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892902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecchio | Collecchio | Collecchio (Parmigiano: ) is a town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.
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Settlements in Emilia-Romagna
Towns in Italy |
892903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Bank%20of%20Kuwait | Central Bank of Kuwait | The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) is the authority responsible for issuing the Kuwaiti dinar and regulating banks and banking transactions in Kuwait. It was established on June 30, 1968, and began its duties on the first of April 1969. The bank carried out the tasks of the Kuwait Monetary Council, which in turn was established in 1960.
The Central Bank is managed by a Board of Directors including of the Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait - Chairman, and the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait, each of whom is appointed by decree for a period of five years, subject to renewal. The board of directors also includes a representative of the Ministry of Finance, a representative of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in addition to four other members, appointed by decree for a renewable three-year period, with experience in economic, financial and banking affairs.
The current Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait is Dr. Muhammad Yousef Al-Hashel and Deputy Governor Youssef Jassim Al-Obaid.
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Banks established in 1969
Government agencies established in 1969
Banks of Kuwait
Buildings and structures in Kuwait City
Kuwait
Companies based in Kuwait City
Kuwaiti companies established in 1969
List of Institutions using TCS BaNCS |
892904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20West | Samuel West | Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director and voice actor. He is known for playing historical British figures in movies and television such as King George VI in Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Sir Anthony Eden in Darkest Hour (2017) and Anthony Blunt in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019).
West was born in London. His parents are actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales.
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1966 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English theatre directors
Actors from London |
892905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izu%20%C5%8Cshima | Izu Ōshima | Izu Ōshima (伊豆大島, Izu-ōshima) is a Populated volcanic island in the Izu Islands in the Philippine Sea on the coast of Honshū Island in Japan with 22km (14 miles) to east of the Izu Peninsula and 36km (22 miles) to southwest of Boso peninsula.
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Other Websites
Islands of Japan |
892906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Madeley | Anna Madeley | Anna Madeley (born 1 October 1976) is an English actress. She played Kate Kendrick in Deadwater Fell and as Audrey Hall in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small. She also appeared as Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.
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Other websites
1976 births
Living people
English child actors
English stage actors
English movie actors
English voice actors
English television actors
Actors from London |
892908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharq%20%28Kuwait%29 | Sharq (Kuwait) | Sharq (), an area of the Capital Governorate in Kuwait. It was so named because it was located east (Sharq in Arabic) of the Seif Palace. In the past, the area started from Bneid Al-Qar and then north along the beach until reaching the palace.
It is a business area and contains many notable buildings, skyscrapers and malls such as the Souq Sharq and Arraya Tower.
References
Suburbs of Kuwait City |
892910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Carey | George Carey | George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, (born 13 November 1935), is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. He was the Bishop of Bath and Wells before.
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1935 births
Living people
Archbishops of Canterbury
Writers from London
English theologians |
892911 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmalat | Parmalat | Parmalat S.p.A. is a dairy and food company. It is a subsidiary of French multinational company Lactalis. It was founded by Calisto Tanzi in 1961.
It was a large global company in the production of long-life milk. The company went bankrupt in 2003 with €14bn ($20bn; £13bn) and became Europe's biggest bankruptcy case.
References
Companies of Italy |
892913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Livingstone | Ian Livingstone | Sir Ian Livingstone CBE (born 29 December 1949) is an English fantasy writer and businessman. He is the co-founder of a series of role-playing gamebooks, Fighting Fantasy. He is also one of the co-founders of Games Workshop.
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1949 births
Living people
English businesspeople
Writers from Cheshire |
892914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Kenny | Jason Kenny | Sir Jason Francis Kenny, (born 23 March 1988) is an English track cyclist. Kenny is the record holder of most Olympic gold medals (7) and medals overall (9) for a British athlete.
He is married to cyclist Laura Kenny.
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1988 births
Living people
British Olympic gold medalists
British Olympic silver medalists
British cyclists
Sportspeople from Greater Manchester |
892915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Kenny | Laura Kenny | Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny, ( Trott; born 24 April 1992) is an English track and road cyclist. She has won six Olympic medals and is both the most successful female cyclist, and the most successful British female athlete, in Olympic history.
She is married to Olympic medalist Jason Kenny.
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1992 births
Living people
British cyclists
British Olympic gold medalists
British Olympic silver medalists
Sportspeople from Essex |
892916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridged%20tree%20frog | Ridged tree frog | The ridged tree frog (Dryophytes plicatus) is a frog that lives in Mexico. It lives in the Sierra Madre mountains, Cordillera Volcanica, and Mexican Plateau.
References
Frogs
Animals of North America |
892917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier%20of%20the%20Cayman%20Islands | Premier of the Cayman Islands | The Premier of the Cayman Islands is the political leader and head of government.
List
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892919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeeva%20Bush | McKeeva Bush | William McKeeva Bush, OBE JP (born 20 January 1955) is a Caymanian politician. He was the Premier of the Cayman Islands between 2009 until 2012.
References
1955 births
Living people
Premiers of the Cayman Islands |
892920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Tibbetts | Kurt Tibbetts | Darwin Kurt Tibbetts, OBE (born 2 March 1954) is a Caymanian politician. He was the Leader of Government Business in the Cayman Islands between 2000 and 2001 and again from 2005 until 2009.
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Living people
Premiers of the Cayman Islands
1953 births |
892922 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julianna%20O%27Connor-Connolly | Julianna O'Connor-Connolly | Juliana O'Connor-Connolly is a Caymanian politician. She was Premier of the Cayman Islands between 2012 until 2013. She is the first woman to hold this position.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Premiers of the Cayman Islands |
892923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa%20Time%20Zone | Samoa Time Zone | The Samoa Time Zone or Samoa Standard Time (SST) uses standard time by subtracting eleven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-11:00).
The zone includes the U.S. territory of American Samoa, as well as the Midway Islands and the uninhabited islands of Jarvis, Palmyra, and Kingman Reef. It also includes the country of Niue.
The zone is one hour behind Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone and one hour ahead of the Howland and Baker islands, and 23 hours behind Wake Island Time Zone.
The nation of Samoa also used the same time as the Samoa Time Zone until it moved across the International Date Line at the end of 29 December 2011; it is now 24 hours (25 hours in southern hemisphere summer) in front of American Samoa.
Populated areas
Pago Pago, American Samoa
See also
Time zone
Time offset
Chamorro Time Zone
Wake Island Time Zone
Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone
Central Time Zone
Eastern Time Zone
Atlantic Time Zone
Newfoundland Time Zone
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Time zones
American Samoa |
892924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%20Bodden | Truman Bodden | Truman Murray Bodden, OBE (born 22 April 1945) is a former Caymanian politician and lawyer. He was Leader of Government Business from April 1995 to November 2000.
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1945 births
Living people
Lawyers
Premiers of the Cayman Islands |
892926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20of%20the%20Cayman%20Islands | Parliament of the Cayman Islands | The Parliament of the Cayman Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It is made up of 21 members; 19 elected members for a four-year term and two members ex officio.
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Cayman Islands |
892927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferson%20%28Caymanian%20politician%29 | Thomas Jefferson (Caymanian politician) | Thomas Carrol Jefferson, OBE (April 13, 1941 – October 29, 2006) was a Caymanian politician. He was the first Leader of Government Business, in office from 1992 to 1995.
