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Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is known for her roles on the television series "Freaks and Geeks" (1999–2000), "Dawson's Creek" (2001–03) and "ER" (2006–07), and for her role of Laurie Keller on the ABC series "Cougar Town" (2009–15).
Philipps was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Philipps has also appeared in movies, such as "The Smokers" (2000), "Home Room" (2002), "White Chicks" (2004), "Made of Honor" (2008), "He's Just Not That into You" (2009), "The Gift" (2015), and "I Feel Pretty" (2018).
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 741,096. It is the most populous county in the commonwealth. Its county seat and largest city is Louisville, Kentucky.
William Raborn
William Francis Raborn, Jr., (June 8, 1905 – March 6, 1990) was the United States Director of Central Intelligence from April 28, 1965 until June 30, 1966. He was also a career United States Navy officer who lead the project to develop the Polaris missile system and retired from the Navy in 1963 as a Vice Admiral.
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Joni Eareckson Tada (born October 15, 1949) is an American evangelical Christian author and radio host. She is the founder of "Joni and Friends", an organization "accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community". Tada was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Tada wrote of her life in her 1976 international best-selling autobiography, "Joni: The unforgettable story of a young woman's struggle against quadriplegia & depression".
In November 2009, Tada signed an ecumenical statement known as the "" calling on evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox Christians to work towards changing laws which permit abortion.
Tada is a conference speaker. Her articles have been published in "Christianity Today", "Today's Christian Woman", "The War Cry" (Salvation Army), and newspapers around the world. Tada has appeared four times on "Larry King Live".
In 2010, Tada was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Her treatment was successful and was declared cancer-free in 2015. In November 2018, Tada was diagnosed with malignant thyroid cancer.
Hinds County, Mississippi
Hinds County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 245,285. It is the most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Raymond and Jackson, the state capital. The county was created in 1821. It is named for General Thomas Hinds, a hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
Raymond, Mississippi
Raymond is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,933. Raymond is one of two county seats of Hinds County (along with Jackson) and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College.
Harrison County, Mississippi
Harrison County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 187,105. It is the second-most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison.
Loop AI Labs
Loop AI Labs is an AI and cognitive computing company that focuses on language understanding technology. The company was founded in San Francisco in 2012 by Italian entrepreneur Gianmauro Calafiore, who sold his company Gsmbox to in 2004 and then relocated from Italy to San Francisco. Wanting to start an artificial intelligence company, he recruited two veterans of the project, the largest government-funded AI project in history, who had worked on the project at and Stanford University's . The original company name, "Soshoma", was changed to Loop AI Labs in 2015 after the company decided to change its focus from consumer-oriented to enterprise. Loop AI Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Milan, and Singapore. The company is privately funded.
On May 4, 2017, Loop AI Labs entered into a deal with , a leading European provider of mobile messaging and solutions, to bring their cognitive computing technology to LINK's business clients, which cover 234 million people across Europe.
Bloody Monday (Harvard)
"Bloody Monday" is about an annual Harvard football tradition.
“Bloody Monday,” as it came to be known, was a tradition at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dating back to the 1700’s. In an open field known as “the Delta,” where currently stands Memorial Hall, sophomores and freshmen would meet annually on the first Monday of the school year and engage in a free-for-all wrestling match. Sometime in the 1800’s, a ball was added and would be placed between the two groups and each would try to move across the opposing side’s goal line. This game was a precursor to the intercollegiate football that would soon after take hold of the Ivy League. In 1925, with the game well established in the college community, the Harvard Crimson paper still referred to this annual tradition as a “football match.”<br>
Much like the first football games played at universities such as Rutgers, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, there were not many rules, if any at all. The event always devolved into a massive fight between the competing students, with injuries, torn clothing, and even arrests being the norm. In 1903, a reporter from the New York Times noted that “black eyes and bruises were seen everywhere, and everyone received a liberal smudge of mother earth.” In what is considered the first recorded account of a Harvard football game, James C. Richmond, in 1827 wrote a poem entitled “The Battle of the Delta.”
The Freshmen’s wrath, to Sophs the direful spring
Of shins unnumbered bruised, great goddess sing;
Let fire and music in my song be mated,
Pure fire and music unsophisticated.
Through warlike crowds a devious way it wins,
And advancing shins meet advancing shins;
Across the rampart many a hero bounds;
But sing Apollo! In can sing no more,
For Mars advancing threw the dust before.<br>
Cornu aspersum
Cornu aspersum is the garden snail. They are often called a pest. In English books it was called Helix aspersa for over two centuries, but the current classification now places it in the genus "Cornu". They are native go Europe, though have spread elsewhere. It is very similar, but smaller than the Roman Snail ("Helix pomantia").
