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Archaeologists discovered flax fiber cords in a western Asian cave that date from 32,000 to 26,000 years ago.
In a cave at Lascaux, France fossilized remains of a “two-ply laid rope of about 7 mm diameter” were dated to about 15,000 BCE.
Hemp twine was used from about 8,000 BCE.
By 1,000 BCE hemp rope and twine was used by most civilizations.
From 500 BCE to 1900 AD almost all rope and twine used in sailing ships was made from hemp.
For example, the USS Constitution used hemp for its rigging lines.
Sea bags and other common goods used help cordage or twine.
In the 1630s hemp was used to produce cordage in Boston.
Soon there were several ropewalks in Boston producing hemp rope.
Hemp twine was twisted into rope.
Nanyuki is a town in Kenya.
It had an urban population of 31,577 in 1999.
The town was started by British settlers in the early days of colonial Kenya in 1907.
Today, the town is multi-cultural and the market center for farms, ranches, game parks and wildlife conservancies in the region.
On the evening of June 17, 2015, a mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first church for black people ever in America.
It is in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
Nine people at the church were killed and another was injured.
Among the dead was minister and state senator, Clementa C. Pinckney.
Dylann Storm Roof was named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the suspected killer after his father and uncle got in touch with police.
They identified Roof after seeing security photos of him in the news.
Roof was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
He was living in a mostly African-American neighborhood near Columbia at the time of the shooting.
Roof already had a police record of two arrests, both made in the months leading up to the attack.
The victims, six women and three men, were all African-American members of the AME Church.
Eight died at the scene; the ninth, Daniel Simmons, died at MUSC Medical Center.
They were all killed by multiple gunshots fired at close range.
Five persons survived the shooting unharmed, including Felicia Sanders, mother of slain victim Tywanza Sanders, and her five-year-old granddaughter, as well as Polly Sheppard, a Bible study member.
Pinckney's wife and two daughters were inside the building during the shooting, but were in the pastor's office with the door locked.
Those killed were identified as:
Clementa C. Pinckney (41) – the church's pastor and a South Carolina state senator.
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd (54) – a Bible study member and manager for the Charleston County Public Library system; sister of former state senator Malcolm Graham.
Susie Jackson (87) – the oldest victim who was a Bible study and church choir member.
Ethel Lee Lance (70) – the church's sexton.
Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49) – a pastor who was also employed as a school administrator and admissions coordinator at Southern Wesleyan University.
Tywanza Sanders (26) – the youngest victim who was a graduate of Allen University; grandnephew of victim Susie Jackson.
Daniel L. Simmons (74) – a pastor who also served at Greater Zion AME Church in Awendaw.
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45) – a pastor; also a speech therapist and track coach at Goose Creek High School; mother of MLB prospect Chris Singleton.
Myra Thompson (59) – a Bible study teacher.
Church shooting
Religious building shootings
As of 9 May 2015
As of 10 June 2015
WPS profile
Clementa Carlos Pinckney (July 30, 1973 – June 17, 2015) was an American Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District since 2000.
He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 through 2000.
Pinckney was a senior pastor at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston.
He died, along with eight others, in a mass shooting at an evening bible study at his church on June 17, 2015.
Senator Clementa C. Pinckney at South Carolina Legislature
Reverend Clementa Pinckney  at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church
Follow the Money - Clementa C. Pinckney
2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1996 campaign contributions
Tony Ranasinghe (31 July 1937 – 16 June 2015) was a Sri Lankan actor.
He was known for his roles in Hanthane Kathawa (1969), Duhulu Malak (1976) and Ahasin Polawata (1979).
Ranasinghe was born in Modara, Sri Lanka.
Tony Ranasinghe's Biography in Sinhala Cinema Database
Sri Lankan movie actors
An anti-tank gun is a light artillery gun used to destroy tanks.
The shells they fire are usually between 25 and 90 mm caliber (1 to 3.6 inches).
They were used a lot in World War II.
Later wars used them less, because smaller anti-tank weapons had been invented.
The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup was the fifth FIFA Women's World Cup and it took place in China.
The winners were Germany.
Goal scorers
Kelly Smith
Sandra Smisek
Kerstin Garefrekes
Cathrine Paaske Sørensen
Lotta Schelin
Ane Stangeland Horpestad
Li Jie
Lori Chalupny
Heather O'Reilly
Shannon Boxx
Kil Son-Hui
Kim Yong-Ae
Kim Kyong-Hwa
Ri Kum-Suk
Ri Un Suk
Victoria Svensson
Heather Garriock
Collette McCallum
Cheryl Salisbury
Lauren Colthorpe
Adjoa Bayor
Florence Okoe
Renata Costa
Pretinha
Candace-Marie Chapman
Martina Franko
Melissa Tancredi
Lene Storløkken
Bi Yan
Song Xiaoli
Xie Caixia
Vicky Exley
Eva Nadia González
Annike Krahn
Eva Nadia González (against England)
Trine Rønning (against Germany)
Leslie Osborne (against Brazil)
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed more than 8,800 people and injured more than 23,000.
It occurred at  on 25 April.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8Mw.
Its epicenter was east of the district of Lamjung.
Its hypocenter was at a depth of about .
It was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.
The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 19 people.
