the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
On B-side was also the "Organic Mix" and new remix by Laurel Halo.
Sprouting is growing sprouts from seeds (germinating) to eat.
Bean sprouts are a common ingredient, especially in Asian cuisine, made from sprouting beans.
The typical beansprout is made from the greenish-capped mung beans (Vigna radiata).
Other common bean sprouts are the usually yellow, larger-grained soy sprouts.
Pope Zephyrinus (ca.
198/9-217 C.E.) was the fifteenth Pope, the official title is the Bishop of Rome of the Catholic Church.
He served for seventeen years but was consider an weak and ineffectual pope without education who relied heavily upon his deacon Callistus who would become the next Pope.
During his time there was a group of people who practiced Montanism and Adoptionism who preached things which were against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Both these groups taught that Jesus Christ was a holy person but not the son of God.
Theologians at that time were very disappointed with Pope Zephrynus for not taking severe action against these groups.
They considered him a weak pope.
Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk rock movement.
It started in the early 1990s in Washington.
Kathleen Hanna's band the Bikini Kill made riot grrrl famous.
Bratmobile was another influential riot grrrl band.
Riot grrrl is associated with zine culture and third wave feminism.
Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American comedic actor, director, producer and writer.
His best known movie roles were as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981), both movies he co-wrote.
He also wrote and directed Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993) and Analyze This (1999).
Ramis was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Jewish family.
He was married to San Francisco artist Anne Plotkin from 1967 until their divorce.
They had a daughter, Violet, whose godfather is actor Bill Murray.
He later married Erica Mann in 1989.
They had two sons: Julian Arthur and Daniel Hayes.
Ramis died from an infection of the blood vessel (vasculitis) at his home in North Shore, Chicago.
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
Archie's Final Project (2009)
Carlos Páez Vilaró (1 November 1923 – 24 February 2014) was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor.
He composed numerous musical pieces in the two genres and conducted an orchestra.
He was of Catalan ancestry.
Vilaró died on 24 February 2014 at his home in Punta Ballena, Maldonado.
Uruguayan writers
Unrepentant Geraldines is the 14th studio album by Tori Amos.
It will be released 12 May 2014 in the UK.
The album's tour, Unrepentant Geraldines Tour, will start on May 5, 2014.
2014 albums
Joseph Alexander Bell (November 27, 1923 – February 17, 2014) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.
He played 62 games in the National Hockey League.
He played with the New York Rangers.
He was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba on November 27, 1923.
His brother Gordon Bell also played in the NHL.
Joe died in February 2014, at the age of 90.
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.
He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.
The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
Roger Lancelyn Green (1946) Andrew Lang: A critical biography with a short-title bibliography.
Antonius P. L. de Cocq (1968) Andrew Lang: A nineteenth century anthropologist (Diss.
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands).
Tilburg: Zwijsen.
Works by Andrew Lang at Internet Archive
Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books
Index to the fairy tales in the Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books
A Monk of Fife Complete Book Online
Custom and Myth  - full text HTML of original work.
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was an American chemist.
She invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide—better known as Kevlar.
She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
Kwolek won many awards for her work in polymer chemistry.
Stephanie Kwolek at Famous Women Inventors
Interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek , March 21, 1998, from the Oral History Program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Stephanie Kwolek , Video, from The Catalyst Series: Women in Chemistry, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Suicide is a serious problem in Greenland.
According to the government of Greenland, one person in five has attempted suicide.
Because of this, the Greenland government has taken a number of steps to reduce the suicide rate.
One example is roadside posters.
The number of suicides in Greenland began to rise in the 1970s.
Before that it had been very low.
It kept getting higher until 1986.
In 1986, suicide was the leading cause of death in several towns, such as Sarfannguit.
Before 1970, the rate of suicide in Greenland had been very low.
But by 1994, it had become one of the highest in the world.
The rate was 107 per 100,000 persons committing suicide per year.
Government data in 2010 suggested that almost one suicide occurred a week.
An article was published in the journal BMC Psychiatry in 2009.
It reported that 1351 suicides took place in Greenland during the 35 years (1968–2002).
The study noted seasonal changes in the suicide rate.
Suicides were higher in June and lower in the winter months.
Suicide rates in northern parts of West Greenland are higher than in southern parts.
Suicide rates are higher for men than women.
Most of the people committing suicide are young men between the ages of 15-24.
Unlike in other Western countries, the suicide rate in Greenland goes down with age.
Several reasons are blamed for Greenland's high rate of suicide.
These including alcoholism, depression, poverty, poor relationships with partners and dysfunctional parental homes.
The higher summer suicide rate is blamed on insomnia caused by longer periods of daylight.
The increase in suicide rates started about the time television appeared in Greenland.
But it may be more the "modernization package" in general that is causing the problem.
Culture clash between the traditional culture and modern Western culture is also assumed to be a factor.
The most common methods were hanging (46%) and shooting (37%).
