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864250 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryden%20Township%2C%20Michigan | Dryden Township, Michigan | Dryden Township is a civil township in Lapeer County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,768 at the 2010 census.
References
Townships in Michigan |
864251 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryden%2C%20Michigan | Dryden, Michigan | Dryden is a village in Lapeer County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 951 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Dryden Township.
References
Villages in Michigan |
864252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Township%2C%20Michigan | Thomas Township, Michigan | Thomas Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2010 Census places the population at 11,985.
References
Townships in Michigan |
864256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimple%20Kapadia | Dimple Kapadia | Dimple Kapadia (born 8 June 1957) is an Indian actress. Her first successful roles were in Kaash (1987), Drishti (1990), Lekin... (1991), and Rudaali (1993). Some of her other well known works later in her career were in Being Cyrus (2006), Luck by Chance (2009), Dabangg (2010), Cocktail (2012) and Finding Fanny (2014).
References
1957 births
Living people
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian stage actors
People from Bombay |
864258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle%20Khanna | Twinkle Khanna | Twinkle Khanna (born Tina Jatin Khanna; born on 29 December 1973) is an Indian author, newspaper columnist, interior designer, producer and actress. Her first book, MrsFunnybones came out in 2015. She was India's highest-selling woman writer that year. Her second book, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad was made into a movie called Pad Man.
Her parents are actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia. In 2001, she married actor Akshay Kumar. They have two children.
References
1973 births
Living people
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian movie producers
Indian journalists
Indian novelists
People from Bombay
Columnists |
864262 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarifa%20Ghafari | Zarifa Ghafari | Zarifa Ghafari (; born in 1992) is an Afghan advocate, activist, politician and entrepreneur.
Biography
Zarifa Ghafari was born 1992 in Kabul. She studied at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
She is the current mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of the Wardak Province, Afghanistan since 2018. Zarifa is one of the few Afghanistani female mayors, and also is the youngest to be appointed at the age of 26.
She was listed in 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019 by BBC. Zarifa was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in 2020.
She has survived three assassination attempts.
References
Living people
1992 births
Business people
Afghan activists
Mayors
Feminists
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award |
864266 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Guy | Free Guy | Free Guy is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy movie directed by Shawn Levy. It stars Ryan Reynolds (who also co-produced) as a bank teller who discovers he is actually a non-player character in an open-world video game. It also stars Taika Waititi, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Joe Keery also star.
The film features cameo appearances from gamers and streamers Jacksepticeye, Ninja, Pokimane, DanTDM, and LazarBeam.
Free Guy was released in the United States on August 13, 2021 to positive reviews.
References
2021 movies
2020s action movies
2020s comedy movies
2020s science fiction movies
American action comedy movies
American science fiction movies
Movies directed by Shawn Levy |
864267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Beck | Christophe Beck | Jean-Christophe Beck (born November 30, 1972) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian television and film score composer and conductor.
Beck won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
His movie works include The Hangover, The Muppets (2011), Frozen, Marvel's Ant-Man movies, and Frozen II.
References
1972 births
Living people
Canadian composers
Canadian pianists
Canadian drummers
Saxophonists
Conductors
Musicians from Montreal
Emmy Award winners |
864269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Corrin | Emma Corrin | Emma-Louise Corrin (born 13 December 1995) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales, in the fourth season of the Netflix period drama series The Crown. For her role, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Corrin was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England. In July 2021, she came out as queer and added "she/they" as pronouns on her social media accounts.
Notes
References
1995 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English LGBT people
LGBT actors
Actors from Kent
Queer people |
864270 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainwreck%20%28movie%29 | Trainwreck (movie) | Trainwreck is a 2015 American romantic comedy movie directed by Judd Apatow and written by Amy Schumer. The movie stars Schumer and Bill Hader along with an ensemble cast that includes Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Vanessa Bayer, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, LeBron James, Mike Birbiglia, and Norman Lloyd.
It was released July 17, 2015, by Universal Pictures. It was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
References
2015 romance movies
2015 comedy movies
2010s romantic comedy movies
Universal Pictures movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies directed by Judd Apatow |
864273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Beasts%20and%20Where%20to%20Find%20Them%20%28movie%29 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (movie) | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy movie directed by David Yates. It is a spin-off of and prequel to the Harry Potter movie series. It was produced and written by J. K. Rowling.
It stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, Ron Perlman, and Colin Farrell.
References
British fantasy movies
American fantasy movies
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by David Yates
Harry Potter movies
Movies composed by James Newton Howard |
864274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Beasts%3A%20The%20Crimes%20of%20Grindelwald | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a 2018 fantasy movie directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). It stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
References
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by David Yates
Movies composed by James Newton Howard
British fantasy movies
American fantasy movies
Harry Potter movies |
864276 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20Ejogo | Carmen Ejogo | Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo (; born 22 October 1973) is an English actress and singer.
Ejogo is best known for her roles in Metro (1997), The Avengers (1998), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001), Boycott (2001), Away We Go (2009), Sparkle (2012), Alex Cross (2012), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), Selma (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), Alien: Covenant (2017), and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).
In 1998, she was married to musician Tricky for a short time. In 2004, she married actor Jeffrey Wright. They divorced in 2014. They had two children.
References
1973 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English voice actors
English stage actors
Actors from London
Singers from London
People from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
864277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Weber | Steven Weber | Steven Robert Weber (born March 4, 1961) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television series Wings and Jack Torrance in the TV miniseries version of Stephen King's The Shining.
References
1961 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from New York City
Comedians from New York City |
864278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%20Sudol | Alison Sudol | Alison Sudol (born December 23, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and music video director. She is known for playing Queenie Goldstein in the Fantastic Beasts movies Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).
References
1984 births
Living people
American pianists
American guitarists
Singer-songwriters from California
Musicians from Seattle, Washington
Musicians from Los Angeles
Singers from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Writers from Seattle, Washington
Singers from Seattle, Washington
Actors from Los Angeles
Actors from Seattle, Washington
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors |
864280 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCandless%2C%20Pennsylvania | McCandless, Pennsylvania | McCandless is a township with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 28,457 at the 2010 census.
