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Wilko Johnson
Johnson was featured in the first and second seasons of the HBO series Game of Thrones. He played a mute executioner named Ilyn Payne.
In January 2013, he was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He chose not to receive any chemotherapy. He said in an interview with John Wilson on the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row that the doctors told him he only had nine or ten months to live. He also said during the interview that he was going to do a "farewell tour" of the UK set for March. When he finished his tour, he announced that he was going to spend his final days recording a farewell album with Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who.
In October 2014, Johnson announced he was cancer free. Johnson died on 21 November 2022, at his home in Westcliff-on-Sea, at the age of 75. Following the announcement of Johnson's death, Billy Bragg said, "His guitar playing was angry and angular, but his presence – twitchy, confrontational, out of control – was something we'd never beheld before in UK pop. Rotten, Strummer and Weller learned a lot from his edgy demeanour." Alex Kapranos, lead singer of Franz Ferdinand said, "His unique, wired playing & stage presence thrilled & inspired many guitarists, myself included." Broadcaster Bob Harris said "Wilko was absolutely unique. His energy and spirit were incredible."
Palm reading
Palm reading or chiromancy is when a fortune teller tells you your future by looking at lines on your palm. Those who practice chiromancy are generally called palmists, hand readers.
Quim
Quim (born 13 November 1975) is a Portuguese football player. He plays for Benfica.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Hidenori Tabata
Hidenori Tabata (born 15 August 1970) is a former Japanese football player.
Batatais (footballer)
Algisto Lorenzato (May 20, 1910 – July 16, 1960), is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
Voiced palatal affricate
The voiced palatal affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but it is in Albanian.
Ingvar Cronhammar
Ingvar Cronhammar (17 December 1947 – 20 May 2021) was a sculptor from Sweden and Denmark known for his large, dark, and provocative works.
Life
Ingvar Cronhammar was born in Hässleholm in the south of Sweden. He moved to Denmark in 1965, where he studied at the Jutland Art Academy in Aarhus.
His early works were influenced by American environmental art. They featured live chickens with lamps strapped to their backs and chairs covered with pigskin. As his career progressed, Cronhammar created larger works. Examples include The Gate, a steel machine representing death, and Elia (1989–2001), a massive steel sculpture that spews fire.
His interest in machines also led him to create artworks using animal bones, bird wings, and skin. In his pieces, he combined elements from nature and human culture.
Cronhammar made his sculptures from materials like mahogany, steel, and rubber. They can be found in museums and public spaces in Denmark. The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art has a big collection of his works.
Ingvar Cronhammar passed away on May 20, 2021, at the age of 73.
Awards
In 1993, Cronhammar was awarded the Eckersberg Medal. In 2003, he was awarded Thorvaldsen Medal. He was decorated a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2007.
Ralph Klassen
Ralph Leo Klassen (September 15, 1955 – August 3, 2020) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 497 games in the National Hockey League.
Lindsay Brown (accountant)
Lindsay John Brown (1944 (age 76) – 6 August 2020) was a New Zealand accountant. He was chancellor of the University of Otago from 2004 to 2008.
Ralph Klassen
Klassen died on August 3, 2020 at the age of 64.
Lindsay Brown (accountant)
Brown died in Dunedin, New Zealand on 6 August 2020, aged 76.
LDU Quito
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito (also called Liga de Quito or just Liga) is an Ecuadorian association football club based in Quito, Ecuador. The team currently play in the Ecuadorian Serie A and was founded on 11 January 1930. LDU Quito is one of the most successful Ecuadorian teams, winning 9 regional titles, 10 national titles, and 4 international titles. They were runners-up in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup as well.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky PAR (Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Хворосто́вский, 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. He was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He was known for performing in The Queen of Spades. He was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky in 2015 and the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 2017.
Hvorostovsky died in London of brain cancer on 22 November 2017 at the age of 55.
Ohrenbach
Ohrenbach is a municipality in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria in Germany.
Navailles-Angos
Navailles-Angos is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
List of Bahrain Twenty20 International cricketers
This is a list of Bahraini Twenty20 International cricketers.
Chet "JR" White
Chet "JR" White (1979/1980 – October 18, 2020) was an American record producer, rock musician and mix engineer. He was a member of the indie rock band Girls until their disbandment in 2012. He produced the album Goon by Tobias Jesso Jr. and Sob Story by the Spectrals. White was born in Santa Cruz, California.
