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Edward suggested a morganatic marriage in which he would remain king but Wallis would not be queen, and their children could not become the monarch.
The idea was rejected by Baldwin and the prime ministers of Australia and South Africa.
If Edward married Wallis against Baldwin's advice, the government had decided to resign, which would cause a constitutional crisis.
The King decided he had no choice but to abdicate so that he could marry Wallis.
On 11 December 1936, Edward said in a radio broadcast, "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love".
After his abdication, Edward became the Duke of Windsor, and Wallis became the Duchess of Windsor.
While Edward retained his style of "Royal Highness", King George VI declared Walis would not be allowed to do the same but would be instead styled Her Grace The Duchess of Windsor, the same style given to a non-royal duchess.
The couple lived abroad, mainly in France, for most of their lives.
During the Second World War, they moved from France to Portugal and later to the Bahamas.
They were widely suspected of being sympathetic to the German Nazis.
Edward himself wrote in the New York Daily News of 13 December 1966: "it was in Britain's interest and in Europe's too, that Germany be encouraged to strike east and smash Communism forever ... I thought the rest of us could be fence-sitters while the Nazis and the Reds slogged it out".
After her husband's death from cancer in 1972, Wallis travelled to the United Kingdom to attend his funeral.
She stayed at Buckingham Palace during her visit.
The Duchess of Windsor died on 24 April 1986 at her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, at the age of 89.
She was buried alongside her husband in the Royal Burial Ground.
She wrote about her life in 1956.
Gross income in United States income tax law is money or anything of value gained from all sources.
Gross income is the amount of income before any tax deductions or allowances.
In the Law of the United States, 26 U.S. Code § 61, "Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, gross income means all income from whatever source derived...".
Exclusions (US)
Some types of income are specifically excluded from gross income.
These are listed at 26 U.S. Code Part III and include:
Certain death benefits (money paid on a life insurance policy to the beneficiary when the insured person dies)
Gifts and inheritances
Interest on State and local bond
Compensation for injuries or sickness
Amounts received under accident and health insuranceref name=grossincLII/>
Certain combat zone compensation of members of the military
Qualified scholarships
Bellmund () is a municipality of the administrative district of Biel/Bienne in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
A tweenager, or tween, is a young person between the age of from 10 to 13.
From this stage they are still developing.
Timing of puberty
The major landmark of puberty for females is menarche, the onset of menstruation, which occurs on average between ages 12–13; for males, it is the first ejaculation, which occurs on average at age 15.In the 21st century, the average age at which children, especially girls, reach puberty is lower compared to the 19th century, when it was 15 for girls and 16 for boys.
This can be due to  improved nutrition resulting in rapid body growth, increased weight and fat deposition, or eating meat from animals which have been dosed up with estrogen.
Sexual attraction to tweenagers or people going through puberty is called hebephilia.
Belprahon is a municipality of the administrative district of Jura bernois in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Rita Renoir (19 January 1934 – 4 May 2016) was a French striptease entertainer and actress.
She was one of the most famous European strip-teasers.
In 1964, Renoir was chosen by Michelangelo Antonioni to play the role of Emilia in The Red Desert
Jean-Michel Palmier, « Rita Renoir : Les Voyeurs attrapés par la queue », in Politique Hebdo.
John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016) was a Canadian–American physics.
He was the professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
He was a theoretical physicist.
He was well known for his many publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electromagnetism.
Brandon Hambright Grove, Jr. (April 8, 1929 – May 20, 2016) was an American diplomat.
He was the United States Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1974 through 1977 and Zaire from 1984 through 1987.
He served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
After having played ten matches for the Yugoslav U-21 team, and also five for the national "B" team, he was in the Olympic team that represented Yugoslavia at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
There, Yugoslavia won the gold eliminating hosts Italy in the semi-finals, and beating Denmark ( 3–1 ) in the final.
Afterward, Sombolac also played five matches for the Yugoslavia national football team.
After the break-up of Yugoslavia, he worked at the Football Association of Republika Srpska, helping to form all the youth category teams.
From 1998 to 2001, he was the head coach of the Republika Srpska official football team.
Profile at Worldfootball
Profile and career story  at Serbian Federation website
Zdeněk Mézl (31 October 1934 – 23 May 2016) was an Czech print-maker and writer.
He was known for his illustrations.
He studied at the College of Applied Arts between 1949 and 1953 and later graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.
Mézl has illustrated some books using traditional woodcut engraving.
His published books are "A Battle for Cathedral" or "Hey, Slavs!".
was an American cartoonist.
He was best known as the creator of two comic strips, Miss Peach (1957–2002) and Momma (1970–2016).
He wrote two novels.
For his comic strip Pauline McPeril (a 1966-69 collaboration with Jack Rickard), he used the pseudonym Fulton, which is also the name of a character in his first novel, The Boss Is Crazy, Too.
Mell Lazarus at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
Yang Jiang (; 17 July 1911 – 25 May 2016), born Yang Jikang (), was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator.
She wrote several successful comedies.
She was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Don Quixote from the Spanish original.
Selected works of Yang Jiang in the journal "Renditions" (no.
