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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American activist. She is known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She went to William Frantz Elementary School, in Louisiana, USA. Early life. Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi to Abon and Lucille Bridges. When she was 4 years old, the family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents allowed her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system. Integration. In a 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court made racial segregation illegal. Ruby was chosen to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. The school board said black children could attend the first grade if they passed a test. Bridges passed a test. On her first day of school four U.S. Marshals had to go with her to school. She went straight to the principal's office.She sat in the principal's office all day. Angry crowds of parents shouted threats at her. For the next six months the marshals took her to and from her school. Ruby had to spend the entire first school year alone with one teacher, Barbara Henry. People tried to hurt her family. Her father lost his job and her grandparents were thrown off their farm in Georgia. Ruby never missed a day of school that year. The story of her going to a white school is the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting called "The Problem We All Live With." Adult life. She finished elementary school and graduated from high school. Bridges went on to become a travel agent for American Express. Mrs. Ruby Bridges got married to Malcolm Hall and had four sons. In 1993, her brother was shot and killed in New Orleans. Ruby's family went to New Orleans to take care of his daughters. In 1999, she wrote a children's book, "Through My Eyes", telling her story and what she went through. The same year she started the Ruby Bridges Foundation. She travels and talks to children all over the country. On 8 January 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded Ruby Bridges the Presidential Citizens Medal. She was one of 28 to receive the medal that day.
Aztec mythology is the mythology of the Aztec civilization in Mexico. It was the basis on which they made a working and advanced society. They took some ideas from the Toltec and Mayans to create their advanced culture. Their empire lasted from the 14th century until the Spanish took over.  The Aztecs believed the universe went through four phases. They called them suns. They believed that they lived in the fifth sun. The gods ended each sun with a huge tragedy and then created a new world. In the first sun, the world was destroyed by jaguars. In the second, the world was destroyed by a storm. In the third sun, the earth was destroyed by a fire rain. At the end of the fourth, the world was destroyed by a huge flood. They believed that the fifth sun would end with a huge earthquake. In their religion they worshipped many gods and goddesses. They even made human sacrifices. There were three parts of the body that they considered the most powerful: the head, the heart, and the liver.  Some gods and goddesses in Aztec mythology are Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, and Xochiquetzal.
Malagasy is an Austronesian language that is spoken in Madagascar. It is related to languages such as Indonesian, Javanese and Maori. That means that Malagasy is related to languages spoken in Indonesia. This is probably because immigrants from Indonesia came to Madagascar until A.D. 1400. It is the only Austronesian language spoken in Africa. Writing. Malagasy is written using the English alphabet, but without c, q, u, w and x. No accents or other diacritical marks are used. It was invented by David Jones as a replacement for Sorabe (a type of Arabic script). Most letters have their IPA values. However, y and i are both pronounced like /i/ and h is often silent. A few consonant digraphs (tr, dr, ts) are used. Examples of words. Manoa ahoana - Hello Veloma - Goodbye Nenibe - Grandmother Dadabe - Grandfather
Zhongzheng District is a local government area of Taipei City, in the Republic of China.  Many national government buildings of the Republic of China are in this district. Some are the Presidential office building, the Executive Yuan building and other government agency buildings. This district is named after the former President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek.
The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous memorial in Taipei, Republic of China. It was built for the late President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek. It is located in Taipei's Zhongzheng District. The monument is in a park. There is a library and museum in the monument. It has books and artefacts about Chiang's life and the history of the Republic of China.
Ride was a British shoegazing band from Oxford.  Ride was formed in 1988 by Mark Gardener, Andy Bell and Laurence Colbert. The named the band 'Ride' because of the evocation of travel and after the Ride cymbal. The band was a part of the "shoegazing" scene that happened in England during the early 1990s. They broke up in 1996 because of tension in the band. After their breakup, the former members decided to work on other projects. Andy Bell would become the bassist for Oasis.  Their debut album "Nowhere" was ranked #74 on Pitchfork Media's list of "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s" and was also added to the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". The single "Vapour Trail" was ranked #145 on Pitchfork Media's list of "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s".
Jeff Plewman (March 26, 1948 – May 10, 2014), better known by his stage name Nash the Slash, was a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for being the founding member of the progressive rock band FM and performing with British musician Gary Numan. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played mostly the electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and other instruments. Nash's musical trademark was his face being covered in surgical bandages. He got the name "Nash the Slash" by using the name of the main antagonist of the Laurel and Hardy silent movie "Do Detectives Think?" (1927). Nash was born in Toronto, Ontario. In 1998, he revealed that he was gay at Toronto's Pride Week. He retired in 2012. Nash died on the weekend of May 10, 2014 at his home in Toronto, aged 66. The cause of his death was a suspected heart attack.
