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Bitstamp is a cryptocurrency exchange based company in Luxembourg. It enable USD, EUR, GBP, bitcoin, XRP, Ether, litecoin, bitcoin cash, XLM, Link, OMG Network, USD Coin or PAX deposits and withdrawals.  History. Nejc Kodrič is the CEO of the company. He is widely known member of the bitcoin community. Bitstamp outsourced certain operations to the UK due to the insufficient financial and legal services in Slovenia. Started by Nejc Kodrič and Damijan Merlak in August 2011, the company's first base was in a Slovenian garage with just a server, a couple of laptops and a thousand euros in capital. In June 2014, Bitstamp was awarded the Best Virtual Currency Startup at the Europas Bitstamp was one of the first exchanges to implement multi-signature technology for its hot wallet. It was also an early adopter of Bitcoin's SegWit soft fork for lower fees in 2017, and it instituted one of the first insurance funds, secured in cold storage, to reimburse its customers in the event of a hack. In July 2017, Bitstamp partnered with Swissquote, a well-respected analytical and finance firm to provide their customers BTC-USD and BTC-EUR trading pairs.
Robert Runcie (2 October 1921 - 12 July 2000) was an English archbishop. Runcie was born near Liverpool. He was educated at Oxford University. During World War Two, he was in the Scots Guards. He was Bishop of St Albans from 1970 to 1979 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1979 to 1992.
Paul Schroeter, or Schröter, (26 October 1866 – 1946), was a German painter and etcher. Life. Born in Kępno Schroeter initially studied in the early 1880s at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was a student of Eduard von Gebhardt, Peter Janssen and Adolf Schill. Here, alongside Fritz Overbeck and other young painters of the academy, he joined the Tartarus student association, which also published irregular magazines in which he participated with illustrations. It was also here that he met the painter Fritz Mackensen, who was already well-known at the time. The painter Peter Philippi described 'Tartarus' as "next to the great Malkasten, [... it] was a [...] refreshing [group or] union of young, seriously aspiring artists, among others Robert Engels, Karl Krumbacher, Ludwig Keller, Otto Modersohn, Robert Weise, Paul Schröter, Adelbert Niemeyer, Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt. From Düsseldorf, Schroeter moved to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and joined the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft. Active in Munich since 1893, he became a member of the Munich Secession with participation in the spring exhibition in May 1894. Study trips took him to Holland, Belgium and Spain and for a short time he stayed in the , where he met Carl Bantzer, Georg Burmester and Wilhelm Thielmann. From 1898 to 1901, Schroeter lived in Hamburg and became friends with and , the co-founders of the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub. As an illustrator, he produced commissioned works for the Munich magazine "Jugend": 1898 "Haideblume" and "Dornröschen und die Alte" and 1913 a "Vignette". He had a close friendship with Mackensen, Modersohn and Overbeck, and they persuaded him to come to the still young Künstlerkolonie Worpswede. With his wife Grete and their children, Schroeter moved to Worpswede in
Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973) is an American author of young adult fiction. Early life. Clare was born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran.
A luxury car is a type of car that gives a feeling of comfort and luxury in travel. A luxury car has expensive features, and equipment, and buyers expect a better build quality.
Egg of Columbus is an expression that means an unexpectedly easy way out of a difficult situation. According to legend, when Christopher Columbus told Cardinal Mendoza about how he discovered land west of the Atlantic ocean, one of the people with them said, "What could be easier than to discover a new land?" To which Columbus offered him a simple task: to put the egg on the table and make it balance on its end. When none of the other people could do it, Columbus took the egg, smashed it from one end, and placed it on the table, showing that it was actually very simple. Seeing this, everyone began to object, saying that they could do the same. To which Columbus replied, "The difference, gentlemen, is that you could do it, when I did." History. Historians are not sure if Columbus really did this in real life. They think it is likely that people made the story up many years later. Girolamo Benzoni wrote about this story in "Historia del Mondo Nuovo" in 1565. Historians think Benzoni might have been the first person to tell the story, but they are not sure. One reason they think so is that almost the exact same story showed up in another book, by painter Giorgio Vasari in 1550. In Vasari's book, it was the builder Filippo Brunelleschi who flattened the egg. This was to explain how he built the heavy done for the Santa Maria del Fiore church. Uses. In English, people use term "egg of Columbus" to describe puzzles. Writers Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy and others have mentioned the story of Columbus and the egg in their books.
King Leishemba Sanajaoba is the present king of the Manipur state of India. He is a politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Manipur. In the year 2020, he was elected as the Member of Rajya Sabha (Upper House) from Manipur state.
