the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
In 1996 (twenty years after Cecilia's death) it was published in a tribute album titled: Desde que tú te has ido (Since you are gone).
Several artists sang her singles in memory of Cecilia.
Miguel Bosé recorded this song.
In 2015 "Mi querida España" was performed by Kiko Veneno and Rozalen for the soundtrack of the Spanish movie Perdiendo el norte.
Discogs' profile
Arthur Allen Lumsdaine (1913–1989) was an American applied psychologist who researched the use of media and programmed learning.
Art Lumsdaine served as a soldier in the U.S. Army in World War II.
He returned to take a PhD in psychology at Stanford University (awarded 1949).
Service in the Army showed him the crucial role played by training in any large army conscripted from the general population.
Lumsdaine’s main work was on the effectiveness of media for training and education.
He also worked on the experimental investigation of attitude change.
He played a leading part in the post-World War II wave of experimental psychologists who worked on the principles of education and training.
Lumsdaine saw the potential of teaching machines and programmed instruction and helped their development.
Art was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as of the American Psychological Association (APA).
He served as a member of the APA's Board of Scientific Affairs (1967–1970), was President of the Division of Educational Psychology (1968–1969), and was an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychology for eight years.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1947.
Experimental research and the improvement of teaching films.
Educational Screen 26, 254/5.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1949.
Ease of learning with pictorial and verbal symbols.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
Hovland C.I; Lumsdaine A.A. & Sheffield F.D. 1949.
Experiments on mass communication.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1953.
Audio-visual research in the U.S. Air Force.
AV Communication Review 1, 76–90.
May M.A. & Lumsdaine A.A.  1958.
Learning from films.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1959.
Partial and more complete automation of teaching in group and individual learning situations.
In E.H. Galanter (ed) Automated teaching: the state of the art.
New York: Wiley, 147–166.
Teaching machines and self-instructional materials.
AV Communication Review 7, 163–181.
Lumsdaine A.A. & Glaser R. (eds) 1960.
Teaching machines and programmed learning: a source book.
Washington DC: National Education Association.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1961.
Some differences in approach to the programming of instruction.
In Lysaught J.P. (ed) Programmed learning: evolving principles and industrial applications.
Ann Arbor: Foundation for Research on Human Behavior, 37–52.
Lumsdaine A.A. (ed) 1961.
Student response in programmed instruction: a symposium.
Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, publication #943.
Lumsdaine A.A. & Roshal S.M. 1962.
Experimental research on educational media.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1962, published 1965.
Experimental research on instructional devices and materials.
In Glaser R. (ed) Training research and education.
New York: Wiley, 247–294.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1963.
Instruments and media of instruction.
In Gage N.L. (ed) Handbook of research on teaching.
A project of the American Educational Research Association.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 583–682.
Lumsdaine A.A. 1965.
Assessing the effectiveness of instructional programs.
In Glaser R. (ed) Teaching machines and programmed learning II: data and directions.
Washington DC: National Education Association, 267–320.
Wittrock M.C. & Lumsdaine A.A. 1977.
Instructional psychology.
In Rosenzweig M.R. & Porter L.W. (eds) Annual review of psychology, 28.
Palo Alto: Annual Reviews.
Bedivere () is a legendary character in the King Arthur stories.
He is a Knight of the Round Table.
He is a fearless fighter and one of Arthur's most trusted knights.
In the early legends he is the cupbearer.
Later legends have him as the one who returns Arthur's sword Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
He then put the dying Arthur in a boat to take him to Avalon.
In some legends Arthur gives him rule over Normandy.
In stories he is frequently associated with Sir Kay.
Sir Lucan is his brother.
Sir Griflet is his cousin.
The knight
In the legends Sir Bedivere had a grandfather also named Bedivere who was the founder of the city of Bayeux.
His son was named Amren.
He also had a daughter named Eneuavc.
Bedivere was one of the first knights to join the Round Table.
He was also one of Arthur's earliest followers.
He and Arthur fought the Giant of Mont Saint-Michel.
He lost one hand in a battle.
Only he and Arthur survived the "Battle of Camlan".
But Arthur received a wound in the battle and was dying.
Arthur commanded Bedivere to throw his magical sword Excalibur back into the Lake.
Twice Bedivere lied to Arthur but the third time he threw the sword into the lake it came from.
Bedivere was said to have been killed in the Roman Campaign.
Sir Bedivere
Mile Mrkšić (; 20 July 1947 – 16 August 2015) was a Serb Colonel of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in charge of the unit involved in the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991.
He was convicted for not preventing the mass killing of 264 Croats that followed the fall of Vukovar, and sentenced to 20 years.
László Paskai, O.F.M. (8 May 1927 – 17 August 2015) was a Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
He served as the archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest from 1987 to 2002.
Hungarian Roman Catholics
Donald William 'Bob' Johnston (May 14, 1932 – August 14, 2015) was an American record producer.
He was best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Simon and Garfunkel.
He was born in Hillsboro, Texas.
Arsen Dedić (28 July 1938 – 17 August 2015) was a Croatian singer-songwriter.
He was known in the Croatian as well as former Yugoslav music scene.
Dedić wrote and performed chansons as well as movie music.
He was also an award-winning poet, and was one of the best-selling poets of former Yugoslavia.
Compositions by Arsen Dedić
Eduardo Guerrero (4 March 1928 – 17 August 2015) was an Argentine rower and Olympic champion.
He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Salto, Buenos Aires Province.
Guerrero participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki where he won gold medal in double sculls competition together with Tranquilo Capozzo.
