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William Goldwyn "Bill" Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's movie "Do the Right Thing" and Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi "Spider-Man" movie trilogy. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nunn died of leukemia at his home in Pittsburgh's Hill District on September 24, 2016, aged 62.
Stephen Mark Darby (born 6 October 1988) is a former English professional footballer. He played as a right-back. Darby was a youth player for Liverpool. As a Liverpool squad player, he was loaned to Swindon Town, Notts County and Rochdale. He then signed for Bradford City, reaching the 2013 Football League Cup Final in his first season. He made 239 appearances for Bradford before signing for Bolton Wanderers in July 2017. Darby retired from professional football in September 2018 after being told he had motor neurone disease. Darby was born in Liverpool. He grew up in Maghull, Merseyside. His wife, Steph Houghton, is a professional women's footballer who captains Manchester City Women and the England women's national team.
John Richard Owens (7 January 1956 – 4 November 1980), better known as Johnny Owen, was a Welsh professional boxer. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He was nicknamed "The Merthyr Matchstick" (after his hometown and size) and "The Matchstick Man" (also after his size). He turned professional in 1976. He boxed as a bantamweight. He held the bantamweight championship titles in Great Britain and Europe. Before his final bout, he had a record of 25 wins (11 by knockout), one loss and one draw. Owen's only loss was against Spaniard Juan Francisco Rodríguez in 1979. He later beat Rodríguez in a rematch in February 1980. On 19 September 1980, Owen went up against Mexican Lupe Pintor at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. He fought hard but was knocked out by Pintor in the twelfth round, giving victory to the Mexican. Despite surgery, Owen went into a coma and never regained consciousness. He died seven weeks later on 4 November 1980, at the age of 24.
McGriddles are a type of breakfast sandwich sold by McDonald's. Introduced in 2003, it is available in the following markets: United States, Turkey, Canada, Poland, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Zealand (for a short period of time). Product description. The standard McGriddles sandwich consists of fried bacon, a scrambled egg flap, and American cheese served on a small pancake made with maple flavoring. Both the top and bottom pancakes are embossed with the McDonald's logo.
Lake Lugano is a Swiss-Italian lake. It is at the border between Switzerland and Italy. About 2/3 of the lake is in Switzerland, and 1/3 in Italy. The lake, named after the city of Lugano, is between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como.
Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He was best known for his writings about technology and movie culture. He was born in Paris. He was best known for his book "War and Cinema" (1989). Virilio died of a heart attack on 10 September 2018 in Paris, aged 88.
Albrecht Wellmer (9 July 1933 – 13 September 2018) was a German philosopher. He worked at the Freie Universität Berlin. Wellmer was born in Bergkirchen, Germany. He was an assistant to Jürgen Habermas at the University of Frankfurt from 1966 to 1970. He has held Professorships at the Universität Konstanz, the New School for Social Research and at the Freie Universität Berlin. Wellmer died on 13 September 2018 at the age of 85.
Alan Irwin Abel (August 2, 1924 – September 14, 2018) was an American prankster, hoaxer, writer, and mockumentary filmmaker. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio.  From 1966 to 1967 Abel wrote a weekly syndicated humor column "The Private World of Prof. Bunker C. Hill" that appeared in the "San Francisco Chronicle" and several other newspapers. Following the Watergate scandal, Abel hired an actor to pose as Deep Throat for a press conference in New York City before 150 reporters. In 1959, Abel started his most elaborate hoax. He appeared on a national TV show as a representative of the "Society for Indecency to Naked Animals" (SINA). SINA's mission was to put clothes on naked animals. Their slogan was: "A nude horse is a rude horse". An actor appeared on television and radio several times, including the CBS Evening News on August 21, 1962. The hoax began as a satire of media censorship, but soon people started sending financial contributions to the organization. (The organization returned the money.) Other people started making official citizen complaints against people for walking naked dogs. Some people started selling clothes for the naked animals. Other hoaxes. In 1979, Abel staged his own death from a heart attack near a famous ski resort. A fake funeral director collected his belongings and a woman posing as his widow notified The New York Times. The Times published an obituary January 2, 1980. On January 3, 1980, Abel held a news conference to announce that the "reports of my demise have been grossly exaggerated." In 1985, Abel organized a TV hoax on The Phil Donahue Show. On that day's program, seven members of the audience appeared to faint during the broadcast, which was seen live on TV. Donahue, the show's host, thought the fainting was caused by both stress from being on television and an overheated studio on a morning that was cold and snowy outside. He cleared the studio of audience members and then resumed the show. It turned out the fainting
Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein.  Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for "The Washington Post", and Deep Throat gave key details about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.  In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim. Hal Holbrook played Deep Throat in the 1976 political thriller "All the President's Men".