White died of a heart attack on October 18, 2020 in Santa Cruz, aged 40.
Voiced uvular nasal
The voiced uvular nasal is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is similar to the ng sound as in thing and singing.
Palmyra, Pennsylvania
Palmyra is a borough of Lebanon County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is near Harrisburg in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. In 2000, the population of Palmyra was almost 7,100.
Palmyra was settled during 1717. Its local council was formed in 1913.
AM-39 Exocet
The AM-39 Exocet is an anti-ship missile. It is designed and built in France by Aérospatiale. It can be used from a fighter aircraft, a warship or a submarine. It was used by Argentina against the Royal Navy's HMS Sheffield.
José Augusto Brandão
José Augusto Brandão (April 21, 1911 – July 20, 1989) was a Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
Plant cell
Like all organisms, plants have cells. Plant cells have a nucleus with chromosomes and DNA, and they have mitochondria. Those are common to all eukaryotic cells. But in some ways they are different from animal cells and the cells of other eukaryotes.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009.
Kansas Territory
The Territory of Kansas was a territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861. This was when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Kansas.
The territory extended from the Missouri border west to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. North-south it ran from the 37th parallel north to the 40th parallel north. Much of the eastern region of what is now the State of Colorado was part of Kansas Territory. The western region of the former Kansas Territory, the Territory of Colorado, was created on February 28, 1861.
Kansas–Nebraska Act
Kansas Territory was established by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The Kansas–Nebraska Act became a law on May 30, 1854, establishing the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which marked a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. The Act contained thirty-seven sections. The provisions relating to Kansas Territory formed the last eighteen sections. Some of the more notable sections were:
Elizabeth Blackburn
Work
Blackburn won the Nobel Prize with Americans Jack Szostak and Carol Greider for their work on chromosomes. They researched the way that telomeres protect the chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes are the part of the cell that carries genetic information. Telomeres are the ends of chromosomes. Blackburn outlined the DNA sequence of an organism called Tetrahymena. Blackburn discovered that telomeres can help prevent cancer and other diseases. Blackburn is the first Australian woman to win a Nobel Prize. She also received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 2006.
Kansas Territory
Pro-slavery settlers
Within a few days after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, hundreds of Missourians (also called Border Ruffians) crossed into Kansas territory. Many selected a section of land and voted in a meeting or meetings. This was intending to appear there was a pro-slavery majority in this region. In fact, each side became a majority back and forth.
As early as June 10, 1854, the Missourians held a meeting at Salt Creek Valley, a trading post 3 mi west from Fort Leavenworth, at which a "Squatter's Claim Association" was organized. In newspaper articles they said they were in favor of making Kansas a slave state "if it should require half the citizens of Missouri, musket in hand, to emigrate there, and even sacrifice their lives in accomplishing so desirable an end." In another paper they warned: "The abolitionists will probably not be interrupted if they settle north of the fortieth parallel of north latitude, but south of that line, and within Kansas Territory they need not set foot. It is decreed by the people who live adjacent that their institutions are to be established, and candor compels us to advise accordingly."
Elizabeth Blackburn
Life
Blackburn was born in Hobart, Tasmania on November 26, 1948. She was the daughter of Harold and Marcia Blackburn. She went to Broadford girls school in Launceston, and later Melbourne University High School. She studied biochemistry at the University of Melbourne, completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Darwin College, and did postdoctoral work at Yale University. She is now Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. She married John W. Sedat in 1975, and has one child, Ben Sedat. She became a United States citizen in 2003.
Achievements
She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. On January 26, 2010, the Australian Government made Blackburn a Companion of the Order of Australia. In 2007, she won the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in Basic Medical Research in 2007, and was named one the top 100 most influential people by Time magazine.
Kansas Territory
Free-Staters
During the long debate before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, planning had already started for emigrants from the free states to settle in the territory. The largest organization created for this purpose was the New England Emigrant Aid Company, organized by Eli Thayer. Emigration from the free states, including New England, Iowa, Ohio, and other Midwestern states, flowed into the territory beginning in 1854. These emigrants were known as Free-Staters. Because Missourians had claimed much of the land closest to the border, the Free-Staters were forced to establish settlements further into Kansas Territory. Among these were Lawrence, Topeka, and Manhattan.
