lots of movies, including Hello I Must be Going, But I'm a Cheerleader and Heavenly Creatures. She was in the sitcom Two and a Half Men and in other television programs. She was born in New Plymouth.
Tenant
A tenant is a person who occupies a building or land - real estate- like an apartment, house or commercial property, especially if the occupants only lease or rent the unit.
Visidela
Visidela (The Fishing Net) (විසිදෑල) is a 1997 Sri Lankan romantic drama movie directed by H.D. Premaratne and starring W. Jayasiri, Anusha Sonali, Jackson Anthony, Daya Thennakoon, Daya Alwis, Robin Fernando, Mahendra Perera.
Powys Castle
Powys Castle (or Powis Castle or Welsh: Castell Coch) is a mediaeval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near the town of Welshpool, in Powys, Mid Wales. It is the residence of the Earl of Powis. The castle is built of sandstone. The rock is from New Red Sandstone of the Permian or Triassic periods.
The castle has extensive, attractive formal gardens, terraces, parkland, deerpark and landscaped estate. The property is under the care of the National Trust, who operate it under the name "Powis Castle and Garden". Queen Victoria visited the castle during her tour through England and Wales in 1832.
Mash-up
A mash-up is when a musician performs two or more songs as a single composition. Some mashups are called "remixes" or sometimes indirectly called "duets" if sung by two musicians. In popular music, some musicians sing two cover versions and blend them together (transformation) into a new song.
Immortal (band)
Immortal are a Norwegian black metal band that are currently based in Bergen.
The band was formed in 1990 by vocalist Abbath Doom Occulta and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta after the bands Old Funeral and Amputation disbanded and members from both of the bands joined together to make Immortal. Immortal disbanded in 2003 because of personal reasons but they reunited in 2006.
They released their debut album, Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, on 1 July 1992.
Louis de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (nicknamed the Angel of Death) was an important person in the French revolution and the Reign of Terror. He worked closely with Robespierre. He was born August 25, 1767, Decize, France and died on July 28, 1794, Paris to the Guillotine. Saint-Just reputedly accepted his death with coolness and pride.
Sister Sledge
Sister Sledge is an American R&B and pop music group. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1971. They have had several hit singles. Their hits are We are Family, Frankie and He's the Greatest Dancer. Their names are Kim, Kathy, Joni and Debbie. Sledge is their actual last name. The original identity of the group was "Mrs. Williams Grandchildren", though it was later changed to the current name "Sister Sledge". They were especially popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Subplot
A subplot, sometimes called a "B story" or a "C story", is a secondary plot that sometimes has to do with the main story. Subplots may connect to main plots, in either time and place. Subplots often involve supporting characters, those besides the protagonist or antagonist.
Chris Colfer
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Niels of Denmark
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Völs am Schlern
Völs am Schlern is a municipality in South Tyrol in northern Italy. It is about 12 km east of Bolzano.
Go, Dog. Go!
'Go, Dog. Go!' is a 1961 children's book by P. D. Eastman. It was later made into a series of the same name from Netflix.
Rohama Tehsil
Rafiabad or Rohama (تحصیل رفیآباد) is a subdistrict of the Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis (born on May 12, 1970, New York) is an American actress who has acted in lots of movies. In particular, she acted in The American President, Broken Arrow and Little Women. She also starred in some television programs.
Secondary suite
An accessory dwelling unit, guest house, inlaw apartment, guest cottage\cabin or granny flat is a house or apartment on the same land lot as a larger, main house. Such units are usually occupied by the owner's immediate family or overnight guests, sometimes, they may be home to domestic servants or non-related tenants in areas where zoning allows it.
Peter Breck
Joseph Peter Breck (March 13, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American actor and personality who is known for his roles in The Big Valley, Shock Corridor, Black Saddle, The Beatniks, and in the Crawling Hand.
Breck was born on March 13, 1929 in Rochester, New York. He was raised in Houston, Texas. He studied at the University of Houston. Breck was married to Diana Breck from 1960 until his death in 2012. They had one son, Christopher. Breck died on February 6, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from dementia, aged 82.
New Red Sandstone
The New Red Sandstone is a sandstone rock in Britain and elsewhere. It was laid down in desert conditions from the Permian (280 million years ago) to the beginning of the Triassic (240 million years ago). It underlies the Jurassic Lias, which are marine rocks such as the Blue Lias.