Guerrero died on August 17, 2015 from pneumonia at the age of 87.
Shuja Khanzada (‎; 28 August 1943 – 16 August 2015) was a Pakistani politician and retired Pakistan Army colonel.
He served as the home minister of Punjab from 2013 until his death in 2015.
103 is a natural number that comes before 104 and after 102.
It is part of the group of quadruple prime numbers 101, 103, 107, and 109.
Suvra Mukherjee (September 17, 1940 – August 18, 2015) was the First Lady of India from 2012 until her death in 2015.
She was the wife of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee from 1957 until her death in 2015.
Meshulim Feish Segal Lowy II (, Magyarized: Lőwy Ferencz; 11 April 1921 – 12 August 2015) was a Hungarian-Canadian rabbi.
He was the fourth Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty.
Xanthophylls are types of yellow pigments that can be seen in natural objects.
They are found in the leaves of most green plants.
They are difficult to see in a healthy leaf, because chlorophyll pigments make the leaf green.
Unlike chlorophyll, however, xanthophylls do not need light for production.
Therefore, leaves will only show the yellow pigments if the leaf does not get enough light (etiolation).
The name comes from the Greek words for "yellow" (xanthos, ), and "leaf" (phyllon, ).
The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure movie made by DreamWorks Animation.
It stars Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Jim Cummings, Frank Welker, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos and Tobin Bell.
It was composed by Elton John.
The movie follows two Spanish conmen who leave Spain and set off to the New World.
As they head to the legendary city of gold, they are mistaken for gods by the people.
It was poorly received by critics.
In 16th century Spain, two con artists win a map to El Dorado from the dice game.
They escape from the city and stow away on the ship of Hernán Cortés, while sailing to the New World.
After befriending a horse named Altivo, they land off the Mexican coast.
After seeing landmarks on the map, they take a direction to the legendary golden city.
As they arrive at the waterfall, a woman and an army of guards recognize them as gods, and escort them to the city.
There, they meet the elders, kindhearted Chief Tannabok and the malicious high priest Tzekel Kan. Tannabok welcomes the two to the city warmly, while Tzekel Kan mainly sees them as an opportunity to enhance his own standing.
He also believes the gods' arrival will spark the "Year of the Jaguar", a time when everyone will be purged from the city.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is an Australian adventure action movie.
It is about Max being exiled into the desert by the corrupt ruler of Bartertown, Aunty Entity.
He then meets a cargo cult near a Boeing 747 and its dead captain.
Mel Gibson as Mad Max
Tina Turner as Aunty Entity
Bruce Spence as Jedediah the Pilot
Reaction to the movie was generally positive.
The movie website Rotten Tomatoes gives this movie an 81% rating.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie 4 out of 4 stars.
His review of the movie was positive.
1985 action movies
In basketball, a flagrant foul is a serious personal foul.
It is considered flagrant if it involves too much or too violent contact that can injure another player.
A flagrant foul may or may not be intentional.
In the NCAA, if intentional, a flagrant foul is called an "intentional foul".
The NBA made a flagrant foul rule in the 1990s.
It is intended to stop contact which puts a player's safety and health at risk.
In the NBA, Flagrant 1 and Flagrant 2 are fouls.
A player who commits a flagrant 2 foul must immediately leave the game.
Joey Don Essex (born 29 July 1990) is an English television personality and DJ for Sugar Hut, a nightclub in Brentwood, Essex.
He rose to fame in 2011 after appearing in the ITV2 television series The Only Way Is Essex.
Essex and his sister Frankie left the show in 2013, although his cousin Chloe remains on it.
In 2013, Essex took part in the first series of the celebrity diving show Splash!
and the thirteenth  series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!,
where he finished in fourth place.
In 2015, he won the Channel 4 reality series The Jump.
Essex is at least an ex-social smoker.
This picture was taken, and published on the Metro Website on 3rd November 2011.
Brooke Astor (born Roberta Brooke Russell; March 30, 1902 – August 13, 2007) was an American philanthropist, socialite and author.
She was the chairwoman for the Vincent Astor Foundation.
The VAF was founded by her third husband, Vincent Astor, son of RMS Titanic passenger John Jacob Astor IV.
Brooke Astor wrote two novels.
Astor was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
She died in Briarcliff Manor, New York at age 105 from pneumonia.
Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist.
He made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
Bekenstein's papers list at ArXiv with links to the full papers
Israel Prize Official Site - CV of Jacob Bekenstein
Israeli physicists
Scientists from Mexico City
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (March 3, 1933 – August 17, 2015), often called "MV", was the Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
Prior to his UEFA career, Mayer-Vorfelder was a politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
He served in the state cabinet of Baden-Württemberg from 1976 to 1998.
He was later president of German soccer club VfB Stuttgart, and the German Football Association.
He was born in Mannheim.
Hotter Than July is the nineteenth album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder.
It was released on Motown's Tamla label on September 29, 1980.
It was certified platinum, which means it sold more than 1,000,000 copies in the US.
It reached number three on the US Billboard chart.
This was Stevie Wonder's most successful album in the UK, where it reached number two on the sales charts, and produced four top ten singles.
Hotter Than July was nominated for Favorite Soul/R&B Album at the American Music Awards in 1982.
"Did I Hear You Say You Love Me" – 4:07
"All I Do" (music: Wonder; lyrics: Wonder, Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax) – 5:06
"Rocket Love" – 4:39
"I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" – 4:39
"As If You Read My Mind" – 3:37
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" – 5:07
"Do Like You" – 4:25
"Cash in Your Face" – 3:59
"Lately" – 4:05
"Happy Birthday" – 5:57
F-Zero Maximum Velocity (F-Zero for Game Boy Advance in Japan) is a 2001 futuristic racing video game published by Nintendo and developed by Nintendo R&D1 and Nd Cube.
