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Chrystelle Lee Trump Bond (January 1, 1938  – May 6, 2020) was an American dancer, choreographer, dance historian, and author. Bond was the founding chair of the dance department at Goucher College. She was the co-founder and director of "Chorégraphie Antique". Bond was a dance critic for "The Baltimore Sun". Bond was born in Manchester, Maryland.
Bond died on May 6, 2020 in Towson, Maryland at the age of 82.
Manchester, Maryland
Manchester is a small incorporated town in northeastern Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is just south of the Pennsylvania state line and north of Baltimore. The population was 4,808 at the 2010 census.
Westminster, Maryland
Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Baltimore. It is the seat of Carroll County. The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census.
Martin Spellman
Martin Spellman IV (October 8, 1925 – May 6, 2020) was an American child actor and businessman. He was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Spellman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He played Skinny in the 1938 movie "Boys Town", starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. In 1939, he co-starred in "Streets of New York" with Jackie Cooper. The following year he had another leading role in "Son of the Navy" with Jean Parker and James Dunn.
Spellman died in Vancouver, Washington on May 6, 2020 at the age of 94.
Jean Parker
Jean Parker (born Lois Mae Green, August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005) was an American actress.
Parker's first movie was in "Divorce in the Family" (1932). She appeared in movies for MGM, RKO and Columbia. Her best known movies were "Little Women", "Lady for a Day", "Gabriel Over the White House", "Limehouse Blues", "The Ghost Goes West", and "Rasputin and the Empress".
James Dunn (actor)
James Howard Dunn (November 2, 1901 – September 1, 1967) was an American actor and comedian. Dunn was born in Manhattan, New York. His movie role was in "Bad Girl" (1931). He appeared in three Shirley Temple movies. His best known role was as Johnny Nolan in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945). He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.
Dunn died on September 1, 1967 in Santa Monica, California of problems caused by stomach surgery, aged 65.
Languages of North America
North America is the third largest continent in the world. There are 23 countries in North America. The languages people speak the most in North America - which includes Central America and the Caribbean - are English, Spanish, and in some places French and creole languages.
There are lots of languages which are spoken by indigenous peoples - in the Arctic these include Eskimo-Aleut languages, such the Aleut langauge, which are spoken in the Aleutian Islands, the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska, and Inuit languages, which are spoken by people in places including Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland.
A group of languages which are called Na-Dené languages are spoken in Alaska and north-west Canada. Southern Athabaskan languages are spoken in the South-western United States. Algic languages, which include Algonquian languages, are spoken by a lot of people in Canada and the United States. Some of these are Ojibwe, Cree, Miꞌkmaq, and Blackfoot.
A group of languages called the Iriquoian languages are spoken by a lot of people who live near the Saint Lawrence River and the eastern Great Lakes. These include Cherokee.
A group of languages called the Uto-Aztecan languages are spoken by people in the Western United States, in northern and central Mexico, and El Salvador. Some of these are Hopi, Oʼodham, and Nahuatl.
A group of languages called the Mayan languages are spoken by people in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
A group of languages called the Mixe–Zoque languages are spoken by people in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico.
In the Caribbean a lot of people used to speak Arawakan languages. Some of these are the Ta-Arawakan languages, which are spoken in Central and Southern America. These are still spoken by a lot of people in South America.
Languages which have been introduced to North America include English, Spanish, and French. Most people speak English. These languages were introduced to America by people who lived in Europe. English is also spoken in Canada, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and is spoken alongside Creole languages in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
The most spoken language in Mexico is Spanish. Most people in Central America also speak Spanish, including people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. A lot of people in the United States also speak Spanish.
Some places in Canada speak French. These include Quebec and Saint Pierre and Miquelon. French is also spoken in Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
Lots of people in Alaska used to speak Russian, because the United States bought Alaska from Russia.
Some places in the United States speak German, including the Pennsylvania Dutch, the Hutterite Germans, and the Texas Germans. The Plautdietsch dialect is spoken by descendants of people from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Nearly everybody in Greenland speaks Danish, where it is spoken because of colonization by the Danish. Dutch is spoken by a lot of people in Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles, and descendants of settlers who live in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Lots of Asian languages are spoken in the United States and Canada, including Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Kashmiri, Dogri, Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Odia, Maithili, Nepali, Balochi, Pashto, Assamese, Meitei, Santali, Kokborok, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, Malayalam, and Kannada. Lots of Indians came to the Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries to work on the sugar cane, cocoa bean, rice and coffee bean plantations after slavery was abolished.
An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin. The term is especially often used for funerary urns, vessels used in burials, either to hold the cremated ashes or as grave goods, but is used in many other contexts; in catering large vessels for serving tea or coffee are often called "tea-urns", even when they are metal cylinders of purely functional design. Large sculpted vases are often called urns, whether placed outdoors, in gardens or as architectural ornaments on buildings, or kept inside.
