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Krzysztof Kowalewski (20 March 1937 – 6 February 2021) was a Polish actor and comedian. Kowalewski was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2002), Gold Medal of Medal for Merit to Culture, "Gloria Artis" (2009) and Grand Prize Splendor ("Wielki Splendor") (1992). He starred in the comedy series "Czterdziestolatek" (1970–1974).
Kowalewski died on 6 February 2021 in Warsaw, aged 83.
Mateusz Morawiecki
Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki (born 20 June 1968) is a Polish politician, manager, banker, economist, lawyer, historian. He is the 17th and current Prime Minister of Poland since 11 December 2017. He has served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Development and Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Beata Szydło.
His father, Kornel Morawiecki, was a politician and physicist who ran for president in 2010.
On 8 December 2017, Morawiecki was designated as the Prime Minister of Poland. On 11 December he was sworn into office. Following his appointment, Morawiecki promised “continuation” rather than change in his first major parliamentary address.
Erg
An erg is a unit of measurement or energy or work that is the same as 10 joules. It formed part of the centimetre-gram-second system of units (CGS system of measurement which is no longer used).
An erg is about the amount of work done (or energy consumed) by one common housefly performing a "press-up", the leg-bending dip that brings its mouth to the surface on which it stands and back up.
2019 UEFA Champions League Final
The 2019 UEFA Champions League Final was the last match of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League. The campaign was the 64th season of Europe's top club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 27th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain on 1 June 2019. The match was played between English sides Tottenham Hotspur, in their first European Cup final, and Liverpool, in their ninth final overall and their second in a row, having been lost to Real Madrid in 2018.
Liverpool won the final 2–0, with a penalty after 106 seconds from Mohamed Salah and a strike by substitute Divock Origi in the 87th minute. It was Liverpool's sixth European Cup win and the club's first time since 2005.
As winners, Liverpool will play against Chelsea, the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup. They will also qualify to enter the group stage of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the spot reserved will be given to the champions of the 2018–19 Austrian Bundesliga, the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list.
In March 2018, UEFA announced that a fourth substitution will be allowed in extra time and that the number of substitutes has been increased from 7 to 12. The kick-off time was also changed from 20:45 CEST to 21:00 CEST.
"In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup times, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League times."
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, which was held on 15 March 2019, 12:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
Jackie DeShannon (born August 21, 1944) is an American musician and pop singer-songwriter. She was born Sharon Lee Myers.
DeShannon began her career around 1950.
DeShannon is the singer of songs, such as "What the World Needs Now is Love" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart".
DeShannon was born in Hazel, Kentucky. Later, she and her parents moved to Aurora, Illinois.
Many sources say DeShannon was born in 1944. Others say that she was born in 1940, 1941 or 1942.
"What the World Needs Now is Love" is an American 1965 pop song by Jackie DeShannon. It was first recorded and made popular by DeShannon. It was released on April 15, 1965. It peaked at number 7 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100.
The song is about wanting love and dealing with prejudice.
Other singers have recorded the song. They include Dionne Warwick.
The song contains the memorable lines:
2019–20 UEFA Europa League
The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League will be the 49th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The last match will be played at the Stadion Energa Gdańsk in Gdańsk, Poland. The winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League will play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup and will also automatically qualify for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the reserved place will be given to the third-placed team of the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.
"Note: Teams in italics may still qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, either through domestic performance, or by winning the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League or the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League."
2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage
The 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage began on 12 September and ended on 6 December 2017. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League.
Below were the participating teams (with their 2017 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included 22 teams which enter in this stage, and the 10 winners of the play-off round (5 in Champions Route, 5 in League Route).
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the Europa League round of 32.
Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01):
The matchdays were 12–13 September, 26–27 September, 17–18 October, 31 October – 1 November, 21–22 November, and 5–6 December 2017. The match kickoff times were 20:45 CEST/CET in general, except for certain matches for geographical reasons.
Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).
Qayamat Ki Raat
Qayamat Ki Raat (lit.Night of the doom) is an Indian supernatural television series. It started on 23 June 2018 in Star Plus. The show is co-produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under their banner Balaji Telefilms.
The show opened with 5.6 million impressions in its opening week.
Victoria Kalima
Victoria Kalima Phiri (4 October 1972 – 11 June 2018) was a Zambian politician. She served as Minister of Gender until her death in 2018. She was also a member of the National Assembly for Kasenengwa from 2011 until her death in 2018.
Kalima died at Maina Soko Military Hospital in Lusaka on 11 June 2018 after an illness, aged 45.
Jon Hiseman
Philip John "Jon" Hiseman (21 June 1944 – 12 June 2018) was an English rock-blues-jazz drummer, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher. He was born in London. Hiseman was known for being the founder of the jazz-rock band Colosseum. He also performed with Tempest and John Mayall.
