Anthony Edward Tudor Browne (born 11 September 1946, in Sheffield) is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, mainly picture books, with nearly forty titles to his name. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2000. From 2009 to 2011 he was Children's Laureate.
Alexa Bliss
Alexis Kaufman (born August 9, 1991) is an American professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE. She is better known by her ring name Alexa Bliss. Kaufman signed a contract with WWE in May 2013 and trained at the WWE Performance Center. She first performed as Bliss for WWE NXT. In July 2016 Bliss was moved to WWE SmackDown where she won the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship two times, the first person to win it twice. She moved to Raw in April 2017. She won the WWE Raw Women's Championship later that month. Bliss was the first person to win both the Smackdown and Raw Women's championships.
Kaufman said that watching Trish Stratus and Rey Mysterio got her into wrestling. She is a big fan of Disney, when she was younger her family went to Walt Disney World each year. She also supports her hometown ice hockey team the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kaufman was engaged to another wrestler Matthew Adams, who is best known by his ring name Buddy Murphy.
The Beguiled (movie)
The Beguiled is a 2017 American drama movie. It was written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It was based on the novel "The Beguiled", written by Thomas P. Cullinan.
The movie is about an injured Union soldier, Cpl. John McBurney. He is a deserter during the American Civil War. He goes to an all-female Southern boarding school. The teachers and students are more than willing to help. Sexual tension leads to dangerous rivalries when the women tend to the soldier's wounded leg and offer him comfort and companionship.
"The Beguiled" was first shown on May 24, 2017. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Sofia Coppola won the Best Director award. She was the second woman to wint it.
Rotten Tomatoes has the movie at 73%, which means good reviews. On Metacritic, the movie has a rating score of 77 out of 100.
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971 in New York City) is an American screenwriter, actress, director and producer. She is the daughter of director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.
In 2003, Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2010, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion award.
In 2017, Coppola directed "The Beguiled". This movie stars Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Kidman.
Jean-Pierre Kahane
Jean-Pierre Kahane (11 December 1926 – 21 June 2017) was a French mathematician. He was born Paris, France.
Kahane attended the École normale supérieure and obtained the "agrégation" of mathematics in 1949. He then worked for the CNRS from 1949 to 1954, first as an intern and then as a research assistant. He defended his PhD in 1954; his advisor was Szolem Mandelbrojt.
He was assistant professor, then professor of mathematics in Montpellier from 1954 to 1961. Since then, he has been professor until his retirement in 1994, then professor emeritus at the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay.
Kahane died on 21 June 2017 in Paris, aged 90.
Robert M. Shoemaker
Robert Morin Shoemaker (February 18, 1924 – June 21, 2017) was an American military personnel. He was a U.S. Army general and former commander of the United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). He was also an inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame. He was born in Almont, Michigan.
Shoemaker died on June 21, 2017 at a hospital in Harker Height, Texas at the age of 93.
Gunter Gabriel
Gunter Gabriel (born Günter Caspelherr; 11 June 1942 – 22 June 2017) was a German singer, musician and composer. Gabriel became famous in Germany as singer of Schlager songs. He published "Wer einmal tief im Keller saß. Erinnerungen eines Rebellen" with Oliver Flesch in 2009.
Gabriel died on 22 June 2017 in Hannover from complications of a fall at the age of 75.
Frank Kush
Frank Joseph Kush (January 20, 1929 – June 22, 2017) was an American football player and coach. He was born in Windber, Pennsylvania.
Kush was the head coach at Arizona State University from 1958 to 1979. He was also the head coach of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1981, the National Football League's Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts from 1982 to 1984, and the Arizona Outlaws of the United States Football League in 1985.
Kush was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1995. Kush was of Polish descent and was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.
Kush on June 22, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona from complications of dementia at the age of 88.
Keith Loneker
Keith Joseph Loneker (June 21, 1971June 22, 2017) was an American actor and American football player. He was born in Roselle Park, New Jersey. For much of his short career, his large football-lineman build garnered him roles largely as thugs or football players. He played for the St. Louis Rams from 1993 through 1995 and later for the Atlanta Falcons in 1996. His first movie was director Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight" (1998) and later the Neil LaBute thriller, "Lakeview Terrace" (2008).
Loneker died on June 22, 2017 in Lawrence, Kansas from cancer, aged 46.
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds (April 4, 1923 – February 3, 2020) was an American actor turned award-winning television writer, director, and producer. He was one of the producers of the popular TV series "M*A*S*H".
Reynolds appeared in "In Old Chicago" (1937), "Captains Courageous" (1937), "Love Finds Andy Hardy" (1938), "Boys Town" (1938), "They Shall Have Music" (1939), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), "Eagle Squadron" (1942) and "The Country Girl" (1954) and on television series like "I Love Lucy", "Armstrong Circle Theatre", "Whirlybirds", and "Hallmark Hall of Fame".
Reynolds died of heart failure on February 3, 2020 at a hospital in Burbank, California at the age of 96.
Designated survivor (disambiguation)
Designated Survivor or Designated survivor may refer to:
Moudon (district)
The District of Moudon was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Moudon.
Orbe (district)
The District of Orbe was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Orbe.
As of 2006 it became part of the Jura-Nord vaudois District.
It contained the following municipalities:
Ural River
The Ural River is a river in the European country of Russia. It is 1,509 miles (2,428 kilometers) long. It is generally considered to be the border between the continents of Europe and Asia. The river flows from the Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea and is the third longest river in Europe. Some of the large cities the river runs through are Orsk and Uralsk.
Urdorf
Urdorf is a municipality of the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
El Paso County, Colorado
El Paso County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. The county seat is Colorado Springs. In 2010, 622,263 lived there, meaning it is the second most populous county in Colorado after Denver.
Uster
Uster is a city and capital of the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
It is the third-largest city in the canton of Zurich. About 30,000 people lived there in 2015. It is one of the twenty largest cities in Switzerland. It is located next to lake Greifensee.
The city of Uster received the Wakker Prize in 2001.
In 1099, the House of Rapperswil gave the city St. Andreas Church.
Kirchuster, Freudwil, Nänikon, Niederuster, Nossikon, Oberuster, Riedikon, Sulzbach, Wermatswil, Werrikon, Winikon-Gschwader and Uster
Gärtringen
Gärtringen is a municipality of the district Böblingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is 25 km southwest of Stuttgart and consists of the villages Rohrau and Gärtringen.