the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
He has also exhibited at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; he is a member of that art institution.
Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 American romantic musical comedy movie directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Sue Casey, Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Mel Blanc, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Ricardo Montalbán.
It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and won an Academy Award in 1950.
Palaeoloxodon namadicus or the Asian Straight-tusked Elephant, was a species of prehistoric elephant that ranged throughout Pleistocene Continental India, now Southern Asia.
Ageusia is the loss of taste functions of the tongue, particularly the inability to detect sweetness, sourness, bitterness, saltiness, and umami (meaning "pleasant/savory taste").
It is sometimes confused with anosmia – a loss of the sense of smell.
Because the tongue can only feel texture and differentiate between sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami, most of what  we think of as the sense of taste actually comes from smell.
Ageusia is a lot rarer than hypogeusia – a partial loss of taste – and dysgeusia – a distortion or change of taste.
The main causes of taste disorders are head trauma, infections of upper respiratory tract , exposure to toxic substances, causes relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment, medicines, glossodynia ("burning mouth syndrome (BMS)") and COVID-19.
Aguesia is diagnosed by an otolaryngologist, who can look at a patient's loss of taste.
To do this, a specialist will look into any other factors that could be causing the loss of taste, such as examining the head, nose, ears, and mouth.
An otolaryngologist can also do of tests to assess the how bad the loss of taste is, which includes seeing specific tastes that a person can sense or recognize.
See also
MedTerms Online Medical Dictionary. "
Ageusia".
Retrieved April 15, 2005.
Family Practice Notebook. "
Taste Sensation".
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. "
Taste Disorders".
Retrieved May 26, 2010.
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (November 24, 1868 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and publisher.
He founded The Chicago Defender, the most influential Black American newspaper at the time.
It became the most widely circulated Black newspaper in the country.
Abbott was born on November 24, 1868, in Frederica, Saint Simons, Georgia (although some sources say he was born in Savannah, Georgia).
He studied printing at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), a historically black college in Virginia.
He graduated from Kent College of Law, a law school (now Chicago–Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago, 1899.
The Chicago Defender
In 1905 Abbott founded The Chicago Defender, a newspaper which defended the rights of Black Americans, and became known as "America's Black Newspaper".
It printed editorials that attacked white oppression and the lynching of Black Americans.
The editorials were popular among Black Americans in the Southern United States.
The Defender positive reporting on opportunities for Black Americans in the Northern states played a part in making many Black Southerners move North during the Great Migration.
Abbott was editor of the The Chicago Defender until he died on February 29, 1940, in Chicago.
Robert Abbott, Encyclopædia Britannica for Kids.
PBS: Robert Sengstacke Abbott
PBS: The Chicago Defender
Pablo J. Davis, "Robert S. Abbott," New Georgia Encyclopedia
Robert Sengstacke Abbott Boyhood Home: Founder of the Chicago Defender historical marker
The geology of Pakistan encompasses the varied landscapes that make up the land constituting modern-day Pakistan, which are a blend of its geological history, and its climate over the past few million years.
Llanocetus denticrinatus (“Llano's whale”) is a genus of extinct toothed Baleen whales from the Late Eocene of Antarctica and the Tethys Sea.
Abdullah Abdurahman (12 December 1872 – 20 February 1940) was a South African politician and doctor.
He was the first Coloured, or mixed-race, city councillor of Cape Town.
He was born on 12 December 1872, in Wellington, South Africa (now in the Western Cape).
His parents were Muslim Cape Malays, and his grandparents were slaves in the Cape Colony, possibly from India, who had managed to buy their freedom.
Cape Malays were considered "Coloured" under the apartheid system of racial segregation.
He went to school in Wellington before going to medical school at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1888; in 1893, he graduated.
After his studies, he returned to South Africa and became a doctor in Cape Town.
He was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1904.
He was the first non-white person in this position.
As city councillor he worked to improve the conditions of the Cape Coloured community, especially within the field of education; he helped set up the first secondary schools for Coloured people in Cape Town.
African Political Organisation
Abdurahman joined African Political Organisation (APO) in 1903 and became its president in 1905.
The party's goal was to fight increased racial oppression in the country, mainly on behalf of the Coloured people.
He led the APO for 35 years.
In 1914 Abdurahman was elected to the Cape Provincial Council.
He was the first Coloured person to serve on the council.
Abdullah Abdurahman died on 20 February 1940.
Abdullah Abdurahman,  Encyclopædia Britannica for Kids.
Potamophylax is a genus of insects belonging to the family Limnephilidae.
List of species includes:
Potamophylax albergaria Malicky, 1976
Potamophylax alpinus Tobias, 1994
Potamophylax coronavirus
Potamophylax juliani Kumanski, 1999
Potamophylax winneguthi
Potamophylax qafshtamaensis
Jhulia Rayssa Mendes Leal, also known as Rayssa Leal, (born 4 January 2008) is a goofy-footed Brazilian skateboarder from Imperatriz, Brazil.
Rayssa will represent Brazil at the Tokyo Olympic Games, scheduled to start on July 23, 2021, Rayssa Leal has medal chances seen in the last few championships and worlds.