Hiseman died on 12 June 2018 of brain cancer at the age of 73.
Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer. He is best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and then 1997 to 2018.
As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in "Rolling Stone" Magazine's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Amazonsaurus
Amazonsaurus ( , "Amazon lizard") is a rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It would have been a four-legged herbivore with a long neck and whiplash tail. "Amazonsaurus" was probably not more than 12 meters (40 ft) long. Its weight was about 5000 kg (5 tons).
Yazd Province
Yazd Province (, "Ostān-e Yazd" ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is Yazd.
Empress Masako
Aiko, Princess Toshi
Aiko was born on 1 December 2001 at Imperial Household Agency Hospital in Tokyo Imperial Palace, She is only child of Crown Prince and Crown Princess.
She was study in Gakushūin and studies at Gakushūin University.
Gloria Warren
Gloria Warren (born Gloria Weiman on April 7, 1926) is an American actress, pianist and singer.
Her movie career began in 1942 with Warner Bros.. That same year, she appeared in her first motion picture, "Always in My Heart". Her singing voice was often compared to that of Deanna Durbin.
She made four more movies after that, including "Dangerous Money" and "Bells of San Fernando", and retired from show business in 1947.
Ron Holgate
Spencer Bohren
Spencer Ward Bohren (1950 in Casper, Wyoming – June 8, 2019) was an American roots musician, singer, songwriter, teacher, and visual artist.
He played guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, and percussion, and utilizes the roots of American traditional music to write songs in blues, country, gospel and folk styles. He has released fourteen albums from 1984 until 2018.
Bohren died on June 8, 2019 from prostate cancer, aged 69.
Michael Jagmin
Michael "Jag" Jagmin (born May 12, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is known for being the lead vocalist of post-hardcore band A Skylit Drive and former lead vocalist of metal band Odd Project.
Jagmin was the second vocalist of the metal band Odd Project, and was featured on their second album, "Lovers, Fighters, Sinners, Saints". He left the band in 2007.
Chris LeDoux
Chris LeDoux (October 2, 1948 – March 9, 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor, and hall of fame rodeo champion. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.
During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums (many self-released) which have sold more than six million units in the United States. He was awarded two gold and one platinum album certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
He was nominated for a Grammy Award, and was honored with the Academy of Country Music Music Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. LeDoux is also the only person to ever both participate and perform at the Houston LiveStock Show & Rodeo.
LeDoux died of bile duct cancer on March 9, 2005 in Casper, Wyoming at the age of 56.
Rosie Hamlin
Rosalie "Rosie" Méndez Hamlin (July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter. She was the frontwoman of the group Rosie and the Originals. She was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, but was raised in Anchorage, Alaska. Hamlin was best known for the 1960 song "Angel Baby", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Hamlin was only fifteen years old. She retired from the music industry in 1963.
Hamlin's "Angel Baby" was covered by several artists, including Linda Ronstadt and John Lennon, who cited Hamlin as one of his favorite singers. She was the first Latina to be honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the first Latina to appear on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" in 1961.
Hamlin died on March 30, 2017 in Belen, New Mexico from a long-illness at the age of 71.
Norma Zimmer
Norma Zimmer (July 13, 1923 – May 10, 2011) was an American singer and actress. She was best remembered for her 22-year tenure as Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" on "The Lawrence Welk Show", and for her love of traditional Christian music.
She landed a small singing part in the Bing Crosby movie "Mr. Music" (1950), and provided the singing voice for the White Rose in the Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" (1951).
Zimmer died in Brea, California on May 10, 2011 at the age of 87.
Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and author. He performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his Americana style and narrative lyrics.
In 2006 he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by "Paste" magazine.
Slim Andrews
Slim Andrews (born Leonard Andrews Huntington, Jr.; on June 14, 1931) is an American country music singer and guitarist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his music career in 1942 at the age of eleven when he won a talent contest at the Community Theater in Maine, He got his first guitar at this time and spent 75 years of his life entertaining throughout the South and Northeast.
Clarence White
Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 14, 1973), was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds. He was born in Lewiston, Maine.
White died on July 14, 1973 in Palmdale, California after being struck and killed by a drunk driver at the age of 29.
Lois Hart
Lois Hackbert Hart Walker (born on February 5, 1950, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired journalist. She worked on the evening news in Sacramento on KCRA-TV with her husband, Dave Walker, from 1990 through 2008.
Hart first worked at KCRA in the 1970s and later worked at KOVR. Hart and Walker were married in 1979. Later, they went Sacramento to work for CNN. Hart's first show with CNN was broadcast in 1980. In 1989, Hart and Walker both left CNN and began working for CNBC. Hart was on TV Shows "CNBC Mornings", "Money Wheel", and "America's Vital Signs".
