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The host was announced on 27 September 2018. The host will be Germany. Turkey was a potential host for the tournament. Germany previously hosted the Euro 1988, while Turkey has never hosted a UEFA European Football Championship tournament. Germany selected these 10 host cities to be used for the tournament: Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, and Stuttgart. Turkey selected these 9 host cities: Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Istanbul, İzmit, Konya, and Trabzon.
Below are the results of the UEFA Executive Committee's vote between Germany and Turkey:
The Danish Football Association wanted to join forces with Sweden, Norway, and Finland to host the tournament. However, all four countries decided not to on 28 February 2017. Estonia also wanted to host the tournament together with Russia. The Netherlands also showed interest in hosting the tournament. However, none of these countries submitted their bid before the 3 March 2017 deadline, so Germany or Turkey will host the tournament.
2015 Canadian federal election
The 2015 Canadian federal election (formally the 42nd Canadian general election) was held on October 19, 2015, to elect members to the House of Commons of the 42nd Canadian Parliament and the Prime Minister of Canada. The 2015 election were issued by Governor General David Johnston on August 4.
The election was one of the longest in Canadian history. It was also the first time since the 1979 election that a Prime Minister attempted to remain in office into a fourth consecutive Parliament and the first time since the 1980 election that someone attempted to win a fourth term of any kind as Prime Minister.
The Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won 184 seats, allowing it to form a majority government with Trudeau becoming the next Prime Minister. Trudeau was sworn in on November 4, 2015.
Thomas Mulcair
2026 FIFA World Cup
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup tournament. It will be hosted in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This is the first time three countries will host the tournament.
Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe (; born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He was leader of the Québec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and has been the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997-2011 and in 2015.
He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat; however, he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. After being defeated in his own riding by Laverdière again, he resigned once more.
Elizabeth May
Elizabeth Evans May (born June 9, 1954) is an American-born Canadian politician. May was leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands. She is an environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer, May served as the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006.
On May 2, 2011, she became the first member of the Green Party of Canada to be elected as a Member of Parliament.
May ran for re-election in the 2015 federal election in the riding of Saanich–Gulf Islands and was successful in regaining her seat in Parliament. After the 2015 election, she was the only Green Party member in the House of Commons. This changed on May 6, 2019, when Paul Manly was elected. Manly became the second Green Party member in the House of Commons.
After the 2019 Canadian federal election, May said she was going to stop being the leader of the Green Party.
2019 Canadian federal election
The 2019 Canadian federal election (formally the 43rd Canadian general election) took place on October 21, 2019.
Andrew James Scheer (born May 20, 1979) is a Canadian politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle since 2004. Between 2017 and 2020, he was the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Official Opposition.
Scheer was selected to the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle at the age of 25. Scheer was reelected in 2006, 2008 and 2011 before becoming the Speaker of the House of Commons at age 32, making him the youngest Speaker in the chamber's history.
On September 28, 2016, Scheer announced his bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party, running under the slogan “Real conservative. Real leader.” He won the leadership position on May 27, 2017.
On 12 December 2019, Scheer announced he would be resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party effective upon the election of a new one.
Scheer was elected for the first time in the 2004 election. He was elected in the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle for the Conservative Party. With that election, he beat the New Democratic Party MP Lorne Lystrom. He won by over 800 votes. He was elected again in the 2006 election. He beat Lystrom again by 2740 votes.
Mario Beaulieu
Mario Beaulieu (; born 1959) is a Québécois nationalist. He was the interim leader (until 2019), president (2014–2019) and was also leader (2014–2015) of the Bloc Québécois. He was the president of the sovereigntist Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Montreal from 2009 to 2014, and has been the spokesman for the Mouvement Québec français.
Rhéal Fortin
Rhéal Éloi Fortin () is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He is the spokesperson of the Groupe parlementaire québécois in the House of Commons of Canada. He served as interim leader of the Bloc Québécois after the resignation of leader Gilles Duceppe until the next leader, Martine Ouellet was named on March 18, 2017.
Fortin was named interim leader of the Bloc Québécois on October 22, 2015 following the resignation of Gilles Duceppe as leader after Duceppe was unable to win his seat in the October 19, 2015 federal election.
Wahbi Khazri (; born 8 February 1991 in Ajaccio) is a Tunisian professional football player who currently plays for Sunderland and the Tunisia national team. He plays as a midfielder and a winger.
He has also played for SC Bastia, Girondins de Bordeaux, and Stade Rennais. He played in the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Tunisia, and he scored two goals.
Québec debout
Québec debout (Translation: "Quebec Standing Up, or Quebec Stand Up"), formerly the Groupe parlementaire québécois (Translation: "Quebec Parliamentary Group") is a Quebec-based parliamentary group in the House of Commons of Canada that is in the process of registering as a political party. The group does not have a party leader but named Rhéal Fortin as its spokesperson on March 21, 2018.
