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State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping () is the national Chinese institute of geodesy and cartography. It is in Beijing, China. Established in 1959, it played a crucial role in regulating and overseeing geographic data and mapping activities within the country. The bureau was affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM) and was instrumental in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of maps used in China.
Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park owned and operated by Cedar Fair and located in between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Emmaus, Pennsylvania. History. Dorney Park traces its history to 1860, when Solomon Dorney built a trout hatchery and summer resort on his estate outside of Allentown. In 1870, Dorney decided to convert the estate into a public attraction. Initially, the facility featured games, playground-style rides, refreshment stands, picnic groves, a hotel, and a restaurant. By the 1880s, Dorney had added a small zoo, and gardens. Halloween Haunt. Halloween Haunt is an annual event that is held from September to October. The park hires around 700 people for this event. It was originally introduced in 1998 as Halloweekends, but was rebranded Halloween Haunt in 2008. Current attractions. Halloween Haunt currently features 12 attractions including seven mazes and five scare zones, and three live mainstage shows (TBA 2024).
Mel Martinez (born October 23, 1946) is an American politician. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 2005 until 2009. He was the 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He is a Republican. Martinez was born on October 23, 1946 in Sagua La Grande, Cuba. He graduated from Florida State University. He is married to Kitty Martínez. They have three children.
Mitch Daniels (born April 7, 1949) is an American politician. He served as the 49th Governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. He was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 until 2003. He is a Republican. Daniels was born on April 7, 1949 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He studied at Princeton University and at Georgetown University. He is married to Cheri Herman.
Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle. He wrote books in Basic English. In 1936 Charles Kay Ogden commissioned Otto and his wife Marie Neurath to produce "International Picture Language" as part of a series of eight books in Basic English. Life. Neurath was born in Vienna, the son of Wilhelm Neurath (1840–1901), a well-known Jewish political economist at the time. Otto's mother was a Protestant, and he would also become one. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 1906, he gained his PhD in the department of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Berlin. He married Anna Schapire in 1907, who died in 1911. Then, he married a close friend, the mathematician and philosopher Olga Hahn. Neurath taught political economy at the New Vienna Commercial Academy in Vienna until war broke out. After that, he directed the Department of War Economy in the War Ministry. In 1917, he completed his habilitation thesis "Die Kriegswirtschaftslehre und ihre Bedeutung für die Zukunft" (War Economics and Their Importance for the Future) at Heidelberg University. In 1918, he became director of the "Deutsches Kriegswirtschaftsmuseum" (German Museum of War Economy, later the "Deutsches Wirtschaftsmuseum") at Leipzig.
The 1956–57 Eredivisie was the 2nd Eredivisie tournament. Door Oefening Sterk (DOS) won the tournament. Table. Play-off matches. DOS defeated SC Enschede 1–0 in extra time to win their first title. Lastly, Elinkwijk defeated GVAV 2–1 to stay in the Eredivisie, while GVAV were sent to the Eerste Divisie.
The 1957–58 Eerste Divisie was the 2nd Eerste Divisie tournament. It was won by Willem II and ADO Den Haag. Tables. The 32 teams in the tournament were put into two groups. Eerste Divisie A. Championship play-offs. Willem II defeated FC Dordrecht 3–1 to win the tournament.
The 2014–15 Eredivisie was the 59th Eredivisie tournament. PSV Eindhoven won the tournament, ending AFC Ajax's winning streak that was going since 2011. Play-offs. European competition play-offs. Because Vitesse won the play-offs, they then qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. Relegation play-offs. Two teams from the 2014–15 Eredivisie and eight from the 2014–15 Eerste Divisie participated in these play-offs. In the end, De Graafschap and Roda JC Kerkrade won the play-offs, meaning that they move on to the 2015–16 Eredivisie, the two teams from the Eredivisie are relegated, and the six other teams remain in the Eerste Divisie.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (born May 22, 1969) is an American politician. She was the U.S. Representative for Washington's 5th congressional district from 2005 to 2025. She chaired the Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives, and was the vice-chair of the House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2013. McMorris Rodgers is a member of the Republican Party. McMorris Rodgers was born on May 22, 1969 in Salem, Oregon. She studied at Pensacola Christian College and at University of Washington. She is married to Brian Rodgers. They have three children.