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1941 births
2006 deaths
Premiers of the Cayman Islands |
892929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden%20McLaughlin | Alden McLaughlin | Sir Alden McNee McLaughlin Jr. (born 6 September 1961) is a Caymanian politician. He was the Premier of the Cayman Islands from 2013 until 2021. McLaughlin was leader of the People's Progressive Movement party from February 2011 to March 2021.
McLaughlin was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours.
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Living people
1961 births
Premiers of the Cayman Islands |
892930 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Panton | Wayne Panton | Wayne Panton is a Caymanian politician and lawyer. He became the Premier of the Cayman Islands in April 2021.
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Living people
Premiers of the Cayman Islands
Year of birth missing (living people) |
892931 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn%20Roper | Martyn Roper | Martyn Keith Roper (born 8 June 1965) is a British politician. He has been Governor of the Cayman Islands since 29 October 2018.
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1965 births
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom
Governors of the Cayman Islands
Living people
Politicians from Yorkshire |
892932 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20of%20the%20Cayman%20Islands | Governor of the Cayman Islands | The Governor of the Cayman Islands is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's overseas territory of the Cayman Islands.
List
Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long (22 August 1971 – 1972)
Kenneth Roy Crook (1972–1974)
Thomas Russell (1974–1981)
George Peter Lloyd (1982 – 10 June 1987)
Alan James Scott (June 10, 1987 – September 14, 1992)
Michael Edward John Gore (14 September 1992 – 16 October 1995)
John Wynne Owen (16 October 1995 – 5 May 1999)
Peter Smith (5 May 1999 – 9 May 2002)
Bruce Dinwiddy (19 May 2002 – 28 October 2005)
Stuart Jack (23 November 2005 – 2 December 2009)
Duncan Taylor (15 January 2010 – 7 August 2013)
Helen Kilpatrick (6 September 2013 – 5 March 2018)
Anwar Choudhury (26 March 2018 – October 2018)
Martyn Roper (October 2018 – present)
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892934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20James%20Scott | Alan James Scott | Alan James Scott (born 14 January 1934) is a British politician. He was Governor of the Cayman Islands from 10 June 1987 to 14 September 1992. He was Secretary for Transport in Hong Kong from 1980 until 1985.
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1934 births
Living people
Governors of the Cayman Islands |
892935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Jack | Stuart Jack | Stuart Duncan Macdonald Jack (born 8 June 1949) is a retired British diplomat. He was the Governor of the Cayman Islands from 2005 until 2009.
Jack was appointed as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) in 1994.
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1949 births
Governors of the Cayman Islands
Living people |
892938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Taylor%20%28diplomat%29 | Duncan Taylor (diplomat) | Duncan John Rushworth Taylor (born 17 October 1958) is a British retired diplomat. He became the governor of the Cayman Islands on 15 January 2010. He was later made ambassador to Mexico in 2013. In April 2018, he announced his retirement.
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1958 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom
Governors of the Cayman Islands |
892939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Kilpatrick | Helen Kilpatrick | Helen Marjorie Kilpatrick (born 9 October 1958) is a British civil servant. She was Governor of the Cayman Islands between 2013 and 2018.
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1958 births
Living people
Governors of the Cayman Islands |
892940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar%20Choudhury | Anwar Choudhury | Anwar Bakht Choudhury (; born 15 June 1959) is a British diplomat. He was Governor of the Cayman Islands from March 2018 until he was recalled in June 2018 after less than three months in post.
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1959 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom
Governors of the Cayman Islands
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Pakistani politicians
Politicians from Buckinghamshire |
892942 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil%20I.%20McLaughlin | Sybil I. McLaughlin | Sybil Ione McLaughlin MBE (born 24 August 1928) is an American-born Caymanian politician. She became the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands in 1991. When she retired in 1996, she was honored as a National Hero.
McLaughlin was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1928.
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1928 births
Living people
Caymanian people
Politicians from Alabama
People from Mobile, Alabama
Legislative speakers |
892944 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20the%20Cayman%20Islands | COVID-19 pandemic in the Cayman Islands | The COVID-19 pandemic in Cayman Islands is part of the ongoing global viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was confirmed to have reached the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands in March 2020.
On 12 March 2020, a 68-year-old Italian man in critical condition, who was transferred from a cruise ship to a hospital in the Cayman Islands on 29 February due to heart issues, was announced as the first confirmed coronavirus case. His death was announced two days later.
On 15 November 2020, a second COVID-19 death happened.
On 17 December 2020, Mercer University pre-med student and a Cayman Islands resident were sentenced to four months in prison for her violating the island's mandatory two-week quarantine COVID-19 restriction two days after arriving from the United States.
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Cayman Islands |
892946 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Reeves | Dan Reeves | Daniel Edward Reeves (January 19, 1944 – January 1, 2022) was an American football running back and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Rome, Georgia. He played for the Dallas Cowboys between 1965 until 1972. Reeves also coached for the Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons from 1981 until 2003.
Reeves died on January 1, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia from dementia-related problems at the age of 77.
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1944 births
2022 deaths
American football running backs
Dallas Cowboys players
American football coaches
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Deaths from dementia
Disease-related deaths in Atlanta |
892947 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Leamy%20%28bishop%29 | Robin Leamy (bishop) | Robin Walsh Leamy SM (27 July 1934 – 1 January 2022) was a New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate. He became a priest in 1958. He was Bishop of Rarotonga from 1984 until 1996. He retired in 2009. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand.
Leamy died on 1 January 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand at the age of 87.
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1934 births
2022 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops
People from Wellington |
892951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-Ho-Kus%2C%20New%20Jersey | Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey | Ho-Ho-Kus is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. In the 2010 census, it said that 4,078 people lived here.
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Boroughs in New Jersey |
892954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Kasten | Bob Kasten | Robert Walter Kasten Jr. (born June 19, 1942) is an American Republican politician. He was a U.S. Representative from 1975 to 1979 and a United States Senator from 1981 to 1993, representing Wisconsin.
In 1985, Kasten was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Washington, D.C..
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1942 births
Living people
United States senators from Wisconsin
United States representatives from Wisconsin
Politicians from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
US Republican Party politicians |
892955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Chiesa | Jeffrey Chiesa | Jeffrey Scott Chiesa ( ; born June 22, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician. He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from June 10, 2013 to October 31, 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was the 59th Attorney General of New Jersey from January 10, 2012 until June 6, 2013.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on June 6, 2013 that he would appoint Chiesa to the United States Senate seat that was left empty by the death of Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg and on June 10, 2013, Chiesa was sworn in. He decided not to run for a full term in the Senate and was replaced by Democrat Cory Booker.
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1965 births
Living people
United States senators from New Jersey
Lawyers from New Jersey
Businesspeople from New Jersey
US Republican Party politicians |
892956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20island | High island | Volcanic Island or High island Geologically is an island of volcanic origin The term can be used to distinguish this kind of islands from Low islands; which are formed from Sedimentation or the uplifting of coral reefs
Related pages
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Islands |
892960 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Torricelli | Robert Torricelli | Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), is an American attorney and former politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 9th district from 1983 to 1997 and as a United States senator from New Jersey from 1997 to 2003.
