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Ruiz married Joffrey principal dancer Paul Sutherland in 1968.
She had two daughters, Mhari Wilson and Alicia Sutherland.
In 1995, Ruiz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York Empire State College.
Ruiz died in her home in Waldwick, New Jersey, on August 13, 2019, at the age of 83.
Cellio Bucchi
Cellio Bucchi was an Italian film actor.
He was active during the silent era, where he sometimes appeared in leading roles.
Later he was a supporting actor in sound films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Mahmoud Shafiei
Mahmoud Shafiei (; born 7 August 1991) is an Iranian footballer who plays as a Midfielder for Iranian club Pars Jonoubi in the Persian Gulf Pro League.
He made his debut for Pars Jonoubi in 1st fixtures of 2019–20 Iran Pro League against Persepolis.
Flora Ugwunwa
Flora Ugwunwa (born 26 June 1984) is a Nigerian Paralympic athlete competing in F54-classification events.
She represented Nigeria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and she won the gold medal in the women's javelin throw F54 event.
She also set a new world record of 20.25m at this event.
She qualified to represent Nigeria at the 2020 Summer Paralympics after winning the silver medal in the women's javelin throw F54 event at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Nathlie Provosty
Nathlie Provosty (born 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio - ), is an American visual artist in Brooklyn, New York.
She earned her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at University of Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004.
The year after graduation from college, Provosty received a Fulbright Fellowship in painting, and spent a year in India.
In 2007, She earned her Master's degree in Fine Arts at University of Pennsylvania.
In 2013, Provosty created an artwork for an album named Aheym by the musician Bryce Dessner.
In 2014, she collaborated with the poet Robert Kelly and create a group of paintings for Kelly's book "The Color Mill".
Provosty was the recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting in 2012.
In 2012, Provosty had her first one-person exhibition at "1:1", an experimental artist-run gallery in New York.
Her first exhibition in a commercial gallery was held at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York in 2016.
Provosty is well-known for her oil painting on linen.
By using monochromatic shades of color, she often creates schemes that appear aesthetically simple but contain depths of field.
She often applies colors in glossy and matte finishes of paint to highlight this effect, which helps to draw viewers into and across the works’ layers.
Provosty also utilizes various media in her works.
In the 20016 exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, Provosty created an expanded multi-sensory experience by manipulating colors at the far reach of the spectrum and the surfaces that vibrate and disappear.
Provosty's paintings have been exhibited all over the world, and her works are included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Colby Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Museum, and the Portland Museum of Art.
Harlem (film)
Harlem is a 1943 Italian sports crime film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Massimo Girotti, Amedeo Nazzari and Vivi Gioi.
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini.
The former world heavyweight champion Primo Carnera appears in a small role.
It is also known by the alternative title of Knock Out.
It is noted for its anti-Americanism at a time when the two countries were at war, although this was considerably milder than the more violently anti-German and anti-Japanese made by Hollywood in the era.
In postwar re-releases, Amedeo's final line was redubbed with a more positive view on life in the United States.
Tommaso Rossi, a young Italian goes to America to visit his elder brother Amedeo who has a business in the construction industry.
He is discovered as a talented boxer after getting into a fight with a champion in a restaurant and flooring him.
However his elder brother's business is wrecked and he is arrested for a crime he did not commit.
Forced to fight in order to raise enough money to bail his brother, Tommaso is then told by a dying Amedeo to return to Italy as the American dream holds nothing for Italian American immigrants.
Shafique Uddin
Shafique Uddin (1962) is an English outsider artist known for his paintings.
Uddin was born in Borobari, Bangladesh and moved to the United Kingdom in 1976.
Uffiq's first exhibition, at the age of seventeen, was at London's Whitechapel Gallery.
He was a part of the 2005 Outsider Art exhibition held by the Tate Museum, London.
In 2016 he was a part of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition "Inner Worlds Outside".
His work is included in the Arts Council Collection of Southbank Centre, London, the Bradford Museums and Galleries, the New Art Gallery Walsall, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Outsider Art Collection and the Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-taught & Outsider Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Comet (1791 ship)
Comet was launched in 1791 at Rotherhithe.
At the outbreak of war with France, she briefly became a privateer before the British East India Company (EIC) chartered her for one voyage to bring back sugar, saltpeter, and other goods from Bengal.
