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Jamin Pugh (January 25, 1984 – January 17, 2023) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Jay Briscoe. He was best known for his time with Ring of Honor, where at the time of his death was one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions with his brother Mark Briscoe in their 13th reign. He was also a two-time ROH World Champion and ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions. On January 17, 2023, Briscoe died in a car accident in Laurel, Delaware, 8 days before he would have turned 39. His death was announced on Twitter by AEW and ROH owner, Tony Khan.
The Earth phase, or Terra phase, is the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Earth as viewed from the Moon (or elsewhere extraterrestrially).  From the Moon, the Earth phases gradually and cyclically change over a period of about a month, as the orbital positions of the Moon around the Earth and of the Earth around the Sun shift. Overview. Among the most prominent features of the Moon's sky is Earth. Earth's apparent size is four times the Moon's as seen from Earth. However, because the Moon's orbit is eccentric, Earth's size in the sky may be a bit smaller or larger at times. Earth shows phases, just like the Moon does for observers on the Earth. The phases, however, are opposite; when the observer on the Earth sees the "full Moon", the observer on the Moon sees a "new Earth", and vice versa. Earth's albedo is three times as high as that of the Moon (due in part to its whitish cloud cover), and coupled with the wider area, the "full Earth" glows over 50 times brighter than the "full Moon" does for the observer on Earth. This Earth light reflected on the Moon's darkened near-side half is bright enough to be visible from Earth – a phenomenon known as Earthshine. As a result of the Moon's tidal locking, one side of the Moon (the "near side") is permanently turned towards Earth, and the other side, the "far side", mostly cannot be seen from Earth. This means, conversely, that Earth can be seen only from the near side of the Moon and would always be invisible from the far side. If the Moon's rotation were purely synchronous, Earth would not have any noticeable movement in the Moon's sky. However, due to the Moon's libration, Earth does perform a slow and complex wobbling movement. Once a month, as seen from the Moon, Earth traces out a small oval. The exact shape and orientation of this oval depend on one's location on the Moon. As a result, near the boundary of the near and far sides of the Moon, Earth is sometimes below the horizon and sometimes above it. Although genuine photographs
James P. McMullan (October 13, 1936 – May 31, 2019) was an American actor. His best known roles were as Dr. Terry McDaniel on the 1960s series "Ben Casey" and as Senator Andrew Dowling on the CBS prime time soap opera "Dallas". McMullan's movie credits include "The Raiders" (1963), "Shenandoah" (1965), "The Happiest Millionaire" (1967), "Downhill Racer" (1969), "Pursuit" (1972), "Extreme Close-Up" (1973)", The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981), "Assassination" (1987), "Strategic Command" (1997), "" (1997) and "Batman &amp; Robin" (1997). McMullan was born in Long Beach, New York. He was married to Helene Slack, and had two children. He died of problems caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on May 31, 2019 in Wofford Heights, California. He was 82.
The sport of sailing is racing other boats around a track or course which is marked with floating buoys or other fixed marks. Boats can be from small dinghies to large yachts. Usually, the small boats will just race each other and be of the same type. This is called one-design racing. Larger boats will often be of different sizes and race with a handicap system. Yacht racing. On the water, a large sailing competition among different boats is a regatta. This is usually a number of races, where the boat crew that performs the best over the series of races is the winner. A lot of racing is done around buoys or marks in safe water near the shore but some longer offshore races cross open water. America's Cup. It could be said that the sport of international yacht racing began with the America's Cup in 1851. A group of members from the New York Yacht Club built a 101-foot schooner which they called America. This yacht was sailed to England where it won a challenge race for a trophy called the Hundred Guineas Cup. The race course took them around the Isle of Wight. This trophy was subsequently renamed The America's Cup and remained with the New York Yacht Club until 1983. An Australian yacht called Australia 2 finally took it from them after 132-years. Famous yacht races. There are a number of famous yacht races being held every year is different parts of the world. These are held using large yachts and involve racing for a number of days without stopping. It is a test of skill and strength over a long time. Some of the most famous races are: Ocean racing. Several famous round-the-world races are held also and these are: Dinghy racing. History. The oldest known one-design sailing dinghy is the Water Wag. In 1887 a Mr Thomas Middleton proposed the idea of one design sailing punts, with centreboards all built and rigged the same. A number of these were built and the first race took place on April 12, 1887, in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) Harbour near Dublin in Ireland. Now dinghy racing is a worldwide sport and
Noel White (16 December 1929 – 30 June 2019) was a British businessman, football club chairman, director and administrator. He was a director of Liverpool F.C. from 1986 to 2006, serving as the club's chairman from 1990 to 1991. White was one of the founding members of the FA Premier League. He was named Life Vice President of the Football Association in 2002. He was also Vice-Chairman of the UEFA National Team Committee from 2002 to 2006. White was born in Altrincham, Cheshire. He died on 30 June 2019, at the age of 89.
