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Walter Mortimer Mirisch (November 8, 1921 – February 24, 2023) is an American movie producer. He is president and executive head of production of The Mirisch Corporation. His brother Marvin and half-brother Harold were also producers. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). Mirisch was married to Patricia Kahan (1924–2005); they had three children, Anne Mirisch Sonnenberg, Andrew Mirisch, and Lawrence Mirisch. His son, Lawrence, is the founder of the Mirisch Agency. Mirisch turned 100 on November 8, 2021, and died of natural causes in Los Angeles on February 24, 2023, at the age of 101.
Myron G. Nussbaum (December 29, 1923 – December 23, 2023) was an American actor and director. He was known for his roles in "Field of Dreams", "House of Games", "Things Change", "Fatal Attraction" and "Men In Black". He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Nussbaum continued to act through his 90s, and he was still working on theatre projects up until his death in 2023. The "Chicago Sun-Times" called Nussbaum the "oldest working actor" in the United States. Nussbaum died on December 23, 2023 at his home in Chicago, six days before his 100th birthday.
Thomas Troupe (born July 15, 1928) is an American actor and writer. His Broadway career began in 1957 with the play "The Diary of Anne Frank". He also appeared in "The Lion in Winter", "The Gin Game", and "Father's Day".  Troupe was married to actress Carole Cook from 1964 until her death in 2023.
Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway and Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway Richardson, known as Diamond and Silk were American conservative political commentators and vloggers. They are known for their support of former President Donald Trump. Both were commentators for the conservative news channel Newsmax.  They became popular during the 2016 presidential campaign of Trump and again in April 2018 when Facebook said that their posts were "unsafe to the community". In April 2020, the two were fired from Fox News for questioning COVID-19 data. On January 8, 2023, Diamond died at her home in North Carolina at the age of 51. She died of heart disease.
Anselm of Canterbury (1033—1109) was a former Archbishop of Canterbury who argued with William II over the authority of the Pope over English King. For this, he was exiled from England twice, but regained his position under Henry I.
The seventh season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants was created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. The season was first broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States from July 19, 2009, to June 11, 2011. It had 26 half-hour episodes and a miniseries named Legends of Bikini Bottom. The series is about the adventures of the title character and his friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. Episodes. &lt;onlyinclude&gt; &lt;/onlyinclude&gt; DVD release. The DVD boxset for season seven was released by Paramount Home Entertainment in the United States and Canada in December 2011, six months after the season had completed broadcast on television. The DVD release features bonus materials, including "animated shorts."
The common name "blackbird" is used for at least two different groups of birds. This page deals with the Old World group, which are the genus Turdus, also known as thrushes. "Turdus" is the Latin name for thrush. The type species is the mistle thrush ("Turdus viscivorus"). Old World. The group Passerida is a fairly large group of Old World birds. They include the genus "Turdus" in the family Turdidae. The blackbird ("Turdus merula", or common blackbird) is a thrush. It is a member of the passerine songbird family Turdidae. There are at least seven species in the Old World, all of which have different common names. It has a huge range across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to Australia and New Zealand. It has a number of subspecies across its range. Depending on latitude, the common blackbird may be resident, partially migratory or fully migratory. Appearance. The adult male is black, with a yellow/orange bill (beak). Juveniles and females are brown, and less easy to see. Blackbirds are easy to find in gardens all over Europe and in Asia, South of the Arctic Circle. On average, blackbirds live to be 2.4 years old, but some have been found to be 20 years old. Behaviour and ecology. It is a terrific singer, and will breed whenever the weather is right. The male common blackbird defends its breeding territory, chasing away other males or using a "bow and run" threat display. This is a short run, the head first being raised and then bowed with the tail dipped simultaneously. If a fight between male blackbirds does occur, it is usually short and the intruder is soon chased away. The female blackbird is also aggressive in the spring when it competes with other females for a good nesting territory, and although fights are less frequent, they tend to be more violent. The male attracts the female with a courtship display: oblique runs and head-bowing movements, an open beak, and a
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. The congressman/congresswoman or deputy are terms that mean the same thing used in other places or systems. Members of parliament usually make parliamentary groups (sometimes called caucuses) with members of the same political party. The prime minister and the government ministers who make up the cabinet, are members of parliament in several states.
Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools, and is seen as the creator of the English public school system.
Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – probably 26 May 604) was a monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered a founder of the English Church.
