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was the 75th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He is also called Sanuki-Inn,because he lived in Sanuki (Kagawa) in the later part of his life. Although, officially, he was a child of Toba-Tennno, actually it is said that is not true. Hogen no Ran. He struggled with Goshirakawa-Tenno (his brother) for political leadership. This political battle is called Hogen no Ran. He was defeated and was banished to Sanuki. Legends. After Sotoku's abdication and exile, he devoted himself to a monastic life. He copied numerous scriptures and offered them to the court. Fearing that the scriptures were cursed, the court refused to accept them. Snubbed, Sotoku was said to have resented the court and, upon his death, became an onryō. Everything from the fall in fortune of the Imperial court, the rise of the samurai powers, droughts and internal unrests were blamed on his haunting. Other legends say he changed into an Ootengu (greater tengu). Along with nurarihyon, the nine-tailed kitsune Tamamo-no-Mae and the oni Shuten-dōji, they are often called the four greatest yōkai of Japan.
Funassyi (pronounced "Funasshi") is an unofficial mascot of Funabashi City, Japan. He is a rock-star in a pear costume. Funassyi's main purpose is to promote Funabashi City. He is a singer, dancer, and a talking pear. He was a mascot which a Funabashi resident started. Now Funassyi is a famous yuru-chara (a category of mascot characters) of Japan. However, Funabashi City has not yet approved him as an official mascot. Features. He talks in high-pitched falsetto voice. He shouts "Nasshi" at the end of his sentences. He often says "Hyahha-" in a strange voice.
Kumamoto Castle is one of the most famous Japanese castles. There are a lot of ginkgo trees, so some people call it Ginkgo Castle. History. Kumamoto Castle was completed by Kato Kiyomasa in 1607. He was the first lord of the castle. After that, the lord of the castle was Hosokawa tribe for 240 years. In 1877, Kumamoto Castle was almost destroyed by the effect of Satsuma Rebellion. In 1960, the tower was repaired. Structure. The outer stone wall of Kumamoto Castle has particular structure. It is called Mushagaeshi. It can prevent enemies from climbing stone walls because it curves out at the top.
Tango in the Night is the 14th studio album by British American band Fleetwood Mac. It was released on 13 April 1987 through Warner Bros. and went to number 1 in the United Kingdom and Sweden, number 7 in the United States and Switzerland, number 2 in the Netherlands and Germany and number 9 in New Zealand.
Cookpad is the largest Internet recipe site in Japan. It was started in 1997 by the Cookpad company. They have a database of over 1.5 million recipes. Members can add their recipe in Cookpad. Other Cookpad users can make comments about recipes they have tried. Recipes are categorized. Users can look for the recipe they want to know. They are also able to look for popular recipes and search by seasonal keywords. Demographics. Now, 96.5% of cookpad users are women and 75.3 of them are married. Cookpad opened the recipe site in English, Spanish, Indonesian and Arabic. In Japan, premium members are increasing steadily and sales of smartphone advertising is going up steadily. Cookpad recently purchased Shahiya.com in Lebanon for $13.5 million. Shahiya has over 3 million monthly users, 90% of whom are women. Shahiya serves over 1 million users a month in Saudi Arabia alone.
The Corn Laws were a series of British laws regarding taxes on grains, which is called "corn" in that country. The laws were passed in the 1800s. The laws were passed to help and to protect British landowners. Prime Minister Lord Liverpool passed them in 1815. If the price for corn was below 80 shillings per quarter, importing corn was forbidden; otherwise, there were no import taxes.  In 1822 and 1828, there were small changes to the laws. The laws caused many protests and were phased out under Prime Minister Robert Peel's government in 1846, partly because over one million people starved in Ireland between 1846 and 1849. The famine is known as Irish Potato Famine today.  Economists such as David Ricardo were against the Corn Laws. Ricardo believed that overall, protectionism made corn too expensive for the British economy as a whole and that the laws caused too much protection of agriculture. He wrote from 1817 about those ideas in his "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation". However, the economist Thomas Malthus supported the laws since he thought that they helped British agriculture and stopped the country from depending on others.
Fugitive Among Us is a 1992 American crime drama television movie. It was directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno. It was shown on CBS. The movie was filmed in Dallas, Texas. It is based on the true story from the nonfiction book "And Deliver Us From Evil". Story. A policeman is obsessed to convict a rape suspect.