The term distinguishes it from the Old Red Sandstone, which is largely Devonian in age. The New Red Sandstone is much brighter and redder in colour than the Old Red Sandstone, as the examples show. The colour is caused by iron oxides in the rock.
the red sand stone was formed from 416 million to 359.2 million years ago. it was washed up on the beach
Tony Lip
Tony Lip (Frank Anthony Vallelonga; July 30, 1930 – January 4, 2013) was an American actor who was known for his roles in The Sopranos, Raging Bull, The Godfather, Goodfellas, and in Law & Order.
Lip was born on July 30, 1930 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He was raised in The Bronx, New York. He was married to Dolores Lip until her death in 1999. They had three sons. Lip died on January 4, 2013 in Teaneck, New Jersey from an illness, aged 82.
Jimmy Fallon
James Thomas Fallon (born September 19, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. Fallon has been the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014. He was the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He was a cast member of Saturday Night Live and has also hosted that show.
On April 3, 2013, NBC announced that Fallon would be the new host of The Tonight Show, beginning at the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Personal life
Fallon was born on September 19, 1974 in the Bay Ridge neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in Saugerties, New York. He studied at The College of Saint Rose. Fallon married Nancy Juvonen in 2007.
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti (8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was one of the most important people in 20th century Italian literature.
Modern Inventions
Modern Inventions is a 1937 American comic science fiction animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists.
Ayub K. Ommaya
Ayub K. Ommaya or Ayub Khan Ommaya (1930-2008) was a famous Pakistani neurosurgeon settled in the USA. He is especially well known for being the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir, which is a method to help cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatment.
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a French doctor and journalist famous for writing about the French revolution and encouraging the Reign of Terror.
Modern Inventions
Home media
It was also released on VHS is 1985 on Cartoon Classics: The Continuing Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale Featuring Donald Duck.
Ayub K. Ommaya
Ommaya was born in Mian Channu Tehsil, British India, now Pakistan, in 1930. He moved to Oxford, England in 1956. He then moved to the United States in 1961. Later, following illness, he moved to Islamabad, Pakistan with his wife in 2005. He died there in 2008.
Jean-Paul Marat
Death
He was stabbed to death in Paris by Charlotte Corday, an act made famous in a painting by Jacques-Louis David. Corday was executed 4 days later after the assassination.
Internal conflict in Myanmar
The internal conflict in Myanmar refers to fighting between government soldiers and rebels in Myanmar, which began shortly after the country, formerly known as Burma, separated from the United Kingdom in 1948. The government of Myanmar has fought different rebel groups from different ethnic minorities. The cause of the conflict is the government's refusal to give minority groups such as the communists and the Karen people the amount of political representation that they want. Since the beginning of the fighting, hundreds of thousands of civilians in Myanmar have been killed and millions have become refugees.
Don Donald
Don Donald is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was released by United Artists.
Releases
Source:
Home media
The short was released on May 18, 2004 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.
Additional releases include:
RuPaul's Drag U
RuPaul's Drag U (as in "Drag University") is an American reality television series. It debuted July 19, 2010, on Logo TV. Its final episode aired in August 2012. It was hosted by RuPaul and a team of drag queen "professors". Drag U was a spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race. RuPaul confirmed on May 8, 2013 via Twitter that the series had been cancelled.
Michelle Dockery
Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981 in London) is an English television actress who began with the television program Fingersmith around 2005. She is strongly known for playing Lady Mary Crawley in the television drama series Downtown Abbey. Dockery is also a singer.
RuPaul's Drag U
Cast
Contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race appear on RuPaul's Drag U as professors.
Richard Crafus
Richard Crafus, known as King Dick (c. 1783 - c.  1835), was an American imprisoned by the British in Dartmoor Prison during the War of 1812. King Dick was a privateer who had been captured during the war. Although the prison held non-Americans, these were released around the end of the war. The Americans were held longer. In the prison, this tall African-American became the leader of black inmates after the white Americans successfully petitioned the prison administration for segregation. The prison division that King Dick led was Prison Number Four. According to memoirs written by white inmates, he ruled strictly and fairly. This meant that life in Prison Number Four more desirable than elsewhere in Dartmoor Prison. Because King Dick allowed whites to transfer to Number Four, many whites did so. In 1815, the British released the American prisoners of war.