Clinton Lake is a reservoir on the southwestern part of Lawrence, Kansas. The lake was created by Clinton Dam being built. The 35 square miles (91 km²) of land and water is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Hydrology. Clinton Lake is formed mostly by the Wakarusa River coming east from Shawnee County. The Wakarusa River goes through the Clinton Dam. It stays south of Lawrence, and it continues east to the Kansas River near Eudora. Main tributaries include Deer Creek, Rock Creek, Washington Creek, Dry Creek, Coon Creek and Camp Creek. Cities along or near Clinton Lake include Clinton, Stull and Lawrence. Natural history. The woods around the lake have many white tail deer, quail, wild turkey, doves, rabbits, and squirrels. Bald eagles, great blue heron, gulls, cormorants, and various types of birds that travel. This includes American white pelicans and Canada geese. They can be seen above and around the lake at different times of the year. Clinton Lake also has many fish.
Bogusław Julien Schaeffer (6 June 1929 – 1 July 2019) was a Polish composer, musicologist and graphic artist. He a member of the avant-garde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others. He was a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków from 1963. He was also an academic teacher at Hochschule für Music in Salzburg, Austria. Schaeffer's "Klavier Konzert" was on the soundtrack of David Lynch's 2006 movie "Inland Empire". Schaeffer was born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine. He died on 1 July 2019 in Salzburg, at the age of 90.
Djibouti competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia which was held from 15 September to 1 October. This was the fifth time Dijibouti went to the Olympics since their first time in 1984 in Los Angeles. Dijibouti sent two athletes to the Olympics in 2000, both participated in track and field events. The two athletes were; Omar Daher Gadid who competed in the men's marathon and Roda Ali Wais who competed in the women's 800 meters. Gadid did not finish the marathon while Ali Wais did not pass the first round of her event. Track &amp; Field. There was only one female athlete from Dijibouti who competed in the 2000 Olympics. This was Roda Ali Wais. She set a record for being the youngest female from Dijibouti to compete in the Olympics. She was 16 years old. She was also the first woman from Dijibouti to compete in the Olympics. She participated in the second heat of the women's 800 meter event. She finished last in her heat. Only the top two athletes from her heat qualified to move on to the next event.  There was only one male athlete from Dijibouti who competed in the 2000 Olympics. This was Omar Daher Gadid. He competed in the men's marathon. He did not finish the marathon. There were 18 other athletes that did not finish the marathon. An athlete from Ethiopia won gold medal in the event.
The Kansas Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the state of Kansas. It has seven justices. It is led by Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as the state court of last resort in the appeals process. History. After the Kansas–Nebraska Act passed in 1854, President Franklin Pierce chose Samuel Dexter LeCompte as the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Kansas Territory. Notable cases. "State v. Limon". In "State v. Limon", the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously struck down part of a law that sentenced Matthew Limon to prison over a decade longer than a heterosexual would have received. This was because there were different age of consent laws for homosexuals. "Montoy v. Kansas". The court has ruled that the $2.7 billion in school funding was not good enough and was given out unfairly. It then suggested the Kansas legislature increase money for schools and change the way the money was given out. Many Republicans saw this as judicial activism. Some Republicans called for changes in how justices are chosen. "Hermesmann v. Seyer". In "Hermesmann v. Seyer", the Court said that a woman is can sue the father of her child for child support even if conception happened because of a criminal act (such as statutory rape) committed by the woman against the father. It also said that a mother being a possible criminal due to the criminal statutes had nothing to do with determining the father's child support amount.
Abilene (pronounced ) is a city in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat. In 2020, 6,460 people lived there. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is in Abilene. Geography. Abilene is at (38.919721, −97.217329). It has an elevation of 1,155 feet (352 m). The city is on the north side of the Smoky Hill River in the Flint Hills region of the Great Plains. The United States Census Bureau says the city has an area of . All of it is land. Media. Print. Abilene has one daily newspaper, "The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle". Radio. These radio stations are in Abilene: AM FM Television. Abilene is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas television market. Notable People. Five-star general and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower is from Abilene. President Eisenhower is buried in Abilene, along with his wife Mamie and their eldest son Doud. They are buried on the grounds of his presidential library.
Buchegg is a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The municipality was created on 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Aetigkofen, Aetingen, Bibern, Brügglen, Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, Küttigkofen, Kyburg-Buchegg, Mühledorf and Tscheppach merged to form the new municipality of Buchegg. Since 2024, Lüterswil-Gächliwil became a part of Buchegg.
Sándor Popovics (22 June 1939 — 1 July 2019) was a Hungarian-Dutch association football manager and a professional footballer in the position of forward. He was born in Keszthely, Hungary. As a footballer he played for Újpest Dózsa (1958–1960). He continued his football career in Germany at SpVgg Fürth (1960–1963) and later moved to Holland to play for Sparta (1963–64), and FC Zaanstreek (1964–1966). After retiring form playing, Popovics coached Dutch amateur clubs Quick (1970–1971), MVV '27 (1971–1972), RFC Rotterdam (1972–1974), Overmaas (1974-1976), Unitas (1976–1977), Xerxes (1977–1978) and Barendrecht (1978–1980). He also held the position of general manager at ADO Den Haag and was named head scout at NAC in February 2002 He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1970. Popovics died on 1 July 2019 from Alzheimer's disease in Roosendaal, Netherlands, aged 80.
Ralph L. Brill (December 19, 1935 – June 21, 2019) was an American legal scholar. He was born in Chicago. Brill was Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was Dean of the college from 1970 to 1974. His works helped shape some rules and requirements for the American Bar Association.  Brill died on June 21, 2019 in Chicago at the age of 83.
Djibouti competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. These were July 28 to August 12. This was the first Olympic Games Dijibouti participated in. Dijibouti sent three athletes to Los Angles. All three competed in marathon events. The three athletes were; Djama Robleh, Ahmed Salah, and Omar Abdillahi Charmarke. None of them won a medal.  Athletics. All three of the athletes from Dijibouti competed in the men's marathon. The marathon started at Santa Monica College and finished at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Djama Robleh was the flag bearer for Djibouti. He finished in eighth place. His time was two hours, eleven minutes, and thirty-nine seconds. When Ahmed Salah competed this was only his sixth marathon. He finished in twentieth place. Salah won a bronze medal in the 1988 Olympics. He is the only person from Dijibouti to win an olympic medal. Omar Abdillahi Charmarke finished thirty-second. He finished the marathon in two hours, nineteen minutes, and eleven seconds.
Djibouti participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. This was the second time Dijibouti went to the Olympics. Dijibouti sent six athletes to this Olympics. They sent; Hoche Yaya Aden, Ismael Hassan, Talal Omar Abdillahi, Hussein Ahmed Salah, Omar Moussa and Robleh Ali Adou. All but Robleh Ali Adou competed in track and field athletics events. Robleh Ali Adou competed in sailing. Medalists. Before this Olympics Djibouti had not won a medal. Hussein Ahmed Salah won the county's first Olympic medal. Ahmed Salah won a bronze medal in the men's marathon. Ahmed Salah won the medal with a time of two hours, ten minutes and fifty-nine seconds, only twenty-seven seconds behind the gold medalist. Ahmed Salah finished the qualification for this event in 2:07:07, breaking the previous world record of 2:07:12. The record was also broken by Carlos Lopes, who finished faster than Salah. Lopes became the new world record holder.  Athletics. Five male athletes from Dijibouti went to the Olympics to compete in athletics events. They were; Hoche Yaya Aden, Ismael Hassan, Talal Omar Abdillahi, Hussein Ahmed Salah, and Omar Moussa. This were the first Summer Olympic Games for Aden, Hassan, Abdillahi, and Moussa. Salah competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Hoche Yaya Aden competed in the men's 1500 meters, where he finished twelfth in his heat. He did not go onto the next round. The medals went to Kenya, Great Britain and East Germany.  Ismael Hassan competed in the men's 5000 meters, where he finished fourteenth in his heat. He did not go onto the next round. The medals went to Kenya, West Germany, and East Germany.
Yu Darvish (born 16 August 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball. Darvish previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers and the Los Angeles Dodgers and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. In international play, Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team. In his first MLB season, Darvish finished third in the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year balloting. The next season, he finished second in the AL Cy Young Award vote as he led the Major Leagues in strikeouts with 277 and finished fourth in the AL in earned run average (ERA) at 2.83. On 6 April 2014, Darvish reached the 500 strikeout mark in fewer innings pitched than any starting pitcher in MLB history.
is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). Aoki is one of only six players, alongside Ichiro Suzuki, Matt Murton, Alex Ramirez, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, and Shogo Akiyama, to amass 200 or more hits in a single season in Japanese professional baseball, and the only individual to do so in two separate seasons. He played in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and represented Japan in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). From 2007 through 2013, he played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League. Tanaka was posted by the Eagles after the 2013 season to be signed by an American team; he agreed to terms with the New York Yankees and signed a seven-year, $155 million contract, the fifth-largest deal ever given to a pitcher at the time. Tanaka was the Eagles' first-round pick in the 2006 NPB amateur player draft. From 2012 to 2013, he won 26 consecutive decisions, which set a new NPB record.
is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), as well as the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). A right-handed pitcher, Uehara has an MLB career strikeout rate of 10.7 K/9 innings and a walk rate of 1.5 BB/9 (through the 2017 season). Through the 2017 season, his career 7.33 K/BB is the best in MLB history for a player with at least 100 innings pitched. He won the 2013 ALCS MVP Award, and closed the final game of the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. With his World Series win, he became one of sixteen players in history to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.
is a Japanese baseball player. He is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants. He also played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Sugiuchi was the Eiji Sawamura Award winner in 2005. He pitched in the 2000 Sydney and 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics.
Rolland Harve Golden (November 8, 1931 – July 1, 2019) was an American visual artist. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Golden was known mainly for his realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm". He is listed in Marquis Who's Who "in America", Marquis Who's Who "in American Art" and Marquis Who's Who "in the World". His works mainly focused on the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Golden had a solo exhibition tour the former Soviet Union from 1976 to 1977, touring Moscow, Kyiv, Leningrad and Odesa. Golden died on July 1, 2019 in Folsom, Louisiana from an illness at the age of 87.
Tyler Wayne Skaggs (July 13, 1991 – July 1, 2019) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He was born in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, but raised in Santa Monica, California. Skaggs played for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2012 to 2013 and for the Los Angeles Angels in 2014 and again from 2016 until his death in 2019. Skaggs was found dead at his hotel room in Southlake, Texas on July 1, 2019 at the age of 27. No foul play is suspected and the cause of death has not been revealed. On August 30, an autopsy revealed that Skaggs had fentanyl, oxycodone, and alcohol in his system. The Drug Enforcement Administration said that the fentanyl was the cause of his death.
Lee Edwards (December 1, 1932 – December 12, 2024) was an American conservative political writer and historian. He was born in Chicago. He taught at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He was a historian of the conservative movement in America and of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.  Edwards was the author or editor of 25 books, and wrote about biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Senator Barry Goldwater, Attorney General Edwin Meese III and William F. Buckley, Jr.. He was the Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Edwards died on December 12, 2024 in Arlington County, Virginia from pancreatic cancer at the age of 92.
Robert James Ellicott (15 April 1927 – 31 October 2022) was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. He was born in Moree, New South Wales. Ellicott was one of only six politicians to have been in both the Parliament of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia. He was elected as the Liberal member for the Division of Wentworth in the 1974 election. He was Attorney-General in the Fraser Ministry from 1975 to 1977. Ellicott died on 31 October 2022, at the age of 95.
Marcin Wodziński (born 30 May 1966) is a professor in the city of Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland. Professor Wodziński a historian who studies the history of the Jews in Poland.  Wodziński was born and raised in the city of Świdnica. As a historian, Wodziński, has studied the history of the Hasidic Judaism in Poland. Professor Wodziński considers Hasidic Judaism to be one of Poland's most important religious movements. Research on Hasidic Jews. Professor Wodziński is the first scholar to perform a complete study on Hasidic Jewish communities. His study required him to collect and catalog all Hasidic community phone books. This effort allowed him to estimate the size of the current Hasidic Jewish population. Professor Wodziński found that there are around 750,000 Hasidic Jews in the world today, with most living in the United States and in Israel.
John Cain (26 April 1931 – 23 December 2019) was an Australian politician. He was born in Melbourne. Cain was the 41st Premier of Victoria, in office from 1982 to 1990 as leader of the Labor Party. His father was John Cain, the 34th Premier of Victoria. Cain died on 23 December 2019 at a Melbourne hospital, aged 88. He had a massive stroke on 10 December.
Raymond Steele Hall (30 November 1928 – 10 June 2024) was an Australian politician. He was the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also was a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977, and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996. Hall died on 10 June 2024 at the age of 95.
Popular sovereignty is the idea that the power of a state and its government are created and sustained by the permission of its people. They give their permission through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who is the source of all political power. It is very similar to a social contract, with philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Americans created their Revolution and government on popular sovereignty. In the 1850s Popular sovereignty in the United States meant a very controversial way to deal with slavery in the territories. This was pushed by senator Stephen A. Douglas. It meant that people living in a territory would be the ones to decide if slavery would be allowed. It led to fighting in Bleeding Kansas. This was because abolitionists (people who didn't want slavery) and pro-slavery people came to the Kansas territory in order to decide the elections.  Popular sovereignty also can be described as the "voice of the people."