These snails mainly eat plants, since they are herbivores.
Snails are both male and female. They are able to reproduce by themselves, though normally reproduce sexually.
Umberto Borsò
Umberto Borsò (3 April 1923 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian operatic tenor. He was born in La Spezia, Italy.
In 1953 and 1954, he performed in the role of Aio in the premiere of "Medea" by Pietro Canonica conducted by Ottavio Ziino with Maria Pedrini at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. He also replaced Mario Del Monaco in "Andrea Chénier" starring aloside with Renata Tebaldi in 1953.
Borsò died on 26 November 2018 in Rome at the age of 95.
Patricia Quintana
Patricia Quintana (1946 – 26 November 2018), was a Mexican Chef, writer, businesswoman and professor. She was a known international cook and expert in Mexican gastronomy. She was born in Mexico City. She studied and taught on ancestral Mexican cuisine mixed with the classical. She was the owner City of Mexico of the restaurant Izote from 2001 to the 2013, but resigned to start a banquet catering company.
She was culinary ambassador of her country for the world, distinction that awarded her the Office of Tourism and the Association of Restaurants of Mexico.
Quintana died in Mexico City on 26 November 2018 from an aortic aneurysm at the age of 72.
Ed Pastor
Edward Lopez Pastor (; June 28, 1943 – November 27, 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Claypool, Arizona. He was Arizona's first Hispanic congressman.
Pastor was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona from 1991 to 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He represented Arizona's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 2003, and Arizona's 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2015. The latter district was numbered as the 4th district from 2003 to 2013.
Pastor died on November 28, 2018 following a heart attack in Phoenix at the age of 75.
Claypool, Arizona
Claypool is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,538 at the 2010 census.
Claypool is located in southern Gila County at (33.408626, -110.847532), between Miami to the west and Globe, the county seat, to the east. U.S. Route 60 runs along the northern edge of the community.
Miami, Arizona
Miami is a town in Gila County, Arizona, United States. Miami is a classic Western town. Miami's old downtown has been partly renovated, and the Bullion Plaza Museum features the cultural, mining and ranching history of the Miami area.
According to the 2010 Census, the population of the town was 1,837. It is near Globe, Arizona.
John Murtha
John Patrick Murtha Jr. (; June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010) was an American politician. He was born in New Martinsville, West Virginia. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010.
Murtha died on February 8, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia from complications of intestine surgery at the age of 77.
New Martinsville, West Virginia
New Martinsville is a city in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,366 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Wetzel County.
James Albert Smith Leach (born October 15, 1942) is an American academic and politician. He was born in Davenport, Iowa. He was the ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa from 1977 to 2007 as a Republican.
Salome Zourabichvili
Salome Zourabichvili (; born 18 March 1952) is a French-born Georgian politician. She is the 5th President of Georgia since 16 December 2018.
She was an Independent MP in the Parliament of Georgia from 2016 until her election as President in 2018.
From 2003 till 2004 she was ambassador of France to Georgia.
President of Georgia
The President of Georgia (, "sakartvelos prezidenti") is the head of state and supreme commander-in-chief.
His role is ceremonial as in many parliamentary democracies. Prime Minister is the head of government. The office was first introduced by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia on 14 April 1991, five days after Georgia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
The President serves a five-year term. The incumbent is Giorgi Margvelashvili, who was sworn in on 17 November 2013.
Prime Minister of Georgia
The Prime Minister of Georgia is the most senior minister within the Cabinet of Georgia, appointed by the President of Georgia.
The official title of the Head of the Government of Georgia has changed over time, however, the duties and functions of the leader have changed but a little. The first Prime Minister of Georgia was Noe Ramishvili, the incumbent being Giorgi Gakharia. Georgia has had 40 Prime Ministers since 1918.
Mamuka Bakhtadze
Mamuka Bakhtadze (; born June 9, 1982) is a Georgian politician. He is the Prime Minister from 20 June 2018 to 2 September 2019. He was approved by Georgian Parliament in a 99–6 vote.
Charles Arthur Bowsher
Charles Arthur Bowsher (born May 31, 1931) is an American politician and businessman. He was the 6th Comptroller General of the United States from 1981 to 1996. He was born in Elkhart, Indiana.
