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Peter Fleischmann (26 July 1937 – 11 August 2021) was a German movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Zweibrücken, then-Nazi Germany. His career lasted from 1957 to 2006. He was known for directing "Hunting Scenes from Bavaria", "Weak Spot" and "Hard To Be a God". Fleischmann died on 11 August 2021 Potsdam, Germany from problems caused by a fall at the age of 84.
Cherilyn Mackrory (originally Williams, born 5 June 1976) is a British Conservative politician. She was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro and Falmouth at the 2019 general election. Before this, she was a councillor in the Cornwall Council for the area of St Mewan. Early life. Mackrory was born and grew up as a child in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Political career. Mackory was elected as a Conservative councillor on Cornwall Council for the area of St Mewan. She was elected to the Council in the May 2017. In the 2019 United Kingdom general election, Mackory was made the Conservative candidate for the constituency of Truro and Falmouth. This was after the Member of Parliament before the election, Sarah Newton, said that she would not try to be elected as MP again. Mackrory was elected as the MP with 4,561 more votes than the candidate in second. She got 46% of the vote.
Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. (born February 12, 1971) is an American philanthropist and politician who is the member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 31st congressional district since 2025. Cisneros was the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2021 to 2023. He was the U.S. Representative for from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He lost his re-election in his 2020 by former California State Assembly member Young Kim. In September 2023, he announced his candidacy for California's 31st congressional district in the 2024 election. In 2010, he and his wife won a $266 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.
1 Mile North is an ambient/post-rock duo. The members are guitarist Jon Hills and keyboardist Mark Bajuk. Albums. The band has released four full-length albums, a split LP with Colophon and The Wind-Up Bird, and a collection of home and live recordings. Their fourth album, "Tombs and Cocoons" was released on February 20, 2020. Use of music. The band's music has been featured in Steven Okazaki's Oscar-Nominated documentary "The Conscience of Nhem En", and in Okazaki's "". Music was also in the score of 2013's "Facing Fear", a documentary from Jason Cohen nominated for an Oscar in 2014. Discography. Albums Split albums Live albums
Leon Frank Litwack (December 2, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American historian. His works focused on slavery and the Reconstruction Era of the United States. He won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for History. His best known written work was the 1979 book "". Litwack was born in Santa Barbara, California. Litwack died on August 5, 2021 in Berkeley, California of bladder cancer, aged 91.
Dominic Nucciarone (23 January 1932 – 12 August 2021) was an Italian-American professional wrestler and trainer. He was known under his ring name of Dominic DeNucci. He was born in Venice, Italy and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His career began in 1958 and he retired in 2012.  In June 2020, DeNucci was hospitalized for heart failure in McCandless, Pennsylvania. He died at the age of 89 on 12 August 2021.
Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist. Her work focused on pediatric cardiology. She is known for creating the lifesaving surgery that would make children born with (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome) live longer.
Jane Somerville (née Platnauer; born 24 January 1933) is a British emeritus professor of cardiology at Imperial College London. Somerville was the attending physician at Britain's first heart transplantation in 1968. She is best known for writing and researching about GUCH (grown-ups with congenital heart disease).
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader. He was an important person in swing music. His theme song was "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". He is best known for "Opus One", "Song of India", "Marie", "On Treasure Island", and his biggest hit single, "I'll Never Smile Again". Dorsey died on November 26, 1956 in Greenwich, Connecticut after choking in his sleep, aged 51.
