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Norm Maciver

Norman Steven Maciver (born September 1, 1964 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League as a member of the New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers, Edmonton Oilers, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes franchise.
Career
MacIver was never drafted by an NHL franchise and instead took the university route in order to reach the NHL. The defenceman played four seasons with the University of Minnesota Duluth and in 1985-86 was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, awarded to the NCAA's top player. While playing at the University of Minnesota, MacIver earned a communications degree and signed as a free agent with the NHL's New York Rangers upon graduation.
He played 500 regular season games in the NHL, scoring 55 goals and 230 assists for 285 points and collecting 350 penalty minutes. A career highlight came during the Ottawa Senators' debut season of 1992-93, when Maciver led the team in scoring with 17 goals and 46 assists for 63 points in 80 games. In the spring of 1996, he scored the final goal in Winnipeg Jets' history prior to the team's relocation to Phoenix in the sixth game of a first round playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings. After retirement he became an assistant coach for the American Hockey League's Springfield Falcons from 2000 to 2003, and then the NHL's Boston Bruins from 2003 to 2006.
Maciver is currently an amateur scout with the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks.
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1964 births
Canadian ice hockey centres
Edmonton Oilers players
Hartford Whalers players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
New York Rangers players
Ottawa Senators players
Sportspeople from Thunder Bay
Phoenix Coyotes players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Winnipeg Jets (1979-96) players
American Hockey League players
International Hockey League (1945-2001) players
Ice hockey defencemen
Merchants' Exchange Building (Philadelphia)

The Merchants' Exchange Building is a building in the city of Philadelphia which is in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. It is in a historical neighborhood called Old City. Architect William Strickland designed the building. It was built starting in the year 1832 and was done in 1834. The Merchants' Exchange Building was the first office building in the city. It used to be a brokerage house. In 1875, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange moved into the building.
In the year 2001 it became a National Historic Landmark.
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National Historic Landmarks of the United States
1834 establishments in the United States
Buildings and structures in Philadelphia
1830s establishments in Pennsylvania
Octacílio

Octacilio Pinheiro Guerra (21 November 1909-26 February 1967) was a former Brazilian football player. He played for the Brazil national team.
1909 births
1967 deaths
Brazilian footballers
Sportspeople from Porto Alegre
Five Pillars of Islam

The Five Pillars of Islam are five basic rules in Islam that all Muslims must follow.
The Five Pillars consist of :
Jihad (see September 11 attacks).
Shahadah . The shahadah means there is no other god except Allah(one God) and Prophet Muhammad is the messenger/prophet of Allah. The shahadah can be recited when a person chooses to revert to Islam as the words in the shahadah are the key fundamental beliefs in Islam. If they do not revert, they must be slaughtered.
Prayer (Salat) - Praying five times a day, kneeling towards Mecca. There are specific religious movements and prayers that are said.
Fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm) - Islamic Fasting is not eating or drinking beverages when the sun is out, only when the moon is out.
Charity or alms-giving (zakat) - Each year a Muslim must give money to charity (Usually 2.5% of their savings). If a person does not have much money, they can give services to others instead.
Hajj - Pilgrimage(journey) to Mecca (a desert city in Asia.)
Sources
Islamic law
Religious ethics
Pierhead Building

The Pierhead Building is a building in Cardiff, Wales, UK. It was designed by William Frame, built in 1897, and is owned by the National Assembly for Wales. It is one of Cardiff's most famous landmarks.
Buildings and structures in Cardiff
Cardiff
1897 establishments in the United Kingdom
1890s establishments in Wales
Courcelles-sur-Voire

Courcelles-sur-Voire is a commune of the Aube departement in the north-central part of France.
Courcelles-sur-Voire
José Ignacio Hurtado Echevarria

Jose Ignacio Hurtado Echevarria (born May 2, 1969 in La Rioja) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C8 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team, Spain, played the United States national 7-per-team football team and won 2-1. His team finished third. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
References
Spanish footballers
Living people
1969 births
Spanish Paralympic bronze medalists
1996 Summer Paralympics
2000 Summer Paralympics
People from La Rioja
Sportspeople with disabilities, type C8
Rose Parade

The Rose Parade, also known as the Tournament of Roses Parade, is part of "America's New Year Celebration" held in Pasadena, California each year on New Year's Day (or on Monday, January 2 if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday). The parade includes flower-covered floats, marching bands, and equestrian units and is followed by the Rose Bowl college football game. It is produced by the nonprofit Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.
References
Pasadena, California
Silver medal

A silver medal is a medal given to the second place finisher of contests (usually sports competitions) such as the Olympic Games or Commonwealth Games. First and third place finishers usually receive a gold medal and bronze medal, respectively.
Olympic Games
In 1896, winners' medals were made from silver. The custom of gold-silver-bronze for the first three places dates from the 1904 games. It has been copied for many other sports events. Creating the medals is the responsibility of the host city. From 1928-1968 the design was always the same. One side showed a design by Florentine artist Giuseppe Cassioli with text giving the host city. The other side showed another design of an Olympic champion. From 1972-2000, Cassioli's design (or a slight reworking) remained on the one with a custom design by the host city on the other. Because Cassioli's design showed a Roman amphitheatre for what was originally a Greek games, a new design was create for the Athens 2004 Games. Winter Olympics medals have been of more varied design.
The Open Championship
In The Open Championship golf tournament, the Silver Medal is an award given to the lowest scoring amateur player at the tournament.
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Other websites
Medal Designs for all Olympic Games
Zam Zama

