the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
He had Academy Award nominations for Best Picture for producing Babel, The Revenant and Spotlight.
He won the award for Spotlight.
Golin was born to a Jewish family.
He died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on April 21, 2019.
The Mueller Report is an official document.
It provides information about Russia modifying the results of the 2016 United States presidential election.
Robert Mueller released this official document to argue that Donald Trump is using Russia to help get him to become the current president.
The first half of the report shows that the Trump campaign had many ties to the Russians and that there was interference in America’s elections.
The second half shows how the President tried to stop the Russia investigation using the powers of the President.
““In this context, a balancing test applies to the separation of powers issues.
Applying the test here, we concluded that congress can validly make obstruction of justice statutes applicable to corruptly motivated official acts of the president without undermining his Article II functions”
Mueller Report, redacted version publicly released April 18, 2019:
Justice.gov downloadable, searchable PDF
Archive.org; DPLA; New York Times; Scribd
Audio from Audible (free registration needed)
Letter from Attorney General William Barr to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees of the principal conclusions of the Mueller investigation (March 24, 2019)
Official Website of the United States Department of Justice: Office of Special Counsel
Litigation Documents Related to the Mueller Investigation via Lawfare
Index to the Mueller report: browse hundreds of Names and Topics, from Clinton emails to Putin to GRU to IRA to Trump Moscow Tower.
prepared by WhoSaidSo.org
Ventseslav Konstantinov (; 14 September 1940 – 22 April 2019) was a Bulgarian writer and aphorist.
He was well-known as a translator of German and English writing.
He taught the translation of German-language poetry at Sofia University from 1987.
He spent 1993 to 1994 at the State University of New York at Geneseo, in the United States.
He also wrote essays on many people, including Goethe, Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Zweig, Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Heinrich Böll, Martin Walser and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Konstantinov was born in Sofia.
He was married to academic Albena Bakratcheva.
He died on 22 April 2019, at the age of 78.
Jacqueline Saburido (20 December 1978 – 20 April 2019) was a Venezuelan activist.
She was a burns survivor who campaigned against drunk driving.
In September 1999, she was a victim of a car crash caused by a drunk driver in Austin in the U.S. state of Texas.
She had burns to more than 60% of her body because of the crash.
Her fingers were amputated.
She also lost her hair, ears, nose, lips, left eyelid and much of her vision.
After she recovered, she was the face of many drunk driving ads.
She also a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show twice.
She also tried to become Britain's first face transplant patient.
Saburido was born in Caracas.
She moved to Guatemala for cancer treatment in the 2010s.
She died of cancer on 20 April 2019 in Guatemala City.
She was 40.
Peter Dennis Skipper (11 April 1958 – 23 April 2019) was an English footballer.
Skipper was born in Hull.
He signed for Hull City in January 1979.
He then spent time at Scunthorpe United and Darlington.
He returned to Hull in August 1982.
He made over 300 appearances for the club, scoring 19 goals.
He later played for clubs such as Oldham Athletic, Walsall, Wrexham and Wigan Athletic.
Skipper died of problems caused by a stroke on 23 April 2019.
Peter Skipper at Soccerbase
The Indianapolis Racers were a major league hockey team in the World Hockey Association from 1974 to 1978.
Valdiram Caetano de Morais (30 October 1982 – 20 April 2019) was a Brazilian professional footballer.
Valdiram was born in Canhotinho, Pernambuco.
He played for Vasco da Gama.
He was top scorer of the 2006 Copa do Brasil.
He left the club in 2007, and played for 18 different clubs until 2011.
Clubs he played for during this time include Noroeste, Avenida, Tupi, Central, Ferroviário and Duque de Caxias.
He had off-field problems which ended his career in 2011.
However, he returned to football in 2017, playing for Atlântico.
On 20 April 2019, Valdiram was found having been beaten to death in São Paulo.
This very long-lasting outbreak caused over $300 million in damage.
It also killed 26 people from Texas to Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
The outbreak began on November 21, 1992 with six tornadoes.
They were between F1 and F4.
The tornadoes were in the Greater Houston area.
Later on November 21, a long-tracked tornado hit Brandon, Mississippi.
It caused 10 deaths.
Damage was $25 million.
Hannelore Elsner (born Hannelore Elstner; 26 July 1942 – 21 April 2019) was a German actress.
She is best known for her lead role as Inspector Lea Sommer in the detective TV series Die Kommissarin (1994–2006).
She also appeared in Student of the Bedroom and The Black Forest Clinic.
She was born in Burghausen, Bavaria.
Elsner died of breast cancer on 21 April 2019 in Munich.
Stanisław Jędryka (27 July 1933 – 22 April 2019) was a Polish movie director and writer.
He might be best known for directing The Impossible Goodbye (1962).
He directed 25 movies between 1954 and 1992.
Jędryka's movies were mostly aimed at children and young adults.
He was born in Sosnowiec.
Xiao Yang (; August 1938 – 19 April 2019) was a Chinese judge and politician.
He served as Minister of Justice from 1993 to 1998.
He then served as President of the Supreme People's Court from 1998 to 2008.
One of his changes included the Supreme Court's right of final review for capital punishment cases.
This saw the number of executions drop in China after 2006.
Xiao was born in Heyuan, Guangdong.
He died of an illness on 19 April 2019 in Beijing.
Lake Agassiz was a very large glacial lake in central North America.
