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Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and writer. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 1987 she became the second African American (after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She won for her third book of poetry, "Thomas and Beulah". From 1993 to 1995, she was the first African American to work as the United States Poet Laureate. She was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004–2006. Dove has won many awards for her work. These include the National Humanities Medal in 1996 and the National Medal of Arts in 2011. In 2022 she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
George Anthony Devolder Santos (; born July 22, 1988) is an American politician. He was the U.S. representative from New York's 3rd congressional district from January to December 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party. After his election, many news articles found that Santos had made many false claims about his personal life, health, religion, taxes, education and career. These claims have caused the Brazilian government to investigate Santos for fraud. In 2008, he confessed to check fraud charges in Brazil, but did not appear in court, leaving the case unresolved. After unsuccessfully running for Congress in 2020 against incumbent Thomas Suozzi, Santos was elected to the open seat in 2022. Santos is openly gay. Santos was removed from the House of Representatives on December 1, 2023.
Marie Baron was a French competitive diver and swimmer from Paris. As a member of Ondine de Paris she competed in the 1900s, in the earliest women's French aquatics history. In 1907 finished second at the first international diving competition in France. Biography. The earliest French women's swimming competitions started in the mid 1900s. Baron participated in swimming competition in June 1907 at the competition of Ondine de Paris in Paris and in competitions in Rouen and Choisy-le-Roi. On 28 July 1907 she competed at the 1907 international Ondine de Paris aquatics competitions in Paris, France. The first international women's aquatics competition in France. Baron finished second in the diving event, together with Frenchwoman L. Kircner. She also competed in the international 200 metre swimming event and the international 60 metre handicap style race. She swam her last main swimming competition on 23 August 1908 at Joinvillele-Pont.
Alan Mackay-Sim (16 May 1951 – 4 January 2023) was an Australian biomedical scientist. His research into stem cells lead to the treatment of spinal cord injuries. He was named Australian of the Year in 2017. Mackay-Sim was born in Wahroonga, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. He was married and had two children. In 2015, Mackay-Sim was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He died in January 2023, at the age of 71.
Jean Baptiste Xavier Joseph Guillaume Wasseige (21 March 1762 – 18 June 1823) was a Dutch politician from Namur, that was at the time of his birth a city within Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium). In the United Kingdom of the Netherlands he served for Namur as a member of the 1815 Assemblee of notables and as a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1818. Wasseige died in Namur on 18 June 1823, at the age of 61.
Jan Marie Joseph Verstraeten (16 May 1757 – 21 February 1838) was a Dutch rentier and politician from Boekhoute, that was at the time of his birth a city within Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium). In the United Kingdom of the Netherlands he served for East Flanders as a member of the 1815 Assemblee of notables from to and as a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1818. Verstraeten died in Boekhoute on 21 February 1838, at the age of 80.
Stanislas Charles de Troye (28 January 1770 – 29 December 1844) was a Dutch politician from Mons, that was at the time of his birth a city within Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium). He held various administrative positions and was a landowner in Thuin. In the United Kingdom of the Netherlands he served for Charleroi as a member of the 1815 Assemblee of notables and for Henegouwen as a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1820. De Troye died in Thuin on 29 December 1844, at the age of 73.
"Think It Over" is a song by American new wave band The Cars, featured on their fourth studio album, "Shake It Up". It was written by Ric Ocasek. Release. "Think It Over" was first released on the 1984 album "Shake It Up," but following the album's release the song was released as a single in Britain and Australia. Backed with "I'm Not the One" (which later became a hit in its own right) the single made no dent on the charts. The single was not released in America, as the song "Victim of Love" (also from "Shake It Up") received the single release instead. Reception. "AllMusic" reviewer Greg Prato cited the track as a highlight from "Shake It Up", describing it as "almost entirely synth-oriented" and called it one of the "many lesser-known album tracks [on "Shake It Up" that] prove[d] to be [a] highlight[.]"
"Magic" is a song by The Cars from their fifth studio album, "Heartbeat City", which came out in 1984. The song was written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Mutt Lange and The Cars. Ocasek sang lead vocals. Music video. The music video for the song shows many different personas of people at a party as Ocasek walks on the pool water singing the song. The Cars filmed "Magic" at the Hilton family house in Beverly Hills. Kathy Hilton rented the house for her band. A Plexiglass platform was located below the surface of the water. In the first take, the platform collapsed. The platform had to be adjusted for Ric's weight. The house is also the setting for the movie "Blind Date" starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger.
Francis James Cameron (1 June 1932 – 2 January 2023) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 19 Tests for New Zealand, taking 62 wickets, from 1961 to 1965. He was also a selector for the Black Caps from 1968 to 1986.
