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Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (1 March 1918 – 18 June 1973), better known as Roger Delgado, was a British actor. He began his acting career in 1939. He is best known as the first actor to play the Master in the BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who". He appeared as the Master in 37 episodes from 1971 until his death in 1973.  Delgado was born in Whitechapel, London. He was the son of a Belgian mother and a Spanish father. He served as a major during the Second World War. He was married to Kismet Shahani. On 18 June 1973, Delgado was killed in a car accident in Nevşehir, Turkey. He was 55. He died while filming the French-German TV miniseries "La Cloche tibétaine" (English: "Tibetan Bell").
The Gambia River (formerly known as the River Gambra) is a major river in West Africa. It is about long. It runs from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and the Gambia to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul. It is navigable for about half that length. Geography. The river is strongly associated with The Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, which consists of little more than the downstream half of the river and its two banks. From the Fouta Djallon, the river runs northwest into the Tambacounda Region of Senegal, where it flows through the Parc National du Niokolo Koba, then is joined by the Nieri Ko and Koulountou before entering the Gambia at Fatoto. At this point the river runs generally west, but in a meandering course with a number of oxbows, and about 100km from its mouth it gradually widens, to over 10km wide where it meets the sea. Near the mouth of the river, near Juffure, is Kunta Kinteh Island, a place used in the slave trade which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The aquatic fauna in the Gambia River basin is closely associated with that of the Senegal River basin, and the two are usually combined under a single ecoregion known as the Senegal-Gambia Catchments. Although the species richness is moderately high, only three species of frogs and one fish are endemic to this ecoregion. Oysters are harvested from the River Gambia and used to make oyster stew, a traditional dish in the cuisine of Gambia. The river is an important trade route. Ocean-going vessels can use it for , to the settlement of Kuntaur. Smaller ships can reach the settlement Fatoto, which is from its mouth.
Tongyong Pinyin is a romanization of Mandarin Chinese, or a way to write Mandarin in the Roman alphabet, that was invented in Taiwan. It was created by the Taiwanese to oppose Hanyu Pinyin, which is the official romanization of Mandarin in Mainland China, the UN, and most other international organizations, because many Taiwanese do not want to use a writing system created by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2002, it became the official romanization in Taiwan, even though no one was forced to use it. However, in 2009, Taiwan replaced Tongyong with Hanyu as the island's official romanization. While Taipei mostly uses Hanyu spelling today, many cities, particularly in southern Taiwan, still use many different romanizations, including Tongyong spelling, and it can still be seen in many places. Tongyong Pinyin vs. Hanyu Pinyin. Most Tongyong spellings of Chinese syllables are the same as Hanyu spellings. However, one major difference is that Tongyong does not use letters 'x' and 'q', which are both used in Hanyu. Below is a chart that compares syllables in Hanyu to those in Tongyong. Below is not an exhaustive list, but a list that show major differences between the two systems. Below are examples of sentences written in Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, and Tongyong Pinyin with English translations.
Turgor means the state of turgidity and resulting rigidity of cells or tissues, typically due to the absorption of fluid. Hence, used in biology.
"Starships" is a song by American rapper Nicki Minaj. It is from her second studio album, "". It is the tenth track on the album. It was released on February 14, 2012. The song has a pop rap sound similar to her previous single "Super Bass" and has elements of dance-pop and Eurodance. Minaj co-wrote the song with Wayne Hector, Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, and its producer, RedOne, who is known for his work with Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez. The song has been very successful worldwide, reaching the top ten in countries like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Gordon David Phillips (17 November 1946 – 3 September 2018) was an English professional football goalkeeper and coach. He made over 200 appearances in the Football League for Brentford. Phillips also played for Hayes from 1961 to 1963 and for Hillingdon Borough from 1973 to 1978. He was born in Uxbridge, London. Phillips died on 3 September 2018 from cancer, aged 71. Honours. Brentford Individual
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American opera singer and soprano.  Fleming is known for having a full lyric soprano voice. She has sung "chansons", jazz and indie rock.  Her best known roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro", Desdemona in Verdi's "Otello", Violetta in Verdi's "La traviata", the title role in Dvořák's "Rusalka", the title role in Massenet's "Manon", the title role in Massenet's "Thaïs", the title role in Richard Strauss's "Arabella", the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", and the Countess in "Capriccio".
Indian Springs Village (often simply called Indian Springs) is a town of Alabama in the United States. An F2 tornado damaged business buildings in the town on March 27, 1994 along with Pelham, Helena, and Inverness.
Inverness is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. Inverness comes from a Scottish city of the same name. An F2 tornado damaged business buildings here along with Pelham, Helena, and Indian Springs on March 27, 1994.