76)  (English)
Excerpt from Yang Jiang's memoir "We Three" (English)
Some of Yang Jiang's works on-line (Chinese)
Christopher Scott "Chris" Murphy (born August 3, 1973) is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut.
He previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing  from 2007 to 2013.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, official U.S. Senate site
Chris Murphy for Senate
Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut.
He has been in office since 2011.
He served as Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011.
Senator Richard Blumenthal official U.S. Senate site
Blumenthal for Senate
Wendell E. Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.
He has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays.
He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012.
He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
Esch-sur-Alzette () is a canton in the south-west of Luxembourg.
Its capital is Esch-sur-Alzette.
With an area of , and a population (2016) of 172,687, the Esch-sur-Alzette canton has a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The canton borders on the south with the French departments of Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle, and with Belgium on the west.
In the Pétange commune is the point where where three countries meetː Luxembourg, France and Belgium.
Bettembourg (10,736)
Differdange (25,402)
Dudelange (20,480)
Esch-sur-Alzette (34,378)
Frisange (4,557)
Kayl (8,982)
Leudelange (2,596)
Mondercange (6,708)
Pétange (18,238)
Reckange-sur-Mess (2,397)
Roeser (6,125)
Rumelange (5,573)
Sanem (16,136)
Schifflange (10,379)
Elizabeth "Beth" Howland (May 28, 1941 – December 31, 2015) was an American actress.
She worked on stage, movies and television.
She was best known for playing Vera Gorman in the sitcom Alice.
Beth Howland profile
Brian Trevor John Murphy (born 25 September 1932) is an English actor.
He is best known as the husband George Roper in the sitcom Man About the House and spin-off George and Mildred.
Brian Murphy role reviews
Caupolicán was a leader of the Mapuche people of Chile, who decided to choose a supreme war leader in response to the Spanish threat.
Caupolican supposedly won the position by demonstrating his superior strength by holding up a tree trunk three days and three nights, though this may be an exaggeration.
In addition to proving his physical power, he also had to improvise a poetical speech to inspire the people to valor and unity.
Much of the legend of Caupolican is found in the epic poem La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, a major piece of literature about the Spanish conquest of America.
Lautaro was a Mapuche military leader and relevant actor in the Arauco War.
His tactics are today studied in many war academies in the world.
Lautaro was also a son of a mapuche Lonco (chief).
When he was young, he was captured by the spanish colonizators and grew up as personal servant of the spanish conqueror of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
With him, he learned the military tactics of the spanish army.
As he converted into an adult, he ran away from the spanish captivity and went back with the mapuches.
With the knowledge adquired, he introduced the horse into the mapuche people and designed new tactics to combat the conquerors militia.
So, he attracted around him the dispersed mapuche warrriors and formed a big native army to fight against the conquerors.
He obtained many military successes, destroying new founded cities and making big pression over the few spanish men in the Chilean territory.
After he got a substancial victory in the southern city, he began the advance over Santiago, the capital and oldest spanish founded city.
Unhappily for him, he was murdered when he was only 200 km away from his destination.
Fresia
Galvarino was a famous Mapuche warrior.
In 1557, he fought in the Battle of Lagunillas against the an army of Spanish conquistadors.
The battle took place in Chile near the Bio Bio River.
He was taken prisoner along with one hundred and fifty other Mapuche.
Some prisoners were condemned to amputation of their right hand and nose.
Others like Galvarino had both hands cut off.
He was released and told to tell the Mapuche chief Caupolicán to surrender to stop more bloodshed.
He did just the opposite.
He urged the Mapuche to continue fighting against the Spanish invaders.
Less than a month later, on November 30, 1557, with knives fastened to both of his wrists he fought at the Battle of Millarupe.
It was supposed to be a surprise attack but the Mapuche sprang the trap too early.
In the battle, over 3,000 Mapuche warriors were killed.
Galvarino was one of several hundred who were captured.
He was sentenced to be hung.
Some say he was executed by being thrown to the dogs.
Others claim he was hanged.
Still others say he killed himself before he could be executed.
Doctor File: "Galvarino rechazó la vida" (in Spanish), YouTube
The method is protein engineering which mimics  natural selection.
The basic idea is to put a gene through repeated rounds of mutation, to make a library of variants.
Selection isolates genes with the desired function.
They are a template for the next round.
This can be done in vivo (in living cells of bacteria or yeast), or in vitro (free in solution or microdroplets).
During in vivo evolution, each cell (usually bacteria or yeast) is transformed with a plasmid containing a different member of the variant library.
Only the gene of interest differs between the cells, with all other genes being kept the same.
The cells express the protein either in their cytoplasm or surface where its function can be tested.
This format has the advantage of selecting for properties in a cellular environment, which is useful when the evolved protein or RNA is to be used in living organisms.
When done without cells, DE uses in vitro transcription translation to produce proteins or RNA free in solution or inside artificial microdroplets.
This has the benefit of allowing more conditions (e.g. temperature, solvents).
It can express proteins that would be toxic to cells.
Furthermore, in vitro evolution experiments can generate far larger libraries (up to 1015) because the library DNA need not be inserted into cells.
That often limits what can be done.
Ensuring heredity
Alternatively the protein and its gene can be kept together, or in emulsion droplets.
