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Michael Keaton

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by the artistic name Michael Keaton, is an American actor. He became popular for his early comedic film roles, most notably his performance as the title character of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, and later gained international fame for his dramatic portrayal of Bruce Wayne / Batman in Tim Burton's Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992) and in The Flash (2023). He won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2015 for his role in Birdman. In 2016, he played Ray Kroc in The Founder. He played the villain, the Vulture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
Early life
Keaton was born on September 5, 1951, in Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania. He lived in Robinson Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. His father, George A. Douglas, worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, and his mother, Leona Elizabeth (nee Loftus), a homemaker, came from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Keaton was raised in a Catholic family. He is of Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry. He attended Montour High School in Pennsylvania. Douglas studied speech for two years at Kent State, before dropping out and moving to Pittsburgh.
Politics
Keaton supported Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Movies
Some movie Roles
Cars - Chick Hicks (voice)
Minions - Walter Nelson (voice)
Porco Rosso - Porco Rosso
Toy Story 3 - Ken (voice)
Toy Story 4 - Ken (voice)
Spotlight - Walter "Robby" Robinson
Video Game Roles
Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Jason Hudson
Cars - Chick Hicks
Cars Race-O-Rama - Chick Hicks
References
Other websites
Story on Michael Keaton
1951 births
Living people
Actors from Pennsylvania
Actors who played Batman
American movie actors
American television actors
American video game actors
American voice actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Satellite Award winners
Stage names
Vendeuvre-sur-Barse

Vendeuvre-sur-Barse is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.
Communes in Aube
2012 Anaheim riots

On 21 July 2012, police shot and killed a man, Manuel Diaz, in the Anna Drive neighborhood in Anaheim, California, United States. A riot happened for a few nights.
Background
Anna Drive is a poor neighborhood. It is known for having many criminals, including drug dealers. Manuel Diaz was one of them. He and some of his friends were gathering in an alley and threw heroin on a roof. Police came and chased him through the ghetto. Then they shot him in the buttocks and head. He later died at the hospital.
Riots
People started getting angry. They came to Anna Drive and started protesting. Soon most of east Anaheim was fighting police. Trash cans were burnt while people went crazy and broke shop windows. The fourth night was the most violent. Police had to shoot people with fake bullets. Two reporters were hurt.
Response
The mayor had the FBI look at the shooting carefully. Another man, Joel Acevedo, was shot the next day and died too, making it the sixth deadly police shooting in one year. The events also highlighted the divide between the poor west and central parts of Anaheim, where more than half of the population is Hispanic, and the east, where most of the police come from.
2012 crimes in the United States
2012 in California
2010s riots
2010s crimes in California
2012 riots
July 2012 events
Riots in the United States
Bretteville-sur-Odon

Bretteville-sur-Odon is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Calvados
Battle of Rhandeia

The Battle of Rhandeia was a battle fought between Armenia and Parthia against the Roman Empire. It was fought just after the Mithridatic Wars. The Romans were led by Lucius Caesennius Paetus. They were defeated by the Parthian-Armenian army led by Tiridates I of Armenia.
The Parthians made Tiridates the King of Armenia. He was the brother of the Parthian king Vologases I. Tiridates replaced Tigranes, a Roman ally, as king. The Romans fought to take back the throne, but were forced into surrender at Rhandeia (autumn 62).
Related pages
Armenian Empire
References
Ancient Armenia
Rhandeia
62
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is a 2001 platform video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants. It was first released for the Xbox as a launch title and was a flop but got great reviews.
Gameplay
The player can switch between Abe and Munch for playable characters and can guide Mudokons and Fuzzles to their path.
Plot
Munch, the last Gabbit has been taken by the Vykkers to be a test subject. He teams up with Abe to help him collect the last can of Gabbiar, the remaining Gabbit eggs.
Reception
The game was liked but didn't do well.
2001 video games
Nintendo Switch games
Oddworld
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Vita games
Xbox games
Snakes on a Plane

Snakes on a Plane (released in Japan as Snake Flight (sunekuhuraito)) is a 2006 American action horror crime thriller movie. It was directed by David R. Ellis and it stars Samuel L. Jackson and released to movie theaters by Warner Bros. It is about many snakes attacking people on a plane that is traveling from Hawaii to Los Angeles, California.
Plot
After witnessing the murder of prosecutor Daniel Hayes in Hawaii, by Yakuza boss Eddie Kim, a biker named Sean Jones runs away but is escorted out by Samuel L. Jackson's character, FBI agent Neville Flynn. They catch a flight heading to California. Suddenly snakes start attacking people on the plane, and Flynn becomes angry at the snakes, so he fights them. After fighting the snakes, the plane lands on a nearby airport, everyone gets out of the plane safely on a liferaft until a snake attacks Sean and Flynn shoots the snake off of him with his gun. Eddie Kim is also sentenced to death. After the incident Flynn and Sean go on a holiday in Bali, Indonesia.
Reception
The movie became very popular before it was released because of the title and because of many people talked about it on the Internet.
Other websites
2006 horror movies
2006 action movies
2006 crime thriller movies
2000s American action movies
American crime thriller movies
American horror movies
German action movies
German crime movies
German horror movies
German thriller movies
2000s English-language movies
Movies about snakes
Movies set in Hawaii
Movies set in Los Angeles
1971 Formula One season