Women in Red is a WikiProject. It works against the gender bias in Wikipedia. The project makes articles about women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues. The project is named after the red hyperlinks in Wikipedia articles. Red links show that the linked article has not been written yet.  Roger Bamkin thought of Women in Red in 2015. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight joined soon after. Bamkin first called the project, "Project XX." They changed to "WikiProject Women in Red".
Albert Megens (23 August 1939 – 15 January 2023) was a Dutch poet. Megens was born in the Boxtel municipality between Boxtel and Esch. His mother died young at the age of 45 when Megens was sixteen years old. His wrote poetry between 1962 and 2022. The main theme in his poems was the earth and the sky and numerous connections between them. In his poetry, his father stood for the earth and his mother represented life after death. Megens published his last collection of poems on his eightieth birthday on 23 August 2019. The collection named "Tachtig bij tachtig" (translated: eighty at eighty) included eighty poems selected from his oeuvre since 1962. Megens worked as a teachter at voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs. He was married for over fifty years to Trees. They had three daughters and six grandchilderen. They lived in Kaatsheuvel. After an illness his wife died at the end of 2022. Megens died from an aneurysm on 15 January 2023, at the age of 83.
Pauri Garhwal is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Its headquarters is in the town of Pauri. Climate. The climate of Pauri Garhwal is warm in summer and cold in winter. In the rainy season the climate is cool and the landscape green. However, in Kotdwar and the adjoining Bhabar area, it is quite hot, reaching well above 40 °C (104 °F) during the summer. In the winter, many parts of Pauri receive snowfall. Education. Pauri, Kotdwar, Lansdowne and Srinagar are major centres of education in the district. Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College is at Ghurdauri. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Medical College, and National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand are in Srinagar.
Ninad Rathva (born 10 March 1999) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Baroda cricket team in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy on 17 November 2017, where he scored a century in the first innings. He made his Twenty20 debut for Baroda in the 2017–18 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 21 January 2018. He made his List A debut for Baroda in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 14 February 2018.
Bageshwar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Bageshwar is the district headquarters. Prior to its establishment as a district in 1997 it was part of Almora district. As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Uttarakhand (out of 13), after Rudraprayag and Champawat.
Chamoli is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India.It is bounded by the Tibet region to the north, and by the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh and Bageshwar to the east, Almora to the south, Pauri Garhwal to the southwest, Rudraprayag to the west, and Uttarkashi to the northwest. The administrative headquarters of Chamoli district is in Gopeshwar.
Germaine Coquillard (22 April 1894 - 22 January 1994) was a French swimmer. She won prizes in the 1900s, in the earliest women's French swimming history. Biography. Coquillard was born in 1894 in Joinville-le-Pont. She was trained by Loustalot. In 1906 on 15 August she took part in the first ever women's swimming competition in France "le prix Femina" during the world championships in Joinville-le-Pont. It was a 120 metre handicap-style race in the Marne. Coquillard finished second behind Alice Sadoux. In 1907 she competed at the international Ondines swimming festival in Joinville-le-Pont. Coquillard won the international 60 metre handicap-style race ahead of Gaston Tardiff and Georgette Jeanniot. She finished third at the national championship 100 metre race. Coquillard died in Joinville-le-Pont on 22 January 1994, at the age of 99.
Grapefruit juice is the juice from grapefruits. Its taste ranges from sweet-tart to very sour. It has a lot of vitamin C. Grapefruit juice is a popular breakfast drink in the United States.
No Church in the Wild is a hip hop song by American rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z. The song features American singers Frank Ocean and The-Dream. It is from their collaborative studio album, Watch the Throne. It was released on March 20, 2012. The song's lyrics talk about themes of religion and decadence. The track received very positive reviews from music critics. It is because they praised Ocean's vocal hooks, the depth of the verses, and the cinematic production and the song's power as an opening track. Commercially, the song peaked at number 72 at the Billboard Hot 100. It also peaked at the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&amp;B/Hip Hop songs. Jay-Z and Kanye West both performed this song at the Watch the Throne Tour. Also, Frank Ocean performed his portion of the song on several occasions during his November 2011 tour. The song has been used in various media. The most notable ones are for the 2013 film The Great Gatsby and for the 2012 film Safe House.