Fed by glacial meltwater at the end of the last ice age, its area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined.
The area that was covered by Lake Agassiz was the geographic center of  North America.
Its extent was about from 45° 30' to 55° of north latitude, and from 92° 30', on the international boundary, to 106°, on the Saskatchewan River.
Its existence was first proposed in 1823, It was named  in 1879 after Louis Agassiz.
Juan José Muñante López (12 June 1948 – 23 April 2019) was a Peruvian footballer.
Muñante was born in Pisco.
He played for Sport Boys, Universitario, Atlético Español, Pumas de la UNAM and Tampico Madero.
He won league titles with Universitario de Deportes, Pumas de la UNAM and Atlético Español.
He also won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup with Atlético in 1975.
Muñante played for Peru between 1967 and 1978.
He played 48 times and scored six times for his country.
He also played for Peru at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
On 23 April 2019, Muñante died of lung cancer in Florida, United States.
Cynthia Lynne "Cindy" Axne (née: Wadle; born April 20, 1965) is an American business woman and politician.
She became the United States Representative for the 3rd Congressional District of Iowa.
The district represents the southwest part of Iowa.
Axne is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party.
The Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty created from signature at Rio Summit on 1992.
The Last Conference of Parties took place at Sharm-El Sheikh in Egypt on 2018.
Matthew Buckland (22 August 1974 – 23 April 2019) was a South African Internet entrepreneur and businessman.
He was the founder of digital agency and publisher Creative Spark.
He was head of Mail & Guardian online.
Buckland was also the founder of Burn Media, which publishes technology brands such as Memeburn, Ventureburn.com and Gearburn.com.
He served as a board member of Creative Commons.
Buckland lived in Cape Town with his wife and two daughters.
He died of cancer on 23 April 2019, at the age of 44.
Terence Rawlings (4 November 1933 – 23 April 2019) was a British movie and sound editor.
He was the founding member of the Guild of British Film and Television Editors (GBFTE).
He served as editor for many movies, such as Alien (1979), Chariots of Fire (1981), Blade Runner (1982), Not Without My Daughter (1991), Alien 3 (1992), GoldenEye (1995), U.S. Marshals (1998) and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
He had three BAFTA nominations and one Academy Award nomination.
Rawlings was born in London.
He died at his home in Hertfordshire on 23 April 2019 of heart failure.
Oiva Kalervo Toikka (29 May 1931 – 22 April 2019) was a Finnish glass designer.
He designed for Iittala.
He was best known for his bird designs for Iittala.
He trained in ceramics at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.
He also worked as a stage and costume designer.
He designed textiles for Marimekko.
Toikka was born in Viipuri.
He died on 22 April 2019, at the age of 87.
Oiva Toikka at Iittala.com
Heather Mary Harper  (8 May 1930 – 22 April 2019) was a Northern Irish opera soprano.
She first became known in 1954 for Medea at the Oxford University Opera Club.
From 1956 to 1975, she was a member of the English Opera Group.
She later became noted for her performances of Elsa in Strauss's Arabella, Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes and as the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
She retired in 1994.
Harper was born in Belfast.
She studied at the Trinity College of Music in London.
She died on 22 April 2019, at the age of 88.
Jarosław Biernat (6 September 1960 – 20 April 2019) was a Polish footballer.
Biernat was born in Szczecin.
He played professionally from 1982 to 1992.
He played for Polish sides Pogoń Szczecin and Legia Warsaw.
He later played for German clubs Eintracht Frankfurt, SG Union Solingen, SpVgg Bayreuth and SG Düren 99.
He died after a long illness in 2019, at the age of 58.
Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) is a public university located at Khulshi area in Chittagong.
It is a specialized university and founded in 2007.
G P Jakovlev recognized two subspecies, namely S v subsp pilosa (Gagnep)Yakovlev (syn.
S.exigua Craib. ) (
as segregated from typical S.violacea subsp violacea)
Giraffoidea is a superfamily that contains Climacoceratidae and Giraffidae.
The only living members are giraffes and okapis.
Superfamily Giraffoidea
Family † Climacoceratidae
†Climacoceras
†Orangemeryx
†Prolibytherium
†Propalaeoryx
†Nyanzameryx
†Sperrgebietomeryx
†Canthumeryx
†Georgiomeryx
†Mitilanotherium
†Shansitherium
Subfamily Sivatheriinae
†Bramatherium
†Decennatherium
†Helladotherium
†Sivatherium
Subfamily Giraffinae
Tribe Giraffini
Subtribe Giraffina
Giraffa
Subtribe Bohlinina
†Bohlinia
†Honanotherium
Tribe Palaeotragini
Subtribe Palaeotragina
†Giraffokeryx
†Palaeotragus
†Samotherium
Subtribe Okapiina
Okapia including the okapi, Okapia johnstoni
Wolcottville is a town in Johnson Township, LaGrange County and Orange Township, Noble County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
The population was 998 at the 2010 census.
Wolcottville is located at  (41.525522, -85.366015).
David Sanford Milch (born March 23, 1945) is an American television director and writer.
He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue (co-created with Steven Bochco) and Deadwood.
Milch has bipolar disorder.
He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2017.
Leonard Johnrose (born 29 November 1969) is an English former professional football player.
he played for several clubs including Burnley, Bury and Swansea City.
Johnrose was best known as a tough-tackling defensive midfielder.