The youngest athlete in Brazil to participate in an Olympics, Rayssa Leal is one of the three athletes who will represent Brazil in the women's street, perhaps the competition among all the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 in which Brazil has the most chances for a medal.
At the Japan Olympics, Fadinha, as she is known, will be accompanied by her friends Pâmela Rosa and Letícia Bufoni.
We Checked In On 10-Year-Old Skater Rayssa Leal and She Still Rips | The Inertia
Brett Sutton (born 16 May 1959) is an Australian triathlon coach and a former professional boxer, boxing coach, greyhound trainer, racehorse trainer and swimming coach, who is the head coach of Trisutto.com.
Before setting up Trisutto.com, he was head coach of the triathlon team teamTBB.
He has coached many World and Olympic champions, including Ironman world record holder Chrissie Wellington and Olympic champions Nicola Spirig and Emma Snowsill.
He is known for his forthright views on training methods and strong criticism of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and its officials.
In 1999, he pleaded guilty in an Australian court to five sexual offences committed in the late 1980s against a teenage girl swimmer whom he was coaching.
After the trial, in which he was given a suspended sentence, he was banned for life from coaching in Australia, and Sutton's marriage ended in divorce.
Sutton later remarried, and is now based in Leysin, Switzerland, where he lives with his Swiss wife Fiona and their two daughters.
He has been described as "the coach with the most formidable résumé in triathlon", "widely recognised as one of the best triathlon coaches", and "widely considered to be the best and most unorthodox coach in the sport".
Official website of teamTBB
Hot is the debut album by English singer-songwriter Melanie Brown, released on 9 October 2000 by Virgin.
Hot mainly received negative reviews after its release.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Hot.
Over the Moon is a 1939 British comedy movie directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borel, Zena Dare.
Vaudricourt is a commune.
Vauvillers is a commune.
Vaux-en-Amiénois is a commune.
Vaux-Marquenneville is a commune.
Vecquemont is a commune.
Aixe-sur-Vienne is a commune.
Velennes is a commune.
Vercourt is a commune.
Vermandovillers is a commune.
Deca- is the prefix commonly used to denote sets of ten, derived for the Latin "Decem".
Verpillières is a commune.
Vers-sur-Selle is a commune.
Vignacourt is a commune.
Westfield London is a big shopping centre in White City, west London, England, made by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn,
on a brownfield area previously the home of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition.
The area is near the West Cross Route (A3220), the Westway (A40) and Wood Lane (A219).
It opened on 30 October 2008 during the financial crisis and soon became the largest shopping centre in London.
Originally, it had a shopping floor area of .
But with more money put into the shopping centre, it became the largest shopping centre in Europe by March 2018, having an area of .
Department stores John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, and House of Fraser are at the bottom of the shopping centres.
Debenhams closed down in April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saint-Aubin-de-Nabirat is a commune.
Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac  is a former commune.
On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Sanilhac.
Breuilh is a former commune.
Alen Margaryan was an Armenian soldier who received the title of Hero of Artsakh at the age of 21.
He was born on 11 February 1999.
In 2020 he took part in the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Artsakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
He was killed by a drone strike on 30 September 2020.
Bauchi is a city in Nigeria.
It is the capital of Bauchi State.
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is a 1950 American western comedy movie directed by Charles Lamont and starring Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price, Eve Arden, Joe Sawyer, Chick Chandler, Rex Lease.
A trikini is a swimsuit for women, which is similar to a bikini.
A bikini consists of two pieces, a top and a bottom.
A bikini is made of three pieces.
The first trikinis appeared in the 1960s, they again became popular in the 2000s.
Cuban art has been known since the 16th century.
In the 16th century, painters and sculptors began arriving from Europe.
They made decorations (including paintings and sculptures), in Cuban churches and public buildings.
By the mid-1700s, native-born artists were painting in Cuba, in the European tradition of painting.
Many works of art were left behind by José Nicolás de la Escalera (d. 1804).
For many of those works, there is proof that he was the one who painted those.
Vicente Escobar (d. 1834) was a mestizo, and he did portraits that made his paintings popular with Cuba's elite (or people with wealth or political power).
He opened [the first, or] one of the first painting workshop/studios in Cuba.
He later graduated from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (d. 1889) was a Spanish-born artist, and he was an early artist of the costumbrismo genre.
He was opposed to Cuban independence, and that cost him some of his popularity with the public.
After the Colonial Era
By the late 1920s [an Avant-garde movement,] the Vanguardia, had rejected convention [or some norms] of Cuba's national art academy.
Most of the Vanguardia artists had been students at the national art academy.
Many had lived in Paris (France), where they learned (more) about Surrealism, Cubism, and modernist Primitivism.
Those genres (or styles) gave inspiration to the Vanguardia artists.
Pioneer s (or the first to be part) of the movement included Eduardo Abela, Antonio Gattorno, Victor Manuel, Fidelio Ponce de León, and Carlos Enríquez Gómez.
Other famous artists of the original Vanguardia were Amelia Peláez, Jorge Arche, Marcelo Pogolotti, Aristides Fernandez, Rafael Blanco, Domingo Ravenet, Alberto Peña, and Lorenzo Romero Arciaga.
