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Michelle Alonso Morales

Michelle Alonso Morales (born September 15, 1994, Tenerife) is a swimmer from Spain. She has an intellectual disability and is an S14 type swimmer. As of 2012, she lived in Tenerife. She raced at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, England. She finished first in the 100 meter breaststroke. She has been dubbed by the media as "The Little Mermaid of the Canary Islands". She is also considered one of the most important personalities of Spanish sport.
References
Spanish swimmers
Living people
1994 births
Spanish Paralympic gold medalists
People from Guipuzcoa
2012 Summer Paralympics
Jean Adolphe d' Olimart

Jean Adolphe d' Olimart (9 April 1740 - 18 December 1820) was a politician, lawyer and judge from Bettendorf, that was at the time of his birth a city within Habsburg Netherlands (now Luxembourg).
In the United Kingdom of the Netherlands he served as a member of the House of Representatives for Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from 1815 to 1816. He resigned due to his health and his age.
D' Olimart died in Bettendorf on 18 December 1820, at the age of 80.
References
1740 births
1820 deaths
Dutch politicians
lawyers
judges
Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Benátky nad Jizerou

Benatky nad Jizerou () is a town in Mlada Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Around 7500 people live there.
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Towns in the Czech Republic
Central Bohemian Region
Louis, Duke of Burgundy

Louis of France (16 August 1682 - 18 February 1712) was the eldest son of Louis, Dauphin of France, known as le Grand Dauphin and, as such, was known as le Petit Dauphin. He became Dauphin of France upon his father's death in 1711.
Biography
Louis de France was born in the Palace of Versailles, the eldest son of Louis, le Grand Dauphin, and his wife Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria. At birth, he received the title of Duke of Burgundy.
Louis grew up with his younger brothers; Philippe, Duke of Anjou and Charles, Duke of Berry.
At the age of 15, he married his second cousin, Marie Adelaide of Savoy, the daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy and Anne Marie d'Orleans. This match had been decided as part of the Treaty of Turin, which ended Franco-Savoyard conflicts during the Nine Years' War. The marriage took place on 7 December 1697 at the Palace of Versailles. The two were in love with one another, a rarity at the court of Versailles.
Louis became Dauphin of France upon the death of his father in 1711.
In February 1712, his wife contracted measles and died on the 12th of that month.
The Duke of Burgundy, who dearly loved his wife and who had stayed by her side throughout the fatal illness, contracted the disease and died on 18 February, six days after her at the Chateau de Marly. Both of his sons also became infected, the eldest, Louis, Duke of Brittany, the latest in a series of Dauphins, succumbed to it on 8 March. The only one to survive was the two-year old Duke of Anjou, the future King Louis XV of France.
Children
Louis of France, Duke of Brittany (25 June 1704 - 13 April 1705) died of convulsions;
Louis of France, Duke of Brittany (8 January 1707 - 8 March 1712) died of measles;
Louis XV of France (15 February 1710 - 10 May 1774) first engaged to Mariana Victoria of Spain; married Marie Leszczynska and had issue; died of smallpox.
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
16 August 1682 - 14 April 1711 His Royal Highness The Duke of Burgundy
14 April 1711 - 18 February 1712 His Royal Highness The Dauphin of France
Other websites
House of Bourbon
1682 births
1712 deaths
People from Versailles
Infectious disease deaths in France
Dauphins and Dauphines of France
Burials at the Basilica of St Denis
Lho Shin-yong

Lho Shin-yong (Korean: nosinyeong, 28 February 1930 - 21 October 2019) was a South Korean politician, diplomat and intelligence chief. He served as the 18th Prime Minister, the 18th Foreign Minister and the 12th Director of the Agency of National Security Planning (ANSP, now National Intelligence Service) of the fifth South Korean republic.
Lho died in Seoul on 21 October 2019 at the age of 89.
References
1930 births
2019 deaths
Prime Ministers of South Korea
Lassy, Val-d'Oise

Lassy is a commune. It is in Ile-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
References
Communes in Val-d'Oise
Divertimento

A divertimento is a piece of music which is lighthearted and easy to listen to. It is often performed on social occasions, e.g. as music to be played while people eat, or as after-dinner music.
The divertimento became popular in the 18th century. They were played by a small group of instruments. Mozart wrote several pieces called "divertimento". They are similar to a serenade. A divertimento often has several movements, e.g. six, seven or more.
There are a few examples from the 20th century of pieces called "divertimento", e.g. works by including works by Ferruccio Busoni, Bela Bartok, and Igor Stravinsky (from his ballet Le Baiser de la Fee).
Musical forms
Paper Moon (movie)

Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich and was based on the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. It stars Tatum O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Burton Gilliam, Randy Quaid and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It won an Academy Award and was nominated for 3 others in 1974.
Other websites
1973 comedy-drama movies
1970s road movies
American road movies
American comedy-drama movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Paramount Pictures movies
Black-and-white movies
Movies set in Kansas
Movies set in Missouri
Water for Your Soul

