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Jean-Marc Fontaine (13 March 1944 – 29 January 2019) was a French mathematician. He was one of the founders of p-adic Hodge theory. He was a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University from 1988 to his death. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
In 1984 he received the Prix Carrière from the French Academy of Sciences. Beginning in 2002 he was a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Fontaine died on 29 January 2019 in Paris from thyroid cancer at the age of 74.
Andy Hebenton
Andrew Alexander "Spuds" Hebenton (October 3, 1929 – January 29, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He holds the record for the longest streak without missing a game in professional hockey history. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hebenton played for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins. He retired in 1976.
Hebenton died on January 29, 2019 in Portland, Oregon from bladder cancer, aged 89.
Stewart Adams
Stewart Sanders Adams (1923 – 30 January 2019) was a British chemist. He was known for creating ibuprofen in the early 1960s.
Adams died aged 95 at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham from pneumonia on 30 January 2019.
Kálmán Ihász
Kálmán Ihász (6 March 1941 – 31 January 2019) was a Hungarian footballer. During his club career he played for Vasas SC. For the Hungary national football team, he participated in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He also won a gold medal in 1964 Summer Olympics. Ihász was born in Budapest.
Ihász died on 31 January 2019 in Budapest from cerebral infarction, aged 77.
Pierre Nanterme
Pierre Nanterme (7 September 1959 – 31 January 2019) was a French business executive. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Accenture.
Nanterme was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016. Nanterme died on 31 January 2019 at the age of 59.
Georges Sarre
Georges Sarre (26 November 1935 – 31 January 2019) was a French politician. He was born in Chénérailles, Creuse. He was the leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement. He was elected MEP in the 1979 European elections and was elected to the French National Assembly for Paris in 1981.
Sarre died on 31 January 2019 in Paris from coronary artery disease, aged 83.
Don Laughlin
Donald J. "Don" Laughlin (born May 4, 1931) is an American gambling entrepreneur, hotelier and rancher. The town of Laughlin, Nevada, is named after him.
Laughlin moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in the late 1950s and purchased his first casino, the "101 Club." By 1964, Laughlin had sold the 101 Club. He is known for owning the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino.
Robert Ettinger
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 – July 23, 2011) was an American academic. He was known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book "The Prospect of Immortality".
Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003.
FM-2030 (born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary ; October 15, 1930 – July 8, 2000) was a Belgian-born Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist, consultant and athlete. He was a known transhumanist with the book "Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World", published in 1989.
Dick Clair
Dick Clair (November 12, 1931 – December 12, 1988) was an American television producer, actor and television and movie writer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was best known for the television sitcoms "It's a Living", "The Facts of Life", and "Mama's Family".
He won three Emmy Award for his writings on "The Carol Burnett Show" (1974, 1975, 1978).
Clair died of AIDS in Los Angeles on December 12, 1988, aged 57. His body is chronologically frozen.
Gendarmerie
The gendarmerie means either the place where gendarmes are stationed or a military armed force. The gendarmerie is part of the army. In places where gendarmes are deployed outside, they also have a provost function.
The term gendarme comes from the old medieval French "Gens d'armes". In English, it can be translated as men-at-arms. In Italy, they are called "carabinieri". In first use, a troop of horsemen equipped with a carbine.
Like the police, it has a role in road safety and surveillance of military places. The gendarmerie also provides mountain rescue capability. In conflict zones, the gendarmerie's function is the restoration of law and order as a provost unit. In addition to the police, the gendarmerie has military equipments such as armored transport.
The use of military units for civilian police is common to many eras and cultures. Belgium and Austria had gendarmeries (Royal Guard), but they merged with civilian police. Many former French colonies, particularly in Africa, have kept gendarmeries. The common symbol of the gendarmerie is the inflamed grenade. This symbol was used first by the French gendarmerie.
Argentine food
Argentine food is a mix of foods from various cultures. There are Mediterranean influences (Italian, Spanish) and indigenous peoples.
There are many agricultural products that are available in the country. Beef eating has averaged 100 kg (220 lbs) per capita, consumption averaged 67.7 kg (149 lbs) in 2007. Beyond "asado" (the Argentine barbecue), no other dish matches the national identity. The country's vast area, and cultural diversity, have led to a local cuisine of various dishes.
Argentine people have a reputation for their love of eating. Social gatherings are commonly centered on sharing a meal. Invitations to have dinner at home is generally viewed as a symbol of friendship, warmth, and integration. Sunday family lunch is considered the most significant meal of the week, whose highlights often include asado or pasta.
Argentine restaurants include a great variety of cuisines, prices, and flavors. Large cities tend to host everything from high-end international cuisine, to "bodegones" (inexpensive traditional hidden taverns), less stylish restaurants, and bars and canteens offering a range of dishes at affordable prices.