Abolitionists
Abolitionists, like Free-Staters, did not want Kansas to become a slave state. They wanted to get rid of slavery permanently in the United States. Abolitionists also believed “all men are created equal.” Unlike Free-Staters, they wanted equal rights for blacks. The official Free-State line supported the idea of excluding all Black people from the state of Kansas. While they didn't have slaves themselves most were prejudiced against black people believing the popular idea they were inferior. Most of the settlers seemed to want free soil for white people only. Eventually they compromised with Free-Staters to prevent slavery in Kansas.
First Territorial Appointments
The first territorial appointments were made in June and July 1854. The officers appointed by President Franklin Pierce. They were confirmed by the United States Senate. The first governor was Democrat Andrew Horatio Reeder. Reeder was completely in sympathy with the pro-slavery southerners. He took the oath of office in Washington, DC on July 7, 1854. He arrived in Kansas on October 7, the same year. Reeder became one of the most active land speculators in the territory. In 1855, this conflict of interest finally got him fired as governor by President Pierce.
Election of Territorial Legislature
On March 30, 1855 "Border Ruffians" from Missouri entered Kansas during the territory's first legislative election and voted in a pro-slavery Territorial Legislature. This was called the "Bogus Legislature" because of the widespread claims of election fraud. Antislavery candidates prevailed in one election district, the future Riley County.
The last legislative act of the Territorial Legislature was the approval of the charter for the College of the Sisters of Bethany. This was February 2, 1861—four days after James Buchanan signed the act of Congress that officially brought Kansas into the Union.
James H. Lane joined the Free-State movement in 1855 and became president the Topeka Constitutional Convention from October 23 to November 11, 1855. He was later a leader of "Jayhawkers". The first Free-state mass-meeting was in Lawrence on the evening of June 8, 1855. Missourians were charged with voter fraud, ballot-box stuffing, and the "Bogus Legislature" which does not represent the legal voters of this Territory.
It was claimed that some Missourians had used violence toward the persons and property of the inhabitants of the Kansas Territory. It was agreed that Kansas should be a free State. Also that Missourians in the late Kansas election were a gross outrage on the elective franchise and rights of freemen. They were also charged with violating popular sovereignty. Those attending did not feel bound to obey any laws made by the illegitimate legislature.
Bleeding Kansas
The violent period following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act is called Bleeding Kansas. Pro-slavery Missourians rushed in to claim land and push for the state to become a slave state. Free-Staters and abolitionists poured into Kansas from New England, Ohio, Iowa, and other midwestern states. In a short time they outnumbered the pro-slavery faction. However, when elections were held in Kansas Territory, bands of armed Ruffians seized polling places. They prevented Free-State men from voting, and they cast illegal votes. There was violence on both sides. Border Ruffians also engaged in general violence against Free-State settlements. They burned farms and sometimes murdered Free-State men. Ruffians twice attacked Lawrence, Kansas, the Free-State capital. On 1 December 1855, a small army of mainly Border Ruffians laid siege to Lawrence, but were driven off. (This was the nearly bloodless climax to the "Wakarusa War".) On 21 May 1856, an even larger force of Border Ruffians and pro-slavery Kansans captured Lawrence, which they sacked. In retaliation, John Brown and 7 followers committed the Pottawatomie massacre. In this incident, Brown and his followers dragged five unarmedmen and boys from their houses and murdered with swords, guns and knives. This only increased the violence leading to the Battle of Osawatomie where the abolitionists of Osawatomie were attacked and the town burned.
Wilma Rudolph
In high school, Rudolph became the star basketball player for her team. She also did track for 4 years and never lost a race. When she was 16 years old, she signed up for the Summer Olympics in track. She won the bronze medal in the track events. She was one of the first black women to win anything major like that. She decided to not to compete in the 1964 Olympics. She retired and became a school teacher and an athletic coach. She was a mother of 4 kids and divorced two husbands.
Oksana Baiul
Oksana Baiul (born November 16, 1977 in Dnipropetrovsk ) is a Ukrainian figure skater. She came first at the 1993 world championships and at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Baiul's grandfather gave her first skates to her when she was three years old. When her mother died, she became an orphan. But she kept skating, and won the World Championships when she was only 15 years old. She became famous for her artistic ability when she skated as "The Swan" to win the Olympics when she was 16.
She has skated for many professional shows such as Champions on Ice and Stars on Ice. A television movie was made about her - A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story. She now lives in New Jersey. She still skates professionally, and also makes figure skating clothes.
Frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the clinical presentation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. It is characterized by progressive neuronal loss predominantly involving the frontal or temporal lobes, and typical loss of over 70% of spindle neurons, while other neuron types remain intact.
Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno (November 22, 1932 – July 19, 2018) was a Mexican luchador (professional wrestler). He was better known under the ring name Rayo de Jalisco ("The Lightning Bolt from Jalisco"). He was thought to be one of the best wrestlers of his generation.
Frontotemporal dementia
Second only to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in prevalence, FTD accounts for 20% of young-onset dementia cases.
Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
During his career, Linares held the NWA World Middleweight Championship three times as well as the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with lucha libre icon El Santo. He was added into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996 and the AAA Hall of Fame in 2014.
Son River
Son River (also called Sone River) is a river in central India. It is the second largest of the Ganges' southern branches.
Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
Linares died of congestive heart failure in Mexico City on July 19, 2018, aged 85.
Frontotemporal dementia
Common signs and symptoms include significant changes in social and personal behavior, apathy, blunting of emotions, and deficits in both expressive and receptive language.
Bausch & Lomb
Bausch and Lomb was an eye care products company that morphed into Ray-Ban.
Mischa Maisky
Mischa Maisky (Miša Maiskis; born January 10, 1948 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is an Israeli and former Soviet cellist.
Maisky studied with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory in the Soviet Union. In 1966 he won 6th Prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition. In 1970, he was imprisoned in a labor camp near Gorky for 18 months. When he was set free, he moved to Israel and became a citizen there. He also studied for a time with Gregor Piatigorsky in Los Angeles. He currently lives in Belgium.
In his performing and recording career, Maisky has worked with artists such as the pianists Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, and Sergio Tiempo, the violinists Gidon Kremer and Janine Jansen, and the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, and Giuseppe Sinopoli. He has played around the world and has made many recordings.
Benjamin (Animal Farm)
In the fictional story Animal Farm, Benjamin is the oldest animal on Manor Farm, and very cool-tempered. He seldom speaks, except to make some cynical remark. He is the only animal on the farm that never laughs, saying that there was nothing to laugh at when asked about it. Without admitting it, Benjamin is devoted to Boxer, grazing with him in a small padlock near the orchard on Sundays. He was not changed by the rebellion that took place towards the beginning of the novel.
Tea gown
Tea gowns are woman's at-home dresses for informal events. They became popular in mid-to-late 1800s. The earliest tea gowns were European developments influenced by Asian clothing and historical approach from 18th century.
Tea gowns usually have long sleeves.
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center is a 292-bed general medical and surgical Catholic teaching hospital in Near South Side, Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1852.
Voiced retroflex nasal
The voiced retroflex nasal is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. It is similar to /n/ but your tongue is curled back.
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
The hospital was the first chartered hospital in Chicago. In 1859, Mercy Hospital became the first Catholic hospital to affiliate with a medical school—Lind Medical School—and the first to require a graded curriculum.
Mercy also is the hospital used by the Daley family: all of their children were born there. Mercy sold a plot of land to the north of their hospital for 60 million dollars in 2008. It is also the main women's cancer center in Illinois.
It accepted patients from Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center and absorbed the ambulance routes when the hospital closed in 2008. In 2012, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center was ranked #35 for all hospitals in the State of Illinois and #27 in the Chicago metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report.
On November 19, 2018, four people were shot near the hospital.
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)
The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos; MJyDH) of Argentina is the ministry of the National Executive Power. It is in charge of helping the President and the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers in everything related to justice.
Creation
The ministry was created in 1949. It was during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón. Then the ministry has been present in every presidential cabinet since then.
Competencies
According to Law 22,520, its powers are “to assist the President, and the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers in order of their powers, in relations with the Judicial power, with the Public ministry, with the Ombudsman and with the Council of the Magistrature, in the updating of national legislation, and at the request of the President of the Nation in legal advice and in the coordination of the activities of the State related to said advice, without prejudice to its own competence and technical independence. of the Procuration of the treasury of the nation…”
Fernando Meira
Fernando Meira (born 5 June 1978) is a Portuguese football player. He plays for Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Climate of Luxembourg
Luxembourg is a small country located in Western Europe. It is bordered by Germany, France and Belgium.
Luxembourg has a continental climate. Summers are warm, and winters are cold.
Weather records
The highest temperature ever recorded in Luxembourg was 40.8 C on 25 July 2019 in Steinsel.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Luxembourg was -24.6 C on 2 February 1956 in Wiltz.