The 1971 Formula One season crowned as champion Jackie Stewart.
Season review
1971 Drivers Championship final standings
Formula One seasons
1971 in sports
Bob Lay

Robert William Lay (20 March 1944 - 5 August 2022) was an Australian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Lay was born in New South Wales, Australia.
Lay died on 5 August 2022 at the age of 78.
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1944 births
2022 deaths
Australian sprinters
Australian Olympians
Sportspeople from New South Wales
Scinax altae

Scinax altae is a frog that lives in Panama. Scientists have seen it as high as 700 meters above sea level.
References
Frogs of South America
Roger Wallis

Roger Wallis (8 August 1941 - 22 January 2022) was a British-born Swedish musician, journalist and researcher. He was an adjunct professor of multimedia at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Between 1967 and 1981, Wallis was the main presenter of the English language The Saturday Show on Radio Sweden. Wallis also co-wrote "Judy, min van".
Wallis died on 22 January 2022, at the age of 80.
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1941 births
2022 deaths
Swedish musicians
Swedish journalists
Swedish television personalities
Writers from Warwickshire
Swedish academics
Paula DeAnda

Paula DeAnda (born 1989 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American singer. She is best known for her 2007 hit songs "Doing Too Much", "Walk Away (Remember Me)" and "Easy". DeAnda is of Mexican descent.
Easy
"Easy" is a song by DeAnda. It also has a remix with Bow Wow. This version is used in the PC video game, Bratz Babyz.
Singers from Texas
People from Corpus Christi, Texas
1989 births
Living people
Durham, Maine

Durham is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States.
Towns in Maine
Wolfgang Engelmann

Wolfgang Engelmann (27 June 1942 - 12 November 2020) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Engelmann was a member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 1998. Engelmann was born in Oelsnitz, then-East Germany.
Engelmann died on 12 November 2020 at the age of 78.
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1942 births
2020 deaths
German politicians
Gulf of Salerno

The Gulf of Salerno is a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the coast of the province of Salerno in south-western Italy. The northern part of this coast is the Costiera Amalfitana. This includes towns like Amalfi, Maiori, Positano and the city of Salerno itself.
The Gulf of Salerno is separated from the Gulf of Naples (on the north) by the Sorrentine Peninsula, while from the south it is bounded by the Cilento coast.
Gulfs
Geography of Italy
Bodmin Moor

Bodmin Moor is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in size, and originally dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history.
Bodmin Moor is one of five granite plutons (underground masses of igneous rock) in Cornwall.
The name 'Bodmin Moor' is fairly recent, invented in 1813. It was formerly known as Fowey Moor after the River Fowey which rises within it. Since the mid 18th century Bodmin Moor has been crossed by the trunk road now known as the A30.
Geography
Dramatic granite tors rise from the rolling moorland: the best known are Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall at , and Rough Tor at . Considerable areas of the moor are poorly drained and form marshes (in hot summers these can dry out). The rest of the moor is mostly rough pasture or overgrown with heather and other low vegetation.
The Moor contains about 500 farm holdings with around 10,000 beef cows, 55,000 breeding ewes and 1,000 horses and ponies. Most of the moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), as part of Cornwall AONB.
Rivers and inland waters
Bodmin Moor is the source of several of Cornwall's rivers: they are mentioned here anti-clockwise from the south.
The River Fowey rises at a height of and flows through Lostwithiel and into the Fowey estuary.
The River Tiddy rises near Pensilva and flows into the River Lynher.
The River Inny rises near Davidstow and flows southeast into the River Tamar.
The River Camel rises on Hendraburnick Down and flows for about before joining the sea at Padstow.
The De Lank River rises near Roughtor and flows into the Camel south of Wenford.
The River Warleggan rises near Temple and flows south to join the Fowey.
Inland waters on the moor include Dozmary Pool (Cornwall's only natural inland lake) and
three reservoirs, Colliford Lake, Siblyback Lake and Crowdy reservoir which supply water for a large part of the county's population.
References
Geography of Cornwall
Mexican burrowing toad

