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He was also a senator of the Iranian Senate.
Giv was born in 1888 in Yazd.
His mother's name was Kharman.
His father's name was Shahpour.
Giv completed his elementary education at Kay Khosravi school.
He learned English language in Yazd.
He was elected as the Zoroastrians' Representative in the Iranian National Assembly after Keikhosrow Shahrokh died in 1939.
He founded "Giv's Charity foundation" in 1958 for supporting needy people.
He was also selected as a senator in the Iranian Senate in 1963 because of his charity works for the Iranian people.
Rostam Bagh
Rostam Bagh, is a big garden in Tehran Pars Street in Tehran.
Arbab Rostam was built in 1957 for Living Zoroastrian's Needy Family.
This garden covers about , including residential buildings, a meeting hall, two schools, a sports ground, a library and a fire temple.
Building water reservoir
Building schools
Giv has built schools for Iranian children.
He built Giv's elementary school, Ostad Khdobabakhsh elementary school and Ostad pour-Davood elementary school for boys and girls in Tehran.
He donated  of land to Iran's Ministry of Education in Damavand County.
Endowments outside Iran
A few months before the Iranian revolution, Rostam and his wife immigrated to the United States and he founded his charity foundations.
They donated 4 million dollars for building Zoroastrian charities in all of the world.
Darbe Mehr Zoroastrian Temple In NY
The making of Chicago's Darbe Mehr
Zoroastrians
Radio City was an Iranian cinema that was opened on 18 September 1958 in Tehran.
The design of this cinema was preformed by Heydar Ghiai, who was known as a pioneer of modern architecture in Iran.
This Cinema was closed after 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution.
Keikhosrow Shahrokh (Kerman, Iran, 1864  – 1939) was the designer of the mausoleum of Persian poet Ferdowsi in the city of Tus.
As elected representative of the Zoroastrian community, he was an active member of the Iranian parliament.
He is best known for his role in the 1925 transition of the official calendar from the Islamic calendar of hejri ghamarei to the Iranian civil calendar, known as hejri shamsi.
Iranian calendar
Hippias of Athens () lived in Athens in the 6th century BC.
He was one of the sons of Peisistratus, the ruler of Athens.
Hippias succeeded Peisistratus in 527 BC.
and became tyrant of Athens.
His brother Cleisthenes was murdered in 514 BC.
Hippias' behavior changed.
He became cruel and angry, executing people in revenge, and taking away the freedom of people.
He also was afraid of threats from the aristocrats.
In the end his uncle Cleisthenes decided to overthrow Hippias and gain power for himself and his family.
Hippias was captured and sent into exile, away from Athens forever in 510 BC.
Hippias fled to Persia, and the Persians threatened to attack Athens if they did not accept Hippias.
The Athenians preferred to remain democratic despite the danger from Persia.
Soon after, the Ionian Revolt against Persian rule began in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor.
It was put down in 494 BC, but Darius I of Persia was keen to punish Athens for its role in the revolt.
In 490 BC Hippias, still in the service of the Persians, led Darius to Marathon, in Greece.
The Battle of Marathon  began a series of Greek victories which made Athens and its colonies successful.
The next 200 years saw flowering of the classical Greek civilisation.
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is an international school for architecture located in Moscow, Russia.
The institute works with students from all around the world to solve problems relating to urbanism and urban development.
The institute is a nonprofit project by the Russian government.
It began in 2009.
In 2014 the institute won a prize from the Domus Magazine for the top 100 best schools of architecture of that year.
Strelka institut
United States National Arboretum is the national arboretum of the United States.
It is located in Washington, D.C.
Friends of the National Arboretum
Save The Azaleas
Shadow the Hedgehog is a video game character of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
He is a hedgehog created by Gerald Robotnik and Black Doom as the Ultimate Life Form.
He first appeared in Sonic Adventure 2.
Shadow's appearances
Shadow the Hedgehog (game)
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)
Sonic Boom: Fire and Icev
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyricv
Chief Clarence "Clancy" Wiggum is a fictional character on the long running TV show The Simpsons.
He is the police chief of Springfield.
Clancy Wiggum is the police chief of Springfield.
He is the father of Ralph Wiggum and the husband of Sarah Wiggum.
He is often shown as an incompetent and lazy policeman.
Abraham Jay-Jedediah "Abe" Simpson, known as Grampa Simpson, is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons.
He first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show in the Simpson Short "Good Night".
Role in the Simpsons
He is the father of Homer Simpson and the grandfather of Bart, Lisa and Maggie; he is the husband of Mona Simpson, but later he also has been married for a short time to Amber (a woman that Homer married in Las Vegas too) and to Selma Bouvier, now he's married to Rita LaFleur.
Abe Simpson is a World War II veteran and he often tells long, unlikely and rambling stories about his past.
He was married to Mona Simpson for many years until she became a fugitive after she destroyed biological weapons owned by Mr. Burns.
Grampa Simpson's profile at TheSimpsons.com
Biological rhythms are the repeating cycles of activity which occur in living organisms.
The best-known example is the daily of circadian rhythm, which fits the cycle of day and night.