It was released for the Game Boy Advance and for the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. F-Zero: Maximum Velocity was released on March 21, 2001 in Japan, June 11, 2001 in North America, on June 20, 2001 in Australia, and on June 22, 2001 in Europe.
It was the first F-Zero game to be released on a handheld game console.
The game takes place twenty-five years after F-Zero and is the only F-Zero game without Captain Falcon.
Craig Harris of IGN called the game "an amazing achievement for the Game Boy Advance".
GameSpot rated the game 8.1 out of 10.
Shane Satterfield of GameSpot said that the game was "a challenging yet addictive racer" and that "With plenty of tracks to unlock, vehicles to master, and multiplayer modes to explore, it won't be headed for trade-in anytime soon".
Famitsu magazine scored the game a 31 out of 40 when it released.
Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack.
It was released on August 1, 1973 by Atlantic Records.
Flack recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months.
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) 4:49
"Jesse" (Janis Ian) 4:03
"No Tears (In the End)" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) 4:56
"I'm the Girl" (James Alan Shelton) 4:55
"River" (Gene McDaniels) 5:03
"Conversation Love" (Terry Plumeri, Bill Seighman) 3:43
"When You Smile" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) 3:44
"Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen) 9:44
Geraldine Carroll (born 21 August 1968, Newmarket, England), best known as Dina Carroll, is a British singer.
She is of Scottish and African American heritage.
Carroll had a number of hit songs during the 1990s.
She had two platinum albums.
Carroll started singing at age of five, mainly at home with her sister.
She did not have any formal training as a singer.
In 1981, at the age of 13, she won a local talent competition.
She sang Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love".
After leaving school, she worked in various jobs.
This includes a one-day job as a maid in a Cambridge hotel in 1985.
At the age of 16, she was signed to the London record label "StreetSounds".
Carroll moved to West London and recorded two singles, "Set It Off" and "One Nation".
Both were released in the mid-1980s.
They were credited to a non-existent group, Masquerade.
After six months she left StreetSounds.
So Close (1993)
Only Human (1996)
The Best of Dina Carroll (2001)
Khaled Asaad (; 1934 – 18 August 2015) was a Syrian archaeologist.
He was the head of antiquities in the city of Palmyra for more than forty years.
In May 2015, Palmyra came under the control of the terrorist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and Asaad was amongst those captured during this time.
He was executed on 18 August 2015.
Louis Stokes (February 23, 1925 – August 18, 2015) was an American attorney and politician.
He served 15 terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 through 1999.
He was the first black congressman elected in the state of Ohio.
Western Reserve Historical Society's website about the lives of Louis and Carl Stokes
Stokes: An American Dream  on PBS's World channel
El Dorado (Spanish for "golden one") is a story from South America.
It first referred to a man or a king, El Hombre Dorado ("The Golden Man") or El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King").
Later, it was used for a city, and in the end, for a whole country.
When the Spanish came to South America, they were greedy, and tried to find El Dorado.
According to the legend, the new king had to sacrrifice things to the sun god.
This happened at Lake Guatavita, a small lake near modern-day Bogotá.
At night, fires were lit, and the naked torsos of the noblemen were covered in a paste made of gold dust.
With the noblemen, the ruler used a raft to navigate to the middle of the lake.
There, they sacrificed the valuables, mafe of gold or precious stones.
The king then jumped into the lake, and the gold paste, as well as the other sactifices went down to the bottom of the lake.
4: The Remix is an extended play (EP) by American R&B singer Beyoncé.
It was released through Columbia Records on April 23, 2012.
Before the release of the EP, Beyoncé organised a remix competition for her then-upcoming single "End of Time".
The remix was chosen by a judging panel.
The winner of the contest was Radzimir "Jimek" Dębski.
4 is a megapop album with a number of A-list guest stars.
The guests include Kanye West and André 3000.
Writers and producers include Rodney Jerkins, Tricky Stewart, Frank Ocean, Diplo and Switch.
Metacritic gave "4" a generally positive 73 score.
The New York Times pointed out that other recording artists could have released some of these songs. "
Most of '4,' though, no one else could get away with, or would even want to try."
Chris Richards of The Washington Post wrote "It’s also her fourth-best album, as in her worst."
The album is "heavy on ballads and midtempo tracks" according to Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot.
The Mayor of New York City, officially known as the Mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of New York City's government.
The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.
Mayor in the Rules of the City of New York
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist.
He is known for his work in reducing legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency, and helped create the free culture movement.
He has been an activist against the Second Amendment and created the Second Constitutional Convention.
Lessig was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, the son of Patricia, who sold real estate, and Lester L. "Jack" Lessig, an engineer.
He grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
He studied at the Wharton School, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Yale University.
For a year, he worked as a clerk in Chicago.
Lessig started his academic career at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Professor from 1991 to 1997.
From 1997 to 2000, he was at Harvard Law School, holding for a year the chair of Berkman Professor of Law, affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
He subsequently joined Stanford Law School, where he established the school's Center for Internet and Society.
Lessig returned to Harvard in December 2008 as Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
In 2013, Lessig was appointed as the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership; his chair lecture was titled "Aaron's Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age."
In 2013, Lessig was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.
Lessig is currently considered politically liberal.
