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Nouman Ali Khan

Nouman Ali Khan is an American Muslim speaker and author of Pakistani descent. He is the founder and CEO of The Bayyinah Institute for Arabic and Quranic Studies and Chief Adviser. The fifth edition of The Five Hundred Most Influential Muslims, a biographical dictionary of Islamic personalities, lists Noman Ali Khan as one of the most influential Muslims in the world without any ranking.
Early life
Khan was born 4 May 1978, in Germany to a Pakistani family and spent his preschool years in the former East Berlin. His father then worked for the Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Khan attended the Pakistan Embassy school from grades 2 to 8. His father moved the family to New York when Khan was in his teens.
Career
His serious training in Arabic began in the United States in 1999 under Dr. Abdus-Samie, founder and formal principal of Quran College, Faisaland, Paskistan. Under Dr. Abdus-Samie, Nouman developed a keen methodical understanding of Arabic grammar. He further benefited from Dr. Abdus-Samie by internalizing his unique teaching methods and later translating his work into English for the benefit of his own students. Then Nouman served as a professor below a assistant professor at Nassau Community College and has taught Modern Standard and Classical Arabic at various venues. After serving as an instructor (a college teacher ranking below assistant professor) in Nassau Community College he founded Bayyinah Institute. After founding Bayyinah Institue he became the author of Divine Speech: Exploring Quran As Literature and Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective
Publications
References
Other websites
Living people
American Muslims
1978 births
Scottish independence

Scottish independence (; ) is a political stance that wants Scotland to leave the United Kingdom and be an independent sovereign state.
Scotland has not been an independent country since the Acts of Union 1707. At that time, the kingdom of Scotland united with the kingdom of England to make the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Scotland and has been unified with England ever since.
Ideas of an independent Scotland were first made in the 19th century but were initially only calls for home rule within the United Kingdom. Ideas of a fully independent Scotland have became bigger in the late 20th and 21st century. The Scottish National Party, a party that wants full independence, have won a large number of seats in recent elections, showing the growth of the idea.
In September 2014, a Scottish independence referendum was held. 1,617,989 (44.7%) voted for independence and 2,001,926 people (55.3%) voting to stay as a part of the UK. But, since this referendum, the nationalist and independence movements have continued.
The growth in the idea has resulted in increased Welsh independence movements and also English independence movements.
Related pages
Devolution
References
Nationalism
Politics of Scotland
1781

The year 1781 is .
Events
March 13 - Uranus.
End of the American Revolutionary War
Births
January 26 - Achim von Arnim, German writer (d. 1831)
January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
February 17 - Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician and inventor (d. 1826)
March 4 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
March 13 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect and painter (d. 1841)
June 9- George Stephenson, English engineer (d. 1848)
June 21 - Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
July 6 - Thomas Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
July 6 - John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867)
July 27 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
September 3 - Eugene de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Josephine (d. 1824)
September 6 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (d. 1858)
October 1 - James Lawrence, U.S. Navy officer (d. 1813)
November 6 - Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864)
November 20 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
November 29 - Andres Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaked, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1865)
November 30 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
December 11 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
William Williams of Wern, minister (d. 1840)
Alberta Adams

Alberta Adams (born Roberta Louise Osborn on July 26, 1917 - December 25, 2014) was an American Detroit blues, jump blues, and Chicago blues singer. Adams was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
She was raised in Detroit, she began performing as a tap dancer and nightclub singer in the 1930s. In 1952, she landed a recording contract with Chess Records and recorded alongside Red Saunders for the record label. Adams toured alongside Duke Ellington, Eddie Vinson, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, and T-Bone Walker amongst others.
Her solo career saw her secure a recording contract with the now defunct Cannonball Records, and she recorded two albums for them: 1999's Born With the Blues and 2000s Say Baby Say. Her 2004 album, I'm on the Move, was released on Eastlawn Records label. In 2006 she released the EP Detroit's Queen of the Blues, which was named Outstanding Blues/R&B Recording at the 2006 Detroit Music Awards.
At age 91 she recorded Detroit Is My Home, with Ann Rabson and Thornetta Davis as guest artists.
Adams died in Detroit, Michigan after a period of failing health, aged 97.
References
Other websites
Alberta Adams at Eastlawn Records
1917 births
2014 deaths
Singers from Detroit
Singers from Indianapolis
Herman Philipse

Herman Philipse (born May 13, 1951 in The Hague) is a Dutch philosopher, specialized in epistemology.
Philipse studied law and philosophy at Leiden University.
From 1986 to 2003 he was a philosophy professor at Leiden University. Since 2003 he has been a philosophy professor at Utrecht University.
Philipse is an atheist.
He has published on philosophy and atheism.
References
www.sg.uu.nl
1951 births
Living people
20th-century philosophers
21st-century philosophers
Dutch academics
Dutch atheists
Dutch philosophers
Writers from The Hague
Don Kidd

