The Ryutin Affair began in the summer of 1932 in the Soviet Union. Martemyan Ryutin was a right-wing communist. He wrote a 200 page document called the "Ryutin platform". In it he criticized Joseph Stalin's leadership of the communist party. Twelve or so party members met with Ryutin and read the document. This was in August of 1932. They passed it on to other party members. Stalin thought Ryutin and his friends were trying to have him assassinated. Ryutin was arrested. When Stalin tried to have him executed, he was instead sent to a labor camp for ten years. Every party member who read the document was arrested. In 1933 as many as 800,000 were arrested. In 1934 another 340,000 were sent to camps. This shows that Stalin did not yet have enough power to order Ryutin's execution. But by 1937 things had changed. After a 40 minute trial on 1 January 1937 Ryutin was executed.
Melbourne City FC
Melbourne City F.C. is a soccer club from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the A-League, under licence from Football Federation Australia (FFA).
Mariana Briski
Mariana Marcela Briski (14 September 1965 – 14 August 2014) was an Argentine actress, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and professor. She was known for her roles in "It's Not You, It's Me" (2004), "The Wind" (2005), and "Salsipuedes" (2011). Briski was also known for her television role in "Primicias".
Briski was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She was married to Hernán Ventura from 1988 until her death in 2014. They had one son, Pedro Briski. Briski died from lung cancer and breast cancer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 48. She was of Jewish descent.
Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz (17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014) was a German writer. He has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize.
Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall, AM (born 1 April 1927 in Manchester, England) is an British-Australian horticulturalist, conservationist, author, broadcaster and television personality in Australia. Until the age of 81, Cundall continued to be a presenter of the ABC TV program "Gardening Australia". His last show aired on 26 July 2008.
Zelda Williams
Zelda Rae Williams (born July 31, 1989) is an American actress. She has been acting since 1994. She had appeared in television shows such as "", "Teen Wolf", "" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". She has also been in the movies "Were the World Mine" (2008), "The Frankenstein Brothers" (2010) and "Noobz" (2012).
Williams was born in New York City, New York. She is the daughter of the late comedian and Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams and screenwriter and movie producer Marsha Garces. She has English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, German, French, Filipino and Finnish ancestry. She was named after Princess Zelda of "The Legend of Zelda" video game series. She has lived in Los Angeles, California but now lives in San Francisco.
J. J. Murphy
J. J. Murphy (7 May 1928 – 8 August 2014) was a Northern Irish movie and television actor. He was known for his movie roles in "Cal" (1984), "Angela's Ashes" (1999) and "Dracula Untold" (2014). Murphy became very popular for his role as Ser Denys Mallister in the HBO television series "Game of Thrones". He was born in Belfast.
Murphy died only four days after filming the latest episode of "Game of Thrones" in Belfast from natural causes, aged 86.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
Fergus Falls is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,138 at the 2010 census.
Kluczynski Federal Building
Kluczynski Federal Building (before Chicago Federal Center) is a modernist skyscraper in the downtown Chicago Loop located at 230 South Dearborn Street. The 45-story structure was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1974. It is tall. It holds the offices of both Illinois senators Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin.
Citigroup Center (Chicago)
Citigroup Center is a 42 story, 588-foot (180 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 500 W. Madison (between Clinton and Canal Streets). The structure was designed by the architecture firm Murphy/Jahn in a late modernist style. The building was named the Northwestern Atrium Center. It was constructed between 1984 and 1987.
On 8 December 2006 a man opened fire in a law office located on the 38th floor of the Citigroup Center. Four people, including the gunman, were killed. One person survived.
Jim Henson Pictures
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Central Station (MTR)
Central station is an MTR station. It is located in the Central area of Hong Kong Island. The station's main color is firebrick red. For the Tsuen Wan Line's platform, the main color is dark brown. The station is the southern terminus for the Tsuen Wan Line and also connects with the Island Line, and also the Tung Chung Line and the Airport Express in Hong Kong Station.
The station was once called as Chater Station. Chater Station was built to carry for average daily traffic of 330,000 passengers at first, and was to have been long – one of the longest stations in the world. More than 200,000 passengers use this station every day. The longest distance between two exits is around 700 m.
Sphynx cat
The Sphynx is a breed of cat. It does not have much hair or fur on its body, but it is not truly hairless. The skin is soft because it has a fine layer of down. It may or may not have whiskers. The skin is the color the fur would be. This cat has all the same coat patterns found on other cats, such as a calico or tabby. The pattern is just seen on the Sphynx skin. Because they have no coat, they lose more body heat than cats with fur. This makes them feel warm when touched. They also like to seek sun or warm places because they are naturally cold.
The lack of hair can cause health issues with kittens in the first weeks of life because they can get sick with respiratory infections. Good breeders should not let their kittens go to new homes without being at least 14 weeks of age. This is to make sure the kitten is mature enough to cope in a new environment.
The Sphynx was not the first hairless domestic cat. Some were seen in other places around the world for at least 90 years.
The Sphynx breed began in 1966, in Toronto, when a hairless kitten, named Prune, was born to a black and white shorthair cat, named Elizabeth, in Ontario, Canada. The kitten was mated with its mother, so one more naked kitten was born. Along with a few naked kittens found later, the hairless breed began.
A natural birth of a Sphynx cat happened on a Minnesota farm. The owners found hairless kittens in several litters of their domestic shorthair barn cats in the mid-1970s. Two hairless female kittens born in 1975 and 1976, named Epidermis and Dermis, were also an important part of developing the breed. More hairless cats were found in Texas, Arkansas, and Minnesota. So, the modern Sphynx breed began with the Canadian cats and the Minnesota cats.
The first breeders did not know much about cat genetics and they had some problems. The gene pool was small and many kittens died. Many of the females had seizures.
Sphynxes are friendly and not shy. They have a lot of energy, intelligence, curiosity, and love for their owners. They are one of the more dog-like breeds of cats. They run and greet their owners at the door and are friendly when meeting strangers.
Even though Sphynx cats do not have a coat to be brushed, they do need a bath once a week to wash off oils that get on their skin. They should not be left outside and need to be an indoor cat. First, sunlight can give them a sunburn. Secondly, they cannot keep warm when outside, so some owners dress them in warm clothes in the winter.
Shooting of Michael Brown