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About 1 in 100,000 people gets diagnosed with LMS each year. Leiomyosarcoma is one of the more common types of soft-tissue sarcoma, representing 10 percent to 20 percent of new cases. Leiomyosarcomas can be very unpredictable. They can remain dormant for long periods of time and recur after years. The cancer is aggressive and hardly responds to chemotherapy treatments.
Sedalia, Missouri
Sedalia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is in the west-central area of the state. It is the county seat of Pettis County, Missouri.
Sedalia is where the Missouri State Fair takes place every year.
At the 2010 census, 21,387 people lived in the city.
Mark Udall
Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is an American politician. He was the United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Before the Senate, he was in the United States House of Representatives, representing .
Newar people
Newar (; ; endonym: Newa:; , Prachalit Script: 𑐣𑐾𑐰𑐵𑑅), or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Nepal Mandala which consists of Nepa Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilization.
Newar people have developed a division of labor and a sophisticated urban civilization not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills. Newar people have continued their age-old traditions and practices and pride themselves as the true custodians of the religion, culture and civilization of Nepal. They are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation. Newars form a linguistic and cultural community of primarily Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ethnicities following Hinduism and Buddhism with Nepal Bhasa as their common language.
The Kathmandu Valley and surrounding territories constituted the former Newar kingdom of the Nepal Mandala. Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups of Nepal, the Newar people are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relic identity, derived from an ethnically-diverse, previously-existing polity. Newar civilization within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the descendants of the diverse group of people that have lived in Nepal Mandala since prehistoric times.
A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument. It is a bowl-shaped, circular metal disc which a person hits with a mallet or thick padded stick.
Gongs produce two distinct types of sound. A gong with a flat surface gives a "crash" rather than a tuned note. In Indonesian gamelan ensembles, some gongs are made to give a beat note in the range from about 1 to 5 Hz. The use of the term "gong" for both these types of instrument is common.
Kathmandu Valley
The Kathmandu Valley (, Nepal Bhasa: स्वनिगः, नेपाः गाः), historically known as Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations of South Asia and the broader Asian continent, and has at least 130 important monuments, including several pilgrimage sites for Hindus and Buddhists. There are seven World Heritage Sites within the valley.
Historically, the valley and adjoining areas made up a confederation known as the Nepal Mandala. Until the 15th century, Khwopa was its capital, when two other capitals, Kathmandu and Yala, were established. After the annexation of the valley by the Gorkha Kingdom, and subsequent conversion of the Valley as the capital of their empire, the designation of "Nepal" was extended to all the lands they had conquered.
Tower 42
Tower 42, previously known as the NatWest tower or National Westminster Tower is a skyscraper in the City of London, England. From the top the design of the building is made to resemble the NatWest logo.
It was constructed between 1971 and 1980, first occupied in 1980 and opened on 11 June 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. When completed it became the tallest building in the United Kingdom and remained the tallest in the city of London for 30 years until the completion of Heron Tower in December 2009.
The cost to build it was £72 million (£283 million today). The building today has grade A office spaces, a restaurant on the 24th floor and a champagne and seafood bar on the 42nd floor.
Current tenants of the building include:
In June 2012, a Capix LED multi-media lighting system was installed around levels 39 to 45. This replaced the previous high-energy floodlighting at the top of the building.
The top of the tower is made to resemble the NatWest logo of three chevrons in a hexagonal arrangement.
There are four sections known as the core, leaf 1, leaf 2 and leaf 3.
Yigal Bashan
Yigal Bashan (September 11, 1950 December 9, 2018) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor. He was awarded the ACUM Prize for Life Achievement in 2016.
Bashan was a member of the pop trio "Kmo Tzoanim" (Hebrew: "Like Gypsies") that appeared on the "Hopa Hey" Israeli children's television show.
United States ten-dollar bill
The United States ten-dollar bill ($10) is a denomination of U.S. currency.
The Ellen Show
The Ellen Show is a television sitcom created by and starring Ellen DeGeneres. It was broadcast in 2001 and 2002 on CBS. It was the second sitcom that DeGeneres's made. The first one was called "Ellen", and was shown on ABC from 1994 to 1998. It was canceled after 13 episodes because it did not have strong ratings.
