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The Street Fighter (1974) as Takuma Tsurugi
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) as Hattori Hanzō
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) as Hattori Hanzō
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) as Kamata
Sushi Girl (2012) as Sushi chef
AllRovi Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba - HKMDB
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
Eve Jihan Jeffers (born November 10, 1978), better known as Eve, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actress.
She was the first winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002 for the song "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", with Gwen Stefani.
In 2002 her album Scorpion was also nominated for Best Rap Album.
Eve released her first album Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady in 1999.
It went straight to number one in the American album chart.
It was the third album by a female rap artist to reach number one in the United States.
In 2001 Eve's second album Scorpion was released.
It entered the American album chart at number four.
Eve won Best Female Hip-Hop Artist at the Black Entertainment Awards.
In 2002 Eve's third album, Eve-Olution, was released.
The first single "Gangsta Lovin" is a song sung with Alicia Keys.
It reached number two in the American singles chart.
In 2003 Eve started acting in a sitcom called Eve.
The show was stopped in 2006.
There were 66 episodes.
Eve rapped on Gwen Stefani's 2004 single "Rich Girl".
It reached number seven in the Billboard 100.
She rapped on "Never", Keyshia Cole's first single, in 2005.
In 2007 Eve released the single "Tambourine".
She also rapped on Kelly Rowland's single "Like This".
That year Eve started to make her fourth album.
Eve was in the 2009 documentary Good Hair.
She presented the MTV Africa Music Awards 2010.
She rapped on Guy Sebestian's single "Who's That Girl".
In 2013 Eve's fourth album, Lip Lock, was released.
The album included appearances from Missy Elliott and Snoop Dogg.
On August 23, 2013 Eve started The Lip Lock Tour.
Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady (1999)
Scorpion (2001)
Eve-Olution (2002)
Lip Lock (2013)
Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian painter.
He was a part of the Heidelberg School, which was an important period in the history of Australia's visual arts.
McCubbin was born in Melbourne.
McCubbin was taught at William Willmett's West Melbourne Common School and St Paul's School, Swanston Street.
He worked several jobs while studying art at the National Gallery of Victoria's School of Design.
There he met Tom Roberts and studied under Eugene von Guerard.
He also studied at the Victorian Academy of the Arts.
He showed some of his early paintings there in 1876, and again from 1879 to 1882.
He sold his first painting there in 1880.
By the early 1880s, McCubbin's work had become famous.
His paintings won several prizes from the National Gallery.
By the mid-1880s his painting became focused on the Australian bush.
This is the work for which he is remembered.
In 1888, McCubbin became instructor and master of the School of Design at the National Gallery.
He taught several students who themselves became notable Australian artists.
He married Annie Moriarty in March 1889.
McCubbin lived most of his life in Melbourne, and rarely travelled.
He and his family moved to Mount Macedon in 1901.
McCubbin continued to paint through the first two decades of the 20th century.
By the beginning of World War I, his health began to fail.
He died in 1917 from a heart attack.
Australian government website on McCubbin, source of most of the material for this article
Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917)  Gravesite at Brighton General Cemetery
Frederick McCubbin at the National Library of Australia
Joan Miró (20 April 1893  25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist.
He was born in Barcelona.
He died of heart disease in Palma, Majorca.
A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundación Joan Miró, was opened in Barcelona in 1975.
Joan Miró started painting when he was fourteen he attended an art school.
He then started to develop his own style to draw scenes of trees and landscapes.
In around the 1930s Joan started to make rapid changes to his style of painting.
Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Miro developed more surrealist works.
Dame Flora McKenzie Robson DBE (28 March 1902 – 7 July 1984) was an English stage and movie actress.
She was known for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity.
Her roles varied from queens to villainesses.
Erskine Caldwell (17 December 1903 – 11 April 1987) was an American writer.
He wrote about poverty, racism and social problems in the Southern United States.
He did this in novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre.
This work was praised by critics.
It also made him controversial among fellow Southerners because they felt he was making them look bad.
Some molecular results show that they fall within the polyplacophora clade, although these have been called into question.
Fossil and morphological data show that they are rather derived and bear very little resemblance to an 'ancestral mollusc'.
The monoplacophora were well-known as a fossil group from the Cambrian to the Devonian.
They were thought to be long extinct.
The Showgrounds is a football ground in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.
It is the home football ground of Newry City A.F.C.. The ground usually holds 7,949 people.
However, it only holds 2,275 at the moment under health and safety law.
Aethelthryth (sometimes called Æthelthryth, Æðelþryð, Æþelðryþe, or Etheldreda (about 636 AD – June 23, 679 AD) was an Anglo-Saxon saint.
She was also an  East Anglian princess and Abbess of Ely.
Aethelthryth was born in East Anglia (now Suffolk).
She was one of the four daughters of Anna of East Anglia.
All of these women became nuns and founded abbeys.
She was a beautiful young girl who wanted to devote herself to the Church and took a vow to remain a virgin.
When the princips Tondberht of the South Gyrwas.
asked for her hand in marriage her parents said yes, but Aethelthryth refused.
Though she was married she resolved to keep her solomn vow.
Upon his death in 655, she retired to the Isle of Ely, which she had received from her husband as a gift.
