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He was drafted 43rd overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks and was signed to a 3-year entry level contract with them on May 24, 2006.
He made his debut with the Blackhawks in the 2006–07 NHL season and played 9 games with them but suffered an injury to his shoulder and was ruled out the rest of the season.
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk (December 10, 1941 – September 28, 2021) was an American actor and businessman.
He was best known for his work with the Disney Studios.
Kirk's Disney career began in 1956 when he played Joe Hardy in The Mickey Mouse Club serial The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure.
The Disney movies Old Yeller (1957),  The Shaggy Dog (1959), and Swiss Family Robinson (1960) made him a popular teen star.
The Disney Studios dropped Kirk's contract when a woman complained to the Studio about the young actor's relationship with her 15 year old son.
He went to American International Pictures.
He appeared in their low-budget teen movies such as Pajama Party and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.
Kirk was arrested for drug possession on Christmas Eve 1964.
In 1970, he retired from movies and sought help for his dependency issues.
He ran his own carpet and upholstery cleaning business.
He wrote, and sometimes acted.
Kirk became a Disney Legend on October 9, 2006.
Kirk is openly gay.
He was interviewed by the National Enquirer of January 2013 and said: "I don't blame anybody but myself and my drug abuse for my career going haywire.
I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been, and never will be.
For that I make no apologies.
I have no animosity toward anybody because the truth is, I wrecked my own career."
Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
He died at his Las Vegas, Nevada home on September 28, 2021 at the age of 79.
Attack of the 60 Ft.
Centerfold (1995)
My Name Is Legend (1976)
Mars Needs Women (1968)
Catalina Caper (1967) as Don Pringle
It's a Bikini World (1967) as Mike Samson/Herbert Samson
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) as Chuck Phillips
Village of the Giants (1965) as Mike
The Monkey's Uncle (1965) as Merlin Jones
Pajama Party (1964) as Go-Go
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) as Merlin Jones
Son of Flubber (1963) as Biff Hawk
Savage Sam (1963) as Travis Coates
Moon Pilot (1962) as Walter Talbot
Bon Voyage! (
1962) as Elliott Willard
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) as Bill Hawk
Babes in Toyland (1961) as Grumio
The Snow Queen (1960) as [Voice of] Kay
Swiss Family Robinson (1960) as Ernst Robinson
The Shaggy Dog (1959) as Wilby Daniels
Old Yeller (1958) as Travis Coates
Down Liberty Road (1956) as Jimmy Rawlins
TCM: Tommy Kirk
Curzon, Daniel.
Dropping Names.
IGNA Books.
39-40.
Griffin, Sean.
Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out.
NYU Press.
99-101.
Dianna Agron (born April 30, 1986) is an American actress and singer.
She is best known for her role in the television series Glee.
She has made many movies.
She appeared in movies including I Am Number Four, The Romantics, The Hunters, The Family, and Shiva Baby.
She was born in Savannah, Georgia.
She has also appeared in her own cabaret shows at Cafe Carlyle in New York, NY.
Dianna Agron  at Fox.com
Daniella Monet (born March 1, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
She is best known for playing guest roles on television.
She played Trina Vega in the Nickelodeon series Victorious.
Also, she is a vegan and advocates for animal welfare.
Michelle Sung Wie (born October 11, 1989) is an American professional golfer.
She plays on the LPGA tour.
Around age ten, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship.
390 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Ambustus, Longus, Ambustus, Fidenas, Ambustus and Cornelius (or, less frequently, year 364 Ab urbe condita).
The denomination 390 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
July 18 – Battle of the Allia: Brennus, a chieftain of the Senones of the Adriatic coast of Italy, leads an army of Cisalpine Gauls in their attack on Rome.
They capture the entire city of Rome except for the Capitoline Hill, which is successfully held against them.
However, seeing their city devastated, the Romans attempt to buy their salvation from Brennus.
The Romans agree to pay one thousand pounds weight of gold.
The Pharaoh of Egypt, Hakor (Akoris), concludes a tripartite alliance with Evagoras, king of Cyprus, and Athens.
The Temple of Asclepius is built at Epidaurus.
Hypereides, Athenian orator and politician (approximate date)
The Tollund Man (approximate date, based on his being forty years old at the time of death)
Andocides, Athenian orator and politician (b. 440 BC)
390s BC
OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" is an operating system made by Apple Inc. for its Macintosh line of computers.
It is a version of OS X, and carries the release number 10.9.
According to Apple, "Mavericks" contains over 200 changes and improvements since OS X Mountain Lion.
iBooks - allows you to buy and read books on your Mac.
Maps - browse and search places using Apple's Maps service.
iCloud Keychain - stores your passwords and credit cards in iCloud and fills them in for you when needed on any of your Apple products. "
Keychain" can also suggest passwords for you to use when creating new online accounts.
Multiple Displays - makes your Mac easier to use if you have more than one computer screen.
App Nap - stops apps that aren't being used from slowing down your computer.
Calendar - looks more modern and works well with Maps.
Safari - updated the "Top Sites" screen and shows you links people have shared with you on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Notification Center - now allows you to send messages from Notification Center without opening Messages, and also shows you notifications you may have missed on your lock screen.