Apparently, Crafus went to Boston. In that city, an African-American named King Dick taught boxing from 1826 through 1835. He also served as an auxiliary on the police department. "He led an annual procession around Boston Common on Election Day, after which he gave a patriotic speech."
Physical description
King Dick was at least six foot three, whereas the average height in the prison was only five foot six. He was "physically powerful and a masterful bare-knuckle boxer. He wore a bearskin grenadiers’ cap as a symbol of his authority."
Death
"Richard Crafus probably died around 1835."
Francesca Capaldi
Francesca Angelucci Capaldi (born June 8, 2004) is an American actress. She is best know as a child actress for her role of Chloe James in the Disney Channel television series, Dog with a Blog.
Pieter de Grebber
Pieter de Grebber (around 1600 – 1652 or 1653 in Haarlem) was a Dutch painter. He was the oldest son of Frans Pietersz de Grebber. He learned how to paint from his father, and from Hendrik Goltzius.
Biltmore Estate
Biltmore Mansion, also called Biltmore House or the Biltmore Estate is a 175,000 square foot/17400 square meter palatial mansion in Asheville, North Carolina and the largest privately owned dwelling in the US. It's spread over seven levels and features an indoor winter garden/conservatory, 43 bathrooms (in an age where most people didn't even have one bathroom), 35 bedrooms, a Halloween-themed room, indoor swimming pool, and a two lane bowling alley, among other great amenities. Biltmore Mansion also has an intercom system for summoning domestic servants, and was one of the first residences in America to have electricity and running water. The house and surrounding estate was built for George Washington Vanderbilt 2.
Barbara Werle
Barbara May Theresa Werle (October 6, 1928 – January 1, 2013) was an American actress who was known for her roles in The Ed Sullivan Show, Krakotoa: East of Java, Battle of the Buldge, and in Charro.
Werle was born on October 6, 1928 in Mount Vernon, New York. She studied at a Catholic High School in New York. She was raised in Los Angeles, California. Werle had one son. Werle died on January 1, 2013 in Carlsbad, California from natural causes, aged 84.
Death
She died at age 84 on January 1, 2013.
Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo (born September 14, 1960 in Manhattan, New York) is an American movie and television actress. She acted in the television series All My Children (2011) and in the movie Oblivion (2013). She won the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2011, for the movie The Fighter (2010).
Lembah Subang LRT station
Lembah Subang LRT station is a train station in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Ragout
The term ragout refers to a main-dish stew of meat, poultry, fish or vegetables. It uses "well-seasoned meat and vegetables cooked in a thick sauce". A typical sauce to use would be roux.
Etymology
The word is from the French ragoût. The term comes from the French ragoûter, meaning: "to revive the taste". The related word Italian ragù is a sauce, such as Ragù Napoletano. It is used to dress pasta.
Preparation
The basic method of preparation involves slow cooking over a low heat. The main ingredients are many; ragouts may be prepared with or without meat, a wide variety of vegetables may be incorporated, and they may be more or less heavily spiced and seasoned.
Retinal migraine
Retinal migraine (also known as ophthalmic migraines, or ocular migraines) is a medical condition that affects the eyes by causing vision loss in one eye for less than 1 hour, usually for about 10–20 minutes. When these retinal migraines happen they can also cause a headache, either a diffuse headache which is a headache that causes pain which is spread out and hurts a person's whole head, or, a unilateral headache, which is a headache that causes pain on one side of a persons head either, the left side or the right side.
S.A. (corporation)
S.A or SA designates a type of limited company in certain countries, most of which have a Romance language as their official language and employ civil law. As with bearer bonds, anonymous unregistered share ownership and dividend collection enabled money laundering, tax evasion, and concealed business transactions in general, so governments passed laws to audit the practice. Nowadays, shareholders of S.A.s are not anonymous, though shares can still be held by a holding company in order to obscure the beneficiary.
Retinal migraine
It is believed retinal migraines are caused by vasospasms of the blood vessels of the eye in the area of the retina. The retina is at the back of the inside of the eye. In medicine a spasm is a sudden constriction or tightening of muscles that is involuntary - a person does not control them they move on their own. Muscle spasms can happen in different muscles of the body, like when a person's leg or eye twitches. The twitching is caused by the spasms.