The Mexican burrowing toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis) is a frog. They are the only species in the genus Rhinophrynus and the family Rhinophrynidae. These frogs live from the southern Texas through Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. They used to live in more places. There were species going as far north as Canada, but these died out in the Oligocene.
Physical description
The Mexican Burrowing Toad grows to in length. They usually have red spots on its bloated body with a red stripe along the center of its back. It has short legs, and a small, pointed head. Its feet have horny, shovel-like growths that help it in digging. Its eyes are small. The Mexican Burrowing Toad's tongue comes directly out the front of the mouth. In all other frogs it is flipped out.
Behavior
As the name suggests, the Mexican Burrowing Toad is a burrowing animal. It spends a large part of its life underground. After a large time of rain, it will come out from the soil and lay eggs in water. They will travel up to to find a good water source. Because of the unpredictability of rain, the frog will call and mate during any time of the year. It will dig into soft soil with its short legs once the land has dried up. The egg and tadpole stages of the life cycle are short. The eggs take only a few days to hatch. The tadpoles develop over one to three months.
The call is a loud, low pitched "wh-o-o-o-a". When it is calling or scared, the body becomes inflated. The Mexican Burrowing Toad eats insects, mostly ants and termites.
References
Frogs of North America
Abdulmejid I

Abdulmejid I or Abdul Majid I (, ; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the rise of nationalist movements within the empire's territories. Abdulmejid wanted to encourage Ottomanism among secessionist subject nations and stop rising nationalist movements within the empire, but despite new laws and reforms to integrate non-Muslims and non-Turks more thoroughly into Ottoman society, his efforts failed in this regard.
He tried to forge alliances with the major powers of Western Europe, namely the United Kingdom and France, who fought alongside the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War against Russia. During the Congress of Paris on 30 March 1856, the Ottoman Empire was officially included among the European family of nations.
Abdulmejid's biggest achievement was the announcement and application of the Tanzimat (reorganization) reforms which were prepared by his father and effectively started the modernization of the Ottoman Empire in 1839. For this achievement, one of the imperial anthems of the Ottoman Empire, the March of Abdulmejid, was named after him.
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Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar (born c. 1981, The Bronx) is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers. He took his first dance lessons at the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side. He went there every day by subway, from his home in the South Bronx.
References
1981 births
Living people
Ballet dancers
Subculture

A subculture is a group of people involved in a community of some sort. Subcultures can be hobbies, groups or communities. A subculture is a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which makes them different from the larger culture that they belong to, known as the "dominant" culture. If a subculture is described as opposing the dominant culture, it may be described as a counterculture. As Ken Gelder notes, subcultures are social, with their own shared rules, values and rituals, but they can also seem self-involved -- another thing that makes them different from countercultures.
Identifying subcultures
Subcultures can be identified by the members' age, race, ethnicity, social class, location, or gender. The qualities that distinguish among subcultures may be linguistic, aesthetic, religious, political, sexual, geographical, or a combination of factors. Members of a subculture often signal each other through the use of fashion style, stereotypical behaviors, and use of a secret language created to prevent outsiders from understanding them (this is known as Argot). They also live out particular relations to places: Ken Gelder talks about 'subcultural geographies' along these lines.
The study of subcultures often involves the study of symbolism attached to clothing, music and other visible things by members of subcultures, and also the ways that these same symbols are seen and understood by members of the dominate culture. Subcultures have been documented by others for a long time. In some cases--such as homeless people, criminal gangs or skateboarders--subcultures have had laws created to control or end their activities. But subcultures also talk about themselves, very often.
Related pages
Folklore
Popular culture
References
The West Australian

The West Australian is a newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is made by an Australian company called West Australian Newspapers Holdings. It started in 1833.
Other websites
The West Australian homepage
Newspapers published in Australia
Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Esmeraldas () is a coastal city in northwestern Ecuador. It is the seat of the Esmeraldas Canton and capital of the Esmeraldas Province.
Esmeraldas is well known around Latin America given the large number of locals that have historically played in the Ecuadorian national football team.
References
Cities in Ecuador
Carpo (moon)

Carpo or , is a moon of Jupiter. It was found by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2003, and was designated as until it got its name in early 2005.
Carpo is about 3 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 17,145,000 km in 458.625 days, at an inclination of 56deg to the ecliptic (55deg to Jupiter's equator), and with an orbital eccentricity of 0.2736.
It was named in March 2005 after Carpo, one of the Horae, and a daughter of Zeus (Jupiter).
References
Jupiter's moons
Cornufer malukuna

The Malukuna wrinkled ground frog (Cornufer malukuna) is a frog. It lives on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.
References
Frogs of Oceania
Anita Louise

Anita Louise Fremault (or just Anita Louise; January 9, 1915 - April 25, 1970) was an American television actress who also starred in movies. She played the gentle mother in the television series My Friend Flicka. Her movies included A Midsummer Night's Dream, Madame Du Barry, Marie Antoinette and The Sisters. She was especially popular in the 1930s.
Fremault was born in New York City. She died in Los Angeles resulting from a stroke at age fifty-five.
American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from New York City
1915 births
1970 deaths
20th-century American actors
Deaths from stroke
Pseudonyms
Republicans (United States)
Chief Justice of Afghanistan