Northwich is a town and civil parish in the county of Cheshire, England. The town is about east of Chester and south of Warrington. Northwich has been named as one of the best places to live in the UK according to the Sunday Times in 2014. The town also made the list in 2013. The area around Northwich has been famous for its salt since Roman times. Then the town was known as Condate. Mines dug under Northwich began collapsing in the late 19th century. Buildings began to disappear as they sank into the mines below. Several of the deep mines have since been filled in under a £28 million project finished in 2007.
x86-64 is the general name of a series of 64-bit processors and their associated instruction set architecture. These processors are compatible with legacy x86 software.  AMD and Intel are the major manufacturers, and VIA also supported it with VIA Nano processors. They call their own 64-bit processors AMD64, Intel64 and VIA x86-64 processors, respectively. Game consoles such as Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 use their own semi-customized AMD64-based APU as main processors. x64 is another name used to refer to 64-bit extended systems based on this kind of processors. People often use "x64" to refer to its associated instruction set architecture and processor.  Desktop Processors. VIA x86-64. VIA Nano Desktop Operating System. Windows XP Professional x64 Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 x64 Windows 11 (Only x64) Mac OS X 10.4.7 and later Solaris 10 and later Linux 2.4.x and later
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a doctor and medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1892 Grenfell was sent to Newfoundland. He brought the first medical services to Newfoundland and Northern Labrador. In addition to practicing medicine, Dr. Grenfell built hospitals, schools and orphanages. These served the Eskimos, natives and fishermen of Newfoundland. For his years of service to the people of these communities he was later knighted (Order of St Michael and St George).  The Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Historical Society was formed in 1978. The society purchased Grenfell's home in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. The home has been restored as a museum and archives.
Ann-Britt Ryd Pettersson, born 19 March 1954, is a Swedish news reporter at Sveriges Television. She began working for SR Blekinge by the late 1970s. She then became host for regional news program "Östnytt". In 1980, she became first female employee by the SVT sports section. She was awarded the special prize during the 2018 Kristallen Awards.
Albertus Petrus Josephus Mansuetus Ferdinandus (Berten or Albrecht) Rodenbach (27 October 1856, Roeselare - 23 June 1880, Roeselare) was a Belgian poet. He is remembered as a symbol of the Flemish Movement. Hugo Verriest called him "the poet, the soul, the heart, the mind, the word of Reborn Flanders". Rodenbach was inspired by the writers Guido Gezelle and Hendrik Conscience. Rodenbach was born to a family of 10 children. His parents were wine merchants. He was a cousin to the writer Georges Rodenbach. He graduated from the Catholic minor Seminary in Roeselare. He met the writer Pol de Mont at the Catholic University of Leuven. Together they were involved in the Flemish movement. Rodenbach was the leader of the Flemish student’s association.  He was 23 when he died.
Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American romantic drama movie. It is set in 1953 in Massachusetts. Julia Roberts plays Katherine. Julia Stiles plays Joan. Kirsten Dunst plays Elizabeth. Marcia Gay Harden plays Nancy. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Giselle. This movie got mixed to negative reviews from critics. It made a lot of money at the box office.
There are 3 arrondissements in the Yonne department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into "arrondissements", which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture. If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture. The arrondissements are further divided into "communes". The arrondissements of the Yonne department are: History. Since its creation, the Yonne department has had few changes:
Anna Larsson, nickname: Nora-Anna, born 2 January 1922, dead 14 June 2003, was a Swedish track and field athlete and cross-country skier. As a track and field athlete, she competed for IFK Nora. She broke several women's running world records between 1944 and 1945. After winning an 800 meters running event, she also became first female to run a victory lap at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Awards and recognitions. In 1945, she was awarded the Kamratmedaljen award for best IFK performance of the year. As a cross-country skier, she won a 10 kilometers district championship title. She worked home at the farm in Öskevik outside Nora until marrying in 1947.
The arrondissement of Avallon is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Yonne "département" in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Its capital is the city of Avallon. History. When the Yonne department was created on 17 February 1800, the "arrondissement" of Avallon was part of that original department. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Avallon is bordered to the north by the Aube (Champagne-Ardenne) department, to the east by the Côte-d'Or (Burgundy) department, to the south by the Nièvre (Burgundy) department and to the west by the "arrondissement" of Auxerre. It is the easternmost "arrondissement" of the department, with an area of . It has 47,594 inhabitants, the "arrondissement" of the department with fewer people living there, and a population density of inhabitants/km². Composition. Cantons. After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements". In the "arrondissement" of Avallon, there are three cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement". The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements": Communes. The "arrondissement" of Avallon has 139 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes): The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
The arrondissement of Sens is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Yonne "département" in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Its capital is the city of Sens. History. When the Yonne was created on 17 February 1800, the "arrondissement" of Sens was part of that original department. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Sens is bordered to the northeast and east by the Aube (Champagne-Ardenne) department, to the south by the "arrondissement" of Auxerre, to the west by the Loiret (Centre-Val de Loire) department and to the northwest by the Seine-et-Marne (Île-de-France) department. It is the northernmost of the "arrondissements" of the department, with an area of , the smallest in area of the department. It has 114,298 inhabitants and its population density of inhabitants/km². Composition. Cantons. After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements". In the "arrondissement" of Sens, there are three cantons where not all their "communes" are in the "arrondissement". The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and "arrondissements": Communes. The "arrondissement" of Sens has 118 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes): The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Something to Talk About is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama movie. Julia Roberts plays Grace. Dennis Quaid plays her husband Eddie, who is having an affair with another woman. Robert Duvall plays her father Wyly. Kyra Sedgwick plays Emma. Gena Rowlands plays Georgia. The movie got mixed reviews from the critics. The title comes from a Bonnie Raitt song of the same name.