Most forms of life have natural rhythms which fit them to natural changes in their environment.
Animals are most active in part of the day, and rest or sleep at other times.
They may be:
Diurnal, which describes organisms active during daytime
Nocturnal,  active in the night
Crepuscular, active during the dawn and dusk hours
Plants undergo daily cycles as well.
Photosynthesis has parts which need light, called light-dependent reactions, and parts which can continue at night (light-independent reactions).
cycles longer than a day, such as the annual migration or reproduction cycles found in certain animals or the human menstrual cycle.
cycles shorter than 24 hours, such as the 90-minute REM cycle, the 4-hour nasal cycle, or the 3-hour cycle of growth hormone production.
Tidal rhythms are often seen in marine life, which follow the roughly 12.4-hour transition from high to low tide and back.
Lunar rhythms, which follow the lunar month (29.5 days).
They are relevant for marine life, as the level of the tides is affected by the lunar cycle.
Gene oscillations – some genes are expressed more during certain hours of the day than during other hours.
This is called REM-sleep (from rapid eye movement).
REM-sleep occurs normally at intervals throughout the night.
The periods of REM-sleep increase in length in the second half of the night.
The function of REM sleep is not well understood.
Nathaniel Kleitman and his student Eugene Aserinsky defined rapid eye movement and linked it to dreams in 1953.
REM sleep was further described by researchers including William Dement and Michel Jouvet.
Usually, dreams do not occur during this time.
Sometimes stages III and IV are combined and called stage III.
The night's sleep can be four or fine of these cycles.
Each cycle includes, in this order: stage I, stage II, stage III (IV), stage II and REM.
The fact that birds and mammals both show REM and NREM sleep suggests that the trait evolved before the two groups diverged in their evolution.
That suggests that the REM/NREM feature is both early and important in the evolution of land vertebrates.
REM and dreams
Rapid eye movement sleep is associated with dreaming.
Waking up sleepers during a REM phase is a common way to get dream reports.
80% of typical people can give some kind of dream report under these circumstances.
Sleepers awakened from REM tend to give longer more narrative descriptions of the dreams they were experiencing.
They estimate the duration of their dreams as longer.
Lucid dreams are reported far more often in REM sleep.
The mental events which occur during REM usually have dream 'hallmarks' including narrative structure, convincingness (like waking life), and instinctual themes.
Apart from its present distribution, nothing is known about the evolution of this brain feature, and its function is not exactly known.
Experiments on humans suggests they need rem sleep or they get obvious mental deterioration.
Biblical Museum of Natural History is a small museum in Beit Shemesh, Israel.
It is dedicated to the natural history of the Bible.
The museum was established in 2014 by Rabbi Natan Slifkin.
Zoo Torah: The Biblical Museum
2014 establishments in Israel
Discipline is the tenth studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson.
It was released by Island Records on February 26, 2008.
It was her first album released on Island Records.
It is also her last album as she has decided to leave Island Records and release her albums herself.
Jackson was unhappy with Island's promotion of the album.
Dicipline received generally favorable reviews from critics.
Metacritic gave it a Metascore of 61.
Janet Jackson – vocals, background vocals, producer, executive producer, vocal producer
Judi Acosta-Stewart – production coordination
Ashaunna Ayars – marketing
Chuando & Frey – art direction, photography, packaging
Dave Clauss – assistant engineer
Ian Cross – mixing assistant, vocal engineer, vocal producer
LaShawn Daniels – vocal arrangement
Eric Dawkins – background vocals, vocal arrangement
Mike Donaldson – engineer, digital editing, effects
The-Dream – producer
Jermaine Dupri – producer, executive producer, mixing, vocal producer
Missy Elliott – rap
Dernst Emile – guitar, producer, vocal arrangement, instrumentation
Paul Foley – engineer, mixing
Kenneth Goh – stylist
David Gough – producer
Kuk Harrell – engineer
Tor Erik Hermanson – instrumentation
John Horesco IV – guitar, engineer, vocal engineer
Josh Houghkirk – engineer
Kegan Houston – assistant engineer
Ernie Isley – guitar
Rodney Jerkins – producer, mixing, instrumentation
Daniel Laporte – engineer
Jaymz Hardy Martin III – engineer
Diane McDonald – production coordination
Ne-Yo – co-producer
Carlos Oyanedel – assistant
R. City – vocals
J. Peter Robinson – art direction, packaging
Manuel Seal, Jr. – co-producer, vocal producer
Telisha Shaw – vocals
Chris Soper – assistant engineer
Eric Stamile – co-producer
Stargate – producers
Chris "Tricky" Stewart – producer
Phil Tan – mixing, vocal mixing
Robert Taylor "R.T." – electric guitar
Angie Teo – assistant engineer
Delisha Thomas – vocals
Roberto Vazquez – engineer, mixing
Chris Viecco – vocals
Brian Woodring – engineer
Andrew Wuepper – mixing assistant
"The Monkey's Paw" is a supernatural horror short story by William Wymark Jacobs.
It was published in 1902, in the book The Lady of the Barge.
It is one of the  most famous horror short stories of English literature.
