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Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth. It flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south.
Geologically, the Firth of Forth is a fjord, formed by the Forth Glacier in the last glacial period. The river is tidal as far inland as Stirling.
Traffic is carried across the Firth on the Kincardine Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Rail Bridge. In the 21st century, the Clackmannanshire Bridge has been built close to the Kincardine Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing has been built close to the Forth Road Bridge to handle increased road traffic.
In July 2007, a hovercraft passenger service completed a two week trial between Portobello, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, Fife. The trial of the service (marketed as "Forthfast") was hailed as a major operational success, with an average passenger load of 85%. It was predicted to cut congestion for commuters on the Forth road and rail bridges by carrying about 870,000 passengers a year. The service was canceled in 2011.
References
Geography of Scotland
Tonita Castro

Tonita Castro (1952/53 - May 8, 2016) was a Mexican-born American actress. She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. She appeared on television shows such as Little Britain USA, The Sarah Silverman Program, Kroll Show, Life in Pieces, and Dads. She also appeared on movies such as Imagine That, Funny People, Our Family Wedding, Bad Ass, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and The Book of Life.
Castro died on May 8, 2016 from stomach cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 63.
References
1950s births
2016 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in California
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican voice actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Guadalajara
Kate Daley

Kate Daley (born September 27, 1985) is an American rugby union player and coach. She played for the United States women's national rugby union team at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.
She played for Pennsylvania State University. She coached for Pennsylvania State University.
References
Other websites
USA Kate Daley talks about Rugby win Universal Sports Aug 5, 2014
1985 births
Living people
American rugby union players
Coaches
Rungis

Rungis is a commune. It is in the Val-de-Marne department in France. In 2019, 5,657 people lived there.
The commune is in the southern suburbs of Paris, from the center. It is best known as the home of the large wholesale food market Marche d'Interet National de Rungis.
Communes in Val-de-Marne
1970 UEFA European Under-18 Championship

The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1970 Final Tournament was held in Scotland.
Qualification
Group 1
Group 2
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Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
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Teams
The following teams entered the tournament. Six teams qualified (Q) and ten teams entered without playing qualification matches.
(Q)
(Q)
(Q)
(Q)
(host)
(Q)
(Q)
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Semifinals
Third place match
Final
Other websites
Results by RSSSF
UEFA European Under-19 Championship
1970 in Europe
1970 in association football
Thuringian dialect

Thuringian is an East Central German dialect group spoken in Thuringia, southwestern Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse, and Bavaria.
Subgroups
The subgroups of Thuringian:
Central Thuringian
Northern Thuringian
Eichsfeld dialect
Eastern Thuringian
Southeastern Thuringian
Other variants:
Ilm Thuringian
Northeastern Thuringian
Mansfeld dialect
Western Thuringian
References
German dialects
Languages of Germany
Thuringia
North Sikkim district

North Sikkim is a district of the Indian state of Sikkim. The district headquarters is Mangan. It is the seventh least populous district in the country (out of 640).
Geography
The district is the largest of the four districts of Sikkim. Temperatures range from about 25deg to below -40deg. The cold temperatures are in the extreme high reaches where the altitude is in excess of 6,000 metres. Kanchenjanga is the highest peak at over 8,000 m. The mountain is on the western border with Nepal. It can be seen clearly from the town of Singhik.
Part of Khangchendzonga National Park is in the district.
Economy
Mangan is known as the Cardamom Capital of the world. The climate and terrain best suit the growing of the larger variety of Cardamom here. In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named North Sikkim one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is the only district in Sikkim currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).
Demographics
According to the 2011 census North Sikkim district has a population of 43,354, roughly equal to the nation of Liechtenstein. This gives it a ranking of 634th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 5.66%. North Sikkim has a sex ratio of 769 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 77.39%.
References
Other websites
Districts of Sikkim
Jakob Arjouni

Jakob Bothe (born Jakob Michelsen; 8 October 1964 - 17 January 2013), better known as Jakob Arjouni, was a German writer. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder. He was born in Frankfurt, Hesse, West Germany.
Arjouni died from pancreatic cancer on 17 January 2013 in Berlin, Germany. He was 48 years old. He was outlived by his wife and children.
References
Other websites
1964 births
2013 deaths
Cancer deaths in Germany
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Science fiction writers
Writers from Frankfurt
Ardingly

Ardingly is a village in the borough of Mid Sussex in the county of West Sussex. About 1,900 people live in Ardingly. Its postcode is RH17.
Villages in West Sussex
Civil parishes in England
Esquéhéries

Esqueheries is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Communes in Aisne
Horizon (1932 movie)

Horizon () is a 1932 Soviet drama movie directed by Lev Kuleshov. It stars Nikolai Batalov, Dmitriy Kara-Dmitriev, and Nikolai Gladkov.
Actors
Nikolai Batalov as Lev Abramovich Horizon
Dmitriy Kara-Dmitriev as The Watchmaker
Nikolai Gladkov as Kid
Andrei Gorchilin as Monya
Sergey Komarov as Subofficer / American policeman / Priest
References
Other websites
Soviet drama movies
1932 drama movies
Russian drama movies
Movies about Jews and Judaism
Movies directed by Lev Kuleshov
Sloth bear

