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Plot

In 1975, the wizard Shazam takes a young child named Thaddeus Sivana to an alternate universe to make him his champion against the Seven Deadly Sins. Sivana is tempted by sin and the Wizard tells him he will never be good enough. Shazam then sends him back to the world to the very moment that he left. Sivana panics and his father accidentally crashes his car and permanently breaks his legs. Sivana's brother blames him for what happened and hates him ever since. Sivana later becomes a doctor and pays for an experiment to reverse engineer what happened to him that way he could enter Shazam's world and fight Shazam. Dr Sivana then strikes a deal with the Seven Deadly Sins to become a supervillain in exchange for power. Dr. Sivana then kills his father and brother.
In the present, Billy Batson is taken in by a new family after having repeatedly run away from foster homes to try to find his mother who was accidentally separated from him at a carnival when he was a young child. Billy meets his new foster brother Freddie who knows everything there is to know about superheroes and who walks with a crutch. Billy finds Freddie annoying.  He then sees two bullies beat Freddie up with his crutch and does nothing until they make fun of Freddie for not having a mother. Billy then attacks and beats Freddie's bullies. Billy then runs away and gets onto a train. The wizard Shazam then appears to Billy and tells him that he is worthy of his power. The wizard tells him to say the name Shazam and transform into a superhero with his powers. Billy says Shazam and transforms into an adult superhero. Billy then reaches out to Freddie to find out how to be a superhero and transforms back by saying Shazam
. Billy becomes arrogant because of his power and so he chooses not to transform into his superhero form and visit Freddie as his hero at the school’s next lunch like Freddie had said he would. When no superhero showed up, they gave Freddie a suitcase wedgie. Freddie then came to Billy while Billy was in his superhero form during a public appearance and tells him he only cares about himself. Dr. Sivana then comes and attacks Billy. Billy tries and fails to fight Dr.Sivana and he transforms back into a teenager by saying Shazam so that he can escape. Dr. Sivana attacks Freddie and threatens to kill him if he doesn’t tell him where Billy lives. Freddie tells him. Dr. Sivana then kidnaps Billy’s foster family to get Billy to come to their rescue. Billy strikes a deal with Dr.Sivana to give up his powers in exchange for his foster family but instead of giving Dr. Sivana his power he gives his powers to his family by having them say Shazam. Dr
. Dr.Sivana has six of the Seven Deadly Sins try to fight against Billy and his family but they are defeated. Billy then manages to trick the Sin of Envy to leave Dr. Sivana and fight Billy himself.
In a scene after the credits, a talking caterpillar visits Dr. Sivana in prison and tells him they can help each other.

