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888974 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice%20Patton | Candice Patton | Candice Kristina Patton (born 24 June 1985 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Iris West-Allen in the television series The Flash, Her acting on The Flash earned her a Saturn Award from four nominations.
Actors from Mississippi
Living people
1985 births |
888989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenbach%20am%20Wald | Schwarzenbach am Wald | Schwarzenbach am Wald is a town in Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 21 km west of Hof, and 23 km northeast of Kulmbach.
Geography
Geographical Place
Schwarzenbach am Wald is in a natural environment at the bottom of the Döbraberg in the natural park Frankenwald
City Structure
References
Hof (district) |
888990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenbach%20an%20der%20Saale | Schwarzenbach an der Saale | Schwarzenbach an der Saale is a town in Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the river Saale, 11 km south of Hof.
References
Hof (district) |
888991 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20clause | Relative clause | A "relative clause" is a string of words that contains a noun and a verb. Relative clauses can not stand on their own as a sentence and must begin with a "relative pronoun".
Grammar |
888993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20UEFA%20European%20Under-19%20Championship%20squads | 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads | Players born on or after 1 January 1986 were available to participate in the tournament. Players' age as of 18 July 2005 – the tournament's starting day. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.
Group A
Head coach: Uli Stielike
Head coach: Nikos Nioplias
Head coach: Mal Donaghy
Head coach: Zvonko Živković
Group B
Head coach: Samvel Petrosyan
Head coach: Martin Hunter
Head coach: Jean Gallice
Head coach: Tor Ole Skullerund
Footnotes
UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads |
888994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20UEFA%20European%20Under-19%20Championship%20squads | 2006 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads | Players born on or after 1 January 1987 were available to participate in the tournament. Players' age as of 18 July 2006 – the tournament's starting day. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.
Group A
Head coach: Paul Gludovatz
Head coach: Marc Van Geersom
Head coach: Miroslav Soukup
Head coach: Michał Globisz
Group B
Head coach: Carlos Dinis
Head coach: Archie Gemmill
Head coach: Ginés Meléndez
Head coach: Cem Pamiroğlu
Footnotes
UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads |
889000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20UEFA%20European%20Under-19%20Championship%20squads | 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads | Players born on or after 1 January 1988 were available to participate in the tournament. Players' age as of 16 July 2007 – the tournament's starting day. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.
Group A
Head coach: Hermann Stadler
Head coach: Nikos Nioplias
Head coach: Edgar Borges
Head coach: Juan Santisteban
Only 19 players in Spain squad.
Group B
Head coach: Guy Ferrier
Head coach: Frank Engel
Head coach: Ravil Sabitov
Head coach: Zvonko Živković
Footnotes
UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads |
889001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20UEFA%20European%20Under-19%20Championship%20squads | 2008 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads | Players born on or after 1 January 1989 were available to participate in the tournament. Players' age as of 14 July 2008 – the tournament's starting day. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.
Group A
Head coach: Mihail Madanski
Head coach: Tibor Sisa
Head coach: Horst Hrubesch
Head coach: Ginés Meléndez
Group B
Head coach: Jakub Dovalil
Head coach: Brian Eastick
Head coach: Alexis Alexiou
Head coach: Francesco Rocca
Other websites
Official UEFA site
Footnotes
UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads |
889002 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%20qualification%20%E2%80%93%20AFC%20First%20Round | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round | The AFC first round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification was also the first round of 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification. It was played from 6 to 11 June 2019.
Format
A total of twelve teams (teams ranked 35–46 in the FIFA World Rankings) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round.
The six losers would have qualified to the 2020 AFC Solidarity Cup, but it was cancelled.
Timor-Leste were banned from qualifying to the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, so this only acts as FIFA World Cup qualification for them.
Seeding
The draw for the first round was held on 17 April 2019 at 11:00 MST (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of April 2019. Pot A teams hosted the first leg and Pot B teams hosted the second leg.
Note: Bolded teams qualified for the second round.
Note: FIFA World Rankings at the time of the draw is shown in (parenthesis).
Summary
The first legs were played on 6–7 June, and the second legs on 11 June 2019.
Matches
Mongolia won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Sri Lanka won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Bangladesh won 1–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Malaysia won 12–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Cambodia won 4–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Guam won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.
Goalscorers
Notes
References
Other websites
Qualifiers – Asia Matches: Round 1, FIFA.com
FIFA World Cup, the-AFC.com
AFC Asian Cup, the-AFC.com
Preliminary Joint Qualification 2022, stats.the-AFC.com
2022 FIFA World Cup |
889026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Synge | Richard Synge | Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914-1994) was an English biochemist. |
889031 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20differentiation | Product differentiation | Product differentiation is a term from economics and marketing. In most markets, there will be some form of competition: Several companies offer products or services, which are very similar. Using product differentiation, a company can change a product or a service, so that it becomes more attractive to a given market. This means the product or service must be different from the product of the competitors. It also means, it must be sufficiently different from the other products of the company. Edward Chamberlin first proposed the idea, in his book The Theory of Monopolistic Competition, published in 1933
Rationale
Firms have different ways that enable them to construct specific competitive advantages over competitors. Resource endowments allow firms to be different which reduces competition and makes it possible to reach new segments of the market. For this reason, differentiation is the process of distinguishing the differences of a product or offering from others, to make it more attractive to a particular target market.
Although research in a niche market may result in changing a product in order to improve differentiation, the changes themselves are not differentiation. Marketing or product differentiation is the process of describing the differences between products or services, or the resulting list of differences. This is done to demonstrate the unique aspects of a firm's product and create a sense of value. Marketing textbooks are firm on the point that any differentiation must be valued by buyers (a differentiation attempt that is not perceived does not count). The term unique selling proposition refers to advertising to communicate a product's differentiation.
In economics, successful product differentiation leads to competitive advantage. This is inconsistent with perfect competition. One of the requirement for perfect competition is that the producrs or servces are perfect substitutes. There are three types of product differentiation:
Simple: based on a variety of characteristics
Horizontal: based on a single characteristic but consumers are not clear on quality
Vertical: based on a single characteristic and consumers are clear on its quality
Most of the time, the brand diffferences are small: the can be as little as different packaging or an advertising theme. The physical product need not change, but it may. Differentiation is about the buyers seeing a difference. Causes of differentiation may be functional aspects of the product or service, how it is distributed and marketed, or who buys it. The major sources of product differentiation are as follows.
Differences in quality which are usually accompanied by differences in price.
Differences in functional features or design
Ignorance of buyers regarding the essential characteristics and qualities of goods they are purchasing
Sales promotion activities of sellers and, in particular, advertising
Differences in availability (e.g. timing and location).
The objective of differentiation is to develop a position that potential customers see as unique. The term is used frequently when dealing with freemium business models, in which businesses market a free and paid version of a given product. Given they target the same group of customers, it is imperative that free and paid versions be effectively differentiated.
Differentiation primarily affects performance through reducing directness of competition: As the product becomes more different, categorization becomes more difficult and hence draws fewer comparisons with its competition. A successful product differentiation strategy will move your product from competing based primarily on price to competing on non-price factors (such as product characteristics, distribution strategy, or promotional variables).
Most people think that companies differentiate their products to be able to charge more for their product. This is a very simpliticx view, that does not cover all aspects. If customers like what the firs has to offer, they will be less sensitive to the offers of other compamies. Price may not be one of these aspects. Differentiation makes customers in a given segment have a lower sensitivity to other features (non-price) of the product.
Vertical product differentiation
Vertical product differentiation can be measured objectively by a consumer, for example when comparing two similar products the quality and price can clearly be identified and ranked by the customer. If both A and B products are charged the same price to the consumer, then the market share for each one will be positive, according to the Hotelling model. The major theory in this is all consumers prefer the higher quality product if two distinct products are offered at the same price. A product can differ in many vertical attributes such as its operating speed. What really matters is the relationship between consumers willingness to pay for improvements in quality and the increase in cost per unit that comes with such improvements. Therefore, the perceived difference in quality is different with different consumer, so it is objective. A green product might be having a lower or zero negative effect on the environment, however, it may turn out to be inferior than other products in other aspects. Hence, it also depends on the way it is advertised and the social pressure a potential consumer is living in. Even one vertical differentiation can be a decisive factor in purchasing.
Horizontal product differentiation
Horizontal differentiation seeks to affect an individual's subjective decision-making. The difference cannot be measured in an objective way. For example, different color versions of the same iPhone or MacBook. A lemon ice cream is not superior to a chocolate ice cream, is completely based on the user's preference. A restaurant may price all of its desserts at the same price and lets the consumer freely choose its preferences since all the alternatives cost the same. A clear example of Horizontal Product Differentiation can be seen when comparing Coca Cola and Pepsi: if priced the same then individuals will differentiate between the two based purely on their own taste preference.
Other types of product differentiation
Usually, product differentiation is seen as either vertical or horizontal. Most forms of product differentiation have both horizontal and vertical product differentiations. Those two are not the only way to differentiate products. Another way to differentiate a product is through spatial differentiation. Spatial Product Differentiation is using a geographical location as a way to differentiate. An example of Spatial Differentiation is a firm locally sourcing inputs and producing their product.
References
Other webistes
Spring 1997 - Jonathan B. Baker Director, Bureau of Economics Federal Trade Commission on Product Differentiation
Economics
Marketing |
889033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese%20Knoop-Graf | Anneliese Knoop-Graf | Anneliese Knoop-Graf (January 30 1921-August 27 2009) was the youngest sister of Willi Graf, who was one of the main members of the White Rose resistance group. In his last letter to her he tasked her to “keep a good memory of me.” (“Behaltet mich in guter Errinerung”) After his death Anneliese worked tirelessly to keep Willi’s story (and the stories of the other White Rose members) alive.
White Rose work and Legacy
On February 18, 1943, Willi and Anneliese Graf were captured by the Gestapo. Both were accused of being members of the White Rose. Willi was a core member, but he had never told Anneliese about the activities of the White Rose. Anneliese was released soon afterward, but her brother was sentenced to death. In his last letter to Anneliese and his family, Willi asked them to, “Keep a good memory of me” and to “continue what we have started.”
After the war Anneliese honored her brothers last wishes, becoming a speaker about the White Rose.She helped write multiple publications about the White Rose, including helping Inge Jens and Walter Jens publish a book of Willi Graf’s letters and diary titled, “Willi Graf: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen.”
In 1987, Anneliese became the vice chairman of the White Rose foundation in Munich.
Anneliese Knoop-Graf passed away on August 27, 2009. She was 88 years old.
1921 births
2009 deaths |
889044 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuf-Mesnil | Neuf-Mesnil | Neuf-Mesnil () is a commune in the Nord in north France. In 2018 1,324 people lived in the coummune.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord |
889045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel%20W.%20Johnson-Brown | Hazel W. Johnson-Brown | Hazel W. Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) was the 16th Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and the first African American woman to hold the title of Brigadier general. She served the military as a nurse from 1955 to 1983 when she retired.
The title of Brigadier general and 16th Chief of Army Nurse Corps was awarded to Hazel W. Johnson-Brown in 1979.
Early life
Hazel Winifred Johnson Brown was born on October 10, 1927. She was born and raised in Pennsylvania, United States. She is the daughter of Clarence L. Johnson Sr. and Gamett Henly Johnson. She had six siblings. It is said that she wanted to be a nurse from early childhood.
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2011 deaths
Nurses
African-American military personnel
People from Pennsylvania
United States Army |
889051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20Australians | Greek Australians | Greek Australians () are Australians of Greek heritage or Australians born in Greece. They make up at least 1.8% of Australia's population. The cities in Australia with the most Greeks are Melbourne and Sydney.
Related pages
Greek New Zealanders
Australian
Australian people
Australia |
889052 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Lose | Phyllis Lose | Margaret Phyllis Lose (November 15, 1925-September 30, 2019) was the first woman equine (horse) vet in the United States. She opened many equine surgical hospitals, and was extremely successful in her surgeries. She never had a client with a postoperative (after operation) infection. She was the third woman to get a horse trainer license in the United States.
Early life
Phyllis Lose’s parents taught her to be tough, and always keep on moving forward in her life. They motivated her to work hard if she wants to make something happen. When she was younger, she once convinced her parents to let her keep a horse in their garage! Lose has always had a love of horses.
She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School in 1957. She was one of three women in her graduating class. She was the only woman who studied large animals. Lose was the first certified female equine veterinarian in the United States.
Career
First Lose was a horse trainer.
