Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 44,828. This makes it the third-most populated county in the state. Its county seat is Canton.
The first resident of the area was A. I. Linderman in 1866. He was the only resident until the summer of 1867. Lincoln county was incorporated on December 30, 1867. The county was named for Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
Kallen Pokkudan
Kallen Pokkudan (; 1937 – 27 September 2015), also known as Kandal Pokkudan, was an Indian environmental activist and writer. He was best known for helping to protect mangrove forests in Kerala from 1989 until his death. He also wrote several books even his basic literacy, including to autobiographies.
Pokkudan was born in Ezhom Moola, Idukkil Thara, Kannur. He had six children, three sons and three daughters.
Pokkudan died after an illness on 27 September 2015 in Cherukunnu, Kannur. He was 78.
Michael Burgess (singer)
Michael Burgess (July 22, 1945 – September 28, 2015) was an Canadian actor and singer (tenor). He was best known for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the Toronto production of "Les Misérables". In 2013, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario.
Burgess was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He studied at the University of Ottawa. He married fellow "Les Misérables" performer Susan Gilmour on October 8, 1994.
Burgess died from cancer on September 28, 2015 in Toronto, aged 70.
Kidron Valley necropolis
Kidron Valley necropolis (also called Silwan necropolis) is a row of ancient Jewish burial caves in the Kidron Valley. The valley is between the City of David and the north-west slope of the Mount of Olives. The ancient caves face towards the City of David to the west under the houses of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. The row of ancient burial sites ends at the Tomb of Pharaoh's daughter monument. It is not a burial cave, but also the continuing of the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery from south beside the Arab neighborhoods.
Kendall Gill
Kendall Gill is a retired American basketball player. He is now a basketball television analyst.
Gill was chosen in the 1990 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets. He played in the NBA for 15 years.
Stacey Augmon
Stacey Augmon (born August 1, 1968) is a retired American basketball player. Augmon had the nickname "Plastic Man" due to his athletic ability to "stretch".
Augmon played college basketball for four years at UNLV. He won the 1990 NCAA Championship with them. Augmon was the first three-time winner of the NABC Defensive Player of the Year, winning the award in 1989, 1990, and 1991. He is a class of 2002 member of the UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame along with teammates Greg Anthony and Larry Johnson.
Augmon was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in 1991. He played for the Hawks, the Detroit Pistons, the Portland Trail Blazers, the Charlotte Hornets, the New Orleans Hornets, and the Orlando Magic. He holds a scoring average of 8.0 points per game throughout his career.
20 Y.O.
20 Y.O. is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson. It was released on September 20, 2006 by Virgin Records. The title refers to the twenty years since her third studio album, "Control" (1986). It had its twentieth anniversary rerelease in 2006. It was also her last album to be released by Virgin Records. She signed a new contract with Def Jam Recordings.
"20 Y.O." received mixed reviews by music critics.
Spirit (Leona Lewis album)
Spirit is the debut studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis. It was released by Syco in November 2007 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was released everywhere else in early 2008.
"Spirit" received generally positive to mixed reviews.
2008 Detroit Lions season
The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the 79th football season of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). It was their third year under head coach Rod Marinelli. In 2008, the Lions had one of the worst seasons of any major American pro sports team. They lost all 16 of their regular season games. They were the first NFL team to finish a season with no wins and 16 losses after their loss to the Green Bay Packers. They were the second team with no wins after the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Matt Millen was fired during the bye week of the season and the rest of the staff were fired after the season was over.
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Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson (born September 29, 1985) is a American football wide receiver played his for the Detroit Lions. His nickname is Megatron. He was drafted by the Lions in 2007.
He was also on the winless 2008 Lions roster. Even though the Lions went 0-16, Johnson finished as one of the strongest wide receivers statistically for the season, fifth in receiving yards (1,331) and 7th in receiving yards per game (83.2), and leading the league in receiving touchdowns (12).
At the end of 2015, Johnson retired.
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet is an American company based in California. It holds Google and the projects that Google worked on before 2015. The CEO is Larry Page.
In October 2020, the United States Government Department of Justice filed a Anti-Trust Lawsuit against Alphabet Inc over Googles monopoly on Search.
Hellmuth Karasek
Hellmuth Karasek (4 January 1934 – 29 September 2015) was a German journalist, literary critic and novelist. He wrote over 25 books on literature and movies. He was well known for being on the panel of the show "Das Literarische Quartett", with Marcel Reich-Ranicki. In 1968, he became the theatre critic of "Die Zeit". From 1974 until 1996, he worked for "Der Spiegel". In 1999, he was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
Karasek was born in Brünn, Czechoslovakia (now Brno, Czech Republic). He moved from Bielitz (now Poland) to Bernburg in 1944 during World War II. In the 1950s, he became a student at the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg (then West Germany).
Karasek died on 29 September 2015 in Hamburg. He was 81.
Frankie Ford
Vincent Francis Guzzo, Jr. (August 4, 1939 – September 28, 2015), better known by his stage name Frankie Ford, was an American singer. He was best known for his 1959 hit "Sea Cruise". His main genres were rock and roll, rhythm and blues and pop. Ford was born in Gretna, Louisiana. He was adopted by Vincent and Anna Guzzo.
Ford died from natural causes after a long illness on September 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was 76.
Think of the children
"Think of the children" (also "What about the children?") is a phrase that became a strategy used when you are in an argument with someone. Basically in its simplest use it can mean just children's rights, like for example talking about child labor problems. But when this phrase is used in the middle of an argument, it can be used to try to make people feel emotional when thinking about the needs of children, and then to try and fool people into doing what they want because they might be scared that they do not want to harm children.
The 2002 book "Art, Argument, and Advocacy" (2002) said that using this phrase replaced emotion instead of reason in the middle of an argument with someone. Ethicist Jack Marshall wrote in 2005 that the phrase is so popular because it can stop people from behaving rationally especially when they are talking about morals. "Think of the children" was used by censorship supporters to try to defend children from things they thought were dangerous to these young people. The book "Community, Space and Online Censorship" (2009) wrote that calling children just babies in need of protection was a form of focusing too much on the concept of purity. A 2011 article in the "Journal for Cultural Research" wrote that "Think of the children" was caused by people thinking too hard about telling everyone what to do and the difference between right-and-wrong.