The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) is a bear that lives in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Appearance
Sloth bears have long and shaggy black fur, but its fur can also be brown. On its chest it has a white or yellow mark, which is shaped like an Y or V. They have big feet with long claws. The long claws are also the reason for its English name, because the claws look like the claws of a sloth.
Life
Sloth bears are omnivores and eats mostly termites and ants. But they also eat fruit, honey, eggs, carrion, grasses and occasionally rodents. Sloth bears use their claws to dig up ants from the dirt. They also use their claws to fight predators such as tigers, leopards and jackals. Bengal tigers prey on sloth bears of all ages. Indian leopards, dholes and Indian wolves may also be a threat.
Female sloth bears usually have 1-2 babies, sometimes 3. Young sloth bears stay with their mother for 2-3 years. In captivity they can live to be 40 years old.
Sloth bear adults can weigh anywhere from 60 to 70 kilograms (120-130 pounds) and measure anywhere from 152 to 178 centimeters (60-70 inches) in length.
Other websites
Bears
Mammals of Asia
Mark Slade

Mark Van Blarcom Slade (born May 1, 1939) is an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor, writer, and artist who is known for his role as Billy Blue Cannon in The High Chaparral.
Slade was born on May 1, 1939 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was married to Melinda Riccilli since 1968.
Other websites
marksladestudio.com, Official Website
1939 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American radio actors
American television writers
American artists
Actors from Massachusetts
Writers from Massachusetts
People from Salem, Massachusetts
Pope Gregory VII

Pope Gregory VII (; 1020-May 25, 1085), born Hildebrand (Italian: Ildebrando di Soana), was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 158th Pope from April 22, 1073 until he died in 1085.
Early life
Hildebrand was born in Sovana in Tuscany. As a youth, he became a Benedictine monk.
In Rome, Hildebrand became the chaplain of Pope Gregory VI. When Gregory VI abdicated and went into in exile in Germany, Hildebrand went with him.
Cardinal
Pope Leo IX raised Hildebrand to the rank of Cardinal in 1049.
Pope
Cardinal Hildebrand was elected pope on April 22, 1073; and he chose to be called Gregory.
Pope Gregory was involved in Italian and European political disputes.
After his death
Pope Gregory died an exile in Salerno. His last words were: "I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore, I [now] die in exile." ("Dilexi iustitiam et odivi iniquitatem propterea morior in exilio")..
Gregory was recognized as a saint in 1728..
Gallery
Related pages
List of popes
References
Other websites
"Gregory VII", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911
Catholic Hierarchy, Popes in sequence
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Ildebrando
Italian popes
1020 births
1085 deaths
Benedictines
Circleville, Ohio

Circleville is a city in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Pickaway County.
Cities in Ohio
County seats in Ohio
Hadschi Baba Scheich

Hadschi Baba Scheich (Haji Baba Sheikh) (Heci Baba Sex in Kurdish) was the prime minister of the Republic of Mahabad. After the republic was conquered by the Iranian army in 1947 he was the only one who was not hanged together with president Qazi Muhammad at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad in 1947. He was immune because of his religious standing. The journalist and lyric Hemin Mukriyani was his secretary during the republic.
Literature
Archie Roosevelt, Jr., "The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad" ,Middle East Journal, no. 1 (July 1947), pp. 247-69
Kurdish politicians
Lacarry-Arhan-Charritte-de-Haut

Lacarry-Arhan-Charritte-de-Haut is a commune in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.
Lacarry-Arhan-Charritte-de-Haut
Niederdorf, South Tyrol

Niederdorf () is a comune in South Tyrol in Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol, Italy.
References
Other websites
Homepage of the municipality
Settlements in Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol
Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (; ; 13 May 1221 - 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236-40, 1241-56 and 1258-1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1236-52) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252-63). Metropolite Macarius made him a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547.
References
1221 births
1260s deaths
Russian Orthodox Christians
Russian princes and princesses
Dizzy (song)

"Dizzy" is a song first recorded by Tommy Roe which became an worldwide hit single in 1969. The instrument parts were made by the Los Angeles musicians known as the Wrecking Crew.
Partly written by Roe and Freddy Weller, "Dizzy" did very well on both sides of the Atlantic, becoming number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for about a month in March 1969, for one week on the UK Singles Chart in June 1969, and was number one in Canada in March 1969.
It was later remade by other music artists including Boney M, Wreckless Eric, and Billy J. Kramer. A 1991 edited version by Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff made it to number one in the UK Singles Chart.
References
1968 songs
Boney M songs
Stringtown, Oklahoma

Stringtown is a town in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It can be found in Atoka County.
Towns in Oklahoma
Blackstreet