When she graduated Lose opened the first woman-owned and woman-run horse veterinary clinic. Lose was the first woman to build an equine surgical hospital. She is also the first woman horse doctor in the United States. She was the third woman to have a horse trainer license in the United States as well. She developed many different methods and new types of medicines to help perform more successful surgeries on horses. For example, Lose Lose doesn’t like to use steroids to relax muscles in hurt horses, which is a very common thing to do with other vets.
Lose opened two equine hospitals in Pennsylvania. During Lose’s busiest years, she treated up to 1,000 horses a week! Lose won some money off of her dog, when she entered him in a dog food contest. She closed her hospital, to pursue her dog, Oscar’s, movie career in Florida.
Lose wrote many books. Her autobiography is called, "No Job for a Lady.”
Personal life
In both her career, as well as her personal life. She never married. Her work was too busy. She slept about three or four hours a night. One of her dogs, Oscar, was a movie star at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida. She died in 2019.
References
Veterinarians |
889053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20Hammond | Madison Hammond | Madison Hammond is an Indigenous American soccer player. Hammond is the first Native American to play in the National Women's Soccer League. She plays for the club OL Reign. Hammond made her debut on September 26, 2020. She aims to inspire and be a role model for young Native American girls.
Early Life
Madison Hammond was born in November 1997. She had a mother who was in the military. Her father was not very big in her life. Hammond grew up in Albuquerque and moved to Virginia when she was 9 years old. She is Navajo, San Pueblo, and African American. Her uncle was a golf PGA Champion and played along with Tiger Woods. He was a big inspiration for her. She joined a girls' soccer club near her mother's base when they moved to Virginia.
Making History
Hammond made history when she subbed on to a game on September 26, 2020. She became the first Native American player to play in the NWSL. She was subbed on in the 76th minute of a game against Utah. Hammond played in 3 games during the fall season for a total of 105 minutes.
Journey
Madison Hammond graduated from Wake Forester in 2019. She went undrafted and had a test run for a club in Spain. Hammond decided to do another tryout, this time with the club OL Reign. During the tryouts, the Covid-19 pandemic hit and shut down the league. She signed a 2-year contract right away once it started opening back up.
Inspiring Others
Hammond wants to inspire young native girls. She wants other indigenous girls to try to play professional soccer, too. She realizes that she now has responsibility. She sees both positives and negatives from her achievement. She is happy that the league is starting to change and be more diverse. Hammond is also a little disappointed that it took till 2020 to have a Native American player.
References
Living people
1997 births |
889054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious%20Brady-Davis | Precious Brady-Davis | Precious Brady-Davis (born 1986/1987) is an American transgender climate activist. She is also a LGBTQ+ activist. She is the most seen trans woman of color climate activist. She worked at the Halsted LGBTQ communtiy center. There she was Mentor of LGBTQ+ teens. She wrote the best selling book “I Have Always Been Me”. Today, She is the director of communications at the Sierra Club.
Early life
Brady-Davis was in foster care when she was a toddler. This was because of her mother’s mental health issues. At age five she moved in with her grandparents. In fourth grade her peers started being homophobic to her. In middle school it got worse. In public high school she started to explore her identity. In her sophomore year Brady Davis moved into a foster home. This was because of a big fight with her grandfather. In college she came out as gay. She went to college in Chicago. There she made a name for herself in drag. Many LGBTQ+ teens looked up to her.
References
1980s births
People from Nebraska
Living people
American activists |
889057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20Staley | Dawn Staley | Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970) is an American women's basketball coach and player. She is a four-time Southeastern Conference (SEC) Coach of the Year winner and the 2020 Associated Press Coach of the Year. She was hired at University of South Carolina in the 2008-2009 season. Before, she had coached at Temple University. In 2017 they won the national title. She has five SEC regular titles and six league tournament crowns. She also coached the USA women's olympic basketball team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 where they won the gold medal.
Education
Staley went to high school at Dobbins Tech High school. She led them to 3 league championships. She won high school player of the year as a senior. She decided to go to University of Virginia because she could play immediately and for their reputation for developing point guards. She was one of six children the first person in her family to go to college.
Career
Staley was a basketball coach at Temple University. Her team at Temple won many games and got to play in the NCAA tournaments for eight years.
Staley came to coach at the University of South Carolina in the 2007-2008 season. The South Carolina women's basketball team was not very popular. Staley helped them win their first national championship in 2017. The team's really good season in 2020 was ended by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In 2021, Staley signed a seven-year contract with the South Carolina Gamecocks. She earns a $1 million US base salary. She will also receive $1.9 million US every subsequent year which will grow by $100,000 every year. She can also get up to $680,000 in incentive bonuses. If Staley leaves without reason, she would pay the school 5 million. If the school fired her without reason, they would owe her 3 million dollars. Staley believes that the 22.4 million dollars will help equalize women's and men's pay in basketball. She is now the highest paid black women's basketball coach, and one of the highest paid basketball coaches. Staley also passed Louisiana State University coach Kim Mulkey making her the highest paid coach in the Southeastern Conference.
References
Living people |
889059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyida%20al-Hurra | Sayyida al-Hurra | Sayyida al-Hurra (Arabic: السيدة الحرة), real name Lalla Aicha bint Ali ibn Rashid al-Alami, Hakimat Titwan (Arabic: عائشة بنت علي بن رشيد العلمي) (1485 – 14 July 1561) was a pirate queen.
Biography
Al-Hurra lived in the early 1500’s. She managed to control the Western half of the Mediterranean for well over 30 years. She was born into a wealthy Muslim family. Her birth name was believed to be Aicha. Her family was chased out of Granada to Morocco during the Spanish Reconquista. She and her family then settled in Tetouán. Her first husband was the Sultan Al-Mandri. She had herself immediately named governer of Tetouán, after he died. She was bestowed the title Al-Hurra. This was a symbol of respect and power. She then married the King of Morocco. This was the only time in Islamic history a king traveled outside his country for his wedding. Spain and Portugal were worried about this. It seemed like a threat, as this alliance would be extremely strong. Iberians attacked Al-Hurra’s land. She became a pirate to defend her country and stop them. She made an alliance with the dreaded pirate Barabarossa, or Red Beard. He used his fleet to ferry refugees away from the fighting. Al-Hurra terrorized Spanish and Portuguese ships. She became known and feared across the Mediterranean. She was known for taking hostages and being extremely merciless. The Spanish feared her and prayed for a miracle. The Portuguese “prayed for God to allow them to see her hanged from a ship’s mast”. She was categorized as aggressive and bad-tempered. Al-Hurra became one of the richer pirates of her time. She still managed to maintain a consistent alliance with Red Beard. Her demise came after over 30 years of sailing. Her son-in-law usurped her power and throne. He also stole her wealth. She lived in her childhood home in Morocco until her death. She died at age 75. Sayyida Al-Hurra’s legacy lives on today. In European writing she is known as the fearsome Pirate Queen of the Mediterranean.
References
Pirates |
889073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20AFC%20Solidarity%20Cup | 2020 AFC Solidarity Cup | The 2020 AFC Solidarity Cup was planned to be the 2nd AFC Solidarity Cup, a football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
On 10 September 2020, AFC announced that the tournament would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2019, it was rescheduled once more to March 2020.
Nepal were the previous champions.
Qualified teams
The tournament would have had 8 teams. The teams that could qualify were:
The six teams that lost the first round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2023 AFC Asian Cup (same tournament) qualifiers.
The two teams that lost the play-off round of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers.
References
Other websites
, the-AFC.com
AFC Solidarity Cup |
889079 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20%28album%29 | Duke (album) | Duke is the tenth studio album by English progressive rock band Genesis. The album was released on March 28, 1980 through Atlantic Records and was their first album to got to number 1 in the United Kingdom.
1980 albums
Genesis albums |
889081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Walk%20in%20the%20Sun%20%281945%20movie%29 | A Walk in the Sun (1945 movie) | A Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American World War II drama movie directed by Lewis Milestone and was based on the novel by Harry Brown. It stars Dana Andrews, John Ireland, Richard Conte, George Tyne, Lloyd Bridges, Norman Lloyd, Sterling Holloway, Herbert Rudley, Chris Drake, Richard Benedict and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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1940s war movies
1940s drama movies
American war movies
American drama movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Lewis Milestone
20th Century Fox movies |
889082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisa%20Butler | Bisa Butler | Bisa Butler (born 1973) is an American artist. She makes quilts. Her quilts are a new style that no one has made before. They look like paintings. Her method is changing how other people make quilts. The Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Art, and many other museums have Butler’s quilts. She is now making a new group of quilts for the Smithsonian Museums. Magazine and book publishers also hired Butler to make quilts for their covers. Butler made quilts for the fronts of Time magazine, Essence, Juxtapoz, and Tarana Burke's memoir. Many other newspapers and magazines have written stories about Butler. Forbes, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, CBS, NBC, and National Public Radio have all written about her. Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) also showed her quilts.
Early life
Butler was born in 1973 to a Ghanan father and a mother from New Orleans. Her mother was raised in Morocco. Butler learned about quilting and fabric from her mother and grandmother.
Education
Butler attended Howard University. She studied painting. Butler discovered that painting was not her favorite art.
She then got her graduate degree from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her first quilted portrait was of her grandparents.
Career
Butler's quilts are portraits of Black Americans. Butler finds old photographs and makes quilts based on them. She quilts both famous people and unknown people. She wants to tell the experience of Twentieth Century Black Americans.
Her quilts are very colorful. She uses colors to describe the personalities of the people she is quilting. Many of the fabrics Butler uses come from Ghana. The quilts are also very complex. Butler spends hundreds of hours to make one quilt.
Teacher
Butler taught high school art in Elizabeth, New Jersey until 2018. Butler rejected an invitation to exhibit her quilts in Switzerland. She did not want to leave her students during their school year. She made quilts to sell at art fairs.
Professional artist
While she was teaching Butler created her famous quilt: “Safety Patrol”. “Safety Patrol” was based on a photo by Charles “Teenie” Harris.
Butler sold quilts through the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York.
In 2018 Butler participated in art fairs which included Expo Chicago. For the Expo Chicago she made a special quilt titled “Southside Sunday Morning”. "Southside Sunday Morning" was based on Russell Lee's 1941 photograph called "Negro Boys on Easter Morning." Erica Warren, from the Art Institute of Chicago, saw Butler's quilts at the Expo Chicago. Warren decided to exhibit Butler's work at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum. Warren bought "Saftey Patrol."
Her first solo museum exhibit was the Katonah Museum of Art. It was supposed to open in early 2020. "Bisa Butler: Portraits" was postponed by the COVID-19 Pandemic. It finally opened on July 26, 2020. Most of the quilts for that exhibit were based on photos from the 1930s and 1940s.
"Bisa Butler: Portraits" moved to the Art Institute of Chicago in February, 2021. Her exhibit was extended to last until September 6th, 2021.
Influences
Butler admires the work of Romare Bearden, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Jones Hogu, and the AfriCOBRA movement. Their art inspires her art.
Personal life
Butler lives in New Jersey with her husband, John Butler. John Butler is a professional deejay. He helps Butler pick songs that go with her quilts. They have used songs from many musicians, including Tupac Shakur, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, and Jill Scott.
References
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889083 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy%20Pyle | Katy Pyle | Katy Pyle is an American Ballet dancer. They created the dance company Ballez. Ballez is a place for people who are underrepresented in ballet. They are also the creator and choreographer of Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, and Giselle of Loneliness.
Growing Up Confused
Pyle was a ballet student in 1990. They identify as a genderqueer lesbian. They use they/them pronouns. A Ballet teacher told them that they would have a better career if they were a boy. Because they wanted to dance in a way that was “more masculine.” Ballet is often divided by gender. Pyle felt a lack of representation. They felt confused about their identity.
Hidden In History
Pyle researched queer ballet dancers. Pyle was inspired by the people they learned about. Bronislava Nijinska was a ballet choreographer. Nijinska created the ballet Les Bitches. Pyle felt happy and mad. They were happy because there were people like them. They were sad because these people were made invisible.
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889084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Thomas | Sarah Thomas | Sarah Thomas is an American football referee. Thomas is the first woman to be a permanent NFL official. Thomas is breaking gender barriers around her career. Thomas was the first woman to officiate the Super Bowl. She refereed the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, in 2021.
Early Life
Sarah Thomas was raised in Pascagoula Mississippi. She and her brother played sports. She received a scholarship for basketball at the the University of Mobile. Thomas was recorded 5th best in the school for her excellence in basketball. Her statistics over five seasons: 779 points, 411 rebounds, 108 assists, and 192 steals. Thomas was titled Academic All-American at Mobile. She aided her team get to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Tournament. Thomas got a degree in communications and graduated Mobile in 1995.