Aethelthryth was then married to Ecgfrith of Northumbria in 660.
Shortly after Ecgfrith became king, Aethelthryth asked her husband if she could become a nun.
One story tells that Ecgfrith first agreed that she should continue to remain a virgin but in about 672 he wished to have an heir.
He tried to bribe Wilfrid to convince the queen to give him an heir.
This failed and the king tried to take his queen from her convent.
She fled back to Ely with two nuns and managed to evade capture.
The legend says that she escaped due to the miraculous rising of the tide.
Another version of the legend stated that she stopped on the journey at 'Stow' and hid under an ash tree which suddenly came from her staff after she planted it in the ground.
This came to be known as 'St Aethelthryth 's Stow', when a church was built to commemorate this event.
Stow Minster contains a stained glass window that portrays the legend.
Ecgfrith later married Eormenburg and expelled Wilfrid from his kingdom in 678.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aethelthryth founded a double monastery at Ely in 673, which was later destroyed in the Danish invasion of 870.
She lived at St. Ely for the remainder of her life in pious devotion.
She died of the plague.<ref>Alban Butler; Paul Burns, Lives of the Saints"", (Collegeville, Minnesota:  Liturgical Press 2003), p. 228</ref>  There is a hymn that was written in her honor.
Bede and The Liber Eliensis describe how in 695, Aethelthryth's body was dug up by her sister Seaxburth, to be transferred from a common grave to the new church at Ely.
She had been dead sixteen years.
When her body was exhumed it was said to have been just as it was when she was alive.
She was reburied in a white, marble coffin.
Fairweather, Liber Eliensis, pp.
56-61.
Aethelthryth's uncorrupted body and clothes were said to have miraculous powers.
A burial chamber made of white marble was taken from the Roman ruins at Grantchester, which was found to be the right fit for Aethelthryth.
Seaxburh supervised the preparation of her sister's body, which was washed and wrapped in new robes before being reburied.
Seaxburgh apparently oversaw the transference of her sister's remains without the supervision of her bishop, using her knowledge gained from her family's links.
St Etheldreda's Church is dedicated to the saint.
It was originally part of the palace of the Bishops of Ely.
In later years the palace was used by the Spanish Ambassadors, enabling Roman Catholic worship to continue in the church.
It is now a Roman Catholic parish church in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
It is part of the Diocese of East Anglia within the Province of Westminster.
The church contains the shrine and relics of Aethelthryth.
Virginia Blanton (2007) Signs of Devotion: the cult of St Aethelthryth in medieval England, 695-1615.
University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press
McCash, June Hall & Judith Clark Barban, ed.
and trans. (
2006) The Life of Saint Audrey; a text by Marie de France.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland
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Maccarron, Máirín, "The Adornment of Virgins: Æthelthryth and Her Necklaces," in Elizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully (eds), Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly (Cork, 2011), 142-155.
Major, Tristan, "Saint Etheldreda in the South English Legendary," Anglia 128.1 (2010), 83-101.
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, "Rerouting the Dower: The Anglo-Norman Life of St. Audrey by Marie (of Chatteris?)",
in Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, ed.
Jennifer Carpenter and Sally-Beth Maclean (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 27-56.
Richard John King, 1862.
Handbook of the Cathedrals of England'' (Oxford) ( On-line text)
The Life of St. Aethelthryth  by Aelfric of Eynsham
630s births
679 deaths
NGC 1569 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in Camelopardalis.
This faint galaxy is well studied by professional astronomers, who are interested in the history of star formation in the galaxy.
The galaxy is relatively nearby, so the Hubble Space Telescope can easily pick out its stars.
In 2008 scientists studying images from Hubble calculated the galaxy's distance at nearly 11 million light-years away, making it a member of the IC 342 group of galaxies.
The most notable feature of NGC 1569 is its powerful starburst.
It has formed stars at a rate 100 times greater than that of our galaxy during the last 100 million years.
Super star cluster A, in the northwest of the galaxy is formed of two close clusters (NGC 1569 A1 and NGC 1569 A2).
It contains young stars
(including WolfRayet stars) which formed less than 5 million years ago (in NGC 1569 A1) as
well as older red stars (in NGC 1569 A2).
Super star cluster B, near the center of the galaxy, has older  red giants and red supergiants.
Both of these star clusters have masses similar to the globular clusters in the Milky Way.
Many smaller star clusters are relatively young (between 2 million years and 1 billion years.
They are similar to small globular clusters or R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The many supernovae produced in the galaxy as well as the strong stellar winds of its stars have produced filaments and bubbles of ionized hydrogen with respective sizes of up to 3,700 and 380 light years.
These shine as the light of the young stars contained within them hits the gas.
Frederick Joseph Ricketts (21 February 1881 – 15 May 1945) was a British composer of marches for band.
He wrote music under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford.
He was a Bandmaster in the British Army, and Royal Marines Director of Music.
Conductor Sir Vivian Dunn called him "The British March King."
Ricketts frequently used the saxophone in his music.
This led to the instrument being used in all military bands.
Ricketts was born on 21 February 1881.
He was the 4th child of Robert and Louisa (née Alford) Ricketts, who lived in London.