Dick Rivers (born Hervé Forneri; 24 April 1945 – 24 April 2019) was a French singer and actor.
He was born in Nice, France.
He began performing in the early 1960s.
He was an important figure in introducing rock and roll music in France.
He was inspired by Elvis Presley.
He formed his band Les Chats Sauvages in 1961.
Mark Medoff (March 18, 1940 – April 23, 2019) was an American playwright, screenwriter, movie and theatre director, actor, and professor.
He was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois.
His play Children of a Lesser God won both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award in 1980.
He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the movie script of Children of a Lesser God.
He also won an Obie Award for his play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?.
John Quinn (October 15, 1941 – April 22, 2019) was a Canadian professional wrestler.
He was best known for his appearances in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) under the ring name The Kentucky Butcher in the late-1960s.
He challenged then WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Bruno Sammartino on several occasions, including a 1968 main event at Madison Square Garden.
William Krehm (November 23, 1913 – April 19, 2019) was a Canadian author, journalist, political activist and real estate developer.
He was a known Trotskyist activist in the 1930s.
He went to Spain where he was part of the Spanish Civil War.
In the 1980s he co-founded the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) in the 1980s and continued as the group's principal leader until his death.
Ira Neimark (December 12, 1921 – April 18, 2019) was an American author, lecturer, and retail executive.
He was Chairman and CEO of Bergdorf Goodman from 1975 to 1992.
His reintroduction of French couture to New York with Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, and Christian Dior created a period of growth for Bergdorf Goodman, which went from $18 million in sales in 1975 to $250 million in sales by 1992.
Harrison is a town in Westchester County, New York.
It is about  northeast of Manhattan.
The population was 27,472 at the 2010 census.
According to Forbes magazine, Harrison is the 326th richest place in the United States.
The median price for a home was $1,230,625 in 2015.
James Vincent Schall, S.J. (January 20, 1928 – April 17, 2019) was an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher, writer, and philosopher.
He was born in Pocahontas, Iowa.
Schall was Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.
He retired from teaching in December 2012.
Of his many publications his book Another Sort of Learning ("a reflection on different aspects of lifelong learning") was seen as his best known work.
In 2010, Schall was diagnosed with jaw and bone cancer.
He died on April 17, 2019 in Los Gatos, California at age 91.
Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929 – April 10, 2019) was an American futurist, author and public speaker.
She was known for creating "The Synergy Engine" and the "birthing" of humanity.
She was the Co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.
She was the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of "YOU."
Deepak Chopra called her, "the voice for conscious evolution."
In 1984, she was nominated for Vice President of the United States for the Democratic Party.
She lost the bid to Geraldine Ferraro.
On April 3, 2019, Hubbard was hospitalized for a knee infection.
She died a week later on April 10 at a hospital in Loveland, Colorado, aged 89.
Herman Braun-Vega (7 July 1933 – 2 April 2019) was a Peruvian painter and artist.
His art were often political or cultural.
In 1978 he began to paint portraits, especially of his painters friends who invited to participate in the gestation of his canvases: Vladimir Veličković (in 1978), Gilles Aillaud (in 1979), Erró (in 1978-1982), Wifredo Lam (in 1979), Jean Dewasne (in 1982), William S. Hayter (in 1983) and Gérard Fromanger (in 1984).
He also painted numerous writers: Jorge Semprún, Alain Jouffroy, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Alfredo Bryce Echenique and Jean-Michel Ribes.
Jean-Jacques Honorat (born April 1, 1931) is a Haitian politician.
He was named Prime Minister of Haiti after René Préval was removed following President Jean-Bertrand Aristide removal by a coup in October 1991.
He resigned from the office eight months later on June 19, 1992.
Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat; June 29, 1925 – December 9, 2021) was an American actress.
She was best known for her role as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960-1962 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award.
Claude Jarman Jr. (born September 27, 1934) is an American actor.
A child actor, he was known for his roles in Rio Grande starring alongside John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara and in High Barbaree.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946.
His final movie role was in Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956).
The Manx pound is the currency of the Isle of Man, in parity with the pound sterling.
The Manx pound is divided into 100 pence.
Notes and coins, denominated in pounds and pence, are issued by the Isle of Man Government.
Their banknotes are £1, £5, £10, £20, £50 and their coins are Penny, Two pence, Five pence, Ten pence, Twenty pence, Fifty pence, £1, £2 and £5.
US$1 is equal to 0.773614 IMP (Isle of Man Pound).
The central bank of Isle of Man is the Isle of Man Treasury.
The banknotes of the Isle of Man
Neale Francis Daniher  (born 15 February 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer.
He played for Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1979 to 1990.
He later coached Melbourne Football Club between 1998 and 2007.
He also had coaching roles with Essendon, Fremantle and West Coast.
His brothers, Terry, Anthony and Chris, also played for Essendon.
He was born in West Wyalong, New South Wales.
Daniher was told he had motor neurone disease in 2013.
He is now a campaigner for medical research of the disease.
Neale Daniher at AFL Tables
David Winters (born David Weizer; 5 April 1939 – 23 April 2019) was a British-American choreographer, actor, movie director and producer.
He became well-known for his roles in the 1950s Broadway musicals West Side Story and Gypsy.
He also appeared in the West Side Story movie.
He also worked with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret as a choreographer in some movies they starred in.
He was born in London to a Jewish family.
