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Léon Theremin
Move to the United States
Theremin moved to the United States, arriving December 30, 1927 with his first wife, Katia Constantinova. He performed the theremin with the New York Philharmonic in 1928. He patented his invention in the United States in 1928 and subsequently granted commercial production rights to RCA. Theremin set up a laboratory in New York in the 1930s, where he developed the theremin and experimented with other electronic musical instruments and other inventions.
Prime Minister of Tuvalu
The office of prime minister was created when Tuvalu gained independence in 1978. Several former prime ministers have been appointed the Governor-General of Tuvalu.
Léon Theremin
Move to the United States
Theremin was interested in a role for the theremin in dance music. He developed performance locations that could automatically react to dancers' movements with varied patterns of sound and light. He worked with the American Negro Ballet. After the Soviet consulate had apparently demanded he divorce Katia, the inventor fell in love with and married the young prima ballerina Lavinia Williams. His marriage to the African-American dancer caused shock and disapproval in his social circles, but the couple remained together.
Return to the Soviet Union
Theremin abruptly returned to the Soviet Union in 1938. At the time, the reasons for his return were not clear. Some claimed that he was simply homesick, while others believed that he had been kidnapped by Soviet officials. Beryl Campbell, one of Theremin's dancers, said his wife Lavinia "called to say that he had been kidnapped from his studio" and that "some Russians had come in" and that she felt that he was going to be spirited out of the country.
Theremin was put to work in a secret research and development laboratories in the Soviet Gulag labor camp system. Theremin created the "Buran" eavesdropping system which recorded conversations in French and American embassies by measuring the window glass vibrations using a low power infrared beam from a distance. Lavrentiy Beria, head of the KGB then used Buran to spy on US, British and French embassies.
The New School
The New School is an American private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 with an original mission as a home for progressive thinkers.
It is home to the Parsons School of Design, which is internationally recognized as one of the best schools for visual arts such as fashion, architecture, illustration, and photography. In 2020, QS World University Rankings listed Parsons as the 3rd best Art & Design program in the world.
Léon Theremin
Later life
After his release from the labor camp in 1947, Theremin volunteered to remain working with the KGB until 1966. By 1947 Theremin had remarried, to Maria, and they had two children: Lena and Natalia.
After working for the KGB, Theremin worked at the Moscow Conservatory of Music for 10 years where he taught and built Theremins, electronic cellos and some Terpsitones. There he was discovered by a visiting New York Times correspondent, but when an article by Christopher Walker appeared, according to Lydia, the Vice President of the conservatory said "The people don't need electronic music. Electricity is for killing traitors in the electric chair", fired Theremin, closed his laboratory and had his instruments destroyed.
After 51 years in the Soviet Union Léon Theremin started travelling, first visiting France in June 1989 and then the United States in 1991, each time accompanied by his daughter Natalia, where he was reunited with Clara Rockmore who performed a number of concerts at this time. He also made a demonstration concert at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in early 1993 before dying in Moscow in 1993 at the age of 97.
Documentary movie
Léon Theremin is the subject of the documentary movie, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, written, directed, and produced by Steven M. Martin. The documentary was a winner at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. The movie features legendary thereminists Clara Rockmore and Lydia Kavina as well as electronic instrument pioneer Robert Moog, Nicolas Slonimsky, The Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, and Theremin himself.
Príncipe
Príncipe is the northern and smaller of the two major islands of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe. It is in the sea to the west of Africa. It has an area of 136 km2. Close to 5,000 people live there. The island is a heavily eroded volcano over three million years old. It is surrounded by other smaller islands including Ilheu Bom Bom, Ilhéu Caroço, Tinhosa Grande and Tinhosa Pequena. Príncipe rises in the south to 948 m at Pico de Príncipe, in a part of the Obo National Park that is covered with trees. The north and centre of the island were formerly plantations, most of them formed by Portuguese colonialists using slave labor. These concentrated initially on producing sugar and later on cocoa, becoming the world's greatest cocoa producer. Since independence these plantations have since largely gone back to being forest.
Príncipe was the site where Einstein's Theory of Relativity was experimentally proved successful by Arthur Stanley Eddington and his team during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919.
Liar Wanted
Liar Wanted (Ζητείται ψεύτης) is a 1961 Greek comedy movie directed by Giannis Dalianidis and starring Dinos Iliopoulos, Pantelis Zervos, Anna Kyriakou, Martha Karagianni, Thanasis Veggos, Periklis Christoforidis.
Tomasi Puapua
Sir Tomasi Puapua (born 10 September 1938) is a Tuvaluan politician. He was the Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 1981 to 1989 and then Governor-General of Tuvalu from 1998 to 2003. In 1998 he was made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to medicine, politics and the community.
Zurab Japaridze
Zurab Girchi Japaridze (ზურაბ გირჩი ჯაფარიძე; born 1 January 1976) is a co-founder of a Libertarian party called Girchi. On 26 December 2020, he founded a new party called Girchi - More Freedom. He is a member of the Parliament of Georgia.