Zam Zama or Zam-zammah also often called the 'terror of Northern India' is an old cannon. It is made of brass and was made in Lahore (now in Pakistan) in 1762, on the orders of the Afghan king. Ahmad Shah Durrani. It was of great size back then, and had tremendous fire-power, and all armies opposing the Afghans were terrified of it in the region.
The cannon was later damaged in a military campaign and sank to the bottom of the Chenab River from where it was recovered and captured by the victorious Sikh Khalsa forces of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. After that, the Punjab region fell under Sikh rule, giving birth to the superstition that 'whoever holds Zam Zama holds the Punjab'.
The cannon was later taken to Delhi but brought back to Lahore in 1870 and installed outside the old Lahore Museum and then later on shifted outside the present museum building in the 1890s, opposite to the old campus of the University of the Punjab. It was later restored and cleaned up in the 1990s.
During the period of British India, Zam Zama achieved special fame when the writer Rudyard Kipling mentioned in the opening pages of Kim (book), published in 1901.
References
18th century in India
Lahore
1760s works
Artillery
Jacmel

Jacmel (Kreyol: Jakmel) is a city in southeast Haiti, on the Caribbean coast, at the mouth of the river Grande Riviere de Jacmel. It is the capital city of the Sud-Est Departement.
The city is in the Baie de Jacmel ("Jacmel Bay") about 86 km south of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. It is also the chief town of an arrondissement (a part of a department) with the same name. The arrondissement has four communes (a commune is like a municipality): Jacmel, Cayes-Jacmel, La Vallee and Marigot.
Name
Jacci was the Taino name for the region where is located Jacmel. It was changed to the Spanish word Yaquimo (sometimes written as Jaquimo) and then to the French word Jacmel.
History
Christopher Columbus gave the name Puerto de Brasil ("Brazil port") to the place where Jacmel is now because there were many trees called "Brasil" (English: Brazilwood) in the region that were cut and sent to Spain; the tree has a yellow substance (and wood) that was used to give that color to hair, cloths and other objects.
In 1504, Nicolas de Ovando, Spanish governor of the Hispaniola, founded the town of Villanueva de Yaquimo (or Villanova de Yaquimo). But people left the town and French people came to live here; in 1698, the new town of Jacmel was founded.
Jacmel today
There are many beautiful old houses in Jacmel, from the 1880s. Since 2004, the 'Festival Film Jakmel' is celebrated in Jacmel and, since 2007, the international music festival 'Festival Mizik Jakmel'.
Many visitors come to Jacmel for its carnival, the Bassins Bleu waterfalls, and the white sand beaches near the city.
Radio
Radio Ambiance FM
Ambiance TV
Radio Anacaona
Radio TeleDiffusion Jacmelienne
Radio Tele-Express Continental
Radio Vibration Inter
Radio Jacmel Inter
Radio Detente
Radio Negritude
Radio SemencesFM de Marbial
Sister cities
Jacmel has sister relationships with:
Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Strasbourg,France
Gallery
Other websites
Festival Film Jakmel
Festival Mizik Jakmel
Bonzouti.com - Web portal for Jacmel and the Sud-Est Department of Haiti
Official Chamber of Commerce Website
Website for Cayes-Jacmel
Bassin-Bleu website
References
Cities in Haiti
1698 establishments
1690s establishments in North America
Establishments in the French colonial empire
Rudolf Skácel

Rudolf Skacel (born 17 July 1979) is a Czech football player. He plays for Larissas and Czech Republic national team.
Club career statistics
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|1999/00||rowspan="3"|Hradec Kralove||Gambrinus liga||3||0
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|2000/01||2. Liga||16||2
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|2001/02||Gambrinus liga||18||6
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|2001/02||rowspan="3"|Slavia Prague||rowspan="3"|Gambrinus liga||12||3
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|2002/03||28||8
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|2003/04||5||2
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|2003/04||Olympique Marseille||Ligue 1||20||1
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|2004/05||Panathinaikos||Super League||16||1
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|2005/06||Heart of Midlothian||Premier League||35||16
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|2006/07||rowspan="2"|Southampton||rowspan="2"|League Championship||35||3
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|2007/08||16||1
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|2007/08||Hertha Berlin||Bundesliga||16||2
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|2008/09||Southampton||League Championship||28||1
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|2009/10||Slavia Prague||Gambrinus liga||5||3
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|2009/10||Larissas||Super League||||
87||24
20||1
16||1
35||16
79||5
16||2
253||49
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International career statistics
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|2003||1||1
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|2004||0||0
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|2005||2||0
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|2006||0||0
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|2007||0||0
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|2008||2||0
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|2009||0||0
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|2010||||
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1979 births
Living people
Czech footballers
Västervik Municipality