As a law clerk, however, he worked for both Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia, two influential conservative judges.
Lessig has emphasized in interviews that his philosophy experience at Cambridge radically changed his values and career path.
Previously, he had held strong conservative or libertarian political views.
In August 2015, Lessig announced that he was exploring a possible candidacy for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
On September 6, 2015, Lessig announced that he would run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
Almost two months into the campaign trail, poor polling numbers and not being qualified to enter the debates, Lessig dropped out on November 2, 2015.
Lessig is married to Bettina Neuefeind.
He is the father of three children (Willem, Teo, and Tess).
(includes Lessig blog 2002–2009)
(Presidential Campaign site)
Lessig Blog, beyond 2009
Educators from South Dakota
Koshi is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal.
The headquarters of Koshi Zone is Biratnagar.
It is also its largest city.
Other major cities of Koshi Zone are Inaruwa, Dharan, Dhankuta and Itahari.
Its main rivers are the Arun, Tamor, and Sapta Koshi.
Koshi has six districts.
These are Bhojpur, Dhankuta, Morang, Sankhuwasabha, Sunsari and Terhathum.
Famous Religious Places
Pindeswari Temple, Dharan
Buda Subba, Dharan
Panchakanya Temple, Dharan
Bishnupaduka, Dharan
Kali Mandir, Biratnagar
Korumburra is a town in the Australian state of  Victoria.
It is  south-east of Melbourne.
The town is  above the sea level.
In 2006 there were 4465 people living in Korumburra.
The word Korumburra is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning "maggot".
The first European settlers began farming cattle in the area in 1846.
In 1878 coal was discovered at what was called Coal Creek.
Farmers began to create small farms in the area.
In 1887 the town was planned to be along the railway line which would go to the coal mine.
The first Post Office in the area opened on 1 September 1884.
The railway arrived in 1891.
The first school opened in 1897.
Korumburra is the home of Coal Creek Community Park and Museum.
This museum shows life in the area from the 1870s to 1920s, as the town rapidly expanded following the discovery coal.
The outdoor museum covers  of bushland, including 60 exhibits.
These include the Giant Earthworm, National Bank, Anzac exhibit, mining exhibits, dairy exhibit at the Boston Carriageworks and Railway Museum.
The Park is free entry and open Thursdays to Mondays, and seven days a week during school holidays.
A tramway runs on weekends around the lower end of the park with an old-time farm and bush oval.
Many local organisations use the Park and environs and special events are held during the year.
There is an Olympic swimming pool (open November–March), basketball stadium, art gallery, the South Gippsland tourist railway.
The towns main industries include dairy and beef.
The region is home to the world's largest earthworms.
The town is also home to Burra foods which is a dairy company.
Korumburra is also the home of the popular tourist railway South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between Leongatha and Nyora.
Heritage trains are operated each Sunday and on public holidays.
Korumburra was on the South Gippsland railway line went to Leongatha until 1993.
A V/Line road coach service replaced the rail service.
The line beyond Leongatha is being used as a rail trail for public use.
On 6 March 2009 an earthquake of 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded  west of Korumburra.
A second 4.7 tremor was recorded two weeks later on 18 March 2009; the epicentre was  north of the town.
Bruce Hungerford, pianist
Stan Savige.
distinguished WWI soldier, founder of Legacy
Ron Strykert Guitarist of Men At Work
Sagarmatha () is one of the fourteen zones located in eastern Nepal.
It includes mountain districts of the Himalayas (including Mount Everest) in the north, hill districts in the center, and valley districts of the Terai in the south.
It is bordered by China to the north, India to the south, the Koshi Zone to the east and the Janakpur Zone to the west.
The main city of the Sagarmatha Zone is Rajbiraj which is also the headquarters.
Nepal measures about  along its Himalayan axis by  across.
With  it slightly outranks the state of Arkansas in the United States.
Nepal is landlocked by India on three sides and China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north.
The headquarters of Janakpur Zone and its main city is Janakpur.it is a historic city of Hinduism.
The city was believed to be the capital city of King Janak, the father in law of Lord Rama, the son of the then king of Ayodhya, Dasharatha.
The name of this zone is related to the historic King Janak and his capital Janakpur.
Janakpur is divided into six districts.
They are :-
Bagmati ( Bāgmatī Añcal), is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal.
It is named after the Bagmati River.
Bagmati is in the Central Development Region of Nepal.
The zone contains the Kathmandu Valley.
The capital is Kathmandu.
In 2011 the total population was 3,843,596.
Limestone, talc, zinc, lead and silver are mined and exported from Bagmati.
Brown, white and pink marble are also exported.
The hill districts around Kathmandu are notorious for human trafficking in young girls.
The girls are taken to India where they are sold to brothels.
