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Malva Noyevna Landa (; 4 August 1918 – 3 July 2019) was a Ukrainian-born Russian geologist and human rights activist. She wrote many books about the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. She was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group from 1976 until her death. She was awarded the Order of the Cross of Vytis (Lithuania, January 8, 2003). Landa was born in Odesa, Ukrainian State. Landa died on 3 July 2019 in Haifa, Israel at the age of 100.
Pierre Lhomme (5 April 1930 – 4 July 2019) was a French cinematographer. He was known for his works were "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Lovers Like Us" and "Deadly Circuit". Lhomme was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He retired in 2003. Lhomme died on 4 July 2019 in Arles, France at the age of 89.
Ugo Gregoretti (28 September 1930 – 5 July 2019) was an Italian movie, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. He directed 20 movies from 1956 until 1990. He was born in Rome. Gregoretti was known for his works "Ro.Go.Pa.G.", "Omicron" and "Beautiful Families". Gregoretti died on 5 July 2019 in Rome at the age of 88.
Paolo Vinaccia (27 March 1954 – 5 July 2019) was an Italian-Norwegian composer, jazz drummer, and percussionist. He became a Norwegian citizen in 1979. Vinaccia was born in Rome. Vinaccia worked with Terje Rypdal, Bendik Hofseth, Jan Eggum, Knut Reiersrud (in Four Roosters), Gisle Torvik, Ole Amund Gjersvik and Jonas Fjeld. He has toured and recorded with Palle Mikkelborg, Mike Mainieri, Jon Christensen and David Darling. With Arild Andersen, he performed at the London Jazz Festival in 2008. Vinaccia died on 5 July 2019 from pancreatic cancer in Oslo at the age of 65.
is a former Japanese professional baseball player, having played in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league for 23 seasons. He retired following the 2008 season. Kiyohara is often referred as "The Uncrowned King" because he never won a major batting title, even though he was one of NPB's greatest hitters. He surpassed 2,000 hits, 500 home runs, and 1,500 RBIs.
Lawrence (also called the Santa Fe Depot or the Santa Fe Station) is a train station in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Amtrak's "Southwest Chief" train uses it. The Lawrence station was built in 1956 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Station built in 1883. That station was damaged by the 1951 flood. It was dedicated on February 7, 1956. The Mid-century modern station is on the National Register of Historic Places. The station was added to the Register of Kansas Historic Places on November 18, 2017. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 2018. It was designed by Warren Jones and Warren Comen.
Rail freight transport is using railroads and trains to transport cargo. They don't transport human passengers. Trains may transport bulk material, intermodal containers, general freight or special freight in cars designed for a specific reason. Also, the track spreads the weight of the freight train which means larger amounts can be carried than with trucks and roads, Rail freight practices and economics are different by country and region.
The BNSF Railway Company is the biggest freight railroad network in North America. BNSF has 44,000 employees. They are one of ten Class I railroads. They have of track in 28 states. They have more than 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that have rail connections between the western and eastern United States. Railyards. Large freight car hump yards are located throughout the BNSF system. Location of major intermodal yards:
Kevin K. McAleenan (born September 5, 1971) is an American attorney and former government official who served as the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security from April 2019 through November 2019. McAleenan resigned on October 11, 2019, with Trump stating that McAleenan wanted to "spend more time with his family and go to the private sector."
In woodworking, hewing is the use of an axe to make a log into lumber. It is a very old way of making lumber, and was used in ancient times. Before the industrial era it was the normal way to make wood beams. Today it has mostly been replaced by sawmills, but is in some use.  Definitions. "Hew" is a word that means to strike, blow, chop, or gash with a tool such as an axe or sword. It is used in warfare, stone and wood cutting, and coal and salt mining. This is the root word for hewing.  "Hewing" wood is to shape a log with a sharp item such as an axe with the goal to flatten one or more sides. Methods. As "hewing" has been used since ancient times, more than one way has been made to do each step. But in general, there are four steps in the process.  Prepare log. The first step is to prepare the log (or tree trunk). After a tree is selected and cut down, hewing can be done at the place where the log landed. Or the log can be moved out of the woods to a work site. The log is then usually placed across two smaller logs. It is kept steady by notching the support logs or by a long bar of iron with a tooth on either end. Then the person doing the hewing measures where to cut and marks lines along the log. These are usually done with a chalk line. Scoring. The next step is to make notches every foot or two of the log. These are made almost as deep as the marked line. This is called scoring. There are at least three methods that can be used in scoring. Joggling or juggling. The next step is know as either joggling or juggling. In this step the pieces of wood between the notches are knocked off with an axe. The result is a rough surface cut down almost to the marked line. The steps to this point remove a much wood and make the last step hewing easier. Hewing. The last step is called hewing. (The entire process is called hewing as well).