Don Kidd (October 10, 1937 - August 27, 2020) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the New Mexico State Senate from 1993 to 2005. He was born in Crowell, Texas.
Kidd died on August 27, 2020 at his home in Carlsbad, New Mexico from pancreatic cancer at the age of 82.
References
1937 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Texas
Politicians from New Mexico
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Australopithecus deyiremeda

Australopithecus deyiremeda is an extinct hominin which lived about 3.4 million years ago in northern Ethiopia. This was around the same time and place as several previously discovered specimens of Australopithecus afarensis were found. They include the well known Lucy.
The discovery was in the Afar Region of Ethiopia about (520 kilometers) northeast of the capital Addis Ababa and north of Hadar, Ethiopia ("Lucy's" site).
Teeth in the fossil jaw suggest that the species had a different diet from A. afarensis.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, the curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has said that "The Woranso-Mille study area has thus far yielded more than 120 early hominin fossil specimens dated to between 3.4 and 3.8 million years ago".
Haile-Selassie told the BBC: "We had to look at the detailed anatomy and morphology of the teeth and the upper and lower jaws, and we found major differences. This new species has very robust jaws. In addition, we see this new species had smaller teeth. The canine is really small - smaller than all known hominins we have found in the past".
This was perhaps one of four different species of early humans that were all alive at the same time.
References
Australopithecines
Cerizy

Cerizy is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Communes in Aisne
Bisi Alimi

Bisi Alimi (born 17 January 1975) is a Nigerian HIV and LGBT advocate who gained international attention when he became the first Nigerian to come out on television.
Alimi came out as gay on a live television show in 2004. After the broadcast he was disowned by his family and arrested. He fled Nigeria in 2007 and claimed asylum in the UK, becoming a British citizen in 2014.
Alimi launched the Bisi Alimi Foundation in 2015, supporting research to influence rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Nigeria.
In a 2014 interview on CNN, Alimi summarized their experience as: "And I had to, you know, face three years' ordeal in Nigeria which was very difficult. I couldn't get a job. I left university. Nobody was going to employ me. My life was constantly in danger. I was always beaten, arrested by the police, discharged. I was living for the day until when I had the opportunity to move to the United Kingdom."
References
Avago (TV channel)

Avago was a television channel in the UK and Ireland between 2002 and 2006 on Sky Digital.
British television channels
2002 establishments in the United Kingdom
2006 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Nicolae Tilihoi

Nicolae "Nae" Tilihoi (9 December 1956 - 25 March 2018) was a Romanian professional footballer. He played as a defender.
He spent most of his career with Universitatea Craiova, where he was an indispensable member of the golden generation known as Craiova Maxima. Tilihoi was often nicknamed "the Iron Guard of Craiova".
Tilihoi made ten appearances for the Romania senior team between 1979 and 1981.
References
1956 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Romanian footballers
Great Balls of Fire

"Great Balls of Fire" is a 1957 song by Jerry Lee Lewis and featured in the 1957 movie Jamboree. It went to number 1 in the United Kingdom, number 2 in the United States, number 8 in New Zealand and number 30 in the Netherlands. It was also the title to the 1989 movie Great Balls of Fire! and played by Dennis Quaid.
References
1957 songs
Jerry Lee Lewis songs
Electric Light Orchestra songs
Fleetwood Mac songs
Dolly Parton songs
Gary Lewis & the Playboys songs
The Flamingos songs
Rockabilly songs
Gabriella Cilmi

Gabriella Lucia Cilmi (born 10 October 1991) is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was first signed to Warner Records when she was a teenager. She shares a manager with the Sugababes and supported Mutya Buena (who used to be a member of the Sugababes) at the jazz cafe in London. Gabriella's debut album Lessons To Be Learned was produced by Xenomania, who also worked with Girls Aloud and Cher. Cimli is signed to Island Records.
Other websites
Official website
Gabriella Cilmi's on MySpace
Australian singer-songwriters
Living people
Musicians from Melbourne
Record producers
1991 births
Charles Russell

Charles Russell (1817-1892), known as "Black Douglas", was an Australian bushranger, who became famous for robbing miners on the road between Bendigo and Melbourne.
Early life
Russell was born in Bristol, England in 1817. After coming to Australia, he was well known as a prize fighter, boxing for money. He began robbing people on their way to and from the goldfields at Bendigo. One report claimed he robbed 16 people and chained them to a log.
In 1860, Wilhelmine Guischard wrote a book called Black Douglas: An Australian Romance.
In 1926, his pistol was given to the police. Russell had forgotten it during a robbery in 1857. It was planned to be presented in the Castlemaine Art Gallery.
References
Bushrangers
Brillon

Brillon is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is northwest of Valenciennes and northeast of Douai.
References
Communes in Nord
Temple of Zeus at Olympia