After coming out as a lesbian on her first sitcom, DeGeneres's character on "The Ellen Show", Ellen Richmond, was also a lesbian.
"The Ellen Show" also starred Cloris Leachman, Martin Mull, Kerri Kenney, Jim Gaffigan, and Emily Rutherfurd. The show was created by Carol Leifer and Mitchell Hurwitz, who co-wrote the pilot episode. The first title of the show was "Ellen Again".
After her internet company Homelearn.com goes bankrupt, Ellen Richmond decides to move back to the town she is from to live with her eccentric mother, Dot, and wikt:disorganized sister, Catherine. At home, Ellen meets the guy who was her senior prom date, named Rusty. They think they can continue their romantic relationship where they left off. Ellen also meets her silly high school teacher, Mr. Munn. Though she is a long ways apart from the people who love her, Ellen gets used to a very different way of life. Ellen takes a job as a guidance counselor at the high school she went to.
"The Ellen Show" made 18 episodes, but was canceled part-way through its season. The final 5 episodes were never broadcast, but are available on DVD.
The whole series was put on Region 1 DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on July 11, 2006.
In 2014, Mill Creek Entertainment bought the rights to the series. They re-made the full series on February 4, 2014.
The company Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, in partnership with CBS Home Entertainment, owns the international rights. The full series was released in Region 4 (Australia) as a 2 DVD set on February 1, 2017 by a company called Umbrella Entertainment.
Gringo (ethnic slur)
Gringo is a Spanish and Portuguese term used mostly in Latin America to denote foreigners, specially people from the United States, Canada, and UK.
In Brazil, the term is used to refer to any foreigner, regardless of their ethnicity or nationality, even when it comes to other Latin-Americans.
The most supported theory is that the term originates from the word "griego" ('Greek'), used in the same way as the English phrase "it's all Greek to me". Some theories assert that the term originated in the Mexican-American War, when American troops sang a song which began with "Green grows..." such as "Green Grow the Rushes, O", "Green Grow the Lilacs", among others.
Anthony David Hawthorn Smith (born 13 March 1967) is an Australian politician. He is the 30th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives since taking office on 10 August 2015. He has been a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives since 2001. He represents the Division of Casey, Victoria.
Ian Sinclair
Ian McCahon Sinclair (born 10 June 1929) is an Australian politician. H was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He was a government minister under six different prime ministers. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from March to November 1998.
Sinclair was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
In January 2001, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop (née Setright; born 19 October 1942) is an Australian politician and political commentator. She was a member of federal parliament for almost 30 years. Bishop is a member of the Liberal Party. She was a minister in the Howard Government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
Billy Snedden
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975, which made him Leader of the Opposition during that tenure. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.
Snedden was born in West Perth, Western Australia. He studied at Highgate State School, Perth Boys' School and at Perth Technical College. Snedden was in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. In 1950, he married Joy Forsyth. They had four children together.
On 27 June 1987, Snedden died at his home in Ruschcutters Bay, New South Wales, near Sydney of a heart attack while having sex with his son's ex-girlfriend. He was 60 years old.
Gordon Scholes
Gordon Glen Denton Scholes AO (7 June 1931 – 9 December 2018) was an Australian politician. He was in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993, representing the Labor Party.
Scholes was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1976, and then a minister in the Hawke Government from 1983 to 1987. He was Minister for Defence from 193 to 1984.
He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Scholes died on 9 December 2018 in Geelong, Victoria, aged 87.
Pentti Tiusanen
Pentti Uolevi Tiusanen (6 March 1949 – 8 December 2018) was a Finnish politician. He was born in Kotka, Finland. He was a member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Left Alliance. He was elected to Finnish Parliament in 1995. He left office in 2011.
Tiusanen died on 8 December 2018 from stomach cancer in Helsinki, aged 69.
James Lyons (admiral)
James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr. (September 28, 1927 – December 12, 2018) was an American admiral in the United States Navy. He was Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987. He was born in New Jersey. Lyons was known for writing a column about Seth Rich, a murdered lobbyist, that was retracted by "The Washington Times". Lyons claimed Hillary Clinton was responsible for the killing.