Naviraí is a Brazilian city of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. About 51,600 people live there (2015). It has an area of . The city is served by bus and airport, the latter being prepared to operate. History. The city of Naviraí was founded in April 1952 and emancipated on November 11, 1963.
Yakub Abdul Razak Memon (30 July 1962-30 July 2015) was an Indian terrorist and chartered accountant, who was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007. Memon is the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected and he was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 at 0500 IST in Nagpur jail.
Jan Jerzy Kulczyk (24 June 1950 – 28 July 2015) was a Polish businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding, which has its headquarters in Warsaw, and international investment house Kulczyk Investments. He was the richest man in Poland. Kulczyk died on 28 July 2015 at the age of 65 due to surgery complications in Vienna.
The governor of Arizona is the head of state and government of the U.S. state of Arizona and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor is also the head of the executive branch of the state government and is the chairwoman of the gubernatorial cabinet.  Katie Hobbs is the 24th and current governor of Arizona, in office since January 2023. Powers and duties. The governor has the power to enforce state laws and the duty to either approve or veto bills passed by the Arizona Legislature or the Arizona Senate to assemble the legislature and grant pardons, except in cases of impeachment. Eligibility &amp; requirements. Article V, Section 2 of the state's constitution states for a person to serve as governor must: Election process and gubernatorial term limits. The governor is elected by the people through the popular election to a four-year term. The gubernatorial candidate or incumbent governor must have the majority of the popular vote in order to win the election. The state's constitution forbids anyone from being elected governor more than twice.
SHeDAISY is an American country music group. They were founded in the 1999 by sisters Kristyn, Kelsi and Kassidy Osborn. They are from Magna, Utah. The group's name comes from the word "shideezhí", a Navajo term meaning "my little sister". By 1999 the sisters formed the group SHeDAISY and signed to Lyric Street Records. Their first album, "The Whole SHeBANG", was released that year. The single "Little Good-Byes" from that album charted number three on the country charts. It was certified platinum in the United States. SHeDAISY has charted 15 times on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. Their hits include "Little Good-Byes," "This Woman Needs", "I Will… But", "Don't Worry 'bout a Thing", and two Christmas singles.
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is when an astronaut or cosmonaut gets out of a spacecraft in outer space, then gets back in. "Extravehicular activity" usually refers to a spacewalk outside a spacecraft orbiting the Earth, but can also refer to a moonwalk on the surface of the Moon. Three Apollo astronauts made spacewalks between the Earth and the Moon while their spacecraft were returning to Earth. Astronauts from Russia, the United States and China have done EVAs. First spacewalks. Alexey Leonov, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, made the first spacewalk on March 18, 1965. He spent 12 minutes outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. The first American to make a spacewalk was Edward H. White, II, who spent 36 minutes outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft on June 3, 1965. The first moonwalk was made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 (UTC), during the Apollo 11 trip to the Moon. This first Moon walk lasted for 2 hours and 32 minutes. Twelve human beings have walked on the surface of the Moon. Later history. In 1973, astronauts made spacewalks to repair Skylab, the first space station sent into space by the United States. Skylab had been damaged while it was being launched into space. Many spacewalks were made to build the International Space Station (ISS). Spacewalks are still made to maintain the ISS and fix it when there is a problem.
Cley Marshes is a nature reserve on the North Sea coast of England. It is just outside the village of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk. It has been a reserve since 1926. It is the oldest of the reserves belonging to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT). Cley Marshes protects an area of reed beds, freshwater marsh, pools and wet meadows. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site because of the large numbers of birds it attracts.
The Independence Hall of Israel is a building in Tel Aviv in Israel. It is where the ceremony of independence of the State of Israel was held on Friday, May 14, 1948. The building has been restored to look like it did on the day of the announcement.
Route 386 is a road in Israel. It stretches from Tzur Hadassah to Jerusalem. The route begins in the Judean Mountains at Tzur Hadassah. It starts at a junction with Route 375. In Jerusalem, the road is named Herzl Boulevard ("Sderot Herzl"). It stretches from the western entrance to the city near the Bridge of Strings to Mount Herzl. The street was named after Theodor Herzl on November 17, 1949. The street passes through the neighborhoods of Kiryat Moshe, Beit Hakerem, Yefeh Nof and Bayit VeGan. The main entrance to Mount Herzl is the number 1.