Hart and Walker retired on November 26, 2008.
Corey Stewart
Corey Alan Stewart (born August 1, 1968) is an American lawyer and Republican politician. Stewart is the Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
He studied at Georgetown University and at William Mitchell College of Law. He was elected to the Board of County Supervisors in 2003.
In July 2017, Stewart announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate.
Lois Maxwell
Lois Maxwell (born Lois Ruth Hooker, 14 February 1927 – 29 September 2007) was a Canadian actress. She was best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 "James Bond" movies (1962–1985). She was the first actress to play the part.
Belen, New Mexico
Belen (; ) is the second most populous city in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States, after its county seat Los Lunas. The population was 7,152 in 2015 census data.
Belen is Spanish for Bethlehem but gained the nickname "The Hub City".
Belen is at the southern end of the Albuquerque. The city is located 35 miles south of Albuquerque.
Los Lunas, New Mexico
Los Lunas is a village in Valencia County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population is 14,835. It is the county seat of Valencia County.
Los Lunas is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name "Los Lunas" is a partial Anglicization of the name of the Luna family, who originally settled in the area ("los Luna", in Spanish).
Bottineau, North Dakota
Bottineau is a city in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Bottineau County and is located just over south of the Canada–United States border. The city's population was 2,211 at the 2010 census.
Saleh Ali al-Sammad
Saleh Ali al-Sammad (;
1 January 1979 – 19 April 2018) was a Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement. He served as the president of Yemen's Supreme Political Council until his death.
On April 23, 2018, Houthi officials announced al-Sammad was killed in a Saudi-led coalition drone airstrike.
Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook (born 23 November 1979) is an British actress, model, and television presenter. Her first starring role was in the 2004 film "School for Seduction", for which she received positive reviews for her role. In 2004, she played character Nikki Morris in the video game "Need for Speed Underground 2", alongside Brooke Burke. In 2005, she appeared in the Philippe Vidal thriller "House of 9", and starred opposite Billy Zane in the film "Survival Island".
Brook was born and raised in Rochester, Kent as Kelly Ann Parsons, the daughter of Sandra Kelly, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Kenneth Parsons died, aged 57, in Rochester from lung cancer, on 26 November 2007, during Brook's time on "Strictly Come Dancing". Brook attended the Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. In 1996 at the age of seventeen she appeared in the second series of "Fist of Fun", the BBC comedy show from Stewart Lee and Richard Herring as a schoolgirl in a series of sketches entitled 'Teachers' (one of her co-stars was the young Daniel Mays). She studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years during this time before becoming a professional model at the age of 16.
Bunschoten
Bunschoten is a village in the province Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bunschoten is also called Bunschoten-spakenburg because the two villages Bunschoten and Spakenburg “grew” into each other. Bunschoten was in the early ages a farmers village and Spakenburg a fishers village.
Acquaviva (San Marino)
Acquaviva (literally "living water") is one of the 9 communes or "castelli" of San Marino.
Acquaviva had 2,137 people on 30 June 2014. It covers . It borders the San Marino municipalities Borgo Maggiore and San Marino and the Italian municipalities San Leo and Verucchio.
Acquaviva was annexed to San Marino in 1243.
Pentahedron
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Alberto Furlong (October 22, 1927 – June 11, 2018) was an Argentine basketball player, tennis player and tennis coach. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
As a basketball player, he was a FIBA World Cup champion in 1950, who also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Furlong was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, in September 2007.
Following his basketball retirement, he played tennis. He was the coach of the Argentine Davis Cup team. In 1977, his last year as a tennis coach, his team reached the semifinals of the 1977 Davis Cup.
Furlong died on June 11, 2018 in Buenos Aires at the age of 90.
Interstate 87
Interstate 87 may refer to two Interstate Highways in the United States:
Denison Dam
Denison Dam, also known as Lake Texoma Dam, is a dam on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma. The job of the dam is to control flood waters. It also makes a water supply and energy from hydroelectricity. The dam controls the Red River and provides a place where people can have fun in the water.
Denison Dam was finished in 1943. At that time, it was the largest "rolled-earth fill dam" (a kind of dirt) in the world. The dam is named for Denison, Texas which is not far away. The dam's spillway is above sea level. Water has gotten high enough go into the spillway five times.
Denison Dam is made from of rolled-earth fill. It also produces 250,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year. The dam holds the Red River back to make Lake Texoma which has of water. The lake is used to give water to local towns and cities. The dam has 47 areas for people to have fun. The area around the lake has of land people can hunt on.
Oklahoma State Highway 91 and Texas State Highway 91 cross over the dam.
Acre foot
An acre-foot is a unit of volume used in the United States to measure large amounts of water resources. It makes measuring water in reservoirs, lakes, and rivers.