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (movie)
8HevXII a
8HevXII a (originally marked LXX; Rahlfs 943a) is Septuagint manuscript that containing the biblical books of minor prophets. This is a manuscript in scroll form dated to the 1st century. It was found in the Judean Desert in the cave number 8 of Nahal Hever. This fragment is also marked with number 943a on the list of Septuagint manuscripts according to Alfred Rahlfs classification.
This scroll contains the name of God YHWH in the following places: Jon 4:2; Mic 1:1, 3; Mic 4:4, 5, 7; Mic 5:4, 4; Hab 2:14, 16, 20; Hab 3:9; Zep 1:3, 14; Zep 2:10; Zec 1:3, 3, 4; Zec 3:5, 6, 7.
This manuscript was published in "Supplements to Vetus Testamentum", Vol. X, in 1963. The original designation of the scroll comes from the abbreviated name of the publication in which it was published (LXX - manuscript of the Septuagint; Vetus Testamentum, Supplements; volume X).
This manuscript is kept in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (8HevXII a).
A Millionaire for Christy
Judith Quiney
Judith Quiney (baptised 2 February 1585 – 9 February 1662), née Shakespeare, was the younger daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway and the fraternal twin of their only son Hamnet Shakespeare. ... By the time of Judith Quiney's death, she had outlived her children by many years.
Died: 9 February 1662
Spouse: Thomas Quiney
Sibling: Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare
Born: 2 February 1585
Children: Richard Quiney, Thomas Quiney, Shakespeare Quiney
Parents:William Shakespeare,Anne Hathaway
On the 10th February 1616 Shakespeare’s younger daughter Judith married a local man, Thomas Quiney. At the start of 1616 her impending marriage must have been the cause of celebration in the family. Shakespeare first saw his lawyer to draft his will in January 1616. This is often taken to mean he was already ill, but with his daughters married or betrothed it was also a good time to ensure they would be provided for.Things started to go wrong soon after that first session with the lawyer. In the first drafting of the will, he is mentioned specifically with a bequest “vnto my sonne in L[aw]”. The marriage occurred outside the usual period for marriages (as Shakespeare’s own had been). Anne Hathaway was already pregnant. This wasn’t the case with Judith.Shakespeare’s marriage had been arranged by license from Worcester, but in Judith’s case no license was granted. Marrying without going through the proper procedures was frowned on, and both Judith and Thomas were excommunicated. None of this sounds like respectable behaviour, but worse was to come. Thomas might well have been in a hurry to marry Judith, because after the marriage it soon came out that he had previously had a mistress, Margaret Wheeler, who was pregnant with his child. To make matters worse, both Margaret and her baby died. Thomas was tried by the church court and sentenced to stand in front of the congregation of Holy Trinity church clad in a white sheet, for three Sundays.
Shakespeare saw his lawyer again on 25 March. One of the significant changes is that the reference to Thomas Quiney was struck out and Judith’s name was inserted instead. Judith was to inherit £100, a cottage, and if she or her children were alive after three years a further £150 of which she should receive the interest, giving her and any children she might have an independent income. She also received Shakespeare’s “broad silver gilt bole”.Very little is known about Judith, but her life seems to have been full of disappointments. As far as we know she received no education, and lived in Stratford all her life. She and her twin brother Hamnet were born in 1585, but Hamnet died in August 1596. His death must have affected the whole family profoundly, not least Judith herself. This was the first of many sad events in her life, the next of which was the humiliation surrounding her marriage. She can not have been unaware of the comparison with her older sister Susanna who had already made a successful marriage to a highly-respected doctor and had a daughter. In Shakespeare’s will, it’s Susanna who inherits most of Shakespeare’s wealth including his house New Place.
Shakespeare himself died in April 1616, only a few weeks after Judith’s marriage and humiliation. In November Judith herself had a baby son, who was christened “Shakespeare”, after her father. The baby lived for only six months, dying in May 1617. Infant mortality was high, and several of Shakespeare’s own siblings had died as babies. Later, in 1618 and 1620, Judith had two more sons, Richard and Thomas. These two boys survived childhood but died within weeks of each other in 1639, aged 19 and 21, probably of plague. So Judith outlived all of her children, being buried on 9 February 1662 aged 77, while her husband died in 1662 or 1663. Thomas Quiney was by profession a vintner and tobacconist, and later became a leading member of the town’s governing council, holding its highest office, Chamberlain, in 1621 and 1622. But unlike her sister and brother-in-law who had graves in the chancel of the church, Judith and Thomas were buried in the churchyard, the site is now unknown.The house in which Judith and Thomas Quiney lived still stands, but unlike Susannah’s house Hall’s Croft Shakespeare’s Birthplace or the site of his grand house New Place it isn’t a museum. It used to be known as “The Cage”, and stands in the very centre of town at the junction of High Street and Bridge Street. In its time this building has been a prison, the “Shakespeare View Store”, the town’s Tourist Information Centre and now, a shop selling Crabtree and Evelyn toiletries.
