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But, due to a recent order by President Roosevelt, he was not allowed into combat until he was 19.
After his birthday in June, he was sent to Normandy but didn't arrive until weeks after D-Day.
He was sent to the 120th Infantry Regiment in the Netherlands.
This was in September 1944.
He ad a grandson named Jim who had a kid named Troy.
Troy always wanted to be in the military
Awarded actions
During the Battle of the Bulge Currey was in the town of Malmedy, Belgium.
On December 21 the strongpoint he was defending was overrun by German Tanks and infantry.
Currey and 5 other American soldiers withdrew to an old factory under intense enemy fire.
Currey found a Bazooka and ammunition nearby.
He fired the bazooka at the closest tank disabling it.
Moving forward he then killed three enemy soldiers in the doorway of a house with his BAR.
He fired the bazooka at the same house which caused the remaining Germans to run.
He saw five more Americans under fire from three German Tanks.
With Anti-Tank grenades he caused the Germans to abandon the tanks so the Americans could escape.
He then covered their retreat by firing an abandoned heavy machine gun at the Germans.
He kept the Germans at bay for twelve hours.
After nightfall Currey and his companions managed to find a jeep and return to their own lines.
Sergeant Currie was credited with saving five fellow Americans, two of them wounded.
He also stopped an attack by Germans that threatened to flank (attack from the side) his division.
In addition to being awarded the Medal of Honor, Francis Currey also received the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart.
Belgium awarded him their nation's highest honor,the Order of Leopold.
He was inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans' Hall of Fame in 2006.
After the Army, Currey returned to New York.
He worked at the VA Hospital in Albany, New York.
He held several positions with the hospital and retired as a supervisor in 1980.
He started a landscaping business in his retirement.
He moved to South Carolina where he lived for about 20 years, then he returned to Selkirk, New York.
Since 2004 his hometown of Hurleyville, New York has held an annual Francis S. Currey day in his honor.
in 2009 Governor David Paterson of New York proclaimed July 12, 2009 as Sgt.
Francis S. Currey day in the state of New York.
Francis S. Currey  at the Victory Institute
Proclamation by the Governor of New York
Einar Harold Ingman, Jr. (October 6, 1929 - September 9, 2015) was a former United States Army soldier.
He is a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War.
Einar H. Ingman, Jr. at the Victory Institute
People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ronald Eugene Rosser (October 24, 1929 – August 26, 2020) was a United States Army soldier.
Ronald E. Rosser at the Victory Institute
Military people from Ohio
Tibor "Ted" Rubin (June 18, 1929 - December 5, 2015) is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and a former United States Army soldier.
Tibor Rubin at the Victory Institute
Ono Academic College () is a private university in Kiryat Ono, Israel.
It was opened in 1996.
The college has a separate campus that serves Haredi Jews.
It was opened in 2001 by Renan Hartman.
The college allows men to attend classes on different days than women.
In 2003, Rabbi Yehezkel Fogel was appointed chairman to of the campus.
Presently there is in the campus nearly 3,000 undergraduate students.
After Forever was a Dutch symphonic metal band.
The band started in 1995 as Apocalypse.
They played death metal.
In 1997 the singer Floor Jansen joined the band.
After Jansen joined the band its sound became more like symphonic metal.
In 2000 the band released their first album Prison of Desire in Europe.
The band's last album After Forever was released on September 28, 2007.
The band broke up in 2009.
Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey.
It is on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana.
In 2002, the province's name was changed from İçel to Mersin.
The province retained the license plate number of 33, İçel having been the 33rd in the alphabetical order of Turkish province names.
About 50% of the population of the province is younger than 24 years of age.
68% were born in Mersin.
The literacy rate is 89%.
Mersin Province is divided into thirteen districts.
Four of them are actually included within the municipality of Mersin city (shown in boldface letters).
Anamur
Aydıncık
Mezitli
Toroslar
Yenişehir
Bozyazı
Çamlıyayla
Erdemli
Silifke
Tarsus
Population of the province
Bronchiectasis is an obstructive lung disease.
It is caused by inflammation of the bronchi.
It is sometimes said to be part of the group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
People with bronchiectasis have swollen bronchi.
People with bronchiectasis have pain in their chests.
Some people with bronchiectasis make sputum that is green or pale yellow.
The most common symptom of bronchiectasis is a cough that does not go away.
9 out of 10 people with the disease have this symptom.
3 out of 4 people with bronchiectasis often cough up a lot of sputum.
This causes tiredness.
People with bronchiectasis may also cough up blood.
This is called haemoptysis.
People with bronchiectasis may have bad breath.
Some people with bronchiectasis have sinusitis that does not go away.
There are three kinds of bronchiectasis.
Cylindrical bronchiectasis
Varicose bronchiectasis
Saccular or cystic - This is the most severe type.
It is often found in people with cystic fibrosis.
People can be born with bronchiectasis or they can develop it later.
In about 4 out of 10 cases, a cause is found.
People who have rheumatoid arthiritis and smoke are ten times more likely to have the disease.