The painting ["the tropical gypsy",] La Gitana Tropical (1929), has been called one of the defining pieces (or paintings) of Cuban Avant-garde art.
Victor Manuel painted it.
During stays in Paris, he had been impressed by the works of Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. (
The painting is in a museum in Havana, Cuba.)
Between 1934 and 1940, Cuba was searching for its cultural identity in its European and African roots.
The landscape, flora, fauna, and lore of the island, as well as its peasants - the often neglected, but important part of Cuba's soul and economy - was shown, more and more, in its art.
In 1938, the Second National Salon of Painting and Sculpture, showed art works.
Some of the artists there, have been called part of a second generation of modern artists, including Cundo Bermudez, Mario Carreño, Rita Longa, Alfredo Lozano, Luis Martinez-Pedro, and René Portocarrero
The painting The Jungle (1943) has been called a masterpiece (or a painting by a master) of Cuban art.
The artist, Wifredo Lam, is not thought of, as being a part of the Vanguardia movement. (
The painting is in a museum in the United States.
It was bought in 1945.)
In 1944 in New York City (USA), the art exhibition "Modern Cuban Painters" was held at MoMA.
That year Mario Carreño had a solo exhibition (or his own exhibition) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In 1951 in Paris (France), an exhibition of modern Cuban art was shown at the Musée National d'Art Moderne.
After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, some artists made a decision to leave Cuba.
Because the creation of art, was sponsored (or paid for) by the Cuban government, implied censorship occurred, since artists wouldn't want to make art that was against the government that was financing (or paying for) the art.
In the 1960s and 1970s conceptual art was introduced.
Minimalism, Earth art, and Performance art was (sometimes) mixed with conceptual art
In 1984 the first Havana Biennial was held. (
There have been biennials as late as 2015 and 2019.)
In 1997 in New York City (USA), the exhibition Naïve Art in Cuba, was held at Metropolitan Arts Center.
It showed  the art of fourteen Cuban artists of Naïve art, and art from eight members of the Grupo Bayate, an artists' collective (or group) from Mella, Santiago de Cuba.
As of 2015, few artists of Naïve art have had works shown at art salons (or other exhibitions, such as) the biennial of Havana.
Tomás Sánchez (1948-)
Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac (21 March 194226 June 1967) was a French actress and model.
She was the oldest sister of Catherine Deneuve.
She was known for her roles in Philippe de Broca's movie L'homme de Rio, François Truffaut's La peau douce, Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac, and Val Guest's Where the Spies Are.
Dorléac was killed in a car crash on 26 June 1967 in Nice, France at the age of 25.
Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director.
His best known movies were That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio), The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) and On Guard (Le Bossu).
Broce died of cancer at a Neuilly-sur-Seine hospital on 26 November 2004 at the age of 71.
Philippe de Broca Interview, 1998
David Royston Bailey  (born 2 January 1938) is an English fashion and portrait photographer.
2001: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, as part of 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours.
2005: Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS), Royal Photographic Society.
2016: Lifetime Achievement award, Infinity Awards, International Center of Photography, New York.
Liz Walker interviews David Bailey, September 1990
Text of 1994 interview.
2000 interview (text and video)
2006 CNN interview (text and video)
Pyotr Nikolayevich Mamonov (, ; 14 April 1951 – 15 July 2021) was a Russian rock musician and songwriter.
He was known for being the frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu.
Mamonov was born in Moscow.
Mamonov died on 15 July 2021 in Moscow from COVID-19, aged 70.
Sylvia Acevedo is an American engineer and businesswoman.
She was head of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 2016 to 2020.
She began her career as a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she was on the Voyager 2 team.
She held leadership positions at a number of technology companies, such as Apple, Dell, IBM and Autodesk.
Acevedo was born in South Dakota but her family later moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she grew up.
She joined the Girl Scouts when she was 7 years old.
In 1979, she received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University.
In 1983, she was one of the first Hispanic students to earn a Master of Science graduate degree in systems engineering from Stanford University.
Acevedo worked as a rocket scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where one of her jobs was to analyze data from Voyager 2.
Acevedo then moved to IBM, where she worked as a systems engineer.
In 2011, American President Barack Obama appointed Acevedo to the Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
She served in the position until January 2016.
Acevedo became a board member for the Girl Scouts in 2008.
In 2016 she was elected interim (temporary) chief executive officer (CEO) of the group.
The next year she was named permanent CEO.
Acevedo stepped down from her role in the Girl Scouts in 2020.
Significant publications
2018: Clarion Books, Path To the Stars, My Journey from Girl Scouts to Rocket Scientist, an aspirational middle school memoir
2016: Harcourt Mifflin Houghton, Critical Growth Needs for English Learner Preschoolers
2016: UCLA White paper: Realizing the Economic Advantages of a Multilingual Workforce, (alongside Dr. Patricia Gandara)
Hugo Freund Sonnenschein (November 14, 1940 – July 15, 2021) was a prominent American economist and educational administrator.
He was the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago.
He was known for focusing on the microeconomic theory such as general equilibrium theory.
He was the 11th president of the University of Chicago from 1993 until 2000.
Peter Rudolf de Vries (14 November 1956 – 15 July 2021) was a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter.
He was known for hosting the television program Peter R. de Vries, misdaadverslaggever.
