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Portage Park is located on the northwest side of the City of Chicago, Illinois and is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas.  Portage Park is bordered by the community areas of Jefferson Park and Forest Glen to the north, Dunning and the suburb of Harwood Heights to the west, Irving Park to the east and Belmont-Cragin to the south. The area is notable for its Six Corners outdoor shopping district.
Irving Park is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas located on the Northwest Side. It is bounded by the Chicago River on the east. It is named after the American author Washington Irving. Old Irving Park, bounded by Montrose Avenue, Pulaski Road, Addison Street and Cicero Avenue, has a variety of housing stock, with Queen Anne, Victorian, and Italianate homes, a few farmhouses and numerous bungalows. The CTA Blue Line runs through this neighborhood.
Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American movie producer. He is known for producing many blockbusters during the silent movie era. The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is named after him. He produced "Grand Hotel", "China Seas", "Camille", "Mutiny on the Bounty", "The Good Earth", and many more. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Thalberg died from pneumonia in Santa Monica, California, aged 37.
William Edward Peter Louis Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (24 November 1929 – 13 April 2014) was a Scottish herald, Private Officer of Arms and banker. He was appointed Slains Pursuivant of Arms in 1982. He was born in Littlehampton, Sussex. Drummond died in Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 84.
John "Pops" Witherspoon (born John Weatherspoon; January 27, 1942 – October 29, 2019) was an American actor and comedian. He had roles in several movies and television shows. He was mostly known his role in "Friday" series and as Granddad Robert Freeman in "The Boondocks". Witherspoon was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on October 29, 2019 at the age of 77. The cause of death was a heart attack.
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom produced by Adult Swim. The series premiered in November 6, 2005.  Background. It is about a black family called the Freemans moving from the West Side of Chicago to Woodcrest, a white suburb, of Baltimore, Maryland. They deal with many situations such as drugs, alcoholism, poverty, racism, and child abuse.
Museum Campus is a museum park that sits near Lake Michigan in Chicago and surrounds three of the city's most famous museums.  It is dedicated to the natural sciences: the Adler Planetarium &amp; Astronomy Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Field Museum of Natural History. It is also known for holding the Soldier Field football stadium and the Lakeside Center of the McCormick Place.  It used to hold Meigs Field airport on Northerly Island before it was destroyed. The campus holds the southeast corner of Grant Park.
"Dewey Defeats Truman" was a famously incorrect headline on the front page of the "Chicago Tribune". It was published on November 3, 1948.  It happened the day after incumbent United States President Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over Republican challenger and Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&amp;L crisis) was the failure of 1,043 out of the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States. It lasted from 1986 to 1995. In 1996, the General Accounting Office estimated the total cost to be $160 billion, including $132.1 billion taken from taxpayers. The man behind the crisis was Charles Keating. He was sentenced for his involvement of the crisis. Some people blame Ronald Reagan for the crisis because he signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which some might think was a direct result of the crisis.
Lewis &amp; Clark College is a private university in Portland, Oregon. The school was formed in 1867. In 2022, it had about 3,600 students and about 270 teachers.  History. The college started in 1867 in Albany, Oregon as part of the Presbyterian Church. At that time is was called Albany Collegiate Institute. The first class graduated in 1873. In 1905 the school changed its name to Albany College and started giving Bachelor of Arts degrees. The school opened a campus in Portland in 1934. The Portland campus was very popular, so the school decided to move there. The school opened a much larger campus in Portland in 1942, and renamed the school Lewis &amp; Clark College, to honor the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1966, the school stopped being part of a church and became a secular school. Students. In 2022 Lewis &amp; Clark College had 3705 students. 2,205 of those students were undergraduate students. The school has 29 majors. The most popular major is psychology. In 2024 tuition was $64,828 a year. In 2014, 64% of students who applied to the school were accepted. 60% of students are female, and 40% of students are male. The school does not have any fraternities or sororities. Some notable graduates of the school are:
James Brendan "Jim" Bolger (born 31 May 1935) is a New Zealand businessman and politician for the National Party. He was the 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand. He served as Prime Minister from 2 November 1990 to 8 December 1997. Bolger was born in Opunake, Taranaki. He is a Roman Catholic and has been married to Joan Riddell since 1963. They have nine children.
William Rodman "Bill" Henry (October 15, 1927 – April 11, 2014) was an American professional baseball left-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1952 and 1969. All the teams he played for were: the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, the Cincinnati Reds, the San Francisco Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Houston Astros. He was born in Alice, Texas. Henry died from a heart attack on April 11, 2014 in Round Rock, Texas. He was 86.