The Temple of Zeus is a Doric temple in the sanctuary at Olympia, Greece. Olympia was the site of the ancient Olympic Games. The temple is a ruin. It was dedicated to Zeus, the principal god of the Ancient Greeks. This temple was the most important and most impressive structure at Olympia.
The temple was built between 470 BC and 456 BC. Local limestone was the chief material used. The roof tiles, the gargoyles, and the sculptures were made of marble. The temple measured 64.12 meters by 27.66 meters. It was 20.25 meters high. The temple had six columns at the ends and thirteen columns along both sides. The height of each column was 10.45 meters.
A ramp at the eastern end led to the prodomos. The table holding the Olympic wreaths stood to the right. The crowning of the victors took place on the last day at this spot.
The sculptures of the east pediment depicted the story of Pelops and Hippodameia. This story is about the first chariot races. The sculptures of the west pediment depicted the story of the Centaurs and the Lapiths. This story is about the contest between barbarity and civilization. There were six metopes over the front porch and six over the back porch. They depicted the Labors of Heracles.
The temple once contained Phidias' Statue of Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The fate of the statue is unknown. It may have been taken to Constantinople where it was probably destroyed in the fire of 475 AD. Or, it may have been destroyed in the fire at Olympia in 426 AD. Phidias' workshop was discovered at Olympia in 1954.
Statue bases cover the area around the temple. These bases held statues of gods, heroes, and Olympic victors. They were dedicated by individuals and cities. The sacred olive from which the Olympic wreaths were cut stood on the west side of the temple. Emperor Theodosius II ordered the temple burned to the ground in 426 AD. Earthquakes destroyed it in 522 AD and in 551.
Reading list
Zeus at Olympia
Greek mythology
Buildings and structures in Olympia
5th-century BC buildings and structures
Aurora, Minnesota

Aurora is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
Cities in Minnesota
Wolnei Caio

Wolnei Caio (born August 10, 1968) is a former Brazilian football player.
Club career statistics
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1968 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
2002–03 NHL season

The 2002-03 NHL season was the 86th regular season of the National Hockey League. Thirty teams each played 82 games. The Stanley Cup winners were the New Jersey Devils, who won the best of seven series 4-3 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. This was the last season before the NHL switched home and away jerseys.
Regular season
Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games Played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points
Stanley Cup Playoffs
Note: All dates in 2003.
Playoff bracket
Conference Quarterfinals
Eastern Conference Quarterfinals
1As of 2008, this playoff game is the 19th longest NHL overtime game ever. 53 minutes and 34 seconds of overtime were played before Mark Recchi scored the game-winning goal.
Western Conference Quarterfinals
Conference Semifinals
Eastern Conference Semifinals
Western Conference Semifinals
2As of 2006, this playoff game is the 4th longest NHL overtime game. 80 minutes and 48 seconds of overtime were played before Petr Sykora scored the game-winning goal.
Conference Finals
Finals
Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games Played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points
NHL awards
The NHL Awards presentation took place in Toronto.
All-Star teams
First games
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 2002-03 (listed with their first team):
Martin Gerber, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Tim Thomas, Boston Bruins
Ryan Miller, Buffalo Sabres
Jordan Leopold, Calgary Flames
Rick Nash, Columbus Blue Jackets
Steve Ott, Dallas Stars
Henrik Zetterberg, Detroit Red Wings
Ales Hemsky, Edmonton Oilers
Fernando Pisani, Edmonton Oilers
Jarret Stoll, Edmonton Oilers
Marc-Andre Bergeron, Edmonton Oilers
Jay Bouwmeester, Florida Panthers
Alexander Frolov, Los Angeles Kings
Cristobal Huet, Los Angeles Kings
Joe Corvo, Los Angeles Kings
Mike Cammalleri, Los Angeles Kings
Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Minnesota Wild
Francois Beauchemin, Montreal Canadiens
Vernon Fiddler, Nashville Predators
Anton Volchenkov, Ottawa Senators
Jason Spezza, Ottawa Senators
Ray Emery, Ottawa Senators
Jonathan Cheechoo, San Jose Sharks
Christian Backman, St. Louis Blues
Petr Cajanek, St. Louis Blues
Last games
The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 2002-03 (listed with their last team):
Theoren Fleury, Chicago Blackhawks
Claude Lemieux, Dallas Stars
Mike Richter, New York Rangers
Pavel Bure, New York Rangers
Adam Graves, San Jose Sharks
Phil Housley, Toronto Maple Leafs
Doug Gilmour, Toronto Maple Leafs
References
Hockey Database
NHL Official Website
National Hockey League seasons
Oculus

Oculus is a Latin word which means "eye". The hole in the ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome is called the Oculus.
A virtual reality headset from Facebook uses "Oculus" as a brand name.
References
Ancient Rome
Latin words and phrases
London Assembly