8HevXII b
8HevXII b (originally marked LXXVTS 10b; Rahlfs 943b) is a manuscript of the Septuagint written on parchment in scroll form. This scroll is dated between 50 B.C.E. and 50 C.E. It is a masucript containing a fragment of the Biblical Book of Zachariah 8,18-9,7. It was found in the Judean Desert in the cave of Nahal Heber. This fragment is also numbered 943b on the list of Septuaginta manuscripts according to Alfred Rahlfs classification.
This manuscript contains a tetragrammaton in the following places: Zec 8:20; 9:1(×2), 4.
The manuscript was published in "Supplements to Vetus Testamentum", Vol. X, in 1963. The original designation of the scroll comes from the abbreviated name of the publication in which it was published (LXX - manuscript of the Septuaginty; Vetus Testamentum, Supplements volume X, scroll b,).
This manuscript is kept in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (8HevXII b).
Pahar Ganj
Operations and Checkout Building
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building (commonly referred to as the 'O&C") is a factory located at Kennedy Space Center.
The building was built in 1964, and made from reinforced concrete and steel.
It's purpose is to make and test out rocket parts such as the Apollo Command/Service Module, Lunar Module, Space Shuttle Spacelab modules, and truss components for the International Space Station. Once manufacturing and check-testing is complete, the spacecraft modules or space stations are checked out of the factory to the SSPF or the Vehicle Assembly Building for integration and launch.
The O&C is actually a two-part building with connected overhead walkways. The front building is where astronauts live in dormitories before launching into space. It also has a few conference rooms, several laboratories, and a restaurant. The rear building is where the spacecraft manufacturing workshop is located.
In 2014, the O&C was named in honor of the first man on the moon: Neil Armstrong.
Pacific Coast League
The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a minor league baseball league in the United States. Like the International League and the Mexican League, the PCL plays at the Triple-A level, the most difficult level before Major League Baseball (MLB). It was so-named because it started with six teams from the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, which are next to the Pacific Ocean. Today, the league has 16 teams across 11 states from California to Tennessee, and from Washington to Texas.
Started in 1903, the PCL was a popular baseball league in the Western United States until 1958 when MLB teams moved there and MLB games began to be shown on television.
ICN Business School
ICN Business School is an European higher studies establishment. The school is in 4 places, in La Défense, Nancy, Berlin and Nuremberg. It has been established in 1905.
ICN is specialist in the fields of economics, social sciences and management.
Flor de Caña
Flor de Caña (which means 'Sugarcane flower' in Spanish) is a type of premium rum that is made by the company, Compañía Licorera de Nicaragua.
The company started making this rum in the year 1890.
Tetragonia tetragonoides
Sino-Indian War
Dark-sky preserve
A dark-sky preserve (DSP) is protected area without light pollution created by humans. These areas are used to help promote astronomy. Different countries have different programs for making areas dark-sky preserves. The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) uses the word "reserve" instead of "park", or "preserve" with their dark-sky preserves. This is so that people don't confuse International Dark Sky Reserves (IDSR) and International Dark Sky Parks (IDSP).
In Canada, there is a very strict way to make areas dark-sky preserves. This was based on the work by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. The program is based on the amount of light in an area and how much skyglow there is from cities and towns that are close to it. Canada's program is the only one in the world that makes areas dark-sky preserves. Outside Canada, when areas are called dark-sky preserves, they are not official, and might not be a real dark or protected preserve.
Aragonese Party
Vehicle Assembly Building
The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is an iconic industrial building at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. It's designed to assemble pre-made rocket stages, spacecraft and related parts vertically onto a mobile launch platform. The Saturn V, Space Shuttle and Ares-I rockets have been assembled in the VAB, and the upcoming Space Launch System in late 2020.
Construction began in 1963, and was completed in 1966. It is 160 metres (525 feet) tall (716 feet (218.2 m) long and 518 feet (157.9 m) wide), made from aproximately 100,000 tons of steel, and contains 3,665,000 m of internal volume.
The VAB has four large assembly areas called high bays, with one huge central aisle where the rocket parts are loaded in.
The Launch Control Center is adjascent to the side of the building, with a walkway connecting both buildings. The NASA logo and American flags are the largest painted facades in the world.
Morpheus (mythology)
The dictatorship of the proletariat is a condition of society where the working class has more power to govern than every other social class.
Ricaud, Aude
Rieux-en-Val
Sherman County, Oregon
Sherman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the county has a population of 1,765 people. The county seat is Moro.