An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to cover an acre of land with water deep. One acre-foot of water is the same as of water. It is about the same amount of water as a 8-lane, 25 m long competition swimming pool.
The typical American family uses about 1 acre-foot of water in a year or about per day. In some places in the deserts of the Southwestern United States, water conservation is a rule. In these ares, a normal family only uses 0.25 acre-feet of water per year.
Large amounts of water can also be in thousands of acre-feet or TAF.
Andropause
Adam Laxalt
Adam Paul Laxalt (born August 31, 1978) is an American politician. He became the Attorney General of Nevada in 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
His father was New Mexico U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, but took his mother's last name Laxalt. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt was his grandfather.
Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada. He studied at Tulane University and at Georgetown University. He is a former Navy prosecutor.
In November 2017, Laxalt announced his candidacy for Governor of Nevada. He won the Republican nomination, but lost the general election to Democrat Steve Sisolak by nearly 5%.
Arkangel de la Muerte
Alfredo Pasillas (July 16, 1966 – June 13, 2018) was a Mexican masked professional wrestler. He was best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Arkangel de la Muerte. He was often called Arkangel, an worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991. His name means "Archangel of Death" in Spanish.
In the years leading up to his death he served as the head trainer at the school. His in ring career included reigns with the CMLL World Welterweight Championship and the Mexican National Welterweight Championship as well as winning the mask of Ángel Azteca.
He was a founding member of the groups "Pandilla Guerrera" and Los Guerreros Tuareg.
Pasillas died of a heart attack in Mexico City on June 13, 2018 at the age of 51.
Anne Donovan
Anne Theresa Donovan (November 1, 1961 – June 13, 2018) was an American women's basketball player and coach. From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun. She was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
In her playing career, Donovan won two Olympic gold medals, and went to three Final Fours overall. She was honored in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995, and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.
As a professional basketball coach, she guided the Seattle Storm to their first title in 2004, becoming the first woman to coach a WNBA Championship team (as well as the youngest person to coach a WNBA champion, at age 42).
After coaching the Indiana Fever and the Charlotte Sting earlier in her career, Donovan joined the New York Liberty as an assistant coach in the spring of 2009.
Donovan died on June 13, 2018 of heart failure at the age of 56.
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 24,958. Ridgewood is a suburban bedroom community of New York City. It is about northwest of Manhattan.
Ridgewood was ranked 26th in "Money" magazine's "Best Places to Live" in America, 2011.
John O. Pastore
John Orlando Pastore (March 17, 1907July 15, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Pastore served as a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1950 to 1976. He served as the 61st Governor of Rhode Island from 1945 to 1950. He was the first Italian American to be elected as a senator.
Pastore was best known taking part in a 1969 hearing involving a $20 million grant for the funding of PBS. President Richard Nixon had wanted to cut the proposed funding to $10 million due to the demands of the Vietnam War. Fred Rogers, host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", appeared before the committee to argue for the full $20 million. After hearing Rogers's testimony Pastore restored the funding. The following year's appropriation increased PBS funding from $9 million to $22 million.
Pastore won his final Senate race in 1970 by a 68%–32% margin over John McLaughlin. McLaughlin later became the host of the television program "The McLaughlin Group".
Pastore died in Cranston, Rhode Island on July 15, 2000 of kidney failure at the age of 93.
Messier 32
Messier 32 (also known as NGC 221) is a dwarf "early-type" galaxy about 2.65 million light-years from Earth. It is seen in the constellation Andromeda.
M32 is a satellite galaxy of the large Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It was discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1749. M32 measures 6.5 ± 0.2 thousand light-years in diameter at the widest point.
The galaxy is a compact elliptical galaxy type. Compact ellipticals are rather rare.
Half the stars are inside an effective radius of only 100 parsecs.
Densities in the central area increase steeply, over 3×10 M pc as seen by the HST. The half-light radius of this central star cluster is around 6 parsec. In other words, this small centre of the galaxy emits half the light of the central 100 parsecs.
Like more ordinary elliptical galaxies, M32 contains mostly older faint red and yellow stars with practically no dust or gas and consequently no current star formation. It does, however, show hints of star formation in the relatively recent past.
M32 contains a supermassive black hole.
Its mass is between 1.5 and 5 million solar masses.
Barnard's galaxy
Barnard's galaxy (also known as NGC 6822, IC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is an irregular barred spiral galaxy. It is about 1.6 million light-years away, in the constellation Sagittarius.
The galaxy is part of the Local Group of galaxies. It was discovered by E.E. Barnard in 1884 with a six-inch refractor telescope.
The galaxy is one of the closest to the Milky Way. It is similar in structure and makeup to the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is about 7,000 light-years in diameter.