The town was named after a person, Wilson McCandless (June 19, 1810 – June 30, 1882). He was a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
References
Townships in Pennsylvania |
864281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokundara | Bokundara | A city in Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is situated approximately 17 kilometers south of Colombo surrounded by the suburbs of Moratuwa, Piliyandala, Maharagama, Pannipitiya and Boralesgamuwa. The Bokundara Dedicated Economic Center is the main attraction. The road connecting Colombo and Horana, known as the 120 bus route, passes through Bokundara.
Settlements in Sri Lanka |
864282 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosolone | Frosolone | Frosolone is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Isernia in the Italian region Molise.
References
Settlements in Molise |
864292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep%20America%20Beautiful | Keep America Beautiful | Keep America Beautiful is a group from the United States. It made advertisements and public service announcements. It is to stop people from throwing garbage on the ground outside. Its most famous public service announcement is the Crying Indian public service announcement. It is also famous for starting the word "litterbug." Most of the groups that started Keep America Beautiful are for-profit companies. They make bottles, cans, and other packaging. They want people to think pollution comes from people who drop their own pieces of garbage outside. They do not want people to think that pollution come from companies making too much packaging. This is called greenwashing.
Beginning
After World War II, many companies decided to sell things in packages that could not be used again. They did this because it was cheaper than using bottles and cans again. Many of these companies did not want the government to make laws telling them what to do. For example, in 1953, the state of Vermont passed a law against one-use bottles. It was because farmers said people were throwing the empty bottles into haystacks and that cows were eating them. This type of law is called a "bottle bill."
In 1951, the American Can Company and Owens-Illinois Glass Company and other companies started Keep America Beautiful. Other groups joined too:
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo
Phillip Morris
Anheuser-Busch
Others
Owens-Illinois would later own the Dixie Cup Company.
Ideas
The companies behind Keep America Beautiful did not want the government to pass laws that would cost them money. For example, they wanted to stop laws that would make them sell drinks in reusable bottles. Throwaway bottles were cheaper. Keep American Beautiful wanted voters to look at the advertisement and think people made pollution one by one and not that big companies made pollution.
The Ad Council started by thinking of litter as something ugly and poor citizenship. They said that people who littered were thoughtless and careless. They also said that these people made the world ugly for other people. The Keep America Beautiful media fact sheet read that littering ruined "pleasure and recreation from their beautiful outdoors. [...] Yet their enjoyment of the natural and man-made attractions of our grand landscape is everywhere marred by the litter which careless people leave in their wake. [...] The mountain of refuse keeps growing." They also said that litter cost money to clean up and could be bad for health.
Keep America Beautiful wanted to...
...show litter and pollution as if they were the same thing
...show that littering was a choice made by individual people and not by big companies
..show that all people were equally guilty
Politics
Keep America Beautiful supported some laws but not all.
Keep America Beautiful did support laws telling people what to do:
Laws against littering, for example laws saying the government could make someone pay a fine if they were caught throwing garbage outside
Laws telling people to recycle
Keep America Beautiful did not support laws telling companies what to do:
Deposit laws
Laws telling companies to recycle
Laws telling companies to make less waste
Advertisement
The Advertising Council helped make advertisements for Keep America Beautiful. The Advertising Council had already made Smokey Bear for the U.S. Forest Service. Smokey Bear tells people "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires." The Council decided their advertisement for Keep America Beautiful should be like the Smokey Bear advertises: It should tell people that their own choices solve problems.
Susan Spotless
Before the Crying Indian ad, Keep America Beautiful used a character called "Susan Spotless." This was a young white girl in a white dress. This girl shook her finger at adults who make the environment dirty. She told them to stop: "Daddy, you forgot . . . every litter bit hurts!" ("Litter" sounds like "little" in American English.) The idea was that parents should be ashamed to teach their children to litter.
Crying Indian ad
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the idea that the environment must be protected became strong in America. Many of the protesters just before the first Earth Day talked about throwaway containers. For example, students from the University of Michigan put a big pile of empty drink containers on the ground. It was outside the offices of the National Soft Drink Association.
The hippies of the 1960s liked the idea of Native Americans. In 1967, Life wrote that hippies saw "the dispossessed Indian as America’s original dropout, and convinced that he has deeper spiritual values than the rest of society, hippies have taken to wearing his costume and horning in on his customs," meaning that hippies wanted to copy American Indians.
In the Crying Indian ad, an actor dressed as a Native American paddles a canoe through a stream. At first, the stream is clean and pretty but it becomes dirtier and full of garbage. He gets out of the stream and walks to a highway, where people throw garbage out of their cars. Then he slowly cries one tear. A voice says, "Some people have a deep, abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. And some people don't. ... People start pollution. People can stop it." The ad was on television starting in 1971. It was about littering. The ad won many awards, for example two Clio Awards. Television stations played it so much that their copies of the film wore out and they had to get new ones.
Trent University history professor Finis Dunaway says that the man in the Crying Indian ad "appears completely powerless. In the commercial, all he can do is lament the land his people lost," when, at the same time, real-life American Indians were working to solve their problems.
Another Crying Indian ad was on television in 1975. In 1998, the first one was on television again.
Actor
Iron Eyes Cody was an actor who played Native Americans on television and in movies. He had already been in many movies and TV shows before the Crying Indian ad. Iron Eyes Cody said he was a Native American, but he was really Italian American.
Environmental groups
For a while, environmental groups, for example the National Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, worked with Keep America Beautiful. These two groups stopped agreeing in the 1970s when they wanted to pass more bottle bills and Keep America Beautiful did not. One of Keep America Beautiful's leaders called the environmental groups "communists" for wanting to pass these laws.
Other work
Keep America Beautiful started the National Center for Resource Recovery in the 1970s. The NCRR is a lobbying group: It sends people to talk to lawmakers and convince them to pass or not pass laws.
References
1953 establishments in the United States
Recycling
Environment
Organizations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations of the United States |
864301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Boyer | Charles Boyer | Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 in Figeac, France- August 26, 1978 in Phoenix, Arizona), was a French-American actor. He appeared in Gaslight and Algiers and may other films.
He became a US Citizen on June 15, 1942 in Los Angeles.
1899 births
1978 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Actors from Phoenix, Arizona |
864304 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest%20Louisiana | Southwest Louisiana | Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) is a five-parish area intersecting the Acadiana and Central Louisiana regions in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is composed of the following parishes (counties): Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis.