Water for Your Soul is the seventh studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone. It was released on 31 July 2015 by her own label, Stone'd Records.
Critical reception
Water for Your Soul received mixed to positive reviews from music critics.
Track listing
Sample credits
"Harry's Symphony" contains samples from "Here I Come" by Barrington Levy, "Young Lover" by Cocoa Tea, "Be Careful" by Matthew McAnuff and "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle
Charts
References
2015 albums
Joss Stone albums
Reggae albums
Soul albums
R&B albums
Phyllodytes praeceptor

Phyllodytes praeceptor is a frog. It lives in the state of Bahia in Brazil not far from the ocean. People have also seen it in Serra da Jiboia, 694 m above sea level.
The adult male frog is 20.7-25.8 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog has large eyes.
References
Frogs of South America
Boredom

Boredom is an emotional state that comes when a person has nothing to do, and is not interested in anything. To stop boredom, most people do something to occupy or amuse themselves.
The first known use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, but the saying to be a bore had been used to mean "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768.
Psychologically, boredom is a bad state in which the person feels a deep lack of interest in what is going on around them, and where it is hard to focus.
References
Emotions
Cassia County, Idaho

Cassia County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, 22,952, people lived there. The county seat and largest city is Burley.
Communities
Cities
Albion
Burley
Declo
Malta
Oakley
Unincorporated communities
Almo
Basin
Connor
Elba
Idahome
Jackson
Marion
Pella
Raft River
Springdale
Sublett
View
References
Other websites
County website
County Parcel Map
1870s establishments in Idaho Territory
1879 establishments in the United States
Idaho counties
Leslie Rutledge

Leslie Carol Rutledge (born June 9, 1976) is an American Republican politician and lawyer. She is the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 2023. Rutledge became the 56th attorney general of Arkansas on January 13, 2015. She was the first woman and first Republican to be elected to the position of attorney general in the state's history.
Personal life
Rutledge was born in Batesville, Arkansas. She studied at the University of Arkansas and at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2015, she married Boyce Johnson. They have one daughter.
Political career
Rutledge ran for the re-election to office of Attorney General against the Democratic nominee Mike Lee in 2018. She led with almost 62% of the vote and was re-elected.
During February 2021, Rutledge proposed a bill called the Gender Integrity Reinforcement Legislation for Sports Act which would ban transgender athletes from playing with the girls' sports teams in K-12 schools.
Rutledge described herself as a defender of the Second Amendment and of freedom of religion. She is also pro-life. Rutledge also opposes rights for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people. As the Arkansas Attorney General, Rutledge and her office filed notice was appealing the decision from a Washington County judge to deny the state's request for a preliminary injunction against Fayetteville's anti-discrimination ordinance.
Gubernatorial campaign
Rutledge and Sarah Huckabee Sanders started their campaigns to become the first female Governor of Arkansas in late 2020. Both Rutledge and Huckabee planned their runs in the 2022 election, scheduled to happen on November 8, 2022. However, Rutledge dropped out of the governor's race in November 2021 to run for lieutenant governor. Rutledge won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in May 2022.
References
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Lawyers from Arkansas
Lieutenant Governors of Arkansas
1976 births
Living people
Robert Juranic

Robert Juranic (29 May 1904 - 8 December 1973) was an Austrian footballer.
Career
He played for Floridsdorfer AC and Libertas Wien in Austria,FC St. Gallen in Switzerland and Jednota Zilina in Slovakia as forward.
He played in six matches for the Austria national football team from 1926 to 1928 and scored three goals. He debuted on 30 May 1926 in a 4-1 win versus France. In this match he also scored his first goal for the national team. His last match was a 2-0 win versus Switzerland on 28 October 1928.
References
1904 births
1973 deaths
Austrian footballers
Players of the Austrian national football team
Association football forwards
James Garner

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 - July 19, 2014) was an American movie and television actor. He acted in several television series in a career of more than fifty years, including his roles as Bret Maverick in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, Maverick and Jim Rockford in the popular 1970s detective drama, The Rockford Files. He also acted in many movies, including The Great Escape (1963) and Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964).
Garner died from a massive heart attack at his Los Angeles, California home, aged 86.
Movies
Toward the Unknown (1956)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Sayonara (1957)
Darby's Rangers (1958)
Up Periscope (1959)
Alias Jesse James (1959) (Cameo)
Cash McCall (1960)
The Children's Hour (1961)
Boys' Night Out (1962)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Thrill of It All (1963)
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
Action on the Beach (1964) (short subject)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
36 Hours (1965)
The Art of Love (1965)
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (1966) (short subject)
A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Mister Buddwing (1966)
Grand Prix (1966)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Once Upon a Wheel (1968) (documentary)
The Man Who Makes the Difference (1968) (short subject)
How Sweet It Is! (1968)
The Pink Jungle (1968)
The Racing Scene (1969) (documentary)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Marlowe (1969)
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971)
Skin Game (1971)
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
One Little Indian (1973)
The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
HealtH (1980)
The Fan (1981)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Tank (1984)
Murphy's Romance (1985)
Sunset (1988)
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Maverick (1994)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
The Hidden Dimension (1997) (documentary) (narrator)
Twilight (1998)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (voice)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003) (voice) (direct-to-DVD)
The Notebook (2004)
Al Roach: Private Investigator (2004) (short subject) (voice)
The Ultimate Gift (2007)
The Magic Shoe (2007)
Terra (2008) (voice)
References
Other websites
Jim's bio @ the Museum of Broadcast Communications
Archive of American Television Interview with James Garner March 17, 1999 on Google Video
Rockford Files site
Actors from Oklahoma
American movie actors
American movie producers
American television actors
American voice actors
Emmy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
People from Norman, Oklahoma
Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Deaths from myocardial infarction
1928 births
2014 deaths
Sergio Pintor