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1951 births
Living people
United States senators from New Jersey
United States representatives from New Jersey
People from Paterson, New Jersey
US Democratic Party politicians
Lawyers from New Jersey
Businesspeople from New Jersey |
892963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20Park%2C%20New%20Jersey | Franklin Park, New Jersey | Franklin Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
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Unincorporated communities in New Jersey
Census-designated places in New Jersey |
892964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20islands | Low islands | Low Island Geographically is an island of coral origin. The Term applies whether the island was formed as a result of Sedimentation upon a Coral reef or the uplifting of those kind of islands the term is used to distinguish those kind of islands from high islands, whose origins are volcanic
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Islands |
892967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izu%20Peninsula | Izu Peninsula | The Izu peninsula (伊豆半島, Izu-hantō) is a Large mountainous peninsula with a indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific Ocean of the island of Honshū in Japan Previously known as Izu Province Izu peninsula is now a part of Shizuoka Prefecture.
Other websites
A Travel Guide to Nature-filled Izu Peninsula
Izu-Peninsula at Britannica encyclopedia
Islands of Japan |
892968 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Set%20Free | The World Set Free | The World Set Free is a 1913 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It was published in 1914. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy. That form was made up of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.
The novel tells the story of man’ using the (at that time) newly-discovered power of the atom. It tells how this power almost destroys civilisation in a war. In a sense, the book seems to have ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. The World Set Free is an example of how science and science fiction can work together and build upon each other.
1914 books
science fiction books
books by H. G. Wells |
892970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ernest%20Jackson | George Ernest Jackson | George Ernest (Ernie) Jackson (1921 - January 20, 1995) was an insurance executive, member of the Ontario legislature (1955-1959) and senior political advisor to Ontario Premier John Robarts in the 1960s as well as a senior political strategist in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during Robarts's leadership.
Jackson was born in Toronto but moved to London, Ontario when he was seven. His father was a travelling salesman. He left high school in the middle of grade 13 to join the The Royal Canadian Regiment, serving with them during World War II in England, Sicily and Italy, and rising to the rank of captain. Disagreeing with the Liberal Party of Canada's position on conscription, he joined the Progressive Conservatives after the war and served as a backroom strategist for Harry Oliver White in Middlesex East in the 1949 Canadian federal election.
Jackson first met Robarts socially in 1950, becoming friends. When Robarts entered politics as the Progressive Conservative candidate in London in the 1951 Ontario general election, Jackson volunteered to be one of his campaign workers. In the 1955 Ontario general election, the London riding was split into two and Jackson ran and won in the new riding of London South. Jackson chose not to run for re-election in the 1959 Ontario general election in order to concentrate on his insurance business and family, but co-managed Robarts's own re-election campaign in London North. In 1959, he suggested to Robarts that he run for the party leadership once Premier Leslie Frost retired and managed Robarts's dark horse leadership campaign in the 1961 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, which Robarts won on the sixth ballot. Jackson went on to be the new premier's closest political confidant. Robarts charged Jackson with the assignment of re-organizing the provincial party and was the party's campaign chairman in the 1963 Ontario general election and 1967 Ontario general election, both of which the Conservatives won with large majorities.
Jackson died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 73.
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1921 births
1995 deaths
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
Canadian campaign managers |
892971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20L.%20Patrick | Thomas L. Patrick | Thomas L. Patrick (1896 - January 10, 1957) was a farmer and politician in Ontario. He served as a Conservative MPP in the Ontario legislature for the riding of Middlesex North from 1943 until his death in 1957, at the age of 60. Patrick was a farmer and livestock exporter and died of a heart attack during a business trip to Springfield, Illinois. In the legislature, he served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He was first elected in the 1943 Ontario general election, defeating incumbent Liberal MPP John Willard Freeborn by 910 votes.
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1896 births
1957 deaths
Canadian farmers
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs |
892975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede | Stampede | A stampede () is when a group of large animals suddenly start running in the same direction. This is because the animals are excited or scared. It may also mean when many people are trying to do the same thing at the same time. Non-human species that can cause stampedes include zebras, cattle, elephants, reindeer, sheep, pigs, goats, blue wildebeests, walruses, wild horses, and rhinoceroses.
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Animals |
892976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20horse | Wild horse | The wild horse (Equus ferus) is a species of the genus Equus. They also include the subspecies of the modern domesticated horse.
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Horses |
892977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20wildebeest | Blue wildebeest | The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded wildebeest, white-bearded gnu or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest.
The blue wildebeest is known to have five subspecies. Young blue wildebeest are born tawny brown, and begin to have their adult coloration at the age of 2 months.
Both sexes have a pair of large curved horns. The blue wildebeest is a herbivore, feeding mainly on short grasses.
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Bovids |
892978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20wildebeest | Black wildebeest | The black wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou) or white-tailed gnu, is one of the two closely related wildebeest species. It is a member of the genus Connochaetes and family Bovidae.
It was first described in 1780 by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann.
Characteristics
The black wildebeest are usually in head-and-body length, and the typical weight is . Males are usually about at the shoulder, while the height of the females is .
The black wildebeest are known for its white, long, horse-like tail. It also has a dark brown to black coat and long, dark-colored hair between its forelegs and under its belly.
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892982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Turner | Mike Turner | Michael Turner (born January 11, 1960) is an American politician. He is the U.S. representative for since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Turner was the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2014 to 2016.
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1960 births
Living people
United States representatives from Ohio
American mayors
Politicians from Dayton, Ohio
US Republican Party politicians
Businesspeople from Dayton, Ohio |
892984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%20Parliamentary%20Assembly | NATO Parliamentary Assembly | Founded in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) is the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Alliance.
Its current President is Gerald E. Connolly from the United States, elected in 2019.
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NATO |
892986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry%20Connolly | Gerry Connolly | Gerald Edward Connolly (born March 30, 1950) is an American Democratic politician. He is the United States representative from Virginia's 11th congressional district since 2009.
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1950 births
Living people
United States representatives from Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Politicians from Boston, Massachusetts |
892987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantua%2C%20Virginia | Mantua, Virginia | Mantua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 7,135 at the 2010 census.
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Census-designated places in Virginia |
892989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20McClintock | Tom McClintock | Thomas Miller McClintock II (; born July 10, 1956) is an American politician. He is the U.S. representative for since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party.
He was a California state assemblyman from 1982 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2000, when he became a California state senator, a job he had until 2008.
He unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election and for lieutenant governor of California in the 2006 election.
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1956 births
Living people
United States representatives from California
Politicians from Sacramento, California
People from White Plains, New York
Politicians from New York City
Politicians from Los Angeles
US Republican Party politicians |
892992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%8Ds%C5%8D%20Peninsula | Bōsō Peninsula | The Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島, Bōsō-hantō) is a Peninsula that encompasses the entirety of Chiba Prefecture on Honshū island the entirety of Chiba Prefecture on Honshū island it forms the eastern edge of Tokyo Bay separating it from the Pacific Ocean.
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892993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Allen | Jack Allen | Jack Raymond Allen (1909 — February 11, 1992) was a Canadian landscape gardener and politician who served as reeve of East York, Ontario from 1957 to 1960.
"Bayview Ghost"
He is best known for his responsiblity for the Bayview Ghost, a partially constructed apartment building and white elephant which was began after Allen personally ordered that a building permit be issued to the developer, over the opposition of residents until public opposition to the development resulted in the municipal council overruling Allen. The council first attempted to revoke the permit and then, when that proved not to be possible, refused to extend water and sewer service to the site - resulting in construction being halted and a stand off which was not resolved for over twenty years. The controversy contributed to Allen's defeat by True Davidson in the 1960 municipal election.