Agostino Giuseppe Delfino
Agostino Giuseppe Delfino (17 June 1935 – 18 October 2020) was an Italian-born Central African Republic Roman Catholic bishop. Delfino was born in Arenzano, Italy. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Berbérati, Central African Republic from 1991 to 2010.
Delfino died on 18 October 2020 in Savona, Italy at the age of 85.
Voiced alveolar lateral flap
The voiced alveolar lateral tap or flap is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English.
Masayuki Mita
Masayuki Mita (見田 雅之) is a former Japanese football player.
István Konkoly
István Konkoly (5 March 1930 – 20 November 2017) was a Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Szombathely from 1987 to 2006. He was born in Kerkaszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary.
Abé language
The Abé language is part of the Niger-Congo language family. It has four dialects: Tioffo, Morie, Abbey-Ve, and Kos
István Konkoly
Konkoly died on 20 November 2017 in Szombathely, Hungary at the age of 87.
D. J. Fontana
Dominic Joseph "D. J." Fontana (March 15, 1931 – June 13, 2018) was an American musician. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years. He played on over 460 RCA cuts with Elvis. He also played for The Blue Moon Boys and Sonny Burgess.
On April 4, 2009, Fontana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in the sidemen category.
Fontana died on June 13, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee from complications of a broken hip at the age of 87.
Subway Surfers
Subway Surfers is a game where the player makes their character run until they lose. The game theme has been based on a world tour since the year 2013. The game is available on the iOS, Android and Windows phone operating systems. Subway Surfers claims to be the fourth most downloaded game of all time.
Véhicule Blindé Léger
The Véhicule Blindé Léger or VBL (light armoured vehicle) is a four-wheel drive reconnaissance light military vehicle. It has been used by the French army since 1990. More than 25 foreign countries used it, including Gabon, Qatar, and Serbia. The US Army used it as M11 for hazardous material reconnaissance. Russia bought 500 of them in November 2012.
The vehicle is designed and built in France by Panhard.
Chabad
Chabad-Lubavitch is the name of a sect of Hasidic Jews. It is one of the largest groups of Hasidic Jews in the world. Many of the Lubavitch Hasidim live in the United States or Israel. The Lubavitch world headquarters is in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
The Chabad movement was started by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi in Eastern Europe during the late 1700s. He named his 'Chabad' because in Hebrew it is an acronym for Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge. 'Lubavitch' was the name of the town in Russia where the movement was at from the time of the second Lubavitcher Rebbe (leader), Rabbi Dov Ber Schneuri, through the sixth, Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn.
Navarrenx
Navarrenx is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American movie director. He was born in Queens and raised in Manhattan. Many of Scorsese's movies have Italian American, Roman Catholic and violent themes or ideas. Scorsese is probably best known for his movies about the mafia. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for his movie The Departed at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007; the movie also won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay. This was Scorsese's first Academy Award for Best Director.
Awards and recognitions
Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and François Truffaut.
Nay, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nay, Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Trézilidé
Trézilidé (Trezilide) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France. In 2017, 382 people lived there.
Polonaise (clothing)
A polonaise is a type of gown that has a bodice and an attached skirt. They started in the late 18th century. Polonaises have a cutaway, drapes and an overskirt, worn over a petticoat.
Boxer (Animal Farm)
Boxer is a character from the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. He is a horse, and is nearly eighteen hands high. In the book he is as strong as two horses put together. He has a white stripe down his nose, and that gives him a strange appearance. But still he was respected for his great power in work and his good character. He works as a cart-horse, as does Clover. Benjamin likes him in secret.
In the book Boxer falls into the quarry when he was pulling a cart full of rock and is sent to a veterinarian on another farm by Napoleon. Squealer, Napoleon's spokesman, then claims he died peacefully, but Benjamin realises he has actually gone to the knacker's (slang for slaughterhouse, where animals are killed). Boxer was the most hard-working animal in the farm and was respected by all. When Boxer tried to support Snowball against Squealer, Napoleon tries to attack Boxer with his dogs but Boxer easily crushes the dog. Boxer is an ideal character showing loyalty along with his great hard work.
His slogans are:
He is a very loyal, caring character, but he is flawed in his lack of intelligence and does not see the real truth behind situations.
Voiceless labial–velar plosive
The voiceless labial-velar stop is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. It is like a [k] and [p] said at the same time.