United States Grand Prix 2021, officially Formula 1 Aramco United States Grand Prix 2021 the seventeenth round of the Formula One World Championship for the 2021 season. The Grand Prix will be held October 22-24, 2021 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. Results. Qualifying classification. Notes Race classification. Notes
A footpad was a type of robber who attacked people who were travelling, they specialised in pedestrian victims. They were common in the British Isles from the time of Elizabeth I to the 1800s. They were thought to be socially inferior to highwaymen (who robbed on horseback), often considered low criminals, opposed to highwaymen who would sometimes become infamous as well as famous. This term was commonly used from the 16th century to the 19th century, but slowly fell out of use. Footpads always operated on foot, and robbed people after scaring them. Usually operating in the dark, they used this to their advantage by frightening the victim and getting away unseen; some of these crimes were brutally violent, although most committed them out of need and preferred more passive methods.  They opted for this method due to the high price of horses and the incognito factor of the dark. These activities usually took place in gangs.
Mercerisation is a textile finishing treatment for cellulose fabric and yarn. It is mainly used for cotton and flax. The process changes the properties of the materials: They can be colored more easily, they withstand tearing better, and the fabric will shrink less, when washed. Fabrics treated that way also have a luster which make them resemble silk in some ways. Sometimes, cotton treated that way is called "Fil d'écosse". Sometimes wool treated in the Mercosett process is also called mercerised.  The process of mercerisation is long, and relatively costly. For this reason, only higher quality textiles are treated that way. Development. About 1844, John Mercer developed the process. He noticed that when he treated cotton with solutions of sodium hydroxide, this changed the properties of the cotton: The fabric shrank, and had a higher resistance to tearing. It was also easier to color the material using dyes.  In the original process of Mercer, no tension was applied. The product was termed "fulled cotton", a nod to the process of fulling in woven wool fabric. For Mercer, making the material easier to color was the most important technical aspect. Mercer also tried with sulfuric acid and zinc chloride solutions and discovered the parchmentising effect of sulfuric acid. The silk-like lustre now commonly associated with mercerising is produced by tension and was discovered by Horace Lowe in 1890. Process. Treatment with sodium hydroxide destroys the spiral form of the cellulose with formation of alkali cellulose, which is changed to cellulose hydrate on washing out the alkali. Caustic soda concentrations of 20–26% are used. Effective mercerization requires the use of wetting agents. The improved lustre of mercerised cotton is due to the production of nearly circular cotton fibres under tension. Another characteristic feature is the untwisting (deconvolution) of the cotton hair. In dry mercerization, the process is carried out while drying the fabric on a stenter.
Sir Albert Thomas "Archie" Lamb KBE CMG DFC (23 October 1921 – 19 October 2021) was a British politician, writer and RAF fighter pilot. He was the British ambassador to Kuwait from 1974 to 1977, and to Norway from 1978 to 1980. Lamb was born in Swansea, Wales. Lamb was appointed MBE in 1953. Lamb died on 19 October 2021, four days before his 100th birthday.
Melissa Smith Femling (born November 20, 1970), known professionally as Melissa Disney, is an American voice actress and writer. Her best known role to date was as the voice of the titular character in the Nickelodeon animated series "As Told by Ginger" and Honey Adams in the Disney Channel animated series "North Woods". Other websites.
Donna Lynn Dixon (born July 20, 1957) is an American actress. She was named Miss Virginia USA in 1976 and Miss District of Columbia World in 1977. She competed in both Miss USA 1976 and Miss World USA 1977. Dixon played Allison Hayes in the NBC drama "Berringer's". She co-starred with Tom Hanks in the early 1980s situation comedy "Bosom Buddies", playing Sonny Lumet.
Bosom Buddies is an American television sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. It was created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. It aired for two seasons on ABC from November 27, 1980, to March 27, 1982. The show was about two single men, working in creative advertising, struggling in their industry while dressing up as women in order to live in the one apartment they could afford.
Wendie Jo Sperber (September 15, 1958 – November 29, 2005) was an American actress. She was known for her roles in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (1978), "Bachelor Party" (1984), and "Back to the Future" (1985). Sperber died of breast cancer on November 29, 2005 in Sherman Oaks, California, at the age of 47.