This is a list of notable personalities/celebrities from or who spent considerable time living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Bryan Adams, Singer
Vikky Alexander, Artist
Pamela Anderson, Actress
Nat Bailey, Restaurateur and Baseball team owner
Ashleigh Ball, voice actress known for her lead role on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and lead singer of Hey Ocean
James Barber, cookbook author a.k.a. "
The Urban Peasant"
Barry Beck, Hockey Player
Ray Bethell, Master Multiple Kite Flier
Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Actor
Yannick Bisson, Actor
Beau Bokan, Musician
Linwood Boomer, Actor/Television producer/Writer
Sage Brocklebank, Actor
Rod Bruno, Musician
Cameron Bright, Actor
Michael Bublé, Singer
Raymond Burr, Actor
Jazzy B, Actor, singer
Dayana Cadeau, Haitian-born Canadian/American professional bodybuilder
Kim Campbell, former Canadian Prime Minister
Paul Campbell, actor
Erin Cebula, TV personality
Erica Cerra, actress
Sarah Chalke, actress
Angela Chang, Mandopop singer
Peter Chao, Comedian
Osric Chau, actor
Edison Chen, Hong Kong entertainer
Ying Chen, Francophone author
Fred Cheng, Hong Kong actor/musician
Joyce Cheng, actress
Kayi Cheung, actress, Miss Hong Kong 2007
Evelyn Chew, actress
Charlene Choi, actress and singer
Tommy Chong, actor, comedian, musician
Hayden Christensen, actor
Linda Chung, actress/musician
Christy Clark, provincial politician and Premier of British Columbia
Torrance Coombs, actor
Douglas Coupland, author
Amanda Crew, actress
Roger Cross, actor
Seán Cummings, actor and playwright
Brian Day, doctor
Yvonne DeCarlo, actress
Ryan Dempster, MLB baseball player
Ranj Dhaliwal, writer
Lexa Doig, actress
James Doohan, actor ("Lt.
Cmmdr.
Montgomery Scott Scotty" from television show Star Trek)
Audrey Capel Doray, artist
Stan Douglas, artist
Mac DeMarco, artist
Jay DeMerit, MLS, World Cup soccer player
Aileen Eaton, Boxing Promoter
Aryana Engineer, Actress
Arthur Erickson, Architect, Urban planner
Elise Estrada, Singer-Songwriter, Actress
Eliza Sam, Hong Kong Actress
Ed Fast, Canadian Politician and Federal Cabinet Minister
Gordon Fee, New Testament scholar
Fadi Awad, Artist, Musician, Producer, Art Projects Manager & Director
John Ferguson, Sr.,
Professional Hockey Player
Jodelle Ferland, Actress
Freddy Fuller, Canadian Boxing Champion
Nathan Fielder, Comedian
Rod Filbrandt, Cartoonist
Nigel Findley, Fantasy, science fiction, and RPG author
Noel Fisher, Actor
Brendan Fletcher, Actor
William Wasbrough Foster, mountaineer, soldier, politician, business executive, and chief constable of Vancouver.
Michael J. Fox, Actor
Jeff Francis, Major League Baseball Player
Rhys Fulber, Musician, producer
Nolan Gerard Funk, Actor
Emmanuelle Schick Garcia, film director/writer
Austin Gary, author/songwriter
C. E. Gatchalian, playwright
William Gibson, author
Rodney Graham, artist
Matthew Good, singer/songwriter
Jennifer Granholm, Ex-governor of US State of Michigan
Trevor Guthrie, singer
Grimes, singer, songwriter, director, musician, actress
Nancy Greene Raine, Olympic Champion and Canadian Senator
Rich Harden, Major League Baseball Player
Jillian Harris, ABC's 5th Bachelorette
Laura Harris, Actress
Chris Haslam, Professional Skateboarder
Meghan Heffern, Actress
Ed Hill (comedian) Award Winning Stand up Comedian
Bert Hoffmeister, commander of the 5th Canadian Division in the Second World War, then president of MacMillan Bloedel
Brent Hodge, film director and CEO of Hodgee Films
Clive Holden, Poet, film director and visual artist
Bob Houbregs, NBA player for the Milwaukee Hawks, Baltimore Bullets, Boston Celtics, and the Fort Wayne Pistons, general manager of the Seattle SuperSonics, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Elva Hsiao, Mandopop singer
Jacob Hoggard, Lead singer of the band Hedley
Antony Holland, actor
Harrison Houde, composer, actor
John Ireland, actor
Britt Irvin, actress, musician and voice-over artist
Katharine Isabelle, actress
Joshua Jackson, actor
Liam James, actor
Sarah Jeffery, actress, dancer, singer
Avan Jogia, actor
Christopher Judge, actor
Carly Rae Jepsen, singer
Alexz Johnson, actress, singer
Evander Kane.
National Hockey League player
Paul Kariya, National Hockey League player
Cevin Key, Musician
Earl Keeley, football player
Kristin Kreuk, actress
Tyler Labine, Actor
Evelyn Lau, Poet and Novelist
Maggie Lawson, Actress
Cory Lee, Singer
Bill Leeb, Musician, singer
Bob Lenarduzzi, Soccer Player
Sherwood Lett, soldier, lawyer, chancellor of UBC.
Trevor Linden, NHL hockey player
Bernice Liu, Actress
Mary Livingstone formerly Sadie Marks, Actress {Wife of Jack Benny}
Rochelle Low, Field hockey player
Crystal Lowe, Actress
Jessica Lowndes, Actress
Jessica Lucas, Actress
Milan Lucic, NHL hockey player
Alexander Ludwig, Actor
Norma MacMillan, voice actress
Karen Diane Magnussen, figure skater.