Cast
Zachary Levi and Asher Angel as Billy Batson / Shazam: A 14-year-old boy and the champion of the wizard with whom he shares his name and the superhero alter-ego of Billy Batson, who possesses "the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury".
 David Kohlsmith plays the four-year-old Billy.
 Mark Strong as Dr. Thaddeus Sivana: A scientist who was turned down as a potential champion and subsequently estranged from his family, who becomes a host for the Seven Deadly Sins and Shazam's nemesis. Strong previously portrayed Sinestro in the 2011 film Green Lantern, making Shazam! his second appearance in a film based on DC Comics characters.
 Ethan Pugiotto plays the young Thaddeus. 
 Jack Dylan Grazer as Frederick "Freddy" Freeman: Billy's physically disabled foster brother and a fan of superheroes, who mentors Billy on the use of his newfound powers. 
 Adam Brody plays the character's adult superhero form.
Djimon Hounsou as Shazam: The last surviving member of the Council of Wizards, who has spent centuries summoning people to his temple, the Rock of Eternity, in search of a "pure of heart" champion to whom he can pass on his extraordinary faculties. Hounsou previously voiced King Ricou of the Fisherman in the DCEU film Aquaman (2018).
 Faithe Herman as Darla Dudley: Billy's good-natured younger foster sister. 
 Meagan Good plays the character's adult superhero form.
 Grace Fulton as Mary Bromfield: Billy's mature, academically driven older foster sister. 
 Michelle Borth plays the character's adult superhero form.
 Ian Chen as Eugene Choi: Billy's younger foster brother, an obsessive gamer and techie. 
 Ross Butler plays the character's adult superhero form.
 Jovan Armand as Pedro Peña: Billy's older foster brother, a shy, sensitive boy who has trouble opening up. 
 D. J. Cotrona plays the character's adult superhero form.
 Marta Milans as Rosa Vásquez: The foster mother of Billy and his siblings.
Cooper Andrews as Víctor Vásquez: The foster father of Billy and his siblings.
The film also features John Glover as Thaddeus Sivana's estranged father of and CEO of Sivana Industries. Glover had starred in other DC Comics series and films: Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, and Superman: The Animated Series as The Riddler; Dr. Jason Woodrue in the 1997 film Batman and Robin; and Lionel Luthor in Smallville. Natalia Safran was cast as Thaddeus' mother, though her scenes were cut from the film. Caroline Palmer portrays Marilyn Batson, Billy's biological mother. Wayne Ward and Landon Doak portray Sid Sivana, Thaddeus' bullying brother as an adult and a teenager, respectively. Carson MacCormac and Evan Marsh portray Brett and Burke Breyer, bullies at the children's school.
Director David F. Sandberg makes cameo appearances performing as each of the three Crocodile-Men (collaboratively assisted by Steve Newburn and Ned Morill), and provides the voice of the alien lifeform Mister Mind during a mid-credits sequence. Sandberg's wife, actress Lotta Losten, portrays Dr. Lynn Crosby; a researcher working with Dr. Sivana, who is killed by him. Sound designer Bill R. Dean has an uncredited cameo, providing the voice for a Batman toy, while Ryan Hadley, Zachary Levi's stunt double, appears uncredited as a stand-in body double for Superman. Hadley's appearance is a silent cameo, where the character is only seen from the neck down, due to Henry Cavill being unavailable to film the scene. Executive producer Dwayne Johnson's likeness is used for the mystically generated holograph of Teth-Adam, which the wizard Shazam conjures while teaching Billy the history of the Rock of Eternity, the Seven Realms of Magic, and his previous Champion. Johnson portrayed the titular role in Black Adam.
The Seven Deadly Sins – a supernatural team of villains consisting of the demons Pride, Envy, Greed, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, and Sloth – were portrayed by stunt doubles in motion capture suits on-set during filming, and depicted on-screen through CGI special effects. Their voices were collectively provided by actors Steve Blum, Darin De Paul, and Fred Tatasciore; Tatasciore previously voiced the Seven Sins in the direct-to-video Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High. In an Easter egg appearance, Andi Osho reprises her role as social worker Emma Glover from Sandberg's debut film Lights Out.

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Wonder Woman 1984 (also known as WW84) is a 2020 American superhero movie based on the DC Comics character Wonder Woman. It is to be the sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman. It is the eighth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The movie is directed by Patty Jenkins, with a screenplay by Geoff Johns, David Callaham and Jenkins. It is based from a story written by Johns and Jenkins. It is produced by Charles Roven, Gal Gadot, Zach Snyder and Deborah Snyder.

It stars Gadot as Wonder Woman, with Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, Kristen Wiig as Cheetah and Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord. The movie is set in 1984 during the Cold War. Hans Zimmer will compose the movie soundtrack score.

The movie was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and for a limited time on HBO Max in Real D 3D and IMAX 3D on December 25, 2020.

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Cold War movies
Movies set in Virginia
Under Mango Tree is an architecture firm that was formed in 2010 by Gaurav Raj Sharma. Notable projects include the UCL Institute of Making in London, Villa Fagu in the Western Himalayas and the regeneration of Sujan Singh Park – New Delhi’s first multi-storied housing complex originally designed by Walter Sykes George.Under Mango Tree works across many sectors, including arts and culture, heritage, education, hospitality and residential.

Awards

2021 Winner Kyoorius Design Awards
2020 Finalist Dezeen Awards
2016 Winner UKTI Smart Cities competition
2015 20under35 - Design X Design Exhibition, Alliance Francaise de Delhi
2008 Finalist, AMD Open Architecture Network Challenge, International architecture competition

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Duriavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur described in 2008. It was excavated in Dorset. The type species is D. hesperis, formerly known as Megalosaurus hesperis. 

Duriavenator lived about 170 million years ago. It is one of the oldest-known tetanurans. The genus name combines the Latin name of Dorset, Duria, with Latin for "hunter", venator. This genus has also gone under the unofficial name "Walkersaurus".

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Penshurst is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Penshurst is 17 kilometres south of the city of Sydney. It is part of the St George area.

Most of the housing in Penshurst is made up of houses and small unit blocks. Most of the people who live in Penshurst are older. Some younger families have moved into the area from other countries so that they can be close to Hurstville.

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Mingguang City () is a county-level city within the Anhui Province, in north-east China. An agricultural city, it sat at the east of Anhui Province, just below the agricultural and industrial city of Chuzhou. With a steady economy growth, the city now held more than 655,000 residents. The railways passing through the town enables the link and communication between various parts of the country and it.