The gene sequences isolated are then multiplied by PCR or by transformed host bacteria.
Either the single best sequence, or a pool of sequences can be used as the template for the next round of mutagenesis.
The repeated cycles of diversification-selection-amplification make enzyme variations adapted to the selection process.
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Clarias cavernicola (Namibia)
Horaglanis krishnai (India)
Prietella species (Mexico)
Trogloglanis pattersoni (USA)
Satan eurystomus (USA)
Trichomycterus itacarambiensis (Brazil)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip is a 2015 movie starring Jason Lee as David Seville.
Four years after the events of the third film, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, along with the Chipettes – Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor – set up a surprise birthday bash for Dave that also serves as a good-luck and going-away party for the Chipettes, who are scheduled to be guest judges on American Idol.
Alvin invites and hires many people and celebrities to the dismay of Simon before Dave returns home in dissatisfaction.
Nevertheless, Dave agrees to take them to mini-golf, and meet Samantha, the woman he has been dating for the past few months.
While the Chipmunks like Samantha, her son Miles is a bully who physically abuses the trio.
Later, the Chipmunks find an engagement ring in a bag Dave brought home and believe that he is going to propose to Samantha.
Realizing in horror that Dave and Samantha getting married would make Miles their step-brother, they try to steal the ring, but are unsuccessful.
Dave has to produce a record for rising pop artist Ashley Grey in Miami, and decides to bring Samantha along with him.
The Chipmunks and Miles are staying together, but they agree to head to Miami to sabotage the supposed proposal.
The Chipmunks drug three squirrels and dress them up in their clothes to fool their hard-of-seeing neighbor Ms. Price , who was asked to look after them.
The Chipmunks travel on a plane, but Theodore lets out a monkey, which then lets out several animals which cause an emergency landing and bring the ire of unscrupulous Air Marshal James Suggs, who reveals to have a grudge against the Chipmunks because his girlfriend dumped him for being so into them at the time, effectively eliminating his shot of becoming an FBI agent.
As revenge on them, they are put on the No Fly List.
The Chipmunks perform at a bar, but this is interrupted by Suggs, and they cause a bar brawl as a diversion.
They jump into a cab sitting outside.
After the cab driver learns that they cannot pay him, he kicks the four out of the cab.
The Chipmunks and Miles rest at an old tree, and he reveals that his father left him when he was five years old, causing the four to bond and see each other in different lights.
They raise money to take a bus to New Orleans, and sing "Uptown Funk" at the Mardi Gras parade, which gets the attention of Dave when it is broadcast on live television and allows for the Chipmunks to cause Suggs, who has followed them, to get drunk on moonshine.
Dave and Samantha meet Miles and the Chipmunks at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and ground them for what they did.
Because the Chipmunks are now on the No Fly List, Dave has to drive the boys.
Dave is very disappointed in them.
When they arrive in Miami, Alvin reveals that he stole the ring from the container, thus ruining the proposal.
However, Miles had bonded with the Chipmunks during their trip and was upset that they were celebrating over this, thinking they just didn’t want to have him around.
He crosses the street with his headphones on and is almost hit by a car, but the Chipmunks swing Theodore and push Miles out of the way, saving his life.
They agree to give the ring back.
During the dinner, Suggs catches up with the Chipmunks, but they trap him in an elevator.
Miles and the Chipmunks return the ring to Dave saying they accept Samantha and Miles into the family, but Dave reveals he never intended to propose to Samantha for the time being, and the ring belonged to his friend Barry, who was proposing to his girlfriend, Alice, who is disgusted to find a breath mint inside the container, which Alvin had placed there as a replacement for the ring.
Dave is very disappointed in the Chipmunks, so they try to make it up to him by singing a new song to him at the launch party with the help of the Chipettes, Ashley and Miles.
They also return the ring to Barry, who reattempts his proposal to Alice, and this time, Alice accepts.
Having forgiven them (while also apologizing for going overboard with his no music policy), Dave returns to Los Angeles with the Chipmunks and officially adopts them as his sons, but becomes frustrated after discovering that the squirrels destroyed everything at their house.
Later, Suggs escapes the elevator and decides to relax by the pool, only for two security guards to carry him out of the hotel.
Ideal Landscape with a Young Man Killing a Snake is an oil painting by Franz Caucig (1755 – 1828), a  Neoclassical painter.
He made the painting before 1810.
The size of the painting is .
The painting is in the National Gallery of Slovenia.
On the left is an aqueduct and a group of trees.
On the right a young man kills a snake on the bank of a river.
The sky has dark clouds.
The sun shines on the river and on the young man.
The theme of nature is common in Neoclassicism.
The works of Immanuel Kant and neoclassical English philosophers were popular at this time.
Bettenhausen is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2011 the former municipality of Bollodingen merged into the municipality of Bettenhausen.
The Delta IV is a rocket made to launch satellites.
It has many different types including Medium, Medium+, and Heavy for many different types of satellites orbiting at many different altitudes above the Earth.
The Delta IV launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The Delta IV has launched 32 times.
The first flight was on November 20, 2002, and it launched the Eutelsat W5 communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
Delta IV Medium
The least powerful kind of the Delta IV rocket is the Medium type.
