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Not known for his batting abilities and lacking in power, Kendall was a great defensive catcher.
Michael Scott Matheny (born September 22, 1970) is an American former professional baseball player and manager.
He is currently a special adviser for player development for the Kansas City Royals.
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 13 seasons as a catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants.
Matheny's best years were spent with the Cardinals.
He won four Rawlings Gold Glove Awards.
Matheny holds the National League record for most consecutive games caught without making an error as a catcher.
He is considered one of the greatest defensive catchers of all time.
Matheny later managed the St. Louis Cardinals.
As manager, Matheny's teams won one National League (NL) pennant and three NL Central division titles.
He bats and throws right-handed, stands 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall, and weighs 205 pounds (93 kg).
Torii Kedar Hunter (/ˈtɔːriː/; born July 18, 1975) is an American former professional baseball center fielder and right fielder.
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Detroit Tigers from 1997 through 2015.
Hunter was a five-time All-Star, won a major league record nine consecutive Gold Glove Awards as a center fielder, and was a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner.
Hunter was known for his trademark ability to rob batters of home runs at the outfield wall, particularly as the center fielder for the Twins.
Hunter is regarded as arguably the greatest defensive outfielder of all time.
An escort agency is a company that provides escorts for clients, usually for sexual services.
Individual girls who provide this kind of service are known as call girls.
The practice is close to being prostitution.
There are escort agencies which provide escorts  for occasions or for a visit to an event.
This is a more legitimate service.
Such agencies provide security, especially for females attending an event.
Dubai Call Girls Service
Tracy Edwards is a sailboat racer.
In 1989 she organized an 12-woman crew to participate in the Whitbread Round the World Race.
It was rare for women to sail in those days.
The duration of this race was nine months.
A documentary called Maiden was made about the race.
The Oak Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.
It was first created as a way for the people of Lawrence to remember those who were killed in Quantrill's Raid.
Some famous  people from Kansas are buried there.
They include Charles L. Robinson, John P. Usher, and James H. Lane.
Adriano Andreani (14 September 1879 – 20 October 1960) was an Italian gymnast.
He competed in the men's team event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
William George Bonin (8 January 1947-23 February, 1996) also known as The Freeway Killer was an American serial killer.
He raped, tortured, and killed of at least 21 children and young people in 1979 and 1980 in Southern California.
Bonin is also suspected of 15 more murders.
Described by the prosecutor in his first trial as "the most diabolical person that ever existed," Bonin was convicted of 14 murders in two separate trials in 1982 and 1983.
He was executed by lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison on February 23, 1996.
Emanuel David Ginóbili (born 28 July 1977) is an Argentine retired professional basketball player.
Over a 23-season professional career, he became one of only two players to have won a EuroLeague title, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal.
A four-time NBA champion, Ginóbili was a member of the San Antonio Spurs for his entire NBA career.
Along with Spurs teammates Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, he was known as one of the "Big Three".
Ginóbili comes from a family of professional basketball players.
He spent the early part of his career in Argentina and Italy, where he holds dual citizenship, and won several individual and team honors.
His stint with Italian club Kinder Bologna was particularly successful; he won two Italian League MVP awards, the EuroLeague Finals MVP and the 2001 EuroLeague championship and Triple Crown.
Selected as the 57th overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft, Ginóbili joined the Spurs in 2002, and soon became a key player for the team.
In addition to his four NBA championships, Ginóbili was named an All-Star in 2005 and 2011, and has been selected twice for the All-NBA Team.
In 2007–08, he was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year.
Ginóbili announced his retirement on 27 August 2018.
often abbreviated as Sega CS2 R&D and known as  is a video game development division of the Japanese company Sega.
Sonic Team is best known for the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
They are also known for making games such as Nights into Dreams and Phantasy Star Online.
Sega divisions and subsidiaries
Jason Anthoney Richardson (born January 20, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Michigan State University.
He won the NBA Dunk Contest in both 2002 and 2003, becoming the second player, after Michael Jordan, to win the competition back-to-back.
Richardson has also played for the Charlotte Bobcats, Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic, and the Philadelphia 76ers.
Kemba Hudley Walker (born May 8, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Walker was drafted ninth overall by the Charlotte Bobcats.
Walker grew up in The Bronx, New York, and graduated from Rice High School in 2008.
He played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies.
In the 2010–11 season, Walker was a consensus first-team All-American.
He was the second-leading college basketball scorer in the nation and led the Huskies to the 2011 NCAA championship and was named the tournament's most outstanding player.
He is a three-time NBA All-Star.
Chauncey Ray Billups (born September 25, 1976) is retired American professional basketball player.
He played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
A star at the University of Colorado Boulder, he was selected third overall in the 1997 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics.
A five-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA selection, Billups played for the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, and Los Angeles Clippers during his NBA career.