Daewoo Motors
Daewoo Motor was a South Korean automotive company owned by General Motors. The company started in 1937 as National motors in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, South Korea. In 1965 it became Shinjin Motor after becoming affiliated with Toyota. In 1972 Toyota withdrew. The same year Shinjin became General Motors Korea, a joint venture with General Motors. The company was renamed Saehan Motors in 1976. In 1982 the company was bought by the Daewoo group. Daewoo was known for its affordable cars many of which were made in partnership with GM until the mid '90s. The Daewoo Group ran into financial trouble in the late 1990s. It was then put up for sale and acquired by General Motors in 2001. It was renamed GM Daewoo, and began to produce GM vehicles again. This included the Chevrolet Aveo which is based on Daewoo's Kalos model. In 2011 GM Daewoo was renamed GM Korea.
Abutilon
Abutilon is a scientific group of plants. It a genus the family Malvaceae. Abutilon has about 150 species of evergreen plants in it. The genus includes plants that die every year plants that grow back every year, shrubs, and trees of approximately 1 to 10 meters. They grow in the tropical and subtropical areas of all continents.
Appearance
The Abutilon flowers have five petals that can be red, pink, orange, yellow and white, sometimes called princess earrings. Some shrub representatives provide textile fibers.
Kilsmo
Kilsmo is a locality in Örebro Municipality in Örebro County in Sweden. In 2010, 263 people lived there.
Tom Werner
Thomas Charles Werner (born April 12, 1950) is an American television producer and businessman. Because of his investment in Fenway Sports Group, he is the chairman of both Liverpool Football Club and the Boston Red Sox.
Werner became a part owner of the San Diego Padres in 1990. Later, he was part of a group that purchased the Boston Red Sox. He became the chairman of the Red Sox on February 27, 2002. Werner became chairman of Liverpool Football Club in 2010.
As a television producer, Werner created The Carsey-Werner Companyr with Marcy Carsey. The company has produced many series including The Cosby Show, Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show.
Aurigeno
Aurigeno is a village and former municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.
On 4 April 2004 the former municipalities of Aurigeno, Coglio, Giumaglio, Lodano, Moghegno and Someo to form a new and larger municipality of Maggia.
Russ Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer from the state of Wisconsin. He was a member of the Democratic Party of the United States Senate (1993 to 2011) and a Wisconsin State Senator (1983-1993).
On May 14, 2015 he announced his candidacy for a 2016 U.S. Senate run against the incumbent Senator, Ron Johnson.
Minerva McGonagall
When McGonagall was young she went to Hogwarts. She was in Gryffindor, a house for brave and bold students. When she got older she decided to train herself to be an "animagus", a wizard who can change themselves into an animal without a wand. She can change into a cat. Later, she became a member of the Order Of the Phoenix, an organization trained to fight evil wizards. In a quidditch match, she was hurt by a Slytherin player.
Krasnodar
Krasnodar (Краснода́р) is a city in Southern Russia on the Kuban River, around 148 km northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai (also known as Kuban). It had a population of 744,900 in 2010, 646,175 in 2002 and 620,516 in 1989.
Name
The city was founded on January 12, 1794 (Gregorian calendar) as Yekaterinodar (Екатеринода́р). The original name meant "Catherine's Gift", both in recognition of Catherine the Great's grant of land in the Kuban region to the Black Sea Cossacks (later the Kuban Cossacks), and also in recognition of Saint Catherine, the Martyr, who is considered to be the patron of the city. After the October Revolution, Yekaterinodar was renamed Krasnodar (December 1920). There are two potential meanings for the new name of the city: Krasno- (Красно-), meaning either 'beautiful' (an older root) or 'red' (especially relevant considering the political atmosphere of the time); and -dar (-дар), meaning 'gift'. Thus, the city's name means either beautiful gift or red gift (i.e. 'gift of the reds')..
History
The origin of the city starts with a fortress built by the Cossacks in order to defend imperial borders and claim Russian ownership over Circassia, which was contested by Ottoman Turkey. In the first half of the 19th century Yekaterinodar grew into a busy center of the Kuban Cossacks. It was granted town status in 1867. By 1888 about 45,000 people lived in the city and it became a vital trade center of southern Russia. In 1897, an obelisk commemorating 200 year old history of Kuban Cossack Host was built in Yekaterinodar.
Frederick Forsyth
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth CBE (born 25 August 1938) is a British author and former journalist. He is best known for his thriller novels The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List. He has sold more than 70 million books in total.
Forsyth was born in Ashford, Kent. He said in 2016 that he worked as an MI6 spy for over twenty years.
Krasnodar
History
During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Krasnodar was occupied by the German Army between August 12, 1942 and February 12, 1943. The city sustained heavy damage in the fighting but was rebuilt and renovated after the war.
