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Kate Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She played Alma Del Mar Jr. in the movie "Brokeback Mountain". She also played Jessica Chandler for "Random Hearts" in 1999. She has also performed on stage. In 2017, she starred as Mary Jo Kopechne in "Chappaquiddick". She played Zoe Barnes on "House of Cards"... |
Mara was born in Bedford, New York. |
Hop |
Hop or hops can mean several things: |
Battle of Wilson's Creek |
The Battle of Wilson's Creek, also called the "Bull Run of the West", was a battle of the American Civil War. It was the first battle that took place west of the Mississippi River. Nathaniel Lyon, the Union general, was the first general killed in the Civil war. |
Prelude to the battle. |
During the summer of 1861, the Union and Confederate Armies were both trying to control Missouri. By the second week of July 1861, the Union Army of the West commanded by Brigadier general Nathaniel Lyon, camped at Springfield, Missouri. In total, he had about 5,400 soldiers in his command. |
About 75 miles to the southwest of Springfield, the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard were camped. They were under the command of Major general Sterling Price. Price was joined by Confederate generals Benjamin McCulloch and Nicholas Bartlett Pearce. Combined their forces numbered about 12,000. In late July both forces ... |
The battle. |
On August 9, 1861, Lyon marched his troops from Springfield to where the Confederates were now camped at Wilson Creek. His plan called for Colonel Franz Sigel to do a flanking maneuver on the Confederates and attack them from their rear. The rest of Lyon's forces would attack from the north. |
On August 10, Sigel's flanking maneuver surprised the Confederate army. It allowed the Union army an early advantage. The two armies fought fiercely in the fields and hills around Wilson's Creek. After six hours of fighting and numerous casualties on both sides, the Union forces withdrew. Siegel's attack had at first p... |
Three times the confederates attacked the Union line and failed to break through all three times. During the battle, Lyon was killed and Major Samuel D. Sturgis replaced him. Meanwhile, Sigel's mistake had cost him the advantage and his forces were routed. After the third attack at about 11:00 am, the Confederates with... |
Medal of Honor recipients. |
Five Union Soldiers received the Medal of Honor for their parts in the battle. They were: |
Philadelphia Brigade |
The Philadelphia Brigade was a brigade in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It got its name because its soldiers came from the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was part of the Army of the Potomac. |
Christina Grimmie |
Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12, 1994 - June 10, 2016) was an American singer, actress and YouTuber. She has performed cover versions of songs by Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. She released an extended play, "Find Me", in June 2011. Her studio album "With Love" was released in 2013. A second EP,... |
Life. |
Christina Victoria Grimmie was born and raised in New Jersey. |
Assassination. |
Grimmie was shot by 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl in Orlando, Florida at her concert. She later died in a hospital on June 10, 2016 at age of 22. |
Bianca Ryan |
Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an American singer. She was the winner of NBC's "America's Got Talent" in its first season. Her first album, "Bianca Ryan", was released in autumn 2006. In 2012, Ryan joined the cast of the independent movie "We Be Kings". She played a teenaged musician who is guided by an... |
Ryan was born and raised in Philadelphia. |
Jodelle Ferland |
Jodelle Micah Ferland (born October 9, 1994) is a Canadian actress. She played Sharon and Alessa in the thriller movie "Silent Hill" (2006). She also played Mary Jensen in the miniseries "Kingdom Hospital" (2004) and Bree Tanner in the movie "" (2010). She began acting at age two. |
Ferland was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia. |
Dean Spielmann |
Dean Spielmann (born 26 October 1962) is a lawyer from Luxembourg. He is the President of the European Court of Human Rights. He has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights from Luxembourg since 2004. He was made President of the Fifth Section of the Court in 2011. He was made Vice-President and then later P... |
Wamba |
Wamba is a small town in Kenya. It is in the Samburu district. The Wamba administrative division is there. The town has a big Catholic hospital. The hospital is considered important to the Samburu district. The town plays a role in the tourism industry in Kenya. It has strong ties with Prince William of Britain due to ... |