He won the NBA Finals MVP in 2004 after helping the Pistons beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals, and was given the nickname "Mr. Big Shot" for making late-game shots with Detroit.
The Pistons retired his #1 jersey in 2016.
Fausto Paolo Sozzini, also known as Faustus Socinus or Faust Socyn, was an Italian theologian and founder of the school of Christian thought known as Socinianism and the main theologian of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland.
Ronald Glen "Big Baby" Davis (born January 1, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the St. John's Edge of the National Basketball League of Canada.
He played for the Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
After playing college basketball with LSU, Davis was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 35th overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft.
Shortly thereafter, he was traded to the Boston Celtics, with whom he won the 2008 NBA Finals.
Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi "Emeka" Okafor (born September 28, 1982) is an American professional basketball player.
Okafor attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and the University of Connecticut, where in 2004 he won a national championship.
Okafor played for the University of Connecticut from 2001 to 2004 where he was teammates with Charlie Villanueva, Marcus Williams, Ben Gordon, Hilton Armstrong and Josh Boone, who all went on to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He majored in finance during his time at Connecticut, and he graduated with honors after three years in May 2004 with a 3.8 GPA.
Okafor was named the Academic All-American of the Year in 2004 for his work on and off the court.
On February 5, 2007, he was inducted to the Husky Ring Of Honor at Gampel Pavilion on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs during halftime of the men's basketball game against the Syracuse Orange as part of a ceremony which recognized personal accomplishments of 13 former players and 3 coaches.
American Olympic medalists
Boris Babacar Diaw-Riffiod, better known as Boris Diaw (born April 16, 1982), is a French retired professional basketball player.
Diaw, who began his professional career in Pro A, returned to that league after 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He plays mostly at power forward.
In 2006, Diaw was named the NBA's Most Improved Player as a member of the Phoenix Suns.
He won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014.
He is the current president of Metropolitans 92.
Diaw represents the senior French national basketball team internationally.
He won a FIBA World Cup bronze medal in 2014, a EuroBasket title in 2013, a silver medal in EuroBasket 2011, and two bronze in EuroBasket 2005 and EuroBasket 2015.
He earned an All-EuroBasket Team selection in 2005.
Amar'e Carsares Stoudemire (born November 16, 1982) is an American-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player.
He serves as player development assistant for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 2003 with the Phoenix Suns, who selected him with the ninth overall pick of the 2002 NBA draft.
He made six appearances in the NBA All-Star Game and was named to the All-NBA Team five times, including one first-team selection in 2007.
Stoudemire played high school basketball for three different schools, ultimately graduating from Cypress Creek High School in Orlando, Florida, and declaring for the NBA draft as a prep-to-pro player.
He won several prep honors, including being selected as Florida's Mr. Basketball.
Stoudemire suffered from chronic knee problems during his career and underwent microfracture surgery on both knees.
He played for the Suns, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Miami Heat before retiring from the NBA in 2016.
Stoudemire won a bronze medal with the United States national team at the 2004 Olympic Games.
His off-court ventures include a record label, a clothing line, acting and a series of children's books for Scholastic Press.
In addition, Stoudemire owns a significant share of Hapoel Jerusalem, the team he won a championship with in 2017.
He was the 2020 Israeli Basketball Premier League Finals MVP.
Shawn Dwayne Marion (born May 7, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Marion finished his career as a four-time NBA All-Star and a one-time NBA champion, helping the Dallas Mavericks win their maiden title in 2011.
Nicknamed "The Matrix" by former NBA player Kenny Smith during the preseason of his rookie year, he was widely regarded as one of the most versatile players in the league because of his athleticism and ability to play and defend many positions.
Leandro Mateus Barbosa (born November 28, 1982), also known as Leandrinho Barbosa, is a Brazilian professional basketball player for Minas of the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB).
He also represented the senior Brazilian national basketball team.
He previously won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award, with the Suns in 2007, and an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors, in 2015.
In Brazil, he is also commonly known by his nickname "Leandrinho" ("Little Leandro") Barbosa, and in the USA he is nicknamed "The Brazilian Blur", referring to his playing speed.
At a height of 1.92 m (6' 33⁄4") tall, he plays at the shooting guard position.
Robert Keith Horry (born August 25, 1970) is an American retired basketball player and current sports commentator.
He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning seven championships, the most of any player not to have played on the 1960s Boston Celtics.
He is one of only two players (the other is John Salley) to have won NBA championships with three teams: two with the Houston Rockets, three with the Los Angeles Lakers and two with the San Antonio Spurs.
He earned the nickname Big Shot Bob[1][2] because of his clutch shooting in important games; he is widely considered to be one of the greatest clutch performers and winners in NBA history.
Horry now works as a commentator on Spectrum SportsNet.