Taavi Aulis Rytkönen (5 January 1929 – 16 April 2014) was a Finnish footballer. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952. He was born in Karttula, Finland. He played for Finland at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He also worked as national coach from 1975 to 1978. He was chosen Finland's Player of the Year in 1949, 1950, and 1952. Rytkönen died in Helsinki, Finland, aged 85.
Harry Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) was an English metallurgist who invented stainless steel, that is, steel which does not rust. Life. Brearley was born in Sheffield, England, the son of a steelworker and his wife. He left Woodside School at the age of twelve to enter as a labourer in his father's steelworks. Later he got the post of general assistant in the company's chemical laboratory. For several years, in addition to his laboratory work, he studied to specialize in steel production techniques and related chemical analysis methods. In 1908, two of Sheffield's principal steelmaking companies agreed to jointly finance a common research laboratory (Brown Firth Laboratories). Harry Brearley was asked to lead the project. After leaving Brown Firth, Brearley joined Brown Bayley's Steel Works, also in Sheffield. He became a director of the firm in 1925. In 1941 Brearley created a charitable trust The Freshgate Trust Foundation, a grantmaking charity operating in Sheffield and South Yorkshire. Stainless steel. In the troubled years immediately before World War I, arms manufacturing increased greatly in the UK. There were problems due to erosion (excessive wear) of the internal surfaces of gun barrels. Brearley began to research new steels which could better resist the erosion caused by high temperatures. He began to add chromium to steel, which was known to raise the material’s melting point, as compared to the standard carbon steels. The research concentrated on quantifying the effects of varying the levels of carbon (C, at concentrations around 0.2 weight %) and chromium (Cr, in the range of 6 to 15 weight %). The discovery. In order to do examine the alloys, a metal sample is treated. For a carbon steel, a dilute solution of nitric acid in alcohol is sufficient to produce the required effect. Brearley found that the new chromium steels were very resistant to chemical attack. Up to that time carbon-steel knives rusted if they were not polished. Only expensive sterling silver or EPNS cutlery avoided the problem. With this in mind, Brear
Into the Storm is a 2014 American found footage disaster movie. It is about tornadoes and severe storms in Oklahoma. The movie was released on August 8, 2014. Warner Bros. is the main distributor of this movie.
Jiří Načeradský (9 September 1939 – 16 April 2014) was a Czech painter, graphic artist and educator. He was best known for his human figures, sometimes with erotic and sexual subtext and context. He was born in Sedlec-Prčice, Příbram District, Czechoslovakia. Načeradský died on 16 April 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic, aged 74.
Myer Samuel Kripke (January 21, 1914 – April 11, 2014) was an American rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist. He was the leader of Beth El Synagogue. He was also known for investing into Warren Buffett. Kripke was born in Toledo, Ohio. He and his wife, Dorothy, had three children. Their son, Saul, is a philosopher and logician. Kripke died from natural causes on April 11, 2014 in Omaha, Nebraska, aged 100.
"California Über Alles" is the first single off American hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys' debut studio album "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables". The song was released in June 1979.  The lyrics for the song were written by lead singer Jello Biafra and John Greenway for their band, The Healers. Biafra composed the music during one of his rare attempts at composing on bass. The song is about Jerry Brown, the Governor of California from 1975-1983 (and later 2011–present). It is sung from his perspective, as a fictional version of Brown shapes a hippie-fascist vision for America. The title is a reference to the first (and no longer sung) stanza of the national anthem of Germany, which began with the words "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" (literally: "Germany, Germany above all"). The song appeared in the video games Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and the Rock Band series.
Hugo Villar Tejeiro (20 November 1925 – 15 April 2014) was a Uruguayan physician and politician. He is best known for co-founding the left-wing political party Broad Front in 1971. He was born in Montevideo. Villar died on 15 April 2014 in Montevideo, aged 88.