This makes April 25, 2015 the deadliest day on the mountain in history.
The earthquake triggered another huge avalanche in the Langtang valley, where 250 people were reported missing.
Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless with entire villages destroyed.
Centuries-old buildings were destroyed at UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu Valley.
Experts had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a deadly earthquake.
Continued aftershocks occurred throughout Nepal within 15–20 minute intervals.
One shock reached a magnitude of 6.7 on 26 April at 12:54:08 NST.
The country also had a continued risk of landslides.
It created 7 avalanches after.
Many Nepalese countries had suffered from the quake.
Sonny Black is the 12th studio album by the German rapper Bushido.
It was released on February 14, 2014 and it reached No.
1 on the German, Austrian and Swiss music charts.
Fotzen – 3:16
Jeder meiner Freunde – 3:09
Haifisch – 3:31
Mitten in der Nacht – 3:55
Crackdealer Sound – 3:17
Sporttasche – 3:25
Osama Flow – 3:02
Gangsta Rap Kings (featuring Kollegah & Farid Bang) – 4:03
Messerstecherei – 2:50
Blei-Patronen – 3:40
John Wayne – 2:44
Tausend Gründe – 3:06
Baseballschläger – 2:53
AMG (featuring Shindy) – 2:49
Nie ein Rapper II – 3:29
Amy Sedaris (born March 29, 1961) is an American writer, actress and comedian.
She played Jerri Blank in Strangers with Candy on Comedy Central and The Powerpuff Girls.
She played Rachel Hoffberg in Maid in Manhattan.
Sedaris was born in Endicott, New York.
She grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Nicolas Wadimoff is a Swiss director and producer.
He was born in 1964 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Between 1992 and 1996, worked at TSR (French language TV network in Switzerland) as a director for different news magazines, including the programme Temps Présent.
During this time, he filmed in Libya, Algeria, Palestine and Israel, Yemen, Rwanda, Chiapas, etc…
1997-2002: Co-founder of the movie production company Caravan prod.
for which he produces and directs adverts and movies to order, documentaries and fiction movies, including the TV movie “15, rue des Bains”, the feature length cinema movie “Mondialito” then in 2002 the TV movie “Kadogo, l’enfant-soldat” for France 2 and TSR.
In 2002, he left his role at caravan prod.
to dedicate himself exclusively to being a writer-director.
Through Akka Films, Nicolas Wadimoff started up and developed the project “Swiss Palestinian Encounters”: five short documentaries were borne out of a documentary workshop in which young aspiring Palestinian movie directors took part.
The world premieres of the movies, presented under the title “My Home”, took place at the Visions du Réel Festival in April 2005 before being shown at international festivals.
In 2015, he won the prestigious "Prix de Soleure" award with "Spartans".
Documentary about Yvan Sorel, who runs a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) club in Marseille's “Quartier nord”, a district of the city mainly known in the media for its drug trafficking, gang shootings and kalashnikovs.
1989: Yehudi, Arabi, Yemeni, with Naïma Bachiri, documentary
1990: Arménie-Jerusalem, documentary
1992: Le Bol, documentary
1992: Les Gants d'or d'Akka, documentary
1992: Le temps des clandestins, documentary Temps Présent
1994: Silence, on développe, documentary Temps Présent
1995: Quand on allait voir Carlos, documentary Temps Présent
1996: Cyber-Guerilla, documentary
1997: Clandestins, with Denis Chouinard
2000: Mondialito
2000: 15, rue des Bains
2002: Kadogo, l'enfant soldat
2003: Alinghi, the Inside Story, documentary
2005: L'Accord, with Béatrice Guelpa, documentary
2005: Last Supper, with Issa Freij
2007: Les mystères de Monte Sana, with Leo Singer
2007: Toutes les télés du monde, documentary
2009: Aisheen (still Alive in Gaza), with Béatrice Guelpa, documentary
2012: Opération Libertad
2013: Chasseurs de crimes, documentary
2014: Spartans , documentary
2016: Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of Willpower, documentary
2018: The Apollo of Gaza, documentary
1997 : Winner at the Locarno film Festival (Jury des Jeunes award, FIPRECI award), Clandestins.
1997 : Namur film festival.
Bayard d’Or (award for best film), Public Award, Award for Best Screenplay and Jury des Jeunes award, Clandestins.
1997 : Quebecois Film Festival.
Award for Best Screenplay and Best Direction-Photography, Clandestins.
1999 : Tokyo International Festival.
Best Actor Award for Moussa Maaskri, Mondialito.
2000 : Vues d’Afrique Festival.
Special mention from the Jury, Mondialito.
2000 : Tbilisi International Film Festival.
Award for Best Director, Mondialito.
2010 : Festival International de Berlin, Forum.
Prix du Jury Œcuménique pour Aisheen (still alive in Gaza)
2010 : Festival Visions du Réel.
"Buyens-Chagoll award and Special mention from the Jury des Jeunes,  Aisheen (still alive in Gaza)
2010 : Moqavemat International Film Festival of Téhéran .
Award for Best film in Gaza category, Aisheen (still alive in Gaza)
2012 : 44th Director’s Fortnight, in Cannes.
World première, Opération Libertad.
2013 : Swiss film award.