Raised in Chicago, Bowsher studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Chicago. He was in the United States Army from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean War.
In 1956, he worked as an accountant and as a key business figure for Arthur Andersen & Co..
From 1967 to 1971, he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) during the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency.
Bowsher was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and was Comptroller General for 15 years from 1981 to 1996. During that period, he led the Government Accountability Office during the savings and loan crisis and other major issues. With a term limit of fifteen years, Bowsher worked for the Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton presidencies.
In 1996, Bowsher was added to the Accounting Hall of Fame. After civil service, he is the Chairman for the Board of Directors of the Concord Coalition.
The Son of Neptune
The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure book written by American author Rick Riordan in the series "Heroes of Olympus". It follows Percy Jackson after his memories have been erased. He meets Roman demigods Frank Zhang and Hazel Lavesque and they start their adventure to defeat Gaea and save Hera.
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer, born on 22 March 1929. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art uses a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns.
Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a desire to escape from psychological trauma. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessive vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space.
— Biologiohy
Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto city in Nagano. She started drawing pictures with a motif of polka dots with water colorat, pastel and oil at 10 years old. She entered art university in Kyoto afterwards went to the United States of America to study art even though her parents didn’t agree with her. She did intense performances whose name were “happening” there to protest wars and her name was known from top to bottom in the U.S.A as a great performer. In 1968 her own movie won the prize of The 4th Belgian International Short Film Festival. Moreover, her exhibitions were held around the world. In 2009, she was selected as a person of culture merits which give people who are active in terms of culture. Finally The documentary movie on her was released in 2019. It received high evaluations .
—Sickness
She actually has suffered from Hallucination; her field of vision is covered with polka dots and flowers speak to her, since an early age. She has got schizophrenia, nerve sick, from childhood to now. Therefore she decided to paint to run away from the hallucination and fearness of death. Her works reflect what she really sees through her eyes.
—Art works
Her every works are expensive. The highest one is no less than 63 million. One reason, of course, is popularity and originality. Furthermore, another reason is her attitude to works. She only releases her works into auctions when she has trouble with money. She also said, “I don’t create my works just because they can make a lot of money.” That’s why her works are really expensive.
Looking at the features of her works, many polka dots are seen in her works. Identical pattern cover on painting and sculpture is her own way. We can say polka dots are her trademark. Her works don’t stop on campus. She also uses mirrors in her works to make objects seen as though they were infinity.
—Belief
throughout her entire life, her belief is “I’m fighting for the production of arts.” Her works has been put into her heart and soul. She also said “There are many people who are suffering from war, poverty and loneliness. I couldn’t be happier that my passion tells them through my works after I pass away.”
Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Mercedes-Benz Superdome is a sports domed-stadium that is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and is the home of the New Orleans Saints.
Captain Tractor
Captain Tractor is a Canadian folk rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West. Their songs are often rich in local, cultural, and geographical references.
The band's most famous songs have been renditions of the folk music classics "The Log Driver's Waltz" and "Drunken Sailor", as well as a cover of the Arrogant Worms' "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate". They have also developed a following for their brand of Canadian rock, with singles such as "Up the Hill", "Frozen Puck to the Head", "This Is Not a Sad Song", "Another Drinking Song", and "The Bastard of Strathcona County".
In celebration of the release of the band's sixth album, 'North of the Yellowhead' (2005 Six Shooter Records), Alley Kat Brewing Company released "Captain Tractor's Yellowhead Wheat Ale".
Their seventh studio album, Famous Last Words, was released on May 3, 2011. A live record, Live at the Roxy, was released in 2015.
The band consists of five men, one woman, and their mascot, a deer named Bucky. The band members are:
Former members include:
Captain Tractor has released seven albums:
They have also released a video entitled "Inconsequential Things" in 1998, and an interactive CD-ROM, "Bus Madness", in 1995.
Members' solo albums:
Mike Plume
Mike Plume (born May 28, 1968) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter. He was born in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Canadian singer/songwriter Mike Plume fronts his roots-based namesake band. His first record, Songs From a Northern Town, was recorded in Texas and released in 1993... Touring with groups like Blue Rodeo helped built the group's following, and their 1998 album Song & Dance, Man has won them more fans and awards. In 2009 he released the album "8:30 Newfoundland", followed in June 2013, with the new album "Red and White Blues".
Charles Huxtable
General Sir Charles Richard Huxtable, KCB, CBE (22 July 1931 – 26 November 2018) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in the Korean War. He was Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces between 1988 and 1990. In the 1961 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Huxtable died on 26 November 2018 at the age of 87.