Blackstreet is an American R&B group. It began around 1991. It was created through Teddy Riley. The group was very strong during the 1990s. Their songs included "No Diggity" and "Booty Call".
Albums
Blackstreet (1994)
Another Level (1996)
Finally (1999)
Level II (2003)
Tours
Blackstreet Tour (1994-1995)
Another Level Tour (1997)
Finally Tour (1999-2000)
Level II Tour (2003-2004)
1990s American music groups
American R&B bands
Castillo-Albaráñez

Castillo-Albaranez is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 28.
Municipalities in Castile-La Mancha
Abdulhussain Abdulredha

Abdulhussain Abdulredha (15 July 1939 - 11 August 2017), ( ) was a Kuwaiti actor, famous and prominent in the Middle East in particular. Abdulredha is best known for his personality of sarcastic humor that made a mockery of the Arab situation comedy template. He was one of the founders of the Arab theater in 1961 and the National Theatre in 1976, as the year 1984 established a special brigade Theatre Arts.
On 11 August 2017, Abdulredha died in London aged 78.
References
Other websites
Abdulredha at elcinema.com
Gulf Film Festival Honours GCC Film Legends
1939 births
2017 deaths
Kuwaiti people
Movie actors
Asian writers
Stage actors
Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead () is a Mexican holiday celebrated in Mexico known around the world by the skull painting face. It is celebrated by people of Mexico living in other places, especially the United States. Family and friends gather for this multi-day holiday to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died while creating an Ofrenda. They do Ofrenda on a altar at home and also on the grave. It is also to help support their spiritual journey. In 2008, the tradition was inscribed in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
The origin of the day of the dead comes from a mix of culture. Aztec and Christian are the main influence of it. In some countries people use sugar skull painting for Halloween but it is not the same celebration. Everyone is welcomed to join in on the celebration, but nearly everyone in Mexico celebrates it. The Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated all throughout Mexico. It is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have died. The traditional food is the bread of the dead (pan de muertos). People paint there faces to match Caleveras. The famous decoration is the sugar skulls, Marigolds, and candles . People believe the spirit of the dead goes and visits their families from October 31 (aka Halloween) then leaves on November 2. The Day of the Dead is held every year on the 2nd of November in Mexico. This Mexican holiday is celebrated because families do it to honor their loved ones who have passed.
References
Festivals in North America
November events
Mexican culture
Hazel McCallion

Hazel McCallion, nee Journeaux, CM (February 14, 1921 - January 29, 2023) was a Canadian politician. She served as the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. McCallion was first elected in November 1978, and was the longest serving mayor in the city's history. She retired in 2014.
References
Other websites
Mayor's Office
Order of Canada Citation
The Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre
1921 births
2023 deaths
Canadian centenarians
Canadian mayors
People from Quebec
Little Yeldham

Little Yeldham is a village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England. In 2001 there were 326 people living in Little Yeldham.
References
Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Gin Maeda

(born February 21, 1944) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his regular role in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies. He was born in Tokyo.
References
Other websites
Actors from Tokyo
Living people
1944 births
Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an award for authors whose works help to give readers "a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view."
A meeting was held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in 1995. Leaders from Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia and other leaders from the United States and European nations met to find a way to end the war in Bosnia. Richard Holbrooke of the United States was the leader of this peace process. On 21 November 1995 an agreement was reached. It was called the Dayton Peace Agreement or the Dayton Peace Accords.
Soon after this, the people of Dayton began to form connections with the people of the war-torn nations. They would share cultural and educational experiences with each other. In 1999, the city of Dayton began the Dayton Peace Prize. It was for leaders who brought peace to their troubled places. In 2006, the Peace Prize was given a new name. They named it, the Literary Peace Prize. "Literary" means that the prize would be given to writers, makers of literature, who helped readers learn how to think and live in ways that will bring peace to their part of the world.
The literary prizes are given to the writers of adult fiction and non-fiction from anywhere in the world. The prizes are $10,000 for the winner and $5,000 for the runner-up. Writers who have won the award include Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Thomas Friedman, Dave Eggers, Bryan Stevenson, Anthony Doerr, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Richard Powers, and Alice Hoffman.
The prizes also include a Distinguished Achievement Award. It is for writers whose life work has added much to learning about peace. Since 2011, this award has been called the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. The prize includes $10,000. Winners of the Holbrooke Award include Elie Wiesel, Barbara Kingsolver, Tim O'Brien, Wendell Berry, Louise Erdrich, John Irving, N. Scott Momaday, and Margaret Atwood.
References
Literary awards
Yeast

Yeast are microorganisms. They are single-celled fungi. There are about 1,500 different species of yeast. Most reproduce asexually, by budding. Some use binary fission to reproduce asexually.
A particular species of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been used for thousands of years. It is used for baking bread because the yeast makes carbon dioxide as a by-product of it eating sugar, which helps the bread rise (leaven). Yeast is also used for making beer and other alcoholic drinks by a process known as fermentation. This process produces both ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. Ethanol is also used as fuel, and to make other organic chemicals.
Yeast can be used to make electricity. Yeast is also a model organism for studying cell biology. Some yeasts can cause infections in humans (they are pathogens).
Related pages
Mycorrhiza
Mould
Slime_mould
Lichen
Candida
Fungus
References
Other websites
Fungi
Jagannath Azad