Finder - lets you open tabs in Finder, and tag files with keywords so you can search your files more easily.
Margaretting is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England.
In 2001 there were 825 people living in Margaretting.
Mashbury is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England.
In 2001 there were 89 people living in Mashbury.
Neighbouring parishes include Chignal, Good Easter and Pleshey.
Rettendon is a village and civil parish in City of Chelmsford, Essex, England.
In 2001 there were 1351 people living in Rettendon.
On December 6, 1995 there were 3 people murdered in Rettendon.
A sniper team (or sniper cell) is made up of one or more snipers and support personnel such as a spotter.
Members can sometimes fulfill several roles.
The spotter helps to closely observe the targets and their surroundings.
The sniper fires the shots.
Sometimes there may be extra members in the team, including someone to secure and defend the team's position, and to communicate with other teams.
This third member is known as the flanker.
The spotter finds, watches, and assigns targets, and also watches to see whether the shot has hit or missed the target.
They use a specialised telescope to do this.
They also make calculations for distance and angle, and try to read the direction and strength of the wind.
This is so that the sniper can make adjustments to the aim to make the shot more accurate.
As well as their long-range rifle, a sniper team is usually armed with a shorter-ranged weapon.
This is to defend the team in case enemies come in close contact.
Equally important is remaining hidden from view.
Teams use camouflage, and choose locations where there is something for them to hide behind.
Fatimah (,  born 605 or 615 – d. 633) was the eldest daughter of Muhammad.
She is mostly honored by Shia Muslims.
The Fatimid Caliphate claimed to be her descendants.
600s births
633 deaths
Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress.
She played Darla in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Benz also acted in some movies, including Jawbreaker (1999), Rambo (2008) and Bedrooms in 2010.
The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney Productions movie.
It stars Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, and Brian Keith.
Mills plays twins trying to get their divorced parents together again.
The movie was based on the book Lottie and Lisa (Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner.
The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards.
It was shown on television.
Three television sequels were made.
The original movie was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan.
The Parent Trap (movie from 1998) is about twin girls who didn't know they were sisters.
Their parents were separated and each one lived with a twin.
The girls came across in the campsite and then they knew they were sisters.
After meeting, the girls changed places to meet the mother or the father.
They wanted to live together for ever.
On June 7, 2013, a killing spree by a lone gunman occurred in Santa Monica, California, starting with a domestic dispute and subsequent fire at a home, followed by a series of shootings near and on the campus of Santa Monica College.
Six people were killed, including the suspect, and four people were injured in the incident.
The gunman, 23-year-old John Zawahri, was killed by police officers when he exchanged gunfire with them at the Santa Monica College library.
Murder in California
Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama movie directed by Francis Lawrence.
Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay, which was based on Sara Gruen's 2006 novel of the same name.
It stars Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Hal Holbrook, and Christoph Waltz.
The Muslim Patrol was a gang of  British Muslims who attempted to establish Sharia law in parts of the United Kingdom.
The gang filmed their activities and posted them on YouTube.
They attacked people who had alcohol or drugs, prostitutes, and people who they thought were gay or not wearing enough clothes.
Five men were arrested as part of an investigation into the gang.
Powhatan (1534 - 1618) was the leader of the Powhatan tribe.
Powhatan was the leader during the Jamestown Colonization when the English settled in Jamestown in 1607.
Powhatan was friendly with the English at the beginning.
He traded with them.
Powhatan usually sent his daughter Pocahontas to give them corn/maize.
But later, Powhatan and his tribe looked at the settlers as invaders.
After that, Powhatan did not allow the trading with the English settlers.
From 1610-1612, it was known as the Starving Time.
His leadership was saved by his brother Opchanacanough.
Dell Rapids is a city in the eastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota.
It is in Minnehaha County, about twenty miles north of Sioux Falls, the largest city in South Dakota.
It became a city in 1888, and 3,633 people lived there at the 2010 census.
City of Dell Rapids website
"Rock Me" is a song by One Direction.
It is a track on their album, Take Me Home.
The song was written by Peter Svensson, Sam Hollander, Lukasz Gottwald, Henry Walter and Allan Grigg, and was produced by Dr. Luke, Circut and Kool Kojak.
The song includes a mid-tempo beat, with it's clapping riff to be the same as the song "We Will Rock You" by Queen.
The song has gotten good reviews from critics.
They liked how good the production was and its rock elements. "
Rock Me" also made it on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Rock Me" was made in one day by guitar player Peter Svensson of the Swedish band the Cardigans, Sam Hollander, and Allan 'Kool Kojak' Grigg.
It was made for One Direction's second album, Take Me Home.
The album was released in November 2012.
Grigg started out with making a mid-tempo beat.
Svensson has said that Hollander "had an idea for a title that's like 'rock me' instead of ‘rock you,’ and the melody just came."
Lukasz 'Dr. Luke' Gottwald and Henry 'Circut' Walter co-produced the song, and they were also credited as on the finished recording too.
Music and words
"Rock Me" is a mid-tempo pop rock song.
Both Billboard and BBC Music said that the song went away from One Direction's signature bubblegum pop sound.
One Direction's voice ranges from F4 to C6.