Vaso- means something to do with the blood vessels, so a vasospasm causes the muscle cells inside the walls of a blood vessel to suddenly constrict or tighten up. This causes the whole blood vessel to constrict which means makes the blood vessel narrower. When a blood vessel constricts it is called vasoconstriction.
Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
The Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina); or colloquially San Andrés y Providencia is one of the departments of Colombia. It consists of two island groups about 775 km northwest of Colombia and 220 km from the coast of Nicaragua, and eight outlying banks and reefs. Its capital is San Andrés.
Retinal migraine
When vasoconstriction happens less blood the normal is able to flow through the blood vessel, like the way squeezing (constricting) a garden hose makes less water come out. Vasoconstriction can happen for different reasons including because of a medical problem.
Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
In 2005, about 65.000 people lived on San Andrès, and about 5.000 on Providencia. About 200 lived on Santa Catalina, which lies right next to Providencia.
Retinal migraine
The vasoconstriction and vasodilation complete one spasm. Spasms often happen many times over and over again. It is beleved that the muscle cells tigntening and loosenening may trigger the pain of a retinal migraine.
Bailee Madison
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Parliament of Montenegro
The Parliament of Montenegro is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, with each member elected to a four-year term. Members of the house are elected using proportional representation. The first parliament was created in 1906.
Pamela Sue Martin
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David Suchet
Sir David Suchet CBE (born 2 May 1946 in London) is an English actor. He mainly works on British television. He has been in many films over the years. He is perhaps best known for playing Hercule Poirot in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot. He has made a film version of almost all of the books by Agatha Christie.
He started his career in theatre. In 1974 he joined the famous Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 2010 he was made a Commander of the same order.
Edogawa, Tokyo
The municipality calls itself "Edogawa City" in English.
Geography
Edogawa is in eastern Tokyo. It borders Tokyo Bay on the south. Kōtō and Sumida are on the west. Katsushika is on the northwestern border. On the east, the ward shares boundaries with the cities of Urayasu, Ichikawa and Matsudo in Chiba Prefecture.
Scinax hayii
Hay's snouted tree frog (Scinax hayii) is a frog that lives in Brazil.
The adult male frog is 28.7–35.1 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 34.2–38.6. Its skin is pale green or brown with darker brown or darker green marks. There is webbing on the back feet but not on the front feet.
This frog lives in trees in primary forest and secondary forest.
Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Gail Franklin (January 6, 1944 – March 1, 2013) was an American actress. She worked mostly on television. She starred in the situation comedy One Day at a Time.
Franklin's father was Russian; her mother was Romanian.
Chūō, Tokyo
Chūō (中央区) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan.
The municipality calls itself "Chūō City" in English.
History
On March 15, 1947, the ward was formed by combining the wards of Kyōbashi and Nihonbashi.
Geography
Chūō is in central Tokyo. It borders Tokyo Bay on the south. Minato is on the ward's southwestern border. Chiyoda is on the northwestern border. Sumida and Kōtō are on the east.
In area, Chūō is the second-smallest ward in Tokyo. Only Taitō is smaller.
Pedro López (serial killer)
Pedro Alonso López (born 8 October 1948) is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist. He murdered about 110 young girls from 1969 to 1980 and claimed to have murdered over 300 victims across Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. He was released from a Colombian asylum in 1998.
López became known as the Monster of the Andes in 1980, when he led police to 53 graves in Ecuador. The victims were all girls between 9 and 12 years of age. In 1983, he was found guilty of the murder of 110 girls in Ecuador. He further confessed to another 240 murders in Peru and Colombia.
Judy Henske
Judith Anne Henske (December 20, 1936 – April 27, 2022) was an American folk singer-songwriter. Her 1963 recording of "High Flying Bird" was a well known folk-rock song. Her 1969 album Farewell Aldebaran was very popular.
Henske died on April 27, 2022 from a long-illness in Los Angeles, California at the age of 85.
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime drama movie directed by Quentin Tarantino set in Los Angeles. It is based on a book by Elmore Leonard. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Robert Forster, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton, Sid Haig and Bridget Fonda with Michael Keaton. It opened in theaters on December 25, 1997 in the United States. It is almost 154 minutes long. It was distributed by Miramax.
Kōji Omi
Kōji Omi (尾身 幸次) was a Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician. He was the Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Shinzō Abe, from 2001 to 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 until 2009. Omi was born in Numata, Japan.