Shilin District is a district of Taipei, Republic of China. It is a residential district, and famous residents include the late Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China. The district is divided into 51 villages (里), which are further divided up into 987 villages (鄰). The culture of Taipei is said to be started in Shilin district. Education. Shilin has three universities: Ming Chuan University, Soochow University, and the Chinese Culture University. Some international schools, like the Taipei American School, Taipei Japanese School, and Taipei European School are in this district. The district is also has vocational colleges, four senior high schools, eight junior high schools, and twenty elementary schools.
Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014) was an American movie actress. She was known for her roles in "The Best of Everything" (1959), "Ice Palace" (1960), "Desire in the Dust" (1960), "The Carpetbaggers" (1964), "First Men in the Moon" (1964), "Blood on the Arrow" (1964), "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965), and "The Night of the Grizzly" (1966). Hyer died in Santa Fe, New Mexico from natural causes, aged 89.
Mario Missiroli (13 March 1934 – 19 May 2014) was an Italian stage, television and movie director. He was known for his works "La bella di Lodi" (1963), "Delitto e castigo" (1983) and "Family Portrait" (1962). He was nominated for a Silver Ribbon for his work in "Family Portrait" (1962). Missiroli died in Turin, Italy from an illness, aged 80.
The West Coast Conference (WCC) is a college sports conference (group of sports teams that play against each other) in the western United States. There are many sports in the conference. The conference does not have football, and only one of its current members has a football team. The WCC began in 1952 when five schools in and around the San Francisco Bay Area formed the California Basketball Association. The league was then called the West Coast Athletic Conference from 1956 to 1989. All nine of its current members were founded by churches. Seven of the colleges are Catholic schools. Only the University of the Pacific, which was started by Methodists, no longer gets money from a church. Members. The WCC has 9 members, all located in West Coast states. Two other schools, one in a West Coast state and the other in the inland west, will join in 2025. Gonzaga will leave in 2026 for the Pac-12 Conference. Associate members. The WCC has six "associate members", four of which play one sport in the conference. All are full members of other Division I conferences. The others are Oregon State and Washington State, which were left behind by the collapse of the Pac-12 Conference in 2024. They are housing most of their sports in the WCC through the 2025–26 school year. After that time, the Pac-12 will resume play with at least six new members, among them current WCC member Gonzaga.
Salustiano Sánchez-Blazquez (8 June 1901 – 13 September 2013) was a Spanish-born American supercentenarian. Biography. Born in El Tejado de Bejar, Spain, on 8 June 1901 (he claimed to be born in 1902), Sánchez emigrated to Cuba at age 17 and worked as a farmer, before emigrating in 1920 to the United States where he lived until his death and worked as a coal miner. In 1934, he married Pearl Emilie Chiasera and had the son John and the daughter Irene, whom he lived with after his wife's death in 1988 to 2007 when he moved to a retirement home in Grand Island, New York, and lived there until his death at age 112 years, 97 days, and believed the secret to his long life to be one banana and one tablet of Anacin a day. At age 112, he had 7 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren including Chase, Evan, and Hailey Spurback and Jacob and Ethan Macendrick. World's oldest man. Sanchez became the oldest living man in the United States after Shelby Harris' death on 25 July 2012 and was exactly one year later officially verified to be the oldest living man in the world since 116-year-old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura's death at 2:08 a.m. the night of 12 June 2013 (=1:08 p.m. the afternoon of 11 June 2013 New York Time), which, however, before the verification of Sánchez was believed to be Canadian-born Californian man James McCoubrey (who died of pneumonia on 5 July 2013) followed by Jokichi Ikarashi (who also died of pneumonia just 18 days after McCoubrey) and Italian Arturo Licata who, however, was believed to have become the oldest living man when Sánchez died of natural causes at age 112 years, 97 days on 13 September 2013 (coincidencially on the same day as
Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat video game published by Activision and developed by Luxoflux. It is a spinoff of the 1997 video game "Interstate '76". It was released for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color. A sequel called "" was released in 1999. It was released for the PlayStation on May 31, 1998 in North America, June 26, 1998 in Europe and on November 12, 1998 in Japan. It was also released for the Nintendo 64 on March 29, 1998 in North America and in March 1999 in Europe, as well as the Game Boy Color in December 1999 in North America. Reception. IGN rated the game a 6.0 out of 10 for the Game Boy Color, 8.2 out of 10 for the Nintendo 64 and 8.0 for the PlayStation. GameSpot gave the game a 7.5 out of 10 for the Game Boy Color, 7.9 out of 10 for the Nintendo 64 and 8.0 out of 10 for the PlayStation.