In 2005, he founded his own political party.
On 6 July 2021, he was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam.
He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died nine days later at the age of 64.
In the evening of 6 July 2021, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter Peter R. de Vries was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam.
Many shots were fired at him at the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat while he was on his way to his car.
He was taken to the VU University Medical Center in critical condition.
De Vries died as a result of the shooting on 15 July 2021.
Later in his career, de Vries became one of the most visible figures in the journalistic investigation of cold cases in the Netherlands, such as the death of Nicky Verstappen, in which he supported the victim's family in court.
In 2021, De Vries supported the crown witness Nabil Bakkali in the Marengo process.
Less than two years earlier, Bakkali's lawyer, Derk Wiersum, had been murdered outside his home in Amsterdam.
The Dutch police arrested three suspects the same day of the shooting.
Two suspects were in a car that was stopped on the A4 motorway near Leidschendam.
The third person was released the next day, and is no longer a suspect.
A 35-year-old Polish man, Kamil E., is the suspected getaway car driver, while a 21-year-old Dutchman, Delano G., is the suspected shooter.
Dutch media has reported that the suspected killer is the nephew or cousin of one of the henchmen of Ridouan Taghi, known as the Netherlands' most-wanted criminal.
De Vries was involved in the prosecution of Taghi.
Surekha Sikri Rege (19 April 1945  16 July 2021) was an Indian actress.
Her career began in 1978 with the movie Kissa Kursi Ka.
She won awards for her roles in Tamas (1988), Mammo (1995) and Badhaai Ho (2018).
Sikri was born in New Delhi.
Sikri died on 16 July 2021 in Mumbai from cardiac arrest caused by multiple strokes, aged 76.
The 2021 European floods are a series of ongoing severe floods which began on 12 July 2021.
They have affected several river basins.
It started in the United Kingdom before spreading into Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland.
Germany was affected the hardest where at least 103 people died.
200,000 properties were left without power.
Calendar Man (Julian Gregory Day) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
He is an enemy of the superhero Batman.
Calendar Man is known for committing crimes that relate to holidays and important dates.
He sometimes wears costumes to match with the date of the crime.
The character will make his movie debut in The Suicide Squad, played by Sean Gunn.
The Ashoka Chakra is a wheel represented with 24 spokes in Buddhism.
It is in the centre of the Flag of India.
Sean Gunn (born May 22, 1974) is an American actor.
He is known for his roles as Kirk Gleason on The WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) and Kraglin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
2 (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
He is the younger brother of director James Gunn.
The Polka-Dot Man (Abner Krill) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
He is a minor enemy of Batman.
His powers include advanced technology in the form of the costume's polka dots, which were controlled through the costume's belt.
The Polka-Dot Man will make his movie debut in James Gunn's DC Extended Universe movie The Suicide Squad in 2021, played by David Dastmalchian.
Ratcatcher is name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books and other media published by DC Comics.
He is an enemy of Batman.
He is a rat-catcher in Gotham City and known as Otis Flannegan.
He called himself the Ratcatcher because of his special powers to talk with and train rats.
Ratcatcher first appeared in Detective Comics #585 (April 1988) and was created by Alan Grant, John Wagner, and Norm Breyfogle.
A second and female version of the character, named Cleo Cazo / Ratcatcher 2 and shown as the daughter of the original Ratcatcher, will make her cinematic debut in the DC Extended Universe movie The Suicide Squad (2021), portrayed by Daniela Melchior.
The 2020–21 Frauen Bundesliga was the 31st season of the Frauen Bundesliga in Germany.
It took place from 4 September 2020 to 6 June 2021.
Bayern Munich won their third Bundesliga title.
23 goals
Nicole Billa (1899 Hoffenheim)
Laura Freigang (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Lea Schüller (Bayern Munich)
Milena Nikolić (Bayer Leverkusen)
Zsanett Jakabfi (VfL Wolfsburg)
Sydney Lohmann (Bayern Munich)
Viviane Asseyi (Bayern Munich)
Klara Bühl (Bayern Munich)
Selina Cerci (Turbine Potsdam)
Ewa Pajor (VfL Wolfsburg)
Kite Man (Charles "Chuck" Brown) is a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.
He is seen as a villain of Batman who uses kite-based weapons to commit crimes.
The character has been generally seen as a joke because of his lack of super-powers and dumb personality.
Kite Man first appeared in Batman #133 (August 1960), and was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Dick Sprang.
He appeared as a regular character in the adult animated series Harley Quinn, where he is voiced by Matt Oberg.
Bloodsport is a name used by many fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
They are mainly a villian to Superman.
He was created by writer and artist John Byrne.
The original Bloodsport first appeared in Superman vol.
2, #4 (April 1987).
The main person to use this name is Robert DuBois.
In the DC Extended Universe, Robert DuBois will be played by Idris Elba in The Suicide Squad (2021).
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football team that represents Frankfurt and plays in the Frauen Bundesliga.
The team was called 1.
FFC Frankfurt until 2020.
The team is the most successful German team, both in the league and in Europe.
Frankfurt has won 7 Bundesliga titles, 4 UEFA Women's Champions League titles and 9 DFB-Pokal titles.