Sergio Pintor (16 November 1937 - 27 December 2020) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He was an Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ozieri from 2006 to 2012. Pintor was born in Oristano, Italy. In 1961, he became a priest.
Pintor died on 27 December 2020 in Ozieri, Italy at the age of 83.
References
1937 births
2020 deaths
Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Jacques François Mouret

Jacques Francois Mouret (1787-1837) was a French chess player. He became the chess teacher of the future Louis Philippe I. He was one of the most successful operators of The Turk, a famous chess-playing machine.
Biography
Mouret was a great-nephew of the famous chess player Francois-Andre Danican Philidor. He learned the game at the Cafe de la Regence, taught by Bernard and Carlier, two of Philidor's students. He was a pupil of Alexandre Deschapelles and later he became a teacher of La Bourdonnais. He also gave chess lessons to the children of the French King Louis Philippe I. In 1819, he was the operator of The Turk during its tour in England and probably the person, who sold the secret of The Turk to the press.
Mouret was an alcoholic. In 1842 the editor of the chess magazine Le Palamede, said "He was a clever fellow, sharp, gay, lively, amusing, and had studied seriously the theory of chess, by which he made his living. His talent redeemed a little the rudeness of his manner and a certain licentiousness which he indulged in. He used to be in a continual state of semi-intoxication". George Walker wrote that "His brain was consumed in the Brandy".
Mouret was believed to have written a book in 1836, The Treaty Elementary Game of Chess. But later evidence shows that he only made some corrections to the text.
He had no money when he died and so the members of the Chess Club of Paris paid for his funeral.
Mouret and The Turk
Mouret is best known as the person hidden inside The Turk, a fake chess-playing machine. Mouret was one of many great chess players who worked inside the machine, others being Johann Baptist Allgaier, who defeated Napoleon in 1809, Schlumberger, Boncourt and Lewis. Fifty games played by Mouret from inside the Turk in London in 1819, are collected in a book published in 1820. In the beginning of the book it was written that out of 300 games, the Turk (Mouret) only lost six.
Mouret's weakness for drinking often left him without any money, so he probably sold the secret of the Turk in 1834 to Le Magasin picturesque. The article, An attempt to analyze the automaton chess-player of M. Kempelen, explained how a man could be hidden inside the Turk. Mouret was not named, but many people. including Walker, believe he was the source. The French master was sick and short of money at the time, and died three years later.
The French Defense
Mouret often used a move now called the French Defense. He was one of the only players to use it and is one of the main reasons for it being called the French Defense. Mouret taught the move to players at the Cafe de la Regence. One of his students convinced the Paris team to use the defense in games played by letters against a London team. Following the victory of the French team, the opening quickly became known as the French Defense.
References
Other websites
HERITAGE des ECHECS FRANCAIS (in French)
Additional games of Mouret (or The Turk operated by Mouret) at chessgames.com ,,,
1787 births
1837 deaths
French chess players
Moriarty, New Mexico

Moriarty is a city in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,910 at the 2010 Census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Moriarty is located at (34.999815, -106.046667).
References
Cities in New Mexico
Heijō Shrine

Heijo Shrine (Ping Rang Shen She , Heijo jinja) was a Shinto shrine located in Pyongyang while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. The shrine was named after the Japanese name for Pyongyang. It was built in 1913 and ceased to exist after 1945. The shrine's main festival was celebrated every year on October 2nd.
In the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines, Heijo Shrine was a national shrine of the third rank, also known as kokuhei shosha.
Today, the location where Heijo Shrine once stood has been turned into a park. A statue of Kim Il-Sung was built where the shrine used to be
Related websites
Historical page with photographs
Overseas shrines database
Kokuhei Shosha
1945 disestablishments in Japan
1913 establishments in Japan
Pages with unreviewed translations
Shinto shrines in the Japanese colonial empire
Shinmei shrines
Monster (disambiguation)

A monster is often a type of creature.
The term monster can also mean:
Monster (movie), a 2003 movie starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci
Monster truck, a pickup truck with extra large tires and suspension
Monster, South Holland, a town in the Netherlands
Monster Energy, an energy drink
Morris dance