Brent Robert Barry (born December 31, 1971), commonly known by the nickname Bones, is an American basketball executive, broadcaster and former player.
He is the current vice president of basketball operations for the San Antonio Spurs.
The 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 210 lb (95 kg; 15 st) shooting guard played professionally in the National Basketball Association, winning two championships with the Spurs, and also won the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
He is the son of former NBA player Rick Barry.
After retiring, Barry worked as a sports commentator for the NBA on TNT and was a studio host for the NBA TV show NBA Gametime.
In 2018, he returned to the Spurs as an executive.
Charles Levin (March 12, 1949 – July 8, 2019) was an American actor.
He was best known for the role of Elliot Novak on the series Alice and as Eddie Gregg on Hill Street Blues from 1982 to 1986.
Levin has guest roles on The Golden Girls, Seinfeld, Punky Brewster, Law & Order and Designing Women.
On July 8, 2019, it was revealed that Levin has been missing for several days.
His car was found on July 12 near Selma, Oregon.
On July 14, at the age of 70.
Selma is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
As of the 2010 census it had a population of 695.
It is located in the ZIP code of 97538.
Census-designated places in Oregon
Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 – July 10, 2019) was an Austrian-born American physician, editor, and essayist.
He was Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) at New York University School of Medicine.
He was Editor-in-Chief (2006–16) of The FASEB Journal.
In 1965, Weissmann was one of the discoverers of Liposomes.
Weissmann died on July 10, 2019 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 88.
Jean-Pierre Worms (16 July 1934 – 12 July 2019) was a French sociologist and politician.
He was born in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine.
Worms was a Deputy from 1981 to 1993.
Augusto Fantozzi (24 June 1940 – 13 July 2019) was an Italian lawyer, tax expert, academic, businessman and politician.
He was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1995 to 1996.
He was also Minister of Foreign Trade from 1996 to 1998.
Fantozzi was born in Rome.
He was a member of The Olive Tree.
Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar (31 May 1933 – 13 July 2019) was an Indian writer, art critic, museologist and a director of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.
He was known for his restoration of Lakshmibai Pitre Kalasangrahalaya, a museum in Devrukh, Maharashtra to its present state.
Roderick Richards (12 March 1947 – 13 July 2019) was a British politician.
He was a Conservative before joining UK Independence Party in 2013.
He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Clwyd North West, in Wales, from 1992 to 1997.
Richards was also the Conservative leader in the National Assembly for Wales in 1999, after being elected as an Assembly Member for North Wales.
He was born in Llanelli, Wales.
Terry Hodgkinson (30 March 1949 – 13 July 2019) was a British businessman.
He was the Chairman of Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire and the Humber.
He was appointed on 14 December 2003 and stepped down in December 2010.
Terry Hodgkinson official website
Nereo Laroni (2 September 1942 – 14 July 2019) was an Italian politician.
Laroni was a member of the Italian Socialist Party and close ally of Bettino Craxi and Gianni De Michelis.
He was the mayor of Venice from 1985 to 1987 and a member of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1994.
Richard Carter (11 December 1953 – 13 July 2019) was an Australian actor.
His best known roles were in Rabbit-Proof Fence, Hating Alison Ashley, Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet Two, Our Lips Are Sealed, The Great Gatsby and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Gregory Martin Daniels (born June 13, 1963) is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director.
He is known for his work on many television series, including Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, King of the Hill and The Office.
Daniels was born in New York City.
His brother-in-law is Paul Lieberstein.
Daniels won two Emmy Awards for his writing.
Bahasa Jawa Indramayu is a Javanese dialect used in the district of Indramayu, west Java province, Indonesia.
The number of speakers reaches 2 million users..
Regional languages in Indonesia
The Communications Act of 1934 in the United States
The Communications Act 2003 in the United Kingdom
Bennett's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus) is a large tree-kangaroo.
Males can weigh from 11.5 kg up to almost 14 kg (25 to 31 lbs),  and female about 8 to 10.6 kg (17.6 to 23 lbs).
They are very agile and are able to leap 9 metres (30 ft) down to another branch.
They have been known to drop as far as 18 metres (59 ft) to the ground without injury.
This very elusive (cryptic) tree-kangaroo is found in both mountain and lowland tropical rain forests south of Cooktown, Queensland to just north of the Daintree River.
It is  occasionally found in sclerophyll woodlands.
It lives on the leaves of rainforest trees, notably Schefflera actinophylla (the umbrella tree), vines, ferns and various wild fruits.
The Bennett's tree-kangaroo is a herbivore.
It eats leaves from 33 different plant species.
Now that it is rarely hunted by Aborigines, its main predators are pythons and the dingo.
It is thought to be the closest tree-kangaroo to the ancestral form.
Like other tree-kangaroos it has longer forelimbs and shorter hindlimbs than terrestrial kangaroos and a long bushy tail.