The "Groupe parlementaire québécois" was formed on February 28, 2018 by seven Members of Parliament (MPs) who resigned from the caucus of the Bloc Québécois (BQ) due to their opposition to the leadership of Martine Ouellet.
In September 2018, Rheal Fortin and the rest of Quebec Debout rejoined the Bloc Quebecois.
2016 Austrian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 24 April 2016, with a second round run-off on 22 May 2016. However, the results of the second round were annulled and a re-vote took place on 4 December 2016.
The President of Austria is directly elected by the people once every six years. The election is held under a two-round system; if no candidate receives more than 50% of votes cast in the first round, then a second ballot occurs in which only those two candidates who received the greatest number of votes in the first round may stand.
Incumbent President Heinz Fischer had served two terms and was not eligible to be elected for a third successive term.
In the first round of the election, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) received the most votes. Alexander Van der Bellen, a member of the Austrian Greens ran as an independent, placed second. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote, Hofer and Van der Bellen went head-to-head in the second round in May. This was the first time since World War II that an Austrian president had not been backed by either the People's or the Social Democratic party. During the run-off, Van der Bellen defeated Hofer on 23 May 2016 after the postal ballots had been counted.
On 22 July, the results of the second round of voting were annulled after the results in 20 of the 117 administrative districts were challenged, and the Constitutional Court of Austria found that Austrian electoral law had been disregarded in 14 of them. The Court found that over 77,900 absentee votes were counted too early, however without any signs of votes having been cheated. The second round re-vote was planned on 2 October, but was postponed to 4 December 2016.
Van der Bellen ultimately won the second round re-vote with 53.8% of the vote and a voter turnout of 74.2%. Hofer announced his defeat in the race to Van der Bellen when the result had become apparent shortly after polls closed. Van der Bellen was sworn in as the twelfth president of Austria on 26 January 2017.
Norbert Hofer
Norbert Gerwald Hofer (; born 2 March 1971) is an Austrian politician. He is a member of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) and since 18 December 2017. He was the Third President of the National Council from 2013 to 2017.
Hofer was a candidate for President of Austria in the 2016 election. He received the plurality of votes, 35% as opposed to 21% of rival Alexander Van der Bellen, in the first round. The much closer results of the second round of voting (49.7%/50.3%) were annulled by the Constitutional Court due to voting irregularities affecting nearly 78,000 votes, requiring the election to be re-held. In the re-run on 4 December 2016 he received 46% of the vote and lost the election to Van der Bellen.
Russian Women's Football Championship
The Russian Women's Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин, "Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu credi zhenshchin") is the women's top division football league in Russia. The current champions are Zvezda Perm. Zvezda Perm has also won the most titles. The tournament was created in 1992.
Below is a list of all the clubs that are playing in the 2018 season.
Below is a table showing the overall results of all the teams.
2016 Spanish general election
The 2016 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 26 June 2016, to elect the 12th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate.
Opinion polling going into the election predicted a growing polarisation between this alliance and the People's Party (PP), which would be fighting to maintain first place nationally.
In the end, the alliance suffered a surprise decline in votes and vote share compared to the previous election, while the PP increased its number of votes and seats. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), while clinging on to second place, kept losing votes and seats and scored a new historical low.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was re-elected as Prime Minister for a second term in office on 29 October amid public outcry and protest.
Pablo Iglesias Turrión
Pablo Manuel Iglesias Turrión, known as either Pablo Iglesias or Pablo Iglesias Turrión (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish politician. He was the Secretary-General of political party Podemos from 2014 to 2021.
He was a lecturer in political science at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 elections as the leading candidate of the newly formed party Podemos, along with four other members of his party.
Iglesias hosts the internet programs "La Tuerka" and "Fort Apache", and appears in Spanish political TV shows.
On 27 October 2015 he resigned his seat in the European Parliament in order to focus on the campaign for the 2015 Spanish general election and Spanish general election, 2016.
He was vicepresident of Spanish goverment from January, 2020 to March, 2021. He resigned to be candidate in the 2021 elections of Madrid. He had bad results in said elections and he resigned from all political charges.
Albert Rivera
Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz (born 15 November 1979) is a Spanish lawyer and politician. He was the leader of Citizens from July 2006 to November 2019. He placed fourth in the 2016 general election. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies and a former member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
Gabriel Rufián
Gabriel Rufián Romero (born 8 February 1982) is a Spanish politician and activist. In the Spanish general election, 2015 and 2016 he led the Republican Left of Catalonia, a pro-independence electoral party. He is also a member of the secretariat of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana and a member of Súmate, two other pro-independence groups.
In the 2016 general election, he was elected to the Congress of Deputies for the constituency of Barcelona. The presence of Rufián in the ERC list has been suggested to be a case of tokenism.
Francesc Homs Molist
Francesc Homs Molist (born 5 September 1969) is a Spanish politician. He was born in Barcelona. He served as Minister of the Presidency and Spokesperson of the Government of Catalonia. He ran in the 2016 general election, but came in last place.