It is based on the idea that the holder of a talisman has three wishes.
In this case, the talisman is the mummified paw of a monkey.
In the story, the wishes are granted, but the results are unexpectedly negative.
"The Monkey's Paw"; Full Short Story Text
Gaslight edition of the story
Monkey's Paw Radio Play
Podcast of "The Monkey's Paw" as read by John Lithgow
Books That Grow leveled book
Eduardo Menichetti Pilas (1950/51 – 8 July 2007) was a Chilean businessman from Santiago.
He was best known as the president of the football club Colo-Colo from 1990 to 1995.
During his five-year tenure, the club won three Campeonato Nacional titles and three international titles.
Menichetti died from colorectal cancer on 8 July 2007 at the age of 56.
His two children survived him.
Alberto Parodi was a Chilean businessman.
He was best known as the first president of the football club Colo-Colo from 1925 to 1926.
Dedrick D. Gobert (born Dedrick Dwayne Fontenot; November 25, 1971 – November 19, 1994) was an American actor.
He was best known for his roles in the John Singleton movies Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), and Higher Learning (1995).
He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Gobert was murdered on November 19, 1994 in Mira Loma, California.
He was 22.
Jack Edward Larson (February 8, 1928 – September 20, 2015) was an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer.
He is best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in the television series Adventures of Superman (1952–1958).
He also appeared in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the movie Superman Returns (2006).
Larson was born in Los Angeles, California.
He grew up in Pasadena, California.
He was of Swedish and Russian ancestry.
He was gay and his partner of 35 years, director and screenwriter James Bridges, died in 1993.
Frederick A. "Fred" DeLuca (October 3, 1947 – September 14, 2015) was an American billionaire businessman.
He best known as the co-founder and CEO of the Subway franchise of sandwich shops.
DeLuca was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian American parents.
He was married to Elisabeth from 1965 until his death.
They had a son, Jonathan.
DeLuca died from leukemia on September 14, 2015 in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
A review is an evaluation of a publication, service, or company.
Popular reviews are about movies, video games, musical compositions or books.
Other reviews are about cars, home appliances, or computers.
An event or performance like a live music concert, play, musical theater show, dance show, or art exhibition are commonly reviewed.
legal case decisions by a lower court may be reviewed by a higher court.
In addition to a critical evaluation, the review's author may assign the work a rating to indicate its relative merit.
Reviews are generally positive, neutral or negative.
Compilation reviews
A compilation of reviews may itself be called a review.
The New York Review of Books, for instance, is a collection of essays on literature, culture, and current affairs.
National Review, founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., is an influential conservative magazine.
Monthly Review is a long-running socialist periodical.
Metacritic creates an average score of published reviews called a metascore.
User reviews
A user review is one written by someone for a product or a service based on his or her own experience with the reviewed product.
Popular sources for consumer reviews are e-commerce sites like Amazon.com or Zappos.
Social media sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp contain user reviews.
Usually, consumer reviews are in the form of several lines of texts accompanied by a numerical rating.
This text is meant to help shoppers make a decision about a product.
A consumer review of a product usually has comments on how well the product meets a user's expectations.
It talks about how well it does its job, how reliable it is and its quality for the price.
Consumer reviews are also called word of mouth.
Users also comment on how they were treated by a seller.
They may comment on how dependable or trustworthy a seller is.
4 Ways to Manage Online Reviews
Survey of Pakistan is the national mapping agency of Pakistan.
The headquarters of the organization is located in the Survey Training Institute in Islamabad.
Created on December 15, 1791, the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights.
This amendment establishes a number of legal rights that apply to both civil and criminal proceedings.
It contains several clauses: It guarantees the right to a grand jury.
It forbids double jeopardy (being tried again for the same crime after an acquittal).
It protects a person against self-incrimination (being a witness against himself).
This is often called "Pleading the Fifth".
The Fifth Amendment requires due process in any case where a citizen may be deprived of "life, liberty, or property".
Any time the government takes private property for public use, the owner must be compensated.
Grand Juries
The Fifth Amendment requires the use of grand juries by the federal legal system for all capital and "infamous crimes" (cases involving treason, certain felonies or gross moral turpitude).
Grand juries trace their roots back to the Assize of Clarendon, an enactment by Henry II of England in 1166.
The United States is one of the few remaining countries that uses the grand jury.
The Double Jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges in the same case following a legitimate acquittal or conviction.
In common law countries, a defendant may enter a peremptory plea of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict (autrefois means "in the past" in French).
It means if the defendant has been acquitted or convicted of the same offence and cannot be retried under the principle of double jeopardy.
The original intent of the clause is to prevent an individual to go through a number of prosecutions for the same act until the prosecutor gets a conviction.
Self-Incrimination
In a criminal prosecution, under the Fifth Amendment, a person has the right to refuse to incriminate himself (or herself).
No person is required to give information that could be used against him.
This is also called "taking the Fifth" or more commonly "pleading the Fifth."
The intent of this clause is to prevent the government from making a person confess under oath.
A person may not refuse to answer any relevant question under oath unless the answer would incriminate him.
