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John Albert Kundla (July 3, 1916 – July 23, 2017) was an American former college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Kundla died on July 23, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the age of 101.
Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. In 1982, Townes received the National Medal of Science, presented by President Ronald Reagan. In 1999, he was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea. Townes was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Townes died at the age of 99 in Oakland, California, on January 27, 2015.
René Angélil (January 16, 1942 – January 14, 2016) was a Canadian singer. He was also the former manager of Céline Dion. He was married to Dion from 1994 until his death.  Angélil was born in Montreal, Quebec. It was previously reported that he had throat cancer. In September 2015, Céline revealed that Angélil's cancer was terminal, and that he had only 'weeks' to live. Angélil died on January 14, 2016 in Henderson, Nevada of a heart attack complicated from the disease at the age of 73.
The Division of Grey is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. It was set up in 1903 and is named for Sir George Grey, Governor of South Australia from 1841–45 (and later Prime Minister of New Zealand).  The division covers 92% of the state. The borders of the electorate include the Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales borders, as well as the south coast. The division includes Ceduna, Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Port Augusta, Roxby Downs, Coober Pedy, Port Pirie, Kadina, Maitland, Orroroo, Peterborough, Burra and Eudunda. Members. Jack Mortimer won the division in a by-election in 1963, caused by the death of Edgar Russell.
The Nut Job is a 2014 animated comedy movie about a heist. Will Arnett plays Surly, Brendan Fraser plays Grayson. Katherine Heigl plays Andie. Maya Rudolph plays Precious.  This movie has a sequel called "", was released in 2017. This movie was released in the United States on January 17, 2014.
Alberta Adams (born Roberta Louise Osborn on July 26, 1917 - December 25, 2014) was an American Detroit blues, jump blues, and Chicago blues singer. Adams was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was raised in Detroit, she began performing as a tap dancer and nightclub singer in the 1930s. In 1952, she landed a recording contract with Chess Records and recorded alongside Red Saunders for the record label. Adams toured alongside Duke Ellington, Eddie Vinson, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, and T-Bone Walker amongst others.  Her solo career saw her secure a recording contract with the now defunct Cannonball Records, and she recorded two albums for them: 1999's "Born With the Blues" and 2000s "Say Baby Say". Her 2004 album, "I'm on the Move", was released on Eastlawn Records label. In 2006 she released the EP "Detroit's Queen of the Blues", which was named Outstanding Blues/R&amp;B Recording at the 2006 Detroit Music Awards.  At age 91 she recorded "Detroit Is My Home", with Ann Rabson and Thornetta Davis as guest artists. Adams died in Detroit, Michigan after a period of failing health, aged 97.
Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin (; 4 March 1934 – 25 December 2014) was a Russian priest and dissident. He fought for the freedom of conscience in the Soviet Union. He was member of Moscow Helsinki Group, and he was elected to Russian Parliaments from 1990 to 1999. Yakunin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. He died at the age of 80 after a long illness on 25 December 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons, from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot).
High Stakes &amp; Dangerous Men is the thirteenth album by British hard rock band UFO. It was released in February 1992.
Walter Duncan was a British painter. He was born in 1848 in London, He died in 1932 in Richmond, London. He completed his early studies in the family with his father Edward Duncan. His father was a member of the "Royal Society of Watercolours" in London. He lived in London, then later in Surrey. Duncan expressed himself with drawing, pastels, watercolor and oil. Bibliography. WRIGIT Christopher, GORDON Catherine Mary, SMITH Mary Peskett (2006), “Walter Duncan”, in IDEM "British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections", New Haven 2006, Yale University Press, pag. 310.
Dylan Baker (born October 7, 1959) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in "Happiness", "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", "Trick 'r Treat", "Spider-Man 3", and in "". Baker was born in Syracuse, New York, but was raised in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Alan Phillip Gross (born May 2, 1949) is an American international development professional. In December 2009, he was arrested while in Cuba working as a U.S. government subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a program funded under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act. He was prosecuted in 2011 after being accused of crimes against the Cuban state for bringing satellite phones and computer equipment (to members of Cuba’s Jewish community) without the permit required under Cuban law. After being accused of working for American intelligence services in January 2010, he was ultimately convicted for “acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state" in March 2011. He was released from Cuban prison on December 17, 2014.
"Little Red Corvette" is a pop/rock song by musician Prince. The song was his biggest hit at the time of release. It got to #6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song was on the Prince album "1999". In this song, the LinnDrum was heard. The song was released on February 9, 1983.
"1999" is a song by Prince. This was the title track from the album "1999". The song was released on September 24, 1982. At that time, it did not get into the top 40 in the United States or the United Kingdom. It peaked at #44 in December 1982. Later, after "Little Red Corvette" hit the top 10, "1999" peaked at #12 in the U.S. in July 1983. The Linn LM-1 and LinnDrum were heard in this song.