He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2003 to 2010. He was writer of the draft of the new Statute of Catalonia on behalf of Convergència i Unió (CiU), and speaker of the new Statute (2006).
Tham Luang cave rescue
The Tham Luang cave rescue involved the rescue of twelve boys aged 11 to 16 and a 25-year-old man who became stranded in Tham Luang Nang Non (; "Great Cave of the Sleeping Lady"), a cave in Thailand's Chiang Rai Province on 23 June 2018. Heavy rains flooded the cave during their visit. The boys – all members of a local association football team – and their assistant coach were reported missing a few hours later, and search operations began immediately.
The rescue effort expanded into a massive operation. After struggles through narrow passages and muddy waters, British divers discovered the missing people, all alive, on an elevated rock about from the cave mouth, on 2 July, over nine days after they went missing. To leave the cave, they may need to learn to dive or wait months for the floodwater to drop in a few months
Over 1,000 people have been involved in the rescue operation, including Thai Navy Seals as well as volunteers, teams and technical assistance from multiple countries A 38-year-old former Thai Navy Seal died while attempting to return after delivering supplies of air to the cave on 5 July.
Smart casual
Smart casual is a dress code that is neat yet casual. Oxford defines it as "neat, conventional, yet relatively informal in style, especially as worn to conform to a particular dress code". "Business casual" is another similar term. It suggests some formality, not really casual in fact.
Different localities, kinds of events, contexts, or cultures have varying interpretations of the dress code.
2018 Russian Championship (women's football)
The 2018 Russian Women's Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин 2018) is the 27th Russian Women's Football Championship season. It is being played from 21 April 2018 to 23 October 2018. The defending champions are Zvezda Perm.
Zvezda-2005 Perm
Zvezda-2005 Perm (Russian: Звезда-2005 Пермь) is a professional women's football club from Perm, Russia. The club currently plays in the Russian Women's Football Championship. Zvezda Perm is the most successful team in the tournament, having won 6 titles.
The team was founded in 2005 and is named after the men's team, Zvezda Perm, which was dissolved in 1997. Zvezda Perm reached the final of the 2008–09 UEFA Women's Cup, but lost to FCR Duisburg. Their best performance in the Champions League was in 2010–11 when they reached the quarter-finals.
The club's head coach is Elena Suslova.
Nadezhda Smirnova
Nadezhda Smirnova (Russian: Надежда Смирнова; born on 22 February 1996 in Sergiyev Posad) is a Russian professional football player who currently plays for CSKA Moscow and the Russian national team.
She played for Russia in the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. She has also played for Rossiyanka, and Zorky Krasnogorsk.
Crewe Works
Plane wave
In physics, a plane wave'" or "planewave is a wave with wavefronts that are parallel planes.
EPROM
An EPROM (rarely EROM), or erasable programmable read-only memory, is a type of memory chip. Unlike a normal programmable read-only memory (PROM), this type of chip can have its information cleared and written again.
EPROMs are cleared by shining ultraviolet light on the clear opening on their top. Some EPROMs can be cleared using only electricity instead of needing ultraviolet light. These are called EEPROMs (standing for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory).
Charles Augustin White
Charles Augustin White (born June 21, 1992), known professionally as Charles Boguinia, is a composer, music educator, pianist, guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the guitarist and songwriter of the pop-rock/electronic dance music group House of Faces . He studied music at the Mannes School of Music - The New School, and NYU Steinhardt. He has worked and performed with groups such as the Kronos Quartet, BBC Singers, JACK Quartet, Moscow String Quartet , Sō Percussion, and the ÆON Music Ensemble . His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Symphony Space, Le Poisson Rouge, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and others.
Charles become a musician by the most unlikely path, a path started when he joined public middle school orchestra to learn violin in Boulder, Colorado. He was about six years old when his mother Vivien Wilde (born Natalia Boguinia) made a fortuitous decision to come to the United States from Russia in hopes of a better life for herself and her two sons. His mother's strong and dynamic character influenced his outlook on life. Lawrence and Charles had already shown early aptitude in art and music. Charles had the best sibling rivalry with his older brother, being best friends and musical collaborators, spurring each other to be the best at everything they attempt, and to fear nothing. During their early school days, the older would lead the younger into a variety of pursuits but would stay ahead in the learning curve because he started things one year ahead. Starting piano lessons at the exact same time gave Charles inspiration and drive to become better than his brother, excelling in piano.
Charles attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts on full scholarship, a boarding arts high school in Michigan, where he studied piano performance. After graduating from Interlochen, he became one to youngest recipients of the Music Academy of the West Fellowship and attended the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara were he worked with Jerome Lowenthal, chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York City. Charles then began his undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California, after living in Los Angeles for a year, he moved to New York City and continued his undergraduate studies at The New School, Mannes School of Music. At Mannes Charles studied piano with renowned pianist Vladimir Feltsman, who only accepts two or three students every year. Upon completing his undergraduate studies, Charles went on to complete his Masters Degree in Composition and Music Theory at the New York University - Steinhardt. At NYU he studied composition with American composer Julia Wolfe and Tae Hong Park.