Jagannath Azad (1918-2004) () was a prominent Urdu-speaking Hindu academic who wrote the first national anthem of Pakistan. The Tarana-e-Pakistan.
1918 births
2004 deaths
People from Punjab (Pakistan)
Coastal California

Coastal California, also known as the California coastline, Golden Coast refers to parts of California near the ocean.
Geography
Coastal California includes the North Coast, San Francisco Bay Area (including Silicon Valley), Central Coast, and South Coast. The coastline is slowly eroding because of natural processes and it may be happening faster because of climate change. In the last 100 years, the water level has gone to less than 6 in (150 mm) along the coast of California. In the next 100 years, the water is expected to go from less than 6 in (150 mm) to 9 ft (2.7 m), which is a danger to the many houses at the coast.
Counties
The counties that are part of coastal California are:
South Coast
Los Angeles
Orange
San Diego
Central Coast
Monterey
San Benito
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz
Ventura
San Francisco Bay Area
Alameda
Contra Costa
Marin
Napa
San Francisco
San Mateo
Santa Clara
Solano
Sonoma
North Coast
Del Norte
Humboldt
Mendocino
References
Geography of California
LiHe

LiHe is a chemical compound. It contains helium and lithium. The substance is a cold low density gas. It is made of a helium atom and lithium atom held together by van der Waals force. It was detected in 2013.
References
Lithium compounds
Anshan

Anshan () is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. It is located about 92 kilometres (57 miles) south of the provincial capital of Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning's third most populous city with a population of 3,325,372 people. It has an area of about spanning from east to the west.
The city's name came from the horse saddle-like shape of a nearby mountain south of the city. Anshan is home to the Anshan Iron and Steel Group, one of the largest steel makers in China. Anshan holds one-third of the world's supply of talcum and a quarter of the world's reserves of magnesite. Anshan also produced the largest ever jade stone, now a local tourist attraction carved as a Buddha statue.
References
Cities in China
Over My Head (Cable Car)

Over My Head (Cable car) is the debut single by rock band The Fray off the hit album How to Save a Life (album). The single was released September of 2005.
Music Video
The video ranked close to number one various times since the release of the single. The music video was actually shot in a High School in Denver, Colorado.
Chart Rankings
In the Brazilian Hot 100, "Cable Car" was ranked #5, World Singles ranked the song #24, U.S. Adult Top 40 ranked it #2, and U.S. Top 40 Mainstream ranked it #5.
Discography
2002 - Movement EP
2003 - Reason EP
2005 - How to Save a Life (album)
2006 - Live at the Electric Factory
2007 - Acoustic in Nashville
2005 songs
Made in U.S.A (1966 movie)

Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French crime comedy movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard and was based on the novels The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Judder by Donald E. Westlake. It stars Anna Karina, Ernest Menzer, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kyoto Kosaka, Yves Afonso, Jean-Claude Bouillon.
Other websites
1966 comedy movies
1966 crime movies
French comedy movies
French crime movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Officer Creek

Officer Creek is a watercourse in the north-west of South Australia, on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. It is normally mostly dry except for periods of very high rainfall. It runs from the Musgrave Ranges southward into the Great Victoria Desert. The only major community on Officer Creek is Kaltjiti.
The land around Officer Creek is part of the traditional homeland of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara. In September 1873, the explorer Ernest Giles and his team came to the creek during his second trip into the centre of Australia. At Kaltjiti, they encountered a large group of Aboriginal men. The Europeans fired shots from their rifles, allegedly because the Aboriginal people were throwing spears at them. Giles' group escaped unharmed, but did not report whether any of the Aboriginal men were hurt. He later acknowledged that aggression from the locals toward White people was usually due to them trespassing on sacred land. Giles may have interrupted an initiation or another kind of ceremony. Giles named the river "The Officer", and it was known by this name until the 1930s when it was renamed Officer Creek.
Other websites
Officer Creek on Bonzle, Digital Atlas of Australia
Rivers of South Australia
Enrique Irazoqui

Enrique Irazoqui (5 July 1944 - 16 September 2020) was a Spanish actor and political activist. He was born in Barcelona. Irazoqui was best known for his role as Jesus Christ in the 1964 movie The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
Irazoqui died on 16 September 2020 in Barcelona at the age of 76.
References
Other websites
2020 deaths
1944 births
Spanish movie actors
Political activists
Spanish activists
Let's Go to Bed (The Cure song)

