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The Department of Alto Adige (, ) was a department of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy. It was named after the river Adige (Etsch), which flowed through it. The capital of the department was Trento. The department's territory was not the same as that of the modern Italian province of Alto Adige. Some of the territory is the same, such as the city of Bolzano, but most of the rest is now part of the province of Trento. These two provinces form the region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. History. The name "Alto Adige" was created in the late 18th century by Napoleon Bonaparte, when he occupied the territory of northern Italy near the Alps. This was the name of the French administrative division known as the "Department of Alto Adige" ("Dipartimento dell'Alto Adige"), created during Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy in 1810. It was officially named "Haut Adige" to get rid of relation to the historic "County of Tyrol" of Austria. The District of Alto Adige was created by Napoleon as part of the Dipartamento del Benaco in his Cisalpine Republic, and was near Verona. This Benaco department, created in 1797, was gotten rid of in 1798 as a result of administrative changes to the Cisalpine Republic. Some years later, Napoleon created the Department of Alto Adige further north. This department was a part of the Kingdom of Italy from 1810 to 1814. It was created with the division of the Austrian Tyrol between French Bavaria and the Kingdom of Italy, and included the southern part of Tyrol with the city of Bolzano with surroundings (along with the Trentino). The boundaries were made by Austrian and German commissioners, who said that a territory would belong to the Kingdom of Italy if it is inhabited by Italians. The department was ended after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. Its territory is now divided between the Italian provinces of Trentino and South Tyrol. The name "Alto Adige" was reused. Today it is the Italian name of the part of Tyrol south of the Brenner Pass. Ettore Tolomei made it official in Italy after World War I.
Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress. She played Jeanne Greene in "Youngblood Hawke" in 1964. She also played Annie Hayworth in "The Birds" one year earlier. She also voiced characters during certain movies. She then played Emily in the sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972-78). Pleshette was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died from lung cancer, after an operation removed part of her lung. She was 70.
Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her first book, "Black Feminist Thought", was published in 1990. A book Collins wrote with Margaret Andersen called "Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology" was published in 1992. The sixth edition was published in 2007. Early life and career. Collins was born in Philadelphia to working-class parents. She became a student at Brandeis University in 1965. In 1982 Collins started work as an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati.
"(You Drive Me) Crazy" is a popular romance song by Britney Spears. It was released in late August 1999. The song charted at #10 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #9 in the Rhythmic Top 40. It performed better in United Kingdom. The original version on the album "...Baby One More Time" is different from the single version usually heard.
The TNA King of the Mountain Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The championship was debuted on the October 23, 2008 episode of "TNA Impact!" and was originally called the "TNA Legends Championship". It was considered the second highest-ranking title in TNA. It was declared defunct by the (storyline) TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle on July 3, 2014. The title was reactivated under the new name "TNA King of the Mountain Championship" on June 25, 2015. History. Booker T revealed the championship after he took it out of a steel briefcase that he had been carrying around in the weeks leading up to the reveal. He named it the "TNA Legends Championship" and declared himself as the first champion. A.J. Styles defeated Booker T at Destination X on March 15, 2009 to win the championship. Winning the title made Styles the first-ever TNA Grand Slam Champion after he had won the World Heavyweight (NWA or TNA), the World Tag Team (NWA or TNA), and the TNA X Division Championship along with the Legends Championship. The Management Director of TNA Jim Cornette announced that the Championship became an official TNA sanctioned championship because Styles defeated Booker T for it legally by the contract the two had signed to make the match official. When Eric Young held the championship, he renamed it the "TNA Global Championship" on the October 29, 2009 episode of "Impact!" and said that he was not going to defend it against any American wrestlers or on American soil. Young was defeated by Rob Terry during a live event in Cardiff, Wales on January 27, 2010. Terry lost the championship to A.J. Styles on the July 22 episode of "Impact!". Styles renamed it the "TNA Television Championship" on the July 29 episode. On July 3, 2014, the TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle declared that the Television Championship would become inactive. On June 25, 2015, the championship was reactivated under the new name "TNA King of the Mountain Championship." It was
Amy Ryan (born May 3, 1968) is an American actress. In "Gone Baby Gone" she played Helene. She was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She did not win; however, she received other awards for her performance. Ryan played Beadie Russell in "The Wire". Ryan was born in Queens, New York.