1999 is the fifth studio album from Prince. It contained the hit songs "Little Red Corvette", "1999" and "Delirious". The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation. The record was released on October 27, 1982. The album's music is pop, funk and R&amp;B. Critical reception and legacy. "1999" was well received by contemporary critics. Reviewing for "Rolling Stone" in December 1982, Michael Hill praised Prince for "working like a colorblind technician who's studied both Devo and Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, keeping the ["1999"s] songs constantly kinetic with an inventive series of shocks and surprises." "The Village Voice" reviewer Robert Christgau was more reserved in his praise. While conceding that, "like every black pop auteur, Prince commands his own personal groove ... stretching his flat funk forcebeat onto two discs worth of deeply useful dance tracks", he also believed that the musician's only reliable subject remains race, leaving the critic with doubts about the messages behind the sex and apocalyptic songs.
Archaefructus is an extinct genus of herbaceous aquatic seed plants. Its fossils come from the Yixian Formation in northeastern China, about 125 million years ago in the early Cretaceous. "Archaefructus" is the earliest known genus of flowering plants. It lacks sepals and petals. Its reproductive organs, carpels and stamens, are produced on an elongate stem rather than condensed into a flower as in modern angiosperms. Archaefructaceae has been proposed as a new basal angiosperm family.  An alternate interpretation of the same fossil has the long stem as an inflorescence rather than a flower, with staminate (male) flowers below and pistillate (female) flower above. The discovery of "Archaefructus eoflora" supports this interpretation, because a bisexual flower is present between staminate and pistillate organs. If this is correct, "Archaefructus" may not be basal within angiosperms, but it may be close to the Nymphaeales or the basal eudicots.
A Tegnér church () or Tegnér barn () is a popular nickname given to a type of church building. They are usually located in rural Sweden. They were often built during the late 18th century and the early 19th century. They were built when Esaias Tegnér was bishop of the Diocese of Växjö in the Church of Sweden. The term mostly became popular in Småland. These buildings are usually white. They are built in Neoclassicist style. They have a tall tower connected to the main building. Many of the buildings were built to replace demolished Medieval churches. The new churches were larger and could hold more people inside. This was needed because the population of Sweden was increasing.
The title of Duke of Aumont was established in 1665. It was first given to Antoine d'Aumont de Rochebaron (1601–1669). For a long time, the dukes of Aumont had the title of first Gentleman of the Chamber of the King ("gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi"). They were a fairly influential and wealthy family. They owned the "Hôtel d'Aumont" a large townhouse in Paris. The family also had many other titles including "Marquis of Villequier". This was sometimes used by the heir to the ducal title. Descendants. The present reigning Prince of Monaco is a direct descendant of the family.
The Cinque Ports is a confederation of coastal towns in Kent and Sussex. It was originally formed for military and trade purposes, but is now ceremonial. A Royal Charter of 1155 established the ports. The ports are at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to the continent is narrowest. In Norman French, the name means "five ports". They were: However, Rye, originally a subsidiary of New Romney, changed to become one of the Cinque Ports, after New Romney was damaged by storms and silted up. Romney is now a mile from the sea, separated from it by Dungeness, which is a large pebble beach. The Federation of Cinque Ports includes various other towns on the coast. These are called "limbs" of the Cinque Ports. The Federation is supported by two towns, one of which is Rye, and the other (a few miles back from the coast) is Winchelsea. These towns once supported militias which could be used for defence of the area.
Common wheat ("Triticum aestivum"), also known as bread wheat, is a cultivated wheat species. About 95% of the wheat produced is common wheat. Common wheat has been got by many generations of artificial selection by farmers choosing the most productive plants which occurred in their crops. Evolution. Bread wheat is an allohexaploid, instead of the original two sets (diploid). There are six sets of chromosomes, two sets from each of three different species. Free-threshing wheat is closely related to spelt wheat. As with spelt, genes from goatgrass ("Aegilops tauschii") give bread wheat greater cold hardiness than most wheats. It is cultivated throughout the world's temperate zones. Of the six sets of chromosomes, two come from einkorn wheat and two from "Aegilops speltoides". This hybridisation created the species "Triticum turgidum", 580820 thousand years ago. The last two sets of chromosomes came from "Aegilops tauschii", 230–430 thousand years ago.