Instruments like guitar strings, and piano lines also play in the song.
The song is in the key of Ab major.
The time signature is common time and the tempo is a moderate 84 beats per minute.
Critics have also said that the song has beat and clapping riff, the same as Queen's "We Will Rock You".
The song's chorus also references Queen: "I want you to rock me, yeah, I want you to hit the pedal, heavy metal, show me you care."
The lyrics has a nostalgic message about a former significant other and a blatant double entendre for sexual intercourse.
In the regard to its double entendre, Grigg noted, "but at the same time, there's a vulnerability in it that's, like, so sweet for girls.
It's a little self-deprecating.
There's not a lot of overt machismo in the song". "
I approached it like high school," said Hollander, who wrote lyrics for "Rock Me": "On the first record, they were freshmen, innocent and wide-eyed.
Now it's sophomore year, there are parties and driver’s licenses, and the world is theirs for the taking.
That's what I wanted to capture."
Alexis Petridis, a writer of The Guardian, gave criticism for the song as "excruciating".
He said that the lyrics are tedious and uninspiring.
The New Zealand Herald writer Lydia Jenkin deemed "Rock Me" one of "the most banal songs ever written", but noted that the group "know what teenage girls want to hear."
Idolator critic Sam Lansky praised the track as "irresistible" and commended its sonic palette as "explosively punchy".
Writing for HitFix, Melinda Newman favoured its "nearly hypnotic anthemic" beat, and noted that "Rock Me" seems perfectly tailored to become a live staple.
Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star thought the song's Queen-references are "clever", assessing: "to show that One Direction’s puppeteers aren't totally operating on autopilot."
Robert Copsey from Digital Spy opined that the song's "simple-yet-genius catchiness" is its strongest attribute.
Billboard reviewer Chris Payne applauded its rock elements, regarding it as "welcome" deviation from Take Me Home's bubblegum pop sound.
In the week of 18 November 2012, "Rock Me" started at number one on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart due to very high digital download sales.
As a result of an "end-of-year download rush" in the week ending 30 December 2012, the track made it on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 98.
98 was the song's peak position on the chart.
"Rock Me" at Musicnotes.com (EMI Music Publishing)
Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system that can answer questions asked in a natural language.
It was made by IBM to compete on the American television game show Jeopardy!.
In February 2011, Watson played as a contestant on Jeopardy!
against past champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
Watson won the first place prize of $1 million.
It was named after Thomas J. Watson, who was the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM from 1914 to 1956.
During a game, Watson had access to 200 million pages of content, including the full text of Wikipedia.
Sources of information for Watson included encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, news articles, and books.
It was not connected to the internet, meaning that it had to use what was in its system to answer clues.
For each clue, Watson's three most likely responses were displayed on the television screen along with its amount of confidence in those answers.
If its confidence in a response was high enough, it would ring in to give the response.
After Jeopardy!,
Watson continued to be part of IBM's research in artificial intelligence.
On new problems such as medical records and genetics, Watson technology was unable to compete with new methods such as deep learning.
Watson homepage
About Watson on Jeopardy.com
Smartest Machine on Earth (PBS NOVA documentary about the making of Watson)
A pore is an opening in the surface of the skin.
A pore leads to a sebaceous gland that lets out oil to lubricate and protect the skin.
It also lets some water out, which helps in temperature regulation (homoiothermy).
The Mil Mi-1 (Russian: Мил Ми-1; NATO reporting name: Hare) is a Soviet civilian and military helicopter.
It was the first one built in a series in the USSR.
It was built under licence in Poland as SM-1.
Militaries
Countries using militaries  Mil Mi-1 were : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Iraq, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, USSR, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam.
Melancholic depression is a subtype of clinical depression.
It is biologically based and rather severe.
It is mainly associated under unipolar depression, though sometimes under bipolar disorder.
This condition is often triggered by stress issues.
Risperidone (which is also marketed as Risperdal) refers to an extremely potent antipsychotic drug that is used primarily to treat schizophrenia, autism spectrum matters and bipolar disorder.
Side effects of Risperidone include although are not limited to unwanted weight gain and metabolic troubles like high blood sugar.
It was first approved in 1994.
Haloperidol (also marketed as Haldol) is a dopamine related drug (first generation antipsychotic) used for antipsychotic issues, including borderline personality disorder, Tourette syndrome, autism spectrum conditions and aggression problems.
Side effect problems include although are not limited to lethargy or dry mouth.
Madge Bellamy (June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American stage and movie actress.
She was born Margaret Derden Philpott in Hillsboro, Texas.
She came from a good home, but ran away at 17 to become an actress and dancer in New York City.
She was featured  in several roles, and made her first movie Passing Thru in 1920.
After a dispute with Fox Films in 1929, she lost work.
She returned to the screen in B-movies in 1932.
She is probably best known today for playing Madeline in the horror movie White Zombie opposite Bela Lugosi.
In 1943, she was involved in a scandal with a rich married man.
She was accused of shooting at him.
Charges were dropped but her career was damaged.
She made her last screen appearance in Northwest Trail in 1945.
The rest of her life was passed mostly in poverty.
She sold tools in a store and was an unsuccessful novelist.