New Lisbon (Hoocąk: Wac'hožura ) is a city in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,748 at the 2020 census.
Ajay Devgan  (born 2 April 1969) is an Indian actor and movie producer. Early life. Vishal Veeru Devgan was born in Amritsar, India on April 2, 1969. He started his career in 1992 film "Phool Aur Kaante". He is a Punjabi and completed his graduation in Mumbai, India. He is married to Kajol and has two children. He is also professionally known as Ajay Devgn. Other films he starred in. After debuting in "Phool Aur Kante", he went on to star in a martial arts film called "Jigar" (1992) and also played a blind man in "Vijaypath" (1994). His subsequent hits include "Suhaag (1994 movie)" (1994), "Dilwale" (1994), "Naajayaz" (1995), "Diljale" (1996), "Jaan" (1996), "Ishq" (1997), "Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha" (1998), and "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" (1999). He garnered Filmfare Best Actor nominations for "Naajayaz" and "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". His performance in "Zakhm" (1998) secured Devgn his first National Film Award for Best Actor. In 2000, Devgn started Ajay Devgn FFilms and produced and headlined the commercially unsuccessful "Raju Chacha". He got a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor nomination for enacting a dacoit in the ensemble film "Lajja" (2001). 2002 proved to be a banner year for Devgn as he received universal acclaim for his performances in "Company", "The Legend of Bhagat Singh" and "Deewangee". He won his second National Award for portraying revolutionary Bhagat Singh in "The Legend of Bhagat Singh" and received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for it and "Company". As the antagonist of "Deewangee", he earned a Filmfare
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community. It is found mainly in the U.S. state of California. Also in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. It is caused by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire.  A chaparral has summer drought-tolerant plants. They have hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves. Chaparral covers 5% of the state of California. Of the associated Mediterranean shrubland, it covers an additional 3.5%. The name comes from the Spanish word "chaparro", referring to scrub oaks. There are four other chaparral regions in the world.  Chaparral does not often have fires. These are usually at intervals from 10–15 years to over a hundred years. Mature chaparral often has dense thickets. They are highly flammable.
Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American actress. Her earlier name was Daisy Juliette Baker. She acted in seven Marx Brothers’s movies and two of Wheeler and Woosley's movies. She played Mrs. Foster in "What a Way to Go!" Dumont played Harriet in "Stop, You're Killing Me". Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died of a heart attack, age eighty-two, in Hollywood, California.
Monetta Eloyse Darnall (also Linda Darnell; October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American actress. She was a model as a child. She played "Amber" in the movie "Forever Amber". She also played Daphne in "Unfaithfully Yours". Darnell was born in Dallas, Texas. She died from fire-related burns in Glenview, Illinois.
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies was the first King of the united Kingdom of the Two Siclies. The Kingdom was created on 12 December 1816 having united the separate crown of Naples and Sicily. He was a member of the House of Bourbon. Before that he had been, since 1759, Ferdinando IV of the Kingdom of Naples and Ferdinando III of the Kingdom of Sicily. He was deposed twice from the throne of Naples. The first time by the French revolutionary armies in 1799 and again by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806. Family. In 1768 he married Maria Carolina of Austria. They had the following children:
Judith Tuvim (later Judy Holliday; June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress. She acted on the stage and in movies. In "Born Yesterday" (both stage and movie versions), she played Billie Dawn. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for this performance. She won a Tony Award for her performance in "Bells are Ringing". Holliday was born in New York City. She also died there from throat cancer, age 43.
r/K selection theory describes the way a species controls its number of offspring.  r-selection species produce many offspring. K-selected species focus on a few. Neither method is in itself superior, and they may occur in the same habitat; e.g., rodents (r-selection) and elephants (K-selection).  The theory was popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but several studies criticized it. The study of life histories has replaced the r/K selection paradigm. The terminology of r/K-selection was coined by the ecologists Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson, based on their work on island biogeography. Study of the evolution of life history strategies actually has a longer history.
Reuven Rivlin (born 9 September 1939) was the 10th President of Israel from 2014 until 2021. Rivlin was born in Jerusalem when it was part of British Mandatory Palestine. Before entering politics he was a lawyer. He was elected to the Jerusalem City Council in 1978. Rivlin worked for El Al Airlines serving on the executive council from 1981 to 1986. He was a member of the Knesset, the parliament of Israel, for many years, elected first in 1988. He was also speaker of the Knesset and minister of Communications of Israel. On 10th of June 2014 he won elections for the post of President of Israel.  Rivlin was married to Nechama Rivlin and has four children.