Dan Mangan, musician
Charles Marega, sculptor
Terry McBride, CEO and founder, Nettwerk Music Group
Shane McConkey, professional freestyle skier
Rick McCrank, professional skateboarder
Dean McFadden, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy
Ashleigh McIvor, Olympic Champion skier
Jim Meier, entertainment and software industry executive
John H. Meier, financier and former business adviser to Howard Hughes
Charles Merritt, winner of the Victoria Cross
Shay Mitchell, actress
Colin Mochrie, comedian
Cory Monteith, actor
Greg Moore, racecar driver
James Moore, Canadian politician and senior Federal cabinet minister
Justin Morneau, Major League Baseball player
Carrie-Anne Moss, actress
Jane Munro, poet
Ira B. Nadel, biographer and literary critic
Nardwuar the Human Serviette, radio host and musician
Steve Nash, NBA Basketball Player
Cam Neely, NHL Hockey Player
Kliph Nesteroff, writer, broadcaster
Mayko Nguyen, Actress
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins NHL Hockey Player
Brenna O'Brien, Actress
Victor Odlum, Canadian journalist, soldier, and diplomat
Nivek Ogre, Singer, musician
Sandra Oh, Actress
Pat Onstad, Soccer Player
J. I. Packer, Anglican theologian
Grace Park, Actress
Jim Pattison, Entrepreneur
Kit Pearson, Children's writer
Missy Peregrym, Actress
Emily Perkins, Actress
James Picard, Artist
Carly Pope, Actress
Daniel Powter, Singer
William Pratt, aka Boris Karloff, Actor
Jason Priestley, Actor
Kirsten Prout, Actress
Wanting Qu, singer-songwriter
Josh Ramsay, lead singer of band Marianas Trench
Rascalz, hip hop group
Ryan Reynolds, actor
Charlie Richmond, inventor
Ryan Robbins, actor
Rachel Roberts, actress, Fashion Model
Spider Robinson, author
Wayne Robson, actor
Coco Rocha, fashion model
James Roday, actor
Seth Rogen, actor, writer, and comedian
Teryl Rothery, television anchor, actress
Joe Sakic, NHL hockey player ("Burnaby Joe")
Devon Sawa, actor
Drew Scott, Property Brothers (HGTV)
Jonathan Scott, Property Brothers (HGTV)
Conrad Schmidt, activist
Michael Shanks, actor
Kathryn Shaw, artistic director
Lydia Shum Din-ha, elder sister of Alfred Sung and Hong Kong actress
Nelson Skalbania, entrepreneur
Gregory Smith, actor
Trevor Smith, NHL ice hockey player
Cobie Smulders, actress
Rita Steblin, musicologist
Dorothy Stratten, actress/model
Social Deviantz, rap group
John G. Stackhouse, Jr., writer and professor of religion
Jewel Staite, actress
Arran Stephens, entrepreneur, writer
Ryan Stiles, comedian, actor
Russell Stuart, CEO & founder, SuperBox Inc.
Sean Stubbs, musician
Billy Suede, professional wrestler
David Suzuki, environmentalist, scientist, broadcaster
Swollen Members, rap group
Sophie Schmidt, member of Canadian Women's National soccer team
Christine Sinclair, member of Canadian Women's National soccer team
Sammy Strong, actor and voice artist
Amanda Tapping, Actress
Reece Thompson, Actor
Brent Titcomb, Actor/Singer, member of the Canadian band 3's a Crowd
Alex To, Mandopop Singer
Eckhart Tolle, Spiritual teacher
Ziya Tong, television personality
Nicholas Tse, Cantopop Singer
Devin Townsend, Singer, Musician
Margaret Trudeau (now Margaret Trudeau Kemper), Former wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
John Turner, Former Canadian Prime Minister
Adrien Van Viersen, Storyboard artist
Emmanuelle Vaugier, Actress
The Veer Union, Band
Larry Walker, Major-league Baseball player
Jeff Wall, Artist
Ian Wallace, Artist
Nolan Watson, Entrepreneur and philanthropist
Daniel Wesley, Musician
Brian Wong, Technology entrepreneur
Kris Wu, Chinese K-Pop Singer of EXO
Benny Yau, Television presenter, Singer
Françoise Yip, Actress
Alex Zahara, actor
Point Grey Secondary School is a public secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
It was built in 1929.
It was designed in the Collegiate Gothic style by Townley & Matheson.
It is on Heritage Vancouver Society’s Top 10 most-endangered sites list for 2015.
The school is at risk of being damaged by an earthquake.
Santa Clarita, officially the City of Santa Clarita, is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California.
It is the 24th largest city in the state of California.
The city has annexed unincorporated areas, which has made the population higher.
Santa Clarita is about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
It takes up most of Santa Clarita Valley.
It is a good example of a U.S. edge city or boomburb.
Santa Clarita was ranked by Money magazine in 2006 as 18th of the top 100 places to live.
There are four smaller communities in Santa Clarita.
They are called Valencia, Saugus, Newhall, and Canyon Country.
Santa Clarita is well known for the amusement park Six Flags Magic Mountain as well as the TV program Santa Clarita Diet.
Santa Clarita became a city in December 1987, but its history stretches back many hundreds of years.
In the year 450, a group of Native Americans called the Tataviam arrived in the valley, and as many as 2,000 lived there at their height.
In 1842, Francisco Lopez found gold in the area.
It was the first recorded gold in the state.
It is marked in an area called Placerita Canyon, which was also the original "back lot" area for Hollywood movie makers.
The town of Newhall is named after Henry Mayo Newhall, a businessman who became rich during the California Gold Rush.
At first, he founded H.M. Newhall & Company, an auction house in San Francisco.
Then, he got into the railroad business.
He put money into companies that would join San Francisco to other cities and was in charge of the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad.
He sold the business to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1870, and was one of the people in charge of it.
After railroads, Newhall started focusing on real estate and ranching.
He bought 143,000 acres of land between Los Angeles and Monterey counties.
The largest piece of land was the 46,460 acres of land in northern Los Angeles County which was called the Rancho San Francisco, later called Newhall Ranch.
He sold some of his property to the Southern Pacific Railroad which built a train line through the present-day Newhall Pass.
