Lake converted from Christianity to Judaism.
Stuart McLean
Andrew Stuart McLean, OC (April 19, 1948 – February 15, 2017) was a Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author. He was best known as the host of the CBC Radio program "The Vinyl Cafe".
He was often called as a "story-telling comic". He had written many serious stories. He was known for his voice and his ability to change his popular stories to make them different on every show.
McLean was diagnosed with melanoma in November 2015. He died on February 15, 2017 from the disease in Toronto, aged 68.
Peter Simonischek
Peter Simonischek (born 6 August 1946) is an Austrian movie and stage actor. He has appeared in more than sixty movies since 1980.
Simonischek is known for his role as Winfried Conradi/Toni Erdmann in the 2016 movie "Toni Erdmann". He won the European Film Award for Best Actor and was nominated for a London Critics Circle Film Awards for Best Actor and a Toronto Film Critics Association Awards for Best Actor.
Bruce Lansbury
William Bruce Mageean Lansbury (12 January 1930 – 13 February 2017) was an English-American television producer. His career lasted over 30 years, starting from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was known for producing many famous television shows such as "The Wild Wild West", "", "Knight Rider" and "Murder, She Wrote".
Lansbury was born in London. He was the grandson of former Labour Party leader George Lansbury. He was the younger brother of actress Angela Lansbury. He became a citizen of the United States in 1954.
His career began in 1953, but became frequent in the 1960s. He retired officially in 1996, but returned to write a screenplay for a TV movie about "Murder, She Wrote" in 2003.
Lansbury served as producer of 69 episodes of "The Wild Wild West", from 1966-69, and 38 episodes of "", from 1969-1972. Lansbury served as producer of "Wonder Woman", "Knight Rider" and executive producer for the science fiction series "The Fantastic Journey".
His name appears in the closing credits of "The Brady Bunch", "Happy Days" and "The Odd Couple" as "Vice President of Creative Affairs" for Paramount Television.
Lansbury served as producer of 88 episodes of "Murder, She Wrote", starring his sister, Angela. He was also a writer for 15 episodes of the show.
Lansbury died on 13 February 2017 at his home in La Quinta, California from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.
Pete McCloskey
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey, Jr. (born September 29, 1927) is an American politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing California from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon.
In April 2007, McCloskey switched his affiliation to the Democratic Party. He is a decorated United States Marine Corps veteran of combat during the Korean War, being awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, and two awards of the Purple Heart.
Jenny Slate
Jennifer Sarah "Jenny" Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American, actress, voice actress and author.
She is best known for her role as Donna Stern in "Obvious Child", as well as being the co-creator of the "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" short movies and children's book series.
She is also known for her season as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 2009 to 2010 and for her appearances in shows such as "House of Lies", "Married", "Parks and Recreation", "Bob's Burgers", "Hello" "Ladies", "Kroll Show", and "Girls and Star vs. the forces of evil as Pony Head."
In 2017, she voiced Harley Quinn in "The Lego Batman Movie".
Slate was born in Milton, Massachusetts. She studied at Milton Academy and Columbia University. In 2012, Slate married Dean Fleischer-Camp. They separated in 2016.
Grant Hackett
Grant George Hackett (born 9 May 1980) is a former Australian swimmer. He is best known for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He retired after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Hackett was born in Southport of the Gold Coast, Queensland. He was married to singer Candice Alley from 2007 to 2013. The couple have twin children, born in 2009.
Aoi festival
The Aoi Festival or Aoi Matsuri (葵祭) is one of Kyoto's three most famous festivals (along with the Gion Festival and Jidai Matsuri) and takes place every May 15. The festival's main attraction is a large parade in Kyoto, in which over 500 people dressed in the aristocratic style of the Heian Period (794-1185) walk from the Imperial Palace to the Kamo Shrines. Aoi is Japanese for Hollyhock, and the festival is named after the Hollyhock leaves that are worn by the members of the procession.
Predating Kyoto's establishment as the national capital in 794, the Aoi Matsuri began in the 7th century, although its precise origins are uncertain. There were most likely natural disasters occurring that were believed to be caused by the deities of the Kamo Shrines. After the Emperor made offerings to the gods, the disasters subsided and a tradition was begun. The festival's official name remains Kamo Matsuri, because of its association with the shrines.
The festival grew in prominence so that during the Heian Period the word festival became synonymous with the Aoi Matsuri. Nowadays, the massive procession illustrates the high regard in which the festival would have been held. There are men on horseback, giant bouquets of flowers, ornately decorated ox drawn carts, and a large retinue of women in kimono accompanying the year's Saio.
Traditionally, the Saio was a young female member of the imperial family who was the high priestess of the Kamo Shrines. During festivals, the Saio performed rituals at the shrines. In the modern era, a different unmarried woman from Kyoto is selected each year to be Saio. She must go through purification ceremonies before the festival, and is taken through the procession on a palanquin.
Pointer aliasing (computer programming)
Pointer aliasing is where two or more pointers reference the same memory location. It can cause issues with optimizing compilers.
Stećak
Stećak (Стећак, ; plural: Stećci, Стећци, ) are monumental tombstones made in medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Stecci are relared to the Vlachs who lived in the Dinaric Alps of Herzegovina since the Middle Ages. Most of the Stecci were created after the X century and until the Turk invasion of the Balkans. According to the scholar Wenzel the Stecci are the clear evidence of the existence of a romance territory in the area between Italy and Romania, that now has disappeared.
The tombstones are mostly in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a smaller amount in the border area of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. About 60,000 are found within the territory of the modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The rest of 10,000 are found in what are today Croatia (4,400), Montenegro (3,500), and Serbia (4,100). The stećak are at more than 3,300 odd sites with over 90% in poor condition.
Alderman
An alderman is a politician in local government, sometimes referred as an "deputy mayor". Together with the mayor aldermen govern municipalities.
Aldermen are usually chosen by the people of a municipality or by the municipal council.
Vernayaz
Vernayaz is a municipality in the district Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Vérossaz
Vérossaz is a municipality in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Aussays, Bassays, La Doey and Vésenau
Šibovi (Kotor Varoš)
Šibovi (Шибови) is a settlement in the Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska entity, Kotor Varoš Municipality.
According the data on Census Year of 1991, in this poulated place leaved 671 cititens.
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