The galaxy is famous because it is where cepheid variables were used to find out how far away the galaxy was. Edwin Hubble found 11 cepheid variable stars, and used them to find the distance to the galaxy. This settled a great debate in the 1920s about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral galaxies. It became clear that all "spiral nebulae" were in fact spiral "galaxies". They are far outside our own Milky Way.
Sushil Kumar Modi
Sushil Kumar Modi (born 5 January 1952) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who is serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar since 27 July 2017. Previously he was Deputy CM along with Finance Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013. He is a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was appointed the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers for the Implementation of Goods and Service Tax in July 2011.
Sushil Modi was born on 5 January 1952 in a Marwari (Vaishya Bania) family. His father was Moti Lal Modi and his mother was Ratna Devi. He has done BSc from B N College, Patna. He graduated Patna Science College and did Botany Hons in 1973. Later he left MSc Botany Course in Patna University, to join social movement started by Jai Prakash Narayan.
In 1990, he joined active politics and successfully contested from Patna Central Assembly (now known as Kumhrar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)). He was re-elected in 1995 & 2000. In 1990, he was made the Chief Whip of the BJP Bihar Legislature Party. From 1996 till 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly. He filed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Patna High Court against Lalu Prasad Yadav, which was later known as Fodder Scam. He became a member of Lok Sabha in 2004 representing the constituency of Bhagalpur.
He was the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in a short lived Nitish Kumar government in 2000. He supported the formation of the State of Jharkhand.
In 2005 Bihar election, NDA came to power and Modi was elected the leader of Bihar BJP Legislature Party. He subsequently resigned from the Lok Sabha and took over as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. He was given the Finance Portfolio along with a number of other departments. After NDA victory in 2010 Bihar elections, he continued to be the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. Modi did not contest the 2005 and 2010 Bihar Assembly elections to be able to campaign for BJP.
In 2017, Sushil Modi was the main player behind the fall of the JDU-RJD Grand Alliance government in Bihar, with his continuous tirade against RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family for four months over his alleged benami properties and irregular financial transactions.
Bilat Paswan Vihangam
Bilat Paswan, who writes under the nome de plume, Vihangam, was an Indian writer and politician, known for his writings in Hindi & Maithili literature. He is a former chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission & former chairman of Bihar Inter University Board. Born in 1940 to Bhutai Paswan in Bihar, he represented Rajnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) at the Bihar Legislative Assembly for two terms in 1968 and 1972 & Khajauli (Vidhan Sabha constituency) at the Bihar Legislative Assembly for two terms in 1985 and 1990, running under Indian National Congress candidature, defeating Ram Lakhan Ram of the Communist Party of India on both the elections. He also ran in two elections unsuccessfully, in 1980 and 2000. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2005, for his contributions to literature.
Cheerleader effect
The Cheerleader effect, or group attractiveness effect is a kind of cognitive bias: People who are part of a group are seen as more attractive, than those who aren't. This observation is valid for both men and women. The effect was first described in a study done 2013, and the result is backed up by one of 2015.
Showing the effect may be difficult: The study done in 2015 was repeated, but did not show the same result. According to the research team, this may be due to cultural differences, since the new study was performed in Japan.
Patna Junction railway station
Patna Junction, station code "PNBE", is a major railway station in the capital city of Patna in the Indian state of Bihar. Located in heart of the city, it is the main railway station serving Patna. It falls under the Danapur division of the East Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Patna Junction is one of the busiest railway stations of the country.
The Patna Junction railway station is connected to most of the major cities in India by the railway network.
Patna lies in between New Delhi and Kolkata which is one of the busiest rail routes in India. Patna has trains running frequently to Delhi and Kolkata. The city is a major railway hub and has six major stations: Patna Junction, Rajendranagar Terminal, Gulzarbagh Station, Danapur railway station, Patliputra Junction and Patna Sahib Station. Patna is well connected with Gaya, Jehanabad Biharsharif, Rajgir, Islampur through daily passenger and express train services.
Donaueschingen
Donaueschingen is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar district.
As of 2003, it has about 21,300 people.
It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Danube (in ; the town's name is an eponym).
Donaueschingen stands in a basin within low mountainous terrain. It is about south of Villingen-Schwenningen, west of Tuttlingen, and about north of the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. It is the second largest town in the district ("Kreis") of Schwarzwald-Baar. The location of the town is favourable for its role as a regional rail hub.
Donaueschingen has partnerships with the following cities:
Open set
In set theory an open set is a set where all elements have the same properties.
Reinhard Hardegen
"Korvettenkapitän" Reinhard Hardegen (18 March 1913 – 9 June 2018) was a German U-boat commander during World War II, oil businessman and politician. He was born in Bremen, Germany. He was the last surviving Ace of the Deep member. He was the 24th-most-successful commander of the war, known for sinking 22 ships.