Other methods include jumping from heights, cutting with sharp objects, drowning, overdose of medication, and poisoning.
Greenland's Government and other organizations have made a number of efforts to prevent suicides.
There are different associations that provide support for people that feel suicidal.
Measures include posters placed along the roads, which read: "The call is free.
No one is alone.
Don't be alone with your dark thoughts.
Call."
Suicide consultants are used to show movies discouraging teenage suicide attempts.
Stanley Seymour Brotman (July 27, 1924 – February 21, 2014) was an American federal judge.
He was born in Vineland, New Jersey.
He grew up in the nearby village of Brotmanville, which had been established by his grandfather, who was a Russian immigrant.
He left Yale University to serve in the United States Army during World War II, from 1942 to 1945.
He returned to Yale and received a B.A. in Eastern Studies from Yale University in 1947 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1951.
On January 27, 1975, He was nominated by President Gerald Ford to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Mitchell H. Cohen.
Brotman was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 13, 1975, and received his commission on March 14, 1975.
He assumed senior status on April 23, 1990.
He retired in September 2013.
Brotman died on February 21, 2014 at a hospital in Stratford, New Jersey.
Stanley Seymour Brotman at martindale.com
The M117 is a general-purpose bomb.
It is dropped from the air by an airplane.
It is used by United States military forces.
The M117 was used for the first time in the Korean War in the early 1950s.
Its nominal weight is , but its actual weight, depending on fuze and delay options, is around .
Its explosive content is  of Minol 2 or Tritonal.
The M117 can also be used with a low-drag tail fin for medium and high-altitude bombing.
Harry Burnett "H. B." Reese (May 24, 1879 – May 16, 1956) was an American inventor.
He was best known for creating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founding the H. B. Reese Candy Company.
He was born in York County, Pennsylvania.
He was of Welsh ancestry.
He married Blanche Edna Reese (née Hyson) on August 1, 1900.
By 1928, the couple had sixteen children.
Reese died from a heart attack on May 16, 1956 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
After the June 1976 protests, he was co-founder of assurance to workers charged by the communist regime.
He was one of the founders of the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR).
He became Chief of Bureau of Intervention of the Committee for Social Self-defence KOR in 1977.
In 1980, he was the founder of the Helsinki Committee in Poland.
In the early 1980s, he was chief of Commission of Intervention and Law-abidingness of Solidarity.
During martial law in Poland he established independent Radio Solidarity.
In 1982, he was arrested and jailed by the communist regime until 1984.
Romaszewski died in a hospital in his hometown of Warsaw, after a week of induced coma.
Federal University of Recôncavo do Bahia (, short UFRB) is a public university in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
It was established in 2006.
It is located in Cruz das Almas.
It is the largest university in the town, and one the country's most successful universities.
Liperi is a municipality in North Karelia, Finland.
It had about 12,500 living there in April 2014.
The municipalities next to it are Heinävesi, Joensuu, Kontiolahti, Polvijärvi, Rääkkylä, Savonlinna and Outokumpu.
Karelia-soutu
The official Liperi page
The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was a UK pro-paedophile activist group.
It started in October 1974.
In 1975 PIE had their first open meeting.
Mothers threw rotten fruit and vegetables at members.
That year the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) gave PIE affiliate status.
His reign was a peaceful one and there not much known about it.
He served as head of the Catholic church during the imperial reign of Alexander Severus.
He is buried in the cemetary at Callistus on the Appian Way.
He is considered a saint of the Catholic Church and his feast day is celebrated on May 25.
230 deaths
Rebecca "Becky" Adlington, OBE (born 17 February 1989) is a retired English freestyle swimmer.
She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 800 m. She won bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 800 m freestyle events in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Adlington retired from all competitive swimming on 5 February 2013.
Adlington was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
She went to The Brunts School there.
In 2013 she was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Sleigh Bells is an American noise pop musical group.
The members are Derek E. Miller and Alexis Krauss.
The group started in 2008.
On May 11, 2010, Sleigh Bells' first album Treats was released by Mom+Pop and N.E.E.T. Recordings.
Pitchfork gave it a score of 8.7 out of 10.
On February  21, 2012 their second album Reign of Terror was released.
On October 4, 2013 Sleigh Bells' third album Bitter Rivals was released.
It did not get reviews as good as Treats or Reign of Terror.
On the same day Sleigh Bells started a tour.
Kontiolahti is a municipality in North Karelia, Finland.
It had about 14,000 living there in January 2014.
The municipalities next to it are Joensuu, Juuka, Lieksa, Liperi and Polvijärvi.
The official Kontiolahti page
In military munitions, a fuze is the part of an explosive device that makes it explode.
In some devices (notably torpedoes) a fuze may be identified by function as the "exploder".
The term fuze is used to indicate an advanced ignition device with mechanical and/or electronic parts.
Time fuzes detonate after a set period of time.
Impact, percussion or contact fuzes detonate when they hit something, usually the target.