Escape Plan is an action, melodrama and thriller movie of 2013. The movie is about an engineer who is kept in a secret prison. The engineer is a former prosecutor. Sylvester Stallone plays Ray (the engineer), Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Emil Rottmayer and Victor Mannheim, and 50 Cent plays Hush. This movie was rated R by MPAA officials. This movie was released in October 2013 with mixed critical reviews. The box office sales were somewhat low in the United States. Overseas, however, the movie performed quite well. It made over US$137 million.
Long and Foster is the largest privately owned real estate company in the United States. The company currently has around 170 sales offices with over 10,000 agents, mainly in the Mid-Atlantic region. History. In 1968, Long and Foster was founded by Henry Long and Wesley Foster. Eleven years later, the company transferred complete ownership to Wesley Foster. Since its creation, the company has set up offices in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware, and North Carolina. Services. Long and Foster provides sales and purchases of homes, land, and commercial properties; mortgage, title, and insurance assistance; insurance offerings; and relocation and settlement services.
The fight-or-flight response (or acute stress response) is a set of physiological changes that occur when an animal is threatened. The changes include increased heart rate, breathing rate and blood pressure. This response was first described by W.B Cannon. He found that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system. This leads to changes such as those mentioned above. The changes prepare the animal for fighting or fleeing. This response is the first stage of a general adaptation that regulates stress responses among vertebrates and other organisms. Evolutionary perspective. The fight or flight response lets animals respond quickly to threats. This system is universal in vertebrates. That shows it is ancient in origin, and very important. Humans have some problems with the system, because though they share the physiology with other animals, they rarely face a clear-cut fight or flight choice. Humans can try to talk their way through various problems and semi-threats, but they may suffer stress when the issues are not easily solved. Other responses. Animals respond in many ways to situations which threaten them. The fight/flight choice is just one alternative. At one extreme is the way mother cats with kittens will defend them to the death if necessary. Another situation is the way many animals keep still when a predator is nearby. Their camouflage is often effective.
Ormoc is a city in the Philippines. It is in the Eastern Visayas region in the province of Leyte. It is the second largest city in the province. In 2010, 190,000 people lived in Ormoc. In 1991, Ormoc was hit by Tropical Storm Thelma. On 8 November 2013, the city was affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Ormoc is one of a few cities in the Philippines where people use e-tricycles. The city and nearby areas are sometimes attacked by the New People's Army (NPA). The city got its name from "ogmok", an old Visayan term for lowland.
Gail Dines (July 29, 1958 in Manchester) is a British-American radical feminist and anti-pornography activist. Her book "Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality" was published in 2010. She is Jewish. She moved to the United States in 1986. She is a Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. Dines says that modern pornography is cruel and violent. She started a group called Stop Porn Culture.
Brown County is a county in Indiana. Its county seat is Nashville. Cities. There are no cities in Brown County
Larry D. Mann (18 December 1922 – 6 January 2014) was a Canadian actor. He was known for his voice role as Rudolph on "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer". Mann died on 6 January 2014 at his home in Los Angeles. He died from Alzheimer's disease. He was aged 91.
Alma Muriel (20 October 1951 – 5 January 2014) was a Mexican actress. She was known for playing villain roles on telenovelas. Muriel was born in Mexico City on 20 October 1951. She was partners with actor Joaquín Cordero. Muriel died from a heart attack on 5 January 2014 at her apartment in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo. She was aged 62.