Altaf Fatima (1927 – 29 November 2018) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist, short-story writer, and teacher. She was born in Lucknow. Her novel "Dastak Na Do" ("The One Who Did Not Ask ") is thought as one of the best works in the Urdu language.
Fatima died on 29 November 2018 in Lahore from a stroke at the age of 91.
Eldon George
Eldon Thomas George (May 10, 1931 – November 29, 2018) was a Canadian fossil collector and amateur geologist. He was born in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. He made many important discoveries on the shores of the Minas Basin and the Bay of Fundy in the 1940s.
George found the world's smallest dinosaur tracks in 1984 near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. His other finds include many fossilized amphibian and dinosaur prints that were displayed, along with the world's smallest dinosaur tracks, at his Parrsboro Rock and Mineral Shop and Museum.
One of them is a 17-inch (45-cm) track that may have been made by a primitive, two-legged, crocodile-like creature that was nearly 20 feet (6 m) long. George's other discoveries include a fossilized insect with three pairs of wings and a tiny horseshoe crab that supplies a missing link in evolutionary history.
George died on November 29, 2018 in Parrsboro at the age of 87.
Robert Morris (artist)
Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was thought of as one of the most well known theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd. He made important works to the development of performance art, minimalism, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art.
In 2013 as part of the October Files, MIT Press published a volume on Morris, examining his work and influence, edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson.
Morris was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied at the University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, Reed College and at Hunter College. Morris died on November 28, 2018 in Kingston, New York from pneumonia at the age of 87.
Donald Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist. He worked with minimalism. In his work, Judd worked with autonomy and space that objects created by it. He was also known for his works alongside sculptor Robert Morris.
When the National Endowment for the Arts supported his work, Northern Kentucky University hired Judd to build his notable aluminium sculpture that was opened in the middle of the school's campus in 1976. Another commission, "Untitled" (1984), a three-part sculpture out of concrete with steel reinforcements, was installed at Laumeier Sculpture Park.
Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, but raised in Marfa, Texas. He studied at College of William and Mary, Columbia University School of General Studies and at the Art Students League of New York. Judd died on February 12, 1994 in Manhattan, New York from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 65.
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay and Ray counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 11,084 at the 2010 census. It is located about northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri.
Marfa, Texas
Marfa is a city in far West Texas, located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. It is the county seat of Presidio County, and its population as of the 2010 United States Census was 1,981.
Viktor Matviyenko
Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko (9 November 1948 – 29 November 2018) was a Ukrainian footballer and manager. He was born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. Matviyenko won the bronze medalist in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He played for Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national team. He managed Torpedo Zaporizhya.
Matviyenko died in Kiev on 29 November 2018 at the age of 70.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 9 August 1962), commonly referred to by her initials AKK, is a German CDU politician. She was the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2018 to 2021. She was chief minister of Saarland from 2011 to 2018, making her the first woman to lead the government of Saarland and the fourth woman to head a German state government.
From February to December 2018, she was general secretary of the CDU.
She was elected CDU party leader on 7 December 2018 following Angela Merkel's retirement from that role.
On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation as Chairwoman of the CDU.
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was a Member of the European Parliament 1989 to 1994, a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2009, and as the chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2000 to 2002.
In 2018 he announced his candidacy in the CDU leadership election in December 2018. He lost the election to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In February 2020, he announced his second candidacy for the party's 2021 leadership election. He lost the race on 16 January 2021 after losing to Armin Laschet in the second round.
In March 2020, Merz was tested positive for COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
2018 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election
The 2018 Christian Democratic Union leadership election was held in Hamburg on 7 December 2018. This is after Angela Merkel's decision in October 2018 not to stand for party leader at the 2018 party conference following the party's bad performance in the 2018 Hessian state election and low numbers in national polls.
On 29 October 2018, both the CDU's General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn announced their candidacy in the election. This was followed by Merkel's arch-rival Friedrich Merz announced his bid on 30 October 2018.
Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected leader by winning 45.05% of the vote. Merz won 39.24% of the vote and Spahn won 15.72% of the vote.
Jens Spahn
Jens Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician. He is the Federal Minister of Health since March 2018. He is a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag as a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
In October 2018, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her retirement for the CDU party leadership. Spahn announced his intention to stand for election as her successor in December 2018.
Andrea Nahles
Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a German politician. She was the Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 to June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 to June 2019.