The London Assembly is an elected body and part of the Greater London Authority that verifies the activities of the Mayor of London. It has the power, with a two-thirds majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget. The Assembly was established in 2000 and is headquartered at City Hall on the south side of the River Thames. The Assembly is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners, publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the Mayor.
The assembly is elected using proportional representation voting.
Local government in London
2000 establishments in England
Aki Takahashi

is an Japanese pianist specializing in contemporary classical music.
Discography
Studio albums
Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1993)
References
1944 births
Living people
Classical pianists
Japanese pianists
People from Kanagawa Prefecture
Danuza Leão

Danuza Leao (July 26, 1933 - June 22, 2022) was a Brazilian model, socialite, journalist, writer, and actress. She was born in Itaguacu, Espirito Santo. She worked as a columnist in Folha de S.Paulo. She had a minor role at Glauber Rocha's 1967 FIPRESCI Award winning movie Entranced Earth.
She was the older sister of singer Nara Leao and was married to Samuel Wainer, founder of the newspaper Ultima Hora.
Danuza died from respiratory failure in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 22, 2022 at the age of 88.
References
Other websites
Danuze Leao at Companhia das Letras' official website
1933 births
2022 deaths
Models
Columnists
Brazilian movie actors
Brazilian writers
Deaths from respiratory failure
GitHub

GitHub is an online software development assistance and version control service. This platform uses Git. It is operated by GitHub, Inc. based in the United States.
In January 2020, GitHub reported that they have more than 40 million users and more than 100 million repositories (including at least 28 million public repositories). Therefore, it is recognized as the largest host of source code in the world.
Organizational users
Currently, there are many individual GitHub users. On the other hand, there are also organizational users such as educational institutions and companies. The following companies are using GitHub to distribute open source projects:
Facebook
Google Research (research facility of Google)
IBM
Microsoft
TeX Users Group (A community for LaTeX users)
Wolfram Research (developer of Wolfram Mathematica)
Desktop version
GitHub was made for users who want to save their programs on their web browsers. But there is also a desktop version known as GitHub Desktop.
GitHub Pages
All GitHub users can create websites with the github.io domain. This service is known as GitHub Pages. The development history of the HTML code will be recorded with Git.
Similar services
Today, there are several GitHub like services for developers. Some of them use Git but have different interface with unique web-design. One of the most famous GitHub rival is GitLab. This is also based on Git. Users can export their programs on GitHub to GitLab.
References
Computing
Computer science
Web software
Free software
Websites established in the 2000s
2008 establishments in the United States
Multinational technology companies
Jam Master Jay

Jason William Mizell (January 21, 1965 - October 30, 2002), better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician and DJ. He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-D.M.C.
Life
During the 1980s, Run-D.M.C. became one of the biggest hip hop groups.
Assassination
On October 30, 2002, Mizell was murdered in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.
References
1965 births
2002 deaths
20th-century American musicians
American hip hop musicians
American DJs
American murder victims
Musicians from New York City
Rappers from New York (state)
Musicians from Brooklyn
Murders by firearm in the United States
Unsolved murders in the United States
Utility

Not to be confused with Public utility
In economics, utility is the amount of satisfaction you get from consuming (using) goods and products. Changes in utility are called utils, even though there is not really a standard scale for them. For example, a cup of hot chocolate can have 100 utils, and a cup of orange juice 80 utils. One of the most well-known uses of utility, especially in economics, is the utility of money.
Economics
Moksha

Moksha is the ultimate goal of personal spiritual development for some schools of Hinduism. It is the equivalent of Nirvana in Buddhism. In the Sanskrit language, "moksha" means freedom. It is as a state of eternal bliss and emptiness. According to Vedanta life is an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth into a physical universe. Hindu scriptures describe Moksha as the spiritual liberation from this cycle and the achievement of an eternal and blissful emptiness that transcends all of the joys, pain, and sorrow of the physical body or corporeal life. It is the goal of Hindu practitioners to achieve Moksha (freedom/liberation from the material world) through the practice of Yoga viz Jnana Yoga(knowledge), Karma Yoga(work), and Bhakti Yoga (through reciting prayers and worshipping God).
Moksha is a Vedic term. Scholars disagree about the precise relationship between the Moksha of Vedanta Hinduism and the Nirvana of Buddhism, but there is agreement that they are closely related historically and philosophically. Similarities can be found between Moksha and some concepts found in the Upanishads. Hindu texts explain the Moksha as Sat-Chit-Anand [True blissness of soul by separating the soul from the physical body by practising Dhyan and Yoga ]. Moksha originates from the Sanskrit word, moksa.
In short, moksha symbolizes something which is beyond comprehension; too great and too wondrous to be truly understood, it can only be felt when one attains it. The world is truly a beautiful place, but the greatness that lies within is even more so, since the power of the greatness is completely unknown.
After all, isn't that what beauty is; appreciation of the unknown!
For a more comprehensive explanation of this topic read the books:
1. The complete works of Swami Vivekananda
2.Philosophia Ultima(commentaries on Mandukyopanishad) by Osho
3.Vedanta: Seven steps to Samadhi by Osho (Osho is the author of more than 650 books, his discourses are free to download on on<http://oshoworld.com>)
Moksha is the ultimate goal of a person to get liberated from the cycle of birth and death
Related pages
Bhagavad Gita
Hinduism
Where Have All the Good Times Gone