Morrow County, Oregon
Morrow County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the county has a population of 11,173 people. The county seat is Heppner.
Tillamook County, Oregon
Tillamook County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the county has a population of 25,250 people. The county seat is Tillamook.
Union County, Oregon
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the county has a population of 25,748 people. The county seat is La Grande.
Prineville, Oregon
Lakeview, Oregon
Roquecourbe-Minervois
Roquefère
Roquefère is a commune of 79 people (2017). It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
Roubia
Sainte-Colombe-sur-Guette
Routier, Aude
Gold Beach, Oregon
Gold Beach is a city in Oregon in the United States. It is the county seat of Curry County.
Canyon City, Oregon
Grand Hotel (movie)
Zürich Stock Exchange
Zürich Stock Exchange also known as SIX Swiss Exchange is based in Zurich. It is Switzerland's main stock exchange. The other stock exchange is Berne eXchange.
It is owned by SIX Group which is an unlisted public limited company itself and is controlled by 122 banks or financial institutions.
Zürich Stock Exchange was founded in 1993. It was created by merging the Geneva stock exchange, the Basel stock exchange and the Zurich stock exchange into the Verein Schweizerische Effektenbörse.
Taiwan Stock Exchange
Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE; ) is a financial institution which is located in Taipei 101, in Taipei, Taiwan. TWSE was established in 1961 and it started operating as a stock exchange on 9 February 1962. It is regulated by the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan.
Taiwan Stock Exchange broadcasts before-hour information from 7:40 to 8:40. Then it has normal trading sessions from 09:00 to 13:45 and a fixed price post-market sessions from 14:00 to 15:00 on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. These holidays are declared by the exchange in advance.
Schwarzschild metric
The Schwarzschild metric was calculated by Karl Schwarzschild as a solution to Einstein's field equations in 1916. Also known as Schwarzschild solution, it is an equation from general relativity in the field of astrophysics. A "metric" refers to an equation which describes spacetime; in particular, a Schwarzschild metric describes the gravitational field around a Schwarzschild black hole - a non-rotating, spherical black hole with no magnetic field, and where the cosmological constant is zero.
It is essentially an equation that describes how a particle moves through the space near a black hole.
Although a more complicated way of calculating the Schwarzschild metric can be found using Christoffel Symbols, it can also be derived using the equations for escape velocity (formula_2), time dilation (dt'), length contraction (dr'):
formula_3 (1)
v is the velocity of the particle
G is the gravitational constant
M is the mass of the black hole
r is how close the particle is to the heavy object
formula_4 (2)
formula_5 (3)
dt' is the particle's true change in time
dt is the particle's change in time
dr' is the true distance traveled
dr is the particle's change in distance
Note: the true time interval and true distance traveled by the particle are different than the time and distance calculated in classical physics calculations, since it is traveling in such a heavy gravitational field!
Using the equation for flat spacetime in spherical coordinates:
formula_6 (4)
ds is the path of the particle
formula_7 is the angle
dformula_7 and dformula_9 are the change in angles
Inputting the equations for escape velocity, time dilation, and length contraction (equations 1, 2, and 3) into the equation for flat spacetime (equation 4), to get the
Schwarzschild metric:
formula_10 (5)
From this equation we can take out the Schwarzschild radius (formula_11), the radius of this black hole. Although this is most commonly used to describe a Schwarzschild black hole, the Schwarzschild radius can be calculated for any heavy object.
formula_12 (6)
formula_13 is the set radius limit of the object
Fita
Fita (Ѳ ѳ; italics: "Ѳ ѳ") is a Cyrillic letter that comes from the Greek letter theta. In Cyrillic numerals, it is equal to the number nine.
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
John Joseph McCarthy (April 25, 1934 – May 9, 2020) was an American basketball player and coach. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He played for the National Basketball Association from 1956 to 1964. He played for the Cincinnati Royals, St. Louis Hawks and the Boston Celtics. He coached the Buffalo Braves from 1971 to 1972.
McCarthy died on May 9, 2020 in Buffalo at the age of 86.
Adolfo Pajares
Adolfo Pajares Compostizo (26 March 1937 – 13 May 2020) was a Spanish politician and businessman. He was born in Torrelavega, Spain. He was a member of the People's Party. Pajares was President of the Parliament of Cantabria from 1990 to 1999.
Pajares died on 13 May 2020 in Santander, Spain at the age of 83.
Torrelavega
Torrelavega (Cantabrian: "Torlavega") is a municipality in the single province Autonomous Community of Cantabria in northern Spain.
Its highest point is 606 metres and its lowest point is 12 metres.
Gabriel Bacquier
Gabriel Bacquier (17 May 1924 – 13 May 2020) was a French operatic baritone. He was a long-term member of the Opéra-Comique and the Paris Opera. He also appeared at leading opera houses in Europe and the United States.