Mooresville is a town of Limestone County in the state of Alabama, in the United States. It is located southeast of the intersection of Interstate 565 and Interstate 65, and north of Wheeler Lake. The town is between Huntsville and Decatur, and is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area; its population as of the 2020 census is 47.
Jacqueline Pearce (20 December 1943 – 3 September 2018) was a British movie and television actress. She was best known as the villain Servalan in the British science fiction TV series "Blake's 7". She also starred in "Doctor Who" as Chessene, a bloodthirsty alien. Pearce was diagnosed with lung cancer in May 2018 and died shortly after at her home in Lancashire on 3 September 2018, aged 74.
Caterina Ranieri (31 August 1925 – 3 September 2018), known professionally as Katyna Ranieri, was an Italian actress and singer. She was born in Follonica, Italy. She had her first hit in 1954 at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Una canzone da due soldi".  She was the widow of the Italian film composer Riz Ortolani. She starred in "Goodbye Uncle Tom". Ranieri died on 3 September 2018 in Pesaro, Italy from heart failure at the age of 93.
Thomas Sowell (; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Sowell worked at Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked for think tanks such as the Urban Institute.  Since 1980, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He writes from a libertarian conservative perspective. He is a National Humanities Medal recipient for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics and political science.
Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city's population is 151,950, making it the 20th most populous city in the state of Texas. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston, who named the area after Pasadena, California.
Claire Wineland (April 10, 1997 – September 2, 2018) was an American health activist, entrepreneur and author. She was known for her non-profit organization "Claire’s Place Foundation". She worked to support and organize people with terminal and chronic illness and their families. She was also the author of the book "Every Breath I Take, Surviving and Thriving with Cystic Fibrosis" and a TEDx speaker. Wineland supported Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Wineland died, aged 21, on September 2, 2018 from a stroke at a San Diego, California hospital, one week after having a lung transplant.
Annette Jones (born September 7, 1967), better known as Leslie Jones, is an American comedian and actress. She is a cast member and writer on "Saturday Night Live".  Jones starred in the movie "Ghostbusters" (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on "Saturday Night Live".
Daniel Sallis Huston (born May 14, 1962) is an American actor, writer, and director. He starred in "Birth", Martin Scorsese’s "The Aviator", "The Constant Gardener", Sofia Coppola’s "Marie Antoinette", Peter Berg’s "The Kingdom", Ridley Scott’s "Robin Hood" and Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock". Huston starred in the thriller series "American Horror Story", portraying The Axeman in ' and Massimo Dolcefino in '. He also starred as General Erich Ludendorff in the 2017 movie "Wonder Woman".
Nevada ( "nə--də"; pronounced differently than the state) is a city and a county seat of Vernon County, Missouri, United States. Founded in 2010 by Sam Klumpp lll. After a fierce battle at Taco Bell also known as The Battle of Bull Runs, Klumpp managed to secure the victory over his own bowels. The population was 8,212 at the 2020 census. All hail King Kellanburger.
Dumbo is an American fantasy adventure movie. It was directed by Tim Burton. It was inspired by Walt Disney's 1941 animated movie also called "Dumbo". It stars Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Alan Arkin and Roshan Seth. The movie was released in the United States and United Kingdom on March 29, 2019. It was released in Real D 3D and IMAX 3D.
Jon Raymond Polito (December 29, 1950 – September 1, 2016) was an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His best known works were as Detective Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons of "" and as Phil Bartoli on the first season of "Crime Story".  Polito starred as "The Rocketeer", "The Crow" and "Gangster Squad", as well as his work with the Coen brothers. He appeared in five of their movies, including "Miller's Crossing", "Barton Fink" and "The Big Lebowski".  Polito last appeared as Enrico Banducci in a large supporting role in Tim Burton's 2014 movie "Big Eyes". Polito died from multiple myeloma on September 1, 2016 in Duarte, California, aged 65.
Duarte () is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 21,727. Duarte is located at .
Tropical Storm Gordon was a tropical cyclone in early September 2018. The storm developed on September 1, 2018.  Gordon crossed over southern Florida near Key Largo and Miami on September 3, 2018. The storm went into the Gulf of Mexico later that day. Tropical storm and hurricane warnings were put in effect from southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. Gordon was expected to become a hurricane before moving onto the United States Gulf Coast.
Kenneth Smith Harrelson (born September 4, 1941), nicknamed "The Hawk", is an American All-Star first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball. He serves as a television broadcast announcer for the Chicago White Sox. He played for the Kansas City Athletics, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians. Harrelson was born in Woodruff, South Carolina, but raised in Savannah, Georgia. He studied at the University of Kentucky.
