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Birobidzhan

Birobidzhan (; Yiddish: byrAabydzSHAan) is a town in Russia. It is the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the Chinese border. As of 2019, 73,129 people lived there.
Other websites
Official website of Birobidzhan
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Capitals of oblasts of Russia
David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 - June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News.
Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He wrote three books, including the 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War.
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American television news anchors
American war correspondents
1920 births
2003 deaths
American autobiographers
American political writers
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
Emmy Award winners
Writers from North Carolina
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Juche Tower

The Juche Tower is a monument in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was completed in 1982. It is on the eastern bank of the Taedong River, opposite the Kim Il-Sung Square. Its geographic coordinates are 39deg1'3.52''N, 125deg45'48.05''E. It was made to celebrate the anniversary of Kim Il-Sung's 70th birthday. It is claimed that it was designed by Kim Jong-il.
The 170 meter (560') structure contains 25,550 blocks (365 x 70, one for each day of Kim Il Sung's life, excluding remainder days), dressed in white stone with seventy dividers and capped with a 20 meter high, 45 ton, shining torch allegedly made out of 'special materials'. It is possible to go to the top of the tower. It is said that the tower was built in 35 days and was dressed in 76 days.
In front of the tower is a 30 meter high statue consisting of three figures -- one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush (an idealised worker, a peasant and a "working intellectual"). Also close to the tower is a wall of 82 friendship plaques, apparently from foreign supporters. Around the tower there are also pavilions and water features. It is claimed that the tower has become a popular place for North Koreans.
The tower is named after the principle of Juche, developed by Kim Il-Sung. The name of the tower is sometimes translated as the Tower of the Juche Idea or Juche Ideology Tower.
Pyongyang
Monuments and memorials
Towers in Asia
Buildings and structures in North Korea
1982 establishments in Asia
Establishments in North Korea
Mammal Species of the World

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference is a standard reference work in mammalogy giving descriptions and bibliographic data for the known species of mammals. It is now in its third edition, published in late 2005, which was edited by Don E. Wilson and DeeAnn M. Reeder.
References
Other websites
Site hosted by Bucknell University
search hosted by Bucknell University
taxon browser on archived version of the Smithsonian website for MSW3
Mammal Species of the World at Google Books
Biology books
Nonce

Nonce can mean:
Nonce, slang for pedophile
Nonce word (a word used only once)
Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering
Nonce orders, an architectural term
Related pages
Nuncio, the apostolic and diplomatic representation of the Holy See
Hapax legomenon, in corpus linguistics
Mochtar Kusumaatmadja

Mochtar Kusumaatmadja (April 17, 1929 - June 6, 2021) was an Indonesian politician. He was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Kusumaatmadja was the Minister of Law and Human Rights from 1973 until 1978. From 1978 until 1988, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Kusumaatmadja died on June 6, 2021 in Jakarta, aged 92.
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1929 births
2021 deaths
Indonesian politicians
Matoug Adam

Matoug Adam (; 1926 - 2 April 2019) was a Libyan politician, civil servant, and poet. He served as his country's Minister of Tourism from January 1968 to June 1969. He then served as Interior Minister from June 1969 to 31 August 1969. He was the last Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Libya, as the royal government was overthrown by Muammar Gaddafi on 1 September 1969. After the coup d'etat, Adam was jailed for two years by the Gaddafi government.
Adam died on 2 April 2019, at the age of 93.
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1926 births
2019 deaths
Civil servants
Libyan politicians
Poets
Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani (, born Rahavard Farahani; 10 July 1983) is an Iranian-French actress, musician and singer. She is best known for her roles in the movies Body of Lies (2008), The Patience Stone (2012), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Paterson (2016), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and The Upside (2019). In 2016, she portrayed the title character in the stage version of Anna Karenina.
Farahani was born in Tehran. Her father is actor Behzad Farahani and her sister is actress Shaghayegh Farahani. She was married to Amin Mahdavi from 2004 to 2013. She was married to Australian Christos Dorje Walker from 2015 to 2017.
In 2012, Farahani was banned from returning to Iran after posing naked in a French magazine.
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Other websites
1983 births
Living people
French movie actors
French singers
French stage actors
Iranian singers
Actors from Tehran
Iranian movie actors
Barjols

Barjols is a commune of 2,975 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
References
Communes in Var
Braye, Aisne

Braye is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in north France.
Communes in Aisne
Gavin & Stacey