Silas Dwane House (born August 7, 1971) is an American writer best known for his novels. He was born and grew up in the southeastern part of the state of Kentucky. Most of his books are about people who live in the American South away from big cities. He writes about people who are in the working class. They are people who live close to the natural world in their small town homes. Some of his older characters live in the old ways, while younger characters behave in more modern ways. House is a very public person in the LGBTQ community in Kentucky. In 2022 he won the Duggins Prize for LGBTQ+ writers. When he won that award he said, "I hope that I have made another LGBTQ person—especially those living in rural places—feel seen and heard the way previous winners of this prize…made me feel seen and heard as a young gay man living in a rural place.” Since 2017 House has been a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His books have gotten many honors, such as an EB White Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, the Lee Smith Award, a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and many others. In 2023, House was named the Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
The Bert Bell Award is given by the Maxwell Football Club to the player of the year in the National Football League (NFL). The award is named in honor of Bert Bell (1895–1959), who was the commissioner of the NFL and founder of the Maxwell Club.
The National Football League playoffs for the 2003 season began on January 3, 2004. The playoffs ended with the New England Patriots beating the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII, 32–29, on February 1, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
"Prayer for the Dying" is a 1994 song by British soul singer Seal. It is the leading single from his second studio album "Seal". It went to number 2 in both Canada and Iceland.  US CD and cassette single  A. "Prayer for the Dying" (album version) – 5:28 B. "Prayer for the Dying" (Divine Spirit Mix) – 4:34
My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows is the first album by Tyrannosaurus Rex (later named T. Rex). T. Rex was a psychedelic folk band. It was released on 5 July 1965. It was released by Regal Zonophone (a record label). Release. The album went to number 15 on the UK Album Chart when it was released. In 1972, it was released as a double album. The other album on the double album was "" (1968). The double album went to number one on the UK Album Chart. The double album has the longest name of any album to go to number one in the UK. The album was released again in 1985, 2004 and 2015.
Gone to Coney Island and Booming Business is a 1910 American silent comedy movie. It stars Anna Rosemond, Frank H. Crane, and Violet Heming. Plot. The movie tells about a maid named Kate who works at Mrs. Green's house. Her lover works in Coney Island and asks to leave the family and get a job as a salesman, but Mrs. Green is against it.
The Governor's Daughter is a 1910 American silent drama movie. It stars Anna Rosemond and Frank H. Crane. Plot. The movie is about a convict named Bill Raymond who goes to prison for a long time and a girl who rides with him on the train and takes pity on him.
Nanda (also known as Mandaladhish Nanda Rai or Nanda Baba), according to the "Harivamsha" and the "Puranas", was the head of the Gopas tribe of cowherds referred as "Holy Gwals". Nanda was not a Kshatriya or a King but is popularly known as the foster-father of Krishna. Nandvanshi Ahirs are descendants of Nanda.  Nanda was the Chief or Mandaladhish of Gokul Mandal that was one of the most powerful Divisional area of ancient rulers. Nanda was not a brother or cousin of King Vasudeva. Vasudeva, took his new-born son Krishna to Nanda on the night of the child's birth so that Nanda could raise him. Nanda, who was married to Yasoda, brought up both Krishna and Balarama. Krishna derives his name "Nandanandana" (meaning son of Nanda) from him.
Saltwater fish, also called marine fish or sea fish, are fish that live in seawater. Saltwater fish can swim and live alone or in a large group called a school. Saltwater fish are very commonly kept in aquariums for entertainment. Many saltwater fish are also caught to be eaten, or grown in aquaculture. However, many fish species have been overfished and are otherwise threatened by marine pollution or ecological changes caused by climate change. Habitat. Saltwater fish live in the ocean. For example, the butterfly kingfish lives in the ocean. This ray-finned fish has had many common names, including big-scaled mackerel, bigscale mackerel, common gasterochisma, gasterochisma, butterfly mackerel, butterfly tuna, pachycormid, little pachycormid, scaled tunny, scaly tuna, and others. Threats. Saltwater fish face many threats. Common threats include overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, destruction, climate change, and invasive species. These threats come with a multitude of negative direct and indirect affects to marine ecosystems. Overfishing. Overfishing is the most common cause of fish declining. Not too many of us are overfishing, since most coral reefs are protected. However, since fish is a popular food, we are trying to catch fish with nets.
Cost-plus pricing is a pricing strategy. The selling price of a product is the price at which it was bought, plus a certain desired rate of return. An alternative pricing method is value-based pricing. Cost-plus pricing has often been used for government contracts. It has been criticized because it reduces the incentive for suppliers to control direct, indirect and fixed costs Companies using this strategy need to record their costs in detail to ensure they have a good understanding of their overall costs. This information is necessary to generate accurate cost estimates. Cost-plus pricing is very common for utilities and products that are manufactured to the buyer's specification, such as for military procurement.