Lyons died on December 12, 2018 from respiratory failure in Warrenton, Virginia at the age of 91.
William Newsom
William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was an administrator of the Getty family trust. He was the father of California governor Gavin Newsom.
In 1975, Jerry Brown appointed Newsom to the Superior Court bench in Auburn (Placer County) and later to the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco, where he was until 1995.
Newsom died on December 12, 2018, at his home, in San Francisco, California, aged 84.
Seán Garland
Seán Garland (7 March 1934 – 13 December 2018) was an Irish politician. He was born in Dublin. He was a member of the Workers' Party. He was General-Secretary of the Party from 1977 to 1990. Garland was the Workers' Party representative at the National Forum on Europe. In 2000, he was elected President of the Workers' Party.
Garland died on 13 December 2018 in Dublin at the age of 84.
Noah Klieger
Noah Klieger (; July 31, 1925 – December 13, 2018) was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. He was born in Strasbourg, France. As a journalist, he worked for "L'Équipe".
During the Holocaust Klieger survived the concentration camps Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, and Ravensbruck. After World War II, he worked as a sports journalist in Israel. He was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA)'s media council.
In 2010 Noah Klieger was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, and 2015 he was inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame for his contributions to international basketball.
In 2012 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honour (Legion d'Honneur), France's award for civilian merit.
Klieger died on December 13, 2018 in Ramat Gan, Israel, from complications of heart disease, aged 92.
Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American jazz singer and actress. Her career began in 1950 and she retired in 2011. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Wilson won three Grammy Awards for her recordings. She was known as "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Her best known works were "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", "I Wanna Be With You", and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".
Wilson died from kidney cancer on December 13, 2018, at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
Pioneertown, California
Pioneertown, California, is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of San Bernardino's High Desert in California, United States. , Pioneertown had a population of 350.
In July 2006, parts of Pioneertown were burned in the Sawtooth Complex fire, which also burned into Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley.
Sheshan
Sheshan is the name for a pair of hills in Songjiang District in Shanghai, China. These two hills are West Sheshan, which is 97 meters high, and East Sheshan, which is 100.8 meters high.
The Chinese name is "Shéshān" (佘山). "Shé" (佘) is the name of a Chinese family, and "shān" (山) is a word that can mean "mountain", "mountains", "hill", or "hills". Some people say that the hills' name used to be "Shéshān" (蛇山), meaning "Snake Hill", but that the Chinese character was changed because people don't like snakes.
The hills are part of a forest park that is 64.08 square kilometers big. The park is open from 8 to 4:30 .
The top of the West Hill has Our Lady of Sheshan Catholic Church and the Sheshan Observatory. The East Hill has an amusement park.
Sheshan Station is a Shanghai Subway station on Line 9.
Dutch Cross of Resistance
The Verzetskruis 1940–1945 (Dutch: "Cross of Resistance 1940–1945") is the second highest military medal in the Netherlands given for bravery. It was awarded to members of the Dutch resistance. They were civilians who fought the Nazi occupation of their country during the Second World War.
SAM Colombia Flight 501
SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a SAM Colombia Boeing 727-46 that crashed on May 19, 1993, killing all 132 on board, including several Panamanian dentists on their way to a convention. The crew reported over the Abejorral NDB beacon at FL160, approaching Medellín. The flight was then cleared to descend to FL120. The 727 had actually not yet reached the beacon, and descended into mountainous terrain. The flight struck Mount Paramo Frontino at 12,300 feet. Thunderstorm activity in the area made ADF navigation more difficult and the Medellín VOR/DME had been attacked by terrorists and was unserviceable.
Montsoreau
Montsoreau () is a historical and cultural town in Europe situated in France. Only 500 people live in it, and over 100 thousand people live in the bigger Saumur. It is in the east end of the region of Pays de la Loire, which is in the nortwestern France. It is the home of the Chateau de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, recently opened by the french contemporary art collector Philippe Méaille.
Montsoreau is both listed part of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site, and among the most beautiful villages of France.