As a pianist, Charles is an avid performer of new music and has commissioned many works; including a premiere a harpsichord concert by French Composer Jules Matton at Carnegie Hall. He is also deeply rooted in the classical tradition and regularly performs the standard piano repertoire. In 2018 he released Volume 1 of the Complete Mozart Piano Sonatas. He regularly performs at summer festivals, most recently including TIHMS - The International Holland Music Sessions, the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Gijon International Piano Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Tanglewood Music Festival and others.
Charles is a founding director of the ÆON Music Ensemble , a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which he and his brother Lawrence, established in 2013. The ÆON Music Ensemble is a new music ensemble composed of young musicians from the leading conservatories in Manhattan; The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, The New School and the Manhattan School of Music. The ensemble is dedicated to presenting original and captivating performances of classical and contemporary music through relevant, intimate and bold concert experiences.
After working with Professor Jeffrey Sachs and organizing the "Music for a Sustainable Planet Concert" with the Columbia Earth Institute and the United Nations Sustainable Solutions Network, Charles launched the annual "Music for a Sustainable Planet Concert" which facilitates and showcases positive change through the energy and creativity of the arts. The "Music for a Sustainable Planet Concert" concert series raises of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by advocating for the application of the arts as an instrument for change, and embraces the social function of art, viewing it as a profound reflection of society and a powerful means of achieving sustainability.
Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine
Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Coalville, Utah
Friendswood, Texas
Friendswood is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Dickinson, Texas
Dickinson is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Time in Vietnam
Vietnam observes Indochina Time (ICT) (UTC+07:00) and does not observe daylight saving time.
Oroville, California
Oroville is a city in California. It is the county seat of Butte County. The population was 15,506 at the 2010 census, up from 13,004 in the 2000 census.
Oroville is thought to be the gateway to Lake Oroville and Feather River recreational areas.
Leavenworth, Washington
Leavenworth is a city in Chelan County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,965 at the 2010 census.
Davis, West Virginia
Davis is a town in Tucker County, West Virginia, along the Blackwater River. The population was 660 at the 2010 census.
Oroville
Oroville may refer to:
Oroville, Washington
Oroville is a city in the northern bulk of the Okanagan Highlands in north-central Washington, United States. Oroville is a member municipality of Okanogan County, Washington, between Omak and Penticton. The population was 1,686 at the 2010 census.
La Marque, Texas
La Marque ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 14,509 at the 2010 census.
Bozeman, Montana
Bozeman is a city in and the seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States. It is located in southwest Montana. In the 2010 census put Bozeman's population at 37,280 and by 2016 the population rose to 45,250, making it the fourth largest city in Montana.
Bozeman is home to Montana State University. The local newspaper is the "Bozeman Daily Chronicle", and the city is served by Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport.
Points of interest are the Museum of the Rockies and Bridger Bowl Ski Area.
Butte is a city in, and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. The city covers . In the 2010 census, has a population of around 36,400, making it Montana's fifth largest city.
It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM. Butte is home to Montana Technological University.
Kalispell, Montana
Kalispell (ˈkæl əˌspɛl, ˌkæl əˈspɛl) is a city in, and the county seat of Flathead County, Montana, United States. The 2015 Census estimates put Kalispell's population at 22,052.
The name Kalispell is a Salish word meaning "flat land above the lake". Kalispell is also the gateway to Glacier National Park. Flathead Lake is nearby.
Plungė
Plungė is a city in Lithuania. It has a population of 18,904 people.
Before World War II, Plungė had a large Jewish population.
Plungė is twinned with:
Jonah Falcon
Jonah Adam Falcon (born July 29, 1970) is an American actor and television presenter. He is best known for the size of his penis, which he attests to be 9.5" long when flaccid, and 13.5" long when erect.
Doncaster Works
Doncaster railway works is a plant in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. When it was set up by the Great Northern Railway in 1853, it replaced the previous works in Boston and Peterborough.
Until 1867 it did only repairs and maintenance. In 1866, Patrick Stirling was appointed as Locomotive Superintendent, and the first of the 875 class was built in 1886. At this time the works also began building new coaches. In 1873 they built the first sleeping cars; in 1879 the first dining cars in the United Kingdom; and in 1882 the first corridor coaches. In 1891, 99 locomotives, 181 carriages and 1493 wagons were built.
In 1957, the last of over two thousand steam locomotives was built. Carriage building finished in 1962. The works was modernised with the addition of a diesel locomotive repair shop. Under BREL, new diesel shunters and 25 kV electric locomotives were built, also Class 56 and Class 58 diesel locomotives. In July 2003 the works celebrated its 150th anniversary with an open weekend.
Owners Wabtec closed the train engine plant in 2007. In early 2008 the main locomotive repair shop was demolished to make way for housing. Wabtec still does passenger fleet refurbishment at the Doncaster site.