Some notable players include Birgit Prinz, Fatmire Alushi, Melanie Behringer, Célia Šašić and Simone Laudehr.
FFC Frankfurt Official Website
Rick Flag is the name of three fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
The name is used by a father, son, and grandson also known as Rick Flag.
The father, Richard Flag, was in the original Suicide Squad, a World War II unit.
His son, Captain Rick Flag Jr., was a member of the Forgotten Heroes and led two different versions of the Suicide Squad.
Joel Kinnaman plays Flag in the live-action DC Extended Universe movies Suicide Squad and the sequel.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky (or Sofronitzky; , Vladimir Sofronitskij;  – August 29, 1961) was a Russian-Soviet pianist.
Vladimir Sofronitsky was born in St. Petersburg.
He started piano lessons in Poland after his family moved to Warsaw in 1903.
His teachers were Anna Lebedeva-Getcevich and later Aleksander Michałowski.
After Poland he went to Petrograd to study in the Conservatory.
His classmates were other talented musicians such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Maria Yudina, and Elena Scriabina.
In 1920 he married Scriabina.
Sofronitsky gave his first solo concert in 1919, and went on his foreign tour in France in 1928.
In 1945, he was sent by Joseph Stalin to play at the Potsdam Conference.
That was his only time performing outside the Soviet Union.
Sofronitsky was teaching at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1936 to 1942, and then at the Moscow Conservatory until his death in 1961.
In 1942 he was proclaimed an Honored Artist of the RSFSR and awarded a Stalin Prize of the first class in 1943.
Sofronitsky's performed works from Scriabin, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Beethoven, Lyadov, Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Prokofiev, and others.
His daughter is the Canadian pianist Viviana Sofronitsky.
Sofronitsky recordings document one of the most intense and individual pianistic personalities of the 20th century.
Vladimir Sofronitsky official website (in English and in Russian)
Vladimir Sofronitsky Tribute – Discography
Der Pianist, der den Richter entzückte.
Spiegel . (
in German)
Recording of Sofronitsky teaching
About Vladimir Sofronitsky.
Peoples. (
in Russian)
In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary (officially known as the Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department), is the person in the shadow cabinet who shadows the Home Secretary.
This mostly means criticising  government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and stuff to do with citizenship.
If the opposition party is elected to government, the Shadow Home Secretary usually becomes the new Home Secretary, but this doesn't always happen and isn't required.
The person who is currently Shadow Home Secretary is the Labour MP Nick Thomas-Symonds since 5 April 2020.
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is a German women's association football team from Hoffenheim in northern Baden-Württemberg.
The team plays in the Frauen Bundesliga.
The team plays their games at the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion, which was used by the men's team until 2009.
The club's first season in the Bundesliga was in 2013–14.
DFB-Pokal Frauen
Bhāratmātā (Hindi, Bengali, from Sanskrit Bhāratāmbā  ; अम्बा ambā means 'mother', also known as Mother Carrier in English) is the National personification of the modern Republic of India "Bharat" as a Mother goddess.
The motto Bharat Mata ki Jai’ ("Victory for Mother India") is used by the Indian Army.
Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 in Heidelsheim – 29 February 1792 in Augsburg), was a maker of keyboard instruments from Germany.
He built organs, clavichords, harpsichords and pianos.
In the beginning Stein learned the craft from his father in Heidelsheim.
In 1748 to 1749 he was visiting two different workshops: one of Johann Andreas Silbermann in Strasbourg and the other of Frantz Jacob Spath in Regensburg.
Later Stein played an important role in the history of piano and was responsible for the design of the Viennese hammer action.
In 1777 Stein met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the first time.
The composer used Stein's pianos in his public performances in Augsburg later that year.
He was fond of Stein's pianos and shared his admiration in a letter to his father.
Only a few instrument by Stein survived until the XXI century.
One clavichord that was bought by Leopold Mozart is now displayed in the Budapest National Museum.
Instruments from Stein serve as models for such piano builders like Philip Belt and Paul McNulty.
The Piano: Viennese Instruments
Hungarian National Museum.
Mozart’s clavichord made by Stein.
Mozart's pianos.
A modern replica of a Stein piano
Selly Oak is a mostly factory and home filled area in south-west Birmingham, England.
Selly Oak ward, named after the area, has the neighbourhoods of: Bournbrook, Selly Park, and Ten Acres inside it.
The nearby areas of Edgbaston and Harborne are to the north of the Bourn Brook, which was the former county borders, and to the south are Weoley, and Bournville.
A local government is in-charge the four wards of Selly Oak, Billesley, Bournville and Brandwood.
The same areas make the Birmingham Selly Oak political constituency, with their MP being Steve McCabe of the Labour Party.
Selly Oak is connected to Birmingham by the Pershore Road (A441) and the Bristol Road (A38).
The 2001 Population Census found that there were 25,792 people who lived in Selly Oak, with a population density of 4,236 people per km2 which was sometimes compared with 3,649 people per km2 in Birmingham.
15.9% of the population were people from races that had smaller populations in the UK compared with 29.6% in Birmingham.
As the University of Birmingham is nearby, there are many students who live in the area.