Catherine Colonna (born 16 April 1956) is a French politician. Colonna was the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2024. She was the Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. Before this, she was the Ambassador of France to Italy between 2014 and 2017. Biography. Colonna learnt about law as a child. In 1983, she chose to become a diplomat instead of doing a job associated with law. She decided to work at the French embassy in the USA. Colonna started working in the political unit. She would move to the press and information unit. After she went back to Paris, she would work in the legal part of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She did this from 1986 to 1988. In 1993, Minister of Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé and Cabinet Director Dominique de Villepin named Catherine Colonna deputy spokesperson. This meant she helped represent the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May 1995, President Jacques Chirac made her the speaker for the Élysée Palace. Colonna would stop her work in diplomacy for a bit after this. After the European Constitution referendum, she started working on diplomacy again. Colonna was made Minister Delegate for European Affairs on 2 June 2005. She was the Minister for two years, until 15 May 2007. On 26 March 2008, Catherine Colonna was made the French ambassador to UNESCO. She also is in-charge the board of leaders of the École du Louvre. She became in-charge in May 2010. She was made the French ambassador to Italy on 14 August 2014. She would work as the ambassador until 2017. In 2019, she became the French ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Garðabær is a municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland. In 2019, 16,299 people lived there. The municipality of Álftanes was merged into the neighboring municipality of Garðabær in January 2013. Twin towns. Garðabær is twinned with:
Satoshi Uematsu (, 1990- ) was a Japanese mass murderer, a perpetrator of 2016 that killed 19 people. He was a 26-year-old (at the time of the incident) man.  Incident. Uematsu used to work at the care home "Tsukui Yamayuri En" (津久井やまゆり園). He resigned from working at the facility in February 2016 after having been employed there for over three years.  In February 2016, Uematsu appealed by letter for the legalization of ending the lives of those with multiple disabilities in cases where it was requested by their guardians, and asked for Tadamori Oshima's assistance in delivering his message to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. In it, he wrote, "I envision a world where a person with multiple disabilities can be euthanised, with an agreement from the guardians, when it is difficult for the person to carry out household and social activities." He also wrote that the killings of the disabled would be "for the sake of Japan and world peace" as well as to benefit the global economy and prevent World War III. In 26 July 2016, Uematsu killed 19 people at "Tsukui Yamayuri En" by Knives. On 16 March 2020, Uematsu was sentenced to death by the Yokohama District Court, having previously said he would not challenge any verdict or sentence. On 30 March 2020, his death sentence was finalized as he withdrew automatic appeal to the upper courts.
Seltjarnarnes is a town and municipality in the Capital Region of Iceland. In 2020, 4,726 people lived there. It was created in 1947. Twin towns – sister cities. Seltjarnarnes is twinned with:
Nowy Sącz (; ; ; ) is a city in Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland. In 2018, 83,896 people lived there. It is at the confluence of the Kamienica River and Dunajec. Twin towns – sister cities. Nowy Sącz is twinned with:
Julie London (originally Julie Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American pop and jazz singer, television, stage, radio and movie actress. Her career lasted for almost four decades. London was known for having sultry contralto vocal ranges. Contralto means a female singing voice whose vocal range has the lowest female voice type. She recorded just over thirty pop and jazz albums between 1955 and 1969. Her recording of the Arthur Hamilton melancholy pop ballad "Cry Me a River" was added into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. London was also awarded a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for her role as Dixie McCall in the 1970s NBC television show "Emergency!" (1972 to 1977). London was the female lead in a lot of Western movies. Those included acting with Gary Cooper in "Man of the West" (1958), Robert Taylor in "Saddle the Wind" (another 1958 Western movie) and Robert Mitchum for "The Wonderful Country" (1959). Other movies were the crime movie "Crimes Against Joe" (1956) and the musical and comedy movie "The Girl Can't Help It" (also from 1956).  London released several albums during the 1960s. Those included "Whatever Julie Wants" (1961), "Love Letters" (1962) and "The End of the World" (1963). The latter carried her cover of the Skeeter Davis song. London was born in Santa Rosa, California. She was affected with negative health after a stroke in 1995. Four years later, London was given a diagnosis of lung cancer. She died from cardiac arrest inside a Los Angeles hospital at age 74.
The Maine is a river in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. It is 11.5 km long and is a tributary of the Loire river. It is formed by the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe rivers north of Angers. It flows through this city and joins the Loire southwest of Angers.
