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Concepción Dueso Garcés is a goalball player from Spain. She is blind and is a type B3 goalball player. She played goalball at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
"I'm a Fool" is a short story by American writer Sherwood Anderson. It was first published in the February 1922 issue of The Dial (followed the next month by the London Mercury), and later, in 1923 as the first story in Anderson's short-story collection Horses and Men. Of that collection, William Faulkner wrote that "...I think, next to Heart of Darkness by Conrad that the first story, 'I'm a Fool,' is the best short story I ever read." The story is narrated in first person point of view and the setting is Ohio, where Sherwood Anderson was born.
Rene Kirby was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his performance in the Farrelly Brothers' film Shallow Hal. In this film he played the role of Walt, a man who, like Kirby himself, was born with spina bifida.
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (or CFP, or the Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy) is an annual academic conference held in the United States or Canada about the intersection of computer technology, freedom, and privacy issues. The conference was first held in 1991 in Burlingame, California. Since at least 1999, it has been organized under the aegis of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Haßleben is a municipality in the Sömmerda district of Thuringia, Germany.
Henri, marquis de Saint-Nectaire was a French nobleman, soldier and diplomat. The Marquis de Saint-Nectaire was commissioned in the Senneterre Dragoons, advancing to the rank of Brigadier in 1704 and Maréchal de camp later the same year. He was promoted Lieutenant-General of the French Army in 1718, before being posted to London by King Louis XV, where he served as Ambassador to Great Britain until 1720; he was appointed Chevalier du Saint-Esprit in 1724.
Jan Vítězslav Dušek was a Czech sculptor.
Cowasjee Nanabhai Davar is known for his pioneering efforts in laying the foundation of the cotton industry in India. He established multiple cotton mills in India. The first was Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company, and another was the Bombay Throstle mill company in Bombay.
UniPhi is a Project management software founded by Mark Heath. UniPhi spun out of mbh management in 2011 following the roll out of AECOM's Global Unite project.
St Cuthbert and St Mary's Church is the parish church of Barton, North Yorkshire, in England. In the medieval period, Barton was served by two churches: St Cuthbert, and St Mary. St Cuthbert fell into ruin, and then in 1840, a new St Cuthbert's Church was completed, to a design by Ignatius Bonomi.
Connigis is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Lauren Cobello (formerly Lauren Greutman) is an American consumer savings expert, author, speaker, and lifestyle television personality.
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Peter Wintonick about cinéma vérité filmmaking. The film looks at the work of such notable documentary filmmakers as Jean Rouch, Frederick Wiseman, and Barbara Kopple and Robert Drew, as well as the contributions of the National Film Board of Canada through such films as Lonely Boy. The film also looks at the influence of cinéma vérité on the pioneering found footage horror film The Blair Witch Project, and interviews video-auteur Floria Sigismondi.
Andrew Mald is a Papua New Guinean politician. He was first elected to the National Parliament in the 2007 general election, as independent MP for the Moresby North East Open constituency in the National Capital District, though he later joined the National Alliance Party, and sat as a government backbencher. Nonetheless, according to an editorial in the Post Courier, he was an "outspoken critic of the Government and in particular the National Capital District Commission (NCDC).
A Chronicle of Tahrir square is a 2014 American-Egyptian independent historic short film written and directed by Nour Zaki. The film won at the 2014 Women’s voices now film festival and was screened at the Chinese theater in Hollywood as a part of the Holly-shorts film festival. The movie sheds the light on the events that occurred in Tahrir Square on 2 February 2011 and the clashes between the anti and pro Mubarak crowd.
The northern Madagascar ground gecko (Paroedura homalorhina) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It is endemic to Madagascar.
The 2011 OEC Taipei Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the fourth edition of the OEC Taipei Ladies Open, and part of the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place between 31 October and 6 November 2011 at the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan.
Harry Onis Stratton was an American politician in the state of Florida. He served in the Florida State Senate from 1955 to 1965 as a Democratic member for the 16th district. In 1963, he was president pro tempore of the Senate.
Karchapeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple located in the town of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu, India.
Hazlewood with Storiths is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 191. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.