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The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as The American National Red Cross, is a humanitarian group that gives emergency assistance, disaster relief, and teaches people how to prepare for disasters in the United States. It is the official US group related to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United States movement to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The groups offers services and developments programs. History. Creators. Clara Barton. Clara Barton (1821–1912) created the American chapter after learning of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1869, she went to Europe and became involved with the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War. She wanted to bring the group to America. Leadership. Recent presidents and CEOs include Gail McGovern, Elizabeth Dole, Bernadine Healy, Mary S. Elcano, Mark W. Everson and John F. McGuire.
Daniel Woodson (May 24, 1824 – October 5, 1894) was secretary of Kansas Territory (1854–1857) and a five-time acting governor of the territory. Early life. Woodson was born on a farm in Albemarle County, Virginia. Both of his parents died by the time he was 7 years old. Political career. Woodson was chosen to be secretary of the Kansas Territory by President Franklin Pierce on June 29, 1854. He took the oath of office in Washington, DC on September 28. He made $2,000 per year. He agreed with people who wanted to make Kansas a slave state. He agreed with what the pro-slavery people in the territory wanted. While Governor Andrew Reeder was away from the territory, Woodson became acting governor. He signed the first laws passed by the territorial legislature. Even though this first territorial legislature was seen as real by the federal government, free-staters called the laws "bogus laws". In total, Woodson was acting governor for a little more than five months while governors Andrew Reeder, Wilson Shannon, and John W. Geary were away from the territory. Later life. Woodson spent his last years in Parker, Kansas. He was visiting Claremore, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) when he died in 1894. Legacy. Woodson County, Kansas was named for him in 1855. It was the only county named for a Kansas territorial politician. This changed in 1889 when Davis County's name changed to Geary County.
The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas. The chair of the Kansas Democratic Party is Vicki Hiatt. History. Since Kansas became a territory, the Democratic Party didn't have much power.  The Kansas Democratic Party has not been able to send a U.S. Senator to Washington since 1939. This is a record that no other state party in the United States has been able to beat. Kansas Democrats have not controlled the Kansas Senate since 1917. Since the state’s founding, there have been 11 Democratic governor of Kansas, six of whom were elected after 1961.
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy. The goal is to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while the enemy is going through or running away from a place. Any useful things that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, for example food sources, water supplies, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the local people themselves. The policy can be done by the military in enemy territory, or in its own home territory. Notable historic examples of scorched-earth tactics include the Russian army's strategy during the failed Swedish invasion of Russia, the failed Napoleonic invasion of Russia, William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War, colonel Kit Carson's subjugation of the American Navajo Indians, Lord Kitchener's advance against the Boers, the initial Soviet retreat commanded by Joseph Stalin during the German Army's invasion of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, the subsequent Nazi German retreat on the Eastern Front, and the burning 605-732 oil wells by retreating Iraqi military forces in the Gulf War.
The Dissected Till Plains are physiographic parts of the Central Lowlands province. In turn, those are part of the Interior Plains physiographic part of the United States. They are in southern and western Iowa, northeastern Kansas, the southwestern corner of Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and southeastern South Dakota. The Dissected Till Plains were created during the Pre-Illinoian Stage. Glacial scouring and deposition by the Laurentide ice sheet and the later accumulation of loess during the Wisconsin Stage created the rolling hills and good, healthy dirt in the region. The region is also the western edge of the Corn Belt.
The list of University of Kansas people includes notable alumni and faculty of the University of Kansas. The university is in Lawrence, Kansas. Alumni. Nobel laureates. People who have won a Nobel Award include: Politics, government and education. People in the areas of politics, government and education include: Athletes and coaches. "For athletes and coaches, see the relevant section in Kansas Jayhawks"
Samuel Jefferson Jones (April 16, 1827 December 10, 1883) was a pro-slavery man who was the Douglas County sheriff in Kansas Territory from late 1855 until early 1857. He helped create the territorial capital of Lecompton. He was an important person in the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict. In 1858, he moved to La Mesilla, New Mexico Territory. In September 1858, he was chosen to be the collector of customs at Paso del Norte (now Ciudad Juárez). In New Mexico, he was involved with the promotion of Mowry City. When that town's future failed, he bought a ranch near La Mesilla and died there in 1883. His grave was later returned to Lecompton in 2013.
Élie Brousse (28 August 1921 – 2 July 2019) was a French rugby league player. He played as a second-row. He played for Roanne, Marseille and Lyon Villeurbanne in the French Rugby League Championship. He played for the French national team 31 times between 1946 and 1953. He was born in Bages, Aude. Brousse died on 2 July 2019 in Roanne, at the age of 97.