If the answer to a question on the witness stand could be used to convict that person of a crime, he can assert his Fifth Amendment rights.
The authors of the Fifth Amendment intended the provisions in it apply only to the federal government.
Since 1925, under the incorporation doctrine, most provisions of the Bill of Rights now also apply to the state and local governments.
Since the landmark decision Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), when they arrest someone, police are required to include the "right to remain silent" as part of the legal Miranda warning (the wording may vary).
The due process clause guarantees every person a fair, just and orderly legal proceeding.
The Fifth Amendment applies to the federal government.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, among other provisions, forbids states from denying anyone their life, their liberty or their property without due process of law So the Fourteenth Amendment expands the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment to apply to the states.
Due process means the government must follow the law and not violate any parts of it.
An example of violating due process is when a judge shows bias against the defendant in a trial.
Another example is when the prosecution fails to disclose information to the defense that would show the defendant is not guilty of the crime.
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment states "private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation."
The Fifth Amendment restricts only the federal government.
The Fourteenth Amendment extended this clause to include actions taken by State and local governments.
Whenever the government wants to buy property for public use, they make an offer to the owner.
If the owner does not want to sell the property, the government can take them to court and exercise a power called eminent domain.
The name comes from the Latin term dominium eminens (meaning supreme lordship).
The court then condemns the property (meaning say it can no longer be occupied by people).
This allows the government to take over the property, but must pay "just compensation" to the owner.
In other words, the government body must pay what the property is worth.
A case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), was decided in favor of allowing the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner.
The court upheld the city of New London, Connecticut's proposed use of the petitioner's private property qualifies as a "public use" fell within the meaning of the Takings Clause.
The city felt the property was in poor condition and the new owner would improve it.
This extension of the Takings Clause has been very controversal.
The Velvet Rope is the sixth studio album by American singer Janet Jackson.
The album was released on October 7, 1997 through Virgin Records.
It was the last album that Jackson would use her full name on the title.
The Velvet Rope was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The Velvet Rope received mixed to positive reviews.
"Velvet Rope" samples "Hobo Scratch" by Malcolm McLaren and The World Famous Supreme Team and "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield.
"You" samples "The Cisco Kid" by War.
"Got 'til It's Gone" samples "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.
"My Need" samples "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross and "You're All I Need to Get By" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
"Together Again" samples "Bridge Zone"  by Yuzo Koshiro.
"Free Xone" samples "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins, "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells, and "Joyous" by Pleasure.
Jan Chong – violin
Glen Donnellen – viola
Lynne Erickson – trumpet
Alyssa Hanson – vocals
Rayvaline Harrell – choir director
Shawnette Heard – vocals
Camilla Heller – cello
Kelly Konno – vocals
Tina Landon – vocals
Brenda Mickens – violin
Joni Mitchell – performer
Debbie Morrison – vocals
Dale Newton – cello
Willie R. Norwood – choir director
Prof. T. – vocals
Q-Tip – rap, performer
Myrna Rain – viola
Nicholas Raths – guitar
Alexander Richbourg – vocals, drum programming, rhythm arrangements
Miko Salone – vocals
Leslie Shank – violin
Liz Sobieski – violin
United Children's Choir – choir, chorus
Vanessa-Mae – violin, performer
James "Big Jim" Wright – organ, keyboards, vocals, rhythm arrangements
Flavia Cureteu – design
Steve Durkee – assistant engineer
Rene Elizondo, Jr. – executive producer
Steve Gerdes – design
Ken Holmen – clarinet, flute, saxophone
Janet Jackson – vocals, background vocals, producer, executive producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
Jimmy Jam – producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
Tim Lauber – engineer, assistant engineer
Terry Lewis – producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
Michael McCoy – assistant engineer
Mike Ozdozzi – mastering assistant
Len Peltier – art direction
Mario Testino – photography
Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) ) commonly known as MF Husain, was a modern Indian painter.
He was a founding member of The Progressive Artists Group of Bombay (PAG).
He is thought to be one of the greatest painters of India.
M. F. Husain died, aged 95, on 9 June 2011, following a heart attack.
He had been unwell for several months.
He died at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery on 10 June 2011.
Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator.
Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987.
Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Dorothea Warren O'Hara (August 31, 1873 - May 1972) was an American ceramic artist who won the Lifetime Membership Prize from the National Arts Club and a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition.
She was president of the Keramic Society of Greater New York and president of the New York National Society of Craftsmen.
She was born as Dorothea Warren on August 31, 1873 in Kansas City, Missouri.
In 1915 she won the Lifetime Membership Prize from the National Arts Club and a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition.
In 1923 she published The Art of Enameling on Porcelain.
She died in May 1972 in Delray Beach, Florida.
The Art of Enameling on Porcelain (1912)
Dorothea Warren O'Hara Enamels, for Decorating All Kinds of China by the Roessler and Hasslacher Chemical Company (1920)
Dorothea Warren O'Hara at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Lindsey "Bill" Erwin (December 2, 1914 – December 29, 2010) was an American movie, stage and television actor with over 250 television and movie credits.