Ricketts' father died when he was seven and his mother died when he was fourteen.
His early musical training had been on playing the piano and organ and working as a church chorister.
As a boy living in London’s East End he would often hear street musicians and bands.
He decided that joining an army band would be best for his future.
Ricketts joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1895.
He was enlisted as a Band Boy.
He was a good cornet player and was put into the regimental band.
The band went with the regiment to Limerick in Ireland, and then to India.
In his free time, Ricketts learned all the other band instruments.
When he was 15 years old, he wrote his first piece, which was called "For Service Overseas".
In 1903, he was recommended for entry into the Student Bandmaster Course at the Royal Military School of Music, in Twickenham, Middlesex.
Musicians who were as young as Ricketts were not nominated very often, but Ricketts was very skilled.
Royal Military School of Music
Ricketts began a two-year course at Kneller Hall in the summer of 1904.
This course was very difficult.
He graduated in 1906.
Bandmaster
In 1908, Ricketts became Bandmaster to the Band of the 2nd Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
He went to the Orange River Colony (formerly the Orange Free State) to lead them.
This colony is now the Republic of South Africa.
The colonel asked him to write a new march for the Argylls, so Ricketts wrote "The Thin Red Line".
It was not published until 1925.
Ricketts wanted to compose music.
However, it was not accepted for officers of Ricketts's rank to be engaged in commercial activities in the civilian world.
Because of this, Ricketts decided to compose and publish under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford.
A few weeks before the start of World War I, Ricketts composed his most famous march, called "Colonel Bogey".
No one knows exactly how Ricketts began composing it.
Ricketts's widow claims that it came from a game of golf.
She says that during the game, Ricketts and another member of the Argylls started whistling the notes that would become the march's melody.
Shortly after World War I started, Ricketts and the Band Boys of the Argylls were sent to the 3rd Battalion (Reserve) in Edinburgh.
They stayed there through the whole war.
During the war Ricketts wrote several marches dedicated to the British military: "The Great Little Army" (1916), "On The Quarter Deck," "The Middy," "The Voice of the Guns" (1917), and "The Vanished Army (They Never Die)" (1919).
From Army to Navy
In 1921, Ricketts applied to become a bandmaster for the Band of the Plymouth Division, which was part of the Royal Marines.
He was interviewed and was offered the position.
However, the old bandmaster, P.S.G. O'Donnell, was trying to apply for a position with an Army band, but members of the Royal Marines were not allowed to become members of the British Army.
Because of this, Ricketts could not take the position, since O'Donnell remained with the Band of the Plymouth Division.
In 1927, Ricketts applied again to become a bandmaster with the Royal Marines.
This time, he was approved.
He became a lieutenant in the Royal Marines Band Service on 4 July 1927.
He was posted to the Band of the Marines' Depot at Deal in Kent.
In 1930, Ricketts was posted to the Band of the Plymouth Division.
On 5 September 1907, Frederick Joseph Ricketts was married to Miss Annie Louisa Holmes.
This was while he was on staff at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall.
Annie (Nan) Holmes came from a musical family.
Her brother was a partner in the London music publishing house of Walsh, Holmes and Company.
Nan often gave Ricketts ideas and helped him make decisions about compositions.
They had six children, Kenneth (March 1909), Leo (April 1911), Sheila (May 1913), Paula (October 1916), Gordon (October 1918),and José (October 1922).
Ricketts retired from the Royal Marines on 1 June 1944 because of ill health.
He died at his home in Reigate, Surrey, on 15 May 1945, after an operation for cancer.
He had given almost 50 years of service to the Crown.
List of marches
The Thin Red Line (1908) - Not published or available to the public until 1925.
Named after Alford's regiment's nickname.
They acquired it in the Crimean War.
W.H. Russell wrote that the "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel of the" 93rd Highlanders (Argylls) held back the Russian advance during the Battle of Balaclava.
Holyrood (1912) - Named after the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
It is about the visit of HM King George V and Queen Mary in 1910, the year they were coronated.
This march is now the quick march of the RAF Regiment.
The Vedette (1912) - A vedette is a mounted sentry placed in advance of the outposts.
Ricketts probably knew this term from when he was in India, but the term is unfamiliar today.
Colonel Bogey (1914) - The melody comes from notes that Ricketts heard whistled on a golf course, possibly by the colonel.
This is his most famous march.
The Great Little Army (1916) - This piece is about the WWI British soldiers who bore the brunt of everything that was thrown at them.
The enemy called them "The Contemptible Little Army".
Recording by the John Horn High School Wind Symphony
On the Quarter Deck (1917)
The Middy (1917) - Both this and the previous march were written about the naval Battle of Jutland in 1916.
The Voice of the Guns (1917) - At first, this piece was meant to honour British artillery in World War I. Later, it became widely adopted by the British army as a whole.
It was in the film Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
Not to be confused with the poem of the same name by Gilbert Frankau (1916).
The Vanished Army (1918) - Dedicated to the memory of the first 100,000 soldiers who died in World War I. Subtitled "They Never Die".
The Mad Major (1921) - Major Graham Seton Hutchinson was the Mad Major, had won the Military Cross and a DSO.
