Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator. Blainey is known for having written texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including "" (1966). He has published over 35 books, including histories of the world and of Christianity. Other well known works include "The Peaks of Lyell" (1954) and "A Short History of the World" (2000).
Blainey was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 1967. In 1975 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his works to Australian literature. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list of 2000 for his service to academia, research and scholarship.
Blainey was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He studied at the University of Melbourne.
Blainey has often appeared in newspapers and on television. He held chairs in economic history and history at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years. In the 1980s, he was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. He received the 1988 Britannica Award for dissemination of knowledge and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000.
He was once described as the "most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and, in the 1980s and 1990s, most controversial of Australia's living historians".
Blainey is married to author Ann Blainey. They both live in Melbourne.
The Cure (song)
"The Cure" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. She performed it at the 2017 Coachella Music Festival in California on April 15, 2017, replacing Beyoncé. The song was released after her show. The day of its release, it reached number one on iTunes in 62 countries.
"The Cure" entered at #23 on the UK Singles Chart, #17 in Australia, #39 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and #3 on the US Digital Songs chart. It later reached #19 in the UK, #33 in Canada, and the top ten in Australia.
On February 6, 2018, the RIAA certified the song platinum in the US for sales and streams of over one million copies.
Gaga has performed "The Cure" on the Joanne World Tour. On November 19, 2017, she performed it via satellite on the American Music Awards of that year while she was at the Washington, D.C. stop of the tour.
David DiChiera
David DiChiera ( ; April 8, 1935 – September 18, 2018) was an American composer and writer. He was the founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre. He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He was known for his work "Four Sonnets" (1965), which was composed for soprano and piano. It premiered in 1978 at the Kennedy Center.
From 1981 to 1993, DiChiera was appointed Artistic Director of the Dayton Opera Association. In 1986 he was appointed founding General Director of the newly formed Opera Pacific. DiChiera has served as a trustee for the National Institute of Music Theatre and as a board member of the American Arts Alliance. He has been a panel member for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and chairman for the Opera/Musical Theater Panel.
In February 2016, DiChiera announced his retirement, effective in July 2017. In April 2017, DiChiera was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. DiChiera died on September 18, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan from the disease at the age of 83.
Lou Brock
Louis Clark "Lou" Brock (June 18, 1939 – September 6, 2020) was an American former professional baseball player. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing in 1961 for the Chicago Cubs, and spent the majority of his career playing as a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Brock was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985 and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014. He is currently a special instructor coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.
In April 2017, Brock was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow's plasma cells. In July 2017, Brock said that he was "absolutely cancer-free".
Brock died in St. Louis, Missouri on September 6, 2020 at the age of 81.
Billy Williams
Billy Leo Williams (born June 15, 1938) is a retired American baseball left fielder. He played sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and two seasons for the Oakland Athletics. Williams was added into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1999, he was named a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
Lou Antonio
Lou Antonio (born January 23, 1934) is an American actor and TV director. He was best known for performing in the movies "Cool Hand Luke" and "America America". He also starred in two short-lived TV series, "Dog and Cat", and "Makin' It".
Antonio was married to fellow Actors Studio member, Lane Bradbury;
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American actor.
Zerbe was born in Long Beach, California. He studied at Pomona College. He married Arnette Jens in 1962. They have two children.
His career began in 1963. Zerbe's movie roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in "The Omega Man", a 1971 movie adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, "I Am Legend"; as a corrupt gambler in "Farewell, My Lovely"; as Abner Devereaux in "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park"; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond movie "Licence to Kill"; Rosie in "The Turning Point", Admiral Dougherty in " " and Councillor Hamann in "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions".
In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Lieutenant K.C. Trench in the private detective series "Harry O".
His latest appearance is in the 2013 American black comedy-crime movie "American Hustle".
RCA Records Nashville
RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is distributed by Sony Music Nashville which is part of Sony Music.
Heiner Geissler
Heinrichjosef Georg "Heiner" Geißler (March 3, 1930 – September 12, 2017) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.
Geißler studied law and philosophy in Munich and Tübingen, where he graduated in 1960.
Geißler served as German minister for youth, family, and health from 1982 to 1985 and also general secretary of the CDU from 1977 to 1989.
From being a conservative right-winger until the early 1990s, Geißler became increasingly leftist in his views as far as social policy and globalization are concerned.
In 2007, he announced he had become a member of the attac network. This happened weeks before the 2007 G8 summit, which Germany, holding the 2007 G8 presidency, was hosting. Geißler himself said that his joining of attac had to be seen in the context of the upcoming G8 summit.
Thorapalli
Thorapalli is a village in Hosur taluk, Krishnagiri district of Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The village is on the banks of Ponnaiyar River. The population of the village according to 2011 census is 9849 people of 4669 males and 5180 females.
This village is the birthplace of India's first Indian Governor General and Indian freedom fighter, C. Rajagopalachari.
White-cheeked barbet
The white-cheeked barbet or small green barbet (Psilopogon viridis) is bird. It is an Asian barbet. It lives in southern India. It looks like the brown-headed barbet (or large green barbet) ("Psilopogon zeylanica") but it has a different supercilium and a broad white cheek stripe below the eye. It lives in forests in the Western Ghats and other hills near the Western Ghats.
These birds eat mainly fruits, but also sometimes eat insects. These birds rarely visit the ground, obtaining their water from their fruit diet.They live in hollows of trees. Their call is a "kutroo" - "kutroo". They also live in Bangalore.