Ely College
Ely College is a secondary school located in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
In 1957, Ely High School for Girls moved out of the centre of Ely to Downham Road. A primary school was built around the same time. In 1969 a charity donation meant a secondary school was built. In 1972 these schools became the City of Ely Community College. It was re-named Ely College in 2011.
In 2011 Ely College became an Academy. It joined the Cfbt Trust in 2012. It then joined the CMAT Trust in 2016 instead.
CMAT was formed in 2011. The Trust began as Cambridge Meridian Education Trust (CMET) in 2009. The trust started with Swavesey Village College. In 2011 CMET became Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (CMAT). This meant it could have more academies.
Ely College is organised into four 'Houses'. Each of them have around 250 students and 30 staff. They are named Etheldreda, Scott, Franklin and Turing. This system is used in many of the CMAT academies.
Bishop Laney Sixth Form is on the same site as the College. It used to be called Ely College Sixth Form. It is a project between Ely College and Soham Village College.
The Sixth Form offers A-Level courses and Technical Awards. It also works with Norwich City Football Club who run a football course.
In 2013, Ofsted rated Ely College as 'Good'.
In 2015, Ofsted rated Ely College as 'Inadequate'. It needed special measures.
Kaufland is a German hypermarket chain, part of the Schwarz Gruppe which also owns Lidl and Handelshof. In 1984, the first store was opened in Neckarsulm and quickly expanded to become a leader in what was formerly East Germany. The chain operates over 1,200 stores in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. Kaufland plans to open stores in Australia, and Moldova.
Paralympic agitos
The Paralympic agitos are the official symbol of the Paralympic Games. The design was created by Scholz & Friends in 2003. The agitos represent the movement of athletes from around the world at the Paralympic Games. The agitos were first used at the Paralympic Games Greece in 2004. The three colours of the agitos are blue, red and green.
Surjoux-Lhopital
Surjoux-Lhopital is a new commune. It is in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the Ain department in east France. It was founded on 1 January 2019. It is made of the former communes of Surjoux and Lhôpital.
Valserhône
Valserhône is a new commune in the Ain department of eastern France. It was founded on 1 January 2019. It is made of the former communes of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, Châtillon-en-Michaille and Lancrans.
Bresse Vallons
Bresse Vallons is a new commune in the Ain department of eastern France. It was founded on 1 January 2019. It is made of the former communes of Cras-sur-Reyssouze and Étrez.
Arvière-en-Valromey
Arvière-en-Valromey is a new commune in the Ain department of eastern France. It was founded on 1 January 2019. It is made of the former communes of Brénaz, Chavornay, Lochieu and Virieu-le-Petit.
Valromey-sur-Séran
Valromey-sur-Séran is a new commune in the Ain department of eastern France. It was founded on 1 January 2019. It is made of the former communes of Belmont-Luthézieu, Lompnieu, Sutrieu and Vieu.
Plateau d'Hauteville
Plateau d'Hauteville is a new commune in the Ain department of eastern France. It was founded on 1 January 2019. It is made of the former communes of Cormaranche-en-Bugey, Hauteville-Lompnes, Hostiaz and Thézillieu.
Pierce County, North Dakota
Pierce County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 4,357 people lived there. The county seat is Rugby.
Fitawrari Gebeyehu
Fitawrari Gebeyehu popularly referred to by his "horse-name" አባ ጎራው, was an accomplished Ethiopian military commander and lord protector of the crown. He played a leading role in several important battles of Ethiopian history.
Gebeyehu was born in , in Shewa, Ethiopia. He was born in the same village as Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.
Gebeyehu was Fitawrari (Army Commander, a military and aristocratic title). He played a leading role in several important battles of Ethiopian history. He made his reputation at the Battle of Amba Alaje (also known as Amba Alage or Amba Alagi) and later at the Battle of Adwa. In the Battle of Adwa, he commanded 5,000 riflemen, 15,000 spearmen, and 3,000 cavalry.
Gebeyehu was killed in action in the Battle of Adwa. He played a crucial role in the winning of the battle of Adwa. During the battle, he was the front cavalry assault leader for the king's army. While leading the assault He witnessed a large number of Italian military preparing an ambush and slaughter for the large Ethiopian army headed by emperor Minilik II. He realized unless he acted to the ambush in time the large army would be easily destroyed by the ambush. Then he drives his cavalry army direct into the fully fortified Italian army and began the attack and gave the king's army to escape the ambush and arrive at the battle filed. He was killed at this battle fighting fearlessly.
A street in Addis Ababa is named after Gebeyehu. He is still known for his military skills.
U.S. territory
A U.S. territory is a place, like an island, that the United States of America owns. But the island or country still has their own government.
The current U.S. territories include Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.
The Housemaid (movie)
The Housemaid is a 2010 South Korean thriller movie. It is a remake of the 1960 movie of the same name. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
The movie begins with a busy city street. A woman commits suicide (kills herself) by jumping from a building ledge. Eun-yi works as a worker in a restaurant. She convinces her co-worker and roommate to drive her to the scene of the suicide. She stands deeply upset over the chalk outline where the woman's body had been.