Gavin & Stacey is a British sitcom written by James Corden and Ruth Jones about two families: one in Billericay, Essex; one in Barry, South Wales. Mathew Horne and Joanna Page play the titular characters Gavin and Stacey and the writers star as Smithy and Nessa. Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb star as Gavin's parents (Pam and Mick), and Melanie Walters (Gwen) is Stacey's mother and Rob Brydon (Bryn) is Stacey's uncle.
Production
Baby Cow Productions produced the sitcom for BBC Wales. Three series totalling twenty episodes were broadcast from 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010 on BBC Three and later on BBC One. Broadcast on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year's Day 2010, episodes of the final series formed a significant part of the prime-time BBC seasonal programming.
Gavin & Stacey was directed by Christine Gernon who directed other BBC sitcoms such as One Foot in the Grave.
Awards
Acclaimed as both a hit and a breakthrough show for the BBC, it was the most nominated show in the 2007 British Comedy Awards. It won several awards, including the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs) Audience Award, and the British Comedy Awards Best TV Comedy Award, both in 2008. In 2019, Gavin & Stacey was named the 17th-greatest British sitcom in a poll by Radio Times.
Christmas Day 2019 special
Corden and Jones wrote a Christmas Day 2019 special for BBC One. With 18.49 million viewers, the broadcast in the United Kingdom was the most-viewed non-sporting event in a decade and the most-watched comedy in 17 years.
References
Other websites
BBC Archive site
Gavin & Stacey at BBC America
Gavin And Stacey at British TV Comedy
Radio Times - Gavin and Stacey
2000s British sitcoms
2010s British sitcoms
2007 British television series debuts
BBC television sitcoms
Essex
Wales
English-language television programs
Banzai charge

A Banzai charge (or "banzai attack") (Wan Sui Tu Ji ) was a tactic used by Japanese soldiers against the American soldiers when they were losing World War II. Banzai charges were usually suicide charges. This was so they would have an honourable death without surrender. Also, the charges were a final attempt to gain success against the Allied forces, which usually had more troops.
World War II
Military of Japan
1940s in Japan
Hahnbach

Hahnbach is a market town in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate, in Bavaria, Germany.
References
Other websites
Official website
Amberg-Sulzbach
Connellan Airways

Connellan Airways (later called Connair) was an Australian airline that operated in northern Australia. It was founded by Edward Connellan (1912-1983) on 23 July 1943. The airline flew planes between remote areas of the outback. They worked a lot with the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
The name was changed to Connair in 1970. Connair had money problems in the 1970s. The company was sold to another airline company on 14 March 1980. It was liquidated (turned into money and dismantled) shortly after.
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Airlines of Australia
1943 establishments
1980 disestablishments
1940s establishments in Australia
Blue Desert (movie)

Blue Desert is a 1991 American psychological thriller movie directed by Bradley Battersby and starring Courteney Cox, D. B. Sweeney, Craig Sheffer. It was distributed by First World Pictures.
Other websites
1991 thriller movies
1990s psychological movies
American thriller movies
American independent movies
Movies set in Arizona
Movies set in New Mexico
Commission on Presidential Debates

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is a nonprofit corporation created in 1987 under the joint sponsorship of the Democratic and Republican political parties in the United States. The CPD sponsors and produces debates for U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates with research and educational activities relating to the debates.
It has run all of the presidential debates held since 1988. The commission's debates are sponsored by private funding and donations from foundations and corporations as well as fees from hosting institutions.
References
1987 establishments in the United States
United States presidential elections
Marie Thérèse de Bourbon

Marie Therese de Bourbon (1666 - 1732) was briefly the titular (in title only) Queen consort of Poland in 1697. She was the daughter of Henri Jules, Prince of Conde and of Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of France's reigning House of Bourbon, she was a Princess of the blood. She was entitled to be addressed as Her/Your Serene Highness.
Life
She was married to Francois Louis, Prince of Conti. After her husband's death, she turned her attention to the renovation of the Conti residences. She began with the Hotel de Conti. It is now called the Ministere de l'artisanat, 80 rue de Lille, Paris 7e. She commissioned Robert de Cotte, Premier Architecte du Roi, to do the work.
Marie Therese died on 22 February 1732 at the Hotel de Conti. Her death was probably due to the syphilis she may have caught from her husband. She was buried at the Eglise Saint-Andre des Arcs, in L'Isle d'Adam.
Issue
Marie Anne de Bourbon (18 April 1689 - 21 March 1720) married her cousin Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon but had no children.
Unnamed child (18 November 1693 - 22 November 1693) died young.
Unnamed son but given the title of Prince de La Roche-sur-Yon. (1 December 1694 - 25 April 1698) died young.
Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (10 November 1695 - 4 May 1727) married Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon and had children.
Louise Adelaide de Bourbon (2 November 1696 - 20 November 1750) died unmarried.
Unamed daughter known as Mademoiselle d'Alais (19 November 1697 - 13 August 1699) died young.
Louis Francois de Bourbon, Count of Alais (27 July 1703 - 21 January 1704) died young.
Titles and styles
1 February 1666 - 22 January 1688 Her Serene Highness Mademoiselle de Bourbon
22 January 1688 - 9 February 1709 Her Serene Highness The Princess of Conti
9 February 1709 - 22 February 1732 Her Serene Highness The Dowager Princess of Conti
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Other websites
Marie Therese de Bourbon
1666 births
1733 deaths
People from Paris
House of Bourbon
French princesses
Theodoric Borgognoni

Theodoric Borgognoni is known as one of the most important surgeons of the medieval age. He was born in 1205 and died in 1296/1298.
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Other websites
1205 births
1296 deaths
Deryck Whibley