First Jobs
Thomas was interested in becoming a Football official after college. She went with her older brother to his officiating meeting. She started being an official for grade school, and then high schools in 1999. Thomas officiated a high school state championship game in Mississippi, 2007. Joe Henes, who is a retired official told Gerry Austin, a supervisor of Conference USA’s officials about Thomas and her ability to officiate. Joe Henes recommended she start officiating college football. Austin looked into her skill set and hired Thomas. This made her the first woman to officiate a major college game.
She started working for the NFL in 2015.
Skills
Thomas has good communication skills. She can talk to coaches. She listens to the coach when they are questioning the call. She calms them down. Coaches are confident about her abilities.
References
Living people |
889085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude%20Joyce%20Cran%20Barry | Gertrude Joyce Cran Barry | Gertrude Joyce Cran Barry (1900-1964) was a Scottish lacrosse and field hockey player who lived in the United States. She was inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963. She was inducted into the Scotland Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2015. She was the founder of CRANBARRY Equipment Company. This was the United State’s first equipment company for women’s lacrosse.
Barry came to the United States to teach at a field hockey camp in 1925. She then became a Physical Training Instructor at Wellesley College. Barry figured out that field hockey was bad for posture due to the form of the arched back, and that lacrosse is good for posture because players are running upright. This further promoted more women to play lacrosse.
In 1931, she became the United States Women's Lacrosse Association's (USWLA) first president. She held this role for four years. Barry helped organize the USWLA's first national tournament in 1933 in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1947 she established CRANBARRY Equipment Company. In 1950 she chaired the U.S. Team Selection Committee.
Joyce Cran Barry became the second woman inducted into the US Hall of Fame (besides Margaret Boyd) in 1993. In 1934, a prediction was made by the leaders of New York Women’s Lacrosse Association that lacrosse would be more popular than field hockey.
References
Lacrosse |
889086 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia%20Alvares | Cecilia Alvares | Cecilia Concepcion Alvarez is an American Latina artist. Her work thinks about gender.
Born and raised
Cecilia Alvarez was born April 15, 1950 in National City, California. Jeorge Guillermo Alvarez and Cecilia Alejandra Diego de Alvarez are her parents. Alvarez grew up on the San Diego-Tijuana border. She moved to Canada, and then to Seattle in 1975.
Education
Alvarez attended San Diego State University. She studied sociology. Alvarez later quit university to support her family.
Career
Alvarez is a self taught artist. She makes paintings and public murals. She is part of The Guerrilla Girls art group.
Message behind her art
Alvarez expresses her life experiences through her art. She brings light to silenced voices, she highlights journeys that others overlook. Her art redefines femininity, beauty, and power. She aims to help youth understand the complex topics of our world. Alvarez celebrates her culture and femininity in her art. Her artwork provokes visual conversations.
References
American painters |
889087 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20La%20Flesche%20Picotte | Susan La Flesche Picotte | Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) was the first Native American woman to go to medical school in the United States of America. She graduated as a very skilled doctor and valedictorian of her class, but her rights were still restricted.
La Flesche grew up with seven other siblings, her mother, and her father. Her father was a very important figure in her life and inspired her to be more than what she looked like, and to strive for the best. She decided she wanted to be a doctor after a lady passed away in front of her because a white man didn’t check on her. This made her want to become a doctor and help fight the racial inequalities this world was made out of.
She went to a med school for women in Pennsylvania and graduated very successfully. She was not allowed to vote being a woman and was not allowed to become a US citizen being an Indian. In Addition, Indians were lower class than whites.
Alice Cunningham Fletcher was very kind and helpful despite the racial discrimination. Fletcher helped solicit donations so that she could start her education. Fletcher was a women's rights activist and made a huge impact on La Flesche.
References
Native American people |
889088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yun%20Suknam | Yun Suknam | Yun Suk-nam (born 1939) is a Korean feminist painter and activist. She co-founded October Group (Simwolmoim) in 1985. The October Group is a feminist collective. She worked with other women artists from Korea. Yun collaborated with Kim Dijinsook and Kim Insoon in 1986. They produced an exhibition, called From Half to One. It talked about women’s issues. Mother’s Eye was one of Yun’s earliest exhibitions. It was made of rotting wood scraps. She said that the texture was similar to wrinkled skin. The softness represented her mother. Yun received the Joon-Sup Lee award. She was the first woman to get the award. She earned the Prime Minister’s Prize for Women’s Development in 1997. Yun’s paintings and exhibitions include Seedling of Lights (1997), Pink Room (1997), and To Be Lengthened (2003).
Early Life
Yun Suk-nam is from Manchuria. She was the third child out of six. Yun Beknam was her father. Won Jeungsook was her mother. Yun Beknam founded the first Western theater in Korea. He was a movie director, producer, newspaper writer and historical novelist. Her father died in 1954. Her mother became a street vendor to support the family. They moved back to Korea after the Japanese occupation ended.
Life Before Art
Yun worked at Korean Electrical Company for four years. She went to Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. She studied English literature. Yun had to drop out after two years (1959-1962) because her family didn’t have enough money. She then married and had children.
Career
Yun was questioning her self-identity. She was only a mother and a wife. She became an artist at forty years old. She moved to New York City to learn about printmaking and drawing at the Pratt Institute Graphic Center. She joined the Pratt and the Arts League in the early 1980s.
Yun Suknam admires her mother for being strong and independent. Yun learned that being poor isn’t something to be ashamed about. The subject of her first paintings was her mother. It was her mother’s determination and sacrifice that let them overcome poverty. Yun paints women fighters who fought for independence from Japanese occupation. She started using chaesaekwa in 2011, when she was around 70. She saw a self-portrait of a Joseon time period painter, Yun Duseo and was inspired. Jeong Jeonghwa was an independence activist who she painted. Yun depicted women who were not known, but did substantial actions. Yun focuses on the subject’s eyes. She makes them strong, fierce, and staring at the audience. She says this gives them life.
References
Living people |
889089 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Meyers | Rebecca Meyers | Rebecca Meyers (born November 20, 1994) is a Paralympic swimmer. She is blind and deaf. She has seven world records. Meyers swam in the Paralympics three times. She has also gotten many awards.
Early life
Meyers was born on November 20, 1994. She has Usher Syndrome.
Meyers started swimming in 2000. She was six when she started swimming.
Meyers went to Franklin & Marshall College. She studied world history.
Events and awards
Meyers' best swimming events are 50, 100, and 400 meter freestyle. She also swims the 100 meter Butterfly. Meyers also swims the 200 meter IM (Intermediate Medley) and the 100 meter breaststroke.
Meyers been to the Paralympics three times. She has gone to world championships in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019. She has 10 world championship medals. She has gotten 6 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze medals from the Paralympics.
Meyers got the Swimming Trischa L. Zorn award in 2016, 2018, and 2019. She received the ESPY award in 2015 and 2017. Meyers also got the USADSF award.
References
Living people
1994 births
American Paralympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Baltimore
Paralympic silver medalists
Paralympic bronze medalists
Blind people
Deaf people |
889090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marly%20Gallardo | Marly Gallardo | Marly Gallardo is an Ecuadorian illustrator, who grew up in New York. Gallardo spent her childhood in her parent's restaurant in Ecuador, surrounded by drawings and paintings. After immigrating to the United States, her parents ensured that she would never forget Spanish by speaking the language at home. Art, for her, became a bridge between English and Spanish, whenever she forgot a word. She later went on to art school, where she transitioned from painting to experimenting with Adobe Illustrator, and later became an illustrator. She received a bachelor degree in fine arts from The Rhode Island School of Design.
Art style
Her art style is magical realism. She has illustrated for many different campaigns.
Her illustration work includes many campaigns and editorial publications for The New York Times, the United Nations, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Netflix.
Awards
Her many awards include 2020 Forbes 30 under 30: Art and Style award.
References
Living people |
889091 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Wahpepah | Crystal Wahpepah | Crystal Wahpepah is the first Native American chef on the cooking show Chopped. She also has the first Native American woman owned catering business. She opened her own restaurant with the intention to reclaim Native American cuisine.
References
Chefs |
889092 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuf-Berquin | Neuf-Berquin | Neuf-Berquin (; from ) is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,248 people lived in the commune.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord |
889094 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuytpeene | Zuytpeene | Zuytpeene is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 516 people lived there.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord |
889095 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Hofer | Raphael Hofer | Raphael Hofer (born 14 February 2003) is an Austrian professional footballer. He plays as a forward for Liefering. He also played for the U19 of FC Salzburg in the UEFA Youth League 2021-22.
Career
He started his career with SV Mauerkirchen and then with SV Ried. In 2016 he went on to FC Red Bull Salzburg. He played for the Red Bull Academy in all three stages. In 2021 he went on to FC Liefering. He played his first match for Liefering in July 2021 where got subbed on for Forson Amankwah in the 89th minute.
References
2003 births
Living people
Austrian footballers
Players of FC Liefering
Association football forwards |
889102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naves%2C%20Nord | Naves, Nord | Naves () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 633 people lived there.
Other websites
INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord |
889105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijinsky%20%28movie%29 | Nijinsky (movie) | Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical drama movie directed by Herbert Ross and starring Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, George de la Peña, Carla Fracci, Ronald Pickup, Ronald Lacey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Frederick Jaeger, Jeremy Irons, Siân Phillips. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Other websites
1980 drama movies
1980s biographical movies
1980s LGBT movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
American LGBT movies
Paramount Pictures movies
Movies directed by Herbert Ross |
889113 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanger%20Lane | Hanger Lane | Hanger Lane is a major road in Ealing, London. Most of the road forms the most west part of the A406 North Circular Road. Hanger Lane runs north from the A4020 Uxbridge Road at Ealing Common to the A40 Western Avenue at the Hanger Lane gyratory. This busy junction has the Hanger Lane Underground station in the middle of it. That station serves the Central line. Hanger Lane continues north along the A4005 to Vicar's Bridge and the border with Alperton in the London Borough of Brent.
The road takes its name from Hanger Hill, which is also the name of the area around it. The name comes from the Old English word hangra, meaning a wooded slope.
References
Roads in London |
889120 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s%20Play%20%281972%20movie%29 | Child's Play (1972 movie) | Child's Play is a 1972 American mystery drama movie directed by Sidney Lumet and was based on the 1970 play of the same name by Robert Marasco. It stars James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, David Rounds, Kate Harrington, Tom Leopold, Christopher Man, Paul O'Keefe and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Other websites
1972 drama movies
1970s mystery movies
American mystery movies
American drama movies
Movies based on plays
Movies set in schools
Movies directed by Sidney Lumet
Paramount Pictures movies |
889122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas%20truck%20crash | Chiapas truck crash | On 9 December 2021, a traffic collision occurred in Chiapas, southern Mexico. A truck which contained about 180 illegal immigrants - most of whom were Guatemalans - was being driven to the United States. It crashed into a bridge, killing at least 54 of its occupants.
References
2021 in North America
2020s disasters in North America
21st century in Mexico
Truck crash
Crime in North America
December 2021 events
Disasters in Mexico
Manslaughter
Organized crime |
889127 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatalla%20confusa | Spatalla confusa | Spatalla confusa is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Spatalla and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native to the Western Cape where it occurs in the Cederberg up to the Hottentots Holland Mountains, Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains.
References |
889133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectrohyla%20lacertosa | Plectrohyla lacertosa | The pop-eyed spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla lacertosa) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have only seen it in two places, both in the Sierra Madre mountains in Chiapas. They saw it 1000 to 2134 meters above sea level.
References
Frogs
Animals of North America |
889140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcasted%20by%20HBO%20Kids%20Channel | List of programs broadcasted by HBO Kids Channel | This is a list of television programs that are currently, have formerly, and will broadcast on HBO Kids Channel in the United States.