The next morning, an older woman by the name Byeong-sik visits Eun-yi in her small apartment. Byeong-sik later thinks about giving her a job.
Eun-yi is hired as an au pair for Hae-ra and her husband Hoon. Hae-ra is pregnant with twins. Eun-yi's main task is watching the couple's young daughter Nami.
Hoon begins secretly flirting with Eun-yi. He entices her with glasses of wine and piano playing. The two eventually begin a sexual relationship. But despite the affair, Eun-yi is still friendly and warm to Hoon's unknowing wife Hae-ra. She is even delighted at the progress of Hae-ra's pregnancy.
Byeong-sik (also known as "Miss Cho") sees Eun-yi and Hoon having sex with each other. Miss Cho tells her suspicion to Hae-ra's mother that Eun-yi is pregnant. Hae-ra's mother, Mi-hee, then visits the family. The family stage an "accident" that results in Eun-yi falling from a ladder at the top of some stairs. Eun-yi dangles from a chandelier and begs Hae-ra's mother to pull her over the railing. But Hae-ra's mother refuses. Eun-yi falls.
Eun-yi spends the night in the hospital with only a concussion. She then learns that she's pregnant.
Hae-ra is told by her mother to ignore the affair. The mother insists that all husbands cheat sooner or later. Hae-ra takes matters into her own hands and poisons the herbal medicine Eun-yi drinks every day.
Hae-ra goes to the hospital and delivers her twin sons. Hoon visits the hospital, where Hae-ra makes her ill will toward him known. Hoon, furious, returns home alone. He finds Eun-yi in his bathtub. Eun-yi plans on keeping the baby.
Eun-yi succumbs to the effects of the poison. Mi-hee arranges an abortion without Eun-yi's permission. After the abortion, Miss Cho reveals that she told Mi-hee about the pregnancy. Eun-yi is angry. However, she forgives Miss Cho. Eun-yi wants to get revenge on the family. When she recovers from the abortion, she sneaks into the house with Miss Cho's assistance.
Eun-yi later hangs herself from the same chandelier to which she had hung earlier. She sets herself on fire.
The movie was first shown in South Korea on 13 May 2010. It opened in 679 screens. It took in over $5.7 million at the box office. After week two, the number of screens had been reduced to 520. The movie dropped to second place. The overall total box office for "The Housemaid" was $14,075,390.
IFC Films was the American distributor. It released the movie in 2011.
Cory Booker 2020 presidential campaign
The Cory Booker 2020 presidential campaign was the presidential campaign of Cory Booker. He announced on February 1, 2019 that he would run for President of the United States. The president gave a quick response. Before this, he had already been widely speculated to be in the process of preparing to run for President. There is a big office for the campaign.
In 2018, "Politico" identified him as part of a movement along with Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, given he voted "to stop [the president's] nominees for administration jobs"; all of the Senators in this group were considered potential 2020 presidential contenders at this point in time. That year and in early 2019, he began travelling early in the campaign schedule.
After failing to qualify for the sixth debate and poor polling numbers, Booker ended his campaign on January 13, 2020.
From the earliest to the latest:-
In alphabetical order:-
Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign
Bernie Sanders announced his 2020 United States presidential campaign via email on February 19, 2019. He made the announcement on Vermont Public Radio. This is his second run for the Democratic nomination, following his campaign in the 2016 primaries. He also announced his campaign in an email to his supporters on the same day.
He entered into the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries as one of the front-runner candidates, as compared to his prior 2016 underdog campaign. His 2020 race has more advantages as his policy ideas accepted into the Democratic mainstream.
In a crowded field of primary candidates, Sanders both leads in polling and has the largest fan base than his competition. Policies from his last campaign, such as single-payer healthcare and tuition-free public colleges, had since entered mainstream Democratic thought.
In October 2019, the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign gained the support of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Some of the main issues the campaign supports are:
On April 8, 2020 one day after the Wisconsin primary, Sanders ended his campaign after failing to beat Biden in many primary contests after Super Tuesday. On April 13, Sanders formally endorsed Biden for the Democratic nomination.
Canoe.com
Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network. Canoe.com is a business subsidiary of Postmedia Network. The French-language website continues to use the former name for both sites, Canoe.ca, and is owned by Quebecor Media. The phrase "Canadian Online Explorer" is shown in the header of the English version of the site. The name "Canoe" as an acronym from the abbreviation "Can. O. E." is a play on the word "canoe" (or ""canoë"" in French). Canoe's head office has been in Toronto, Canada, at 333 King Street East.
The Canoe Network has had over 7.7 million monthly visitors and includes separate English and French portals at codice_1 and codice_2, information verticals like Cnews, SLAM!, JAM! and Lifewise, as well as the Sun Media newspaper sites. Canoe.com also has online services in the fields of employment and continuing education (Jobboom.com), housing (Homes-Extra.ca), automobiles Autonet.ca and ASL Internet. ASL Internet is an abbreviation of Aged Stock Limited which was incorporated in 2002 by James Kovacs and sold to Canoe in 2008. The group also runs personals (reseaucontact.com), social networks (space.canoe.ca), classified ads (classifiedextra.ca) and advertising solutions (canoeklix.ca).