As a veteran character actor, he was widely known for his role of Sid Fields on Seinfeld – for which he received an Emmy nomination – as well his appearances on shows such as I Love Lucy and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The Six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most often performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello.
They were most likely composed during the period 1717–1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Köthen.
The title of Anna Magdalena Bach's manuscript was Suites á Violoncello Solo senza Basso.
The suites have been performed and recorded by many famous cellists; like Mstislav Rostropovich, Emanuel Feuermann, Pierre Fournier, Jacqueline du Pré, Paul Tortelier, André Navarra, Yo-Yo Ma, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mischa Maisky, János Starker, Anner Bijlsma or Heinrich Schiff.
Yo-Yo Ma won the 1985 Best Instrumental Soloist Grammy Award for his bestselling album Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites.
Anna Magdalena's manuscript
MIDI Sequences
Transcriptions of The Suites For Trombone
Transcription of the 4th Suite for Violoncello Piccolo at the Werner Icking Music Archive
The movie was written and directed by David Ayer.
It starred a cast featuring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, and Viola Davis with Ben Affleck as Batman and Ezra Miller as The Flash.
By February 2009, a Suicide Squad movie was being made at Warner Bros. Pictures.
David Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014 and by October the casting process had begun.
Principal photography began on April 13, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year.
The film was released on August 5, 2016 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.
A sequel, titled The Suicide Squad, will be released in August 2021.
Black Mass is a 2015 American crime movie directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth.
It is based on the 2001 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
The movie is about the criminal career of infamous Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger (Depp).
The movie was released to positive reviews on September 18, 2015.
Marcin Wrona (25 March 1973 – 19 September 2015) was a Polish director and screenwriter.
His movies The Christening and Demon were both shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2010 and 2015, respectively.
Wrona was born in Tarnów.
His wife, Olga Szymanska, served as a producer for Demon.
Wrona was found dead hanging on 19 September 2015 at a hotel room in Gdynia.
Farhang Mehr (11 December 1923 – 4 March 2018) was an American political scientist, academic and researcher, and former Iranian politician.
Mehr was born in a Zoroastrian family in Tehran.
His father, Mehraban, was from the province of Kerman, and migrated to Tehran when he was 14 years old.
He went on to become Chief Accountant in the Iranian Parliament.
He joined the National Iranian Oil Company.
He was the head of the Department of International Contracts and Industrial Relations.
He was then nominated by the prime minister to serve as the Minister of Finance.
However, he could not become a minister under Iran’s constitutional law which preserved the ministerial posts for Muslims only.
Mehr’s last position in Iran, prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, was president of Pahlavi University in Shiraz.
During his presidency, the university became internationally known for its academic excellence .
In 1981, two years after the establishment of the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran, Mehr migrated to the United States.
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Iranian.com: Farhang Mehr
Girl is the second studio album by American rapper and record producer Pharrell Williams.
The album was released on March 3, 2014, through Williams' label i Am Other and Columbia Records.
Girl was Williams' first studio album since his debut studio album, In My Mind (2006).
Girl received generally positive reviews from critics.
"Come Get It Bae" features uncredited vocals from Miley Cyrus and Tori Kelly.
"Lost Queen" contains the hidden track "Freq".
#1 to Infinity is the sixth compilation album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey.
It was released by Sony Music Entertainment on May 15, 2015.
It features Carey's eighteen U.S. number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
It also includes "Infinity", a new song written for the album.
"I'll Be There" featuring Trey Lorenz is a cover originally performed by The Jackson 5
"Without You" is a cover originally performed by Badfinger
"Endless Love" with Luther Vandross is a cover originally performed by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross
"Against All Odds" with Westlife is a cover originally performed by Phil Collins
"Fantasy" is the Bad Boy Fantasy version.
It also contains a sample of the Tom Tom Club's song "Genius of Love", written by Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Adrian Belew and Steven Stanley
"Honey" contains samples of "Hey DJ" by the World's Famous Supreme Team, written by Stephen Hague, and "The Body Rock" by the Treacherous Three, written by Bobby Robinson, Larry Price and Malcolm McLaren
"Heartbreaker" contains a sample of "Attack of the Name Game" by Stacy Lattisaw, written by Shirley Ellis and Lincoln Chase
"We Belong Together" contains samples of Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now", written by Bobby Womack, Patrick Moten and Sandra Sully, and The Deele's "Two Occasions", written by Darnell Bristol and Kenneth Edmonds
Il racconto della nonna (The Tale of the Grandmother) is a musical composition by Giulio Ricordi.
Are the seven pieces for piano, is a look at the adult world of childhood, that a true collection of pieces for children.
I: Preambolo: C'era una volta
II: Barcarola: Il lago!
III: Danza fantastica: Le ondine
IV: Tragedia: Il drago
V: Preghiera: O mamma cara
VI: Scherzo: Le lucciolette
VII: Epilogo: Buona notte, piccini!