Hinterkaifeck was a small farmstead near the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen. It was about north of Munich. On the evening of 31 March 1922, the six people who lived in the farm were killed. The murders remain unsolved. The six victims were parents Andreas Gruber (63) and Cäzilia (72); their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35); Viktoria's children, Cäzilia (7) and Josef (2); and the maid, Maria Baumgartner (44). Hinterkaifeck was never an official place name. The name was used for the remote farmstead of the hamlet of Kaifeck, located nearly north of the main part of Kaifeck and hidden in the woods (the prefix "Hinter", part of many German place names, means "behind"), part of the town of Wangen, which was incorporated into Waidhofen in 1971.
The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Persian phrase "tamám shud", meaning "ended" or "finished", printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers.  The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám. "Tamam" was misspelt as "Taman" in many early reports and this error. Jessica Thomson living in nearby Glenelg was questioned in connection with the case, her phone number was found in the book. Shortly afterwards, she gave birth to a boy with the same rare ear trait as the unidentified man. On 26 July 2022, a professor Derek Abbott with genealogist Colleen M. Fitzpatrick, claimed to have identified the man as Carl "Charles" Webb, born in 1905, based on DNA of the man's hair. South Australia Police and Forensic Science South Australia have not verified the result, but said they were "cautiously optimistic" about it.
On March 18, 1990, 13 paintings worth for a total of $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In the early hours, guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call. Once inside, the thieves tied up the guards and over the next hour committed the largest-value recorded theft of private property in history. Despite efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and multiple probes around the world, no arrests have been made and no works have been recovered. The museum initially offered a reward of $5 million for information leading to the art's recovery, but in 2017 this was temporarily doubled to $10 million, with an expiration date set to the end of the year. This was extended into 2018 following helpful tips from the public.
The Isdal Woman ( 1926–1934 (most likely 1930) 23–29 November 1970), was the placeholder name of a unidentified woman who was either murdered or committed suicide. Her combusted body was discovered on 29 November 1970, at the base of a cliff in a wooded valley area in Isdalen, Bergen, Norway, by a man walking with his two (2) young daughters. Despite the fact that the woman had died recently (between a few hours and six days), it was difficult to make out her facial features and her clothing due to the upper half of her body and also clothing being combusted. Her identity remains an unsolved mystery and the case remains as one of the profound Cold War mysteries in Norwegian history.  Prior to her death and discovery, according to eyewitnesses who saw her, she was a intelligent traveller, who often stayed at hotels during her travel, and also she was a polyglot, who could speak Flemish, German, and English. She was first seen and known on 1 February 1970, when she arrived from Geneva, and last seen alive on 23 November, when she left a hotel and entered a taxi automobile. An eyewitness claimed to see a woman, who resembled her, on 24 November. According to his description, the woman was in the company of the two men wearing black suits, and look frightened. When she opened her mouth, presumably to speak or call out for help, she quickly closed it. The woman is still currently unidentified, and her identity remains an unsolved mystery. Despite the causes of her death being known, there are still many theories as to why and how exactly she died and also to who she really was.
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six). The raid. The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led operation with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The operation ended a nearly 10-year search for bin Laden, following his role in the September 11 attacks on the United States. The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was launched from Afghanistan. U.S. military officials said that after the raid U.S. forces took bin Laden's body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried him at sea within 24 hours of his death in accordance with Islamic tradition. The SEALs encountered the residents in the compound's guest house, in its main building on the first floor where two adult males lived, and on the second and third floors where bin Laden lived with his family. The second and third floors were the last section of the compound to be cleared. There were reportedly "small knots of children ... on every level, including the balcony of bin Laden's room". bin Laden was killed in the raid and initial versions said three other men and a woman were killed as well: bin Laden's adult son Khalid, bin Laden's courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, al-Kuwaiti's brother Abrar, and Abrar's wife Bushra. Al-Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing. Approval. The raid was supported by over 90% of the American public, United Nations, NATO, the European Union, along with a large number of governments, but was criticized by two-thirds of the Pakistani public. Also controversial was the decision not to release any photographic or DNA evidence of bin Laden's death to the public. Aftermath. In the aftermath of the killing, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani created a commission under
Bobby Dunbar was an American boy whose disappearance at the age of four and apparent return was widely reported in newspapers across the United States in 1912 and 1913.  In August 1912, the Dunbars took a fishing trip to nearby Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. On that trip, Bobby Dunbar disappeared, on August 23. After an eight-month nationwide search, investigators believed that they had found the child in Mississippi, in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of North Carolina.  Dunbar's parents claimed the boy as their missing son. However, both Walters and a woman named Julia Anderson said that the boy with him was Anderson's son. Julia Anderson could not afford a lawyer, and the court eventually sided for the Dunbars. Percy and Lessie Dunbar retained custody of the child, who spent the rest of his life as Bobby Dunbar. In 2004, DNA test found that the boy found with Walters and "returned" to the Dunbars as Bobby had not been a blood relative of the Dunbar family. Since the DNA testing is conclusive, the fate of the actual Bobby Dunbar remains unsolved.