It has 1 main Common Booster Core (CBC) as the first stage of the rocket, using the RS-68 engine, and the second stage is like from the Delta III rocket, but it has been changed.
It uses a 4-meter payload fairing to cover the satellite during the launch of the rocket.
This kind has launched 3 times.
Delta IV Medium+ (4,2)
The Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) is like the Medium type, but it has two GEM-60 solid rocket boosters strapped onto the CBC.
This kind has launched 13 times, and is the kind of Delta IV rocket that has launched the most times.
Delta IV Medium+ (5,2)
The Delta IV Medium+ (5,2) is like the (4,2), but the second stage and fairing has a larger diameter.
This kind has launched 2 times.
Delta IV Medium+ (5,4)
The Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) is like the (5,2), but it has two more GEM-60 solid rocket boosters.
This kind has launched 5 times.
The Delta IV Heavy is the biggest kind of Delta IV rockets.
It has two CBC strapped onto it like solid rocket boosters.
This kind has launched 9 times, and is the most powerful rocket currently doing launches (the most powerful rocket ever is the Saturn V).
Delta IV info page from ULA
Delta IV User's Guide
The Giant Bible of Echternach, Echternacher Riesenbibel or Gothaer Riesenbibel is an illuminated Bible from the 11th century.
It is written in the Latin language.
It was made for the abbot of Echternach sometime between 1051 and 1081.
The Bible is in the National Library of Luxembourg (formerly Gotha).
The Giant Bible of Echternach was made at the Abbey Echernach.
The abbey is famous for its scriptorium and its illuminated manuscripts from the 11th century.
Luxembourg postage stamp with initials from the Giant Bible of Echternach Abbey (1)
Luxembourg postage stamp with initials from the Giant Bible of Echternach Abbey (2)
Biglen is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Official Homepage of Bauen
Mersch () is a canton in the centre of Luxembourg.
Its capital is Mersch.
With an area of , and a population (2017) of 31,351, the Mersch canton has a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The canton has the Diekirch canton to the north, the Echternach canton to the east, the  Grevenmacher canton to the southeast and the Luxembourg canton to the south.
The canton borders, to the west, with the Redange canton.
Bissen (3,021)
Boevange-sur-Attert (2,375)
Colmar-Berg (2,175)
Fischbach (1,195)
Heffingen (1,317)
Larochette (2,162)
Lintgen (2,902)
Lorentzweiler (3,896)
Mersch (9,195)
Nommern (1,393)
Tuntange (1,720)
Nancy Maryanne Dow (July 22, 1936 – May 25, 2016) was an American actress and model.
She appeared in a brief group of moviess and television shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies, The Wild Wild West and the 2005 movie Pure.
She was married to Greek American actor John Aniston with whom she had a daughter, actress Jennifer Aniston (born February 11, 1969).
Howard Golden (born 1925) is an American civil servant.
He was the long-time Democratic borough president of Brooklyn serving from 1977 to December 31, 2001.
Brooklyn borough presidents
Gaetano Victor "Guy" Molinari (November 23, 1928 – July 25, 2018) was an American politician.
He was a former United States Representative who served in Congress from 1981 through 1989.
He also served as borough president of Staten Island, New York from 1990 through 2001.
Staten Island borough presidents
Helen M. Marshall (September 30, 1929 – March 4, 2017) was an American politician from New York.
She was Borough President of Queens from 2002 to 2013.
Queens borough presidents
Claire K. Shulman (February 23, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York – August 16, 2020 in Queens, New York) was an American politician.
She was the borough president of Queens, New York City from 1986 until 2002.
She was the first woman to hold this position in Queens history.
City Hall News (03/12/2007)
New York Times 1996 article
Joseph Isaac Fleishaker (1954 – May 23, 2016) was an American character actor.
He was best known for his appearances in low-budget cult and horror movies such as those made by Troma Entertainment.
He appeared in Troma's War, Sgt.
Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. and Tromeo and Juliet.
He also appeared in several skits on Late Show with David Letterman.
Gyula Kosice, born Ferdinand Fallik (April 26, 1924 – May 25, 2016), was a Czechoslovakian-born naturalized Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, theoretician and poet.
He was of Jewish descent and one of the most important figures in kinetic.
He created monumental sculptures, hydrospatial walks, hydrowalls, etc.
He made more than 40 personal and 500 collective exhibitions all over the world.
Kosice was the first artist to use neon in sculpture and early on water in his work.
Gyula Kosice’s personal page
Kosice’s Blog, both Spanish and English
Gyula Kosice at inIVA
Gyula Kosice at ArtFact
2013 Bomb Magazine interview of Gyula Kosice by Lyle Rexer and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Argentine sculptors
He was elected in the Rijnmondraad (Council of Rijnmond), a local council of representatives of Rijnmond, in 1965.
Two years later, in 1967, he became Minister for Development Cooperation in the Cabinet-De Jong, a post he held till 1971.
In 1971, Udink became minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the Cabinets-Biesheuvel I and II.
His political career ended in 1973.
From 1973 till 1978 he was member of the Board of Directors of the Overzeese Gas- en Elektriciteitsmaatschappij N.V. (as Dutch gas and electricity company) and from 1978 till 1980 he served as its President.