In the summer of 1943, the Soviets began trials, including of their own citizens, for collusion with the Nazis and participation in war crimes. The first such trial was held at Krasnodar on July 14–17, 1943. This was the first public trial of the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The Krasnodar tribunal pronounced eight death sentences, which were summarily conducted in the city square in front of a crowd of about thirty thousand people.
Famous Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, soprano Evgenia Kononova, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, counterrevolutionary Andrei Shkuro and rhythmic gymnast Inna Zhukova were born in Krasnodar. Another notable native of Krasnodar is Greece basketball international Lazaros Papadopoulos, who emigrated to Greece with his Pontic Greek parents when he was 10 years old.
Main sights
Krasnodar is home to the steel lattice hyperboloid tower built by the Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1928; it is near Krasnodar Circus.
Other attractions include St. Catherine's Cathedral, the State Arts Museum, a park and theatre named after Maxim Gorky, the beautiful concert hall of the Krasnodar Philharmonic Society, which is considered to have some of the best acoustics in southern Russia, State Cossack Choir and the Krasnodar circus
The most interesting place of Krasnodar is Krasnaya Street (which translates as "Red, Beautiful Street"). There are many sights there. In the beginning of this street one can see the Central Concert Hall; at the other end one can see the Avrora cinemacenter. A "Triumphal Arch" is in the middle of Krasnaya Street.
Transportation
The main airline is Kuban Airlines (at Krasnodar International Airport), and the largest hotels in the city include the Intourist, Hotel Moskva, and Hotel Platan. Krasnodar uses a 220 V/50 Hz power supply with two round-pin outlets, like most European countries.
Public transportation within Krasnodar consists of city buses, trolleybuses, trams, and marshrutkas. Trolleybuses and trams, both powered by overhead electric wires, are the main form of transportation in Krasnodar. Unlike Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar does not have a metro system.
Twin towns — Sister cities
Krasnodar has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI):
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson, OBE (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is an Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He is best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave from 1990 until 2000. He also appeared in the BBC drama Merlin as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot.
Alberswil
Alberswil is a municipality of the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Richard Wilson
Wilson was born on 9 July 1936 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In March 2013, Wilson came out as gay.
Knots Landing
Knots Landing was an American soap opera which began December 27, 1979 and ended May 13, 1993. It was a spin-off of Dallas. The show aired on CBS throughout its run. It was set around a fictional coastal suburb of Los Angeles and focuses on four married couples living in a cul-de-sac. By the time of the show's end, it had become one of the longest running primetime drama shows on television in the US.
Thomas Strunz
Thomas Strunz (born 25 April, 1968) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Electoral district of Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga is an electoral district of New South Wales. It was created in 1894, abolished in 1904, recreated in 1913, reabolished in 1920 and recreated in 1927.
It is normally a conservative electorate. It is currently held by Joe McGirr, an independent.
Allison Mack
Allison Mack (born July 29, 1982) is an American actress. She played Chloe Sullivan in the television series Smallville. She played Kate Jacobs in the television series Opposite Sex.
Mack was arrested by the FBI in Brooklyn on April 20, 2018, on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy. On June 30, 2021, she was sentenced to three years in prison. On July 3, 2023, she was released.
Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is an English actress. She played Rachel Keller in the horror movie The Ring and Ann Darrow in the 2005 remake of King Kong.
Look Who's Talking Too
The movie Look Who's Talking Too is a comedy and drama movie. It was released December 14, 1990 in the United States. The movie is about childbirth and a couple wanting to be an average family. Kirstie Alley plays Mollie, Roseanne Barr voices Julie, John Travolta plays James and Bruce Willis voices Mikey. The movie received very negative reviews. Its overall box office, however, was moderately strong.
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Connecticut in the United States. In 2020, 91,184 people lived in Norwalk, making it the third largest city in Fairfield County and the sixth largest city in Connecticut.
Robert S. Wistrich
Robert Solomon Wistrich (April 7, 1945 – May 19, 2015) was a British-Israeli academic and author. He was a leading scholar of antisemitism in Europe. He was also the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He wrote and edited at least 30 books.
Wistrich died from a heart attack on May 19, 2015 in Rome, Italy. He was 70.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit video game)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ) is a platform game developed by Aspect and published by Sega for the Master System and Game Gear. The Master System version was released in Europe on October 1992. The Game Gear version was released in Europe in October 1992, and in North America and Japan in November 1992. It's a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog for Master System and Game Gear.
The Master System version of the game was not released outside Europe and Brazil. The Master System version was released for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2008.
Simão Sabrosa
Simão Sabrosa (born 31 October 1979) is a Portuguese football player. He plays for Atlético Madrid and Portugal national team.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Clash Royale
Clash Royale is a freemium real-time strategy game developed and published by SOPer cell The game combines elements from collectible card games, tower defense games, and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games. The game was released globally on March 2, 2016. It reached $1 billion in revenue in less than 1 year. This game includes upgrading your cards and battling other players to reach victory.