The Chinese Convert is a famous 1687 painting by Godfrey Kneller depicting the Chinese man Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung.
An ocean planet (or ocean world, water world, aquaplanet or panthalassic planet) is a type of terrestrial planet that contains a high amount of water.
This may be a planet with ocean covering all of its surface (except maybe at the polar regions, where ice caps may exist), or a planet with a ocean bellow its surface (called a subsurface ocean).
A ocean planet covered in water may have conditions to support life.
This has been questioned though, since some studies suggest that water worlds may not be friendly to life, since elements like phosphorus (a key part to DNA) may be hard to access, since it any be hidden in rocks at the bottom of the planet's oceans.
Other problems here may be certain parts of the water cycle not working on an ocean planet, or the low amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.
With that being said, there are still possibilities for life on water planets.
Possible ocean worlds
There are a few planets that could be ocean planets.
All of these are extrasolar planets.
Kepler-22b a rocky super-Earth that lies in the habitable zone of its host star.
Gliese 1214b a super Earth that circles its red dwarf star very close, but a deep ocean may exist under high pressure caused by a strong atmosphere.
Kepler-62e, a rocky Earth-like planet that may be a warm and humid planet.
At least one of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may be an ocean world.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is home to at least seven Earth-sized planets.
Several of the moons in the solar system may have oceans bellow their surfaces, which would make them ocean moons.
One such example is Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.
A crop top (or a belly shirt, tummy top, or half shirt) is a kind of shirt.
Crop tops do not cover all of the middle section of the wearer's body.
A person wearing a crop top will have part of their belly and back showing.
There are many kinds of crop tops, and most styles show the wearer's belly button.
Other styles can show the wearer's waist, or the bottom of their ribs.
Crop tops are popular in the Western world.
They are common in areas with a warm climate.
Crop tops were popular in the 1990s when movie actresses and female pop music singers wore them.
They are popular again in the 2010s.
A crop top does not keep the wearer's middle section warm because they do not cover all of it.
So, crop tops are more comfortable for hot weather and exercising.
There is a way to make a temporary crop top with a normal shirt.
The wearer can lift their shirt to show as much of their belly as they want, and then make it stay like that by tying the lifted end of the shirt into a knot.
This is a common and flexible alternative to a regular crop top.
Low-rise pants or mini skirts are sometimes worn with a crop top.
This shows more skin beneath the wearer's belly button.
Jean-Pierre Marielle (12 April 1932 – 24 April 2019) was a French actor.
He was known for his roles in the movies Without Apparent Motive (1971), Cookies (1975), Coup de Torchon (1981), A Few Days with Me (1988), Tous les Matins du Monde (1991), Max et Jérémie (1992), Les Milles (1995), Little Lili (2003) and The Da Vinci Code (2006).
He was nominated for six César Awards.
Marielle died after a long illness on 24 April 2019 in the Paris commune of Saint-Cloud.
Carl John Neumann (September 11, 1950 – April 23, 2019), nicknamed "Johnny Reb", was an American professional basketball player and coach.
He played in the shooting guard and small forward positions.
He stood at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and weighed 200 lb (91 kg) in his playing career.
He played for Memphis Pros / Tams, Utah Stars, Virginia Squires, Indiana Pacers, Kentucky Colonels, Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers and Pallacanestro Cantù.
He later coached in Belgium, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, China, Japan and in the U.S. minor league.
Neumann died of cancer on April 23, 2019 in Oxford, Mississippi.
Johnny Neumann at Basketball-Reference.com
Peter John Cartwright  (3 May 1940 – 17 April 2019) was a New Zealand lawyer.
He was the husband of Dame Silvia Cartwright (née Poulter).
He was the viceregal consort of New Zealand between 2001 and 2006, when his wife was serving as the 18th Governor-General of New Zealand.
He was the chairman of the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, the Indecent Publications Tribunal and the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
He went to a boarding school in Christchurch.
Cartwright died in Auckland on 17 April 2019.
Aston Donald McEachin  (born October 10, 1961) is an American politician and lawyer.
He is the U.S. Representative from Virginia's 4th congressional district since 2017.
McEachin is a Democrat.
He was in the Virginia House of Delegates (1996–2002; 2006–2008).
Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( ), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist.
He was known for his radio and television works in the United States and Europe.
Borge was known as "The Clown Prince of Denmark".
His best known work was in Comedy in Music, which became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances, a feat which placed it in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Victor Borge Official website
Cecil Belvedire Souders (January 3, 1921 – August 30, 2021) was an American football player.
He played professional in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions.
He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio.
Souders played college football at Ohio State University.
He was drafted in the 25th round of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins.
Souders died on August 30, 2021 in Hilliard, Ohio at the age of 100.
Henry Benton Sayler (January 16, 1921 – May 26, 2021) was an American politician.
Sayler was in the Florida State Senate from 1967 to 1971 and 1973 to 1978, as a member of the Republican Party (20th district and 21st district).
Sayler turned 100 in January 2021 and died four months later on May 26, 2021 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.
It is respected by many people.
due to its long history and academic selectivity.
The purpose of Phi Beta Kappa is to improve study and research in the liberal arts and sciences.
The society wants to have outstanding students of arts and sciences at American colleges and universities as members.
It started at the College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776 as the first Greek-letter fraternity at a college and was one of the earliest collegiate fraternal societies.