Cities in China
Anhui
The purpose of the game is to immunize the public against misinformation by letting players take on the role of a fake news producer. In the game, players can earn "badges", each of which correspond to common techniques used in the production of fake news, such as polarization, conspiracy theories, discrediting, trolling, and invoking emotion. The goal is to build your own fake news empire and gain as many followers as possible while maintaining credibility. The game is loosely based on a psychological concept known as inoculation theory, where prior exposure and familiarity with common fake news tactics is thought to help confer resistance or mental immunity against fake news.

References

Other websites
 Bad News Game official site
 YouTube CNN Interview with game designer

2018 video games
Alexander Tschäppät (16 April 1952 – 4 May 2018) was a Swiss politician. Tschäppät was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. He was a member of the National Council of Switzerland from 1991 to 2003 and again 2011 to 2018. He was mayor (Stadtpräsident) of Bern 2005 until 2016.

Tschäppät died of cancer on 4 May 2018 at the age of 66.

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The guenons ( or ) are the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys. 

All members of the genus are live in sub-Saharan Africa, and most are forest monkeys. Many of the species have small ranges, and some have local subspecies. Many are threatened or endangered because of habitat loss.

The species now put in the genus Chlorocebus, such as vervet monkeys and green monkeys, used to be species in this genus, Cercopithecus aethiops.

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Michele Castoro (14 January 1952 – 5 May 2018) was a Roman Catholic archbishop. Castoro was born in Oria, Italy.

Castoro was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oria from 200 to 2009. He then served as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manfredonia-Vieste-S. Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, from 2009 until 2018.

Castoro died in Apulia, Italy on 5 May 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 66.

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1952 births
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The Bank Of America Corporate Center is an 871 ft (265 m) high skyscraper found in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the 31st tallest building in the United States, and was completed in 1992. It was also the tallest building in Charlotte and in North Carolina; the building is 60 stories high. It is the 174th-tallest building in the world. It was designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and HKS Architects. It is best known as the world headquarters for Bank of America.

It is among the tallest buildings on the East Coast behind buildings in New York City, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.

Sometimes locally referred to as the Taj McColl after former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl, who was responsible for the tower's construction, on a clear day the tower is visible to the naked eye from 35 miles (56 km) away.

Buildings and structures in North Carolina
Big Flow Music (BFM) is a Mexican rap and trap group from Uriangato, Guanajuato. The group began in 2013. The group members are JL, Giorgin, Achas Lokote and MC Rap also known as "El Kala". Loco 13 and Mostro were part of the group. Loco 13 left; he signed with "Del Rancho Records". Mostro has not made songs since 2015.

Discography
Big Flow Music Vol. 1 (2016)
Entre El Peligro y La Muerte (2017)

Colaborations
Los Mismos Locos (remix) (con Young Whisper, 2015)
Bala (con Nan Elege, DBS, Wizard One, Hfenix, Esp-o & Desick, 2015)

Mexican rap music groups
2010s music groups
2013 establishments in North America
Musical groups established in 2013
2010s establishments in Mexico
An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the future. Faults are active if there has been movement seen or evidence of seismic activity during the last 10,000 years. Active faulting is considered to be a geologic hazard. It is related to earthquakes as a cause.

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"Chun-Li" is a song by American rapper Nicki Minaj.  It was released on April 12, 2018, alongside the single "Barbie Tingz".  It is Minaj's first lead single in over a year, since she released the songs "No Frauds", "Changed It", and "Regret in Your Tears".  With "Chun-Li", Minaj earned her first production credit. The song has reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Music videos 
Minaj released a vertical video recorded with her phone the day after the song was released.  The official video was released May 4, 2018, and features Minaj in scrim lighting wearing glow-in-the-dark accessories.

Notes

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Bridgwater United W.F.C. (formerly known as Yeovil Town Ladies Football Club) is an English women's association football club based in Yeovil, Somerset. It is affiliated with Yeovil Town F.C..

English football clubs
1990 establishments in the United Kingdom
Lake Albert, or Albert Nyanza, is a lake in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the African Great Lakes. Lake Albert is Africa's seventh-largest lake, and the world's twenty-seventh largest lake by volume.

Lake Albert is in the center of Africa. It is the northernmost of the chain of lakes in the "Albertine Rift", the western branch of the East African Rift. The lake is about  long and  wide, with a maximum depth of . It is  above sea level.

Lake Albert is part of the complicated system of the upper Nile. Its main sources are  from Lake Victoria to the southeast, and from Lake Edward to the southwest. Its outlet, at the northernmost tip of the lake, is the Albert Nile, which becomes the White Nile when it enters South Sudan.

At the southern end of the lake there are swamps. Farther south is the Ruwenzori Range, while a range of hills called the Blue Mountains tower over the northwestern shore
European colonialists operated shipping on the lake. The British planned shipping on Lake Albert as part of a network of railway, river steamer and lake steamer services. The idea was to link British interests in Egypt, east Africa and southern Africa.