William Thomas Molloy (July 27, 1940 – July 2, 2019) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan. He was the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan from 2018 until his death in 2019. His appointment as Lieutenant Governor was made by Governor General of Canada Julie Payette. Molloy was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In May 2019, Molloy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died on July 2, 2019 from the disease in Saskatoon at the age of 78.
Daniel Michael Andrews (born 6 July 1972) is an Australian politician. He was the 48th Premier of Victoria from 2014 until he resigned 2023. He was also the leader of the Victorian Labor Party from 2010 until 2023. From 2010 to 2014, Andrews was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria.  On 24 November 2018, he was re-elected as Premier of Victoria when Victorian Labor won the 2018 state election in a landslide. He was then re-elected again in 2022.
Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back former students and members. It also can be about celebrating an organization's existence. It is a tradition in many high schools, colleges, and churches in the United States. It does not exist in Canada. History. The tradition of homecoming has its start in alumni football games at colleges and universities since the 19th century. Many schools including Baylor, Southwestern, Illinois, and Missouri have said that they held the first modern homecoming.
The Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory is the head of government of the Australian Capital Territory. The leader of the party with the largest representation of seats in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. The current Chief Minister is Andrew Barr of the Labor Party, who was elected by the Assembly on 11 December 2014 following the resignation of Katy Gallagher.
Andrew James Barr (born 29 April 1973) is an Australian politician. He is the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory since December 2014. He has been a Labor Party member for the seat of Molonglo in the ACT Legislative Assembly since 5 April 2006. Barr is the first LGBT person to become an Australian head of government. He is openly gay and is married to a man called Anthony Toms.
Gary John Joseph Humphries (born 6 July 1958) is an Australian politician. He is the Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2003 to 2013. He was the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2000 to 2001.
The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is the head of government of the Northern Territory.  The Chief Minister is formally appointed by the Administrator, who will appoint the head of whichever party holds the majority of seats in the unicameral Legislative Assembly.  Since 21 December 2023, following the resignation of Natasha Fyles, the current Chief Minister is Eva Lawler of the Labor Party. She is the third woman to be Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. List of Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory. From the foundation of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in 1974 until the granting of self-government in 1978, the head of government was known as the Majority Leader: From 1978, the position was known as the Chief Minister:
The Kansas Jayhawks football program is the college football program of the University of Kansas. The program is in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The team competes in the Big 12 Conference. The head coach is Les Miles. He became the coach after the 2018 season. It was created in 1890. This makes it one of the oldest college football teams in the United States.  Along with Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington University in St. Louis, Kansas was a charter member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. This became the Big Eight Conference. The Big Eight became the Big 12 in 1996. Kansas is the only original member of the MVIAA that is still part of the Big 12.
Michael Patrick Francis Gunner (born 6 January 1976) is an Australian former politician. He served as the 11th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 31 August 2016 until 13 May 2022. He served as a Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2008 until 2022. Gunner was elected leader of Labor in the Northern Territory and Leader of the Opposition, in April 2015. He led Labor to a landslide victory in the 2016 Northern Territory election. He was sworn in on 31 August, becoming the first Chief Minister to have been born in the Northern Territory.
David Binder (February 22, 1931 – June 30, 2019) was an American journalist, author and lecturer. He was born in London. He worked in Washington, D.C. and Berlin. He was a journalist for "The New York Times" from 1961 to 2004. He reported on political events related to the Cold War on Eastern and Western Europe, the Soviet Union, the United States, Cuba and Puerto Rico. He served was a foreign correspondent in 1961 in Berlin. Binder died in Evanston, Illinois from kidney disease on June 30, 2019 at the age of 88.
The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame is a museum located in Wichita, Kansas. It is about preserving the history of sports in the state of Kansas. The museum has exhibits, archives, facilities, services, and activities to honor those people and teams whose achievements in sports brought fame to themselves, to their communities and to the entire state of Kansas. History. The Hall of Fame was founded in 1961 as part of the Kansas Centennial Celebration.
Christopher Michael Settlemire, better known by his stage name, Chris Zylka is an American actor of Russian descent. He was raised by a single mother whose maiden name is Zylka and has never met his father. He was born on May 9th, 1985 and originally hoped to become an artist. His grandfather then introduced him to the work of Russian dramatists inspiring him to become an actor. He moved to Hollywood and spent his first six months there living inside a car. He got a job working at a restaurant and continued working there until he managed to become an actor on television. He appeared in the television shows, "Everybody hates Chris" and "Hannah Montana". He then went on to movies and played roles in both comedy and horror films. He played Flash Thompson in the 2012 movie The Amazing Spider-Man. Zylka is best-known for having played the character Tom Garvey in the HBO television series "The Leftovers". Zylka was engaged to Paris Hilton though they called off their wedding.