Patients with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency have also been found to be more likely to get bronchiectasis but it is not known why.
Antibiotics are used to treat bronchiectasis.
It can also be treated with other drugs.
Sometimes surgery is needed.
Carbon-14 is an isotope of the element carbon, so named because it has an atomic mass of 14.
It has an atomic nucleus containing 8 neutrons and 6 protons.
The list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft has been split up by year.
They can be found at:
Bison antiquus, sometimes called the "ancient bison", was the most common large herbivore that lived in North America during the Pleistocene for over ten thousand years, and is a direct ancestor of the living American bison.
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (February 16, 1932 – March 13, 2014) was a Sierra Leonean politician, economist and lawyer.
He was the third President of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
He was born in Pendembu, Kailahun District.
Kabbah died after a long illness on March 13, 2014.
Presidents of Sierra Leone
Icchokas Meras (8 October 1934 – 13 March 2014) was a Lithuanian-Israeli writer and screenwriter.
On 6 December 2010, he was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize.
He was born in Kelmė, Šiauliai County.
He was Jewish and survived the Holocaust.
Meras died in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Icchokas Meras at Famous Birthdays
Lithuanian writers
Baharlou studied economics at the National University (Shahid Beheshti University).
He went to the United States of America in 1973 and studied moviemaking.
He stayed there until 1978.
He made his first movie called The End of Childhood.
In 1978, he came back to Iran for a very short time and then came back to the United States and started to work for the Voice of America.
He quit working for the VOA-PNN in 2008.
Ivan Nagy (28 April 1943 – 22 February 2014) was a Hungarian ballet dancer.
During the Cold War, Nagy began to dance in Washington, D.C. and soon became a well known ballet dancer.
He worked with Carla Fracci and with Marianna Tcherkassky.
His career began in 1965.
Nagy retired in 1978.
Since the 1980s he worked as an artistic director.
Hungarian entertainers
Joe Madison Jackson (March 14, 1923 – January 13, 2019) was a retired American soldier.
He served as a career officer in the United States Air Force.
He received the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War for a dangerous rescue operation of three American military personnel.
He was born in Newnan, Georgia.
Decimal Day is the name that was given to 15 February 1971 in the United Kingdom (UK).
It was the day that the UK decimalised (converted to a decimal-based system of currency).
Before that date the UK used the "pound (£) - shilling (s) - pence (d)" currency system.
The old system was known as the "£sd" system, after the abbreviations of the unit names.
£sd is pronounced L-S-D. In the £sd system £1 = 20s and 1s = 12d, so £1 = 240d.
In the new decimal system there are no shillings and there are 100 (new) pence (abbreviated as "p") in a pound - so £1 = 100p.
The Silver Star (officially the Silver Star Medal), is the United States third highest military decoration for valor.
It can be awarded to any person serving in the United States Armed Forces.
The medal is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.
The Silver Star is the successor award to the earlier "Citation Star".
The Citation Star was established by an act of Congress on July 9, 1918.
On July 19, 1932, the Secretary of War approved changing the "Citation Star" to the Silver Star Medal.
The original "Citation Star" is added to the center of medal.
The Silver Star's ribbon is red, white and blue.
Authorization for the Silver Star Medal was placed into law by an act of Congress for the U.S. Navy on August 7, 1942.
An Act of Congress for the U.S. Army was authorized on December 15, 1942.
The US Army and Air Force currently awards the medal as the "Silver Star".
The US Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard continues to award the medal as the "Silver Star Medal".
Award criteria
The Silver Star is awarded to anyone serving in or with the United States Armed Forces, for "gallantry in action".
This is:
Against an enemy of the United States.
While engaged in military operations against opposing forces.
When serving in a military conflict along with friendly forces where the US is not a belligerent.
Air Force pilots, combat systems officers, Navy and Marine Corps aviators and Naval Flight Officers flying fighter aircraft are often considered eligible to receive the Silver Star upon becoming an ace ( having five or more confirmed aerial kills).
In multi-seat fighters, the weapon systems officer or radar intercept officer is also eligible.
The Silver Star may also be awarded to members of the armed forces of friendly foreign nations meeting the criteria.
Order of Precedence
The Silver Star is worn on the uniform after the Distinguished Service Medal.
It is to be worn before the Defense Superior Service Medal.
When a second (or more) award is given for the Silver Star, an oak leaf cluster is added to the ribbon.
The Pyramid Of Honor; Order of Precedence of Military Awards
Solar thermal energy is a way of producing electricity in which the Sun's energy is concentrated by mirrors or lenses to either heat a fluid-filled pipe or drive a Stirling engine.
The oil which is hot is circulated into a water storage system where it is used to change water into superheated steam, that then turns a turbine to generate electricity.
The heat that is produced through this process powers a Stirling engine.
The Stirling engine provides electricity and mechanical energy by having the fluid from within a cylinder expand, which then drives a piston that turns a shaft.
Solar thermal energy is primarily used domestically for space heating, hot water, and in some cases air conditioning.
Solar thermal energy is renewable and no fuels are required during the process to generate electricity or mechanical energy.