BR Standard Class 9F
The BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed for British Railways by Robert Riddles. The Class 9F was the last in a series of standardised locomotive classes designed for British Railways during the 1950s. It was intended for use on fast, heavy freight trains over long distances. It was one of the most powerful steam locomotive types ever constructed in Britain, and successfully performed its intended duties. The class earned a nickname of 'Spaceships', due to its size and shape. They were numbered 92000–92250.
Italian Mogadiscio
Mogadiscio was the name of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, when was under Italy's rule from 1905 until 1947. The Italian influence in Mogadishu lasted 80 years, from 1880 until 1960, when the city grew from a small city of just two thousand inhabitants to a metropolis of nearly half a million "mogadiscians" in the metropolitan area.
The ancient city of Mogadishu was under Italian colonial rule/influence for nearly seventy years, from the 1880s until after the end of WW2. In 1905 was declared capital of the newly created "Somalia Italiana".
The first Italian to write about Mogadiscio was Marco Polo, who knew of the city during his merchant travels in Asia. But only in the late XIX century the commerce company "Filonardi" from Italy took control of facilities in the port of Mogadishu.
By 1882, Mogadishu was under the joint control of the Somali Geledi Sultanate (which was also holding sway over the Shebelle Valley region in the interior called Benadir) and the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar. In 1885, Ali bin Said leased the city to an Italian chartered company owned by Vincenzo Filonardi. This "Compagnia Filonardi" (1893-96) and later the "Società Anonima Commerciale Italiana del Benadir" (1899-1905) was finally taken by the Italian government, that obtained the control of the entire region of Benadir with the port of Mogadishu through an agreement with the British government in 1892. From 3 August 1889 to 15 May 1893 Filonardi was the first Governor of the "Somalia italiana" (he was governor again from 1896 to 1897).
The Kingdom of Italy purchased the city in 1905 and made Mogadishu the capital of the newly established Italian Somaliland. The Italians subsequently referred to the city as "Mogadiscio".
The city was soon modernized in the early 1910s with the creation of the first sewage system, the first hospital, the first paved roads and the new electricity facilities. In the 1920s the Italians created the first airport and enlarged the "Port of Mogadishu".
From 5 April 1908 to 5 May 1936, the Royal Corps of Somali Colonial Troops ("Regio corpo truppe coloniali della Somalia Italiana"), originally called the "Guard Corps of Benadir", served as the territory's formal military corps with headquarters in Mogadiscio. At the start of its establishment, the force had 2,600 Italian officers. Between 1911 and 1912, over 1,000 Somalis from Mogadishu served as combat units along with Eritrean and Italian soldiers in the Italo-Turkish War. Most of the troops stationed never returned home until they were transferred back to Italian Somaliland in preparation for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935.
In November 1920, the Banca d'Italia, the first modern bank in Italian Somaliland, was established in Mogadishu.
On December 5, 1923, Cesare Maria De Vecchi was named Governor in charge of the new colonial administration and promoted the process of complete pacification of the Somalia italiana, with the initial integration of the native population. Italian colonial policy followed two principles in Italian Somaliland: preservation of the dominant clan and ethnic configurations and respect for Islam as the territory's religion.
In 1928, the Italian authorities built the Mogadishu Cathedral ("Cattedrale di Mogadiscio"). It was constructed in a Norman Gothic style, based on the Cefalù Cathedral in Cefalù, Sicily. Following its establishment, Crown Prince Umberto II of Italy made his first publicized visit to Mogadishu. To commemorate the visit, the Arch of Umberto was constructed. The arch was built at the center of Mogadishu Garden. The Mogadishu International Airport was constructed that same year. The facility was regarded as one of the finest in the region.
In the early 1930s, the new Italian Governors, Guido Corni and Maurizio Rava, started a policy of full assimilation of the Somalis. Many Somalis were enrolled in the Italian colonial troops, and thousands of Italian colonists moved to live in Mogadishu. The city grew in size and some small manufacturing companies opened up. The Italians also settled in agricultural areas around the capital, such as Jowhar and Janale ("Genale").
It is noteworthy to pinpoint that "Mogadiscio" was the only name of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, when was officially under Italy's rule from 1905 until February 1947. The only official language in those years was the Italian language.
In 1930, there were 22,000 Italians living in Italian Somaliland, representing 2% of the territory's population. The majority resided in the capital Mogadishu, with other Italian communities concentrated in Jowhar ("Villabruzzi"), Adale ("Itala"), Janale ("Genale"), Jamame and Kismayo. In the mid' 1930s the Italian community of Mogadishu started the first football championships in Somalia: their main team was AC Mogadiscio.
By 1935, Mogadishu began to serve as a major naval base and port for the Italians. Then Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini regarded Greater Somalia ("La Grande Somalia") with capital Mogadiscio as the crown jewel in Italy's colonial empire in eastern Africa. Consequently, from 1936 to 1940, new roads were constructed in the region around Mogadiscio, such as the "Imperial Road" from Mogadishu to Addis Abeba. New railways (114 km from Mogadishu to Jowhar) and many schools, hospitals, ports and bridges were also built.