Early life
Allen was born in East York in 1909. He was provincial flyweight boxing champion in 1932. Allen served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and then attended the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture where he trained as a landscape architect. His projects included Memorial Gardens and the grounds of Sunnybrook Hospital. Allen was blamed for construction of the Bayview Ghost, which contributed to his defeat.
Political career
He first ran for East York's municipal council in December 1953 at the age of 34 and was elected on a platform of park development, street improvement, and improvement to the municipality's sewage and garbage disposal systems. He topped the ballot in the at large election to become vice-chairman of council, the second highest position in the township after reeve. He also served as chairman of the public works committee. He ran for reeve the next year but was defeated by incumbent Harry Simpson. Allen returned to council in mid-1955 by winning a by-election to fill a vacancy. Allen ran again for reeve in 1956, when Simpson decided not to run for re-election. He ran on a platform of preserving parkland, improving transportation, and low taxes, defeating Howard Chandler to win the position.
In 1957, Reeve Allen announced a plan to extend Cosburn Avenue through Taylor-Massey Creek valley, over the opposition of conservationists. Allen pushed the scheme through the planning committee but was blocked by East York council. In 1958, the Don Valley Conservation Association advocating donating the valley lands to the Metro Region Conservation Authority as part of a green belt, but Allen argued for developing the land for apartment buildings, calling the conservationists "a bunch of birdwatchers who don't know what they're meddling in." Allen was re-elected as reeve in the 1958 election that also saw several anti-development councillors elected, leading to conflicts over development, including the Bayview Ghost controversy.
True Davidson, then a councillor with a background in the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, was persuaded to challenge Allen for the reeveship by ratepayers groups and conservationists. In the 1960 election, Davidson defeated Allen by more than 1,600 votes with a record voter turnout.
In 1960, he proposed that a stadium be built on the Railway Lands, where the Rogers Centre is now located.
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892994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Starr | Martin Starr | Martin James Pflieger Schienle (born July 30, 1982), professionally known as Martin Starr, is an American actor and comedian. He is known for the television roles of Bill Haverchuck in Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Bertram Gilfoyle on the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and as Roger Harrington in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.
Starr was born in Santa Monica, California. He is a Buddhist.
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892995 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decisecond | Decisecond | The decisecond (ds) is a unit of time. It is part of the International System of Units. A decisecond is 10−1 second. It is one tenth of a second. There are ten deciseconds in one second.
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892996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Cox | Charlie Cox | Charlie Thomas Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Matt Murdock / Daredevil in Daredevil (2015–2018), The Defenders (2017) and the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
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892997 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Forte | Francesco Forte | Francesco Forte (11 February 1929 – 1 January 2022) was an Italian politician, academic and economist. He was born in Busto Arsizio, Italy. He was a member of the Socialist Party. Forte was Minister of Finance between 1982 and 1983. He was a cabinet member during the Bettino Craxi and Amintore Fanfani governments.
He was mayor of Bormio from 1988 to 1991.
Forte was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1979 until 1987. He was later a member of the Senate from 1987 until 1994. Forte was Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1983 until 1987. He was also Minister of European Affairs between 1983 until 1986.
Forte died on 1 January 2022 in Turin, Italy at the age of 92.
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892998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Furgal | Sergei Furgal | Sergei Ivanovich Furgal ( (pronounced foor-GAHL); born 12 February 1970) is a Russian politician. He was Governor of Khabarovsk Krai from 28 September 2018 until 20 July 2020. He was arrested on 9 July 2020.
Furgal was also a member of the State Duma from 2007 to 2018. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
On 9 July 2020, Furgal was arrested by authorities on charges of involvement in multiple murders of several businessmen in the region and nearby territories in 2004 and 2005. He could face life in prison if convicted.
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892999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Combs | Jeffrey Combs | Jeffrey Alan Combs (born September 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for starring in horror movies such as Re-Animator. He is also known for playing many characters on Star Trek and voicing characters in the DC animated universe television franchises.
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893000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Guest | Nicholas Guest | The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951), known as Nicholas Guest, is an American actor. He played Headmaster Patrick James Elliot in the teen sitcom USA High.
His brother is Christopher Guest.
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893001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bormio | Bormio | Bormio (, , ) is a town and comune with a population of about 4,100. It is located in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in Italy.
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Ski areas and resorts |
893004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Frattini | Franco Frattini | Franco Frattini (born 14 March 1957) is an Italian politician and former lawyer. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs twice during the Silvio Berlusconi governments between 2002 to 2004 and again from 2008 until 2011. Frattini was a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1996 until 2004 and again from 2008 until 2013.
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893006 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Martino | Antonio Martino | Antonio Martino (born 22 December 1942) is an Italian politician. He was the minister of foreign affairs in 1994 and minister of defense from 2001 to 2006 during the Silvio Berlusconi governments. He is a founding member of Forza Italia.
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893007 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza%20Italia | Forza Italia | Forza Italia (FI; translated to "Forward Italy" or "Let's Go Italy") was a centre-right political party in Italy with liberal-conservative, Christian-democratic, liberal, social-democratic and populist ideas. Its leader was Silvio Berlusconi, who was Prime Minister of Italy four times.
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893011 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Fascina | Marta Fascina | Marta Fascina (born 9 January 1990) is an Italian politician. She is a member of Forza Italia. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2018.
Fascina has been dating former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi since 2020.
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893012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito%20di%20Porto%20Salvo | Melito di Porto Salvo | Melito di Porto Salvo (; or ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria.
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893020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna%20Brown | Edna Brown | Edna Brown (April 7, 1940 – January 1, 2022) was an American politician. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Brown was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2011 to 2018. Before, she was in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2010. Brown was born in Toledo, Ohio.
Brown died at her home in Toledo on January 1, 2022 at the age of 81.
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893021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Myers | Pete Myers | Pete Myers (18 April 1939 — 5 December 1998) was an international broadcaster with the BBC World Service and Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
Myers was born to Anglo-Indian parents in Bangalore. His father worked for Indian Railways. His career in radio started in Ghana, where he arrived as a teenager in 1957, three days before independence. Myers became friends with Smokey Hesse, who hosted Jazz Scene on Radio Ghana and let Myers regularly sit in during broadcasts. One day, Smokey realised he had forgotten his script at home, rushed back to get it, and was hit by a bus and killed. Sitting in the studio, and unaware of the accident, Myers was asked to fill in and present the programme instead. He did it so well that he was hired as a broadcaster at the station. He became the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation's top radio personality and the favourite radio voice of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah. While in Accra, organized a weekly discotheque session that helped popularize rock and roll in the capital and also directed the country's first musical and helped found what became the country's national theatre. During the Congo Crisis he and friends went to Katanga to entertain United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo. Later, Myers was part of a troupe that included an orchestra, and 85 dancers that was sent to Moscow to perform.
On the strength of his success at Radio Ghana, he was hired in 1963 by the BBC External Service (BBC World Service since 1965) as the first host of Good Morning Africa for the BBC African Service. On the programme, he "anarchically scattered jokes, competitions and fictional guests like the American Vietnam commander ‘General Wastemoreland’ between the ‘pop, politics and personalities’ of the programme’s sub-title." Myers's success gave him celebrity in Africa, with fans gathering in the thousands to greet him at airports.