After the war, he spent a year and a half in British captivity before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council (the "Bürgerschaft") from 1959 to 1979.
Hardegen turned 100 in March 2013. He died in Bremen on 9 June 2018 of respiratory failure at the age of 105.
Charles Vinci
Charles Thomas Vinci Jr. (February 28, 1933 – June 13, 2018) was an American weightlifter and Olympic champion.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He won gold medals at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American games. He won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, with a world-record three-lift (snatch, clean and jerk, overhead press) total of . He won gold again at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Robert John Downey Sr. (born Robert Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936) is an American movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is the father of actor Robert Downey Jr.. Downey Sr. is best known for writing and directing the underground movie "Putney Swope". He retired in 2013. Downey Sr. was born in New York City. Downey Sr. starred in "Johnny Be Good", "Hail Caesar" and "Tower Heist".
Stanislav Govorukhin
Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin PAR (; 29 March 1936 – 14 June 2018) was a Russian movie director, screenwriter, politician and actor. He was born in Berezniki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. For directing, he was known for the movie "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed". In screenwriting, he was known for "Voroshilov Sharpshooter". In acting, he was known for his roles as Commander in "Encore, Once More Encore!" and as Zosima in "Heads and Tails".
Govorukhin was a member of the State Duma from 1993 until his death in 2018 serving as a conservative member of the Democratic Party of Russia. He ran for President of Russia as an Independent in the 2000 presidential election, but lost to Vladimir Putin. In the 2000s, he worked for the Putin administration and election campaigns. He was a supporter of Putin.
Govorukhin died on 14 June 2018 in Barvikha, Russia of a heart attack at the age of 82.
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar ( ; born March 20, 1954) is an American children's book author. His best known books are the "Wayside School" series and the award-winner, "Holes" novel.
"Holes" won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2013, it was ranked number six among all-time children's novels in a survey published by "School Library Journal".
Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York United States.
Alexander Rutskoy
Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy (; born 16 September 1947) is a Russian politician and a former Soviet military officer.
Rutskoy served as the only Vice President of Russia from 10 July 1991 to 4 October 1993, and as the Governor of Kursk Oblast from 1996 to 2000. In the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, he was made acting President of Russia, in opposition to President Boris Yeltsin.
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Wheeler Winston Dixon (born March 12, 1950) is an American movie director, critic, screenwriter, historian and scholar. He is an expert on movie history.
From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor, along with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, of the "Quarterly Review of Film and Video." He is thought to be as a top reviewer of movies alongside Roger Ebert. In addition, he is known as a filmmaker, and the "Museum of Modern Art" exhibited his works in 2003.
Dixon taught at Rutgers University, The New School in New York, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and is currently the Ryan professor of movie studies and English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Pedro Pascal
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born April 2, 1975), known professionally as Pedro Pascal, is a Chilean-American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Oberyn Martell in the the HBO series "Game of Thrones", Javier Peña in the Netflix series "Narcos" and Din Djarin in the "The Mandalorian".
In March 2018, Pascal was cast in the DC Extended Universe movie "Wonder Woman 1984" (2020) as Maxwell Lord.
25 Canada Square
Citigroup Centre is a building complex in London. It houses Citigroup's EMEA headquarters and is located in Canary Wharf in the city's Docklands. The centre provides of floor space across two merged buildings - 33 Canada Square (known as "CGC1") and 25 Canada Square (known as "CGC2"), and houses the bulk of Citi's UK employee base. Together, both buildings form the Citigroup Centre complex.
25 Canada Square, or Citigroup Centre 2, stands at and, alongside HSBC Tower (with which it was built in tandem), is the joint 4th-tallest building in the United Kingdom (behind The Shard, One Canada Square and Heron Tower). Designed by César Pelli & Associates, construction of the 45-storey tower - undertaken by Canary Wharf Contractors - began in 1998 and was completed in 2001, with Citigroup leasing the building from the outset. The building was bought by RBS in 2004 along with 5 Canada Square (leased to Bank of America) for $1.12 billion. Subsequently, on 2 July 2007, CGC2 was individually sold to a joint venture between Quinlan Private and PropInvest for £1 billion (US$2 billion). Citigroup pay £46.5 million a year in rent for the tower, generating a yield of 4.6% to the owners. The east facing side of 25 Canada Square up to level 40 is configured for use by tenants.
33 Canada Square, or Citigroup Centre 1, is the smaller of the two buildings in the complex, designed by Norman Foster and completed in 1999, two years before its neighbour. At tall, the building is made up of eighteen floors, all of which are adjoined to their equivalent floors in 25 Canada Square. The building is owned by Citigroup, and was built before the completion of the Jubilee line extension in late 1999.