It is mostly dark brown above and lighter fawn on chin, throat and lower abdomen.
The forehead and muzzle are greyish.
The feet and hands are black.
The tail has a black patch at the base and a light patch on the upper part.
The ears are short and rounded.
is a private university in Japan.
The campus is located in Kamogawa, Chiba, Chiba.
It opened in April 2012.
M-185 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Michigan.
It circles Mackinac Island.
Mackinac Island is a popular tourist place on the Lake Huron side of the Straits of Mackinac.
The highway is along the island's coast.
The highway is a thin paved road that is  long.
There are scenic views of the straits that divide the Upper and the Lower peninsulas of Michigan.
It also has views of Lakes Huron and Michigan.
It doesn't connect to any other Michigan state highways.
This is because it is on an island.
People can only get to it by passenger ferry.
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) says that the M-185 is "the only state highway in the nation where motor vehicles are banned".
Cars have been banned on the island since the 1890s.
Only a few vehicles have been allowed on the island other than the city's emergency vehicles.
The highway was built during the first decade of the 20th century by the state.
It was designated as a state highway in 1933.
The highway was paved in the 1950s.
Parts were rebuilt to deal with coastal erosion in the 1980s.
Until an accident in 2005, it was the only state highway without any car accidents.
The highway is on Mackinac Island.
That island is in Mackinac County.
Milemarkers are posted in a counterclockwise way.
Monowi ( ) is an incorporated village in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
In 2010, only one person lived there.
It is the only city in the United States with only one person living there.
The name Monowi means "flower" in an unknown Native American language.
Monowi was named after the many wildflowers growing at the original place of the village.
Monowi was platted in 1902.
This was when the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad was extended to that point.
A post office was created in Monowi in 1902.
It was used until 1967.
Monowi's peak years were in the 1930s, when it had 150 people living there.
Like many other small communities in the Great Plains, its younger residents moved to cities that were growing and had better jobs.
During the 2000 census, the village had only two people; only one married couple, Rudy and Elsie Eiler, lived there.
Rudy died in 2004.
This made his wife the only remaining resident.
She acts as mayor, giving herself a liquor license and paying taxes to herself.
She is required to make a municipal road plan every year in order to get state funding for the village's four streetlights.
The United States Census Bureau says that the village has a total area of .
All land of it is land.
The village is in the far eastern part of Boyd County, in the northeastern part of Nebraska.
It is between the Niobrara River and the bigger Missouri River.
The closest community to Monowi is Lynch, which is about  away.
The village is about  from Omaha.
Census data for Monowi is unique.
In 2010:
The total number of people was one (76.5 years old, female, white).
There was one householder, living alone.
Of the three houses in Monowi, only one had someone living in there.
Elsie and Rudy's Library was shown on the Today show on May 31, 2005.
Elsie and the Monowi Tavern were featured on CBS Sunday Morning on October 29, 2006, and again on August 12, 2007.
Elsie, the village, the tavern, and library were featured on an episode of Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, where Larry announced on a radio show that he was having a hotdog roast that very day to help raise money for Elsie's village.
Within an hour people began to come.
Over one thousand people showed up for the roast to help Elsie.
It aired April 12 and May 7, 2011, on The History Channel.
Elsie and the village are featured in a short story about tiny cities on the online video site, Great Big Story.
The village of Monowi, and its only resident Elsie Eiler, were featured on the BBC's The Travel Show in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2018.
The village was used as a starting place for the biggest advertisement poster in the world.
It was made by Arby’s, and it was finished on June 13, 2018
Elsie and the village of Monowi featured in an Arby's commercial.
It was first shown on June 19, 2018.
Elsie and the village of Monowi featured in a Prudential commercial, called "The STATE of the US" -- "America's SMALLEST TOWN Monowi, NE".
It first aired on September 16, 2018.
In the opening shots, Wellness Expert, Alexandra Drane (who has no affiliation with the town) states "Welcome to Monowi, NE... Population, 1" while standing in front of two of the town's small buildings, one with a sign stating "Monowi Home of the Nite Owls" and the other with a sign stating "Welcome to the World Famous Monowi Tavern Only in America".
Elsie Eiler (who is never identified by name in the commercial), replies, "Me" and continues with additional dialog by her and the narrator (possibly Alexandra Drane).
Hibberts Gore, Maine – a tiny community in the US with a population of one
PhinDeli Town Buford, Wyoming – an unincorporated community in the US with only one person
Rochefourchat, Drôme – a commune in southeastern France with a single resident
"Welcome to Monowi, Nebraska: population 1" by Will Francome, Megan Garner & Eliot Stein.
30 January 2018.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is a 2016 British comedy film directed by Mandie Fletcher and written by Jennifer Saunders, based on the television show Absolutely Fabulous.
It stars Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield in her final film role and Jane Horrocks.