1935: Vladimir Horowitz - (EMI Classics)
1948: Arthur Rubinstein - (RCA Victor)
1952: Claudio Arrau - (Decca)
1965: Vladimir Ashkenazy - (Decca)
1971: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - (Deutsche Grammophon)
1979: Maurizio Pollini - (Deutsche Grammophon)
1983: Daniel Barenboim - (EMI Classics)
2012: Roberto Piana - (Tactus)
Yoram Jerzy Gross  (18 October 1926 – 21 September 2015) was an Australian producer of children's and family entertainment.
His company, Flying Bark Productions, is best known for producing the movies Dot and the Kangaroo (1977) and Blinky Bill (1992).
Gross was born in Kraków, Poland to Jewish parents.
His brother was screenwriter, director and producer Natan Gross (1919–2005).
In 1950, he moved to Israel.
He later moved to Australia in 1968 with his wife and young family.
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs  (6 June 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian judge and politician.
He served as the Chief Justice of Australia from 2 April 1930 until 21 January 1931.
He also served as the 9th, and first Australian-born, Governor-General from 21 January 1931 until 23 January 1936.
Isaacs was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
His parents, German-born Alfred Isaacs and English-born Rebecca Abrahams, were Jewish immigrants.
He was married to Deborah "Daisy" Jacobs () from 1888 until Isaacs' death.
He was strongly against Zionism.
Isaacs died after an illness on 11 February 1948 in South Yarra, Melbourne, aged 92.
He was given a state funeral and was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery after a synagogue service.
Australian Dictionary of Biography: Isaac Alfred Isaacs
Chief Justices of Australia
Armen Movsisyan ; 13 January 1962 – 21 September 2015) was an Armenian politician.
He was the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources from 18 April 2001 until 30 April 2014.
He was born in Kapan.
Ahmed Mohamed is a 14-year-old student who was arrested in Irving, Texas in September 2015.
The arrest happened after a teacher, and later the police mistook a clock he had taken apart for a hoax bomb.
His arrest caused a huge controversy.
US President Barack Obama invited him to The White House.
President Obama and others complimented Mohamed for his inventive nature.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Hillary Rodham Clinton also gave him support.
His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, ran in the election for President of Sudan in 2010 and 2015.
The elder Mohamed is the director of the Islamic Sufi Center in Texas.
September 2015 events
William Baker Rock (August 5, 1872 - June 27, 1922) was a vaudeville comedian and dancer.
He was a partner with Maude Fulton in the vaudeville act of Rock and Fulton.
He later was a partner  with Frances White (1898-1969) as Rock and White.
He was born on August 5, 1872 in Evansville, Indiana to William Beverly Rock and Matilda Baker.
He married Jane Ryder on October 5, 1905 in Manhattan, New York City.
He married Gladys Tilbury of Brighton, England.
On July 6, 1921 he married Hiler Eby of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
She appeared with him in Hitchy-Koo.
On July 13, 1921 he was hospitalized and had one-third of his stomach removed.
He died on June 27, 1922 at the National Stomach Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of cancer of the stomach.
He was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The Library of Congress Control Number is a number given to an item in the Library of Congress.
It is used to identify items in the Library's collection.
Each number is issued as part of a series.
It is not based on a classification system.
The numbering system began in 1898, and it was called the Library of Congress Card Number.
The Library made cards for its library catalogue, and they also made cards which could be sold to other libraries.
They introduced the number to identify the sets of cards.
The number has two parts; the first is a two digit number based on the year, and the second is the next number in the series, written as a six digit number.
Since 2001, the year has been written as a four digit number.
Terry Jones (born October 1951) is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, a small nondenominational Christian church located, until July 2013, in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
He is the President of a political group, Stand Up America Now.
He is listed to be running for president in 2016.
He ran in 2012, but lost.
He and his church have received many death threats.
Bright Lights is the third Single from Matchbox Twenty's third album, More Than You Think You Are.
The song proved to be a moderate hit for the band.
It peaked at 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song is written by lead singer Rob Thomas.
It is about a girl who leaves her hometown looking for fame.
Throughout the song, he lets the girl know she can come home if things don't work out.
Unwell is the second single from Matchbox Twenty's third album, More Than You Think You Are.
It was written by Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas.
It was very successful on the radio, and spent 20 weeks at the top of the U.S. Adult Top 40 charts.
The song is about a person who claims to not be crazy even though they're suffering from various occurrences that could lead them to be labeled as such.
Rob Thomas states on the live DVD "Show" that he wrote the song to be a metaphor for humanity in general, a song for people who are "fucked up and feel alone like that.
We all feel a little fucked up sometimes... you're not alone."
This song is a staple of adult contemporary stations even years after its release.
The song also was the second most played song in the United States for 2003 according to Billboard.
Phyllis A. Tickle (March 12, 1934 – September 22, 2015) was an American writer and educator.
Her main field was spirituality and religion issues.
She was best known for writing The Divine Hours series of books.
She was a member of the Episcopal Church and wrote around forty books.
She started off serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly.
Tickle had been quoted by many different media outlets, including Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, The History Channel, the BBC and VOA.
Tickle was born in Johnson City, Tennessee.
She married her husband Samuel Tickle, Sr.
in 1955.
He died on January 2, 2015.
Tickle died from lung cancer on September 22, 2015 in Millington, Tennessee.
Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
It is mostly in Washington County.