Regions of Louisiana |
864307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Orleans%20metropolitan%20area | New Orleans metropolitan area | New Orleans metropolitan area is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing eight parishes (the statewide equivalent of other U.S. states' counties) in the state of Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Metropolitan areas of the United States |
864311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Garrett%20%28diplomat%29 | Charles Garrett (diplomat) | Charles Edmund Garrett (born 16 April 1963) is a British diplomat. He is currently the ambassador of the United Kingdom to Kyrgyzstan. He was ambassador of the United Kingdom to North Macedonia from 2014 to 2018.
He has worked for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office since 1987.
Garrett is married to Véronique Frances Edmonde Garrett. He has five children.
References
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom
1963 births
Living people |
864320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp%20oil | Hemp oil | Hemp oil (also known as hemp seed oil) is a oil that comes from pressing hemp seeds. It is known to have a grassy and nutty flavor if not refined. It is a clear oil. Its omega-6 to omega-3 ratio is 3:1.
Hemp seed oil is got from varieties of Cannabis sativa that do not have much tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive element in the cannabis plant. It is often used in body-care products.
References
Cooking oils |
864324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%20I%20Trust | Men I Trust | Men I Trust is a Canadian and French dream pop, electropop and indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec. The group was founded in early 2014. The main members of the group are Emmanuelle "Emma" Proulx (lead singer and guitarist for the band), Dragos Chiriac (the group's keyboardist) and Jessy Caron (the bassist and guitarist). The two original men with the group wanted to name the band "Trust". That name, however, was already taken. That was the reason the music group was officially named "Men I Trust".
Men I Trust released their self-titled extended play on May 28, 2014. They released their first studio album Headroom on June 30, 2015. The group was later joined by the then twenty-three-year-old Emmanuelle "Emma" Proulx. She became an official member with the group in March 2016. Men I Trust released their pop single "I Hope to Be Around" in late 2017. The song was accompanied with a music video.
Artistry
National Public Radio said Men I Trust was an electropop music group during a 2018 news article. One Culture Mag classified the band as an indie group.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
Pop rock bands
Musicians from Montreal
Musical groups established in the 2010s
Indie bands
Electronic music bands
Canadian rock bands
2010s establishments in Canada
2010s Canadian music groups
2014 establishments |
864331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Cole | Adam Cole | Austin Jenkins (born 5 July 1989, Panama City, Florida) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name, Adam Cole. Jenkins is currently signed to AEW. He is also known for his work in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Ring of Honor (ROH), and the WWE, where he competed on the NXT brand and is a former NXT North American champion and the longest ever reigning NXT champion.
1989 births
Living people
American professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Florida
AEW wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers |
864338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Patrick%20Star%20Show | The Patrick Star Show | The Patrick Star Show is an American animated comedy television series that is developed by Luke Brookshier, Marc Ceccarelli, Andrew Goodman, Kaz, Mr. Lawrence, and Vincent Waller that premiered on Nickelodeon on July 9, 2021. It is a spinoff of SpongeBob SquarePants that focuses on Patrick Star and his family hosting a talk show.
Characters
Patrick Star
Squidina Star
Bunny Star
Cecil Star
GrandPat Star
Episodes
Season 1
References
Nickelodeon television series
American children's television series
2020s American comedy television series
Animated television series
English-language television programs
Mockumentaries
SpongeBob SquarePants |
864342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada%20script | Kannada script | The Kannada script is used to write certain languages from South India, most notably the Kannada language. The script is similar to the Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language. Kannada is an Abugida.
Languages of India |
864355 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Julius | Orange Julius | The Orange Julius is an American fast food, hot dog and fruit drink beverage restaurant chain. The company began its business operations in Los Angeles, California in 1926. Orange Julius is known for a popular drink named after the restaurant. The beverage is blended ice, powdered egg whites, milk, orange juice and vanilla flavoring.
History
The drink grew from an orange juice stand that was opened in 1926 by Julius Freed. Original sales were only about $20 each day (that equals almost $290 in 2020 United States dollars). Three years later, Bill Hamlin, Freed's real estate broker, developed a blend that made the acidic orange juice not bother his stomach as much. Freed's stand began giving out the drink. It had a more bubbly and smoother texture. The sales at the stand went up when the new drink was introduced. The sales increased to just over $100 per day.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Orange Julius was always sold from a variety of outlets. They included county and state fairs along with standalone Orange Julius stands.
The Orange Julius chain was bought out by the International Dairy Queen Corporation in 1987. IDQ, a subsidiary for Berkshire Hathaway, has the rights to all Orange Julius stores. It has expanded the chain so its drinks are offered and sold from most of its Dairy Queen stores.
Naming and mascot
During the 1970s and 1980s, Orange Julius beverage stands used the images of a devil having a pitchfork around an orange. Their slogan was "A Devilish Good Drink". The devil images looked almost like Sparky (the Sun Devil). The actual Sparky was the mascot used by Arizona State University. The Orange Julius business retired the logo and mascot when threats of a lawsuit came from members of the ASU almuni association.
References
Companies based in Los Angeles
American fast food restaurants
1926 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in California |
864365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%2C%20the%20Last%20Day | Rabin, the Last Day | Rabin, the Last Day is a 2015 Israeli French political thriller movie directed by Amos Gitai and starring Tomer Sisley, Yitzhak Hiskiya, Michael Warshaviak, Einat Weizman, Yogev Yefet, Rotem Keinan, Tomer Russo, Uri Gottlieb, Gdalya Besser.
Other websites
2015 movies
2010s thriller movies
Israeli movies
French thriller movies
Movies directed by Amos Gitai |
864388 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceddo | Ceddo | Ceddo (), also known as The Outsiders, is a 1977 Senegalese drama movie directed by Ousmane Sembène and starring Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade, Ismaila Diagne.
References
Other websites
1977 drama movies
Senegalese movies
French drama movies
Movies directed by Ousmane Sembène |
864394 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20notte | La notte | La Notte (; ) is a 1961 Italian French drama movie directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati.
Other websites
1961 drama movies
Italian drama movies
French drama movies
Movies directed by Michelangelo Antonioni |
864435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Younger%20Brother | My Younger Brother | My Younger Brother () is a 1962 Russian drama movie directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi and starring Lyudmila Marchenko, Aleksandr Zbruev, Oleg Dahl, Andrei Mironov, Oleg Efremov, Arvo Kruusement.
Other websites
1962 drama movies
Russian movies
Latvian movies
Movies directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi |
864442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Imagine | Sony Imagine | Sony Imagine (Formerly Dilagi TV) is an Indian Free-To-Air Television entertaiment channel owned by Sony Pictures Networks India.