Deryck Whibley (born March 21, 1980) is a Canadian singer and musician from the band Sum 41. He was married to Avril Lavigne but on October 9, 2009, Lavigne filed for divorce.
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1980 births
Living people
Canadian singers
Canadian guitarists
Sum 41
People from Ontario
Pope Lando

Pope Lando (913-14) (; died 914) was the 122nd Pope from July or August in 913 until February or March in 914.
History
Little is known about the short period during which Pope Lando was the head of the church.
Legacy
Lando was to be the last pope with a name that was completely unique until Pope Francis's election. Since then, there has not been another pope with the name Lando.
Until Pope John Paul I in 1978, Pope Lando was the last pope to use a papal name which had not been used by an earlier pope.
References
Other websites
Catholic Hierarchy, Popes in sequence
Italian popes
Year of birth unknown
910s deaths
Business magnate

A business magnate or a tycoon is a businessman who owns a major corporation.
Business magnates
Related pages
Bourgeoisie
Businessperson
Business occupations
Christine Lampard

Christine Louise Lampard (nee Bleakley, born 2 February 1979) is a broadcaster from Northern Ireland.
In television
She has hosted various television shows with Adrian Chiles. These include The One Show (2007-2010) and Daybreak (2010-11). With Phillip Schofield she has presented Dancing on Ice (2012-14) and This Morning (2013-16). Lampard has also presented non-fiction series for ITV including Off The Beaten Track (2013) and Wild Ireland (2015). She has been the presenter of the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women since 2016.
1979 births
Living people
Beynost

Beynost is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Communes in Ain
California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge or CSUN is a public university in Northridge, California, a neighborhood in the United States' second-largest city of Los Angeles. CSUN belongs to the California State University system. It was founded first as the Valley satellite campus of California State University, Los Angeles and adopted its current name of California State University, Northridge in 1972. It has become the third largest university in the California State System.
CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields, master's degrees in 42 fields, and a doctoral degree in educational leadership. Cal State Northridge hosts the National Center on Deafness, and each year the university hosts the International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities.
The school's sports teams, nicknamed "Matadors", play in the Big West Conference.
Colleges
References
California State University
Colleges and universities in Los Angeles
Cal State Northridge
Chavannes-sur-Moudon

Chavannes-sur-Moudon is a municipality in the of Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Municipalities of Vaud
Naturalization

Naturalization is when a person changes his or her nationality. Most people have the nationality of the country where they are born and grow up. In other cases, one can be a citizen of a country because the individual in question had a parent, grandparent, etc who was/is a citizen of a different country. If they move to another country they will still keep their own nationality at first, but if they stay there for many years and want to stay there for the rest of their lives they may want to change their nationality.
Different countries have different laws about naturalization. Usually the person must make a promise in a court of law. He will have to promise to be a good citizen and obey the country's laws. Sometimes a country gives citizenship to someone who has not asked for it. Sometimes, someone can keep their first nationality as well as getting a new one. This is "dual nationality". Sometimes children whose parents have different nationalities are allowed to have dual nationality.
Someone who has been naturalized will normally have all the rights that any other person belonging to that country has.
The reverse also happens. States sometimes remove citizenship. This denaturalization can leave the former citizen stateless.
References
Citizenship
Dynamite (BTS song)

"Dynamite" is a song by the band BTS. It was released on August 21, 2020. It is their first English song. It has been described as 'uplifting' and infectious.
References
2020 songs
Pop songs
Disco albums
Middletown Springs, Vermont

Middletown Springs is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.
Towns in Vermont
Vivaha Panchami

Vivah Panchami is a Hindu festival celebrating the wedding of Rama and Sita. It is observed on the fifth day of the Shukla paksha or waxing phase of moon in the Agrahayana month (November - December) as per Maithili calendar. The day is observed as the Vivah Utsav of Sita and Rama in temples and sacred places associated with Sri Rama in Mithila region of India and Nepal.
Hindu festivals
Aurora, Texas

Aurora is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Cities in Wise County, Texas
Big Mama Thornton