Oliver County, North Dakota
Oliver County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 1,846 people lived there. The county seat and only city is Center.
Pembina County, North Dakota
Pembina County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 7,413 people lived there. The county seat is Cavalier.
Ramsey County, North Dakota
Ramsey County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 11,451 people lived there. The county seat is Devils Lake.
A fist is the term given to the hand when the four fingers are clenched, and the thumb closed over the first finger. In this solid form, it can be used for striking in combat. The half-closed fist may be used for some tasks, like knocking.
Making a fist is virtually unknown amongst other primates. Their fingers have different proportions to humans.
Williams County, North Dakota
Williams County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 22,398 people lived there. The county seat is Williston.
Ward County, North Dakota
Ward County is a county in North Dakota in the United States. There were 61,675 people living there at the 2010 census, making it the fourth-most populous county in North Dakota. The county seat is Minot.
Soultzmatt
Soultzmatt is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Its vineyards produce one of the finest Alsacian wines: the "Grand Cru" Zinnkoepflé.
Otto Schubiger
Otto Schubiger (6 January 1925 – 28 January 2019) was a Swiss ice hockey player. He played for the ZSC Lions, GCK Lions and SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, winning the Swiss National League A championship in 1949 and 1961, both with ZSC. Internationally Schubiger played for the Swiss national team, winning a bronze medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and bronze medals at the 1951 and 1953 World Championships.
Schubiger died on 28 January 2019 in Baden at the age of 94.
Prilly
Prilly () is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Ouest lausannois. It is a western suburb of the city of Lausanne.
Rachel Pollack
Rachel Grace Pollack (born August 17, 1945) is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on tarot. Pollack is involved in the women's spirituality movement.
Pollack has written a book about Salvador Dali's Tarot deck. Pollack's work "78 Degrees of Wisdom" on Tarot reading is used by many Tarot readers.
Pollack is best known for her run of issues 64–87 on the comic book "Doom Patrol", on DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, with Grant Morrison. In the comic, Pollack wrote about topics such as menstruation, sexual identity, and transsexuality that are unusual in comics.
Three of Pollack's novels have won or been nominated for major awards in the science fiction and fantasy field: "Unquenchable Fire" won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award; "Godmother Night" won the 1997 World Fantasy Award, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and was nominated for a Lambda Award; "Temporary Agency" was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award and the Mythopoeic Award, and shortlisted for the Tiptree.
Pollack is Jewish, and has frequently written about the Kabbalah.
Pollack is a transsexual woman and has written often about transgender issues. In "Doom Patrol" she introduced Coagula, a transsexual character. She has also written several essays on being transsexual. She attacked the idea that it is a "sickness." She writes that it is a passion and helps with greater understanding of others.
"A Secret Woman" features a police detective who is transgender and Jewish. The detective utters the prayer, "Blessed art thou oh G-d who made me not a woman. Double blessed is Doctor Green who has." Rachel Pollack created the characters known as 'the bandage people' for her "Doom Patrol" run. The bandage people are 'sexually remaindered spirits' who died in sexual accidents. The initials srs came from the medical term 'sex reassignment surgery'. Rachel wrote the essay "The Transsexual Book of The Dead" for the anthology "Phallus Palace". This article is concerning trans men.
For nearly 20 years Pollack has been teaching seminars with Tarot author Mary K. Greer at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York.
Parliament (Eswatini)
The Parliament of Eswatini "(Swazi: Libandla)" is the large group of legislators, or law makers, of the country of Eswatini. It is made of two groups called "chambers". These chambers are:
Both groups are located in Lobamba.
Unbiquadium
Unbiquadium, also known as element 124 or eka-uranium, is the possible chemical element with atomic number 124 and placeholder symbol Ubq. "Unbiquadium" and "Ubq" are the temporary IUPAC name and symbol, respectively, until the element is discovered, confirmed, and a permanent name is decided upon. In the periodic table, unbiquadium is expected to be a g-block superactinide and the sixth element in the 8th period. Unbiquadium has attracted attention, as it may lie within the island of stability, leading to longer half-lives.
Paul Sereno
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is paleontologist who was educated at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species from places such as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. One of his most widely publicized discoveries is that of a nearly complete specimen of "Sarcosuchus" (known as SuperCroc).
Other fossil reptiles
Nebulasaurus
Dze with caron
Dze with caron (Ѕ̌ ѕ̌) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is not confused with the letter <Š>.