Upcoming programming
HBO Family Jam/HBO Kids
Crashbox (2022)
Kindergarden (2022)
A Little Curious (2022)
HBO Kids Presents The Bonnie & Ashley and the Pony Unicorn Magical Beast: The Animated series (2022)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2022)
HBO Storybook Musicals (2022)
Classical Baby (2022)
The Mop Show (2022)
Baby Little Dinosaurs in the Jungle Island (2022)
Acquired programming
The Upside Down Show (2022)
Fireman Sam (2022)
Angelina Ballerina (2022)
Bob the Builder (1998 TV series) (2022)
Kipper (2022)
Rubbadubbers (2022)
Roary the Racing Car (2022)
Fifi and the Flowertots (2022)
Pingu (2022)
Bear in the Big Blue House (2022)
PB&J Otter (2022)
JoJo's Circus (2022)
The Koala Brothers (2022)
Rolie Polie Olie (2022)
Feeling Good with JoJo (2022)
Franklin (2022)
Maisy (2022)
Humf (2022)
The Wiggles (2022)
The Doodlebops (2022)
Pic Me (2022)
Holly Hobbie and Friends (2022)
Fred Penner's Place (2022)
Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show (2022)
Yoko! Jakamoto! Toto! (2022)
Connie the Cow (2022)
Dragon (2022)
Theodore Tugboat (2022)
Zoboomafoo (2022)
Toot & Puddle (2022)
Tweenies (2022)
Tiny Planets (2022)
Papa Beaver's Storytime (2022)
Reading Rainbow (2022)
Bananas in Pyjamas (classic) (2022)
Salty Lighthouse (2022)
Fantastic Max (2022)
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2022)
Jim Henson Presents Mother Goose Stories (2022)
Out of the Box (2022)
HBO Family Jam
Stuart Little (January 10, 2022)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (2001) (January 10, 2022)
Dragon Tales (1999) (January 10, 2022)
Pinky Dinky Doo (2006) (January 10, 2022)
I Spy (2002 TV series) (January 10, 2022)
Dexter's Laboratory (January 10, 2022)
2 Stupid Dogs / Super Secret Secret Squirrel (January 10, 2022)
Hong Kong Phooey (January 10, 2022)
Paw Paws (January 10, 2022)
Ed, Edd N Eddy (January 10, 2022)
Mike, Lu & Og (January 10, 2022)
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (January 10, 2022)
Whatever Happened to...Robot Jones (January 10, 2022)
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (January 10, 2022)
Secret Squirrel (January 10, 2022)
The Atom Ant Show (January 1, 2022)
The Powerpuff Girls (January 10, 2022)
Sheep in the Big City (January 10, 2022)
Time Squad (January 10, 2022)
Dynomutt Dog Wonder (January 10, 2022)
Johnny Bravo (January 10, 2022)
Cow and Chicken (January 10, 2022)
Snorks (January 10, 2022)
Pippi Longstocking (January 10, 2022)
Babar (January 10, 2022)
George and Martha (January 10, 2022)
Postman Pat (January 10, 2022)
Magic Cellar (January 10, 2022)
Fraggle Rock (January 10, 2022)
Animated Tales of the World (January 10, 2022)
Anthony Ant (January 10, 2022)
Encyclopedia (January 10, 2022)
Henry's Cat (January 10, 2022)
Rainbow Fish (January 10, 2022)
Seabert (January 10, 2022)
The Adventures of Paddington Bear (January 10, 2022)
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures (January 10, 2022)
The Legend of White Fang (January 10, 2022)
The Little Lulu Show (January 10, 2022)
The Neverending Story (January 10, 2022)
The Storyteller (January 10, 2022)
Short programming
My Favorite Book (January 10, 2022)
Nanalan' (2021)
HBO Kids Play Music Songs with Sarah (2021)
Mascot Interstitial
HBO Kids's Good Morning with Kara (January 10, 2022)HBO Kids's Late Night with Steve (January 10, 2022)
See Also
Lists of television series |
889152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaRace%203 | MegaRace 3 | MegaRace 3 is a 2002 racing/vehicular combat video game Cryo Interactive made for Windows and the PlayStation 2. MegaRace 3 is the third MegaRace game, after MegaRace and MegaRace 2, and the first one with full 3D graphics. Christian Erickson plays Lance Boyle, the host.
Microïds, Cryo Interactive's owner, released the game again on GOG.com on 2 June 2009.
Reception
References
Other websites
at Microïds (PC) (archived from the original)
2002 video games
Racing video games
Windows games
PlayStation 2 games |
889168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20outbreak%20of%20December%2010%E2%80%9311%2C%202021 | Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 | A severe weather and tornado outbreak happened between December 10 and 11, 2021. In the outbreak, there were just under 70 tornadoes involved, along with severe thunderstorms traveled across the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee.
Across Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Illinois, the tornado sequence might have carved a path of almost 250 miles. If confirmed, that may have broken the record of the 1925 Tri-State tornado as the longest such event on record. The starting report on several tornadoes is that they were EF4.
89 people were confirmed killed by the outbreak. The Governor of Kentucky (at that time) stated that beyond seventy people might have been killed in the state alone.
References
2021 disasters in the United States
December 2021 events
Natural disasters in the United States
December 10–11, 2021
Outbreak of December 10–11, 2021
sah:Кентукки сиригэр Ахсынньы 11 күнүгэр 2021 Торнадо түһүүтэ |
889172 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%20Vicksburg%2C%20Mississippi%20tornado | 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado | A strong tornado struck Vicksburg, Mississippi and areas nearby during the evening of December 5, 1953. The storm ran through the city at right after 5:30 pm that Saturday evening. The event killed 38 people. It was then the fourth deadliest tornado in the history of the state. It also injured almost 270. Damage totaled $25 million at the time.
The tornado that went through Vicksburg was estimated officially as an F5. That rating, however, is questionable. That's because the property destroyed was frail and weak. Some people call this tornado likely an F4 instead of an F5.
References
Tornadoes in the United States
Natural disasters in the United States
December events
History of Mississippi
1950s in the United States |
889178 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Comyn%20III | John Comyn III | John Comyn III (1274-1306) was a Scottish noble killed in 1306 by Robert the Bruce as Comyn was a rival for the throne.
Murder
On 10 February 1306 at Greyfriars in Dumfries, Scotland. Comyn was murdered by Robert the Bruce and Roger de Kirkpatrick, due to Comyn claiming the throne due to his claim that he is descended from a previous Scottish king, Donald III (r. 1093-1094, 1094-1097).
References
1270s births
1300s deaths |
889192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbitz | Selbitz | Selbitz is a town in Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 12 km west of Hof.
References
Hof (district) |
889194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparneck | Sparneck | Sparneck is a municipality in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
The market town of Sparneck is at an average height of in the Pfarrbach valley, which makes the larger part of the area. The Saxon Saale river flows through this valley in a north direction. Towards the east the 877 metre high Waldstein ridge rises, the source of the Saale is on its slopes. It forms the natural boundary with the neighbouring district of Wunsiedel.
References
Hof (district) |
889195 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stammbach | Stammbach | Stammbach is a market town and municipality in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.
References
Hof (district) |
889197 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B6pen | Töpen | Töpen is a municipality in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.
References
Other websites
Hof (district) |
889198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trogen%2C%20Bavaria | Trogen, Bavaria | Trogen is a municipality in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
Trogen is in between hills in a valley.
The Town is about six kilometers northeast of the county seat Hof (Saale) on the Bundesautobahn 72 (junction 3 Hof / Töpen), and Bundesautobahn 93 (junction 2 Hof-East) and the federal highway B173.
The community is in the Bavarian part of Vogtland. It is part of the district of Hof and thus also of the administrative region of Upper Franconia (Oberfranken).
The neighboring village Feilitzsch is only a few hundred meters away from Trogen.
References
Hof (district) |
889205 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20Bushwhackers | Arizona Bushwhackers | Arizona Bushwhackers is a 1968 American western movie directed by Lesley Selander and starring Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Scott Brady, Marilyn Maxwell, Montie Montana. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Other websites
1968 movies
1960s western movies
American western movies
Movies directed by Lesley Selander
Paramount Pictures movies |
889207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Fib | King Fib | King Fib (c. 822 BCE - c. 691 BCE) was King of Fib, allegedly for 24 years, from 715 BCE until 691 BCE
Fictional characters |
889211 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20and%20Round%20the%20Garden | Round and Round the Garden | Round and round the garden is a nursery rhyme for infants and toddlers. Usualy it is accompanied by fingerplay, such as touching and tickling.
Rhyme
The version given by The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes is:
This rhyme is probably fairly recent.
Origins
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. Since teddy bears were not common before the twentieth century it is likely fairly recent in its current form. Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there":
References
Children's literature |
889219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batticaloa%20%28disambiguation%29 | Batticaloa (disambiguation) | Batticaloa may refer to:
Batticaloa, a city in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Batticaloa District, a district in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka |
889239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectrohyla%20teuchestes | Plectrohyla teuchestes | The Alta Verapaz spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla teuchestes) is a frog that lives in Guatemala. Scientists have only seen it in one place. It was in the Sierra de Xucaneb in eastern Guatemala at 1000 meters above sea level.
References
Frogs
Animals of North America |
889253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella%20effect | Cinderella effect | Cinderella effect is the name for a phenomenon found in psychology: Child abuse and mistreatment is more common in families with stepparents.
It is named after the fairy tale Cinderella, where a girl gets mistreated by her stepsisters and stepmother. Psychologists think this shows a bias towards kin. A person has fewer incentives to invest in a child that is not his or her direct offspring.
P.D. Scott first used the term Cinderella effect, in a study he did in 1973: He studied 29 cases of babies who were beaten to death in anger; he found that in 15 cases, the baby's stepfather was the killer.
References
Books
Psychology
Child abuse |
889254 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestgore.com | Bestgore.com | bestgore.com was a Canadian shock site owned by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek, the website was founded in 2008 and went defunct in 2020.
The site received media attention in 2012 for a video depicting the murder of Jun Lin committed by Luka Magnotta. As a result, the owner Marek was arrested and charged.
Shock sites
2008 establishments in Canada
2020 disestablishments |
889258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20Cannucciari | Clara Cannucciari | Clara Cannucciari (née Bonfanti; August 18, 1915 – November 29, 2013) hosted the web series Great Depression Cooking with Clara and wrote the book Clara's Kitchen.
Life
Clara was born in Melrose Park, Illinois on August 18, 1915 to Giuseppe and Giuseppina Bonfanti, who recently moved from Sicily. The family had a bad life during the Great Depression, but ended up safe and healthy because Giuseppina made their meals last longer.
In 2007, her grandson Christopher started making the web series Great Depression Cooking with Clara, in which she made those meals. She retired shortly after her 96th birthday. Their last video, Fried Fish, was posted on April 18, 2019. On March 25, 2020, Christopher said he would start uploading more videos of Clara.
Death
Clara died on November 29, 2013 at 98 years old. Her daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren were still alive.
References
Other websites
Great Depression Cooking with Clara's official website
Christopher Cannucciari's official website
1915 births
2013 deaths
American chefs
American YouTubers
Writers from Illinois |
889261 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Family%20%28Amisani%29 | Holy Family (Amisani) | Holy family (also known as Sacra famiglia) is a 20th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Giuseppe Amisani. He painted it in 1910. It is part of the collection at the beginning of the Carrara Academy and then acquired of the Museum of Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo) in Bergamo, Italy.
Related pages
Giuseppe Amisani
References
Other websites
Sacra famiglia, Giuseppe Amisani, Beni culturali, inv.n. 0302024712
Sacra famiglia, Giuseppe Amisani, Beni culturali
20th-century paintings
Paintings in Brescia
Paintings by Giuseppe Amisani |
889271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Model%20of%20Villa%20Cedri%20%28Amisani%29 | The Model of Villa Cedri (Amisani) | The Model of Villa Cedri (also known as La Modella di Villa Cedri) is a 20th-century painted in oil by the italian painter Giuseppe Amisani. He painted it in 1920. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Civic Museum of Villa Cedri in Bellinzona, Swiss.
Related pages
Giuseppe Amisani
References
Other websites
Giuseppe Amisani, La Modella, Museo Civico di Villa Cedri, Swiss
20th-century paintings
Paintings in Switzerland
Paintings by Giuseppe Amisani |
889276 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy | Pussy | Pussy could mean:
Cat, a feline animal
Vagina, a female body part
Vulva, a female body part
English profanity |
889277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20block | City block | A city block is a block of houses, in a built up area. Usually, it is delimited by roads, pathways, or by geographical features, such as a railway line or a river. It consists of several land lots which are directly next to each other, and usually privately owned.
A city block is a typical form of inner-city design. Commonly, multi-storey apartment buildings, semi-detatched houses, office blocks, or mixed-use houses make up the elements of a city block. As all the houses touch each other, this is known as a closed form.
In the suburbs, there is more space, and the buildings don't usually touch each other. This is known as an open form.
In Europe, cities have grown over centuries, and their layout is different from that of a planned city. As a result, the city block in a planned city also looks different.
Origin
The design of city blocks started with the emergence of cities, in the Middle Ages. Medieval Hanseatic cities already used city blocks. The design can also be found in baroque inner cities, such as the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam. It is typical of absolutist urban development and the tenement districts of major German cities that were built after 1870 during the Wilhelminian era. In response to the housing shortage of the 1920s, housing associations built apartment blocks with large courtyards and small apartments. At the same time, however, city planners were also looking for alternatives to the perimeter block development that was common at the time. What they did was build blocks perpendicular to the road; they would then build footpaths as access. This has the benefit that all apartments get the same amount of sunshine. It has the drawback, that larger arrangements look monontonus.This kind of city planning was widespread during the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War, in the 1950s and 1960s. Another benefit of this model is that neighborhoods have a better airflow.