Programming
Television channels in India |
864452 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Mazoka | Anderson Mazoka | Anderson K. Mazoka (22 March 1943 – 24 May 2006) was a Zambian politician. He was previously President of the United Party for National Development (UPND). UPND is a big opposition party.
Life
Mazoka was born in Monze. He went to Union College. He graduated in 1969.
In the presidential election on 27 December 2001, he finished second. Levy Mwanawasa won the election.
On 24 May 2006, Mazoka died from kidney problems. He died in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was 63 years old.
References
1943 births
2006 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Zambian politicians |
864463 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel%C3%A9ne%20Bj%C3%B6rklund | Heléne Björklund | Heléne Björklund (), birth name: Persson (); born on September 29, 1972) is a Swedish politician from the Swedish Social Democratic Party. She is a member of Riksdag from Blekinge County. As a member of parliament, she is a member of the Defense Committee.
Early and personal life
Father Gunnar Persson (born 1947) and mother Monica Gadd (born 1953) gave birth to her in Sölvesborg Municipality. Being a girl, she lived in Sölvesborg Municipality. As of 2021, Björklund lived there with her husband Markus Alexandersson and four children.
She has got an academic degree in the Kristianstad University. She is a teacher.
Political career
She was the main person in the city council of Sölvesborg Municipality from 2006 to 2018. She is the head of the Swedish Social Democratic Party in Blekinge County.
On June 2, 2021, she undertook support for . Sapega is the girlfriend of Roman Protasevich and a political prisoner from Belarus.
References
Other websites
Heléne Björklund's page on the website of Riksdag
Living people
1972 births
Swedish politicians |
864478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Enterprises | Werner Enterprises | Werner Enterprises, Inc. () is an American transportation and logistics company. It serves customers in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
American transport companies
Companies based in Omaha, Nebraska
1956 establishments in the United States |
864486 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped%20tree%20frog | Striped tree frog | The striped tree frog (Boana caingua) is a frog that lives in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.
References
Frogs
Animals of South America |
864494 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%20Fleischer | Ari Fleischer | Ari Fleischer was the White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush from 2001-2003.
White House Press Secretaries
1960 births
People from New York City |
864498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasket | Gasket | A gasket is a mechanical seal that is used to connect two flanges. Generally, gaskets are used in structures that are under pressure. The aim of the gasket is to prevent leakage.
Hardware (mechanical) |
864499 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment%20of%20women%20by%20the%20Taliban | Treatment of women by the Taliban | While in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban became known for their misogyny and violence against women. Now that the Taliban has most of Afghanistan again, there are many concerns.
Women in Afghanistan had to wear the burqa in public at all times. Women were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were only allowed to study the Qur'an.
Women wanting an education had to attend underground schools, where they and their teachers risked execution if caught. The Taliban allowed marriage for girls under the age of 16. Amnesty International reported that 80% of Afghan marriages were forced.
Since they came to power again in 2021, the Taliban have restricted the liberty of women. This has affected the possibility of women to work, or to attend schools, or higher education. In December 2021, the Taliban restricted the ability for women to travel longer distances, without being acccompanied by a male family member. For this, a government minister of neighboring Pakistan has critizied them, calling them an extremist regime: "We want to fully help the people of Afghanistan. But saying that women can’t travel alone or go to schools and colleges — this kind of a retrogressive thinking is a threat to Pakistan."
Other websites
Afghanistan: A journey through Taliban country - a half hour documentary, by France 24, Published 11.6.2021
References
Taliban |
864503 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20West%20Africa%20%28disambiguation%29 | South West Africa (disambiguation) | South West Africa was the name for Namibia when it was under German control from 1884–1915 and South African control from 1915–1990. On March 21, 1990 South West Africa changed its name to Namibia and became independent from South Africa.
German South West Africa (1884–1915)
South West Africa (1915–1990) |
864505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20v%20HarperCollins%20Publishers%20Ltd | BBC v HarperCollins Publishers Ltd | BBC v Harper Collins (2010) EWHC 2424 was a 2010 case in English law. The BBC asked that the courts stop HarperCollins from publishing a book by Ben Collins. In the book, Collins revealed that he was 'The Stig' on the BBC's Top Gear. The BBC didn't want people to know this. The BBC lost the case.
References
2010 in television
2010 in the United Kingdom
BBC |
864519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20cleansing%20myth | Virgin cleansing myth | The virgin cleansing myth (other names are virgin cure myth, virgin rape myth, or simply virgin myth) is the belief that having sex with a virgin girl cures a man of sexually transmitted diseases.
Anthropologist Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala says the myth is a potential factor in infant rape by HIV-positive men in South Africa. Young girls are often raped, because they are thought to be virgins because of their age. Sometimes, people with disabilities are raped, because the rapist thinks that because of their disability, these people do not have sex and are therefore virgins.
History
The myth was first reported in 16th-century Europe; it became widely known in 19th-century Victorian England as a cure for syphilis and gonorrhea among other sexually transmitted diseases. The origin is unknown, but historian Hanne Blank writes that the idea may have evolved from Christian legends of virgin–martyrs, whose purity served as a form of protection in battling demons.
Prevalence
People all over the world have heard this myth, including in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
A survey by the University of South Africa (UNISA) in South Africa found that 18 percent of workers thought that having sex with a virgin cures HIV/AIDS. An earlier study in 1999 by sexual health educators in Gauteng reported that 32 percent of the people taking part in the survey believed the myth.
According to Betty Makoni of the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe, traditional healers carry on the myth, because they tell HIV-positive men that having sex with a virgin can cure HIV/AIDS. In Zimbabwe, some people also believe that the blood produced by raping a virgin will cleanse the infected person's blood of the disease.
In 2002, psychologist Mike Earl-Taylor wrote that the virgin cure myth may explain the rise in child or infant rapes in South Africa, which is facing an HIV/AIDS epidemic. UNICEF has attributed the rape of hundreds of girls to the virgin cleansing myth.
There have been no studies to find out how common the myth is, and how many people get raped because of this belief. Researchers Rachel Jewkes and Helen Epstein say that the belief does not drive HIV infection or child sexual abuse in Africa. A study done on convicted sex offenders in Malawi also did not find any evidence to support the idea that the virgin cleansing myth prompted any rapes.