Don Rien van den Heuvel (1938 – 28 December 2022) was a Dutch monk. He was professed for 64 years and a priest for 58 years. He served as the abbot of the St. Paul's Abbey between 1985 and 2007 of the St. Willibrord's Abbey between 2007 and 2015.  Biography. Van de Heuvel was born in Dordrecht in 1938. After primary school he attended seminary, like his two years older brother. He became a monk in 1956 at the St. Paul's Abbey in Oosterhout. The monastery from which the St. Willibrord's Abbey of Doetinchem was founded in 1945. He was interim superior of the abbey for nine years. From 1985 to 2007, he was the fourth abbot of St. Paul's Abbey. After the abdication of at the St. Willibrord's Abbey he became the third elected abbot of St. Willibrord's Abbey on 3 September, 2007. During his leadership, the number of monks grew from five to eleven. Interest in visiting the abbey also grew. He held this position until 2015. Van den Heuvel died after a short illness in a care center in Nijmegen on 28 December, 2022, at the age of 84.
Volgodonsk () is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is in the east of the oblast. It is on the west side of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir. Population: 28,000 (1970). History. Volgodonsk was founded in 1950. It was a small settlement for the Tsimlyansk hydroelectric dam workers. It grew because of the building of the Volga–Don Canal. It became a city in 1956.  On September 16, 1999 a truck bomb exploded outside an apartment building. It killed 17 people and injured 69 more people. It was the fifth explosion in a series of apartment bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people. Geography. Volgodonsk is in the eastern part of Rostov Oblast. It is between Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd. Other big cities close to it include Stavropol, Krasnodar, and Elista. It is in the Salsky Steppes. Volgodonsk has a continental climate. It has cold winters and warm summers. Economy. Volgodonsk has one of the bigger economies of Rostov Oblast. Nuclear power is the main industry in the city. Volgodonsk has the Atommash factory in it. This factory makes nuclear reactors and heavy machines. The factory makes Rosatom's VVER type pressurized water reactors too. Four of these reactors (VVER-1000 model) generated about 26 600 GWh of electricity at the Rostov nuclear power plant. This nuclear power plant is 18 km from the city center. Culture. Volgodonsk is one of the bigger cultural centers of Rostov Oblast. There are six art schools, two museums, seventeen historical and cultural sites, and three buildings that are architectural monuments of regional importance. The Cathedral of the Nativity is also in Volgodonsk.
Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from western Kentucky. Mason was born in Mayfield, Kentucky and lived on a dairy farm that her family owned. In 1962 she graduated from the University of Kentucky. She then went to the State University of New York at Binghamton for her M. A. (masters degree). She got her Ph.D. (doctoral degree) in literature from the University of Connecticut in 1972. Magazines like "The Atlantic" and "The New Yorker" printed her early stories. Her first collection, "Shiloh and Other Stories", came out in 1982. It won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Family Jr. is a Canadian television channel for children. It is a part of the specialty channel Family Channel. The channel is aimed at viewers between the ages of 2 and 7 years old. The channel started on November 30, 2007. It was a Canadian version of Playhouse Disney, under license from Disney Channels Worldwide It changed to Disney Junior in 2011. Astral Media was bought by Bell Media. This caused Family Channel and Disney Junior to be a part of DHX Media (now WildBrain) in 2014. In 2015, DHX lost its rights to Disney programming. The name of DHX's Disney Junior channel was changed to Family Jr in September 2015. It was a brand extension of Family Channel. Along with its French-language counterpart, Télémagino, Family Jr. can be watched in over 4 million Canadian homes. This started in 2013. Programming. Former programming. Playhouse Disney, Disney Junior, and Disney Channel programming. Programs in bold indicate that the programs moved to new Disney Junior (Canadian TV channel)
Bernd Johannes Neuendorf is a German politician, journalist and football administrator who is currently serving as the president of the German Football Association. He had previously served as the president of the Middle Rhine Football Association from 2019 until his election as DFB president in 2022. Born: July 6, 1961 (age 61 years), Düren, Germany Nationality: German Party: Social Democratic Party of Germany Education: University of Bonn Children: 2
Nikos Skylakakis (; 22 June 1923 – 3 January 2023) was a Greek basketball player. He was a player of the Greece men's national basketball team and Panellinios B.C.. He later also played with Α.Ο. Triton. With the national team, he won the bronze medal at EuroBasket 1949. Skylakakis died in Athens on 3 January 2023, at the age of 99.