Nils Rudolf Århammar (7 August 1931 – 10 January 2022) was a Swedish linguist. Biography. Århammar studied German language in Uppsala, Münster, Cologne and Marburg. In the early 1960s, he was a research assistant at the North Frisian Dictionary Unit at the Kiel University, he did research on the use of the North Frisian dialects Föhr North Frisian and Amrum North Frisian on the islands of Föhr and Amrum. Afterwards started working at the University of Marburg, where he became a lecturer in Swedish language in 1966. He continued his Frisian research at the same time. In 1968, Århammar was commissioned by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur to continue the scientific , which was later withdrawn. In 1974 he was became lecturer in Germanic philology with particular responsibility for Frisian languages and Low German. In 1976 he became professor in Frisian languates and Gothic language at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In 1988, he became the first (and only) professor of Frisian and Frisian didactics at the University of Flensburg. At the same time, the position of director at the Nordfriisk Instituut in Bredstedt, was linked with the professorship in Flensburg. After his retirement in 1996, he and his wife Ritva Århammar worked on the still unfinished . Århammar died in Bredstedt on 10 January 2022, at the age of 90.
Daniël Naoki Raoël Ché Ismaël Lotz (23 October 1975 – 12 January 2022) was a Dutch movie director. Biography. Lotz worked on several award-winning films, including "Emily or Oscar" (2021), "I am Famous" (short documentary, 2017), "Who Is Alice" (2017) and "Fokking Short" (short film, 2015). With his solo project "Are You Now" (2014-2021), he portrayed over 270 people by asking them to stand still for three minutes in front of his camera. The project was exhibited in 2021 in Wall House II, part of the Groninger Museum. Lotz was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2018. He reported his life with cancer in the "Lotz Leeft" series on RTV Noord. Since 2018, together with Piet van Dijken, he has made the online series "Lotz en Van Dijken". He also made a podcast named "Over Leven", in which he spoke to several guests about "more than just living with lung cancer." Lotz died in Groningen on 12 January 2022, at the age of 46.
Edith Meijering (10 September 1962 – 13 January 2022) was a Dutch painter. Meijering had a studio in Zutphen. Her works were exhibited at the Wall Gallery in Rotterdam, and internationally in exhibitions in New York City and Oakland. She was also part of the exposition "Zutphense Uitblinkers" at the Stedelijk Museum. Works of Meijering are in the collection of Flehite, including her paintings "Le Tigre." and "De klok". Meijering died in Zutphen from an illness on 13 January 2022, at the age of 59. She received after her death the "Vriendenprijs", an bi-annual prize of Musea Zutphen.
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson was born to African American parents in Milton, Delaware in 1959. The U. S. Supreme Court had ended official school segregation policies in 1954, but the first schools Stevenson attended were still racially segregated. When that ended, he was in the first group of students in his state to attend racially integrated schools. He graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a double degree in law and public policy. He worked as an intern at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. That work showed him that the American legal system worked one way if you had money and another way if you were poor. He found that, for similar crimes, more poor people (who were usually African American) received the death penalty than other people did. He started the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. This organization had good lawyers help poor people who were in prison on death row in Alabama. Receiving a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995 helped him to build the EJI. In 2014 Stevenson's book "" was read by many people. More people learned about his work for fairness in the legal system. The book became a movie in 2019.
Timothy Alexander (born April 10, 1965) is an American drummer. He is also known as Herb Alexander. He is best known for playing the drums for Primus. Primus is an American rock band. Alexander played the drums on many of Primus' albums. He played the drums on albums such as "Frizzle Fry" (1990), "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" (1991), "Pork Soda" (1993) and "Tales from the Punchbowl" (1995). He left the band in 1996, and then joined it again in 2003. He then left the band in 2010. He joined again in 2013. As of 2022, he is still in the band. Alexander has played the drums for other music groups. He has played the drums for A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. These are bands made by Maynard James Keenan. Alexander has also been in the Blue Man Group.
Guan Zongxiang (28 November 1922 – 13 January 2023) also known as Uncle Guan was a Chinese movie actor. He played in movies of the . He is known from among others the movies "Luo tuo Xiang Zi" (1982), "Bao shi jie zhi" (1985) and "Ru lai ba gua gun" (1985). He won the Golden Phoenix Awards in 2005. Guan married to actress . Their son was film director Guan Hu. His daughter-in-law was actress Liang Jing. Guan died on 13 January 2022.
