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Chris LeDoux (October 2, 1948 – March 9, 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor, and hall of fame rodeo champion. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums (many self-released) which have sold more than six million units in the United States. He was awarded two gold and one platinum album certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He was nominated for a Grammy Award, and was honored with the Academy of Country Music Music Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. LeDoux is also the only person to ever both participate and perform at the Houston LiveStock Show &amp; Rodeo. LeDoux died of bile duct cancer on March 9, 2005 in Casper, Wyoming at the age of 56.
Rosalie "Rosie" Méndez Hamlin (July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter. She was the frontwoman of the group Rosie and the Originals. She was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, but was raised in Anchorage, Alaska. Hamlin was best known for the 1960 song "Angel Baby", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Hamlin was only fifteen years old. She retired from the music industry in 1963.  Hamlin's "Angel Baby" was covered by several artists, including Linda Ronstadt and John Lennon, who cited Hamlin as one of his favorite singers. She was the first Latina to be honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the first Latina to appear on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" in 1961. Hamlin died on March 30, 2017 in Belen, New Mexico from a long-illness at the age of 71.
Norma Zimmer (July 13, 1923 – May 10, 2011) was an American singer and actress. She was best remembered for her 22-year tenure as Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" on "The Lawrence Welk Show", and for her love of traditional Christian music. She landed a small singing part in the Bing Crosby movie "Mr. Music" (1950), and provided the singing voice for the White Rose in the Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" (1951). Zimmer died in Brea, California on May 10, 2011 at the age of 87.
Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and author. He performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his Americana style and narrative lyrics.  In 2006 he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by "Paste" magazine.
Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 14, 1973), was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds. He was born in Lewiston, Maine. White died on July 14, 1973 in Palmdale, California after being struck and killed by a drunk driver at the age of 29.
Lois Hackbert Hart Walker (born on February 5, 1950, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired journalist. She worked on the evening news in Sacramento on KCRA-TV with her husband, Dave Walker, from 1990 through 2008. Hart first worked at KCRA in the 1970s and later worked at KOVR. Hart and Walker were married in 1979. Later, they went Sacramento to work for CNN. Hart's first show with CNN was broadcast in 1980. In 1989, Hart and Walker both left CNN and began working for CNBC. Hart was on TV Shows "CNBC Mornings", "Money Wheel", and "America's Vital Signs".  Hart and Walker retired on November 26, 2008.
Corey Alan Stewart (born August 1, 1968) is an American lawyer and Republican politician. Stewart is the Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. He studied at Georgetown University and at William Mitchell College of Law. He was elected to the Board of County Supervisors in 2003. In July 2017, Stewart announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate.
Belen (; ) is the second most populous city in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States, after its county seat Los Lunas. The population was 7,360 in 2020 census data. Belen is Spanish for Bethlehem but gained the nickname "The Hub City". Belen is at the southern end of the Albuquerque. The city is located 35 miles south of Albuquerque.
Los Lunas is a village in Valencia County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population is 17,242. It is the county seat of Valencia County. Los Lunas is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name "Los Lunas" is a partial Anglicization of the name of the Luna family, who originally settled in the area ("los Luna", in Spanish).
Bottineau is a city in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Bottineau County and is located just over south of the Canada–United States border. The city's population was 2,194 at the 2020 census.
Saleh Ali al-Sammad (;  1 January 1979 – 19 April 2018) was a Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement. He served as the president of Yemen's Supreme Political Council until his death. On April 23, 2018, Houthi officials announced al-Sammad was killed in a Saudi-led coalition drone airstrike.
Kelly Brook (born 23 November 1979) is a British actress, model, and television presenter. Her first starring role was in the 2004 film "School for Seduction", for which she received positive reviews for her role. In 2004, she played character Nikki Morris in the video game "Need for Speed Underground 2", alongside Brooke Burke. In 2005, she appeared in the Philippe Vidal thriller "House of 9", and starred opposite Billy Zane in the film "Survival Island". Early life. Brook was born and raised in Rochester, Kent as Kelly Ann Parsons, the daughter of Sandra Kelly, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Kenneth Parsons died, aged 57, in Rochester from lung cancer, on 26 November 2007, during Brook's time on "Strictly Come Dancing". Brook attended the Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. In 1996 at the age of seventeen she appeared in the second series of "Fist of Fun", the BBC comedy show from Stewart Lee and Richard Herring as a schoolgirl in a series of sketches entitled 'Teachers' (one of her co-stars was the young Daniel Mays). She studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years during this time before becoming a professional model at the age of 16.