The Chief Justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Afghan Supreme Court. The incumbent chief justice is Abdul Salam Azimi.
List of chief justices, 2001-present
Faisal Ahmad Shinwari (2001-2006), was member of the Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan
Abdul Salam Azimi (2006-present), a former professor at the University of Arizona in the United States
List of chief justices before 2001
Abdul Salam (under Taliban rule)
Abdul Karim Shadan (pre-Taliban)
References
Politics of Afghanistan
Afgh
Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Piotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Romanian: Petre Capita ( - 8 April 1984) was a Soviet physicist and engineer. He was best known for his work in low-temperature physics. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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1894 births
1984 deaths
Russian physicists
Scientists from Moscow
Steve Nicol

Stephen Nicol (born 11 December 1961) is a Scottish former footballer. He played as a full-back. He played for Ayr United, Liverpool, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers and the Scotland national team. He was best known for his time at Liverpool. He won many honours with the Reds, including five league titles and a European Cup (1984). He now works for ESPN.
Nicol was born in Troon, South Ayrshire. He is married to Eleanor and has two children.
References
Other websites
Steve Nicol at LiverpoolFC.com
1961 births
Living people
Association football defenders
Association football full-backs
Liverpool F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Scottish footballers
South Ayrshire
Agnes

The name Agnes[ag-nis] is a female given name based on the Greek name hagne.Agnes is a Latin name meaning "pure" or "holy". The name was made popular by Saint Agnes of Rome, who was a well known saint.
Agnes was the third most popular girl's name for almost 400 years in English-speaking areas. The name was used a lot until near the 1970s in the United States. It was especially popular between 1900 and 1920, during which time the name spent a few years on the top 50 list for feminine names.In 2021 this name is not so popular and is a more personalized name.
The name was used on a costly hurricane that caused over $3 billion in damage and many deaths in 1972. The name Agnes was later retired.
People named Agnes
Saints
Saint Agnes of Rome (291-304), Catholic martyr
Agnes of Assisi (1197/98-1253), one of the first abbesses of the Order of Poor Ladies
Agnes of Bohemia (1211-1282), Bohemian princess
Agnes of Montepulciano (1263-1317), Dominican prioress
Other people
Agnes Ayres, American silent film star
Agnes Baden-Powell, establisher of the Girl Guides movement
Agnes Macdonald (1836-1920), second wife of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada
Agnes Macphail, first female senator in Canada
Agnes Maltais (born 1956), Quebec politician
Agnes Moorehead, American actress
Agnes Le Thi Thanh, one of the Vietnamese Martyrs
Agnes Carlsson,Swedish singer
Places named Agnes
Agnes, Victoria, a town in Australia
Agnes Township, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States
Agness, Oregon, United States
Music
Agnes, a Christian rock band
Other
Hurricane Agnes
Related pages
Agnieszka
References
Given names
Binningen, Switzerland

Binningen is a municipality of the district Arlesheim of the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Cities in Switzerland
FC Ingolstadt 04

FC Ingolstadt 04 is a football club from Ingolstadt, Germany.
Other websites
Official team site (FC Ingolstadt 04)
Second Kretschmer cabinet

The Second Kretschmer cabinet or Cabinet Kretschmer II is the current state government of Saxony after the 2019 Saxony state election on September 1, 2019. The Cabinet Kretschmer II is a coalition between the political parties CDU, led by Minister-president of Saxony Michael Kretschmer, Bundnis 90/Die Grunen and the SPD.
In the 4th session of the 7th Saxon State Parliament on December 20, 2019, the Saxon Minister-president Michael Kretschmer, who has been in office since December 13, 2017, was re-elected to this office with 61 votes and 57 against. At least 5 members of the coalition voted against Michael Kretschmer. 118 of the 119 Members of Parliament took part in the election.
Members of the state government
References
Other websites
Gemeinsam fur Sachsen - Koalitionsvertrag 2019 bis 2024
Saxony
The Girl Next Door (2004 movie)

The Girl Next Door is a 2004 American teen sex comedy movie. It is directed by Luke Greenfield. It stars Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette and Paul Dano. It also got mixed reviews from critics with Roger Ebert giving it a 1.5 out of 4 stars. It also holds a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie is about a high school senior, Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), who falls in love for the first time with the girl next door, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). However, he finds the situation becoming a problem after he learns that she is a one-time pornographic actress.
Cast
Emile Hirsch as Matthew Kidman
Elisha Cuthbert as Danielle / Athena
Timothy Olyphant as Kelly
James Remar as Hugo Posh
Chris Marquette as Eli
Paul Dano as Klitz
Olivia Wilde as Kellie
Sunny Leone as cameo appearance
Amanda Swisten as April
Sung-Hi Lee as Ferrari
Timothy Bottoms as Mr. Kidman
Donna Bullock as Mrs. Kidman
Jacob Young as Hunter
Luther Reigns as Mule
References
Other websites
2000s coming-of-age movies
2004 romantic comedy movies
2000s teen comedy movies
2000s sex comedy movies
20th Century Fox movies
American coming-of-age movies
American romantic comedy movies
American teen comedy movies
American sex comedy movies
Coming-of-age comedy movies
Coming-of-age romance movies
2000s English-language movies
Movies about abduction
Movies set in California
Movies set in Las Vegas
Teen sex comedy movies
Movies about pornography
W Hydrae