The main witness of the first settlement is the , which probably dates from the 3rd millennium BC. Montsoreau is located on the borders of the territories of the Gallic tribes of Pictones, Turones and Andecavi. Coins, shards and fragments of Gallo-Roman tiles, were found in Montsoreau, especially on the edge of the plateau, above the town.
Montsoreau was identified under the name "Restis" (rope or fish net) at the end of classical antiquity as a port on the Loire at the confluence of the Loire and the Vienne. It kept this name until the end of the eleventh century.
The name "Montsoreau" (Mount Soreau) come from a rocky promontory situated in the riverbed of the Loire and surrounded by water. There has been three major buildings on this promontory, a Gallo-Roman temple or administrative building, a fortified castle, and a Renaissance palace.
The first fortified castle was built by the count of Blois at the end of the tenth century, immediatly taken by The Count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra, took the fortress in 1001 and incorporated it to Anjou. Fulk, who was one of the first great builders of Medieval castles, modified it, and the fortress remained under the control of Anjou, never taken, during more than 150 years.
In 1152, Guillaume IV de Montsoreau sided with Geoffroy Plantagenet against his brother Henry II Plantagenet, future king of England and husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henri II besieged the castle and took it at the end of August 1152 despite the care taken at its fortification. This was the one and only storming of the medieval fortress of Montsoreau between Fulk and Jean II de Chambes in 1450.
At the end of the Hundred Years War, Charles VII and Louis XI installed royal power in Chinon. They encouraged or ordered their lords to build new buildings or redevelop old fortresses. Thus began the construction of buildings in a new style in France, giving birth to Renaissance architecture, with the renowned "Châteaux of the Loire Valley".
In 1450, Jean II de Chambes, First councelor of Charles VII and ambassador in Venice, bought the fortress of Fulk III to his brother in law and destroyed it in order to build a residential palace on the top of the rock of Montsoreau (the mount Soreau). In an unprecedented move, he built the Château de Montsoreau in a residential style following Italian architecture of the time which makes it the first Renaissance building in France. The Château de Montsoreau was directly on the river bank and still today, it remains the only château of the Loire Valley to have been built in the river bed of the Loire.
In 1572, four days after Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (24 August) in Paris, Jean de Chambes started the "St. Bartolomew Angevine". He almost eliminated the Reformed Church both in Saumur and Angers.
After the French Revolution, the exploitation of a building stone, the Tuffeau stone, brutally passed its population of 600 inhabitants to more than 1000, maintained during the first half of the nineteenth century.
The battle of Saumur, is considered as the first act of resistance of World War II in France.
In Montsoreau, Saumur and Gennes, in June 1940, teenage students of the school of cavalry, still under training and with derisory weapons (including an artillery gun from the school museum), heroically engaged an entire German panzer division for nearly three days. And in doing so became a legend in France. – "For Honour Alone", Roy Macnab, January 1989.
Montsoreau is at the center of the Loire Valley, in north-western France, from the Atlantic Ocean, and approximately from Saumur, Chinon and Bourgueil. It is situated in southeastern Maine-et-Loire department, approximately halfway between Paris and Bordeaux.
The village is at the crossroad of the three main administrative regions of, Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, and Nouvelle Aquitaine, and of the three departments of, Maine-et-Loire Indre-et-Loire, and Vienne.
Montsoreau is part of the Metropolitan Area of Saumur Val de Loire and share borders with municipalities both in the Maine-et-Loire and Indre-et-Loire departments. These municipalities are: Candes-Saint-Martin, Chouzé-sur-Loire, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Turquant.
Star apple
The star apple ("Chrysophyllum cainito") is a fruit found in the lower regions of Eastern Mongolia. It is a hybrid fruit, ("Star", "Apple"). It is not poisonous.
EgyptAir Flight 864
EgyptAir Flight 864 was a flight from Rome Fiumicino Airport to Tokyo International Airport in Tokyo. On 25 December 1976, the Boeing 707 on the route crashed into an building in Bangkok. All 52 people on board were killed, as well as 19 on the ground in the crash. Pilot error was determined to be the cause of the crash. EgyptAir said that the Bangkok control tower had not given enough weather information to the crew of Flight 864.