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (November 12, 1926, Montgomery, Alabama - July 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California) was an American blues singer, harp player and songwriter.
Thornton was the first who recorded "Hound Dog" by Leiber and Stoller. Another song which is often covered is "Ball 'n Chain". It is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". It is one of her best-known songs because of being performed and recorded by Janis Joplin.
Career
She was born in Montgomery, Alabama. She got her musical education in a Baptist church, where her father was a minister and her mother a choir singer. At the age of 14 she joined Sammy Green's Georgia-based Hot Harlem Revue and toured the south. She was also a self-taught drummer and harmonica player. She often played each instrument onstage.
1948 she settled in Houston. In 1951 she was signing a recording contract with Peacock Records. For this label she recorded "Hound Dog" which became #1 in the Rhythm 'n Blues charts. Then she toured with Junior Parker and Esther Phillips. At the end of the 1950s her career faded. She relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she mostly played local blues clubs.
In 1966 she recorded Big Mama Thornton With The Muddy Waters Blues Band featuring Muddy Waters (guitar), Sammy Lawhorn (guitar), James Cotton(harmonica), Otis Spann (piano), Luther Johnson (bass guitar), and Francis Clay (drums). Her Ball 'n' Chain album in 1968 with Lightnin' Hopkins (guitar) and Larry Williams (vocals), included the songs "Hound Dog", "Wade in the Water", "Little Red Rooster", "Ball 'n' Chain", "Money Taker", and "Prison Blues".
One of Thornton's last albums was Jail (1975) for Vanguard Records.The album was recorded in the mid-1970s at two prisons. She became the leader of a blues ensemble .Thornton performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and 1968, and at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1979. In 1965 she performed with the American Folk Blues Festival package in Europe where she recorded her album Big Mama Thornton in Europe and followed it up the next year in San Francisco with Big Mama Thornton with the Chicago Blues Band. Both albums came out on the Arhoolie label. Thornton continued to record for Vanguard, Mercury, and other small labels in the 1970s and to work the blues festival circuit until her death in 1984. She was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1984.
Thornton died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on 25 July 1984 at the age of 57.
Selected discography
1965 Big Mama Thornton in Europe Arhoolie
1967 Big Mama the Queen at Monterey MCA
1968 She's Back
1969 Stronger Than Dirt
1970 Maybe Roulette Records
1970 The Way It Is Mercury
1973 Saved Pentagram Records
1975 Jail Vanguard
1975 Sassy Mama!
1978 Mama's Pride Vanguard
References
Other websites
1926 births
1984 deaths
American blues musicians
American blues singers
Blues harp players
Musicians from Alabama
Singers from Alabama
People from Montgomery, Alabama
When the Money's Gone

"When the Money's Gone" is a 1995 song by Bruce Roberts featuring Elton John on the backing vocals. It went to number 32 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts.
Cher version
In 2003 Cher covered When the Money's Gone as a B-side to her single Love One Another and was taken from her 24th studio album Living Proof''. It went to number 72 in Romania and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004.
Track listing
US CD Maxi Single (42496-2)
"When The Money's Gone" (Brother Brown H&H Vocal Mix) - 8.06
"When The Money's Gone" (The Passengerz Club Mix) - 7.29
"When The Money's Gone" (Thick Dick Vs. Cher Bootleg Mix) - 8.09
"When The Money's Gone" (Manny Lehman Vocal) - 9.26
"When The Money's Gone" (Brother Brown Dynamo Mix) - 7.37
"Love One Another" (Eddie Baez Club Mix) - 8.49
"Love One Another" (J Start Club Mix) - 8..05
"Love One Another" (Friscia & Lamboy Club Mix) - 9.43
References
1995 songs
Dance-pop songs
Cher songs
Elton John songs
Bishkek

Bishkek (Bishkek) is the capital city of Kyrgyzstan. It has a population of 900,000 (2005). It was originally founded in 1878 as the Russian fortress of Pishpek (Pishpek). From 1926 until 1991 it was known as Frunze (Frunze), after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze. In the Kyrgyz language, a Bishkek is a churn used to make stirred horse milk (kumis), the Kyrgyz national drink.
National capitals in Asia
Settlements in Kyrgyzstan
Kaštanka