Pérols-sur-Vézère is a commune in the Corrèze department. It is in central France.
Corrèze is a commune in the Corrèze department. It is in central France.
Gino Strada (born Luigi Strada; 21 April 1948 – 13 August 2021) was an Italian physician, human rights activist, peace activist, and war surgeon. He was the founder of Emergency, an international non-governmental organization. Strada was born in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy.  Strada died in Rouen, France on 13 August 2021 from heart failure, aged 73.
Haydee Coloso-Espino (August 28, 1937 – August 12, 2021) was a Filipino swimmer. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. She was born in Dueñas, Philippines. She was known as the "Asian Swim Queen". In January 2020, Coloso-Espino was hospitalized for a respiratory tract infection. She died at her home in Iloilo City on August 12, 2021, aged 83.
Les Vandyke (born John Worsley; 21 June 1931 – 6 August 2021) was an English pop singer-songwriter. Vandyke wrote the UK No.1 hits "What Do You Want?", "Poor Me" (both for Adam Faith), and "Well I Ask You" (for Eden Kane).  Vandyke died on 6 August 2021 at the age of 90.
Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August  13, 2021) was an American country folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. Griffith appeared many times on the PBS music program "Austin City Limits". Griffith was born in Seguin, Texas. Her career lasted from 1977 until 2013. Griffith won a Grammy Award in 1994. Griffith died on August 13, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 68.
Robert Henry Burnside (May 20, 1933 – August 2, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1971 to 1978. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina. Burnside died on August 2, 2021 in Columbia at the age of 88.
Devizes is a constituency of the UK Parliament. It is in Wiltshire, England. The current MP for it is Danny Kruger, a Conservative. He was elected in the 2019 United Kingdom general election. The constituency has four towns and many villages inside it. The area's MP has been someone from the Conservative Party since 1924. History. Devizes originally elected two Members of Parliament (MPs). They did this until the 1868 general election. They stopped because the Reform Act 1867 lowered its their amount of MPs to one MP. MPs are elected by first-past-the-post. The seat has had a Conservative MP elected at every election since 1924. Its most well-known MP was Henry Addington. Addington was the MP for the seat when he was Prime Minister. He also was the MP for the seat when he was Speaker of the House of Commons. Members of Parliament. Since 1868. Devizes has been a usual Conservative seat since 1945. The current Member of Parliament is Danny Kruger. He was first elected at the 2019 general election. The MP before him was Claire Perry. Perry decided not to run at the next election. In popular culture. Devizes was the constituency of the fictional (fake) Conservative MP The Honourable Sir Piers Fletcher-Dervish, Baronet, later Junior Minister for Housing, in the TV sitcom "The New Statesman". The actor Michael Troughton played the MP. The show was set in the 1980s. This was when Charles Andrew Morrison was MP for the actual seat.
Jason Matthew Ethier (born February 14, 1990), also known as ImJayStation or JayStation, is an Internet personality and former YouTuber from Canada. He began as JayStation. In 2016, he was arrested by Ottawa police for trespassing for doing "24-hour overnight challenges". As such, his channel got demonetized. After the arrest he went under the new name ImJayStation. His channels were deleted on March 12, 2021. In Early 2025, Jaystation has returned to YouTube, on the channel, "https://www.youtube.com/@JaystationOffical", He made 3 reuploaded videos but he claims hes coming back to youtube, Posting a Video about "Exposing Alexia", He has since made a discord server. https://discord.gg/FrA4crc5Ck Alexia Controversy. Around January 2020 he announced the death of his girlfriend, Alexia, due to a drunk driver. However when he did an ouija board challenge, a video showed up confirming that Akelia was alive. After this shocking controversy Jaystation was banned from YouTube.