"Let's Go to Bed" is a 1982 song by English gothic rock band The Cure and was released as a stand-alone single. It went to number 15 in Australia and number 17 in New Zealand. It was a minor success in the United Kingdom where it peaked at #44.
Track listing
7-inch vinyl
"Let's Go to Bed" - 3:35
"Just One Kiss" - 4:10
12-inch vinyl
"Let's Go to Bed" (Extended Mix) - 7:04
"Just One Kiss" (Extended Mix) - 7:02
US 7-inch vinyl
"Let's Go to Bed" - 3:34
"Boys Don't Cry" - 2:36
US 12-inch vinyl
"Let's Go to Bed" - 7:45
"Just One Kiss" - 7:18
"Let's Go to Bed" (edit) - 3:35
References
1982 songs
The Cure songs
Scottsville, Kansas

Scottsville is a city in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. In 2010, 25 people lived there.
History
Scottsville was platted in October 1878 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Tom Scott, a pioneer settler.
The post office in Scottsville was closed in 1967.
Geography
Scottsville is at (39.542783, -97.953746).
The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of . All of it is land.
People
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 25 people, 11 households, and 7 families living in Scottsville.
References
Other websites
City
Scottsville - Directory of Public Officials
Schools
USD 273, local school district
Maps
Scottsville City Map, KDOT
Cities in Mitchell County, Kansas
Përmet District

The District of Permet is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It is part of Gjirokaster County. There are 22,029 people. The capital is Permet.
References
Districts of Albania
Acireale

Acireale is an Italian city in Sicily. About 53,000 people live there.
Cities in Sicily
John Pilger

John Richard Pilger (; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker.
Pilger is a strong critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy. He is against imperialist and colonialist agenda.
He first drew international attention for his reports on the Cambodian genocide.
His career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970). Other works include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993).
Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.
Pilger won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award in 1967 and 1979.
References
1939 births
Living people
War correspondents
Australian journalists
Australian critics
Australian movie directors
Writers from New South Wales
Jacques Lacoursière

Jacques Lacoursiere, (1932 - 1 June 2021) was a Canadian television host, author and historian. Lacoursiere was born in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was known for making historical documentaries about Quebec such as Epopee en Amerique : une histoire populaire du Quebec.
He died on 1 June 2021, at the age of 89.
Lacoursiere was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2006.
References
1932 births
2021 deaths
Canadian historians
Canadian television presenters
Writers from Quebec
Juvinas

Juvinas is a commune in the Ardeche departement in southern France.
Communes in Ardeche
Biden Foundation

The Biden Foundation was a non-profit organization from 2017 to 2019. It was founded and opened by then-former Vice President Joe Biden and then-former Second Lady Jill Biden.
Origins and purpose
The Biden's launched the Biden Foundation on February 1, 2017. The purpose of the foundation was to allow them to continue supporting the issues they cared most about once they left Washington D.C. in January 2017.
These causes included Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative, during his term as vice president, and the Violence Against Women Act. Jill Biden's support for military families, which had begun as the Joining Forces initiative during her time as second lady, and her focus on community colleges, where she continued to teach after she left office.
Shutdown
On April 25, 2019, the Biden's announced that they were suspending all operations effectively and immediately and all the foundation's activities to follow.
This closing was due to the announcement of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, following the same day.
References
Joe Biden
Non-profit organizations of the United States
Saligny-le-Vif

Saligny-le-Vif is a former commune. It is in Centre-Val de Loire in the Cher department in central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune of Baugy.
References
Former communes in Cher
Grefrath, Neuss

Grefrath is a district of Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Population
Notable People
Mathias Weber (1778-1803), robber
Other websites
Tourism brochure (in German)
Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhein-Kreis Neuss Rural District
Corrado Olmi

Corrado Olmi (24 October 1926 - 29 December 2020) was an Italian actor and comedian. He was born in Jesi, Italy. His career lasted from 1956 to 2000. He played Bobino in Wake Up and Die, Don Ermino in Scandal in the Family and as the Mayor in Madly in Love.
Olmi died on 29 December 2020 in Rome from COVID-19 at the age of 93.
References
1926 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
Italian movie actors
Italian stage actors
Italian television actors
Italian comedians
José Folgado

Jose Folgado Blanco (1944 - 23 March 2020) was a Spanish businessman and politician. He was a member of the People's Party. Folgado was born Morales de Rey, Spain. Folgado was President of Red Electrica de Espana from 2012 to 2018. He was a Deputy in 2000 and again from 2004 to 2008. From 2007 to 2012, he was Mayor of Tres Cantos.
Folgado died on 23 March 2020 of COVID-19 in Tres Cantos at the age of 75.
References
1944 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
Spanish mayors
Spanish businesspeople
Wigan Warriors

Wigan Warriors are a rugby league club from Wigan, United Kingdom. Wigan play in Super League and have won 21 league championships, 19 Challenge Cups and 4 World Club titles. Wigan play at the DW Stadium.
Rugby league clubs
Wigan
Faience