Heron Tower
The Salesforce tower is a skyscraper in the City of London, England. Its official name is 110 Bishopsgate and was formerly The Heron Tower, which it is still often called. When completed in 2011 it became the third tallest building in the United Kingdom and the tallest in the City of London after Tower 42. The Heron Tower is on Bishopsgate.
Construction lasted from 2007 to 2011. It is owned by Heron International. In 2014 there was naming dispute between Salesforce.com and Heron International. The City of London ruled in favour of it being named 110 Bishopsgate.
In March 2007, it was confirmed that Heron had signed a funding deal with the State General Reserve Fund of Oman to provide the equity for the development. The works were carried out by Skanska and completed in January 2011.
Château de Montsoreau
The Château de Montsoreau, or simply Montsoreau, is a residential castle in Montsoreau, France. It is the only château of the Loire Valley to have been built in the Loire riverbed.
Philippe Méaille opened the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016. Nowadays, The chateau hold the world's largest collection of Art & Language works.
The chateau has been built on the top of the "mount Soreau". This rocky promontory gave its name to the village. On the top of that mount was built a roman temple, a fortress of the counts of Anjou, and a chateau in the Renaissance architectural style.
In English one often speaks of the chateau de Montsoreau or Montsoreau. The chateau de Montsoreau was the first of the chateaux of the Loire Valley to be built in the Renaissance architectural style. When the chateau was built, Montsoreau was already a historical village, home of a royal fortified castle. From 1450, when King Charles VII and King Louis XII moved to Chinon and Tours, the Loire Valley became the centre of power of the ancien régime.
The first fortified castle was built by Odo the First count of Blois in 990. In 1001, it was taken by the count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra ("Fulk the Black"), one of the greatest builders of the middle age, who gave it to Gautier I of Montsoreau. Gautier I belonged to one of the most pre-eminent families of Anjou. Thus, the Castrum Monsorelli became one of the forty fortified castles in Anjou and one of the few to be given the title of lordship at the turn of year 1000. A town developed quickly near the castle. Fulk and Gautier modified the castle, and this one remained impregnable during more than 150 years. In 1152 and 1156 Henry II King of England, besieged and took twice, the castle of Montsoreau.
In 1450, the end of the hundred years war was coming and Jean II de Chambes, the first councellor of Charles VII King of France, bought the castle to his brother in law. Associated with Jacques Coeur, He was one of the richest man of France. He was also France ambassador in Venice and Turkey. He destroyed the fortified castle and built the chateau de Montsoreau in the new architectural style of the Renaissance.
The Château de Montsoreau is said to be the first french Renaissance Building. The building marks the transition from military architecture to palace or chateau. Large windows, numerous chimneys, and the great care that taken to sanitation problems, are some of the characteristics of this new style of building. The castle central dwelling was built directly in the Loire riverbed. Unusually, Two right-angled wings looking like square towers were built a few years later, at a time when round towers were usually built, this odd choice prefigures the corner pavilions of classical architecture. A spiral staircase probably existed before the current Renaissance staircase.
In François Rabelais' Pantagruel, Gargantua rewards Ithybole with Montsoreau, after his victory over Picrochole, the king who attacks the kingdom of Grandgousier.
In 1832, Joseph Mallord William Turner made an aquarelle depicting the chateau of Montsoreau with the setting of the confluence of the Vienne and the Loire and the collegiate church of Candes-Saint-Martin.
The Château de Montsoreau was immortalised by Alexandre Dumas in La Dame de Monsoreau, a novel written between 1845 and 1846. This novel takes as a backdrop the Château de Montsoreau and is part of Alexandre Dumas' trilogy on European wars of religion, between La Reine Margot and Les Quarante-cinqs.
At the end of nineteenth century, Montsoreau was ruined. Auguste Rodin, passionate about architecture, unexpectedly made a drawing of the chateau as it was when it was built.
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, situated in the Loire valley, is a private museum open to the public. The project was initiated in November 2014, by Philippe Méaille and was inaugurated the 8 April 2016. The permanent collection, gathered over the past 25 years by Philippe Méaille, is not only intended to be exhibited at the Château de Montsoreau, but also to be lent to other institutions. His collection is the world's largest collection of works by the radical conceptualists Art & Language. This art movement, at the origin of what is now called conceptual art is still active and currently represented by Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden.