She died in Upland, California of heart failure.
Her autobiography was published shortly after her death.
Her only marriage was brief and childless.
People from Hillsboro, Texas
Degory Priest ( 1579–1621)
Priest was a member of the Separatists church.
This religion was not allowed in England and many people moved to Leiden Netherlands  Priest was one of those families.
Priest was a hat-maker from London.
There are many legal documents in Leiden which show that he was born in 1579.
In 1611 Priest married a widow named Sarah Vincent.
Sarah was a sister of Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton.
Priest's became a citizen of Leiden on November 16, 1615 with Isaac Allerton and Roger Wilson.
On June 28, 1617 Priest asked two men to sign a legal document that said that he had not hit John Cripps but only “touched his Jabot”.
This was the frill on the front of his shirt.
Leiden records show that Degory Priest was a witness to a statement signed on January 18, 1618.
The statement was  signed by Tailor Isaac Allerton.
It was about the cost of a crimson coat.
On April 9, 1619, Degory Priest and Samuel Lee signed a document for Nicholas Claverly, a Tobacco pipe maker.
This document was a promise for Claverly's good behavior.
Claverly had arrived in Leiden about 1615 and lived in a house owned by Degory Priest.
Records show that on May 3, 1619 Degory Priest was a witness to a document signed by Richard Tyrill.
Priest said that Nicholas Claverly was not connected with the murder of Tyrill’s brother John Tyrill.
Priest came alone of the Mayflower.
His family came over later in another ship.
Priest left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620.
Degory was one of the signers.
William Bradford wrote that seven men died soon after the ship landed. “
Digerie Preist” was among them.
Bradford said that all these died soon after their arrival in the general sickness.
He added that Priest’s had his wife and children were sent for because she was Mr. Allerton's sister.
Degory Priest married Sarah Vincent on November 4, 1611.
She was a widow.
Their names were Marah and Sarah.
Sarah Priest married a second time.
His was also a hat-maker from Leiden.
Their burial places are unknown.
Priest died early in the first winter, on January 1, 1621 of the “general sickness”.
He was 42 years of age.
He was buried in an unmarked grave.
This was the custom that first winter of 1620–1621.
His name appears on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, located on Cole's Hill in Plymouth.
John Harron (March 31, 1903 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor.
He died in Seattle, Washington from spinal meningitis when he was 36 years old.
He appeared in 167 movies between 1918 and 1940.
Harron married an actress called Betty Westmore in 1929.
Har Gobind Khorana (Sindhi: هار گوبند خرانه) (also known as Hargobind Khorana; 9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was a biochemist.
He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.
He is part of a poor family in India.
He worked in Madison, Columbia, and Boston.
Their work was on the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids.
Each triplet of nucleotides codes for a particular amino acid.
Therefore the nucleic acid sequence controls how proteins are built.
Khorana was the first to build a synthetic gene, in 1970.
This helped a lot, with decoding the genetic code, which is based on amino acids.
List of Nobel Prize winners from India
Thomas Rogers(1572winter 1620/21) Rogers and his oldest son travelled on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact.
Thomas Rogers was born near Watford, England.
He was the son of William and Elanor Rogers.<ref name="americanancestors.org">Pilgrim Village Family Sketch: Thomas Rogers (a collaboration between American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society)  [http://www.americanancestors.org/pilgrim-families-thomas-rogers/] </ref>
Rogers purchased a house and became a citizen of Leiden.
He was a merchant of camlet, a luxury fabric made from silk and camel’s hair.
The Rogers family were very poor.
Rogers and his 18-year-old son, Joseph left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620.
George Ernest Bowman,  The Mayflower Compact and its signers,  (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920).
Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document pp.
7–19.
Thomas Rogers signed the Mayflower Compact.
The Mayflower'' was supposed to land in the Colony of Virginia, but the ship was too damaged and they were forced to land at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.
Rogers and his wife had six children.
Theie names were Thomas, Richard and Joseph, John, Elizabeth and Margaret.
Thomas and Richard died young.
Joseph became a well known person in Plymouth Colony.
Rogers died in the winter of 1620/21.
His son Joseph went to live with Governor Bradford and his family.
William Bradford wrote: “Thomas Rogers died in the first sickness, but his son Joseph is still living, and is married, and has six children.
The rest of Thomas Rogers (children) came over, and now are married, and have many children.”
Rogers was buried in an unmarked grave as were most of the Mayflower passengers who died in the first winter.
The name of Thomas Rogers is on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb on Cole's Hill.
The Bridgestone Arena is a sports arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
The arena opened on December 18, 1996, and is the current home to the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The arena was also home to the Nashville Kats of the Arena Football League from 1997 until 2001 when the franchise was sold and was moved to Georgia to become the Georgia Force.
The team was reincarnated and played in the Gaylord Entertainment Center from 2005 to 2007.
Bridgestone currently has naming rights for the arena.
The arena currently seats 19,395 for basketball and 17,113 for ice hockey.
It used to hold 17,298 from 1996 to 1999.
John Billington ( 1580September 30, 1630) and his family were passengers on the Mayflower in 1620.
He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
Billington was hanged in Plymouth Colony in 1630.
The Billington family was from England.