Sinaia (Hungarian: "Szinaja") is a curort town in Prahova Country, Romania. This town was named after the Sinaia Monastery of 1695.  Location. The settlement is located in the Prahova Valley, at the eastern foot of the Bucegi Mountains, 60 km north of Ploiești and 50 km south of Brașov, at an altitude of 767–820 meters above sea level. Climate. The climate is low mountainous. The average yearly temperature is 8 °C, with June at 15 °C and January at −4 °C. Early summer is rainy. The average annual rainfall is 900 mm. The rainiest month is June (173 mm), while September and February have the least rain (55 mm and 40 mm). Snow cover lasts from November to March or April. Its thickness ranges from 20 cm to 3 m, depending on the altitude. History. In the 17th century, the forested area in the Prahova Valley where Sinaia is today was empty. The first people to settle in this virgin forest at the foot of the Bucegi Mountains were monks from the Sinaia Monastery, built between 1690 and 1695 by Mihai Cantacuzino, a high-ranking noble. Some guards and workers who looked after the monastery’s lands also lived there. The town got its name from the monastery, which was named after Cantacuzino’s trip to the Saint Catherine Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. In the early 19th century, the whole Prahova Valley was one big commune called Podul Neagului, stretching from Predeal to Posada. In 1864, the hamlets of Posada and Podul Neagului joined the commune of Comarnic. On August 5, 1866, Prince Carol I of Romania visited the Sinaia Monastery, which was then part of Podul Neagului. He helped organize the area, and in 1874, the hamlets left outside Comarnic were named Sinaia, with its center in Bușten
Telma Louise Hopkins (born October 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer. She was a member of the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn. She is known for her television roles such as Isabelle Hammond in "Bosom Buddies" (1980–82), Adelaide "Addy" Wilson on "Gimme a Break!" (1983–87) and "Family Matters" (1989–1997) as Rachel Baines–Crawford.  Hopkins co-starred in 1984 science fiction movie "Trancers" and in its sequels "Trancers II" (1991) and "Trancers III" (1992) and "Trancers IV" (2019).
Halyna Hutchins (; 1979 – 21 October 2021) (née Androsovych; ) was a Ukrainian cinematographer and journalist. Her career began in 2015 and worked on over 30 movies and television shows. Her best known works were "Archenemy", "Darlin"', and "Blindfire". Hutchins was born in Horodets, then-Soviet Union. On 21 October 2021, Hutchins was working in Santa Fe, New Mexico on the set of "Rust", when actor Alec Baldwin accidentally fired a prop gun shooting her. She later died from her injuries at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 42.
Holly Black "née" Riggenbach (born 1971) is an American writer and editor for Children's and Young Adult Fiction. Education. Black holds B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey.
Leigh Bardugo (Hebrew: לי ברדוגו) is an Israeli-American fantasy author.  Early life and education. Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, but raised in Los Angeles, California, United States. She holds bachelor degree in English language from YALE University.
Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973) is an American author of young adult fiction.  Early life and education. Johnson was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a bachelor degree in English from University of Delaware. She also studied writing and theatrical dramaturgy at Columbia University, earning her MFA. She once worked at the  Says Who? Podcast. Maureen Johnson co-hosts the Says Who? podcast with Dan Sinker. The podcast began in September 2016 as a coping strategy for the 2016 United States election. The original intention was to have a limited 8 episode season with various guests but have continued until the present day. Fans of the podcast are known as "Sayswhovians."
Sarah Rees Brennan (born 21 September 1983) is an Irish writer for young adult fantasy fiction. Early life and education. Brennan was born and raised in Ireland. She obtained a Creative Writing MA from Kingston University in London.
Luke Youngblood (born 12 June 1986) is an British actor and voice actor. He is known for playing Ben in The Story of Tracy Beaker, young Simba in The Lion King at several London venues, Lee Jordan in the Harry Potter film series and Magnitude on the NBC comedy series Community. He played Sid in the ABC musical comedy series Galavant. He currently voices William in Baby Shark's Big Show! and Do in Do, Re &amp; Mi and is living in Hollywood, California. Biography. Youngblood was born and raised in London and grew up with his younger sister Jessica, in a family of Kenyan descent. He showed interest in acting at an early age, and during his teenage years attended acting classes, and appeared in several local production plays. He studied acting at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School, but later pursued a degree in fashion design at the London College of Fashion.
was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was Minister of Agriculture from 2010 until 2012. He was a member of the National Diet from 1976 until 1979 and again from 2005 until 2012. Kano was born in Yamagata. He died on 21 October 2021 at a Yamagata hospital from problems caused by polycythemia, aged 79.
Polycythemia (also known as polycythaemia or polyglobulia) is a rare blood disease in which there is an increase in red blood cells. This can cause blood to become thicker and therefore cause strokes and heart attacks. Emergency treatment for this can include removal of blood.
Robin McNamara (May 5, 1947 – October 2021) was an American pop singer-songwriter, actor and musician. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He appeared on Broadway musical "Hair", playing the lead role of Claude from 1969 until 1971. He wrote the song "Lay a Little Lovin' on Me". and number 6 in Canada.  McNamara died in October 2021, at the age of 74.
Peter Thomas Scolari (September 12, 1955 – October 22, 2021) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Michael Harris on "Newhart" (1984–1990) and Henry Desmond in "Bosom Buddies" (1980–1982). He also played Billy the Lonely Boy in the 2004 movie "The Polar Express". Scolari won an Emmy Award for his role as Tad Horvath on "Girls" in 2016. Scolari died from leukemia on October 22, 2021 in New York City, at age 66. He had the disease for two years.