Omi died on 14 April 2022 from pneumonia in Tokyo, Japan at the age of 89.
George Andrew Davis Jr.
George Andrew Davis, Jr. (December 1, 1920 – February 10, 1952) was a highly decorated flying ace of the United States (US) Army in World War II. He was later part of the US Air Force during the Korean War. Davis rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in "MiG Alley" during the war. He was the only flying ace of the United States to be killed in action in Korea.
With a total of 21 victories he is one of only seven US military pilots to become an ace in two wars. He is also one of only 31 to be credited more than 20 victories. He was the fourth highest scoring ace of the Korean War.
Biography
George Andrew Davis Jr. was born in Dublin, Texas on December 1, 1920. He was the seventh of nine children born to George Davis Sr. and Pearl Love Davis. In his childhood, Davis briefly lived in Maple, Texas. Davis attended Morton High School in Morton, Texas. Davis then attended Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas. After completing a degree he returned to Texas. He took up farming for a time with his family before eventually deciding to join the military.
Aerial victory credits
Throughout his career, Davis was credited with 21 confirmed victories, 1 probable victory and 2 aircraft damaged. This made him one of only 30 US pilots to gain more than 20 confirmed victories over their careers. He had been known to be an extremely talented pilot and was especially accurate at deflection shooting, even from long distances against moving targets. Davis was one of 1,297 World War II aces from the United States, with seven confirmed kills during that war. He later became one of 41 Korean War aces from the United States, with 14 confirmed victories during that war. At the time of his death he was the top-scoring ace from the US, making him the ace of aces. By the end of the war, he was the fourth-highest scoring ace.
Medal of Honor citation
Davis was the third of four members of the US Air Force to be awarded the Medal of Honor in the war, after Louis J. Sebille, John S. Walmsley Jr. and before Charles J. Loring Jr. All four Air Force recipients were pilots and all were awarded the medal posthumously.
Isthmohyla pictipes
The Pico Blanco tree frog (Isthmohyla pictipes) is a frog that lives in Costa Rica. It lives in three places, all between 1920 and 2770 meters above sea level.
105
Year 105 (CV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Candidus and Iulius (or, less commonly, year 858 Ab urbe condita). Writing 105 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the normal method in Europe for naming years.
Fukushima
Fukushima (福島) may refer to:
Self Control (movie)
Self Control is a 1938 animated short featuring Donald Duck. It was created in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released in theaters on February 11, 1938, by RKO Radio Pictures. Self Control follows Donald trying to learn to control his temper by following the advice of a radio program.
Production
Self Control was directed by Jack King, It includes the voice of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Florence Gill as the clucking voice of a chicken. The voice of Uncle Smiley is not credited.
Home media
The short was released on May 18, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.
Dritan Abazović
Dritan Abazović (Cyrillic: Дритан Абазовић; born 25 December 1985) is a Montenegrin politician. He is the prime minister of Montenegro since 28 April 2022. He is the leader of the United Reform Action party. He was deputy prime minister in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić from 2020 until 2022.
In August 2022, a motion of no confidence against Abazović was passed in the Parliament of Montenegro, after a dispute with his coalition government over an agreement the government signed with the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Contrary Condor
Contrary Condor or Donald Duck and the Egghunt or Donald Duck at the Egg Collector is a 1944 Donald Duck short film by Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures.
Plot
The short opens on a map, with footprints belonging to Donald trailing across the border of North America to South America, making a trail through the Andes. Donald is seen climbing up a vertical side of the mountain with plungers on his feet, yodeling as he goes. He sees the nest, and quickly reaches the top, ready to take an egg from a condor. One condor hatchling has already hatched and starts squawking at Donald’s arrival, but Donald just tells the hatchling to shut up and shoves him back into his egg shell. When he spots Mother Condor flying overhead, Donald hides the other egg and hides in the other hatching’s shell, kicking the baby condor out. The mother lands and decides to sit on the egg in which Donald is hiding. The warmth she provides is almost too much for Donald, and he sweats profusely. The egg suddenly starts to crack, and he is nearly crushed by the condor. Thinking quickly, Donald decides to pretend he’s a condor. The mother is convinced, and gives Donald a hug, much to the surprise of the other hatchling.Mother Condor then sends her hatchlings off to learn how to fly. The hatchling pushes Donald off the tree branch, but he manages to hold on when his clothes catch a branch nearby, although he is not so lucky when a passing storm cloud starts to shower all over him. Mother Condor tries to teach Donald to fly, but Donald looks down and gets dizzy. He tries to slip away, but is spotted and brought back. Donald manages to convince her that he has a bum wing, and she starts cradling him. The hatchling gets jealous, and starts squawking for attention. Having had enough, he sends Donald flying into the air and he lands on a branch nearby. Trying to get out of his situation once and for all, Donald rigs up a decoy using branches and leaves, and sends it hurtling to the river below. Although Mother Condor tries to save her “hatchling,” she believes it to be too late when it falls into the river, and she starts sobbing on the nearby bank. Donald then takes the other condor egg, thinking himself victorious, but the other hatchling steals it from him. Donald takes it back, but falls down into the river, holding the egg protectively. Relieved to see him still alive, Mother Condor gathers Donald and the egg into her arms and coddles them. That night, egg, Donald, hatchling, and Mother Condor are nestled together, while Donald mutters angrily under his breath.