Nahles was a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. She is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010.
Jörg Meuthen
Jörg Hubert Meuthen (; born 29 June 1961) is a German economist and politician. He is the Federal spokesman for Alternative for Germany (AfD) since July 2015.
Meuthen is professor for political economy and finance at the Academy of Kehl.
Alexander Gauland
Alexander Eberhardt Gauland (born 20 February 1941) is a German politician, journalist and lawyer. He is the Leader of the German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and Co Leader of the party since December 2017.
He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and is its federal spokesman and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg.
Christian Lindner
Christian Wolfgang Lindner (born 7 January 1979) is a German politician. He is a member of the Bundestag and leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP).
Katja Kipping
Katja Kipping (born 18 January 1978) is a German politician. She was the Chairperson of The Left and a member of the Bundestag (German Parliament).
On 10 May 2014 she was reelected, along with Bernd Riexinger, as chairperson of The Left by a national party conference.
Since 2005, Kipping has been a member of the German Parliament for The Left party. She was listed as the lead candidate on the state-level party list in Saxony.
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Annalena Baerbock
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (born 15 December 1980) is a German politician. She is a leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens and the current chairwoman of her party. Since 2013, she also holds a seat in the Bundestag, the German federal diet.
Robert Habeck
Robert Habeck (born 2 September 1969 in Lübeck) is a German writer and politician. He is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens and has been their leader since January 2018.
Habeck has been Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Energy, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in the Albig Cabinet since 2012 and in the Cabinet Günther since 2017.
Under his leadership, the Green Party became the third largest group in the Landtag after the 2017 state elections.
Albert Bryan (politician)
Albert Bryan Jr. is an American politician. He is the 30th and current Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. He defeated Governor Kenneth Mapp in the runoff election on November 20, 2018.
Bryan was commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Labor.
Balaji Telefilms
Balaji Telefilms is an Indian company that makes soap operas, reality TV, comedy, game shows, and other TV programs in several Indian languages. Balaji had a partnership with White Leaf Productions from 1997 to 2006.
Balaji Telefilms is promoted by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and is a public company listed at Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.
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Marie Avgeropoulos
Marie Avgeropoulos (; born 17 June 1986) is a Canadian actress and model. She is best known for her role as Octavia Blake on The CW’s post-apocalyptic science fiction television series "The 100" (2014–present).
Avgeropoulos was born on 17 June 1986 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She grew up fishing, hunting and camping, spending most of her free time outdoors. Avgeropoulos started playing drums when she was 16. After studying broadcast journalism for two years in her hometown, Avgeropoulos moved to Europe. Several months later, she came back to Canada and settled in Vancouver.
One of her friends invited her for a casting call in Vancouver, which happened to be looking for drummers. A talent agent recognized her talent and invited her to appear in various national commercials. She caught the attention of director Chris Columbus. He hired Avgeropoulos for "I Love You, Beth Cooper"," "which became her first feature film role. Her appearance in the film gave her the opportunities to star in more films and television shows.
In 2010, Avgeropoulos was cast as Kim Rhodes in the film "Hunt to Kill", which became her break-out role.
Early in 2013, Avgeropoulos made her break-out in television after being cast for a recurring role in The CW's "Cult". However, the series failed to attract viewers and after episode 7, the show was cancelled. The remaining six episodes of the show were broadcast later in the summer.
Not long after the show ended, The CW cast her as one of the main characters in their new sci-fi, "The 100", to portray the character Octavia Blake.
The 32-year-old actress and her 41-year-old boyfriend allegedly began arguing in a car on the Ventura (134) Freeway shortly after midnight 5 August 2018. Avgeropoulos was accused of striking him multiple times in the head, neck and arm, resulting in minor injuries, according to the District Attorney’s Office. She was then charged with domestic violence. Avgeropoulos's boyfriend wants the charges against the actress dropped as he said she doesn't pose a threat.
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Union County, Arkansas
Union County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,639. The county seat is El Dorado. It was founded on November 2, 1829.
Palden Gyatso
Palden Gyatso (1933 – 30 November 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He was born in Panam, Tibet. During the Chinese invasion of Tibet he was arrested for protesting and spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps, where he was tortured.
After his release in 1992 he fled to Dharamsala, (North India) in exile. He was still a practicing monk and political activist, traveling the world publicizing the cause of Tibet up until his death in 2018.
Gyatso died on 30 November 2018 in Dharamshala, India of liver cancer at the age of 85.
