During late 1891, Hearn started teaching in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, at the Fifth Higher Middle School. He worked there for three years and completed his book "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" (1894). In October 1894, he got a job as a journalist with the English-language newspaper "Kobe Chronicle". In 1896, he began teaching English literature at Tokyo Imperial University. He taught there until 1903. In 1904, he became a professor at Waseda University.
On 26 September 1904, he died of heart failure. He was 54 years old. His grave is at the Zōshigaya Cemetery in Toshima, Tokyo.
In the late 19th century, Westerners knew little about Japan. However, the Exposition Universelle of 1900 made Japanese styles fashionable in Western countries. So, Hearn became well-known because of his books about Japan. Later, some critics said Hearn made Japan seem too exotic. But, he gave the West some of its first descriptions of pre-industrial and Meiji Era Japan, so his work has value.
Source:
Trilingual Book: Greek, English tr. Constantine Fourakis, Japanese tr. Ban'ya Natsuishi
Kevin Austin
Kevin Levi Austin (12 February 1973 – 23 November 2018) was an English-born Trinidadian professional footballer. He worked as a youth team coach for Scunthorpe United.
As a player, he was a defender from 1992 until 2012. He played over 100 league matches each for Leyton Orient, Lincoln City and Swansea City. He also played in the Football League for Barnsley, Brentford, Cambridge United, Bristol Rovers and Chesterfield.
Austin also played Non-League football for Saffron Walden Town, Kettering Town, Darlington and Boston United.
Austin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2018. He died on 23 November 2018 from the disease at the age of 45.
Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, movie director, movie producer, writer and audiobook narrator. In 2008, Byrne won a Golden Globe Award.
In movies, he is known for his roles in "Excalibur" (1981), "Miller's Crossing" (1990), "The Usual Suspects" (1995), "Stigmata" (1999), "End of Days" (1999), "Spider" (2002), "Jindabyne" (2006), "Vampire Academy" (2014) and "The 33" (2015).
Byrne co-wrote "The Last of the High Kings" (1996). Byrne has also produced several movies, including the Academy Award–nominated "In the Name of the Father" (1993).
In television, Byrne is known for his role as Paul Weston in the HBO drama "In Treatment" (2008–2011).
Reg Smythe
Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998), known by his professional name Reg Smythe, was a British cartoonist. He created the popular, long-running "Andy Capp" comic strip.
Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. The pancreas is a large organ behind the stomach that produces digestive enzymes and a number of hormones.
There are two main types, acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis. Signs and symptoms of pancreatitis include pain in the upper abdomen, nausea and vomiting. The pain often goes into the back and is usually severe.
The most common causes of acute pancreatitis are gallstones and heavy alcohol use.
Democratic Governors Association
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Washington, D.C. based 527 organization. It started in 1983. Members are U.S. state and territorial governors who are also members of the Democratic Party.
The mission of the organization is to create party support to the election and re-election of Democratic governors. There is a similar Republican organization called the Republican Governors Association. The DGA is not directly connected with the non-partisan National Governors Association.
42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, was leader of the DGA in 1988.
The current leader of the association is Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy since 2019.
These people have been leaders of the DGA: John Connally, Zell Miller, Marvin Mandel, Dale Bumpers, Wendell H. Ford, Wendell Anderson, Reubin Askew, Philip W. Noel, Patrick Lucey, Brendan Byrne, Jim Hunt, Jerry Brown, Richard Riley, Dick Celeste, Michael Dukakis, Evan Bayh, Howard Dean, Tom Vilsack, Bill Richardson, Kathleen Sebelius, Dannel Malloy, and Jay Inslee.
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Mitzi Hoag (born Margaret Hoag; September 25, 1932 – February 26, 2019) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 73 different TV shows and movies. Her best known roles are in "We'll Get By", "Bonanza", "Here Come the Brides", "The Facts of Life" and "The Partridge Family".
Hoag died on February 26, 2019 in Sherman Oaks, California, aged 86.
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A cation is an ion with fewer electrons than protons. Therefore, it has a positive charge.
The electric charge on a proton is equal in amount to the charge on an electron. So, the total electric charge on an ion is the number of protons in the ion minus the number of electrons.
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The cemetery was founded as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s and was renamed with current name in 1926.
Although it is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names, it also contains the graves of many uncelebrated people. For example, when Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Joe DiMaggio, responsible for Monroe's arrangements, chose Westwood not because of its celebrities but because it was the resting place of Monroe's mother's friend, Grace Goddard, and Goddard's aunt, Ana Lower, both of whom had cared for Monroe as a child.
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The shows are dubbed into French, Japanese, English, Thai, German, Dutch, Malay, Arabic, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages dubbed and shown around the world.
Marathon Media Group was acquired by Zodiak Entertainment in 2008 and renamed Marathon Media. In February 2016 Zodiak Entertainment merged with the Banijay Group.
Marathon Media has subsequently been renamed Zodiak Kids Studio France.
Procoptodon
Procoptodon is a genus of giant short-faced kangaroo living in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch.
"P. goliah" was the largest kangaroo known to have existed. It stood about tall. They weighed about . Other members of the genus were smaller. "Procoptodon gilli" was the smallest of the genus, only about tall.
They were browsers, not grazers like kangaroos today. They ate leaves from trees and shrubs. Their weight makes it likely that they did not hop as their relatives do today. A combination of climate change (cooling and shrinking of forest areas) would have reduced their natural habitat. Predation (hunting) by aboriginal humans probably happened.
Saltbushes were their main food source, so "Procoptodon goliah" relied on free-standing water to help process its salt-laden diet.
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