Flag of Prague
The flag of Prague, officially the flag of the capital city of Prague is one of the symbols of Prague.
Elsa Papadimitriou
Elsa Papadimitriou (Έλσα Παπαδημητρίου; 16 February 1942 – 17 March 2022) was a Greek politician. She was a member of the New Democracy party. She was in the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 2011.
Papadimitriou died in Athens, Greece on 17 March 2022 at the age of 80.
Sea Ranch, California
Sea Ranch is an unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States. 1,305 people lived there at the 2010 census.
Huamantla
Huamantla is a small city in Huamantla Municipality in the eastern half of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.
Pawon
Pawon (Candi Pawon) is a Buddhist temple built in the 8 to 9-centuries during Sailendra dynasty and located 1.75 km east of Borobudur temple in Java, Indonesia. Candi Pawon, Candi Mendut and candi Borobudur form a straight line geographically to symbolize binding unity of Buddhist temples during its ritual ceremonies.
Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier is a 1992 science fiction and action drama movie. The main star is Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dolph Lundgren also stars. This science fiction/action drama was released with strong box office revenues. The critics, however, gave negative reviews.
Julia (programming language)
Julia is a high-performance programming language, which is also meant to be easy (was considered a contradictory goal before), originally made with technical computing or with science in mind (like MATLAB), but it's a fully general-purpose language similar to e.g. Python, can be used for e.g. web development to building artificial intelligence.
Julia is a high-level language, which means a programmer can focus on what to do, but does not require knowledge of computer hardware. Writing programs in Julia takes less time than in some other languages.
Some state-of-the-art software has already been written in Julia, because it's considered easier to do then in the other popular languages. Some of it can also be used from other languages like Python or R. Julia was designed to be unusually easy to work with other languages, i.e. to benefit from code already written in other languages, to "reuse" their code.
Julia drew inspiration from other programming languages like Python, MATLAB, R, Ruby, Perl, Mathematica, Lisp, and C.
Julia works on the Raspberry Pi computer, i.e. is supported in Raspbian.
Some technical details
Julia is a high-level, high-performance, dynamic programming language. While it is a general-purpose language and can be used to write any application, many of its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science.
Distinctive aspects of Julia's design include multiple dispatch as its core programming paradigm. Julia supports concurrent, (composable) parallel and distributed computing. Julia uses a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, as Julia compiles code to machine code before running it.
Julia supports calling C (and also e.g. Fortran or Rust) without glue code, using the keyword. But it's also possible to call e.g. C++, Python, Java, MATLAB and R with help of Julia libraries for that purpose, and it's also possible to use those languages to call Julia, to reuse Julia libraries (that some of are state-of-the-art, such as SciML, made for scientific machine learning, which includes e.g. that DifferentialEquations.jl package).
Ommaya reservoir
The Ommaya reservoir is an invention by Dr Ayub K. Ommaya, a famous neurosurgeon. During surgery a catheter - a thin tube - is placed into one of the ventricles of the brain. The catheter is attached to a reservoir right under the scalp.
100 Landscapes of Japan (Heisei period)
The 100 Landscapes of Japan (日本百景) is a list of famous scenic sites in Japan. This list was developed during the reign of the current emperor.
Ommaya reservoir
The Ommaya reservoir can be used for a few different things:
100 Landscapes of Japan (Heisei period)
The top three are Mount Fuji, Shosenkyo gorge in Yamanashi Prefecture, and Shiretoko in Hokkaido.