Cavalry of the Clouds (1923) - Written to honour the new Royal Air Force.
Dunedin (1928) - Named for the Dunedin Exhibition of 1925/26 in New Zealand.
Old Panama (1929) - Ricketts returned from Dunedin by going through the Panama Canal.
HM Jollies (1929) - "HM Jollies" is a nickname for the Royal Marines.
The march contains parts of "The Sailor’s Hornpipe", "A Life on the Ocean Wave," and "Rule Britannia."
The Standard of St George (1930) - Inspired by watching Trooping the Colour, a British army ceremony, at Horse Guards Parade.
This march was played by the Band of the Royal Marines Depot, Deal, before it was published.
This march does not start with an introduction; it starts with a fanfare with a bass foundation of sustained power for 32 measures.
By Land and Sea (1941) - In 1934, there was a competition for an official slow march for the Royal Marines.
This march was based on Alford's entry.
The title is an English translation of the Royal Marines motto Per Mare Per Terram and was written for the Plymouth Division, R.M. It includes a part of the regimental quick march "A Life on the Ocean Wave" and the Royal Marines Bugle Calls.
Army of the Nile (1941) - Dedicated to General Wavell, for stopping the advance of the Axis Powers in Egypt.
Eagle Squadron (1942) - The Eagle squadron was made up of American pilots in the RAF, before the United States joined World War II.
When the U.S. entered the war, the squadron was transferred to the USAAF.
The march quotes The Star-Spangled Banner and Dixie.
Other Published Works
Valse Riviera (1912)
Thoughts - waltz (1917)
A Musical Switch - humoresque (1921)
The Two Imps - xylophone duet (1923)
The Lightning Switch - fantasy (1924)
Mac and Mac - xylophone duet (1928)
Wedded Whimsies - humorous fantasy for piano solo (1932)
The Smithy - pastoral fantasy 1933
The Two Dons - xylophone duet (1933)
Colonel Bogey on Parade - march fantasy (1939)
The Hunt - rhapsody (1940)
Lillibullero (1942) - A march attributed to Henry Purcell, though it was probably actually written by Alford.
Lillibullero is the official Regimental March of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (abbrev.
REME).
Ricketts' arrangement was often used in the BBC radio program about the Commandos, Into Battle.
A Life on the Ocean Wave'' (1944) - "A Life on the Ocean Wave" is a ballad by Henry Russell.
In 1882, Jacob Kappey wrote an arrangement of this piece as a new regimental march for the Royal Marines.
It included an eight bar trio from "The Sea" by Sigismund Neukomm.
It was re-arranged by Major Ricketts in 1944.
The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders 1799 - 1927, Brigadier A E J Cavendish, CMG
http://www.theargylls.co.uk/bandmasters.php
http://military-bands.co.uk/argyll.html
Trendell, John, Colonel Bogey to the Fore, a biography of Kenneth J. Alford (1991)
Free scores by Kenneth J. Alford
MIDI sequences of piano transcriptions of Alford compositions
Yordy Reyna (born 17 September 1993) is a football player from Peru.
He plays as a striker for Red Bull Salzburg, in the Austrian Bundesliga.
Reyna started his career for Alianza Lima, where he played in the youth teams.
In March 2011 he was promoted to the first team after scoring seven goals in the reserve team and in the 2011 Under-20 Copa Libertadores.
In that season he won also the award for "breakthrough player" of the 2012 season.
In 2013, Yordy Reyna signed with the Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg for a fee of 2 million euros.
Yordy Reyna played his first game for Red Bull Slazburg in a friendly match where he had a great performance and scored the game-winning goal.
Reyna played for the Peru Under-20 national team seven times in 2012 and 2013.
On 22 March 2013, Reyna played his first senior match.
It was to qualify for World Championships, and Peru won against Chile by scoring 1-0.
Halton Christian "Chip" Arp  (March 21, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American astronomer.
He was known for his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, published in 1966.
Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for helping a non-standard cosmology to create an intrinsic redshift.
Arp was born on March 21, 1927 in New York City.
He studied at the California Institute of Technology.
Arp was married three times.
He had four daughters.
Arp died on December 28, 2013 in Munich.
He died from a stroke, and he was aged 86.
Halton Arp, Seeing Red,  Aperion (August 1998)
Halton Arp, Catalogue of Discordant Redshift Associations, Aperion (September 1, 2003)
G. Burbidge, E.M. Burbidge, H.C. Arp, W.M. Napier: Ultraluminous X-ray Sources, High Redshift QSOs and Active Galaxies.
J. Kanipe, D. Webb The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, A Chronicle and Observer's Guide, Willmann-Bell Inc. (2006)
Halton Arp's Website
Arp's Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies website
Detailed review of Seeing Red by Tom Van Flandern
Electric Politics interview with Halton C. Arp (podcast)
Wojciech Kilar (17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and movie composer.
He was known for his composing in Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Pianist.
He received many awards throughout his fifty years of composing.
Kilar was born on 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland (present-day Lviv, Ukraine).
He studied at State Higher School of Music and at State Higher School of Music.
Kilar married Barbara Pomianowska in April 1966.
Their marriage lasted for almost over forty years.
Pomianowska died in November 2007.