Cutthroat Kitchen is a reality cooking television show that airs on Food Network. It began on August 11, 2013. It is hosted by Alton Brown. Format. Four chefs are given three cooking challenges. Each challenge has a type of dish that the chefs have to make in 30 minutes. Before then, the chefs have one minute to get ingredients out of a pantry. After 30 minutes, a judge tastes each dish, and the chef with the worst dish is eliminated. At the start of the game, the chefs are each given $25,000. In the first two challenges, Brown shows items that are put up to auction for the chefs to buy using their money. The chefs can use these items on other chefs to change their ingredients, what cooking tools they can use, and other things. For example, an item may force a chef to cook using canned ingredients instead of fresh ones. The chef who is eliminated has to give back the money that they have. In the last challenge, no items are shown at first, but during the first minutes of the challenge, Brown will put items up for auction. This makes it so the person who gets the item has to change their dish based on what the item does. The chef that wins keeps the money that they have left.
Semi-vegetarianism means eating seafood or poultry, or both, but no red meat. People who eat red meat on rare occasion are "flexitarians". Real or semi-vegetarians, though, usually resent "flexitarian", looking down on this term and calling it cheating.  A pescetarian is a person who eats fish, shrimp and seafood. They do not eat poultry. A "pollotarian" is a person who eats chicken. They do not eat red meat, seafood or fish. "Pollo-pescetarians" eat seafood, shrimp and poultry but no red meat. People who have semi-vegetarian diets are usually doing so for health reasons, including avoiding heart disease, diabetes and strokes.
Ovo-lacto vegetarianism (alternate: lacto-ovo) is a diet in which people do not eat the flesh of animals. They do, though, eat eggs and dairy. Ovo-lacto vegetarians are the most prevalent types in the Western world. Such people are well served in restaurants, especially in certain parts of Europe and in North America. Ovo-lacto vegetarians use this diet sometimes for religious reasons. Others use it for health.
Béla Károlyi (; September 13, 1942 – November 15, 2024) was a Romanian gymnastics coach. He was born in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca). He helped coach several gymnasts during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Károlyi died on November 15, 2024 in Houston, Texas at the age of 82.
Liam Cosgrave (13 April 1920 – 4 October 2017) was an Irish politician. Cosgrave served as Prime Minister of Ireland (1973–77) and as Leader of Fine Gael (1965–77). He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1943 to 1981. Cosgrave died in Dublin on 4 October 2017 at the age of 97, after a long illness.
General Prem Tinsulanonda (August 26, 1920 – May 26, 2019) was a Thai retired military officer. He was Prime Minister of Thailand from March 3, 1980 to August 4, 1988. He was the Regent of Thailand and the Head of the Privy Council. Tinsulanonda died on May 26, 2019 from heart failure at a Bangkok hospital at the age of 98.
Thura U Tun Tin (, ; 2 October 1920 – 1 May 2020) was an Burmese politician. Tin served as the 9th Prime Minister of Burma for a few months in 1988. He was born in Myitkyina on 2 October 1920. He studied at Mandalay College in 1941. Tin died on 1 May 2020 in Yangon at the age of 99.
Lê Đức Anh (1 December 1920 – 22 April 2019) was an Vietnamese general and politician. He was President of Vietnam from 1992 until 1997. He became president after leading the Vietnamese forces in Cambodia throughout the 1980s. He was regarded as a conservative. He supported maintaining strict party control over local policies. He was born in Phú Lộc District, Thừa Thiên–Huế Province on 1 December 1920. He died of stroke-related problems on 22 April 2019 in Hanoi, aged 98.
Pedro Richter Prada (January 4, 1921 – July 14, 2017) was a Peruvian politician. Prada was the Prime Minister of Peru from 31 January 1979 to 28 July 1980. On December 28, 2007, the Italian government arrested Prada for the disappearance of 25 Italian citizens in the 1970s. In February 2015 a trial started in Italy related to Operation Condor, there were indictments against 32 people, including Richter Prada. He was charged with aggravated murder. Prada died in Lima, Peru on July 14, 2017 at the age of 96.
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (5 January 1921 – 23 April 2019) ruled Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000. He was the father of the current ruler, Grand Duke Henri. He was the son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Life. Jean was born at Berg Castle, in central Luxembourg. His name at birth was Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano. He became Grand Duke when his mother, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, abdicated on 12 November 1964. Grand Duke Jean abdicated on 7 October 2000. He was succeeded on the throne by his son Henri. Grand Duke Jean lived at Fischbach Castle. Jean died at a hospital in Luxembourg City on 23 April 2019 from a lung infection at the age of 98.
