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In the book Gillespie states that he has 6 children and if he sent them to the private school he attended or the equivalent girls' school he would have to have paid over $AUS1.3 million in fees.
While the book has received criticism from Teachers Unions, who he says have taken incentives away from teachers, and by the independent school system, no one has disputed that the quality of teachers count.
Gillespie is married with six children, the youngest of which are twins.
Charles Sumner Bird
Charles Sumner Bird (August 15, 1855 – October 9, 1927) was an American politician from Massachusetts.
A progressive Republican, Bird served as the Progressive Party's gubernatorial candidate in the 1912 and 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial elections.
Charlies Sumner Bird was born on August 15, 1855 in Walpole, Massachusetts to Francis William Bird and Abby Frances.
In 1877 he graduated from Harvard and Bird joined the Bird Corporation, although he had initially wanted to go into law, (then named "Bird and Son") and expanded the company's mills to Rhode Island and Canada and was one of the first to adopt the eight-hour work week.
In 1880 he married Anna J.
Child and later had four children with her.
In 1884 he entered politics and support New York Governor Grover Cleveland for president and again in 1888 and 1892.
After William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination in 1896 he left the Democratic Party and joined the pro-gold standard National Democratic Party.
During the 1912 presidential election he supported former President Theodore Roosevelt in his attempt to win the Republican nomination and after he left to form the Progressive Party he joined.
In 1912 and 1913 he served as the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts.
Later in life Bird supported the Eighteenth Amendment and attacked unionization as "the greatest crisis that ... this nation has faced for half a century."
On October 9, 1927 Bird died at his home in Walpole, Massachusetts after being ill for two years and left behind an estate worth $12,300,000 ($180,723,051 with inflation).
William E. Brown Jr.
William Ellis Brown Jr. (May 1, 1896December 8, 1970) was a Michigan politician.
Brown was born on May 1, 1896 in Lapeer, Michigan to parents William E. Brown Sr. and Grace Brown.
Brown served in the United States Army during World War I.
Brown was an automobile dealer and worked in the insurance business.
Brown served as the mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1945 until 1957, when he was not re-elected.
Brown was a Republican.
Brown married Eleanor Shartel on October 12, 1920.
Brown was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Brown was Presbyterian.
Brown died on December 8, 1970.
He was interred at Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
George Menke
George V. Menke (died March 13, 1978) was an American football player and coach.
He served as the head football coach at American University in Washington, D.C. in 1939.
Menke played college football at Catholic University of America.
Popova (crater)
Popova is a crater on Mercury.
Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2012, after the Russian painter and designer Lyubov Popova.
The crater has a bright ray system that overlies surrounding features and is thus young.
The peak-ring basin Chekhov is to the southeast of Popova, and the flat-floored Unkei is to the northeast.
Yuka Ishigaki
Ishigaki has won singles titles at the 2010 Egypt Open and the 2016 Bulgaria Open, and a women's doubles crown at the 2010 Japan Open.
Carlos Tobalina (filmmaker)
Efrain "Carlos" Tobalina (1925 – March 31, 1989), also known as Carlos Tobalina and often credited as Troy Benny, was a Peruvian-born filmmaker and actor known for his work on pornographic films.
He directed such films as "Infrasexum" (1969), "Jungle Blue" (1978), "Three Ripening Cherries" (1979), "Sensual Fire" (1980), and "Flesh and Bullets" (1985).
He became the owner of several adult theaters, and was involved in court cases related to obscenity laws.
In 1989, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head at one of his houses in Los Angeles.
Tobalina was born in 1925 in Peru, and emigrated to Brazil and then to the United States in the early 1950s.
He arrived in California in 1956, and over the next few years, he worked as both a car salesman at a number of car dealerships and a Spanish-language announcer.
In 1964, Tobalina founded C. Tobalina Productions, Inc., his film company.
He made his debut as a film director and actor with the 1969 film "Infrasexum".
By the autumn of 1971, Tobalina had become the owner of the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, California after purchasing it for around $300,000.
Throughout the decade, Tobalina and his wife Maria Pia Palfrader took ownership of a small number of adult theaters, including the X Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and the Star Theater in La Puente.
As early as 1969, Tobalina hired lawyers to defend himself and his films from obscenity laws of the time.
"Infrasexum" was brought to court in the state of Colorado on the charge of being "obscene material", but the court ultimately sided with Tobalina.