Kastanka is a forest. It has one of the highest lying sets of chestnuts in central Europe. It is in a small town called Nasavrky. Nasavrky is in eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic. It is about 25 km south of county seat Pardubice.
History
Jan Adam von Auersperg came back from Italy with six seedlings of chestnut at the end of 18th century. He ordered that the seedlings were planted on the north side of Nasavrky hill. This happened between 1776 to 1778. The plants were the start of Kastanka. In passing time, the set was expanded a lot. Kastanka had over 110 trees in the turn of 19th and 20th century.
Kastanka was made a nature monument on 1 December 1990. At that time, Kastanka had over 138 trees. One of the first planted trees survives to this day. It was named "Knizak" in honor of prince Auersperg.
The chestnut became the sign of Nasavrky. It became the main motive in the emblem of the city Nasavrky, and the flag of Nasavrlky in 1996.
Main information
Kastanka is natural monument which was declared as special protection area on 1st December 1990. The set of chestnuts is on a slight rise north ward. This area is in a built-up area about 100 meters from the city square. Kastanka is at an altitude of 472 - 486. The area of set is 1,088 hectares large and all trees are chestnut trees expect a few that are on the edge.
Inspired by Kastanka
Kastanka was main theme of many artists like painters, sculptors and writers. Some writers wrote novels about Kastanka. Two of the authors that did this were Marie Dolezalova and Alois Stanislav Novak. Kastanka gave Vera Vovsova, Jiri Polacek and Karel Pavlik the inspiration to make art. Vovsova said this about Kastanka:
References
Forests of Europe
Geography of the Czech Republic
Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin (pronounce:"Ke-klin" with "klin" to rhyme with French "vin"), (born Paris, November 27 1867; died Le Canadel, December 31 1950) was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He wrote a very large amount of music, but very little of it was published because he was more interested in helping younger composers than making himself well-known. Some of his best works include his symphonic poems and his film music.
His life
Koechlin was born in Paris, the youngest child of a large and rich family. His mother's family came from the Alsace near the French border with Germany, and he was proud of his Alsatian background. His grandfather on his mother's side had started a cotton textile firm in Mulhouse and his father worked in the textile business. When Koechlin was 14 his father died. He showed an interest in music, but his family wanted him to be an artillery officer. However, he had tuberculosis and had to spent six months getting better in Algeria. After finishing his schooling he was allowed to enter the Paris Conservatoire in 1890. Two years later he was studying composition with Massenet, and in 1896 he was a pupil of Gabriel Faure. Ravel was a pupil in the same class. Faure had a big influence on Koechlin who wrote a book about him and helped him to arrange some of his music for orchestra.
Koechlin became a freelance composer and teacher. He married Suzanne Pierrard in 1903 and they had five children. At first he was comfortably off, but after World War I the family lost a lot of money and they had to sell their country house.
Koechlin had very free views about music, and this is probably why he never got a teaching job at the Piano Conservatoire. He also agreed with some things that the Communists thought. He did not like modern inventions like the telephone and radio. He looked like an old Russian patriarch with his long beard. He dressed in velvet trousers, sandals and a shepherd's cape for bad weather. He liked outdoor activities such as swimming and mountaineering. He was offered the Legion d'honneur in 1940 but refused it.
His music
Koechlin composed in a variety of styles, even changing the style during a piece. He often liked quiet music with long chords which are played for the sounds they make rather than for giving the music a traditional shape. Sometimes there were no barlines in his music. He often composed in his head while on a train or climbing a mountain.
His works for orchestra include Les Bandarlogs which was based on the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's "Bandarlog" are a troupe of monkeys in the forest. The music describes the monkeys, but Koechlin also gives it another meaning: he is criticising music critics, comparing them to monkeys. In the Seven Stars Symphony each movement is about a famous film star. They include Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a lot of chamber music and piano music, including some dances for Ginger Rogers.
Sources
Robert Orledge, Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) His Life and Works (London, 1989)
1867 births
1950 deaths
20th-century French composers
Edwin Pope

John Edwin Pope (April 11, 1928 - January 19, 2017) was an American journalist.
Biography
He was known for his sportswriting at the Miami Herald, where his work appeared from 1956 until his death in 2017. He covered Super Bowl I through Super Bowl XLVII. Some called him as "the best writer of sports in America."
Pope's success with his 1954 book Football's Greatest Coaches, allowed him to leave the Atlanta area and move down to Miami, where he accepted a job at the Miami Herald in 1956. While he retired as the Herald sports editor in 2003, he contributed columns to the newspaper until 2016, when he wrote his last piece eulogizing boxer and former Miami resident Muhammad Ali.
References
1928 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Florida
American journalists
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Athens, Georgia
Jeffrey R. Holland

Jeffrey Roy Holland (born December 3, 1940) is an American educator and religious leader. He was the ninth President of Brigham Young University and is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1994. Holland was born in St. George, Utah.
References
1940 births
Living people
Academics from Utah
Pel-et-Der

Pel-et-Der is a commune of the Aube departement in the north-central part of France.
References
Communes in Aube
Appling, Georgia

Appling is a census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Columbia County.
Census-designated places in Georgia (U.S. state)
County seats in Georgia
Bruce Lanoil

Bruce Lanoil (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor, voice actor and puppeteer. He plays various puppets for both The Jim Henson Company and The Walt Disney Company. He often works with the British puppeteer David Alan Barclay.
1960 births
Actors from New York City
American voice actors
American puppeteers
Amplituhedron

An amplituhedron is a geometric shape that makes it easier to calculate particle interactions in quantum field theories.
Currently, the limits of the N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, which is used to calculate the amplituhedron, cause it to be a toy theory. Therefore, the application of the amplituhedron is limited in the real world.
Quantum mechanics
Vilhelmina BK

Vilhelmina BK was a sports club in Vilhelmina in Sweden. The women's soccer team played in the Swedish top division in 1981.
References
Swedish football clubs
Donkey Kong Land 2

Donkey Kong Land 2 is a Game Boy video game that is a part of the Donkey Kong video game series. This game was released in 1996 by Nintendo and was developed by Rare, Ltd.. There is a predecessor to this game named Donkey Kong Land and a sequel called Donkey Kong Land III.
Story
The plot is similar to Donkey Kong Country 2's plot. It has King K. Rool once again kidnapping Donkey Kong, who can only be freed if Diddy Kong gives the bananas from the Banana Hoard to K. Rool.
Worlds
This game has seven total worlds in the game, as opposed to eight in Donkey Kong Country 2. The second and third worlds (Crocodile Cauldron and Krem Quay) of Donkey Kong Country 2 have been merged into Krem Cauldron, possibly to save memory on the game's cartridge. Like Donkey Kong Country 2, there is a Lost World which can be unlocked if Diddy and Dixie pay Klubba fifteen Kremkoins to a level per world. The worlds include:
Gangplank Galleon
Krem Cauldron
Krazy Kremland
Gloomy Gulch
K. Rool's Keep
The Flying Krock
Lost World
1996 video games
Game Boy games
Virtual Console games
Donkey Kong
Platform games
Central Alberta