The population is 71,046, making it the eighth largest city in Tennessee.
During the American Civil War before 1869 the name of the town was briefly changed to "Haynesville" in honor of Confederate Senator Landon Carter Haynes.
Johnson City is the principal city of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is also a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, Tennessee–Virginia Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.
The CSA is the fifth-largest in Tennessee with an estimated 500,530 residents.
The popular citrus soda Mountain Dew traces its origins to Johnson City.
In July 2012, PepsiCo announced a new flavored version of the drink named Mountain Dew Johnson City Gold in honor of the city.
The drink was test marketed in the Chicago metropolitan area, Denver, and Charlotte, beginning in late August.
East Tennessee State University has around 16,000 students in addition to a K-12 University School, a laboratory school of about 540 students.
University School was the first laboratory school in the nation to adopt a year-round academic schedule.
Milligan University is just outside the city limits in Carter County.
It has about 1,200 students in undergraduate and graduate programs.
Northeast State Community College has renovated a building in downtown Johnson City for use as a new satellite teaching site.
Tusculum College is on the north side of Johnson City in the Boones Creek area.
Millington is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.
As of 2010, 10,176 people live in Millington.
Millington
The Washington Metro is a rapid transit system that serves the Washington, D.C. area in the United States.
It has the second busiest rapid transit system in the United States.
The New York City Subway is the busiest.
Red Line, Opened 1976
Blue Line, Opened 1977
Orange Line, Opened 1978
Yellow Line, Opened 1983
Green Line, Opened 1991
Silver Line, Opened 2014
The first part of the metro system opened on March 27, 1976.
The rail system was completed on January 13, 2001.
Rapid transit systems in the United States
Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho or BYU–I) is a private university in Rexburg, Idaho.
The university is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
BYU-Idaho changed from a junior college to a four-year university in 2001.
For most of its history it was known as Ricks College.
BYU-Idaho offers programs in liberal arts including the sciences, engineering, agriculture, management, and performing arts.
The university is organized into six colleges.
Its parent organization, the Church Educational System (CES), sponsors sister schools in Utah and Hawaii.
The university's focus is on undergraduate education.
It offers 18 associate and over 70 bachelor's degree programs.
BYU-Idaho operates using a three-semester system also known as "tracks".
Students at BYU-Idaho are required to follow an honor code.
About 99 percent of the university's students are members of the LDS Church.
A significant percentage of the student body take an 18- (women) or 24-month (men) break from their studies to serve as missionaries.
A BYU-Idaho education is generally less expensive than similar private universities.
This is due to a significant help by LDS Church tithing funds, helping keep tuition rates low.
The architecture of the building belongs to Qajar era of Iran.
It is a historical place of Tehran.
This school was built in 1932, on Zoroastrian land.
The school was named after an Iranian Zoroastrian named Firooz.
He died in the Mediterranean Sea in World War I.
The school's establishment was supported by Keikhosrow Shahrokh, the  Zoroastrian representative in Iranian Parliament.
Pakistan Super League (PSL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket tournament in Pakistan.
Organised by the Pakistan Cricket Board, the first season of PSL took place between February 4 and 24 in 2016.
The tournament was held in the United Arab Emirates.
The tournament has five franchise teams: Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Lahore Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators.
Each playing side has a mixture of seven Pakistani players and four foreign players from around the world.
The fourth edition of the Pakistan Super League will take place in February / March 2019.
The tournament is scheduled to start on February 14 2019 and the final would be held on March 17 2019.
Pakistan Cricket Board
2016 establishments in Asia
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American baseball catcher, manager, and coach.
He played almost his entire career for the Major League Baseball (MLB) team New York Yankees (1946–1963).
He played for the New York Mets in 1965, and also coached the team.
He won a record 13 World Series, as a player and coach.
He is said to be one of the best catchers in baseball history.
He was added to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
He was well known for his quotes, including "It ain't over 'til it's over."
Berra sued Hanna-Barbera for defamation over the character Yogi Bear, but later withdrew the lawsuit.
Berra was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
He married his wife Carmen on January 26, 1949.
They had three sons, including Dale Berra.
Carmen died from a stroke on March 6, 2014.
Berra died from natural causes on September 22, 2015 in West Caldwell, New Jersey, aged 90.
His remains were cremated and later buried at a cemetery in New Jersey.
Mike Gibson (27 May 1940 – 23 September 2015), nicknamed "Gibbo", was an Australian sports journalist and television presenter.
He was an original presenter of Nine's Wide World of Sports and hosted The Back Page on Fox Sports for 16 years.
Gibson was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
He was married to his wife Helen from 1959 until their divorce in 1989.
Gibson died on 23 September 2015 at his Central Coast home in New South Wales.
He had depression and his death was ruled a suicide.
The Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni ) is a small to medium size species of tortoise.
They are native to southern Europe.
They also live in nearby islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
Their range is from Romania and Greece to southern Spain.
About 25% of them live on the Italian Peninsula.
Hermann's tortoises are a golden brown color.
They have two dark stripes on their underside or belly.
They usually have black markings.
In size they range from  to  in length.