It is also carbon free except for production and transportation, otherwise it is non-polluting.
Solar thermal can also be combined with photovoltaics (PVs), in highly efficient cogeneration systems.
Some downsides are that solar thermal generates low grade energy, installation and construction costs are very high, it is expensive compared to conventional water heaters, and is hard to compete against cheap natural gas.
An example of a Solar Thermal Electric Generation Plant is the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System that uses 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, that focuses sunlight to the top of 459-foot towers, where water is turned into steam to power turbines.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (abbreviated ANWR) is in northeastern Alaska.
It was created to protect and keep the area's Wildlife and wilderness.
Some of these are polar bears, grizzly bears, grey wolves, and caribou.
Fish species include Dolly Varden, Arctic char, Lake trout and several kinds of salmon.
There are at least 194 species of birds that visit or live here.
The refuge totals 19,286,722 acres.
In the ground under ANWR is one of the last major oil reserves in the United States.
There are debates on whether or not to allow oil drilling.
Those in favor have argued that removing the oil will make the U.S. less dependent on foreign supplies of oil.
In the 1990s, the U.S. imported over half of the oil it used.
ANWR is also near the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.
It contains large oil deposits that are already providing oil.
But, the refuge land is a fragile natural environment.
The area proposed for oil drilling is also the calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herds.
Scrubber systems are used to make coal a "cleaner" fuel.
Scrubbers remove sulfur from a power plant's exhaust.
Scrubbers are of two types, wet scrubbers and dry scrubbers.
Wet scrubbers use liquid chemicals to remove pollutants.
Dry scrubbers typically use fabric filters.
In many cases both are used together.
As polluted air passes through a wet scrubber, chemicals in the scrubber react with the air pollution causing it to precipitate out.
Modern scrubbers can remove up to 98% of the sulfur and 99% of the precipitate matter from within the smokestacks.
The sulfur and metals that are removed from the scrubbers can be sold as a marketable products.
Sludge from lime scrubbers can be sold to wallboard manufacturers, and fly ash from chimney flues can be sold to make lightweight concrete that can substitute for wood.
The use of coal in the United States about doubled during the last quarter (25 years) of the 20th century.
However, sulfur in the air was reduced by 30% during that same period.
This shows that scrubbers work.
Floyd Adams, Jr. (May 11, 1945 – February 1, 2014) was an American politician.
He was from the state of Georgia.
He was the former Mayor of Savannah, Georgia.
Adams died in Savannah at the St. Joseph's Hospital from unknown causes.
Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a type of dark coloured coal.
Anthracite produces the fewest pollutants per unit of heat released, having the highest-heat value, and the lowest sulfur content.
At the moment, deposits are largely depleted.
China does most mining of anthracite.
Other producers are Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, South Africa, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States (east of the Mississippi River and Pennsylvania).
Total production in 2010 was 670 million tons.
Fluidized bed combustion is a technology that burns crushed coal mixed with limestone to neutralize acidic sulfur compounds produced during combustion.
Gerd Albrecht (19 July 1935 – 2 February 2014) was a German conductor.
He was a first-prize winner at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors at age 22.
He composed with many famous European orchestras such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Hamburg State Opera.
Albrecht was born in Essen.
Albrecht died at the age of 78 on 2 February 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
James Taft "Jimmer" Fredette (born February 25, 1989 in Glens Falls, New York) is an American professional basketball player.
In 2014, he joined the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Robert Earl "Butterbean" Love (born December 8, 1942 in Bastrop, Louisiana) is an American retired professional basketball player.
In 1968, he joined the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Love now works as the Bulls' Director of Community Affairs.
Gerald Eugene "Jerry" Sloan (March 28, 1942 – May 22, 2020) was a National Basketball Association player and head coach, and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
He played for the Chicago Bulls from 1966 to 1976.
He soon coached them from 1979 to 1982.
He also coached the Utah Jazz from 1988 to 2011.
Sloan was born in McLeansboro, Illinois.
We are What We Are is an American horror and thriller movie released in 2013.
The movie is about a seemingly wholesome family who always keep to themselves.
As a severe rainstorm hits, bad things happen.
Daughters Iris and Rose have to take more responsibility than in a normal family.
Kelly McGillis plays Marge.
This movie was marked R (restricted) by the MPAA for "disturbing violence, nudity".
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (  ;   ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman.
He served as the United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
Amy Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model.
She played Julie Harbor in Varsity Blues (1999).
She played Lillian Hart in Columbus Circle (2012).
He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Sweden from 1978 to 1979.
He was one of the first Swedish representatives to inspect the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union.
Blix was born on 28 June 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden.
He studied at Uppsala University, Columbia University, University of Cambridge and at Stockholm University.
Annotated Bibliography for Hans Blix from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
WMD Commission Biography
UN Maxims Biography
United Nations Biography
Dr. Hans Blix's BBC Profile
Swedish educators
Robert Larry Mickey (October 21, 1943 – July 23, 1982) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.
Mickey played a total of 11 years in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, and Buffalo Sabres.
