Joachim Holmboe Rønneberg, DSO (30 August 1919 – 21 October 2018) was a Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He was known for his resistance work during World War II. He commanded Operation Gunnerside.
Rønneberg reported for national service in 1938, being told to report for duty with the surveying department in 1940.
Rønneberg died on 21 October 2018 at the age of 99.
The Curse of La Llorona
The Curse of La Llorona is an American supernatural horror movie. It was directed by Michael Chaves. It was written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. James Wan produced the movie. It stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velásquez, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas and Tony Amendola as Father Perez.
This movie is the sixth installment in "The Conjuring Universe". It is based on the Mexican folk tale La Llorona.
The movie was released on April 19, 2019 by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.
Linda Cardellini
Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for playing Lindsay Weir on "Freaks and Geeks" (1999–2000), Samantha Taggart on "ER" (2003–09), and Meg Rayburn on "Bloodline" (2015–17).
Cardellini is also known for her role as Velma Dinkley in the "Scooby-Doo" live-action movie series (2002–04).
Cardellini's voice work includes the animated television series' "Regular Show" (2012–15), "Gravity Falls" (2012–16), and "Sanjay and Craig" (2013–16).
Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding that his death sentence be carried out for two murders he committed in Utah. Due to a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, Gilmore was the first person executed in the United States after a ten-year span during which no executions were carried out in the country. Gilmore is also the last person in the United States to request to be executed by firing squad and have their request granted (meaning the combination of the two; other people have requested to be executed by firing squad in the United States since then).
Immediately before his execution, Gilmore observed the Last Rites with a Catholic priest; he had converted to the Catholic Church.
Srebrenica massacre
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide (), was the July 1995 genocide Bosniaks, mainly military aged men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. The killings were done by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of Ratko Mladić. 8,373 people were killed in the massacre.
In 2005, Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, described the mass murder as the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War.
In July 2015, Russia vetoed a UN resolution that would have condemned the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide.
Bob Dornan
Robert Kenneth Dornan (born April 3, 1933) is an American politician, actor and radio personality. He was the Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 27th, 38th and 46th congressional districts from 1977 to 1983 and again from 1985 to 1997.
Dornan was born in New York City to a Roman Catholic family. He studied at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In 1952, he joined the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot. In 1955, he married Sallie Hansen. They have five children.
Dornan also served as a combat journalist and photographer on several missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the Vietnam War and flew relief flights into Biafra. He was on active duty until 1958, and attained the rank of Captain. He was in the California Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve until 1975.
Dornan ran for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 1996 election, but lost the nomination to Kansas United States Senator Bob Dole. Dornan also lost his House re-election in 1996 to Loretta Sanchez by 979 votes.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dornan hosted the "Bob Dornan Show", a radio talk show syndicated nationally by Talk Radio Network.
In 2004, Dornan ran again for the House against incumbent Dana Rohrabacher, but lost in a landslide.
His grandson was actor Miguel Ferrer.
Dornan took an active role in the civil rights movement. He took part in the historic 1963 March on Washington led by Martin Luther King Jr. The following year he helped register African Americans to vote in Mississippi.
Dornan was also an actor and had a recurring role as Captain Fowler on ABC's "Twelve O'Clock High" television series and smaller roles on ABC's "Bewitched" and NBC's "I Dream of Jeannie".
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Mr. June
Mr. June is a nickname that may refer to:
I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom. It stars Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master. They fall in love and later get married. It is produced by Screen Gems. It also stars Bill Daily and Hayden Rorke.
The show originally aired from September 18, 1965 to May 26, 1970 with new episodes, and through September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC. The show ran for five seasons and produced 139 episodes.
Hayden Rorke
William Henry Rorke (October 23, 1910 – August 19, 1987) was an American actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was best known for playing Colonel Dr. Alfred E. Bellows on the 1960s American sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie".
Rorke died on August 19, 1987 at his home in Toluca Lake, California of multiple myeloma at the age of 76.
In a 2011 memoir by "Jeannie" co-star Barbara Eden revealed that Rorke was "unashamed to be gay" and that they were close friends.
Allelopathy
Allelopathy is a biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or more biochemicals that influence the germination, growth, survival, and reproduction of other organisms.
Lake Rotorua
Lake Rotorua is a large shallow lake in the North Island of New Zealand.
The lake was formed from the crater of a large volcano. Its last major eruption was about 240,000 years ago. After the eruption, the magma chamber underneath the volcano collapsed. The circular depression left behind is the Rotorua Caldera, the site of the lake. Several other lakes of volcanic origin are nearby to the east around the active volcano Mount Tarawera.
The lake is large, 79.8 km, but its mean depth is only 10 metres. It is in the Bay of Plenty region. The city of Rotorua is on its southern shore, and the town of Ngongotaha is at the western edge of the lake.
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group L
Group L of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament will be one of the 12 groups to decide the teams which qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group consists of four teams: Cape Verde, Uganda, Tanzania, and Lesotho.
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Gibberish
Gibberish is language that is (or appears to be) nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words.
Jane Barnell
Jane Barnell (previously O'Boyle) (January 3, 1871– Unknown) was an American bearded lady who worked in circus sideshows, dime museums and carnivals. A trapeze artist and commercial photographer, who used various stage names including Madame Olga, Lady Olga and Lady Olga Roderick. In her only film role in Tod Browning's cult classic "Freaks", using her sideshow stage name Olga Roderick, she was billed as the "Bearded Lady".