A proximity fuze uses sensors which can be one or more combinations of the following: radar, active sonar, passive acoustic, infrared, magnetic, photoelectric, seismic or even television cameras.
Whatever the sensor used, percussion fuzes cause the explosion to occur close to the target.
The target will either be destroyed or severely damaged.
Emilie Autumn Liddell (born on September 22, 1979) is an American singer and violinist.
She started learning to play the violin when she was four years old.
She calls her style Victoriandustrial.
It is influenced by the Victorian era.
She performs with The Bloody Crumpets.
Autumn left school when she was nine or ten.
She went to Indiana University for two years.
She left because the university would not let her wear corsets.
Autumn released On a Day: Music for Violin & Continuo on her label Traitor Records.
In 2000 a book of poetry that she wrote was published.
In 2003 Autumn's first studio album Enchant was released.
In 2006 Opheliac was released by Trisol Music Group GmbH.
In 2007 A Bit o' This & That was released to iTunes.
In 2010 The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls was published.
In 2012 Autumn released her third studio album, Fight Like a Girl.
Autumn has bipolar disorder.
Megan's Law is an informal name for laws in the United States that require law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders.
It was created after the murder of Megan Kanka.
Individual states decide what information will be made available and how it should be distributed.
Most give out the offender's name, picture, address, Prison date, and nature of the crime.
The information is often displayed on free public websites, but can be published in newspapers, distributed in pamphlets, or through various other means.
Megan Kanka
Richard and Maurine Kanka and their three children lived in a small town in New Jersey.
On 29 July 1994 their daughter Megan was lured into a neighbor's house to see a non-existent puppy.
There she was raped and murdered by her abductor, Jesse Timmendequas.
Timmendequas had just recently been released from prison after his second conviction on sexual offenses against children.
He had served six of the ten years of his sentence.
Searches for the girl turned up nothing.
The local police quickly focused on three known sex offenders living across the street from the missing girl.
Police released two of the suspects when they verified where they were.
Timmendequas became the main suspect.
He was released after several hours of interrogation.
After obtaining a search warrant detectives searched Timmendequas's trash and found a piece of Megan Kanka's clothing.
Timmendequas was questioned again and after several hours told police "She's in the park."
When police then asked if she was still alive Timmendequas said "No, she's dead.
I put a plastic bag over her head."
The Kankas were outraged to find they were living across the street from a convicted child sex offender.
Two days after her murder, the parents of Megan Kanka started the "Megan Nichole Kanka Foundation".
The mission of the foundation is to identify the location of convicted child sex offenders in every community.
Maurine Kanka began pushing for laws disclosing the need to notify residents of the presence of convicted sex offenders in their communities.
New Jersey was the first state to pass a "Megan's law."
In 1995 the Supreme Court of New Jersey upheld the State law.
The continuing efforts resulted in President Bill Clinton signing the federal version of "Megan's Law."
The Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children Law, or "Megan's Law", was signed in May 1996.
This was the first part.
The second, or notification part of the law, was signed on 13 November 1996.
It gave states one year to pass state versions of Megan's law.
The District of Columbia and forty-seven states met the deadline and passed their own versions of the law.
The notification portion of the law requires states to make public information about all sex offenders.
They may each choose how they want to implement that part.
Under the law sex offenders are grouped in risk bands based on the nature and details of their offense.
The public is not notified of 'low risk' sexual offenders.
Information on 'Medium risk' offenders is disclosed to schools and day care center. '
High risk' sexual offenders' information is disclosed to the public.
Shortcomings of Megan's law
As many as 20% of offenders have disappeared after providing false addresses.
Sex offenders may offend outside their own neighborhoods where they are not readily identified.
Notification laws may create a false sense of security, despite the greatest danger to children coming from family members and friends of the family.
Some states release information on offenders only if officials there decide it is necessary.
While many states are open and disclose offender information readily, some are very restrictive as to who the information is released to.
People listed on a sex offender list may be  placedin danger of acts of vigilantism, or be made homeless.
Offender databases may be inaccurate and may mistake one person for another.
Plea bargans may potentially result in a lesser conviction charge that does not require registration as a sex offender.
Some offenders who pose no danger to the public may be required to register, such as a person who was convicted of a sex offense with a minor of similar age under a statutory rape law.
The Megan Nichole Kanka Foundation
Megan's Law by State
Sex Offender Registries
Martin Hanzal (born February 20, 1987) is a Czech professional ice hockey centre.
He currently plays for the HC Samson České Budějovice of the Czech Regional Hockey Championship.
He also played for the Arizona Coyotes, Minnesota Wild, and Dallas Stars.
Before playing in the NHL, Hanzal played 19 games in the Czech Extraliga with HC České Budějovice, 19 games in the United States Hockey League (USHL) with the Omaha Lancers and 1 season in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Red Deer Rebels.
He was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes with the 17th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
He debuted with the Coyotes during the 2007–08 NHL season.
He scored his first hat-trick in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on December 4, 2008.