When he was playing in the Central Hockey League with the Omaha Knights, he was named to the first team of the All-Stars during the 1966-67 season.
His team also made it to the Adams Cup finals the same year.
On April 16, 1967, the night before the third game of the Adams Cup play-off series versus the Oklahoma City Blazers, Mickey got into a car accident on a country road near Seward, Nebraska.
The crash was caused by the visibility of the road being almost zero because of dust that was blowing from a nearby field.
Mickey suffered a broken left arm, cuts, and bruises.
His wife Eleanor, who was a passenger in Mickey's car, died in the accident.
Richard Derek Blight (October 17, 1955 – April 3, 2005) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.
Blight played a total of 5 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings.
Blight was drafted with the 10th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1975 NHL Entry Draft.
After Blight retired from hockey, he became a stockbroker and marketing consultant.
He was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.
Blight disappeared on April 3, 2005.
After two weeks and a Canada-wide search, his body was found dead in a field on his farm near Lake Manitoba with his pickup nearby.
It was confirmed that Blight had committed suicide.
A control panel is a flat surface area which has controlling or monitoring devices.
Control panels are used in many places to control and monitor machines.
Old control panels use buttons, while modern control panels use touchscreens.
An automation engineer takes a mechanical device from a customer and makes it automated with the help of a control panel.
The engineers in this field use AutoCAD and other software to design their control panel before using it to make a device automated.
A wiring diagram is a diagram that shows electrical devices and the electrical wires that connect them.
It shows the position and arrangement of each device to be connected by those wires.
It may be used to plan where things should be located and wired, or to find them afterwards.
Adidja Azim Palmer (born 7 January 1976) better known as Vybz Kartel, is a Jamaican dancehall musician.
Kartel started a line of liquor in 2008.
On 29 September 2011, Kartel was arrested.
Jamaica's Major Investigation Taskforce (MIT) charged him with murder.
Kartel was found guilty after a 65-day trial.
Sidharth Malhotra (born 16 January 1985) is an Indian movie actor and former model.
He appears in Hindi language films of Bollywood.
He started his career in movies with Karan Johar's movie Student of the Year (2012), along with other newcomers, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt, for which he received a nomination in the Filmfare award for Best Male Debut.
Later, he gained appreciation in the 2014 movie Hasee Toh Phasee in which he was paired opposite Parineeti Chopra, recently he has been paired opposite Shraddha Kapoor in Ek Villain which has been released on June 27, 2014.
Besides acting in movies, he performs in award functions and is a celebrity endorser for many brands.
The Bronze Star Medal is the fourth-highest individual military award.
It is the ninth-highest award by order of precedence in the US Military.
It may be awarded for acts of heroism, acts of merit, or meritorious service in a combat zone.
When it is awarded for acts of heroism, the medal is awarded with the "V" device attached.
The required acts are less heroic than those that qualify for the Silver Star.
The medal is sometimes called the Bronze Star.
Foreign soldiers, as well as officers from the other federal uniformed services are also eligible to receive the decoration.
They must be serving with a service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
The Bronze Star Medal was an idea by Colonel Russell P. "Red" Reeder in 1943.
He believed it would aid morale if there was a medal which could be awarded by captains of companies or batteries to deserving people serving under them.
Reeder felt another medal was needed for ground forces that was equivalent to the Air Medal.
He proposed that the new award be called the "Ground Medal".
The idea eventually gained support.
General George C. Marshall wrote a memorandum (note) to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944.
The Air Medal had been adopted two years earlier to raise airmen's morale.
President Roosevelt authorized the Bronze Star Medal by Executive Order 9419 dated 4 February 1944.
The order was made retroactive to 7 December 1941.
The Executive Order was amended by President John F. Kennedy.
The Executive Order 11046 dated 24 August 1962 expanded the authorization to include those serving with friendly forces.
This allowed for awards where US service members might be involved in an armed conflict where the United States was not a belligerent.
At the time of the Executive Order the US was not a belligerent in Vietnam.
So any US advisers serving with the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces would not have been eligible for the award.
A study was conducted in 1947.
The outcome was the policy was changed to make the retroactive award of the Bronze Star Medal (without the "V" device) to all soldiers who had received the Combat Infantryman Badge.
It also included those who received the Combat Medical Badge during World War II.
The reason for doing this was that the badges were awarded to soldiers who experienced the hardships described in General Marshall's memorandum.
The Bronze Star is worn on the uniform after the Soldier's Medal or the Airman's Medal.
It is to be worn before the Purple Heart.
The "V" device (for valor) is worn on the center of the ribbon.
Any oak leaf clusters are worn to the right or left of the "V".
Neovenator is a dinosaur related to the clade which contains Allosaurus as its key member.
Since the discovery of Neovenator on the Isle of Wight, UK, it has become one of the best-known large carnivorous dinosaurs in Europe.
Neovenator was about 7.5 meters (24.5 feet) in length, and was of a slim build, weighting 10002000 kg.
Some fossils suggest a length of about 10 meters (33 feet), but these fossils are very fragmentary.
It lived during the early Cretaceous), about 125 million years ago.