Faience pottery is tin-glazed pottery. It is the use of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration. This is got by adding an oxide of tin to a lead glaze.
It was a major advance in the history of pottery, made about 500 years ago. The technique was brought to Al-Andalus in Spain from Moorish potteries in the eastern Mediterranean.
In Italy locally produced tin-glazed earthenwares was called maiolica. It reached a peak in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
It was made in several countries. English creamware was developed in Staffordshire in the 18th century. Instead of faience they were called delftware.
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Pottery
Wilen

Wilen is a municipality of the district of Munchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Other websites
Municipalities of Thurgau
Francine Hughes

Francine Hughes (August 17, 1947 - March 22, 2017) is an American woman who suffered domestic abuse from her ex-husband named Mickey Hughes. She ended up killing him by setting fire to his bed on March 9, 1977. Mickey was killed and the house was destroyed in the fire. The story was made into a book and a movie. In No Child of Mine (where 35 year old Linda abused everyone), 35 year old Linda was acting like Mickey who lived with 13 year old Kerry (who didn't do anything wrong) in and for 13 years.
Background
Hughes had suffered over a decade of beatings and verbal abuse from her husband. She divorced him, but every time she tried to keep him out of the house, he kept beating her.
After Mickey was in a serious car accident, she visited him in the hospital. She then allowed him back in the house to recover from his injuries. He started drinking and beating her again.
The Burning Bed
On the day he died, he beat her badly then burned her textbooks for classes she was taking. That night Hughes poured gasoline on her husband's bed and set him on fire. She then drove to the police station so she could confess to the killing. After trial in Lansing, Michigan, Hughes was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
Francine Hughes' story was made into a book by Faith McNulty. It was later made into a movie in 1984 titled The Burning Bed. It starred Farrah Fawcett.
References
Other websites
Dansville, Michigan: The Burning Bed
"The Burning Bed": A turning point in fight against domestic violence
1947 births
American crime victims
People acquitted of murder
2017 deaths
David Ossman

David Ossman (born December 6, 1936) is an American writer, actor and comedian. He was born in Santa Monica, California. He is best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre and screenwriter of such movies as Zachariah. He also voiced Cornelius in A Bug's Life.
Filmography
Animated Roles
The Tick - Coach
Film Roles
A Bug's Life - Cornelius
References
1936 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
American television writers
Screenwriters from California
Movie directors from California
Movie producers from California
Comedians from Santa Monica, California
Actors from Santa Monica, California
Marquise, Pas-de-Calais

Marquise is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Population
Related pages
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
References
INSEE commune file
Other websites
A history of the town
The CWGC cemetery
Marquise on the Quid website
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Jolo, Sulu

Jolo is a city which is the capital of the Sulu province of the Philippines. In 2015, 125,564 people lived there. That same year, 40% of people living there were poor.
Islamist bombers attacked Jolo in 2019 and 2020.
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Cities in the Philippines
Longhorn beetle

The longhorn beetles or long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae) are a family of beetles that have long antennae. The antennae may be longer than the beetles' body. Over 35,000 species have been described.
The length of the antennae is an obvious feature of their body. Their long antennae sprout from tubercles on the face. Cerambycids with short antennae still have the tubercles. Otherwise they vary greatly in size, shape, sculpture, and colour.
Many of the species are mimics of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps). The rest are cryptically colored. The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) from northeastern South America is often considered the largest insect (though not the heaviest, and not the longest including legs). Its maximum body length is just over .
References
Other websites
cerambycoidea.com
Photo gallery of word-wide long-horned beetles
New Liberty, Iowa

New Liberty is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Cities in Iowa
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi

Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi (Persian: mhdy `Tr shrfy; 23 December 1948 - 9 January 2021) was an Iranian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games and a silver at the 1979 Asian Championships and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Attar-Ashrafi was born in Tehran. He died on 9 January 2021 in Tehran, aged 72.
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1948 births
2021 deaths
Iranian Olympians
Iranian weightlifters
Sportspeople from Tehran
Gwinnett Stripers

The Gwinnett Stripers are a Minor League Baseball team from Gwinnett County, Georgia, near Lawrenceville, in suburban Atlanta. They play baseball at the Triple-A (AAA) level, the most difficult level before Major League Baseball, against other baseball teams in the International League (a group of 20 baseball teams at the same level). The Stripers are partnered with the Atlanta Braves, a Major League Baseball team. When a player shows that he plays well at this level, he may be moved up to play for the Braves.
The team is named "Stripers" for the striped bass, because fishing is popular in the region. They used to be called the Gwinnett Braves after their MLB partner from 2009 to 2017. They changed their name to Stripers in 2018.
The Stripers play at a stadium called Coolray Field, which opened in 2009.
References
Other websites
The team's website
The team's statistics from Baseball-Reference
2000s establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Atlanta Braves
Baseball teams in the United States
Sports in Georgia (U.S. state)
Rie Yamaki