They also built a town and named it after Newhall.
The first station North on the new line was named Saugus by Newhall, after his hometown of Saugus, Massachusetts.
His children created the Newhall Land and Farming Company that helped build the rest of Santa Clarita.
On September 5, 1876, Charles Crocker and Leland Stanford (en) joined their railroads together in Canyon Country, linking Los Angeles with the rest of the country for the first time.
A couple of weeks later, on September 26, Charles Alexander Mentry built California's first useful oil well in Mentryville, helping kickstart the Southern California oil industry.
The oil was cleaned in Newhall, in what is now the oldest existing oil cleaner in the world.
It was open between 1874 and 1888.
The Saugus Cafe on Railroad Avenue in Saugus was opened in 1887.
It is far and away the oldest open restaurant in Los Angeles County and the 16th oldest open restaurant in the state.
Filming in Santa Clarita began at the turn of the century and featured actors including William S. Hart and John Wayne.
Hart and actor Harry Carey both have parks named after them in the county.
The Santa Clarita Valley was the scene of the second most deadly disaster in Californian history, behind the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
It was known as the "worst civil engineering failure of the 20th century".
Before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed.
It caused a flood to rush all the way West to the Pacific Ocean near Ventura.
An estimated 431 people were killed, and the site of the present-day Westfield Valencia Town Center was buried in muck.
The disaster resulted in the end of the career of engineer William Mulholland.
Santa Clarita is located in the Santa Clarita Valley, a valley in northern Los Angeles County, just north of the San Fernando Valley and southwest of the Antelope Valley.
The Santa Clara River runs east–west through the valley.
Freeways Interstate 5 and State Route 14 also run across the valley.
Six Flags Magic Mountain is located just west of Interstate 5, in Stevenson Ranch.
Smaller hills also cross the valley.
Hiking trails are common in the hills, including Central Park, Quigley Canyon, East Canyon, Rice Canyon, and Towsley Canyon.
Santa Clarita has a Mediterranean climate with warm and dry days throughout the year.
This, along with the Chaparral ecosystem in the area, makes wildfires common in the summer.
It is near the northern junction of the Golden State Freeway (I-5) and the San Diego Freeway (I-405).
The Ronald Reagan Freeway (SR-118) runs through it.
Other main roads are San Fernando Mission Boulevard, Woodman Avenue, and Rinaldi, Brand, Chatsworth, Devonshire, and Lassen Streets.
The boundaries are roughly Sepulveda Blvd and Interstate 405 to the west, Interstate 5 to the north and east, Van Nuys Boulevard to the southeast, and Lassen Street to the south.
The Granada Hills community lies to the west, Sylmar to the north, the city of San Fernando to the northeast, Pacoima to the east, Arleta to the southeast, and Panorama City to the south.
The community is named for the nearby Spanish Mission San Fernando Rey de España of 1784.
The Andrés Pico Adobe, the second oldest residence still standing in Los Angeles, is there.
The San Fernando Mission Cemetery, located a short distance away, is one of the oldest active cemeteries within the San Fernando Valley.
Lev Konstantinovich Durov (, 23 December 1931 – 20 August 2015) was a Soviet-born Russian theatre and movie actor.
He began acting since 1955.
He was a People's Artist of USSR.
Joseph G. Hakobyan (born 28 August 1931) is a Russian scientist.
He is an expert on missiles development.
He was the Deputy General of the Moscow Research Institute.
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Golden Idea national award winners
María de los Ángeles López Segovia (20 March 1937 – 20 August 2015), better known as Lina Morgan, was a Spanish actress and showgirl.
She performed in movie, theatre, and television.
She was known for her roles in Hostal Royal Manzanares (1996), Una de dos (1998) and Academia de baile Gloria (2001).
Suharno (1 October 1959 – 19 August 2015) was an Indonesian football coach.
He has managed Arema Cronus since November 2013.
He played 12 years as a footballer.
He began his career in PS Banteng and is due to retire after three seasons playing for Niac Mitra.
He began his coaching career in 1988 as player-assistant coach at Niac Mitra.
LGBT people living in Afghanistan face legal and social challenges.
Being a homosexual, or cross-dressing (wearing clothes usually worn by the oppposite gender), are serious crimes in Afghan culture.
Punishment can include the death penalty.
In rural parts of the country, local villagers take the law into their own hands and punish people.
Homosexual practices with boys
Even though both society and law try to stop homosexual activities, there is a form of bisexuality (sexual attraction to both sexes) within mainstream Afghan culture.
This happens when boys are kidnapped to act as sexual slaves for adult men.
This often happens in a military where there is no access to women.
It also happens when an adult man gives money or gifts to young boys in return for sexual activity.
These acts are accepted because they are not seen as being an act of LGBT identity, but rather an act of male power and dominance.
The boys in these acts are forced to be the "female" partner in the relationship.
Military members generally do not have access to women, and often boys are kidnapped to be humiliated and raped by adult men.
Other boys become prostitutes for adult men, regardless of their sexual orientation (one's tendencies of sexual attractions)
The boys involved are called Bacha bazi in Persian and there are a large number of them in the big cities of Afghanistan.
A law has been passed to stop Afghan male soldiers from having the boys they sexually abuse to live with them.
In 2007, reports stated that the practice of bacha bareesh (beardless boys) is still prevalent in parts of northern Afghanistan.
This practice involves teenage boys being dressed in women's clothing and made to participate in dance competitions and engage in sexual acts.
Wang Dongxing (1 January 1916 – 21 August 2015) was a Chinese communist politician.