Bacquier made his American debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1962 as the High Priest in "Samson et Dalila" by Saint-Saëns.
Bacquier died on 13 May 2020, aged 95.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly. Maria Callas's American debut in "Norma" was held here.
The Lyric is housed in a theater and related spaces in the Civic Opera Building.
Civic Opera Building
The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The building opened November 4, 1929, and has an Art Deco interior. It has a 3,563-seat opera house, the Civic Opera House, which is the second-largest opera auditorium in North America.
Today, the opera house is the permanent home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Prime Minister of Laos
Bounnhang Vorachith
Thongloun Sisoulith
Thongloun Sisoulith ,ထောင်လုန် သိသုလိဒ် (; born 10 November 1946) is a Laotian politician. He has been Prime Minister of Laos since 2016.
President of Laos
The President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the head of state of Laos.
Souphanouvong
Prince Souphanouvong (13 July 1909 – 9 January 1995) was a Laotian politician. He was the first President of Laos from December 1975 to August 1991. He was nicknamed "The Red Prince". He was a founding leader of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
Souphanouvong died on 9 January 1995 at the age of 86.
Phoumi Vongvichit
Phoumi Vongvichit (6 April 1909 – 7 January 1994) was a Laotian politician. From 1986 to 1991, he was the acting President of Laos.
Kaysone Phomvihane
Kaysone Phomvihane () (13 December 1920 – 21 November 1992) was a Laotian politician. He was the first leader of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992. He was the first Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic from 1975 to 1991 and then as the second President from 1991 to 1992.
Nouhak Phoumsavanh
Nouhak Phoumsavanh or Phoumsavan (; ; April 9, 1910 – September 9, 2008) was a Laotian politician. He was a longtime Pathet Lao revolutionary and communist party official. He was the 3rd President of Laos from 1992 to 1998.
J. Lee Thompson
John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was a British movie director active in London and Hollywood and is best remembered for his Oscar nomination for the 1961 movie "The Guns of Navarone". His other movies include "Cape Fear", "The Yellow Balloon", "Ice Cold in Alex", "Tiger Bay", "Never So Few", "Yield to the Night", "What a Way to Go!", "Country Dance", "St. Ives", "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud", "Happy Birthday to Me", "10 to Midnight", "Murphy's Law", "The Evil That Men Do", "Firewalker", and "".
Choummaly Sayasone
Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (Lao: ຈູມມະລີ ໄຊຍະສອນ; born 6 March 1936) is a Laotian politician. He was the General Secretary (leader) of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). He was the President of Laos from 2006 to 2016. He was the third Vice President of Laos from 2001 to 2006.
Vice President of Laos
Vice President of Laos is the political position in Laos created in 1996. The Vice President is elected by the National Assembly of Laos.
The history of the office holders follows.
Phankham Viphavanh
Phankham Viphavanh (; born 1951) is a Laotian politician. He is a member of Politburo. He is the Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He is also the current Vice President of Laos since April 2016.
President of the National Assembly of Laos
This is a list of individuals who served as President of the National Assembly of Laos.
Samane Viyaket
Lieutenant General Samane Viyaket (3 March 1927 – 22 July 2016) was a Laotian national politician. He was the President of the National Assembly of Laos from 1993 to 2006.
He was born in Phichit Province, Siam. He was in charge of ideological and cultural works of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP).
He died on 22 July 2016 at the age of 89.
Thongsing Thammavong
Thongsing Thammavong (Lao: ທອງສິງ ທຳມະວົງ; born 12 April 1944) is a Laotian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Laos from 2010 to 2016. He is a member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). He has been a member of the LPRP Politburo since 1991. He was the President of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2010.
The Yellow Balloon (movie)
Pany Yathotou
Pany Yathotou (born 18 February 1951) is a Laotian politician. She is a member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
She was the chairman and governor of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. from 1988 until 1997. Yathotou later became a member of the National Assembly in 1998. She became the President of the National Assembly of Laos since 2010.
National Assembly (Laos)
The National Assembly (Laotian: "Sapha Heng Xat", French: "Assemblée nationale") is the unicameral parliament of Laos. The National Assembly meets in Vientiane.
Laos is a one-party state, with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party as the sole legal party in the country.
Vicki (movie)
Tokyo Story
The Money Pit
The Money Pit is a 1986 American comedy movie directed by Richard Benjamin. The movie is a remake of "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House", a 1948 Cary Grant comedy. "The Money Pit" stars Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who try to fix a recently purchased house.
It was filmed in New York City and Lattingtown, New York, and was co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
Lattingtown, New York
The Incorporated Village of Lattingtown is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 1,739 at the 2010 census.