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite is a large city in north-central Texas. It is a part of a much larger group of cities called the Metroplex. It's population in 2013 was 143,484. The city manager of the city is Stan Pickett.
The city was founded on March 14, 1878. It was named after the Mesquite Creek. The city was officially created on December 3, 1887.
McLeod County, Minnesota
McLeod County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 36,651 people lived there. The county seat is Glencoe.
Martin County, Minnesota
Martin County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 20,840 people lived there. The county seat is Fairmont.
Meeker County, Minnesota
Meeker County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 23,300. Its county seat is Litchfield.
Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
Mille Lacs County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 26,097 people lived there. The county seat is Milaca.
Morrison County, Minnesota
Morrison County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 33,198 people lived there. The county seat is Little Falls.
Mower County, Minnesota
Mower County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010 census, 39,163 people lived there. The county seat is Austin.
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Alpena, Arkansas
Alpena is a town in the US state of Arkansas.
Murray County, Minnesota
Murray County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 8,725 people lived there. The county seat is Slayton.
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Russell Vought
Russell T. Vought (born March 26, 1976) is an American political aide and government official. He was the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Before this, he was the vice president of Heritage Action for seven years. He also was a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Phil Gramm.
In January 2019, Vought became Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
On March 18, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate him to be the full time Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought became the permanent director on July 22, 2020.
John "Ace" Cannon (May 5, 1934 – December 6, 2018) was an American tenor and saxophonist. He was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He played and toured with Hi Records stablemate Bill Black's Combo, and started a solo career.
His best known song "Tuff" hit #17 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1962, and the follow-up single "Blues (Stay Away from Me)" hit #36 that same year. In April 1965, he released "Ace Cannon Live" (HL 12025).
Cannon died at his home on December 6, 2018 in Calhoun City, Mississippi from emphysema at the age of 84.
Calhoun City, Mississippi
Calhoun City is a town in Calhoun County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,774 at the 2010 census.
Wilhelm Genazino
Wilhelm Genazino (22 January 1943 – 12 December 2018) was a German journalist and author. He was born in Mannheim, Germany. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine "Pardon" and co-edited the magazine "Lesezeichen". As an author, he was known for his trilogy "Abschaffel".
In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. In 2004, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature.
Genazino died on 12 December 2018 from lung cancer in Frankfurt, Germany at the age of 75.
Matti Kassila
Matti Uolevi Kassila (12 January 1924 – 14 December 2018) was a Finnish movie director. He was born in Keuruu, Finland. He was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. He was most famous for the series of four Inspector Palmu movies, based on the character created by Mika Waltari. During his long career, he won seven Jussi Awards.
His 1959 movie "Punainen viiva" was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. His other best known works were "Inspector Palmu’s Error", "The Harvest Month" and "The Scarlet Dove".
Kassila died on 14 December 2018 in Vantaa, Finland, from complications of a fall, aged 94.
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (29 May 1945 – 14 December 2018) was a Belgian economist, author, philosopher, and politician that was convicted for fraud in the 1990's.
He was a member of the Belgian from 1991 to 1995 and Flemish Parliaments from 1992 to 1995. Van Rossem was born in Bruges, Belgium. He was a member of the ROSSEM party. In 1991, he was sentenced to five years in prison for his money scams.
Van Rossem died on 14 December 2018 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Brussels, Belgium, aged 73.
Sigi Schmid
Siegfried "Sigi" Schmid (; March 20, 1953 – December 25, 2018) was a German-American soccer coach. He worked as head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer (MLS) from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2017 to 2018. He was born in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg.
Schmid worked for the UCLA's soccer men's soccer team from 1972 to 1999. From 2006 to 2008, he coached Columbus Crew. Schmid also coached for Seattle Sounders FC from 2009 to 2016.
Schmid was hospitalized several times during his later career, including with pneumonia in 2009. He had weight and heart issues that later lead to his decision to retire from the LA Galaxy in 2018.