"Where Have All the Good Times Gone" is a 1965 song by British band The Kinks and is the B-side to Till the End of the Day. It was taken from their third studio album The Kink Kontroversy. It has covered by David Bowie and Van Halen for their fifth studio album Diver Down. British band Supergrass covered it live many times from 1997 to 1999.
References
1965 songs
The Kinks songs
David Bowie songs
Van Halen songs
Supergrass songs
Garage rock songs
West, Mississippi

West is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States.
Towns in Mississippi
Botmeur

Botmeur () is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistere department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Finistere
Rude Awakening

Rude Awakening is a comedy movie released in August 1989. It stars Cindy Williams as June and Andrea Martin as April. The movie is set in the late 1960s in New York City. The movie received negative reviews by critics while in theaters.
Other websites
1989 comedy movies
1980s English-language movies
Movies set in the 1960s
Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera

Prince Don Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, also Prince Bagrat Bagrationi-Mukhraneli and Prince Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky (12 January 1949 - 20 March 2017) was a member of the Bagration dynasty which once ruled the Kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus and a relative of the royal family of Spain.
References
Other websites
Bagrat, prince Bagration-Mukhransky
Irakly, prince Bagration-Mukhransky
1949 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Madrid
South Korea at the Olympics

South Korea at the Olympics is a history which includes 32 games in 18 countries and 2,000+ athletes. Since 1946, South Korea (KOR) has contributed to the growth of the "Olympic Movement".
History
The Korean National Olympic Committee was formed in 1946. It was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1947.
Korea's team first competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Athletes from Korea did not take part in the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Winter Olympics.
Medal tables
Team highlights include the bronze medal in the men's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The win against Japan resulted in Korea's first medal in this sport.
Summer games
Winter games
Host country
Korea hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics (XXIVth Olympiad) in Seoul.
The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang.
Related pages
List of IOC country codes
References
Other websites
Korean Olympic Committee
South Korea profile at London2012.com
Sport in South Korea
Nations at the Olympics
Shabnim Ismail

Shabnim Ismail is a cricketer from South Africa. Ismail plays for the South Africa women's national cricket team. She was born on October 5, 1988.
References
Other websites
1988 births
Living people
South African cricketers
Brasiliense FC

Brasiliense F.C. is a football club which plays in Brazil.
References
Brazilian football clubs
Brazilian Federal District
2000 establishments
20th-century establishments in Brazil
Larry Langford

Larry Paul Langford (March 17, 1946 - January 8, 2019) was an American politician and convicted criminal. He was the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama serving from 2007 to 2009. He was serving a 15-year federal felony sentence at the time of his death.
Political life
He previously served on the Jefferson County, Alabama, Commission, including four years as the first African-American commission president. He also served as mayor of Fairfield, Alabama, and served one term on the Birmingham City Council.
Langford was a well-known television personality, having worked for then-local ABC affiliate, WBRC TV as the community's first African-American TV news reporter. In 2010, Langford began serving a 15-year federal felony sentence, the result of a highly publicized public corruption trial in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Prison time
On April 27, 2015, Langford transported from his prison in Ashland, Kentucky to a hospital due to a case of pneumonia. Langford was rejected for an early release after describing himself as "terminally-ill".
Death
He was granted compassionate release from prison in December 2018 due to his failing health and was hospitalized for respiratory failure and pneumonia in Birmingham. Langford died on January 8, 2019 at the hospital in Birmingham from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 72.
References
Other websites
Official Birmingham website - Langford page
Larry Langford profile at Bhamwiki.com
1946 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from COPD
American mayors
American criminals
American television personalities
People from Fairfield, Alabama
Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama
Entertainers from Birmingham, Alabama
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Kōka

was a after Tenpo and before Kaei. This period started in December of 1844 and ended in February of 1848. During this time, the emperors were and .
Events of the Koka era
1844 (Koka 1): Takashima Tomonosuke was born.
1846 (Koka 3): Two U.S. Navy ships were driven away from Uraga at the mouth of Tokyo Bay.
21 February 1846 (Koka 3, 26th day of the 1st month): Ninko died; and the succession passed to his son (senso). Soon after, Emperor Komei's role as monarch was confirmed by ceremonies (sokui).
March 1846 (Koka 3): Earthquake in Sanriku (Latitude: 39.500/Longitude: 142.000), 6.9 magnitude on the Richter Scale
9 May 1847 (Koka 4): Earthquake in Nagano (Latitude: 37.000/Longitude: 138.000), 7.4 on Richter Scale
1848 (Koka 5): The last subscription Noh performance of the pre-modern era.
During the Koka era, Hiroshige began making prints of women in the context of famous places.
Related pages
Edo period
References
Other websites
National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Japanese eras
1844 establishments
19th-century disestablishments in Japan
1848 disestablishments
1840s establishments in Japan
Mycle Schneider