Vastervik Municipality () is a municipality in Kalmar County in southern Sweden. The seat is in Vastervik.
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Other websites
Vastervik Municipality
Municipalities of Kalmar County
Seal of the president of the United States

The seal of the president of the United States is used to mark correspondence from the president of the United States to the U.S. Congress. It is also used as a symbol of the presidency itself. The central design, based on the Great Seal of the United States, is the official coat of arms of the U.S. presidency. It is also appears on the presidential flag.
References
Other websites
on United States Army Institute of Heraldry
U.S. Presidential Flag page on Flags of the World
Seal
Symbols of the United States
Dutch Cape Colony

The Dutch Cape Colony was a colony started by the Dutch East India Company. The colony was in South Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope.
History of South Africa
19th century in South Africa
Dutch Empire
Former colonies in Africa
William Jewell College

William Jewell College is a private, four-year Christian liberal arts college. It has around 1,274 undergraduate students. It is in Liberty, Missouri, United States
Other websites
William Jewell College website
Christian colleges and universities in the United States
Colleges and universities in Missouri
1849 establishments in the United States
1840s establishments in Missouri
Fairlawn, Ohio

Fairlawn is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb of Akron. The population was 7,437 at the 2010 census.
References
Cities in Ohio
Miiko Taka

(born Miiko Shikata July 24, 1925 - January 2023) was an American actress. She is best known for co-starring with Marlon Brando as Hana-ogi in the 1957 movie Sayonara. She also worked with James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshiro Mifune (whom she also worked alongside of in the 1980 television miniseries, Shogun).
Taka was born in Seattle, Washington. She grew up in Los Angeles, California.
Taka married Japanese-American actor Dale Ishimoto in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1944, and they had one son, Greg Shikata, who works in the film industry, and one daughter. They divorced in 1958. Taka's death, at the age of 97, was announced by her grandson on January 4, 2023.
References
Other websites
1925 births
2023 deaths
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Seattle
Actors from Los Angeles
Themie Thomai

Themie Thomai Prifti (October 31, 1945 - December 19, 2020) was an Albanian politician. She was a member of the Albanian Party of Labour. She was a Minister of Agriculture from 1975 to 1989.
Thomai died on December 19, 2020 in Tirana, Albania from COVID-19, aged 75.
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1945 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Albania
Albanian politicians
Hi-hat

A hi-hat, or hihat, is a pair of cymbals which can be pushed together with a pedal. It is usually part of a drum kit, and is used in many forms of music including reggae, jazz and rock and roll as well as many others.
Percussion instruments
Carbon fiber reinforced plastic

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP or CRP), is a very strong, light and expensive composite material or fiber-reinforced plastic. Similar to glass-reinforced plastic, one uses commonly the name of its reinforcing fibers (carbon fiber) for the composite material. The plastic is most often epoxy, but other plastics, such as polyester, vinyl ester or nylon, are also sometimes used. Some composites contain both carbon fiber and other fibres such as kevlar, aluminium and fiberglass reinforcement. Less commonly, the terms graphite-reinforced plastic or graphite fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) are also used.
It has many applications in aerospace and automotive fields, as well as in sailboats, and notably in modern bicycles and motorcycles, where these qualities are of importance. It is becoming increasingly common in small consumer goods as well, such as laptop computers, tripods, fishing rods, paintball equipment, racquet sports frames, stringed instrument bodies, classical guitar strings, and drum shells.
Related pages
Carbon fiber
Graphite
Aramid
Fiberglass
Other websites
Japan Carbon Fibre Manufacturers Association (English)
Carbon fibre page from the Department of Polymer Science at USM
Engineers design composite bracing system for injured Hokie running back Cedric Humes
Polymers
Synthetic materials
Elsa Klensch