Fossil remains of Neovenator have been found on the Isle of Wight (southern England), and were first discovered in the 20th century.
Neovenator existed alongside Baryonyx, Polacanthus and Iguanadon in the early Cretaceous.
It was one of the top predators of its day.
The holotype of Neovenator salerii had many pathologies.
They were "midcaudal vertebrae fusions, healed fractures of mid-caudal vertebra transverse processes; osteophytes affecting pedal phalanges, healed gastralia rib fractures, some forming false joints... [and] scapula fracture".
This means the individual survived and healed after a number of bone fractures.
Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist.
He did experiments on rhesus monkeys in which he separated babies from their mothers.
Harlow was born Harry Israel on October 31, 1905.
He changed his name from Israel because he did not want to be treated badly for seeming Jewish.
Harlow started working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Clive Bright (stage name: Tenor Saw; December 6, 1966 – August 1988) was an important reggae musician in the 1980s.
He had several hit songs.
His best-known one was "Ring the Alarm" in 1985.
In August 1988, Tenor Saw was killed during a hit and run accident in Houston, Texas.
He was 21.
Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American singer.
She was born in Milford, Pennsylvania.
In 2002 her first album Be Not Nobody was released.
It reached number one in Australia.
"We All Sleep Alone" is a hit song from Cher's 1987 album Cher.
The song was released in late January 1988.
Queensbridge Houses is a housing development in Long Island City, Queens, New York City.
It opened in 1939 and is owned by the New York City Housing Authority.
Queensbridge Houses is the largest housing development in North America.
The 3,142-unit complex is home to around 6,907 people.
In 1993 Post started Veruca Salt with her friend Nina Gordon in Chicago.
The band released their first album American Thighs in 1994.
In 1998 Gordon left the band.
The band broke up in 2012.
In 2013 the band got back together.
Stella Katsoudas (born November 3, 1971) is a Greek-American singer.
She is better known as Stella Soleil.
She sings for the band Dirty Little Rabbits.
She sung for another band called Whorse.
Richmond is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island.
It is in the southwestern region.
At the 2010 census, 7,708 people lived in Richmond.
In 2015, 7,635 people lived in the town.
Dušan Pašek (7 September 1960 – 15 March 1998) was a Czechoslovakian professional ice hockey centre.
Pašek played one season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Minnesota North Stars.
Pašek was drafted with the 81st overall pick by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft.
He also played for Czechoslovakia at the 1984 Winter Olympics where they won a silver medal.
When he retired, he became the president of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation.
On 15 March 1998, Pašek committed suicide by gunshot in his office at Slovan Bratislava in the wake of Slovakia's disappointing performance at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
He left six suicide notes for his wife, his three children, the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation and Slovan Bratislava officials.
He said that he was sorry for killing himself and asked that others try to understand his decision.
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration.
It is awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.
It is the successor to the Badge of Military Merit, which took the form of a heart made of purple cloth.
The Purple Heart is the oldest military award still given to U.S. military members.
The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located in New Windsor, New York.
The original Purple Heart, called the "Badge of Military Merit", was established by George Washington in 1782.
The Badge of Military Merit was only awarded to three Revolutionary War soldiers.
If any more had been awarded, any records of being given that award have been lost.
The badge was never abolished, it was just forgotten about until after World War I.
In 1932 General Douglas MacArthur urged the revival of the Purple Heart medal and he was awarded the first one.
The War Department authorized the medal under General Order Number 3.
The award was "to be awarded to persons who, while serving in the Army of the United States perform any singular meritorious act of extraordinary fidelity or essential service."
With the establishment of the Legion of Merit award, the Purple Heart was no longer awarded for meritorious service.
By Executive Order 9277, dated December 3, 1942, the award was to only be given for wounds received.
Additional Executive orders added circumstances where the award can be given.
In 1962 it was ordered the medal could be given posthumously (after the person died).
A 1984 change allowed the award to be given for wounds recieved as a result of terrorist attacks or while serving as part of a peacekeeping force.
In 1986 public Law 99-145 authorized the award for wounds received as a result of friendly fire.
The Purple Heart medal is worn on the uniform after the Bronze Star Medal.
It is to be worn before the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
In the Army and Air Force when a second or more Purple Heart is awarded, oak leaf clusters are used.
The Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard use 5/16 inch stars to show multiple awards.
Military Order of the Purple Heart
The Purple Heart, US Department of Veterans Affairs
Meir Har-Zion (25 February 1934 – 14 March 2014) was an Israeli military commando.
He was a key member of Unit 101.
Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan described him as "the finest of our commando soldiers, the best soldier ever to emerge in the IDF."
Meanwhile, Ariel Sharon described him as "the elite of the elite."
He was born in Herzliya, British Mandate of Palestine.
Har-Zion died from natural causes on 14 March 2014.
Meir Har-Zion at the UCC Palestine Solidarity Campaign
(24 October 1931 – 14 March 2014) was a Japanese actor.
He had roles in stage plays, movies and television shows from the 1950s to the 2010s.
