She has been nominated several times for a Blues Music Award, and in 2006 was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame. The same year her ensemble was voted the Best Blues Band in "The Austin Chronicle" Music Awards.
Downe
Downe is a village in the London Borough of Bromley. Charles Darwin lived there with his family after the HMS "Beagle" trip.
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
Stanisław Paweł Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski (; October 3, 1923 – February 21, 2017) was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.
Skrowaczewski was born in Lwów (then in Poland, now in Ukraine). Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served as artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He received the Commander Order of the White Eagle.
Skrowaczewski died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 21, 2017, aged 93.
Joseph Blatchford
Joseph Blatchford (born June 7, 1934) was the third Director of the United States Peace Corps. Blatchford was appointed Peace Corps Director in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. He retired 1971.
Blatchford was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Beverly Hills, California.
Steve Hewlett (journalist)
Steve Hewlett (8 August 1958 – 20 February 2017) was a British print and radio journalist. He served as visiting professor of Journalism and Broadcast Policy at the University of Salford. He worked for the BBC and The Guardian and for programs such as "Nationwide" and "Watchdog".
Hewlett died in London from oesophageal cancer on 20 February 2017, aged 58.
Desmond Connell
Desmond Connell (24 March 1926 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He was an Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.
Cardinal Connell was one of a number of senior clergy to have been heavily criticized for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin.
Anthony Downs
Anthony Downs (; born November 21, 1930) is an American economist. He specialized in public policy and public administration. He has been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., since 1977.
Before 1977, Downs served for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation. He also served as a Senior Analyst at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the University of Chicago.
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist. He won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be thought as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Selten was professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Selten, who was partly Jewish, died on 23 August 2016 in Poznań, Poland, aged 85.
Sex industry
Sex industry, other names: "adult industry" or "porn industry", is a (business) activity that is dealing with sexual entertainment, like pornography, prostitution etc.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand actress. She started her career in 2001.
Castle-Hughes was born in Donnybrook, Western Australia. Her mother is Māori and her father is an Australian. She moved to New Zealand at the age of one. She grew up in Auckland. She became a New Zealand citizen in 2001. She was four younger siblings, Rhys, Liam, Maddisyn and Quade.
Castle-Hughes is best known for her role as Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the movie "Whale Rider" (2002). For this she was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the youngest person to be nominated for the award at the time. She has also appeared in the movies "" (2005), "Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger" (2008) and "Red Dog" (2011). On television, she has appeared in "The Walking Dead", "Game of Thrones" and "".
Castle-Hughes and Bradley Hull, her partner from 2003 to 2010, have a daughter, Felicity-Amore Hull (born 25 April 2007). She was married to Jonathan Morrison from 2013 to 2016. She has bipolar disorder.
Taulupe Faletau
Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau (born 12 November 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player. He plays as a back row forward. He has played over sixty times for Wales since 2011. For club, he played for Cross Keys RFC and Newport RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons. He has played for Bath Rugby since 2016.
Faletau was born in Tofoa, Tonga. His father is Tongan international Kuli Faletau. He grew up in Pontypool, Wales.
Dana International
Dana International, Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל , stage name of "Sharon Cohen", Hebrew: שרון כהן , (born as "Yaron Cohen" on February 2, 1972 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pop singer and transsexual.
Dana International won the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with the song "Diva".
Steve Gleason
Stephen Michael Gleason (born March 19, 1977) is a former American football player. He played mainly as a safety. He played for the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) between 2000 and 2007. He was best known for blocking a punt in 2006, which became a symbol of recovery for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2019, Gleason was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Gleason was born in Spokane, Washington. He is married to Michel Rae Varisco. Their son, Rivers, was born in October 2011. He has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Francis Pollet
Francis Pollet (born at Roubaix, 5 May 1964) is a French General officer. From March 2017, he is the director-general of the "Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées" (French private aerospace university).
Pollet graduated from the École de l'Air in 1985. He started his career as fighter pilot and corporate pilot for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac. He worked in human resources and operational activities. In 2003, he joined higher education as head of École de l'Air at Salon-de-Provence. In March 2017, he became head of the "Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées".
Chifley Tower
The Chifley Tower is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the 11th tallest building in Australia.
Florac Trois Rivières
Florac Trois Rivières is a French commune, a "subprefecture" of the Lozère department, in the Occitanie region. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Florac.
The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 when the former "communes" of Florac and La Salle-Prunet were combined to form the new "commune".
Florac Trois Rivières is in the valley of the Tarnon river, a small river that flows through the Lozère department before joining the Tarn river. The "commune" is found at the start of the Gorges du Tarn (a canyon formed by the Tarn river).
The city and the Tarnon valley are within the Cévennes National Park but they are not part of the park.
The "commune" of Florac Trois Rivières has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" is surrounded by the "communes" Quézac, Bédouès-Cocurès, Pont de Montvert - Sud Mont Lozère, Cans et Cévennes, Vebron and Montbrun.
The climate in Florac Trois Rivières in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
, Florac Trois Rivières had 2,107 inhabitants for a density of persons/km.
The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as "Floracois" (women: "Floracoises").
Florac Trois Rivières is twinned with:
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth F.C.
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Football Club, Hebrew: מכבי אחי נצרת - Mo'adon Kaduregel Maccabi Aḥi Natzrat, Arabic: نادي كرة القدم اخاء الناصرة - Nade Korat Alqadam Maccabi Ekhaa Al-Nasera) is an Israeli football club in Nazareth.
The club was established in 1968 and plays in the Liga Leumit.
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