The Morris Dance is an English folk dance.
The earliest known English written mention of Morris dance is dated to 1448. It records the payment of seven shillings to Morris dancers by the Goldsmiths' Company in London.
The dance is done by a group of dancers wearing bells on their shins or shoes.
People danced this dance in their homes until it became a well known folk dance.
Dances
British culture
Monthey District

Monthey is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It contains the following municipalities:
Champery
Collombey-Muraz
Monthey
Port-Valais
Saint-Gingolph
Troistorrents
Val-d'Illiez
Vionnaz
Vouvry
Districts of Valais
Judgment Day (2009)

Judgment Day (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on May 17, 2009 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Results
Related pages
List of WWE pay-per-view events
References
Other websites
The official Judgment Day website
WWE Judgment Day
Sports in Chicago
2009 in professional wrestling
2009 in Illinois
May events
Henry the Navigator

Henry the Navigator was born in 1394 and died in 1460. He was a prince from Portugal, the third son of King John I of Portugal. He was called Infant Dom Henrique in Portuguese. He was never a navigator himself. He got his name because he organized many ocean voyages on which lands were found. He is seen as the man who started the Age of Discovery.
He opened a navigation school in Portugal, so the technology of tools and ships could be made better. One of these developments was the caravel. His explorers discovered the first shipping routes directly from Europe to Asia for the Portuguese monarchy.
References
1394 births
1460 deaths
Portuguese royalty
Princes and princesses
Marcelle Manson

Marcelle Manson (born 25 October 1984) is a South African water polo player and field hockey player.
She competed for the South Africa women's national field hockey team in the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup.
She competed for the South Africa women's national water polo team in the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.
References
Other websites
marcelle-manson
budapest-hungary-jul-2017-manson
1984 births
Living people
South African water polo players
Field hockey players
Naftalan, Azerbaijan

Naftalan is a city in Azerbaijan. It is surrounded by the rayon of Goranboy. It is on an agricultural plain near the Lesser Caucasus Mountains. The word naftalan also means a petroleum product which can be got there.
Archaeological findings in the region date to the 12th century AD.
References
Cities in Azerbaijan
12th-century establishments
Establishments in Azerbaijan
Ganja-Gazakh Economic Region
Renate Dorrestein

Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 - 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called Panorama. She published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. She was born in Amsterdam.
Dorrestein died on 4 May 2018 of esophageal cancer in Amsterdam at the age of 64.
References
Other websites
1954 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Dutch journalists
Dutch novelists
Feminist writers
Writers from Amsterdam
Hybo

Hybo is a locality in Ljusdal Municipality in Gavleborg County in Sweden. In 2001, 241 people lived there.
References
Settlements in Gavleborg County
Lujiazui

Lujiazui (Chinese: Lu Jia Zui ) is a neighborhood in Pudong New District, Shanghai. Located on the southeastern bank of the Huangpu River where the river bends, Lujiazui was built upon silt deposited by the Huangpu River. Lujiazui is now the financial center of Shanghai and a major financial center of the People's Republic of China. It is home to several of China's tallest buildings: Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jin Mao Tower and Oriental Pearl Tower.
Shanghai
Hamamatsu festival

Hamamatsu Festival (Bang Song matsuri) is a festival held in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on May 3 to 5 every year. The Hamamatsu festival is not a religious festival but a city festival. In Japan, May 3 to 5 is a holiday called Golden week. Golden week is the longest national holiday in Japan. May 3 is Constitution Memorial Day, May 4 is Greenery Day, and May 5 is Children's Day. During the festival, people who live in each ward celebrate children, especially baby boys, and local restaurants pray for success and prosperity.
History
The first Hamamatsu festival was held in 1558 to celebrate the birth of the son of the lord of Hamamatsu castle. The lord and his close advisers flew a kite with the son's name written on it. In the middle of the Edo era (1603~1868), not only in Hamamatsu but also all over Japan, it became popular to fly kites on the Children's Day (May 5). On that day, Japanese people usually celebrate and pray for boys' growth, good health, and bright futures.
Kite festival
The Hamamatsu festival is famous for its large kites. At 11 am on May 3, more than 100 large kites fly in the sky. The kite holders stand at the Nakataima Sand Dunes and release them all at the same time, signaled by a trumpet call. The Nakatajima Sand Dunes, is one of three largest sand dune areas in Japan. The Nakatajima Dunes overlook Enshu-nada sea, so the place has the strong winds needed for flying kites. The kites are decorated with baby boys' names and marks or designs of each town (cho). People believe that the higher the kites fly, the healthier the baby boys grow up.
Participants in each town also fight using the kites: They intertwine the 5 mm thick kite strings and use the friction to cut their opponents' kite strings. This kite festival is held for three days in the daytime.
Parade
At night, there is a parade. The parade has 83 palace-like parade floats in the center of Hamamatsu. Parade floats are large, movable carts covered in scenery or sculptures. Each small town has one float. Girls ride on the floats and play traditional music using Japanese instruments like taiko drums, shinobue flutes, and bells. Other children, their families, and people who live in the town also carry a floats around the area. The audience watches the parade from the side of the road.
References
Festivals in Japan
1558 establishments
16th-century establishments in Japan
May events
Zooid