Kilar composed many movie compositions.
He composed the trailer music for Schindler's List.
He also composed the music for Promised Land and for Dracula.
He composed his musical works during a festival for Pope John Paul II.
In 1991 Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi made a movie about his life titled Wojciech Kilar.
Composer's website
Kilar at the Polish Music Center
Interview with Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar  at Culture.pl
Mary Wibberley ( – 29 December 2013) was an English romantic fiction writer.
She wrote over 48 romance novels.
Her first novel, Black Niall, was published in 1973.
Wibberley died after a short illness on 29 December 2013.
She was aged 79.
Eero Antero Mäntyranta (20 November 1937 – 30 December 2013) was a Finnish skier.
He has won several medals and the Winter Olympic Games.
He competed in four Winter Olympics from 1960 to 1972.
He won seven medals at the first three of them.
This makes him one of the most successful skiers in Finland.
His success at the 1964 Winter Olympics earned him the nickname "Mister Seefeld".
The Finnish Ministry of Education honored him with the Pro Urheilu letter of recognition in 2000.
There is a museum called Mäntyranta in Pello.
Mäntyranta died on 30 December 2013 from a heart attack.
He died in Pello, aged 74.
Holmenkollen medalists  – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file
Holmenkollen winners since 1892  – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file
Finnish Olympic bronze medalists
Skiing in Finland
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author and poet.
She writes for both adults and children.
In 1991 her first collection of poems, Black Candle, was published.
In 1995 she won the American Book Award for Arranged Marriage: Stories.
Her 1997 novel Mistress of Spices was made into a movie.
Divakaruni was born in Kolkata (earlier known as Calcutta), West Bengal, India.
She studied B.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1976.
Then she went to the United States to study in Wright State University from where she received a master's degree.
In 1985, she received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer.
His first novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was published in September 2007.
In 2008 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
It also won the John Sargent Sr.
His next novel has not been published yet.
It is called Monstro.
Díaz was born in Villa Juana, a neighborhood in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
In December 1974 he moved to New Jersey.
Díaz's first collection of short stories, Drown, was published in 1996.
His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was published in 2007.
It is about a Dominican boy called Oscar Wao, who is growing up in New Jersey.
It took him 11 years to write.
The book uses both English and Spanish.
In 2012 Díaz released a collection of short stories called This Is How You Lose Her.
He was given the $500,000 MacArthur "Genius grant" award.
In 2013 he won the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank short story prize.
Díaz joins other Hispanic-American writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros, and Giannina Braschi who use Spanglish phrases in their stories.
Spanglish is a mix of English words and Spanish words.
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American singer, poet, and actor.
He played the main character in the 1998 movie Slam.
Williams was born in Newburgh, New York.
For high school he went to Newburgh Free Academy.
He became an open mic poet in 1995.
In 1998 he played Ray Joshua, the main character in the movie Slam.
He also helped write the script.
In 2001 he released his first album Amethyst Rock Star.
His second album Saul Williams was released in 2004.
His third album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
was released on November 1, 2007.
It was produced by Trent Reznor.
Williams is vegan.
Queer people
Fernando Luján (born Fernando Ciangherotti Díaz; August 23, 1939 – January 11, 2019) was a Colombian-born Mexican movie and television actor.
He was known for his many roles on telenovelas.
His career began in 1952 and appeared in over 50 movies and hundreds of television shows.
He starred as Leonardo's father in Overboard (2018).
Luján was born on August 23, 1939 in Bogotá.
He died from respiratory failure on January 11, 2019 in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca at the age of 79.
Fernando Luján at the Telenovela database.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba review on The New York Times
Andrew "Andy" Jacobs, Jr. (February 24, 1932 – December 28, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician.
Jacobs was in the United States House of Representatives for 30 years.
His father, Andrew Jacobs, was also a congressman for one term.
He once was married to Martha Keys of Kansas, whom he was in the House with for a time.
In 1988, Jacobs married Kimberly Hood Jacobs, an Emmy Award-winning television reporter.
Jacobs died on December 28, 2013 at his home in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He died from natural causes, aged 81.
Video of Jacobs speaking
Jacobs' Books on Amazon.com
Biography from the Stennis Center
The Columbia Railroad Bridge, which is also called the Columbia Bridge, is a bridge in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It is run by the CSX Transportation train company, who uses the bridge to transport goods in the Trenton Subdivision area.
The bridge goes over the Schuylkill River.
It is in a park called Fairmont Park.
The bridge has been built three times.
First, it was built in 1834.
It was a covered bridge.
The bridge was made from pine tree wood.
The government of the state of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad company built it.
The bridge was bought by the Reading Railroad in 1851.
The next bridge was built in 1886 by the Reading Railroad.
It was made of iron and was very strong, so trains carrying very heavy things could go over it.
Joseph Ruskin (born Joseph Schlafman; April 14, 1924 – December 28, 2013) was an American character actor.
He appeared in over 100 movies during his 50-year career.
He appeared in Get Smart, Star Trek, Alias, and in The Twilight Zone.
Ruskin died on December 28, 2013 at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.
He died from natural causes, aged 89.
Michael McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter.