Music censorship refers to editing, censoring or changing different forms/areas of music for a particular reason. The reasons for censoring or editing a song often include moral, religious or political subjects or themes involving the song in question. Censorship often varies from the complete government-enforced legal prohibitions for musical works to the optional removal of questionable or inappropriate material when a song or other musical work appears in a particular context. Decency. Songs are often edited before they're broadcast on any radio or television networks. This is for removing any material that may be classified as objectionable for a number of listeners. The objectionable materials in question include profanity, references to sex, violence and drug abuse/trafficking. This is mainly done to comply with the relevant rule in broadcasting and with the conduct codes. It's also done for making songs more marketable for mainstream audiences. Songs edited for materials within this manner are mainly called clean version songs. Common editing techniques include backmasking, blocking or completely replacing any offensive lyrics with different words. Examples of songs with questionable or offensive words. Several different edits of the CeeLo Green pop/soul song "Fuck You". These include one where the song's lyrics and title were changed to "Forget You." Another mutes the profanity "fuck" without actually replacing it. The original title for The Black Eyed Peas' 2003 song "Let's Get it Started" was "Let's Get Retarded". The song's title was changed because the word "retarded" was an offensive word. "Let's Get it Started" was later released as a standalone single. It peaked at #21 on the United States' "Billboard Hot 100". Songs having possibly objectionable wordings with double meanings or mishearings of certain phrases were also sometimes censored. One example for such songs includes Britney Spears' 2009 dance-pop single "If U Seek Amy". The chorus and title for this Spears' song were heard in the words "F-U-C-K me". Spears' then record labels made a radio edit of the song in which the word "seek" was replaced by "see". That was because "If U Seek Amy" was
Doom is an science fiction movie directed by Andrezej Bartkowiak. Loosely based on adaptation on video game same title of the popular series by id Software. The movie starring Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Razaaq Adoti, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. After movie rights deals with Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures has been expired, id Software was signed with a deal with Warner Bros, with the stipuation that the movie would be greenlit within a year. Reboot. 14 years later, after the first "Doom" movie come out, executive producer John Wells stated that a reboot version called "" was released in 2019.
Athis-Mons is a French commune. It is in the southern suburbs of Paris, from the center. 35,101 people lived here in 2018. A small part of Orly Airport is on the territory of the commune.
Bussy-Saint-Georges is a French commune. It is in the eastern suburbs of Paris, from the center. 26,806 people lived here in 2018. History. Bussy-Saint-Georges was first mentioned as "Villa Buxido" in 841. The full name of Bussy-Saint-Georges appeared in the 13th century. Twin towns. Bussy-Saint-Georges is twinned with:
The 2021–22 Premier League was the 30th season of the Premier League, the top division of football in England. Manchester City were the defending champions, having won their fifth Premier League title in the previous season. The season started on 13 August 2021. Stadium sound only. Teams. There were 20 teams in this season and 17 returned from the previous season. The teams that came up from the Championship were Norwich City, Watford (who both return to the Premier League after being away for a year) and Brentford (who return to the top division for the first time in seventy-four years). " Note Table lists in alphabetical order." League table. &lt;onlyinclude&gt;&lt;/onlyinclude&gt; Season statistics. Top scorers. Hat-tricks. (H) – Home team&lt;br&gt;(A) – Away team
Levone is a "comune" in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region in Italy. It is about northwest of Turin. Levone is next to these municipalities: Forno Canavese, Rivara, Rocca Canavese, and Barbania.
Enrique Chalar (February 1, 1959 – August 13, 2021), better known as Pil Trafa, was an Argentine punk rock singer and composer. He was an important singer in Spanish punk rock music in Latin America. He played with his band Los Violadores. Trafa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His career began popular in the 1980s. Trafa died on August 13, 2021 at his home in Lima, Peru from cardiopulmonary arrest, aged 62.
Henryk Franciszek Hoser (27 November 1942 – 13 August 2021) was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church. He was bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga in Poland from 2008 to 2017. He was born in Warsaw. Hoser died on 13 August 2021 in Warsaw, aged 78.