W Hydrae is a red giant star. It has a size 520 times larger than the Sun, but this can change. It is one of the largest known stars.
Red giants
Variable stars
Larry King Live

Larry King Live was an American television talk show hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010. It was the station's most watched and longest-running program, with over one million viewers nightly.
On June 29, 2010, King announced that the program would end. The last episode aired on December 16, 2010, and a new episode on the war against cancer aired two days later on December 18.
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1985 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
American television talk shows
CNN
Marcy Borders

Marcy Borders (July 19, 1973 - August 24, 2015) was an American legal assistant who worked for Bank of America. She is also known as "The Dust Lady". This is because of a picture taken of her by Stan Honda. The picture was of Borders completely covered in dust after surviving the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11 attacks. At the time of the attacks, she was working on the 81st floor of the North Tower.
After the attacks, her personal life and mental health declined. She was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She had problems with alcohol, broke up with her boyfriend, and lost custody of her children. She said that hearing the news of Osama Bin Laden's death made her start to turn her life around.
In August 2014, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Her family and her blamed the toxic dust from the attacks as the reason why she got cancer. She died from the cancer on August 24, 2015.
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1973 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
People from Bayonne, New Jersey
September 11 attacks
Amberscript

Amberscript is a SaaS software company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Amberscript's technology allows converting audio or video files to subtitles or text.
History
The company was founded in December 2017 in Amsterdam by Peter-Paul de Leeuw, Thomas Dieste, and Timo Behrens.
The first product was a speech-to-text in Dutch, an online tool that converts audio into an editable text file.
In late 2018, the company made manual transcription and subtitling services available.
In November 2020, Amberscript launched live captions with the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
References
Technology companies of the Netherlands
Software companies
The Lucky Texan

The Lucky Texan is a 1934 American western movie directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, Lloyd Whitlock, George Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwine. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures.
Other websites
1934 movies
1930s Western (genre) movies
American Western (genre) movies
Movies directed by Robert N. Bradbury
Jaakko Jonkka

Jaakko Ilari Jonkka (12 February 1953 - 4 January 2022) was a Finnish politician and lawyer. He was the Chancellor of Justice of Finland from 2007 to 2017. Jonkka was born in Lavia, Finland.
Jonkka died on 4 January 2022 in Helsinki, Finland at the age of 68.
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1953 births
2022 deaths
Finnish politicians
Lawyers
Ron Franklin (jockey)

Ron Franklin (December 20, 1959 - March 8, 2018) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. At age 19, he rode Spectacular Bid to wins at the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
Franklin and Spectacular bid were off to the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in New York, where he would have won the Triple Crown, but finished third behind Coastal and Golden Act.
Franklin rode 1,403 winning mounts in 9,242 starts from 1978 to 1992, and won purses of more than $14 million.
Franklin died of lung cancer in Baltimore on March 8, 2018 at the age of 58.
References
Other websites
Franklin and the Race He Lost at The New York Times
1959 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Sportspeople from Baltimore
Aixam

Aixam or Aixam-Mega is a French car manufacturer based in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie that makes microcars. It was founded in 1983.
Other websites
Aixam official website
1980s establishments in France
1983 establishments in Europe
Automobile companies of France
Savoie
Chappelle's Show

Chappelle's Show is an American comedy television series starring comedian Dave Chappelle. The show was created by Chappelle and Neal Brennan. It aired from 2003-2006 on Comedy Central. The show ran for two complete seasons plus three "lost episodes".
Other websites
Comedy television series
2003 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2000s American television series
English-language television programs
Karst