Mycle Schneider (born 1959 in Cologne) is a German energy consultant, and lead author of The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports. In 1997 he received the Right Livelihood Award.
Life and work
Mycle Schneider is a nuclear energy expert based in Paris who has been adviser to members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than 20 years. From 1998 to 2003, Schneider advised on energy policy for the French environment minister's office and the Belgian minister for energy and sustainable development. Since 2000 he has been a consultant on nuclear issues to the German environment ministry. He has also provided energy consulting for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University. Since 2004 he has overseen the Environment and Energy Strategies lecture series for the Environmental and Energy Engineering Program at the French Ecole des Mines in Nantes.
Award
In 1997, along with Jinzaburo Takagi, Schneider received the Right Livelihood Award "... for serving to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to human life."
Publications
Schneider writes many publications on the safety and economic trends of the nuclear industry. He is co-editor of the 2009 book International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power. His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government. Schneider and Antony Froggatt wrote the Systems for Change report for the Heinrich Boll Foundation in 2010. Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks. He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Related pages
Amory Lovins
Christopher Flavin
Energy conservation
Renewable energy commercialization
Joseph Romm
Benjamin K. Sovacool
References
1959 births
Living people
Energy
People from Cologne
Cesar Department

Cesar Department is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The capital is Valledupar.
Departments of Colombia
World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a large international organization to regulate trade that was established in 1995. As of 2018, there are 164 members and 23 observer nations. In the WTO, agreements are made on trade between countries. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) means that countries have to lower barriers to international trade, such as tariff on goods crossing borders. This lets businesses operate in many different countries.
Member countries sign agreements
There are about 30 such agreements. Based on these agreements, the member countries trade with each other. They sell items to each other and follow a set of rules. They have to give a special job to the other country. The phrase used (for such and many alike items) is to give the other country a special job - this is known as to give the other country a most favored country job. From 2004, if a member sells any item to another member country, the same type of item should be offered to all other member countries.
While it is highly regarded, from its beginning the WTO has also received criticism.
1995 establishments
Geneva
ISO 3166-2:MA

ISO 3166-2:MA is the entry for Morocco in ISO 3166-2, it is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which makes codes for the names of the subdivisions (like, provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
ISO 3166
Morocco
Scott Moir

Scott Moir is an ice dancer from Canada. His skating partner is Tessa Virtue. Virtue and Moir have been skating together since 1997. In the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the duo won the gold medal in the ice dancing competition; which was not only a first for them, but also for the country of Canada. They went on to win two silver medals in 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and two gold medals in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. They are now the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history.
Virtue and Moir were the most successful junior-level Canadian ice dancers ever. They won Canada's first gold medal in ice dancing at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 2006. In that year, they also won the bronze medal at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, a senior-level competition for skaters who are from countries that are not in Europe.
In their first full season skating at the senior level, Virtue and Moir won the silver medal (second place) at the Skate Canada International and again at Nationals. Their debut at the World Championships was the highest debut by any team in over two decades when they placed 6th. This made them immediately seeded skaters going into the 2007/2008 season.
Virtue and Moir are known for their artistry, musicality, and grace on the ice. They often look as if they were dancing, not skating. They have a close connection. While most of their programs have been soft and romantic, Virtue and Moir have also done humorous programs in exhibition.
Virtue and Moir are coached by Igor Shpilband and Marina Zueva.
Moir comes from a family of skaters. His older brother Danny competed internationally on the junior level with one of his cousins. That cousin now skates competitively as a synchronized skater. Other relatives of Moir's are judges and coaches.
Other websites
Official Site
Skate Canada Profile
International skating union biography
Care to Ice Dance? - Virtue & Moir
Canadian figure skaters
Coalition for Equal Marriage

The Coalition for Equal Marriage is a British campaign group created in 2012 by Conor Marron and James Lattimore, a same-sex couple, to petition in support of civil marriages for gay couples.
References
LGBT in the United Kingdom
Sam Koch