Phi Beta Kappa () stands for  (), which means "Love of wisdom is the guide of life".
Mildred Jane Hill (June 27, 1859 – June 5, 1916) was an American songwriter and musicologist.
She was known for composing "Good Morning to All", later used as the melody for "Happy Birthday to You".
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, she died in Chicago at the age of 56.
Aluf Dan Tolkowsky (or Tolkovsky, ; born January 17, 1921) is a retired Israeli military officer.
He was commander of the Israeli Air Force from 1953 to 1958.
Jews from Palestine are sent to the RAF pilot course in Rhodesia, IAF Official Site.
Accessed June 9, 2006.
Lieutenant Colonel (Retd.)
Jaswant Singh Marwah (born 21 January 1921) is an Indian soldier, journalist and author.
He was a former Special Duty Officer in the Archaeological Survey of India, and was in the Indian Army's Electrical Mechanical Engineering branch from 1943 to 1973.
He is also a veteran of the Second World War.
He was awarded the Nehru Award in 1981 and 1984, by the Vice President of India and the President of India.
In 1987 he was awarded the Journalism Award by the Indian Ministry of Communications.
India Daily:  , 28 November 2004.
The Tribune: , 4 July 2007.
India News Online:  , 29 November 2004.
Dame Patricia Lee Reddy  (born 17 May 1954) is a New Zealand lawyer and businesswoman.
She was the 21st Governor-General of New Zealand from 2016 until 2021.
The Gandalf Awards honor excellent writing in fantasy literature.
The World Science Fiction Society gave the awards each year from 1974 to 1981.
They were named for Gandalf the wizard from the Middle-earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The award was started and sponsored by Lin Carter and the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA).
People at the World Science Fiction Conventions voted to choose the winners.
They used the same rules as the older Hugo Awards.
Gandalf Grand Master Award
The Gandalf Grand Master Award for life achievement in fantasy writing was awarded every year from 1974 to 1981.
The first winner was J. R. R. Tolkien who had died recently in 1973.
The next four Grand Masters were all members of the SAGA: Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, and Poul Anderson.
The last three were Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, and C. L. Moore.
1974 - J. R. R. Tolkien
1975 - Fritz Leiber
1976 - L. Sprague de Camp
1977 - Andre Norton
1978 - Poul Anderson
1979 - Ursula K. Le Guin
1980 - Ray Bradbury
1981 - C. L. Moore
Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy
The Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy was awarded only in 1978 and 1979.
Again the first winner was Tolkien.
The winning book was The Silmarillion with Christopher Tolkien as editor.
The second was The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey.
Fantasy fiction often wins the older Hugo Award for Best Novel, so Worldcon organizers thought the Gandalf Award may be a duplicate and this was not awarded again.
1978 - The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
1979 - The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey
Robert L. "Bob" Cardenas (born March 10, 1920) is a retired Mexican-American brigadier general of the United States Air Force.
He was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, but raised in San Diego, California.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed him California coordinator for Southwest Border Economic Action Group.
In 1985, he was appointed to Chairman of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Group by California Governor George Deukmejian.
Personal Biography
Detailed unofficial website by Derek Horne (friend of General Cardenas)
Edwin "Ted" Hunt  (born 23 March 1920) is a retired British waterman.
Born in London, he was a sapper waterman in World War II, and was in 1978 appointed as the Queen's Bargemaster.
"Edwin Hunt – D-Day & Life on the Thames"
Interview, December 2013.
Sixth photograph from the left.
William Alvin "Tex" Moncrief Jr. (March 27, 1920 – December 29, 2021) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
He worked in the oil and gas sector.
He was President of Moncrief Oil, and was a billionaire member of the 2006 Forbes 400, with an estimated net worth of US$1 billion.
Moncrief died on December 29, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 101.
William Moncrief ranked #374 on 2006 Forbes 400
Brief interview with Forbes
Businesspeople from Fort Worth, Texas
The Avengers is a 1998 American action and spy movie.
It comes from the British television series of the same name.
John Steed, the agent of the Ministry, completes a training course.
Dr. Emma Peel gets a phone call telling her to go to a gentlemen's club.
She meets Steed for the first time there.
The two head off to the Ministry to meet Mother.
Mother tells them the Prospero project-a try to change the weather-was sabotaged by Emma Peel.
Dr. Peel says she's innocent.
She is then sent to work with Steed to find the real suspect.
Steed and Emma follow a lead to the Wonderland Weather.
It's a business that creates heat or other weather with a special machine.
Steed and Emma find two dead men in teddy bear suits.
Members of a secret organization led by Sir August de Wynter wear teddy bear suits to disguise their identities.
However, one of them looks like another Emma Peel.
Steed arrives in time to save the real Emma Peel.
Steed and Emma go off and visit de Wynter at his mansion.
But then, they are attacked by mechanical bees.
Alice, a Ministry agent, helps Steed and Emma flee.
However, de Wynter catches Emma as she tries to escape though finds herself trapped.
It is later revealed that the other Emma Peel is a clone.
Father and the Peel clone catch the real Emma Peel.
They're angrily met by Mother.
Mother is then incapacitated.
Father and Peel's clone take the real Emma to a hot air balloon.
Father and Peel's clone die when the balloon crashes and explodes.
Invisible Jones learns de Wynter is using the Prospero instruments on a secret island.
Steed and Emma arrive at the island to stop him.