Elsa Klensch ( Aeschbacher; 21 February 1930 - 4 March 2022) was an Australian-American journalist, novelist, and television personality, often working in the world of fashion.
She was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001.
Biography
Klensch was born on 21 February 1930 in Cooranbong, in the Lake Macquarie District of New South Wales, to Johann Ernst and Mary Margaret (nee Miles) Aeschbacher. She was married to Charles Klensch, whom she met in Hong Kong while he was on leave from his post as Saigon, South Vietnam, news bureau manager for the American Broadcasting Company. They were married in 1966 in wartime Saigon and then settled in New York City.
Klensch worked at the Sydney Telegraph, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Public Information Office of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. She edited the Hong Kong Trade Bulletin, Women's Wear Daily, and was senior fashion editor at Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, New York Post, and for WCBS-TV. She hosted and produced Style with Elsa Klensch, which ran from 1980 to 2000 on CNN. She also authored four mystery novels.
Honors and awards
Her honors included:
Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) in 1987 cited Klensch for "Consistently bringing international fashion to the largest audience in the history of television, and for consistently "getting the story first and getting it right." In 1999, she received a second CFDA Award for "career achievement in fashion journalism."
Anti-Defamation League's 1995 Woman of Achievement Award.
Fashion Group International 1966 Superstar Award.
Order of Merit (Ordine al Merito) from the Italian government in 1988 for "distinguished reporting on Italian design, craftsmanship and style."
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the International Fine Arts College in Miami in 1990, which cited her "outstanding contribution to the international fashion and design community and her continuing inspiration for students of fashion and interior design."
Elected to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 1990.
Commencement address at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (Class of 2001).
Distinguished Achievement Award of the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, New York City (2005).
Election to Fashion Media Hall of Fame at Kent State University.
She served on the Kent State University Fashion Department Advisory Board.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired the CNN archive of a thousand weeks of Style with Elsa Klensch for its Costume Institute.
Member and former vice president of the Fashion Group International.
Member of The Authors Guild, the Society of Authors (UK), Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.
Death
Klensch died in New York City on 4 March 2022, at the age of 92.
Notes
Other websites
Internationally renowned fashion journalist (Retrieved 24 March 2008)
New Yorker Magazine article 20 September 1999
1930 births
2022 deaths
CNN people
Writers from New South Wales
Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, widely popular in the first half of the 19th century.
Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime. As adventures, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy are very well-known, and both were made into films. Waverley is important because it is the first historical novel. It was, for most readers, their first encounter with Highland culture. Scott wove together history and fiction. What he started with Waverley, he continued with his other novels.
Scott's output was huge. Though many of his works are little read now, they sold well in their day, and paid for his great house, Abbotsford. Of his poetry The Lady of the Lake is best liked.
Scott was also an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession. Throughout his career he combined his writing and editing work with his daily occupation as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire.
A prominent member of the Tory establishment in Edinburgh, Scott was an active member of the Highland Society and served a long term as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820-32).
Education and early life
Scott was educated at Edinburgh High and the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1783. After spending some time in his father's office he became a barrister in 1792. In 1797 he married Charlotte Charpentier and in 1799 was appointed deputy Sheriff of Selkirkshire. He now began to write books in earnest.
In 1821 he was made a baronet. His house is now a public museum visited by many tourists each year.
Financial problems and death
In 1825 and 1826, a banking crisis swept through the cities of London and Edinburgh. The Ballantyne printing business, in which he was heavily invested, crashed. Scott was ruined. He placed his house and income in a trust belonging to his creditors, and set out to write his way out of debt.
He kept up his huge output of fiction, as well as producing a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. By 1831 his health was failing. Still, he did a grand tour of Europe, where he was welcomed wherever he went. He returned to Scotland and, in September 1832, died at Abbotsford, near Melrose in the Roxburghshire. Though he died owing money, his novels continued to sell well. The debts of his estate were eventually discharged.
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1771 births
1832 deaths
British playwrights
Scottish poets
Writers from Edinburgh
Ned Leeds

Ned Leeds is a fictional character from Marvel Comics.
He was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for a Spider-Man comic book in 1964. Ned Leeds worked for a newspaper called The Daily Bugle. He and Peter Parker both liked the same girl named Betty Brant with Ned eventually marrying her with Peter Parker as the best man. Then Spider-Man started having to fight a supervillain known as the Hobgoblin who turned out to have Ned Leeds as his secret identity but then it turned out that Ned Leeds was actually being brainwashed all along and he was eventually killed in a comic book from 1986.
Ned Leeds in movie
Ned Leeds was played by Jacob Batalon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which he's Peter Parker's best friend and sidekick.
Marvel Comics characters
The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau is a 1969 British black comedy adventure movie directed by Basil Dearden and was based on the 1963 unfinished novel by Jack London. It stars Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Carl Jurgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Beryl Reid, Clive Revill, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Other websites
1969 adventure movies
1969 comedy movies
1960s black comedy movies
British black comedy movies
British adventure movies
Paramount Pictures movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Basil Dearden
Movies set in London
Movies set in Milan
Movies set in Venice
Movies set in the 1900s
Allan Havey

Allan Havey (born September 19, 1954) is an American stand-up comic and actor.
Career
He started his career as a comedian in New York City in 1981. He made his national debut in 1986 on Late Night with David Letterman and made many appearances on the show throughout the 1980s and 1990s. When Letterman left NBC for CBS after not being chosen to replace Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show, Havey was one of several comedians considered by NBC to replace Letterman.
References
1954 births
American movie actors
American stand-up comedians
Living people
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
Florida State University alumni
Comedians from Missouri
Le Cardonnois

Le Cardonnois is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Communes in Somme
Ananindeua

Ananindeua is an Brazilian city in the state of Para. 535,547 people lived here in 2020 that makes it the second-largest city in the state by population.
Cities in Para
Esparron, Hautes-Alpes

Esparron is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Population
Transport
Road
The D20 road passes through the commune.
References
Communes in Hautes-Alpes
J. Joseph Curran Jr.