Ford Transit Connect is a compact van made by Ford Europe from 2002 to the present day. It replaced the long-running Escort van.  A leisure version called the Tourneo Connect is made too.  First generation (2002–2013). The first generation Transit Connect was made from 2002 to 2013. It replaced the Escort van. In 2009, It was improved. It had new front bumpers, new grille and new rear lights. Ford also made a passenger leisure van called the Tourneo Connect, It was made from 2002 to 2013. Second generation (2013–2022). The second generation Transit Connect was made from 2013 to 2022. In 2018, It was improved. It had a new front bumper, new grille and new rear lights. Ford also made a passenger leisure van called the Tourneo Connect, It was made from 2014 to 2020. Third generation (2021–present). The third generation Transit Connect has been made from 2024 to the present day. Ford also make a passenger leisure van called the Tourneo Connect, It is made from 2021 to the present day. The Tourneo Connect is a Volkswagen Caddy but it has different front headlamps, different bonnet, different grille, different maker badge and a different interior.
Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an American jazz clarinet player. He was known for performing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. DeFranco died in Panama City, Florida at the age of 91.
Narayanan Lakshmi Balakrishnan (born Velayudhan) (17 April 1943 – 25 December 2014), commonly known as N. L. Balakrishnan, was an Indian movie still photographer and actor. He starred in over 70 movies. He was known for his work in "Kerala Kaumudi". Balakrishnan died from cancer in a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, aged 71.
Stanisław Barańczak (November 13, 1946, Poznań, Poland – December 26, 2014, Boston, USA) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer.  He was most famous and valued for Polish translations of William Shakespeare dramas as well as numerous translations of English poetry by ee cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others. Barańczak died in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 58. Other websites. Polish Literature in English Translation: Stanisław Barańczak
Going Back is the eighth and final studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released on 14 September 2010 in the United Kingdom. It was released on 28 September 2010 in the United States. It features covers of '60s Motown &amp; soul standards. It also was his first full solo release in eight years. Collins was primarily concentrated on soundtracks, compilations, and his extensive touring as a solo artist and with Genesis. Track listing. 2010 Ultimate Edition. iTunes has a digital download deluxe version in the "iTunes LP" HD format which contains 26 (of the 29) audio songs plus the music video for "(Love Is Like a) Heatwave". The "iTunes LP" HD format contains complete song lyrics and a digital photo gallery. Ultimate edition In addition to the expanded 25-track CD, the DVD contains four bonus tracks making it the complete "Going Back" session recordings. All 29 tracks can be transferred to a PC as either WAV or mp3 (320kbit/s) files. DVD bonus tracks All 29 tracks can be played with a different replica 7" vinyl record sleeve presented for each track. DVD video materials A retailer-exclusive version of "Going Back" was offered at Best Buy in the U.S. This included an additional DVD containing a 30-minute interview with Collins. The DVD was packaged with the CD in a 2-disc jewel case, and was the only version of the album with a bonus disc sold at U.S. retail stores. Collins recorded two of the extra tracks found on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD. "Tears of a Clown" was recorded as a B-side in 2002. In addition, he recorded "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" as a duet with The Manhattan Transfer on their 1995 album "Tonin"'. Both tracks were newly recorded for "Going Back". 2016 reissue. The album was reissued as "The Essential Going Back" on 10 June 2016 with fewer tracks than the original release, but with the addition of "Too Many Fish in the Sea," and a bonus disc with live recordings. Just the first disc was included in the "Take a Look at Me Now" 8 album box set of the 2016 editions of Collins' solo albums
Surya Bahadur Thapa ( March 21, 1928 – April 15, 2015) was a Nepalese politician. He has served as the Prime Minister of Nepal for five terms, under three different kings, in a political career lasting more than 50 years. His terms were 1963-64, 1965–69, 1979–83, 1997–98 and 2003-04. Surya Bahadur Thapa had been the first Prime Minister of the Panchayat System. Thapa died at the age of 87 in a hospital in Delhi, India from respiratory failure after undergoing surgery.
Tulsi Giri ( 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a "de facto" Prime Ministerial position) between 1960 and 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in Siraha District, Nepal in 1926. Giri died on 18 December 2018 from liver cancer in Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu, Nepal, aged 92.
Fly from Here is the 20th studio album by Yes. The album was released on July 4, 2011. It peaked at number 30 on the UK Albums Chart. It peaked at number 36 on the US "Billboard" 200 chart. "Fly from Here" is Yes' first studio album since the release of "Magnification" (2001). Like albums made before, the cover was made by Roger Dean.
Regent's University London is a private, not-for-profit university in London. It is one of six private teaching institutions in the United Kingdom which can award degrees. It offers dual American and British programmes. It is the second oldest but largest private university in the country. The university has 15% of applicants from the UK, 10% from the United States and the rest from all over the world. Fees are about £14,000 a year for undergraduate courses. Regent's University London has its campus in Regent's Park, central London. It was built on the site of South Villa, one of the original eight Regent's Park villas. Regent's occupies buildings left by the former Bedford College of the University of London. Bedford College merged with Royal Holloway College, and moved out of London into Surrey. Regent's has a second campus in Marylebone, called Regent's Marylebone. There it runs the Regents School of Fashion and Design, a range of qualifications in fashion design, marketing, interior design and visual communication.