In addition to main entrances from both Canada Square and Upper Bank Street, Citigroup Centre is also accessible via underground walkways from Canada Place shopping mall and Canary Wharf London Underground station - served by the Jubilee line. The centre is also close to DLR stations Canary Wharf and Heron Quays, which provide connections with the City, London City Airport and surrounding areas.
Janny Sikazwe
Deinococcus–Thermus
Deinococcus–Thermus is a phylum of extremophile bacteria that are highly resistant to environmental hazards.
These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them gram-positive stains, and they have a second membrane. They are are closer in structure to that of gram-negative bacteria.
Cavalier-Smith calls this clade Hadobacteria (from Hades, the Greek underworld).
Radioresistance
Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands are an archipelago and form a part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The archipelago is located in the Bay of Bengal, off the eastern coast of the country. The closest landmass to these islands is the country of Myanmar to the north of it. There are 572 islands, about 36 of which are inhabited. Andaman islands is a prime location for tourism.
The economy of Andaman is based on fishing and agriculture. Andaman also has other natural resources. Handicrafts, timber, wildlife and the tourism are important.
Being an island region, the major part of Andaman’s economy is fishing industry. Varieties used include Ocellaris Clownfish, mackerels, barracuda, mullets, tuna, sardines and flying fishes, and seashells.
Agriculture and food production changed in recent times, with the government bringing in special provisions to increase productivity on the limited land available. The crops grown here are seasonal vegetables, oilseeds, pulses, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, red oil, rubber, palm and cashew nuts.
Tourism brings lot of activity to the Andamans. Andaman is seen as a destination for honeymooners, with the next image being a tropical island with a variety of water sports available here. Also, travel has promoted other great industries in the area as well, like the banking sector, wildlife regions, handicrafts, shipping etc.
About 200,000 visitors came to enjoy the beaches and tropical climate in 2010. Havelock Island and Jolly Buoy are two places famous for their pristine patches of coral, making these one of the best dive spots in the region. Havelock Island is considered a heaven for beach lovers. The Radhanagar beach on Havelock was ranked as Asia’s best by the TimeTM, and was placed amongst the top seven beaches of the world as well.
The total population of Andaman, as per the census of 2011, was 356,152. Of the total population 53.25% were male, and 46.75% were the female. Major languages spoken here are Hindi, Nicobarese, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. The variety of languages may have been caused by the establishment of a penal colony here during british rule. The British brought in slaves and forced labourers, as well as prisoners here. These people stayed to make this place their home, resulting in such a divere population.
The aboriginal Andamanese people are a small minority of the population, less than 1000 people. Out of the original ten tribes who inhabited the islands, only about four are still in existence. These are:
Alpine County, California
Alpine County, officially the County of Alpine, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,175. making it California's least populous county. The county seat is the census-designated place of Markleeville. There are no incorporated cities in the county.
The county was founded on March 16, 1864.
Jan Mayensfield
Jan Mayensfield () is an aerodrome or airfield in Jan Mayen, Norway. It is run by the Norwegian Armed Forces. The aerodrome serves both the civilians and the military on the island. The airfield was opened in 1960. The runway is made of dirt and is long. The runway is labeled 06-24.
Eight times a year, a Lockheed C-130 Hercules from the 335 Squadron from Bodø Main Air Station brings supplies and new people. Landing safely can be difficult because the volcano nearby called Beerenberg causes wind vortexes.
The airfield was made by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Norwegian Armed Forces. They started to work on the airfield in 1958. To make the work easier, the workers made the runway from a existing dirt road. The first airplane to land at the airfield was a Consolidated PBY Catalina on September 17, 1960.
The first non-military aircraft to land at the airfield was a Douglas DC-4 which brought journalists on October 29, 1961. Grumman HU-16 Albatrosses and the Douglas DC-6s have also landed at the airfield. The airfield was named after movie star Jayne Mansfield as a joke, but the name stuck.
In 1970, the volcano called Beerenberg erupted and all the people were evacuated. A C-130 was sent to the island to get the people and was able to land on the dirt runway. More and more supplies were delivered by aircraft after that. Most supplies were delivered by ship.
The C-130 from the Royal Norwegian Air Force visits the island only eight times a year. The runway is not open for regular commercial use. The runway can be used for research and search and rescue.
The dirt runway is . One end of the runway points to 060 degrees on a compass and the other end points to 240 degrees.
The Jan Mayensfield airdrome's weather can change a lot. It is often foggy. Kármán vortexes can make the winds quickly change direction.
IN 1991, a C-130 aircraft almost crashed after take off due to the wind shifting.
A World War II plane crashed near where the airfield was built.
Kiyonori Kikutake
Kikutake was born in 1928 in Kurume, Japan. He graduated from Waseda University in 1950.