Johnnie Lucille Collier (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004), also known as Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress. She played Julie Shelton in the movie "Melody Ranch". She played Lois in "Kiss Me Kate". Miller was born in Chireno, Texas. She died at age 80 of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California.
Handbollsligan is the top division of men's handball in Sweden. It consists of 14 teams. Swedish national indoor championships for men have been played since 1932. The event is organized by the Swedish Handball Federation. It was called Elitserien () until the 2016-2017 season.
Svensk handbollselit is the top division of women's handball in Sweden. It consists of 12 teams. Swedish national indoor championships for wommen have been played since 1951. The event is organized by the Swedish Handball Federation. The series changed name to "Svensk handbollselit" for the 2016-2017 season. Before that it was called Elitserien ().
Khalil Ullah Khan (, February 2, 1934 – December 7, 2014) was a Bangladeshi movie actor. Khalil Ullah began his acting career as a theater activist while he made his debut on the silver screen with "Sonar Kajol". He then went on to star in about 800 movies. His first national award was for his role in "Gunda". In 2012, he won 'Lifetime Achievement Award'. Khan died from heart disease in Dhaka, Bangladesh, aged 80.
Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (, "ʿAdnān Shukrī Jumaʿah") (4 August 1975 – 6 December 2014) was a member of al-Qaeda. He was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in the United States. In March 2003, a provisional arrest warrant was issued calling him a "material witness". He was listed on theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list, and since then United States Department of State, through the Rewards for Justice Program, has offered a bounty of up to US$5 million for information about his location. Media reports surfaced on 6 December 2014 indicating that he was killed in a manhunt operation by Pakistan in South Waziristan.
Luke Daniel Somers (1981 – 6 December 2014) was a British-American photojournalist. He was held hostage by the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen until they killed him. He was a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States.  Somers was born in London. He graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin with a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and later traveled to Egypt before settling in Yemen.
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy (10 October 1927 – 8 December 2014) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist. He was known for performing songs about meditation and peace. He also wrote classical music. He was born in Kothapalli, Hyderabad State, British India. Krishnamurthy died in Visakhapatnam, India from lung cancer, aged 87.
Mango, stage name of Giuseppe ("Pino") Mango (6 November 1954 – 7 December 2014), was an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for his style which fuses pop, folk, world music, the frequent use of odd time signatures and for his high vocal range. On 7 December 2014 Mango suffered a heart attack while performing the song "Oro" during a concert in Policoro, province of Matera, aged 60. He was also the father of the singer Angelina Mango, who went to Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Gaston of France, Son of France, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 25 April 1608 – 2 February 1660) was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his wife Marie de Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a "Fils de France". As a young boy he was given the title of Duke of Anjou. Later he had the title Duke of Orléans. As the eldest surviving brother of King Louis XIII, he was known at court as "Monsieur". He was also one of the first princes to use the "style" of "Royal Highness". He is often also referred to as Gaston d'Orléans. His grandson the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany was named in his honour.  Children. Marguerite and Gaston d'Orléans had five children, three of whom survived into adulthood: Gaston had an illegitimate daughter by Marie Porcher: He also had an illegitimate son by Louise Roger de La Marbelière:
Kenneth Patrick Weatherwax (September 29, 1955 – December 7, 2014) known as Kenny and billed as "Ken" Weatherwax, was an American actor. He was best known for having played Pugsley Addams on the original "The Addams Family" television series. Weatherwax died from a heart attack at his home on December 7, 2014 at the age of 59.
Donald James Larsen (August 7, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. During a 15-year MLB career, he pitched from 1953–1967 for seven different teams. Larsen was born in Michigan City, Indiana, but was raised in San Diego, California. Larsen pitched for the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1953–1954; 1965), New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962–1964), Houston Colt .45's / Houston Astros (1964–1965), and Chicago Cubs (1967). Larsen died on January 1, 2020 in Hayden, Idaho at the age of 90 from esophageal cancer.