Brenden Dillon (born November 13, 1990) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Dallas Stars and San Jose Sharks. Career. Before playing in the NHL, Dillon played one season with the Hope Icebreakers of the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL) and four seasons with the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League (WHL). Dillon would go undrafted but was signed to a three-year entry-level contract with the Dallas Stars on March 1, 2011. On February 1, 2013, Dillon was able to score his first NHL goal and his first career Gordie Howe hat trick in a 4–3 shootout win against the Phoenix Coyotes. On November 21, 2014, the Stars traded Dillon to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Jason Demers and a 2016 third-round pick.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum () was "The Index", a list of books banned by the Catholic Church. They were banned if the Church thought they were heretical, anti-clerical (anti-church) or lascivious (obscene). It was censorship by the Catholic Church. Early versions of the Index were published in Catholic Netherlands (1529); Venice (1543) and Paris (1551). By mid-century, with wars of religion in France and Germany, authorities thought control of the press could prevent the spread of heresy. This could be done by using a catalog of prohibited works, backed by ecclesiastic and civil authorities. The first version published in Rome (the "Pauline Index") was issued by Pope Paul IV in 1559. From 1571 to 1917 the Sacred Congregation of the Index was in charge of updating the list. The 20th and final edition appeared in 1948, and the "Index" was formally abolished on 14 June 1966 by Pope Paul VI. The aim of the list was to protect the belief and morals of the faithful. This was done by preventing them from reading heretical and immoral books. Books thought to contain such errors included works by astronomers such as Johannes Kepler's "Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae", which was on the Index from 1621 to 1835, and by philosophers, like Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason". The various editions of the "Index" also had the rules of the Church about the reading, selling and censorship of books. Even editions and translations of the Bible not been approved by the Church could be banned. Enforcing the Index was the Inquisition. The burning at the stake of Giordano Bruno, whose entire works were placed on the Index on 8 February 1600, was (on the surface) for heresy, not for heliocentrism or other scientific views. However, those other views included a belief in 'other worlds', which was heresy. Not until 1822 did the Church permit books to be printed which accepted the Earth's motion. The developments since the abolition of the "Index"
The Addiction is a 1995 American horror movie. It was directed by Abel Ferrara and was produced by Preston L. Holmes, Russell Simmons, Denis Hann, and Fernando Sulichin. "The Addiction" was released on October 6, 1995. The movie gained positive reviews from critics and holds a 73% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was one of the most popular singers of the 1980s in Japan. She is known for her deep, powerful voice. Within two years of her debut, she set herself apart from all the singers of her generation by singing provocative songs with the release of each new single.  Her hair style and dress sense was very much copied by teenagers in the 1980s. Music wise, her recording company moulded her to be a successor after the mature and sophisticated Momoe Yamaguchi, a singer who retired at age 21 for marriage. Her songs were always of heartbreaks, or rebellion, never to stray far from the 'mold'.
Oh Kyo-Moon (born March 2, 1972) is an archer from South Korea. He won a team silver medal and an individual bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Oh also was a member of Korea's gold medal men's archery team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In the men's individual competition he finished sixth. Oh was the world record holder for a single FITA with a score of 1379. That score was beaten by Oh Jin-Hyek at 2009 World Championship in Ulsan with 1386 points.
Hyun Hee (born October 4, 1976 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a retired South Korean épée fencer. At the 2002 FIE World Championships Hyun won the women's individual épée final match over Imke Duplitzer of Germany 15-11. She was the first Asian fencer to win a gold medal at the World Championships. In that year, Hyun was named South Korean Sportswoman of the Year.  2002 World Fencing Championships, Individual épée
The Mimmi series () is a children's books series written by Viveca Lärn (earlier Viveca Sundvall). The main character is Mimmi. She is a girl in late Kindergarten age and later in early primary school age. The books are told from the me-perspective. Many of them are written as diaries. The books were originally published between 1979 and 1996.  Mimmi lives with her family in Kungälv. Her father Oskar is a postman while her mother Elin is a waitress at restaurant "Gyllene Svanen". Two television series based on the books have been produced. The first was "En ettas dagbok" from 1985 and the second was "Mimmi" från 1988.
The Eddie series () is a book series written by Viveca Lärn (earlier Viveca Sundvall) about Eddie. He is a boy in early primary school. The books were originally published between 1991 and 2001. They make up a spinoff series set in the Mimmi universe. The books are told from a third-person perspective. The main character Eddie is the brother of Mimmi's friend Anders. Eddie's father is an alcoholic when the stories begin. In 1994, a telvision series based on the books and named "Håll huvudet kallt" was produced. It aired as Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar that year.