Lattingtown is located at (40.894334, -73.595118).
Big (movie)
Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy-drama movie directed by Penny Marshall. It stars Tom Hanks as Adult Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" and then becomes an adult the next day. The movie also stars Elizabeth Perkins, David Moscow as young Josh, John Heard and Robert Loggia
"Big" had two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Hanks) and Best Original Screenplay.
Henderson, Texas
Henderson is a city and the county seat of Rusk County, northeast Texas, United States. The population was 13,712 at the 2010 census. Henderson is named for James Pinckney Henderson, the first governor of Texas.
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
The COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States in January 2020. The first confirmed case of local transmission was recorded in January in Chicago and the first known deaths happened in February.
By the end of March, cases had happened in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories except American Samoa.
, the U.S. has the most confirmed active cases and deaths in the world; and its death rate was 206 per million people, the tenth-highest rate globally.
The Trump administration made a public health emergency on January 31, then on February2 began to end the entry of most foreign nationals who had recently traveled to China. People have said that the country's response to the pandemic was slow in regards to testing and medical response.
On February 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned the American public for the first time to prepare for a local outbreak.
A national emergency was declared on March 13. In early March the Food and Drug Administration began allowing public health agencies and private companies to create and carry out tests. The Trump administration waited until mid-March to start purchasing large amounts of medical equipment.
On March 16, the White House announced that they were against any gatherings of more than ten people. Since March 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of State has said all U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel.
State and local responses to the outbreak have included cancellation of large gatherings, stay-at-home orders and the closing of schools and other educational institutions.
Large numbers of outbreaks in the U.S. were seen in black American populations.
Many numbers of infections and deaths have happened in nursing homes, long-term care facilities, prisons and other detention centers, meatpacking plants, churches, and larger cities such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle.
In July 2020, scientists from Johns Hopkins University told people that deaths from COVID-19 in United States prisons were much higher than the average for the whole country. There were about 3251 sick prisoners and 39 deaths out of every 100,000 prisoners. The national average was about 587 sick United States residents and 29 deaths for every 100,000 United States residents.
COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Spain on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in La Gomera, Canary Islands. By 13 March, cases had been confirmed in all 50 provinces of the country.
A state of alarm and national lockdown was made on 14 March. On 29 March it was announced that, beginning the following day, all non-essential workers were to stay home for the next 14 days. By late March, the Community of Madrid has recorded the most cases and deaths in the country.
On 25 March the death toll in Spain passed that of mainland China, and only Italy's was higher.
On 2April, 950 people died of the virus in a 24-hour period—at the time, the most by any country in a single day. The next day Spain passed Italy in total cases and is now second only to the United States.
COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 30 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus.
A large amount of cases was later found, starting with 16 confirmed cases in Lombardy on 21 February, and 60 additional cases and the first deaths on 22 February. By the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all regions of Italy.
On 30 January, the Italian government stopped all flights to and from China and declared a state of emergency. In February, eleven cities in northern Italy were seen as the centres of the two main Italian infected areas and placed under quarantine. The majority of positive cases in other regions traced back to these two areas.
On 8 March 2020, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte expanded the quarantine to all of Lombardy and 14 other northern provinces, and on the following day to all of Italy were placed on quarantine. On 11 March 2020, Conte prohibited nearly all commercial activity except for supermarkets and pharmacies.
On 21 March, the Italian government closed all non-essential businesses and industries, and stopped movement of people.
, Italy has 78,457 active cases, one of the highest in the world.
Overall there have been
222,104 confirmed cases and
31,106 deaths (a rate of 509 deaths per million population), while there have been
112,541 recoveries or dismissals.
By 13 May, Italy had tested about 1,779,000 people. Because of the limited number of tests performed, the real number of infected people in Italy, as in other countries, is seen to be higher than the official count.
On 19 March, Italy became the country with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus deaths; however, on 11 April, the United States topped Italy.
COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
The COVID-19 pandemic started with a large number of unknown, possible pneumonia cases in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China. A Wuhan hospital told the local center for disease control and prevention (CDC) and health commissions on 27 December 2019.
On 31 December, the Wuhan CDC told the media that there was a large number of unknown pneumonia cases related to Huanan Seafood Market.
The possible disease outbreak soon became known nationwide including that of the National Health Commission (NHC) in Beijing who sent experts to Wuhan on the following day. Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organisation on this same day. On 8 January, a new coronavirus was identified as the cause of the pneumonia.
Public and media criticized Chinese officials for a slow response to fight the outbreak when it first started. By 29 January, the virus spread to all provinces of mainland China. All provinces of mainland China began a large public health emergency. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" on 31 January, saying that there are reasons that it could spread to other countries, such as those without robust healthcare systems. By 8 February, over 724 died from the coronavirus and 34,878 were confirmed to have been infected. In Hubei alone, there were 24,953 cases of infections and 699 related deaths.