Nomination (Best Fiction Film, Best Screenplay and Best Performance in a Supporting Role) for Opération Libertad.
Quartz of the Best Performance in a Supporting Role to  Antonio Buil.
2013 : 7th Festival international du film policier de Liège.
Insigne de Crystal, and public award, Opération LIbertad.
Solothurner Filmtage.
Prix de Soleure, Spartans.
2015 : Festival AMDOCS.
Drew-Vérité Award, Spartans s.
2015: Plein les Yeux, Frans Film Festival.
Best french speaking film, Spartans .
The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was the fourth FIFA Women's World Cup.
It took place in the United States.
Wangen im Allgäu is a city in south Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
It is north-east of the Lake Constance.
The city was first called Wangun in the year of 815.
During the Middle Ages, the city growed a lot thanks to its location near many Alpine cities.
The extra money that the city earned from its trade helped expand its borders.
In 1802, Wangen joined the Kingdom of Bavaria and lost its independence.
Wangen was put into the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810.
From 1938 to 1972, Wangen was the capital of the Wangen rural district.
It then joined the Ravensburg district after the Wangen district broke up.
Nadine Marejke Angerer (born 10 November 1978 in Lohr am Main, Germany) is a retired German association football goalkeeper.
She last played for Portland Thorns FC of the NWSL and the Germany women's national football team.
She was the 2013 FIFA World Player of the Year, which also means that she was the first goalkeeper to win that award.
Angerer made her debut with Germany in 1996.
She won the 2003 and 2007 World Cups with them.
She also won the UEFA Women's Euro in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013, along with bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics, 2004 Olympics, and 2008 Olympics.
Julián Castro ( , ; (born September 16, 1974) is an American politician.
He was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017.
Before that, Castro was the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 2009 to 2014.
He held that office for three terms.
In January 2019, Castro announced his campaign to run for President of the United States in the 2020 election.
He ended his campaign in January 2020.
Julian Castro was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Maria "Rosie" Castro and Jessie Guzman.
He is the identical twin brother of current United States Representative Joaquín Castro.
His mother was a Chicana political activist who helped start the Chicano political party, La Raza Unida.
She also ran for the San Antonio City Council in 1971, but she did not win.
Castro once said, "My mother is probably the biggest reason that my brother and I are in public service.
Growing up, she would take us to a lot of rallies and organizational meetings and other things that are very boring for an 8-, 9-, 10-year-old".
Castro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1992.
He had played football, basketball and tennis.
He got an offer to play tennis at Trinity University, an NCAA Division III school in his hometown.
He decided instead to go to Stanford University.
He graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in political science and communications.
In Obama administration
On May 22, 2014, the White House said that Castro had been nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
He was approved by the Senate on July 9, 2014, by a vote of 71-26.
He took office on July 28, 2014.
After the announcement, Castro has been talked about as a possible 2016 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee.
On July 28, 2014, his first day in office, Castro was honored at a reception called "Celebrating Latino Cabinet Members".
It was hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
On December 12, 2018, Castro formed an exploratory committee for a presidential bid in the 2020 election.
Exactly one month later, Castro officially launched his presidential bid at a rally in San Antonio.
His brother, Congressman Joaquin Castro, introduced him at the rally.
He ended his campaign on January 2, 2020 following low polling numbers.
Mayors of San Antonio
Susannah Mushatt Jones (July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016) was an American supercentenarian who was, at the age of 116, the world's oldest living person.
Jones was the last living American person born in the 19th century.
Sunwing Airlines is a Canadian airline.
Sunwing has scheduled (planned) and charter (irregular) flights.
It goes to cities in Canada, United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Europe.
Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson and Vancouver are Sunwing's hubs.
John David Crow (July 8, 1935 – June 17, 2015) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
He won the Heisman Trophy as a halfback at Texas A&M University in 1957.
He and later played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago / St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers between 1958 and 1968.
The Pontiac Aztek was a mid-size crossover sold by the Pontiac division of General Motors from 2001 to 2005.
The vehicle was GM's first venture into the crossover market.
It also had a twin the Buick Rendezvous.
Both were built on the GM's minivan platform.
The Aztek was a cross between a minivan and an SUV.
With a front engine and four-wheel drive (available after January 2001), the Aztek featured a four-speed automatic transmission and a V-6 engine.
Pontiac marketed it as a "sport recreational vehicle."
It featuring 94 cubic feet of cargo room capable of carrying a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood with its rear seats removed.
Other features included a rear center console that doubled as a removable cooler.
It had rear stereo controls in the cargo area.
The Aztek featured an available camping package with an attachable tent and inflatable mattress.
The latter could be inflated by a built-in air compressor.
The Aztek was a commercial failure.
It was also called one of the worst vehicles ever made.
Criticized for its awkward styling it was called downright ugly.
The Aztek was phased out and replaced by the Pontiac Torrent.
The Rendezvous continued to be sold until 2008 when it was replaced by the Enclave.
Samuel McClain (April 15, 1943 – June 16, 2015), better known by his stage name Mighty Sam McClain, was an American soul blues singer and songwriter.
He began his career in 1958.
He was nominated for a Grammy Award.
He was born in Monroe, Louisiana.
Hollis is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
The population was 7,684 at the 2010 census.