J. Joseph Curran Jr. (born July 7, 1931) is an American politician. He is the longest serving elected Attorney General (1987 to 2007) in Maryland history, and the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1983 to 1987. His son-in-law, Martin J. O'Malley, served as the 61st Governor of Maryland.
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1931 births
Living people
Lawyers from Maryland
Politicians from Florida
Lieutenant Governors of Maryland
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Bastila Shan

Bastila Shan is a character from the Star Wars universe.
Bastila Shan was born in the year 3,979 BBY. She is the daughter of Helena Shan and an unknown treasure hunter who joined the Jedi Order despite her protests. She became a valuable member to the Jedi Order despite her young age due to her mastery of Battle Meditation. During the Jedi Civil War, she was responsible for the capture of Darth Revan, with whom she fell in love.
After the amnesic Darth Revan was given an entirely new identity, they worked together for a long time, searching for the Star Forge.
After Revan learnt of his true identity she was captured and tortured by Darth Malak and turned to the dark side. During a confrontation, she tried to persuade the redeemed Revan to return to the dark side and reclaim his rightful place. After being rejected and forced to flee to the Star Forge, Bastila confronted Revan again and lost. She begged him to kill her, but he refused and used the power of their love to bring her back to the light and help the Republic in the Battle of Rakata Prime.
She later married Revan and soon had a child called Vaner. When Revan left to stop a war he was sure was coming, she stayed behind to look after her child. She is also one of the surviving Jedi to survive the purge that followed it. She died of old age.
Star Wars characters
Guido Ceronetti

Guido Ceronetti (24 August 1927 - 13 September 2018) was an Italian poet, philosopher, novelist, translator, journalist and playwright. He was born in Turin, Italy.
In 1970, he founded the Theater of the Sensitive. His works are archived at the Cantonal Library of Lugano. He wrote columns for La Repubblica, La Stampa and Radio Radicale.
Emil Cioran dedicated to his book Il silenzio del corpo ("The Silence of the Body") a chapter of the essay Exercices d'admiration (1986).
Ceronetti died in Cetona, Italy on 13 September 2018 from bronchopneumonia at the age of 91.
References
Other websites
Lettere senza buca, Weekly Columns by Guido Ceronetti
Ma io diffido dell'amore universale Biography of Guido Ceronetti by la Repubblica
1927 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from bronchopneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in Italy
Italian poets
Italian philosophers
Italian novelists
Italian journalists
Italian playwrights
Translators
People from Turin
Restauration

Following the fall from power of Napoleon Bonaparte:
Bourbon Dynasty, Restored
Restauration (Switzerland)
Related pages
Restoration
Kyrgyzstan at the Olympics

Kyrgyzstan has been in four Summer Games and four Winter Games as an independent state. They have won three medals. The nation was part of the Soviet Union before 1992. In 1992, Kyrgyzstan was on the Unified Team. Kyrgyzstan was at the 1994 Winter Olympics as their own country after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
List of medalists
References
Sport in Kyrgyzstan
Nations at the Olympics
Space tourism

Space tourism is human space travel for non-government reasons such as private or entertainment reasons.
There are many different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. This is being done by aerospace companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. SpaceX is planning to send a space tourist to the Moon.
References
Tourism
Spaceflight
William J. Bell

William Joseph Bell (March 6, 1927 - April 29, 2005) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was best known as the creator of the soap operas Another World, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.
Bell was born and raised in Chicago. On April 29, 2005, Bell died at age 78 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He is buried at Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
References
Other websites
1927 births
2005 deaths
American television producers
Screenwriters from Chicago
Emmy Award winners
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
University of Michigan alumni
Secularism

Secularism, also called Secularity, is the idea of something being not religious or not connected to a church or other religious organization. An example of this is the government, which is independent of any religion in many states. In some countries, such as Pakistan, England (though not the rest of the UK), Greece, Iran or Saudi Arabia, there is a state religion. In that case, the government follows the state religion. In contrast, India, South Africa or the United States have laws that religion and government should stay separate.
In a theocracy like the Vatican City and Iran, the priests of religion are the rulers of the country.
Related pages
Secular humanism
Secular state
Separation of church and state
State religion
Theocracy
Freedom of religion
Rebévelier

Rebevelier is a municipality of the administrative district of Jura bernois in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
References
Municipalities of Bern
Herb Jeffries

Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 - May 25, 2014) was an American jazz and popular singer and actor.
References
Other websites
Herb Jeffries at Jazz Standards
Herb Jeffries on B Western Stars
1913 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American centenarians
American jazz musicians
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Detroit
Musicians from Detroit
Singers from Detroit
Catlin, Illinois

Catlin is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Villages in Illinois
Robbins, Illinois

Robbins is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,337 at the 2010 census.
Villages in Illinois
Suburbs of Chicago
Settlements in Cook County, Illinois
Tocopilla