Bunschoten is a municipality in the province Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bunschoten is also called Bunschoten-spakenburg because the two villages Bunschoten and Spakenburg “grew” into each other. Bunschoten was in the early ages a farmers village and Spakenburg a fishers village.
Acquaviva (literally "living water") is one of the 9 communes or "castelli" of San Marino. Acquaviva had 2,137 people on 30 June 2014. It covers . It borders the San Marino municipalities Borgo Maggiore and San Marino and the Italian municipalities San Leo and Verucchio. Acquaviva was annexed to San Marino in 1243.
Oscar Alberto Furlong (October 22, 1927 – June 11, 2018) was an Argentine basketball player, tennis player and tennis coach. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a basketball player, he was a FIBA World Cup champion in 1950, who also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Furlong was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, in September 2007. Following his basketball retirement, he played tennis. He was the coach of the Argentine Davis Cup team. In 1977, his last year as a tennis coach, his team reached the semifinals of the 1977 Davis Cup. Furlong died on June 11, 2018 in Buenos Aires at the age of 90.
Denison Dam, also known as Lake Texoma Dam, is a dam on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma. The job of the dam is to control flood waters. It also makes a water supply and energy from hydroelectricity. The dam controls the Red River and provides a place where people can have fun in the water. History. Denison Dam was finished in 1943. At that time, it was the largest "rolled-earth fill dam" (a kind of dirt) in the world. The dam is named for Denison, Texas which is not far away. The dam's spillway is above sea level. Water has gotten high enough go into the spillway five times. Denison Dam is made from of rolled-earth fill. It also produces 250,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year. The dam holds the Red River back to make Lake Texoma which has of water. The lake is used to give water to local towns and cities. The dam has 47 areas for people to have fun. The area around the lake has of land people can hunt on. Oklahoma State Highway 91 and Texas State Highway 91 cross over the dam.
An acre-foot is a unit of volume used in the United States to measure large amounts of water resources. It makes measuring water in reservoirs, lakes, and rivers. An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to cover an acre of land with water deep. One acre-foot of water is the same as of water. It is about the same amount of water as a 8-lane, 25 m long competition swimming pool. Uses. The typical American family uses about 1 acre-foot of water in a year or about per day. In some places in the deserts of the Southwestern United States, water conservation is a rule. In these areas, a normal family only uses 0.25 acre-feet of water per year. Large amounts of water can also be in thousands of acre-feet or TAF.
Adam Paul Laxalt (born August 31, 1978) is an American politician. He was the Attorney General of Nevada from 2015 until 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. His father was New Mexico U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, but took his mother's last name Laxalt. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt was his grandfather. Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada. He studied at Tulane University and at Georgetown University. He is a former Navy prosecutor. In November 2017, Laxalt announced his candidacy for Governor of Nevada. He won the Republican nomination, but lost the general election to Democrat Steve Sisolak by nearly 5%. In August 2021, Laxalt announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2022 election. He won the Republican nomination in June 2022. He narrowly lost the election to incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in November 2022.
Alfredo Pasillas (July 16, 1966 – June 13, 2018) was a Mexican masked professional wrestler. He was best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Arkangel de la Muerte. He was often called Arkangel, an worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991. His name means "Archangel of Death" in Spanish.  In the years leading up to his death he served as the head trainer at the school. His in ring career included reigns with the CMLL World Welterweight Championship and the Mexican National Welterweight Championship as well as winning the mask of Ángel Azteca.  He was a founding member of the groups "Pandilla Guerrera" and Los Guerreros Tuareg. Pasillas died of a heart attack in Mexico City on June 13, 2018 at the age of 51.
Anne Theresa Donovan (November 1, 1961 – June 13, 2018) was an American women's basketball player and coach. From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun. She was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey.  In her playing career, Donovan won two Olympic gold medals, and went to three Final Fours overall. She was honored in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995, and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015. As a professional basketball coach, she guided the Seattle Storm to their first title in 2004, becoming the first woman to coach a WNBA Championship team (as well as the youngest person to coach a WNBA champion, at age 42). After coaching the Indiana Fever and the Charlotte Sting earlier in her career, Donovan joined the New York Liberty as an assistant coach in the spring of 2009. Donovan died on June 13, 2018 of heart failure at the age of 56.
Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the village population was 25,979. Ridgewood is a suburban bedroom community of New York City. It is about northwest of Manhattan. Ridgewood was ranked 26th in "Money" magazine's "Best Places to Live" in America, 2011.