The Chinese government may have censored talks about the outbreak since the beginning of its spread. On 25 January, Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping warned about a "grave situation" in China.
The Chinese New Year celebrations were cancelled. Passengers across the country have been checked for their temperatures.
By 29 January, all Hubei cities were quarantined. Curfew laws were added in Huanggang, Wenzhou, and other mainland cities.
In February 2020, the region also saw a huge shortage of face masks and other protective gear even though China called themselves the world's largest makers of these masks. Other countries donated medical supplies to help China deal with the epidemic.
On 25 February, the number of newly confirmed cases outside mainland China passed those from within for the first time. By 6 March the reported number of new cases had dropped to well fewer than 100 nationally per day, down from thousands per day.
"Many human coronaviruses have their origin in bats". The human coronavirus NL63 shared a common ancestor with a bat coronavirus (ARCoV.2) between 1190 and 1449 AD. The human coronavirus 229E shared a common ancestor with a bat coronavirus (GhanaGrp1 Bt CoV) between 1686 and 1800 AD. More recently, alpaca coronavirus and human coronavirus 229E diverged sometime before 1960.
MERS-CoV emerged in humans from bats through the intermediate host of camels. MERS-CoV, although related to several bat coronavirus species, appears to have diverged from these several centuries ago.
The most closely related bat coronavirus and SARS-CoV diverged in 1986. The ancestors of SARS-CoV first infected leaf-nose bats; later, they spread to horseshoe bats, then to Asian palm civets, and finally to humans.
Racism among Asians such as Chinese people grew during the pandemic such as criticisms of their markets, lifestyles and food choices. Some rumors say that China made the virus in a lab.
COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran reported its first confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections on 19 February 2020 in Qom. The virus may have been brought to the country by a merchant from Qom who had travelled to China.
In response to the coronavirus the government cancelled public events and Friday prayers. They closed schools, universities, shopping centres, bazaars, and holy shrines; and banned festival celebrations.
Economic help were also announced to help families and businesses. The government at first did not support plans to quarantine entire cities and areas. The government later announced a ban on travel between cities following an increase in the number of new cases.
Some outside guesses of the numbers of COVID-19 deaths are much higher than those from government sources, with one saying over 40,000 deaths. The government has also been accused of cover-ups, censorship, and not handling the pandemic well. However, the World Health Organization says that it has not seen problems with Iran's reported numbers.
Many government ministers and senior officials have been diagnosed as SARS-CoV-2 positive. 23 members of the Parliament (around 8% of all MPs) tested positive.
At least 12 sitting or former Iranian politicians and officials had died from the virus by 17 March.
Some of the well known Iranians reported to have died from COVID-19 include:
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in India was reported on 30 January 2020, originating from China. As of , the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare have confirmed a total of 78,003 cases, 26,235 recoveries (including 1 migration) and 2,549 deaths in the country.
The infection rate of COVID-19 in India is reported to be 1.7, which was lower than in the worst affected countries.
The outbreak has been called an epidemic in more than a dozen states and union territories.
On 22 March 2020, India made a 14-hour voluntary public curfew at the instance of the prime minister Narendra Modi. The government followed it up with lockdowns in 75 districts where COVID-19 cases had occurred as well as all major cities. On 24 March, the prime minister ordered a nationwide lockdown for 21 days, affecting the entire 1.3billion population of India. On 14 April, the prime minister extended the nationwide lockdown until 3 May.
People worried about the economic effects caused by the lockdown, which has would have on informal workers, micro and small enterprises, farmers and the self-employed.
Observers state that the lockdown has slowed the growth rate of the pandemic by 6 April to a rate of doubling every 6 days, and, by 18 April, to a rate of doubling every 8 days.
The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), in its report based on data from 73 countries, reports that the Indian Government has responded more strictly than other countries in the pandemic.
COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic spread to Germany on 27 January 2020, when the first case was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria.
The majority of cases in January and early February came from the same automobile-parts business place as the first case. On 25 and 26 February, multiple cases related to the Italian outbreak were found in Baden-Württemberg. A large number linked to a carnival event was formed in Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, with the first death reported on 9March 2020. New larger groups were found in other regions via Heinsberg as well as by people arriving from China, Iran and Italy, from where non-Germans could arrive by plane until 17–18 March.
The outbreaks were first managed in a "containment stage", which tried to lower the increase of larger infected areas. The German government and several health officials stated the country was ready and did not create special measures to increase medical supplies or limit public freedom. Since 13 March, the pandemic has been managed in the "protection stage". Two days later, borders to five neighboring countries were closed.
By 22 March, all regional governments had announced curfews or restrictions in public spaces. Throughout Germany, travelling is only allowed in groups of two people unless they are from the same household.