Karst is a geological system of rocks where water has eroded (dissolved) the bedrock. If it is very extensive, karst can be a geographical or topographical feature. It is classed as a badland if it difficult to travel through the environment, which it often is.
Almost always, karst is formed in carbonate rocks, such as limestone or dolomite. Since carbonate sedimentary rocks are very common, karst areas occur all over the world.
Many karst regions display distinctive surface features, with sinkholes being the most common. However, karst surface features may be absent where the soluble rock is mantled (covered), such as by a non-soluble rock strata on top of the carbonate strata. Some karst regions include thousands of caves, and the water is generally underground.
The world's largest karst area is the Nullarbor Plain, part of the area of flat, almost treeless, dry country of southern Australia. It is on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single exposure of limestone bedrock, and occupies an area of about . At its widest point, it stretches about from east to west across the border region between South Australia and Western Australia.
Sinkholes
Many parts of the world suffer from sinkholes which form when karsts are underground. Beneath the flat surface of the land in Florida, Guatemala City and elsewhere are vast systems of limestone. Water running through the limestone is dissolving the limestone away, leaving huge caverns. Without warning, huge holes appear in the surface, causing great damage. Practically the whole of Florida is sitting on a gigantic karst system, as are several countries in Central America. The area round Tampa is especially at risk, and there is a huge karst system under Mexico City. According to a senior geochemist, there are as many as 15,000 sinkholes in Illinois.
The world's deepest sinkhole is China's Xiaozhai Tienkeng at 2172ft (662m).
The Qattara Depression in Egypt is part of the Libyan Desert. It is roughly 50 miles (80km) by 75 miles (121km) in surface area. It is the world's largest natural sinkhole. It lies below sea level and is covered with salt pans, sand dunes and salt marshes.
Karst aquifers
In the United States, about 40% of the groundwater used for drinking comes from karst aquifers. Well-known examples are Carlsbad Caverns and Mammoth Cave. Karst aquifers are a vital resource in the US. About 20 percent of the land surface in the US is karst. Other parts of the world with large areas of karst include the Caribbean, China, and Australia.
The karst hydrogeology is a network of fissures, fractures, and runways in permeable rock. Most of inflow occurs through a network of openings. Groundwater is held in storage in the rocks. Karst is common also in Mexico, especially near where the meteorite hit in the Yucatan. There are also large areas of karst in the Caribbean, China, and Australia.
Related pages
Aquifer
Limestone
References
Sedimentary rocks
Badlands
Dorgali

Dorgali (Durgali) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 8,602 people lived there. Its area is 226.54 km2. It is 390 meters above sea level.
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Communes of Sardinia
Italian Concerto

The "Italian" Concerto (or, Concerto in the Italian style) is a piece of music for harpsichord composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was published in 1735 with the French Overture in the second volume of Bach's (English: "Keyboard Practice"). Both pieces are Bach's interpretations of popular musical forms of the day. The Italian Concerto is a three-movement composition written specifically for a two-manual harpsichord (see image).
The first movement is written in F major. It has a time signature of 2/4, but has no tempo marking. It is always played Allegro (fast). The second movement is written in D minor. Its time signature is 3/4, and its tempo marking is Andante (slow). The third movement is written in F major. Its time signature is cut-time (2/2), and its tempo is marked Presto (very fast). The first and third movements are composed in ritornello style. This means a theme particular to the movement returns time and again. The second movement is a very florid arioso-like piece.
An orchestral Italian concerto relies upon contrasts between the full orchestra and a small group of instruments which act as soloists. Bach achieves this effect by using the lower manual on the harpsichord as the "full orchestra" and the upper manual as the "small group of instruments".
References
Woodstra, Chris, et. al. 2005. All Music Guide to Classical Music. All Media Guide, LLC. pp. 45-46. .
Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
Concertos
Crime in Bangladesh

Crime in Bangladesh includes many different crimes. Some of these crimes are done by an individual and some crimes are organized by a group. Examples of crime are: drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, murder for hire, fraud, human trafficking, robbery, corruption, black market, political violence, terrorism, abduction, etc.
Bangladesh is used to move narcotics made in neighboring countries. A 2007 report said that Bangladesh is now the main point for the movement and trafficking of heroin from Southeast Asia to the European market .
A total of 10,331 homicides were reported from 2001 to 2003. This is a large increase.
For the Asia Pacific region, Bangladesh is ranked as one of the main countries for software piracy. It is believed that software vendors lose around 102 million US dollars every year to this black market trade. There is no strict law to stop this practice.
In 2011 Bangladesh was ranked 120th for corruption in a list of 182 countries. This means there appears to be a high amount of corruption in the country.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Alissa Rubin

Alissa Johannsen Rubin is an American journalist who writes about war. She is of Jewish descent. She is the bureau chief for The New York Times in Paris. In 2016 she received a Pulitzer Prize for her stories about women in Afghanistan.
Work
Rubin worked for The Congressional Quarterly, The Wichita Eagle, and The American Lawyer magazine.
In 1997, Rubin went to work at The Los Angeles Times, where she wrote about Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
In 2007 she went to work for the The New York Times, where she wrote about Iraq and France. She worked in the Baghdad bureau as a journalist, and then she became chief. In 2009, she became chief of the bureau in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Awards
2016 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
2016 Michael Kelly Award for reports on the treatment of women in Afghanistan
2015 John Chancellor Award
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Other websites
"Flawed Justice after a mob killed an Afghan woman", by Alissa J. Rubin. This story about the death of Farkhunda Malikzada won her the Pulitzer Prize.
Alissa J. Rubin on Twitter
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American journalists
Jewish American writers
Pulitzer Prize winners
Aslan Bzhania