B.J. (Bé) Udink Parlement.com
Franz Caucig, Franco Caucig or Francesco Caucig, also known in Slovene as Franc Kavčič or Frančišek Caucig (4 December 1755, Gorizia – 17 November, 1828, Vienna) was an Italian painter.
He was born on December 4 1755 in Gorizia.
His father Andrew was a tailor, of the Volče family, originally from Tolmino.
His mother was Catherine Kaknes (Cacnos).
Arturo Pomar Salamanca (September 1, 1931 – May 26, 2016) was a Spanish chess grandmaster (GM).
He was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
He was a chess prodigy because he won the championship of the Balearic Islands at the age of 11 and became a master at 13.
He was Spanish Champion seven times (1946, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, and 1966), and Sub-Champion four times (1951, 1956, 1964, and 1969).
Arturo Pomar biography at Chessgames.com
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (, ‎; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See.
He was also a Cardinal.
He was elected Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites on 27 April 1986, and his resignation was accepted on 26 February 2011.
Bechara Boutros al-Rahi became patriarch following the resignation.
Sfeir was born in Rayfoun.
He died of a chest infection on 12 May 2019 in Beirut.
His Beatitude and Eminence Patriarch Sfeir
Dossier: Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
Patriarch Sfeir page on Catholic Hierarchy
He appeared in such movies as I Start Counting (1970), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), The Abdication (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (
1976), Not Now, Comrade (1976), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Georgia (1988) and Paperback Romance (1994).
Lewis Fiander at Austage
Lewis Fiander Image Search
Theodore "Ted" Dumitru (born Dumitru Teodorescu; September 2, 1939 – May 26, 2016) was a Romanian football manager.
He last worked as a technical director for Mamelodi Sundowns in the South African Premier Soccer League.
He was the former coach of the South Africa national football team.
Dumitru was one of a few coaches to have guided the 'big three' in South Africa Kaizer Chiefs, Sundowns and Orlando Pirates.
Buck Kartalian (August 13, 1922 – May 24, 2016) was an American actor.
He appeared in more than 70 movies and television shows between 1953 and 2006.
Kartalian was known for his roles in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Planet of the Apes (1968), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and in The Rock (1996)
Spag-Hedy Epstein (15 August 1924 – 26 May 2016), née Wachenheimer, was a German-born Jewish-American political activist.
She was known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movement.
She was born in Freiburg to a Jewish family.
She was rescued from Nazi Germany by the Kindertransport in 1939.
She immigrated to the United States in 1948, and lived in St. Louis, Missouri for many years.
Hedy Epstein's personal website
Stanford Daily op-ed by Epstein
Frankie Manning (May 26, 1914 – April 27, 2009) was an American dancer, choreographer and instructor.
He helped develop the Lindy Hop, an American dance from Harlem, New York City.
At age 75, Manning received a 1989 Tony Award for co-choreographing Black and Blue, a musical on Broadway.
Manning wrote an autobiography, Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop.
Manning was born in Jacksonville, Florida.
He died at age 94 in Manhattan, New York City.
The Truth Seekers  (Chinese: 真探) is a Singaporean drama television series.
It began its run from 28 April 2016.
There are 23 episodes.
It stars Chen Hanwei, Rebecca Lim, Desmond Tan and Yusuke Fukuchi as the main characters.
They play a team of cold case private investigators, who look into unsolved cases from years ago and break new ground with the help of scientific and technological advancements.
During their investigations, members of the crime-busting team fall in – and out – of love as they learn other hidden truths about themselves and their comrades.
Chen Hanwei as Bai Qingxiong
Rebecca Lim as Huang Yuyang
Desmond Tan as Hong Junyan
Yusuke Fukuchi as Lan Haifeng
Lynn Poh as Yamamoto Atsuki
Lynn Poh's 2016 drama after Your Hand In Mine.
Lindy Hop is an American dance.
It started in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and 1930s.
It was originally associated with jazz and tap dance.
It was popular from the 1920s to the 1940s.
The Lindy Hop was a mixture of many dances before it, like the Charleston, tap and breakaway dances.
Lindy Hop today is danced as a social, competitive or performance dance.
It is also sometimes called a street dance.
The volleyball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were played between 6 and 21 August.
Twenty-four volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams, totalling 386 athletes, participated in the tournament.
The indoor volleyball competition was held at Ginásio do Maracanãzinho in Maracanã, and the beach volleyball tournament took place at Copacabana Beach.
Volleyball qualification process
Beach volleyball qualification process
Volleyball qualification website
Beach Volleyball qualification website
Clovis Maksoud (December 17, 1926 – May 15, 2016) was an American diplomat and journalist.
He was born in Bristow, Oklahoma.
He served as Ambassador of the Arab League to India from 1961 through 1966, to the United Nations from 1979 through 1990 and at the same time to the United States.
He worked with presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Besides from being an ambassador, Maksoud was the senior editor of Al-Ahram.
He also served as professor of International Relations and director of the Center for the Global South at American University in Washington, D.C..
Redange () is a canton in the west of Luxembourg.
Its capital is Redange, also called as Redange-sur-Attert.