is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Yamaki was born in Chiba Prefecture on October 2, 1975. She joined for Nissan FC in 1989. In 1989 season, she was selected Young players awards. However, the club was disbanded in 1993. In 1994, she moved to Nikko Securities Dream Ladies. The club won Nadeshiko League championship for 3 years in a row (1996-1998). She was also selected MVP awards in 1997 season. However, the club was disbanded in 1998 due to financial strain. She moved to German Bundesliga club Frankfurt. In 2003, she returned to Japan and joined Ohara Gakuen JaSRA. She retired end of 2004 season. She was also selected Best Eleven for 5 years in a row (1993-1997).
In December 1993, when Yamaki was 18 years old, she was selected the Japan national team for 1993 AFC Championship. At this competition, on 4 December, she debuted against Chinese Taipei. She also played at 1994, 1998 Asian Games, 1995 and 1997 AFC Championship. She was a member of Japan for 1995, 1999 World Cup and 1996 Summer Olympics. She played 50 games and scored 3 goals for Japan until 1999.
Statistics
References
Other websites
1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Chiba Prefecture
Japan women's international footballers
Nadeshiko League players
Nissan FC Ladies players
Nikko Securities Dream Ladies players
AC Nagano Parceiro Ladies players
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1993 AFC Women's Championship players
1995 AFC Women's Championship players
1997 AFC Women's Championship players
Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games
Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in football
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
The Abysmal Brute (movie)

The Abysmal Brute is a 1923 American silent sports drama movie directed by Hobart Henley and was based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Jack London. It stars Reginald Denny, Mabel Julienne Scott, Charles K. French, Hayden Stevenson, David Torrence, Buddy Messinger, Crauford Kent, Dorothea Wolbert and was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Other websites
1923 drama movies
1920s American drama movies
American silent movies
Universal Pictures movies
Movies directed by Hobart Henley
Fred Giffin

Fred Giffin was a weightlifter from Australia. Fred competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born on 19 April 1920 and died on 10 May 1999.
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Other websites
1920 births
1999 deaths
Australian weightlifters
Australian Olympians
Sportspeople from Brisbane
Farringdon station

Farringdon station is a London Underground and National Rail station in Clerkenwell, just north of the City of London in the London Borough of Islington.
Current developments
Farringdon will, from 2017, be one of the country's busiest stations (if not the busiest station) by number of trains passing through, being served by both Crossrail and the upgraded Thameslink route, as well as the existing Underground lines.
Thameslink upgrade
Farringdon station has been renovated, to allow longer Thameslink trains to fit, and to make other improvements to the station. The existing station building will be given a new roof canopy, and a new entrance and concourse facing Turnmill Street. Platforms will be made wider and longer, which will require the Cowcross Street bridge pillars to be moved. The bridge, along with the Cardinal Tower building, will be torn down and rebuilt once the pillars have been shifted.Cowcross Street will be made into a street for pedestrians only. Lifts will be provided throughout.
The existing ticket hall and concourse will be re-built. Interchange within the station will be improved by means of removing the existing interchange bridge and installing new stairs and lifts with access to all four platforms, thereby allowing disabled passengers to use the station.
Extending the platforms towards the north could not be done due mainly due to the steep gradient (1 in 27) of the Thameslink line immediately north of Farringdon. The platforms therefore had to be extended to the south, cutting off the two-station branch to Moorgate. As a result, since Christmas 2009 Thameslink trains no longer call at Barbican and Moorgate stations, but London Underground still serve those stations.
The new station is designed by the architects from the firm Aukett Fitzroy Robinson.
Crossrail development
A 'Farringdon' Crossrail station is being built between Farringdon and Barbican underground (tube) stations and it will have interchanges with both of them. Access at the Farringdon end will be via the new Thameslink ticket hall. Work will not be complete until 2017.
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Railway stations in London
Circle line stations
Hammersmith & City line stations
Metropolitan line stations
Tube stations in the London Borough of Islington
1863 establishments in England
Railway stations opened in 1863
Mangala Samaraweera

Mangala Pinsiri Samaraweera (21 April 1956 - 24 August 2021) (, ; ) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was also the first openly gay politician from Sri Lanka.
He was the Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2019, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for two terms from 2005 to 2007 and 2015 to 2017. He was born in Matara, Sri Lanka.
Samaraweera died at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 24 August 2021 from COVID-19, aged 65.
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1956 births
2021 deaths
Sri Lankan politicians
LGBT politicians
Gay men
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
Gresham Street

Gresham Street is a street in the City of London, it is named after Thomas Gresham and runs from St. Martin's Le Grand near St Paul's Cathedral in the west, past Guildhall, to Lothbury in the east.
Roads in London
Saint-Mards-en-Othe

Saint-Mards-en-Othe is a commune of the Aube departement in the north-central part of France.
Communes in Aube
The Firm (2012 TV series)

The Firm is a Canadian-American drama that first aired on January 8, 2012 on Global and NBC.
On February 3, 2012, NBC and Global announced that the series would be pulled from its Thursday 10/9c slot immediately, and placed on Saturdays at 9/8c starting on February 18.
References
2010s American drama television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 establishments in Canada
English-language television programs
Juliet Dunlop