Some German states added more restrictions allowing people to leave their homes only for specified activities including commuting to work, exercising or purchasing food.
173,699 cases had been reported with 7,791 deaths and about 147,200 recoveries. The low fatality rate in Germany, compared to Italy and Spain, has resulted in a debate and explanations that say the country's higher number of tests performed, higher number of available intensive care beds with respiratory support, absence of COVID-19 analyses in autopsies and higher proportion of positive cases among younger people.
COVID-19 pandemic in France
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux.
The first five confirmed cases were all people who had recently arrived from China. A Chinese tourist who was admitted to hospital in Paris on 28 January died on 14 February, making it the first Covid-19 death in France. The annual assembly of the Christian Open Door Church between 17 and 24 February in Mulhouse which was attended by about 2,500 people was believed where the virus spread throughout France.
On 12 March, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on public television that all schools and all universities would close from Monday 16 March until further notice. The next day, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe banned gatherings of more than 100 people, not including public transport. The following day, the prime minister ordered the closure of all non-essential public places, including restaurants, cafés, cinemas and nightclubs, effective at midnight.
On 16 March, Macron announced mandatory home order for 15 days starting at noon on 17 March. This was extended twice, until 11 May, after which the order would end only if citizens wore face masks.
On 2 May, Olivier Véran announced that the government would seek to extend the health emergency until 24 July. Many mayors were against the 11 May lifting of the lockdown, which had been announced by the President a few weeks earlier in a televised address to the nation, and said it was too soon. Veran's bill was discussed in Senate on 4 May.
, France has reported over 140,734 confirmed cases, 27,074 deaths, and 58,673 recoveries, ranking sixth in number of confirmed cases, passing China where the outbreak began.
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United Kingdom in late January 2020. By 13 May there had been
229,705 confirmed cases and
33,186 deaths overall.
More than 90% of those dying had underlying illnesses or were over 60 years old. The infection rate was higher in care homes than in the community. There were large regional difference in the outbreak's severity. The outbreak in London had the highest total number and the most infections. England and Wales were the UK countries with the highest recorded death rate per head, and Northern Ireland had the lowest.
The Department of Health and Social Care created a public health campaign to help slow the virus's spread, and began posting daily updates in early February.
In February, the Heath Secretary, Matt Hancock, proposed the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. Hospitals set up drive-through screening (testing for the disease). The Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, created a four-stage strategy to tackle the outbreak: contain, delay, research and mitigate (help, lessen).
First cases in the United Kingdom were on on 28 February, and by 1March there were cases in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The government created the Coronavirus Action Plan, and said the outbreak a "level 4 incident".
On 11 March, the outbreak was declared a pandemic. Four days later—following the outbreak in Italy, the government said everyone should avoid all "non-essential" travel and contact with others, avoid crowds, and work from home if possible. Those with symptoms, and their household, were asked to self-isolate.
Pregnant women, the over 70s, and those with certain illnesses were asked to self-isolate for longer. Panic buying was reported.
On 20 March 2020, the four governments shut all schools, restaurants, pubs, indoor entertainment venues and leisure centres, with some exceptions. On 23 March, the UK government made a lockdown on the whole population, banning all "non-essential" travel and contact with people outside one's home and shutting almost all businesses, venues, facilities, amenities and places of worship.
People were told to keep apart in public. Police were given the power to enforce the lockdown, and the Coronavirus Act 2020 gave the government emergency powers not used since the Second World War.
More lockdowns took place in October, November and December 2020. Different places had different rules. A national lockdown in England began on 5 January 2021.
It is said that the lockdown will severely damage the UK economy, lead to millions of job losses, worsen mental health and suicide rates, and cause "collateral" deaths due to isolation, delays and falling living standards.
Researchers suggest the lockdown could be lifted by shielding only the most vulnerable and using contact tracing.
Some schools stayed open to teach the children of essential workers, at-risk children, and children with special education needs. However, adults who work for disabled students' rights told Parliament that British educators had unfairly sent special education students home without good reasons.
Starting with the most at risk, the UK vaccinations is going in this order:
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().
The disease was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 27, 2020, after a man who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. , there have been over 134,000 confirmed cases, 118,000 recoveries and 9,000 deaths in the country. The Government of Canada says that around 11,000–22,000 deaths could happen over the course of the pandemic.
Most of those cases are in Canada's most populous provinces, Ontario (19,598 cases, 1,540 deaths) and Quebec (36,150 cases, 2,725 deaths).
Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's provinces and territories, with the exception of Nunavut. An additional 13 cases involve citizens from the "Grand Princess" cruise ship.
Among the Canadians who contracted the virus was Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who tested positive for the virus on March 12 after which the family went into self-isolation. By March 28, she had recovered.