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Chiemsee () is a natural freshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany, near Rosenheim. It is often called "the Bavarian Sea".

The rivers Großache and Prien flow into the lake from the south, and the river Alz flows out towards the north. The Alz flows into the Inn which then merges with the Danube. The Chiemsee is divided into the bigger, north section, in the northeast, called Weitsee, and the Inselsee, in the southwest.

The Chiemgau, the region surrounding the Chiemsee, is a famous recreation area.

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Lake Neuchâtel (; ) is a lake in western Switzerland. The lake is mainly in the canton of Neuchâtel, but is also part of Vaud, Fribourg, and Berne. Lake Geneva and Lake of Constance are larger, but the part of them that is in Switzerland is smaller. Lake Neuchatel is the largest lake entirely in Switzerland. It is the 59th largest lake in Europe. Tourism is important near the lake. Also, wine is made there (mainly white wine). The city of Neuchâtel, on the lake, is known for watch-making, and tapestries called Indiennes.

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Yverdon-les-Bains () is a municipality in Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the capital of the district. As of ,  people lived in Yverdon-les-Bains. It was called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Roman era.

Yverdon-les-Bains won Wakker Prize in 2009 for the way the city handled and developed the public areas and connected the old city with Lake Neuchâtel.

The former municipality Gressy became part of Yverdon-les-Bains on 1 July 2011.

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 Official website of Yverdon-les-Bains Region Tourist Office

 Maison d'Ailleurs website
 Swiss Fashion Museum
 Records and Research Centre Pestalozzi
 Benno Besson Theatre
 Echandole Theatre
 Town Hall Gallery
 Grande Caricaie reserve
 Champ-Pittet Nature Centre 
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Chêne-Pâquier is a municipality of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

The municipality consists of the hamlets of Le Chêne and Le Pâquier.

History 
Chê
Municipalities in Jura-Nord vaudois
ne-Pâquier is a place in Switzerland that has two old Villages: Chêne and Pâquier. People first wrote about them more than 500 years ago. They were part of another place that had a Castle, but the Castle is gone now. Chêne-Pâquier has a Church that was built in 1667 for people who are Protestants. It is one of the first Churches in Switzerland made for Protestants
Politics 
Chêne-Pâquier is a place in Switzerland that has a government. The government has a leader called the mayor. The mayor is Guy-Cyrille Jaquier. The people in Chêne-Pâquier can vote for different parties. A party is a group of people who have similar ideas. In 2007, the most popular party was the SVP. The SVP is a party that wants less immigration and lower taxes. The next popular parties were the FDP, the SP and the Green Party. The FDP is a party that supports business and free trade. The SP is a party that wants more social justice and equality. The Green Party is a party that cares about the environment and human rights.
Chambry can mean:
 Chambry, Aisne, in the Aisne department
 Chambry, Seine-et-Marne, in the Seine-et-Marne department
 Chambry, former name of Chambrey, Moselle
This refers to a series of earthquakes near the town of New Madrid, in late 1811, and early 1812. They are known as the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. The town is right next to the Mississippi River. This was the largest earthquake known in the United States in recorded history.

The first shock was on December 16, 1811. It had a magnitude of 7.5-7.9 on the Richter scale. There also was an aftershock of magnitude 7.4 on the same day. They were the most powerful earthquakes to hit the contiguous United States east of the Rocky Mountains in recorded history. We use the word "contiguous" because we wish to exclude Hawaii and Alaska, neither of which was then part of the United States.

The earthquakes occurred in and near the Mississippi River town of New Madrid. The town was part of the Louisiana Territory at the time. Today, it is in the US state of Missouri.
There are estimates that these stable continental region earthquakes were felt strongly over an area of , and moderately across nearly 3 million km2 (1 million sq mi). The 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly . There were in all three earthquakes, and each had major aftershocks.

Different American Indian tribes interpreted these earthquakes, and came to a consensus: the powerful earthquake had to have meant something. For many tribes in Tecumseh's pan-Indian alliance, it meant that Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet must be supported.

Seismic zones 
Even today, earthquakes happen in this area, known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone (or NMSZ). Scientists think that before 2050 there is a chance of over 90% that quakes with a magnitude of over 7.0 on the Richter scale will occur there. Arthur C. Clarke wrote a story called Richter 10, where he describes a scenario like this.
Other seismic activity is known from fault zones within tectonic plates. They include the Charleston earthquake on in 1886. This was particularly surprising as the area had almost no history of even minor earthquakes.

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José María Íñigo Gómez (4 June 1942 – 5 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist and television presenter. He was born in Bilbao.