Marjane Satrapi is a writer and artist. She was born on November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She lives in Paris, France. Satrapi writes comics about her life. She draws the pictures herself. She also draws pictures for other children’s books. Education and Early Life. She was the only child of Marxist parents. Satrapi’s parents were educated, and taught Satrapi to think for herself. She went to high school at Lycee Francais in Tehran, Iran. When she was 14, Satrapi’s parents sent her to Vienna, Austria to learn in a freer country. When Satrapi was 19, she moved back to Iran to study decorative arts at the Tehran School of Fine Arts. The change from the western world to Iran was difficult for her. In 1994, Satrapi moved to Strasbourg, France to study art for 3 years. She now lives in Paris, France. Beliefs. Satrapi thinks countries should not spend money on weapons. She thinks they should spend money for kids to go to school in different countries. She thinks that studying in different countries helps people understand each other better. In RandomHouse.com, Satrapi said, "I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad [other countries]. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though." Writing and the War. Iran's Islamic Revolution against the Shah, the country’s dictator, started in 1979. Satrapi’s uncle was put in prison by the Shah, then murdered by people who supported the war. Satrapi wrote a popular series of comics called "Persepolis". "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood," tells about Satrapi's life, the discrimination she faced, and moving to Europe. She later wrote a sequel to "Persepolis" that talked about how she was treated badly for years when she went back to Iran. Satrapi’s most famous book
Wilma Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete. She lived in Clarksville, Tennessee along with 11 siblings. She was the 5th. When she was 4 years old, she had polio. She survived it, but lost the use of her left leg. Her cousins and siblings helped her massage the leg. When she turned 11 she visited the doctor's office again and was able to walk. In high school, Rudolph became the star basketball player for her team. She also did track for 4 years and never lost a race. When she was 16 years old, she signed up for the Summer Olympics in track. She won the bronze medal in the track events. She was one of the first black women to win anything major like that. She decided to not to compete in the 1964 Olympics. She retired and became a school teacher and an athletic coach. She was a mother of 4 kids and divorced two husbands. She died on November 12, 1994, at the age of 54
Grazing Goat Pictures is an Indian company that makes movies. It was started in 2012. The company was founded by actor Akshay Kumar, his wife Twinkle Khanna and Ashvini Yardi. History. After creating Hari Om Entertainment, Kumar want to make a production company lead by Ashvini Yardi. The company is based in Juhu, Mumbai. Kumar and Yardi produced their first movie "OMG - Oh My God!" with Paresh Rawal's Playtime Creationn. It did not do well when released. As people started talking about it, it did better and became very popular. Debut in Marathi Cinema. Twinkle Khanna and Yardi produced the first Marathi movie, 72 Miles.
Akshay Kumar  (born 9 September 1967) is an Indian film actor, producer and Martial artist. Kumar has appeared in over 100 films in Bollywood. He is based in Mumbai. Kumar is known for his hit movies. Kumar recently dubbed for the "Hindi version" of the movie "". Kumar was the voice actor for the role of Optimus Prime. This is one of the key characters in the film. He did the dubbing role as a gift for his son, Aarav. Optimus Prime was Aarav's favorite character so Kumar did it for free. Kumar was one of the highest paid actor in Bollywood in 2022. He has established himself as a leading contemporary actor in the Hindi cinema. He is also best known for his roles in the Housefull film series. As a production head. In 2009, Kumar started the Hari Om Entertainment production company. In 2012, Kumar launched his next production house Grazing Goat Pictures. Their first production, "OMG! (Oh My God!)", had a slow opening, but because of word of mouth it picked up and then was declared a super hit.
Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong Kong action comedy movie. It was directed, co-written and co-produced by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The other producers were Chui Po-chu and Jeffrey Lau, and the screenplay was co-written with Huo Xin, Chan Man-keung, and Tsang Kan-cheung. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan, Eva Huang and Bruce Leung co-starred in prominent roles. Plot. A failed member of Axe Gang wants to make big in crime world but consequences force him to go on right path
Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment with product development by Sony Interactive Studios America and regular development by SingleTrac. It is the first game in the "Twisted Metal" series. It was released for the PlayStation and on the PlayStation Network. It was released on November 5, 1995 in North America, January 16, 1996 in Europe, and on November 15, 1996 in Japan. It was also released on February 23, 2011 on the PlayStation Network. In the game, there is a competition where opponents face each other with different kinds of modified vehicles. The object of the game is to destroy their vehicles and be the last one standing. The winner meets Calypso, a mysterious man who grants them a wish.  Reception. IGN rated the game a 7 out of 10 and said "The game's only downfall is that it's just too short. The game can be completed in just a couple of hours. However, the two-player split-screen combat mode more than makes up for the one-player mode's lack of length." The game was successful and sold over 1.08 million copies in the United States alone.