He had a wife, Elinor and two sons, John and Francis.
Billington and his family left Plymouth England on 16 September 1620.
They were supposed to land in the Colony of Virginia, but the ship was damaged so they landed at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.
Billington was a signer to the document.
Life in Plymouth colony
The family were Plymouth Colony's troublemakers.
Billington's son, Francis, fired a musket on the Mayflower.
In March 1621 Billington was punished because he did not to obey Myles Standish the military leader.
He would do this many times.
In May 1621 John Billington (the younger) became lost in the woods for many days and was returned home by some Native Americans.
In 1625 Governor Bradford wrote a letter to Robert Cushman and said "Billington still says many things against you.
He is a bad man, and always will be".
In 1636, wife was punished and made to sit in the stocks for saying bad things about John Doane.
Death of John Billington
Billington was hanged for the murder of John Newcomen in 1630.
He was about 50 years old.
This was the first execution in Plymouth Colony.
John Crackston ( 1575 – c. 1620/21), also spelled as John Craxston or Crakstone, was an English Separatist from the Netherlands who came with his son John on the voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower.
He signed the Mayflower Compact.<ref name="plimoth">A genealogical profile of John Crackston, (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) [http://www.plimoth.org/media/pdf/crackstone_john.pdf] </ref>Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 274
English origins
Separatists were people who rejected the Church of England.
These other beliefs were not allowed in England.
Crackston's birth year is of about 1575.
It is based on a document made when his daughter married.
It is believed that he moved to the Netherlands  from Colchester in co. Essex, England from another document.
In the 1618 Leiden marriage of his daughter Anna, she is said to be from Colchester.
Charles Edward Banks,  The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (New York: Grafton Press, 1929), p. 50
In Leiden
Crackston’s daughter Anna (Anne) married Thomas Smith in Leiden on December 12, 1618.
In the records Anna is described as being a unmarried women from Colchester in England.
At her wedding was her friend Patience Brewster.
She would also be a Mayflower passenger.
Patience would die of a fever in Plymouth in 1634 as the first wife of Plymouth Colony Governor Thomas Prence.
In 1620 John Crackston came to the Mayflower with other church members from Leiden and in the company of his son John.
It is believed that his wife, name unknown, may have been died.
His daughter Anna had married in 1618 and did not accompany them.
John Crackston and his son left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620.
John Crackston was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact.
On that document, he signed his name as “John Craxton.”
His son John Jr. was apparently not yet twenty-one years of age and did not sign the Compact.
Family of John Crackston
Anna (Anne) Crackston was born about 1600, probably in Colchester, co. Essex, England.
She married Thomas Smith in Leiden in 1618.
John Crackston (Jr.) name appears in the 1627 Division of Cattle, appearing as “John Crakstone” with the Allerton family.
His name also appeared in the 1623 Division of Land as “John Crackston” with the Winslow family.
It is believed that John Crackston Jr. died sometime after 1627.
Death and burial of John Crackston
John Crackston (Sr.)
died in the winter of 1620, wrote Governor William Bradford.
Bradford said it was after he got lost in the woods and his feet became frozen and he got a fever.
The exact date is unknown.
As with most passengers who died that winter, he was most likely buried in an unmarked grave in Cole's Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth.
Cractston's name is spelled  “John Craxston Sr.”
on the Tomb.
Waterloo International was the first London station for Eurostar trains to France and Belgium.
It was treated as a separate station to the main station at London Waterloo, but its 5 platforms were numbered 20 to 24.
In 2007 it closed and all Eurostar trains now run from St Pancras International railway station.
The platforms are no longer used, but South West Trains now plans to use at least one of the platforms when it starts running trains with 10 carriages in late 2013.
Annie is a 1982 movie based on the Broadway musical play of the same name and Harold Gray's 1924 comic strip characters and concepts.
The movie stars Aileen Quinn as Annie, Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, and Carol Burnett.
The Twelve Imams (, ; ,  ) are leaders and the sucessors of Prophet Muhammad for the Twelver branch of Shī‘ah Islam.
According to Twelver Shia Muslims these twelve guiders are authorized by Allah for the guidance of Muslims and for protection of Islam and they are infallible (sinless).
It is said by Twelver Shia Muslims that the Twelve Imams were foretold in the in the sayings of Muhammad.
It is believed by Twelver Shia Muslims that these Imams have the knowledge of each and every thing which is told them by God.
Ali was the first Imam of this line  every Imam was the son of the previous Imam, except Husayn ibn Ali who was the brother of Hasan ibn Ali.
The last Imam is Imam al-Mahdi, who is alive and will appear in the end times.
Dvergar or Norse dwarves (Old Norse dvergar, singular dvergr) are creatures in Norse mythology.
They are associated with rocks, the earth, craft and metal work, wisdom, and greed.
The dwarves came from maggots that formed on Ymir's skin as he was killed by Odin, Vé and Vili.
Odin transformed the maggots into dwarves.
It is said that dwarves are blacksmiths and built weapons for war between the gods.
Some say that dwarves and elves are the same thing.
Popeye is a 1980 musical movie based on the characters and concepts created in E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip.