Hockley County, Texas |
Hockley County is a county in the state of Texas in the United States. In 2010, 22,935 people lived there. The county seat is Levelland. The county was named for George Washington Hockley, who was Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas. |
Weld County, Colorado |
Weld County is a county in the state of Colorado. The county seat is Greeley. As of the 2010 Census, 252,825 people lived there. |
Gunnison County, Colorado |
Gunnison County is a county in the state of Colorado. The county seat is Gunnison. As of the 2010 Census, 15,324 people lived there. |
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana |
Claiborne Parish is a parish of the state of Louisiana. The county seat is Homer. As of the 2010 Census, 17,195 people lived there. |
Sergey Kozlov |
Sergey Semenovich Kozlov (4 May 1960 – 4 January 2014) was a Russian football player and manager. Kozlov played as a midfielder and defender. |
Kozlov died from problems after a heart attack on 4 January 2014. He was aged 53. He died in his hometown of Khabarovsk. |
Bernard Glasser |
Bernard M. Glasser (June 3, 1924 – January 2, 2014) was an American movie producer and director. He was known for producing many science-fiction movies such as "Space Master X-7", "The Return of the Fly", "Run Like a Thief" and "Triangle". |
Glasser was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Joan Glasser until his death. They had four children. Glasser died on January 2, 2014 from natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was aged 89. |
St Cross College, Oxford |
St. Cross College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It is a graduate college only. It does not have any undergraduate students. The College was founded in 1965. It was named after St. Cross Road, where the college's first buildings were located. In 1981 it moved to its current location on St. Giles Ro... |
Brad Renfro |
Brad Renfro (July 25, 1982 — January 15, 2008) was an American actor. He played Mark Sway in "The Client" in 1994. He played Huckleberry Finn in the movie "Tom and Huck" in 1995 and also appeared in the family drama "The Cure" in the same year. He made many feature movies in his career. His career ended because of alco... |
Renfro was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He died at age 25 due to heroin intoxication. For reasons unknown, Renfro, was not included in the annual Academy Awards tribute for Hollywood performers who had died during the past year. |
Tricia Helfer |
Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian model and actress. She is best known for playing the Cylon "Number 6" in "Battlestar Galactica". In "Supernatural", she played Molly McNamara. She also played Alex Rice in "Dark Blue". She also played in other television series. |
Helfer was born in Donalda, Alberta. |
Athelwald of Deira |
Athelwald (also spelled Oethelwald or Œthelwald) was a King of Deira. He was the nephew of King Oswiu of Northumbria, his overlord, but he turned on his family to support the pagan Penda of Mercia. When Penda was killed, Athelwald lost his kingdom. |
Early Career. |
He was the son of King Oswald of Northumbria, who was killed by Penda of Mercia at the Battle of Maserfield in 642. At Oswald's death Northumbria was reduced back to the two kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira. Oswiu was the king of Bernicia and was acknowledge as overlord of Deira. |
Penda had placed Oswine of Deira on the throne of Deira. But Oswine did not get along with his overlord Oswiu. He raised an army against Oswiu but then realized his army wasn't large enough and he sent them home. He was betrayed by one of his nobleman to Oswiu and was murdered in 651. |
King of Deira. |
After Oswine's death, Athelwald became king. It is uncertain whether Oswiu (who was Athelwald's uncle) installed him as king or whether Athelwald took the kingship in opposition to Oswiu. At some point he allied himself with Oswiu's enemy, Penda of Mercia. He guided Penda during his invasion of Northumbria in 655. But,... |
King Athelwald gave St. Cedd the lands of Lastingham to build a monastery. |
Department |
Department can mean several things: |
Polar vortex |
The polar vortex (alternate names: Arctic cyclone or polar vortice) is a persistent large-scale cyclone located near geographical poles of a planet. On Earth, a polar vortex is usually in the middle and upper troposphere and stratosphere. The cyclone surrounds the polar highs. Polar storms lie in the wake of the polar ... |
Similar to hurricanes, a Coriolis effect causes the rotation of a polar vortex. The Arctic vortex has two main centers: one is over the Baffin Island, the other is over northeastern Siberia. |