Liaodong Peninsula
Liaodong Peninsula is a peninsula in China, in the south of Liaoning. It points in the southwest direction. The largest city in the peninsula is Dalian. Many orchards are grown here.
Shelton, Connecticut
Shelton is a city in Connecticut in the United States.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a children's book by Scottish author Kenneth Grahame. It was published in 1908. It is about four animals (a mole, rat, badger and toad) throughout their adventures in the English countryside.
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books. She wrote under the name Elizabeth Goudge. She received a Carnegie Medal for children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse.
She became a best selling author, both in the United Kingdom and United States.
She was born in Wells, Somerset, England. She died at the age of 83.
Enamel
Enamel is a smooth hard covering substance. It may refer to:
Okra
Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) are known in many English-speaking countries as lady's fingers or gumbo) is a flowering plant in the mallow family, related to cotton and hibiscus. It is valued for its edible green seed pods. It is cultivated for the pods, which are harvested in the immature stage and used in salads, soups and dishes. It is the national vegetable of Pakistan. Some of the ways it is eaten are fried, grilled, or in soup.
Cottonwood River
Cottonwood River is one of the main tributaries of the Neosho River in central Kansas of the United States.
Course
The river starts near the west line of Marion County as two tributaries: the North Cottonwood River and the South Cottonwood River. They both start within 2 miles of each other, and they start within a few miles northwest of Lehigh.
The North Cottonwood starts near the west line of Marion County. It crosses into McPherson County and is parallel to the county line northward for 5 miles. Then, crosses back into Marion County. It goes through Durham, then into the Marion Reservoir.
The South Cottonwood also starts near the west line of Marion County. It goes southward about 1 mile west of Lehigh. Then it flows eastward about 2 miles south of Hillsboro, then northeast towards the lower side of the Marion Reservoir.
The South Fork Cottonwood River starts south of Matfield Green, then flows northward along the east side of Matfield Green and Bazaar. It combines with the North Fork Cottonwood River about 3 miles east of Cottonwood Falls. Then, it goes eastward near Saffordville and across into Lyon County near Plymouth, Kansas, then along the south edge of Emporia. It goes into the Neosho River about 5 miles east of Emporia.
History
In 1806, Zebulon Pike led the Pike Expedition westward from St Louis, Missouri. Part of their journey followed the Cottonwood River through Marion County near the current towns of Florence, Marion, Durham.
Lakes
These lakes are in the Cottonwood River drainage basin:
Bridges
These bridges over the Cottonwood River are on the National Register of Historic Places list:
Ariège (river)
The Ariège (Arieja; Arièja) is a river in the south of France. It is 163 km long. It is a right tributary of the Garonne. The Ariège department is named after this river.
Geography
The Ariège river is 163.2 km long. It has a drainage basin of 4135 km2.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is 76.4 m3/s at Pinsaguel, near the confluence with the Garonne, in the Haute-Garonne department, for a period of 30 years.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Pinsaguel
Course
The source of the Ariège is in the Lac of Font Nègre, at the Pyrenees on the border between France and Andorra, just south of Pas de la Casa (Andorra) on the western side of the Pics Orientaux de Font Nègre, in the commune of Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales department, at an altitude of about 2470 m.
In its first part, it flows to the north, forming the border between France and Andorra, up to Pas de la Casa, and then turns to the north-east.
After flowing through the Ariège plain, the river gets out of the department of Ariège and into the department of Haute-Garonne and, finally, joins the Garonne river at Portet-sur-Garonne, near the city of Toulouse.
The Ariège flows to the northeast, in general, and passes through the following regions, departments and communes:
Andorra France
The Ariège river flows through a total of 58 communes.
Main tributaries
Some of the tributaries are:
A10 road (England)
The A10 is an important road in eastern England. It goes between London and King's Lynn. It follows the old route of the Roman road Ermine Street for much of its route. The road is about 90 mi long in total.
List of lakes
A list of lakes, ordered by continent:
North America
† = the North American Great Lakes
Oceania
(Not yet classified by country:)
2018 UK Championship
The 2018 UK Championship was a snooker tournament, that took place from 27 November to 9 December 2018. It was the ninth ranking tournament and the first Triple Crown event of the 2018/2019 season. The event was shown on BBC Sport and Eurosport in the United Kingdom.
Juliet Burke
Character's background
Juliet is a fertility doctor. She arrived on the Island in order to help pregnant women, as all of them die before giving birth to their child.
References
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Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In is a historic small restaurant and roadside attraction along a part of what used to be Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona USA. The drive-in was built in 1953 by a man who lived in the town, Juan Delgadillo (May 17, 1916 - June 2, 2004). Delgadillo had very little money, so he built the restaurant mostly from scrap lumber he found at the nearby Santa Fe Railroad yard.