On 1 January 1979, the communes of Arsdorf, Bigonville, Folschette and Perlé were merged to make the new commune of Rambrouch.
The number of communes in the canton changed from 13 to 10.
With an area of , and a population (2017) of 18,351, the Redange canton has a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The canton has the Wiltz canton to the north, the Diekirch canton to the northeast, the Mersh canton to the east and the Capellen canton to the south.
The canton of Redange borders, to the west, with two arrondissements of  Belgiumː  Arlon and  Bastogne.
Beckerich (2,489)
Ell (1,265)
Grosbous (1,026)
Préizerdaul (1,705)
Rambrouch (4,284)
Redange (2,795)
Saeul (780)
Useldange (1,800)
Vichten (1,246)
Wahl (961)
Zim is an unincorporated place in McDavitt Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
In 2010 the population of Zim was 5,228 people according to the U.S. Census.
Zim makes up 2.6% of the entire population of Saint Louis County.
Zim got its name from a nearby lumber camp of a man named Zimmerman.
Nearby is the "Sax-Zim Bog", one of the world's best birdwatching places.
It was named for the two nearby, mostly uninhabited, towns of Zim and Sax.
Every February the habitat hosts a three-day festival for birdwatchers.
Agarn (Walliser German: Agaru) is a municipality of the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Bleienbach is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Official website of Bleienbach
The law of definite proportions states that a chemical compound always has exactly the same proportion of elements by mass.
Joseph Proust, a French chemist,  first observed it in 1794.
For this reason, it is sometimes called  Proust's law.
Amounting to the same thing is the law of constant composition.
This states that all samples of a given chemical compound have the same elemental composition by mass.
For example, oxygen makes up about 8/9 of the mass of any sample of pure water, while hydrogen makes up the remaining 1/9 of the mass.
The law of definite proportions is the basis of stoichiometry, together with the law of multiple proportions.
Note that there are some compoonds, where this law cannot be applied: They are called non-stoichiometric compounds.
Commonly they are metals.
The Union Army of the West was a Union Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
It was made up of only four brigades and operated in Missouri.
It was formed shortly after May 10, 1861 and was disbanded on August 19, 1861.
The Army of the West was commanded by Brigadier general Nathaniel Lyon until his death at the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861.
By the time the Civil War started, Missouri had already already been engaged in a border war between free-soilers and proslavery forces over statehood for neighboring Kansas.
Both parties raided both sides of the border.
There was a great deal of lawlessness and panic in the region.
When the Civil War started, the issue became whether Missouri would join the Confederacy or remain loyal to the Union.
The newly elected governor in 1860 was Claiborne Fox Jackson.
While he openly did not call for secession from the Union, he was making plans for Missouri to join the Confederacy.
He knew the most important resource in the state was the federal arsenal at St. Louis.
There was only a small detachment of Union soldiers that guarded the arsenal and were under the command of Captain Lyon.
Jackson called out his state militia.
Meanwhile, the United States Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, had sent a letter to Lyon, the temporary commander of the arsenal, authorizing him to raise more companies of Union soldiers.
It was endorsed by President Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant general Winfield Scott.
On May 10, 1861, Lyon surrounded the camp of the Missouri Militia and arrested all of the members.
He marched his prisoners through the streets of St. Louis to the arsenal.
When Southern sympathizers in St. Louis started a riot, Lyon quickly put it down.
Many of the rioters were killed.
Brigadier general William S. Harney, who had left Lyon in temporary command, returned to St. Louis with two companies of Union artillery and two companies of Union infantry.
He reassureed the citizens of St. Louis that the Union army would protect them.
He condemned the actions of the state legislature and governor in making any effort to join the Southern cause.
He also wrote to General Scott saying he approved of Lyon's actions.
On May 17, 1861, Lyon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, his date of rank being 18 May.
The history of the Union Army of the West begins with Lyon's promotion to brigadier general and his being given overall command.
His forces were made up of a combination of regular United States Army and volunteer units from Missouri, Iowa and Kansas.
The Army of the West was made up of the following brigades:
1st Brigade, commanded by Major Samuel D. Sturgis.
Two companies of infantry, one company of dragoons (mounted infantry) and one artillery company totaling 184 men.
2nd Brigade, commanded by Colonel Franz Sigel.
One company each of infantry, cavalry, dragoons (mounted infantry) and artillery with a total of 1,200 men.
3rd Brigade, commanded by Lieutenant colonel George L. Andrews.
Two companies of infantry and one artillery company with a total of 1,116 men.
4th Brigade, commanded by Colonel George W. Deitzler.
Four companies of infantry totaling 2,400 men.
On June 13, 1861, after failed negotiations with Governor Jackson, Lyon quickly moved his army to attack the pro-confederate forces at Jefferson City, Missouri.
the state capital.
He moved quickly enough to catch them unprepared.
On June 15, the Army of the West occupied Jefferson City.
On June 17, both sides fought the Battle of Boonville which lasted only about 30 minutes.
The Union forces completely routed the pro-confederates.
Jackson and most of his militia retreated to the southwest corner of Missouri, close to Confederate help from Arkansas.
By the second week of July 1861, the Army of the West was camped at Springfield, Missouri.