Warner is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
The population was 2,833 at the 2010 census.
[[File:Avon Fantasy Reader 7.jpg|thumb|The Curse of a Thousand Kisses was a short story published in one of Sax Rohmer's collections.
It was later republished in a 1948 issue of Avon Fantasy Reader]]
Sax Rohmer was Arthur Henry Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959).
He was an English novelist born in Birmingham to Irish parents.
He is best remembered for his creation of the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu.
After ghostwriting the autobiography of Little Tich, a music hall entertainer, Ward issued the first Fu Manchu novel.
This was The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, serialised from October 1912 to June 1913.
It had police official Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing a worldwide conspiracy led by a mastermind.
It reflected the "yellow peril" scares of the times.
The phrase yellow peril (sometimes yellow terror or yellow spectre), was coined by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, in the 1890s.
The AC Cobra is a hybrid American sportscar consisting of a British roadster with an American engine and transmission.
In 1961 Carroll Shelby took a dated AC Ace sports car and installed a Ford V-8 engine with a Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed transmission.
The resulting car made history.
Designed as a Corvette-killer it was one of the fastest cars available at the time.
They were produced and sold by Carroll Shelby International Inc.
Carroll Shelby was one of the world's first professional race car drivers.
At age 37 a bad heart forced his retirement from racing.
He started building cars in the back of a tire dealership in Santa Fe Springs, California.
In June 1962 he moved to Venice, California.
He wanted to build an American sportscar.
Others had experimented with putting an American engine into a European car body.
Shelby thought he could do it better.
He approached General Motors with the idea but they already had the Corvette.
They were also not interested in a limited production sports car.
Ford, however, was very interested.
Shelby also learned that AC Limited in England was having trouble getting motors for their cars.
He told them Ford was interested in supplying engines if they would ship him a car to test.
They sent a body and Ford sent him a V-8.
He and a friend worked all night installing the engine.
In the morning they had the first Shelby AC Cobra.
In the beginning Shelby used Ford's 260 cu in.
The V8 worked so well within the spacious engine bay Shelby looked for a larger engine.
In 1963 the 289 was installed and worked very well.
In 1964 Shelby moved to Ford's 427 cu in.
engine and made the chassis stronger in 1965.
In October 1962 a Cobra was winning at Riverside, California when a broken hub put it out of the race.
In January 1963 a Cobra won at Riverside.
Cobras raced at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans.
In 1964 a specially designed 427 coupe won the GT Championship.
The same year raced at Le Mans and placed fourth.
Their legend continued to grow on the racetrack.
From 1961 to 1968 a total of only 998 were built.
Of these 655 were 289 Cobras and 343 were 427 Cobras.
In late 1968 AC stopped production of the Ace body.
They continued to produce AC Cobras for Shelby until 1968.
Shelby didn't make any more Cobras until the early 1990s.
He watched as prices soared for his original cars.
He also saw many Cobra replicas being built; some good, some not so good.
He still had a number of unused chassis numbers for cars designed to be built in 1965.
He wanted to sell them as new 1965 models but the state of California would only allow them to be sold for off-road use.
He built only nine "Completion Cobras".
Shelby then began to build cars as "rollers" that could be completed by an authorized dealer.
They were available with a fiberglass body or the original aluminum body.
He offered 289 Cobras and Cobras with 427 "side-oiler" engines.
Shelby offered a 50th anniversary Cobra in all black with red interiors.
They had special gold badging.
He made 50, available as rollers, which were all sold out in 48 hours.
Rhizophoraceae is a family of flowering plants.
There are 149 species in 16 genera.
Most of them occur in the Old World.
Well-known members of the family are mangrove trees.
James Berton Rhoads (September 17, 1928 – April 7, 2015) was an American civil servant.
He served as Fifth Archivist of the United States.
Rhoads received his B.A., in 1950, and M.A., in 1952, from the University of California at Berkeley.
He later earned his Ph.D. from American University in Washington, DC.
Archivists of the United States, 1934-Present
Archivists of the United States
Frank Gerard Burke (born April 22, 1927) was an American civil servant.
He served as Acting Archivist of the United States from April 16, 1985, to December 4, 1987.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Allen Weinstein (September 1, 1937 – June 18, 2015) was an American historian, educator, and federal official.
He served in several different offices.
He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16, 2005 until his resignation on December 19, 2008.
After his resignation, he returned to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems as the election organization's senior strategist and to the University of Maryland as a history professor.
Fredrik Ludvig Fasting Torgersen (1 October 1934 – 19 June 2015) was a Norwegian man who was convicted of murder in 1958.
Serving 16 years in prison before being released, he has claimed his innocence many times.
In 2013 Bjørg Njaa, a daughter of a judge in the 1958 trial said that her father was prejudiced against Torgersen even before being assigned to the trial.
In 2014 he was denied access to official recordings of then leader of the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine, Bjørnar Olaisen, answering to  Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Jack Rollins (born Jacob Rabinowitz; March 23, 1915 – June 18, 2015) was an American movie producer and manager of many successful comedians and television personalities.
He was known for working with Woody Allen and David Letterman.
His last movie to be produced was Woody Allen's 2011 movie Midnight in Paris.
Philip Baine Austin (April 6, 1941 – June 18, 2015) was an American comedian and writer.