They also become sexually mature sooner.
Their diet includes leaves, flowers and fruit.
It was a popular pet but are now a protected species.
Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio () is a public university in Chieti and Pescara, Italy.
Odesza (also seen as ODESZA) are an American electronic music duo.
They are from Seattle.
Their members are Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight.
The group was created in 2012 before Mills and Knight graduated from Western Washington University.
Their first album, Summer's Gone, was released in 2012.
There was a lot of excitement about this album in the underground electronic music community.
After Summer's Gone, ODESZA released their first EP, My Friends Never Die, in 2013.
They released their second LP, In Return, in 2014.
The duo released In Return (Deluxe Edition) on September 18, 2015 through Counter Records.
This extended version of the original album had three new live recordings all featuring a horn section, instrumental music, and a new song “Light (feat.
Little Dragon)”.
Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight met each other during their first year at Western Washington University.
The two did not study the same things.
Knight studied physics and math while Mills studied graphic design.
They did not begin creating music together until their senior year in 2012.
As a child, Knight was taught how to play piano.
Later, he learned guitar.
The duo quickly released their first Long Play, Summer's Gone, on September 5 the same year.
On November 9, 2012, ODESZA performed their first show.
They performed first for Teen Daze and Beat Connection in Bellingham, WA.
They soon hit 1 million Soundcloud plays.
Their debut EP, My Friends Never Die, was released a year later.
ODESZA was booked to perform first for Pretty Lights on his tour called the Analog Future Tour in the fall of 2013.
Their first big tour started on March 12, 2014.
ODESZA had 30 million Soundcloud plays on October 1, 2014.
On October 17, 2014, ODESZA's In Return North American tour sold out 28 shows.
Twenty-four ODESZA tracks have hit #1 on the website Hype Machine.
These include "How Did I Get Here", "Memories That You Call", "Lights", "All We Need (Autograf Remix)", and several others.
Their first festival performance was at Sasquatch!
Music Festival in George, WA.
This was followed by performances at over 20 festivals, including the following: Coachella, SXSW, Hangout Festival, Lightning In A Bottle, Governor's Ball Music Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Firefly Music Festival, Free Press Summer Fest, What The Festival?!,
Electric Forest Festival, Splash Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Skral Festival, Sea Dance Festival, Melt!
Festival, WayHome Music Festival, HARD Summer Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Squamish Valley Music Festival, Outside Lands, Summer Set Music Festival, Ilesoniq Festival, Chiemsee Summer Festival, MS Dockville Festival, Pukkelpop Festival, and Positiv Festival.
Upcoming festival appearances include Mad Decent Block Party, Sun City Music Festival, Backwoods Music Festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest, and Holy Ship!.
Odesza is the Hungarian spelling for the city of Odessa, Ukraine.
The band's name comes from the name from Mills' uncle's ship, which sank.
Only his uncle and one other crew mate survived.
Since the spelling "Odessa" was already being used by a Scottish synth band, they instead used the Hungarian spelling, replacing the "ss" with "sz".
Individually, Mills is known as Catacombkid.
Knight is known as Beaches Beaches.
When asked how Mills got his nickname he says, "I got into Aesop Rock and he has a song called 'Catacomb Kids.'
I thought it sounded cool."
Knight got his nickname when, "...I was high in my bedroom making music one day…"
James David Santini (August 13, 1937 – September 22, 2015) was an American politician.
He served as a United States Representative from Nevada from 1975 through 1983.
Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Sánchez (1940 – 23 September 2015) was a Spanish theatre director, writer, actor and lecturer.
He won the 2000 Goya Award for Best New Actor for his performance as Vecino.
Goya Award winners
Spanish theatre directors
Mind Body & Soul is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone.
It was released on 15 September 2004 by S-Curve Records.
It is her first album to have songs that were not mainly covers, unlike The Soul Sessions (2003).
Mind Body & Soul received generally positive reviews from music critics.
Dutch limited edition bonus CD
"Don't Cha Wanna Ride" contains samples from "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited.
The actual duration of music on "Sleep Like a Child" is 5:19; the rest is filled with silence.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mind Body & Soul.
Joss Stone – lead vocals ; backing vocals
John Angier – string arrangements
Raymond Angry – B3 ; clavinet, Moog ; piano ; organ
Troy Auxilly-Wilson – drums
Teodross Avery – saxophone
Ruby Baker – backing vocals
Thom Bell – string and horn arrangements
Cindy Blackman – drums
The Boilerhouse Boys – production
Bombshell – backing vocals
Astor "Crusty" Campbell – drums
Willburn "Squidley" Cole – additional drums
Commissioner Gordon – engineering, percussion, production, programming
Delroy "Chris" Cooper – bass
Jack Daley – bass
Clovette Danzy – backing vocals
Tanya Darby – trumpet
Shomoni "Sho" Dylan – assistant engineering
Jeni Fujita – backing vocals
Van Gibbs – guitar
David Gorman – art direction, design
Charlie Green – make-up artist
Steve Greenberg – production ; executive producer
Steve Greenwell – mixing ; engineering, programming ; bass
Willie "Little Beaver" Hale – guitar