Harold O. Levy
Harold O. Levy (December 14, 1952 – November 27, 2018) was an American lawyer and philanthropist. He was the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the largest scholarship foundation in the United States. Levy was best known as Chancellor of the New York City public schools from 2000 to 2002.
Levy was born in New York City. He studied at Cornell University and at Oxford University. Levy died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in New York City on November 27, 2018 at the age of 65.
Common bronzewing
The common bronzewing ("Phaps chalcoptera)" is a species of pigeon. They are found in Australia. They eat vegetable matter.
They are 20 to 36 centimetres long.
They are common in Australia. They are found in a variety of habitats, though they are nearly always near water.
They eat material from plants, such as seeds. They drink rather frequently.
Laughing kookaburra
The laughing kookaburra ("Dacelo novaeguineae") is a type of kingfisher. They were previously called the laughing jackass and the giant kingfisher.
It is thought that laughing kookaburras only have one mate for their whole life.
They are normally off white with pale brown lines. They have brown wings and back. They look similar to the Blue-winged kookaburra which is found in the same area. male and female birds look similar. They are 43 to 45 cm long and weigh around 0.5 kg.
They are originally from eastern Australia. Humans have put them into south-west Australia, Tasmania and New Island. They live nearly everywhere in this area where there are suitable trees.
They eat insects, crustaceans and worms. Sometimes, they will eat small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds.
They can become tame and may accept meat from a human's hand.
2018 Anchorage earthquake
On November 30, 2018, at 8:29 AKST (17:29 UTC), a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska. The earthquake's epicenter was near Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, about north of the city.
It was followed by a 5.7 aftershock epicentered north-northwest of the city. There were a total of 40 aftershocks. The earthquake could be felt as far as Fairbanks.
Severe damage to several buildings and a highway overpass near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport have been reported. There are no casualties reported so far.
A tsunami warning was issued for nearby coastal areas, including Cook Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula, but they were lifted shortly after.
1964 Alaska earthquake
The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, happened at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska (mainly in Anchorage), ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis were caused by the earthquake. It caused about 139 deaths.
The earthquake lasted four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. It was a magnitude 9.2 earthquake. It remains the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in world history.
Nearby, a tsunami destroyed the village of Chenega, killing 23 of the 68 people who lived there. Post-quake tsunamis severely affected Whittier, Seward, Kodiak, and other Alaskan communities, as well as people and property in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California.
Tsunamis also caused damage in Hawaii and Japan. Evidence of motion directly related to the earthquake was also reported from Florida and Texas.
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a major airport in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located southwest of downtown Anchorage. The airport is named for Ted Stevens, a U.S. senator from Alaska in office from 1968 to 2009.
It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a medium-hub primary commercial service facility.
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Turlock, California
Turlock, California is a city in Stanislaus County in California. In 2016, the city had a population of 72,796 people. It is the second-largest city in Stanislaus County.
California State University, Stanislaus is located in Turlock.
Turlock is located between Modesto and Merced. Turlock is situated in the Central Valley.
Turlock has a semi-arid climate.
Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush
On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush died at his home in Houston, Texas of natural causes. Bush was the 41st President of the United States, the 43rd Vice President of the United States, the former Director of Central Intelligence, and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. This happened nearly 8 months after the death of his wife Barbara Bush in April.
Bush was the first president to die since Gerald Ford in 2006, and, at the age of 94 years and 171 days, he surpassed Ford for the title of longest-lived U.S. president in history.
Shortly after news broke of Bush's death, on December 5, 2018, Donald Trump declared a National Day of Mourning and ordered all flags "throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions" lowered to half staff for the remainder of the year.
The state funeral of Bush is the official funerary rites conducted by the Government of the United States. He was interred at the George Bush Presidential Library. The state funeral and respective activities occurred over a period of four days from December 3 to December 6, 2018.
The corps of cadets of the United States Military Academy, United States Air Force Academy, and United States Coast Guard Academy, and the corps of midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy are to be immediately assembled to be officially informed of the death by the superintendents of their respective institutions.
Very early on the morning of December 1, 2018, the flags at the White House were lowered to half staff.
Before his death, Bush filed a 211-page document with the Military District of Washington, which had a request for an aerial flyover of fighter jets in missing man formation by the United States Air Force during his state funeral, as well as final interment and burial to occur at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.
Bush made plans for a national funeral service to be held at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Bush lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda from the evening of December 3 through the morning of December 5.