In total, Lyon had about 5,400 soldiers in his command.
About 75 miles to the southwest of Springfield, the pro-south militia were camped.
In late July both forces started moving closer to together under the command of McCulloch.
His plan called for Colonel Sigel to do a flanking maneuver on the Confederates and attack them from their rear.
On August 10, the (first) Battle of Wilson's Creek began with Sigel's flanking maneuver which surprised the Confederate army.
During the battle, Lyon was killed and Major Sturgis replaced him.
After the third attack at about 11:00 am, the Confederates fell back.
With his ammunition running low and his men exhausted Sturgis withdrew to Springfield.
While it was a technical victory for the Confederates, the Union army kept control of Missouri for the rest of the war.
After the battle, the Army of the West fell back to Rolla, Missouri, then back to St. Louis.
From there the various units were sent to other commands.
On August 19, 1861 the Army of the West was officially disbanded.
17 May to August 10, 1861 - Brigadier general Nathaniel Lyon.
August 10 to August 19, 1861 - Brigadier general Samuel D. Sturgis
Army of the West (1862) (Confederate Army)
Remich () is a canton in the southeast of Luxembourg.
Its capital is Remich.
On 1 January 2012, the communes of Burmerange and Wellenstein were merged with the commune of Schengen.
With an area of , and a population (2017) of 21,987, the Remich canton has a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The canton has the Grevenmacher canton to the northeast, the Esch-sur-Alzette canton to the west and the Luxembourg canton to the northwest.
The canton of Remich borders, to the east, with two districts of  Germanyː  Trier-Saarburg and Merzig-Wadern, and to the south with the Moselle department in France.
Bous (1,553)
Dalheim (2,148)
Lenningen (1,886)
Mondorf-les-Bains (4,999)
Remich (3,632)
Schengen (4,805)
Stadtbredimus (1,866)
Waldbredimus (1,098)
Vianden () is a canton in the north of Luxembourg.
Its capital is Vianden.
On 1 January 2006, the communes of Bastendorf (in the Diekirch canton) and Fouhren were merged to form the commune of Tandel.
Vianden is the smallest canton of Luxembourgh, with an area of , and a population (2017) of 5,162; it has a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The canton has the Diekirch canton to the south, southwest and west; and the Clervaux canton to the northwest.
To the east, it borders with the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm district (Rhineland-Palatinate state), Germany.
Putscheid (1,123)
Tandel (2,031)
Vianden (2,008)
Wiltz () is a canton in northwestern Luxembourg.
Its capital is Wiltz.
On 1 January 2012, the communes of  Heiderscheid and Neunhausen were merged with the commune of Esch-sur-Sûre.
With an area of , and a population (2017) of 16,449, the Wiltz canton has a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The canton has the Clervaux canton to the north, the Diekirch canton to the east and the Redange canton to the south.
The canton of Wiltz borders, to the west, with the arrondissement of  Arlon, (Belgium).
Boulaide (1,223)
Esch-sur-Sûre (2,640)
Goesdorf (1,543)
Kiischpelt (1,168)
Lac de la Haute-Sûre (1,860)
Wiltz (6,730)
Winseler (1,285)
Angela Paton (January 11, 1930 – May 26, 2016) was an American theater, TV and movie actress.
She was known for her roles as Mrs. Lancaster, the innkeeper, in Groundhog Day (1993), Grandma in American Wedding (2003) and Mrs. Holmes in Lolita (1997).
ACT’s 40th season — an interview with Angela Paton and Bob Goldsby  at the San Francisco Chronicle
Kai Henning Gjesdal Henriksen (21 May 1956 – 27 May 2016) was a Norwegian businessperson.
He was a former politician for the Conservative Party of Norway.
He served a period as the chief executive officer of Storebrand Bank.
He was born in Tromsdalen.
Henriksen was CEO of the Norwegian government-owned wine and spirits retail monopoly company, AS Vinmonopolet from 2006 until his death in 2016.
Beatenberg is a municipality of the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Blumenstein is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Frequency hopping spread spectrum is a method of transmitting data wirelessly, using many different frequencies.
After a given time, the transmitter and receiver change the frequency on which they transmit the signal.
They do this in a seemingly random way, but both have agreed on the order in which they use the frequencies.
Nathaniel Lyon (July 14, 1818 – August 10, 1861) was the first Union general that was killed in the American Civil War.
He died while leading his men at the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
He is noted for his military actions in the state of Missouri in 1861.
Lyon was born on July 14, 1818, in Ashford, Connecticut.
He was the seventh out of nine children born to Amasa and Kezia Knowlton Lyon.
His father was a farmer and also a justice of the peace.
He grew up on their family farm.
When his older brother died, Lyon became the object of his father's anger.
Lyon hated farming and wanted to be like his ancestors who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
On July 1, 1837, Lyon entered the United States Military Academy at West Point.
William Tecumseh Sherman, who was a classmate and one year ahead of Lyon, described him as a "lymphatic boy, who didn't seem to have energy enough to make a man."
But Lyon did well at the academy.
He graduated in 1841, 11th out of a class of 52.
Lyon fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida and in the Mexican-American War.
During the War with Mexico, he received several promotions for gallantry under fire at the battles of Mexico City, Contreras, and Churubusco.
