Dorothea Warren O'Hara
Dorothea Warren O'Hara (August 31, 1873 - May 1972) was an American ceramic artist who won the Lifetime Membership Prize from the National Arts Club and a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. She was president of the Keramic Society of Greater New York and president of the New York National Society of Craftsmen.
She was born as Dorothea Warren on August 31, 1873 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1915 she won the Lifetime Membership Prize from the National Arts Club and a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. In 1923 she published "The Art of Enameling on Porcelain". She died in May 1972 in Delray Beach, Florida.
He works are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo.
Bill Erwin
William Lindsey "Bill" Erwin (December 2, 1914 – December 29, 2010) was an American movie, stage and television actor with over 250 television and movie credits. As a veteran character actor, he was widely known for his role of Sid Fields on "Seinfeld" – for which he received an Emmy nomination – as well his appearances on shows such as "I Love Lucy" and "".
Cello Suites (Bach)
The Six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most often performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. They were most likely composed during the period 1717–1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Köthen. The title of Anna Magdalena Bach's manuscript was "Suites á Violoncello Solo senza Basso".
The suites have been performed and recorded by many famous cellists; like Mstislav Rostropovich, Emanuel Feuermann, Pierre Fournier, Jacqueline du Pré, Paul Tortelier, André Navarra, Yo-Yo Ma, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mischa Maisky, János Starker, Anner Bijlsma or Heinrich Schiff. Yo-Yo Ma won the 1985 Best Instrumental Soloist Grammy Award for his bestselling album "Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites".
Suicide Squad (movie)
Suicide Squad is an American superhero movie based on the DC Comics team of the same name.
The movie was written and directed by David Ayer. It starred a cast featuring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, and Viola Davis with Ben Affleck as Batman and Ezra Miller as The Flash.
By February 2009, a "Suicide Squad" movie was being made at Warner Bros. Pictures. David Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014 and by October the casting process had begun. Principal photography began on April 13, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year. The film was released on August 5, 2016 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.
A sequel, titled "The Suicide Squad", will be released in August 2021.
Black Mass (movie)
Black Mass is a 2015 American crime movie directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth. It is based on the 2001 book "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob" by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
The movie stars Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Dakota Johnson, and Corey Stoll.
The movie is about the criminal career of infamous Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger (Depp). The movie was released to positive reviews on September 18, 2015.
Marcin Wrona
Marcin Wrona (25 March 1973 – 19 September 2015) was a Polish director and screenwriter. His movies "The Christening" and "Demon" were both shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2010 and 2015, respectively.
Wrona was born in Tarnów. His wife, Olga Szymanska, served as a producer for "Demon".
Wrona was found dead hanging on 19 September 2015 at a hotel room in Gdynia. He was 42. His death was ruled a suicide.
Farhang Mehr
Farhang Mehr (11 December 1923 – 4 March 2018) was an American political scientist, academic and researcher, and former Iranian politician. He was a Zoroastrian.
Mehr was born in a Zoroastrian family in Tehran. His father, Mehraban, was from the province of Kerman, and migrated to Tehran when he was 14 years old. He went on to become Chief Accountant in the Iranian Parliament.
He joined the National Iranian Oil Company. He was the head of the Department of International Contracts and Industrial Relations.
He was then nominated by the prime minister to serve as the Minister of Finance. However, he could not become a minister under Iran’s constitutional law which preserved the ministerial posts for Muslims only.
Mehr’s last position in Iran, prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, was president of Pahlavi University in Shiraz. During his presidency, the university became internationally known for its academic excellence .
In 1981, two years after the establishment of the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran, Mehr migrated to the United States. There he joined Boston University as Professor of International Relations.
Mehr died on 4 March 2018 at the age of 94.
Girl (album)
Girl is the second studio album by American rapper and record producer Pharrell Williams. The album was released on March 3, 2014, through Williams' label i Am Other and Columbia Records. "Girl" was Williams' first studio album since his debut studio album, "In My Mind" (2006).
"Girl" received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Il racconto della nonna
Il racconto della nonna (The Tale of the Grandmother) is a musical composition by Giulio Ricordi. Are the seven pieces for piano, is a look at the adult world of childhood, that a true collection of pieces for children.
Yoram Gross
Yoram Jerzy Gross (18 October 1926 – 21 September 2015) was an Australian producer of children's and family entertainment. His company, Flying Bark Productions, is best known for producing the movies "Dot and the Kangaroo" (1977) and "Blinky Bill" (1992).
Gross was born in Kraków, Poland to Jewish parents. His brother was screenwriter, director and producer Natan Gross (1919–2005). In 1950, he moved to Israel. He later moved to Australia in 1968 with his wife and young family.
Gross died in 21 September 2015 in Sydney, New South Wales, aged 88.
Isaac Isaacs
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (6 June 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian judge and politician. He served as the Chief Justice of Australia from 2 April 1930 until 21 January 1931. He also served as the 9th, and first Australian-born, Governor-General from 21 January 1931 until 23 January 1936.
Isaacs was born in Melbourne, Victoria. His parents, German-born Alfred Isaacs and English-born Rebecca Abrahams, were Jewish immigrants. He was married to Deborah "Daisy" Jacobs () from 1888 until Isaacs' death. He had two daughters. He was strongly against Zionism.
Isaacs died after an illness on 11 February 1948 in South Yarra, Melbourne, aged 92. He was given a state funeral and was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery after a synagogue service.
Armen Movsisyan
Armen Movsisyan ; 13 January 1962 – 21 September 2015) was an Armenian politician. He was the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources from 18 April 2001 until 30 April 2014. He was born in Kapan.
Movsisyan died from cancer on 21 September 2015 in Germany, aged 53.
Ahmed Mohamed clock incident
Ahmed Mohamed is a 14-year-old student who was arrested in Irving, Texas in September 2015. The arrest happened after a teacher, and later the police mistook a clock he had taken apart for a hoax bomb. His arrest caused a huge controversy.
US President Barack Obama invited him to The White House. President Obama and others complimented Mohamed for his inventive nature. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Hillary Rodham Clinton also gave him support.
His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, ran in the election for President of Sudan in 2010 and 2015. The elder Mohamed is the director of the Islamic Sufi Center in Texas.
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