Super Bowl LIII
Super Bowl LIII (meaning Super Bowl 53 in Roman numerals) was an American football game in which the New England Patriots, who were the winners of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the 2018 season, beat the Los Angeles Rams, winners of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the 2018 season, 13-3 to become winners of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2018 season. It was the 6th time the New England Patriots won a Super Bowl. It was also the 11th time the New England Patriots had been in a Super Bowl and the 4th time the Los Angeles Rams had been in a Super Bowl. It is was played at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 3, 2018. The game had the lowest score of any Super Bowl in history, with 16 points scored by both teams. It also had the lowest amount of people watching it on television for a Super Bowl for 10 years, with 98.2 million people watching it in the United States. The same teams played in this Super Bowl as the Super Bowl XXXVI, when the New England Patriots also won.
New Aspiration Party
The New Aspiration Party ("Phak Khwam Wang Mai ") is a political party in Thailand. The party was founded in 1990 by General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh after his retirement as Commander-In-Chief of the Royal Thai Army. This party won the elections of 1996 and formed a coalition government with Chavalit as Prime Minister. The onset of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 diminished the electorate's confidence in the government, and Chavalit was forced to resign.
Discredited as a result of the economic crisis, Chavalit formed a coalition with the populist Thai Rak Thai Party led by Thaksin Shinawatra to take part in the 2001 elections. Shortly after the election, the majority of the New Aspiration Party merged with Thai Rak Thai and Chavalit became the Deputy Prime Minister in Thaksin's cabinet.
After the election in 2001,Thaksin Shinawatra the leader of Thai Rak Thai Party, became prime minister. The New Aspiration Party has joined the government. Shortly thereafter. The New Aspiration Partywas merged with the Thai Rak Thai Party. Mostly to join Thai Rak Thai party (the governing party) with Gen. Chavalit Yongchaiyudh except Chalerm Yubamrung who return to be the Leader of the Mass Party Chingchai Mongcoltam decided to continue the New Aspiration Party and Lieutenant Colonel Thita Rangsitpol Manitkul,WRTA Member of the Parliament and Deputy Secretary of the party. Offset to the Democrats. (Opposition Party) remains the only MPs moving from the opposition party government. During her tenure as a member of the House of Representatives
In the legislative elections on July 3, 2011, the party won 0.08% of the popular vote and no seats in the House of Representatives.
Kangding Qingge
"Kangding Qingge" () simply means "Kangding Love Song". The song is a folk song of a town named Kangding in Sichuan Province. The song is one of the most popular songs across the Sinosphere.
In 1946, Wu Wen-ji studied vocal music in Sikang Province in China. At the same time, he composed a song named Paomao Liuliude Shanshang. This means "Running Horse Mountain" in English. He also composed other local folk songs. When he was teaching at a Kuomintang military academy, he renamed the song as Kangding Love Song. He renamed it after the capital of the Sikang Province. He also changed some of the lyrics. The song then spread to the rest of China. This is due to the song being sung by a popular Soprano named Yu Yixuan.
Since then, the song has been performed by many famous artists around the world. They includes Placido Domingo, Timi Zhuo , and A-mei.
Deutsch-Kasachische Universität
The Deutsch-Kasachische Universität, abbreviated DKU, (Kazakh-German University; , ) is a co-educational non-profit university located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was founded in 1999. The school is accredited by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Classes are taught by German and Kazakhstani professors.
The university has less than five hundred students studying in pre-bachelor, bachelor and master's programs. Master's degrees can be earned in
Students are admitted based on scores on entrance exams and academic records. Between 70% and 80% of applicants are accepted.
The university has partnerships with five universities in Germany.
Whereas ‘Atameken’ National Chamber of commerce rating places it 5th among Kazakhstani universities,
The university is located at Pushkin Street 111/113, Almaty 050010.
The university's telephone number is +7 (727) 293 8913 - 29.
The school colors are gray, black, red and gold.
official home-page of the university: http://dku.kz/de/
İlkay Gündoğan
İlkay Gündoğan (born 24 October 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Germany national football team.
Born in Gelsenkirchen, Gündoğan came through VfL Bochum's (German Club) youth academy. In 2008, he began playing for the club's reserve side before joining the first team, FC Nürnberg (German Club) the following season. He was then acquired by Borussia Dortmund (German Club) in 2011, winning the double of Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal (German knockout football cup) in his first season. In 2013, he helped Borussia reach their first UEFA Champions League Final since 1996–97. After playing a total of 157 matches and scoring 15 goals for the club, Gündoğan signed for Manchester City for an estimated transfer fee of £21 million in the summer of 2016. He won the Premier League and English Football League Cup in 2017–18.
Gündoğan made his senior debut for Germany in 2011 after previously being capped by Germany youth teams at under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 levels. He was chosen in Germany's squads for UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Super Bowl LII
Super Bowl LII (meaning Super Bowl 52 in Roman numerals) was an American football game in which the Philadelphia Eagles, who were winners of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the 2017 season, beat the New England Patriots, who were winners of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the 2017 season, 41-33 to become winners of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2017 season. It was the first time the Philadelphia Eagles won a Super Bowl and was their second NFL title. It was played at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 4, 2018.