Climate change may be increasing Arctic polar vortex stretching events. This would cause more extreme cold in the United States. |
Department of Alto Adige |
The Department of Alto Adige (, ) was a department of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy. It was named after the river Adige (Etsch), which flowed through it. The capital of the department was Trento. |
The department's territory was not the same as that of the modern Italian province of Alto Adige. Some of the territory is the same, such as the city of Bolzano, but most of the rest is now part of the province of Trento. These two provinces form the region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. |
History. |
The name "Alto Adige" was created in the late 18th century by Napoleon Bonaparte, when he occupied the territory of northern Italy near the Alps. This was the name of the French administrative division known as the "Department of Alto Adige" ("Dipartimento dell'Alto Adige"), created during Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy i... |
Some years later, Napoleon created the Department of Alto Adige further north. This department was a part of the Kingdom of Italy from 1810 to 1814. It was created with the division of the Austrian Tyrol between French Bavaria and the Kingdom of Italy, and included the southern part of Tyrol with the city of Bolzano wi... |
The department was ended after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. Its territory is now divided between the Italian provinces of Trentino and South Tyrol. |
The name "Alto Adige" was reused. Today it is the Italian name of the part of Tyrol south of the Brenner Pass. Ettore Tolomei made it official in Italy after World War I. |
Josep Casadevall |
Josep Casadevall (born 10 September 1946) is a lawyer from Andorra. He was born in Spain and received his law degree in Madrid in 1978. He is now a judge at the European Court of Human Rights. He represents Andorra. |
Ineta Ziemele |
Ineta Ziemele (born 12 February 1970) is a judge from Latvia. She has been a judge at the European Court of Human Rights since April 27, 2005. She is President of the Fourth Section since 2012. |
Suzanne Pleshette |
Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress. She played Jeanne Greene in "Youngblood Hawke" in 1964. She also played Annie Hayworth in "The Birds" one year earlier. She also voiced characters during certain movies. She then played Emily in the sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972-78). |
Pleshette was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died from lung cancer, after an operation removed part of her lung. She was 70. |
Gleneagles Hotel |
The Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel in Torquay, Devon, England. It is best known for being the inspiration for the British situation comedy, "Fawlty Towers". |
Patricia Hill Collins |
Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her first book, "Black Feminist Thought", was published in 1990. A book Collins wrote with Margaret Andersen called "Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology" was published in 1992. The... |
Early life and career. |
Collins was born in Philadelphia to working-class parents. She became a student at Brandeis University in 1965. |
In 1982 Collins started work as an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. |
(You Drive Me) Crazy |
"(You Drive Me) Crazy" is a popular romance song by Britney Spears. It was released in late August 1999. The song charted at #10 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and #9 in the Rhythmic Top 40. It performed better in United Kingdom. |
The original version on the album "...Baby One More Time" is different from the single version usually heard. |
The Spectator |
The Spectator is a British conservative magazine. It was first published on 6 July 1828. The editor was Robert Stephen Rintoul. In April 1858 he died. The magazine was then sold. David and Frederick Barclay own the magazine. Boris Johnson was the magazine's editor. Fraser Nelson has been the magazine's editor since 200... |
Rookie (magazine) |
Rookie is an American online magazine for teenage girls. It was started by the fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson in September 2011 with Anaheed Alani as the editorial director. Gevinson was going to make the magazine with Jane Pratt. Pratt decided not to be part of the magazine. However, Gevinson said that she is the magaz... |
TNA King of the Mountain Championship |
The TNA King of the Mountain Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The championship was debuted on the October 23, 2008 episode of "TNA Impact!" and was originally called the "TNA Legends Championship". It was considered the second highest-ranking title in TNA. I... |
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