In March 1941 Mogadiscio was occupied by the British Army. Because of security reasons, nearly all the Italians of Somalia moved to live in Mogadiscio, so consequently in 1942 it was a city where the Italians were nearly half the population and where the Catholicism was the religion of nearly 60% of the inhabitants. According to reports of the British authorities, Mogadiscio in 1942 looked mostly like an european city (nicknamed "the white pearl of the Indian Ocean").
After WW2, in February 1947 the Italian government signed the Peace Treaty (surrendering all colonies) and "Italian Mogadiscio" ceased to exist.
in 1950 the Italians returned to rule the city under mandate of the ONU for another ten years until 1960, when was declared the independence of Somalia. In the 10 years of the Italian mandate the country experience huge improvements, from economy and education to sports (for example with the creation of the first football teams, like the Genio Officina and the AC Mogadiscio.
BR Standard Class 7
The BR Standard Class 7, otherwise known as the "Britannia" Class, is a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed under Robert Riddles for use by British Railways for mixed traffic duties. Fifty-five were constructed between 1951 and 1954. The design employed results from the 1948 locomotive exchanges undertaken in advance of further locomotive classes being constructed. Three batches were constructed at Crewe Works, before the publication of the 1955 Modernisation Plan. They were numbered 70000–70054.
November 2008 Carolinas tornado outbreak
The November 2008 Carolinas tornado outbreak was a natural disaster in the United States on November 15, 2008.
On November 14, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a warning for severe weather during the early hours of November 15. A tornado watch was issued at 12:25 a.m. ET. The first tornado report was in South Carolina, with seven more tornadoes hitting North Carolina. The final tornado was reported at 4:36 a.m. ET and the tornado watch expired at 8:00 a.m. ET.
2 fatalities were reported, including a 11-year-old boy, and six others were injured.
I-94 derecho
The I-94 derecho was a wind storm that occurred on July 19, 1983, with Minnesota and Wisconsin in its axis.
It began as a storm system in Montana and hit North Dakota at 7 a.m. CDT. Minot reported winds up to 70 mph.
The storm then moved into Minnesota. Winds up to 100 mph were recorded at the Alexandria Airport. It arrived in Minneapolis at 4 p.m. CDT and left 250,000 people without power.
The derecho then moved into Wisconsin. A meteorologist working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison saw the derecho's approach. Windows were blown out at the campus.
The derecho moved into Illinois at 9 p.m. CDT. Chicago had winds gusting to 70 mph and dropped 14°F (from 83°F at 9:30 p.m. to 68°F at 9:50 p.m.). The storm died in northwestern Indiana at midnight on July 20.
Carol Bellamy
Carol Bellamy (born January 14, 1942) is the Chair of the Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). She was Director of the Peace Corps, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and President and CEO of World Learning.
After three terms in the New York State Senate, she was the first woman to be elected as President of the New York City Council, a position she held until her unsuccessful bid for Mayor of New York in 1985. She was the second to last person to hold this position.
In Japan, she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2006.
Havre, Montana
Havre ( ) is the county seat and largest city in Hill County, Montana, in the United States. Havre is nicknamed the crown jewel of the Hi-Line. It is said to be named after the city of Le Havre in France.
As of the 2010 census the population was 9,310, and in 2016 the estimated population was 9,846.
Havre was incorporated in 1893. It was founded mainly as a railroad service center for the Great Northern Railway.
A buffalo jump, named the Too Close for Comfort Site, is just outside of town. The Milk River is also nearby.
Anaconda, Montana
Anaconda, county seat of Deer Lodge County, is located in southwestern Montana of the United States. It is located at the foot of the Anaconda Range. As of the 2010 census the population of the city was 9,298.
Miles City, Montana
Miles City is a city in and the county seat of Custer County, Montana, United States. The population was 8,410 at the 2010 census. at an altitude of 2369 feet (722 m).
It is here the Tongue River flows into the Yellowstone River.
Antonio Toledo Corro
Antonio Toledo Corro (1 April 1919 – 6 July 2018) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Toledo Corro was born in Escuinapa de Hidalgo. He served as mayor of Mazatlan from 1959 to 1962. He was Secretary of the Agrarian Reform of Mexico during the term of President José López Portillo, a personal friend, from 1978 to 1980. Toledo was Governor of Sinaloa from 1981 to 1986.
Toledo Corro died in Mazatlan on 6 July 2018 from a cerebral infarction complicated by pneumonia at the age of 99.
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Thomas Hardiman
Thomas Michael Hardiman (born July 8, 1965) is an American Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush. He began active service on April 2, 2007 and serves in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a United States District Judge.
In 2017, Hardiman was a finalist to replaced Antonin Scalia as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but Neil M. Gorsuch was nominated by President Donald Trump instead. The next year, following Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement from the Supreme Court, Hardiman was once again considered a front-runner to fill the vacant seat.
Winchester, Massachusetts
Winchester is a small town near downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States in Middlesex County. It is the seventh richest settlement in Massachusetts. The population was 21,374 at the 2010 United States Census.
Amritlal Vegad
Amritlal Vegad (3 October 1928 – 6 July 2018) was an Indian writer and poet. He was born in Madhapar, India. He wrote in Gujarati and Hindi from Jabalpur. Amritlal Vegad was awarded in 2004 with Sahitya Akademi Award for his travelogue – "Saundaryani Nadi Narmada" and also Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sahitya Award & Rashtrapati Award for his various works. He was best known for his novel "Narmada-ki-pari-krama" written in Hindi language and "Saundaryani Nadi Narmada" (travelogue) & "Parikramā Narmadā maiyānī" in Gujarati language.
Vegad died on 6 July 2018 from respiratory failure at the age of 89.
Alan Gilzean
Alan John Gilzean (22 October 1938 – 8 July 2018) was a Scottish professional football player. He was active in the 1960s and 1970s. He played for Dundee and Tottenham Hotspur. He also appeared in 22 international games for Scotland.
His son Ian also became a professional football player.
Gilzean died on 8 July 2018, having been diagnosed with brain cancer a few weeks earlier, aged 79.
M. M. Jacob
Mundakkal Mathew Jacob (9 August 1927 – 8 July 2018), popularly known as M. M. Jacob, was an Indian politician. He worked in Indian National Congress. He was appointed Governor of Meghalaya in 1995 and again in 2000 for a second term. He also discharged the function of the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh as well for some time in 1996.
Jacob died in 8 July 2018 in Meghalaya, India from cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 90.
Frank Ramsey (basketball)
Frank Vernon Ramsey, Jr. (July 13, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) NBA career with the Boston Celtics. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA during the 1970–1971 season. He was born in Corydon, Kentucky.
Ramsey died on July 8, 2018 in Madisonville, Kentucky from cardiac arrest complicated by an aneurysm surgery at the age of 86.
Logan Paul
Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American actor, director, internet personality, screenwriter, rapper, and minor boxer. Paul became famous through his videos shared on former internet video service Vine. Paul's television and movie work includes guest appearances on "" and "Weird Loners", and appearances in movies "The Thinning" and "The Space Between Us".
On January 1st, 2018, Paul uploaded a vlog to his YouTube channel depicting the recently deceased corpse of a man who had committed suicide by hanging in Aokigahara, Japan. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.
Westlake, Ohio
Westlake is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland. The population was 32,729 at the 2010 census. The area now known as the city of Westlake was first settled on October 10, 1810. At the time, it was part of Dover Township.
Dover Village was renamed Westlake in 1940.
Taste of Chicago
The Taste of Chicago (known locally as The Taste) is the world's largest food festival. It is held for five days in July in Chicago, Illinois in Grant Park. The event is the largest festival in Chicago.
Non-food-related events include live music on multiple stages. Musical acts vary from local artists to nationally known artists like Carlos Santana, Moby, Kenny Rogers or Robert Plant.
Gloria al Bravo Pueblo
"Gloria al Bravo Pueblo" ("Glory to the Brave People") was adopted as Venezuela's national anthem by President Antonio Guzmán Blanco on May 25, 1881. The lyrics were written by the physician and journalist Vicente Salias in 1810. The music was later composed by musician Juan José Landaeta. It is said, however, that the melody has been known since 1840 as "La Marsellesa Venezolana" ("Venezuelan Marseillaise"), in reference to its subtle similarity to the French national anthem.
Some recent investigations have suggested that the real author of the anthem was Andrés Bello, and not Salias, to whom it was originally credited, and the music was composed by another musician called Lino Gallardo. However, this theory has yet to be proven, and lacks any real recognition among the general Venezuelan population, historians, or otherwise.
The Venezuelan national anthem is played every day on radio and television broadcasts at 12:00 am, 6:00 am and 12:00 pm (either the full version or the chorus, first stanza and chorus) on all national TV networks. On radio broadcasts, the state anthem is played after the national anthem, which is also the case in state TV stations.
In most occasions, only the chorus, first stanza and the chorus are played or even the chorus itself. Sometimes the chorus is played twice in the beginning, and once in the rest of the anthem. In formal events (if the anthem will be played by either a military band, concert band or orchestra) the format is: Chorus (2x), First verse and Chorus (2x), with the optional introduction. If played in full the chorus is sung twice, with or without the introductiory notes.
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Yellow hypergiant
A yellow hypergiant is a huge hypergiant star. It starts off a mass of about 20–60 solar masses, but it soon loses about half that mass (because they are very unstable). It has a spectral class from A to K.
They are amongst the most luminous stars, with absolute magnitude (M) around −9. They are very rare: only 15 are known in the Milky Way and six of those are in a single cluster.
They are sometimes referred to as 'cool hypergiants' in comparison to O- and B-type stars, and sometimes as 'warm hypergiants' in comparison to red supergiants. Yellow hypergiants have evolved off the main sequence and have little hydrogen left in their centres.