Yvonne Clark
Yvonne Y. Clark (born Georgianna Yvonne Young; April 13, 1929 – January 27, 2019) was an American engineer. She is the first woman to get a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Howard University. She is the first woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University. She was the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University, then an emereti Professor.
Clark was the first African-American woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University in 1972, after having sent the first African-American students to their engineering department earlier.
Alf Lüdtke
Alf Lüdtke (18 October 1943 – 29 January 2019) (also Alf Luedtke) was a German historian. He was born in Dresden. He was a leading German representative of the history of everyday life ("Alltagsgeschichte" in German). Lüdtke was the founder and editor of the journal "Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen", as well as co-founder and co-editor of the journals "Werkstatt Geschichte" and "Historische Anthropologie. Kultur – Gesellschaft – Alltag".
Lüdtke died on 29 January 2019 in Dresden from a stroke, aged 75.
Ron Joyce
Ronald Vaughan Joyce, C.M. (October 19, 1930 – January 31, 2019) was a Canadian entrepreneur and billionaire. He co-founded the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's partner. He helped create Tim Horton Children's Camps and the Tim Horton Children's Foundation. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1992.
In 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth to be around US$1.4 billion. Joyce died at his home in Burlington, Ontario on January 31, 2019 at the age of 88.
Johnny Lion
Johnny Lion (born John van Leeuwarden; 4 July 1941 – 31 January 2019) was a Dutch singer, journalist and actor. He was best known for his hit-single "Sophietje". He was born in The Hague. An actor, Lion starred in the movies "Siberia" (1998) and in "Van God Los" (2003). A journalist, he worked for "Panorama".
Lion, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and lung cancer, died in Breda, Netherlands on 31 January 2019, aged 77.
Lori Wilson
Lori Wilson (February 15, 1937 – January 30, 2019) was an American lawyer and politician. She was born in Waynesville, North Carolina. She was an Independent. Wilson was on the Florida Senate from 1973 to 1978.
Wilson died at her daughter's Indian Harbour Beach, Florida home on January 30, 2019 from complications of dementia, aged 81.
Waynesville, North Carolina
Waynesville is a town in and the county seat of Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest town in Haywood County and the largest in western North Carolina west of Asheville. Waynesville. As of the 2010 census, Waynesville had a population of 9,869.
Jeremy Hardy
Jeremy James Hardy (17 July 1961 – 1 February 2019) was a British comedian. He was best known for his appearances on radio panel shows such as the "News Quiz" and "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".
Hardy was a committed socialist, and a supporter of the Labour Party. He performed at Labour Party rallies and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called him a "dear, lifelong friend".
Hardy died of cancer on 1 February 2019, at the age of 57.
Ursula Karusseit
Ursula Karusseit (2 August 1939 – 1 February 2019) was a German actress. She was born in Elbing, West Prussia, Nazi Germany. Karusseit was known for her roles in "Ways across the Country" and in "KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra".
Karusseit died of heart disease in Berlin on 1 February 2019, aged 79.
Clive Swift
Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. He was best known for his roles as Richard Bucket in the British television series "Keeping Up Appearances" and as Roy in the British television series "The Old Guys". Swift was born in Liverpool. He was married to journalist Margaret Drabble from 1960 to 1975 when they divorced.
Swift died at home in London from respiratory failure on 1 February 2019, aged 82.
Walter James Edyvean
Walter James Edyvean (October 18, 1938 – February 2, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston from 2001 to 2014. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts.
Edyvean died on February 2, 2019 in Boston, aged 80.
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Justin Fairfax
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) is an American attorney and politician. He is the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia since 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Party, he beat Republican nominee Jill Vogel in the 2017 election.
Fairfax is the second African American elected statewide, following Douglas Wilder, who was elected to the same position in 1985 and became Virginia Governor in the 1989.
In early February 2019, Big League Politics reported that Fairfax had been accused by Vanessa C. Tyson, an associate professor at Scripps College and fellow at Stanford University, of sexual assault at a hotel at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
In September 2020, Fairfax announced his candidacy for Governor of Virginia.
Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer (1942 – 4 February 2019) was a Belgian civil engineer, economist, author and professor. He studied monetary systems and promoted the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency. He was born in Lauwe, Belgium. Lietaer was known for his books "" and "New Money for a New World".
Lietaer died on 4 February 2019 at the age of 76.
Detsl
Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatsky (; 22 July 1983 – 3 February 2019), better known by his stage name Detsl (Russian: Децл), was a Russian hip hop artist. In 2000, he released his debut album "Who? You" to massive success and quickly became a teen idol of the early 2000s in Russia. In 2001, his second album "Street Fighter" was released.
He died on 3 February 2019 in Izhevsk at the age of 35 from a sudden heart attack after performing his live set at the private birthday party. In a 2007 interview, Detsl talked about faking his own death at the exact same age while performing at a concert in the same city he would actually die in.