Austin was best known for his work as part of The Firesign Theatre (of which he was the only constant member), where he played the group's best-known creation, Nick Danger.
Phil Austin's Blog of the Unknown
Austin's bio on Firesign Theatre site
Phil Austin: The Man Under The Hat
Phil Austin on IMDB
Harold Raymond Battiste, Jr. (October 28, 1931 – June 19, 2015) was an American music composer, arranger, performer and teacher.
He was best known for his work as an arranger on records by Sam Cooke,  Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Sonny and Cher,  Dr. John, and others.
Harold Battiste's AFO Foundation
Sebastiano Mannironi (22 July 1930 – 11 June 2015) was an Italian weightlifter.
He was born in Nuoro, Sardinia.
He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
He won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics.
Sir Patrick William Eisdell Moore  (17 March 1918 – 18 June 2015) was a New Zealand surgeon and medical researcher.
He was known for his work with cochlear implants.
He was the first person in the world to perform an eardrum transplant.
Eisdell Moore was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
He also as a medical officer during World War II.
His autobiography So Old So Quick was released in 2004.
Eisdell Moore died on 18 June 2015 in Orakei, Auckland.
The Girl Next Door is a 2004 American teen sex comedy movie.
It is directed by Luke Greenfield.
It stars Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette and Paul Dano.
It also got mixed reviews from critics with Roger Ebert giving it a 1.5 out of 4 stars.
It also holds a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie is about a high school senior, Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), who falls in love for the first time with the girl next door, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert).
However, he finds the situation becoming a problem after he learns that she is a one-time pornographic actress.
Emile Hirsch as Matthew Kidman
Elisha Cuthbert as Danielle / Athena
Timothy Olyphant as Kelly
James Remar as Hugo Posh
Chris Marquette as Eli
Paul Dano as Klitz
Olivia Wilde as Kellie
Sunny Leone as cameo appearance
Amanda Swisten as April
Sung-Hi Lee as Ferrari
Timothy Bottoms as Mr. Kidman
Donna Bullock as Mrs. Kidman
Jacob Young as Hunter
Luther Reigns as Mule
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco (17661840) was the dictator of Paraguay.
He helped Paraguay become independent from Spain.
Francia y Velasco reigned from 1814 until his death in 1840.
Francia y Velasco believed that Paraquay should be self-sufficient.
During his reign, almost no goods were imported, and only yerba mate was exported.
Leaves and twigs of this herb,  Ilex paraguariensis, are the basis of the drink called "mate".
(An annotated publication of the archived collection of Francia's writings, the Colección Doroteo Bareiro, held by the "Archivo Nacional de Asuncion"):
Brief biography of Rodriguez de Francia
"Paraguay: The Rise of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia"
"Archivo Nacional de Asuncion"
John Hoyt Williams, 'Paraguayan Isolation under Dr Francia: A Reevaluation' The Hispanic American Historical Review, volume 52, issue 1, Feb 1972 pp 102–22
South American politicians
James Salter (born James Arnold Horowitz; June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and movie director.
He was active between 1957 and 2013.
His most noted novels were The Hunters (1957) and A Sport and a Pastime (1967).
He also worked on the 1969 movies Downhill Racer (writing) and Three (directing).
Salter was born in New York City.
Salter died on June 19, 2015 in Sag Harbor, New York.
Dogger Bank is a large sandbank in the North Sea.
It lies about  from the coast of England.
On average, the North Sea is  deep.
The average depth in the area of the Dogger Bank is , at the shallowest place the water is only  deep.
During the last ice age, it was sometimes an island and sometimes a land bridge connecting Britain and mainland Europe.
On December 15, 2016, Roof was convicted in federal court of all 33 federal charges (including hate crimes) against him stemming from the shooting; on January 11, 2017, he was sentenced to death for those crimes.
In March 2017, he was sentenced life in prison without parole.
On April 10, 2017, Roof was sentenced to nine consecutive sentences of life without parole.
An artificial fly or fly lure is a type of fishing lure.
It is usually used in the sport of fly fishing.
Artificial flies imitate insects or other things fish eat.
Artificial flies are made by fly tying.
This is an art in which furs, feathers, thread or any of very many other materials are tied onto a fish hook.
There are thousands of different fly patterns (kinds) available.
Many imitate a particular insect a fish might recognize.
Other patterns don't look like any insect, but attract fish anyway.
Dry flies are meant to float on top of the water.
Wet flies are designed to sink to the bottom of the water.
Streamers (called lures in British English) sink to imitate small fish in the water.
Terrestrials either float or sink.
They imitate insects found on land.
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum  (formerly called the State Museum of Azerbaijan Carpet and Applied Art) displays Azerbaijani carpets and rugs.
The display shows various weaving techniques and materials from various periods.
It is named after Latif Karimov and has the largest collection of Azerbaijani carpets in the world.
The museum was established in 1967 and was first located in the Juma Mosque in the Old City.
The mosque was built in the 15th century and then renovated in the 19th century.
Its first exhibition was held in 1972.
In 1992, after the collapse of the USSR, the museum was moved to the second floor of what is now the Baku Museum Center, a building that had originally been the Lenin museum.