The hat trick came in only 20 minutes and 27 seconds of play time which set the record for the fastest hat trick in Coyotes history.
He was named an alternate captain on October 8, 2011.
Haikouichthys had a defined skull and other characters which suggest it is a true craniate, and perhaps one of the earliest fishes.
Cladistic analysis indicates that the animal is probably a basal chordate or a basal craniate.
It does not show enough detail to be definitely included in either stem group.
David Giuntoli (born June 18, 1980) is an American actor.
He is best known for the lead role of Detective Nick Burkhardt in the television series Grimm.
Leppävirta is a municipality in Northern Savonia, Finland.
It had almost 10,170 living there in January 2014.
The municipalities next to it are Heinävesi, Joroinen, Kuopio, Pieksämäki, Suonenjoki, Tuusniemi and Varkaus.
Leppävirta site
Suonenjoki is a city in Northern Savonia, Finland.
It had almost 7,500 living there in January 2014.
The municipalities next to it are Kuopio, Leppävirta, Pieksämäki, Rautalampi and Tervo.
Suonenjoki site
Tervo is a municipality in Northern Savonia, Finland.
It had almost 1,670 living there in January 2014.
The municipalities next to it are Keitele, Kuopio, Maaninka, Pielavesi, Rautalampi, Suonenjoki and Vesanto.
Official Tervo website
Tokaji is white wine from the Tokaj wine region in Hungary.
The winemaking style is from the 1600s.
Thalia Zedek (born 1961) is an American singer and guitarist.
She started Dangerous Birds in 1981.
In 1987 Zedek joined Live Skull.
The band broke up in 1990.
She released her first album, Been Here and Gone, in 2001.
In 2002 she released You're A Big Girl Now.
In 2004 Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch of Madness was released.
Mário Esteves Coluna (; 6 August 1935 – 25 February 2014) was a Portuguese footballer.
He played mainly as a central midfielder.
He spent most of his career with Benfica, appearing in 525 official games and scoring 127 goals during 16 professional seasons.
Dubbed Monstro Sagrado (Sacred Monster) he won 19 major titles with his main club, including ten national leagues and two European Cups.
Profile at Zerozero
Slowdive is an English dream pop band.
They were started in 1985 in Reading by Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell.
In 2014 the band got back together.
In 1990 Slowdive released their first EP Slowdive.
In September 1991 the band's first album Just for a Day was released.
The band wrote to Brian Eno to ask him to produce their second album.
Eno said that he liked Slowdive's music but wanted to make music with them rather than produce their album.
In 1993 Slowdive released their second album Souvlaki.
Pitchfork gave the album a score of 7 out of 10.
They then released two extended plays, 5 EP and 5 EP (In Mind Remixes).
In 1995 the band released their last album Pygmalion.
Then they broke up.
DVD-R is a recordable DVD format.
It uses a thin organic dye layer which is recorded by a high-power laser.
The laser bleaches the recorded areas, creating reflective areas that can then be played back with a low-power laser.
A DVD-R can be recorded with DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, or DVD-ROM content.
A DVD-R typically has a storage capacity of 4.7 GB.
Pioneer has also developed an 8.5 GB dual layer version, DVD-R DL, which appeared on the market in 2005.
DVD-R(W) is one of three competing industry standard DVD recordable formats; the others are DVD+R(W) and DVD-RAM.
A DVD-R can be written only once, in contrast with a rewritable DVD formats such as DVD-RW or DVD+RW which can be rewritten multiple (1000+) times.
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (
April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.
He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925), a judge on the Court of International Justice (1928–1930), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941).
He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing narrowly to Woodrow Wilson.
Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.
Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.
On August 27, 1948, Hughes died in what is now the Tiffany Cottage of the Wianno Club near Barnstable, Massachusetts.
His remains are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.
Hall, Kermit L., ed.
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1992. ; .
Martin, Fenton S. and Goehlert, Robert U., The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography, (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1990). .
Perkins, Dexter, Charles Evans Hughes and American democratic statesmanship (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956).
Pusey, Merlo J., Charles Evans Hughes, 2 vol. (
New York: Macmillan, 1951).. the standard scholarly biography
Shesol, Jeff.
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court (W.W. Norton, 2010)
Simon, James F., FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal (Simon & Schuster, Forthcoming, February 2012).
Grave of Charles Evans Hughes at Find a Grave
The Hughes Court at  Supreme Court Historical Society.
"Charles Evans Hughes, Presidential Contender"  from C-SPAN's The Contenders
John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – July 23, 1800) was an American statesman and judge.
He was the first Governor of South Carolina, following the signing of the United States Constitution.
He served as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and was the second Chief Justice of the Court from July to December 1795.
He was the elder brother of Edward Rutledge, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Ireland, Robert M.  John Rutledge at Answers.com.
NGA Biography of John Rutledge
John Rutledge memorial at Find a Grave
Oyez Project, Supreme  Court of the United States Media, John Rutledge.