Bob Friend
Robert Bartmess Friend (November 24, 1930 – February 3, 2019) was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched mainly for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1951 to 1965. He also played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of 1966. He is the first man ever to have led the league in ERA while pitching for a last place team.
Friend was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He studied at Purdue University. Friend died suddenly in his sleep at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 3, 2019 from cardiac arrest at the age of 88.
Salesforce Tower, formerly known as the Transbay Tower, is a office skyscraper in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco. The building has a mix of office, transportation, retail, and residential uses.
Upon its completion in 2018 it became the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline, with a top roof height of and overall height of , surpassing the Transamerica Pyramid. It is also the second-tallest building west of the Mississippi River after the Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles.
On April 10, 2019, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Salesforce Tower as the "Best Tall Building in the World" for the year 2019. It was celebrated at the Grand Hyatt Shenzhen, China.
Wilshire Grand Center
Wilshire Grand Center is a skyscraper in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It is the tallest building in Los Angeles, the tallest building in California, the tallest building west of the Mississippi River and outside of New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia, and the 11th tallest building in the United States.
It is taller than the U.S. Bank Tower by . The building is part of a mixed-use hotel, retail, observation decks, shopping mall, and office complex, expected to revitalize downtown Los Angeles and the area surrounding the building. The development of the complex is estimated to cost $1.2 billion.
Carmen Duncan
Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian actress and activist. She was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1980 movie "Harlequin". She was also known for the movie "Don't Let It Get You".
Her other movie appearances include "Touch and Go" (1980) and "Turkey Shoot" (1982). She played Iris Wheeler on the American soap opera "Another World" from 1988 to 1994.
Duncan died on 3 February 2019 from cancer in Sydney, aged 76.
Ransom County, North Dakota
Ransom County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 5,457 people lived there. The county seat is Lisbon.
Beeville, Texas
Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940) is an English actress.
Cornwell is best known for her role as Daisy in the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances". She played Anya Claus in the 1985 movie "".
Santa Claus: The Movie
Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 British-American Christmas movie starring Dudley Moore, John Lithgow and David Huddleston. The movie was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It was released in North America on November 27, 1985, by TriStar Pictures.
Josephine Tewson
Josephine Ann Tewson (born 26 February 1931) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in the British sitcoms "Keeping Up Appearances" and "Last of the Summer Wine".
Martyrs (movie)
Martyrs is a 2008 French psychological horror movie. It was first shown at 2008 Cannes Film Festival at the Marché du Film. It was released theatrically in France on 3 September 2008.
The movie was controversial upon its release. It was associated with the New French Extremity movement.
In 1971, a young girl, Lucie Jurin, escapes from a disused slaughterhouse. She's been imprisoned and abused there for over a year. The criminals and their motivations remain a mystery. Lucie is placed in an orphanage. She becomes friends there with a young girl named Anna Assaoui. Anna quickly discovers Lucie believes she is being constantly terrorized by a ghoulish creature. Anna comforts Lucie every time she has a nightmare.
Fifteen years later, in 1986, Lucie bursts into a home of a "normal" family, the Belfonds. The Belfonds are Gabrielle, her husband and children Antoine and Marie. Lucie kills them all with a shotgun. Anna waits for Lucie elsewhere. Anna knows Lucie believes the Belfonds were the people responsible for her childhood abuse. But at the same time, Anna is horrified when Lucie tells her she's killed them.
When they get to the house, Anna discovers Gabrielle is still alive. Anna tries to help her escape. However, Lucie beats Gabrielle to death. Lucie realizes that her insanity will not leave her. She commits suicide.
The next day, Anna is still at the family's house. She calls her mother by telephone. She has been estranged from her mother. In their conversation, it becomes evident that Anna was abused by her parents as a child. Suddenly, Anna hears some noises. She finds a secret underground chamber in the living room. In the chamber is a horribly tortured young woman named Sarah. Sarah proves that Lucie was right about the family. Anna helps Sarah escape. A group of strangers, however, kill Sarah with guns. Anna is captured. She meets the strangers' leader, an elderly lady named Mademoiselle.
Anna becomes the group's latest subject. She goes through a period of being beaten and degraded. She hallucinates a conversation with Lucie. Anna is later told she has progressed further than any other test subject. She has reached the "final stage." She is skinned alive. She survives the procedure.
"Martyrs" was categorized as a new example of new era French horror movies in terms of violence that it shows. The movie-ranking website Rotten Tomatoes said %53 of critics had given the movie positive reviews.
French Commission de Classification des Oeuvres Cinématographiques rated the movie 18+ (not suitable for children under 18). The movie's producers appealed. Martyrs' rating was later changed to 16+.
Raphine, Virginia
Raphine is an unincorporated community in Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in the U.S. state of Virginia.
The name "Raphine" came from an old Greek word "raphis", meaning "to sew." It was chosen in honor of James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902). American inventor and industrialist Cyrus McCormick lived here before moving to Chicago.