A zooid is a term for a small individual animal, part of a marine colony. The zooids in a colony are usually clones, and may be cytoplasmically connected. Though genetically identical, the zooids in a colony may serve different functions. This is the same as would be the case with a normal metazoan animal, but in a zooid colony the members are more like individuals.
The word is pronounced zo-oid, not like zoo. Some examples:
Individual members of a bryozoan colony.
Individual members of a living coral.
Individual members of a Portuguese Man o' War.
Zoology
Kyūan

, also romanized as Kyu-an, was a after Ten'yo and before Ninpei. This period spanned the years from July 1145 through January 1151. The reigning emperor was .
Events of the Kyuan Era
1145 (Kyuan 1, 8th month): Taiken-mon In, died. She was mother of former-Emperor Sutoku.
1146 (Kyuan 2, 2nd month), The emperor visited the home of former Emperor Toba.
1146 (Kyuan 2, 12th month), Konoe joined Fujiwara no Tadamichi in celebrating his 58th birthday.
1148 (Kyuan 4, 6th month): In Heian-kyo (Kyoto), the imperial palace was destroyed by fire.
1150 (Kyuan 6, 1st month): Konoe married Fujiwara-no Tokoku. This bride became kogu (first empress).
1150 (Kyuan 6, 3rd month): Konoe took a second wife; and this bride became chugyo (second empress). Konoe caused discord when he neglected his first wife.
1150 (Kyuan 6, 12th month): Minamoto no Yoshikane became head of the Ashikaga clan in Shimotsuke province.
Related pages
Heian period
References
Other websites
National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Japanese eras
Lucy-Jo Hudson

Lucy-Jo Hudson (born 4 May 1983) is an English actress, known for her roles as Katy Harris in Coronation Street, Donna-Marie Quinn in Hollyoaks, Rosie Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and Rhiannon Davis in Doctors in 2016 earned her the British Soap Award for Villain of the Year in 2017.
She was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Her best friend Alan Halsall in the soap opera Coronation Street (2003-present)
1983 births
Living people
English television actors
English movie actors
Sewing

Sewing is stitching cloth, leather, furs, or other materials, using a needle and thread. Sewing can be done on a sewing machine, or by hand.
"Plain" sewing is mostly done to make or mend clothing and household furnishings such as curtains, sheets, upholstery, and table linens. It is also used for sails, bellows, skin boats, banners and other items shaped out of flexible materials.
"Fancy" sewing is done to decorate materials, such as embroidery or quilting.
Sewing is an important part of shoemaking and bookbinding. Wounds are often sewn shut.
If a thread becomes loose in a sewn item, the stitches may unravel and require restitching to repair them. In repair sewing, pulling the threaded needle in and out of the fabric at the same lengths and places as the other remaining stitches can make a repair nearly invisible. Replacing a missing button on a garment follows the same procedure, although there are different possible ways to place the thread to sew on a button. While repairs are usually sewn by hand, most garments are created using a machine, which can range from simple to complex.
References
Manufacturing
Needlework
Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is an American retired professional tennis player. He has won the Wimbledon Championships seven times and has won 14 Grand Slams overall, which was a record until Roger Federer broke it in 2009. He is said to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Personal and family life
Sampras' mother is an immigrant from Greece; his father is an American whose father was Greek and mother was Jewish. Sampras' older sister, Stella, is the women's tennis head coach at UCLA. His younger sister, Marion, is a teacher in Los Angeles. His older brother, Gus, has been tournament director at the Scottsdale ATP event, but from 2007 he became president of the firm managing Pete's business activities.
In the late 1990s, he dated actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
On September 30, 2000, Sampras married American actress and former Miss Teen USA, Bridgette Wilson. On November 21, 2002, their son, Christian Charles, was born. On July 29, 2005, the couple welcomed their second son, Ryan Nikolaos. They live in Lake Sherwood, California.
Professional Awards
ATP Player of the Year: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.
ITF World Champion: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.
References
1971 births
American Jews
American tennis players
Australian Open champions
Living people
Sportspeople from Washington, D.C.
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
World No. 1 tennis players
Hopeton Lewis

Hopeton Lewis (30 October 1947 - 4 September 2014) was a Jamaican singer. Lewis started performing at a young age. He formed a singing group called, "The Regals".
By the mid-1960s, he began recording and had one of the earliest hits with "Take It Easy" in late 1966. He had several more Jamaican hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the first 'herb' song ever recorded in Jamaica, "Cool Collie". He worked for Duke Reid as an arranger and backing vocalist, and won the Festival Song Contest in 1970 with "Boom Shaka Lacka".
Lewis died on 4 September 2014 at his home in Brooklyn, New York from kidney failure, aged 66.
References
1947 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Jamaican singers
Musicians from Kingston, Jamaica
Himne de l'Exposició