Juliet Dunlop (born 21 February 1972) is a Scottish freelance television journalist.
Career
She currently works as a senior news correspondent in Scotland for ITV's breakfast programme Good Morning Britain. She used to be a presenter for BBC News and STV News. She left the BBC in 2011. She took a break from her role in news reporting to embark on a journey as an English teacher at Inveralmond Community High School, Livingston. This was short-lived and Dunlop was back in the news race.
1972 births
Living people
Scottish journalists
Sun–Joffe Manifesto

Sun-Joffe Manifesto or the Joint Manifesto of Sun and Joffe (Sun Wen Yue Fei Xuan Yan ), was a joint statement issued at Shanghai by the Chinese Nationalist revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen and Adolf Joffe, representative of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, which provided the basis for cooperation between the Soviet Union and Sun's Kuomintang, or Nationalist, Party.
1923 in Asia
Chambal River

The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India. It forms a significant portion of the Greater Gangetic drainage arrangement.The river passes through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Major tributaries of the Chambal River include Mej, Banas, Kali Sindh, Parbati, and Shipra. The river flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh. It is a perennial river, which originates from a place near Manspura in Janapao Hills in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is 1,024 km long, and its basin size is 143,219 square km. The Gandhi Sagar Dam is the first of the four dams built on the Chambal River, located on the Rajasthan-Madhya Pradesh border. It is a 64 metre high masonry gravity dam, with a live storage capacity of 6,920 MCM (million cubic metres) and a catchment area of 22,584 square km, of which only 1,537 square km is in Rajasthan.
Rivers of India
Robert Trujillo

Roberto Agustin "Rob" Trujillo (born October 23, 1964) is an American musician who is most famous as the bass player for Metallica. He joined the band in 2003. Before that Trujillo played bass for Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Jerry Cantrell and was a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band.
Music
Black Label Society
2002: 1919 Eternal
2002: Boozed, Broozed, and Broken-Boned (DVD)
Jerry Cantrell
2002: Degradation Trip
2002: Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
Infectious Grooves
1991: The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves
1993: Sarsippius' Ark
1994: Groove Family Cyco
2000: Mas Borracho
Suicidal Tendencies
1989: Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Deja Vu
1990: Lights...Camera...Revolution!
1992: The Art of Rebellion
1993: Still Cyco After All These Years
1994: Suicidal for Life
Glenn Tipton
1997: Baptizm of Fire
Ozzy Osbourne
2001: Down to Earth
2002: Blizzard of Ozz-reissue
2002: Diary of a Madman-reissue
2002: Live at Budokan
Metallica
2008: Death Magnetic
2016: Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
2023: 72 Seasons
Notes
American guitarists
1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Santa Monica, California
Metallica members
Cal Cunningham

James Calvin Cunningham III (born August 6, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, and veteran. He was the North Carolina State Senator from the 23rd district from 2001 to 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
He had an unsuccessful primary campaign for the United States Senate in the 2010 election. In 2020, Cunningham became the Democratic nominee in the 2020 Senate election.
In October 2020, it was revealed that Cunningham had an affair early in the year and sent sexual text messages to his mistress. This was controversial and affected his polling lead against U.S. Senator Thom Tillis weeks before the election. Cunningham lost the election to Tillis on November 10.
References
1973 births
Living people
Lawyers from North Carolina
Military people from North Carolina
State legislators of the United States
People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Politicians from North Carolina
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Montauban-de-Picardie

Montauban-de-Picardie is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
References
Communes in Somme
Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana poet, novelist, and essayist. She writes in English. She sometimes uses Spanglish words and phrases.
She was born and raised in Chicago. She writes stories about her Mexican ancestors. When she was a nine year old girl, she wrote her first poems about death of her Latina grandmother. Her famous books are The Invitation (1979), Women Are Not Roses (1984), and Massacre of the Dreamers (1994).
She writes essays about race, sex, and gender in the United States and Mexico. She also writes science fiction.
Related pages
Latina poetry
Chicana
Sandra Cisneros
Giannina Braschi
References
1953 births
Living people
American essayists
American novelists
American poets
American science fiction writers
Mexican people
Writers from Chicago
Franklin Cleckley

Franklin Dorrah Cleckley (August 1, 1940 - August 14, 2017) was an American lawyer. He was the Arthur B. Hodges Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. He taught at the law school from 1969 to 2013. He held the endowed professorship emeritus.
Cleckley was born in Huntington, West Virginia.
Cleckley became the first African-American to serve as a Justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, when Governor Gaston Caperton appointed him to the position in 1994. Justice Cleckley served on the Court until 1996.
Cleckley died at his home in Morgantown, West Virginia, on August 14, 2017, aged 77.
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1940 births
2017 deaths
Lawyers from West Virginia
Educators from West Virginia
Politicians from West Virginia
Writers from West Virginia
People from Huntington, West Virginia
Democratic Party (United States) politicians