The film finds the drug-addicted, alcoholic PR agent Edina Monsoon and her best friend/codependent Patsy Stone on the run from the authorities after it's suspected they killed supermodel Kate Moss.
The film serves as a de facto series finale for the show.
People-watching or crowd watching is the act of observing people and their interactions.
Usually, the person being watched is not aware of the watcher.
For some people, it is considered a hobby; other people think it is a subconscious activity, meaning it is something others do everyday without knowing it.
In 1825 the Osage Nation was given a reservation in eastern Indian territory in what is now Kansas.
In the Treaty of New Echota, May 23, 1836, the northern border of the Cherokee Nation's land was set as the southern border of the Osage lands.
When Congress passed the Kansas–Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, it set the southern border of the Kansas Territory as the 37th parallel north.
It was thought at the time that the Osage northern border was also the 37th parallel.
They said that it was not the true boundary.
Under terms of Article 17 of the Treaty of 1866, the land was to be sold "at not less than $1.25 an acre [$309/km2]" for the first year.
Then, it would be offered for sale at local land offices.
In the first year, 156,848.47 acres (635 km2) were sold.
277,830.89 acres (1,124 km2) were given to land offices during the summer of 1879.
Southeast Kansas is a region of the U.S. state of Kansas.
It can be generally defined by Woodson County in the northwest, Bourbon County in the northeast, Cherokee County in the southeast, and Montgomery County in the southwest.
Geographically it mostly has broad rolling landscape located between the Flint Hills to the west and includes the Ozarks to the southeast.
Some notable towns there include Pittsburg, Parsons, Coffeyville, Independence, Chanute, Fort Scott, and Iola.
The first people to live there were some Native American tribes.
Others included frontier towns that relied on cattle ranching and mining.
They were hurt by violence over the issue of slavery.
This happened both before and during the American Civil War (see Bleeding Kansas).
The most common type of mining in Southeast Kansas was coal mining.
This contributed to the amount of coal found.
It also contributed to the quality and thickness of coal in Southeast Kansas.
Southeast Kansas has one of the well-made recreations of early life in the United States Army at Fort Scott National Historic Site.
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Southeast Kansas, Inc.
Southeast Kansas Wildlife Viewing Sites
Southeast Kansas Library System
LASR, Little Ozarks, Kansas
SKIL, Southeast Kansas Independent Living, Inc.
East-Central Kansas is a region of Kansas.
It is between the Kansas City metropolitan area and Southeast Kansas, and it is on the border with Missouri.
The region goes west to the Flint Hills to Lyon County.
East-Central Kansas geographically has rolling hills and deep forested river valleys.
The main crop of this very agricultural region is corn.
The area is more forested and more moist compared to the rest of the state.
East-Central Kansas has a lot of history.
This is because many places in this region saw battles in Bleeding Kansas.
It is also because the abolitionist John Brown and his men fought in Osawatomie.
Much of the area is powered by Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station.
It is near Burlington.
The most populous cities of the region include Emporia, Ottawa, Paola, Osawatomie, Garnett, Osage City, Burlington, and Louisburg.
North Central Kansas is a tourism and geographical region of the state of Kansas.
It has 15 counties.
Over 150,000 people live there.
The Salina micropolitan area is part of North Central Kansas.
The region goes from the Nebraska border in the north to Russell, Ellsworth, Saline, and Dickinson Counties in the south.
Its western border includes Smith, Osborne, and Russell Counties, and its eastern border Dickinson, Clay, Washington, and Marshall Counties.
North Central Kansas Travel and Tourism
A double agent is someone sent to work as a spy against another country but is secretly spying on the country that he or she works for on behalf of the country he or she is supposed to be spying on.
Jacksboro is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
It is the county seat of Jack County.
Morton is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
It is the county seat of Cochran County.
Education in Kansas is controlled at the primary and secondary school level by the Kansas State Board of Education.
Kansas's public colleges and universities are controlled by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Kansas Board of Regents controls thirty-seven public schools.
It also allows some private and out-of-state schools to be in Kansas.
In Fall 2009, the Kansas's six public universities said they had a total of 93,307 students enrolled.
The first colleges in Kansas were created by the Kansas Territorial legislature.
They were signed by Territorial Governor James W. Denver, on February 9–12, 1858.
Milhouse Van Houten is a fictional character on the animated television series the Simpsons.
Milhouse has blue hair and very large eyebrows.
Milhouse is Bart Simpson's best friend and sidekick.
Milhouse is allergic to many things.
Milhouse is constantly savagely bullied particularly by Nelson Muntz.
Milhouse has a crush on Lisa Simpson who does not feel the same way about him.
Even though Milhouse is described by Lisa as "the class nerd" Milhouse tells Bart that "I'm not a nerd!
Nerds are smart."
Milhouse' parents Kirk and Luan get divorced.
Milhouse is extremely insecure.