Dilys Watling (born Dilys Rhys Jones, 5 May 1943 – 10 August 2021) was an English actress. She was best known for her roles in many BBC television shows. She was in "Coronation Street", "The Benny Hill Show" and "The Two Ronnies". Watling was born in Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire. Her career lasted from 1962 until 1994. Watling died on 10 August 2021, aged 78.
Andrzej Borodzik (9 April 1930 – 13 August 2021) was a Polish politician and chemist. He was born in Sulejówek, Poland. From 2005 until 2007, he was President of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. He was also a member of Sejm from 1965 until 1972. Borodzik died on 13 August 2021 at the age of 91.
Sulejówek is a town in Poland. It is about 18 km east of Warsaw.
Bitonto is a city in the Apulia region of Italy. It is to the west of Bari, near the Adriatic Sea. The city is known for producing olive oil and wine. About 54,500 people live in Bitonto.
San Giuliano Milanese is an Italian city in Lombardy. It is about southeast of Milan and has about 36,000 inhabitants. Twin towns. San Giuliano Milanese is twinned with:
Élancourt is a French commune. It is in the western suburbs of Paris, from the center. 25,575 people lived here in 2018. Twin towns. Élancourt is twinned with:
Saint-Aubin-des-Préaux is a commune. It is in Normandy in the Manche department in northwest France.
Rastatt is a town in the district of Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is about southwest of Karlsruhe. Twin towns – sister cities. Rastatt is twinned with:
The Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede was a steam-powered moving machine. It looked like a motorcycle. It was a steam engine on a bicycle. Louis-Guillaume Perreaux made the steam engine, and Pierre Michaux made the bicycle. It was made in France between 1867 and 1871. It is one of three moving machines that people say could be the first motorcycle. The two others are the Roper steam velocipede of 1867 or 1868 and the internal combustion engine Daimler Reitwagen of 1885. Perreaux made the steam velocipede better over time. He had built a tricycle version by 1884. The only Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede made, on loan from the Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux, was the first machine people saw when they went into the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum rotunda in the Art of the Motorcycle exhibition in New York in 1998. First motorcycle? Not everyone agrees on which machine was the first motorcycle. Wtiter L. J. K. Setright said the simplest way to say what a motorcycle was was a bicycle with a heat engine. "If we accept this we must go on to admit that its prototype is unidentifiable, shrouded in the mists of industrial antiquity," meaning that this definition meant no one could say for sure which motorcycle was first. Both the Michaux-Perreaux and Roper machines have also been said to be produced in the years 1867, 1868, and 1869. Other people, such as "Cycle World"'s Technical Editor Kevin Cameron, say neither of these two machines were the first motorcycles. They either say that a true motorcycle must use a gasoline internal combustion engine, or that the first motorcycle must use the same technology as motorcycles that were good enough for people to make many of them. They say that "dead end" motorcycles do not count. These people say that Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler's 1885 Daimler Reitwagen was the first motorcycle. The first motorcycle that
Mojgan Azimi (, born ) is an Afghan singer and painter. Biography. Mojgan Azimi born on August 21, 1985 in Herat, Afghanistan. The Mojgan family immigrated to Iran after the Afghan civil war and settled in Mashhad. She completed her primary and secondary education in Iran and then emigrated to Germany with her family. Mojgan's family moves to Switzerland after a while, she is currently living in Switzerland. Activities. Mojgan started her artistic activities at the age of 10 with oil painting. She later studied classical guitar and completed vocal lessons at the age of 18.  She has recorded "Ayah" and "twenty-five years" in Iran in 2018. The music video for "Ayah" is known as the first professional work of her, which has rich messages for support of women's, human rights and condemnation of customs and gender discrimination beliefs about them in Afghanistan. She published "Hakeman" in the beginning of autumn 2018. The song won the first prize for best singer, best music and best songwriting at the 2018 San Francisco Roman Award Festival.