The collection was named in honour of the carpet designer Latif Karimov.
The new building was due to open in late 2012  and was visited by President Ilham Aliyev in September 2013, but as of March 2014 the new building had not yet officially opened its doors to the public.
In April 2014 the museum was renamed Azerbaijan Carpet Museum dropping its much longer official title.
The museum also holds a permanent collection from the Shusha Museum of History, from the city of Shusha, looted after occupation by Armenian troops in 1992.
Part of the exhibited items of the Shusha museum were saved when the director of the museum moved out 600 carpets before the occupation.
They are now displayed at the museum in an exhibition titled "Burned Culture".
International exhibitions
The museum does research and public servie work.
Every year, state and international exhibitions are organized and catalogues on carpets are printed by the museum.
The museum has also held exhibitions in more than 30 countries including France, Germany, England, Japan, the Netherlands.
In 1998, the museum participated in a UNESCO-organized exhibition in Paris dedicated to Fuzûlî and in 1999 dedicated to the 1,300th anniversary of the Book of Dede Korkut and displayed carpets, folk applied art items, including copper jugs, mugs, buckets and saddle-bags.
Guo Jianmei (Simplified Chinese: 郭建梅; Hanyu pinyin Guō Jiànméi; born October 1961) is a Chinese lawyer and human rights activist.
She is the head of an organization to help women with legal problems.
In 2011, she received the International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State.
Guo Jianmei was born in a poor area of Hua County, Henan Province, in China.
Guo saw poverty and  problems with women's rights in her village.
This gave her the idea to work for women's rights in China.
She is married to writer Liu Zhenyun.
When she was 18, Guo went to law school at Beijing University.
She graduated in 1983.
After she graduated, she worked at the Ministry of Justice, The All China Federation of Women, and The All China Association of Lawyers.
In 1989, Guo helped to write the law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests.
Guo traveled to more than 20 areas of China to learn about the lives of Chinese women.
In 1995, Guo went to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
When a foreign lawyer asked about non-governmental organizations to help women with legal problems, everyone was silent.
They understood that women had very little help in China.
Later that year, Guo and her friends started the Beijing University Law School Women's Legal Research and Services Centre, China's first NGO non-governmental organization for legal help for women.
Guo helped write China's new marriage law in 2001.
In 2003, she helped write the law for Regulations for Legal Aid.
Guo wrote 8 books.
She is also editor of three volumes of "Everyday Life Law", and "A Guide to Women's Legal Aid Cases".
In 2010 Guo Jianmei received the Simone De Beauvoir Prize.
Also in 2010, the International Labor Organisation (ILO) named her China’s first anti-AIDS discrimination ambassador.
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Dzsenifer Marozsán (born 18 April 1992 in Budapest, Hungary) is a German association football midfielder.
She currently plays for 1.
She is the daughter of Hungarian association football player, János Marozsán.
François Delapierre (4 November 1970 – 20 June 2015) was a French politician.
He served as the national secretary of the Left Party from December 2010 until his death.
He was also the regional councillor of Île-de-France from February 2009 until his death.
He was also a member of the Socialist Party from 1986 to 2008.
Takanonami Sadahiro (born Sadahiro Namioka October 27, 1971 - June 20, 2015) was a Japanese sumo wrestler and coach from Aomori.
He held sumo's second highest rank of  ōzeki from 1994 until 2000 and won two tournament titles.
He lived a sumo coach life after retirement in 2000 until his death in 2015.
Elson S. Floyd (February 29, 1956 – June 20, 2015) was an American educator.
He served as the 10th president of the four-campus Washington State University from May 21, 2007 to June 20, 2015.
Floyd has also served as president of the University of Missouri System and president of Western Michigan University.
Floyd was the Chairman of the Pac-12 CEO Group.
Angelo Niculescu (1 October 1921—20 June 2015) was a Romanian football manager.
He was the coach of the Romania national football team during the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
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Timofey Pavlovich Mozgov (born July 16, 1986) is a Russian professional basketball player.
He currently plays center for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Mozgov is from St. Petersburg, Russia.
He is 7 foot 1 inches tall.
Mozgov also played for the New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets.
Mozgov played in the 2012 London Olympics.
His team won the bronze medal.
He first came into the NBA on October 27, 2010.
His jersey number is 20.
Mozgov also played for Khimki Moscow Region.
On June 4, 2015, he became the first Russian to play in the NBA Finals.
David Michael Blatt (; born May 22, 1959) is an Israeli-American professional basketball coach.
He is currently the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Blatt played point guard at Princeton University from 1977 to 1981.
He played in the Maccabiah Games for the USA national team that won a gold medal in 1981.
He then played professional basketball in Israel for nine of the next 12 years.
An injury ended his playing career and he began coaching full-time.
Blatt is one of the most successful American coaches in European basketball history.
As a coach, Blatt has been the Israeli League Coach of the Year four times (1996, 2002, 2011, and 2014).
He was the Russian Super League Coach of the Year (2005).
In the 2012 Summer Olympics he led the Russian national team to win a Bronze medal.
Blatt was also the Euroleague Coach of the Year (2014).
He took over as Cleveland's head coach in 2014 His lifetime .639 winning percentage after the 2014–15 season was the best of any Cavaliers head coach in team history.