Irshat Yunirovich Fakhritdinov (; 1 February 1965 – 22 October 2021) was a Russian politician. He was a member of the United Russia party. He was in the State Duma from 2007 to 2016. Fakhritdinov was born in Sayranovo, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Fakhritdinov died on 22 October 2021 in Ufa, Russia of COVID-19 at the age of 56.
A topmast staysail is a sharp, triangular sail which is hoisted above the gaff sails. It is hold in place with a halyard, two necklines, two tacks and one or two loaders. It is fixed on one side to a spar or antenna and on the other to the mast. It is hoisted when there is a slightly favorable weather, to increase the heeling of the boat and gain some speed. In some boats the topmast staysail has an irregular trapezoidal form; then the bottom overlaps slightly with the gaff sail.  They hoista topmast staysail the bric-a-brac, and some schooners, cutters and quetzals .
Ju Gau-jeng (; 6 October 1954 – 22 October 2021) was a Taiwanese politician. He was in the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Ju was born in Yunlin County, Taiwan. Ju died on 22 October 2021 in Taipei, Taiwan from colorectal cancer, two weeks after his 67th birthday.
Serhiy (or Sergei) Yuriyovych Morozov (, ; 30 April 1950 – 22 October 2021) was a Soviet-born Ukrainian footballer, manager and sports commentator. He played for the Soviet Union national football team once in 1972. He was known for playing with PFC CSKA Moscow and FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen. His playing career lasted from 1964 until 1985. Morozov died on 22 October 2021 in Kyiv, Ukraine from COVID-19, aged 71.
Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 – 22 October 2021) was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor. He worked as a professor in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He directed a contemporary music series for the Bayerischer Rundfunk. His best known opera was "Weiße Rose". Zimmermann died on 22 October 2021 in Dresden, Germany from a long-illness, aged 78.
Lindsay Ann Crouse (born May 12, 1948) is an American actress. For her role in "Places in the Heart", she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.  She was also in "Slap Shot" (1977), "Between the Lines" (1977), "The Verdict" (1982), "Prefontaine" (1997), and "The Insider" (1999).
Rebecca Pidgeon (born October 10, 1965) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. In 1991, she married playwright David Mamet and they have two children. She appeared in some of Mamet's movies such as "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), "The Winslow Boy" (1999), "State and Main" (2000), and "Heist" (2001).
Tommy Dorfman (born May 13, 1992) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Ryan Shaver in the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" (2017). Dorfman is queer. In November 2017, Dorfman came out as non-binary. On July 22, 2021, Dorfman came out as a transgender woman.
Cripple Creek is a city and county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 1,155 at the 2020 United States Census. The town of Cripple Creek formed in the 1890s during a gold rush. By the mid-20th century, most of the mines closed and it became nearly a ghost town. Today, most money in the city comes from casinos.
Álex Leonardo Quiñónez Martínez (11 August 1989 – 22 October 2021) was an Ecuadorian sprinter. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He took part in representing Ecuador at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics. Background. Quiñónez was born in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.  He won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Assassination. Quiñónez was shot to death on 22 October 2021 in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the age of 32.
Minoo Mumtaz (born Malikunnisa Ali; 26 April 1942 – 23 October 2021) was an Indian actress and dancer. Mumtaz appeared in many Hindi movies of the 1950s and 1960s. Mumtaz was born in Mumbai, India. Her career began in 1954. Her best known roles were in "Kaagaz Ke Phool", "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" and "Gazal". Mumtaz died of cancer at a hospital in Toronto, Canada on 23 October 2021 at the age of 79.
Miguel La Fay Bardi (November 11, 1934 – October 20, 2021) was an American-Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He became a priest in 1953. Pope John Paul II made him Territorial Prelate of Sicuani in 1999. He retired in 2013. La Fay Bardi died on October 20, 2021 in Needham, Massachusetts at the age of 86.
Football Club Metalist 1925 Kharkiv is a professional football club from Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 2016, the club plays in Ukrainian Premier League. Their home stadium is Metalist Oblast Sports Complex with 40,003 capacity. Metalist 1925 is the second club in Ukraine to attend home matches in the championship. History. It was established in the summer of 2016. As several football clubs in the league due to debts, the original club FC Metalist Kharkiv owned by Serhiy Kurchenko was refused a license in 2014 by the Football Federation of Ukraine and expelled from national competitions. The Kurchenko's Metalist continued to play in regional competitions as SC Metalist Kharkiv.
Dalma Mádl (née "Némethy"; 9 November 1932 – 22 October 2021) was a Hungarian socialite. She was born in Pécs, Hungary. She was married to President Ferenc Mádl. She was the First Lady of Hungary between 2000 until 2005. Mádl died on 22 October 2021 in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 88.