The Impossible () is a 2012 English-language Spanish disaster drama movie directed by J. A. Bayona and written by Sergio G. Sánchez. It is based on the experience of María Belón and her family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The cast includes Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland.
The film had positive reviews from critics for its direction and its acting. Watts was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
Max Linder
Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle (16 December 18831 November 1925), known professionally as Max Linder (), was a French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian of the silent film era. He was known aas the "first international movie star" and "the first film star anywhere".
Eli Roth
Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. He is known for directing horror movies, such as "Cabin Fever" (2003) and "Hostel" (2005). He also directed the action movie "Death Wish" (2018), a remake of the 1974 original.
As an actor, Roth starred as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war movie "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), for which he received a Critic's Choice Movie Award and a SAG Award.
Joe Bryant
Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant (born October 19, 1954) is an American retired professional basketball player, current coach, and the father of the former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.
Bryant was the head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks from August 22, 2005, until April 4, 2007. He returned to that position for the remainder of the 2011 WNBA season after Jennifer Gillom was fired by the Los Angeles Sparks on July 10, 2011.
Bryant has also coached in Italy, Japan and Thailand.
Itta Bena, Mississippi
Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census. The town's name comes from the Choctaw phrase "iti bina", meaning "forest camp".
Cefalù Cathedral
The Cathedral of Cefalù () is a Roman Catholic basilica in Cefalù, Sicily. It is one of nine structures included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale.
The cathedral was built in 1131 in the Norman architectural style. The island of Sicily had been conquered by the Normans in 1091. According to tradition, the king of Sicily, Roger II, made a vow to build a cathedral, after he escaped from a storm to land on the city's beach. The building has a fortress-like character and dominates the skyline of the surrounding medieval town. It made a powerful statement of the Norman presence.
The cathedral was built in an area, where peopke had lived for a long time. Today, a Roman road and aearly Christian mosaic show this. Construction began in 1131, the apse mosaics were begun in 1145, and the sarcophagi that Roger II provided for his tomb and that of his wife were put in place the same year. After 1172 the church suffered a period of decline. In 1215 Frederick II of Hohenstaufen moved the two sarcophagi to the Cathedral of Palermo. Construction of the cathedral was resumed soon after, the façade ws completed in 1240. The Cathedral was consecrated in 1267 by Rodolphe de Chevriêres, Bishop of Albano.
In 1472 a portico, by Ambrogio da Como, was added between the two towers of the facade.
Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean ( or "Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien") is the name for five uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean. They are off the African coast, some are close to Madagascar. There is a weather station on some of these islands. They are administered by France, Madagascar claims some of them.
Kazuo Sakurada
, better known as Mr. Sakurada, The Dragonmaster, and as the Japanese version of , was a Japanese professional wrestler. He was best known for his work in Stampede Wrestling, National Wrestling Alliance, and World Championship Wrestling.
On January 11, 2020, Sakurada died at age 71 due to arrhythmia.
James Stockdale
James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years.
He was President of the Naval War College from October 1977 until he retired from the Navy in 1979. As Vice Admiral, Stockdale became the President for The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Stockdale held this position from 1979 to 1980.
Stockdale was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election, on Ross Perot's independent ticket.
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Anne Arundel County (), also notated as AA or A.A. County, is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 537,656. Its county seat is Annapolis.
Miami County, Ohio
Miami County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 102,506. Its county seat is Troy. The county is named for an Indian word of disputed meaning.
Troy, Ohio
Troy is a city in and the county seat of Miami County, Ohio, United States located north of Dayton. The population was 25,058 at the 2010 census.
Clark County, Ohio
Clark County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 138,333. Its county seat is Springfield. The county was created on March 1, 1818. It was named for General George Rogers Clark, a hero of the American Revolution.
Darke County, Ohio
Darke County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,959. Its county seat is Greenville. The county was created in 1809. It is named for William Darke, an officer in the American Revolutionary War.
Matthew Quashie
Vice Admiral Mathew Quashie (23 March 1951 – 9 January 2020) was a Ghanaian naval officer. He was the twenty-ninth Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from 2013 through 2016. He also was the Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy from 3 April 2009 to 28 March 2013. He was born in Accra.
Quashie died at an Accra hospital on 9 January 2020 from an illness at the age of 68.
Lina Ben Mhenni
Lina Ben Mhenni (Arabic: لينا بن مهني) (May 22, 1983 – January 27, 2020) was a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and assistant lecturer. She worked in linguistics at Tunis University.
In January 2011, she covered the early weeks of the Tunisian Revolution from Sidi Bouzid Governorate in the interior of the country. In 2011, Ben Mhenni was reported to have been a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, for her works and activism during the Tunisian Revolution.
Mhenni died on January 27, 2020 of a stroke caused by an autoimmune disease at a hospital in Tunis, aged 36.
Zvi Dershowitz
Zvi Dershowitz (born May 4, 1928) is an Czech-born American rabbi. He is the Rabbi Emeritus at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He helped Iranian Jews who were fleeing their country get entry to the United States in 1979.
In 1973, Dershowitz became associate rabbi at Sinai Temple. He would remain in that role for 25 years before becoming the synagogue's Rabbi Emeritus in 1998.
Dershowitz is related to Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.
Todd Portune
Todd Portune (August 14, 1958 – January 25, 2020) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Cincinnati City Council and as a Hamilton County Commissioner from 2001 through 2019. Portune was known to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 2003, he was diagnosed with spinal cancer. His spinal tumour burst causing paralysis of his legs and his left leg to be amputated. After years in remission, the cancer returned in 2019 and metastasized. He announced his political retirement in September 2019.