Ningen gyorai kaiten (1955), Senun Ajia no joo (1957), Evil Brain from Outer Space (1964), Attack from Space (1964), Invaders from Space (1964), and Saimin (1999).
Utsui died from natural causes on 14 March 2014 in his hometown of Tokyo.
Otakar Brousek (28 September 1924 – 14 March 2014) was a Czech actor and voice actor.
He appeared in the movies Andělská tvář (2002), Svatby pana Voka (1971), and Můj brácha má prima bráchu (1975).
He also appeared in the television show F. L. Věk in 1971.
He was born in Krhanice, Czechoslovakia.
Brousek died on 14 March 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic.
He was outlived by his children, actors Otakar Brousek, Jr. and Jaroslava Brousková.
Roman Yurievich Lyashenko (May 1, 1979 – July 7, 2003) was a Russian professional ice hockey centre.
Lyashenko played two seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Dallas Stars and New York Rangers.
Before he played in the NHL, he played 3 seasons in the RSL with Yaroslavl Torpedo.
He was drafted with the 52nd overall pick by the Dallas Stars in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.
He has also played 15 games in the IHL with the Michigan K-Wings and Utah Grizzlies, as well as playing 2 seasons in the AHL with the Utah Grizzlies and Hartford Wolf Pack.
On July 7, 2003, Lyashenko committed suicide while on vacation in Antalya, Turkey with his mother and sister.
Turkish police said that Lyashenko left a suicide note and tried to cut his wrists and arms before he hung himself.
Glen Sather, general manager of the New York Rangers said "Roman was a quality individual who had a positive impact on everyone he touched, both on and off the ice."
Dallas Stars general manager Doug Armstrong also said: "Roman was a quality young man who we were privileged to have in our organization for three years."
Lyashenko was buried in Yaroslavl on July 12, 2003.
Glenn Edward McDuffie (May 31, 1927 – March 9, 2014) was an American retired World War II soldier.
He was known for being the subject of Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph V-J Day in Times Square.
He was kissing nurse Edith Shain because World War II ended.
McDuffie was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
He died on March 9, 2014 in Dallas, Texas from a heart attack, aged 86.
Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford; January 7, 1929) is an American movie, television, and stage actress.
She is known for her roles in Mighty Joe Young and in Come Back Little Sheba.
She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952.
Teddy Ruxpin is a teddy bear who talks.
He moves his mouth and eyes when 'reading' stories.
The toys were first sold in 1985 and produced until 2010.
The most recent version came out in 2017 by Wicked Cool toys.
"Daughter" is an alternative rock single by the American rock group Pearl Jam.
It was released internationally in 1993.
It was released in the United States on June 27, 1995.
Marc Potvin (January 29, 1967 – January 13, 2006) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.
Potvin played six years in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, Hartford Whalers and Boston Bruins.
He was the second cousin of Hall of Famer Denis Potvin and cousin of Jean Potvin.
Before he played in the NHL, he played 4 years of college hockey at Bowling Green State University.
He was drafted with the 169th overall pick by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.
Potvin also played in the AHL with the Adirondack Red Wings, Providence Bruins and Portland Pirates, as well as one season in the IHL with the Chicago Wolves.
When he retired, he became the assistant coach of the Adirondack Red Wings.
After that, became the head coach of the Mississippi Sea Wolves in the ECHL for a year.
He went on to coach the Springfield Falcons of the AHL for 2 seasons, in the UHL with the Adirondack IceHawks for 2 seasons and 1 season when it was renamed the Adirondack Frostbite.
On January 13, 2006, Potvin was found dead in his Kalamazoo, Michigan hotel room.
He was found hours before the Frostbite were set to play the Kalamazoo Wings.
On February 10, police ruled that his death was a suicide.
Police said that he hung himself with a belt from the shower rod in his hotel bathroom.
Kannapolis, North Carolina is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties in North Carolina.
It is near Charlotte.
In 2010, 42,625 people lived there.
"Deeper and Deeper" is a dance-pop single by Madonna.
The song was released in December 1992.
The song is about homosexual issues.
It was 1970s inspired, and has disco-like themes.
The album version is about five minutes and thirty-three seconds long.
The longest version is nine minutes long.
Thomas Garrett Cavanagh (March 24, 1982 – January 6, 2011) was an American professional ice hockey center.
Potvin played 18 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the San Jose Sharks.
Before he played in the NHL, he played 4 years of college hockey at Harvard University.
During his time there, he was named the ECAC Hockey Best Defensive Forward in the 2004–05 season.
He was drafted with the 182nd overall pick by the San Jose Sharks in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.
During his time with the San Jose Sharks, he set a franchise record for the quickest point scored by a rookie when he assisted on a Joe Thornton goal that came 36 seconds into Cavanagh's first game in the NHL.
He was also the Worcester Sharks' all-time scoring leader with 138 points in 202 games.
On January 6, 2011, Cavanagh was found dead in the parking garage of Providence Place Mall.
He locked his car and jumped from an upper level to his death.
The police said that his death was a suicide.
He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was put into institutions during the last months of his life.