Myers was in the cohort of DJs who launched BBC Radio 1 in 1967 sharing duties with Terry Wogan presenting Late Night Extra, while also continuing on the BBC Africa Service. He was constrained on his Radio 1 show by the station's restrictive playlist and policies, denying him the on air freedom he had on the World Service. He also began presenting a weekend programme on BBC Africa, PM, named after his initials, where he would interview celebrities such as Shirley Bassey, Carol Channing, David Lean, Stephen Sondheim, Ingrid Bergman, and Sophia Loren. In the early 1970s, the success of Good Morning Africa promoted the World Service to make it the flagship morning programme across the English section as The Good Morning Show, also presented by Myers.
He left the BBC in 1974, after 11 years, and moved to Beirut, Lebanon where he opened a nightclub, the Crazy Horse Saloon, only to close it down a few weeks later when the Lebanese Civil War broke out. He moved to Turkey, where he attempted to start another nightclub, before returning to broadcasting in 1976 when he joined Radio Netherlands, where he produced and presented English-language documentaries, features, and other programming aimed at Africa and Asia, as well as for the English section generally, presenting and producing programmes such as Afroscene, Mainstream Asia, Asiascan, Rembrandt Express, and 50+. From 1993 to 1995 he hosted Radio Netherland's venerable Happy Station Show.
He died at 59 of cancer and complications from AIDS.
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External links
Much more than a Talent to Amuse recollections of Pete Myers by Jonathan Marks (18 April 2019)
A Talent to Amuse - Radio Netherlands tribute to Pete Myers (18 December 1998)
Siren Song: Interview with Pete Myers after 40 years of making radio (18 May 1997)
BBC radio presenters
1939 births
1998 deaths
LGBT broadcasters
People from Utrecht (city) |
893022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censure | Censure | A censure is a way of showing strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
In parliamentary procedure, it is a debatable main motion that could be adopted by a majority vote. Sometimes a political party (national or state level) can vote to censure a politician.
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893023 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Graham | Thomas Graham | Thomas Graham (1914 - April 21, 1988) was provincial court judge in Toronto who had previously served as a Toronto police officer, municipal councillor, and a member of the Ontario legislature (1955-1959). He served as a member of the Ontario Police Commission from 1960 until 1980, the last two years as the commission's chairman.
Graham was born in Toronto in 1914, where he attended Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute and St. Michael's College School. After working briefly as a milkman, he joined the Toronto Police Service in 1937, in the traffic division. He took a leave of absence during World War II to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1941 to 1944. After returning to the police force, he resigned in 1947 in order to manage a hardware store and engineering supply firm.
In 1953, he was elected to North York municipal council and served as a deputy reeve until 1955 when he was elected to the Ontario legislature as the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPP for York Centre (provincial electoral district). In the 1959 general election, he was defeated by Liberal Party of Ontario candidate Vernon Singer.
He was appointed to the three-person Ontario Police Commission in 1960, and in 1964, Graham was made a magistrate (later a provincial court judge) after Judge Herbert Sparling retired in order to fulfill the commission's requirement that at least one of its members be a judge. He was one of the last two non-lawyers to be appointed to the provincial court. After retiring from the Ontario Police Commission in 1980, he was active as a provincial court judge at the Old City Hall (Toronto) law courts.
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893024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Harrison%20Price | Lloyd Harrison Price | Lloyd Harrison Price (April 12, 1920 - May 1, 2007) was a Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario member of the Ontario legislature from 1958 to 1959. He was the party's candidate in a by-election in Hastings East. The by-election had been scheduled for September 11, 1958 but was acclaimed on August 28, 1959 when the nomination deadline in the Conservative stronghold passed without any other candidates registering. Price owned a service station and restaurant in Actinolite, Ontario and was 38-years old at the time of his election. Several months later, on April 23, 1959, Price was challenged and defeated for the Progressive Conservative nomination for the 1959 Ontario provincial election by Clarke Rollins, a distributor for an oil company who was involved in local politics having been warden for Hastings county.
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893027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Fell | Lloyd Fell | Lloyd F. K. Fell (1920 - 1981) was an Ontario politician, trade unionist, and educator on the subject of alcoholism.
Fell was born in Toronto and graduated from Central Technical School.
Fell worked as a diamond setter and jewelry engraver with a firm on Yonge Street and later worked for Swift Canadian Co. Ltd. as a shipper. During World War II he served in the Canadian Army, reaching the rank of sergeant.
Fell came to prominence in the 1948 Ontario general election when he was elected to the Ontario legislature as the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPP from the riding of Parkdale upsetting incumbent Conservative MPP William James Stewart, a former Mayor of Toronto and Speaker of the Ontario legislature, by a margin of 600 votes. Stewart regained his seat in the 1951 Ontario general election, defeating Fell, who ran again unsuccessfully in the 1955 Ontario general election.
Before his fist election, Fell became a trade union official working as a staff representative with the United Packinghouse Workers of America, resuming that position after his defeat. He later served as a staff representative with the United Steelworkers and was also an official with the Ontario Federation of Labour. He served as national chairman of the political action committee of the Canadian Congress of Labour.
A recovering alcoholic, he became director of the Lifeline Foundation, a joint venture of steel companies and the United Steelworkers of America designed to help employees with alcohol and drug problems.
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893028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Royer | Charles Royer | Charles T. Royer (born August 22, 1939) is an American politician. He was the 48th mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1978 to 1990.
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893029 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena%20Gonz%C3%A1lez | Lorena González | Maria Lorena González (born February 20, 1977) is an American lawyer and former politician. She was a member of the Seattle City Council from position 9. She was the first Latina elected to the council. She was a candidate for mayor of Seattle in 2021 but lost to Bruce Harrell.
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893032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland%20Park%2C%20New%20Jersey | Woodland Park, New Jersey | Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.
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893033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Bhalla | Ravi Bhalla | Ravinder Singh Bhalla (born January 13, 1974), often simply called Ravi Bhalla, is an American civil rights lawyer and politician. He is the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey since 2018. He was a member of the city council of Hoboken from 2009 until 2017.
On November 7, 2017, he was elected New Jersey's first Sikh mayor, as well as the first elected mayor in the United States who is a Sikh and wears a turban.
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893036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dastar | Dastar | A dastār (, from ) which derives from dast-e-yār or "the hand of God", is a headwear item worn by Sikh people. It is an important part of Sikh culture. The word comes from Persian through Punjabi. In Persian, the word dastār can describe any kind of turban.
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893038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattignies-la-Victoire | Wattignies-la-Victoire | Wattignies-la-Victoire () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 242 people lived there.
Other websites
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Communes in Nord |
893039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20Rice | Norm Rice | Norman Blann Rice (born May 4, 1943) is an American Democratic politician. He was the 49th mayor of Seattle, Washington, for two terms from 1990 to 1997. Rice was the city's first African-American to be elected mayor.
In 1996, Rice ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Washington, but lost the nomination to then-King County Executive Gary Locke.
In December 2010, he was nominated as one of 30 members for a two-year appointment in the White House Council for Community Solutions, created by Executive Order of President Barack Obama.
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893040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watten%2C%20Nord | Watten, Nord | Watten (; , meaning "ford" as in "river-crossing") is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 2,602 people lived there.
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893041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Charles%20Taylor | Frederick Charles Taylor | Frederick Charles Taylor (1907–1961) was reeve (mayor) of York, Ontario in 1961. York is now part of Toronto.