Schmid was hospitalized again on December 10, 2018 in intensive care at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He died on December 25, 2018 from heart failure while waiting for a heart transplant, at the age of 65.
Cape May, New Jersey
Cape May is a city at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County, New Jersey. It is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a year-round population of 3,607.
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Olmsted County, Minnesota
Olmsted County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 144,248. Its county seat and largest city is Rochester. The county was founded in 1855 and named for David Olmsted.
Britt Nicole discography
The discography of Britt Nicole, an American Christian pop singer-songwriter, consists of five studio albums, three extended plays, eleven singles, three promotional singles, five music videos and three album appearances. On May 22, 2007 she released her second album "Say It". It peaked at fourth on Hot Christian Albums. The debut single from the album, "You", was released on March 27, 2007 and reached the Top 10 on Hot Christian Songs. The second single, "Sunshine Girl", was featured on MTV's teen reality show "". Nicole's first music video, for the song "Believe", premiered on the Gospel Music Channel on September 22, 2007. "Set the World On Fire" was released as third single.
The third album, "The Lost Get Found", was released on August 11, 2009 and peaked No. 1 on Hot Christian Albums. The same month, a music video for her song "Holiday" surfaced on the internet. Her second single, "Walk on The Water", peaked No. 17 on the Hot Christian Songs. Overseas, the song "Headphones" was promoted as her second single in the United Kingdom. In March 26, 2012 she released her fourth album, "Gold". The album debuted at No. 1 on the Hot Christian Albums and 41 on the "Billboard" 200. The singles "Stand" and "Breakthrough" were released to United States and United Kingdom Christian radio, respectively, in the fall of 2012. The former peaked at No. 11 on U.S. Christian contemporary hit radio and the latter peaked at No. 3 on UK Christian radio. In December 2012, she released two Christmas music videos, "Jingle Bell Rock" and "O Holy Night". Britt Nicole is co-signed to Capitol Records and released "Gold" as her debut mainstream single on December 4, 2012. The following year "Gold" was re-released as a mainstream album. In March 2015, she released a full-length remix album, "The Remixes". On October 7, 2016 she released her fifth studio album, "Britt Nicole".
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The highest temperature ever recorded in Denia was 42°C (108°F) and the lowest was -4°C (24°F) on 5 December 2017.
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Moureaux died on 15 December 2018 in Brussels, Belgium from cancer, aged 79.
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Superintendent of Finance in 1784.
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Hernandez rose to mainstream fame in late 2017 with the release of his debut single "Gummo", which was certified platinum by the RIAA. In early 2018, Hernandez released his debut mixtape, "Day69", which debuted at number 4 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart. He later earned his first top-five entry on the "Billboard" Hot 100 with "Fefe", featuring Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz, which peaked at number three on the chart. His debut studio album, "Dummy Boy", was released on November 27, 2018, after being delayed a week earlier due to his arrest, and debuted at number two on the "Billboard" 200 chart.
Hernandez pled guilty to using a 13-year-old child in a sexual performance in 2015. He was arrested in November 2018 on racketeering and firearm charges, among others, for which he is facing a possible life sentence in federal prison. Hernandez pled guilty to nine charges in February 2019. On December 18, 2019, Hernandez was given a sentence of 2 years after testifying against the Nine Trey Gang. On March 22, 2020, Hernandez requested to serve prison at home because he is at a higher risk of attracting the COVID-19 due to his asthma.
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In 1977, Engel entered the special election for a seat in the New York State Assembly. He was the Liberal Party nominee in the special election, and on March 1, 1977, he defeated Democratic nominee Ted Weinstein and Republican nominee Arlene Siegel.
In the 2020 election, Engel lost the Democratic nomination to school principal Jamaal Bowman in a highly contested primary re-election.
José E. Serrano
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Wetherell died from complications of prostate cancer on December 16, 2018 in Tallahassee, Florida, aged 72.
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Osborn can be heard on Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" and the 5th Dimension's version of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In". He can be heard playing on several of Nancy Sinatra's 1970's recordings and he was the bassist on the 1977 Christian album "Forgiven" by Don Francisco.
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