The 2014 North American polar vortex was a weather system that caused extremely cold weather through Canada and the United States. Freezing temperatures went all the way down to Nashville, Tennessee. Several cities broke records: Chicago O'Hare International Airport set a record on 6 January with a temperature of , beating the record in 1884 and 1988. There were also power failures throughout Canada and United States. One in Newfoundland on 5 January took out the power of 190,000 customers. Almost 24,000 people lost electricity across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton ordered all schools closed down due to weather. Across Indiana, over fifty of the state's ninety-two counties ordered roads closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles, mostly north of Indianapolis. Several people were killed because of the extreme weather all across North America.
Strange Days is a cyberpunk thriller movie. It was released on October 13, 1995. The story is about celebrations for the new millennium in Los Angeles, in December 1999. The area is a dangerous war zone. The movie is also about coverups, murders and deception. Ralph Fiennes plays Lenny, Angela Bassett plays Mace and Juliette Lewis plays Faith. Its run time was 145 minutes. The reviews of the movie were positive. The movie, however, did not make much money at the box office.
Marcia Griffiths (born November 23, 1949) is a Jamaican singer. She had "Electric Boogie" (also called the "Electric Slide") in the late 1980s as a hit single. Griffiths began her singing career in 1964. She usually performs reggae music. She was in a duet named Bob and Marcia.  Griffiths was born in Kingston.
Elizabeth Ann "Liz" Jones (born 5 September 1958) is a British journalist. She is known for writing for the Daily Mail. In 2014 Jones became a contestant on "Celebrity Big Brother (UK)". She was one of the contestants nominated for the first eviction. Career. In April 1999 Jones became the editor of "Marie Claire" magazine. She was sacked two years later. Personal life. She became anorexic when she was 11 years old. She is deaf. She married Nirpal Singh Dhaliwa in 2002. In 2007 she divorced him.
Robert Zulj (born 5 February 1992) is an Austrian football player. He plays for LASK in the Austrian Bundesliga. He has also played in the Austrian Under-18, Under-19, and under-21 national teams. Career. Zulj began his active career in 1999 in his native town of Wels in Upper Austria with the local club FC Wels. From 2006 to 2010 he played in the Linz academy. His professional career started with SV Ried in 2010. His debut was on 14 August 2010 in the first round match of the 2010–11 ÖFB Cup in a 0-3 defeat versus Bundesliga club FK Austria Wien. During the winter break of the 2013–14 season he signed a contract with FC Red Bull Salzburg. For the 2014–15 season he went to SpVgg Greuther Fürth. For the 2017–18 season he went to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. The next season he played on loan for 1. FC Union Berlin. He then came back but only played in Hoffenheim's second team. So he went to VfL Bochum in the second league. In July 2021 he joined al-Ittihad. After a season in the Emirates, he left the club in July 2022. He returned to Austria and signed with LASK until June 2025. International. He played 27 matches and scored five goals for Austria's U18, U19, U20 and U21 team.
Sir Thomas White (1492–12 February 1567) was an English cloth merchant, civic leader and founder of St John's College, Oxford. Career. Thomas White was born in Reading, Berkshire. He was the son of William White, a clothier of Reading, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Kibblewhite. At age 12 he became an apprentice to a London merchant. In time he became a prosperous clothier. In 1546 he served as of London. In 1553 he was Lord Mayor of London. Thomas White became Sir Thomas White when he was knighted by Queen Mary II of England the same year. Sir Thomas founded St John's College, Oxford in 1555. He died on 12 February 1567 at Oxford University. Sir Thomas was buried in the chapel of St. John's College, Oxford. The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity was started in 1542 and it still exists. It gives interest-free loans to new businesses in Leicestershire and Rutland. There are several memorials to Sir Thomas White in England and he is memorialized on Leicester's . Family. Sir Thomas first married a woman named Avice. She died on 26 February 1558. He married secondly Joan, daughter of John Lake. She was the widow of Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Thomas White did not have any children by either wife.