This can damage the figures about population that use the election registered voter record because some students are not allowed to vote, and some who are allowed do not register to vote.
The Belko Experiment is a 2016 American horror thriller movie directed by Greg McLean and starring John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Owain Yeoman, Sean Gunn, Josh Brener, Michael Rooker.
Nannette Streicher (née Anna-Maria Stein; 2 January 1769, Augsburg – 16 January 1833, Vienna) was a piano builder, composer and a writer from Germany.
Nannette was a daughter of the organ and piano maker Johann Andreas Stein from Augsburg.
Her father founded an important piano-making dynasty, and in 1790 Streicher took over father's business.
In 1793 she married a musician Johann Andreas Streicher, and in 1794 they moved together to Vienna.
In the beginning she had her brother Matthias Andreas Stein as a partner in the firm that was called Geschwister Stein.
In 1802 siblings decided to go separate ways, and Streicher started inscribing her pianos Nannette Streicher née Stein in Wien.
She was close to Ludwig van Beethoven and was helping him in household.
The composer also had one of Streicher's pianos.
After her death, their son Johann Baptist Streicher continued the firm.
Gabriel Anton Walter (5 February 1752 – 11 April 1826) was a Viennese piano builder.
Born in Neuhausen auf den Fildern in Germany, Walter moved to Vienna in 1780.
In 1790 he obtained the status of Imperial Royal Chamber Organ Builder and Instrument Maker.
His firm was employing about 20 craftsmen and was labeled "Anton Walter und Sohn" ("and son").
Walter improved the Viennese piano mechanic design that was created by Johann Andreas Stein in Augsburg.
The most famous composers of those times had pianos from Walter, among them were Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Last bought Walter's piano in 1782 and was using it in an important phase of his career.
Mozart's own piano that was built by Walter survived till the XXI century and now is kept in Salzburg.
Modern piano builders such as Rodney Regier, Christopher Clark, Paul McNulty and Philip Belt use Walter's instruments as models to create replicas.
Haydnhaus in Eisenstadt.
Anton Walter’s piano.
Fortepiano Anton Walter (1795); The Min-On Music Museum in Tokyo
Fortepiano by Anton Walter (1792) replica by Paul McNulty
Robert Eggers (born July 7, 1983) is an American movie director and screenwriter.
He created two horror movies called The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019).
The Northman is an upcoming film of Eggers.
Nicole Billa (born on 5 March 1996 in Kufstein, Austria) is an Austrian football player who currently plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and the Austria women's national team.
In the 2020–21 Frauen Bundesliga, she was the top scorer with 23 goals.
Nicole Billa at fbref.com
Nicole Billa at Soccerway
Conrad Graf (17 November 1782 in Riedlingen, Further Austria – 18 March 1851 in Vienna) was an Austrian-German piano builder.
Starting as a cabinet maker, Graf became a student to a piano maker Jakob Schelkle in 1800.
After the death of his teacher, Graf married his widow and took over the workshop.
In 1826 he converted a former dance hall in Vienna into a piano factory.
Graf's factory produced more than 3000 pianos.
Graf sold the firm to Carl Stein (a grandson of Johann Andreas Stein) in 1824.
In 1826 Graf gave an instrument to Ludwig van Beethoven.
After the composer's death Graf took the piano back and sold it to the Weimer family in Vienna.
Now this instrument is displayed in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.
Another composer that was using Graf's pianos was Frédéric Chopin.
He chose it for a concert in Vienna and continued to "cherish" Graf's instruments after that.
Clara and Robert Schumann received a piano from Graf as a wedding gift.
After Schumann's death in 1856, Clara gave the piano to Johannes Brahms, who used it until 1873.
Felix Mendelssohn also admired Graf's instruments.
He purchased one in 1832 and later ordered another one for using it in Dusseldorf.
Franz Liszt, Camille Pleyel and Friedrich Kalkbrenner also used pianos from Conrad Graf.
In September 2018 a replica of a Graf's instrument built by Paul McNulty was used in the first International Chopin Piano Competition (run by Fryderyk Chopin Institute).
Sound files: fortepianist V.Sofronitsky plays on a modern Graf replica
"The Piano in Polish collections" Graf op.
318 ca.
1819 piano replica
Asuka Saitō is a Japanese idol singer, actress and fashion model.
She is a member of the Japanese girl group Nogizaka46.
Ignace Joseph Pleyel (French: [plɛjɛl]; German: [ˈplaɪl̩]; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-French composer and piano builder.
Pleyel was born in Ruppersthal in Austria in a family of a schoolmaster Martin Pleyl.
In 1772 he became a student of Joseph Haydn.
In 1783 Pleyel moved to Strasbourg to work with Franz Xaver Richter, the maître de chapelle at the Strasbourg Cathedral.
In 1788 Pleyel married Françoise-Gabrielle Lefebvre and had four children with her.
In 1797 he started a business as a music publisher ("Maison Pleyel") in Paris.
The company published about 4,000 works during 39 years.
Pleyel composed more than 40 symphonies, 70 string quartets, several operas, piano solo pieces and chamber music.
He also was a founder of a piano firm Pleyel et Cie that was continued by Pleyel's son Camille.
The firm provided pianos for Frédéric Chopin.