Women in Trucking (WIT) is a non-profit organization and foundation that tries to increase the number of women driving cargo trucks. Trucking is when goods are moved from one place to another on a truck. WIT was founded in 2007 by Ellen Voie. WIT focuses on getting women jobs in trucking, helping them fix work problems, and to celebrate all truckers. WIT was recognized by the White House in 2012 and 2013.  History. WIT was founded in 2007 by Ellen Voie. It focuses on many problems women have if they work in trucking. WIT works on endingharassment of women drivers and making work safer. It works on good lighting at places truck drivers stop to rest. WIT fights for uniforms and truck design that are comfortable for women. WIT publishes research on why it is hard to be a woman trucker. WIT became a Gold-Level partner with Frito Lay in 2010. WIT was recognized by the White House in 2012 and 2013. WIT also got a Girl Scout Patch in 2014. WIT holds different events to improve the number of women driving trucks on the road. WIT hosted its first conference called “Accelerate,” in 2015. WIT has held that event ever since 2015. WIT has continued trying to improve the number of women driving trucks on the road. WIT gives awards like the "Distinguished Woman in Logistics Award," the "Driver of the Year" award, and the "Top Workplace for Women in Transportation" award. They hold many different events. WIT holds the “Accelerate” conference, which has many different speakers come and speak about trucking. WIT has different programs like the Driver Ambassador program, which helps give women a say and lets them share their adventures. WIT also has a career center where women can find jobs in trucking. WIT also finds mentors for people who would like one or need one. They publish "Redefining the Road" magazine. They publish the WIT Index every year to help understand the number of women working in trucking and if they are treated fairly
Masuma Mohammadi is an Afghan journalist, research scholar, and women’s rights activist. She founded the Equality Social and Cultural Organization, which supports female journalists. In Afghanistan, she was a radio reporter for the United Nations News and “Hello Countrymen, Countrywomen” an Afghan radio program. She was the owner and chief editor of the Equality News Agency, which trained over 200 female journalists. Mohammadi is now working with the San Jose State University and is part of their Visiting Afghan Scholar program. She worked on research about the persecution of the Hazara people. She wants to do research on the rights Afghan women and girls have under the Taliban. Life in Afghanistan. Mohammadi was born and raised in Afghanistan. She worked as a radio reporter for the United Nations News. She was on a popular Afghan radio program called “Hello Countrymen, Countrywomen”. She founded the Equality Social and Cultural Organization (ESCO) in 2011. In 2020, she created the Equality News Agency to publish articles about women’s issues. This made her a target for the Taliban. On August 15th, 2021, the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan. When notified of the Taliban's arrival, Mohammadi had to destroy the documents of her coworkers and flee to the United States with her 2 children. Work in the United States. In the US, Mohammadi has partnered with the San Jose State University (SJSU) and their Visiting Afghan Scholar program. She researched the injustices being directed towards the Hazara people and would like to research women's rights in Afghanistan. She has continued to advocate for the women in Afghanistan from the United States, and says “Please don’t forget the people of Afghanistan, especially Afghan women and girls, support them to access their rights. Your support and providing such opportunities has not only brought a positive change in the lives of people like me, but has also saved our lives.”
Pilar Agoyo is a native fashion designer. She works on costumes for movies and television shows. She has done work for The Avengers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Her design also appeared in an exhibit called "Art of Indigenous Fashion" at the "The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts". The book "Native fashion now : North American Indian style" calls Agoyo a "Provocateur," meaning she has new ideas people do not expect and that make them have strong feelings. Early life. She is from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Agoyo originally wanted to be a painter. She went to the Institute of American Indian Arts. She took a class and realized she loved sewing and textiles. She loved it. Career. Agoyo has done a lot of work for Hollywood television and movies. She is also well known among indigenous designers in the United States. Fashion. In 2002, Agoyo opened a boutique in Santa Fe with Virgil Ortiz and Cody Sanderson. Sanderson was her husband. Agoyo works with materials such as vinyl. May of her designs are inspired by traditional pottery designs from her pueblo. Agoyo has worked on lots of fashion shows. She also has museum exhibits, like the Art of Indigenous Fashion" at the "The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts". She has won awards for her designs, including the "Masked Heroes" contest from First American Art Magazine and at the Heard Indian Market 2011 by the Southwestern Association for American Indian Arts. The Poeh Pueblo Cultural Center also commissioned Agoyo to design masks that would appeal to others from her pueblo. Her work has been recognized by the "Traditional Fine Arts Organization." Hollywood. Agoyo's first work for television was "Into the West" in 2005. She has worked on 37 movies and shows. Sometimes the fashions she makes for movies helps her think of a new fashion to create.