In addition to Walnut Grove, the Kennedy-Lunsford Farm and Kennedy-Wade Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Jüri Pihl
Jüri Pihl (17 March 1954 – 3 February 2019) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party.
From 1993 to 2003 he was the General Director of Kaitsepolitsei. From 5 April 2007 to 21 May 2009 he was the Minister of the Interior in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
Pihl died on 3 February 2019 at the age of 64.
Kristoff St. John
Kristoff St. John (July 15, 1966 – February 3, 2019) was an American actor. From 1991 to 2019, he played the role of Neil Winters on "The Young and the Restless". He was nominated for eleven Daytime Emmy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, and ten NAACP Image Awards for the role. He was born in New York City.
St. John was found dead in his Los Angeles, California home on February 3, 2019, aged 52. On March 19, 2019, it was announced that his death had been ruled accidental, with the cause listed as heart failure.
Joe P. Tolson
Joe Pat Tolson (April 15, 1941 – February 3, 2019) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 to 2014. Tolson was born in Pinetops, North Carolina.
Tolson died on February 3, 2019 from respiratory failure at a hospital in Tarboro, North Carolina, aged 77.
Pinetops, North Carolina
Pinetops is a town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,374 at the 2010 census. Pinetops is located at (35.790821, -77.638807).
Tarboro, North Carolina
Tarboro is a town located in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Rocky Mount Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 11,415. It is the county seat of Edgecombe County.
Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Edgecombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 56,552. Its county seat is Tarboro.
Edgecombe County is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the Atlantic coastal plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 57,685 at the 2010 census.
Rocky Mount has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League two times, in 1969 and 1999.
Isacio Calleja
Isacio Calleja García (6 December 1936 – 4 February 2019) was a Spanish footballer. He was born in Valle de Cerrato, Spain. He played as a defender. Calleja played for Atlético Madrid from 1958 to 1972 and for the national team from 1961 to 1972.
Calleja died in Madrid on 4 February 2019 at the age of 82.
Chomsky hierarchy
The Chomsky hierarchy is a concept of theoretical computer science. Noam Chomsky looked at grammars of regular language and classified them into four levels, numbered 0 to 3.
Group 0 consists of regular expressions without restriction, while groups 1 to 3 contain restrictions. Grammars in higher-numbered levels also satisfy the constraints of all levels below them. The concept was developed in the 1950s.
Leonie Ossowski
Leonie Ossowski was the pen name of Jolanthe von Brandenstein (15 August 1925 – 4 February 2019), a German writer. She wrote under the name Jo Tiedemann. She wrote scripts for DEFA: "Zwei Mütter" ("Two mothers") and "Stern ohne Himmel" ("Stars without Sky"). She has lived in Berlin from 1980 until her death. Her 1977 novel "Die große Flatter" ("The big flutter") was also made into a movie.
Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor. He and William Shockley helped to create Silicon Valley.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument
The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves ancestral Puebloan structures in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. This national monument is close to both the town of Aztec and the Animas River. It is about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Farmington, New Mexico. The Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, which also has Puebloan structures, is about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) south of the monument.
The Aztec ruins date from the 11th to the 13th centuries. American settlers in the 19th century named them the "Aztec ruins" because they thought that the Aztec civilization built them.
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Renville County, North Dakota
Renville County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 2,470 people lived there. The county seat is Mohall.
Renville County
Renville County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Ramsey County
There are two counties in the United States named Ramsey County:
Letona, Arkansas
Letona is a town in the US state of Arkansas.
Richland County, North Dakota
Richland County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2010 census, 16,321 people lived there. The county seat is Wahpeton.
Doug Supernaw
Douglas Anderson Supernaw (September 26, 1960 – November 13, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He signed with BNA Records in 1993. Supernaw was born in Bryan, Texas.
Supernaw released four studio albums: "Red and Rio Grande" (1993), "Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind" (1994), "You Still Got Me" (1995), and "Fadin' Renegade" (1999), as well as two compilation albums, 1997's "The Encore Collection", and 2017's "Greatest Hits".
Between 1993 and 1996, he charted eleven singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including "I Don't Call Him Daddy", a Number One single in late 1993.
Supernaw announced on February 4, 2019 that he had been diagnosed with stage IV lung and bladder cancer. He died from the diseases on November 13, 2020 in Livingston, Texas at the age of 60.
Bryan, Texas
Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 76,201.
Sam Lloyd
Samuel R. Lloyd IV (November 12, 1963 – April 30, 2020) was an American actor and a capella singer. He was best known for his roles as lawyer Ted Buckland on the American comedy-drama "Scrubs" and as Albert Goldfine in "Desperate Housewives". Lloyd was born in Weston, Vermont. His uncle is actor Christopher Lloyd.
In February 2019, Lloyd was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, which spread to his lungs, liver, jaw and spine. He died of the disease on April 30, 2020 in Los Angeles at the age of 56.
Weston, Vermont
Weston is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 566 at the 2010 census.
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