Samuel David Koch ("Koch" is pronounced "Cook") (born August 13, 1982 in York, Nebraska) is an American former professional football punter. He played for 16 years in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire NFL career with the Baltimore Ravens.
Career
Koch was drafted out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by the Baltimore Ravens with the 203rd pick in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Koch has had a good career, with an impressive 43.8 punting average. In a 2008 Week 16 win over the Dallas Cowboys, Koch has a critical fourth down run. In 2010, he passed to cornerback Cary Williams for a first down on another fake punt. Koch has also kicked occasionally in relief of Matt Stover. He won Super Bowl XLVII with the Ravens when they defeated the San Francisco 49ers 34-31. During the end of the game, Koch scrambled in his own end zone and took an intentional safety to leave 4 seconds on the clock, he then booted a 60-yard free kick which Ted Ginn, Jr. returned for 31 yards but was tackled in the midfield as the time ran out.
On May 19, 2022, Koch announced that he was retiring from playing professional football. After he retired, Koch became a special teams consultant for the Ravens.
References
Other websites
Sam Koch at nfl.com
1982 births
Living people
Baltimore Ravens players
American football punters
Sportspeople from Nebraska
Frank Blas

Frank Flores Blas, Sr. (March 20, 1941 - August 1, 2016) was a Guamanian politician, businessman and member of the Republican Party of Guam. Blas served as the Lieutenant Governor of Guam from 1987 until 1995 under Governor Joseph Franklin Ada.
Biography
Early life
Blas was born on March 20, 1941, in Agana, now known as Hagatna, Guam. He attended Father Duenas Memorial School in Guam, and St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California. He received an associate's degree from the College of Guam in 1962. Blas graduated from the University of Portland with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1965.
Blas and his first wife, Lydia Blas (died 1970), had two children, including Frank Blas Jr., a politician. In 1971, Blas married his second wife, Tina and had three children.
Career
Blas worked for the Mobil Petroleum Company of Guam from 1965 until 1969.
He was Director of the Department of Commerce of Guam from 1969 to 1972. Blas was elected to Legislature of Guam as a Senator from 1974 until 1984.
In 1982, with Republican Senator Kurt Moylan, Blas challenged the Republican Governor Paul McDonald Calvo in the primary election. Moylan and Blas were defeated in the primary vote. Governor Calvo lost to Democrat Ricardo Bordallo in the November 1982 general election.
On November 4, 1986, Joseph Franklin Ada, with Frank Blas, were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Guam. Ada defeated the Governor Ricardo Bordallo by 2,581 votes (7.6%). Blas served as Lt. Governor under Ada for two terms from January 1987 until January 1995. Blas described his main role as a liaison between the Ada administration and members of the Legislature.
Ada could not seek re-election to a third term, so Blas joined with Simon Sanchez to stand for office. However, Blas and Sanchez lost the 1994 Republican primary election to Tommy Tanaka and Doris Brooks. Tanaka was defeated in the 1994 election by Democrat Carl Gutierrez and Madeleine Bordallo.
Blas left politics in January 1995. He owned Frank Blas & Associates, an insurance brokerage firm based in Barrigada, Guam. In 2003, Blas was appointed Chairman of the Antonio B. Won Pat Guam International Airport Authority, a government agency which operates the airport.
Frank Blas died on August 1, 2016, at the age of 75.
References
1941 births
2016 deaths
Lieutenant Governors of Guam
René Fontès

Rene Fontes (11 June 1941 - 17 March 2019) was a French sports official and politician. He was club president of the Top 14 rugby union team Clermont Auvergne from 2004 to 2013. He was also mayor of the Eygalieres commune in Bouches-du-Rhone from 2008 until his death in 2019. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 2011. He was born in Saint-Martin-de-Crau, Bouches-du-Rhone.
Fontes died of a heart attack on 17 March 2019 in Eygalieres. He was 77.
References
1941 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
French mayors
Legion of Honour
Rugby union
Betaucourt

Betaucourt is a commune. It is found in the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in the Haute-Saone department in the east of France.
Communes in Haute-Saone
Philippe Kouassi

Rene Philippe Kouassi is an archer from Ivory Coast. He was born on 14 December 1979. Kouassi competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
References
Other websites
Ivorian people
Archers
Olympians
1979 births
Living people
Vice President of South Sudan

The Vice President of South Sudan is the second highest political position in South Sudan. The current Vice President is James Wani Igga.
A temporary position called First Vice President was created in August 2015.
South Sudan
Vice presidents by country
Anthony Vanden Borre

Anthony Vanden Borre (born 24 October 1987) is a Belgian football player. He plays for Portsmouth and Belgium national team.
Club career statistics
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1987 births
Living people
Belgian footballers
Claudio Detto

Claudio Detto (born 28 August 1950 in Milan) is an Italian painter of contemporary art.
Biography
Born in Milan on August 28, 1950, led towards free drawing from an early age, he grew up as a self-taught painter, made his debut in the mid-70s with pictorial tributes dedicated to the great masters of the 20th century, such as Giorgio Morandi, Amedeo Modigliani and Giorgio De Chirico. In the 90's, he also paints and collects works by important italian artists. He comes to informal art after experimenting with different, more figurative painting styles and after freeing himself from any stylistic scheme or cage, he changes the link with a defined image, he moves on to informal painting. It expresses an apparently instinctive painting, in continuous research.
Bibliography
Catalog, Artisti 2021, Annuario internazionale d'arte contemporanea, Editore Art Now.
Monograph, Detto Claudio: arte moderna - looking for emotions, 2019.
Catalog of Modern Art No. 56, in Giovanni Faccenda, "The Italian Astist from the early twentieth century to today"( Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi) Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2011.
Catalog, Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea, De Agostini editore.
Catalog, PITTURA BAZART, Collana di Pittura, vol.19, pp. 15,16,17,18,19-26.
References
Other websites
Biography on Artprice.com
Biography on Queen Art Studio Gallery
Italian painters
1950 births
Living people
Harrison Dillard