Simon David Hoggart (26 May 1946 – 5 January 2014) was an English journalist and broadcaster.  He was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the son of Richard Hoggart and elder brother of Paul Hoggart.  Hoggart wrote opinions about politics for "The Guardian". He also wrote opinions about wine for "The Spectator". Until 2006, he presented "The News Quiz" on Radio 4. His journalism sketches have been published in a series of books. Hoggart died from pancreatic cancer on 5 January 2014. He was aged 67.
Mustafa Ahmed Ben Halim (; 29 January 1921 – 7 December 2021) was an Libyan politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Libya from 12 April 1954 to 25 May 1957. Ben Halim is the last surviving of the Kingdom of Libya's premiers. He is the only one of them who survived the removal of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. He was also Foreign and Transport minister, and Libyan ambassador to France.
Yitzhak Navon (‎; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015) was an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983. He was the first Israeli president to be born in Jerusalem and not Russia. In 2005, people voted him as the 108th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website "Ynet".
Abdelmalek Benhabyles (27 April 1921 – 28 December 2018) was an Algerian politician. He was born in Chevreuil. He was a chairman of the Constitutional Council (President of Algeria) from 11 January 1992 until 14 January 1992. In his later political career, he was the country's ambassador to Japan, Tunisia, Switzerland and the Vatican. Benhabyles died in Algiers, Algeria on 28 December 2018 at the age of 97.
Port Talbot is a town and community in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is located 7 miles (11 km) to the east of Swansea across the Swansea Bay. In 2011, the town had a population of 37,276. The town is best known for Port Talbot Steelworks, one of the biggest steelworks in the world. However, for many years, the steelworks has been under threat of closure. Arguably Port Talbot's most famous son is actor, director and film producer Sir Anthony Hopkins, who was born in the Margam suburb of the town.
Robert "Rob" Gonsalves (July 10, 1959 – June 14, 2017) is a Canadian painter of magic and surreal events. Recognition. Gonsalves's art was not recognized until several years after he started, in the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit. He was given a small spot there to show off his most recent art. During the exhibit, he received a large amount of encouragement. Distribution. Gonsalves currently sells his latest work at exhibits and multiple websites. His most visited exhibits include the Art Expo in New York and Los Angeles, Decor Atlanta and Las Vegas, Fine Art Forum, as well as one-man shows at Discovery Galleries, Ltd., Marcus Ashley Gallery, and the Hudson River Art Gallery. Books. In June 2003, Simon &amp; Schuster produced Gonsalves's first book, "Imagine a Night". A second book, "Imagine a Day", was produced in 2004. That book received the 2005 Governor General's Award. In 2008, Gonsalves produced another book, "Imagine a Place".
Metropolis is a fictional city in DC Comics. It is where Superman lives. The city is based on New York City, Chicago and Toronto. It became Superman's home in 1939. Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is one of the largest and richest cities on Earth. It has a population of nearly 11 million people. Metropolis in media. The city has appeared in different forms of media, including television shows, movies, video games, and more.
The Daily Planet is a fictional newspaper in the universe of DC Comics. Superman's alter-ego Clark Kent works here with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White. The "Daily Planet" office building has a large globe on its roof. Jerry Siegel said that the design of the building was based on the Old Toronto Star Building. Future appearances of the building were soon inspired by the Chicago Board of Trade Building and the Empire State Building. Adaptations. The newspaper has been adapted to differents forms of media, including movies, television series, and video games as well.
It's My Party is a romance and drama movie. It was released March 1996. The story is about a two-day-long party given by Nick Stark, a man with AIDS. Instead of dying slowly, he decides to kill himself using Seconal. Eric Roberts plays Nick, Marlee Matlin plays Daphne, Margaret Cho plays Charlene Lee, Sally Kellerman plays Sara, Olivia Newton-John plays Lina. The movie had mixed to positive reviews. Its running time was 110 minutes.