"Himne de l'Exposicio" (; "Hymn of the Exposition") is the anthem of the Valencian Community.
Lyrics
Valencian
Spanish
References
Spanish anthems
Valencian Community
Luceau

Luceau is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
References
Communes in Sarthe
Gordon Astall

Gordon Astall (22 September 1927 - 21 October 2020) was an English professional footballer. He played as an outside right, and represented the Football League, the England B team and the full England side.
In later life, he was diagnosed with dementia. He died in October 2020 at the age of 93.
References
1927 births
2020 deaths
English footballers
Sportspeople from Manchester
Deaths from dementia
Brosso

Brosso is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Settlements in Piedmont
Héctor Rivoira

Hector Oscar Rivoira (10 April 1960 - 14 August 2019) was an Argentine football manager and player. He worked as the manager of Chacarita Juniors and Atletico Tucuman. He played for Almirante Brown from 1981 to 1984. He was born in Buenos Aires.
Rivoira died on 14 August 2019 in Buenos Aires from colorectal cancer at the age of 59.
References
Other websites
Argentine Primera statistics at Futbol XXI
1960 births
2019 deaths
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine football managers
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Tom McCarthy (broadcaster)

Tom McCarthy (born July 5, 1968, in Jersey City, New Jersey ) is an American sportscaster. He works with the Philadelphia Phillies. He also called games for the New York Mets. He is a fill-in voice for Fox Saturday Baseball. He was the voice of the AA baseball Trenton Thunder for six seasons.
Outside of baseball, McCarthy has called college football and basketball games for CBS College Sports, Sports USA, Westwood One, and the Atlantic-10 TV. He has been the voice of Rutgers Scarlet Knights football and for Princeton Tigers football and basketball. In addition to baseball and college sports, he called NFL games for Sports USA until 2012. He is one of Dial Global's voices for NFL coverage.
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National Football League broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football broadcasters
College basketball broadcasters
Living people
1968 births
People from Jersey City, New Jersey
Arthur Berckmans

Arthur Berckmans (3 May 1929 - 28 December 2020), better known as Berck, was a Belgian comics writer. He wrote Sammy. He was born in Leuven, Belgium. He retired in 1994. He also worked on Zonneland.
Berckmans died on 28 December 2020 at the age of 91.
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Other websites
1929 births
2020 deaths
Belgian writers
Comics writers
People from Leuven
Pierres, Calvados

Pierres is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Valdalliere.
References
Former communes in Calvados
Union representative

A union representative, union steward or shop steward is an employee of an organization or company who represents and defends the interests of her/his fellow employees but who also works for a trades union.
Ordinary members of the union are elected to this position by fellow workers or sometimes by appointment of a higher union body. While working as a representative, they keep their role as an employee of the company.
As a result, the union steward becomes an important link and source of information between the union leadership and ordinary workers.
Trade unions
Daniel Walker

Daniel "Dan" Walker (August 6, 1922 - April 29, 2015) was an American Democratic lawyer, businessman, and politician from Illinois. He was the 36th Governor of Illinois from January 1973 to January 1977. He was one of the four governors of Illinois to serve in jail. He went to jail because of bank fraud in 1988.
Walker was born on August 6, 1922 in Washington, D.C.. He was raised in San Diego, California. Walker studied at the United States Naval Academy and at Northwestern University. Walker died of heart failure in Chula Vista, California, aged 92.
References
Other websites
Oral History Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Dan Walker Oral History and Victor deGrazia Oral History
1922 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American fraudsters
Governors of Illinois
Politicians from Washington, D.C.
Politicians from San Diego, California
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
Lawyers from Illinois
Lawyers from San Diego, California
Division of Bonner

The Division of Bonner is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was created in 2004 and is named after Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian elected to the Parliament of Australia. Bonner was a Queensland Liberal Senator. There are only three other divisions named for Aboriginal people, Bennelong in New South Wales, Blair in Queensland and Lingiari in the Northern Territory.
The Division of Bonner covers the eastern areas of Brisbane, including Chandler, Carindale, Manly, Mount Gravatt, Wishart and Wynnum.
Members
Election results
References
Other websites
Division of Bonner (Qld) -- Australian Electoral Commission
Ross Vasta's website
Electoral divisions of Australia
Queensland
2004 establishments in Australia
The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary is a 2003 movie by Guy Jenkin. It was filmed in Sarawak and is set during the British colonial rule in the 1930s. Jessica Alba and Hugh Dancy were in the movie.
2003 movies
English-language movies
Tall tale