SCIway Biography of John Rutledge
Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Gilbert Charles Stewart December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter.
He was known for painting many portraits of the American Founding Fathers and six Presidents of the United States including George Washington's official portrait.
Many of his paintings are in museums in Washington, D.C., London, and in Boston.
Gilbert Stuart at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gilbert Stuart Biography, National Gallery of Art
Gilbert Stuart Museum Website
Gilbert-Stuart.org 155 works by Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart on ArtCyclopedia
Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807) was an American lawyer and politician.
He was against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, United States Senator from Connecticut, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
While at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the word National from the motion made by Edmund Randolph of Virginia.
Randolph had moved successfully to call the government the National Government of United States.
Ellsworth moved that the government should continue to be called the United States Government.
Oliver Ellsworth at Michael Ariens.com .
National Archives biography
Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
Oliver Ellsworth at  Supreme Court Historical Society.
Oyez Project, U.S. Supreme Court Media: Oliver Ellsworth
Princeton Companion: Oliver Ellsworth
The Ellsworth Court at Supreme Court Historical Society.
Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was an American attorney and politician in Ohio.
He served as the seventh Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 to his death in 1888.
Chief Justice Waite was primarily known for overturning federal laws passed during Reconstruction that protected African Americans.
Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888 .
The Waite Court, 1874-1888 .
Morrison R. Waite Biography, official Supreme Court media, Oyez
Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician.
He was the eighth Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.
He was nominated by Grover Cleveland.
Ariens, Michael, Melville Fuller.
Supreme Court Historical Society:
Melville Weston Fuller, 1888-1910 .
The Fuller Court 1888-1910 .
Oyez Project Melville W. Fuller Biography, U.S. Supreme Court media.
Orth, John V.  Answers.com Melville Fuller.
Reed, Lawrence W. (March 10, 2006), Melville W. Fuller: A Model Chief Justice Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Edward Douglass White, Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921) was an American politician and jurist.
He was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States.
Ariens, Michael, Edward Douglass White.
Bust of Edward Douglass White, Oyez.
official Supreme Court media.
The E. D. White Historic Site, including the original plantation home, operated by the Louisiana State Museum
Edward Douglas White biography,  Supreme Court Historical Society.
Edward Douglas White, official Supreme Court media, Oyez.
The White Court, 1910-1921, History of the Court, Supreme Court Historical Society .
Edward Douglass White memorial at Find a Grave.
Lawyers from Louisiana
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist.
He served as the dean of Columbia Law School, his alma mater, in the early 20th century.
In 1941, Stone became the 12th Chief Justice of the United States, serving until his death in 1946 – one of the shortest terms of any Chief Justice.
Stone was the first Chief Justice not to have served in elected office.
Ariens, Michael, Harlan Fiske Stone.
Fox, John, Capitalism and Conflict, Biographies of the Robes, Harlan Fiske Stone Public Broadcasting Service.
Harlan Fiske Stone,  Supreme Court Historical Society
Nash, A. E. Kier, Harlan Fiske Stone, answers.com
The Stone Court, 1941–1945, History of the Court, Supreme Court Historical Society
Stone Family Papers, Special Collections, Jones Library, Amherst, MA
Cover photograph Time Magazine
In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisa, Kentucky, for twelve years.
In the executive branch, he was the Secretary of Treasury under President Harry S. Truman.
In the judicial branch, he was the 13th Chief Justice of the United States, appointed by President Truman.
Biography , at the U.S. Treasury Office of the Curator.
Truman Presents Supreme Court Chief Justice Vinson With Historic Gavel, 1948 Shapell Manuscript Foundation
Chief Justice Vinson dies of Heart Attack, New York Times, September 8, 1953.
Find a Grave, Frederick M. Vinson.
Obituary, NY Times, September 9, 1953, Vinson Excelled In Federal Posts.
Oyez Project, Fred M. Vinson, United States Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Historical Society, The Vinson Court.
The Hull House was a settlement in Chicago, Illinois.
It was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
It was constructed in 1856, but was named Hull House in 1889.
It was built to help many European immigrants coming to the United States.
It is a landmark in Chicago and in the United States.
The house became a museum owned by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Pulau Ayu is a very small Indonesian island in West Papua province.
The two main towns on the island are called Imbik Kuan and Ayu.
Because there is a big reef around the island, only small boats can go there.
Pulau Ayu Information
Detailed Maps
Ellen Gates Starr   (March 19, 1859, near Laona, Illinois – February 10, 1940, in Suffern, New York) was an American social reformer and activist.
Along with Jane Addams, in 1889, she and Addams found the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.
Starr was a lesbian.
She was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and helped organize striking garment workers in 1896, 1910, and 1915.
She worked with many other reformers such as Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul.
Ich bin ein Berliner (English: I am a Berliner) was a speech by John F. Kennedy.
He made the speech on June 26, 1963 in West Berlin.
This is thought to be one of Kennedy's most famous speeches.