Burushal state or" Bru zha land" is the old name for " Gilgit Division" of the Gilgit Baltistan the region of Pakistan. Burushal, which was once an independent state in the past, is located in the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan. Burushal is a word from Burushaski which means "headland of the Brušo/Burusho nation". The inhabitants here are called Burusho/Brušo and their dialect is Brušski/burushaski. The Burusho people have the distinction of being the oldest inhabitants of the northwest of India and the first settlers. And they may have been before the migration of Indo Aryans. The history of Burushal is very old. Today we don't know what exactly is it's origion At it's peaks it's was extended from Tibet to Persia (today wakhan Afghanistan) which means it includes Ladakh, Jammu, Kashmir, Gilgit, and Chitral. Sindhu Migration of other nations. Then the migration started towards this region. Balti came from China ( mostly Tibet) and settled and from this the state of Baltistan started. Local people (Burusho) called them Balox and the area called Baloi (بلوئی). After that Aryan Groups also moved to this area thus they are founder of Dard-Desh. Shina language is one of the major languages of Dard nations, which is spoken in most parts of Gilgit-Baltistan. This was followed by a kind of decline of the state of Brushal. Burushal, which was such a big state, was now limited only to Gilgit Division ( which today includes includes District Gilgit, Nagar Ghizer and Hunza). And then to only Hunza and Nagar with its capital at Capel Dons /Dongs "Nagar khas"/Oyum Nagar The king was called" Tham" in burushaski . The Tham/king had twins are said to have shown hostility to one another from birth. Thereupon their father, unable to settle the question of succession, divided his state between them, giving
Deliver Us from Evil is a 2014 American crime horror movie. It is about a New York City police officer who gets pulled into a case that is demon-related. Eric Bana plays the officer, Ralph Sarchie. Olivia Munn plays his wife. The movie is based on a 2001 book called "Beware the Night". Screen Gems distributes the movie. The movie was released on July 2, 2014.
Félicité Louise Henriette "Fé" Sciarone (12 August 1922 – 8 April 2014) was a Dutch radio actress and comedienne. Her best known appearances include "Dood in de jungle" (1955), "Een merkwaardig geval van zielsverhuizing" (1969), "De generaal" (1976), "Dit is uw kans" (1979) and "Vijf gemaskerde mannen" (1982). She started her career in 1950 and retired in 1984. She was born in The Hague, South Holland. In 1959 she voiced Maleficient in the first Dutch translation of Sleeping Beauty from Walt Disney. Sciarone died on 8 April 2014 in Amsterdam, North Holland, aged 91.
Dorothy Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer. She won awards for her writing. Early life. Allison was born to a poor single teenage girl in Greenville, South Carolina. She was sexually abused by her stepfather for many years. Career. Allison's first book was published in 1983. In 1989 Allison won her first Lambda Literary Award for "Trash: Short Stories". Allison took almost ten years to write her first novel. It was published March 1992. The novel was made into a movie. Personal life. Allison was a lesbian. She lived in Monte Rio, California with her partner and partner's son. Allison died at the age of 75 from cancer at her home in Guerneville, Califronia on November 6, 2024.
Catharine Macaulay (2 April 1731 – 22 June 1791) was an English historian. Between 1763 and 1783 Macaulay wrote her biggest work, "The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line". Her 1790 work "Letters on Education" deeply influenced Mary Wollstonecraft. Early life. Macaulay was born Catharine Sawbridge at Olantigh in Kent. She had two brothers. She was educated by a governess. Personal life. Macaulay married her first husband George Macaulay on 18 June 1760. In 1766, he died. In 1774, she moved to Bath. In 1788, Macaulay married William Graham. Macaulay died in Binfield in 1791.
Yadollah Sharifirad (born March 24, 1946) is an Iranian former fighter pilot and military attaché. He was also in 1978 a member of Golden Crown. Golden Crown was the national aerobatics team of Iran. It was a part of the former Imperial Iranian Air Force.  Sharifirad was one of the most successful Iranian F-5 pilots during the Iran–Iraq War. He had 5 victories against the Iraqi fighter aircraft (3 confirmed victories and 2 probable victories). The victories include: one Su-22 and four MiG-21s. After that he attacked an Iraqi power station, 3 Iraqi fighters attacked him. The Iraqi fighters shot his airplane down. He ejected and Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas took him back to Iran. A movie called "The Eagles" was made about this event. From 1984 until 1987, he was a military attaché in Pakistan. In 1987, the Iranian government ordered him back to Iran and accused him of the espionage for the United States. He spent one year in prison. He was set free after one year and fled to Canada. In 2010, Sharifirad wrote a book about his life, called "Flight of a Patriot."" In this book he tells the story of his life from his youth and through taking part in the Iran-Iraq war, his arrest, prison and being tortured, ending with his immigrating to Canada.