Delgadillo thought of a fun way to bring attention to his new restaurant. He cut the roof off of a 1936 Chevrolet, put paint, horns and emblems from other cars all over it and placed an artificial Christmas tree in the rear of the car.
Delgadillo's had a sense of humor which could be seen both on his car and on his menu. That menu still has such choices as a "cheeseburger with cheese" and "dead chicken." "Juan's Garden" at the rear of the restaurant is just as funny. That is the place Mr. Delgadillo kept his collection of old cars and other strange things. Even the building itself has strange and funny things written on it. Hand-painted signs in the parking area warn drivers that they are "parking at their own risk." A neon sign in the window tells people, "Sorry, we're open." The door which leads inside has two knobs, one on the right and one on the left. The knob on the right is fake; the one on the left opens the door. Delgadillo would have fun with his customers by asking, for example, if they wanted cheese on their cheeseburgers.
While learning about the history of Route 66 for the 2006 Disney/Pixar motion picture Cars, John Lasseter met Delgadillo's brother, Seligman barber and Route 66 expert, Angel Delgadillo, who told him how traffic through the town almost completely went away on the day that nearby Interstate 40 opened.
Since Delgadillo's death in 2004, the Snow Cap has been run by his sons John-Michael and Robert. They both work the counter and play with the customers like their father did. The walls around the counter area itself are covered with business cards from all over the world.
Author Michael Wallis covers the history of the Snow Cap in his book, Route 66: The Mother Road.
Zhongyuan
Zhongyuan or the Central Plains are plains in the middle of China. It is southwest of Beijing. The Yellow River goes through it. It is where Chinese civilization originated from.
It is part of the North China Plain.
Seremban
Seremban is the capital of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan, it is in district of Seremban, one from the seven districts of Negeri Sembilan. The town's administration is run by the Seremban Municipal Council also known as Majlis Perbandaran Seremban. On 9 September 2009, Seremban was to be declared as a city, however it was later deferred due to technical reasons. However, the idea of granting city status has been brought up again and Seremban is expected to become a city on September 9, 2013. Finally, Seremban gained its city status on 20 January 2020
Zhongyuan
Since the beginning of recorded history, the Central Plain had central importance to the Middle Kingdom (China 中国).
Seremban
Sister cities
Although Seremban does not have a city status, it has nevertheless three sister cities.
Zhongyuan
It was considered the “Center of the World”. It was the capital of the Xia dynasty. The earliest Chinese writing, the Jiahu symbols and Jiagu writing came from here.
Zhongyuan is sometimes used to refer to all of Chinese civilization.
Altopascio
Altopascio is a comune in the Province of Lucca in the Italian region of Tuscany. In 2017, 15,572 people lived there.
Twin towns
Altopascio is twinned with:
John Mahaffy
John Mahaffy (July 18, 1918 – May 2, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played 37 games in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens.
Mahaffy was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was married to Angie Péloquin. He died on May 2, 2015, aged 96.
Electoral district of Goulburn
Goulburn is an electoral district of New South Wales. It was created in 1859, abolished in 1991 and recreated in 2007.
Brentwood, Los Angeles
Brentwood is a suburban neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles. It is a lightly populated residential district. The people are older, well-educated, and have high incomes.
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, born 27 November 1960), is a Ukrainian politician. Tymoshenko is a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 2014. She is the leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc political party. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine for two separate terms in 2005 and again from 2007 until 2010.
Political career
Her first term as Prime Minister was from 24 January to 8 September 2005. She was re-elected on 18 December 2007 but was removed by the Ukrainian Parliament on 3 March 2010 after the government with her own political party and the political party of Viktor Yushchenko (former President of Ukraine) Our Ukraine and the small Lytvyn Bloc lost a no-confidence vote.
While they were once strong allies, today there is a lot of political rivalry between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko. When Viktor Yushchenko lost the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, and his followers argued that the election had been corrupt, she was his main ally and one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution.
Terre di Pedemonte
Terre di Pedemonte is a municipality of the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
On 14 April 2013, the former municipalities of Cavigliano, Tegna and Verscio merged to form the new municipality of Terre di Pedemonte.
Yulia Tymoshenko
Presidential campaigns
She was an unsuccessful candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2019 presidential election.
Personal life
Tymoshenko was born in Dnipro, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. She studied at Dnipro Polytechnic, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University and Kyiv National Economic University.
Tymoshenko's first name is sometimes spelled Yuliya, Yulia, Iulia, or Julia. In 1979, she married businessman Oleksandr Tymoshenko. They have a daughter, businesswoman Eugenia.
Vintrosa
Vintrosa is a locality in Örebro Municipality in Örebro County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,343 people lived there.
Kamuta Latasi
Sir Kamuta Latasi (born September 4, 1936) is a Tuvaluan politician. He was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in 1992. Latasi was the 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 1993 until 1996. He was the Speaker of parliament from 2006 to September 2010 and again from December 2010   to March 2014.