The movie starred Robin Williams (his movie debut) as Popeye, Paul Dooley as Wimpy, Paul L. Smith as Bluto, Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy, and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.
Hassan (born in March 4, 625 CE died in March 9 or 30, 670 CE).
was the son of Ali and his wife Fatimah After the death of his father he became the caliph of Muslims.
He was also a member of Ahl al-Bayt.
Hasan is also highly respected by the Sunni as the grandson of Muhammad.
625 births
670 deaths
Revolt of the Zombies is a 1938 horror movie.
It stars Dean Jagger and Dorothy Stone.
It was conceived as a sequel to the Halperins' 1932 White Zombie.
Revolt is regarded as a disappointment.
In Norse mythology, Ymir (also Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn) is the ancestor of all jötnar.
He is described in the Poetic Edda and in the Prose Edda.
Ymir was killed by Odin, Vé and Vili.
From Ymir's body they made seven worlds.
Bïfrost and dwarves evolved  from maggots by burrowing  into Ymir's dead body.
From that, dwarves can punch dents and burrow into rock.
Upon Ymir's defeat, the three brother's crafted the Earth and Heavens from his body, the oceans from his sweat, (some cases from his blood) the trees were crafted from his hair, his eyebrows were used to make Midgard (one of the nine worlds), his bones made the mountains, his skull is what formed the sky, and from his brains they created the clouds.
Thomas Tinker ( 1581–1620/21) and his wife and son were Separatists from the Netherlands who travelled on the Pilgrim Ship Mayflower in 1620.
Separatists were people who did not belong to the Church of England.<ref>[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pilgrim 1911 Encyclopedia]</ref>Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and her passengers (Indiana:Xlibris Corp., Caleb Johnson, 2006) p. 239
Most scholars believe that Tinker was born in 1581 in Norfolk England.
He moved to Leiden and became a citizen there in the early 1600s.
He married in 1609 and had one son.
Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691 (Salt Lake City:Ancestry Publishing 1986) p. 362
Tinker, his wife and son left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620.
Thomas Tinker was a signer to the "Mayflower Compact".
Death of Thomas Tinker and his family
Bradford wrote they "died in the first sickness".
That was in December 1620 or January 1621.
Thomas Tinker and his son was buried in Cole's Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth, with many passengers who died in the early days.
The place of Tinker's wife grave is unknown.
Torture Ship is a 1939 American movie directed by Victor Halperin.
The movie is about a mad scientist who performs experiments on captured criminals aboard his private ship.
It stars Lyle Talbot as Lt.
Bob Bennett, Irving Pichel as Dr. Herbert Stander, and Julie Bishop as Joan Martel.
The movie is based on Jack London's short story,  "A Thousand Deaths".
A dog's coat is the hair covering its body.
A dog can have a double coat that has short, soft hair underneath a layer of long, coarse hair, or a single coat that has only the long, coarse hair.
A dog's coat may also be called hair or fur.
Four main coat attributes
Coat colors
Dog coats come in four main colors: black, brown, white, and red.
The same main color can have many shades.
These shades are sometimes common enough that they are given their own color names, such as gold, yellow, cream, blue, and grey.
Coat patterns
Coat lengths and textures
A dog's coat can be long or short.
For most dogs, their hair reaches one length and then stops growing, but there are some dogs whose hair will keep growing longer and longer.
Some breeds of dog do not grow hair on parts of their bodies.
These dogs are called "hairless".
Examples of "hairless" dogs are the Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless Dog), the Peruvian Inca Orchid (Peruvian Hairless Dog) and the Chinese Crested.
The FMA IA-58 Pucará is an Argentine military aircraft.
It is a twin-turboprops attack aircraft built in all-metal.
Argentina Air Force used the Pucarà for attacks against Port Stanley and the British Army and the Royal Navy.
Several of them were shot down by Sea Harrier and British commandos.
Sri Lanka Civil War
Argentina, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay used this aircraft.
Some are enough actives in Argentina in 2013.
United Kingdom used one aircraft for trials, it was captured by British commandos.
Taylor, John WR, Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982–83.
London : Jane's Yearbooks, 1982.
Transport in Argentina
Orpheus is the god of music in Greek mythology.
When he played his harp the world would sway to the music.
He was the son of a Muse.
Orpheus was married to a dryad named Eurydice.
While trying to get away from a satyr, she was bitten by a snake and went to Hades.
Orpheus played sad music and the whole world cried with him.
Orpheus decided to ride the ferry across the river Styx.
He played his harp to make Cerberus fall asleep.
He played his harp for Persephone.
She said he could take Eurydice back to the upper world, if he didn't look back at Eurydice until they both got back up to the land of mortals.
He did look back when he got to the upper world but his wife was not in the upper world yet so she went back to the realm of Hades forever.
He was killed by Maenad.
Some more clarification on the Maenads: They were feral women who ritualistically ripped animals limb from limb, and they did so with Orpheus after trying to kill him with spears and rocks.
They cast his head into the sea.
It rolled along the waves, singing, "Eurydice, Eurydice".
It approached Lesbos and landed there, just to be attacked further by a snake.
(If you see a floating head in the sea with a snake and some trees, then you know what happened.)
Ludmilla Ivanovna Tourischeva is a Russian former gymnast.