John Orlando Pastore (March 17, 1907July 15, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Pastore served as a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1950 to 1976. He served as the 61st Governor of Rhode Island from 1945 to 1950. He was the first Italian American to be elected as a senator. Pastore was best known taking part in a 1969 hearing involving a $20 million grant for the funding of PBS. President Richard Nixon had wanted to cut the proposed funding to $10 million due to the demands of the Vietnam War. Fred Rogers, host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", appeared before the committee to argue for the full $20 million. After hearing Rogers's testimony Pastore restored the funding. The following year's appropriation increased PBS funding from $9 million to $22 million. Pastore won his final Senate race in 1970 by a 68%–32% margin over John McLaughlin. McLaughlin later became the host of the television program "The McLaughlin Group". Pastore died in Cranston, Rhode Island on July 15, 2000 of kidney failure at the age of 93.
Messier 32 (also known as NGC 221) is a dwarf "early-type" galaxy about 2.65 million light-years from Earth. It is seen in the constellation Andromeda. M32 is a satellite galaxy of the large Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It was discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1749. M32 measures 6.5 ± 0.2 thousand light-years in diameter at the widest point. The galaxy is a compact elliptical galaxy type. Compact ellipticals are rather rare. Half the stars are inside an effective radius of only 100 parsecs. Densities in the central area increase steeply, over 3×107 M⊙ pc−3 as seen by the HST. The half-light radius of this central star cluster is around 6 parsec. In other words, this small centre of the galaxy emits half the light of the central 100 parsecs. Like more ordinary elliptical galaxies, M32 contains mostly older faint red and yellow stars with practically no dust or gas and consequently no current star formation. It does, however, show hints of star formation in the relatively recent past. M32 contains a supermassive black hole. Its mass is between 1.5 and 5 million solar masses. It is believed by astronomers that Messier 32 is the remnant of the former galaxy in the local group called M32p.
Barnard's galaxy (also known as NGC 6822, IC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is an irregular barred spiral galaxy. It is about 1.6 million light-years away, in the constellation Sagittarius.  The galaxy is part of the Local Group of galaxies. It was discovered by E.E. Barnard in 1884 with a six-inch refractor telescope.  The galaxy is one of the closest to the Milky Way. It is similar in structure and makeup to the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is about 7,000 light-years in diameter. The galaxy is famous because it is where cepheid variables were used to find out how far away the galaxy was. Edwin Hubble found 11 cepheid variable stars, and used them to find the distance to the galaxy. This settled a great debate in the 1920s about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral galaxies. It became clear that all "spiral nebulae" were in fact spiral "galaxies". They are far outside our own Milky Way.
Sushil Kumar Modi (5 January 1952 – 13 May 2024) was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who is serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar since 27 July 2017. Previously he was Deputy CM along with Finance Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013. He is a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was appointed the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers for the Implementation of Goods and Service Tax in July 2011. Early life. Sushil Modi was born on 5 January 1952 in a Marwari (Vaishya Bania) family. His father was Moti Lal Modi and his mother was Ratna Devi. He has done BSc from B N College, Patna. He graduated Patna Science College and did Botany Hons in 1973. Later he left MSc Botany Course in Patna University, to join social movement started by Jai Prakash Narayan. Political career. In 1990, he joined active politics and successfully contested from Patna Central Assembly (now known as Kumhrar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)). He was re-elected in 1995 &amp; 2000. In 1990, he was made the Chief Whip of the BJP Bihar Legislature Party. From 1996 till 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly. He filed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Patna High Court against Lalu Prasad Yadav, which was later known as Fodder Scam. He became a member of Lok Sabha in 2004 representing the constituency of Bhagalpur. He was the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in a short lived Nitish Kumar government in 2000. He supported the formation of the State of Jharkhand. In 2005 Bihar election, NDA came to power and Modi was elected the leader of Bihar BJP Legislature Party. He subsequently resigned from the Lok Sabha and took over as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. He was given the Finance Portfolio along with a number of other departments. After N
Bilat Paswan, who writes under the nome de plume, Vihangam, was an Indian writer and politician, known for his writings in Hindi &amp; Maithili literature. He is a former chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission &amp; former chairman of Bihar Inter University Board. Born in 1940 to Bhutai Paswan in Bihar, he represented Rajnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) at the Bihar Legislative Assembly for two terms in 1968 and 1972 &amp; Khajauli (Vidhan Sabha constituency) at the Bihar Legislative Assembly for two terms in 1985 and 1990, running under Indian National Congress candidature, defeating Ram Lakhan Ram of the Communist Party of India on both the elections. He also ran in two elections unsuccessfully, in 1980 and 2000. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2005, for his contributions to literature.