Tall tales are stories with elements that make no sense, that are told as if they were true. Some tall tales are exaggerations of true events, however. Others can be made up entirely, and set in a setting that makes sense to the reader.
The event is, many times, told in such a way that makes the person telling the story seem to be a part of it. The tone of the story is generally friendly.
In the United States
Tall tales are seen many times in American folklore. Johnny Appleseed is a tall tale, with a man who travels the American West planting apple trees. There are many more American tall tales of a similar nature, involving real people being exaggerated. However, there are also some made up tall tales, such as the story of Pecos Bill, a story about a made up person that could not possibly be true, even if the exaggeration was taken away. There is also a tall tale about Aylatt C. Buckner, a Native American fighter in colonial Texas.
Australia
The Australian frontier also has similar stories to American West tall tales, such as stories about Rod Ansell or Big Bill.
References
Other websites
American folklore
Australian folklore
HMT Empire Windrush

The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury on 22 June 1948, carrying 493 passengers from Jamaica wishing to start a new life in the United Kingdom. The passengers (including one stowaway) were the first large group of West Indian immigrants to the UK after the Second World War.
When the people from the Windrush arrived at port, they were faced with discrimination and racism because of the colour of their skin. Some people now call the Windrush a new journey for them as they all went through the racism, but in the end, came out just as equal as everyone else.
Before 1948, the ship, under the name of Monte Rosa, had been used for cruises in pre-war Germany, and then as a German troopship and prisoner transport ship, before being captured by the British and taken as a war prize. She continued to be used as a British troopship after 1948, but sank in the Mediterranean Sea in March 1954 after a sudden and catastrophic fire in her engine room, just off the coast of Algeria.
References
Ships
Hopkins, Minnesota

Hopkins is a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is located west of Minneapolis. The population was 17,591 at the 2010 census.
References
Cities in Minnesota
I. Beverly Lake Jr.

Isaac Beverly Lake Jr. (January 30, 1934 - September 12, 2019) was an American jurist and public official. He was chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2001 through 2006. In 2006, Lake Jr. led the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission, to review police and prosecution procedures and recommend reform to prevent wrongful convicts. He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Lake Jr. died on September 12, 2019 in Raleigh at the age of 85.
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1934 births
2019 deaths
American judges
Lawyers from North Carolina
Politicians from Raleigh, North Carolina
Wilhelm Ostwald

Wilhelm Ostwald (23 September 1853 - 4 April 1932) was a Latvian-German chemist born in Riga, Latvia, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
His parents are Elizabeth Leuckel and Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald. His son is Wolfgang Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 and it is Latvia's only Nobel prize. Although he was a German chemist, he was born in Latvia so the Nobel prize went to Latvia.
1853 births
1932 deaths
Esperantists
German academics
German chemists
German Nobel Prize winners
Latvian scientists
People from Riga
Russian Nobel Prize winners
Candle Festival

The Candle Festival (known in Thai as Haetian) is held in Ubon Ratchathani, Isan, Thailand.
At the start of rainy season, it is traditional for the devout to donate to monks items of personal use, such as candles. This part of the festival became the core of the Ubon Ratchathani version of the event. It is now a major event both for residents and for tourists: giant candles are paraded through the town, each representing a local temple, district or other institution. The more elaborate versions are accompanied by scenes of Hindu and Buddhist mythology sculpted in wood or plaster and coated with wax.
Festivals in Asia
Thai culture
Séricourt

Sericourt is a commune. It is Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School is a high school in New York City.
1900s establishments in New York (state)
1904 establishments in the United States
High schools in New York (state)
José Paulino Gomes

Jose Paulino Gomes (4 August 1895 - 28 July 2023) was a Brazilian supercentenarian. If his age had been verified by the Guinness World Records, Gomes would have been the oldest known person in the world, surpassing Jeanne Calment.
Gomes turned 100 in 1995. He turned 110 in 2005.
Biography
Early life
Jose Paulino Gomes was born in Pedra Bonita, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on 4 August 1895. His date of birth has been disputed by family members.
Gomes was born during the reign of Queen Victoria and before the births of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Queen Elizabeth II; both of whom he outlived. He survived two World Wars and three pandemics.
Career
Gomes had spent the majority of his adult life working as an animal tamer.
Personal life
Gomes married his wife at the Civil Registry Service of Pedra Bonita in 1917, at the age of 22. They had seven children. His wife preceded him in death.
Gomes had regularly continued to ride horses until 2019, aged 123.
Death
Gomes died from multiple organ failure due to old age at his home in Corrego do Cafe, Espirito Santo, on 28 July 2023. He was 127 years, 358 days old. His death came seven days prior to his 128th birthday. He is survived by his seven children, 25 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Gomes's funeral was held at 4pm on 29 July 2023. He is buried at the Corrego dos Fialhos Cemetery.
Gomes spent the last month of his life bedridden.
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1895 births
2023 deaths
Brazilian people
Supercentenarians
Roaring Twenties