Aslan Georgievich Bzhania (, ; born 6 April 1963) is an Abkhaz politician. He became President of Abkhazia on 23 April 2020. He was the Head of the State Security Service, and one of the leaders of the opposition in Abkhazia.
In 2019, he was poisoned with mercury and was hospitalized for months in Moscow.
He ran in the 2020 presidential election, which preliminary reports show he won.
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Living people
1963 births
Presidents of Abkhazia
Current national leaders
Wicklow Mountains National Park

The Wicklow Mountains National Park is a national park in County Wicklow in Ireland. There are mountains, native woodland and blanket bog in the park. The size of the park is .
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County Wicklow
National parks in the Republic of Ireland
Kamui Kobayashi

Kamui Kobayashi (born 13 September 1986 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Japan) is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and drove in the FIA Formula One World Championship with the Toyota Formula One team in 2009. He is currently driving for Sauber.
Kobayashi was born in Amagasaki, near Kobe.
Racing record
Career summary
Complete GP2 Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete GP2 Asia Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Formula One results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Season in progress.
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1986 births
Living people
Japanese Formula One drivers
Formula One current
GP2 Series drivers
Sportspeople from Hyogo Prefecture
Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov

Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov (also Korolev, ; September 6, 1926 - January 5, 2016) was a Soviet-born Russian computer scientist. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was involved in the development of the first Soviet computers.
Korolyov was born in Podolsk, Russia. He studied at Moscow State University. Korolyov died at his home in Moscow, Russia at the age of 89.
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Other websites
Biography of L. N. Korolev at Virtual Museum Computer.
1926 births
2016 deaths
Russian computer scientists
Moscow State University alumni
Biache-Saint-Vaast

Biache-Saint-Vaast is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
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Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Desi

Desi (pronounced DEH-see or DAY-see) is a supra-ethnic and pan-ethnic term that refers to people and things from the Indian subcontinent. The word "Desi" comes from the Sanskrit word desh (desa), which means "land" or "country." People agree that the word refers to things and people from the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
Origin
The word "Desi" as it is known comes from the Hindustani word desi, which means a "national" of a country. That word comes from the Sanskrit word desh (desa), which means "land" or "country." The first known use of the word was in 200 BCE.
History
During colonial times, the word Desi was used to show that something was not vilayati ("Blighty," or British).
Culture
Desi is a word that is used to describe South Asia in general instead of to a specific culture or country.
Arts
Music and dances that are from the region are called "Desi."
Food
In South Asia, "Desi food" refers to the traditional foods of the region. Desi daru refers to traditional alcoholic drinks such as fenny, toddy, and arrack. A foreign liquor that is made in India, like Indian-made rum or vodka, would not be considered Desi.
South Asia
Indian culture
Rick Ross

William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally as Rick Ross, is an American rapper, songwriter and record executive.
After releasing his debut single, Hustlin' in 2006, Ross became the subject of a bidding war, receiving offers from Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment and Irv Gotti's Murder Inc., before signing a multi million dollar deal with Jay Z's Def Jam Records. Ross released his debut album Port Of Miami through the label later that year, debuting at the top spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, with sales of 187,000 units during the first week. Ross released his second studio album, Trilla in 2008, once again debuting atop the Billboard 200.
In 2009, Ross founded the record label Maybach Music Group, on which he released his studio albums Deeper Than Rap (2009), Teflon Don (2010), God Forgives, I Don't (2012), Mastermind, Hood Billionaire (2014), Black Market (2015), and Rather You Than Me (2017). Ross was also the first artist signed to Diddy's management company Ciroc Entertainment. In early 2012, MTV named Ross as the Hottest MC in the Game.
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1976 births
Living people
Gangsta rappers
African American musicians
Rappers from Mississippi
Bernadets

Bernadets is a commune in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.
Bernadets
David Marsh

David Wayne Marsh is a British financial writer and business consultant. In 2000, he was appointed as a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Biography
David Marsh was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He started his career as a financial writer for the Reuters. From 1978 to 1995, he worked in the Financial Times newspaper in their France and Germany office.
Publications
Germany - Rich, Bothered and Divided (1989)
The Bundesbank - The Bank that Rules Europe (1992)
Germany and Europe - The Crisis of Unity (1994)
The Euro - The Politics of the New Global Currency (2009)
Europe's Deadlock: How the Crisis Could Be Solved - And Why It Won't Happen (2013).
Six Days in September (2017)
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British writers
British businesspeople
CITY-DT

CITY-DT (channel 57) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Television stations
Biff McGuire