Taylor was elected in the 1960 municipal election as a reformer. He ran against Christopher Alexander Tonks. Tonks had been conflict of interest scandal. Taylor had been trying convincing the government to create a royal commission to look into corruption in land dealings.. He had created a motion at township council in 1956 for an inquiry but it was defeated. His own investigation into the issue found that many building permits that had been issued with the result of illegal tri-plexes (small three-level apartment buildings) being built. As a township councillor, Taylor had opposed many of the land deals that had been criticized by Judge David Sweet's royal commission into alleged corruption in York Township. Taylor was a semi-retired builder. He had been a school trustee for four years and a township councillor for three. Taylor was endorsed for the reeveship by the York Township Citizens' Committee. It was a group that had gotten a |court order to remove Tonks as reeve. The court order was overturned on appeal.
Taylor was born in Toronto. He was educated at Harbord Collegiate Institute. Taylor worked as a salesman and contractor before opening a building company. He was elected to the school board in 1951 and then to York Township Council in 1955. He tried to become a township councillor the year before but lost. He was defeated in 1958 before running against Tonks for the reeveship in 1960. Tayloe defeating him by an almost 3 to 1 margin. After almost a year as reeve, Taylor died of a heart attack on December 15, 1961.
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893044 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federick%20Hall | Federick Hall | Frederick Wilfred Hall (1893/1894 — August 17, 1977) was a Canadian magistrate, municipal official, and politician in Metropolitan Toronto. He served as reeve of the Township of York, Toronto from 1952 to 1956 and then as the first chairman of the Metropolitan Toronto Licensing Commission from 1956 to 1963, and president of the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Corporation from 1963 to 1966. Hall faced corruption and bribery allegations resulting both from his term as a municipal politician and his tenure as licensing commission chairman, though he was never convicted of any crime.
A merchant, Hall was first elected to York council in 1940 as councillor for Ward 1. In the 1951 election, he ran against three others for the position of reeve, including former reeve Charles McMaster, and won. Hall was a long-time proponent of the federation of Toronto-area municipalities into the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto in 1953 and was a founding member of Metropolitan Toronto council and was a member of its executive committee.
Hall resigned as reeve on August 27, 1956 in order to accept an appointment to the chairmanship of the new Metropolitan Toronto Licensing Commission. His appoinment was recommended by the provincial cabinet. In accordance with the practice at the time, he was concurrently appointed a magistrate.
In the early 1960s, Hall was accused of having accepted bribes from contractors and developers a decade earlier, as reeve, in exchange for helping them obtain building permits to build apartment buildings, contrary to zoning by-laws. After a judicial inquiry into municipal corruption, Hall and other township officials were charged with accepting bribes but were acquitted in October 1962 after a jury trial.
As the founding chairman of the Metro Licensing Commission, Hall was, amongst other things, responsible for governing the system of taxi licensing in the municipality. The system issued licenses in the forms of plates. The licenses were intended to be held by taxi drivers who were not permitted to rent them out to others. Due to lax enforcement by Hall, allegedly in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, a black market developed and it became possible for a small number of businessmen and investors to each gain ownership of hundreds of taxi plates and then rent them out to individual drivers for a fee, contrary to the letter of the by-law. It also became possible to transfer ownership of plates for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Speaking to the Toronto Star in the 1980s, one major taxi plate owner, Jack Goldberg, told the newspaper: "Fred Hall was a crook. You wanted something, you paid him off. Right there, right in his office, cash. That's the way it worked."
Hall died of a heart attack while trimming a hedge, aged 83.
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893045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lister%20Mould | John Lister Mould | John Lister Mould (1921–1990) was the first mayor of the Borough of York in Metropolitan Toronto after the former York Township was merged with the village of Weston, Ontario. He was also a candidate for the position of Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.
Mould enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and was awarded with the Distinguished Flying Cross.
After the war he joined his father's construction business.
He was elected to the York school board in 1952 and then as a town councilor in 1957 before being elected reeve (the equivalent of mayor) in 1962 by a margin of 44 votes over ex-reeve Christopher Tonks. He was re-elected in 1964, again beating Tonks. When York Township was merged with Weston to become the Borough of York, Mould was elected the borough's first mayor. During his terms as reeve and then mayor, Mould was a member of the Metropolitan Toronto Council and the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission.
In 1969, Mould announced his candidacy to succeed William Allen as Metropolitan Toronto Chairman and was considered to be the leading contender until former Liberal MP Ralph Cowan publicly accused Mould of having been in a conflict of interest by supporting the passage of a by-law at York Council writing off the taxes of a company he allegedly owned. Mould sued Cowan for libel but admitted that another company he owned had accrued $800 in unpaid municipal taxes, a fact that would have disqualified him as a candidate in the 1966 election had it been known. Mould refused to withdraw from the Metro Chairman election but at the council meeting to elect the Metro Chairman, two councillors who had been going to nominate Mould supported former North York reeve Norman Goodhead instead.
Mould remained mayor of York, however faced demands for his resignation from ratepayers and members of the borough's council. Controller Philip White announced that he would run against Mould for mayor in the 1969 municipal election. The next day, on October 21, 1969, Mould announced he would not be running for re-election.
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893046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Lipsett | Ross Lipsett | Ross Lipsett (1911 - January 15, 1995) was a municipal politician in Toronto in the 1950s. A lifelong resident of The Beaches,he served first as an alderman for Ward 8 (representing The Beaches), on Toronto City Council, and then on the Toronto Board of Control in 1954, when he was appointed by council to fill a vacancy on the board. However, when he ran in the December 1954 Toronto municipal election to retain his seat, he was defeated. Lipsett was first elected to city council in the January 1950 Toronto municipal election representing Ward 8, and was re-elected in December 1950 Toronto municipal election and again in 1951 Toronto municipal election in the 1952 Toronto municipal election and 1953 Toronto municipal election. In every election, Lipsett was elected senior alderman from his ward (each ward elected two aldermen). Consequently, as senior alderman for his ward, he was also a founding member of Metropolitan Toronto Council when Metropolitan Toronto was created in April 1953.
On July 7, 1954, he was appointed to the Board of Control, Toronto municipal government's executive body, to fill a vacancy created by Mayor Allan Lamport's resignation and Controller Leslie Saunders's appointment as interim mayor. In council's vote on filling the vacancy, Lipsett defeated alderman Allan Grossman and former alderman Joseph Cornish on the first ballot. The appointment was controversial as Cornish had finished in fifth place in the previous municipal election, narrowly missing winning a seat on the four-member board by 4,600 votes in the city-wide election. In the December 1954 Toronto municipal election, Cornish again ran for the board and succeeded in winning the fourth position, beating Lipsett by 10,000 votes. As an alderman and controller, Lipsett favoured increased social assistance to the elderly and the construction of emergency housing as well as the construction of the Don Valley Parkway and the proposed Scarborough Expressway and also advocated the conversion of the Toronto Islands to parkland, opposing proposals to build a bridge or tunnel connecting the islands to the mainland.
Outside of politics, Lipsett owned Ross Lipsett Tires and Automotive Supplies Wholesalers in Leaside.
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893047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20McMurrich | George McMurrich | George McMurrich (1843 or 1844 - September 7, 1913) was a long-time member of Toronto City Council in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
McMurrich, who in his business life ran an insurance firm, was first elected an alderman for St. George's Ward in 1891, represented Ward Three from 1892 to 1903 except for 1897 and 1899 when he was not on council. After a break of three years, he was elected to represent Ward Four and did so continuously until his death in 1913. He ran for mayor twice, in the 1897 Toronto municipal election in which he lost to incumbent mayor Robert Fleming by 1,600 votes and in 1899 Toronto municipal election when he came in third. He was appointed by council to sit on the Toronto Board of Control in 1896 and again in 1902 for one-year terms.