Importance of education
Because peolple do not know about HIV and the AIDS infection, this causes problems with preventing it in many countries in Africa.
Education has helped women such as Betty Makoni speak out against the myth and attempt to dissuade people from believing the virgin cleansing myth.
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864524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar%20XJ | Jaguar XJ | The Jaguar XJ is a series of big luxury automobiles. The automobiles were made by Jaguar Cars from 1968 to 2019 It was. From 1970 it was Jaguar's most well-known four door autombile for sale. The first model was the last Jaguar saloon automobile to have had discussion from Sir William Lyons, the company's founder.
There were plans for an electric type of the automobile. However, the plans stopped in 2021.
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864527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Karzai%20International%20Airport | Hamid Karzai International Airport | Hamid Karzai International Airport (; ; ) is located 5 km from the city centre of Kabul in Afghanistan. It is one of the nation's main international airports and as one of the largest military bases.
It was previously named Kabul International Airport and locally as Khwaja Rawash Airport.
The airport was given its new name in 2014 in honor of former President Hamid Karzai. The decision was made by the National Assembly of Afghanistan and the Cabinet of the then President Ashraf Ghani.
On 26 August 2021, an ISIS sucide bombing occurred at the airport leaving at least 170 dead.
References
Airports in Asia
Kabul |
864530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Assembly%20%28Afghanistan%29 | National Assembly (Afghanistan) | The National Assembly (, ), also known as the Parliament of Afghanistan or simply as the Afghan Parliament is the legislature of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
In August 2021, activity (or business) had stopped at the National Assembyl.
While the legislature de jure still exists, de facto it was dissolved on 15 August 2021 after the fall of Kabul and after almost all government officials fled the country.
References
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864533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrullah%20Saleh | Amrullah Saleh | Amrullah Saleh (Dari/Pashto: ; born 15 October 1972) is an Afghan politician. On 17 August 2021 the government of Afghanistan had lost its power; however, Saleh still had the highest position of (elected) politicians that had not resigned. He was the acting president of Afghanistan from the Fall of Kabul on 17 August 2021 until 6 September 2021. He started in 2020 as vice president of Afghanistan. Earlier, he was the Minister of Interior Affairs of Afghanistan in 2018 and 2019.
After the Fall of Kabul (2021)
After the Fall of Kabul (2021), Saleh moved himself to the Panjshir Valley; from there he said that an anti-Taliban resistance has started; that group was started by Saleh and Ahmad Massoud and defense minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi.
Family
in September 2021, Taliban killed one of his brothers in Panjshir.
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Vice Presidents of Afghanistan |
864534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Teams | Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams is a business communication platform developed by Microsoft. It has gained popularity in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Languages
Microsoft Teams is available in the following languages:
Microsoft Windows software
Messaging |
864535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.D.%20Huachipato | C.D. Huachipato | Club Deportivo Huachipato is a Chilean football club based in Talcahuano that is a current member of the Chilean Primera División.
Other websites
Club Deportivo Huachipato – Web Site
Acereros.Cl Sitio de los hinchas
Chilean football clubs |
864536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fereshteh%20Taerpour | Fereshteh Taerpour | Fereshteh Taerpour (; 4 February 1953 – 17 August 2021) was an Iranian movie producer. She was born in Tehran. Her career began in 1982. She was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1999 comedy Once Upon a Time. She also wrote children's books, one of which, Adventure of Ahmad and Sara.
From 1982 to 1991 she was the Head of Writing and Editorial Center of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran.
Taerpour died on 17 August 2021 in Tehran from COVID-19 at the age of 68.
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2021 deaths
Iranian movie producers
Iranian writers
People from Tehran
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran |
864537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%C3%A3o%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201969%29 | Paulão (footballer, born 1969) | Paulo António Alves (22 October 1969 – 17 August 2021), commonly known as Paulão, was an Angolan footballer who played as a midfielder. He made over fifty appearances for the Angola national football team from 1993 until 2001.
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Angolan people
African footballers |
864538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil%20Mramba | Basil Mramba | Basil Pesambili Mramba (15 May 1940 – 17 August 2021) was a Tanzanian Chama Cha Mapinduzi politician. He was the Minister of Industry and Trade between 1986 until 1989 and again from 2006 until 2008. He was also the Minister of Finance between 2001 until 2005.
Mramba died from COVID-19 on 17 August 2021 at the age of 81.
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2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania
Tanzanian people
African politicians |
864539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Kuimov | Nikolai Kuimov | Nikolai Dimitriyevich Kuimov (; 16 December 1957 – 17 August 2021) was a Russian test pilot. He was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation in 2007 by President Vladimir Putin. He was known for testing the safety of many well known airplane models, including the Il-76, Il-86, Il-96, Il-114, and Il-103. Kuimov was born in Podolsk, then-Soviet Union.
Kuimov was killed in an airplane crash near Kubinka, Russia on 17 August 2021, aged 63.
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Russian military people
Aviators
Aviation deaths |
864540 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20R.%20Haine | William R. Haine | William Haine (August 8, 1944 – August 16, 2021) was a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate representing the 56th district from his appointment in November 2002 until 2019. He was born in Alton, Illinois.
Haine died on August 16, 2021 at the age of 77.
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2021 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Illinois
US Democratic Party politicians
People from Alton, Illinois |
864542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormoz%20Farhat | Hormoz Farhat | Hormoz Farhat (, 9 August 1928 – 16 August 2021) was a Persian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He was the emeritus professor of music, a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He was born in Tehran. He was a professor and head of the music department at the University of Tehran, (1970–78) as well as the head of the Music Council in the National Iranian Radio and Television Network (1969–78) and Shiraz Arts Festival.
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American academics
American composers
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People from Tehran |
864544 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%20Romero | Rafael Romero | Rafael Romero Sandrea (May 22, 1938 – August 15, 2021) was a Venezuelan track and field athlete. He competed in the sprint events. He represented his native country in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1956. Romero won two medals (gold and silver) at the 1963 Pan American Games in Brazil.
Romero died on August 15, 2021 at the age of 83.
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Olympians
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864545 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Schafrath | Dick Schafrath | Richard Philip Schafrath (March 21, 1937 – August 15, 2021) was an American offensive lineman football player and politician. He played for the Cleveland Browns from 1959 until 1971. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1987 until 2000 as a member of the Republican Party. Schafrath was born in Wooster, Ohio.