Men's League for Women's Suffrage (United Kingdom)
The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was a society formed in 1907 in London and was part of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. These men wanted women to be allowed to vote.
History
Henry Brailsford, Charles Corbett, Henry Nevinson, Laurence Housman, C. E. M. Joad, Hugh Franklin, Henry Harben, Gerald Gould, Charles Mansell-Moullin, Israel Zangwill and 32 others started the society in London in 1907. Graham Moffat founded the Northern Men's League for Women's Suffrage in Glasgow in 1907. Moffat wrote a suffrage propaganda play, The Maid and the Magistrate.
Bertrand Russell stood as a suffrage candidate in the 1907 Wimbledon by election.
Hobo
Hobo is a word for a homeless person who travels to different cities and towns to look for work. Hobos usually travel by train "hopping" (riding in empty train freight railcars without paying for a ticket), or sometimes "riding the rods" (lying dangerously near the train wheels, underneath the cars).
Hobos stay in very cheap hotels in cities, or camp in simple shelters ("shanties") in shanty towns near the rail yards. There were many hobos during the Great Depression in the United States because many people lost their jobs and homes. Many people blamed President Herbert Hoover for the Depression, so hobo camps were sometimes called "Hoovervilles".
Voiced labial–velar plosive
The voiced labial-velar stop is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. It is like a [ɡ] and [b] said at the same time.
Randolph, Massachusetts
Randolph Massachusetts is a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts and is notable for being home to the glasses company, Randolph Engineering. This suburb is its own city and was named after Continental Congressman Peyton Randolph.
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi is a writer and artist. She was born on November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She lives in Paris, France. Satrapi writes comics about her life. She draws the pictures herself. She also draws pictures for other children’s books.
Petersaurach
Petersaurach is a municipality in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria in Germany.
Marjane Satrapi
Education and Early Life
She was the only child of Marxist parents.
Satrapi’s parents were educated, and taught Satrapi to think for herself. She went to high school at Lycee Francais in Tehran, Iran. When she was 14, Satrapi’s parents sent her to Vienna, Austria to learn in a freer country. When Satrapi was 19, she moved back to Iran to study decorative arts at the Tehran School of Fine Arts. The change from the western world to Iran was difficult for her. In 1994, Satrapi moved to Strasbourg, France to study art for 3 years. She now lives in Paris, France.
Beliefs
Satrapi thinks countries should not spend money on weapons. She thinks they should spend money for kids to go to school in different countries. She thinks that studying in different countries helps people understand each other better.
In RandomHouse.com, Satrapi said, "I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad [other countries]. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though."
Aviator glasses
Aviator glasses are sunglasses or eyeglasses with a double nose bridge and usually teardrop shaped lenses. Aviator glasses were originally made by Bausch and Lomb ( the company that would become Ray-Ban) for pilots in Second World War to protect their eyes while flying at high altitudes, and the glasses resemble pilot's goggles. Aviator glasses are not only made by RayBan, but also Randolph Engineering, American Optical, (the latter made the sunglasses worn by the Apollo program astronauts enroute to the Moon). As clear lens or slightly tinted eyeglasses, aviators were most popular during the 1970s to 1990s. As sunglasses, the style is most associated with police officers.
Marjane Satrapi
Writing and the War
Iran's Islamic Revolution against the Shah, the country’s dictator, started in 1979. Satrapi’s uncle was put in prison by the Shah, then murdered by people who supported the war.
Satrapi wrote a popular series of comics called Persepolis. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, tells about Satrapi's life, the discrimination she faced, and moving to Europe. She later wrote a sequel to Persepolis that talked about how she was treated badly for years when she went back to Iran.
Satrapi’s most famous book is called Persepolis.
Persepolis is the old Persian capital. The comic book is about Satrapi’s childhood in Iran during the war. This time was when country wanted to end the Shah’s cruel rule. She has written three comic books relating to her life. The first and second are about her childhood. The third is about her study in different countries. She is planning to write a fourth book about her return to Iran.
Awards
- Prix Alph'art Coup de Coeur for beginning comic artist award for Persepolis-- 2001
- Prix du Lion for Persepolis-- 2001
- Prix France Info for best news comic strip for Persepolis-- 2002
- Prix Alph'art for best script for Persepolis Tome 2—2002
- Fernando Buesa Blanco peace prize for Persepolis—2003
- Prix d'Angouleme for best book of the year for Chicken and Plums—2005
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