He made the speech to gain support for the Cold War and to mark the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's construction.
Kennedy said:
Kennedy wrote on his paper "ish bin ein Bearleener" to help him say it better.
Tear down this wall! (
Ronald Reagan speech)
Text, audio, video of address
About.com article
JFK Letter On Success of Trip to Europe 1963 Shapell Manuscript Foundation
Text: Kennedy's Berlin speech text
On August 11, 1984, United States President Ronald Reagan was getting ready to make his weekly Saturday radio address on National Public Radio.
He was running for re-election at the time.
He was testing the microphone before he started to talk, then Reagan made this joke to the radio workers:
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.
We begin bombing in five minutes.
The joke was based on the start of that day's speech:
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you that today I signed legislation that will allow student religious groups to begin enjoying a right they've too long been denied — the freedom to meet in public high schools during nonschool hours, just as other student groups are allowed to do.
Many Americans and Soviets were scared about a nuclear attack.
Reagan said it was a joke.
Though this was not the first time Reagan had joked before giving a speech or address, the Soviets were offended.
They started making fun of Reagan.
Otep (also written as OTEP or OT3P) is an American nu metal band.
The band was started in 2000 in Los Angeles by Otep Shamaya.
After a few shows Otep were signed to Capitol Records.
On June 18, 2002 Otep's first album Sevas Tra was released.
House of Secrets was released July 27, 2004.
On October 30, 2007 Otep's third album The Ascension was released.
Otep's fourth album Smash the Control Machine was released on August 18, 2009.
Atavist was released on 26 April 2011.
On November 6, 2012, Otep released their first live album, Sounds Like Armageddon.
The band's sixth studio album Hydra was released on January 22, 2013.
In an interview Otep said that it is the band's last album.
Flipping is a term used in economics.
It is used mainly in the United States to describe buying something and quickly reselling (or "flipping") it for profit.
It can apply to any asset but is often applied to real estate and initial public offerings (IPOs).
Real estate is bought and sold every day.
The seller arranges for a realtor to advertise and sell their property.
The realtor charges between 4 and 7 percent of the selling price as a commission.
The sale is conducted between the owner of the property or house, and the buyer who wants to purchase it.
Flipping is used by real estate investors to describe someone purchasing a property then selling it quickly for a profit.
Usually the investor will pay for improvements to make the property more attractive.
The investor must have the money to buy the house and pay for the improvements.
Realtors neither buy the house or resell it (although a realtor can also be a flipper).
They simply broker the sale.
Flipping involves a good deal of risk for investors.
They must know the value of a property and not pay too much.
They have to be careful not to invest too much in improvements.
Very often run-down properties or foreclosures are sold at auctions.
The buyer may not be able to inspect the property before buying it.
This can lead to additional costs to fix problems that could not be seen.
A property needs to sell quickly or there is no quick return on their money.
IPOs
Initial public offerings are when a private company sells shares of stock to the public for the first time (called going public).
Flipping is buying stocks and selling within the first 2 to 3 days after the company went public.
The hope is the price will go up rapidly.
Underwriters want investors want to hold onto stocks.
They may blacklist investors who flip too many stocks even though it is legal.
In the United Kingdom the term is used to describe Members of Parliament switching their 'second home' between several houses.
This was to maximize their taxpayer funded allowances.
Tax consequences of flipping real estate
Can you flip a house for profit in this market?
Chokwe Lumumba (born Edwin Finley Taliaferro; August 2, 1947 – February 25, 2014) was an American politician.
He was the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
Lumumba was born in Detroit, Michigan as Edwin Finley Taliaferro, a name he referred to as his "slave name".
Lumumba died on February 25, 2014 at the St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.
The cause of death was not made clear, though Jackson City Council president Charles Tillman, who was sworn in as acting mayor, said he had a meeting with Lumumba the previous day and that he had a cold.
City Councilman Quentin Whitwell told reporters that Lumumba died of heart failure.
Election website
Lawyers from Detroit
A fasciculation, or "muscle twitch", is a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation.
At times it may be visible under the skin.
Deeper areas can be detected by EMG testing.
A fasciculation can happen in any skeletal muscle in the body.
Fasciculations can occur in normal healthy people.
One uncommon reason for them is due to a lower motor neuron lesion that may be caused by any of several diseases.
One example would be Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
What is a Fasciculation?
Douglas William "Doug" Jarrett (April 22, 1944 – February 10, 2014) was a Canadian ice hockey player.
He was a Defense in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers.
He also did work on behalf of the Chicago Blackhawk Alumni Association.
He was born in London, Ontario.
In 2011, he was inducted into the London (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame.
He died from lung cancer on February 10, 2014 in Fort Erie, Ontario.
He was diagnosed with the disease ten days before his death.
They were discovered in the first half of the 19th century in the Old Red Sandstone of Britain.
Louis Agassiz named it in 1835.
He had been to Scotland, and seen Hugh Miller's collection.