After the case, Tobalina filed a counterclaim against the prosecution, which included the mayor, state attorney general, and governor of Denver.
In 1970, a screening of "Infrasexum" in Birmingham, Alabama resulted in the arrest of a theater manager and a projectionist on account of allegedly violating city ordinances regarding obscene material.
In September 1971, the Los Angeles County Superior Court declared Tobalina guilty of violating a California Penal Code regarding the exhibition of obscene material for screening the 1971 film "Januarius".
Tobalina then hired lawyer Stanley Fleishman to appeal the ruling; appeals were made to the Los Angeles County appellate court, which upheld the ruling, and the California Supreme Court, which declined to review the case.
Fleishman then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court.
By 1973, after an increase in pornography-related court cases similar to those Tobalina was involved in, the U.S. Supreme Court redefined its definition of "obscenity" with the decision "Miller v. California", from "utterly without socially redeeming value" to that which lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value".
Tobalina married a bookkeeper named Maria Pia Palfrader in 1964, becoming a stepfather to her young daughter Gloria.
Two years later, in 1966, he and Maria had a daughter named Linda.
On March 31, 1989, Tobalina's wife Maria found him lying unresponsive in the enclosed back patio of one of his houses in the neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.
He was discovered with a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver in his right hand, and was declared dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
He had written a suicide note which explained that he was suffering from terminal liver cancer.
Liu Gangji
Liu Gangji (; 17 January 1933 – 1 December 2019) was a Chinese aesthetician, calligrapher, historian, painter, and philosopher.
He was considered a founder of the study of the history of Chinese aesthetics.
He was a distinguished professor and Director of the Institute of Aesthetics of Wuhan University.
He also served as Vice President of the China Aesthetics Society.
Liu was born on 17 January 1933 in Haoying Village, Puding County, Guizhou, Republic of China.
He graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University in 1956, and then spent two more years there studying aesthetics.
He joined the faculty of Wuhan University on the invitation of President Li Da, and spent his entire career at the university.
He was promoted to lecturer in 1963, to associate professor in 1978, and to professor in 1982.
He was named a distinguished professor in 2006.
He was a longtime director of the Institute of Aesthetics at Wuhan University, and also served as Vice President of the China Aesthetics Society.
Liu spent decades studying Marxist aesthetics, history of Chinese aesthetics, history of Chinese calligraphy and painting, and Chinese traditional thoughts and culture.
He and Li Zehou co-edited the two-volume "History of Chinese Aesthetics" (中国美学史), published in 1984 and 1987.
Considered the foundational work in the field, the book is described as "monumental" despite being unfinished.
In "The Spreading and Influence of German Aesthetics in China", he argued that modern Chinese aesthetics have largely resulted from the propagation of German idealism, through the translated writings of thinkers such as Alexander Baumgarten, Immanuel Kant, and Karl Marx.
In 1999, he was invited to teach as a visiting professor at the University of Trier and Heidelberg University in Germany, and the book was translated into German and published by the University of Trier Press.
Liu was also a painter and calligrapher.
He published "Collected Paintings and Calligraphy of Liu Gangji" in 2012, which includes 269 of his works.
The Hubei Institute of Fine Arts held his personal art exhibition in the same year with more than 150 works.
He has been described as "an artist among philosophers, and a philosopher among artists".
Liu was married to Sun Jialan (孙家兰).
He died on 1 December 2019 in Wuhan, aged 86.
World Beyond War
World Beyond War (distinct from Beyond War) is an anti-war organization with chapters and affiliates in about two dozen countries.
The organization bills itself as "a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace."
It is opposed to the very institution of war and not just individual wars.
World Beyond War publishes books, maintains a speakers bureau, funds the installation of billboards, hosts conferences, organizes protests, and produces webinars.
Its book "A Global Security System: An Alternative to War"
Started in 2014 and headquartered Chartlottesville, Virginia, World Beyond Wars's executive director is David Swanson.
Publications by people affiliated with World Beyond War have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, Truthout, Counterpunch, and The Progressive.
It has gotten coverage by the Cato Institute, Scientific American, Truthdig, Common Dreams, and Catholic Sentinel.
In June 2019, World Beyond War "was refused permission to place advertisements featuring the slogan “US troops out of Shannon” on billboards in Limerick during Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland."
Melekeduri
Melekeduri () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia.
Leigh J.
Young
Leigh Jarvis Young (March 31, 1883December 24, 1960) was a Michigan politician.