Between 1812 and 1821 she made three voyages as a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery.
Then between 1823 and 1840 she became a whaler based in Hull, whaling in the British Northern Whale Fishery.
She returned to trade in 1841 and was lost on 1 December 1843 homeward bound from Quebec.
"Comet" first appeared in "Lloyd's Register" ("LR") in 1791 with S.Baker, master, B.Daubuz, owner, and trade London–Leghorn.
Captain Sampson Baker acquired a letter of marque on 11 April 1793.
The size of her crew suggests that the intent was to cruize as a privateer.
Not long after, the EIC chartered "Comet" and had Young measure her in 1794.
"Lloyd's Register" for 1794 showed her trade changing from London–Straits [of Gibraltar] to London–Bengal.
EIC voyage (1794–1795): Baker sailed from Gravesend on 17 June 1794, bound for Bengal and Madras.
"Comet" arrived at Calcutta on 15 November.
Homeward bound she was at Kedgeree on 29 January 1795 and Saugor on 18 February.
She was at Madras on 4 March and reached Saint Helena on 24 May.
She stopped at the River Shannon on 13 September, and arrived back at Deptford on 18 October.
After her return, "Comet" became a West Indiaman, with Captain Anthony Hooper acquiring a letter of marque on 6 September 1797.
On 6 March 1798 "Lloyd's List" ("LL") reported that the French privateer "Garonne" had captured "Comet", Hooper, master, as "Comet" was sailing from Martinique to London.
"Garonne" also captured "Alert", Bligh, master, which was sailing from St Ubes to Limerick.
"Garonne" put Hooper and Bligh aboard "Minerva", Gardner, master, which carried them into Falmouth.
On 30 Marc "Lloyd's List" reported that "Comet" had been carried into Rochefort.
"Comet" returned to British ownership by means that are currently unclear.
A "Comet", Peterson, master, arrived at Gravesend on 20 August 1800.
She may have returned as a cartel.
Then "Comet", Murcheson, master, sailed from Gravesend for Demerara on 17 November.
"LL" reported on 18 December 1801 that "Comet", Murcheson, master, and "Themis", Douglas, master, had run into each other near Portsmouth.
"Comet" was sailing from London to Demerara, and "Themis" was sailing from London to Grenada.
"Comet" lost her mizzenmast and had her quarters stove in.
1st whaling voyage (1812–1815): Captain Abel Scurr sailed from Hull on 3 September 1812, bound for Peru and the Galapagos.
By one report, "Comet" had two captains Scurr was the "fighting captain" and Duke (or Dunn), was the "whaling captain".
"Comet" arrived off the coast of Chile only to undergo detention between January 1813 and March 1814.
The detention came at the hand of the Patriots, the independence fighter opposing the Spanish loyalists.
"Comet" then whaling at the Galapagos Islands and elsewhere in the region.
Captain Scurr died on 17 June 1815; "Comet" arrived at Callao the next day.
"Comet" sailed for home on 15 July, sailing via Cape Horn and Saint Helena.
"Comet", Duke, master, returned to England on 4 December 1815 with 350 casks of oil plus fins from 38 whales plus oil from 873 Galapagos turtles, in all 115 tons of oil.
Her cargo was worth about £7,000.
Before sailing on her second whaling voyage, "Comet", Captain Sugden, sailed to the West Indies.
"Lloyd's List" reported on 11 March 1817 that "Comet", Sugden, master, had arrived at Dominica from Hull.
She arrived back at Gravesend on 25 May.
"Comet", Sugden, master, also sailed to Russia.
On 30 August 1817 she was at Petersburg.
She returned to Gravesend on 26 October .
2nd whaling voyage (1818–1819): "Comet" was reported to be at Portsmouth on 26 March 1818, bound for the South Seas.
By another account, "Comet", Phipps, master, sailed from England on 3 April 1818.
He returned on 11 June 1819 with 350 casks plus fins, or 175 tons train oil.
3rd whaling voyage (1819–1821): Captain Stewart (or Steward) sailed from Deal for the South Seas on 3 November 1819, having come from Hull.
On 6 December 1819 she was at .
"Comet" returned to England on 13 November 1821 with 250 casks (117 tuns) of whale oil, plus fins.