Tocopilla is a city and commune in the Antofagasta region in the north of Chile. It is the capital of the province of Tocopilla.
Geography
The commune of Tocopilla has an area of .
The commune is bordered on the north by the Tarapaca region, on the east by the Maria Elena commune, on the south by the Antofagasta province and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Population
(last national census), there were 23,986 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km2.
The inhabitants of Tocopilla are known as Tocopillian; in Spanish, tocopillano for men andTocopillana for women.
References
Other websites
Territorial division of Chile
Gobierno Regional de Antofagasta
Province of Tocopilla website
Municipalidad de Tocopilla website
Cities in Chile
Caprimulgiformes

The Caprimulgiformes is an order of birds. They are generally insectivorous and nocturnal. If they are joined as a clade with the Apodiformes, the group is then known as the Strisores.
Birds by order
Shelbyville, Kentucky

Shelbyville is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Cities in Kentucky
County seats in Kentucky
New York Provincial Congress

The New York Provincial Congress was an organization that was started by rebels in 1775 during the American Revolution as a replacement for the Province of New York Assembly. It was a replacement for the Committee of One Hundred. There were three provincial congresses until the first Constitutional Convention was founded. The New York Provincial Congress was replaced in 1777.
American Revolutionary War
1775 in the Thirteen Colonies
1776 in New York (state)
1777 in New York (state)
Mertzen

Mertzen is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. It is 10 km southwest of Altkirch and 22 km southeast of Belfort.
Related pages
Communes of the Haut-Rhin department
References
INSEE commune file
Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sol Polansky

Sol Polansky (November 7, 1926 - January 6, 2016) was an American diplomat. He served as the Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1987 until 1990. He joined the United States Foreign Service in 1957. While in the Foreign Service, he was stationed in the Soviet Union, Poland, West Germany, East Germany and Austria.
Polansky was born Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University.
Polansky died after a long illness on January 6, 2016, aged 89.
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Miyazaki Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Kyushu region of Japan on the island of Kyushu. The capital city is Miyazaki.
History
After the Meiji Restoration, the area of Hyuga Province was renamed Miyazaki Prefecture.
Miyazaki is famous for various foods such as meat and fruit.
Geography
Miyazaki Prefecture is on the eastern coast of the island of Kyushu. The southeast coastline faces the Pacific Ocean. Oita Prefecture is north of Miyazaki. Kumamoto and Kagoshima Prefectures are to the west.
Cities
National parks
National parks are established in about 12% of the total land area of the prefecture.
Plants
Miyazaki is one of only two locations on Earth where the fungus Chorioactis geaster lives.
Shrines and temples
Tsuno jinja is the main Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Related pages
Provinces of Japan
Prefectures of Japan
List of regions of Japan
List of islands of Japan
Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum
References
Other websites
Miyazaki Prefecture ;
JNTO, Miyazaki
Pierce City, Missouri

Pierce City is a city in Barry and Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Cities in Missouri
Orthopedic cast

Orthopedic casts are casts made of plaster that cover a limb to hold a broken bone in place while it heals. Doctors use casts of fiberglass currently. In early times, people often used splints to help heal broken bones. It is thought that orthopedic casts came about from splints.
Medical equipment
Armageddon (2006)

Armageddon (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held on December 17, 2006 at Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. It was the seventh Armageddon event held by the WWE.
The pay-per-view was a SmackDown! brand exclusive. The main event was a tag team match, which saw the team of Batista and John Cena defeat the team of King Booker and Finlay. Two other matches on the undercard, saw The Undertaker defeat Mr. Kennedy in a Last Ride match, and Kane defeat Montel Vontavious Porter in an Inferno match.
Matches
References
Other websites
Official Armageddon 2006 website
2006 in professional wrestling
Richmond, Virginia
WWE Armageddon
2006 in American television
2000s in Virginia
Agios Nikolaos

Agios Nikolaos is a town on Crete island. It is a coastal town in the northeast of Crete. It is near the main airport of Crete, "Nikos Kazatzakis". There are also ships which connect Agios Nikolaos with Piraeus and Dodekanisa islands.
Cities in Greece
Crete
Steeple, Essex

Steeple is a village and civil parish in Maldon District, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 450 people living in Steeple.
References
Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Bhupathy's purple frog

Bhupathy's purple frog (Nasikabatrachus bhupathi) is a frog species belonging to the family Sooglossidae. It lives in the Western Ghat mountains in India. It is a purple cave frog that lives underground almost all the time.
Bodies
Many species of frog dig underground a little, but Bhupathy's purple frogs live undergound almost all the time. They have front limbs shaped like shovels for digging and long noses so they can stick their tongues aboveground and lick the surface to catch ants to eat. They do not have shoot-and-pull-back tongues like other frogs.
Adult frogs have purple skins and a thin blue ring around each eye.
The frog has one close relative, the purple frog, N. sahyadrensis, which was first found in the Western Ghats in 2003.
Life cycle
The tadpoles do not swim in ponds or streams. Instead, they grab the stones behind waterfalls, where they spend six months eating algae. Young frogs, called imagos, have brown skin. They turn purple when they are adults.
Adult frogs only come aboveground when the rain falls at the beginning of the northeast monsoon season, when they find mates.
Discovery
Scientists from Hyderabad's Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology discovered the frog in 2017. They named the frog after scientist Dr. Subramaniam Bhupathy, who died in the Western Ghat Mountains in 2014. They wrote about N. bhupathi in Alytes, the official magazine of the International Society for the Study and Conservation of Amphibians. They found N. bhupathi by listening for frog sounds coming up from underground.
"This frog lineage is very ancient, and has a very low diversity, so this finding is very special and unusual," said Elizabeth Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History, who helped write the scientific paper about the discovery.
The scientists did not to say exactly where they found the sample frogs because it was on private property.
This discovery was paid for by the Indian government in a project to sample the DNA of every frog in the country.
Other ideas
Some scientists said that because N. bhupathy, which lives in India, has close relatives in the Seychelles, which are close to Africa, it is likely that the Gondwanaland idea of why the continents are where they are is right. This idea says that Africa and India used to be one large continent, called Gondwanaland.
References
Frogs of Asia
Animals of India
List of Sagan Tosu players