The composer was very fond of Pleyel's instruments.
In 2009 a replica of the 1830 model of Pleyel's piano was built.
Now it is in the collection of Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw.
It was also used in the 1st International Chopin Piano Competition on Period Instruments.
Website of the Ignaz Pleyel Museum (in German)
Pleyel Pianos - The Piano in Polish Collections
Free scores by Ignaz Pleyel at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Pleyel in the grand piano - Photo Archive
Paul McNulty copy of Pleyel piano from 1830
Albert Garza Bustamante (April 8, 1935 – November 30, 2021) was an American politician.
He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 23rd district from 1985 until 1993.
​He was a Democrat.
Bustamante died on November 30, 2021 in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 86.
Joel Maurice Hefley (born April 18, 1935) is an American Republican politician.
He was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the 5th Congressional District of Colorado from 1987 to 2007.
He is known for being a critic of same-sex marriage.
Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. (born May 25, 1935) is an American businessman and a politician.
He is a former member of the Democratic Party.
He was CEO of the Stuckey's chain of gift shops from 1985 until 2019.
He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Georgia's 8th congressional district from 1967 until 1977.
Douglas Brian "Pete" Peterson (born June 26, 1935) is an American politician.
He was a United States Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War.
He became the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam in 1997.
He was an ambassador until July 2001.
Peterson was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 until 1997 for Florida's 2nd congressional district.
Tirey Lafayette Ford (December 29, 1857 – June 26, 1928) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a California State Senator and the 18th Attorney-General of California.
He acted as General Counsel for the United Railroads in San Francisco.
Ford was born on a farm in Monroe County, Missouri, the son of Jacob Harrison Ford and Mary Winn Abernathy.
He went to the district county school from 1863 to 1873 and graduated from high school in 1876.
In 1877, at the age of 19, Ford left Missouri and took an immigrant train to Colusa County, California.
For three years, he worked on his uncle Hugh J. Glenn's ranch; Hugh Glenn was a Democratic candidate for Governor.
Ford became a student in the law office of Colonel Park Henshaw in Chico, California.
Ford was admitted to the California bar in August 1882.
In 1882, Ford moved to Oroville to practice law in partnership with Senator Albert F. Jones, under the firm name of Jones & Ford.
This partnership lasted for one year when Ford moved to Downieville, California, the county seat of Sierra County, where he practiced law under the firm name of Smith & Ford.
He specialized in mining law.
In 1888, Ford was elected as District Attorney of Sierra County on the Republican ticket.
He re-elected in 1890 to the office without opposition, the Democrats making no nomination against him.
Ford became Republican California State Senator in 1892 and 1895 for California's 3rd State Senate district, Plumas, Sierra, and Nevada Counties.
On March 23, 1893, Senator Ford introduced two bills known as the Ford's Mining Bills, Senate Bill No.
50, which would allow hydraulic mining where it can be done without material injury to the navigable rivers, and Senate Bill No.
389, which would appropriate $250,000 for building restraining dams, provided by the United States Government.
He was appointed attorney to the State Board of Harbor Commissioners in 1894, which office he held until elected Attorney General for the state of California in 1898.
Ford solved a difficult legal dispute over ownership of an area known as Channel Street in the San Francisco's harbor leading to the bay.
A judgment gave this land for public use to the city of San Francisco.
He served as the 18th California Attorney General 1899–1902.
One of his noteworthy acts was the reversal of a decision regarding the inheritance tax on the Leland Stanford estate that converted $250,000 to public schools of San Francisco.
He resigned as Attorney General in order to become General Counsel for the United Railroads (URR) of San Francisco.
In 1905, Governor George Pardee selected Ford to be the State Prison Director.
Ford wrote a book called California State Prisons: their history, development and management, published in 1910.
As director, he created a special bureau for paroled prisoners.
In August 1902, Ford was appointed general counsel for the United Railroads of San Francisco.
His knowledge of railroad law as of other departments of jurisprudence was comprehensive and accurate, and he stands today as one of the foremost representatives of the legal interests of California.
As attorney for URR, he was involved in a bribery scandal in 1906, but was later found to be innocent.
The bribery scandal was one of the many San Francisco graft trials, which included Mayor Eugene Schmitz and attorney Abe Ruef, who were receiving bribes.
In his retirement, Ford took up historical studies and literary pursuits.
In 1926 he published a novel, Dawn and the Dons: The Romance of Monterey, with vignettes and sketches by artist Jo Mora.
On June 26, 1928, Ford died in his bed due to a sudden heart attack.
A funeral service was held at Gary's Chapel on Divisadero Street at Post in San Francisco.
He was interred at the family mausoleum, at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
Tirey Lafayette Ford Biography
Join California Tirey L. Ford
Creed is a 2015 American sports drama movie directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew.
It is both a sequel and spin-off to the Rocky franchise, which is the seventh movie of the series and a sequel to the 2006 movie Rocky Balboa.
The movie was distributed by Warner Bros.. It won 1 Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2016.
A pleural effusion is when there is a large amount of fluid in the pleural space, the potential space that surrounds each lung.