He was then sent to California where developed a reputation as an Indian fighter.
Lyon was next sent to Fort Riley in Kansas.
There he began to develop strong support for the Union as a result of the political climate developing in the state.
St. Louis arsenal
When the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, the entire state of Missouri was divided between pro-Confederate and pro-Union forces.
Through political connections, and even though a Captain, Lyon was given command of the St. Louis arsenal.
He sent almost all the gunpowder and weapons to safety in Illinois.
The United States Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, had sent a letter to Lyon, the temporary commander of the arsenal, authorizing him to raise more companies of Union soldiers.
Lyon then recruited thousands of untrained volunteers from among the German community in St. Louis.
Most German immigrants were against slavery which made them unpopular among many of the city's pro-Confederate citizens.
Tensions grew between the Union soldiers stationed there and the secessionist governor of the state, Claiborne Jackson.
When the Civil War broke out, Jackson refused to send volunteers from the state to fight for Abraham Lincoln.
Instead, the governor had the state militia muster outside the city to begin training in preparation to join the Confederate forces.
The governor knew the most important resource in the state was the federal arsenal at St. Louis.
Lyon realized what the governor was doing.
On May 10, 1861, Lyon and his troops surrounded the pro-Confederate Missouri militia and forced them to surrender.
While marching his captured prisoners through St. Louis, pro-Confederate citizens began to riot.
When his German volunteers fired into the mob, 28 people were killed.
The incident was called the Camp Jackson Affair.
On May 17, Lyon was promoted to brigadier general.
He was given command of the Union Army of the West.
Missouri in the war
On June 13, 1861, after failed negotiations with Governor Jackson, Lyon quickly moved his army to attack the pro-confederate forces at Jefferson City, Missouri, the state capital.
Lyon installed a pro-Union government after Jackson and most of his militia retreated to the southwest corner of Missouri.
Lyon moved his army to go after the rebels.
He then lead his troops into a series of skirmishes with the Missouri State Guard and the Confederate Army.
He next moved to Springfield, Missouri where the army camped.
On August 10, Lyon's Army of the West was defeated by a combined force of the Missouri Militia and Confederate troops under the command of Benjamin McCulloch near Springfield, Missouri.
This was called the first Battle of Wilson’s Creek.
Lyon was killed while trying to rally his outnumbered soldiers.
However, Lyon’s efforts prevented the State of Missouri from joining the Confederacy.
When the Union army retreated from Wilson's Creek, Lyon's body was mistakenly left behind on the battlefield.
Confederate soldiers found him and took his body to Springfield.
There he was examined by Dr. Melcher, a surgeon with the Confederate Missouri Militia.
The doctor described Lyon:
Lyon was then buried on a farm outside Springfield.
Later Union forces recovered the body.
It was sent home to Connecticut.
He was buried in the family plot at Phoenixville, now Eastford, Connecticut.
An estimated 15,000 people attended his funeral.
As the first general killed in the war, he was considered a hero.
General Lyons' funeral march, composed by George W. Hewitt; Library of Congress
General Lyon Cemetery; Eastford
From the State Historian: The Final Journey of Nathaniel Lyon
David Bryan Rashbaum (born February 7, 1962), better known as David Bryan, is the keyboard player of American rock band Bon Jovi.
With the band,  he has co-written songs and sings backing vocals.
He is also the co-writer of the successful Broadway musical Memphis.
He wrote the music and lyrics.
Joe DiPietro wote the book and some lyrics.
Memphis played on Broadway from October 18, 2009 to August 5, 2012.
The Broadway production won Best Musical in the Live Theatre division of the Golden Icon Awards, as well as four Tony Awards including Best Musical and four Drama Desk Awards.
These make Memphis the most nominated show on Broadway.
Second musical
Bryan also co-wrote the musical The Toxic Avenger, also with Joe DiPietro.
The musical made its off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages on April 6, 2009.
David Bryan website
Official website for Memphis
Memphis at the Internet Broadway Database
Sterling Price (September 20, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a soldier, lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri.
He served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War.
He was governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857.
During the American Civil War Price was a Major general serving with the Confederate States Army.
He is best known for his victories in New Mexico and Chihuahua during the Mexican conflict, and for his defeats at the Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport during the Civil War.
Following the war, Price took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender.
He tried unsuccessfully to seek service with Emperor Maximilian.
He finally returned to Missouri, where he died in poverty and was buried in St. Louis.
Price was born near Farmville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
His family was of Welsh origin.
Price attended Hampden-Sydney College in 1826 and 1827, studying law and working at the courthouse near his home.
He was admitted to the Virginia bar and opened a law practice.
In the fall of 1831, Price and his family moved to Fayette, Missouri.
A year later, they moved to Keytesville, Missouri, where he ran a hotel and mercantile.
On May 14, 1833, he married Martha Head of Randolph County, Missouri.
They had seven children, five surviving to adulthood.
During the Mormon War of 1838, Price served as a member of a delegation sent from Chariton County, Missouri to investigate disturbance between Latter Day Saints and anti-Mormon mobs in the western part of the state.
He reported the Mormons were not guilty of any offenses.
Also, that the charges against them were false.