Anthony Revolori ( Quiñonez; born April 28, 1996) is an American actor. He played Zero Moustafa in Wes Anderson's movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), and Flash Thompson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His parents are from Guatemala.
Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American actress and singer. She won a 1983 Tony Award for Best Actress Featured in a Musical for her role in the original Broadway play "Cats". Buckley later played Norma Desmond in the 1994-96 play "Sunset Boulevard". She was nominated for a 1995 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her other Broadway credits include "1776" and "Pippin". Buckley also acted in the series "Eight is Enough" from 1977 to 1981. Other acts include playing Ms. Collins in "Carrie" (1976). Other acts include the musical version of "Carrie" in 1988 and playing Mrs. Jones in "The Happening" (2008). Buckley was born in Big Spring, Texas.
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; née Albrecht, 8 October 1958) is a German politician. She is the President of the European Commission. She had served as Minister of Defence of Germany from 2013 to 2019. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Von der Leyen is the only minister to have been in Angela Merkel's cabinet since she took office in 2005, first as Minister of Family Affairs and Youth from 2005 to 2009, then as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2009 to 2013, before becoming Minister of Defence in 2013. German politician Ernst Albrecht was her father. On 2 July 2019, von der Leyen was nominated by the European Council to the position of President of the European Commission. With a close majority, she was elected by the European Parliament on 16 July. She is the first woman to hold the office and the first German since the commission's first president, Walter Hallstein.
Heinrich "Hein" Kröher (September 17, 1927 – February 14, 2016) and Oskar "Oss" Kröher (September 17, 1927 – July 1, 2019) were German twins who were folk singer-songwriters. They were born in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. Heinrich and Oskar Kröher were performing more than fifty years on the stages in Europe and North America. They wrote songs about the Hecker uprising. Hein died on February 14, 2016 from a short-illness in Pirmasens, aged 88. Oss died on July 1, 2019 in Rodalben, Rhineland-Palatinate from long-illness at the age of 91.
Gerald McCann (11 November 1931 – 26 June 2019) was a British fashion designer. He was seen as an important designer of the Swinging London fashion scene, alongside names such as Mary Quant. He moved to the US to work on New York's Seventh Avenue in 1974, returning to Britain some two decades later, where he continued supplying UK fashion retailers. McCann died in Lancaster on 26 June 2019 at the age of 87.
Richard L. Berkley (born Richard L. Berkowitz; June 29, 1931 – November 29, 2023) was an American politician. He was the 50th Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, from 1979 to 1991. He was a member of the Republican Party. Berkley was born in Kansas City and studied at Harvard University.
Emanuel Cleaver II (born October 26, 1944) is an American politician. He is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Cleaver currently represents , where he has served since 2005. The district is mostly part of Kansas City. Cleaver is a member of the Democratic Party, and in January 2010, he became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, a position he held until 2019. Cleaver was on the Kansas City Council from 1979 to 1991, until he was elected Mayor, from 1991 to 1999. In 2004, Cleaver was elected to represent Missouri's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cleaver was the pastor at the St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri from March 1972 until June 28, 2009.
The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Australian Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Australia. The largest party in the Senate is not always the governing party, as government is determined by the House of Representatives. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may be from different parties.
Lina Wertmüller (; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian screenwriter and movie director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for "Seven Beauties" in 1977.  She was also known for her movies "The Seduction of Mimi", "Love and Anarchy" and "Swept Away". In 2019, Wertmüller was announced as one of the four recipients of the Academy Honorary Award for her career. Wertmüller died on 9 December 2021 in Rome, Italy at the age of 93.
Wesley Studi (born December 17, 1947) is a Cherokee American actor and movie producer. He was born in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. He is known for his roles of Native Americans in movies.  He has appeared in Academy Award-winning movies, such as "Dances with Wolves" (1990) and "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated movies "" (1993) and "The New World" (2005).  He is also known for playing Sagat in "Street Fighter" (1994). In 2019, he will receive an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American actor to receive an Oscar.
Scott Edward Adkins (born 17 June 1976) is an English actor and martial artist. He is best known for playing Russian prison fighter Yuri Boyka in the 2006 movie ' and its two sequels: ' (2010) and ' (2016) and as Casey Bowman in the 2009 movie "Ninja" and its 2013 sequel '. He has also appeared in "Doctor Strange", "The Bourne Ultimatum, The Expendables 2" and "Zero Dark Thirty".