Shortly after he moved to London, from where he collaborated with different music programmes on Cadena SER. Back to Spain, he settled in Madrid, where he worked in radio music shows El Musiquero, El Gran Musical and Los 40 Principales.

Over the years Íñigo has been associated with the Eurovision Song Contest. Between the 1975 Contest and 1976 Contest he announced the Spanish jury result. Between the 2011 Contest and the 2017 Contest, he provided the TVE commentary.

Íñigo died in Madrid, aged 75, on 5 May 2018 of lung cancer.

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Richard John Garcia (April 24, 1947 – July 11, 2018) was an American Roman Catholic bishop. Garcia was born in San Francisco, California. He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the fourth ordinary bishop of the Diocese of Monterey, California on December 19, 2006, and was installed at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony on January 30, 2007.

In April 2018, Garcia was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died three months later on July 11, 2018 from complications of the disease in Monterey, aged 71.

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Monterey is a city in Monterey County in the U.S. state of California. It is on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on California's Central Coast.  

It stands at an elevation of  above sea level, on a land area of . The 2020 census recorded a population of 30,218. Monterey had a big herring industry, which went bust because of overfishing. Cannery Row in Monterey was where the fish were packaged. 

Cannery Row was the setting of John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954). Both were the basis for the 1982 movie Cannery Row, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. It is also mentioned in Bob Dylan's song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". Sea otters still dive for abalone shellfish

Pacific Biological Laboratories, a biological supply house, was located at 800 Ocean View Avenue (now 800 Cannery Row) from 1928 to 1948. It was operated by Edward F. Ricketts. He was the inspiration for several characters in Steinbeck novels. The laboratory is still preserved.
There is a variety of natural habitats in Monterey: the closed-cone pine forest has pines whose cones only open after a fire (this is called "seroteny"). The idea is that the seeds drop onto ground with few occupants, so have the best chance of developing into trees. Coast live oaks often grow nearby.

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George Vance Murry S.J. (December 28, 1948 – June 5, 2020) was an African-American prelate of the Catholic Church and member of the Jesuit Order. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. He was the Bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio.

Murry served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1995 to 1999 and as the bishop of the Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands from 1999 to 2007.

In April 2018, Murry was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. He died from the disease on June 5, 2020 in New York City, aged 71.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown Official Site
 National Black Catholic Congress  bio of George Murry

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Blaxploitation is a type of exploitation movie which focuses on black people. Blaxploitation movies emerged in and were most popular during the early 1970s. 

These movies were often criticized for their use of stereotyped characters. They were also praised for showing black people as the heroes and subjects, rather than being sidekicks or as victims of violence.

Following the example set by Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, many blaxploitation films feature funk and soul jazz soundtracks with heavy bass, funky beats, and wah-wah guitars.

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Jordan Nikolić (; 11 May 1933 – 26 April 2018) was a Serbian folk singer. He sang traditional songs from Kosovo. He was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia. About a hundred of his voice recordings are saved in Radio Belgrade archives. Nikolić participated in Jugovizija (Yugoslavian Eurosong qualification contest) in 1976. 

Nikolić died in Belgrade on 26 April 2018 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 84.

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Serbian singers
Kosovan people
Earl Frederick "Spider" Balfour (January 4, 1933 – April 27 2018) was a Canadian NHL hockey player. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Balfour served as a forward from 1952 to 1961. He was a defensive forward and penalty-killing expert. Balfour won the Stanley Cup with the 1960–61 Chicago Black Hawks. He also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He retired after 288 games, posting 30 goals, 22 assists, 52 points and just 78 penalty minutes.

Balfour died on April 27, 2018 of prostate cancer in Guelph, Ontario, aged 85.

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Chicago Blackhawks players
Pittsburgh Hornets players
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Esther Zaied, better known by her married name Esther Ofarim (; born June 13, 1941), is an Israeli singer. She came second in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "T'en vas pas", representing Switzerland. A

After marrying Abi Ofarim in 1961, she was half of the singing husband and wife duo, Esther & Abi Ofarim. The couple divorced in Germany in 1970. After they divorced, the duo broke up and she undertook a successful solo career.

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 Esther's official website

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Israeli  singer-songwriters
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Melvin Douglas "Mel" Lastman (March 9, 1933 – December 11, 2021), nicknamed "Mayor Mel" or "Mega City Mel", was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was the founder of the Bad Boy Furniture chain.  He served as the mayor of the former city of North York, Ontario, Canada from 1973 until 1997.

Lastman died on December 11, 2021, at the age of 88.

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Other websites

City of Toronto, Mel Lastman profile 

1933 births
2021 deaths
Mayors of Toronto
The Mayor of Toronto is the leader of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The mayor is directly-elected in municipal elections every four years alongside Toronto City Council.