During the Middle Ages, city blocks were often simply chaining buildings, in an unplanned way.
Even in antiquity , there were planned cities. Examples of this are the city of Miletus, or the model of a Roman city, which both used a regular grid layout. During the Baroque era, citty planning was common: Cities were planned with big geometric layouts, later they were divided into different land lots, before being built.
City blocks are also used for collecting statistical data on the population structure . When visualizing 3D city models, people oftenuse simplified solid bodies that are supposed to correspond to the real building blocks.
Urban design |
889278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrolite | Acrolite | The Acrolite is a series of Canadian amateur-build aircraft. preduced by Acrolite aircraft. Its first flight was in October of 1986.
Variants
Acrolite 1A
Single-seat biplane for the Canadian basic ultralight category, first flown in October 1986. Plans no longer available. The prototype was originally powered by a 38 hp (28 kW) Kawasaki 440 and later by a 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447 two-strokes powerplant.
Acrolite 1B
Single-seat biplane for sportsman aerobatics. In addition to the standard wooden wing, optional 2024-T3 aluminium sheet wings can be built. The recommended engine is the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL, although the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582or the 120 hp (89 kW) Rotax 618 two-strokes can be used as well.
Acrolite 1C
Single-seat biplane for sportsman aerobatics, with performance improvements over the 1B. Engines include 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582, 74 hp (55 kW), Hirth F30 120 hp (89 kW) Rotax 618 two-strokes and the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL, the 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant.
Acrolite 1M
Single-seat high-wing, strut-braced monoplane. Engines include 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447, 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 and the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-strokes or other similar powerplants. Acrolight Aircraft reports that no prototype has been completed or flown by September 2012.
Acrolite 1T
Single-seat triplane for sportsman aerobatics, with wings covered with epoxy fiberglass sheet or optionally plywood. Ailerons are only fitted to the middle wing. Engines include 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447, 50 hp (37 kW) Rotax 503 and the 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-stroke powerplants.
Acrolite 2M
Two seats in tandem, high-wing strut-braced monoplane intended for the Canadian advanced ultralight category and American light-sport aircraft category, first flown in June 1994. Engines include 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582, 74 hp (55 kW) Rotax 618 two-strokes and the 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL and 85 hp (63 kW) Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplants. As of August 2012, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft or on Transport Canada's list of advanced ultralights.
Aircraft |
889280 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poeciliidae | Poeciliidae | The Poeciliidae are a family of fish of the order Cyprinodontiformes, the tooth-carps. They live in fresh water. Many live-bearing aquarium fish, such as the guppy, molly, platy, and swordtail are in Poeciliidae. These fish are from the United States to north of Río de la Plata, Argentina, and Africa, including Madagascar. Human beings took these fish to many other parts of the world and set them free there, so they have become invasive species. Today, poeciliid fish live in all tropical and subtropical parts of planet Earth. People have seen fish in the genuses Poecilia and Gambusia in hot spring pools as far north as Banff, Alberta in Canada.
Live-bearing
Although all fish in Poeciliidae are called "live bearers" (viviparous), some species do lay eggs with external fertilization. All African fish in Poeciliidae lay eggs. Almost all the American Poeciliidae bear live young (except for fish in the genus Tomeurus).
Poeciliidae has three subfamilies. The fish in subfamily Aplocheilichthyinae live only in Africa. Most Poeciliinae live in the Americas (except for Rhexipanchax, which lives in Africa). Most fish in Procatopodinae live in Africa (Fluviphylax and Pseudopoecilia live in South America). Scientists say this means the ancestors of Poeciliidae fish the split between Africa and South America 100 million years ago, and that fish that went to South America evolved to bear live young after they got there. Poeciliids came to North America through the Antilles. They were able to do this because the Antilles and North America were connected 44 million years ago. Poeciliids then moved to Central America by the Aves land bridge on the Caribbean Plate. When South America connected to Central America three million years ago, some of the fish moved further south, but South American species did not move north into Central America.
The live-bearing species fish can be different from each other depending on how much the mother fish does for the developing larvae. Many fish in the family Poeciliidae are lecithotrophic (the mother provisions the oocyte with all the resources it needs prior to fertilization, so the egg is independent of the mother), but others are matrotrophic ("mother feeding": the mother provides the majority of resources to the developing offspring after fertilization). Lecithotrophy and matrotrophy are not always completely separate. Most scientific studies use a matrotrophy index (MI) to say how matrotrophic an animal is. This uses the dry mass of fully developed offspring (how much they weigh when they are not wet) divided by the dry mass of a fertilized egg.
Fish in the genus Poeciliopsis, for example, have many different adaptations. Poeciliopsis monacha, P. lucida, and P. prolifica are part of the same group in that genus. However, they have three different ways of helping baby fish: P. monacha is lecithotrophic because it does not give its babies any resources after fertilization. The mother fish swims around with her eggs in a sac but that is all. P. lucida shows a middle level of matrotrophy. This means that the eggs's metabolism can change the mother's metabolism, so some food chemicals go back and forth. P. prolifica is very matrotrophic. The mother fish gives the eggs almost all of the food chemicals they need after fertilization. This level of matrotrophy allows Poeciliopsis to carry several groups of eggs that were start at different times. This is called superfetation.
Because the mother fish only has so much space in her body for developing embryos, viviparity reduces brood size. Superfetation can compensate for this loss by keeping embryos at various stages and sizes during development.
P. elongata, P. turneri, and P. presidionis form an outgroup to the P. monacha, P.lucida, and P. prolifica group. These three fish are very matrotrophic. In 1947, C. L. Turner said the follicular cells of P. turneri were "pseudo-placenta, pseudo-chorion, and pseudo-allantois." The greater degree of matrotrophy in a species is linked with a higher degree of placentation, including "a thicker maternal follicle, higher degree of vascularization, and greater number of villi in the placenta."
Scientists argue about why Poeciliid fish developed to give their young eggs food chemicals inside their bodies. There are two groups of ideas, adaptive hypotheses and conflict hypotheses. Adaptive ideas, including the locomotor hypothesis, Trexler-DeAngelis Model (reproductive allotment), and life-history facilitation, say that the fish's placenta evolved to help another advantage to evolve. The conflict hypothesis says the placenta is a nonadaptive byproduct of genetic tug-of-war between the mother and the eggs.
Subfamilies and tribes
The family has the following subfamilies and tribes:
Subfamily Aplocheilichythinae Myers, 1928 (Banded lampeyes)
Genus Aplocheilichthys Bleeker, 1863
Subfamily Procatopodinae Fowler, 1916 (Lampeyes)
Tribe Fluviphylacini Roberts, 1970
Genus Fluviphylax Whitley, 1920
Tribe Procatopodini Fowler, 1916
Genus Laciris Huber, 1981
Genus Micropanchax Myers, 1924
Genus Lacustricola Myers, 1924
Genus Poropanchax Clausen, 1967
Genus Platypanchax Ahl, 1928
Genus Lamprichthys Regan 1911
Genus Pantanodon Myers, 1955
Genus Hypsopanchax Myers, 1924
Genus Procatopus Boulenger, 1904
Genus Plataplochilus Ahl, 1928
Genus Rhexipanchax Huber, 1999
Subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte, 1831 (Livebearers)
Tribe Alfarini Hubbs, 1924
Genus Alfaro Meek, 1912
Tribe Gambusini Gill, 1889
Genus Belonesox Kner, 1860
Genus Brachyrhaphis Regan, 1913
Genus Gambusia Poey, 1854
Genus Heterophallus Regan, 1914
Tribe Heterandriini Hubbs, 1924
Genus Heterandria Agassiz, 1853
Genus Neoheterandria Henn 1916
Genus Poeciliopsis Regan 1913
Genus Priapichthys Regan 1913
Genus Pseudopoecilia Regan 1913
Genus Xenophallus Hubbs, 1924
Tribe Poeciliini Bonaparte, 1831
Genus Limia Poey, 1854
Genus Micropoecilia Hubbs, 1926
Genus Pamphorichthys Regan, 1913
Genus Phallichthys Hubbs, 1924
Genus Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Genus Xiphophorus Heckel, 1848
Tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, 1924
Genus Cnesterodon Garman, 1895
Genus Phalloceros Eigenmann, 1907
Genus Phalloptychus Eigenmann, 1907
Genus Phallotorynus Henn, 1916
Genus Tomeurus Eigenmann, 1909
Tribe Scolichthyini Rosen, 1967
Genus Scolichthys Rosen, 1967
Tribe Xenodexini Hubbs, 1950
Genus Xenodexia Hubbs, 1950
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889284 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Stewart%2C%20Duke%20of%20Rothesay | David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay | David Stewart (1378-1402) was a Scottish politician who made himself unpopular in the late 1390s, and was imprisoned in Falkland Palace in early 1402 and died that year under mysterious circumstances.
1378 births 1402 deaths |
889286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi | Ferengi | The Ferengi are a fictional group of space people on Star Trek. They first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. They are also in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise.
Appearance
The Ferengi are shorter than humans. They have bald heads, large ears and small teeth. They have noses with deep ridges in them. Most Ferengi are played by short actors in heavy makeup.
Many male Ferengi characters wear colorful clothes and some have hats that cover the backs of their heads but not the tops of their heads.
Culture
The Ferengi have a very Capitalist culture. Ferengi think greed is good. In the Ferengi culture, men are supposed to gain wealth. There is a saying: "A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all." Money, payment, and contracts are a big part of life. For example, a guest in a house can be charged admission.
The Ferengi home planet is called Ferenginar. The capital city has a Tower of Commerce that holds the leader's office. The leader of the Ferengi is called the Grand Nagus. The Ferengi call themselves "The Ferengi Alliance," not "Empire" or "Federation."
Ferengi culture is very male-dominated. Women are not supposed to wear clothes or appear in public. During the Deep Space Nine run, a Ferengi feminist named Ishka becomes the Grand Nagus's chief financial advisor. She helps Ferengi women gain more rights.
In the Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men," three characters talk about the Ferengi afterlife. It has reincarnation. Ferengi believe that if they have lived well, they will bid on new lives, like in an auction. If they have lived badly, they will go to the Vault of Eternal Destitution.
Rules of Acquisition
Ferengi characters on Star Trek often say the Rules of Acquisition. They are similar to proverbs. They are about how to get (acquire) wealth. Some of the Rules are "War is good for business," "Peace is good for business," "Never have sex with the boss' sister," and "Greed is eternal." There are 285 Rules of Acquisition.
Origin
The word "Ferengi" comes from the Persian word for "foreigner," usually a Westerner. The Star Trek writers wanted a race of people they could use to tell stories about capitalism and 20th and 21st century Western culture.
The first idea for the Ferengi was that they would be the main enemy aliens in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they were not scary enough. After that, the writers used the Ferengi for comic relief, to tell the funny parts of their stories.
Criticism
Some critics have said the Ferengi are too much like stereotypes of Jews.
Important characters
There are five very important Ferengi characters in Star Trek, and all of them appear in Deep Space Nine:
Quark runs a bar on the Deep Space Nine space station. Actor Armin Shimerman played Quark.
Rom is Quark's brother. He is not good at getting wealth, so other Ferengi think he is a failure. Actor Max Grodénchik played Rom.
Nog is Rom's son. He decides to join Starfleet because he knows he is not good at business. Actor Aron Eisenberg played Nog.
Grand Nagus Zek was played by Wallace Shawn.
Ishka is Quark and Rom's mother. She was played by more than one actor during the show.
Liquidator Brunt, an agent of the Ferengi Alliance government who hates Quark.
Gala, Quark and Rom's cousin who sells weapons.
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Fictional races
Star Trek |
889287 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tom%20and%20Jerry%20Theatrical%20and%20Direct-to-video%20movies | List of Tom and Jerry Theatrical and Direct-to-video movies | This is a list of feature length movies of the Tom and Jerry franchise. an comedy movie franchise based on the short series of the same name, all of the movies were produced for 1-16 to upcoming related. started in 1992, and various movies involving with Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse to various crazy adventurous motifs of the surrounded evil antagonists.
Warner Bros. movies
Movies
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
In this movie, Tom and Jerry work together with Sherlock Holmes to stop Professor Moriarty from stealing the Crown Jewels during a Solar Eclipse.