Adolph Rupp
Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was an American college basketball coach. He coached the University of Kentucky's basketball team for 42 years from 1930 to 1972. He helped the team win 4 national NCAA championships. Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky is named after him.
John Templeton Jr.
Templeton was born in New York City. He was the elder son of Judith (Folk) and the American-born British stock investor, businessman and philanthropist John Templeton. He studied at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and at Harvard Medical School. He was married to Josephine and had three daughters.
Templeton was an Evangelical. He gave large sums of money to conservative organizations, like those opposing same-sex marriage.
Templeton died from brain cancer on May 16, 2015 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He was 75.
Mutya Buena
Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena (born 21 May 1985) is an English singer and songwriter. She is best known for being a member of the Sugababes.
Early life
Buena was born in Kingsbury, London to a Filipino father and Irish mother.
Career
Buena became famous as a member of girl group Sugababes in 2000. The band released three studio albums with Buena as a member. She left the band in 2005. In 2007 Buena released an album on her own called Real Girl. It reached number ten in the UK Albums Chart. Five songs from the album were released as singles. The album's first single, "Real Girl", reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. "Song 4 Mutya" was released as the second single. In 2008 the record label that released the album dropped Buena because the album did not sell as many copies as they hoped. On 2 January 2009, Buena entered Celebrity Big Brother 6 as a housemate. On 16 January 2009 Buena chose to leave the Big Brother House. In 2010 Buena said that she did not want to be a musician anymore and that she was training to become a child psychologist. In 2011 Buena started a new band called Mutya Keisha Siobhan with Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy. They released their first single "Flatline" in 2013.
Personal life
In March 2005 Buena gave birth to a daughter called Tahlia.
List of mayors of Washington, D.C.
Below is a list of mayors of Washington, D.C. and associated political entities.
1975–present: Mayors of the District of Columbia
Since 1975, the District has been administered by a popularly elected mayor and district council.
Polly Pocket
Polly Pocket is a line of small plastic dolls and accessories. The name comes from the fact that many of the first Polly Pocket toys came in pocket-size cases. The Fashion Polly dolls are sold by Mattel.
History
In 1999, Mattel changed the design of Polly. They created a new series of collectible items. The new Polly doll is larger. It also looks more similar to a real person than the first dolls. That same year, Mattel also started selling Fashion Polly!. This line used the same characters from the new Polly Pocket (Polly, Lea, Shani, Lila, etc.) but they were 3 ¾ inch (9.5 cm) plastic jointed dolls. Instead of the normal cloth clothing, Polly Pockets used "Polly Stretch" clothing. These were rubbery plastic clothes that could be put on the dolls and removed. They also created boy dolls.
Bailey's tree frog
Bailey's tree frog (Dendropsophus werneri) is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have seen it as high as 800 meters above sea level.
Duke of Rutland
The Duke of Rutland is a title in the Peerage of England named for Rutland, a county in the East Midlands. Earldoms named after Rutland have been created twice in history. The ninth earl of the second creation was made a duke in 1703. The surname of the present duke's family is "Manners". The heir to the title is known as the Marquess of Granby. Other titles: Marquess of Granby (1703), Earl of Rutland (1525), Baron Manners of Haddon (1679) and Baron Roos of Belvoir (1896). The Duke of Rutland is allowed to be addressed as His Grace. The traditional family seats are Haddon Hall in Derbyshire and Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire.
List of Dukes
The heir apparent is Charles John Montague Manners, Marquess of Granby (b. 1999), elder son of the 11th Duke
Bailey's tree frog
The adult male frog is 18 to 20 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 22 to 23 mm long. The eyes stick out from the head. The nose is round. This frog has vomerine teeth in its jaw. All four feet are webbed. They have discs on their toes for climbing, but they do not climb very high into the trees.
This frog lives near water, for example places that have been flooded. This frog can live near farms that human beings have left. The female lays eggs on top of the water, near plants.
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon is the first studio album by late American rapper Pop Smoke. It was released after his death on July 3, 2020, by Victor Victor Worldwide and Republic Records. A deluxe edition of the album that includes fifteen additional songs was released on Pop Smoke's birthday (July 20) of that year. The album is a drill, trap, and R&B record.
Following Pop Smoke's murder February 19, 2020, rapper 50 Cent executive produced Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon. 50 Cent completed Pop Smoke's record by calling the featured artists and meeting the deadlines. After the album was completed, 50 Cent supported Pop Smoke in fulfilling his goal to take his mother to an awards event. Jess Jackson rebuilt the tracks, mixed and arranged the album to get the professional sound of a large recording studio. Pop Smoke had established the Shoot for the Stars Foundation before he died, with the objective of assisting children in reaching their goals while living and growing up in tough situations by giving access to technology and other services.