Central Alberta is a region in the Canadian province of Alberta. It completely surrounds the Edmonton Capital Region. Central Alberta is the most densely populated rural area in the province. Agriculture and energy make up an important part of the economy.
The North Saskatchewan River flows through the region. The Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park is also located in the region.
Alberta
Beylagan District

Beylagan (Beyl@qan) is a raion of Azerbaijan. The capital city is Beylagan.
Districts of Azerbaijan
Grand Central (train operating company)

Grand Central Railway Company Ltd is a privately-owned train operating company running services under the name Grand Central within the United Kingdom.
Open-access train operating companies
Kabardian language

Kabardian is a Northwest Caucasian language. About 590,000 people speak Kabardian. Kabardian is closely related to Adyghe.
caucasian languages
Bais, Mayenne

Bais is a commune of 1487 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France.
Communes in Mayenne
Leo Max Frank

Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884-August 17, 1917) was a Jewish American industrialist. He was superintendent at a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1913, he was accused of the rape and murder of Mary Anne Phagan, an employee at the factory.
The attorney who prosecuted Frank was Hugh Dorsey. Dorsey was related to Luther Rosser, who was Frank's defense attorney.
The main prosecution witness against Frank was James Conley. Conley was a janitor. He said that Frank asked him to help cover up the murder. Frank and his defense attorneys said that Conley was the real murderer. Before that there had been other suspects in the murder, including James Gantt, a former employee fired by Frank for theft, Arthur Mullinax, who witnesses said they saw with Mary the night of her alleged murder and Paul Bowen, who was arrested at a hotel because a woman said that she heard him confess to the murder but was released for lack of evidence.
Frank was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death. Governor John Slaton reduced the sentence to life in prison upon reviewing the evidence. Relatives of Phagan kidnapped Frank from prison and lynched him in 1917. In Atlanta, Frank was president of B'Nai Brith, a quasi-Masonic fraternity for Jews. His case led to the founding of the Anti Defamation League.
Sources
Oney, Steve The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
References
Jewish industrialists
1884 births
1917 deaths
American Jews
Megan Rapinoe

Megan Anna Rapinoe (; born July 5, 1985) is an American professional soccer player. She plays for and captains Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League, as a midfielder and winger.
Rapinoe is a member of the United States women's national soccer team, she helped the U.S. win the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and the gold at the 2012 London Olympics.
She is openly a lesbian.
References
Other websites
U.S. Soccer player profile
Olympique Lyonnais player profile
1985 births
Living people
Lesbians
American soccer players
LGBT people from California
Sportspeople from California
Earl G. Graves Sr.

Earl Gilbert Graves Sr. (January 9, 1935 - April 6, 2020) was an American businessman, publisher and philanthropist. He was an advocate of African-American businesses. He was the founder of Black Enterprise magazine and chairman of the media company Earl G. Graves, Ltd. He was the director for Aetna and an Executive Board member of the Boy Scouts of America. He was the father of Earl G. Graves Jr.
Graves was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Graves died on April 6, 2020 due to Alzheimer's disease in White Plains, New York. He was 85.
References
Other websites
Black Enterprise profile
1935 births
2020 deaths
African-American people
American company founders
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from New York City
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
People from Brooklyn
Volbeat

Volbeat is an Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Volbeat formed in 2001 when singer Michael Poulsen formed a death metal band called Dominus. He became tired of the death metal genre and left the band. He then formed a new band called Volbeat with other members of Dominus.
Discography
Albums
The Strength / The Sound / The Songs (2005)
Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil (2007)
Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (2008)
Beyond Hell/Above Heaven (2010)
Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)
Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie (2016)
Rewind, Replay, Rebound (2019)
Other websites
Volbeat's Official website
Danish heavy metal bands
Lactobacillus

Lactobacillus is a genus of bacteria. Most Lactobacillus species are non-spore-forming and ferment glucose into lactose. This genus also contains several bacteria that make up part of the natural flora of the human vagina.
They are really helpful in the gut. It is a rod-shaped non-spore forming bacteria. It can be found in foods like yogurt.
Gram-positive bacteria
Lois Stratton

Lois Jane Stratton (January 5, 1927 - September 11, 2020) was an American politician. She was a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985. She also was in the Washington State Senate from 1985 to 1993. Stratton was a member of the Democratic Party. She was born in Springdale, Washington.
In 1983, she unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Spokane, Washington. She was member of the Spokane Tribe. Stratton was the first female enrolled tribal member in the Washington State Legislature.
Stratton died on September 11, 2020 in Spokane at the age of 93.
References
1927 births
2020 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Politicians from Spokane, Washington
14 BC