The office
The mayor is responsible for the administration of government services overseeing Toronto government departments and serves as the chairperson for meeting of Toronto City Council. The current mayor of Toronto is John Tory.

Art Eggleton is the longest-serving mayor of Toronto, serving from 1980 until 1991. No Toronto mayor has been removed from office. Toronto's 64th mayor, Rob Ford, lost a conflict of interest trial in 2012, and was ordered to vacate his position; but the ruling was stayed pending an appeal, which Ford won to remain in office.

Living former mayors

As of December 21, 2017 there are six living former mayors of Toronto:

 David Crombie (1972–78)
 John Sewell (1978–80)
 Art Eggleton (1980–91)
 Barbara Hall (1994–97)
 Mel Lastman (1998–2003)
 David Miller (2003–2010)
Rob Ford and June Rowlands are the most recent mayors that have died. Ford is the first mayor of Toronto after the amalgamation of Toronto to die.

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David Edward Crombie  (born April 24, 1936) is a Canadian politician,  professor and consultant.  Crombie served as Mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.

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Living people
Mayors of Toronto
Privy Councillors (Canada)
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Arthur C. "Art" Eggleton,  (born September 29, 1943) is a Canadian politician. He was a Senator representing Ontario from 2005 to 2018. He was the longest serving Mayor of Toronto, serving from 1980 to 1991. 

Eggleton has held several federal government posts, including President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Infrastructure from 1993–1996, Minister for International Trade from 1996–1997, and Minister of National Defense from 1997 until 2002.

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 Liberal Senate Forum 
 Official Website

1943 births
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Mayors of Toronto
Privy Councillors (Canada)
Martha MacIsaac (born October 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role of Becca in the 2007 teen comedy Superbad.

Early life 
MacIsaac was born and raised in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the youngest of three girls; her mother Irene was one of twelve.

Career 
MacIsaac started her career playing Emily Byrd Starr in the Emily of New Moon television series, based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

She has appeared in several plays including the 2006 play The Wild Duck in which she played Hedwig and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play". In 2009, she played Paige in a remake of the Wes Craven film The Last House on the Left. She also performed in three consecutive productions of Soulpepper Theatre Company's Our Town as Emily, beginning in 2006.
In a 2007 Entertainment Weekly article, she stated she has been inspired by Julia Roberts from the age of four and was self-described as "obsessed". She also stated she would like to perform alongside her in a film, particularly "a female version of Twins".

In late 2012, MacIsaac began a main role on the NBC comedy 1600 Penn as the president's eldest daughter, Becca. Brittany Snow was originally cast as Becca but because she did not physically resemble and fit in well with the other family members, Martha MacIsaac was cast. In a 2012 interview with the CBC Radio series Island Morning, she revealed that 1600 Penn was her last audition before she considered returning to Canada.

Personal life 
She was married to film producer, director, and writer Torre Catalano from 2010 to 2015. She lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2017.

She is represented by the Agency for the Performing Arts.

Filmography

References

Other websites
 
 About Martha on CBC webpage

1984 births
Canadian voice actors
Living people
Jerrod Carmichael ( ; born June 22, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Carmichael is best known for creating and playing the lead role in the semi-biographical NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show.

Life and career 
Carmichael was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2005, he graduated from Robert B. Glenn High School.

Carmichael's early comedic influences were stand-ups Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Sinbad, and George Carlin.

Carmichael moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20. His first time doing stand-up was an open-mic night at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Carmichael then appeared in the "New Faces" showcase at the 2011 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Carmichael's star role was in the 2014 film Neighbors.

He has released two stand-up HBO comedy specials: Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store (2014) and Jerrod Carmichael: 8 (2017).
In June 2019, Carmichael was hired by Quentin Tarantino to co-write a film adaptation based on the Django/Zorro crossover comic book series.

Filmography

Movie

Television

Music videos

References

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Living people
1987 births
American stand-up comedians
American television producers
American television writers
Comedians from North Carolina
Writers from North Carolina
People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941 – May 6, 2018) was a Filipino poet, fictionist, critic and writer of nonfiction. He was awarded with the National Artist of the Philippines award in 2014. He was born in Manila. 

Bautista works include Boneyard Breaking, Sugat ng Salita, The Archipelago, Telex Moon, Summer Suns, Charts, The Cave and Other Poems, Kirot ng Kataga, and Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V. Hernandez. His novel Galaw ng Asoge was published by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 2004.

Bautista died on May 6, 2018 in Manila of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 76.