Milhouse is routinely humiliated by the bullies.
On one occasion, Bart tells Milhouse that he is surprised to see him since he thought he had a " three-o-clock wedgie with Nelson and Milhouse says "I had to reschedule."
Milhouse is easily reduced to crying even though he is allergic to his own tears.
Milhouse has very large round glasses.
Bart has on more than one occasion let Milhouse take the fall for something Bart did.
Though in the episode "Little Orphan Millie" Bart admits that he actually cares about Milhouse by saying "I love him.
I love him so much."
Nerd is a noun often used as an insult, to describe people who are seen as being weird, obsessive or antisocial.
The first ever usage of the word "nerd" is in the year 1950 in the children's book If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss where it is one of the fictional animals the narrator would put in the zoo if he were running it.
An article of Newsweek Magazine published in 1951 said that the word "nerd" was used as a synonym for the slang word "square" which was at the time a popular pejorative.
By the 1960's the phrase "nerd" meaning someone who was intelligent but strange and antisocial especially if this person were interested in science-fiction was used throughout the United States and even in Scotland.
In the 1970's it became extremely common to use the phrase "nerd" because it was routinely used in the television sitcom Happy Days.
People labeled as nerds tend to be bullied in school more often than others are.
In 1984, there was a movie called Revenge of the Nerds as a social commentary.
A number of fictional characters such as Dilton Doiley, Peter Parker, Milhouse Van Houten and Hermione Granger are sometimes described as nerds.
Parsons is a city in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
In 2010, 10,500 people lived there.
It is the biggest city in Labette County.
It is the second biggest city in the southeastern region of Kansas.
Parsons is at  (37.339070, -95.269747).
The city is at the junction of U.S. Route 59 and U.S. Route 400.
Along US-59, the city of Erie (the county seat of Neosho County) is  to the north and Oswego (the county seat of Labette County) is  south and east.
Big Hill Lake is several miles to the west of the city, and Lake Parsons is northwest of Parsons.
The first public library building in Parsons was the Carnegie Library.
The Parsons Public Library moved to a modern building in 1977.
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Parsons Chamber of Commerce
USD 503, local school district
USD 506, local school district
The Parsons Sun, local newspaper
Katy Days
Parsons City Map, KDOT
Cities in Labette County, Kansas
Coffeyville is a city in southeastern Montgomery County, Kansas, United States, located along the Verdigris River in the state's southeastern region.
As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,295.
It is the most populous city of Montgomery County and with its southeast Kansas location is in the Tulsa, Oklahoma media market.
The town of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma is located approximately 1 mile south of the city, existing as a separate political entity immediately south of the state line.
The city was first incorporated in 1872, but the charter was voided as illegal.
The city was re-incorporated in March 1873.
The Coffeyville Journal is the local newspaper.
They publish twice per week.
City of Coffeyville
Coffeyville - Directory of Public Officials
USD 445, local school district
Coffeyville, Kansas: The Town That Stopped the Dalton Gang, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
Kristine Crispel's horse farm outside Coffeyville has the distinction of being the center of the world—according to Google.
Coffeyville City Map, KDOT
Cities in Montgomery County, Kansas
Mission is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States.
In 2010, 9,323 lived there.
Mission is at  (39.025572, -94.656056).
City of Mission, KS
Mission - Directory of Public Officials
Mission City Map, KDOT
Takenoshin Nakai (ja:中井猛之進) was a Japanese botanist.
He published papers on the plants of Japan and Korea.
Work as a Taxonomist
Colocasia tonoimo
Persicaria bungeana (Turcz.)Nakai (syn.
Polygonum bungeanum Turcz.)
Fl of China
Polygonum
Harry Osborn is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for the Amazing Spider-Man #31 in 1965.
He is the son of Norman Osborn and his mother died in childbirth.
His father blames him for her death and as such is dismissive and impatient with him.
Harry constantly tries and fails to win his father's approval.
Harry meets Peter Parker at University and at first can't stand him.
He later gets to know him better and becomes his best friend.
Harry's father Norman then becomes the supervillain the Green Goblin and Harry starts to use drugs.
Green Goblin then kills Spider-Man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy and accidentally kills himself during a battle with Spider-Man.
Harry blames Spider-Man for his father's death and wants to get revenge by becoming a supervillain the second Green Goblin.
Harry Osborn in film
Harry Osborn is played by James Franco in the 2002 Spider-Man movie.
In it Harry Osborne goes to high school with Peter Parker and is the only person aside from Mary-Jane Watson who is nice to him.
Harry is Peter's best friend and does not get along well with his father.
Harry dates Mary-Jane Watson even though Peter loves her.
Harry's father tells him that she is no different from Harry's mother and that all she cares about is his money.
She tells Harry that his father is a creep and Harry defends him.
Mary-Jane then breaks up with him.