Kevin Ray Hern (born December 4, 1961) is an American businessman and politician. He is a Republican. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives for since 2018. In the eighth ballot of the 2023 Speaker of the House of Representatives election, Hern received 2 votes, while he himself voted for Kevin McCarthy. He was nominated on the ninth round of voting by Lauren Boebert. He received 3 votes.
Paper Planes is an alternative hip hop song by British hip hop artist M.I.A.. It was released on February 11, 2008. It is from her second studio album, Kala. The song samples the 1982 song Straight to Hell by British rock band The Clash. Because of this, the members of the band were credited as co-writers. The song also combines with African folk music. The song did very well, making it M.I.A.'s biggest commercial success. It is because it reached the top 20 in several countries. This includes Denmark and the United Kingdom. It also peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Because of this, it made it M.I.A.'s first and only song to chart in the US top 100 as a lead artist. There was a music video for this song. It was recorded by Bernard Gourley. It took place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. It depicts M.I.A. as an undercover dealer. It also features images of paper planes flying overhead. MTV censored the cannabis references and gunshot sounds in the song. This upset M.I.A., as she expressed it on her MySpace account. This song also gained controversy. Due to the gunshot noises, it resembles M.I.A.'s criticism of the ongoing war crimes in Sri Lanka. Due to M.I.A. sharing ethnic tamil backgrounds, some have theories that M.I.A. supported terrorism. She was also a supporter of the Tamil Tigers. This also led to death threats.
The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was created in 1864. It was created as a memorial to Prince Albert. He had been president of the Society for 18 years. It was first given out in 1864 for "distinguished merit in promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce". The Society gives the award to people, organizations and groups that create positive change in modern society in areas that are a part the Society's agenda. Recipients. The award has been given to a large range of people. These include world-renowned scientists, artists, and social campaigners. They include:
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam is an Eritrean human trafficker. He was wanted for large-scale human trafficking of people from Africa to Europe. He is described as "one of the world's most notorious and most brutal human traffickers". Habtemariam smuggled migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, through Libya to Europe. Victims faced aggravated beatings, kidnappings and rapings. The man is said to have earned as much money as possible of migrants. He operated a warehouse - Bani Walid in Libya. According to the Dutch Public Prosecution Service he led an 'extremely violent criminal organization'. Habtemariam worked with another human trafficker, Tewelde Goitom. In 2020 Habtemariam was arrested in Ethiopia. In 2021 he escaped custody. He was later sentenced in absentia to life in prison. The United Arab Emirates tracked him down in a money laundering investigation. He was arrested on 1 January 2023 in Sudan.
H•A•M is a hardcore hip hop/trap song by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West. It was released on January 11, 2010. It is from their collaborative studio album Watch the Throne. The song's title stands for "Hard As a Motherfucker". Several rappers remixed this song. A few examples are Ace Hood and Busta Rhymes. The song was featured in the 2012 film Project X. It peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist. He wrote five novels and other books of essays and life stories (memoir). Styron was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia. He had a hard time at a number of schools, but he graduated from Christchurch School in southeast Virginia in 1942.  In college during World War II, he joined the Marines’ reserve officer training program. In July 1945 he was given a job to help with the invasion of Japan, but the war ended a month later. He soon left the Marines and went back to graduate from Duke University in 1947. In the 1950s he lived in Paris. With other young writers, he helped to begin a magazine called "The Paris Review".  During the ten years from 1951 to 1960, he published his first three novels ("Lie Down in Darkness", "The Long March", and "Set This House on Fire"). His fourth novel, "The Confessions of Nat Turner" was both popular and a problem. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968. But many Black readers and critics did not like the book. The book was written in the voice of a 19th century Black man. They thought that Styron, a White author, did not understand the ways of African Americans. Styron took more than ten years to write his last novel, "Sophie's Choice". This book looks at a character who lived through the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. It was also popular and a problem. A movie was made from this book in 1982. In 1990, Styron published "Darkness Visible". This book told a story of his own life, about having the mental illness of depression. One reason he wrote it was to go against an idea of that time that depression was a shameful thing. When he died in 2006, one obituary praised him as "a courageous writer who in a long career never played it safe, either with himself or his talent."
The 1998 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1998. It was part of the 1997–98 college bowl season. As part of the Rose Bowl Game, it was played at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California.
Clash is a British music and fashion magazine and website in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and has won other awards in England and Scotland. Most notably, it won Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards.
The National Football League playoffs for the 2005 season began on January 7, 2006. The playoffs ended with the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL, 21–10, on February 5, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
Exclaim!, is a Canadian music and entertainment magazine with offices in Toronto that offers in-depth coverage of new music in all genres with a concentration on up-and-coming acts from Canada. A total of 103,000 copies of Exclaim!'s monthly print magazines are distributed to more than 2,600 sites across Canada in its seven annual issues. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month.