She won nine Olympic medals for the Soviet Union.
She also won the World Championships all-around gold in 1970 and 1974.
She was known for her calmness.
In the 1975 World Cup in London, the uneven bars broke and fell as she was landing.
She saluted the judges and left the floor without even turning to see the damage.
She won all gold medals for the Cup including the all-around medal.
Her trainer Vladislav Rastorotsky said about her: "Ljudmila would fight to death in any situation".
Tourischeva was also known for her graciousness.
At the 1976 Olympics, she walked around the podium to personally congratulate champion Nadia Comăneci.
Tourischeve shook Comăneci's hand before accepting her own medal.
In 1977, she married sprinter Valeriy Borzov.
He was a two-time Olympic champion in 1972.
Tourischeva keeps involved in gymnastics as a coach and an international judge.
Ludmilla Tourischeva is 1 of only 2 women to win the grand slam of all-around titles: Olympics, World Championships, World Cup, and European Championships.
Yelena Shushunova is the other.
Soviet Olympic silver medalists
In geology, permafrost is soil that stays at or below  for two or more years.
It is also called cryotic soil.
Most permafrost is on land close to the North and South poles.
Other permafrost is found in high mountain areas.
When permafrost melts, carbon dioxide is released which can be bad for the environment.
Eva Green (born July 6, 1980) is a French actress and model.
She acts in movies and in television series.
She played Vesper Lynd in the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale.
Green was born in Paris.
Margaret Cassidy "Maggie" Lawson (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress.
She played Juliet O'Hara in the hit series Psych.
She played Alexa in Party of Five.
Lawson was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Conair Firecat is a water bomber built in Canada from the American twin-engine Grumman S-2 Tracker.
A modernized variant, called Turbo Firecat use two turboprops.
This kind of aircraft is still active in 2013 in Canada, France, and the United States.
Emily Rose Maier (born February 2, 1981) is an American actress.
She acts mainly on television.
She played Elena Fisher in the Uncharted video games.
She plays multiple characters in the Syfy series Haven.
Rose was born in Renton, Washington.
A monal is a bird of the genus Lophophorus of the pheasant family, Phasianidae.
The type species of this genus is the Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus).
All the adult males have very atractive and shiny feathers of different metallic colors (colors appearing to be made of a metal).
The females and the young males do not have feathers with many colors; they are reddish brown with some white parts.
There are three species and three subspecies within the genus Lophophorus:
Himalayan monal Lophophorus impejanus
Chinese monal Lophophorus lhuysii
Sclater's monal Lophophorus sclateri
L. sclateri arunachelensis
L. sclateri orientalis
L. sclateri sclateri
ARKive - Species in the genus Lophophorus
Animal Diversity Web - Lophophorus: CLASSIFICATION
Catalogue of Life - Taxonomic tree
Channel drift, also called network decay, is when a television channel moves away from its original shows to get a new audience, or to get higher ratings.
It often involves a move from shows aimed at viewers that know a lot about the channel's subject to shows aimed at a wider audience.
Most examples of channel drift have a channel add infotainment or reality shows to their schedule.
A well-known example of channel drift is MTV.
When it started in 1981, MTV was a channel that showed music videos.
In the 1990s, it started adding entertainment and reality shows aimed at a young adult audience.
This was the start of a move towards the channel's current focus on shows aimed at adolescents and young adults.
Network Decay - TV Tropes Wiki
Sarah Clara Smith (1851–1947) was an American teacher and missionary from New York state.
She started Smith Girls' School (now called Hokusei Gakuen Girls Junior High/High School ( Hokusei Gakuen Joshi Chugaku Koutou Gakkou) in 1887 in Sapporo, Japan.
Early life in Japan
Smith came to Tokyo in 1880 with her missionary group, Association of Presbyterian Mission International.
In 1883, she became sick from the weather, so she went north to Sapporo, Hokkaido.
She became healthy again because the weather was like the weather in New York.
Smith Girls' School
Smith wanted to start a Christian school in Sapporo because it was a new town.
Sapporo didn't have many churches then.
But her group didn't give her money, so she went to Hakodate.
Hakodate was bigger than Sapporo.
In 1886, she got an English teaching job at the Public Teacher’s College of Sapporo.
The next year, she could start a Christian school by herself.
It was called Smith Girls' School ( Sumisu Joshi Gakkou).
Farming and Lilacs
In the Meiji Era (1868–1912), Hokkaido was a new land in Japan.
Also the land was big, so there were many farms.
Most schools were farming schools.
Smith Girls' School had some farming and Christian education.
In 1890, Smith introduced lilacs to Sapporo from the United States.
Now, lilac is the official tree of Sapporo and the city has a lilac festival every year in downtown Odori Park.
Gastroenterology is a special type of medicine.
It is about the digestive system.
Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are the focus.
The tract includes the organs from mouth to anus.
The Great Observatories program is four large, powerful space-based telescopes.
They are a series of satellites placed by NASA.
Each Space observatory has been important to astronomy.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) looks at visible light and near-ultraviolet.
It was launched in 1990.
In 1997 ability to look at the near-infrared range was added.
In 2009 there was a mission to service Hubble.