Voice cast
Billy West and Joe Alaskey (Archive audio; Uncredited) - Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse
Michael York as Sherlock Holmes
Malcolm McDowell as Professor Moriarty
John Rhys-Davies as Dr. Watson
Grey DeLisle as Red
Kath Soucie as Tuffy
Jeff Bergman as Butch and Droopy
Phil LaMarr as Spike and Policeman
Greg Ellis as Tin and Sergeant
Jess Harnell as Pan and Brett Jeremy
Richard McGonagle as Alley and First Policeman
Tom Kenny as various characters
Tom and Jerry and The Wizard of Oz
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse
Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure
Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon
Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
Voice cast
Grey Griffin as Dorothy Gale
Jason Alexander as Nome King (Mr. Bibb)
Amy Pemberton as Dorothy's singing voice and The Mouse Queen
Joe Alaskey as The Wizard of Oz, Butch, Droopy
Michael Gough as Scarecrow (Hunk)
Rob Paulsen as Tin Man (Hickory)
Todd Stashwick as Cowardly Lion (Zeke)
Frances Conroy as Aunt Em and Glinda
Laraine Newman as The Wicked Witch of the West. Appeared in the stock footage.
Stephen Root as Uncle Henry
Kath Soucie as Tuffy the Munchkin Mouse, Tractor
Andrea Martin as Hungry Tiger
James Monroe Iglehart as Jitterbug (Calvin Carney)
Spike Brandt as Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse (uncredited), Spike
Reception
Renee Schonfeld of Common Sense Media rated it 3 out of 5 stars, saying "By blending solid new musical numbers with the old Oz favorites and including inventive new characters, Spike Brandt, Tony Cerone, and company have made this sequel funny and original."
Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Tom and Jerry (2021 movie)
Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up!
Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! is an upcoming 2022 animated direct-to-video movie starring Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
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1992 establishments
Series of movies
Tom and Jerry |
889288 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubigny-au-Bac | Aubigny-au-Bac | Aubigny-au-Bac () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,172 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubry-du-Hainaut | Aubry-du-Hainaut | Aubry-du-Hainaut () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,706 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auby | Auby | Auby () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 7,256 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auchy-lez-Orchies | Auchy-lez-Orchies | Auchy-lez-Orchies () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 1,509 people lived there.
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INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord |
889292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audignies | Audignies | Audignies () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 369 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Chu | Amy Chu | Amy Chu is a Chinese American comic writer. She started comic writing at 45 after a surprising career path. The comic industry was mostly men when Amy started. But, she has shown that women can be successful in comics too. Amy has worked for DC and Marvel. She is a role model in many ways.
Early Life/Personal Life
Amy Chu was born in Iowa. She is Chinese American. She was one of the only Asian kids in town. Because of this, she didn’t feel like she belonged. She was never interested in comics. Her dream growing up was to be a physicist. In interviews, she says she was very nerdy. Amy was on the chess team and the math team. She wanted to play on the soccer team, too. However, Amy’s school did not have a team for girls. They also would not let her play on the boys’ team. So, her parents sued and won. But even though she was finally on the soccer team, other teams would not play with her.
Amy lives in Princeton, New Jersey now. She is a mother of two children. They play soccer. She likes to shop, play video games, and have fun with Legos. She also enjoys drinking coffee and whiskey.
Education
Amy was part of a joint program with MIT and Wellesley. She was one of the only women doing it. She got a degree in Architecture. She also got a degree in East Asian Studies. Later on in her life, Amy went to Harvard Business School. Years later, she took a course in creative/comic writing.
Career
Amy did graphic design jobs in college. Later, she took on consulting jobs. She even had a job in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong she worked at the Macau tourism office. Pansy Ho was her boss. Amy went back to America to go to business school. She then was a real consultant. She worked for biotech companies. Amy reunited with Georgia Lee. Georgia was an old friend of Amy. She also graduated from Harvard. Georgia made films. She also wrote scripts for television. Georgia asked for Amy’s help. She wanted to start a company. Georgia wanted to encourage girls to be interested in comics. Comics are often just for boys. The company would change that. Amy agreed. They co-founded Alpha Girls Comics together. Amy decided to take a class in comic writing. She was the only female taking the class. It did not feel like she was welcome. But, people loved the stories she wrote. Soon Amy became a professional comic book writer. She went on to work for big name companies like DC and Marvel.
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889294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude%20Abbott | Maude Abbott | Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (1868) was a pediatrician and cardiologist. She wrote the Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease. She studied and documented the hearts from cyanotic patients. She was one of the first women to get a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University.
Early Life and Family
Maude Abbott was born in St. Andrews East, Quebec. She was abandoned by her father at a young age. Her mother died from tuberculosis when she was young. Maude Abbott and her sister, Alice, were adopted by her 62 year old grandmother.
School
Maude Abbott got a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University. She was one of the first women to get a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University. She went to Bishop’s College for medical school because McGill rejected her for her sex. After she graduated college, she went to London and Vienna for two years to study.
Career
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889295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whetu%20Tirikatene-Sullivan | Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan | Tini "Whetu" Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan was a New Zealand politician.
Whetu Titikatene-Sullivan
Whetu Titikatene-Sullivan was the longest serving MP for New Zealand. She won the Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Whetu was one of the finest fencers in New Zealand. Whetu was one of few women to give an oration at Ratana Pa.
Whetu’s father was a former Member of Parliament. She had a husband named Denis Sullivan who was a nuclear physicist. They both had three children named May-Ana (born in 1970), Lisa Marie (born in 1972), and Tirikatene (1974). Whetu’s second child, Lisa Marie, died three months after she was born. Whetu had English and Ngati ancestry. When Whetu was young, she was cared for by her grandmother. Whetu gave birth while holding her position in office and believed strongly in combining her career with good parenting.
Whetu started her education at Rangiora High School. She was considered a leader in Rangiora High School. She attended Wellington East Girls College. Whetu got her BA and a diploma at Victoria University in Wellington. She completed her thesis but was did not present it. Whetu got a Ph.D. in political science.
Whetu was a dancing champion in New Zealand. She also was a legendary female fencer in the 1960s. Whetu was a titleholder for Ballroom dancing and American dancing. Whetu owned a boutique. Her boutique sold traditional Maori clothes and Polynesian inspired clothing. She was a role model for young people into fashion.
When Whetu was 20, she was told that she had tuberculosis. The doctors thought that it was caused by exposure to too many people, a busy schedule, and stress. Whetu advocated for other patients while she was in the hospital.
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889296 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulnoye-Aymeries | Aulnoye-Aymeries | Aulnoye-Aymeries () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 8,767 people lived there.
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INSEE commune file
Communes in Nord |
889297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 7,280 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avelin | Avelin | Avelin () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 2,666 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889299 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janaki%20Ammal | Janaki Ammal | Janaki Ammal was the first Indian female botanist. She was the first to receive her masters in science. She was the first-known woman to get a Ph.D. in Botany in the United States. She was the first to recieve the Padma Shri award. Ammal was also known as the sugar cane queen. She worked on developing sweeter sugar cane varieties.
Birth
Janaki Ammal was born in 1897. She was born in a state called Kerala in India. She was the tenth person in her family. She had 19 brothers and 19 sisters. Her father was a judge. He also took care of the garden. This sparked Ammal’s love for botany.
Early Career
Ammal taught for three years at a Women’s Christian College. Then she was invited to the University of Michigan. She joined the botany division. She was an immigrant. She was held at Ellis Island. She earned her masters in science. 6 years later she received her doctorate. Ammal was the first woman to ever receive her doctorate degree in botany in the US.
Research
Ammal worked at the Sugar Cane Breeding Institute. Ammal helped the institute to create and support sweeter sugar cane. This was significant because they no longer had to rely on imports from other countries. Ammal moved to Norfolk, England. She worked at the John Innes Institute. She and C.D. Darlington co-authored Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants. Ammal was recommended to work at the Royal Horticulture Society. She became a paid cytologist. She worked on a medication that doubles a plant’s chromosomes. This makes the plant grow quicker and larger. One shrub was named after her. The shrub was called Mongolia Kobus Janaki Ammal.
Return to India
Ammal returned to India. She did so at the request of the prime minister. She worked on improving India’s agriculture and preserving indigenous plants.
Late Career
She focused on helping Save Silent Valley. Ammal’s efforts were successful. The forest was no longer going to be flooded. Ammal died months earlier. She died at the age of 87.
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889300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Rodr%C3%ADguez%20Tr%C3%ADas | Helen Rodríguez Trías | Helen Rodríguez Trías was a Puerto Rican pediatrician and women's rights activist. She was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association. In 2001 she was awarded the Presidential Citizen’s Medal.
She was born in Puerto Rico. She moved to New York at age ten. At school she was treated poorly because of her race. Helen liked science and people.
She studied medicine in Puerto Rico. Helen became a mother. She graduated when she was thirty one years old. Helen opened a place to take newborn babies if they are ill. This led to the newborn death rate in Puerto Rico decreasing by fifty percent.
She moved back to New York. Helen worked for organizations and movements. She specialized in pediatrics. She saw a mother pass away from an abortion. Helen began fighting for abortion and sterilization rights.
Helen Rodríguez Trías has saved many people, from newborns to women. She will be remembered because of all of her hard work.
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889302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri%20L.%20Smith | Sherri L. Smith | Sherri L. Smith is an American novelist with many awards. She is also a comic book illustrator. She worked on stop motion animation in films.
Early life
Smith was born in Chicago. She spent most of her life in Staten Island after her parents got divorced. She moved from coast to coast. In New York she attended NYU to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film. She also went to San Francisco State University to study Business Administration. She finally graduated from California State University with an M.A. in Creative Writing.
Career
Film
Smith worked on stop motion animation. She worked on Tim Burton’s ‘Mars Attacks!’ She had a three year contract with Disney.
Construction
Smith she moved to Los Angeles. She began to work in a construction company, constructing monsters, aliens, and dead people for movies.
Comics
In Los Angeles, Smith started to work more on her comics. She got a job at Bongo Comics. Then, she started to pursue her dream of writing a novel.
Writing
She is known for writing novels about teenage misfits. Her writing is intricate. Smith has written many novels, including Lucy the Giant, Flygirl, Orleans, The Blossom and the Firefly, Pasadena, Sparrow, and Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet.
Awards
Smith's novels have won a variety of awards. Flygirl was considered by the Washington Post as the best book of 2012. New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, American Library Association, and many other organizations have given Smith awards for her books.
Books
Lucy the Giant
Sparrow
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
Flygirl
Orleans
The Toymaker’s Apprentice
Pasadena
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?
The Blossom and the Firefly
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Living people |
889303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avesnelles | Avesnelles | Avesnelles () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 2,433 people lived there.
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Communes in Nord |
889305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20K.%20Shaw | Taylor K. Shaw | Taylor K. Shaw is the founder and CEO of Black Women Animate. She was recognized as one of Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30." She had a dream to make an animation company that had more female black animators. She noticed a lack of black women in the animation industry. It took her months of hiring to find animators. Then she made Black Women Animate.
Black Women Animate
Black Women Animate is an animation company. Their animators are black women. It is a place where black women can have more opportunities in the animation industry. It was founded by Taylor Shaw in 2017. The company makes original content. It also collaborates with other big animation studios like Disney. They have also gotten an award. They have an animation boot camp. BWA will most likely extend their boot camp. They will also hire more black women and continue animating.
Not many people would hire black animators. This company helped a lot of struggling animators.
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889306 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anette%20Hosoi | Anette Hosoi | Anette E. "Peko" Hosoi is an American engineer. Hosoi is a sports engineer. She was one of the first female faculty at Harvey Mudd College. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the Associate Dean of Engineering.
Education
Hosoi received her Bachelor's degree at Princeton. She also received her Master's degree and PhD at the University of Chicago.
Career
Hosoi has so many passions to pursue. Her research contributions contain fluid dynamics, biomechanics and bio-inspired design. She is an expert in “soft robotics.” Her work is used by physicists, biologists, roboticists.
She has many passions in sports, engineering and mathematics. Anette Hosoi joined Harvey Mudd College in 2001. She was one of the first female employees. Hosoi was a role model to many females. Later on, Harvey Mudd became much more open to women. In 2002 Hosoi joined the Mechanical Engineering program at MIT as an assistant professor as well as a mathematics professor.
Engineering
Hosoi pursued her passion for engineering by becoming a professor of mechanical engineering as well as the associate dean of MITs school of Engineering. She displayed her love for engineering while biking. She is always ready to jump into fixing problems.
Sports
Hosoi enjoyed sports and athletics. She is an intense mountain biker. From fixing her bike in the middle of mountain biking to inventing solutions to problems during the Olympics, Hosoi can do the impossible.
Mathematics
Hosoi has always found mathematics to be extraordinary. She started out as one of the first women professors of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and eventually became a mathematics professor at MIT.