Zachary Sheridan Neal (born November 9, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Saitama Seibu Lions. Neal signed with the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball for the 2019 season.
Dynamics is the study of forces and their effects on motion over time. It is a branch of classical mechanics. Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion that are fundamental to dynamics. Some people consider dynamics to be made up of kinematics and kinetics. Others consider dynamics and kinematics to be separate, and do not use the word kinetics. Under the second view, kinematics is about describing how a system is at the moment, and dynamics is about how and why the system changes with time.
was a Japanese motorcycle road racer. He started his Grand Prix career in 1961, and was active until 1967. He competed for Suzuki. He was a starter in 29 races, winning two and having a podium finish 13 times. He won the 1963 Isle of Man 50cc ultra-lightweight TT and the 1967 50cc Japanese Grand Prix (his final race). Itoh died on 3 July 2019, at the age of 82.
Vivian L. Perlis (April 26, 1928 – July 4, 2019) was an American musicologist. She was the founder and director of Yale University's Oral History of American Music. She founded the oral history project in 1969. She also notably wrote "Charles Ives Remembered". She first started working at Yale University as a reference librarian in 1959. She retired in 2010. Perlis was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Long Island. She was married to Stanford James Perlis, and had three children. Perlis died in Weston, Connecticut on July 4, 2019 after an illness. She was 91.
Shiboprosad Mukherjee (born 20 May 1974) is an Indian Bengali filmmaker, writer and actor. Early life and Education. Shiboprosad Mukherjee was born on 20 May 1974 at Baranagar in the northern fringes Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He was a student of Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School and later completed his high school from Hindu School. He pursued his graduation in Political Science Honours from Jadavpur University.
Cornelius Alvin Smith (born 7 April 1937) is a Bahamian politician. He was the 10th Governor-General of the Bahamas from 28 June 2019 to 1 September 2023. Smith was the Ambassador to the United States starting in 2008. He was also Minister of Transport, and Aviation of the Bahamas. In 2018, he was sworn in as the deputy Governor General.
Abhishek Chatterjee () (born 30 April 1964) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. Early life and education. After finishing his secondary schooling at the Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School, he graduated from the Seth Anandram Jaipuria College of the University of Calcutta. Other websites.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an American research organization and think tank that supports ending illegal immigration and lowering the amount of immigration in the United States. It was founded in 1985 by a professor named Otis Graham Jr. The Center describes itself as a group that is "providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States." The Center is led by Mark Krikorian. Krikorian believes that America should have a stronger border to stop illegal immigration.
Tathagata Mukherjee (born 15 May 1985) is an Indian film and television actor and an independent filmmaker based in Kolkata. He played the main lead in many Bengali soap operas. Early life and education. Tathagata Mukherjee studied at the Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School, and thereafter studied drama at Rabindra Bharati University. He has done professional theater since 2005, during his childhood. He did three years "yatra" with Chapal Bhaduri.
This article lists the presidents of Rwanda since the creation of the office in 1961 (during the Rwandan Revolution), to the present day. As specified in the constitution, the President functions as the head of state of Rwanda, and possesses broad executive powers. The officeholder is elected by popular vote every seven years, and appoints the Prime Minister and all other members of Cabinet. A total of four people have served as President of Rwanda (not counting two Acting Presidents). The current President is Paul Kagame, since 24 March 2000.
Centron Corporation was a big industrial and educational movie production company. They specialized in classroom and corporate 16mm movies and VHS videocassettes. History. It was created in 1947 in Lawrence, Kansas by Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser. Harold "Herk" Harvey was a big director at Centron. His 1962 movie "Carnival of Souls" was created with some people from Centron. John Clifford, a Centron screenwriter wrote the script for "Carnival of Souls". Centron won many awards for its movies. It is most famous for the Oscar nominated "Leo Beuerman".
Harold Arnold "Herk" Harvey (June 3, 1924 – April 3, 1996) was an American movie director, screenwriter, actor and movie producer. Early life. Harvey was born in Windsor, Colorado. He grew up in Waverly, Illinois and in Fort Collins. Harvey came to Lawrence, Kansas in 1945 to study at the University of Kansas. He majored in theater. He acted in many college stage productions.  Centron Films. While teaching and directing at the University of Kansas, Harvey got into the film business as an actor. He acted in some of the movies being made by Centron Corporation of Lawrence. Centron was an independent industrial and educational movie production company. Harvey joined it in 1952. He was a film director, writer, and producer for over 30 years. They made many kinds of short industrial, educational, documentary, and government films.  Harvey wrote an article in the March 1956 issue of "American Cinematographer". It was about special effects and techniques that Centron had created. He retired in 1985. "Carnival of Souls". Harvey is best known for his only feature movie, "Carnival of Souls". It was a low budget 1962 horror film that had Candace Hilligoss. It was created and directed by Harvey for about $33,000. "Carnival of Souls" never got much public attention when was first released. However, it has since become a cult classic. The Academy Film Archive preserved "Carnival of Souls" in 2012.
Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror movie. It was written, produced, and directed by Herk Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. The story is about Mary Henry, a young woman who had a car accident. She moves to a new city, but she can't fit in. She becomes curious about the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. The director Harvey is also in the movie as a creepy stranger who follows her a lot. It was filmed in Lawrence, Kansas and Salt Lake City. "Carnival of Souls" was filmed on a budget of $33,000. Since the 1980s, the film has been noted by critics and film scholars for its cinematography and foreboding atmosphere. Release. "Carnival of Souls" was shown at the Main Street Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas, in September 1962. The US release of "Carnival of Souls" did not include a copyright on the prints, so the movie was automatically in the public domain. Reception. "Complex Magazine" said "Carnival of Souls" was number 39 on its list of the 50 scariest movies ever made. Leonard Maltin gave "Carnival of Souls" two-and-a-half out of four stars. He said the movie was an "eerie", and "imaginative low budget effort."
A cult following is a group of fans who are very devoted to a work of culture. It is often called a cult classic. A movie, book, musical artist, television series or video game, among other things, has a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fanbase. A common thing of cult followings is the emotional attachment the fans it. They often say they are part of a community. Many cult fans express their devotion with a level of irony when describing entertainment that falls under this realm, in that something is so bad, it's good. Sometimes, these cult followings are actually camp followings. Fans may become involved in a subculture of fandom. They may do this either through conventions, online communities or through activities such as writing series-related fiction. They may also make costumes, replica prop and model building, or creating their own audio or video creations from the formats and characters.
In business, a takeover or acquisition happens when one company buys another company. The company that is the one buying is called the "acquirer" or the "bidder" and the one that is being bought is called the "target". There are four types of takeovers: friendly, hostile, reverse, or back-flip takeovers. Friendly takeovers happen when the people in charge of the company agree with being taken over. Hostile takeovers happen when they don't agree. Reverse takeovers are when a private company takes over a .. Back-flip takeovers happen when the acquiring company becomes a part of the target company.
An extracurricular activity or extra academic activity (EAA) is an activity, performed by students, that is not part of the normal curriculum of school, college or university education. These activities are often voluntary (as opposed to mandatory), social, philanthropic, and often involve other people of the same age. Students and staff run these activities under faculty sponsorship. Activities created by students, such as independent newspapers, are also very common.
João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira (10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for developing the music genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. He wrote the first bossa nova song, titled "Bim-Bom". Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim were helpful in making bossa nova popular. In 1964, Gilberto and American saxophonist Stan Getz released the album "Getz/Gilberto". The album won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Gilberto was born in Juazeiro, Bahia. On 6 July 2019, he died after an illness at his apartment in Rio de Janeiro. He was 88.
Arman Kirakossian (; 10 September 1956 – 6 July 2019) was an Armenian diplomat and historian. At the time of his death in July 2019, he was Ambassador of Armenia to the United Kingdom since November 2018. He was also Ambassador of Armenia to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as Greece (1994–1999), the United States (1999–2005) and Austria (2011–2018). He was acting Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1993. Kirakossian was born in Yerevan. He died on 6 July 2019 in London, at the age of 62.
Parviz Jalayer (‎; 6 October 1939 – 6 July 2019) was an Iranian weightlifter. He was born in Tehran. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics, winning silver medal in 1968. In 1966, he won a gold medal at the Asian Games and a bronze at the World Championships. After retiring from competitions, he worked as a weightlifting coach. Jalayer died on 6 July 2019, at the age of 79.
Shukrayaan-1 (शुक्रयान-१ or Venus craft) is a orbiter to Venus by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to study the surface and atmosphere of Venus. It is not known whether it will actually happen, this is just an idea. In 2017 there was enough money to do research about doing this mission. If all of the costs are paid for, then this mission will launch in the early 2020s. The Government of India, in 2017–18 gave the Department of Space a 23% increase in money. Under the space sciences section, the money is for "for Mars Orbiter Mission II and Mission to Venus". From 2016 to 2017, ISRO worked together with JAXA to study the atmosphere of Venus using signals from the Akatsuki Venus orbiter. ISRO and France (CNES) are talking about working together on this mission and jointly develop aerobraking technologies.