The Cheerleader effect, or group attractiveness effect is a kind of cognitive bias: People who are part of a group are seen as more attractive, than those who are not. This observation is valid for both men and women. The effect was coined by Barney Stinson (played by Neil Patrick Harris) in American sitcom How I Met Your Mother. It was first academically described in a study done 2013, and the result is backed up by another in 2015. Showing the effect may be difficult: The study done in 2015 was repeated, but did not show the same result. According to the research team, this may be due to cultural differences, since the new study was performed in Japan.
Patna Junction, station code "PNBE", is a major railway station in the capital city of Patna in the Indian state of Bihar. Located in heart of the city, it is the main railway station serving Patna. It falls under the Danapur division of the East Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Patna Junction is one of the busiest railway stations of the country. The Patna Junction railway station is connected to most of the major cities in India by the railway network. Patna lies in between New Delhi and Kolkata which is one of the busiest rail routes in India. Patna has trains running frequently to Delhi and Kolkata. The city is a major railway hub and has six major stations: Patna Junction, Rajendranagar Terminal, Gulzarbagh Station, Danapur railway station, Patliputra Junction and Patna Sahib Station. Patna is well connected with Gaya, Jehanabad Biharsharif, Rajgir, Islampur through daily passenger and express train services.
Donaueschingen is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar district. As of 2003, it has about 21,300 people. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Danube (in ; the town's name is an eponym). Donaueschingen stands in a basin within low mountainous terrain. It is about south of Villingen-Schwenningen, west of Tuttlingen, and about north of the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. It is the second largest town in the district ("Kreis") of Schwarzwald-Baar. The location of the town is favourable for its role as a regional rail hub. Partner cities. Donaueschingen has partnerships with the following cities:
In set theory an open set is a set where all elements have the same properties. Simply put, an open set is a set that does not include its edges or endpoints. For each point in the set, you can make a bubble around that point, such that all points in the bubble are also in the set. On the other hand, a closed set includes all its edges or endpoints. A set that includes some of its edges or endpoints is neither open nor closed.  An open set is very similar to an open interval. Examples. The set (0,1) is open. If we choose a very small value, there will always be a small bubble which are all in the set (0,1). If we choose a very small value h ∈ (0,1), we can make a bubble formula_1, in which all the values are in (0,1). However, [0,1] is closed. If we choose the value 0, and choose a very small value k, 0-k ∉ [0,1], which means that it's closed.
"Korvettenkapitän" Reinhard Hardegen (18 March 1913 – 9 June 2018) was a German U-boat commander during World War II, oil businessman and politician. He was born in Bremen, Germany. He was the last surviving Ace of the Deep member. He was the 24th-most-successful commander of the war, known for sinking 22 ships.  After the war, he spent a year and a half in British captivity before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council (the "Bürgerschaft") from 1959 to 1979. Hardegen turned 100 in March 2013. He died in Bremen on 9 June 2018 of respiratory failure at the age of 105.
Charles Thomas Vinci Jr. (February 28, 1933 – June 13, 2018) was an American weightlifter and Olympic champion. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He won gold medals at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American games. He won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, with a world-record three-lift (snatch, clean and jerk, overhead press) total of . He won gold again at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Robert John Downey Sr. (born Robert Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936 - July 7, 2021) was an American movie director, screenwriter and celebrity. He was the father of celebrity Robert Downey Jr.. Downey Sr. was best known for writing and directing the underground movie "Putney Swope". He retired in 2013. Downey Sr. was born in New York City. Downey Sr. starred in "Johnny Be Good", "Hail Caesar" and "Tower Heist". Downey Sr. died in his sleep at his home in New York City on July 7, 2021 from problems caused by Parkinson's disease, aged 85.
Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin PAR (; 29 March 1936 – 14 June 2018) was a Russian movie director, screenwriter, politician and actor. He was born in Berezniki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. For directing, he was known for the movie "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed". In screenwriting, he was known for "Voroshilov Sharpshooter". In acting, he was known for his roles as Commander in "Encore, Once More Encore!" and as Zosima in "Heads and Tails". Govorukhin was a member of the State Duma from 1993 until his death in 2018 serving as a conservative member of the Democratic Party of Russia. He ran for President of Russia as an Independent in the 2000 presidential election, but lost to Vladimir Putin. In the 2000s, he worked for the Putin administration and election campaigns. He was a supporter of Putin. Govorukhin died on 14 June 2018 in Barvikha, Russia of a heart attack at the age of 82.
Louis Sachar ( ; born March 20, 1954) is an American children's book author. His best known books are the "Wayside School" series and the award-winner, "Holes" novel. "Holes" won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2013, it was ranked number six among all-time children's novels in a survey published by "School Library Journal". Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York United States