History
The Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun supported the selection process during 1927.
In 2009, the Yomiuri Shimbun sponsored an update. The newspaper and its readers selected the "100 Landscapes of Heisei" (平成百景). This new selection was supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Three hundred sites were nominated and more than 640,000 votes were collected during the polling process.
New Braunfels Independent School District
New Braunfels Independent School District (NBISD for short) is a public school district in New Braunfels, Texas.
Aosta
Aosta (Aosta, Aoste) is a city in northern Italy. It is the capital city of the Valle d'Aosta (Vallée d'Aoste) region. It is roughly in the middle of the region, along the Dora Baltea (Doire baltée), the main river that flows in the valley. It is at 583 m above sea level. Around the city there are many mountains (the Alps).
Romans conquered the area in 25 BC. Later, the city was conquered by the Frankish Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Finally, it went under control of the House of Savoy in the 11th century. Many Roman buildings still survive in the city, like the east and south gates. The basic plan of the city, with rectangular blocks of streets, is Roman.
History
The valley of Aosta is a typical alpine valley, cut into a V-shape by glaciers during the ice age. It runs from an upper part near Mont Blanc to lower areas like the city of Aosta.
The area has been Roman, French and Italian (House of Savoy) before the unification of Italy. All street names are in French and Italian, and dialects of French are still spoken by many.
Roman Aosta
The Romans defeated the local Salassi tribe in 25 BC. Their commander, Marcus Terentius Varro, then founded the Roman colony of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, housing 3,000 retired veterans.
After 11 BC Aosta became the capital of the Alpes Graies ("Grey Alps") province of the Empire.
Significance
The valley was a way for trade and soldiers to get from Italy to Gaul (later, France). This explains its importance to the Romans. Now it sits near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
At present Aosta Valley is a semi-autonomous region in northwestern Italy. It is the smallest region in Italy, and is not divided into provinces.
Aostan
Aostan French (français valdôtain) is the variety of French spoken in the Aosta Valley, where many speak some form of French. Some expressions, words and phrase constructions are different from standard French; some are similar to Swiss French. Some words come from the Piedmontese language or Italian. Both modern French and Italian mix with this local patois, valdôtain, which is Franco-Provençal in type.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha N. Tyler (born September 18, 1970 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor, writer, comedian and television host. She attended Dartmouth College studying political science. She then began as an advertising executive before becoming a Stand-up comedian in the mid-1990s. She was the host of Talk Soup. She was a cast member for two years in Friends. Tyler then played Andrea on Ghost Whisperer. She is a co-host on the daytime talk show The Talk.
Yuri Vechkasov
Yuri Ivanovich Vechkasov (Юрий Иванович Вечкасов; 6 June 1948 – 17 March 2022) was a Russian politician. He was in the Federation Council from 1996 to 2001.
Jean-Claude Fruteau
Jean-Claude Fruteau (6 June 1947 – 28 April 2022) was a French politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer" from 1999 to 2007. He was a member of the Socialist Party, which was part of the Party of European Socialists. Fruteau was a member of the National Assembly from 2007 until 2017. He was also Mayor of Saint-Benoît, Réunion from 2008 until his death.
Fruteau died on 28 April 2022 at the age of 74.
Yuxisaurus
Yuxisaurus is an extinct genus of basal armoured (thyreophoran) dinosaurs. Its remains were found in the Lower Jurassic of southwestern China. The type species is Yuxisaurus kopchicki. The find was in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China. The holotype of the taxon, CVEB 21701, is a partial skeleton including parts of the skull and at least 120 osteoderms.
Robin Tunney
Robin Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is known for her movie roles in Empire Records (1995) and The Craft (1996). She also played Veronica Donovan on Prison Break (2005–2006) and Teresa Lisbon on the television series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
She is a cousin of Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney.
Robert B. Parker
Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser.
Parker died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 18, 2010 a the age of 77.
Students' union
A student's union is a college or university level union advocating for student members.
The Lego Movie
The LEGO Movie is a 2014 Warner Bros animated comedy adventure movie. The movie was released on February 7, 2014.
Based on the Lego line of construction toys, the movie tells the story of an ordinary Lego mini-figure prophesied to save the Lego universe from the tyrannical Lord Business, who plans to use the Kragle to end the world.