Blatt was born on May 22, 1959, in Boston, Massachusetts.
He grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts.
As a freshman he played junior varsity before becoming one of Framingham South's top players.
Jeremy Pargo is an American professional basketball player.
He went to Gonzaga University.
He plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.
Eva Abu Halaweh (Arabic: إيفا أبو حلاوة), born 1975, is a Jordanian lawyer and human rights activist.
In 2011 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State.
Eva works against honor killings.
She also works against torture and abuse in the Jordanian prisons and police stations.
Eva has a bachelor's degree in law and a master’s degree in diplomacy.
Eva had her own private law practice.
She also worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a legal advisor.
Eva is the Executive Director of the Mizan Law Group for Human Rights.
She helped start the organization.
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“Nirbhaya” (In Hindi, it means "the fearless one") was a 23-year-old physiotherapy student.
On December 16, 2012, she was raped on a bus in Delhi, India.
Because rape laws in India do not permit using a victim's name she was known only as "Nirbhaya".
It is one of the many names the Indian media had given her.
In 2013, “Nirbhaya” received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State, posthumously.
“Nirbhaya” was born into a working-class family.
Her dream was to be a doctor.
Her family spent their life savings so “Nirbhaya” could study medicine.
She had just graduated from a physiotherapy program.
On December 16, 2012, “Nirbhaya” was attacked on a bus.
On the bus she and her male friend were beaten by six men.
She was dragged to the back of the bus and repeatedly gang raped for over an hour.
The bus driver drove all over Delhi while this was happening.
She and her friend were left for dead at the side of the road.
Police found them but no ambulance would come.
Police took her to the hospital.
She was taken into surgery.
The government of India, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, decided to move her to a Singapore hospital.
Nirbhaya was in critical condition and on a ventilator.
Doctors said there was no medical reason to move her.
She was airlifted to  Mt. Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
Two weeks after the attack, on December 29, 2012, she died.
Before she died, she made two police statements in the hospital.
She said she wanted justice against the six attackers.
“Nirbhaya”'s case started demonstrations and protests in India.
It also started changes in the laws about violence against women.
The five men and the bus driver were identified and arrested.
They were charged with kidnapping, rape and murder.
One of the men arrested committed suicide in prison.
One, who was a teenager at the time, was given three years in a reformatory.
That was the maximum allowed for a juvenile in India.
The remaining four were given the death penalty.
It was Nirbhaya's dying wish the men be  “burned alive”.
Her parents, who had been demanding they hang, said they were satisfied by the sentences.
In 2013, a year after her rape, there was a large increase in the number of persons arrested for rape.
But the number of rapes had also risen sharply.
Remembering Nirbhaya
A feature phone or a dumbphone is a type of mobile phone.
The name "feature phone" usually means the phone cannot do things that a smartphone can do.
Feature phones basically allow people to make phone calls and sent text messages, while a few may also be able to play multimedia and access the internet and other services offered by the user's wireless service provider.
Modern feature phones can have smartphone-like 3G connectivity, touchscreens, and access to popular social networking services.
However, these phones do not support software made by other companies as much as smartphones—because of this, feature phones are also called dumb phones.
People often buy feature phones as they are cheaper than smartphones, especially in emerging markets.
In the past few years, however, phone makers have begun to make and sell cheap smartphones for sale in places where high-end smartphones are not popular.
The features of a production vehicle or production car are mass-produced identical models, offered for sale to the public.
They must also be able to be legally driven on public roads ("street legal").
Legislation and other rules further define the production vehicle within particular countries or uses.
There is no single worldwide definition of the term.
The term production car had come into use by about 1917 in the United States.
The phrase was a shortened form of "mass-produced car".
The phrase also meant the car was made in production, as opposed to a prototype.
At that time production cars meant cheaper vehicles such as Ford's Model T. These were made in relatively large numbers on production lines.
The more expensive cars were coach built models the first model t every built is owned by trenton and robert gilman in long creek il at 6020 E Fitzgerald rd long creek il and their phone number is 217-775-9270 they are actively restoring it along with a 1969 chevy camaro they paid 20,000 for (see "Limited production" below).
Now the term has broadened to include vehicles that are hand assembled or assembled on an assembly line.
The main criteria is there are a number of the same model with the same specifications.
There is no fixed definition of the number of vehicles or the amount of modification allowed outside of motorsports.
There are no national regulations or laws that determine what is or is not a production vehicle.
By 2011, the Guinness Book of Records listed the Bugatti Veyron as the world's fastest production car.
But only five of this version were made.
In 2013 their decision was appealed on the ground that the Bugatti was a modified versionGuinness upheld the appeal and initiated a review of their production car definition.
The outcome of the review was that the Bugatti record was reinstated.
Guinness were also reported in some sources as saying that at least 50 identical vehicles were needed to be made to constitute a production car.
In February 2014, Road and Track wrote that Guinness required 30 identical vehicles.
There have been many disputes over what makes production and modified cars when used in motorsports.
Even under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the exact definition of what was (or was not) a production car was unclear.
This led to rules written in 1955.
The term is defined for particular types of vehicles.
It also means that a certain number of a model must be produced in order to qualify as "production".
But it is another matter to enforce the rules.