William "Biff" McGuire (October 25, 1926 - 2021) was an American actor. He was known for his stage roles as Woody in the 1960 revival of the musical Finian's Rainbow and played King Arthur in one of the first national tours of Camelot.
McGuire starred in the episode "Number Seven, Hangman's Row" of the CBS anthology series, Appointment with Adventure. He also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes "The Gentleman From America" (1956), "The Hidden Thing" (1956), "Crackpot" (1957), and "Don't Interrupt" (1958, as Larry Templeton).
He died in 2021 at the age of 94.
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1926 births
2021 deaths
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
Actors from New Haven, Connecticut
Sonsonate Department

Sonsonate is a department in El Salvador. The capital city is also named Sonsonate.
Municipalities
Acajutla
Sonsonate
Armenia
Caluco
Cuisnahuat
Izalco
Juayua
Nahuizalco
Nahulingo
Salcoatitan
San Antonio del Monte
San Julian
Santa Catarina Masahuat
Santa Isabel Ishuatan
Santo Domingo
Sonzacate
Departments of El Salvador
19th-century establishments in El Salvador
1820s establishments in North America
1824 establishments
Camarones, Chile

Camarones is a city and commune of Chile, in the Region of Arica and Parinacota. It has 1,220 people. The centre of the city is in Cuyo, near the Chile Highway 5. It is mostly rural. It does not have much tourist activity.
It was founded in December 30, 1927 as Codpa.
Cities in Chile
1927 establishments in Chile
Communes of Chile
Plains, Pennsylvania

Plains is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of the CDP was 4,335 at the 2010 census, out of 9,961 in the entire township.
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Census-designated places in Pennsylvania
Michelle Forbes

Michelle Forbes (born January 8, 1965 in Austin, Texas) is an American actress who has performed in many movies and television programs. She was in the series True Blood, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guiding Light and Homicide: Life on the Street; she was also in Swimming with Sharks and Escape from L.A.. She also had other projects besides these.
Actors from Texas
1965 births
Living people
Bad Steben

Bad Steben is a market town in Hof in Bavaria in Germany. In 2007, Bad Steben celebrated its 175th anniversary as a Bavarian State Spa.
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Hof (district)
Spa towns in Germany
Sam Smith

Samuel Frederick "Sam" Smith (born 19 May 1992) is a British singer-songwriter. They became famous in October 2012 when the song "Latch" by Disclosure came out. In 2013, they released the single "Lay Me Down". In 2014 Smith had a single, "Stay with Me" and "Money on My Mind" through their album In the Lonely Hour, which became a major international success.
Their 2015 song "Writing's on the Wall" was recorded for the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre and won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
In 2017, Smith released their album The Thrill of It All. Its lead single, "Too Good at Goodbyes", received positive reviews and reached number one in the UK and number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
Smith was born in London. They came out as gay in May 2014 and non-binary in September 2019. They are referred to as "they, them & their". <ref> {{Cite web|last=Nichols|first=James|date=2016-02-02|title=British Singer
Discography
See Sam Smith - Discography
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1992 births
Living people
Best Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters
British soul musicians
British blue-eyed soul singers
English blue-eyed soul singers
English LGBT people
English singer-songwriters
Golden Globe Award winners
LGBT singers
LGBT songwriters
Singers from London
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People with non-binary gender identities
Martha Cohen

Martha Ruth Cohen, CM, AOE, LLD (nee Block; 1920 - February 26, 2015) was a Canadian community activist and philanthropist. She was a member of the Order of Canada.
Cohen was of Jewish descent.
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Other websites
1920 births
2015 deaths
Canadian activists
Canadian Jews
Jewish philanthropists
People from Alberta
Electoral district of Cheltenham

Cheltenham is an electoral district of South Australia. It was created in 1998.
Cheltenham is in Adelaide.
Election results
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Cheltenham
Benin national football team

Benin national football team is the national football team of Benin.
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African national football teams
Benin
Brownsville, Mississippi

Brownsville is an unincorporated community in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States.
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Settlements in Hinds County, Mississippi
Andy Haden

Andrew Maxwell Haden (26 September 195029 July 2020) was a New Zealand rugby union player and All Black captain. He played at lock for Auckland and New Zealand from 1972 until 1985. He also played club rugby in the United Kingdom and Italy. He was born in Wanganui, New Zealand.
In 2003, Haden announced that he was beginning chemotherapy for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. He died on 29 July 2020 in Auckland, aged 69.
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1950 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from chronic lymphocytic leukemia
New Zealand rugby union players
James R. Clapper

James Robert "Jim" Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is the former Director of National Intelligence.
He served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995. He was the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006.
On June 5, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Clapper to replace Dennis C. Blair as United States Director of National Intelligence. Clapper was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for the position on August 5, 2010.
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1941 births
Living people
United States Directors of National Intelligence
Politicians from Indiana
People from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Railways in Melbourne

Melbourne has a long history of railway building. The city's first railway opened in 1854, when in 1834 the city itself did not exist. The network then grew as lines were built throughout the suburbs, reaching a peak by the 1900s. Electrification of the system was carried out from 1919, with electric multiple unit operation starting at the same time.
Public transport in Melbourne