Colm J. Meaney (; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor. He is known for playing Miles O'Brien in "" (1987–1994) and "" (1993–1999). He has appeared in other TV shows including "Law & Order", "The Simpsons" and "Hell on Wheels". His movie credits include "The Barrytown Trilogy" (1991–1996), "Con Air" (1997), "Intermission" (2003), "The Damned United" (2009), "Get Him to the Greek" (2010), "" (2013) and "The Journey" (2016).
Meaney was born in Glasnevin, Dublin. He has been married twice and has two daughters. He lives in Sóller, Mallorca of the Spanish Balearic Islands.
The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper. It was launched on 29 March 1859. The editor has been Paul O'Neill since 2017, and the deputy editor is Deirdre Veldon. "The Irish Times" is published each day of the week except Sunday.
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
The search for "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" is an ongoing internet phenomenon. It involves various internet users from around the world trying to find out the artist and the title of a new wave song. The song's artist and title have not been found out since its reported broadcast on a German radio station in 1984.
A Rolling Stone article in September 2019 says a person using the false name "Darius S." recorded the song from a radio program called "Musik für junge Leute" ("Music for Young People") he listened to on the German public radio station NDR, probably in 1984.
Darius says he recorded the song on a tape labeled "cassette 4", along with songs from XTC and The Cure that were released in around 1984. Further evidence shows that the Technics tape deck that he used to record the song on was also made in 1984.
In 2007, the sister of Darius S., posting under the false name "Anton," began posting the song on the internet to try to find out the artist and the title of the song. The woman, who identified herself as "Lydia H.", posted part of the song to a German fan website devoted to eighties synth-pop and to spiritofradio.ca, a Canadian website that aims to identify songs uploaded by fans.
The mystery of the unidentified song became very popular in 2019 when a Brazilian teenager named Gabriel da Silva Vieira started to look for evidence of its origin. He uploaded a clip of the song to YouTube, and to several Reddit groups.
On July 9, 2019, YouTuber Justin Whang released an episode of his video series "Tales from the Internet". The episode talks about the progress of the search up to then. When the video was released, more internet users have tried to help to identify the song.
Some of the progress after the video came out was the posting of a complete clip of the song in July 2019 by a Reddit user and communicating with people of interest to the search. This includes people such as Paul Baskerville, the DJ of the show from which the song was likely recorded. He has said he does not remember the song. The Discord community of the search has also found other undocumented and/or obscure media of various genres.
José Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 1947 – 4 February 2020) was a Spanish movie director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. His best known works were "Butterfly's Tongue", "Amanece, que no es poco" and "The Blind Sunflowers". He won a Goya Award in 1988.
Cuerda died at his home in Madrid on 4 February 2020 at the age of 72.
Terry Hands
Terence David Hands (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure. He was thought to be one of Britain’s most respected theatre directors. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.
Hands died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 79.
Nadia Lutfi
Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Loutfi (; born Poula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq (); 3 January 1937 – 4 February 2020) was an Egyptian actress. Her best known roles were "The Night of Counting the Years" and "Saladin the Victorious".
Lutfi died on 4 February 2020 at a hospital in Cairo at the age of 83.
Teodor Shanin
Teodor Shanin OBE (30 October 1930 – 4 February 2020) was a Lithuanian-born British-Russian sociologist.
He worked as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was best known for his first book, "The Awkward Class, Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia, 1910-25" (Clarendon Press, 1972). He founded the The Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation and the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences in 1995.
Shanin was President of the Moscow School, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
In 2002 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to education in Russia.
Taylor's theorem
Taylor's theorem is a theorem named after Brook Taylor, who first stated it in 1712: It is possible to approximate a function at a given point using polynomials. These polynomials are the result of a Taylor series.
Hanging
Hanging may mean:
Hang
Hang means to hold on to something. It is a verb. (For example, he was hanging from a tree.)
Bubble Guppies
Bubble Guppies is a TV show that airs on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. It first aired on January 24, 2011. It first ended on October 21, 2016. It started airing new episodes again on September 27, 2019.
Bubble Guppies was nominated for “Best Writing” and “Best Casting” in 2017. Bubble Guppies also has won 6 awards and got 13 nominations, making a total of 19 awards.
Romanija
Romanija is a mountain, karst plateau, and area in the Republika Srpska. Many towns are in the area, such as Pale, Sokolac, and Han Pijesak. The highest point on the mountain is Veliki Lupoglav (1,652 m).
A football club from the nearby town of Pale, FK Romanija, is named after the mountain.
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
In 1831 the Cherokee took the state of Georgia to the Supreme Court, to resist the Indian Removal Act. When they took Georgia to the Supreme Court they actually won a favorable decision in their end, but President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce and ignored it. This ruling is known as Cherokee Nation v. Georgia today.
Ritual purification
Ritual purification is the ritual prescribed by a religion by which a person is considered to be free of "uncleanliness". Many religgions require that those worshipping should be in this state.Ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification may also apply to objects and places. Ritual uncleanliness is not identical with ordinary physical impurity, such as dirt stains; nevertheless, body fluids are generally considered ritually unclean.
Most of these rituals existed long before the germ theory of disease, and figure prominently from the earliest known religious systems of the Ancient Near East. Some writers connect the rituals to taboos.
Some have seen benefits of these practices for health and preventing infections especially in areas where humans come in close contact with each other. While these practices came before the idea of the germ theory was public in areas that use daily cleaning, the destruction of infectious agents seems to be dramatic. Others have described a 'dimension of purity' that is universal in religions that seeks to move us away from disgust, (at one extreme) and to uplift us towards purity and divinity (at the other extreme). Away from uncleanliness to purity, and away from deviant to moral behavior, (within one's cultural context).
Monolatry
Monolatry (Greek: μόνος ["monos"] = single, and λατρεία ["latreia"] = worship) is belief that many gods exist, but that only one of them is worshipped. The term "monolatry" was perhaps first used by Julius Wellhausen.