Ralph Fiennes as John Steed, a British Ministry agent
Uma Thurman as Emma Peel, Scientist, Ministry agent
Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a weather scientist and a terrorist
Jim Broadbent as Mother, Director of the Ministry
Fiona Shaw as Father, Deputy Director of the Ministry, ally of Sir August
Eddie Izzard as Bailey, Sir August's henchman
Eileen Atkins as Alice, a Ministry Agent
Carmen Ejogo as Brenda, a Ministry Agent, Mother's aide
John Wood as Trubshaw, Steed's tailor
Keeley Hawes as Tamara, Agent of Sir August
Patrick Macnee (voice) as Invisible Jones, a Ministry Agent
Lorraine McBride as Nun
The Avengers was hated by many movie critics.
The Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie a 5% rating, meaning "rotten".
The Metacritic rated the movie at 12/100.
That rating meant "overwhelming dislike".
Edward "Eddie" Griffin (born July 15, 1968) is an American actor and comedian.
He is best known for playing Eddie Sherman on the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie.
He later played in The Mod Squad (1999).
Also in 1999, he played Miles Waise in the movie Foolish.
Griffin is also a musician.
He had several albums.
Ronald Isley (born May 21, 1941) is an American recording artist, songwriter and record producer.
He is the founding member and lead singer of the R&B group the Isley Brothers.
The Treaty of Amiens (French: paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars.
It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Republican Calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace".
The consequent peace lasted for only one year (18 May 1803) and was the only period of general peace in Europe between 1793 and 1814.
Under the treaty, Britain recognised the French Republic.
Together with the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), the Treaty of Amiens marked the end of the Second Coalition, which had waged war against Revolutionary France since 1798.
In mathematics, Skewes’ number (10101034) is a theorized number in which once you surpass this number, the rarity of prime numbers decreases.
Wet'n'Wild Hawaii is a Hawaiian-themed water park.
It is located in Kapolei, on the island of Oahu.
Wet'n'Wild is currently the only water park in the state of Hawaii.
It is owned by the global Wet 'n Wild brand, and is one of their seven operating parks.
Around the time WhiteWater World began construction in 1995, it was reported
In order to cater to park attendees, Wet'n'Wild develops new rides and takes some out of service.
One of the more recent rides includes the Tornado, while rides such as the Cliffhanger went out of service.
Big Kahuna
Cutter's Island
Da FlowRider
Hawaiian Waters
Island Adventure Golf
Kapolei Kooler
Keiki Kove
O-Hana Highway
Surfsliders
Volcano Express
Waianae Coasters
Waimea Whirl
Microsoft Visual C++ is a coding environment made by Microsoft, mainly used for coding in C and C++.
The software provides helpful tools for programmers, such as a debugging tool to help find bugs in written code.
The program is available in both trial and free versions.
The previous version of Visual C++ was called Microsoft C/C++, originally used to compile code written in C. The first version of Microsoft Visual C++ was officially released in February of 1993.
The product was first created as an environment for C programming, however it only supported the original C library rather than the C99 revision.
In 2013, Visual C++ included support for various C99 features, however it was not until 2015 that Visual C++ included full support of the C99 standard library.
The C11 revision that replaced the C99 revision is still not supported in recent versions of Visual C++, however the company has plans to add them in future versions.
Building Win32 Applications Using Visual C++ 2005 Express
Visual C++ Tools and Templates in Visual Studio Editions
Visual C++ standalone build tools
Microsoft's 'Going Native' Channel Nine show
Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler , September 2015
An overhead projector (OHP) is a device that allows you to display images from either a computer/laptop or images created in real time.
Overhead projectors were often used in classrooms to showcase some type of presentation on paper for a group of students to view and in more recent times, overhead projectors are being used/designed to project things on technological devices.
This machine has a plastic frame that would be placed on top of the projector, and a fan that cools the machine from overheating if used for long periods of time.
French scientist Edmund Becquerel developed the first known overhead projection machine in 1853.
It was used by Jules Duboscq in 1866.
During World War II, overhead projectors were introduced into U.S. military training.
After that, they were used at schools.
Overhead projectors began to be widely used in schools and businesses in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
As the need for overhead projects grew during the 1950’s a company named Bruhl industries was founded in 1953, which created more overhead projectors than anyone else.
Heavy equipment are heavy-duty vehicles.
They are specially designed for completing construction tasks involving digging.
Other known names for heavy equipment are heavy machines, heavy trucks, construction equipment, engineering equipment, heavy vehicles, or heavy hydraulics.
They are typically operated by skilled workers that have gone through specialized training.
While many categories of equipment utilizes continuous tracks for rough conditions, others favor tires when possible for their greater mobility.
The tires selected play a significant role on the production of the project and the cost of the heavy equipment.
These three types of tires include, transport for earthmoving machines, work for slow moving earthmoving machines, and load and carry for transporting as well as digging.
Heavy equipment applies leverage, like other simple machines (levers, pulleys, etc.),
to multiply the effectiveness of the energy put in.
The majority of these machines use diesel power to complete tasks.
An external combustion engine (EC engine) is an engine which converts heated fluid into kinetic energy.
The heated fluid, called working fluid, can be air, hot water, pressurized water or liquid sodium which is heated in a boiler.
The fluid used to power the engine is cooled and reused in a closed cycle and the fluid is dumped in an open cycle.