Tributes were made by Jon Meacham, Brian Mulroney, Alan K. Simpson, and George W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral. President Donald Trump and former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush and Jimmy Carter attended the funeral.
International leaders attending these services include: Britain's Prince Charles and former Prime Minister John Major, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Polish President Andrzej Duda and former President Lech Wałęsa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari Abdullah II of Jordan and Speaker of Taiwan's Congress Su Jia-chyuan.
Shortly after the Washington service, Bush's body was taken back to Houston by a custom-made train where a service was held. On December 6, 2018, his body was buried at the George Bush Presidential Library next to his wife Barbara Bush.
Deaths in December 2018
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in December 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.
Ice shelf
An ice shelf is a large platform of ice, where a glacier flows down to a coastline. An ice shelf is usually very thick, usually or more. Some ice shelves float on the water. Ice shelves that float are usually much thinner.
The biggest areas of ice shelf are in Antarctica:
Farid Zizi
Farid Zizi is a French aerospace engineer.
Since the 1st of August 2018, he is head of the France Aviation Civile Services (previously DSNA Services).
He is known for having been head of the Education and Research at the French Civil Aviation University and head of the Air Navigation Commission at ICAO.
LaTasha Diggs
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is a poet, writer, vocalist, and sound artist. She also serves as a poetry editor for the online journal “exittheapple” and a founding editor of “YoYo/SO4” magazine.
Diggs was born and raised in Harlem, New York. She began her studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and later proceeded to get her Master of Art degree (MA) at New York University. Diggs later received her Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) at California College of the Arts.
In 2013, Diggs published three poems "black herman’s last asrah levitation at magic city, Atlanta 2010," "My First Black Nature Poem,™" and "the originator." Diggs is also the author of the poetry collection "TwERK" (2013) and several chapbooks including "Ichi-Ban", "Ni-Ban" (MOH Press), and" Manuel is destroying my bathroom", as well as the album "Television" (2003).
Latasha Diggs is most known for her poetry collection “TwERK” which was published in 2003. Her work has been published in LA review among others, featured in Yale University, The Museum of Modern Art and many more. In addition to "TwERK," Diggs was associated with poetry collections including "Television" and "exittheapple", with writer Greg Tate. Diggs' poetry has been published in "Ploughshares", "Jubilat", "Fence", "LA Review", "Palabra", and "Black Renaissance Noir".
Her performance works have been featured at The Kitchen, Exit Art, Recess Activities Inc, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMa (Poets & Writers).
Being diverse and complex in her poetry, LaTasha Diggs incorporates languages and modes to fulfill a specific quality and tone that is unique to her. Diggs connects her poetry with the history and languages that are carried throughout numerous cultures. Fiercely and powerful, Diggs' poetry can be described as a visible weapon, a tactic simultaneously offensive and defensive, a wargame for the human body. Through this technique and style of writing, Diggs connects and attracts the readers to works, using different elements such as history, voice and ear, and language.
Contributing to an online interview project, Diggs talks about her inspirations found in one of her most popular work, "TwERK". The ability and desire to communicate with people of other languages was the foundation of her poetry and artistic choices.
In a review of "TwERK" for the online literary site "Montevidayo", poet Joyelle McSweeney writes, “Language is not a neutral tool, and the history of the peoples who belong to these language[s] and the hegemonic forces that would distress, suppress or obliterate both the languages and their peoples is what makes these poems so fierce, fraught, bladey and mobile. The showiness and flaunt of these poems are like the fierceness of the drag balls Diggs salutes in one poem: a visible weapon, a tactic simultaneously offensive and defensive, a wargame for the whole body. Diggs’s poems truly work the whole body of the poem, the whole body of sound, the whole body of history, the whole body of voice and ear, the whole body of language and the ability of the page to be its own sonic syntax; they articulate and rotate joints that seemed fixed; they are bawdy and triumphant and they more than work. They "TwERK".”
Diggs is the recipient of numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Laundromat Project, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan–United States Friendship Commission, and Creative Capital.
Ripoff
A ripoff happens when something is very overpriced (overcharged). Ripoff affects senior citizens, women, youth and minorities more than others.
Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes.
Yell County, Arkansas
Yell County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,185. The county seats are Dardanelle and Danville. It was founded on December 5, 1840.
Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Kenai Peninsula Borough is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,400. The borough seat is Soldotna.
Ouachita County, Arkansas
Ouachita County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 26,120. The county seat is Camden. It was founded on November 29, 1842 and is named for the Ouachita River.