Su Dingfang
Su Dingfang (, 591–667) was a leading general of the Tang Dynasty. He won many battles. In 657 he destroyed the Western Turkic Khaganate. This expanded the Tang's western borders to their farthest extent (deep into Central Asia, close to modern Iran). In 660, he also conquered Baekje.
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon contains six singles. "For the Night" and "What You Know Bout Love" both reached the top-10 on the Billboard Hot 100. "The Woo", "Mood Swings", "Make It Rain", and "Hello" all reached the top-85.
Su Dingfang
He was born in Wuyi (武邑, modern Hengshui, Hebei).
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
Background
In April 2019, Pop Smoke was introduced to record executive Steven Victor by record producer Rico Beats. Pop Smoke told Victor after signing to Victor Victor Worldwide and Republic Records that he had previously sung for church services. In addition to rapping, he had experience as a singer. Pop Smoke performed an unreleased song called "Something Special" and a track called "What You Know Bout Love" for Victor. The latter song made a lasting impression on the Victor Victor executives, convincing them that Pop Smoke was more than "just another drill rapper from Brooklyn." Because Victor worked closely with rapper Kanye West as the chief operating officer of his record label GOOD Music at the time, Victor knew that many of rap's most popular musicians had been successful in introducing new sounds into the public. Pop Smoke would go on to make a series of mixtapes focused solely to Brooklyn drill. Pop Smoke would release his first album that showed his melodic side with bigger, more mainstream songs like "Something Special" after establishing himself as the "leader" of the subgenre that was growing in New York City.
Su Dingfang
Western Turks
The Tang took went north.
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
Background
In March 2020, rapper 50 Cent said on his Instagram account that he had been listening to Pop Smoke's music and had chosen to work as executive producer on the late artist's new album. As the executive producer, 50 Cent contacted Roddy Ricch, Drake, and Chris Brown to see if they wanted to appear on the album. During an Instagram live a few weeks later, 50 Cent remembered a meeting he had with Pop Smoke in an office for the first time. When 50 Cent stood up, he saw that Pop Smoke was writing down everything he said on his phone. 50 Cent said that he had "fallen in love" with Pop Smoke and that he would executive produce his album. In a later interview with Billboard, 50 Cent explained that he would not be paid as the album's executive producer since he wanted to finish it because of his relationship with Pop Smoke. Following the end of the production, 50 Cent helped Pop Smoke in honoring his wish to take his mother to an awards show. In January 2020, Pop Smoke began creating the Shoot for the Stars Foundation to assist young people in reaching their goals due to living and growing up in tough situations by providing access to technology and other tools. Pop Smoke's family announced that the foundation would continue after his death.
Recording
Pop Smoke had recorded the first songs for Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon before signing with Victor Victor Worldwide. Pop Smoke wanted to show how he had changed musically after finishing his first two mixtapes Meet the Woo (2019) and Meet the Woo 2 (2020). Pop Smoke flew to Los Angeles in mid-February 2020 to record as much music as possible for the album. He recorded the album's final songs in the final days of his life. Pop Smoke and his team planned to finish the album in Los Angeles, during his first headlining concert tour, Meet the Woo Tour, in the first week of March 2020. While he was on tour, the record was supposed to be mixed and mastered.
Su Dingfang
Western Turks
Su had fewer than 20,000 men. Ashina Helu's army had nearly 100,000 men. Ashina Helu thought he could defeat Su easily. His army ran at Su but could not break through Su's defense: the front line pointed long spears. Su then counterattacked with cavalry, defeating Helu's army and killing and capturing several tens of thousands of men. Helu ran away.
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Music and lyrics
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, according to Danny Schwartz of Rolling Stone, mixes "drill's swooping rhythms with austere Atlanta trap that Migos and Zaytoven mastered mid-decade". It has, according to Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine, "ill-advised forays into R&B found on DaBaby's Blame It on Baby". The staff of Billboard said the album "gestures toward R&B and more soulful sounds". The album opens with "Bad Bitch from Tokyo", which has drumbeats, ad-libbed harmonies, crows cawing, and Pop Smoke rapping about his own death. "Aim for the Moon" featuring Quavo is a drill track that with braggadocio, hi-hats, and bass. Pop Smoke and Quavo rap about enjoying their wealth.
Su Dingfang
Western Turks
Su kept going. Many tribes of the Western Turks surrendered to Su, including the general Huluwu (胡祿屋), surrendered, and Ashina Helu fled along with his general Qulü (屈律). The rest surrendered to Ashina Buzhen.
Su kept chasing Helu but ran into snow storms. Su's men said maybe they should wait for weather to get better. But Su said that Helu would be surprised if they attacked him. So Su and his army kept going. They joined Mishe and Buzhen, made a surprise attack on Helu, and captured or killed tens of thousands.