He was Mao Zedong's principal bodyguard during the Cultural Revolution.
He served as Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1977 to 1980.
He was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi.
Harry Volkman (April 18, 1926 – August 20, 2015) was an American meteorologist.
He was the first weatherman to issue a tornado warning.
He retired in 2004.
Tony Amendola (born August 24, 1944) is an American actor.
He is best known for playing the Jaffa master Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1.
Amendola is also known for his recurring role as revolutionary leader Edouard Kagame of Liber8 in the television show Continuum.
Anger Management is a 2003 American slapstick comedy movie directed by Peter Segal.
It was written by David S. Dorfman.
It stars Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, John Turturro, and Woody Harrelson.
It was produced by Revolution Studios.
It has cameo appearances of Rudy Giuliani, Bob Sheppard, and Derek Jeter.
It was released to positive reviews on April 11, 2003.
Airbourne are an Australian hard rock band from Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia.
Original members are Joel O'Keeffe, Ryan O'Keeffe, David Roads and Adam Jacobson, but Adam leaves the band in 2004 and was replaced by Justin Street.
In 2004, the band release their first EP, called "Ready to Rock".
Their first studio album was released in 2007 and is called "Runnin' Wild".
This album have three singles: "Runnin' Wild", "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast" and "Diamond in the Rough".
In 2010, the band released their second studio album, called "No Guts.
No Glory".
The third studio album is called "Black Dog Barking" and was released in 2013.
Formation and Ready to Rock (2003–2006)
Airbourne formed as a hard rock band in late 2003 in the Victorian country town of Warrnambool by Joel O'Keeffe (born c. 1985) and his younger brother Ryan (born c. 1986).
Joel had played guitar since the age of 11 and Ryan got his first drum kit four years later also at the age of 11.
Joel met David Roads (born c. 1983) when the two worked at the Hotel Warrnambool.
The pair brought their guitars to work and, after their shifts, jammed on song ideas, Roads was asked to join the O’Keeffe brothers on rhythm guitar for rehearsals at their house.
By late 2003, Adam Jacobson had joined on bass guitar, the group was named Airbourne and played regular gigs at the local Criterion Hotel.
In March 2004 the four-piece won a statewide band competition, Push-On, in Melbourne.
Their early material was influenced by Australian rock bands AC/DC, The Angels, Billy Thorpe and Rose Tattoo.
They recorded an eight-track extended play, Ready to Rock, which appeared in July 2004 as an independent self-funded release.
By that time Jacobson was replaced by Justin Street (born c. 1986) on bass guitar – Ryan had met Street while stumbling home drunk from a party one night.
In early 2005, the band relocated to Melbourne and in August, they signed a five album record deal with Capitol Records.
According to Joel, while the band were living in a shared house they threw a party, and during listening to aKrokus CD, Rock the Block, a blown fuse resulted in a fire burning the back part of the house.
The group have supported Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, Iron Maiden and The Rolling Stones, as well as performing at summer music festivals.
Runnin' Wild (2006–2009)
In 2006 Airbourne travelled to the United States to begin work on their first studio album, Runnin' Wild, with producer Bob Marlette (Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper).Runnin' Wild was released in Australia on 23 June 2007.
Three singles were issued from the album, "Runnin' Wild" (May), "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast" (June), a playable track on Guitar Hero World Tour; and "Diamond in the Rough".
In February, Capitol Records had cancelled their contract with Airbourne, but the album was still issued in Australia through EMI.
In June, the band signed with Roadrunner Records for international distribution.
The album peaked in the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart in Australia, top 40 on New Zealand's RIANZ Albums Chart and appeared on charts in Austria, Switzerland and France.
During late 2007, the group toured the United States supporting Kid Rock and Korn.
Runnin' Wild was issued in North America, Europe and Japan in January 2008, after which they relocated permanently to the US.
The album reached the Top 100 on the UK Albums Chart and appeared on the Billboard 200.
In September 2007, they issued a five-track live extended play, Live at the Playroom.
In a September 2008 interview with MetalSucks, Joel discussed comparisons with AC/DC, "whoever you are when you come out, especially if you’re from Australia and you sound like we do, you’re going to get compared to anyone who is out there.
It doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to get compared to somebody.
To be compared to the best rock and roll band in the business, who are still going today and are about to release another album, there is no higher compliment..." In November at the Astoria in London, Dan Hawkins (Stone Gods/The Darkness) joined Airbourne on stage to play the AC/DC song, "Whole Lotta Rosie".
Hawkins played Joel's guitar (white Gibson Explorer) while Joel sang without any guitar.
No Guts.
No Glory. (
Roads confirmed that in January 2009, Airbourne would enter the studio to begin recording their second album, No Guts.
In the 17 January issue of Kerrang!
magazine, Joel revealed they had earlier written the tracks in the Criterion Hotel, "We're getting all our gear plugged in and getting set for Aussie pub rock written in an Aussie rock pub!"
The album was produced by Johnny K, mixed by Mike Fraser, and was released on 8 March 2010 in the UK, Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and in the U.S. on 20 April. "
Born to Kill", was first played live at the Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland, New Zealand in October 2009.
In January 2010, another new song, "No Way But the Hard Way", was played on the BBC Radio 1's Rock Show.
On 9 February it was available on iTunes, as the first single from the album.
The album reached the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and top 20 on albums charts in Austria, New Zealand, Finland, Greece, Sweden and Switzerland.
In the UK it peaked at No.
31, while on the US Billboard 200 it reached the top 100.
Black Dog Barking (2011-2014)