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (born 7 December 1989) is an English actor and model.
He is best known for appearing in movies such as About a Boy (2002), A Single Man (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011), Warm Bodies (2013) and Jack the Giant Slayer (2013).
Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire.
He dated American actress Jennifer Lawrence until 2014.
They appeared in the X-Men movies together.
This is about the American figure skater.
Lio Tipton (born November 9, 1988) is an American figure skater, actress, and fashion model.
They became famous after coming third in Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model.
They have also appeared in the movies The Green Hornet (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Damsels in Distress (2011), and Warm Bodies (2013).
Tipton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Carlos Moreno (29 August 1938 – 9 March 2014) was an Argentine actor and director.
He worked most on movies and television shows.
He was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province.
Moreno had a heart attack on 6 September 2013 and survived.
On 9 March 2014, he had another heart attack, and died from it, in Buenos Aires.
Argentine movie directors
Thomas Boone Pickens (May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019), known as T. Boone Pickens, was an American businessman and financier.
Pickens was the chairman of BP Capital Management.
At the time of his death, Pickens had a net worth of $500 million.
He was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma.
Robert Maynard Pirsig (September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher.
He is known for writing many philosophy books.
They include: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991).
Pirsig was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He died on April 24, 2017 at his home in South Berwick, Maine from a long-illness, aged 88.
Timeline of Pirsig's life
Pirsig bio from the American Society of Authors and Writers
Chaohusaurus is an extinct genus of basal  ichthyopterygian, or ichthyosaur, from the Lower Triassic of Chaohu and Yuanan, China.
It was closer in time and form to Cymbospondylus and Mixosaurus than to more advanced genera like Ichthyosaurus.
It did not have the dolphin-like form of later ichthyosaurs, but it was fully aquatic.
The tail fin is wide-based and short.
The neck is rather long, whereas later ichthyosaurs have no neck.
It was one of the smallest ichthyosaurs, about 70 to 180 cm long.
Its weight was about 10 kg.
A recent study of Chaohusaurus shows an early example of live birth.
Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin (22 September 1950 - 31 January 2007) was a Finnish singer.
Kirka's most famous songs include "Hengaillaan", "Leijat" (Kites) and "Varrella virran" (Down by the River)".
Kirill Babitzin was born in Helsinki in 1950.
His parents were Russian emigrants.
He first got into music at the age of five when his grandmother gave him an accordion.
He won an accordion competition when he was ten years old.
He was soon attracted to rock and roll music.
His first band was 'The Creatures', which he joined in 1964 assuming stage name Kirka.
In mathematics, algebraic varieties (also called varieties) are one of the central objects of study in algebraic geometry.
The first definitions of algebraic variety defined it as the set of solutions of a system of polynomial equations, over the real or complex numbers.
Modern definitions of an algebraic variety generalize this notion while they try to preserve the geometric intuition behind the original definition.
Conventions regarding the definition of an algebraic variety differ: Some authors require that an "algebraic variety" is, by definition, irreducible (which means that it is not the union of two smaller sets that are closed in the Zariski topology), while others do not.
When the former convention is used, non-irreducible algebraic varieties are called algebraic sets.
The notion of variety is similar to that of manifold.
One difference between a variety and a manifold is that a variety may have singular points, while a manifold will not.
Proven around the year 1800, the fundamental theorem of algebra establishes a link between algebra and geometry by showing that a monic polynomial in one variable with complex coefficients (an algebraic object) is determined by the set of its roots (a geometric object).
Generalizing this result, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz provides a fundamental correspondence between ideals of polynomial rings and algebraic sets.
Using the Nullstellensatz and related results, mathematicians have established a strong correspondence between questions on algebraic sets and questions of ring theory.
This correspondence is the specifity of algebraic geometry among the other subareas of geometry.
Gastralia are bones protecting the ventral area of a vertebrate.
They are found in some living and fossil reptiles.
Crocodiles, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and theropod dinosaurs have gastralia.
Unlike ribs, they are not connected to the vertebrae.
Sisters Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez started the band with Lindsey Vogt in 2003.
In 2005 Caleb Clifton joined the band.
In 2006 the band's first extended play was released.
It sold 11,000 copies.
Vogt left the band in 2007.
Alexia took Vogt's place.
The band released their first album Reach on February 19, 2008.
Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known as Bobby Vee, was an American pop singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s.
He was born in Fargo, North Dakota.
He is better known by his singing name Bobby Vee.
He was a hit during the 1950s and 1960s.
He wrote many songs.
These included "Take Good Care of My Baby" and "Devil or Angel".
Bobby Vee said in 2012 that he has Alzheimer's disease, an illness in the brain that affects older people.
On October 24, 2016, Vee died from complications of early onset Alzheimer's disease in Rogers, Minnesota, aged 73.
Wilbert Homer Gardiner (March 25, 1913 – August 28, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
Gardiner played 144 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, and New York Rangers.
Before he played in the NHL, he played with the Philadelphia Arrows of the CAHL and the Crescent-Hamilton A.C. of the Eastern Hockey League.