He is known for a soulful baritone singing style.
He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan.
He became a member of The Doobie Brothers from 1976 to 1982.
This period which resulted in several successful songs for the band.
Michael McDonald official web site
Michael McDonald Sings on New Grizzly Bear Single
Yacht Rock official site
June 20, 2011 Inside MusiCast interview
The Wyatt Family is a professional wrestling stable that currently competes in the WWE.
The members of the stable are Bray Wyatt (the leader), Erick Rowan, and Luke Harper.
He debuted his character in NXT and it was drew comparisons to Max Cady of the 1991 movie Cape Fear and Waylon Mercy (a character portrayed by WWF alumni Dan Spivey).
He formed The Wyatt Family in November and introduced Luke Harper as his first "son" and Erick Rowan as his second "son".
Harper and Rowan competed in the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament to crown the first champions.
They defeated Percy Watson and Yoshi Tatsu in the first round and Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty in the semi-finals.
They lost to Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey in the finals.
Wyatt returned from a torn pectoral muscle and had a match on the February 21 episode of NXT where he defeated Yoshi Tatsu.
Harper and Rowan won a triple threat elimination tag match on the May 2 episode of NXT to earn a shot at the championships.
Wyatt also had a match against Chris Jericho later in the show but was defeated.
Harper and Rowan won the NXT Tag Team Championships after they defeated Neville and Bo Dallas (who was filling in for an injured Grey) on the May 8 episode of NXT (taped on May 2).
Harper and Rowan held the titles for 49 days and were defeated by Adrian Neville and Corey Graves on the June 20 episode of NXT (aired on July 17).
The Wyatt Family debuted and attacked Kane after his match with Christian on the July 8 episode of Raw.
The Wyatt Family would then send cryptic messages to Kane asking him to "follow the buzzards".
Kane challenged Wyatt to a Ring of Fire match at SummerSlam and Wyatt accepted his challenge.
They made their pay-per-view debut at SummerSlam where they defeated Kane in the Ring of Fire match, following interference from Harper and Rowan.
On October 6, 2013 at Battleground, Wyatt defeated Kofi Kingston in a match.
Their winning streak came to an end when they were defeated by Cody Rhodes and Goldust on the October 11 episode of SmackDown.
They then feuded with Daniel Bryan and CM Punk and faced them at Survivor Series but were defeated.
The Wyatt Family faced Daniel Bryan in a 3-on-1 handicap match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs where they defeated him.
They defeated Daniel Bryan, Cody Rhodes, and Goldust in a 6-man tag team match on the December 23rd episode of Raw and were defeated by the team of Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, and John Cena at Tribute to the Troops.
Daniel Bryan faced all three members of The Wyatt Family in a Gauntlet match on the December 30th episode of Raw.
Bryan defeated Harper and Rowan by pinfall and Wyatt by disqualification.
After the match, The Wyatt Family beat down Bryan until Bryan finally joined them.
Two weeks later, on the January 13, 2014 Raw, Bryan turned against the Family, attacking the other three members in the ring.
A few days before that Raw show, thousands of fans at a Michigan State University basketball game repeated Bryan's "Yes!"
chant.
This received large Internet exposure and major coverage on ESPN.
One writer for Yahoo!
Sports thought that WWE had Bryan turn against the Family because of the Michigan State incident.
"Live In Fear" by Mark Crozer
NXT Tag Team Championship (one time) (Rowan and Harper)
Bray Wyatt's WWE profile
Daniel Bryan's WWE profile
Erick Rowan's WWE profile
Luke Harper's WWE profile
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is a labor leader and civil rights activist.
Huerta, along with César Chávez, founded the National Farmworkers Association.
This later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
Huerta has received many awards for her community service and her support for workers', immigrants', and women's rights.
These include the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Huerta is a role model to many in the Latin community.
She is the subject of many corridos (ballads) and paintings.
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dolores Huerta Celebrates 80th Birthday with Call for "Weaving Movements Together" - video report by Democracy Now!
Biography at Las Culturas
Ronald Reagan Day is a state holiday in California, Illinois and Wisconsin.
It is celebrated on February 6 each year.
The holiday is to remember the life of Ronald Reagan.
All state government offices, community colleges, schools, and libraries are closed.
Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an international holiday in honor of Nelson Mandela who has contributed for social justice, toleration against racist discrimination, world peace and conflict resolution.
It is celebrated each year on 18 July (Mandela's birthday).
The day was officially declared by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2009.
The first UN Mandela Day was held on 18 July 2010.
However, other groups had celebrated Mandela Day the previous year, on 18 July 2009.
This was Mandela's 91st birthday.
A series of concerts art exhibitions, fundraising and educational events were held.
They led up to a concert at Radio City Music Hall.
Praia International Airport  is an airport on Santiago Island in Cape Verde.
It was opened in late 2005, replacing the old Francisco Mendes International Airport.
It is about 3 kilometres northeast of central Praia in the southeastern part of Santiago Island.
At the beginning of 2012, the airport was renamed after Nelson Mandela.
The first flight to the new airport was on October 23, 2005.
Even though the airport serves the capital and largest city, Praia, Cape Verde's main international airport is Amílcar Cabral International Airport.