Schafrath died on August 15, 2021 at the age of 84.
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2021 deaths
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Cleveland Browns players
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US Republican Party politicians |
864546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooster%2C%20Ohio | Wooster, Ohio | Wooster ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County.
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864549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Mendelssohn | Vladimir Mendelssohn | Vladimir Mendelssohn (29 November 1949 – 13 August 2021) was a Romanian composer, violist, and professor. He was Director of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival from 2005 until his death. Mendelssohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. He also composed the movie scores for Darclee and The Violin Player.
Mendelssohn died on 13 August 2021, aged 71.
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2021 deaths
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Violinists
Academics
People from Bucharest |
864550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Johnson%20%28defensive%20tackle%29 | Charlie Johnson (defensive tackle) | Charles Johnson (January 17, 1952 – August 13, 2021) was an American football player. He played nine seasons in the National Football League. He played in Super Bowl XV for the Philadelphia Eagles and was selected to three Pro Bowls. He also played for the Minnesota Vikings. His career lasted from 1979 until 1981. Johnson was born in West Columbia, Texas.
Johnson died on August 13, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of 69.
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2021 deaths
American football defensive tackles
Philadelphia Eagles players
Minnesota Vikings players
Sportspeople from Texas |
864551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Columbia%2C%20Texas | West Columbia, Texas | West Columbia is a city in Brazoria County in the U.S. state of Texas. It is about southwest of downtown Houston. The population was 3,905 at the 2010 census.
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864552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Milot | Rich Milot | Richard Paul Milot (May 28, 1957 – August 13, 2021) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played his entire nine-year career with the Washington Redskins from 1979 until 1987. He played college football at Penn State University. Milot was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.
Milot died on August 13, 2021 at the age of 64.
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American football linebackers
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864553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Friedrich%20Haas | Karl-Friedrich Haas | Karl-Friedrich Haas (28 July 1931 – 12 August 2021) was a West German athlete. He was born in Berlin. He competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze medal. Four years later he competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal.
Haas died on 12 August 2021 in Nuremberg, Germany, aged 90.
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864554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20Sep%C3%BAlveda | Alfonso Sepúlveda | Víctor Alfonso Sepúlveda Torres (3 April 1939 – 12 August 2021) was a Chilean professional footballer. He played as a midfielder. Sepúlveda was born in Santiago de Chile. He played for the Chile national football team four times from 1961 until 1964. He also played for Universidad de Chile, Unión Española and Huachipato. His career lasted from 1959 until 1970.
Sepúlveda died on 12 August 2021 at a nursing home in Viña del Mar, Chile from heart failure, aged 82.
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Chilean footballers
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Deaths from heart failure |
864555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr%20Pimashkov | Pyotr Pimashkov | Pyotr Ivanovich Pimashkov (; 2 July 1948 – 12 August 2021) was a Russian politician. He was born in the Bykhaw District, then-Soviet Union. He was Mayor of Krasnoyarsk from 1996 until 2011. He was a member of the State Duma from 2011 until his death. Pimashkov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and United Russia.
Pimashkov died on 12 August 2021 in Sochi, Russia from cardiac arrest at the age of 73.
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2021 deaths
Russian politicians
Mayors
Deaths from cardiac arrest |
864557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio%20Ventura | Claudio Ventura | Claudio Ventura (15 August 1953 – 11 August 2021) was an Italian cinematic artist and editor. He was also Director of Karina-Films in Paris. He worked with 20th Century Studios on the movies The Longest Day and Let's Make Love. He edited the 1984 comedy-drama movie Just the Way You Are.
Ventura died on 11 August 2021 at the age of 67.
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2021 deaths
Italian artists
Editors |
864558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maki%20Kaji | Maki Kaji | was a Japanese businessman. He was the president of Nikoli. He was known as "the father of Sudoku" for his role in popularizing the number game. He was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
Kaji died on 10 August 2021 from bile duct cancer in Tokyo, aged 69.
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2021 deaths
Deaths from cholangiocarcinoma
Japanese businesspeople |
864559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Paris | Victoria Paris | Victoria Paris (November 22, 1960 – August 10, 2021) was an American pornographic actress and model. She was born in Great Falls, Montana. Paris began her career in 1989 and retired in 2002. She was a nude model for Hustler magazine, High Society and Penthouse in 1988.
Paris died on August 10, 2021 at her home in Rexburg, Idaho from breast cancer, aged 60.
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2021 deaths
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American pornographic actors
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Actors from Montana
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864560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Longest%20Day%20%28movie%29 | The Longest Day (movie) | The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war movie, filmed in black and white. It is based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name. It is about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944.
It was produced Darryl F. Zanuck.
It stars John Wayne, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Steve Forrest, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Hunter, Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Rod Steiger, Leo Genn, Gert Fröbe, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Curd Jürgens, George Segal, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka, and Arletty.
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1960s war movies
20th Century Fox movies
American epic movies
American war movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Ken Annakin
Movies directed by Andrew Marton
Movies directed by Bernhard Wicki |
864561 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20More | Kenneth More | Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English actor. He was in Doctor in the House (1954), Raising a Riot (1955), The Admirable Crichton (1957), The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) and Next to No Time (1958).
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Deaths from multiple system atrophy
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English television actors
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BAFTA Award winning actors |
864562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert%20Fr%C3%B6be | Gert Fröbe | Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his work as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond movie Goldfinger. He also played Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Deaths from myocardial infarction
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German television actors
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People from Saxony |
864563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina%20Demick | Irina Demick | Irina Demick (16 October 1936 – 8 October 2004), sometimes credited as Irina Demich, was a French actress. She was known for her roles in OSS se déchaîne (1963), The Visit (1964), Un monsieur de compagnie (1964) and Up from the Beach (1965).
Other websites
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2004 deaths
French movie actors
French television actors
French stage actors |
864564 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommeuse | Pommeuse | Pommeuse is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
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864565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Todd | Richard Todd | Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd (11 June 19193 December 2009) was an Irish-British actor. He won a Golden Globe Award and had an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his role as Corporal Lachlan MacLachlan in the 1949 movie The Hasty Heart.
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2009 deaths
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Irish television actors
Irish stage actors
British movie actors
British stage actors
British television actors
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Golden Globe Award winning actors |
864566 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curd%20J%C3%BCrgens | Curd Jürgens | Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian actor. He played Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General. He also played James Bond villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
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1982 deaths
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Austrian television actors
Austrian stage actors
Actors from Vienna |
864567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20Ryan | Cornelius Ryan | Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author. He was known for writing popular military history. He wrote about World War II events: The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974). He was born in Dublin.
