Hardin County was founded in 1839 and named for Hardin County, Kentucky, which was named in honor of Colonel John Hardin, an officer in the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War.
Bentley, Illinois
Bentley is a town of Illinois in the United States.
Burke County
Burke County is the name of three counties in the United States:
Bill Nunn
William Goldwyn "Bill" Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's movie "Do the Right Thing" and Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi "Spider-Man" movie trilogy. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Nunn died of leukemia at his home in Pittsburgh's Hill District on September 24, 2016, aged 62.
Lincoln County
Lincoln County is the name of twenty-three counties in the United States, mostly named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.
Henderson County, Illinois
Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 7,331 people lived there. The county seat is Oquawka.
Henderson County
Henderson County is the name of five counties in the United States:
Henderson County, Texas
Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 78,532 people lived there. The county seat is Athens.
Henry County, Illinois
Henry County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 50,486 people lived there. The county seat is Cambridge.
Iroquois County, Illinois
Iroquois County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 29,718 people lived there. The county seat is Watseka. It is along the border with Indiana.
Effingham County
Effingham County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Stephen Darby
Stephen Mark Darby (born 6 October 1988) is a former English professional footballer. He played as a right-back.
Darby was a youth player for Liverpool. As a Liverpool squad player, he was loaned to Swindon Town, Notts County and Rochdale. He then signed for Bradford City, reaching the 2013 Football League Cup Final in his first season. He made 239 appearances for Bradford before signing for Bolton Wanderers in July 2017. Darby retired from professional football in September 2018 after being told he had motor neurone disease.
Darby was born in Liverpool. He grew up in Maghull, Merseyside. His wife, Steph Houghton, is a professional women's footballer who captains Manchester City Women and the England women's national team.
Jackson County, Illinois
Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 60,218 people lived there. The county seat is Murphysboro.
Johnny Owen
John Richard Owens (7 January 1956 – 4 November 1980), better known as Johnny Owen, was a Welsh professional boxer. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He was nicknamed "The Merthyr Matchstick" (after his hometown and size) and "The Matchstick Man" (also after his size). He turned pro in 1976. He boxed as a bantamweight. He held the bantamweight championship titles in Great Britain and Europe. Before his final bout, he had a record of 25 wins (11 by knockout), one loss and one draw. Owen's only loss was against Spaniard Juan Francisco Rodríguez in 1979. He later beat Rodríguez in rematch in February 1980.
On 19 September 1980, Owen went up against Mexican Lupe Pintor at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. He fought hard but was knocked out by Pintor in the 12th round, giving victory to the Mexican. Despite surgery, Owen went into a coma and never regained consciousness. He died seven weeks later on 4 November 1980, at the age of 24.
McGriddles
McGriddles are a type of breakfast sandwich sold by McDonald's. Introduced in 2003, it is available in the following markets: United States, Turkey, Canada, Poland, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Zealand (for a short period of time).
The standard McGriddles sandwich consists of fried bacon, a scrambled egg flap, and American cheese served on a small pancake made with maple flavoring. Both the top and bottom pancakes are embossed with the McDonald's logo.
Lake Lugano
Lake Lugano is a Swiss-Italian lake.
It is at the border between Switzerland and Italy. About 2/3 of the lake is in Switzerland, and 1/3 in Italy. The lake, named after the city of Lugano, is between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como.
Jasper County, Illinois
Jasper County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 9,698 people lived there. The county seat is Newton.
Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He was best known for his writings about technology and movie culture. He was born in Paris. He was best known for his book "War and Cinema" (1989).
Virilio died of a heart attack on 10 September 2018 in Paris, aged 88.
Albrecht Wellmer
Albrecht Wellmer (9 July 1933 – 13 September 2018) was a German philosopher. He worked at the Freie Universität Berlin. Wellmer was born in Bergkirchen, Germany.
He was an assistant to Jürgen Habermas at the University of Frankfurt from 1966 to 1970. He has held Professorships at the Universität Konstanz, the New School for Social Research and at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Wellmer died on 13 September 2018 at the age of 85.
Alan Abel
Alan Irwin Abel (August 2, 1924 – September 14, 2018) was an American prankster, hoaxer, writer, and mockumentary filmmaker. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio.
From 1966 to 1967 Abel wrote a weekly syndicated humor column "The Private World of Prof. Bunker C. Hill" that appeared in the "San Francisco Chronicle" and several other newspapers. Following the Watergate scandal, Abel hired an actor to pose as Deep Throat for a press conference in New York City before 150 reporters.
In 1959, Abel started his most elaborate hoax. He appeared on a national TV show as a representative of the "Society for Indecency to Naked Animals" (SINA). SINA's mission was to put clothes on naked animals. Their slogan was: "A nude horse is a rude horse". An actor appeared on television and radio several times, including the CBS Evening News on August 21, 1962. The hoax began as a satire of media censorship, but soon people started sending financial contributions to the organization. (The organization returned the money.) Other people started making official citizen complaints against people for walking naked dogs. Some people started selling clothes for the naked animals.
In 1979, Abel staged his own death from a heart attack near a famous ski resort. A fake funeral director collected his belongings and a woman posing as his widow notified The New York Times. The Times published an obituary January 2, 1980. On January 3, 1980, Abel held a news conference to announce that the "reports of my demise have been grossly exaggerated."
In 1985, Abel organized a TV hoax on The Phil Donahue Show. On that day's program, seven members of the audience appeared to faint during the broadcast, which was seen live on TV. Donahue, the show's host, thought the fainting was caused by both stress from being on television and an overheated studio on a morning that was cold and snowy outside. He cleared the studio of audience members and then resumed the show. It turned out the fainting "spell" was invented by Abel as a protest against bad-quality television.
"Omar's School for Beggars' was a fake school for professional panhandlers. As Omar, Abel was invited to many national television talk shows. He often made the TV hosts angry when he his lunch on camera. The hoax was a satirical commentary on the rise of unemployment and homelessness in the U.S.
In 1993, when euthanasia was a big topic in the news, Abel set up the fake Florida company "Euthanasia Cruises", which would offer cruises allowing suicidal participants to jump into the ocean after three days of partying.