This is a List of Sagan Tosu players. Sagan Tosu is a Japanese professional football club in Tosu on the island of Kyushu.
List
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Taku Akahoshi
Toshimitsu Asai
Hiroki Bandai
Yu Eto
Keisuke Funatani
Takuma Hidaka
Hiroshi Ichihara
Kazuya Iio
Keita Isozaki
Kosuke Kitani
Takuya Muro
Ryuhei Niwa
Yosuke Nozaki
Shinichi Shuto
Kenzo Taniguchi
Yohei Toyoda
Yukihiro Yamase
Jun Yanagisawa
Related pages
Sports in Japan
List of Japanese football teams
References
Other websites
http://www.sagantosu.jp/index.php
J.League Club Guide
Sagan Tosu
New World oriole

New World orioles are a group of birds in the genus Icterus. They are in the blackbird family, and not related to Old World orioles of the family Oriolidae. Icterid species are strikingly similar in size, diet, behaviour, and strongly contrasting plumage to Old World orioles. This is a good example of convergent evolution.
Males are typically black and vibrant yellow or orange with white markings, females and immature birds duller. They moult annually. New World orioles are generally slender with long tails and a pointed bill. They mainly eat insects, but also enjoy nectar and fruit. The nest is a woven, elongated pouch. Species nesting in areas with cold winters are strongly migratory, while subtropical and tropical species are more sedentary (do not migrate.
The name "oriole" was first recorded (in the Latin form oriolus) by Albertus Magnus in about 1250, which he stated to be onomatopoeic, from the song of the European golden oriole.
The genus name Icterus as used by classical authors, referred to a bird with yellow or green plumage. In modern times this has been identified as the golden oriole. Brisson mistakenly re-applied the name to the New World birds because of their similarity in appearance.
References
Icteridae
Giles Radice

Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice, (4 October 1936 - 25 August 2022) was a British Labour politician and author. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001. He later became a member of the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.
Radice died from cancer on 25 August 2022, at age 85.
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Cancer deaths in England
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UK MPs 1979-1983
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Hollfeld

Hollfeld is a town in the district of Bayreuth, in Bavaria, Germany.
It is 20 km west of Bayreuth, and 30 km east of Bamberg.
References
Other websites
Website (German)
Bayreuth (district)
María Ángeles Fernández Lebrato

Maria Angeles Fernandez Lebrato (born September 12, 1970 in Valladolid) is a cyclist and swimmer from Spain. She has a disability: She is blind and is an B2/S12 type athlete. She competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in swimming. She was the second swimmer to finish in the 200 meter one person medley and the 100 meter freestyle. She was the third swimmer to finish in the 50 meter freestyle race, 400 meter freestyle race and the 4 x 100 medley Relay 49 Points race. She competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in cycling.
References
Spanish swimmers
Spanish cyclists
Living people
1970 births
Spanish Paralympic bronze medalists
Spanish Paralympic silver medalists
1996 Summer Paralympics
2000 Summer Paralympics
Sportspeople with disabilities, type B2
People from Valladolid
Eastern lowland gorilla

The eastern lowland gorilla or Grauer's gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) is a subspecies of eastern gorilla. It is native to the mountainous forests of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is the largest of the four gorilla subspecies. It has jet black coats like the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), although the hair is shorter on the head and body. The male's coat, like that of other gorillas, greys as the animal matures, resulting in the designation "silverback".
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Gorillas
Galyn Görg

Galyn Gorg, pronounced George, also credited as Galyn Gorg, Galan Gorg and Gaylyn Gorg (July 15, 1964 - July 14, 2020) was an American actress and dancer. She was best known for her role in the movies, RoboCop 2 as Angie, the Nuke addicted bad girl; on M.A.N.T.I.S., television's first black superhero program, as Lt. Maxwell and on the television show Twin Peaks as Nancy O'Reilly. She was born in Los Angeles.
Gorg died of cancer in Hawaii on July 14, 2020, the day before her 56th birthday.
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1964 births
2020 deaths
Cancer deaths in Hawaii
American movie actors
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Ben Riley