Gery J. Chico ( ; born August 24, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician. Chico is a former Democratic primary candidate for United States Senate and former candidate for Mayor of Chicago.  Chico was the Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley from 1992 to 1995, and board president of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001. From 2007 to 2010, he was board president of the Chicago Park District, and in 2010 he was board president of the City Colleges of Chicago. On June 7, 2011, Chico was named Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. In September 2018, Chico announced his candidacy for mayor again for the 2019 election. He lost in the first round of the election in February 2019.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens (19 March 1928 – 18 September 2018) was a French writer and movie director. She was married to Joris Ivens. Her memoir "But You Did Not Come Back" details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was born in Épinal, France. Loridan-Ivens died on 18 September 2018 in Paris at the age of 90.
Jean Piat (23 September 1924 – 18 September 2018) was a French actor and writer. He was born in Lannoy, Nord, France. Piat was known for his roles in many French classic movies in the 1940s to 1960s such as "The Lame Devil", "The Milky Way", "Rider on the Rain". He retired in 2017. Piat died on 18 September 2018 in Paris from a short-illness at the age of 93.
was a Japanese mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. Yamamoto competed in the bantamweight division of the UFC. He became popular in the Shooto organization due to his aggressive persona. He moved on to K-1 Hero's, where he became the K-1 Hero's 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion in December 2005.  On September 18, 2018, Yamamoto died of stomach cancer in Guam; he was 41 years old.
Southbury is a town in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. Southbury is north of Oxford and Newtown and east of Brookfield.  Its population was 19,879 at the 2020 census.
Relevance is the idea that one topic may be useful to another topic: so consider the second topic when considering the first.  The concept of relevance is studied in many fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and information science. It is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge). Definition. "Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it makes it more likely that the goal (G) can be reached. Understanding one concept often means understanding other concepts beforehand. This is the main reason why educators work from a syllabus which guides the order in which topics should be taught. Epistemology. If schizophrenia is caused by bad communication between mother and child, then family interaction studies become relevant. If it is inherited genetically, then the study of family trees becomes relevant. If you are an empiricist, then only carefully designed observations are relevant. If you are a feminist, then the sex of the observer becomes relevant. Epistemology is not just one domain among others. Epistemological views are always at play in any domain. Those views determine or influence what is regarded relevant. Relevance logic. Relevance is argued to depend upon the "remoteness relationship" between an actual world in which relevance is being evaluated and the set of possible worlds within which it is true. Politics. During the 1960s, "relevance" became a fashionable buzzword, meaning roughly 'relevance to social concerns', such as racial equality, poverty, social justice, world hunger, world economic development, and so on. The implication was that some subjects, e.g., the study of medieval poetry and the practice of corporate law, were not worthwhile because they did not address pressing social issues. The contrary view is that the social world is not our only concern. We can be (and are) concerned also about many other things. Also, real-world problems are problems because there is no obvious way to solve them. Increases in crop production in the 20th century were all fuelled by developments in basic science, not by social movements.
Leisel Marie Jones (born 30 August 1985) is a former Australian swimmer. She has one nine Olympic medals (three gold, five silver and a bronze). She competed at the 2000, the 2004, the 2008 and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She confirmed her retirement on 16 November 2012. Jones was born in Katherine, Northern Territory. She trained in Brisbane, Queensland.