McMurrich was the second son of John McMurrich, a former Ontario Liberal Party member of the Ontario legislature. His older brother was William Barclay McMurrich, who served as Mayor of Toronto from 1881 to 1882. George McMurrich, himself, was a supporter of the Ontario Liberal Party but never stood for the party provincially or federally.
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893048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danuta%20Pfeiffer | Danuta Pfeiffer | Danuta Pfeiffer (née Rylko, formerly Soderman) (born February 22, 1949) is an author and a retired journalist. She is best known for co-hosting The 700 Club with Pat Robertson and Ben Kinchlow from 1983 to 1988.
She was born in England after World War II to a father who was from Poland and worked as a sculptor. Her mother was a nurse and English.
Danuta Rylko and her parents moved to the United States as a child shortly after she was born. She grew up in northern Michigan, near Bellaire.
She began her career in San Diego, California as a newsreader on the radio, and was co-host of SunUp San Diego on KFMB-TV from 1976 to 1983.
Rylko was hired by the Christian Broadcasting Network after becoming a born again Christian. She was hired to be CBN's foreign correspondent in Jerusalem, but was instead made co-host of The 700 Club days after arriving at CBN's headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Reflecting on her experiences, she wrote: "But no one ever asked me about my politics. I was converted by association from my liberal democratic feminism to conservative Republican fundamentalism. I felt like a wolf in sheep’s clothing adapting somewhat awkwardly to becoming one of the sheep."
She was the first journalist to report the story of the John Anthony Walker spy ring. She interviewed Walker's daughter, Laura Walker Snyder, for CBN. During the interview, Snyder explained how her father had allegedly intimidated and manipulated his children into becoming spies.
She married Swedish businessman Kai Soderberg in 1983, six months after joining The 700 Club. Soderman was a suicidal alcoholic and the two eventually divorced after she moved back to California.
She was fired by Robertson in 1988 after he learned that her then-husband, Kai Soderman, had previously been twice married and divorced.
She stopped being a Christian after her experiences at CBN and returned to San Diego where she hosted Danuta Time, on KSDO radio in the late 1980s and a news commentator on KUSI-TV in the early 1990s. She moved to Colorado, where she was a columnist for the Colorado Eagle, before moving to Oregon in 1994 to be closer to her family. There she met and married her second husband, Robin Pfeiffer, a winery owner, in 1994.
Since 1994, she has been co-owner, with her husband, of Pfeiffer Winery in Oregon. In 2016, she supported Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.
Pfeiffer has written a memoir called Chiseled: A Memoir of Identity, Duplicity, and Divine Wine (2015) about her life in general as well as her experiences with CBN. Her most recent book is Libertas, the first book in a trilogy (three-book series) called A Pocket Full of Seeds, which is a 19th century historical fiction about runaway slaves who took the difficult journey on the Oregon Trail to seek freedom in the Northwest of the United States.
Bibliography
Watersafe Your Baby in One Week (as Danuta Rylko), 1983
Dear Danuta: Cries and Whispers of Searching Hearts (as Danuta Soderman), 1986
A passion for living (co-authors: Danuta Soderman & Kai Soderman), 1987
Chiseled: A Memoir of Identity, Duplicity, and Divine Wine (as Danuta Pfeiffer), 2015
Libertas, Book One in the Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy, (as Danuta Pfeiffer), 2021
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personal website
Inside the 700 Club: Pat Robertson's former co-host speaks out - article by Danuta Pfeiffer for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
C-SPAN interview on her memoir, 2017
Television evangelists
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21st-century American novelists |
893049 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex%20Hexotzingo | Codex Hexotzingo | The Huexotzinco Code is a document from Central America that contains testimonials and images about tribute payments. The document is painted on Amatl, a paper made from bark. It was made for a trial that Hernán Cortés led in 1531 against the officials of what was called Primera Audiencia. The Primera Audiencia was about income officials had form the Province of Huexotzinco. The process was ultimately successful and two thirds of the excessive levies were reimbursed. The pictorial section of the document contains the earliest known image of the Virgin Mary from Mexico. Huexotzinco, modern Huejotzingo, is a city in the state of Puebla, southeast of Mexico City . It is about northwest of Puebla. In 2022, about 60.000 people lived there.
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893052 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%20submission | Male submission | Some men like to be submissive, in BDSM, and other sexual activities. This is known as male submission, or malesub. The woman who takes the dominant role, is usually called dominatrix. Such activity is usually called femdom.
A 2015 study indicates that 46.6% of men who are active in BDSM expressed a preference for a submissive role, 24% consider themselves to be switches (they can take both roles) and 29.5% prefer the dominant role.
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893055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Tonks | Christopher Tonks | Christopher Alexander Tonks (March 23, 1917 – February 6, 2006) was a long-time politician in the Toronto municipality of York, Ontario from 1949 to 1988. He served as reeve of the then-Township of York from 1957 to 1960, when he was unseated by a court order due to a conflict of interest scandal involving his house which was built on land purchased from the township. He attempted to regain the reeveship several times in subsequent municipal elections but was unsuccessful. He returned to council as a borough alderman in 1967, was defeated in 1969, and then returned to council again as an alderman for Ward 5 in 1972, where he remained until his retirement in 1988. He is the father of Alan Tonks, who served as mayor of York during the elder Tonks's final years as an alderman, and went on to be Metropolitan Toronto Chairman, and then Member of Parliament for York South.
Life
His parents immigrated from England around the turn of the twentieth century and settled in Scarborough, Ontario. His father was a bricklayer and his mother ran one of Toronto's first United Cigar Stores outlets, on Kingston Road. The couple and their five children lost their properties during the Great Depression and moved to York, Ontario where they opened a new United Cigar Stores outlet and hardware store. Christopher Tonks became the store's postmaster, a position he'd maintain for much of his political career. He would dispense advice to his customers and his store became a meeting place for debate in his neighbourhood, prompting his entry into politics. In 1949, he was elected to the township council for York's ward 2, later becoming deputy reeve before becoming reeve in 1957. The Chris Tonks Arena was named in his honour.
Tonks was accused of having, while serving as reeve, rigged the sale of a tract of municipal land to himself in 1957, at a favourable price, on which he built his family's home. The transaction was revealed in 1959 during a royal commission into allegations of corrupt land deals in York Township. Tonks had bought the land from the township, through a third party, for $6,600 - a sale that was approved by the township council. Tonks claimed at the royal commission inquiry that he disclosed his interest in the property and refrained from voting but neither of those claims were reflected in the meeting minutes. Royal Commissioner Judge Joseph Sweet wrote in his report that the Tonks transaction was "symptomatic of an unhealthy attitude toward law, an attitude which if persisted in, might seriously adversely affect the financial affairs of the township.
