Offices of members of the majority party are located in the Capitol. Those of the minority party are in the State Office Building. It is connected by a tunnel just to the west of the Capitol. Senate committee meetings are held in the Capitol building.
Aaron B. Rollins
Aaron B. Rollins (1818 - December 4, 1878) was a politician connected to the Tammany Hall political machine. He served in New York's legislature in 1852. He was later elected coroner for New York City from 1867 to 1870.
Rollins was born in 1818. He died on December 4, 1878 at the Union-Place Hotel in Manhattan.
Masajuro Shiokawa
Shiokawa served as Parliamentary Vice Minister of International Trade and Industry from 1972 to 1973, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1976 to 1977, Commerce and Industry Committee Chairman from 1979 to 1980, Minister of Transport from 1980 to 1981 (under Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki), Minister of Education from 1986 to 1987 (under PM Yasuhiro Nakasone), Chief Cabinet Secretary for three months in 1989 (under PM Sōsuke Uno), and Minister of Home Affairs from 1991 to 1992.
Shiokawa died of pneumonia in Osaka, Japan, aged 93.
Eduardo Bonvallet
Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy (January 13, 1955 – September 18, 2015), was a Chilean footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder and later developed a TV and radio sports commentator career.
Bonvallet was found dead by hanging using a belt at Nogales Hotel in the kitchen of room 213. Local news report he was suffering from depression.
Medical Society of New Jersey
The Medical Society of New Jersey is the oldest professional society in the United States. It was founded in 1766.
Bruce Djite
Bruce José Djité (born 25 March 1987) is a retired American-born Australian soccer player. He last played in Indonesia for PSM Makassar. He also played for the Australian national team as a striker.
Djite was born in Washington, D.C., United States. His father is from the Ivory Coast and his mother is from Togo. He moved to Sydney, New South Wales when he was three years old. Djite speaks French and English.
Takeshi Onaga
Onaga died on 8 August 2018 from pancreatic cancer, aged 67.
Peter Varghese
Peter Joseph Noozhumurry Varghese (born 1956) is an Australian diplomat and public servant. He has been the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 3 December 2012.
Varghese was born in Kenya to Nasrani parents from Kerala, India. He moved to Australia as a child in 1964. He studied history and graduated from the University of Queensland. He is married and has a son.
Rostam Giv
Rostam Giv or Arbab Rostam Giv ( alternative spellings: Rustam Guiv) (1880, Yazd, Iran - October 7 1980, Whittier, California), was the founder of Giv charity foundation. He was the third representative of Iranian Zoroastrians in the Iranian parliament. He was also a senator of the Iranian Senate.
Giv was born in 1888 in Yazd. His mother's name was Kharman. His father's name was Shahpour.
Giv completed his elementary education at Kay Khosravi school. He learned English language in Yazd. He was elected as the Zoroastrians' Representative in the Iranian National Assembly after Keikhosrow Shahrokh died in 1939.
He founded "Giv's Charity foundation" in 1958 for supporting needy people. He was also selected as a senator in the Iranian Senate in 1963 because of his charity works for the Iranian people.
Rostam Bagh, is a big garden in Tehran Pars Street in Tehran. Arbab Rostam was built in 1957 for Living Zoroastrian's Needy Family. This garden covers about , including residential buildings, a meeting hall, two schools, a sports ground, a library and a fire temple.
Making a water reservoir in Yazd, which has 4000 cubic meter capacity and provides clean and safe water for people is another one of Giv's charity works.
Giv has built schools for Iranian children. He built Giv's elementary school, Ostad Khdobabakhsh elementary school and Ostad pour-Davood elementary school for boys and girls in Tehran. He donated of land to Iran's Ministry of Education in Damavand County.
A few months before the Iranian revolution, Rostam and his wife immigrated to the United States and he founded his charity foundations. They donated 4 million dollars for building Zoroastrian charities in all of the world.
They built Charity Buildings for Zoroastrians in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and Sydney.
Radio City Cinema
Radio City was a most luxurious and modern Iranian Cinema that was opened on 18 September 1958 in Tehran.
The Design of this Cinema was preformed by Heydar Ghiai, who was known as a pioneer of modern architecture in Iran. This Cinema was closed after 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution.
Keikhosrow Shahrokh
Keikhosrow Shahrokh (Kerman, Iran, 1864 – 1939) was the designer of the mausoleum of Persian poet Ferdowsi in the city of Tus.
As elected representative of the Zoroastrian community, he was an active member of the Iranian parliament. He is best known for his role in the 1925 transition of the official calendar from the Islamic calendar of "hejri ghamarei" to the Iranian civil calendar, known as "hejri shamsi".
Hippias (tyrant)
Hippias of Athens () lived in Athens in the 6th century BC. He was one of the sons of Peisistratus, the ruler of Athens. Hippias succeeded Peisistratus in 527 BC. and became tyrant of Athens.
His brother Cleisthenes was murdered in 514 BC. Hippias' behavior changed. He became cruel and angry, executing people in revenge, and taking away the freedom of people. He also was afraid of threats from the aristocrats. In the end his uncle Cleisthenes decided to overthrow Hippias and gain power for himself and his family. Hippias was captured and sent into exile, away from Athens forever in 510 BC.
Hippias fled to Persia, and the Persians threatened to attack Athens if they did not accept Hippias. The Athenians preferred to remain democratic despite the danger from Persia. Soon after, the Ionian Revolt against Persian rule began in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor. It was put down in 494 BC, but Darius I of Persia was keen to punish Athens for its role in the revolt. In 490 BC Hippias, still in the service of the Persians, led Darius to Marathon, in Greece. The Battle of Marathon began a series of Greek victories which made Athens and its colonies successful. The next 200 years saw flowering of the classical Greek civilisation.
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is an international school for architecture located in Moscow, Russia. The institute works with students from all around the world to solve problems relating to urbanism and urban development. The institute is a nonprofit project by the Russian government. It began in 2009. In 2014 the institute won a prize from the Domus Magazine for the top 100 best schools of architecture of that year.
United States National Arboretum
United States National Arboretum is the national arboretum of the United States. It is located in Washington, D.C.
Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow the Hedgehog is a video game character of the "Sonic the Hedgehog franchise". He is a hedgehog created by Gerald Robotnik and Black Doom as the Ultimate Life Form. He first appeared in Sonic Adventure 2.
Here is a list of some games Shadow is in:
Here is a list of cartoons Shadow is in:
Chief Wiggum
Chief Clarence "Clancy" Wiggum is a fictional character on the long running TV show The Simpsons. His voice is performed by Hank Azaria. He is the police chief of Springfield.
His surname "Wiggum" is Matt Groening's mother's maiden name.
Clancy Wiggum is the police chief of Springfield. He is the father of Ralph Wiggum and the husband of Sarah Wiggum. He is often shown as an incompetent and lazy policeman.
Abraham Simpson
Abraham Jay-Jedediah "Abe" Simpson, known as Grampa Simpson, is a character in the animated television series "The Simpsons". He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show in the Simpson Short "Good Night".