Operation Eagle Claw, known as Operation Tabas () in Iran, was a United States Armed Forces operation ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to try to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980.  Its failure damaged U.S. prestige worldwide. Carter himself blamed his loss in the 1980 U.S. presidential election mainly on his failure to win the release of the hostages.
Geoffrey Louis Owens (born March 18, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on "The Cosby Show" (1985–1992). In 2017, Owens played an Assistant Dean on the FOX drama series "Lucifer". In September 2018, a customer at a Trader Joe's took a picture of Owens, who worked the cash register. The publication of the photos has been characterized as "job shaming".
Los Gatos (meaning "The Cats" in Spanish) is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area, about 70 miles south of San Francisco. It is on the edge of Silicon Valley. History. The town's founding dates to the mid-1850s with the building of a flour-milling operation, Forbes Mill, by James Alexander Forbes along Los Gatos Creek, then called Jones's Creek. The mill's two-story stone storage annex still stands. The town grew rapidly in the 1960s. As of 2020, it has 33,529 inhabitants. California State Route 17 runs through the town from south to north.  Mission Oaks Hospital is the biggest employer, with 2,000 staff. Netflix is an online movie rental service headquartered in Los Gatos.
San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located 34 miles east of San Francisco, and within the San Ramon Valley. San Ramon's population was as 84,605 at the 2020 census, making it the 4th largest city in Contra Costa County, after Concord, Richmond, and Antioch. It shares borders with Danville to the north and Dublin to the south.
Gwoyeu Romatzyh (pinyin: "Guóyǔ luómǎzì", literally "National Language Romanization"), abbreviated GR, is a romanization of Mandarin Chinese, or a way to write Mandarin using the Roman alphabet, made by Yuen Ren Chao and some other linguists in the late 1920s. It was made as a way to write Mandarin using tonal spelling, or spelling rules that would change the syllable's spelling depending on its tone. For example, the syllable "chai" would be written as "chai" if it has the first Mandarin tone (or "chāi" in Pinyin), "chair" if it has the second tone ("chái")", chae" if it has the third tone ("chǎi")"," or "chay" if it has the fourth tone (chài). Chao created GR in order to increase literacy because China's illiteracy was very high in the early 20th century. He had tones written without extra tone markers, which could take a long time and be difficult to add in printing.  Even though many other Asian languages use tonal spelling, like Hmong, they all represent tones by using the same letter each time the tone is used. In Hmong, for example, "-b" is always a high tone, -s is always a low tone, and "-j" is always high-falling tone. In GR, however, each syllable final has its own spelling rules, and many exceptions exist within those rules. For example, first tone words with the final "-a" as in "bā" are written with just one vowel like "ba" except when the syllable begins with an "l-, m-, n-," or "r-", where it must be written as "lha, mha, nha," and "rha" respectively. That is only one of its many rules and exceptions.  Unsurprisingly, many people thought GR was too difficult to learn. Nonetheless, it still has many supporters, who would rather learn using GR than pinyin. While supporters of GR claim that it helps users remember
The Arch of Septimius Severus () is at the northwest end of the Roman Forum. It is a white marble triumphal arch. It was dedicated in 203 AD after the Parthian victories of Emperor Septimius Severus and his two sons. Two campaigns were fought against the Parthians in 194/195 and 197–199 AD. The sons were Caracalla and Geta. After the death of Septimius Severus, his sons were initially joint emperors. Caracalla had Geta assassinated in 212; Geta's memorials were destroyed. All images or mentions of him were removed from public buildings and monuments. So, Geta's image and inscriptions were removed from the arch (damnatio memoriae).
The flags of the cities of the United States exhibit a wide variety of regional influences and local histories, as well as widely different styles and design principles. Florida. Many flags of Floridian cities feature their city seal on a saltire, incorporating elements from the Floridian flag, itself based on the former Spanish flag, into their designs. New York. Some city flags of New York, such as that of Albany and New York, feature colors from the Dutch Prince's Flag in their designs, due to the prominence of the Netherlands in the history of New York.