For example, the 1968 FIA rules state that "production" for sports cars need to have at least 25 identical cars produced within a 12-month period.
They also were meant for normal sale to individual purchasers.
However, FIA rules tend to allow a degree of modification from the original.
Land Speed Records
The FIA Land Speed Records Commission has regulations for series-production cars attempting land speed records under its 2014 Appendix D - Regulations for Land Speed Record Attempts.
Series-production cars fall under rule D2.3.2.
It says that they must be: Category B: Series-production Automobiles in production at the time of the application for the Record Attempt and either homologated by the FIA, or for which an application for homologation has been made to the FIA or recognised by the ASN of the country in which they are manufactured for National Records.
Several countries have laws that define production vehicles.
For example, in the United States Briggs Cunningham's business was classified as a hobby by tax officials.
This was because he did not manufacture enough of each model for the Cunningham automobile to be considered a production vehicle.
The IRS classified them as high-performance prototype automobiles built as racecars.
Legislative definitions tend to revolve around issues of safety or revenue (taxation).
Modified cars
Some car tuning specialists such as Alpina who modify BMW's, are recognized as vehicle manufacturers by some governments.
This brings them within the definition of a production vehicle in their country.
Not all performance specialists are officially recognised.
As a result their cars are not usually referred to as production vehicles.
Limited production cars
These are usually vehicles where the production run is restricted to a specific number of vehicles.
An example of this is the 1957 Rambler Rebel, a limited-production car where only 1,500 were produced.
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GM Lambda platform is a car platform designed and used by General Motors.
It is a full-size crossover platform.
Lambda is based on the earlier GM Epsilon platform.
The Lambda platform replaces GM's U minivan platform and the GMT360 SUV platform.
This is used for the Chevrolet Malibu sedan and other similar models.
The Lambda architecture is used by the Chevrolet Traverse, Buick Enclave, Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia.
The Buick Enclave concept car was previewed at the 2006 North American International Auto Show.
The Saturn Outlook was shown at the 2006 New York Auto Show.
The 2007 Outlook and GMC Acadia went into production in late 2006.
This was followed by the 2008 Enclave in mid-2007, and the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse in mid-2008.
They were supplied with the LY7 3.6-liter V6.
Starting with the 2009 model year all Lambda vehicles have GM LLT 3.6-liter gasoline direct injection engine for improved fuel efficiency, horsepower and torque.
It is unlikely GM will offer a V8 engine for Lambda.
Lambda is expected to be replaced by the new GM C1XX platform.
The lambda-based GM vehicles are now considered America's most American vehicle.
Frank DuBois, of the Washington, DC-based American University created a new model for finding out which cars have the highest percentage of American-made parts and labor.
His index shows the GM Lambda platform CUVs are the most "American made."
Perdiendo el norte'' is a 2015 Spanish comedy-drama movie.
It was directed by Nacho G. Velilla, and starred by Yon González, Julián López and Blanca Suárez.
After seeing a TV-program about how a Spanish citizen is living in Germany they decide to move to Berlin.
However, the things did not turn out as they had believed.
Yon González as Hugo
Julián López as Braulio
Blanca Suárez as Carla
Úrsula Corberó as Nadia
Javier Cámara as Próspero
José Sacristán as Andrés
Miki Esparbé as Rafa
Carmen Machi as Benigna
Malena Alterio as Marisol
Alberto Chicote as Priest
Arturo Valls as Spanish immigrant in Berlin interviewee on TV
Arantxa Aranguren as Juana
Casanovas is a dansband in Vadstena, Sweden.
In 1998 the band won the Svenska dansbandsmästerskapen contest.
1998: "Kärleken lever"
1999: "Minns du mig än"
2000: "I varje del av mitt hjärta"
2000: "Vem får din kärlek idag"
2001: "Om natten"
2002: "I dina ögon"
2002: "Låt drömmarna leva"
Donnez is a dansband in Perstorp, Sweden.
The band was started in the year 2000.
In 2010 the band participated at  Dansbandskampen.
Chang Ch'ung-ho or Zhang Chonghe (; May 17, 1914 – June 17, 2015), also known by her married name Ch'ung-ho Chang Frankel, was a Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, educator and Kunqu opera singer.
She was called as "the last talented woman of the Republic of China" ().
William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American movie,  television and theater actor.
He is best known for his roles as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1983–1993) and as John F. Kennedy in The Missiles of October (1974).
Country rock is a subgenre of country music.
It was formed by the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
These musicians recorded rock records using country themes.
They used vocal styles and additional instrumentation, in particular pedal steel guitar.
Country rock began with Bob Dylan.
It reached its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists like Emmylou Harris, the Eagles and the Doobie Brothers.
Country rock also influenced artists in other genres.
This included The Band, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones, and George Harrison's solo work.
Pierre Aubert (3 March 1927 – 8 June 2016) was a Swiss politician, lawyer and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978–1987).
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 7 December 1977 as member of the Social Democratic Party from the canton of Neuchâtel.
He handed over office on 31 December 1987.
He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel.
The Archivist of the United States is the chief official in charge of the National Archives and Records Administration.
The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress.
*Served first as Acting Archivist of the United States from Nov. 7, 1965, until his appointment as Archivist of the United States on January 16, 1966.