This is on the smaller island of Sal.
TACV Timetable for Praia
New Cape Verde Airport to Open Soon
Buildings and structures in Africa
Bolometric magnitude is the total magnitude of all electromagnetic radiation of a star or other object.
It is an extension of luminosity to include all kinds of radiation.
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2014.
For notable deaths for different months, please see "Months".
Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.
The Guardian, UK obituaries
Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
The New York Times, US obituaries
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
Index lists
John Fortune (30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was a British satirist, comedian, writer and actor.
He was best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the television series Bremner, Bird and Fortune.
He studied at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he met John Bird.
John Fortune  at Vivienne Clore
Bremner, Bird and Fortune, "Best Political Satire -Television, 2003"  – Political Studies Association Awards 2003
Bird and Fortune: A Life in Television  BAFTA filmed event, March 2009
The OMG Girlz is an American girl group.
The group was started in 2009 in Atlanta by Tameka "Tiny" Cottle and Kiesha Miles, who were members of the girl group XScape.
The members are Zonnique Pullins (Miss Star), Bahja Rodriguez (Miss Beauty), and Breaunna Womack (Miss Babydoll).
Reginae, the daughter of Lil' Wayne, was a member until 2010.
They are all African American teenagers.
They have a quirky image.
Their first single "Ain't Nobody" was released in 2010.
In 2011 the band were signed to Grand Hustle Records.
Their first album, Officially Miss Guided, has not been released yet.
John M. "Johnny" Orr (June 10, 1927 – December 31, 2013) was an American basketball player and coach.
He was best known for as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Michigan and at Iowa State University.
He remains the coach with most wins in Iowa State history, with 218 wins and 200 losses.
player bio at databaseBasketball.com
Where's Coach Now?
Here's Johnny Orr.
LEGEND LOST: Coach Johnny Orr Dies
Kelly Carlson (born February 17, 1976) is an American actress and model.
She is best known for playing Kimber Henry in Nip/Tuck.
She played a motorcycle gang member in 3000 Miles to Graceland.
Frédéric Chopin's ballades are four one-movement pieces for solo piano.
He composed them between 1835 and 1842.
The four ballades are said to have been inspired by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.
The exact inspiration for each individual ballade, however, is unclear and not agreed upon.
Ballades were composed before Chopin, in literature and Italian Renaissance music.
But, Chopin invented the ballade as an abstract musical form.
The ballade is a distinct form and cannot be placed into another form (e.g. sonata).
After Chopin, other composers such as Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms also wrote ballades.
The ballades are thought to be the best of Chopin's compositions and of romantic music.
The ballades are difficult for pianists to play, even after they learn the technical difficulty of the notes.
There are still the creative expressions to be mastered.
All four ballades are from 8 to 12 minutes in length.
They are in triple time (three beats to a bar), or in 6/4 or 6/8 time.
Each is an individual work and should not be played as a group in a concert.
Even Chopin did not do this.
He wanted listeners to find their own interpretation of the music.
Each piece has its own poetry, drama and story.
Chopin's four ballades are very popular pieces and are often heard in concerts around the world.
There have been many recordings made of the ballades by classical pianists.
China Anne McClain (born August 25, 1998) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.
The first movie she acted in was The Gospel.
Between 2006 and 2012 she played Jazmine Payne in Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
McClain first acted in the 2005 movie The Gospel.
Tyler Perry saw the movie and gave her the role of Jazmine Payne in Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
In 2009 McClain played Alana Collins in Hurricaine Season.
In 2011 McClain won the prize for Best Performance - Comedy at the NAMIC Vision Awards for her role in the show.
McClain started acting in the Disney sitcom A.N.T. Farm in 2011.
She played the main character, Chyna Parks.
The show lasted three seasons.
McClain sung the show's theme song, "Exceptional".
It was released on a soundtrack album called A.N.T. Farm in 2011.
It reached number 29 in the American albums chart.
In 2014, McClain played Gabby Harrison in Disney Channel movie How to Build a Better Boy.
McClain was born in Atlanta to African American parents.
Her father is Michael McClain, a music producer.
Her mother, Shontell, a songwriter.
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Shrimp toast or prawn toast is a Chinese dim sum dish.
It is small triangles of bread, brushed with egg and topped with chopped shrimp and water chestnuts.
It is baked or deep fried.
It is often served as an appetizer in Chinese restaurants in Australia and the United States.
In some countries, such as the United Kingdom and Australia, sesame seeds are sometimes sprinkled on the dish before it is baked or deep fried.
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 - April 8, 1993) was an American contralto singer.
She was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Her parents were African American Christians.
All the Anderson family went to the Union Baptist Church in South Philadelphia.
She first sang in public when she was six years old.
Anderson went to Stanton Grammar School.
Her family could not afford to send her to high school.
They did not have enough money to pay for music lessons either.
Until she was sixteen Anderson taught herself to play the piano and violin.
The pastor of Anderson's church and other leaders of the black community raised money for Anderson to go to high school and have music lessons.
After high school, Marian applied to an all-white music school, the Philadelphia Music Academy.
She was rejected for being black.
In 1925, when she was 23 years old, Anderson won a singing competition.