Jeffrey William Titford (24 October 1933 – 9 September 2024) was a British politician. He served as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2000 until 2002. He served again as a temporary leader in September to November 2010. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2009. Before becoming a politician he was a businessman. He was an undertaker and president of the National Association of Funeral Directors. He was called the 'father of Brexit'. Titford ran many times to be a member of parliament. Before joining UKIP, he had been a member of the Conservative Party, the New Britain Party and the Referendum Party. He was the most successful Referendum Party candidate in the 1997 general election, winning nearly 10 per cent of the vote in Harwich. Later that year he joined UKIP. At the 2005 general election, Titford ran to represent Harwich. He came fourth of six candidates. Titford stepped down from the European Parliament at the 2009 European elections.  Titford died on 9 September 2024 from cancer at the age of 90.
Macoupin County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2020 census, 44,967 people lived there. The county seat is Carlinville. It is a part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.
McHenry County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2020 census, 310,229 people lived there. The county seat is Woodstock. It is the sixth-most populous county in Illinois. McHenry County was founded in 1836 and named for William McHenry.
McLean County is the largest county by land area in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 170,954. Its county seat is Bloomington. McLean County was founded in 1830 and named for John McLean, United States Senator for Illinois, who died in 1830. Geography. The county has a total area of . Communities. Townships. McLean County is divided into these townships:
Moultrie County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2020 census, 14,526 people lived there. The county seat is Sullivan. Moultrie County was founded in 1843 and named for South Carolina General, and later Governor, William Moultrie.
Mansueto Bianchi (4 November 1949 − 3 August 2016) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Lucca, Tuscany. Bianchi ordained to the priesthood in 1974, he served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Volterra, Italy from 2000 to 2006. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pistoia from 2006 to 2014. Bianchi died on 3 August 2016 in Rome at the age of 66.
Harry Allen (1882-27 December 1922) was a transgender man who was written about in newspaper headlines between 1900 and 1922. He was born Nell Pickerell, but was known as Harry Livingstone from 1900 until 1911, and as Harry Allen from 1911 until his death in 1922. He had several female lovers; one committed suicide, and another attempted suicide. The woman who had committed suicide was treated as two different suicide victims in the media, as she had used different names for herself in the past. Newspapers wrote about his crimes such as prostitution and drinking alcohol. He got a lot of media attention because he was seen as a woman pretending to be a man. Articles. May 30 1900: bar fighting. September 12 1901: being a vagrant , fighting the officer arresting him and causing both of them to land in a puddle of mud. October 12 1901: Stealing $42. $42 dollars would be about $1,245.90 in modern money. December 25 1901: Suicide of his lover, Dolly Quappe. January 09 1902: Being a disorderly person. August 05 1902: Smashing a showcase. August 15 1902: Leading a fight with a police officer. November 4 1903: Suicide of his lover, Pearl Waldron. July 26 1905: Loitering in saloons. January 20 1906: Wearing trousers. February 19 1906: Returning to Seattle. February 21 1906: Refusing to give information on a robbery. March 26 1907: Wearing men's clothes. January 21 1908: Wearing men's clothes. February 08 1908: Wearing men's clothes, his mother referring to him as 'Harry'. February 23 1908: Flirting with women. March 18 1908: Wearing men's clothes. Interviewed in prison, says he "looks a fright" in women's clothing. March 10 1909: Ordered out of town three hours
Roger William Herbert Sargent PhD, DSc(Eng), D.hc(INPL, Nancy), ACGI, Hon FCGI, FIChemE FIMA FREng FSA (14 October 1926 – 11 September 2018) was a British chemical engineer. He was the Courtaulds Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and "the father" of the discipline of Process Systems Engineering. He was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Sargent died on 11 September 2018 in London at the age of 91.
Branko Grünbaum (2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018) was a Yugoslavian-born American mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He wrote over 200 papers, mostly in discrete geometry, an area in which he was known for many classification theorems. He has written on the theory of abstract polyhedra. Grünbaum died in Seattle on 14 September 2018 at the age of 88
Richard M. Pollack (January 25, 1935 – September 18, 2018) was an American geometer. He spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He was Professor Emeritus at the university till his death. In 1986 he and Jacob E. Goodman were the founding co-editors-in-chief of the journal "Discrete &amp; Computational Geometry" (Springer-Verlag). He was born in New York City. Pollack died on September 18, 2018 in New York City at the age of 83.
Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police officer and convicted felon. He was born in South Deering, Chicago, Illinois. He worked for the Chicago Police Department as a detective and commander. He became well known for torturing more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991 in order to force confessions.  In 2010 he was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in relation to investigations of torture by police, and he served prison time.  Burge died at age 70 on September 19, 2018 in Apollo Beach, Florida from prostate cancer.
Kondapalli Koteswaramma (August 5, 1918 – September 19, 2018) was an Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary, and writer. She was born in Pamarru, Andhra Pradesh. Her best known works were "Amma Cheppina Aidu Geyalu" (1972), "Ashru Sameekshanam" (1991), "Sanghamitra Kathalu" (1991). Her autobiography "Nirjana Vaaradhi" (2012) was published by the Hyderabad Book Trust. It was translated to English as "The Sharp Knife of Memory". Koteswaramma died on September 19, 2018 from a stroke, aged 100.
Arthur Mitchell (March 27, 1934 – September 19, 2018) was an African-American dancer and choreographer. He created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH).  Mitchell was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow. He was added into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. &amp; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame, and received the United States National Medal of Arts. Mitchell died on September 19, 2018 in Manhattan from heart failure at the age of 84.
Donald Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. He is known for writing "". His works reside in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of Art in San Francisco, the University of Texas, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Portrait Gallery, London. One of Bachardy's best known works is the official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown that hangs in the California State Capitol Museum.
Shepard "Shep" Smith (born David Shepard Smith Jr.; January 14, 1964) is an American television news anchor. He formerly worked on the Fox News Channel.  Smith is the former host of Fox News' evening newscast, "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith", and "Studio B". In October 2013, "Shepard Smith Reporting" replaced "Studio B". Smith is openly gay, coming out in 2017. On October 11th, 2019, Shepard Smith announced he stepped down from Fox News after 23 years; it was also Shepard Smith Reporting's final airing.
The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth", because of its racial, cultural, and economic history. It is 200 miles long and 87 miles across about 4,415,000 acres, or, some 7,000 square miles of floodplain. It was developed as one of the richest cotton-growing areas in the nation before the American Civil War (1861–1865). It had many cotton plantations worked by black slaves. After the war many became sharecroppers.
The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is thought by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, which was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture. The river is 188 miles (303 km) long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha rivers.
The Yalobusha River is a river, long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, which is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The name "Yalobusha" comes from the Choctaw word "yalooboshi", meaning "little tadpole", from "yalooba", "tadpole", and "-ushi", "diminutive".
The North Shore is made up of many rich suburbs north of Chicago, Illinois. It borders the shores of Lake Michigan. These communities fall within suburban Cook County and Lake County.  Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glenview, Morton Grove, Golf, Niles, Skokie, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff are thought to be the main members of the North Shore, as all are affluent communities that border the lake just north of Chicago.
"Not to be confused with Ronald L. Thompson (1899–1986)." Ronald John "Ronnie" Thompson (July 21, 1934 – March 22, 2020), also known as Machine Gun Ronnie' Thompson, was an American Republican politician and singer. He was born in Augusta, Georgia. Thompson was the first member of his party to have been elected mayor of Macon from 1967 to 1975. He was also a former gospel and country music singer. He was known for his highly conservative views on issues. Many historians believe Thompson was responsible for the "Post-Reagan Era Right Movement" due to his support before and after Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. Thompson died in Alzheimer's disease at age 85 on March 22, 2020.
"I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" is an anonymous essay published by "The New York Times" on September 5, 2018. The author was said to be a senior official working for the Donald Trump administration. In October 2020, the author was revealed to be Miles Taylor, Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2019. About. The op-ed criticizes Trump and says that many current members of the administration ignore his suggestions for good reasons and for the good of the country. It also says that some cabinet members in the early days of the administration discussed using the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution as a way to remove the president from power. Identity. "The New York Times" editorial board said that it knows the author's identity but granted the person anonymity to protect them from removal and public blacklash. The publication of this editorial was unusual because the "Times" does not often publish anonymously written pieces. In October 2020, Miles Taylor was revealed to be the author. Reaction. Trump reacted in private with what was described as "volcanic" anger. On Twitter he said the author was "failing" and "probably here for all the wrong reasons". He also questioned whether the aide was another "phony source" invented by the "failing "New York Times"". Trump tweeted: "If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the "Times" must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!" He later tweeted: "TREASON?"