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Open Season: Scared Silly (also called Open Season 4: Scared Silly or simply known as Open Season 4) is a 2015 American computer-animated buddy comedy movie, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, with animation provided by Rainmaker Entertainment. It is the fourth installment in the "Open Season" movie series, following "Open Season" (2006), "Open Season 2" (2008), and "Open Season 3" (2010).
It had a mixed reaction from audience: while they praised it for its humor, musical score and for bringing back Shaw others criticized it for its animation, some gross out jokes and for ignoring the events of the third film.
"Open Season: Scared Silly" was first announced on June 11, 2015. The first trailer was released on November 1, 2015.
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Ennio Fantastichini
Ennio Fantastichini (20 February 1955 – 1 December 2018) was an Italian actor. He was born in Gallese, Italy. His first role was in "Open Doors". In 2010, for his performance in Ferzan Özpetek's "Loose Cannons", he won a David di Donatello for best supporting actor.
Fantastichini died of leukemia in Naples on 1 December 2018, aged 63.
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was known as the main suspect in the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Borden was tried and acquitted of the murders.
Despite being proven innocent, many believed she committed the murders and has become the subject of folklore.
Menahem Degani
Menahem Degani (18 August 1927 – 23 November 2018) was an Israeli basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament for the Israel's national team at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Degani was born in Tel Aviv and died in Tel Aviv at the age of 91.
Wright King
Thomas Wright Thornburg King (January 11, 1923 – November 25, 2018), better known as Wright King, was an American actor. He was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. His career lasted from 1949 until his retirement in 1987. He was known for his roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Stagecoach to Fury" and in "Planet of the Apes".
King died on November 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 95.
Ruth Haring
Ruth Inez Haring (also known as Ruth Orton; January 23, 1955 – November 29, 2018) was an American chess player and Woman International Master. Born in Maine, she competed in the United States Women's Championship in the 1970s and 1980s, and represented the country in the 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 Chess Olympiads. She was President of the United States Chess Federation from 2011 to 2016.
Haring died on November 29, 2018 in Chico, California at the age of 63.
Anwar Hossain (photographer)
Anwar Hossain (6 October 1948 – 1 December 2018) was a Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer.
He was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Cinematography a record five times for the movies "Sundori" (1979), "Emiler Goenda Bahini" (1980), "Puraskar" (1983), "Anya Jibon" (1995) and "Lalsalu" (2003).
Hossain died on 1 December 2018 at his hotel room in Dhaka from a heart attack at the age of 70.
Stefanie Tücking
Stefanie Tücking (1 April 1962  – 1 December 2018) was a German radio and television presenter. She was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In Germany, Tücking worked for the German broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) as a television and radio presenter.
Tücking was found dead in Baden-Baden, Germany on 1 December 2018 at the age of 56.
Mariana Treviño
Mariana Treviño (born 27 November 1977) is a Mexican actress. She was known for her role as Lupita in the popular Mexican musical "Mentiras". She starred in other comedy movies "No sé si cortarme las venas o dejármelas largas" (2013) and "Amor de Mis Amores" (2014).
Since 2015, she starred in the Netflix telenovela "Club de Cuervos". In 2018, she starred in the American comedy "Overboard" alongside Eugenio Derbez and Anna Faris.
Ken Berry
Kenneth Ronald Berry (November 3, 1933 – December 1, 2018) was an American actor, dancer, writer and singer. He was born in Moline, Illinois. Berry starred on the television series "F Troop", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Mayberry R.F.D." and "Mama's Family". A Broadway actor, he starred in "The Billy Barnes Revue" and "George M!".
From 1960 to 1976, Berry was married to actress Jackie Joseph and the two adopted two children.
Berry died in Burbank, California on December 1, 2018 at the age of 85.
Scott Stearney
Scott Andrew Stearney (October 21, 1960 – December 1, 2018) was an American naval aviator and Vice Admiral of the United States Navy. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Stearney was Commander of the Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain from May 2018 until his death in December 2018.
On December 1, 2018, Stearney was found dead in his home in Bahrain in an apparent suicide, aged 58.
Robert Klein
Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American comedian, singer, and actor. He was born in New York City. He was nominated for a Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award for 1979's "They're Playing Our Song". He was known for hosting "Saturday Night Live" twice.
Klein starred in many movies such as "The Owl and the Pussycat", "Hooper", "Primary Colors", "Radioland Murders", "Ira and Abby", "One Fine Day", "Two Weeks Notice", "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", "The Last Unicorn", and "The Safety of Objects".
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