Harry later goes to win her back and realizes she is in love with Peter.
Harry's father who is secretly the Green Goblin finds out from Harry that Peter loves Mary-Jane Watson.
After he died Norman makes Peter swear not to tell Harry that he is the Green Goblin.
Harry swears to kill Spider-Man for revenge.
In Spider-Man 2 Harry is willing to work with Doctor Octopus to kill Spider-Man.
At the end of the movie he is horrified to discover that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
In Spider-Man 3,  Harry becomes a supervillain so that he can kill Spider-Man and avenge his father's death.
Harry Osborn is played by Dane DeHaan in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Taste, a sense
Tasty, a video series created by  BuzzFeed
Ousmane Tanor Dieng (January 2, 1947 – July 15, 2019) was a Senegalese politician.
He was the First Secretary of the Socialist Party of Senegal.
He was vice-president of the Socialist International from 1996 until his death.
Dieng was born in Nguéniène, Senegal.
He was a candidate for President in the February 2007 election.
Senegalese politicians
Paul Albert Zipfel (September 22, 1935 – July 14, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was the sixth Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota.
Zipfel was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Diocese of Bismarck
Normandy is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
The population was 5,008 at the 2010 census.
Pernell Whitaker (January 2, 1964 – July 14, 2019) was an American professional boxer.
Whitaker was a four-weight world champion, having won titles at lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight; the undisputed lightweight title; and the lineal lightweight and welterweight titles.
He holds the longest unified lightweight championship reign in boxing history at 6 title defenses.
Whitaker was seen as one of the greatest defensive boxers of all-time.
Whitaker won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 1982 World Championships, followed by gold at the 1983 Pan American Games and 1984 Olympics.
Amateur record (incomplete)
R.I.P. Pernell ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker, One of the All-Time Greats
Paul F. Markham (May 22, 1930 – July 13, 2019) was an American attorney.
He was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1966 to 1969.
Markham was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Markham was a key figure in the Chappaquiddick incident as he was with Senator Ted Kennedy during the incident.
He played a key defense in Kennedy's favor.
Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter.
In 1929, she was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in the movies 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928).
Gaynor was known for her role as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester in the 1937 movie A Star Is Born.
In September 1982, Gaynor and her husband were seriously injured in a car crash after a drunk driver crashed their car.
She died two years after the crash on September 14, 1984 in Palm Springs, California from problems caused by her injuries at the age of 77.
Simone Signoret (; 25 March 192130 September 1985) was a French actress.
She became the second French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top (1959).
Signoret won two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, an NBR Award  and a Golden Globe nomination.
Simone Signoret at The-Numbers.com
Simone Signoret at Find A Grave
Roberto Remigio Benigni  (; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director.
He is known for writing, directing and starring in Life Is Beautiful, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Roberto Benigni's English fansite site.
Roberto Benigni – A Biography
The Official Site of the Tour TuttoDante
Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 – August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Watch on the Rhine (1943).
Paul Lukas at Virtual History
Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English actor.
He is best known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939).
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1939.
Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American actor.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1936 movie The Story of Louis Pasteur.
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and activist.
He was known for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor.
He is best known for his roles of Bill in Min and Bill (1930), as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa! (
1934), and as Andy Purcell in The Champ (1931), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews, 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker.
He was known for his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American movie actor.
Baxter became known for his role as The Cisco Kid in the 1928 movie In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards.
Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a German actor.
He won the first Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1st Academy Awards for his roles as Duke Sergius Alexander in The Last Command and as August Schilling in The Way of All Flesh.
During World War II, he starred in many Nazi propaganda movies.
After the fall for the Third Reich, he was unemployed and retired.
Photographs of Emil Jannings
Jorge Rubén Aguado (6 November 1925 – 12 July 2019) was an Argentine politician.
Aguado was the de facto Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 1982 through 1983 and Minister of Agriculture and Livestock in 1981.
Wilhelm Werner Müller (1 June 1946 – 15 July 2019) was a German politician and businessman.
He was Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy from 1998 to 2002.
Müller was born in Essen, Germany.
A flipbook is a paper book with drawings that when flipped back quickly, look like they move.
They are normally children drawings.
Rommel Roberts was born on December 2, 1949, in Durban, South Africa.
He is a theologian, human rights activist, Director of the Hilltop Empowerment Centre, consultant, lecturer and author.
His father was white, and his mother Maureen Roberts, a qualified nurse and the only medical specialist for the surrounding townships, was of Indian descent and thus classified as non-white according to the categories of apartheid, and so the family was exposed to diverse discrimination.
Rommel grew up with seven siblings.
After his studies he went back to Cape Town, and in the following years committed himself against apartheid working in various human rights groups and organising non-violent actions.
Many years he worked alongside Bishop Tutu.