Year 14 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus.
Events
Augsburg is founded by the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus
Beeroth (modern Beirut) becomes a colonia
Births
Agrippina the elder, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (approximate date) (d. AD 33)
Claudia Pulchra, daughter of Aemilius Lepidus Paullus and Claudia Marcella Minor (d. AD 26)
Ma Yuan, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty (d. AD 49)
2021 Nagaland killings

On 4 December 2021, a unit of 21 Para Special Forces, the special forces unit, killed six civilians near the Oting village of the Mon district in Nagaland, India.
Eight more civilians and a soldier were killed afterwards. The killings were criticized with many wanting the Armed Forces Special Powers Act removed.
References
2021 in India
December 2021 events
2021 killings
Glenn Highway

The Glenn Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 179 miles (288 kilometres) long. it is between Anchorage and Glennallen on the Richardson Highway. The Tok Cut-off is often considered a part of the highway.
History
The highway was named for Captain Edwin Glenn, who was a leader in the U.S Army. The highway originated from the Palmer Road in the 1930s.
References
Roads in Alaska
Seabrook, New Hampshire

Seabrook is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Towns in New Hampshire
National Liberation Front of Angola

The National Front for the Liberation of Angola , also known as National Liberation Front of Angola is a political party and former guerrilla organisation founded by Holden Roberto. FNLA fought in the Angolan War of Independence from Estado Novo and also fought alongside UNITA in the Angolan Civil War.
Foundation
FNLA was founded in 1954 as the Uniao dos Povos do Norte de Angola guerrilla movement, it was known after 1959 as the Uniao dos Povos de Angola guerrilla movement, and from 1961 as the FNLA guerilla movement.
Elections
In 1992, the FNLA was reorganized as a political party. The FNLA received 2.4% of the votes and had five Members of Parliament elected. In the 2008 parliamentary election, the FNLA received 1.11% of the vote and won three out of 220 seats.
References
1954 establishments
Political parties in Angola
Eric Brewer

Eric Peter Brewer (born April 17, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for the Anaheim Ducks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Tampa Bay Lightning, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also won a gold medal with Team Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Career
Before playing in the NHL, Brewer played 3 seasons in the Western Hockey League with the Prince George Cougars. He was drafted with the 5th overall pick by the New York Islanders in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He made his NHL debut with the Islanders on October 10, 1998 in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. He scored his first NHL career goal on November 5, 1998 against Trevor Kidd of the Carolina Hurricanes.
He was traded along with Josh Green and their second round selection (Brad Winchester) at the 2000 NHL Entry Draft to the Edmonton Oilers for Roman Hamrlik. Brewer played 2 seasons with the Oilers and 1 season with their American Hockey League affiliate Lowell Lock Monsters.
After the 2004-05 NHL lockout, Brewer was traded along with Jeff Woywitka and Doug Lynch to the St. Louis Blues for Chris Pronger. Brewer would play 6 seasons with the Blues and was traded to Tampa Bay Lightning for Brock Beukeboom and a third round selection in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. He signed a four year, $15.4-million contract extension with the Lightning on June 24, 2011.
On November 28, 2014, the Lightning traded him to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
References
Other websites
1979 births
American Hockey League players
Anaheim Ducks players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian Olympic gold medalists
Edmonton Oilers players
Living people
New York Islanders players
People from Vernon, British Columbia
Prince George Cougars players
St. Louis Blues players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Branch (disambiguation)

A branch is a part of a tree.
Branch or branching could also mean:
Computing
Branch (computer science), a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition.
Branch predictor, the part of a processor that determines whether a conditional branch in the instruction flow of a program is likely to be taken or not.
Branch table, a term used to describe an efficient method of transferring program control (branching) to another part of a program using a table of branch instructions.
Indirect branch, a type of program control instruction.
Branching (software), a way of duplicating an object under revision control.
Geography
Branch, Arkansas, United States
Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Mathematics
Branch (graph theory), a concept in mathematical logic
Branch point, a point at which a multiple-valued function changes values
Principal branch, a function which selects one branch of a multi-valued function
Religion
Branch (Christ), the Branch Davidian new name of Christ
Branch (Latter Day Saints), the Latter Day Saints equivalent of a congregation
Other
Arthur Branch, a fictional character on the TV crime drama Law & Order
Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
Branch (banking), a retail location.
Branch (business), a franchise location.
Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
Branch line, a relatively minor railway line
Branching (chemistry), a concept in polymer chemistry
Branching (linguistics), the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences
Cadet branch, a family line of nobility not descending from the first born son
Earthly Branches, one Chinese system for reckoning time
Executive branch, the branch of government responsible for the day-to-day management of the state
Olive branch, a gesture of peace
Post office branch, a type of postal facility that is not a main post office
People named Branch
Branch, Christopher (circa 1600-1682), early American colonist
Branch, Cliff (1948-2019), retired American football player
Branch, David (born 1948), Commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League
Branch, Emmett Forrest (1874-1932), governor of the U.S. state of Indiana
Branch, Frank (born 1944), Canadian politician
Branch, John, Jr. (1782-1863), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, governor of North Carolina, and territorial governor of Florida
Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan (1820-1862), Confederate General and Representative from North Carolina
Branch, Michael (born 1978), English professional footballer
Branch, Michelle (born 1983), American singer, songwriter and guitarist
Branch, Vanessa (born 1973), British actress and model
McCracken, Branch (1908-1970), college men's basketball coach
Related pages
Branch County
Branch Township
East Branch
Fort Branch
Long Branch
North Branch
South Branch
West Branch
USS Branch
Sean Grande