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) looks at gamma rays.
It also looks at some hard x-rays as well.
It was launched in 1991.
It was deorbited in 2000.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) looks at soft x-rays.
It was launched in 1999.
The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) looks at the infrared spectrum.
It was launched in 2003.
House of Usher is a 1960 American International Pictures horror movie.
It stars Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon, and Harry Ellerbee.
The movie was directed by Roger Corman.
The screenplay was written by Richard Matheson.
It is based on the short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
House of Usher was the first of eight Corman movies based on Poe's stories.
The movie is also known as Fall of the House of Usher and The Mysterious House of Usher.
In 2005, the movie was listed with the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Movies directed by Roger Corman
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24  February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, composer, comedian, director and screenwriter.
Sordi won seven David di Donatello awards.
It is Italy's most honorable movie award.
He also received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 1995.
He also won a Golden Globe Award.
Jessica Cauffiel (born March 30, 1976, Detroit) is an American actress and singer.
She works in movies and television.
She played Tatiana in the television series My Name Is Earl.
She also played Margot in the comedy movie Legally Blonde.
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent is a 1957 movie.
It is also known as The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent.
It was directed by Roger Corman.
It stars Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, and June Kenney.
The movie is about Viking women who build a ship to search for their missing menfolk.
Anne Marie Cancelmi (better known as Annie Parisse; born July 31) is an American television and movie actress.
She also does stage plays.
She played Alexandra Borgia in the television drama Law & Order.
Cancelmi was born in Anchorage, Alaska.
Some sources say she was born in 1975, though others say 1976.
Tiffany Cobb (also known as Blu Cantrell; born March 16, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and a musician who has carried several hit singles.
She released a debut album, So Blu, near 2001 which was a hit.
Cantrell was born in Charleston, West Virginia.
People from Charleston, West Virginia
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an African American political activist and author.
She first became famous because she was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and was involved in Black Power movements in the 1960s and 1970s.
Since then she has become known for her work as a writer and speaker while teaching at the University of California.
She has done research in the areas of feminism and critical theory and is a prison abolitionist.
Davis grew up in Alabama, then went to college at Brandeis University and University of California, San Diego.
She was involved in activism from her youth.
After becoming a Doctor of Philosophy in Germany, she returned to the US and began teaching as a professor.
In 1969, she was fired from teaching for being a member of the Communist Party.
A judge decided it was an illegal firing and the school eventually hired her back.
In 1970 she was put in prison by FBI agents.
Some black revolutionaries tried to break their allies out of prison by kidnapping a white judge and some jurors in Marin County, but the police didn't let them get away and the revolutionaries and judge were shot to death.
The FBI suspected that she bought the gun one of the revolutionaries used and decided to accuse her of the murder of the judge.
In 1971 she appeared at the Marin County Superior Court and said, "I now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country that I am innocent of all charges which have been leveled against me by the state of California."
She was released from jail in 1972.
Ronald Reagan said that she should never be allowed to teach at a California university.
The English rock band The Rolling Stones recorded a song called "Sweet Black Angel" that was on their 1972 album Exile on Main St. and dedicated to Davis.
In the 1990s, she left the Communist Party and began to focus her activism on prisons.
She gave a speech in 1997 called "The Prison Industrial Complex".
In it she said "prisons are becoming an integral part of the US economy."
She said that fear of young people of color was being exploited to create a fast-growing industry, the prison-industrial complex (PIC).
She created a prison abolitionist group called Critical Resistance in the same year.
She wants there to be no prisons or police because she believes that the US prison system is more like a new form of slavery than a criminal justice system.
"Angela Davis, Sweetheart of the Far Left, Finds Her Mr. Right"  People, July 21, 1980.
Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American actress, writer and psychotherapist.
She has appeared on British and American television.
She played Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers.
Booth ended her acting career 1995.
She began working as a psychotherapist in the late 1990s.
Booth married John Cleese in 1968.
Their daughter, actress Cynthia Cleese, was born in 1971.
The couple divorced in 1978.
Booth has been married to critic John Lahr since 2000.
Little Iodine was a popular comic strip published in the United States on Sundays.
It was created by Jimmy Hatlo.
It was published from 1943 until 1985.
The story is about a girl called "Little Iodine".
She first appeared in an earlier comic strip by Hatlo, called They'll Do It Every Time.
She was the daughter of the strip's main character, Henry Tremblechin.
She constantly annoyed her father with pranks and practical jokes.
The character of Iodine became very popular, so Hatlo promoted the character into her own strip in 1943.
Iodine's antics were on the Sunday comics page for over forty years.
It came before Dennis the Menace.
From 1943 to 1963, Little Iodine was written and drawn by Hatlo.
Movie adaptations
A movie based on the comic strip was released in 1946.
It was by Comet Productions.
The 56-minute movie stars Jo Ann Marlowe as Little Iodine, Hobart Cavanaugh as her father Henry, and Irene Ryan as her mother Cora.
In the movie, Iodine thinks that her mother is having an affair with Professor Simkins (played by Leon Belasco).
She tries one antic after another to break up the couple.
Her efforts backfire when they cause conflict between her father and his employer, Mr. Bigdome (Emory Parnell).