Rommel Roberts was married to Celeste Santos, also a human rights activist, and they had a son and a daughter.
They were divorced later.
In the years after Nelson Mandela's release, Roberts was involved in various projects to build up democratic and economic structures as well as taking care of returning exiles.
In 1994 he was called to Mafeking to prepare and monitor the first general free elections, also to resolve conflicts in the then ‘Homeland’ Bophuthatswana.
Since 1995 Roberts has been director of the Hilltop Empowerment Centre in the Eastern Cape.
He lives there with his wife Robin, with whom he has been married since 2002.
They organize numerous projects aimed at education issues and improving the living conditions of people in rural areas.
Anti-apartheid and political views
When Rommel Roberts came back to Cape Town after his studies in 1974 he was especially interested in working with children and young people.
He came in contact with the Early Learning Centre (today Early Learning Resource Unit, ELRU, in Kewtown that was involved in caring for children and general community work.
Kewtown was a township near Cape Town where mainly coloured people lived.
So Rommel Roberts learned about the townships and informal settlements which emerged as a result of the apartheid government’s policy to evict and resettle black and coloured people.
Roberts got deeply involved in supporting those people who often lived in poor housing conditions, sometimes only in shacks or provisional shelters.
And even these dwellings were not secure as the government often destroyed whole townships, e.g. the township Modderdam in 1977.
Through his association with the South African Council of Churches, Rommel Roberts worked together with Bishop Desmond Tutu as his national development officer.
Rommel Roberts´ tasks also included building up national and international support networks.
Roberts worked  in human rights groups organising campaigns against government oppression and cruel treatment.
In the case of Modderdam, after legal interventions had failed, they organised the evacuation of about 10.000 people when their homes were demolished and people were threatened to be deported to the so-called ‘homelands’.
The Apartheid policy was that Blacks were no real citizens of South Africa and had to live in remote so-called ‘homelands’ where there were no job opportunities.
They could only live in South Africa temporarily, and in order to live in South Africa they had to have a ‘Pass’.
The protest against these ‘Pass Laws’ was one of the key issues in the struggle against apartheid and has a long history.
Together with others Roberts organised lots of campaigns, boycotts and protest marches.
One of the famous actions was the Cathedral fast in the St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town where people fasted for more than 20 days before Easter in 1982 and which resulted in the suspension of the Pass Laws.
Roberts has always believed that real changes could only be brought about with non-violent means and so did not agree with the attitudes of ANC (African National Congress) and PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) in this point.
During the 1980s, when the country became more and more insecure and violence increased, including the infamous practice of “necklacing” , Roberts organised several peace conferences together with Bishop Tutu where they tried to bring  together the various hostile factions  and find a solution to end the violence.
The Quaker Peace Centre
In 1974 Rommel Roberts joined the Quakers and has worked with Quakers since then.
Mainly on his initiative the first Peace Centre in South Africa was founded in Cape Town in 1985, the Quaker Peace Centre in whose administration he is still active today.
They then felt that a great deal of work was required in terms of reconciliation and general peacemaking.
Roberts, Rommel, Stimmen für die Freiheit.
Geschichten von mutigen Menschen für ein neues Südafrika, 2.
Küsnacht: Digiboo, 2018.
ISBN 978-3-9524560-4-0
Rommel Roberts, Wie wir für die Freiheit kämpften:Von stillen Heldinnen und Helden in Südafrika, Bern: Lokwort Verlag, 2014.
ISBN 978-3-906786-52-0
The Hilltop Empowerment Centre
Ohne Gewalt!:
Rommel Roberts über den Anti-Apartheid-Kampf
The Wikipedia Arbitration Committee (ARBCOM) is the highest decision-making body on the English Wikipedia.
It has the final say on all disagreements between editors of the encyclopedia.
It settles important disputes between Wikipedia’s editors and administrators.
It has 15 members who are elected and who come from different countries.
Arbitration Committee (English Wikipedia)
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became very big in many countries.
It led to Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.
Role of Women
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) started from a movement against saloons and liquor stores.
It began in Ohio.
It spread throughout the Midwestern United States during the winter of 1873-1874.
The movement had over 32,000 women who went into saloons and liquor stores.
They did this to disrupt business and stop the sales of alcohol.
The WCTU was officially started in late November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active international temperance organization.
It was one of the first organizations of women who wanted social reform.
They did this with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment.
It was also influential in social reform issues that became big in the progressive era.
The WCTU started on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio.
It officially had a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874.
World Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, by Frances Willard, President (October, 1893)
Modern History Sourcebook: Woman's Christian Temperance Union: Growth of Membership and of Local, Auxiliary Unions, 1879-1921
“We Sang Rock of Ages”: Frances Willard Battles Alcohol in the late 19th century, by Frances Willard
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Nebraska Chapter) records at the Nebraska State Historical Society
WCTU in Our Heritage