Sidney Norton Ramin (January 22, 1919 – July 1, 2019) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. With Leonard Bernstein and Irwin Kostal, he co-orchestrated the music for "West Side Story". He is the composer of the famous hit "Music to Watch Girls By". He won an Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture in 1962. Ramin died on July 1, 2019 in New York City from natural causes at the age of 100.
James "Jim" Franklin Sirmons (December 16, 1917 – April 20, 2018) was an American broadcasting executive. He worked for CBS from 1942 to 2000. In 1981 he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations, and finally in 1994 promoted to Executive Vice President of Industrial Relations. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. Surmons died on April 20, 2018 in Saint Petersburg at the age of 100.
Keiran Lee (born Adam Diksa on 15 January 1984) is a British pornographic actor, director, and producer who works mainly for pornographic production company Brazzers. His penis was insured for $1 million in 2012 by "Brazzers". He performed in over 3,500 porn videos in his pornographic career. He is one of the highest paid pornographic actors. Early life and education. Lee was born and raised in the Littleover area of Derby, England. He is of half-Indian descent, his father being Indian. Growing up, he attended Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy. By the age of 18, he was working as a project manager for Network Rail. Filmography. Movies.  "As an actor" : " As a director ": Awards and nominations. Lee won many major award nominations in his pornographic career. He won 2 awards from 49 nominations. Some notable awards and nominations:
Basant Kumar Birla (12 January 1921 – 3 July 2019) was an Indian businessman. He was a member of the noted Birla family. He was chairman of the Krishnarpan Charity Trust, B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering &amp; Technology (BKBIET) and other educational trusts and institutes. He also wrote many books, including his autobiography "Svantah Sukhaya". Birla was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He married Sarla Birla (1923–2015) in 1941, and had three children. Birla died in Mumbai on 3 July 2019, at the age of 98.
Baranagar or Baranagore is a city and municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is in the region of Greater Kolkata and therefore is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). It is home to the Indian Statistical Institute for research, teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences. Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School is one of the oldest and renowned schools in Baranagar and North 24 Parganas. Baranagar is a major industrial centre for the manufacture of agricultural and industrial machinery, chemicals, castor oil, and matches. There are also many cotton-processing companies. Name. The word "Baranagar" derives from the Bengali term "Barahanagore" (Bengali: বরাহনগর), meaning "City of the Hogs". (বরাহ: hog, নগর: city) Streynsham Master who visited the area in 1676 spoke of the hog factory where about 3,000 hogs a year were slaughtered and salted for export. Education. University. Baranagar houses the headquarters of the Indian Statistical Institute. It is an academic institute of national importance as recognised by a 1959 act of the Indian parliament. Established in 1931, this public university of India is focused on statistics. Colleges. Colleges of Baranagar are: Schools. Baranagar is also home to many schools providing quality education to the local and neighbourhood people. Health facilities. Following hospitals are located in Baranagar: Sports. Olympic played archer Dola Banerjee, Rahul Banerjee, Atanu Das born in Baranagar. Many sport academies and sporting clubs are in Baranagar: Tourist attractions. Several educational institutions, religious places, pilgrims, places of Baranagar are tourist attractions: Besides these, many people come in Baranagar every year in Durga puja period, in the time of "Ajanta Circus".
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist. His studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the . He became a professor at Rockefeller University in 1986. He was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 1983. In 1986, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics. Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Feigenbaum died on June 30, 2019 in New York City, at the age of 74.
This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Portuguese Guinea, an area equivalent to modern-day Guinea-Bissau. In 1941 the capital moved from Bolama to Bissau. List. For continuation after independence, "see:" List of presidents of Guinea-Bissau
David Maria Sassoli (30 May 1956 – 11 January 2022) was an Italian politician and journalist. He was the President of the European Parliament from July 2019 until his death in January 2022. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He first became a member of the European Parliament in July 2009. Before entering politics, he worked for newspaper "Il Giorno" and as a news reporter for "TG3" and "TG1". Sassoli was born in Florence. He was married to Alessandra Vittorini, and had two children. He was a fan of football club Fiorentina. In September 2021, Sassoli was taken to a hospital in Strasbourg, Germany, for pneumonia. In December 2021, he was again taken to a hospital, this time in Aviano because of problems with his immune system. Sassoli died there on 11 January 2022 from problems caused by multiple myeloma, aged 65.
Sudarshan Agarwal (19 June 1931 – 3 July 2019) was an Indian politician. He served as the Governor of Uttarakhand from 2003 to 2007, and the Governor of Sikkim from 2007 to 2008. He was also Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha from 1981 to 1993. He was born in Ludhiana, Punjab.  On 3 July 2019, Agarwal died after a long illness in New Delhi. He was 88.