Sports Lab
Hosoi founded the MIT Sports Lab which solves the physics behind worldwide athletic accomplishments. Here they apply engineering and mathematics to solve problems in the sports domain as well as using engineering to help elevate sports performances.
Awards & Accomplishments
Hosoi is the professor and associate department head for operations in MITs Department of Mechanical Engineering. She has also received awards like the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Bose Award for Excellence in Teachings and the Jacob P. Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award.
Women Leadership
As one of the first female recruits at Harvey Mudd, Hosoi added value as a female role model in which others could look up to. Many more female students approached her office as a safe space that they belong in. This shows the necessity of female teachers, role models and female leadership.
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889308 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Hui | Rebecca Hui | Rebecca Hui is an American activist and the CEO of Roots Studio. Hui fights against cultural appropriation in fashion, or when fashion businesses stealing patterns and designs from other cultures. Many famous businesses believe her work is important. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 member, Chanel Foundation recipient, Cartier Women's Initiative Laureate, and an Echoing Green Fellow. Her work has also been written about in many magazines like Teen Vogue, VogueBusiness, and Business of Fashion.
Childhood
Rebecca Hui’s father was a professor. His work caused their family to move to new places. They moved about nine times during Hui’s childhood around the areas Hong Kong, New Jersey, and Arizona. Because there was a lot of moving around, she gained the ability to be able to adapt quickly to fit in. She also believed that her skill to pick up tiny differences between different communities came from her childhood.
Following Cows in Gujarat, India
In her sophomore year at University of California, Berkeley, she was feeling bad about not attending art school. A friend helped her get an internship at an architecture company in Gujarat, India. Her boss encouraged her to study Indian culture so she followed cows. Hui was surprised to learn that cows are very important in India. She became interested in the relationship between humans and animals because of her roommate. Her roommate was a Jain. Jainism believes in being kind and respectful to animals. Because of her roommate's kindness towards animals, Hui felt the same. While following cows she noticed that the relationship between cows and humans were very different in different areas. In rural areas, cows are common and are important for milk and farms. In cities they are used for commercial activity and sometimes are harmed by humans. Hui believes that protection of animals can help public policy. She has also tried studying elephants and leopards. During this time, she discovered that buildings were considered more important than wildlife was. She started to believe that animals were very important to keeping ecosystems alive that humans depend on.
Roots Studio
Roots Studio is a New York based startup created by Rebecca Hui. It designs things influenced by Indigenous artists with two goals in mind. Their first goal is to give back the appreciation, credit and respect that the Indigenous artists deserve. Their second goal is to stop the cycle of cultural appropriation. Rebecca has been working with minority and Indigenous artists for the last ten years. She discovered that because of the lack of money and education, these artists were becoming laborers in cities. They could not make art. So Hui decided to create Roots Studio to form connections between communities and fashion to stop cultural loss and create more beauty in the world.
Toto Express
Hui is also working to found Toto Express. Toto Express is a design-licensing agency. Toto Express has projects where they look for artisans. In the Secret Life Project, Hui met many artists who were not able to make enough money because there was not enough marketing and connections. Hui wants a place where people can recognize the villagers' skills. She said she is dedicated to these projects because she “relates to these artists whose reasons for leaving their art spoke back to my reasons for pursuing a more respected career path within the often risk-adverse Chinese American community.”
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889310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie%20Imafidon | Anne-Marie Imafidon | Anne-Marie Osawemwenze Ore-Ofe Imafidon is a British mathematician and computer scientist. She was awarded an Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2017. Anna-Marie Imafidon is the co-founder of Outbox and Stemettes. Stemettes is an organization dedicated to help relieve the gender gap in studying the STEM field. Outbox is the first technology incubator for young girls. Her companies have brought over 40,000 women to experience STEM mentoring programs, workshops, and more.
Education
Growing up in the UK, Imafidon was a genius from a young age. She passed two GCSE’s in mathematics and information technology at 10 years old. She passed her A-level computing at age 11. She was the youngest person to ever pass that A-level exam. Imafidon became a student at Oxford University at age 15. At age 19 she completed her Master's degree. She is the youngest person to ever complete a Master's degree from Oxford. Outside of her academic life, she participated in a fashion show and played Netball in college.
Career
When she was 16, she began receiving offers from top financial companies. She worked for Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard and Deutschebank. She started the Stemettes while working at Deutschebank. Her work focuses on teaching girls to create technology. She wants technology to become better because the engineers who create it are more diverse than the are today.
Family
Imafidon is from Stratford in East London. Her father came to the United Kingdom from Nigeria.
Imafidon isn’t the only notable person from her family. Her younger siblings are Peter and Paula - also known as the "Wonder Twins." They passed an Advanced Level mathematics exam at the age of 7. By passing that exam, Peter and Paula broke the United Kingdom's record. They were the youngest to ever pass A-levels. When they were nine years old, both of them broke another record by passing the Cambridge University Mathematics test. Another of Imafidon’s younger sisters, Christina, was accepted to enter the United Kingdom University at 11. Her other sister, Samantha, passed 2 high school exams at 6 years old.
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889311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao%20Chunxiao | Tao Chunxiao | Tao Chunxiao (b. 1937) is one of the most important clarinet players in China. Tao has been central to developing clarinet playing in China. She was the first female clarinet player in China. She was also the first female clarinetist from China to win an award in an international competition. She is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. She used to perform the clarinet all over the world and became well known. She has been to many famous clarinet competitions and festivals. She is also a very successful clarinet teacher. Many of her students have become professors, won awards, or are important members of orchestras.
Early Life and Education
Tao Chunxiao was born in 1937 in Chongqing, China.
The Military Band of the Chinese People's Liberation Army hired her. They assigned her the clarinet. She went to the Southwest Conservatory of Music in 1953 (now called the Sichuan Conservatory of Music). In 1956 Tao moved to the Czech Republic to study at the Prague Conservatory of Music. She graduated in 1961. She returned to China after graduation.
Career
Tao won the third place in the Seventh World Youth Festival Wind Music Competition in 1959. This award made her the first Chinese woman to win an international clarinet prize.
Jobs
Tao is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. The Ministry of Education awarded Tao the "Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award" in 2002.
She has held many jobs that promote music in China. She was the Director of the Orchestral Instruments Department at Central Conservatory of Music, the President of the Chinese Clarinet Association, a Member of the Committee on Arts Education at Ministry of Education of China, and the Director of the Education and Technology Department at Ministry of Culture of China. Tao helps check the quality of the orchestra for the Chinese National Opera House each year.
Judging
Tao judges competitions in China and internationally. She was a judge for the 36th International Clarinet Competition in 1987 in Munich, Germany. She was also the clarinet judge 43rd Czech "Prague Spring" International Music Competition. She was the chair of the organizing committee and judges for the "98th International Clarinet Music Festival." In China, she was chair of the judges for the first and second "National Youth Clarinet Playing Competitions."
Major publications
Tao edited "Clarinet Playing Course", "Classic Clarinet Songs", "Learn Clarinet with Me", "Clarinet Playing and Teaching", "European Music Art History". She co-authored "Introduction to the Physics of Music". In 2003 she published a book entitled: Clarinet Fundamentals Tutorial.
She also has many recordings.
Famous students
She taught influential clarinetist who have won awards, become professors, and performed with orchestras worldwide. She taught Ma Yue, Yuan Yuanis, Huang Yuanfu, Yin Bo, Fan Lei, and Yuan Yuan.
In 2017, the International Clarinet Association published a special article called "A Chinese Clarinet Legend," to recognize Tao's contribution to the development of clarinet in China and worldwide.
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889312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaine%20Brooks | Romaine Brooks | Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard; May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970) was an American painter who often drew women in men’s clothing. She painted women from women's point of view, not from how men saw women. The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., has collected half of her paintings. Experts say she is as important as Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein to how we think about gender.
Childhood
Brooks was born in Rome. Her parents were rich Americans. She had an unhappy childhood. Her mother took care of her sick brother, and often did not take care of Brooks. Her mother believed Brooks was possessed by demons.
Her mother left Europe with her son, and a poor but kind laundry woman took care of Brooks. Her mother did not let her draw, but the laundry woman did.
Her grandfather found her and sent her to school. Students and teachers found her drawings of ghosts and monsters scary.
Education
When she was 14, she was sent to a school in Italy, where she was so unhappy she tried to kill herself. Her mother sent her to a school to learn manners in Switzerland, where she was very good at art and music. She became independent when she was 21.
Brooks studied painting in Italy from 1896 to 1899. She then set up an art studio on the Island of Capri. She learned more about art when she was 24 at the Scuola Nazionale, a school in Rome. Many students were mean to her there. In 1900, she studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris.
Relationships
Brooks did not want money from her mother, and wanted to be independent. She lost a lot of her money, so her sister Maya gave her some money. Brooks gave birth to her daughter in 1897, but gave her daughter to a school because she could not take care of her. She wanted to come back later for her baby. After five years, the school told her the baby died 3 months after it was born. She had a short marriage with John Ellingham Brooks in 1902. She met Natalie Clifford Barney, who would be her lover for a long time.
Art and Works
Her art was shown in the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris, and she became an artist. Some of her famous paintings are Azalées Blanches (White Azaleas) and La France Croisée. Her art style is like James McNeil Whistler’s, whose art she liked. Her paintings were often grey, whiter and black, with a little bit of colors like red, umber or ochre. She did not do things other artists were doing, different from Pablo Picasso, another artist. In 1930, Brooks wrote a book about herself called “No Pleasant Memories,” but no one ever saw it.
In 1915 Brooks had a fundraiser exhibit to raise money for the Red Cross. To thank her, the French government gave her the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Notability
Today, her art still has a result on others. She lived 100 years ago, but it is interesting to see how she showed things people did not talk about a lot in her paintings.
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889313 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydney%20Brown | Cydney Brown | Cydney Hope Brown is an American poet. She is the "Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia."
Early Life
Brown was born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia. She lived with her mother and her two sisters. She is a student at Abington Friends School.
Brown is also a Girl Scout. She created Project G.O.O.D. Project G.O.O.D helps middle school and high school girls talk together online about self esteem. Girls can participate from anywhere in the United States. They can be a mentor or a mentee.
Brown worked at The Legacy Youth and Tennis Education program to help kids stay active Brown is also the dlerk of the poetry club, black student Union and co-clerk of the literary magazine at her school.
Poetry
Brown was in fifth grade when she discovered poetry. Her poetry is usually spoken word poetry about social justice. She won a spoken word competition the first year she started writing. Brown wrote the book "Daydreaming." The book has a collection of her poems from seventh grade to now. In 2020, she won the national Hip Hop Poetry Workshop Contest.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Brown needed ways to be creative. She wrote a lot of poetry. She also saw on the library website that the city was looking for a new Youth Poet Laureate.
She uses her poetry to advocate for black people. Brown uses her Instagram to share her poetry.
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889314 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20E.%20Wein | Elizabeth E. Wein | Elizabeth E. Wein is an award winning American-British author. Her most famous book is Code Name Verity. Code Name Verity is a New York Times Bestseller, a Michael Printz Award Honor Book, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Honor Book, and an SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Book.
Early life
Wein was born in New York City in 1964. Wein's parents are Carol Flocken and Norman Wein. Her family moved to England when she was 3, because of her father's work. They lived near Alderley Edge. Wein went to school near Alderley Edge as well. They moved again to Jamaica when she was 6. However, after 3 years her parents separated. Wein, her siblings, and her mother moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, her mother was killed in a car accident when she was 14. After, Wein was raised by her grandparents.
Education
Wein graduated from Yale University in 1986. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale. While at Yale, she attended a study abroad program in England. She went to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from Yale. She earned a PHD in folklore in 1994.
Wein learned to fly airplanes at the Scottish Aero Club in 2003. She was 37. Many of her novels include people who fly airplanes.
Career
Arthurian Novels
Wein wrote a series of novels that retell the King Arthur legend. These are The Winter Prince, A Coalition of Lions, The Sunbird, The Mark of Solomon: The Lion Hunter, and The Mark of Solomon: The Empty Kingdom. These were published between 1993 and 2008.
World War II Novels
Wein's biggest success was Code Name Verity, published in 2012. Code Name Verity is a story about two young female pilots. They worked for the Allies during WWII. They were caught by the Nazis. Wein also released three other novels that add to the story.
Awards
Wein has received many awards for her work. These include the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Code Name Verity is a New York Times Bestseller, a Michael Printz Award Honor Book, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Honor Book, and an SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Book. Her books have been shortlisted for the CLIP Carnegie Medal and the Andre Norton Nebula Award.
Personal life
Her husband is named Tim. She met him in Philadelphia. They were at a dance for people who ring bells for a hobby. They have two children. The family lives in Scotland. They lived in England briefly for a few years before that. Wein is an American and British citizen.