References

Other websites
 Cirilo F. Bautista home page
 Mindanao Creative Writers Group Inc.
 U.S.T. Creative Writing Workshop, Baguio City
 About Culture and the Arts 

1941 births
2018 deaths
Filipino writers
Poets
Asian novelists
Literary critics
Filipino educators
People from Manila
Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor, and director. He is best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, with Alexander Armstrong. Miller starred in the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, as well as the BBC sketch show The Armstrong & Miller Show. 

Miller also played the lead role of Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC Crime Drama Death in Paradise.

References

Other websites
 The Armstrong & Miller Show official website
 
 Ben Miller hands out his very own BAFTAs

1966 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English television personalities
English television directors
Comedians from London
Actors from London
Actors from Cheshire
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is an English-Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in HBO series Game of Thrones, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in He Died with a Felafel in His Hand.

References

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1969 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian stage actors
Australian voice actors
Actors from London
Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English Actor and Director. He is known for his film roles in Women Talking Dirty (1999), Finding Neverland (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). He has appeared as a television actor in 2 TV series: as Norman Bates in the A&E drama series Bates Motel (2013–2017), and as autistic resident surgeon Dr. Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor (2017–2020) on ABC TV.

Highmore won a Saturn Award in 2007. He also twice won the Critic's Choice awards for Best Young Performer in a film.

References

Other websites
 

Saturn Award winners
1992 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English child actors
English television directors
English television producers
Screenwriters from London
Actors from London
William Gillock (July 1, 1917 - September 7, 1993) was an American composer.  He was born in La Russell, Missouri. He taught music and composed piano music.

Early life and education

Gillock studied music at Central Methodist College (called Central College at that time), in Fayette, Missouri.  His instructor was N. Louise Wright.

Later life

He moved to New Orleans as a young man.  He taught music there for many years.  Later, he stopped teaching and moved to Texas.  In Texas, "
he was the first and only judge for the first twenty-one years of the Junior Pianists’ Guild, which involved over fourteen hundred students."

Music

Gillock wrote piano music for children.  Some of his compositions were solo pieces, and some were ensemble pieces. He taught music at many workshops.    Because his music was very melodic, he was called "the Schubert of children’s composers." 

His music is often played at piano festivals.

Honors
Honors 

Gillock was given the Award of Merit for Service to American Music by the National Federation of Music Clubs five times.

Later life and death 

He died in Dallas on September 7, 1993.

Legacy

In March 2018, the AADGT held a piano competition in honor of Gillock.  

The ABRSM exam syllabus includes his works.

Further reading

 Dictionary of International Biography-Men of Achievement.
 International Who's Who of Musicians.
 Bona, N.J., 1995. An Analytical Guide to Teaching and Performing Selected 'Lyric Preludes' of William Gillock (Doctoral dissertation, University of Miami).
 Duarte, K.S., 2004. ''The Piano Music of William Gillock (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oklahoma).

1917 births
1993 deaths
American composers
Naser Cheshm Azar (31 December 1950 – 4 May 2018) was an Iranian pianist, composer, and arranger. Cheshm Azar was known for his vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple genres. He was mater in classical music, musical theatre, blues, folk music, jazz, and popular music. He was born in Ardabil, Iran.

Cheshm Azar died of a heart attack in Tehran on 4 May 2018 at the age of 68.

References

Other websites
 Naser Cheshmazar  dailyvideoreports.net
 Nasser Cheshmazar imdb.com
 .isna.ir .isna.ir (Persian Language)
 .irna.ir .irna.ir (Persian Language)

1950 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Iranian musicians
Pianists
Iranian composers
Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called Panorama. She published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. She was born in Amsterdam.

Dorrestein died on 4 May 2018 of esophageal cancer in Amsterdam at the age of 64.

References

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1954 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Dutch journalists
Dutch novelists
Feminist writers
Writers from Amsterdam
Paolo Ferrari (26 February 1929 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 45 movies between 1938 and 2018. He made his acting debut at 9 years old, in Alessandro Blasetti's Ettore Fieramosca. He became first known as "the balilla Paolo", a character he played in numerous radio programs for children and teenagers during the fascist era.

Ferrari died in Rome on 6 May 2018 of complications from pneumonia at the age of 89.

References

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1929 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in Italy
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Radio actors
Actors from Brussels
Tarcisio "Ciso" Gitti (18 April 1936 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He was born in Gardone Val Trompia. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1979 and served until 1994. 

Gitti was Undersecretary of the Treasury from 30 July 1897 to 22 July 1989, and President of COPASIR from 29 January 1991 to 22 April 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies. 

Gitti died in Brescia, Italy of Parkinson's disease-related complications on 6 May 2018, aged 82.