Miller described his collecting later, in a popular work on the rocks and fossils of the Old Red Sandstone in Scotland.
Agassoz' single species has now been split into more species, some of which have been moved into a different genus.
Cephalaspis was a medium-sized fish that lived in freshwater streams and estuaries of the early Devonian.
Some of the fossils are well-preserved, and so we know quite a bit about its anatomy.
Its armour was on the dorsal side, and its mouth on the ventral side.
Therefore, it is likely that it was a bottom-feeder, nosing about in the mud of a river.
It had a typical vertebrate type of brain, with front, middle and rear regions, and nerves to and from sense organs and  muscles in the head region.
Its pineal opening between its eyes was probably a light-sensitive organ.
On its skull are three areas which obviously had a special function.
Many modern fish which live in muddy rivers use both pressure-sensitive lateral lines, and also electrical fields to sense movement.
Cephalaspis had no lateral lines, but the three fields on its skull were no doubt sensory, for sensing pressure change or electrical fields.
The animal had semi-circular canals to sense balance (one of the functions of our own semi-circular canals).
They were capable of sustained swimming, and short rapid bursts.
Almost all the fossils are found in strata laid down in freshwater conditions, so the various species live in rivers, streams connected with lakes and estuaries.
Sansom decided that Cephalaspis was the sister-taxon of cornuate osteostracans, which have defined corners on the head-shields.
Francis "Franny" Beecher (September 29, 1921 – February 24, 2014), also known as Frank Beecher, was an American country, jazz, and rock musician.
He was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962.
He was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Beecher died from natural causes on February 24, 2014 at a nursing home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was aged 92.
Tomaž Pengov (1949 – 10 February 2014) was a Slovenian singer-songwriter, musician and poet.
He played a 12-stringed acoustic guitar and lute.
He was born in Ljubljana, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
He studied comparative literature at University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts.
Pengov died after a short illness on 10 February 2014 in his hometown of Ljubljana.
He was aged 64.
TMNT is a computer-animated fantasy action movie.
It was made in the United States and released in 2007.
It is part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) series.
The movie is the fourth in the original TMNT movie series.
It was the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie made with computer-generated imagery (CGI).
It was also the first movie in the series in 14 years.
TMNT was written and directed by Kevin Munroe.
It features the voices of Nolan North, James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, Mitchell Whitfield, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewart, Zhang Ziyi and Laurence Fishburne (who is the narrator).
The animation was created by Imagi Animation Studios.
It was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures.
It was the last movie that producer Mako Iwamatsu made before his death.
It was also produced by Peter Laird, one of the two men who created the Turtles.
The story begins with the four Turtles (Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo) having grown apart after their final defeat of the Shredder.
Strange things begin happening in New York City as ancient creatures threaten the world.
The Turtles must reunite to save it.
TMNT premiered in cinemas on March 23, 2007.
It was successful, making US$95 million around the world.
It received both good and bad reviews from movie critics.
Animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies
Sulkava is a municipality in the Southern Savonia region of Finland.
It had almost 3,000 living there in January 2014.
The municipality is best known for the annual long distance rowing contest, Sulkavan Suursoudut, around Partalansaari ("Partala Island").
It is just as famous for the large party following the rowing event.
The municipalities near it are Juva, Puumala, Rantasalmi, Ruokolahti and Savonlinna.
The official Sulkava page
Ruokolahti () is a municipality in South Karelia, Finland.
It had almost 5,500 people living there in January 2014.
The municipalities next to it are Imatra, Lappeenranta, Parikkala, Puumala, Rautjärvi, Savonlinna, Sulkava and Taipalsaari.
Nearby is the Kummakivi rock.
It is a large rock balanced on top of another.
Imatra – 17 km
Lappeenranta – 53 km
Savonlinna – 104 km
Mikkeli – 119 km
Kouvola – 141 km
Helsinki – 274 km
The official Ruokolahti page
Pontian served as pope mostly during the reign of Roman Emperor Severus, generally considered a peaceful period for Christians, but died during the reign of Maximinus Thrax.
Maximinus Thrax did not tolerate Christians and pursued them violently.
He arrested Pontian and Hippolytus and sent them to the mines in Sardinia where they died soon after.
Pontian's body was returned to Rome a short time later and they were buried in the catacombs of Callistus on the Appian Way.
Catacombs were underground chambers where many Christians lived, died and were buried.
Pontian is known for his condemnation of Origen a theologian of the time, and forbade his teachings.
Pontian is considered a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church.
His feast day is celebrated on August 13 along with a fellow martyr Hippolytus.
Loimaa is a town (countryside city) in Southwest Finland.
As of January 31.
2014, about 16,700 people lived there.
Neighbouring municipalities are Huittinen, Humppila, Koski Tl, Marttila, Oripää, Punkalaidun, Pöytyä, Somero, Säkylä and Ypäjä.