Kikutake's most important work is his "Marine City" project in 1958. This project became part of the Metabolist Manifesto at the World Design Conference in Tokyo in 1960. Kenzo Tange and Kisho Kurokawa were asked to show work at the "Visionary Architecture" exhibition in New York of 1961. This made the Metabolists known internationally.
He became assistant professor at Waseda University in 1959 in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He became a professor at Chiba Institute of Technology in 1989. He returned to Waseda from 1993-1998 as a visiting professor in the Research Institute for Science and Engineering.
Kikutake worked until he died in 2011. He designed several important public buildings in Japan. He also taught internationally. He was President and then Honorary President of the Japan Institute of Architects.
Kikutake won many awards both in Japan and internationally. These include the Japan Academy of Architecture Prize (1970) and the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes) Auguste Perret Prize (1978).
Mu Cephei
Mu Cephei, also known as Herschel's Garnet Star due to its red, garnet-like color, is a red hypergiant star in the Cepheus constellation. With a radius of 1,260 solar radii, or a diameter of 1,753,200,000 kilometers, it is one of the largest stars known. Mu Cephei is also the "prototype" of the semiregular variable star type.
Enoch zu Guttenberg
Enoch zu Guttenberg, (29 July 1946 – 15 June 2018) was a German conductor. He also owned the large winery estate Weingut Reichsrat von Buhl. He was born in Guttenberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was a member of the House of Guttenberg.
Guttenberg died on 15 June 2018 at the age of 71.
Sonia Scurfield
Sonia Scurfield, B.A (née Onishenko; September 19, 1928 – June 14, 2018) was a Canadian businesswoman. She was a co-owner of the Calgary Flames hockey team from 1985 to 1994. She became only the second woman, and the only Canadian woman, to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup when the Calgary Flames won the National Hockey League championship in 1989. She was born in Hafford, Saskatchewan.
Scurfield died from stomach cancer on June 14, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta at the age of 89.
Mongi Kooli
Mongi Kooli (March 15, 1930 – June 14, 2018) was a Tunisian politician and diplomat. He joined the Socialist Destourian Party. He was the governor of the Jendouba Governorate and the Bizerte Governorate. He was the Tunisian Health Minister in 1976–1977. Kooli was born in Ksar Hellal, Tunisia.
Kooli died on June 14, 2018 in Gammarth, Tunisia from complications of gallbladder cancer at the age of 88.
Fazlullah (militant leader)
Fazal Hayat (1974 – 14 June 2018), more commonly known by his pseudonym Fazlullah (), was a militant. He served as the leader of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi. He was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan in Swat Valley.
On 7 November 2013, he became the emir of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, and presided over the descent of the group into factions who are often at war with each other. Fazlullah was added to the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice wanted list on March 7, 2018.
On 14 June 2018, Fazlullah was killed in an American drone Strike in Kunar Province, Afghanistan at the age of 43-44.
Vincent R. Gray
Vincent Richard Gray (24 March 1922 – 14 June 2018) was a British-born New Zealand chemist. He was a founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. He was born in London. He was known for being a critic of global warming.
Gray was featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Counterpoint in a debate entitled "Nine Lies about Global Warming". In 2002, Gray also published a book, "The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001"".
Gray died in Petone, New Zealand of pneumonia on 14 June 2018, aged 96.
Frank Bresee
Frank Bresee (August 20, 1929 – June 5, 2018) was an American radio personality and historian. Bresee was born in Los Angeles, California. He hosted the "Golden Days Of Radio" program which began in 1949 and aired on the Armed Forces Radio Network from 1967 to 1995.
Bresee died on June 5, 2018 of complications from dementia at the age of 88.
Richard Hadlee
Sir Richard John Hadlee (born 3 July 1951) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He is thought to be one of the greatest fast bowlers and all-rounders in cricketing history. He was born in St Albans, New Zealand.
Hadlee was appointed MBE in 1980 and knighted in 1990 for services to cricket. In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the second greatest Test bowler of all time.
On 3 April 2009, Sir Richard Hadlee was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
In June 2018, Hadlee was diagnosed with bowel cancer and underwent tumour removal surgery.
Jerry Butler
Jerry "Iceman" Butler, Jr. (born December 8, 1939) is an American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, musician, television presenter and politician. He was born in Sunflower, Mississippi. He is a guitarist, pianist, drummer and saxophonist. His genres include funk, soul and R&B. He was raised in Cabrini–Green, Chicago.
He is known as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group The Impressions. He serves as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, having first been elected in 1985 as a Democrat. As a member of this 17-member county board, he chairs the Health and Hospitals Committee, and serves as Vice Chair of the Construction Committee.
In 1991, Butler was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with other The Impressions' members.
In his last election, Butler won reelection in March 2014 with over 80 percent of the vote. Butler will not seek re-election to the board in 2018.