A neighbour complained that under the Ontario Municipal Act, they should have been offered the property first and sued Tonks. The case was dismissed in a lower court, but in 1965, the Court of Appeal overturned the decision and nullified the sale of the property to Tonks, and he was forced to relinquish the property to the township. Revelations made during the royal commission inquiry led a group of ratepayers to seek a court order unseating Tonks as reeve in 1960. They succeeded, but the order was overturned by the court of appeal and Tonks was reinstated as reeve, only to be defeated when he ran for re-election in the December 1960 municipal election by reformer Frederick Charles Taylor by an almost 3 to 1 margin. Tonks made two further attempts to be elected reeve but was defeated both times by Jack Mould. The Supreme Court upheld the court of appeal ruling nullifying Tonks's purchase of the property. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, Tonks won a seat on council as an alderman in an election held days later. He lost an attempt to be elected to York's Board of Control in 1969, and then returned to council again as an alderman for Ward 5 in 1972, where he remained until his retirement in 1988. He is the father of Alan Tonks, who served as mayor of York during the elder Tonks's final years as an alderman, and went on to be Metropolitan Toronto Chairman, and then Member of Parliament for York South. His grandson is school trustee Chris Tonks.
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2006 deaths
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893056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20McMahon | Frederick McMahon | Frederick Joseph McMahon (1914 - March 6, 1988) was a public official in Ontario. He was a lawyer, best known for defending the bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd, reeve of North York, Ontario, and then a provincial judge. As a lawyer, McMahon was well-known for having defended bank robbers Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his brother Norman in their 1952 trials.
McMahon was born in Toronto. He studied law at Osgoode Hall before joining the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. After being demobilized he began his law practice in the Toronto suburb of North York. He moved to the township of North York, in 1945 and begun his law practice.
McMahon was first elected to North York township council in January 1950. In 1952, he ran against reeve Nelson Boylen, defeating him in an upset victory by more than 1,500 votes after a campaign in which he promised to bring industry to the largely rural municipality. He also promised to expand the municipal government to reflect North York's rapid population growth since the war.
McMahon, fearing that North York was facing bankruptcy, supported the province's proposal to federate the city of Toronto with 12 surrounding townships and villages to create Metropolitan Toronto in 1953.
McMahon was re-elected in 1953, 1954, and 1955.
As a member of Metropolitan Toronto's executive committee, McMahon supported the fluoridation of water.
McMahon attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1955 provincial election running as the Liberal candidate in York Centre, losing by 1,100 votes to Conservative Thomas Graham.
McMahon did not stand for re-election in 1956.
In 1969, the provincial government appointed McMahon to the bench as a provincial court judge.
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893057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Goodhead | Norman Goodhead | Norman Charles Goodhead (August 26, 1917 – October 3, 2009) was a Canadian municipal politician in Metropolitan Toronto. He was reeve of North York township, a municipality in the Metro Toronto federation, from 1959 to 1964 and was a candidate to be Reeve of the Township of North York, Ontario from 1959 to 1964 and was twice a leading candidate to be Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, a position elected by the Metropolitan Toronto Council.
He was born and raised in the Cabbagetown, Toronto neighbourhood before moving to the suburb of North York as an adult. He was elected to the North York Township Council in 1956 and then as its reeve (the equivalent of mayor) in 1958, while the suburb was experiencing a boom in development as its population grew.
Goodhead campaigned in favour of increasing North York's representation on Metro Council and for the creation of a Board of Control to better manage the suburb.
In office, he crusaded against illegal basement apartments and the subdivision of single family homes into multi-tenant units and utilized the township's resources to evict up to 1,000 tenants of these properties. Albert Campbell, reeve of the neighbouring suburb of Scarborough, criticized Goodhead's actions: "imagine talking about sending township officials into private homes and padlocking them, then ordering workmen to rip out plumbing and the like."
He also criticized the construction of the proposed lakeshore expressway in Toronto, a major project of Metro, saying, "the Gardiner Expressway will someday be a monument to stupidity."
In 1962, he ran for the position of Metro Chairman to succeed Fred Gardiner but lost to City of Toronto Controller William R. Allen, winning 10 votes to Allen's 14.
In 1964, Goodhead ran for a fourth term as reeve but was defeated by James Ditson Service, who accused Goodhead of authoritarianism and ran against him as a reformer. He also accused Goodhead of being in a conflict of interest as North York's garbage disposal contract was with a private business operated by Goodhead.
Goodhead ran for Metro Chairman a second time in 1969, but he was no longer a sitting Metro Councillor and was considered the frontrunner, and led on the first ballot before being defeated on the third ballot by Scarborough mayor Albert Campbell, 21–11.
He was a mentor to Paul Godfrey, whose mother managed Goodhead's election campaigns, and who would succeed Campbell as Metro Chairman in 1975. When Goodhead died, Godfrey eulogized him as "one of the original people that got North York out of the short-pants era to becoming a full-fledged municipality."
Goodhead was a successful businessman outside of politics, and sold his waste disposal firm to a US company for $12.5 million in 1972. He also owned two landfill sites, one of which was the largest in Canada.
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893059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos%20Zappas | Evangelos Zappas | Evangelis or Evangelos Zappas (; ; 23 August 1800 – 19 June 1865) was a Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman who established the modern Olympic Games.
Biography
Early life
Evangelis Zappas was born to a Greek family on August 23, 1800 in the village of Labovo in the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Vasileios and Sotira Zappas. Zappas received no education during his youth. At 13, he left his village and worked as a mercenary in the Ottoman militia of Ali Pasha. Zappas was involved in the Filiki Eteria, a Greek patriotic organization, and served in the Greek War of Independence when it started in 1821. He claimed to have been wounded five times during the war. Zappas later moved to Wallachia in 1831 and made a fortune in land and agriculture. In the 1850s, Zappas became one of the wealthiest businessmen in Eastern Europe. The value of his whole fortune was calculated at six million gold drachmas.
Revival of the Olympic Games
Zappas was a nationalist inspired to revive the Olympic Games by Panagiotis Soutsos, a Greek poet. He sent a letter in 1856 to King Otto of Greece offering to pay to restore the Olympics. The first modern Olympic Games were held on November 15, 1859 in Athens, Greece. And just like in the ancient Olympics, the athletes competed in running, discus throwing, javelin throwing, wrestling, jumping, and pole-climbing. Zappas died on June 19, 1865 with no children. His money was used for developing athletic buildings in Athens, as well as for continuing the Olympic Games. He left instructions for the building of the Zappeion Exhibition and Conference Center named in both his honour and in the honour of his cousin, Konstantinos Zappas.
Legacy
Evangelos Zappas made several donations to Greek schools, libraries and scholarships. He also financed the Romanian Academy where he has a statue there today. Zappas also funded a Romanian dictionary, a newspaper and books in the Albanian language, and research on the history of the Romanian people.
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Further reading
Other websites
University of Florida (Gainesville) - Professor David C. Young Lifetime Achievement Award (includes long list of useful source references concerning the revival of the Olympic Games in modern times)
Testaments of Evangelis and Konstantinos Zappas. (Greek)
1800 births
1865 deaths |
893061 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestwood%2C%20Missouri | Crestwood, Missouri | Crestwood is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Cities in Missouri |
893062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Lake%20Park%2C%20Missouri | Crystal Lake Park, Missouri | Crystal Lake Park is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
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893063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dellwood%2C%20Missouri | Dellwood, Missouri | Dellwood is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
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893064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des%20Peres%2C%20Missouri | Des Peres, Missouri | Des Peres is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
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893065 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundson%2C%20Missouri | Edmundson, Missouri | Edmundson is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
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893066 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellisville%2C%20Missouri | Ellisville, Missouri | Ellisville is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
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