Any combustion engine follows the basic idea of converting fossil fuels into motion.
Internal combustion engines do this by converting the energy created by an explosion of the fossil fuels, into motion.
External combustion engines, on the other hand, use the energy from burning fossil fuels to expand a gas or liquid and use the expansion to create motion.
The addition of this intermediate step is what differentiates an internal vs. external combustion engine.
External combustion engines came first, and tend to be more inefficient.
Famous examples of external combustion engines are steam engines
There are two types of external combustion: single phase and dual phase.
In a single phase engine, the fossil fuels are burned to heat up a gas, which then expands and creates motion.
In this case, there is no phase change.
With dual phase, you need one additional mechanism known as a phase transition.
This process transforms the phase of liquid to gas.
This converts temperature to usable work.
Some common examples that use dual-phase engines are steam engines and engines that use Organic Rankine Cycle.
A novelty song is a type of song that is meant to be funny, usually because of silly lyrics or lyrics that don't make a lot of sense.
A song is considered a novelty song when it uses strange lyrics, strange music, out-of-the-ordinary subject matter, or any combination of the above.
However, not all comedic songs are novelty songs.
Warcraft 3 is a real-time strategy game created by Blizzard Entertainment released on July 2, 2002 and is a sequel to Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness.
The base version of the game is Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and has a supplemental expansion version, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.
In Warcraft 3, players control small armies of units of a specific race and are tasked with various objectives based on scenario to achieve victory.
The common available to play races are Night elf, Human, Undead, and Orc which all have their own unique units.
Armies are comprised of 1-3 primary hero units with special abilities, and anywhere from 1-80 additional units to combat other monsters or units.
The primary goal of each Warcraft 3 game is to destroy your opponent's base and units with your own units, rendering them unable to fight back.
Warcraft 3 features both a single player campaign and online multiplayer gameplay, which includes custom user-made arcade games that use assets from the base game.
The silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), also called the pygmy anteater, is the smallest species of anteater.
It is found in southern Mexico and Central/South America.
The silky anteater is active at night and lives alone in trees.
One of its most noticeable features are the two large claws on each of its front paws, which it uses to cling to branches and defend itself.
It can use its tail to grasp things.
It has soft yellow to grey fur.
John Joseph "Hondo" Havlicek (April 8, 1940 – April 25, 2019) was an American professional basketball player.
He played as a small forward or a shooting guard.
He spent 16 seasons (1962–1978) playing for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He won eight NBA championships with the Celtics.
Four of his championship wins came in his first four seasons from 1963 to 1966.
His other championships came in 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1976.
He won a total of 13 NBA All-Star Games.
In 1984, he was made a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
Havlicek had Parkinson's disease for the final years of his life.
He died on April 25, 2019 in Jupiter, Florida, at the age of 79.
UN estimates between 1970 and 1979
IMF estimates between 1980 and 1989
IMF estimates between 1990 and 1999
IMF estimates between 2000 and 2009
IMF estimates between 2010 and 2019
IMF estimates between 2020 and 2024
CIA estimates in 1990
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Juan Francisco Rodríguez Márquez (12 September 1950 – 16 April 2019) was a Spanish boxer.
He won the European amateur championship in 1971.
He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
He later turned professional.
He had 34 pro fights, winning 20 (nine by knockout), losing nine and drawing four.
Some of his noted bouts were against Johnny Owen and Carlos Zárate Serna.
Rodríguez was born in Almería, Andalusia.
Juan Francisco Rodríguez  at Sports-Reference.com
He released three EPs in 2015, followed by an album released in 2017 called Leather Teeth.
Fallout is a video game series created in 1997 by a company named Interplay.
It was later bought by Bethesda Softworks.
The games in the series are Fallout, which was made in 1997, Fallout 2, which was published in 1998, Fallout: Tactics, made in 2001, Fallout 3, made in 2008, Fallout: New Vegas, made in 2010, Fallout 4, made in 2015, and Fallout 76, published in 2018.
Greg Allen Theakston (November 21, 1953 – April 22, 2019), also known as Earl P. Wooten, was an American comics artist and illustrator.
He worked for many publishers.
He founded his own publisher, Pure Imagination, in 1975.
He was also known for creating "Theakstonizing" for comics reprinting.
He was an illustrator for Mad for ten years.
He worked on projects for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Warren Comics, New York Daily News, Archie Comics, Galaxy Science Fiction, National Lampoon, The New York Times, Kitchen Sink, Playboy, TV Guide and Rolling Stone.
Theakston was born in Detroit, Michigan.
He died on April 22, 2019, at the age of 65.
The Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that is found in Eurasia.
It is also called the European eagle-owl.
In Europe, it is just called the eagle-owl.
It is one of the largest species of owl.
Females grow to a total length of 75 cm (30 in), with a wingspan of 188 cm (6 ft 2 in); males are slightly smaller.
The bird has distinctive ear tufts.
The Eurasian eagle-owl is found in many habitats, but is mostly a bird of mountainous regions or other rocky areas, often near woodland edge and shrubs or wetlands to hunt their prey.
Sergey Valentinovich Pogorelov (; 2 June 1974 – 24 April 2019) was a Russian team handball player.
He won a gold medal in team handball with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
He also won a bronze medal with Russia in team handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He was born in Volgograd.