In 1930 Anderson performed in Europe for the first time at Wigmore Hall in London.
She liked Europe because people were less racist to her there than in the United States.
1935 Anderson did a concert at the White House.
There she met Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin Roosevelt.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Anderson were friends for the rest of Roosevelt's life.
In 1938 Anderson did a 70-concert tour in the United States.
In 1939 the Daughters of the American Revolution would not let Anderson perform in the DAR Constitution Hall to an audience of blacks and whites.
The District of Columbia Board of Education also said that Anderson could not perform at a white high school Charles Edward Russell gave a meeting about this the next day.
At the meeting the Marian Anderson Citizens Committee was formed.
The group planned a protest at the next board of education meeting.
President Roosevelt and Walter White got the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
On Easter Sunday 1939 Anderson performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to a crowd of 75,000 people that contained both blacks and whites.
She started the concert by singing "America".
She also sung “My Country, ’Tis of Thee”.
The concert has been described as having started the civil rights movement for equality between African Americans and white Americans.
A documentary film was made of the concert.
In 2001 the film was added to the by the Library of Congress.
In 1943 Anderson was given the $10,000 Bok Prize by the city of Philadelphia.
She sung at the Constitution Hall.
On January 7, 1955, she became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.
In 1956 she performed there again.
In 1957 Anderson's autobiography, My Lord, What a Morning, was published.
That year Anderson also toured India as an ambassador for the United States.
In 1964 Anderson started her last tour.
The tour began in the Constitution Hall.
Anderson gave her last concert of the tour and her career in 1965 at Carnegie Hall.
In 1991 Anderson was given the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
She died of congestive heart failure on April 8, 1993 in Portland, Oregon at her nephew's home.
She was 96 years old.
She was buried in Eden Cemetery in Philadelphia.
In 2009 there was a tribute concert for Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Anderson started living at a farm in 1940.
In July 1943, Marian married Orpheus H. Fisher in Connecticut.
Charles Edward Russell (September 25, 1860 – April 23, 1941) was an American journalist and politician.
He started the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with people including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling (the last son of a former slave-holding family), and Florence Kelley in 1909.
For the rest of his life Russell worked on the board of directors.
Russell also wrote 27 books.
In 1928 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.
Charles Edward Russell was born in Davenport, Iowa on September 25, 1860.
His father was a newspaper editor at the Davenport Gazette.
Russell went to St. Johnsbury Academy for high school.
Russell worked as a "muckraker".
A muckraker was a journalist who reported about how capitalism was bad.
In 1902, Russell's first book, Such Stuff as Dreams, was published.
Russell joined the Socialist Party of America in 1908.
He was a member until 1917.
Russell was the Socialist candidate for Governor of New York in 1910 and 1912.
He was a candidate for U.S. Senator from New York in 1914.
Russell's memoir These Shifting Scenes was published in 1915.
Russell acted in the 1917 movie The Fall of the Romanoffs.
In 1928 Russell won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.
In 1933 Russell's second memoir Bare Hands and Stone Walls was published.
Russell was an editorial writer for social democratic magazine The New Leader.
Russell had one child, John Russell.
Charles Edward Russell died on 23rd April 1941.
Dana Marie Perino (born May 9, 1972) is an American journalist.
She was the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, from September 2007 to January 2009.
She is currently a political commentator working for Fox News.
She works for the program The Five.
Perino was born in Evanston, Wyoming.
She was raised in Denver, Colorado.
Megyn Marie Kelly (born November 18, 1970; previously called Megyn Kendall) is an American reporter on Fox News and NBC.
She hosted The Kelly File.
She previously hosted America Live on Fox News and Megyn Kelly Today on NBC.
She also hosts the channel's New Year's Eve Special Live every December 31.
On October 26, 2018, NBC News announced the cancellation of Megyn Kelly Today in the wake of defending blackface as Halloween costumes.
Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753 – December 5, 1784) was a poet.
She was the first African-American person to have a book published.
She was born in West Africa.
However it is not known which country she was born in.
It was Senegal or The Gambia.
She took work as a slave in the United States when she was about seven years old on a slave ship called The Phillis.
Her master and his wife taught her how to read and write.
Wheatley wrote her first published poem when she was 13.
She wrote over 100 poems in her life and at least 30 had lost.
Although she was an African slave, Phillis Wheatley was one of the best-known poets in America.
In 1770 Wheatley wrote a poetic tribute to the evangelist George Whitefield.
A lot of people said good things about the poem.
In 1773 a collection of 39 poems Wheatley had written, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley... It was the first writings by an African American woman to publish in public.
The book made her famous in England and the American colonies.
There was a poem in the book about slave trader brought people from Africa to America.
Other than this Wheatley did not write much poetry about slavery.
Wheatley's mistress Mrs. Wheatley died on October 18, 1773.
At this point Wheatley did not have to do household chores anymore.
Yet, it was not until 1778 that she had set free when her master, John Wheatley, died.
That year she married John Peters.
Peters was a free black grocer.
Both of them died when they were babies.
Her husband got put in prison in 1784 for debt.
After this Wheatley became very poor.
Wheatley died of illness in 1784 in Boston.
She was 31 years old.
Phillis Wheatley was born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa.