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It is possible that the agreement needs to be approved by Congress. The Constitution says that agreements between states need Congress to approve. However, the U.S. Supreme Court says that this is not always true. They talked about that question in the court case "Virginia v. Tennessee" and others. They decided the only agreements that need approval are those that threaten the authority of the U.S. government. Every Vote Equal says that the NPVIC cannot threaten the authority of the U.S. government, because the Constitution lets states decide how to give out their electoral votes. Derek Muller does not agree. He argues that the NPVIC affects the U.S. government system, and so it needs approval. Ian Drake says that Congress is not allowed to approve the agreement. Those who support the NPVIC do not agree. They do not think the agreement needs approval from Congress, but they plan to ask for this approval in any case.
In the past, people have made several plans to end the Electoral College by changing the Constitution. This is called an "amendment". However, this is very difficult to do. First, two thirds of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives need to approve the change. Then, three quarters of the states need to approve the change.
The plan that came closest to success was the Bayh-Celler plan. It was introduced in the 91st Congress, which met from January 1969 to January 1971. It was introduced by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York. The Bayh-Celler plan would have ended the Electoral College, and instead made a system using the popular vote. The pair of people with the most votes would become president and vice president, as long as they got more than 40% of the votes. If no one got more than 40%, a new vote would happen with the top two pairs. Celler's plan was approved in the House of Representatives in 1969, by a vote of 338–70. However, it was stopped in the Senate by a filibuster.
In 2005, Representative Gene Green of Texas introduced another plan to chose the president and vice president using the popular vote. Green introduced his plan to Congress as a "joint resolution" called H.J.Res. 9. It was also called the Every Vote Counts Amendment. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois and Senator Bill Nelson of Florida also introduced joint resolutions in the 111th Congress, which met from 2009 to 2011. All of these plans died in committees, before the whole Congress could vote on them.
In 2001, a law professor named Robert Bennett introduced a new plan. Bennett's plan did not require a change to the Constitution. His plan used the power of the states instead of fighting against it. In Bennett's plan, a group of states that control most of the Electoral College could work together. They would make the popular vote decide the result of elections.
Two other law professors, brothers named Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar, supported this plan. The Amar brothers proposed an agreement between states, made with laws in those states. The states would give all their electoral votes to the person who won the popular vote. The agreement would not become active until it guaranteed that person would win the Electoral College and become president. This agreement became the NPVIC.
The Amar brothers' plan uses two parts of the Constitution:
The Amar brothers' plan could work with as few as eleven states. They believe it would not need approval from Congress. However, that is not certain: the section Approval by Congress explains why.
In 2006, the computer science professor John Koza wrote a book called "Every Vote Equal". The book argues for a National Popular Vote agreement between states. (Koza knew about agreements between states from his work on lottery tickets.) Koza, Barry Fadem, and others made a non-profit organization called National Popular Vote. This organization promotes the NPVIC. It is led by people from both major political parties, including former Senators Jake Garn, Birch Bayh, and David Durenberger, and former Representatives John Anderson, John Buchanan, and Tom Campbell.
In 2006, legislatures in six states looked at NPVIC bills. Illinois even introduced a bill before National Popular Vote announced it at a press conference. That year, the Colorado Senate approved the bill. Both houses of the California legislature approved the bill, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped it with a veto.
In 2007, 42 states looked at bills to join the NPVIC. One house of the legislature approved bills in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland, and Hawaii. Maryland was the first state to join the agreement. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed the agreement into law on April 10, 2007.
Eleven states and the District of Columbia have joined the agreement. In Colorado, both houses of the legislature have approved the bill, and it is waiting for Governor Jared Polis to sign it.
All 50 states have looked at bills to join the NPVIC. In some states, only one house has approved the agreement: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Oregon. In New Mexico, the agreement was approved by both houses, but in different years. Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington had bills to leave the agreement, but these failed.
The U.S. Congress can stop laws in the District of Columbia within 30 working days, but they did not do this.
Some states allow laws to be made with a direct vote by the public, called an "initiative" or a "referendum". First, supporters must get a certain number of people to sign their names. Then, the question can be given to the voters. In 2018, groups in Arizona, Maine, and Missouri worked on initiatives to join the agreement, but these did not get enough people to sign.
Nate Silver, who studies elections, says that the NPVIC cannot succeed without support from "red" states (states that mostly vote for Republicans). So far, only "blue" states have joined (states that mostly vote for Democrats). However, legislatures controlled by Republicans have agreed to join the agreement in Arizona, Oklahoma, and New York.
Palamedes
Palamedes may refer to:
Palamedes (video game)
Palamedes is a puzzle game requiring the player to match the dice they are holding to the dice at the top of the screen. Using the "B" button, the player can change the number on his/her dice, then throw the dice using the "A" button when it matches the dice at the top of the screen, which wipes the target dice off the screen. The player can play in "solitaire" mode against the computer or another player, or "tournament" mode against AI opponents. There are six sides and numbers on the dice, making an attempt to match all the numbers on the screen and eliminating them as a challenge.
Ports of the game were published for the NES, MSX, FM-Towns and Game Boy by HOT-B. The Japan-only sequel, "Palamedes 2: Star Twinkles", was released in 1991 for the NES by HOT-B. It featured most of the same basic gameplay elements as the original but with the play field scrolling in the opposite direction.
On release, "Famitsu" magazine scored the Game Boy version of the game a 22 out of 40.
Wallis and Futuna national football team
Monaco national football team
Monaco national football team is the national football team of Monaco.
List of entries in the Eurovision Song Contest
This is a list of all the artists and songs that have competed in the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and grand finals from 1956 to 2021.
This list presents all the cases when a country withdrew or was disqualified from the contest.
This list presents versions of the entries recorded in the official languages that were not used in the contest performance of the represented country.
Women had many roles in the American Revolution.
Some were "Camp followers" equivalent to Military service Units (food, nursing, repairing clothing, etc). Many helped organize boycotts of British goods.
Others took a more active role:
Hugo Guerra
Hugo Romeo Guerra Cabrera (25 February 1966 – 11 May 2018) was a Uruguayan football player. He was born in Canelones, Uruguay.
Guerra played for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Huracán, Boca Juniors and Ferro Carril Oeste in the Primera División de Argentina.
Guerra died from cardiac arrest on 11 May 2018 at the age of 52.
Guaviare Department
Guaviare () is a department of Colombia. It is in the southern central region of the country. The capital is San José del Guaviare.
Santa Fe High School shooting
A gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 18, 2018. The attack left ten people dead (eight students and two teachers). At least 13 people from the shooting were treated at Texas hospitals, including eight students. Six of the eight students have already been discharged.
Police identified the alleged shooter as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who was taken into custody. A second person, an unidentified 18-year-old, was also taken into custody.
President Donald Trump expressed his thoughts in a press conference shortly following the shootings, and promised action from his administration.
Santa Fe, Texas
Santa Fe () is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population of Santa Fe at the 2010 census was 12,222.
Razia Sultan is an Indian historical television Soap Opera drama.
The show tells story of the first Indian women sultana of Delhi Razia Sultana.
The was produced by Swastik Pictures.
The show was shown on television from 2 March 2015 to 23 October 2015.
During the 13th century, Iltutmish, the sultan of Delhi, appoint his daughter Razia as the head of the state.
Razia Sultana fought oppositions from conformists in establishing a flourishing kingdom.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Dimitrij Ovtcharov (ukrainian Вшьшекшо Щмесрфкщм; born 2 September 1988 in Kiev) is a German table tennis player, who comes from the Ukraine.
His parents were Sovetian National players, so they trained Dima in his childhood. 2005 he got into the Bundesleague. His best moment came first at the Olympics 2008 in Beijing, in the singles he lost very early but with the German team he came to the final, were they lost to China. But in thiy year he won for the first time the European Championships. At the World Championships (this was the first of him) Ovtcharov reached the Round of 16, where he met his teammate Timo Boll, so he lost to him. At the German National Championships he lost very just to Bastian Steger. Also he won the Brazilian Open, where Dima doesn't give up a set. 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games again, where he won with the team bronze. He lost his match against Ma Long. In the singles Ovtcharov beat Michael Maze in the Quarterfinals, in the 3rd place match he met Chuang Chih-Yuan an beat him. At the European Championships he lost in the singles in the Quarterfinals but won together with Wladimir Samsonow the bronzemedal. In this year he was voted as the player of the year. 2013 he took part in the World Championships but lost again- this time in the Round of 16. In this year he became for the first time European Champion and won the third place at the World Cup- in the match he beat Timo Boll. At March 2014 he became German Champion, at the WTTTC they won after 2010 and 2012 for the third time the silvermedal. 2015 Ovtcharov took part in the WTTC, where he lost again- this time in the second round already. At the European Championships he won silver with the team and the goldmedal at the Europe Games in the singles. 2016 he took part in the Olympics, where he met the Quarterfinals, there he lost to Wladimir Samsonow despite a 2:0 leading. The World Cup and the European Championships ending very early, too. This was not a good year of Ovtcharov, because his grandmother ia death and had to spend lots of time of his child. 2017 he won the Europe-Top three times. 2018 lost early at the German Open, but won the World Team Cup and the 2nd place at te WTTTC with th team.
His parents were Russian, so he speaks Ukranian, Russian and German.
The Lena Goldfield incident, 1912
The Lena Goldfields incident was a notorious incident that occurred on 17 April 1912 in the Lena Goldfields in Siberia. Demands from the miners there for better pay and conditions were resisted by the employers, who appealed to the police to arrest the strike leaders as criminals.
The issue thus became the much larger one of trade union rights in Russia. When the police moved into Lena, the strikers closed ranks and the situation rapidly worsened, resulting in troops firing on and killing or injuring a large numbers of miners. The Okhrana (Imperial Russian army) appeared to have acted as agents provocateurs in order to identify the organizers of the strike.
Lucian Pintilie
Lucian Pintilie (; 9 November 1933 – 16 May 2018) was a Romanian movie director and screenwriter. He was known for directing "The Reenactment", "An Unforgettable Summer", and "Next Stop Paradise".
In 1968, he produced "The Reconstruction" thought by movie historians to be the most important representation of Romanian cinema.
Pintilie died on 16 May 2018 in Bucharest, Romania at the age of 84.
Arackal
As of the 2011 India census, Arackal had a population of 16,739 with 7,963 males and 8,776 females.
Aryankavu
The Palaruvi Falls is in the forest away from Aryankavu. Rose Mala is a tourism place in Aryankavu away from Aryankavu Junction.
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Avaneeswaram
Avaneeswaram is a small village located on Kunnicode-Pathanapuram road in Kollam district, Kerala. It is about 7 kilometers south of Pathanapuram town and 36 kilometers from Kollam. It is a part of Vilakkudy panchayat. Avaneeswaram has a FCI (Food corporation of India) storage facility. Economy of this village primarily is agricultural. Most common farm produce includes coconut, tapioca, areca, and cashews. Some rice cultivation is also seen.
The roads to Thalavoor and Pattazhy pass through Avaneesaram. Avaneeswaram is connected to Kollam city by Kollam-Punalur Broad gauge railway line. Avaneeshwaram railway station "(Code: AVS)" falls under the Madurai railway division of the Southern Railway Zone. It is a 'D-Class' Adersh Station.
There are so many worship centers in Avaneeswaram. "Thanniyappankavu Sree Mahadevar Temple", "St. Mary's Orthodox Church", "Emmanuel Marthoma church", "St.Mary's Malankara Catholic church", "Avaneeswaram Juma Ath" etc. are some of them
Ayiranalloor
Ayiranalloor is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.
As of the 2001 India census, Ayiranalloor had a population of 13359 with 6494 males and 6865 females.
Edakkidom
Edakkidom is a village in Kollam district in the Indian state of Kerala, located about north of Kollam city. The main attraction is Thettikkunnil Mahadevi Temple.
This village has a majority population of the Hindus (Mainly Nairs and Ezhavas).
This village is mainly dependent on agricultural products which includes rubber, black pepper, cashewnut, rice Plantain etc. Some of the famous nearby places are Kollam, Kottarakkara, Ezhukone, Odanavattom, Punalur etc.
Kareepra Cooperative Bank, Edakkidom & SupplyCo Maveli Store at KSN Building, Sodiac Tiles (BK Agencies), SLS wood industries, Mother rubber manufacturers. Rajan cashews, Ambalakara cashwes factory,11 KV Substation (KSEB) AM Junction Edakkidom North,S.R. Agencies
There is one primary school at Edakkidom, Govt L.P.School Edakkidom, and one aided SANSKRIT secondary school SNGSHS Kadaikode, Edaikkidom , KNS memorial S N Central school (CBSE), St George vocational higher secondary school at Chowalloor, Edakkidom. Sree Sankara Sanskrit vidyapeetam (BA, MA in Sanskrits), S.S.V.U.P.S Edakkidom.Akshya computer education centre,SRI SRI ACADEMY EZHUKONE-Edakkidom 691505
The Kerala backwaters of Kollam/Alappuzha is 14 km from Edakkidom. Some of the tourist spots near Edakkidom are Thenmala Ecotourism (39 km) and Palaruvi Water Falls (33 km).
Edakkidom is a part of assembly constituency Kottarakara and Lok Sabha constituency Mavelikkara. INC, CPI(M) is the major working political party in Edakkidom.
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Edamon
Edamon is a village in Punalur taluk in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.
India census, Edamon had a population of 12453 with 5980 males and 6473 females. The population has reduced to 12,029 with 5,652 males (47%) and 6,377 females (53%) as per the survey of census during 2011 by Indian Government.
Edamulackal
Edamulackal is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Edamulackal is situated near the second fastest growing town of Kerala, Anchal, the village, still retaining all the natural and scenic beauty of a typical Kerala village, is developing fast in education and service sectors too. The greeny slightly uneven terrain supports a wide range of agricultural activities, supported by the waters of Ithikkara river.
India census, Edamulackal had a population of 22142 with 10586 males and 11556 females.
Elamad
India census, Elamadu had a population of 26382 with 12571 males and 13811 females.
Elampal
Elampal is a village in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is known for its religious unity, festivals, and rich heritage. Elampal means young in Tamil. It lies on the Kollam-Thirumangalam National Highway (NH-744). The nearest town is Punalur. Its pin code is 691322.
Its government is under the General Education Department of the Government of Kerala offers education from Standard I to VII.
Elampal Service Cooperative Bank Limited and Federal Bank
Elampal(Ilambal, as they say) are the major banks in the locality.
Valiyavila family was the landlords of this place with multiple business.They held the major land and property at this region.
The village has two temples: Kottaram Aayiravally Devi Temple and Elampal Mahadevar Temple, which is one of the very old temples in Kerala.
Experts says the temples history dates back to The Sangha era.
A new temple is now being constructed at Thiruvazhi .
It has churches and mosques also including: St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Elampal, Mar Gregorios Orthodox Church Marangadu, St. George Orthodox Church, Elampal, St. Thomas Malankara Catholic Church, Thiruvazhy, and Church of God.
Elampalloor
India census, Elampalloor had a population of 28473 with 13783 males and 14690 females.
Lake Onega
Lake Onega (also known as Onego, ; or ; Karelian: "Oniegu" or "Oniegu-järve"; Veps: "Änine" or "Änižjärv") is a lake in the northwest part of the European country of Russia. It is the second largest lake in Europe after Lake Ladoga.
Elikkattoor
Elikkattoor is a village in the Kollam district. It is in the Indian state of Kerala. It is near Punalur.
Elikkattoor is a part of Punalur assembly constituency in Kollam (Lok Sabha constituency). K. Raju is the current MLA of Punalur. N. K. Premachandran is the current member of parliament of Kollam.
Ezhukone
Ezhukone () is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. It is between Kottarakkara and Kundara.
India census, Edakkidom Ezhukone had a population of 23741 with 11414 males and 12327 females.
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Harriet Bosse
Harriet Sofie Bosse (19 February 1878 in Oslo – 2 November 1961 in Oslo) was a Norwegian actress.
The actress Bosse began her career as an actress at a Theatre group from her sister, it follow engagements in Stockholm. Of course that, Harriet Bosse became very famous in Scandinavia. Of course that, she was seen from August Strindberg- they married in 1901. In that time August wrote a lot of pieces for Harriet and Harriet for him. Of course August was very jealous, the married ends in 1904. 1912 she went through a dark phase of life- her exman August Strindberg died and her nephew and second exman, too. In 1919 she reacted for the first time in front of a camera. In this year she turned two movies "Ingmasörnerna" and "Kameraden". After sixteen years she truned the third movie "Bombi Bitt och jarg". The next years she worked one more time with a movie, but died at the 2nd November 1961 in the middle of filming in a stroke.
Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman. He resisted William the Conqueror. His base was the Isle of Ely in East Anglia. According to legend he roamed the Fens, covering North Cambridgeshire, Southern Lincolnshire and West Norfolk, leading popular opposition to William the Conqueror.
Hereward was exiled from England by Edward the Confessor around 1060 - the exact date is unknown - when he was around 14 or 18 years old. Some sources point his own father as requesting the exile as he was a troublemaker.
It is unknown exactly when the next event happened but it is thought to have happened around 1069 and 1070. After being exiled Hereward returned to his family home where he discovered that the Normans had murdered his brother and set his head above the door. Hereward sought revenge and murdered a bunch of Normans and set their heads in place of his brother's. Hereward then fled to the Fens where he was sheltered by Abbot Thurstan.
Around spring time in 1070, Hereward the Wake and King Sweyn of Denmark took the Isle of Ely. Hereward made the Isle his base for his rebellion against the Normans.
June, 1070, Hereward raided Peterborough Abbey as an act of defiance against the Normans. He stated that he would take the Abbey's treasures into safekeeping away from the Normans. Some sources state that his uncle was the Abbot of the Abbey and Hereward persuaded his uncle to kill him.
Several primary sources exist for Hereward's life. Their accuracy is difficult to judge. They are the version of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" written at Peterborough Abbey (the "E manuscript" or Peterborough Chronicle), the "Domesday Book" (DB), the "Liber Eliensis" (Book of Ely) and, much the most detailed, the "Gesta Herewardi" ("Gesta").
Curtis Hanson
Curtis Lee Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016) was an American movie director, producer, and screenwriter. He was known for his directing work. His works include the psychological thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), the neo-noir crime movie "L.A. Confidential" (1997), the comedy "Wonder Boys" (2000), the hip hop drama "8 Mile" (2002), and the romantic comedy-drama "In Her Shoes" (2005).
Hanson won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1998, for co-writing "L.A. Confidential" with Brian Helgeland.
Hanson later retired from his work. He was reported to suffer from dementia. He died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home at the age of 71.
Lincoln, Missouri
Lincoln is a city of Benton County in the state of Missouri, United States. 1,190 people lived there in the 2010 census.
A post office called Lincoln was founded in 1866. The city was named after Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States.
Karlsruhe, North Dakota
Karlsruhe ( ) is a small town in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 82 at the 2010 census. It was named after the German city of Karlsruhe.
Pleasanton, California
Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, incorporated in 1894. It is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is about east of Oakland, and west of Livermore. The population was 70,285 at the 2010 census.
Pleasanton was ranked number 4 in "USA Today"'s list of "America's 50 best cities to live in" in 2014, number 63 in "Money" list of "The Best Places to Live" in 2010, and was named one of "Americans' Top Hometown Spots" in the United States in 2009 by "Forbes". Pleasanton was named the third richest city in terms of earnings in the United States by NerdWallet in 2013.
Juan de Pareja
Juan de Pareja was a Spanish painter. He was born near Málaga in 1606 or 1610 and died 1670 in Madrid. De Pareja was a slave. He is known mostly as a member of the household and workshop of painter Diego Velázquez. Velázquez freed him in 1650. His 1661 work The Calling of Saint Matthew (sometimes also referred to as The Vocation of Saint Matthew) is on display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
Owning slaves to help with the household and workshop seems to have been common amongst Spanish painters of the time. Francisco Pacheco, the teacher of Velázquez owned a Turkish slave. Francisco López Caro, another pupil of Pacheco, owned a black slave.
Pareja became Velazquez's assistant sometime after the master returned to Madrid from his first trip to Italy in January 1631. After the death of Velazquez in 1660. Pareja became an assistant to painter Juan del Mazo.
Guardafui Channel
The Guardafui Channel also known as the Socotra Passage is a strait between Puntland and Socotra.
RATP Group
The RATP (Régie autonome des transports Parisiens) is responsible for operating part of the public transport network in the Greater Paris area. In 2010, it transported around 3 billion passengers.
Mohamed Barakat
Mohamed Barakat (; born 20 November 1976) is a retired Egyptian football player. Barakat played as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Al-Ahly in Egypt. He also played with the Egyptian National Team.
Barakat was famous for his runs from midfield and his box-to-box kind of play, and that made him important in defence and attack. He is called "The Mercurial" () by his fans. 2005 and 2006 were the best years of his career. He helped his club Al-Ahly to win the CAF Champions League 2005 and CAF Champions League 2006. He also won African Cup of Nations 2006 with Egypt. In 2006, he started to get injuries.
Ahmed Hassan
Ahmed Hassan (; born 2 May 1975 in Maghagha, Egypt) is a retired Egyptian football player. He used to play as an attacking midfielder. He also played on the right wing for Egyptian national team. He played more international games than any other footballer in history. He appeared in 184 international matches for "Egypt". He is considered one of the best players in the history of Africa.
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
The Hôpital universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière () is a well-known hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of Europe's largest hospitals. It has a long history of treating patients with mental illnesses. Many famous people, worked there. Examples are Sigmund Freud, Georges-Gilles de la Tourette, and Jean-Martin Charcot.
Ahmed El Sakka
Ahmed Mohamed Salah El-din Abdel-aziz El-Sakka () (born March 1, 1973) is an Egyptian action actor.
Amr Waked
Amr Waked (Egyptian Arabic: عمرو واكد; born April 12, 1973) is an Egyptian film and television actor. He is also a stage actor. Many people know him internationally because of his role in the 2005 film "Syriana". He had some other notable roles. Another one of his roles is a Yemeni Sheikh called Muhammad in "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 (CU972/CUB972) was a scheduled domestic flight from Havana to Holguín, Cuba, on May 18, 2018. The Boeing 737-200 flying the route crashed shortly after takeoff, bursting into flames near Santiago de las Vegas, from Havana city centre. Of those onboard, 108 died and 3 survived with critical injuries. and one of them died hours later at the hospital.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated that a special commission had been formed to find the cause of the crash.
Amir Ganiel
Amir Ganiel (January 6, 1963 – May 14, 2018) was an Israeli swimming champion and record holder in swimming. He was part of the in the World Championships in Berlin for the national team. He worked in long distance. He was called one of the greatest Israeli swimmers.
He became a surgeon after his swimming career.
Ganiel was born and died in Jerusalem.
François Bréda
François Bréda (; 20 February 1956 – 16 May 2018) was a Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist.
In 1991 he was founding member of György Bretter Literary Circle, a society with great literary traditions that had ceased to exist in 1983 and being revived after the 1989 revolution in Romania.
Bréda died on 16 May 2018 at the age of 62.
Gérard Jouannest
Gérard Jouannest (2 May 1933 – 16 May 2018) was a French pianist and composer. Jouannest began his career as a pianist in music halls.
Jouannest composed more than 250 songs over the course of his life. For example, he composed songs for Jacques Brel like "Ne Me Quitte Pas", "Ces Gens-Là", "Bruxelles", "Mathilde" and "Les Vieux". He also composed songs for younger artists like Miossec, Benjamin Biolay and Abd al Malik.
Jouannest married Juliette Gréco. They were introduced by Jacques Brel in the 1960s. Jouannest supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2012 presidential election.
Jouannest died on 16 May 2018 in Ramatuelle, Var at the age of 85.
Eloísa Mafalda
Mafalda Theotto (September 18, 1924 – May 16, 2018), known professionally as Eloísa Mafalda, was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Jundiaí, Brazil.
Throughout her career, she starred in "O Ébrio" (1965), "Pigmalião 70" (1970), "A Próxima Atração" (1971), "Gabriela, Cravo e Canela" (1975), "Saramandaia" (1976), "O Astro" (1977), "Locomotivas" (1977), "Pecado Rasgado" (1978), "Água Viva" (1980), "Brilhante" (1981), "Champagne" (1983), "Roque Santeiro" (1985), "O Sexo dos Anjos" (1989), "Você Decide" (1995 and 1999), "Pedra sobre Pedra" (1992), "Mulheres de Areia" (1993), "Por Amor" (1997), "Meu Bem Querer" (1998), "Porto dos Milagres" (2001) and "O Beijo do Vampiro" (2002).
Mafalda died on May 16, 2018 in Petrópolis, Brazil of respiratory failure at the age of 93.
Diana E. Murphy
Diana E. Murphy (January 4, 1934 – May 16, 2018) was an American judge. She was born in Faribault, Minnesota. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
Murphy served as United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit after being nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and gained Senior Judge status in 2016 until her retirement in 2018. She was also a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter.
In 1993 she was reportedly considered for the post of Attorney General of the United States, which later went to Janet Reno.
Murphy died in her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 16, 2018, shortly after announcing her full retirement from the bench, of congestive heart failure, aged 84.
Nicole Fontaine
Nicole Fontaine (16 January 1942 – 17 May 2018) was a French politician and lawyer. She was born in Grainville-Ymauville, France. Fontaine was a member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. Fontaine was the President of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2002, and was then replaced by Pat Cox.
Fontaine died on 17 May 2018 in Paris at the age of 76.
Klaus Hänsch
Klaus Hänsch (born 15 December 1938) is a German Politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD from 17 July 1979 until 13 July 2009, and sat with the Party of European Socialists group.
Boyan Petrov
Boyan Petrov (, 7 February 1973 – ) was a Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer. He worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.
He had climbed 10 out of 14 eight-thousanders, all without supplementary oxygen. This made him the Bulgarian altitude climber with the highest number of successful ascents of peaks over 8000 meters. He was the first Bulgarian to climb four of those mountains - Gasherbrum I (2009), Kangchenjunga (2014), K2 (2014) and Manaslu (2015).
Petrov was declared missing on Shishapangma on 5 May 2018. The search for him was discontinued on 16 May. According to climbers, he may have fallen into a crevasse on the way to the top.
Mehdi Tabatabaei
Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei Shirazi (, March 21, 1936 — May 17, 2018) was an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician. He served as member of the Parliament of Iran from 2004 to 2008, representing the districts of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. He represented Mashhad and Kalat from 1984 to 1988. He was born in Rafsanjan, Iran.
Tabatabaei was a critic of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tabatabaei died in Tehran on May 17, 2018 of lung disease at the age of 82.
John Carrick
Sir John Leslie Carrick (4 September 1918 – 18 May 2018) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney. Carrick served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1971 to 1987, representing the Liberal Party. He was a minister for the duration of the Fraser Government, holding several different portfolios.
Carrick died on 18 May 2018 at the age of 99 in Melbourne.
Akhzivland
Akhzivland is a micronation between Nahariya and the Lebanese border on the Israeli west coast. The state was founded by Eli Avivi in 1972. The micronation is promoted by the Israel Ministry of Tourism even though its legal status remains debated.
The micronation is located near the ruins of Achziv, an ancient settlement on the Mediterranean coast in the Western Galilee, about 5 kilometers north of Nahariya.
A national park, field school, and the ruins of the Palestinian village of Az-Zeeb, which was captured by the Carmeli Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, are located nearby.
Eli Avivi died of pneumonia on May 15, 2018.
Ayad Futayyih Al-Rawi
Ayad Futayyih Khalifa al-Rawi () (1942 – 18 May 2018) was an Iraqi general of the Iraqi Republican Guard. He later served as the head of the Jerusalem Army. He started his service in the Army as an officer in an armoured unit, later fighting in the Iran-Iraq War. He was one of Saddam Hussein's closet allies.
Rawi was arrested on 4 June 2003, following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Despite its claimed size, the Al Quds Army ended up playing virtually no role in the war.
Rawi was born in Rawa. He died of a stroke in Baghdad on May 18, 2018, aged 76.
Voorhees Township, New Jersey
Voorhees Township is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 29,131. Voorhees is a New Jersey suburb in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area.
The township is named for Foster McGowan Voorhees, the Governor of New Jersey who supported its creation.
Faribault, Minnesota
Faribault ( ) is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 23,352 at the 2010 census. Faribault is about south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Michael Luscombe
Michael Gerard Luscombe (22 July 1953 – 27 April 2018) was an Australian businessman. He was the CEO and managing director of Woolworths Limited, the largest retail company in Australia, from 2006 until 2011.
On 4 April 2011, Luscombe announced that he would be retiring as CEO of Woolworths in October.
Luscombe died on 27 April 2018 from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at the age of 64.
Kristin Nelson
Sharon Kristin Nelson (née Harmon; June 25, 1945 – April 27, 2018) was an American primitive painter, actress and author. She was married to musician Ricky Nelson.
She was the daughter of Tom Harmon and actress/model Elyse Knox, her younger siblings are model-actress Kelly Harmon and actor Mark Harmon.
In 1988, she married Mark Tinker, who encouraged her to paint. Her brightly colored primitives found favor with Jacqueline Kennedy and Mia Farrow, among other celebrities, and they form the basis of her coffee-table autobiography "Out of My Mind".
Nelson starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", "Adam-12", "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy", which won an Academy Award for best live action short movie, and "Liar's Moon".
Her daughter, actress Tracy Nelson, announced on Facebook that her mother had suddenly died on April 27, 2018 of a heart attack.
Harvey Hall
Harvey Leonard Hall (January 5, 1941 – May 19, 2018) was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 25th mayor of Bakersfield, California. Hall was first elected in 2000, and re-elected in 2004, 2008 and 2012. He was one of the longest serving mayors in Bakersfield's history. He was born in Bakersfield.
As mayor, one of his focuses had been physical improvement of the city, through "Keep Bakersfield Beautiful" and the creation of, and participation in, monthly "Mayor’s Freeway Cleanups", trash pickups on local freeways. Hall has donated his mayor’s salary to the Kern Community Foundation, which provides scholarships to local colleges, and to California State University, Bakersfield, for local students.
Hall was the founder and former president of Hall Ambulance Service.
Hall died on May 19, 2018 in Bakersfield of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at the age of 77.
Maya Jribi
Maya Jribi (January 29, 1960 – May 19, 2018) was a Tunisian politician. From 2006 to 2012, she was the leader of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). From the PDP merged into the Republican Party in April 2012, until her resignation in 2017, she was the Secretary-General of the centrist party.
Jribi died on 19 May 2018 in Tunis of pancreatic cancer at the age of 58.
Reggie Lucas
Reginald Grant Lucas (February 25, 1953 – May 19, 2018), known as Reggie Lucas, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in New York City. Lucas was best known for having produced the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album, his production work with percussionist Mtume, and for playing with the Miles Davis electric band of the first half of the 1970s.
In 1986, Lucas founded the Jersey City recording studio Quantum Sound. Clients included the Pet Shop Boys, Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Sepultura.
In 1981, Lucas and James Mtume won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for their composition "Never Knew Love Like This Before", which was performed by Stephanie Mills.
Lucas died of heart disease in New York City, at the age of 65.
Bobby Winkles
Bobby Brooks Winkles (March 11, 1930 – April 17, 2020) was an American baseball player and manager. He was born in Tuckerman, Arkansas, but was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Winkles was the third base coach for the Oakland Athletics int the 1970s.
Winkles worked at Arizona State University and managed in Major League Baseball. Winkles is a right-handed-hitting and -throwing infielder. He played minor league baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization between 1951 and 1958, hitting .270 with 890 hits in 858 games played before retiring to become Arizona State's head baseball coach at age 29.
Winkles died on April 17, 2020, aged 90.
Petrissa Solja
Petrissa Solja (born 11 March 1994 in Kandel) is a German table tennis player. At the World Championships 2017 she won a bronzemedal together with Fang Bo in the mixed- doubles. She is the best female German table tennis player.
2009 she played at the European Championships. There she played with her team against Netherlands and lost her match against Elena Timina. 2014 she joined to TTC Berlin eastside. Because of her successes she was chosen as the best German player in the Youth. 2013 she won the German Open in the doubles with Sabine Winter. At the European Championships 2014 she won gold with the team. In the same year she took part in the World Cup, where Solja reached the Round of 16. At the European Ranking tournament in 2015 she lost in the final to Liu Jia. At the World Cup, where Petrissa took part for the second time, she won bronze, after beating Li Jiao in the 3rd place match. 2016 she reached together with the team the Quarterfinals at the WTTC, there they lost to Japan. At the Olympic Games Solja retired already in her first match, where she played against Ri Myong-sun and lost. With the team they came surprise to the final, where they lost very clearly to China. At the WTTC 2017 in Düsseldorf she won together with Fang Bo the bronzemedal in the mixed-doubles, in the other categories she lost.
Solja is an lefthanded-player and attacker. She uses the "Joola Ryzhm 425" at the backhand, on the forehand "Joola Ryzhm".
Strengthen: Backhand Tospin and Konter
Weaknesses: Long rallies from the table, play against defenders
Tomokazu Harimoto
"Tomokazu Harimoto"' (; ; ; born 27 June 2003 in Sendai) is a male Japanese table tennis player with Chinese origin. In Japan he is the best player in his vintage and is a "monster" in the table tennis scene, because he beat Timo Boll and very strong other players.
Harimoto started to play table tennis with two years- that time at home at a kitchen table. In 2014 he came to the third round at the Japanese National Championships. At the Japan Open he began to play international. He was on position 826 in the world. At the Safir Open 2015 in Örebro he beat two top-100-players and came under the top 100 in the world. So he was the youngest player ever that came to the main round. At the Polish Open he met Ma Long and lost 0:4 to him. 2016 he took part in the Youth-World Championships, where he won gold in the singles and with the team, too. So Harimoto came under the top 60 in the world. At the Slovenian Open Tomokazu was the youngest player again, who reached the Quarterfinals in the singles. Also he won the Japan Open in the singles and became so youngest player ever who wins a World Tour event. In the U-18 world ranking system he became number one. One year later he reached the final again but lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov. At the World Championships he was the youngest player who reached the Quarterfinals at a WTTC, in the world rankings for adults he became place 20. At the Czech Open he won his first World Tour event- in the final he beat the German table tennis star Timo Boll and got another record. 2018 he beat Jun Mizutani (his teammate) and won so the Japanese National Championships for the first time. After participation at the WTTTC 2018, he came to the top 10.
Harimotos parents were table tennis players from China. In 1998 they came to Japan and worked there as table tennis coaches. Harimoto came 2003 in Japan under the name "Zhang Zhihe" to the world. But he does have the Japanese citizenship he got the name "Tomokazu Harimoto".
Afrojack
Nick van de Wall, better known by his stage name Afrojack, is a Dutch music producer and DJ. He was born and raised in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Afrojack's song "Take Over Control", which features Eva Simons, has charted in a number of countries. he was listed at number 19 on DJ MAG's top 100 DJs of 2010.
Types of buses
An open top bus is a double-decker or single-decker bus, which has been built without a roof or has had the roof removed. Some open top buses have half a roof at the front and some don't have one at all. Open top buses are usually used on tourist and sightseeing services.
Nandi (bull)
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
May Blood, Baroness Blood
May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (born 26 May 1938) is a Labour politician. She is a member of the British House of Lords. She was born and raised in Belfast.
Since 1994, she has been an Information Officer of the Greater Shankill Partnership and is a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours.
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss ("née" Havers; born 10 August 1933), is an English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and, until 2004, was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom.
She was made a dame (DBE) on appointment to the High Court in 1979, and was sworn in to the Privy Council in 1988 when she became the first woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. When she retired as a judge in 2005, she was awarded Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). In 2006, the government announced that she would be awarded a life peerage as Baroness Butler-Sloss. She sits as a independent peer in the House of Lords.
Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed.
Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, DBE (born 19 April 1959) was is a British activist and baroness. She is Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) from 2006–08.
She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which lead on the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). She was Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission until it was wound up in October 2006.
She was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and given a prognosis that she would not live to reach the age of two years; however, it was her younger sister, Sally, who died from the same disease before that age. As a child she was prone to getting severe chest infections, which occurred two or three times per year, sometimes requiring hospitalisation.
Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton
Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton DBE, GCStJ, FRCN (born 10 September 1935) is a British crossbench member of the House of Lords.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours. She was created a life peer as Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997.
Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM, FRSA, JP ("née" McGirr; born ) is an Australian-born dentist and Conservative member of the British House of Lords. She is the only Australian woman to date who has been elevated to the peerage.
Llin Golding, Baroness Golding
Elspeth Howe
Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, (born Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand; 8 February 1932) is a British life peer. She is the widow of Geoffrey Howe. She was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right.
Elspeth Howe served as deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980. She was later made Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. In the 1999 New Year's Honours she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids
Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, OBE (born 10 January 1931), is a Labour member of the House of Lords.
Howells was awarded an OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours, she was made a Life peer as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich on 21 July 1999.
The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south-east of the Island.
In March 2009 she was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire in Luton.
Malamel
Malamel is a village in Pathanapuram Taluk in Kollam district, Kerala, India. This village is situated between Anchal and Valakom bypass road. In Malayalam, Malamel means "Top of the hill".
At Malamel, there is a huge rock on which there is a famous Shiva Temple. A temple festival is held on 3 December. The temple has 5 doors and is considered to be divine and ancient because of the close proximity of "Jadayupara" (Chadayamangalam) (the rock that "Jadayu" carried on his wings). It has also a cave at extreme left of the temple, which a British Adventurer in the year 1946, tried in vain to venture into, and which leads to the Kulathupuzha Forest. This cave is believed to be a haven for very venomous snakes.
Famous temples like "Arackal Devi Temple" and "Perumannur Devi Temple" are nearby. Kottarakara Sree Mahaganapathy Kshethram is 12 km away.
Kottarakara and Punalur are the towns nearest to the village.
Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe
Joan Anna Dalziel Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, DBE (born 3 May 1930, née Owen) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours.
From 1997 to 2001 she was Opposition Whip. Since 2006 she is the Opposition Spokesperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs/Justice.
Martin Hoffman
Martin Joseph Hoffman (15 November 1929 – 15 May 2018) was a Czech-born British professional bridge player and writer of Jewish descent. He was born in Prague.
He was a survivor of the Holocaust and transported to Auschwitz. He was later moved to the Monowitz-Buna, Gross Rosen and Birkenau sub-camps of Auschwitz; and from there he was sent on a death march towards Buchenwald. In 1945, he was liberated by American Army troops, who adopted him as mascot, with the honorary rank of sergeant.
Eastern hognose snake
Heterodon platirhinos, also known as the Eastern hognose snake, is a species of mildly venomous colubrid snake. It lives throughout North America.
The average length for an adult eastern hognose snake is 71 cm (28 in) in length. The most amazing feature is the upturned nose. It is used for digging in sandy soils. It can be red, green, orange, brown or gray to black depending on where it comes from. The belly tends to be a solid gray, yellow, or cream-colored.