The phrase Roaring Twenties describes the 1920s, a time in North America when art, society, and culture were rapidly changing. The term 'Roaring' applies here, as art, society and culture were rapidly improving and therefore 'Roaring'. Prohibition was in place and so North America was a very 'wise' and 'clean-cut' place to be.
Economy
The North American economy during the 1920s was doing very well because World War I had just ended. Many new products were being made for the consumer. Products were being produced on a huge scale throughout North America, one example of these products is the 'Model T Ford', a car that was seen in every state of the USA.
Culture
The culture of the Roaring Twenties was very different from before. Women's roles were changed. Liberal young women, called flappers, wore short skirts, cut their hair short, and listened to a new form of music called jazz. Women had gotten the right to vote. Writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were called the Lost Generation because they moved out of the United States after the war. African-American art and culture also grew a lot during the Harlem Renaissance.
Problems of the Roaring Twenties
Even though North America was doing very well in terms of prosperity, a lot of problems still arose. One of the main problems in North America during the 1920s was Organized Crime. Gangs of foreign immigrants were importing illegal alcohol, tobacco, firearms etc. One of the most famous gangsters of this time was Al Capone.
1920s in the United States
John Allen Muhammad

John Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 - November 10, 2009) was a convicted American spree killer responsible for ten deaths in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002. He and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a murder spree, killing ten people by shooting them from a distance inside Muhammad's car. The last murders however were also done outside while hiding from view. Muhammad confessed to having committed seven more murders, making a total of 17 victims.
Muhammad was later sentenced to death by lethal injection and Malvo was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in November 10, 2009 in the state of Virginia.
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1960 births
2009 deaths
African-American military personnel
American Muslims
American spree killers
American terrorists
Executed American serial killers
Muslim terrorists
People executed by lethal injection
People from Louisiana
SSD Sanremese Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Sanremese is a football team which plays of San Remo in Italy.
The club in season 2014-15 plays in Prima Categoria Liguria/A.
Name
1904-1911 US Sanremese 1904
1911-1987 US Sanremese Calcio 1904
1987-1992 Sanremese Football Club 1904
1992-2007 US Sanremese Calcio 1904
2007-2010 USD Sanremese Calcio 1904
2010-2011 US Sanremese Calcio 1904
2012-present ASD Sanremese Calcio
League title
Serie C:
Winners 2: 1936-37, 1946-47
Serie C2:
Winner 1: 1978-79
Serie D:
Promoted 1: 1997-98
National Runners-up 1: 1997-98
Eccellenza Liguria:
Winners 3: 1991-92, 1995-96, 2009-10
Coppa Italia Serie C:
Runners-up 1: 2005-06
Regional Coppa Italia:
Winners 2: 1995-96, 2009-10
League position
The seasons in the professional leagues
Italian football clubs
Kaisers

Kaisers is a municipality of the district Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
References
Other websites
Settlements in Tyrol (state)
Yokohama Flügels

Yokohama Flugels is a former football club which has played in Japan.
Name
1964-1992 All Nippon Airways SC
1992-1998 Yokohama Flugels
League title
Japan Soccer League Division 2 : 1
1987/88
League position
1984 : JSL Division 2 - 2nd
1985/86 : JSL Division 1 - 12th
1986/87 : JSL Division 2 - 11th
1987/88 : JSL Division 2 - 1st
1988/89 : JSL Division 1 - 2nd
1989/90 : JSL Division 1 - 3rd
1990/91 : JSL Division 1 - 7th
1991/92 : JSL Division 1 - 8th
1993 : J1 League - 6th
1994 : J1 League - 7th
1995 : J1 League - 13th
1996 : J1 League - 3rd
1997 : J1 League - 6th
1998 : J1 League - 7th
References
Japanese football clubs
Hiromu Nonaka

was a Japanese LDP politician. He served as a local politician from 1951 to 1978 and in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2003. He served as Minister of Home Affairs and Head of the National Public Safety Commission from 1994 to 1995, as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1998 to 1999, and as Head of the Okinawa Development Agency in 1999.
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Other websites
Profile of Hiromu Nonaka
1925 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Japanese politicians
Potassium fluoride

Potassium fluoride is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is KF. It contains potassium and fluoride ions.
Properties
Potassium fluoride is a colorless crystalline solid. It rarely occurs in the ground. It dissolves easily in water. It can react with glass. Hydrofluoric acid is more effective at reacting with glass, though. It has to be stored in plastic or platinum containers.
Preparation
Potassium fluoride is made by reacting potassium carbonate with hydrofluoric acid. This reaction can make potassium bifluoride. Potassium bifluoride is a mixture of hydrofluoric acid and potassium fluoride.
Uses
It is used because of its fluoride ion. It can be used to add fluoride ions to some chemical compounds.
Safety
Potassium fluoride is somewhat toxic. It is corrosive to glass. It can burn when spilled on skin.
Related pages
Sodium fluoride
Potassium chloride
Potassium compounds
Fluorine compounds
Paul Smith (composer)

Paul J. Smith (October 30, 1906 - January 25, 1985) is an American composer. He was best known for his work at Disney.
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Other websites
1906 births
1985 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
American movie score composers
Musicians from Michigan