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Yale University alumni |
889316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriko%20Kimura | Yuriko Kimura | Yuriko Kimura (木村百合子) is a Japanese modern dancer. She was a primary dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Early Life
Kimura was born in Kanazawa, Japan. When Martha Graham came to Japan Kimura took a dance class from her company. She then came to the USA through a Fulbright Scholarship to study with Martha Graham.
Career
Kimura studied with Graham from 1966 in New York City, USA. At first she danced small roles. One of her younger roles was ‘the girl holding a vase.’ Over time, she became recognized for her intense expression. She was also known for her beautiful lines. These led her to become one of the best dancers of all time. Through the fame, she also became a guest dancer for other prestigious companies. She attended summer courses through different dance workshops.
Some of her major roles consisted of Medea and Clytemnestra from major dance Productions. The two roles are the main characters. They are very important to the overall stage.
Present
Kimura now teaches dance in Nara, Japan.
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Living people
People from Ishikawa Prefecture
Dancers |
889317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny%20house | Tiny house | A tiny house, also known as a tiny home, is a type of house that is very small (up to 37 square metres or 400 sq ft).
Tiny houses can stand on a fixed place, but they can also be mobile. For example, a tiny house with wheels can be transported.
History
The tiny house movement originated in the United States.
Tiny houses gained more attention after the Great Recession, when houses became very expensive in many places.
Media
The tiny house movement has inspired many reality television series:
Mighty Tiny Houses (HGTV)
Terrific Tiny Homes (DIY)
Tiny House, Big Living (HGTV)
Tiny House Builders (HGTV)
Tiny House Hunters (HGTV)
Tiny House Hunting (FYI)
Tiny House Nation (FYI and A&E)
Tiny House World (FYI)
Tiny Luxury (HGTV)
Tiny Paradise (HGTV)
See also
Affordable housing
Cottage
References
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889321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%20Flint%E2%80%93Beecher%20tornado | 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado | On Monday, June 8, 1953, a powerful F5 tornado went right across the city of Flint, Michigan and its suburb Beecher. The latter city had 113–114 people dead following the severe tornado. Before the 2011 Joplin tornado in Joplin, Missouri, it was the final tornado that lead to triple-digit death tolls in the United States.
Related tornadoes
Other tornadoes also hit lower Michigan and northern Ohio. The overall outbreak killed 116 or 117 in Michigan alone. Affected states also included Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts.
The overall people who died from June 6 through 9 was 247 (some reports mention higher numbers). The full damage went beyond $340 million (1953 USD; almost $3.3 billion 2021 USD). Michigan's deaths alone were 125. Others were killed across Nebraska, northern Ohio and east-central Massachusetts (mostly around Worcester). The last-said state's tornado was its very most expensive (costing $53 million) before 1979.
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20th century in New York
20th century in Nebraska
20th century in Michigan
20th century in Massachusetts
20th century in Iowa
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889322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Baret | Jeanne Baret | Jeanne Baret (also spelled Barré or Barret) was a French explorer. She was the first woman to travel around the world. She was a botanist. Her trip was from 1766-1769.
Early life and career
Jeanne Baret was born on July 27,1740.She was born in France. Her family wasn’t wealthy. She learned a lot about botany from a young age. She knew a lot about plants.
She worked for Philibert Commerson. Commerson was a botanist. He studied medicine, natural history and botany.
Baret and Commerson also had a relationship. They never married. They had a son. He was adopted by another family.
Voyage
Commerson agreed to join a voyage around the world. The expedition was led by Louis de Bougainville. Commerson was the botanist. Baret went with him. Women were not allowed to be on ships at that time. She disguised herself as a man. She took a job as his cabin boy. She called herself "Jean" Baret.
Reason for Voyage
France was looking for territory and trade at that time. The king funded the around the world trip. The two ships were the Boudeuse and the Etoile. Commerson and Baret were on the Etoile.
Aboard the Etoile
Commerson was often sick. Jeanne tended to him. She helped him with his work. The trip set off from Nates, France and stopped at Montevideo, Uruguay. They went from Uruguay to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They went to Tahiti after Brazil. Bougainville named the island of Tahiti New Cythera. Baret revealed her true identity at Tahiti. She revealed that she was a woman. Bougainville let her stay on board for the rest of the trip. They sailed to New Ireland in Papua New Guinea after Tahiti. They went to Mauritius after New Ireland. Commerson and Jeanne stayed in Mauritius.
Botanist Work
Commerson and Baret made many accomplishments in botany. They collected and observed many plants. Baret discovered a new kind of vine with pink and purple flowers. She named that plant Bougainvillea. She named the plant after the commander of the voyage.
Later Years
Commerson and Jeanne stayed in Mauritius. Commerson died in 1773. Baret met a man called Jean Dubernet. They married in May of 1774. They moved back to France to Saint-Aulaye around 1774 or 1775. She completed her journey around the world. Baret died in Saint-Aulaye. She died on August 5, 1807.
Legacy
Jeanne Baret accomplished a lot of things in her life. She was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. She and Commerson collected and recorded over 6000 plant species. A type of plant was named in her honor (solanum baretiae) in 2012. It was 245 years after her voyage.
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889324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyda%20Conley | Lyda Conley | Eliza Burton (Lyda) Conley (1869-1946)was the first female lawyer of Indian descent. She was the first Native American to argue in front of the Supreme Court. She was known as the "Guardian of the Huron Cemetery."
Early Life
Lyda Conley was born in 1869. She lived in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Her mother, Eliza Burton Zane Conley, was a member of the Wyandotte Tribe. Her mother was a descendant of Chief Andrew Conley. Her mother and her grandmother, Hannah Zane, were buried in the Huron cemetery. Eliza Burton Conley had three sisters. Two of her sisters were Helena (Lena) Gros Conley and Ida Conley. They helped her defend the graves of their family and ancestors at Huron Cemetery in Kansas City.
Eliza Burton Conley graduated from the Kansas City School of Law in 1902.
Career
Conley was admitted into the Missouri Bar Association in 1902 and Kansas Bar Association in 1910. She became the first female lawyer of Indian descent.
She was the first Native American to argue in front of the Supreme Court. She argued that the federal government had a duty to protect Native American burial sites. The United States government guaranteed the preservation of Huron Cemetery in the 1855 treaty. She lost the case. The government was going to sell the land.
Conley and 2 of her sisters defended the Huron Cemetery from 1907 to 1910. They built a shack to live in. Her sister guarded the fort while Conley fought off intruders. Conley studied law books to prepare herself for cases while defending the cemetery. Conley and her sisters stopped the sale of the land.
Death
Eliza Burton Conley died when she was 72, on May 28th, 1946. Her burial was on May 31, 1946.
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889325 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong%20Yang-tze | Tong Yang-tze | Tong Yang-Tze is a Chinese calligrapher. Her work is part of everyday life in Taiwan. She designed the passport stamp that you receive when you enter Taiwan. She is very educated but still chose to pursue her dreams of art. She is known for bringing calligraphy from the past to the present.
Early Life
Tong moved to Taiwan in 1952. She grew up with four siblings. Her dad taught her and her siblings calligraphy. She started learning calligraphy when she was eight years old. Tong graduated from National Taiwan Normal University. She earned a master’s degree in fine arts. She also received a postgrad degree from University of Massachusetts. She was accepted into Taiwan’s most prestigious business university. She rejected them and chose to follow her passion for art. She also became a graduate designer in New York. Her style of calligraphy is known for mixing traditional calligraphy with modern art.
Accomplishments
You can see Tong Yang-Tze’s work everywhere in Taiwan. It is used in signs at train stations. It is in theatre, bookshop, and anniversary campaign brands. It is Taiwan’s passport stamp.
Exhibitions
Tong’s work has been shown in many places. Atelier 320: Upending was an exhibit at the Johnson Museum. From Ink to Apparel: A Crossover between Calligraphy Art and Fashion Design was shown at the World Design Capital in Taipei. Another exhibition was the M+ commission.
Collaborations
Tong has worked on many collaborations. From Ink to Apparel: A Crossover between Calligraphy Art and Fashion Design combined the work of Tong and six young fashion designers. Atelier 320: Upending combined calligraphy and dance. Silent Symphony, Musical Calligraphy combined the work of Tong and the music of Mayday.
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889327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangduen%20%22Lek%22%20Chailert | Sangduen "Lek" Chailert | Sangdeun "Lek" Chailert is an animal rights advocator and entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Thailand. She is known as Thailand’s “Elephant Whisperer”. She has dedicated her life to fighting for animal rights and putting an end to animal abuse. She has influenced others to advocate for the welfare of animals. She founded Elephant Nature Park and Save Elephant Foundation.
Early life
Sangdeaun “Lek” Chailert was born in 1961. She was born in a village in Thailand called Baan Lao. This village was located in the Northern Mountains of Thailand. Starting from a young age, she spent a lot of time with animals and loved them. She looked up to her grandfather. He was a shaman, which is a traditional healer. He helped sick and injured people within his community, and would also help sick animals. Chailert helped her grandfather take care of the animals. She developed a passion for it. She witnessed the horrible abuse elephants when she was sixteen years old. The elephants were forced to carry logs into the jungle. Chailert graduated from Chiang Mai University, a public university in Northern Thailand.
Career
Chailert advocates for Asian Elephants. She founded Elephant Nature Park (ENP). Elephant Nature Park is a sanctuary for abused Asian Elephants in Chiang Mai Province in Thailand. It provides a home and basic necessities for elephants who were abused. It takes up 250 acres. She rescued over 200 elephants and many other animals.
Chailert also founded Save Elephant Foundation. It is a non-profit organization. The main purpose of this organization is to protect Asian Elephants. People are able to volunteer or become an Elephant Ambassador.
She first started taking action after witnessing elephants being forced to carry logs into the jungle. She realized that the abuse affects the elephants' mental health. Chailert treats elephants as a part of her family.
Her main focus has been to educate people around the world on the safety of elephants. She wants people to use the information they learn to inform others and advocate for animals.
Save Elephant Foundation
Save Elephant Foundation is a a non-profit organization. The main purpose of this organization is to protect Asian Elephants. The organization also helps cats. Save Elephant Foundation takes donations. People are also able to volunteer or become an Elephant Ambassador.
Elephant Nature Park
Elephant Nature Park is a sanctuary for abused Asian Elephants in Thailand. It takes up 250 acres. The main purpose of this is for elephants to feel safe and loved. It is also so that they feel protected and not get abused. The Elephant Nature Park is also known as ENP. ENP is dedicated to providing education about Asian Elephants. Visitors are able to meet the elephants. They are also able to learn about their past. Visitors can bathe, clean, and feed the elephants. They can also make improvements to the park. There are also 500 dogs at ENP that have been rescued. Visitors can play, walk, and feed the dogs. Elephant Nature Park was recently raided by the Department of National Parks. However, they have moved away from ENP since then. Chailert continues to advocate for the welfare of Asian Elephants.
Accomplishments and awards
Chailert is in documentaries by National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery, and BBC. She was invited by Hillary Clinton to Washington D.C. in 2010. She was recognized as one of the six Global Conservation Female Heroes. She was recognized as one of Time Magazine’s "Heroes from Asia." Chailert was named “Hero of the Planet” by Ford Foundation in 2001. She got the Genesis Award from the Humane Society for her National Geographic documentary "Vanishing Giants."
Present Day - Raising Awareness
Chailert continues to advocate for Asian Elephants and tries her best to raise awareness throughout the world. She has successfully rescued over 200 elephants. She first started taking action after witnessing elephants being forced to carry logs into the jungle. She later realized that all this abuse deeply affects their mental health. In fact, some elephants are become blind because of slingshots targeted at their eyes as well as the bright lights in a circus. Elephants endure intense training for circuses. Many elephants are taken away from their parents at a very young age, which significantly affects them later in life. Some elephants get chained up on their legs, causing them to bleed because of the deep cuts in their legs. Because of the harsh conditions, many elephants become very aggressive and develop a lot of trauma. Elephants are commonly forced to do tricks, get ridden, and do paintings using their trunks. They are also used for their ivory. They are also forced to do extremely tough labor. Many elephants suffer from abuse that is involved with logging, tourism, circuses, and street begging. Elephants are meant to be in the wild and be independent. They are not meant to be used as entertainment for humans. Many people are not aware of how this affects elephants. Chailert’s mentality is that an elephant isn’t just an animal; they are a person. That is why she treats them with respect. She treats them as if they are part of her family. Chailert was taught to respect nature at a young age. Chailert acknowledges the fact that more people are being educated about this topic. She hopes more people are informed. She would like others to spread the word.
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