Ben Riley (July 17, 1933 - November 18, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, Kenny Barron, and as member of the group Sphere. During the 1970s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.
Riley died on November 18, 2017 in West Islip, New York at the age of 84.
References
Other websites
Ben Riley -- Drummerworld
Interview with Ben Riley -- by Don Williams for All About Jazz
1933 births
2017 deaths
American jazz musicians
American drummers
Musicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Savannah, Georgia
Mia Hamm

Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm-Garciaparra (born on March 17, 1972, in Selma, Alabama), is a retired American professional soccer player. She is also a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion. Hamm played as a Striker for the United States women's national soccer team from 1987 to 2004.
American soccer players
1972 births
Living people
People from Selma, Alabama
Sportspeople from Alabama
Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach is a beach in Sydney, Australia, about one kilometre long and roughly seven kilometres from the centre of the city.
Bondi beach is one of the world's greatest beaches, and is one of Sydney's main tourist attractions.
Large numbers of tourists visit Bondi Beach throughout the year, and many Irish and British tourists spend Christmas Day there.
History
The word "Bondi" is an aboriginal (native) word which means water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks.
In 1809, a road builder William Roberts received a grant of land in the Bondi area. In 1851 Edward Smith Hall and Francis O'Brien bought of Bondi and named it the "Bondi Estate." Hall was O'Brien's father-in-law. In between 1855 and 1877 O'Brien bought his father-in-laws share of the land and named it the "O'Brien Estate". He made the beach and surrounding land available to the public as a picnic ground and amusement resort. As the beach became more popular, O'Brien wanted to stop public access. The Government believed that the Municipal council needed to step in. On the 9th June 1882, Bondi Beach became a public beach.
Today
Many people visit Bondi Beach throughout the year, ranging from 4000 people to 9000 people. Bondi Beach has an underwater shark net that they share with other beaches along the southern coast. In 2004, Surf Lifesaving Australia gave different hazard ratings to each end of the beach. The northern end was rated a gentle 4 with 10 as the most hazardous, while the southern end was rated a dangerous 7 due to the famous rip current known as the "Backpackers Rip". The south end is generally reserved for surf board riding. Bondi Beach was added to the Australia National Heritage list in 2008.
Pods of whales and dolphins are sometimes sighted. Fairy penguins while rare are sometimes also seen.
Lifesavers
Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club was the world's first livesaving club. North Bondi Surf Livesaving Club is a federation club. Both clubs were founded in 1907. Both clubs were involved in the biggest rescue ever on one day known as 'Black Sunday'.
References
Other websites
Bondi Chill - Music Made in Bondi Beach
Geography of New South Wales
Beaches
Sydney
Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz

The Club Deportivo Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, commonly known as Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, is a Mexican football club. Their nickname "Tiburones Rojos" means red sharks in English.
Honors
Primera Division: 2
1945-46, 1949-50
Primera Division A: 1
2001
Mexican Cup: 1
1947-48
Mexican football clubs
Veracruz
1943 establishments in North America
1940s establishments in Mexico
Trishuli River

The Trishuli River is one of the major rivers of Nepal. It is a tributary of Narayani River of Nepal. It originates from the Tibet region of China. The name of the river came from 'Trishula' a weapon carried by Hindu god Shiva.
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Rivers of Nepal
Robert Axelrod (actor)

Robert Axelrod (May 29, 1949 - September 7, 2019), also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was known for his voice work in Digimon. He was also the voice of Lord Zedd, the main antagonist of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; and Finster, the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers monster maker.
He also played a Paul McCartney look-alike on the popular sitcom Family Matters.
Axelrod died in Los Angeles, California on September 7, 2019 at the age of 70. He had been suffering from problems caused by spinal surgery.
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1949 births
2019 deaths
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American movie actors
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Virgil Dridea

Virgil Dridea (17 November 1940 - 29 May 2022), also known as Puiu Dridea, was a Romanian footballer and manager. He played as a midfielder in 82 matches for Petrolul Ploiesti from 1958 until 1968. Dridea was born in Ploiesti, Romania.
Dridea died on 29 May 2022 at the age of 81.
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1940 births
2022 deaths
Romanian footballers
Romanian football managers
Penelope

Penelope is a woman from the Greek mythology. She is the wife of Odysseus of Ithaca and mother of Telemachus. She became a symbol for the faithful wife.
When her husband Odysseus was on his long journey home, many people thought he was dead. Because of this, many suitors came who wanted to marry Penelope, because then they would own her land and wealth, and become king of Ithaca.
Penelope thinks of several tricks so that she does not have to marry one of the suitors. One trick is that she tells the suitors that she will first weave a cloth for the funeral of Odysseus' father, and when she was finished she would marry one of the suitors. But every night she undoes her weaving again, so that she never finishes it.
When Odysseus finally comes back after twenty years, he and his son Telemachos kill the suitors.
Sources
Richard Heitman 2005. Taking her seriously: Penelope and the plot of Homer's Odyssey. Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor. .
People in Greek mythology