References

1936 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Italy
Italian lawyers
Italian politicians
Khaled Mohieddine (August 17, 1922 – May 6, 2018) was an Egyptian Communist politician and a major in the Egyptian Army. He fought in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which overthrew the monarchy under King Farouk. 

Mohieddine held important roles throughout Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency. He founded the leftist political party National Progressive Union Party (Tagammu) in 1976. Under Mohieddine's leadership, Tagammu became a significant opposition force during Hosni Mubarak's rule.

Mohieeddin died on May 6, 2018 at a hospital in Cairo of congestive heart failure at the age of 95.

References

1922 births
2018 deaths
Egyptian politicians
Egyptian generals
Communists
Flula Borg (born March 28, 1982) is a German actor, comedian, musician, and YouTube personality who is better known as DJ Flula or simply Flula (sometimes stylized as f|u|a). He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Borg has appeared in several feature movies, including Pitch Perfect 2, and a number of popular TV shows. He has collaborated with both well-known YouTubers, including Rhett and Link, Miranda Sings, Smosh, Jacksfilms, and many more, and mainstream celebrities such as Sir Mix-A-Lot, RZA, and Dirk Nowitzki. In 2015, he was named one of The Hollywood Reporters Top 25 Digital Stars as well as one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch.

Other websites 

 Flula's official website

1982 births
Living people
German comedians
Actors from Bavaria
German DJs
The 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will be the 71st season of professional stock car racing in the United States, and the 48th modern-era Cup series season. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the Advance Auto Parts Clash, the Can-Am Duel qualifying races and the 61st running of the Daytona 500. The regular season will end with the Brickyard 400 on September 8, 2019. The playoffs will end with the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 17, 2019.

It will be the fourth season of the current 10-year television contract with Fox Sports and NBC Sports and the third of a five-year race sanctioning agreement with all tracks. It will also be the first year the Cup Series will be fielding the Ford Mustang.

Teams and drivers

Chartered teams

Limited schedule

Changes

Offseason changes

Rule changes

Schedule 
Key changes from 2018 include:
The schedule, comprising 36 races, including the Advance Auto Parts Clash, Can-Am Duel (qualifying races for the Daytona 500) and the All-Star Race, was released on April 3, 2018.

Related pages
 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series
 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series

References 

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races
Natalia Cordova-Buckley (born November 25, 1982) is a Mexican actress. She was born in Mexico City. Cordova-Buckley is best known for playing Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and as the voice of Frida Kahlo in Disney-Pixar Coco (2017).

References

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1982 births
Living people
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican voice actors
Actors from Mexico City
Nabih Berri (; born 28 January 1938) is a Lebanese politician. He has been the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992. He heads the Amal Movement.

References

1938 births
Living people
Lebanese politicians
Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri (; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese politician. He was the 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon from December 2016 to January 2020. He was also the Prime Minister from November 2009 to June 2011.

On 29 October 2019, amid the 2019 Lebanese protests, Hariri announced his resignation, and that of his cabinet.

References

Other websites
Future Movement's Official Site 
March 14 Alliance's Official Site 
To Live and Die in Beirut, A portfolio of Saad Hariri

1970 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Lebanon
Émile Jamil Lahoud () (born 12 January 1936) is a Lebanese politician. He was President of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007.

Honours

Foreign honours
  : Grand Cross of the Order of Grimaldi (13 July 2001)

References

Other websites

1936 births
Living people
Presidents of Lebanon
Lebanese military people
Paul Goma (; October 2, 1935 – March 25, 2020) was a Romanian-Moldovan writer and political critic. He was known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989. After 2000, Goma has expressed opinions on World War II, the Holocaust in Romania and the Jews, claims which have led to widespread criticism for antisemitism.

On March 18, 2020, Goma was hospitalized in Paris after being infected with COVID-19. He died on March 25, 2020 from the infection, aged 84.

Honours
 "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (France), 1986
 Writers' Union of Moldova's Prize for Prose, March, 1992.
 Writers' Union of Romania's Prize for Prose, May 25, 1992.
 "Honorary Citizen" by the Municipal Council of Timişoara, January 30, 2007.

References

Other websites
  Paul Goma's site with downloadable recent writings
1935 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
Romanian activists
Political writers
Moldovan people
European novelists
Romanian essayists
Anti-communists
Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (12 February 1952 – 14 October 2010) was a British actor, movie director, screenwriter, composer and producer. He was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He was known for his roles in Manimal as the lead character, Dr. Jonathan Chase. He also acted for the longer-running role of lawyer Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest.

MacCorkindale died of colorectal cancer on 14 October 2010 in London at the age of 58.

References

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1952 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in London
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
British movie directors
British movie producers
British television producers
British screenwriters
Actors from Cambridgeshire
20th-century British composers
21st-century British composers