Sean Grande is a sportscaster. He is the radio voice of the Boston Celtics. Grande's other jobs include these:
WEEI-TV sports anchor/sports director
Minnesota Lynx play-by-play
Connecticut Sun play-by-play
Tennis on ESPN play-by-play
Providence Bruins play-by-play
Harvard Crimson basketball play-by-play
ESPN Major League Soccer play-by-play
1998 NCAA Hockey Selection Show Host
NHL Radio Studio Host
Sports Tonight Host
Boston Terriers football, basketball, and hockey play-by-play
Boston College Eagles football and hockey play-by-play
College Hockey on FSN play-by-play
Minnesota Timberwolves play-by-play
College Hockey on CBS Radio lead play-by-play
College Football on ABC play-by-play
References
Other websites
Tennis broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
Association football broadcasters
College football broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Living people
1969 births
Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College

Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. It was established on 8 February 1991 during the birth centenary year of B. R. Ambedkar. It is sponsored by central Government to cater to the needs of higher education in trans-Yamuna area of Delhi. It is a co-educational institution.
Courses
The college launched four professional courses in the university, namely, BA (Hons) Business Economics, BA (Hons) Social Work, BA (Hons) Hindi Journalism and Mass Communication, and BA (Hons) Applied Psychology. The prominent academic programs include B.Com & B.Com (Hons.), B.A. (Hons.) Geography, B.A. (Hons.) History and B.A. (Programme).
References
Other websites
Dr.Bhim Rao Ambedkar College
Home | University of Delhi
Wayback Machine
1991 establishments in Asia
Colleges and universities in India
The Replacements (band)

The Replacements were an American rock band. They began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979, and are best known for being early pioneers of alternative rock.
Live performances
The Replacements became popular locally after playing live for the first time. This was because of Tommy Stinson's young age. He was still 13. He had learned to play bass guitar at 11 . Early shows were good but soon because impossible to control. The band became known for their rowdy, angry, and often drunken live shows. They often came up on stage too intoxicated to play.
They were banned permanently from Saturday Night Live after performing drunk before a national television audience on January 18, 1986. As one critic said, the band could quite often be "mouthing profanities into the camera, stumbling into each other, falling down, dropping their instruments, and generally behaving like the apathetic drunks they were."
The Replacements--when sober--got critical praise for their live shows. Part of the suspense of seeing the Replacements play, was that the audience never knew until the start of a concert if the band would be sober enough to play. It was not unusual for the group to play entire sets of cover versions, ranging anywhere from Bryan Adams's "Summer of '69" to Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love" to Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog."
Other reading
References
American rock bands
American punk bands
Musical groups from Minnesota
Musicians from Minneapolis
Quantum chromodynamics

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons. These are the fundamental particles that make up hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. It shows the interactions inside subatomic particles.
Subfields of physics
Dave Gahan

Dave Gahan (; born David Callcott; 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the New wave band Depeche Mode. Gahan has been the singer for the band since it started in 1980. Q magazine listed him at No. 73 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers". He was No. 27 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Frontmen". Gahan is known for his "commanding presence on stage" and his "huge, deep baritone voice". In 2020, Gahan was made a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Depeche Mode.
Although Martin Gore is the main songwriter for Depeche Mode, Gahan has written many songs to the albums Playing the Angel (2005), Sounds of the Universe (2009), Delta Machine (2013), Spirit (2017) and Memento Mori (2023). He wrote four songs that were released as singles. These were "Suffer Well" in 2005, "Hole to Feed" in 2009, "Should Be Higher" in 2013 and "Cover Me" in 2017.
Gahan's albums as a solo artist are Paper Monsters (released 2003) and Hourglass (2007). He also wrote lyrics for some songs on the Soulsavers albums The Light the Dead See (2012), Angels & Ghosts (2015) and Imposter (2021).
References
1962 births
Living people
English singer-songwriters
Depeche Mode members
Singers from Essex
Fabián Alarcón

Fabian Ernesto Alarcon Rivera (born April 14, 1947) was President of Ecuador from 6 February 1997 to 9 February 1997 and from February 11, 1997 to August 10, 1998.
Alarcon was born in Quito. He was head of the Congress from 1991 to 1992 and then again from August 1995 to February 1997, when he was made acting president due to the impeachment of President Abdala Bucaram.
Other websites
Official Website of the Ecuadorian Government about the country President's History
1947 births
Living people
Presidents of Ecuador
Politicians from Quito