There are many types of pleural effusion and they include:
Serous fluid (hydrothorax)
Blood (haemothorax)
Chyle (chylothorax)
Pus (pyothorax or empyema)
Urine (urinothorax)
Woke ( ) is a word which originally referred to awareness about racism and discrimination.
It later came to include an awareness of other issues of social inequality, for example regarding gender and sexual orientation.
Since the late 2010s it has also been used as a general word for left-wing political movements and viewpoints which emphasise the identity politics of people of color (those who are not white), LGBT people, and women.
The phrase "stay woke" began within the everyday language of some African Americans in the 1930s, because in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) woke is instead of woken, the usual past participle form of wake.
After the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the word was used by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists who wanted to raise awareness about police shootings of African Americans in the US.
It became an Internet meme and was increasingly utilised by individuals who were not African American to show that they supported BLM.
Popular among millennials, the word spread worldwide and was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.
The word ended up being used as a catch-all term to describe left-wing ideologies, often centred on the identity politics of minority groups and informed by academic movements like critical race theory, which identified themselves as being devoted to social justice.
This included BLM, anti-racism, and campaigns on women's and LGBT issues.
By 2020, parts of the political right in some Western countries were ironically using the word "woke" to describe left-wing movements and ideologies they disagreed with.
In turn, some left-wing activists came to consider it an offensive term used to belittle those campaigning against discrimination.
The lower Andes tree frog (Boana melanopleura) is a frog that lives in Peru.
Scientists have only seen it in two places in the Andes Mountains, 2080 meters above sea level.
Villecourt is a commune.
Ville-le-Marclet is a commune.
Paul Samuel "Pops" Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violist.
He was known as the "King of Jazz".
His most popular recordings include "Whispering", "Valencia", "Three O'Clock in the Morning", "In a Little Spanish Town", and "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers".
Ville-sur-Ancre is a commune.
A person of color (plural: people of color, sometimes persons of color) is an American term referring to someone who is not white.
Since the 2010s, it has been used in other parts of the English-speaking world (sometimes using the British English spelling "person of colour").
In the United States, people of color include African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, mixed-race Americans, and some Latinos.
It can also refer to people of non-white ancestry outside of the US.
The term "colored" was the older word for people of color in American English, but later came to be only used for "Negroes" (an outdated and offensive word for black people).
It is now considered racist.
In South Africa, "Coloureds" refers to multiple mixed-race ethnic groups, and is sometimes applied to other groups in Southern Africa, such as the  of Namibia.
L.A. State of Mind is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Melanie Brown.
It was released on 27 June 2005 by Amber Café.
Brown recorded most of the album in her kitchen with her friends from London and did not want to release it via a record label.
Like Hot (2000), L.A. State of Mind received negative reviews from critics.
L.A. State of Mind received generally mixed to negative reviews upon its release from music critics.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of L.A. State of Mind.
Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 – 2 April 1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
His method Rorschach test was to use inkblots.
This test is still used to identify various disorders of the patient.
Bayou Cane is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Grey asexuality refers to the broad spectrum between asexuality and sexuality.
Gray-asexual individuals are often ascribed with a rare or circumstantial sexual attraction.
Jerzy Józef Brzęczek (born 18 March 1971) is a Polish football manager and former player.
He was the manager of the Poland national team from 2018 to 2021.
Pangender, or omnigender, describes an individual experiencing an infinite amount of genders within ones lane.
It's considered a non-binary gender identity, sometimes included in polygender umbrella term.
Ogie Henry Banks III (born June 13, 1973) is an American voice actor.
He is best known for his roles as Clawd Wolf in Monster High and Luke Cage and Miles Morales in Ultimate Spider-Man.
He also voices Dylan in the Bratz franchise and Darui in Naruto.
Villers-aux-Érables is a commune.
Villers-Bocage is a commune.
Villers-Bocage is the name of two communes in France:
Villers-Bocage, Calvados, in the Calvados department
Villers-Bocage, Somme, in the Somme department
The COVID-19 pandemic in Brunei is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().
On 9 March 2020, the first case in the country was confirmed in Tutong.
Villers-Campsart is a commune.
Villers-Carbonnel is a commune.
Christopher "Chris" Edgerly (born August 6, 1969) is an American voice actor, comedian and singer.
Edgerly is well known for his performances as a voice actor in animated movies, television shows, video games, commercials and various other animation projects.
A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese crime drama movie directed by Edward Yang and starring Chang Chen, Elaine Jin, Lawrence Ko, Chang Kuo-chu, Lisa Yang, Tan Chihkang.
Kay Waldo Barnes (born as Kay Cronkite, March 30, 1938, St. Joseph, Missouri) is an American politician and the former two term Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.
She is a Democratic Party member.
Barnes was the first female mayor of Kansas City from May 1999 until May 2007.
She is the cousin of the famous journalist Walter Cronkite
Barnes was the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 6th congressional district under the United States House of Representatives in the 2008 election against the Republican incumbent Sam Graves.
In 1974, Barnes was one of the first two women with the Jackson County Legislature.
She was elected to the Kansas City Council in 1979.
Bayonne ham () is a type of ham from the French commune of Bayonne.
It is made by curing the pork with a special type of salt from the commune of Salies-de-Béarn.
It currently has protected designation of origin.
The meat can only come from a special breed of pigs from small farms.