Helsinki 150 km
Turku 65 km
Tampere 100 km
Hämeenlinna 106 km
Pori 112 km
Official city site
Anthony Blake ( 1704 – 1787) was an Irish clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was the Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise from 1756 to 1758 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1758 to 1787.
Blake was the youngest of two sons of Andrew Blake of Kilvine.
His family were from County Mayo.
They were one of the Tribes of Galway.
He returned to Ireland from France about 1731.
He attended the schools Saint-Omer and Louvain.
He was made priest in the archdiocese of Tuam.
He held the positions of dean of the chapter and vicar general to the archbishop.
From 1741 to 1756 he served as Warden of Galway.
His most nobable action was to build a new parish chapel in the town's middle street.
This chapel stood until 1833.
Dictionary of Irish Biography, pp.
579–80, Cambridge, 2010.
He served less than two months and died a natural death.
He was buried in the cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA; also referred to as the Wages and Hours Bill) is a federal statute of the United States.
The Act
The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour workweek (reduced to a 40-hour workweek by 1940).
It established a national minimum wage (of 25¢ per hour).
It guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs.
The FLSA also prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor".
The FLSA created a Wage and Hour Division in the Department of Labor.
The statute applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by a business engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from these requirements.
The FLSA was originally written in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black.
He was later appointed to the Supreme Court in 1937.
However, Black's proposal to require employers to adopt a thirty-hour workweek met stiff resistance.
In 1938 a revised version of Black's proposal was passed that adopted an eight-hour day and a forty-hour workweek.
It allowed workers to earn wages for an extra four hours of overtime as well.
According to the act, workers must be paid minimum wage and overtime pay must be one-and-a-half times regular pay.
Children under eighteen cannot do certain dangerous jobs.
Also children under the age of sixteen cannot work during school hours.
There were 700,000 workers affected by the FLSA.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it the most important piece of New Deal legislation passed since the Social Security Act of 1935.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage
The Fair Labor Standards Act Of 1938, As Amended
The Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) was an independent agency of the United States government.
Its function was to make wage control policy recommendations.
The WSB would then implement such wage controls as were approved.
There were two agencies with the same name.
The first, the National Wage Stabilization Board, was the successor to the National War Labor Board.
It existed from January 1, 1946, to February 24, 1947.
The second, the Wage Stabilization Board, was a part of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
It existed from September 9, 1950, to February 6, 1953.
The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950.
There was an initial surge of inflation in the American economy.
But soon Truman's war mobilization effort began to achieve some success in stabilizing the economy.
Executive Order 9672 - Establishing the National Wage Stabilization Board
Altar Alfonse "Al" Greene (November 9, 1954 – February 18, 2014) was an American baseball outfielder.
He played in the Major League Baseball (MLB) for Detroit Tigers during 1979.
Greene died on February 18, 2014 in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
He was aged 59.
Gordon Nutt (8 November 1932 – 26 February 2014) was an English professional footballer who was a winger.
Nutt was active in England, Wales, the Netherlands, and Australia.
He made over 150 career appearances.
He played for Coventry City F.C. from 1951 to 1954.
Nutt was born in Birmingham.
He died on 26 February 2014, in Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 81.
Albert B. Feldstein (October 24, 1925 – April 29, 2014) was an American writer, editor, and artist.
He is best known for his work at EC Comics.
He worked from 1956 to 1985 as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad.
After retiring from Mad, Feldstein worked on American paintings of Western wildlife.
Feldstein died on April 29, 2014 at his home near Livingston, Montana.
Dr. Gangrene: Interview with Al Feldstein (April 3, 2009)
Who's Who of American Comic Books: 1928-1999
Horror Writers Association: Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award
Mark Feldstein
"How I Was Stalked by George Carlin" by Mark Feldstein
William Erwin "Will" Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist.
His comic strip The Spirit was one of the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips.
Eisner is thought to be one of the most famous cartoonist.
He has an award named after him, the Will Eisner Award for the best in comics.
Eisner died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from heart surgery complications.
"Interview with Jerry Iger" , Cubic Zirconia Reader, 1985.
WebCitation archive
Eisner, William at the Social Security Death Index via Familsearch.org.
Retrieved on February 25, 2013.
Archive of Heintjes, Tom. ,
AdventureStrips.com, n.d..
Fitzgerald, Paul E. "Every Picture Tells A Story: His Pen and Wit Sharper Than Ever, Graphic Novelist Will Eisner Takes On Religious Intolerance", The Washington Post, June 3, 2004.
Robinson, Tasha. "
Interview: Will Eisner" , The A.V. Club / The Onion, September 27, 2000.
Joseph Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) was a Canadian-American cartoonist.
Shuster along with Jerry Siegel created Superman.
It proved one of the most popular and influential comic book hero in comic book history.
Creating Superman
Schuster and Siegel created a bald telepathic villain, willing world domination, as the protagonist of the short story The Reign of Superman, published in Siegel's 1933 science fiction Science Fiction № 3.
The character was not successful, and Siegel found a more familiar hero.