Bugsy is a 1991 American crime drama movie. Warren Beatty plays the title character. Annette Bening plays Virginia Hill. Harvey Keitel plays Mickey Cohen. The movie is about Bugsy Siegel, a gangster who works for the New York City mob, goes to California and then falls in love with Virginia Hill.
"Bugsy" received very positive reviews from the critics. It won Academy Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. It was nominated for other Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the Best Director and the Best Cinematography.
The movie was released in December 1991.
Divergent (novel)
Divergent is the 2011 debut novel of author Veronica Roth. Roth started writing" Divergent" in college, and continued afterwards to write two sequels, "Insurgent" and "Allegiant". The book reached number six on the New York Times Best Sellers lists.
"Divergent" is a dystopian novel about a sixteen year old girl named Beatrice Prior. In this world, everyone is split into five factions: Dauntless the brave, Erudite the smart, Amity the peaceful, Abnegation the selfless, and Candor the honest. However, some people, such as Beatrice, are Divergent, meaning they belong in multiple categories.
The book was adapted into a movie in 2014.
Matched
Matched is a 2010 dystopian novel by Ally Condie. The book was followed by two sequels, 'Crossed' and "Reached".
"Matched" tells the story of seventeen year old Cassia Reyes. She lives in a world where at age seventeen, everyone is matched with who they will marry. You marry at age 21 and have children at age 24. And you die at age 80. However, despite being matched, Cassia finds that she loves someone else.
Keystone species
A keystone species is a species which has a big effect on its environment relative to its numbers. The ecosystem depends on them, and would be much changed if they were not there. This is because they affect many other organisms in the ecosystem. They affect the types and numbers of other species in the community.
Some sea stars (e.g. "Pisaster ochraceus") prey on sea urchins, mussels, and other shellfish that have no other natural predators. If the sea star is removed from the ecosystem, the mussel population explodes uncontrollably. This drives out most other species. The urchin population grows likewise, and destroys coral reefs. Living coral reefs are the habitat for many hundreds of other species.
Some other examples of keystone species are the sea otter, horseshoe crab, and wolves. Sea otters and kelp depend on each other. Without the sea otter, sea urchins would destroy the kelp, and much else in the ecosystem.
Nicole Eggert
Nicole Eggert (born January 13, 1972) is an American actress. She played Jamie Powell in the television series "Charles in Charge". She played Summer Quinn in "Baywatch".
Eggert was born in Glendale, California.
Judith Godrèche
Judith Godrèche (also Judith Goldreich; born March 23, 1972) is a French actress and author. She has acted in over thirty movies. In "The Art of Love", she played Amèlie. In "Stoker" (2013), she played Doctor Jacquin.
Godrèche was born in Paris, the daughter of two psychotherapists. Her paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors from Poland, who changed their name from Goldreich. Godrèche left school at age 15, settling into a long-term relationship with older director Benoît Jacquot.
Fire of Manisa
The Fire of Manisa refers to the burning of the city of Manisa in Turkey by the Greek army. It happened during the Greco Turkish War of 1919-1922. The town was burned between 5 and 8 September 1922. More than 10,000 buildings were destroyed. This was about 90 percent of the town. Thousands of people died in the flames or were shot dead by the Greeks. Turkish sources claim 4,355 died and 300 girls were raped.
The town of Manisa was part of the Ottoman Empire. Turks and Greeks were living there together. The Greeks wanted Manisa to become part of Greece. In May 1919 a Greek army occupied the town. Then there was war between Greeks and Turks for three years. In the summer of 1922 Turks defeated the Greeks. The Greeks fled to the Aegean Sea to be transferred to Greece. During their retreat the Greeks burned towns and villages of Turks. Manisa too was burned down. The local Turks fled to the mountains. Most of the town was destroyed and later rebuilt. Some Turkish authors wrote about their experiences in Turkish literature.
Jacques Herlin
Jacques Herlin (17 August 1927 – 7 June 2014) was a French character actor. He was active from 1956 until his death. His acting career stated off as appearing in comedy movies such as "Don Camillo in Moscow" (1965), "Sexy Susan Sins Again" (1968) and "Property Is No Longer a Theft" (1973). His later movies were "National Lampoon's European Vacation" (1985), "A Good Year" (2006), "Of Gods and Men" (2010) and "Farewell, My Queen" (2012).
Herlin was born in Le Vésinet, Yvelines as Jacques de Jouette. Aside from French, he could speak English, German and Italian.
Herlin died on 7 June 2014 at a hospital in Paris, aged 86.
Mel Patton
Melvin Emery "Mel" Patton (November 16, 1924 – May 9, 2014), nicknamed "World's Fastest Human" and "Pell Mell", was an American track and field athlete. He won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Patton died from cancer and diabetes issues on May 9, 2014 in Fallbrook, California, aged 89.
Jimmy Ellis
James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis (February 24, 1940 – May 6, 2014) was an American heavyweight boxer. He is considered to be among the best boxers of all time. He held the WBA World Heavyweight Championship from 1968 to 1970.
Ellis was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Christian family. He and wife Mary had six children (two sons and four daughters).
Ellis died from problems caused by dementia on May 6, 2014 at a hospital in Louisville, aged 74.
Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the 1989 National Book Award. The story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz.
Lady tasting tea
Lady tasting tea is the name of a famous randomized experiment designed by Ronald Fisher in 1935. The experiment is the original exposition of Fisher's notion of a null hypothesis. Fisher's description is less than ten pages long and is notable for its simplicity and completeness regarding terminology, calculations and design of the experiment. The example is loosely based on an event in Fisher's life. The lady in question was Muriel Bristol, and the test used was Fisher's exact test.
The lady in question claimed to be able to tell whether the tea or the milk was added first to a cup. Fisher proposed to give her eight cups, four of each variety, in random order. One could then ask what the probability was for her getting the number she got correct, but just by chance.
If and only if the Lady properly categorized all eight cups was Fisher willing to reject the null hypothesis – effectively acknowledging the Lady's ability at a 1.4% significance level (but without quantifying her ability). Fisher later discussed the benefits of more trials and repeated tests.
David Salsburg reports that a colleague of Fisher, H. Fairfield Smith, revealed that in the test, the woman got all eight cups correct. The chance of someone who just guesses getting all correct, assuming she guesses that four had the tea put in first and four the milk, would be only 1 in 70 (the combinations of 8 taken 4 at a time).