William Harrison "Bones" Dillard (July 8, 1923 - November 15, 2019) was an American track and field athlete. He was the only male so far to win Olympic titles in both sprinting and hurdling events.
Dillard was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at East Technical High School and at Baldwin-Wallace College. Dillard died of stomach cancer in Cleveland on November 15, 2019 at the age of 96.
References
Other websites
1923 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in Ohio
Sportspeople from Cleveland
American sprinters
American hurdlers
Anisuzzaman

Anisuzzaman (18 February 1937 - 14 May 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature. He was born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.
He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952). He was a member of the Planning Commission to the Government of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh liberation war and a member of the National Education Commission.
He was made a National Professor by the Government of Bangladesh in 2018.
Anisuzzaman died on 14 May 2020 in Dhaka of kidney and heart disease, aged
References
1937 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from kidney disease
Deaths from heart disease
Bangladeshi writers
Scotts Corner, California

Scotts Corner is a unincorporated community in Alameda County, California. It is 79 meters above sea level. It is on Interstate 680, about 1.65 kilometers southeast of Sunol.
Settlements in Alameda County, California
Unincorporated communities in California
Sukhoi Su-35

Sukhoi Su-35 is a Russian fighter aircraft. It first entered the Russian Air Force in 2010.
Russian military aircraft
Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah (born 6 December 1993) is an Indian cricketer who represents the Indian national team as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He is recognized for his exceptional bowling skills, accurate yorkers, and unique bowling action. Bumrah has been considered one of the best bowlers in the world and has played a significant role in the success of the Indian cricket team across all formats. He plays for Mumbai Indians in the Indian premier league.
References
Talamello

Talamello is a comune in the Province of Rimini in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. It is about southeast of Bologna and about south of Rimini.
Talamello is next to these municipalities: Maiolo, Mercato Saraceno, Novafeltria, Sogliano al Rubicone.
References
Settlements in Emilia-Romagna
Dennis Morgan

Dennis Morgan (December 30, 1908 - September 7, 1994) was an American actor and singer. He played Jefferson in Christmas in Connecticut. He played Paul Hudson in The Desert Song.
Morgan was born Stanley Morner in Prentice, Wisconsin, on December 30, 1908. He died in Fresno, California of respiratory failure on September 7, 1994.
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Other websites
American television actors
American movie actors
Singers from Wisconsin
Actors from Wisconsin
1908 births
1994 deaths
Jan Krol

Jan Krol (21 August 1962 - 15 January 2023) was a Dutch television actor.
Krol became known for his role as the young Bartje in the series of the same name that was broadcast by NCRV from December 1972. Krol played in the first five of the seven episodes.
After secondary school, Krol did a youth welfare studie in Leeuwarden. After his education, he started working in an epilepsy control center and then left for Germany to study. Krol became a teacher in Weimar, where he set up the school circus "Waldorfschule". He came back to the Netherlands to follow a clown course in Amsterdam. Krol became involved with the Anders Beleven Foundation (now called: Het Beter Gezelschap), which provides 'sensory stimulation' for healthcare workers, and with the international theater company Sign Dance Collective, which was founded in 2001. Krol worked in healthcare and was active as a freelance actor and clown.
Krol died after a short illness on 15 January 2023, at the age of 60.
References
Dutch television actors
1962 births
2023 deaths
Place of death missing
La Belliole

La Belliole is a commune. It is found in the Yonne department in the center of France.
References
INSEE
Communes in Yonne
Striped tree frog

The striped tree frog (Boana caingua) is a frog that lives in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.
References
Frogs of South America
Christine Blasey Ford

Christine Margaret Blasey Ford (; born November 1966) is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Ford has worked as a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine Collaborative Clinical Psychology Program. She was born in Washington, D.C..
In September 2018, Ford accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982. She testified about her allegations during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination later that month.
Related pages
Anita Hill
References
1966 births
Living people
American psychologists
Educators from Washington, D.C.
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Freema Agyeman

Freema Agyeman (born Frema Agyeman on 20 March 1979) is an English actress. She is of Ghanaian and Iranian descent. She is known by a lot of people for playing Martha Jones on the television series Doctor Who and also in its spin-off series Torchwood.
References
1979 births
Black British actors
Living people
English television actors