Gnat
A gnat is any tiny fly in the suborder Nematocera.
"Gnat" is a loose descriptive category rather than a technical term. They can be both biting and non-biting. The biting ones are often called midges. Often they fly in large numbers, called clouds, in damp places like the Scottish Highlands.
One interesting group are the eye-gnats. the Smithsonian Institution describes them as “non-biting flies, no bigger than a few grains of salt, ... attracted to fluids secreted by your eyes”.
Rosie and Jim
Rosie and Jim (sometimes written as Rosie & Jim) is a British children's television programme produced by Ragdoll Productions. It was aired on ITV from 3 September 1990 to 10 March 2000, and on PBS from 5 September 1992 to 31 March 2001. The program continued to be intermittently repeated on CITV until August 2004. Rosie and Jim are two rag dolls who live aboard a narrowboat called the Ragdoll, which is from Birmingham. They have a concertina. They come alive, when no one is looking, to explore the world that they pass by on the canal. They learn to experience things by following Ragdoll's owner on adventures and secretly join in with them. Usually, they end up causing trouble but they never get caught because no one ever sees them.
CLS Group
CLS (originally Continuous Linked Settlement) is a specialist US financial institution that provides settlement services to its members in the foreign exchange market (FX). Although the forex market is decentralised and has no central exchange or clearing facility, firms that chose to use CLS to settle their FX transactions can mitigate the settlement risk associated with their trades.
CLS does this through the operation of a payment versus payment (PvP) settlement service which mitigates settlement risk for the FX transactions of its settlement members and their customers (third parties).
The service started operating in 2002 as an Edge Act Corporation, a limited purpose bank regulated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Since it began operations in 2002, CLS has rapidly become the market-standard for foreign exchange settlement. As a result, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) officially designated CLS a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility in July 2012.
The single day record for gross-value settlement, set on 19 March 2008, stands at US$10.3 trillion, for 1,113,464 payment instructions. The single day record for gross-volume settlement, set on 28 May 2013, is 1,992,652.
In 2002 CLS was launched with 39 Members and seven currencies. As of November 2015 CLS settles 18 Currencies, has 74 Shareholders, 64 Settlement Members and over 9,000 active Third Party participants.
Members include:
Clearing House Association
The Clearing House Association, L.L.C. is a New York-headquartered trade group and the nation's first and oldest banking association representing some of the world's largest commercial banks. It is a nonpartisan organization that advocates on regulatory, legislative, and legal public policy issues on behalf of its owner banks before policymakers, courts of law, and standards setters around the globe.
The Clearing House seeks a level playing field among similarly situated market participants, in which a legal and regulatory framework promotes systemic stability, economic growth, and a safe and sound banking system. Unique among trades for its sole focus on large-scale commercial banking and payments issues, the Association and its Owner Banks form strong consensus positions on issues vital to the banking industry that are technically detailed and research- and data-driven.
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Milow, Germany
Milow is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Milow has six districts ("Ortsteil"):
Milow may refer to:
Miles City
Miles City could refer to:
Miles City, Florida
Miles City is an unincorporated community in Collier County, Florida, United States.
Gianfranco Petris
Gianfranco Petris (30 August 1936 – 1 July 2018) was an Italian football player. He was born in Budoia, Italy.
Petris played for Treviso, Triestina, Fiorentina, Lazio and Polisportiva Trani.
He made his debut for Italy in 1958 and earned 4 caps, scoring 1 goal.
Petris died on 1 July 2018 in Trepalle, Italy at the age of 81.
Firuz Mustafayev
Firuz Mustafayev Rajab oglu (; 18 October 1933 – 7 July 2018), also spelled as Feyruz Mustafayev was an Azerbaijani politician. He was born in Baku. Mustafayev served as acting Prime Minister of Azerbaijan. His terms lasted from April 7 to May 18, when he was replaced by Rahim Huseynov.
Mustafayev died on 7 July 2018 at the age of 84.
Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American actor, pop singer, movie producer, and author. He starred in more than 40 movies. He was born in New York City. Hunter was known for her roles in "Damn Yankees", "Sweet Kill", and "Grease 2". His famous song was "Young Love".
Hunter was gay. From 1983 to 2018, Hunter was in a partnership with Allan Glaser.
Hunter died on July 8, 2018 from cardiac arrest complicated by thrombosis in Santa Barbara, California, aged 86.
Oliver Knussen
Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a Scottish composer and conductor. He was born in Glasgow. He was awarded CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours.
Knussen was principal guest conductor of The Hague's Het Residentie Orkest (Residentie Orchestra) between 1992 and 1996, the Aldeburgh Festival's co-artistic director between 1983 and 1998 and the London Sinfonietta's music director between 1998 and 2002 – and became that ensemble's conductor laureate.
In 2005 Knussen was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival.
Knussen died on 8 July 2018 in Snape, Suffolk, aged 66.
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