Ryan died on 23 November 1974 in New York City from prostate cancer, aged 54.
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Other websites
Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers – Ohio University Libraries
The Reporter Whom Time Forgot by Michael Shapiro, Columbia Journalism Review
1920 births
1974 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Irish novelists
American novelists
Journalists from New York City
Writers from Dublin
American historians |
864568 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Jarre | Maurice Jarre | Maurice-Alexis Jarre (; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor. He composed the movie scores for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr. Zhivago. He also worked on The Train (1964), Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976), Lion of the Desert (1981), Witness (1985), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Ghost (1990).
Jarre won three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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People from Lyon
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Grammy Award winners
20th-century French composers
21st-century French composers |
864571 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Annakin | Ken Annakin | Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English movie director. He directed many Disney movies in the 1950s.
References
Other websites
Ken Annakin biography at BFI Screenonline
AP Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
Obituary in The Times
Obituary in The Guardian
Obituary in The Independent
Obituary in The Daily Telegraph
1914 births
2009 deaths
Movie directors from London
People from Yorkshire |
864572 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Marton | Andrew Marton | Andrew Marton (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American movie director. In his career, he directed 39 movies and television programs. He was known for directing Ben Hur (1959).
Other websites
Biography on allmovie.com
Biography on answers.com
Andrew Marton papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1904 births
1992 deaths
American movie directors
Hungarian movie directors
People from Budapest
Naturalized citizens of the United States |
864573 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Wicki | Bernhard Wicki | Bernhard Wicki (28 October 1919 – 5 January 2000) was an Austrian actor and movie director.
Moives
Die Brücke (1959)
The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961)
The Longest Day (with Ken Annakin and Andrew Marton) (1962)
The Visit (1964)
Morituri (1965)
(1971)
Karpfs Karriere (1971)
The Conquest of the Citadel (1977)
(1984)
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund (1987)
Spider's Web (1989)
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Photographs and literature
1919 births
2000 deaths
Austrian movie directors
Austrian movie actors
Austrian television actors
Austrian stage actors |
864574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Hunter | Jeffrey Hunter | Jeffrey Hunter (born Henry Herman "Hank" McKinnies Jr.; November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was an American actor and producer. He was known for his roles in movies such as The Searchers and King of Kings.
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1969 deaths
Deaths from intracranial hemorrhage
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American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from New Orleans, Louisiana |
864575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Tryon | Tom Tryon | Thomas Tryon (January 14, 1926 – September 4, 1991) was an American actor and novelist. He is best known for playing the main role in the movie The Cardinal (1963) and starred in The Longest Day (1962) and In Harm's Way (1965).
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1991 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
American novelists
American movie actors
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American stage actors
American voice actors
Actors from Hartford, Connecticut
Writers from Hartford, Connecticut |
864581 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Genn | Leo Genn | Leopold John "Leo" Genn (9 August 190526 January 1978) was an English actor and lawyer. He played Petronius in the 1951 movie Quo Vadis. This role earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination.
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864590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B2%2C%20or%20the%20120%20Days%20of%20Sodom | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (), also titled titled Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints and commonly referred to as simply Salò (), is a French-Italian 1975 art, war, LGBT and political movie. The motion picture was directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The movie is a loose adaptation of The 120 Days of Sodom (a 1785 book first published in 1904). The book was first published by Marquis de Sade. The movie happens during World War II. It was Pasolini's final movie. The movie was released almost three weeks after Pasolini's murder.
Background
The movie deals with rich, corrupt Italian serial seducers at the time of the fascist Republic of Salò (1943–45). The seducers kidnap eighteen youths. The youths are exposed to almost four months of sadistic behavior, intense violence and sexual torturte. The movie is associated with certain themes. They include morality, nihilism, capitalism, sexual material and fascism. The movie has four segments, which were inspired from the narriative poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (the Italian poet): the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Excrement, and the Circle of Blood. The movie also has constant references towards and several discussions of Friedrich Nietzsche's 1887 novel On the Genealogy of Morality, Ezra Pound's poem The Cantos and Marcel Proust's novel sequence In Search of Lost Time.
The movie first began showing at the Paris Film Festival on 23 November 1975. It was briefly shown in movie theaters across Italy. Just after New Year's Day 1976, however, this motion picture was officially banned in that country. It was later released on 3 October 1977 in the United States. Because of the movie depicting teens becoming victims of graphic violence, sexual abuse and murder, it was controversial when released. It remains banned in several countries.
Censorship
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom was rejected by the British Board of Film Classification (the name then was the British Board of Film Censors) in early January 1976. The reason behind the rejection was later cited as "gross indecency" (anything which offended against the recognised standards of propriety).
In Australia, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom was banned all across the country for indecency reasons. Following a seventeen-years-long ban, rating officials at the Australian Classification Board re-rated the movie R18+ (meaning 18 and older) uncut for its theatrical release in mid July 1993. In July 2008, however, the Australian Classification Review Board members rated the movie Refused Classification for the third time. In 2010, it was released having an R18+ rating. The Classification Board officials said the DVD of the movie was passed due to "the inclusion of 176 minutes of additional material which provided a context to the feature film."
The movie was originally banned in 1976 in New Zealand for almost twenty-one years.
In 2007, police did not alloow a local cinema in Zürich to show the movie in a church; different Christian groups from Germany and Austria had filed a complaint against this event. After looking through findings of foreign trials and discussions, this prohibition was undone. The police stated that, apparently, it had not properly taken the "artistic value" of the movie into account.
Reception
The Rotten Tomatoes rated the movie near 71% with thirty-eight reviews. The site's reviews read: "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom will strike some viewers as irredeemably depraved, but its unflinching view of human cruelty makes it impossible to ignore."
Director Michael Haneke called Salò as his fourth-favorite motion picture while voting for a 2002 Sight & Sound magazine poll. Director Catherine Breillat said the movie wasn't really meant to be shocking.
Director John Waters said, "Salo is a beautiful film...it uses obscenity in an intelligent way...and it's about the pornography of power."
In 2011, Roger Ebert wrote that he owned the movie since its release on LaserDisc. Ebert, however, had not watched it. The reason Ebert didn't watch the movie was due to its transgressive reputation.