The Euthanasia Coaster is an art concept. The idea was a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.  In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas. Urbonas used to work in an amusement park. Urbonas said that the goal of his proposed roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria". Urbonas said it would be like "euthanasia" or "execution".  John Allen, who was the president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, gave Urbonas the idea. Allen wanted an "ultimate" roller coaster that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead". Urbonas took Allen's idea and designed the roller coaster. Urbonas said the roller coaster would make its passengers unconscious before killing them. It was criticized by the anti-euthanasia association Care Not Killing. The roller coaster kills its passengers by drastically decreasing oxygen in their brains.
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French movie director. He was a member of the French New Wave ("nouvelle vague") group of filmmakers. He became popular at the end of the 1950s. Chabrol was born in Sardent, France. Like his colleagues Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential movie magazine "Cahiers du cinéma". Chabrol died on 12 September 2010 in Paris, France, aged 80.
John Bertrand is an Australian yachtsman. He was born on 20 December 1946 in Chelsea, Victoria. He has one brother who has the same hobby. Bertrand sailed yacht with his brother every afternoon on Port Phillip Bay. Bertrand went to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He took a mechanical engineering class. He eventually went across to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After completing these courses, he won lots of yacht in competitions in his community. He then went to the 1972 Summer Olympics. He came fourth in the finn competition. In 1976 Bertrand won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games also for the finn competition. In 1983, Bertrand was the captain of the "Australia II" at the America's Cup. The weather at the start of the race was rough but then calmed down. On the last race Australia was losing by 55 seconds but then they caught back that time and won. Bertrand’s team was the first to beat the United States in the America's Cup in 132 years.
Vitus was born in Sicily in southern Italy. He was born in 290 AD. He died in Luciana in the northwest of Italy. Vitus was one of the fourteen holy helpers.  Legend says that Vitus was the son of a man named Hylas. Hylas didn’t like Vitus for being Christian so he arrested him with his tutor and his nurse. Vitus travelled to Lucania which is in Rome, Italy and he got trapped by some people who knew his father. They put Vitus in a pot of boiled oil with a rooster. After a while he died in the pot.  Saint Vitus was the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers and epileptics. Vitus’s feast day is June 15, which was his date of death in 303. People in Germany celebrate the feast of St Vitus by dancing next to his statue on June 15...
Saint Roch or Rocco ( – ) was a Christian saint. His death is commemorated on 16 August. He is a patron saint against the plague. He is also a patron Saint of dogs and falsely accused people. Life. According to his legends, Roch was born in 1295 in Montpellier, France. He was born with a red cross on his chest. His family was prosperous. As a young man he was very religious. He decided to live the life of a hermit. He gave away all he owned to the poor. At age 20 he set out on a religious pilgrimage to Rome. At this same time the plague struck Italy. While in Italy he stopped in villages to take care of the sick. Apparently everyone he tended to got well. He finished his pilgrimage to Rome. On his return trip he was struck by the plague himself. He decided to take refuge in the forest alone and wait for his death. According to his legend he was visited by an angel and was healed. A dog was said to have brought him bread every day. He then set out for Montpellier. His legends do not agree on what happened next. In one version he returned to Montpellier and died there. Another version say he returned to France but was arrested as a spy. He remained in prison for the rest of his life.  There is little historical evidence for the existence of Saint Roch. He remains one of the most popular saints in the south of France. His feast day is on August 16th.
Dominic Savio (April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857) is a Roman Catholic saint. Early years. Dominic Savio was born on 2 April 1842 in Riva di Chier, Turin, Italy. He was the second child out of eleven born to Charles Savio and his wife Brigid. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a seamstress. Dominic became an altar server at age five. When Dominic received his first Holy Communion, he wrote rules that he would always tried to follow.  Those rules were: From then on, Dominic lived by his motto, “Death, but not sin!” Later years. At the age of twelve Dominic met John Bosco. Dominic told him that he wished to be a priest. At the age of fourteen years old, he started at the Don Bosco School. Dominic was kind and friendly to all the students. Dominic had a great enthusiasm for the Eucharist. At school Dominic organised a club called the Company of the Immaculate Conception. They would do jobs around the school such as sweeping the floor and helping other boys who were misbehaving at school. At the age of only 14, Dominic died from an illness. He died on 9 March 1857 Years as a saint. St Dominic Savio was canonised in on June 12, 1954. He is the saint for young boys and the falsely accused. His feast day is March 9, the day of his death. Dominic was canonised by Pope Pius XII.
Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ. He played an important role in the rock and roll world in the 1950s. He was a producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s. He was the founder of both Sun Studios and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. He was most successful in the launching of Elvis Presley's career in 1954.