Dominique Mbonyumutwa (January 1921 – 26 July 1986) was a Rwandan politician who served on an interim basis as the first President of Rwanda, from 1 January to 1960 to 26 October 1961, following the abolition of the Rwandan monarchy. He took over by overthrowing the monarchy under King Kigali V Ndahindurwa and declaring Rwanda a republic, resulting in the 1961 referendum. Mbonyumutwa was of Hutu ethnicity and was respected by the population both before and after his presidency. On 1 November 1959, while serving as a "sous-chef" (equivalent to a district mayor today), he was assaulted by a group of Tutsi youth in Byimana in Southern Province. This incident triggered the "social revolution" of November 1959, which eventually brought down the monarchy while driving hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi into decades-long exile. Mbonyumutwa was succeeded as president by Grégoire Kayibanda a few months before Rwanda's independence. After his presidency, he maintained a position in Rwandan politics by serving as the Vice President of Rwandan and holds an honorary position as Chancellor of National Orders in service of later president Juvenal Habyarimana. He died in July 1986 in Belgium and was buried in Gitarama Stadium, the site where the Republic was proclaimed in 1961, as a recognition to the country. In 2010 his remains were exhumed and reburied in a public cemetery due to the plans to redevelop the stadium.
Osawatomie is a city in Miami County, Kansas, United States. it is southwest of Kansas City. In 2020, 4,255 people lived there. Its name is a portmanteau from two streams nearby, the Osage and Potawatomie. Geography. Osawatomie is at (38.501650, -94.950799), along the Marais des Cygnes River. The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . Of that, is land and is water. People. 2020 census. The census of 2020 says there were 4,255 people, 1,562 households, and 1,023 families living in the city. Of the households, 55.3% owned their home and 44.7% rented their home. The median age was 36.1 years. Of the people, 87.4% were White, 3.2% were Black, 1.0% were Native American, 0.4% were Asian, 0.1% were Pacific Islanders, 0.9% were from some other race, and 7.1% were two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were4.3% of the people. 2010 census. The census of 2010 says there were 4,447 people, 1,644 households, and 1,075 families living in the city. Government. The Osawatomie government has a mayor and eight council members. The council meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30PM.
Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano; 4 May 1964) is an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer of pornographic movies. Career. Siffredi met porn actor Leonardo Codazzo in a French sex club in 1985 and was introduced to producer Marco and director Michela, who cast him in his first pornographic role, "Attention fillettes..." ("Watch Out, Little Girls...") in 1987, in which he performed anal sex. Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a fashion model, but returned to the business after two years with the help of porn actress Teresa Orlowski. Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and gonzo-style pornography, with styles of sex ranging from ordinary to extreme. However, it was Siffredi's performances involving anal sex and anilingus, as well as rough sex and his psychological intensity and athleticism, which earned him recognition and ultimately a cult following. Through collaboration with John Stagliano's Evil Angel studio and then his own Budapest-based Rocco Siffredi Produzioni as both a performer and director, Siffredi became one of the most powerful and recognizable personalities in pornography. "Rocco has far more power in this industry than any actress," Stagliano commented in 2001. Siffredi has credited Stagliano with being his mentor through all 30 years of his career. With 31 years he got a circumcision.
Ashurst LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.  Ashurst is the UK's 11th largest law firm by revenue, according to the latest Legal 100 table by Legal Business. It has 25 offices in 15 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and North America and employs around 1,600 legal advisers. Its principal business focus is mergers and acquisitions, corporate and structured finance. The firm also practices in other areas including investment funds, antitrust, energy, transport and infrastructure, intellectual property, IT, dispute resolution, financial services, tax, real estate, regulatory, telecommunication and employment.
Cameron Mica Boyce (May 28, 1999 – July 6, 2019) was an American actor, who appeared in a number of films and television shows through his career. He was known for his roles in the feature films "Mirrors", "Eagle Eye", "Grown Ups", and "Grown Ups 2", and for playing the character Carlos in the "Descendants" television films, as well as for his starring roles as Luke Ross on the Disney Channel comedy series "Jessie" and as Conor on the Disney XD series "Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything". Early life and career. Boyce was born on May 28, 1999, in Los Angeles, California. In a span of 40 days in 2017, Boyce helped raise over $27,000 for the Thirst Project, which helps bring clean water to underdeveloped countries. Death. According to a statement by Boyce's family, on July 6, 2019, Boyce died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles "due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated". The ongoing condition was later determined to be epilepsy.
This is a list of prime ministers of Lesotho since the creation of the post of Prime Minister of Lesotho in 1965, to the present day. References. List of presidents of Lesotho