Sergey Pogorelov  at Sports-Reference.com
Zoran Maroević (27 April 1942 – 24 April 2019) was a Yugoslav basketball player.
He won a silver medal with the Yugoslav national basketball team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
He was born in Matulji.
He died on 24 April 2019, three days before his 77th birthday.
Zoran Marojević  at Sports-Reference.com
Fish stock is a kind of stock used for fish dishes.
It is used in French and international cuisine.
This stock is the basis of fish soups and sauces.
It is usually made with fish bones and fish heads, together with finely chopped mirepoix.
The fish stock is cooked for 20–25 minutes—cooking any longer spoils the flavour.
Concentrated fish stock is called "fish fumet".
In Japan, a fish and kelp stock called dashi is made by briefly (3–5 minutes) cooking skipjack tuna (bonito) flakes called katsuobushi in nearly boiling water.
Other Japanese fish stock is made from fish that have been fried and boiled for several hours, creating a white milky broth.
This has a rich feel and sweet umami taste.
Sourcebook
Murdoch 2004.
Essential Seafood Cookbook Court-bouillon and fish stock, p. 34.
Murdoch Books.
ISBN 9781740454124
Faty Papy (18 September 1990 – 25 April 2019) was a Burundian professional footballer.
Papy was born in Bujumbura.
He played for local side AS Inter Star before signing for Turkish side Trabzonspor.
He was loaned to Dutch club MVV Maastricht for a season.
He later signed for APR of Rwanda, before moving to South Africa to play for Bidvest Wits of the Premier Soccer League.
He also played for Burundi.
He played 21 games for his country, scoring twice.
In 2019, Papy was playing in Eswatini for Malanti Chiefs.
During a home game on 25 April 2019, he collapsed and died on the pitch.
The numbered periodic comet 19P/Borrelly (a.k.a.
19P/1904 Y2, 1905 II, 1904e, 19P/1911 S1, 1911 VIII, 1911e, 1918 IV, 1918c 1925 VIII, 1925f, 1932 IV, 1932i, 1953 IV, 1954b, 1960 V, 1960k, 1967 VIII, 1967m, 1974 VII, 1973m, 1981 IV, 1980i, 1987 XXXIII, 1987p, 1994 XXX, 1994l)
Or any of these long-period comets:
C/1873 Q1 (a.k.a.
1873 IV, 1873c)
C/1874 O1 (a.k.a.
1874 V, 1874d)
C/1874 X1 (a.k.a.
1874 VI, 1874f)
C/1877 C1 (a.k.a.
1877 I, 1877a)
C/1889 X1 (a.k.a.
1890 I, 1889g)
C/1903 M1 (a.k.a.
1903 IV, 1903c)
C/1912 V1 (a.k.a.
1912 III, 1912c)
It could also be a partial reference to these comets:
C/1900 O1, Comet Borrelly-Brooks (a.k.a.
1900 II, 1900b)
C/1909 L1, Comet Borrelly-Daniel (a.k.a.
1909 I, 1909a)
Borrelly
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is a 2005 role-playing game created by The Pokémon Company and developed by Genius Sonority.
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness was released on August 4, 2005 in Japan and on September 14, 2005 in the United States.
Avalon is a mythical place in Arthurian legend.
It is the home of the Lady of the Lake.
King Arthur got his famous sword called Excalibur at Avalon.
Avalon is also called the Isle of Apples or the Isle of Glass.
The island is said to have healing powers according to Arthurian authors.
it is also to be the home of magic.
according to the legends.
Robbert de Greef (27 August 1991 – 25 April 2019) was a Dutch cyclist.
He was a member of the Alecto Cycling Team.
He won the 2017 Kernen Omloop Echt-Susteren.
He also finished second in the 2019 Ronde van Drenthe.
He was born in Geldrop, North Brabant.
De Greef had a heart attack riding in the Omloop van de Braakman race.
He was taken to a hospital in Antwerp and was put into a coma.
He died more than three weeks later on 25 April 2019 of a brain haemorrhage.
He was 27.
Robbert de Greef at ProCyclingStats
Nasser Farbod (‎; 27 April 1922 – 26 April 2019) was an Iranian political activist and military officer.
He served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army from 27 March 1979 until his resignation on 12 July 1979.
Ellen Schwiers (11 June 1930 – 26 April 2019) was a German actress.
Her acting career lasted from 1949 to 2015.
She acted in plays by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
She appeared as the Buhlschaft in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival.
She also acted in over 200 movies and television series.
Some of her screen roles include When the Bells Sound Clearly, The Inheritance of Bjorndal, God's Thunder and Tatort.
In 1989, she was awarded an Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Schwiers was born in Stettin, Pomerania, which is now the Polish city of Szczecin.
She was married to Peter Jacob from 1956 until his death in 1992.
On 26 April 2019, Schwiers died in Starnberg, Bavaria.
Lorenzo Quinteros (14 June 1945 – 23 April 2019) was an Argentine actor.
His first movie roles was in Alianza para el progreso (1971).
He later appeared in the movies Man Facing Southeast (1986), Last Scenes from the Shipwreck (1989), A Wall of Silence (1993), The Act in Question (1994), Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996), The Adventures of God (2000) and Valentín (2002).
In 2009, he was cast as Marquis de Sade in an Argentine version of Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade.
Quinteros was born in Monte Buey, Córdoba Province.
He died at a hospital in Buenos Aires on 23 April 2019.