James "Jim" Hedges (born May 10, 1938 ― March 4, 2024) was a Prohibition activist and former Tax Assessor for Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania. He held the distinction as the only individual to be elected to public office from the Prohibition Party in the 21st century, and the first since 1959. Hedges ran for President of the United States of America in the 2016 presidential election. Death. He died in Hagerstown, Maryland, on March 4, 2024, at the age of 85.
Alena "Ája" Vrzáňová () (also Zanová, married name: Steindler) (16 May 1931 – 30 July 2015), was a Czech figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia in competition. Vrzáňová is the 1949 &amp; 1950 World champion and 1950 European champion. She was born in Prague. Vrzáňová died suddenly on 30 July 2015 in New York City at the age of 84 while in exile.
Augustin "Gustav" Bubník (21 November 1928 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – 18 April 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a retired ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics. He also played in the 1947 and 1949 World Championships. Czechoslovakia won both. He later worked as ice hockey coach and was elected as MP to the lower chamber of Czech Parliament from the Civic Democratic Party. He also worked as ice hockey coach of the Finnish National Team from 1966 to 1969, and was later inducted to the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame.
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (; ; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He was born in Manhattan, New York City. He is known for his novels about the Mafia, including "The Godfather" (1969), which was later made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974. Puzo died of heart failure in West Bay Shore, New York, aged 78.
Barbara Harris (July 25, 1935 – August 21, 2018) was an American actress who was a Broadway stage star and later became a movie actress. She was born in Evanston, Illinois. She was known for being a co-founder of The Second City. She appeared in such movies as "A Thousand Clowns", "Plaza Suite", "Nashville", "Family Plot", "Freaky Friday", "Peggy Sue Got Married", and "Grosse Pointe Blank".  Harris won a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award and received four Golden Globe Award nominations. Harris died in Scottsdale, Arizona from lung cancer on August 21, 2018, aged 83.
Noel Darleen Neill (November 25, 1920 July 3, 2016) was an American actress in motion pictures and television. She is known for her portrayal of Lois Lane in the movie serials "Superman" (1948) and "Atom Man vs. Superman" (1950), as well as the 1950s television series "Adventures of Superman". Following an extended illness, Neill died at age 95 on July 3, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (July 31, 1929 – February 2, 2024) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Beauregard Decker in the 1956 movie "Bus Stop". Murray starred in television series such as "The Outcasts" (1968–1969), "Knots Landing" (1979–1981), and "Twin Peaks" (2017).  Murray died at his home in Goleta, California on February 2, 2024 at the age of 94.
Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American movie, stage, and television actress. Lange was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 movie "Peyton Place".  In 1969 and 1970, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom "The Ghost &amp; Mrs. Muir". Lange died on December 19, 2003, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, as a result of an ischemic colitis infection at the age of 70.
Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American movie director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), Best Director for "All the President's Men" (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for "Sophie's Choice" (1982). He was also known for his movies "Klute" and "The Parallax View". He was born in New York City. Pakula was killed in a car accident in Melville, New York, aged 70.
Breckland District is a local government district in Norfolk, England. About 135,000 people live there. It was created on 1 April 1974. Its council is based in East Dereham. Breckland District gets its name from the Breckland landscape region. That is a gorse-covered sandy heath of south Norfolk and north Suffolk. The term "Breckland" is ancient. It is found as early as the 13th century in the form Brakelond.
The Jerusalem Forest () is a pine forest located in the Judean Mountains west of Jerusalem. It is surrounded by the neighborhoods Beit HaKerem, Yefe Nof, Ein Kerem, Har Nof, Givat Shaul, and a moshav, Beit Zeit.
Atkinson is a former town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Judge Atkinson, a landholder. The population was 326 at the 2010 census. It was a town until 2019. Then it lost its government and became a unincorporated area.
Independence Day of Israel (; ""   lit. "Independence Day") is the national day of Israel. It celebrates the day of the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel at the end of British Mandate of Palestine. It occurs on the fifth day of Iyar in the Hebrew calendar, which is between the months of April and May. Independence Day begins with a ceremony held in Mount Herzl Plaza in Jerusalem. It begins at midnight. The ceremony also ends Yom Hazikaron. A fire is lit.
The Judge is a 2014 American crime drama movie directed by David Dobkin. Plot. It is about a Chicago lawyer, Hank Palmer, coming home to Indiana after his mother dies. Soon afterwards, his father, Joseph Palmer, a judge, is accused of killing someone in a hit and run accident with the son quickly defending his father even though they have relationship issues. Reception. The movie received mixed reviews. It got a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics liked Duvall's performance as Palmer. Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role.
Walter William Pierce (April 2, 1927 – July 31, 2015) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) starting pitcher. He played 18 years for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and San Francisco Giants, from 1945 through 1964.  He was selected to the Chicago White Sox All-Century Team in 2000. Pierce was an All-Star for seven seasons. Pierce was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in Highland Park, Michigan. Pierce died in Chicago, Illinois from gallbladder cancer, aged 88.
Jon Shepodd (December 19, 1924 – August 16, 2017) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Paul Martin in the television series "Lassie". Shepodd died on August 16, 2017 at his London, England home at the age of 92.
David Faber (August 25, 1928 – July 28, 2015) was a Polish writer and educator. He was Jewish and survived nine concentration camps in occupied Poland and Nazi Germany. He was also an award-winning educator and lecturer on the Holocaust. Faber died on July 28, 2015 in San Diego, California at the age of 86.
Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer and critic. He worked for the New Yorker and appeared on several segments on radio. Cheuse was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Cheuse was involved in a car accident on July 14, 2015 on California State Route 17 while driving from Nevada City to Santa Cruz, California. He was reported to be in a coma on July 20, 2015 with injuries including fractured ribs, cervical vertebrae, and an acute subdural hematoma. He died on July 31, 2015 from his injuries at the age of 75 in San Jose, California.
Trey Gowdy (born August 22, 1964) is an American politician. In 2011, he became the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district. He chaired the House Benghazi Committee. Gowdy is a member of the Republican Party. Gowdy was born on August 22, 1964 in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1982 he graduated from Spartanburg High School, Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 1986 he graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Gowdy graduated from University of South Carolina School of Law. He was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1994 to 2000. Gowdy was then elected state district attorney in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2010. On May 4, 2015 he was named to head the special House panel to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attack. He is married to Terri Gowdy. They have two children. On January 31, 2018, Gowdy announced he would not seek re-election in 2018 and that he intends to pursue a legal career instead of politics.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, and geologist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years. Osborn was one of the great dinosaur fossil hunters of the late 19th century, and a eugenist.  Osborn got a Sc.D. in paleontology from Princeton, and was Professor of Comparative Anatomy there from 1883–1890. In 1891, Osborn was hired by Columbia University as a professor of zoology. At the same time, he got a position at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. He served there as the curator of the newly formed Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Osborn led the American Museum expedition to Mongolia in 1922–25.  Osborn named and wrote the first descriptions of "Tyrannosaurus rex" and "Velociraptor", and many other dinosaurs. The historian Edward J. Larson described Osborn as "a first-rate science administrator and a third-rate scientist." This seems rather an extreme view: some of the problems he faced are still problems today. For example, he studied "Struthiomimus", which is a lightweight running dinosaur. Its lifestyle is still not very clear today. Under his leadership, staff of the American Museum of Natural History worked on displays. The museum became one of the top exhibitions in the early twentieth century. As a result, the murals, habitat dioramas, and dinosaur mounts attracted millions of visitors, and inspired other museums to imitate. His decision to invest heavily in exhibitions angered curators who hoped to spend more time on their own research.
Six Flags America is a theme park in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Six Flags announces it will invest $1 billion in its amusement parks
Seeing pink elephants is a figure of speech, that is used to describe a hallucination which is caused by alcohol, or delirium tremens. Jack London was among the first to use the term, in 1913. In the autobiographical novel John Barleycorn, he describes one kind of alcoholic, as "the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and "pink elephants". He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers." A reference to pink elephants occurs in the 1941 Disney animated film "Dumbo". Dumbo takes a drink of water from a bucket spiked with champagne and begins to hallucinate singing and dancing elephants in a segment known as "Pink Elephants on Parade". Pink elephants do exist in nature, as it is possible for albino elephants to be pink, as well as white.
Karim Findi (1946 Dahuk - Kurdistan Region - Iraq) author and Kurdishwriter.  In 1974 graduated at University of Mosul – English Department.  He has a lot of books in many subject such as politics, geography, language, literature, history in different language English, Kurdish, Arabic. It was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate. Was a chief Editor of Karwan Magazine, a secretary of Karwan Academic magazine and a chief Editor of Dijla magazine the first Latin Lettered Magazine,issued by Ministry of culture, Kurdistan Region.