He also played with the Philadelphia Ramblers of the CAHL/IAHL, the New Haven Eagles of the IAHL, and the Washington Lions of the AHL.
When Dave Kerr got injured in Game 1 of the 1939 Stanley Cup Finals, the Bruins called up Gardiner from Philadelphia to replace him.
Gardiner played in the final six games of the finals.
Gardiner retired from professional ice hockey in 1944.
He died on August 28, 2001 in Los Angeles, California.
Heather Chantal Jones (born September 8, 1988) is an American model and actress.
She appeared on America's Next Top Model.
She is also known for her bubbly personality.
Similarity is an idea in geometry.
It means that two polygons, line segments, or other figures can become the same via resizing.
Similar objects do not need to have the same size.
Two shapes are similar if their angles have the same measure and their sides are proportional.
Two circles, squares, or line segments are always similar.
If figure  is similar to figure , then we write .
When it comes to similarity, triangles are special.
This is because triangles can be similar if only their angles are equal, or only their sides are proportional.
All other polygons must meet both of the conditions.
Similarity is very similar to congruence.
Congruent shapes have the same sides and angles.
Because of that, two shapes are congruent to each other if one can become another through rotating, reflecting or moving only.
In fact, all shapes that are congruent to each other are also similar, but not vice versa.
Menzel was born Idina Kim Mentzel in Long Island, New York.
She changed her name to make it simpler.
As a kid her favorite songs were Tomorrow and The Way We Were.
Menzel went to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
She was a wedding singer until 1995.
In 1996, Menzel played Maureen Johnson in the Broadway show Rent.
She played that role through 1997.
She was nominated for a Tony Award for the show.
In 1998, Menzel released her album, Still I Can't Be Still.
She did a month-long tour to promote it.
Eighteen thousand copies were sold.
She also played Circe in an episode of Hercules: The Animated Series.
In 2000, Menzel played Kate in the off-Broadway show The Wild Party.
She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award.
In 2001, she played Dorothy in Summer of '42 off-Broadway and Sheila in Hair at New York City Center Encores!
Menzel is known for her role as Elsa the Snow Queen in the 2013 movie Frozen.
She is also known for her role as Elphaba in the original Broadway production of Wicked, for which she won a Tony Award in 2004.
Other notable roles include Maureen Johnson in the original Broadway production of Rent and in the movie based on the play, Shelby Cororan in Glee, and Nancy Tremaine in Disney's Enchanted.
Menzel appeared in the Broadway show If/Then.
For her role in that show, she was nominated for a Tony Award.
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Lachey ( ; born November 9, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and television personality.
He was best known as the lead singer of the multi-platinum selling boy band 98 Degrees.
Lachey was born in Harlan, Kentucky and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was married to singer Jessica Simpson from 2002 to 2006.
He married model Vanessa Minnillo in 2011.
Their son, Camden John Lachey, was born on September 12, 2012.
Lachey and his wife are hosts of the 2020 Netflix reality dating series, Love Is Blind.
Vanessa Joy Lachey (née Minnillo; born November 9, 1980) is an American television personality, fashion model, and actress.
She was named Miss Teen USA in 1998.
She has also been a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight from 2005 to 2007 and hosted Total Request Live on MTV.
Minnillo was born in Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines.
Her mother is Filipino and her father is an American of Ashkenazi Jews, Irish and Italian ancestry.
She married singer-songwriter Nick Lachey in 2011.
David Brenner (February 4, 1936 – March 15, 2014) was an American comedian, actor, and author.
He was known for appearing on The Tonight Show.
He is also known for his leading roles in Snip and in Worth Winning.
Elias James "E.J." Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American chemist.
He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of organic synthesis.
Corey was born in Mathuen, Massachusetts.
His parents were Lebanese immigrants.
John Edward "Jack" Gelineau (November 11, 1924 – November 12, 1998) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
Gelineau played 147 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks.
Before he played in the NHL, Gelineau played college hockey for 4 years at McGill University.
He has also played for the Quebec Aces of the QSHL and QHL.
He won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1950.
He retired from professional ice hockey in 1954.
He died from cancer on November 12, 1998 in Montreal, Quebec.
Hector Salisbury Highton (December 10, 1923 – September 28, 1985) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
Highton played 24 games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Chicago Black Hawks.
He retired from professional ice hockey in 1951.
He died on September 28, 1985 in Los Angeles, California.
He is buried at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
(born December 27, 1974) is a Japanese and American actor and digital effects artist.
He is best known for his role as Hiro Nakamura on NBC's Heroes (2006–10).
Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan.
He moved to Los Angeles, California at a young age, before he settled in New York City, New York.
His IQ is reported to be 180.
Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor and screenwriter.
He has appearded in the well-known movies Million Dollar Baby (2004), Knocked Up (2007), Tropic Thunder (2008), The Trotsky (2009), Fanboys (2009), She's Out of My League (2010), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) and This Is the End (2013).
Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario.
He grew up and still lives in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
He is of is French, German, Irish and Jewish (Sephardi) ancestry.
He was engaged to actress Alison Pill from 2010 to 2013.