Bryan Wallace Berard (born March 5, 1977) is an American retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Berard played a total of 619 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played with the Columbus Blue Jackets, Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Islanders. Career. Before playing in the NHL, Berard played 1 season with the Detroit Junior Red Wings and 1 seasons with the Detroit Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was drafted with the 1st overall pick by the Ottawa Senators in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. Berard is best known for a game he played on March 11, 2000 where he was clipped in the right eye by Senators' Marian Hossa and had his sclera slashed. This resulted in both a retinal tear and a detached retina. Berard was told that he might have to lose his eye. During the next season, Berard had over 7 eye operations. The operations left him with 20/600 in his damaged eye. He would later be fitted with a contact lens which allowed him to meet the league's minimum vision requirement of 20/400. He was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for his ability to "overcome an injury that left him legally blind in one eye" in 2004. In early 2006, it was announced that Berard had tested positive for an anabolic steroid which was known as 19-Norandrosterone, in a drug test that he took in November 2005. Berard became the first NHL player to ever test positive for steroids. He said in a statement: "I made a mistake that resulted in a suspension and, while unintentional, I take full responsibility. I became aware of this problem after the fact, and for that I am disappointed in myself." He retired from playing professional ice hockey in 2009. Later life. On November 13, 2013, Berard along with ex-police officer John Kaiser, helped catch two con artists that were conspiring to steal $15 million from NHL players as well as many Long Island police officers and their families.
Cheo Feliciano (José Luis Feliciano Vega, July 3, 1935 – April 17, 2014) was a Puerto Rican composer and singer. He was mostly involved with salsa and Cuban music. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Feliciano died in Cupey, Puerto Rico, in a car accident. He was 78 years old. At the peak of his career in the 1960s he recorded nine albums with the Joe Cuba Sextet, and in the 1970s he recorded 15 albums for Fania Records, then the leading salsa music record company.
Virgilio Barco Vargas (17 September 1921 – 20 May 1997) was a Colombian politician, and civil engineer and member of Colombian Liberal Party. He served as the 27th President of Colombia from 1986 to 1990. Vargas was born in Cúcuta, North Santander, Colombia. Vargas died in Bogotá, D.C., Colombia from cancer, aged 75.
Pat O’Brien (William Joseph Patrick O'Brien; November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American movie, radio, and stage actor. He won a Daytime Emmy Award during his career. O'Brien was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He began acting in 1920. He appeared in over 100 movies. He is known for his roles in "Knute Rockne, All American", "Cowboy from Brooklyn", and in "Some Like It Hot".  O'Brien died from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, aged 83.
John Cornelius Houbolt (April 10, 1919 – April 15, 2014) was an American aerospace engineer for NASA. He is best known for his work on the lunar mission mode called "lunar orbit rendezvous" (LOR). This was chosen for Apollo program in early 1962. He was born in Altoona, Iowa. Houbolt died from natural causes on April 15, 2014 in Scarborough, Maine, aged 95.
John M. Slattery Jr. (born August 13, 1962) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Roger Sterling in the AMC drama series "Mad Men". He was part of the "Mad Men" cast that won two SAG Awards. He has also appeared in the movies "Iron Man 2" (2010) and "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011). Slattery was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Irish Roman Catholic family. He married actress Talia Balsam in 1998 and together they have a son, Harry.
Gary Andrew Speed (8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011) was a Welsh footballer and manager. He played mainly as a midfielder. He was born in Mancot, Flintshire. Speed played for Leeds United from 1988 to 1996 winning the 1991–92 Football League First Division. He also played for Everton from 1996 to 1998, Newcastle United from 1998 to 2004, Bolton Wanderers from 2004 to 2008 and Sheffield United from 2008 to 2010. After playing, he managed Sheffield United for a short time in 2010. At the time of his death in 2011, Speed was manager of Wales since 2010. Speed killed himself by hanging on 27 November 2011 in the garage of his home in Huntington, Cheshire, England. He was 42. He was outlived by his wife and their two sons, Ed and Tom. "Scores and results list Wales' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Speed goal." Source: Honours. Player. Leeds United Newcastle United Individual
LeRoy Neiman (born Leroy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist. He is known for his colored, expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Neiman died in New York City, New York from natural causes, aged 91.
Ralph Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. Dahrendorf was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied at Hamburg University and at the London School of Economics. Dahrendorf was a member of the House of the Lords from July 1993 to June 2009.  Dahrendorf died in Cologne, Germany, aged 80, on 17 June 2009, after suffering from cancer.
Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 - 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician.  He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed. Boal served one term as a "Vereador" (the Brazilian version of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997. He developed the legislative theatre. Boal died from respiratory failure caused by leukemia, aged 78.
Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (22 September 1932 – 26 June 2010) was the first President of Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas died from lymphatic cancer in Vilnius, Lithuania, aged 77.
Plains is a city in Sumter County, Georgia. It is the birthplace of the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter. He was born there in 1924. In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau has 573 people living there.
Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, it has about 84,000 residents. It lies in the east of Texas, near the Gulf Coast. History. Baytown was created in 1948. Geography. Baytown has a total area of 37.99 square miles. People. Baytown has about 84,000 living there.