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Music and lyrics
"For the Night" featuring Lil Baby and DaBaby is a hip hop, trap, and soul song with lyrics about night-time occurrences. The song's main instruments are an acoustic guitar, folk flutes, heavily autotuned vocals, and processed moans from Lil Baby and DaBaby. "44 Bulldog", the fourth track, is a drill song with enigmatic barks and sung synth tones. The song was named after the Charter Arms Bulldog, double-action revolver. Pop Smoke claims to be the king of New York and shows his hate towards 6ix9ine on the R&B song "Gangstas", which has minimalist piano and snare drums. The drill tracks "Yea Yea" and "Creature" featuring Swae Lee are about a "tough-guy rapper pivot[ing] seamlessly into romance on the horizon," according to Craig Jenkins of Vulture. "Snitching," a trap song featuring Quavo and Future, is a song in which Pop Smoke raps about the threats he faced daily, while Quavo and Future rap about how people should be aware about the world's traitors. "The Woo", a trap song featuring 50 Cent and Roddy Ricch, interpolates 50 Cent's tracks "Candy Shop" and "Hate It or Love It."
Su Dingfang
Western Turks
But Helu fled to Shi (石國, modern Tashkent, Uzbekistan), a vassal of the Western Turks.
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
Music and lyrics
"Make it Rain" which features rapper Rowdy Rebel (who was incarcerated at the time) had to record his verse by telephone. "West Coast Shit" featuring Quavo and Tyga interpolates the lyrics of Too Short's 2003 single, "Shake That Monkey". Pop Smoke and Tyga rap about the wonders of the United States' west coast. "Enjoy Yourself" featuring Karol G is a Latin trap and urbano with lyrics about a deep reflection on love. The song contains a sample of a song named "Drink Freely" by Moroccan-American rapper French Montana. "Something Special" is an R&B-bounce song that samples Fabolous' "Into You" from 2003. Pop Smoke is obsessed with his new partner and their new love in the lyrics. "Mood Swings", an R&B song featuring Lil Tjay, is about having sex with women who don't use birth control. An R&B track, "What You Know Bout Love" samples Ginuwine's song "Differences". The song, which has a hi-hat and finger snaps, is about Pop Smoke having passion for his lover. The R&B track "Diana", features King Combs and includes parts from Playa's 1998 single "Cheers 2 U". The lyrics are about Pop Smoke being lustful and taking a strong aim at love. "Got It on Me" is a hip hop track that interpolates 50 Cent's "Many Men (Wish Death)" lyrics. Pop Smoke begs his enemies for mercy in the lyrics. "Tunnel Vision (Outro)" is a drill track in which Pop Smoke looks foward to the future and wishes to make an impact in the music industry. The album ends with the bonus track "Dior", a drill and hip hop song about flirting with women and buying the most up-to-date expensive clothes.
Su Dingfang
Western Turks
But Shi did not want to be attacked and defeated by the Tang as well. So they just captured and handed Helu to the Tang.
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Release date
Pop Smoke had wanted the album to be released in summer, close to his birthday on July 20. Before his murder, the album was to have been released on June 12, Memorial Day, an American federal holiday. Pop Smoke's team announced on May 14, 2020, that the album had a planned release date of June 12, 2020, The lead single "Make It Rain" was released on that date instead. Victor announced they had pushed the album's release back to July 3, 2020, due to the George Floyd protests against police brutality and racism. Pop Smoke's estate announced they had signed a co-publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music covering his past music and Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon.
The deluxe edition of the album was released on July 20, 2020, on what would have been Pop Smoke's 21st birthday. It features fifteen additional tracks, including remixes of three songs from the original album. The first single from the album, "Make it Rain", peaked at number 49 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It peaked within the top-75 of charts in Canada and the United Kingdom. "Enjoy Yourself" was released as a promotional single on July 2, 2020. It peaked at number 56 on the Hot 100. "The Woo" was released as the album's second single on July 8, 2020. An accompanying music video, which Eif Rivera directed, was released on July 20, 2020. The song peaked at number 11 on the Hot 100. It reached the top-10 in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. "The Woo" was nominated for Song of Summer at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.
Su Dingfang
Western Turks
And so the Tang conquered the Western Turkic Khaganate and brought Central Asia under Chinese control.
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Release date
The album's third single "Mood Swings" was released on August 21, 2020. A visualizer for the track that featured Jordyn Woods and Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez, was released on August 20, 2020. Later, a music video for the song was directed by David Wept and was released on October 7, 2020. A remix featuring the voice of American singer Summer Walker was released as a single on September 18, 2020. "Mood Swings" reached number 17 on the Hot 100. It reached the top-10 in Australia, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kindgom. It topped the charts in Portugal. "For the Night" was released as the album's fourth single on October 3, 2020. The song peaked at number six on the Hot 100, giving Pop Smoke his first top-10 hit in the United States. It further peaked with the top-10 in Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and Portugal. It was nominated for Best Collaboration at the 2021 BET Awards.