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Italian horror movies
Italian LGBT movies
Incest in movies
French-language movies
French drama movies
French horror movies
French LGBT movies
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1975 horror movies
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1970s war movies
Movies about child sexual abuse
Independent movies
Movies directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini |
864630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Ch%C5%ABetsu%20earthquake | 2004 Chūetsu earthquake | The Chūetsu earthquake is an earthquake that occurred in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on October 23, 2004. The moment magnitude was 6.6. The quake killed 68 people.
2004 in Asia
Earthquakes in Japan
Earthquakes in the 2000s |
864632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81gnes%20Hankiss | Ágnes Hankiss | Ágnes Hankiss (born Ágnes Erdős; 7 March 1950 — 17 August 2021) was a Hungarian politician. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2014. She was a member of the European People's Party. Hankiss was born in Budapest. She was married to Elemér Hankiss.
Hankiss died on 17 August 2021 in Budapest, aged 71.
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2021 deaths
Former MEPs
Politicians from Budapest
MEPs for Hungary |
864633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20Durian | Typhoon Durian | Typhoon Durian (PAGASA : Typhoon Reming) was a large storm that hurt the Philippines and Vietnam in 2006. Many people died when mud slid down from the Mayon Volcano and covered many villages.
Natural disasters in Asia
2006 in weather |
864634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar%20Hossain%20%28industrialist%29 | Anwar Hossain (industrialist) | Anwar Hossain (1938 – 17 August 2021) was a Bangladeshi businessman and politician. He was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad from 1988 until 1990. He was the founder and chairman of Anwar Group. He was a member of the Jatiya Party. Hossain was born in Lalbagh Thana, Bangladesh.
Hossain died on 17 August 2021 in Dhaka, aged 83.
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2021 deaths
Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
Bangladeshi businesspeople
People from Dhaka |
864635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazenambo%20Kazenambo | Kazenambo Kazenambo | Kazenambo Kazenambo (6 July 1963 – 17 August 2021) was a Botswanan-born Namibian politician. He was a member of SWAPO. In 2004, he was elected to the National Assembly. He retired in 2014. Kazenambo was born in Maun, Botswana.
Kazenambo died in Windhoek, Namibia on 17 August 2021 from COVID-19 problems, aged 58.
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2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia
Botswana politicians
Namibian politicians |
864636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maun | Maun | Maun is the fifth-largest town in Botswana. As of 2011, it had a population of 55,784.
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Cities in Botswana |
864638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo%20Paz | Rodrigo Paz | Rodrigo Paz Delgado (20 December 1933 – 17 August 2021) was an Ecuadorian politician and businessman. He was the mayor of Quito from 1988 to 1992 He ran for President of Ecuador in the 1996 election. He was a member of the Democracia Popular. Paz was Minister of Finance from 1980 to 1981. He was born in Tulcán, Carchi, Ecuador.
Paz died on 17 August 2021 at a hospital in Tampa, Florida from gastrointestinal bleeding, aged 87.
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2021 deaths
Deaths from gastrointestinal hemorrhage
Mayors of Quito
Ecuadorian businesspeople |
864639 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20%28movie%29 | Embassy (movie) | Embassy is a 1972 British spy thriller movie directed by Gordon Hessler and was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Stephen Coulter. It stars Richard Roundtree, Chuck Connors, Max von Sydow, Broderick Crawford, Ray Milland, Marie-José Nat, David Bauer, Karl Held, Larry Cross.
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1972 thriller movies
1970s spy movies
British thriller movies
British action movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Gordon Hessler |
864643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Yunda | Jorge Yunda | Jorge Homero Yunda Machado (born 28 August 1965) is an Ecuadorian politician, physician and radio broadcaster. He was born in Guano, Ecuador. He is a member of the PAIS Alliance. Yunda became Mayor of Quito in 2019. From 2017 until 2018, he was a member of the National Assembly.
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1965 births
Living people
Mayors of Quito
Physicians
Radio personalities |
864647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulc%C3%A1n | Tulcán | Tulcán () is the capital of the province of Carchi in Ecuador and the seat of Tulcán Canton. The population of the city of Tulcán was 53,558 in the 2010 census.
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Cities in Ecuador |
864648 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loja%2C%20Ecuador | Loja, Ecuador | Loja (), formerly Loxa and fully City of the Immaculate Conception of Loja (), is the capital of Ecuador's Loja Province.
Other websites
Loja Area Map
Lojanos.com - Virtual community of Loja
Official page of Loja municipality
www.cronica.com.ec
Cities in Ecuador |
864649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Lock | Sean Lock | Sean Lock (22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021) was an English comedian and actor. He was a team captain on Channel 4 comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2005–2015, and on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown from 2012 to 2021. He was born in Chertsey, Surrey, England.
Lock was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1990. He died from cancer at his home in London on 16 August 2021, aged 58. He was diagnosed with lung cancer a few years before his death.
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2021 deaths
Actors from Surrey
British stand-up comedians
Cancer deaths in England
Deaths from lung cancer
English comedians
English television actors
English television personalities |
864650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20West%2C%20Young%20Lady | Go West, Young Lady | Go West, Young Lady is a 1941 American western comedy movie directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Penny Singleton, Glenn Ford, Ann Miller, Charles Ruggles, Allen Jenkins, Jed Prouty, Onslow Stevens. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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1941 movies
1940s western movies
1940s comedy movies
American western movies
American comedy movies
Movies directed by Frank R. Strayer |
864651 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Mitchell | Austin Mitchell | Austin Vernon Mitchell (19 September 1934 – 18 August 2021) was a British Labour Party politician and journalist. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from 1977 until 2015. From 1979 until 1985, he was Opposition Whip. Mitchell was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Mitchell died on 18 August 2021 in Leeds, West Yorkshire at the age of 86.
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2021 deaths
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
UK MPs 1997–2001
UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
UK MPs 2010–2015
Former Labour Party (UK) MPs
Politicians from Yorkshire
British journalists
Writers from Yorkshire |
864652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny%20Sveshnikov | Evgeny Sveshnikov | Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (; ; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. He was born in Cheliabinsk, Russian SFSR. Sveshnikov played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was 17 years old.
Sveshnikov died on 18 August 2021 of problems caused by COVID-19 in Moscow at the age of 71.
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1950 births
2021 deaths
Russian chess players
Russian writers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia |
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